July 04, 2011
— Maetenloch Happy 4th All!
UPDATE [DiT] pic added below
Steve McQueen Celebrates the 4th
One interesting thing about the Great Escape is how close it stayed to the real story plus the fact that most of the actors were themselves WWII veterans with several having been POWs during the war.
E.J. Dionne Is Smarter Than You
So he's able to explain the 1,337 words of the Declaration of Independence to little people like you in just 747 words. It turns out the original revolutionaries really wanted higher taxes and larger federal government.
We need to recognize the deep flaws in this vision of our present and our past. A reading of the Declaration of Independence makes clear that our forebears were not revolting against taxes as such — and most certainly not against government as such.In the long list of “abuses and usurpations” the Declaration documents, taxes don’t come up until the 17th item, and that item is neither a complaint about tax rates nor an objection to the idea of taxation. Our Founders remonstrated against the British crown “for imposing taxes on us without our consent.” They were concerned about “consent,” i.e. popular rule, not taxes.
Remembering the Bicentennial
It's hard to believe that the Bicentennial was 35 years ago. And the sad thing is that it happened deep in the 70's with all the attendant tackiness and subliminal gloom. I was a wee lad then but my memories of that year's 4th of July in Nashville were something pretty much like this video. Note the prominent display of muskets - I doubt you'd see that nowadays.
2011 Nathan's Hot Dogs Winners
This year it was Joey Chestnut with 62 dogs and Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas with 40. Former champion Kobayashi didn't compete again this year due to the Major League Eating exclusivity clause. He ate 69 dogs at an alternate competition.
The Creepiness of a 7x Slowed Down Modem Dial-Up Sound
If this were in a movie soundtrack it would be playing when the crew first enter the derelict alien spacecraft.
An Inspired Version Of ‘Stars And Stripes Forever’
They just don't make talent and jackets like this anymore.
Can I become a Scottish laird for £30?
Yes. But you can also become Galactic Emperor for the same price and it'll be just as official. On the other hand real Scottish titles can be bought with the cheapest coming in at around $106,000. So start buying those lottery tickets.
Katy Perry
Sure why not.
The Yahoo AoSHQ group. Bla bla bla. And don't forget about the Job Bank.
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Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 05:19 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 05:19 PM (c0A3e)
*Before they find the tunnel
Posted by: '80sBaby at July 04, 2011 05:20 PM (o2lIv)
Posted by: Barack Obama at July 04, 2011 05:21 PM (vRJ+m)
So, if Obamacare is a tax, as the administration is arguing, and it was passed by an illegal procedure in the face of widespread opposition how does that mean the founders would feel about it?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 04, 2011 05:22 PM (vRJ+m)
Posted by: RJ at July 04, 2011 05:22 PM (QjrRF)
You know what drives me crazy? Spoiled rich celebrities and pop stars spouting this kind of inane drivel. Ask those several thousand terminally-ill patients at the NHS who are barred from getting any type of treatment what they think of their "splendid" health care system.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 05:24 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Y-not at July 04, 2011 05:26 PM (DsOA3)
Also, I've got to say Beyonce looks classy. Or maybe it's just that I want that necklace and those earrings like mad.
Posted by: alexthechick at July 04, 2011 05:26 PM (sf+iw)
Posted by: RJ at July 04, 2011 05:26 PM (QjrRF)
Posted by: RJ at July 04, 2011 05:28 PM (QjrRF)
Posted by: Patrick Henry at July 04, 2011 05:28 PM (kUaEF)
I've got an idea.
People who believe "universal health care" is a right could all band together and agree to include anyone, regardless of ability to pay, can join the collective. From each according to his ability to pay, to each according to his need of healthcare.
There'd be no legal wrangling, since it would be a choice, not raw government force. And of course, all the good little Hollywierdoes would sign up...right?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 04, 2011 05:29 PM (vRJ+m)
Posted by: steevy at July 04, 2011 05:30 PM (jafyT)
Posted by: RJ at July 04, 2011 05:31 PM (QjrRF)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 04, 2011 05:32 PM (vRJ+m)
Tsk, tsk, E.J. - that's a straw man. While more and more of the tax burden is being shifting upon less and less people, that doesn't mean the current levels of taxation are the "lowest in decades".
Of course, this statement is from the man who stubbornly insists there is no "liberal media".
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 05:33 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: CoolCzech at July 04, 2011 05:34 PM (kUaEF)
Posted by: steevy at July 04, 2011 05:35 PM (jafyT)
It's July 4th and the birthday of one of my punishme..., er, I mean daughters. So Happy Birthday, Sushi, or Malaria, whichever.
Fore!
Posted by: Preznit Putt-Putt at July 04, 2011 05:36 PM (weBtw)
Posted by: steevy at July 04, 2011 05:36 PM (jafyT)
IIRC, the Stamp Act was roughly a 1% tax. And the founders thought it excessive.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 04, 2011 05:37 PM (vRJ+m)
Posted by: Y-not at July 04, 2011 05:38 PM (DsOA3)
Posted by: t-bird at July 04, 2011 05:38 PM (FcR7P)
Dude, its more then like 100 years old, I can't even read it. LOL.
Posted by: Ezra Klein at July 04, 2011 05:38 PM (vRJ+m)
Modestly talented pop stars famous mostly for their tits that think those tits make them public policy authorities drive me crazy.
Katy Perry's tits aren't spectacular enough to give her credibility on healthcare policy. But they're nice enough that I'd probably hear her out on tariff and free trade issues.
Posted by: Cicero at July 04, 2011 05:40 PM (Txl/u)
But since it didn't directly say how much the tax was in the Declaration of Independence, the Founders must have not cared that much about it, just that they didn't get to impose it themselves!
/Channeling EJ here.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 05:40 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Malaria Obama at July 04, 2011 05:42 PM (kUaEF)
Good news ... fossil fuel burning has caused global cooling ... again. It's the clean burning fossil plants that cause global warming.
Does this affect my plan to set six hobos ablaze tonight in honor of the Fourth?
Posted by: Cicero at July 04, 2011 05:43 PM (Txl/u)
Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at July 04, 2011 05:44 PM (vRJ+m)
Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at July 04, 2011 05:44 PM (vRJ+m)
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat in our drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labors and in our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people.. must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live.. We have not time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers. Our landholders, too...retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury, must...be contented with penury, obscurity and exile.. private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagance.
This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at July 04, 2011 05:46 PM (vRJ+m)
Posted by: E.J. Dionne, Constitutional Scholar at July 04, 2011 05:47 PM (Txl/u)
I know states’ rights advocates revere the 10th Amendment. But when the word “states” appears in the Constitution, it typically is part of a compound word, “United States,” or refers to how the states and their people will be represented in the national government. We learned it in elementary school: The Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation to create a stronger federal government, not a weak confederate government. Perry’s view was rejected in 1787 and again in 1865.
Pray-tell EJ, given what you've said in this paragraph, why do you think the 10th Amendment was insisted, by the anti-Federalists, to be part of the Bill of Rights? Thereby, the 10th Amendment makes the States' rights de jure part of the Constitution (except it has been made nigh-useless now, thanks to all kinds of judicial tampering *sigh*)! You wouldn't say that just because the 1st Amendment wasn't in the main Constitutional text proper that Freedom of the Press isn't part of the Constitution now, would you EJ?
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 05:47 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: rdbrewer at July 04, 2011 05:47 PM (7UGPF)
Posted by: steevy at July 04, 2011 05:47 PM (jafyT)
Posted by: steevy at July 04, 2011 05:48 PM (jafyT)
Posted by: John Marshall at July 04, 2011 05:49 PM (vRJ+m)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 04, 2011 05:50 PM (vRJ+m)
Posted by: FDR at July 04, 2011 05:53 PM (vRJ+m)
In honor of Independence Day, which grievance from the Declaration of Independence do you think is most enduring and applicable today?
1) "He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good";
2) "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance";
3) "He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation";
4) "mposing taxes on us without our consent"; or
5) A different one of your choosing?
Interesting how it seems governments all eventually tend toward the same abuses, isn't it?
Posted by: Rick at July 04, 2011 05:56 PM (w/BWR)
Posted by: CoolCzech at July 04, 2011 05:56 PM (kUaEF)
Always the same thirst for power. All time and civilization has done is provide different means of tyranny to achieve that power.
Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at July 04, 2011 05:59 PM (ijjAe)
Someone could have at least told her what hand to salute with.Good form but got it all wrong.
Posted by: ziptie at July 04, 2011 05:59 PM (nj7LO)
Posted by: CoolCzech at July 04, 2011 06:01 PM (kUaEF)
Posted by: Vermin at July 04, 2011 06:02 PM (FjiUG)
Posted by: ziptie at July 04, 2011 06:03 PM (nj7LO)
Good one! Although the "T" could stand for something else,
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 06:04 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Time Magazine at July 04, 2011 06:05 PM (kUaEF)
Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at July 04, 2011 09:44 PM (vRJ+m)
Dumbass!
Posted by: Preznit Petey at July 04, 2011 06:05 PM (yQWNf)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2011 06:06 PM (4q5tP)
Posted by: Time Magazine at July 04, 2011 06:06 PM (kUaEF)
Posted by: Rick at July 04, 2011 06:08 PM (w/BWR)
Posted by: CoolCzech at July 04, 2011 09:56 PM (kUaEF)
I remember that campaign. In fact, Geo. Washington addressed the colonies on the television explaining what the "not taxed enough already" (No Tea) group was all about. Good times..... good times.
Posted by: J. Biden at July 04, 2011 06:08 PM (yQWNf)
Posted by: ziptie at July 04, 2011 06:08 PM (nj7LO)
Posted by: XBradTC at July 04, 2011 06:10 PM (ZtWpF)
Posted by: XBradTC at July 04, 2011 06:11 PM (ZtWpF)
Posted by: NotAMolly at July 04, 2011 06:11 PM (ADJFU)
$10 for a ball gag and everything will be fine.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 04, 2011 06:12 PM (LH6ir)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 06:13 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 04, 2011 10:12 PM (LH6ir)
That's what SHE said!
Posted by: Some Moron at July 04, 2011 06:14 PM (vRJ+m)
Or does he think "I know it's a lie, but maybe I'll get invited to dinner at the White House."
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 04, 2011 06:15 PM (KHylo)
Happy Independence Day you goofballs.
DiT, may I join your Casa once my "ascension" is complete? What do you charge for rent?
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 06:15 PM (c0A3e)
I just watched that one a few days ago. It's the last one of the series. Quite good!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 04, 2011 06:15 PM (LH6ir)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 06:15 PM (c0A3e)
Spielberg sure loves the Mustang. Not sure a pilot would be waving at some kid in the middle of strafing an airfield, though ...
Posted by: Waterhouse at July 04, 2011 06:18 PM (mNk4J)
You do realize that being housebroken and having opposable thumbs are the qualifications for being spoken highly of by the cobloggers.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 04, 2011 06:19 PM (LH6ir)
Posted by: XBradTC at July 04, 2011 06:19 PM (ZtWpF)
Or does he think "I know it's a lie, but maybe I'll get invited to dinner at the White House."
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 04, 2011 10:15 PM (KHylo)
Liberals show a remarkable ability to believe whatever they need to believe at any given moment.
Compare Iraq and Libya for starters...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 04, 2011 06:19 PM (vRJ+m)
>> What do you charge for rent?
No cash, no grass, no ass, no free ride.
>> btw, DiT, Gabe spoke fondly of you
He's such a goofyhead. Also a good friend.
Posted by: Dave in Texas at July 04, 2011 06:21 PM (Wh0W+)
Eat meat, drink beer, blow sht up, get laid.
I've accomplished two out of four!
Posted by: Robert at July 04, 2011 06:21 PM (4q6A5)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at July 04, 2011 06:25 PM (R/JM4)
I was in Washington DC on July 4,1976, with my family. Including parents, there were 8 of us. I was the second oldest kid (daughter).It was the most awesome fireworks display and I felt the total patriotism of normal Americans that night. We had to wait around until about 2 -3 am to catch a bus back to our campground, and there were no issues with the crowd or any anxiety about being out that late.
G_d Bless America, and I hope someday I can go back there in my middle age and enjoy the spectacle and patriotism I felt that day, when we get vot out the current administration.
Posted by: alamogordo at July 04, 2011 06:26 PM (8AQCZ)
Yes EJ, high taxes (except for EJ and his friends) will lead us to new prosperity, just like it did Greece.
Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2011 06:26 PM (so1xa)
Teh stoopid is strong out there, and they all vote for Obama
Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2011 06:28 PM (so1xa)
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at July 04, 2011 06:29 PM (sVk8z)
This isn't exactly an unknown fact. Citing only the Declaration is disingenuous.
Posted by: Robert at July 04, 2011 06:29 PM (4q6A5)
Posted by: t-bird at July 04, 2011 06:29 PM (FcR7P)
Perhaps some enterprising soul can ask EJ the question of "what nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity?".
You know, Skinemax had a Beverly Hills Cop movie marathon this afternoon; Detriot looked a lot better in the 80's than it does now, and it was probably a shithole then too.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 06:30 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Robert at July 04, 2011 10:29 PM (4q6A5)
Smuggling? Never heard of it.
Posted by: John Hancock at July 04, 2011 06:30 PM (vRJ+m)
Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2011 06:30 PM (so1xa)
Posted by: Adriane at July 04, 2011 10:25 PM (L9W0l)
HAHA!!! Drank the beer, blew up the meat. 
Posted by: Robert at July 04, 2011 06:32 PM (4q6A5)
Posted by: CMU VET at July 04, 2011 06:33 PM (DTEtA)
I don't look down there; I'm of the opinion that both dangling and girlie bits should be well-armored.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 06:34 PM (c0A3e)
You know what pisses me off?? People that get into show business with a lily white reputation and completely whore themselves out as soon as people start paying attention to them.
Katy Perry should shut her whore mouth and let men talk.
Posted by: Portnoy at July 04, 2011 06:35 PM (sRW/d)
Posted by: t-bird at July 04, 2011 10:29 PM (FcR7P)
LOL, you betcha!
Posted by: Robert at July 04, 2011 06:35 PM (4q6A5)
Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2011 06:36 PM (so1xa)
Posted by: The Dude at July 04, 2011 06:36 PM (Ig1Wo)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 04, 2011 06:37 PM (7utQ2)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 04, 2011 06:39 PM (dAedO)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 04, 2011 06:40 PM (7utQ2)
Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2011 06:40 PM (so1xa)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 06:41 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Dave in Texas at July 04, 2011 06:41 PM (Wh0W+)
Right now is Agnes Moorehead as the farm woman fighting off the little spacemen in her house
Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2011 06:42 PM (so1xa)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 04, 2011 06:42 PM (dAedO)
surprised that the Katie Perry "toe" comment took so long. You Morons are slipping
I was taking an involuntary Baseball nap.
It was the first thing I saw when I woke up, though-
BlueSequinToe.
Posted by: garrett at July 04, 2011 06:42 PM (0kFGz)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 04, 2011 10:40 PM (7utQ2)
Venters is fucking narly and his sinker is fucking sick
Posted by: The Dude at July 04, 2011 06:43 PM (Ig1Wo)
Posted by: XBradTC at July 04, 2011 06:44 PM (ZtWpF)
Posted by: Clueless at July 04, 2011 06:45 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 10:41 PM (c0A3e)
it's actually not that bad of a remake
Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2011 10:42 PM (so1xa)
would if I didn't own the blu-rays
Posted by: The Dude at July 04, 2011 06:45 PM (Ig1Wo)
Posted by: CMU VET at July 04, 2011 06:46 PM (DTEtA)
Guess not. Doesn't help either that Hollyweird is devoid of new ideas. You know they're making a Smurf's movie, right? If not, consider yourself forewarned now.
And these kids in the movie are tame. If I *had* to stay awake else I'd be viciously slaughtered by some burned freak with a glove-knife, well, now's the time to start taking up Obama's recreational drug of choice - cocaine (or meth).
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 06:46 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: AmishDude at July 04, 2011 06:46 PM (73tyQ)
Blasphemer!
And see, I'm torn about the Nightmare thing. One the one hand, why oh why remake it. On the other hand, Jackie Earle Haley is all the awesome.
Posted by: alexthechick at July 04, 2011 06:46 PM (sf+iw)
Posted by: Papa Editor at July 04, 2011 06:47 PM (MQLdE)
Posted by: CMU VET at July 04, 2011 10:46 PM (DTEtA)
It's like getting Willie Sutton to teach a course on banking regulations.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 04, 2011 06:48 PM (73tyQ)
"Serial killers ruin families," shrugged Hare. "Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies."
It makes a lot of sense when you apply the test to those who've done the most harm.
Posted by: Clueless at July 04, 2011 06:48 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 04, 2011 06:48 PM (dAedO)
Robert Redford, Dennis Hopper, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Charles Bronson, Elizabeth Montgomery, Jack Klugman, Burgess Meredith, William Windom, Inger Stevens, Susan Oliver, Roddy McDowall, James Daly, Don Rickles, Peter Falk, Cloris Leachman, Billy Mumy, Agnes Moorehead, Dick York, Jack Warden, Claude Aikens, Gig Young, Earl Holliman, Dan Duryea, Jack Elam, Donna Douglas ...
That's just a small sample ...
Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2011 06:49 PM (so1xa)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 04, 2011 06:49 PM (7utQ2)
Posted by: The Dude at July 04, 2011 06:50 PM (Ig1Wo)
Posted by: CMU VET at July 04, 2011 06:50 PM (DTEtA)
The bubble thing still freaks me out.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 04, 2011 06:50 PM (7utQ2)
Posted by: CoolCzech at July 04, 2011 06:51 PM (kUaEF)
Hope you're all enjoying it with others who appreciate it as much as you do.
Did you ever stop to think how that would make the anti-social feel?
No. You didn't.
Happy 4th
Posted by: garrett at July 04, 2011 06:51 PM (0kFGz)
Posted by: Dave in Texas at July 04, 2011 06:51 PM (Wh0W+)
First thing I'd do with Bay's Transformer's scripts is white out all the parts with the humans in them. Well, I'd keep in at least one part where Shia La'buff and Megan Fox died horribly from a Decepticon gun blast, but all the other human parts would go...
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 06:52 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: No Whining at July 04, 2011 06:52 PM (iF3sD)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 04, 2011 06:53 PM (dAedO)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 04, 2011 10:50 PM (7utQ2)
Go to Orange Alert!
Posted by: No. 2 at July 04, 2011 06:53 PM (DrWcr)
Happy 4th Roonz and Roonettez!!!
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at July 04, 2011 06:54 PM (f4gk9)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 04, 2011 10:50 PM (7utQ2)
heh, I haven't seen it in such a long time
Posted by: The Dude at July 04, 2011 06:54 PM (Ig1Wo)
Posted by: CMU VET at July 04, 2011 06:54 PM (DTEtA)
Posted by: CoolCzech at July 04, 2011 06:56 PM (kUaEF)
New Hampshire. ...the Presidential Range ...Mt. Washington
Serious weather in those Mountains. Thought I was going to freeze to my death, there, one October.
Got caught out for three days in an early winter storm. Only time I ever enjoyed spam.
Posted by: garrett at July 04, 2011 06:56 PM (0kFGz)
Posted by: CoolCzech at July 04, 2011 10:51 PM (kUaEF)
First Gaga and now Perry? Something is just not right with the world.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at July 04, 2011 06:57 PM (f4gk9)
Posted by: CMU VET at July 04, 2011 06:59 PM (DTEtA)
Oblivion GOTY (gotta get those mods)
Bit.Trip.Runner (fin time waster)
Eschalon: Book 1 (like oldschool Ultima? You will love this)
Dragon Ages Ultimate (cheaper than buying the DLC)
Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword (M&B with guns)
Frozen Synapse (turn based real time tactile game, think the planing stages of the first Rainbow 6)
Posted by: The Dude at July 04, 2011 07:01 PM (Ig1Wo)
Posted by: Barney Frank at July 04, 2011 07:02 PM (kUaEF)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 04, 2011 07:03 PM (dAedO)
Misanthrope. I embody it. eeeeyuk.
Posted by: Derak at July 04, 2011 07:03 PM (QEvPx)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 07:04 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: CMU VET at July 04, 2011 07:04 PM (DTEtA)
I just don't think you could relate.
Dude. Lay it on us.
I'm not far from there, I'd love to hear all about it.
Posted by: garrett at July 04, 2011 07:06 PM (0kFGz)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 04, 2011 11:03 PM (dAedO)
pc games, Steam is in the midst of their summer sale
Posted by: The Dude at July 04, 2011 07:07 PM (Ig1Wo)
Posted by: Willy Ginastein at July 04, 2011 07:08 PM (rWSsG)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 04, 2011 07:08 PM (dAedO)
Joe Biden Joins Twitter: Vice President's Office Will Tweet From @VP
Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2011 07:10 PM (so1xa)
_____
Wait a second! Am I to understand that the Declaration is leet?
Posted by: Anachronda at July 04, 2011 07:11 PM (6fER6)
Posted by: CMU VET at July 04, 2011 07:12 PM (DTEtA)
Posted by: Dick Obama at July 04, 2011 07:13 PM (kUaEF)
And Joe Biden is there with tweets.
Yeah, I'm going to need to drink more.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 04, 2011 07:13 PM (7utQ2)
Posted by: rdbrewer at July 04, 2011 07:14 PM (7UGPF)
Posted by: @VP at July 04, 2011 07:15 PM (Txl/u)
Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2011 11:10 PM (so1xa)
Hey, what could possibly go wrong? lmao
Happy Birthday, America! Hope you feel better soon . . . love, Peaches
Posted by: Peaches at July 04, 2011 07:16 PM (afUO8)
Posted by: Rum, Goddess/Sith Lord at July 04, 2011 07:16 PM (Swo0o)
No, we're not going to have any fun with this, are we?
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 04, 2011 07:17 PM (7utQ2)
Posted by: CMU VET at July 04, 2011 07:17 PM (DTEtA)
My index and ring fingers of my right hand are close in size, yet I'm only 20 picometers. WTF - I smell a flawed study!
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 07:17 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Dick Obama at July 04, 2011 07:17 PM (kUaEF)
Posted by: alamogordo at July 04, 2011 07:18 PM (8AQCZ)
It's a bit intense.
Posted by: Clueless at July 04, 2011 07:20 PM (piMMO)
And the first time I puffed a cigarette with my cousin when we were given a smoke because the adults ran out of punks to light the firecrackers and they were afraid the boys would smoke the cigs and they thought us nice girls would only use them to light the firecrackers.
Oh, and the bottle rocket war on the docks in the lake!
Us good girls who they thought wouldn't smoke won the war.
Of course. We were moronettes in the making.
Posted by: alamogordo at July 04, 2011 07:21 PM (8AQCZ)
For her B'day I got daddy's little girl the new doll Mattel modeled after Debbie Wassermann-Schultz, "Heroin Barbie".
Fore!
Posted by: Preznit Putt-Putt at July 04, 2011 07:22 PM (weBtw)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 04, 2011 07:24 PM (dAedO)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 04, 2011 07:28 PM (dAedO)
Posted by: garrett at July 04, 2011 07:32 PM (0kFGz)
Posted by: Big Zesty at July 04, 2011 07:33 PM (66pgZ)
And, look, this article says it wrong too:
The bigger the difference between the two fingers, the smaller the size of a man's penis. Or, to look at the other way, the longer his ring finger is compared to his index finger, the better endowed he is.
(Emphasis added.) No. The smaller the difference the smaller the size. If the ring finger is longer compared to the index finger, the difference is greater. Duh. And the weiner is bigger.
Posted by: rdbrewer at July 04, 2011 07:33 PM (7UGPF)
Posted by: The Dude at July 04, 2011 07:33 PM (Ig1Wo)
She asked if I wanted to help cut the cake. Told her not to believe everything Uncle Bill Ayres writes.
Fore!
Posted by: Preznit Putt-Putt at July 04, 2011 07:34 PM (weBtw)
Posted by: The Dude at July 04, 2011 11:33 PM (Ig1Wo)
The Misfits.
Greenday wouldn't start sucking until 1993 or so.
Posted by: garrett at July 04, 2011 07:36 PM (0kFGz)
Posted by: Typical AOL user at July 04, 2011 07:40 PM (xc/va)
Posted by: rdbrewer at July 04, 2011 07:40 PM (7UGPF)
Posted by: CMU VET at July 04, 2011 07:42 PM (DTEtA)
Posted by: @VP at July 04, 2011 07:43 PM (so1xa)
btw, while this is from WMD, the premise is hilarious.
Arianna's AOL urges men to 'masturbate'
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 07:45 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: CMU VET at July 04, 2011 07:46 PM (DTEtA)
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at July 04, 2011 07:50 PM (/RlXC)
For the women tired of the pics of Katy Perry and Marilyn Monroe, here's something for us:
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at July 04, 2011 11:50 PM (/RlXC)
blech! I hate big muscles.
Posted by: Clueless at July 04, 2011 07:52 PM (piMMO)
Weird as fuck and I have no idea what just happened.
Posted by: Clueless at July 04, 2011 07:57 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at July 04, 2011 08:06 PM (/RlXC)
Mjölnir is a very powerful hammer, probably a bit more than my own God-Splitter.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 08:08 PM (c0A3e)
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday, dear (insert name here)
Happy Birthday to you
Fore!
Posted by: Preznit Putt-Putt at July 04, 2011 08:15 PM (weBtw)
Posted by: rdbrewer at July 04, 2011 11:40 PM (7UGPF)
Depends. What are you paying?
Posted by: AmishDude at July 04, 2011 08:18 PM (73tyQ)
Posted by: rdbrewer at July 04, 2011 09:47 PM (7UGPF)
Jubal Early (the name of an actual confederate general, btw). That character gives me the creeps like none since Hanibal Lecter. The part where he threatens to rape Kayle in such an offhand way cements him as not just a bad guy, but a psychopath. I'd rather face Niska.
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 04, 2011 08:19 PM (/gOMq)
Weird as fuck and I have no idea what just happened.
Posted by: Clueless at July 04, 2011 11:57 PM (piMMO)
the second episode picks up. Reminds me of a grown up Calvin & Hobbes in a way
Posted by: The Dude at July 04, 2011 08:21 PM (Ig1Wo)
Posted by: That Judge Dude from Caddyshack at July 05, 2011 12:21 AM (c0A3e)
Well, that would make it no different from any other day.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 04, 2011 08:24 PM (73tyQ)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 04, 2011 08:28 PM (dAedO)
when I lived in Oregon, I heard "stories" about "those people"
but the stories were mainly from lib professors so I didn't know what to believe really
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 08:32 PM (8CvZg)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 05, 2011 12:28 AM (dAedO)
Oh, you know that's exactly how Calvin turned out. As an adult he's a house painter that quits as soon as he gets paid enough to buy an eighth of BC bud.
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 04, 2011 08:33 PM (/gOMq)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 04, 2011 08:36 PM (dAedO)
hmm, that seems a bit... rude towards Hobbes
but maybe it's just me
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 08:38 PM (8CvZg)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 05, 2011 12:39 AM (dAedO)
That's just because you haven't had your chakra massaged yet.
Posted by: Algore at July 04, 2011 08:41 PM (8CvZg)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 08:41 PM (8CvZg)
Posted by: Bomber at July 04, 2011 08:43 PM (d88g9)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 05, 2011 12:40 AM (c0A3e)
That sounds like a very Terry Pratchett style sentiment.
Posted by: Polliwog at July 04, 2011 08:43 PM (oMKP8)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 08:43 PM (8CvZg)
Posted by: Dell at July 04, 2011 08:44 PM (3S10h)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 08:44 PM (8CvZg)
Yes, a date with Miller Lite tonight
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 08:45 PM (8CvZg)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 04, 2011 08:46 PM (Atr6G)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 08:47 PM (8CvZg)
Posted by: Polliwog at July 04, 2011 08:47 PM (oMKP8)
ahha,, think that's chemjeff code for olivegarden waitress...
Posted by: beanervt at July 04, 2011 08:48 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 05, 2011 12:47 AM (8CvZg)
A notice in the paper but not on the internet? You'll have to let us know what the average age of the participants is.
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 04, 2011 08:49 PM (/gOMq)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 08:49 PM (8CvZg)
I'm fully expecting a law suit action to be filed by the ACLU post haste!
I mean, after all....You can't God Blessing America on public television like that!
Posted by: Dell at July 04, 2011 08:50 PM (3S10h)
yeah thanks for ruining it for me in advance
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 08:50 PM (8CvZg)
I have a rough-rough draft of my thesis. I'm meeting with my committee this week and hopefully *crosses fingers* they'll tell me I have enough to defend soon. Thanks for asking - how's academic life treating you?
That sounds like a very Terry Pratchett style sentiment.
Actually, I stole it from Mr and Mrs. Smith,
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 08:50 PM (c0A3e)
Happy endings are rare on AoS.
*squirt*
Posted by: E J Diogenes at July 04, 2011 08:50 PM (ENKCw)
Well maybe one of them has a cute granddaughter or something. Of legal age of course.
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 08:51 PM (8CvZg)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 08:51 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Dell at July 04, 2011 08:51 PM (3S10h)
umm, no. Do you want to know what is "code" for Olive Garden/Applebee's/any waitress?
I'M GETTING A HUMMER TONIGHT
not too subtle, but hopefully you can decode the message
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 08:52 PM (8CvZg)
you remembered...Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 04, 2011 08:53 PM (HjxoE)
yeah thanks for ruining it for me in advance
Posted by: chemjeff at July 05, 2011 12:50 AM (8CvZg)
Look on the bright side. The ratio of women to men over the age of 70 is huge. You should have no trouble getting a date.
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 04, 2011 08:53 PM (/gOMq)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 04, 2011 08:53 PM (dAedO)
Yes, a date with Miller Lite tonight
Posted by: chemjeff at July 05, 2011 12:45 AM (8CvZg)
At least she won't shiv you.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2011 08:53 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at July 04, 2011 08:54 PM (f4gk9)
not too subtle, but hopefully you can decode the message
Posted by: chemjeff at July 05, 2011 12:52 AM (8CvZg)
But will she take her teeth out first?
Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2011 08:55 PM (kaalw)
if you're going to lift from a movie, better make it choice
Good luck with your thesis!Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 04, 2011 08:56 PM (HjxoE)
Posted by: beanervt at July 04, 2011 08:56 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 04, 2011 08:59 PM (HjxoE)
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 04, 2011 08:59 PM (VRaLY)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 05, 2011 12:49 AM (8CvZg)
That'd be the storm in question. People around here are saying they can't remember such a bad storm without a tornado, and thank God there wasn't one "cause that was freaky enough.
Posted by: Polliwog at July 04, 2011 08:59 PM (oMKP8)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 05, 2011 12:50 AM (c0A3e)
Haven't seen that one yet. It's in my queue though.
Posted by: Polliwog at July 04, 2011 09:01 PM (oMKP8)
well I hope you have a good committee otherwise they will savage your "rough draft" even if you explain it's "just a rough draft". That seems kinda dangerous actually. Does your advisor not give you permission to defend?
Academic life is okay, actually.
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 09:01 PM (8CvZg)
Posted by: Bomber at July 04, 2011 09:02 PM (d88g9)
Of course; I'm not giving them the draft at the meeting, I'm only showing what data I have in order to "officially" start writing the thesis.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 04, 2011 09:05 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 05, 2011 12:57 AM (HjxoE)
It's for chemjeff, with deep and abiding affection. To remind him of "standards", and that whistling sound they make as they fly past.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2011 09:06 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 04, 2011 09:07 PM (HjxoE)
Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 05, 2011 12:59 AM (HjxoE)
"Um doin awraught", as they say in Texas! And you?
Posted by: Dell at July 04, 2011 09:07 PM (3S10h)
Posted by: Bomber at July 04, 2011 09:07 PM (d88g9)
MS - More of the Same
PhD - Piled higher and Deeper
Good luck with the thesis Doctor Kratos!
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at July 04, 2011 09:07 PM (f4gk9)
Really? Because the one from last Monday night was way worse. I found tree branch stuff all over the yard after that one. That was the one in which I thought "this is why homeowners have trouble sleeping during big storms"
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 09:07 PM (8CvZg)
Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 05, 2011 01:07 AM (HjxoE)
Well, at least mockery.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at July 04, 2011 09:08 PM (f4gk9)
Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 04, 2011 09:12 PM (HjxoE)
Well, at least mockery.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at July 05, 2011 01:08 AM (f4gk9)
We'll work out the exact ratio later.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2011 09:13 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 04, 2011 09:13 PM (HjxoE)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 05, 2011 01:07 AM (8CvZg)
Sounds like it grew after leaving you guys then.
I lost the only maple tree on the entire property that wasn't planted too close to the house. It was at least a couple of inches around the trunk and the wind just snapped it about 18 inches from the ground. A couple of people had ornamental bushes uprooted but are pretty sure they can save them.
One of the neighbors lost a big chunk of shingles, but they're on vacation so no one can contact them to let them know there's a problem.
Posted by: Polliwog at July 04, 2011 09:17 PM (oMKP8)
Must be the ones without enough insurance coverage or high deductible.. with the proper coverage sleep shouldn't be a issue.
Posted by: beanervt at July 04, 2011 09:17 PM (KZLoo)
We'll work out the exact ratio later.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2011 01:13 AM (kaalw)
Around here it's mockery all the way down.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at July 04, 2011 09:17 PM (f4gk9)
Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 04, 2011 09:17 PM (HjxoE)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 05, 2011 01:16 AM (8CvZg)
Covered. It's been raining today and I've been driving the Scooby all weekend, we've been out camping. It's not raining now, pretty nice actually, but since the cover is wet I don't want to pull it off to take the car out. Oh well, I only have to work one day this week so I have plenty of time.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at July 04, 2011 09:19 PM (f4gk9)
Now that's pure American TBM,,, bar-b-q beer and apple pie...
Posted by: beanervt at July 04, 2011 09:21 PM (KZLoo)
Must be the ones without enough insurance coverage or high deductible.. with the proper coverage sleep shouldn't be a issue.
Even still it's a pain in the ass if a tree does fall on your house, even with great insurance
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 09:23 PM (8CvZg)
Posted by: Adriane at July 05, 2011 01:21 AM (L9W0l)
Amen to that, glad that all the roonz and roonettez made it through the storms safe and sound.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at July 04, 2011 09:24 PM (f4gk9)
Posted by: Adriane at July 05, 2011 01:21 AM (L9W0l)
Thanks. I have to admit I was praying like crazy for no hail or tornados and am very grateful there weren't any. And it cleared up nicely for fireworks tonight, which was in some doubt, so that's was a blessing as well.
Posted by: Polliwog at July 04, 2011 09:25 PM (oMKP8)
Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 04, 2011 09:26 PM (HjxoE)
I have trees I'm partial to. I know I'd feel a loss if something happened them. Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 04, 2011 09:27 PM (HjxoE)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at July 04, 2011 09:27 PM (f4gk9)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 05, 2011 01:24 AM (8CvZg)
I have great neighbors. They have an electric chainsaw, which I didn't know existed, and they cut the tree down to ground level for me. The people across the street said they saw one of the larger maples laying over in the storm as well. but it was fine once the wind quit ( which is a good thing since both big trees are much too close to the house and could have made a huge mess).
Posted by: Polliwog at July 04, 2011 09:29 PM (oMKP8)
Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 05, 2011 01:27 AM (HjxoE)
Fortunately, I wasn't partial to it except for the fact that I wasn't going to have to pay to move/remove it like the other two. I'm just glad it doesn't sound like anyone in the area was hurt and neither was the house.
Mostly, it's just that I hate, hate, hate big storms so thank you all for letting me whine.
Posted by: Polliwog at July 04, 2011 09:33 PM (oMKP8)
Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 04, 2011 09:34 PM (HjxoE)
I hear ya chemjeff ,, it's just with the proper ins. that hole in the roof turns into a skylight instead of 2weeks salary . does your house creak and groan in the heavy wind? The noise's they make take a while to get use to.
Posted by: beanervt at July 04, 2011 09:35 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: richard mcenroe at July 04, 2011 09:35 PM (qvify)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2011 09:35 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: rdbrewer at July 04, 2011 09:36 PM (7UGPF)
Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 04, 2011 09:38 PM (HjxoE)
Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 05, 2011 01:34 AM (HjxoE)
Lol, I live but to amuse.
Having done my part to drag this poor thread past 300 I think I'd better turn in.
Oh, Chemjeff, I know this is late but I second those who advised you to wait on any drastic measures with your greenery. I just found out I have Scarlet Pimpernel, whether native or planted I have no way of knowing, in a couple of spots around my flowerbeds. I'd never have found it if I'd been more agressive in removing the previous homeowner's plantings.
Posted by: Polliwog at July 04, 2011 09:40 PM (oMKP8)
Yeah, I read that too.
Here's two things that made me laugh.
"As critics point out, “The Star-Spangled Banner” didn’t become the official anthem until 1931. One long-standing rival: “America the Beautiful,” which celebrates the nation’s spacious skies and shining seas rather than a long-forgotten naval battle in the War of 1812. Supporters have long loved its optimism—and, they note, you can actually sing it."
Long forgotten? It's commemorated in the Anthem! And the song is easy to sing. EASY to sing. It's not hard. And I'll get to why in a second. But the problem isn't the song, it's the singers. More often than not, at large events, you get some poptart throwaway celebrity douchebag who's always looking to show off. Always! Those idiotic little R&B singers trying to warble their way through the verses, trying to show off their impressive pipes. But if they would stop trying to preen and actually sing the song they could do things like, I don't know, remember the lyrics maybe? It's a simple melody, it's an easy song to song. Do it write and people will gladly join in.
Next...
"New England poet Katharine Lee Bates wrote the words, New Jersey church organist Samuel Ward composed the music—and the American public put them together after finding Bates’s poem in a magazine and Ward’s stately melody in a hymnal. That, say fans, is democracy."
Fuck that! The Star Spangled Banner is sung to the tune of To Anacreon In Heaven. What's that? That, my friends, is, or was, a rather popular drinking song. A drinking song. And that, my friends, is how is should be. Wishy washy put together by committee feel gooderism versus getting buzzed and singing LOUDLY about hardcore sht that went down? I know what I'm game for.
Posted by: Robert at July 04, 2011 09:42 PM (4ixH5)
Comment on toe: 105.
Comment on shorts that look like her mom's long-waisted undergarments: 312.
Go figure.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2011 09:43 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2011 01:35 AM (kaalw)
They have electric stuff because they're retirement age and the wife does a lot of the yardwork so need equiptment that's light-weight. It looked like something even I could handle, unlike a gas powered one I likely couldn't start and would be afraid of of I did.
Posted by: Polliwog at July 04, 2011 09:43 PM (oMKP8)
But I have been thinking of installing a rain barrel, does anybody have any thoughts aobut those? (A sealed one, of course, so no mosquitoes)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 09:43 PM (8CvZg)
They have electric stuff because they're retirement age and the wife does a lot of the yardwork so need equiptment that's light-weight. It looked like something even I could handle, unlike a gas powered one I likely couldn't start and would be afraid of of I did.
Posted by: Polliwog at July 05, 2011 01:43 AM (oMKP
Gas engines, no matter how small, need to be run regularly to clean out the gronk. I use mine every year or two, sometimes for a week, then put it away again.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2011 09:46 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 05, 2011 01:38 AM (HjxoE)
I think she's going for the Wonder Woman look. The costume is just enough different to avoid lawsuits.
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 04, 2011 09:47 PM (/gOMq)
One of the peculiarities involved is that you have to blow off the first rain in a while so that it rinses the crap off your roof, and only then you can collect. Seems like a hassle.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2011 09:47 PM (kaalw)
Not for most people it isn't. How many people can cover three octaves without cracking?
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 04, 2011 09:49 PM (/gOMq)
Posted by: twiceblessedmom at July 04, 2011 09:50 PM (HjxoE)
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2011 01:42 AM (4ixH5)
To the "fans" I would say, "It's a REPUBLIC !"
Posted by: Storm at July 04, 2011 09:51 PM (AZFgs)
okay I'm feeling better now about getting an electric lawn mower
I mowed my lawn and I didn't even use 1/4th of the battery (yes it's a small lawn)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 09:51 PM (8CvZg)
cthulhu it does seem overpriced for what is tantamount to a sealed barrel. $100? Srsly? BUT, I have this one side of my house, it's a narrow strip, which is essentially just a mudpit. Not much vegetation grows there. And so I'm thinking about just paving it over, but getting a rain barrel to collect the water from the drain spout on that side of the house. Or I could get a big tube and just run the rain water down to the garden beneath the mudpit. Maybe that would be better? I'm not sure.
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 09:55 PM (8CvZg)
Posted by: Barack Obama at July 04, 2011 09:55 PM (HjxoE)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 05, 2011 01:51 AM (8CvZg)
Don't let your grass get too high before mowing though. I shorted out our electric mower by doing that. I would like to point out though that I never ran over the cord in the couple of years I used it, a sore point since John and his dad were taking bets on how soon we'd need a new one.
Aaand now I'm off to sleep for reals.
Posted by: Polliwog at July 04, 2011 09:55 PM (oMKP8)
and thankful not yet a SOCIALIST Republic....
Posted by: beanervt at July 05, 2011 01:54 AM (KZLoo)
Wait until after I'm re-elected.
Posted by: Barry Obama, at July 04, 2011 09:56 PM (8CvZg)
I dunno. Superman, maybe? Anyway, you need 1.5 octaves to sing The Star-Spangled Banner, not 3.
Posted by: Waterhouse at July 04, 2011 09:57 PM (mNk4J)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2011 01:47 AM (kaalw)
People that have cisterns usually have a "damper/diverter" thingo in the downspout. After it rained for a couple of minutes, you would run out and switch the handle so the clean rain would go into the cistern. (The first couple of minutes the rain runoff would clean off the dirt off of the roof or from in the gutters)
Posted by: Storm at July 04, 2011 09:57 PM (AZFgs)
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 05, 2011 01:49 AM (/gOMq)
Not everyone needs the vocal abilities of Luciano Pavarotti. Most people can't sing to save their life, anyway. It's a moot point to me.
Posted by: Robert at July 04, 2011 09:57 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Barack Obama at July 05, 2011 01:55 AM (HjxoE)
Only in your dreams, BO, only in your dreams.
Posted by: Storm at July 04, 2011 09:59 PM (AZFgs)
that's the ticket. pipe from the barrel then use soak-er hose (small holed or porous hose) in the garden area.
Posted by: beanervt at July 04, 2011 10:00 PM (KZLoo)
I have a friend who is a mezzo soprano... the time I heard her sing the Star Spangled Banner was the most amazing! She lives in Hawaii now, so I haven't heard her sing for a while, tho.
Posted by: Storm at July 04, 2011 10:02 PM (AZFgs)
Hmm I hadn't thought of that idea - so hook up a soaker hose permanently to the outlet of the drain spout?
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 10:02 PM (8CvZg)
cthulhu it does seem overpriced for what is tantamount to a sealed barrel. $100? Srsly? BUT, I have this one side of my house, it's a narrow strip, which is essentially just a mudpit. Not much vegetation grows there. And so I'm thinking about just paving it over, but getting a rain barrel to collect the water from the drain spout on that side of the house. Or I could get a big tube and just run the rain water down to the garden beneath the mudpit. Maybe that would be better? I'm not sure.
Posted by: chemjeff at July 05, 2011 01:55 AM (8CvZg)
Unless you have a particular need for rain water (e.g. carnivorous plants) or water in general (live in a desert without a well?), I'd just run it off to somewhere else in your yard or to the storm drains.
If you are going to do rain water collection, you have to let every early rain of a series go -- which means you have the same disposal problem you have now. Then you catch only the capacity of your barrels....after which, you guessed it, you have the same problem you have now. Then you have to pump it out for use somewhere -- when you could probably just use city water under pressure without a pump. And, of course, you'll regularly run out of water in the system.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2011 10:03 PM (kaalw)
maybe the "big freakin' tube" idea is a better one
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 10:07 PM (8CvZg)
thanx all for the advice and what not
and GOD BLESS AMERICA
Posted by: chemjeff at July 04, 2011 10:08 PM (8CvZg)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 05, 2011 02:08 AM (8CvZg)
AMEN!
out of beer
Posted by: chemjeff at July 05, 2011 02:08 AM (8CvZg)
OOPS!
Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2011 10:12 PM (kaalw)
use like pcv pipe from the barrel, then use the soaker hose only where you want watered.. where your plants will be. You also want to make sure and have a good screen between the barrel and pcv pipe to keep out leaves a crap. The garden would have to be lower then the barrel so you have a incline in the pipe to soaker hose.
Posted by: beanervt at July 04, 2011 10:17 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: beanervt at July 04, 2011 10:29 PM (KZLoo)
I blew some stuff up!
Arson Day didn't entirely suck!
Admittedly, I took a tumble on the way to the car, then they started the city fireworks display early. But I met a cool couple after the show and we teamed up our commercial display. Was cool.
(Damn she was cute. Not fair.)
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Posted by: Mitt Romney at July 04, 2011 10:43 PM (7UGPF)
Posted by: beanervt at July 05, 2011 02:31 AM (KZLoo)
He'll probably check back after he brushes his teeth.
'Cause, y'know, "goodbye" ain't really "goodbye" for us morons....it's more like, "stalking mode *on*".
Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2011 10:43 PM (kaalw)
Labs are great doggies to begin with but one that fetches the beers now that's tits...(had to get boobies in this post one way or the other)
Posted by: beanervt at July 04, 2011 10:43 PM (KZLoo)
heh heh,, and he'll also be drainin the dragon after them beers so your right cthulhu..he be back....
Posted by: beanervt at July 04, 2011 10:47 PM (KZLoo)
***clink*** And the 12 remaining minutes left of Independence Day!
***clink*** And doggies!
Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2011 10:48 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: beanervt at July 05, 2011 02:47 AM (KZLoo)
He's got to see a man about a dog.....
Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2011 10:50 PM (kaalw)
virtual clink back@ya to all three,, I'm at work and quit drinking 3yrs ago..again..
Posted by: beanervt at July 04, 2011 10:57 PM (KZLoo)
ThereÂ’s an incredible amount of swashbuckling packed into the last hour of the movie, and it mostly feels exhilarating instead of exhausting. Much of it comes from good-guy Autobot leader Optimus Prime, voiced by the redoubtable Peter Cullen, who has been doing this character for longer than most of the audience has been alive. Optimus is such a likable character that he should have a career beyond the Transfomers films. Based on box-office returns, I think he could open a rom-com better than Tom Hanks at this point. Hook him up with Sandra Bullock playing a lady trucker coming off a hard divorce, who climbs into the wrong Peterbilt at a truck stop one night and begins the ride of her life, and I think youÂ’d have the perfect date movie.
It's funny 'cause it's true.
Posted by: Robert at July 04, 2011 11:01 PM (4ixH5)
virtual clink back@ya to all three,, I'm at work and quit drinking 3yrs ago..again..
Posted by: beanervt at July 05, 2011 02:57 AM (KZLoo)
Ummmm....if you're seein' three tits, it's definitely time to lay off the sauce. Grab a glass of water, instead.
Congrats on being at work. I'm "enjoying" my little piece of the Obama economy and hoping for better times ahead.
Speaking of which --
***clink*** here's to July 5th, and the future!
Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2011 11:02 PM (kaalw)
been in the 5th 3hr's so far the future is ok.. It'll be much better when 0bumbles and da hoodies are sent packing back to Chi town...
Wolfstone,,kewl.
Posted by: beanervt at July 04, 2011 11:15 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2011 11:24 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 04, 2011 11:29 PM (C7KNt)
Calvin got it right,, leftards get it wrong.. their problem lies in political ideology based on TRUTH...
Posted by: beanervt at July 04, 2011 11:35 PM (KZLoo)
shut him in the closet and put a chair against the door knob. The boogie man in the closet will keep him occupied...
Posted by: beanervt at July 04, 2011 11:38 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: Robert at July 04, 2011 11:49 PM (4ixH5)
After the celebration here. The final reports of the rocket's red glare echo across the San Fernando foothills and I am sitting here reporting this to my few M&M's still on watch. The day was spent as it should be, friends, family, BBQ, kids having a good ol' time keeping cool in da pool. Talk was simple, easy and slow amongst my friends no heated debates this day. Just simple catching up, enjoying the company commenting on the heat of the day and Dave telling about his trip to Texas and what a show we would all have tonight with his pyrotechnic grabs from the Lone Star State. And a show we had. The kids were in barely controlled mayhem as the adults fired off everything up to and including 100+ mortars right out in the front yard. Remember we are in LACO and right up against the hills that seem to burn up every summer, but we kept the tragectory clean and ended up in a rumble with the neighbors to the north and south as to WHO had the best BOOM-BOOM!
Quite a show...and quite a Nation.....I'm ready to fight to keep it.
Are you?
Posted by: Richard at July 04, 2011 11:51 PM (qSBEX)
ahhh withdrawals have begun eh??? also forgot to mention Silent Cal was born on the 4th of July 1876, a year after my house was built...
Posted by: beanervt at July 04, 2011 11:53 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 04, 2011 11:54 PM (C7KNt)
I spent the 4th wandering around Valencia, and then went out that evening to eat Tapas and lay on the beach at midnight, drinking wine with a pretty blue eyed American girl on my arm.
Posted by: Alex at July 05, 2011 12:06 AM (lnS9y)
Posted by: beanervt at July 05, 2011 03:53 AM (KZLoo)
I've got more meat at home. Only four more hours to get my meat fix!
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2011 12:11 AM (4ixH5)
Way to RnR Alex... hot babe on the beach with a bottle of wine...not to shabby..so is this the topless beach or nudie beach?? still hot and humid? well humid? it's sounding pretty hot. enjoy.
Posted by: beanervt at July 05, 2011 12:14 AM (KZLoo)
Posted by: Alex at July 05, 2011 12:21 AM (lnS9y)
Can't have too much stashed away Robert.. I'm a meat an taters guy myself. nothing like a juicy med rare steak, pure heaven
Posted by: beanervt at July 05, 2011 12:25 AM (KZLoo)
Until the 19th.
Tonight I hit up some of the bars.
Posted by: Alex at July 05, 2011 12:29 AM (lnS9y)
"Shah begins the book with an anecdote about her own childhood as an American visiting her relatives in India; sleeping under a bed net while her cousins sleep in the open, fearing mosquitoes, and India, and being ashamed of her fears. She notes later that, when her family hears she is writing a book about malaria, they ask her why--to them, it seems as silly as writing a book about the common cold. Shah notes this several times throughout the book--for example, explaining that many in malaria-endemic regions, people would rather use their bednets for fishing than to protect from mosquitoes, so while programs which deliver such nets can tout high numbers of bednets distributed it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone who receives one is using them correctly."
Hell, even when used properly, after you've gotten your eight hours wrapped in a net what protection will you have the 16 hours of the day?
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Can't have too much stashed away Robert.. I'm a meat an taters guy myself. nothing like a juicy med rare steak, pure heaven
Posted by: beanervt at July 05, 2011 04:25 AM (KZLoo)
\m/
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2011 12:36 AM (4ixH5)
Nice,, you staying in Spain or moving around? how's the bar scene and local wimmenz scene?
Posted by: beanervt at July 05, 2011 12:44 AM (KZLoo)
yah, I started my stomach growling with all that juicy steak and taters talk..now I'm f'n hungry..
Posted by: beanervt at July 05, 2011 12:47 AM (KZLoo)
There are many beautiful wimmenz here, and with the Mediterranean climate they all wear light dresses that show off everything. It's jiggleriffic.
Posted by: Alex at July 05, 2011 12:58 AM (lnS9y)
I bet it is "jiggleriffic",, they know how to keep their hawtness kewl!!!
Have a great time touring, and good luck with wimmenz...
Posted by: beanervt at July 05, 2011 01:09 AM (KZLoo)
4th of July Report- South Africa Edition
All you can eat ribs washed down with pints of local draught, toasting the USA, Texas, boobies, etc. Sadly, nothing to blow up.
Posted by: Mr. Dave at July 05, 2011 01:10 AM (g2WKb)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 05, 2011 01:13 AM (C7KNt)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 05, 2011 01:15 AM (C7KNt)
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Posted by: Mr. Dave at July 05, 2011 01:21 AM (g2WKb)
Shit,, sorry Q&J I figured one would beat the snot outa the other then pass out from exertion.. my bad. short of a flash bang grenade I'm not sure what would work now..
Posted by: beanervt at July 05, 2011 01:31 AM (KZLoo)
Posted by: beanervt at July 05, 2011 04:47 AM (KZLoo)
I'm fixing that with some cigarettes someone left here.
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2011 01:33 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 05, 2011 01:35 AM (C7KNt)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 05, 2011 01:36 AM (C7KNt)
Posted by: Mr. Dave at July 05, 2011 01:41 AM (g2WKb)
"That might get them back tagteaming..."
Oh, is that what they're calling it nowadays, beanervt?
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 05, 2011 01:53 AM (C7KNt)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 05, 2011 01:55 AM (C7KNt)
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Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 05, 2011 02:22 AM (C7KNt)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 05, 2011 06:22 AM (C7KNt)
You are going to make some for the rest of us, right?
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2011 02:51 AM (4ixH5)
You got my stomach growling again.. damn ciggs only hold off the hunger so long.. enjoy them Q&J sounds Delicious 'cept for the tea..
have fun at work CoolChez,,
Posted by: beanervt at July 05, 2011 02:54 AM (KZLoo)
Posted by: meizitang at July 05, 2011 03:12 AM (9y4aU)
I like Orange juice with my eggs and bacon. I have the coffee before and at work but could never get into tea.. did have long island ice tea but that's really different..
Posted by: beanervt at July 05, 2011 03:21 AM (KZLoo)
Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2011 03:27 AM (tvOF2)
Tea is good, jut gotta find what you like. There's some nice fruity stuff or the regular black teas. It's also good for when you start feeling like a cold or sore throat is coming on.
I drink coffee mostly for the, uh...for the, uh...assistance it lends to certain bodily functions.
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