August 15, 2010
Plus: Open Blog!
— Ace
Open Blog: If you want. I guess I could blog today but I know me: If I spend pretty much all day blogging I'm going to hate it tomorrow or sometime during the week.
One bit of blog business: Genghis has agreed to come back as coblogger and share ONT duties with Maetenloch. (I was just mentioning to Maet: How the heck does he do it every day without a single day off? He said, yeah, I could use some help.)
So Genghis will be doing that and pitching in posts too here and there.
I was never happy to lose him so I'm happy he'll be returning.
Now, if I can just get his pass to work, I think he'll be handling the ONT tonight, as Maet is away.
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Posted by: robtr at August 15, 2010 10:14 AM (fwSHf)
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 15, 2010 10:14 AM (0Vo4/)
Genghis was kinda a bitch, if I remember.
Hopefully genghis' attitude has improved.
That won't bode well for you.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 15, 2010 10:15 AM (0Vo4/)
It's like walking into the Chicago Bears' dressing room and expressing your dislike for big jocks that lift weights all the time. 'Course, he wouldn't say that.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 15, 2010 10:17 AM (0Vo4/)
Posted by: eman at August 15, 2010 02:17 PM (Nw/hR)
Extra points if done simultaneously. We value multi-tasking here.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 15, 2010 10:19 AM (0Vo4/)
Posted by: ace at August 15, 2010 10:19 AM (QbA6l)
Posted by: Arte Johnson at August 15, 2010 10:21 AM (f0UXf)
Well, genghis was far more of a thread-nanny than you, ace, or any of your other bloggers. Perhaps s/he is just a worry wart, I dunno.
But genghis seemed to take issue with a lot of content that passes muster with everyone else, here.
Also, I have seen genghis has insisted on staying on-topic in a few threads. That is something very very seldom seen around here. We chat in the threads and let's face it, there's only so much one can expound on a certain topic without repeating earlier comments or the main post.
Yeah, that's what rubbed me the wrong way -- Genghis' concern for staying on topic in a thread.
Posted by: see dick run after jane's ass at August 15, 2010 10:25 AM (g73jP)
Posted by: eman at August 15, 2010 10:25 AM (Nw/hR)
Posted by: sig at August 15, 2010 10:28 AM (2i+Vz)
Posted by: eman at August 15, 2010 10:28 AM (Nw/hR)
Posted by: dagny at August 15, 2010 10:29 AM (lZ+tF)
Barry: I promise, just the tip...
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at August 15, 2010 10:29 AM (YVZlY)
Posted by: Cicero at August 15, 2010 10:30 AM (0pBLV)
The money shot:
"A life-saving cancer treatment “may not be reasonable and necessary”? Gee, that kind of decision-making by an unelected federal bureaucracy certainly sounds like a death panel to me."
Posted by: shibumi at August 15, 2010 10:30 AM (OKZrE)
It seemed reminiscent of the way I acted in Vietnam.
Posted by: John "ready for doody" Kerry at August 15, 2010 10:32 AM (f0UXf)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at August 15, 2010 10:32 AM (9PzaA)
"They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country."
Posted by: John Kerry, D=Asshole at August 15, 2010 10:33 AM (v1gw3)
21 More Wikileaks doc to be released. We is someone not being arrested for treason?
Yes. Glenn Beck.
Posted by: DOJ Spokesperson at August 15, 2010 10:33 AM (HLGCA)
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 10:34 AM (kq1lG)
Posted by: John Galt at August 15, 2010 10:34 AM (NLWij)
Medicare already does this (read past the lede, where the Urninal tries to make you think it was an evil insurance company at fault instead of Mommy Government.)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at August 15, 2010 10:34 AM (9PzaA)
Posted by: Truman North at August 15, 2010 10:35 AM (HLGCA)
Still holding on to my fantasy that Obama will join Buchanan and Pierce in history. One term presidents that couldn't even secure the nomination of their own party for a second term.
Word.
Posted by: Hillary! at August 15, 2010 10:35 AM (0pBLV)
Posted by: Cicero at August 15, 2010 02:30 PM (0pBLV)
but he did it in a very courteous and respectful manner.
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at August 15, 2010 10:35 AM (YVZlY)
Has it been approved by the Authentic Conservative Coalition yet? I wouldn't want to read a website that has double-plus-ungood thoughts, you know.
...Oh, and sorry about missing the morning calisthenics. I was up late last night worrying about conservative blogs that have haven't been on board with our awesome RevOLuTIOnty!!1!
Posted by: Thrillaminute at August 15, 2010 10:35 AM (/4AU1)
Yes, yes, that's fine. But the real issue here is can I still say 'semprini'?
(If I could walk that way, I wouldn't need aftershave.)
Posted by: John Cleese at August 15, 2010 10:36 AM (3Gw19)
Posted by: Rum misses WDW at August 15, 2010 10:36 AM (gofDd)
Posted by: Truman North at August 15, 2010 10:36 AM (HLGCA)
I just turned on 1984. It's about an hour in and at the point where Winston Smith and Julia "bond" to one another. Before the event, Julia asks Winston to turn around and not to look until told. He turns when instructed and finds Julie in a dress, with bright red lips and rouge applied to her cheeks.
Later, as Winston Smith is writing in his journal, I wondered...where did he get the journal?
In the bleakest of times, assuming that the very basics of existence are provided/available; food,water, shelter... what comes next in the heirarchy of needs?
Love? Beauty? Art? The need to document or to express one's thoughts and emotions?
If one accepts their impending loss of freedom and becomes complicit in the forfeiture of said freedom, what does a man turn to for sustenance? God, of course, woud be the answer for many but as humans, and part of the human existence here on earth, there are earthly desires as well. How do those rank?
Just a little question for an otherwise sunny Sunday afternoon.
Posted by: jmflynny at August 15, 2010 10:36 AM (eczD3)
Posted by: Truman North at August 15, 2010 02:35 PM (HLGCA)
Yeah that's much better, go with that one.
wtf
Posted by: robtr at August 15, 2010 10:36 AM (fwSHf)
Pics of huge-breasted cheerleaders or it didn't happen.
Posted by: Herr Blücher at August 15, 2010 10:39 AM (Jc35F)
Genghis was kinda a bitch, if I remember.
Hopefully genghis' attitude has improved.
Posted by: see dick run after jane's ass at August 15, 2010 02:14 PM (g73jP)
gee, can't imagine what might bring that out in him...
Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Pro Debate Squad, And Summoner Of Meteors. at August 15, 2010 10:39 AM (eCAn3)
nice, wcb Ghengis.
blogging doesn't seem to be for sissies,
alot of work for heckles and jeers and little finacial reward. for most
imagine it has a high burnout rate with being a 24/7 service for years.
i humbly say thanks ya'll (is that how y'all is spelled)
Posted by: willow at August 15, 2010 10:40 AM (SbsTp)
she was also dolled up like the hooker he had been with IIRC....
something about underlying taste and desire I'd wager.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 10:43 AM (kq1lG)
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at August 15, 2010 10:43 AM (YVZlY)
Posted by: jcjimi at August 15, 2010 10:46 AM (wDhX2)
52...
I'm familiar with Maslow's pyramid, but I believe that a great deal of his pyramid depends upon a somewhat free society to achieve much beyond the first rung.
On a daily basis, when one awakens to a desperate situation, what do they crave?
I was thinking how incredibly important something such as paper and pen would be. Or how in the midst of desolation, how a wildflower might be the most beautiful vision on earth.
Maslow's pyramid does not attend to the day-to-day needs of man, particularly not to a man who has lost most of the freedom to decide his fate.
Posted by: jmflynny at August 15, 2010 10:46 AM (eczD3)
There's one place in particular that always has the parking lot filled to capacity, and even when I drove there at 4 AM I couldn't get a parking space.
If you want to see for yourself, it's on Rte 301 in Wilmington, big sign in front that says CHRYSLER
I gotta call Chrysler for a reservation sometime, must be a great place
Posted by: Joe the Biden at August 15, 2010 10:47 AM (vdfwz)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 15, 2010 10:48 AM (yQWNf)
58...
Actually...that was on of the tings that got me to thinking! Beauty is subjective and in that time and place, she looks beautiful and Winston could give a shit about a bikini wax.
Posted by: jmflynny at August 15, 2010 10:48 AM (eczD3)
More like a full body dry heave set to music
Posted by: George Costanza at August 15, 2010 10:49 AM (vdfwz)
If you get most of your news and stuff from RSS feeds and you use FireFox, Feedly is fan-damn-tastic. You can find it at www.feedly.com.
The other tool--Windows Live Writer--is an off-line blog posting tool. It downloads your blog's theme and then you edit the page as if you were looking at your blog. Very cool. My blog is hosted by Blogger, and its WYSIWIG editor is um.. Ok. Live Writer blows it away, and it has a few neat plug-ins available for it as well. The only thing lacking is the ability to edit a post after publishing, and the delayed posting feature is a bit quirky. Google "windows live writer" and one of the first links is the Microsoft download site.
I use Feedly to find breaking or interesting news, and then I drag and drop links, videos and other content into the blog post and mash the publish button. It has made life a lot easier. It used to take me a half hour to find something interesting, link sources, format quoted material, upload pics, etc. Now it's matter of minutes.
Posted by: GulfCoastTider at August 15, 2010 10:49 AM (bv1hq)
Posted by: Neo at August 15, 2010 10:50 AM (tE8FB)
Posted by: Mortis at August 15, 2010 10:51 AM (I8CPt)
More proof that network anchorettes shouldn't dance
Posted by: kbdabear at August 15, 2010 10:52 AM (vdfwz)
As a man's world shrinks around him, that is when he has fewer and fewer opportunities in front of him, his priorities are still first and foremost survival.
What changes are the value he puts on the niceties in life. The simple things, if you will, will increase in value. The pyramid remains in tact; however, the levels or goals have diminished.
Posted by: see dick run after jane's ass at August 15, 2010 10:54 AM (UQjUb)
Posted by: Mortis at August 15, 2010 02:51 PM
When does your little one join the Ronettes on the ONT?
Congrats!
Posted by: kbdabear at August 15, 2010 10:54 AM (vdfwz)
When the healthcare market reflects both consumer utility and the consumer's budget constraint, prices will escalate until the third-party payor refuses to pay any more. At that point, "rationing" occurs as the third-parties (be they government or private sector insurers) attempt to allocate services in a market that is failing to clear.
In other words, we need to get rid of employer- and government-paid healthcare insurance altogether, and force the market to incorporate consumer utility, consumer budget constraints and healthcare providers' marginal costs. Until then, the system will remain broken and ObamaCare will only make it worse. Obamacare makes it worse by substituting an inefficient government system of allocation with a less inefficient private sector one.
Posted by: GulfCoastTider at August 15, 2010 10:55 AM (bv1hq)
More proof that network anchorettes shouldn't dance
Posted by: kbdabear at August 15, 2010 02:52 PM (vdfwz)
bet that scrunt is a lousy lay
Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Pro Debate Squad, And Summoner Of Meteors. at August 15, 2010 10:56 AM (eCAn3)
Posted by: ace at August 15, 2010 10:56 AM (vpQiz)
Since Spike is having a Star Wars Marathon today, that's the only explanation as to why you're posting here, probably from a Starbucks with WiFi
Posted by: kbdabear at August 15, 2010 10:58 AM (vdfwz)
Posted by: Mortis at August 15, 2010 02:51 PM (I8CPt)
That is great news! I'm glad they're doing well. Say hi to Elizabeth and kiss Lillianna on the forehead. My grand daughter is 15 months and I can't describe how much I love watching everything that she does.
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at August 15, 2010 10:58 AM (YVZlY)
I apologize for any confusion and we now return you to regular programming.
Posted by: GulfCoastTider at August 15, 2010 10:58 AM (bv1hq)
Posted by: Truman North at August 15, 2010 10:58 AM (HLGCA)
we're losing signal chief...repeat over....?
Wonder if the Mosk realized the overreach hurt O'juggsy and that is why they have caved?
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 10:59 AM (kq1lG)
Good news, everyone! Obama regime talking domestic oil producers into leaving US again!
HooRAY, tovarisch!
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 15, 2010 10:59 AM (fx8sm)
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 11:00 AM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Mortis at August 15, 2010 02:51 PM (I8CPt)
Awww.....Congratulations and PICS....we need pics!
Posted by: Tami at August 15, 2010 11:02 AM (VuLos)
Posted by: kbdabear at August 15, 2010 02:58 PM
FX is showing Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
I am not to be disturbed during this time, even if there is a mass of posts about me setting off the alarms
In addition, since I will not be taking my bike ride today, there will be no awesome Overnight Tanker pics tonight.
Kilgor, I hereby give you temporary banning powers
Posted by: Charles Comic Book Johnosn at August 15, 2010 11:02 AM (vdfwz)
Palin wasn't complaining about Death Panels, per se. She was warning us that Death Panels were a byproduct of socialized medicine.
She doesn't want government involved in any aspect of her health decisions. Wit government-run health care, we have no choice. The government will be the boss of our health.
Posted by: see dick run after jane's ass at August 15, 2010 11:02 AM (UQjUb)
Until then, enjoy the list of 70 democrats in congress that are members of the socilaist party of America.
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at August 15, 2010 11:06 AM (qco+K)
Posted by: Rum misses WDW at August 15, 2010 11:09 AM (gofDd)
Does anyone else's local rag refuse to publish the nationality and immigration status of violent criminals? The local Houston ap-commie shitrag pretty much will never, ever admit that an illegal committed a crime. Disgusting.
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 15, 2010 11:09 AM (fx8sm)
Posted by: Dave in Texas at August 15, 2010 11:12 AM (Wh0W+)
She has an ass bigger than J Lo's?
Guinness Book of World Records size ass
Cankles too.
Makes Elaine Benes dancing look good.
We danced like that in pre-school
Posted by: Barebra Sue at August 15, 2010 11:12 AM (H+LJc)
Posted by: Mortis at August 15, 2010 02:51 PM (I8CPt)
Awww.....Congratulations and PICS....we need pics!
yes, please answer my questions and provide proof that elizabeth is lilliane's true mother. i know how you wingers love to fake pregnancies
Posted by: andi sullivan at August 15, 2010 11:12 AM (vdfwz)
you can't that was the point....
there is no topic, and even in most "real topic" threads we don't need NetCop playing crossing guard...peer pressure does fine.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 11:13 AM (kq1lG)
Lowandslow: So, "Here's a Tylenol, now go home and die with dignity" works for you?
Great. Do it. Do it to yourself, do it to your parents. Let other people decide how they want to administer healthcare to him- or herself.
Posted by: Truman North at August 15, 2010 11:13 AM (HLGCA)
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 11:14 AM (kq1lG)
Posted by: rawmuse at August 15, 2010 11:14 AM (UdLYc)
"genghis, get it?"
Afternoon all! Having a sweet day here in Mormon-land. Managed to trick my oven into working, so we just finished tasty chicken and corn on the cob. Watching the Colts v Niners. What's with the Colts' helmets?
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 11:14 AM (osFsP)
If you get most of your news and stuff from RSS feeds and you use FireFox, Feedly is fan-damn-tastic.
My husband uses that. I never really got into using RSS feeds because you don't get the Headlines here or 2/3s of the stuff at HA.
Posted by: Mama AJ at August 15, 2010 11:15 AM (XdlcF)
yeah pretty funny how dignified tedster was at the end no?
Fact is we need the feds out of the "funds healthcare" business but if/when we do it is gonna be painful resetting after 50 years of federal interference.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 11:15 AM (kq1lG)
Posted by: John Kerry at August 15, 2010 11:15 AM (I49Jm)
Actual headline: "Teen sex not always bad for school performance" - from an ap 'science' writer, published in my local shitrag.
Un-fucking-believable.
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 15, 2010 11:16 AM (fx8sm)
http://tinyurl.com/3yefp5r
Posted by: Chris R at August 15, 2010 11:17 AM (AO4qz)
OK, fine. Let's end mandatory government involvement with medicine. That's a huge win in so many ways for so many people. Then you can do what you want, and I can do what I want, within our own budgets.
Posted by: Truman North at August 15, 2010 11:19 AM (HLGCA)
Posted by: John Kerry
Well Senator, you have the chin made for it
Posted by: Barebra Sue at August 15, 2010 11:20 AM (H+LJc)
Un-fucking-believable.
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 15, 2010 03:16 PM
I have always taken interest in the education of our young
Posted by: Roman Polanski at August 15, 2010 11:20 AM (vdfwz)
Posted by: Glenn Beck at August 15, 2010 11:21 AM (w9BEi)
the money, any money used is gotten from the people....further the main reason I want the feds out of the business of health coverage is precisely because how people face death is a private matter.....
when I was born a broken arm was a 175 dollar doctor's visit.....
try that now and get back to me on "too much money in play" it is too much money precisely because Uncle Scrooge and Daddy Warbucks in DC are competing for services.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 11:21 AM (kq1lG)
#13, Lacy, I LOVE IT!
The commenters here are excellent at finding stuff one wouldn't normally come across.
Posted by: TheresaD-BitterClinger at August 15, 2010 11:21 AM (K9XK2)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 15, 2010 11:22 AM (yQWNf)
Posted by: Mallamutt
It's like hundred dollar bills fly out of your wallet like flies
Posted by: Barebra Sue at August 15, 2010 11:22 AM (H+LJc)
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Whoa, Ace has gone from having TIA's to the full stroke. Now it all makes sense.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 15, 2010 11:23 AM (SHKl9)
correct....
the interventionists have gone from....'there are avenues of treatment the rich can have and the poor can't we need to intervene" to "there are avenues of treatment too advanced for the already federally backed poor to handle the answer is to take over the whole thing and deny treatment to everyone*!'
in a shockingly short time.
* not named kennedy or a member of the federal RICO gang known as Capitol hill
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 11:23 AM (kq1lG)
That list is sobering. Commies on every corner.
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at August 15, 2010 11:24 AM (554T5)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 15, 2010 11:26 AM (yQWNf)
healthcare is a right only in and of you have the right to buy it just like everyone else.....
when any level of government starts playing "decider" with any market they screw up the price to people without a huge pool of other people's money.
Folks tend to forget thet the HMOs were a political idea that was going to "save medicene"
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 11:28 AM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at August 15, 2010 11:28 AM (554T5)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 15, 2010 03:22 PM (yQWNf)
Have you ever seen UGA VII and Michelle in the same room?
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at August 15, 2010 11:28 AM (YVZlY)
and a huge inducement to corruption and payoffs....
"so I see you need a cyst removed from your spine in 2 weeks or you may lose use of your legs......I am seeing the number 2400 flashing in my mind...."
//Chicago machine type
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 11:29 AM (kq1lG)
Sigh. *goes and looks for the "personal massager"
Posted by: Mrs. Trunk Monkey at August 15, 2010 11:29 AM (osFsP)
NFL network has the best and least intrusive presentation on the game....
wish the cable companies weren't largely playing chicken with it on pricing....I'm lucky this tour our cable people provide it in HD
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 11:30 AM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 03:14 PM
The oven has alerted us. Do not be afraid of the bicycles coming your way. We mean you no harm.
Posted by: LDS on Patrol at August 15, 2010 11:32 AM (wDhX2)
If I were still betting on Football I might be tempted to pay for it. Otherwise, no.
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at August 15, 2010 11:33 AM (554T5)
NFL network has the best and least intrusive presentation on the game...
They're ok, but what's with their technology? We were watching a game last night and the sound kept fading, then the picture disappeared! I recall that happening a lot last year.
We're relegated to cable (comcast) this year WHICH BLOWS CHUNKS, but the lovely trees on this lovely lot of the house we're renting blocked the dish. So no NFL Sunday Ticket this year - ugh! Trust me, if I owned this place I'd be out with a chain saw in a heartbeat.
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 11:33 AM (osFsP)
LOL. You're right about the bicycles.
The thing that's getting me the most are all of the white shirts with plain ties.
We've got a running gag going wherein we layer Quaker "plain" on top of the LDS culture. Pretty good.
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 11:35 AM (osFsP)
see dick run after jane's ass, 4 comments into a thread and already being a negative jerk. That's a new record for shitting in someone's Wheaties.
Ace, I'm glad to have Gengis back.
Posted by: Ohio Dan at August 15, 2010 11:37 AM (rurh0)
So this new hospital director is touring the wards and in the rehab ward there's a guy in a corner beating off and in another corner a nurse is blowing another guy.
So this new hospital director exclaims "What in hell is going on here!"
The rehab chief explains that the medication those guys are on stimulates their prostate and unless they drain them six times a day it could damage them.
So this new hospital director exclaims "Why is one guy masturbating and the other getting fellatio?"
The rehab chief explains that the fellatio guy has private insurance and the masturbator is HMO.
Posted by: Beto at August 15, 2010 11:38 AM (H+LJc)
One bit of blog business: Genghis has agreed to come back as coblogger and share ONT duties with Maetenloch.
Penis mood: asleep
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 15, 2010 11:41 AM (5I/OY)
Posted by: Greg at August 15, 2010 11:41 AM (qBwGp)
exactly and the guy who pays cash himself in advance gets to pick the cuter nurse to gratify him....and nothing, nothing will ever change that....
all OgabeCare does is make more people self-medicating in your scenario.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 11:42 AM (kq1lG)
Television. Keeps the sheep quiet.
I was catching the Colts vs 49'ers on the NFL channel and saw the Colts wearing some new uni's. Is that a throwback or something new?
Yes.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at August 15, 2010 11:45 AM (9PzaA)
The comments from teens on the Yahoo version of that were universally illiterate/irrelevent...guess there's no time for schools to teach reading for comprehension between sex lessons.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at August 15, 2010 11:49 AM (9PzaA)
Yeah, we signed up for the sports package. 'Not sure how much we'll use Red Zone (we had it on our satellite in CA), because we are more about watching drives than just scores, but it'll be something.
Off topic: we decided on the Bellagio for our Vegas trip (for my birthday, coming back from Cali to Utah after the movers get our furniture). Going to catch Cirque du Soleil's "O" and, I hope, a couple of really good meals. We were eyeing Robuchon's restaurant at the MGM -- 'anyone know it? Ideal meal with us would be lots of courses with small tastes. We are adventurous in our dining.
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 11:49 AM (osFsP)
I know an old salt who hangs cabinets and had a crew, a nice house and a decent life four years ago. Now he lives in his truck and doesn't have a dime. I asked him what his retirement plan was and he said he would drive his truck into a concrete overpass support at 70mph. That he had life insurance and his kids were the beneficiaries.
The New American Dream courtesy of our ruling class.
Posted by: Beto at August 15, 2010 11:50 AM (H+LJc)
Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2010 11:51 AM (coV9W)
Posted by: Baron bon Mot at August 15, 2010 11:52 AM (3j6vz)
Posted by: Palerider at August 15, 2010 11:52 AM (m+nIW)
the people I really feel sorry for in the impending implosion is the boomers....
they're hedonistic idiots to be sure and maybe karma does say they deserve what's coming but for the New dealers to knwoingly play them like they did back in '64-'68 in codifying SS withholding into the general fund to artifically make the budget look more balanced is a borderline sin....
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 11:53 AM (kq1lG)
If no one mentions The New Improved Hot Air (now with 50% more blandness!) I'm happy.
Posted by: Beto at August 15, 2010 11:53 AM (H+LJc)
Posted by: denny crane at August 15, 2010 11:54 AM (I+7Zv)
My thought exercise is to decide if you are a slight retard or full retard.
You know the rule: one drop of retard blood makes you a retard.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 15, 2010 11:54 AM (5I/OY)
I can relate. I seriously have reached the point where I figure there is absolutely no reason to lead a careful life and plan that far ahead. We'll avoid becoming a burden on others, but as for hopes of planning for any kind of comfortable retirement, forget it. I think we'll take up rock-climbing, cliff-diving, and parasailing when we get to a certain age.
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 11:55 AM (osFsP)
Posted by: Bret Michaels Wig at August 15, 2010 11:55 AM (q2FkL)
The man of a thousand lying voices, talking perfectly loud
But so many never want to really hear him
Or the sound that he clearly makes
And nobody with any sense could ever trust him
They can tell what he wants to do despite all his spin fakes
The fascist fool in the White House
Sees the sun on America going down
And the Jeremy Wright eyes in his head
Want the Third World and America to be spun around
Posted by: CheshirelCat at August 15, 2010 11:56 AM (BIDGX)
There were 2 black men in front of a polling place it was horrible just horrible
Speaking of retard blood - John Ryan, you still here? I thought I told you to go fuck your mother.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 15, 2010 11:56 AM (5I/OY)
You can't ritually slaughter animals in Central Park, either...although I'm going to go out on a really sturdy plank and suggest that an exception will be carved out for Eid al-Adha at some point.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at August 15, 2010 11:56 AM (9PzaA)
Posted by: denny crane at August 15, 2010 03:54 PM (I+7Zv)
Are you actually this ignorant or are you just pretending to be?
Posted by: AD at August 15, 2010 11:58 AM (88wPq)
Speaking of the PGA, where the hell was this Lefty the past three days?
Posted by: Chris R at August 15, 2010 11:59 AM (AO4qz)
they're hedonistic idiots to be sure and maybe karma does say they deserve what's coming
Mighty broad brush you're painting with there, kemo sabe. Shall I get started on the juiceboxers?
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at August 15, 2010 11:59 AM (554T5)
Posted by: denny crane at August 15, 2010 03:54 PM (I+7Zv)
Now you're just cutting and pasting straight from the manual.
Posted by: garrett at August 15, 2010 11:59 AM (8/Eh8)
there are numerous examples that prevent someone from building places of worship.
Hey, it's not like the Muslims are building a mosque on top of the rubble of the destroyed Jewish temple or anyth-
never mind.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 15, 2010 11:59 AM (5I/OY)
Fixed it for him
Posted by: Beto at August 15, 2010 12:01 PM (H+LJc)
Now you're just cutting and pasting straight from the manual.
Posted by: garrett at August 15, 2010 03:59 PM (8/Eh
His mom actually does the cutting. He can paste.
Posted by: Cicero at August 15, 2010 12:02 PM (0pBLV)
Posted by: Baron bon Mot</i>
Hey, when are we going to build an Enola Gay Appreciation Center at Hiroshima, Maybe with a restored B-29 sitting on top? Does any one know?
Posted by: FeralCat at August 15, 2010 12:02 PM (BIDGX)
I'm a tweener '72
The majority of the boomers I have spoken with since the mid '80s about the Ponzi Scheme and "Free Doctoring Forver!' bought the con....the majority of my peers never did once they were confronted with the math in play.....
didn't say all were evil I said most are being blindsided.
A lot of great boomers have made great sacrifices and selfless service to the body politic...you'll have to show me Gen-X's "woodstock"...
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:03 PM (kq1lG)
I think he's still dealing with the arthritis thing he was diagnosed with this season.
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 12:03 PM (osFsP)
He did it in a couple of threads yesterday too. The. same. exact. post.
Posted by: Blackford Oakes at August 15, 2010 12:04 PM (w9BEi)
another indicator that they're reeling....the trolls aren't as motivated....especially the concern trolls.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:05 PM (kq1lG)
Don't worry, Dopey. These things have a way of working themselves out over time. I figure a few billy clubs won't be quite so intimidating this November now that we know what to expect from your friends at the New Black Panther Party. Forewarned is forearmed, as they say.
Now go get your shine box, ya douchebag.
Posted by: sifty at August 15, 2010 12:06 PM (LlGH/)
New Court Decision: Congress Can Withhold ACORN Funding
Oh Noes! Commies get bitch-smacked!
Posted by: Thrillaminute at August 15, 2010 12:06 PM (/4AU1)
Boomers are America's worst generation. It's telling that the formative years of their parent's generation was spent fighting fascism. Their formative moment was getting high at a rock concert.
Posted by: Chris R at August 15, 2010 12:07 PM (AO4qz)
Ya know...fuck you and the iPod you rode in on.
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at August 15, 2010 12:10 PM (554T5)
Posted by: sifty at August 15, 2010 12:10 PM (LlGH/)
It is of the utmost importance in the art of analysis to be able to recognize out of a number of facts which be vital and which be incidental, otherwise your energy must be dissipated instead of being concentrated.
Posted by: Holmes at August 15, 2010 12:10 PM (BIDGX)
Posted by: sifty at August 15, 2010 12:12 PM (LlGH/)
exactly....
like i said to my boomer sister, "it is easy to protest capitalism as evil and unfair when you were going to school on mom and dad's credit cards"......
Whereas their Dads and moms when faced with evil did their duty with aplomb and cheer the boomer decided "communism ain't really so bad and by golly MY LIFE is too important for a draft, or to fight the other guys" in far too great a number.....
the boomers crowning glory was Chicago '68, Woodstock, and the fall of Saigon....
good on ya libs
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:13 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Delta Smelt at August 15, 2010 12:15 PM (IRwVS)
we all have our crosses to bear....I still don't see my generation demanding the political class sell out an ally we had already shed tens of thousands of dead for to "keep us safe" however....
the boomers sacrificed South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos Iran, and several South/Central American nations to communism or rad islam.....
"mission accomplished"
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:16 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Martha Stewart's left nipple at August 15, 2010 12:16 PM (9e8Ti)
'
Hats off to all of them.
Posted by: sifty at August 15, 2010 12:16 PM (LlGH/)
Posted by: Chris "
There have been somewhere around 5 or 6 Congressional Medals of Honor awarded in the last 10 years (Iraq and Afghanistan). During Vietnam (Boomer Generation) there were over 240 Congressional Medals of Honor awarded.
Posted by: FeralCat at August 15, 2010 12:17 PM (BIDGX)
Yup, but like I said they got played hard....in the budding years of what should have been their political awareness they ignored the elephant in the room of their entitlement spending....which would have been ok had they been as concerned with having kids to support them as they were with raising the divorce rate 435%
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:18 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Tami at August 15, 2010 12:18 PM (VuLos)
Have you been to Robuchon's restaurants in Vegas? They're in the MGM Grand.
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 12:18 PM (osFsP)
that is because they have decided not to award valor the same way....almost EVERYTHING gets downchecked when the review process hits....but hey at least some REMF e-8 or O-5 will get his bronze star for keeping the mess hall well stocked and orderly.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:19 PM (kq1lG)
Facebook has a lot of people recovering from the microfestivus, according to my daughter. I am not the only one with no self control. being a hobo can be tough.
Posted by: sTevo at August 15, 2010 12:19 PM (VMcEw)
the boomers elected reagan...and some of them were the ones who accused him of manufacturing aids....so it all balances out.
I stand by my "on social security" they got played observation though....
my sympathy comes from the fact it is too late in the game for a lot of them to offset the coming damage through investment and savings.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:20 PM (kq1lG)
Facebook has a lot of people recovering from the microfestivus, according to my daughter. I am not the only one with no self control. being a hobo can be tough.
Posted by: sTevo at August 15, 2010 04:19 PM (VMcEw)
especially during hunting season...
Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Pro Debate Squad, And Summoner Of Meteors. at August 15, 2010 12:21 PM (eCAn3)
One thing's for sure, the younger generations haven't contributed shit. They've had it pretty easy living off the technology that the older folks invented.
Now get off my lawn.
Posted by: Y-not born in '62 at August 15, 2010 12:21 PM (osFsP)
218 Holy crap, I'm not that lazy. 
I played a round of nine this morning before it got too icky sticky out there.
Nope, never been to Vegas. Not quite my thing.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 15, 2010 12:21 PM (VRQ/B)
Posted by: Martha Stewart's left nipple at August 15, 2010 12:21 PM (kOLrd)
Now you're just cutting and pasting straight from the manual.
Posted by: garrett at August 15, 2010 03:59 PM (8/Eh
Indeed. There were no misspellings. DC can't spell fer shit and it's no better at logic, either.
Posted by: TheresaD-BitterClinger at August 15, 2010 12:22 PM (K9XK2)
yeah that's true....the wife and I drove by one of the woodstock revivals on our honeymoon on the way back from montreal....
looked like a scene out of apocalypse now....
the 20 something mutants that couldn't wait to vote in '08 can't hold the boomers' jockstrap....
I'm ok with that analysis...but remember the 'new woodstock' was a clintonian nostalgia for the 60s thing.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:23 PM (kq1lG)
It's not our thing either, really, but we are passing through when we go from our Cali to Utah (the movers come for our stuff in a couple of weeks), so we thought we'd try it.
Posted by: Y-not born in '62 at August 15, 2010 12:23 PM (osFsP)
'
Hats off to all of them.
Aw shucks, it was nothin'... Really.
Posted by: Dick Blumenthal, (D) Viet-fuckin-NAM! at August 15, 2010 12:23 PM (w9BEi)
Posted by: laceyunderalls- Bicentennial Baby and wanting to disown my generation at August 15, 2010 12:24 PM (VRQ/B)
Did you hear that Preznit Ogabe was cool with the Klan putting a cross with an eternally burning flame on the site of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre ???
..I mean what's the big deal? Not all Kluxers have killed anyone??\
...and they have 1st Amendment Rights too...don't they?
Posted by: beedubya at August 15, 2010 12:24 PM (AnTyA)
Posted by: laceyunderalls- Bicentennial Baby and wanting to disown my generation at August 15, 2010 12:25 PM (VRQ/B)
considering that most technology is merely updated tech ideas from the early-mid '60s I'd say we all owe a big thanks to the beatnik generation no?
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:25 PM (kq1lG)
but hey at least some REMF e-8 or O-5 will get his bronze star for keeping the mess hall well stocked and orderly.
You don't know the things I've seen, boy.
Posted by: LTC Dave "Spatula Six" Crumbcake, Silver Star with Oak Cluster and Rolling Pin Device at August 15, 2010 12:25 PM (5I/OY)
Posted by: Baron bon Mot</i>
Hey, when are we going to build an Enola Gay Appreciation Center at Hiroshima, Maybe with a restored B-29 sitting on top? Does any one know?
Posted by: FeralCat at August 15, 2010 04:02 PM (BIDGX)
Or a KKK museum at one of the sites of a church burning that happened in Arkansas when Bill Clinton was growing up.
Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2010 12:25 PM (uX6je)
Posted by: Y-not born in '62 at August 15, 2010 04:23 PM (osFsP)
I'm glad you picked the Bellagio. Think you will have a good time there.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at August 15, 2010 12:25 PM (IRwVS)
Posted by: Martha Stewart's left nipple at August 15, 2010 12:28 PM (u6OBh)
And what generation was it that produced the current crop of geniuses?
I feel no guilt on that front.
*Yes, I am joking about the breeder thing... just a joke!*
Posted by: Y-not born in '62 but not a breeder at August 15, 2010 12:28 PM (osFsP)
Nice day today, though. weather's good.
+1
81 and sunny here. Pretty sweet for August.
SCREW you guys!
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 15, 2010 12:29 PM (zGZG3)
it was hot...and dark in my AO.....the Ugandans wouldn't arrange their kit properly and I had to make sure that the insurgent bacteria were properly eradicated!
hot and dark...then Private Snuffy turned on the lights and asked, "Colonel why the fuck are you standing by the oven sir?'
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:29 PM (kq1lG)
Most of the crap you people attribute to the "baby boomers" was actually done by the so-called "greatest generation" which if I recall correctly was another invention of the MFM.
The foundation for the all the ills we have today was put in Place by FDR in the 30s and that was done by the gas light crowd. It was expounded on by LBJ in the mid 60s and that was done by that fabled "greatest generation".
So keep on spouting this idiot crap about the boomers. This boomer was over in Vietnam while most of you turds were still not even a gleam in your daddy's eye.
Posted by: Vic at August 15, 2010 12:30 PM (/jbAw)
Rasmussen - July 21, McCain by 20 and over 50.
How is that possible? AZ Republicans have short memories?
Posted by: see dick run after jane's ass at August 15, 2010 12:30 PM (g73jP)
Posted by: sven10077"
I wasn't talking about Bronze Stars. I was talking about Congressional Medals of Honor. Do you want to tell any of the recipients of that award, or their survivors, that the didn't deserve it?
Posted by: FeralCat at August 15, 2010 12:30 PM (BIDGX)
I'm much more excited about this trip than I thought I'd be. One is just that we are doing it on the heels of leaving California - so that's a plus - but also it looks like the Bellagio is sort of our speed, with the gardens and art museum and all. Plus, Mr. Y-not looks a bit like George Clooney (I know we all hate him, but he is handsome) so perhaps in the backdrop of the Bellagio he will look even more so.
Posted by: Y-not born in '62 but not a breeder at August 15, 2010 12:31 PM (osFsP)
look I don't buy into the "myths" my uncles both boomers served most Boomers were good americans....but part of why in the espionage realm Kim Philby was so lathed when outed was he was rare as were all in the Cambridge ring....he and his buddies ran to Russia because they were villains....
our traitors wound up getting feted and far too many "good and honorable boomers" allowed their dirty peers to get a pass on their way to a political recovery.
Billy Ayers is a pretty big symptom.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:31 PM (kq1lG)
They invented the myth of the hippie protester in the 60s and all the generation BS.
Haight/Ashbury and the 'Summer of Love' is a bunch of bullshit. And Peter Coyote can stick it up his @$$ until he chokes on it.
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 15, 2010 12:32 PM (zGZG3)
Lillianna is home and mother (Elizabeth) and baby are doing awesome
Posted by: Mortis at August 15, 2010 02:51 PM (I8CPt)
Congrats Liz and Mortis and welcome to the world (don't worry, we're gonna fix it), Lilianna!
Glad everything's going well. When I brought my first baby home, she projectile vomited all over the place and proceeded to cry 23 hrs. and 45 minutes of every day for the next nine months. I was hoping to room with Inspector Dreyfuss.
Hey, jenjis, nice to "see" you again. I'm a let you finish, but you have a mighty big keyboard to fill for the ONTs. We night-shift Morons trust you'll be up to the task.
Posted by: RushBabe at August 15, 2010 12:32 PM (a3Z62)
Posted by: stephen hawking, man of science at August 15, 2010 12:33 PM (m+HVS)
Have you ever been in danger of having your chowline overrun with a battalion of hungry joes ignoring the scrambled eggs and all demanding omelettes?
Have you had to look in your men's eyes as you called down pineapple upside-down cake on your own position?
HAVE YOU?
Posted by: LTC Dave "Spatula Six" Crumbcake at August 15, 2010 12:33 PM (5I/OY)
Posted by: Y-not born in '62 but not a breeder at August 15, 2010 04:31 PM (osFsP)
You aren't planning on robbing the place are you? Heh. I hope you like it. It's a very easy trip from where you live now.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at August 15, 2010 12:33 PM (IRwVS)
Posted by: Kemp at August 15, 2010 12:34 PM (2+9Yx)
so long as you're willing to tell the guys that got downchecked in this conflict for conduct no less valorous that they are losers comparatively.....
I think the brass is pretty hesitant to put people in for or approve the maximum commendation earned because it would be seen as a "political statement".
I did not besmirch nor would I ever besmirch the service of any era's vets but comparing medals of Honor rates to establish it as some "generational valor token" is a bit specious IMHO...especially considering the hyper PC these current 20 somethings are laboring under.
I have had dreams good dreams of being allowed to run our Vietnam era playbook in this war's fights believe me.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:34 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: TheresaD-BitterClinger at August 15, 2010 12:34 PM (K9XK2)
Yeah, I have been by the famous Haight/Ashbury corner district. You know what struck me the most about it? It smelled like piss where the bums would drink their brown bags and piss in the corners.
Haight/Ashbury was and probably still is a big hangout for bums.
Posted by: Vic at August 15, 2010 12:35 PM (/jbAw)
Posted by: willow at August 15, 2010 12:35 PM (SbsTp)
Most of the crap you people attribute to the "baby boomers"
"You people?" Who the fuck is "you people," Pops?
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 15, 2010 12:36 PM (5I/OY)
I blame the field of pyschology.
It provided the bommers with a lot of excuses and crutches that earlier generations would never have dreamed of using.
Posted by: see dick run after jane's ass at August 15, 2010 12:37 PM (UQjUb)
pretty big myths I guess....I grew up near Antioch College where '60s refugees that were really active were so it has undoubtedly jaded my perceptions of the pervasiveness of the tye-dyed moonbat.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:37 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: sifty at August 15, 2010 12:37 PM (LlGH/)
---thats another thing im tired of hearing about. we know about haight/ashbury, we know the summer of love was a unique time, just as anyone who thinks their time was unique growing up. we know you had fun...please, go away now....please.
Posted by: skr8 outta at August 15, 2010 12:38 PM (m+HVS)
never said they did....but acting as though the Officer corps is not a collection of political creatures ignores things like General P blaming Bush today no?
We didn't hand out enough medals for Mog '93 either.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:38 PM (kq1lG)
Touche'"
Hussein Louie was born in 1962, so he is hardly of the boomer generation, which were the kids born to the returning WWII troops beginning in 1946.
Posted by: FeralCat at August 15, 2010 12:38 PM (BIDGX)
If it's that difficult to remember perhaps it's not the cultural analogue for which you are looking.
It's a fool's errand to take one generation and try to remap it onto another for the purpose of trashing both. It ultimately reads like an attempt to erase the individual.
Posted by: Thrillaminute at August 15, 2010 12:38 PM (/4AU1)
"you people" refers to the people who were spouting the MFM line about Baby Boomers.
But what's it to you sonny?
Posted by: Vic at August 15, 2010 12:39 PM (/jbAw)
I think the communists were behind a lot of the pyshology crap developed after WWII.
They used it to make us weak.
Posted by: see dick run after jane's ass at August 15, 2010 12:39 PM (UQjUb)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 15, 2010 12:39 PM (5I/OY)
The State DepartmentÂ’s Islamic Supremacist
and
Find O's Nutrition Czar
Posted by: sTevo at August 15, 2010 12:40 PM (VMcEw)
stay out of my uterus, loosen your hands off my body wingnuts!!
Obamacare! Take care of my body, tell me what i may eat!
Posted by: fickle used women for the left at August 15, 2010 12:41 PM (SbsTp)
Maet must be itchin' to spend that lavish paycheck ace has been giving him. Money is the root of all drinking, you know.
P.S. ace, remind the New Guy that we need plenty o' kittehs on Saturday Night.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 15, 2010 12:41 PM (Ulu3i)
It's like blowjobs are the new handshake.
*makes note not to 'shake hands' with jeff at any future hobo hunts*
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 15, 2010 12:41 PM (zGZG3)
Posted by: stephen hawking, man of science at August 15, 2010 04:33 PM
aleens not from da earf but from Mars or Pluto and shit?
Posted by: Alvin Greene D (umb as dirt) at August 15, 2010 12:41 PM (yQWNf)
Very eloquently put. *golf clap*
SF is the most over-rated city evah, followed closely by Boston. I did have one really good meal there once (at a place called Kokkari), but every trip there has been marred by the crappy attitudes of the locals, who are even more arrogant than Bostonians, if that's possible, and the filth.
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 12:42 PM (osFsP)
let me ask you something....
during your peak work years were you aware of the impending bombs in social security and medicare?
I knew about the "fix" in '86 because even at 14 the program made no sense.
Not a flame....take the context of my original "broad brush"....I was saddened by the con yeah "bunch of hedonists" was probably indelicate but your group definitely seemed really tied up in "enjoying the moment"....not a flame we all are to whatever degree but there are times I wonder if the boomers felt like the '60s and early '70s were all the political heavy lifting needed.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:42 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: sifty at August 15, 2010 12:42 PM (LlGH/)
Hayworth was a one trick pony
And a buffoon, oaf, and borderline crook.
But what's it to you sonny?
Posted by: Vic at August 15, 2010 04:39 PM (/jbAw)
If you let me hang out on your lawn, I'll fill in those holes your neighbor's dog keeps digging.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at August 15, 2010 12:42 PM (IRwVS)
Are you by chance the same sven who got sent to the cornfield by the Hotair overlords?
Posted by: FeralCat at August 15, 2010 12:43 PM (BIDGX)
You cranky old bastard, I think your walker's crimping your oxygen tube again.
See that? My generation gave us the fucking emoticon, Pops! What've you got, some kinda moon landing or something? Pfffft.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 15, 2010 12:43 PM (5I/OY)
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 15, 2010 04:41 PM (Ulu3i)
Genghis isn't new...he's the original ONT guy. He passed it off to Maet. And I think, he's a bigger kitteh fan than Maet...if I remember correctly. (You know us bommers...our memories are foggy.)
Posted by: Tami at August 15, 2010 12:43 PM (VuLos)
Posted by: B. Hussein Soetoro, everybody's All-American at August 15, 2010 12:43 PM (w9BEi)
Hated SF, never going back. The piss-smell thing is absolutely correct. Sadly downtown Houston is becoming the same way, thanks to the leftists.
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 15, 2010 12:43 PM (zGZG3)
McCarthy was spot on and they still run him down.
I'm still stunned that the 52 fraudsters elected a communist/islam lover president. Unreal. All that time, trouble and money spent on defeating communism and we invite it in for coffee. It doesn't like tea.
Posted by: dagny at August 15, 2010 12:44 PM (lZ+tF)
Posted by: skr8 outta at August 15, 2010 12:44 PM (m+HVS)
yeah I pushed the bounds on purpose....how do you like the new and improved plain vanilla Tepid Air BTW?
it is 4:45 pm and they still haven't addressed Bury's walkback of being pro-Mosque......
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:45 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Martha Stewart's left nipple at August 15, 2010 12:45 PM (CIR13)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 15, 2010 12:45 PM (5I/OY)
Augustus "Stanley" Owsley aka Bear was the fuel to that era.
People were too fucked up to get violent.
Posted by: Beto at August 15, 2010 12:46 PM (H+LJc)
Posted by: willow at August 15, 2010 12:46 PM (SbsTp)
if by "katrina Refugees" you are saying leftist I agree....
I cheered in the Abrams trek when SF was under fire.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:46 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Dang Straights
Really? That's a shame.
I had a really bad encounter with piss-covered streets in Austin, but never in Houston.
Austin's another over-rated city, imho.
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 12:46 PM (osFsP)
Well, in light of all the border line hostility going on between boomers, close to boomers, non-boomers and Stephen Hawkings (who hates this blog) I was trying to be nice.
Posted by: Mallamutt at August 15, 2010 04:44 PM (OWjjx)
Yeah, I don't understand all of the Chris Berman hate either.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at August 15, 2010 12:47 PM (IRwVS)
Posted by: PC Czar at August 15, 2010 12:47 PM (UPNlB)
by the crappy attitudes of the locals, who are even more arrogant than Bostonians, if that's possible,
My nephew married one. I get to spend every christmas with the bitch, whom I hate. I've tried to back out but my sister hates her too and wants me there to keep her from losing her mind.
Posted by: dagny at August 15, 2010 12:47 PM (lZ+tF)
I'll say this...
there is no other blog on the interent with a bigger enemies list than AoS.
Stephen Hawking, Joyce Brothers, etc. We're not afraid of no one.
Posted by: see dick run after jane's ass at August 15, 2010 12:48 PM (UQjUb)
yeah it is actually more symbolic of the Leftoid Boomers...(there see I'll speak more precisely)trying to coopt and control genX's youthful impulses and experiences....
I'm glad they rioted and raised hell now that i think about it....it'd be like the WW2 Gen running the Woodstock event in the 60s
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:48 PM (kq1lG)
Ed did address it on the Obamateurism of the Week thread, on the first page of the comments. Obama's asinine statement missed the deadline for this week. Sounds like it'll be a choice on next week's poll.
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 12:48 PM (osFsP)
---come say it to my face motherfucker.
Posted by: stephen hawking, man of science at August 15, 2010 12:49 PM (m+HVS)
I guess they have all gone to shit now and it wasn't the baby boomers. The communists took over CA toward the end of the 70s and they have driven it into the ground.
It doesn't have anything to do with the "generation". It has to do with the damn communists who are taking over everything.
If I had my way it would be like Starship Troopers; only veterans could vote and we wouldn't be having these problems.
Posted by: Vic at August 15, 2010 12:49 PM (/jbAw)
Posted by: Mr Pink at August 15, 2010 12:49 PM (ovmz4)
My daughter had to pick up a friend at the Greyhound station there.
She was glad they were out of there before dark
Posted by: Beto at August 15, 2010 12:49 PM (H+LJc)
great that addresses him not using it in his gimmick....
where's his or AP's post about it with commentary in the main....I'm missing the link
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:50 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: John Effin Kerry at August 15, 2010 12:50 PM (imD7p)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 15, 2010 12:50 PM (yQWNf)
The name means " a whale's vagina"
Posted by: Rob Burgundy, Channel 4 News Anchor at August 15, 2010 12:51 PM (LlGH/)
We discussed Chris Berman and that damned ESPN network a few months ago.
We all agreed they are evil.
We. All. Agreed.
Posted by: see dick run after jane's ass at August 15, 2010 12:51 PM (g73jP)
Posted by: davidt at August 15, 2010 12:51 PM (HtIec)
171...
If you get the chance, drop by and see Jersey Boys. I saw it at The Venetian in March. I was the drag who didn't want to go because I'm not a big Four Seasons fan but I sooo enjoyed it. I didn't even realize how many of their songs that I knew until I started singing along with them.
It is a very good show.
Posted by: Ms. Benes, if you please at August 15, 2010 12:52 PM (eczD3)
(u6OBh)
Oh,
So your hanging out over here.
Posted by: Martha Stewart's right nipple at August 15, 2010 12:52 PM (x+k6q)
Posted by: dagny at August 15, 2010 12:52 PM (lZ+tF)
But, then again, I barely watch ESPN anymore. NFL network does a better job of covering football, MLB Network rocks (and I can't get it). Now that there is no college basketball/football goiong on right now, other than Baseball tonight, I usually pass.
Posted by: Mallamutt at August 15, 2010 04:51 PM (OWjjx)
Neither do I. Still go to their website though. And I agree about Berman. He jumped the shark in the 1st Bush Administration.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at August 15, 2010 12:53 PM (IRwVS)
it is 4:45 pm and they still haven't addressed Bury's walkback of being pro-Mosque......
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 04:45 PM"
You probably didn't see it but yesterday they apparently had a hissy fit and deleted about 60 or more comments from a thread there on the Mega Mosque.
I comment there less than befor after being "banned" about 6 times. I have the "keys to the house" though, in a sense, and can keep coming back if I please.. I can "resurrect" you, if you want, but you would have a different name.
Posted by: FeralCat at August 15, 2010 12:53 PM (BIDGX)
We had a saying when we lived in Chicago (south side): "Warmer means weirder." It was nice how the bums disappeared in the winter time.
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 12:53 PM (osFsP)
that's true and there is a wide disparity in the education system over their span in liberal areas.....
like i said with more precision I loathe moonbat boomers, I am saddened the main body seems to have given the worst of them a pass and allowed them to be rehabilitated as Ogabe said of Ayers.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:53 PM (kq1lG)
We now have contemporary irrefutable photographic proof (by real photo- journalists, or Hollywood agents, or something).
From 'Doogie' To Daddy: Neil Patrick Harris & Partner David Burtka Expecting Twins
Access Hollywood - August 15, 2010 2:20 AM PDT
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Neil Patrick Harris is going to be a dad.
On Saturday afternoon, the "How I Met Your Mother" star confirmed via Twitter that he and partner, David Burtka, are expecting not one, but two bundles of joy.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Gay & Lesbian Hollywood
"So, get this: David and I are expecting twins this fall," Neil Tweeted. "We're super excited/nervous/thrilled. Hoping the press can respect our privacy..."
Just as Neil announced the news, photos of the actor and David, who is a fellow thespian (and cook), surfaced showing the happy couple enjoying themselves on Saturday afternoon at Disney's California Adventure in Anaheim, Calif.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Hottest Hollywood Dads!
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Look at their photos !!!
Neither David nor Doogie are showing !1!!11 e1even!y!!! Not even a little !!!11!11!!! And Fall is only a month or two away.
That paragon of investigative reporting and journalistic excellence (and wit and reporting integrity), Andi Sullivan, now follows in the way of other Pulitzer winners, Jason Blair, Scott Thomas Beauchamp,Dave Weigel, ..... Ohhh, the humanity .....
The science is settled.
Posted by: Arbalest at August 15, 2010 12:54 PM (gma26)
See duck run is as cool as the other side of the pillow.
Posted by: Stu Scott, who is just too damn cool for you at August 15, 2010 04:53 PM (OWjjx)
Stu Scott should be down in Guantanamo, extracting intelligence.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at August 15, 2010 12:56 PM (IRwVS)
nah this is home now....
My time at captain's Quarters, LGF, and Hot Air was good back in the day....heck not tooting my own horn but I was even missed a little at Hot Air when they nuked me....
thing is Ace doesn't have a list of rules written in invisible ink as long as his arm that is hypocritically applied like AP's rules on Michelle Obama and Sarah Palin.....
I still peruse HA for links, but their commentary is pretty much dead to me for utility....if i want soft snarky moderate squishes I can go to Frum and brooks you know?
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:56 PM (kq1lG)
um dude....
you don't look in the abdominal area to see where Doogie will be showing at....
his "carrying case" is the caboose.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 12:57 PM (kq1lG)
Ayers got as "pass" from the stupid FBI of the day who performed all kinds of illegal wire taps and other shit that caused all the evidence to be thrown out of court. Now there is an overated crowd of dumbasses if there ever was one.
Once again, the work of "the greatest generation". And he was rehabilitated by the Chicago machine politicians and the MFM.
Posted by: Vic at August 15, 2010 12:58 PM (/jbAw)
Austin's another over-rated city, imho.
I grew up here and it was great. Now, so fucked up. Commies took over.
I live northwest of it up on the Edwards Plateau. Don't go down there unless it's absolutely necessary. We get most of what we need online or major shopping trips once every month or so. Buying online's a little more but when you factor in the reduced damage to your vehicle we're way ahead.
Posted by: Beto at August 15, 2010 12:58 PM (H+LJc)
You know what's funny? No one hangs out at Rusty Shakelfords.
You never hear of anyone coming here from mypetjawa.
Posted by: see dick run after jane's ass at August 15, 2010 12:59 PM (g73jP)
Posted by: Mr Pink at August 15, 2010 01:00 PM (ovmz4)
Ayers got as "pass" from the stupid FBI
His dad and their mob money bought that pass I guarantee.
Posted by: Beto at August 15, 2010 01:00 PM (H+LJc)
I go to Jawa all the time. I just don't comment there much. It's not an active site for commenting.
My three stops each morning are here, Jawa, and Hot Air. I also usually hit Althouse (who has improved since coming out of her O-induced stupor), neoneocon, and Blackfive. But this is the main place for commenting.
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 01:01 PM (osFsP)
You, and others here, if you have not already, might want to spend some time at americanthinker.com
Posted by: FeralCat at August 15, 2010 01:02 PM (BIDGX)
1) the FBI engaged in what was then and would still have been had dad not been politically connected 'acceptable behavior"
2) when I say "rehabilitated' you are aware he was a serious force in Chicago politics I am certain...he acted as something of a gatekeeper for liberal politicos
3) the argument can be made Clinton was also "rehabilitated'
when I say 'gave them a pass" I mean the boomers seem to have elected those people in the various areas despite their past.
You and I are so far as is known friendly, please accept my sincere posit that I was addressing the radical portion of your peer group not painting with a wide swath saying you were all psychos.
That said and to my initial point before hurting feelings, when did you first realize Social Security was doomed?"
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 01:02 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Blackford Oakes at August 15, 2010 01:02 PM (w9BEi)
There seems to be a common thread here involving "commies took over". I think it has something to do with the size of the town.
Once a town gets larger than about 35K people it starts becoming a haven for the "non-working parasite crowd". They in turn vote in the commie leadership to make sure the bread and circuses continue to flow.
Soon all the streets smell like piss, you have to have an armed guard to walk the street, and the entire tax base has moved out of town.
The only thing that keeps the town going is an influx of federal money from that the communists in DC have extorted from the rest of the country.
Posted by: Vic at August 15, 2010 01:02 PM (/jbAw)
My daughter had to pick up a friend at the Greyhound station there.
She was glad they were out of there before dark
There was supposedly a 'rejuvenation' of mid-town (basically south of the bus station) a few years back. That pretty much died with Bill White declared Houston a sanctuary city and gave the criminals free-reign. All that new development next to the wards turned into abandoned shit.
He wants to be governor, saw a sign for him on a neighbor's place. Think I'll egg them.
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 15, 2010 01:02 PM (zGZG3)
Posted by: stephen hawking, man of science at August 15, 2010 01:03 PM (m+HVS)
Doogie, its really annoying when you send out a tweet to your fans and, in the same breath, ask everyone to respect your privacy.
No shit. Is the extreme stupidity of that completely lost on these self-absorbed fuckheads?
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 15, 2010 01:04 PM (zGZG3)
I'll check it out but leaving the ONT and the gang here will never happen.
I was here after LGF and allowed my presence here to diminish somewhat, I regret that deeply now.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 01:04 PM (kq1lG)
Thank goodness it was a sock. Otherwise, I was afraid your missus was shacked up with Stu Scott (and his extremely ghey glasses).
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 01:04 PM (osFsP)
Hmm, I just got called "Ms. McCarthy" and told to "bite me" (I abstained; I haven't had my shots and don't want to catch anything) on another forum...put up the lead on the 70 socialists of Congress and the trailer to Runaway Slave.
It offended somebody obviously.
And did you know that Reaganomics is the real reason for our economic disaster? And that socialism is the parent of female sufferage, child labor laws, humane societies, and there was a bunch of other stuff?
I asked the lady in question if having her whoo whoo cut off was also in the mix -- that pissed her off too. I think I just became persona non grata on the only horseman's site I frequent...sigh.
Posted by: unknown jane at August 15, 2010 01:04 PM (5/yRG)
---most people move to the outlying suburbs. you have yards, more vegetation, better schools, less noise, more space overall etc. these 'metro areas' grow at a more rapid pace than the city itself usually.
Posted by: stephen hawking, man of science at August 15, 2010 01:05 PM (m+HVS)
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 01:05 PM (kq1lG)
---come say it to my face motherfucker.
Posted by: stephen hawking, man of science at August 15, 2010 04:49 PM (m+HVS)
make sure you have your wheelchair locks on this time, I ain't running after you twice.
Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Pro Debate Squad, And Summoner Of Meteors. at August 15, 2010 01:07 PM (eCAn3)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 15, 2010 01:07 PM (5I/OY)
Give us a link. I'm in the mood for some trollin.
Posted by: Blackford Oakes at August 15, 2010 01:07 PM (w9BEi)
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 05:04 PM
Were you sven on LGF? Truly remarkable how that place hit the schitz. Everyone I liked left or were banned (myself included). I am glad that I found AofSHQ.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 15, 2010 01:08 PM (yQWNf)
No butt hurt here and I realized SS was doomed after the 3rd tax increase "fix" which congress immediately spent all of and then some.
In actuality, the MFM is wrong about SS being in the "red". It has trillions and trillions of dollars in congressional IOUs.
What we need to do is levy a special 95% tax on all wealth of people who voted to spend that money. A tax on them and their heirs to help pay off those IOUs.
Posted by: Vic at August 15, 2010 01:08 PM (/jbAw)
Libs are so tolerant and interested in engaging in open discussions, aren't they?
A pal of mine from Indiana was in KC recently and posted on his Facebook that the RNC was in town. He saw John Sununu and asked his FB friends for suggestions on what to say about it. Now I know this guy is basically a lib, but he's kind of a nice guy, into geeky things (like SCA) and whatnot. Anyway, what followed was a set of the most outrageous set of "suggestions" including pissing on the Republicans etc.
So eventually I post "Hey, JOHNDOE, don't you know any Republicans? There are quite a lot of them. They vote and everything." To which he replies in a somewhat sheepish and friendly way.
But, get this, several of his FB friends (people I don't know from adam) blocked me. I know this because I used to be able to read their comments, but now I just see reference to them on the threads and can't see their pages any longer.
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 01:10 PM (osFsP)
yes I was...you missed the ONT here where we had contests to see who could get banned the quickest during one of Chuckles' breakdowns....
again not tooting my own horn but for a while i was a favored poster in some circles for my historical analysis of the roots of the problem....
can't wait for Chuckles to figure out he hitched his horse to Thelma and Louise's wagon back in '08.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 01:10 PM (kq1lG)
Sure, Obama's 'trickle-up' economics are far superior than Reaganomics.
Taking away money from the producers and giving it to the non-producers is the engine behind a robust GDP.
Right?
Posted by: see dick run after jane's ass at August 15, 2010 01:11 PM (UQjUb)
I was about to say, "would be nice if it were able to be done under the Constitution" but Obama took care of that with chiseling the Chrysler bondholders didn't he?
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 01:11 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: stephen hawking, man of science at August 15, 2010 05:05 PM (m+HVS)
Tell me how my ass tastes.
Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at August 15, 2010 01:12 PM (w9BEi)
Sometime in the future:
The Obama sheeple believed that Emperor Hussein Louie , Queen Nancy and Prince Harry’s socialist fascist policies had been visionary and brilliant and would have soon succeeded in reshaping Amerika, except for being betrayed by devious bloggers such as the seditious Ace of Spades and his fellow travelers, the infamous ‘Stab in the Back’ theory. (Similar to the myth and betrayal theory [Dolchstosslegende] popular in Germany in the period after World War I which attributed Germany’s defeat to a number of domestic betrayals instead of failed geostrategy.)
This ‘Stab in the Back’ theory would become hugely popular among many neolib internet web sites such as DailyKos and HuffintonPuff and neolib radio talk show hosts and many neolibs in the MSM who found it impossible to accept the fact that Emperor Hussein Louie, Queen Nancy and Prince Harry’s socialist fascist policies had been very ill advised.
During the rapid decline of public support for these socialist fascist policy fiascos, many Neolibs became obsessed with this idea, especially laying blame on what they called “traitors”, “reactionaries”, “Zionists”, “capitalist pigs” and “Bible clingers” in America for undermining the socialist fascist effort. To the Neolibs, and so many of their followers, their fellow Americans, the clear majority of whom did not support Emperor Hussein Louie, Queen Nancy and Prince Harry’s socialist fascist policies, would become known as the ‘Reactionary Criminals’.
Posted by: ChehirelCat at August 15, 2010 01:12 PM (BIDGX)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 15, 2010 01:12 PM (5I/OY)
---i was on a hill last time douchebag, tell the REAL story. nothing like letting FACTS get in the way huh?
Posted by: stephen hawking, man of science at August 15, 2010 01:13 PM (m+HVS)
I'm here, too.
Ed "Pillsbury Doughboy" Morrissey apparently hates nipples.
Posted by: Martha Stewart's Middle Nipple at August 15, 2010 01:14 PM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: Vic at August 15, 2010 01:16 PM (/jbAw)
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 01:17 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 05:04 PM
Were you sven on LGF? Truly remarkable how that place hit the schitz. Everyone I liked left or were banned (myself included). I am glad that I found AofSHQ. "Charles Johnson is an emotional six-year-old with extraordinary powers to control the blog where he rules by simply wishing away people and things that anger or confound him. Charles has the mind and imagination of a typical lunatic. The people at LGF have to look like lizards all the time, think lizard thoughts, and say lizard things, because thatÂ’s what Charles commands and, if they disobey, he can wish them into a cornfield from whence they are never to be seen or heard from again. What few adults remain try nervously to think like lizards and tell Charles that heÂ’s a good boy, hoping that CharlesÂ’s terrible power wonÂ’t be turned upon themselves.
Posted by: ChehiireCat at August 15, 2010 01:17 PM (BIDGX)
No, see, Bob Fosse .... it was decided in Bella Abzug v. State of New York .... Andi's beagles greet each other ....
I am not going to look at The Lidless Eye. Your point is bullshit.
Posted by: Arbalest at August 15, 2010 01:17 PM (gma26)
Posted by: unknown jane at August 15, 2010 05:04 PM (5/yRG)
I had a similar experience in gardening chat. i was talking oak trees, and hostas
gardening for gds sake!
Obama came up again..I asked if they read his book,, er yes and They thought He was awesome, I'm like okay then. ayers and friends , Mr Wright a horrible horrible evil lie !
sometimes i think kool-aide was a real thing.
it became Obama all.the.time! and racist to anyone that said hey c'mon now.
Posted by: willow at August 15, 2010 01:18 PM (SbsTp)
That is evil and cruel. Maybe even racist in some way I haven't figured out yet.
But oh, Jeebus is it funny!
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 15, 2010 01:20 PM (Ulu3i)
I think a lot of people would be happy to live in the city where you can do stuff and not even own a car which is a huge expense. But the commies have simply made it too costly to live there through a variety of things.
Things like being soft on criminals, taxes, rent control, green spaces, and the list goes on forever. Speaking of which I laughed this morning at an article on Fox concerning a "small town" in SC that was passing another anti-immigrant" (illegal) law. They were talking about Summerville which is about 15 miles down I-26 from Charleston.
Yeah, small town alright.
Posted by: Vic at August 15, 2010 01:21 PM (/jbAw)
Yeah, small town alright."
yeah im in myrtle beach, i think the media wants to wholly denegrate the movement. by making it seem like small towns, they want others to look at it as insignificant dribble from hicks. so stupid.
Posted by: stephen hawking, man of science at August 15, 2010 01:23 PM (m+HVS)
I've never been to San Fran or, for that matter, California, but folks sure do make it sound unappetizing.
A few days ago FNC did a bit on Venice Beach, and it was appalling. I'm glad I was listening in the truck and not watching it on t.v. because I can only imagine what the folks looked like.
They were talking about how the homeless have created permanent RV "communities" on the streets there. And, not just on the beaches, but into the neighborhoods as well. They are pooping in the homeowners' yards. When they interviewed one jackass he said, I swear... "If they don't like people using their yards, then they should put a porta-potty in their back yard. If they can afford $1200 a month rent, they can afford a porta-potty."
Talk about shit... I damned near shit my pants from laughing.
No. It's not funny. It's absurd. But it's so absurd and so beyond reasoned thought that I just burst out laughing. I'm still laughing.
The folks in the car next ot me must have thought I'd lost my mind.
Posted by: Ms. Benes, if you please at August 15, 2010 01:24 PM (eczD3)
Posted by: sifty at August 15, 2010 01:26 PM (LlGH/)
part of why I encourage people to learn canadian, brazillian, or *shudder* even mexican as a back-up....
last night some poster thumped their chest about "conservative democrats-yes we exist" and the only proper reply is "congrats so how does it feel to be Nancy Pelosi's chief enabler?'
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 01:27 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties at August 15, 2010 01:29 PM (qz76e)
But it's so absurd and so beyond reasoned thought that I just burst out laughing. I'm still laughing.
Don't be surprised if some of the homeowners put outhouses and dig shittin' holes in their front yards. They are that ca-ray-zee. The Left-fu is strong in them.
And they think you're nuts, racist, homophobe, misogynist, sexist, did I miss any??? I can't keep track with all the names the tolerant left calls us.
Posted by: gator at August 15, 2010 01:29 PM (aOKEC)
the morons keep putting the same idiots in charge homeowners may well be using the port-o-johns and slit trenches themselves to conserve water.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 01:31 PM (kq1lG)
I went to SF numerous times in the early 1970s, and loved it. It's a beautiful city, and at the time the quirks of the natives were fun and harmless.
At the same time, I was living just a few minutes' walk from Venice (CA), and dated a girl who lived there. It, too, was eccentric in a harmless way; some of the same characters you can find today (when you wade through the various low-lifes and hangers-on who have "discovered" the place since) still hang out on Ocean Front Walk.
The day-to-day wackos aren't the problem...it's the "tolerance"-pushing left-wing nazis who screw things up for people who are different yet somehow able to coexist with more mainstream folks.
Hose both places down, send the friggin' libs back to their flower-painted VW buses and est seminars, and both could be wonderful again.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 15, 2010 01:34 PM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: Pecos Bill at August 15, 2010 01:35 PM (8WOM0)
the morons dumb motherfuckers keep putting the same idiots in charge homeowners may well be using the port-o-johns and slit trenches themselves to conserve water.
Damn right. Can you believe all those Earth-killer farmers want to hog all the water and kill that tiny, soon-to-be-extinct fish? The gall.
Every day that goes by convinces me the American borders will change in our (born in '72, too) lifetimes. If we don't die in the camps, that is.
Posted by: gator at August 15, 2010 01:36 PM (aOKEC)
Oh, one more thing: from what I hear (I'm not anywhere near there -- or California -- any longer), $1200/month wouldn't rent you a mailbox in Venice or Santa Monica these days.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 15, 2010 01:37 PM (Ulu3i)
Broccoli cheese rice, spinach salad, and a falling-apart tender pot roast that's been cooking since before I went to work. Damn I love slow food.
Time for a cocktail, methinks.
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 15, 2010 01:38 PM (zGZG3)
If we don't die in the camps, that is.
I'll die on the streets, but I'm taking some of the c*cksuckers with me.
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 15, 2010 01:39 PM (zGZG3)
What we talking about now?
San Francisco, green dipshit footballs for some retarded reason, Mortis Liz and Lili, and your sister.
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 15, 2010 01:40 PM (zGZG3)
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 01:41 PM (osFsP)
406...
It doesn't buy/rent much in Jax, FL. either. That was just another part of the absurdity.
What the hell do they do about their children? Hold it a minute, honey. You can't play in the yard yet. Daddy has to go out there with the plastic baggies, the Lysol and the water hose first.
Posted by: Ms. Benes, if you please at August 15, 2010 01:44 PM (eczD3)
I've never seen anything like it.
They take turns flying through the water then perch in the low hanging limbs, flap their wings and sing like crazy.
Posted by: Beto at August 15, 2010 01:46 PM (H+LJc)
Posted by: Dang Straights
Good idea. *pours Pama and soda*
Off-topic, again, but after test-driving a 2010 Grand Cherokee - after having driven the 2011 earlier in the week - there is no comparison. Mr. Y-not is going to try to get into one, if he can get a good enough deal on a Laredo. 'Wish we could afford the fancier trim model but we just can't. We like it better than the Lexus RX350, even in terms of the ride.
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 01:49 PM (osFsP)
I've never seen anything like it.
We have a family of a dozen or so quail who do the same thing. They look so delicious... er, cute.
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 01:50 PM (osFsP)
I rented a place out in Union City for $350/month but that was 25 miles down the road. I can't imagine what an apartment in Venice Beach rents for now. You may be able to get a small dump for $1200/month.
Hey, was that a joke? Rent a dump so someone can take a dump?
Posted by: Vic at August 15, 2010 01:52 PM (/jbAw)
Posted by: PC Czar at August 15, 2010 01:55 PM (UPNlB)
Turns out to be a fine place to retire to,although not MY choice. The Committee decided we needed to be closer to the kids, so here we be. Being a redneck from a small town anyway, the fit (for me) is fine.
And the major malls are close enough to keep the city-born love of my life happy.
Posted by: irongrampa at August 15, 2010 01:59 PM (ud5dN)
I made Fajita Wraps El gringo...
1 lb of 2 cut roast beef
1 bag of kraft 5 cheese pizza shredded
1 bottle of your favorite marinade
onion
pan fry the roast beef shredding it one it is brought to brown over medium heat....
add favorite marinade
cook in cheese serve on flour tortillas....
ole....
I particularly like the A-1 Chicago steakhouse one....
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 01:59 PM (kq1lG)
421...
I have the 2008 Rocky Mountain Edition Grand Cherokee, 4x2, 6 cyl. and I couldn't love it more. Consumer Reports consistently gives it the lowest scores among SUVs, which is surprising, because everyone I've ever known to own one sings high praises. If I were to buy a new vehicle, I woudn't hesistate to buy another.
As for the prices...you can negotiate a faaaar better price than you may think. I you wait and purchase at the end of the model year, shoot for about 30% off sticker price.
You'll be surprised.
Posted by: Ms. Benes, if you please at August 15, 2010 02:01 PM (eczD3)
We would love to do that and that's why we test-drove the 2010 (there are huge incentives on the 2010s right now), but it really doesn't hold the candle to the 2011. At least not for our purposes. Mr. Y-not needs something that will cruise on the highway really comfortable, but that will not blink twice about going up a rugged, unfinished road in bad weather. And we would enjoy the chance to be able to be more adventurous in our travels.
I *think* we can afford a slightly equipped Laredo, certainly with the U-connect feature, but maybe with the back-up camera and a few other goodies. We'll see. If not the back up plan is a certified used RX350. There's a lot of those available around here. Apparently the rich folks lease them for a couple of years but only use them at Park City, so they tend to be low mileage and in great condition.
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 02:05 PM (osFsP)
AHA! Found the video!
He did say "$1200 a month".
To him, it seems like a lot of money, because he's probably never had a job or paid taxes.
Posted by: Ms. Benes, if you please at August 15, 2010 02:08 PM (eczD3)
I posted this previously, and reposting it because it is a serious security issue. If you purchased an Iphone or any other high tech phone you probably want to know about this. Enough of the serious stuff, now for something I thought was funny.
Posted by: PC Czar at August 15, 2010 02:10 PM (UPNlB)
428...
I hope you can get just what you're looking for. Two options that came with mine that I never thought I'd use have been use to no end: remote start and heated seats.
Here in North Florida, it doesn't often get cold, but when it does it's miserable. I can park my truck in the lot and then start it from the 27th floor. It's either toasty and warm or refreshing and cool by the time I get to it. And, my mother, during her last year of life, was constantly cold, even in the Summer. I could turn on the ac, close her vents, and turn on her heated seat and we were both comfortable.
Somethinf else, I love the electrical plugs. No more inverters or extra chargers necessary.
Posted by: Ms. Benes, if you please at August 15, 2010 02:15 PM (eczD3)
Yeah, I expect we'll use those in Utah. They also have heated mirrors. Pretty cool. Yeah, and the real plugs/outlets plus the U-connect/wireless internet thing are cool too.
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 02:21 PM (osFsP)
No, it just means you can afford to shop based on politics. I can't.
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 02:21 PM (osFsP)
but hey at least some REMF e-8 or O-5 will get his bronze star for keeping the mess hall well stocked and orderly.
Without them, it's MREs.
Posted by: baldilocks REMF--not a cook; born in '61 at August 15, 2010 02:23 PM (ayoxv)
Posted by: Muckraker at August 15, 2010 02:28 PM (6K81O)
437 Monks Making Pine Caskets SCAM!! What's Next? Old Ladies Making Quilts For Unwed Mothers?
Next thing you know, they'll be going after little six year old girls' lemonade stands
Posted by: beedubya at August 15, 2010 02:45 PM (AnTyA)
Y-not, I cant afford crap right now, let alone based on politics.
I have heard through the grapevine that the gov owned car companies are starting to obsolete replacement parts for their products in as little as four years after said vehicle was produced.
So..Buy a new car/truck today. Scrap it in 4 years.
At least you can still get some parts for an older ford chev for now.
But I wonder..For How Long?
Posted by: Long Hair'd Country Boy at August 15, 2010 02:46 PM (7j6BQ)
437...
Unbelievable.
When my mother was approaching the end we got Hospice involved. One of the things that they strongly encouraged was to conduct research and make make funeral decisions early. I just couldn't bear it. They told me that making arrangements with a clearer mind, in advance, would not speed up my mother's death. In the end my mother had made it clear that she wanted the simplest cremation available and that's what I provided. Hospice was not allowed to make a recommendation of services, but did have a business card handy. I went with that company and have no regrets. Her memorial was held at her best-friend's home.
Looking back, I realize just how maliable we are during such a time. The vultures who seek to make a prime-rib dinner of us while at our weakest and most confused state will have to face justice one day. Unfortunately, for now, the unions are calling the shots.
When my time comes, I want my daughter to do the same for me: Keep it simple. The last thing I want her to do is go into debt out of guilt or obligation.
Posted by: Ms. Benes, if you please at August 15, 2010 02:48 PM (eczD3)
Posted by: Long Hair'd Country Boy at August 15, 2010 06:46 PM (7j6BQ)
Meh...no biggie on that...that just opens the door for after-market entrepreneurs
Posted by: beedubya at August 15, 2010 02:49 PM (AnTyA)
We appreciate your endeavor and for making our sick, pathetic lives only a little sicker but marginally less pathetic.
Posted by: Beto at August 15, 2010 02:52 PM (H+LJc)
The MFM, they just can't help themselves.
Posted by: Interesting Decision at August 15, 2010 02:53 PM (epj36)
By FDR and the Democrats.
Posted by: davidt at August 15, 2010 03:00 PM (HtIec)
The MFM, they just can't help themselves.
Posted by: Interesting Decision at August 15, 2010 06:53 PM
Maybe the people back then knew something we -- and the media -- don't know today?
The mistake made in WWII was that no one in authority bothered to notice the Japanese who came to this country, became citizens and learned American values were active supporters of the USA.
If there are any such people among the Muslim population today, putting allegiance to this country ahead of their obeisance to a primitive and often savage system, they're damn hard to find. I know they exist; I'd feel better if they were as open about it as the Japanese-Americans of the 1940s.
I'm not sure I'd be against booting non-citizen Muslims the hell out of the country.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 15, 2010 03:01 PM (Ulu3i)
The first week at my new restaurant was a long one. The kitchen hits 118 degrees (measured by the meat thermometer that hangs at eye level) and it's the most fast paced job I've ever had.
Thankfully, the girls are cute and I'm employed. It's a good kind of tired.
Posted by: ErikW at August 15, 2010 03:06 PM (4S8fC)
Posted by: Y-not at August 15, 2010 03:07 PM (osFsP)
Thanks, Y-not. I hesitate to call myself a chef as I've had no formal training but I have learned under some amazing chefs. The food tends towards upscale using French techniques but the owners let us be creative. It's a 200 year old inn and pretty fun to work at, so far. No crazies yet.
Posted by: ErikW at August 15, 2010 03:15 PM (4S8fC)
Posted by: Interesting Decision at August 15, 2010 03:16 PM (epj36)
Posted by: Moi at August 15, 2010 03:23 PM (Ez4Ql)
Posted by: Vic at August 15, 2010 03:30 PM (/jbAw)
372 I've been tempted many a time -- but the administrators on the site are 1)pretty cool; it's like an AoS for horse folk; 2) a lot of the people are pretty conservative anyway; 3) the owner of the place is a personal friend. I don't really want them having to deal with the hassle.
Besides, I can handle myself relatively well on there -- it just gets really, really old.
Posted by: unknown jane at August 15, 2010 03:36 PM (5/yRG)
Posted by: Interesting Decision at August 15, 2010 03:44 PM (epj36)
The truth is that a little over 100,000 people of Japanese descent were relocated from a 50 mile corridor along the West Coast. 1/3 of which were actual Japanese citizens who had been caught in the U.S. at the start of the war.
They were relocated to communities in the interior where available and compensated for lost property. Some were placed in communal camps as a temporary measure until community housing became available.
The second generation American citizens were allowed to come and go from these camps as they pleased and were urged to move out if they found a place away from the coast. Actual Japanese citizens were kept in camps but they were not ringed in barbed wire.
The relocation was based on actual intelligence findings that there were thousands of spies mixed in with these people who could be relied on for intelligence for the Japanese military.
Counter that with how Americans were treated in Japan. They were placed in actual prison camp and treated like POWs. American women were used as "comfort women" for the Japanese military.
As with all else the MFM spreads it is all lies and distortions. The sad thing is that 50 years from now only the people who actually take the time to research obscure texts will know the truth. The media will have obscured all. It is already happening in front of our faces.
Posted by: Vic at August 15, 2010 04:07 PM (/jbAw)
So Genghis will be doing that and pitching in posts too here and there.
I was never happy to lose him so I'm happy he'll be returning.
Wait a minute...Genghis isn't a woman?
Posted by: Rocks at August 15, 2010 04:42 PM (xXyXP)
Sven, I would say that I realized that I would probably not reap the benefits from SS and Medicare, even though I'd been paying into them, when I was working for a medical clinic in CA and there were several elderly patients from China, India, Russia, etc., whose children lived in CA and with whom they were brought to live, who were receiving Medicare and SS checks who hadn't themselves paid one cent into either.
Posted by: TheresaD-BitterClinger at August 15, 2010 05:20 PM (K9XK2)
You can get the headlines from here. You just have to use the "syndicate this site" link from the minx.cc pages (like this one) rather than the mu.nu home page.
I asked Ace about that a while back, but I think he's too shy to have his site syndicated, because he never never answered.
The HA headlines for the blog and top pics are standard Atom feeds, but the others aren't. That said, you add enough RSS feeds and you'll get the news before it shows up there.
I now have about 160 feeds, organized into 14 pages. Feedly is awesomely awesome.
Posted by: GulfCoastTider at August 15, 2010 06:03 PM (bv1hq)
glad you answered....yeah this problem started under LBJ....
the system was designed to fail.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 15, 2010 06:53 PM (kq1lG)
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