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March 11, 2014

Overnight Open Thread (3-11-2014)
— Maetenloch

"Perhaps, like me, you have wondered how it is that so many people, otherwise honest, can adopt without demur the Orwellian anti-language of Political Correctness; how it is that so many people, otherwise rational, can adopt without demur the paradoxes, self-contradictions and logical absurdities involved in relativistic morality, materialistic ontology, subjective epistemology, and the other nuggets of vacuous blither forming the foundations of modern thought; how it is that so many people, otherwise possessing good taste, can without demur fund and support and praise the blurry aberrations of modern art, praise ugliness, despite beauty; how it is that so many people, otherwise good and peaceful, can praise and support and excuse the hellish enormities and mass murders of figures like Che and Mao and Stalin and Castro; or can view with cold eye the piles of tiny corpses heaped outside abortion mills, and make such enemies of the human race into heroes; or can rush to the defense of Mohammedan terrorists with freakish shrieks of 'Islamophobia!' and 'Racist!' even thought to be wary of Jihadists bent on your destruction is rational rather than phobic, and even thought Mohammedanism is a religion, not a race; how otherwise happy, moral, reasonable and decent people can not merely excuse sexual perversion, but will be swept up in a fervor of righteous indignation even if someone points out the biological or Biblical reality of the situation; and likewise excuse lies in their leaders, and adulteries, and abuses of power, and abuses of drugs, and any number of things these otherwise ordinary people would never do themselves.
"And, finally, perhaps, like me, you have wondered why it is that these people who are otherwise civil nonetheless can neither explain their positions nor stop talking, and their talk consists of nothing, nothing, nothing aside from childish personal attacks, slanders, sneers, and accusation, accusation, accusation. Why are they so angry? Why are they so noisy? Why are they so blissfully unaware of the vice, injustice, ugliness and evil they support?
-- John C. Wright in Restless Heart of Darkness - Part Four

Why Harry Reid Hates, Hates, HATES, HATES the Koch Brothers

It's not personal - he's just a good soldier following his party's Alinskyite strategy.

According to the Times, Democrats are convinced that Koch-bashing is a "politically shrewd" endeavor, and is grounded in "Democratic-funded research." The Times editorial board has been beating this drum for weeks, denouncing the Koch brothers and their "right-wing political zeppelin," and all but pleading with their readers to donate to cash-poor Democrats.

Reid was especially moved by a recent presentation at the Senate Democratic retreat emphasizing the need to "pick a villain." The majority leader's lunatic outbursts on the Senate floor are intended to raise the Kochs' public profile and, more importantly, to rally the Democratic base, specifically the pro-cancer wing.

Switched at birth: Harry Reid and the Unhappy Idol

Wasted Resources

Men between the ages of 25 and 54 are in their prime working years. Generally speaking, they're too old for college and too young for retirement.
In February 2008, 87.4 percent of men in that demographic had jobs.
Six years later, only 83.2 percent of men in that bracket are working.

Whatever Happened to the Antiwar Movement?

"Where have all the protesters gone, long time passing"

"Gone to #OCCUPY, everyone."

Antiwar Movement, RIP November 4, 2008.

One might almost think that the antiwar movement was all about politics, not principle. That it was really an anti-Bush, anti-Republican movement. And that once a Democrat was in the White House, its purpose had been served and the protest signs went into the trash. There is precedent for this, as we have written before. The anti-Vietnam war movement, which also was celebrated by the press, wasn't really a movement against the Vietnam war. It was led mostly by people who were not at all opposed to the war, but wanted the other side to win. The rank and file were not so much anti-war as they were anti-draft. On the day the draft was abolished, the anti-Vietnam war movement ended. Whatever you think of the merits of the Vietnam war, there never was anything noble or idealistic about the anti-war movement.

And still blaming Bush six years on:

Five years into Obama's presidency, only a third of the public believes that Obama and the Democrats are primarily responsible for the country's current economic problems.

More Americans continue to blame former President Bush and the Republicans. But the number who say the GOP is more responsible - now at 44% - has dipped below the 50% mark for the first time since Bush left the White House. Fourteen percent blame both parties equally.

Depressing evidence that ceaseless propaganda from the media does in fact work.

DNC Literally Indebted to Unions

To the tune of $15 million owed to SIEU via Workers United which is more cash than the DNC has on hand.

From the Folks Who Brought You Deranged Vietnam Vet Syndrome...

As he wrote in the 1998 book Stolen Valor, (excerpted here) in the 1980s and '90s, former Vietnam war vet B.G. Burkett spent years and a fair amount of resources fighting the myth of the crazed Vietnam vet. In the 1970s, and early '80s, that character was a stock figure promulgated by Hollywood in films ranging from Taxi Driver to the Deer Hunter to the first Rambo movie, and as the baddie-of-the-week in numerous TV crime dramas. It wasn't until the mid-1980s that finally, TV series such as Magnum P.I., the A-Team, and Miami Vice finally made Vietnam vets the good guys. (As Ben Shapiro writes in Primetime Propaganda, Magnum's producer Donald P. Bellisario, a former Marine Sergeant, treated Thomas and T.C. and Rick as the equivalent of World War II vets who had simply done their tour of duty, and were now using their skills to solve crimes in Hawaii.)

Comes a new target - the deranged 9/11 survivor.

On the Trail of Florida's Skunk Ape

So Florida has its own version of sasquatch known as the 'skunk ape'.

The first time Dave Shealy saw a skunk ape, he says, he was ten years old. It was 1974, a few years after his father had come upon a set of footprints left by the creature-an Everglades version of Bigfoot named for its supposedly pungent odor. Dave was out deer hunting with his older brother, Jack, in the swamp behind his house, in what's now Big Cypress National Preserve, when he encountered the ape incarnate.

"It was walking across the swamp, and my brother spotted it first. But I couldn't see it over the grass-I wasn't tall enough," Shealy says. "My brother picked me up, and I saw it, about 100 yards away. We were just kids, but we'd heard about it, and knew for sure what we were looking at. It looked like a man, but completely covered with hair."

I just assumed this would be another mythical creature hunt but after reading the entire article I'm now fairly convinced that the 'skunk ape' is a real ape but probably not what Dave Shealy thinks it is.

For Sale on eBay: Soviet Nuclear Bomber (Low Mileage!)

Special deal for you meester but you must buy quick before Putin come.

Sean Gallagher of Ars Technica says that the plane is a Tu-95MS built in 1987. It's a variant designed to fire cruise missiles. It was owned by the Ukrainian Air Force and comes with only 454 flight hours on the odometer.

The bomber is a fixer-upper. The seller says that "It is necessary to make a technical service and prolongation of the data limit." But that's nothing that a good shade tree mechanic can't tackle.

Never Go Full Hipster

This is one of the more mainstream hipsters - probably just a poseur. But definitely not part of the 83.2%.

The AoSHQ group. Yeah.

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1 hello fappers!!

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 11, 2014 06:16 PM (XvrTA)

2 first?

Posted by: lindafell at March 11, 2014 06:16 PM (PGO8C)

3 not first

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 11, 2014 06:17 PM (q+fqH)

4 Damn, ghost!

Posted by: lindafell at March 11, 2014 06:17 PM (PGO8C)

5 Six Californias: An Analysis of Splitting California Into Six States A Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Tim Draper, is circulating an initiative measure to split California into six states. Here we present a quick look at what that would mean politically. More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=5284

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 11, 2014 06:17 PM (AymDN)

6 fuck!

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 06:17 PM (8lmkt)

7 Evening!

Posted by: EC at March 11, 2014 06:18 PM (doBIb)

8 * rises gasping for air * Whew! 900 hundred posts deep is all I can manage.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 06:18 PM (aDwsi)

9 Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it You make the comments on the ONT That ain't workin' that's the way you do it Comments for nothin' and your yucks for free Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it Let me tell ya them texters ain't dumb Maybe get a blister on your finger Maybe get a blister on your thumb I want my I want my I want my ONT.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 11, 2014 06:18 PM (g4TxM)

10 WOOHOO!!!

off to read the post now...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 06:19 PM (yh0zB)

11 Yay !!!!!ONT !!!!ONT !!!!!

Posted by: Extremely grumpy momma bear at March 11, 2014 06:19 PM (BFwNe)

12 Annnnddddd Meatball just got stomped

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 11, 2014 06:19 PM (GEICT)

13 Patty Hurst holding up a bank for the SLA. When rich white kids became communist terrorists/thugs. How times have changed. Oh wait, they haven't have they?

Florida Skunk Ape? Debbie Washer-Schlitz is that you?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 06:20 PM (23VXG)

14 Hat, they almost never stop blathering about that shit on John {insert ampersand here} Ken. The problem, as I see it, is that the voting populace here is mostly brain-dead, apathetic and in lock-step with whatever they think will make them feel good about themselves. Starting the revolution in Cacafornia is just not a way to win.

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 06:20 PM (8lmkt)

15 Don't laugh, that hipster only looks like a nondescript little housepainter from Austria.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 11, 2014 06:20 PM (g4TxM)

16 Now back to watch the Stars and Blues

Posted by: Extremely grumpy momma bear at March 11, 2014 06:20 PM (BFwNe)

17 Five years into Obama's presidency, only a third of the public believes that Obama and the Democrats are primarily responsible for the country's current economic problems.
--------------
This may actually be true. President Choom couldn't have done as much damage as he has done if Bush hadn't started us down the current path. That's why I think the next politician who uses the term "compassionate conservatism" should be tarred and feathered.

Posted by: RoadRunner at March 11, 2014 06:21 PM (Q/NNL)

18 The anti war movement in the 60's died when Nixon ended the draft and started the lottery for service. The anti war yuppies cared nothing about Vietnam, only their chicken shit asses. I was there. I watched it disappear in six months.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 11, 2014 06:21 PM (0FSuD)

19 In before Bossy.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 11, 2014 06:21 PM (4Mv1T)

20 Whenever I'm in the woods, no matter what else I'm doing, part of my mind is just hoping I find Bigfoot.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 11, 2014 06:21 PM (ZshNr)

21 Interesting comment about "Magnum, PI" A friends older brother was a 2nd LT in Viet Nam in 1968, and he really appreciated that Thomas Magnum was supposed to be a Viet Nam vet and wasn't portrayed as "crazy".

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at March 11, 2014 06:23 PM (+1T7c)

22 Ah, a bear in the air...does it come with the Tomcat?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 06:23 PM (yh0zB)

23 CAC failed to predict his sudden enstompening.

Posted by: Beagle at March 11, 2014 06:23 PM (sOtz/)

24 Democrats are convinced that Koch-bashing is a "politically shrewd" endeavor Well, fuck.....your DNCÂ® audience is room temperature IQ doorknobs and drooling sycophantic cultists.... Of course it plays well.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 11, 2014 06:23 PM (DXGLR)

25 Whenever I'm in the woods, no matter what else I'm doing, part of my mind is just hoping I find Bigfoot. Posted by: Lincolntf ------------------------- A hunter in NC shot a 500 lb boar last month. It had pretty dang big, feet, uh, hooves.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 11, 2014 06:23 PM (4Mv1T)

26 Other crazed Vietnam Veteran movies: Combat Shock, Dead of Night.

Posted by: Naes1984 at March 11, 2014 06:24 PM (LiHKo)

27 Harry Reid proves that every shed has its tool. And sometimes they aren't very sharp.

Posted by: Roy at March 11, 2014 06:24 PM (tiOTz)

28 Alas the Tu-95M has been pulled from eBay.

So much for having your own private nuclear bomber. Ukraine probably seized it and rebuilding it to fend off Bear Putin.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 06:24 PM (23VXG)

29 A boar is a real threat but I've never seen one out here. I do see their big grubbing holes once in a while.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 11, 2014 06:24 PM (ZshNr)

30 Skunk Ape? Everglades hobo? I bet they would take a lot of marinade.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 11, 2014 06:25 PM (0FSuD)

31 Annnnddddd Meatball just got stomped

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 11, 2014 10:19 PM (GEICT)

3 1/2 hours since his last post and he wants to put one out just before the ONT? He deserves a good stompening.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 06:25 PM (yh0zB)

32 That's a great quote, but it's also the longest sentence I've ever seen that wasn't written by William Faulkner.

Posted by: Donna and V. (no ampersand) at March 11, 2014 06:25 PM (R3gO3)

33 Hey all

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 11, 2014 06:25 PM (HVff2)

Wow, that's a really long quote.

[The 'Quote of the Day' quote.]

It's excellent though.

Reminds me of the long stream-of-consciousness writings of James Joyce...only more coherent.

Posted by: wheatie at March 11, 2014 06:26 PM (8quPO)

35 A hunter in NC shot a 500 lb boar last month. It had pretty dang big, feet, uh, hooves. Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 11, 2014 10:23 PM (4Mv1T) I'll bet he had a 100 lbs of worms in him.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 11, 2014 06:26 PM (0FSuD)

36 Heh......found article RE: New York Volkischer Beobachter...... Mans' obituary read: "in lieu of flowers, please cancel your subscription to the New York Times." LMMFAO!!

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 11, 2014 06:27 PM (DXGLR)

37 HELLO WISCONSIN

Posted by: That 70's show. at March 11, 2014 06:27 PM (4Mv1T)

38 Men between the ages of 25 and 54 are in their prime working years. Generally speaking, they're too old for college and too young for retirement.---Maet My line goes something like this, too young to retire too old to know how to do anything else.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 11, 2014 06:27 PM (HVff2)

No cats? I was told there would be cats. Or is that only on Saturdays? Whatever. I was hoping for some kittehs.

Posted by: ALH at March 11, 2014 06:28 PM (btTLZ)

40 Evening Rons

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 11, 2014 06:28 PM (Q8vlx)

41 Evening all. Never even saw the stomped thread come up. Wierd.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 11, 2014 06:28 PM (ojnk6)

42 Why don't the news channels show news anymore? I wanted to see what was up about the fire in San Francisco.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 11, 2014 06:28 PM (RZ8pf)

43 Happy-ish Tuesday Evening, Happy-ish T.E. to you ... Happy-ish Tuesday Evening, Even if lastName == Lawrence, isn't you ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 11, 2014 06:29 PM (qoKTg)

44
"Never Go Full Hipster"

For some reason you posted that link from that site instead of this one:

Hot Hipster Girls

http://tinyurl.com/lmn8kyt

That Swede...

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 11, 2014 06:29 PM (kdS6q)

45 Apparently I need to drink more: Patty Hearst kinda looks like Jim Morrison to me.

Posted by: irright at March 11, 2014 06:29 PM (DtNNC)

46 Hipsters? I couldn't make this up.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IlG3i79iv04

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 06:29 PM (aDwsi)

47 I couldabeen a contendah

Posted by: toby928© tries ethnic hack humor at March 11, 2014 06:29 PM (QupBk)

48 39 No cats? I was told there would be cats. Or is that only on Saturdays? Whatever. I was hoping for some kittehs.
Posted by: ALH at March 11, 2014 10:28 PM (btTLZ)

Kittehs appear on Caturday, and once in a while on Cursdays.

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 11, 2014 06:30 PM (pAlYe)

49 Tonight's post brought to you by Patty Hearst Symbionia hereby declares war against Peruvia!

Posted by: Symbionia at March 11, 2014 06:30 PM (AymDN)

50 Even if lastName == Lawrence, isn't you ... Posted by: Adriane. ------------ ISWYDT

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 06:30 PM (aDwsi)

51 Leave it to the Smithsonian to print this kind of thing: "Psychologists, meanwhile, have observed an overlap in people who believe in cryptids and those who suffer from psychological conditions including ADHD, depression and even dissociation. These underlying disorders, itÂ’s speculated, increase the chance that people will incorrectly interpret an otherwise explicable real-world experience. In other words, a psychologically stressed or unstable person might catch a brief glimpse of a deer or bear far away in the woods and become certain itÂ’s a bipedal hominid heretofore undiscovered by science." Well, hooooooray for the psychologists which the Smihsonian uses as authorities. Yes, every time I get depressed I think the deer in the woods are actually unicorns, and my friends who have ADHD regularly report having seen Bigfoot. Oh well, at least the Smithsonian hasn't reported that psychologists think anyone who believes in God has a psychological disorder-YET.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 11, 2014 06:30 PM (XyM/Y)

52 Hello North Carolina!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 11, 2014 06:31 PM (HVff2)

53 Hipster in prison writes a book about his political struggle. In it he tells of how Starbucks has betrayed the volk and only Pete's can bring strength and unity.

Posted by: eman at March 11, 2014 06:31 PM (AO9UG)

54 I want a piece of pie, but there isn't any and I don't feel like making one right now. Guess I'll have to eat my ice cream without pie.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 06:31 PM (yh0zB)

55 Also what is this "world water day" crap?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 11, 2014 06:31 PM (RZ8pf)

56 44 "Never Go Full Hipster" For some reason you posted that link from that site instead of this one: Hot Hipster Girls http://tinyurl.com/lmn8kyt That Swede... Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 11, 2014 10:29 PM (kdS6q) Those aren't hipster girls. Those are models cosplaying hipsters.

Posted by: EC at March 11, 2014 06:31 PM (doBIb)

57 /poops brick

Posted by: soothsayer at March 11, 2014 06:31 PM (BAqy2)

58 Call me Tania.

Posted by: Patty H. at March 11, 2014 06:31 PM (DtNNC)

59 So is the definition of "hipster" someone who dresses like a clown and has some ridiculous nostalgia for something that was obsolete before they were born- like Betamax?

Posted by: Naes1984 at March 11, 2014 06:32 PM (LiHKo)

60 Peets.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 11, 2014 06:32 PM (RZ8pf)

61 Hello Horde!

Posted by: Carol at March 11, 2014 06:32 PM (z4WKX)

62 TR - Where was the boar killed?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 06:32 PM (aDwsi)

63 Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 10:30 PM (aDwsi) I know nothing .... NAh THING!

Posted by: Adriane... at March 11, 2014 06:32 PM (qoKTg)

64 I am still so stoked about the election tonight in Florida. I have my gloat all warmed up.

Posted by: ALH at March 11, 2014 06:32 PM (btTLZ)

65 So whatever happened to Patty Hearst & Roland the headless Thompson gunner?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 11, 2014 06:32 PM (HVff2)

66 There is no skunk ape. Fossil record, how does that work? I would less surprised by a 70' megladon than a breeding population of skunk apes. OTOH, after Andrew, who knows what escaped into the Everglades? We have pythons and monitor lizards in the last decades.

Posted by: Beagle at March 11, 2014 06:33 PM (sOtz/)

67 Speaking of hipsters, here is "Evolution of the Hipster": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbTI7eWaQbk

Posted by: The Hipster-punching Hat at March 11, 2014 06:33 PM (AymDN)

68 evening all 54- I made baklava today, you want some? It actually goes pretty well with vanilla ice cream.

Posted by: moki at March 11, 2014 06:34 PM (EvHC8)

69 I want a piece of pie, but there isn't any and I don't feel like making one right now. Guess I'll have to eat my ice cream without pie. Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter ---------------------------------- Ice cream on top of beer? I could inflate a weather balloon.

Posted by: That 70's show. at March 11, 2014 06:34 PM (4Mv1T)

70 55 Also what is this "world water day" crap? We could some Good Generous Amounts of Rain here in my little corner of Texas !!!! If Y'all could send some our way I'd appreciate it !!!

Posted by: Extremely grumpy momma bear at March 11, 2014 06:34 PM (BFwNe)

71 Best man I know is a Viet Vet, living in northern Nevada desert -- outside Reno. Wish I could go just stay with him.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 06:34 PM (aUQgu)

72
The republican party will regret winning the Florida election, and this win disproves the theory that it's all about ObamaCare. It was all about the illogical republican candidate who stands for lower taxes, the elimination of food stamps, denying women a living wage, and the refusal to make temporary American workers legal residents so they can qualify for government programs like food stamps, Section 8 housing, college loans, and other programs that create loyal democrat voters.

Posted by: Hairy Reid, D-Mars at March 11, 2014 06:35 PM (nQjHM)

73 Fenelon - Hmm. I think that I can reword that as an observation regarding Global Warmers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 06:35 PM (aDwsi)

74 I thought that picture of Patty was Bill Ayers at first glance. Maybe they the same person. Either way, both commie assholes.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 11, 2014 06:35 PM (Q8vlx)

75 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 11, 2014 06:35 PM (JMmQ9)

76 There are chimpanzees living in the wild in Florida. The kids are grown up and who can shovel snow anymore.

Posted by: eman at March 11, 2014 06:35 PM (AO9UG)

77 Baklava- Food of the Greek gods

Posted by: That 70's show. at March 11, 2014 06:35 PM (4Mv1T)

78 A ski resort here was doing avalanche control and made a mistake in calculations and took out one of their lifts instead. Oops.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 11, 2014 06:36 PM (RZ8pf)

79
Minimum wage! Koch Brothers! Justice for Trayvon!

Posted by: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Wind-Up Talking Points Robot Whore at March 11, 2014 06:36 PM (x/lJo)

80 72 - Yes! It is an analog of David Koch contributing to cancer research..., the truth is, he HATES medical research.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 06:36 PM (aDwsi)

81 Now witness the snark power of this fully posted and operational overnight thread! Comment when ready, morons!

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at March 11, 2014 06:36 PM (R+XDI)

82 54- I made baklava today, you want some? It actually goes pretty well with vanilla ice cream.

Posted by: moki at March 11, 2014 10:34 PM (EvHC

ooooohhhh....diabetic coma here I come...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 06:36 PM (yh0zB)

83 So we have this going for us, which *could* be nice: Revolutionary membrane can keep your heart beating perfectly forever http://tinyurl.com/qbtfw92 *My apologies if this has already been posted.*

Posted by: Thrawn at March 11, 2014 06:36 PM (WlWt+)

84 Off dang TV show sock

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 11, 2014 06:36 PM (4Mv1T)

85 44

No woman is worth putting up with, even for one night, if she is a self-absorbed dirty hipster (but I repeat myself). Keep in mind that most, if not all, hipsters dutifully pulled the lever for The Historic Worst.

Hipsters are everywhere here. It's like a zombie outbreak, but worse.

Posted by: Iasonas at March 11, 2014 06:37 PM (FHNkr)

86 Megalodon

Posted by: Beagle at March 11, 2014 06:37 PM (sOtz/)

87 @46 I putting that on my Ashville list. Those fuckers would get arrested in five minutes in CLT.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 11, 2014 06:37 PM (0FSuD)

88 A ski resort here was doing avalanche control and made a mistake in calculations and took out one of their lifts instead. Oops. Posted by: Paranoid ------------------- Heh. Did it take a hit from a 106?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 06:37 PM (aDwsi)

89
Why is everyone trolling me about the "election"? Elections happen in November.

Posted by: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Wind-Up Talking Points Robot Whore at March 11, 2014 06:37 PM (x/lJo)

90 g'evenin', 'tonJackson ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 11, 2014 06:37 PM (qoKTg)

91 "24 Democrats are convinced that Koch-bashing is a "politically shrewd" endeavor Well, fuck.....your DNCÂ® audience is room temperature IQ doorknobs and drooling sycophantic cultists.... Of course it plays well." What's funny is that they've identified a villain that 99% of the population doesn't know or care about. I doubt a single extra vote has been cast for Democrats as a result of Koch bashing. I bet most people don't know if they are fictional or non fictional. Dems may as well be vilifying Bartleby the Scrivener or Paul Blart Mall Cop.

Posted by: Naes1984 at March 11, 2014 06:37 PM (LiHKo)

92 My old boss when I first started working down here in the US was a Vietnam vet. He was a doctor in the army. I never knew until someone told me a story about him. The most humblest, demure, soft spoken man I had met. He had seen some really gory stuff in country and somehow kept his sanity in one piece to come home and forget it ever happened.

Posted by: EC at March 11, 2014 06:37 PM (doBIb)

93 But the video clip does look like a person in a gorilla suit trying to look like a "swamp ape",

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 11, 2014 06:38 PM (XyM/Y)

94 78 A ski resort here was doing avalanche control and made a mistake in calculations and took out one of their lifts instead. Oops. Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 11, 2014 10:36 PM (RZ8pf) As a claims adjuster, that would be a fun claim to deny. I'm sorry sir you don't have the I'm a stupid dumb fuck endorsement.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 11, 2014 06:38 PM (HVff2)

95 I could inflate a weather balloon.

Posted by: That 70's show. at March 11, 2014 10:34 PM (4Mv1T)

I've been taking raw veggies to work for snacks...broccoli, celery and carrots...my co-workers wish I'd inflate a balloon rather than let it out into the free air IYKWIM...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 06:38 PM (yh0zB)

96 52 Hello North Carolina! We're sit in the hospital after our visit to Durham, call back later.

Posted by: Da Defeated Heels at March 11, 2014 06:38 PM (0FSuD)

97 I putting that on my Ashville list. Those fuckers would get arrested in five minutes in CLT. Posted by: Nip ----------- Yeah..., right. Peddle up and down hill while drinking beer? A prescription for barf-covered doofi.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 06:38 PM (aDwsi)

98 Debbie Washmachine Shits. As my dear departed dad used to say, "so fuckin ugly she'd stop a train."

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 11, 2014 06:38 PM (Q8vlx)

99 Ch-ch-ch-chimpanzees?!? /runs around tearing clothes off, screaming

Posted by: soothsayer at March 11, 2014 06:38 PM (BAqy2)

100 If Harry Reid is notable to history in any way, it will be as a vile and petty man. A Senate Majority Leader that was a total political hack.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 11, 2014 06:38 PM (3qZbZ)

101
Voter suppression! Poll tax! Pole dance!

Posted by: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Wind-Up Talking Points Robot Whore at March 11, 2014 06:39 PM (x/lJo)

102 No woman is worth putting up with, even for one night, if she is a self-absorbed dirty hipster (but I repeat myself). Keep in mind that most, if not all, hipsters dutifully pulled the lever for The Historic Worst. Hipsters are everywhere here. It's like a zombie outbreak, but worse. Posted by: Iasonas at March 11, 2014 10:37 PM (FHNkr) To quote a family member of mineÂ…"A bouncing dick and a twitching twat know no conscience."

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 11, 2014 06:39 PM (GEICT)

103 No the avalanche hit it. Snow goes SMASH (best if read in Hulk voice)

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 11, 2014 06:39 PM (RZ8pf)

104 They darted and tagged a group of hipsters at the Caltrain station in SF last week.

Posted by: eman at March 11, 2014 06:39 PM (AO9UG)

105 I'm sorry sir you don't have the I'm a stupid dumb fuck endorsement. Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian ------------------------------ I have teenagers. How much to add this to my policy?

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 11, 2014 06:39 PM (4Mv1T)

106 Posted by: Naes1984 at March 11, 2014 10:32 PM (LiHKo)

You pretty much nailed it.

Posted by: Iasonas at March 11, 2014 06:39 PM (FHNkr)

107 He had seen some really gory stuff in country and somehow kept his sanity in one piece to come home and forget it ever happened.

Posted by: EC at March 11, 2014 10:37 PM (doBIb)

I can just about guarantee he didn't forget anything.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 06:40 PM (yh0zB)

108 So ditz and bf want a Lord of the Rings wedding. Ditz has a sparkly white dress that is cute and all. She has elf ears attached. And her hair is dyed Pinkie Pie pink. So much fail.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 06:40 PM (23VXG)

109 Who opened for Right Wing Political Zeppelin?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 11, 2014 06:40 PM (ImNRL)

110 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 11, 2014 10:39 PM (GEICT)

There are limits.

Posted by: Iasonas at March 11, 2014 06:40 PM (FHNkr)

111 He had seen some really gory stuff in country and somehow kept his sanity in one piece to come home and forget it ever happened. Posted by: EC --------------- Thousands of guys do. Many, perhaps most, have not forgotten.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 06:40 PM (aDwsi)

112 Obviously, since the large majority believes that Bush and Republicans are responsible for the economy, it is necessary for the Republicans to offer apologizes and accept blame. Trying to state the truth is a losing proposition. Only going along can lead to electoral victories.

Posted by: Vegetarian and Anti-Vaccine Party at March 11, 2014 06:41 PM (crkWb)

113 Anybody read about the effort to ban the word "bossy"? Evidently, if people are trying to control you... It's a bad thing to criticize them. Wheeee! It's going to be a veritable heaven on earth.... No shame. Freedom to boss and bully people. Freedom from being bullied. Nobody will be allowed to say 'no' to anything. And consent will be the law of the land. And if this seems like a contradiction, well, u r a h8er.

Posted by: bleck at March 11, 2014 06:41 PM (b6Qog)

114 Pinkie Pie pink. So much fail. Posted by: Anna Puma ----------------- No Gerbil earring?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 06:41 PM (aDwsi)

115 Harry Reid is beneath contempt.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 11, 2014 06:41 PM (3qZbZ)

116 I bet most people don't know if they are fictional or non fictional. Dems may as well be vilifying Bartleby the Scrivener or Paul Blart Mall Cop.
Posted by: Naes1984 at March 11, 2014 10:37 PM (LiHKo)

Well Bartleby was just a passive-aggressive asshole.

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 11, 2014 06:41 PM (pAlYe)

117 Yeah..., right. Peddle up and down hill while drinking beer? A prescription for barf-covered doofi. Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 10:38 PM (aDwsi) I don't see how the guy gets a beer or liquor license? Or keeps one. He sells on the bike? Open container? DUI of all of them? It must only go on his property in an enclosed area.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 11, 2014 06:42 PM (0FSuD)

118 I can just about guarantee he didn't forget anything. You would never know it by working with him.

Posted by: EC at March 11, 2014 06:42 PM (doBIb)

119 108 -the geek wedding show? I'm thinking either she doesn't get High elves, or mom put her foot down on the dress and compromised on the bad hair. Like you said, so much fail. I turned it off after a couple of minutes. But Face/Off is pretty good. I appreciate a show that actually show cases a true skill/talent.

Posted by: moki at March 11, 2014 06:42 PM (EvHC8)

120 BC1981, I think you replied to me only instead of CAC regarding Sunday test for tonight. I sent him an email Sunday that you were at a funeral & would not be participating in it. Have you reported results before? I enjoyed it especially because Jolly won.

Posted by: Carol at March 11, 2014 06:42 PM (z4WKX)

121 TR you are better off buying the "happiness endorsement" Told a policy holder once they didn't have that endorsement, my boss heard about that one I'm not catholic but I think I've given up sympathy for lent

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 11, 2014 06:42 PM (HVff2)

122 So ditz and bf want a Lord of the Rings wedding. Ditz has a sparkly white dress that is cute and all. She has elf ears attached. And her hair is dyed Pinkie Pie pink. So much fail.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 10:40 PM (23VXG)

I am all smiles as I envision this.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 06:43 PM (yh0zB)

123 The Koch brothers brothers are a good fund raising vehicle for the democrat party. Good for getting out the vote, easy to write copy, easy to make the case for more money, more action, more involvement.

Just like today's GOP win in Florida, another good fund raising vehicle.

"Donate now to save your liberty, save the party, save your ...
or they will take away your freedom. Because they have money and you don't. So give what money you can to the democrat party so we can speak for you, work on your behalf, and save you from them.

Posted by: Wayne D. Wayne at March 11, 2014 06:44 PM (WNqQy)

124 So ditz and bf want a Lord of the Rings wedding. What's elvish for 'One Ring to Bind Him'?

Posted by: Adriane... at March 11, 2014 06:44 PM (qoKTg)

125 TR you are better off buying the "happiness endorsement" Told a policy holder once they didn't have that endorsement, my boss heard about that one I'm not catholic but I think I've given up sympathy for lent Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian -------------------------- Sympathy is highly overrated.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 11, 2014 06:44 PM (4Mv1T)

126 So is the definition of "hipster" someone who dresses like a clown and has some ridiculous nostalgia for something that was obsolete before they were born- like Betamax?

Add in "and thinks it makes them better than you" and you've got a pretty good working definition.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 11, 2014 06:44 PM (lr3d7)

127 Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at March 11, 2014 10:41 PM (pAlYe) With one of the best lines ever written for not doing work you find crummy. Haven't we all had jobs where we wanted to say, "I would prefer not to." ?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 11, 2014 06:44 PM (XyM/Y)

128 so, yo, this time tomorrow me and LL Cool J will probably be besties!! they are filming some NCIS-LA all around my funsies new office on the waterfront. I'm totes charging my camera battery and have planned, if given the chance, to thank my new bestie for all he does for the troops.

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 06:44 PM (8lmkt)

129 Obama is cutting carriers and destroyers and cruisers -- so how did the fleet magically grow by 8 ships overnight? Easy. Obama has now ruled that hospital ships and tiny patrol craft count as official warship. See? Obama isn't shrinking the Navy at all. And the only ships he's cutting are the ones with all the planes and missiles and unpleasant war-making stuff. Tremble before our might fleet of ... hospital ships! Defense News ‏@defense_news New US Navy Counting Rules Add Up To More Ships http://bit.ly/1qucfCe You might have missed it, but virtually overnight the US Navy just grew, from 283 battle force ships to 291. A windfall purchase? A fast-track transfer? No, just a new way of counting the ships that carry out the NavyÂ’s missions.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 11, 2014 06:45 PM (ZPrif)

130 I'd like to buy the world a Koch.

Posted by: Hillside Singer at March 11, 2014 06:45 PM (ImNRL)

131 Is there any warranty on the Russian bomber? Mileage ? Was it ever submerged in water or exposed to smoke? Is it a hybrid?

Posted by: eman at March 11, 2014 06:45 PM (AO9UG)

132 Of course more people still blame Bush for the shitty economy than Obama Bush followed Rove's strategy of not defending himself against Dem attacks when he was in office, why should he defend himself now, and why should The Architect change his strategy of hoping the Dems tire themselves pounding a punching bag But what do I know, I'm just one of those extremists who doesn't appreciate the genius of the GOPe in tactics on how to persuade the vast moderate middle and win elections

Posted by: kbdabear at March 11, 2014 06:45 PM (aTXUx)

133 No gerbil earrings. Thankfully. And the worse part of this Moki is simply the ditz is being selfish as in 'I want this!" and dragged innocents in to suffer the horror.

Face/Off is good because they are struggling and trying. It is a true test of talent and skill.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 06:45 PM (23VXG)

134 Patty was framed. The gun was empty. (so was her head but . . .) /s

Interesting that she's one of the few that survived.

Hmmmmmm

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 11, 2014 06:45 PM (LSDdO)

135 So ditz and bf want a Lord of the Rings wedding. Ditz has a sparkly white dress that is cute and all. She has elf ears attached. And her hair is dyed Pinkie Pie pink. So much fail.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 10:40 PM (23VXG)

Sounds hot. Pics?

Posted by: Kíli at March 11, 2014 06:45 PM (3a584)

136 Got some harry reid on my shoe once, had to use some epa banned shit to get it off.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 11, 2014 06:45 PM (Q8vlx)

137 obamath

Posted by: soothsayer at March 11, 2014 06:45 PM (BAqy2)

138 120 BC1981, I think you replied to me only instead of CAC regarding Sunday test for tonight. I sent him an email Sunday that you were at a funeral & would not be participating in it. Have you reported results before? I enjoyed it especially because Jolly won. Posted by: Carol at March 11, 2014 10:42 PM (z4WKX) Crap. You're right, I did. Thank you. I have not. I was nervous as hell that I would screw it up.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 11, 2014 06:45 PM (GEICT)

139 Spinach is to Popeye as PBR is to hipsters.

Posted by: EC at March 11, 2014 06:46 PM (doBIb)

140 AMF. Rain and high winds tomorrow NC Morons, bring your "rubbers" to work.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 11, 2014 06:46 PM (0FSuD)

141 But Face/Off is pretty good. I appreciate a show that actually show cases a true skill/talent. Posted by: moki at March 11, 2014 10:42 PM --------------------------------------------- Is that where they transplant John Travolta's and Nic Cage's faces, and then you have to guess who's the worse actor?

Posted by: irright at March 11, 2014 06:46 PM (DtNNC)

142 oh, and, yeah, where the fuck is that plane? I can't get it out of my head. it seems to get stranger and more incomprehensible by the day. sure hope somebody starts coming up with some answers soon.

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 06:46 PM (8lmkt)

143 You would never know it by working with him.

Posted by: EC at March 11, 2014 10:42 PM (doBIb)

Of course not. But that doesn't mean he's forgotten. The only time I've heard my uncle talk about his time in-country was when he remarked that since he was there his three brothers went to Germany. His wife tells me he still wakes up in cold sweats, and it's been over 40 years.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 06:46 PM (yh0zB)

144 Except hipsters can never beat you up... Unless withering snark hurts you.

Posted by: bleck at March 11, 2014 06:47 PM (b6Qog)

145 moki!!!!! big shmooshes, my dear . . . long time no see.

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 06:47 PM (8lmkt)

146 Nip - They peddle around town. I have no idea how the regs affect them, nor do I care, as long as they stay out of my way.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 06:48 PM (aDwsi)

147 Haven't wedding shows outlived their usefulness?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 11, 2014 06:48 PM (RZ8pf)

148 Posted by: EC at March 11, 2014 10:37 PM (doBIb)

He DID NOT forget.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 11, 2014 06:49 PM (LSDdO)

149 Paranoidgirlinseattle...SF fire, apartment complex at 4th and China Basin, no injuries at this time, building will collapse and continue to burn for the next several hours. ( in Mission Bay)

Posted by: concrete girl at March 11, 2014 06:49 PM (vMC7F)

150 A hipster delivered my pizza the other night. I wanted to punch him. Sideburns, thick black framed glasses, one of those 70s corduroy jackets.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 11, 2014 06:49 PM (RZ8pf)

151 Rain and high winds tomorrow NC Morons, bring your "rubbers" to work.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 11, 2014 10:46 PM (0FSuD)

Yeah don't that suck. I saw 82 on my dashboard thermometer today as I was tooling around topless.

The car, pervs. No one wants to see that.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 06:49 PM (yh0zB)

152 148 Haven't weddings outlived their usefulness?

FIFY

Posted by: Iasonas at March 11, 2014 06:49 PM (FHNkr)

153 ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 11, 2014 10:48 PM (RZ8pf) Wait! They had some usefulness at some point?!?

Posted by: Adriane... at March 11, 2014 06:49 PM (qoKTg)

154 145 Except hipsters can never beat you up... Unless withering snark hurts you. One of the funniest things to watch is a hipster slap-fight. No chance of injury unless you count busted lips.

Posted by: EC at March 11, 2014 06:50 PM (doBIb)

155 @129 That is another example of the Orwellian handbook approach to statistics and records of TFG's administration. Hospital ships! Genius!

Posted by: Beagle at March 11, 2014 06:50 PM (sOtz/)

156 Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 10:46 PM (8lmkt)

This is the bane of being human. We can imagine almost every possibility, no matter how remote.

But Occam says that it simply crashed and didn't leave enough debris to be found immediately.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2014 06:50 PM (QFxY5)

157 Shows you the importance of controlling the bureaucracy. Obama was taking heat for cutting the # of warships in the Navy, for shrinking the fleet to the smallest it's been since WW2. So Obama said, fuck that, and redefined what counts as a "warship". Problems solved. Warships saved or created overnight = 8. Well done.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 11, 2014 06:50 PM (ZPrif)

158 hipster delivered my pizza the other night. I wanted to punch him. Sideburns, thick black framed glasses, one of those 70s corduroy jackets. Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle ------------------------------ Sounds like my high school geometry teacher. Mr. Munson? Is that you?

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 11, 2014 06:50 PM (4Mv1T)

159 Never forget the hipster credo - Looook at meeee! (h/t diehipster.com)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 11, 2014 06:50 PM (HsTG8)

160 They peddle around town. I have no idea how the regs affect them, nor do I care, as long as they stay out of my way.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 10:48 PM (aDwsi)

The peddlers are drinking, the driver is sober. He is also the only one that is employed on the rig, the rest are patrons. There is, I believe, a special license for these rigs.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 06:51 PM (yh0zB)

161 Wait! They had some usefulness at some point?!?

Posted by: Adriane... at March 11, 2014 10:49 PM (qoKTg)

Well, you always get a toaster and some nice towels and maybe, if you haven't done it too many times, some of your silver pattern. like anybody even uses that shit. i never use mine, but it's here if I need it.

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 06:51 PM (8lmkt)

162 I have so little faith in polls anymore that I don't really know if it's true that only 1/3 of people polled actually think Obama and the Dems are primarily responsible for the current economic mess or whether this is some manufactured poll from Dems

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 11, 2014 06:51 PM (XyM/Y)

163 Thanks for the details concrete girl. Wonder if it was anti Google Eco terrorists.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 11, 2014 06:52 PM (RZ8pf)

164 Are they shovel ready warships?

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 11, 2014 06:52 PM (Q8vlx)

165 A friend James cannot sleep for more than a couple of hours at a time. Terror dreams. He's afraid to take sleep meds in case he misses his dog alerts.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 06:52 PM (aUQgu)

166 The best way to get a hipster is to just act like you think they are really cool. They want you not to like them....

Posted by: bleck at March 11, 2014 06:52 PM (b6Qog)

167 The Koch brothers hate serves 3 purposes for the Democratic Party, as I see it.:
1) To give the low info voter a name to hate, an Emmanuel Goldstein to blame things on
2) Its useful for fundraising to have a bad guy to solidify the enemy
3) Its a warning to other would-be Republican donors that they will become an evil byword if they dare help the enemy.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 11, 2014 06:52 PM (zfY+H)

168 *slides Peaches a beer* how're YOU doin'?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 06:52 PM (yh0zB)

169 Evolution of the Hipster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbTI7eWaQbk explains it all. With puppets!

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 11, 2014 06:52 PM (ZPrif)

170 Baklava- Food of the Greek gods Posted by: That 70's show. at March 11, 2014 10:35 PM Balaclava - winter hear-wear of the prepared. Which is why I diminish the talk of the Soviet solders in Ukraine "wearing masks" (for the record, I'm pro-Ukraine / anti-Russia). They're wearing balaclavas. Exhibit # 7,895,302,164,216 that The MFM doesn't have a fcukin' clue. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/balaclava

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 11, 2014 06:53 PM (JMmQ9)

171 Yeah don't that suck. I saw 82 on my dashboard thermometer today as I was tooling around topless. The car, pervs. No one wants to see that. Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter ---------------------- My son sad his car said 85 on the way home from school in the Containment Area. Not the speedometer.

I told him it must have been wrong. Guess it wasn't.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 11, 2014 06:53 PM (4Mv1T)

172 PGiS, SFGate has the story. It's pretty bad. A high rise. They're worried about windows popping out. Those can travel a great distance, if that happens.

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 06:53 PM (8lmkt)

173 "Sounds like my high school geometry teacher. Mr. Munson? Is that you?"
What you're saying is that he really Munsoned that pizza delivery?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 11, 2014 06:54 PM (zfY+H)

174 g'evenin', Adriane

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 11, 2014 06:54 PM (JMmQ9)

175 108 So ditz and bf want a Lord of the Rings wedding. Ditz has a sparkly white dress that is cute and all. She has elf ears attached. And her hair is dyed Pinkie Pie pink. So much fail. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 10:40 PM (23VXG) In this household, the response would be, "Go right ahead... and pay for it yourselves."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 11, 2014 06:54 PM (HsTG8)

176 If someone acts like they are better than you, when they smell worse than you ... it's a hipster!

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 11, 2014 06:54 PM (ZPrif)

177 *slides Peaches a beer* how're YOU doin'?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 10:52 PM (yh0zB)

{slurps} doing actually, oddly, quite well, GGE, and thanks for the beer. how YOU doin'?

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 06:54 PM (8lmkt)

178 {{{{{Peaches}}}}}}!!!!!! How are you girlfriend??? Smooches to you darlin. how is your sweet daddy? I have been lurking lately, and too tired to comment. Life surrounded by liberals is draining. I guess that's why we stayed away from the DC metro area as long as we did. Have fun hanging with the stars tomorrow-that is really cool!! And schmooshes to your felines!!

Posted by: moki at March 11, 2014 06:54 PM (EvHC8)

179 Alright Morons, I gotta say that working as a volunteer for CAC on election night was pretty cool. We need more volunteers. He's looking to do a couple primaries and, of course, we need a fucking army for November. Email CAC if interested.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 11, 2014 06:55 PM (GEICT)

180 Peaches at March 11, 2014 10:51 PM (8lmkt) no silver. no crystal. only china pattern I liked was discontinued several years before I was married... Tried the toaster with additional egg heater and it fried - the toaster, that is - after a few months of use. Last towel I bought, seam started to unravel the first time I washed it - Targey, I thinkee. I like wedding cake though ... if not to much frosting ... Sigh.

Posted by: Adriane... at March 11, 2014 06:56 PM (qoKTg)

181 Bing fourth and china basin in SF and you will see a link to news about the fire It's one hellava fire in partially built new buildings near ATT Park

Posted by: eman at March 11, 2014 06:56 PM (AO9UG)

182 Wait a minute. Hospital ships redefined as combatants? So what does Geneva and Hague say about that?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 06:56 PM (23VXG)

183 Everything stupid leftists falsely believe about the Koch Brothers is truthy about Soros.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 11, 2014 06:56 PM (3qZbZ)

184 how YOU doin'?

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 10:54 PM (8lmkt)

As well as can be expected, given the circumstances. Actually, not working today, in the 80's, got to cruise around with the top down and ribs on the grille...life is good today. Tomorrow...well, hell, we'll burn that bridge when we get there.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 06:56 PM (yh0zB)

185 moki, I so get that, being too tired to join the party. i do hope all is well with you and yours. it seems like the year of the horse has already been quite good for a lot of people. who knew??

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 06:57 PM (8lmkt)

186 BC1981, CAC said he would fill in your data. Inlet him know an hour or so before test. How did it go?

Posted by: Carol at March 11, 2014 06:57 PM (z4WKX)

187 181. Tried the toaster with additional egg heater and it fried - the toaster, that is - after a few months of use. Oh-oh the toaster nightmare again

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 11, 2014 06:57 PM (HVff2)

188 65 So whatever happened to Patty Hearst & Roland the headless Thompson gunner?

They run a gas station together in Minot, ND.

Posted by: puddleglum at March 11, 2014 06:57 PM (15w2J)

189 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 11, 2014 10:45 PM (ZPrif) Yeah... and they should not be counting the Littorals as Combat ships either... No missiles... no guns... and they break if you go too fast... The Epitome of a modern Obama Navy....

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 11, 2014 06:57 PM (84gbM)

190 @183 Just strap on some cruise missiles. Problem solved. Another created, sure.

Posted by: Beagle at March 11, 2014 06:58 PM (sOtz/)

191 183 Ray Mabus sucks

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 06:58 PM (aUQgu)

192 Baklabalaclava.... A mask for perverts who want to dominate as or be dominated by a flaky, buttery, syrupy pastry filled with crushed pistachios.

Posted by: bleck at March 11, 2014 06:58 PM (b6Qog)

193 Not surprised that TFG changed the way they count ships He changed the way they calculate the funemployment rate, inflation, GDP Torture the data until it confesses, they say But in time, math wins

Posted by: kbdabear at March 11, 2014 06:58 PM (aTXUx)

194 Wait a minute. Hospital ships redefined as combatants? So what does Geneva and Hague say about that?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 10:56 PM (23VXG)

More curious what USNS Comfort and Mercy says about it...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 06:59 PM (yh0zB)

195 187 BC1981, CAC said he would fill in your data. Inlet him know an hour or so before test. How did it go? Posted by: Carol at March 11, 2014 10:57 PM (z4WKX) The funeral? As well as one can. The family approached it more in the vein of "celebration of life" than "funeral". They did an admirable job of pulling that off. Her two brothers, all 4 of her kids and her husband all spoke. And did well.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 11, 2014 06:59 PM (GEICT)

196 Good evening, Horde.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at March 11, 2014 06:59 PM (N/cFh)

197 Damn this pudding tastes good.

Posted by: Lloyd Loar at March 11, 2014 06:59 PM (9u2hL)

198 Aloha!

I was doing better, but Daylight Wasting Time is just trashing me.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 11, 2014 06:59 PM (T1005)

199 only china pattern I liked was discontinued several years before I was married...

Adriane, you do know about replacements dot com, right? they've got everything. not cheap, but it's there. lots of discontinued stuff. again, not cheap, I am still down to 6 small plates and 6 salad forks, but can't seem to pull the trigger on buying from them.

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 06:59 PM (8lmkt)

200 Deer Hunter had one crazed vet and one American man's man vet.

Posted by: Ron Asfasasucan at March 11, 2014 06:59 PM (jl269)

201 The fire in SF is contained.
Loss of the unoccupied 170-350 units appears complete.
I got smoke from this at my place. Had to close all windows.

Posted by: navybrat at March 11, 2014 06:59 PM (AW7Gr)

202 Hello Gingy.

Posted by: EC at March 11, 2014 06:59 PM (doBIb)

203 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 10:56 PM (23VXG)

Silly wingnut! We only care about that stuff when a (R) is prez!

Posted by: Your Average Lib at March 11, 2014 07:00 PM (FHNkr)

204 186-Peaches, it is. Baby girl is working, and accepted to George Mason for the fall. She's going to study microbiology, with a specialization in micology- mold, spores and fungus, don't you know. A TED presentation on mushrooms started this, and she has been gathering books on them ever since. I'm doing okay, some more surgery coming up, but nothing bad. How is Karen, by the way?

Posted by: moki at March 11, 2014 07:00 PM (EvHC8)

205 Dang. 5 alarm fire is not small-ish ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 11, 2014 07:00 PM (qoKTg)

206 Obama can count whatever he wants to fool the public on the number of warships Putin will still count those that can do actual damage to his hardware and personnel

Posted by: kbdabear at March 11, 2014 07:01 PM (aTXUx)

207 The Koch brothers should run issue advocacy commercials starring themselves with some high quality self-deprecating humor playing on the evil-masterminds thing.

Posted by: irright at March 11, 2014 07:01 PM (DtNNC)

208 "190 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 11, 2014 10:45 PM (ZPrif) Yeah... and they should not be counting the Littorals as Combat ships either... No missiles... no guns... and they break if you go too fast... The Epitome of a modern Obama Navy...." The Israelis were mulling buying Littorals to expand their surface fleet until they realized what overpriced pieces of shit they were. You can buy 3 Incheon-Class Frigates (which is armed like a destroyer) for the price of 1 Littoral.

Posted by: Naes1984 at March 11, 2014 07:01 PM (LiHKo)

209 Ray Mabus
Dem. governor of Mississippi.
Bill Clinton's ambassador to Saudi Arabia
And now Sec. Nav who names ships for communist thugs, buys bio-fuel for $16/gal, and is still trying to purge any trace of booze or fun from sailors lives.

That is all you need to know besides the slogan Mississippi had - "Save Us from Mabus"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 07:01 PM (23VXG)

210 Pull for Wichita State in the NCAA tourney. They play in the Charles Koch Center. It will piss Harry Reid right off.

Posted by: Dave S. at March 11, 2014 07:02 PM (UvR6d)

211 >>>131 Is there any warranty on the Russian bomber? Mileage ? Was it ever submerged in water or exposed to smoke? Is it a hybrid? ----------- It was driven by teetolaling Russian pilots on weekends to intimidate tinpot dictators in Central America and the Middle East only.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 11, 2014 07:02 PM (jsn41)

212 B.G. Burkett's book 'Stolen Valor' is one of the best I've ever read. As a Vietnam-era, but not Vietnam vet, I have run into about every type of 'vet' Burkett catalogs. After 22 years in the military, I still regret never experiencing combat. My combat vet friends say don't sweat it, but I feel like I skated or something. They tell me 22 years is something to be proud of, and I am most days. But, still. Fake combat vets are all over the place today and I despise them. Because I can see how they are trying to make up for not being there.

Posted by: Erowmero at March 11, 2014 07:02 PM (1gcFZ)

213 US and Japan just announced they are jointly developing a new LCS variant last week. This one will actually have some weapons on it.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 11, 2014 07:03 PM (ZPrif)

214 Well horde, if you break it, save the pieces. Good nite, be well.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 11, 2014 07:03 PM (HVff2)

215 88 A ski resort here was doing avalanche control and made a mistake in calculations and took out one of their lifts instead. Oops. Posted by: Paranoid Colorado windage? *suuuuck* Yeah, it's in the right direction. Go for it, Dude!

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 11, 2014 07:03 PM (DXGLR)

216 Haven't weddings outlived their usefulness? Posted by: Iasonas at March 11, 2014 10:49 PM (FHNkr) My thoughts on just that: Same-Sex Marriage IsnÂ’t http://tinyurl.com/k9zrmuu What Will Be What Marriage Once Was? http://tinyurl.com/l9b6jqw The Sundering of Marriage http://tinyurl.com/ky4azrc

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 11, 2014 07:03 PM (AymDN)

217 Alright Morons, I gotta say that working as a volunteer for CAC on election night was pretty cool. We need more volunteers. He's looking to do a couple primaries and, of course, we need a fucking army for November. Email CAC if interested. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 11, 2014 10:55 PM I'd love to help, but I haven't a clue where to start. Serious, You Guys, perhaps we could HordeÂ™-source an on-line seminar to get us started. This just in, Fox Radio just called FL13 for Jolly (R) by 3,400 votes. The Sink (D) people are all out checking the trunks of their cars for "uncounted votes".

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 11, 2014 07:03 PM (JMmQ9)

218 Obama can count whatever he wants to fool the public on the number of warships

Putin will still count those that can do actual damage to his hardware and personnel

Posted by: kbdabear at March 11, 2014 11:01 PM (aTXUx)

But if the convention of designating non-combatants as warships is accepted, that spells the demise of such ships. It's way past time for asses to be kicked over this stupid shit.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:04 PM (yh0zB)

219 The LCS can operate in a combat area. As long as a real combat ship is with it.

Posted by: Ray Mabus at March 11, 2014 07:05 PM (Aif/5)

220 The weird thing about me is that I am personally involved in the whole Patty Hearst/Symbionese Liberation Army thing. How? In a way, unfortunately, that I cannot reveal, because Google exists as do microfilms. But, as a (to be as inscrutable as possible) "young individual" I was repeatedly interviewed by the FBI and the police. I thought, naively at the time, that I was merely being interviewed as a witness; but I now know that my FBI file is as long as my arm and that I was actually being probed as a suspect. A suspect in what exactly I shall leave unsaid. My only revelation is that I was on speaking terms with Cinque. Did I know him by that name? Mum's the word.

Posted by: zombie at March 11, 2014 07:05 PM (mizYg)

221 Peaches at March 11, 2014 10:59 PM (8lmkt) I have heard ... But the hubby is a paper plate kind of guy ... and we'd rather get some nice garden furniture, so I will probably die china pattern less.

Posted by: Adriane... at March 11, 2014 07:05 PM (qoKTg)

222 Well that fire in SF, we now know were Nancy Pelosi was storing her Botox.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 07:05 PM (23VXG)

223 219 Obama can count whatever he wants to fool the public on the number of warships ----------- So no double counting of pangas?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 11, 2014 07:05 PM (jsn41)

224 After 22 years in the military, I still regret never experiencing combat. My combat vet friends say don't sweat it, but I feel like I skated or something. They tell me 22 years is something to be proud of, and I am most days. But, still. Fake combat vets are all over the place today and I despise them. Because I can see how they are trying to make up for not being there.

Posted by: Erowmero at March 11, 2014 11:02 PM (1gcFZ)

20 years of floating around on airports, never got shot at by the enemy. I'm not a hero, but I've been honored to know a few, and humbled by the fact that one or two of them call me friend.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:05 PM (yh0zB)

225 Apparently the SFFD never got to even fight this fire. From the onset it was all defensive tactics. Surround and drown. When the burning, unoccupied structure was fully engaged, there was some danger of it falling in a burning mass toward occupied neighboring buildings. It has not, as of this writing.

Posted by: navybrat at March 11, 2014 07:06 PM (AW7Gr)

226 I'd love to help, but I haven't a clue where to start. Serious, You Guys, perhaps we could HordeÂ™-source an on-line seminar to get us started. This just in, Fox Radio just called FL13 for Jolly (R) by 3,400 votes. The Sink (D) people are all out checking the trunks of their cars for "uncounted votes". Posted by: AltonJackson at March 11, 2014 11:03 PM (JMmQ9) It's dirt simple. Seriously, email CAC and ask. They just called it? They're about 3 1/2 hours behind CAC and the AOSHQDD

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 11, 2014 07:06 PM (GEICT)

227 Wait a minute. Hospital ships redefined as combatants? So what does Geneva and Hague say about that?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 10:56 PM (23VXG)

Shaka, when the walls fell.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2014 07:06 PM (FMbng)

228 Damn Zombie, talk about being in the belly of the beast!

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 11, 2014 07:06 PM (Q8vlx)

229 186-Peaches, it is.

Baby girl is working, and accepted to George Mason for the fall. She's going to study microbiology, with a specialization in micology- mold, spores and fungus, don't you know. A TED presentation on mushrooms started this, and she has been gathering books on them ever since.

I'm doing okay, some more surgery coming up, but nothing bad. How is Karen, by the way?

Posted by: moki at March 11, 2014 11:00 PM (EvHC

Karen is rockin' it, completely over the cancer and bless you for remembering. She's doing a lot of tutoring and still working on her math degree, thinking about busting a move to the Pacific Northwest.

Very, very awesome about your babygirl!!! My daddy is a microbiologist (or was, he's mostly just old now), PhD and everything. Lord knows why people think, yeah, I'll do this, but who am I to question?

I'm so sorry you are still dealing with surgeries. But, we do what we must do, and we do it well, right? Always here for you. I've been remiss with the prayer list lately, but you are back on it.

xoxo

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 07:06 PM (8lmkt)

230

Yep. Which is why when you see any movie or documentary from the '60's that features some hippie going on about the poor little North Vietnamese - what a total phony crock of shit. A few years down the road, when the Khmer Rouge was slaughtering millions in Cambodia, none of the "idealistic" hippies gave a rat's ass.

Posted by: Donna and V. (no ampersand) at March 11, 2014 07:07 PM (R3gO3)

231 Posted by: zombie at March 11, 2014 11:05 PM (mizYg)

Well aren't you just a little rebel then?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:07 PM (yh0zB)

232 Um wow Zombie. Sorry to hear that.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 07:07 PM (23VXG)

233 Switzerland's navy is still stuck in the Alps.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 11, 2014 07:08 PM (bitz6)

234 "Well that fire in SF, we now know were Nancy Pelosi was storing her Botox."
She needs to give Costas some tips, all these years and she's never got any in her eyes.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 11, 2014 07:08 PM (zfY+H)

235 214 US and Japan just announced they are jointly developing a new LCS variant last week. This one will actually have some weapons on it. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 11, 2014 11:03 PM (ZPrif) Only way that happens is if the Japanese finance the entire weapons loadout Research... US was supposed to create a couple new systems for them... but... didn't... Add in that you don't have enough crew to fix anything if it breaks? and you have the fighter plane mentality trying to built into a Ship... IMO... dumb... Oh... and Ret. Aluminum Can Sailor... (Sprue Cans)...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 11, 2014 07:08 PM (84gbM)

236 Posted by: zombie at March 11, 2014 11:05 PM (mizYg)

Donald Defreeze!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2014 07:08 PM (QFxY5)

237

The Koch brothers should run issue advocacy commercials starring themselves with some high quality self-deprecating humor playing on the evil-masterminds thing. Posted by: irright at March 11, 2014 11:01 PM (DtNNC)

I think that's a great idea.

Posted by: Donna and V. (no ampersand) at March 11, 2014 07:08 PM (R3gO3)

238 you had me at "Restless Heart of Darkness".

Posted by: Shoey at March 11, 2014 07:08 PM (vA94g)

239 210 Anna

Amirite, Mabus was proposing to name a destroyer after the AZ woman whose head got shot up in Tucson

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 07:09 PM (aUQgu)

240 Zombie aren't you way too young to have anything to do with that group?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 11, 2014 07:09 PM (RZ8pf)

241 So Florida has its own version of sasquatch known as the 'skunk ape'. yep, its a fact I think she was a dancer at Jerry's North in Jax I think I hit it too

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 07:09 PM (At8tV)

242 229 Damn Zombie, talk about being in the belly of the beast! Posted by: Chavez the Hugo You have no idea. That is not even close to my most radical connection. My whole family, my whole milieu growing up was to the left of Mao.

Posted by: zombie at March 11, 2014 07:09 PM (mizYg)

243 Skunk Ape would really be a good name for a band.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 11, 2014 07:10 PM (zfY+H)

244 *sigh* the more I hear, the gladder I am that I retired when I did.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:10 PM (yh0zB)

245 Everything stupid leftists falsely believe about the Koch Brothers is truthy about Soros. Posted by: cm9000 ----------------- The Left is heavy into projection, thus 'racist', 'anti-woman', 'corrupt' etc., etc,

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 07:10 PM (aDwsi)

246 230-YEAH!!!!!! I am so very very happy to hear that. Kisses to Karen!!! Peaches,thank you. I have missed "hearing" your voice on the interwebs!

Posted by: moki at March 11, 2014 07:10 PM (EvHC8)

247 Posted by: zombie at March 11, 2014 11:05 PM (mizYg) I'm sure that they just interviewed everyone who visited Symbiona that yearÂ…

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 11, 2014 07:10 PM (AymDN)

248 I think she was a dancer at Jerry's North in Jax

I think I hit it too

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 11:09 PM (At8tV)

You know they bulldozed Champions?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:11 PM (yh0zB)

249 241 Zombie aren't you way too young to have anything to do with that group? Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle Well, actually, no. I was alive at that time. Not old enough (you'd think) to have done the slightest criminal act, but that didn't stop the FBI. I was a little devil.

Posted by: zombie at March 11, 2014 07:11 PM (mizYg)

250 I saw Skunk Ape open for Led Zeppelin at the Cow Palace in 1978.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 11, 2014 07:11 PM (jsn41)

251 Koch Derangement Syndrome strikes my neighborhood. My NYC city councilman Ben Kallos has it. He was posting all these indignant tweets because one of the Koch brothers had the audacity to donate $100 million to a local hospital so it could expand. I called Kallos' office and asked the jerk on the phone to explain to me why my city councilman thought it was a bad thing for a rich guy to donate $100 million so a hospital in his district could expand and thus hire more people and cure more people. I had no pity on the guy at all and he had to admit he couldn't understand it either, admitted that it sounded stupid and sounded embarassed.

Posted by: vivi at March 11, 2014 07:11 PM (+/8mE)

252 My former doc was a Corpsman in VN. Later went to med school. A couple of years ago he fell out of a tree stand and broke just about every bone in his body. He is no longer in practice. Too bad. he's a gun-lovin' right winger.

Posted by: CMU VET at March 11, 2014 07:11 PM (ejB0r)

253 Zombie, what turned you? (I realize that might not be a question you can answer in a couple of sentences.)

Posted by: Donna and V. (no ampersand) at March 11, 2014 07:11 PM (R3gO3)

254 Zombie, glad you survived. Does not sound like fun.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 11, 2014 07:11 PM (Q8vlx)

255 Amirite, Mabus was proposing to name a destroyer after the AZ woman whose head got shot up in Tucson Posted by: NCwoof ---------------- The Gabby Giffords, I thought it was a done deal?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 07:11 PM (aDwsi)

256 241 Zombie aren't you way too young to have anything to do with that group? Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 11, 2014 11:09 PM (RZ8pf) --- This is what I was thinking.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at March 11, 2014 07:12 PM (N/cFh)

257 They just called it? They're about 3 1/2 hours behind CAC and the AOSHQDD Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 11, 2014 11:06 PM Please allow me to revise and extend: I heard on the news at the top of the hour that Fox Radio is reporting that Jolly beat Sink.

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 11, 2014 07:12 PM (JMmQ9)

258 Put a nuclear missile cannon on the Littoral Combat Ship.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 11, 2014 07:12 PM (bitz6)

259 That is all you need to know besides the slogan Mississippi had - "Save Us from Mabus" Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 11:01 PM (23VXG) Badonkadonk (23VXG) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabus note which entry is first.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 11, 2014 07:12 PM (qyfb5)

260 249 You know they bulldozed Champions? NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! damnit one of my hangouts

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 07:12 PM (At8tV)

261 NCwoot.

LCS-10 is USS Gabrielle Gifford. A ship that can't defend itself.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 07:12 PM (23VXG)

262 243-mercy zombie, you have been through it. Thank you for what you do-even though it's difficult to look at. Which is why it's amazing that you do it, day in and day out.

Posted by: moki at March 11, 2014 07:13 PM (EvHC8)

263 Posted by: zombie at March 11, 2014 11:09 PM (mizYg)

I went to Berkeley in 1981, and there were vestiges of the lunacy of the early 1970s. Thankfully most of it was spoiled rich kids rebelling against mommy and daddy, but there was enough hard-core to push me firmly to the right.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2014 07:13 PM (QFxY5)

264 The USS Splatter?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 11, 2014 07:13 PM (bitz6)

265 254 Zombie, what turned you? (I realize that might not be a question you can answer in a couple of sentences.) Posted by: Donna and V. (no ampersand) 9/11 was THE turning point. But the seeds were sown by the anti G-8 riots in Seattle just beforehand. I knew people involved and realized they were insane. As a result of our ideology.

Posted by: zombie at March 11, 2014 07:13 PM (mizYg)

266 I saw Skunk Ape open for Iron Monkey in 98.

Posted by: Iasonas at March 11, 2014 07:13 PM (FHNkr)

267 The Koch brothers should run issue advocacy commercials

"Keeping up with the Kochs." By god, I would pay to see that.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 11, 2014 07:14 PM (xq1UY)

268 196-BC1981, That should be new standard for funerals instead of screaming & crying hysterically. My mother was one of nine children, I have cousins closer to my late mother's age than mine. When one of my uncles passed they started wailing! Crying & screaming at the Church as if it was a shock. He was the oldest & it was not unexpected. His wife did the same. I came up with work emergency when his wife joined him.c

Posted by: Carol at March 11, 2014 07:14 PM (z4WKX)

269 Gotta log off -- family summons! All future questions and doubts will be left unresolved. Sorry! Ciao.

Posted by: zombie at March 11, 2014 07:14 PM (mizYg)

270 253 CMU VET

Can he still fire a weapon. These days that's what counts

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 07:14 PM (aUQgu)

271 damnit
one of my hangouts

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 11:12 PM (At8tV)

Mine, too. I was gonna head down there to see if they still had quarter drafts...and it was all gone. I was like all Charlton Heston in the parking lot...."DAMN YOU!!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELLLLLL!!!!!"

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:14 PM (yh0zB)

272 Merovign, yeah that one has always cracked me up. Mississippi had the anti-Christ as Governor. Then he gets sent to Riyahd. And what is he doing now? Gutting the fleet.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 07:14 PM (23VXG)

273 I gotta go watch NCIS, in case there is a quiz tomorrow. Also, I was supposed to play Patty Hearst in a movie back in the early 70s. Thank jeebus that never happened!

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 07:14 PM (8lmkt)

274 ParanoidGirlinSeattle...Still have your bottle of 14 Hands from the playoffs. cheers

Posted by: concrete girl at March 11, 2014 07:14 PM (vMC7F)

275 One more nice thing about living out in the sticks. Have not yet seen one of those hipster creatures.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at March 11, 2014 07:14 PM (kxSZr)

276 Please allow me to revise and extend: I heard on the news at the top of the hour that Fox Radio is reporting that Jolly beat Sink. Posted by: AltonJackson at March 11, 2014 11:12 PM (JMmQ9) Ah. Yes. As best we can figure, the AOSHQDD was the first to make the call. A full twenty minutes ahead of AP.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 11, 2014 07:14 PM (GEICT)

277 USS Koch of Doom.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 11, 2014 07:14 PM (bitz6)

278 Ciao zombie.

No more like last ONT please.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 07:15 PM (23VXG)

279 Zombie, thanks for allyou do. You have documented some truly bizzare shit. It needs to be told.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 11, 2014 07:15 PM (Q8vlx)

280 Cheers!

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 11, 2014 07:15 PM (RZ8pf)

281 234 Switzerland's navy is still stuck in the Alps. Posted by: Boss Moss at March 11, 2014 11:08 PM --------------------------------------------------------------- We haven't been neutral on purpose. When climate-changening melts these glaciers, we're attacking in every direction.

Posted by: The Swiss (and we're paying overtime if need be) at March 11, 2014 07:15 PM (DtNNC)

282

vivi, I saw that story at the WSJ today.

Insane - protesting a $100 million gift to a hospital. The left calls the 1% greedy and selfish, but then scream when they actually give their money to a cause everybody agrees is good.

Maybe the Kochs should say, Ok, we won't give any money to blue-staters any more. We'll only donate to hospitals in Texas. Then the left would scream about that. Because it's all they know how to do.

Posted by: Donna and V. (no ampersand) at March 11, 2014 07:16 PM (R3gO3)

283 night all, night peaches, take care and have a great day!

Posted by: moki at March 11, 2014 07:16 PM (EvHC8)

284 I saw Uriah Heap open for Skunk Ape at Pine Knob in 1979.

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 11, 2014 07:16 PM (JMmQ9)

285 274 I gotta go watch NCIS uggghhhhh hate that damn show nothing like reality

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 07:16 PM (At8tV)

286 Here's the US/Japan LCS story Raymond Pritchett ‏@Galrahn Mar 7 Wow! RT @Diplomat_APAC: US, #Japan to Jointly Develop Littoral Combat Ship #LCS http://bit.ly/1dwrYuP

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 11, 2014 07:16 PM (ZPrif)

287 Good night Moki.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 07:17 PM (23VXG)

288 USS Koch of Doom.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 11, 2014 11:14 PM (bitz6)

USS WarKoch...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:17 PM (yh0zB)

289 Mine, too. I was gonna head down there to see if they still had quarter drafts...and it was all gone. I was like all Charlton Heston in the parking lot...."DAMN YOU!!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELLLLLL!!!!!" Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 11:14 PM (yh0zB) But would you have actually shown? ;-)

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 11, 2014 07:17 PM (GEICT)

290 Everything stupid leftists falsely believe about the Koch Brothers is truthy about Soros.
Posted by: cm9000 at March 11, 2014 10:56 PM (3qZbZ)

I'd never even heard of the evil mastermind Super Koch Bros until well after Glenn Beck began to publicize Soros on his FNC show. I don't think there's any coincidence there.

Posted by: mugiwara at March 11, 2014 07:17 PM (3a584)

291 Put a nuclear missile cannon on the Littoral Combat Ship.>>

Put nuke Tomahawks on a new version of PT boats. Make a crowd source navy.

Posted by: The Hickster at March 11, 2014 07:18 PM (TI3xG)

292 So, today Mrs. Crank and I went to get maintenance done on her 2010 CRV--it's got 106K mikes on it and is losing oil without an obvious reason. She starts drooling over the Pilot, and we need something bigger. So now I am the proud owner of a fully-pimped 2014 Pilot--and got $10K in trade in for the CRV, which paid off the balance on the CRV and gave a few thousand towards a down payment, then kicked another $5K to knock down the payments. Mrs. Crank is very happy, and I'll breathe easier that she and baby Crank will be in a bigger and safer vehicle. Still about $20K less than a Suburban and big enough to last several years.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at March 11, 2014 07:18 PM (R+XDI)

293 Which the K bros would start a media group; ie actual news.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 07:18 PM (aUQgu)

294 But would you have actually shown? ;-)

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 11, 2014 11:17 PM (GEICT)

We'll never know now...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:18 PM (yh0zB)

295 272 damnit one of my hangouts Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 11:12 PM (At8tV) Mine, too. I was gonna head down there to see if they still had quarter drafts...and it was all gone. I was like all Charlton Heston in the parking lot...."DAMN YOU!!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELLLLLL!!!!!" Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 11:14 PM (yh0zB) What is place about which you speak in honored tones, mighty Moron?

Posted by: eman at March 11, 2014 07:18 PM (AO9UG)

296 I think NCIS should wrap it up this season and close shop. They're really really close to the "we've been here too long" shows where aliens and special guest stars start showing up.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 11, 2014 07:19 PM (zfY+H)

297 We let Hannibal march through our cantons with his elephants, so don't be saying that we Swiss don't know how to party down. So we're not just all about hot chocolate and shit.

Posted by: The Swiss at March 11, 2014 07:19 PM (jsn41)

298 NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! damnit one of my hangouts Posted by: navycopjoe --------------------- The passage of time robs us of one thing after another.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 07:20 PM (aDwsi)

299 I won a 13" TV at a Champion's raffle once. They had a lingerie show at half time.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 11, 2014 07:20 PM (bitz6)

300 My combat vet friends say don't sweat it, but I feel like I skated or something. They tell me 22 years is something to be proud of, and I am most days. What they're telling you is: You rolled the dice and took your chances like you should. The important thing is, you took your chances. Making it over 22 years, is no mean feat. It's not easy.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 11, 2014 07:20 PM (DXGLR)

301 296 a little hole in the wall bar right out the gate from naval station Jacksonville a old school fid sailor legend due to quarter draft and toothless chicks

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 07:20 PM (At8tV)

302 What is place about which you speak in honored tones, mighty Moron?

Posted by: eman at March 11, 2014 11:18 PM (AO9UG)

It was a skanky sailor dive in Jax Beach, right off the exit to Mayport Road. They served 25 cent draft beer...and it was worth every penny and not a cent more.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:21 PM (yh0zB)

303 According to sf gate they rescued a dog from the burning building. I wonder if it was a steay, a dog left to guard the place, or a neighborhood dog out playing.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 11, 2014 07:21 PM (RZ8pf)

304 I love that picture. Admit it. All of you, at one time or another, wished you were me. Power to the people.

Posted by: Tania at March 11, 2014 07:21 PM (1mtKP)

305 USS WarKoch... ------------- Possible thread winner.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 07:22 PM (aDwsi)

306 A little musical accompaniment for tonight's ONT sponsor: From the '70s, http://youtu.be/WCY1pX5ccVk Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 11, 2014 10:46 PM (0AKks) Love that early version of "She"

Posted by: The Misfit Hat at March 11, 2014 07:22 PM (AymDN)

307 Oddly enough...the strip club that was on Normandy right outside NAS Cecil Field is still there...although Cecil Field is gone.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:23 PM (yh0zB)

308 navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 11:20 PM (At8tV) NAS JAX. Place of my birth. ... The hospital, not Champions ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 11, 2014 07:23 PM (qoKTg)

309 294 Which the K bros would start a media group; ie actual news. Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 11:18 PM (aUQgu) I wish they could have bought the LA Times. They still might. Talk about heads exploding. A sonic boom on both coasts.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 11, 2014 07:24 PM (DXGLR)

310 Place of my birth. ... The hospital, not Champions ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 11, 2014 11:23 PM (qoKTg)

That is a pretty nice hospital...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:24 PM (yh0zB)

311 The US Navy used to have a fast attack that was smaller cheaper and more lethal than the LCS, it was the Pegasus class of hydrofoils equipped with Harpoon missiles and a 76mm gun forward.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 07:24 PM (23VXG)

312 I think NCIS should wrap it up this season and close shop. They're really really close to the "we've been here too long" shows where aliens and special guest stars start showing up.Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 11, 2014 11:19 PM (zfY+H)
How about a special guest star alien. ALF.

Posted by: Hillside Singer at March 11, 2014 07:24 PM (ImNRL)

313 A toast to Champions.

Posted by: eman at March 11, 2014 07:25 PM (AO9UG)

314 a old school fid sailor legend due to quarter draft and toothless chicks Posted by: navycopjoe ----------------------- heh. I remember toothless, bleached blonde, and fishnet stockings with holes in them. Those places were always right outside of the gates. Some had been around since WWII.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 07:25 PM (aDwsi)

315 309 NAS JAX. Place of my birth. ... The hospital, not Champions ... thank god here's a its a small world.... the poster sassypants? we were born in the same hospital

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 07:25 PM (At8tV)

316 re: the harry reid lookalike pic any fan of Farscape will recognize the similarities between harry reid and a Vorc http://bluey.somee.com/texts/214/vorc.jpg

Posted by: soothsayer at March 11, 2014 07:25 PM (BAqy2)

317 I gotta go watch NCIS, in case there is a quiz tomorrow. Also, I was supposed to play Patty Hearst in a movie back in the early 70s. Thank jeebus that never happened!

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 11:14 PM

You're kidding, right? That would have been awesome. I've played some unsavoury characters and it's much more fun than doing good guys. What happened?

Posted by: otho at March 11, 2014 07:25 PM (9gNQd)

318 312 The US Navy used to have a fast attack that was smaller cheaper and more lethal than the LCS, it was the Pegasus class of hydrofoils equipped with Harpoon missiles and a 76mm gun forward. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 11:24 PM (23VXG) You had to say Pegasus.

Posted by: Lee Adama at March 11, 2014 07:26 PM (AO9UG)

319 heh. I remember toothless, bleached blonde, and fishnet stockings with holes in them.

Those places were always right outside of the gates. Some had been around since WWII.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 11:25 PM (aDwsi)

Yep, you always know you're on the right street heading to the base when you see a sudden increase of strip clubs, adult book stores, title loan places and pawnshops...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:26 PM (yh0zB)

320 any fan of Farscape will recognize the similarities between harry reid and a Vorc Posted by: soothsayer at March 11, 2014 11:25 PM (BAqy2) Badonkadonk (BAqy2) Sort of around the eyes, but mostly the leg-humping.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 11, 2014 07:26 PM (qyfb5)

321 315 Those places were always right outside of the gates. Some had been around since WWII. my dad and I used to go to the bars around san diego and here that he used to go to during the Korean war a few of them still had his name carved into the tables

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 07:27 PM (At8tV)

322 Wasted Resources Funny, that's exactly the word I use. I'm being wasted, I could be helping some company.

Posted by: t-bird at March 11, 2014 07:27 PM (FcR7P)

323 http://bluey.somee.com/texts/214/vorc.jpg The vorc was at least useful to his fellow life forms ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 11, 2014 07:27 PM (qoKTg)

324 GGE you forgot the used car lots with signs saying "E-1 financing"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 07:27 PM (23VXG)

325 325 GGE you forgot the used car lots with signs saying "E-1 financing" ha!! so true

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 07:28 PM (At8tV)

326 GGE you forgot the used car lots with signs saying "E-1 financing"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 11:27 PM (23VXG)

How could I have forgotten? "We finance E-1 and up!" well, I guess the E-zeros are just fooked then...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:28 PM (yh0zB)

327 I haven't visited West Point in awhile, but the only thing I remember being right outside the front gate was a McDonald's.

Posted by: Iasonas at March 11, 2014 07:29 PM (FHNkr)

328 Crank. When is baby due? I know I have asked & fallen asleep before reading reply. It is very likely to happen again soon.

Posted by: Carol at March 11, 2014 07:29 PM (z4WKX)

329 I left the radio on too long: Alex Jones just sent Satan to TheBarrelÂ™...

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 11, 2014 07:29 PM (JMmQ9)

330 Didn't Patty Hearst end up in a movie? Name escapes me. Peaches - Tell us more. Were there casting couches involved?..., inquiring minds want to know.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 07:29 PM (aDwsi)

331 What happened?

Posted by: otho at March 11, 2014 11:25 PM (9gNQd)

nothing happened . . . it was just rich people talking. and, a very good thing, as I am not an actress, nor do I play one on tee vee, and I am one of the least photogenic people I have ever met. srsly, this was a blessing.

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 07:31 PM (8lmkt)

332 The USN needs something scary. The LCS looks like a really cool party boat.

Posted by: Beagle at March 11, 2014 07:31 PM (sOtz/)

333 the guy who wanted to make the movie inherited one of the biggest portfolios of NYC real estate ever assembled. that all went to shit, too. i don't know the details, but it's quite a well-known story.

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 07:32 PM (8lmkt)

334 I left the radio on too long: Alex Jones just sent Satan to TheBarrelÂ™...

When I said I'm just a damned barrel, you laughed.

Posted by: The Barrel at March 11, 2014 07:32 PM (0AKks)

335 Morons: Question: I need to get out of the peoples republic of Wisconsin. Can't stand the winters anymore and need a job when I move. Any suggestions? Scott Walker won't be around here forever.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 11, 2014 07:33 PM (Q8vlx)

336 333 The USN needs something scary you've obviously never been in a female berthing

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 07:33 PM (At8tV)

337 website called Malaysia Chronicle is reporting Meanwhile, 20 passengers on the missing plane are world-class electronic geeks for a major Defense contracting company that specializing in such things as weapons that disappear planes and ships for the battlefield. They are employed by a company designing and manufacturing cutting edge electronic weaponry for the Department of Defense. Such weaponry includes those making it possible to vanish planes off the radar. - that must be the company based in Austin, TX could be baloney maybe they were the targets?

Posted by: thunderb at March 11, 2014 07:34 PM (zOTsN)

338 325 GGE you forgot the used car lots with signs saying "E-1 financing"
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 11:27 PM (23VXG)
Was there a Tyrell's jewelry store?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 11, 2014 07:34 PM (ImNRL)

339 two words, Chavez Hugo . . . avoid California

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 07:35 PM (8lmkt)

340 Patty Hearst has 13 movie or TV credits.
I think the most watched would have been "Serial Mom".

Posted by: navybrat at March 11, 2014 07:35 PM (AW7Gr)

341 @337 I saw Female Berthing open for Violent Femmes.

Posted by: Beagle at March 11, 2014 07:35 PM (sOtz/)

342 The USN needs something scary. The LCS looks like a really cool party boat. Posted by: Beagle at March 11, 2014 11:31 PM (sOtz/) Badonkadonk (sOtz/) No, it's scary from a certain angle, like if you turn your head and squint... ...no, like that, it looks like a Tiki lamp. Hmmm.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 11, 2014 07:35 PM (qyfb5)

343 thunderb at March 11, 2014 11:34 PM (zOTsN) I thought all travel departments avoided this like the plaque since the Delta / Texas microburst / AT & T (iirc) debacle ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 11, 2014 07:36 PM (qoKTg)

344 Peaches: for sure girl. Not an option for me. Daughter wants to move there. I am definitely discouraging that!

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 11, 2014 07:36 PM (Q8vlx)

345 342 I saw Female Berthing open for Violent Femmes. so have I during a GQ drill once it scarred me for life

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 07:37 PM (At8tV)

346 The Koch Brothers back same-sex marriage, so do these protesters hate gays and the sick, survey says yes.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 11, 2014 07:37 PM (WdbF7)

347

Oooooohhhh goody! Seth Myers show has Rachel Maddow on as a guest tonight. So, besides having an unfortunate timeslot and a hipster douchebag host.... they are going to start (or continue) pumping through shitty guests. I give Seth Myers another 6 months. Fallon might last a couple years but he is no Jay Leno. NBC's business model must not include drawing an audience or making any money.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at March 11, 2014 07:37 PM (jucos)

348 you've obviously never been in a female berthing

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 11:33 PM (At8tV)

For which I am forever grateful.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:38 PM (yh0zB)

349 you've obviously never been in a female berthing

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 11:33 PM (At8tV)

For which I am forever grateful.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:38 PM (yh0zB)

350 336 Midland, TX and North Dakota come to mind, depending on what kind of jobs you want and are qualified for.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 11, 2014 07:38 PM (ojnk6)

351 336 Midland, TX and North Dakota come to mind, depending on what kind of jobs you want and are qualified for.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 11, 2014 07:38 PM (ojnk6)

352 There is no skunk ape. Fossil record, how does that work?

I would less surprised by a 70' megladon than a breeding population of skunk apes.

OTOH, after Andrew, who knows what escaped into the Everglades? We have pythons and monitor lizards in the last decades.

Posted by: Beagle at March 11, 2014 10:33 PM (sOtz/)

How does that go, now? Absence of proof is not proof of absence? Good fossils of land vertebrates are very scarce. You pretty much need to have very special conditions at the site of an animal's death for there to be any chance of it being preserved as a fossil. Normal course of events is that scavengers gobble up and scatter the remains.

Having said that, and having grown up in sasquatch country in B.C., I really doubt the critter exists. Somebody, somewhere, at some time, toting a gun, would have brought home a trophy to end all trophies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 11, 2014 07:38 PM (OVS8r)

353 There is no skunk ape. Fossil record, how does that work?

I would less surprised by a 70' megladon than a breeding population of skunk apes.

OTOH, after Andrew, who knows what escaped into the Everglades? We have pythons and monitor lizards in the last decades.

Posted by: Beagle at March 11, 2014 10:33 PM (sOtz/)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 11, 2014 07:38 PM (OVS8r)

354 20 Whenever I'm in the woods, no matter what else I'm doing, part of my mind is just hoping I find Bigfoot.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 11, 2014 10:21 PM (ZshNr)

would look great stuffed and standing in he living room.

Posted by: Guido at March 11, 2014 07:38 PM (15qFH)

355 20 Whenever I'm in the woods, no matter what else I'm doing, part of my mind is just hoping I find Bigfoot.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 11, 2014 10:21 PM (ZshNr)

would look great stuffed and standing in he living room.

Posted by: Guido at March 11, 2014 07:38 PM (15qFH)

356 Freescale Semiconductor has been developing microprocessors, sensors and other technology for the past 50 years. The technology it creates is commonly referred to as embedded processors, which according to the firm are Â“stand-alone semiconductors that perform dedicated computing functions in electronic systems.Â” The fact that the employees were on board has sparked one of the many conspiracy theories associated with the plane vanishing, which is that there was electronic weaponry on board. The theory purports that the weaponry enabled some of the people on boardÂ–the Freescale employees and the people who boarded the plane with fake passportsÂ–to jam radar and other electronic observation, making the plane essentially invisible except to eyewitnesses. One of the authors of the theory, elaborating in a post on popular conspiracy website Before ItÂ’s News, alludes to a U.S. intelligence assessment on capabilities of Israel in regards to an attack on Iran. Any attack would include jamming the electric grid, Internet, and cell phone network, using devices such as one that mimics a maintenance cell phone signal that commands the cell network to Â“sleep.Â” The report also references a story from Fox News that explained that new stealth technology makes airplanes invisible to radar, and can also make them hard to spot with the naked eye. from Epoch Times cray cray

Posted by: thunderb at March 11, 2014 07:39 PM (zOTsN)

357 Freescale Semiconductor has been developing microprocessors, sensors and other technology for the past 50 years. The technology it creates is commonly referred to as embedded processors, which according to the firm are Â“stand-alone semiconductors that perform dedicated computing functions in electronic systems.Â” The fact that the employees were on board has sparked one of the many conspiracy theories associated with the plane vanishing, which is that there was electronic weaponry on board. The theory purports that the weaponry enabled some of the people on boardÂ–the Freescale employees and the people who boarded the plane with fake passportsÂ–to jam radar and other electronic observation, making the plane essentially invisible except to eyewitnesses. One of the authors of the theory, elaborating in a post on popular conspiracy website Before ItÂ’s News, alludes to a U.S. intelligence assessment on capabilities of Israel in regards to an attack on Iran. Any attack would include jamming the electric grid, Internet, and cell phone network, using devices such as one that mimics a maintenance cell phone signal that commands the cell network to Â“sleep.Â” The report also references a story from Fox News that explained that new stealth technology makes airplanes invisible to radar, and can also make them hard to spot with the naked eye. from Epoch Times cray cray

Posted by: thunderb at March 11, 2014 07:39 PM (zOTsN)

358 nothing happened . . . it was just rich people talking. and, a very good thing, as I am not an actress, nor do I play one on tee vee, and I am one of the least photogenic people I have ever met. srsly, this was a blessing.

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 11:31 PM

Oh, ok. It didn't make it into production, it sounds like. Seriously, don't sell yourself short. Doing villains is bloody easy and looks isn't a deal breaker. Just ham it up, baby and chew some scenery!

Posted by: otho at March 11, 2014 07:39 PM (9gNQd)

359 nothing happened . . . it was just rich people talking. and, a very good thing, as I am not an actress, nor do I play one on tee vee, and I am one of the least photogenic people I have ever met. srsly, this was a blessing.

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2014 11:31 PM

Posted by: otho at March 11, 2014 07:39 PM (9gNQd)

360

The anti war movement in the 60's died when Nixon ended the draft and started the lottery for service.

The anti war yuppies cared nothing about Vietnam, only their chicken shit asses.

I was there. I watched it disappear in six months.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 11, 2014 10:21 PM (0FSuD)

Too true. One (asshole) BILwas truthful and told the story about how he checked the lottery numbers. Found out he was in the 300's and went out to get drunk and celebrate. Freely said that if he had a low number, he was going to run for Canada.

Another was in the Nat'l Guard. Said he was willing to go, but he felt being in the Guard, just like ALL his brothers had done and did after the war, was enough. Alsos said the Guard was the biggest bunch of screw-ups he ever met. Two week Summer Training was spent in the baracks, waiting for an artillery call. Fired the gun once or twice, went back to the barracks and read stroke mags.

The third was young enough that he and his younger brothers missed the war. He volunteered and spent his time on the East German border listening to the East Germans. His younger brother listened to the Russians a few years later from the same kaserne.

Sometimes, I feel I should have volunteered. But the peanut was in charge, and frankly, he scared me. Just like Barack does today. I felt I would have been a pawn, and Jimmy would have left us to die in some hell hole if it would help his polls. After he sent "unarmed" F-15's to protect Saudi Arabia, I realized I was right.

Thank God we survived Jimmy Carter. I pray we survive BHO. But I feel that nukes will fly somewhere before 1/21/2017.

Posted by: rd at March 11, 2014 07:39 PM (D+lxs)

361

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 11, 2014 10:21 PM (0FSuD)

Thank God we survived Jimmy Carter. I pray we survive BHO. But I feel that nukes will fly somewhere before 1/21/2017.

Posted by: rd at March 11, 2014 07:39 PM (D+lxs)

362 Evening horde. Who wins the Senility Grudgematch? McCain or Reid? Two men enter, one man leaves. Kind of different than Reids policy of two boys enter, no boys leave.

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 07:39 PM (MtC8f)

363 Evening horde. Who wins the Senility Grudgematch? McCain or Reid? Two men enter, one man leaves. Kind of different than Reids policy of two boys enter, no boys leave.

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 07:39 PM (MtC8f)

364 I'd just like to ask, has anyone ever seen the skunk ape and Alan Grayson together, hmmm? Didn't think so....

Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2014 07:40 PM (YEQ2h)

365 I'd just like to ask, has anyone ever seen the skunk ape and Alan Grayson together, hmmm? Didn't think so....

Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2014 07:40 PM (YEQ2h)

366 Morons: Question: I need to get out of the peoples republic of Wisconsin. Can't stand the winters anymore and need a job when I move. Any suggestions? Scott Walker won't be around here forever. Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 11, 2014 11:33 PM I'd say North Dakota, except: winters. Go to Tennessee, stay away from my home state of Texas. I'll return home, someday, and I'll need "elbow room".

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 11, 2014 07:40 PM (JMmQ9)

367 dammit

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 11, 2014 07:41 PM (JMmQ9)

368 I heard somewhere the Koch Brothers donated money to the Clinton Campaign.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 11, 2014 07:41 PM (bitz6)

369 But that's nothing that a good shade tree mechanic can't tackle. Sure. Try blowing that past the FAA to certify. How about "Fuck. No."

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 11, 2014 07:41 PM (DXGLR)

370

Posted by: booger at March 11, 2014 07:41 PM (xRDdL)

371 Oh, ok. It didn't make it into production, it sounds like. Seriously, don't sell yourself short. Doing villains is bloody easy and looks isn't a deal breaker. Just ham it up, baby and chew some scenery! Posted by: otho at March 11, 2014 11:39 PM (9gNQd) Peaches was part of Fox Force Five?!?

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 07:41 PM (MtC8f)

372 Such weaponry includes those making it possible to vanish planes off the radar. -
that must be the company based in Austin, TX
could be baloney
maybe they were the targets?
Posted by: thunderb at March 11, 2014 11:34 PM (zOTsN)

Freescale Semiconductor is a well known spin-off from Motorola and mostly makes ARM chips and other specialized chips. It's very likely that one of their chips is in a device you own. And last I checked cloaking devices were NOT in their product guide.

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 11, 2014 07:41 PM (pAlYe)

373 Not again.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 11, 2014 07:41 PM (bitz6)

374 Rick Perry on Jimmy Kimmel tonite if anyone is interested.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 11, 2014 07:42 PM (Q8vlx)

375 Who wins the Senility Grudgematch?

McCain or Reid?

Two men enter, one man leaves.

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 11:39 PM (MtC8f)

Either way...the rest of us loses...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:42 PM (yh0zB)

376 Geez Zombie, at this point I'd have to wonder if you ever crossed paths with Randall Flagg, back when he was whispering in Donald DeFreeze's ear.

Posted by: Epobirs at March 11, 2014 07:42 PM (bPxS6)

377 Peaches was part of Fox Force Five?!?

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 11:41 PM

Hahahaha! I'll pay that one.

Posted by: otho at March 11, 2014 07:43 PM (9gNQd)

378 "I wish they could have bought the LA Times. "
The Koch brothers didn't get that rich by making dumb monetary decisions like buying a newspaper.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 11, 2014 07:43 PM (zfY+H)

379 353 @thunderb

Interesting proposition based on a recent Boeing aircraft directive (AD):

http://mh370lost.tumblr.com/

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 07:43 PM (aUQgu)

380 I saw some kind of plane with a laser cannon on one of those sciency shows once. Mirror cluster in the nose.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 11, 2014 07:43 PM (bitz6)

381
I wore the uniform with PRIDE, but when I see these young men and women serving today, it humbles me.

Been at the very tip of the spear, fwiw.

I will say that ANYONE who served in ANY capacity deserves to be honored for their service.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 11, 2014 07:44 PM (SAMxH)

382 I'm AltonJackson and I need to go to TheBarrelÂ™. I do have my rubber gloves with me tonight...

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 11, 2014 07:44 PM (JMmQ9)

383 Who wins the Senility Grudgematch? McCain or Reid?

But they're both on the same side!

Posted by: Capt. Obvious at March 11, 2014 07:44 PM (C94J7)

384 Thanks guys. Been to North Dakota twice. Great people but shit thats worse than Wisconsin for climate. I'm not tough enough anymore.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 11, 2014 07:45 PM (Q8vlx)

385 374 You're gonna need them, if my info is correct.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 11, 2014 07:45 PM (ojnk6)

386 dammit Posted by: AltonJackson ---------------------- If I didn't know better I'd say you are angling for squatter's rights in The Barrel. Sorta like Michael Keaton in Pacific Heights.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 11, 2014 07:45 PM (4Mv1T)

387 376 I was thinking of living the Dakotas 9 months and then wintering somewhere warm.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 11, 2014 07:46 PM (bitz6)

388 Ahhh, Navy dive bars. For me it was Richie's in Pensacola, just outside the Corry Station gate....5 cent longnecks for happy hour, .95 regular price (and that was in 93-94), and lots of skanky women. In San Diego, the most infamous was The Trophy Lounge in ~~Nasty~~ National City, filled with LBFM Westpac Widows.

Posted by: Country Singer at March 11, 2014 07:46 PM (r/e1Q)

389 Peaches was part of Fox Force Five?!? Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 11:41 PM (MtC8f) Badonkadonk (MtC8f) In the spirit of Entertainment Is More Important Than Truth, I now declare this AOSHQ Lore.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 11, 2014 07:46 PM (qyfb5)

390 Thanks for your serie, irongrampa!

Posted by: navybrat at March 11, 2014 07:47 PM (AW7Gr)

391 I met a nice young man today is who is looking to sign up for the Army. Infantry.

He stood at ease when I first met him as if he was already in uniform. Told him he could relax he's not in the service yet, lol. He seemed like a very dedicated guy.

I shudder to think where The Historic Worst will send this young man to die.

Posted by: Iasonas at March 11, 2014 07:47 PM (FHNkr)

392 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 11, 2014 11:14 PM (GEICT) The voting's not over until all the Dem polling officials have checked their trunks for misplaced ballots!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 11, 2014 07:47 PM (o3MSL)

393 373 irongrampa

Remember like it was yesterday. Even us who were not honored to serve, never forget.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 07:47 PM (aUQgu)

394 Thanks guys. Been to North Dakota twice. Great people but shit thats worse than Wisconsin for climate. I'm not tough enough anymore. Posted by: Chavez the Hugo ----------------------------- Must have been a really bad winter. I spent a half hour on the phone with another fine Wisconsin Moron today discussing weather, NC, and of course, GUNS.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 11, 2014 07:48 PM (4Mv1T)

395 Alsos said the Guard was the biggest bunch of screw-ups he ever met. Two week Summer Training was spent in the baracks, waiting for an artillery call. Fired the gun once or twice, went back to the barracks and read stroke mags. In the 70's, it was a fucking joke. I've seen the pictures and heard the tales. Think "Animal House" in OG-207. I met a couple of guys who were still in, in the late 80's and 90's. They never went to basic. Just start showing up for drill and assimilate. That one blew my mind.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 11, 2014 07:48 PM (DXGLR)

396 In the spirit of Entertainment Is More Important Than Truth, I now declare this AOSHQ Lore.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 11, 2014 11:46 PM (qyfb5)

Because It Ought To Be True.

[Matrix now adjusted]

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 11, 2014 07:48 PM (pAlYe)

397 I said it was cray cray If my phone has a cloaking device app and I didn't know it I am pissed

Posted by: thunderb at March 11, 2014 07:49 PM (zOTsN)

398 380 In San Diego, the most infamous was The Trophy Lounge in Nasty National City, ha!! where instead of wallpaper in the johns there was cutouts of playboys what a shithole

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 07:49 PM (At8tV)

399 I think NCIS should wrap it up this season and close shop. They're really really close to the "we've been here too long" shows where aliens and special guest stars start showing up.

It was too long about three seasons ago.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 11, 2014 07:50 PM (lr3d7)

400 Tobacco it was the worst I can remember in my 59 years. Maybe I'm just gettin old and pissey.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 11, 2014 07:50 PM (Q8vlx)

401 "Service", sorry.

Posted by: navybrat at March 11, 2014 07:50 PM (AW7Gr)

402 The new NCIS stream isn't posted yet.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 11, 2014 07:51 PM (bitz6)

403 The fire in SF is contained.
Loss of the unoccupied 170-350 units appears complete.
I got smoke from this at my place. Had to close all windows.

Posted by: navybrat at March 11, 2014 10:59 PM (AW7Gr)

Sounds like it could be an outbreak of financial combustion.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 11, 2014 07:51 PM (OVS8r)

404 [Matrix now adjusted] Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at March 11, 2014 11:48 PM (pAlYe) Badonkadonk (pAlYe) Didn't you post that a minute ago? Deja vu.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 11, 2014 07:52 PM (qyfb5)

405 Tobacco it was the worst I can remember in my 59 years. Maybe I'm just gettin old and pissey. Posted by: Chavez the Hugo ------------------------------------- Nope. We're the same age, and I went into a seriously deep funk last week when we had yet another, rain, ice, sleet event that caged me for yet another day.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 11, 2014 07:52 PM (4Mv1T)

406 According to the episode guide there was no new NCIS tonight.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 11, 2014 07:53 PM (bitz6)

407 "The rank and file were not so much anti-war as they were anti-draft. On the day the draft was abolished, the anti-Vietnam war movement ended."

And the movement really started when the draft started coming after people who had previously had secure college deferments. That's why the movement centered on the campuses.

Talking to old hands around the SF Bay Area, who were there for the whole thing, they point out to me that 1967 was the gentle hippie "Summer of Love", when everything was calm and groovy even though the war was steadily ramping up.

Then suddenly 1968 was ugly riots and confrontation mass violence everywhere. What happened?

Tightened up draft deferments for the college kids is what happened. Simple as that. When they weren't the ones being sent to fight, they didn't care much about Vietnam. They were too busy happily smoking weed and getting laid.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 11, 2014 07:53 PM (gqT4g)

408 SF is going to ban wood now.

Posted by: eman at March 11, 2014 07:54 PM (AO9UG)

409 Tobacco you are in NC right? You got your butt kicked this year.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 11, 2014 07:55 PM (Q8vlx)

410 Sweet cloaking aircraft, defense contractors, Iranian asylum seekers, partying co-pilot, definitely shaping up to be the plot of a Brad Thor novel.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 11, 2014 07:55 PM (RZ8pf)

411 I will say that ANYONE who served in ANY capacity deserves to be honored for their service.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 11, 2014 11:44 PM (SAMxH)

One of these days IG, I'm going to buy you that beer I owe you.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:55 PM (yh0zB)

412 Another good place to move right now is College Station/Bryan in Texas. It is in the Eagle Ford shale region, but also has Texas A&M in town, so there's a diversified local economy that's fairly strong. If you can think of something to sell to college students, you can even go into business yourself with a likelihood of a steady paycheck. I just moved here six months ago and I'm loving it, I'll probably buy my first house this year or early next thanks to the move.

Posted by: Cato at March 11, 2014 07:55 PM (OdVTN)

413 SF is going to ban wood now.

Posted by: eman at March 11, 2014 11:54 PM (AO9UG)

>>>>>>>>>

So now I can no longer go to San Francisco?

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at March 11, 2014 07:55 PM (jucos)

414 not looking for squatter's rights; but I'm going to be productive whilst down here. I need a gallon of bleach, some Bar-Keepers-Friend, more Scotch-Brite pads, six rolls of paper towels, and a 1750ml bottle of Val-U-Rite vodka in the next drop...

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 11, 2014 07:56 PM (JMmQ9)

415 SF is going to ban wood now.
Posted by: eman at March 11, 2014 11:54 PM (AO9UG)

Except on in the Castro district, where it will be proudly on display everywhere, whether you want to see it or not.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 11, 2014 07:56 PM (lr3d7)

416 400 SF is going to ban wood now. ------------- Plastic and batteries FTW.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 11, 2014 07:56 PM (jsn41)

417 SF is going to ban wood now.

Not as long as they're host to the Folsom Street Fair they won't.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 11, 2014 07:56 PM (0AKks)

418 It's time we as a nation had a serious talk about patchouli.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 11, 2014 07:56 PM (bitz6)

419 Tobacco you are in NC right? You got your butt kicked this year. Posted by: Chavez the Hugo ------------------------------ Not like you all. It's all relative. I stay stuck in the office enough as it is, and it was just worse than usual.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 11, 2014 07:56 PM (4Mv1T)

420 I said it was cray cray If my phone has a cloaking device app and I didn't know it I am pissed Posted by: thunderb at March 11, 2014 11:49 PM (zOTsN) Doesn't this violate the Treaty of Algeron?

Posted by: Commander Sela at March 11, 2014 07:56 PM (AymDN)

421 The Koch Brothers back same-sex marriage, so do these protesters hate gays and the sick, survey says yes. Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 11, 2014 11:37 PM (WdbF7)
They are supposedly supporters of amnesty as well.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 11, 2014 07:57 PM (ImNRL)

422 338 website called Malaysia Chronicle is reporting Meanwhile, 20 passengers on the missing plane are world-class electronic geeks for a major Defense contracting company that specializing in such things as weapons that disappear planes and ships for the battlefield. They are employed by a company designing and manufacturing cutting edge electronic weaponry for the Department of Defense. Such weaponry includes those making it possible to vanish planes off the radar. - Posted by: thunderb at March 11, 2014 11:34 PM (zOTsN) Well, that's...ironic.

Posted by: rickl at March 11, 2014 07:57 PM (sdi6R)

423 I'm a Dinner Jacket is recruiting?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 11, 2014 07:58 PM (bitz6)

424 I am even more unhappy with the usgs earthquake map this evening. There was an earthquake off the Oregon Coast today. I feel like the damn dots are marching up toward me. Please, God, if there is an earthquake in my near future can it be during the day because the night time ones are really scary.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 11, 2014 07:58 PM (RZ8pf)

425 My recollection on Richie's was wrong, I realized after reading what I had written. It was .95cent happy hour long necks, with regular price 1.05. You saved up your nickels and then gave them back.

And yeah, NCJ, I remember the Playboy pages in the TL head. That place is still there and going strong from what I hear.

Link for those who haven't had the pleasure of imbibing at The Trophy Lounge: http://tinyurl.com/n3c6cnd

And in what is probably the closest thing to non-parody parody produced by the Duffel Blog: http://tinyurl.com/kwfq3ws

Posted by: Country Singer at March 11, 2014 07:59 PM (r/e1Q)

426
Not like you all. It's all relative. I stay stuck in the office enough as it is, and it was just worse than usual.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 11, 2014 11:56 PM (4Mv1T)

I'm just grateful that I only had to drive through the shit once.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 07:59 PM (yh0zB)

427 Somebody help a brother out. I haven't paid much attention to the particulars of the Jolly/Sink contest, but I see a couple of comments about Jolly supposedly being "deeply flawed." Anybody got the scoop on that?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 11, 2014 08:00 PM (gBnkX)

428 In the 70's, it was a fucking joke. I've seen the pictures and heard the tales. Think "Animal House" in OG-207. I met a couple of guys who were still in, in the late 80's and 90's. They never went to basic. Just start showing up for drill and assimilate. That one blew my mind. Posted by: 98ZJUSMC ----------------------------- I was at the USO in The Adelphia Hotel in Philidelphia, 1967. I guess they had a lounge up on the fourth floor, because there was a group of us up there. I was on a weekend pass from a Transient Company at Dix. It was Columbus Day, and Philly was holding a parade. The windows were open and we could lean out and watch the parade. A couple of Guard APC's came by with the hatches open. We could see guys sitting inside, and beer cans rolling around on the floor. It was fcuking disgusting.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 08:00 PM (aDwsi)

429 Tobacco: long as it straightened out by the end of May, I'll be happy. Love my week in NC at the end of May.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 11, 2014 08:00 PM (Q8vlx)

430 Carol, if you're still up, baby is due in June.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at March 11, 2014 08:00 PM (R+XDI)

431 Malaysian AF general now denying he said the flight tracked back to the Strait of Malacca. Not denying they back tracked, just denying he said it Spokesman for Malaysian Prime Minister said they were not told the aircraft backtracked WTF? this is sounding more and more like a military FUBAR

Posted by: thunderb at March 11, 2014 08:00 PM (zOTsN)

432 this is sounding more and more like a military FUBAR Posted by: thunderb ----------------- Guess work.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 08:01 PM (aDwsi)

433 How did I manage to miss hearing about the Soviets shooting down an airliner once?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 11, 2014 08:02 PM (bitz6)

434 Peaches was part of Fox Force Five?!? Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 11:41 PM (MtC8f) Badonkadonk (MtC8f) In the spirit of Entertainment Is More Important Than Truth, I now declare this AOSHQ Lore. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 11, 2014 11:46 PM (qyfb5 If the 'ette is fine with it. If not, my account was hacked! Hacked I tell you!

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 08:02 PM (MtC8f)

435 How did I manage to miss hearing about the Soviets shooting down an airliner once? Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 12:02 AM (bitz60

You never heard of KAL007?

Posted by: Country Singer at March 11, 2014 08:02 PM (r/e1Q)

436 Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 12, 2014 12:00 AM (gBnkX)

Second on that question. Was this an actual win or a 'win'?

Posted by: Methos is asking here so as not to dump on the meatball at March 11, 2014 08:03 PM (hO9ad)

437 Tobacco: long as it straightened out by the end of May, I'll be happy. Love my week in NC at the end of May. Posted by: Chavez the Hugo --------------------------------- The leaves will be out, and the pollen gone by then, my friend. I'm out folks. Drop Alton a few packs of nabs so he doesn't starve in The Barrel.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 11, 2014 08:04 PM (4Mv1T)

438 How did I manage to miss hearing about the Soviets shooting down an airliner once? Posted by: Boss Moss ---------------- KAL 007. My Congressman was aboard. Wait until you hear about the USS Pueblo.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 08:04 PM (aDwsi)

439 The Full Hipster thing -- just awesome.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 11, 2014 08:04 PM (m0h0I)

440 400 SF is going to ban wood now. Posted by: eman at March 11, 2014 11:54 PM (AO9UG) You can still get wood on Folsom Street. Wood, Woody, Woodrow. They're all game.

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 08:04 PM (MtC8f)

441 I'm out too. Later all.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 11, 2014 08:05 PM (Q8vlx)

442 How did I manage to miss hearing about the Soviets shooting down an airliner once?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 12:02 AM (bitz6)

Two of them actually. KAL 902 in '78 and KAL 007 in 83. You'd think the Koreans would stay far away from Soviet airspace...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 08:05 PM (yh0zB)

443 >>>425 How did I manage to miss hearing about the Soviets shooting down an airliner once? ---------------- Famous Reagan-era outrage. KAL flt 7. I've made that flight many times. It would be a total buzzkill to be shot down an hour from Incheon airport near Seoul after 13 hours out of LAX.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 11, 2014 08:05 PM (jsn41)

444 430 Is that the one the Norks got?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 11, 2014 08:06 PM (bitz6)

445 Is that the one the Norks got? Posted by: Boss - Yup.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 08:06 PM (aDwsi)

446 My boyfriends ex-brother in law was at My Lai. He doesn't really talk about it. While he was still married, they adopted Raymond. Raymond is black and has schizophrenia. His mom took drugs during her pregnancy. When the marriage ended, Walt took Raymond. He has raised him to be a functioning adult, although he can still be scary at times. It's an amazing thing and we sometimes wonder if it is penance for what happened in Vietnam.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 11, 2014 08:06 PM (Lqy/e)

447 Night TR, 'night benevolent dictator.

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 08:07 PM (MtC8f)

448 Roland, where are you? I waited, but I guess I'll post in your honor:

Patty Hearst
Heard the burst
From Roland's Thompson gun and
Bought It.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvTv-I2Y390

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 11, 2014 08:07 PM (HubSo)

449 It would be a total buzzkill to be shot down an hour from Incheon airport near Seoul after 13 hours out of LAX. Posted by: Cicero ------------------ Well, hell yeah. They could at least do it in the first hour of flight.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 08:07 PM (aDwsi)

450 ""Meanwhile, 20 passengers on the missing plane are world-class electronic geeks for a major Defense contracting company that specializing in such things as weapons that disappear planes and ships for the battlefield.

They are employed by a company designing and manufacturing cutting edge electronic weaponry for the Department of Defense.

Such weaponry includes those making it possible to vanish planes off the radar. -""

Maybe they went Galt?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2014 08:07 PM (FMbng)

451 Time for the old folk. There will be global warming to move tomorrow, I guess. About 12", they say.

Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 11, 2014 08:08 PM (SAMxH)

452 A couple of Guard APC's came by with the hatches open. We could see guys sitting inside, and beer cans rolling around on the floor. It was fcuking disgusting. Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 12:00 AM (aDwsi) Heh....yeah. Convoying up the road in 6 bys trailering water buffaloes and standing on the pintle takin' a piss and pitching empties at 50-51 MPH. Yee-hah. Off to war, boys!

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 11, 2014 08:08 PM (DXGLR)

453 more cray cray. Suppose Iran thought said geek techs were working on technology that would compromise their nuke program or weapons systems, and they took out the plane with a bomb to kill the geek techs. State terrorism, but not the kind you take responsibility for. Sort of payback for all their nuke scientists blowing up unexpectedly

Posted by: thunderb at March 11, 2014 08:09 PM (zOTsN)

454 I'm AltonJackson and I need to go to TheBarrelÂ™.... ...you best get your food before you go.

Posted by: concrete girl at March 11, 2014 08:10 PM (vMC7F)

455 Night irongrampa.q

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 08:10 PM (MtC8f)

456 I figure wreckage will be located within...., oh, ..... the next 24 hrs. Anyone want to make a call?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 08:11 PM (aDwsi)

457 'Night IG

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 08:11 PM (aDwsi)

458 KAL 007. My Congressman was aboard.

Wait until you hear about the USS Pueblo.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 12:04 AM (aDwsi)

*****************************

Larry McDonald (R-Ga). RIP. He was quoted "fuming" in the National Enquirer every week about some idiotic waste of taxpayer money. Or so I've heard.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 11, 2014 08:12 PM (HubSo)

459 I'm out folks. Drop Alton a few packs of nabs so he doesn't starve in The Barrel. Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 12, 2014 12:04 THX, TR. I'm good. I keep some beef jerky and a couple of bottles of water in my backpack.

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 11, 2014 08:12 PM (JMmQ9)

460 Maybe they went Galt?

Or were targeted. Which would make this not run of the mill terrorism, which would also explain why no one's taking credit.

Posted by: Methos at March 11, 2014 08:12 PM (hO9ad)

461 442 414 338

No company would book 20 VIP employees (or geeks) on same flight.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 08:12 PM (aUQgu)

462 My road is thawing out, with lots of deep ruts. House is 4wd accessible only until further notice.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 11, 2014 08:12 PM (l3vZN)

463 Friday night, after the news cycle

Posted by: thunderb at March 11, 2014 08:12 PM (zOTsN)

464 I figure wreckage will be located within...., oh, ..... the next 24 hrs.

Anyone want to make a call?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 12:11 AM (aDwsi)

***********************************

There's the makings of a betting pool there.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 11, 2014 08:13 PM (HubSo)

465 Well boys and girls, as much as I'd love to stick around I have things to do tomorrow. Later roonz and roonettez fear no evil!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 11, 2014 08:13 PM (yh0zB)

466 The 20 Freescale employees, among 239 people on flight MH370, were mostly engineers and other experts working to make the company's chip facilities in Tianjin, China, and Kuala Lumpur more efficient, said Mitch Haws, vice president, global communications and investor relations. "These were people with a lot of experience and technical background and they were very important people," Haws said. "It's definitely a loss for the company." None of Austin, Texas-based Freescale's most senior executives were on board the Boeing Co 777-200ER airliner that vanished from radar screens about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on Saturday. The employees who were on board, 12 from Malaysia and eight from China, came from a range of disciplines and they were part of a broad push by Chief Executive Officer Gregg Lowe to make Freescale more efficient and cost effective, Haws said. Top-quality engineers are hard to come by for chipmakers and other technology companies, and losing them can have a major impact on business, regardless of their seniority. While the employees on the flight account for less than 1 percent of Freescale's global workforce of 16,800 people, they were working toward the same goals and their loss will reverberate throughout Freescale, Haws said. from Reuters

Posted by: thunderb at March 11, 2014 08:14 PM (zOTsN)

467 Meanwhile, 20 passengers on the missing plane are world-class electronic geeks for a major Defense contracting company that specializing in such things as weapons that disappear planes and ships for the battlefield. ***************** Couple of problems with that--first they were efficiency experts--production line types according to the sources I was reading. Also they were Chinese nationals...so hopefully they weren't doing the the top-top secret stuff.

Posted by: tasker at March 11, 2014 08:14 PM (RJMhd)

468 Larry McDonald (R-Ga). RIP. He was quoted "fuming" in the National Enquirer every week about some idiotic waste of taxpayer money. Or so I've heard. Posted by: Caesar ----------------- Quite true. Hard core conservative. From the district that spawned of Gen. Lucius Clay, FWTW.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 08:14 PM (aDwsi)

469 working to make the company's chip facilities in Tianjin, China, and Kuala Lumpur more efficient ************* Yep-there it is.

Posted by: tasker at March 11, 2014 08:15 PM (RJMhd)

470 Later GGE. Bitching to the horde now..getting older sucks ass. Before when I would overstrain myself I would have at least one night of rest. Nope, sore as a M F'er now. I though it took a day to set in.

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 08:16 PM (MtC8f)

471 "...getting older sucks ass."
Beats the alternative!

Posted by: navybrat at March 11, 2014 08:17 PM (AW7Gr)

472 Haven't thought about Freescale Semi in a long time. They used to be the part of Motorola that made PowerPC chips, among other things. Technically, they're one of the oldest semiconductor businesses around, going back to 1948 according to the Wiki.

Posted by: Epobirs at March 11, 2014 08:17 PM (bPxS6)

473 Dammit. I just did the swallowing-the-insufficiently-chewed-bite-of-peanut-butter-sandwich thing.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 11, 2014 08:18 PM (m0h0I)

474 Freescale is being sued by a lot of people for copyright infringement Freescale is being sued by Marvell Semiconductor for infringing seven patents held by Marvell. The case is being litigated in the US District Court for the West District of Texas.[24] Freescale recently lost a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Tessera Corporation and was forced to pay an undisclosed amount as part of the settlement.[25] Freescale is also being sued by Vantage Point Technology, Inc. for patent infringement in Texas Eastern District.[26] Freescale has also been served by Computer Sciences Corp. This is a breach of contract case and it is being litigated in the Texas Western District under Sam Sparks.[27]

Posted by: thunderb at March 11, 2014 08:18 PM (zOTsN)

475 RWC - Crawled around under the car replacing a front halfshaft the other day. The next day I was sore as hell. Abdominal muscle pains I haven't had since I last did sit-ups..., which has been a while.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 08:19 PM (aDwsi)

476
Reid was especially moved by a recent presentation at the Senate Democratic retreat emphasizing the need to "pick a villain."

Sort of like professional wrestling picking a "heel".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 11, 2014 08:20 PM (ljs6i)

477 It's an amazing thing and we sometimes wonder if it is penance for what happened in Vietnam. Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 12, 2014 12:06 AM (Lqy/e) Wouldn't surprise me at all. My Lai was raw deal that was the inevitable result of a Politician-run war. It's one thing to keep having you guys zapped, but it quite another to keep having it happen at the same place, over and over. I hate (D)Marxists so much, I have to watch myself in public and around a few extended family members. Often, I just leave the room. It all stems from the way they back-stabbed both the RVN and our own. Fuckers.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 11, 2014 08:22 PM (DXGLR)

478 456 @mike

Guess at least two more weeks. The slow decompression per Boeing AD makes much sense from a strictly eng perspective. If in the Strait of Malacca, depths greater than Sea of China. Ergo, ping from black box more difficult to pick up. Just MO.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 08:22 PM (aUQgu)

479 @ Berserker -- If you're around, I just thought I'd let you know my eye has been drawn away from the Strat I was thinking about last week. Seems I'm looking at a potentially excellent deal on an Epiphone Les Paul. One of these, in fact:

http://is.gd/KKExhI

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 11, 2014 08:22 PM (m0h0I)

480 Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 12, 2014 12:22 AM (m0h0I)

Spend the extra 100 bucks and get a used Gibson Les Paul Studio.

Posted by: Iasonas at March 11, 2014 08:24 PM (FHNkr)

481 NCwoof - Yeah.., my guess is based on finding a dry-land crash site. I wouldn't put more than a buck on it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 08:25 PM (aDwsi)

482 >>>461 working to make the company's chip facilities in Tianjin, China, and Kuala Lumpur more efficient ------------- I've spent lot of time in Tianjin. My law firm has an office there. It's Beijing's port with a population of about 12 million. A medium-sized city by PRC standards. Lots of western tech outposts there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 11, 2014 08:25 PM (jsn41)

483 I think you are giving Patty Hearst a bad rap. At the time, I had recently extricated myself from a bunch of young crazed commies (including my ex-husband), and I know how they can be. The kidnapped Patty and locked her in a closet for days/weeks. They made her have sex with them, I believe, and threatened her constantly. There was somethimg degrading about peeing; I forget exactly what now. They submitted her to a month or two of "consciousness-raising" under dire duress. They then involved her in this heist, and by that point it's no wonder she went along. She wound up marrying the bodyguard she had after this ordeal. Had two children, and went on to live the sort of life she would have had they never grabbed her. You don't know how these people can be. She was young. To me, it is little wonder it took her a while to come to her senses. I know what they are like, even without having been kidnapped and kept in a closet.

Posted by: Alana at March 11, 2014 08:26 PM (a1qwK)

484 And last I checked cloaking devices were NOT in their product guide. Kind of proves their effectiveness, don't you think?

Posted by: Freescale at March 11, 2014 08:26 PM (FcR7P)

485 @ 472 [Iasonas] -- It would cost me considerably more than an extra $100 to get a Gibson LP Studio than I'd be giving for the Epiphone, if I do decide to get it.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 11, 2014 08:27 PM (m0h0I)

486 *Something* - I have no idea how all those underlines got in there.

Posted by: Alana at March 11, 2014 08:27 PM (a1qwK)

487 473 @Mike

Whatever the result, the Malaysian Airlines and military are pure excrement. Heard a pilot this PM, who flies the 777-200, state it's the most airworthy plane he has ever flown and flies the South China Sea on a regular basis. States the ATCs in/around the Philippines the absolute worst.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 08:29 PM (aUQgu)

488 I know what they are like, even without having been kidnapped and kept in a closet.

Posted by: Alana at March 12, 2014 12:26 AM (a1qwK)

Why does it never occur to these assholes that if you need to coerce someone into believing as you do, maybe YOU are the one who is missing on a couple of cylinders?

Posted by: tcn at March 11, 2014 08:30 PM (fwcEs)

489 #387 When I signed up with the Guard in the early 80's, it earned me multiple trips to Our Beloved Fort Benning School for Waywayrd Boys. Twice enlisted and once for my IOBC.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 11, 2014 08:30 PM (XO6WW)

490 Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 12:19 AM (aDwsi) Picked up a dresser today and felt a pain in my groin. First time ever. As soon as I felt it I dropped it.

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 08:31 PM (MtC8f)

491 Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 12, 2014 12:27 AM (m0h0I)

I guess our local markets a different. I've seen used Gibson Studios for $500 or so. Those high end Epiphones go for a lot more than I'm willing to spend on an Epiphone, and I am the proud owner of an Epiphone G-400 which I got used and is the guitar I play the most often.

If we're talking north of $300 for guitar, I think it's better to spring for a used Gibson.

Posted by: Iasonas at March 11, 2014 08:31 PM (FHNkr)

492 On the getting old sucks. I was working with my dads tractor with a front end loader. Doing snow management, pushing banks back and such. Went to work the next morning and my leg muscles were sore. Took me a little time to figure out it was from hopping on and off the tractor. Something that never happened working much harder when I was young.

Posted by: The Hickster at March 11, 2014 08:31 PM (TI3xG)

493 I have no idea how all those underlines got in there.

Posted by: Alana at March 12, 2014 12:27 AM (a1qwK)

************************

The revenge of the ampersands.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 11, 2014 08:32 PM (HubSo)

494 Sort of like professional wrestling picking a "heel".
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 12, 2014 12:20 AM (ljs6i)
Harry Reid could be the "masked doofus"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 11, 2014 08:33 PM (ImNRL)

495 You don't know how these people can be. She was young. To me, it is little wonder it took her a while to come to her senses. I know what they are like, even without having been kidnapped and kept in a closet. Posted by: Alana at March 12, 2014 12:26 AM (a1qwK) Badonkadonk (a1qwK) You see it on a smaller scale all the time, some people are just grotesque douchebags, and there are just so many nobody else can keep it under control. Thankfully only a few tens of thousands of them are actually terrorists, and most of them are lazy. But yeah, people get tortured into all kinds of crap. And you mis-spelled the suffix of that word with I M G instead of I N G, and might have even had a space in there, which caused it to be deleted as an Attempted HTML Tag. There are a few "banned character strings" like that.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 11, 2014 08:34 PM (qyfb5)

496 I've only recently begun to realize how much muscle mass I've lost over the last 5 years or so. It just happens. Weight has remained constant..., just the wrong kind, in the wrong places.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 08:35 PM (aDwsi)

497 483 lasonas

What is the market for a '57 Gibson Black Beauty Les Paul (two pickups)? Not used.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 08:35 PM (aUQgu)

498 @ Iasonas -- After looking around at prices on the LP Studio, a new one would set me back more than double what I could get the Epiphone for -- $400. My only hangups at this point are making sure I can spend the money, and coming up with a good deal on a hard shell case. I don't want to get that guitar unless/until I have a case to put it in.

My experience with my acoustic was an object lesson to that end.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 11, 2014 08:35 PM (m0h0I)

499 Ok, if this thread doesn't start being relevant to my interests I am outta here with a sternly worded letter to ace and the COB's.

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 08:36 PM (MtC8f)

500 CIA chief John Brennan said there had been "some claims of responsibility" over the missing jet that had "not been confirmed or corroborated," and that he could not exclude the possibility of a "terrorism I heard about the obscure Chinese group that has been discounted anybody hear of any other groups claiming responsibility?

Posted by: thunderb at March 11, 2014 08:37 PM (zOTsN)

501 * yawns * Time to cash in. G'night box folk.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 11, 2014 08:37 PM (aDwsi)

502 Posted by: NCwoof at March 12, 2014 12:35 AM (aUQgu)

No idea. I don't see those around much.

Posted by: Iasonas at March 11, 2014 08:38 PM (FHNkr)

503 so who wants to Classmate with me

http://youtu.be/bCzEDQdcuok

Posted by: The Dude at March 11, 2014 08:40 PM (bStrg)

504 488 Mike

If you're Catholic, and kneel for Communion, it's a bitch getting up to standing position. Age.
Love it.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 08:40 PM (aUQgu)

505 Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 12, 2014 12:35 AM (m0h0I)

Good point. I agree about leaving room in the budget for a good hardshell case to protect your investment. A good Epiphone will serve you well.

Posted by: Iasonas at March 11, 2014 08:41 PM (FHNkr)

506 @ 483 [Iasonas] -- I'll have to give that some thought. I've just read really good things about the Epiphones and was under the impression that they more than hold their own in bang-for-the-buck terms.

The Gibson LP's I've seen around the shop I go to are generally pretty far north of my price range. I'll obviously have to try out the Epiphone before I decide on it. (Local seller, thankfully enough.)

I reckon I'll just keep my options open for the time being.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 11, 2014 08:42 PM (m0h0I)

507 OK. i'm out if any of you "guitar heros" need a harmonica to "round out the band" call me tomorrow night, mi amigeos

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 11, 2014 08:42 PM (JMmQ9)

508 494 lasonas

thx. replica not original

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 08:43 PM (aUQgu)

509 Ok, if this thread doesn't start being relevant to my interests I am outta here with a sternly worded letter to ace and the COB's.>>

Is this better?
http://tinyurl.com/kwwwoxg
NSFW

Posted by: The Hickster at March 11, 2014 08:43 PM (TI3xG)

510 32 That's a great quote, but it's also the longest sentence I've ever seen that wasn't written by William Faulkner.

****
Pah! Next to me, Faulkner was Ernest Hemingway.

Posted by: Henry James at March 11, 2014 08:44 PM (HFSaY)

511 491 Ok, if this thread doesn't start being relevant to my interests I am outta here with a sternly worded letter to ace and the COB's.

Posted by: RWC at March 12, 2014 12:36 AM (MtC8f)

Okay new Topic: Commenters with Vowelless Nics - Mock'em, Ban'em, or Bock'em?

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 11, 2014 08:44 PM (XkotV)

512 Spend the extra 100 bucks and get a used Gibson Les Paul Studio. ???!!!!!! need I say it or is it a given?

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 08:44 PM (At8tV)

513 I've only recently begun to realize how much muscle mass I've lost over the last 5 years or so. It just happens. Yep, I was kind of shocked, too. You can get it back, but it takes work. And lots of eating.

Posted by: t-bird at March 11, 2014 08:45 PM (FcR7P)

514 503 Commenters with Vowelless Nics - Mock'em, Ban'em, or Bock'em? yes

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 08:46 PM (At8tV)

515 Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 12, 2014 12:42 AM (m0h0I)

A good Epi is definitely a lot of value for the price. At the same time, I am also an advocate for keeping your eyes open for good deals and maybe a little haggling.

I scored a used Gibson SG with a faded black finish for about $375 once.

Posted by: Iasonas at March 11, 2014 08:46 PM (FHNkr)

516 #475 I agree with Alana.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 11, 2014 08:47 PM (hn5v5)

517 A hipster biking person (in full regalia) riding in the car lane threw a full water bottle back at my car. Therefore, and for other reasons, I hate the MF'ers.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 08:48 PM (aUQgu)

518 And lots of eating.
Do you need a trainer???

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 11, 2014 08:49 PM (hn5v5)

519 PGIS, that wasn't a hipster. No true hipster would work an actual job, and there is nothing ironic about slinging 'za. If they work at all, it would be for a tech firm only ... Wow the mystery of zombie deepens ... CBD, I had a similar experience studying PoliSci at CU-Boulder in the '80s, but it was the soc profs and typical Boulder hippy-yuppy denizens that turned me, rather then my fellow students ...

Posted by: Joewhoisalwayslatetothethread at March 11, 2014 08:49 PM (4jlYO)

520 358 Go to Tennessee, stay away from my home state of Texas. I'll return home, someday, and I'll need "elbow room".

Oh, sorry, was this your elbow room? *Stretch* *flex* *brandishes hi-cap magazine and Shiner Bock bottle*

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 11, 2014 08:49 PM (XO6WW)

521 509 whoa how much did the repairs cost when you ran him over?

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 08:50 PM (At8tV)

522 @ Iasonas -- I scored a used Gibson SG with a faded black finish for about $375 once.

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Very nice! In all honesty, I would prefer to have the Gibson LP. It was always my dream guitar before I developed a thing for Telecasters. But, now that I have one of those, I suppose it would be nice to have a real LP.

Dammit.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 11, 2014 08:52 PM (m0h0I)

523 how much did the repairs cost when you ran him over?

He had a Preacher in the car so he only had to fix the door.

Posted by: The Hickster at March 11, 2014 08:52 PM (TI3xG)

524 Posted by: The Hickster at March 12, 2014 12:43 AM (TI3xG) Cut, jib, newsletter.

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 08:53 PM (MtC8f)

525 513 navycopjoe

I wish. The SOB waited til he had a fast right turn off before he unloaded. Bastards. And f*ck that creep Armstrong for all he's worth.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 08:53 PM (aUQgu)

526 what's Bock'em? ...i have vowels!

Posted by: concrete girl at March 11, 2014 08:54 PM (vMC7F)

527 509 A hipster biking person (in full regalia) riding in the car lane threw a full water bottle back at my car. Therefore, and for other reasons, I hate the MF'ers. Posted by: NCwoof at March 12, 2014 12:48 AM (aUQgu) Ever see the vid of the car just ramming 'critical mass.' Makes me smile every time.

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 08:54 PM (MtC8f)

528 I have vowels, too!

Posted by: cthulhu at March 11, 2014 08:54 PM (T1005)

529 517 The SOB waited til he had a fast right turn off before he unloaded. I would have chased him even with a passenger Chicago guys love our cars

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 08:57 PM (At8tV)

530 Not sure if I qualify or not.

Posted by: Y at March 11, 2014 08:57 PM (m0h0I)

531 I have a terrible sweet tooth and starting to put on the pounds so I have to dial it back. Came across an idea somewhere online that inspired me, so this evening I put a cup of vanilla yogurt, a pound of frozen peach slices, 3/4 pound of frozen raspberries, and maybe a quarter cup each of honey and half and half. Poured it into little tupperware containers and stuck them in the freezer--and the concoction turned out not half bad. It isn't my favorite ice cream (that would be H-E-B Creamy Creations Tin Roof Sundae) but it scratches the itch for a few hundred fewer calories and some good nutrition in the fruit and yogurt.

Posted by: Republic of Texas 2: Electric Boogaloo at March 11, 2014 08:57 PM (Gk2GE)

532 @ Berserker -- If you're around, I just thought I'd let you know my eye has been drawn away from the Strat I was thinking about last week. Seems I'm looking at a potentially excellent deal on an Epiphone Les Paul. One of these, in fact:

http://is.gd/KKExhI

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 12, 2014 12:22 AM (m0h0I)

What would an excellent deal be?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2014 08:57 PM (FMbng)

533 519 RWC

No. But if there's a link, I would love it!

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 08:57 PM (aUQgu)

534 oh lord devin hester is running around telling the world he's the best overall player in the NFL dude needs to stop it and go out with some dignity

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 08:58 PM (At8tV)

535 *whoopsie I meant to say that I put it all the the food processor and pushed 'whizz' until it was smooth.

Posted by: Republic of Texas 2: Electric Boogaloo at March 11, 2014 08:59 PM (Gk2GE)

536 524 What would an excellent deal be? trading it for a charvel san dimas

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 08:59 PM (At8tV)

537 off to get the makings for chocolate/banana milkshakes with the kid mom went to the big island with the task force so we're switching to slob mode YES!! ink masters is on

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 11, 2014 09:01 PM (At8tV)

538 525 519 RWC No. But if there's a link, I would love it! Posted by: NCwoof at March 12, 2014 12:57 AM (aUQgu) Here you go. I literally laughed out loud with it. Hell, watched the beginning 6 times since the last post. http://tinyurl.com/6j59cwy

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 09:01 PM (MtC8f)

539 521 navycopjoe

Even in my old 356 Speedster, couldn't have pulled that turn off w/o serious consequences to me and beloved car. Bastard wasn't worth it. But I remember the stupid outfit he was wearing, so if I see him again. passengers have to deal with my driving. Or stay home.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 09:02 PM (aUQgu)

540 What do you mean by full hipster regalia? Biking equipment (not a hipster)? Or skinny jeans, ironic tshirt and plaid cowboy shirt (hipster)? I agree about Armstrong - looking back on it, all those sycophants I knew that wore his wristbands turned out to be the same type that bought TFGs bs - some people just want to believe. Before I moved across town I used to go to a 24hr fitness that was all dedicated to him, including large murals and a quote alleging he wasn't doping - I should go back some time to see of they took all that crap down ...

Posted by: Joewhoisalwayslatetothethread at March 11, 2014 09:04 PM (4jlYO)

541 If Harry Reid is notable to history in any way, it will be as a vile and petty man. A Senate Majority Leader that was a total political hack. Posted by: cm9000 But I've got him beat, I also made it to the presidency.

Posted by: LBJ at March 11, 2014 09:04 PM (eBupg)

542

I bought hubby an E-3?? or 6 ?? Epiphone he found on the local Holloman Yard Sale thing.

His biggest want for a guitar would be a Les Paul anything! or a Telecaster. That's the kind of music he LOVES!

but it was a hard day's work, as when I was listening to the guy I bought it from play it so I could hear it, hubby called, and bless him the seller told hubby it had been sold.

Hard to hide the guitar IN a case for Christmas surprise! Had to bring it to Dad's house in very large trash bag and stuff it under niece's bed for the interim.

Oh but the look on his face was well worth all the subterfuge. He was so darned happy!

Posted by: alamogordo at March 11, 2014 09:04 PM (HUTO5)

543 522 - sometimes ...

Posted by: Joewhoisalwayslatetothethread at March 11, 2014 09:06 PM (4jlYO)

544 Ever see the vid of the car just ramming 'critical mass.' Makes me smile every time.... ...funny!...why do they think they own the road?...IMO, those bike lane painted lines are there for a reason, but noooo! they always tend to squish over.

Posted by: concrete girl at March 11, 2014 09:06 PM (vMC7F)

545 The biker-driver war here in Colo reaches epic proportions at times. Traffic laws had to be modified. We are now allowed to cross double yellow to give them their 5 feet, but they have to stay single file. Per the law, they are the same as a motor vehicle, up to and including DUI, which I have known of people being prosecuted for ...

Posted by: Joewhoisalwayslatetothethread at March 11, 2014 09:09 PM (4jlYO)

546 ...funny!...why do they think they own the road?...IMO, those bike lane painted lines are there for a reason, but noooo! they always tend to squish over. Posted by: concrete girl at March 12, 2014 01:06 AM (vMC7F) I love how they don't think the red lights apply to them. You want the rights of a car, obey the rules of a car. Hint- your helmet + 5 pounds of metal and rubber < 3800 lbs of car.

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 09:10 PM (MtC8f)

547

Huge win for GOP in 2014!! Great work CAC and crew!!

Not to shit in the punchbowl, my only concern is did Boehner bank another vote for his ridiculous amnesty plans?

It's bad when the voters are having to fight both fucking parties!!!

But this is awesome, even with some retard libertarian siphoning off 9k votes, most of which were ours!! Can we investigate these so called libertarians, and make sure they're not some Obama plant that screwed us in VA...

Posted by: prescient11 at March 11, 2014 09:11 PM (6c5YU)

548 530 RWC

First 10 seconds made my day. Tired of them and their freakin agenda. Roads are for cars.
Bike in the woods for God's sake.

There's a road (Route 9) that winds through the Santa Cruz Mts in CA. These assholes delight in blocking traffic there. No longer live in there. Thank goodness.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 09:13 PM (aUQgu)

549 In NC, there is a movement to require these passive/aggressive biking types to register just like cars. Then we can report them and, with God's grace, have the assholes arrested.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 09:17 PM (aUQgu)

550 3800 lbs of car.... ...got you beat with my truck!

Posted by: concrete girl at March 11, 2014 09:18 PM (vMC7F)

551 Posted by: NCwoof at March 12, 2014 01:13 AM (aUQgu) DC is starting to put bike lanes everywhere. Only thing, the bikers don't use 'em. So those lanes take up a lane in a city where you have the curb lanes taken up by parked cars. Any wonder it takes me 40 eminutes to go twelve blocks in DC and 20 minutes to go twent miles on the highway.

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 09:19 PM (MtC8f)

552 540 530 RWC

First 10 seconds made my day. Tired of them and their freakin agenda. Roads are for cars.
Bike in the woods for God's sake.

There's a road (Route 9) that winds through the Santa Cruz Mts in CA. These assholes delight in blocking traffic there. No longer live in there. Thank goodness.
Posted by: NCwoof at March 12, 2014 01:13 AM (aUQgu) Hide posts from (aUQgu)

On weekends, the BH and I drive halfway up the hill on that road to go hiking There are, in fact, actual bicyclists who bike up that road.....and a whole lot of hipster douchebags.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 11, 2014 09:20 PM (T1005)

553 Very nice! In all honesty, I would prefer to have the Gibson LP. It was always my dream guitar before I developed a thing for Telecasters. But, now that I have one of those, I suppose it would be nice to have a real LP.

Dammit.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 12, 2014 12:52 AM

But, you haven't got a standard single coil tele yet! Priorities, dude!

Posted by: otho at March 11, 2014 09:22 PM (9gNQd)

554 @540 - as both a bicyclist and a driver, the Critical Massholes don't do anyone much good. Unfortunately, the city of San Francisco cares about the interests of the driver only when it involves lifting large sums of money from him.

Posted by: JEM at March 11, 2014 09:22 PM (o+SC1)

555 @ 524 [Berserker] -- Like new condition for $400 -- albeit without the hard shell case. Seem like a good deal to you?

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 11, 2014 09:22 PM (m0h0I)

556 542 3800 lbs of car.... ...got you beat with my truck! Posted by: concrete girl at March 12, 2014 01:18 AM (vMC7F) Why do you need that truck? What do you do? - I'm in marketing Ohhhh, 'marketing.' (Please get the joke or I will think the most hated woman on youtube.)

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 09:23 PM (MtC8f)

557 If we're talking north of $300 for guitar, I think it's better to spring for a used Gibson.

Posted by: Iasonas at March 12, 2014 12:31 AM (FHNkr)

Totally fucking THIS.

Here is my concern, and what you are paying actually matters. The normal black epiphone LP custom goes for around $550. Yeah, they got the bling of the gibson LP, but there is not 1 single part shared between them, and its made in china...yeah, fucking china. If you are anything near the $500 mark you would be way WAY better off going for an actual gibson LP that they sell in the $6-700 range, even if you have to save for a little while longer. Yeah, they have a basic finish, and no real bling, but its 10X the guitar. The materials quality isn't even in the same universe. Gibson makes ONE set of hardware, and everything gets it, so the same stuff on a $600 gibson is the same stuff on a $3K Gibson, and that goes with the electronics too. I was at Guitar Center today and saw a frigging real Gibson SG for $499 and the LP for I think $6-700, and was an all mahogany with a carved top. Even without those, the faded series LP's they made a little bit ago are pretty damn cheap used.

The basic point is a real gibson can be had not far out of the ballpark if you take the time to look around. I have 2 epiphone LPs here that I got super cheap because I basically paid what the frigging duncan pickups the last dude put in them were worth, so as far as I was concerned I was buying pickups that just happened to come in a guitar shaped box. They are not bad, they actually play good, but they are not like my gibsons, they just don't have the sound. The epi body is multi pieces of wood glued together and veneered on the top and back to hide it all, and the neck is scarf jointed. In the end you have to do what makes you feel good, but at the price point of the epi you can get way close to a real gibson. Its really the battle between function over bling, or bling over function.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2014 09:25 PM (FMbng)

558 Amazing: http://tinyurl.com/onqxmzb

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 11, 2014 09:25 PM (Iyg03)

559

Posted by: RWC at March 12, 2014 01:19 AM (MtC8f)

You absolutely nailed it. There are bike lanes everywhere in Raleigh. But it's never enough for these leftists weasels. They now are considering that if you open your car door and nail one of these f*ckers, it's YOUR FAULT. Not just downtown but in the city limits. Crap.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 09:26 PM (aUQgu)

560 Posted by: rdbrewer at March 12, 2014 01:25 AM (Iyg03)

Yep. Pure amazing.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 09:33 PM (aUQgu)

561 Night all. Here is "20 Eyes" by The Misfits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlQpQ33zBkk

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 11, 2014 09:37 PM (AymDN)

562 Well nigh amazeballs.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 11, 2014 09:37 PM (m0h0I)

563 [Berserker] -- Like new condition for $400 -- albeit without the hard shell case. Seem like a good deal to you?

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 12, 2014 01:22 AM (m0h0I)

Its probably ok for that guitar, but I would hold out for a gibson, you are just too close to some good entry level ones. Yeah I hate being a frigging guitar nazi, but I hate buying an import when the USA shit is within one's grasp.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2014 09:37 PM (FMbng)

564 (Please get the joke or I will think the most hated woman on youtube.) Posted by: RWC at March 12, 2014 01:23 AM (MtC8f) I will 'link', not 'think.' But anyway, here she is. http://tinyurl.com/cgaghbe I couldn't bite my tongue as much as they did.

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 09:38 PM (MtC8f)

565 So, it the hipster in the photo above trying to look like Hitler?

Posted by: jc at March 11, 2014 09:42 PM (PlzOe)

566 532

Posted by: Joewhoisalwayslatetothethread at March 12, 2014 01:04 AM (4jlYO)

Trying to say that the asshole in the full biking regalia prolly when he got home changed into his hipster persona. To me there's no difference. Self-centered creeps. Look at me because I think I'm so freakin cool and all you are just jerks.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 11, 2014 09:44 PM (aUQgu)

567 How come when I type 2 nice organized paragraphs it ends up looking like somebody with touretts typed it?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2014 09:44 PM (FMbng)

568 I have so little faith in polls anymore that I don't really know if it's true that only 1/3 of people polled actually think Obama and the Dems are primarily responsible for the current economic mess or whether this is some manufactured poll from Dems Posted by: FenelonSpoke Good point FS. Even tho most here are skeptical of the media sometimes we just hear stuff in passing and give it credence. I wonder what the source of this poll is, specially since it just appeared after the Rep won in FL-13.

Posted by: The Farmer at March 11, 2014 09:47 PM (eBupg)

569 559 How come when I type 2 nice organized paragraphs it ends up looking like somebody with touretts typed it?

Do you have java turned off?

Posted by: booger at March 11, 2014 09:47 PM (xRDdL)

570 Do you have java turned off?

Posted by: booger at March 12, 2014 01:47 AM (xRDdL)

um.....I don't know. What is this java you speak of?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2014 09:52 PM (FMbng)

571 Why do you need that truck? What do you do? - I'm in marketing Ohhhh, 'marketing ...hint please. have been pondering all this time.

Posted by: concrete girl at March 11, 2014 09:53 PM (vMC7F)

572 The bike cultists have convinced the idiots on the city council here to start a bike sharing program that no one will use because the only people interested in it are the cultists and they already have their objects of worship. But hey, at least they get to spend around 8 grand of taxpayer money per bike that'll look real pretty constantly sitting in the bike rack.

Posted by: booger at March 11, 2014 09:54 PM (xRDdL)

573 @ 549 [Berserker] -- You make a lot of sense. I guess I just don't see LP's going for less than $800 very often. And, really, I don't see many used ones for sale at all around here, and I'd really like to be able to put my hands on one before committing to buy it. Of course, I bought my Tele from BignJames sight-unseen -- but that was dealing with a fellow moron.

I really don't like the idea of buying a guitar off eBay or online through Guitar Center. It'd be nice if there were a Music-Go-Round shop around my area. Unfortunately, the options in a small town are fairly limited.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 11, 2014 09:55 PM (m0h0I)

574 um.....I don't know. What is this java you speak of?

Java script, i seem to remember comments here at minx don't do well without it.

Posted by: booger at March 11, 2014 09:56 PM (xRDdL)

575 Posted by: concrete girl at March 12, 2014 01:53 AM (vMC7F) Check my 556 video. Whenever someone mentions a truck i try to fit that video in.

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 09:57 PM (MtC8f)

576 Cycling freaks are freaks - I mean, I understand why they where the get ups, if they are serious cyclists and all, but their attitudes are so far over the top it's just nuts. Actual hipster cyclists are a bit different then the road biking types - seriously trying to be a cyclist and wearing that get up would make them a try hard, and not be chill at all ... Here, during the summer, there is a Wed night cruise and all the hipsters turn out on the single speeds and old ironic cruiser bikes. Costumes, lights, blaring music, you name it - goes on for miles and miles. These are not the same people as the wanna-be Lances and triathalon freaks who clog up the mountain roads. All I can think of when I see these folk biking up a pass is "Mad, completely mad" One time, in my job, I went to a tech HQ in Walnut Creek, and at the end of the meeting dude hopped on his unicycle and road out of the meeting room. Now that's a hipster - he even had a multiple bicycle tattoos ... he was also a dick to the people that worked with him. First time I ever saw someone say right to another persons face that they "add no value" to a project.

Posted by: Joewhoisalwayslatetothethread at March 11, 2014 09:59 PM (4jlYO)

577 OK, I'm back. Earlier, I got some good photos of the fire (in SF). Unfortunately, I can't publish any of them (at least where you can see them). I could publish them under any one of several other personas, but at this stage the event is over and no one cares. So the photos will have to go in my ever-increasing "Photos I'll Never Publish" folder, which is way too depressingly large. And back to the original questions: No, I never saw or met Patty Hearst. Only Cinque, and someone whose name I did not know at the time but which I now think must have been Nancy Ling Perry.

Posted by: zombie at March 11, 2014 10:00 PM (mizYg)

578 That video is nuts, people have lost all sense of respect and grace in regards to dealing with their fellow man. She could've been reasonable but choose to be hateful. TFG's America ...

Posted by: Joewhoisalwayslatetothethread at March 11, 2014 10:01 PM (4jlYO)

579 um.....I don't know. What is this java you speak of?... omg that's funny!, and p.s. it didn't look all that bad to me. lolol

Posted by: concrete girl at March 11, 2014 10:02 PM (vMC7F)

580 @ 569 [zombie] -- Earlier, I got some good photos of the fire (in SF). Unfortunately, I can't publish any of them (at least where you can see them).

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How come? Were they taken under contract?

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 11, 2014 10:03 PM (m0h0I)

581 @ 549 [Berserker] -- You make a lot of sense. I guess I just don't see LP's going for less than $800 very often. And, really, I don't see many used ones for sale at all around here, and I'd really like to be able to put my hands on one before committing to buy it. Of course, I bought my Tele from BignJames sight-unseen -- but that was dealing with a fellow moron.

I really don't like the idea of buying a guitar off eBay or online through Guitar Center. It'd be nice if there were a Music-Go-Round shop around my area. Unfortunately, the options in a small town are fairly limited.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 12, 2014 01:55 AM (m0h0I)

yeah I know that deal. You really do have to play them, because they are like snowflakes. I went through around 15 les pauls before I settled on the few I kept, and they were all really good, but in the end some were just a little better. I have played some real duds too. If you are that interested I can make some calls, or at least keep my eyes pealed at the stores I go to. I see stuff all the time.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2014 10:05 PM (FMbng)

582 How come? Were they taken under contract? Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO No, I took them while with people who only know of me as the real "me." Therefore, I can only ever publish them either under my real name, or under one of my non-controversial pseudonyms. It takes some effort to keep the different parts of one's life separate.

Posted by: zombie at March 11, 2014 10:06 PM (mizYg)

583 Also, I'm sure that the womyn in that video would claim she was tolerant and hateful evil redneck truck owner deserved to be abused because he wasn't tolerant ....

Posted by: Joewhoisalwayslatetothethread at March 11, 2014 10:06 PM (4jlYO)

584

>>>Men between the ages of 25 and 54 are in their prime working years. Generally speaking, they're too old for college and too young for retirement.

In February 2008, 87.4 percent of men in that demographic had jobs.

Six years later, only 83.2 percent of men in that bracket are working.<<<

morning horde. the layoff is still sinking in. I've joined the 16.8%-lucky me. thanks everyone who has shown some concern. gotta lot of work in the days ahead. my email is richatuf1 at yahoo dot com

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 11, 2014 10:06 PM (3yFC4)

585 Hi, zombie! I read your comments earlier. Interesting. It's a small world, I guess. Now I need to get to bed. Good night, all.

Posted by: rickl at March 11, 2014 10:07 PM (sdi6R)

586 Java script, i seem to remember comments here at minx don't do well without it.

Posted by: booger at March 12, 2014 01:56 AM (xRDdL)

Yeah I wouldn't even know where to look for it. I have seen it in this PC somewhere, but never really payed attention to what it does.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2014 10:07 PM (FMbng)

587 Why do you need that truck? What do you do?... ...jimminy crickets!..she's terrible with a capital T !...her and her stupid little hybrid!...I'd have gotten in my truck, rolled up the windows and revved that diesel up! :-) X 100

Posted by: concrete girl at March 11, 2014 10:14 PM (vMC7F)

588 @ 573 [Berserker] --

If you are that interested I can make some calls, or at least keep my eyes pealed at the stores I go to. I see stuff all the time.

Please do! I am interested, especially if you come across a real steal on one that may have some cosmetic issues. I don't mind that kind of thing too much, and there's just no way I'm going to keep a guitar in showroom mint condition.

@ 574 [zombie] -- Gotcha! That makes perfect sense.

The only fire picture I've ever taken was one of my own car as it burned at a local Tea Party rally back in 2010. Seems a high-pressure power steering hose had sprayed fluid all over the engine compartment and it caught fire. It was kind of comical in hindsight. I was standing there taking photos of the rally when a voice came over the intercom to announce that there was a car on fire just across the street -- and the car description matched mine perfectly.

So, I hustled out to the street to see flames erupting from under the hood. Knowing there was nothing I could do at that point, I stopped in the middle of the street to photograph it.

Fortunately, though, there was a firetruck on hand at the rally, so it didn't burn completely to the ground. And I only had to have it towed a couple of miles to the salvage yard.

Also, I hated that car. So, all in all, it wasn't so bad. It could've been worse, anyway.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 11, 2014 10:23 PM (m0h0I)

589 What was the hated vehicle, DDR?

Posted by: Joewhoisalwayslatetothethread at March 11, 2014 10:26 PM (4jlYO)

590 Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun and bought it!

Posted by: Warren at March 11, 2014 10:28 PM (5dVLP)

591 @ 581 [Joewhoisalwayslate. . .] -- A Plymouth Breeze. (shudder)

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 11, 2014 10:31 PM (m0h0I)

592 causing a fire at a tea party rally?!..you trouble maker you!...did it make the evening paper?

Posted by: concrete girl at March 11, 2014 10:31 PM (vMC7F)

593 @ 584 [concrete girl] -- It didn't make the papers, but it did make the local 6:00 and 10:00 newscasts. Hell, it was even in one of the promotional spots they used to hype the nightly newscasts for several months -- where they show a montage of footage from recent "live, late-breaking stories" to tell you why you need to tune in.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 11, 2014 10:37 PM (m0h0I)

594 Posted by: concrete girl at March 12, 2014 02:14 AM (vMC7F) Despite being a spiteful, hateful beeyotch she would deserve that for cursing in fromt of kids. I'm no prude, but if you lack the decency to watch your tongue in front of kids then you deserve whatever comes from it.

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 10:40 PM (MtC8f)

595 In fact, here are some shots from that rally -- including the car in question:

http://is.gd/VpKLEx

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 11, 2014 10:41 PM (m0h0I)

596 Yeah good choice for a fire, lol - I was expecting Citation ...

Posted by: Joewhoisalwayslatetothethread at March 11, 2014 10:42 PM (4jlYO)

597 Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 12, 2014 02:37 AM (m0h0I) Footage from the grassy knoll show McCain and McConnel loitering by your car that day. Coincidence???

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2014 10:42 PM (MtC8f)

598 Please do! I am interested, especially if you come across a real steal on one that may have some cosmetic issues. I don't mind that kind of thing too much, and there's just no way I'm going to keep a guitar in showroom mint condition.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 12, 2014 02:23 AM (m0h0I)

No problem. There is always something floating around. What state are you in?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2014 10:44 PM (FMbng)

599 The Democrats are going to campaign with the slogan "The GOP is Addicted to KOCH" pronounced as "COKE". They have a website KochAddiction.com. That might signify climate change or something. You can never be sure. It signifies COKE to me, of that you can be sure. Therefore: Obama is Addicted to Koch ft Harry Reid & the KochAddiction.com Singers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FesVql3km-o http://www.kochaddiction.com/

Posted by: Granny Jan at March 11, 2014 11:10 PM (YDKHK)

600 590 [Berserker] -- Thanks a ton! I live in Kentucky, in the far-western part of the state. I keep an eye out for stuff that comes available in Southern Illinois and Southeast Missouri, too -- at least as much as I can. Any help you can give me will be much appreciated.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 12, 2014 02:55 AM (m0h0I)

Ok, I don't know anybody there. I just checked ebay and there are a good amount of $600 studio faded LP's, Some had hardshell cases. One was new never played. Not that you have to buy from ebay, but it shows they are out there. $200 more than the epi and with hardshell gibson cases. Thats the shit I'm talking about.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2014 11:10 PM (FMbng)

601 ...it did make the local 6:00 and 10:00 newscasts... great pictures! super great story! famous attendees and fitting tribute :-( my town is tiny and i think around the same time as your rally, i was cruising the main drag (speed limit 35mph) something i'd done all my life. all of a sudden i saw a group of about 20 senior citizens (which was odd) and they were all smiling holding flags and homemade tea party signs. i got the hugest grin on my face and lol. i couldn't believe it ...i was so proud...here i thought i was the only one in town, when lo and behold. made me put a hand to my heart.

Posted by: concrete girl at March 11, 2014 11:11 PM (vMC7F)

602 I know a guy who has about 100+ Gibson SG guitars. He lives in a 4 bedroom house and 2 bedrooms are dedicated to storing them.

Posted by: navybrat at March 11, 2014 11:15 PM (AW7Gr)

603 RWC... plus she was BOSSY ! ... ;-)

Posted by: concrete girl at March 11, 2014 11:17 PM (vMC7F)

604 Despite being a spiteful, hateful beeyotch she would deserve that for cursing in fromt of kids. I'm no prude, but if you lack the decency to watch your tongue in front of kids then you deserve whatever comes from it.

Posted by: RWC at March 12, 2014 02:40 AM (MtC8f)

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I know some pick up drivin` redneck girls that would have stomped a knot in that loudmouthed obese bitchs` ass.

Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys, they ridin ponies at March 11, 2014 11:19 PM (GUnyT)

605 Not Malaysian Mystery related. Or it might be.

An Air India B777-300, not a B777-200ER, was climbing out of Delhi. Before reaching cruise altitude they stopped their ascent and reported problems with their transponders. After dumping fuel, plane safely returned. Passengers finally made it to Chicago O'Hare ORD 15.5 late.

http://avherald.com/h?article=4713ebe3&opt=0

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 11:38 PM (23VXG)

606 I know a guy who has about 100+ Gibson SG guitars. He lives in a 4 bedroom house and 2 bedrooms are dedicated to storing them.

Posted by: navybrat at March 12, 2014 03:15 AM (AW7Gr)

Yeah well, I can totally relate to that level of retard, I'm actually not far behind, except my thing is for the flying V's mostly, those are what I have the most of. They do take up a shitload of room, thats for sure. You get a few a year and after a lifetime you need a bigger frigging house. The term is guitarded.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2014 11:42 PM (FMbng)

607 Another update on the Malaysian Mystery.

Divers have recovered what looks like a life raft at Port Dickson. Port Dickson is a town about 50 miles south of Kuala Lumpur on the Strait of Malacca side of Malaysia. No idea yet if it has any bearing.

http://pnewsapp.tc.qq.com/newsapp_ls/0/14628255/0

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 11:46 PM (23VXG)

608 The guy I know is a successful record executive. Shredder label. He is a wild man, that is for certain. He is absolutely obsessive about Givson SG guitars. I can see owning 2 or 3 maybe, if you really like them. But this guy is trying to hedge the used Gibson SG market. In his defense, he has no other bad habits of which I am aware. Does not drink, do drugs, gamble. None of that stuff. Just collects Gibson SGs.

Posted by: navybrat at March 11, 2014 11:47 PM (AW7Gr)

609 Another update on the Malaysian Mystery.

Divers have recovered what looks like a life raft at Port Dickson. Port Dickson is a town about 50 miles south of Kuala Lumpur on the Strait of Malacca side of Malaysia. No idea yet if it has any bearing.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 03:46 AM (23VXG)

More and more I keep thinking Who is John Galt.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2014 11:48 PM (FMbng)

610 Yeah that would be a spectacular way of going off the grid.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 11, 2014 11:49 PM (23VXG)

611 The guy I know is a successful record executive. Shredder label. He is a wild man, that is for certain. He is absolutely obsessive about Givson SG guitars. I can see owning 2 or 3 maybe, if you really like them. But this guy is trying to hedge the used Gibson SG market.

In his defense, he has no other bad habits of which I am aware. Does not drink, do drugs, gamble. None of that stuff. Just collects Gibson SGs.

Posted by: navybrat at March 12, 2014 03:47 AM (AW7Gr)

I never had the bite for the SG, too pizza paddle-like for me. I do have one, wouldn't mind 1-2 more. Thats how the shit starts. You get one, maybe 2, then you say yeah I wish I had that color, then you get one eventually, then its yeah wish I had that one too, then before you know it you are closer to having the whole frigging line than not, and you say well if I'm that close.....

Its madness really. I don't have any bad habits, or kids to pay for, soo....

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2014 11:55 PM (FMbng)

612 @ 600/602 [Berserker/navybrat ] -- If I got that way about a particular guitar, it would have to be Telecasters. I saw this one today, and I'll be honest -- I think it moved a little.

http://is.gd/KrA0A9

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 12, 2014 12:00 AM (m0h0I)

613 "NAS JAX. Place of my birth. ... The hospital, not Champions ..."

MAS Cherry Point was my lieu of origin.....a few hudred clicks up the coast

Posted by: bill-o at March 12, 2014 12:00 AM (AWwDY)

614 ..."Reid was especially moved by a recent presentation at the Senate Democratic retreat emphasizing the need to "pick a villain."... Typical Progressive crap. The only way they can make themselves appealing is to act like "Knight in Shining Armour" coming to some made-up victim's Emotional Rescue. How positively childish and insecure. And people are actually stupid enough to fall for that bull-bleep. They don't call this evil man Dingy fer nuthin. Oh and "guitarded"....LOL!

Posted by: Pelosi Schmelosi at March 12, 2014 12:05 AM (jHf6U)

615 @ 600/602 [Berserker/navybrat ] -- If I got that way about a particular guitar, it would have to be Telecasters. I saw this one today, and I'll be honest -- I think it moved a little.

http://is.gd/KrA0A9

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 12, 2014 04:00 AM (m0h0I)

Yeah thats nice. Looks a lot like lake placid blue. I have a strat in that color. See thats how this shit happens. Oh this is a rare color, oh thats a rare color, and ohh ohh look at this one, and oh wow....and so on and so on.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 12, 2014 12:14 AM (FMbng)

616 609 @ 600/602 [Berserker/navybrat ] -- If I got that way
about a particular guitar, it would have to be Telecasters. I saw this
one today, and I'll be honest -- I think it moved a little.

http://is.gd/KrA0A9

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 12, 2014 04:00 AM (m0h0I)

Yeah thats nice. Looks a lot like lake placid blue. I have a strat in that color. See thats how this shit happens. Oh this is a rare color, oh thats a rare color, and ohh ohh look at this one, and oh wow....and so on and so on.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 12, 2014 04:14 AM (FMbng) Hide posts from (FMbng)

Yeah, I've got a small collection of Ibanez Musician guitars and basses -- no fretless, and no bean bass....but a collection.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 12, 2014 12:21 AM (T1005)

617 Yeah, I've got a small collection of Ibanez Musician guitars and basses -- no fretless, and no bean bass....but a collection.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 12, 2014 04:21 AM (T1005)

Lately I have had a weee bit of lust over some of the Ibanez prestige series guitars. They are made in japan in the mothership, not their chinese or indonesian stuff. so they are a tad pricey. One day....one day. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 12, 2014 12:27 AM (FMbng)

618 @ 609 [Berserker] -- Mine all started when I picked up my friend's Martin acoustic when I was house/dog-sitting. Next thing I know:

"I just need an acoustic. This acoustic. And this other one over here. Obviously I need an electric, so I'll just get this one here. Oh, and what the hell, I can use that one over there for trade-bait. So, I'll just get these two electrics and these two acoustics. That's all. Oh, and I'm eventually going to need an acoustic/electric in case I need to plug into an amp. So, two acoustics, two electrics, and an acoustic/electric and that's it. Well, wait -- I actually do need a genuinely good electric guitar if I'm going to take this seriously. So, all I'm going to need is . . ."

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 12, 2014 12:33 AM (m0h0I)

619 611 Yeah, I've got a small collection of Ibanez Musician guitars and basses -- no fretless, and no bean bass....but a collection.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 12, 2014 04:21 AM (T1005)

Lately I have had a weee bit of lust over some of the Ibanez prestige series guitars. They are made in japan in the mothership, not their chinese or indonesian stuff. so they are a tad pricey. One day....one day. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 12, 2014 04:27 AM (FMbng) Hide posts from (FMbng)

I should point out that mine are "classic" (+/- from 1979).

They are beautifully constructed, comfortable, great-sounding guitars (and basses) capable of a great deal of on-board sonic modification. On the flip side, my Musician strat weighs a freakin' ton, and I much prefer playing my Steinberger.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 12, 2014 12:36 AM (T1005)

620 and this paddle-ball, and this chair, that's all I need ...

Posted by: Joewhoisalwayslatetothethread at March 12, 2014 12:36 AM (4jlYO)

621 400 "SF is going to ban wood now."

Yeah, right.......

Posted by: Folsom St Fair at March 12, 2014 12:38 AM (AWwDY)

622 612 @ 609 [Berserker] -- Mine all started when I picked up my friend's Martin acoustic when I was house/dog-sitting. Next thing I know:

"I just need an acoustic. This acoustic. And this other one over here. Obviously I need an electric, so I'll just get this one here. Oh, and what the hell, I can use that one over there for trade-bait. So, I'll just get these two electrics and these two acoustics. That's all. Oh, and I'm eventually going to need an acoustic/electric in case I need to plug into an amp. So, two acoustics, two electrics, and an acoustic/electric and that's it. Well, wait -- I actually do need a genuinely good electric guitar if I'm going to take this seriously. So, all I'm going to need is . . ."
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 12, 2014 04:33 AM (m0h0I) Hide posts from (m0h0I)

I should note that my ex-boss and still-friend, the guitar nut, has recently gone all Line6 virtual.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 12, 2014 12:38 AM (T1005)

623 I should point out that mine are "classic" (+/- from 1979).

They are beautifully constructed, comfortable, great-sounding guitars (and basses) capable of a great deal of on-board sonic modification. On the flip side, my Musician strat weighs a freakin' ton, and I much prefer playing my Steinberger.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 12, 2014 04:36 AM (T1005)

yeah those were cool. I have 2 from that period. One is a 335 copy, the other is some carved top double cutaway thing. both from '79-'80. A friend of mine right now is selling a double neck from the 70's for $600 with the original case. Damn good deal, but thats one guitar I have NO use for.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 12, 2014 12:49 AM (FMbng)

624 Morning morons. Mother Nature is just about to give us a little frozen global warming. Bring it. Nice to see a resonable topic this morning, nothing made of glass , 'twas amusing but really

Posted by: NativeNH at March 12, 2014 12:57 AM (3GK53)

625 That hipster went full Godwin! You NEVER go full Godwin! http://tinyurl.com/2cu3gbs

Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 12, 2014 01:30 AM (QBm1P)

626 President Bush used to meet and talk to the parents of KIA's with no fanfare and no press. Does anyone know if President Obama has continued that?

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 12, 2014 02:05 AM (6ahup)

627 Morning thread is up....

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, Bossy Bitches at March 12, 2014 02:27 AM (kXoT0)

628 Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 12, 2014 06:05 AM (6ahup) --- If Obama did, we would hear about it, given his record of self-aggrandizement. Therefore, it doesn't happen.

Posted by: Baldy at March 12, 2014 02:51 AM (2bql3)

629 Under Obamacare... Hospitals are weapons. We can use them to help elderly enemies die (with dignity!)....

Posted by: bleck at March 12, 2014 03:46 AM (b6Qog)

630 Why are there so many typos in that "scifiwright" article?

Posted by: JohnJ at March 12, 2014 05:37 AM (TF/YA)

631 Wow, John C. Wright just got added to my bookmarks. Thanks for sharing.

Posted by: Frodo at March 12, 2014 09:15 AM (JG9sa)

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