If Lady Gaga and Opie had children????

How goes the road trip, Maet?

That new 50 states thing gives me the creeps. Don't you know the central planners would love to just redraw the borders at will.

Posted by: wherestherum at January 31, 2010 10:17 PM (gofDd)

I assume you did your duty and keyed that f***er...

If I could figger out that damn tiny.pic thingy I could show you some siberian puppeh pics.

Posted by: CDR M at January 31, 2010 10:18 PM (cvmTR)

Sorry to hear about that.  When we had to put our black lab down, it was like losing a family member.

Posted by: CDR M at January 31, 2010 10:18 PM (cvmTR)

Arg - that sucks.  Sorry man.  Been there.  But I respect a man who can shoot his own dog. 

Arg - that sucks.  Sorry man.  Been there.  But I respect a man who can shoot his own dog. 

Posted by: Reactionary at January 31, 2010 10:21 PM (4nbyM)

Actually, my Master Chief offered to shot him.  I said hell no.  He was kidding (I think).  The vet did a good job.  It was still hard to hold him as he went.  Well, that's enough of being a downer on this ONT.  Move on lads and I appreciate the condolences but there's plenty of funny stuff to laugh at.

Posted by: CDR M at January 31, 2010 10:18 PM (cvmTR)

I'm so sorry to hear that. We had to do that with my dog 2 years ago.

Posted by: wherestherum at January 31, 2010 10:21 PM (gofDd)

Good call - gotta pick your battles, and I suppose driving a crappy Altima is itself a form of punishment.  Your optimistic view that this is a sign of Leftist desperation soothes my anger toward that traitor.

Posted by: dagny at January 31, 2010 10:21 PM (726kZ)

I wonder why the Administration even announced this?  It's not going to make Iran do anything to back down.  If anything, it makes the Iranian's job easier knowing for a fact that we have BMD ships in the Gulf so they'll make sure they target them first with the midget submarines and then strike Israel.  I'll have to think on this one but I really don't see the tactical advantage in this announcement.

puppetoff!

And my dad was with me.

Posted by: wherestherum

I would have assumed he'd be proud...

Posted by: Trimegistus at January 31, 2010 10:30 PM (OW3Eh)

I'm thinking the same thing right now.  Problem is, I really like dogs and I love to have one around that keeps the wife and dogs safe (i.e. barks when someone is near, etc) while I'm off deploying around the world.  However, my daughter has had some serious allergies so I'm going to see if the dog not being around any more will have an effect on her allergies.  If it improves, then no more dogs.

I would have assumed he'd be proud...

Posted by: Reactionary at January 31, 2010 10:33 PM (4nbyM)

LOL. Probably not for defacing someone's property. But the sentiment sure.

Posted by: dagny at January 31, 2010 10:24 PM (726kZ)

I find the best way to identify terrible drivers is to look for the Obama bumper sticker.

Posted by: Uncle Jed at January 31, 2010 10:33 PM (eKgqT)

Hey now...  Well, just wait until the government takes over our dental care and the bulk of the population is bred from our abundant stock of welfare scum.  Americans will also be a gaggle of snaggle-toothed, unwashed fatties rife with recessive genes.

Hi, All.  Didja see over at HA, bammy's losing his black clergy support.  They think he doesn't care about their opinions.  Well, d'uh.

Gateway Pundit had the scariest thing I think I've seen in a long time, though.  They had a feature on the Hitler Obama Youth gearing up in an Ohio school. 

The deployment comes after Obama's attempts to emphasise diplomacy over confrontation in dealing with Iran – a contrast to the Bush administration's approach – have failed to persuade Tehran to open its nuclear installations to international controls. The White House is now trying to engineer agreement for sanctions focused on Iran's Revolutionary Guard, believed to be in charge of the atomic programme.

Washington has not formally announced the deployment of the Patriots and other anti-missile systems, but by leaking it to American newspapers the administration is evidently seeking to alert Tehran to a hardening of its position

I thought he could just talk to them...

How do you focus sanctions on the Revolutionary Guard?

Why leak it?

How is he going to f this up?

Posted by: Trimegistus at January 31, 2010 10:26 PM (OW3Eh)

Speaking of which, what do you think Sam Adams would make of John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, or Barack Obama?

Posted by: Trimegistus at January 31, 2010 10:34 PM (OW3Eh)

Gateway Pundit had the scariest thing I think I've seen in a long time, though.  They had a feature on the Hitler Obama Youth gearing up in an Ohio school. 

Posted by: RushBabe at January 31, 2010 10:38 PM (LKkE

Saw something about that on biggovernment, too, I think.  Creepy stuff.  Reminds me of a 1930's film of Italian grade school children in black uniforms crawing under wire and running through other military style obstacles scaled to their small bodies.  Carrying youth rifles, if I remember right.  Anyway, we can't say the Libs aren't planning for the future.

My idea for conservative street armies isn't looking so crazy now, is it?

Evenin' M&Ms. Congrats on the new gig, H5. Is  it in your preferred field?

cdr., take her to the doctor along with some of the dog dander and the dog's normal food, they should be able to do a quick test

oops, 6pm call, gotta run, bbl you haters

pssst, its ncj btw

Posted by: HeatherRadish at January 31, 2010 10:39 PM (OkT2m)

Good point.  I'm so used to seeing the genetic throwbacks there that I was taken aback on my most recent visit - I actually saw 4 attractive girls.  It was pretty amazing.  My theory is that the recession is driving them out of whatever fancy places they were hiding in before and out in to the open with the rest of us plebs.

93,

Everything west and north of Albany could be called Saratoga.

Posted by: dagny at January 31, 2010 10:42 PM (726kZ)

Heh.

BTW, I saw the following two bumper stickers on a car the other day:

Coexist (with various religious symbols spelling the word)

Simplify or DIE

"The Pashtuns commonly have sex with other men and boys but are in complete denial about being homosexual."

And entire region of Andy Dicks?  Send in the B1b's...

And as for Illinois, I wouldn't care what they called it as long as we got to split off from that dump.

BTW, I saw the following two bumper stickers on a car the other day:

Coexist (with various religious symbols spelling the word)

I HATE those stickers. Every time I see one I want to ram the car.

My idea for conservative street armies isn't looking so crazy now, is it?

Posted by: Reactionary at January 31, 2010 10:43 PM (4nbyM)

Actually, just general conservative upbringing tends to provide a very useful education along those lines:

Scouting, Hunting, etc

Being wicket awhesome at x-box and recycling not so much...

78, I've been calling for that same plan since 2000.

CDR M, my sympathies. We had to put down a cat we'd had for 16 years (since before my wife and I married) earlier this year. Hit me much harder than I expected.

Posted by: wherestherum at January 31, 2010 10:42 PM (gofDd)

What's he mixed with?  A pit that hasn't been messed up by bad breeding is a fine dog, so a mix is probably excellent.  When I was a little lad we had an excellent pit bull.  It was fun to play tug-o-war with dad's sock with her, until the day we noticed she lost a tooth in the sock due to her tenacity.  Had to lay off a little from then on...

I HATE those stickers. Every time I see one I want to ram the car.

Good evening your hotness. The PETA dude that bought your cookies has one of those bumper stickers, along with one that says, "Don't move fire wood. It bugs me."

Screw. These. People.

What do you want to ask Sarah Palin?  She's gonig to be the special guest on next week's Fox News Sunday.

http://tinyurl.com/yd33dmq

I HATE those stickers. Every time I see one I want to ram the car.

Posted by: wherestherum at January 31, 2010 10:50 PM (gofDd)

Amen, and amen.  Talk about useful idiots.  Makes my blood burn seeing that on the drive home.  That kind of vapid thinking is dangerous.  I'd love to drop those pukes in the middle of Iran and see how long they can avoid being hanged, stoned, beaten, etc.  Stupid pukes.

122, I should send you a picture of my fireplace for him.

It's glowing like a foundry at the moment.

Posted by: di butler at January 31, 2010 10:53 PM (S3xX1)

Wow - that desire for grandbabies must be REALLY strong...

You Cons, just don't get it.  THEY COEXIST.  We don't.  I mean if you have this blue bumper sticker with DIVERSE symbols, you LOVE OTHERS and seek unity, peace, love AND DOVES.

You Cons, all you want is to ruin the planet and club baby seals with dead Muslims.

Posted by: gus at January 31, 2010 10:58 PM (MaqIC)

Now THAT sounds like a good time!

Posted by: koopy at January 31, 2010 10:58 PM (XllG0)

But it worked so well in New Orleans!

I am such a sci-fi geek, I read that headline about the autism doctor as literally "Doctor Who" and it took me a moment to realize it wasn't about the television show.

CDR M, I add my sympathies to those already expressed.

The stickers that get to me are the blue dot in red state ones.

I'm so tempted to get a tiny peel & stick hammer and sickle and put it right in the middle of the dot of every one I see.

Scott J.

I could make a t-shirt out of it with the pic on the front and a caption that reads, "I moved the firewood and the bugs approved."

WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER?

No, but if you saw off peoples heads, fly planes into packed buildings and tell us we have to live like 7th century savages like ISLAMOFASCISTS do, then

WAR IS THE QUESTION.

Yes

is the answer.

Posted by: GreenGasEmissions at January 31, 2010 11:02 PM (xa1/W)

Yeah, but then I'd have to replace the wife!  She's conservative, just does not want a gun in the house.  Wonder what she'll say when my dad gives me his old Army .45.  That's a sweet gun.

Shared this on Facebook, but for those of you who aren't there I think you m&m's might find this food for thought: http://tinyurl.com/ydyba44

Sort of gets into some scary what ifs.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at January 31, 2010 11:03 PM (OkT2m)

Oooh.. that's a good one.  Mind if I steal it?

Last pooch I had was a Shih Tzu -Terrier mix I found as a puppy in a freezing rain storm. Loyal, easy to train, and the bravest little shit you'd ever want to see. He was a royal hoot. RIP-Little Buddy (2003).

155,

I remember during the fires out there last fall, FNC interviewed some guy who had said "screw it" to the don't cut/remove brush beyond a certain distance from your home. His was the only one that wasn't destroyed.

I remember during the fires out there last fall, FNC interviewed some guy who had said "screw it" to the don't cut/remove brush beyond a certain distance from your home. His was the only one that wasn't destroyed.

Where I live the fire dept requires you to clear the brush in your backyard precisely because it helps save the houses. I kind of blame the homeowners too because of the kind of landscaping they use. Non native plants that dry out due to lack of water. If people desert landscaped like in AZ, it would be less of a problem. I wish I could rip out all the damned palm trees in my neighborhood too. Those burn like gasoline.

181,

When I camped as a youth we'd always just pickup deadfall around the campsite for the fire.

Some efforts toward revitalizing downtown urban areas and relieving traffice issues can be acceptable - like allowing people to live above their businesses, for example.  In my opinion every existing building in the US should have been grandfathered relative to the Americans with Disabilities Act, and any smart city will zone down town buildings as dual use.  But it seems that the Left cares only for those ideas that restrict freedom, rather than expand it. 

OT, but I've picked up a set of Sony noise-cancelling head phones to play my lap top's music selection.  They're really nice.  I just finished listening to the Radetsky March and it sounded so good I could almost feel an Austrian cavalry sabre in my hand, fresh with the blood of some uppity Italian...

Oh, well I hate those freaking tree infesting beetles so I guess I support it too. Also, damn boat owners who haul their boats from lake to lake and transport various invasive species of plants.

And get off my grass too.

Being wicket awhesome at x-box and recycling not so much...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2010 10:51 PM (bgcml)

Posted by: wherestherum at January 31, 2010 11:12 PM (gofDd)

I've always wonder just how the left can tolerate its insane levels of cognitive dissonance.

In a similiar event, which was brought up on FARK of all places, a newspaper (NYT or LAT I think) was trying to laud an environmental group formed by a group of upper middle class soccer moms.

The actual article was 100% positive fluff about how they were agitating to get the local government to ban all sorts of things for the earth and the children. The picture that accompanied the article showed one of their meetings - complete with imported Italian spring water.

Nothing says conservation quite like having your water shipped from another continent.

166
Louisiana becomes "Sabine"?  What is a "Sabine"?

The Sabine (pr: 'sah-beeen') is the border river with Texas.

It really fucking irks me that some people, whn efaced with a term they don't know, lack the working neurons and ganglia to GO LOOK IT UP ON GOOGLE.

Shared this on Facebook, but for those of you who aren't there I think you m&m's might find this food for thought: http://tinyurl.com/ydyba44

Sort of gets into some scary what ifs.

Posted by: Scott J. at January 31, 2010 11:05 PM (MU2+T)

I agonize every day over whether to cash out some mutual funds and pay off the house (just five years to go).  Hey, if you're gonna lose everything you don't already own, I can't see the downside.

Posted by: Jean at January 31, 2010 11:07 PM (CPefM)

Awww... I love newfies.  She's gonna get big.  Definitely 110+.  Not as tall as an Irish Wolfie, though. 

Rum - I imagine you probably have a higher frequency of lib bumperstickers than we do here.  I haven't seen a codepinko one yet.  We have more consv. stickers my way.  The Priuses with O stickers are hilarious, as are the fancy cars driven by the old farts with lib stickers (weeeird).  I love going into the store and figuring out who owns the car with the stickers.  So easy.

Chuck DeVore money bomb Monday to defeat Barbara Boxer.

http://tinyurl.com/yjb9frv

Give like the Senate depends on it. Give like you did for Scott Brown.

Scott's a stand-up conservative running against the RINO Carly Fiorina for the Republican nomination and a shot at Boxer.

 Those burn like gasoline.

That surprises me. I don't know why, but I always thought those would be a high-moisture content, hard-to-burn type of tree. Obviously I'm arboreally challenged.

Posted by: Dang Straights at January 31, 2010 11:23 PM (JJXZV)

And you won't be very good at the real thing if your primary exercise is going upstairs to raid your parent's goody drawer.

Sassypants, I'm assuming some online purchase I made, which is the reason I use AMEX for that. This is the 3rd time in 10 years, the first time it was a catalog phone order-the order taker swiped the number, the 2nd time it was an online order.

I'm also checking my other accounts to be sure it's not an identity theft, but right now it seems like it is just AMEX.

The new map?  Not so fast.  I saw how this movie ends.  They cram 10 episodes into one and Skeet still doesn't become President. 

And this Pecos thing.   Isn't that where Slow Poke Rodriguez is from?

Posted by: wherestherum at January 31, 2010 11:26 PM (gofDd)

Arizona, which I finally realized this year really is my home state.  (I've been missing Cali for a looong time.)

I just took the quiz on eras and scored a five. Pretty good guess work if I do say so myself.

Posted by: Dang Straights at January 31, 2010 11:23 PM (JJXZV)

I know simulation doesn't equal reality and there isn't a reset button, game over equals bodily injury or death. But it is better than not knowing. I've also read manuals, books and had conversations with people who've seen combat.

Yeah, I agree Sassypants, but AMEX really does have good fraud protection service, so thatÂ’s why I shop on the Internet with confidence. IÂ’m not sure what algorithm the computer uses to boot suspicious charges, but itÂ’s only once tripped on me personally and that was when I was in New York using my card when somebody who was buying tickets for me used it in California at the same time. Otherwise, despite some mighty weird purchases on my part it doesnÂ’t give me trouble but catches the fraudulent charges fast (like within an hour today I was notified).

really fucking irks me that some people, whn efaced with a term they don't know, lack the working neurons and ganglia to GO LOOK IT UP ON GOOGLE.

 Posted by: effinayright at January 31, 2010 11:18 PM (lQRmV)

What does "irks" mean?

194,

Same with the "it's on snopes" emails I receive. I got one of those from a (former) friend today. Yeah, it was on Snopes--AS A HOAX. I jumped his ass about it and now he's pissed. Great. He can stay that way.

Posted by: wherestherum at January 31, 2010 11:38 PM (gofDd)

I looove Flagstaff.  Not the politics (some shops I cannot enter), but the area is so lovely and there are some good food places there as well.  We vacation up there sometimes - not enough, if you ask me.  I'd probably move up there if I could get away with being a self-sustained hermit (ie independently wealthy).

Sedona is really pretty, too.. probably more so than Flag, but I haven't been there very often.

Tucson is definitely aquired taste.  We have friends there, but I don't like it aside from the historical properties.  It's kind of... grungy.

Sounds like  a good SEGWAY into the NEXT Obama 100 BILLION DOLLAR BILL.

Let's call it a JOBS BILL.

The 862 BILLION already appropriated PLUS INTEREST, has done NOTHING to create jobs.  The HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS LEFT UNSPENT, could not be REDIRECTED???

NAH, it's a slush fund.

Hatchet, isn't it funny how many HIPPIES are now retired lifelong GOVT employees???

The MAN has made them into comfortable retirees!!!!!!

Tucson is definitely aquired taste.  We have friends there, but I don't like it aside from the historical properties.  It's kind of... grungy.

Posted by: soulpile at January 31, 2010 11:45 PM (afWhQ)

My dad wanted to retire to Flagstaff but when we drove through he was shocked at how big it was. And how expensive. He went to UA for grad school so he spent a lot of time in Tucson. We went to Tucson for a wedding for my dad's former grad school roommate and I was not impressed. This was back in 98. Haven't been to Tucson since.

I want to go back to Sedona sometime and spend a few days at one of the spas there. They looked fabulous.

IÂ’m about done watching season 5 of Buffy and I canÂ’t decide whether to go ahead and get seasons 6 and 7 for closure even though I know a lot of the episodes are crap, or leave it with the end of season 5.

80% on the historic eras quiz.

I've never heard/read of the American Era of Good Feelings and have heard of the Gilded Age but didn't know it was before the Gay Nineties--I guessed it might have been in the 1840-50s. And I know the proper order of Republic and then Empire for Rome, but I didn't know if Rome originally began as a kingdom and turned into the Republican oligarchy from it, or if the "Kingdom" was a reference to post-Imperial, Christianized Rome after the fall.

I admit the Jazz and geologic era answers were educated guesses on my part but my reasoning was sound for them.

Rum, really? I was wary of Dollhouse, but IÂ’ll give it a try.

Nancy isn't a BOOOOOOOOZE HOUND.   Nancy and her TRAVELING PARTY,  merely like the GOOOOOD THINGS IN LIFE.   And shouldn't they HAVE THEM???    After all, she and her CHILDREN and their SPOUSES and her GRANDCHILDREN are ROYALTY.   RIGHT???

They WON?!!! Right?

And they care about the LITTLE PEOPLE.

Gosh, I hate to throw a turd in the punchbowl, but just saw this from Reuters:

Criticized by Republicans as a big spender, Obama used his State of the Union address last week to tell Americans he would dig the country out of a "massive fiscal hole."

That hole is even deeper than previously believed, according to the estimate by the White House's Office of Management and Budget.

The estimate for the current fiscal year is significantly higher than the $1.35 trillion figure forecast by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office last week.

Despite the difference, both estimates indicate that the deficit will continue to hover at a level not seen since World War Two, when measured as a percentage of the economy. Last year the government posted a $1.4 trillion deficit.

Ok, please return to your normal discussions of baconz, boobz, booze and bulletz.

I want to go back to Sedona sometime and spend a few days at one of the spas there. They looked fabulous.

Posted by: wherestherum at January 31, 2010 11:51 PM (gofDd)

There's a great spa there, Enchantment? - my mom went with her sisters for her birthday.  I'm still a little peeved that I wasn't allowed to go.  It's on my to-do list now (I'm not a spa person, but after getting a quick pampering before a wedding, I want to try the full experience - ha).

TBD = To Be Denounced?

Posted by: wherestherum at January 31, 2010 11:52 PM (gofDd)

She is also a hunter.

Oh, oh. Determined. Never mind.

Oh, and even though no one asked, yes I did have an awesome weekend with genghis. He brought me roses!

Posted by: wherestherum at January 31, 2010 10:17 PM (gofDd)

That's bad, but I saw one of those stupid "Support Your Troops, Bring them Home" magnets on a car in the church parking lot today.  I wanted to peel it off and throw it on the ground (my husband had to restrain me).

Oh, and even though no one asked, yes I did have an awesome weekend with genghis. He brought me roses!

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at January 31, 2010 11:55 PM (RZ8pf)

We don't have to ask.  We already know it was like a pair of siamangs.

That's really sad.  I can't even imagine.  I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 31, 2010 11:55 PM (CCcDq)

I have a rule that hawt can trump stupid for at least 6 hours.  After that, not so much...

I HATE those stickers. Every time I see one I want to ram the car.

Posted by: wherestherum at January 31, 2010 10:50 PM (gofDd)

I despise those too, and I have the same gut reaction as you. I'm a grad student so I see a lot of those on campus. I wish I had a battering ram strapped on the front of my car for all the idiotic bumper stickers.

My personal least favorite is "War is not the Answer." I always want to scrawl under it, "What is the question, dumb hippie?"

When it comes to preventing genocide, mass murder, and the subjugation of free people by evil tyrants, war is most certainly the answer, hippies.

Did you just call me an ape, Editor?

I love spa treatments, with the exception of the full body wrap. IÂ’m a tad claustrophobic and being immobilized like a mummy while encased in weird stuff (once it was mud, once it was an exfoliating scrub, once just moisturizing lotion) for 45 minutes pretty much pushes me over the edge.

And if you are asking why I subjected myself 3 times it’s because everybody kept swearing up and down that if I tried a body wrap with “blah blah blah” it would be an awesome experience.

I think I was an Egyptian princess in a former life, I do not like being mummified.

My personal least favorite is "War is not the Answer." I always want to scrawl under it, "What is the question, dumb hippie?"

War is not the answer--Great. So tell that to the cocksuckers that start them, not the nations who sacrifice blood and treasure to end them. Fookin' hippies.

BTW, I saw the following two bumper stickers on a car the other day:

Coexist (with various religious symbols spelling the word

Heh!  I just told my husband today that we could all exist if the "C" in those stupid coexist bumper stickers was eliminated.

IÂ’m about done watching season 5 of Buffy and I canÂ’t decide whether to go ahead and get seasons 6 and 7 for closure even though I know a lot of the episodes are crap, or leave it with the end of season 5.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at January 31, 2010 11:51 PM (RZ8pf)

Season 6 is lower quality, but has its moments. I think the singing episode is in that season and quite good.

Season 7 is terrible. Lefties politics hitting you over the head terrible.

Did you just call me an ape, Editor?

PGIS, as long as he didn't have you eating figs, you should be ok!

Heh. The new residents of the state of Philadelphia, particularly at the South Jersey Shore, will not appreciate being drug back into what many of them left to escape in the first place...but then again, their taxes would actually go down slightly...

Oh, and even though no one asked, yes I did have an awesome weekend with genghis. He brought me roses!

Woohoo!  (Oops, Italics won't turn off!)  I'm so happy for you PGIS!  You so deserve this!  OK, gotta run (Jane Austen's on now!)

Curious, well I got lucky in that genghis is as smart and funny and evil (in a good way) in person as he was here.

Sassypants, we hung out and cooked together and watched movies and stuff. IÂ’m not sure about ValentineÂ’s Day; he is after all a guy, so I suspect that he doesnÂ’t even know thatÂ’s coming up on the calendar.

Aaaaaa, curious, that would be my worst fear, imprisoned and not able to escape a fire.

Sassypants, we hung out and cooked together and watched movies and stuff. IÂ’m not sure about ValentineÂ’s Day; he is after all a guy, so I suspect that he doesnÂ’t even know thatÂ’s coming up on the calendar.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at February 01, 2010 12:10 AM (RZ8pf)

Valentines Day, is that before or after the Superbowl?

Valentines Day, is that before or after the Superbowl?

Posted by: Holger at February 01, 2010 12:12 AM (8NGHm)

Dude, it's the Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox.

So you had a happy ending, Sassy?

Posted by: mystry at February 01, 2010 12:19 AM (kmgIE)

In Beijing.

Hi Katya, Did you think of the doctor as well when you saw the “Doctor Who” headline in Maet’s post?

Posted by: Sassypants at February 01, 2010 12:21 AM (ZLN2+)

In High School it was called wrestling.

ValentineÂ’s Day is a minefield. My previous experiences with it (from dating and marriage) have run the gamut from totally awesome to the most horrible day of the year. At this point in my life my expectations are kind of low.

Hi Katya, Did you think of the doctor as well when you saw the “Doctor Who” headline in Maet’s post?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at February 01, 2010 12:20 AM (RZ8pf)

Huh?

Was this in NYC, curious? Because even though all firefighters are hot, the guys in NYC do seem to be the hottest of the hot.

Once when I was in NYC for business the hotel I was staying in caught fire, it was quickly put out. I have a picture of me posing by the fire truck with the firefighters. Yummy.

Savannah?  My beautiful South Carolina first sullied by being lumped in with that penal colony along our western border, and then (adding insult to injury) saddled with a ... a ... a ... Jawja name like 'Savannah'?  

I feel like I just through up in my mouth. 

Posted by: Holger at February 01, 2010 12:17 AM (8NGHm)

Until our new Chinese Overlords take over.

Katya, Maet’s headline was, “Doctor Who Claimed Vaccine-Autism Link about to Lose License”

Little Miss SpellCheck and I both read it as involving “Doctor Who” not as “a doctor who claimed”

Huh?

Oh!  LOL!  I get it!

Paris Paramus,

     My 60% bows in awe of your 100%.  You are either well rounded or damn lucky.  What inspired your moniker?

Is "a sweet card" one made out of chocolate?

Posted by: wherestherum at February 01, 2010 12:29 AM (gofDd)

Then you should date my son. He would send flowers to you.

"Olympia" (which appears to be labeled something else on the thumbnail  map) has the closest outline to an actual state that I can see.  Ironically, that actual state (Washington) is one of the most profoundly bifurcated in the US, in terms of climate, culture, and politics.

(Tee-hee, I said "profoundly bifurcated".)

Posted by: wherestherum at February 01, 2010 12:29 AM (gofDd)

That is just wrong. Every girl deserves a dozen flowers every now and then.

So, which women here are just happy with a sweet card? Show of hands? Which women prefer something expensive - like a fur coat, some diamonds, a car etccc?

My ideal Valentine's Day would be that it was ignored by both of us as just another day.

If he insists on something, send me flowers at work. No one's ever done that for me.

Flowers or dinner out or somebody else does the dishes.

Posted by: wherestherum at February 01, 2010 12:34 AM (gofDd)

Yes, he is. He's 28 and will turn 29 in April.

Maybe i'm jaded but i've worked with guys who go out and buy a diamond necklace for the wife and a diamond necklace, bracelet and ring for the mistress and think nothing of it.

I can't imagine requiring that kind of stuff as proof of love.  Especially when most people giving/receiving them are going to be broken up within a few years, if that. 

I just saw a clip of the 3 judges of the Miss America Contest being introduced.  Rush was 3rd and got the biggest applause by far of the three.

My wife gave birth to our 3rd child on March 3rd a long time ago.  While she was in the hospital, I brought her potted hyacinths.  The aroma was incredible and filled the room and part of the maternity floor.  I have brought her hyacinths every Spring thereafter.  I bring home 1 or 2 dozen roses or a mix of mums on a regular basis but never feel obliged to on manufactured holidays.  ie Valentine's or Sweetest day.

Posted by: wherestherum at February 01, 2010 12:38 AM (gofDd

Yes and Yes.  He's a broker at Fidelity.  He's an avid hunter, loves the outdoors and sports. He has run marathons and used to race mountain bikes when he was in high school.

Posted by: katya at February 01, 2010 12:42 AM (pJMrn)

I think you've found it.  You can do custom cards.

I actually spent many hours at work one year coming up with cards like that.

Wish I could remember some.

GregInSeattle, I commented upthread that abablahblah needs to watch more Bond, he shouldnÂ’t pre-announce his plans, gives someone time to do something about it. I say someone because we all know Obama wonÂ’t.

I wonder what the blow will be? Announcing some sort of oil thing? Crashing the dollar? Launching a nuclear weapon? And why pre-announce anyway, is he hoping people will bow and scrape to him?

And, dammit, I have a boyfriend for ValentineÂ’s Day for the first time in 6 years so the bastard better not mess the world up too much on the 11^th.

Posted by: wherestherum at February 01, 2010 12:47 AM (gofDd)

Inquiring minds want to know.

Well, genghis is an AoSHQ moron, so I suspect his idea of a perfect ValentineÂ’s Day gift is a hobo hunt and a val-u-rite bender. With bacon for breakfast.

"why do people lie about themselves when they know you will eventually meet them and right away see that they lied?"

Because people are stupid?

Posted by: wherestherum at February 01, 2010 12:47 AM (gofDd)

We live in Utah. I know you girls like your guys tall, so unfortunately, he's only 5'10".  He has me to blame for that, because I'm only 5'8". Oh well, it sucks for us short guys.

Posted by: Editor at February 01, 2010 12:51 AM (YX6i/)"

OMG you need to warn us not to take a swig of tea before reading your comment, now it is all over everything...that was funny and so true, so true...

Sassypants, so are you saying I should drop copious hints here about what possible things I would like for ValentineÂ’s Day?

We live in Utah. I know you girls like your guys tall, so unfortunately, he's only 5'10".  He has me to blame for that, because I'm only 5'8". Oh well, it sucks for us short guys.

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at February 01, 2010 12:53 AM (Vu6sl)

5'10" is tall.

Posted by: Editor at February 01, 2010 12:24 AM (YX6i/)

I think there's a variable in there that will go unmentioned.

We live in Utah. I know you girls like your guys tall, so unfortunately, he's only 5'10".  He has me to blame for that, because I'm only 5'8". Oh well, it sucks for us short guys.

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at February 01, 2010 12:53 AM (Vu6sl)

5'10" is tall.

Posted by: soulpile at February 01, 2010 12:54 AM (afWhQ)

From what I've been reading here, unless my memory is failing me, which it is, it seems like all the women want their men to be a minimum of 6' feet tall. 

I think there's a variable in there that will go unmentioned.

Posted by: Bill R. at February 01, 2010 12:56 AM (EhlQq)

Yeah - I thought about that, too, but will remain unmentioned, even now.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at February 01, 2010 12:54 AM (zmiSr)

Wait, I see that woman on the covers of all the beauty magazines now. Well, her and her he-man arms.

Posted by: curious at February 01, 2010 12:51 AM (p302b)

Because it gets you elected president?

Posted by: wherestherum at February 01, 2010 12:56 AM (gofDd)

It's not the Mormons.  It's just a nice state with low crime, beautiful scenery and all 4 seasons to enjoy.

Posted by: wherestherum at February 01, 2010 12:54 AM (gofDd)

IIRC the areas that still have some economic growth are:

DC

Maryland/NoVA

Boston

curious, Batchelor is, was, and ever shall be....fringe....marginalia...a footnote....an obscure refreence.....curiosa.

He's on the MEH network for a good reason:  meh.

He and Savage ought to get together to discuss "macrobiotic foods" --- remembah that?

Posted by: soulpile at February 01, 2010 01:03 AM (afWhQ)

My 4'11" cousin dated a guy who was 6'5" once. That was an interesting thing to see. We also have family friends where the wife is 5'1" (Chinese) and her husband is 6'5" (dirty Scandi of some sort).

Oh Rum, you’ll get a kick out of this, genghis saw my shoe collection and gaped in amazement. His comment “do you actually wear all these shoes?” My reply “Yes, but not all at once of course.”

Rum, well I think it was the “wall of shoes” in my closet that was a bit overwhelming for him. Later he saw another stack of shoes elsewhere in my house and said “there are more shoes here” in sort of a bewildered and amazed tone of voice. I’m not sure if he noticed the basket of my Converses in my hall closet or not…

Poor guy, I guess he really had no idea.

Conscious, thatÂ’s one good looking son you have, you must be very proud.

Posted by: wherestherum at February 01, 2010 01:15 AM (gofDd)

Thank you.  He's a great guy. We have an incredible relationship.

When people discuss dating, it's all about dream person versus reality. Nobody can actually fit profile.

Maybe that's what was meant in the "If you can't find Mr. Right, settle for Mr. Good Enough" thread from a few nights back.

OT the numbskulls keep pluggin away

Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” perpetrated upon about 100 human beings. This term is really their euphemism for the enforced disappearance of persons and their consequent torture. This criminal policy and practice by the Accused constitute Crimes against Humanity in violation of the Rome Statute establishing the I.C.C.

blah blah blah

Posted by: curious at February 01, 2010 01:21 AM (p302b)

He was snapped up and married, but his wife all of a sudden decided she wanted be single again. They ended up getting divorced. She's having a difficult time trying to decide what really makes her happy.  I hope that she finds out soon because she's a really nice girl.

I would like to see teh Won and the rest of the Democratic Party tried for treason.

Oh, dream on.

Posted by: SaTx at February 01, 2010 01:32 AM (mdBef)

How YOU doin'?

Posted by: soulpile at February 01, 2010 01:22 AM (afWhQ)

Believe me, he could have been one.  When he played football he was a warrior and on the basketball court he's a terror because he's really quick.  He will go hunting by himself and camp out up in the middle of nowhere for two or three days. We watched Jeremiah Johnson several months ago because he had never seen it.  He said he would have loved to live that kind of life.

Posted by: wherestherum at February 01, 2010 01:33 AM (gofDd)

I think I read somewhere awhile back that he wasn't the biological father of any of them.

Italics pixie failed, credit not given to wherestheru

I would like to see teh Won and the rest of the Democratic Party tried for treason.

Those Powerline guys say teh Won could have a bright future, which puts me in a bad mood.

Anyway, my dream house would have this shower where I just walk in and everything turns on. Really, I just wander in there. Don't have to make sure the curtain is inside the tub, don't have to scrub myself -- jets of water in all directions and soap coming on me from dispensers. It would be perfect for groggy mornings. Then I get blasted with air to dry off.

Posted by: SaTx at February 01, 2010 01:43 AM (mdBef)

If my kids were still in high school and I found out that crap was going on I would really be pissed and highly motivated to get personally involved to stop it.  I don't think they could get that going in Utah because it's so conservative.  But hey, it only takes one teacher to get it started.

Posted by: arhooley at February 01, 2010 01:39 AM (luaIZ)

Appears to me that your dream house would be a car wash.

Posted by: arhooley at February 01, 2010 01:45 AM (luaIZ)

That explains then why he was so unhealthy both physically and mentally.

Posted by: SaTx at February 01, 2010 01:49 AM (mdBef)

Steady job, good character? Lover of bacon and hobo hunting?

Posted by: arhooley at February 01, 2010 01:45 AM (luaIZ)

"The moves, which include the sales of anti-missile systems to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait, are designed to deter Iran from launching attacks against its Sunni Muslim neighbors and to send a message to Israel that a preemptive strike against Iran is unnecessary.

The deployments come as President Obama enters a new phase in efforts to halt Iran's nuclear program after the failure of a diplomatic offensive. Washington is anxious to get a tough new round of U.N. sanctions against Tehran, something that China and Russia have shown little interest in backing."

http://tinyurl.com/yeehah8

Fox is spinning this as protection for Arab Sunni states against Iran, but it is really protection for Iran against an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear weapons capability.

Iran hasn't overtly threatened other Muslim states with it's hope of obtaining nuclear weapons, but Israel has been directly threatened in this manner by Iran.

This isn't Obama "upping the ante against Iran",  it is Obama upping the ante against Israel.

Compared to a rocket, an Israeli jet strike fighter is "parked" in the sky compared to a missile when you are targeting it with an anti-missle system like the Patriot.

http://tinyurl.com/yag8wc2

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at February 01, 2010 02:25 AM (zmiSr)

Great link.  I hope the elder Bush told Obama he needs to quit blaming everyone else and start taking ownership of the problems he's face. Yeah, like that's going to happen.

I guess it is a social call if he only brought Jeb along with him. They say that no one knows what the 3 of them discussed. [FTR, I don't think it's any political conspiracy, but Bush 41 must have said something interesting.]

Commies don't where ties:

http://tinyurl.com/y9p7ujm

Posted by: Adrian at February 01, 2010 02:35 AM (HqFA1)

I can't stand how he attempts to look "so cool" by jogging up or down the steps to Air Force One without using the railing.  I can't wait for the day that he trips and falls on his ass in front of the TV cameras.  It's the same when he jogs up or down the stairs to a stage.  He puts his fists together and does that "I'm cooler than shit" jog, look at me!

FIRST!!!!

ugggh, i'm tired

540  when he let tony hawk skateboard in the white house he should have been evicted

btw, i still say lady gaga is teh hawt!!

Posted by: quite googleable at February 01, 2010 02:51 AM (EiH7n)

If I may ask, what kind of skiing accident were you involved in?

Posted by: navycopjoe at February 01, 2010 02:56 AM (zDr90)

NCJ, as I said earlier in the thread, I believe hawt trumps stupid for at least 6 hours, after that not so much.

Good night, Soulpile!

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at February 01, 2010 03:01 AM (zmiSr)

I just hope that he realizes there are a lot of people wishing he was still our President.

556  another day, another broken heart

maybe kratos is right about you

maybe kratos is right about you

Does that make Rum the real Consort of Hades?

Hell yeah, I love that map.  DO IT NOW! 

Good Morning Morons

Nice interesting stuff on the ONT last night. The map is interesting but there is a reason the States and the electorial college are the way they are.  We have already screwed up voting for the Senate, lets not screw up the rest. Hopefully some day we will be able to turn around the Washington power grab. Probably have to repeal the 14th amendment and reconfigure the Supreme Court though.

I got 6 out of 10 of those "eras". Most of them had some kind of "trick" question buried in it designed to make you miss it.  I detest tests like that.

The Radio Electronics mag brings back memories. I used to get that mag and Popular Electronics. Also, in the previous decade a popular "mag" was the annual Allied Radio catalog.  That was up until they got bought out by Tandy/Radio Shack. Then they turned to shit.  

I'll be in and out today. Got a dental appointment at 09:00.

Not much going on the news today. Looks like they are hiding everything. The "deficit" seems to be the big thing at Fox.

Obama's budget submitted as one of the biggest deficits in history (if not the biggest). It includes spending and "tax cuts" that have not been approved by congress yet.

I say "tax cuts" because they are either BS that will not happen like the "new hire credit" or they are nothing but more welfare programs labeled as a tax cut like the "making work pay" BS. You can call stuff like this and EIC a tax cut but it is still nothing more than welfare.

Great article over at NRO on how we got where we are at beginning in the early 1900s.

Its the urban vs rural divide. Sacramento votes for freaks (I don't consider San Fran part of northern cali, for the record) but the rest of northern california is rural and opposed to the spending and the left.

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