June 29, 2010

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— Gabriel Malor

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1 Chaos in Europe continues.

Strikes in Athens, Greece, turn violent as police fire tear gas and stun grenades to disperse armed rioters http://bit.ly/ajLIdU

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 29, 2010 05:04 AM (9hSKh)

2 horse boy should be called horse man....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at June 29, 2010 05:05 AM (ucxC/)

3 No big news today.

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2010 05:05 AM (6taRI)

4

Since they probably weren't trying any harder to destroy this country than the idiot lefties expertly led by Barry - The Pro From Dover and competence personified, I really truly find it hard to feel too antagonistic to that Russian spy cabal... well one of them, for sure.

http://tinyurl.com/297lgqr


 

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 29, 2010 05:09 AM (RkRxq)

5 Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 29, 2010 09:09 AM (RkRxq)

Ah, the old "honey trap".

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2010 05:11 AM (6taRI)

6

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 29, 2010 09:09 AM (RkRxq)

Anna Chapman. Well, hello, Comrade! I have some "state secrets" to share with you. Meet me at...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 29, 2010 05:12 AM (i3AsK)

7 Some mothers are just absolutely bonkers.  WTF was she thinking?

Utah Mom Accused of Doctoring Photo to Show Girl, 13, Having Sex With Dog

A Utah mom allegedly doctored a pornographic photo of a woman having sex with a dog, superimposing into the picture the face of a 13-year-old girl who attends middle school with her daughter.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 29, 2010 05:12 AM (9hSKh)

8 I am not an animal...

...I am a human being!

Posted by: Horseboy at June 29, 2010 05:12 AM (wDhX2)

9 5 Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 29, 2010 09:09 AM (RkRxq)

Ah, the old "honey trap".

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2010 09:11 AM (6taRI)

Hell, she is more of a capitalist than most Americans are, certainly more than Barry is - $2 million real estate business (not to mention hawt!)

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 29, 2010 05:14 AM (RkRxq)

10 Utah Mom Accused of Doctoring Photo to Show Girl, 13, Having Sex With Dog
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 29, 2010 09:12 AM


Poseurs.

Posted by: Elephant Man at June 29, 2010 05:15 AM (wDhX2)

11 ...and by "state secrets", I mean highly classified documents produced by our operatives in Thailand, who can't be named, or even identified sexually. It's on the DVD that I will show you when you arrive. Bring some of that taste of the Fatherland with you, glorious Valu-Rite.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 29, 2010 05:16 AM (i3AsK)

12

I am not an animal...

...I am a human being!

Shame really, considering how much fun you could have if you were on the endangered species list. 

Posted by: Stuck on Stupid at June 29, 2010 05:16 AM (e8T35)

13 Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 29, 2010 09:12 AM (9hSKh)

She should have asked for a change in venue to another State.  In Utah she'll be lucky if the jury doesn't go for the death penalty. 

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2010 05:19 AM (6taRI)

14

Barry giving any speeches today?

I find myself looking forward to him telling us how much his plans and programs are doing for us - about how on top of everything he is - about how many jobs he's creating - about how great a job the government is doing on everything and how much better our lives would be if the government could just do more - about how much safer we are in the world now that Barry is on watch, from morning 'til dusk, under 'smart diplomacy'.

The f--king dude is a riot!  I'm tellin ya.

Cracks me up.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 29, 2010 05:20 AM (RkRxq)

15

$2 million real estate business (not to mention hawt!)

 

I'll have to admit that I might tend to buy a house from her when I mightn't from someone else.

Posted by: pendejo grande at June 29, 2010 05:21 AM (ipxsa)

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at June 29, 2010 05:24 AM (0fzsA)

17 The Cost of Unions.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at June 29, 2010 09:24 AM (0fzsA)

Oh goodie!  More stuff we'll be taxed to pay for when govt's fail to be able to meet contractual obligations!

I'm giddy!

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 29, 2010 05:27 AM (RkRxq)

18 Utah women participate in hateful smears while here in SC they fully embrace the hate and sell their children:

CHESTER, S.C. — A South Carolina woman has been accused of trying to sell a teen in exchange for crack cocaine.

The Herald of Rock Hill reported a 32-year-old Chester woman is charged with illegal neglect toward a child. She was being held in the York County jail Tuesday.

http://tinyurl.com/276zbkc


Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2010 05:28 AM (6taRI)

19

Strikes in Athens, Greece, turn violent as police fire tear gas and stun grenades to disperse armed rioters

 

Well, that's certainly unexpected...

Posted by: Jess at June 29, 2010 05:31 AM (WSIyX)

20 The custard man seems capable of closing a valve.
Biden and Obama are up to their asses in spilled goo.
So who's the smartass, and who's the smart guy in this situation?

Isn't it past time for the administration to call on Joe the Plumber to spread the competence around?

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at June 29, 2010 05:32 AM (a5ljo)

21 But I don't want to go to jail today !

So Obama's out having burgers with a foreign commie leader who is literally running Jon le Carré rings around him?  I'd say I'm shocked but who could be at this point?

Posted by: The Lady in Red at June 29, 2010 05:39 AM (B8ZBN)

22 In Utah she'll be lucky if the jury doesn't go for the death penalty.

For Photoshop?  Barry's speech-squelchers just got boners.

Posted by: HeatherRadish, obsessed with frozen desserts at June 29, 2010 05:40 AM (mR7mk)

23

Oh goodie!  More stuff we'll be taxed to pay for when govt's fail to be able to meet contractual obligations!

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber


The productive class must pay for the leisure class.  It's for the children.
...and it's Patriotic.


Posted by: Lemon Kitten at June 29, 2010 05:42 AM (0fzsA)

24 Yeah, the NY Post got all those hawt spy pics. Ace will be all over that this afternoon.

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2010 05:42 AM (6taRI)

25 Bad horse!
  Bad horse!
Bad horse!
  Bad horse!

He rides across the nation
The thoroughbred of sin
He got the application
You just sent in

It needs evaluation
So let the games begin
A heinous crime, a show of force
A murder would be nice of course

Bad horse!
  Bad horse!
Bad horse!
   HeÂ’s Bad!

The Evil League of Evil
Is watching so beware
The grade that you receive
Will be your last we swear

So make the Bad Horse gleeful
Or heÂ’ll make you his mareÂ….

YouÂ’re saddled up
ThereÂ’s no recourse
ItÂ’s Hi-Ho Silver
Signed Bad Horse

Posted by: apotheosis at June 29, 2010 05:42 AM (xWk3U)

26 Russian national Anna Chapman — a 28-year-old divorcee

I'd feel sorry for the poor bastard who paid the mail-order bride site $50k + expenses because she wanted legal US residency, but for the whole buying a nubile young woman thing.

Posted by: HeatherRadish, obsessed with frozen desserts at June 29, 2010 05:43 AM (mR7mk)

27

This kind of reminds me of "What about the WMD in Iraq!!!" hysteria, except... you know...  without the hysteria!

You can tell it's a slow news day when HuffPo prints just any ole' BS the administration feeds them.

http://tinyurl.com/2gyqbc8

 

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 29, 2010 05:43 AM (RkRxq)

28 Scottish Horsey Head guy reminds me of an old music video, but I can't think of what.  Early '90s-ish. hmmm

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at June 29, 2010 05:50 AM (HaYO4)

29 #27  A ready-made excuse to leave Afghanistan early?

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 29, 2010 05:50 AM (9hSKh)

30 After reading that article in the NY Post I wondered exactly what the feds have on this babe. There is no mention of any actual spying at all.

If all they have is her passing notes back and forth via a computer she will surely walk.

Could this be a high profile "let's take their minds off what we are doing in the DOJ" case?

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2010 05:50 AM (6taRI)

31

The undercover instructed her on how she would recognize her fellow spy and how to report back on the handoff, the feds said.

"HavenÂ’t we met in California last summer?" the spy expecting the fake passport was supposed to say. Chapman was to respond, "No, I think it was the Hamptons," according to the FBI.

Chapman allegedly was also supposed to hold a magazine under her arm so her counterpart would recognize her, and plant a stamp on a wall map indicate the handoff was a success.

Seriously?

Posted by: The Cookie is in the Jar at June 29, 2010 05:50 AM (B8ZBN)

32

People on the right are acting shocked and incredulous about this;

http://tinyurl.com/2a7khmu

But hey, I believe him.  I mean it could happen, couldn't it? 

Look - how many of us truly remember who we worked for last year while we were in that crack induced coma?

See!  Not so far fetched afterall. 

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 29, 2010 05:52 AM (RkRxq)

33 whoops - previous via Instapundit.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 29, 2010 05:52 AM (RkRxq)

34 Foooorrrrreeeee!!!!!!

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 29, 2010 05:53 AM (RkRxq)

35 "A South Carolina woman has been accused of trying to sell a teen in exchange for crack cocaine. The Herald of Rock Hill..." A crack ho in Rock Hill? Sounds like either a new song or a new TV series. I heard her chakra got released but she couldn't make bail.

Posted by: KilltheHippies at June 29, 2010 05:54 AM (y/+ik)

36 I mean it could happen, couldn't it?

You've never had $37k in direct deposits to your checking account and not noticed?  Pish.

Posted by: HeatherRadish, obsessed with frozen desserts at June 29, 2010 05:54 AM (mR7mk)

37

Elena Kegan is the Hottest Nominee for the Supreme Court, evah!

I could really go for a Fish Taco...

Posted by: Rachel Maddow at June 29, 2010 05:55 AM (5B0NM)

38 Um, how much for a Russian bride?

Posted by: Al Gore at June 29, 2010 05:55 AM (kFytp)

39 What is ACORN up to now? Watch the video at www.ACUACORNAction.org to find out what ACORN has become. Track former leaders to ensure that we know when ACORN attempts to create new groups using fake names to continue their work.

Posted by: Kyle Galatro at June 29, 2010 05:57 AM (RzuZ5)

40

The Dow's down nearly 200 points in the first half hour of trading.

Say it with me: Wheeeeeeeeee!

Posted by: Joanna at June 29, 2010 05:57 AM (HaYO4)

41 You've never had $37k in direct deposits to your checking account and not noticed?  Pish.

A mere three grand a month showing up in my account with an on-line description reading Deposit - SEIU for an entire year?  Must have missed it.  My bad.

Posted by: Democrats apparently have short memories at June 29, 2010 05:58 AM (B8ZBN)

42 Is it wrong that I think Elena Kagan has the face of a mean lunch lady and the voice of a pissed off Metro announcer?

Posted by: LincolnTf at June 29, 2010 05:58 AM (Um3jj)

43 "If I ask you to release the "Deepak Chakra," that means three fingers, no thumb. You respond with a wink and a nod.

Posted by: Al "Deep Cover" Gore at June 29, 2010 05:58 AM (GwPRU)

44 Posted by: Rachel Maddow at June 29, 2010 09:55 AM (5B0NM)

You'll have to wrestle me nude on a plastic sheet covered with oil to get to her !

Posted by: Ellen DeGenerate at June 29, 2010 05:59 AM (B8ZBN)

45 U can haz me for one bottle of vodka.

Posted by: Mail Order Russian Husband at June 29, 2010 06:00 AM (Aqv3Q)

46 The web is a really wonderful place to get information for free. Except when you are looking for procedures for Austempering 4140 alloy steel, then the fuckers want your credit card number.

Posted by: maddogg at June 29, 2010 06:00 AM (OlN4e)

47 3 No big news today.

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2010 09:05 AM (6taRI)

What about the commie spies? Funny how everyone is sooo surprised we have commies in our midst.  Straight from the no shit file.  

Posted by: dananjcon at June 29, 2010 06:00 AM (pr+up)

48 Tipper and the "amicable separation" must hold a record for weakest/earliest-to-expire MSM meme. They gave a full court press on behalf of their fella, but now it's just a comedy show.

Posted by: LincolnTf at June 29, 2010 06:01 AM (Um3jj)

49
State budgets are busted and broke, yet it seems school programs are the first to get the ax.

Why?

Why can't we cut spending here and here?

Greg Royer (VP business and finance at Washington State University)  ranks among the stateÂ’s top-paid employees, with a salary of $304,000. But thatÂ’s just part of his income. For nearly seven years, heÂ’s also collected an annual pension of $105,000.

So, while the media portray little kids losing important school programs, people like Greg Royer pull in $304,000+ of our tax payer money. 


And Claire McCaskill's aide makes how much?






Posted by: Lemon Kitten at June 29, 2010 06:02 AM (0fzsA)

50 Sessions just took Elena to the woodshed a bit.

Posted by: LincolnTf at June 29, 2010 06:03 AM (Um3jj)

51

You know, I get a little tired of some of the high browed pundits on the right who keep peddling the bs about how calling this administration socialist, or how Barry is out to diminish this country, or how pointing out how radical this administration is, somehow cheapens our argument against Obama and his ilk.

All I have to say to them is that if it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck...

http://tinyurl.com/27bb6x7

And it scares the shit out of me about where this country is headed.  We're competing with Hugo effing Chavez, for crying out loud!  And he's making us look like bigger clowns than he is.  Shit!  He goes out of his way to look ridiculous, and Barry makes him look like a novice.

Sultan Knish

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 29, 2010 06:04 AM (RkRxq)

Posted by: HeatherRadish, obsessed with frozen desserts at June 29, 2010 06:04 AM (mR7mk)

53 Me and Kagan used to roleplay in college. She was Japan, I was Godzilla.

Posted by: Rosie at June 29, 2010 06:04 AM (Aqv3Q)

54 43 threadwinner

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at June 29, 2010 06:04 AM (mHQ7T)

55

What about the commie spies? Funny how everyone is sooo surprised we have commies in our midst.  Straight from the no shit file.  

I'm surprised they are even called spies. They're probably consultants for the admin.

Posted by: dagny at June 29, 2010 06:14 AM (bWy5B)

56 They're probably consultants for the admin.

Naah, it appears that they were too "capitalist" for this admin.

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2010 06:15 AM (6taRI)

57 55

What about the commie spies? Funny how everyone is sooo surprised we have commies in our midst.  Straight from the no shit file.  

I'm surprised they are even called spies. They're probably consultants for the admin.

Posted by: dagny at June 29, 2010 10:14 AM (bWy5B)

It will be interesing to see who has been in contact with these pinko's. And for what reason(s)

 

  

Posted by: dananjcon at June 29, 2010 06:16 AM (pr+up)

58 42 Is it wrong that I think Elena Kagan has the face of a mean lunch lady and the voice of a pissed off Metro announcer?
------------------
She looks like The Penguin to me.

Posted by: Anachronda at June 29, 2010 06:18 AM (LD+ZJ)

59
The Cold War almost seems quaint, now that the statists have taken over the gubmint.

We didn't let capitalism in, we let the communists out.

Posted by: Dang Straights at June 29, 2010 06:18 AM (fx8sm)

60

Perestroika!!

 

Posted by: dananjcon at June 29, 2010 06:29 AM (pr+up)

61

Damn!  Those Rusky spies sound like Obama speechwriters:

http://tinyurl.com/2cluek9

He lost a few votes there!

HotAir

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 29, 2010 06:29 AM (RkRxq)

62 46 The web is a really wonderful place to get information for free. Except when you are looking for procedures for Austempering 4140 alloy steel, then the fuckers want your credit card number.

Posted by: maddogg at June 29, 2010 10:00 AM (OlN4e)

According to my copy of Machinery's Handbook, you need .60% carbon content for austempering.  4140 only has .40% carbon content.  Also, it says it's mostly for low-alloy content steels.  I don't think 4140 qualifies.

You can buy pre-hardened 4140 stock, but it's not terribly hard.  It actually machines pretty nice.

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at June 29, 2010 06:32 AM (IoUF1)

63 New nickname for Obama: Obogey

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at June 29, 2010 06:33 AM (Yq+qN)

64

Is it wrong that I think Elena Kagan has the face of a mean lunch lady and the voice of a pissed off Metro announcer?
------------------
She looks like The Penguin to me.

Posted by: Anachronda at June 29, 2010 10:18 AM (LD+ZJ)

Rush says she looks like Lou Costello.

News Busters has a pic of her where she looks like Fred Flintstone.

With tits.

Wearing Wilma's pearl necklace.

Posted by: Ed Anger at June 29, 2010 06:34 AM (7+pP9)

65 Remember whne the Gores got divorced and I gushed at how great their marriage was? Well I hope none of you are waiting for any front page stories on Al's second chokra, ain't gonna happen.

Posted by: The MFM at June 29, 2010 06:34 AM (Aqv3Q)

66 Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2010 09:28 AM (6taRI)

My sacred honor compels me to admit that I had an inappropriate physical relationship with the crackwhore you mentioned.

Posted by: Will Folks at June 29, 2010 06:35 AM (IoUF1)

67

Dow headed for -300! 

This "Summer of Recovery" is a carnival ride!

 

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 29, 2010 06:36 AM (RkRxq)

68 YouÂ’re saddled up
ThereÂ’s no recourse
ItÂ’s Hi-Ho Silver
Signed Bad Horse

Posted by: apotheosis at June 29, 2010 09:42 AM (xWk3U)

Argh.. Verse...

Posted by: Stuck on Stupid at June 29, 2010 06:36 AM (e8T35)

69

"Duran Duran video?"

No, it was something they played on 120 Minutes on Mtv, '90-'92, I think.  I think they had dog heads, instead of horse heads. Dammit, it is driving me nuts!

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at June 29, 2010 06:37 AM (HaYO4)

70

My sacred honor compels me to admit that I had an inappropriate physical relationship with the crackwhore you mentioned.

Or you can take the Clinton approach.  "I did not have sexual relations with that woman!  I had sexual relations with that one over there, and that one, and that one, and the one that just left the office, and about 3 dozen others who's names I can't remember, but definately not that woman."

 

 

Posted by: Stuck on Stupid at June 29, 2010 06:38 AM (e8T35)

71 Cons nearly destroyed the free world

Posted by: Ridinke at June 29, 2010 06:39 AM (sAwen)

72 Happened to be channel surfing last night, and saw Kagan ordering up a set of Brontosaurus Burgers with Wilma, Barney and Betty.


Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at June 29, 2010 06:39 AM (eCAn3)

73

"Duran Duran video?"

No, it was something they played on 120 Minutes on Mtv, '90-'92, I think.  I think they had dog heads, instead of horse heads. Dammit, it is driving me nuts!

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at June 29, 2010 10:37 AM (HaYO4)

Eh...Sweet Dreams by Annie whats her face??

Posted by: dananjcon at June 29, 2010 06:41 AM (pr+up)

74
News Busters has a pic of her where she looks like Fred Flintstone.

I think she looks more like Wilma's mother, Pearl.

Posted by: Dang Straights at June 29, 2010 06:41 AM (fx8sm)

75 72 Cons nearly destroyed the free world

Posted by: Ridinke at June 29, 2010 10:39 AM (sAwen)


Yeah those pesky Cons killed so many people in China, they don't even know if it's 35 million or 70 million murdered! BASTARDS!

Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at June 29, 2010 06:41 AM (eCAn3)

76 I think Kagan looks like the fat woman Arnold disguised himself as in Total Recall. Two weeks.

Posted by: The MFM at June 29, 2010 06:42 AM (Aqv3Q)

77 Cons nearly destroyed the free world

Good luck in the labor camps.

Posted by: Soap MacTavish at June 29, 2010 06:43 AM (554T5)

78 72 Cons nearly destroyed the free world

Posted by: Ridinke at June 29, 2010 10:39 AM (sAwen)

Holy shit!  Certainly can't contend with an argument like that! 

And to think we wasted this whole thread. 

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 29, 2010 06:43 AM (RkRxq)

79

So we have spies that look like Valerie Plame.

The Russians have spies that look like Anna Chapman.

Game, set, match to the Russians.

Posted by: CDR M at June 29, 2010 06:44 AM (y67bA)

80
Holy shit!  Certainly can't contend with an argument like that! 

I personally was crushed by the logic.  I might need a fainting couch.

Posted by: Dang Straights at June 29, 2010 06:45 AM (fx8sm)

81

According to my copy of Machinery's Handbook

You people really scare me.. lol..

Posted by: Stuck on Stupid at June 29, 2010 06:45 AM (e8T35)

82 Wearing Wilma's pearl necklace.

I just had the most horrible mental picture of the Judiciary Committee, Kagan, and bukkake.

I'm going to go give myself high-voltage electroshock therapy in the lab now, until it goes away.

Posted by: HeatherRadish, obsessed with frozen desserts at June 29, 2010 06:45 AM (mR7mk)

83 "Good luck in the labor camps."

Labor camps like in Upton Sinclairs "The Jungle"?

Posted by: Ridinke at June 29, 2010 06:45 AM (sAwen)

84

"Sweet Dreams by Annie whats her face??"

Eurythmics?  No, that's not it.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at June 29, 2010 06:45 AM (HaYO4)

85 Posted by: HeatherRadish, obsessed with frozen desserts at June 29, 2010 10:04 AM

For once, I agree with Al!

Aside from being an ugly lefty wacko, having a terrible voice, being totally inexperienced and as full of dung as a public latrine, I suppose Kagan would be okay. For the Supreme Court of Venezuela.

Posted by: MrScribbler at June 29, 2010 06:46 AM (Ulu3i)

86 "Sweet Dreams by Annie whats her face??"

Liebowitz?

Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at June 29, 2010 06:47 AM (eCAn3)

87 72 Cons nearly destroyed the free world

Posted by: Ridinke at June 29, 2010 10:39 AM (sAwen)

BRILLIANT!!

 

Posted by: dananjcon at June 29, 2010 06:50 AM (pr+up)

88

"Snoop Dog / Doggystyle"

C'mon! I said 120 Minutes, not Yo! Mtv Raps.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at June 29, 2010 06:50 AM (HaYO4)

89
it was something they played on 120 Minutes

Ren and Stimpy?  Aeon Flux?

Posted by: Dang Straights at June 29, 2010 06:50 AM (fx8sm)

90

I personally was crushed by the logic.  I might need a fainting couch.

Sorry, they were all destroyed by the Cons - either that or the Legion of Doom got them.  Either way, were fresh out of fainting couches.  Can I show you something in a comfy recliner perhaps?

Posted by: Stuck on Stupid at June 29, 2010 06:52 AM (e8T35)

91

According to my copy of Machinery's Handbook, you need .60% carbon content for austempering.  4140 only has .40% carbon content.  Also, it says it's mostly for low-alloy content steels.  I don't think 4140 qualifies.

You can buy pre-hardened 4140 stock, but it's not terribly hard.  It actually machines pretty nice.

The elements molybdenum and chromium affect the austemperability. I've austempered O-1 tool steel successfully. The alloying agents drive the Ms line down. 4140 is a medium alloy. My metallurgy books don't mention a .6% carbon rquirement.

Yes, I've machined hardened and tempered 4140, but when tempered to machinable hardness, RC-30 or so, you give up quite a bit of strength. 4140 is capable of up to 200 ksi when fully hardened, and the advantage of Austempering is to get the hardness without brittleness. That's why I'm interested in that process.

Posted by: maddogg at June 29, 2010 06:52 AM (OlN4e)

92 Cons not only destroyed the world, but also bankrupted Greece, caused Obama's deficits, forced Oama to abandon any pretense of bipartisanship, and want children to die with no health care.

Posted by: The MFM at June 29, 2010 06:53 AM (Aqv3Q)

93 DEBKA says the USS Nassau is cruising within striking distance of Iran. That's 4000 Marines. Hmm... http://goo.gl/ZqUa

Posted by: Bugler at June 29, 2010 06:55 AM (VXBR1)

94

86 Yes

88 No

Posted by: dananjcon at June 29, 2010 06:56 AM (pr+up)

95 Bow to your master

Posted by: Mammon at June 29, 2010 06:57 AM (sAwen)

96 Annie Lennox

Posted by: Captain Hate at June 29, 2010 06:57 AM (md/wF)

97 Give Al a break.  If you were imprisoned with married to Tipper for all those years, your chokras would need some special attention too.

Posted by: Dax at June 29, 2010 06:58 AM (HfydS)

98 #85

Something they didn't teach you in HS Socialist Study Class. 

Sinclair was a lying Commie.

http://tinyurl.com/25bb69w

Posted by: Kemp at June 29, 2010 06:58 AM (vSiVD)

99

DEBKA says the USS Nassau is cruising within striking distance of Iran. That's 4000 Marines. Hmm...

ROTLMAO - right, like we have a Commander in Chief with the stones to issue that order.  Please, if he sends anything over to Iraq it will be a nice fruit basket, maybe some assorted fragrances and a handwritten note saying something to the effect of, "Please be our friends.  Oh, and BTW, would you mind terribly giving up your nuclear weapons program?  Thanks, B."

Posted by: Stuck on Stupid at June 29, 2010 06:58 AM (e8T35)

100 Caught the first bit of today's edition of the Kagan hearings. Sessions was grilling her on whether she would consider herself as a progressive.

Her response: "I don't know what that term means."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 29, 2010 06:59 AM (P9+0W)

101 Labor Camps as in the Gulag Archipelago.

Posted by: Gaff at June 29, 2010 07:00 AM (jDWYv)

102
Her response: "I don't know what that term means."

So she's a liar too, imagine that.  Can't believe she worked for Clinton.

Posted by: Dang Straights at June 29, 2010 07:00 AM (fx8sm)

103 So she's a liar too, imagine that.  Can't believe she worked for Clinton.

Yeah, the last big liberal nominee did nothing but lie at the hearings. It got so bad he almost turned the Dems against him.....almost.

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2010 07:03 AM (6taRI)

104

Posted by: maddogg at June 29, 2010 10:52 AM (OlN4e)

O1 has .9% carbon though.  That's a pretty big difference.

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at June 29, 2010 07:03 AM (IoUF1)

105

Maddogg, is 4140 what we used to call "brake die" metal? It's been a while, but I've flame hardened that with a blowtorch.

If it's the same thing.

The first tool and die shop I worked in had its' own little area for heat treatment. We'd harden oil and air cooled parts ourselves. It was close enough for what we were doing, mostly running our own dies on our own presses.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 29, 2010 07:03 AM (i3AsK)

106 #104

Labor camps as in FDR's CCC or Obama's "Organizing for America" summer camps.
 
http://tinyurl.com/24fs3h7

Be afraid, be VERY afraid.


Posted by: Kemp at June 29, 2010 07:03 AM (vSiVD)

107 Labor camps like in Upton Sinclairs "The Jungle"?

Posted by: Ridinke at June 29, 2010 10:45 AM (sAwen)

Countering real world situations with works of fiction?  Fucking brilliance.  You believe everything by that lying whore Rigoberta Menchu too, right?

Posted by: Captain Hate at June 29, 2010 07:05 AM (md/wF)

108 Labor Camps as in the Gulag Archipelago.


SEE! SEE! YOU LIE! CONS ALWAYS LIE, YOU LIAR! THE GULAG WASN'T ON ANY ISLANDS, IT WAS IN SIBERIA. EXCEPT THAT THERE WEREN'T ANY CAMPS, NO GULAG. THEY WERE BEACHSIDE RESORTS IN THE STEPPES. YOU LIE!

Posted by: Lefty McDouchebag at June 29, 2010 07:05 AM (P9+0W)

109 #111

Fixed link.

http://tinyurl.com/36jl36z

Let's all sign up!

Posted by: Kemp at June 29, 2010 07:05 AM (vSiVD)

110 96 DEBKA says the USS Nassau is cruising within striking distance of Iran. That's 4000 Marines. Hmm...

Two things:

a)  It's DEBKA - needs a secondary source.

b) Symbolic showing of strength.  President Present is voting present again.

Hope to be shown wrong on this, but even past patterns...

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 29, 2010 07:06 AM (9hSKh)

111 Bow before me and work hard and your just reward will be yours

Posted by: Mammon at June 29, 2010 07:09 AM (sAwen)

112 "Posted by: Stuck on Stupid at June 29, 2010 10:58 AM (e8T35)" I'm not sure how important it is that the Nassau is deployed, but I'm not laughing about it.

Posted by: Bugler at June 29, 2010 07:09 AM (VXBR1)

113 #115

I agree. Didn't someone mention that one of these carriers (TR?) is ending its deployment and returning to Norfolk? 

I wouldn't see the point of having these carriers in missile range of Iran if Israel was going to attack.

"The One" sure as hell is not going to help out.

Posted by: Kemp at June 29, 2010 07:10 AM (vSiVD)

114
Solzhenitsyn was a dangerous reactionary and counter-revolutionary, tovarisch.

Posted by: Dang Straights at June 29, 2010 07:10 AM (fx8sm)

115
AoS could've been one of the first blogs to post Rick Santelli's "STOP SPENDING" tirade.

Looks like we'll have to wait until everyone else posts it to see it on AoS.

Posted by: ewaste at June 29, 2010 07:11 AM (uFokq)

116 Anyone catch Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney on Fox this morning?  Wow.  I wanted to reach through the TV and high-five him.  He just basically laid out how the Barky administration needs to quit calling the Afghanistan war an "overseas contingency operation" and kill the Taliban and nation-build later.  He really railed on the ROE and how Petraeus was lambasted by the libs (Barky included) during the Iraq surge. 

Like Gen. Petraeus has a snowball's chance in hell of getting done what needs to get done.  Not with Jugears in the Oval.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 29, 2010 07:11 AM (UOM48)

117 "Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 29, 2010 11:06 AM (9hSKh)" Agree, Kratos. It's Debka. Still, the rumors are flying, and this is one more.

Posted by: Bugler at June 29, 2010 07:12 AM (VXBR1)

118 Here is Debka link.

http://tinyurl.com/25qdec4

Posted by: Kemp at June 29, 2010 07:13 AM (vSiVD)

119
oh, and Larry Kudlow is FINALLY coming around. Larry is finally admitting that Obama's policies are making everything worse.

When you've lost Larry Kudlow...

Posted by: ewaste at June 29, 2010 07:13 AM (uFokq)

120

O1 has .9% carbon though.  That's a pretty big difference.

Yeah, it is, but I chose O-1 because the alloying agents calculated to drive the Ms line down to around 450 deg. F. A temperature I could achieve in my home workshop with ordinary oils and tools. The oil oxidizes quickly though and becomes burned with the boric acid contamination used to prevent oxidation in the forge.

I still think 4140 can be austempered. These guys claim to be doing it.

 

Posted by: maddogg at June 29, 2010 07:14 AM (OlN4e)

121

If you look at the Jerusalem Post front page: "Deportation means death".

DHS is still pushing for the deportation and certain assassination of the HAMAS double agent.  Meanwhile, Tariq Ramadan is welcome.

Everything Obama does helps the Muslim Brotherhood.  It's too consistent to be a coincidence. 

Posted by: Beagle at June 29, 2010 07:19 AM (sOtz/)

122

To any Obama supporters still stupid enough to be monitoring this thread:

Be afraid!

http://tinyurl.com/27o8yu4

Be very afraid!

I said before that y'all suck.  It appears I was only scratching the surface.

Life in Israel

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 29, 2010 07:20 AM (RkRxq)

123

i love the smell of bacon in the morning...........   good morning morons....

Posted by: Racefan at June 29, 2010 07:20 AM (k7Nsb)

124

Actually "Hamas prince: deportation is death". 

 

Posted by: Beagle at June 29, 2010 07:22 AM (sOtz/)

125 maddogg, the whole business of putting specifications behind paywalls in very frustrating. We try to keep a younger guy in school so he has access to that stuff, can review it - then we only buy what we need.

Posted by: Jean at June 29, 2010 07:23 AM (l1XDC)

126
the whole business of putting specifications behind paywalls in very frustrating.

Aren't there things made of paper and glue that contain this information?  I used to remember something like that, long ago.  Legend has it that people used to do this thing called 'reading' but I kind of doubt it.

Posted by: Dang Straights at June 29, 2010 07:25 AM (fx8sm)

127

Somehow this and this seem to belong together.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 29, 2010 07:25 AM (RkRxq)

128 I just read something disturbing.  It seems that Gilligan's island was not that stupid after all.  It was a morality tale.  Each of the seven characters represented one of the seven deadly sins.  Gilligan = sloth.  The Skipper = anger.  The Professor = pride.  Mr. Howell = greed.  Mrs. Howell = gluttony (not in the overeating sense but in the extravagant living sense).  Ginger = lust.  Mary Ann = envy.  When they couldn't get off the island, it was because their sins prevented them from succeeding.

P.S.  Horseboy is obviously the love child of Mr. Ed and Sarah Jessica Parker.

Posted by: WalrusRex at June 29, 2010 07:27 AM (xxgag)

129 We must pray and not be tempted by the evil doers, who only seek to enslave our bodies to do their will.

Posted by: Sarah at June 29, 2010 07:28 AM (sAwen)

130
Somehow this and this seem to belong together.

That explains burqas.

Posted by: Dang Straights at June 29, 2010 07:28 AM (fx8sm)

131 Nice 133, nice. Dead on.

Posted by: Sarah at June 29, 2010 07:29 AM (sAwen)

132 These lefty fucktards crack me up. We have hundreds of millions of real people murdered by the communists, millions more murdered by banning DDT, and the entire economy of the globe hitting the toilet because of socialist/marxist/communist policies and dictators and they bring up an early 20th century work of fiction as an argument.

Posted by: dagny at June 29, 2010 07:30 AM (E1hYk)

133 Aren't there things made of paper and glue that contain this information? 

*lol* 

Cheaper to ship a PDF than a thousand pages of paper.  Easier to correct errata, too.

Posted by: HeatherRadish, obsessed with frozen desserts at June 29, 2010 07:30 AM (mR7mk)

134 134 We must pray and not be tempted by the evil doers, who only seek to enslave our bodies to do their will.

Posted by: Sarah at June 29, 2010 11:28 AM (sAwen)

but as a kid i always wanted todo Mary Ann..........  was that wrong?

Posted by: Racefan at June 29, 2010 07:31 AM (k7Nsb)

135
Who knew a remake of One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest was in the works, and Nurse Ratched would appear before Congress to explain why a sex change operation is an equal rights issue.

Posted by: Fish at June 29, 2010 07:32 AM (v1gw3)

136 "but as a kid i always wanted todo Mary Ann..........  was that wrong?"

You God forsaken miscreant, cast out your demons of fleshly temptation.

Posted by: Sarah at June 29, 2010 07:34 AM (sAwen)

137 130 maddogg, the whole business of putting specifications behind paywalls in very frustrating. We try to keep a younger guy in school so he has access to that stuff, can review it - then we only buy what we need.

Posted by: Jean at June 29, 2010 11:23 AM (l1XDC)

Coming out of the company's pocket is one thing, coming out of mine is something else. Heh. Though my little home projects are a source of experience that influences what I do at work often.

Posted by: maddogg at June 29, 2010 07:35 AM (OlN4e)

138 CONNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Posted by: Captain James T. Raygun, Space Cadet at June 29, 2010 07:35 AM (2PTT7)

139 a sex change operation is an equal rights issue.

Does anyone actually argue that individuals should not be allowed to voluntarily enter into an agreement with a licensed surgeon to alter their own body at their own expense?

Do whatever you want with your bits.  Just leave me out of it, and that includes my tax dollars.

Posted by: HeatherRadish, obsessed with frozen desserts at June 29, 2010 07:36 AM (mR7mk)

140 yeah right..........  i will do that when i stop eating bacon and stop looking at girls boobies.

Posted by: Racefan at June 29, 2010 07:36 AM (k7Nsb)

141 Cons nearly destroyed the free world

Posted by: Ridinke at June 29, 2010 10:39 AM (sAwen)


Unassailable logic bullshit.

Posted by: huerfano at June 29, 2010 07:37 AM (rqC5o)

142 I knew a girl in college who looked exactly like Kagan. I wouldn't be the least surprised if they were cousins. She was a left-tard too. She was so ugly that after discovering that the foreign deckhands on a cruise would sleep with her, she would drive to the ports to have sex with them. I don't know if she paid them. I can't keep this image out of my head whenever I see Kagan.

Posted by: dagny at June 29, 2010 07:37 AM (E1hYk)

143

Cons nearly destroyed the free world.

The FREE world?


 

Posted by: dagny at June 29, 2010 07:39 AM (E1hYk)

144

You God forsaken miscreant, cast out your demons of fleshly temptation.

Ok, I'll be in my bunk, casting away.

With a picture of Mary Ann.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 29, 2010 07:41 AM (i3AsK)

145 Damn it, how many times does it have to be said that the US ship movements are friggin' normal!!!!  Jeebus.  Our current President would NOT have the stones to actually deploy two Strike Groups in a show of force either.  Remember, this is the same media that keeps getting surprised about our negative monthly economic data.

Posted by: CDR M at June 29, 2010 07:42 AM (y67bA)

146 Cons, I am not stupid enough to be your leader. So, for the good of the teabagger party, I will seek a lobotomy.

Posted by: Sarah at June 29, 2010 07:43 AM (sAwen)

147 BREAKING!!!

Ace posts a thread BEFORE NOON!!

Really, go look!

Posted by: Kemp at June 29, 2010 07:43 AM (vSiVD)

148 It's always "Ginger or Mary Ann".  What about Lovey?  Once you get past the boa feathers she could really release a chakra!

Posted by: Ashton Kutcher at June 29, 2010 07:47 AM (lKDF0)

149

So is the San Diego Comic-Con the end of the world as we know it?

That is just so unexpected...

Posted by: HH at June 29, 2010 07:49 AM (6oDXl)

150 What the fuck would make you fucking people HAPPY?

My dawg needs to be put down.

Has needed it since about 5 weeks ago.

Oh. so sorry!

I've been importune with my requests, haven't I?

Let's just wait until Monday to have a chat, shall we?

Oh, 8AM Monday, well, that seems kind of extreme, what your asking for and all, can you hold on and wait about 8 hours or so 'till we can fit you in in our schedule?

So, anyway.

I missed my 4 PM "appointment" with the "special vet".

I just got drunk as hell trying to fill up the endless hours between 6 AM and KILLING MY DOG.

WTF is wrong with you assholes?

If I think that my dog needs some killing, why can't I be first on the visitor list?

Nooo!  Stupid, Deety has a boring fucking dog.  She can wait.

We've got more interesting cases to attend to.

I'm so frustrated and upset about this whole thing, that I'm perfectly willing to hang myself, at this point.







Posted by: Deety at June 29, 2010 07:50 AM (aVzyR)

151 ""These lefty fucktards crack me up. We have hundreds of millions of real people murdered by the communists, millions more murdered by banning DDT, and the entire economy of the globe hitting the toilet because of socialist/marxist/communist policies and dictators and they bring up an early 20th century work of fiction as an argument.""


No shit. I had a GOOD history teacher that covered that book in high school.  He spend an entire marking period teaching us about the progressives and why they suck. I wish there were more like him today.

Posted by: Berserker at June 29, 2010 07:51 AM (gWHrG)

152

Posted by: CDR M at June 29, 2010 11:42 AM (y67bA)

Not only are they normal right now, but a Gator Freighter is the LAST ship you want in the area if it the ball goes up.

4000 Marines is not enough to project power into Iran itself, so its basicly just a big floating High Value target. Heck, if the Iran/Israel ballon was about to go up, you'd want those Marines sitting in the Med, where they could quickly deploy into Israel (to help defend).

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2010 07:53 AM (77Zbc)

153 Joanie, was it a Midnight Oil video?

Posted by: flashbazzbo, s.e. at June 29, 2010 07:53 AM (i0rVe)

154 Sorry about your dog Deety.

Posted by: Sarah at June 29, 2010 07:56 AM (sAwen)

155

Posted by: Deety at June 29, 2010 11:50 AM (aVzyR)

Deety, do you have a dumb Freinds League in your area?  If so, they do euthanasia (and when I dealt with them, were very cool about the whole thing).

That, or go see a different Vet.

 

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2010 07:58 AM (77Zbc)

156

"Joanie, was it a Midnight Oil video?"

No. I'm thinking it was an Afghan Whigs video or some similar band.  I have about 30+ tapes of 120 Minutes from that time period.  I'm gonna have to check when I get home so I can sleep tonight. 

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at June 29, 2010 08:01 AM (HaYO4)

157 Does anyone actually argue that individuals should not be allowed to voluntarily enter into an agreement with a licensed surgeon to alter their own body at their own expense?

Posted by: HeatherRadish, obsessed with frozen desserts at June 29, 2010 11:36 AM (mR7mk)

I'll argue that body alteration is something I can reluctantly tolerate, but only if it is not used to mislead others.  Some kinds of fraud are too much!  Going out on a date with an ugly woman is bad enough - one shouldn't have to wonder whether it really IS a woman.  Thanks to the abuse of modern medicine yet another dreadful variable has entered into human existence.

 

Posted by: Reactionary at June 29, 2010 08:03 AM (xUM1Q)

158 I think I should be the next supreme court justice. Either that or president.

Posted by: Sarah at June 29, 2010 08:07 AM (sAwen)

159 Thanks, Sarah.

She was a fine and an exceptionally handsome dawg!

Everyone remarked about her good looks!

In addition to her cutey-pie freckle face, she was kind of distinctive in the way that she wore her insanely athletic hind leggers.

She just exuded "robustness" in her day!

She should have been in commercials.

Not so much now.







Posted by: Deety at June 29, 2010 08:15 AM (aVzyR)

160 That stupid Gore story is just mutating into a horrid monster.

Drudge has a link to York's update, pointing to this:

"Finally she got away. Later, she talked to friends, liberals like herself, who advised against telling police. One asked her "to just suck it up; otherwise, the world's going to be destroyed from global warming.""

Woah. Rape isn't something to be concerned about if your attacker is a Leftist? WTF?

Seriously, Lefties, you are all fucked in the head.

Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at June 29, 2010 08:18 AM (N/7an)

161 "Not so much now."

We are all on the same rode.

Posted by: Sarah at June 29, 2010 08:20 AM (sAwen)

162 Woah. Rape isn't something to be concerned about if your attacker is a Leftist? WTF?

Seriously, Lefties, you are all fucked in the head.

Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at June 29, 2010 12:18 PM (N/7an)

There's controlling legal authority for this.  See Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton.

Posted by: Al Gore at June 29, 2010 08:21 AM (xxgag)

163 Cons, wouldn't you rather have hot and dumb as supreme court justice, rather than smart and not so hot?

Posted by: Sarah at June 29, 2010 08:22 AM (sAwen)

164 I bet the typing telephone pole can't touch her toes.

Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at June 29, 2010 08:23 AM (N/7an)

165 Axelrod to Jon Stewart: Yeah, well I mean, I would argue that we have shown a baseline level of competence.
  Those TV spots just write themselves, don't they?  Obama:  Baseline Level of Competence!     Those airline passengers that were forced to cannibalism in the Andes mountains ... it turns out that they were eating tofu-pilot.

Posted by: Cincinnatus at June 29, 2010 08:24 AM (r60xu)

166 "No. I'm thinking it was an Afghan Whigs video or some similar band." 120 minutes was the only MTV I would watch at the time. I was a regular in the eighties. I'd wish for Driver 8 or some other early REM, and sometimes be surprised with a Cramps video or P.I.L. if they were really going all out.

Posted by: flashbazzbo, s.e. at June 29, 2010 08:28 AM (i0rVe)

167 Cons, you must elect me, so I can finish w's work. The lord has spoken to me, and I am his chosen one.

Posted by: Sarah at June 29, 2010 08:35 AM (sAwen)

168 Maddog, /b/tard, backwards, do you know anyone hiring?  Location not important.  I'll be haunting the yahoo group.

Posted by: Cincinnatus at June 29, 2010 08:35 AM (r60xu)

169 Now, even the super-athletic, "Wonder of the World", two decades running, champion of the Universe!

Is kind of a weird bag of, smelly surprises.

I'm not kidding, I don't even want to touch her head right now, and comfort her, lest the stench of death clings to me.

Okay, I don't want to but I will.

I'm gonna change into different clothes right now...

Posted by: Deety at June 29, 2010 08:36 AM (aVzyR)

170 170 Cons, wouldn't you rather have hot and dumb as supreme court justice, rather than smart and not so hot?

Posted by: Sarah at June 29, 2010 12:22 PM (sAwen)

How about Hot and Smart... vice what Obama has put up... ie Ugly and Dumb.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2010 08:38 AM (77Zbc)

171 "lest the stench of death clings to me."

One by one
It comes to us all
It's as soft as your pillow

Posted by: Sarah at June 29, 2010 08:45 AM (sAwen)

172 Cincinnatus, what is your line of work?

Posted by: Sarah at June 29, 2010 08:49 AM (sAwen)

173

"120 minutes was the only MTV I would watch at the time. I was a regular in the eighties. I'd wish for Driver 8 or some other early REM, and sometimes be surprised with a Cramps video or P.I.L. if they were really going all out.

Posted by: flashbazzbo, s.e. at June 29, 2010 12:28 PM (i0rVe)"

I missed the Kevin Seal hosting years (except for Post Modern Mtv). Didn't start watching until Dave Kendall took over.   Taped it religiously every week. I think that's what's wrong with me.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at June 29, 2010 08:53 AM (HaYO4)

174 Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

Cons, you can't take it with ye.

Posted by: Sarah at June 29, 2010 08:59 AM (sAwen)

175 175 Maddog, /b/tard, backwards, do you know anyone hiring?  Location not important.  I'll be haunting the yahoo group.

Posted by: Cincinnatus at June 29, 2010 12:35 PM (r60xu)

No. Sorry.

Posted by: maddogg at June 29, 2010 09:10 AM (OlN4e)

176

Mechanical drafting, I'm finishing up an associates degree in mechanical engineering.

Posted by: Cincinnatus at June 29, 2010 09:31 AM (r60xu)

177 Maoist rebels killed at least 27 paramilitary troops in an ambush in eastern India on Tuesday, the latest in a series of bold attacks by the guerrillas, a senior police official said.

A 50-strong patrol of the Central Reserve Police Force was ambushed Tuesday evening on a routine patrol in a densely forested area in the Narayanpur district of Chhatisgarh state, said Sunder Raj, a senior local police official. Ten other troops were wounded, he said.

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called the rebels the country's greatest "internal security threat."

By  INDRAJIT SINGH, AP
Washington Post
__

NAXALBARI (1967): THE NAXALITE MOVEMENT IN INDIA

The birth and development of the Naxalite movement under the leadership of the CPI(M-L) should also be located in the contemporary global context of the [Marxist revolutionary] 1960s.

Ironically enough, although the uprising in Naxalbari in May 1967 was crushed by the police within two months, the Naxalite ideology gained rapid currency in other parts of West Bengal and India within a few years.

Their main support base in these states are the poorest and the most deprived classes – the landless and tribal people who are ousted from their homes by up-coming industrial projects, are being denied access to their traditional forest resources, regularly exploited by landowners and money lenders and persecuted by the police, and who continue to suffer from non-availability of education and health facilities in their far-flung and inaccessible villages.

Instead of fully implementing land reforms to alleviate their grievances - as suggested by many impartial observers as well as its own previously mentioned committee of 1969 - the Indian government chose the simplistic path of military suppression of peasant grievances. It unleashed a reign of terror on the Naxalite bases and the villagers who supported them. In Srikakulam, para-military forces swooped down upon Girijan  villages, arrested thousands of young tribals, captured and killed their Naxalite leaders, and resorted to the policy of setting up `strategic hamlets' (as the US did in Vietnam) where entire tribal villages were removed, so that the mass base of the CPI(M-L) could be dispersed. In Birbhum in West Bengal, the Indian army was deployed to encircle the Naxalite-controlled villages, close in and kill the leaders. Thousands of their Santhal tribal followers were thrown behind bars.

By 1972, the Indian state had succeeded in defeating the Naxalite rebellion  to some extent – its main trophy being the capture of the ideologue Charu Mazumdar from a Calcutta hideout on July 16, 1972. Mazumdar died in police custody 12 days after his arrest – raising suspicions about the treatment meted out to him by the police. ...By 1973, the number of Naxalite activists and supporters held in different jails all over India had swelled to 32,000. News of their ill-treatment compelled more than 300 academics from all over the world including Noam Chomsky and Simone de Beauvoir to sign a note protesting against the Indian government's violation of prison rules, and send it to New Delhi on August 15, 1974 – the 27th anniversary of India's Independence day. A month later, Amnesty International released a damning report, listing cases of illegal detention and torture of Naxalite prisoners in Indian jails. Such attempts by academics and human rights organizations – whether in India and abroad – to highlight the plight of these prisoners, were soon snuffed out by the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, when she declared Emergency on June 26, 1975, which imposed censorship on publication of news, apart from clamping down upon public demonstrations of protest. With military suppression of their bases in the villages, dissemination of their leaders by the police, dissensions within their ranks, and choked out from any democratic avenue of expressing their grievances, the Naxalites reached the end of a phase of their movement in the late 1970s.

Apart from expanding their guerilla zones within India, the PWG, MCC and other smaller armed Communist groups have been able to build a network with similar Communist revolutionary organizations in the neighbouring states of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Nepal under the banner of the Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organizations of South Asia. Their representatives met in a guerilla zone in eastern India in July 2003, to chalk out future strategy of coordination of their activities. All these South Asian Maoist parties are also members of a larger international organization called the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement.

But even if the movement declines and is suppressed, its ideology will continue to threaten the Indian ruling powers as long as they fail to put an end to the grinding poverty and social oppression that crush the Indian poor. Their pitiable living conditions nourish the soil for the rejuvenation of Naxalism. What is peculiar to Naxalism is not the physical occupation of and administrative control over land by its leaders and followers, but its lasting popularity among the economically impoverished and socially oppressed rural people.

To understand today's India, it is essential to listen to these voices that describe the tortuous odyssey of a political movement that had been born from the womb of the bleeding Indian countryside.

By Sumanta Banerjee
Asia Media, News

Posted by: maverick muse at June 29, 2010 11:01 AM (H+LJc)

178 Well, it took me all day, but I finally figured out the video that the Horsey Head guy reminded me of. "Thumb" by Dinosaur Jr. http://youtu.be/TEgRdZj7LJQ

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