Comments on: “A chunk of ice bigger than the area of Manhattan http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:09:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-2/#comment-1371289 Zooey Tue, 02 Jan 2007 05:49:42 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1371289 <em>#55 Your arrogance is astounding…and for little reason. I am thinking…inferiority complex. Comment by JPark </em> You want a piece of me, buddy? Put 'em up! :-D #55 Your arrogance is astounding…and for little reason. I am thinking…inferiority complex.
Comment by JPark

You want a piece of me, buddy? Put ‘em up! :-D

]]> By: JPark http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-2/#comment-1370679 JPark Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:24:31 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1370679 #55 Your arrogance is astounding...and for little reason. I am thinking...inferiority complex. #55 Your arrogance is astounding…and for little reason. I am thinking…inferiority complex.

]]> By: Lora http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-2/#comment-1369033 Lora Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:19:39 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1369033 A new business opportunity!!!! We could sell the Venezuelans, Nigerians and Indonesioans(SIC) camels after the oil market dries up! I’m sure you would be an excellent camel-riding teacher….Gee, that sounds like an economic opportunity “trickling down”….. Comment by mighty hypocrite Selling camels to Venezuela, Nigeria, and Indonesia has been your idea, so maybe you should volunteer to teach the citizens of those countries how to ride them. I'm sure you would be more useful in that regard than you are posting your neo-CON blather on this blog. A new business opportunity!!!! We could sell the Venezuelans, Nigerians and Indonesioans(SIC) camels after the oil market dries up! I’m sure you would be an excellent camel-riding teacher….Gee, that sounds like an economic opportunity “trickling down”…..
Comment by mighty hypocrite

Selling camels to Venezuela, Nigeria, and Indonesia has been your idea, so maybe you should volunteer to teach the citizens of those countries how to ride them. I’m sure you would be more useful in that regard than you are posting your neo-CON blather on this blog.

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-1368344 Zooey Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:35:23 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1368344 Hagette, there's fresh thread available for comments. Why hang back? Try not to be frightened. Hagette, there’s fresh thread available for comments. Why hang back? Try not to be frightened.

]]> By: mighty aphrodite http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-1368265 mighty aphrodite Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:56:58 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1368265 "OPEC membership includes Venezuela, Nigeria and Indonesia. I don’t think camel-riding was ever big in those countries." Comment by Lora ********A new business opportunity!!!! We could sell the Venezuelans, Nigerians and Indonesioans camels after the oil market dries up! I'm sure you would be an excellent camel-riding teacher....Gee, that sounds like an economic opportunity "trickling down"..... “OPEC membership includes Venezuela, Nigeria and Indonesia. I don’t think camel-riding was ever big in those countries.” Comment by Lora

********A new business opportunity!!!! We could sell the Venezuelans, Nigerians and Indonesioans camels after the oil market dries up! I’m sure you would be an excellent camel-riding teacher….Gee, that sounds like an economic opportunity “trickling down”…..

]]> By: JPark http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-1364575 JPark Mon, 01 Jan 2007 04:10:22 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1364575 #75 MA may be old but petrified would suggest it doesn't smell. I would disagree. #75 MA may be old but petrified would suggest it doesn’t smell. I would disagree.

]]> By: JPark http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-1364519 JPark Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:35:26 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1364519 #68 So, you would rather hurt Arabs than help Americans. I am not surprised but it is nice of you to clarify. #68 So, you would rather hurt Arabs than help Americans. I am not surprised but it is nice of you to clarify.

]]> By: Raven http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-1364231 Raven Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:50:14 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1364231 To whom it may concern, two questions.. #1:How, or why, did you come up with a screen name which suggests a male regent? #2: If such screen name is actually your <em>real</em> name, what were your parents thinking? To whom it may concern, two questions..
#1:How, or why, did you come up with a screen name which suggests a male regent?
#2: If such screen name is actually your real name, what were your parents thinking?

]]> By: Lora http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-1363345 Lora Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:15:39 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1363345 Unlike your mission to save the “planet”, I see a dual purpose - I merely want OPEC to return to camel-riding….. Comment by mighty hypocrite OPEC membership includes Venezuela, Nigeria and Indonesia. I don't think camel-riding was ever big in those countries. Unlike your mission to save the “planet”, I see a dual purpose – I merely want OPEC to return to camel-riding…..
Comment by mighty hypocrite

OPEC membership includes Venezuela, Nigeria and Indonesia. I don’t think camel-riding was ever big in those countries.

]]> By: mighty aphrodite http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-1362561 mighty aphrodite Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:49:12 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1362561 Lora - I have been advocating ethanol and bio-diesels for some time. Unlike your mission to save the "planet", I see a dual purpose - I merely want OPEC to return to camel-riding..... Lora – I have been advocating ethanol and bio-diesels for some time. Unlike your mission to save the “planet”, I see a dual purpose – I merely want OPEC to return to camel-riding…..

]]> By: mighty aphrodite http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-1362556 mighty aphrodite Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:46:24 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1362556 The "kindly" Marie notes, "OMG, I thought MA was gone from this site. I see she is not gone, and nasty as ever. It seems to be her mission in life to try to find something to criticize every day." *******Having never read one POSITIVE utterance of yours, you might wish to look up the word "criticize". Obviously, you are clueless. The “kindly” Marie notes, “OMG, I thought MA was gone from this site. I see she is not gone, and nasty as ever. It seems to be her mission in life to try to find something to criticize every day.”

*******Having never read one POSITIVE utterance of yours, you might wish to look up the word “criticize”. Obviously, you are clueless.

]]> By: ForTruth http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-1362262 ForTruth Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:49:23 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1362262 <strong>“A chunk of ice bigger than the area of Manhattan broke from an ice shelf in Canada’s far north"</strong> God just needed to re-fresh his Hi-Ball. “A chunk of ice bigger than the area of Manhattan
broke from an ice shelf in Canada’s far north”

God just needed to re-fresh his Hi-Ball.

]]> By: Lora http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-1361426 Lora Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:18:35 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1361426 ****Dear AbC - What does your preferred mode of transportation run on? Crushed grass and leaves? Ball bearings and gravity? Comment by mighty hypocrite Ever heard of ethanol as an alternative form of fuel, Mightette? Brazil, for one, a country generally regarded as not as advanced as the USA, has been taking the lead in developing it as a cleaner form of fuel. Also in case you haven't heard, petroleum is a finite resource. ****Dear AbC – What does your preferred mode of transportation run on? Crushed grass and leaves? Ball bearings and gravity?
Comment by mighty hypocrite

Ever heard of ethanol as an alternative form of fuel, Mightette? Brazil, for one, a country generally regarded as not as advanced as the USA, has been taking the lead in developing it as a cleaner form of fuel. Also in case you haven’t heard, petroleum is a finite resource.

]]> By: BalRog http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-1360184 BalRog Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:28:32 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1360184 Actually I think that if the Iceberg threatens any "oil-drilling regions" they should send <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/09/vast-majority-climatologists/" rel="nofollow">Bonner Cohen and Steven Malloy</a> to convince the iceberg that it isn't really there, that scientist don't really believe it exists, and that it is actually still attached to that Canadian glacier. Hell, hang the expense. Send Inhofe, Drudge, and Crichton too. With all that hot air maybe they can melt the thing. Actually I think that if the Iceberg threatens any “oil-drilling regions” they should send Bonner Cohen and Steven Malloy to convince the iceberg that it isn’t really there, that scientist don’t really believe it exists, and that it is actually still attached to that Canadian glacier.

Hell, hang the expense. Send Inhofe, Drudge, and Crichton too. With all that hot air maybe they can melt the thing.

]]> By: justasking http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-1359622 justasking Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:09:39 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1359622 If the coprolite in question is coprophagic, is that not indicative of self-cannibalism? If the coprolite in question is coprophagic, is that not indicative of self-cannibalism?

]]> By: robert http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-1359555 robert Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:50:46 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1359555 <em>11,000 football fields. </em> Damn, there goes the expansion 11,000 teams the NFL wanted.... come on, it was a joke! 11,000 football fields.

Damn, there goes the expansion 11,000 teams the NFL wanted….

come on, it was a joke!

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-1359422 Zooey Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:55:33 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1359422 <em>11,000 football fields. It took many weeks to discover this thing, usually the big ones break up a little by then. Comment by ForTruth </em> Huh? Oh......the topic. Heh. 11,000 football fields. It took many weeks to discover this thing, usually the big ones break up a little by then.
Comment by ForTruth

Huh?

Oh……the topic. Heh.

]]> By: ForTruth http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-1359407 ForTruth Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:47:42 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1359407 11,000 football fields. It took many weeks to discover this thing, usually the big ones break up a little by then. 11,000 football fields. It took many weeks to discover this thing, usually the big ones break up a little by then.

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-1359357 Zooey Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:19:01 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1359357 <em>His gun skills are smelling like a rose. Off to bed. John </em> Poor wingless quail... His gun skills are smelling like a rose. Off to bed.
John

Poor wingless quail…

]]> By: John Gilpins http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-1359351 John Gilpins Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:16:23 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/30/a-chunk-of-ice-bigger-than-the-area-of-manhattan/#comment-1359351 Zooey, You're so right. Think of all the nice HUNTING STORIES Dick Cheney can tell. That guy is such a skilled hunter. No doubt his favorite musical group is GUNS N' ROSES. His gun skills are smelling like a rose. Off to bed. John Zooey,

You’re so right.

Think of all the nice HUNTING STORIES Dick Cheney can tell. That guy is such a skilled hunter. No doubt his favorite musical group is GUNS N’ ROSES. His gun skills are smelling like a rose. Off to bed.

John

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