Weirddave: You're digging a year back in my inactive blog? LOL....
?? If this regards the article I linked, I now see that it's dated 2015 Feb 6 but just showed up in my news feeds yesterday for some reason. Maybe the news feed can't distinguish years?
Still think Cruz is coming along with how he sounds?
Weird Dave has an interesting take on leading candidates and pandering v sincerity:
...When I view the three top Republican candidates for president through the lens of my job as a professional trainer, it's easy to pick up the pander....
http://bit.ly/pander-bear
Well, the nood was really Ace's 2am bumped up, I see. Sure to confuse the corgi horde.
I quit watching the Hobbit movies when Dr Who with bird poop dribbling down his head rode the bunny sleigh through the woods. Off the rails and over the shark.
Some fan needs to do an edit (if possible) to limit the Hobbit flicks to what was in the book. I'd watch that.
Drew, thanks for bumping this up. I meant to go back and read it, but might not have.
Ace posting at 2am is always weird and disorienting. Overnight thread, Morning thread - that's the way things are s'pose't' be. 
Well, since there's a new thread up, and over 300 comments on this one, here's my semi-off-topic treatise of the week.
"Comic books ain't books" -paraphrasing the Guru in the Avatar-Last Airbender cartoon.
If "books" can be digitized or listened to, then who was book?
TV show review:
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"Lucifer Morningstar is a DC Comics character appearing primarily as a supporting character in the comic book series The Sandman and as the title character of a spin-off, both published under the Vertigo imprint." -Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(DC_Comics)
Haven't read the comics, but decided to try the TV show. I'd heard of the concept and it's not my cuppa, but, the only things even halfway worth watching on teevee these days are based on comic books. 
Immortal fallen angel Lucifer is supposed to be the head honcho of Hell, except he's abandoned his duties there to hang out on earth and live the Playboy lifestyle.
The theology is, as expected, screwy and stupid to the point of near blasphemy in my religious opinion. I would say it's "comic bookish," but that would be an insult to comic books.
The theological background is depicted in two bookend encounters Lucifer has with another angel and their discussions of the Father, and the Devil's dodging his assignment to Hell. That's the worst of the show.
But, that out of the way, the rest of the story is, Lucifer helps a cop solve a murder, using his wily superpowers. He's depicted as not such a bad sort, randy, cynical, and claims to hate children, but out to punish rather than encourage the wicked. As a cop story with super-anti-hero assist, it's not bad. The devil is made sort-of likeable. In this way, not so different from the comedy Reaper.
So, has nothing to do with actual evil and the father of lies. Could be confusing to those weak of faith and poor in belief. But everything is.
Going to watch the second episode, at least, to see where it goes.
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Speaking of teevee Hell, I have a copy of the premiere episode of "Angel from Hell," the premise of which (what I read) sounds vaguely like it might be like "Saving Grace" trying to be "Lucifer," but I haven't watched it yet, so I don't really know.
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Semi-related time-wasting webwork:
Imagine Only Heaven
What in Heaven do you mean by no Hell?
http://bit.ly/only-heaven
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Speaking of comic book theology, thought I'd throw this into the mix...
"...The archdeceiver has never been on Urantia since the days when he sought to turn back [Jesus] from the purpose to complete the bestowal... [after which,] Lucifer was taken into custody... and has since been a prisoner.... [Since then,] no one... has desired to go to the prison worlds to minister to the interned rebels.... We believe that all rebels who will ever accept mercy have done so. We await the flashing broadcast that will deprive these traitors of personality existence. ... Then will you look for their places, but they shall not be found. "And they who know you among the worlds will be astonished at you; you have been a terror, but never shall you be any more."
http://bit.ly/UP-59-3
OregonMuse: ...today's book thread pic brought it back to mind when I first saw it.
Okay then. I wondered. 
Speaking of Mt Rushmore... just one errant blast, and somebody's nose could've ended up at the bottom of the mountain. That alone is an impressive thing.
"prehensile wang"
Just out of curiosity, it must be five decades ago I heard the joke in an Italian (Rome) men driving context. One hand on the wine bottle, one out the window giving the finger. Yeah, steering with...
I'm not the only one familiar with that (or similar) background on this, right?
ChocoCheese: Phil Hartman's portrayal of Reagan as a mastermind was probably the best thing on SNL....
I thought of that immediately when someone mentioned SNL put-downs of Reagan.
The "Reagan Mastermind" sketch is on HULU and elsewhere, but they all appear to require Flash, which I don't do. *sadz*
IIRC, the Reagan sketch rates up there with the recent Trump sketch set a few years into his presidency for unintentional praise.
OregonMuse: I'm leaving it up there, because I'm too lazy to change it.
But you're right. There are no 50 shades of 'unique'. Something either is or isn't.
Heh. Don't care if you change it as long as I get affirmation.
* brief "I was right - for a change" Dogbert dance *
Oh, man! Went looking for aforementioned Reagan political cartoon book. Didn't find it, but realized...
Some of our shelves have books stacked two deep. Really hard to search when they're like that.
The dust on some shelves is really thick. *SNEEZE*
Only a small portion of our library is even shelved here at home, some is stacked around on other surfaces, and a lot is still in boxes from our move twenty years ago. *sigh*
Sure wish we had room for ten times as many bookshelves, and time to organize everything. Books as clutter is not a good thing. Book hoarding.
Okay, now to plunge into the comments...
Okay, finished scanning the EMT, had some breakfast, read the Book post, and now ready to plunge into comments. But before I refill my coffee cup for that...
• Reagan: Somewhere here I have a small paperback collection of Reagan political cartoons. Published while he was still in office, I think. Some very funny ones, but not funny as intended. Laughing at the idea that he thought he could bring down the USSR, for example.
• Vocabulary: gantlet / gauntlet - Hey! I l'arned sumpin'.
• Langwich: "he created a fantasy world that I think is fairly unique"
Something is unique or it is not. There are no shades of uniqueness. Whattaya think? (I believe this may be in Elements of Style.)
To find out what's between the covers,
one cannot leave the volume closed.
-Cornfuscia
Argh. Not in before the book thread after all. Well, I said it would be close.
Morning, Glories!
In before the Fine Literature thread. (But, barely, I'd presume.)
Sure are a lot of disappointing Republicans. Had already decided Gowdy wasn't all that. Jindal sure did disappoint. What a sorry lot. The Democrats are a laugh, though, now hoping for Biden... or Kerry!! (Didn't we dodge that dum-dum once already?)
At least there's still one Presidential candidate who understands we're supposed to be a Constitutional republic. WeirdDave had a take on him on a blog:
http://bit.ly/pander-bear
S'pose't get up to 61° today here in NE Oklahoma. I'll take it!
* re-enters room *
* waves *
Good night, Gracies!
* grabs last beer out of fridge *
* slips out the back *
I didn't watch the debates... but I was aghast at the introductions. ICYMI:
WFB 2:04
https://youtu.be/ZuYI5yEMlUU
I think all of them should've backed up behind Carson and spilled onto the stage together.
Kateurday in Motion ONT Compliance Pics
That was a great improvement.
No javascript or plug-ins required.
Is this the first time kbdabear has posted animations, or did I miss some previously?
Last night I dreamed we were driving around looking for our dog who had run off. We found the dog. Only, it was a female look-alike of our good old boy dog who we had with us the whole time. Only when I woke up did I realize, we only have the one dog. I was sad.
What, is that off-topic too soon?
Evening, Overnighties.
I rarely read the comments on this site. This thead confirms the correctness of my derision. Most of the attempts at humour are pathetic. If you can't provide a serious answer, how about you ROFL?
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