October 01, 2012

Overnight Open Thread (10-1-2012)
— Maetenloch

[Above-the-post Update - Andy: I broke out the emergency comment site while we wait on Pixy to round up a spare TRS-80 floppy. Old-school comments are back.]
[Above-the-post Update - Pixy: Do you know how hard it is to get TRS-80 floppies these days? I had to overwrite my copy of Zork. ]

Neil Armstrong Buried at Sea

He was buried at sea with a US Navy honor guard aboard the USS Philippine Sea (CG 58 ) on Sept. 14th. Captain Steve Shinego, commanding officer of the USS Philippine Sea presented the US flag to his wife, Carol Armstrong, following the service.

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Space Combat vs. 'Aircraft Carriers in Space'

Naval analyst Chris Weuve explains the difference and how movies and books get it wrong:

There are so many that are so bad. Star Wars is probably the worst. There is no explanation for why X-Wings [fighters] do what they do, other than the source material is really Zeroes [Japanese fighter planes] from World War II. Lucas quite consciously copied World War II fighter combat. He basically has said they analyzed World War II movies and gun camera footage and recreated those shots. Battlestar Galactica has other issues. One thing I have never understood is why the humans didn't lose halfway through the first episode. If information moves at the speed of light, and one side has a tactically useful FTL [faster-than-light] drive to make very small jumps, then there is no reason why the Cylons couldn't jump close enough and go, "Oh, there the Colonials are three light minutes away, I can see where they are, but they won't see me for three minutes?"

The Dictatorial Impulses of the Left

Many people on the Left have become so comfortable with the desire to control everyone else's lives that they barely even bother with the pretense that they're somehow in favor of freedom

It is difficult now to imagine a modern university intellectual saying something as simple and unequivocal as "I disagree with what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it." He would be more likely to think, if not actually to say out loud or in public, "I disagree with what you say and therefore rationalise to the death my right to suppress it." In public, he would be more circumspect, presenting a suppression of freedom as an actual increase in freedom; that is to say of real freedom, not the kind the leaves everyone free to sleep under a bridge. But he would know perfectly well in his heart that what he was after was power: the greatest power of all, that to shape, mould and colour indelibly the thought of others, a power to which he believes that he has a right by virtue of his superior intellect, training and zeal for the public good.
And let's not forget the equally progressive efforts to shape young minds at Queen's University, which decided that students' private lunchtime discussions were in need of monitoring by hired eavesdroppers called "dialogue facilitators." Eavesdroppers whose uninvited "interventions" would "encourage discussion of social justice issues" and "issues of social identity, power and privilege," as defined by them and whether welcome or not. "Positive spaces and mindsets" would of course be created. If that doesn't sound sufficiently creepy and absurd, take five minutes to read how this "facilitation" was supposed to happen. Then ask yourself how you might respond to such monitoring and linguistic intervention. And note that, when challenged on their intentions, these champions of "social justice" were all too willing to lie.

Also: College Professor Offended by Free Speech Wall

Max Boot: Why Aid to Egypt Makes Sense

Foreign aid is intensely unpopular among American voters and it has often backfired and failed to produce growth, as Governor Romney noted in a recent speech. But in this case the U.S. aid is not designed to promote long-term growth; it is designed to tide Egypt over to prevent an immediate crisis. And extending more aid to Egypt actually enhances our leverage over the new government-something that President Obama was able to take advantage of after the embassy attack to tough talk with Morsi, forcing Egypt's president to strongly condemn the anti-American violence and to order a more vigilant role by the security forces in protecting the American diplomatic outpost.

I have no problem with using aid as bribery - but in this case if all we got for our nearly half a billion dollars was a condemnation of anti-American violence and some promises of better embassy security, then we ain't getting our money's worth. We could be moderately despised at a tenth that amount.

Global Warming Killed 5 Million People in 2010!!!!

Well not really once you get past the dishonesty and deliberate exaggeration:

When the study reports that 4.975 million people die in 2010 from the "combined climate-carbon crisis", the reality is that 4.575 million have not been caused by global warming.

Essentially, the report's authors claim that 0.4 million actually die from global warming (this number itself is very likely exaggerated, as I have described in my book Cool It, but a closer examination is beyond the scope of this article). Yet the impression clearly intended for the media was almost 5 million deaths, or a more than twelve-fold exaggeration.

And so far this year another 42 million people have died from the combined climate-carbon-old age/disease-not-getting-outa-my-way-fast-enough crisis.

The Perils of Partying with Lindsay

Where a staffer for Republican Congressman Jim Shimkus (IL) learns that Lindsay parties kinda rough:

Lindsay Lohan tussles with congressional staffer in Manhattan hotel room over cellphone photos, tells cops he choked her.

It's unclear if she already knew LaBella, who works for Republican Rep. John Shimkus of Illinois and is the nephew of comedian Heather McDonald.

Cops say Lohan took Christian LaBella's cellphone so she could delete pictures of her partying - and he got physical with her trying to get it back.

After Lohan called the cops, LaBella was initially charged with misdemeanor assault for Sunday's blowup at the W Hotel Union Square.

But law enforcement sources said the assault rap will be dropped - and LaBella, 25, and Lohan, 26, will both be hit with low-level harassment violations.

It would be Lohan's second legal scrape in as many weeks, coming on the heels of her arrest for leaving the scene of a minor car accident.

Poor Lindsay - always the victim of completely random bad events.

Lohan is on her 23rd strike here so at this pace she might actually spend a complete day in jail sometime around 2016.

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Why You Hate Cyclists

Well I like bicycling but in general I hate bicyclists. Not that there's anything wrong with riding a bike - but something about riding them more than occasionally seems to bring out the passive/aggressive nature and smug sanctimony in people. And the more spandex and semi-pro gear they wear, the stronger the douche factor.

This article by a self-proclaimed asshole cyclist doesn't really help:

I'm an asshole cyclist. I'm that jerk weaving in and out of traffic, going the wrong way down a one-way street, and making a left on red. I'm truly a menace on the road.

...And some of us are trying to get better. I've recognized that my bad behavior keeps others from taking up riding, and keeps politicians from investing in things I care about, like more bike lanes. So I've stopped riding on sidewalks and try to keep my illegal lefts to a minimum. But I've been a jerk for a real long time. So, let me say this to drivers, pedestrians, and my fellow riders alike: I'm sorry. See, aren't cyclists the nicest, most polite people in the whole world?

And when you get organized groups of asshole cyclists like Critical Mass, it's not a shock when this happens.

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It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

I don't know about you, but I can't wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal. I'm about to head up to the attic right now to find that wicker fucker, dust it off, and jam it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables. When my guests come over it's gonna be like, BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is-fucking fall. There's a nip in the air and my house is full of mutant fucking squash.

...And I'm just going to thread another gourd onto my necklace without breaking their gaze and quietly reply, "It's fall, fuckfaces. You're either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you're not."

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The Yahoo AoSHQ group. Bla bla bla.

And my twitter thang.

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Posted by: Maetenloch at 06:10 PM | Comments (757)
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1 Hi Morons

Posted by: fluffy at October 01, 2012 07:43 PM (z9HTb)

2 holyshit i'll be damned



IT LIVES!!!!!!!

Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at October 01, 2012 07:44 PM (r7Ddb)

3 It's on at last!

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 07:44 PM (V/U0X)

4 is it working???

Posted by: Peaches always finds something to be pissed about at October 01, 2012 07:45 PM (kpCLl)

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

Posted by: steevy at October 01, 2012 07:45 PM (6o4Fb)

6 yay comments?

Posted by: chemjeff at October 01, 2012 07:46 PM (d/5qf)

7 oh thank heavens!  I was almost at Stage 4 AoSHQ withdrawal

Posted by: chemjeff at October 01, 2012 07:46 PM (d/5qf)

8 hey chemjeff

Posted by: fluffy at October 01, 2012 07:46 PM (z9HTb)

9 hey fluffy, what fluffs tonight

Posted by: chemjeff at October 01, 2012 07:47 PM (d/5qf)

10 Did you read that Yahoo article about the upcoming debate?  Guess who's playing the role of Romney in obama's practice debates... yup you guessed it, John F'n Kerry

Posted by: chemjeff at October 01, 2012 07:47 PM (d/5qf)

11 Lordy I had to get a life tonight!

Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 01, 2012 07:48 PM (Dnbau)

12 Peace!

Posted by: Baraka at October 01, 2012 07:49 PM (V/U0X)

13 I'll repost what I just posted at the emergency site - Tony Romo sucks!

Posted by: George W Beagle at October 01, 2012 07:49 PM (sZRY5)

14 BEARS WIN!!!!!  BEARS WIN!!!!!!!

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 01, 2012 07:49 PM (cyGNg)

15 Good. I just got finished with a bunch of Instapundit links.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 01, 2012 07:49 PM (vDl/w)

16 I'm upping my game and debating the 2-Wood instead of the 11-Iron.

Posted by: Barky McDipshit at October 01, 2012 07:50 PM (V/U0X)

17 i was forced to watch the tee wee a little, and grim play Borderlands 2 A LOT!

Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at October 01, 2012 07:50 PM (r7Ddb)

18 The long national nightmare is over...

Obama sending aid to regimes that use children as soldiers...

http://scoamf.us/zS

The excuse is that the regimes are so "fragile" we can't push them much...or at all it would seem.  Child Soldiers == SLAVERY in my book.

Romney needs to get this deplorable shit into the debates.

I want to see the left put spin on this.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 07:51 PM (MQLiy)

19

i bet DaveinTexas paid pixy to crash the comments so he wouldn't have to face the embarrassment of being a dallas fan

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 01, 2012 07:51 PM (cyGNg)

20 Yay!

An ONT without comments is no ONT at all.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 01, 2012 07:51 PM (piMMO)

21 Did anyone catch the Liarwatha-Brown debate tonight? Comments?

Posted by: JewishOdysseus at October 01, 2012 07:51 PM (WCzJ6)

22 A trillion here, and a trillion there, and pretty soon we're talking bout real money.

Posted by: King Barry XV at October 01, 2012 07:51 PM (V/U0X)

23 You rang?

Posted by: fluffy at October 01, 2012 07:51 PM (z9HTb)

24 It lives.

Posted by: rdbrewer at October 01, 2012 07:52 PM (Iyg03)

25 Give it up for my girl, Lizzy Warren!

Posted by: Earflaps McTeleprompter at October 01, 2012 07:53 PM (V/U0X)

26 Progress from last night...

http://i49.tinypic.com/ibb285.jpg

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 07:53 PM (MQLiy)

27 Ace, we'll cover you for any lawsuits from this outage as long as you keep Pixy until November.

Posted by: Chief Barry Commander Pants at October 01, 2012 07:53 PM (FcR7P)

28 I know why my husband hates bicyclists. There's been four times a bicyclist deliberately smacked him upside the head in passing as he was strolling down a sidewalk. Different bicyclist each time. Far as he's concerned, that's more than enough of a sampling to establish general douchebaggery.

Posted by: sistrum at October 01, 2012 07:53 PM (SUlmX)

29 Not to bitch about the availability of free ice cream, but some of us don't have WordPress, Twitter, or FaceSpace accounts on purpose. Could you figure out how we can access the alt.site via our LinkedIn account? g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 01, 2012 07:54 PM (JMmQ9)

30 This was just a dry run. Not! Psyche.....

Posted by: Reverend Jim Jones at October 01, 2012 07:54 PM (BVkEs)

31 Drudge needs to put a siren on that child soldier/slave story.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 07:55 PM (MQLiy)

32 What a long day

Posted by: phoenixgirl, still angry & ever vilgiliant at October 01, 2012 07:55 PM (cSMbR)

33 As long as you were fixing things, you could have stacked all the hobo pelts neatly in the corner. They're getting that gamey smell. Well, more gamey than usual.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 01, 2012 07:55 PM (5J54Q)

34 I'm upping my game and debating the 2-Wood instead of the 11-Iron. The 11-iron?! Is that like an 89-degree wedge, when putting two feet is too risky?

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2012 07:55 PM (FcR7P)

35 all of the counter culture people around my neck of the woods have become avid bicyclists. and we all know, NOTHING says 'smug' than the counter culture. the worst is when they group up for a local ride, multiple tattoos that has their skin looking green, silly old style bikes and the spandex...i love riding my bike..but these guys are gettin on my nerveseseses. identity....boy do they NEED it. and go bears, any day the cowboys lose is a good day to me hahhahaaaaaaaa and you gotta love the facebookers who rant/blow up on everything (followed by a quote from some obscure writer or story nobody cares about) then delete their page......only to start another one a week later....good grief. did i say 'go bears'?

Posted by: laughing at neck braces at October 01, 2012 07:55 PM (nVqtU)

36 I wonder how many Morons went off the 12 step program because they couldn't comment....?

Posted by: AmericanDawg at October 01, 2012 07:56 PM (COr7y)

37 The October Surprise Lives!!!

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 01, 2012 07:56 PM (BVkEs)

38 I've almost been run over more by cyclists than by cars and of those two different times at a T-intersection while I was crossing with the light.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 01, 2012 07:56 PM (vDl/w)

39 Commenting is for chumps.

Posted by: Cicero at October 01, 2012 07:56 PM (pfqFp)

40 Thanks, Pixy.

Posted by: rdbrewer at October 01, 2012 07:57 PM (Iyg03)

41 chalk me down for a vote against jackhole cyclists. by at least tx and ny law, a bicycle is considered a "motor vehicle" on the roadways; legally, a bicyclist has to follow every single law that anyone in a car or on an *actual* motorised bike has to follow...and yet i'm not certain i've *ever* seen someone biking on the road without blatantly disregarding stop signs/red lights, crossing over lanes, doubling up in a lane (tho it's really only a problem when it's those tiny bike lanes)...you name it!!!! [The Jimi Ray 2/10 Limit is still in effect]

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 07:57 PM (79EF9)

42 but some of us don't have WordPress, Twitter, or FaceSpace accounts on purpose.

Get a fake FB account.  Its good for commenting on shit.  Its not like you ever have to maintain it or look at it, that would be a waste of time.

My FB data is 99% fake.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 07:57 PM (MQLiy)

43 36 I wonder how many Morons went off the 12 step program because they couldn't comment....? I just started eating massive quantities of ramen. My glucose meter will hate me in the morning.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 01, 2012 07:57 PM (5J54Q)

44 So,Obama is on yet another vacation?(ostensibly preparing for the debates).Lord,I hate him so fucking much.

Posted by: steevy at October 01, 2012 07:57 PM (6o4Fb)

45 In before the other 5,233 comments on 'who blew up the blog', 'I was in withdrawal', 'someone forgot to feed the hamsters again', 'I just knew I should have gotten the AoS Platinum membership', and my personal favorite -- It was very mean of you, Maet, to post the ONT knowing we couldn't comment. I was left with nothing to do but read the post and the links.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 01, 2012 07:57 PM (ccXZP)

46 Damn. At least WordPress allowed for avatars. I guess I'll just have to settle for this:

⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠

Posted by: johnd01 at October 01, 2012 07:58 PM (js5jY)

47 Oh my. Thank goodness you're back! I was having withdrawal symptoms!

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 01, 2012 07:58 PM (9+ccr)

48

We're back?

 Cool.

 

Cyclists...some of them...really are annoying.

The ones who ride down the road, like they are a car and entitled to be there and tie up traffic.

 

We wouldn't have paved roads...if it weren't for automobiles.

Maybe in inner cities, but not everywhere.

 

It's the gasoline taxes that have paid for, and continued to pay for...those nice paved surfaces that cyclists are getting to enjoy for free.

 

For that matter...Electric Cars...are not 'paying their fair share' of road taxes either.

 

Posted by: wheatie at October 01, 2012 07:58 PM (l5RhJ)

49 And there was much rejoicing.

Brave Sir Robin

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 07:58 PM (u1Q5a)

50 Ace tells us, "I've got Pixy on it".  Is that supposed to instill confidence?

Posted by: Adam at October 01, 2012 07:59 PM (tG36f)

51 >>>>47 Oh my. Thank goodness you're back! I was having withdrawal symptoms! Please refer to comment 45.

Posted by: Cicero at October 01, 2012 07:59 PM (pfqFp)

52 Watch this tee-off!

Posted by: Barack ODuffer at October 01, 2012 07:59 PM (V/U0X)

53 I wonder how many Morons went off the 12 step program because they couldn't comment....? Posted by: AmericanDawg at October 01, 2012 11:56 PM Guilty as charged, Your Honor. I've spent the past hour or so answering e-mails, and I have received more than one response asking me if the AoSHQ is down tonight....

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 01, 2012 08:00 PM (JMmQ9)

54

For everyone's listening pleasure...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQzw_Ax8Cw

 

first time, hope it works

Posted by: concrete girl at October 01, 2012 08:00 PM (y2Ojs)

55

nancy pelosi is still an ignorant scrunt

and yes I am still banned at real clear politics

but I guess that means they ain't so clear after all

Posted by: vizzy at October 01, 2012 08:00 PM (GmfkE)

56 48 The gubmint is already working on a way to tax electric cars,never fear.They WILL squeeze more money out of us.

Posted by: steevy at October 01, 2012 08:00 PM (6o4Fb)

57

40 Thanks, Pixy.

 

Yes. Thanks, Pixy.

Posted by: wheatie at October 01, 2012 08:00 PM (l5RhJ)

58

So Osama rests next to Armstrong...

 

Muslim outreach achieved...

Posted by: KZnextzone at October 01, 2012 08:01 PM (d8GQO)

59 It's all that built up fap juice. 27 days without fapping just causes problems.

Posted by: MeCaniac at October 01, 2012 08:01 PM (Zd/NW)

60 It's definitely necessary to have a safe meeting place.

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 01, 2012 08:01 PM (BVkEs)

61

Fluffy, Chemjeff, Gushka, AltonJackson (behind the lines in Ann Arbor), Purple Avenger, Andycanuck, thunderb, rdbrewer....and  niedermeyer's dead horse plus Jewish Odysseus and navycopjoe (cubs suck)....steevy and logprof....

 

Welcome to the monkey house!

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...free Miss Marple! at October 01, 2012 08:01 PM (sJTmU)

62 Welcome tothe monkey house! Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...free Miss Marple! at October 02, 2012 12:01 AM (sJTmU) [throws poo]

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 08:02 PM (V/U0X)

63 Hahaha Me is Chinese Me play joke Me put pee pee In ace's Coke.

Posted by: Chinese Hacker at October 01, 2012 08:02 PM (jucos)

64 Ooka ooka, CJ Burch

Posted by: fluffy at October 01, 2012 08:02 PM (z9HTb)

65 http://tinyurl.com/8eg2vxu

rednecks bein' rednecks

Posted by: Chrissie Matthews blames it on the polls at October 01, 2012 08:02 PM (0It32)

66 Thank you, Pixy! Sorry to hear about Zork.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b][/u] at October 01, 2012 08:03 PM (CA2NO)

67 ~ 44 - So,Obama is on yet another vacation?(ostensibly preparing for the debates).Lord,I hate him so fucking much.

I feel your Pain ! I saw pictures of that 18 hole resort today...
It's  very lavish and should come in handy when discussing his war on the wealthy...

Posted by: AmericanDawg at October 01, 2012 08:03 PM (COr7y)

68 The Jimi Ray 2/10 limit is in effect until further notice.
http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=333343#c19387075

Posted by: Mætenloch at October 01, 2012 08:04 PM (jMqh0)

69 Interesting fact,only zoo monkeys fling poo.

Posted by: steevy at October 01, 2012 08:04 PM (6o4Fb)

70 63 Hahaha Me is Chinese Me play joke Me put pee pee In ace's Coke. Posted by: Chinese Hacker at October 02, 2012 12:02 AM (jucos) And next, me buy all your treasury bonds!

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 01, 2012 08:04 PM (5J54Q)

71 "Did anyone catch the Liarwatha-Brown debate tonight?"

I got into a little tweeter war with ace about this tonight. This blogger and media obsession with one Senate race when there's a dozen tightly contested races going on.

Posted by: lowandslow at October 01, 2012 08:04 PM (GZitp)

72 The article on the dictatorial tendencies of the left is quite understated. The left's totalitarianism can be seen from Roussou and the Jacobin lunatics he spawned, to the Communists, NAZIs, and todays modern "progressive" left. They believe that "freedom" means that they are free to have a society where they can do what they want with impunity, and thus a society where others have a "right" to be forced to celebrate that.

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 01, 2012 08:04 PM (sZTYJ)

73

21 Did anyone catch the Liarwatha-Brown debate tonight? Comments?

 

JewishOdysseus...yes, there was a thread about it.

I caught the last half.

Then the comments went down, as it ended.

 

Scott Brown did well for himself...from what I saw.

The deck was stacked against him.

Gregory was a dick, and badgered him at times.

 

 

Posted by: wheatie at October 01, 2012 08:05 PM (l5RhJ)

74

Pixy missa.

Ace had Top Men working on this.  Top. Men.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...free Miss Marple! at October 01, 2012 08:05 PM (sJTmU)

75 A cameraman working for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is seeking US asylum after courageously slipping away from the bombastic leaderÂ’s entourage in New York, the defectorÂ’s lawyer said today.

Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 01, 2012 08:05 PM (Dnbau)

76 It's all that built up fap juice. 27 days without fapping just causes problems.
We Vulcans are well acquainted with this. Why do you think our ears are pointy?

Posted by: mister spock at October 01, 2012 08:06 PM (vDl/w)

77 71 Yeah,I agree but the fact is she is such an unlikeable,egregious lying bitch.She draws attention likes flies to shit,everyone wants her to lose big time.

Posted by: steevy at October 01, 2012 08:06 PM (6o4Fb)

78 Zork has died so that the blog may live again.
 
Thanks Pixy.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 01, 2012 08:06 PM (ccXZP)

79 Craig Poe, wherever you are: Just followed you (and doubled your current count of followers! For shame!) LOTS of morons are on the tweetbox.

Posted by: jwpaine (@PirateBallerina) at October 01, 2012 08:06 PM (FUozQ)

80 nancy pelosi is still an ignorant scrunt
and yes I am still banned at real clear politics
but I guess that means they ain't so clear after all

Posted by: vizzy at October 01, 2012 08:06 PM (GmfkE)

81 are you fucking kidding me, child? are you fucking kidding me? grow the fuck up.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 08:07 PM (79EF9)

82 80 nancy pelosi is still an ignorant scrunt and yes I am still banned at real clear politics but I guess that means they ain't so clear after all

Posted by: vizzy at October 02, 2012 12:06 AM (GmfkE)


 You mean un clear politics...

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 01, 2012 08:07 PM (9+ccr)

83 78 Zork has died so that the blog may live again. Thanks Pixy. ============= Sometimes you eat the Grue. Sometimes the Grue eats you.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 01, 2012 08:07 PM (5J54Q)

84 Funny, I'm using a different computer tonight at home and the nic was from the time that Miss Marple was in limbo, banned by the whimsy of that thing we call "The New Comment Thingy"

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...FREE KRATOS! at October 01, 2012 08:08 PM (sJTmU)

85

71 "Did anyone catch the Liarwatha-Brown debate tonight?"

 

I got into a little tweeter war with ace about this tonight. This blogger and media obsession with one Senate race when there's a dozen tightly contested races going on.

 

I saw that.

While I kinda get your point...the significance of the Mass Senate seat that Scott Brown is fighting for, is huge.

It was Teddy's old seat.

So it's symbolic.

Liberals are more desperate to get it back, than any other seat. 

They think that seat is 'theirs'.


 

Posted by: wheatie at October 01, 2012 08:08 PM (l5RhJ)

86 The old hamster was replaced with a fresh one, I see.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 08:08 PM (Wp4rQ)

87 The Obama "presidential memorandum" allowing support to nations that employ children as soldiers.

http://tinyurl.com/8nc6xaa

This is in DIRECT CONTRAVENTION of law passed by congress and signed by president Bush (title IV, Public Law 110-457).

This administration is completely lawless. 


Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 08:08 PM (MQLiy)

88 84 Cycling is a good sport for people with no athletic ability.

Posted by: runninrebel at October 02, 2012 12:07 AM (N/1Dm)


  And a penchant for really tight  spandex .. I've seen my fill of over-stuffed sausages in these outfits. Should be illegal...

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 01, 2012 08:09 PM (9+ccr)

89 So did Lizzie Warren refer to the 'Kennedy' seat as "My preciousssss....."   hhmmm?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 08:09 PM (u1Q5a)

90

You mean un clear politics...
yes I was naive

but

nancy pelosi is still an ignorant scrunt

No?

Posted by: vizzy at October 01, 2012 08:10 PM (GmfkE)

91 88 Why not,what consequences have they faced?

Posted by: steevy at October 01, 2012 08:10 PM (6o4Fb)

92 The old hamster was replaced with a fresh one, I see.
Not so fresh.

Posted by: richard gere maybe at October 01, 2012 08:10 PM (vDl/w)

93 gawd Gere upgraded to hamsters when he upgraded to iPhone 5...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 08:11 PM (u1Q5a)

94 "The Jimi Ray 2/10 limit is in effect until further notice." What does this mean?

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 08:11 PM (Wp4rQ)

95

Okay, who really thinks that Max Boot is full of it, and there is really any benefit to getting on the "good side" of the Egyptians?

Food?  Parts for their American miitary hardware (M-1 export model tanks, F-16's)?

 

What else you got? That Max Boot, he is one clever fellow, but you know, sometimes you just gotta say "fuck it", and let the bozos burn down their own country.  Think of it as evolution in action.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...FREE KRATOS! at October 01, 2012 08:11 PM (sJTmU)

96 Posted by: jwpaine (@PirateBallerina) at October 02, 2012 12:06 AM (FUozQ)

Thanks for the double. Please give a direct link to follow you on Twitter. I'm kinda new to this whole hammer and nail thing. Preach.

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 01, 2012 08:12 PM (BVkEs)

97 Cyclists are even more annoying where I live in GA.  We have this thing called the Silver Comet Trail.  It's an almost 100 km long paved recreational trail.  I have no idea how much money they spent making it but I really wished the idiots they made it for would actually fucking use it.

Posted by: Adam at October 01, 2012 08:12 PM (tG36f)

98 PhoenixGirl!

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 01, 2012 08:12 PM (Z9EHQ)

99 That was a quick 100 comments...

Posted by: AmericanDawg at October 01, 2012 08:13 PM (COr7y)

100 nancy pelosi is still an ignorant scrunt

Posted by: vizzy at October 01, 2012 08:13 PM (GmfkE)

101 So TFG is staying at a fancy LV resort, his 10th trip to LV since he told all those fat cat bankers to stop going there in 2009.
 
The resort has a Middle East theme; I wonder if they have a muezzin doing the call to prayer 5 times a day.
 
"The muslim call to prayer is one of the prettiest sounds on Earth."

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 01, 2012 08:13 PM (ccXZP)

102 Maet has imposed a maximum of 2 paragraphs and/or 10 sentences of jimi ray in hopes that she will begin to write more coherently.

Posted by: Adam at October 01, 2012 08:13 PM (tG36f)

103

68...Posted by: Mætenloch at October 02, 2012 12:04 AM (jMqh0)

 

Bless you, sir.

 

Posted by: wheatie at October 01, 2012 08:13 PM (l5RhJ)

104 102 nancy pelosi is still an ignorant scrunt

Posted by: vizzy at October 02, 2012 12:13 AM (GmfkE)


  Well that goes without saying...

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 01, 2012 08:13 PM (9+ccr)

105 This child soldier thing needs a LOT of exposure. 

This could be the last straw that turns a lot of people.  It could be a straw that flips a lot of the blacks since a lot of those child soldiers in the Sudan and Congo are black kids.

I don't care how in the tank for Obama someone is, this thing has to really be a stomach turner and give one pause.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 08:13 PM (MQLiy)

106 Time to start drafting the drinking rules for the Wednesday debate! Here's a good starter set: "Obama's Poker Tells" http://is.gd/nR7ASh

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 01, 2012 08:13 PM (5J54Q)

107 Anyone over the age of 15 who rides a bike deserves to be run over.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 01, 2012 08:13 PM (ZPrif)

108

lest you forget

nancy pelosi is still an ignorant scrunt

Posted by: vizzy at October 01, 2012 08:14 PM (GmfkE)

109 you guys are fucking pissants. is this how adults act?

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 08:14 PM (79EF9)

110

Brainssssssssssssss...

Brainssssssssssss...

Posted by: otho at October 01, 2012 08:14 PM (yBF/9)

111 Lets hope the floppy Pixy used only had Zork on it.  If it had the US launch codes and Missile Command, well game over man.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 08:14 PM (u1Q5a)

112 Evening all,  I dropped by a couple times only to find comments were down.  I love to fix things.  Todays success was a small electric motor for a fertilizer spreader I use around the house.  Now I could have gone out and bought one when this one dies but I decided to dismantle it and have a look.  The stator on the motor is two curved fixed magnets, not a series of coils.  One had come loose from the side of the motor casing.  I cleaned up both pieces, mixed up some two part epoxie and let the magnet clamp itself back in place.  It is up and working like a charm.  Now if the weather will allow it I can give my lawn its fall feeding and a few family and friend types.  Hazzah! I love understanding things.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at October 01, 2012 08:14 PM (JKNDp)

113 Obama waived the child soldier law last year, too. He does it every year.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 01, 2012 08:14 PM (ZPrif)

114

Purple Avenger at 88

 

So the response from the Obama Administration is, "So what?"

 

They've broken the law so many times now and there is no consequence, and they could very well get re-elected.  So who polices them?  The Department of Justice?  Eric Holder?

 

They are brazen and will continue to flout the law.  Their media sycophants will not speak up to question this.  We live in an increasingly lawless country.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...FREE KRATOS! at October 01, 2012 08:14 PM (sJTmU)

115 Maet has imposed a maximum of 2 paragraphs and/or 10 sentences of jimi ray in hopes that she will begin to write more coherently. Posted by: Adam at October 02, 2012 12:13 AM (tG36f) Oh, I see. Thanks. Obtuse and verbose are a poor mix.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 08:15 PM (Wp4rQ)

116 Guinea pigs are next on the bucket list.

Posted by: richard gere maybe at October 01, 2012 08:15 PM (vDl/w)

117 you actually have the nerve to have linked stories about the BLATANT abuse of power by universities to censor their students' speech. then you go acting like a fucking bully at the playground, singling someone out you don't like so that you can get a bunch of kudos from the peanut gallery that gets so pissed off that i never respond to their insult-baiting? hypocrisy, much?

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 08:16 PM (79EF9)

118 So ... the bikers were run over by a VW. Seems apt.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 01, 2012 08:16 PM (X3lox)

119 Anyone over the age of 15 who rides a bike deserves to be run over. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 02, 2012 12:13 AM (ZPrif) one nice thing about ny is if you learn to time it right you can use a cab door to whack a lot of the bike nazis. remember to push it open with you leg not your arm.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 01, 2012 08:16 PM (Z9EHQ)

120

68  what the hell is a jimi ray?

want me to get the girl to kick him square in the oompa loompas?

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 01, 2012 08:16 PM (cyGNg)

121 is this how adults act? Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 12:14 AM (79EF9) Yes, yes it is.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 08:16 PM (Wp4rQ)

122 71 "Did anyone catch the Liarwatha-Brown debate tonight?"

I got into a little tweeter war with ace about this tonight. This blogger and media obsession with one Senate race when there's a dozen tightly contested races going on.

Posted by: lowandslow at October 02, 2012 12:04 AM (GZitp)


Better we keep the media focused on this race instead of the Akin race. If the media focused on Akin, then EVERY GOP candidate would have been tarnished with Akin. With the focus on the Mass race, every D candidate can be tainted by Sacajawea.

Posted by: MeCaniac at October 01, 2012 08:17 PM (Zd/NW)

123 Cyclists aren't my pet peeve.  I am perplexed by folks who decide to jog on two lane roads with no sidewalk or berm for their health.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at October 01, 2012 08:17 PM (JKNDp)

124 111 you guys are fucking pissants.

is this how adults act?

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 12:14 AM (79EF9)


2 paragraphs, 2 sentences, succinct and to the point.

This is how you do it.

Posted by: Mætenloch at October 01, 2012 08:17 PM (jMqh0)

125 71 "Did anyone catch the Liarwatha-Brown debate tonight?" I got into a little tweeter war with ace about this tonight. This blogger and media obsession with one Senate race when there's a dozen tightly contested races going on. I watched. The JEF is lazy and cribbed the "You didn't build that" from her, so I thought it would be a preview of the Wed debate Based on Liawatha, I figure the JEF will say "lockstep", "extreme right wing", and "balanced approach" dozens of times

Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 01, 2012 08:17 PM (Dnbau)

126 "The Jimi Ray 2/10 limit is in effect until further notice." What does this mean? Posted by: eman at October 02, 2012 12:11 AM Did you catch a whiff of ozone and hear a barely perceptible hum?

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 01, 2012 08:17 PM (JMmQ9)

127 Hey CJ Burch

Posted by: chemjeff at October 01, 2012 08:17 PM (d/5qf)

128 Max Boot seems to think Obama know's what he's doing.I have to conclude Max Boot is not as smart as I thought he was.

Posted by: steevy at October 01, 2012 08:18 PM (6o4Fb)

129 Today's success was a small electric motor for a fertilizer spreader I use around the house.
You own a Harry Reid? Nothing spreads shit like a Reid!

Posted by: andycanuck at October 01, 2012 08:18 PM (vDl/w)

130

you know there is a film that shows

Jerry garcia extolling the virtue of trickle down economics

it is the festival express and he is talking about the aholes

who want

to attend the festival for free

and how they have to pay for the creew etc. and how that promotes the local economy

funny huh Being one of the hippies greatest icons or was he

Posted by: vizzy at October 01, 2012 08:18 PM (GmfkE)

131

121  you can use a cab door to whack a lot of the bike nazis

Hey!!!  as much as i not only condone and actually find that to be funny as hell.....that shit leaves dents

 

i kind of love my cab

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 01, 2012 08:18 PM (cyGNg)

132 hypocrisy, much? Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 12:16 AM (79EF9) You'd better watch out or Maet is going to require that you use capitals, too.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 01, 2012 08:18 PM (X3lox)

133

So who's the jimi ray dick?

 

Posted by: Ohio Dan at October 01, 2012 08:18 PM (JKNDp)

134 Guinea pigs are next on the bucket list. Posted by: richard gere maybe at October 02, 2012 12:15 AM (vDl/w) --------------------------------------------------- I have graduated to Pygmy Hippos

Posted by: Bawney Fwank at October 01, 2012 08:19 PM (jucos)

135 Best linky for the 0bama child soldier story? I want to spread on FB. . . .

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 08:19 PM (V/U0X)

136 FB ad from VW or some affiliate to share VW stories. 

They probably don't want my story of driving a VW Beetle from Kansas to Mississippi then.  Darn thing's engine ate a valve, stranding me in Arkansas until some state troopers helped me, then find a hotel room, a tow truck, and a rescue call to a friend in Memphis.

Bike riders getting run over by a VW.  They probably don't want that either.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 08:19 PM (u1Q5a)

137 you actually have the nerve


Try to look at the bright side: With you limited to ten sentences, maybe people will read it instead of bitching about you killing a whole page of pixels every time you hit 'Post'

Posted by: fluffy at October 01, 2012 08:19 PM (z9HTb)

138

135  You'd better watch out or Maet is going to require that you use capitals, too.

 

when caps are required...then the terrorists have won

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 01, 2012 08:20 PM (cyGNg)

139 125 Cyclists aren't my pet peeve. I am perplexed by folks who decide to jog on two lane roads with no sidewalk or berm for their health. Posted by: Ohio Dan at October 02, 2012 12:17 AM (JKNDp) Been there, done that. Yeah. Pretty stupid. When I think about some of the roads I've jogged on... not too swift.

Posted by: Underground Vulgarian at October 01, 2012 08:20 PM (6Us3p)

140 125 Cyclists aren't my pet peeve. I am perplexed by folks who decide to jog on two lane roads with no sidewalk or berm for their health.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at October 02, 2012 12:17 AM (JKNDp)


Pet peeve's? Coming up next, right after the break, my pet peeve's.

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 01, 2012 08:20 PM (BVkEs)

141 again, the laughable notion that some pissant who writes for an ont on a medium-traffic blog is in any position to offer "writing advice" is straight out of the worst sort of adolescent fantasy. but then again, it's no surprise to see blatant hypocrisy and abuse of power from a small little man like you. it's like the police -- give a pissant a little bit of power, and he runs fucking *wild* with it.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 08:20 PM (79EF9)

142 its on like donkey kong, mo-fo...

Posted by: yakima canutt at October 01, 2012 08:21 PM (+7R1W)

143 Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 12:16 AM (79EF9) An adult would not have a limit placed on him in the first place and an adult would reflect on the limit and wonder what he had done to earn it.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 08:21 PM (Wp4rQ)

144 when caps are required...then the terrorists have won Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 02, 2012 12:20 AM (cyGNg) and ee cummings ... the subversive.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 01, 2012 08:21 PM (X3lox)

145 https://twitter.com/PurpAv/status/252985580898619393

That tweet has a direct link to whitehouse.gov with Obama's order

Drudge a link to another story too.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 08:21 PM (MQLiy)

146 Maet, the 2/10 is genius. But if you really want to make it better, treat the 2/10 as a fraction and reduce it to 1/5.

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 01, 2012 08:21 PM (Zd/NW)

147 we got a live one

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 01, 2012 08:22 PM (ZPrif)

148 Y'all come back now, y'heah?

Posted by: Jimmi Rae at October 01, 2012 08:22 PM (V/U0X)

149 i never respond to their insult-baiting?

Hahahaha.

Yeah, and you're never a condescending mewling jizzrag either. In your tiny little mind ...

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 01, 2012 08:22 PM (Ig0f3)

150
2 paragraphs, 2 sentences, succinct and to the point.

This is how you do it.

Posted by: Mætenloch at October 02, 2012 12:17 AM (jMqh0)<<<<<<<

 

Tough love:  it's what's for dinner.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 01, 2012 08:22 PM (JDIKC)

151 Supplying more information than the Wikipedia entry, this Weekly Standard article about the latest American Heritage dictionary details how dictionaries have changed, which was commented on last night:

http://tinyurl.com/96xqp6t

Posted by: derit at October 01, 2012 08:22 PM (I88Jc)

152

jimi, you seem angry. Perhaps you should adjust your viewpoint.

This blog belongs to Ace of Spades.  The commenters are his guests. Abuse  the hospitality and sometimes one of the cob-loggers reacts.

There are many blogs on the internet. Perhaps there is someplace you would feel more welcome.  We are not sure if you are serious, a troll or just think that being condescending to people that you have never met is a good strategy in terms of persuasion.

 

This may work in your circle of friends, but you have alienated people on this blog.  Stop being a churlish, condescending and pouty college boy, and perhaps you may find that other people will engage you, rather than ignore you.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...FREE KRATOS! at October 01, 2012 08:22 PM (sJTmU)

153

119 you actually have the nerve to have linked stories about the BLATANT abuse of power by universities to censor their students' speech.

 

then you go acting like a fucking bully at the playground, singling someone out you don't like so that you can get a bunch of kudos from the peanut gallery that gets so pissed off that i never respond to their insult-baiting? hypocrisy, much?

 

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 12:16 AM (79EF9)

 

--------

 

Are you paying tuition here?

Or a fee of any sort...for the priviledge of commenting here?

Is this site receiving any sort of subsidy from the public purse?

 

No. To all three of those questions.

 

So spare us your childish outrage, you mewling quim.

You've already burned up enough bandwith here, with your mind-numbing blather.

 

If you could've been voted off the Island, you would've been shark bait long ago.

 

Posted by: wheatie at October 01, 2012 08:22 PM (l5RhJ)

154 Oh my!  Teh stoopid is so angry that she can't bring 73 paragraphs of teh stoopid anymore!

Posted by: Adam at October 01, 2012 08:22 PM (tG36f)

155 to attend the festival for free
and how they have to pay for the creew etc. and how that promotes the local economy



Sort of like Whole Foods.

Posted by: fluffy at October 01, 2012 08:23 PM (z9HTb)

156 COMMENTS!

Posted by: katya the designated driver at October 01, 2012 08:23 PM (DoZD+)

157 weiner schintzal!

Posted by: vizzy at October 01, 2012 08:23 PM (GmfkE)

158
  I fear that cogent posting and proper punctualization are more of a burden than jimi ray can cope with.

   Best try an easier one--like mouth breathing.

Posted by: irongrampa at October 01, 2012 08:23 PM (SAMxH)

159

144   it's like the police -- give a pissant a little bit of power, and he runs fucking *wild* with it

 

and it was idiots like you who made us laugh when we either filled out as many tickets as possible and/or "used the minimum amount of force" to correct your behavior

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 01, 2012 08:23 PM (cyGNg)

160 We are seeing more frothing than is found on a Starbuck's latte

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 08:23 PM (u1Q5a)

161 "Old-school comments are back."

They are??

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at October 01, 2012 08:24 PM (tNO27)

162 again, the laughable notion that some pissant who writes for an ont on a medium-traffic blog is in any position to offer "writing advice" is straight out of the worst sort of adolescent fantasy.

but then again, it's no surprise to see blatant hypocrisy and abuse of power from a small little man like you. it's like the police -- give a pissant a little bit of power, and he runs fucking *wild* with it.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 12:20 AM (79EF9) <<<<<<

 

Fuckin A, brother.  You don't have  to take that shit.  You should leave.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 01, 2012 08:24 PM (JDIKC)

163 Bike riders getting run over by a VW. They probably don't want that either. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 12:19 AM (u1Q5a) When I heard about this critical mass BS a few days ago, the first thing I thought of was some driver frustrated by the intentional clogging of a thoroughfare running the jerks over. Looks like that is the impulse world-over.

Posted by: Underground Vulgarian at October 01, 2012 08:25 PM (6Us3p)

164 jimi ray is better off posting only in New England.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 08:25 PM (Wp4rQ)

165 Is Jimi   Ray a new troll?

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 01, 2012 08:25 PM (9+ccr)

166 COMMENTS! Posted by: katya the designated driver at October 02, 2012 12:23 AM (DoZD+) -------------------------------------------------------- Relax, you're soaking in them.

Posted by: Madge at October 01, 2012 08:25 PM (jucos)

167 yeah. fuck all your jealousy and grow the fuck up. as i've said before, i don't insult people; i don't attack people; i don't break rules. this blog's comments section is FULL of hateful insults directed all over the place -- including at the site's proprietor. seeing as that sort of behaviour gets a free pass, the only conclusion is that you're all just a bunch of small-ass fucking pissants who are quick to bitch a whine about "double standards" but sure love when they're applied to folks who make you uncomfortable.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 08:25 PM (79EF9)

168 sadly I have to go to bed, have to get some reading in before my exhausting big day tomorrow

but at least I got just the tip in

ugh, good night all

Posted by: chemjeff at October 01, 2012 08:26 PM (d/5qf)

169 No they're not.

Text that's italicized doesn't appear that way after clicking the Post button...

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at October 01, 2012 08:26 PM (tNO27)

170 fuck that cummings guy. what a pissant. i did all the work.

Posted by: archy the cockroach at October 01, 2012 08:26 PM (vDl/w)

171 In NYC the bike messengers were a deadly danger to pedestrians.Glad I don't need to be in the city anymore.

Posted by: steevy at October 01, 2012 08:26 PM (6o4Fb)

172 Night chemjeff, looks like you will miss a flounce.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 08:26 PM (u1Q5a)

173 171 yeah. fuck all your jealousy and grow the fuck up.

as i've said before, i don't insult people; i don't attack people; i don't break rules. this blog's comments section is FULL of hateful insults directed all over the place -- including at the site's proprietor. seeing as that sort of behaviour gets a free pass, the only conclusion is that you're all just a bunch of small-ass fucking pissants who are quick to bitch a whine about "double standards" but sure love when they're applied to folks who make you uncomfortable.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 12:25 AM (79EF9)

 So go the fuck away ..

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 01, 2012 08:26 PM (9+ccr)

174

to attend the festival for free

and how they have to pay for the creew etc. and how that promotes the local economy


Sort of like Whole Foods.

yea and weir was upset that security was bashing their heads in

and how ignorant they were for triing to get in fer free

 

Posted by: vizzy at October 01, 2012 08:27 PM (GmfkE)

175 "If you could've been voted off the Island, you would've been shark bait long ago. " -------------------- Shark Bait! Ooh-ha-ha!!!

Posted by: Nemo the clownfish at October 01, 2012 08:27 PM (5J54Q)

176 Whoops there goes a million killowatt damn.

Posted by: Cap'n Kangaroo at October 01, 2012 08:27 PM (0It32)

177 My attitude this week about the election has been a little deperessed and rather cynical. 

Posted by: katya the designated driver at October 01, 2012 08:27 PM (DoZD+)

178 They probably don't want my story of driving a VW Beetle from Kansas to Mississippi then. Darn thing's engine ate a valve..

The number three cylinder, right?  Driver side, nearest the front of the car.  That's the one that always runs hottest on an air cooled bug motor. 

Gotta be religious about adjusting the valves on a bug motor...and good oil.  I usually did it every 1500-2000 miles and set number three a couple of thou looser than 1/2/4.  Never had any problems doing it that way and I hammered mine through the southwest desert during the hot summers, took it off road, etc. 

I always used Valvoline racing oil and changed it ever 3k.  A stock bug engine doesn't have a filter, only a screen.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 08:27 PM (MQLiy)

179 So, waiving rules about sending money to countries using child soldiers?

OBAMA - KONY 2012

Posted by: sistrum at October 01, 2012 08:27 PM (SUlmX)

180 Holy shit, holy shit....what the fuck is this? A jelly donut....and why are you not allowed to have jelly donuts? Because your a stuttering cluster fuck of a miserable failure. Did your parents have any children that lived?

Posted by: gmannyc at October 01, 2012 08:27 PM (J3FIT)

181 Two out of ten ain't bad!

Posted by: maetloaf at October 01, 2012 08:28 PM (vDl/w)

182

the only conclusion is that you're all just a bunch of small-ass fucking pissants who are quick to bitch a whine about "double standards" but sure love when they're applied to folks who make you uncomfortable.<<<<<<

 

See the violence inherent in the system!

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 01, 2012 08:28 PM (JDIKC)

183 169 Is Jimi Ray a new troll? Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 02, 2012 12:25 AM (9+ccr) --No

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 08:28 PM (V/U0X)

184 jimi ray is better off posting only in New England.


Fuck you.

Posted by: fluffy, Masshole at October 01, 2012 08:28 PM (z9HTb)

185 as i've said before, i don't insult people; i don't attack people

You lying shitbird. You started laying into the every poster on the blog because fucking cheerleader comments offended your hyperactive humor-impaired "hypocrisy" detector.

Fuck you.

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 01, 2012 08:28 PM (Ig0f3)

186 Yay! They're in the right spot again!


And, BTW, I tried commenting twice and it ate my comments.....I was thinking that Wordpress was emulating PixySoft just to make me feel at home.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2012 08:28 PM (kaalw)

187

oh and scoamf is going down!

 

Posted by: vizzy at October 01, 2012 08:29 PM (GmfkE)

188 Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 12:25 AM (79EF9) We see right through you. You have the mind of a child. No, Trelane.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 08:29 PM (Wp4rQ)

189

No jimi ray is not a new troll, she's been dropping by for the past several weeks at least.  Her comments usually consist of multiple paragraphs and sentence fragments that are barely comprehensible (and only if you try really hard). 

Posted by: Adam at October 01, 2012 08:29 PM (tG36f)

190

First, the Banhammer came for jimi ray, and I did nothing.

 

Because Fuck jimi ray, That's Why.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 01, 2012 08:29 PM (JDIKC)

191 Jimi ray why don't you just go off and Jack It in San Diego.

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 01, 2012 08:29 PM (GULKT)

192 jimi, you seem angry. Perhaps you should adjust your viewpoint.

Xanax...for a nice calm mellow

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 08:30 PM (MQLiy)

193 EoJ, "Help! Jimi is being oppressed by all our harsh comments."

PurpAv, yep the #3.  We had just bought the thing off eBay and driving it home.  Needless to say the Beetle love affair died most horribly that day.  Then had to travel back to Arkansas to fetch the thing and it sat until we sold it again.  Back to someone in Kansas.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 08:30 PM (u1Q5a)

194
  I have to go sulk because my COWBOYS LOST.

  But be of good cheer, good people.  Y'all are nice folk.

Posted by: irongrampa at October 01, 2012 08:31 PM (SAMxH)

195 I saw a dude on a cycle the other day who was decked out in full gear.  Since Ragbrai has come and gone, I knew immediately he was a douche.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at October 01, 2012 08:31 PM (DoZD+)

196 173 No they're not. Text that's italicized doesn't appear that way after clicking the Post button...

-------------

Working as intended. In his day job, Pixy hires out to Blizzard to make certain that Vanish is broken for all us rogues.

Posted by: Anachronda at October 01, 2012 08:31 PM (1c58W)

197 Crazy and paranoid is no way to go through life.

Posted by: Blasphemy Jones at October 01, 2012 08:31 PM (ZPrif)

198

Yes, 'The Man' is keeping him down.

 

Tough luck kid. Maybe next time.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...FREE KRATOS! at October 01, 2012 08:31 PM (sJTmU)

199 oh and scoamf is going down! Yeah! And the digs here in Vegas are spectacular!

Posted by: Reggie at October 01, 2012 08:31 PM (FcR7P)

200 Lucky I don't feel getting called a small-ass fucking pissant is an insult.

Posted by: lowandslow at October 01, 2012 08:31 PM (GZitp)

201 I just saw the last campaign spot that ace threw up. I think Romney is almost there. He doesn't nee a zinger, he needs a super cute, awe shucks nerd-gasm policy statement. He's a nerd, he needs a revenge of the nerds, "Come to Jesus" moment. He's so close, I can sense it. He's so close to filling our mouths with a surprise.

Posted by: Max Power at October 01, 2012 08:32 PM (+wxCD)

202 Did you catch a whiff of ozone and hear a barely perceptible hum?

Ah, the smell of bakelite in the evening.  Smells like comedy.


Posted by: DaveA at October 01, 2012 08:32 PM (wcjj2)

203

191  seriously?  the cheerleader comments?

even bcochran says his wife thinks they are funny

 

dude needs to get out of the basement

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 01, 2012 08:32 PM (cyGNg)

204 I just want to know what makes the VW bug give that tweeting sound with its engine, its so unique.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 08:32 PM (r4wIV)

205 Crazy and paranoid is no way to go through life.

It works for Obama...that and the choom.  Lots of choom.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 08:32 PM (MQLiy)

206 jimi ray is better off posting only in New England. Fuck you. Posted by: fluffy, Masshole at October 02, 2012 12:28 AM (z9HTb) Fluffy, I am a fellow Masshole (exiled to California). It's a reference to Miss Ray's screed from a month ago.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 08:33 PM (Wp4rQ)

207 wheatie mewling quim... I saw what you did there!

Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 01, 2012 08:33 PM (Dnbau)

208 171 yeah. fuck all your jealousy and grow the fuck up.

as i've said before, i don't insult people; i don't attack people; i don't break rules. this blog's comments section is FULL of hateful insults directed all over the place -- including at the site's proprietor. seeing as that sort of behaviour gets a free pass, the only conclusion is that you're all just a bunch of small-ass fucking pissants who are quick to bitch a whine about "double standards" but sure love when they're applied to folks who make you uncomfortable.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 12:25 AM (79EF9)


Language, language.

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 01, 2012 08:33 PM (Zd/NW)

209 Leeeeaaave jimi ray ALOOOOOOOONE!!!!

Posted by: some douchebag on youtube at October 01, 2012 08:33 PM (0qm4t)

210 uh, yeah, because hiding behind moderator privileges and selectively picking out people to censor for NO OTHER REASON than you dislike them is the epitome of courage, right? again, folks get away with FAR worse than i've ever gotten away with, so this isn't about me being mean or single-handedly picking on the poor dozens of folks who try to bait me into giving them a little attention every night -- not that i'm ever mean or pick on people, anyhow. this is *explicitly* about me being disliked for whatever reason and the sort of double-standards and censorship THAT THIS VERY ONT PURPORTS TO DECRY being applied to me for THAT reason. playing to the majority crowd by censoring unpopular minorities is fucking cowardice in ANY venue.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 08:33 PM (79EF9)

211 Do you think maybe at the last minute when Romney's name is announced at Wednesday's debate, out strolls Newt instead to eat the SCOAMF?  It's a dream I have.

Posted by: Hidajunshinette at October 01, 2012 08:33 PM (20NzC)

212 I keep waiting for the jimi ray punchline...He/She/It seems like such an obvious, exaggerated sockpuppet of a typical AOS troll, there's gotta be a practical joke in there somewhere.  Who was that guy who used to put his name out as the abbreviations of his first ~15 words?...Maybe him?

I mean, no real person is so clueless and self-righteous, right?  Gotta be a joke coming along?...Any minute now...

Posted by: JewishOdysseus at October 01, 2012 08:34 PM (WCzJ6)

213

Good hustle out there, jimi  ray.

 

:::slaps jimi ray on ass:::

 

You'll get 'em next time.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 01, 2012 08:34 PM (JDIKC)

214 The classic air cooled FWEEM?

Its mainly the pea-shooter exhaust that gives it that sound.  Plus no water jacket to absorb engine sounds.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 08:34 PM (u1Q5a)

215

200  I have to go sulk because my COWBOYS LOST

 

i have to go celebrate cause my BEARS STOMPED THAT ASS

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 01, 2012 08:34 PM (cyGNg)

216 I like you Jimi Ray, why you can come over to my house and f'' my sister.

Posted by: gmannyc at October 01, 2012 08:35 PM (J3FIT)

217 What's that smell?

Posted by: Blasphemy Jones at October 01, 2012 08:35 PM (ZPrif)

218 Two out of ten ain't bad! Posted by: maetloaf at October 02, 2012 12:28 AM OK, that's some funny siht, right there. Even Maet (actual) may agree.

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 01, 2012 08:35 PM (JMmQ9)

219 Make sure you look at a sample ballot 'cause these fuckers try to slip in a bunch of expensive "bond" issues (and other things) only "they" know about and vote for.

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 01, 2012 08:35 PM (BVkEs)

220 Gmannyc, trying to play Baba between Mary Jane and Jimi Ray?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 08:36 PM (u1Q5a)

221

216  please pardon this poster

HE'S INSANE!!

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 01, 2012 08:36 PM (cyGNg)

222 [Jimi rants and spews] You know, I always LOVE it when someone comes in to an establishment and starts complaining about the house rules. If you don't like the way Ace and the cob-loggers run the place, there are surely many other places when you can stab people with your rapier wit. Run along, dear, and bless your heart.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 01, 2012 08:36 PM (5J54Q)

223 someone got angry over people commenting on the tranny hookers they try to pass of as cherleaders around here?

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 01, 2012 08:36 PM (Z9EHQ)

224 at Wednesday's debate, out strolls Newt instead to eat the SCOAMF? It's a dream I have. In my dream he's the moderator.

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2012 08:36 PM (FcR7P)

225 You got this right? It's a chip shot at best.

Posted by: Jimi Ray's Coach at October 01, 2012 08:36 PM (jucos)

226 That latest info from Pew research center makes the polls a whole lot more comprehensible. Its not so much that they're deliberately trying to oversample Democrats - at least no more than usual. Its that they have no real choice.
See, they have too small a sample pool to work with, so they don't get enough variety. And the Pew data breaks down even worse for them. Minorities, low income and government-dependent voters, lower education voters are more likely to answer polls than richer and more educated people and whites.
The system is tilted toward Democrats and low-information people. They can't get good data, their polls are worthless. And they know it, in fact. The Pew report is full of complaints about how the old phone system just doesn't work any longer, and discusses alternatives because they all know its doomed.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 08:36 PM (r4wIV)

227 Roses are red, Violets are blue, Happy Monday, good people, Happy Monday to you ... and Good Night as well ... I blame all my problems on the strippers ...

Posted by: Adriane at October 01, 2012 08:36 PM (/OhbZ)

228 Quick, before it breaks again! Fuck Obama!

Posted by: Boomer Redneque knows Mohammad was a goat-fucking kiddie-raper at October 01, 2012 08:36 PM (eQnzo)

229

again, folks get away with FAR worse than i've ever gotten away with, so this isn't about me being mean or single-handedly picking on the poor dozens of folks who try to bait me into giving them a little attention every night -- not that i'm ever mean or pick on people, anyhow. this is *explicitly* about me being disliked for whatever reason and the sort of double-standards and censorship THAT THIS VERY ONT PURPORTS TO DECRY being applied to me for THAT reason. playing to the majority crowd by censoring unpopular minorities is fucking cowardice in ANY venue.<<<<<<

 

And now... You will witness the power of this fully armed and operational Caps  Lock key.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 01, 2012 08:37 PM (JDIKC)

230 Okay what the hell did jimi ray say?

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 01, 2012 08:37 PM (9+ccr)

231 I could watch that video of the car running down those critical mass aholes on a loop all day long.

Posted by: somebody else, not me at October 01, 2012 08:37 PM (nZvGM)

232 I just want to know what makes the VW bug give that tweeting sound with its engine, its so unique.

They don't have hydraulic lifters, so you get a bit of clatter out of the valve train, and the carb is right next to the (uninsulated) hood's air vents, so you'll hear the air whistling in sometimes.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 08:37 PM (MQLiy)

233 230 Yeah, imagine that. Next thing you know, they'll demand we quit shooting hobos and drinking Valurite.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 01, 2012 08:37 PM (5J54Q)

234 221
200 I have to go sulk because my COWBOYS LOST

i have to go celebrate cause my BEARS STOMPED THAT ASS

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 02, 2012 12:34 AM (cyGNg)


The whole world was Chicago Bears fans tonight.

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 01, 2012 08:37 PM (Zd/NW)

235 You'll get 'em next time.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 02, 2012 12:34 AM (JDIKC

 

 

 

 

You sexist hypocrite!!!  And look at that hash!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jimuz Rayuz! at October 01, 2012 08:38 PM (tG36f)

236

That unique sound of the VW horizontally opposed 4 cylinder, is the sound of the valves slapping the top of the valve seats.

 

They run and run and run, butcha gots to keep them tweaked like Purple sez. 'Course I haven't touched a Bug engine in 30 years, but I have spent some time under them thar VW's.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...FREE KRATOS! at October 01, 2012 08:38 PM (sJTmU)

237 so, is there a line on how long it is going to be before the troll gives out her address and starts challenging everyone to come over and rumble?

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 01, 2012 08:38 PM (Z9EHQ)

238 Wonder if the debate moderators will question Romney on his Libya comments?  All those low information voters finally getting a whiff of what being a real President is as Romney opens fire on Obama's multiple failures in Libya.  I expect them to be stupid enough to attack Romney on that.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 08:38 PM (u1Q5a)

239 jimi is pissed now. No, Trelane.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 08:38 PM (Wp4rQ)

240 uh, yeah, because hiding behind moderator privileges and selectively picking out people to censor for NO OTHER REASON than you dislike them is the epitome of courage, right? Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 12:33 AM (79EF9) You aren't being censored, jimi jimi cummings. You are being single-comment limited to a mini-diatribe of 2/10. So, now you have to submit your normal comments in 6 parts. That's not censorship, though you can go to the DOJ and register it as a hardship, I'm sure. You really shouldn't use words you don't understand.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 01, 2012 08:38 PM (X3lox)

241 jimi ray, do you ever talk about anything besides yourself?

Posted by: fluffy at October 01, 2012 08:39 PM (z9HTb)

242 171 yeah. fuck all your jealousy and grow the fuck up.

as i've said before, i don't insult people; i don't attack people; i don't break rules. this blog's comments section is FULL of hateful insults directed all over the place -- including at the site's proprietor. seeing as that sort of behaviour gets a free pass, the only conclusion is that you're all just a bunch of small-ass fucking pissants who are quick to bitch a whine about "double standards" but sure love when they're applied to folks who make you uncomfortable.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 12:25 AM (79EF9)


You are not being censored - you're being volume limited. For your own benefit since no reads or wants to see a wall of text. Notice how people are now reading and reacting to your comments? That's no coincidence.

Posted by: Mætenloch at October 01, 2012 08:39 PM (jMqh0)

243 Okay what the hell did jimi ray say? Uhh, was I supposed to pay attention? All I got was, "WHAAA!"

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2012 08:39 PM (FcR7P)

244 Has the illusion that Tony Romo is an NFL caliber quarterback finally been broken?

Posted by: somebody else, not me at October 01, 2012 08:39 PM (nZvGM)

245 I just love how VW bugs sound, its so distinctive. It sounds like it looks. The Ferrari engine everyone raves about, I can't stand that whining weenie sound. European cars sound like go-carts most of the time. BMW even managed to get a V8 to sound that way, what the hell? A car is supposed to roar and snarl if it has power not whine.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 08:39 PM (r4wIV)

246 Its that they have no real choice.

They have a choice, they just don't want to pay for the quality and more guaranteed geographic distributions they'd get from a mailed poll.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 08:40 PM (MQLiy)

247 Crazy and paranoid is no way to go through life.

Posted by: Blasphemy Jones at October 02, 2012 12:31 AM (ZPrif)



Really?  There goes the past decade or so...

Posted by: Bat Red in Baton Rouge at October 01, 2012 08:40 PM (Dll6b)

248 @191 uh, no, you're the "fucking lying shitbird": i made ONE SINGLE COMMENT about how religious folks who pretend to dislike homosexuals because they are "sexually depraved", or whatever, seem to have very little problem with a little bit of sexual depravity themselves, so long as it's directed at a member of the same sex. although the comment was obviously directed at a person who had recently spoken down about homosexuals being "sexually depraved" -- or w/e the language was -- you would have no idea, because that commenter wasn't you, and i certainly didn't name that commenter. it was one comment, and it was less an insult than it was an exposure of self-contradiction and dishonesty. of course, if you're one of those xtians who is soo~oo concerned about the sexual sins of gay folks, but think it's perfectly okay to openly lust over some cheerleader half your age, then obviously the comment applies to you, as well. at any rate, those cheerleader comments certainly didn't "offend" me...what "offended" me was that someone would act so high and mighty when talking about gay's sexual proclivities and yet offer a sexually explicit description of what he "would do" with a cheerleader. that's plum ridiculous in any book...but now i see clearly that hypocrisy and double-standards don't bother anyone here unless they're committed by liberals.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 08:40 PM (79EF9)

249 Ok, in seriousness, this seems like less of a troll issue and more a medication issue. Which is much more depressing than fun.

Posted by: Blasphemy Jones at October 01, 2012 08:40 PM (ZPrif)

250 EoJ: en fuego! You should start a blog, or something (i keed, I keed)

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 01, 2012 08:40 PM (JMmQ9)

251 tl; dr. It's a basic principle of the interwebs.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 01, 2012 08:40 PM (5J54Q)

252 254
Crazy and paranoid is no way to go through life.

Posted by: Blasphemy Jones at October 02, 2012 12:31 AM (ZPrif)


Really? There goes the past decade or so...

  I see the point there..

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 01, 2012 08:40 PM (9+ccr)

253

cheesecake and coors light, strangely, a nice combination.

Glad to see the aos comments back, had a bit of withdrawl, just saying!

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2012 08:41 PM (TC1v1)

254 255   please pardon this poster

HE'S INSANE!!

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 01, 2012 08:41 PM (cyGNg)

255 I didn't get to comment on the thread about the gubmint telling federal defense contractors not to warn about layoffs, but here's a question (please pardon the wordiness - I'm not good at brevity). The WARN Act is federal law. Failure to comply with the WARN Act is a federal offense. Having a federal agency of the Executive branch (Department of Labor) telling you to break the law doesn't magically hand wave away the illegality of doing so. Even if the DOL paid for the legal fees any contractor would incur from lawsuits related to the WARN Act, that doesn't make the contractor any less guilty of breaking the law. It would kind of be like the LAPD telling a high-profile celebrity they wouldn't investigate any suspicious murders in which s/he was the primary suspect, because doing so would be politically inconvenient. That doesn't make the murder any less illegal; in fact it makes the LAPD active accomplices in the criminal act. So the DOL could pay legal fees out the ying-yang and the contractor would still lose in court because, again, what they did was illegal. Furthermore the DOL would be on the hook not only for the contractors' legal fees, but would also be equally liable in any lawsuit. I assume the DOL would try to claim that they have the power to exempty contractors from having to comply with the WARN Act, since they're the regulatory agency tasked with enforcing that particular law. But... wouldn't that be a clear breach of the separation of powers? The law is the law, passed by the legislature. If the DOL wants to have the right to exempt businesses from having to comply with the law in certain circumstances (such as "this would be a bad thing for the Preezy's re-election campaign"), then they should go to Congress and request an amendment to the law. I realize that this "administration" has been stunningly lawless in terms of regulatory overreach, but THIS isn't "just" a regulatory issue. It's a clear violation of federal law (not to mention various state laws of a similar nature). So wouldn't you expect SOMEONE on Capitol Hill to say SOMETHING? Am I just crazy for thinking this should have Congress up in arms, since it's essentially Obama spitting in their face and asking them how his ass tastes? He does that on a daily basis anyway, but this is ... it's just.... *flinging hands in the air* I give up. We've always been at war with Eastasia.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b][/u] at October 01, 2012 08:41 PM (CA2NO)

256

Well, now I can go to bed with a smile on my face, thanks to Maet's brilliant leash-jerking.

 

I don't even want to know what he would do to MUMR, because I can't eat all that candy before bedtime.

 

Sweet dreams, Morons. 

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 01, 2012 08:42 PM (JDIKC)

257 260  t?

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 01, 2012 08:42 PM (cyGNg)

258

213 wheatie

mewling quim... I saw what you did there!

 

It was the whining that finally destroyed the level of restraint that I strive to maintain.

I think he earned it.

 

In fact...if he keeps whining, he may well earn himself the first official AoSHQ Mewling Quim Award.

 

 

Posted by: wheatie at October 01, 2012 08:42 PM (l5RhJ)

259 Sad thing is, without being able to comment jimi ray had a few hours to work himself into this lather. 
I watched a football game.

Posted by: lowandslow at October 01, 2012 08:42 PM (GZitp)

260 I mean, no real person is so clueless and self-righteous, right? Posted by: JewishOdysseus at October 02, 2012 12:34 AM (WCzJ6) Excluding democrats?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 01, 2012 08:42 PM (X3lox)

261 237 Okay what the hell did jimi ray say?

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 02, 2012 12:37 AM (9+ccr)

 

No one knows.  None of us ever bothered to read more than a paragraph or 2 of his idiotic 8 paragraph rants.  Although I do know it thinks cities are teh awsum and the rural suburban areas are useless.

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 01, 2012 08:42 PM (GULKT)

262 I dunno, I figure she's being censored, but who cares? We're all censored here. There's words we can't say, things we can't do. I can't threaten someone with death or give away Anna Puma's home phone number, or something. So? This idea that you have to be utterly free to do anything whatsoever you desire without limits is just childish. Life is like that, we're constantly surrounded by hedges and limits. The older and more responsible you get, the more limits there are. I can go places and do things the President of the United States couldn't even attempt. That's how it is, if you can't stand it grow up.
Its the same mindset that throws a tantrum when told they have to buy their own birth control. Hey, sister, grow up. That's how adults live. You aren't living off mommy and daddy any longer. Nobody is going to pick up your dirty clothes and wash your dishes any more, either.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 08:42 PM (r4wIV)

263 *waives hanky at EoJ*

Posted by: wheatie at October 01, 2012 08:43 PM (l5RhJ)

264 NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for a cameraman who was accompanying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the US for the United Nations General Assembly in New York says his client has defected. Paul O’Dwyer, a New York City-based lawyer who is representing Hassan Gol Khanban, confirmed Sunday that his client is seeking asylum in the US He provided no other details.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at October 01, 2012 08:43 PM (e8kgV)

265 Learned to drive on a 1960 VW  and a three-on-the-tree 1959 Opel station wagon.


In Germany; a long time ago.  To turn on the 'heat' in the old VWs, you opened two vents at either end of the base of the back seats.  No actual heater, just re-directing air from the engine

Posted by: Bat Red in Baton Rouge at October 01, 2012 08:43 PM (Dll6b)

266 @249 it's fucking censorship when you SELECTIVELY choose to limit ONLY MY COMMENTS. i would direct you to webster's, but it turns out that webster's has been co-opted by leftists and is not a reliable source for english definitions, as i learned last night. people were responding and reacting to my comments before, too. in fact, people have always reacted to my comments -- LOTS of people, and that's part of why my comments are so long. when you are ONE person responding to SIX OR SEVEN in cohort against you, you will tend to write comments SIX OR SEVEN TIMES LONGER than those with whom you are arguing in order to address all the points. but whatever; you're applying a BLATANT double standard by limitting ONLY MY COMMENTS so you can go jack yourself off over the kudos you get from my fan club, and you know it.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 08:43 PM (79EF9)

267 You can be offended all you want, jimi. It doesn't mean anyone will listen. Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 01, 2012 08:43 PM (5J54Q)

268 Remember Bob Hope called zombies Democrats.  And Halloween approaches upon light non-mewling feet to snika-snak upon your souls.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 08:43 PM (u1Q5a)

269 Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 12:40 AM (79EF9)


jimi ray, it's okay if you're gay and/or perverted. That's the beauty of this country. Don't be so hard on yourself. Feliz Navidad.

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 01, 2012 08:44 PM (BVkEs)

270 265 260 t?

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 02, 2012 12:42 AM (cyGNg)

What is t?

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2012 08:44 PM (TC1v1)

271 I just love how VW bugs sound, its so distinctive.

With dual 36mm Webers, a Crane cam, lightened flywheel, racing heads, and a glasspak muffler mine had a pretty distinctive sound too... ;->

...and could embarrass a Vette or Mustang launching at a stoplight

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 08:44 PM (MQLiy)

272 They have a choice, they just don't want to pay for the quality and more guaranteed geographic distributions they'd get from a mailed poll.
Well, that's slower as well as more expensive. What they're leaning toward, according to the Pew report is online polling. Yeah.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 08:44 PM (r4wIV)

273 226 Make sure you look at a sample ballot 'cause these fuckers try to slip in a bunch of expensive "bond" issues (and other things) only "they" know about and vote for.

Way ahead of you. I live in California. The local intelligence test is how long it takes you to realize you should vote "no" on everything on the ballot unless you have a gold-plated, perfect reason to vote "yes." And if you think you do, check twice. Half the time, it's a con.

Standard procedure in these parts is that if someone gets something sensible onto the ballot, the entrenched powers come up with something horrible that can be headlined as looking like a better version of the sensible thing, but is really designed to upset no one's rice bowl.

Posted by: Splunge at October 01, 2012 08:44 PM (2IW5Q)

274 Congratulations to Tony Romo, this week's winner of the Mark Sanchez Lookalike Contest

http://tinyurl.com/8q4vty2

Posted by: kbdabear at October 01, 2012 08:44 PM (wwsoB)

275

night jeff

 

lou, t is my wife..due to her job i just give initals..anywho, cheesecake and coors light/boones strawberry hill is like heaven for her

and to the amazement and hatred of my sisters, she won't gain an ounce from it

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 01, 2012 08:44 PM (cyGNg)

276 This idea that you have to be utterly free to do anything whatsoever you desire without limits is just childish. ^^^^^^This. Kudos, Christopher.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 01, 2012 08:45 PM (5J54Q)

277 I am going to leave jimi ray alone from now on. Clearly this person is ill and needs help.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 08:45 PM (Wp4rQ)

278 Well, now I can go to bed with a smile on my face, thanks to Maet's brilliant leash-jerking.
That didn't work out too well for me, I can tell you.

Posted by: zombie david carradine at October 01, 2012 08:45 PM (vDl/w)

279 The local intelligence test is how long it takes you to realize you should vote "no" on everything on the ballot unless you have a gold-plated, perfect reason to vote "yes."
Gotta be careful with that, in Oregon they love cute double negative and obscure wording, so that voting "no" actually means voting "yes" sometimes.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 08:46 PM (r4wIV)

280 Well PurpAv with that setup you should beat them.  I bet you had 90+ HP and on a mere 1,800lb frame.  If you did not beat them, well turn in your FWEEM.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 08:46 PM (u1Q5a)

281 274  please pardon this poster
HE'S INSANE!!

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 01, 2012 08:46 PM (cyGNg)

282 Not really Anna, just have R Lee Ermy quotes from Full Metal Jacket on the brain after I saw that pic.

Posted by: gmannyc at October 01, 2012 08:46 PM (J3FIT)

283 274 ...when you are ONE person responding to SIX OR SEVEN in cohort against you, you will tend to write comments SIX OR SEVEN TIMES LONGER...

Medication. It's what's for dinner.

Seriously, please see a professional. This isn't normal.

Posted by: Splunge at October 01, 2012 08:47 PM (2IW5Q)

284 That was a different sort of leash-jerking, David Carradine...

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 08:47 PM (r4wIV)

285 What they're leaning toward, according to the Pew report is online polling.

We used to have a saying at IBM.

You can have a product:

On time.
On budget.
With good quality.

Pick any two.


Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 08:47 PM (MQLiy)

286 lou, t is my wife..due to her job i just give initals..anywho, cheesecake and coors light/boones strawberry hill is like heaven for her
and to the amazement and hatred of my sisters, she won't gain an ounce from it

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 02, 2012 12:44 AM (cyGNg)

Aww, God Bless her, women after my own heart!

 Congrats on the Bears. Sad Dallas fan here, but my real team is the Raiders, so yeah, this week kinda sucked

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2012 08:47 PM (TC1v1)

287 Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 12:40 AM (79EF9) --You're over limit, asshole.

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 08:47 PM (V/U0X)

288 Although I do know it thinks cities are teh awsum and the rural suburban areas are useless. Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 02, 2012 12:42 AM (GULKT) So jimi is curious' unmedicated sister.....good to know. 'sup jackwagons

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2012 08:47 PM (Rhie+)

289 @270 i've told you many times that i'm a guy, and i don't know if you keep forgetting because it's always so late at night, or you're just being cute by continuing to say "she", but please afford me at LEAST the respect of the proper pronoun. what was censored, for your information, was an utterly harmless paragraph about my going to youtube and up-liking the brasilian critical mass video. it wasn't dangerous, it divulged no personal information, it wasn't offensive, and it didn't even have any of that characteristic "condescension" that you guys are soooo afraid of. again, this is STRICTLY about some pissant putative *adult* singling an unpopular person about for blatant abuse of his moderation privileges so that he can feel good about all the kudos he gets from the fan club that hates that i never take their insult-laden bait. i know we've had words before, but do you really think that's fair?

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 08:48 PM (79EF9)

290 Hassan Gol Khanban, confirmed Sunday that his client is seeking asylum in the US Barack's chance at his own Elian Gonzalez.

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2012 08:48 PM (FcR7P)

291 111   is this how adults act?

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 12:14 AM

 

I done poopie.

 

Posted by: otho at October 01, 2012 08:48 PM (yBF/9)

292 Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 12:48 AM (79EF9)

  You still here?

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 01, 2012 08:48 PM (9+ccr)

293 Good night, 'rons and 'ettes. Always fun to hang around, even if I tend to stay quiet and keep to my table in the corner of the HQ. God bless.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 01, 2012 08:48 PM (5J54Q)

294 #262, Nothing will ever improve until 1) an administration works its way through the permanent bureaucracy and fires and/or prosecutes the thousands of little tyrants who overstep their legal authority, and 2) Congress reclaims all legislative authority from the agencies (i.e. no law/statute/regulation shall have any authority unless passed by Congress - they cannot delegate such authority to the executive agencies).

Posted by: somebody else, not me at October 01, 2012 08:48 PM (nZvGM)

295 ...just what is a jackwagon anyway? I mean I'd never question R. Lee Ermey but...

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 08:49 PM (r4wIV)

296 298  please pardon this poster
HE'S INSANE!!

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 01, 2012 08:49 PM (cyGNg)

297 154 derit,
 
Way back in the Stone Age when I went to college, you were required to buy a dictionary -- much like today's entering students must have a laptop. The American Heritage Dictionary was, er, strongly recommended by management.
 
I've lugged that damn book around for 8 or 9 moves since then. It looks it, too. My children were also quite familiar with it, as I made them look up lots of words. Yeah, I know, big bully. But they both had 12th grade vocabularies by the 5th grade.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 01, 2012 08:49 PM (ccXZP)

298 U.S. President Barack Obama issued a new executive order last week to fight human trafficking, touting his administration's handling of the issue. "When a little boy is kidnapped, turned into a child soldier, forced to kill or be killed -- that's slavery," Obama said in a speech at the Clinton Global Initiative. "It is barbaric, and it is evil, and it has no place in a civilized world. Now, as a nation, we've long rejected such cruelty." But for the third year in a row, Obama has waived almost all U.S. sanctions that would punish certain countries that use child soldiers, upsetting many in the human rights community.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at October 01, 2012 08:49 PM (e8kgV)

299 Emperor Misha at the Rottweiler calls out eeyorepundit

http://nicedoggie.net/?p=6507

Posted by: kbdabear at October 01, 2012 08:49 PM (wwsoB)

300

Debate night:

Jim Lehrer, moderator:  Mr. President, could you talk about how great your stimulus was?

BHO: Thank you , Jim.  As I've always said, it is important not to make a false choice here between the mistakes of the past and our new future, as we rebuild America in the image that I have foreseen in my own mind.  The  stimulus was just a down payment on all the future debt that we will acumulate as my party and my administration continue to buy votes!

(Applause)

Jim Lehrer:   Thank you Mr. President. Mr. Romney, what about your GAFFESSS???!!!

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...FREE KRATOS! at October 01, 2012 08:50 PM (sJTmU)

301 What good is a persecution complex if noone ever persecutes you?

Posted by: Hagbard Celine at October 01, 2012 08:50 PM (+/VIS)

302 Karmann Ghia vs Beetle
http://youtu.be/NOedrcsT0vI

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 08:50 PM (u1Q5a)

303 Seems like all the branches of government have overstepped, trying to gobble up each other. The legislative is trying to run the executive through "oversight," the executive is trying to make laws, and so is the judicial. They need to stay in their neat little carefully designed boxes and we'd all be a lot better off.
Yes, once in a while it would make government ineffective and slow. Good, that's how we like it and need it, for maximum liberty.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 08:51 PM (r4wIV)

304 Hey Tony, Mark Sanchez called. You can have your uniform back now!

Posted by: Eli the NFC East Comic at October 01, 2012 08:51 PM (wwsoB)

305 Well she/he has finally lost it.  I know "it" has called itself a girl before and talked about how it has a boyfriend and then fiance who is an AF intel officer.

Posted by: Adam at October 01, 2012 08:51 PM (tG36f)

306 ace: thanks for the Ready Player One review. Been meaning to read that, still haven't met my fat loss goals for reading fiction. Fiction = fat. Once I'm skinny I'll go back to reading fiction.

Posted by: Max Power at October 01, 2012 08:51 PM (+wxCD)

307 Gotta be careful with that, in Oregon they love cute double negative and obscure wording, so that voting "no" actually means voting "yes" sometimes. Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 12:46 AM (r4wIV) Same thing in MA, likely everywhere. You had to diagram out the sentences to see what they meant. Then you had to right down YES for this one and NO for that one.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 08:51 PM (Wp4rQ)

308 Mr. Romney, I just wanted to follow up for the third time about the timing of your statement on Libya, before I get into the "crowd chanting 'Ryan'" portion of the debate.

Posted by: Gwen Ifill at October 01, 2012 08:52 PM (2IW5Q)

309 Ha. Barry is spending money on a whiny laid off wind turbine worker in a commercial. I sure hope I'm not the only one who thinks FY to someone whining they got laid off because the subsidies were cut when Barry has tied up profitable energy production in this country with every trick and regulation he could.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 01, 2012 08:52 PM (5CusZ)

310

237 Okay what the hell did jimi ray say?
Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 02, 2012 12:37 AM (9+ccr)

 

While usually only mildly annoying...and easily ignored...he tread into more ignoble territory recently, by referring to Christianity as a 'cult'.

Some took issue with his use of this pejoritive.

Epic tomes of even more annoying whining ensued.

 

Maet warned him last night...and was lenient.

Like a child, jimi ray tested his resolve.

 

Posted by: wheatie at October 01, 2012 08:52 PM (l5RhJ)

311 ...just what is a jackwagon anyway?
My last car.

Posted by: zombie david carradine at October 01, 2012 08:52 PM (vDl/w)

312 Obama supports child SLAVERY.  That's it, straight up, unspinnable.  The evidence is right there on the whitehouse servers with his name on it.

Played right, this is a game changer. 

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 08:53 PM (MQLiy)

313 Problem with crazy people is they have so much more energy than normal people. Going insane is a good way to stay thin. You use up a lot of energy pacing and plotting against your invisible enemies. Being unable to relax is a horribly unpleasant way to go through life, but a good way to avoid getting fat. All the pleasant, well-adjusted fat people should look on the bright side of being pudgy.

Posted by: Blasphemy Jones at October 01, 2012 08:53 PM (ZPrif)

314 As far as annoying bicyclists ... In Philly they have cut huge parts out of several already too-narrow streets for the bike lanes and the friggin bikers ride on every other street but seem to have some particular aversion to the ones with the bike lanes. Bicyclists in modern cities have become a plague from the third world. At least, in the beginning, you only had to worry about being run over on the sidewalk by chinese food delivery bikes with the tank-front carriers and having to run over messenger cyclists who tried to cut off mack trucks. Now, they threaten civilization, itself, with a smug attitude on top of it all. They have certainly reached critical mass, like a nuclear core of stupid.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 01, 2012 08:53 PM (X3lox)

315 316 Gotta be careful with that, in Oregon they love cute double negative and obscure wording, so that voting "no" actually means voting "yes" sometimes.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 12:46 AM (r4wIV)

Same thing in MA, likely everywhere.

You had to diagram out the sentences to see what they meant.

Then you had to right down YES for this one and NO for that one.

Posted by: eman at October 02, 2012 12:51 AM (Wp4rQ)

 

Wasn't there a town in New York that ended up banning liquor sales in bars because of how horribly worded the issue for the people to vote on was in the last 5 years or so.

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 01, 2012 08:53 PM (GULKT)

316

  Try Ca. You never know what the 316 Gotta be careful with that, in Oregon they love cute double negative and obscure wording, so that voting "no" actually means voting "yes" sometimes.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 12:46 AM (r4wIV)

Same thing in MA, likely everywhere.

You had to diagram out the sentences to see what they meant.

Then you had to right down YES for this one and NO for that one.

Try living in Ca. It's near impossible to tell what the ballot propositions mean.

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 01, 2012 08:54 PM (9+ccr)

317

well kids, the capo di tutti capi has arrived and walked straight to the kitchen to get a beer

let me feed her and the beast

 

laters

 

and jimi ray...lithium is your friend

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 01, 2012 08:54 PM (cyGNg)

318 I apologize to the blog, apparently last night I unknowingly pushed a button that should have been left alone. I am very proud of my Lord and don't care for people messing with his name or title any more than I would anyone else I love. Jesus can take care of Himself, He doesn't need me to protect him. I just appreciate people showing more respect when they're around me. I'd be unhappy if someone called my older bother by something disrespectful too.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 08:54 PM (r4wIV)

319 300 plus comments? When did the comments section open up again?

Posted by: RWC at October 01, 2012 08:54 PM (t+Sdx)

320 Police received several calls about a man in a car front of a market along the first block of East 4th Street wearing what witnesses described as a full gas mask and army gear with several grenades hanging around his neck. The San Mateo County sheriff’s bomb squad responded and evacuated a half-block area about 9:30 a.m. Police detained the costumed man and said an “inert grenade” was found in his car, but they also indicated there was “no current danger” to the public. The man was identified by police as Gilberto Masias, an employee at a local costume shop. Officers at the scene cited him for possession of an inactive grenade and released.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at October 01, 2012 08:55 PM (e8kgV)

321 OK, I'm out mark your calendars, henceforth tonight will be referred to as "the night they drove ol' Jimi down" 'cept Jimi did the drivin' a swag of the sombrero to Maet; another outstanding job on an especially tiring night tomorrow night, mi amigos

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 01, 2012 08:55 PM (JMmQ9)

322 216 uh, yeah, because hiding behind moderator privileges and selectively picking out people to censor for NO OTHER REASON than you dislike them is the epitome of courage, right?

again, folks get away with FAR worse than i've ever gotten away with, so this isn't about me being mean or single-handedly picking on the poor dozens of folks who try to bait me into giving them a little attention every night -- not that i'm ever mean or pick on people, anyhow. this is *explicitly* about me being disliked for whatever reason and the sort of double-standards and censorship THAT THIS VERY ONT PURPORTS TO DECRY being applied to me for THAT reason. playing to the majority crowd by censoring unpopular minorities is fucking cowardice in ANY venue.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 12:33 AM (79EF9)



Let's try something very simple: "Although the door is left unlocked, this is a private club. You've come in and become quite unpopular, though the bouncer hasn't totally focused on you yet. One of the stand-in hosts has decided to tolerate you with a couple of caveats, and you're in full-meltdown mode.....the rest of the members probably would not have extended that courtesy."

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2012 08:55 PM (kaalw)

323 Problem with crazy people is they have so much more energy than normal people.

Thorazine/Scopolamine cocktail.  Works every time.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 08:56 PM (MQLiy)

324 318 Ha. Barry is spending money on a whiny laid off wind turbine worker in a commercial. I sure hope I'm not the only one who thinks FY to someone whining they got laid off because the subsidies were cut when Barry has tied up profitable energy production in this country with every trick and regulation he could.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 02, 2012 12:52 AM (5CusZ)

The garbage guy ad is the worst. Guy says he collected the trash at Romneys, and did not get a hug or gatorade, wtf? Guy works 32 hours a week, anything over that is double time, full pension, benefits, time off.

How many of you hug your garbageman?

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2012 08:56 PM (TC1v1)

325 Good night, navycopjoe! (I had the Bears D on my team but still lost.)

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 08:56 PM (V/U0X)

326 I can't really do it here in text but I saw on facebook a cute picture like those I ♥ NY shirts. Except it has a pictures of Pikachu from Pokemon so it said I [Pikachu] when you're naked. Funny and cute and flirty all at once.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 08:56 PM (r4wIV)

327

304 ...just what is a jackwagon anyway? I mean I'd never question R. Lee Ermey but...

 

I think it's a more polite way of saying 'shitwagon'.

From the common term...'jack shit'.

 

Posted by: wheatie at October 01, 2012 08:57 PM (l5RhJ)

328 Well she/he has finally lost it. I know "it" has called itself a girl before and talked about how it has a boyfriend and then fiance who is an AF intel officer. Posted by: Adam at October 02, 2012 12:51 AM (tG36f) Yeah. I remember that too. I'm thinking that was before the shift change in the Axelrod boiler room. Either that or her name's Sybil.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2012 08:57 PM (Rhie+)

329 274

I would suggest if you feel wronged to go join Twitter and send your concerns to Ace directly one night while he is on Twitter.

Better yet, wait for a Saturday night when Ace is in the cups and posting late at night. If you bring it up with him at that point, I think you will find him very receptive to your suggestions.

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 01, 2012 08:57 PM (Zd/NW)

330 Try living in Ca. It's near impossible to tell what the ballot propositions mean. Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 02, 2012 12:54 AM (9+ccr) I do, and I lived in MA for 50 years. MA gave me good practice.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 08:57 PM (Wp4rQ)

331 Seems like all the branches of government have overstepped, trying to gobble up each other. The legislative is trying to run the executive through "oversight," the executive is trying to make laws, and so is the judicial. They need to stay in their neat little carefully designed boxes and we'd all be a lot better off. Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 12:51 AM (r4wIV) That's why we have impeachment and that's why Congress has a RESPONSIBILITY to impeach those who violate the Constitution, which includes Barky first and foremost (launching into Volume II of his Articles of Impeachment with defense contractor crime) and Benedickhead Roberts (who also needs to be given a public wedgie lasting two weeks).

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 01, 2012 08:57 PM (X3lox)

332 I'm spreading the word on the surreptitious Zero Child Soldier Waiver. Indeed.

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 08:58 PM (V/U0X)

333 Gee I feel so bad.. I never gave my garbage man/woman a hug or gatoraide. My bad?

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 01, 2012 08:58 PM (9+ccr)

334 #312, I would say that Congressional oversight of the executive is a legitimate and crucial function. In fact, I think if Congress actually took the time to investigate whether the laws it passed were being properly enacted and had the intended outcome it would be a good thing. But instead of doing that they pass more and more laws, vaguely written in order to avoid political difficulty and so turning over the real authority to the invisible bureaucracy.

Posted by: somebody else, not me at October 01, 2012 08:58 PM (nZvGM)

335 Either that or her name's Sybil.
Maybe its both... :/

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 08:58 PM (r4wIV)

336 Obama supports child SLAVERY. That's it, straight up, unspinnable. The evidence is right there on the whitehouse servers with his name on it. Anyone else remember the OWS/Code Pink/Slutwalk protests in front of that Human Trafficking conference out in California earlier this year? The one where the protesters were protesting STOPPING human trafficking because it was denying people the opportunity to support themselves with sex work? That's Obama's base right there.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b][/u] at October 01, 2012 08:59 PM (CA2NO)

337 The Sybian Sybil?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 08:59 PM (u1Q5a)

338

Supports Child Slavery?  Kidnapped children as soldiers?  Whatever for?

 

Why, so the Muslims in Africa can keep doing what they have been doing to Christians and other religions for centuries.  It's historical determinism, so that soon many more human beings can hear the muzzeh, the most beautiful sound in the world, five times a day.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...FREE KRATOS! at October 01, 2012 08:59 PM (sJTmU)

339 Try living in Ca. It's near impossible to tell what the ballot propositions mean. I look at the groups writing the for and against rebuttals to try to narrow it down. "Union Teachers For Progress!" is usually not a good sign.

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2012 09:00 PM (FcR7P)

340 I'll help the garbage dudes load if I'm putting out a particularly large or heavy pile.  They appreciate that kind of shit...

...and never fuck up my garbage cans.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 09:00 PM (MQLiy)

341 I would say that Congressional oversight of the executive is a legitimate and crucial function.
I would too, as its constitutional, but they take it a bit too far, sometimes.
And garbagemen... when does your trash get picked up? Because I grew up with the image of them coming around at 5 in the morning waking people up crashing around with those old aluminum cans. They come by at 5 in the evening sometimes at our house. I mean I know the mob usually runs these joints but what the hell? They don't even get out of the truck except to yell at you for not making it easier for them.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 09:00 PM (r4wIV)

342 342 Gee I feel so bad.. I never gave my garbage man/woman a hug or gatoraide. My bad?

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 02, 2012 12:58 AM (9+ccr)

 

I know, my garbageman throws my trash can down the street every time ,without fail. He hates my heavy metal garbage can, tee hee.

 

And the funny thing is, Romney did a day as a garbageman when he ran for governor to see how hard the job was, another fuck up by the obama people.

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2012 09:01 PM (TC1v1)

343 348 I look at the groups writing the for and against rebuttals to try to narrow it down. "Union Teachers For Progress!" is usually not a good sign.

Yes, my favorite trick too. If SEIU is for it, I don't need any more research to figure out that I'm against it.

Posted by: Splunge at October 01, 2012 09:01 PM (2IW5Q)

344 . You use up a lot of energy pacing and plotting against your invisible enemies.

Well sitting in the recliner hasn't worked.

Thorazine/Scopolamine cocktail. Works every time.

Haldol, when you care enough to send the very best.

Posted by: DaveA at October 01, 2012 09:02 PM (wcjj2)

345 @313 uh, yes, i do have a boyfriend/fiancé who is an AF intel officer. i have *never* claimed to be a girl, ever. @319 yeah, who's the ones whining about the "cult" thing, again? is it the person who used the word by the dictionary definition, of the fool who claims that webster's has been co-opted by leftists because he doesn't like the strict denotation of a word? i have never been "warned"; at any rate, this clearly isn't about my being offensive, it's about you "adults" getting your panties in a bunch and deciding to resort to blatant censorship to silence someone you dislike. i'm not the only person who overinforms around here...but i'm the only one who gets censored. i'm not the only one who doesn't use caps...but i'm the only one who people complain about. the insults that are directed TOWARD me (the vast majority of which i don't even acknowledge) are FAR more offensive than any imagined "condescension" in my posts. this isn't about rules or warnings, it's about a childish adult abusing his powers to be an internet bully.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 09:02 PM (79EF9)

346 280 I just love how VW bugs sound, its so distinctive.

With dual 36mm Webers, a Crane cam, lightened flywheel, racing heads, and a glasspak muffler mine had a pretty distinctive sound too... ;->

...and could embarrass a Vette or Mustang launching at a stoplight
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 12:44 AM

Here's a VW Beetle with a Subaru WRX turbocharged engine in it

http://tinyurl.com/8wky87p

You'll find a bunch of bugs with the Subaru flat 4's in them on Youtube. They say it's quite an easy conversion


Posted by: kbdabear at October 01, 2012 09:02 PM (wwsoB)

347 Supports Child Slavery? Kidnapped children as soldiers? Whatever for?

Those regimes are too "fragile" to lean on according to the slaver in chief.

Clue - if they're using child soldiers, maybe they need a little regime change.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 09:03 PM (MQLiy)

348 Try living in Ca. It's near impossible to tell what the ballot propositions mean. Yeah. Yes/no is problematic. I always look for status quo ante in the props.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2012 09:03 PM (Rhie+)

349 I love this 2/10 rule !!!!!! Clear concise and to the point !!!!!!!

Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 01, 2012 09:03 PM (ypJjM)

350   And garbagemen... when does your trash get picked up? Because I grew up with the image of them coming around at 5 in the morning waking people up crashing around with those old aluminum cans. They come by at 5 in the evening sometimes at our house. I mean I know the mob usually runs these joints but what the hell? They don't even get out of the truck except to yell at you for not making it easier for them.

  Yeah mine comes around 5 AM. Did this "garbageperson" really complain that they didn't get a hug or gator aide from Romney? Also are they like are garbage people and look like the yare   illegals?

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 01, 2012 09:03 PM (9+ccr)

351 I look at the groups writing the for and against rebuttals to try to narrow it down.
That's the best way to figure it out. Some issues are confusing that way, because you'll get good and bad supporting it, but usually those are ones that are just common sense and apolitical in nature.
Generally speaking the more out of state money that goes into an ad campaign for a ballot measure, the less I trust it.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 09:03 PM (r4wIV)

352 BTW, that was "Volume III of the Articles of Impeachment". Barky hit Volume II back in 2011.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 01, 2012 09:04 PM (X3lox)

353 Lowered expectations. I mean, what do debates mean anyway, right? I mean, the real challenge is getting out of bed each day and swinging that wood, amiright? Psshaw! Debates!

Friend --

The first presidential debate is this Wednesday, and Mitt Romney has had a lot of practice.

In addition to the more than 20 primary debates he's done over the past year, his staff have told reporters that he's been preparing for the debate for months now. He's even been memorizing some "zingers" to attack the President and score political points.

Romney's allies are very confident that this strategy will work -- just yesterday, Governor Chris Christie said that Romney will do "extraordinarily well" in the debate and use it to "restart" the race.

My guess is that voters watching will be using a different scorecard -- not who can fire off the best one-liner, but who lays out a detailed plan to get the middle class thriving again. That's how President Obama sees this debate -- as an opportunity to talk about his specific plans to continue moving the country forward.

So before President Obama and Mitt Romney take the stage, take a look at some items we've put together on Romney's record -- both as a corporate buyout specialist and as a governor -- and his economic plans so that you have all the facts you need to tell your family and friends why he's not the right guy for the job.

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Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 01, 2012 09:04 PM (piMMO)

354 Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 01:02 AM (79EF9) --My five-month old son is as mature as you are.

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 09:04 PM (V/U0X)

355 Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 01:02 AM (79EF9) No, that's not so. Get help.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 09:04 PM (Wp4rQ)

356 geez "our" and" are "illegals... bad spelling..

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 01, 2012 09:05 PM (9+ccr)

357 How many of you hug your garbageman?

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 12:56 AM

 

"Hug"... is that code?

Posted by: back door barry soetoro at October 01, 2012 09:05 PM (yBF/9)

358 I remember the days of municipal garbage trucks having 4 workers per truck. Somehow Waste Management and Veolia figured out how to do it with 1.

Posted by: somebody else, not me at October 01, 2012 09:05 PM (nZvGM)

359 @338 i already went to twitter, but i'm not sure i really know how to use it. i put @aceofspades, so i guess it will get to him, but who knows? either way, there are MANY commenters here who directly attack ace in ways that i have NEVER attacked anyone on here...and how does ace usually handle that, huh? does ace usually throw a bitch fit and apply ridiculous rules to only the people he dislikes? pretty sure that has *never* happened; unlike the small-minded meatenloch, ace actually *means* it when he rails against double standards and the blatant abuse of power to silence the unpopular/disliked.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 09:05 PM (79EF9)

360 Holy crap, Johnny Cash covered "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down!" I never knew, great song.
http://youtu.be/a8e_16uQ2b4

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 09:05 PM (r4wIV)

361 where we at?

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 01, 2012 09:06 PM (8sCoq)

362

My first car was a V-Dub Beetle.

I loved that car.

And yes...they do have a distinctive sound. ...The original ones.

The newer ones, not so much.

 

Posted by: wheatie at October 01, 2012 09:06 PM (l5RhJ)

363 Yeah mine comes around 5 AM. Did this "garbageperson" really complain that they didn't get a hug or gator aide from Romney? Also are they like are garbage people and look like the yare illegals?

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 02, 2012 01:03 AM (9+ccr)

 

He never came out and said he did not get a hug from Romney, but it was inferred.

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2012 09:06 PM (TC1v1)

364 You can get a pretty reliable 200hp out of the basic bug motor design and still have a streetable car that gets decent MPG.

Some guys are pushing them over 300hp with blowers, but longevity suffers somewhat.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 09:06 PM (MQLiy)

365 For the California morons who like using tools to tinker on cars, Ranchero is looking for someone to rebuild transaxles.  Will teach how to do it.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1368021

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 09:06 PM (u1Q5a)

366 Hmmm I think jimi ray might be one of them there homosexuals that actually aren't that way from birth.  But rather have become that way because they're really angry at mommy and daddy.

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 01, 2012 09:06 PM (GULKT)

367 All the trash guys here have those big claw arms on the side that pick up the trash cans and dump them then put them back down. The garbage guys almost never have to get out of the truck and if they do they send you a nastygram.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 09:07 PM (r4wIV)

368 So Jimi Ray is still spewing?

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 01, 2012 09:07 PM (9+ccr)

369 377 All the trash guys here have those big claw arms on the side that pick up the trash cans and dump them then put them back down. The garbage guys almost never have to get out of the truck and if they do they send you a nastygram.

  Exactly what we have here...

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 01, 2012 09:08 PM (9+ccr)

370 251 Has the illusion that Tony Romo is an NFL caliber quarterback finally been broken?

Posted by: somebody else, not me at October 02, 2012 12:39 AM (nZvGM)

Oh, I imagine there are still true believers around here in the Metroplex... (I'm in FW).  I'm getting so sick of all the "we have so much talent" homers on the radio - I don't get it...

Meanwhile, the Rangers seem to be doing their level best to blow it.

Posted by: George W Beagle at October 01, 2012 09:08 PM (sZRY5)

371 362 We have a new tool out
today that lets you see how your community is better off thanks to
President Obama. Take a look at the map of all the job-creation projects
supported by this administration in your area, and be sure to tell others about them too.


Yeah, because who needs a job when you can have a "job-creation project?"

Posted by: Splunge at October 01, 2012 09:08 PM (2IW5Q)

372 The garbage guy ad is the worst. Guy says he collected the trash at Romneys, and did not get a hug or gatorade, wtf? Guy works 32 hours a week, anything over that is double time, full pension, benefits, time off.
How many of you hug your garbageman?

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 12:56 AM (TC1v1)


Cripes, my garbageman throws my trash can so that it blocks the driveway when I get home. No body else in the neighborhood, just mine. I'm guessing they don't like the fact that I am the only one in the neighborhood  that puts up a GOP yard sign at every election.


And chances are Mitt didn't hug his garbage man because he WAS AT WORK WHEN HIS TRASH WAS PICKED UP!!

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 01, 2012 09:09 PM (Zd/NW)

373 To be fair to the horde Jimz, we tend to drink a lot and most of us get nasty when we drink. You don't like it? The doors over there, take yourself outside and FOADIAF. Vodka and sprite is a motherfucker.

Posted by: Adam at October 01, 2012 09:09 PM (tG36f)

374 it's about you "adults" getting your panties in a bunch and deciding to resort to blatant censorship to silence someone Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 01:02 AM (79EF9) Holy shit! You're the most verbose "silenced" person I've ever even heard of. It ain't censorship (I'm not sure what you think that "blatant" is for) and you, obviously, have not been silenced.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 01, 2012 09:10 PM (X3lox)

375 I really wish more people knew what the word censorship actually means.

Posted by: somebody else, not me at October 01, 2012 09:10 PM (nZvGM)

376 I have a portal to another Universe hovering in my kitchen. The trash goes in there. It probably ends up in some Alien's garden.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 09:10 PM (Wp4rQ)

377

321 Obama supports child SLAVERY. That's it, straight up, unspinnable. The evidence is right there on the whitehouse servers with his name on it.

 

Played right, this is a game changer.

 

It's something.

At least, I think it is.

It will take some effort on the part of a lot of bloggers to drag this one out into the daylight.

 

So, I for one, am glad to see you bringing it up, PurpAv.

The Organized Left has been turning a blind eye to the Child Slavery that's been going on down there, for a long time.

 


 

Posted by: wheatie at October 01, 2012 09:11 PM (l5RhJ)

378 eman has watched Loopers a few too many times.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 09:11 PM (u1Q5a)

379 377 All the trash guys here have those big claw arms on the side that pick up the trash cans and dump them then put them back down. The garbage guys almost never have to get out of the truck and if they do they send you a nastygram.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 01:07 AM (r4wIV)

 

I think this is the norm. To be honest, my garbageman has to dump the cans in the back of the truck and nv in the summer has got to be a bitch, and I say Bless him. But damn, what the hell does this have to do with Romney?

This guy chose his job. Gets paid well.

And when the fuck did barack or michelle hug their garbagemen? Please show me the video!

 

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2012 09:11 PM (TC1v1)

380 God Bless the Moron Horde !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 01, 2012 09:11 PM (ypJjM)

381 big claw arms on the side that pick up the trash cans and dump them then put them back down. The garbage guys almost never have to get out of the truck

Sounds perfect for disposing of dead bodies.  Slip one in someone's bin at night, and you're done.  Guys doing manual bin slinging would notice dead bodies.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 09:11 PM (MQLiy)

382 Lmao at the garbage man ad. Doesn't Romney know he has Superman working for him? Picks up 16 or 17 tons of trash by hand. Screw the defense spending, just give this guy a Gatorade and a hug and i'll feel safe.

Posted by: RWC at October 01, 2012 09:11 PM (t+Sdx)

383 My garbage man does pickups at 4:30 am Sorry if I'm not standing at the curb with a hug and Gatorade dude.

Posted by: Adam at October 01, 2012 09:11 PM (tG36f)

384 So Jimi Ray is still spewing?
Malapropism of the week after the latest revelation. NTTAWWT.

Posted by: zombie david carradine at October 01, 2012 09:12 PM (vDl/w)

385 @376 or maybe because the only person that ever showed any interest in a mute, 5'2" sick kid with a genetic death sentence happened to be a male? for the record, my "mommy and daddy" were killed before i was old enough to remember them, and i spent the rest my youth in foster care. i don't really care much for any of my foster parents, but since i'd never even bother to invite any of them to my wedding, it's a good bet that "anger" doesn't have anything to do with my "conversion". keep that class coming, tho!!!! keep showing that you guys don't give a shit about condescension or insults, which are a major part of your own bags of tricks, and that this is strictly about abusing power to silence and aggravate someone with slightly different views than the rest of the mob mind here, just like you guys do with every other *obvious* conservative here who dares to deviate from the party line. ~.~

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 09:12 PM (79EF9)

386 210 I just want to know what makes the VW bug give that tweeting sound with its engine, its so unique.

-----------

Short exhaust pipes.

Posted by: Anachronda at October 01, 2012 09:12 PM (1c58W)

387 I can't give my garbagemen a hug or Gatorade because I'm at WORK when they come around. Sorry about that, garbage people. Thank you for taking away my trash, which is the job you're paid to do. But I'd like to ask -- when did it become mandatory to show enthusiastic appreciation for someone DOING THEIR JOB? This is one of my personal pet peeves. I hate it when someone gives me more than a passing thank you at work for doing something I am EMPLOYED AND PAID TO DO. Sure it's nice to be appreciated, but there's a difference between saying, "Thanks, MWR. I appreciate your help on this," and saying, "MWR, you are INCREDIBLE. I don't know what we'd do without you! Here, let me give you this award for doing an awesome job on this project that is part of your regular routine and included in your job description! Wow, you're just SUPER!" High praise is very nice when someone's done an exceptional job on something, especially if its something that isn't usually in their purview of responsibility. But when everyone expects high praise for absolutely everything they do, it dilutes that praise until it's meaningless. It drives me nuts!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b][/u] at October 01, 2012 09:12 PM (CA2NO)

388 Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 01:04 AM (piMMO)

Why do I hear  the salutation to that as Anton Chigurh saying "Friendo"?

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 01, 2012 09:12 PM (Ig0f3)

389 I've never once had a commenter here complain about my depraved homosexual behavior. How far do I have to escalate before I get my share of this haughty disapproval Jimi's finding under every antimacassar?

I mean, I'm already doing stuff that disquiets even me, and if you people don't start giving me grief, I won't have any grievances at all. And I'll have to up the ante to behavior that totally disgusts me.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at October 01, 2012 09:13 PM (a5ljo)

390 Yeah, because who needs a job when you can have a "job-creation project?"

****

C'mon! It's the thought that counts.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 01, 2012 09:13 PM (piMMO)

391 And another thing these garbage collectors make pretty good money...

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 01, 2012 09:13 PM (9+ccr)

392 I really wish more people knew what the word censorship actually means.

Posted by: merrium und vebster at October 01, 2012 09:13 PM (vDl/w)

393 Recently, I posted a clip from the film about slackers collecting garbage,"Men at Work," although not its trailer:

http://youtu.be/ByUyXPA8SOA

Posted by: derit at October 01, 2012 09:14 PM (I88Jc)

394 375 For the California morons who like using tools to tinker on cars

----------

The one big thing I learned from taking Auto Mechanics in high school is that I should not be allowed anywhere near a vehicle when I have a tool in my hand.

Posted by: Anachronda at October 01, 2012 09:14 PM (1c58W)

395 Sounds perfect for disposing of dead bodies.
Worked for the dead cat. Despite what they show on CSI, they can't figure out what house a corpse came from in the garbage, even before they dump out the truck. I like those shows but man they get silly sometimes. Often, even.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 09:14 PM (r4wIV)

396 397
High praise is very nice when someone's done an exceptional job on something, especially if its something that isn't usually in their purview of responsibility. But when everyone expects high praise for absolutely everything they do, it dilutes that praise until it's meaningless. It drives me nuts!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter at October 02, 2012 01:12 AM (CA2NO)


But aren't we all supposed to get a trophy for participating??? I mean, really... And this election is all about electing our best friend, too - someone who can "relate" to us.  That's the one that gets me - I want a REAL PRESIDENT, dammit!

Posted by: George W Beagle at October 01, 2012 09:14 PM (sZRY5)

397 eman has watched Loopers a few too many times. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 01:11 AM (u1Q5a) Not once.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 09:15 PM (Wp4rQ)

398 399 I've never once had a commenter here complain about my depraved homosexual behavior. How far do I have to escalate before I get my share of this haughty disapproval Jimi's finding under every antimacassar?

I mean, I'm already doing stuff that disquiets even me, and if you people don't start giving me grief, I won't have any grievances at all. And I'll have to up the ante to behavior that totally disgusts me.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at October 02, 2012 01:13 AM (a5ljo)

 

Pics or it didn't happen.  Or if you really want escalation, how about some video.

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 01, 2012 09:16 PM (GULKT)

399 380 251 Has the illusion that Tony Romo is an NFL caliber quarterback finally been broken?

Posted by: somebody else, not me at October 02, 2012 12:39 AM

NEVER!!! Tony is elite!!

fap fap fap fappa fap fap fap

Posted by: Ron Jaworski at October 01, 2012 09:16 PM (wwsoB)

400 Recently, I posted a clip from the film about slackers collecting garbage,"Men at Work," although not its trailer:
I love that movie, so much fun. A dead body featured pretty prominently in that movie too. And a BB gun, a merry-go-round and half naked cops, and a terrified pizza delivery kid.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 09:16 PM (r4wIV)

401 399 I've never once had a commenter here complain about my depraved homosexual behavior. Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at October 02, 2012 01:13 AM (a5ljo) --No, we're waiting for *you* to expound on your deprave homosexual behaviour!

Posted by: Deparaved Morons at October 01, 2012 09:16 PM (V/U0X)

402
Dear Mr. Smith,

We've been getting a lot of dead bodies dumping out on the road as the trucks load your garbage.  We're glad to provide you with disposal service, but we have to note that standard bins aren't really designed for loads over 50lb and tend to break over time when overloaded.

We'd be glad to provide you with special heavy duty bins more suited to your body disposal needs.  They're not expensive, only $40/ea and come with a lifetime warranty against splitting and leakage. 


Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 09:16 PM (MQLiy)

403 I like midgets. Don't really know what mute means though. Can people make you quiet with a television remote?

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 01, 2012 09:17 PM (tG36f)

404 I 'd like to see a "real" president ,too '!!!!!!!

Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 01, 2012 09:17 PM (ypJjM)

405 I feel a sequel to Terror of Tiny Town coming on....

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 09:18 PM (u1Q5a)

406 Normally I wouldn't be up this late, but I just stopped taking a certain medication and the withdrawals are tremendous. The medication caused mild rash with itching which usually was counteracted with an antihistamine. But on discontinuing taking the drug, the side effect of itching goes postal for supposedly at least three days. No antihistamine or cortisone cream will touch it. I've tried cold packs as well as other skin creams. It's like throwing a cup of gas on an already roaring fire. I took my last dose of the medication Saturday night. It was my B'Day...happy friggin' B'Day to me, eh?

Ya see, I'm a Veteran and I have Hepatitis C and I've been taking some powerful drugs to get rid of it. The medication I just quit is called Teleprevir, about 12,000 bucks a month for three months of treatment. The other drugs I take are a weekly pegasys interferon injection and a daily dose of Riboviran. Used to be two daily doses, but it was found out that the drug was knocking my Hemoglobin count down too much. In fact, they added a weekly Pro-Crit injection to my regime. I also had to get a two unit blood transfusion.

Everyone said I looked much better after the transfusion. The nurse who gave me the transfusion, a very nice Black woman, said I looked 100% better. Asked her how I looked when I came in and she said I looked like Casper.

The Teleprevir is what's causing the itching as well as the red hot poker up my ass.

Posted by: Got A Redhot Poker Up My Ass at October 01, 2012 09:18 PM (t2z5E)

407 @384 uh, yeah, it's censorship. i am being censored. from...some...dictionary, to censor is "to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable". while generally, the "objectionables" are things like blasphemy or explicit sexuality or drug references, in my case, what is objectionable is simply that i use this forum to type more than 2 paragraphs...which is a habit that you yourself, as another apparently academic individual, clearly are possessed of yourself. it's "blatant" because he didn't even try to couch it in any reasonable excuse...he just said i type too much and he's gonna put a fucking stop to it, by god!!!11!11one!11! i guess "silence" isn't really the right word at all, but as for *you*, i guess this thing you do where you call me out for no caps and vague misuses of words, which you never seem to do to anyone else, is how you show me that you don't "attack the posts i make". rii~iight. -.-

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 09:18 PM (79EF9)

408 Okay I'm out of here. I suggest that Jimi do the same... and don't bother coming back..

Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 01, 2012 09:18 PM (9+ccr)

409

Our 'garbage men' never even get out of their big truck.

 

We wheel our bins out to the road...they drive along with their big 'yanker' truck...which has a hydrolic arm which picks up the bins, dumps them in the back of the truck...and drives on.

 

They never even have to touch the garbage, or the bins.

It's not that bad of a job.

Posted by: wheatie at October 01, 2012 09:19 PM (l5RhJ)

410 210 I just want to know what makes the VW bug give that tweeting sound with its engine, its so unique. Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 12:32 AM

I've always loved the sound of the Corvair engine. It has that unique throaty exhaust note

Posted by: kbdabear at October 01, 2012 09:19 PM (wwsoB)

411 @412: I once spent an entire Saturday writing lesbian porn haiku. Everyone focused on the scansion, rather than the evocative and fappable sensory experience.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at October 01, 2012 09:20 PM (a5ljo)

412 # 413. LMFAO !!!!!!!!!!!! Oh the Hilarity !!!!!!! Oh the comedy !!!!!!!!! Hahahahaha

Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 01, 2012 09:21 PM (ypJjM)

413
yeah, who's the ones whining about the "cult" thing, again? is it the person who used the word by the dictionary definition, of the fool who claims that webster's has been co-opted by leftists because he doesn't like the strict denotation of a word? i have never been "warned"; at any rate, this clearly isn't about my being offensive, it's about you "adults" getting your panties in a bunch and deciding to resort to blatant censorship to silence someone you dislike. i'm not the only person who overinforms around here...but i'm the only one who gets censored. i'm not the only one who doesn't use caps...but i'm the only one who people complain about. the insults that are directed TOWARD me (the vast majority of which i don't even acknowledge) are FAR more offensive than any imagined "condescension" in my posts. this isn't about rules or warnings, it's about a childish adult abusing his powers to be an internet bully.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 01:02 AM (79EF9)


I go commando, so I don't have panties that get in a bunch, sorry

;(

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 01, 2012 09:22 PM (Zd/NW)

414 @399 and i've only had that happen to me a single time -- for which i made a comment paying back that individual in kind without explicitly identifying him in order to prevent a "flame war" like i'm sure maetenloch is so proud of himself for coaxing out of me tonight. of course, since i have such a huge fan club here (that happens to be full of people i've never even responded to or addressed in *any* way), there are plenty of folks just *dying* to read a direct attack at them into anything i say...like, for example, the idea that some people have that "i just want to attack every religious person at every chance i get"...notwithstanding the fact that i will be married to a TEXAN SOUTHERN BAPTIST within 3 months' time! and yet, *i'm* the one being accused of inventing false agendas. it's through the looking glass!!

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 09:22 PM (79EF9)

415 jimi ray, there's this guy who goes by the name of JimTreacher at the Daily Caller website. You might enjoy commenting there 'cause you two seem to be made for each other. Neither one of you knows the first rule of holes.

Posted by: somebody else, not me at October 01, 2012 09:22 PM (nZvGM)

416 My new blog http://politicalhat.com is up and running and I've posted my first real post: "Our Fine Arts, These, Forever": From Livy and Virgil, to Romney and Ryan" http://politicalhat.com/?p=28

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 01, 2012 09:22 PM (sZTYJ)

417 @424 hawt

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 09:22 PM (79EF9)

418 Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 01:18 AM (79EF9) --Well, for the First Amendment it's only "censorship" if the gummint be doin' it.

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 09:22 PM (V/U0X)

419 Is there money is writing lesbian pron?   I could probably knock out a les-Harlequin type thing in a day or two.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 09:22 PM (MQLiy)

420 Jimi, are you at all familiar with the concept of private property?

Posted by: mediumheadboy at October 01, 2012 09:23 PM (aHR5E)

421 'Sup?  THIS is my weapon and THIS is my gun

Posted by: zeera at October 01, 2012 09:23 PM (3dXwx)

422 That was a quick 100 comments... Posted by: AmericanDawg at October 02, 2012 12:13 AM (COr7y) Internet equivalent of blue balls. As soon as the commenting opened up... splooosh.

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 01, 2012 09:24 PM (sZTYJ)

423 The 1st amendment does NOT guarantee you a venue.  That you gotta provide yourself or use a public one.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 09:24 PM (MQLiy)

424 420 Our 'garbage men' never even get out of their big truck. We wheel our bins out to the road...they drive along with their big 'yanker' truck...which has a hydrolic arm which picks up the bins, dumps them in the back of the truck...and drives on. They never even have to touch the garbage, or the bins. It's not that bad of a job. Posted by: wheatie at October 02, 2012 01:19 AM (l5RhJ) --Here in Winnipeg, The Man is just now handing out "free" garbage and recyclable rolling cans to make the truck drivers' jobs easier.

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 09:24 PM (V/U0X)

425 Lets hope the floppy Pixy used only had Zork on it. If it had the US launch codes and Missile Command, well game over man. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 12:14 AM (u1Q5a)/i]

Posted by: WOPR at October 01, 2012 09:25 PM (sZTYJ)

426 "Men At Work" is easily one of my top ten favorite comedy films of all time. I love that movie so much it hurts. "Aww, lookie here. Looks like somebody threw away a perfectly good white boy."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b][/u] at October 01, 2012 09:25 PM (CA2NO)

427 Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 01:12 AM (79EF9) ---- When you start giving out your life history on a blog,...well, I think you're talking to the wrong person.

Posted by: RWC at October 01, 2012 09:25 PM (t+Sdx)

428 427 My new blog http://politicalhat.com is up and running and I've posted my first real post: "Our Fine Arts, These, Forever": From Livy and Virgil, to Romney and Ryan" http://politicalhat.com/?p=28 Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 01:22 AM (sZTYJ) --On it!

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 09:25 PM (V/U0X)

429 I finally understand why Jim in San Diego considered my a Cindy Sheehan-class attention whore.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at October 01, 2012 09:26 PM (a5ljo)

430 Lets hope the floppy Pixy used only had Zork on it. If it had the US launch codes and Missile Command, well game over man. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 12:14 AM (u1Q5a) Would you like to play a game?

Posted by: WOPR at October 01, 2012 09:26 PM (sZTYJ)

431 considered me

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at October 01, 2012 09:26 PM (a5ljo)

432 To respond to an earlier thread before this disgusting Mr. O'Spades person broke his blog while searching for vile sexist pornography and molesting a garbage can:

I do not have a twin brother named Marv. I had an identical twin sister named Martha. Unfortunately she developed a severe drug problem and some psychological issues, and squandered her half of the inheritance on gender-reassignment surgery. "He" lives down in New York City, and is a well-known fixture in the transgendered leather community. Unfortunately "he"'s known as a boot-licking bottom, but that's his problem, not mine.


Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at October 01, 2012 09:26 PM (CrO2/)

433 Posted by: Got A Redhot Poker Up My Ass at October 02, 2012 01:18 AM (t2z5E) Have you asked about joining some clinical trials? There are new drugs making their way through the approval process and your therapy is outmoded.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 09:27 PM (Wp4rQ)

434 As soon as the commenting opened up... splooosh.
That's what jimi said!

Posted by: michael scott at October 01, 2012 09:27 PM (vDl/w)

435 They don't have hydraulic lifters, so you get a bit of clatter out of the valve train, and the carb is right next to the (uninsulated) hood's air vents, so you'll hear the air whistling in sometimes.
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 12:37 AM

The Hippie Bus makes that same sound, so I believe it's the belts and pullies that make that whine

The Hippie Bus has to be the only car where the engine noise is louder on the inside of the car than outside.

Posted by: kbdabear at October 01, 2012 09:27 PM (wwsoB)

436 @431 i didn't say it was *unconstitutional* censorship. i just said it was blatantly disfavouritist censorship aimed at an unpopular person who is nevertheless *far* more civil than the majority of his detractors on here. i'm well aware that no-one is breaking a law, trust me. ~.~ again, the "owner", or better "proprietor", of this blog has never resorted to the sort of childish tactics that maetenloch is abusing his moderation privileges to engage in here tonight. ace is a lot more effective with directly confronting people he doesn't like...and he doesn't seem to attack folks just for being unpopular and typing a lot. he only really seems to attack folks who attack him first. since i've not *once* spoken to maetenloch before his abuse of power, it is clear to see that he is not following the example of the proprietor of this private property.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 09:28 PM (79EF9)

437 but longevity suffers somewhat.

http ://cheezburger.com/6568689664

Posted by: DaveA at October 01, 2012 09:28 PM (wcjj2)

438 "Aww, lookie here. Looks like somebody threw away a perfectly good white boy."

Your fine for mis-attributing this quote is....  TWO DOLLARS.

Posted by: Hagbard Celine at October 01, 2012 09:28 PM (+/VIS)

439 Every time I've been in the front of a VW van I've feared for my legs. I know its irrational but I just can feel the road a millimeter away from me through thin metal.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 09:28 PM (r4wIV)

440

Gonna go smoke a cig, if I don't come back, well you know

 

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2012 09:28 PM (TC1v1)

441 TPH, posted.  Now let my comment go!! 

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 09:29 PM (u1Q5a)

442 Supports Child Slavery? Kidnapped children as soldiers? Whatever for? Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...FREE KRATOS! at October 02, 2012 12:59 AM (sJTmU) Personally, I'm more into lovers than fighters...

Posted by: Searchlight's Dim Bulb at October 01, 2012 09:29 PM (sZTYJ)

443 WOPR, the only smart move is not to play.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 09:29 PM (u1Q5a)

444 Your fine for mis-attributing this quote is.... TWO DOLLARS.
In both movies, I think but I love Better Off Dead too. John Cusack was on a hell of a roll there for a while, he could do no wrong.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 09:30 PM (r4wIV)

445 UHF!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 09:30 PM (u1Q5a)

446 clear to see that he is not following the example of the proprietor of this private property.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 01:28 AM (79EF9)

Blah Blah Blah. Damn wtf, I know when to take a hint, why dont you?

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2012 09:30 PM (TC1v1)

447 last night's ONT comment #643 by jimi:
 
>> jealousy is a weak emotion, y'all, and it's even worse when it's applied to a 5'6" 120#.......
 
tonight's ONT comment #395 by jimi:
 
>> or maybe because the only person that ever showed any interest in a mute, 5'2" sick kid.......
 
Having a little trouble keeping our lies straight, eh jimi?

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 01, 2012 09:30 PM (ccXZP)

448 Obama is just trying to organize the child slave community.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 09:30 PM (Wp4rQ)

449

435, 420

--Here in Winnipeg, The Man is just now handing out "free" garbage and recyclable rolling cans to make the truck drivers' jobs easier.

 

Yeah, I doubt that it's very 'free'...they're getting the payment out of you somehow.

We're charged a monthly fee of $27 for garbage pick up.

 

My point...which I forgot to add...was that for me to 'Hug my garbage man', I would have to flag him down and jump into his truck.

 

Posted by: wheatie at October 01, 2012 09:31 PM (l5RhJ)

450 I've got a biological death sentence too. Really!

Posted by: Magic Johnson at October 01, 2012 09:31 PM (tG36f)

451 413
Dear Mr. Smith,

We've been getting a lot of dead bodies dumping out on the road as the trucks load your garbage. We're glad to provide you with disposal service, but we have to note that standard bins aren't really designed for loads over 50lb and tend to break over time when overloaded.

We'd be glad to provide you with special heavy duty bins more suited to your body disposal needs. They're not expensive, only $40/ea and come with a lifetime warranty against splitting and leakage.


Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 01:16 AM (MQLiy)


The one's in our town hold 350lbs, so a nagging wife fits into one quite well. Our town being a town that strives to be a progressive hellhole has decided to spend a shit load of money making every city vehicle green, but don't do a damn thing about the garbage trucks that spray hydraulic fluid everywhere.

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 01, 2012 09:31 PM (Zd/NW)

452

again, the "owner", or better "proprietor", of this blog has never resorted to the sort of childish tactics that maetenloch is abusing his moderation privileges to engage in here tonight.

 

Try typing Bl@zer by actually using the letter "a."  You are a pathetic ignorant dumbass that doesn't have a clue as to what ace has resorted to.

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 01, 2012 09:31 PM (GULKT)

453 Jeremy Clarkson; Car sounds

http://tinyurl.com/co77a7

Posted by: kbdabear at October 01, 2012 09:31 PM (wwsoB)

454 What is this new-fangled "Zork"?  Better to stick with "Colossal Cave Adventure" on a PDP-11.  Cards are durable.  They'll survive the next Carrington Event.

Posted by: theCork at October 01, 2012 09:31 PM (RLjHn)

455 "Aww, lookie here. Looks like somebody threw away a perfectly good white boy." Your fine for mis-attributing this quote is.... TWO DOLLARS. Tis not misattributed! :-P :-D http://youtu.be/Lv8xFI32hJM His voice.... does things to me. <_<

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b][/u] at October 01, 2012 09:31 PM (CA2NO)

456 TPH, posted. Now let my comment go!! Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 01:29 AM (u1Q5a) I'll have to add that to my reading queue

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 01, 2012 09:32 PM (sZTYJ)

457 Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at October 02, 2012 01:26 AM (CrO2/) ---- So much anger. Where is the inclusiveness?

Posted by: RWC at October 01, 2012 09:32 PM (t+Sdx)

458 Blatzer... What's the big deal?   B)

Posted by: Hagbard Celine at October 01, 2012 09:33 PM (+/VIS)

459 uh, yeah, it's censorship. i am being censored. from...some...dictionary, to censor is "to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable". Even though I wouldn't defer to dictionaries for gaining an understanding of the word, you should read it again, anyway, jimi jimi. Nothing is being suppressed or deleted, just single-comment limited. You are not being censored. You're being repressed. while generally, the "objectionables" are things like blasphemy or explicit sexuality or drug references, in my case, what is objectionable is simply that i use this forum to type more than 2 paragraphs...which is a habit that you yourself, as another apparently academic individual, clearly are possessed of yourself. No. You were allowed lots of paragraphs for a long time and then you ran over your quota. That, and your refusal to capitalize correctly (even partially), which makes your writing look ten times longer than it actually is. it's "blatant" because he didn't even try to couch it in any reasonable excuse... What "it"? The dreaded censorship that you can't stop yapping about? Like I said, you're being repressed. Go with that line because you aren't being censored in any way. Not yet. he just said i type too much and he's gonna put a fucking stop to it, by god!!!11!11one!11! i guess "silence" isn't really the right word at all, but as for *you*, i guess this thing you do where you call me out for no caps and vague misuses of words, which you never seem to do to anyone else, is how you show me that you don't "attack the posts i make". rii~iight. -.- Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 01:18 AM (79EF9) LOL. I do it a lot to lots of people. It's not an attack. It's a correction. You should be glad that I helped you understand when you are misusing "empathy" and why.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 01, 2012 09:35 PM (X3lox)

460 A very good zombie book: Life Among the Dead. Action, humor, sex, guns, zombies.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 09:35 PM (Wp4rQ)

461 Tis not misattributed! :-P :-D


http://youtu.be/Lv8xFI32hJM


I stand corrected!  (At least as correct as I'll ever get...)

Posted by: Hagbard Celine at October 01, 2012 09:35 PM (+/VIS)

462 I've never bitched about mu.nu. Never. I'm bitching now. Mu.nu fucking sucks.

Posted by: Scobface at October 01, 2012 09:35 PM (IoNBC)

463 I was knocked down by a bicyclist on a NYC sidewalk once. I was 16. Stood up, jumped directly on the spokes of his front wheel five times, watched him push his wobbly bike west on 45th Street.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at October 01, 2012 09:36 PM (a5ljo)

464 447 @431

i didn't say it was *unconstitutional* censorship. i just said it was blatantly disfavouritist censorship aimed at an unpopular person who is nevertheless *far* more civil than the majority of his detractors on here. i'm well aware that no-one is breaking a law, trust me. ~.~

again, the "owner", or better "proprietor", of this blog has never resorted to the sort of childish tactics that maetenloch is abusing his moderation privileges to engage in here tonight. ace is a lot more effective with directly confronting people he doesn't like...and he doesn't seem to attack folks just for being unpopular and typing a lot. he only really seems to attack folks who attack him first. since i've not *once* spoken to maetenloch before his abuse of power, it is clear to see that he is not following the example of the proprietor of this private property.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 01:28 AM (79EF9)


You have never seen Ace in action have you?

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 01, 2012 09:36 PM (Zd/NW)

465 No anger .....Grumpy , and just plain mean Yup that 's me !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 01, 2012 09:36 PM (ypJjM)

466 My point...which I forgot to add...was that for me to 'Hug my garbage man', I would have to flag him down and jump into his truck.

Posted by: wheatie at October 02, 2012 01:31 AM (l5RhJ)

 

OK made me laugh. Thanks

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2012 09:37 PM (TC1v1)

467 A nice side effect of the JR 2/10 rule is that I know that a long comment will probably be worth reading since it won't be by (Cherryh coined word for a neutral gender which I've forgotten how to spell). Also, (same word)'s nick shows up right away so I know I can skip that comment.

Posted by: Polliwogette, Teahada hobbit who wants some R&R at October 01, 2012 09:37 PM (B34qS)

468

466....Tis not misattributed! :-P :-D

 

Yup, MWR...I thought I remembered that quote from being from 'Men at Work', too.

Love that movie as well, I do.

It's hilarious.

 

Posted by: wheatie at October 01, 2012 09:37 PM (l5RhJ)

469 417 Got A Redhot,
 
One of best friends went through the Hep C experimental protocol. He was on it for 9 months and he almost went insane. But he is free of virus.
 
It's a tough road. I hope you make it through.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 01, 2012 09:37 PM (ccXZP)

470 @434 ...and you're still inventing things to put into my mind, then? where was it that i have apparently demanded my "constituional right" to free speech be respected? i know nobody is breaking the law; i know nobody here with moderator power is really *that* maleficent, or i wouldn't be here, because i'm scared of people on the internet. regardless, someone who has the audacity to abuse his power to censor and intentionally aggrieve someone -- not for rule-breaking, but just because he doesn't like that person! -- in the comments section of an ONT that actually has content decrying similar behaviour on the behalf of other authority figures is pure hypocrisy. o.o i'm *pretty sure* the shsu and queens uni administrations aren't being censured solely because what they are doing is *unconstitutional* (which isn't even the with queens)...it's *also* because it's a distasteful abuse of power aimed solely at disfavoured segments like religious folks and people so use the harmless phrase "that's so gay".

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 09:37 PM (79EF9)

471 Suggestion to Jimi Ray: Post some pics of hot boobies from time to time and you will become more popular.

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 01, 2012 09:38 PM (sZTYJ)

472 Bicyclists are a serious menace in big Northwest cities. In Seattle they claim they run the streets and are trying to push cars off the roads. They regularly block off roads, hit cars, just dare people to hit them. Its insane.
I ride a bike everywhere and I know how often drivers don't notice you and how crappy bike lanes often are (gravel, broken glass, etc), when they even exist. I've been shoved over so far I was clipped by a mirror as I tried to not crash into the curb of a road I was riding on.
But these guys are just jerks who hate cars and think they're superior for bicycling because it saves the planet and all that crap. The hell with them.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 09:39 PM (r4wIV)

473 again, the "owner", or better "proprietor", of this blog has never resorted to the sort of childish tactics that maetenloch is abusing his moderation privileges to engage in here tonight. ace is a lot more effective with directly confronting people he doesn't like...and he doesn't seem to attack folks just for being unpopular and typing a lot. he only really seems to attack folks who attack him first. since i've not *once* spoken to maetenloch before his abuse of power, it is clear to see that he is not following the example of the proprietor of this private property.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 01:28 AM (79EF9)


When most of your posts consist of 7 inches of text, it's annoying to people and you're wasting your efforts since no one will read it. At a certain point it starts becoming spam-like and you don't want to see what happens to spammers.

You're free to post/kvetch/vent here - as long as your comments are reasonable in length (2/10) and you abide by the usual Moron rules.

Posted by: Mætenloch at October 01, 2012 09:39 PM (jMqh0)

474 A very good zombie book: Life Among the Dead.

A history of Democrat voting practices, right?

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 09:39 PM (MQLiy)

475 TPH, it is a pretty good read.  I should re-read. Basically the Roman Republic wanted to be left alone and just trade.  But instability in the world forced them to help allies and put down threats to their trade.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 09:39 PM (u1Q5a)

476 Eugene, Oregon shut down several blocks downtown and only bicycles and pedestrians can get around on them now.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 09:40 PM (r4wIV)

477 Suggestion to Jimi Ray: Post some pics of hot boobies from time to time and you will become more popular.


Hell, you might even find some common ground with the 'Ettes via some decent shirtless Paul Ryan pics. 

Posted by: Hagbard Celine at October 01, 2012 09:41 PM (+/VIS)

478 You're free to post/kvetch/vent here - as long as your comments are reasonable in length (2/10) and you abide by the usual Moron rules.

Posted by: Mætenloch at October 02, 2012 01:39 AM (jMqh0)

 

Tits and ass jimi, tits and ass, get it?

 

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2012 09:41 PM (TC1v1)

479 And kilts!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 09:41 PM (u1Q5a)

480 BTW, the "Aircraft Carriers in Space" article is remiss in leaving out the Daedalus and the Prometheus from Robotech.

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 09:42 PM (V/U0X)

481 A history of Democrat voting practices, right? Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 01:39 AM (MQLiy) Yes, but with more chewing and fewer free phones.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 09:42 PM (Wp4rQ)

482 But instability in the world forced them to help allies and put down threats to their trade.

That's the basis that most modern navies were built on (by "modern", I mean from about the 17th century onward).

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 09:42 PM (MQLiy)

483 logprof, he totally skipped David Weber and the Royal Manticoran Navy.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 09:42 PM (u1Q5a)

484 @475 the times i have seen him, he actually engages people in, er, "debate". it can be the rather nasty sort of debate that can only be found in a venue with no real social consequences (read: the internet), to be sure, but invariably those folks ask for it by insulting him repeatedly and baiting his angry response. i'm sure he bans folks, too, but i'm sure he doesn't ban folks for being disliked by most commenters here, because there are quite a few of those types still around. like i said, i have *never* spoken to maetenloch before in my life, and i certainly have never baited *anyone* -- much less a coblogger here -- with the type of heavy insults that raise ace's ire. maetenloch simply took it upon himself to childishly resort to censorship to score kudos among my fan club. maybe i'm wrong about ace...i don't think i am, because i think he really take this "open comments" thing pretty seriously, and i think he means it when he exposes authorities using double-standards, be they political, academic, or in law enforcement. i could be wrong, but it would surprise me, given some of the behaviour he has NOT "moderated", or whatever the effective verb should be.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 09:43 PM (79EF9)

485 I stand corrected! (At least as correct as I'll ever get...) Posted by: Hagbard Celine at October 02, 2012 01:35 AM (+/VIS) I'm sure it's been in other movies, too; so we agree that it's awesome regardless of context. It also gives me an opportunity to use one of my other favorite quotes from M.A.W.: "There are several sacred things in this world that you don't *ever* mess with. One of them happens to be another man's fries. You remember that and you will live a long, healthy life." http://youtu.be/xhaIL9iZ-os Keith David is the man. And on that happy note, I must to bed, good people. Try not to break the blog while I'm gone!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b][/u] at October 01, 2012 09:43 PM (CA2NO)

486 Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 01:37 AM (79EF9)



Might I recommend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style -- especially:



"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. —Elementary Principles of Composition, The Elements of Style"

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2012 09:43 PM (kaalw)

487 #488 ooooo .......great idea !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 01, 2012 09:43 PM (ypJjM)

488

Night all. Sorry I talked garbage, but hey, this was a fucking stupid ad and should be made fun of so many times. Thanks for bringing the snark in a good way.

God Bless!

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2012 09:45 PM (TC1v1)

489 T& A .....Talent and Ability .....T&A

Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 01, 2012 09:45 PM (ypJjM)

490 Good evening.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 09:45 PM (4ixH5)

491 I'm gonna post a rant before I go to sleep.
OK all you guys who grew up in the 80s... bear with me here but... those cartoons sucked. I'm sorry, but they were awful. He-Man, Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all of them were just crap.
They were animated by hacks and written by committee and they were just terrible. I'm tired of the tee shirts and the movies and the remakes and the nostalgia. None of them were any good, never. It doesn't matter if the new TNMT movie has them coming from space or out of Michael Moore's crusty hind end. The show was freaking horrible. Give it up.
I just had to get that off my chest.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 09:45 PM (r4wIV)

492 War in Space? Against whom? Perhaps with a civilization that is 10 million years ahead of us?

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 09:46 PM (Wp4rQ)

493 Comment registration.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 01, 2012 09:46 PM (bxiXv)

494 Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 01:45 AM (r4wIV) --Transformers was made by Marvel Animation. Bite me.

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 09:46 PM (V/U0X)

495 Might I recommend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style -- especially: "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. —Elementary Principles of Composition, The Elements of Style" Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 01:43 AM (kaalw) Hogwash I say, hogwash. Why don't you need three page descriptions of food or five page sex scenes with secondary characters?

Posted by: George RR Martin at October 01, 2012 09:46 PM (tG36f)

496 CT, why do you think I still refer to Saturday morning as a cartoon wasteland.

Once they started to censor the Bugs Bunny, Tweetie Bird, and Roadrunner cartoons, game over.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 09:47 PM (u1Q5a)

497 I find it hard to keep reading with any interest, so could someone email me at the link below if any of the 114 people who have commented thus far on this thread utters a word in support of Noodle Noggin?

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at October 01, 2012 09:47 PM (a5ljo)

498 Transformers was made by Marvel Animation.
Yeah so was the original Fantastic Four and it sucked the hind testicle of Satan too. Stan Lee personally apologized for the drek Marvel Animation put out.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 01, 2012 09:47 PM (r4wIV)

499 Once they started to censor the Bugs Bunny, Tweetie Bird, and Roadrunner cartoons, game over. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 01:47 AM (u1Q5a) Baaaaaaahbecued cat . . .

Posted by: Censored Tom & Jerry at October 01, 2012 09:48 PM (V/U0X)

500  At this link.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at October 01, 2012 09:48 PM (a5ljo)

501 Someone mention bikini babes?

http://tinyurl.com/btlqfzz

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 09:48 PM (4ixH5)

502 Howdy, Robert!!! How goes? Prithee, tell me in less than eighteen paragraphs of badly-written bilge.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2012 09:49 PM (kaalw)

503 They were animated by hacks and written by committee and they were just terrible. I'm tired of the tee shirts and the movies and the remakes and the nostalgia. None of them were any good, never. It doesn't matter if the new TNMT movie has them coming from space or out of Michael Moore's crusty hind end. The show was freaking horrible. Give it up.

I just had to get that off my chest.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 01:45 AM (r4wIV)

 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is actually a comic book originally.  The show like He-Man and Transformers was little more than a half hour commercial to sell toys.

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 01, 2012 09:49 PM (GULKT)

504 I knew I could count on you -- you already did.

512 Someone mention bikini babes?

http://tinyurl.com/btlqfzz

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 01:48 AM (4ixH5)

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2012 09:50 PM (kaalw)

505 509 Transformers was made by Marvel Animation. Yeah so was the original Fantastic Four and it sucked the hind testicle of Satan too. Stan Lee personally apologized for the drek Marvel Animation put out. Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 01:47 AM (r4wIV) --Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiitttttttttttt. I loved the marvel Saturday morning cartoons back in the say. Iceman and Firestar FTW!

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 09:50 PM (V/U0X)

506 M�tenloch The placeholder looks ominous. Did we lose the unicode with this latest blog event? Testing ... & ... ǽ ... ᚎ BTW, isn't it unfair that eastern languages get to take up like half of all unicode just because their still like hieroglyphics? I want some byte-code justice for phonetic alphabets!!

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 01, 2012 09:50 PM (X3lox)

507 @484 yeah, drop that bullshit excuse and at least have the courage to own up to what you're doing. purple avenger writes long posts sometimes; MANY of theprimordialorderedpair's posts are the same length as mine. perhaps it's an academic fault to over-inform at times...it seems like both of them are fairly highly educated, too. further, there have been several multiple-paragraph posts IN THIS VERY THREAD, at least one of which was written by a guy who ALSO writes long posts as a habit. and anyway, again, when it's one against seven, then yeah, the replies tend to get pretty long so that all 7 other people's concerns can be addressed. i know i write a lot, and i know some people don't care to read it; however, i also know MANY PEOPLE DO READ MY LONG COMMENTS, as evidenced by the amount of substantive, if at times heated, discussion i have had surrounding my long comments. so then, what "moron rules" have i broken? you can go through this very thread and confirm for yourself that the type of insults that are deployed against me -- to no response *from* me -- are far worse than anything i've ever said. you go ahead and apply this standard of conduct to me and me only, but at least don't be a coward and try to pretend it's down to anything more than my unpopularity, because you know damn well i haven't broken any rules whatsoever (at least now that i know "no c word" is a rule), and i'm hardly the only person who writes long posts...and it's utter cowardice to hide behind such bullshit excuses.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 09:50 PM (79EF9)

508 Once they started to censor the Bugs Bunny, Tweetie Bird, and Roadrunner cartoons, game over. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 01:47 AM (u1Q5a) I got to watch them uncensored when I was a kid back in the 60's.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 09:50 PM (Wp4rQ)

509 "Paul Ryan Shirtless" is an auto complete suggestion on Bing. 

Curiously, so is "Joe Biden Shirtless"

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 09:50 PM (MQLiy)

510 Meanwhile - The Mighty Hercules animated TV series.

http://youtu.be/vQRasr-0hsM

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 09:50 PM (u1Q5a)

511 Non-gorilla Ghostbusters cartoon (J. Michael Straczynski). Pre-neon GI Joe cartoon. And, of course, Transformers, as mentioned.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 01, 2012 09:51 PM (bxiXv)

512 Anna Puma ......totally agree ..... My favorite cartoon is Roadrunner ....... I always was for old Wiley E Coyote

Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 01, 2012 09:51 PM (ypJjM)

513 Thundercats is from the 80's and I think that can still hold up today or at least it did when Cartoon Network aired it in the last decade.  It actually had storyline beyond just selling the toys.

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 01, 2012 09:52 PM (GULKT)

514 That's Wiley E Coyote, Super Genius!

Bugs Bunny, "Well we're the first country to put a coyote into orbit."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 09:53 PM (u1Q5a)

515 OK all you guys who grew up in the 80s... bear with me here but... those cartoons sucked. I'm sorry, but they were awful. He-Man, Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all of them were just crap.

They were animated by hacks and written by committee and they were just terrible. I'm tired of the tee shirts and the movies and the remakes and the nostalgia. None of them were any good, never. It doesn't matter if the new TNMT movie has them coming from space or out of Michael Moore's crusty hind end. The show was freaking horrible. Give it up.

I just had to get that off my chest.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 01:45 AM (r4wIV) 


Die in a fire you somoma...er, I mean, uh...I disagree.


Trans was the shit.  TMNT was the shit.  At least when you're eight years old.


And now that you mention it, the 2003 TMNT series was actually pretty durned good.  Helps that they ripped off all the old Mirage comics.


He-Man...well, hell, can't remember much about it.  Yeah, I'll give you that one.


I can give you two examples of really good 80s toons.  GI Joe, which holds up surprisingly well, and The Real Ghostbusters which had J. Michael Straczynski on the writing staff.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 09:54 PM (4ixH5)

516 524 Thundercats is from the 80's and I think that can still hold up today or at least it did when Cartoon Network aired it in the last decade. It actually had storyline beyond just selling the toys. Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 02, 2012 01:52 AM (GULKT) --Same with Robotech. Watching it 25 years later, I find the animation is only so-so but still enjoy the storyline. maybe there's a little haze of nostalgia, but fuck it.

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 09:54 PM (V/U0X)

517 Y'know, @518 is looking a bit long and pointless.....

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2012 09:54 PM (kaalw)

518 Meanwhile - The Mighty Hercules animated TV series. http://youtu.be/vQRasr-0hsM Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 01:50 AM (u1Q5a) Oh, yeah. I had totally forgotten about that one. The Underdog theme is my favorite.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 09:55 PM (Wp4rQ)

519 @497 wow, did you even read what you copied and pasted? :/ to wit: "This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. " i write a lot, sure, but i don't repeat myself and i don't use unnecessary words...just about the *only* bad habit i can be accused of in that respect is my tendency to avoid sentence-ending prepositions...even though i know it's not actually a *real* requirement of good english. if anything, i over-inform, but the reason my posts were long last night was because i was in a single-handed discussion with 6 or 7 people. addressing all of their concerns takes up a lot of space. please feel free to call me out for repetitiousness or overuse of words that don't add any meaning, but you're *way* off if you're saying my writing is "poor style" just because there's a lot of it...and what you copied and pasted pretty much proves that ~.~

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 09:56 PM (79EF9)

520 Johnny Quest rulz

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 09:56 PM (MQLiy)

521 Sorry GI Joe fell victim to the child psychologists.  Guns are bad so they had lasers.  Can't show anyone being killed when either side's planes are shot down, so both sides had smart ejection seats that tossed the pilots out just before the planes got smashed by missiles.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 09:56 PM (u1Q5a)

522 Robert, that bikini pic you posted has a mighty firm jawline.....was that from your vacation in Thailand?

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2012 09:56 PM (kaalw)

523 Yup genius Wiley is working with all the wonderful equipment from Acme !!!!!!! Love him !!!!!!

Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 01, 2012 09:57 PM (ypJjM)

524 533 Sorry GI Joe fell victim to the child psychologists. Guns are bad so they had lasers. Can't show anyone being killed when either side's planes are shot down, so both sides had smart ejection seats that tossed the pilots out just before the planes got smashed by missiles. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 01:56 AM (u1Q5a) Yeah, so what's your point?

Posted by: The A Team at October 01, 2012 09:57 PM (V/U0X)

525 How goes? Prithee, tell me in less than eighteen paragraphs of badly-written bilge.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 01:49 AM (kaalw)


How about I tell you in interpretive dance?


*Twirls rapidly*

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 09:58 PM (4ixH5)

526 "It's Decorative Gourd Season Motherfuckers" is a fine fucking essay.

Not to mention hilarious.

Posted by: Mister Christopher at October 01, 2012 09:58 PM (DQhAB)

527 --Same with Robotech. Watching it 25 years later, I find the animation is only so-so but still enjoy the storyline. maybe there's a little haze of nostalgia, but fuck it.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 01:54 AM (V/U0X)

 

I'm guessing it might actually be decent.  Never watched Robotech but I did watch Voltron.  And I attempted to rewatch that series a few years back on Hulu and didn't even get to the episodes where they finally formed Voltron.  My nostalgia for the show could not overcome how bad it was.

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 01, 2012 09:58 PM (GULKT)

528 addressing all of their concerns takes up a lot of space...

If you break yourself of this habit if giving a shit what someone else thinks, you'll not have that problem.  I'm just saying...

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 09:58 PM (MQLiy)

529 was that from your vacation in Thailand?

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 01:56 AM (kaalw)


Shhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 09:59 PM (4ixH5)

530 533 Sorry GI Joe fell victim to the child psychologists. Guns are bad so they had lasers. Can't show anyone being killed when either side's planes are shot down, so both sides had smart ejection seats that tossed the pilots out just before the planes got smashed by missiles. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 01:56 AM (u1Q5a) --Same gripe I had with Transformers: all guns were just lasers. Regardless of what the Tech Specs read, every single weapon wielded by any Transformer shot nondescript laser beams, according to the TV show.

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 09:59 PM (V/U0X)

531 Sylvester always seemed the most human one. He was rather ordinary and sometimes was the aggressor and sometimes the victim. The poor dude was hungry.

Posted by: eman at October 01, 2012 10:00 PM (Wp4rQ)

532 TPH, it is a pretty good read. I should re-read. Basically the Roman Republic wanted to be left alone and just trade. But instability in the world forced them to help allies and put down threats to their trade. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 01:39 AM (u1Q5a) Well, that and a certain Carthaginian jerk letting his pet elephants crap all over Italy... But yes, the Romans from early days were fighting other Italic tribes (other Latins, Sabines, Oscans, Ubrians, &c.), and basically only took over when it was necissary to create a buffer between Rome and the barbarians, or to finally neutralize threats. Take, for example, Carthage. After the 1st Punic war, the Romans let the Carthaginians be and actually create a huge empire. After the 2nd Punic war, the Romans still let them have their independence. It too repeated threats for the Romans to finally salt the earth. This also happened in Asia Minor, Greece & the Balkans, and even in Egypt. With few exceptions (e.g. Claudius' conquest of Britain), the Romans only fought to keep the peace or support allies against a common threat (e.g. Armenia from Persia). Heck, even the last conquest of Trajan (i.e. Dacia) was to stop Dacian raiders and bring peace. Rome really is the best analog for the United States... which is why reading Gibbons "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" so... chilling...

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 01, 2012 10:00 PM (sZTYJ)

533 Sorry GI Joe fell victim to the child psychologists. Guns are bad so they had lasers. Can't show anyone being killed when either side's planes are shot down, so both sides had smart ejection seats that tossed the pilots out just before the planes got smashed by missiles.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 01:56 AM (u1Q5a)


I don't know about psychologists but the networks had strict rules back then for broadcasting kiddy stuff.


None of that stuff bothered me when I was a young'un.  Hell, I thought the lasers were cool.  I still think lasers are cool.


Lasers, fuck yeah!

Posted by: Robert loves some fookin' laserbeams at October 01, 2012 10:01 PM (4ixH5)

534 In Johnny Quest there were a number of bad guys flying jets and shit that got shot down.  I don't recall any parachutes...

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 10:01 PM (MQLiy)

535 The really bad thing of watching the Harmony Gold Robotech is the English voice for Minmei.  The voice that must be muted!

Speaking of Harmony Gold, they can't release their next Robotech movie until after Warner Bros. ever releases their live action Robotech movie.  Catch Kevin of Harmony Gold at cons, watch him tap dance around the 800lb Warner gorilla.  And he might give you a good toy bribe to shut up.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 10:02 PM (u1Q5a)

536 What the F@@@!  Somebody is a wee bit low on the lithium tonight.  Man, is that why comments were down?

Posted by: Katy Beth at October 01, 2012 10:02 PM (h0lvD)

537 I'm guessing it might actually be decent. Never watched Robotech but I did watch Voltron. And I attempted to rewatch that series a few years back on Hulu and didn't even get to the episodes where they finally formed Voltron. My nostalgia for the show could not overcome how bad it was. Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 02, 2012 01:58 AM (GULKT) --Heh, I think the Robotech storyline is superior to Voltron's. My wife even got into it as a child because of the telenovela script, the B storyline to the war A storyline.

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 10:03 PM (V/U0X)

538 Lasers are easily defeated with ablative coatings, rotation, etc.  A 30mm Gau Gatling gun cannon like on the A-10, not so much...

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 10:03 PM (MQLiy)

539 OK all you guys who grew up in the 80s... bear with me here but... those cartoons sucked. I'm sorry, but they were awful. He-Man, Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all of them were just crap. Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 01:45 AM (r4wIV) There was some good stuff. Ducktails was good (though admittedly the stories were simply less racist versions of the comics from the '40's and '50's). --Same with Robotech. Watching it 25 years later, I find the animation is only so-so but still enjoy the storyline. maybe there's a little haze of nostalgia, but fuck it. Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 01:54 AM (V/U0X) Robotech was awesome. I remember watching it is disbelief as they killed off one of the major characters... you just didnt' see that on TV! Of course, if you want the really good stuff... Bubblegum Crisis!

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 01, 2012 10:04 PM (sZTYJ)

540 533 Sorry GI Joe fell victim to the child psychologists. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 01:56 AM (u1Q5a) I just remember that pre-neon had much more serious stories, actual emotional content. Post-neon was made for like 4-year-olds. Mind you, it's not like we're talking about great art here, it was just quickly-made cartoons to sell toys.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 01, 2012 10:05 PM (bxiXv)

541 @528 yeah, you guys are fucking cowards. each of you still hiding behind your bullshit excuses of "breaking rules" or "bad writing" or, most shamelessly, "helping me made my posts readable" seriously need to grow a pair and admit that you just don't like me. (for the record, i've been the main author of five peer-reviewed science papers in four journals across three disciplines, and i was a weekly author -- and eventually the editor -- of my undergraduate university paper. i guess i was probably required to use caps in those places (don't really remember >.>), but seeing as my prose has been praised for by people who actually read, write, and edit for a living, i think i'll pass on taking the advice of a coupe of randoms on the internet. ~.~ plus, THIS IS THE INTERNET, and as nobody else is held to professional standards here, i guess we can chalk another double-standard up on the board!)

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 10:05 PM (79EF9)

542 jimi ray is Mikey in that Midwest State with all the verbiage and none of the cuddling

Posted by: kbdabear at October 01, 2012 10:05 PM (wwsoB)

543 --Same with Robotech. Watching it 25 years later, I find the animation is only so-so but still enjoy the storyline. maybe there's a little haze of nostalgia, but fuck it.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 01:54 AM (V/U0X)


Don't forget, Robotech is a re-edited version of three Japanese anime, Macross, Mospeada and Southern Cross.  Macross in particular had a low budget so some parts look like ass. 

Posted by: Robert loves some fookin' laserbeams at October 01, 2012 10:05 PM (4ixH5)

544

--Heh, I think the Robotech storyline is superior to Voltron's.

 

Yeah that's kind of my point.  Nostalgia really can't overcome crap.  I still have nostalgia for Voltron but I know I can't watch it again.  That you can watch Robotech likely indicates that it is actually good and not merely your nostalgia making you think its still good.

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 01, 2012 10:06 PM (GULKT)

545 Priss-sa!!!!

http://youtu.be/OOYZhUlISt8

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 10:07 PM (u1Q5a)

546 Rome really is the best analog for the United States... which is why reading Gibbons "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" so... chilling... Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 02:00 AM (sZTYJ) --The similar, gradual willfulness of the USA to defer to the annoying barbarians at the fringe is similar to the Romans'.

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 10:08 PM (V/U0X)

547 I see too many who let their nostalgia get in the way of not buying a horrid series.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 10:08 PM (u1Q5a)

548 546 The really bad thing of watching the Harmony Gold Robotech is the English voice for Minmei. The voice that must be muted! Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 02:02 AM (u1Q5a) --As a 12 year-old, she was less annoying than she is now.

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 10:09 PM (V/U0X)

549

558 I see too many who let their nostalgia get in the way of not buying a horrid series.

 

Better off just buying the toy.  All the nostalgia, none of the crappy voice dubbing.

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 01, 2012 10:09 PM (GULKT)

550 @539 well, you'll have to admit that i *do* ignore the majority of the folks who address posts to me. to others -- like yourself, for instance -- who actually attempt to engage me in honest debate even though they still clearly dislike me, i try to extend the simple courtesy of response. it's not a matter of giving a shit what others think, or this is clearly the *last* place i would be ~.~ nobody is going to change anyone else's mind on the internet, and i think we all know that, but it seems more reasonable to respond to people who are discussing differences of opinion in good faith than to ignore them like the rest of the insult-trolls.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 10:10 PM (79EF9)

551 Speaking of horrible cartoons, I'm abandoning you all for Spider Riders, and sleep.

Posted by: Polliwogette, Teahada hobbit who wants some R&R at October 01, 2012 10:10 PM (B34qS)

552 yeah, you guys are fucking cowards. each of you still hiding behind your bullshit excuses of "breaking rules" or "bad writing" or, most shamelessly, "helping me made my posts readable" seriously need to grow a pair and admit that you just don't like me. I am going to break my rule about ignoring the vast swarm of trolls to say just this: Dead serious, seek professional therapeutic help before you hurt yourself or someone you love. And now I go back to my rule.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 01, 2012 10:10 PM (bxiXv)

553 Jimi, if you want people to read something it has to be READABLE

on screens that means lots of WHITE SPACE

don't need punctuation grammar capitalization

for a supposedly smart guy you don't know squat about human factors

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 10:10 PM (MQLiy)

554 Good night Polliwogette, sweat dreams.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 10:12 PM (u1Q5a)

555 It was only later that I realized that the Autobot Jetfire was a ripoff of Robotech. If Only I had known back then. . . .

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 10:12 PM (V/U0X)

556 I'm going to do this one time, in hopes he can get his money back from his English Composition class...



"i write a lot, sure, but i don't repeat myself and i don't use unnecessary words"



"I write a lot, but I don't use unnecessary words."



10 words, from the original 16, and it even preserves the "a lot" from the original. Jimi Ray, you wouldn't know editing if it bit you on the backside and ripped out a chunk of flesh the size of a baseball. If you weren't so in-love-with the sound of your own voice, you might take a gentle hint -- but you prefer to conflate it with gay-bashing and rights and oppression and other such foolishness.



Fact is, we've got a nice club here for people to express themselves -- plenty of members are gay, or black, or Hispanic, or whatever....and we all rub shoulders and drink Val-u-rite together. But you're pushing an agenda -- at great length -- and folks aren't amused. Be a real person, or bugger off.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2012 10:12 PM (kaalw)

557 Good night my dear Horde . God Bless You All and Keep You all in His Care !!!!! And hopefully help dear jimi with her issues , Keep on Fighting the Good And Right Fight Dear Moron Horde .........

Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 01, 2012 10:13 PM (ypJjM)

558 As bad as Min-Mei was in Robotech, my wife said that the Spanish dubbed version was far worse. . . .

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 10:13 PM (V/U0X)

559 Rome really is the best analog for the United States... which is why reading Gibbons "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" so... chilling... Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 02:00 AM (sZTYJ) Rome didn't vote in their own destruction. I know what you're saying but I don't think there is any analog in history for a nation that elected a leader who hated them and everything they stood for and wanted nothing more than the destruction of that nation. We are truly blazing a totally new, retarded path, here. As to Rome, I'd take Incitatus over Barky in a second. The horse was just as eligible for our Presidency, didn't hate his nation, and he had Barky beat by 6 IQ points.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 01, 2012 10:13 PM (X3lox)

560 Cthulhu at this point tempted to suggest to a certain party that they French kiss a Nile crocodile.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 10:13 PM (u1Q5a)

561 How about I tell you in interpretive dance?
*Twirls rapidly*

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 01:58 AM (4ixH5)


*Fans self*

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2012 10:14 PM (kaalw)

562 Good night, Polli.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 10:14 PM (4ixH5)

563 who actually attempt to engage me in honest debate even though they still clearly dislike me

i don't dislike you i think you have some odd notions thats all

i wish your style of presentation were less opaque visually

visually opaque means readers MEGO and pass over content

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 10:15 PM (MQLiy)

564 TPO, its Lord Midnight!  Always voted 'neigh!'

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 10:15 PM (u1Q5a)

565 @550 i'm not really old enough for the mecha stuff, and probably maybe perhaps this will be little more than a groaner, but when i was learning japanese, i did try to watch a little anime and read a little manga. my favourite anime is cowboy bebop (sorry )! i literally *cried* at the ending, i thought it was so ingeniously executed! i really like stories with good resolution, and i feel like *all* of the loose ends were tied up with the sort of artful masterstroke of storytelling that you would *never* see in an american cartoon. ♥.♥

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 10:15 PM (79EF9)

566

Jimi, all joking aside.  You need to take a slow deep breath and get away from the computer.  Take a break. I'm not on here often, don't know you from Adam, but you seem to be really having an issue here and you are escalating.  Try and get some sleep.  And on that note, good night all.

Posted by: Katy Beth at October 01, 2012 10:16 PM (h0lvD)

567

How do you make annoying music videos on youtube tolerable?  Add a Gorilla.

 

Call Me Maybe Featuring Gorilla  www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hX7g91s2jY

 

Gorilla - Gangnam Style  www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QBDW5aqcAk

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 01, 2012 10:17 PM (GULKT)

568 I'm off for the night. Here's another from Bubblegum Crisis to send everyone off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfPzSC50JY4

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 01, 2012 10:17 PM (sZTYJ)

569 I'm sure you good people don't realize it, but the way some of you treat certain people looks, to any objective outsider, to just be middle-school viciousness.  Wonder where all those missing site vets from the past are?  They just don't come here to see an bad internet version of Mean Girls, which is what this Jimi Ray situation seems to have devolved into.  Now you've found Jimi Ray to obsess on- he's obviously not a troll- and if he made the mistake of giving two poops about what you think or say I'd be genuinely worried for the consequences.  Don't you people have anything productive or adult to do, something someone admirable could be proud of?

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 10:18 PM (YbJyd)

570 Outlaw Star by Sunrise has kinda fallen into an information black hole.  But show the Narutards and Bleachaphiles it, they go 'ooohhh' watching.  Probably helps finding Melfina in a suitcase, talk about fan-serivce.  Ayesha Clan-Clan helps also.  Then there is Gene.  I love the whimsical nature of the end credit art and the music helps.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 10:19 PM (u1Q5a)

571 561 jimi,
 
Oh I readily admit I don't like you, not at all.
 
Now, are you going to respond to my comment #458, wherein I point out that you shrank 4 inches today from last night's rants?
 
And don't try to weasel out by claiming 'I said I was a kid', because you referred to yourself as a kid in both posts.
 
Liars always get tripped up as the lies get more elaborate.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 01, 2012 10:19 PM (ccXZP)

572 571 Cthulhu at this point tempted to suggest to a certain party that they French kiss a Nile crocodile.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 02:13 AM (u1Q5a)



Yeah, I'm just about at the "don't go away mad, just go away" stage, myself.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2012 10:20 PM (kaalw)

573 Posted by: DAve at October 02, 2012 02:18 AM (YbJyd) It has a long history of derailing arguments, hostility, and obtuseness. It's not a victim. That being said, everyone else is spending 100% too much time on it. Just like *every* *other* *day*.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 01, 2012 10:21 PM (bxiXv)

574 @567 lol, i'm super infatuated with my fiancé because he's my only friend, but i'm not "pushing an agenda" by any means. you'll note that the *few* times i have offered my opinion on the question of gay marriage, i have come out in strong support of the states' rights approach whereby the VOTERS get to decide whether they want their states to recognise gay marriages or not. that's not even *close* to an agenda, and it's also a softer line than one of the very cobloggers here seems to take anent the issue. also, touché on the "repeat myself" lol x.x little sins like that are far less egregious than what you're implying, tho, and you know it. i'd have caught something *that* obvious in editing if this weren't THE INTERNET, at any rate. the main thrust -- that "verbosity" is not a major contributor to the length of my longer posts -- stands firm.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 10:21 PM (79EF9)

575 Foreign Aid? How about lick my balls? Cut it all off. None. Zip. Nix. Nada. Nein. No. Can't have any. I gave at the office. Fuck You. BTW Barqui, I'm doing the whole "Mouse that Roared" thingy. If you don't get your over-golfing ass down here and bow to me, send a friggin' check and one of those free cell phones; I'm gonna use my right of Free Speech. How about them apples, dickbreath? Leave the Wookie at home. Oh yeah.....Allah Saladbar 'n shit.....

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC in Johnson County laughing at Cook County at October 01, 2012 10:21 PM (9OT0g)

576 What's with the ninny who keeps taking up so much space? I'm losing time arrowing down past whatever it's writing. And did it ever decide if it's 5' 2'' or 5' 6"?

Posted by: Meremortal at October 01, 2012 10:22 PM (1Y+hH)

577 "USSD accidentally blows up an island with an errant particle beam strike."

Just another day in Mega-Tokyo.  Watch out for the C class Boomers and the Killer Dolls.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 10:22 PM (u1Q5a)

578 450 Every time I've been in the front of a VW van I've feared for my legs. I know its irrational but I just can feel the road a millimeter away from me through thin metal. Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 01:28 AM

As slow as they were, hippie buses gave you that same sense of danger as a Jeep CJ with a Dodge V8 approaching a corner.

Try driving one on a two lane highway when a speeding semi comes in the other direction. In a hippie bus, it's like getting blasted with the thrust of a 747 at takeoff

Merging onto a freeway, or even making a left hand turn on a busy street was a near death experience

Posted by: kbdabear at October 01, 2012 10:24 PM (wwsoB)

579 @583 yeah, i call myself a "kid". i'm 27. i have a strong feeling i'm younger than most of you guys here, so i think the word is appropriate. i don't mean "child", and whenever i have referred to my childhood, i always use the word "child", so there shouldn't be any confusion. clean your fucking mouth out, loser; i'm not "lying" by using the word "kid".

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 10:24 PM (79EF9)

580 And all this talk of Bubblegum Crisis is making me want to pull either the AnimEigo LDs or DVDs out.  LD since then I can avoid the Knight Sabers in Bali video.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 10:25 PM (u1Q5a)

581 563 yeah, you guys are fucking cowards. each of you still hiding behind your bullshit excuses of "breaking rules" or "bad writing" or, most shamelessly, "helping me made my posts readable" seriously need to grow a pair and admit that you just don't like me. We don't, fuckstick. Happy? Gee, that was easy. You want I should do somethin' hard?

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC in Johnson County laughing at Cook County at October 01, 2012 10:25 PM (9OT0g)

582 @588 oh, that's what "4 inches" meant. i'm 5'6". i never claimed to be 5'2". you must be confusing that with my weight, which has a 2 in it somewhere.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 10:25 PM (79EF9)

583

i never claimed to be 5'2".

 

or maybe because the only person that ever showed any interest in a mute, 5'2" sick kid with a genetic death sentence happened to be a male?

 

Dumbass.

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 01, 2012 10:27 PM (GULKT)

584

570...Rome didn't vote in their own destruction. I know what you're saying but I don't think there is any analog in history for a nation that elected a leader who hated them and everything they stood for and wanted nothing more than the destruction of that nation.

We are truly blazing a totally new, retarded path, here.

 

----------

 

Yeah, we really are, PrimOrd².

The dumbing down of our people has taken 3 decades.

But this creeping retardation of our collective consciousness is here, now...for the Left to harvest. 

 

Also, Rome had a natural 'multiculturalism' problem...created by their conquest of so many other countries with separate cultures.

They didn't encourage it...like the Left has done to us.

 

The melting pot thing worked well, until the leftists screwed it up.

Thus creating the format for people to accept someone like Barky.


 

Posted by: wheatie at October 01, 2012 10:27 PM (l5RhJ)

585 591 jimi,
 
You didn't answer the question. You shrank 4 inches in height tonite, from your post last night. I cited the two posts in comment #458.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 01, 2012 10:28 PM (ccXZP)

586 Hey, I think I noticed a pattern. After you respond to it, it keeps posting.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 01, 2012 10:28 PM (bxiXv)

587 @575 eh, i use punctuation *almost* perfectly -.- i don't use caps...neither do several other regulars here. unlike those other regulars, i apologise for my lack of caps. unlike those other regulars, i am the only person to ever be called out on my lack of capitalisation. besides...if i used caps properly, i wouldn't be able to EMPHASISE words with INTERNET SCREAMING at the touch of a caps lock...so there's a utilitarian reason for it.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 10:29 PM (79EF9)

588 Here's an example of opaque dense MEGO inducing prose -- from our Slaver in chief.

"Pursuant to section 404 of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 (CSPA) (title IV, Public Law 110-457), I hereby determine that it is in the national interest of the United States to waive the application of the prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA with respect to Libya, South Sudan, and Yemen; and further determine that it is in the national interest of the United States to waive in part the application of the prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA with respect to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to allow for continued provision of International Military Education and Training funds and nonlethal Excess Defense Articles, and the issuance of licenses for direct commercial sales of U.S. origin defense articles; and I hereby waive such provisions accordingly."

THAT IS ONE FUCKING SENTENCE

Flesch-Kincaid rates it ABOVE a 4-year BA/BS degree reading level. 

For informal internet prose, shooting for a 9th grade (or lower) readability is a safe bet.  Even smart people don't want to work hard to understand something. 

Smart people don't even want to work hard to read technical stuff in journals.  That's why so many journal articles contain errors corrected in later editions.  The proofers and peer reviewers MEGO and skip over stuff too.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 10:29 PM (MQLiy)

589 Here jimi, let me refresh your memory a little better -- Last night's ONT, comment #643 :
 
>> jealousy is a weak emotion, y'all, and it's even worse when it's applied to a 5'6" 120# (but luckily suu~uuper cute! xD) kid that's probably less than half your age and doesn't have any family or friends.<snip a whole lot more babbling>

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 01, 2012 10:31 PM (ccXZP)

590 Or I could watch 'Scramble Wars' since its for Artmic freaks. 

http://youtu.be/R4mFnCvO7Mc

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 10:31 PM (u1Q5a)

591 Now you've found Jimi Ray to obsess on- he's obviously not a troll Hey Rip, how was the nap?

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC in Johnson County laughing at Cook County at October 01, 2012 10:32 PM (9OT0g)

592 Mero, I don't know what the hell you think justifies calling a person "it", but Dave Pelzer wrote a book about someone who bears a strong resemblance: http://tinyurl.com/26odtf

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 10:33 PM (YbJyd)

593 510 Once they started to censor the Bugs Bunny, Tweetie Bird, and Roadrunner cartoons, game over. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 01:47 AM (u1Q5a) *sniff* I know.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC in Johnson County laughing at Cook County at October 01, 2012 10:34 PM (9OT0g)

594 Let's "elevate" the discourse a bit: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=212224



Karl has a very good point here -- where there is no difference to purchase on cash or credit, there is no guarantee that there will be future earnings to repay borrowed funds and interest....so borrowed stimulus funds are very likely worse than useless.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2012 10:34 PM (kaalw)

595 You would do well to cap the first letter of a sentence.  At least its a visual marker in the absence of other clues.

If you do it just to be intentionally contrarian, it is not serving you well since it adds to opaqueness and MEGO. 

Let me be blunt -- IT LOSES YOU AUDIENCE

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 10:34 PM (MQLiy)

596 jimi ray comment #395 tonight:
 
>> or maybe because the only person that ever showed any interest in a mute, 5'2" sick kid with a genetic death sentence happened to be a male?<snip a bunch more babbling>
 
No, I can see you never claimed to be 5' 2".
 
You're a fucking liar, among many other highly undesirable traits. Now FOAD.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 01, 2012 10:35 PM (ccXZP)

597 @597 whoops. that 5'2" was a mistake. i'm 5'6", 120#, like i said last night. i don't know why i put 5'2", but maybe it's just because i'm in a rush and was pretty fucking heated up at the egregious double standard earlier tonite. either way, that's a pretty strange obsession you have with me there, isn't it? o.o @599 ...and, nothing i have *ever* written on here *or* in journals comes CLOSE to the level of the intentionally opaque legal jargon that you copied there -.- again, my prose has been praised -- especially in science journals! -- by professional editors, so i'm quite certain that people aren't MEGO skipping anything i write...pretty sure you and others were reading what i was writing last night, too, for that matter. perhaps i don't write at a 9th-grade level, but the only time i get difficult to read it when i (rarely) wax overenthusiastic with my parentheticals and dependent clauses. that's really just down to comments on the internet not really being worth extensive editing. ~.~

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 10:36 PM (79EF9)

598 604 Mero, I don't know what the hell you think justifies calling a person "it", Posted by: DAve at October 02, 2012 02:33 AM (YbJyd) If you want to get in a fight with a stranger over trivia and tortured assumptions, there's probably a 900-number for that. I am not, however, manning that phone.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 01, 2012 10:36 PM (bxiXv)

599 607 You would do well to cap the first letter of a sentence. At least its a visual marker in the absence of other clues. If you do it just to be intentionally contrarian, it is not serving you well since it adds to opaqueness and MEGO. Let me be blunt -- IT LOSES YOU AUDIENCE Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 02:34 AM (MQLiy) --This. Tonight I have been thankful for the little scroll wheel on the mouse that came with my laptop.

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 10:37 PM (V/U0X)

600 Hey, I think I noticed a pattern. After you respond to it, it keeps posting. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 02, 2012 02:28 AM (bxiXv) I think Mero is on to something here. This hypothesis requires immediate funding to begin testing. I'll put in the grant request. *Holds out hands for money*

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 10:38 PM (4ixH5)

601 *Holds out hands for money*

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 02:38 AM (4ixH5)

 

You'd just spend it all on Scandinavian Death Metal.

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 01, 2012 10:39 PM (GULKT)

602 Nah, Robert needs another vacation in Thailand

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 10:40 PM (u1Q5a)

603 You'd just spend it all on Scandinavian Death Metal. Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 02, 2012 02:39 AM (GULKT) I know a good idea when I see one.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 10:40 PM (4ixH5)

604 Nah, Robert needs another vacation in Thailand

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 02:40 AM (u1Q5a)


Shhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 10:40 PM (4ixH5)

605 614 Nah, Robert needs another vacation in Thailand Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 02:40 AM (u1Q5a) Bow-chicka-bow-...ewwww...

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 01, 2012 10:41 PM (bxiXv)

606 Yee-haw I have no desire to fight anyone.  Just here for the good stuff and lamenting what's going on here instead-

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 10:41 PM (YbJyd)

607 The Real Ghostbusters which had J. Michael Straczynski on the writing staff.

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 01:54 AM

 

The Real Ghostbusters was great stuff.

 

Posted by: otho at October 01, 2012 10:41 PM (yBF/9)

608 Hey Robert, care to help an experimental short film from Production I.G.??

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/production-ig/masaaki-yuasas-kick-heart

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 10:43 PM (u1Q5a)

609 I have no desire to fight anyone. Posted by: DAve at October 02, 2012 02:41 AM (YbJyd) YOUR MOTH...oh, oh...you *don't* want to fight. Yeah, me neither.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 10:43 PM (4ixH5)

610 617, eeewwww     LOL

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 10:43 PM (u1Q5a)

611 618 Yee-haw I have no desire to fight anyone. Just here for the good stuff and lamenting what's going on here instead- Posted by: DAve at October 02, 2012 02:41 AM (YbJyd) I have called trolls "it" for years. It's part of the strategy of non-engagement with people whose sole purpose is to get you to engage them.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 01, 2012 10:43 PM (bxiXv)

612

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 02:43 AM (u1Q5a)


Woik blocked, alas.


What's the film about?

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 10:44 PM (4ixH5)

613 Quit busting on Muslim countries!

Posted by: Joe Klein at October 01, 2012 10:44 PM (V/U0X)

614 I appreciate the explanation Mero.  I just know the connotations for a significant number of people-

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 10:45 PM (YbJyd)

615 A hydraulic ram would make an interesting science project to tinker with. 

Posted by: derit at October 01, 2012 10:45 PM (I88Jc)

616 The Real Ghostbusters was great stuff.

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 02:41 AM (yBF/9)


Really captured the spirit of the movie.  As it were.


*Cough*


IDW is publishing a comic series that's actually pretty durned good, too.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 10:46 PM (4ixH5)

617 Robert, wrestling would you believe.  There is this guy, Romeo, who wont admit he likes getting pummeled in the ring.  Then there is this woman, Juliet, who is also in the ring; her secret is she is a nun.  Will they ever admit to the other their deepest darkest secrets while doing battle in the ring?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 10:46 PM (u1Q5a)

618 Some people say that trolls should be addressed by gender. Some people say that trolls should be addressed as "it." I reject both of those extremes. . . .

Posted by: Barack 0bama at October 01, 2012 10:47 PM (V/U0X)

619 @607 i've explained before that i do it because i'm a pretty poor typist who has to look at the keyboard and only uses four fingers (index & middle, with the occasional ring finger thrown in). i have a lot to say, so skipping the capitals allows me to get a little more copy out in the same amount of time. i'll apologise for the inconvenience again, if you want, but for me to really go out of my way to accommodate people who are *generally* pretty nasty to me is a bit much to grant. respect is as respect does, or something. if people started being a little nicer to me...maybe pointing out ways that i could improve this apparent impression i give of off being condescendingm instead of calling me a cocksucking liar troll little bitch, maybe i would be a little more acquiescent. it's pretty funny how that works, isn't it? x.x really, i am not intentionally contrarian (lol chrome doesn't know that word o.o), and i do my best to show my conservative bona fides around here as much as i can. look at the crap that people are *still* throwing at me *right now* -- you know damn well i never get that outrageously disrespectful with anyone here. ~.~ there's something else going on here...i don't know if it's because i'm irreligious or what, but the vitriol poured on me by a lot of peanut-gallery posters here is *far* more than i deserve. ~.~ 95% of what i believe is standard conservative fare...but i even get attacked as "having no morals" when i say that *science* has led me to be anti-abortion!!! what's up with that??

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 10:47 PM (79EF9)

620

606.....so borrowed stimulus funds are very likely worse than useless.
 

Yep...and not just 'worse', they are multiples of worse.

The Bond Bubble that has been created, cannot continue for much longer.

 

It's like taking out ten credit cards...running up their limits, then taking out  more credit cards...just to pay the minimum payments on the first ones.

And then continuing to spend money on things you can't afford.

 

As your debt increases, your interest rate goes up.

Because your credit rating gets downgraded.

This is where we are.

 

And Barky wants to go 'Forward' into more of it.

 

Posted by: wheatie at October 01, 2012 10:47 PM (l5RhJ)

621 wrestling would you believe. There is this guy, Romeo, who wont admit he likes getting pummeled in the ring. Then there is this woman, Juliet, who is also in the ring; her secret is she is a nun. Will they ever admit to the other their deepest darkest secrets while doing battle in the ring?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 02:46 AM (u1Q5a)


It should end with the revelation that after years of both of them abusing steroids his nuts have shriveled to the size of grapes and her penis is bigger than his.


Then suicide.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 10:50 PM (4ixH5)

622 Jimi, I'm TELLING you that the people here who would understand don't need it explained and those who do need it explained will never understand.  All this is is destruction and a striving after wind.  For your own sake find a new topic for your thoughts and postings.

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 10:51 PM (YbJyd)

623 I knew it was bad, but not this bad --
 
But it has been a long time since anyone has seriously tried to turn the United States in a National Socialist direction. Which is what Barack Obama seems to be doing. Consider his 983 executive orders, compared with George W. BushÂ’s 63.
 
http://tinyurl.com/9aq9726 (powerline)
 
Quite the little autocrat, ain't he? The article is on TFG turning the US into a socialist state. Well duh, but it doesn't hurt to keep repeating it.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 01, 2012 10:51 PM (ccXZP)

624 Salomon Kane, is this a new movie or an old one?

Posted by: Jean at October 01, 2012 10:53 PM (t5Klv)

625 DAve, methinks the party invovled has grown confused over what to tilt at.  The windmill no longer works so Rosinante is running for the beastie's life.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 10:53 PM (u1Q5a)

626 He-Man...well, hell, can't remember much about it. Yeah, I'll give you that one. I can give you two examples of really good 80s toons. GI Joe, which holds up surprisingly well, and The Real Ghostbusters which had J. Michael Straczynski on the writing staff. JMS wrote for He-Man and She-Ra as well. Dude was all over the place in 80's/90's animation. ---tangent. And Harmony Gold can die in a fire. Their BS claim on all things Macross is what has kept that franchise almost completely out of America other than the stuff Manga managed to sneak out thanks to co-production and HG having not been paying attention to try to legally harass at the time.

Posted by: Bete stays up at October 01, 2012 10:53 PM (8kIXE)

627 I am not entirely down with the music from Skyfall yet, though I liked the trailers. I thought they chose the wrong song for Tomorrow Never Dies, too. It was just a Sheryl Crow song, there was nothing "Bond" about it. The K.D. Lang song from the end credits was ten times more "Bond." http://youtu.be/jps1uV9-OTY

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 01, 2012 10:54 PM (bxiXv)

628 Quite the little autocrat, ain't he? The article is on TFG turning the US into a socialist state. Well duh, but it doesn't hurt to keep repeating it. Posted by: GnuBreed at October 02, 2012 02:51 AM (ccXZP) Made up 983 laws off the top of his pointy little head without feeling the need to pester the legislature about it, and he *still* finds reasons to break other ones. Sounds like a personality problem to me.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 01, 2012 10:55 PM (bxiXv)

629 ---tangent.

And Harmony Gold can die in a fire. Their BS claim on all things Macross is what has kept that franchise almost completely out of America other than the stuff Manga managed to sneak out thanks to co-production and HG having not been paying attention to try to legally harass at the time.

Posted by: Bete stays up at October 02, 2012 02:53 AM (8kIXE)


NO SHIT!


Actually both Animeigo and ADV Films did get out the original Macross (ADV even made a new dub) but otherwise...bupkiss.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 10:55 PM (4ixH5)

630 Robert, there will always be Wanna-Bes by Sonoda and Kakinuma.

http://youtu.be/5q_34TjvpI0

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 10:56 PM (u1Q5a)

631 #637  Of course he has.  And some people here seem to find perverse enjoyment in goading him.  Yay! You can push the buttons of someone 20 years younger than you!!!  Seems like as much fun as tripping a cripple to me...

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 10:56 PM (YbJyd)

632 JMS wrote for He-Man and She-Ra as well.

Posted by: Bete stays up at October 02, 2012 02:53 AM (8kIXE)


Yeah?  Didn't know that.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 10:56 PM (4ixH5)

633 Salomon Kane, is this a new movie or an old one? It is a couple of years old from what I've heard as it was released across the pond a few years back but has never seen a major release in the US (theatrically or on home video). ...so it depends on one's definition of "new" I guess.

Posted by: Bete stays up at October 01, 2012 10:57 PM (8kIXE)

634 ADV films? Weren't they the ones that completely fuckered up the menus and intros to the original run of Farscape DVDs? Yeah, they were. I actually pre-ordered them from Australia (they were available sooner) and got an all-regions DVD player, only to find that fustercluck.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 01, 2012 10:58 PM (bxiXv)

635 Salomon Kane, is this a new movie or an old one?

Posted by: Jean at October 02, 2012 02:53 AM (t5Klv)


Uh, I think it's been around a couple of years btu I think it's only now getting American distribution.  I think.


Also a giant piece of shit from what I've read.


There's a great review from AICN I read a couple of years ago that was just hysterical.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 10:58 PM (4ixH5)

636 The ADV release of Macross cast Mari Iijima as the English voice for Minmei.  So its a definite step up.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 10:58 PM (u1Q5a)

637 @634 your point is well taken, but you've seen yourself that it doesn't matter *what* topic i post about or *how* reasonable and conciliatory i try to be...as soon as my name comes up, there are five or six one-line comments insulting me for no reason. the only alternative would be for me to find another blog to post at, but then i wouldn't get to enjoy comments like @630, which -- hypocritical as it is coming from one of the most active members of the peanut gallery -- is incredibly witty and gave me an honest laugh. *wit* is the main reason i come here; this really *is* the "smartest d~mn conservative blog on the internet". i just wish wit came with a little more mutual respect and a little less disturbing obsession. ~.~

Posted by: jimi ray at October 01, 2012 10:59 PM (79EF9)

638 Back to the productive and positive: yeah I noticed that back then when the hippies were out of power all they could say was that people should be free to do whatever they wanted.  And now that they're in power, all they want to do is run your life-

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 10:59 PM (YbJyd)

639 ADV films? Weren't they the ones that completely fuckered up the menus and intros to the original run of Farscape DVDs?

Yeah, they were.

I actually pre-ordered them from Australia (they were available sooner) and got an all-regions DVD player, only to find that fustercluck.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 02, 2012 02:58 AM (bxiXv)


They did a couple of editions, I think.


I got the A&ampersandE release.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 11:00 PM (4ixH5)

640 648 The ADV release of Macross cast Mari Iijima as the English voice for Minmei. So its a definite step up. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 02:58 AM (u1Q5a) --Indeed.

Posted by: Barack 0bama at October 01, 2012 11:00 PM (V/U0X)

641 /SCOAMF sock

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 11:01 PM (V/U0X)

642 "Pursuant to section 404 of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 (CSPA) (title IV, Public Law 110-457), I hereby determine that it is in the national interest of the United States to waive the application of the prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA with respect to Libya, South Sudan, and Yemen; and further determine that it is in the national interest of the United States to waive in part the application of the prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA with respect to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to allow for continued provision of International Military Education and Training funds and nonlethal Excess Defense Articles, and the issuance of licenses for direct commercial sales of U.S. origin defense articles; and I hereby waive such provisions accordingly." i.e. "It is in the national interest of the American Socialist Superstate to let me rule as I see fit. Section 404 doesn't apply to my buds, Libya, South Sudan, Yemen, and Congo, and anyone who thinks so can just fuck off! I rule, bitchez." -- Your Master ... go fry me up a Daschund.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 01, 2012 11:02 PM (X3lox)

643 The ADV release of Macross cast Mari Iijima as the English voice for Minmei. So its a definite step up.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 02:58 AM (u1Q5a)


I would have LOVED to double dip on the dub (I have the Animeigo subtitled version). 


Now it's out of print, ADV seems to have lost the license in their reorganization and there seem to be a strange trend of multi-volume anime on Amazon Marketplace to have at least one volume marked up several hundred dollars.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 11:03 PM (4ixH5)

644 May I continue the theme of '80s goodness? http://youtu.be/eir3-omjMVQ

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 11:03 PM (V/U0X)

645 NO SHIT! Actually both Animeigo and ADV Films did get out the original Macross (ADV even made a new dub) but otherwise...bupkiss. Yeah, I own both. No one disputes that HG owns the original Macross series (well, other than in Japan where the two Japanese companies who produced the series have been fighting over who owns what rights and just what they were able to sell to HG among others anyway), HG just claims that they own the rights to the name "Macross" and the rights to everything associated with it outside of Japan. Which is why the Bandai videogame VFX-II for the PS1 got cancelled as HG threatened a law suit and Bandai figured it not worth the hassle to go to court as the potential game returns wasn't worth the legal money and time they'd have to invest. Also why no one else has tried to fight with HG over the claim, the possible returns on the various series just aren't likely to be there. I love Macross 7 but its sales potential is roughly the same as the flight potential of your average fully loaded dump truck.

Posted by: Bete stays up at October 01, 2012 11:04 PM (8kIXE)

646 I thought I seen everything till I seen a dump truck fly.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 11:05 PM (4ixH5)

647 658 I thought I seen everything till I seen a dump truck fly. Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 03:05 AM (4ixH5) Really? Watch me fly!

Posted by: 0dumbo at October 01, 2012 11:06 PM (V/U0X)

648 Watch me fly!

Posted by: 0dumbo at October 02, 2012 03:06 AM (V/U0X)


Across the Grand Canyon.  Please?  I'll set up a ramp for you.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 11:07 PM (4ixH5)

649 Macross 7?  How about Macross Frontier is also in limbo.  Then mention Macross II:Lovers Again and watch many besides Shoji froth at the mouth.

Big West, Sunrise, and Bandai are the big guns in Japan.  And why it tickles me to see Harmony Gold have to waffle at cons on why they can't market new product.  Warner Bros. got them over a barrel.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 11:09 PM (u1Q5a)

650 Huh, Seth McFarlane to host the Oscars.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 11:09 PM (4ixH5)

651 http://tinyurl.com/9hupmuw

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 11:09 PM (4ixH5)

652 #649 No, you're not seeing the REAL and BEST alternative: don't expect righteousness here or pretty much anywhere else.  You DON'T have to leave forever, just chill until you can be here without being all emotionally tied up in having people notice this situation which has now completely become itself an obsession for you.  Look dude, a while back a poster here called me a rapist TWICE, and as I waited for all the people here I admired to check her on it they just piled on instead.  I have 5 teenage daughters.  She got away with it scot-free.  But in the end it doesn't change who I am or what I have to accomplish.  As you get older you'll learn that only investing emotionally where there is positive payoff is a characteristic of wisdom.  Treacher thought that further explaining was going to make his situation better too and it wouldn't and didn't- but these are things that only time and distance are gonna improve.  This is the only topic you're posting about now and that's a loss for everyone.

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 11:09 PM (YbJyd)

653 I am a dainty sugarplum!

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 11:10 PM (4ixH5)

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 11:10 PM (4ixH5)

655 Or not.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 11:10 PM (4ixH5)

656 Roadkill. The other cheap meat:
 
A Chinese restaurant in Kentucky is closed for business after officials found road-kill in its kitchen. Health inspectors shuttered the Red Flower Chinese Restaurant in Williamsburg after customers saw two employees wheel in a dead deer stuffed in a trash can, WYMT-TV reported.
 
I suggest avoiding the pork dishes too.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 01, 2012 11:10 PM (ccXZP)

657 663 http://tinyurl.com/9hupmuw Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 03:09 AM (4ixH5) --He looks Botoxed

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 11:11 PM (V/U0X)

658 GnuBreed, sounds like that whole place needs to be burned down.  Just to be sure.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 11:12 PM (u1Q5a)

659 658 I thought I seen everything till I seen a dump truck fly.

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 03:05 AM

 

Oblique pop cultural references to singing jive crows are racist.

 

Posted by: back door barry soetoro at October 01, 2012 11:12 PM (yBF/9)

660 Back to the productive and positive: yeah I noticed that back then when the hippies were out of power all they could say was that people should be free to do whatever they wanted. And now that they're in power, all they want todo is run your life- Posted by: DAve at October 02, 2012 02:59 AM (YbJyd) So ... the hippies should be free to do what they want, as they said. Perfectly consistent.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 01, 2012 11:13 PM (X3lox)

661 So close, and I'm still fading.....

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2012 11:13 PM (kaalw)

662 Ha POP

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 11:14 PM (YbJyd)

663 Oblique pop cultural references to singing jive crows are racist.

Posted by: back door barry soetoro at October 02, 2012 03:12 AM (yBF/9)


There's still a few Mexicans left you haven't killed.  They might be a little peeved.  I think you should go down there and personally hash it out.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 11:15 PM (4ixH5)

664 So close, and I'm still fading.....

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 03:13 AM (kaalw)


You need some souls with added caffeine.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 11:16 PM (4ixH5)

665 Pancakes would be nice right now

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 11:17 PM (YbJyd)

666 There's still a few Mexicans left you haven't killed. They might be a little peeved. I think you should go down there and personally hash it out.

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 03:15 AM

 

I can't hear you over the sound of your racist dog whistle.

 

Posted by: back door barry soetoro at October 01, 2012 11:18 PM (yBF/9)

667 Morons with Bisquick who don't mind doing dishes are more than welcome to visit ASAP

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 11:19 PM (YbJyd)

668 Rabby, "Lufy, where's the nearest Planet Destruction Cannon?"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 11:19 PM (u1Q5a)

669 677 Pancakes would be nice right now

Posted by: DAve at October 02, 2012 03:17 AM (YbJyd)

 

You're so mean.

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at October 01, 2012 11:19 PM (GULKT)

670 Macross 7? How about Macross Frontier is also in limbo. Macross Frontier might actually sell theough, 7...not so much. And HG gives not a damn about these properties, they just want to make sure that they can try to argue for getting money should anyone license them but beyond that they don't care, and since other than fighting their claim in court any company would have to first go through the mire of trying to figure out who has the rights to the various series in Japan. Macross 7 for example's animation is owned by one company and the music -not a small thing in Macross in general but 7 in particular- is owned by another trying to add in a vulture company to the mix likely is far too big a hassle for anyone to want to deal with. Macross would only be held up if Warner had signed a deal with Japan, and given the title of the (proposed and almost never going to get out of development hell) film is Robotech they likely dealt with HG directly (which is what they needed to do as HG owns those rights). Seeing HG have to squirm though because of a contract they signed without recognizing all the implications after the work they have done bullying others when it comes to other Macross items (like trying to sue importers of the various models and toys) is kind if a sign their is some small measure of justice or karma in the universe. Not being consumed by fire level, but still.

Posted by: Bete stays up at October 01, 2012 11:19 PM (8kIXE)

671 From The Blaze, this is even better than the VW reducing the Critical Mass: http://tinyurl.com/8quug5z

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 01, 2012 11:19 PM (X3lox)

672 Roadkill. The other cheap meat

Check the dumpsters in back too.  Restaurant dumpsters attract feral cats.  If you don't see any cats, you know where they went.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 11:20 PM (MQLiy)

673 So I go to the llanteria today and 2 of the guy's 3 employees called in sick.  In this economy.  I can't imagine, but i can imagine why...

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 11:22 PM (YbJyd)

674 And signs on phone poles with people looking for "lost" pets.  If you see a lot of those in the neighborhood, you might want to stick with the veggie dishes.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 11:22 PM (MQLiy)

675 Check the dumpsters in back too. Restaurant dumpsters attract feral cats. If you don't see any cats, you know where they went.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 03:20 AM (MQLiy)

 

In college when we would grab lunch between some classes me and my buddy would joke "mmmm good cat" about the chicken we got from the chinese place.

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 01, 2012 11:23 PM (GULKT)

676 Pancakes would be nice right now

Posted by: DAve at October 02, 2012 03:17 AM (YbJyd)


I miss pancakes.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2012 11:25 PM (4ixH5)

677 For the times when eating pussy does not mean what you think it means

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 11:25 PM (YbJyd)

678 #688 and the worst part is that I'd only like one or two... like you're gonna tear up the kitchen for an hour to produce two pancakes.  *Oh why was I ever born???*

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 11:27 PM (YbJyd)

679 I don't think these are the pancakes you are looking for.

http://www.demotivation.us/lsd-1271365.html

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 11:28 PM (u1Q5a)

680 My wife never made me any pancakes.  And it's for sure she won't ever now-

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 11:31 PM (YbJyd)

681 Oyasumi minna

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2012 11:32 PM (u1Q5a)

682 Thanks for the help and kindness Anna I noticed-

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 11:32 PM (YbJyd)

683 Well, I'm going to try and drag myself up into the attic.  Got one splice to make and then I can heat up and test that portion of the circuit I trimmed out today.

I got one of these circuit testers, which is teh awesome.

http://www.twacomm.com/catalog/model_61-155.htm

Discontinued now...I paid maybe about $170 for it back around 2003/4.  They want $450 for what replaced it??!!?!  *gulp*

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 01, 2012 11:33 PM (MQLiy)

684 All right, time to turn in. Stay well, Morons!

Posted by: logprof at October 01, 2012 11:34 PM (V/U0X)

685 693 Oyasumi minna Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 03:32 AM (u1Q5a) Yes?

Posted by: Osi Umenyiora at October 01, 2012 11:36 PM (V/U0X)

686 Funny you should mention that Purp your Fla. buddy Tom Henry just mentioned that very tool in his latest blurb from code-electricaldotcom. Looks like they're thinking of putting it into the Code next time

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 11:39 PM (YbJyd)

687 Here ya go Purp:  http://tinyurl.com/8bn6w5g

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 11:43 PM (YbJyd)

688 $60 less on Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/9zpf3jc

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 11:45 PM (YbJyd)

689 I'm gonna get a medal some day for my AoS conflict resolution skills.  I just know it-

Posted by: DAve at October 01, 2012 11:46 PM (YbJyd)

690 @444

The Teleprevir of which I spoke IS the new treatment It's in trials again as far as changing how it's dosed out, but has been okayed by the FDA since 2011. I just finished the 12 week course of the medication which works with the Pegasys and Riboviran. You can only take the Teleprevir for 12 weeks...after that, the virus starts mutating, plus the Tp has already done it's job, which is to knock that bitch down so the other drugs can finish it off.

My only complaint has been the constant itching...it can drive you absolutely nuts.

@480 Hope your friend stays virus free. The addition of the Tp allows some people to only have to go through 24 weeks of treatment instead of 48 weeks. I have my fingers crossed.

Posted by: Got A Redhot Poker Up My Ass at October 01, 2012 11:52 PM (t2z5E)

691 Good night, Logprof.

Good night, Anna.

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 12:02 AM (4ixH5)

692 Looks like they're thinking of putting it into the Code next time

I use it all the time for what Henry described.  Doing a ground resistance test on AFCI/GFCI circuits trips the breakers though because it has to leak current to do the test.  To get a real ground resistance test you'd have to temporarily swap in a plain breaker for the cable test.

The load test is great for telling you what kind of voltage drops you'll be seeing under load.

I ran #10 wire on a 15A circuit most of the way for one of my outside receptacles due to a heavy voltage drop I measured on the original builder's #14 wire.  If I run a saw or compressor outside I want that motor to see some decent voltage or the tool's gonna suck.

The NEC only "recommends" staying within a 5% voltage drop, it doesn't require it.  My crib was full of shitty voltage drops due to code minimum wire for everything. 

Down here in FL the inspectors seem to ignore ambient derating too.  I got a thermometer I measured the attic peak/floor with and calculated I need to run #10 on a 15A breaker for a string of lights I ran down the peak of the attic.  On a hot day the peak was over 140 degrees, the floor was 20 degrees cooler.

I'm the only guy I've ever seen calculate ambient derating for residential work. 

I'm the only guy I've ever seen use one of these for torquing small breakers too:

http://tinyurl.com/8lly7sf

I've used the crap out of that torque screwdriver.  Never seen another, and any residential or commercial job.  All the other bozos just use the grunt method.

I got a nice Greenlee Circuit Seeker too ;->

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 12:12 AM (MQLiy)

693 Whatever jimi ray is I put "it" on ignore a long time ago. Life's too short to tolerate blather...

Posted by: backhoe at October 02, 2012 12:21 AM (ULH4o)

694 Anybody still awake? Just got home, gonna have a glass of wine and breeze through the jimi ray smack down.

Posted by: DC in Towson at October 02, 2012 12:39 AM (CJwi5)

695 Hey Kids, anyone home?   Bueller?

Posted by: jc at October 02, 2012 12:40 AM (ufJKx)

696 Howdy, DC!

Howdy, JC!

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 12:41 AM (4ixH5)

697 Still up only because I can't sleep for the itching. Might as well stay up now...breakfast is only an hour away.

Posted by: Got A Redhot Poker Up My Ass at October 02, 2012 12:47 AM (t2z5E)

698 When I got tick-bit and had Lyme disease, the doxycycline that knocks that shit out was fucking brutal skin wise...I feel your skin on fire pain.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 12:58 AM (MQLiy)

699

I'm here but you can't see me. I'm invisible. *snaps fingers*

 

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 12:59 AM (yBF/9)

700 did the orderlies return the happy residents to their sleeping spaces and administer the appropriate meds?   how in hell did happy acres decide to give them internet access anyway?

Posted by: jc at October 02, 2012 01:01 AM (ufJKx)

701

In for a bit. Jus home from a shift saving mankind or keeping the dopeheads tanked up with high grade pharmaceuticals....some nights I feel like the corner pusher-man. Most of these folks are scoring on the state dime and all.

 

SSShhheeeessh,  I need a shower....

Posted by: Richard at October 02, 2012 01:05 AM (UWGjo)

702 Hey, its a new day...sun lurking over the horizon.

And the president of the USA is still, by illegal diktat, spending our tax dollars supporting SLAVERS who turn little kids, many of them little black kids in Africa, into soldiers so they can die fighting before they're even old enough to rub one out or kiss a girl.

Fuck this fucking guy. We can't be rid of him soon enough.




Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 01:06 AM (MQLiy)

703 OH....and short of a gold strike somewhere underneath the bunny hutch in my backyard....my house goes on the block in 90 days....give or take a few wide awake nights thinking...."Now What???"

Posted by: Richard at October 02, 2012 01:10 AM (UWGjo)

704 Hey Robert, JC, whoever else is up, lurkers, trolls, insomniacs, fappers, non-fappers, and assorted combinations thereof. When I said I was gonna read the jimi ray smack down, I was not expecting 700 fucking comments on the subject of, well, whatever the boring ass subject was. On the bright side, the red wine tastes pretty good.

Posted by: DC in Towson at October 02, 2012 01:11 AM (CJwi5)

705 Fuck this fucking guy. We can't be rid of him soon enough.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 05:06 AM (MQLiy)


==

even after we are rid of fuckface we will still have a long, long way to go.  some of us need to split off and go take over that party, too.  what a fucking mess.

Posted by: jc at October 02, 2012 01:12 AM (ufJKx)

706

Add me to the list of those "Doing so much f**king better over the last 4 years....

 

night/morning to ye.

Posted by: Richard at October 02, 2012 01:13 AM (UWGjo)

707 The Pirate Bay is down(verified as true by me)...after a Swedish govt raid.   "Anonymous" promises hack retaliation against Swedish govt systems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWV1YoS5SBQ

This could get interesting.  Hackers of the world versus Swedish govt. 

THUNDERDOME!

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 01:13 AM (MQLiy)

708 It's a little sad that Armstrong was buried at sea. The man should be laid to rest on the Moon.

Posted by: Paul at October 02, 2012 01:14 AM (qLx+n)

709 When I said I was gonna read the jimi ray smack down, I was not expecting 700 fucking comments on the subject of, well, whatever the boring ass subject was.

On the bright side, the red wine tastes pretty good.

Posted by: DC in Towson at October 02, 2012 05:11 AM (CJwi5)


===


I ain't even gonna look.  My mom taught me never to argue with drunks, tired children, damn fools, or the mentally ill -- and especially don't argue with people that fulfill more than one of those categories.  Loony actually rubs off when you get too close to it.

Posted by: jc at October 02, 2012 01:15 AM (ufJKx)

710 whatever the boring ass subject was.

Cliff Notes version:  lotta whining about Maet putting the spurs to him.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 01:15 AM (MQLiy)

711 720 It's a little sad that Armstrong was buried at sea. The man should be laid to rest on the Moon.

Posted by: Paul at October 02, 2012 05:14 AM

 

Agreed.

 

 

 

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 01:16 AM (yBF/9)

712 Armstrong was a naval officer.  He probably consider that part of his career more meaningful than the space program.  He was one of the "spam in a can" era astronauts who didn't really think it was such a big deal.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 01:20 AM (MQLiy)

713 Woa, some hog farmer in Oregon got chowed down on by his hogs.  Is dentures and a few scraps were all that remained.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19796224

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 01:29 AM (MQLiy)

714 Night morons.

Posted by: DC in Towson at October 02, 2012 01:36 AM (CJwi5)

715 First there was second hand smoke hurting kids, now they're going after second hand TV.

http://tinyurl.com/9y29zp5

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 01:36 AM (MQLiy)

716 gotta go kids,  CYA.


morning, Vic.

Posted by: jc at October 02, 2012 01:37 AM (ufJKx)

717 Odd, but I'll buy it.  Woman cured of life threatening C. diff infection via shit transplant from her mother.

http://tinyurl.com/9z6m653

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 01:41 AM (MQLiy)

718 lol "boy jimi ray is sure a mentally unstable nobody with no life who whines a lot and he always makes fun of religious people and he has such an agenda to push and he's soo~oo condescending and he just acts soo~oo smart and i don't give a crap about him but EVEN WHEN HE'S LONG GONE I CAN'T STOP POSTING ABOUT HIM!!!!!11111111111111" k

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 01:56 AM (79EF9)

719 BTW Jimi, the OED doesn't quite buy your cult definition to be as broad as Websters does.

http://tinyurl.com/8gezk4l

"a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object: the cult of St. Olaf"

An argument that the Christian "god" is a "particular figure" like a saint is one for theologians, not me.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 02:15 AM (MQLiy)

720 If Lohan had made a critical movie about Islam would she be jailed without bond for parole violation or simply buried to her neck and stoned to death?

Posted by: Mekan at October 02, 2012 02:18 AM (T/L2Z)

721 Mornin' Vic. Mornin' Horde. Maybe something good will happen today.

Posted by: teej says go K-State at October 02, 2012 02:19 AM (cWpCn)

722 Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 05:56 AM (79EF9) Heh. (Not yet in the OED, though it should be there. Collins already has "hey-ho" listed - a call for a prostitute in the wild.)

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 02, 2012 02:21 AM (X3lox)

723 If Lohan had made a critical movie about Islam would she be jailed without bond for parole violation or simply buried to her neck and stoned to death? Posted by: Mekan at October 02, 2012 06:18 AM (T/L2Z) Simply ignored, as with her last 20 movies.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 02, 2012 02:22 AM (X3lox)

724 Has Lohan ever done anything that didn't warrant stoning?  Drugs, trollopish behavior, indecency, etc.  Most of that shit pisses off the jihadis.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 02:22 AM (MQLiy)

725 Lindsay Lohan's picture is by the "hey-ho" entry in the Collins Dictionary.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 02, 2012 02:24 AM (X3lox)

726 Collins already has "hey-ho" listed - a call for a prostitute in the wild

Travesty!  The Ramones staked out that turf decades ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K56soYl0U1w

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 02:27 AM (MQLiy)

727 Travesty! The Ramones staked out that turf decades ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K56soYl0U1w Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 06:27 AM (MQLiy) They thought they were punks, but they were really just squirrely dictionary editors.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 02, 2012 02:30 AM (X3lox)

728 Meanwhile, "d'oh" made the Cambridge Dictionary. I love the definition and usage example: said when you feel stupid, usually after doing something silly, or to show that you think what someone else has done or said is stupid I forgot to turn it on. D'oh! LOL. (It's the British version, obviously.)

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 02, 2012 02:33 AM (X3lox)

729 Morning 'Rons, ready for another day?

Posted by: Vic at October 02, 2012 02:37 AM (YdQQY)

730 Is it just me, or is the intertubes sorta busted this morning?  Can't raise several sites, including Insty....

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 02, 2012 02:40 AM (TsB0t)

731 Morning 'Rons, ready for another day? Posted by: Vic at October 02, 2012 06:37 AM (YdQQY) Hey-ho!

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 02, 2012 02:40 AM (X3lox)

732 Morning Vic and all in MoronNation...Bicyclists -- why is it that a group can use the roads and disregard road rules -- all while being unlicensed and untaxed for their vehicles?  Time to change that nonsense...

Posted by: billygoat at October 02, 2012 02:41 AM (CfGGV)

733 Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 02, 2012 06:40 AM (TsB0t) Insty's up - at least at his PJMedia site.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 02, 2012 02:41 AM (X3lox)

734 I got all the sites I normally hit in the morning.  Looks like comments were down here last night though.


Just about time for news!

Posted by: Vic at October 02, 2012 02:41 AM (YdQQY)

735 Hello again Vic.

Posted by: teej says go K-State at October 02, 2012 02:42 AM (+jNI+)

736 morning, Vic.

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 02:43 AM (yBF/9)

737 Morning Vic and all in MoronNation...Bicyclists -- why is it that a group can use the roads and disregard road rules -- all while being unlicensed and untaxed for their vehicles? Time to change that nonsense...

Posted by: billygoat at October 02, 2012 06:41 AM (CfGGV)


When I was a kid the town tried to enact a bicycle license requirement where kids had to pay $1 for for a bile tag.  And that was a sum of money then for a kid. ($8 - $10 today)


Everyone ignored it.  I don't know anyone who got one of the tags.

Posted by: Vic at October 02, 2012 02:44 AM (YdQQY)

738 And Morning all

Posted by: Vic at October 02, 2012 02:44 AM (YdQQY)

739 LOL bike tag, not bile

Posted by: Vic at October 02, 2012 02:45 AM (YdQQY)

740 Obama, most visible international representative of American values, turns out to be a SLAVER supporting regimes that use little black African kids as soldiers.

Do'h!

SLAVERY - its a back baby, but only as an export product.
 

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 02:46 AM (MQLiy)

741 Bile tag? I'd buy that for a dollar.

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 02:50 AM (yBF/9)

742 When Biden said they're gonna put you in chains, he meant the DEMOCRATS.

Illegally.  By fiat.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 02:50 AM (MQLiy)

743 Has any of the Morons ever heard of clear decaffeinated coffee?

Posted by: Vic at October 02, 2012 02:50 AM (YdQQY)

744 Sounds like water.  with some chemical flavor.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 02:51 AM (MQLiy)

745
Packed and ready to proceed to SAT airport for battle with TSA. If the fag screener wants to fondle my junk, I hope to create a massive fart for his enjoyment.  Nothing like a little Hot Air in the morning. 

Posted by: Dr Fish, TDY to SAT for ill mom at October 02, 2012 02:52 AM (ndqJC)

746 Posted by: Vic at October 02, 2012 06:44 AM (YdQQY)

Being a motorcyclist, bicyclists as a group tend to just piss me off...there are a few areas in CLE where they are known to ride...3 or 4 abreast.  They know exactly what they're doing when they pull shite like this...

Posted by: billygoat at October 02, 2012 02:57 AM (CfGGV)

747 Obama VA run suicide hotline response: we'll get back to you.  Maybe.  Someday.  Maybe next year.  Maybe never.

http://tinyurl.com/8aor9da

" One vet said he called a VA suicide prevention hotline, was told he would be called back, and a return call never came -- a situation the agency said never should have happened."

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 02:58 AM (MQLiy)

748 I'm thinking Obama's support of child slavery in Africa and the middle east is "a situation" that "never should have happened"...

...because it was AGAINST FUCKING US LAW.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 03:01 AM (MQLiy)

749 Water, that's what I thought.

Posted by: Vic at October 02, 2012 03:05 AM (YdQQY)

750 Well, whatever was wrong with teh internets, it got fixed now.

Thanks, Customer Service!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 02, 2012 03:07 AM (TsB0t)

751 I made artificial strawberry and banana smelling chemicals as an O-chem lab experiment in college...and the shit was dead on.  I'm sure there's a coffee smell you could add to water along with a fake coffee flavor.

As I recall, the organic junk we made was clear in those experiments.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 03:09 AM (MQLiy)

752 Ah, bicyclists. My favorite story happened in downtown Austin, home of the mentally challenged two wheelers. On our way to a wedding, with my wife driving, a spandexed cyclists cuts in front of her as a traffic light turns yellow and stops right in front of her. She honks, he rudely gestures. Our son leaps out of the car in his 48L suit and size 15 shoes and tells the rude person to apologize to his mother. Said cyclists plays dumb. He says "Do it or I will throw your tiny ass across the street".  Sneering bicyclist says "I'm sorry". Rugby son says "Again with your hand over your heart and your head bowed". Spandex butt does it then pedals away. Then we went to a wedding.

Posted by: Elliott at October 02, 2012 03:19 AM (Nsx1s)

753

Thinking of cyclists gets my blood burning. Riding two across so I have to slow down behind them, not stopping at stop signs, and weaving all over the road making themselves a generel nusience. Ban them all. Leave the roads for big fat gas guzzling cars only.

Posted by: Wisc Mom at October 02, 2012 03:39 AM (73mB5)

754 This is late, but RIP to Neil Armstrong.  May he stay forever young.

Posted by: lace whig at October 02, 2012 04:50 AM (+OP3J)

755 @ 710 PurpAv. Just called my doctor. He feels my pain, but can't quite reach me. According to him, I've got a week to two weeks of this to go through. I hope it gets better before Saturday...I have a golf tournament to win. Can you imagine standing over a two foot putt and having an attack of itching right in the middle of your stroke?

Posted by: Got A Redhot Poker Up My Ass at October 02, 2012 06:01 AM (t2z5E)

756 @444 The Teleprevir of which I spoke IS the new treatment It's in trials again as far as changing how it's dosed out, but has been okayed by the FDA since 2011. I just finished the 12 week course of the medication which works with the Pegasys and Riboviran. You can only take the Teleprevir for 12 weeks...after that, the virus starts mutating, plus the Tp has already done it's job, which is to knock that bitch down so the other drugs can finish it off. My only complaint has been the constant itching...it can drive you absolutely nuts. @480 Hope your friend stays virus free. The addition of the Tp allows some people to only have to go through 24 weeks of treatment instead of 48 weeks. I have my fingers crossed. Posted by: Got A Redhot Poker Up My Ass at October 02, 2012 03:52 AM (t2z5E) I was talking about drugs in Phase II and Phase III clinical trials, not approved drugs.

Posted by: eman at October 02, 2012 06:09 AM (Wp4rQ)

757

I hate seeing Neil Armstrong's burial lumped in with the likes of Lidsay Lohan.

 

Godspeed, Neil Armstrong - a true American Hero.

Posted by: RobM1981 at October 02, 2012 06:32 AM (4WC+3)

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