AdamSmith

And the dominoes keep falling... http://wfpl.org/post/kentucky-must-recognize-out-state-same-sex-marriages-federal-judge-rules

hito and I have our forms of understanding. Don't be jealous now.

You know better than to put notions in my head.

Same here. So, awaiting the miracle battery, I meanwhile shelled out for a couple of hand-crank-rechargeable-type emergency lanterns which have saved my neck, or at least ankle, once or twice when the lights went out. Similar model to this brother which is $29.95: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Coleman-LED-Crank-Lantern-with-Radio-Blue/19235939

Long ago codified in fact.

Sounds a bit titillating, and slightly verboten.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/206775559/How-to-Fight-Presidents-by-Daniel-O-Brien-Excerpt

If famous movies were made into trilogies...

Forecasting!

Also for hito...?

Tiny icon in upper left hand corner of the edit toolbar when you go to make a post.

Specially for hito!

Documentary on the making of '2001' which I'd never seen before:

Indeed. Money talks. Arizona Republicans urge governor to veto anti-gay billState sentators who voted for bill allowing religious business owners to refuse service to gay people now call for a veto Associated Press in Phoenix theguardian.com, Monday 24 February 2014 15.06 EST Three Republican Arizona state senators who voted for a bill allowing business owners with strongly held religious beliefs to refuse service to gay people sent a letter to governor Jan Brewer on Monday urging her to veto the legislation. The letter came as more prominent Republicans pressed the GOP governor for a veto, including senator John McCain. Five of seven Republican candidates for governor also have called for the bill to be vetoed or withdrawn. The latest is Frank Riggs, a former California congressman, who said it is a “solution in search of a problem”. Senators Bob Worsley, Adam Driggs and Steve Pierce sent their letter urging the veto just days after they joined the entire 17-member senate GOP caucus in voting for the bill. “I was not comfortable with the vote,” Worsley told the Associated Press. “I have not been comfortable with this for some time. I think laws are on the books that we need and have now seen the ramifications of my vote. I feel very bad and it was a mistake.” The legislation has set off a firestorm across the nation from gay rights backers and politicians of all stripes. Arizona’s two republican US senators, Jeff Flake and McCain, are urging a veto, as are business groups like the Arizona chamber of commerce and industry. McCain weighed in Monday with a tweet saying “I hope Gov Brewer will veto #SB1062.” The bill is being pushed by the Center for Arizona Policy, a social conservative group that opposes abortion and gay marriage. The group says the proposal is needed to protect against increasingly activist federal courts and simply clarifies existing state law. CAP president Cathi Herrod is urging Brewer to sign the legislation and deriding what she called “fear-mongering” from its opponents. “The attacks on SB 1062 ... represent precisely why so many people are sick of the modern political debate,” Herrod wrote in a weekend posting on the group’s website. “Instead of having an honest discussion about the true meaning of religious liberty, opponents of the bill have hijacked this discussion through lies, personal attacks, and irresponsible reporting. “Our elected leaders have a fundamental duty to protect the religious freedom of every Arizonan, and that’s what SB 1062 is all about.” If SB1062 is vetoed, it will be a major defeat for Herrod’s group, which is seen as a powerful force on the Arizona political scene. Herrod suffered a similar defeat last year when she tried to get the Legislature to tack anti-abortion language onto a Medicaid expansion bill that Brewer was pushing. That effort angered Brewer, herself a strong opponent of abortion. The bill is expected to be formally transmitted to Brewer as early as Monday, and she’ll then have five days to act. Brewer doesn’t comment on pending legislation, but she vetoed a similar measure last year. That action, however, came during an unrelated political standoff, and it’s not clear whether she would support or reject this plan. But with the business community lining up against the plan, Brewer could have cover for a veto. She’s worked hard to return Arizona’s economy to pre-recession levels with business-friendly incentives and tax cuts. Pierce said he and the others went along to present a solid Republican front, despite misgivings. “We were uncomfortable with it to start with and went along with it thinking it was good for the caucus,” Pierce said. “We really didn’t want to vote for it, but we made a mistake and now we’re trying to do what’s right and correct it.” But their letter also said while the intent of their vote “was to create a shield for all citizens’ religious liberties, the bill has been mischaracterized by its opponents as a sword for religious intolerance”. The bill allows any business, church or person to cite the law as a defense in any action brought by the government or individual claiming discrimination. Opponents call it a license to discriminate against gay people. Similar religious protection legislation has been introduced in Ohio, Mississippi, Idaho, South Dakota, Tennessee and Oklahoma, but Arizona’s plan is the only one that has passed. The efforts are stalled in Idaho, Ohio and Kansas. Republicans stressed that the bill is not about discrimination but protecting religious freedom. They frequently cite the case of a New Mexico photographer who was sued after refusing to take wedding pictures of a gay couple. They said Arizona needs a law to protect people in the state from heavy-handed actions by courts. Another frequently cited example is a suit brought against an Oregon baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. The businesses were sued, but those efforts came under state laws that extended protected-class status to gay people. Arizona has no such law protecting people based on sexual orientation. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/24/arizona-republicans--governor-veto-anti-gay-bill

http://www.afterld.com/forum/showthread.php?51564-ot-so-is-anderson-cooper-a-top-or-a-bottom

Must be our fatback, whiskey and tobacco counteracting all that stuff discussed above.

Dr. Smith's Insults Irwin Allen Wiki One of the things that Dr. Smith is well known for is his insults. Here is a (partial) list of Dr. Smith's insults for the Robot and the number of times they were used. Addlepated Amateur (1) Addlepated Armorbearer (2) Arrogant Automaton (1) Astigmatic Automaton (1) Babbling Birdbrain (1) Babbling Bumpkin (1) Bellicose Bumpkin (4) Blithering Blatherskite (1) Blithering Booby (3) Blithering Bumpkin (1) Bubble-headed Booby (9) Bumbling Birdbrain (3) Bumbling Bag of Bolts (1) Bumbling Booby (1) Cackling Cacophony (1) Cackling Canister (1) Cackling Clod (3) Cackling Coward (1) Cackling Cuckoo (1) Calamitous Clump (1) Cantankerous Cold-hearted Clump (1) Caterwauling Clod (1) Cautious Clump (1) Clod-like Collection of Condensers (1) Clumsy Clod (3) Clumsy Clump (3) Computerized Clod (4) Computerized Clump (1) Confused Compass (1) Cowardly Clump (7) Cumbersome Clod (3) Defective Detective (1) Demented Diode (1) Deplorable Dunderhead (2) Despotic Dunce (1) Digital Dunce (1) Digitized Dunce (1) Dipety Dunce (1) Disreputable Dunce (2) Disreputable Dunderhead (1) Doddering Dunderhead (1) Ferrous Frankenstein (1) Floundering Flunky (2) Foolish Fop (1) Frightful Fractious Frump (1) Gargantuan Goose (1) Garrulous Gargoyle (1) Gigantic Gargoyle (1) Gregarious Gremlin (1) Hard-headed Harbinger of Evil (1) Hardware Hyena (1) Hopeless Heap of Tainted Tin (1) Hypotensive Hypochondriac (1) Ignominious Ignoramus (1) Ill-informed Ignoramus (1) Ineffectual Ineptitude (1) Inept Idiot (1) Infamous Informer (1) Ingot of Ingratitude (1) Insensitive Idiot (1) Insipid Ineptitude (1) Jabbering Jeremiah (1) Jabbering Judas (2) Jangling Junkheap (1) Lame-brained Lump (1) Lead-lined Lump (1) Lily-livered Lump (2) Ludicrous Lump (3) Lugubrious Laggard (1) Lugubrious Lecture3 (1) Lugubrious Lump (2) Meandering Mental Midget (1) Mechanical Meddler (2) Mechanical Misfit (3) Mechanical Monolith (1) Mechanical Murderer (1) Mechanized Maidservant1 (1) Mediocre Medical Misfit (1) Mental Midget (3) Mess of Metal (1) Metallic Monstrosity (1) Misguided Mechanical Misery (1) Misshapen Mummy (1) Monstrous Mechanized Misguided Moron (1) Monstrous Mountebank (1) Nattering Ninny (1) Neanderthal Ninny (2) Negligent Ninny (1) Nervous Ninny (5) Nickel-plated Nincompoop (1) Nickering Ninny (1) Noxious Ninny (1) Obsolete Oaf (1) Parsimonious Puppet (1) Pathetic Pomposity (1) Pedagogical Pip-Squeak (1) Plasticized Parrot (1) Ponderous Plumber (1) Pot-bellied Prankster (1) Pot-headed Prankster (1) Preening Popinjay (1) Presumptuous Pip-Squeak (1) Presumptuous Popinjay (1) Pretentious Popinjay (1) Primitive Pile of Pistons (1) Pusillanimous Pinhead (2) Pusillanimous Pip-squeak (1) Pusillanimous Punka (1) Quivering Quintessence of Fear (1) Robust Rock Hound (1) Ridiculous Rigmarole2 (1) Ridiculous Robot (1) Ridiculous Roustabout (1) Roly-Poly Rowdy (1) Sanctimonious Scatterbrain (1) Silly Sausage (1) Silly Sloth (1) Silver-plated Sellout (1) Simple Simon (2) Tarnished Trumpet (1) Tin-plated Tinhorn (1) Tin-plated Traitor (2) Tintinnabulating Tin Can (1) Tiresome Thesaurus (1) Traitorous Tin Tabulation (1) Treasonous Tyrant (1) Tyrannical Tin Plate (1) Unctuous Underling (1) Wobbling Weakling4 (1) Worry Wart (1) Others Aluminum Canary (1) Assassin (1) Automated Oaf (1) Bloated Blimp (1) Booby (1) Bubblehead (1) Bumbling Cracker Barrel (1) Bungler (1) Chattering Magpie (1) Clod (2) Clunker (1) Coward (4) Cybernetic Simpleton (1) Cybernetic Skeptic (1) Dunce (1) Dunderhead (2) Fiend in Tin Clothing (1) Fugitive from a Scrapheap (1) Ghoul (1) Goose (1) Hopeless Heap of Tainted Tin (1) Hulking Mass of Mechanical Ignorance (1) Incompetent Walking Ingot (1) Judas (2) Lagger (1) Mealy-Mouthed Rogue (1) Mechanical Dunderhead (1) Meddler (2) Metallic Ham (1) Mr. Wrong-Way Computer (1) Ninny (27) Obsolete Piece of Scrap Metal (1) Over-Cautious Concoction (1) Overgrown Ninny (1) Silly Goose (7) Silly Old Ninny (1) Sniggering Cinder Box (1) Sorry Specimen of Computerhood (1) Tin-plated Snitch (1) Traitor (6) Traitorous Tin-plated Fugitive from a Junkyard (1) Troublemaker (1) Uncultured Clump (1) "Spare me the..." Dr. Smith also says "Spare me the..." a lot. Here is a (partial) list of every "Spare me the..." he says and the number of times he says them. Accurate Appraisals (1) Apologies (1) Asinine Ad-libs (1) Asinine Advice (1) Asinine Axioms (1) Bullring Dramatics (1) Caustic Comments (1) Conundrums (1) Dire Doubts (1) Direful Doubts (1) Dull Cliches you learned at you mother's knee (1) Explanations (1) Fancy Rigmarole (1) Feeble Attempts at Humor (3) Feeble Jokes (1) Gratitude (1) Inane Innuendoes (1) Insulting Innuendoes (1) Moralizations (1) Moralizing (1) Obtuse Opinions (1) Opinions (1) Platitudes (1) Pleasantries (1) Poisonous Barbs (4) Poisonous Platitudes (1) Ridiculous Remarks (1) Scientific Lectures (1) Technicalities (1) Unfunny Jokes (1) Vivid Recollections (1) Warnings (2) Womanly Intuition (1) Youthful Enthusiasm (1) 1 He only says this to Verda, the android from The Android Machine. 2 He only uses this to describe the clothes he wears in The Android Machine. 3 In Treasure of the Lost Planet, the Robot gave Dr. Smith a "lugubrious lecture". 4 He only says this to IDAK in Revolt of the Androids. http://irwinallen.wikia.com/wiki/Dr._Smith%27s_Insults