1 Google is evil

2 So, will the IRC be there to monitor little kids playing war in the backyard. 

3 Hi all
what a bizarre Christmas card

4 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

5 The Kluxer on the right? Might want to lighten up on the fried okra and grits.

6 A US National Guard had a swastika on it's division patch.Until,you know,the Nazis came along.American Indians considered it sacred.

7 After completing "The Arrival" DLC mission in Mass Effect 2, I think I might qualify as a war criminal.  Committng mass planetary system destruction is probably not looked upon favorably.

8 g'evening, 'rons

9 Note that for thousands of years the swastika was considered a good luck symbol until the Nazi party appropriated it in the 20's. Many early fliers had it on their planes as a good luck charm. Even KKK fliers apparently.

I had a friend in HS who was from India who lamented at times that the swastika was now such a despised symbol because of the Nazis.  The swastika is also a Chinese character that symbolizes eternity and Buddism. 

Too bad the crossed hammer and sickle is not seen with the same disgust, disdain, and fear that the swastika has today.  

10 Coincidence about the San Juan card. It turns out that the governor of Puerto Rico is a conservative and an effective one. And he's a natural born citizen by the way (all Ricans are, since 1917).

Possible Veep? Link to Rodan @ blogmocracy

11 6 A US National Guard had a swastika on it's division patch.Until,you know,the Nazis came along.American Indians considered it sacred.

Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2011 09:21 PM (7WJOC)

Isn't it still used in East Asian countries?

12 9 Yeah,responsible for even more deaths.

13 I wonder which Kluxer is Byrd?

14 I thought an Elephant Walk was walking down the grocery aisle with your pants pockets pulled inside out and your zipper open (IYKWIM)?

15 Minxsan wa kirei desu.

16 Oh, forgot-evening all.

17 Isn't it still used in East Asian countries? Posted by: buzzion at December 11, 2011 09:23 PM (GULKT) Yup, when I was stationed in Korea I saw swastikas on Buddhist temples over there. Richard Geer has a Buddhist swastika tramp stamp.

18 (OK, OK... I was kidding about the tramp stamp thing... )

19 The guy in the red shirt, how long did he last?

20 Am I the only non-Spanish speaker sick of hearing "Fleecy Navel Dad" sung each and every Christmas season on TV and in stores??

21

#7 on the puppeteer list?  Musta been a slow week.

But, like Navin Johnson, "I'm on the list.  I am somebody!"  Woot!

22 45th Infantry Division had the patch.Look it up if you are curious.

23 I saw an Indian woman in an office building wearing a dress whose fabric was a print of swastikas. I was amazed. She told me it was a sign of goodness.

24 "Fleecy Navel Dad"

I thought it was "fleas on my dog"

25 Good evening! No donations to you, ICRC and offspring!

26 This may seem a rather odd question, given the general level of public morality these days suffers in comparison with that of a colony of bare-assed baboons with puckered red sphincters, but... Wouldn't a semi-sentient girl refrain from getting a tramp stamp once she realized they're called... "tramp stamps"?

27 11Isn't it still used in East Asian countries?

Yeah, there's a silver-colored door in Hong Kong covered with them, and it sure as hell has nothing to do with Nazis.

A subtle point: isn't the Nazi one pointing clockwise, and the traditional one pointing counter-clockwise?

28 The mayor of San Juan is also a Con, btw.

Both are in the New Progressive Party which advocates statehood in the US (I don't know why, nowadays, but anyway) and free-market government.

29 Wouldn't a semi-sentient girl refrain from getting a tramp stamp once she realized they're called... "tramp stamps"? Posted by: CoolCzech at December 11, 2011 09:31 PM (niZvt) Yes. Sober.

30 It's only a tramp stamp when viewed from certain angles

31 But i was good at those games damn it.

32 29 Yes.Too nuanced for the ninny masses to notice though.

33 25 I saw an Indian woman in an office building wearing a dress whose fabric was a print of swastikas. I was amazed. She told me it was a sign of goodness. Posted by: USA at December 11, 2011 09:29 PM (6Cjut) Even the ancient Christians used swastikas as a form of the Cross. It really is disgusting how the Nazis appropriated an almost universally sacred symbol to represent their evil.

34 Tramp Stamp, Butt Hat, Ass Topper, uh Bullseye...

35 After seeing that Christmas card, wondering if the International Red Cross will be going after that mayor... wow...

36 24 45th Infantry Division had the patch.Look it up if you are curious. Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2011 09:28 PM (7WJOC) Now you've done it! (Summoned The Cat Pee Creature, that is.)

37 28 Wouldn't a semi-sentient girl refrain from getting a tramp stamp once she realized they're called... "tramp stamps"?

Are you calling me not-sentient? Whatever that means? Bastard! Say, are you going out with anyone?

38 Damn you Aaron Rodgers. Only 2 TDs against the lowly Raiders?

39 The German term is Arschgeweih.  Ass Antlers.

40 No donations to you, ICRC and offspring! Posted by: Jeremiad was a Bullfrog at December 11, 2011 09:30 PM (Og1Kk) The ICRC is a nasty, corrupt organization, much like the UN. Donations usually go to administration, with only pennies of the dollar going to actual aid for people. But because it's got Red Cross in the title, many people think it is the same as the American Red Cross, just for overseas aid. They are two totally different organizations, with vastly different goals.

41 Damn it's cold here. And there's this funny white shit all over the place, and the roads are slick and you fall on your ass if you aren't careful. Thank God for anti-lock brakes, and I'm glad the Subaru is AWD.
Evening roonz and roonettez!

42 A subtle point: isn't the Nazi one pointing clockwise, and the traditional one pointing counter-clockwise? Posted by: Splunge at December 11, 2011 09:31 PM (2IW5Q) I've heard that before, but I'm not sure. American Indians also used them, as did ancient Christians. I'm not sure the direction was consistent.

43 41 The German term is Arschgeweih. Ass Antlers. Posted by: google is evil at December 11, 2011 09:35 PM (GTbGH) Hillary's panty lines?

44 Oh apparently on Wednesday at 8 pm NFL Network is going to replay the Denver Chicago game, and they had Tebow wired for the game.

45 44 The one on the 45th Infantry patch points to the left,Nazi ones always pointed right.

46 If you were in the KKK and you and your best buds had pictures taken of yourselces in full regalia, do you label them on the back? ("LeRoy, Elmer, me, Bubba, Frogmore, SC, 1934")

47

Tramp Stamp, Butt Hat, Ass Topper, uh Bullseye...

--> no excuse for forgetting her name ...

48 47 What do you think he says when he fucks up?"Dang nabbit!""Shucks!"??

49 I had a daliance with a young "woman" what had a tramp stamp.  It just made me think that I wasn't the only guy that plowed that particlar field and the 'relationship' lasted about 5 hours.  Not marrying material, NTTAWWT.

50 I hadn't played a COD since the first one when a friend gave me Black Ops for my birthday last year.

It's embarrassing.  Like the beginning of The Naked Gun, without humor or irony.

Only the multiplayer is worth anything (not an FPS fan)

51 If you were in the KKK and you and your best buds had pictures taken of yourselces in full regalia, do you label them on the back? ("LeRoy, Elmer, Byrd, Robert, Senator me, Bubba, Frogmore, SC, 1934") Posted by: Jeremiad was a Bullfrog at December 11, 2011 09:40 PM (l75bG) FTFY

52 In some parts of FL. Tramp stamps are referred to as "Panama City licence plates".

53 Yeah, I felt I had an OK game today. Why do you axe?

54 52 ... the 'relationship' lasted about 5 hours.  Not marrying material, NTTAWWT. Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 11, 2011 09:41 PM (jucos) Just ignored the "erection lasting more than four hours" warning, did we?

55 @24, even though I am "Not Curious"...

You're both right. The 45th was raised from the New Mexico National Guard, who got it from the 'tribal culture' of NM. Some veterans of the unit get all nostalgic about losing the emblem, and would like it back.

56

Let's talk about whale tails while we're at it.

57

"Fleecy Navel Dad"

"Fleas on my Dog"

No such parody on YouTube. Astounding. Wierd Al must be slacking off/in mourning over the loss of The Gloved One.

58 Hnnah Minx looks like a teenaged Elvira, with those big eyes and great, big... tracts of land...

59

It really is disgusting how the Nazis appropriated an almost universally sacred symbol to represent their evil.

Like Obama with Pepsi.

60 Just ignored the "erection lasting more than four hours" warning, did we? Posted by: Jeremiad was a Bullfrog at December 11, 2011 09:43 PM (l75bG) That's it, Flaunt it when you got it, Baby! FLAUNT IT!!

61

Like Obama with Pepsi.

Posted by: USS Diversity at December 11, 2011 09:45 PM (PddVe)

From what I remember Pepsi willingly changed their logo to be more like Teh Wons.  I stopped drinking Pepsi and switched to RC soon afterward.

62 52 I had a daliance with a young "woman" what had a tramp stamp. It just made me think that I wasn't the only guy that plowed that particlar field

What gave it away? All the signatures under the tramp stamp?

Here's the geek version.

63 Regarding the MensHealth 100 hottest women list;

They must be Joss Whedon haters, because neither Eliza Dushku or Summer Glau were on the list

64

Fighters are OK if you want to irritate your enemy.  Bombers are the tool of choice if you wish to impose your will on the enemy and simultaneously suppress his will to fight.

[Actually have worked on lots airplanes; F-16s are nice.]

65 Did Pepsi really do that with their logo? ASSHOLES.

66 Yo, Morons

67 A stupid bitch took the word "curious" out of our vocabulary.

68

From what I remember Pepsi willingly changed their logo to be more like Teh Wons. I stopped drinking Pepsi and switched to RC soon afterward.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 11, 2011 09:47 PM (jucos)

Dr. Pepper is where it's at, especially since the diet version bears more than a passing similarity to the original.  Just sayin'.

69 What gave it away? All the signatures under the tramp stamp? Here's the geek version. Posted by: Splunge at December 11, 2011 09:48 PM (2IW5Q) Funny cartoon. I always suspected the stamp was to give a guy something to look at while he plowed the tramp from behind.

70

What gave it away? All the signatures under the tramp stamp?

The stamp said, "Enter Here".

71 That's one classy Puertoriqueno!

72

I stand corrected: --> www .youtube. com /watch?v=Ed0gBIHiO9c

Just remove the spaces ...

73 The Red Cross and Video Games - Or Why You Might Already Be a War Criminal

Hmm, I think I've got a case too!

74 Here's the geek version.

Posted by: Splunge at December 11, 2011 09:48 PM (2IW5Q)

I couldn't even read that in less than 30 seconds.....I guess I'd just have to finish faster.

75 64 From what I remember Pepsi willingly changed their logo to be more like Teh Wons.  I stopped drinking Pepsi and switched to RC soon afterward. Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 11, 2011 09:47 PM (jucos) Barky's logo has always called to mind the "hot licks" logo of the Rolling Stones more than anything else. Stands to reason, I guess, given the tongue baths he gets from the MBM and O'bots.

76 #62, Hitler was a crappy artist and after several attempts at creating a logo for the party just store the ancient symbol. It was selected for being closest to the traditional German hooked cross, which made Adolph the Asshole's selection of it even less original and more offensive.

77 68 Did Pepsi really do that with their logo?

ASSHOLES.

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 11, 2011 09:48 PM (niZvt)

You didn't notice?  I thought it was obvious, and that was confirmed when my buddy and I were discussing it, shortly after election disaster '08 when his commie wife said we were imagining things.  She's a wonderful person and a good wife to a dear friend, but if she says a thing is so, often it's a safe bet to go against her.  This was one example.

78

You're both right. The 45th was raised from the New Mexico National Guard, who got it from the 'tribal culture' of NM. Some veterans of the unit get all nostalgic about losing the emblem, and would like it back.

And this is partially right.  The 45th was organized in four states simultaneously; New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and, of course, Oklahoma.  IIRC, all were National Guard activities.  Next time you're in the OKC area, stop by the 45th museum.  It's top notch.

79 Pepsi's CEO also was lecturing people on how the US gave the world the middle finger for several years. After listening to all the progs complain about Coke supporting apartheid in South Africa, so they drank Pepsi, and then not hearing a peep about the still racist mess which exists in South Africa post apartheid, I really can't stand Pepsi drinkers anymore.

Besides Coca Cola is an American classic, and even though red is now a traditional commie color, the red reminds me of red states. So there cola wars!

80 Kunsan!!  Wonder if American Town is still exists and, if so, do they still have the free bus running from the A-Town and the base?

81 Dr. Pepper is where it's at, especially since the diet version bears more than a passing similarity to the original.  Just sayin'.

ugh
after working at a Dr. Pepper bottling plant, I won't touch the stuff

82 And here she talks about things she likes to put in her kuchi.

Um wow.

How much does it cost to fly to Japan and start stalking someone? Roughly?

83 fighters are fun, but bombers make policy

84

HI ont, how did the raiders do?

85 Good evening.

It...it happened again, didn't it?

I'm sorry, I'm sorry for all the bad things I've done.  If I had known better, I wouldn't have done them.  Why, God, hast thou putteth me in the toppeth ten?

86 85 And here she talks about things she likes to put in her kuchi.

Um wow.

How much does it cost to fly to Japan and start stalking someone? Roughly?

Posted by: Some Moron at December 11, 2011 09:57 PM (3aXbg)

I think she's in America.

87

My town had a Pepsi bottling plant. One night some guys who shall remain nameless climbed up the tower and painted "Coke" on the Pepsi logo. It was there for years. Epic caper.

88 82 Pepsi's CEO also was lecturing people on how the US gave the world the middle finger for several years. After listening to all the progs complain about Coke supporting apartheid in South Africa, so they drank Pepsi, and then not hearing a peep about the still racist mess which exists in South Africa post apartheid, I really can't stand Pepsi drinkers anymore.

Besides Coca Cola is an American classic, and even though red is now a traditional commie color, the red reminds me of red states. So there cola wars!

Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston training for the ONT mudwrestling match at December 11, 2011 09:55 PM (ijjAe)

======

Yeah, but Coke is paying the WWF to give us the polar bear/glowbull warmening fraud.

89 Besides Coca Cola is an American classic, and even though red is now a traditional commie color, the red reminds me of red states. So there cola wars!

Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston training for the ONT mudwrestling match at December 11, 2011 09:55 PM (ijjAe)

Coke has stepped on their corporate dick by offering the "save the polar bear from global warming" white cans.  I don't need a corporate entity to lecture and cajole me in much the same way I don't need stupid hollywood type idiots to preach to me.  Fuck Coke and Pepsi and most of hollywood.

90 I drink Pepsi when it is on sale and Heinz ketchup is still the best.I didn't eat Heinz for a year or more after Kerry ran.My mom refused to buy it longer than that.

91 I have just written and rejected five comments as not being funny enough for this comment section. Thanks everyone for being awesome! and good evening from a recent delurker.

92 Once again.... I did not make the list.

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at December 11, 2011 09:58 PM (qjUnn)

I'll switch with ya.

You are number six.

93

HI ont, how did the raiders do?

Sucked beyond description.  Hint: Rodgers wasn't even playing after mid-3rd quarter.

94 I used to be stationed on a 8 man Army radio site that linked Kunsan to the backbone. We used to line up matchbox cars like those F16's. A-Town. Am I right?

95 79 Hitler was a crappy artist ... Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston training for the ONT mudwrestling match at December 11, 2011 09:51 PM (ijjAe) Were he alive and here today, Adolph Schiklgruber would be a proud member of the OWS movement...

96 The stamp said, "Enter Here".

Also says, "Free of Charge".

97 ugh
after working at a Dr. Pepper bottling plant, I won't touch the stuff

Posted by: chemjeff at December 11, 2011 09:57 PM (s7mIC)

That goes for most anybody that works in food of any kind at any level.  Also, believe me, the same stuff (and maybe worse, since I don't know what you know) happens in every bottling plant.  I work with a guy who used to be with Pepsi, and I shudder at some of his stories.

98 98

HI ont, how did the raiders do?

Sucked beyond description.  Hint: Rodgers wasn't even playing after mid-3rd quarter.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at December 11, 2011 10:00 PM (7yvLv)

motherfuckers..

99 Dr. Pepper is where it's at, and "Lilies of the Field" is a fantastic flick.  I love Sidney Poitier. 

100 MissHannahMinx is a popular YouTube Vlogger. She first became noticed amongst the smoking fetish community in 2009 when she lived in Japan under the name of Laminxette, she regularly made videos of herself smoking. She then moved on to making video about Japanese culture and language removing most of the videos from her previous account and has since quit smoking.[1].

Well, I guess she had to find something else to do with her kuchi.

101 I shudder at some of his stories.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at December 11, 2011 10:01 PM (D+phB)

Did he piss in it?

He pissed in it.

I'm drinking piss, aren't I?

102 101 The stamp said, "Enter Here".

Also says, "Free of Charge".

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 11, 2011 10:01 PM (UR5vq)

====

Not if you add in the cost of your trip to the clinic.

103 Were he alive and here today, Adolph Schiklgruber would be a proud member of the OWS movement...

Posted by: Jeremiad was a Bullfrog at December 11, 2011 10:01 PM (Og1Kk)

Hey, *I* walked the walk. How many 1%ers have they killed?

104 Hannah Minx monologue: "Crunchy in my Kuchi!" "My kuchi is so happy..." "I love having candy in my kuchi..." "What do you do with YOUR kuchi?" WELL, Hannah... I like to to jam three pounds of rock hard tenderloin into it so hard and fast it queefs the first three verses of the Star Spangled Banner in stereo afterwards. Since you asked.

105 And I'll never understand Dr. Pepper drinkers.  I think they suffer from low self-esteem and suicidal tendencies.

If you see me with one it's only because I drink it reluctantly.

106 44 A subtle point: isn't the Nazi one pointing clockwise, and the traditional one pointing counter-clockwise?
Posted by: Splunge at December 11, 2011 09:31 PM (2IW5Q)

I've heard that before, but I'm not sure. American Indians also used them, as did ancient Christians. I'm not sure the direction was consistent.

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 11, 2011 09:35 PM (niZvt)

Two days ago I watched a documentary about Hitler's early days. It showed the first swastika he ever saw - on a monastery where he attended school as a kid. The swastika had the long axes at 12-6 and 9-3 on the clock (as opposed to the tilted swastika the Nazis would later use) and the arms were short, and at 45 degrees from the long axes, giving it almost a circular aspect. It was carved somewhere between the 14^th and 18^th centuries, for what it's worth.

107 Hi all, hope you are having a fanfuckingtastic good night

108 You want a Pepsi, pal, you're gonna pay for it!

109 Coca Cola is now 'saving' the polar bears?

Well shit, I guess my beverage choices will be limited to water, tea, coffee, wine, and fine scotch.

110 All those F-16s bunched up look like one big-ass target.  Who is in charge over there, some ASCOAMF?

Good evening morons.  Redskins did better than I thought they would, so cheers to that.

111 Meh,my immune system can take a punch.If you don't challenge it ,it gets weak.

112 Oh, so here's where everybody went!
 

113 You want a Pepsi, pal, you're gonna pay for it!

Posted by: Lou Caruthers at December 11, 2011 10:05 PM (DS64h)

I actually asked for a TAB.

114 No Coke, Pepsi.

115

Did he piss in it?

He pissed in it.

I'm drinking piss, aren't I?

Posted by: Robert says throw the bum knees out at December 11, 2011 10:03 PM (F79HU)

No, no piss.  Just the usual cock-ups involved in making anything.  If it makes you feel better, piss is sterile, and the low pH of cola makes it nearly impossible for any nasty little bacteria to survive in it.

116

And I'll never understand Dr. Pepper drinkers.  I think they suffer from low self-esteem and suicidal tendencies.

If you see me with one it's only because I drink it reluctantly.

Posted by: Robert says throw the bum knees out at December 11, 2011 10:04 PM (F79HU

Dr. Pepper will fix that bum knee right up, 12 oz as often as necessary to reduce pain and swelling.

117 Does Hannah Minx lurk here?

118

102   B. Meatball

I found Fleas on my Dog and saw Police at my Door (sidebar).

119 My cat attacks me when I laugh.Is that normal?

120 52 I had a daliance with a young "woman" what had a tramp stamp. It just made me think that I wasn't the only guy that plowed that particlar field and the 'relationship' lasted about 5 hours. Not marrying material, NTTAWWT. Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 11, 2011 09:41 PM (jucos) I noticed you had the word woman in in quotation marks '"woman'". I have seen "lady" in quotes and that makes sense as all ladies are women however not all women are ladies. I am pretty sure all women are women. Is there more to the story than you have explained? Were there twigs and berries?

121 I've never drunk Tab nor have I seen it on sale for at least 20 years around here.

122 The Nazi swastika is basically supposed tom be an N and an S, right?  For National Socialist.

123 Two days ago I watched a documentary about Hitler's early days.

I think I saw that one. Was this a BBC production? Or do all of them take pics of that monastery?

I'm almost willing to bet that the German authorities demand a permit to go see that part of the monastery.

124

 I didn't make the puppeht list?

damn...that's the only thing that takes the edge off of being on the 'other' list.

125 Local news report leads off with Texans hoopla.  Bandwagons circling the city.

126 122 I've heard it is better than Liquid Wrench too.

127 @126: I didn't want to embarrass Truck Monkey by asking if the "woman" was "packing," IYKWIM.

128

HI ont, how did the raiders do?

Sucked beyond description.  Hint: Rodgers wasn't even playing after mid-3rd quarter.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at December 11, 2011 10:00 PM (7yvLv)

I had mixed feelings.  Aaron Rodgers, Jordy Nelson, Janokowski and the Raider's D on the same team.  Oops.

129 Best of the day is another Tebow win.  Bwahaha!!!

130

116 All those F-16s bunched up look like one big-ass target.  Who is in charge over there, some ASCOAMF?

Near the end of certain exercises, the squadron(s) simulate a mass launch by taxiing all the ready aircraft to the runway.  They taxi down the runway to get back to their parking areas.  Trust me, they weren't out there long.  Just long enough to let all the surveillance sats in the area get a good look.  Deterrence.

131 Heh, the only quarterback this year with a higher winning percentage than Tim Tebow is Aaron Rodgers.

132 Just the usual cock-ups involved in making anything.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at December 11, 2011 10:06 PM (D+phB)

He put his cock up in it?

Jeez...

Dr. Pepper will fix that bum knee right up, 12 oz as often as necessary to reduce pain and swelling.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 11, 2011 10:07 PM (4q5tP)

A cure that's worse than the disease.  DAMN!

My cat attacks me when I laugh.Is that normal?

Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2011 10:07 PM (7WJOC)

Dude...

133

Hi all, ok now, wont get crazy again

134 135 Best of the day is another Tebow win.  Bwahaha!!!

Posted by: NC Ref at December 11, 2011 10:10 PM (WCQp7)

This.

135 My cat attacks me when I laugh.Is that normal? Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2011 10:07 PM (7WJOC) Is that a kuchi question?

136 Institutionalized

137 111 And I'll never understand Dr. Pepper drinkers. I think they suffer from low self-esteem and suicidal tendencies.

If you see me with one it's only because I drink it reluctantly.

Posted by: Robert says throw the bum knees out at December 11, 2011 10:04 PM (F79HU)

I suffer from neither of those issues, so I guess that makes me a 1%er.  Oddly, it seems that the 99% prefers half-caf free-trade whole bean Turkish roast with a touch of cardamom, served in a man's hat with a floating pear. 

138 Bob Costas has found religion?

139

Posted by: L Rob in OK at December 11, 2011 10:10 PM (7yvLv)

OK cool thanks Rob.

140 135 Best of the day is another Tebow win.  Bwahaha!!!

Posted by: NC Ref at December 11, 2011 10:10 PM (WCQp7)

You are a peach.

141 133 @126: I didn't want to embarrass Truck Monkey by asking if the "woman" was "packing," IYKWIM. Posted by: CoolCzech at December 11, 2011 10:09 PM (niZvt) I do not want to embarrass "him" / "her" either; I am only interested in hearing a good story and the anonymity of the internet allows enough leeway to tell the things that are embarassing and funny.

142 So, more than 29 flavors?

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at December 11, 2011 10:10 PM (bZ8J6)

Bonus flavors include blood, semen, pubic hair and AIDS.

143 Speaking of Elvira...

144 Tebow had better win the Super Bowl or God's gonna have some splainin to do.

145 I'm gonna watch Lilies of the Field.I remember my mom telling me it was a favorite of hers and I never saw it.Everything reminds me of her.

146

I suffer from neither of those issues, so I guess that makes me a 1%er.  Oddly, it seems that the 99% prefers half-caf free-trade whole bean Turkish roast with a touch of cardamom, served in a man's hat with a floating pear. 

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at December 11, 2011 10:11 PM

Comin' right up

147 #116 NC Ref, here they switched from Packers/Raiders to Redskins/Pats.  It was a helluva game.  I really like that Helu guy.

Plus, got to see TB get angry on the sidelines and read his lips, saying "no shit!"   At least that's what I thought he said.   

148 Oddly, it seems that the 99% prefers half-caf free-trade whole bean Turkish roast with a touch of cardamom, served in a man's hat with a floating pear. 

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at December 11, 2011 10:11 PM (D+phB)

So nothing decadent I see.

149 Well, what does everyone think of Newt's chances? Is this "Not Romney" for real, or is he on the verge of a Catastrophic Prolapse?

150 Comin' right up

Posted by: Moe the Bartender at December 11, 2011 10:13 PM (Y+DPZ)

YES!  I would have been heartbroken if nobody got that.

151 99 I used to be stationed on a 8 man Army radio site that linked Kunsan to the backbone. We used to line up matchbox cars like those F16's.
A-Town. Am I right?

Posted by: motionview at December 11, 2011 10:00 PM (i+DU3)

While at Kunsan in the very early 70s, one of my roomies would trade electronic parts to the Army artillery folks (up on the hill) who could not get support from the Army for envelopes of weed.  Enterprising folks, those Americans.

152 My cat attacks me when I laugh.Is that normal?

The cat, your true lord and master only superseded by the almighty himself, assumes you are laughing at them and thus responds accordingly to its perception of your indolence.

153 I don't know how much if anything God has to do with the Denver Broncos winning streak, but if you look at the Philadelphia Eagles "Dream Team" won-loss record, you'd have to say that The Almighty loves doggehs

154 @126: I didn't want to embarrass Truck Monkey by asking if the "woman" was "packing," IYKWIM.

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 11, 2011 10:09 PM (niZvt)

I don't know why I put woman in quotations.  She had the girlie naughty bits but seemed tough and hardened.

155

Ordinarily I'd pass on tramp stamped, boobeh tatted, pierced, skunk-haired, surgically enhanced wymen types.

But a looong dry spell has a way of reordering a man's priorities.  Ain't the forces of nature grand?

156 160 I don't know how much if anything God has to do with the Denver Broncos winning streak, but if you look at the Philadelphia Eagles "Dream Team" won-loss record, you'd have to say that The Almighty loves doggehs Posted by: kbdabear at December 11, 2011 10:15 PM (Y+DPZ) and has a sense of humor

157 Catastrophic Prolapse?

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 11, 2011 10:14 PM (niZvt)

Well, if you're gonna lapse, lapse like a pro.

As an aside, never google the term "anal blossom."  Trust me on this.

158 135 Best of the day is another Tebow win.  Bwahaha!!!

Posted by: NC Ref at December 11, 2011 10:10 PM (WCQp7)

Hey Homeowner!

Ellie's getting her papers!!! i tracked down her breeder, she went to the registry and vouched for her being the same horse they are fixing me up with DNA and blood tests already taken, they are saving me hundreds of dollars. It will end up costing 25 bucks to turn a 1$ horse into one worth 25K YAYYYY!!!!!

159 I think Pesadent Obama should enforce this rule in the US. Some of these games are mean and promote our children to do violence. A lot go in the military with the sole purpose of just killing innocent civilians in Iran and Afghanistan.

160 Hi Theresa.  Helu is kicking some ass, but I really liked that Hightower kid.  Too much, his injury killed both my FFL teams.  I should've taken the offered trades before the season started.  Dammit.  But I got a shot this week against Blades of Olympus.

161 after working at a Dr. Pepper bottling plant, I won't touch the stuff

Details please!  I love Dr. Pepper, but maybe I shouldn't...

162

Is tom brady a crybaby?

Sorry, had to be said!

Hey, do we have a candidate who can beat the scoamf?

163 I don't know why I put woman in quotations. She had the girlie naughty bits but seemed tough and hardened. Posted by: Marty McFly at December 11, 2011 10:16 PM (jucos) Under those circumstances, you're probably better off practicing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Just get the hell out of there afterwards, before you have to find out.

164 It will end up costing 25 bucks to turn a 1$ horse into one worth 25K YAYYYY!!!!!

Posted by: gushie really wants to post! at December 11, 2011 10:16 PM (QNeKQ)

Drinks are all on Gushie tonight!

165 Gushie,

Congratulations, that's incredible!

166 On the subject of corrupted symbols: I want my frickin rainbows!

167 Is this "Not Romney" for real, or is he on the verge of a Catastrophic Prolapse? Posted by: CoolCzech at December 11, 2011 10:14 PM (niZvt) I think after Super Tuesday it will be Newt vs. Rick, with all the others knocked out. Then Rick will slowly wear Newt down and take the nom.

168 Gotta go, Brother has just walked in and I'm going to chat with him a bit.

Did I say it's cold here yet? Damn, it's cold here.

Later roonz and roonettez!

169 164   Trust me on this.

When a moron says "trust me on this" for a google, I trust him on this.

170 Details please!  I love Dr. Pepper, but maybe I shouldn't...

NO DETAILS!

171

Some veterans of the unit get all nostalgic about losing the emblem, and would like it back.

Howdy, y'all.

I'd like my Rebel flag back, too. There was a time when it was just another flag, until the NAACP suddenly decided it was a symbol of racism. My second day of high school in Alabama consisted of a race riot over its use and the school's mascot, a Rebel.

172 162 Ordinarily I'd pass on tramp stamped, boobeh tatted, pierced, skunk-haired, surgically enhanced wymen types. But a looong dry spell has a way of reordering a man's priorities. Ain't the forces of nature grand? Posted by: Count de Monet at December 11, 2011 10:16 PM (4q5tP) I could not care one way or the other. I actually find them useful. I am encouraging everyone in the pool that is not an ineligible reciever from my perspective to have barcodes or qr codes in the tramp stamp area so I am able to select more quickly.

173 I vote for Dr. Pepper details.

174 after working at a Dr. Pepper bottling plant, I won't touch the stuff +++ I feel the same way about chocolate milk. If you have a craving, make it yourself or get a yoo-hoo.

175 I think after Super Tuesday it will be Newt vs. Rick, with all the others knocked out.

Then Rick will slowly wear Newt down and take the nom.

We are of one mind here.

176 Hi Gushka!  As I get myself re-organized, I'll get my pics of Ellie together.  Congratulations on a successful outcome, I saw just how much you worked save her and give her another chance.  That's awesome.

177 Ah, memories of Christmas in New Jersey .....

Dominic the Italian Christmas Donkey

178

You also don't wanna know about KFC's 11 secret herbs and spices that make their chicken Finger Lickin' Good.

Order up!

179 And Thank You!   ...forgot that, sorry....

180

Then Rick will slowly wear Newt down and take the nom.

I love an optimist.  Intermediate step; Rick will have to kick his campaign staff in the balls.

181 Why do all the good ones live in another state?  Just asking...

182 @150: did I nail her resemblance to Elvira, or WHAT?? But how could you go to that youtube link and miss the Yoga video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wwRM6z3_Co&feature=related

183 166 I think Pesadent Obama should enforce this rule in the US. Some of these games are mean and promote our children to do violence. A lot go in the military with the sole purpose of just killing innocent civilians in Iran and Afghanistan.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at December 11, 2011 10:17 PM (Te1S

Mary, sit down, because it gets worse: entire races are being slaughtered at a wholesale level, with no qualms or remorse.  Whole villages of Orcs and Elves are being put to the sword at this very moment.

184 Under those circumstances, you're probably better off practicing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Just get the hell out of there afterwards, before you have to find out.

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 11, 2011 10:17 PM (niZvt)

Back when I was in college the tramp stamp was an anomolie.  Not many people had tats, especially college kids that I hung around with.  I met this particular young lady in the booming metropolis of Menomonie WI.  She might have been local for all that I know. 

185 152 I'm gonna watch Lilies of the Field.I remember my mom telling me it was a favorite of hers and I never saw it.Everything reminds me of her. Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2011 10:13 PM (7WJOC) Hang in there, steevy. Watch Lilies of the Field, and any other movie your mom liked. Think of her, and the joy she had watching them. Make a cookie or cake she enjoyed during the holidays. And let stuff remind you of her. That honors her memory.

186

173 On the subject of corrupted symbols: I want my frickin rainbows!

I think more that that I would like to recover the word "gay".  It's a nice descriptive word that implies fun and lightness.  Or at least it did when I was young.

187

You also don't wanna know about KFC's 11 secret herbs and spices that make their chicken Finger Lickin' Good.

Order up!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 11, 2011 10:21 PM (4q5tP)

Does it include the shattered teeth of a hobo boiled in his tears?

188 Posted by: Moe the Bartender at December 11, 2011 10:13 PM (Y+DPZ)

ring..... ring....


Moe's Tavern: Home of the world's smallest large-screen t.v.

189 Go Cowboys, must win..

190 174 Then Rick will slowly wear Newt down and take the nom.

eman: I think you could be right. Romney is, again, the choice of the Establishment. Only this time Romney finds it less easy to disguise his disdain for the base.

In 2008, the Republican primary voters for one reason or another decided to go with the mavericks Huckabee and McCain. This time the non-establishment figures appear to be Newt and Perry except that Perry isn't a maverick.

So, if it comes down to Newt and Perry, the GOP will go for the pliable dunce Perry like it went for Bush in 2000.

Mind you, that assumes a few other things.

191 Nicely done, Gushka.

192 187 Then Rick will slowly wear Newt down and take the nom. I love an optimist. Intermediate step; Rick will have to kick his campaign staff in the balls. Posted by: Alamo at December 11, 2011 10:21 PM (JUtDq) Yeah, I detect a bit of wishcasting in that analysis.

193 191 Under those circumstances, you're probably better off practicing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Just get the hell out of there afterwards, before you have to find out. Posted by: CoolCzech at December 11, 2011 10:17 PM (niZvt) Back when I was in college the tramp stamp was an anomolie. Not many people had tats, especially college kids that I hung around with. I met this particular young lady in the booming metropolis of Menomonie WI. She might have been local for all that I know. Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 11, 2011 10:22 PM (jucos) still five hours? in menomine in winter it could have taken half of that time to get the clothes off.

194

I think more that that I would like to recover the word "gay".  It's a nice descriptive word that implies fun and lightness. 

Posted by: L Rob in OK at December 11, 2011 10:23 PM (7yvLv)

It still implies lightness.  In the loafers.

195 #173, We can't call a bundle of sticks a faggot anymore either and I feel the pain of artilleryman that can no longer call flechette laden canister shot its proper short term of "faggot shot".

196 Bonus flavors include blood, semen, pubic hair and AIDS. Posted by: Robert says throw the bum knees out at December 11, 2011 10:12 PM (F79HU) You make sex sound so... biological.

197 125 My cat attacks me when I laugh.Is that normal?

Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2011 10:07 PM (7WJOC)

Cats are abnormal by definition. [Grabs dogs, ducks and runs]

198 I think after Super Tuesday it will be Newt vs. Rick, with all the others knocked out.

Then Rick will slowly wear Newt down and take the nom.

Posted by: eman at December 11, 2011 10:18 PM (HUEsn)

I want to believe, but I just can't.  Newton takes 3 of the first 4 primaries, with Romney getting NH, if polling holds.  Dammit, I really want Perry, but any uninformed R primary voter at this point has tuned him out.  He needs a major event in his favor, and hasn't been able to manufacture one.

199  I am encouraging everyone in the pool that is not an ineligible reciever from my perspective to have barcodes or qr codes in the tramp stamp area so I am able to select more quickly.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 11, 2011 10:19 PM (loM0R)

That's the new Roschat Test blob for smart phones I seeing pop up everywhere?  Here hon, lemme scan your qr code to download your partner history and any STD alerts for that matrix of people.

200 203 I think more that that I would like to recover the word "gay". It's a nice descriptive word that implies fun and lightness. Posted by: L Rob in OK at December 11, 2011 10:23 PM (7yvLv) It still implies lightness. In the loafers. Posted by: Robert says throw the bum knees out at December 11, 2011 10:25 PM (F79HU) I am fighting for niggardly - no one should ever be fired for using it correctly again

201 Fuck Coke and Pepsi and most of hollywood. Drink RC. It tastes a million times better.

202 129 Two days ago I watched a documentary about Hitler's early days.

I think I saw that one. Was this a BBC production? Or do all of them take pics of that monastery?

I'm almost willing to bet that the German authorities demand a permit to go see that part of the monastery.

Posted by: Zimriel at December 11, 2011 10:08 PM (6GvAC)

Yes, that's the one. And yes, if I was a West German bureaucrat, I'd charge money to film that part of the monastery - and promptly sock the money away for retirement hot deutsche madchen.

And with that I wish you all a good night. I need to get up early and go out hunting for a new job.

203 "I'd like my Rebel flag back, too. There was a time when it was just another flag..." Just outside Tampa on I-75, just north of the I-4, flies probably the biggest Confederate battle flag you'll ever see.

204

Does it include the shattered teeth of a hobo boiled in his tears?

Posted by: Robert says throw the bum knees out at December 11, 2011 10:23 PM (F79HU)

I think the first 10 of the 11 herbs and spices are salt and MSG.  There's better chicken out there, folks.

205 #210 Royal Cola just sounds so Imperialist and un-American....almost sounds Canadian even....them and their dirty beavers!

206 190Whole villages of Orcs and Elves are being put to the sword at this very moment.

There were once very earnest flamewars on the Usenet group rec.games.frp.dnd over whether it was moral to run a game in which orcs did not have free will. You see, if orcs don't, then they are basically mortal demons; genocide against them becomes morally necessary.

207 208 I am encouraging everyone in the pool that is not an ineligible reciever from my perspective to have barcodes or qr codes in the tramp stamp area so I am able to select more quickly. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 11, 2011 10:19 PM (loM0R) That's the new Roschat Test blob for smart phones I seeing pop up everywhere? Here hon, lemme scan your qr code to download your partner history and any STD alerts for that matrix of people. Posted by: Count de Monet at December 11, 2011 10:27 PM (4q5tP) sure, though I am mostly looking for do's and don'ts /wills and won'ts as well as competence scores

208 still five hours? in menomine in winter it could have taken half of that time to get the clothes off.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 11, 2011 10:24 PM (loM0R)

Sounds like you have a passing understanding of what it is like in Menomonie.  There were several alcohol induced hook ups that just occured to me (of all people).  More than once I was tempted to gnaw off my arm so I could slink back to my buddies dorm room un-noticed.

209 In other news, Denver beats Chicago in a back-n-forth OT, with a 51 yard FG.

Tebow wills it through the posts.

210 I'm already a climate criminal and racist, so I might as well go for the trifecta and be a war criminal too, right?

211 I wouldn't really mind Newt as POTUS. The Left seems to loath him, for whatever reason: that alone is a strong recommendation, in my book. He's quirky, but smart, and may just be the right man for the moment - the guy to actually figure out a way out of our debt mess. Maybe. Besides: I get a hardon thinking about the Pressers he'd hold. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

212 I spent more than six and a half years at Kunsan. I saw it go from a place where you worked hard and played hard to a base that political correctness ruined. Despite that, there is an intense focus on the mission. 109 north!!

213 #216, I thought even referring to WP rounds (White Phosphorus used for smoke, marking targets, and 'illegally' as incidence rounds) as Wiley Pete was considered non-PC (for who knows what reason) and against regulations now?

214 136 after working at a Dr. Pepper bottling plant, I won't touch the stuff Posted by: chemjeff at December 11, 2011 09:57 PM (s7mIC) So, more than 29 flavors? Posted by: Beefy Meatball at December 11, 2011 10:10 PM (bZ8J6) With the decline, if not outright disappearance, of bottling soft drinks in glass, you young'uns have been denied the dubious pleasure of drinking a cola - any cola - and encountering a soggy, but sterilized, cigarette butt within.

215

I am fighting for niggardly - no one should ever be fired for using it correctly again

"Black hole" would be nice to have back, too.

BTW, how come nobody corrected the firers as to the correct meaning of the word?

216 Yeah, I detect a bit of wishcasting in that analysis. Posted by: CoolCzech at December 11, 2011 10:24 PM (niZvt) Damn right. Wish casting makes politics much more fun. Studying graphs and polls is too much like work. My true wish for the Naked Palin 2012 Tour was canceled, so this will have to do.

217 I don't think Brady's a crybaby, he's a tough QB who has taken some hellish hits.  It's just that when he shows his emotions, he looks to me like a little girl in ringlets having a tantrum. 

Hi, Lou, as you well know, if your favorite team doesn't rip your heart out and stomp that sucker flat a few times in the season, it's not football. 

218 Swastika is the name of a small town in far upstate NY.  Really small town.  Got its name way before the Germans attached it to their little program.

219 218 still five hours? in menomine in winter it could have taken half of that time to get the clothes off. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 11, 2011 10:24 PM (loM0R) Sounds like you have a passing understanding of what it is like in Menomonie. There were several alcohol induced hook ups that just occured to me (of all people). More than once I was tempted to gnaw off my arm so I could slink back to my buddies dorm room un-noticed. Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 11, 2011 10:29 PM (jucos) good man I have more than passing acquaintance with the great white north. I am a great fan of the winter weather.

220 There were once very earnest flamewars on the Usenet group rec.games.frp.dnd over whether it was moral to run a game in which orcs did not have free will. You see, if orcs don't, then they are basically mortal demons; genocide against them becomes morally necessary.

Is that why the story arc for Orcs in the Warcraft universe changed with Warcraft 3, where the Orcs turned from mindless, savage monsters and instead became misunderstood and mislead creatures?

btw, it is unsurprising that Dem pols are just as clueless about foreign affairs as they are with domestic issues -

Senator John Kerry Meets With Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo.

221 219 Tebow wills it through the posts.

Tebow lo volt!

222 When I was a kid you couldn't buy RC Cola here, we had to go to Oregon to get it.  We'd go to the Oregon coast once a year for vacation and we'd get to drink it.  I love RC Cola.

223 BTW, how come nobody corrected the firers as to the correct meaning of the word?

That doesn't work.  It only pisses them off when you correct them. 

224 The tramp stamp might belong to Ms Natalie Portman, who along with the SCOAMF, should give back the statue received for tiptoeing around.

225 With the decline, if not outright disappearance, of bottling soft drinks in glass, you young'uns have been denied the dubious pleasure of drinking a cola - any cola - and encountering a soggy, but sterilized, cigarette butt within.

Posted by: Jeremiad was a Bullfrog at December 11, 2011 10:31 PM (vdVFl)

That's one way to get your nicotine fix.

226 Heh, I just learned a new word -- "absquatulate".  Henceforth, I plan to use it frequently in place of abscond to see how many blank stares I can get.

227 I have had more than enough cold weather to last a lifetime or two.  I hate it.  I don't mind a change of seasons as long as it doesn't get brutal.  DC weather seems to fit the bill for me.  I remember growing up in MN and the neck breaking cold temps.  Shitty weather made me flea what otherwise was a very decent place.

228 Lou, this is one of the great conflict games for me.  If a double loss was possible, that's what I'd have.  The Gnats just irritate me, primarily Manning and the coach.  The Cowboys lost me when Jerry Jones took over (God bless Tom Landry).  Having said that, Dallas has more OK players so I guess . .  . . . .

229 Rick has one advantage over Mitt. Rick can afford to lose primaries and still stay in the race. Mitt must win, and win a lot. So, Rick could still end up being the only one left against Newt even though he (Rick) didn't win shit.

230 That doesn't work. It only pisses them off when you correct them.

Posted by: Alex at December 11, 2011 10:34 PM (+1TUS)

We had to rename our whole country.

231 ex.  Corzine absquatulated with a bunch of cash.

232 A-Town. Am I right?

Posted by: motionview at December 11, 2011 10:00 PM (i+DU3)

It's my understanding that A-Town is but a shadow of its former self.

233

yay field goal good...bebes boobs, and robert and zimriel and count, blue, josef,yankee,joncelli,st patrick,cool,blue falcon,josef k,derit,robert with bum knees,beefy,etc etc etc..

Just fuckin with ya snobs..

234 Yes PA, they call me racist and an Earth-hater too.  Join the club!

235 234 BTW, how come nobody corrected the firers as to the correct meaning of the word? if you are asking about niggardly, they did and the resonse was that the user should have been more conscious of and sensitive; you know the truth is no defnese ans you are required to program your comments not just to the lowest common denomnator but to the willfully dense.

236 Posted by: buzzion at December 11, 2011 09:22 PM (GULKT)

Love Mass Effect 2, waiting for the N7 Collector's Edition Mass Effect 3 to come out.

237 247 234 BTW, how come nobody corrected the firers as to the correct meaning of the word? oh yeah, the guy using the word was black.

238 233 When I was a kid you couldn't buy RC Cola here, we had to go to Oregon to get it.  We'd go to the Oregon coast once a year for vacation and we'd get to drink it.  I love RC Cola.
Posted by: Theresa at December 11, 2011 10:34 PM

Reminds me of this 80s commercial for RC Cola

239 Looks like D. Murray out for the year, according to the rumor mill.

240 #226, they did but the excuse was that the city employee should have known that the sound of the world could be construed as offensive. Hell the original French meaning of the N word was "cheap laborer", it wasn't meant to be a slur but a general term. The root idea of the word is "cheap" or "stingy".

241 Not sure it's been said, but there are quite a few things I can think of doing with Hannah Minx's kuchi, if I can get past those incredible boobs.

242

Cloud-99

^{_{brunette MC chick is smokin '}} 

243 Whats the record for most comments in a week, anyone know?

244 Niggardy?

I'm not EVEN going there again.

245 Not sure it's been said, but there are quite a few things I can think of doing with Hannah Minx's kuchi,

Posted by: Berserker at December 11, 2011 10:39 PM (FMbng)

Like playing checkers?

246 dirty beavers You said beaver. My boobehs are so offended at your dirteh mind that they are speechless.

247 You know where dopamine comes from?  Nerve cells in a region of the brain called the "substantia nigra".

Doctors, and the people who came up with Latin thousands of years ago are racists.

248 Not sure it's been said, but there are quite a few things I can think of doing with Hannah Minx's kuchi, if I can get past those incredible boobs. Posted by: Berserker at December 11, 2011 10:39 PM (FMbng) She is not allowed on Guam.

249 The craven misuse of the pronoun "them," when the antecedent is singular, feels like water torture every time I see it in print.

250 239 I have had more than enough cold weather to last a lifetime or two. I hate it. I don't mind a change of seasons as long as it doesn't get brutal. DC weather seems to fit the bill for me. I remember growing up in MN and the neck breaking cold temps. Shitty weather made me flea what otherwise was a very decent place. Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 11, 2011 10:36 PM (jucos) the cold weather has the salutary effect of keeping the weak and undesirable population in line and minimized. has a lot to do with why mn and wi and not more like il.

251 Well morons and moronettes, 6:30 comes early. Talk to you on the Doom thread.

252 Menominee is in MI, not WI. Unless you are referring to the Reservation, which is in WI. Marinette, WI is across the Menominee River from Menominee, MI. BTW, Menominee, MI is the home of Bart Stupak, the Obamacare "No Abortions E. O." schmuck.

253 Gushka, I thought of you last night while scrolling through one of the ONT links. At the Nat Geo photo contest there was a gorgeous black and white photo of a horse.

254 241 Rick has one advantage over Mitt. Rick can afford to lose primaries and still stay in the race. Mitt must win, and win a lot.

So, Rick could still end up being the only one left against Newt even though he (Rick) didn't win shit.

Posted by: eman at December 11, 2011 10:36 PM (HUEsn)

Like I've said before, I'm with you, and want to believe.  Give me a 10-year governor with a solid track record over a professional candidate or a full-time "big idea guy" every time.  I have hope, but it's severely dampened by reality.  I know Perry has the money to stay for awhile, and Mitt is very weak now that it looks like he has no shot in FL, but I haven't seen anything that suggests the Perry campaign has figured out how to turn money into votes. 

/NOT a CCC, I really am a Perry supporter

255 Damned sock.

256

Just outside Tampa on I-75, just north of the I-4, flies probably the biggest Confederate battle flag you'll ever see.

I drove past it a lot when I lived in Bradenton a couple of years ago. Big stink when it first went up, seems to have died down. Now, it's no biggie at all that I'm aware of.

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke. That's another thing about leftards: they'll read all kinds of things into all kinds of things. Remember that kids game, "Telephone?" Leftards can do it all by themselves, no group required.

The ex- could do the same thing. I once said something to her and asked her to repeat what I'd just said. What came back bore absolutely no resemblance to what I originally said. Wasn't even close. It was about that time that I learned (to my horror) I was married to a psycho and decided to GTFO as rapidly as possible.

257 Okay, all you bacon loving morons. On a Food Network show this evening, it was mentioned that Zingerman's in Ann Arbor has a Bacon of the Month Club. Apparently you get a different "artisan" bacon each month, delivered right to your door. And "artisan" means fancy, all you yokels.

258

the cold weather has the salutary effect of keeping the weak and undesirable population in line and minimized. has a lot to do with why mn and wi and not more like il.

The unofficial motto of the Minot, ND, chamber of commerce in the 80s was "-41 degrees keeps out the riff-raff".  Had buttons so inscribed to wear on their lapels.

259 The craven misuse of the pronoun "them," when the antecedent is singular, feels like water torture every time I see it in print. Posted by: derit at December 11, 2011 10:42 PM (FQlFL) Are you up for a who vs. whom and an I vs. me rant.

260 Menomonie WI..... Home of UW Stout.  I did not go to school there but I did spend a lot of quality time there.

261
Are you up for a who vs. whom and an I vs. me rant.

Posted by: eman at December 11, 2011 10:45 PM (HUEsn)

I'm your Huckleberry

262 Ugh... Chelsea's first time on NBC. Media whores...

263 Blown coverage?  Couldn't have been more blown if the Giants ran that play while the Cowboys defense was still on the sidelines

264 Beckham named his son Brooklyn?  WTF?!

265 I lost a toe in the Grammar War of 2003

266 my bad I misread menominee as menomonie

267 I'm your Huckleberry Posted by: lous a girl at December 11, 2011 10:46 PM (R21xD) Do you bite your tongue just in time instead of screeching "I, not me!"?

268 Chelsea's first time on NBC.

Posted by: Jeremiad was a Bullfrog at December 11, 2011 10:47 PM (TK8p4)

Was the dude drunk?  Was it akward and over quickly?

269 I remember a time when I was in college where the temperature was minus 45 and with the windchill it felt like minus 85.  You stepped out of your house and your face immediately became hard (frozen) and your breath froze onto your beard and formed icicles.  I stuck lit charcoal under my oil pan in the hopes that the car would start.  It did not.  Too cold for me.

270 Very few confederate units actually flew that flag people are offended by.  In strict vexillogical terms, I believe it was the flag of the army of northern VA.  A prominent player, no doubt, but hardly the only player on the south's side.  Other confederate units, their navy, etc used a wide variety of flags, many not all that different than the union was using (ex, the confederate navy was fond of pennants with red and white stripes and white stars on a blue field)

271 I'm reasonably certain that Hannah Minx has a welder on her fashon staff.  There simply is no other engineering solution ... can't change the laws of physics.

272

the cold weather has the salutary effect of keeping the weak and undesirable population in line and minimized. has a lot to do with why mn and wi and not more like il.

And yet Amy Klobuchar will be re-elected in MN, WI will try (and fail - YES!) to recall their Governor, and neither can be counted on in the 2012 presidential election. The Scandi roots of MN and WI are always showing.  No explanations based on weather will ever be able to cover them.

273

271 The craven misuse of the pronoun "them," when the antecedent is singular, feels like water torture every time I see it in print.
Posted by: derit at December 11, 2011 10:42 PM (FQlFL)

Are you up for a who vs. whom and an I vs. me rant.

 

Hey, I review and correct technical reports written by engineers.  My HS english teacher would swoon at the stuff I have to correct.

274 265 Gushka, I thought of you last night while scrolling through one of the ONT links. At the Nat Geo photo contest there was a gorgeous black and white photo of a horse.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 11, 2011 10:42 PM (piMMO)

thank NDH! your nic always makes me laugh

275 Stopped in Erie PA enroute home a couple days ago.  Lived there for a year long ago, working, just out of engineering school.  What a place.  Later lived for a spell in the Pittsburgh area, where kids were born and raised awhile before we moved out to the midwest.

How do you know you're a bitter clinger?  Cannot say as I qualify, but I have experienced the sights and sounds of the mileau.  After Erie, the biz moved me over into Centre County, town called Lock Haven, another paper mill build job.  Bitter clingerism there made Erie look like Disneyworld.

Anyhoo, the motel we stayed in in Erie gave us a chit worth some slots time at the newish local casino up the road.  Walked inside and . . . wholly flashback!!11!1

Did you know you can smoke in a PA casino and bar?  And that you can have Elvis Presley hair and play the penny slots there while you suck down those Camels?

I'm gonna propose to Axelrod and Plouffe that the SCOAMF, in his battleground states tour, skip the bowling alley and the donut shop when he visits PA, and instead to to the Presque Isle Downs casino, smoke up some Kools, chat up some cocktail waitresses, and see if he can hit the jackpot on the $1 Wild Cherry machine.  After that he can go out in the parking lot and puke.

Just like those bitter clingers.

276

ex.  Corzine absquatulated with a bunch of cash.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 11, 2011 10:37 PM (nqikf)

Otter:  I'll tell you what. We'll tell Congress and your clients that you were doing a great job taking care of their money, but you parked it out back last night and this morning... it was gone. We report it as stolen to the police. D-Day takes care of the audit trail. Your insurance company buys everyone new money.

Corzine:  Will that work?

Otter:  Hey, it's gotta work better than the truth.

277 273
Are you up for a who vs. whom and an I vs. me rant.

Posted by: eman at December 11, 2011 10:45 PM (HUEsn)

I'm your Huckleberry

Posted by: lous a girl at December 11, 2011 10:46 PM (R21xD)

Bring that rant.  I'll back your play, by which I mean I'll read it and agree with you, and maybe learn something in the process.

278 279 I'm your Huckleberry

Posted by: lous a girl at December 11, 2011 10:46 PM (R21xD)


Do you bite your tongue just in time instead of screeching "I, not me!"?

Posted by: eman at December 11, 2011 10:48 PM (HUEsn)

No, just having a bad night. I am sure that you have never had one of those.

You are so much smarter than anyone on the ont. Feel the comfort in that.

279

The video of the Obamas walking from church to the White House made the front page of Comcast.

Obama has gone to church 10 times since assuming residence in the White House.

He's golfed 88 times.

280 "Are you up for a who vs. whom and an I vs. me rant." Yes!

281 Oh, shit, Sam Bowie sock

282 thank NDH! your nic always makes me laugh I'm not amused. You should see the stains on my office carpet.

283 276 Beckham named his son Brooklyn? WTF?!

Posted by: logprof at December 11, 2011 10:47 PM (P1nni)

Perhaps he really likes the Gargoyles cartoon?

284

The video of the Obamas walking from church to the White House made the front page of Comcast.

Obama has gone to church 10 times since assuming residence in the White House.

He's golfed 88 times.

Posted by: Sam Bowie at December 11, 2011 10:53 PM (I2LwF)

That picture also shows that one of the girls is already taller than both her father and mother. 

285 277 I lost a toe in the Grammar War of 2003 Posted by: soothie at December 11, 2011 10:47 PM (yhYn1) Were you fighting alongside Dick "Bloomin' Onion" Stall? 'Cause he's been everywhere, man.

286 You are so much smarter than anyone on the ont. Feel the comfort in that. Posted by: lous a girl at December 11, 2011 10:52 PM (R21xD) Heck no.

287 I called the ink as Natalie Portman's because of the flute music in the arrangement.

288 284 the cold weather has the salutary effect of keeping the weak and undesirable population in line and minimized. has a lot to do with why mn and wi and not more like il. And yet Amy Klobuchar will be re-elected in MN, WI will try (and fail - YES!) to recall their Governor, and neither can be counted on in the 2012 presidential election. The Scandi roots of MN and WI are always showing. No explanations based on weather will ever be able to cover them. Posted by: StPatrick at December 11, 2011 10:49 PM (D+phB) Well it only does so much. Limiting the weak is good, however, if you are dealing with industrial strength stupid they may be too stupid to notice the cold. mn has a history of running political freak festival; jesse ventura, amy klobuchar, al franken.

289 You are so much smarter than anyone on the ont. Feel the comfort in that. Are you kidding? Eman is an old-timer & a nice guy

290 294 thank NDH! your nic always makes me laugh

I'm not amused. You should see the stains on my office carpet.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at December 11, 2011 10:53 PM (Fgv2L)

thats the best part!

291 "Are you up for a who vs. whom and an I vs. me rant." Yes! Posted by: derit at December 11, 2011 10:53 PM (FQlFL) You may begin.

292

That picture also shows that one of the girls is already taller than both her father and mother.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 11, 2011 10:54 PM (jucos)

I'm sure there's anonymous folks on the 'tubes who will try and paint that as some sort of shenanigan, but really, I feel sorry for her.  If that picture is real, that poor kid has a greatly shrunken pool of potential mates, e.g. really tall guys, or not so tall guys that want a taste of that cash.  I don't envy very tall women at all.

293 294 thank NDH! your nic always makes me laugh

I'm not amused. You should see the stains on my office carpet.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at December 11, 2011 10:53 PM (Fgv2L)

======

The walls and ceiling can't be too pretty either.

294

It only pisses them off when you correct them.

Good. That'll make 'em remember it better.

OK, 'rons 'n 'ettes, I'm off.

And I'm leaving too. I'll see y'all on the morning thread. I wish I could stay up to see the last of the Cowboys/Giants game, but that salt ain't gonna mine itself.

Have fun and try not to trash the place.

295 No, just having a bad night. I am sure that you have never had one of those. You are so much smarter than anyone on the ont. Feel the comfort in that. Posted by: lous a girl at December 11, 2011 10:52 PM (R21xD) It seems I was unclear. My apologies. I am sorry to hear you are having a bad night. Perhaps we can cheer you up.

296 thats the best part! Posted by: gushie really wants to post! I can picture you gleefully working the chain saw.

297 Are you kidding? Eman is an old-timer & a nice guy Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at December 11, 2011 10:57 PM (Fgv2L) Ain't you a sweetie pie!

298 308 thats the best part!
Posted by: gushie really wants to post!

I can picture you gleefully working the chain saw.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at December 11, 2011 11:00 PM (Fgv2L)

i would skin it first... cant be wasteful!

299 Posted by: Knute Romblie, scourge of libtards everywhere at December 11, 2011 10:50 PM (4sQwu) Since Native American tribes are "sovereign nations", they're free to set their own rules. Smoking in casinos, heh. Suck it, health Nazis!

300 297 277 I lost a toe in the Grammar War of 2003 Posted by: soothie at December 11, 2011 10:47 PM (yhYn1) Were you fighting alongside Dick "Bloomin' Onion" Stall? 'Cause he's been everywhere, man. Posted by: Jeremiad was a Bullfrog at December 11, 2011 10:55 PM by the way, i am retracting my "my bad". you actually misread Menomonie.

301 "You may begin." My and many others reading comphrension sucks on its own, useless PC obfuscation only makes it worse.

302

i would skin it first... cant be wasteful!

Posted by: gushie really wants to post! at December 11, 2011 11:01 PM (QNeKQ)

Dibs on a pair of gloves.  I've been wearing a pair of brown deerskin gloves from a buck my dad shot years ago, but they're getting a little rough. 

303 Ain't you a sweetie pie! Posted by: eman at December 11, 2011 11:00 PM (HUEsn) Meh, just trying to nip the aggro in the bud

304 Dammit, no catches at all for Dez?!  WTF?

305 301 You are so much smarter than anyone on the ont. Feel the comfort in that.

Are you kidding? Eman is an old-timer & a nice guy

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at December 11, 2011 10:57 PM (Fgv2L)

Really, not feeling the love.

I try, and ya'll give me shit. Yeah, not feeling the love.

Gonna say God Bless. Sleep tight.

306 Austin TD.  More points for the zombie team.

307 i would skin it first... cant be wasteful! Posted by: gushie really wants to post! Bwaahhhh

308 That last Cowboys TD brought to you by a fuckin' awesome defensive play by Jay Ratliffe!  Oh yeah, and the 80-yd drive by Romo, too, and Miles Austin! 

309 Really, not feeling the love. I try, and ya'll give me shit. Yeah, not feeling the love. Gonna say God Bless. Sleep tight. Posted by: lous a girl at December 11, 2011 11:04 PM (R21xD) I wasn't giving you shit. Not at all. Let's restart at your convenience, if you like.

310

My wife and part of my family went to a Christmas party with Boehner tonight.  I said I was surprised "Big O"  let him out of town.  He also says the presidential veto threat on the oil pipeline was a gift which is sending his collegues "into his loving arms."

311 I try, and ya'll give me shit. Yeah, not feeling the love. I don't know what you were trying, but it came off ugly.

312 Gushie, being as you were left out of the limerick fest the other night I posted you one a bit yesterday.  Did you catch it?

313 bebe, do you, arhooley, and rum still regularly visit the Mouse?

314

Dibs on a pair of gloves.  I've been wearing a pair of brown deerskin gloves from a buck my dad shot years ago, but they're getting a little rough. 

Posted by: StPatrick at December 11, 2011 11:03 PM (D+phB)

then you really get it. My mom was horrified when she smelled something in the garage and found my horse, jennie's salted hide drying in a cool dry spot. she seriously flipped the fuck out. I have never been able to live it down. Dad just asked if i skinned her myself. I told him "Val helped me."

he was all proud.

315 sure, though I am mostly looking for do's and don'ts /wills and won'ts as well as competence scores

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 11, 2011 10:29 PM (loM0R)

There (should be) an app for that.  Also to include status indicators for availability, sexual tension level, cycle phase, etc.

316
I wasn't giving you shit. Not at all. Let's restart at your convenience, if you like.

Posted by: eman at December 11, 2011 11:06 PM (HUEsn)

God Bless. Sorry, had a bad day and took it out on you..

317 324 Gushie, being as you were left out of the limerick fest the other night I posted you one a bit yesterday.  Did you catch it?

Posted by: Ohio Dan at December 11, 2011 11:08 PM (JKNDp)

sure did and i told you i loved you!!!! it was a good one. wanna repost if you are proud of it?

318 Have you seen British actor Martin Clune's series on horses, Gushie?

I'm sure you'd love both of them.

319 325 bebe, do you, arhooley, and rum still regularly visit the Mouse? I've been out of the loop. My dog got really sick, and I've had too much on my plate keeping up the house & yard

320 Doh! Big-mouthed sock fail.

321 God Bless. Sorry, had a bad day and took it out on you.. Posted by: lous a girl at December 11, 2011 11:10 PM (R21xD) I hardly felt a thing.

322 That's what she said.

323 an app for that. Also to include status indicators for availability, sexual tension level, cycle phase, etc. Posted by: Count de Monet at December 11, 2011 11:09 PM (4q5tP) and some index of enthusiasm

324 by the way, i am retracting my "my bad". you actually misread Menomonie. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 11, 2011 11:02 PM (loM0R) My mistake. I wasn't aware there was an "ie" ending version on Menominee. Was relying on my U.P. roots and recollection of the "centers of civilization" in the north woods.

325 I've been out of the loop. My dog got really sick, and I've had too much on my plate keeping up the house & yard Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at December 11, 2011 11:11 PM (Fgv2L) Oh. I hope your dog is well now.

326

Posted by: eman at December 11, 2011 11:11 PM (HUEsn)

Now there is the sign of a true gentleman. 

Please forgive me for not remembering this, eman, but which part of the sciences are you involved in?

327 My mistake. I wasn't aware there was an "ie" ending version on Menominee. Was relying on my U.P. roots and recollection of the "centers of civilization" in the north woods. Posted by: Jeremiad was a Bullfrog at December 11, 2011 11:12 PM (TK8p4) i was making an effort at reseach humor. all the same u.p. is as cold as mn and wi

328 318 Austin TD.  More points for the zombie team.

Posted by: logprof at December 11, 2011 11:04 PM (P1nni)

Him and Shon Greene are kicking ass on my benches.  FML.

329 Oh. I hope your dog is well now. She's much better. We're trying to get her off the prednisone. Labs on prednisone are not a pretty sight.

330 Please forgive me for not remembering this, eman, but which part of the sciences are you involved in? Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 11, 2011 11:12 PM (UR5vq) Much grass, Son of Sparta. I dabble in solid state chemistry in the Pharma biz.

331 I'm thinkin' the person handling the music for this broadcast is a Cowboys fan, playing "The 'Boys are back in town!" at the break after the INT.

332 Just remember the International Red Cross is NOT the same as the American Red Cross.

333 She's much better. We're trying to get her off the prednisone. Labs on prednisone are not a pretty sight. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at December 11, 2011 11:16 PM (Fgv2L) What ailed her, if you don't mind my asking.

334 282 Very few confederate units actually flew that flag people are offended by.

Hmm. I'm with you that the Northern Virginia regiments, especially, actually believed in states-rights and didn't care for slavery. Virginia stuck to the Union for some time. The western part of northern Virginia stayed there.

But I must point out that even those Northern Virginians who didn't join Byrd's ancestors in grasping on to the Union, still agreed with the Byrd family that they didn't want black folk voting or marrying their daughters.

335 Let me be clear: one of the girls is already taller than Michelle and Barack. If you believe the "beard" theory of their marriage, her actual father could be someone much taller.

336 Finally Dez gets some love --but too late to save my bacon.

337 Actually, those bitter PA clingers can smoke in all their bars.  Casinos and bars are exempt from the smoking ban signed by Rendell in, I think, '08.

And that is all casinos.  Most in PA are state operations, and not operated by Indian tribes.

338 I dabble in solid state chemistry in the Pharma biz.

Posted by: eman at December 11, 2011 11:16 PM (HUEsn)

Ever visit RTP?  It's no Disneyland, I'll give you that.

339 What ailed her, if you don't mind my asking. Anemia, of unknown origin. I think herbimmune system went haywire from chemical overload. Collapsed day after her second dose of comforts(?) flea pills

340 "Labs on prednisone are not a pretty sight" Do they shake like we do?

341 I almost had an orgasm when I saw how wide open Dez Bryant was on that last TD!  (Can I still say that?)  Woo-Hoo! 

342 I dabble in solid state chemistry in the Pharma biz.

Interesting, so you create new matrices for drug design/bio-sensors and the like?

343 Ever visit RTP?  What's RTP?

344 Yahoo headline: "Jennifer Aniston Voted Hottest Woman of All Time" (based on a Men's Health poll).

WTF?  I can;t imagine even gay men voting her #1.

345 Ever visit RTP? It's no Disneyland, I'll give you that. Posted by: NC Ref at December 11, 2011 11:20 PM (WCQp7) That's that research conglomerate, right?

346 NONE of the Confederate army units flew the flag that gets everyone pissed off. That's because army units flew a SQUARE battle flag. The "Confederate flag" with standard flag proportions would more properly be a Confederate naval ensign, which means anyone flying it over their house is an idiot who thinks he's living in a ship.

Fly the actual Stars and Bars, which liberal assholes are too ignorant to recognize. You could put that up over a building in Harlem and nobody would complain. (For one thing, they'd all figure it was Puerto Rico or something.)

347 Anemia, of unknown origin. I think herbimmune system went haywire from chemical overload. Collapsed day after her second dose of comforts(?) flea pills Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at December 11, 2011 11:20 PM (Fgv2L) Sounds logical. Glad her treatment is effective.

348 352 "Labs on prednisone are not a pretty sight" Do they shake like we do? They are chow hounds, and the pred makes it 1000 times worse

349 352 "Labs on prednisone are not a pretty sight"

Do they shake like we do?

Posted by: derit at December 11, 2011 11:20 PM (FQlFL)

yes and get nervous and turn into eating machines. her dog is constantly trying to scam her for treats and find things to eat. shes gonna gain 50 lbs if she got her way! happily beeb tells her no

350

"End O'The Week Edition"

Actually, Sunday is the FIRST day of the week.  Not to split hairs or anything.

351 RTP = Research Triangle Park, NC.  Right between UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke and NC State.  Home of Glaxo and the rest of BigPharma.

352 Interesting, so you create new matrices for drug design/bio-sensors and the like? Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 11, 2011 11:21 PM (UR5vq) Hardly. I find stable crystalline forms and figure out how to control the polymorphism at any scale. Sometimes it is fun, sometimes too routine. I do have a project to get my company turned on to nanotech. Which reminds me I should finish the presentation I promised to make. There are many good drugs out there that can come back from the dead if we just nano the suckers. IMHO.

353 Looks like one fantasy game will be a blowout by a zombie team; the second was potentially a blowout that Dez, Nicks and Cruz are making a respectable loss; and the third a squeaker that I may win depending on what Eli does and to whom he throws (glad it's a heavy dose of Cruz).

354 Thanks for another entertaining evening, morons and -ettes!  Good night.  Keep yer powder dry.

355

Since Team Mo(Ron), loves a good story, I guess I'll share one.

While with the folks, prior to Thanksgiving dinner, my dad pulled me aside, and asked if I'd do something for him as a Christmas gift, since he didn't really want anything material.  He knows I'd do anything for him or the rest of the family, so it was an easy request, but I was still touched that he asked me.  Grandpa B, his father, passed last year, and dad came into possession of his shotgun. It had been in storage for 15-20 years (I'm not sure how long, exactly, but it's not really important), under awful conditions.  I was asked to do what I could to bring it back to life.

I was given the shotgun, which was not anything special in terms of value or collectibility, but special in that it belonged to his father, my grandfather, whom I adored.  The gun is a plain-Jane Remington 870 Wingmaster, which you can buy new for less than $800, and has no collectibility value.  Mice had eaten into the case in which it was stored, and it was covered in rust and scunge - upon discovering he had cancer the first time, Grandpa B put it up, and it never came back out.

Upon inspection, I was horrified.  As noted before, there was rust everywhere, and on everything.  The plastic parts were yellowed and brittle.  I set to work, trying to bring this thing back to life.

After hours upon hours of work, with steel wool and oil, shop rags and sweat, I've finally gotten it back to where it once was.  The blue is still deep and shiny, the wood is back in its original glossy configuration, and the action is slicker than it was the day it was purchased.  I took it out yesterday and shot sporting clays with it, and it was a proud day for me when it roared back to life and the targets shattered.  I saw my dad yesterday and told him about it over a beer or three, and he had tears in his eyes.  I am very, very thankful that I've gotten to do this for him, and it's not done yet.

I'll be giving him back his father's shotgun, almost as good as new, but with one final little detail:  I'm having the family crest engraved on the righthand side of the receiver (small and tasteful), and inlaid with 23K gold.  We've never had an heirloom of any kind, and I'm giving pop something that can be passed down through generations, hopefully ad infinitum.  Sure., it's just a common old shotgun that anyone can buy, but this one is going to be OURS, and that idea pleases me to no end.  Without doubt, this has been one of the most satisfying things I've ever done in my life, and I hope you've enjoyed my little story.

Merry Christmas, morons.  I hope you all can give to someone and enjoy it as much as I have.

356 363 RTP = Research Triangle Park, NC. I dont think they have those yummy Mickey Mouse candy apples.

357
  Labs are natural born con artists and will eat anything that moves too slowly.  I should know.

358 "Tramp Stamp" is passe. It is "Ho Tag" now from what I hear.

359 363 RTP = Research Triangle Park, NC.  Right between UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke and NC State.  Home of Glaxo and the rest of BigPharma.

My friend who lives in Raleigh is continually trying to get me to find a job in the RTP.  My advisor and one of her past post-docs are also moving down there, so it would be a high-school, lab-reunion for me if I did happen to move down there. 

360 Posted by: NC Ref at December 11, 2011 11:27 PM (WCQp7) Have not been there. I'm in CA these days. However, when I was in MA we had a nice fellow come up from RTP to code us some new database software. He had to be the most elegant person I've ever met. I swear he was enveloped in a force field that kept dust off him. Smarter than ten Newts, too.

361 @  367

   And with that labor of love, you've given your Grandpa signal honor. 

   What a heartwarming tale. Seems your parents did right well.

362 My friend who lives in Raleigh is continually trying to get me to find a job in the RTP. My advisor and one of her past post-docs are also moving down there, so it would be a high-school, lab-reunion for me if I did happen to move down there. Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 11, 2011 11:30 PM (UR5vq) From what I hear you could make a lot worse choice. What is the local decadence rating?

363 You know, when I'm having sex with someone, having something to read really helps to pass the time.

364 Merry Christmas, morons. I hope you all can give to someone and enjoy it as much as I have. Posted by: StPatrick at December 11, 2011 11:28 PM (D+phB) You have done well, young Jedi.

365 Stupid play call, Cowboys.  You gotta keep the clock moving.

366 Oh man, I celebrated too soon!  I knew it.  Giants on the 40, can the Cowboys stop 'em? 

367 370 "Tramp Stamp" is passe. It is "Ho Tag" now from what I hear.

Posted by: Javems at December 11, 2011 11:29 PM (P9CJ1)

Let's push for Slut Label

368 Is there a nickname for the latina neck tattoo? I think of high-water marks when I see it (dammit, i almost used 'them') on otherwise attractive women.

369 You know, when I'm having sex with someone, having something to read really helps to pass the time. Posted by: A Fan of Tramp Stamps at December 11, 2011 11:34 PM (I2LwF) Or, keep a Sharpie handy.

370 For the life of me I can't remember what US army unit used the swastika until the nazis trashed it, then the insignia changed. I have the patch in my patch stash, its red with a yellow swastika. I want to say it was in the 30's.

371 From what I hear you could make a lot worse choice.

What is the local decadence rating?

For Duke at least it's probably pretty high.  But as long as I don't join a Lacrosse team and attend a party with a man-hating, violent, amoral stripper, I think I'll be fine.

372 Posted by: Berserker at December 11, 2011 11:39 PM (FMbng)

45th ID.  It was discussed earlier in the thread.

373 RTP = Research Triangle Park, NC.  Right between UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke and NC State.  Home of Glaxo and the rest of BigPharma.

Posted by: NC Ref at December 11, 2011 11:27 PM (WCQp7)

And semiconductors, like white light LED's for instance. The decadence level in the park itself is fairly low, but there are colleges on each side (UNC Chapel Hill, Duke and NC State).

374 Is there a nickname for the latina neck tattoo? I think of high-water marks when I see it (dammit, i almost used 'them') on otherwise attractive women.

"You must be this tall to ride this ride"?

375 Oh yeah.  How could I forget CREE?

376 373 @ 367

And with that labor of love, you've given your Grandpa signal honor.

What a heartwarming tale. Seems your parents did right well.

Posted by: irongrampa at December 11, 2011 11:34 PM (SAMxH)

Thank you for the compliment.  Grandpa B was a farmboy, whose family owned no land - he worked land owned by others, because he was able, and the family had to eat.  He had an 8th grade education, but decided to  pool his entire life savings into buying a couple milling machines, and ended up providing good jobs to 30 people before he retired, having built his own little company out of the dirt.  They still make parts for NASA...as hard as it is to imagine, I'm told my sainted grandmother used to mic parts 16 hours a day at the start.

There are days when I'm glad Grandpa B doesn't have to see what we've come to as a nation and a people.

377 how about them cowgirls

378 My friend who lives in Raleigh is continually trying to get me to find a job in the RTP.  My advisor and one of her past post-docs are also moving down there, so it would be a high-school, lab-reunion for me if I did happen to move down there. 

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 11, 2011 11:30 PM (UR5vq)

SAS or RTI.  It's a sweet gravy train, so I hear.

379 Oh yeah.  How could I forget CREE?

Posted by: NC Ref at December 11, 2011 11:45 PM (WCQp7)

I've heard there's a moron that works there.

380 Awwww. 

381

You have done well, young Jedi.

Posted by: eman at December 11, 2011 11:36 PM (HUEsn)

I'm catching up, or trying to, so I'm sure at this point my response is late, but thank you for the compliment.  I just wish I was young...I'm 32.

382 My friend who lives in Raleigh is continually trying to get me to find a job in the RTP.  My advisor and one of her past post-docs are also moving down there, so it would be a high-school, lab-reunion for me if I did happen to move down there. 

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 11, 2011 11:30 PM (UR5vq)

Plus maybe I'd be able to get ONE FUCKING PERSON to attend a moron meet-up...

383 I just wish I was young...I'm 32.

Posted by: StPatrick at December 11, 2011 11:48 PM (D+phB)

Lawn. Step off of it.

384 No OT please. I have a fantasy game won.

385

Posted by: GGE In The Land Of The Hawkeyes at December 11, 2011 11:47 PM (npWmN)

GGE you in Iowa?  Des Moines?  Last time (and the only time) I was there they had a big car show.  My Camaro's last fun time trip.  That why you're visiting, car show?

386 391 how about them cowgirls

Posted by: The Dude at December 11, 2011 11:47 PM (M8yfa)

--How are you posting while coaching the defense?

387 Heh, the Giants iced instead of Garrett.

388 Lawn. Step off of it. Posted by: GGE In The Land Of The Hawkeyes at December 11, 2011 11:50 PM (npWmN) Yep. Your feet, my lawn, not good.

389 GGE I'll meet you for drinks.  Next couple months are my slow time.

390 Well at least the Cowboys are out of timeouts.

391

Lawn. Step off of it.

Posted by: GGE In The Land Of The Hawkeyes at December 11, 2011 11:50 PM (npWmN)

If it makes you feel better, I've been an old man in mentality since I was about 9.  You familiar with the phrase "old soul"?  That's me. I wouldn't tread on your lawn.  I'd also get you off mine in a New York minute.

392 Ice! Ice! Baby!

Giants win!!!

393

GGE you in Iowa?  Des Moines?  Last time (and the only time) I was there they had a big car show.  My Camaro's last fun time trip.  That why you're visiting, car show?

Posted by: NC Ref at December 11, 2011 11:51 PM (WCQp7)

Clarinda, way down in the southwest corner. Visiting parents for Christmas, even though it's not Christmas time yet. I left the pony home, Iowa is not a good place for V8 powered rear wheel drive convertibles in the wintertime.

394

Damn.  Cowgirls lose it in a heartbreaker?

...wait...

395 Here are Newt's key words from last night: "This is a propaganda war, in which our side refuses to engage, and we refuse to tell the truth whiie the other side lies, and youÂ’re not going to win in the long run if youÂ’re afraid to stand firm and stand for the truth." Maahh friends, a long time ago we elected a President whose enemies declared that he had a war-against-Russia agenda, and it was important that he not rock the boat and start a thermonuclear war. They said by merely questioning the legitimacy of the neo-Stalinist regime he was hurling us into the apocalypse. Now we know that, in private, when he was asked about his view of the Cold War, he said: "We win, they lose." Go back and look at Newt's quote there. Did any other candidate jump up and agree that we are in a propaganda war in which our side refuses to engage? Can anyone deny it? But only Newt had the courage to stand for the truth, even Rick Santorum went all nervous-Nellie on us. People, allow me to state the obvious: You cannot win a war if you don't realize you are in one. You cannot win a war by refusing to engage the enemy. And you cannot win a war if you're afraid to stand for the truth. Period. Well done, Mr. Speaker. And to think that some bloggers wrote you out of the race for that kissy-face with Al Sharpton and Arne Duncan!

396 hahahaha

Cowgirls choked harder than Da Bears

397 This reminds me of last week's debacle!  Damn, thought the Cowboys had this one. 

398 I think the botox in Jerrah's face snapped.

399 If there is any justice in the universe, the Giants will play the Broncos in the superbowl.

400 DALLAS YOU SUCK

401 Glad I stayed up for this one!

402

Clarinda, way down in the southwest corner. Visiting parents for Christmas, even though it's not Christmas time yet. I left the pony home, Iowa is not a good place for V8 powered rear wheel drive convertibles in the wintertime.

Posted by: GGE In The Land Of The Hawkeyes

Small world.  SEveral generations ago, I had ancestors who lived in Clarinda.  

403 Plus maybe I'd be able to get ONE FUCKING PERSON to attend a moron meet-up... Posted by: GGE In The Land Of The Hawkeyes at December 11, 2011 11:49 PM (npWmN) A MMU on January 20, 2013 might be a good choice.

404 Posted by: StPatrick at December 11, 2011 11:53 PM (D+phB)

My niece's 18th birthday was Friday. I was surrounded by teenage girl giggly-ness for a few hours. I said I hadn't been back to Iowa in the wintertime since 1990. She said "that's before I was born!"
gee...that doesn't make me feel old at all...

405 Should I point our Marion Barber was a Cowboy for 5 seasons? Not a good day for present OR past Cowgirls.

406 Well ace should be in a good mood this week.

407 Safe travels, GGE.  Looking forward to that NC meet-up you keep talking about.  I'm always around.  Most times, anyways.

408 Fk Te bow. I bow for no man

Posted by: Wretch at December 11, 2011 11:57 PM (utGkV)

For what it's worth, Wretch, G-d does not condemn homosexuals.  He merely abhors them.  Put more simply, He thinks you suck.

409 atlanta rock puppehtoff!

410 Tell me how my ass tastes, Cowboys.

411 Well done, Mr. Speaker. And to think that some bloggers wrote you out of the race for that kissy-face with Al Sharpton and Arne Duncan!

Posted by: JewishOdysseus at December 11, 2011 11:54 PM (xbrnB)

Sarcasm recognized, below is me spouting off.

I doubt that anyone is discounting Newt's ability to understand history - that is his bag, baby, and all that.  There is no candidate out there, nor an incumbent president, that has a better long-term perspective on how world events play out.

Unfortunately, he is a confirmed "R" adulterer (which means it counts against him, what with the scarlet R), running against an incumbent whom has had intercourse with one woman, and no men, that can be proven.  IYKWIMAITTYD

412 Small world.  SEveral generations ago, I had ancestors who lived in Clarinda.  

Posted by: someone at December 11, 2011 11:55 PM (bqjJT)

The Pepto Bismol house has been painted, Glenn Miller's house has been stripped back to it's 1910's configuration, the Junior High has been torn down and a new building for the library is there now. The old library is empty, I hope they don't tear it down because it is a Carnagie library. The courthouse burned again, and this time when they rebuilt it they put the clock tower back on it. The A&W burned down many moons ago, now there is a bank on the spot. Other than that...probably not much changed.

413 The Bears are who we thought they were!

414 I need Marshawn Lynch to give me 26 points to make the playoffs. He's "projected" to nab 17.

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at December 12, 2011 12:00 AM (bZ8J6)

What's your Skittles stach look like?  We may be able to cut a deal.

415 probably not much changed.

I'd never know...I just know the town name from grandparents and great grandparents.  I think family moved to Council Bluffs maybe in the late 1800's or early 1900's from the stories I hear. 

416 419 Posted by: StPatrick at December 11, 2011 11:53 PM (D+phB)

My niece's 18th birthday was Friday. I was surrounded by teenage girl giggly-ness for a few hours. I said I hadn't been back to Iowa in the wintertime since 1990. She said "that's before I was born!"
gee...that doesn't make me feel old at all...

Posted by: GGE In The Land Of The Hawkeyes at December 11, 2011 11:56 PM (npWmN)

As long as you're not painting me with a brush that broad...should I end up in hell, that's probably what my eternity would look like.  This "Ugh" is for you.

417 StPatrick, that is an awesome story about the shotgun

418 I think family moved to Council Bluffs maybe in the late 1800's or early 1900's from the stories I hear. 

Posted by: someone at December 12, 2011 12:04 AM (bqjJT)

In that case...probably quite a bit changed.

419 Yep. Probably no A&W back in those pre-historic days!

420 The Bears are who we thought they were!

Posted by: Timmy T. at December 12, 2011 12:02 AM (P1nni)

Jesus loves cheesecake

421 should I end up in hell, that's probably what my eternity would look like.  This "Ugh" is for you.

Posted by: StPatrick at December 12, 2011 12:04 AM (D+phB)

Yeah, about that time I was looking at getting a trenchcoat and finding a park bench somewhere. Once upon a time it was at least fun to watch teenage girls, now it just reminds me of how old I'm getting.

422 If Newt becomes President and leads the USA away from the Abyss, he can bang cheerleaders during press conferences if he wants. I am not so sure cheating on your wife suggests you will betray the tax payers, too.

423 438 The Bears are who we thought they were!

Posted by: Timmy T. at December 12, 2011 12:02 AM (P1nni)

Jesus loves cheesecake

Posted by: The Dude at December 12, 2011 12:07 AM (M8yfa)

so do i!

lolololol

424 Yeah, about that time I was looking at getting a trenchcoat and finding a park bench somewhere. Once upon a time it was at least fun to watch teenage girls, now it just reminds me of how old I'm getting

That's funny.
When I met my better half, one of her favorite songs was Aqualung (Jethro Tull).
Since it was '72, she really didn't know what the first two lines of the song actually said (rotten Dolby, cheap cassettes, etc.).
She was embarrassed.  So I married her.

425

Posted by: eman at December 12, 2011 12:09 AM (HUEsn)

but Mr. 6% is the golden child

426 Oyasuminasai, minasan.

427 381 You know, when I'm having sex with someone, having something to read really helps to pass the time. Posted by: A Fan of Tramp Stamps at December 11, 2011 11:34 PM (I2LwF) Or, keep a Sharpie handy. Posted by: eman at December 11, 2011 11:39 PM (HUEsn) I a looking for someone - a girl, that is from san francisco, served in the Air Force in Kusan, and has a swastika tramp stamp.

428 434 StPatrick, that is an awesome story about the shotgun

Posted by: chemjeff at December 12, 2011 12:05 AM (s7mIC)

Thanks, CJ.  I think dad will be stunned when he gets it back Christmas day, and that will make it all worth it.  I come from a long line of hardsrcabble Irish immigrants with no education and no money, so having something we can pass down is a huge deal.  I really hope that I've done something to create that.

This does not mean you get a pass on your slandering of Dr. Pepper, however.

429 You gonna eat that Twinkie, raykon?

430 """If Newt becomes President and leads the USA away from the Abyss, he can bang cheerleaders during press conferences if he wants""



If he can do that I'll let him bang my frigging sister.

431 Hey, I'm looking for funny fake accusations on Koch Industries I can write next to some jackass' sidewalk chalk rant he/she wrote in front of my building. Ideas?

432 Maybe we should legalize the war on drugs, as its another war we lost.

Make friends with the enemy?

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 12:15 AM (utGkV)

The War on Some Drugs has certainly laid waste to the fourth amendment.

433 I'm looking for funny fake accusations on Koch Industries I can write next to some jackass' sidewalk chalk rant he/she wrote in front of my building. Ideas? Posted by: Rich at December 12, 2011 12:17 AM (ICe3R) they make all of their senior management get swastika tramp stamps with ink made from baby seal fur.

434 ""The War on Some Drugs has certainly laid waste to the fourth amendment.""


yeah, for a government thats real big on banning just about everything they call a "gateway'" to something else, the war on drugs is one big fucking gateway to a police state.

435 Why do you insist on telling others what to do? If they want to do drugs, who are you to say they can't?

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 12:19 AM (utGkV)

As long as you are not attempting to negatively affect my life, liberty or property through force or fraud I don't care how you try to ruin your life. However, if you ever do try to affect my life, liberty or property through force or fraud I am likely to get rude about it.

436 Posted by: StPatrick at December 12, 2011 12:15 AM (D+phB)

LOL that just means more Dr. Pepper for you

437 444 You gonna eat that Twinkie, raykon? Posted by: Megan McCheese She'll fight you for it

438

Why do conservatives hate freedom?

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 12:21 AM (utGkV)

Why do you hate brain cells?

439

Why do you hate brain cells?

Posted by: chemjeff at December 12, 2011 12:22 AM (s7mIC)

He only has two, and they haven't spoken to each other for years.

440 451 Hey, I'm looking for funny fake accusations on Koch Industries I can write next to some jackass' sidewalk chalk rant he/she wrote in front of my building. Ideas?

Posted by: Rich at December 12, 2011 12:17 AM (ICe3R)

"The Koch Brothers Made McRib Seasonal"

"Brussels Sprouts Are Part of the Koch Master Plan"

"Nickelback is a Koch-Brothers Invention" /too harsh, and teh backlash if anyone believes it would be legendary.

It's weak, but it's a start.  There's better, funnier, and more concise morons than I.

 

441 They got assault rifles from the ATF.

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at December 12, 2011 12:23 AM (bZ8J6)

They are a Mexican drug cartel?

442 Why do you insist on telling others what to do? If they want to do drugs, who are you to say they can't?

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 12:19 AM (utGkV)

Just the guy whose taxes pay for their treatment, or the guy whose house they break in to to fund their habit, or the guy whose taxes pay welfare checks because they are to fucked up to provide for themselves or the guy the mug on the street. Other than that I am nobody except maybe the dad whose daughter turns into a whore to fund her drug habit or gets raped because she is high on drugs.

You, Ron Paul and Barack Obama can go fuck yourselves, you are too stupid to even be allowed to breath the same air the rest of us breath.

443 The Koch Bros invented internet trolls.

444 At least the troll has picked a more fitting name for itself.

I think it's a sadomasochist, the way it gets abused here and keeps coming back for more.  Fool.     

445 you know what would be funny is a series of propaganda crop circles - things that ring true to owsers and their coterie of buffoons that could be spun into the internet, get a large following and then blown up in their faces by revealing that it was a hoax all along.

446 "The Koch Brothers Made McRib Seasonal" the koch brothers make the mcrib

447 things that ring true to owsers and their coterie of buffoons that could be spun into the internet, get a large following and then blown up in their faces by revealing that it was a hoax all along.

Like Global Warming, yes, great idea!

Evening, all.

448 463 Little ones, I only want the ability to defend myself, and pay for my own defense. Little ones, Big brother does not defend, it makes you pay for its ideas of defense.

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 12:27 AM (utGkV)

Alright, Ray - what kind of defense should be conducted, and against which enemies?  Here's your opportunity to lay your ideas on the line, and explain exactly what it is that you're in favor of.

449 What part of Koch do you not understand?

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at December 12, 2011 12:28 AM (bZ8J6)

Only the Mexican drug cartels get their guns from the ATF. Everybody else has to smuggle them in across the border, like normal folks.

That's a joke son. Lighten up.

450 Chemjeff, did you already go to the jazz club, or is that coming up? 

451  Little ones, I only want the ability to defend myself, and pay for my own defense. Little ones, Big brother does not defend, it makes you pay for its ideas of defense.

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 12:27 AM (utGkV)

You couldn't defend yourself in a gay hipster street fight squirt. I personallly know 5' 2" Hmong that would skin you alive and send your pelt home to your mother with pictures.

Don't talk to me about defending yourself, you can't.

452 Evening, all.

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 12:29 AM (SsG4J)

Your name sings in my ears Tammy al'Thor.

453 Thank goodness no Democrat is one of those backward god-worshipers.

454 Its not that conservatives hate freedom, but its priorities. Why do liberal douchebags hate guns? Who is more of a free man, a man who lives in a country that isn't afraid of an armed citizenry, or a man living in a country that takes your guns and allows you to drug yourself into oblivion. I think the war on drugs is a huge ass waste of money, and a massive back door to a police state, but this conservatives hating freedom bullshit is a delusion. There is a major difference between true freedom, and legalized fetishes.

455 St Pat, Sun Tzu summed it up best, if you desire security then make your position unassailable. Be morally and ethically right, and if they choose to assail that, pull out the MOAB.

456 skin you alive and send your pelt home to your mother with pictures. Ooh ooh Gushie can help with that!!!!

457 The Koch Bros funded Solnydra.

458 Like Global Warming, yes, great idea! Evening, all. Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 12:29 AM (SsG4J) evening Miss Tammy. like that except started and run in a way to demonstrate it was demonstrably false all along and that only submorons would believe.

459 the koch brothers funded pro-o campaigns and causes and o is really their flunkie.

460 So was mine. Try to keep up, pop.

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at December 12, 2011 12:34 AM (bZ8J6)

Get off my lawn punk. (mutters and totters off with his walker)

461 The Koch Brothers do animal testing of cosmetics on baby seals.

462 Hi, GGE! Are you a fan of the books? I had never heard of them, just stole garrett's Tam al' Thor sock. I plan on starting the series soon, though.

yankee5th, hello! Wouldn't it be fun? We need to do it.

I am delighted to see y'all educating our troll.

463 baby seals are mutated pitbulls created by runoff from koch refining facilities

464 Little ones, I only want the ability to defend myself, and pay for my own defense.

So you want your taxes raised then?

465 Hi MissTammy
how is the Tammy homestead tonite

466 Can I have my baseball back, mister?

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at December 12, 2011 12:37 AM (bZ8J6)

You'll have to fight the dog for it.

Yep Tammy, I do like the books but dammit he took too long to finish them. Brandon Sanderson did a passable job with the last one though, but the series has been dragging on for a while.

467 477 St Pat, Sun Tzu summed it up best, if you desire security then make your position unassailable. Be morally and ethically right, and if they choose to assail that, pull out the MOAB.

Posted by: Jerry at December 12, 2011 12:33 AM (4SKYj)

You named a source, briefly explained potential outcomes, and took a position in favor of a course of action.  I'm still waiting on something like that from Ray.  Most morons can put first priniciples forward, and then extrapolate.   I'm still waiting for that finger-sniffer named earlier to explain what it believes in, as opposed to what it is against.  I doubt it will be illuminating, I'm sure it will in nearly-indecipherable gibberish, but it will be insight into the opponent's mind, or lack thereof.

468 Ok I have the NFL Network on.  Hey Deion if the Denver Defense is so awesome why weren't they putting Orton in a position to win.

469 Heh, and Michael Irvin goes and makes that point.

470 While I do find the whole 24 hrs of background noise interesting, it reminds me too much of life on a Submarine.

Every Space had it's one unique sound, but after a while you could usually tell what bell you were at. I don't know if this is true for surface ship, as they are much larger. But I'm sure the air handlers had the same kind of background.

471 Oh, lord, our troll will have to educate me, now. I am not up on my pop culture, raycon. Is it a book or a movie?

The homestead is festive, chemjeff! Thor put up all our little sets of trees yesterday, and it all looks too adorable for words.

We went out light-looking again this evening.....saw the best thing ever. A little girl, about three I'd say, standing in front of a very Griswold looking house, with her eyes and mouth wide open, just trembling with excitement. 

472 The Koch Brothers were turned Nancy Pelosi into an undead zombie.

473 But I'm sure the air handlers had the same kind of background.

Posted by: Zakn at December 12, 2011 12:42 AM (zyaZ1)

Couldn't hear the air handlers over the sound of jet blast most of the time. If they weren't at flight ops the test cell was running an engine...right below my berthing...

474 I dont need your military or your police.

Then you want anarchy then?

475 Gushie, wonderful news about Miss Ellie. A perfect holiday blessing, and no one deserves it more than one who saved a life!

476 I have also been enjoying watching We Were Soldiers. When it came out, I didn't know the details of that battle. I since learned alot more about it, and the movie became much more interesting.

Military History is probably the only course i'd be interested in going to College for. Alas, there are so few good ones left.

477 The Koch Brothers made me drive off that bridge.

478 ok now i feel like bebe's doggie. i would cheat or kill for a snack!

HI TAMMY!

479 Tammy, that is awesome.  wish I was 3 years old again.

480 The Koch brothers stopped me from fixing Fannie Mae.

481

I can take care of myself. I dont need your military or your police. I can buy new weapons to ensure my freedom, through tax cuts to the military and police force.

I can take care of myself, let me live free.

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 12:43 AM (utGkV)

Sure you can, as long as the state allows you to buy those things, regardless of any spending on the police or military.  Are you coming to the dark side, Ray?  I'm still waiting to find out what it is exactly you believe in.

482 AlGore "ManBearPig" South Park episode on

483 <sub><sup>447 Maybe we should legalize the war on drugs, as its another war we lost.

Make friends with the enemy?
Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 12:15 AM (utGkV)</sup></sub>

We lost the "War on Poverty" decades ago, can we please just make that one go away too?

484 The Koch brothers stopped me from preventing the Iranians from getting the RQ-130 drone.

485 Hellloooooo Gushie! Lakewood and Cypress had some good lights!!!

How is your sweet hairless pussy? It is mighty cold out this way.....

486 Couldn't hear the air handlers over the sound of jet blast most of the time. If they weren't at flight ops the test cell was running an engine...right below my berthing...

I suppose thats another bonus to submarine life. Stuff is generally fairly quiet. . Oh and Berthing is always black. Don't know how the Surface pukes could deal with non-black berthing.

487

Spaz, why do you need big brother to take care of you? Learn to take care of yourself :-)

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 12:47 AM (utGkV)

Just answer the question.  Do you advocate for anarchy?

488 495 Gushie, wonderful news about Miss Ellie. A perfect holiday blessing, and no one deserves it more than one who saved a life!

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 12:45 AM (SsG4J)

mostly the blessing is ellies! this will give her true value back, and instead of dogmeat she is once again a prize broodmare, with a noble bloodline. This comforts me for her future if something ever happens to me. There is a certain amount of safety for a horse, in being worth a lot of money.

489 St Pat, Security is achieved by means of measures and counter-measures. A draw-down of military forces results in a weaker(thus more assailable) position. Just by being nice won't secure your position against all threats. Sooner or later you need to be able to fight. The justification to maintain a large standing army is evidenced in history by the massive rampup needed for WWI.

490 chenjeff, if you were three years old again, you coudn't go to clubs and ogle all the wimmenz.

491 Thanks for the help so far, the background on this is that someone wrote a long piece on the "crimes of Koch Industries" outside the Business School at KU where the Koch commons is. I'm planning on adding more "crimes" in the morning tomorrow. But they have to be funny. The only one I thought of is: "Koch Industries turned me into a newt!" but I need more...

492 Gushie that is great news about the horseh

493 Well ladies and germs, I've had a long day so I'm off to sleepytown. Long day of more family visiting ahead of me, Brother is off trying to slay the elusive Bambi and I hope he has some success. Nothing like Midwest corn-fed venison, I'd like to take some home with me. Anyhose, I'm off to get some rest, later roonz and roonettez!

494 510 chenjeff, if you were three years old again, you coudn't go to clubs and ogle all the wimmenz.

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 12:49 AM (SsG4J)

naw but I wouldn't care either.

495 Oh, Hi Miss Tammy!

496

I can take care of myself. I dont need your military or your police. I can buy new weapons to ensure my freedom, through tax cuts to the military and police force.

I can take care of myself, let me live free.

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 12:43 AM (utGkV)

When have you done it before squirt?  You haven't, you know who has? The USMC, The US NAVY, The US ARMY, AIRFORCE and COAST GUARD. You havn't done shit asswhipe except be an ignorant drug addeled prick on the interwebs.

While all of the above were taking care of themselves and their buddies they were also taking care of this country and numorous other ones.

You are just a sad little interweb prick. That's all. Own it.

497 505 Hellloooooo Gushie! Lakewood and Cypress had some good lights!!!

How is your sweet hairless pussy? It is mighty cold out this way.....

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 12:47 AM (SsG4J)

congrats on the christmas cheer!

The little monster is a good girl and cuddled up under a blanket right now. I can hear her snoring.

498 Pretty bummed out this afternoon. The Mrs and I went to the mall, and I thought that I was going to see some nudie womens, but alas, the sign at Victoria's Secret that said "we're taking half off everything in the store" was for the prices, not the women in the store.

499 yeah MrCaniac I can see how that would be a letdown

500 How is Robert's knee, is he okay?

I need to hit the tip jar on Thor's behalf....he has fallen hard for Hannah Minx. I suppose 48 is tool old to be dyeing my hair black? Cuz it's the hair, right?

501 CJ,
You never got back to me on your internets radio. Please do so My parents are bugging me for gift ideas.

502 How is your sweet hairless pussy? It is mighty cold out this way.....

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 12:47 AM (SsG4J)

Pet that baby a few times for me! 

503 """How is your sweet hairless pussy?""


Yeah, I'm pulling my chair up for this one. lol

504 I'm back folks.  I understand we have a troll wee weeing  here tonight.

505 I suppose 48 is tool old to be dyeing my hair black? Cuz it's the hair, right?

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 12:52 AM (SsG4J)

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! not the hair!

OK, that's really it this time, I'm off to bed. Night roonz and roonettez!

506 ^{MrCaniac at December 12, 2011 12:50 AM (uuOfy)}

Well, mot#er f@cker, my hash has changed again.

507 Yeah, I'm pulling my chair up for this one. lol

Posted by: Berserker at December 12, 2011 12:53 AM (FMbng)

'tis gorgeous, and I've seen pictures......

508 Night GGE, drive safely, you hear me???

Hi, Jerry!!! Hi, Dan!

509 462 At least the troll has picked a more fitting name for itself.

I think it's a sadomasochist, the way it gets abused here and keeps coming back for more.  Fool.     

Posted by: Theresa at December 12, 2011 12:26 AM (nAvCW)

===

The troll is clearly a truly inferior mind attempting to get a response from the caricatures it believes everyone to be.  The bait is always packaged for non-existent partial humans that the troll imagines might exist in non-leftist world.

The troll has adopted permanent status as a stereotype of a pre-adolescent little brother who reacts to their exclusion from the activities of those around them through an unending dedication to being as annoying as possible.  If the troll is approximately 9 years old, there is still hope.  At any age beyond that our troll is truly a sad specimen, a thief of oxygen, and a waste of your valuable time.

510
Yeah, I'm pulling my chair up for this one. lol

Posted by: Berserker at December 12, 2011 12:53 AM (FMbng)

you can relax. i have a cat with no hair. shes super friendly and loves NC ref. Grim says she has a regulation haircut. he loves it cuz she never leaves fur on his uniform.

511 521 CJ,
You never got back to me on your internets radio. Please do so My parents are bugging me for gift ideas.

Posted by: Zakn at December 12, 2011 12:52 AM (zyaZ1)

Oh Zakn I thought I did, sorry

I got the Grace Allegro.  It works pretty good.  It has an okay speaker, it cuts off the bass so you'll want to hook it up to external speakers if you want high-quality output.  Also its WiFi receiver is somewhat weak, you'll want to place it relatively near the router.  It is super-easy to set up though, it only took me about 10 mins.  So I'd give it 3.5/5 stars.

512 ^{Yeah, I'm pulling my chair up for this one. lol}

^{Posted by: Berserker at December 12, 2011 12:53 AM (FMbng)}

Hell, I've pulled my britches down for this one.

513 ""I suppose 48 is tool old to be dyeing my hair black? Cuz it's the hair, right""


In Minx's case its the boobs.

514 'tis gorgeous, and I've seen pictures...... Heh, everyone love Gushie's hairless pusseh

515 ^{RoboTerd, the many years I spent in the military, is as close to communism as I would ever like to come.}

^{Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 12:55 AM (utGkV)}

Getting cornholed by the sailor from the Village People doesn't mean you were "in" the military. It's more like you had a lot of seamen in you.

516 RoboTerd, the many years I spent in the military, is as close to communism as I would ever like to come.

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 12:55 AM (utGkV)

Yeah I've heard about your service asswhipe. You were a 5 star corporal in the antarctic jungle division or something.

Maybe you did serve in a communist army, maybe I had the chance to kill you and didn't. My bad.

517 509 St Pat, Security is achieved by means of measures and counter-measures. A draw-down of military forces results in a weaker(thus more assailable) position. Just by being nice won't secure your position against all threats. Sooner or later you need to be able to fight. The justification to maintain a large standing army is evidenced in history by the massive rampup needed for WWI.

Posted by: Jerry at December 12, 2011 12:48 AM (4SKYj)

Jerry,

Cut, jib, newsletter.  I asked for answers from our resident retard, not you.  If I wanted a well thought-out rationale for why military strength is important, and a good explanation of why that's the case, you, along with many members of the Horde are on my list.  If I seem in any way short or irritated, rest assured it's not directed to you, but is related to me calling it a night very shortly.

I want to know what our resident assrash of a troll actually believes in.  It professes negative opinions about all manner of subjects, but has yet to profess belief in anything.  My guess is that it will eventually say that it believes in "A", in the process of explaining that belief in "A" is based on a series of assumptions grounded in "not A".

Your above post is correct, as was what you posted earlier.

518 I stole that schtick from you, Bebe. I crack up every time I hear you ask after Gushie's pussy. It's like being in that Howard Stern movie.

And I am feeling feisty, so y'all are gonna have to keen an eye on me.

For instance, I am wanting to explain a thing or two to Berserker...but I'll be good. Filters, dang it, I am gonna get me some.

519 Wow, it's degenerating into name calling. I'm in awe. Well, it is an open forum.

520

Sorry, I had to step away earlier Gushie. I think it went something like this.  Here it is again for the ONT crowd.

 

There once was a girl we called Gushie

Who sported quite a nice tushie.

But don't give it a pat

cause she'll knock your ass flat.

She's quicker than ninja's with shushi.

521 MissTammy, I'm pretty sure Maetenloch has gone to bed already.
So, what is it you wanted to say?

522 Hi Tammy.  I had a fun, interesting and busy weekend.

523 St Pat, I was just taking part in the conversation. That's all. I wasn't targeting you(or didn't think I was).

524 540 I stole that schtick from you, Bebe. Heh I stole it from Gush or NCRef. It's damn funny to watch the reactions to it.

525 ""For instance, I am wanting to explain a thing or two to Berserker...but I'll be good. Filters, dang it, I am gonna get me some.""


I'm industrial, I can handle it. You're forgetting I have a man card that was carved with a stone axe. lol

526

She's quicker than ninja's with sushi.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at December 12, 2011 01:01 AM (JKNDp)

for that you rock and i love you!!!

and the truth is i may be the universe's most powerful sushi disappearing expert, ever.

527 Ah, chemjeff, I said I'd be better. I may be the Scarlet Woman of the ONT, but I keep my word, lol!

528 Thanks for the review CJ

529 Hey, anybody want to see my hairless ass?

530 I got to fly Saturday morning and afternoon.  The crew got aour truck and van stuck in the mud over night.  My wife and I went to a party Saturday night.  Went back this morning and yanked the gear towed out.  I took a friend to a concert this afternoon and went to Boehner's Christmas party this after noon.

531 Well, we could invent our own little language for talking a little trashy.  Sort of like that Cheech and Chong Herbie and Ralph bit with Fifi - "Hey Fifi, parlez vous a humma-humma?"     

532 You're forgetting I have a man card that was carved with a stone axe. lol

I forget nothing, Manly Man. I am merely trying to behave!

Ohio Dan, what did you do this weekend?

Bebe, it is priceless. We need to think of other such things!

533 545 St Pat, I was just taking part in the conversation. That's all. I wasn't targeting you(or didn't think I was).

Posted by: Jerry at December 12, 2011 01:03 AM (4SKYj)

Aw hell, no you never did, and I knew that.  I just made a clumsy attempt to separate your measured and coherent responses from the assrash, and failed.  I enjoyed your responses, and continue to  note that taintface mcscabies never answered the question.

That said, I'm calling it a night.  Be good, Horde!

534 The Koch Bro's shot JR

535

Speaking of COD, I wish all the punks that bought BF3 would get `em up enough money to buy the latest edition of Modern Warfare and quit fucking up a good game.

536

I've moved on, you can too?

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 01:04 AM (utGkV)

Yeah right dumb fuck, I made $300 a month including combat pay, overseas pay and soldiers savings. I made more than that when I was 14 years old.

You are the reason there is a war on drugs. We look at people like you and try and prevent it from happening to others. We don't need anymore losers, we need more winners. You don't qualify. Sorry.

537 Night St Pat!

Theresa, exactly!

Dan,wow....that is more than I have done all year, I think. How was the concert and the Boehner party? Your truck okay???

538 #351

Be careful. My sister just lost her Border Collie to IMHA, an autoimmune disorder that destroys red blood cells. Monday two weeks ago they were training and she felt something was wrong and took Quinn straight to the vet. He was diagnosed and sent home but by the following night he wouldn't eat an could barely lift himself from his bed. Essentially he was severely oxygen starved for lack of red blood cells to keep his tissues fed.

We took him to a specialist in Woodland Hills that night and they gave him the first of three blood transfusions. (Oddly, the hospital was formerly the site of Kolbe Honda, a motorcycle shop where one of our brothers was a mechanic during the 80s.) By Friday, after $5,000 had been spent my sister accepted that the chances of getting him back at all were a tossup and even then he would likely be severely weakened for the rest of his life. This is a competitive sports dog, in addition to the general driviness of a Border Collie, and thus quality of life became a big factor.

So it ended that night. A lot of tears all around and a severe lack of dog in this house. I'm taking my sister to the airport in the morning to visit the other sister in WA, where she lives with her family and three Borzois. (They're big but almost two dimensional, so it works out.) When the oldest Borzoi was about a year old he was diagnosed with a heart defect and expected to die before he was three years old. Just putting your hand on his side and feeling the weird way his heart beats makes people queasy. But the evil little bastard is nine now.

539 Good evening again.

540 Hi Robert, how's the knees?

541 IF that's ur ass, why can't I see your tramp stamp?

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at December 12, 2011 01:12 AM (bZ8J6)

cuz I'm not a tramp, duh

542 Hey, anybody want to see my hairless ass?

Posted by: chemjeff at December 12, 2011 01:07 AM (s7mIC)

Slap some baby oil on it.

What?

543 My business partner sings in a men's acapella chorus called the Southern Gateway Chorus .

544 Evening ya bunch a morons!

545 Guessing I make more in one year than you made in your life so far. That makes me the winner and you the loser????

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 01:16 AM (utGkV)

You fantasise about a lot of things squirt. I am pretty sure I've spent more on my daughters weddings than you make in a fucking year.

I have a plan though, come to the next Seattle Moron meetup and we can compare service records, tax returns and see who can best defend themselves. How about that squirt, do we have a deal?

546 how's the knees?

Posted by: chemjeff at December 12, 2011 01:15 AM (s7mIC)

Howdy, Jefe!

The knee is alright.  Doing much better than it was last night and I can walk on it again.  I guess it filled up with fluid and I couldn't straighten it.  Got home and popped some Aleve and ibuprofen and slept for ten hours.  That seems to have helped.

547 well Robert that is good
are you going to see the Dr. then?

548 Dan, I had no idea barbershop quartets could be so large! That sounds stupid, but you know what I mean, I hope. I didn't realize they formed entire choruses,I guess is a better way of putting it.

Hey Joffen!

Robert, how often is this happening?

549 Ah, the wretched bitch. Will she man up.

550 Oh Raykon, in case you aren't from this area the Private Jet Airport is Boeing Feild in Renton. I'll pick you up squirt.

551 #425

I genuinely don't give a damn if he is. Frankly, I didn't care that Clinton was the kind of guy who'd bang the chubby intern. The problem was that he lied about being that kind of guy from the moment he first announced himself as a candidate. A considerable number of critics had his number and even named some names. And it turned out to be true.

Doesn't apply to Gingrich. He doesn't have any secrets to protect or lies to maintain on this front. If the question comes up in any forum, he merely has to say, "Yeah, I'm not very good at the marriage thing. But the job isn't surrogate husband to the nation. Can we talk about something germane to my duties, like economics or foreign policy.

Remember: It wasn't the sex. It was the lying about the sex. Along with the revelation that the warnings had been correct.

552 are you going to see the Dr. then?

Posted by: chemjeff at December 12, 2011 01:25 AM (s7mIC)

Nah, no need.  It'll be back to normal by tomorrow evening probably.

how often is this happening?

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 01:26 AM (SsG4J)

Not too often.

553 Keep em coming, robtr, this POS, he isn't worth the ordinance.

554 LOL, you crack me up little one. How old are you again?

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 01:26 AM (utGkV)

59 squirt, you can handle it can't you?

555

The truck wasn't mine but a friend's. We got the truck out that night but had to return in the morning to get the trailer out.  The concert was great. It was a Christmas concert and I take my friend's daughter.  She is in her fifties but has the mind of about an 8 year old.  She really loves going to these concerts.  In addition to the men's chorus they bring in other talent.  This year they had the Bernie Family.  They're like the Von Trapps.  Mom Dad and 8 kids ranging from 1 1/2 to 13.  In addition to singing as a group, 3 boys joining with Dad to sing barbershop and Dad being one heck of a piano player, the 4 oldest (13, 10, 9 & played the Nut Cracker Suite on pianos.  They played very well together.  While they were playing The Dance of the Sugar Plum Faeries, their 3 year old sister danced the ballet.  That was the most adorable thing I have seen all year, excluding my grandkids of coarse.

556 OMG, CoolCzech....a Hannah Minx Elvira vid. Thor is going to send you a thank you card, I swear. And I forgot to thank whoever posted that link to nekkid Cassandra Peterson pics, too.

557 I don't wanna ruin the ONT but I'm wide awake and home for my lunch break. So bear with me. I was thinking about that commercial that Newt did with Pelosi. It aired quite a lot during the 2008 election. Anyway, I watched the commercial and it featured a link to www.wecansolveit.org That site has changed to climaterealityproject.org. This is your typical lefty wingnut climate change site. If I remember correctly, "wecansolveit" was a project headed by Al Gore. What I'm wondering is why did Newt decide to do a commercial for this group? What part of their views did he agree with? The new site is against the oil pipeline and advocates for government loans for energy companies. We need to ask Newt some pertinent questions, I think.

558

Private jets are only 2500 per hour, I could fake it. LOL

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 01:29 AM (utGkV)

Oh come on Raykon that's fucking chump change. I've spent more than that at an open bar at a wedding.

559 that link to nekkid Cassandra Peterson pics, too.

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 01:31 AM (SsG4J)

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, back up there...

Nekkid linkies?

560 I'm going to do dumb things in Eve. I suppose I should load up fraps so the morons can watch.

I know how ya'll like to watch

561 Robert, It was a few days ago, maybe last week. Actual nekkidness, too; enough to bring a blush to my jaded cheek. I am kind of inured to bare boobehs by now, but full-on shots of ...what was it they called it last night, the Promised Land??.....is still a bit startling. Seems rude to be staring at it. Different for you guys, I know.

Dan, that sounds like a fun night. I have a cousin with Cerebral Palsy, and I used to love taking her to the zoo. She would stay all day with me, we never got tired of seeing all the animals!

562 580 OMG, CoolCzech....a Hannah Minx Elvira vid. Thor is going to send you a thank you card, I swear. And I forgot to thank whoever posted that link to nekkid Cassandra Peterson pics, too.

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 01:31 AM (SsG4J)

===

ah... 'twas nothing..... _{*shows dimples*}  thought I was a goner for that one.

563 It's 26° here!  Got the 'lectric blanket warming up.  God bless the person who made the first one.  Now, I've got Urban Cowboy and Kill Bill vol 2 to decide between for a bedtime movie.  Think I'll take Kill Bill 2, kinda had enough of Cowboys for today.   

All, have a great night, and remember, no matter how much your life may suck right now, at least you're not the idiotic troll aptly self-named Wretch, so ya got that going for ya. 

564 Stupido...

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 01:35 AM (utGkV)

Nah Raykon, I actually did it twice. It was for my daughters, her freinds and my freinds at their weddings. Something you don't know anything about because you are an interweb fantasy prick. You don't have kids because who the fuck you claim you as a father, you don't have freinds because people avoid you. Your life is logging on to AoSHQ and making incoherent statements. That's all you've got squirt.

565 Night, Theresa.

566 Tammy, several quartets are also members of the Chorus so we get to listen to quite a combo of groups. 

567 "What I'm wondering is why did Newt decide to do a commercial for this group? What part of their views did he agree with?
The new site is against the oil pipeline and advocates for government loans for energy companies. We need to ask Newt some pertinent questions, I think.

Posted by: Joffen at December 12, 2011 01:32 AM (zLeKL)"

It's not even the same name anymore? 

I think you can see what Newt was saying by watching what he actually said, rather than suggesting he supports everything some other group with another name is saying.

Not that we shouldn't know Newt's energy policy.

Newt claims the sit with Pelosi was a huge mistake, and that he's changed his mind.

And Mitt was a foaming at the mouth retard about this same topic, easily more liberal than Newt, as usual.  Mitt is basically a much dumber and more liberal version of Newt.  Both are technocrats and moderates, but Newt wins his battles sometimes, and he's more conservative.  Neither are my ideal, but I'm afraid it's coming down to these two men, and there really is no doubt which would be a better president.

I've heard Newt speak out in support of pipelines, btw.  I don't know if these are the same as those, but he supports exploration for energy, etc etc.  I can't blame you for holding it against Newt for placating on global warming like that, but unfortunately, the conservative choice's campaign is a failure, so that leaves Mitt the liberal.

568 Well its pushing 2 am in Cincy so I am outta here.  Goodnight all.

569 Ah jc, I ought to have known you'd bring the hot ginger stuff!   

Thor has an actual VHS tape of her stripping somewhere. It's probably on youtube by now somewhere, though.

raycon....and if you have another name you prefer to be called by, I'd be happy to use it....I truly wish you'd start off normal in your posts. Just be cool, you won't get deleted, and people will be happy to have a decent debate.

570 Night, Ohio Dan!

571 I dunno Newt makes me puke a bit

572 Joffen, you're right that the vid Newt did was for a group that is now redirecting to this other site you've noticed, and this other site is extremely biased, dishonest, and liberal.

So you're justified in being annoyed and to be suspicious of Newt.

But my impression is that Newt doesn't agree with the hysterics of this climate reality group in any way. 

He was just stupid enough to make a vid with some folks he shouldn't have.

573 Is Jypsea Rose out there?

I have run all the 'ettes off.  

I need to back off, and quit hogging the thread.

574 Newt is a big government pimp. Lets call it like it is To him, everything has a big gov. solution

575 It's not even the same name anymore? I did a quick Google search for wecansolveit.org and it linked directly to that site. So I'm thinking same shit, different name. I think you can see what Newt was saying by watching what he actually said, rather than suggesting he supports everything some other group with another name is saying. In the commercials with Pelosi, he doesn't say where he disagrees with Pelosi. He just appears with her and they both talk about the 'need to address climate change'. Newt claims the sit with Pelosi was a huge mistake, and that he's changed his mind. What made him do the commercials in the first place and why did he change his mind now? We need these questions answered.

576 "Newt makes me puke a bit

Posted by: Mr. Wonderful at December 12, 2011 01:48 AM (z8HSj)"

I'm not saying he's some great consistent conservative.

I'm not a huge fan of his.

between him and Mitt, the choice is clear.

If there's any chance we can get a reliable conservative instead... someone who has run a state with a balanced budget and been free of stupid flip flops for the most part... that would be a hell of a lot better.

I think it's between Newt and Mitt.  Saying someone is better than Mitt is like saying some diseases are better than AIDS.

577 It was a few days ago, maybe last week. Actual nekkidness, too; enough to bring a blush to my jaded cheek. I am kind of inured to bare boobehs by now, but full-on shots of ...what was it they called it last night, the Promised Land??.....is still a bit startling. Seems rude to be staring at it. Different for you guys, I know.

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 01:39 AM (SsG4J)

Google don't fail me now!

578 What made him do the commercials in the first place and why did he change his mind now? We need these questions answered. Posted by: Joffen at December 12, 2011 01:51 AM (zLeKL) Because he's full of shit and a fucking liar.

579 @ 598 No, honey, I don't, break it down to Granny, please.

580 But my impression is that Newt doesn't agree with the hysterics of this climate reality group in any way. Why do you get that impression, Dustin? Is it wishful thinking or something more concrete? If Newt changed his mind and gave a substantive reason why, I missed it. Those commercials really are revolting. They came out in 2008, and it often happens that web sites consolidate with others or change their name. Further research on this subject is needed.

581 Oh, no, never mind, I'm sorry Maet, we need to quit talking to him.

582 You really don't understand the meaning of words? Where do I begin?

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 01:50 AM (utGkV)

By bringing you and your high earning ass who makes more money in a year than I have made in 59 years up to Seattle on your G 5 so we can check you and your ninja self out raykon. I mean it's not like you don't have the time or money. Come on up squirt, I will make sure my schedule fits yours.

583 If there's any chance we can get a reliable conservative instead... someone who has run a state with a balanced budget and been free of stupid flip flops for the most part... that would be a hell of a lot better. Rick Perry. There ya go. You know, if you told me last year that we would be rallying around Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich over a three-term Governor of a conservative state, I'd have laughed my ass off. This is bordering on stupidity what we're doing. Just ridiculous.

584 A month ago, Newt was simply a joke, an astrerisk. And for good reason. Remember that.

585 "I did a quick Google search for wecansolveit.org and it linked directly to that site. So I'm thinking same shit, different name. "

I checked too.  You're right.  But Newt isn't affiliating with them now, is he?  If they changed years after Newt did one video, is Newt responsible for that?  Of course not.

"In the commercials with Pelosi, he doesn't say where he disagrees with Pelosi. He just appears with her and they both talk about the 'need to address climate change'. "

Yes, that's right.  And now he says he was being really stupid to do that.

"What made him do the commercials in the first place and why did he change his mind now? We need these questions answered.

Posted by: Joffen at December 12, 2011 01:51 AM (zLeKL)"

He's already talked about it.

from Daily Caller:

"

However, on Tuesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Gingrich — now a candidate for the Republican nomination for president — admitted it was a mistake for him to appear in the ad during the show’s “Center Seat” segment.

“First of all, that is probably the dumbest single thing I’ve done in years,” Gingrich said. “It is inexplicable that somebody used to say, ‘You know, there aren’t enough hay wagons to stand on to get people to understand that.’ You just need to relax and go, that was dumb.”

[...]

Gingrich then described a book he co-authored, titled “Contract with the Earth,” which he said outlined “a pro-market, pro-entrepreneur, innovative environmentalism.”

He then said, “I don’t know whether global warming is occurring,

  What question do you specifically want answered, though?  Newt has talked a lot about energy exploration and support for pipelines, which sounded like the issue you were originally bringing up.  I think he's largely OK on that.

I just don't see how it matters what this group is up to now, after Newt's not even affiliated with them.

586 To people like Newt and McCain, Carbon Credits are pro-market. He's full of shit and a lying blathering twat.

587 I ring this little bell here, and they show up.  It's like magic.

Now all I need is 40 or 50 more of them.

588 This is my post Christmas concert, three sheets to the wind comment.  You will notice I have managed to not be racist, nor sexually explicit. So no one else has any excuses.

Which I suppose makes me kind of an asshole, but I figure ace can appreciate that.

In any case thanks for reading. Hopefully I can get to sleep rather than causing any actual trouble.

589 My comment formatted so much better... but when I posted, all the formatting went away.

Dammit.

Anyway, the quote from Daily Caller ends with the word 'occurring'.  I didn't post most of the article, and you can google that up pretty easily if you're curious about Newt talking about this video.

Much more important is his view on energy exploration and regulation.  Newt claims he supports a pro market policy, and I think most of his commentary is in line with that.

If we're comparing Newt to Perry, I think Perry clearly wins.  But Perry is not a factor anymore.  It's basically Newt vs Mitt, and Mitt's got a much worse record.

590 Did I say 40 or 50?  I meant 40 or 50 million.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

591 I have run all the 'ettes off.  

I need to back off, and quit hogging the thread.

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 01:49 AM (SsG4J)

i went and got a snack is all. I am reading DAvid Mamet's book The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling Of American Culture.

tryin to see if it would be any good for my recovering dem friend to read. I think he will like it. i love it!

592 okay good night all

593 Rick Perry. There ya go.

You know, if you told me last year that we would be rallying around Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich over a three-term Governor of a conservative state, I'd have laughed my ass off. This is bordering on stupidity what we're doing. Just ridiculous.

Yes , well, I'm in Illinois, so I'm not voting until March. I am firmly comitted to the leading not Romney at that point. So, if the rest of y'all send me Perry, I will vote Perry. If it has to be Newt, I'll vote for Newt, but it's going to be more out of spite at Parisparamus than anything else.

594 Turd of one, tired of typing and having comments deleted.

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 02:00 AM (utGkV)

So how does it feel when the hallucinations start?

595 " 611 To people like Newt and McCain, Carbon Credits are pro-market.

He's full of shit and a lying blathering twat.

Posted by: Mr. Wonderful at December 12, 2011 01:58 AM (z8HSj)"

You think Newt supports carbon credits?  That's a big problem if you're right.  I had never heard that.  Can you show me where he said that?  Also, who do you support instead of Newt?

That's the problem these days.  The great candidates are bombed, and where's the realistic and constructive alternative?

Like all the people who SCREAMED about Daniels and then Perry.  What did they expect was going to happen when Perry lost support?  What was their realistic and constructive plan to promote conservatism?  It's like they never had one.

Newt is not as conservative.  And now it's between Newt and Mitt and we're screaming about Newt?  Well... what's the realistic alternative?  Mitt is not as conservative as Newt.

Then we pick Mitt and scream about him?  But then we get Obama again.

This is getting really old.

596 I'm pretty sure its been the same group with the same goals all along, even when Newt did those commercials. I gotta go back to work. I will do more research on this. LAter morons!

597 Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys, they`re ridin` shetland ponies) at December 12, 2011 01:10 AM (QCs3j)

Are you a fan of Lewis Grizzard?

598 "Rick Perry. There ya go.

You know, if you told me last year that we would be rallying around Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich over a three-term Governor of a conservative state, I'd have laughed my ass off. This is bordering on stupidity what we're doing. Just ridiculous.

Posted by: Joffen at December 12, 2011 01:55 AM (zLeKL)"

You are 100% right.  

It's stupid.  It's ridiculous.  It's actually just plain tragic.  Perry is much better on energy and environmental regulation than Newt.

599 A month ago, Newt was simply a joke, an astrerisk.
And for good reason.
Remember that.

According to some pundits in the know back then, he was a one-trick pony who only gained attention by attacking the media. So, let's see how he holds up to the next few weeks before the rubber hits the road.

600 Posted by: Dustin at December 12, 2011 02:03 AM (rQ/Ue) I am right. He is for "carbon-lowering" credits and CO2 sequestration. He calls that nonsense "pro-market" CO2 sequestration will triple the cost of coal power. He is McCain2 with a little less braindamage.

601 Don't go, Joffen!  I've only got three primary voters left and they're you, Dustin, and, uh.... the third one is.... um....

602 "I'm pretty sure its been the same group with the same goals all along, even when Newt did those commercials. I gotta go back to work. I will do more research on this. LAter morons!

Posted by: Joffen at December 12, 2011 02:03 AM (9Ylyb)"

I'm not arguing that you're wrong about that.  But then, what are their goals?  They are incredibly simplistic, right?  Man is going to change the environment, so we must stop that with government intrusion.  They can take on 100 different flavors and tactics, but it's very simple: they want more government.

The new site appears to mainly just bash 'deniers' in incredibly stupid ways, such as suggesting there aren't any, or they are really stupid.  No serious attempt to debate the issue is made.

Newt did something similar in promoting the problem, but as annoying as that was, it's not intellectually dishonest or quite as annoying as the new site.

Regardless, my concern is that Newt may be the only Not Romney left standing.  Sure, I'd much rather be able to pick someone better than Newt, but if it comes down to Newt vs Romney, these transgressions on Newt's part... as valid as it is to complain about them... they don't mean we shouldn't vote for him.

Hopefully I'm reading this wrong and a more conservative and experienced executive will be viable when I vote.

603 Glad you got your snack, Gushie! What did you get? I found a recipe for garlicky lavash snacks with red pepper that sounded tasty, and made me think of you, for some reason. I should post it!

I am kind of leery of getting all torqued up and ruining my Xmas bubble right now, but I have that book on my list for later on.

Berserker reminded me of Julian Bream the other night, and I am trying to find a CD that he plays on that has the most gorgeous Xmas music, one of the few operatic voices I like, and I can't remember her name.

604 Good night, Jefe!

605 Why do you care? Leave me the fuck alone.

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 02:04 AM (utGkV)

Just curious don't get so touchy. Or is that part of the drugs you are killing yourself with? I guess the hallucinations makes you irritable then? Makes you construct fantasies?

Come on Raykon tell us about what the drugs are doing to you right now. For science.

606 God, I am your witness, I can not stand your children telling me what to do.

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 02:10 AM (utGkV)

Wait so the drugs are making you talk to God now? You don't beleive in God though, at least that is what you have said before. Maybe you should post your address so we can get someone to rescue you.

607 Should I bother getting an old black and white movie on blu-ray?  I mean, it's black and white. 

608 I've only got three primary voters left and they're you, Dustin, and, uh.... the third one is.... um....

Me.

609 "Don't go, Joffen!  I've only got three primary voters left and they're you, Dustin, and, uh.... the third one is.... um....

Posted by: Rick Perry at December 12, 2011 02:06 AM (DS64h)"

It is really weird that you're here, basically every time I make any comment,, within seconds.

But hey, you're a liberal and you don't have a job, so that explains it.

Your arguments suck, btw.  I assume you're the same goofball by other names at other blogs, with the same stupid argument that amounts to emulating Bush Derangment Syndrome from the worst of the left.

Perry ran a huge state extremely successfully for a very long time.  He's accomplished much more than you ever will, and has been a force for net good in Texas.  He's not perfect, but he's one of the good guys.

My disrespect for Romney is much more justified, because Romney supported Romneycare, which is a substantial control of economic choices in order to provide freebies to a certain constituency.  It's textbook socialism.  And Romney repeatedly fought against the human right of bearing arms.  He is a net harm on my country, and consistently selfish in his unprincipled flip flops, including even on 'Abortion Rights' the issue Romney claims he championed longer than any other issue (37 years).  no matter where one stands on abortion, it's disturbing to see someone actually play politics with human life while claiming to be a very religious person.

That's why so many people have articulate reasons for rejecting Romney, but you're left with derpy derp 'Me Perry me stupid'.

610 They change and delete my words, what can I say that is the truth?

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 02:14 AM (utGkV)

Nope those are all your words squirt. You are having a bad trip. You are paranoid now and freaking out. Post your address and we will call 911 and have them defend you.

611 I'm not ashamed to admit I'm a Christian.  I loves me some Jesus just as much as the next man, and received His endorsement in two of my last three gubernatorial campaigns.

And sometimes, on one of my random meandering walks through the woods I take in this rugged-looking jacket Jesus bought me at Eddie Bauer for my last birthday as phantom tinkly music wafts along the breeze from some indeterminate location, I think about how you don't need to be a Christian, or heck, even a Protestant, to see that there's something seriously wrong with this country when a guy like me has to cut an ad equating the severity of the national crisis of school prayer with that of the ability of Cpl. Lance Sterling to stick his wee-wee into the firing line of Sgt. Gary Packenwood, just to appeal to a few corn-suckers in Iowa who are going to choose your next presidential nominee for you.

But that's what the Son of God, as a member of my campaign staff, thought I needed to do to get back into this thing; so here I am trudging across this greenscreen so that I can be keyed into the favorite woodland haunt to which Anita exiles me every Thursday when the new primary polls come out.  Faith made America strong, and I strongly recommend it as a campaign strategy.

I'm Rick Perry, and I approve this, uh.... this.... um.... damn it, what did I just say again?

612 Are you a fan of Lewis Grizzard?

OMG, that's IT, I have been trying and trying to remember where I remember that from. We lost a great one when he died.

Beefy, Thor loves Crawford, and we do have that CD!

613 629 Glad you got your snack, Gushie! What did you get? I found a recipe for garlicky lavash snacks with red pepper that sounded tasty, and made me think of you, for some reason. I should post it!

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 02:10 AM (SsG4J)

you thought of me cuz its just the sort of thing i would like!

i had savoury crackers with apricot stilton cheese. just a little. i told myself not to be a chowhound lab!

614 "I am right.
He is for "carbon-lowering" credits and CO2 sequestration."

I'm not trying to call you a liar when I ask for some specifics.

If he's currently calling for carbon credits, that's very much worth bashing him over.

I'm afraid I'm a bit ignorant of the terms the liberals use for this stuff.  Is C02 sequestration referring to technology like clean coal?  Probably not if you're complaining, but I have no problem with such standards.

If you're talking about carbon credits by another name, that is something I disagree with very much.

The fact is that clean coal is a good thing, and it's annoying as hell that good new plants are blocked by red tape from the left despite the fact they would replace dirtier plants.

Personally, I think nuclear is a great solution too, but am not optimistic we're going in that direction.

615 robtr, they do change his words, and the thing is, it makes a lot of work for the cobloggers.

616 I'm guessing we should aim for 667  or maybe 668 cause  after certain comments are deleted you'll drop down a place or two.

617 Posted by: Dustin at December 12, 2011 02:15 AM (rQ/Ue)

Yeeeeeeessssss. Feel the hatred FLOW!!!  Strike him down, and my candidacy will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

_{Wait, what?  It won't?}

618 <sub><sup>638 I'm not ashamed to admit I'm a Christian.  I loves me some Jesus just as much as the next man, and received His endorsement in two of my last three gubernatorial campaigns.

And sometimes, on one of my random meandering walks through the woods I take in this rugged-looking jacket Jesus bought me at Eddie Bauer for my last birthday as phantom tinkly music wafts along the breeze from some indeterminate location, I think about how you don't need to be a Christian, or heck, even a Protestant, to see that there's something seriously wrong with this country when a guy like me has to cut an ad equating the severity of the national crisis of school prayer with that of the ability of Cpl. Lance Sterling to stick his wee-wee into the firing line of Sgt. Gary Packenwood, just to appeal to a few corn-suckers in Iowa who are going to choose your next presidential nominee for you.

But that's what the Son of God, as a member of my campaign staff, thought I needed to do to get back into this thing; so here I am trudging across this greenscreen so that I can be keyed into the favorite woodland haunt to which Anita exiles me every Thursday when the new primary polls come out.  Faith made America strong, and I strongly recommend it as a campaign strategy.

I'm Rick Perry, and I approve this, uh.... this.... um.... damn it, what did I just say again?</sup></sub>

_{^{Posted by: Rick Perry at December 12, 2011 02:18 AM (DS64h)}}

Tebow has endorsed you?!!!!!!!!

619 You are too stupid to realize reality...

Posted by: Wretch at December 12, 2011 02:18 AM (utGkV)

I am reality squirt.

620 595 I dunno
Newt makes me puke a bit

Posted by: Mr. Wonderful at December 12, 2011 01:48 AM (z8HSj)

Funny, Obama makes me puke a whole helluva lot. Surges and cascades, with projection. And cramps so bad it sucks stuff back in from my rectum and moves it up again to puke more.

Compared to the current SCoaMF, Newt is fluffy bunnies in clover.

621 http://seasonalcookinturkey.blogspot.com/


Ingredients for My Garlicky Crunchies with Flaked Red Pepper3 lavaş/lavash
3 tbsp soft butter (room temperature)
2 tbsp or to taste flaked red pepper/ pul biberi
2  big cloves garlic or to taste, crushed
3 tbsp grated parmesan or eski kaşar peyniri
Method
·         Pre-heat oven to 180°C/350°F.
·         Place the  butter in a bowl and mash with a fork to make sure itÂ’s soft.  Add all the other ingredients and mash till well blended.


spreading the softened buttery mixture over the lavaş

·         Using a knife, spread  the mixture over a sheet of lavaş making sure to spread all the way to the edges. With a knife or pizza cutter (preferable), cut into triangles. Actually, the shape and size are up to you. They donÂ’t have to be uniform.


cutting the lavaş

·         Place in a single layer on a baking tray and put in the middle of your pre-heated oven. Cook for 5-7 minutes. Keep your eye on them as they can easily burn.  Remove and cool on a wire rack.

cooling on the rack
Tips
The ingredients are extremely flexible in terms of quantity. You donÂ’t have to be exact here.  The recipe specifies 3 lavaş but everything depends on their size.  I wouldn't worry about it.  Adapt as you go.The possibilities are endless for further versions: how about dried thyme/kekik or cumin/kimyon scattered with sesame/susam seeds or nigella/çörekotu?

622 Undead would probably blow a brain vessel if I started trashing Romney on religious grounds, not that I'm inclined to.  But of course, he's just kidding around for doing that to Perry.

What can I say?  The guy is apparently on the verge of tears about Rick Perry, who is polling at 6%.

It's very amusing.

Remember, Undead promised he would campaign against Rick Perry if he was the nominee running against Obama.  Undead promised, essentially, to support Barack Obama.

Then he claimed I was lying when I noted how retarded this was.  No, I wasn't.

Undead, why in the hell does Rick Perry bother you so much?  He's not even a factor anymore.  The guy is a great governor and a solid conservative.  He's run a scandal free administration for 12 years.  He's backed excellent policies as a legislator and he even succeeded with tort reform that conservatives can only dream about in California (I assume that's where you are for some reason).

Is there really much reason to hate the guy this much?  Did he kill your cat?  Did he screw your mother?  Are you just some kind of deranged liberal who actually wants the GOP to reject the policies Perry supports?  Which policy, specifically, of Perry's, do you reject to the degree that justifies rage at this point?

You've never bothered to specify that.  It's like you don't even care about policy. 

623

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 02:24 AM (SsG4J)

That sounds delish.

624 Okay, y'all, I am gonna go shower and pick out my perfume for bed this evening....be back later!

625 robtr, they do change his words, and the thing is, it makes a lot of work for the cobloggers.

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 02:21 AM (SsG4J)

I don't beleive that, I can't tell any difference.

626 We'll be waitin' for ya, Tammy.

Showering ...

Lathering ...

Repeating ...

What?

627 648

Compared to the current SCoaMF, Newt is fluffy bunnies in clover.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 12, 2011 02:22 AM (kaalw)

========

Hey, CT, Where ya been?

628 Honestly....  Really, I....  Gosh....  Personally....  I don't mean to....  Wow....  Four-term governor....  Sigh....  But....  Regardless....  Honestly, I'm not trying to....  Mitt!!!....  I don't understand....  Hypocrisy....  Really....  Foaming rage!....  But Undead said that....  Justified criticism....  What can I say?....  Liberals....  TEXAS!....  Conservative record....  Stupid....

(begin paragraph 23)

629

Hey, CT, Where ya been?

Posted by: jc at December 12, 2011 02:28 AM (ufJKx)

R'lyeh, of course. Where would you expect?

630 Delete delete delete...

667 is the magic number tonight.  We are in a deflationary spiral.

631 Is it that time?

632 Does it also prevent split ends, and dandruff?

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at December 12, 2011 02:28 AM (bZ8J6)

Well the collogen is supposed to smooth away wrinkles.  So I hear.

I hear too many things.

633 657

R'lyeh, of course. Where would you expect?

Posted by: cthulhu at December 12, 2011 02:30 AM (kaalw)

===

do they spend a lot of time on stupid fucking gourd/sandal arguments there?

634 667 is the magic number tonight.  We are in a deflationary spiral.
 
Wouldn't that make it 663,pr something?

635 maybe me

636 Is she even here?

637 Wouldn't that make it 663,pr something? Posted by: Methos, 2 brandys + 3 vodkas= wheeee! at December 12, 2011 02:33 AM (sOXQX) That would be inflationary.

638 I don't even care.

639

640 nope guess not

641 Woot

642

do they spend a lot of time on stupid fucking gourd/sandal arguments there?

Posted by: jc at December 12, 2011 02:32 AM (ufJKx)

No, but there are long arguments over the benefits of civilization......and, of course, the usual thing about the PLFJ being splitters from the PJLF.

643 And no more troll posts so maybe the magic number remains the same.

Durn it!

644 Huh? I thought deflationary is when dollars or posts are worth more and inflationary, less.

645 Huh?

Posted by: Methos, 2 brandys + 3 vodkas= wheeee! at December 12, 2011 02:35 AM (sOXQX)

Do wha?

646 "Honestly....  Really, I....  Gosh....  Personally....  I don't mean to....  Wow....  Four-term governor....  Sigh....  But....  Regardless....  Honestly, I'm not trying to....  Mitt!!!....  I don't understand....  Hypocrisy....  Really....  Foaming rage!....  But Undead said that....  Justified criticism....  What can I say?....  Liberals....  TEXAS!....  Conservative record....  Stupid....

(begin paragraph 23)

Posted by: Dustisms at December 12, 2011 02:30 AM (DS64h)"

This is how you respond?

All I asked was what policy of Perry's do you actually hate this much?  I mean, it's not like it matters if you bash him anymore... he's done.  He's polling very poorly, and your continued fury about the guy suggests you've got a serious problem with him.

I've noted the problems I've had with Romney... you used to try to argue with me about it, but you lost so badly that you just resort to this schoolyard taunt stuff now. 

But at least I've explained what in Romney's record ticks me off.  I have no idea why you actually appear to hate 'that aggie f*ck', to use your terms.

Do you hate limited spending?  Tort reform?  Energy exploration?  I mean, you support Romney of all people... it's hard to see why a conservative would hate Perry but find Romney acceptable. 

There's gotta be something though, right?  If there weren't, you wouldn't hate Perry.

I'm sorry that you find my comments too intellectual.  You've made this complaint many times, and it comes across like the retarded people in idiocracy thinking the normal guy is faggy.  There's nothing in my comments that should be difficult for you to understand, but let me know what you're having a hard time with and I'll explain it to you if I can.

647 670 do they spend a lot of time on stupid fucking gourd/sandal arguments there?

Posted by: jc at December 12, 2011 02:32 AM (ufJKx)

No, but there are long arguments over the benefits of civilization......and, of course, the usual thing about the PLFJ being splitters from the PJLF.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 12, 2011 02:34 AM (kaalw)

===

and, of course, the Popular People's Front.  And all this time I thought it was just a movie.  Little did I know....

648 Gosh.

It's like I think the ONT actually wants to listen to my whiny evangelistic horseshit, or something.

Honestly.

649 Should we call it?

650 Is it safe now?

651 Was that really Undead?

652

I think so,

http://tinyurl.com/ykqkgpx

 

653 Is it safe now?

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 03:02 AM (SsG4J)

Is it secret?  Is it safe?

654 681 Is it safe now?

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 03:02 AM (SsG4J)

Is it secret?  Is it safe?

Posted by: Gandalf at December 12, 2011 03:07 AM (4ixH5)

No.

655 If we're gonna have Morrison, I want Road House Blues, please?

656 I am typing one handed on my touchscreen now, I cannot keep up with your funnies. I had a precioussssss joke ready, damn it.

657 "It's like I think the ONT actually wants to listen to my whiny evangelistic horseshit, or something.

Honestly.

Posted by: Dustup at December 12, 2011 02:41 AM (DS64h)"

When have I ever posted whiny evangelistic horseshit?

You just make random crap up, and it says more about you than anyone else.  I don't really go out of my way to promote my religious views, actually.

I think you're assuming I reject Romney because I'm evangelical... I'm not even sure I qualify as evangelical in the first place, but I reject Romney because he's liberal.  I would support Perry over Romney if Perry were Mormon.  Why do Romney fans keep going there?  It's really stupid.

"Was that really Undead?

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 03:03 AM (SsG4J)"

If not, I apologize.  I don't know what his hash is.  Undead is a huge Romney fan and has been quite nasty in bashing those who note that Romney is really too liberal for them (such as myself), and Undead has got a huge problem with Perry.  So I am pretty sure it's the same guy.

Undead is usually not so bad when he's not bashing Perry, which is why I keep asking him what he hates about Perry.   The guy is a really good conservative governor, and not really a factor in the primary anymore, so why bash  him so much?

Maybe Undead's comment about evangelicals sheds light.

658

good choice,

http://tinyurl.com/2w2wp5u

 

659 Oh and by the way, Dustin (since I know you're going to be reading this tomorrow, hijacking dead threads being one of the things you like to do), I never, ever, made the complaint that I find your comments "too intellectual".  I think you're the only one here laboring under that delusion.  I may have offered the opinion that you're a fucking faggot on an occasion or two, but intellectual?  Nah, you don't have that problem.

But then, one problem you always did have was of being a liar.  You lie about me, you lie about others, and you lie about yourself, which is why you'll probably even try to say that you didn't once threaten to follow me around this site like a yapping dog, pointing out my heresies against Teh Rickster and challenging me publicly to defend them, as if anyone in their right mind would try to have a real conversation with a lunatic like you.

See you next time, Fifi.

660 I am typing one handed

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 03:11 AM (SsG4J)

It's not hard once you get used to it.

What?

661 Could be, Dustin, could be. Or he may just be feeling his oats because his Tigers are probably gonna whoop my Tide pretty quick. I predicted that he and EoJ were about to get insufferable.

Don't worry yourself over it.

662 You just make random crap up, and it says more about you than anyone else.

Just pointing out, some people have a schtick.

Undead is a huge Romney fan and has been quite nasty in bashing those who note that Romney is really too liberal for them

He got off on bashing O'donnell, too. Granted, fish, barrell, yada, yada.

663 Methos is pondering whether staying up later wll make the hangover less bad.\ at December 12, 2011 03:15 AM (sOXQX)

Drink a bunch of water.  That will help the hangover.

664

or my favorite, chystal ship

http://tinyurl.com/7gaz4h8

 

665 My mom's a smart lady.  She always told me not to argue with drunks, damn fools, tired children, or the mentally ill.

Tonight I got to witness the full spectrum of her advice in a very compact form. Question is, do I need to see any more, or has this little experiment run its course?

Dunno yet.

666 Hmmmm, some history there, I guess.

LOL, Robert, you're gonna get me banned, I swear you are.

robtr, thank you, but that may have been a mistake on my part. That song has quite the effect on me.

667 Hmmmm, some history there, I guess.

Pretty much.  The guy just isn't right up there.

_{^{And I do wish we didn't have to play Alabama again.}}

668 LOL, Robert, you're gonna get me banned, I swear you are.

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 03:20 AM (SsG4J)

You never really know for certain.

669

hah, probably like as LA Woman has with me. I named my daughter lori ann after this song.

http://tinyurl.com/yjxc6xu

 

670 jc, your mama is very smart, for sure. methos, Robert os ,too.

Undead, I wish I could say Perry was gonna get the nom and my Tide was gonna roll over your Tigers, but I am not bettin' on either!

671 692

or my favorite, chystal ship

Posted by: robtr at December 12, 2011 03:19 AM (MtwBb)
---

I am a huge Jerry Scheff fan.

672 No, no, no one ever got banned for being a sessay lady on AoS.

673 Typing one-handed on my touchscreen...

So that is what the kids call it nowadays.

674 Drink a bunch of water.  That will help the hangover.

Will do. Thanks for reminder.

675 jc, no way!!!!!

robtr, I love that song, too. One of their best.

676 703 jc, no way!!!!!

robtr, I love that song, too. One of their best.

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 03:29 AM (SsG4J)

--------

Yes, Way !!!

what are we talking about?

677 epobirs, LOL!!!!

Say, I have a question you might be able to answer....do authors get more money from the Kindle versions of their books?

678 Undead, I wish I could say Perry was gonna get the nom and my Tide was gonna roll over your Tigers, but I am not bettin' on either!

Heck, I'd take Perry.  I rag on him a lot, and it pisses me off that he had this thing sewn up back in August and managed to piss it away, but in spite of Dustin's claims I'd happily support Perry if by some miracle he ended up as the nominee.  I'd rather have him than Gingrich, in fact, since Newt is an electoral Goldwater waiting to happen.

And Dustin was wrong about another thing:  I care about policy so much that I want to see Obama's ability to enact it taken away by any political means possible.  That is, in the end, what this shit comes down to.

679 jc, Jerry Scheff. Great guy. I had no idea he was still around. I wonder if Dom Fonatana is, too? That's not him drumming.

680 I care about policy so much that I want to see Obama's ability to enact it taken away by any political means possible.  That is, in the end, what this shit comes down to.

Ain't that the truth.

681 Tonight's Simpsons must have had the writers actually come in to work because it was the best in a long time. Actually had to pause every few minutes to catch all of the jokes.

682 I care about policy so much that I want to see Obama's ability to enact it taken away by any political means possible.  That is, in the end, what this shit comes down to.

Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at December 12, 2011 03:34 AM (DS64h)

I saw that!  We're calling the North Pole now so Santa can know to take a giant dump in your stocking.

683

heh tammy, nite wild child.

http://tinyurl.com/32zmkek

 

684 707 jc, Jerry Scheff. Great guy. I had no idea he was still around. I wonder if Dom Fonatana is, too? That's not him drumming.

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 03:35 AM (SsG4J)

---

If you are telling me you know Jerry Scheff I am soooooo jealous.  I'm breen.  kelly green.  I learn Elvis tunes just to play like Jerry.

I think that vid was taken at a NAMM show or something like it.  He was prolly just sitting in.

685 "Oh and by the way, Dustin (since I know you're going to be reading this tomorrow, hijacking dead threads being one of the things you like to do), I never, ever, made the complaint that I find your comments "too intellectual". "

I just read several threads at once.  Sometimes I'll get to them a few hours late, and someone will have replied to me (so I reply back), or I'll leave a comment not realizing the thread is dead.

You assume I have some deep bad faith motive to 'hijack' dead threads?  That is really funny.

And yeah, I interpret some of your whining above as complaining that my comments are too intellectual.  That's how you're coming across.

"ut then, one problem you always did have was of being a liar.  You lie about me, you lie about others, and you lie about yourself, which is why you'll probably even try to say that you didn't once threaten to follow me around this site like a yapping dog, pointing out my heresies against Teh Rickster and challenging me publicly to defend them, as if anyone in their right mind would try to have a real conversation with a lunatic like you.

See you next time, Fifi.

Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at December 12, 2011 03:13 AM (DS64h)"

You sound like you have a mental illness, undead.

I did promise I would continue to note you promised to trash Perry if he were the nominee, yes.  I didn't promise to point out your 'heresies against teh rickster'.   You said you'd trash 'that aggie f*ck' all the way to election day if he were nominated.  That's what you said.  You were asked if you'd support him against Obama, and you said you'd trash him.

Your reason wasn't even anything with Perry.  You were mad at Buzzion, and you explained you would trash Perry because it was some kind of revenge against Buzzion.

You keep saying I'm a liar... but you flatly denied this promise to trash Perry if he was the nominee until I quoted you in three threads, which showed you to be extremely dishonest.

so... um... you're kinda the liar here.

Can you quote something I've said that is a lie?  You act like you have something in mind... it should be really easy for you to prove I'm a liar then, right?   But you can't.  You just project your sins onto me to foment confusion so people who don't follow your drama just equivocate that we're both throwing crap at eachother.

Anyway, by the way you freaked out to Buzz, it's clear you were actually furious about an argument you lost with him about Romney.  Not internet-fury, but real fury. 

You project this fury onto me, but I just don't feel it.  Like I said, trash Perry if you want.  He is a non-factor.  you are doing no harm at this point to do it, in my opinion. 

All I asked was what about Perry makes you so mad.  I think the truth is you are mad that you didn't fare will in arguments with people like me, whom you realize liked Perry (to some extent... I just thought he was better than the other candidates... I don't really think he's the greatest thing out there).

Anyway, Romney fanboy, you and I both know.  You know I'm no liar, and that you are one.  How's that feel?   I seem to be able to get under the skin of the Romney hack more than anybody... I don't even know why, as I'm not really trying to troll you.  I think it's because Romney's more cultist devotees are insecure in a way that arguing with me exposes.

686

oh damn, I can't leave without wishful sinful. Nite all

http://tinyurl.com/bubaqpv

 

687 LOL, Thor plays that for me when he's drunk, and then wallows in Catholic guilt the next day! Thank you, I love it!

SLeep good, my friend!

688 Kids these days...

689 jc, I don't know him-know him. Daddy played with a lot of those guys back in the day, and he loved Jerry Scheff! Really admired him. I remember him as having a big, jolly laugh.

690 Hmm.  *checks watch*  Quarter to 3:00 Central on a Monday morning, and he's still up.  I thought I was the guy who wasn't supposed to have a job.

Second shift, Dustin? 

691 "Heck, I'd take Perry.  I rag on him a lot, and it pisses me off that he had this thing sewn up back in August and managed to piss it away, but in spite of Dustin's claims I'd happily support Perry if by some miracle he ended up as the nominee. "

Despite my claim that you promised to trash 'that aggie f*ck' all the way to election day?  Specifically referencing the general election?

It's great that you've changed your mind, undead, but I didn't misrepresent what you said, and you know it.  You could just be a man and admit you were wrong, but no... you have a conniption fit instead.

When you 'prove' you are thinking about policy with a slogan that doesn't actually reference any policy, I suspect you're just an idiot who sees politics as a sport and just happens to be on Team R.

692 I seem to be able to get under the skin of the Romney hack more than anybody...

I think it's because of your intellectualism.

693 I didn't get a chance to say hi to cthulu and he's gone again.

694 Despite my claim that you promised to trash 'that aggie f*ck' all the way to election day?  Specifically referencing the general election?

My precise words were "Aggie Fuck", and speaking of trashing we're looking forward to making A&M the whipping boy of the SEC.  (That's right, I'm more invested in SEC football than any Californian you've ever seen. )

And you don't really sound too happy to hear I'd support Perry.  Strange, that.  I guess you'd rather fight over it until the end of time.  A shame your candidate couldn't dredge up that kind of spirit.

695 717 jc, I don't know him-know him. Daddy played with a lot of those guys back in the day, and he loved Jerry Scheff! Really admired him. I remember him as having a big, jolly laugh.

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 03:47 AM (SsG4J)

======

well, I'm still jealous.  when people ask me about my influences I always tell them I started loving bass because of Jerry Scheff, Berry Oakley, Tiran Porter, and Carl Radle. 

696 "Hmm.  *checks watch*  Quarter to 3:00 Central on a Monday morning, and he's still up.  I thought I was the guy who wasn't supposed to have a job.

Second shift, Dustin? 

Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at December 12, 2011 03:48 AM (DS64h)"

I don't work tomorrow.  But I also spend probably 1% of the time here that you do.  You really do appear to be obsessed with non-constructive smearing of a conservative, and you continue to refuse to explain which policy of Perry's you think Romney is better on.  If there isn't one, just say that.  Maybe you hate Perry for being evangelical.  That's what I'm picking up from your comments.

You also called me evangelical with zero basis.  Why would you lie about me like that?  Are you retarded?  That doesn't even relate to anything.  It's just stupid.

Can't hold your own on a real debate, so you're just basically screaming into your monitor at this point?

That's not necessary.  I don't care that you hate my guts, other than feeling sorry for you.  You clearly take this shit a lot more seriously than I do, and I think you probably suffer far more for it than I'd ever wish on you.

At the end of the day, you and a few of your pals think those who bash Romney are fair game for incredibly ugly replies, and I think that is a very big part of why Romney is loathed online.  Those who serve as his  most prominent ambassadors are invariably unpleasant.

For me, a guy who wants a not-Romney 100X more than he ever wanted Perry specifically, I look to commenters like you as a blessing in disguise.

697 I don't work tomorrow.

You don't say.

698 Oakley was Allman Bros, right?

699 The guy is a great governor and a solid conservative. He's run a scandal free administration for 12 years. He's backed excellent policies as a legislator and he even succeeded with tort reform that conservatives can only dream about in California --------- If this is true, why are we allowing Newt and Mitt to be the frontrunners?

700 "And you don't really sound too happy to hear I'd support Perry.  Strange, that.  I guess you'd rather fight over it until the end of time.  A shame your candidate couldn't dredge up that kind of spirit.

Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at December 12, 2011 03:55 AM (DS64h)"

What are you talking about?

I said that's "great."  Are you illiterate?

It's also doesn't refute that you promised to trash Perry if he were the nominee, and then claimed I was lying.  Your proof I'm lying is that you changed your mind?  That's irrational.

You let internet arguments affect you too much.  Even when you were promising to trash the GOP nominee if it was the one Buzz wanted (essentially promising to help Obama), you weren't doing it because of anything Perry did.  You were just reacting to a commenter on this blog.

That's stupid.  People like you are your own worst enemy.

So you ARE from Cali?  I guess we both know which commenter and which blog we're also debating on, right?  Don't worry... I won't share that info.  It was pretty obvious already because you're just a troll over there.

701 You also called me evangelical with zero basis.

I called you "evangelistic", dumbshit.  If you knew the definition of the word you wouldn't have assumed I was referencing religion.

You really need to learn to read what other people are writing, Mr. Intellectual.

702 I said that's "great." Are you illiterate?

You don't sound like you think it's great.  You sound like you just want to keep perpetuating an argument over something we both agree on.

Now why would that be?

703 Anyway, I'm off.  Some of us have to get up in the morning.

Right, Dustin? 

704 "If this is true, why are we allowing Newt and Mitt to be the frontrunners?

Posted by: Joffen at December 12, 2011 03:59 AM (9Ylyb)"

Don't look at me, Joffen.

I think the problem is that many reject conservatives, even 90% conservatives in a field where the nearest competitor is a 50% conservative.  They aren't being constructive and I don't really know how to fix this.

But there's also the rather obvious problem that Perry didn't get decent at these debates until rather recently, and he left a very poor impression on people who aren't so familiar with his great record.

It got very old defending Bush from the 'he's an idiot' charge for eight years, and even though I don't think Bush or Perry were idiots at all, and I don't think this ugliness is more important than Perry's actual record, I do think this is a big problem for Perry.

705 So it looks like we're letting the media pick our candidate. The same dumb msm we always trash is actually smarter than we are, I guess. Fan-fucking-tastic. Those that say they will support whomever is the nominee: thanks for your (useless) contribution. This is primary season. We're still picking a candidate. Or rather, having the worst candidate chosen for us. I thought we were supposed to be smarter than liberals.

706 Oh my.

707 Diarrhea, cha cha cha!

Okay, so I got absolutely nothing to add.

708 Oh my.

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 04:06 AM (SsG4J)

No, it goes...ooohhhhh myyyyyyyyyyy!!!!

709 "You don't sound like you think it's great.  You sound like you just want to keep perpetuating an argument over something we both agree on.

Now why would that be?

Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at December 12, 2011 04:03 AM (DS64h)"

Did you promise to trash the GOP nominee if it was Perry?  Yes.  Did you call me a liar for quoting you accurately?  Yes.

When I defend myself from you calling me a liar 50 times, you say I'm perpetuating the argument?  So you get to lie about me, and if I defend myself with the facts, I'm 'perpetuating the argument'?

" Anyway, I'm off.  Some of us have to get up in the morning.

Right, Dustin? 

Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at December 12, 2011 04:05 AM (DS64h)"

You spend 100X as much time on here as I do.  I seriously doubt you have a job, Colonel.

710 Posted by: Dustin at December 12, 2011 04:05 AM (rQ/Ue) ------ So we're too lazy to carefully choose our candidate. Too lazy to consider the various candidates positions with anything resembling thought. You know who these assholes remind me of? Democrats. Let's pick a liberal because he talks better. Really, so Perry made a bunch of verbal mistakes during the debates. So what? What is the big fear here? Do they think this will affect a Perry administration somehow? How?

711 No, it goes...ooohhhhh myyyyyyyyyyy!!!!

You're clearly confusing me with your girlfriend, sir!

Why no Mastodon tonight? They were starting to grow on me.

712 726 Oakley was Allman Bros, right?

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 03:59 AM (SsG4J)

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Yup.  And Porter played for the Doobies, and Radle played for Delaney/Bonnie/Clapton and that whole Tulsa crowd of JJ Cale, Leon Russell, etc.

But I always loved learning Jerry Scheff's licks cuz he had a million of 'em.  Every tune is chock fulla stuff a guy can steal and apply somewhere else.

713 Are there any Morons near an IMAX theater?

I have a mission for you.

I need you to go see Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.  In front of it will be a six minute preview of the Dark Knight Rises.  I need you to go see it.  And sneak in a video camera.  And then I need you to post it to YouTube for me.

Do this thing for me.  Because...uh...well, I'll think of a reason later.

714 You know what I'm getting sick of hearing? How great a candidate Perry is but it's just too bad that his candidacy is effectively over. Why? Oh, because he messed up a few times during debates. So let's pick a different candidate, one that is farther away from our values than Perry but sounds better. Yes I'm sure Newt or Romney will soothe us with their calming words while they fix Obamacare and bring in a better version of cap and trade.

715 You're clearly confusing me with your girlfriend, sir!

Why no Mastodon tonight? They were starting to grow on me.

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 04:10 AM (SsG4J) 

I wish!  I was thinking of that George Takei ad.  Contrary to reports, I am not dating George Takei.

Working tonight, alas, YouTube is blocked.

716 Haha Robert. Yeah that movie is gonna kick ass.

717 So MissT, Robert, this looks like a nice pub, let's go in.

Oh, you've been here before.  What's it like?

You're shitting me.  The bring an imbecile from the asylum and let him loose in here every night?  So what happens, do people actually let him drink?  No shit, they argue with him?  Why?  They know he's crazy right?

Fights?  What fights?  How often do the fight?  Really, over what?  No shit.  That means they agree more than they disagree.  Why do they fight?  Oh.  I see.

Well, fuck it.  Let's drink.  I heard they got tunes here.

718 I am not as up on my bass players as I ought to be, all things considered. I really should know Radle, apparently! Love all those folks. Used to be a huge Bonnie fan, but she is such a Lib, it's not even funny. I try not to let htat bother me, but she's pretty vocal. In all fairness, it's mainly because she's a Pacifist, which is a noble thing, if wholly impractical.

I always liked her for so many reasons....just her talent alone, but also cuz she's a female in a male world, and that whole Ginger thing, you know???

719 jc, maybe I should do my very best Shakira impersonation, and see if I can distract them???

720 Tammy, that depends on a lot of factors. Are they going through their regular publisher or self publishing? The deal can vary wildly and the Big Six players are possibly living on borrowed time. The publishing world gets turned upside down every decade or so but this is the scariest time they seen in a century. They deserve it.

For someone who has an established following or the knack of self-promotion, self-publishing on the Kindle and nook can be very lucrative. A big factor is that you can price things as low as you like or even give stuff away to build an audience. Plot out a trilogy and give away volume 1 to get them hooked. The first dose is free.

There are some folks who've had million+ plus sellers at 99 cents on the Kindle and that is still great money for a regular working slob breaking into the writing business. Look here: Amazon Kindle Royalty Rates. A 99 center makes the author/publisher 35 cents per sales with no charge for 3G delivery. (This is why the fat files KindleGen produces from ePUBs were driving me nuts.)

This may not sound like much but compared to traditional publishing of genre novels it's bloody miraculous. There are a number of people completely unknown in the print sector who are earning well into the six figures. The most famous is Amanda Hocking, who went from being a 26-year-old waitress to earning close to $2 million on her YA novels before going over to the dark side and signing with a Big Six publisher for a four book series, for an advance of $2 million..

The take gets a lot sweeter for items priced at $2.99 or higher. That gets you into the 70% royalty rate. If you've got a popular book at that price, which hasn't been common on paperbacks since the early Reagan administration days, you can really make serious money.

I generally encourage self-publishers to go for the $2.99 rate whenever possible. If your book is especially bulky you may want to go higher to mitigate the delivery cost, or if you're a big name and can justify a higher price for a 'hardback' window. But I believe the lowest price with the highest royalty is the sweet spot. If you're trying to build a name or do the heroinware thing, go lower.

One writer who I think has a very good insight on the future of writing is Peter F. Hamilton. He is best known for massive epic space operas. He recently had a novel that is a prequel to his Commonwealth universe, called 'Misspent Youth.' It actually isn't very good compared to so much else of his work but there is an interesting subplot about how artists make their living. The main character is a famous elderly scientist who at immense expense is restored to youth in hopes he has some more great breakthroughs left to produce given good health. He is best known for creating a data storage medium of incredible capacity and fairly low cost. It is such that you can keep every movie, song, book or anything else than can be stored as bits in your pocket. (A few centuries later this technology makes it possible to survive complete loss of the body and having your memories implanted in a newly grown body, although one that is inconveniently young and weak when you first regain consciousness, as well as expensive, so body loss is still to be avoided.)

Because of this storage medium and communications links that can be used to fill it very quickly, the business of selling digitally expressed artworks has completely collapsed. Copyright is a lifeless husk. Instead, creators such as writers are entirely dependent on the good will of their readers, who send donations of varying sizes, much like hitting the tip jar at a favorite blog. The wealthy gain status by patronage and might commission specific works. a practice that has been with us for centuries given new elevation.

This is because the same technology that makes it so hard to enforce copyright also makes it incredibly easy to move money around. Paypal is just the start. In the novel this system is working pretty well, with only the film industry forced to make major changes to their business model but it must be noted that this business model has always had corrupt accounting at its core. So shed no tears there.

721 Robert, no IMAX by you?  Is Tom effing Cruise in this Mission Impossible?

722 We're still picking a candidate. Or rather, having the worst candidate chosen for us. I thought we were supposed to be smarter than liberals. Posted by: Joffen at December 12, 2011 04:06 AM (9Ylyb

I'll vote for the most conservative viable candidate I can.  I'm don't think we're being smarter than liberals in how we choose our candidates, and I think the GOP's problems with this are a very long running trend.  The GOP lets the hard left moderate most of our debates, and they endorse and fund RINOs like Romney.

I was hoping the blogosphere would be the solution to that, but (present blog excluded to be honest) many of them just trash the SHIT out of everyone, with no constructive, realistic alternatives.  Either they trash them all, or they claim to support someone who really is unsupportable (in my opinion, Bachmann is a good example).

=------------------------------------

"I called you "evangelistic", dumbshit."

What was your point?

Seriously, what did you mean by that?  You had just trashed Perry on religious grounds "'m not ashamed to admit I'm a Christian.  I loves me some Jesus "  and then you call me evangelistic, so what did you mean?

If you really meant the more broad meaning, that people debating politics on here are trying to advocate their beliefs to people who disagree, aren't you being an idiot?  Isn't that pretty normal behavior on a political blog?

No, Undead, you are a liar.  You were trashing me as an evangelical Christian, and when I note you just made that up, you just explain by evangelist, you weren't referencing religion at all... and hey, I should be ashamed of thinking you'd do that even though you actually did that exact thing a few minutes prior.

Just so you understand: the only reason I'm linking this is because you called me  a liar.  I always rebut that kind of thing if I'm able to.

I asked you if your comment that you would support Rick Perry when Hell Freezes Over meant you wouldn't support him in the general election, and you replied with:

http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=323312#c16055175

"I'll be more than happy to blow holes in this dipshitted Aggie fuck right here on this blog right up until Election Day, if that floats your fucking boat.

I'd hate to disappoint you, after all.

Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at November 03, 2011 12:55 AM (oKLTg) "

I replied that it was a shame, but I respect your right as an American to support Obama and wondered what about Perry upset you so much.  It was clear that it wasn't Perry that affected you... just a commenter who left you looking stupid.

It's nice that you have changed your mind, and I'm really really proud of you for having a job.  Good for you.  The only problem is that you're a pathological liar, and you don't appear to have a normal sense of perspective, so I think you're full of shit.

723 "You know what I'm getting sick of hearing? How great a candidate Perry is but it's just too bad that his candidacy is effectively over. Why?"

If you're directing that at me, I think I'm probably guilty as charged.

"So we're too lazy to carefully choose our candidate. Too lazy to consider the various candidates positions with anything resembling thought. You know who these assholes remind me of? Democrats. Let's pick a liberal because he talks better."

It's incredibly annoying.  do we think Abraham Lincoln would have held his own in today's stupid process?  I doubt it.  George Clooney?  Probably would be crushing everyone else.

It's all about smooth memorization of insincere views.

The guy who actually walked the walk?  No one gives a shit that he walked the walk because he's not as smooth as the guy who gave us Romneycare.

I am a captive to this process.  I can't resist voting for the most viable not-Romney.  Everyone else left Perry's cause, and now I'm doing the same because I can't just vote for the guy with 6% if there's a real battle between Romney and a somewhat less horrible candidate.

Sucks.

724 Thank you, epobirs. I don't write, I was curious as to which way is the more lucrative way to support an author, buying the hard copy, or a download. I had no idea there were different levels, so to speak. I guess there's no real way of knowing what deal an author has.

The more I hear about the Big Six, the madder I get and it sounds as though the music and film industries aren't any better.

Pretty interesting times to be an artist, for sure. I try and be mindful about copying CDs and such, although I certainly do it.

725 Posted by: Dustin at December 12, 2011 04:28 AM (rQ/Ue) ------- I hope you were kidding. Nobody is that willfully stupid.

726 Perhaps a change of nic would help the atmosphere?

727 Robert, no IMAX by you?  Is Tom effing Cruise in this Mission Impossible?

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at December 12, 2011 04:22 AM (SsG4J)

Closest one is in Austin, six hours away.  Boooo!!!!!

Yeah, Tom Cruise is still doing Mission Impossible, but I want to see this one for one reason...Brad Bird.  He's the director.  He also directed The Incredibles and Ratatouille and The Iron Giant.  So I dig the guy.  I want to see how good he is doing live action action movies.

728 Funny thing about Peter Hamilton, though.

On his site there is no place to give him money or send him gifts, like an Amazon wish list. He has predicted the future but doesn't realize it's already here.

My Nook has a 16 GB microSD card added to it and can accept a 32 GB unit. I have well over a thousand books on there and haven't even exceeded 10% of the available storage. The newer SDXC standard for SD cards allows for up to 2 TeraBytes per unit.

Now, I'm a freelance IT geek, so most of my pants are of the cargo variety and I carry a lot more flash drives than most folks. Currently my set of drives are minimally 16 GB and all together I have 160 GB of storage on my person whenever I go out. That doesn't include the assortment of 8 Gb and smaller drives in a side pocket of my backpack where my laptop lives when not in use. Add to that the 320 GB drive in the laptop and the terabyte or so of other external hard drives in the backpack.

So yeah, I carry around a lot more storage than most but this is going to look dinky compared to what people will have on their keychains just a few years from now. Intel and Micron just demoed a 128 Gigabit flash chip. Based on their roadmap, 128 GB flash drives should be under $50 within 5 years.

I can put every word Hamilton has ever published on a single 1 GB flash unit of the sort that now is given away in place of 20 pound catalogs at trade shows. The audio versions of all of those books and stories would easily fit at good quality on a 32 GB drive and those go for less than a  buck a GB now.

If you're a writer, it is critical that you make it easy for people who don't want to buy stuff conventionally to still reward you.

729 Perhaps a change of nic would help the atmosphere?

Posted by: Wild Child, Full of Grace at December 12, 2011 04:42 AM (SsG4J)

George Thorogood.  We need some Thorogood.

730 You in Brownsville, by any chance?!

731 Good Night.

732 Oh, ignore, me I am not trying to to be personal, I'm sorry!

733 YES YES YES! I was gonna post a Shakira vid with a favorite Spanish group, but I am a big Destroyers fangirl

734 Oh jc, love it! And good night. Sleep sweet!

735 "I hope you were kidding. Nobody is that willfully stupid.

Posted by: Joffen at December 12, 2011 04:41 AM (9Ylyb)"

I can be pretty stupid, man.  Don't underestimate me.

My view is that Perry is far from perfect, but the general election will be about jobs, and Perry has a great answer on that issue.  I also think Perry will fight the hardest on the issues I care most about, and also already is capable of running a large government.

My other view is that Romney really doesn't represent my views ideologically and his policy shifts are dishonest plays for pander, even on some really basic issues.

These two issues probably line up great.  I can just vote for Perry and sleep well.

But what if there's a Not-Romney who isn't as good as Perry, but I do think would fight the left better than Romney and is probably more conservative than Romney (who really knows what romney believes)?

What if the race comes down to a point where the conservatives are all at 6% or whatever, but there is a tight race between Romney and Newt?  In that case, I'm voting Newt.  Am I being played?  Probably.

736 You in Brownsville, by any chance?!

Posted by: Wild Child, Full of Grace at December 12, 2011 04:46 AM (SsG4J)

Pretty close!  25 minutes northwest.  Same county, not as shitty a town.

737 Brownsville...like a third world country it is.

A third world country with a Best Buy.

738 Oh God yes, Brownsville is one of the armpits of Tejas, El Paso being the other. I prefer Brownsville by a hair. Not sure why, other than I have family all up and down the Gulf.

Dangerous, long haired oilfield Cajun wildcat hellraisin' family, I might add, but they're fun.

739 Posted by: Tammy al' Thor, causing talk and suspicion... at December 12, 2011 04:59 AM (SsG4J)

Causing talk and suspicion, ay?

War is a secret Bachmann supporter, pass it on.

740 Nah, if I was gonna start some sh*t on War, I'd accuse him of having an affair with Mike Sherman. (Aggie joke)

741 Say,. do you sit in awkward position on the floor or couch? I mean besides when you're tying 50 lb weights to your junk?

I am asking cuz Thor used to do that, and he got his knee all jacked up, fluid built up so bad they had to tap it, then do a lapro surgery.

742 That cad!

743 And people wonder why almost nobody uses the trains here in LA.

17 Miles in 78 Minutes

744 Just pay attention to how you're sitting, smarty pants, that's all I'm sayin'.

I have no way of knowing what contortions you get up to when I am not around to keep an eye on you. And keep up the Motrin/Advil.....it's helping the swelling.

745 No kidding, huh, epobirs??? And I don't want to carpool, either.

I think I am going to call it a night, dear ones. If bean or vika or Bers show up, tell 'em I said hi!

746 And keep up the Motrin/Advil.....it's helping the swelling.

Posted by: Tammy al' Thor, causing talk and suspicion... at December 12, 2011 05:14 AM (SsG4J)

Which reminds me, I'm gonna get me a cane.  With flames.  Ya know, to make me look like I'm going fast.

I'll shake it at all the kids in my neighborhood.

747 I'm here for the long haul. As I mentioned earlier, I have to take someone to the airport in three hours.

748 Dustin: why dont you just stay home when your State primary rolls around? You're obviously comfortable letting others make your decisions for you.

749 Good Morning Morons.

The IRC has been taken over by third world idiots just like the UN. It lost credibility decades ago.

750 Morning, Morons

751 Morning Vic, Fluffy

752 Spent a good chunk of my shift packing up dvd's of Sarah Palin that no one ever bought. They were literally gathering dust.

753 Good Morning,

sitting here eating coconut creme pie for breakfast and drinking coffee watching F&F.

They played Obama on 60 min. Every word out of his mouth was a lie despite softball questions. Did they call him on it?

Hahahahahahaha

754 And people wonder why almost nobody uses the trains here in LA.

17 Miles in 78 Minutes

That makes the MBTA in Boston look well run.

755 Spent a good chunk of my shift packing up dvd's of Sarah Palin that no one ever bought.

I never understand why any movie company would think people would want to buy dvds of a politician. You can see them more than you could ever want on TV.

756 Stuart Varney says EU summit was massive failure.

757 SV did light into Obama and essentially called him a liar.

758 I never understand why any movie company would think people would want to buy dvds of a politician. You can see them more than you could ever want on TV. ------ Well Walmart apparently thought a whole bunch of people would buy it because we ordered a shit-ton. Because Sarah Palin is so damn popular...in New York State.

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760 " 776 Dustin: why dont you just stay home when your State primary rolls around? You're obviously comfortable letting others make your decisions for you.

Posted by: Joffen at December 12, 2011 05:29 AM (9Ylyb)"

No, I'm not comfortable with it at all.  But the reality is that Perry is at 6%.  If I were polled, I'd say I support Perry.  If I actually voted and it wasn't a close match between Romney and a Not Romney, I'd also vote Perry.

I'm just recognizing that there could be a situation where we either unify behind a not-Romney or we wind up with Romney.

Do you have a realistic and constructive alternative in mind?

761 30F here in the 'hood, forecasting a high of 45.

762 LOL, Trump on F&F actually did call him a liar.

763 Also, Joffen, is a Newt presidency so horrifying?

I think a Newt presidency could be excellent.  It probably wouldn't be, but the potential is there.  I think at worst he would be about where Bush 43 was on most matters.  This is not the ideal, but I can compromise to supporting Newt.

My ideal isn't Rick Perry either, you know.  I had to compromise some to accept supporting him.

The primary is the right thing to just stubbornly take a do or die attitude and support the guy who really does represent what you want most closely, but this is why I've explained I have the additional factor of wanting anyone but Romney.

764 News thread is up

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770 I haven't donated to anything affiliated with the Red Cross ever since the American Red Cross solicited donations for the victims of 9/11 and then tried to stash it away for "future emergencies". The Salvation Army gets my money.