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StandardVC10 posted:You heard it here first folks, New York City school children don't get Christmas or Easter off. To be fair, not getting Easter off would be a problem.
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They're putting prayer mats on the school supplies list for next year.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Agreed we need more reasons for people with legal authority to kill to be twitchy and paranoid and more incidents that inspire sympathy from the general public so they can keep murdering unarmed blacks with impunity. Good post imo.
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Dirk the Average posted:To be fair, not getting Easter off would be a problem. They hate Jesus so much they force kids to come in on Sunday! poo poo that's gonna get misread and picked up by a conservative news outlet now, isn't it?
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Mar 6, 2015 20:47
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Hazo posted:What the absolute gently caress? The Ten Commandments are only in front of some of the courthouses in America.
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My Face When posted:On the subject of Grammer, I found this Jezebel article about his 1995 memoir. This was hilarious, thanks. Kelsey Grammer is monumentally deluded and I wonder what happened in both his and Ben Stein's lizard brains that made them conservative.
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Mar 6, 2015 20:48
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What a coincidence that neither of them have had any real roles in the past, what, ten years?
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a shameful boehner posted:This was hilarious, thanks. Kelsey Grammer is monumentally deluded and I wonder what happened in both his and Ben Stein's lizard brains that made them conservative. Ben Stein was more far gone than Kelsey at least after he starred in Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Expelled:_No_Intelligence_Allowed quote:The movie has been severely criticized for conducting interviews with people who represent the scientific consensus on evolution under deceptive circumstances. The scientists, who included noted American biology professor P. Z. Myers; British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and science author Richard Dawkins; and American physical anthropologist Eugenie Scott, were told they were being interviewed for a movie called Crossroads on the Intersection of Science and Religion. In fact, they were being interviewed to appear in creationist propaganda.[3][4] Intrepid internet researchers have uncovered[5] that the domain name ExpelledtheMovie.com (as well as .net, .org, .info, .biz & .us) was already registered as of March 2007.[6] Though Crossroads was later touted as the "working title," no comparable domain name was registered. Myers was contacted in April 2007, after the title Expelled had apparently been chosen. quote:"Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people." - Ben Stein
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Mar 6, 2015 21:00
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Ben Stein's dad worked for Nixon, so I don't think there was ever much hope to begin with...
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Radbot posted:What a coincidence that neither of them have had any real roles in the past, what, ten years? Kelsey grammer did have Beast in X-Men 3. A terrible movie, but I feel he played the part well.
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site posted:Ben Stein's dad worked for Nixon, so I don't think there was ever much hope to begin with... Ben Stein himself was a speech writer for Nixon, you mean.
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Mar 6, 2015 21:15
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WrightOfWay posted:Ben Stein himself was a speech writer for Nixon, you mean. Technical Analysis posted:Kelsey grammer did have Beast in X-Men 3. A terrible movie, but I feel he played the part well. site fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Mar 6, 2015 |
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Mar 6, 2015 21:25
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Frasier itself is a bangin good show and it only too me turning 30 to realize it.
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StandardVC10 posted:You heard it here first folks, New York City school children don't get Christmas or Easter off. Reminder that the President of the United States of America puts a Christmas tree up in his house, which is a highly visible landmark and a symbol itself.
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Mar 6, 2015 21:31
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With the latest trends being towards declaring yourself "non-religous" (even those who, by all other metrics, are) I wonder if American Christians trying to run the table on their GodMonopoly on this country has been a net gain or not. I left the church even before I became a raging liberal and nothing major they've done since has endeared me towards them at all.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:With the latest trends being towards declaring yourself "non-religous" (even those who, by all other metrics, are) I wonder if American Christians trying to run the table on their GodMonopoly on this country has been a net gain or not. I left the church even before I became a raging liberal and nothing major they've done since has endeared me towards them at all. I've mentioned this in other threads, but a lot of these people seem to think America since the 1960s when we really started to get serious about keeping church out of state (with rulings that struck down school prayer and states being allowed to ban teaching evolution) is an aberration. And clearly the natural state of America is to revert back to being all up in with Christian God once again, like the good old days. So they think that loudly shouting at God just this one more time will reactivate the Jesus Center in everyone's brain and they can be in charge again.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Frasier itself is a bangin good show and it only too me turning 30 to realize it. First few seasons anyway, then it fell into that godawful place sitcoms go after a few years when the sexual/romantic tension gets resolved by actually hooking up and/or platonic friends decide they should gently caress for no reason at all.
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BatteredFeltFedora posted:First few seasons anyway, then it fell into that godawful place sitcoms go after a few years when the sexual/romantic tension gets resolved by actually hooking up and/or platonic friends decide they should gently caress for no reason at all. While this is true, those seasons set up one of the best jokes in the series where pregnant Daphne falls down and Niles, Frasier and their dad are helping her up and someone remarks that she's so big it took three Cranes to lift her. 
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BatteredFeltFedora posted:First few seasons anyway, then it fell into that godawful place sitcoms go after a few years when the sexual/romantic tension gets resolved by actually hooking up and/or platonic friends decide they should gently caress for no reason at all. Whoa, whoa now. Niles and Daphne was handled perfectly throughout the show, and after they got together the fact that they were now a couple progressed naturally and seamlessly through the last four or so seasons. Frasier and Roz hooking up once was preceded by at least one episode years earlier where it almost happened under convincing circumstances, and then when it did it turned into an episode where they recognize and affirm how strong their friendship is and how much they do love each other in a platonic way. None of that was done because of some kind of lack of ideas by the writers, and I'd happily argue that the last five or so seasons of the show were far and away some of the strongest and funniest. Maybe this was a Fraiser nerd trap sprung, but I've been re-watching the entire series over the past six months with my girlfriend and the show holds up brilliantly with the single exception that the mild slut-shaming directed at Roz as a punchline wears a little thin. Otherwise it is superb and your opinion is poo poo  e: Grammar's personal politics are pretty stupid and poo poo but I gotta give it to him that that never bled into the show in any way. He may be a shithead actor but he was a drat professional. How are u fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Mar 6, 2015 |
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Intel&Sebastian posted:With the latest trends being towards declaring yourself "non-religous" (even those who, by all other metrics, are) I wonder if American Christians trying to run the table on their GodMonopoly on this country has been a net gain or not. I left the church even before I became a raging liberal and nothing major they've done since has endeared me towards them at all. I've heard devout Christians tell me they're non-religious before. Upon further prodding, it's because it's about having a "relationship" with Jesus, not worshipping. I still don't quite get it and still think they're full of poo poo.
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Thump! posted:I still don't quite get it and still think they're full of poo poo. They are, it's the same phenomenon of Dems/2004 or Repubs/2008 saying they aren't part of any party and are moderates or something of that sort. It's bullshit, but it's still pretty telling about the reputation of the org you're leaving behind.
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Mar 6, 2015 22:37
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Grammer was the star of Boss, which although it got cancelled after the second season and is thus unresolved, was a decent show despite a gratuitous amount of sex scenes. Seems like a suitable role for him if he's as full of himself as that memoir would indicate.
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Mar 6, 2015 22:43
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Frasier was so boring, white and elitist, perfect for the republican party.
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Mar 7, 2015 00:17
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Yeah you have to wonder how the dude denounced Birchers as crazies while agreeing with like 99% of what they said. By speaking out of both sides of his mouth and having true believers campaign for him. Before The Storm really is the under appreciated Peralstein book with Nixonland and now Invisible Bridge shining bright.
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a shameful boehner posted:This was hilarious, thanks. Kelsey Grammer is monumentally deluded and I wonder what happened in both his and Ben Stein's lizard brains that made them conservative. I thought Grammar's sister or someone like that got murdered and that shaped a lot of his worldview. I don't agree with him on like anything but he still seems like he'd be a cool dude to hang out with. E: kidnapped, raped, and murdered by a spree killer actually. Goddam. Also his dad was murdered as well Good Citizen fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Mar 7, 2015 |
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:Frasier was so boring, white and elitist, perfect for the republican party. With an over-reliance on farce, so yeah.
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Frasier is like the Big Bang Theory except the nerd references are replaced with overeducated wealthy white people references. So I guess it's exactly the same then?
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For some reason recently I was thinking about the Miles Morales/Black kid spiderman thing and how Sheldon from BBT is candidate number 1 for nerd who gets angry about that and then has to explain why it's not a racist thing. Also as a reluctant fan of both I have to say Frasier is better than BBT, but was also aired in an era where jokes were allowed longer than 2.5 seconds to be set up and delivered.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Agreed we need more reasons for people with legal authority to kill to be twitchy and paranoid and more incidents that inspire sympathy from the general public so they can keep murdering unarmed blacks with impunity. Good post imo.
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Pope Guilty posted:Frasier is like the Big Bang Theory except the nerd references are replaced with overeducated wealthy white people references. So I guess it's exactly the same then? It's a rich white man minstrel show?
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FuzzySkinner posted:meh. I agree with you on everything except Miller. I've seen him quite a few times on Bill O'Reilly's show, and he comes off as a pretty hateful tool.
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republicans and not so much the Phil Robertson-types that seem to really make up the base.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:That actually goes deeper than you think; when Cheers was still running Grammer had a raging cocaine habit and was basically permanently drunk, all the time. He would show up on set late and be completely shattered out of his mind. However, when the scene started he would instantaneously switch to Frasier from the coked-out, barely coherent drug guy. Then when it was over he'd suddenly be the sluggish junkie again. Didn't matter what poo poo that guy had going on he could drop it all in a heartbeat. Thing is, this is a fairly common story among people with substance abuse problems who are professionals of one sort or another. Often times they do an amazing job of holding poo poo together when it comes to their livelihood... until it begins unraveling, and quickly.
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Dennis Miller used to be funny and entertaining, then 9/11 came along and just completely broke his brain. Well, either that or I was a teenager back then and that explains why I found him funny pre-9/11.
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The Rokstar posted:Dennis Miller used to be funny and entertaining, then 9/11 came along and just completely broke his brain. I always assumed that the people laughing at Dennis Miller were just trying to cover for the fact they don't recognize his constant outdated references. Conservative radio is the perfect place for him. They're the only outlet with an old enough demographic to get his jokes.
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The Rokstar posted:Dennis Miller used to be funny and entertaining, then 9/11 came along and just completely broke his brain. I used to watch him on SNL in the 80's and was a big fan. He was sharp and clever, and then...like you said...9/11 broke him. After that his jokes took on a nasty, angry tone. Then he fell in with the neocon crowd, the conservative radio world, and he became a very sad version of his former self.
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Has anyone posted this: http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/the-media-behaving-badly/a-defeated-rush-limbaugh-admits-hes-outdated-and-irrelevant/ Is this too much to hope for? Could he really be losing that much audience?
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clockworkjoe posted:Has anyone posted this: http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/the-media-behaving-badly/a-defeated-rush-limbaugh-admits-hes-outdated-and-irrelevant/ My assumption, because I am broken and cynical, is that he realizes his demographic is literally dying and wants to keep being a fat ball of rage but is looking for some new audience to be angry with.
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