"Notice the O in GOP replaced by a hammer and sickle"

Fine reporting by Ric Romero

I wondered how good their experts were too

That said though, Shiraz grapes are used to make both red and white wines and some whites are quite full bodied and can easily stand in for a red. It would be easy to be fooled if you weren't expecting tricks.

I'm fortunate to live in a city where it's really hard to buy an undrinkable wine. Even the cheap ones that I use for cooking are quite nice, although a little less complex than the mid range wines.

p.s. The actual study by Frédéric Brochet is linked from this article - http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/the_most_infamous_study_on_wine_tasting.html (which also points out that the study used oenology students).

Who did you see on the list?

Kareem Abdul-Jabar
JJ Abrams
Alan Alda
Christiane Amanpour
Jon Batiste
Big Bird
Cory Booker
Tom Brokaw
Ken Burns
Bill Clinton
Andy Cohen
Francis Collins
Cookie Monster
Bob Costas
Katie Couric
Bryan Cranston
Mark Cuban
Jeff Daniels
Bill DeBlasio
Maureen Dowd
James Franco
Thomas Friedman
Vince Gilligan
Doris Kearns Goodwin
David Gregory
Terry Gross
Mike Huckabee
Arianna Huffington
Dean Kamen
Toby Keith
Henry Kissinger
Nicholas Kristof
Paul Krugman
Alexi Lalas
Cyndi Lauper
David Leonhardt
George Lucas
Yo Yo Ma
Barry Manilow
Senator Claire McCaskill
Tim Meadows
Willie Nelson
Randy Newman
Grover Norquist
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Ric Ocasek
Keith Olbermann
Mandy Patinkin
Stone Phillips
Samantha Power
Pussy Riot
Charlie Rose
Dan Savage
Smaug
Shane Smith
Eliot Spitzer
Gloria Steinem
Jon Stewart
Patrick Stewart
Michael Stipe
Andrew Sullivan
Matt Taibbi
Jeff Tweedy
Neil Degrasse Tyson
Sam Waterston
Elijah Wood

(http://www.vox.com/2014/12/19/7419893/colbert-finale-song)

"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." Frédéric Bastiat

If you're interested in seeing a similar surgery, a training video is online - http://www.ric.org/research/centers/bionic-medicine/Video/

Warning... uh... its a surgical training video. So, expect to see some of muscle and whatnot that is underneath your skin.

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So, was the notion of Ric Ocasek as lead singer just an elaborate lie all these years? I knew he didn't sing "Drive," but was he not lead back in their first albums?

I sheepishly confess having all of their tapes in the floorboard of my car during high school, from Candy-O to Door to Door.

Also, cheers Kevlar...A real swabby knows that instead of maintaining the RIC website one should be rockin' the sift instead.

>> ^Xaielao:
And that is yet another example of why John Stewart is the best in his field. Not to mention the 'MAN'!


"To be the man, you've got to beat the man."
~Ric Flair

That's not saying Olbermann is the man, he's gone down hill over the past few years, Stewart is just awesome though. Maybe a little props to Olbermann for manning up on getting called on his shit. You'd never see Hannity, Beck, or Limbaugh do something like that. Those guys believe they're infallible.

I saw this documentary at the New Orleans Film Festival.

The main activist at the center of this film is Flipper's former trainer, Ric O'Barry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric_O%27Barry

Flipper (1964)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipper_%281964_TV_series%29

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I think the woo! is derived somehow from Ric Flair the "nature boy." He is a fixture here in Charlotte. The blond mane seems to confirm this.

Fox, leading the news in scoops from Ric Romero.

I'm not sure what you are looking for here. Do you want me to let your arguments to go unchallenged?

No. And I'm not calling you out personally, nor the submitter of any sift for submitting it. Never have.

Do you think you are a victim?

That's a question I would ask of anyone who leans left.

Do you think you are being singled out and persecuted because you are conservative? If that's the case, then why don't other conservatives on the site suffer the problems that you do?

1) Barring a few random posts, I know of no other conservatives on this site; I'm told they avoid me...since they don't exist...I cannot say.

2) You assume the feedback is "a problem." The only suffering, I realized, is the suffering I get by spoiling others' good time. The majority of sifters lean left. I'm not helping anyone, including myself.

3) My "critics" seem unable or unwilling to tolerate my "punditry". If it's not the one-liners, they object to the "name calling" (e.g. Keith Olbyloon = Keep Overbite) or that this or that comment "lacks depth", the last being a problem of generation and education. I can't make up for decades of government school indoctrination explaining something as simple as "The Constitution limits government power."

Maybe it's not everyone else. Maybe it's you.

That's OK. Right or wrong, a warrior always stands alone.

Say whatever you want, whenever you want. I actually enjoy the opportunity to deconstruct your rhetoric, and I encourage you to deconstruct mine.

But we haven't done that...if I gave every sift I commented on the loving attention it deserves, this would be my full time job. Ha ha ha.

If you can't see problems in plain view with our President and country, then I'm not sure what to say.


Both sides see a country in crisis. Where they differ is the reasons, motives and underlying philosophies.

Example: man-made global warming, to the left, is the ultimate deity replacement and all-purpose tool to gain complete power, since everything and everyone is affected by it. Therefore the left embraces all evidence claiming warming is a real and immediate threat and act accordingly. The other side (mine) sees this for what it is, what I just described. Is the globe heating? Sure, it heats and cools all the time, has for millions of years. Is it man-made? There's no solid evidence, yet all these good folks that want to DO SOMETHING have decided the argument is closed and are ready to flip civilization on its ear for an unproven theory.

I'm actually hopeful that both parties are finally moving away from Movement Politics towards Principled Politics. I see the Republican love affair with principled conservatives like Ron Paul very heartening, just as the Democrats have begun to embrace principled Liberals such as Dean and Obama. It's very interesting to see how this switch effects the opposition. Politicians like Obama and Paul are gaining quite a bit of crossover respect, if not crossover support.

Maybe it's time you started the transition from Movement Conservative to the Principled variety.

I know you didn't ask for them, but here's my Cliffs Notes of those two:

Obama: a good speaker, inspiring, but inexperienced, naive about world affairs and hiding his true ultra-left agenda. No politician ever got elected stating flat out: "If you elect me, I will raise your taxes." You have to know that's his plan. Same with Hil.

Paul: a principled man, yes, but unfortunately the only one of his caliber in Congress and therefore a cult of personality. I agree with most of Paul's platform, but he's as naive about world affairs as Obama if he thinks recalling all of our troops around the world will somehow promote peace and understanding. You have to know that while you and I may embrace many views of a Ron Paul (or not), so many of our fellow Americans are already receiving a check from the government, and many, many more are hoping for the same. The government has bought in and bought everyone off. Nothing new really:

"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801 – 1850)

I want to agree with your moniker, as I'm a natural cynic and pessimist; I just happen to view conservatism as a rational response to humans' natural savagery, not a cause of it.

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I'm not sure what you are looking for here. Do you want me to let your arguments to go unchallenged?...

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