lisa!

Hihi!

Just shut the fuck up, Sarah.

Kinda reminds me of the South Park when Rob Reiner is on a kick about how mad smoking is for everybody while constantly shoving burgers and cake down his throat. Or like Bristol being a spokesperson in favor of abstinence only “education”. Or am I supposed to leave Bristol aloooooooooooooooooooone?

Lisa!

She sort of misses the whole issue of a lot of parents not knowing what constitutes healthy or unhealthy food or the consequences of the latter, as well as the fact that many families, especially the poor, do not really have access to healthy food.

That said I heartily endorse getting Sarah Palin out of our lives (and off our TV screens).

Oops. Should have been “bad” not “mad” but no edit tab.

If La Palin can take cheap shots at anyone and everyone and pass it off as being engaged politically, I figure Bristol is fair game.

She sorta misses 95 percent of higher brain function too…..

I figure Bristol is fairly gamey.

Fixed it for ya

That goes without saying.

Sara Palin belongs in prison.

I’ll take your word for it…unlike Levi, I don’t plan on eating Bristol any time soon.

You are going to eat Levi???? Yuck!

Careful Senator … she’ll shoot her way out ! *g*

Lisa !

Sarah Palin is unequivocal proof that there is no justice in our universe.

Just fortheluvvaPete give the woman a soundproofed cell.

Come on. Look at her. She’s bloated and spoiled.

Can you imagine how much she would whine in prison?

Like most people, I prefer my milk radiated, heated to 10,000 degrees and carved into blocks, but now they tell me that’s cheese.

I was a child raised on non-fat dry milk! What is this “raw” milk of which you speak?

Palin is amusement for the mentally challenged. What are her ratings now? I heard somewhere her reality show has an audience of Glenn Beck, and he’s just stalking her.

She’s Mommy’s little puppet.

She’d want cheese to go with it….

Only in the twisted mind of Sarah Palin does sharing knowledge equate to exercising control over people’s lives and the denial of (uninformed) choice.

Do we keep paying attention to this wretch because it makes us feel morally and intellectually superior to her and her followers?

Raw Milk is unpasteurized Milk, which I grew up on and which many “naturalists” feel is better than the Chemical Soup that is sold as Milk these days.

Cheez-whiz is more like it.

Spray cheese

Heh. As a kid, we would go to my hillbilly grandfather’s farm and have milk fresh from the cow (like milked 5-10 minutes before)for breakfast. Warm and fresh and tasty. All grass fed cattle, which I think cives the milk a better flavor, as long as they do not get into the wild onions (Yuck!).

No, we pay attention to her because, no matter how horrifically stupid it would be, she stands a reasonable chance of being the next Republican presidential nominee.

Well, she already has the “crackers”

also, also

I think you meant especially given “how horrifically stupid it would be, she stands a reasonable chance of being the next Republican presidential nominee.”

Oh yeah. Many times over.

She is a cracker. Recall her father’s explanation for why she left the University of Hawaii.

Well, I stayed up way late last night so I’m turning in early tonight. Oya koinu.

I don’t remember it right now.

Night!

g’nite margaret

Hola, amigos.

It seems she wasn’t comfortable around all those slanty-eyed people. It stunned me that the mainstream media ignored a remark to the effect that Palin is a racist.

Good night, Margaret.

night M

Funny. I grew up among all those slanty-eyed people. I pretty much liked them. And I learned a lot about being a member of a minority, as a special bonus.

Hey, BCT! How’s the mutual torture going? Can’t tell you how much I look forward to that. Have papers coming in tomorrow, so the fun begins all too soon.

Dang – was finishing din-din with belch, so I missed ya.

Night night!

Well, the latest round in the CounterTenor waterfall saga is in. I got the adjuster’s estimate yesterday, and had a contractor in today to give me an estimate on replacing the ceiling.

The adjuster’s estimate was about 2/3 of the contractor’s estimate, and he had them leaving in ceiling that was structurally unsound… this is going to be a major adventure.

Thanks for the reminder. How could I have forgotten that !

Ya know… When I voted on the DKos vote on Caribou Barbie’s hunting ‘prowess’, it was 217 to 4 saying she wasn’t a ‘hunter’… She couldn’t hit the broadside of a barn, standing 6 ft. away…! ;-)

Yeah, I actually enjoy the diversity offered by a university setting. Her loss, I suppose.

Dare I ask about the new handles here?

Jeebuz L. Xmas, I despise that fucking bitch. Where’s Dick Cheney when you really need him?

Ugh!

Oh, for crying out loud.

I was grading theory finals this afternoon while my survey students were working on their final.

Some of my grad students cited wikipedia to me. I want to cry: I thought I’d given them a serious scolding about wikipedia not being a reliable source. Besides which, they should have just done the fooking problem rather than trying to search out someone else’s solution!

Next year, I’m going to make wrong changes to wikipedia ahead of their exams. Without warning them.

My initial response to moving to Missoula was “This is the whitest place I have ever been.” And I did not mean that in a good way, especially since I had just moved from Chicago.

No… Pls don’t…! ;-)

Btw, that’d be two metres to our Northern brethren…! ;-)

LOL! Be careful about that, you could crash the entire national education system.

You remember back in 2008 after the primaries, where the Right went all batshit about Obama’s middle name? Many folks changed their blog-handles to have “Hussein” in them.

Well, since today Mr. BiPartisan spat “Sanctimonious” and “Purist” at people who hold conviction despite the calendar or the person-in-charge, or who expect him to DO WHAT HE SAID, it’[s one of those badge-of-honor things.

Come on down here to SemiSolid State U.

This place isn’t quite as diverse as U of H, but it’s definitely majority-minority.

Hi, Dr. D. I was just realizing that MargaretthePurist was our same Margaret when Sanctimonius Kelly showed up…..I think if you skim the bottom third of the several hundred comments on Obama’s scolding of the left during his press conference you’ll understand where the new names came from.

I’ve ventured out for the first time since coming down sick Sat. – my head doesn’t hurt anymore, but still had to concentrate to stay in my lane. Whew. But I needed soup, and milk. And got ice cream, which I’ve just finished off, then fired up the ‘puter again.

Paw Palin went on to say that his little girl was happier at the U of Idaho. Talk about white.

Ah!

Colbert got it right tonight: We have a bipartisan solution. The Republicans offered partisanship and Obama bought it.

I want that bastard primaried, hard.

Does Sarah want this fight her daughter from what I heard lost no weight on Dancing with the stars I heard everyone losses weight practicing for that show.
Sarah and Bristol both were pregnant at the same time and well Bristol is fatter than her Mom. Its sad when a teen is fatter than her Mom.
Its sad when her Mom recovers her pre pregnancy figure before her teen daughter. Maybe Mom should watch what her daughter is eating?

Makes us look diverse.

LOL! I know. Just having fun.

Many years back I had friends who were vegetarians and ran a very nice natural food store in Portland, Oregon.

They raised their dog to be vegetarian, too. One day I stopped by with a bag in my hand containing what was left of french fries and a hamburger I’d meant to toss in the garbage. Their dog met me on the path to their front door, and I have never in my life seen a dog beg like he did!

I’ve enjoyed raw milk many times. These days I’m just happy to have meals!

That daughter is an adult, but the young kids whould have a foundation in nutrition

bct – LOL to your plan for wikipedia editing next year – but :-( to your adventures with insurers and ceiling contractors. I feel for you, in both cases.

Yeah, I was working so did not have time to go to the comments today. End of the semester blues. Glad to hear that you are feeling a bit better.

So much the better.

Wiki just gets some stuff wrong. It’s fine under two circumstances. If you’re an expert in the subject matter and can make reasoned judgement about what’s there, it’s okay. If you’re reading on a bit of popular culture for background info and it’s not for a critical application (like, you’re fact-checking anything at all), then it’s also okay.

Otherwise? Don’t believe a word you read there.

*heh* Why do you think Miss Sarah couldn’t even handle one semester here in Hilo town…! She was the minority…! ;-)

Usually I have no common ground with the Thugs, but on one thing they were right: Obama really is a goddamned elitist. And I think we’re getting a little sick and tired of being treated like “the help.”

Sara is a tweaker. That is why she is thin. imho.

The sources Wikipedia uses can be helpful, articles cited etc. Great way to find to find primary sources

BTW, off topic.

In Memoriam, Elizabeth Edwards, 1949- 2010. I never had the privilege to meet her, but she was a very classy act to the end.

Is the daughter still living at home if so then Mom should be watching what she eats. If she is not living at home well I never knew a Mom who did not harp on her daughter’s weight gain.

Sarah lives on tv if anything the pressure to have slim attractive kids to put on tv and help Sarah be President should be way more than anything I’ve seen growing up in the health conscious to the point of making young girls anorexic Burbs.

Bristol’s odds of getting an eating disorder go up the more Mom is around.

Using wiki for pointers is okay too. But you need some expertise, because not all primary sources are created equal…

Which is what I tell my students. It can also be a good intro (as long as you double check everything) for students looking for an overview of something or possible sources, but you can never really trust it. I actually have a general ban on internet sources (with a few notable sources like government sites, the UN, or reputable NGOs) for papers in my classes. They need to go out and read actual books and journal articles.

Crap that blows my theory tweakers are concerned about themselves and getting high. Given Sarah’s rants and confused talking I’m thinking drugs or mental illness but either one would blow my theory out of the water.

I assumed Sarah was a caring but controlling parent. Cripes I hate being wrong:)

You’re a damn purist.

I volunteered to take the adult-Russian class this Sat when our regular teacher is off getting married and the sub is being sent by the air force on some sort of cross-country training. One man sent me an email yesterday saying he’d been looking at some material on the topic (declension of adjectives) – and included a link to ….Wikipedia! on Russian grammar! Does this explain why he can’t seem to pronounce the words, even after it’s just been pronounced to him? (prolly not, but…) And this is a middle-aged man!
I confess, reading his email, I did a mental face-palm. Haven’t responded yet.

And sanctimonious about it! ;-)

Damn I missed dreadful pun:

Praise the lard and pass the ammunition

Did you see that Columbia backed off their warning…? ;-)

Good lord, how did you let that one slip past? And not one of us noticed, it either.

I’m asking these knuckleheads to do actual mathematical derivations, preferably without skipping steps. Textbooks and journal articles always skip steps, and often awkward steps. A big chunk of my lectures consists of filling in the blanks the text left.

I used to have a “Math-to-English Dictionary”, with entries like “Clearly means two pages and three changes of variable later…”

Some of them thought pointing me to a wiki article was a satisfactory response to my prompt. They will be disappointed when they get my evaluation of their work.

My real variable professor in grad school handed out exactly one in-class exam other than the final. It was only a few questions, all based on discoveries published in Europe the week before, written in languages not including English. After shaming us all, he pointed out that most meaningful mathematics takes more than 40 minutes to do. We had lots of take-home assignments and I had another professor’s library. I had to write everything from scratch. He was good.

Another one, a chemistry professor, would only do in-class exams. No homework. We’d be arranged to sit in diamond patterns about the lecture hall and the lab. He had 4 exams, all with different answer sheets, one for each corner of the diamond. He had about 100 different exams, all covering the same subject, all requiring a minimum of 2 hours to complete, and he’d pull one set out of his locked filing cabinet for each exam, per class, per semester. He was REALLY good.

Horrible job on filleting the salmon. But what can you expect? Their knives are no sharper then Sarah herself.

A troll once questioned my wiki source so I went to the bottom of wiki found the sources they quoted and blew him out of the water but for a few minutes he had me worried.
I never got challenged on wiki sources again I think the trolls talk to each other.
A post about the paid troll network and how they react to us and other blogs would be interesting.

Now that is really LOL-worthy.

Confessing, only grasped the edge of your description of the math involved, but love your definition of “clearly.”

Heh. You might appreciate this (I know BCT and EDP will). Had a student email me the other day asking about extra credit (she is flunking the class). One of the options is to read a book off a list of approved books and write a 3-4 page review of it. All of the books are rather short (many around 100 pages) and selected as easy to read. Her response was “So I have to read a whole book in two weeks?” I did not have the heart to tell her I routinely read 3-4 a week (I have slowed down in my old age).

Oh. And my favorite reference from this bunch of knuckleheads: A citation to a Chinese text in mathematical statistics, together with the answer to my question.

I gave that one 1/10.

Any bets McDonalds is backing Sarah:)

Yeah. That was something totally different and wholly uncalled for.

Waht is Michelle doing about obesity calling for a tax on fast food and soda pop? Is she demanding schools serve better food?

*gah* Math is all greek or arabic to me…! I hated my statistics class with a passion…! ;-)

Oh, now she wants to worry about her grade. I never know whether indifference or actual cruelty will get the point across better at that point. :-)

Wow. A whole book in two weeks?

Don’t tell her I’m working through Roger Penrose’s Road to Reality. I expect to finish it sometime next fall. I also have three other books going for when Penrose gets to be too much.

Stats was the first time advanced math actually made sense to me. Algebra was just too abstract and unreal for me.

OK, I could have explained the last example better. Each exam was given with 4 different sets of questions and answers. There were at least 100 sets of these.

This page needs an edit button. I suppose getting it working again on fdl is enough to ask for, but…

My Numerical Analysis professor was like that too. He warned us which homework sets were more test-like than others.

One of their International Relations Prof’s flatly stated that; ‘Of course, I would expect them to read ‘em…’ Hello…? ;-)

Once upon a time, I kept an obsidian sphere in my office. When students came by asking what they could do to save their grade, I’d hand it to them and tell them, “My crystal ball looks pretty murky to me, but maybe you can see something.”

I had to take it home when it reduced a student to tears, and he went to the DH to inform him how heartless I am.

Yeah. While I have some reservations about exactly how and what they are doing (I agree with Charli Carpenter over at LGM: right idea, wrong tactics), the response to this has been really bizarre. Today I see PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard have cut them off from payments.

There are a couple trolls who appear for me when I write particular subjects. xenu xenu xenu

However, the one factor you do need to watch out for is the sodium content material of these sandwiches. A foot long ham sandwich has only 570 energy-which isn’t dangerous for a meal-but it surely has a whopping 2,520 mg of sodium! With solely 2,four hundred mg beneficial per day, it is one thing to take a look at when planning out each meal.

http://www.subwaycalories.org/

In what world is 570 calories not dangerous I ran/walked three miles on the running machine at the YMCA a personal best I couldn’t do in highschool in 38.57 minutes I played soccer but I was a sprinter then.
I only burned according to the machine 456 calories how many teens run three miles in a day?

Did anybody else notice how she shoots a rifle? Like someone who’s never had any training, she jerks the trigger.

Statistics is more a mode of thought than it is advanced math. Having said that, you can apply an awful lot of very advanced math in service of the mode of thinking, if you’re of a mind (and equipped with a skill-set) to do so.

My favorite two words: Footnote and Bibliography.

Time for me to toddle off. Duty calls in the morning. Take care all.

The Aztec God who drove away the white Bearded God people thought Cortez was the first time he came was called the Lord of the smoking mirror the mirror was obsidian.

Noticing that would require me to watch the clip, and I’d rather chew rebar.

Isn’t it sickening how quickly the Corporate interests rallied to the flag…? *gah*

g’nite dr dick

Agreed, but that math made sense when applied to that mode of thought.

G’night, Dr. D.

I’m going to head off too. Have to be up at seven in the AM again. Peace out, y’all!

Which would explain why she can’t hit a barn door at 12 paces.

Yes, that’s not just face-palm, that’s head-banging-on-desk sad.

I confess, too much of my current reading is on-screen instead of on-page, but my gawd, “a whole book” in two.weeks!

Gee, I wonder why she’s failing?

g’nite edp

Tetzcatlipoca!

Yeah, I’ve got to tell my theory students how unhappy I am with them at 8 tomorrow morning. I’m going to hit the sheets too.

Good night, folks.

Aloha, Docs’…! Always a pleasure…! ;-)

g’nite bct

So her shooting is for show has she hit anything? Maybe we could get the Vets here to do a post on what Sarah does wrong shooting a gun:)
Tie it in with Dick Cheney’s gun safety mistakes like don’t hunt while drinking always make sure you know where your friends are before you fire a gun always look before you shoot.
I’m sure the Vets and Hunters here can think of more stuff than I can but Damaging the GOP’s Gun as a way to connect to real people and expose them as Elite clods playing at being gun folk without a clue how to handle a gun would be funny:)

Oooh, you’re meeeeeeaan!

Another busted rule; Load and Cock Your Own Weapon.

She’s so full of #fail

You beat me in Aztec Myths quite the scholar:)

You’re more generous than moi…! Three or four paces, at best…! ;-)

Math is beyond me. As in CA educational standard exceed my ability. ANd um, all I want is a degree is religious history, but will require 4 semester min of math in order to do that. Ergo, autodidact

xenu is one of your trolls or a subject you write about? I notice that when you write about Gay anything you get some trolls but I don’t remember an xenu.

Say anything nice about Al Gore brings out the trolls in force even at 4 a.m. I’m sure they got google alerts for that.
The day Gore got the Nobel the trolls ranted for 40 pages at the huffpost.

I wish I had had statistics. No liberal arts majors went near it in my day – except sociology majors. But now I find a lot of interesting potential jobs for which I could qualify except for that skill…Can’t imagine I could get through it now. Don’t even remember basic algebra.

Salmon is for wusses. I’ve filleted SMELT! Yeah. I said it. Smelt. It takes a sharp knife. A VERY sharp knife. A very TINY sharp knife. And nerves of titanium. STEEL NERVES ARE FOR SALMON WUSSES FROM ALASKA! But I did it. And I’d do it again.

No, I wouldn’t.

Yes, I would…

…given sufficient quantities of Steinlager beer. And it would help to be 21 again. And bored. And have friends doing what are now illegal activities. Like smelt runs.

See, we had these friends who went on a “smelt run” and who the heck knew what that was supposed to be before you knew what it was? There were lots of stinky paper mills where I lived, up in Oregon. “Maybe it’s a euphemism,” I thought.

So on their way back home from this now-illegal practice of dragging a net across a river to acquire these guppy-sized denizens of the shallows, they stopped by with lots and lots of smelt. Lots.

There was no smelt shortage back then. Now, of course, one must capture them as we do all fish: using tiny little hooks and itty-bitty little fishing lines and oh, so teeny-tiny worms.

I filleted thousands of those suckers. Palin’s got nothing on me. Fillet salmon? HA! I gut Bonsai fish!

[grinning]

If I write about a specific religion which has a demiurge named xenu, then I get a troll or two. Overall though I am pretty troll free.

Referring to Lisa’s topic of the evening – Palin’s taking encouragement to eat healthy as some sort of government-tellin’-us-we-can’t-feed-our-own-kids interferin’ nanny state…the little right-wingers at teh Daily Caller are putting in their 2 cents on how terrible it is that food stamp users can buy just -gasp- anything! with them. Anything edible, that is.

The comments, from all these people who presumably rant in other contexts about nanny-state rules, demanding narrow, enumerated and strictly enforced listing of what (healthful) can be bought with food stamps, and what absolutely cannot (unhealthful) be bought with them is … astonishing if you live in the reality-based universe.

Hey there SKC! How’s Denver?

My Poly Sci major was linked to that Sociology requirement…! ;-)

Sanctimonious!

And unseasonably warm and dry. I want SNOW, DAMMIT!

And with that – night night.

g’nite kelly

bonsai fish? love it!

We have it! From 3 inches here, to one foot just over there. Night!

Inversely, I presume?

Sciencetolgy guys? Or is there another weird cult involved in GOP politics the Moonies, the Family, the LaRouches, the Fundies I don’t think have any God’s by that name.
Am I falling behind in keeping track of the GOP crazy?

A friend remarked that the questions about the rifle’s kick were utter bizarre, in that all guns have a kick. I have only shot hand guns and we called it “recoil.” Or the “the ouchy thing that makes us miss.”

SP also seemed VERY nervous and uncomfy

TCU, I think she was discreetly avoiding stating the name outright….

That wonderful feelin’ she feels when she kills an animal is called blood lust.

All hail the imaginary volcano creatures who enslave us all! (Except, of course, for The Chosen One; the perfectly rational and even-keeled Tom Cruise and his eight-headed wife – oh, wait. Part of that sentence was incorrect.)

The compound adjectives

The framulating marsal vane did me in again!

Gawd, I’m so old I remember when those people were known for hanging around certain neighborhoods in Boston and harrassing people into taking their pamphlets, and nobody respectable was a follower.

Sigh.

Oh like Valdemort :)

It was asinine how she handled that rifle…! She couldn’t even load the damn thing…? She’s lucky she didn’t pull a Cheney…! *gah*

I’ll bet ya she missed on all her shots too…!

Ah, well, it’s been lovely sharing late night with intelligent beings, as always. Think I’d best try to sleep, too.
Hope our docs’ students don’t make them too crazy tomorrow, and that Lisa doesn’t get trolls tonight.

g’nite tejan

Look. You can’t keep doing this. All of us here at the Raloph’s market on Laurel Canyon told you already you can’t buy booze with food stamps!

How did she handle the gun I didn’t watch the show and don’t know much about guns what was wrong with how she handled the rifle?

*heh* When did she ever handle it right…? Seriously…! *gah*

See my 122:)

Watching the video above is very creepy

Watch it with the sound down for full effect.

She holds a rifle in the best way possible to break her shoulder. Get her one with more recoil and watch the fun begin!***

***Not responsible for damage to flying squirrels, helicopters or crop dusters in her immediate vicinity.

Night all. And rest in power, Elizabeth Edwards.

Amen.

Didn’t the Joint Chiefs of Staff come out in favor of schools prohibiting fatty foods from kids’ diets because too many recruits are fat and unfit for military service?
Palin’s anti-military.
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