And there will be more. Weeks and weeks, cause it's back morons.

Arkansas fans? My heart goes out to you.

Texas A&M fans? Likewise.

Top 10 action today: Alabama (1) takes on Arkansas, USC (2) vs. Stanford (21), LSU (3) and Idaho, Oregon (4) vs. Tennessee Tech (who?), Fla ST (5) and Idaho, Georgia (7) vs nobody (117) and a whole bunch of other warmups.

Today's cheerleader brought to you by the letter F, and also Redken number 5.

Have a great weekend you morons.

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Herro Errybody! Zakn Here with your "weekly" Gaming Post. Going to move it to Saturday to evade the NFL Post,

It's Been a pretty Morose week for me in Gaming. We lost one of our own. Ace has posted about it, but We lost Vile Rat. Vile Rat was the Right hand man for Mittens. He headed up Corps Diplomatique, which has been instrumental in the formation of the CFC. Vile Rat was able to assemble most of the English Speakers in Eve and Blue (ie not shoot) them to each other and provide a Flag to fight under.

He created an atmosphere where say Gents culture is vastly different to say FCON Culture, we will sill fight to the death to defend each other.

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Theme of the week.

"Coexist Or Die!", from the Wiserbud Collection

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Like President Obama, CDR-M is tasked with protecting America. Unlike President Obama, CDR-M shows up for duty. As a result, you're stuck with me and this last minute ONT.

Gun Sales Hinge On Obama Victory

As Cabela's prepares the selection of guns it will sell for the holiday season and winter hunting, the outdoor-gear retailer has two plans: one if President Barack Obama is re-elected, and one if he isn't.

The Sidney, Neb.-based retailer and other companies in the guns-and-ammo business say if Mr. Obama wins a second term they are preparing for a surge in sales—the same as they saw after he was elected in 2008—from buyers fearful the president would back policies to make buying a gun more difficult.

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Yes, even to challenge Obama demonstrates "disdain" (racism) and "arrogance."

This guy... with his angry white mouth... See, this guy, with his Boss' Suit and his Boss' Mouth, he thinks he can out-f*ck a Bengal tiger, a Bengal tiger named Barack Obama, but this Boss-Man doesn't understand the laws of nature, and tiger-penises.

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Fixed/Corrected: My headline said "federal court." That's wrong. It's a Dane County judge.

Via Jammie Wearin' Fool, They. Do. Not. Stop.

Gov. Scott Walker's law repealing most collective bargaining for local and school employees was struck down by a Dane County judge Friday, yet another dramatic twist in a year and a half saga that likely sets up another showdown in the Supreme Court.

The law remains largely in force for state workers, though a federal judge struck down part of that section of the law as well earlier this year. But for city, county, and school workers the decision by Dane County Judge Juan Colas returns the law to its status before Walker signed his law in March 2011.

Colas ruled that the law violated workers' constitutional rights by denying to union workers certain powers available to their nonunion counterparts. The decision could still be overturned on appeal - the Supreme Court has already restored the law once in June 2011 after it was blocked by a different Dane County judge earlier that year.

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I'm working on a real post. Or I will be working on a real post. Until then, this is a link post.

It contains links.

It possesses linkage.

Oh Here's Something: I took off from the blog for like 90 minutes yesterday to "debate," sort of, William Saletan, the liberal who's not so keen on Free Speech anymore.

He eventually attempted to plonk me, which I knew he would. In fact, I predicted his plonking line of argument -- yes, but this movie isn't a good movie -- and advised him to avoid the stupid impulse to play that card.

After all, the Islamists are not objecting to the production values of the movie. They're objecting to the message -- the same message that Salman Rushdie got a fatwah for, and that was supposedly a good book. (To hear liberal critics tell it, at least.)

He eventually played it anyway, just as I'd forewarned.

You can't plonk an plonker.

You magnificent dummy, I read your book.

I Guess I Got Through To Saletan... Because he's now telling Muslims -- and Christians and Jews and Hindus -- that they shouldn't go banana-sandwich over videos.

You know, like non-Muslims have been doing so oft of late. more...

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I had this as part of the last post, but it was confusingly inserted, so I've stripped it out to stand on its own.

Lately I've been obsessed with the humorous "how-to" books of Steven Potter, Oxford don, and master of the skill of "Lifemanship" (sabotaging social rivals with cheap rhetorical ploys).

His basic schtick is this: Why should the smart people get the credit for being smart? Or the polite people the credit for having good manners? Or the experts for earning expertise? Or champion chess players the glory of being champion chess players?

Why should they get all the social credit? What about the rest of us?

So he wrote a series of "How To" books for Young Gentlemen Who Aren't Particularly Talented Or Scrupulous. The point of the books is to teach you how to win, not by cheating per se (although some light cheating is always advisable), but by being a dick. But, also: By being a dick in a way that appears to be polite and helpful, so you get away with it.

For example, if someone is beating you at golf, and having a very good day, you can sabotage him thus: By complimenting him on a new form he's using when he strikes the ball.

Even though he's not actually employing a new form. But if you compliment him and say, "Wow, the way you're shifting your back-foot at the moment of impact is really text-book! You're giving me a master's class out here with that shift at the end of your strike!," he will begin thinking about shifting his back-foot, and trying to shift it, and thus will wind up destroying his game.

Bear in mind, he wrote in the 40's and 50's, and in the polite land of England. A lot of his advice is now sort of outdated, particularly in these more rough-mannered times, and would probably get you punched in the mouth.

In fifties England, though, this stuff flew.

He then extended these cheap-ass ploys to all situations, including interrupting the flow of, for example, an expert commanding attention at a cocktail party.

You see, if you allow him to exhibit superiority over you, even in his field of expertise, you lose. You are one-down to him. So you must even the score, and, if possible, even get one-up on him.
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Via @bdomenech, a prose poem to rival Rick Klein's.

Autumn begins in the night.

As they say, the first sentence of any novel has to be its strongest.

This is also a fine example of "plonking" (see next post for examples of "plonking").

Anyway, let's continue with the NYT:

With summer on the wane, the Mister Softee depot in East New York, Brooklyn, fills up by 10 p.m. In the high season, Mister Softee plies his wares as late as midnight.

Novelistic detail-- the small detail that suggests others. Except here it really doesn't. Nice try though.

Now the days, often as not, are still summery, if more bearably so. The midday sun is not perceptibly lower in the sky.

Someone's been reading P.G. Wodehouse and thinking "I can do that!"

But the sun has, somehow, gotten faster. And with night settling in at dinner time and burrowing deeper, it is in the hours of darkness that summer literally runs out of time.

It's like poetry, except dumb.

In the cocoon of the home, in the unaccustomed silence lately filled by the air-conditioner, the air flowing in feels, smells, tastes different — not just because it is cooler, but also because it is different air, hailing from a different part of the planet.

And also, no pollen. But that's not poetical.

Sultry summer nights are made of stiflingly hot air from Southwestern deserts simmered with emanations from the Gulf of Mexico into a thick gumbo. But now the jet stream, the ever-flowing border zone between hot and cold air masses, is making its tentative, give-and-take pilgrimage southward, and on cool nights, the air is fresh from the pine forests of Canada.

That feeling you feel, said Mark Wysocki, the state climatologist in the New York State Climate Office, “is the jet stream trying to go home for the winter.”

Le sigh. I'll just let that hang there, in embarrassment and defeat, like a flaccid weiner at a vagina party.

I've got a scoop for you fellers: At around 7:14 tonight, you're going to experience something called "nightfall." It's going to get dark. If you can imagine shadows, this is going to be shadows but without any source of light casting them.

Trippy, huh?

It will also grow colder. Or, as the expert on nightfall poetically said (after I suggested to him, "Could you please say this faux-poetic sentence so I can 'quote you' saying it?"), "Night... is like the sweater-season of the diurnal clock."

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Oh, that. The Foreign Policy President (TM) would prefer not being evaluated on the economy.

Of course, after this week, he probably doesn't want to be evaluated on foreign policy, either.

He has a lot in common with striking Chicago teachers: He just plum doesn't want to be evaluated according to any metric. Like CTU's obese head, he'd probably say "There's no real way to evaluate a President. So let's hire back the incompetents."

So three cheers for This F'n' Guy:

Hip...

Industrial production down 1.2% in August.

Hip...

Obama's on track -- and there's no way to avoid this -- to have the worst record of any president for any term on job creation since the Great Depression. Only FDR in the depths of the Great Depression can beat him for futility.

AugustÂ’s abysmally weak job growth proved yet again that President ObamaÂ’s economic policies are a miserable failure that will continue to undermine our country until he leaves office.

The governmentÂ’s report that the economy added just a minuscule 96,000 jobs last month came at the end of the DemocratsÂ’ defensive national convention...

The deepening weaknesses in the employment picture also were underscored by revisions in the June and July job numbers, which found 41,000 fewer jobs were created than was reported previously.

Not only is the rate of job growth shrinking fast in the fourth year of Mr. ObamaÂ’s presidency; the economyÂ’s growth rate also is slowing this year to a snailÂ’s pace: 1.7 percent in the third quarter.

Hooray!

US median income fell again, to its lowest level since 1995.

According to annual data from the Census Bureau, median income adjusted for inflation – a closely watched measure of the financial health of average Americans – fell to $50,054 in 2011, or 1.5 per cent below its 2010 level and 4.1 per cent below its score when Mr Obama took office in 2009.

Although real median income had already started to slide beginning in 2008, before Mr Obama entered the White House, the fact that he was not able to reverse that downward trend could expose him to criticism from Mitt Romney, his rival, that his policies have not aided the middle class. In addition to the drop in overall median income, the data also showed a rise in income inequality last year.

The release of the dire median figures also offers the latest reminder of the sluggishness of the recovery, marked by high unemployment and weak job creation, which is prompting Federal Reserve officials to consider a new round of monetary easing as early as Thursday.

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