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ROCKET HARPOONS

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ROCKET HARPOONS
Killing space sharks since 2008

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  1. Brandon_ha says:

    Damn those space sharks, there eating our ozone layer.

  2. FaileV says:

    this one made me chuckle

  3. Mr. Morons says:

    What?
    Absolutely no crappy politically biased rhetoric?
    *checks address bar*
    Yup, it’s Pundit Kitchen
    *staggers away stunned*

  4. AxelTheDragon says:

    Well, at least they’re not after space dragons like Ridley, those’re awesome :D

  5. KaBooM says:

    I Lol’d. Awesome.

  6. Hell Hath No Fury says:

    Great, the one place I thought I would be safe from sharks…..
    *steers Starship Enterprise back towards Earth*

  7. Alcar says:

    That’s not a Harpoon, this is a Harpoon (see name)

  8. PortlandMark says:

    New Thread: The failure of the democrats to remove Lieberman from his committee chairmanship, despite L’s many offenses against them, shows that the next two years will be characterized by a total lack of leadership in the Senate. Discuss.

    For those who don’t know, here’s the list of Lieberman’s offenses, as far as I know:

    1) Campaigned for McCain.
    2) Campaigned for several other Republican senators this year.
    3) Has publicly stated that “Democratic control of the White House, Senate, and House of representatives would be a disaster for the nation.”

    Well, okay, that’s only three things. In my mind, though, at some point you have to demand party unity from those in leadership roles. He should have lost his chairmanship of Homeland Security, and maybe be given a leadership role elsewhere, say, environmental issues.

    • 3ntropy says:

      i can’t hear you over the sound of your own FAIL.

    • eddiepscetti says:

      So basically what you are saying is:
      -
      1) Because he switched to Indie and campaigned for McCain, only those of the party in the majority should have committee chairmanships?
      2) See #1
      3) Do you not see the problem with one party controlling both houses and the executive branch? Talk about letting the fox guard the hen house.

      • minerva146 says:

        But 6 years under W was ok in the opposite direction ??

      • ema says:

        As far as #3, the way Bush was spending we had something like full liberal Democrat control of both for the last 2 years anyway…

      • PortlandMark says:

        1) and 2): yes, eddie, that is exactly what I’m saying. Moreover, it’s the way the senate and house generally run; I don’t think there have been many exceptions in history. Usually if you let an independent caucus with you, it’s expected they follow the party line more closely than Lieberman does. You certainly wouldn’t let them campaign against multiple candidates!

        On 3), I usually agree with you. However, right now, I want two to four years of bold democratic leadership to reverse some of the worst problems of the Reagan/Bush/Bush years, then return to sensible, balanced control. Regretfully, allowing Lieberman to hold on to his Homeland Security chairmanship suggests that our leadership will be anything but “bold”.

        Plus, I don’t think Lieberman’s done a very good job of exercising his oversight role in Homeland Security, and I’d like to get someone in there who would.

        • eddiepscetti says:

          On 1) and 2), shouldn’t committee chairmanships be non-partisan? At least that’s the way I think it should be. I’m not trying to keep Lieberman there, Lord knows I didn’t like the guy when ran for VP in 2000 and I don’t think he’s gotten any better.
          -
          As for 3) I guess we’re going to have to agree to disagree as I don’t see any benefit to having one party control the whole ball o’ wax. At least one house of Congress should be controlled by the opposing party. To my way of thinking, it does help keep everyone a little bit honest (and did say a little bit).

        • minerva146 says:

          “Not long before our nation launched the invasion of Iraq, our longest-serving Senator, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, stood on the Senate floor and said: “This chamber is, for the most part, silent—ominously, dreadfully silent. There is no debate, no discussion, no attempt to lay out for the nation the pros and cons of this particular war. There is nothing. We stand passively mute in the United States Senate.”

          Why was the Senate silent?

          In describing the empty chamber the way he did, Byrd invited a specific version of the same general question millions of us have been asking: “Why do reason, logic and truth seem to play a sharply diminished role in the way America now makes important decisions?” The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of massive and well-understood evidence to the contrary, seems to many Americans to have reached levels that were previously unimaginable.

          A large and growing number of Americans are asking out loud: “What has happened to our country?” People are trying to figure out what has gone wrong in our democracy, and how we can fix it. ”

          ——————
          Nobody is doing their job. It doesn’t matter who’s in the majority. This is a quote from Assault on Reason. I really like some of what it has to say.

          • Xavier says:

            “Nobody is doing their job.”

            And still aren’t to this day. The Republicans can’t understand how they lost “control” after 1994, and the Democrats are likely to be asking themselves that same question before too long.

            Part of it is that what these people see as their job, largely is to stick it to whoever was sticking it to them the past N years. It’s a slightly more civilized version of the tribal warfare that has gone on for millennia around the world; after a while, you forget what it was you were fighting about in the first place. And you certainly forget who put you there to do the fighting.

            I don’t expect much different to come out of this Congress, of the next N of them — it’s largely the same full diaper with a slightly different smell. Until We The People stop shouting at and scapegoating each other, how can we expect our elected representatives to do the same? After all, we deserve the government we get, right? Just look around these comments threads — you can see why Byrd was asking that question. The rot starts at the bottom.

            • minerva146 says:

              I have a less cynical viewpoint, and that’s saying something as I’ve been a cynic for a long time now. I think this election cycle made a difference. I’ll agree that it may be only short term, but people really started to pay attention to the democratic process. High voter turnout, and I believe that those said voters were more “plugged in” this time around, instead of the usual repetitive drag. The electorate was more “informed” than it has been for a long time. You see this comment treads as rot? I see it as dialogue. You should have been here during the campaign; it got even hotter debate-wise than it does now. Sure there are those that spew along the party line or only repeat talking points they heard on Fox or whatever. A lot of people here ARE genuinely interested in having the debate though. How likely was this to happen six, four, or even two years ago. Congress has been getting record calls and emails from constituents. That is the biggest reason the first bailout bill failed. The people didn’t want it.

              The trick is finding a way to keep people engaged. The open forum is what our founding fathers envisioned. The advent of radio and TV took the forum out of the hands of the people as we didn’t have access to the medium to share our views the same as we did for many years with only newspapers available. The internet has brought the forum back into the hands of the people. We can now debate openly again and let our representatives know how we’ve concluded. I’ve emailed my representatives. It’s easy to do.

              I don’t claim PK will solve all of society’s ills, but getting people talking, here and in other places (hopefully that don’t just serve as echo chambers) can only be for the good, especially if we can get people engaged.

              (We can thank George W. for failing so miserably he motivated the country to rise out of apathy, does that count for anything?)

    • ema says:

      Is space shark some kind of code word for Lieberman?

    • lowly grunt says:

      Mark, I’m willing to bet that Obama and Reid and Dean are operating on teh principle, “Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies closer.” Do you really think Lieberman still owns his own balls?

      • Uncle Fester says:

        You mean they have pictures of him with a dead hooker….

      • PortlandMark says:

        I sure hope you’re right. I’m sure Obama’s start in Chicago politics has prepared him to be that good!

        • Uncle Fester says:

          Nothing like offering to introduce someone’s knee caps to your good, dear, friend, Francis Xavier ‘Breaker’ O’Malley, for some ‘attitude adjustment’

        • lowly grunt says:

          I would imagine so.

          BUT I also imagine how much larger a turd Lieberman would look if he goes back on the magnanimous gesture on the part of the PE. Seriously, to get along now, Holy Joe has two choices: stay in line with Senate Dems and keep his plum chair, or go his own way (again) and lose it for reals. SO he either 1- does what them dems want or 2- does what those dems want. Barry gots his ballz fo’shizzle!

      • Mario. says:

        I get it!
        “Don’t get repbs to get on the TV, we have our own joker that we can put on TV”?
        That way it would have been really smart :)

      • Hell Hath No Fury says:

        I thoguht it was, “keep your friends close, and your enemies on your myspace friends list’

    • comment cop says:

      They decided to just put a “kick me” sign on his back and let it all work its self out.

  9. ICDK says:

    Do we have anything to kill landsharks?

    *CANDYGRAM!*

  10. Interloper says:

    “Curiously, all the bowl of petunias thought was ‘oh no, not again.’”

    *chirp* *chirp* *chirp*

    Hello, is this thing on?

  11. Jack says:

    To interject an informative note, this looks to be a rocket with things exploding on each side near the top. Needless to say, that does not bode well.

    • comment cop says:

      It also does not bode well that this looks like it is taking off from my neighbor’s back yard. And that guy should not be playing with meth and rockets at the same time.

  12. Dameon says:

    *looks in the basement* now we need a way to get rid of basement cat

  13. Legion says:

    THIS IS WHY WE HAVE A SPACE PROGRAM.

    • Hell Hath No Fury says:

      I was under the impression it was so we could jump up and down on those NASA mattresses with a large glass of liqour and not spill a drop. …although that HAS come in quite handy……


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