Vulture cat, vulture cat. Does whatever a vulture cat does!

Looks like something you'd find in the Western Plaguelands.

I'm a real emotionless bastard. I think I'll do well on that job, just as long as there's no cleaning, shoveling or heavy lifting involved. I'll be the first guy in scoping the place out, stealing all the nice stuff and vanish until the next job. I think there's a job title for that...oh yeah. Vulture.

Note: not in order

1 - Ten - Pearl Jam
2 - By The Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
3 and 4 - Songs for the Deaf/Era Vulgaris - Queens of the Stone Age
5 - Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
6 and 7 - Old World Underground, Where are you Now?/Live It Out - Metric
8 - Around the Fur - Deftones
9 - You're A Woman, I'm a Machine - Death From Above 1979
10 to 13 - Moving Pictures/Power Windows/Signals/Hemispheres - Rush
14 - Offend Maggie - Deerhoof
15 - Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
16 and 17 - Absolution/Black Holes and Revelations - Muse
18 to 20 - Dookie/Warning/Nimrod - Green Day
21 and 22 - Good News for People Who Love Bad News/We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank - Modest Mouse
23 to 27 - Guero/Mutations/Midnite Vultures/Sea Change/Odelay - Beck
28 - Revelations - Audioslave
29 - Aqualung - Jethro Tull
30 - Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace - Foo Fighters
31 - Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace - The Offspring
32 - The Blue Album - Weezer
33 - The Slip - Nine Inch Nails
34 and 35 - The Shepard's Dog/Our Endless Numbered Days - Iron and Wine
36 - You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene
37 - Something for Everyone - BSS presents: Brendan Canning
38 - Welcome To the Night Sky - Wintersleep
39 - You In Reverse - Built To Spill
40 - Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

And now for the Extra Credit 8!

41 to 43 Kill the Moonlight/Gimme Fiction/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon
44 - Discovery - Daft Punk
45 and 46 - Piece of Cake/The Lucky Ones - Mudhoney
47 - Atlas - Battles
48 - Oracular Spectacular - MGMT

First!

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?

When I see a killed carcass, I prey on it like a vulture... Om nom nom.
(RIP karaidl.)

Fair point, mg, but Republicans have a long history of disenfranchising demographics that don't favor them. I think it's fair to say that people who have lost their homes are probably not too fond of Republicans at the moment.

Fucking vultures.

gosh!
how did i know the first issue Dobbs would mention was border security & illegal immigration?!?

the bubble bailouts are a good issue for lib's, though.
because the dem's and rep's could've prevented much of the fraudulent speculation in housing and energy. they didn't.

and now the vultures are circling over Lehman Bros, expecting another bailout like that of Bear Stearns. and once again, the reasoning will be that they're "too big to be allowed to fail", even though they fattened themselves up illegally, for that very purpose.

this is like a billionaire, losing their entire fortune in a casino, and then expecting the pit boss to write off the debt. why? because then the billionaire will be rich again, and keep gambling.
forgetting the fact that the casino already has your billions now. you expect them to give it back to you, to bet the same money again?

sorry, no. tough shit.

economics = basic math + grand larceny

Carville is bald for the same reason vultures don't have feathers on their heads. When you constantly stick your head in crap, you don't want hair/feathers to give it something to stick to.

Carville is a professional turdpolisher and he's rather good at it. He's so smooth with his attack that none of *YOU* people even noticed that he's not arguing apples-to-apples. Congratulations on a successful smokescreen which compares the Democrat Presidential candidate to the person who will only become important if McCain dies or becomes otherwise incapacitated.

If you all want to compare Palin with someone, the correct counterpart is the liberal-holocaust-on-legs, Joe Biden.

You seem to be confused about what I'm saying. I'm not against war photographers. Did I say photographers should go around helping everyone like some sort of roving superheroes? No. I said that if there's someone that needs immediate medical attention right in front of you and there's no immediate danger to yourself or others, you have the a responsibility as a human being to help them and not stand around snapping shots while they bleed to death.

Taken from the National Press Photographers Association Code of ethics, standard #4:

"Treat all subjects with respect and dignity. Give special consideration to vulnerable subjects and compassion to victims of crime or tragedy." NPPA

Standing around snapping photos while a civilian caught in a cross-fire is bleeding out directly in front of you doesn't strike me as very compassionate. Going back to the point I made earlier about Nachtwey, you lose none of the emotional power of the photo by snapping shots at the hospital as doctors work on the wounded.

Also, former NPPA president John Long had this to say about the ethics of photojournalists.

"For example, take the very famous photo of the young child dying in Sudan while a vulture stands behind her, waiting. It was taken by Kevin Carter who won a Pulitzer Prize for the photo (a photo that raised a lot of money for the relief agencies). He was criticized for not helping the child; he replied there were relief workers there to do that. After receiving his Pulitzer, Kevin Carter returned to Africa and committed suicide. He had a lot of problems in his life but, with the timing of the sequence of events, I cannot help thinking there is a correlation between his photographing the child and his suicide.

This is the kind of choice all journalists will face some time in his or her career; maybe not in the extreme situation that Carter faced, but in some way, we all will be faced with choices of helping or photographing. Some day we will be at a fire or a car accident and we will be called upon to put the camera down and help. It is a good idea to think about these issues in advance because when the hour comes, it will come suddenly and we will be asked to make a choice quickly.

Here is the principle that works for me. It is not a popular one and it is one that many journalists disagree with but it allows me to sleep at night. If you have placed yourself in the position where you can help, you are morally obligated to help. I do not ask you to agree with me. I just want you to think about this and be prepared; at what point do you put the camera down and help? At what point does your humanity become more important than your journalism?" Ethics in the Age of Digital Photography(emphasis added by me)

Wait a damn minute, i dont remember Goliaths ever being able to stand up to Dragoons, and he even uses a bunch of Vultures?! Those things suck, a zealot can pretty much take one of those. Is there some upgrade i dont know about that made these two lackluster terran units do more damage and have more armor? (cause the damn armory aint cuttin it)

>> ^xgabex:
It makes sense that he had to go over to the generic metal riffs. He's getting so noticed, that it's probably only a matter of time before the vultures and sharks at the RIAA would notice and decide to make an example of him.


Very smart observation. This Dorsch stuff though? OMFG, that new intro sucks.

The flaming pile of ass rocks though. Sad to hear the auto-target fails again.

*commercial for the ending piece. If you have any material amount of commercial I WILL CHANNEL THE VIDEO INTO THAT CHANNEL.

Now where's my high horse off to next?

It makes sense that he had to go over to the generic metal riffs. He's getting so noticed, that it's probably only a matter of time before the vultures and sharks at the RIAA would notice and decide to make an example of him.

They(vultures) have been reclassified as relatives of storks. For a long while they were thrown in with raptors.

Pretty cool. Too bad the guy is so annoying.

They're like lovable vultures.

The following dissertation on the eye is lifted from Chapter VI, Volume 2 of The Quest for Right, a 7-book series on origins based on physical science:

Difficulties of the Theory. Although the eye is chosen as the category to be entertained, the investigation could have chosen any one of a hundred other theories promoted in On the Origin of Species. The relative point is that, if the eye had evolved through fine graduations or modifications, the proof must lie with numerous intermediate fossilized specimens which could be laid down in a gradual continuum so as to show the development of the eye from its first appearance as a tiny break or opening in the bones of the skull to the development of a full blown socket or orbit. Nothing else will suffice, as the fossil record is all inclusive.

Darwin penned: “LONG before having arrived at this part of my work, a crowd of difficulties will have occurred to the reader. Some of them are so grave that to this day I can never reflect on them without being staggered; but, to the best of my judgment, the greater number are only apparent, and those that are real are not, I think, fatal to my theory.” In other words, if one is to believe in evolution, he/she has to disregard the facts; specifically, the indisputable assertion that all species are well defined in the fossil record.

Darwin continued: “These difficulties and objections may be classed under the following heads [that is, distinct topics or categories]: …why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms [in the fossil record]? Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined? …In looking for the gradations by which an organ in any species has been perfected [for example, the eye], we ought to look exclusively to its lineal ancestors [found only in the fossil record]; but this is scarcely ever possible, and we are forced in each case to look to species of the same group, that is to the collateral [parallel] descendants from the same original parent-form, in order to see what gradations are possible, and for the chance of some gradations having been transmitted from the earlier stages of descent, in an unaltered or little altered condition.”

Unable to find a transitional species; for instance, discovering a tiny break in the skull of any one of the several thousand species, which transitioned through minute variations to a full blown socket for the eye, Darwin looked to parallel descendents: a horse descending from a tapir, etc.

By Darwin’s own admission, geologists had not been unable to uncover a transitional species: “Amongst existing Vertebrata, we find but a small amount of gradation in the structure of the eye, and from fossil species we can learn nothing on this head [the subject of the evolution of the eye]. In this great class we should probably have to descend far beneath the lowest known fossiliferous [containing fossils] stratum to discover the earlier stages, by which the eye has been perfected…

He [the reader] who will go thus far, if he find on finishing this treatise that large bodies of facts, otherwise inexplicable, can be explained by the theory of descent, ought not to hesitate to go further, and to admit that a structure even as perfect as the eye of an eagle might be formed by natural selection, although in this case he does not know any of the transitional grades [as supported by the fossil record]. His reason ought to conquer his imagination [that is, belief in a Creator]; though I have felt the difficulty far too keenly to be surprised at any degree of hesitation in extending the principle of natural selection to such startling lengths.

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case...”

It is a fact that Darwin attempted to overcome legitimate objections to his theory by doing a song and dance; that is, an elaborate explanation intended to mislead the reader and throw him/her off the path of the truth. For instance, instead of Darwin elaborating on how the eye could have been perfected while leaving no trace in the fossil record, he immediately began rambling about: the larva of the dragon-fly, the fish Cobites, fish with gills, swimbladder in fishes, branchiae and dorsal scales of Annelids, wings and wing-covers of insects, Pedunculated cirripedes, Balanidae or sessile cirripedes, neuter insects, rays, electric organs in fish, tail of the giraffe, the tail as the organ of locomotion in most aquatic animals, green woodpeckers, trailing bamboo, naked head on the skin of a vulture, savages, webbed feet of the upland goose, seal, sting of the bee, etc. The introduction of trivia, thrown up to block a difficult question, was a familiar song and dance routine throughout The Origin.

Darwin depended on the fact that, after taking two dozen or so detours of unrelated, yet, interesting tidbits of information the reader will have forgotten the head or category at hand. Said tidbits were also introduced in an attempt to prove that his wisdom could be trusted even above that of the Creator. And lest you have forgotten the head category at hand, it is mainly this: numerous intermediate fossil specimens must be discovered and laid down in a gradual continuum so as to show the development of the eye from its first appearance as a tiny break or opening in the bones of the skull to the development of a full blown socket or orbit. Anything less would be unacceptable.

In Chapter X: On The Geological Succession of Organic Beings, Darwin attempted to justify the lack of “numberless transitional links” found in the “same great formation.” The naturalist lamented that the lack of missing links to prove his theory was owing to an “extremely imperfect” fossil record:

1. that only a small portion of the globe has been geologically explored with care;
2. that only certain classes of organic beings have been largely preserved in a fossil state;
3. that the number both of specimens and of species, preserved in our museums, is absolutely as nothing compared with the incalculable number of generations which must have passed away even during a single formation.”

Not desiring to be outmaneuvered by the Creator, Darwin attempted to interplay other theories to shore up his theory of evolution. For example, he called upon the important part that migration must have played as the various species escaped supposedly "oscillating continents" which arose from the depths of the sea only to sink again. In Darwin’s mind, vast continents bobbed up in down in the oceans, sinking and, thus, causing mass migrations and covering any transitional links with sediment. The drowned continents then bobbed back to the top to start the process all over again. In a final attempt at one-upmanship, Darwin supposed that the damaging missing links, which must number in the billions, may "lie buried under the ocean." Why else could they not be found in the fossil record to support his theory?

An arrogant Darwin showed his true colors when he suggested that the reader ought to strive to cast down a belief in a Creator and accept his theory even if there was no proof. Darwin had done just that; he had cast God and religion from his mind, stating that “it was as difficult to cast down as "for a monkey to throw off its instinctive fear and hatred of a snake."

In summary, Darwin conceded that the fossil record of the time, the ultimate guide by which the theory of protracted graduation was to be judged, was adverse to his concept, but not without just cause: it was simply the result of an "imperfect," or incomplete, record. Darwin used the term “imperfect” as a crutch over a dozen times—one grows weary of reading it. Darwin's only hope of vindication was that one day intermediate links would be discovered.

Note: Every fossilized skull that has ever been unearthed possessed sockets for the eyes; there is no exception. Any trip to a museum proves the point.