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April 15, 2014

Overnight Open Thread (4-15-2014)
— Maetenloch

Dr Ray Stantz: You know, it just occurred to me that we really haven't had a successful test of this equipment.
Dr. Egon Spengler: I blame myself.
Dr. Peter Venkman: So do I.
Dr Ray Stantz: Well, no sense in worrying about it now.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why worry? Each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back.

Democrat Ideology vs. Reality

Does anybody actually live and have breakfast like this?

I imagine this is exactly how the Известия Sunday Supplement would have covered up-and-coming members of the nomenklatura. Well assuming they could obtain fresh eggs, realistic-looking pineapples and fruit, matching pajamas, use of a show dacha, as well as afford the necessary color offset printing and photo retouching.

But amid the decadent breakfast Carney and Shipman demonstrate that from their artwork to their clothing that they still haven't forgotten their proletarian and revolutionary roots:

Jay Suit, $895, glen plaid dress shirt, $195, foulard print tie, $135, and polka-dot pocket square, $55, all at Hugo Boss (Tysons Galleria). Claire Cotton jacquard shift dress, $299 at Karen Millen (Tysons Galleria); knotted rope crystal necklace, $98 at Ann Taylor (multiple area locations); and jeweled bracelet by Loren Hope, similar styles at Bishop Boutique (Alexandria).

But if you read the article, amongst the fawning it actually ends up undercutting the Administration and Democrat's claims of widespread pay discrimination against women.

And yet Carney's own experience illustrates how silly the Democrats' claims are. Shipman has worked part-time for the last five years to spend more time with her young children. Carney, meanwhile, leaves for the White House at 7:25 a.m. and tries to get home by 8:00 in the evening. As in most families, it is his wife who takes time out from her career to focus on children, and who devotes more time to her family: "Flexibility, she says, is what most working mothers really want."

Exactly. That is the same choice that most families make-not all, but most. It largely explains why, on the average, men earn more than women. Carney no doubt understands this perfectly well, but this is one of many instances where he has to pretend that the Democrats' politically-inspired claims make sense, even though they are contrary to his own (and everyone else's) experience.

Because party truth trumps reality.

A Lot of Democrats Think Their Taxes Are Too Low

Yet they never opt to voluntarily pay more when given the chance. Because they want you to suffer as well. This is a classic area where Democrats are out of step with the rest of America.

Do You Have Gun Rights in Puerto Rico?

Kind of but not really. Just like PR is kind of but not really part of the US.

Three Words: Stealth. Dirt. Bike

Alcohol, Rape, and Inverse Sharia on College Campuses

Universities considered dangerous for men.

More BS Viral Stories That Fooled Your Friends Part XX

Such as no more Obama selfies.

The Faces of 'Anonymous'

Also why you shouldn't try to hack Israeli facilities unless you're really, really, totally sure of your l33t hacking skillz.

RIP AC/DC (1973-2014)

Sadly founding member and rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young had a stroke and may never fully recover his guitar playing skills. So the band is calling it quits. For now. (thanks to Dave in Texas)

"I'm sick and tired of people saying that we put out 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've put out 12 albums that sound exactly the same"

-- Angus Young

The AoSHQ group. Yeah.

Teh Tweet!

Tonight's post brought to you by how deep MH 370 may be:

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Posted by: Maetenloch at 05:34 PM | Comments (745)
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1 Srsly? haha

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 05:35 PM (8lmkt)

2 wait, I got first and then it was disappeared

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 05:36 PM (8lmkt)

3 Oh, and now it's back. So, peeps, welcome to the all-peaches ONT.

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 05:36 PM (8lmkt)

4 Wow, helluva pic, Maet.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 15, 2014 05:38 PM (ojnk6)

5 Thx Peaches

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 05:38 PM (HVff2)

6 Hello Horde, Early ONT! Thanks Maet.

Posted by: Carol at April 15, 2014 05:39 PM (gjOCp)

7 wow, I had to scroll and scroll and scroll...

Posted by: spypeach at April 15, 2014 05:40 PM (10H0T)

8 That's a lotta blue

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2014 05:40 PM (oMKp3)

9 Wow, helluva pic, Maet.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 15, 2014 09:38 PM (ojnk6)

It totally is! (thought I would lose my position due to excessive scrolling) However, here is my annoying little question. If we can be downloading data from satellites that are out past Jupiter, if you can walk into any random Starbucks and wirelessly grab the entire interwebs, why does a black box have to be in physical possession, why can't they make them so the data can just be pulled remotely? This makes NO sense to me.

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 05:41 PM (8lmkt)

10 Is this image cause for the Barrel?

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 15, 2014 05:41 PM (30eLQ)

11 Quick Takes Â– Â“GreenÂ” Lies, Voter Fraud, and Â“Because IÂ’m a DemocratÂ” Another Â“quick takesÂ” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. The focus this time: Lying liars who lie. More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=5557

Posted by: The Political Hat at April 15, 2014 05:41 PM (AymDN)

12 Hey morons Nice job Maet

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 05:41 PM (HVff2)

13 Comments? We got Comments? WTF?

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 05:41 PM (0FSuD)

14 Uh, that's really deep.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2014 05:41 PM (IdOTf)

15 That's a lotta blue brb

Posted by: Albuquerque at April 15, 2014 05:41 PM (30eLQ)

16 If that was a text post, you'd be in the barrel.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2014 05:41 PM (oMKp3)

17 Powered by Minx 0.7 alpha. #twoweeks

Posted by: DC in Towson at April 15, 2014 05:41 PM (Pvcl5)

18 So sad about AC/DC. They are one of the best bands to see live.

Posted by: shibumi who is exceptionally cynical today at April 15, 2014 05:41 PM (25HWz)

19 and i'm drinking like it's Friday, so that's a lot of scrolling... sheesh!!!

Posted by: spypeach at April 15, 2014 05:42 PM (10H0T)

20 10 Is this image cause for the Barrel? Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 15, 2014 09:41 PM (30eLQ) I was kinda thinkin that. But Maet is the boss or something like that

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 05:42 PM (HVff2)

21 So sad about AC/DC. They are one of the best bands to see live.
Posted by: shibumi who is exceptionally cynical today at April 15, 2014 09:41

OMG, I heard that about Malcolm on the car radio when I left work. Super-sad-face!!!!!

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 05:42 PM (8lmkt)

22
New York/New Jersey Moron Meet-up

Thursday, May 1st
6pm-9pm
West Village

All Morons and their handlers are welcome.

for additional info, email me at:

nynjmeet at optimum dot net

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 15, 2014 05:42 PM (QFxY5)

23 Oh, and despite that fucking nasty Carolina blue jump suit carney's wife is wearing, I'd do her. But, first she would blow me.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 05:43 PM (0FSuD)

24 Maet has a "get out of the barrel free" card. No expiration date. As it should be . . . Plus, way cool graphic!

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 05:43 PM (8lmkt)

25 Yes, the Carney/Shipman family profile is comical. Even celebrity fashion mags like In Style and MTV's Cribs are more subtle than that. Don't forget the ginormous Jenga set.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2014 05:43 PM (IdOTf)

26 Also, the 370 post? That's close to barrel material.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 05:43 PM (0FSuD)

27 But Maet is the boss or something like that

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 09:42 PM (HVff2)

I don't know....I think it's an awesome idea.....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 15, 2014 05:45 PM (QFxY5)

28 So, this married guy in Malaysia wanted to spend a dirty weekend with his girl on the side. Told his wife he had business in Beijing and was on Malaysia Flight MH370.

Four weeks later, can't go home . . .

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 05:45 PM (8lmkt)

29 20 10 Is this image cause for the Barrel?
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 15, 2014 09:41 PM (30eLQ)

I was kinda thinkin that. But Maet is the boss or something like that
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 09:42 PM (HVff2)

Plus the image is edumacational and not just a commenting fuck-up.

Posted by: Mætenloch at April 15, 2014 05:45 PM (pAlYe)

30 I'd like to meet a member of the 1% of Republicans who thinks taxes are too low.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 15, 2014 05:45 PM (0LHZx)

31 That's a long way down. I thought I was looking at a cut & paste from Word there for a minute.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 15, 2014 05:45 PM (0HooB)

32 Bottom of ocean vs deep space - density of medium for transmission.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 05:47 PM (FbAHC)

33 Doug Ross (Director Blue) links to this piece "The Real Meaning of Soviet Agitprop in Jay CarneyÂ’s Kitchen" by Oleg Atbashian, one of the founders of The Peoples Cube.

He began with this: "As soon as the photograph of Soviet propaganda posters in Jay CarneyÂ’s kitchen hit the Internet, right-wing pundits began to draw conclusions about White House Press SecretaryÂ’s ideology, morals, and political leanings. It was as if things that a man merely places on his walls and looks at day after day can be any indication of his life choices.

If that were so, the meals in CarneyÂ’s kitchen would also probably match the menu of the place and time of the posters. His family would be living on a diet of beets, gruel, occasional rat, and thinly sliced boiled jackboots, which is what many Soviets ate at the time these posters were produced."
you can read it here: http://tinyurl.com/ognm38s

Posted by: mallfly at April 15, 2014 05:47 PM (bJm7W)

34 23 Oh, and despite that fucking nasty Carolina blue jump suit carney's wife is wearing, I'd do her. But, first she would blow me. Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 09:43 PM (0FSuD) Gag me, any thing that would fuck Jay I'm a douche Carney, is too despicable to hit

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 05:47 PM (HVff2)

35 A little underwater mood music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UZ0bPaOdbQ

Posted by: The Submersible Hat at April 15, 2014 05:47 PM (AymDN)

36 The black box is around here somewhere .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at April 15, 2014 05:47 PM (XWw96)

37 #twoweeks Two weeks? Awesome.

Posted by: eleven at April 15, 2014 05:47 PM (fsLdt)

38 Does anybody actually live and have breakfast like this? They forgot to put all that fruit in a cornucopia to reflect the bountiful feast they prepare every morning before school, but doesn't everyone artfully sprinkle their blueberries on the kitchen counter?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at April 15, 2014 05:47 PM (HLprW)

39 Most Democrats don't want to pay higher taxes. They just think higher taxes on "THE RICH" won't affect them. Oh I only make $70K a year, taxing those evil bastards making $200K won't affect me. Yeah, just like taxing corporations doesn't affect you either, you fucking imbecile.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 15, 2014 05:48 PM (0LHZx)

40 Weird. Watched Ghostbusters tonight with the kids. I realized they had never seen it. I had forgotten how good that movie was. It is really a very well told story. I am beginning to think that the 80s were peak for everything.

Posted by: blaster at April 15, 2014 05:48 PM (4+AaH)

41 I hate fruit.

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 05:48 PM (8lmkt)

42 AC/DC RIP

Well, maybe not...

http://tinyurl.com/ld335vg

Posted by: tu3031 at April 15, 2014 05:48 PM (yagOO)

43 A counter-point to previous music submission...

http://youtu.be/jUaNm9DJDJk

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 05:49 PM (FbAHC)

44 Depth link is very fuzzy

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at April 15, 2014 05:49 PM (XWw96)

45 Puerto Ricans are very sensitive about their flag. That flag and all related decals, bumper stickers, head-rest covers, air fresheners decorated with that flag are all over evert other Toyota I see. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: JoeyBagels at April 15, 2014 05:49 PM (Usdw3)

46 Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at April 15, 2014 09:45 PM (pAlYe) Thanks for the chuckle

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 05:49 PM (HVff2)

47 28 So, this married guy in Malaysia wanted to spend a dirty weekend with his girl on the side. Told his wife he had business in Beijing and was on Malaysia Flight MH370. Four weeks later, can't go home . . . Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 09:45 PM (8lmkt) Lemme guess, third cousin once removed to the miner who had both his wife and girlfriend show up at the rescue site when those Chilean miners were trapped underground for weeks on end...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at April 15, 2014 05:50 PM (HsTG8)

48 I'm ready to come down now.

Posted by: The Fried Egg in the picture[/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 15, 2014 05:50 PM (0HooB)

49 The palindrome of "Bolton" is "Notlob"!

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at April 15, 2014 05:50 PM (hn5v5)

50 I am beginning to think that the 80s were peak for everything. Posted by: blaster at April 15, 2014 09:48 PM (4+AaH) _________ Teen movies for sure...Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Better Off Dead, Heathers, Revenge of the Nerds...golden age.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 15, 2014 05:50 PM (0LHZx)

51 Plus the image is edumacational and not just a commenting fuck-up. Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at April 15, 2014 09:45 PM (pAlYe) Er, how would the morons know?

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 05:51 PM (0FSuD)

52 Really, I'm ready to come down now.

Posted by: The Fried Egg in the picture[/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 15, 2014 05:52 PM (0HooB)

53 "It was as if things that a man merely places on his walls and looks at day after day can be any indication of his life choices. If that were so, the meals in CarneyÂ’s kitchen would also probably match the menu of the place and time of the posters." ... of the nomenklatura. So, no, not beets, boiled jackboots, and bathtub vodka. They'll be snarfing caviar and drinking imported champagne. Pretty much as shown here. It was the people who didn't decorate their living rooms in Stalinist chic who dined on Rat Au Van.

Posted by: Albuquerque at April 15, 2014 05:52 PM (30eLQ)

54 Anybody who isn't listening to Highway to Hell now might as well be still wearing a bra . . . .

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 05:52 PM (8lmkt)

55 off Breaking Bad sock

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 15, 2014 05:52 PM (30eLQ)

56 Would someone turn that fucking "pinging" off!!!

Posted by: Cuvier's beaked whale at April 15, 2014 05:53 PM (hn5v5)

57 30 I'd like to meet a member of the 1% of Republicans who thinks taxes are too low. Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 15, 2014 09:45 PM (0LHZx) May be people who, because of the Economic conditions, pay NO Tax?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2014 05:53 PM (84gbM)

58 Dude dat one whack whale! Also, thank you for the well-prepared ONT.

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at April 15, 2014 05:54 PM (ua1Yo)

59 Even CAC would be impressed by that graphic.

Posted by: knob at April 15, 2014 05:54 PM (H1bc7)

60 Peaches is first? Peaches is first?

Posted by: Bossy Conservative riding Orca at April 15, 2014 05:54 PM (+1T7c)

61 ÃˆÃ§Ã¢Ã¥Ã±Ã²Ã¨Ã¿ are we using words in Peruvian now?

Posted by: Guido at April 15, 2014 05:54 PM (GYg/s)

62 Why are the girls scared? I never did anything to them. Hell, I was gonna let them put blueberries on me if they wanted to. I'm over easy like that.

Posted by: The Fried Egg in the picture[/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 15, 2014 05:54 PM (0HooB)

63 Anybody that pays 135 bucks for a tie, ought to be hung with it.

Posted by: tu3031 at April 15, 2014 05:54 PM (yagOO)

64 54 Anybody who isn't listening to Highway to Hell now might as well be still wearing a bra . . . . Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 09:52 PM (8lmkt) Dirty deeds young lady

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 05:54 PM (HVff2)

65 Is that scribd site showing the anonymous hackers not loading for anyone else?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at April 15, 2014 05:54 PM (HLprW)

66 Wait, so PR's have a flag almost like TX and Cuba and think it's cool? You know the joke why PR's won't marry Blacks right? Be back later with racist punch line.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 05:54 PM (0FSuD)

67 AC/DC, like Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, The Ramones and , of course, Chuck Berry, discovered their singular style early and stuck to it--and no one ever really gets tired of it. That's a hard thing to achieve...

Posted by: JoeyBagels at April 15, 2014 05:54 PM (Usdw3)

68 59 Even CAC would be impressed by that graphic.

Posted by: knob at April 15, 2014 09:54 PM (H1bc7)

If that would have scrolled left and right....now your talkin!

Posted by: Bruce Lee's Fist at April 15, 2014 05:55 PM (M+evy)

69 Peaches is first? Peaches is first?

Posted by: Bossy Conservative riding Orca at April 15, 2014 09:54 PM (+1T7c)

First, second {ampersand} third! It's like a fuckin' miracle!!!

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 05:55 PM (8lmkt)

70 "How deep MH 370 may be"

So you're saying there may be a chance? Fire up the breaking news.

Posted by: CNN at April 15, 2014 05:55 PM (IV4od)

71 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2014 05:56 PM (KCxzN)

72 Polish wins the Sausage Race at Miller Park tonight. If you had Polish, please step up to the window and collect your winnings.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2014 05:56 PM (oMKp3)

73 The ONT is so early tonight because everyone's going to have to scroll through that graphic so often.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at April 15, 2014 05:56 PM (hn5v5)

How deep is The Barrel? I'd say about 15,000 ft.

Lends new meaning to "bottom of the barrel" though, doesn't it?

Jim

Sunk New Dawn

Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 15, 2014 05:56 PM (vvk2F)

75 I thought there was a layer of the ocean where everything was plaid... ...guess not, though. Maet would never mislead us.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at April 15, 2014 05:56 PM (HsTG8)

76 50 I am beginning to think that the 80s were peak for everything. Posted by: blaster at April 15, 2014 09:48 PM (4+AaH) Well, they did sell a lot of coke and Reagan got elected. Consequence?

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 05:57 PM (0FSuD)

77 73 The ONT is so early tonight because everyone's going to have to scroll through that graphic so often. Posted by: andycanuck at April 15, 2014 09:56 PM (hn5v5) Can you get the barrel for posts?

Posted by: Guido at April 15, 2014 05:57 PM (GYg/s)

78 My very first concert was AC/DC's Highway to Hell. I was 14-yrs old and scared to death. IIRC, the ticket cost $13.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 05:57 PM (DmNpO)

79 Hey, c'mon. I've been up here for almost a week already.

Posted by: The Fried Egg in the picture[/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 15, 2014 05:57 PM (0HooB)

80 I thought there was a layer of the ocean where everything was plaid...

...guess not, though. Maet would never mislead us.

That's Gabe's territory, the plaid part. (don't smite me!!)

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 05:57 PM (8lmkt)

81 50, I respectfully disagree about '80's movies. Pretty much any movie John Hughes' name is on has not aged well. I thought they were cringe inducing when they came out--especially St.Elmo's Fire. Ugh.

Posted by: JoeyBagels at April 15, 2014 05:58 PM (Usdw3)

82 Kitteh just finished his taxes ... http://tinyurl.com/nublhf7

Posted by: kbdabear at April 15, 2014 05:58 PM (aTXUx)

83 Funny thing about that Breakfast picture... There is NO way they could eat all that food... most would have to be thrown out... or spoil before consumption... Funny how the rich, always lecture others about lifestyle...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2014 05:58 PM (84gbM)

84 That's Gabe's territory, the plaid part. (don't smite me!!) Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 09:57 PM (8lmkt) I thought that was CAC, with his plaid shorts?

Posted by: Thrawn at April 15, 2014 05:58 PM (WlWt+)

85 65 Is that scribd site showing the anonymous hackers not loading for anyone else? Posted by: Burn the Witch at April 15, 2014 09:54 PM (HLprW) Wasn't working for me, but after about 15 seconds I thought, "Waitaminnit, what if the site is hacking into my 'chine?" and I clicked out...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at April 15, 2014 05:58 PM (HsTG8)

86 First, second {ampersand} third! It's like a fuckin' miracle!!! Posted by: Peaches A Passover Miracle! Pass the stale bread.

And I hope all our Jewish brothers are having a nice family gathering. Shalom to all.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative riding Orca at April 15, 2014 05:58 PM (+1T7c)

87 They forgot to put all that fruit in a cornucopia to reflect the bountiful feast they prepare every morning before school, but doesn't everyone artfully sprinkle their blueberries on the kitchen counter? Posted by: Burn the Witch at April 15, 2014 09:47 PM (HLprW) Those aren't blueberries. They are Smurfs trying to escape the Gulag.

Posted by: Comrade Gargamel at April 15, 2014 05:58 PM (AymDN)

88 Niedermeyer, no shit! Never saw them live, but I can tell it was a memory that will always be with you. They are so awesome.

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 05:58 PM (8lmkt)

89 Can you get the barrel for posts?
Posted by: Guido at April 15, 2014 09:57 PM (GYg/s)

Short answer: No.
Longer answer: Ehhh - see the CAC section in the Cob posting guide.

Posted by: Mætenloch at April 15, 2014 05:59 PM (pAlYe)

90 Can you get the barrel for posts?
Apparently, only if it screws up the page formatting, Guido.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at April 15, 2014 05:59 PM (hn5v5)

91 Pretty much any movie John Hughes' name is on has not aged well lolwut?

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 15, 2014 05:59 PM (30eLQ)

92 Gun Safety Tuesday ONT Compliance Pic http://tinyurl.com/qbeg2tq

Posted by: kbdabear at April 15, 2014 05:59 PM (aTXUx)

93 I am beginning to think that the 80s were peak for everything.>>

Name a car from the entire eighties you would pick over all other decades.

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 05:59 PM (TI3xG)

94 Global warming my ass, going to be 31 tonight in CLT. Gore obviously refueled his jet at the airport.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 05:59 PM (0FSuD)

95 83. My family definitely could put away all that food when I was growing up....

Posted by: JoeyBagels at April 15, 2014 06:00 PM (Usdw3)

96 Yet they never opt to voluntarily pay more when given the chance. Because they want you to suffer as well. This is a classic area where Democrats are out of step with the rest of America. The only good idea Huckabee has ever had was his "Tax Me More Fund".

Posted by: Thrawn at April 15, 2014 06:00 PM (WlWt+)

97 Damn AC/DC were on my bucket list, son saw them twice,said it was the best live show he ever saw.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 15, 2014 06:00 PM (Q8vlx)

98 You know how to get the Left into a feeding frenzy?

Post that picture and comment on how many hungry people there and this family is wasting all this food.

Once the flames start, then explain who's family that is.

*boom*

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 06:01 PM (FbAHC)

99 Kitteh just finished his taxes ...

http://tinyurl.com/nublhf7

Posted by: kbdabear at April 15, 2014 09:58 PM (aTXUx)

kb, that is TOO cute! is that your kitteh? i really want a new kitteh, but I gots to wait until one of the old ones, um, well, you know . . . not that I don't love them!!! but, kittens?? sigh

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:01 PM (8lmkt)

100 Sick as a dog, morons. Nasty case of food poisoning, I think. Plus it's getting cold tonight. Bah. The pups and I are going to curl up in bed and pretend the day never happened. See you in the a.m.

Posted by: joncelli at April 15, 2014 06:01 PM (/AYWV)

101 Pretty much any movie John Hughes' name is on has not aged well.

Mostly. But "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" is still one of the funniest movies ever made.

Posted by: tu3031 at April 15, 2014 06:01 PM (yagOO)

102 shakes head at Jay Carney, it's no wonder Dems think Republicans must keep women in the kitchen slaving over the stove and oven all night, just to make breakfast, and Barefoot. and of course people NEED to make much more money, look what they have to pay for? hahahahaha

Posted by: willow at April 15, 2014 06:01 PM (nqBYe)

103 To celebrate Passover, here's a female IDF soldier http://tinyurl.com/nbrf3sh

Posted by: kbdabear at April 15, 2014 06:01 PM (aTXUx)

104 Short answer: No. Longer answer: Ehhh - see the CAC section in the Cob posting guide. Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at April 15, 2014 09:59 PM (pAlYe) I was told the 'posting guide' is written on a bar napkin with tequila spills on it.

Posted by: Guido at April 15, 2014 06:01 PM (GYg/s)

105 Name a car from the entire eighties you would pick over all other decades. Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 09:59 PM (TI3xG) This, I have one, 1987. One of 114. http://tinyurl.com/mojtjml

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 06:01 PM (0FSuD)

106 Niedermeyer, no shit! Never saw them live, but I can tell it was a memory that will always be with you. They are so awesome. *** My uncle took me and bought me a jersey. I was the tiniest little thing and probably looked about 10-yrs old. I had just started a new junior high and showed up in my HTH jersey. The school said nothing of it but I later learned from the gal who would become my best friend that people were scared of me because they thought I was a badass wearing that jersey.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:01 PM (DmNpO)

107 Gun Safety Tuesday ONT Compliance Pic http://tinyurl.com/qbeg2tq Posted by: kbdabear at April 15, 2014 09:59 PM (aTXUx) Sorry, but my pistol ain't gonna stay downÂ…

Posted by: The Eye-winking Hat at April 15, 2014 06:02 PM (AymDN)

108 joncelli, so sorry, keep hydrated , and damn it.

Posted by: willow at April 15, 2014 06:02 PM (nqBYe)

109 81 50, I respectfully disagree about '80's movies. Pretty much any movie John Hughes' name is on has not aged well. I thought they were cringe inducing when they came out--especially St.Elmo's Fire. Ugh. Posted by: JoeyBagels at April 15, 2014 09:58 PM (Usdw3) His 90's movies weren't that good either, like "Baby's Day Out" and "Flubber".

Posted by: Thrawn at April 15, 2014 06:02 PM (WlWt+)

110 "....tequila spills on it."

Posted by: Guido at April 15, 2014 10:01 PM (GYg/s)

That's not tequila.....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 15, 2014 06:02 PM (QFxY5)

111 "Watched Ghostbusters tonight with the kids. I realized they had never seen it. I had forgotten how good that movie was. It is really a very well told story."

Featuring an arrogant, overreaching federal EPA official.

How long has it been since you've seen _that_ in a Hollyweird movie?

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 06:03 PM (noWW6)

112 people were scared of me because they thought I was a badass wearing that jersey.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 10:01 PM (DmNpO)

girl, you a badass with or without that jersey! great story!!!!

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:03 PM (8lmkt)

113 kb, that is TOO cute! is that your kitteh? i really want a new kitteh, but I gots to wait until one of the old ones, um, well, you know . . . not that I don't love them!!! but, kittens?? sigh Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 10:01 PM (8lmkt) No, I got that pic from the Humane League's Facebook feed My kittehs are a brown tabby and a fat tortie

Posted by: kbdabear at April 15, 2014 06:03 PM (aTXUx)

114 Would somebody EAT ME already?

Posted by: The Fried Egg in the picture[/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 15, 2014 06:03 PM (0HooB)

115 101 Sick as a dog, morons. Nasty case of food poisoning, I think. Plus it's getting cold tonight. Bah. The pups and I are going to curl up in bed and pretend the day never happened. See you in the a.m. Posted by: joncelli at April 15, 2014 10:01 PM (/AYWV) Food poisoning? Yikes,that no good. Hope you feel better tomorrow.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2014 06:03 PM (oMKp3)

116 To celebrate Passover, here's a female IDF soldier http://tinyurl.com/nbrf3sh Posted by: kbdabear You sir, are a giver.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative riding Orca at April 15, 2014 06:03 PM (+1T7c)

117 so i think everything on the counters would cost my spouse a paycheck these days. shouldn't They be ashamed/ Hate the Rich! (just practicing up for the bad times)

Posted by: willow at April 15, 2014 06:04 PM (nqBYe)

118 {{{{{joncelli}}}} poor bastid

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:04 PM (8lmkt)

119 Name a car from the entire eighties you would pick over all other decades. *** 1986 1/2 Toyota Supra was by far the best Toyota car ever (notice I didn't say just "Toyota", I said "car")

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:04 PM (DmNpO)

120 91. Yes. The people in his movies were smug little careerists who whined about everything. I hated those movies even then. They're all card-board cut-outs. Let's see--jock, stoner, goth, budding yuppie, budding liberal do-gooder....

Posted by: JoeyBagels at April 15, 2014 06:04 PM (Usdw3)

121 jonicelli -- crappass day for me as well. Hope you feel better.

Posted by: eleven at April 15, 2014 06:05 PM (fsLdt)

122 Posted by: joncelli at April 15, 2014 10:01 PM (/AYWV) Get better

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 06:05 PM (HVff2)

123 Yeah, that Carney kitchen pic? "Conspicuous consumption" popped into my head right off the bat.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at April 15, 2014 06:05 PM (HsTG8)

124 111 "....tequila spills on it." Posted by: Guido at April 15, 2014 10:01 PM (GYg/s) That's not tequila..... Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 15, 2014 10:02 PM (QFxY5) well hello CBD and thank you for that disturbing image...

Posted by: Guido at April 15, 2014 06:05 PM (GYg/s)

125 Mmmm, IDF gals. Ten-SHUN.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 15, 2014 06:05 PM (0HooB)

126 Rush did an excellent cover of the Jay Carney mag pics. Said Carney was living the life of Ozzie & Harriet, which the Left thinks of as evil & racist.

Posted by: Corona at April 15, 2014 06:06 PM (fh2Y7)

127 115 Would somebody EAT ME already? Posted by: The Fried Egg in the picture at April 15, 2014 10:03 PM (0HooB) Who wants to eat a photo shopped egg? Give he the blueberries and the fucking pancakes with butter on top on on the counter. Obviously they were feed a tribe of hobos.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 06:06 PM (0FSuD)

128 I rarely laugh when I watch Ghostbusters anymore. I just watch in awe of how good it is.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at April 15, 2014 06:06 PM (HLprW)

129 Name a car from the entire eighties you would pick over all other decades.

Doc Brown's flux capacitor-equipped DeLorean.

And then I could get all the cars from all the decades! BWAHAHAHAH!

Posted by: HR at April 15, 2014 06:06 PM (hO8IJ)

130 The yolk on that egg is totally going to break. Also I see poached eggs on the counter too. What, too good for scambled?

Posted by: taylork at April 15, 2014 06:06 PM (9bPUR)

131 Would someone turn that fucking "pinging" off!!!

Posted by: Cuvier's beaked whale at April 15, 2014 09:53 PM (hn5v5)

One of my pet theories is that the pinging they heard was from a tagged shark or whale.

Posted by: Country Singer at April 15, 2014 06:06 PM (sBXOp)

132 Name a car from the entire eighties you would pick over all other decades.

I think Bentley made a good product in the 80s. Otherwise, I am totally scratching my head here.

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:06 PM (8lmkt)

133 Yeah, that Carney kitchen pic? "Conspicuous consumption" popped into my head right off the bat. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling StarsÂ™ at April 15, 2014 10:05 PM (HsTG

That... and 'we're done with breakfast... call the maid in to clean up now..."

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2014 06:06 PM (84gbM)

134 that Israeli turning on the webcams of the hackers, posting their pictures and web information is hilarious and scary at the same time BRB putting a post it over my computer camera lens

Posted by: thunderb at April 15, 2014 06:06 PM (zOTsN)

135 1 Get Out Of The Barrel Free card to the first one who matches the characters Venkman, Spengler, and Stantz to the right actors!

Posted by: Soothsayer the Unstompable at April 15, 2014 06:06 PM (o3NFc)

136 Guido!!!!!

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:06 PM (8lmkt)

137 Surprised that kid can flip anything after they cut his finger off and put it on their bookshelf.

Posted by: tu3031 at April 15, 2014 06:06 PM (yagOO)

138 Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 10:01 PM (0FSuD) You have 114 cars?

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2014 06:06 PM (oMKp3)

139 joncelli at April 15, 2014 10:01 PM (/AYWV) Get well soon ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 06:07 PM (qoKTg)

140 most of the hackers he busted were from Malaysia or Indonesia hmmmm

Posted by: thunderb at April 15, 2014 06:07 PM (zOTsN)

141 Wow. Something weird trying to load this thread.

Posted by: Y-not at April 15, 2014 06:07 PM (zDsvJ)

142 putting a post it over my computer camera lens No shit....right?

Posted by: eleven at April 15, 2014 06:07 PM (fsLdt)

143 kawaii metal banzai!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 06:08 PM (FbAHC)

144 Reverand Whight ...l hope they send the food to a deserving poor group of families to ea.t

Posted by: willow at April 15, 2014 06:08 PM (nqBYe)

145 cars of the 80's Ferarri Testarossa

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 15, 2014 06:08 PM (Q8vlx)

146 Would somebody EAT ME already? Posted by: The Fried Egg in the picture at April 15, 2014 10:03 PM (0HooB) A little mood music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcJjMnHoIBI

Posted by: The Political Hat… in 3-D! at April 15, 2014 06:09 PM (AymDN)

147 Ray Stantz was Dan Aykroyd Peter Venkman was Bill Murray and Egon Spengler was the late Harold Ramis Funny, funny movie.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative riding Orca at April 15, 2014 06:09 PM (+1T7c)

148 141 most of the hackers he busted were from Malaysia or Indonesia hmmmm Posted by: thunderb at April 15, 2014 10:07 PM (zOTsN) And now they're pinging away from the bottom of the Indian Ocean, right?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at April 15, 2014 06:09 PM (HsTG8)

149 You have 114 cars? Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2014 10:06 PM (oMKp3) Mr Foo Foo has 115.

Posted by: BignJames at April 15, 2014 06:09 PM (HtUkt)

150 Ray Stantz was Dan Aykroyd Peter Venkman was Bill Murray and Egon Spengler was the late Harold Ramis Is this right; I have no idea?

Posted by: Soothsayer the Unstompable at April 15, 2014 06:10 PM (o3NFc)

151 Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 10:08 PM (FbAHC) Is that the sequel to bucka ru banzaii?

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 06:10 PM (qoKTg)

152 let's face it, the 80s basically blew chunks from start to finish. yes, i was there and i remember quite a bit of it.

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:10 PM (8lmkt)

153 Mr Foo Foo has 115. Posted by: BignJames Yes, but most of them are Matchbox cars from his childhood.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative riding Orca at April 15, 2014 06:10 PM (+1T7c)

154 Name a car from the entire eighties you would pick over all other decades.

DeLorean or a De Tomaso Pantera or a Porsche 911

Posted by: Country Singer at April 15, 2014 06:10 PM (sBXOp)

155 However, here is my annoying little question. If we can be downloading data from satellites that are out past Jupiter, if you can walk into any random Starbucks and wirelessly grab the entire interwebs, why does a black box have to be in physical possession, why can't they make them so the data can just be pulled remotely? This makes NO sense to me.

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 09:41 PM (8lmkt)

My best guess: if the black box can emit a 37.5 kHz audio ping, it could be designed to receive pings on a different channel, pings that would give it orders to download its memory in a long string of short and long pings, like Morse Code, only representing zeroes and ones, for binary data. Probably the box would need to be provided with a larger battery for this to work. Likely the biggest stumbling block would be getting to the necessary approval from all the regulatory agencies with fingers in the pie.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2014 06:10 PM (N91pB)

156 well hello CBD and thank you for that disturbing image...

Posted by: Guido at April 15, 2014 10:05 PM (GYg/s)

This is what I live for!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 15, 2014 06:10 PM (QFxY5)

157 Is this right; I have no idea? Posted by: Soothsayer the Unstompable at April 15, 2014 10:10 PM (o3NFc) Yup

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at April 15, 2014 06:10 PM (HsTG8)

158 Funny, funny movie. Posted by: Bossy Conservative riding Orca at April 15, 2014 10:09 PM (+1T7c) Unlike the sequel, which was just trying to be the first movie all over again. I've played some of the Ghostbusters game for the Wii and it's pretty good. "We eat gods for breakfast".

Posted by: Thrawn at April 15, 2014 06:10 PM (WlWt+)

159 This, I have one, 1987. One of 114.>>

Wow into a pretty special niche but I would pick a A 2012 Ford GT40 above any 80s Porsche.

http://tinyurl.com/pjzdgo9

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 06:11 PM (TI3xG)

160 You have 114 cars? Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2014 10:06 PM (oMKp3) No I only have ONE of the 114 they made. Number 74. I have eight fucking cars, not 114.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 06:11 PM (0FSuD)

161 Gag me, any thing that would fuck Jay I'm a douche Carney, is too despicable to hit

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 09:47 PM (HVff2)

Not every gal can pick 'em like me.

Posted by: Mary Matalin at April 15, 2014 06:11 PM (29vnO)

162 1986 Autocraft Mk IV.

Posted by: garrett at April 15, 2014 06:11 PM (U9pHB)

163 "This, I have one, 1987."

I chatted with a Porsche shop owner, a guy who actually _learned German_ via the Goethe-Institut, so that he could do a better job working on German cars. I think, maybe, vascular surgeons charge more per hour.

Of course, the care and feeding of Porsche-owner clients is complicated and fussy. One shop client came in with his Porsche, and a van with his own personal tools, to be used by the shop staff. Because only one set of tools was to ever be allowed to touch his car. No hoi-polloi common tools used on just any car would do. (This ended when some dirtbag stole the van.)

He said that he made the 930 Turbo owners pay in cash up front because of their habit of getting themselves killed in the car. I am still not sure to this day that he was joking.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 06:11 PM (noWW6)

164 Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 10:10 PM (8lmkt)

While I agree that much of the 1980s can be dismissed...I had lots of sex for the entire decade, so there is a warm spot in my heart for it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 15, 2014 06:12 PM (QFxY5)

165 any thing that would fuck Jay I'm a douche Carney, is too despicable to hit

Maybe with a Buick.

Posted by: HR at April 15, 2014 06:12 PM (hO8IJ)

166 okay, now for one free hotel on Michigan Avenue: Who played the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man?

Posted by: Soothsayer the Unstompable at April 15, 2014 06:12 PM (o3NFc)

167 Looks like the page for the hackers has been taken down by them or the IEF. But, hre's their FB page and a link to the cache: https://www.facebook.com/IsraeliElite http://goo.gl/cvN8fG

Posted by: Pug Form 4868 at April 15, 2014 06:12 PM (8c12T)

168 Is this right; I have no idea?

Posted by: Soothsayer the Unstompable at April 15, 2014 10:10 PM (o3NFc)

I refer you to the AoS style guide which cautions you against your fingers writing checks your ass can't cash.

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:12 PM (8lmkt)

169 However, here is my annoying little question. If we can be downloading data from satellites that are out past Jupiter, if you can walk into any random Starbucks and wirelessly grab the entire interwebs, why does a black box have to be in physical possession, why can't they make them so the data can just be pulled remotely? This makes NO sense to me. *** Why is it "pulled" at all? It should be pushed automatically

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:13 PM (DmNpO)

170 What was the Rick Moranis characters name? Not a trivia question, I just can't remember.

Posted by: lowandslow at April 15, 2014 06:13 PM (IV4od)

171 I would love to have a NSX, but I am to tall. That is probably the baddest MFer made, although it came out in 1990. http://tinyurl.com/3cz5rmk

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 06:13 PM (0FSuD)

172 Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 10:11 PM (noWW6)

The father of an old and dear friend had one. We would drool over it whenever we went to his house.

His father got rid of it after he kissed the wall at Lime Rock going about 120.

The repair bill was more than his kids' college tuition.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 15, 2014 06:13 PM (QFxY5)

173 137 Guido!!!!! Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 10:06 PM (8lmkt) dearest Peaches!!!!!

Posted by: Guido at April 15, 2014 06:13 PM (GYg/s)

174 I had lots of sex for the entire decade, so there is a warm spot in my heart for it. --- How touching. *snif* At least you didn't say a "wet spot on my sheets."

Posted by: Y-not at April 15, 2014 06:13 PM (zDsvJ)

175 167 okay, now for one free hotel on Michigan Avenue: Who played the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man? Posted by: Soothsayer the Unstompable at April 15, 2014 10:12 PM (o3NFc) A troop of s'mores-making Girl Scouts? "Get on the roasting stick, Mr. Stay-Puft!" "Noooooooooo!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at April 15, 2014 06:14 PM (HsTG8)

176 Adriane, I was reacting to the link TPH put up about the Japanese group Baby Metal.

Strangely this video and song was not in the montage they subjected those humans to.

http://youtu.be/nDqaTXqCN-Q

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 06:14 PM (FbAHC)

177 Evening Horde. Now I'm in a bad mood. That shit with AC/DC absolutely SUCKS. All-time favorite band. I got to see them a couple years ago. They came through Jacksonville on the Black Ice tour.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 06:14 PM (GEICT)

178 Louis Tully

Posted by: Y-not at April 15, 2014 06:14 PM (zDsvJ)

179 Why is it "pulled" at all? It should be pushed automatically

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 10:13 PM (DmNpO)

yeah, that's what makes me go all googly-eyed, why is this so low-tech? because, oceans!

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:14 PM (8lmkt)

180 Good evening, morons. Looks like I'm really late. Maybe I'll just go make another drink & hunker down?

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 06:15 PM (qc1G2)

181 Louis

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at April 15, 2014 06:15 PM (HsTG8)

182 okay, now for one free hotel on Michigan Avenue: Who played the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man? Posted by: Soothsayer the Unstompable Brian Dennehy. C'mon, that was easy.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative riding Orca at April 15, 2014 06:15 PM (+1T7c)

183 Yup....Carney's wife is a defacto shitstocking.

Posted by: eleven at April 15, 2014 06:15 PM (fsLdt)

184 Oh, another Porsche shop horror story, not the same guy:

Owner wants a complete restoration on his beloved 928. Solo shop specialist tears the car all the way down to a bare body shell, completely disassembles the engine and transaxle, and then abruptly dies of a heart attack.

Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick.

What in the world could possibly be done, other than to just sell the parts on ebay?

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 06:15 PM (noWW6)

185 I had lots of sex for the entire decade, so there is a warm spot in my heart for it. And a brown stain on the mattress?

Posted by: R. Lee Ermey at April 15, 2014 06:15 PM (HLprW)

186 "...get yourself an egg and beat it..." Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 15, 2014 06:15 PM (0HooB)

187 BC That's the tour my son saw. Only he saw them in St.Paul. He thought they kicked ass.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 15, 2014 06:16 PM (Q8vlx)

188 I had lots of sex for the entire decade, so there is a warm spot in my heart for it.

cheap, tawdry secks, I'm guessing . . . you remember?

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:16 PM (8lmkt)

189 Shit, now I got a jones on for some marshmallows...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at April 15, 2014 06:16 PM (HsTG8)

190 Posted by: Y-not at April 15, 2014 10:13 PM (zDsvJ)

Well....I'm married now, so it evened out.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 15, 2014 06:16 PM (QFxY5)

191 why does a black box have to be in physical possession

Latency? I guess it doesn't matter how old the data is after you've already hit the drink.

Someone remind me tomorrow, there might be someone at work I can ask.

Posted by: HR at April 15, 2014 06:16 PM (hO8IJ)

192 What in the world could possibly be done, other than to just sell the parts on ebay? Put it back together. If a few German monkeys can do it, so can you.

Posted by: garrett at April 15, 2014 06:17 PM (U9pHB)

193 188 BC That's the tour my son saw. Only he saw them in St.Paul. He thought they kicked ass. Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 15, 2014 10:16 PM (Q8vlx) It fucking rocked. I loved the show.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 06:17 PM (GEICT)

194 Looks like I'm really late. Maybe I'll just go make another drink & hunker down?

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 10:15 PM (qc1G2)

chi, no, come sit by me, I saved you a seat

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:17 PM (8lmkt)

195 He said that he made the 930 Turbo owners pay in cash up front because of their habit of getting themselves killed in the car. I am still not sure to this day that he was joking. Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 10:11 PM (noWW6) He was right, the fucker is not called the widow maker for no reason. It is dangerous as shit. When that turbo kicks in no telling what's going to happen, but you will the first to know. It's a go Kart with a top and 300 HP behind it. It really is scary. I don't drive it but about 500 miles a year.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 06:17 PM (0FSuD)

196 Shipman was on Kelly file a bit ago. I wonder if she experiences the ocassional bout of self-loathing?

Posted by: fastfreefall at April 15, 2014 06:17 PM (Tz35j)

197 cheap, tawdry secks, I'm guessing . . . you remember?>>

If the memories aren't vague then he was doing it wrong.

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 06:18 PM (TI3xG)

198 "cheap, tawdry ~~secks~~socks..."

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 10:16 PM (8lmkt)

FIFY

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo'sDoppelganger at April 15, 2014 06:18 PM (QFxY5)

199 While I rank Ghostbusters in my top 10 favorite movies of all time, I rank its sequel in the top 3 worst sequels. Caddyshack II is a close second.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at April 15, 2014 06:18 PM (HLprW)

200 189 I had lots of sex for the entire decade, so there is a warm spot in my heart for it. cheap, tawdry secks, I'm guessing . . . you remember? Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 10:16 PM (8lmkt) Peaches, please don't ask for pics....I'm beggin' ya.

Posted by: Guido at April 15, 2014 06:19 PM (GYg/s)

201 Dammit I should have gone to it. Sometimes you just shouldn't think about shit and just do it.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 15, 2014 06:19 PM (Q8vlx)

202 Also, what' the deal with having two stove top espresso makers. Did somebody want a columbian roast instead of the Kona? Also, did the take any pictures of the padded room they keep Jay in?

Posted by: taylork at April 15, 2014 06:19 PM (9bPUR)

203 Well, folks, this is my last evening on the "under" side of three score years on this rock... ...and those effin' taxes aren't finishing themselves. Later, h8ers!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at April 15, 2014 06:19 PM (HsTG8)

204 It is dangerous as shit. When that turbo kicks in no telling what's going to happen, but you will the first to know. It's a go Kart with a top and 300 HP behind it. Pussy.

Posted by: garrett at April 15, 2014 06:19 PM (U9pHB)

205 Nothing was worse than Caddyshack II

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2014 06:20 PM (KCxzN)

206 The Alvin might only go so deep but the Deepsea Challenger in which James Cameron broke the deep dive record goes much, much deeper.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:20 PM (DmNpO)

207 The 80's? give me back half the money my "friends" spent on coke and I'll buy Kansas.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 06:20 PM (0FSuD)

208 200 While I rank Ghostbusters in my top 10 favorite movies of all time, I rank its sequel in the top 3 worst sequels. Caddyshack II is a close second. Posted by: Burn the Witch at April 15, 2014 10:18 PM (HLprW) Oh don't worry, Ghostbusters will probably get a reboot in the near future. There won't be any clever lines or interactions between the ghostbusters, it'll just be proton pack pron.

Posted by: Thrawn at April 15, 2014 06:20 PM (WlWt+)

209 give me back half the money my "friends" spent on coke and I'll buy Kansas.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 10:20 PM (0FSuD)

piker

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:21 PM (8lmkt)

210 Name a car from the entire eighties you would pick over all other decades. Honda Accord hatchback. Loved that thing.

Posted by: Kindletot at April 15, 2014 06:21 PM (wuBW9)

211 He was right, the fucker is not called the widow maker for no reason. >>

A much cheaper version was made by Plymouth in 1970 The 440 Cuda.

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 06:21 PM (TI3xG)

212 207 The Alvin might only go so deep but the Deepsea Challenger in which James Cameron broke the deep dive record goes much, much deeper.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 10:20 PM (DmNpO)

Not deep enough...sigh

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at April 15, 2014 06:21 PM (M+evy)

213 63 Anybody that pays 135 bucks for a tie, ought to be hung with it. Posted by: tu3031 at April 15, 2014 09:54 PM (yagOO) _________ Yeah that's pretty up there. Hell you can get a Versace tie for $100.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 15, 2014 06:22 PM (0LHZx)

214 No doubt, the difficulties in getting to the MH370 at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, as demonstrated in that graphic, are immense. Even more problematic is that the plane isn't even there.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 15, 2014 06:22 PM (IN7k+)

215 Meanwhile, at Daily Mail, Researchers at University of Washington set up study to prove white babies are racist White babies just 15 months old show racial bias when picking playmates, study found Researchers found infants favoured playmates showing bias to their race Study by Frontiers in Psychology distributed toys to 40 white babies Infants showed preference for supervisor who divided toys unequally

Posted by: thunderb at April 15, 2014 06:22 PM (zOTsN)

216 give me back half the money my "friends" spent on coke and I'll buy Kansas. Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 10:20 PM (0FSuD) You want Kansas??? /looks confused...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2014 06:22 PM (84gbM)

217 Pussy. Posted by: garrett at April 15, 2014 10:19 PM (U9pHB) True dat. That big ass whale tail is there for a reason. You do NOT let off the gas in a curve or the front end will lift up and you will lose your steering. Ask me how I know this.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 06:23 PM (0FSuD)

218 Can you imagine the data bottleneck of all those 717, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, 777, 787, Airbus 330, 340, 380s transmitting even every ten seconds via satellite?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 06:23 PM (FbAHC)

219 OK, giant marshmallow aficionados, I'm turning in. Don't feel to chipper myself, been sick with allergies for a week. Y'all have fun and try not to trash the place, 'k?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 15, 2014 06:23 PM (0HooB)

220 Even more problematic is that the plane isn't even there.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 15, 2014 10:22 PM (IN7k+)

Do tell . . .

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:23 PM (8lmkt)

221 No I only have ONE of the 114 they made. Number 74. I have eight fucking cars, not 114. Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 10:11 PM (0FSuD) My, my who the fuck pissed in your wheaties? Some senate candidate?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 06:23 PM (HVff2)

222 1986 1/2 Toyota Supra was by far the best Toyota car ever (notice I didn't say just "Toyota", I said "car") Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 10:04 PM (DmNpO) _________ YES!! I had a friend of mine who's dad had one. It was the coolest thing on the block.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 15, 2014 06:24 PM (0LHZx)

223 And a brown stain on the mattress?

Posted by: R. Lee Ermey at April 15, 2014 10:15 PM (HLprW)

Close: http://tinyurl.com/mcprf9e

NSFW

Posted by: David Allan Coe at April 15, 2014 06:24 PM (sBXOp)

224 My, my who the fuck pissed in your wheaties? Some senate candidate? Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 10:23 PM (HVff2) *snort*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 06:24 PM (GEICT)

225 Not deep enough...sigh *** Cameron reached nearly 36k feet in the Mariannas Trench. That's more than twice the depth of the black boxes. But, can it lift them?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:24 PM (DmNpO)

226 You want Kansas??? /looks confused... Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2014 10:22 PM (84gbM) Not really,but I figured it was cheap and you know the girls probably still suck dicks.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 06:24 PM (0FSuD)

227 The U S of F'n A picked a Russian submarine off the ocean floor in 17,000 feet of water in 1974. Very clever people, I knew the technical manager. We routinely set BOP's on the ocean floor in 12,000 ft of water. ROV's are capable of more.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at April 15, 2014 06:25 PM (Gth7i)

228 I had a 1987 BMW 325 which I really liked (owned it until 2011, and then somebody restored it, it looks like new now). In 1989, my neighbor had a "man friend' who was a big deal salesman for Diebold, and he drove out to Ohio to visit her and owned a couple of different BMW's. The last one he had was a black 1989 M6. Wot a car.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative riding Orca at April 15, 2014 06:25 PM (+1T7c)

229 YES!! I had a friend of mine who's dad had one. It was the coolest thing on the block. *** I had one and had I not wrecked it might never have gotten rid of it. Absolutely loved everything about it.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:25 PM (DmNpO)

230 Those white folks didn't build that breakfast.

Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at April 15, 2014 06:25 PM (Dwehj)

231 You do NOT let off the gas in a curve or the front end will lift up and you will lose your steering. My ex-girlfriend had one that her father left her when he died. Fun car to drive. For a Volkswagen.

Posted by: garrett at April 15, 2014 06:26 PM (U9pHB)

232 But, can it lift them?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 10:24 PM (DmNpO)

They can't weigh much, but I'll bet the issue is getting to them through the wreckage around them.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo'sDoppelganger at April 15, 2014 06:26 PM (QFxY5)

233 Mr Foo Foo has 115. Posted by: BignJames at April 15, 2014 10:09 PM (HtUkt) __________ Subtract 111 and you're there. But over the years I have probably owned 40-45 cars. I buy and sell a car at least once a year, usually more.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 15, 2014 06:26 PM (0LHZx)

234 Not deep enough...sigh *** Ugh. I just caught that.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:26 PM (DmNpO)

235 Posted by: thunderb at April 15, 2014 10:22 PM (zOTsN) Your relatives making you read weird research?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 06:26 PM (HVff2)

236 had I not wrecked it

that could be my theme song, if it were a song

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:26 PM (8lmkt)

237 They can't weigh much, but I'll bet the issue is getting to them through the wreckage around them. **** Ohhhhhh

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:26 PM (DmNpO)

238 >>"How deep MH 370 may be" Let's go back and check that tweet from yesterday.

Posted by: Aviator at April 15, 2014 06:27 PM (3rrMW)

239 Form 4868 - Filed

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 15, 2014 06:27 PM (aDwsi)

240 Nothing was worse than Caddyshack II Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2014 10:20 PM (KCxzN) Why hello there!

Posted by: Highlander II: The Quickening at April 15, 2014 06:27 PM (AymDN)

241 My, my who the fuck pissed in your wheaties? Some senate candidate? Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 10:23 PM (HVff2) ha ha. My candidate just got endorsed by the NRA. So I guess that will put an end to Brannon's efforts. He can go back to raising money to pay off the $450,000 judgement for being fought a liar by a court of law.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 06:27 PM (0FSuD)

242 Posted by: Mr. Dave at April 15, 2014 10:25 PM (Gth7i)

Glomar Explorer.

And we did it in secret, but that was back when Americans had balls and smarts and could out-engineer everyone.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 15, 2014 06:27 PM (QFxY5)

243 Well your friend with the pile of 928 parts does have a choice. If the guy labeled all the parts and boxed the small ones, if you have the shop manual you might reassemble the car in a couple years.

Or sell on eBay. Choose wisely.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 06:27 PM (FbAHC)

244 219 Can you imagine the data bottleneck of all those 717, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, 777, 787, Airbus 330, 340, 380s transmitting even every ten seconds via satellite?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 10:23 PM (FbAHC)

Plus the blackbox records A LOT of plane data. I doubt there's enough satellite data uplink bandwidth to handle all that data reliably.

Posted by: Mætenloch at April 15, 2014 06:28 PM (pAlYe)

245 relies are driving to Austin tomorrow to visit the LBJ museum and revel in the successful war on poverty and civil rights yippeee

Posted by: thunderb at April 15, 2014 06:28 PM (zOTsN)

246 My candidate just got endorsed by the NRA. Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 10:27 PM (0FSuD) So did Harry Reid.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 06:29 PM (GEICT)

247 And we did it in secret, but that was back when Americans had balls and smarts and could out-engineer everyone.

...and kept their fuckin mouths shut.

Posted by: tu3031 at April 15, 2014 06:29 PM (yagOO)

248 Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 10:27 PM (0FSuD) Lol, love to watch you republicans duke it out

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 06:29 PM (HVff2)

249 928...the weird Porsche. To this day I can't figure out why such a thing exists. It's not a bad car, but it's so unlike any other Porsche....just an odd duck. If it hadn't been for Risky Business it probably wouldn't have survived as long as it did.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 15, 2014 06:29 PM (0LHZx)

250 My ex-girlfriend had one that her father left her when he died. Fun car to drive. For a Volkswagen. Posted by: garrett at April 15, 2014 10:26 PM (U9pHB) True dat. Porsche now pretty much owns VW. Amazing how many design things are the same in each car.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 06:29 PM (0FSuD)

251 Form 4868 - Filed Posted by: Mike Hammer Citizen's arrest! Citizen's arrest!

Posted by: Gomer Pyle...IRS! at April 15, 2014 06:30 PM (+1T7c)

252 yeah, that's what makes me go all googly-eyed, why is this so low-tech? because, oceans! *** It's ckufing insane. With the tech that is available today, there is simply no excuse for a plane utterly disappearing from sight. There is no excuse for not knowing in real-time exactly what is taking place aboard the plane. And there is no excuse for the data to sink to the bottom of the ocean with only a 30-day battery. No excuse.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:30 PM (DmNpO)

253 Why hello there! Posted by: Highlander II: The Quickening at April 15, 2014 10:27 PM (AymDN) Highlander:The Source was much worse than The Quickening, as bad as that was.

Posted by: Thrawn at April 15, 2014 06:30 PM (WlWt+)

254 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 10:29 PM (GEICT ** double snort**

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 06:30 PM (HVff2)

255 So did Harry Reid. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 10:29 PM (GEICT) They both won.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 06:30 PM (0FSuD)

256 Aloha!

Anyone know what the plastic part that lines a wheel-well is called? And why the screws holding it in won't unscrew?

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 06:31 PM (T1005)

257 Can you imagine the data bottleneck of all those 717, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, 777, 787, Airbus 330, 340, 380s transmitting even every ten seconds via satellite? Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 10:23 PM (FbAHC) Plus the blackbox records A LOT of plane data. I doubt there's enough satellite data uplink bandwidth to handle all that data reliably. **** If they only pushed the data in real-time at the first sign of trouble, such as a drastic change in course or altitude, they could handle it.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:31 PM (DmNpO)

258 Posted by: thunderb at April 15, 2014 10:22 PM (zOTsN) Did they test Black or Brown Babies? I would guess... not... but will wager they would have the exact same preferences. I have long believed that there IS a Genetic component to what is called Racism. Because you try to help yourself... then immediate family, then extended family, then friends, then tribe.... and that has crossed every cultural boundary in the history of Man... And to deny that it exists... does not help us to ensure that we do not ACT on it...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2014 06:31 PM (84gbM)

259 No excuse.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 10:30 PM (DmNpO)

that's what keep frying my brain about all this, Niedermeyer. it's so easily rectified.

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:32 PM (8lmkt)

260 If it's going to be 30 in CLT, I am betting Hammer is going to have frozen pipes.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 06:33 PM (0FSuD)

261 Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2014 10:31 PM (84gbM)

That is so 19th century....we are better and more evolved than that.

Posted by: NEA/Hollywood/MBM at April 15, 2014 06:33 PM (QFxY5)

262 "No doubt, the difficulties in getting to the MH370 at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, as demonstrated in that graphic, are immense."

For years, I argued with lefty enviroweenies about nuclear power.

They kept bleating, "What do you do with the waste?"

I said, "Well, first off, that stuff isn't really waste per se. There's usable energy left in there. Plenty of it. But current generation reactors aren't set up for that. We could build advanced reactors and hugely reduce said 'waste' issue. Fission that stuff."

They said, "To zero? No? Where do you put the irreducible minimum?"

I said, "Well, shit, just about any decommissioned hard-rock mountain mine would do nicely. But if you want to make sure it's never seen again before finally decaying to lead, cast it in glass bricks and use ROVs to stack it on the bottom of the bottom of the bottom of the ocean."

Because there are places that go a lot deeper even than that very deep graphic.

Way down there, there aren't much in the way of currents to move things around. There are a bunch of dead nuclear sub reactor cores in much shallower water which show that the materials don't migrate far.

And there's not much life apart from the odd extremophile colonies around volcanic vents. Life requires a certain minimal amount of metabolizable energy, and it's very dark and very cold down there. Really the only thing going other than the vents is the very faint spark of digestible organic material slowly raining down from dead sea life in shallower waters.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 06:33 PM (noWW6)

263 I doubt there's enough satellite data uplink bandwidth to handle all that data reliably.

I'm sorry. I give you Twitter and Facebook. Srsly? Too much data? No.

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:33 PM (8lmkt)

264 chi, no, come sit by me, I saved you a seat Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 10:17 PM (8lmkt) ------ To be honest, Peaches, you kind of scare me a little bit. I mean - I have a crush on you & all, but, I'm a little intimidated. I guess I could scoot a little closer...

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 06:33 PM (qc1G2)

265 you kind of scare me a little bit

I blush . . .

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:34 PM (8lmkt)

266 Brian Dennehy. C'mon, that was easy. Right on!

Posted by: Soothsayer the Unstompable at April 15, 2014 06:34 PM (o3NFc)

267 Nip Sip

I wasn't trying to bad mouth your love for your car. Porsche makes great cars. Just as a general rule 1972 though the 80s sucked for most mass production cars. there were exceptions. I did love my dads 1984 Toyota 4X4 Forerunner. it was fun and different from my 1975 Dodge Sno-Fiter. I also miss the other cars I owned in the 80s because I was in my 20s and did stuff that was fun in cars back then.

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 06:34 PM (TI3xG)

268 flightradar24.com Real time flights. That's a lot of fucking planes. It ain't that easy.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 06:35 PM (GEICT)

269 I guess I could scoot a little closer...

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 10:33 PM (qc1G2)

Careful...she's young but feisty.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 15, 2014 06:35 PM (QFxY5)

270 Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 10:33 PM (noWW6) Hey.... keep your shit off my lawn!!!!

Posted by: Aquaman... AARP member at April 15, 2014 06:36 PM (84gbM)

271 Real time flights. That's a lot of fucking planes. It ain't that easy. *** But it doesn't have to uplink ALL data on a teal-time basis. Just the troublesome ones. The moment that plane changed course the data should have started transmitting.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:36 PM (DmNpO)

272 "Anyone know what the plastic part that lines a wheel-well is called? And why the screws holding it in won't unscrew?"

"Fender liner", usually. A seldom seen place where car manufacturers will save every fraction of a penny that they can, with things like cheapo pop fasteners instead of proper screws.

If there are screws, they may be corroded into immobility. PB Blaster or Kroil. And patience.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 06:36 PM (noWW6)

273 There is no excuse for not knowing in real-time exactly what is taking place aboard the plane.

Oh, I don't know. I kind of like the idea that it's still possible for people to move around the planet without being minutely surveilled.

And constant surveillance is not free. The engines on that plane could have sent data back to the manufacturer, but the operator didn't think it added enough value to make the cost worthwhile.

Posted by: HR at April 15, 2014 06:36 PM (hO8IJ)

274 Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 10:34 PM (TI3xG)

1988 Toyota 4x4 pickup with the extended (hah!) cab.

Fuck! I was an idiot for giving it up in 2001.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 15, 2014 06:37 PM (QFxY5)

275 they tested black and Asian babies too. I think all people prefer the familiar I also think the researcher approached the study with a preconceived bias. Note the quote below, The University of Washington team first noticed the phenomenon when the infants began playing favourites with the researchers during a previous experiment. so it isn't that some researchers were more playful or friendly or warm or looked like their mothers its that they were racist Professor Jessica Sommerville said: 'At the time, about half of the research assistants in my lab were Asian-American and the other half were Caucasian, and most of the babies in our experiments are Caucasian

Posted by: thunderb at April 15, 2014 06:37 PM (zOTsN)

276 Re the Carney / Shipman nonsense. These are the jackanapes we ought to be deporting; not some Mexican schlub pouring concrete 12 hours a day.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at April 15, 2014 06:37 PM (1mtKP)

277 But it doesn't have to uplink ALL data on a teal-time basis. Just the troublesome ones.

"Troublesome" is what we like to call "unverifiable."

Posted by: HR at April 15, 2014 06:37 PM (hO8IJ)

278 Corporate tax rate in US is 40%. Highest in the world... The evil rich millionaires and billionaires are paying 39.6% federal tax in the top bracket... Just how much do the leftists want of a person's paycheck and wallet....( leftists everywhere screaming MOAR!!1!11!!).....and THERE is a good reason for NOT voting democrat... *or RINO*

Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at April 15, 2014 06:38 PM (/T5EP)

279 Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at April 15, 2014 10:37 PM (1mtKP)

Clam or cod?

Posted by: Mrs. Hussey at April 15, 2014 06:39 PM (QFxY5)

280 Cthulhu An inner wheelwell? Liner? Last couple I took off used those plastic screws with the self-contained "butterfly" type retainers.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 06:39 PM (qc1G2)

281 It's ckufing insane. With the tech that is available today, there is simply no excuse for a plane utterly disappearing from sight. There is no excuse for not knowing in real-time exactly what is taking place aboard the plane. And there is no excuse for the data to sink to the bottom of the ocean with only a 30-day battery.

No excuse.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 10:30 PM (DmNpO)

Sorry but nature and the laws of physics get a vote on this. And they always choose to make things challenging if even possible at all.

Everything is a trade-off. So you probably could have continual flight data upload and 180-day pinger batteries - just so long as you don't mind paying an extra $150+ per flight.

Posted by: Mætenloch at April 15, 2014 06:39 PM (pAlYe)

282 Can anyone here remind me how many times I've now watched Battleship?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:40 PM (DmNpO)

283
At that depth I take it everything is just flattened like a pancake, which is maybe why no debris, but damn you'd think something would have escaped on the way down. I mean water landing at night and all slow sink, still something.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 15, 2014 06:40 PM (hUf/y)

284 Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at April 15, 2014 10:38 PM (/T5EP) And for the FOURTH Year in a Row... I paid more in Federal Taxes, then General Electric did. Its not the Tax Rate.... its that Congress picks winners and losers of WHO pays the Tax.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2014 06:40 PM (84gbM)

285 So the nazi Bloomberg is launching a $50M political group to destroy the NRA. Here's the NYT puff piece. Check out the last paragraph. RT @DouthatNYT: Now *that* is a kicker: http://nyti.ms/1hJvbuw Michael R. Bloomberg, making his first major political investment since leaving office, plans to spend $50 million this year building a nationwide grass-roots network to motivate voters who feel strongly about curbing gun violence, an organization he hopes can eventually outmuscle the National Rifle Association. Mr. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, said gun control advocates need to learn from the N.R.A. and punish those politicians who fail to support their agenda Â— even Democrats whose positions otherwise align with his own. Â“They say, Â‘We donÂ’t care. WeÂ’re going to go after you,Â’ Â” he said of the N.R.A. Â“ Â‘If you donÂ’t vote with us weÂ’re going to go after your kids and your grandkids and your great-grandkids. And weÂ’re never going to stop.Â’ Â” He added: Â“WeÂ’ve got to make them afraid of us.Â” ... He was also dismissive of skeptics who might question whether he could ever build an organization that rivaled the N.R.A. And he seemed unaware of, or unwilling to acknowledge, the ways in which his own persona Â— of a billionaire, Big Gulp-banning former mayor of New York Â— could undercut his efforts, especially in rural, conservative states. Â“I donÂ’t know what your perception is of our reputation, and mine, the name Bloomberg around the country,Â” he said. But every place he goes, he added, Â“YouÂ’re a rock star. People yelling out of cabs, Â‘Hey, way to go!Â’ Â” His financial commitment to reducing gun violence could grow. When asked how much he was willing to spend, he tossed out the $50 million figure out as if he were describing the tip he left on a restaurant check. Â“I put $50 million this year, last year into coal, $53 million into oceans,Â” he said with a shrug, describing his clean energy and sustainable fishing initiatives. Â“Certainly a number like that, $50 million. LetÂ’s see what happens.Â” The key to whether they can be effective, the mayor and his advisers said, will be turning out female voters, the sought-after swing bloc that has been pivotal in recent elections. Â“Right now, women, when they go to the polls, they vote on abortion, they vote on jobs, they vote on health care,Â” said Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action. Â“We want one of those things to be gun violence prevention.Â” Mr. Bloomberg was introspective as he spoke, and seemed both restless and wistful. When he sat down for the interview, it was a few days before his 50th college reunion. His mortality has started dawning on him, at 72. And he admitted he was a bit taken aback by how many of his former classmates had been appearing in the Â“in memoriamÂ” pages of his school newsletter. But if he senses that he may not have as much time left as he would like, he has little doubt about what would await him at a Judgment Day. Pointing to his work on gun safety, obesity and smoking cessation, he said with a grin: Â“I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven IÂ’m not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. ItÂ’s not even close.Â”

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 15, 2014 06:40 PM (ZPrif)

286 I would bet all babies prefer people who look like mommy. Its prolly a survival instinct

Posted by: thunderb at April 15, 2014 06:40 PM (zOTsN)

287 an '86 BMW L6

Posted by: Soothsayer the Unstompable at April 15, 2014 06:40 PM (o3NFc)

288 But it doesn't have to uplink ALL data on a teal-time basis. Just the troublesome ones. The moment that plane changed course the data should have started transmitting. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 10:36 PM (DmNpO) I don't know enough (read "nothing") about the in air operations of planes to know how you would set that up, how you would set the parameters, what's considered normal deviations, etc. And there will always be instances of things going wrong and things slipping through the cracks. And then people will complain about that. Doesn't mean we shouldn't look for ways to improve, we should always be doing that, but current, real world limitations exist and need to be recognized.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 06:40 PM (GEICT)

289 @268 No, I didn't take it that way at all. I had some good cars in the 80's, none of them were made in the USA. I had a 7 car that I put 150K on, last of the four speeds. The 87 930S was a custom built car, 114 in total. I bought it from a friend's widow. Porsche doesn't even have the wiring diagrams for it. I had a problem and all of Stuttgart looked for some answer. It was not to be found. So, try it now.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 06:41 PM (0FSuD)

290 The engines on that plane could have sent data back to the manufacturer, but the operator didn't think it added enough value to make the cost worthwhile.

Posted by: HR at April 15, 2014 10:36 PM (hO8IJ)

Kinda like that 57 cents a unit for the cars that killed those people? I'm hugely conservative, but if you can pay your CEO in the high 6-figures, then you can do what's right.

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:41 PM (8lmkt)

291 At that depth I take it everything is just flattened like a pancake, which is maybe why no debris, but damn you'd think something would have escaped on the way down. I mean water landing at night and all slow sink, still something. *** I don't understand how a water landing would even be possible. IIUC, the waves there run between 10'-30'.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:41 PM (DmNpO)

292 "Glomar Explorer."

That thing sat around the SF Bay for decades. While, as rumor has it, the contaminated internal "moon pool" cooled off. I always used to laugh about how the local liberal loons would totally shit themselves in fear if only they bothered to crack a book and learn what the hell that ship had done.

For a while it was parked near the salt flats in the south Bay. Then they moved it north to Suisun Bay and the "mothball fleet" up there.

It's apparently now been renovated and overhauled and is back in service with the offshore oil industry. I wonder how many of the roughnecks have any idea about its storied history.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 06:42 PM (noWW6)

293 Plus the blackbox records A LOT of plane data. I doubt there's enough satellite data uplink bandwidth to handle all that data reliably.Â ---------- Maybe a modification of a Link16 kind of system, which is TDMA, with planes having several network participant profiles loaded for various nets designated for high risk regions. E.G. planes flying across pacific would be on net 1 and use their assigned profile for that net, then they would switch to another profile for network 2 for flying across indian ocean, etc. Only planes flying in high risk areas would transmit while in transit then shut off once landed and nottransmit when flying over accessible regions.

Posted by: fastfreefall at April 15, 2014 06:42 PM (Tz35j)

294 288 an '86 BMW L6 OH YEAH!

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 06:43 PM (0FSuD)

295 So the nazi Bloomberg is launching a $50M political group to destroy the NRA.

So, Malcolm Young can have a stroke, but that asshole is still twitching? Something very wrong with this picture.

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:43 PM (8lmkt)

296 Bolivia is suing Chile at the Hague for return of costal lands lost in the War of the Pacific, in the 1880's, when Peru and Bolivia had gone to war with Chile over guano rights. Well, a number of things, but mostly over guano. When Chile won, Bolivia insisted they still had rights to the costal strip that Chile was occupying. Chile offered to fight them again over it. However, to this day, Bolivia has maintained a navy against the day that they recover any access to the sea. http://tinyurl.com/nss93lc

Posted by: Kindletot at April 15, 2014 06:43 PM (wuBW9)

297 Sorry to hear about Malcolm's thunderstroke.
I wish him a recovery. Some recover well and others do not.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 15, 2014 06:43 PM (AaZet)

298 Damnit. There are people floating over our heads on the ISS right now and they have been taxied back and forth at will for years. Don't tell me we can't track a troublesome flight.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:43 PM (DmNpO)

299 And there's not much life apart from the odd extremophile colonies around volcanic vents. Life requires a certain minimal amount of metabolizable energy, and it's very dark and very cold down there. Really the only thing going other than the vents is the very faint spark of digestible organic material slowly raining down from dead sea life in shallower waters. Posted by: torquewrench Drop those glass-sealed radioctive bricks into the Mid-Atlantic trench or along some other fault line (plate edge), and they will be subducted under the tectonic plates, never to be seen again.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative riding Orca at April 15, 2014 06:43 PM (+1T7c)

300 That Kayvon fuck isin serious need of a brutal ass kicking.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 06:43 PM (QeH9j)

301 Posted by: Kindletot at April 15, 2014 10:43 PM (wuBW9)

that is hilarious!

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:44 PM (8lmkt)

302 I'm sorry. I give you Twitter and Facebook. Srsly? Too much data? No.
Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 10:33 PM (8lmkt)

Satellite uploaded data. It's limited so even with compression and all kinds of DSP it ain't cheap. Just look at the cost per minute of an Iridium sat phone to get an idea of the difference between that and regular cell phones.

Posted by: Mætenloch at April 15, 2014 06:44 PM (pAlYe)

303 Doesn't mean we shouldn't look for ways to improve, we should always be doing that, but current, real world limitations exist and need to be recognized. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 10:40 PM (GEICT) Agree with you & Maet. It's an imperfect world & there is always going to be risk & failures. Not that we don't try but......

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 06:45 PM (HVff2)

304 Peaches, the airliners had Twitter function starting in the 1980s. Transmitted via VHF in coded or uncoded 140 character blocks to and from the pilots.

NDH, when the plane gets in trouble scenario. Pam Am Flt 103 and TWA 800 would not have been helped by it because both were sudden and complete destruction of airframes.

So the only way to make sure such a system would help pinpoint the cause is a real time transmit of all data as it happens. Which requires bandwidth, lots of it since a modern digital FDR can record around 300 different flight parameters.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 06:45 PM (FbAHC)

305 Ooh, a NJ/NY Moron Meetup.

Hopefully I can make it into the city for this one. Would be nice to meet some of the Horde.

Posted by: Iasonas at April 15, 2014 06:45 PM (FHNkr)

306 Don't tell me we can't track a troublesome flight. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 10:43 PM (DmNpO) And yet my phone can't stream video while I'm moving in a car. It should be able to, I bet there's the tech to make it happen. But it's either cost prohibitive or the tech hasn't reached the reliable stage yet. Sorry NDH, wishing doesn't make it so.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 06:46 PM (GEICT)

307 Drop those glass-sealed radioctive bricks into the Mid-Atlantic trench or along some other fault line (plate edge), and they will be subducted under the tectonic plates, never to be seen again. Posted by: Bossy Conservative riding Orca at April 15, 2014 10:43 PM (+1T7c) Hey now.... Keep your shit off my Lawn...

Posted by: Mole Man... AARP member at April 15, 2014 06:46 PM (84gbM)

308 Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at April 15, 2014 10:44 PM (pAlYe)

Okay, and thank you sincerely for answering my question, Maet. It just seems so primitive, this black box stuff. It could not pull data without a satellite interface?

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:46 PM (8lmkt)

309 296 So the nazi Bloomberg is launching a $50M political group to destroy the NRA. When you are old and have too much money, you try piss it away. The NRA is loving this. Talk about a fund raising letter. Five million member each give $100, $500 million dollars. We can bleed bloomie to death.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 06:46 PM (0FSuD)

310 Kinda like that 57 cents a unit for the cars that killed those people?

Kinda like seven figures a year. In pounds, not USD.

Maybe that doesn't seem like a lot of money for you when it's an evil corporation, but a bunch of someones who know more about business than I do calculated that the increased cost per flight and did a bunch of projections with ticket price and cash flow and decided that since they've been fine without that service for decades, it wasn't worth losing money/market share to get it.

Posted by: HR at April 15, 2014 06:47 PM (hO8IJ)

311 "Anyone know what the plastic part that lines a wheel-well is called? And why the screws holding it in won't unscrew?">>

as someone said above they are fender liners. But those aren't screws that hold them in place. they go by a lot of names clips, buttons, fasteners... and look like this.

http://tinyurl.com/ovlpelk

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 06:47 PM (TI3xG)

312 Is Sheila Jackson Lee lurking tonight?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 06:47 PM (HVff2)

313 True story: I went into a Best Buy back in 2000-ish to troll for cheap DVDs. There was a steal of a deal on "Caddyshack"! ... but, I didn't see Murray on the cover. And the price tag was located just to the right of the "Caddyshack" title. Strategically located. Something inside told me not to buy it. Later, I was told why.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at April 15, 2014 06:48 PM (30eLQ)

314 Posted by: HR at April 15, 2014 10:47 PM (hO8IJ)

Okay, got it, good to know, HR, and thank you. I just never understood this.

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:48 PM (8lmkt)

315 We can bleed Bloomie to death. Go on. Please

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 15, 2014 06:48 PM (Q8vlx)

316 I refer you to the AoS style guide which cautions you against your fingers writing checks your ass can't cash. Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 10:12 PM (8lmkt) I have no idea what this is referring to but this is fucking lol funny and it's part of why I loves the Peaches.

Posted by: Guido at April 15, 2014 06:48 PM (GYg/s)

317 wheel tubs

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2014 06:49 PM (KCxzN)

318 313 Is Sheila Jackson Lee lurking tonight? Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 10:47 PM (HVff2) No, she's tipping over Guam.

Posted by: Rep Hank Johnson at April 15, 2014 06:49 PM (0FSuD)

319 Drop those glass-sealed radioactive bricks into the Mid-Atlantic trench or along some other fault line (plate edge), and they will be subducted under the tectonic plates, never to be seen again.

Except in the form of RADIOACTIVE LAVA GOJIRA!

Posted by: HR at April 15, 2014 06:49 PM (hO8IJ)

320 MUST I DIE!!!!!!!

Posted by: Shiela Jackson Lee at April 15, 2014 06:49 PM (zOTsN)

321 Happy Holy Week, AMF.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 06:50 PM (0FSuD)

322 Except in the form of RADIOACTIVE LAVA GOJIRA! Posted by: HR at April 15, 2014 10:49 PM (hO8IJ) That actually sounds awesome. You should write for SyFy.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 06:50 PM (GEICT)

323 funny bit on radio of She Jack ordering at a drive through

Posted by: thunderb at April 15, 2014 06:51 PM (zOTsN)

324 Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 10:47 PM (TI3xG) IIRC, I have seen some that have a slotted screw looking cap, but are designed to lock in place once tightened and not back out. You simply destroy them to remove them and replace them with new ones.

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 15, 2014 06:51 PM (o3MSL)

325 whoa, there's some South Korean ship with 471 peeps aboard and it's sinking. they've rescued 120. jeez, it just never ends, does it. prayers up for those probably terrified people.

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:51 PM (8lmkt)

326 How do you guys feel about doing an 8:00 movie watch-a-long thread next Saturday night?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:52 PM (DmNpO)

327 I'd say John Hughes with John Candy was always good. At least two of my all time favorite movies.

Posted by: banana dream at April 15, 2014 06:52 PM (mTRAN)

328 327 How do you guys feel about doing an 8:00 movie watch-a-long thread next Saturday night? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 10:52 PM (DmNpO) Depends, what's the movie?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 06:53 PM (HVff2)

329
   The part is called an inner fender liner.

     The "screws" I'd bet are plastic push pins, even tho' they may have a phillips head.

   Or they may be Dzus fasteners that require a half turn to loosen.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 15, 2014 06:53 PM (SAMxH)

330 oh, I gots to go watch the NCIS shows. the LA one was shot right around my awesome waterside office a couple of weeks ago. where they do the shoot-out. been waiting to see it.

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 06:53 PM (8lmkt)

331 NDH What movie?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 15, 2014 06:53 PM (Q8vlx)

332 215 No doubt, the difficulties in getting to the MH370 at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, as demonstrated in that graphic, are immense. Even more problematic is that the plane isn't even there.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 15, 2014 10:22 PM (IN7k+) Hide posts from (IN7k+)

Heh.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 06:53 PM (T1005)

333 I'd say John Hughes with John Candy was always good. At least two of my all time favorite movies. *** I will forever love John Candy for Only the Lonely

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:53 PM (DmNpO)

334 327 Depends. Which movie, NDH?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 15, 2014 06:53 PM (ojnk6)

335 NDH What movie? *** Either something really great or really craptastic. My first pick is Battleship.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:54 PM (DmNpO)

336 Except in the form of RADIOACTIVE LAVA GOJIRA! Posted by: HR at April 15, 2014 10:49 PM (hO8IJ) A little mood music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVJInwekSl4

Posted by: Thë Pölïtïcäl Hät at April 15, 2014 06:54 PM (AymDN)

337 We could have enormous fun picking it apart.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:54 PM (DmNpO)

338 Malaysia made the call on not using the R-R system because they were already using the Boeing system that reported on the whole airframe and not just the engines. But the Boeing system, like the R-R system, piggybacked off another system that was apparently shut off..

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 06:54 PM (FbAHC)

339 I will forever love John Candy for Only the Lonely Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 10:53 PM (DmNpO) That's a good one, so is Uncle Buck

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 06:55 PM (HVff2)

340 The NYPD has abandoned its controversial and secretive surveillance program that sent plainclothes police officers into Muslim neighborhoods for the purposes of gathering information on possible terrorist plots, officials said. Marking a dramatic change of course for the department, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton agreed to disband the largely inactive Demographics Unit, which was started in 2003 in response to the 9/11 terror attacks. The unit was intended to root out threats by identifying pockets of Islamic radicalization and locations where potential terrorists might gather. The covert program sent plainclothes officers into restaurants, mosques and just about anywhere else Muslims gathered, to eavesdrop on peopleÂ’s conversations and gauge peopleÂ’s feeling toward the United States. The unit worked in secret until 2011, when the Associated Press published an expose chronicling the NYPDÂ’s exploits in Muslim neighborhoods, causing a rift between the department and minority communities. in the NYPost I hope people will thank the AP when the next terrorist attack occurs in NYC

Posted by: thunderb at April 15, 2014 06:55 PM (zOTsN)

341 That's a good one, so is Uncle Buck *** I like Uncle Buck but think they lost the charm of it with cheap stunts like locking the boy in the trunk.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:56 PM (DmNpO)

342 I think the Shipman-Carneys are assholes. So there.

Posted by: Erowmero at April 15, 2014 06:56 PM (1gcFZ)

343 "So the nazi Bloomberg is launching a $50M political group to destroy the NRA."

Given that his efforts so far have been net-net badly damaging to Democrats, hey, let's have more of the same.

Can't wait to watch Joe Manchin trying to simultaneously run for re-election and run away from Bloomberg.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 06:56 PM (noWW6)

344 There's an awesome memorial to the Chilean troops that fought in the war of the Pacific. El Morro, in thecity of Arica, Chile is a bluff overlooking the bay. TheBolivians were dug in and after some fierce combat, the Chileans siezed the bluffs. I worked with the Bolivian Navy a bit a few yrs ago. Lots of riverine ops fighting narcos and other unsavory types.

Posted by: fastfreefall at April 15, 2014 06:56 PM (Tz35j)

345 I just like how Bloomberg plans to pull the "Do you know who I am?" card at the pearly gates.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 15, 2014 06:57 PM (ZPrif)

346 Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 10:56 PM (DmNpO) I loved John candy. He was awesome & left too early

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 06:57 PM (HVff2)

347 ''I have earned my place in heaven. ItÂ’s not even close.Â” Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 15, 2014 10:40 PM (ZPrif) Uh-huh.

Posted by: BignJames at April 15, 2014 06:58 PM (HtUkt)

348 Did the two backpacks being blown up in Boston just happen? Very little coverage. Not even seeing it on Drudge unless I missed it.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 06:58 PM (QeH9j)

349 Â“I donÂ’t know what your perception is of our reputation, and mine, the name Bloomberg around the country,Â” he said. But every place he goes, he added, Â“YouÂ’re a rock star. People yelling out of cabs, Â‘Hey, way to go!Â’ Â” Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 15, 2014 10:40 PM (ZPrif) You'd think that by now Bloomberg would know that if you're going to lie, make the lie feasible. Who the hell calls out to Mayor Mike from a cab to yell "way to go!" I think Bloomberg edited it from "way to go, asshole!"

Posted by: kbdabear at April 15, 2014 06:58 PM (aTXUx)

350 IIRC, I have seen some that have a slotted screw looking cap, but are designed to lock in place once tightened and not back out. You simply destroy them to remove them and replace them with new ones.>>

Kinda like one time plastic toggle bolts. They are all meant for one time use. But If you are cheap some types can be reused if one removes them carefully/correctly.

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 06:58 PM (TI3xG)

351 Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 10:33 PM (noWW6) You talking about a subduction zone for the spent nuclear fuel? Then the ecotwats would bray about volcanoes being radioactive or something.

Posted by: model_1066 at April 15, 2014 06:58 PM (tNrYO)

352 A counter-point to previous music submission... http://youtu.be/jUaNm9DJDJk Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 09:49 PM (FbAHC) A counter-counterpoint. http://tinyurl.com/oufbo9b

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 15, 2014 06:58 PM (AHzA7)

353 people yell at Kim Kardashian too doesn't mean anything

Posted by: thunderb at April 15, 2014 06:59 PM (zOTsN)

354 NewsBreaker ‏@NewsBreaker 1m UPDATE: Police: Suspect had hoax device, a rice cooker, in bag dropped at Boston Marathon finish line, but no explosives - @ABC

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 06:59 PM (DmNpO)

355 Either something really great or really craptastic. My first pick is Battleship. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 10:54 PM (DmNpO) Cinema Sins already picked apart Battleship, btw: http://tinyurl.com/c9xr94a

Posted by: Thrawn at April 15, 2014 06:59 PM (WlWt+)

356 OMG, I heard that about Malcolm on the car radio when I left work. Super-sad-face!!!!!

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 09:42 PM

Terrible. Not surprised they're considering calling it quits. I reckon they were never as good without Bon Scott and for me Mal was always the one that defined their sound. He's an awesome and often dreadfully overlooked guitarist. Mal was a pretty big influence on me guitar wise.

Posted by: otho at April 15, 2014 07:00 PM (Ci6bl)

357 My vote is Slingblade or the Great Lebowski. Maybe Dr Strangelove.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 15, 2014 07:00 PM (Q8vlx)

358 9-0 Mets winning, bottom of the fourth that crazy, wacky blood moon

Posted by: thunderb at April 15, 2014 07:01 PM (zOTsN)

359 people yell at Kim Kardashian too doesn't mean anything **** the most important event to happen to modern day politics has just taken place. Kim K. has endorsed a candidate. Rushette ‏@RushetteNY 7m Kim Kardashian endorses self-help guru Marianne Williamson for Congress | Mail Online http://t.co/EB17Qaj1a7

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 07:01 PM (DmNpO)

360
I suppose it's time to ask what kind of car and why the inner fender well needs removal.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 15, 2014 07:01 PM (SAMxH)

361 A counter-counterpoint. http://tinyurl.com/oufbo9b Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 15, 2014 10:58 PM (AHzA7) Could repost that after I drop the LSDÂ…

Posted by: The Trippin' Hat at April 15, 2014 07:02 PM (AymDN)

362 Cthulhu, what hucksters said @312. And IG makes a good point, too. Take a pair of needlenose pliers and yank the damn things out. You can get replacements at NAPA for pennies.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 07:02 PM (qc1G2)

363 A counter-counterpoint. http://tinyurl.com/oufbo9b No point, just felt linking it: http://youtu.be/4eysGQuTm6s

Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 15, 2014 07:02 PM (0AKks)

364 Maybe do Battleship for the first watch-a-long and then do a poll once a month for the next.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 07:02 PM (DmNpO)

365 Name a car from the entire eighties you would pick over all other decades. If we're not talking super cars or cars that cost a mint, VW Rabbit GTI, but actually I'd take a Mark II Scirocco. The GTI was a skish faster, but the snail* was my first car. Fantastic power to weight ratio (weighed less than a ton) and I even managed to get laid in it a bunch of times ( my 47 year old back just stood up and screamed "aw hell no!" ). I still love the angular body style better than the rounded Mark IIIs. * I called it the snail because people would watch me go round a turn like I was in a track and they'd all say "Damn! Look at that S-car go!"

Posted by: Weirddave at April 15, 2014 07:02 PM (N/cFh)

366 Cthulhu, what hickster said @312. And IG makes a good point, too. Take a pair of needlenose pliers and yank the damn things out. You can get replacements at NAPA for pennies.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 07:02 PM (qc1G2)

367 273 "Anyone know what the plastic part that lines a wheel-well is called? And why the screws holding it in won't unscrew?"

"Fender liner", usually. A seldom seen place where car manufacturers will save every fraction of a penny that they can, with things like cheapo pop fasteners instead of proper screws.

If there are screws, they may be corroded into immobility. PB Blaster or Kroil. And patience.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 10:36 PM (noWW6) Hide posts from (noWW6)

The BH goofed up the one in the front on the driver's side, and I cut away the part that was rubbing on the tire.....but if I'm going to replace it, I'll need to take all the screws out -- and they just spin. Worse yet, I can't see the other side of 'em 'cause they're buried in sheetmetal innards (this is a '94 Honda Civic, BTW).

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 07:02 PM (T1005)

368 Posted by: fastfreefall at April 15, 2014 10:56 PM (Tz35j)

Story I heard about a year ago concerning a Bolivian riverine boat accidentally wandering into Chilean territory and encountering a Chilean patrol. At first, the two sides were about to start blasting away at each other, until the respective commanders recognized one another...they had been classmates at Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC)...what used to be known as "School of the Americas" at Fort Benning. What was nearly a bloodbath became a little reunion and the Chileans helpfully guided the lost Bolivians back to their own turf.

Posted by: David Allan Coe at April 15, 2014 07:03 PM (sBXOp)

369 torquewrench, the Glomar Explorer is owned by Transocean Drilling. I overhauled a good bit of the ship's drilling and subsea equipment six years ago in Singapore. The Subsea Engineer's mechanical workshop was actually the morgue when the Russian sailors were recovered with the sub.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at April 15, 2014 07:03 PM (Gth7i)

370 Off, putrid sock!

Posted by: Country Singer at April 15, 2014 07:03 PM (sBXOp)

371 Name a car from the entire eighties you would pick over all other decades. Ford Bronco. One of the best vehicles I ever drove.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 15, 2014 07:04 PM (HxSXm)

372 If there are screws, they may be corroded into immobility. PB Blaster or Kroil. And patience.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 10:36 PM (noWW6)

Fender liners are often held in by "Christmas tree" fasteners, like a rivet with a stack of plastic barbs on it. Mostly you break them taking them out. But you can buy new ones cheap at your local auto parts store.

There are also plastic expansion rivets that are expanded into place by either a pin, pressed in, or a small Phillips-head screw. If you see screw heads, that might be what you have. If the rivet doesn't fit tightly, the whole thing may turn. A hammer and sharp chisel fixes them. Again, cheap, cheap. Plastic fasteners are actually better in this application, because they don't corrode. You want to pay some dealership mechanic $75 per hour to drill out rusted screws, when he can have the fender liner out and in again in five minutes by cutting the old plastic fasteners and popping in new ones for a quarter each?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2014 07:05 PM (N91pB)

373 151 Ray Stantz was Dan Aykroyd Peter Venkman was Bill Murray and Egon Spengler was the late Harold Ramis Is this right; I have no idea? Posted by: Soothsayer the Unstompable at April 15, 2014 10:10 PM (o3NFc) I believe it's spelled Akroyd. And yes, it's true, this man has no dick.

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at April 15, 2014 07:06 PM (ua1Yo)

374 I would counter point, but the counter is covered with stuff & it's not polite to point ... Whale Song - Tangerine Dream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47qZMQxOyCA

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 07:06 PM (qoKTg)

375 UPDATE: Police: Suspect had hoax device, a rice cooker, in bag dropped at Boston Marathon finish line, but no explosives - @ABC Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 10:59 PM (DmNpO) Daily Mail had that reported 45 minutes ago. Way to go US media.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 07:07 PM (QeH9j)

376 Ford Bronco. One of the best vehicles I ever drove.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 15, 2014 11:04 PM (HxSXm)

finally, one that makes sense. those were teh bomb!!!

Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 07:08 PM (8lmkt)

377 I loved my GTI. Little rocket. And the BMW 320i.

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at April 15, 2014 07:08 PM (ua1Yo)

378 Daily Mail had that reported 45 minutes ago. Way to go US media. *** Always a day late

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 07:08 PM (DmNpO)

379 "skeritch, skeritch, skeritch...."

Don't mind me, just filing some barbs here for Bloomberg. Boy, is he in for a surprise.

Posted by: Satan at April 15, 2014 07:09 PM (N91pB)

380 I believe it's spelled Akroyd. And yes, it's true, this man has no dick.

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at April 15, 2014 11:06 PM (ua1Yo)

It's Aykroyd. And you are sooo wrong.

Posted by: Donna Dixon at April 15, 2014 07:09 PM (8lmkt)

381 Regarding the missing plane, I'm disturbed that the transponder and such can be turned off from inside the plane. I'd think you'd want the controls in a panel accessible only from the outside, if only to prevent hijackers from such fuckery as turning them off while flying around with a few hundred hostages.

Posted by: J. Random Dude at April 15, 2014 07:09 PM (8OfdL)

382 Good evening, Horde. I drove to Pikesville in the snow in search of Kosher for Passover Coke (sugar!). I nstead they had only kosher for Passover Pepsi. NOPE. Also, fuckingsnowinAprilcanfuckoff.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at April 15, 2014 07:09 PM (N/cFh)

383 379 Daily Mail had that reported 45 minutes ago. Way to go US media. *** Always a day late Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 11:08 PM (DmNpO) We've come to expect this, yes?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 07:09 PM (HVff2)

384 And dude has some super 'daddy/mommy anyone love me! issues. BTW, this was 'performance art'

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 07:10 PM (QeH9j)

385 True dat. Porsche now pretty much owns VW. Amazing how many design things are the same in each car. Posted by: Nip Sip at April 15, 2014 10:29 PM (0FSuD) ___________ Porsche and VW have been essentially the same company forever. Look at the original beetle and the original 911. Notice anything similar? Same shape. Why? Because Ferdinand Porsche designed both.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 15, 2014 07:10 PM (0LHZx)

386 cthulhu at April 15, 2014 11:02 PM (T1005) Best of Luck with the repairs... or being that this IS the ONT ... Happy Screwing! :-)

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 07:10 PM (qoKTg)

387 Mark II Scirocco>>

I actually owned one of those and loved it. I got it cheap because it had been totaled by an insurance company (rear 1/4 damage but no frame bend or functional damage). But since I already had kids it didn't stand out like my mind like my GTO Judge or Buick GS even though it should have in anything but a straight drag.

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 07:10 PM (TI3xG)

388 Rice cooker? Bet they are running the serial number of that thing to find out who sold it. Then find out who they sold it to. And when they get to that person, they just keelhaul him.

Somethings are NOT funny. And are so insanely hazardous that the perp should pay in pain.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 07:11 PM (FbAHC)

389 @ 368

Honda uses plastic push fasteners that look exactly like phillips head screws.

Just get under the fender liner and pop it a little. Then you can take a pair of diagonal pliers and finish the removal by either cutting or levering it the rest of the way.

I'd lever it, they frequently can be reused with no problem.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 15, 2014 07:11 PM (SAMxH)

390 Guys. You've gotta see this. @BuzzFeedAndrew: Oh man, Mike Bloomberg http://t.co/LHDsugavoh pic.twitter.com/CtmvHUmED3

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 07:11 PM (DmNpO)

391 Woah. So I'm playing around at flightradar24.com, because it's really fucking cool, and you can select a specific flight. It gives you all the realtime info on that flight. You can then also select an option that ties you into GoogleMaps and basically shows a cockpit view of the plane in flight. Like you're sitting in the cockpit, looking out at the landscape. The plane I randomly picked? Just flew directly over the top of my house. That was a bit odd.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 07:12 PM (GEICT)

392 Somethings are NOT funny. And are so insanely hazardous that the perp should pay in pain. *** I hope they tear him two new ones.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 07:12 PM (DmNpO)

393 Rice cooker filled with confetti. Witnesses said he dropped them off and was yelling Boston Strong. Boston Strong obviously doesn't include stomping the shit out of someone who just dropped off two backpacks and left them there. Boston Strong my ass.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 07:12 PM (QeH9j)

394 Well, off to bed. There could be another 6" of the white warming tomorrow morning when I get up. I'm so thrilled. Good nite morons, be well

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 15, 2014 07:13 PM (HVff2)

395 What the hell? Mass murder rocks western Canadian city of Calgary http://tinyurl.com/nqr9dfb

Posted by: Thrawn at April 15, 2014 07:14 PM (WlWt+)

396 I think Bloomberg edited it from "way to go, asshole!"
Posted by: kbdabear at April 15, 2014 10:58 PM (aTXUx)
Maybe they were saying "go away".

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 15, 2014 07:14 PM (AaZet)

397 Doktor Ferdinand Porsche designed the KdFwagen. His grandson Ferdinand 'Butzi' Porsche designed the 911.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 07:14 PM (FbAHC)

398 Goodnight MH

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 07:14 PM (DmNpO)

399 I'm disturbed that the transponder and such can be turned off from inside the plane.

Posted by: J. Random Dude at April 15, 2014 11:09 PM (8OfdL)

Actually, the reason the transponder is accessible inside the cockpit is because of hijackings. There is an international code that the pilots can change the "squawk" of the transponder to to indicate a hijacking. That way, even if they are unable to vocally transmit the situation to air traffic control, ATC will see the transponder code and know what's going on.

Posted by: Country Singer at April 15, 2014 07:14 PM (sBXOp)

400 .....and, sure enough, I posted @368 right after people reacted @361 and @363.....but have only now caught up to @368. Onward!

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 07:14 PM (T1005)

401 "torquewrench, the Glomar Explorer is owned by Transocean Drilling. I overhauled a good bit of the ship's drilling and subsea equipment six years ago in Singapore. The Subsea Engineer's mechanical workshop was actually the morgue when the Russian sailors were recovered with the sub."

Holy cow. Walking in the footprints of history, and all that.

I understand that after the fall of the USSR, the CIA and the Navy sent a delegation to what had just become once again the admiralty of the Russian fleet. With videotape of what had been done with the mortal remains of the sailors from the sub.

They had been given a very formal, disciplined and respectful Russian Orthodox burial at sea. With the whole ship's company turned out in their best.

This apparently made a tremendous impression about good American intentions even upon the more hardened and doctrinaire Communist types. At what was a fairly tense time from their perspective.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 07:14 PM (noWW6)

402 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 11:11 PM (FbAHC) AP, they already know who the fucker is. Kayvon Edson. POS has the living Tsaernev picture as his FB background. He is prancing little attention whore bitch who I hope gets brought down hard as shit. Welcome to the real world that has consequences you fucker.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 07:14 PM (QeH9j)

403 Terrible. Not surprised they're considering calling it quits. I reckon they were never as good without Bon Scott and for me Mal was always the one that defined their sound. He's an awesome and often dreadfully overlooked guitarist. Mal was a pretty big influence on me guitar wise.

Posted by: otho at April 15, 2014 11:00 PM (Ci6bl)

Mal put up a big wall of sound. I was in an AC/DC tribute band for a few years in my early days, and even though his parts were brain dead easy to play they were just huge sounding. Frigging shame.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 15, 2014 07:15 PM (FMbng)

404 391 Guys. You've gotta see this. @BuzzFeedAndrew: Oh man, Mike Bloomberg http://t.co/LHDsugavoh pic.twitter.com/CtmvHUmED3 Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 11:11 PM (DmNpO) UhhhhhÂ…hey Bloomberg? You can't earn your way in. That's kinda of central to the idea, at least the Christian idea, of heaven. And crashing the pearly gates? Yeeeaaahhhh, lemme know how that works out.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 07:15 PM (GEICT)

405 NDH - linky no worky?

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at April 15, 2014 07:15 PM (ua1Yo)

406 You just know the kid spazzed out and the eggs went all over the floor.

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at April 15, 2014 07:16 PM (ua1Yo)

407 Actually, the reason the transponder is accessible inside the cockpit is because of hijackings. There is an international code that the pilots can change the "squawk" of the transponder to to indicate a hijacking. That way, even if they are unable to vocally transmit the situation to air traffic control, ATC will see the transponder code and know what's going on. Posted by: Country Singer at April 15, 2014 11:14 PM (sBXOp) Ok, I can buy switching squawks. But powering off completely? I'm suggesting new rule: no.

Posted by: J. Random Dude at April 15, 2014 07:16 PM (8OfdL)

408 Since I trust you morons so much, I'll ask a question - Do I really need to respond to this US Census? I found it in the mailbox yesterday, & I see the the front of the envelope states "your response is required by law." I want to respond with - well, you know. but what happens when I throw this thing in the burn barrel (like I have in years past)?

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 07:16 PM (qc1G2)

409 Are you required to answer correctly?

Posted by: Kindletot at April 15, 2014 07:17 PM (wuBW9)

410 And crashing the pearly gates? Yeeeaaahhhh, lemme know how that works out. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 11:15 PM (GEICT) ------------- A Camel through the eye of a needle comes to mind. I wish him well in the afterlife. He's gonna need it.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 15, 2014 07:18 PM (ojnk6)

411 410 Are you required to answer correctly? Posted by: Kindletot at April 15, 2014 11:17 PM (wuBW9) Providing false info on a govt document is typicallyÂ….frowned upon.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 07:19 PM (GEICT)

412 Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 11:16 PM (qc1G2) Unless you want 200 BLM agents surrounding you with sniper rifles and confiscating your cattle, I suggest you fill it out, comrade.

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at April 15, 2014 07:19 PM (ua1Yo)

413 At least Daily Mail knows who it is. US media is figuring out who on the right they can tie this too first. Guar-an-damn-teed he is a pole smoker so that might delay their reporting. Tell me he isn't... http://tinyurl.com/pzyarkn

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 07:19 PM (QeH9j)

414 401 .....and, sure enough, I posted @368 right after people reacted @361 and @363.....but have only now caught up to @368. Onward!
Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 11:14 PM (T1005) Hide posts from (T1005)

And I'm good on the concept for the inner fender liner replacement.....now to get parts.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 07:19 PM (T1005)

415 And remember the Boston Marathon this year did not want the military rucks to show up over security concerns.

But this sad sack drops a rice cooker off at the finish line?

Security? Good gosh...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 07:20 PM (FbAHC)

416 >>>They had been given a very formal, disciplined and respectful Russian Orthodox burial at sea. With the whole ship's company turned out in their best.>>> That is correct. Transocean leased it from the Navy for years but finally bought the ship in 2008. It was American flagged up until then. When we arrived at Sembawang Shipyard in Singapore the USN presence there met us in their Class A best.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at April 15, 2014 07:20 PM (Gth7i)

417 Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 11:14 PM (FbAHC) Go directly to Jeopardy! Do not pass GO. Do not wait for winning lottery tickets...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 07:21 PM (qoKTg)

418 Ok, I can buy switching squawks. But powering off completely? I'm suggesting new rule: no.

Posted by: J. Random Dude at April 15, 2014 11:16 PM (8OfdL)

We had a sawed-off, fire-breathing Electronics Tech on the ship I served on. Maddest I ever saw him was the night we recovered the helo and the pilot filed a maintenance form indicating a serious equipment malfunction that required he be awakened immediately to repair.

The trouble? "I.F.F. transponder not functioning in O.f.f. position."

Posted by: Country Singer at April 15, 2014 07:21 PM (sBXOp)

419 409 Since I trust you morons so much, I'll ask a question - Do I really need to respond to this US Census? I found it in the mailbox yesterday, & I see the the front of the envelope states "your response is required by law." I want to respond with - well, you know. but what happens when I throw this thing in the burn barrel (like I have in years past)? Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 11:16 PM (qc1G2) "The United States Census is a decennial census mandated by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution." But that's according to that old wrinkly document that we don't follow anymore.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 07:21 PM (QeH9j)

420 409 Since I trust you morons so much, I'll ask a question -
Do I really need to respond to this US Census?

I found it in the mailbox yesterday, & I see the the front of the envelope states "your response is required by law."

I want to respond with - well, you know.
but what happens when I throw this thing in the burn barrel (like I have in years past)? Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 11:16 PM (qc1G2) Hide posts from (qc1G2)

Did you have to sign for it?

I suspect a lot of those get lost in the mail.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 07:22 PM (T1005)

421 396 What the hell? Mass murder rocks western Canadian city of Calgary http://tinyurl.com/nqr9dfb Posted by: Thrawn at April 15, 2014 11:14 PM (WlWt+) --- Calgary is my hometown. My older son lives there now, but nowhere near that neighborhood. Brentwood is a solid, safe neighborhood, and this is a complete shock. This sort of thing just does not happen in Calgary. Until it does, I guess.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at April 15, 2014 07:22 PM (N/cFh)

422 Ok, I can buy switching squawks. But powering off completely? I'm suggesting new rule: no.>>

In the future maybe. But the past showed no reason to protect against or pay more for the protections you suggest. And would any extra efforts have saved any lives?

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 07:22 PM (TI3xG)

423 So the latest theory is that a giant squid grabbed MH 370, assisted by a sperm whale and a Cuvier's beaked whale.

"Ladies and Gentleman" (in most serious "Scienc-y" voice), "we have discovered irrefutable proof that whales and squids are indeed fully sentient!" quothe prominent ichthyologist Joe Some Guy" Johnson.

"When MH 370 was threatened with being jammed into that USAirways employee's cooter for a selfie, these three so-called 'wild animals' rose to the challenge and prevented such an ignoble end. The world may never be the same.

Questions?"

Posted by: Sharkman at April 15, 2014 07:23 PM (8+xjO)

424 I found it in the mailbox yesterday, & I see the the front of the envelope states "your response is required by law." Perhaps verify that this is true with some legal eagles first ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 07:23 PM (qoKTg)

425 While I rank Ghostbusters in my top 10 favorite movies of all time, I rank its sequel in the top 3 worst sequels. The best joke in that movie is "Hairless cats. Weird." Which tells you how bad the rest of it is.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 15, 2014 07:23 PM (AHzA7)

426 When we arrived at Sembawang Shipyard in Singapore the USN presence there met us in their Class A best.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at April 15, 2014 11:20 PM (Gth7i)

Sembawang, home of the worst-named Enlisted Club in the world: "The Terror Club."

Posted by: Country Singer at April 15, 2014 07:24 PM (sBXOp)

427 First rule of troubleshooting is to cycle power. See if that resets the system. If that does not work, well there might be something very wrong with equipment. Then you de-energize the system, declare emergency, and land at closet airport.

They lost an airliner in Europe because the after-market in flight entertainment system caught fire from overheat.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 07:25 PM (FbAHC)

428
I have no problem listing on a census the number of people residing at the address.

   This info is used to determine representation--how many senators and representatives for your state.

   Schools also utilize the numbers.

    Anything else is FYNQ.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 15, 2014 07:25 PM (SAMxH)

429 Kinda like that 57 cents a unit for the cars that killed those people? I'm hugely conservative, but if you can pay your CEO in the high 6-figures, then you can do what's right. Exactly. Well said, Peaches.

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 15, 2014 07:26 PM (HVI5a)

430 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 15, 2014 11:23 PM (AHzA7) An 80's kid and i don't remember ever even seeing it.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 07:26 PM (QeH9j)

431 So how long do folks here think it will be before the "black box" (or any other info) from the actual MH370 is found? Months? Years? Decades?

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 15, 2014 07:27 PM (HVI5a)

432 Seeing 40+ deg temp swings over past few days. Sure glad our government has got this global warming thing under control!

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 15, 2014 07:27 PM (o3MSL)

433 So, every citizen didn't get a census to fill out? What? You guys aren't all citizens? Wait - maybe I'm the one that isn't... No, cthulhu, just sitting in the mailbox with the rest of the junk mail. Although there was also a letter from that guy in VAB that I've been wating on a phone call from.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 07:28 PM (qc1G2)

434 I have no problem listing on a census the number of people residing at the address. This info is used to determine representation--how many senators and representatives for your state. Schools also utilize the numbers. Anything else is FYNQ. Posted by: irongrampa at April 15, 2014 11:25 PM (SAMxH) ------------ Yep, this. Got the long form, which included the Community Survey, in 2009. I answered the questions required by the Constitution, and blew off the rest, and sent it back. Never heard a peep after this.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 15, 2014 07:29 PM (ojnk6)

435 Shreddedchi, No leer en Ingles.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 07:29 PM (QeH9j)

436 Calgary is my hometown. My older son lives there now, but nowhere near that neighborhood. Brentwood is a solid, safe neighborhood, and this is a complete shock. This sort of thing just does not happen in Calgary. Until it does, I guess.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at April 15, 2014 11:22 PM (N/cFh)

I second that. I lived in several rental homes in that neighborhood, back in the '80s. Sure sounds like the perp is a mental case. Maybe on drugs?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2014 07:31 PM (N91pB)

437 I found it in the mailbox yesterday, I see the the front of the envelope states "your response is required by law." >>

They do not just give up if you don't respond. And I'm starting to think they pick you if you screw with them. I have gotten picked by the census 5 times in the last 30 years. Always half assed the answers or filled in (none of your business). They even sent a person to my house for the one in 1990. The last one I just filled out to not garner attention. (They have most of the info if they talk to my counties tax assessor)

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 07:31 PM (TI3xG)

438 The consensus on Twitter is that the new Fargo series "rocks it out of the park".

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 07:31 PM (DmNpO)

439 Posted by: irongrampa at April 15, 2014 11:25 PM (SAMxH) U.S. Census 2014 Please list all firearms that you currently own. Are you signed up for ACA? Do you support marriage equality?

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 07:31 PM (QeH9j)

440 279 Corporate tax rate in US is 40%. Highest in the world... The evil rich millionaires and billionaires are paying 39.6% federal tax in the top bracket... Just how much do the leftists want of a person's paycheck and wallet....( leftists everywhere screaming MOAR!!1!11!!).....and THERE is a good reason for NOT voting democrat... *or RINO* Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at April 15, 2014 10:38 PM (/T5EP) The left always uses the Fed tax rates and federal spending as the "we need to do moarrrr" BS. They never add in state and local taxes which most other countries don't have.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 15, 2014 07:32 PM (HxSXm)

441 Any of you MD Morons still around? What the heck is going on up there? Every single outbound flight from BWI, that I can see, is hours behind schedule. Is the weather nasty?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 07:34 PM (GEICT)

442 But if he senses that he may not have as much time left as he would like, he has little doubt about what would await him at a Judgment Day. Pointing to his work on gun safety, obesity and smoking cessation, he said with a grin: Â“I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven IÂ’m not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. ItÂ’s not even close.Â” Matthew 7: 22-23 "22Many will say to Me in that day, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' 23And then I will declare to them, "I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'"

Posted by: Weirddave at April 15, 2014 07:35 PM (2sspa)

443 I just got my second Jury notice the other day. Different county than the last time but man I wish I was as lucky at gambling.

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 07:36 PM (TI3xG)

444 Yep, this. Got the long form, which included the Community Survey, in 2009. I answered the questions required by the Constitution, and blew off the rest, and sent it back. Never heard a peep after this.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 15, 2014 11:29 PM (ojnk6)

Heh. Here in Canada, our Conservative government shit-canned the mandatory long-form census that had to be filled out by a small fraction of the population. The long form is still available, but one has to volunteer to do it. Should have heard the Opposition Liberals and NDP (socialists) twist themselves into pretzels alleging that this would somehow "harm the poor".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2014 07:36 PM (N91pB)

445 RWC, Yeah, I'm pretty sure i read it here this morning, but the census bureau is now using all info to benefit O & his ACA... I will not lie, but my business, on my personal property, does not need to be disclosed to the feds. Period. Short of writing "bite me" on the form before mailing it back, I'm still not sure what I'm going to do. Hell, i'll even pay for the stamp at that point.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 07:39 PM (qc1G2)

446 Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2014 11:36 PM (N91pB) That would indeed be a fun argument to slowly pick a part.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 15, 2014 07:40 PM (ojnk6)

447 Census stuffÂ…. http://tinyurl.com/oj2eevk

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 07:41 PM (GEICT)

448 I thought the next census wasn't until 2020....

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2014 07:42 PM (KCxzN)

449 I recall reading a great short story by a census worker sent in to the worst neighborhoods. He got so many doors slammed in his face that he just sat down at a coffee house and filled out the forms himself.

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at April 15, 2014 07:42 PM (ua1Yo)

450 Eggcellent ONT, Maet. I pored over that Carney agitprop photo when it was first published, wondering how much it cost to stage the kitchen food layout.

FWIW, check out Mr. 1%er's net worth from a 2012 FreeBeacon article:

JarrettÂ’s net worth is between $3.3 million and $13 million. Lu is worth between $2.3 million and $5.2 million. Plouffe is worth as much as $3.6 million, Carney as much as $3.2 million, and Pfeiffer as much as $2.1 million.

Net worth on financial disclosure forms is listed in broad ranges. Only Pfeiffer has a minimum net worth below $1 million.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 15, 2014 07:42 PM (wNF3N)

451 "Transocean leased it from the Navy for years but finally bought the ship in 2008. It was American flagged up until then. When we arrived at Sembawang Shipyard in Singapore the USN presence there met us in their Class A best."

Must have been an interesting job bringing everything up to date.

Also in re interesting jobs: I talked for a while with a guy whose profession is squiring people through the long rigamarole of getting security clearances.

(Which has become a HUGE industry now in the post-Sept-11 environment. There are entire job-search Web sites devoted only to jobs requiring clearances.)

He got into that line of work back in the day, before things got really crazy.

One of the things he mused about (not having handled it himself) was that assembling a crew, with top clearances, for the original _Glomar Explorer_ mission, must have been a cast iron bitch.

The offshore sector from which they were seeking experienced hands has more than its share of VERY colorful characters. Colorful in the sorts of ways that would make a straightlaced clearance examiner blush and mark them as wholly unsuitable. I heard the story of one rig roughneck who had eleven ex-wives.

I can only assume they must have issued a bunch of waivers. Or they looked for a long long time to find the people they needed.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 07:42 PM (noWW6)

452 try filling it out in crayon. Or give it to a five year old to fill out with a sharpie. No I probably won't either.

Posted by: Kindletot at April 15, 2014 07:43 PM (wuBW9)

453 377 Ford Bronco. One of the best vehicles I ever drove. Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 15, 2014 11:04 PM (HxSXm) finally, one that makes sense. those were teh bomb!!! Posted by: Peaches at April 15, 2014 11:08 PM (8lmkt) Company I worked for had one as a company car. Any time I could drive it I would. When the company was sold, I really wanted the old owners to give it to me as part of my bonus for staying on until closing. I lurved that thing, but at the time I had a Mitsubishi Montero that was the same body style as the original Bronco that was a freaking demon in the snow.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 15, 2014 07:43 PM (HxSXm)

454 I read that alcohol rape college story, and damn! I think I been raped. There's been a couple of times in my life where I've had a few too many pops and woke up with some strange on the twig and berries. Major regrets. At the time I didn't even THINK about throwing the evil take-advantager rapist in prison...guess I'll consider that next time. Oh, and Die Hard, DeLorean, the Police...80s frickin' rocked.

Posted by: buckdarmha at April 15, 2014 07:44 PM (2Z20a)

455 429
I have no problem listing on a census the number of people residing at the address.

This info is used to determine representation--how many senators and representatives for your state.

Schools also utilize the numbers.

Anything else is FYNQ.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 15, 2014 11:25 PM (SAMxH)

++++

Yup. I would say they are entitled to the following info:
1. Names
2. DOBs
3. Citizenship status
4. SS#s

That's it. Anything else, they can go pound sand.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 15, 2014 07:44 PM (IN7k+)

456 BCochran: Not a MD moron, but about 60 miles west of BWI in NW Virginia. Windy and lots of moisture, including some driving sleet and snow this evening.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 15, 2014 07:45 PM (l3vZN)

457 Is the weather nasty? Posted by:Â BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk ------ I think the east coast is screwed tonight. I'm a few hours south, but we went from almost 80Â° beautifyl summer weather today to about 40Â° right now withh bad rain & very big wind gusts

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 07:45 PM (qc1G2)

458 "I thought the next census wasn't until 2020...."

The "American Community Survey" stuff runs in the off years.

They are real bulldogs about getting responses. I've heard stories about people having to threaten to retain counsel and even that won't back them down.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 07:45 PM (noWW6)

459 I will not lie, but my business, on my personal property, does not need to be disclosed to the feds. Period. Short of writing "bite me" on the form before mailing it back, I'm still not sure what I'm going to do. Hell, i'll even pay for the stamp at that point. Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 11:39 PM (qc1G2) Share your sentiment of writing soemthing on it and sending it back but that just lets them know you received it. I'd just pitch it.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 07:46 PM (QeH9j)

460 I thought the next census wasn't until 2020....>>

I used to think the only sent out questionnaires every 10 years. But I know since I've got them the census is a constant. maybe limited/shorter from the ones at the decades but constant.

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 07:46 PM (TI3xG)

461 Qdpsteve, Three years is my guess for that flight. It just came to mr when I saw question. Some times I scare myself. My late mother hasn't been in this house for almost nine years & almost six of those nine were in a nursing home. It's only happened a half dozen times since June 2005 that I expect, or think to call or see her here & it's happened more than one time when I was sleeping, something bad has happened.

Posted by: Carol at April 15, 2014 07:47 PM (gjOCp)

462 Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 15, 2014 11:43 PM (HxSXm) Ford Bronco??? not fast enough...

Posted by: OJ Simpson at April 15, 2014 07:47 PM (84gbM)

463 More censusÂ….. Today, the controlling law for the U.S. Census is Title 13 of the U.S. Code That law requires that the census be conducted on or about April 1, 1980, and every ten years after that. The returns must be made available within nine months in order to apportion members of the House of Representatives to each of the states. In the intervening years the law requires the Census Bureau to gather statistics about the residents of the United States for use by Congress. The decennial census is provided for at 13 USC 141. The law states that the count done in 1980 and every ten years thereafter shall be an actual headcount. The count done in the intervening years need not be an actual headcount, but may use statistical sampling methods to get a reasonable approximations of a head count. There are fines for non-response and for false response as well, though the amount has risen from the 1790's $20. Today failure to respond can result in a $100 fine; providing false answers is a more severe offense, and carries a $500 fine. Recent news reports, however, indicate that punishment for failure to respond is not usually enforced. The controlling section of the Code is 13 USC 221.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 07:48 PM (GEICT)

464 The Onion ‏@TheOnion 2h FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States http://onion.com/1eGdn38

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 07:48 PM (DmNpO)

465 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 11:34 PM (GEICT) DC/VA moron. High winds with expected sleet. Dropped from 70+ to under 30 in less than 6 hours.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 07:48 PM (QeH9j)

466 I think the east coast is screwed tonight.
I'm a few hours south, but we went from almost 80Â° beautifyl summer weather today to about 40Â° right now withh bad rain & very big wind gusts

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 11:45 PM (qc1G2)

yeah south jersey had a mix of rain with a few random snow flakes mixed in with some good wind. I just drove in it, it blew big.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 15, 2014 07:49 PM (FMbng)

467 In the future maybe. But the past showed no reason to protect against or pay more for the protections you suggest. And would any extra efforts have saved any lives? Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 11:22 PM (TI3xG) Just to clarify, I'm not saying that All Planes Must Be Grounded Until This Outrage Is Corrected, not that I really think you think that I think...wait. Anyway, yeah I'm suggesting new construction and intensive rebuilds an external power switch does the actual switching off and on of the transponders. As to saving lives, probably not. But it'd narrow the search from 'significant portions of the Pacific and Indian Oceans and the islands and archipelago's between the two' to...well, whatever degree of accuracy the transponders provide. Which has to save some money, no? Not to mention bringing some closure and peace to the families of the missing. The down side, of course, is it would deny CNN hours and hours of filler material and keep jag-offs like me from speculating wildly on the internet.

Posted by: J. Random Dude at April 15, 2014 07:49 PM (8OfdL)

468 Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 15, 2014 11:44 PM (IN7k+) And only every 10 years... The Right to Free Speech also entails the RIGHT to NOT speak... or its not a Right at all.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2014 07:49 PM (84gbM)

469 1. Names 2. DOBs 3. Citizenship status 4. SS#s That's it. Anything else, they can go pound sand. Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 15, 2014 11:44 PM (IN7k+) hey can you post those, we need them real bad

Posted by: The UUSA Census at April 15, 2014 07:50 PM (a5BB8)

470 http://youtu.be/7mwpWhSbdho

Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 15, 2014 07:51 PM (0AKks)

471 In Article 1, Section 2, the Constitution includes the phrase: [An] Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. So yeah, if Congress so directs, those questions are legal. And you're legally bound to answer them truthfully. Whether you actually do soÂ….weeeellllÂ…that's a question each of us will have to deal with.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 07:51 PM (GEICT)

472 "I have no problem listing on a census the number of people residing at the address. This info is used to determine representation--how many senators and representatives for your state. Schools also utilize the numbers. Anything else is FYNQ."

The Census say cheerily that their super-detailed inquiries are "important as the Federal Government allocates funding for schools, hospitals and highways where you live!"

Or words to that effect.

My words in response are about how I've looked and looked to see where schools, hospitals and highways are enumerated Constitutional responsibilities of the federal government, and I'm not finding those things anywhere in my tattered old copy.

Tenth Amendment, motherfuckers, do you speak it?

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 07:52 PM (noWW6)

473 438 I found it in the mailbox yesterday, I see the the front of the envelope states "your response is required by law." >> They do not just give up if you don't respond. And I'm starting to think they pick you if you screw with them. I have gotten picked by the census 5 times in the last 30 years. Always half assed the answers or filled in (none of your business). They even sent a person to my house for the one in 1990. The last one I just filled out to not garner attention. (They have most of the info if they talk to my counties tax assessor) Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 11:31 PM (TI3xG) We got the long form a couple of years ago, filled it out and sent it back. Got a phone call from them saying we hadn't sent it back, politely told them we had, so they sent another one. We filled that out too and sent back. Several weeks later they called back saying they hadn't received it, could we do it over the phone, it would only take a few minutes. I said no. They called 3 times a day for 2 weeks before my wife answered it, the questionnaire took 30 minutes.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 15, 2014 07:53 PM (HxSXm)

474 OK, Horde, I'm out Got an interview at 0930 tomorrow morning tomorrow night, mi amigos

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2014 07:53 PM (KCxzN)

475 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 11:48 PM (GEICT) Regarding Census law and penalty...all depends on the enforcers and where you stand. The criminal penalty for fraudulently voting when not legally qualified or for voting more than once when qualified is a fine of $300 to $500, one to two years in prison, and disenfranchisement. Anyone who votes or attempts to vote by assuming the name of another is subject to a fine of $500, one year in prison, and disenfranchisement (CGS Â§ 9-360).

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 07:53 PM (QeH9j)

476 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 11:51 PM (GEICT) That says every 10 years.... this is 2014, which is NOT a Census year.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2014 07:53 PM (84gbM)

477 BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 11:51 PM (GEICT) -------------- I'm still going to stay with the Constitutional interpretation rather than the lawfared one. Unfashionable these days, I know, but F them.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 15, 2014 07:54 PM (ojnk6)

478 Good luck AJ.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 07:54 PM (QeH9j)

479 hi all
wow, that's a long way down

Posted by: chemjeff at April 15, 2014 07:55 PM (9GG/0)

480 Got an interview at 0930 tomorrow morning *** Best of luck AJ. I pray it goes splendidly.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 07:56 PM (DmNpO)

481 Just in case anyone didn't point this out - not a show house/set in the Carney photoshoot. The very beginning of the "article" in the Washingtonian claims it was shot on location in their house. Which makes the photoshop work (incredibly sloppy photoshop work in the case of the "podium" photo) really hilarious and confusing.

Posted by: Patrick at April 15, 2014 07:56 PM (SZYMl)

482 That says every 10 years.... this is 2014, which is NOT a Census year. Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2014 11:53 PM (84gbM) Title 13 of the US Code covers the census as a whole, including takings during years that don't end in zero.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 07:57 PM (GEICT)

483 Snow flurries this afternoon. 32 deg. now. 25 expected tonight. Hardest hit - Azaleas..., oh, and global Warmongers

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 15, 2014 07:58 PM (aDwsi)

484 good luck AltonJackson

Posted by: chemjeff at April 15, 2014 07:58 PM (9GG/0)

485 hi all wow, that's a long way down *** Pshaw! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepsea_Challenger

Posted by: James Cameron at April 15, 2014 07:58 PM (DmNpO)

486 Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 11:53 PM (QeH9j) Good thing the Constitution is a living document easily altered with a pen or a phone, just like Jefferson envisioned it to be!

Posted by: Eric Red Holder at April 15, 2014 07:58 PM (o3MSL)

487 Good Luck,Alton. Does he still need a place to stay instead of a sad Motel 6? BC1981, if he is in Massachusetts area, I can let him stay here & if he's in Yahoo group email address please give him mine. I think he's from a southern state, not that anything is worth coming to MA, but he could come here, but I expect he wants to be near family.

Posted by: Carol at April 15, 2014 07:59 PM (gjOCp)

488 So for census info gathering on how many bathrooms you have, we obey the law to the letter...for the 2nd Amendment...meh, open to interpretation.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 15, 2014 07:59 PM (0LHZx)

489 The criminal penalty for fraudulently voting when not legally qualified or for voting more than once when qualified is a fine of $300 to $500, one to two years in prison, and disenfranchisement. Anyone who votes or attempts to vote by assuming the name of another is subject to a fine of $500, one year in prison, and disenfranchisement (CGS Â§ 9-360). Posted by: RWC ---------------------------- Assuming that the law is enforced. Bwahahahaha...

Posted by: Eric 'The Red' Holder at April 15, 2014 07:59 PM (aDwsi)

490 "[An] Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct."

There's what ought to be a fairly obvious question there about just what is meant by an "enumeration", and just how broadly the Congressional prerogative to direct that "by law" can be drawn.

I tend to view any such enumeration as a pretty strictly defined headcount of citizens, intended to determine federal representation, and not more than that.

Of course, in the age of "emanations and penumbras", and the infinitely elastic Commerce Clause, and the fabled "Good and Welfare" clause which Rep. Conyers likes to cite, sheesh, we should be glad it's just nosey questions.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 08:00 PM (noWW6)

491 Looking at all the breads the Carney-Shipmans are eating, it looks like their doctor is gonna get rich by chopping off all those diabeetus feets.

Posted by: Dr. Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 15, 2014 08:00 PM (HxSXm)

492 BC1981, if he is in Massachusetts area, I can let him stay here & if he's in Yahoo group email address please give him mine. I think he's from a southern state, not that anything is worth coming to MA, but he could come here, but I expect he wants to be near family. Posted by: Carol at April 15, 2014 11:59 PM (gjOCp) huh? What did I miss?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 08:00 PM (GEICT)

493 I always just ignore those stupid surveys.
and besides it's all a matter of public record anyway. just go look up the title deed at the courthouse and voila, you can find how many bathrooms are in all of the properties

Posted by: chemjeff at April 15, 2014 08:01 PM (9GG/0)

494 I think you might be surprised. Even the very first census involved a lot of argument about what would and should be asked. For example, on February 2, 1790, Samuel Livermore of New Hampshire lamented that the proposed question about profession would be hard for his constituents to answer, since some had three or four professions, depending on the season. Connecticut Representative Theodore Sedgwick, on the same day, wondered why the questions were not extended further Â— "The state of society could be ascertained, perhaps, in some degree, by observing [the] proportions." http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_cens.html

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 08:02 PM (GEICT)

495 I got the long form in 2000. Threw it in the garbage. Got it again a couple of weeks later. Threw it in the garbage. Rinse repeat 3 or 4 more times. I lived in a blue state at the time.Then I moved and never heard from the census again. In 2010, I didn't get anything long form or short form. I lived in a red state at the time. So blue state, they hound the fuck out of me. Red state, they don't so much as even acknowledge my existence. But the civil service is totes non-partisan and shit.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 15, 2014 08:03 PM (0LHZx)

496 Posted by: Eric 'The Red' Holder at April 15, 2014 11:59 PM (aDwsi) Depends on your tribe.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 08:03 PM (QeH9j)

497 Connecticut Representative Theodore Sedgwick, on the same day, wondered why the questions were not extended further Â— "The state of society could be ascertained, perhaps, in some degree, by observing [the] proportions."

so Connecticut has *always* had a bunch of progtards.
figures

Posted by: chemjeff at April 15, 2014 08:04 PM (9GG/0)

498 Good fucking grief. curiosity got the better of me, so I opened the envelope. You would not believe some of these questions! Well, I guess you guys would . Hell, it seems like this crowd made up half of them - Maybe I'll take it with me on that boating trip I plan to take tomorrow.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 08:04 PM (qc1G2)

499 Come on chi, share!

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 08:04 PM (GEICT)

500 "Well, it's not over. We can't have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it's not over," Reid said. These people. Always projecting! Listen to them. Watch for it. It's incredible. ALWAYS PROJECTING. They're telling you exactly what they're doing all the time. I wonder whether it's conscious. But I don't really care. I just want them to be out of power. _____ Good evening, folks. Just barging through on my way to the buffet. Once I hit that, I'll check what's in the ONT below the fold, read some comments, pass out in the corner, and wonder how I got there. I've got it all planned.

Posted by: mindful webworker with Freud beard and monacle at April 15, 2014 08:06 PM (U13jb)

501 If I ever get the long form again I'll just make everything up. Race: mixed Asian, Black and Native American Occupation: Professional rapper Number of bathrooms: 7 Number of cars owned: I own a bike If everyone just fucked with the census, they'd stop asking.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 15, 2014 08:06 PM (0LHZx)

502 494 I always just ignore those stupid surveys. and besides it's all a matter of public record anyway. just go look up the title deed at the courthouse and voila, you can find how many bathrooms are in all of the properties Posted by: chemjeff at April 16, 2014 12:01 AM (9GG/0) Fuck "em. They don't know about my Gatorade bottle urinals or 5 gallon shitcans! So after the NoVaMoMe everyone is invited over!

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 08:06 PM (QeH9j)

503 Title 13 of the US Code covers the census as a whole, including takings during years that don't end in zero. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 11:57 PM (GEICT) Which makes it non enumerated as far as the Constitution goes.... and as there is a Right to privacy, and Free Speech (which must include the right not to speak).... then that law should not supersede your Constitutional Rights... But that's that pesky Constitutional argument about limited Government and Freedom....

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2014 08:06 PM (84gbM)

504

A little aviation sanity, I'll hope?

In most modern airliner cockpits, the layouts will be more similar than not.

The transponder "head unit" will be centrally located, either on the lower-center panel in front of the pilots, or in the center console, near the autopilot controls.

In that location, the crew can dial in various transponder codes, including those for hijack or other forms of distress. At this "head unit" location, the transponder does not feature a boldly marked "off" switch.

However, in that each and every electrical system on the aircraft must be able to be shut off and isolated in the case of electrical fault or fire, every said system has an electrical circuit breaker, and that panel is most often on the forward facing bulkhead, directly behind the pilot's seat.

Most often, it will be the 1st Officer's job (co-pilot), to "pull" a given breaker, as needs arise.

If there were any fire of an undeterminate nature aboard the aircraft, the breakers would be all be pulled, save for those absolutely necessary for the continued operation of the plane. This would include the breaker which powers the transponder.

In any airborne emergency, the priorities are to 1. Aviate. 2. Navigate. 3. Communicate.

And if a smoky fire occurred on board, the pilots would have their hands full with #s 1 and #2. Might not have had time for #3, before their smoke-hoods ran out of time.

Oxygen masks, you ask? They don't wear those in case of cockpit fires. Unless they want their face burned off at more than 2,000 degrees F.

Frankly, I think the end of 370 would have been horrible beyond reckoning..... if anyone had remained conscious through the last few hours of the flight.

I tend to think that it was lights out after the first ten to fifteen minutes, and it was all autopilot till fuel exhaustion thereafter.

And yes, the Glomar Explorer used to be a noticeable artifact in both Long Beach and San Diego. Growing up in a nuke-sub family..... we tended to appreciate such things long before even Hearst News knew they existed.

Those memories fill me with warmth, and with pride.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn

Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 15, 2014 08:07 PM (vvk2F)

505 Question 1. Did you vote for Obama?
___ Yes
___ No

If your answer to Question 1 is No, then proceed to Question 2.

Question 2. Have you ever been audited by the IRS?
___ Yes
___ No

Posted by: US Census Bureau at April 15, 2014 08:07 PM (9GG/0)

506 If everyone just fucked with the census, they'd stop asking. Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 16, 2014 12:06 AM (0LHZx) Sure, that's exactly what happens when you ignore the law.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 08:07 PM (GEICT)

507 Mike Hammer, It was beautiful in 70s & sunny Monday in MA until strong winds moved in around lunch time 45-50 MPH. I couldn't stand thought of driving into Boston today for multiple memorial services so I stayed home today instead of Wednesday. My boss said cars were on Boylston Street before ten & he had no problem. He gets there earlier than I do & leaves around 5:30. I like going in late & staying late, I miss all the traffic, . My younger brother Paul is back in the hospital, this time w/ double pneumonia. He told me tonight he's finally signed DNR.

Posted by: Carol at April 15, 2014 08:08 PM (gjOCp)

508 I notice that the Carneys have the ideal American family- a single boy that is 2 years older than the single girl. The biological chances of this happening are about 25% assuming that pregnancy is acheived upon demand. This also does not take into account that 55% of conceptions are boys. But good for them. Chief justice Roberts had to do it the hard (and expensive) way.

Posted by: bergerbilder at April 15, 2014 08:08 PM (8MjqI)

509
   Shit. Just threw Spastic Lab out and noticed the 3" of warmening cluttering up the yard.

   Coming down gangbusters, big old wet flakes. And I just took the snows off the Camry.

    Weather people said rain earlier.

         Fuckers.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 15, 2014 08:08 PM (SAMxH)

510 506 Question 1. Did you vote for Obama? ___ Yes ___ No If your answer to Question 1 is No, then proceed to Question 2. Question 2. Have you ever been audited by the IRS? ___ Yes ___ No Posted by: US Census Bureau at April 16, 2014 12:07 AM (9GG/0) If you answered 'No' to question 1 please proceed to question 3.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 08:08 PM (QeH9j)

511 You do know that the kid flipping the fake egg will someday direct your kids about what is right and wrong? You do know that this whole story is just another way to make normal people the others. Right? Did you know Chelsea is on the cover of a magazine this month? Expect more.

Posted by: Ag80 at April 15, 2014 08:09 PM (CGITp)

512 500 It's kinda personal, so let me just say that Alton's living situation changed suddenly, as has his probable future marital status. All of this was posted here.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 15, 2014 08:10 PM (ojnk6)

513 well it's not like the Census Bureau is going to send out the Gestapo to arrest ppl who don't answer their stupid surveys.

last Census, I got the short form, and under "race" I put "American". nobody showed up at my door.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 15, 2014 08:10 PM (9GG/0)

514 Sure, that's exactly what happens when you ignore the law. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 16, 2014 12:07 AM (GEICT) ____________ I didn't say ignore it. Prove that my occupation ISN'T rapper. 7 bathrooms...well if you include the 3 places where I've taken a pee in my backyard, I have 7 bathrooms. I do own a bike. And if you go back enouogh, I'm sure there's some Asian, some black and some Native bloodline.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 15, 2014 08:10 PM (0LHZx)

515 Which makes it non enumerated as far as the Constitution goes.... and as there is a Right to privacy, and Free Speech (which must include the right not to speak).... then that law should not supersede your Constitutional Rights... But that's that pesky Constitutional argument about limited Government and FreedomÂ…. Posted by: Romeo13 at April 16, 2014 12:06 AM (84gbM) Article 1 Section 2 directs that the census be conducted "in such Manner as they shall by Law direct." That would be Title 13 of the US Code.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 08:10 PM (GEICT)

516 Carol, I am so sorry

Posted by: chemjeff at April 15, 2014 08:11 PM (9GG/0)

517 The criminal penalty for fraudulently voting when not legally qualified or for voting more than once when qualified is a fine of $300 to $500, Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 11:53 PM (QeH9j)
If you vote Democratic you get a check instead of a fine.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 15, 2014 08:12 PM (AaZet)

518 509 I notice that the Carneys have the ideal American family- a single boy that is 2 years older than the single girl. The biological chances of this happening are about 25% assuming that pregnancy is acheived upon demand. This also does not take into account that 55% of conceptions are boys. But good for them. Chief justice Roberts had to do it the hard (and expensive) way. Posted by: bergerbilder at April 16, 2014 12:08 AM (8MjqI) _________ I'll bet heavy money that a) he's fucking an intern b) she's fucking her producer c) the boy is just about to come out of the closey d) the girl will have an abortion at 16

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 15, 2014 08:12 PM (0LHZx)

519 449 I thought the next census wasn't until 2020.... Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2014 11:42 PM (KCxzN) Hide posts from (KCxzN)

That's the next legal one. Anything prior to that merely benefits OFA.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 08:12 PM (T1005)

520 My younger brother Paul is back in the hospital, this time w/ double pneumonia. He told me tonight he's finally signed DNR. *** Oh, Carol! I'm so sorry.

Posted by: James Cameron at April 15, 2014 08:13 PM (DmNpO)

521 Article 1 Section 2 directs that the census be conducted "in such Manner as they shall by Law direct." That would be Title 13 of the US Code. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 16, 2014 12:10 AM (GEICT) But only every 10 years....

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2014 08:13 PM (84gbM)

522 off sock

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 08:14 PM (DmNpO)

523 off sock

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 15, 2014 08:14 PM (DmNpO)

524 Damned sad news about Malcolm Young.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at April 15, 2014 08:14 PM (m0h0I)

525 Man With No Party, Alton's situation is same as last time I read it, meaning that there has been no improvement . I saw comments from you telling him that you could help. I hope he took your help.

Posted by: Carol at April 15, 2014 08:14 PM (gjOCp)

526 Verbatim: "How many minutes did it usually take this person to get from home to work last week?" "Because of physical, mental, or emotion condition, does this person have serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions? " "Does this person have difficulty dressing or bathing? "

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 08:17 PM (qc1G2)

527 My younger brother Paul is back in the hospital, this time w/ double pneumonia. He told me tonight he's finally signed DNR. Posted by: Carol at April 16, 2014 12:08 AM (gjOCp) Sorry Carol. Still praying.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 08:17 PM (QeH9j)

528 526 No word back from him Carol. Wish I had. I've been knnhis his shoes, not a great place to be. Came out the other side, doing better than ever. He can do this too. Hope to hear from him.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 15, 2014 08:17 PM (ojnk6)

529
And if you go back enouogh, I'm sure there's some Asian, some black and some Native bloodline.
Aren't we all "out of Africa?"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 15, 2014 08:18 PM (AaZet)

530 Carol - That grieves me beyond my ability to express myself. My prayers are with you, as they have been.

Posted by: Eric 'The Red' Holder at April 15, 2014 08:18 PM (aDwsi)

531 Though Fargo wasn't bad, Martin Freeman's attempt at a Minnesota accent kept drawing me out

Posted by: The Dude at April 15, 2014 08:18 PM (bStrg)

532 Damned sad news about Malcolm Young.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at April 15, 2014 08:19 PM (m0h0I)

533 527 - WTF? WTFcktyF?

Posted by: Eric 'The Red' Holder at April 15, 2014 08:19 PM (aDwsi)

534 But only every 10 years.... Posted by: Romeo13 at April 16, 2014 12:13 AM) That would depend on your reading of the controlling Constitutional authority. ::::[An] Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.:::: It's that middle portion that's problematic. "and within every subsequent term of ten years"Â….which is set off by commas. I cannot for the life of me remember the technical name for such a piece of sentence. I read it as saying there must be a census within every ten year period and it shall be done in the manner directed by law. It doesn't say that it must be the only one, it simply says one must be done. And it gives authority on how it's to be done.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 08:19 PM (GEICT)

535 Carol - That grieves me beyond my ability to express myself. My prayers are with you, as they have been. Posted by: Eric 'The Red' Holder -------------- Carol - Ugh. Sock fail.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 15, 2014 08:20 PM (aDwsi)

536 Time for the old folk. Gonna make a snowman tomorrow and he'll be holding a sign reading "Thanks, Al."

Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 15, 2014 08:20 PM (SAMxH)

537 Posted by: shredded chi at April 16, 2014 12:17 AM (qc1G2) Please oh please don't tell me those were census questions? Or did I lose track of the conversation?

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 08:21 PM (QeH9j)

538 'Night IG

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 15, 2014 08:21 PM (aDwsi)

539 "Coming down gangbusters, big old wet flakes. And I just took the snows off the Camry."

Post hoc, ergo prompter hoc.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 08:21 PM (noWW6)

540 Anybody else just get bounced out to the main page?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 15, 2014 08:22 PM (ojnk6)

541 Alright, laptop battery is dying, I should have been in bed well over an hour ago. See you folks tomorrow.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 15, 2014 08:22 PM (GEICT)

542 541 Anybody else just get bounced out to the main page? Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 16, 2014 12:22 AM (ojnk6) minx alpho .006 !!!

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 08:23 PM (QeH9j)

543 Hmm. Is it just me, or are the comments acting all crazy-like?

shredded chi -- I saw your comment the other night, but not until the next morning, and I didn't have any time to think about it. I'll have to give some thought to other guitarists you might like -- just unsure if you're talking about blues-rock stuff, or a variety of styles.

I'll have to give it some thought. I just didn't want you to think I'd missed your comment, or that I'd forgotten it.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at April 15, 2014 08:24 PM (m0h0I)

544 Post hauk, ergo prompter hauk. Don't mind me, just a bit of phlegm.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 15, 2014 08:24 PM (aDwsi)

545 Night IG. Shredded Chi, are you f'ing with us? Scan that document and save it.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 08:25 PM (QeH9j)

546 G'nite BC

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 15, 2014 08:25 PM (aDwsi)

547 Jimmy Kimmel just had a sign language interpreter Rap Battle. And they were not nearly as repetitive as the rapper. Maybe they all are fakes like the Guy at Mandela's funeral.

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 08:25 PM (TI3xG)

548 Carol, I'm very sorry to hear that about your brother. I wish there were something more I could say.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at April 15, 2014 08:26 PM (m0h0I)

549 The US .gov gave up all 'net rights to Pixy. Let's see what happens.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 08:26 PM (QeH9j)

550 Bedtime. Night all. Again Carol..., thoughts and prayers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 15, 2014 08:26 PM (aDwsi)

551 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 16, 2014 12:19 AM (GEICT) You can always pick out little bits of the Constitution to give the feds more power than they should have... Its pretty clear the Founders wanted a count of everyone, every 10 years, so they could apportion the House seats... and that Congress could then pass law so that could be done. The intent was to get a count every 10 years... not to create an invasion of the Peoples Privacy... or force them to speak when they did not wish to. Yet the result of the Over Lawyerization of the Law... the overcomplication of a simple idea... is then used by the Fed Gov to give itself power, the Founders didn't really intent... But then again.... Rights are soon going to be Collective vice personal anyway (once Obama gets one more idiot on the Supremes...).

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2014 08:27 PM (84gbM)

552 good night all
Carol we'll all be thinking about you and wishing you the best

Posted by: chemjeff at April 15, 2014 08:28 PM (9GG/0)

553 RWC, Yep, just opened the 28 page booklet and picked three questions at random. Scouts honor, those were the first three I read. Carol, I'm setting the phone down in fifteen seconds to pray for you and Paul. You have my email addy, & I'm happy to provide phone # - please don't hesitate to contact me if there is anything I can do for you - even if it is only to listen. God Bless.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 08:31 PM (qc1G2)

554
minx alpho .006 !!!
Post proctologist tractor hock

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 15, 2014 08:31 PM (AaZet)

555 Carol - May your brother be blessed with strength and healing ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 08:31 PM (qoKTg)

556 Alton - Wishing you best of luck ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 08:32 PM (qoKTg)

557 Posted by: shredded chi at April 16, 2014 12:31 AM (qc1G2) Just WOW. Those questions deserve a response but anything I could think of would get you in trouble.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 08:34 PM (QeH9j)

558 Any Doctors or Nurses around?

Posted by: Zakn at April 15, 2014 08:34 PM (zyaZ1)

559 552 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 16, 2014 12:19 AM (GEICT)

You can always pick out little bits of the Constitution to give the feds more power than they should have...

Its pretty clear the Founders wanted a count of everyone, every 10 years, so they could apportion the House seats... and that Congress could then pass law so that could be done.

The intent was to get a count every 10 years... not to create an invasion of the Peoples Privacy... or force them to speak when they did not wish to.

Yet the result of the Over Lawyerization of the Law... the overcomplication of a simple idea... is then used by the Fed Gov to give itself power, the Founders didn't really intent...

But then again.... Rights are soon going to be Collective vice personal anyway (once Obama gets one more idiot on the Supremes...). Posted by: Romeo13 at April 16, 2014 12:27 AM (84gbM) Hide posts from (84gbM)

Just keep sayin' you're takin' the Fifth. They're only asking the questions to find out if they can pass an unconstitutional law to make your lifestyle illegal without too much pushback, at which point they'll have you on record as being a violator -- so you're saving everyone time and energy by taking the Fifth now.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 08:34 PM (T1005)

560 559 Any Doctors or Nurses around? Posted by: Zakn at April 16, 2014 12:34 AM (zyaZ1) Well that's something you don't want to hear. Everything ok?

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 08:36 PM (QeH9j)

561 Zakn -- begin with assessing whether you need to be calling 911 right now instead of asking questions on a blog.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 08:38 PM (T1005)

562 Thank you, my friends. Although I think Eric "the Red" Holder is a sock. Truthfully I would have signed a DNR last year. I have Health Care Proxy for almost two years, I need to sign in front of witnesses. I'm going to get it & bring to work with me tomorrow. I just put in a bag to bring to work. When my mother was hospitalized in April 2006 the on call doctor called to ask me what to do if such a situation arose. I asked him to tell me truth. He told me with Alzheimer's, diabetes & age 79 it would be worse & I would probably end up with woman that didn't know anything. I told him I would sung DNR, & over years at nursing home I'd be asked to decide if I wanted my mother to have feeding tube & answer was NO, others followed & answers were always No! My mother saw Terry Schiavo disaster & she was experiencing acceleration of Alzheimer's at the time. She asked me to put her to sleep if she became like that, I told her to take some green pills from my purse. She was Old school Catholic & wouldn't take them. I'm sorry, I'm felling very sad tonight.

Posted by: Carol at April 15, 2014 08:39 PM (gjOCp)

563 I have a dull ache. Nothing I'd call sharp at all in my lower right abdomen. It hurts more under pressure. Feels more like a pulled muscle outside of the pressure thing. And that feels like pushing down on a bruise.

Posted by: Zakn at April 15, 2014 08:39 PM (zyaZ1)

564 Oh god It's not 911 level people chillax

Posted by: Zakn at April 15, 2014 08:39 PM (zyaZ1)

565 Oh god It's not 911 level people chillax I was afraid for a moment you'd decided to take up chainsaw juggling and didn't have the timing quite down just yet.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 15, 2014 08:41 PM (0AKks)

566 DDR, no need to flatter me - I know I'm forgettable. FWIW, I listened to most of the SRV boxed set today. On eleven. Three discs, most of it live, me singing like a drunk at karaoke night (I actually sound pretty fucking good, btw)... awesome! My neighbors loved it.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 08:41 PM (qc1G2)

567 I am not running a temperature and I am not vomiting or nauseous

Posted by: Zakn at April 15, 2014 08:41 PM (zyaZ1)

568 Just a few more observations on the Carneys' breakfast picture: No watermelons? That's racisss! Also, no chitlins ' n grits, or collards. That's parochialist! I see the pineapple. Do I win the Psych Pineapple Sweepsstakes? Also keeping with the Psych theme - blueberries! Rubber egg, $4.95, Spencer's, multiple nationwide locations (look next to the rubber dog vomit.) Pardonez moi, there is a watermelon. Well hidden behind the French provencal melons. And those three minute eggs and sliced grapefruit probably won't keep until tomorrow - leave them for the help.

Posted by: bergerbilder at April 15, 2014 08:42 PM (8MjqI)

569 Just keep sayin' you're takin' the Fifth.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 16, 2014 12:34 AM (T1005)
That's just a collective right. You don't get it until you become a member of the collective.

Posted by: Stephen Breyer at April 15, 2014 08:42 PM (AaZet)

570 My mother saw Terry Schiavo disaster & she was experiencing acceleration of Alzheimer's at the time. She asked me to put her to sleep if she became like that, I told her to take some green pills from my purse. She was Old school Catholic & wouldn't take them. I'm sorry, I'm felling very sad tonight. Posted by: Carol at April 16, 2014 12:39 AM (gjOCp) Terribly sorry to hear it, Carol. Please do your best to be well. Thoughts and prayers headed your family's way.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 15, 2014 08:43 PM (ojnk6)

571 Thank you, my faceless friend, Man With No Party. Carol

Posted by: Carol at April 15, 2014 08:45 PM (gjOCp)

572 Imagine if Carney and Shipman had Nazi Wehrmacht propaganda posters instead of Red Army posters. Historically, the Red Army is responsible for an order of magnitude more deaths and just as much if not more brutality than the Wehrmacht. Really it's a difference of taste and scale, not kind.

Posted by: Speller at April 15, 2014 08:48 PM (J74Py)

573 The US .gov gave up all 'net rights to Pixy. Let's see what happens. Posted by: RWC at April 16, 2014 12:26 AM (QeH9j) I, for one, welcome our hamster overlordsÂ…

Posted by: Kent Brockman at April 15, 2014 08:50 PM (AymDN)

574 Oh, and no latex-bottom bunny slippers. This is a slippage hazzard, an OSHA violation.

Posted by: bergerbilder at April 15, 2014 08:51 PM (8MjqI)

575 572 You're welcome Carol. Please do your best to be well during this challenging time.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 15, 2014 08:51 PM (ojnk6)

576 If Bloomberg really wanted to reduce gun violence, he'd use that $50 million to create a charity that gave guns and ammo to deserving citizens.

You cannot totally eliminate gun violence but you can reduce it a lot if someone considering the misuse of a weapon knows they'll meet heavy opposition.

Posted by: Epobirs at April 15, 2014 08:52 PM (bPxS6)

577 564 I have a dull ache. Nothing I'd call sharp at all in my lower right abdomen.

It hurts more under pressure. Feels more like a pulled muscle outside of the pressure thing. And that feels like pushing down on a bruise. Posted by: Zakn at April 16, 2014 12:39 AM (zyaZ1) Hide posts from (zyaZ1)

Lower-right abdomen? I'd be worrying about http://tinyurl.com/ydto6ka -- which, BTW, is quite the chameleon. It can be not-a-huge deal for a while, and then can become an ambulance ride to the ER issue if it bursts.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 08:54 PM (T1005)

578 Wow, that graphic tells quite a story. Considering how deep that is ... is that black box even going to work? .... and apparently it will. Wiki says they operate down to 20k feet.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 15, 2014 08:58 PM (M9BzG)

579 Those pics in the sibebar of the girl with the eagle... stunning photos, awesome

Posted by: The Jackhole at April 15, 2014 08:59 PM (uOV6o)

580 "very sad tonight."

You are in the thoughts and prayers of many, Carol.

Per your brother's situation, I also have had a family member put in a DNR. I said, "What, don't you trust me to look after your stated wishes?"

The response was that of course they trusted me, but they wanted to spare me what they knew might be years of painful second-guessing afterward.

Insofar as there might have to be a subjective judgement-call decision made, they wanted it to be relegated to medical professionals. Ones who regularly make such calls and are distant enough from the individuals in question not to be haunted about the thought of erring.

Your brother may have been thinking along the same lines. Trying to take some of his heavy burden off of your shoulders.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 08:59 PM (noWW6)

581 There was a photographer in the late 70s-early 80s, IIRC, that made his living taking advertising photos that were modeled on the style of Norman Rockwell pictures. Intricately detailed with exaggerated poses, letting you know that whatever new-fangled stuff they were advertising was really homey and comforting like an old Saturday Evening Post cover. That photo on top reminds me of his work, if it was filtered through a IKEA lens.

Posted by: Sister Sestina at April 15, 2014 08:59 PM (LtUE0)

582 I, for one, welcome our hamster overlordsÂ… Posted by: Kent Brockman at April 16, 2014 12:50 AM (AymDN) 'Cause you know what treats to give 'em! Night all. Sleeting and freezing outside. We need to start feeding some Beefaroni to some cows so we can get some of that Global Warming i've been hearing so much about.

Posted by: RWC at April 15, 2014 09:00 PM (QeH9j)

583 Historically, the Red Army is responsible for an order of magnitude more deaths
Posted by: Speller at April 16, 2014 12:48 AM (J74Py)
They were historically acceptable deaths.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 15, 2014 09:00 PM (AaZet)

584 woohoo!!!! home just in time for ink master!! tonight is the kyle fight.....bounce that loser but keep Lydia..she kinda looks like T

Posted by: navycopjoe at April 15, 2014 09:01 PM (krmE0)

585 Ford puts another Mustang atop the Empire State building.

http://tinyurl.com/mnwa23w

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 09:05 PM (FbAHC)

586 Per your brother's situation, I also have had a family member put in a DNR. I said, "What, don't you trust me to look after your stated wishes?" The response was that of course they trusted me, but they wanted to spare me what they knew might be years of painful second-guessing afterward. Your brother may have been thinking along the same lines. Trying to take some of his heavy burden off of your shoulders. Posted by: torquewrench at April 16, 2014 12:59 AM (noWW6) ===================== SO this. I still sometimes second-guess with the decision for my father. I keep telling myself that considering the suicidal talk he was vending before he went south, I was really following his wishes. But was that his true heart, or merely a momentary fog of depression? You never know. Trust me, it's easier following a clear and direct order.

Posted by: Sister Sestina at April 15, 2014 09:07 PM (LtUE0)

587 Name a car from the entire eighties you would pick over all other decades.

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 09:59 PM (TI3xG)

Fox body Mustang or Mercury Capri, Datsun 280Z, Dodge Rampage (you laugh but in 1982 it could beat a Z-28 in the quarter and out-slalom a Porsche 92 , the Shelby Omni's...not all cars in the 80's were GM shit-boxes.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 15, 2014 09:08 PM (xa1/W)

588 585 I'll be labeled an anti-semite for this, but I read that as "woohoo! ... tonight is the kike fight!"

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 09:09 PM (qc1G2)

589 "I have a dull ache. Nothing I'd call sharp at all in my lower right abdomen. It hurts more under pressure. Feels more like a pulled muscle outside of the pressure thing. And that feels like pushing down on a bruise."

Could in fact be a pulled muscle.

Or as the eldritch horror suggests, appendicitis. Be ready to move fast in case it might be.

Or hernia. For which you also in certain rare cases should be ready to move fast (i.e., incarcerated or "strangulated" hernia).

Or perhaps just indigestion. I've had occasional strongly persistent dull aches that I could have sworn were something really seriously wrong, that were ultimately just gas pains and gone by the next day.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 09:09 PM (noWW6)

590 Shredded Chi, read twice comment once....

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 09:10 PM (FbAHC)

591

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 16, 2014 01:08 AM (xa1/W)

not even a mention of a Grand National

wouldn't mind an F512

Posted by: The Dude at April 15, 2014 09:10 PM (bStrg)

592 Wow. I can't even find this press release on NASA's website yet. https://tinyurl.com/k89dqtj This is huge. Launch Complex 39A was the scene of 12 Saturn V and 80 Space Shuttle launches, including all of the manned moon launches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC-39A And now SpaceX has got it. They have ambitious plans for it, no doubt.

Posted by: rickl at April 15, 2014 09:12 PM (sdi6R)

593 Another site's reporting that Bloomberg thinks he's earned his place in Heaven for all the good librul stuff he pushed.

I say, if Heaven's streets are littered with steaming POS's, then he's got a shot.

Posted by: Dave Dinkins at April 15, 2014 09:13 PM (HFSaY)

594 Once you get past giant squids, there is no reason to go any deeper.

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at April 15, 2014 09:13 PM (ua1Yo)

595 Wow, a 1960 Studebaker with two 17 yr old girls vanished in 1971 in South Dakota. Only now have they found the car and the remains submerged in water.
http://tinyurl.com/knon8rv

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 09:14 PM (FbAHC)

596 Ford puts another Mustang atop the Empire State building.

http://tinyurl.com/mnwa23w

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 16, 2014 01:05 AM (FbAHC)

Can't really tell, is that another 'vert? IIRC the first time they used a white convertible.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 15, 2014 09:14 PM (xa1/W)

597 not even a mention of a Grand National
wouldn't mind an F512

Posted by: The Dude at April 16, 2014 01:10 AM (bStrg)

Horrible oversight on my part, the Buick GN was a hell of a car.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 15, 2014 09:15 PM (xa1/W)

598 Horrible oversight on my part, the Buick GN was a hell of a car.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 16, 2014 01:15 AM (xa1/W)

greatest creeper car ever as hardly anyone knows or remembers it

Posted by: The Dude at April 15, 2014 09:16 PM (bStrg)

599 Those poached eggs in Carney's kitchen?

They were poached from Grampa Bundy's ranch.

Posted by: Zombie Ted Bundy at April 15, 2014 09:16 PM (HFSaY)

600 Anna Puma: here's the one that haunts me... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Robin_Graham

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 15, 2014 09:16 PM (HVI5a)

601 GGE I would say yes, since it solves the whole problem of piecing together the roof.

Michael Bloomberg, just Boss Tweed with a better tailor. Same corruption of the soul.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 09:17 PM (FbAHC)

602 Michael Bloomberg, just Boss Tweed with a better tailor. Same corruption of the soul.Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 16, 2014 01:17 AM (FbAHC)
Maybe they both thought they were God's messengers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 15, 2014 09:19 PM (AaZet)

603 Speaking of cars and their decades: anyone remember the Avanti?

A guy at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, NH/ME, drove one in 1964.

(no, not the newer one. Bing Image it.)

Posted by: Zombie Mario Andretti at April 15, 2014 09:20 PM (HFSaY)

604 Zakn, you do know where your appendix is, right? I've got a nice scar on my lower right abdomen from where they took mine out a few weeks before my seventh birthday. I went from no symptoms to emergency surgery in less than twelve hours. My mother and aunt thought I was blocked and were putting suppositories in me. A great day all around. My uncle the cardiologist came home, looked at me for about three minutes, then asked my mother which of three surgeons at his hospital she'd prefer.

Posted by: Epobirs at April 15, 2014 09:20 PM (bPxS6)

605 Well hell, lunch time is over, back to work. Later roonz and roonettez, fear no evil!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 15, 2014 09:20 PM (xa1/W)

606 "Horrible oversight on my part, the Buick GN was a hell of a car."

In that classic Detroit muscle-car way. Just as with its Sixties forebears: really fast in a straight line, don't ask it to handle or stop particularly well.

I have seen that engine transplanted into various other vehicles over the years. Including a seemingly bone stock and boring basic Buick Regal with the cheesy plastic trim, and a Datsun Z.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 09:22 PM (noWW6)

607 torque: which 1960s/1970s car was the most ahead of its time in your opinion? Although that may be like asking which Victrola had the best stereo sound...

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 15, 2014 09:24 PM (HVI5a)

608 I think I've read the 1967 Corvette was way ahead of its time. But not sure

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 15, 2014 09:24 PM (HVI5a)

609 I forgot my unnatural connections to my first crapy cars when posting the question about what 80s car would beat out ant other decade. I graduated high school in 1980. And 10 year old beaters ruled. Fuck we all have fond memories of our first. Since they likely are connected heavily to our first sex. but if one disconnects that the 80s really sucked for basic American car production.

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 09:24 PM (TI3xG)

610 591Â Shredded Chi, read twice comment once.... Posted by:Â Anna Puma ------- C'mon, Anna - that would mean I'd actually have to read a comment in the first place. We both know that nobody does that!

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 09:25 PM (qc1G2)

611 #596

Reminds me of 'Ghost Story,' with the Borg Queen in her nekkid prime.

Posted by: Epobirs at April 15, 2014 09:26 PM (bPxS6)

612 Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 16, 2014 01:14 AM (FbAHC) Many years ago, read a book written my a man that trained finder dogs. His advice, start at point A and look for a body of water big enough to hide a car ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 09:29 PM (qoKTg)

613 which 1960s/1970s car was the most ahead of its time in your opinion?>>

Buick Riviera/Olds Tornado due to their front wheel drive.

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 09:31 PM (TI3xG)

614 uggggh still waiting on my new upper from the dude in florida shouldn't take over a week damnit at least the range is closed Mondays and Tuesdays I have 300 rounds in bags ready to go if it gets here tomorrow morning

Posted by: navycopjoe at April 15, 2014 09:32 PM (krmE0)

615 "Speaking of cars and their decades: anyone remember the Avanti?"

I do, but I haven't seen one in a long time now.

As recently as the late Nineties, I would pick them out a few times a year. Done in now by lack of spares?

It's one of those frontally distinctive cars that you're most likely to notice when it's coming the other way, at least in my experience.

And then amidst your frantic hand-flapping and pointing at the proverbial _rara avis_, all of the non-car-nuts who are with you are saying, "Wait, what? You're excited about that thing?"

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 09:32 PM (noWW6)

616

Posted by: The Hickster at April 16, 2014 01:24 AM (TI3xG)

92 Ford Festiva and it's even worse then sex in the backseat of a Volkswagon

Posted by: The Dude at April 15, 2014 09:34 PM (bStrg)

617 oh, and come on Lydia!!!! she looks hot in red

Posted by: navycopjoe at April 15, 2014 09:34 PM (krmE0)

618 608Â torque: which 1960s/1970s car was the most ahead of its time in your opinion?Â ------ I know you weren't addressing me, q, but I have a '66 Buick Riviera in the garage. It can claim the distinction of being the car that eliminated the "vent window" - and it has a badass, futuristic "drum" speedometer. As Rosie O would say, Google It! Does anyone under forty even remember the vent windows on cars?

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 09:35 PM (qc1G2)

619 only good things about the Festiva was it was cheap to turn it into a rally car and it really knew how to roll sideways

Posted by: The Dude at April 15, 2014 09:35 PM (bStrg)

620 navycopjoe at April 16, 2014 01:32 AM (krmE0) Happy Ranging ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 09:37 PM (qoKTg)

621 621 if it gets here we're down to 1200 rounds of 5.56 so I have to go shopping we try to keep at least 1000 rounds min in case of zombies or spam monsters oh and MILITIRIZED THUG COPS!!!!!11!!

Posted by: navycopjoe at April 15, 2014 09:39 PM (krmE0)

622 oh and MILITIRIZED THUG COPS!!!!!11!!

Posted by: navycopjoe at April 16, 2014 01:39 AM (krmE0)

YES!! YOU FINALLY REMEMBERED THAT ONE!!

Posted by: The Dude at April 15, 2014 09:39 PM (bStrg)

623 92 Ford Festiva and it's even worse then sex in the backseat of a Volkswagon>>

I can't believe a Festiva could have ruined Highschool back seat sex. And I did have sex in a Beetle (well not sex by the Clinton rules just a BJ)

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 09:39 PM (TI3xG)

624 619 608 torque: which 1960s/1970s car was the most ahead of its time in your opinion?
------
I know you weren't addressing me, q, but I have a '66 Buick Riviera in the garage. It can claim the distinction of being the car that eliminated the "vent window" - and it has a badass, futuristic "drum" speedometer. As Rosie O would say, Google It!
Does anyone under forty even remember the vent windows on cars? Posted by: shredded chi at April 16, 2014 01:35 AM (qc1G2) Hide posts from (qc1G2)

Hey, wait a minute! You never mentioned that.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 09:41 PM (T1005)

625 623 ha, I remembered you put that yesterday with the exception of sport teams I can learn

Posted by: navycopjoe at April 15, 2014 09:42 PM (krmE0)

626 "torque: which 1960s/1970s car was the most ahead of its time in your opinion? Although that may be like asking which Victrola had the best stereo sound..."

Depending on which day of the week you ask that question, you might get a very different answer.

Because, for one: ahead of its time in which regard?

Pure engineering and mechanical innovation without regard to market success? Or huge market success based on witty repurposing of merely modest engineering? Because ultimately the car business is driven by economics, and the latter matters.

By way of example, I think I'm with the Hickster in admiring the pioneering big GM front-drives. But they don't really have much by way of traceable design-DNA descendants. Whereas the smaller four-cylinder front-drives of the same era have distant progeny who are everywhere today.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 09:43 PM (noWW6)

627 shredded: no problemo. Most if not all of my questions are for everybody.

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 15, 2014 09:43 PM (HVI5a)

628 I can't believe a Festiva could have ruined Highschool back seat sex. And I did have sex in a Beetle (well not sex by the Clinton rules just a BJ)

Posted by: The Hickster at April 16, 2014 01:39 AM (TI3xG)

though I will give the Festiva in having a decent sized area between the front and back seats but man was it uncomfortable. It was like getting laid on concrete

Posted by: The Dude at April 15, 2014 09:43 PM (bStrg)

629 It was like getting laid on concrete>>

Which beats the ever loving fucking hell out of not getting laid!!11!!

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 09:46 PM (TI3xG)

630 And holy crap, Hickster just mentioned the Riviera. But they weren't FWD. The Tornado was, as were later Eldorado. the late, great, Bill Mitchell designed them all. A true genius, and probably the greatest treasure ever at GM.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 09:47 PM (qc1G2)

631 Well, it's official. My mother can no longer manage her own affairs any more. I've been begging her to get her tax info together for me since mid-March. She has this pathological procrastination issue that makes her just lock up instead of addressing something that must be done. So, once again, it's being done on the last possible day. Except she cannot find her 1099R and I don't know enough to be sure of all the details. I know the amount of money and TurboTax brought forward all of the stuff from the previous year but I'm reluctant to guess at the remaining blank spots.

Fortunately, TurboTax automates requesting an extension and you get it automatically without asking in the state of CA. From now on, knowing she is incapable of creating any rational system for filing her documents, whenever she gets anything that might figure into next year's return, I'm scanning it so I have copies of my own.

I was really hoping to feel like a functional adult myself before it came to this.

Posted by: Epobirs at April 15, 2014 09:47 PM (bPxS6)

632 It was like getting laid on concrete>>

Which beats the ever loving fucking hell out of not getting laid!!11!!

Posted by: The Hickster at April 16, 2014 01:46 AM (TI3xG)

eh, I would pass up sex in a jacuzzi or shower. Those were the worst notches in my bedpost

Posted by: The Dude at April 15, 2014 09:47 PM (bStrg)

633 And I guess also there's the question:

Is a 1930s design that didn't hit it really big until the 1960s, the Beetle, something to be reckoned with under the category of significant Sixties cars? Or must a design have been new in the era?

Note that VW _just now_ quit building the classic Kombi van. It had been in production in Brazil right up until this year.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 15, 2014 09:48 PM (noWW6)

634 630 It was like getting laid on concrete>>

Which beats the ever loving fucking hell out of not getting laid!!11!!
Posted by: The Hickster at April 16, 2014 01:46 AM (TI3xG) Hide posts from (TI3xG)

Most problematic getting-laid experience -- in an operating sauna.

You don't really realize how heavily you are breathing unless it burns on the way in....

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 09:50 PM (T1005)

635 619 608 torque: which 1960s/1970s car was the most ahead of its time in your opinion?
------
I know you weren't addressing me, q, but I have a '66 Buick Riviera in the garage. It can claim the distinction of being the car that eliminated the "vent window" - and it has a badass, futuristic "drum" speedometer. As Rosie O would say, Google It!
Does anyone under forty even remember the vent windows on cars?

Posted by: shredded chi at April 16, 2014 01:35 AM (qc1G2)

++++

Buick might have removed the vent window from the Riviera in 66, but they were still showing up in other models for decades after that.
http://www.edmunds.com/ford/f-250/1996/

I think that even the young whippersnappers might remember seeing a 96 on the road.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 15, 2014 09:50 PM (IN7k+)

636 Tucker Didn't he try to push a bunch of automotive advancements before their time? Injection vs carb being one And weird headlights like the new spendy cars have that point where you are steering.

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 09:51 PM (TI3xG)

637 Either get a room or write an e-book.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 09:51 PM (FbAHC)

638 Hey Dude, did you see the 'Why I won't Be Returning To PAX' article? Penny Arcade has run afoul of the 'culture of rape' crowd and refuse to apologize, so a bunch of women have gotten the vapors, claiming they no longer feel safe attending PAX.

http://www.wired.com/2013/09/penny-arcade-expo-dickwolves/

Posted by: Epobirs at April 15, 2014 09:52 PM (bPxS6)

639 I will say that an elevator with glass windows gets a big thumbs up from me. Oh how I wish I could relive most of my 20's

Posted by: The Dude at April 15, 2014 09:53 PM (bStrg)

640

Posted by: Epobirs at April 16, 2014 01:52 AM (bPxS6)

yeah, that was an interesting spectacle last year. Same with CliffyB calling out Notch for his raves that he's been throwing. Penny Arcade did a whole panel a few days ago at PAX East in trying to make up for the past few years

Posted by: The Dude at April 15, 2014 09:55 PM (bStrg)

641 You don't really realize how heavily you are breathing unless it burns on the way in....>>

The other extreme is girls really dont like snow on their ass. Which is why any car no matter how uncomfortable is in the end a benefit.

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 09:56 PM (TI3xG)

642 The other extreme is girls really dont like snow on their ass. Which is why any car no matter how uncomfortable is in the end a benefit.

Posted by: The Hickster at April 16, 2014 01:56 AM (TI3xG)

snow bunnies are fun though

Posted by: The Dude at April 15, 2014 09:57 PM (bStrg)

643 I see the knives and hyperbol is alive with Marty O'Donnell getting fired with calling him a douche because he's anti-abortion

Posted by: The Dude at April 15, 2014 09:59 PM (bStrg)

644 Hey, wait a minute! You never mentioned that. Posted by: cthulhu at April 16, 2014 01:41 AM (T1005) ---------- If you would've waited a month or so to visit, it would have been sitting in the driveway. Unfortunately, I may have to put her on the auction block. Bills before thrills, y'know?

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 09:59 PM (qc1G2)

645 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lydia is gone!! oh well, I still have T now on to the hot black chick on tattoo nightmares

Posted by: navycopjoe at April 15, 2014 10:01 PM (krmE0)

646 http://www.wired.com/2013/09/penny-arcade-expo-dickwolves/ Posted by: Epobirs at April 16, 2014 01:52 AM (bPxS6) That chick is racist against use dickwolves!

Posted by: Your Average Dickwolf at April 15, 2014 10:03 PM (AymDN)

647 Either get a room or write an e-book. Prince Vlad began the unholy transformation. Painful it was, but as a bat he could fly through the vent window of the 66 Buick and into the back seat where the hot, nubile Captain of the Cheerleading Squad was panting ... the rise and fall of her perky breast stretching her sweater with every painful breath. "Damn! It's as hot as a sauna in here!" she moaned...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 10:03 PM (qoKTg)

648 Jay Suit, $895,

So, just another overdressed preacher sheering the flock while spouting nonsense.

Posted by: Tony Soprano[/i][/b][/s] at April 15, 2014 10:05 PM (DL2i+)

649 That was pretty awesome! Screw the horror! Have we now moved on to two sentence soft-porn stories?

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 10:06 PM (qc1G2)

650 So cthulhu, how'd the photo session of last night's blood moon go? Manage to avoid inconvenient cloud cover?

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 15, 2014 10:07 PM (M9BzG)

651 Does anyone under forty even remember the vent windows on cars?

Posted by: shredded chi at April 16, 2014 01:35 AM (qc1G2)

I was bitching about the lack of those in cars just tonight while driving in the frigging rain and trying to smoke with a slightly opened window that was letting rain in. Those vents windows were the shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 15, 2014 10:07 PM (FMbng)

652 One of my two sentence rejects -

Being very physically fit, I answered an on-line ad thinking to make easy money. It was a typo since their club was looking for a stropping lad.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 10:08 PM (FbAHC)

653 Posted by: Adriane... at April 16, 2014 02:03 AM (qoKTg)

Dear Penthouse, ...

I miss vent windows on cars (er, we called them 'wing windows'). A easily adjustable device for letting in fresh air imho.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 15, 2014 10:10 PM (wNF3N)

654 Adriane, oh my.

Vampire, cheerleader, and vinyl. Do the math.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 10:10 PM (FbAHC)

655 652 So cthulhu, how'd the photo session of last night's blood moon go?

Manage to avoid inconvenient cloud cover? Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 16, 2014 02:07 AM (M9BzG) Hide posts from (M9BzG)

I snapped some pix, but today was taxes, so I haven't downloaded 'em to see how well they came out. The cloud cover was clearing while things where happening, but the actual red moon looked like a faded ember compared to the full moon before. Also, I think it would have benefited from having a tripod.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 10:10 PM (T1005)

656 Bills before thrills, y'know?>>

One of the reasons I don't have any of my fun cars now.

And those dam ungrateful kids I had, have no clue what pain they caused me.(Though since my mother was forward looking enough to throw the curse on me "one day you'll have children just like you") I can't be too surprised.

Posted by: The Hickster at April 15, 2014 10:10 PM (TI3xG)

657 Screw the horror! Have we now moved on to two sentence soft-porn stories?

Posted by: shredded chi at April 16, 2014 02:06 AM

heheh eh heheh... "Big boobs. The End." ...heheheh

Posted by: beavis at April 15, 2014 10:12 PM (Ci6bl)

658 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered -- weak and weary -- o'er many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.... I sat up and said, "holy crud -- the ONT is probably getting close to the number!"

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 10:13 PM (T1005)

659 We've switched to ProseNT? *blank look*

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 15, 2014 10:15 PM (M9BzG)

660 good, my new shoes should be here later today

http://bit.ly/1naxM2B

Posted by: The Dude at April 15, 2014 10:15 PM (bStrg)

661 Dmitri, dread Carpathian prince of the undead, rubbed his hands together in anticipation as he spied his next victim, who seemed all of 22, female, and very stacked while walking alone at night. Then as he was putting his fangs in her jugular vein the full moon revealed itself.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 10:15 PM (FbAHC)

662 Yeah I miss the vent windows. Although, I don't actually miss the pivots rotting and the window falling out onto the street like one of my dodge vans did.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 15, 2014 10:16 PM (FMbng)

663 In Ace of Spades, did Ewok Khan, a stately ONT decree....where Pixy's sacred servers ran, through caverns measureless to man, down to a sunless sea....

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 10:17 PM (T1005)

664 Now?

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 10:17 PM (T1005)

665 Bam. Like a boss. /golfclap cthulhu

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 15, 2014 10:18 PM (M9BzG)

666 667 Bam. Like a boss.

/golfclap cthulhu Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 16, 2014 02:18 AM (M9BzG) Hide posts from (M9BzG)

I was afraid I was spending too much time on the literary pastiches....

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 10:19 PM (T1005)

667 It just kills me to even think about it. I own three things that are worth more than a hammer - the house, the Buick, and that bottle of bourbon in the freezer. By tomorrow morning, we can call it two things.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 10:19 PM (qc1G2)

668 yay, my new bar of wool fat should be here as well. Good day today for shit coming in the mail (also have some Godzilla blu-rays coming)

Posted by: The Dude at April 15, 2014 10:21 PM (bStrg)

669 well, I had a shitty evening that resulted in having to change the locks.

Posted by: jc at April 15, 2014 10:21 PM (PlzOe)

670 Night all. Spent way too much time this evening watching Australians or English taste test American candy and junk food. Here's and example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH5LrBnJ9OY

Posted by: The Political Hat at April 15, 2014 10:24 PM (AymDN)

671 I was afraid I was spending too much time on the literary pastiches.... Heh, I thought it would be amusing to join the writing club and claim 666... Then realized that it was already gone and hit refresh to confirm. So do souls still get claimed each night, or are they issuing rainchecks now?

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 15, 2014 10:24 PM (M9BzG)

672 well, I had a shitty evening that resulted in having to change the locks. Posted by: jc at April 16, 2014 02:21 AM (PlzOe) Dare we ask what happened?

Posted by: The Political Hat at April 15, 2014 10:25 PM (AymDN)

673 674 well, I had a shitty evening that resulted in having to change the locks.

Posted by: jc at April 16, 2014 02:21 AM (PlzOe)

Dare we ask what happened?

Posted by: The Political Hat at April 16, 2014 02:25 AM (AymDN)

===

family member thief. confrontation. pathos. feeling sorry for an asshole followed by 'fuck it.' peachy. just fucking peachy.

Posted by: jc at April 15, 2014 10:30 PM (PlzOe)

674 'Twas brillig, and the Moron Horde,
Did opine and orate on the blog.
All woozy were the Night Owl Crowd,
And Daywalkers reigned.

"Beware the Democrats, my son!
The lies they tell, the ill-cut quote!
Beware the Moonbats, and shun
The many times that they do vote!"

He took his verbal sword in hand;
Long time the Proggy foe he sought --
So read-up he on Alinsky
And sat sometime in thought.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 10:30 PM (T1005)

675 675 674
well, I had a shitty evening that resulted in having to change the locks.

Posted by: jc at April 16, 2014 02:21 AM (PlzOe)

Dare we ask what happened?

Posted by: The Political Hat at April 16, 2014 02:25 AM (AymDN)

===family member thief. confrontation. pathos. feeling sorry for an asshole followed by 'fuck it.' peachy. just fucking peachy.
Posted by: jc at April 16, 2014 02:30 AM (PlzOe) Hide posts from (PlzOe)

Sounds like a pain-in-the-ass you did not need. Sorry to hear. Are you and yours secure now?

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 10:33 PM (T1005)

676 I'm sure you smart military blog readers realize that the smokers' window is the most expensive to replace, right? I locked my keys in my F250 at pool league one night. This guy says "I can get you in your truck, no problem!" i'm like, "cool. thanks" He come s walking back in the bar dripping blood from elbow to wrist saying "your truck is open." Seriously. Don't play pool. It's dangerous.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 15, 2014 10:33 PM (qc1G2)

677 Sounds like a pain-in-the-ass you did not need. Sorry to hear. Are you and yours secure now?

Posted by: cthulhu at April 16, 2014 02:33 AM (T1005)

yeah. new dead bolts are actually faster than waiting for a locksmith. cheaper, too.

Posted by: jc at April 15, 2014 10:35 PM (PlzOe)

678 why can't they make them so the data can just be pulled remotely? This makes NO sense to me.

Weight, power, battery life, transmission thru deep water, etc. They have to survive a crash and fire so it's all super heavy duty vs. commodity PC hardware.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at April 15, 2014 10:36 PM (DL2i+)

679 #672

The most memorable food, an item I'd buy in the US if I saw it, from my week in London was Paprika Pringles. There is pretty much paprika everything there but not so much here.

Posted by: Epobirs at April 15, 2014 10:38 PM (bPxS6)

680 679 Sounds like a pain-in-the-ass you did not need. Sorry to hear. Are you and yours secure now?

Posted by: cthulhu at April 16, 2014 02:33 AM (T1005)

yeah. new dead bolts are actually faster than waiting for a locksmith. cheaper, too.
Posted by: jc at April 16, 2014 02:35 AM (PlzOe) Hide posts from (PlzOe)

Time to let the adrenaline and anger fade. Whatcha drinkin'?

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 10:38 PM (T1005)

681 Then as he was putting his fangs in her jugular vein the full moon revealed itself. 'Argh!" he chocked. Quickly, he retracted his fangs. "For the Love of my new Finnish stamp collection!" he howled. "Barney Frank, pull your pants back up!"

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 10:40 PM (qoKTg)

682 yeah. new dead bolts are actually faster than waiting for a locksmith. cheaper, too.

Posted by: jc at April 16, 2014 02:35 AM (PlzOe)

Bullets are even faster and cheaper.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 15, 2014 10:40 PM (FMbng)

683 In light of one of tonight's sub-threads, this is interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines

Posted by: Epobirs at April 15, 2014 10:41 PM (bPxS6)

684 I figured Angus Young would infarct running around the shoe or have a crippling accident.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at April 15, 2014 10:41 PM (DL2i+)

685 Time to let the adrenaline and anger fade. Whatcha drinkin'?

Posted by: cthulhu at April 16, 2014 02:38 AM (T1005)

===

I don't drink much. 24 beers would probably take me about 14 months. same with hard liquor. guess I could do a marg just for the hell of it.

I am not mad as much as sad. the dumb twerp is devious, stupid, a liar, funny, inventive, warm, an asshole, entertaining, completely hopeless, and just not worth it.

Posted by: jc at April 15, 2014 10:42 PM (PlzOe)

686 yeah. new dead bolts are actually faster than waiting for a locksmith. cheaper, too. dang! knives in the back are one thing, but knives in the back from family hurt the most ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 10:43 PM (qoKTg)

687 #681

And yes, we did make jokes about the spice being in everything.

Posted by: Epobirs at April 15, 2014 10:43 PM (bPxS6)

688 Bullets are even faster and cheaper.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 16, 2014 02:40 AM (FMbng)

===

not when you factor in the lime and the car wash.

Posted by: jc at April 15, 2014 10:43 PM (PlzOe)

689 Adriane, um words fail me. Painting and the fumes got to you?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 10:46 PM (FbAHC)

690 Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 16, 2014 02:46 AM (FbAHC) Tax Day stress... About 15 minutes to go on TurboTax and the computer hangs and won't restart. And some State form hiccup about non-Municipal tax exempt interest. Could not get out of 'we found an error mode'!

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 10:53 PM (qoKTg)

691 Ouch! Sorry to hear that Adriane.

TurboTax barfed on me yesterday and could not e-file for state. Instead of trying to talk to online help, just printed it all out and mailed it. So now got a receipt from USPS of when I mailed it in.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 10:55 PM (FbAHC)

692 Sharon burst into tears as she watches the love of her life run away from her screaming in terror. A kindly grandmother then asks her what is the matter and Sharon wails more loudly, "I told him I work for the IRS, its not like I am a vampire right?"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 10:58 PM (FbAHC)

693 Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 16, 2014 02:58 AM (FbAHC) One of the things I like to do on Halloween is 'guess the costume!' Some are easy enough, but others ... I'm not that familiar with some manga / anime / tv ... But kid comes to the door in Full! Classical!!! Count Vlad get up down to the red sash and a medal on his chest. I said, "I know! You're an accountant." He looks at me like I'm nutz and says, 'I'm Count Dracula..." But his dad who was back a ways, busts up laughing. Then the kid looks at his dad like he's nutz! It was fun...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 11:08 PM (qoKTg)

694 LOL

That is a good story Adriane.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 11:14 PM (FbAHC)

695 Who's Robert Byrd? I'm a ghost.

Dad... why are you laughing at that lady.

Posted by: Trick-or-treating kid, dressed in white sheets at April 15, 2014 11:16 PM (08jH8)

696 "I wish to tell you about my most unfortunate past" my current beau wispered to me as she handcuffed me to the bumper of the car.

I was soon sorry I had left the keys in the ignition.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 15, 2014 11:28 PM (wNF3N)

697 so much depends
upon

munuvia and
software

used by ace
blogging

powered by pixy's
hamsters

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 11:29 PM (T1005)

698 Trick-or-treating kid, dressed in white sheets at April 16, 2014 03:16 AM (08jH I ain't afraid of no ghost!!!!

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 11:30 PM (qoKTg)

699 Good morning all So my son has been telling me that his econ prof is an idiot, arguing for wealth distribution. Today he he decided to hand out essays from Al Gore.

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at April 15, 2014 11:31 PM (oKzyB)

700 701 Good morning all

So my son has been telling me that his econ prof is an idiot, arguing for wealth distribution. Today he he decided to hand out essays from Al Gore. Posted by: westminsterdogshow at April 16, 2014 03:31 AM (oKzyB) Hide posts from (oKzyB)

*Facepalm*

It's one thing not to teach it; it's quite another to teach falsehood as fact.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 11:36 PM (T1005)

701 "I ain't afraid of no ghost!" yelled Joffery. "Good! We're out of direwolf chow." said Jon Snow.

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 11:36 PM (qoKTg)

702 >> Today he he decided to hand out essays from Al Gore.

So The Krugtron took a side job?

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 15, 2014 11:37 PM (wNF3N)

703 Today he he decided to hand out essays from Al Gore. Given the size of Al Gore's house, he has to know something about money ... although prolly' not about economics ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 11:38 PM (qoKTg)

704 In Peruvia, all government functions are run on Minx 0.7 alpha software.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 15, 2014 11:39 PM (wNF3N)

705 AlGore's carbon footprint - An Inconvenient Fact.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2014 11:43 PM (FbAHC)

706 OK, time to fold the tent and hit the road.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 11:50 PM (T1005)

707 yep, I just watched all of that chick's taste testing videos

Posted by: The Dude at April 15, 2014 11:51 PM (bStrg)

708 Chu....... he said "are you **cking *tting me" and the prof heard him God pixy is slow

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at April 15, 2014 11:53 PM (oKzyB)

709 Good Night, elder god! Don't hurt the tentacle when hitting the road ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 11:53 PM (qoKTg)

710 westminsterdogshow at April 16, 2014 03:53 AM (oKzyB) have him pass out pictures of Al Gore's house ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 15, 2014 11:54 PM (qoKTg)

711 710 Chu.......
he said "are you **cking *tting me"
and the prof heard him
God pixy is slow Posted by: westminsterdogshow at April 16, 2014 03:53 AM (oKzyB) Hide posts from (oKzyB)

The good news is that you've been raisin' that boy right....

Posted by: cthulhu at April 15, 2014 11:58 PM (T1005)

712 The Statue of Liberty is kaput.

Somebody had access to a time machine.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 16, 2014 12:01 AM (wNF3N)

713 Adriane Excellent idea!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at April 16, 2014 12:06 AM (oKzyB)

714 701 Good morning all So my son has been telling me that his econ prof is an idiot, arguing for wealth distribution. Today he he decided to hand out essays from Al Gore. Posted by: westminsterdogshow at April 16, 2014 03:31 AM (oKzyB) The infection may be too deep, so that the cure may kill the host.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at April 16, 2014 12:10 AM (Le9ja)

715 Time for bed. I think I will skip this movie like totally

http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-synopsis/obvious-child/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 16, 2014 12:12 AM (FbAHC)

716 #717

Sounds like something made for the Lifetime channel, not a theatrical release.

Posted by: Epobirs at April 16, 2014 12:32 AM (bPxS6)

717 As the Horse Whisperer was mounted from behind by the stallion, he reflected --

I don't remember them covering this particular scenario in class.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 16, 2014 12:36 AM (wNF3N)

718 I'm watching the original Planet of the Apes movie in between posts here.

Yeah, the ape costuming sucks a bit, but it is interesting none-the-less.

I'm still hoping for some gratuitous boobehs but the movie is young.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 16, 2014 12:40 AM (wNF3N)

719 Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 16, 2014 04:22 AM (FbAHC) Fingers crossed. Though how you can have an X-Men Days of Future Past w/o Phoenix is beyond me ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 16, 2014 12:41 AM (qoKTg)

720 I'm still hoping for some gratuitous boobehs but the movie is young. um ... National Geographic ???

Posted by: Adriane... at April 16, 2014 12:43 AM (qoKTg)

721 AC / DC calls it quits! Earth Hour environazis claim victory! too soon?

Posted by: Adriane... at April 16, 2014 12:48 AM (qoKTg)

722 Evening morons. Enjoying a breather at work, but looks like I missed most of the conversation.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at April 16, 2014 12:54 AM (b2cFu)

723 #722

Phoenix/Jean Grey was on her first death when they did the original. They offed her in 137 and the classic 'This issue: Everybody dies!' cover was for 142: http://www.comics.org/issue/35133/

Posted by: Epobirs at April 16, 2014 12:57 AM (bPxS6)

724 Happy break time, Conservative Crank ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 16, 2014 12:57 AM (qoKTg)

725 Epobirs at April 16, 2014 04:57 AM (bPxS6) argh! you're right ... Rachel Summers not Jean Grey ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 16, 2014 12:59 AM (qoKTg)

726 Now, if there were a young ginger who looked a bit like Famke Jannsen, perhaps there would be a Rachel... IMDB doesn't show the character listed but there is a Booboo Stewart playing Warpath aka Thunderbird. Technically, Thunderbird II but it appears his older brother didn't exist in the movie-verse. Heck, he barely existed in the comics, dying in his second issue.

Posted by: Epobirs at April 16, 2014 01:05 AM (bPxS6)

727 I doubt Warpath is a major character but the existence of a person who intentionally is known professionally as Booboo is notable.

Posted by: Epobirs at April 16, 2014 01:07 AM (bPxS6)

728 Peek a boo the Olympic skier ?

Posted by: Adriane... at April 16, 2014 01:23 AM (qoKTg)

729 Oy. Getting ready to crash ... Good Night, Epobirs, Goof Night, Conservative Crank, And Good Night, Mrs Calabash, where ever you are ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 16, 2014 01:25 AM (qoKTg)

730 Epobirs, I'm so sorry that your mother can't manage her own affairs. I had that happen to mine & it meant the beginning of Alzheimer's. I hope & pray your mother has some other reason for it. My Mother started in 2002 & my older brother took her to her doctor either late that year or early 2003. That dickhead said my mother was suffering from mental stress, I had breast cancer in 2002 & Paul almost died from kidney failure . One of the many times he almost died from drinking & survived. He wasn't eating & ate Tums to keep Vodka down. According to him it was not drinking, it was that he lacked enzyme for kidneys to break down calcium. Take your mother to a doctor that specializes in it, there were meds in 2005 that helped her. I'm sure that there are some newer ones now. I had her taking vitamins from some place I had found on internet,I called & owner told me to get a prescription for drug new to US. I just woke up & can't remember the name. I'm sure that there are newer more effective drugs now. The medication made her act like my Mother in a week & helped with her memory..

Posted by: Carol at April 16, 2014 01:31 AM (gjOCp)

731 Good night, Adriane.

Posted by: Carol at April 16, 2014 01:38 AM (gjOCp)

732 Good night, Crank. I hope Mrs. Crank is feeling well & your home is almost ready for new baby.

Posted by: Carol at April 16, 2014 01:43 AM (gjOCp)

733 There is snow on cars & garden areas! I remember we had snow, but not how much in May 1977. I didn't hear any talk then of global warming etc 37 years ago.

Posted by: Carol at April 16, 2014 02:01 AM (gjOCp)

734 "I didn't hear any talk then of global warming etc 37 years ago."

Back in 77 globull cooling was still in vogue. Probably used as proof by the talking heads.

I'll say a prayer for your brother Carol. Not much else I can do. I am so sorry.

Posted by: bomber billy at April 16, 2014 02:07 AM (nkPV9)

735 Off smelly sock

Posted by: GMB (et al) at April 16, 2014 02:08 AM (nkPV9)

736 30 degrees here in the land of Christie this am, when I walked outside,

Posted by: MTF at April 16, 2014 02:11 AM (1Boes)

737 Bomber Billy, There is not much anyone can do, I believe Paul is in God's hands & am surprised he's still alive after last March when someone called 911, from what one ER nurse who was there when he was first at the hospital. One doctor in early April last year answered that he had odds of making it at 50/50. He's 52 & now a quadriplegic from four strep infections at the same time. The only thing he looks forward to is food & watching television. He's talked to hospital ombudsman about trying to get him out of Maine & back to Massachusetts where his family & friends are. I called & begged admissions director at nursing home near me on Monday. To me, Maine free healthcare is Medicaid & is also same as free Mass Health. They have no openings for male beds but nice woman who return my call yesterday said he has to get Medicare too. WTF it has taken this long for him to get SSDI is a wonder. He cannot do anything himself.

Posted by: Carol at April 16, 2014 02:25 AM (gjOCp)

738 I really am thankful for the warmening. Just think how cold it would be without it.

Posted by: GMB (et al) at April 16, 2014 02:25 AM (nkPV9)

739 Thank all of you for your prayers, I really appreciate it.

Posted by: Carol at April 16, 2014 02:27 AM (gjOCp)

740 But it shows you what is possible with fealty to liberalism. The parasites ea up propaganda.

Posted by: Thomas at April 16, 2014 02:35 AM (S9KzW)

741 "WTF it has taken this long for him to get SSDI is a wonder. He cannot do anything himself."

One thing you can check. I am not saying this is the case but check anyway. One of the most common mistakes that happen in SSDI claims is the application process.

If you have a copy of his original application check and see what type it is. To my knowledge there are three types. One for SSDI and SSI together and one for each type alone.

If by chance his original application was for SSI only it will take a longer for the process to finish for a disability claim because some desk jokey has to make the call to switch it over to a disability claim.

Posted by: GMB (et al) at April 16, 2014 02:35 AM (nkPV9)

742 GMB. iPads have a tendency to put in words you aren't even thinking of. Paul has a lawyer helping him apply for SSDI. I have asked him to call him & have him talk to me. He hasn't yet. Ombudsman at hospital or nursing home is trying to get him closer tomMassachusetts, he's in Augusta now. When he was in ER Monday i called to make sure they didn't leave him out in the hall. They did that one night last September & he was pissed off. He can't fix himself if he's slipped into a bad position. No one there knew why he was a quadriplegic, everything that happened to him took place at that hospital. I told nurse I think it's odd no one would look at hospital record. I'm sure it's a thousand plus pages, but they should know why he's like this now Is that expecting too much? Thank you. I wrote a note & put in my purse.

Posted by: Carol at April 16, 2014 02:55 AM (gjOCp)

743 Just trying to cover all the bases. I didn't know that he had a lawyer working on the case.

Can't tell how many times some one in the Horde had thought of an angle on an issue that didn't occur to me.

And sometimes it just helps to talk about it.

Posted by: GMB (et al) at April 16, 2014 02:58 AM (nkPV9)

744 GMB, Thanks for listening. I have hard time talking about things but find it easier with Horde. Lawyer can't be that great or he'd have it approved by now.

Posted by: Carol at April 16, 2014 03:50 AM (gjOCp)

745 If flexibility is what working women want (and I think those who are mothers do want that), then Republicans should consider ways to make it easier for women to work part-time, work from home, etc. It doesn't have to be legislation, just support for a different kind of woman's right to choose.

Posted by: DRJ at April 16, 2014 06:16 AM (vRCaC)

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