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March 05, 2014

Overnight Open Thread Thingy (3-5-2014)
— Maetenloch

Ralph Peters on Obama: "He Does Not Believe in This Country"

Devastating because it's true.

The problem with being a post-national president of your country is that you end up always losing out to actual leaders who do believe in their nations.

Look, the bottom line on this is Russia has a real leader. You may not like him, and I don't, but he is brilliant and ruthless, he has clear goals and he moves straight toward those goals. The West lacks a leader. Like it or not, the president of the United States is the de facto leader of the West, and our president just is - he's incapable and unwilling to lead.
The weakness is phenomenal. Now, you know, we are not weaker than we were in the Carter years. I was in that military, it was pathetic. Our military today is the best in the world, best in our history, although Obama wants to dismantle it. We're also immensely wealthier than the Carter years. The problem is, that as a president Obama is far weaker than Carter, and he's probably the worst president we've ever had.
He is a man who's incapable of making a hard decision. And by the way, one other key point, Vladimir Putin believes in Russia. He believes in Russia's destiny, its mission. Obama does not believe in American exceptionalism. He does not believe in this country.

The Obama Way: If He Believes It, It Must Be So

When it comes to Iran, Obama shows an attitude that can only be described as solipsistic: what's in his mind is reality. And any other reality is just plain silly.
...It's pretty obvious to all analysts that Iran does not fear an American military strike much these days, especially after Mr. Obama's failure to act in Syria last summer. But Obama denies it, referring to himself in the third person as someone "who has shown himself willing to take military action." Drones, sure; a quick raid as well. But in Libya and Syria, he showed himself extremely reluctant to take military action. Remember "leading from behind?" If he genuinely thinks he is viewed as a scary guy with his finger near the trigger, we all have a problem.
...This is the Obama who said of his own nomination that "this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." If he believes it, it must be so. The Goldberg interview reveals that five years in, nothing has changed.

Sowell on Reality vs the Intelligentsia

The front page of a local newspaper in northern California featured the headline "The Promise Denied," lamenting the under-representation of women in computer engineering. The continuation of this long article on an inside page had the headline, "Who is to blame for this?"

In other words, the fact that reality does not match the preconceptions of the intelligentsia shows that there is something wrong with reality, for which somebody must be blamed. Apparently their preconceptions cannot be wrong.

Quote of the Day

We want the world to solve its own problems for a while. The problem is that all this - invasions, wholesale slaughter, ethnic cleansing, missile tests, naval provocations, and raw brutality - is how the world beyond our borders solves its own problems.

"Let the world solve its own problems for a while!" Oh, it does, my friends. It does. http://t.co/u95PutVyTM pic.twitter.com/7jgwhmT4Ok

- Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) March 5, 2014

Bad Idea #27: Borrowers Taking Out Student Loans for Personal Expenses

And unlike stores, banks, and credit card companies universities will never ever have to take a hit for enabling this kind of insane borrowing.

Take Ray Selent, a 30-year-old former retail clerk in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was unemployed in 2012 when he enrolled as a part-time student at Broward County's community college. That allowed him to borrow thousands of dollars to pay rent to his mother, cover his cellphone bill and catch the occasional movie.

"The only way I feel I can survive financially is by going back to school and putting myself in more student debt," says Mr. Selent, who has since added $8,000 in student debt from living expenses. Returning to school also gave Mr. Selent a reprieve on the $400 a month he owed from previous student debt because the federal government doesn't require payments while borrowers are in school. [...]

The Great Medieval Water Myth

Because everyone knows that unlike us modern superior types no one ever drank plain water in ye old ancient times.

There is no specific reason then to believe that people of the time drank proportionately less water than we do today; rather, since water was not typically sold, transported, taxed, etc., there simply would have been no reason to record its use. Did people in the time prefer alcoholic drinks? Probably, and for the same reason most people today drink liquids other than water: variety and flavor. A young man in a tenth century Saxon colloquy is asked what he drinks and answers: "Beer if I have it or water if I have no beer." This is a clear expression of both being comfortable with water and preferring beer.

15 Things You Might Not Know About This Is Spinal Tap

Including the fact that Ozzy Osbourne thought it was an actual documentary about a band he hadn't heard of and the fact that it goes to 11 on IMDB.

Teh Tweet!

Le AoSHQ groupe de Yahoo. Ooh la la!

Tonight's post brought to you by Helen Mirren, 1967-style:

Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail encrypted overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to LauraW's hump.

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Posted by: Maetenloch at 06:07 PM | Comments (925)
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1 American Flag Banned in America American public schools can prohibit students from wearing the American flag because anti-American thugs were likely going to silence those students with violence anyway More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=5184

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 05, 2014 06:08 PM (AymDN)

2 Barky hates this country.

Posted by: wheatie at March 05, 2014 06:09 PM (W4wxS)

3 Ain't nobody got time for no Overnight thread. I'm rocking out to Kansas "Carry On My Wayward Son". You squares do what you will.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 05, 2014 06:09 PM (ZshNr)

4 Hi horde

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 05, 2014 06:09 PM (HVff2)

5 I'll get the others.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 06:10 PM (UAMVq)

6 NINE! ...or that neighborhood.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 06:10 PM (lq3Ak)

7 Maetenloch....you got some sort of leakage going at the end of the post.

Posted by: wheatie at March 05, 2014 06:11 PM (W4wxS)

8 Evening morons. Worn out from work, might be getting sick too. Just too much stress in general.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at March 05, 2014 06:11 PM (R+XDI)

9 ...nine?

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 06:12 PM (lq3Ak)

10 Maybe I'm the only one who can see it?

Posted by: wheatie at March 05, 2014 06:12 PM (W4wxS)

11 When it comes to Iran, Obama shows an attitude that can only be described as solipsistic: what's in his mind is reality. And any other reality is just plain silly. Sounds like my ex-wife.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 06:12 PM (UAMVq)

12 "Evening morons. Worn out from work, might be getting sick too. Just too much stress in general."

Me too. I've got no fight left in me.

Posted by: John Boehner at March 05, 2014 06:13 PM (lq3Ak)

13 I see it too Wheatie.

Posted by: Mayday at March 05, 2014 06:13 PM (eHc+1)

14 Short to the point ONT I really like the Peters story

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 05, 2014 06:13 PM (HVff2)

15 There has been an increasing problem with students "going to college" primarily as a source of income (student loans and grants), not for an education. The feds have been trying to get colleges to crackdown - at my community college, we recently have been required to take attendance during our first two weeks, and if a student doesn't show they are dropped from the class and don't get their aid money. (I have had one student who showed up the first day and never again, never withdrew from the class - some of them are learning the new game, I think).

On the flip side - it's kind of sad, people using "textbook money" to feed their kids or whatever.

Posted by: david_shane at March 05, 2014 06:14 PM (CVVLU)

16 Duhmerican Deceptionalism!

Posted by: scrood at March 05, 2014 06:14 PM (wvPFe)

17 Wait. Do universities lend money?

Posted by: Y-not at March 05, 2014 06:14 PM (zDsvJ)

18 "Maybe I'm the only one who can see it?"
Posted by: wheatie

I see it. A buncha' codeleak.

Posted by: John Boehner at March 05, 2014 06:14 PM (lq3Ak)

19 12 "Evening morons. Worn out from work, might be getting sick too. Just too much stress in general." Me too. I've got no fight left in me. Posted by: John Boehner at March 05, 2014 10:13 PM (lq3Ak) You never had any fight in you to begin with, you noodle-spined limpdick.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 06:14 PM (UAMVq)

20 The notion that rubble doesn't make trouble has always been wrong. Rubble is where the trouble often starts.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 05, 2014 06:14 PM (lr3d7)

21 No one sees my public key without buying me dinner first.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 05, 2014 06:15 PM (Nrrfl)

22 10 Did you try Google translator?

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 06:15 PM (aUQgu)

23 Evening y'all!

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 06:15 PM (doBIb)

24 I've got a pen and a phone. Of course what I think is what is.

Posted by: Barack Obammy at March 05, 2014 06:15 PM (Aif/5)

25 *Off*, you punchless sock!

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 06:15 PM (lq3Ak)

26 And here's Ralph Peters writing about Putin in 2011: http://wapo.st/1nfn34v

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 06:16 PM (DmNpO)

27 Damn, Helen Mirren was a hot babe.

Posted by: fastfreefall at March 05, 2014 06:16 PM (Tz35j)

28 Ralph Peters: We're also immensely wealthier than the Carter years. No, that is simply wrong. We now have vastly more debt than we did back then. Our wealth is illusory.

Posted by: rickl at March 05, 2014 06:16 PM (sdi6R)

29 Helen MMMMMMMMirren.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 05, 2014 06:16 PM (4Mv1T)

30 Eat me boehner. I take my duties seriously, and were I in your shoes I'd be taking a pound of flesh from Obsma and his flunkies Every. Single. G*ddamn. Day.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at March 05, 2014 06:16 PM (R+XDI)

13 I see it too Wheatie.

You see it too, Mayday?

It says...."KEY Block"....at the beginning of it.

I hope that code jibberish is not the keys to the blog.

Posted by: wheatie at March 05, 2014 06:16 PM (W4wxS)

32 "This is Spinal Tap may not have invented the mockumentary genre.." ...what did?

Posted by: A Good Man in a Bad Trade at March 05, 2014 06:16 PM (PQQHz)

33 Evening. Does anyone know anything about this guy Jim Sinclair? My boss recently attended a seminar Sinclair spoke at, and Sinclair apparently was saying that within the next few months there is going to be an Cyprus-style "bail-in" - that over some weekend a bunch of money is going to disappear from peoples' bank accounts and wend its way into government coffers. Sinclair's sources seem to be some grand muckety-mucks of the stock market.

Posted by: Grey Fox at March 05, 2014 06:17 PM (NeX8Z)

34 I want to go back to school to work towards a Masters degree in statistics. Unfortunately I have no desire to take on student debt once again.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 05, 2014 06:17 PM (lr3d7)

35 Hat for the win. Congrats, buddy!!!

Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 06:17 PM (8lmkt)

36 This new thread thing; I think you are doing it wrong... Wouldn't be the first time I did something wrong.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 06:17 PM (UAMVq)

37 Whose PGP key is that?

Posted by: toby928© at March 05, 2014 06:17 PM (QupBk)

38 -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- The dog barks at dawn. I repeat: The dog barks at dawn.

Posted by: The Secret Agent Hat at March 05, 2014 06:17 PM (AymDN)

39 Those dirty damn apes got to the PGP code too! Nicely done...

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at March 05, 2014 06:17 PM (2buaQ)

40 Boy, Helen Mirren sure was faptastic.

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 06:18 PM (doBIb)

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Posted by: Soothsayer at March 05, 2014 06:18 PM (r/HMZ)

42 18 "Maybe I'm the only one who can see it?" Posted by: wheatie I see it. A buncha' codeleak. Posted by: John Boehner at March 05, 2014 10:14 PM (lq3Ak) Maet meets barrel?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 05, 2014 06:19 PM (HVff2)

43 does anyone else kinda worry kinda constantly that they might possibly be drinking too much . . . and then go, well, fuck, this is so far down on the list of shit that needs to change and has another? {asking for a friend}

Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 06:19 PM (8lmkt)

44 >>the fact that it goes to 11 on IMDB. So after months and months of deliberations about our home coffee situation, I've finally taken the plunge and bought a Nespresso Virtuoline, their new combo pod system that can do both American-sized coffees and espressos. (Don't judge me.) Took the Man to W-S to test it out. They have a bunch of different pods of different strengths as indicated by a number. What sold him was that they have an espresso pod that goes to 11.

Posted by: Y-not at March 05, 2014 06:19 PM (zDsvJ)

45 Barky wasn't born here, he wasn't raised here, and dad gum it , he's gonna kill us all, an no sidewindin' bushwackin', hornswagglin' cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 05, 2014 06:20 PM (BAS5M)

46 15 Things You Might Not Know About This Is Spinal Tap Real rock musicians love that movie. I remember talking to a member of 10,000 Maniacs about 15-20 years ago, and he said, "When we first started, we went through more drummers than Spinal Tap."

Posted by: rickl at March 05, 2014 06:20 PM (sdi6R)

47 Helen, Baby: I want to go back to 1967. Oops, I was in the Army all of that year. Sorry Babe, you're on your own. Pity though.

Posted by: CMU VET at March 05, 2014 06:20 PM (ejB0r)

48 Maet meets barrel? Nope. That's one of the encryption blocks for either the receiver or sender.

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 06:20 PM (doBIb)

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Posted by: Prism at March 05, 2014 06:20 PM (AymDN)

50 Watch Van Halen's Panama video in it's entirety, without flinching. Your mind will become a completely blank, stark, barren slate. Or you're a robot.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 05, 2014 06:20 PM (ZshNr)

51 So... I recently found out that senior management is bringing in a new department head. I know this person to be a duplicitous bullshit artist, but who has the glad handing, backslapping thing that people just eat up down pat. This could make my life very complicated in short order.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 06:20 PM (UAMVq)

52 *whistling innocently* *flashes geek gang sign to Maet* *flashes another handsignal entirely to the NSA*

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at March 05, 2014 06:20 PM (2buaQ)

53 "The dog barks at dawn.

I repeat: The dog barks at dawn."
Posted by: The Secret Agent Hat

The meatball is spicy.

I repeat: The meatball is spicy.

Posted by: Italian Guy in a Wife-Beater at March 05, 2014 06:20 PM (lq3Ak)

Let me sum it up. Obama sucks. His presidency is a Disaster of Biblical proportions. Did I forget anything?

Posted by: ALH at March 05, 2014 06:21 PM (btTLZ)

55 It's a map to a treasure of Spanish doubloons.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 05, 2014 06:21 PM (r/HMZ)

56 40 -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- The dog barks at dawn. I repeat: The dog barks at dawn. Posted by: The Secret Agent Hat at March 05, 2014 10:17 PM (AymDN) John has a long mustache. The chair is against the wall.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 06:21 PM (UAMVq)

44 does anyone else kinda worry kinda constantly that they might possibly be drinking too much . . .

Peaches...define "too much".

Posted by: wheatie at March 05, 2014 06:22 PM (W4wxS)

58 Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 10:19 PM (8lmkt) Only during blackouts

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 05, 2014 06:22 PM (HVff2)

59 Hi, everybody! OK, now, Mr. Bassmab is an AoS newbie. Do you think we can persuade him to join us?

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 06:22 PM (RMfGb)

60 44 Peaches, I don't worry about, but I know it. The choice is a ragestroke or numbness. Pick your poison.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 06:22 PM (ojnk6)

61 Helen Mirren is so hot... computer code jizzes all over itself.

Posted by: eman at March 05, 2014 06:22 PM (AO9UG)

62 does anyone else kinda worry kinda constantly that they might possibly be drinking too much Hell, I don't drink nearly enough.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 06:23 PM (UAMVq)

"Maetenloch....you got some sort of leakage going at the end"

huhuhuh uhuhuhuh uhuhuhuh...

Posted by: butthead at March 05, 2014 06:23 PM (9gNQd)

64 No, I am not going to relearn, rehash PGP. Thank you very much.

New World Disorder
Everyone around the globe lamented how awful it was to see men, women, and children choking to death from poison gas, but nobody was all that eager to do much about it.

Likewise, everyone around the globe can see what Obama is doing to the United states but nobody seems to know what to do about it. Half the voters in the US seem to want what Obama is selling. So the other half wait for the clock to tick down to January 2017 to see what happens next, giving Obama another three years to do whatever he wants while we stand around with our hands in our pockets watching, and waiting for the game clock to run out.

Posted by: Wendon Peerluss at March 05, 2014 06:23 PM (Frbv5)

nice ONT Maetenloch.

weird. public key lock?

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 06:23 PM (3yFC4)

66 Back in the '90s when I was doing research I met an older student who took out student loans and bought Yahoo, Apple, dot coms, (and later Google), etc. with the money. His wife paid the everyday bills. He got rich, then went to D.O. school.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 05, 2014 06:23 PM (mARqz)

67 I thought you couldn't directly use student loan money yourself? The money goes directly to the school. Is that right?

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 06:24 PM (doBIb)

68 ....does anyone else kinda worry kinda constantly that they might possibly be drinking too much . . . and then go, well, fuck, this is so far down on the list of shit that needs to change and has another? {asking for a friend}
Posted by: Peaches
---------------------------------

Of course we do. Then we spend the next day sober as usual and remember why we drink every night.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 05, 2014 06:24 PM (4Mv1T)

69 So... I recently found out that senior management is bringing in a new department head. I know this person to be a duplicitous bullshit artist, but who has the glad handing,
backslapping thing that people just eat up down pat. This could make my life very complicated in short order.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 10:20 PM (UAMVq)

Oh, honey, that blows chunks. So sorry . . . time to work on the ol' resume, eh?

Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 06:24 PM (8lmkt)

70 Insomniac been there done that. It's all bullshit and never ends well.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 05, 2014 06:24 PM (Q8vlx)

71 Thanks for the clarification EC Hey all you NC morons

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 05, 2014 06:24 PM (HVff2)

72 Because nothing sez "Welcome to the AoSHQ" like a public PGP key

Posted by: mrp at March 05, 2014 06:25 PM (JBggj)

73 Helen Mirren shows off her titties in the movie Excalibur.

Posted by: YIKES! at March 05, 2014 06:25 PM (mETGQ)

74 no wonder this blog shits the bed so much...it's hemorrhaging code.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 05, 2014 06:25 PM (r/HMZ)

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 10:21 PM (UAMVq)

MAGGOTS...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 06:25 PM (3yFC4)

76 rickl Which of the 10,000 Maniacs? I met John Lombardo when I was a teen, he was super-patient with my fanboy-self and talked to me for like an hour. Great memory for me.

Posted by: A Good Man in a Bad Trade at March 05, 2014 06:25 PM (PQQHz)

77 Hey WI morons!

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 06:25 PM (doBIb)

78 I repeat!

-Fun Became Silly.
-The Moon is Waxing.
-Ewoks are in the Garbage.
-Sven is Making Sense.
-The Cat Found Your Nip.
-The Cheese is in the Brine.
-That Button Has Never Been Found.
-The Star is Larger than 150 Solar Masses.
-Dinosaurs are NOT Cold-Blooded.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 06:26 PM (lq3Ak)

79 Good evening all!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 05, 2014 06:26 PM (gaOtJ)

80 68 I thought you couldn't directly use student loan money yourself? The money goes directly to the school. Is that right? -- I think it might depend on the lender. Either that, or we're confusing Pell Grants with loans. In any event, I don't know of any traditional (non-profit) universities that serve as lenders. Perhaps the for-profits do. I know they represent the lion's share of the student debt problem.

Posted by: Y-not at March 05, 2014 06:26 PM (zDsvJ)

Ooops! Sorry!

Will clean that right up.

Posted by: Olestra Coding at March 05, 2014 06:26 PM (BAS5M)

82 Hey EC

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 05, 2014 06:26 PM (Q8vlx)

83 34 Grey Fox

Did that Jim Sinclair seminar thing charge the seminar-ees? Sounds kinda Tony Roberts like.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 06:26 PM (aUQgu)

84 Halford looks a lot like a young Vlad Putin.

Posted by: Blacksheep at March 05, 2014 06:26 PM (bS6uW)

Seriously, though...Col. Ralph Peters is being far too kind in that quote above.

Barky set out to FUBAR this country.

That is his main mission, and everything he's done is with that mission in mind.

He said "Fundamentally Transform this country".

Well that translates to FUBAR.

Posted by: wheatie at March 05, 2014 06:26 PM (W4wxS)

86 I can't get the key to import.

Posted by: toby928© at March 05, 2014 06:26 PM (QupBk)

87 Oh, yeah, the Helen Mirren in 1967 pic. I was 8 years old in 1967, and frankly don't care how old she is. I've had what can only be described as a crush on Helen Mirren since I discovered there was a Helen Mirren in the movie, 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover'. She's the only actress/entertainer to whom I've ever been tempted to write a fan letter. It's immature and ridiculous, I know, but there it is.

Posted by: troyriser at March 05, 2014 06:26 PM (ptcFO)

88 Hey all you NC morons Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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HELLO WISCONSIN!

Posted by: That Seventies Show at March 05, 2014 06:26 PM (4Mv1T)

89 Helen Mirren shows off her titties in the movie Excalibur. Posted by: YIKES!
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Y'know, why isn't Excalibur on Netflix? That's a perfect title for a streaming portal.

Posted by: mrp at March 05, 2014 06:27 PM (JBggj)

90 Blaming universities for people's reckless borrowing habits is like blaming Ferrari dealerships for dudes' mid-life crises.

Posted by: Y-not at March 05, 2014 06:27 PM (zDsvJ)

91 In any event, I don't know of any traditional (non-profit) universities that serve as lenders. Perhaps the for-profits do. I know they represent the lion's share of the student debt problem. Like a FAFSA loan. That money goes to the school, and not the student.

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 06:27 PM (doBIb)

92 Bad Company. Good song.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 05, 2014 06:27 PM (ZshNr)

93 There is a french film where Helen Mirren is naked through most of it. George Depardieu is in it.

Posted by: Judge Pug at March 05, 2014 06:28 PM (hJnUx)

94 Wut up Chavez!

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 06:28 PM (doBIb)

95 Posted by: Grey Fox It is suggested in a section of the IMF budget I believe; can't remember exactly. One time for the EU in 2014, which I guess means "our" money but not our personal money. Probably catch on though. Someone here is bound to correct me.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 05, 2014 06:28 PM (Rnllb)

96 Copy paste error or some kinda weird geek joke I don't get in spite of my geek status ... Slappy that second bet pays 2-1

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 06:28 PM (yVg8h)

Blaming universities for people's reckless borrowing habits is like blaming Ferrari dealerships for dudes' mid-life crises.

And blaming titty bars for dudes' maxed out credit cards.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 05, 2014 06:29 PM (BAS5M)

98 >>>68 I thought you couldn't directly use student loan money yourself? The money goes directly to the school. Is that right?

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 10:24 PM (doBIb)<<<

the financial aid package is based on cost of attendance-including cost of living in the area you are attending school. after tuition and fees. the overage, based on your academic load, is refunded to cover legitimate expenses (which could include living expenses) or refunded to the government.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 06:29 PM (3yFC4)

99 Helen Mirren could put all of us Morons in the hospital. I'd be worth it.

Posted by: eman at March 05, 2014 06:29 PM (AO9UG)

100 87 I can't get the key to import.
Posted by: toby928Â© at March 05, 2014 10:26 PM (QupBk)

Code is special - for Morons only.

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 05, 2014 06:30 PM (pAlYe)

101 Mirren was stunning, but ... Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour ... whoa.

Posted by: mrp at March 05, 2014 06:30 PM (JBggj)

102

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 05, 2014 10:29 PM (BAS5M)

ha.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 06:30 PM (3yFC4)

103 88 Oh, yeah, the Helen Mirren in 1967 pic. I was 8 years old in 1967, and frankly don't care how old she is. I've had what can only be described as a crush on Helen Mirren since I discovered there was a Helen Mirren in the movie, 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover'. She's the only actress/entertainer to whom I've ever been tempted to write a fan letter. It's immature and ridiculous, I know, but there it is. Posted by: troyriser at March 05, 2014 10:26 PM (ptcFO) I was just about to mention that movie when I saw your comment. She was in her mid-40s and I was in my mid-20s. Good Lord, she was awesome.

Posted by: rickl at March 05, 2014 06:30 PM (sdi6R)

104 40 Well, dang it, I misspelled Mr. BassMAN.

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 06:30 PM (RMfGb)

105 Ralph Peters on Obama: He does not believe in this country.

Not believe in but hates is the right word. The commie bastard hates America

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 05, 2014 06:30 PM (FE/sZ)

106 EC believe it or not, got Joe Walsh and Zevon cranked up. A little Captain Morgan don't hurt either.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 05, 2014 06:30 PM (Q8vlx)

107 Code is special - for Morons only. The key doesn't have the same number of characters in each line. Hmm.

Posted by: toby928© at March 05, 2014 06:31 PM (QupBk)

108 "Slappy that second bet pays 2-1"
Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 10:28 PM (yVg8h)

I'm not much of a betting man, though. I'm a "Slow Playa" of Fantasy Baseball. Ratios and metrics... mmmmmmm....

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 06:31 PM (lq3Ak)

109 >>And blaming titty bars for dudes' maxed out credit cards. Exactly.

Posted by: Y-not at March 05, 2014 06:31 PM (zDsvJ)

110 27 Damn, Helen Mirren was a hot babe. --- Check her out as Morgana in Excalibur (1981). Still had it working.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 06:31 PM (FpHdx)

111 100 Helen Mirren could put all of us Morons in the hospital. I'd be worth it. Posted by: eman at March 05, 2014 10:29 PM (AO9UG) I could re-grout the entire Mall of America singlehandedly.

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 06:31 PM (doBIb)

112 I went to a major state school in a large city. There was an entire subculture of people hanging out living on student loans but not working toward a degree. This isn't a secret or anything, it's just that no one wants to talk about it because most of the scammers (though certainly not all, especially these days) were black.

Posted by: Blacksheep at March 05, 2014 06:32 PM (bS6uW)

113 Helen Mirren 67 is a dead ringer (from the neck up) to my senior pics in 87. Not trying to start a convo or anything but those chubby cheeks and eyes are me. Yikes

Posted by: Molly k. at March 05, 2014 06:32 PM (f8cHe)

114 86 The problem with any obama bashing is that to capture the entire fuckedupedness of his shitty shitbaggedness would make you sound like an unhinged kook. And even that wouldn't do his utter failure justice. The English language falls far short of having a way to describe what we have done to ourselves with jef.

Posted by: traye at March 05, 2014 06:32 PM (fqOja)

115 Helen Mirren 67 is a dead ringer (from the neck up) to my senior pics in 87.

Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 06:33 PM (8lmkt)

116 There is a french film where Helen Mirren is naked through most of it. George Depardieu is in it. Posted by: Judge Pug at March 05, 2014 10:28 PM (hJnUx) *Madly searching*

Posted by: YIKES! at March 05, 2014 06:33 PM (mETGQ)

117 Posted by: Molly k. at March 05, 2014 10:32 PM (f8cHe) I would...... Never mind. The rules are pics

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 05, 2014 06:33 PM (HVff2)

118 114 Helen Mirren 67 is a dead ringer (from the neck up) to my senior pics in 87. Not trying to start a convo or anything but those chubby cheeks and eyes are me. Yikes Posted by: Molly k. at March 05, 2014 10:32 PM (f8cHe) How you doing? I was #4 commenter of 2013.

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 06:34 PM (doBIb)

119 Missing security code from healthcare.gov?

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 06:34 PM (aUQgu)

120 True story -- our community college financial aid advisor got fired. She was too concerned about students taking on unnecessary debt. We have a lot of students who only enroll for the Pell grant and the loans. They disappear after disbursement.

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 06:34 PM (RMfGb)

121 Oh, honey, that blows chunks. So sorry . . . time to work on the ol' resume, eh? Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 10:24 PM (8lmkt) Thanks, Peaches. Yes, it blows big time. I'm definitely working on getting the rÃ©sumÃ© out there. I'd just as soon not, since it's a pain in the ass, but it's not like I have a lot of options. I don't suck up and play office politics very well.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 06:34 PM (UAMVq)

122 Helen was teh smokin'. Props.

Posted by: Blacksheep at March 05, 2014 06:35 PM (bS6uW)

123 Dang, I had to look twice to figure out that was Helen Mirren. At first glance, I thought it was Jennifer Lawrence.

Posted by: no good deed at March 05, 2014 06:35 PM (vBhbc)

124 "What are the words, Merlin? Uhnaal Nethracch..."

Posted by: Helen M. at March 05, 2014 06:35 PM (lq3Ak)

125 26 He had Putin nailed in that article.

Posted by: votermom at March 05, 2014 06:35 PM (GSIDW)

126 yeah troyriser great movie

Posted by: ARNY at March 05, 2014 06:36 PM (VWXUq)

127 114 Helen Mirren 67 is a dead ringer (from the neck up) to my senior pics in 87. Not trying to start a convo or anything but those chubby cheeks and eyes are me. Yikes Posted by: Molly k. at March 05, 2014 10:32 PM (f8cHe) How you doin'?

Posted by: rickl at March 05, 2014 06:36 PM (sdi6R)

128

Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at March 05, 2014 10:30 PM (pAlYe)

I'm still trying to figure out the meaning. It'll be my own "strange things you here at ihop" story.

I must figure out this secret.

the sl article is behind the wsj paywall, but can be found yahoo finance.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 06:36 PM (3yFC4)

129

Judi Dench was mostly naked in the 1968 movie 'Midsummer Night's Dream'.

She had a few strategically placed flowers on...and that's it.

I was flipping channels one night, and started watching it.

There was this naked blonde dancing around, and I thought to myself:

"She looks familiar"

So I looked it up on IMDb....and shit, that was Judi Dench!

She was a hottie back then.

Posted by: wheatie at March 05, 2014 06:36 PM (W4wxS)

130 "What are the words, Merlin? Uhnaal Nethracch..."
Posted by: Helen M. at March 05, 2014 10:35 PM
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In the outtakes, Merlin says "Hold on there, sweetheart. I'll tell you the spell, but first .."

Posted by: mrp at March 05, 2014 06:37 PM (JBggj)

131 Hey Molly K, What state did you go to school in?

Posted by: lindafell at March 05, 2014 06:37 PM (PGO8C)

132 Another classic hottie: Ann Margret.

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 06:37 PM (doBIb)

133 Good luck & be well morons.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 05, 2014 06:37 PM (HVff2)

134 I don't suck up and play office politics very well.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 10:34 PM (UAMVq)

Well, I'm pretty sure you're better at it than I am. Everyone here can guess how I do in that arena. People whose income depended solely on me have fired my fine ass, just because they didn't like how I thought they were assholes. Always here for you and if you want my email, happy to share it with you, I'm very good at resumes (although not those frenchy accent graves or whatever the fuck they are, srsly, those will just piss people off, just sayin)

Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 06:37 PM (8lmkt)

135 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 05, 2014 06:38 PM (JMmQ9)

136 Helen mirren was sort of naked in Calendar Girls. Though I guess that is an older Helen Mirren so probably not as much of a turn on.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 05, 2014 06:38 PM (RZ8pf)

137 In the outtakes, Merlin says "Hold on there, sweetheart. I'll tell you the spell, but first .." Funny, I don't recall Mel Gibson playing Merlin

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 06:38 PM (UAMVq)

138 107 Chavez

My Maserati does 185

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 06:38 PM (aUQgu)

139 ECfor sure it's playing right now. Classic.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 05, 2014 06:39 PM (Q8vlx)

140 Posted by: mrp at March 05, 2014 10:37 PM (JBggj)

Heh.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 06:40 PM (lq3Ak)

141 Hello ONT Morons. How we doin this fine evening?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 05, 2014 06:40 PM (GEICT)

142 My Maserati does 185

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 10:38 PM (aUQgu)

How you doin? Quattroporte? I fuckin' love that car . . . a lot.

Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 06:40 PM (8lmkt)

143 Oh gosh........ I'm a drunk fool I suppose. I am flabbersageted to see a pic with a gal with chubby cheeks and too much eye makeup that reminds me of me. I find her somewhat chubby but likeable in that pic. If I could figure out how to do a pic I would

Posted by: Molly k. at March 05, 2014 06:40 PM (f8cHe)

144 so, which nickname is bernard marsonek around here?

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 06:40 PM (rDidD)

145 Cochran!!!! you ever find any booze or are you done with teh rodent kingdom and back home basking in your glory?

Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 06:41 PM (8lmkt)

146 Hey BC!

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 06:41 PM (doBIb)

147 does anyone else kinda worry kinda constantly that they might possibly be drinking too much ----- Great idea! Student loans back in the day were sent to the student as a check and the student then put it in their bank to pay tuition and books and whatever. That was at the university I went to; don't know about others. Using it for student expenses only was on the honor system since almost anything could be contrued as necessary. Obamacare included a bill that wiped out student lenders---now the federal government is the only lender unless private bank loans still exist.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 05, 2014 06:41 PM (cylo2)

148 135 I don't suck up and play office politics very well. Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 10:34 PM (UAMVq) Well, I'm pretty sure you're better at it than I am. Everyone here can guess how I do in that arena. People whose income depended solely on me have fired my fine ass, just because they didn't like how I thought they were assholes. Always here for you and if you want my email, happy to share it with you, I'm very good at resumes (although not those frenchy accent graves or whatever the fuck they are, srsly, those will just piss people off, just sayin) Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 10:37 PM (8lmkt) Thanks, I truly appreciate it. I think my resume is in pretty good shape (I hope) but I may give you a shout. And I'll be sure to leave out the French accent thingies.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 06:41 PM (UAMVq)

149 Hello morons what live in my ethernets. Mrs. whatmeworry? is on day 10 of employment and after a scary beginning (she is not much into computers but worked her butt off at the Fun-employment office and with me to learn) she is doing well. receptionist/admin assistant for a retirement/assisted living complex. The old(er) people love her

Posted by: whatmeworry? at March 05, 2014 06:41 PM (dZGNV)

150 According to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, taking upskirt pictures of women is totally legal.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/n5th4jr

Posted by: Armando at March 05, 2014 06:42 PM (vgH+s)

151

well BC. welcome back from Disney.

think I'll hit the bar this fine, cold, evening.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 06:42 PM (3yFC4)

152 "Hello ONT Morons. How we doin this fine evening?"
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk

They're all pretty fixated on Ms. Mirren. NTTAWWT.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 06:42 PM (lq3Ak)

153 Joe Walsh's "In the City" is still one of my favorites. It makes me want to go all Warriors when I hear it.

Posted by: Blacksheep at March 05, 2014 06:42 PM (bS6uW)

154 142 Hello ONT Morons. How we doin this fine evening? Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 05, 2014 10:40 PM (GEICT) Meh. See my post at 52.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 06:43 PM (UAMVq)

155 Ms Mirren is fine but, my 60's go to babe is still Racquel.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 05, 2014 06:43 PM (Q8vlx)

156 PGP probably has given the NSA a backdoor key.

If you like your privacy, you can keep your mouth shut. Telephone, telegraph, or tellanelectron.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 05, 2014 06:43 PM (wNF3N)

157 Excalibur had some fine actors in small bits Gabriel Byrne Liam Neeson Patrick Stewart

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 06:43 PM (FpHdx)

158 How you doin? Quattroporte? I fuckin' love that car . . . a lot. Posted by: Peaches I hate that maserati, at least the two door, four door is ok I guess. my neighbor had one and as much as I dislike him and his maseratt, I dislike the panamera he traded it in for even more. of course it is not entirely his fault, his dad bought 'em for him.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 06:44 PM (rDidD)

159 I heard this song on the radio this afternoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ9Nm_c3GVY I love it. I didn't know who did it and had to look it up after I got home. I correctly guessed that it was recorded in 1965.

Posted by: rickl at March 05, 2014 06:44 PM (sdi6R)

160 156 Ms Mirren is fine but, my 60's go to babe is still Racquel. Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 05, 2014 10:43 PM (Q8vlx) I'm going to have to second that.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 06:44 PM (UAMVq)

161 157 PGP probably has given the NSA a backdoor key. If you like your privacy, you can keep your mouth shut. Telephone, telegraph, or tellanelectron. Posted by: GnuBreed at March 05, 2014 10:43 PM (wNF3N) Who's to say NSA had a hand in first making it?

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 06:44 PM (doBIb)

162 Posted by: whatmeworry?

Cool news, amigo!

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 06:44 PM (lq3Ak)

163 Y'know, why isn't Excalibur on Netflix? That's a perfect title for a streaming portal. --- So that's what they're calling it now?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 06:45 PM (FpHdx)

164 Hmmm first mockumentary? I nominate "Take the Money and Run" Woody Allen as "Virgil Starkwell". "Give me the money, I have a 'gub'."

Posted by: whatmeworry? at March 05, 2014 06:45 PM (dZGNV)

165 Helen Mirren

ah !
She was 'Victoria' in the Bruce Willis comedy/thriller 'Red' and 'Red 2'
lotta fun.

ok, so it wasn't a thriller, all fun..Lotta sight gags.

Posted by: Wendon Peerluss at March 05, 2014 06:45 PM (Frbv5)

166 "In the City" great tune. Wonder how he came up with all that cool shit. Had better shit than I had to work with.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 05, 2014 06:45 PM (Q8vlx)

167

Posted by: Daybrother at March 05, 2014 10:41 PM (cylo2)

private bank lending is a very small portion of the problem (and mostly used for private and online programs of varying quality-ITT is in trouble with their private label lending). and yes, the federal financial aid program goes through the school student accounts-student account is paid first, then the overage is forwarded to the student.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 06:45 PM (3yFC4)

168 The bottom line is that the progs (every major Dem politician) want either a one-world government or something rather akin to it, with all the "smart" people from around the world gathering at Turtle Bay to enforce their vision for the world. They loathe the idea of the United States of America as a beacon for liberty and individuality. It's mind-bogglingly asinine to claim otherwise and this is coming from someone whom most of you consider one of the more "lefter" regulars here.

My forebears sailed here from Europe in the 1860's and 1920's respectively (father's side/mother's side). It wasn't for the welfare, it was to be able to scale Maslow's hierarchy of needs as they saw fit (of course, within reason). My Ukraine-born, maternal grandfather enlisted in the Illinois Reserve militia during WWII at the age of 34, with 2 kids -- when 34 was more akin to 44 -- and he was only 5'4 and had flat feet. I have a photograph of him. You never saw a prouder man! They mustered him out on what would later become my birthday, 8 months later -- they didn't need short, 36 y.o. fathers (unlike the Nazis). Doesn't matter. He offered to serve and would have done so with all his heart. That's someone who loves America. He loved it so much, he stopped speaking German after he emigrated here.

Thanks Poppa. You were a *great* grandfather.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 05, 2014 06:45 PM (4IfHt)

169 150 Hello morons what live in my ethernets. Mrs. whatmeworry? is on day 10 of employment and after a scary beginning (she is not much into computers but worked her butt off at the Fun-employment office and with me to learn) she is doing well. receptionist/admin assistant for a retirement/assisted living complex. The old(er) people love her Posted by: whatmeworry? at March 05, 2014 10:41 PM (dZGNV) Hey, that's great! Glad she got a break!

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 06:45 PM (UAMVq)

170 Patrick Stewart with hair!

Posted by: toby928© at March 05, 2014 06:46 PM (QupBk)

171 Evening EC! 146 Cochran!!!! you ever find any booze or are you done with teh rodent kingdom and back home basking in your glory? Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 10:41 PM (8lmkt) We spent 3 hours in line waiting to see Elsa and Anna (the newest princesses from Frozen). The line was about 50 ft from the margarita/tequila shot kiosk thing. Expensive, but delicious. Slap, that's a damn fine looking lady in that pic. Insomniac, that sucks. I can do the bullshit, glad handing, aw shucks schtick with the best of themÂ…but not if dislike the person to begin with. And not if I think it's a complete act on their part. I don't like fake.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 05, 2014 06:47 PM (GEICT)

172 I am LOLing at the "PGP key:" YoUCanTRu5Tth1sYeP! T0taLlySeekR3tISweAr!! TheNsAIswaTCh1ngYOU YeSWeAre UnBr3aKabLeYeAhSuREL00Sers HiMoM!

Posted by: votermom at March 05, 2014 06:47 PM (GSIDW)

173 161 156 Ms Mirren is fine but, my 60's go to babe is still Racquel. Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 05, 2014 10:43 PM (Q8vlx) >>>I'm going to have to second that. Hell, I'd switch teams for Raquel!

Posted by: Y-not at March 05, 2014 06:47 PM (zDsvJ)

174 Insomniac: great minds and all that.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 05, 2014 06:47 PM (Q8vlx)

175 102----" Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour ... whoa." Posted by: mrp at March 05, 2014 10:30 PM (JBggj) --------------------------- Heh. Mr. DeVille's all-time favorite as well.

Posted by: Margarita who wishes she drank more at March 05, 2014 06:47 PM (dfYL9)

176 "33 'This is Spinal Tap may not have invented the mockumentary genre..' ...what did?" The Rutles "All You Need Is Cash."

Posted by: holygoat at March 05, 2014 06:48 PM (5Y+A+)

177 Hee hee! I just asked my wife if she would make me a sandwich AND SHE SAID OK!!!! I don't think she understands that joke. Anyhow, I have a pastrami sandwich on the way!

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 06:48 PM (doBIb)

178 Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 10:44 PM (doBIb)

Supposedly the creator of PGP did it to increase personal privacy, but we all saw what happened to that private secure email outfit that refused to play ball with the NSA -- he had to close up shop to keep from giving them his keys.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 05, 2014 06:48 PM (wNF3N)

179 I am LOLing at the "PGP key:" On the plus side, now I've heard of Bouncy Castle.

Posted by: toby928© at March 05, 2014 06:49 PM (QupBk)

180 I hate that maserati, at least the two door, four door is ok I guess.

fine, Y5, you just stick with teh Corolla or public trans or whatever, eh? burn!!!!

and, true story, Patrick Stewart's awesomely, fap-worthy son worked for me at one time. actually wore the kilts and a pith helmet into the office on his birthday. he was fine fine fine . . . the dadster was no slouch but the kid? omg, fapworthy in the extreme.

Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 06:49 PM (8lmkt)

181

174...Hell, I'd switch teams for Raquel!

Posted by: Y-not

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Heh. ...For me, it would be Ursula Andress.

Posted by: wheatie at March 05, 2014 06:50 PM (W4wxS)

182

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 10:34 PM (RMfGb)

was it recently? surprising. iirc a lot of financial aid people got cashiered in 06-07 (some marquee schools too) for think it was steering.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 06:50 PM (3yFC4)

183 143 My Maserati does 185

Hey Peaches. Outta blackberry Steel Reserve, but too lazy cold to go out.

So.....you do know your autos. This one above paygrade for moi. Hoping tfg put off death
panels.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 06:50 PM (aUQgu)

184 Helen was the perfection in "The Long Good Friday". It's dated now but great performances by her and Bob Hoskins.

Posted by: whatmeworry? at March 05, 2014 06:50 PM (dZGNV)

185 Joe Walsh's "In the City" is still one of my favorites. It makes me want to go all Warriors when I hear it.

Posted by: Blacksheep at March 05, 2014 10:42 PM (bS6uW)

The Eagles are one the most over-rated rock bands, right up there with The Doors.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 05, 2014 06:50 PM (3qZbZ)

186

Helen Mirren, 1967-style

If I had a TARDIS I believe a visit to the year 1967 would be in order. A threesome with Helen Mirren and Julie Christie would be.......nice. :-)

Posted by: puddleglum at March 05, 2014 06:50 PM (15w2J)

187 BTW, if in a few years an old, obscure Helen Mirren movie gets remade, you heard it here first.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 05, 2014 06:51 PM (4IfHt)

188 thank you slapweasel!

Posted by: whatmeworry? at March 05, 2014 06:51 PM (dZGNV)

189 Thanks Poppa. You were a *great* grandfather.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 05, 2014 10:45 PM (4IfHt)

that is the sweetest thing ever, SFGoth! xoxo

Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 06:51 PM (8lmkt)

190 fine, Y5, you just stick with teh Corolla or public trans or whatever, eh? burn!!!! Posted by: Peaches well, as I said it is mostly the guy not the car. I had a good long giggle every time I saw it getting loaded on to a tow truck and hauled into the shoppe.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 06:51 PM (rDidD)

191 "33 'This is Spinal Tap may not have invented the mockumentary genre..' ...what did?" --- Orson Wells. The War of the Worlds

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 06:51 PM (FpHdx)

192 o.....you do know your autos. This one above paygrade for moi. Hoping tfg put off death panels. Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 Peaches knows all the stuff that matters.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 06:52 PM (rDidD)

193 I hope Ralph Peters has good tax lawyers. King Barky the Fuckwad doesn't liked to be dissed, Yo!!

Posted by: puddleglum at March 05, 2014 06:52 PM (15w2J)

194 Weird pixie. Posted by: Soothsayer at March 05, 2014 10:18 PM (r/HMZ) ********* He's holding the fort against the Turks--just roll with it.

Posted by: tasker at March 05, 2014 06:53 PM (RJMhd)

195 The Eagles are one the most over-rated rock bands, right up there with The Doors.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 05, 2014 10:50 PM (3qZbZ)

Blasphemer!!!! Eagles are, omg, I can still spend an entire drunkish evening listening to them on the youtube. Doors, meh, not so much. But teh Eagles. Get thee to a nunnery!

Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 06:53 PM (8lmkt)

196 Anyhow, I have a pastrami sandwich on the way! --- And do you have enough for everyone Mister?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 06:54 PM (FpHdx)

197 Insomniac, that sucks. I can do the bullshit, glad handing, aw shucks schtick with the best of themÂ…but not if dislike the person to begin with. And not if I think it's a complete act on their part. I don't like fake. I have a real hard time doing the schtick myself. I get exhausted if I try to pretend extroversion. I can be very diplomatic, but I also don't like fakery either. With this person they're bringing in you don't know if you're going to get slapped in the back or stabbed in it.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 06:54 PM (UAMVq)

198 the shoppe.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 10:51 PM (rDidD)

roflmao! well-played, my dog infested friend!

Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 06:54 PM (8lmkt)

199 After that image of Helen Mirren 1967 it is highly doubtful that I shall ever be the same as I was, ever again.

Posted by: navybrat at March 05, 2014 06:54 PM (AW7Gr)

200 Hey, Horde; the feel-good link of the day is in my nick. If you can't be bothered, the short story is that I scored some .22LR at the local Walmart this evening. I'm seriously thinkin' about takin' about a third of my new-found stash to the range and shootin' the siht out of it. I needs me some recoil therapy; turning money into smoke and noise and little 0.22" holes in pieces of paper.

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 05, 2014 06:55 PM (JMmQ9)

201 Posted by: SFGoth at March 05, 2014 10:45 PM (4IfHt) That's great stuff SFGoth. Cheers.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 06:55 PM (UAMVq)

202 Peaches Word. The Doors were just kinda lame. Jim Morrison kinda fell off the edge of wuss cliff.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 05, 2014 06:55 PM (Q8vlx)

203

Anyhow, I have a pastrami sandwich on the way!

You're right, Mr. Spicoli, this is our time. And that makes this our pastrami sandwich. Help yourself, everyone!

Posted by: Mr. Hand at March 05, 2014 06:56 PM (BAS5M)

204 In the City, haven't heard that in a while. Will remedy.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 05, 2014 06:56 PM (ZshNr)

205 And do you have enough for everyone Mister? No! Sandwich, pickle, and chips!

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 06:56 PM (doBIb)

206 207 And do you have enough for everyone Mister? No! Sandwich, pickle, and chips! Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 10:56 PM (doBIb) Don't forget the cold beer!

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 06:56 PM (UAMVq)

207 With this person they're bringing in you don't know if you're going to get slapped in the back or stabbed in it. Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 10:54 PM (UAMVq) Yeah, I don't like that shit. Playing up in a crowd is fine, but be honest about who you are.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 05, 2014 06:57 PM (GEICT)

208 202 Hey, Horde; the feel-good link of the day is in my nick. If you can't be bothered, the short story is that I scored some .22LR at the local Walmart this evening. I'm seriously thinkin' about takin' about a third of my new-found stash to the range and shootin' the siht out of it. I needs me some recoil therapy; turning money into smoke and noise and little 0.22" holes in pieces of paper. Posted by: AltonJackson at March 05, 2014 10:55 PM (JMmQ9) I on the other hand, had to part with a fine Smith & Wesson 10mm to pay some bills. Boo fucking hoo. At least I still have my .357 for LIV plinking.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 06:57 PM (KWIwL)

209 I would commit a felony right now for a pulled pork sammich... #Starving

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 05, 2014 06:57 PM (JMmQ9)

210 211 I would commit a felony right now for a pulled pork sammich... #Starving *hides sandwich*

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 06:58 PM (doBIb)

211 my very favorite sandwich, if you are not including burgers, is a pastrami reuben.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 06:58 PM (rDidD)

212 211 I would commit a felony right now for a pulled pork sammich... #Starving Posted by: AltonJackson at March 05, 2014 10:57 PM (JMmQ9) Sexual congress with said sandwich is probably a felony. Of course that doesn't solve your current sandwichless state...

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 06:58 PM (UAMVq)

213 187 @puddleglum

McCabe and Mrs Miller: great movie

Warren Beatty and Julie Christie

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 06:59 PM (aUQgu)

214 Last week I'm on a flight, sitting in steerage. I'm in an aisle seat and diagonal to me also in aisle is a smokin' hot womYn, around 22/23. Anyway about 20 minutes into the flight she takes out a laptop and I was shocked to see what she was doing....writing code. I was like holy shit. She is the 3rd such creature I have seen....smoking hot nerd/programmer.

They do exist.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 05, 2014 06:59 PM (0LHZx)

215 Posted by: SFGoth at March 05, 2014 10:45 PM (4IfHt)

I agree with your premise, SFGoth. If these "Progressives" could finally gather their inner Woodrow Wilson momentum, they'd take this Representative Republic offshore, ridding themselves of that sticky Constitution.

That way, us plebes would be on bended knee to "The Academic Elites".

Great story, by the way. Thanks.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 06:59 PM (lq3Ak)

216 Ok I can make out some of it, but not all - yes its a geek joke

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 07:00 PM (yVg8h)

217 I've been binging on "Prime Suspect" on Amazon Prime. Helen fantastic in the first few season and then the writers kind of go off on the rails later.

Posted by: whatmeworry? at March 05, 2014 07:00 PM (dZGNV)

218 You can eat my sandwich anytime you like big boy.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 05, 2014 07:00 PM (Aif/5)

219 We had shrimp and grits tonight. Awesome.

Posted by: Y-not at March 05, 2014 07:00 PM (zDsvJ)

220 Patrick Stewart with hair? Check out I, Claudius, curly as shit.

Posted by: A Good Man in a Bad Trade at March 05, 2014 07:00 PM (PQQHz)

221 Votermom broke the code!!! What does she win?

Posted by: lindafell at March 05, 2014 07:00 PM (PGO8C)

222 Peaches Word. The Doors were just kinda lame. Jim Morrison kinda fell off the edge of wuss cliff.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 05, 2014 10:55 PM (Q8vlx)

My fuckin' roommate in college played one of their execrable songs every fuckin' night -- on MY record player (that's what we had then) -- and she's just lucky I didn't stab her to death. That is all I got to say about the fuckin' Doors. Who sucked.

Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 07:00 PM (8lmkt)

223 213 my very favorite sandwich, if you are not including burgers, is a pastrami reuben. Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 10:58 PM (rDidD) Club sammich with extra bacon is my go-to.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 07:00 PM (KWIwL)

224 Judi Dench semi-naked, in Midsummer Night's Dream, 1968: ---- Which also has Helen Mirren and Diana Rigg http://tinyurl.com/nxpb2jc check 5:15 on

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 07:01 PM (FpHdx)

225 215: I saw it. Though I think Warren Beatty is overrated. Not a bad flick though.

Posted by: puddleglum at March 05, 2014 07:01 PM (15w2J)

226 If i posted Judi Densch's character's name, I would have to sock Beevis.

Posted by: Butthead at March 05, 2014 07:01 PM (cHwSy)

227 Posted by: rich@gmu Rich, now that I think of it the checks I got when I borrowed money went through the Federal application to my bank, to the school for tuition and fees and then back to me for deposit at the original bank like you said. What is bothering me is I remember one time the bank losing my check at the teller window for a day and I had already written some personal checks to the university (they found it later). But Yeah, that sounds right I guess. Thanks. It has been a loooong time and I probably have misremembered.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 05, 2014 07:01 PM (xT61K)

228 I read an article by a professor who said he's seen a significant increase of students who get incompletes in his class over the past decade. He suspects this is due to students who simply sign up to get the loans and never even bother showing up to class.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 05, 2014 07:01 PM (0LHZx)

229 I want to thank President Obama for giving us a two break from that ridiculous health care law passed by Bush. Thank You Sir and we love you here in southern New York.

Posted by: Dorcus Blimeline at March 05, 2014 07:01 PM (iB0Q2)

230 >>My fuckin' roommate in college played one of their execrable songs every fuckin' night With mine it was Mott the Hoople, the Boomtown Rats, Billy Squier, and Queen.

Posted by: Y-not at March 05, 2014 07:02 PM (zDsvJ)

231 No! Sandwich, pickle, and chips! --- Hold it for 58 minutes, still Ash Wednesday

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 07:02 PM (FpHdx)

232 My friendsh, you have nothing to fear from an Obama presidency.

Posted by: John McCain at March 05, 2014 07:02 PM (UAMVq)

233 any sammich would do right now...

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 05, 2014 07:02 PM (JMmQ9)

234 220 You can eat my sandwich anytime you like big boy. Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 05, 2014 11:00 PM (Aif/5) I hear Sandra Fluke's favorite sandwich is "pushed pork".

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 07:03 PM (KWIwL)

235 "Club sammich with extra bacon is my go-to."
Posted by: model_1066

Grilled chicken breast with coleslaw and french fries right on the damn thing. Think "Primanti Brothers" in Pittsburgh.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 07:03 PM (lq3Ak)

236 Peaches I so would have strangled that person in their sleep. You know, just to make the world a better place. Never understood the attraction to those overrated, smug, assholes.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 05, 2014 07:03 PM (Q8vlx)

237 235 any sammich would do right now... Posted by: AltonJackson at March 05, 2014 11:02 PM (JMmQ9) #twoweeks

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 07:03 PM (UAMVq)

238 lol on the code. thanks.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 07:03 PM (3yFC4)

239 Warren Beatty and Julie Christie --- And Heaven can Wait. She just glowed in that film.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 07:04 PM (FpHdx)

240 60's babe? Sophia Loren.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at March 05, 2014 07:04 PM (jucos)

241 I read an article that said we need to kill the so cons.

Posted by: Cow Pie at March 05, 2014 07:04 PM (Aif/5)

242 Mmmmm, I love Primanti Brothers. Those sandwiches are genius!

Posted by: puddleglum at March 05, 2014 07:04 PM (15w2J)

243 232 >>My fuckin' roommate in college played one of their execrable songs every fuckin' night With mine it was Mott the Hoople, the Boomtown Rats, Billy Squier, and Queen. Posted by: Y-not at March 05, 2014 11:02 PM (zDsvJ) When I first hear of Mott the Hoople, I immediately thought the name was an anagram of something filthy and illegal, possibly disease-ridden.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 07:04 PM (KWIwL)

244 Never understood the attraction to those overrated, smug, assholes. You mean like the entire MSNBC lineup?

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 07:04 PM (UAMVq)

245 242 Seconded. The spank bank Queen.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 07:04 PM (ojnk6)

246 Hold it for 58 minutes, still Ash Wednesday You mean Ass Wednesday!

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 07:04 PM (doBIb)

247 It appears to be a conversation ... You can't trust this - yep Totally secret I swear The NSA is watching you - yes we are Unbreakable - yea sure loosers Mom

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 07:05 PM (yVg8h)

248 248 Hold it for 58 minutes, still Ash Wednesday You mean Ass Wednesday! Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 11:04 PM (doBIb) In San Francisco, anyway.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 07:05 PM (UAMVq)

249 'Lo, 'rons....what'd I miss?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 07:06 PM (T1005)

250 Insomniac Exactly like those pricks. Captain is workin now.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 05, 2014 07:06 PM (Q8vlx)

251 I have a question for the horde. Excuse the drunk Helen stuff I posted earlier. This is serious. I got a letter in the mail the other day from the state of ND. Apparently my parents ages 64 and 66 are looking to adopt. My dad is dying of Lou Gehrigs as we speak. I was adopted myself at the age of 6 so 38 years ago. Since I've known them they have always had a foster kid or two. Long story short my childhood was hell, they meant well I'm sure but it was ugly. To this day I make a point of calling on the holidays a child should but am somewhat standoffish as I don't think my adoption was in either of our best interests. None the less here is my question.....the state of ND wants me to fill out a survey on my parents...................... I am torn because if I am honest there is not way are getting a kid. If I lie I'm not true to myself. Im torn

Posted by: Molly k. at March 05, 2014 07:06 PM (f8cHe)

252 243 I read an article that said we need to kill the so cons.

Posted by: Cow Pie at March 05, 2014 11:04 PM (Aif/5)

________

Not kill them. Just make them shut the fuck up.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 05, 2014 07:06 PM (0LHZx)

253 It appears to be a conversation ... --- It's the Charm of HTML Making.

Posted by: Morgana at March 05, 2014 07:07 PM (FpHdx)

254 251 'Lo, 'rons....what'd I miss? Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 11:06 PM (T1005) Bitching and banter as usual. How's the tentacles? You talk to Hastur lately?

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 07:07 PM (UAMVq)

255 Club sammich with extra bacon is my go-to. Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 11:00 PM (KWIwL) Hell yes. The dinner down the street from where I work makes a kickass one.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 05, 2014 07:07 PM (GEICT)

256 Wow, 250+ comments in a little less than an hour, youse guys are kicking ass.

Evening roonz and roonettez!

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

257 253 I have a question for the horde. Excuse the drunk Helen stuff I posted earlier. This is serious. I got a letter in the mail the other day from the state of ND. Apparently my parents ages 64 and 66 are looking to adopt. My dad is dying of Lou Gehrigs as we speak. I was adopted myself at the age of 6 so 38 years ago. Since I've known them they have always had a foster kid or two. Long story short my childhood was hell, they meant well I'm sure but it was ugly. To this day I make a point of calling on the holidays a child should but am somewhat standoffish as I don't think my adoption was in either of our best interests. None the less here is my question.....the state of ND wants me to fill out a survey on my parents...................... I am torn because if I am honest there is not way are getting a kid. If I lie I'm not true to myself. Im torn Posted by: Molly k. at March 05, 2014 11:06 PM (f8cHe) Honesty is the best policy, always and in every case.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 07:08 PM (KWIwL)

258 I think you should be honest, Molly k. But I guess I would also tell your parents that you think it's a bad idea that they adopt given your dad's health.

Posted by: Y-not at March 05, 2014 07:08 PM (zDsvJ)

259 "'Lo, 'rons....what'd I miss?"
Posted by: cthulhu

Hot chicks from a generation, (or two), ago, Sammiches and Progressives' wont for taking things away from the Constitution.

Same ol', same ol'... lol.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 07:08 PM (lq3Ak)

260 Purge the so cons from the party. A huge voting block. And then we win! Genius!

Posted by: Cow at March 05, 2014 07:08 PM (Aif/5)

261 I am off with the methlab back in a min.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 07:08 PM (rDidD)

262 183 Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 10:34 PM (RMfGb) was it recently? surprising. iirc a lot of financial aid people got cashiered in 06-07 (some marquee schools too) for think it was steering. Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 10:50 PM (3yFC4) It was last week. Too many students took exception to her advice to keep loans to a minimum. Also, some students didn't like it when she could tell they were lying on their FAFSA applications.

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 07:08 PM (RMfGb)

263 I am torn because if I am honest there is not way are getting a kid. If I lie I'm not true to myself. Im torn

Posted by: Molly k. at March 05, 2014 11:06 PM (f8cHe)

What would be the likely result for the child in question? Act accordingly.

Most often times the right thing to do is the most difficult thing to do as well.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 05, 2014 07:08 PM (yh0zB)

264 Posted by: Molly k. at March 05, 2014 11:06 PM (f8cHe)

___________

The state would have to be out of its mind to allow a 68 and 64 year old to adopt.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 05, 2014 07:09 PM (0LHZx)

265 253 None the less here is my question.....the state of ND wants me to fill out a survey on my parents...................... I am torn because if I am honest there is not way are getting a kid. If I lie I'm not true to myself. Im torn

Be honest, but stick to facts and stay miles away from any emotion. Have someone else read it for tone before you send it in. You may owe them something but not your integrity.

Posted by: Splunge at March 05, 2014 07:09 PM (qyomX)

266 Molly K so sorry to hear that. I think I would politely decline a survey. But, that's just me.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 05, 2014 07:09 PM (Q8vlx)

267 253 I have a question for the horde. Excuse the drunk Helen stuff I posted earlier. This is serious. I got a letter in the mail the other day from the state of ND. Apparently my parents ages 64 and 66 are looking to adopt. My dad is dying of Lou Gehrigs as we speak. I was adopted myself at the age of 6 so 38 years ago. Since I've known them they have always had a foster kid or two. Long story short my childhood was hell, they meant well I'm sure but it was ugly. To this day I make a point of calling on the holidays a child should but am somewhat standoffish as I don't think my adoption was in either of our best interests. None the less here is my question.....the state of ND wants me to fill out a survey on my parents...................... I am torn because if I am honest there is not way are getting a kid. If I lie I'm not true to myself. Im torn Posted by: Molly k. at March 05, 2014 11:06 PM (f8cHe) First, I'm very sorry about your dad. ALS is an awful disease. I wonder, what would the consequences be if you simply declined to fill out the survey?

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 07:09 PM (UAMVq)

268

'Lo, 'rons....what'd I miss?"

My threesome fantasies involving 1967 era Helen Mirren and Julie Christie.

Posted by: puddleglum at March 05, 2014 07:09 PM (15w2J)

269 235 any sammich would do right now...

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 05, 2014 11:02 PM (JMmQ9)

no shit . . . looks towards the freezer, realizes that some ganga is going to be necessary . . . steps up, like a trooper!!

Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 07:09 PM (8lmkt)

270 Posted by: Molly k. at March 05, 2014 11:06 PM (f8cHe) My brutally honest opinion? Screw your thoughts and your parents' feelings. What's in the best interests of the kid?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 05, 2014 07:10 PM (GEICT)

271 Honesty is the best policy, always and in every case. --- Is there a substantial inheritance?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 07:10 PM (FpHdx)

272 "Not kill them. Just make them shut the fuck up."
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo

Let's Do It Contitutuinal.... *oooooh, wait*.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 07:10 PM (lq3Ak)

273 262 Purge the so cons from the party. A huge voting block. And then we win!

Genius!

_________

Yep. Because for every Akin we get rid of we gain 2 people. See how that works?

You're not a huge voting block. You're a small minority that is very loud. See the difference?

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 05, 2014 07:10 PM (0LHZx)

274 Molly, how do seniors in that kind of medical condition get approval to adopt?

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 07:10 PM (doBIb)

275 If I lie I'm not true to myself. Im torn

Posted by: Molly k. at March 05, 2014 11:06 PM (f8cHe)

Tell the truth. Only the truth.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 05, 2014 07:11 PM (3qZbZ)

276 The added bonus is that I can get some a really good fried fish dinner every Friday for the next five or six weeks. I may put on a pound or twelve...

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 05, 2014 07:11 PM (JMmQ9)

277 MOOOO!!!!111!!!!

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 05, 2014 07:11 PM (Aif/5)

278 Posted by: Molly k. at March 05, 2014 11:06 PM (f8cHe)

Holy crap, Molly! I don't know what to tell you because that is some heavy shit right there, but I am personally prone to honesty. My main feeling is that I would like to give you a huge hug. {{{{{{{Molly}}}}} sorry for this trouble in your life. follow your heart, babygirl.

Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 07:12 PM (8lmkt)

279 277 Molly, how do seniors in that kind of medical condition get approval to adopt? Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 11:10 PM (doBIb) It's North Fucking Dakota...the cold slows the aging process, so 70 there (and in Canada) is like 35 in say, Nebraska. Eskimos are immortal.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 07:12 PM (KWIwL)

280 SoCons a small minority? Where on one of the coasts in a city do you live?

Posted by: Beagle at March 05, 2014 07:12 PM (ZUw1T)

281 "You're a small minority that is very loud."
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo

Confuscius say: 'Never Trust Idiot Who Listens Not To His Own Words.'

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 07:13 PM (lq3Ak)

282 "You're a small minority that is very loud."
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo

Confuscius say: 'Never Trust Idiot Who Listens Not To His Own Words.'

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 07:13 PM (lq3Ak)

283 "You're a small minority that is very loud."
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo

Confuscius say: 'Never Trust Idiot Who Listens Not To His Own Words.'

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 07:13 PM (lq3Ak)

284

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 11:08 PM (RMfGb)

wow. that is an unusual reaction.

at my school minimizing loans is pretty much standard-they even have debt management to help reduce the debt burden.

it is a mess with what colleges and universities have become.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 07:13 PM (3yFC4)

285

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 11:08 PM (RMfGb)

wow. that is an unusual reaction.

at my school minimizing loans is pretty much standard-they even have debt management to help reduce the debt burden.

it is a mess with what colleges and universities have become.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 07:13 PM (3yFC4)

286

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 11:08 PM (RMfGb)

wow. that is an unusual reaction.

at my school minimizing loans is pretty much standard-they even have debt management to help reduce the debt burden.

it is a mess with what colleges and universities have become.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 07:13 PM (3yFC4)

287 Sure, purge socons. Good luck winning elections. Blah, whatever. Let It Burn!!

Posted by: puddleglum at March 05, 2014 07:14 PM (15w2J)

288 Sure, purge socons. Good luck winning elections. Blah, whatever. Let It Burn!!

Posted by: puddleglum at March 05, 2014 07:14 PM (15w2J)

289 Sure, purge socons. Good luck winning elections. Blah, whatever. Let It Burn!!

Posted by: puddleglum at March 05, 2014 07:14 PM (15w2J)

290 276 And so the Rinoism continues.....

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 07:14 PM (ojnk6)

291 276 And so the Rinoism continues.....

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 07:14 PM (ojnk6)

292 276 And so the Rinoism continues.....

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 07:14 PM (ojnk6)

293 Hey y'all. Spent the day tearing down plaster walls in this old house. I'm tired.

Posted by: Bomber at March 05, 2014 07:14 PM (G8OL9)

294 Hey y'all. Spent the day tearing down plaster walls in this old house. I'm tired.

Posted by: Bomber at March 05, 2014 07:14 PM (G8OL9)

295 Hey y'all. Spent the day tearing down plaster walls in this old house. I'm tired.

Posted by: Bomber at March 05, 2014 07:14 PM (G8OL9)

296 You're a small minority that is very loud. See the difference?

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 05, 2014 11:10 PM (0LHZx)

How . . . . ironic.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 05, 2014 07:14 PM (BAS5M)

297 You're a small minority that is very loud. See the difference?

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 05, 2014 11:10 PM (0LHZx)

How . . . . ironic.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 05, 2014 07:14 PM (BAS5M)

298 You're a small minority that is very loud. See the difference?

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 05, 2014 11:10 PM (0LHZx)

How . . . . ironic.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 05, 2014 07:14 PM (BAS5M)

299 Glen Reynolds of Instapundit had a great idea about student loans. If the student defaults, the school is on the hook for 25%.

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 07:15 PM (doBIb)

300 Glen Reynolds of Instapundit had a great idea about student loans. If the student defaults, the school is on the hook for 25%.

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 07:15 PM (doBIb)

301 Glen Reynolds of Instapundit had a great idea about student loans. If the student defaults, the school is on the hook for 25%.

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 07:15 PM (doBIb)

302 Molly, be honest. Do you want another kid to go through a similar experience or worse, since your dad is dying? Hopefully the kid will have a better chance somewhere else. I know it's not easy on the kids being in that situation either, the foster system is not always a great place. You've been there, you do what you feel is right, that is what will be best for all concerned.

Posted by: lindafell at March 05, 2014 07:15 PM (PGO8C)

303 Molly, be honest. Do you want another kid to go through a similar experience or worse, since your dad is dying? Hopefully the kid will have a better chance somewhere else. I know it's not easy on the kids being in that situation either, the foster system is not always a great place. You've been there, you do what you feel is right, that is what will be best for all concerned.

Posted by: lindafell at March 05, 2014 07:15 PM (PGO8C)

304 Molly, be honest. Do you want another kid to go through a similar experience or worse, since your dad is dying? Hopefully the kid will have a better chance somewhere else. I know it's not easy on the kids being in that situation either, the foster system is not always a great place. You've been there, you do what you feel is right, that is what will be best for all concerned.

Posted by: lindafell at March 05, 2014 07:15 PM (PGO8C)

305 "Hey y'all. Spent the day tearing down plaster walls in this old house. I'm tired." Posted by: Bomber Welcome back, Mr. Vila!

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 07:15 PM (lq3Ak)

306 "Hey y'all. Spent the day tearing down plaster walls in this old house. I'm tired." Posted by: Bomber Welcome back, Mr. Vila!

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 07:15 PM (lq3Ak)

307 "Hey y'all. Spent the day tearing down plaster walls in this old house. I'm tired." Posted by: Bomber Welcome back, Mr. Vila!

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 07:15 PM (lq3Ak)

308 283 SoCons a small minority? Where on one of the coasts in a city do you live?

Posted by: Beagle at March 05, 2014 11:12 PM (ZUw1T)

_____________

Over the past 10 years, the number of people polled who want to ban abortion has held steady at 20%.

Majorities of people now are fine with SSM. Even in places like Utah, support for gay marriage is in the 40s.

Therefore, people who think the world is going to end when 2 men marry and want to ban abortion in all cases are by definition, a small minority.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 05, 2014 07:15 PM (0LHZx)

309 283 SoCons a small minority? Where on one of the coasts in a city do you live?

Posted by: Beagle at March 05, 2014 11:12 PM (ZUw1T)

_____________

Over the past 10 years, the number of people polled who want to ban abortion has held steady at 20%.

Majorities of people now are fine with SSM. Even in places like Utah, support for gay marriage is in the 40s.

Therefore, people who think the world is going to end when 2 men marry and want to ban abortion in all cases are by definition, a small minority.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 05, 2014 07:15 PM (0LHZx)

310 283 SoCons a small minority? Where on one of the coasts in a city do you live?

Posted by: Beagle at March 05, 2014 11:12 PM (ZUw1T)

_____________

Over the past 10 years, the number of people polled who want to ban abortion has held steady at 20%.

Majorities of people now are fine with SSM. Even in places like Utah, support for gay marriage is in the 40s.

Therefore, people who think the world is going to end when 2 men marry and want to ban abortion in all cases are by definition, a small minority.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 05, 2014 07:15 PM (0LHZx)

311 288 Hey y'all. Spent the day tearing down plaster walls in this old house. I'm tired. Posted by: Bomber at March 05, 2014 11:14 PM (G8OL9) Try explosives next time!

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 07:15 PM (doBIb)

312 288 Hey y'all. Spent the day tearing down plaster walls in this old house. I'm tired. Posted by: Bomber at March 05, 2014 11:14 PM (G8OL9) Try explosives next time!

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 07:15 PM (doBIb)

313 288 Hey y'all. Spent the day tearing down plaster walls in this old house. I'm tired. Posted by: Bomber at March 05, 2014 11:14 PM (G8OL9) Try explosives next time!

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 07:15 PM (doBIb)

314
YoU Can TRuST th1s YeS YOu CaN!
T0taLly SeekR3t I SweAr!!
The NsA Is waTCh1ng YOU
YeS We Are
UnBr3aKabLe YeAh SuRE L00Sers
Hi MoM!

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 05, 2014 07:16 PM (IN7k+)

315
YoU Can TRuST th1s YeS YOu CaN!
T0taLly SeekR3t I SweAr!!
The NsA Is waTCh1ng YOU
YeS We Are
UnBr3aKabLe YeAh SuRE L00Sers
Hi MoM!

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 05, 2014 07:16 PM (IN7k+)

316
YoU Can TRuST th1s YeS YOu CaN!
T0taLly SeekR3t I SweAr!!
The NsA Is waTCh1ng YOU
YeS We Are
UnBr3aKabLe YeAh SuRE L00Sers
Hi MoM!

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 05, 2014 07:16 PM (IN7k+)

317

Posted by: Bomber at March 05, 2014 11:14 PM (G8OL9)-

have a beer on me. now I've got to make that beer run. brb.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 07:16 PM (3yFC4)

318 Hey everybody. Feeling good. I may actually be getting another old-fashioned-type job soon.

15 Things You Might Not Know About This Is Spinal Tap

I checked that IMDB page. True, the rating meter goes to 11... but you can only rate it up to 10 stars. Nice cheat, guys.

Helen Mirren 1967-style

Must... not... fap...

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 05, 2014 07:16 PM (HVI5a)

319 293 So much Straw, so little time.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 07:16 PM (ojnk6)

320 Thanks all for the feedback. I have a feeling that now that dad is dying they are working on a "person" to keep mom occupied when he is gone. I can't say for sure but that's my gut feeling. I did keep the letter but I will not reply to it and pretend I didn't get it I think.

Posted by: Molly k. at March 05, 2014 07:16 PM (f8cHe)

321 "If the student defaults, the school is on the hook for 25%." Posted by: EC That's not bad. I'd have to chew that a bit, but "reactionarily", that's not bad.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 07:17 PM (lq3Ak)

322 290 Glen Reynolds of Instapundit had a great idea about student loans. If the student defaults, the school is on the hook for 25%. --- Why?

Posted by: Y-not at March 05, 2014 07:17 PM (zDsvJ)

323 286 Sure, purge socons. Good luck winning elections.

Posted by: puddleglum at March 05, 2014 11:14 PM (15w2J)

_________

Yeah because **WITH** socons we've been so successful over the past 10 years.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 05, 2014 07:17 PM (0LHZx)

324 Also, was just eating dinner at Wing Stop. Pic of Charles Lindbergh right on the table.

Looked him up on Wikipedia. Died in 1974, not that long ago. Surprised/disappointed he was such a softie about the Nazis.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 05, 2014 07:17 PM (HVI5a)

325

Yep. Because for every Akin we get rid of we gain 2 people. See how that works?

__________________________

President Mitt Romney agrees with you.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at March 05, 2014 07:17 PM (jucos)

326 298 293 So much Straw, so little time. Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 11:16 PM (ojnk6) A fanatic is someone who can't change his mind, and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 07:18 PM (UAMVq)

327 Per the Eagles, a music critic in the eighties (Rolling Stone) once declared that "the Eagles are the country-western version of the Monkeys". Basically true. Both were facile, contrived, etc.

Posted by: elliot m at March 05, 2014 07:18 PM (vPhnb)

328 I have a feeling that now that dad is dying they are working on a "person" to keep mom occupied when he is gone. --- That is why God invented Beagles

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 07:18 PM (FpHdx)

329 Yeah because **WITH** socons we've been so successful over the past 10 years.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 05, 2014 11:17 PM (0LHZx)

We? You gotta mouse in your pocket?

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 05, 2014 07:18 PM (BAS5M)

330

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 11:15 PM (doBIb)

that would solve part of the problem but then it would run into the diversity crowd and disparate impact.

the diversity crowd is being satiated by bringing in foreign nationals at the undergrad and grad level.

disparate impact?

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 07:18 PM (3yFC4)

331 If I default on my mortgage, does the home builder owe the lender? If I default on my car loan, does the car company owe the lender? I realize it's very fashionable to blame universities for the inadequacies of today's students and their parents, but I don't see the logic.

Posted by: Y-not at March 05, 2014 07:18 PM (zDsvJ)

332 Molly K - Sorry you face such a dilemma

Instead of a survey, would they accept a brief (honest) but softer message that your parents are simply not capable of caring for a child at this stage?

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 07:18 PM (aUQgu)

333 299 Thanks all for the feedback. I have a feeling that now that dad is dying they are working on a "person" to keep mom occupied when he is gone. I can't say for sure but that's my gut feeling. I did keep the letter but I will not reply to it and pretend I didn't get it I think. Posted by: Molly k. at March 05, 2014 11:16 PM (f8cHe) Whatever you decide to do, make sure you do it with a clear conscience.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 07:19 PM (UAMVq)

334 That encryption key? Has some suspicious looking phrases buried inside.

Maybe those are salted. I don't know how those keys are formed but someone has done so with some amusing phrases.

I would assume that our fun loving scamp, Maetenloch, is having us on.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 07:19 PM (LSDdO)

335 holy crap, I'm missing Survivor . . . see you at the commercial breaks, my dears.

and, Molly, damn, maybe your mom would be good with a puppy or a kitten, eh? I don't envy you here . . .

Posted by: Peaches at March 05, 2014 07:19 PM (8lmkt)

336 Molly K: post office loses shit all the time. They lost my jury duty summons twice. Incompetent idiots.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 05, 2014 07:19 PM (Q8vlx)

337 "If you likey the still shot of Helen Mirren above"

I've been trying to get into Prime Suspect but one of the problems I have with it besides the contrived storylines is the close ups of Mirren. I don't know what it is with British TV that they have to the whole face fill up the screen. For being around fifty she was still a good looking women (still is) but I don't need to see every mole and detail of her face that close.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 05, 2014 07:20 PM (IV4od)

338 @293 Around 50% self-identify as pro-life now, sport. Banning abortion in all cases is the only way to produce such low numbers in a poll about restrictions on abortion.

Posted by: Beagle at March 05, 2014 07:20 PM (sOtz/)

339 310 If I default on my mortgage, does the home builder owe the lender? If I default on my car loan, does the car company owe the lender? I realize it's very fashionable to blame universities for the inadequacies of today's students and their parents, but I don't see the logic. Posted by: Y-not at March 05, 2014 11:18 PM (zDsvJ) I think part of the reaction is the ungodly jacking up of tuition and the bullshitting universities have been doing with things like employment statistics.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 07:21 PM (UAMVq)

340 It's kind of moot. The fringe so-cons are a shirnking minority. They'll self-deport so to speak from the GOP over time. Question is, will it be too late by the time they're gone? Sadly I think so. 2016 and 2020 will be huge wins for Hillary. By 2024 when the GOP hopefully gets its shit together and stops with the bible/gays/abortion nonsense, it will be too late.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 05, 2014 07:21 PM (0LHZx)

341 Not kill them. Just make them shut the fuck up. Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo ---------------- Oh. How thoughtful. So, you basically don't think that the Reagan Democrats that jumped the Dem ship brought anything to the party?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 07:21 PM (aDwsi)

342 Like I said - fanatic.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 07:22 PM (UAMVq)

343 317 Sshhhhh....he's RINOing. Facts are inconvenient. Let him roll.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 07:22 PM (ojnk6)

344 You can't bother the cow with facts, he's a master at marketing and shit. Just ask him.

Posted by: Adam at March 05, 2014 07:22 PM (Aif/5)

345 Re the student loan crisis, if you liked Obamacare, wait 'til you see...

Obameducation!

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 05, 2014 07:22 PM (HVI5a)

346 The thing about polls on social issues that is not often mentioned. It is like riding in a car with a little kid who asks constantly, "Are we there yet?" Eventually you are going to lie or give him the answer he wants so he shuts the fuck up. I don't believe 60% of the public agree with Teh Ghey marriage. I believe a certain portion do, but a lot of that number, I hypothesize, are people saying, in essence, Shut the fuck up. Most people just want to be left alone.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at March 05, 2014 07:22 PM (jucos)

347 OK, I'm out tomorrow night, mi amigoes

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 05, 2014 07:23 PM (JMmQ9)

348 Later, Alton.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 07:23 PM (lq3Ak)

349 301 290 Glen Reynolds of Instapundit had a great idea about student loans. If the student defaults, the school is on the hook for 25%. --- Why? Student loans are subsidies for colleges. It's a giant cash grab. Every time the tuition increases, loans have to keep pace, which in turn tempts the college to raise tuition even more. This way, the school has some incentive to keep students away from bullshit degrees that are useless 5 seconds after graduation and the graduate can't land a job and defaults.

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 07:23 PM (doBIb)

350 Later, AltonJackson.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 07:23 PM (UAMVq)

351 Posted by: Molly k. Don't ever do something that will keep you awake nights regretting the past. Enough of that stuff happens on its own. Do what you think is right. But give yourself a break and just do your best. If you are so inclined imagine telling God in the future what you did and then do that now.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 05, 2014 07:23 PM (uM9yA)

352 Around 50% self-identify as pro-life now, sport. Banning abortion in all cases is the only way to produce such low numbers in a poll about restrictions on abortion.

Posted by: Beagle at March 05, 2014 11:20 PM (sOtz/)

___________

Look at the polling data. The vast majority of people want abortion either legal all the time or legal most of the time. That's not pro-life of 50%.

http://www.pollingreport.com/abortion.htm

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 05, 2014 07:27 PM (0LHZx)

353 Obama sure does suck! I don't see why anyone would ever trust the lying left. What a bunch of scum sucking losers!

Posted by: Chris M at March 05, 2014 07:27 PM (4lyMJ)

354 319 Wow, no wonder we're so fucked. This half of the GOPe are admitted Dems, Strawmen and all.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 07:27 PM (ojnk6)

355 Must we? Must we let yet another ONT get derailed by this crap?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 05, 2014 07:27 PM (GEICT)

356 Flip side Alton.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 05, 2014 07:27 PM (Q8vlx)

357 Just ignore cow and maybe he'll go away.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 07:27 PM (UAMVq)

358 Posted by: elliot m Another one said they were really just a bunch of wireheads from Marshall, Texas or wherever.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 05, 2014 07:27 PM (uM9yA)

359 Yep. Because for every Akin we get rid of we gain 2 people. See how that works? You're not a huge voting block. You're a small minority that is very loud. See the difference? Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 05, 2014 11:10 PM (0LHZx) Akin was an outlier who managed to defeat his opponents in the Republican primary because McCaskill's people encouraged Democrats to cross over and vote for him since he was the weakest Republican candidate of the bunch. It's an old Chicago trick. Insofar as social issues are concerned, if the GOP can't stand against abortion up to and including the moment of birth, what good is it? What is it for? And as far as that goes, slavery was a social issue, yes? I guess the Whigs managed to rid themselves of the pre-Civil War equivalent of so-cons when they played go-along and get-along with the Democrats on the Fugitive Slave Act. For their part, the Democrats strongly believe in promoting social issues. They win on those issues not because they're right but because Republicans have lost their way, socially, culturally and morally. They don't know what's right any more. In 2010, a poll conducted in New York City showed that 42% of minority women living in that city had had at least one abortion. The Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan could not have conceived of a more diabolical scheme, yet Republicans shy away from making the argument. You cannot win on financial/economic issues alone. Whenever a Republican shows up with a whiteboard and starts talking numbers, he loses the argument, no matter how valid. Look at the current debt numbers and tell me I'm wrong. Most people vote with their gut, not their mind.

Posted by: troyriser at March 05, 2014 07:27 PM (ptcFO)

360 Comments took another dive. Brief this time, fortunately.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 07:28 PM (UAMVq)

361 Mr. Moo Moo is on the right side of history. It is progress all the way forward Comrades.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 05, 2014 07:28 PM (3qZbZ)

362 Later everybody have a kickass evening.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 05, 2014 07:29 PM (Q8vlx)

363 See ya, Chavez.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 07:29 PM (UAMVq)

364 Later, Chavez.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 07:30 PM (lq3Ak)

365 The abortion approval rate is interesting. In my con law class in 1993, we studied Roe v. Wade. Yes, I have actually read the entire opinion (what's leagues more fascinating is the Marathon Oil case from a few decades ago where the original bankruptcy system was found to be unconstitutional because there was no review by an Article III judge -- imagine being the lawyer who won that case!). Anyway, the prof played Devil's advocate and posited the future ability to remove embryos and safely gestate them in incubators. Some of the more strident feminists still insisted that they could not be forced to become parents against their will which led to a lot of stares from the male students. ORLY? You don't like being forced to become a parent against your will? Do men have that option? Ooops.

Anyway, even in 1993 it was pointed out that since Roe in '72 (?), the point of fetal viability has become earlier and earlier -- and people know that. Even many (most?) pro-choicers don't want viable fetuses killed. That's why the left is against even free ultrasounds to reveal the development of the baby. Roe is essentially a fossil. It's much like the 1973 Supreme Court case holding that a male-only draft was not unconstitutional. It relied very much on 1960's morays about womens' roles in society.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 05, 2014 07:31 PM (4IfHt)

366 We? You gotta mouse in your pocket? Posted by: Count de Monet at March 05, 2014 11:18 PM (BAS5M) A little mousy mood music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g09gOh2qwug

Posted by: Look Around You at March 05, 2014 07:31 PM (AymDN)

367 Small Minx-Burp there.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 07:31 PM (lq3Ak)

368 336 Just ignore cow and maybe he'll go away. Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 11:27 PM (UAMVq) Just wait till it goes to sleep and push the fucker over! Good times, my friend.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 07:31 PM (KWIwL)

369 339 I noticed that. Pretty short DOS. RINOs must have lead it.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 07:31 PM (ojnk6)

370 Mortgages and car loans have assets that are worth something to the lender . What is a student loan worth ? Other than it's non-dischargable

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at March 05, 2014 07:32 PM (XWw96)

371 >>> Just ignore cow and maybe he'll go away.

I'm trying, but too many people reply to it.

Posted by: Bomber at March 05, 2014 07:32 PM (G8OL9)

372 This way, the school has some incentive to keep students away from bullshit degrees that are useless 5 seconds after graduation and the graduate can't land a job and defaults. --- Somehow it'll be racist as schools will go for students with 2 parents who can keep the precious idiot from defaulting.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 07:32 PM (FpHdx)

373 Hey y'all. Spent the day tearing down plaster walls in this old house. I'm tired.

Posted by: Bomber at March 05, 2014 11:14 PM (G8OL9)

Doing that knocks the shit out of you. I must have gutted dozens and dozens of plaster rooms when I worked doing renovations. You couldn't win. I don't know what was worse, the plaster with the wood lath under it or the rock lath with the frigging wire lath in the corners. The dust was epic.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2014 07:32 PM (FMbng)

374 348 339 I noticed that. Pretty short DOS. RINOs must have lead it. Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 11:31 PM (ojnk6) Heh. They must have retooled ORCA.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 07:33 PM (UAMVq)

375 Helen Mirren is one of those women who just keeps getting better and better

Posted by: Tuna at March 05, 2014 07:37 PM (M/TDA)

376 Doing that knocks the shit out of you. I must have gutted dozens and dozens of plaster rooms when I worked doing renovations. You couldn't win. I don't know what was worse, the plaster with the wood lath under it or the rock lath with the frigging wire lath in the corners. The dust was epic. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2014 11:32 PM (FMbng) Wire lath=call in an air strike. I was gutting a kitchen in an upscale neighborhood's house that had concrete countertops. Concrete. Fucking. Countertops. One slab was 8 feet by three feet and four inches thick, plenty of rebar. Three burly dudes could barely move it. Sucktacular.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 07:37 PM (KWIwL)

377 "ORLY? You don't like being forced to become a parent against your will? Do men have that option? Ooops."..."It relied very much on 1960's morays about womens' roles in society." Posted by: SFGoth Heh. Nice post. I brought the Ooops clause up to a California girlfriend in the '80s and she went ballistic. Said Men had absolutely no say in the matter and I was insane to even think they ever did. Discussion over. Still remember it. Heh. Glad I didn't marry her.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 05, 2014 07:38 PM (9QN87)

378 So my niece is thinking about a restraining order on ex-boyfriend who just did some 'strangling' of her last weekend. The twist is they are roomies (3 college students in 1 apartment, 2 girls and a lucky bastard). Of course my niece dumped him just as they moved in together last May. So can you get a restraining order when you're living with someone? To get to the only bathroom, he has to go though the girls bedroom. Did I mention he's a lucky bastard...

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 07:38 PM (FpHdx)

379 So can you get a restraining order when you're living with someone? To get to the only bathroom, he has to go though the girls bedroom. Did I mention he's a lucky bastardÂ… Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 11:38 PM (FpHdx) Of course. He'll have to vacate the premises.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 05, 2014 07:40 PM (GEICT)

380 "What is a student loan worth ?"
Last time I looked it was exempt from normal bankruptcy laws, in that, you had to pay it back regardless of your present status.

Posted by: navybrat at March 05, 2014 07:41 PM (AW7Gr)

381 Are comments still down? Does anyone see the test message below? Test.

Posted by: eman at March 05, 2014 07:42 PM (AO9UG)

382 >>> I don't know what was worse, the plaster with the wood lath under it or the rock lath with the frigging wire lath in the corners. The dust was epic.

Wood lath here, haven't dealt with the rock. But this plaster was over an inch thick in some places.

Posted by: Bomber at March 05, 2014 07:42 PM (G8OL9)

383 Are the mu.nu sites still under attack?

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 07:43 PM (doBIb)

384 360 Are comments still down? Does anyone see the test message below? Test. Posted by: eman at March 05, 2014 11:42 PM (AO9UG) Testes.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 07:43 PM (KWIwL)

385 360th!

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 05, 2014 07:43 PM (r/HMZ)

386 Of course. He'll have to vacate the premises. --- We'd like him to still pay rent. Niece ain't exactly rolling in the dough. Nor her mother. Father seems to be, but is 11,000 miles away.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 07:43 PM (FpHdx)

387 Wow on the Helen Mirren pic. Thermonuclear wow on the video. Stunned. She's still hot, now. I think there are bikini pics floating around from about a year or two ago, and she's still very well put together.

Posted by: grognard at March 05, 2014 07:44 PM (hjKMO)

388 So Mr. Joy Joy is having daddy issues in the ONT as well?

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 07:44 PM (MtC8f)

389 "So my niece is thinking about a restraining order on ex-boyfriend who just did some 'strangling' of her last weekend. ... So can you get a restraining order when you're living with someone? To get to the only bathroom, he has to go though the girls bedroom. Did I mention he's a lucky bastard..." Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 11:38 PM (FpHdx) That should've been done immediately. I wouldn't have done it at that age, (were I a chick or circumstances equated as "dire".) Unfortunately, she may have another opportunity to "Strike While the Idiot is Hot"... under the collar, as it were. A police report would be THE thing to do. Evidence fades and corroboration does, as well.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 07:45 PM (lq3Ak)

390 Test. Posted by: eman at March 05, 2014 11:42 PM (AO9UG) Testes. Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 11:43 PM (KWIwL) Testes. Testes. One, TwoÂ… Three?

Posted by: Butthead at March 05, 2014 07:45 PM (AymDN)

391 @ 357 [Buzzsaw90] -- Sure can. In Kentucky, it would be a DVO (Domestic Violence Order) or an EPO (Emergency Protective Order). The terminology would vary from one state to the next, I'm sure. But, in all likelihood, any state would have something along those lines.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 05, 2014 07:45 PM (m0h0I)

392 We'd like him to still pay rent. Niece ain't exactly rolling in the dough. Nor her mother. Father seems to be, but is 11,000 miles away. Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 11:43 PM (FpHdx) Is it technically possible to be that far away on oith?

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 07:45 PM (KWIwL)

393 %^ @!NN!_+!> :"_{} +_@e%> (*&# &*( *& ^#$ ^*( $%&^ %$#@#^* ()(*& ^%$% Posted by: eman at March 05, 2014 11 All I am seeing is this.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 07:45 PM (rDidD)

394 Peaches

If you are here. From prev thread.

Rick Perry is teh man. I hearts him; and yes he has game.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 07:45 PM (aUQgu)

395 navybrat: student loans *are* exempt from consumer bankruptcy (Chapters 7 and 13). I worked in the consumer bankruptcy industry from 1996 to 2004.

Debts that are NOT dischargeable under bankruptcy, I learned (as I recall):

- Debt to the IRS or state tax collection agencies (duh)
- Student loan debt
- Board of Equalization debt

However, I did learn that if you owned a failed business and want to skip out on paying your former employees for their last two weeks of work, that *is* dischargeable. I typed up the paperwork on that one myself, though I was angry my firm was representing the asshole.

And yes... even though federal/state/business tax debt is nondischaregeable, even *that* has more wiggle room than student debt. I was surprised how often the IRS would accept deals for, say, anywhere from 10 to 60 cents on the dollar from bankruptcy judges, but those were Chapter 13 cases (debt reorganization, vs Chapter 7 which is full-out debt forgiveness).

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 05, 2014 07:46 PM (HVI5a)

396 215 McCabe and Mrs Miller: great movie Warren Beatty and Julie Christie Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 10:59 PM (aUQgu) And Leonard Cohen soundtrack.

Posted by: rickl at March 05, 2014 07:46 PM (sdi6R)

397 357 >> So my niece is thinking about a restraining order on ex-boyfriend who just did some 'strangling' of her last weekend.

Yes. An acquire a firearm while she's at it. As the post number indicates, .357 would be a fine choice. Or as a minimum, some bear spray.

Seriously, what is it with some guys. Far too many people in this world NOT taking a dirt nap as needed.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 05, 2014 07:46 PM (wNF3N)

398 Are the mu.nu sites still under attack? Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 it is by unum, that's who

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 07:46 PM (rDidD)

399 not to be disrespectin Helen Mirren, the half-Russian Brit, but those ta-tas do look pancake-y. But 1967 was a very interesting year

Posted by: eteet Bitcoin at March 05, 2014 07:46 PM (omBWL)

400 310 If I default on my mortgage, does the home builder owe the lender? If I default on my car loan, does the car company owe the lender? Posted by: Y-not at March 05, 2014 11:18 PM (zDsvJ) -------------------------- If you default on your mortgage, the bank will take your house. If you default on your car loan, the bank will take your car. What does the bank get when you default on a student loan? Why shouldn't the colleges, which are the main beneficiaries of the system, put up a minimal security? They are, after all, selling a product that they claim is worth X amount of money. Would it be unreasonable for the lender to have them put a little money on the table to back up the claim? If the schools had some stake in the game, perhaps they would not graduate so many people with silly degrees.

Posted by: Margarita who wishes she drank more at March 05, 2014 07:47 PM (dfYL9)

401 Wire lath=call in an air strike. I was gutting a kitchen in an upscale neighborhood's house that had concrete countertops. Concrete. Fucking. Countertops. One slab was 8 feet by three feet and four inches thick, plenty of rebar. Three burly dudes could barely move it. Sucktacular.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 11:37 PM (KWIwL)

Yeah I saw that shit in my travels, that shit was just fucking crazy. I hated the mud job bathrooms where even the wall tiles were done on a cement base and the floor tile was sitting on a slab thick enough to be used in a wwII nazi bunker.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2014 07:47 PM (FMbng)

402 The more you know. Apropos of nothing to nobody in particular....

Posted by: Beagle at March 05, 2014 07:47 PM (sOtz/)

403 There is a.....disturbance...in the force tonight....

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 07:48 PM (ojnk6)

404 376 357 >> So my niece is thinking about a restraining order on ex-boyfriend who just did some 'strangling' of her last weekend. Yes. An acquire a firearm while she's at it. As the post number indicates, .357 would be a fine choice. Or as a minimum, some bear spray. A big ornery Rottweiler couldn't hurt either.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 07:48 PM (KWIwL)

405 '67 was all that and a side of chips, baby!!!1!

Posted by: Austin Powers at March 05, 2014 07:48 PM (HVI5a)

406 Sure, this SoCon will STFU. I'll do my talking at the voting booth.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 07:48 PM (LSDdO)

407 A police report would be THE thing to do. Evidence fades and corroboration does, as well. --- I am strangely hoping she has a selfie with some throat bruises. FYI, if you ever have the chance to have a hot 17 Y.O. Filipina niece move in with you, you just might want to do that. In case you are unsure if you are a dirty old man...

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 07:48 PM (FpHdx)

408 "navybrat: student loans *are* exempt from consumer bankruptcy (Chapters 7 and 13). I worked in the consumer bankruptcy industry from 1996 to 2004."

So, I am not being corrected here.
Am I?

Posted by: navybrat at March 05, 2014 07:48 PM (AW7Gr)

409 Allow me to amend my comments, please. I didn't mean that she was lying, nor did I mean that she was stupid. I only meant to say, that at that age? I wouldn't have "Stricken While the Iron was Hot". I would have "mulled it over" and talked to people, as she has apparently done.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 07:49 PM (lq3Ak)

410 navybrat: no you are not sir. :-)

So please, put away the scimitar.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 05, 2014 07:49 PM (HVI5a)

411 Yep. Because for every Akin we get rid of we gain 2 people. See how that works?

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo

For every Akin there is a GOPÂ™ approved Arlen Specter, UpChuck Hagel, and Charlie Christ.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at March 05, 2014 07:49 PM (Y/M/K)

412 Watched 'The Americans' tonight. Annet Mahendru had dinner waiting for me. http://tinyurl.com/nyy73px

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 07:49 PM (MtC8f)

413 A big ornery Rottweiler couldn't hurt either. Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 11:48 PM (KWIwL) Well, my point was that said dog COULD hurt...y'all get the drift.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 07:49 PM (KWIwL)

414 Is it technically possible to be that far away on oith? --- There's this place called Manila. You go West from Philly to get there, but it's close.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 07:50 PM (FpHdx)

415 Pardon the post about nothing....it takes me back to where I get to look at Helen Mirren in a corset....corsets, yyyuuuummmm...

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 07:50 PM (ojnk6)

416 Sheathes the scimitar.

Posted by: navybrat at March 05, 2014 07:50 PM (AW7Gr)

417 Oh, and since the other night someone was talking about my music trivia acumen:

Anybody know which actor it is/was who posed for the BACK cover of Electric Light Orchestra's 1979 album, Discovery?

Answer in five minutes if no one guesses correctly.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 05, 2014 07:50 PM (HVI5a)

418 Anyone wanting more Helen when young: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q= Helen+Mirren+When+She+Was+Young&Form=IQFRDR remove the space after the =

Posted by: grognard at March 05, 2014 07:50 PM (hjKMO)

419 365 >> We'd like him to still pay rent.

Unless his name is on the lease, I doubt that is happening. Even if his name is there, I'd still doubt he pays. What are they gonna do, evict him?

Oh wait....

Safety over finances.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 05, 2014 07:50 PM (wNF3N)

420 "FYI, if you ever have the chance to have a hot 17 Y.O. Filipina niece move in with you, you just might want to do that. In case you are unsure if you are a dirty old man..." Posted by: Buzzsaw90 Doooood. That's not right in all sorts of dimensions.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 07:50 PM (lq3Ak)

421 If the schools had some stake in the game, perhaps they would not graduate so many people with silly degrees. That is exactly the point that Reynolds was trying to make. Lots of schools come up with insane degrees (BeyoncÃ© Studies, Zombie Cultural Anthropology, Wymyns Studies, etc) just so they can fleece dumbass students and parents.

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 07:50 PM (doBIb)

422 Anybody also read about what's going on in NY? Governor Cuomo has actually come out *against* De Blasio about charter schools, telling their supporters that he has their back.

Gotta love some sweet sweet blue-on-blue action...

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 05, 2014 07:52 PM (HVI5a)

423 For every Akin there is a GOPÂ™ approved Arlen Specter, UpChuck Hagel, and Charlie Christ. Posted by: weft cut-loop ...and a Chris Christie

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 07:52 PM (aDwsi)

424 I deserve more than $10 an hour at a hotel desk!

Posted by: Woman's Studies Major specializing in Alice Walker Novels at March 05, 2014 07:52 PM (Aif/5)

425 We'd like him to still pay rent. Unless his name is on the lease, I doubt that is happening. Even if his name is there, I'd still doubt he pays. What are they gonna do, evict him? Oh wait.... Safety over finances. Posted by: GnuBreed at March 05, 2014 I appreciate she may not have a lot of spare cash but that reads like a line from a paula zahn special.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 07:52 PM (rDidD)

426 So my niece is thinking about a restraining order on ex-boyfriend who just did some 'strangling' of her last weekend. The twist is they are roomies (3 college students in 1 apartment, 2 girls and a lucky bastard). Of course my niece dumped him just as they moved in together last May. So can you get a restraining order when you're living with someone? To get to the only bathroom, he has to go though the girls bedroom. Did I mention he's a lucky bastard... *** I can't really see how a restraining order can be issued nor enforced with him living there. The courts will want to know why she feels she is in danger but not enough so to seek alternate living arrangements.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 07:52 PM (DmNpO)

427 399 "FYI, if you ever have the chance to have a hot 17 Y.O. Filipina niece move in with you, you just might want to do that. In case you are unsure if you are a dirty old man..." Posted by: Buzzsaw90 Doooood. That's not right in all sorts of dimensions. Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 11:50 PM (lq3Ak) Not seeing the problem here.

Posted by: Woody Allen at March 05, 2014 07:53 PM (UAMVq)

428 397 BRB. Gotta see a bunk about a thing.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 07:54 PM (ojnk6)

429 Christie? Rubio? McConnell? Jeb Bush? Rand Paul?

Bleah!!!!!1!! I hate all of them!!!!!1!! Go back to meanieland mean mean republicants!!!!1!

Hey, anybody seen my KY?

Posted by: Andi "sweaty and ready for love" Sullivan at March 05, 2014 07:54 PM (HVI5a)

430 Yes. An acquire a firearm while she's at it. As the post number indicates, .357 would be a fine choice. Or as a minimum, some bear spray. Seriously, what is it with some guys. Far too many people in this world NOT taking a dirt nap as needed. --- yeah, I'd go pepper spray. She's almost 5'1 and won't be winning any wrestling matches with any male over 11. He used to be a good guy. She has this power to drive men Mad. She ought to come with a warning label.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 07:54 PM (FpHdx)

431 403 I deserve more than $10 an hour at a hotel desk! Posted by: Woman's Studies Major specializing in Alice Walker Novels at March 05, 2014 11:52 PM (Aif/5) Quick!!! Debit vs. Credit. What's the difference?

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 07:54 PM (MtC8f)

432 "The courts will want to know why she feels she is in danger but not enough so to seek alternate living arrangements." Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse ^This^ If you've seen one episode of Judge Judy, you'll get it.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 07:54 PM (lq3Ak)

433 Cant eat your cake (restraining order) and have it (him paying rent) too.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 05, 2014 07:54 PM (BAS5M)

434 Bomber, did you find snake skins? I am working on my kitchen, tore down the interior of the outer wall to redo drain plumbing and re insulate. Instead of sheeting being on the exterior side of the studs to hang the siding there are horizontal 1x3 slats and the siding is attached to them. This effectively makes the exterior walls open to the outdoors. Guessing the snakes like warm walls on cool days.

Posted by: traye at March 05, 2014 07:55 PM (fqOja)

435 Debit is what the patriarchy gives me. Credit is what I can dump on the patriarchy latter.

Posted by: Woman's Studies Major specializing in Alice Walker Novels at March 05, 2014 07:55 PM (Aif/5)

436 Debit = the money that's being drawn actually exists somewhere.
Credit = the money is out there somewhere in the future (hopefully).

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 05, 2014 07:56 PM (HVI5a)

437 What does the bank get when you default on a student loan? --- My paper Mache vagina collage from Womens Studies 504

Posted by: Brittany at March 05, 2014 07:56 PM (FpHdx)

438 "Debit vs. Credit. What's the difference?" Posted by: RWC Nothing. They both make the guy at the store give me booze, rubbers and magazines.

Posted by: Empowered Wymyns Studies Whore at March 05, 2014 07:56 PM (lq3Ak)

439 Night all. Here is "Morning Dew" by the Jeff Beck Group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AsHvTZASFk

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 05, 2014 07:56 PM (AymDN)

440 Wood lath here, haven't dealt with the rock. But this plaster was over an inch thick in some places.

Posted by: Bomber at March 05, 2014 11:42 PM (G8OL9)

I used to hold the hammer flat and hit the walls all over. It would usually loosen up huge sections of wall and the shit would just fall off. I have seen walls where the plaster was an easy 2-3" thick in places, because the framers in the old houses left it up to the plaster dudes to make the walls straight. The best part is how there are usually missing corners. One side of the corner would have a 2X4, and the other side of the corner would just have the lath, so the plaster dude even had to make the frigging corners. I learned how to do plaster years ago from an old italian dude. Its a dying art. I have mixed feelings about that. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2014 07:57 PM (FMbng)

441 Of course my niece dumped him just as they moved in together last May. So what you're saying is she's single.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 07:57 PM (UAMVq)

442 I am merely pointing out that you are not going borrow $150k to major in transgender studies only to discharge it later in bankruptcy.

It is a small triumph, but a triumph nonetheless. :0

Posted by: navybrat at March 05, 2014 07:57 PM (AW7Gr)

443 No snakeskins, but this in an interior wall. Outside walls are brick. Not facade, just brick. Anyway, we got enough mice around here, I know we don't have a snake problem.

Posted by: Bomber at March 05, 2014 07:57 PM (G8OL9)

444 "FYI, if you ever have the chance to have a hot 17 Y.O. Filipina niece move in with you, you just might want to do that. In case you are unsure if you are a dirty old man..." *** This is beyond creepy

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 07:57 PM (DmNpO)

445 Debit -- Where the money came from.

Credit -- Where the money went.

At least that's the only way I could rationalize it when I learned to do "T" accounts.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 05, 2014 07:58 PM (m0h0I)

446 415 Debit = the money that's being drawn actually exists somewhere. Credit = the money is out there somewhere in the future (hopefully). Posted by: qdpsteve at March 05, 2014 11:56 PM (HVI5a) Debit=Oh Noes! Credit=Oh Noes*2!

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 07:58 PM (KWIwL)

447 Posted by: Woman's Studies Major specializing in Alice Walker Novels at March 05, 2014 11:55 PM (Aif/5) How do you feel about teaching at Columbia University? Full tenure.

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 07:58 PM (MtC8f)

448 411 Watched Judge Judy once for 10 minutes. Never have I seen a bigger bitch on TV, and that's saying something. Of course, the defendant used an icky firearm, so he was doomed from the start.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 07:58 PM (ojnk6)

449
Machines for Sale lives.......

'sup jackwagons

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 05, 2014 07:59 PM (aYjRw)

450 "FYI, if you ever have the chance to have a hot 17 Y.O. Filipina niece move in with you, you just might want to do that. In case you are unsure if you are a dirty old man..."

Is this how desperate we've gotten for new blood? AOS is going full-on backpage.com/Craigslist now??

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 05, 2014 07:59 PM (HVI5a)

451 I have a far relative with student loan defaults. I've been told that the IRS empowered collection agencies to follow her until death and was authorized to take 15% of everything including SS if she lived that long. Don't know if that is true as it is hearsay. I do remember that private trade schools went through a thing a while back where if they had too high a percentage of defaults they could lose their student loan DOE certification. I know some moron worked in a University financial aid dept and once posted some info about defaults but I can't remember who.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 05, 2014 07:59 PM (MEogv)

452 Credits - On the left Debits - On the right

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 07:59 PM (aDwsi)

453 Anybody also read about what's going on in NY? Governor Cuomo has actually come out *against* De Blasio about charter schools, telling their supporters that he has their back. Gotta love some sweet sweet blue-on-blue action... Posted by: qdpsteve it is either really god kabuki theatre or they are serious. I am going with they hate each other. deblasio wants universal pre k, but is only interested in financing it if he does so with a tax on people making over 500.000. cuomo is offering to give him the money from the state without raising taxes but mayorduce is refusing the money because it is not making the rich pay for the stupid. from what I hear the charter school business is really mean spirited. 17 charter schools are co-located in public school facilities, three were rejected for next year because they were run by a foe of deblasios. the public advocate and some whore who is a friend of deblasios and is speaker of out city counsel filed a suit to force the other 14 schools out as well. cuomo promised he would find funds or facilities for the schools. dueling rallies in albany on tuesday, deblasio was there to lobby the assembly for his pre k indoctrination tax and cuomo held a competing rally for charter schools. deblasio got 1000 union members bussed in, cuomo got about 10,000 parents and children to come.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 07:59 PM (rDidD)

454 423 "FYI, if you ever have the chance to have a hot 17 Y.O. Filipina niece move in with you, you just might want to do that. In case you are unsure if you are a dirty old man..." *** This is beyond creepy Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 11:57 PM (DmNpO) Yeah, like she has a barcode tattooed on her ass.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 07:59 PM (KWIwL)

455 >>> I learned how to do plaster years ago from an old italian dude. Its a dying art. I have mixed feelings about that. lol

When we first bought this place, insurance quote was insane, because they were doing the math to build it back just like it was built back in 1870.

Posted by: Bomber at March 05, 2014 08:00 PM (G8OL9)

456 Doooood. That's not right in all sorts of dimensions. --- You think I don't know that. I remember we went to a water park and at the end of the night, I dropped her (then) boyfriend off, she was of course already asleep in the car, in just a bikini...right next to me. I...passed the test. I liked that test.

Posted by: Brittany at March 05, 2014 08:00 PM (FpHdx)

457 "The dog barks at dawn. I repeat: The dog barks at dawn." Posted by: The Secret Agent Hat The meatball is spicy. I repeat: The meatball is spicy. Posted by: Italian Guy in a Wife-Beater The dog barks no longer, he now is part of the meatball.

Posted by: Barky McFstick at March 05, 2014 08:00 PM (eBupg)

458 Watched Judge Judy once for 10 minutes. Never have I seen a bigger bitch on TV, and that's saying something. Of course, the defendant used an icky firearm, so he was doomed from the start. *** You've clearly never watched Nancy Grace

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 08:01 PM (DmNpO)

459 "So what you're saying is she's single." Posted by: Insomniac Hah! What A Dick! Not a Moo-Moo, Petty-Ass Dick, but a Dick, nonetheless. ...I cannot applaud this tomfoolery. I'm obliged to chide you for such hubris. *giggle*

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 08:01 PM (lq3Ak)

460 yankeefifth: gotta admit though, I think Cuomo is actually on the right-- as in correct-- side on this one.

Cuomo even used the c word-- competition-- in arguing recently why charter schools are a good deal vs. the standard failing NY public schools.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 05, 2014 08:01 PM (HVI5a)

461 You think I don't know that. I remember we went to a water park and at the end of the night, I dropped her (then) boyfriend off, she was of course already asleep in the car, in just a bikini...right next to me. I...passed the test. I liked that test. *** What ckufing test?! We simply don't think that way about the children in our lives.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 08:02 PM (DmNpO)

462 437 Watched Judge Judy once for 10 minutes. Never have I seen a bigger bitch on TV, and that's saying something. Of course, the defendant used an icky firearm, so he was doomed from the start. *** You've clearly never watched Nancy Grace Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2014 12:01 AM (DmNpO) No shit...when I see her I keep expecting her to say "and your little dog, too!"

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 08:02 PM (KWIwL)

463 "The dog barks no longer, he now is part of the meatball." Posted by: Barky McFstick Not too shabby. I'd call that "clever".

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 08:02 PM (lq3Ak)

464 SFGoth, totally agree - the Warren court picked a social outcome they wanted, then fabricated the law out of thin air - it would have been much better to let the political process work itself out so we wouldn't still be having this fight 40 yrs later. I also believe alimony/maintenance is not dischargeable in bankruptcy. I had no idea Helen Mirren was such a hottie when she was younger - my favorite thing about her is how she has aged so gracefully, instead of transforming herself into some kinda weird duck/cat hybrid (platypus?) like so many others ... She reaps the rewards as she is still hot now. Maet are we going to get the key or did we find all the messages?

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 08:02 PM (yVg8h)

465
"The dog barks at dawn.

I repeat: The dog barks at dawn."
Posted by: The Secret Agent Hat

The meatball is spicy.
I repeat: The meatball is spicy.
Posted by: Italian Guy in a Wife-Beater

The dog barks no longer, he now is part of the meatball.

Posted by: Barky McFstick at March 06, 2014 12:00 AM (eBupg)

The lion sleeps at night
I repeat: The lion sleeps at night

Posted by: The Jungle, The Mighty Jungle at March 05, 2014 08:02 PM (aYjRw)

466 @ 423 [NDH] -- And to think I was called a perv last night for saying this chick is hot:

http://is.gd/KjNGp4

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 05, 2014 08:02 PM (m0h0I)

467 and the fact that it goes to 11 on IMDB. made me look. I salute the iMBD webmaster responsible. Good evening, folks.

Posted by: mindful webworker — Rutles are 4evrt at March 05, 2014 08:03 PM (X66C/)

468 375 215
McCabe and Mrs Miller: great movie

Warren Beatty and Julie Christie

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 10:59 PM (aUQgu)

And Leonard Cohen soundtrack.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
And Robert Altman directing (I think)

Every time I remember the ending, I get all weepy inside.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 08:03 PM (aUQgu)

469 437 NDH, that is a big 10-4.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 08:03 PM (ojnk6)

470 solved that beer emergency...stores stop selling at midnight.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 08:03 PM (3yFC4)

471 "The courts will want to know why she feels she is in danger but not enough so to seek alternate living arrangements." Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse ^This^ If you've seen one episode of Judge Judy, you'll get it. --- Exhibit A, Her mother...

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 08:03 PM (FpHdx)

472 a wee mah way
a wee mah way
a wee mah way
a wee mah way
a wee mah way
a wee mah way

Posted by: navybrat at March 05, 2014 08:03 PM (AW7Gr)

473 Ok, this is funny. A co-worker of mine tries to expand his vocabulary by getting a word of the day. He got it yesterday and used it,.. Tonight It was O'Reilly's word of whatever. He's a lib. Tomorrow should be fun.

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 08:04 PM (MtC8f)

474 "The Fat man walks alone". "The corn has ears."

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 08:04 PM (ojnk6)

475 448 437 NDH, that is a big 10-4. Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 06, 2014 12:03 AM (ojnk6) I'm looking for the perfect opportunity to use a line from Homer Simpson: "10-4, princess".

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 08:04 PM (KWIwL)

476 I had no idea Helen Mirren was such a hottie when she was younger - my favorite thing about her is how she has aged so gracefully, instead of transforming herself into some kinda weird duck/cat hybrid (platypus?) like so many others ... She reaps the rewards as she is still hot now. - Joe

Exactamundo.
I only hope we're so lucky re Mila Kunis, Sandra Bullock and/or Jennifer Lawrence. Though it wouldn't surprise me if at least one of them goes Garbo sometime in the next 10-15 years and switches over to only producing films.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 05, 2014 08:04 PM (HVI5a)

477 PGP Public Key Block?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 05, 2014 08:05 PM (bitz6)

478 Cuomo even used the c word-- competition-- in arguing recently why charter schools are a good deal vs. the standard failing NY public schools. Posted by: qdpsteve agreed. I despise him, he is a liar and a wanna be dictator. however, he is right about the charter schools. I am always staggered at how someone who professes to love and care for underprivileged children can be more interested in punishing the wealthy than helping the children. anyone who is willing to deny a child a decent education as a reward for his union supporters deserves a special place in hell. he is consigning millions of children to ignorance.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 08:05 PM (rDidD)

479

shit now I've got to catch up on over 200 comments.

the bar I went too had all of 2 people. me and a bartender. so no need to stay long.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 08:05 PM (3yFC4)

480 Oops, forgot: Bullock is already producing films. Made $70 mil off "Gravity" alone.

Take that, Jesse James...

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 05, 2014 08:06 PM (HVI5a)

481 The lion sleeps at night I repeat: The lion sleeps at night Dammit, now that song is stuck in my head.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 08:06 PM (UAMVq)

482 So what you're saying is she's single. --- Hell no. Girl needs food and has no money and there's all kinds of guys who'll take her out for dinner. Ex boyfriend went around the bend when he met his replacement.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 08:06 PM (FpHdx)

483 +10 on folks showing up on news shows with the Ash mark.

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 08:06 PM (MtC8f)

484 Dammit, now that song is stuck in my head. Posted by: Insomniac at March 06, 2014 12:06 AM (UAMVq) Led Zeppelin Kashmir That help?

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 08:07 PM (KWIwL)

485

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 06, 2014 12:05 AM (bitz6)

look closely. others above have translated it. moron approved.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 08:07 PM (3yFC4)

486 And to think I was called a perv last night for saying this chick is hot: http://is.gd/KjNGp4 ** I don't know why. She looks like an adult to me. Is she of age?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 08:07 PM (DmNpO)

487 464 Dammit, now that song is stuck in my head. Posted by: Insomniac at March 06, 2014 12:06 AM (UAMVq) Led Zeppelin Kashmir That help? Posted by: model_1066 at March 06, 2014 12:07 AM (KWIwL) Ah, much better.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 08:08 PM (UAMVq)

488 What ckufing test?!

We simply don't think that way about the children in our lives.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2014 12:02 AM (DmNpO)

No girls younger than my daughters, and my oldest is in her 30's now.

Then again, I have a strict 10 year rule, nobody older or younger than me by 10 years.

Not that there's any danger of me meeting anyone, I'm fat and ugly and live with my kids. It's my house, but still...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 05, 2014 08:08 PM (yh0zB)

489
I had no idea Helen Mirren was such a hottie when she was younger - my
favorite thing about her is how she has aged so gracefully, instead of
transforming herself into some kinda weird duck/cat hybrid (platypus?)
like so many others ... She reaps the rewards as she is still hot now. - Joe

Word. And she's not the least bit afraid of the camera showing every face wrinkle. Confidence is hawt.

Not to mention, watching Mirren shoot submachine guns on-screen WITHOUT BLINKING in Red.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 05, 2014 08:08 PM (aYjRw)

490 This is beyond creepy --- It only lasted a year...I was even assigned 'wake her up' duties...for NO good reason whatsoever.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 08:08 PM (FpHdx)

491 Posted by: qestionman at March 06, 2014 12:06 AM (TS9aB) Go to bed shitstain. You're too drunk to spell your nic right.

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 08:08 PM (MtC8f)

492 Trolls....do they ever give it up? Boring questionman is boring.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 08:09 PM (ojnk6)

493 i suppose drinking before i go to the next bar is a bad idea. this being lent and all.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 08:10 PM (3yFC4)

494

Commenting is hard when each refresh takes 5 minutes.

F.O. DoS bastards.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 05, 2014 08:10 PM (BAS5M)

495 I'm going to confess something. As "A Guy Who Does Prayers" and asks others to pray for their adversaries to see the light? ...I am capable of "Hatred". That's right. I am afflicted with The Human Condition. I "hate" the non-word "underserved". Be it hyphenated or not, I cannot stand its sight. That goes along with the whole bevy of other "under"-euphemisms for one perceived plight-or-another. -Call me "underwhelmed".

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 08:10 PM (lq3Ak)

496
TL

R FYNQ

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 05, 2014 08:11 PM (aYjRw)

497 Here's some fun pre-bedtime reading:

http://9gag.com/gag/av0v95O

Good night, all.

Posted by: Bomber at March 05, 2014 08:11 PM (G8OL9)

498 When we first bought this place, insurance quote was insane, because they were doing the math to build it back just like it was built back in 1870.

Posted by: Bomber at March 06, 2014 12:00 AM (G8OL9)

Not surprising. It would cost a king's ransom to build houses the way they used to. I did 90% of my work in the old houses built during roughly the 1870s up to around 1930 period. My main thing was reproducing all the old trim work. That shit was insane, a lot of the houses had doors and trim made from solid walnut. You could never afford to build a house like that these days. You would go broke after 1 room.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2014 08:11 PM (FMbng)

499 475 I'm going to confess something. As "A Guy Who Does Prayers" and asks others to pray for their adversaries to see the light? ...I am capable of "Hatred". That's right. I am afflicted with The Human Condition. I "hate" the non-word "underserved". Be it hyphenated or not, I cannot stand its sight. That goes along with the whole bevy of other "under"-euphemisms for one perceived plight-or-another. -Call me "underwhelmed". Posted by: Slapweasel at March 06, 2014 12:10 AM (lq3Ak) You're just undercompassionate.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 08:11 PM (UAMVq)

500
Shit. Let's try this again

TL/DR FYNQ

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 05, 2014 08:12 PM (aYjRw)

501 I "hate" the non-word "underserved". Be it hyphenated or not, I cannot stand its sight. That goes along with the whole bevy of other "under"-euphemisms for one perceived plight-or-another. ** It is a word. What makes you think it is not?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 08:12 PM (DmNpO)

502 The meatball is spicy. I repeat: The meatball is spicy. Posted by: Italian Guy in a Wife-Beater ---------------------------------- " Props and battens rising." Code sent by British spy to The British Admiralty when the Bismarck sailed from Gdynia harbor

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 08:12 PM (aDwsi)

503 I have another song stuck in my head now - the opening of the South Park movie ... Kinda outta bounds that is, Mr. Saw ... I had a very short twitter fight with a guy the other day - didn't want to go there, but in reading his timeline it was mostly full of defenses of Woody Allen and tweets to what appeared to be an attractive young lady that appeared to be of the grooming nature - choose not to point that out ...

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 08:12 PM (yVg8h)

504 "You're just undercompassionate." Posted by: Insomniac DAMN IT! ...I mean; perhaps. Although I beg to differ.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 08:13 PM (lq3Ak)

505 473 i suppose drinking before i go to the next bar is a bad idea. this being lent and all. Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 12:10 AM (3yFC4) RWC 3:14 "Let though vendor of wine procure your gold when thou have wine within the house"

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 08:13 PM (MtC8f)

506 Liz Wahl Balls of solid rock. http://tinyurl.com/lx8qlgx

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 05, 2014 08:13 PM (bitz6)

507 Ill-deserved?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 08:13 PM (aDwsi)

508 The meatball is spicy. I repeat: The meatball is spicy. --- Climb Mount Niitaka Climb Mount Niitaka

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 08:13 PM (FpHdx)

509 If you've ever scanned compiled code looking for strings amongst the machine code, you'll understand what's going on in that "PGP Code Block".

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 08:14 PM (LSDdO)

510 Hey, word police. Here's one for you. Adrian Peterson ‏@AdrianPeterson 57m @MikeVick would intently make the vikings a playoff team!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 08:14 PM (DmNpO)

511 I "hate" the non-word "underserved". Be it hyphenated or not, I cannot stand its sight. That goes along with the whole bevy of other "under"-euphemisms for one perceived plight-or-another. ----------------- This causes confusement.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 08:14 PM (aDwsi)

512
That goes along with the whole bevy of other "under"-euphemisms for one perceived plight-or-another.

-Call me "underwhelmed".

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 06, 2014 12:10 AM (lq3Ak)

You know the "under" euphemism I hate?

Under-Armed

Not to mention, Under-Sexed, but that goes without saying.....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 05, 2014 08:14 PM (aYjRw)

513 Remember eman? Haven't seen him in a while.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 05, 2014 08:14 PM (r/HMZ)

514 if I could go back in time and eliminate people that made humanity suffer I would probably start with hitler, stalin, il duce, chamberlain, mao, but mia farrow and woody allen would be on the list, somewhere.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 08:15 PM (rDidD)

515 473 i suppose drinking before i go to the next bar is a bad idea. this being lent and all. Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 12:10 AM (3yFC4) Too many variables to solve that equation.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 08:15 PM (KWIwL)

516 A musical interlude: Bob Dylan, "Mississippi": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWOxUc01HPM This is the original version of one of his best songs. The thing is, there's like 150 different versions of this song. I don't think he's ever played it the same way twice. Case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow88ZWfZfwc

Posted by: rickl at March 05, 2014 08:15 PM (sdi6R)

517 Watching these actors (mostly L&O) doing some commercial against date rape and abuse. Not that I don't agree with the message, I just don't agree with the douchenozzle delivery. I'm wondering how many of them think Roman Polanski and Woody Allen are just peachy and if any of them ever spent any time "on the casting couch" IYKWIM. Hypocrites all.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 05, 2014 08:15 PM (yh0zB)

518 Ill-deserved? *** Under.... SERVED, not deserved

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 08:15 PM (DmNpO)

519 You know the "under" euphemism I hate? Under-Armed Not to mention, Under-Sexed, but that goes without saying..... Those are loathesome conditions to be sure.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 08:16 PM (UAMVq)

520 We had joy we had fun. We had seasons in the sun.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 05, 2014 08:16 PM (HFap2)

521

The media, is there nothing it can't get wrong.

As many of us suspected:

Vatican: Pope Francis wasnÂ’t talking about same-sex relationships

Posted by: Of course at March 05, 2014 08:16 PM (gorVZ)

522
if I could go back in time and eliminate people that made humanity suffer

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 06, 2014 12:15 AM (rDidD)

Oh great. Cher songs again.......

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 05, 2014 08:16 PM (aYjRw)

523 494 if I could go back in time and eliminate people that made humanity suffer I would probably start with hitler, stalin, il duce, chamberlain, mao, but mia farrow and woody allen would be on the list, somewhere. Posted by: yankeefifth at March 06, 2014 12:15 AM (rDidD) Well, most of those people had support from many more people, so just melt the crust of the earth into radioactive glass and be done with it.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 08:16 PM (KWIwL)

524 Was just reading backwards roughly 450 to 350. It's ... interesting reading that way.

Posted by: mindful webworker — useless idiot at March 05, 2014 08:16 PM (kUdlA)

525 somehow, decades ago, I heard nine inch nails bow down and I got it stuck in my head for days. all day, all night, all the time. never even liked em .

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 08:17 PM (rDidD)

526 still think Kotobukiya has made Starfire look the best she has in a long time

http://bit.ly/1jTy3TM

Posted by: The Dude at March 05, 2014 08:18 PM (bStrg)

527 qestionman wounds my heart with a monotonous languor

Posted by: ze Resistance at March 05, 2014 08:18 PM (omBWL)

528 Kinda outta bounds that is, Mr. Saw ... --- yep, I've had sex with 1 woman in my life, my wife, after we were married. I knows my limitations.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 08:18 PM (FpHdx)

529 499 The emPHASIS was onhe wrong sylABBLE.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 08:19 PM (ojnk6)

530 506 - Could be worse..., I had "Another one bites the dust" going for about three days once.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 08:19 PM (aDwsi)

531 I was mostly looking for a way to say how much I hate mia farrow and woody allen and all a their progeny.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 08:19 PM (rDidD)

532 I made a couple of apple cream pies, they were delicious. Decadent, even. They got eaten up so I had to make more of them today. I like pie.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 05, 2014 08:19 PM (yh0zB)

533

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2014 12:13 AM (MtC8f)

yea, i do have drink here, anyone want a sam adams-not bad. but my dad's place (no laughing) is kinda drafty, and I've been enlisted to clean it out.

good news: finally got my dad down to florida.

bad news: i'm still here.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 08:19 PM (3yFC4)

534 I can't even keep up with all of you witty bastards. There are no less that six "responses" that I could tackle, individually. I'll attempt none of them. I'm just not that functional, nor worthy a jousting partner at this time. I'm going to sip my Lawnmower Beer into the sunset. Bum-Ba-Dee-Dah Bum-Ba-Dee-Dah Bum-Ba-Dee-Dah Bum-Ba-Dee... Happy Trails to The Horde! Until We Meet Again! *static*

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 08:20 PM (lq3Ak)

535 I finally met the perfect girl

a girl I just adore

she's deaf and dumb and oversexed

and owns a liquor store

Posted by: zombie Woody Woodbury, circa 1964 at March 05, 2014 08:20 PM (omBWL)

536 if I could go back in time and eliminate people that made humanity suffer I would probably start with hitler, stalin, il duce, chamberlain, mao, but mia farrow and woody allen would be on the list, somewhere. --- Interesting thought experiment. Which American would you eliminate to most improve history?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 08:21 PM (FpHdx)

537 I am usually underserved when I go to a bar ...

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 08:21 PM (yVg8h)

538 Night everyone. Prayers to you, even Moo.

Posted by: whatmeworry? at March 05, 2014 08:21 PM (dZGNV)

539 'Night, Slap.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 08:21 PM (UAMVq)

540 maybe i should enlist the horde for some drunken, free advice...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 08:22 PM (3yFC4)

541 In the early 60s Woody Woodbury reigned as the High Priest of Liquor Culture. His headquarters was a famous watering hole in Fort Liquordale

Posted by: zombie Woody Woodbury, circa 1964 at March 05, 2014 08:22 PM (omBWL)

542 GGE - Homebrew pastry..., or Pillsbury? I honestly have no problem with the Pillsbury crusts, we go on a baking binge every now and then, the giveaway pies often elicit oohs and ahhs over the pre-fab pie crust.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 08:22 PM (aDwsi)

543 nighty night slapweasel

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 08:22 PM (rDidD)

544 521 It'll be worth every penny. Go on...

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 08:22 PM (ojnk6)

545 Interesting thought experiment. Which American would you eliminate to most improve history?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 06, 2014 12:21 AM (FpHdx)

FDR's daddy, before he met FDR's mommy.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 05, 2014 08:22 PM (yh0zB)

546
Interesting thought experiment. Which American would you eliminate to most improve history?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 06, 2014 12:21 AM (FpHdx)

The douche who invented tie-dye?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 05, 2014 08:22 PM (aYjRw)

547 418 >> Jeff Beck Group "Morning Dew"

Thanks Mr. Hat. 1968 JB album Truth; I don't think I've heard that one before. Got the whole album bookmarked for later.

Here he is with Tal Wilkenfeld on bass (don't look at her chest you pervs):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blp7hPFaIfU

Is she over 18 here? I dunno.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 05, 2014 08:23 PM (wNF3N)

548

Posted by: Joe at March 06, 2014 12:21 AM (yVg8h) -

ha. a round on me. cheers.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 08:23 PM (3yFC4)

549 Unum is company that company I work for uses for life insurance. It must be someone else. Hello Horde!

Posted by: Carol at March 05, 2014 08:23 PM (z4WKX)

550 517 if I could go back in time and eliminate people that made humanity suffer I would probably start with hitler, stalin, il duce, chamberlain, mao, but mia farrow and woody allen would be on the list, somewhere. --- Interesting thought experiment. Which American would you eliminate to most improve history? Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 06, 2014 12:21 AM (FpHdx) John Wilkes Booth

Posted by: eman at March 05, 2014 08:23 PM (AO9UG)

551 I couldn't help wondering if I've gotten that bad at determining the age of the ladies now that I'm in my 40's. There is a very hot girl at my grocery store, I always talk to her, (and everyone else that works there) she was talking about people not hearing her, I asked how old she was to say that as she ages she will give less a shit about what people think and when she wanted to be heard she would speak up. Her age? 18, I was waaay off. And I denounced myself for my previous thoughts.

Posted by: traye at March 05, 2014 08:23 PM (fqOja)

552 Posted by: yankeefifth at March 06, 2014 12:15 AM (rDidD)

If you went back in time, you'd find that Mia Farrow had a "reputation" and not a good one. She threw away a career, was a psycho bitch from hell and bounced from famous person to famous person until everyone got tired of her and she had to stick with one and it wound up to be the professional schlemiel, Woody Allen.

I would bet that some of those guys experienced a "Fatal Attraction" moment or two with her.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 08:23 PM (LSDdO)

553 I finally met the perfect girl a girl I just adore she's deaf and dumb and oversexed and owns a liquor store *** Lex and Terry interviewed a guy on air, maybe 10 years ago, who was owner of a blow-up doll company. They asked him what his best-selling model was and he said it was about 3 feet tall, had no arms or legs, and had a koozie in the top of the head.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 08:23 PM (DmNpO)

554

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 06, 2014 12:21 AM (FpHdx)

Woodrow Wilson.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 08:24 PM (3yFC4)

555 I would kill Hitler's father. I forget why, but I fgured it all out a while ago why it's better that way.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 05, 2014 08:24 PM (r/HMZ)

556 the older you get, the younger everyone else looks.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 08:24 PM (LSDdO)

557 517 Interesting thought experiment. Which American would you eliminate to most improve history? Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 06, 2014 12:21 AM (FpHdx) That's a tough one. Woodrow Wilson is top of mind, along with FDR.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 08:24 PM (UAMVq)

558 Mike Hammer, the kind you take out of the package and roll into your pie plates. The filling is enough work without having to do the crusts, too.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 05, 2014 08:24 PM (yh0zB)

559 Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 12:19 AM (3yFC4) And i screwed my quote. It should have conveyed you to drink at home before the bar. Meaning to ask you, are you not on campus?

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 08:25 PM (MtC8f)

560 535 Seconded, Rich.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 08:26 PM (ojnk6)

561 the older you get, the younger everyone else looks.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 06, 2014 12:24 AM (LSDdO)

That's a no-bullshitter.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 05, 2014 08:26 PM (yh0zB)

562 Woodrow Wilson. --- I pick Nathan Bedford Forest or Hugh Hefner. But we don't really have anyone horrifying like Europe does...

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 08:26 PM (FpHdx)

563 Hmmm. Off the top of my head, perhaps Lee Harvey Oswald. I suspect there wouldn't be such a fond recollection of "Camelot" had he lived to deal with his decisions.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 08:26 PM (DmNpO)

564

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 06, 2014 12:22 AM (ojnk6)

thanks mwnp. it would be tmi, and I've not had enough yet...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 08:27 PM (3yFC4)

565 That's what I love about high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

Posted by: Wooderson at March 05, 2014 08:27 PM (BAS5M)

566 I have had this frigging Satyricon song in my head since yesterday. I learned it quick to teach it to my friend's son. Simple tune, took 15 minutes to learn, and yet its lingering for 2 days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQQdsKH3Qt8

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2014 08:28 PM (FMbng)

567 Another vote for woody, or maybe Upton Sinclair

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 08:28 PM (yVg8h)

568 Who caused the death of the most Americans during his lifetime?

Posted by: traye at March 05, 2014 08:28 PM (fqOja)

569 i really want to head to the bar down the street though...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 08:29 PM (3yFC4)

570 Interesting thought experiment. Which American would you eliminate to most improve history? Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 06, 2014 I am not really into eliminating anyone only expressing my loathing of woody allen and mia farrow. only redeeming thing attributable to either of em is jackie mason's joke about mia farrow and frank sinatra;when frank and mia go to bed she brushes her teeth and he puts his in a glass.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 08:29 PM (rDidD)

571 Howard Zinn is someone else the country would have been better off without.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 08:29 PM (UAMVq)

572 I wouldn't kill Hitler. (yeah, I know, I'm off the map right now, he's wasn't an American) I'd have his Mom win the lottery and move to Miami with little baby Adolph. I would kill Booth either. He could move to Australia.

Posted by: eman at March 05, 2014 08:29 PM (AO9UG)

573 Who wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 08:29 PM (DmNpO)

574 oh wait, no, now I remember who I'd kill I wouldn't kill Hitler because he's not a problem in my present, i.e., right now. I'd kill the grandfather of Soros.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 05, 2014 08:29 PM (r/HMZ)

575 Lev Bronstein.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 05, 2014 08:30 PM (bitz6)

576

Posted by: traye at March 06, 2014 12:28 AM (fqOja)

him..

sanger or carson...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 08:30 PM (3yFC4)

577 Interesting thought experiment. Which American would you eliminate to most improve history?
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 06, 2014 12:21 AM (FpHdx)

I'll go with the era I became of age the '60's and say:

Lyndon Baines Johnson.

So much of our twisted and screwed up situation can be traced to a point that began during his administration and with his cynical manipulation of the country. And who then didn't have the guts to stand and take the rejection but quit early so as to leave the country without closure because he quit for more reasons than just Viet Nam.

He was an evil, evil man.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 08:30 PM (LSDdO)

578 Interestingly, I doubt anyone knows enough to pick A Person whose elimination would have made the world a better place. The tiniest change has unpredictable results.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 08:30 PM (aDwsi)

579 *static* "Who caused the death of the most Americans during his lifetime?" Posted by: traye Margaret Sanger's Father?

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 08:31 PM (lq3Ak)

580 549 Who caused the death of the most Americans during his lifetime? Posted by: traye at March 06, 2014 12:28 AM (fqOja) Lincoln?

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 08:31 PM (UAMVq)

581 Interesting thought experiment. Which American would you eliminate to most improve history? Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 06, 2014 12:21 AM (FpHdx) FDR

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 08:31 PM (MtC8f)

582 545 Understood. I was funnin', actually, but probably good call.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 08:31 PM (ojnk6)

583 oops lifetime...Lincoln would be in the running (as would Lee) but I think Wilson is the champ. he dicked up ww1 and flirted with national and international socialism.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 08:31 PM (3yFC4)

584 Don't remember NDH - but quick search said Blackmun

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 08:32 PM (yVg8h)

585 Maybe talk Oswald into taking out LBJ instead of JFK...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 05, 2014 08:32 PM (yh0zB)

586 I know I shouldn't laugh at the dog throwing up all over the blog but, "He is harping on the fact that 91.5 million Americans are not working, as if all 91.5 million of those people would even be capable of working." is actually a pretty hilariously stupid thing to say. Board certified imbecile as Raylan would say. Aaaaand with that I bid you all a good evening.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 05, 2014 08:32 PM (6Umk6)

587 Interesting thought experiment. Which American would you eliminate to most improve history? Just one? I got a list.

Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2014 08:32 PM (j7iSn)

588 After extensive study, and a handful of beers, I believe I can say with some degree of certainty that the Beatles song "Help" is about John Lennon trying to find a pair of pants that fit. The "Help me get my feet back on the ground" bit means he is trying on pants without first removing his shoes. History will back me up on this, mark my words.

Posted by: Null at March 05, 2014 08:33 PM (xjpRj)

589

Posted by: qestionman at March 06, 2014 12:30 AM (TS9aB)

fuck off. bars don't close for a few hours-go find one.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 08:33 PM (3yFC4)

590 554 Who wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2014 12:29 AM (DmNpO) Harry Blackmun. I like to think there's a special place in hell for him.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 08:34 PM (UAMVq)

591 Maybe talk Oswald into taking out LBJ instead of JFK... Posted by: GGE --------------- I'm still trying to figure out why Mark Chapman shot Lennon, but not Yoko.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 08:35 PM (aDwsi)

592 557 Canz we do something about boring trollz please? Thanks.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 08:35 PM (ojnk6)

593 Based on Jerry Pournelle's recommendation, I started http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00001.htm -- be aware that there are 2469 of them and they really should be read sequentially.....I can say that 'cause I'm current.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 08:35 PM (T1005)

594 I'm still trying to figure out why Mark Chapman shot Lennon, but not Yoko.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 12:35 AM (aDwsi)

The man was clearly insane.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 05, 2014 08:36 PM (yh0zB)

595 Harry Blackmun. I like to think there's a special place in hell for him. --- What about Earl Warren, It was his court...

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 05, 2014 08:36 PM (FpHdx)

596 >>>Meaning to ask you, are you not on campus?

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2014 12:25 AM (MtC8f) <<<

you have no idea how old i am!

speaking of ...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 08:36 PM (3yFC4)

597 fuck off. bars don't close for a few hours-go find one. Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 12:33 AM (3yFC4) How is it going to explain to mommy why it's leaving so late with her car?

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 08:37 PM (MtC8f)

598 If I could go back in time and eliminate people that made humanity suffer... Posted by: yankeefifth at March 06, 2014 12:15 AM (rDidD) "Oh great. Cher songs again....... The douche who invented tie-dye?" Posted by: IllTemperedCur I couldn't Sign Off without making it know that after I'd relieved myself, I came back, read these and peed a little more... HAH! You shall NOT go unreckognized, Ill-Tempered Cur! *static*

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 08:37 PM (lq3Ak)

599 577 Harry Blackmun. I like to think there's a special place in hell for him. --- What about Earl Warren, It was his court... Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 06, 2014 12:36 AM (FpHdx) Good point.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 08:37 PM (UAMVq)

600 @517 Interesting thought experiment. Which American would you eliminate to most improve history? ------------------- Earl Warren.

Posted by: junior at March 05, 2014 08:37 PM (fsOaN)

601 552 Howard Zinn is someone else the country would have been better off without. Posted by: Insomniac at March 06, 2014 12:29 AM (UAMVq) Hide posts from (UAMVq)

Alinsky? Can I hear an "amen"?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 08:37 PM (T1005)

602 the entire weather underground

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 05, 2014 08:38 PM (r/HMZ)

603 583 Another grand choice.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 08:38 PM (ojnk6)

604 On a more personal note, I harbor no love for Wm. T. Sherman. But, let's not go there...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 08:38 PM (aDwsi)

605 so who is dumber eric bolling or sean hannity. I am really tired of eric bolling having his shocking insights into stuff I learned in junior high.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 08:39 PM (rDidD)

606 Alinsky? Can I hear an "amen"? Good one.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 08:39 PM (UAMVq)

607 577 Harry Blackmun. I like to think there's a special place in hell for him. --- What about Earl Warren, It was his court... Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 06, 2014 12:36 AM (FpHdx) The Minnesota Twins.

Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2014 08:39 PM (j7iSn)

608 Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 12:35 AM (T1005) 'Ron commenter Conservative Monster got me started on that one a couple of years ago. Am really liking it and agree that reading sequentially is important.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 05, 2014 08:39 PM (GDulk)

609 so who is dumber eric bolling or sean hannity. I am really tired of eric bolling having his shocking insights into stuff I learned in junior high. *** Neither is stupid, but both are naive. They are too nice for the world they inhabit.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 08:40 PM (DmNpO)

610 586 On a more personal note, I harbor no love for Wm. T. Sherman. But, let's not go there... Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 12:38 AM (aDwsi) He's on my list.

Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2014 08:40 PM (j7iSn)

611 570 After extensive study, and a handful of beers, I believe I can say with some degree of certainty that the Beatles song "Help" is about John Lennon trying to find a pair of pants that fit. The "Help me get my feet back on the ground" bit means he is trying on pants without first removing his shoes. History will back me up on this, mark my words. Posted by: Null at March 06, 2014 12:33 AM (xjpRj) I think you're on to something. Difficulty putting on pants is a common problem among British men. Churchill was sans-pants through most of WWII. Many a valet helped Prince Charles remove a tortured pair of pants from his a Royal head and eventually get them mounted on his legs and ass. A detailed telling of this is found hidden I the lyrics of "Goodbye, Yellow-brick Road"

Posted by: eman at March 05, 2014 08:40 PM (AO9UG)

612 Bucky. Fucking. Dent.

Posted by: a Boston Red Sox fan at March 05, 2014 08:40 PM (r/HMZ)

613 so should I give up hookers or porn?

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 08:41 PM (rDidD)

614 eh? eh?

Posted by: soothsayer at March 05, 2014 08:41 PM (r/HMZ)

615 595 Is that a lint thing?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 05, 2014 08:41 PM (bitz6)

616 575 cthulhu: Those are great! (Although having a good guy who looks like a 22nd-century Steve Dallas is kind of odd.) Reminds me, I've probably fallen 30 or 40 behind and need to catch up.

Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at March 05, 2014 08:41 PM (vRdWg)

617 I don't think individuals from the past make that much difference, with maybe the exception of Hitler. Look at the 2008 Dem primary; do you really think it would have been much different with Hillary in charge?

It has more to do with the electorate and the national 'mood'. Plus a great big heaping dose of indoctrination. Another example -- How much has North Korea changed as they've gone thru 3 gens of Kims? Two Castros in Cuba? The death of Chavez?

It's the vast layer of shit propping them up.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 05, 2014 08:41 PM (wNF3N)

618 595 so should I give up hookers or porn? Posted by: yankeefifth at March 06, 2014 12:41 AM (rDidD) Hookers. At least you'll save some money.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 08:41 PM (UAMVq)

619 590 Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 12:35 AM (T1005)

'Ron commenter Conservative Monster got me started on that one a couple of years ago. Am really liking it and agree that reading sequentially is important. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 06, 2014 12:39 AM (GDulk) Hide posts from (GDulk)

It's a bigger story than it seems the format would permit.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 08:42 PM (T1005)

620 On a more personal note, I harbor no love for Wm. T. Sherman. But, let's not go there... *** I was thinking about The March earlier today and about the charm offensive he met in Savannah. I thought of it because I watched a new Bravo show a couple of nights ago: Southern Charm. They give Southern charm a bad name.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 08:42 PM (DmNpO)

621 591 Thet are the 1%ers, thet just don't know it. They live in their own bubble, and are unaware of that as well.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 08:42 PM (ojnk6)

622 *static* "Alinsky? Can I hear an "amen"?" Posted by: cthulhu Damnit! *amen* I know. Hypocritical irony. *folds* *static*

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 05, 2014 08:42 PM (lq3Ak)

623 "so should I give up hookers or porn?
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 06, 2014 12:41 AM (rDidD)

Hookers. At least you'll save some money."

Porn. What the hell is money for, anyway?

Posted by: navybrat at March 05, 2014 08:43 PM (AW7Gr)

624 Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at March 06, 2014 12:41 AM (vRdWg) Yes you do. There's been a "big reveal" that *I* at least was completely surprised by.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 05, 2014 08:43 PM (GDulk)

625 Earl Warren.

---

We had Earl Warren. Then we had Warren Burger. The next Chief Justice should have been Burger [something].

Posted by: whoever at March 05, 2014 08:43 PM (kGSN0)

626 Evening, horde. I just woke up from the worst headache since I had a sinus infection 30 years ago. I actually took a couple Tylenol P.M. earlier today to help me sleep it off (no drinks tonight). I don't know why - I very rarely get headaches. I did have a large sugar-free tea with lunch. Maybe the sweetener? I usually don't have that junk because I can't stand th e taste, but the tea was OK. DDR - yes, that was just snark last night. Didn't mean to offend you. The chick looks 18, but sounds about 12.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 05, 2014 08:44 PM (ls1Zc)

627 Porn. What the hell is money for, anyway? Booze, of course

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 08:44 PM (UAMVq)

628 Just give up vegetables.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 05, 2014 08:44 PM (bitz6)

629 606: Oh, thanks! I actually started reading it after you mentioned it on an ont a while back.

Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at March 05, 2014 08:45 PM (vRdWg)

630 Well, Horde, time to sign off. Catch all of you later. Have a good night/morning.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 05, 2014 08:47 PM (UAMVq)

631 612 Night, as you act in opposite to your NIC. Be well.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 08:48 PM (ojnk6)

632 In this country, Abraham Lincoln without a doubt. Next, John Roberts

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 08:48 PM (aUQgu)

633 I'll share a secret. I went back in time. I killed the Warlord. You never heard of him. Lucky you. His evil cult had conquered Eurasia. When I got back, there was the Mongol King vs The Spanish Prince war split the world. America should not have joined in. Horrible.You never heard of that became I went back again and killed both of them as children. When I returned, there was Hitler and Lenin and Mao, folks no one had ever heard of before my travels. That's when I destroyed the time machine. It just doesn't work that way. ________ Good night, Gracies.

Posted by: mindful webworker — time unraveler at March 05, 2014 08:48 PM (CNuph)

634 @ 608 [shredded chi] -- You didn't offend me at all! I just wondered, "OK, I am getting a little long in the tooth. Maybe I shouldn't be ogling that girl!"

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 05, 2014 08:48 PM (m0h0I)

635 Coming To America on Spike at 1:00

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 08:49 PM (DmNpO)

636 Rachel Carson.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 05, 2014 08:49 PM (r/HMZ)

637 611 Did I? Glad to have passed it along even if I can't even blame alcohol for having no memory of doing so.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette, assault Hobbit at March 05, 2014 08:49 PM (GDulk)

638 430 I do remember that private trade schools went through a thing a while back where if they had too high a percentage of defaults they could lose their student loan DOE certification. I know some moron worked in a University financial aid dept and once posted some info about defaults but I can't remember who. Posted by: Daybrother at March 05, 2014 11:59 PM (MEogv) Might have been me. Our community college is hovering around 30% default, which is the maximum default allowed before we lose the right to offer loans. If we can't offer loans, we may have to close our doors.

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 08:49 PM (RMfGb)

639 Polliwog! So nice to see you! How have you been?

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 08:50 PM (RMfGb)

640 595 so should I give up hookers or porn?

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 06, 2014 12:41 AM (rDidD)

booze.

porn.

hookers.

that is the fucking moron lifestyle. the next thing y'all will tell me is that i have to give up ace. fucking commies...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 08:50 PM (3yFC4)

641 468 @ GGE

You can fix Subaru's. What's not to love?

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 08:50 PM (aUQgu)

642 "so should I give up hookers or porn? Posted by: yankeefifth at March 06, 2014 12:41 AM (rDidD) Hookers. At least you'll save some money." Porn. What the hell is money for, anyway? Posted by: navybrat at March 06, 2014 I was thinking hookers are less time consuming .

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 08:50 PM (rDidD)

643 This so called thing 'porn.' Who the heck pays for it nowadays?

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 08:52 PM (MtC8f)

644

Posted by: Mindy at March 06, 2014 12:49 AM (RMfGb)

you work at a cc? what state if you don't mind me asking?

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 08:52 PM (3yFC4)

645 Helen Mirren was absolutely hawt back in the day, but she must have ugly elbows as she's covering them with those leather elbow length gloves

Posted by: kbdabear at March 05, 2014 08:53 PM (aTXUx)

646 You can fix Subaru's. What's not to love?

Posted by: NCwoof at March 06, 2014 12:50 AM (aUQgu)

Well, I guess I have that going for me.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 05, 2014 08:54 PM (yh0zB)

647 627 That's a feature, not a bug.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 08:55 PM (ojnk6)

648 Posted by: qestionman at March 06, 2014 12:06 AM (TS9aB) Well, 5+ years after he left office, you still blame Bush. So Rush can blame the current occupant all he wants. Americans have less money because their energy costs have skyrocketed, which Obama supports. Plus, the Federal printing press had devalued the currency, so food now costs much more than in the past. The government shutdown because Obama and the Democrats rammed through an unpopular bill that the GOP has tried to change/repel, but Obama wouldn't budge. BTW, he unilaterally decided to not implement the law to try to save his ass politically. Back 5 years ago, Obama got his "Recovery Bill" passed very easily by the Democrats, and it didn't do shit. His answer? MOOOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!! BTW, the recession is/has been over since the 2nd quarter of 2009. The shit we are in is now Obama's fault. And boo hoo hoo for the government ticks. Obama and his ilk haven't had any problems with fucking me over by taking more of my hard earned money, so i'm not gonna feel sorry for some non-essential government tick. If you can't stand hearing your hero getting criticized, then you should invest in some earplugs.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aak MrCaniac at March 05, 2014 08:55 PM (HxSXm)

649 621 Hiya Mindy. Mostly running in circles, it feels like. I'm hoping it gets better once I'm a little more accustomed to the kid's new activity schedule and get tax stuff and malfunctioning computer stuff figured out. This moving to a new state as a single parent thing turns out to be an even bigger pain than I'd expected. How goes it for you?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette, assault Hobbit at March 05, 2014 08:55 PM (GDulk)

650 Time is not a dimension. It is useful to treat it that way but it's not.

Events that have happened cannot be undone - in this universe.

The future are future events which CAN be changed. You, me everyone here is changing the future every second of every day along with all other entities that can affect events.

Choose wisely.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 08:56 PM (LSDdO)

651 Good evening all......a little late to the party.

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 05, 2014 08:56 PM (W3UHW)

652 Karl Marx

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 08:57 PM (aDwsi)

653 If you can't stand hearing your hero getting criticized, then you should invest in some earplugs.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aak MrCaniac at March 06, 2014 12:55 AM (HxSXm)

Thats pretty kind. I would have suggested squatting on a grenade

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2014 08:57 PM (FMbng)

654 537 the older you get, the younger everyone else looks --- The older you get, the younger everyone else IS.

Posted by: Alana at March 05, 2014 08:57 PM (LjG0U)

655 Choose wisely.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 06, 2014 12:56 AM (LSDdO)

Meh. I'm a little old and set in my ways to try new things.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 05, 2014 08:57 PM (yh0zB)

656 Mamie Van Doren in 'Girls School'

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 08:59 PM (MtC8f)

657 634 Marx, like the SCOAMF, was only a symptom. Human nature is and will continue to be the problem. See the Ant and Grasshopper.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 08:59 PM (ojnk6)

658 Girls Town

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 08:59 PM (MtC8f)

659 I really wish it would warm up. I want to go spend some quality time with the reloading bench, but the kerosene heater doesn't keep the shed warm enough. Maybe I should get a bigger heater...but it's too late in the season and no one has them.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 05, 2014 09:00 PM (yh0zB)

660 I'm sorry, I live in chronic pain, from two neck injuries. It has been worse for almost 3 weeks. I put neck collar on& am staying away from computers, except at work. I have new pain in neck & back of head. Good Night,

Posted by: Carol at March 05, 2014 09:00 PM (z4WKX)

661 608 Evening, horde.
I just woke up from the worst headache since I had a sinus infection 30 years ago. I actually took a couple Tylenol P.M. earlier today to help me sleep it off (no drinks tonight).

I don't know why - I very rarely get headaches. I did have a large sugar-free tea with lunch. Maybe the sweetener? I usually don't have that junk because I can't stand th e taste, but the tea was OK.

DDR - yes, that was just snark last night. Didn't mean to offend you. The chick looks 18, but sounds about 12. Posted by: shredded chi at March 06, 2014 12:44 AM (ls1Zc) Hide posts from (ls1Zc)

If you switched to ibuprofen, you wouldn't have to not drink when you took your painkillers.

Did you have peanuts or shellfish earlier? Or -- my fave -- I can have chocolate or red wine or yellow cheese or nuts.....I can even have two in an evening....but when I have three, I've got about a 75% chance of a slammin' migraine the next day.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 09:01 PM (T1005)

662 633 Good evening all......a little late to the party. Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 06, 2014 12:56 AM (W3UHW) Pull up a stool. Ace is hopped up on Nyquil so drinks are on him/her/it.

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 09:02 PM (MtC8f)

663 [shredded chi] -- You didn't offend me at all! I just wondered, "OK, I am getting a little long in the tooth. Maybe I shouldn't be ogling that girl!" _________ Glad to hear it! I'm getting old, and I still ogle, too. Cthulhu - sorry, man. Like I said upthread, I was down for the count for the last nine or ten hours.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 05, 2014 09:02 PM (ls1Zc)

664 You can fix Subaru's. What's not to love? Posted by: NCwoof at March 06, 2014 12:50 AM (aUQgu) ------------- Wrong argument to use for me. Just finished changing out the passenger side front halfshaft on Mrs. Hammer's Impreza. It was a royal bitch to do. More difficult than any other I have done. And it *will* have to be done for any FWD car, sooner or later. Cam belt replacement? Which will also have to be done, get out your wallet. Rear seal leak? Pull the fcuking engine. Subaru is *off* my list.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 09:03 PM (aDwsi)

665 Perfect....so my Fresca and Valurite are free!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 05, 2014 09:03 PM (W3UHW)

666 yeah, where do the porn guys get their money? some guys may have to have all the new porn hot off a the presses or something? need all a their porn virus free?

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 09:04 PM (rDidD)

667 Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 06, 2014 01:00 AM (yh0zB) On my third month of joining the club and it's still too damb cold to shoot. I want a refund! Kidding. It will be great once it warms the hell up.

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 09:04 PM (MtC8f)

668 Cupcake......you still around?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 05, 2014 09:05 PM (W3UHW)

669 Obama is delaying the implementation of certain sections of the ACA so as to control the timing of the collapse of the system.

The financial system, the insurance companies and the Healthcare system.

No they won't be destroyed but they will be filled with chaos and uncertainty which will destroy their ability to operate efficiently and effectively. Some people will die because of that.

It's all about the timing. Note the original implementation was delayed until after the 2nd term elections. Now that he is ensconced as President, he wants to delay the effects to the most useful time for his (or his masters) aims. Which is and has been the collapse of the United States of America as a unified political entity.

And, BTW, I believe that he is not being challenged on his delays because the ACA gives the Sec'y of Health the power to make those delays. Whoever is Sec'y has great latitude on when, where and how the law is enforced.

The House gave up it's power, The Senate is in control of the Dems.

There is no exit until 2017.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 09:05 PM (LSDdO)

670 644 Valu-rite on Ace! Total cost to the House? A buck 3.98.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 09:05 PM (ojnk6)

671 We may get freezing precip tomorrow night -- AGAIN. Oh lawd.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 09:05 PM (aUQgu)

672 647 Perfect....so my Fresca and Valurite are free! Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 06, 2014 01:03 AM (W3UHW) CHEERS!

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 09:05 PM (MtC8f)

673 On the road to 666 again ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 05, 2014 09:05 PM (qoKTg)

674 Diane Fossie. You know why. Don't make me say it.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 05, 2014 09:06 PM (r/HMZ)

675 Subaru is *off* my list. Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 interesting, a friend was telling me he was contemplating getting a subare because he heard subarus go and go forever.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 09:06 PM (rDidD)

676 Ogling legal pop stars is one thing - underage relatives a whole 'nother thing altogether ...

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 09:06 PM (yVg8h)

677 Just because, Dubai super police cars again -
http://tinyurl.com/knsho75

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 09:07 PM (0z3kx)

678 626 Colorado. I blame the current decline on Hickenlooper's appointment of whoever's in charge of the community colleges. I forget her name.

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 09:08 PM (RMfGb)

679 From a season of rallyx, I can assure you subies do not run forever...

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 09:08 PM (yVg8h)

680 And we are back to dealing with the Scary Barbie, who would still make a better leader than President Mom Jeans.

http://www.ufunk.net/insolite/barbie-realiste/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 09:08 PM (0z3kx)

681 655 On the road to 666 again ... Posted by: Adriane... at March 06, 2014 01:05 AM (qoKTg) And..........NOW!

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 09:08 PM (MtC8f)

682 Oy!

Posted by: Adriane... at March 05, 2014 09:09 PM (qoKTg)

683 I see a subaru and immediately think moonbat

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 05, 2014 09:09 PM (W3UHW)

684 Shit

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 09:09 PM (MtC8f)

685 Maybe?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 09:09 PM (0z3kx)

686 Vey!

Posted by: Adriane... at March 05, 2014 09:09 PM (qoKTg)

687 Westminsterdogshow, how are you this fine evening?

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 09:09 PM (RMfGb)

688 Alas!

Posted by: Adriane... at March 05, 2014 09:09 PM (qoKTg)

689

what am i doing?

don't even know why i wrote that.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 09:09 PM (3yFC4)

690 666 claimed! ... not so much...

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 09:09 PM (ojnk6)

691 yeah, where do the porn guys get their money? some guys may have to have all the new porn hot off a the presses or something? need all a their porn virus free?

This is a question we will have to study

Posted by: Governm,ent union workers with state-issued credit cards at March 05, 2014 09:10 PM (hO9ad)

692 Like my Subaru much. Just standard maintenance. Goes anywhere w AWD. No big
issues at all. 97 Outback. Best investment I made.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 09:10 PM (aUQgu)

693 645 [shredded chi] -- You didn't offend me at all! I just wondered, "OK, I am getting a little long in the tooth. Maybe I shouldn't be ogling that girl!"
_________

Glad to hear it! I'm getting old, and I still ogle, too.

Cthulhu - sorry, man. Like I said upthread, I was down for the count for the last nine or ten hours. Posted by: shredded chi at March 06, 2014 01:02 AM (ls1Zc) Hide posts from (ls1Zc)

No worries -- it sounds like a heckuva reason to be sampling the waters of the Lethe.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 09:10 PM (T1005)

694 666 Shit

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2014 01:09 AM (MtC8f)

Kneel before Zod.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXFrhY_Le1w

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2014 09:10 PM (FMbng)

695 We have a winner!!

Bob tell our lucky contestant what they have won!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 09:10 PM (0z3kx)

696 don't even know why i wrote that. because ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 05, 2014 09:10 PM (qoKTg)

697 Shredded Chi, May I suggest you get away from computers, iPads, iPhones & all others ? I'm turning all except phone off in the case of emergency . I hope your sinus headache goes away. Good Night!

Posted by: Carol at March 05, 2014 09:11 PM (z4WKX)

698

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2014 01:09 AM (MtC8f)

your dreams...

Posted by: Satan wanted that block at March 05, 2014 09:11 PM (3yFC4)

699 Subaru takes its logo from the Pleiades star system.
Everyone I know who has owned one has it for at least 200k miles

Posted by: navybrat at March 05, 2014 09:11 PM (AW7Gr)

700 Miss Cleo predicted it. That's how I knew.

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 09:11 PM (MtC8f)

701 anna, so where are they gonna put the perps in the lamborghini?

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 09:11 PM (rDidD)

702 Time machine? I'd go back in time and get Billy Jeff's mommy to take that particular "issue" in her mouth instead of in the old scamper. That would have saved us from Hillary and all the other Clinton hangerons.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aak MrCaniac at March 05, 2014 09:12 PM (HxSXm)

703 A draught of Lethe water. Thought that was how the Democrats keep getting people to vote for their failed policies?

Or is the Potomac a Native American name for Lethe?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 09:12 PM (0z3kx)

704 You all do realize that St. John had it wrong?

The Beast is actually upside down when St. John sees it in his vision.

So the Number of the Beast is 999.

The Devil always likes people to believe things that aren't true.

It's why he's nicknamed the Great Deceiver, Father of Lies, etc.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 09:12 PM (LSDdO)

705 6i1 Cuz you get to see Helen in a Corset every time you do. Yum.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 09:12 PM (ojnk6)

706 interesting, a friend was telling me he was contemplating getting a subare because he heard subarus go and go forever. Posted by: yankeefifth ------------------- Experiences differ. Mine has been bad. The Impreza has had higher maintenance costs than any car I have owned. Mediocre gas mileage. Additionally, in spite of being garaged, vinyl splits in the upholstery have appeared in two places. The vacuum operated vent ducting is currently malfunctioning. I fully understand that others experience has been different..., but ours, not so good. Oh..., it has 90,000 miles on it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 09:12 PM (aDwsi)

707 Mindy....... Doing well.....went to the caucus last night and it was pretty pathetic. Et tu?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 05, 2014 09:13 PM (W3UHW)

708 so regarding subarus, do they have size equivalents to the bmw 3 and 5 series?

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 09:13 PM (rDidD)

709 Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aak MrCaniac at March 06, 2014 01:12 AM (HxSXm)

There were plenty of others to choose from at Yale back then.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 09:13 PM (LSDdO)

710

Posted by: Adriane... at March 06, 2014 01:10 AM (qoKTg)

should explain, but still working through 300 comments...and I still have beer.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 09:14 PM (3yFC4)

711 Y5, its Dubai. For the real crooks I am pretty sure they have a Ford Expedition fitted out with manacles.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 09:14 PM (0z3kx)

712 These are challenging times for the wandering eye.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 05, 2014 09:14 PM (m0h0I)

713 Coming To America on Spike at 1:00 "God Damn! That boy can sing..."

Posted by: garrett at March 05, 2014 09:14 PM (RhERp)

714 If you switched to ibuprofen, you wouldn't have to not drink when you took your painkillers. Did you have peanuts or shellfish earlier? Or -- my fave -- I can have chocolate or red wine or yellow cheese or nuts.....I can even have two in an evening....but when I have three, I've got about a 75% chance of a slammin' migraine the next day. Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 01:01 AM (T1005) ______________ I happened to have some store brand PM in the medicine cabinet - I just wanted to sleep it off! Nope, but peanuts/ shellfish don't bother me a bit. Had three cups of instant coffee this morning (a rarity for me), which gave me heartburn, so I took a zantac. Then at lunch I accidentally bought a big can of sugar-free iced tea. I've heard that fake sweetener can bring on migraines, but I'm not really prone and to them. I don't know... stress? Horrible diet lately. I haven't been riding like I used to (too damned cold!), i and barely walk 6 or so miles a week. And that isn't even at a very good clip.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 05, 2014 09:14 PM (ls1Zc)

715 Posted by: Satan wanted that block at March 06, 2014 01:11 AM (3yFC4) 'THIS ISN'T A DREAM....THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING!!! (Better get the reference)

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 09:14 PM (MtC8f)

716 685 A draught of Lethe water. Thought that was how the Democrats keep getting people to vote for their failed policies?

Or is the Potomac a Native American name for Lethe?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 01:12 AM (0z3kx) Hide posts from (0z3kx)

I would have thought it had to do with the 13 years of mandatory indoctrination in Stupid K-12.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 09:14 PM (T1005)

717 631. Polliwog, I'm [/]almost finished with grading a batch of tests. Students did pretty well this time, except one guy who can't be bothered to at least try doing some homework.

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 09:14 PM (RMfGb)

718 Experiences differ. Mine has been bad. The Impreza has had higher maintenance costs than any car I have owned. Mediocre gas mileage. Additionally, in spite of being garaged, vinyl splits in the upholstery have appeared in two places. The vacuum operated vent ducting is currently malfunctioning. I fully understand that others experience has been different..., but ours, not so good. Oh..., it has 90,000 miles on it. Posted by: Mike Hammer again, interesting. our neighbor bought a brand new one and only got a thousand miles out of her, before the hurricane flooded our parking garage. his car was floating upside down, bobbing.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 09:15 PM (rDidD)

719 Hey, ONT. Been a while. . . jeez. We still doing the 666 thing huh?

Posted by: Z Ryan at March 05, 2014 09:15 PM (fMK2m)

720 No question they are great, capable cars, and high performance now as well, but they have weaknesses in the motors and trannies - I've seen many go down ... 200k is no problem for most Japanese cars for some time, and most yank cars now as well.

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 09:16 PM (yVg8h)

721 688 - Oh yes, one other thing..., the Sub has developed a stumble when first started. Throws no codes.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 09:16 PM (aDwsi)

722 Y5, its Dubai. For the real crooks I am pretty sure they have a Ford Expedition fitted out with manacles. Posted by: Anna Puma heh. manacles are not so good without hands.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 09:16 PM (rDidD)

723 696
If you switched to ibuprofen, you wouldn't have to not drink when you took your painkillers.

Did you have peanuts or shellfish earlier? Or -- my fave -- I can have chocolate or red wine or yellow cheese or nuts.....I can even have two in an evening....but when I have three, I've got about a 75% chance of a slammin' migraine the next day.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 01:01 AM (T1005)
______________

I happened to have some store brand PM in the medicine cabinet - I just wanted to sleep it off!

Nope, but peanuts/ shellfish don't bother me a bit.
Had three cups of instant coffee this morning (a rarity for me), which gave me heartburn, so I took a zantac. Then at lunch I accidentally bought a big can of sugar-free iced tea.

I've heard that fake sweetener can bring on migraines, but I'm not really prone and to them.
I don't know... stress? Horrible diet lately. I haven't been riding like I used to (too damned cold!), i and barely walk 6 or so miles a week. And that isn't even at a very good clip.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 06, 2014 01:14 AM (ls1Zc) Hide posts from (ls1Zc)

I hope you're feeling better now.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 09:17 PM (T1005)

724 701 Kinda like "First".

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 09:17 PM (ojnk6)

725 Posted by: Joe at March 06, 2014 01:16 AM (yVg8h)

That's because they're using Jap motors and power train.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 09:18 PM (LSDdO)

726 "God Damn! That boy can sing..." *** Ha! The church beauty pageant.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 09:18 PM (DmNpO)

727 Interestingly, the current Subaru Forester is built in Japan, not the USA. Also, they have have abandoned the cam belt for a chain.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 09:18 PM (aDwsi)

728 I'm just glad to see we're also still doing the thing where the chicks get progressively more drunk as the night goes on.

Posted by: Z Ryan at March 05, 2014 09:19 PM (fMK2m)

729 dubai has a maintenance nightmare with a fleet of one-off supercars. yeesh. super cars are being used for patrol and not high speed pursuit too.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 09:19 PM (rDidD)

730 Love, 'Coming to America'. So much to like in that movie.

Posted by: garrett at March 05, 2014 09:19 PM (RhERp)

731 Here's some fun pre-bedtime reading: http://9gag.com/gag/av0v95O Good night, all. Posted by: Bomber Thanks loads Bomber.

Posted by: The Farmer at March 05, 2014 09:19 PM (eBupg)

732 Wow! http://t.co/dtT4PZT14R

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 09:19 PM (DmNpO)

733 699 631. Polliwog, I'm [/]almost finished with grading a batch of tests. Students did pretty well this time, except one guy who can't be bothered to at least try doing some homework. Posted by: Mindy at March 06, 2014 01:14 AM (RMfGb) Hide posts from (RMfGb)

Heh. That guy was me in High School. Of course, I also read the texts cover-to-cover in the first two weeks and then refused to bring 'em to class.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 09:19 PM (T1005)

734 Impreza is the smaller one, Legacy is the larger one, but still not in the class of 5 series. I would take a subie for reliability over any german ...

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 09:20 PM (yVg8h)

735 Westminster, I'm trying to decide whether to contact my state senator about some bill to increase adjunct faculty pay so it's proportional to full-timers. Of course I'm always up for a raise, but if adjunct services were that valuable, they'd already be getting paid more. Although, we're talking government, so the value of your services has no correlation to your pay. So confused...

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 09:20 PM (RMfGb)

736

Posted by: Mindy at March 06, 2014 01:08 AM (RMfGb)

it does sound like office politics and sorry you have to go through that. focus on the mission and help those who want it. college can be helpful and rewarding (and my company recruits in CO) and know that people out there know how tough your job can be sometimes.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 09:20 PM (3yFC4)

737 The Devil always likes people to believe things that aren't true.

It's why he's nicknamed the Great Deceiver, Father of Lies, etc.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 06, 2014 01:12 AM

No, it's not. That's a load of porkies. I'm a ripping bloke, really.

Posted by: aleister crowley at March 05, 2014 09:20 PM (9gNQd)

738 "You're from Queens!? ... "We're from Queens!!"

Posted by: garrett at March 05, 2014 09:21 PM (RhERp)

739 700 Experiences differ. Mine has been bad. The Impreza has had higher maintenance costs than any car I have owned. Mediocre gas mileage. Additionally, in spite of being garaged, vinyl splits in the upholstery have appeared in two places. The vacuum operated vent ducting is currently malfunctioning.

I fully understand that others experience has been different..., but ours, not so good. Oh..., it has 90,000 miles on it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

again, interesting. our neighbor bought a brand new one and only got a thousand miles out of her, before the hurricane flooded our parking garage. his car was floating upside down, bobbing.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 06, 2014 01:15 AM (rDidD) Hide posts from (rDidD)

From what I understand, Outbacks and Foresters are good, Imprezzas suck donkey-dongs, and the ones that are shaped like cars ride like trucks.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 09:21 PM (T1005)

740 714 Wow, indeed! Move over, Duff.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 05, 2014 09:22 PM (ls1Zc)

741 I would take a subie for reliability over any german ... Posted by: Joe ------------ Yeah. Also repair/maintenance costs.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 09:22 PM (aDwsi)

742 When I get older I want a monocle. My old name used to be Unicle.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 05, 2014 09:22 PM (r/HMZ)

743 715. I was like that too as a young student. When I went back to school as an adult, I had a clue and found a little homework goes a long way toward maintaining a 4.0.

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 09:23 PM (RMfGb)

744 yeah, they do ride like trucks. I have had 'em as rentals. seem durable but not luxurious, barely comfortable.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 05, 2014 09:23 PM (rDidD)

745 The financial system, the insurance companies and the Healthcare system.

No they won't be destroyed but they will be filled with chaos and uncertainty which will destroy their ability to operate efficiently and effectively. Some people will die because of that.

I don't know if you were here for the discussion of multiplication of the money supply a few days ago, but an unwind from the current 20-30:1 to something in the low single digits will leave parts of the financial system functioning. Sort of. What else remains depends on whose banks stay afloat. I can't see any circumstance where the insurance industry survives. Some healthcare services will continue, if they can be done at payment rates that average people can afford without the insurance backstop.

The reason those of us worry about this sort of thing range into zombie apocalypse territory is a complete lack of faith in the people of this society to figure out how to make do with less, much less do it. YMMV.

Posted by: Methos at March 05, 2014 09:23 PM (hO9ad)

746 He helped Joshua fight the battle of Jericho, he helped Daniel get out the lion's den, he helped Gilligan get off the island. Was Coming to America Murphy's last genuinely funny film?

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 09:23 PM (MtC8f)

747 think I've had enough and i'm not going to make a bar run...so drunken, free advice from the horde it is going to be.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 09:24 PM (3yFC4)

748 There were plenty of others to choose from at Yale back then. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 06, 2014 01:13 AM (LSDdO) But not many southern Democrats. That was the key to Billy Jeff getting elected the first time. From the 60's through 2008, only southerners and Californians were elected President. LBJ-South Nixon-Cali Carter-South Reagan-Cali Bush I-South (TX) Billy Jeff-South Bush II-South

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aak MrCaniac at March 05, 2014 09:24 PM (HxSXm)

749 Mindy Are you under CO board of regents?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 05, 2014 09:25 PM (W3UHW)

750 Meanwhile, the '98 Buick LeSabre soldiers on. Maintenance costs at 90,000 miles is $39.00 for an idler pulley. Gets consistent 29 mpg on the road, has a trunk that can carry ~~a couple of dead bodies~~ a lot of luggage.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 09:25 PM (aDwsi)

751 729 Let us have it, Rich. Whatcha got?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 09:25 PM (ojnk6)

752 Cthulhu that indoctrination probably helps.

BBCA showing again "Say you brade runnah!" where Harrison Ford is dreaming of a unicorn.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 09:25 PM (0z3kx)

753 Interestingly, the current Subaru Forester is built in Japan, not the USA. Also, they have have abandoned the cam belt for a chain.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 01:18 AM (aDwsi)

My father just bought a Forester. He loves it. He is 6ft, so he is happy that he don't hit his head when he gets in it. On the other hand, a friend of mine was a service writer at a dealership and tells me the suburu can be head gasket eaters, which he informed me about after my father bought his. I guess we'll see.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2014 09:26 PM (FMbng)

754

Posted by: Methos at March 06, 2014 01:23 AM (hO9ad)

it would survive. services would be priced less and risk would be re-priced, but it would survive.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 09:26 PM (3yFC4)

755 I'm going to have to do half-shafts pretty soon on the Baja, they click when the wheel is at full lock. Got a vibration at interstate speeds as well that is likely caused by the half-shafts. A little rough at idle right now, so I'm going to change plugs and wires when I do the oil next week. 172 K miles on it, I've put 70K of them on it in the 3 1/2 years I've owned it and the only non-routine maintenance it has needed was an O2 sensor.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 05, 2014 09:28 PM (yh0zB)

756

shit I can still spell correctly...tcfab (this calls for another beer).

listening to the encounter, korn's Bakersfield concert.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 09:28 PM (3yFC4)

757 You all do realize that St. John had it wrong?

The Beast is actually upside down when St. John sees it in his vision.

So the Number of the Beast is 999.

The Devil always likes people to believe things that aren't true.

It's why he's nicknamed the Great Deceiver, Father of Lies, etc.

Not sure if serious, so let me try two responses.

A)We don't get to 999 in the ONT often enough to make a game of that

B)How did Satan affect a vision John was receiving from God? That seems like the definition of a secure connection to me.

Posted by: Methos at March 05, 2014 09:29 PM (hO9ad)

758 735 Interestingly, the current Subaru Forester is built
in Japan, not the USA. Also, they have have abandoned the cam belt for a
chain.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 01:18 AM (aDwsi)

My father just bought a Forester. He loves it. He is 6ft, so he is happy that he don't hit his head when he gets in it. On the other hand, a friend of mine was a service writer at a dealership and tells me the suburu can be head gasket eaters, which he informed me about after my father bought his. I guess we'll see.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 06, 2014 01:26 AM (FMbng) Hide posts from (FMbng)

The first car I had in my name was a 79 Mustang that ate head cover gaskets like candy. heads and head covers were made out metals with different coefficients of expansion, so they'd apply shear to the gaskets in every heat/cool cycle.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 09:29 PM (T1005)

759 718. Rich, I forgot what your company does. Seems like you mentioned it once.

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 09:29 PM (RMfGb)

760 finally met the perfect girl a girl I just adore she's deaf and dumb and oversexed and owns a liquor store Posted by: zombie Woody Woodbury I think I might know her, does she give grt bj's and have a flat head? Don't bring up politics, she's an Obama voter.

Posted by: The Farmer at March 05, 2014 09:29 PM (eBupg)

761 711 dubai has a maintenance nightmare with a fleet of one-off supercars. yeesh. super cars are being used for patrol and not high speed pursuit too. Posted by: yankeefifth at March 06, 2014 01:19 AM (rDidD) There were a bunch of them abandoned at the airport there, and I wonder if the government didn't appropriate them for their use. http://tinyurl.com/cxq3bcp

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aak MrCaniac at March 05, 2014 09:30 PM (HxSXm)

762 I have heard people refer to Bowfinger as funny, but I never sat through it...so, yes. Coming to America was the last funny movie Eddie Murphy made.

Posted by: garrett at March 05, 2014 09:30 PM (RhERp)

763 Imprezas make great rally cars, and the very fast wrx and sti versions are real high performance cars, but they do have weaknesses and seem prone to spinning bearings. They are huge here, very popular in all their forms because of AWD ... I prefer Nissans myself, or Hondas, which are probably the most reliable. I like my Suzuki but its time for it to go. Don't like Toyotas, too mushy and beige, and I've never had a Mazda, although a Miata will be somewhere in my future. Mitsubishi is on the last leg in this country now, but their Evos are better than STIs - won all 3 classes at rallyx nats this year. Korean cars I do not like.

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 09:31 PM (yVg8h)

764 No one ever says that Pluto Nash was good.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 09:32 PM (0z3kx)

765 Was Eddie Murphy really ever funny?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 05, 2014 09:32 PM (W3UHW)

766 740 Back then all American cars were Pos's. Worked in a Service Dept. Of a Caddy dealership from 81-83. Eldorados were coming in with 9k mikes needing rings.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 09:32 PM (ojnk6)

767 The first car I had in my name was a 79 Mustang that ate head cover gaskets like candy. heads and head covers were made out metals with different coefficients of expansion, so they'd apply shear to the gaskets in every heat/cool cycle.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 01:29 AM (T1005)

I think at that point I would use a bead of black silicone and fuck that gasket.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2014 09:32 PM (FMbng)

768 731. Westminster, I'm ashamed to say I have no idea. I just keep my nose to the math-teaching grindstone and seldom look beyond my main objective. Apparently all the state community colleges are connected somehow. Someone at the top is pushing the Common Core-style textbooks, which is a nightmare for me and for the students.

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 09:33 PM (RMfGb)

769 That's it for me, I've had enough. Later roonz and roonettez, fear no evil!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 05, 2014 09:33 PM (yh0zB)

770 Was Eddie Murphy really ever funny? Oh, hell yeah. 48 hrs. , Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America, Raw and Delerious. Eddie was a real funny guy for a long time.

Posted by: garrett at March 05, 2014 09:34 PM (RhERp)

771 Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March BTW, hello, Westminster. I saw your comment (question) to me last night just as I was heading out for a late-night walk with the doggie. I was talking to myself and mistakenly said the word "walk" & the dog went nuts (he understands me even if I spell it!) I knew cthulhu said he would answer you, and I think you were gone by the time I got back in, but thanks.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 05, 2014 09:35 PM (ls1Zc)

772 752 His comedy specials back kn the day were hilarious and classic.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 09:35 PM (ojnk6)

773 gooniegoogoomobile

Posted by: soothsayer at March 05, 2014 09:35 PM (r/HMZ)

774 >>>733 729
Let us have it, Rich. Whatcha got?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 06, 2014 01:25 AM (ojnk6)<<<

i feel naked and on film. shut those cameras off...

a couple of issues (and i hope i'm not wrecking the thread):

my current relationship with my dad.

my "professional" standing, work.

my studies-i am classified as a student in good standing at the secret institution i attend.

my living situation.

pretty much everything i'm doing...being compelled, no real choices.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 09:36 PM (3yFC4)

775 WDS and Mindy, I thing the CCs are under CCCOES, different division, at least when I was an adjunct for a few years ...

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 09:36 PM (yVg8h)

776 749 The first car I had in my name was a 79 Mustang that
ate head cover gaskets like candy. heads and head covers were made out
metals with different coefficients of expansion, so they'd apply shear
to the gaskets in every heat/cool cycle.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 01:29 AM (T1005)

I think at that point I would use a bead of black silicone and fuck that gasket.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 06, 2014 01:32 AM (FMbng) Hide posts from (FMbng)

Funny you should mention that. I started getting experimental after I realized what was going on....shear ate silicone, too.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 09:36 PM (T1005)

777 Mindy..... Common core is a nightmare and if that is the curriculum that is being pushed I feel for you. I know how much you want your students to learn.

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 05, 2014 09:37 PM (W3UHW)

778 737 GGE - Be aware that when you (heh..., enjoy) drive the roll pins into the inner joints that the holes in the splines are *not* symmetrical with regards to the splines. I.e., there is only one way that the splines can be joined in order for the roll pin holes to align properly. 180 deg. in the other direction doesn't work, the holes will be misaligned by 1/2 spline. Perhaps easy to see if you have a lift, not easy lying on you back under the car.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 09:37 PM (aDwsi)

779 How did Satan affect a vision John was receiving from God? That seems like the definition of a secure connection to me.
Posted by: Methos at March 06, 2014 01:29 AM (hO9ad)

You could have a secure connection to a camera but the scene enfolding on it could be staged or misinterpreted.

God showed him A vision of the future not necessarily free from Lucifer's deception.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 09:37 PM (LSDdO)

780 753 Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March

BTW, hello, Westminster.
I saw your comment (question) to me last night just as I was heading out for a late-night walk with the doggie. I was talking to myself and mistakenly said the word "walk" & the dog went nuts (he understands me even if I spell it!)

I knew cthulhu said he would answer you, and I think you were gone by the time I got back in, but thanks. Posted by: shredded chi at March 06, 2014 01:35 AM (ls1Zc) Hide posts from (ls1Zc)

I noted it on the blog. BTW -- you know that when your pooch gets to the point he can read it, you're totally screwed, don't you?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 09:39 PM (T1005)

781 757. Hi, Joe! Are you the Joe who attended the last Colorado Morondezvous (with the cupcakes of hate)?

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 09:39 PM (RMfGb)

782

Posted by: Mindy at March 06, 2014 01:29 AM (RMfGb)

lol. i'm not going to mention it. tmi. something with no oxygen and little gravity.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 09:39 PM (3yFC4)

783 Yes! MMMM tasty hate cupcakes!

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 09:41 PM (yVg8h)

784 I read today where the actual motivation behind the Ukraine crisis was the IMF desire to take control of Ukraine's resources as a condition for "loans" Also reports of a US Navy ship passing through the Bosphorus straight into the Black Sea, but I don't quite get why one would enter a body of water with very little room to get out. Hell, the Russians could blast away at any carrier (if it would fit under the Istanbul bridge) squeezing in Thoughts from those more astute than me?

Posted by: kbdabear at March 05, 2014 09:41 PM (aTXUx)

785 756 Rich, are you saying your course has been mapped out for you, with some wierd shit thrown in?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 09:41 PM (ojnk6)

786 "Beverly Hills Cop"

I just watched that last weekend, it was just horrible. I don't think Murphy had a funny line or scene in it. I think they tried to make some kind of Black Dirty Harry/comedy hybrid and failed on all accounts. Wasn't funny or a decent cop flick, it was just fucking bad.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 05, 2014 09:42 PM (IV4od)

787 Ok Garrett. ..I will give you 48 hours, bhcop and trading places....and maybe when he did Gumby on snl.

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 05, 2014 09:42 PM (W3UHW)

788 Aleister Crowley's not the Devil. He's just a close friend.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 09:43 PM (LSDdO)

789 759. Westminster, the textbooks want the students to learn that they are a parasite on Gaia. Also that they should let their feeeelings inform their choices.

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 09:43 PM (RMfGb)

790 it would survive. services would be priced less and risk would be re-priced, but it would survive.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 01:26 AM (3yFC4)

For some values of 'survive.' On any particular thing, it kind of depends on how badly the medical industry (not insurance, but the actual service itself) is gouging us. So, to pick one of Denninger's examples, if you have a drug that is only useful in prolonging the life of men with prostate cancer on average 6 months at a cost of a quarter million dollars, and it actually costs anywhere near that, it's just going to disappear. If the actual cost to produce it is a tenth or so of that, then maybe it continues as older men may have that kind of money banked away.

Assuming society doesn't completely break down while the economic shocks are working themselves out, I think we'll find health insurance to be largely unnecessary. It's a pretty painful road to get there, though.

Posted by: Methos at March 05, 2014 09:44 PM (hO9ad)

791 Shredded chi...just wanted to make sure you were ok

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 05, 2014 09:45 PM (W3UHW)

792 Funny you should mention that. I started getting experimental after I realized what was going on....shear ate silicone, too.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 01:36 AM (T1005)

Thats fucking insane. I'm guessing you didn't try some aftermarket valve covers?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2014 09:45 PM (FMbng)

793 Mr. Aleister Crowley, look up Tarot cards and Society of the Golden Dawn.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 09:46 PM (0z3kx)

794 764. Rich, you sound like an astronaut. 765. Joe, nice to see you on the threads. Wonder what has the Coloradoans all stirred up tonight?

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 09:47 PM (RMfGb)

795 ..I will give you 48 hours, bhcop and trading places....and maybe when he did Gumby on snl. Oh, I totally forgot the SNL Stuff. James Brown's Hot Tub, Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood and Tyrone Greene : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zON0o_d51E

Posted by: garrett at March 05, 2014 09:48 PM (RhERp)

796 Posted by: kbdabear at March 06, 2014 01:41 AM (aTXUx)

Maybe a frigate rigged out to snoop Russian military coms trafic.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 09:48 PM (LSDdO)

797 IDK KD, the IMF thing sounds like more RT propaganda - I've never heard of that happening anywhere, but maybe I'm under informed. The Black Sea is pretty big, but navies just show the flag now, they are all subject to the same weakness (high tech missiles).

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 09:49 PM (yVg8h)

798 Damn, I didn't realize there was some weird shit layed over that SNL Vid. Sorry about that.

Posted by: garrett at March 05, 2014 09:50 PM (RhERp)

799 554 Who wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2014 12:29 AM (DmNpO) Harry Blackmun. I like to think there's a special place in hell for him. Posted by: Insomniac Wasn't he apptd by a Rep? Maybe Nixon. I'd look it up but I'm too drunk to dfin my wya bck her.

Posted by: The Farmer at March 05, 2014 09:50 PM (eBupg)

800 Don't forget this: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9CTExW2q_V4

Posted by: shredded chi at March 05, 2014 09:50 PM (ls1Zc)

801

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 06, 2014 01:41 AM (ojnk6)

more like i am an actor on someone else's stage...the quote is an implication from Sun Tzu:

one who is compelled is un-free

one who is un-free is impoverished.

simple logic there (and still working on the sam adams)

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 09:50 PM (3yFC4)

802 Oh my God Mindy......do not know how you deal with it!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 05, 2014 09:51 PM (W3UHW)

803 Yeah haven't been around much, mainly lurking. Too much drama and bad muju. WDS, PW and Alex were all here last night. I am still shamed for blowing off my caucus

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 09:51 PM (yVg8h)

804 All available evidence pretty clearly has established that The Obamanation does not actually believe in anything at all beyond his own Special-Snowflake self...

So far as he is concerned - the Sun really does shine out of his navel, and the Moon is merely a manifestation of his personal asshole...the Universe exists primarily to exalt and to serve his continued existence and true purpose...Life As We Know It is entirely dependent upon his Blessed Being And Presence...

Tough job, that, being a Living God, trying to cope with the trials and tribulations caused by all those ignorant, misguided ordinary mortals, going around acting like they are supposed to actually have some sort of control over their own lives...

Posted by: J.S.Bridges at March 05, 2014 09:52 PM (6VxDm)

805

Posted by: Mindy at March 06, 2014 01:47 AM (RMfGb)

lol. no, but my company employs them.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 09:52 PM (3yFC4)

806 No one ever says that Pluto Nash was good. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 01:32 AM (0z3kx) I liked that movie. I mean, it was crap, but it was good crap. It was a parody of sci-fi movies. It had handheld sentry guns. That's cool. And Alec Baldwin was the villain *and he was barely in the movie*, that's like a double bonus, you could hate him and not have to see him!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 05, 2014 09:53 PM (qyfb5)

807 Rick Perry speaks to what must have been a doozy of a meeting between governors and Obama http://t.co/jzLSafjBPS

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 05, 2014 09:53 PM (DmNpO)

808 All available evidence pretty clearly has established that The Obamanation does not actually believe in anything at all beyond his own Special-Snowflake self...

So far as he is concerned - the Sun really does shine out of his navel, and the Moon is merely a manifestation of his personal asshole...the Universe exists primarily to exalt and to serve his continued existence and true purpose...Life As We Know It is entirely dependent upon his Blessed Being And Presence...

Tough job, that, being a Living God, trying to cope with the trials and tribulations caused by all those ignorant, misguided ordinary mortals, going around acting like they are supposed to actually have some sort of control over their own lives...

Posted by: J.S.Bridges at March 06, 2014 01:52 AM (6VxDm)

In other words, he's a narcissistic marxist prick.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2014 09:53 PM (FMbng)

809 Okay, got to finish up this grading and hit the hay. Hope y'all have a lovely day tomorrow!

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 09:53 PM (RMfGb)

810 Garrett.......I had actually forgotten about all those...they were funny!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 05, 2014 09:53 PM (W3UHW)

811 And thus Merovign proves yet again he is an alien. A Sith Lord no less...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 09:55 PM (0z3kx)

812 783 I am not catching all of what you're saying, but do get most. Sorry to hear this is where youre headed. No possible way to change course, if willing to give things up?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 09:55 PM (ojnk6)

813 Joe? You blew off the caucus?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 05, 2014 09:55 PM (W3UHW)

814 774 Funny you should mention that. I started getting experimental after I realized what was going on....shear ate silicone, too.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 01:36 AM (T1005)

Thats fucking insane. I'm guessing you didn't try some aftermarket valve covers?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 06, 2014 01:45 AM (FMbng) Hide posts from (FMbng)

I eventually ditched the car and got a Nissan. My first year owning the Nissan cost me less -- including down payment and car payments -- than the repair bills on the Mustang in the previous year.

The aftermarket valve covers would have been in the queue, but the thing also ate 3 starters, two ring gears, a water pump, two carbs, a tranny, tires (until I learned to ignore the factory toe-in setting and run 'em parallel)....really, I felt personally insulted when Ford came out with their "Quality is Job One" slogan in '82.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 09:56 PM (T1005)

815 Posted by: shredded chi at March 06, 2014 01:35 AM (ls1Zc)Â Hide posts from (ls1Zc) I noted it on the blog. BTW -- you know that when your pooch gets to the point he can read it, you're totally screwed, don't you? Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 01:39 AM (T1005 __________ If he ever gets to the point of reading, I'm giving up. I found out the hard way his nose will work the touchscreen on the phone already. hell, he'd probably have more coherent comments than moo moo, now that I think about it...

Posted by: shredded chi at March 05, 2014 09:56 PM (ls1Zc)

816 PARTY ALL THE TIME http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9pxgv6NTps

Posted by: Eddie Murphy at March 05, 2014 09:56 PM (RhERp)

817 @781 Wasn't he apptd by a Rep? Maybe Nixon. I'd look it up but I'm too drunk to dfin my wya bck her. ------------------ I think he was. Of course, so were Warren and Burger (by Ike). Ike is reported to have said that Warren was the worst mistake he made while President, and Burger was the second worst. I read a biography of Justice White a while back that mentioned an interesting factoid about Roe v. Wade. When White wrote opinions, he didn't have a problem incorporating majority opinions from cases where he'd sided with the minority. He had no problem following precedent even when he didn't agree with the original decision. The one glaring exception to that was Roe v. Wade. He was in the minority for that case, and never once cited the majority opinion.

Posted by: junior at March 05, 2014 09:56 PM (fsOaN)

818 NCJ would kill for the guitars in my video

Posted by: Eddie Murphy at March 05, 2014 09:58 PM (RhERp)

819 784. I'm getting more and more rebellious the more I am asked to compromise my standards. And they've been firing people who don't conform. Well see how much longer I have a job.

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 09:58 PM (RMfGb)

820 IDK KD, the IMF thing sounds like more RT propaganda - I've never heard of that happening anywhere, but maybe I'm under informed.

I haven't seen that specific thing, but the IMF and the EU central banks have been getting pushier in recent years about what they get in terms of collateral for their funny money. Remember that the last loans to Cyprus that were widely discussed were predicated on the local banking system providing part of the funds through flat out looting their depositors, an act which was generally seen as insanity be everyone not involved in the decision.

Posted by: Methos at March 05, 2014 09:58 PM (hO9ad)

821 Posted by: J.S.Bridges at March 06, 2014 01:52 AM (6VxDm)

Given the evidence and current attitude and actions, I've come to the conclusion that Obama is either

a) cleaned up crack head front man for a cabal of Islamic Oil states looking to cripple the US

b) cleaned up crack head front man for a cabal of terrorist organizations looking to cripple the US

c) One lucky, slick and smart huckster playing the system for all he's worth and being aided and abetted by representatives of the previous choices who is being guided by hard core communist/socialist ideologues who haven't a clue what the results will be.

Either way, the US is going to pay for it's false ideal of diversity and equality of outcome and the outside imposed guilt over the supposed failure of the US to achieve that false expectation promulgated by the cynical enemies of liberty.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 09:59 PM (LSDdO)

822 Geez Cthulhu. That Mustang sounds like it was built the first production day after New Years when everyone has a hangover.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 10:00 PM (0z3kx)

823 I'm still trying to figure out why Mark Chapman shot Lennon, but not Yoko. Posted by: Mike Hammer Hey Hammer, that sounds racist. Expect calls from IRS, EPA and any other agency we can use to harass. Or can you swear this is just because you hate incoherent screeching posing as music/art?

Posted by: Eric Holder & the racial justice dept at March 05, 2014 10:00 PM (eBupg)

824 Because Yoko Ono is a gaki? An evil spirit that feeds on creative energy?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 10:01 PM (0z3kx)

825 Effing finally, a real thunderstorm. It's been a pathetic winter. At least we finally have some noise.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 05, 2014 10:03 PM (qyfb5)

826 803 Given the evidence and current attitude and actions, I've come to the conclusion that Obama is either a) cleaned up crack head front man for a cabal of Islamic Oil states looking to cripple the US b) cleaned up crack head front man for a cabal of terrorist organizations looking to cripple the US c) One lucky, slick and smart huckster playing the system for all he's worth and being aided and abetted by representatives of the previous choices who is being guided by hard core communist/socialist ideologues who haven't a clue what the results will be. Either way, the US is going to pay for it's false ideal of diversity and equality of outcome and the outside imposed guilt over the supposed failure of the US to achieve that false expectation promulgated by the cynical enemies of liberty. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) Obama might be the villain from Iron Man 3.

Posted by: Z Ryan at March 05, 2014 10:03 PM (fMK2m)

827 801 My advice, free and worth every penny, is stay employed and uneerstand thst being right is not better thsn being unemployed. Unless another gig beckons, go along and get along unless it costs you money.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 10:03 PM (ojnk6)

828 The aftermarket valve covers would have been in the queue, but the thing also ate 3 starters, two ring gears, a water pump, two carbs, a tranny, tires (until I learned to ignore the factory toe-in setting and run 'em parallel)....really, I felt personally insulted when Ford came out with their "Quality is Job One" slogan in '82.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 01:56 AM (T1005)

yeah, at that point I would have just put a brick on the gas pedal and aimed it at a concrete wall.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2014 10:04 PM (FMbng)

829

also i'm feeling bitchy cause i didn't get my braces taken off...fuck, fuck,fuck

(odd...on of the keystrokes on that comment pulled up a hotkey)

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 10:04 PM (3yFC4)

830 Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 01:56 AM (T1005)

That was a misprint.

It was supposed to read "Quality is Job None"

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 10:05 PM (LSDdO)

831 55
Let me sum it up. Obama sucks. His presidency is a Disaster of Biblical proportions. Did I forget anything?

No, no...that pretty much sews it all up in an ugly, sloppy little package...truly, SCOAMF For The Ages.

It may be, in fact, true that, in 2008, Amurrica The (Formerly) Beeyooteeful was ready to have a Black President - or even a half-Black President...just not this Black-or-half-Black -half-assed - wholly/unholy-dysfunctional - President.

Posted by: J.S.Bridges at March 05, 2014 10:06 PM (6VxDm)

832

Posted by: Mindy at March 06, 2014 01:58 AM (RMfGb)

sorry to read that. hope it works out.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 10:08 PM (3yFC4)

833 I do know one thing.

I've seen the pictures of him when he was doing drugs and stuff with longer hair than now and I saw an image I've seen hundreds of times before - crack head ghetto rat.

Now the image he projects is one of someone on a mission. Someone who's seen the light and will not be deterred.

A zealot.

Zealots and true believers are the most dangerous of ideologues.

They have no barriers, they have no off switch.

Whatever he found to believe in has truly infused his being and he will not relent.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 10:11 PM (LSDdO)

834 813 Understood he sucks. No need to pull the rest of thst crap into it.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 05, 2014 10:11 PM (ojnk6)

835 Yes WDS I admitted it last night - I was all ready to go and didn't make it out the door. I'm having trouble with the idea that it is of any value anymore in our system. Nice link NDH, wish we saw the Perry during the campaign ... that's a hell of a report from the meeting. 2nd look at Perry for sure ...

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 10:12 PM (yVg8h)

836 Sorry, no he doesn't just suck.

Jimmy Carter sucked.

Bill Clinton sucked.

George Bush sucked.

They at least believed in America. They had a skewed view of what was the right thing to say and do but essentially they were Americans.

Obama is not, never was, never will be.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 05, 2014 10:14 PM (LSDdO)

837 ...When I returned, there was Hitler and Lenin and Mao, folks no one had ever heard of before my travels. That's when I destroyed the time machine. It just doesn't work that way. ________ Good night, Gracies. Posted by: mindful webworker Â— time unraveler NICE mw.

Posted by: Eric Holder & the racial justice dept at March 05, 2014 10:14 PM (eBupg)

838 I loooooove thunder and lightning.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 05, 2014 10:17 PM (qyfb5)

839 810 The aftermarket valve covers would have been in the
queue, but the thing also ate 3 starters, two ring gears, a water pump,
two carbs, a tranny, tires (until I learned to ignore the factory toe-in
setting and run 'em parallel)....really, I felt personally insulted
when Ford came out with their "Quality is Job One" slogan in '82.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 01:56 AM (T1005)

yeah, at that point I would have just put a brick on the gas pedal and aimed it at a concrete wall.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 06, 2014 02:04 AM (FMbng) Hide posts from (FMbng)

I was in Santa Barbara, so I was thinking "pier".

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 10:17 PM (T1005)

840 Did anyone else notice that Sports Illustrated's body paint photos are basically where Playboy was when first published?

No link cause ace has rules about that sort of thing, but I figure any moron can navigate si.com themselves.

Posted by: Methos at March 05, 2014 10:19 PM (hO9ad)

841 812 Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 01:56 AM (T1005)

That was a misprint.

It was supposed to read "Quality is Job None"
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 06, 2014 02:05 AM (LSDdO) Hide posts from (LSDdO)

From what I understand, Ford made tremendous improvements in the 80's.....which really increased my ire at dealing with a '79 model.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 10:19 PM (T1005)

842 117
There is a french film where Helen Mirren is naked through most of it. George Depardieu is in it.

Posted by: Judge Pug at March 05, 2014 10:28 PM (hJnUx)

*Madly searching*
There is also the Australian film "Age of Consent"

http://tinyurl.com/lnq8srn

Posted by: bill-o at March 05, 2014 10:20 PM (AWwDY)

843

since the bars are closed and zombie might drop in (and mwap was interested)...

794 783
I am not catching all of what you're saying, but do get most. Sorry to hear this is where youre headed. No possible way to change course, if willing to give things up?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 06, 2014 01:55 AM (ojnk6)

i am making trouble....it is the horde's way.

a bit of background. i was my mom's caregiver when she had breast cancer ... a barefoot doctor really ... and i understand the implications of saying that in 21st century America and i'm both ashamed and not ashamed to say it.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 10:22 PM (3yFC4)

844 Obama is not, never was, never will be. Stupidity without end, Amen.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at March 05, 2014 10:23 PM (AQTz3)

845 Joe believe me. ...........i don't want to be a registered GOP. However, my voice is absolutely lost if I do not. What do you think of the governor's race?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 05, 2014 10:23 PM (W3UHW)

846

Posted by: Methos at March 06, 2014 02:19 AM (hO9ad)

without safesearch...

i have goals and one of the is to make the wall of shame.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 10:24 PM (3yFC4)

847 Ghetto rat? He grew up in Hawaii in a wealthy family with the best private schools. All that was an affectation, a quest for authenticity. Even in his early days at Oxy he was an ideologue. He is what he is, a red diaper baby - groomed, prepped and placed into this position by the most radical of the American left - to fundamentally transform this country. Occam's Razor. We didn't just elect the first African-American president, we elected the first anti-American president. Still wonder if he will try to "selectively enforce" himself into another term - sounds paranoid, but for me a valid concern.

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 10:25 PM (yVg8h)

848 Hmmmmm...... makes you wonder about his "flexibility" comment

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 05, 2014 10:30 PM (W3UHW)

849

think this drinking binge is shifting to some soul soughing

fucking can still spell...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 10:30 PM (3yFC4)

850 I loooooove thunder and lightning. ItÂ’s frightening.

Posted by: Chi Coltraine at March 05, 2014 10:30 PM (WX3R9)

851 33 "This is Spinal Tap may not have invented the mockumentary genre.." ...what did? Posted by: A Good Man in a Bad Trade "Real Life" by Albert Brooks came out in 1979, five years before Spinal Tap. At the moment I can't think if any mockumentary that predates it.

Posted by: zombie at March 05, 2014 10:30 PM (mizYg)

852 ...but i'd probably fail my casting savings throw.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 10:31 PM (3yFC4)

853 WDS I wish I knew who was running - part of the reason I balked. Funny Beauprez story - he posted something on FB about getting petitions etc and my old man commented "hang it up Bob" (which I liked) - Bob's up to 18 likes now. Such enthusiasm, much strength, many votes ... Wow. I saw on twitter Erickson and others gloating about getting him to run - I honestly think out of state SCF types got him to run with the promise of money - it seems to me to be a fundraising exercise exclusively as he stands no chance. I honestly think we don't have a prayer - Hick is still pretty popular - it would take a great candidate, and we don't have one, certainly not a couple of guys who have been rejected before and seem like desperate has-beens. I have hope for Gardner and I think the switch with Buck was a good move, but I must admit I am impressed with what Udall did today - will help distance him from TFG greatly. I am worried about Coffman.

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 10:34 PM (yVg8h)

854 165 Hmmm first mockumentary? I nominate "Take the Money and Run" Woody Allen as "Virgil Starkwell". "Give me the money, I have a 'gub'." Posted by: whatmeworry? That was self-evidently a comedy fictional film. Don't think it really counts. 177 The Rutles "All You Need Is Cash." Posted by: holygoat Good try, but it was a TV show, not a film -- although it did predate "Real Life" by several months. 192 "33 'This is Spinal Tap may not have invented the mockumentary genre..' ...what did?" --- Orson Wells. The War of the Worlds Radio shows don't count. We're talking about films here, mockumentary films. Still can't think of any one that pre-dates Real Life's 1979. Not counting TV shows, radio programs and obvious fiction -- any other nominees for earliest mockumentary? I'm sure there must be something.

Posted by: zombie at March 05, 2014 10:35 PM (mizYg)

855 @830 - Yeah, with our Supreme Court so anxious to throw cases out for lack of 'standing', if Obama decided not to bother with the whole election thing and just stay on until 2025 or so what process (aside from a half-dozen M-109s on the Mall) exists to get rid of him? Who would have legal authority to frog-march him out to Marine One and encapsulate this uniquely American bacillus for transportation to Chicago?

Posted by: AM-39 Exocet at March 05, 2014 10:39 PM (o+SC1)

856 Excuse me, I forgot to zip my sock.

Posted by: JEM at March 05, 2014 10:40 PM (o+SC1)

857 lol rich - get some more physical components

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 10:42 PM (yVg8h)

858 So, that Taylor Momsen is something else, isn't she?

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 05, 2014 10:43 PM (m0h0I)

859 838 @830 - Yeah, with our Supreme Court so anxious to throw cases out for lack of 'standing', if Obama decided not to bother with the whole election thing and just stay on until 2025 or so what process (aside from a half-dozen M-109s on the Mall) exists to get rid of him? Who would have legal authority to frog-march him out to Marine One and encapsulate this uniquely American bacillus for transportation to Chicago? Posted by: AM-39 Exocet at March 06, 2014 02:39 AM (o+SC1) Chicago way in, Chicago way out is the way I see things.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 10:45 PM (KWIwL)

860

since zombie showed up...(and mwap was asking)---

i love your work, can't google up the protest photos I was looking for...anyway. i'll send over any research i find on the saddle ridge horde.

1. my dad was laid off from the same firm i work for. awkward ...

2. being my mom's caregiver warped me ... not changed... warped. maybe it was how bad it was, but everyone, give your mom a hug and do something nice for her.

3. being at college at my age. men-find out what your girls are thinking. seriously. even if it is a difficult relationship and topic.

drunken moron advice...spelled correctly.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 10:47 PM (3yFC4)

861 I read a biography of Justice White a while back that mentioned an interesting factoid about Roe v. Wade.... He was in the minority for that case, and never once cited the majority opinion. Posted by: junior Do you recall the name of the book/author?

Posted by: Eric Holder & the racial justice dept at March 05, 2014 10:51 PM (eBupg)

862

on that, i'm going to throw on some antichrist superstar, throw up, and pass out in the middle of my dad's living room...

...official moron...

anyone interested in more details... richatuf1 at yahoo dot com

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 10:52 PM (3yFC4)

863 It might actually be an Orson Welles invention, zombie. He made a documentary in the early '70s called "F For Fake" about art forgery. There's a part a few minutes into the film where he says that for the next hour everything he shows you will be true. So you think you're smart and go, "The movie's an hour and a half long! I got you already, dipshit. I'm smarter than Orson Welles! Now to wait for his lies to begin..." And the last twenty minutes or so is a blatantly fictional story about Picasso. But the whole movie is full of bullshit. So it's a comedy. Or at least a joke.

Posted by: IT'S NOT IMPORTANT at March 05, 2014 10:52 PM (40Yte)

864 809. Mr. NoParty, that is excellent advice. The ideal thing for me would be to step back for a bit (quit) so I don't get any FAIL on me while they are going through this phase, and then come back after common sense returns. That's what some other instructors are doing or have threatened to do. In the meantime, I just do my work in a cheerful manner and keep my eyes peeled. I finished my grading, so it's time for bed. Blessings on y'all!

Posted by: Mindy at March 05, 2014 10:52 PM (RMfGb)

865 845 on that, i'm going to throw on some antichrist superstar, throw up,and pass out in the middle of my dad's living room... ...official moron... anyone interested in more details... richatuf1 at yahoo dot com Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 02:52 AM (3yFC4) Beats jail or the emergency room.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 05, 2014 10:53 PM (KWIwL)

866 wikipedia has this to say: "Early examples of mock-documentaries include David Holzman's Diary (1967), Pat Paulsen For President (196

, Take the Money and Run (1969), and All You Need is Cash (197

. A Hard Day's Night (1964), written by Alun Owen, and purporting to describe several days in the lives of The Beatles, was possibly the first feature film that could be characterized as a "mockumentary". Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run is presented in documentary-style with Allen playing a fictional criminal, Virgil Starkwell, whose crime exploits are "explored" throughout the film.[1] Jackson Beck, who used to narrate documentaries in the 1940s, provides the voice-over narration." I still claim that "Take the Money and Run" were merely filmed in a documentary-style, just for laughs, because if you thought about it for one second you'd realize that it couldn't have been a real documentary considering the scenes that must have required cameramen (him breaking out of prison, for example). I've never seen David Holzman's Diary or Pat Paulsen For President, so I don't know if they really qualify, but considering that they are groups with Take the Money, excuse me for retaining some skepticism. When I think of "mockumentary," I'm think of that kind of film that actually tries to fool the audience into thinking it was a real documentary, in the fashion of Spinal Tap and Borat. In retrospect, yes, "A Hard Day's Night" probably qualifies, as it fooled most people into thinking it really was a random day in the life of the Beatles. That moves the needle back to 1964. Anything earlier? (And no, "Swiss Spaghetti Harvest" doesn't count, because that was just a fake news segment, not a full-length film.)

Posted by: zombie at March 05, 2014 10:56 PM (mizYg)

867 846 It might actually be an Orson Welles invention, zombie. He made a documentary in the early '70s called "F For Fake" about art forgery. There's a part a few minutes into the film where he says that for the next hour everything he shows you will be true. So you think you're smart and go, "The movie's an hour and a half long! I got you already, dipshit. I'm smarter than Orson Welles! Now to wait for his lies to begin..." And the last twenty minutes or so is a blatantly fictional story about Picasso. But the whole movie is full of bullshit. So it's a comedy. Or at least a joke. Posted by: IT'S NOT IMPORTANT I've actually seen "F Is For Fake," and it was so incomprehensible I think at best it just left audiences confused about whether they had just seen a film or instead been slipped some PCP. File that one under "Crockumentary."

Posted by: zombie at March 05, 2014 11:00 PM (mizYg)

868 i love your work, can'tgoogleup the protest photos I was looking for... Posted by: rich@gmu Can you describe what photos you seek? Maybe I can point the way.

Posted by: zombie at March 05, 2014 11:03 PM (mizYg)

869 I think we lost him lol

Posted by: Joe at March 05, 2014 11:07 PM (yVg8h)

870 Mike Baker is going off on Red Eye!

Posted by: garrett at March 05, 2014 11:09 PM (KryJv)

871 Have I mentioned lately that AT+T and/or Cisco/Linksys are going on my shit list very soon?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 11:25 PM (T1005)

872 Some good news, morons. My approval is at a new low. But its a Fox News Poll, so racism, or something.

"President ObamaÂ’s job approval rating hits a record low this week, as a majority of Americans say his administration has mostly failed at growing the economy, creating jobs, improving health care and the countryÂ’s image.

ThatÂ’s according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday.

For the first time in a Fox News poll, fewer than four voters in ten -- 38 percent -- approve of President ObamaÂ’s job performance. Fifty-four percent disapprove. Before now ObamaÂ’s worst job rating was 40-55 percent in November 2013. Last month 42 percent approved and 53 percent disapproved (February 2014)."

http://preview.tinyurl.com/n7jjyz5

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 05, 2014 11:26 PM (Kkt/i)

873 Well I don't know if spinal tap was a first or not, but I do know it was pretty damn accurate. Just in my first 3 years in a band I probably experienced 3/4 of the shit that was in that movie, and probably a bunch of other stuff that should have been.The thing that makes it so realistic to a lot of musicians is they way they went down the list of "situations" and portrayed them in a way that a lot of band dudes could relate to.

One good example is when they played for that Airforce party. Ok, most bands will never play a gig for the Airforce, but you WILL play an absolutely totally wrong gig for a totally wrong crowd that will go over like a fart in church at some point in your playing career. I call it the waaay wrong band for a waaaay wrong crowd. Thats what that scene represented.

Many bands also seem to have the fucking girlfriend of some band member that somehow thinks the band is standing in the way of her Johnny's destiny. The band don't make him look good enough, the band don't make him sound good enough, etc etc. They are a fucking cancer to a band. Thats exactly what the girlfriend in that movie represented. The stupid costumes, the stupid ideas, etc all stem from a chick with that mindset, and they do break bands up. Been there done that, I can tell stories all day. The movie is great at running down a list of scenarios that do happen all the time and portray them as comically or tragically as they indeed happen, and also captures the inner screwball of band members. The movie is just genius.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2014 11:27 PM (FMbng)

874

Posted by: model_1066 at March 06, 2014 02:53 AM (KWIwL)-

it does, i texted one of my classmates (... perv... ) esp. with the Loudoun bar surveillance (i'm fucking spelling that word right) not going anywhere right now.

Posted by: Joe at March 06, 2014 03:07 AM (yVg8h)

Posted by: zombie at March 06, 2014 03:03 AM (mizYg)

lol...pretty much at the lol, but it was the write up on the sf protest that was picked up by the bbc ... think it was the "Occupy Oakland" piece but not sure ... there was a lovey African American woman as a subject. anyway looking through your archives is reward enough.

oh, my classmate texted me back...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 11:28 PM (3yFC4)

875

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 06, 2014 03:26 AM (Kkt/i)

fuck you and the weather you rode in on.

fucking antichrist superstar is a brilliant album

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 05, 2014 11:31 PM (3yFC4)

876 854 Have I mentioned lately that AT+T and/or Cisco/Linksys are going on my shit list very soon?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 03:25 AM (T1005) Hide posts from (T1005)

You have no idea what all I had to reboot in the last hour. And somehow I'm not all fluffy cuddle-bunnies about it.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 05, 2014 11:43 PM (T1005)

877 You have no idea what all I had to reboot in the last hour. And somehow I'm not all fluffy cuddle-bunnies about it.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 03:43 AM (T1005)

Computers blow big.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2014 11:54 PM (FMbng)

878 In case anyone cares, I'm going for a long-form rant here.

I have a very peculiar setup. I used to have internet through Comcast, but went with AT+T U-verse to save $$$. Comcast makes you buy a cable modem -- U-verse gives you a router.

Now, fact is, I got my own router before switching -- it supports a USB drive, NAT, device prioritizing, dual-frequency 802.11x wireless, guest wireless, gigabit internal speeds, and all sorts of other good fun. And it's daisy-chained off of AT+T's router.

This means, in practice, that TVs are prioritized over internet, but internal drive <-> drive transfers don't even touch the AT+T router and can be very fast.

Problem is (a) the AT+T router doesn't want to play nice with downstream routers, and (b) the Linksys router is "cloud-managed", insecure, buggy, and doesn't want to play nice in its configuration.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 12:02 AM (T1005)

879 Wasn't the great "Best in Show" a mockumentary? Ghey dog owners. Heh.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at March 06, 2014 12:11 AM (MfKLq)

880

854 I played a Christmas party for the l.a. county sheriffs once

No drunken asshole like a drunken asshole with a badge and a gun

Posted by: MAx at March 06, 2014 12:11 AM (b7yum)

881 Okay... This is way beyond ampersands &&&&&

How do I do do "Umlauts" ? (the double period over a vowel)in new Pixy without referencing 80's Metal Bands? Because, I've decided that as annoying as the character Saga Noren is, she is WAYY better than MONK or "The Closer". Bothers me I can't spell her name... Also, just sped through all of "The Shield" caught a Vic Mackey reference in one of the Lois Lerner posts.

Posted by: Deety at March 06, 2014 12:12 AM (D8ONs)

882 Hiya, Deety? Are you mad at me?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 12:18 AM (T1005)

883 864 Okay...

This is way beyond ampersands &&&&&

How do I do do "Umlauts" ? (the double period over a vowel)in new Pixy without referencing 80's Metal Bands?

Because, I've decided that as annoying as the character Saga Noren is, she is WAYY better than MONK or "The Closer".

Bothers me I can't spell her name...

Also, just sped through all of "The Shield" caught a Vic Mackey reference in one of the Lois Lerner posts.

Posted by: Deety at March 06, 2014 04:12 AM (D8ONs)

i.m going to take a risk on this although i haven't moved on to the deftones yet..

the ways of pixy are a mystery, i have no idea who that character is, bit google is a good source for spelling, and i missed the vic ref...

the text message didn't pan out...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 12:22 AM (3yFC4)

884 lol...bit but...finally.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 12:23 AM (3yFC4)

885 Sorry, I'm drunk and sleepy.

Hiya, Deety! Are you mad at me? MAx has implied that you are -- and I'd regret that.....but there's reason to suppose that he's just stirring up trouble.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 12:27 AM (T1005)

886

Anatomy of a Photograph is the series I was looking for zombie.

brilliant work. fantastic.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 12:32 AM (3yFC4)

887

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 04:27 AM (T1005)

say it ain't so...we're the only ones here.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 12:34 AM (3yFC4)

888 i'm gonna fuck you til someone better comes along...user friendly...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 12:40 AM (3yFC4)

889 did i kill the ont ... this would be a first.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 12:40 AM (3yFC4)

890 motherfucker i think i did...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 12:41 AM (3yFC4)

891 maybe i should show up at cpac with a 4 aspirin hangover ... why did the bars have to fucking suck and my text message not pan out...fuck fuck fuck

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 12:44 AM (3yFC4)

892 870
Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 04:27 AM (T1005)

say it ain't so...we're the only ones here.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 04:34 AM (3yFC4) Hide posts from (3yFC4)

I've always liked Deety, but she's in-and-out so fast it's tough to get a read on her. I tried to talk to her a while ago and things got scrambled -- so I canned it rather than cause her more pain. Shortly afterward, MAx started needling me about hurting her -- which has never been my intention. I would like to soothe any distress I may have caused Deety.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 12:44 AM (T1005)

893 this is a sad state of affairs. i know i didn't kill the an ont...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 12:46 AM (3yFC4)

894 I'm sorry, rich, I was working on fumes when you came by.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 12:48 AM (T1005)

895

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 04:44 AM (T1005)

sorry. thought I was talking to myself. Deety jump in, i'm probably thousands of miles away and no trouble.

moving on to the deftones...looking for the 11 setting!!!11!

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 12:49 AM (3yFC4)

896 >>>877 I'm sorry, rich, I was working on fumes when you came by.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2014 04:48 AM (T1005) <<<

don't be. just listening to some music and finishing my last beer.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 12:51 AM (3yFC4)

897 deftones, around the fur is the music ... more like racket.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 12:55 AM (3yFC4)

898

deity, cthulhu

is no one here? hold me!

it is probably best my the text message didn't pan out.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 01:01 AM (3yFC4)

899

and i really stomped the ont tonight.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 01:02 AM (3yFC4)

900 it is deety sorry about that.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 01:04 AM (3yFC4)

901 shit it isn't bar closing on the left coast .. i'm not closing an ont on some deftones and shitty beer.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 01:07 AM (3yFC4)

902 a half pack of camels and some shitty coffee i can close out an ont, but shitty beer and a paned out text message...that would be a crime.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 01:09 AM (3yFC4)

903

not that i don't like the horde but i really, really wanted that text message to pan out...

fucking unbelievable i killed an ont ...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 01:13 AM (3yFC4)

904 i'm going to have to jerk off to a sorry duke porn star at this rate...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 01:15 AM (3yFC4)

905 i hope this thread doesn't show up in my clearance review or a nsa database...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 01:18 AM (3yFC4)

906

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: BCPG C# v1.6.1.0

Posted by: HAL 9000 at March 06, 2014 01:38 AM (bTLie)

907 success...that text message worked after all...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 01:43 AM (3yFC4)

908

and fuck you HAL we got it after all....

i'm such a dirt bag. good morning and good night.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 01:44 AM (3yFC4)

909 shit gets weird around here in wee small hours, don't it?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 06, 2014 01:47 AM (XvrTA)

910 don't tell anyone...we do it in the dark.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 06, 2014 01:57 AM (3yFC4)

911 Golly Gee Whiz.

If I can believe the interwebs, Cabela's and UPS are going to be kind to me this afternoon.

I guess I should be a good boy more often.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2014 02:01 AM (DPkKe)

912 G'morning ONT!

Posted by: votermom at March 06, 2014 02:10 AM (c/7iH)

913 I think most of us knew Slappy was unfit and unqualified to be the Preezy back in 2007...but remember dumb people vote and well there it is.

Posted by: IrishEd at March 06, 2014 02:11 AM (bfm04)

914 And now for the random .22LR ammo availability update.

This week has had a distinct change in the pattern of low price alerts.
For three weeks there has been a steady flow of .-5-.08 per round alerts between Mondays and Wednesdays,followed by the constant availability of ammo at .14-.42 per round.

This week has seen a total of ONE alert, with even the availability of higher priced rounds dropping down..

Don't know the cause, but the availability pattern has changed.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2014 02:11 AM (DPkKe)

915 not an ammo expert, could it have something to do w/ what's going on in Russia? http://tinyurl.com/loxg48j

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 06, 2014 02:20 AM (XvrTA)

916 Not a smidgeon of life left in this thread.

Posted by: votermom at March 06, 2014 02:40 AM (8Y3Ld)

917 " not an ammo expert, could it have something to do w/ what's going on in Russia?"

I tend to focus on the .22lr, and it's pricing/availability.

Your link does touch on a point concerning the effects of the Ukrainian unpleasantness on Russian ammo in the US.

But the .22lr should be separated from that.

Lot's of my back-ordered stuff is coming in.
But the number of new sale price events is way down.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2014 02:43 AM (DPkKe)

918 The school loan bomb is blowing up all kinds of things. Last year one of my son's best friends found out about his girlfriend's enormous debt while she was talking about having an expensive wedding. Her dad the idiot spilled it. Poor guy realized he can't afford to marry her. She had the bad luck to pick an accountant to understand what that enormous debt will do to them.

Posted by: Lester at March 06, 2014 02:43 AM (2UPXV)

919 >>> Not a smidgeon of life left in this thread Sunrise, need coffee. Give me a few minutes and I'll be lurking like the Dickens.

Posted by: fluffy at March 06, 2014 02:44 AM (Ua6T/)

920 votermom

Most of the nightshift crew have shut down, and are over by the timeclock waiting to punch out.
And the daywalkers are sipping their coffee, and refreshing the homepage, looking for the ~~opening bell~~ first morning thread.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2014 02:46 AM (DPkKe)

921 His refusal to participate in a lawful change of command would probably be the final straw that turns this country into a battle ground.

I know I'd be down in DC ASAP to have my voice heard.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 06, 2014 02:48 AM (LSDdO)

922

846 It might actually be an Orson Welles invention, zombie. He made a documentary in the early '70s called "F For Fake" about art forgery. There's a part a few minutes into the film where he says that for the next hour everything he shows you will be true. So you think you're smart and go, "The movie's an hour and a half long! I got you already, dipshit. I'm smarter than Orson Welles! Now to wait for his lies to begin..." And the last twenty minutes or so is a blatantly fictional story about Picasso. But the whole movie is full of bullshit. So it's a comedy. Or at least a joke.
Posted by: IT'S NOT IMPORTANT

I've actually seen "F Is For Fake," and it was so incomprehensible I think at best it just left audiences confused about whether they had just seen a film or instead been slipped some PCP.

File that one under "Crockumentary."

Posted by: zombie at March 06, 2014 03:00 AM (mizYg)

Coming in late to this: F Is For Fake is what Welles called an "essay film;" he was trying to translate the written essay into movie form - trying something different, as he did with Kane. Read My Lunches With Orson for Welles' own thoughts onF.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 02:52 AM (zF6Iw)

923 Can you trust this? Yes you can!

Posted by: MTF at March 06, 2014 02:54 AM (B+HTd)

924 Perhaps someone has mentioned the new thread...yes?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2014 02:56 AM (DPkKe)

925 Duh!1 is an idiot.
At best.
Can't say it enough.
Effin' clown....

Posted by: backhoe at March 06, 2014 04:48 AM (ULH4o)

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