The Official Gloat Thread

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I just thought I'd start an Official Gloat Thread so that those who were reading through all the other threads trying to find a place to gloat could feel free to do it here and save yourself all that reading.


Have at it.

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Official Gloat Thread

, my mistake, I misread it to say Official Goat Thread. I was thinking, WTF is this crap about Goats! Is this guy talking about Pontiac's GTO! Well now, that got my goat and I was all prepared to rail you back into the stone age on why GTO's are nothing but salvaged waste from a Chevrolet waste bin. Sorry for the mistake. Oh and if you do drive a GTO, fuck you and your goat

"...And once you're gone, you can't come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black."
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Official Gloat Thread

, my mistake, I misread it to say Official Goat Thread. I was thinking, WTF is this crap about Goats! Is this guy talking about Pontiac's GTO! Well now, that got my goat and I was all prepared to rail you back into the stone age on why GTO's are nothing but salvaged waste from a Chevrolet waste bin. Sorry for the mistake. Oh and if you do drive a GTO, fuck you and your goat

Let's try to keep this thread confined to gloating, please.

Are you sure there isn't something you'd like to gloat about?

C'mon....you know you want to.

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[Samurai136 0]

I've got a badly irritated and enlarged gloat. Maybe it needs to be lanced?

"Buttons aren't toys." - Trillian
Ken

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Official Gloat Thread

, my mistake, I misread it to say Official Goat Thread. I was thinking, WTF is this crap about Goats! Is this guy talking about Pontiac's GTO! Well now, that got my goat and I was all prepared to rail you back into the stone age on why GTO's are nothing but salvaged waste from a Chevrolet waste bin. Sorry for the mistake. Oh and if you do drive a GTO, fuck you and your goat

Hey, I don;t care about you slamming goats, but leave GM out of this

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This thread is becoming a real goat-fuck, ever see a goat fuck?

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This thread is becoming a real goat-fuck, ever see a goat fuck?

No, but I can understand how someone could find that interesting. Just sittin on the ole porch watchin goats fuck. Sounds like my kinda day.

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We're all just kidding around here, right?

"Buttons aren't toys." - Trillian
Ken

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We're all just kidding around here, right?

I hear the best way to fuck a goat is to push the little feller right up to the edge of a cliff. He will naturally push back from the edge and then you got him where you want him.


Goat fuckin is serious business in some parts of the country. Only thing better is sheep fuckin.

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Hey, I don;t care about you slamming goats, but leave GM out of this

Why? He started the thread.

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We're all just kidding around here, right?

I hear the best way to fuck a goat is to push the little feller right up to the edge of a cliff. He will naturally push back from the edge and then you got him where you want him.


Goat fuckin is serious business in some parts of the country. Only thing better is sheep fuckin.

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So... How well do you know Clay?

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Ken

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We're all just kidding around here, right?

I hear the best way to fuck a goat is to push the little feller right up to the edge of a cliff. He will naturally push back from the edge and then you got him where you want him.


Goat fuckin is serious business in some parts of the country. Only thing better is sheep fuckin.

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So... How well do you know Clay?

That's where I heered it from.

edited to add: What...are you trying to get this moved to Bonfire?

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Official Gloat Thread

, my mistake, I misread it to say Official Goat Thread. I was thinking, WTF is this crap about Goats! Is this guy talking about Pontiac's GTO! Well now, that got my goat and I was all prepared to rail you back into the stone age on why GTO's are nothing but salvaged waste from a Chevrolet waste bin. Sorry for the mistake. Oh and if you do drive a GTO, fuck you and your goat

Hey. 69 Judge ruled

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

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We're all just kidding around here, right?

I hear the best way to fuck a goat is to push the little feller right up to the edge of a cliff. He will naturally push back from the edge and then you got him where you want him.


Goat fuckin is serious business in some parts of the country. Only thing better is sheep fuckin.

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Best way is put their back legs in your boots so they can't get away. And if ya want it really tight you put their legs in ONE boot

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

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Official Gloat Thread

, my mistake, I misread it to say Official Goat Thread. I was thinking, WTF is this crap about Goats! Is this guy talking about Pontiac's GTO! Well now, that got my goat and I was all prepared to rail you back into the stone age on why GTO's are nothing but salvaged waste from a Chevrolet waste bin. Sorry for the mistake. Oh and if you do drive a GTO, fuck you and your goat

Hey my first car was a 1967 GTO convertable with a 428 and dual quads.

Yeah it guzzled gas but it was a fun ride

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Official Gloat Thread

, my mistake, I misread it to say Official Goat Thread. I was thinking, WTF is this crap about Goats! Is this guy talking about Pontiac's GTO! Well now, that got my goat and I was all prepared to rail you back into the stone age on why GTO's are nothing but salvaged waste from a Chevrolet waste bin. Sorry for the mistake. Oh and if you do drive a GTO, fuck you and your goat

Hey, I don;t care about you slamming goats, but leave GM out of this

Now that Santorum is out, men who wish to marry their goats will be permitted.

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Oh come on GM we have been reading your GLOAT thread in nearly every post for the last 6 years.

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Hey my first car was a 1967 GTO convertable with a 428 and dual quads.

Uh you want to try that again... my cousins were into GOATS BIG time... it was a 389
And the dual quads did look kewl.

http://www.gtoalley.com/engcodens.html

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Mine did not have the original motor Jean.

We pulled that motor out of a catalina safari wagon before it went to the machine shop.

The original was blown up by the previous owner, a Professor at Mt. Palomar who had forgotten to check the oil.

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Oh come on GM we have been reading your GLOAT thread in nearly every post for the last 6 years.

You may expect that to continue.

Say, did you know this last election was one of the most pathetic gains in the number of seats in the 6th year of a 2 term President for the opposing party in US history?

It's absolutely laughable that given the conditions, this is the best the Dems could do. Almost as pathetic as Al Gore losing considering the economic conditions and after serving for 8 years as VP.

Neener... neener....

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Say, did you know this last election was most pathetic gain in the number of seats in the 6th year of a 2 term President for the opposing party in US history?

It's absolutely laughable that given the conditions, this is the best the Dems could do.
Neener... neener....

Izzat the best you can do? Yer really stretchin', boy. Gonna pull a muscle.

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Say, did you know this last election was most pathetic gain in the number of seats in the 6th year of a 2 term President for the opposing party in US history?

It's absolutely laughable that given the conditions, this is the best the Dems could do.
Neener... neener....

Izzat the best you can do? Yer really stretchin', boy. Gonna pull a muscle.

I think that's pretty substantial given the conditions for change. The Dems were predicting as much as a 50 seat gain.

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Say, did you know this last election was most pathetic gain in the number of seats in the 6th year of a 2 term President for the opposing party in US history?

It's absolutely laughable that given the conditions, this is the best the Dems could do. Almost as pathetic as Al Gore losing considering the economic conditions and after serving for 8 years as VP.

Just goes to show you that Diebold mis programmed their machines...

I think it was a complete ROUT but they had not pre programmed the machines for that big of a margin..

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Say, did you know this last election was most pathetic gain in the number of seats in the 6th year of a 2 term President for the opposing party in US history?

It's absolutely laughable that given the conditions, this is the best the Dems could do. Almost as pathetic as Al Gore losing considering the economic conditions and after serving for 8 years as VP.

Just goes to show you that Diebold mis programmed their machines...

I think it was a complete ROUT but they had not pre programmed the machines for that big of a margin..

Funny that we saw the Dems getting their whine machine cranked up before the elections ready to go into full bore screech. But we've heard nothing since. I guess those evil Diebold machines aren't as bad as they thought. Or there's only a problem when Dems lose.

BTW, you do realize this is just a breather for the GOP don't you? Clean up the act a little, get rid of some deadweight, let people get pissed at the Dems and we'll be back in shape for 2008.

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I guess those evil Diebold machines aren't as bad as they thought. Or there's only a problem when Dems lose.

BZZZZT Wrong answer.. ( oh I did not check to see if this was a White House Approved Source)

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193700051


E-Voting Glitches Examined; Reform Push Planned

Some 17% of the complaints to Common Cause focused on mechanical failure, which is likely to be one of several components in a push for reform as the 2008 presidential election approaches.

By K.C. Jones
InformationWeek

Nov 9, 2006 08:45 AM

Voting advocates and computer experts are examining scattered reports of glitches in electronic voting machines and planning to call for reform.

About 16,000 voters called a nationwide voter hotline to report complaints or concerns on Election Day, according to Common Cause.

An early analysis showed that the highest percentage of callers (21.3 percent) complained about difficulties with registration. Those included motor voter programs failing to transfer registrations to elections boards as well as purging of registration lists. Only 6.2 percent dealt with voter identification, an issue propelled into the spotlight because of several state laws that were overturned and reports that poll workers in a handful of states had turned away, or tried to turn away, several high-ranking elected representatives for insufficient identification.

An analysis in the late afternoon Tuesday showed that 16.9 percent of the calls focused on mechanical failure, which is likely to be one of several components in a push for voter reform as the 2008 presidential election approaches.

Chellie Pingree, President and CEO of Common Cause, said during a press conference Wednesday that equipment-related problems resulted from lack of poll worker training, missing components, and machines' failure to register the right choice of candidates.

"We don't know how many places that happened," she said.

Pingree also said that another problem is a lack of a paper trail for recounts. Though none were necessary in the national races this year, some jurisdictions were discussing the possibility to settle disputed local races.

"We're very, very dependent on the accuracy of the machines in a close race," Pingree said. "We're talking about democracy and how it works. It's not working well enough."

Verified Voting founder David Dill said during a press conference that he expected revelations about electronic voting machine problems to trickle in over the next several weeks. He pointed to Virginia. There, the race between Republican Senator George Allen and Democrat challenger Jim Webb was initially too close to call.

"Virginia is one of the recalcitrant states with no paper," he said.

Dill also said that systems with built-in wireless networking present "severe computer security issues." He also said that some working voters might not have been able to return to their precincts to vote after standing in lines waiting for machines that could not be "fired up" on time -- especially if there were no paper ballot alternatives.

A bigger problem, he said was "vote flipping," in which machines displayed votes that were different from what voters entered.

"We got a lot of those reports, both in the press, and I saw e-mail reports," he said. "The vote flipping problem is disgraceful. I expect that once we get the data, we'll see that we had this problem all over the country."

Dill said flipping may have been caused by calibration problems. He also said that it is easy for people to hack into the machines or for malicious designers to tamper with them without detection. As of early Wednesday afternoon, Dill said he was not aware of any claims of hacking or machine tampering, but he called for serious technical investigations into reported glitches, public disclosure of findings, and corrective action.

Common Cause will analyze its complaint database and use the results for its "Get it straight by 2008" campaign. Although the non-partisan, citizen lobby rarely aligns with the right, its leaders said they are optimistic about gaining Republican support for voter reform after Democrats' victories Tuesday.

Although reports of problems were scattered, Century Foundation voting expert Tova Wang said that, for individuals, some amounted to a denial of voting rights.

Dill agreed, stating that although there has been improvement since the passage of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), people have the right to demand more reliability than they have now.

David Bear, a representative for Diebold Election Systems, said that he had not heard any reports of the estimated 125,000 Diebold touch-screen machines and optical scanners in 37 states failing or malfunctioning. He said that the problems he heard about involved combinations of factors, like tasks taking longer than workers expected. He said they did not reflect on the technology, policies, or poll workers' dedication or competence.

"It went about how we expected," he said. "I think, overall, it went extremely well."

Bear said that electronic voting machines already undergo scrutiny through a federal and state approval process before elections, monitoring during elections, and then auditing during the canvassing period.

Bear said that he had not heard of any problems with vote flipping. When machines do display candidates a voter did not choose, it is probably due to human error, he said. Diebold's machines provide the opportunity to "uncheck" a candidate's box and fix an erroneous selection, he said.

"No other form of voting presents you with a summary screen that allows you to go back," he said.

In the event of a recount, computerized voting would be an improvement over paper ballots, Bear said. He said that HAVA and electronic voting machines have already succeeded in reducing one major problem related to recounts: intepretation of voter intent.