October 10, 2012
— Maetenloch
Brown Plastic Bowls and Potemkin Countries
In 1989 doctor Theodore Dalrymple through a confluence of events was one of 100 British guests allowed to tour North Korea. Here is his experience inside Pyongyang Department Store Number 1:
It didn't take long to discover that this was no ordinary department store. It was filled with thousands of people, going up and down the escalators, standing at the corners, going in and out of the front entrance in a constant stream both ways - yet nothing was being bought or sold. I checked this by standing at the entrance for half an hour. The people coming out were carrying no more than the people entering. Their shopping bags contained as much, or as little, when they left as when they entered. In some cases, I recognised people coming out as those who had gone in a few minutes before, only to see them re-entering the store almost immediately. And I watched a hardware counter for fifteen minutes. There were perhaps twenty people standing at it; there were two assistants behind the counter, but they paid no attention to the 'customers'. The latter and the assistants stared past each other in a straight line, neither moving nor speaking.Eventually, they grew uncomfortably aware that they were under my observation. They began to shuffle their feet and wriggle, as if my regard pinned them like live insects to a board. The assistants too became restless and began to wonder what to do in these unforeseen circumstances. They decided that there was nothing for it but to distribute something under the eyes of this inquisitive foreigner. And so, all of a sudden, they started to hand out plastic wash bowls to the twenty 'customers', who took them (without any pretence of payment). Was it their good luck, then? Had they received something for nothing? No, their problems had just begun. What were they to do with their plastic wash bowls? (All of them were brown incidentally, for the assistants did not have sufficient initiative to distribute a variety of goods to give verisimilitude to the performance, not even to the extent of giving out differently coloured bowls.)
They milled around the counter in a bewildered fashion, clutching their bowls in one hand as if they were hats they had just doffed in the presence of a master. Some took them to the counter opposite to hand them in; some just waited until I had gone away. I would have taken a photograph, but I remembered just in time that these people were not participating in this charade from choice, that they were victims, and that - despite their expressionless faces and lack of animation - they were men with chajusong, that is to say creativity and consciousness, and to have photographed them would only have added to their degradation. I left the hardware counter, but returned briefly a little later: the same people were standing at it, sans brown plastic bowls, which were neatly re-piled on the shelf.
Read the rest here and find out what happens when Dalrymple attempted to buy a pen.
Communism always leads to Potemkin countries where the citizens lead sad Potemkin lives as cogs in the machinery of national deceit:
But the most sombre reflection occasioned by Department Store Number 1 is that concerning the nature of the power that can command thousands of citizens to take part in a huge and deceitful performance, not once but day after day, without any of the performers ever indicating by even the faintest sign that he is aware of its deceitfulness, though it is impossible that he should not be aware of it. ...But this is no joke, and the humiliation it visits upon the people who take part in it, far from being a drawback, is an essential benefit to the power; for slaves who must participate in their own enslavement by signalling to others the happiness of their condition are so humiliated that they are unlikely to rebel.
The 2012 State Business Tax Climate Index
Apparently NY, NJ, and CA would really like to get away from the whole private enterprise thing and are doing their bestest to drive the evil capitalist exploiters away. But what's going on in NC?
Eating Your Sharia Cake and having It Too
In which it turns out that a Muslim hottie alternately demands that we respect her culture and tradition of wearing Somali garb and a full head-scarf in public and resists any calls for assimilation to American culture- and also wants the freedom to party, live the sorority lifestyle at Georgia State, work as a sky waitress flight attendant, and wear this kind of clothing - depending on her audience.
How To Get An Interview with Tom Hanks
Well if you're a low-on-the-media-foodchain podcast you make use of Tom's love of collecting old typewriters - and send him a 1934 Smith Corona. Here is his (typed of course) response:
Well Neo-neocon was glad to see Ann Romney going hose-less:
Pantyhose are one of the worst fashion innovations ever. It's almost humorous that they are/were touted as an advance over old-fashioned stockings with garters, when they are a huge negative in the comfort arena. They became popular when miniskirts came in, because the skirts had become too short for gartered stockings. It seems there was no turning back, except as an occasional novelty in the bedroom.The problems? Getting into them is awful. When one leg gets a run, you have to throw the entire apparatus out. The choice of what size to purchase is a never-ending coin toss. Don't get me started on the bathroom issues.
And did I say they were uncomfortable?
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Posted by: katya the designated driver at October 10, 2012 06:17 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: Francesco Schettino at October 10, 2012 06:17 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: Insomniac at October 10, 2012 06:17 PM (R/Baw)
Posted by: biscuits mahoney at October 10, 2012 06:17 PM (avEon)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 10, 2012 06:17 PM (/LkSO)
Posted by: back door barry soetoro at October 10, 2012 06:17 PM (yBF/9)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at October 10, 2012 06:17 PM (i0vBR)
Posted by: USS Diversity at October 10, 2012 06:19 PM (0CiTm)
Posted by: logprof at October 10, 2012 06:19 PM (V/U0X)
Posted by: jewells45 says Romney wins in a landslide at October 10, 2012 06:20 PM (UljOc)
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at October 10, 2012 06:20 PM (IlZPo)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at October 10, 2012 06:20 PM (wwsoB)
Ok. The joke I read online over the weekend that I made the mistake of posting on the Sunday morning book thread... that most everyone probably missed.......
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, whose hand had been caught in the squeeze gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.
Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his role as our president. The old rancher said, "Well, you know, Obama is a 'post turtle'."
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.
The old rancher said, "When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post turtle."
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctors face so he continued to explain:
"You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, he's elevated beyond his ability to function, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there to begin with."
Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at October 10, 2012 06:21 PM (HZCkA)
Posted by: no good deed at October 10, 2012 06:21 PM (mjR67)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 10, 2012 06:21 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 10, 2012 06:22 PM (/LkSO)
Posted by: hobbes at October 10, 2012 06:23 PM (OEQY9)
Posted by: Tuna at October 10, 2012 06:23 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: Fauxahontas at October 10, 2012 10:19 PM
It means "spread the scalps around".
Posted by: Barry- man who goes through backdoor at October 10, 2012 06:23 PM (yBF/9)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 10, 2012 06:23 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 10, 2012 06:24 PM (cujSl)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at October 10, 2012 06:24 PM (i0vBR)
Posted by: hobbes at October 10, 2012 06:24 PM (OEQY9)
Posted by: katya the designated driver at October 10, 2012 06:24 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 06:24 PM (GEICT)
I guess they realize that Amazon, Starbucks, and MS are in fact businesses
Posted by: kbdabear at October 10, 2012 06:24 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at October 10, 2012 06:24 PM (i0vBR)
Posted by: Craig Poe at October 10, 2012 06:25 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 10, 2012 06:25 PM (/LkSO)
Hysterical!
Here's a couple:
FourTwoZero @AceofSpadesHQ
Keep your legislation out of my menstruation.
That not-so-fresh feeling is NOT a pre-existing condition!!!
Posted by: Tami at October 10, 2012 06:25 PM (X6akg)
Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 10, 2012 06:25 PM (q7Aum)
Posted by: teej says go K-State at October 10, 2012 06:25 PM (QbKVX)
Posted by: eman at October 10, 2012 06:25 PM (+XD7n)
Well, California is a beautiful state with, um, a few wonderful people, that unfortunately, er, consists mostly of hippies, artists, and other unsavory types.
The people who pass for artists these days are the best argument I know against art subsidies.
Posted by: Splunge at October 10, 2012 06:25 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 10, 2012 06:26 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: polynikes at October 10, 2012 06:26 PM (F1lOF)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 10:24 PM (GEICT)
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OK- Are you now, or have you ever been a member of a Communist organization?
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 10, 2012 06:26 PM (/LkSO)
Posted by: eman at October 10, 2012 06:26 PM (+XD7n)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 10, 2012 06:27 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: gmannyc at October 10, 2012 06:27 PM (BmRlw)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 06:27 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Isaac Davis White at October 10, 2012 06:27 PM (Dll6b)
Posted by: sTevo's Obama Phone at October 10, 2012 06:28 PM (hiMsy)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 10, 2012 06:28 PM (4ramR)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 10, 2012 06:28 PM (sZTYJ)
So Horde....ASK AWAY
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 10:24 PM (GEICT)
;;;;;;;
If a car is driving at the speed of light and turns on its headlights...what happens?
Posted by: USS Diversity at October 10, 2012 06:28 PM (0CiTm)
Posted by: steevy at October 10, 2012 06:28 PM (6o4Fb)
Posted by: hobbes at October 10, 2012 06:28 PM (OEQY9)
It's pretty humorous, really. Plenty of idiot leftists are willing to pretend that Cuba is a paradise, and go around in Che and Fidel shirts. But the list of volunteers to do the same thing for the Norks is almost nonexistent. Dear Leader needs a PR firm, maybe.
Posted by: Splunge at October 10, 2012 06:29 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 06:29 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 10, 2012 06:29 PM (hBHhF)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 10, 2012 06:29 PM (4ramR)
Posted by: eman at October 10, 2012 06:30 PM (+XD7n)
Check this out. Ted shows his guitar rig and is generally as un-PC as you can get.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbV4jj2G6eA
Posted by: Dang© at October 10, 2012 06:30 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 10, 2012 10:17 PM (/LkSO)
Now that's *funny*, no matter how much it hurts.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 10:27 PM (bxiXv)
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Another little observation from today. Mrs. Muldoon and I drove 60 miles to and from work today.
Bad news: We saw 25 Obama bumper stickers along the way.
Good news: 24 of them were on one dumpy looking pick-up truck
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 10, 2012 06:30 PM (/LkSO)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 10:24 PM
Are you turned on by hot, ebony, presidents?
Posted by: back door barry soetoro at October 10, 2012 06:30 PM (yBF/9)
These are legal in most states. Cali is an exception but if you pay your Fed fees you can own one too.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 06:30 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: Adam at October 10, 2012 06:30 PM (/YJYi)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 06:31 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 10, 2012 06:31 PM (cujSl)
A student told me back in Romania during communism they all had to smile constantly while they were waiting in line for their ration of bread or of toilet paper.
If you weren't smiling, you were a possible Enemy of the Revolution and would be taken in for questioning.
Posted by: PJ at October 10, 2012 06:31 PM (DQHjw)
Posted by: Adam at October 10, 2012 06:32 PM (/YJYi)
Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 10, 2012 06:32 PM (q7Aum)
If Obama can run for re-election after the job he's done, why can't I have my old job back?
Posted by: Francesco Schettino at October 10, 2012 10:17 PM (2IW5Q)
Shut up and pour me another drink.
Posted by: Captain Joe Hazelwood at October 10, 2012 06:32 PM (HiKk0)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 10, 2012 06:32 PM (4ramR)
Posted by: USS Diversity
A Stuckey's Pecan Log shows up on the back seat before you even pull into the parking lot.
Posted by: Dang© at October 10, 2012 06:32 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 06:33 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: USS Diversity at October 10, 2012 06:33 PM (0CiTm)
P.J. O'Rourke wrote a great essay some years ago called The Idiots Abroad. It was in Republican Party Reptile. He got himself onto a cruise ship full of leftists visiting the Soviet Union. One of the best lines was "These were people who thought the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper."
Posted by: Splunge at October 10, 2012 06:33 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 06:34 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 10, 2012 06:34 PM (q7Aum)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 10, 2012 06:34 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 06:34 PM (piMMO)
Old drunk / medicated man vs. young ripped Irish-looking-but-sober man
over before anyone starts talking....
Posted by: Shecky Green at October 10, 2012 06:35 PM (Dll6b)
I went to Paris as little as four years ago and the toilet paper there was like sandpaper.
The Europeans as a whole are extremely deficient in toilet paper technology.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...FREE KRATOS! at October 10, 2012 06:35 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: A. at October 10, 2012 06:35 PM (8Ioss)
...........
Lovely!
BTW - the wife and I spent a wonderful 5 nights up in Door County last week. The people are a joy.. the weather and colors were fantastic.. and I had more naps and reading (2 books!) than I have had all year.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 10, 2012 06:35 PM (UTq/I)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 06:35 PM (GEICT)
He did get some juicy conversations because his wife learned Russian prior to the trip!
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2012 06:35 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Peaches hates California at October 10, 2012 06:36 PM (kpCLl)
More importantly, I'd be glad to educate your dumbass liberal friends about the reality of life when everyone is "equal".
Short version: The horror stories you've heard are all true. And they get much worse.
Long version: Upon request.
Posted by: eastvalleyphx is climbing out of the crawlspace at October 10, 2012 06:36 PM (GRvW4)
That gives me a great idea. T shirts with a picture of Kim Jong with the tag below "Little Che"
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 06:36 PM (GeJs5)
.........
Our friend from Denmark tells us they are not allowed to flush TP.. yuck.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 10, 2012 06:36 PM (UTq/I)
Don't forget them holes in the desert
Posted by: Nicky Santoro at October 10, 2012 06:36 PM (wwsoB)
The Europeans as a whole are extremely deficient in toilet paper technology. Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...FREE KRATOS!
That's why the French walk like that!
Posted by: Dang© at October 10, 2012 06:36 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: Dang© at October 10, 2012 10:32 PM (R18D0)
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Man, I haven't had a Stuckey's Pecan Log since elementary school.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 10, 2012 06:36 PM (/LkSO)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 06:37 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 10, 2012 06:37 PM (cujSl)
Posted by: Eisenhorn at October 10, 2012 06:37 PM (OjQYm)
Posted by: Dang© at October 10, 2012 10:32 PM (R18D0)
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Man, I haven't had a Stuckey's Pecan Log since elementary school. Posted by: Seamus Muldoon
The ones in the stores now were probably made when you were in elementary school.
Posted by: Dang© at October 10, 2012 06:38 PM (R18D0)
I'm not seeing the choked chicken in the sidebar. Does that mean . . . ?
Posted by: Sphynx
Don't eat the dip.
Posted by: Dang© at October 10, 2012 06:38 PM (R18D0)
Folks. I'm fairly stoned. Finally, no pain. Feelin good, free, relaxed. I also have a propensity for serious truth telling when in this state. So Horde....ASK AWAY
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 10:24 PM (GEICT)
So I guess we can say you're Comfortably Numb.
Posted by: Hanoverfist at October 10, 2012 06:38 PM (HiKk0)
Posted by: eman at October 10, 2012 06:39 PM (+XD7n)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 06:39 PM (GEICT)
Well, do college sports teams count?
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 10:35 PM (GEICT)
*****
The Reds?
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 10, 2012 06:39 PM (/LkSO)
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 10, 2012 06:39 PM (JMmQ9)
Anyway, they were driving through the traffic in downtown Seoul (which everyone who's been there knows is really packed), passing all of the skyscrapers (mostly apartments), and the NORK general turned to his SORK counterpart and said, "Very nice! We normally only construct the front of the buildings. You seem to build all four sides!"
He didn't realize that they were real buildings.
God, I'm glad I live in the U.S.A., even with the SCOAMF as president.
Posted by: RoadRunner at October 10, 2012 06:40 PM (rIOWj)
Posted by: Ohhhhhhhhhhh at October 10, 2012 06:40 PM (3ziXJ)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...FREE KRATOS! at October 10, 2012 06:40 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 10, 2012 06:40 PM (4ramR)
Posted by: Adam at October 10, 2012 06:40 PM (/YJYi)
Consider it requested.
Never was behind the Curtain myself, but I did visit East Berlin not too long after the wall fell. A couple of observations:
- The hotel was not designed for comfort in any way (I think the bathroom slippers were repurposed steel-belted radial tires), but was designed so that you could not get out without being observed.
- Bullet holes in buildings, from WW2, still not repaired
I still have my copy of the Five Year Plan that never happened, that I bought near the ruins of the wall. Occasionally I take it out and gloat a little.
Posted by: Splunge at October 10, 2012 06:40 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: Peaches hates California at October 10, 2012 06:40 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 10, 2012 06:40 PM (hBHhF)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 06:40 PM (NHR2W)
Posted by: Robert at October 10, 2012 06:41 PM (LUnTP)
Posted by: Dang© at October 10, 2012 10:38 PM (R18D0)
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LOL! Now that's old!
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 10, 2012 06:41 PM (/LkSO)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 06:41 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 10, 2012 10:36 PM (UTq/I)
In Guatemala, if there is a trash can next to the pottie, then no, you aren't allowed to flush tp because the plumbing is seriously lousy and you will regret it. Of course, you regret walking into that particular stall, too, just by passing that particular trash can. I'm just sayin'. And two thirds of the time, there's no light fixture anywhere near, and you are most likely glad about that.
Posted by: tcn at October 10, 2012 06:41 PM (VLG62)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 06:42 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 06:42 PM (NHR2W)
Dick Morris on Greta said he just saw a new poll from trusted pollster John McClaughlin that has Romney up 3 points over Obama, 49-46, in Pennsylvania.
Posted by: John the Libertarian at October 10, 2012 06:42 PM (bJQRu)
Tuna, the bleeding hasn't stopped, it just moved to twitter.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2012 06:42 PM (ccXZP)
Tuna Helper?
Posted by: Dang© at October 10, 2012 06:43 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: USS Diversity at October 10, 2012 06:43 PM (0CiTm)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 06:43 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 10, 2012 06:43 PM (jucos)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 10, 2012 10:40 PM (4ramR)
OMG, I want them to be mine!!! I am forever in your debt for this, I lurk. {{{{{}}}}}
Posted by: Peaches hates California at October 10, 2012 06:44 PM (kpCLl)
True family story. My paternal grandfather cut both thumbs wide open to the bone on a cattle chute on the farm. They lived in town. He held his thumbs clamped shut with his fingers, drove home using his elbows to steer. When he gets there, he waits for my Grandma to walk home from teaching school. He has clean tea towels wrapped around his hands. He asks her if she has any silk thread. He tells her to get it and sew him up. She did. He only consented to a tetanus shot because she cried. Now mind you, he would not go into the doctor's office. The doctor and his nurse came out to the pickup and gave him the shot through the window. He also asked the doctor if there was anything wrong with Grandma's stitching, the doctor wisely said no, it should hold.
So, hell, no, this Okie is not gonna let America go without a fight.
Posted by: Will Never Vote For a dhimmocrat at October 10, 2012 06:45 PM (kXoT0)
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at October 10, 2012 06:45 PM (2Oas0)
Posted by: eman at October 10, 2012 06:45 PM (+XD7n)
Holy cow!
I can only imagine the humiliation but, also, the longing. What was held in those display cases may have been crap to a consumer from a developed nation, but to them, a choice, any choice, and yet no choice at all, must have been agony.
I am always amazed when I meet folks, such as the janitorial staff that serviced our old office building. They had been a family of engineers in China. Here, they were janitors, and were happy.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 06:45 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 06:46 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Will Never Vote For a dhimmocrat at October 10, 2012 10:45 PM (kXoT0)
Never seen you here before, podna, but I love you already.
Posted by: Peaches hates California at October 10, 2012 06:46 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: t-bird at October 10, 2012 06:46 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 10, 2012 06:46 PM (q7Aum)
Posted by: Robert at October 10, 2012 06:47 PM (LUnTP)
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 10, 2012 06:47 PM (JMmQ9)
Hey! what are you doing in Redmond? That's my neck of the woods!
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 10, 2012 06:47 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 10, 2012 06:48 PM (4ramR)
Posted by: Peaches hates California at October 10, 2012 06:48 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 06:48 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: TD at October 10, 2012 06:48 PM (DQMcq)
Posted by: boulder hobo at October 10, 2012 06:49 PM (QTHTd)
Yeah, go to Banff, and Calgary. You will never, ever want to leave, even in January. Trust me.
Posted by: Peaches hates California at October 10, 2012 06:49 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: eman at October 10, 2012 06:50 PM (+XD7n)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 06:50 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 10:24 PM
Does your dealer have the brown rocks?
Posted by: back door barry soetoro at October 10, 2012 06:50 PM (yBF/9)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 10, 2012 06:51 PM (sZTYJ)
And tomorrow when Ryan gets done alpha'ing Biden, they'll agree to send the kids out of the house for a few hours
Posted by: boulder hobo at October 10, 2012 06:51 PM (QTHTd)
The guys at DARPA are going to have to design special shoes for her. Since the floor in front of her will be littered with pens/pencils dropped in hope of her bending over to pick them up.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 06:51 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 06:51 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: gmannyc at October 10, 2012 06:53 PM (BmRlw)
Posted by: Robert at October 10, 2012 06:53 PM (LUnTP)
Posted by: Bill "Bubba" Clinton at October 10, 2012 06:53 PM (/YJYi)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 06:54 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 10, 2012 06:54 PM (X3lox)
Archery practice on a deer dummy lit by headlights
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 06:55 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 10, 2012 06:55 PM (q7Aum)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 06:56 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Adam at October 10, 2012 06:56 PM (/YJYi)
Pike place market - yes its touristy, but has some fun shops too
I like the Ballard Locks http://tinyurl.com/agoqdb
On your way to the ballard locks you can pass the Lenin statue in Fremont: http://tinyurl.com/8klcmhh
Argosy cruises has some fun boat tours
Space needle kind of expensive, but fun to watch the view of the city change as you dine as the top of the needle rotates
Posted by: someone at October 10, 2012 06:56 PM (bqjJT)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 10, 2012 06:57 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 10, 2012 06:57 PM (/LkSO)
Posted by: A. at October 10, 2012 06:57 PM (8Ioss)
Posted by: Will Never Vote For a dhimmocrat at October 10, 2012 06:57 PM (kXoT0)
Posted by: TD at October 10, 2012 06:58 PM (+uFux)
pollster John McClaughlin that has Romney up 3 points over Obama, 49-46,
in Pennsylvania.
****
Morris is in town tomorrow night doing a bit about Obama's Failed Policies.
Do I go? A woman who saw my Anyone But Obama window sticker gave me a flyer, but I'm not a Morris fan.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 06:58 PM (piMMO)
I think I read on the HQ once that the Japanese separate the bath rooms - with the toothbrushes etc - from the rooms with the toilets in them. Which is a point for them over us.
Posted by: boulder hobo at October 10, 2012 06:58 PM (QTHTd)
Don't go to the dumb Experience Music Project, it is expensive and not worth it.
Yeah, everyone has to go to Pike Place Market at least once.
The Underground Tour in Pioneer Square is awesome!!
The Great Wheel is pretty cool, kind of spendy I guess, some people say, but the view is neat.
Cheaper version of a boat tour is just to walk on one of the ferries and ride it round trip.
I think the Ride the Ducks Tour is cool cause it goes in Lake Union which gives you a different perspective on the city.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 10, 2012 06:58 PM (RZ8pf)
Any relation to Johnny Cochran?
*sigh*
15+ years later and still people don't realize our names are spelled different. And, you know, HE'S BLACK. ************ Okay- any relation to John Coltrane?
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 10, 2012 06:59 PM (/LkSO)
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His turn has been slow but continuous for years now. The first time I saw him on FNC, he was a reluctant critic.
So much for reluctance.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 06:59 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 10, 2012 06:59 PM (X3lox)
Mr. President, Your campaign has basically called Gov. Romney a liar. In your speech at the U.N. you blamed the video. Isn't it true that, in reality, you sir are the biggest liar of all?
Posted by: Barky Choom at October 10, 2012 06:59 PM (he2LC)
Posted by: Peaches hates California at October 10, 2012 07:00 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 10, 2012 10:58 PM (RZ8pf)
Cool, but Gasworks Park is a good alternative if the weather is nice. Plus, it's free except for the cab fare.
Posted by: tcn at October 10, 2012 07:00 PM (VLG62)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 07:00 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: gmannyc at October 10, 2012 07:00 PM (BmRlw)
Posted by: Bart who lurks with SMOD 2012, master of his domain at October 10, 2012 07:00 PM (he2LC)
Posted by: Splunge at October 10, 2012 10:40 PM (2IW5Q)
Where would you like to start?
It's near impossible to convey to an American - especially a Gen-Xer or younger - what those peoples' lives were like.
The commies weren't big on aesthetics. A beautiful city like Prague, mostly untouched by the war, was mostly gray. Coal and gas were the fuels for heat, and concepts like the EPA would have made most of these folks laugh their asses off. Not much coin for enforcing environmental standards when hard currency is non-existent.
Food - go to the grocery store. If an item was available, great. As in, want breakfast cereal? Fine, if they had any, it was State brand. Oh, you thought maybe you'd like Capn Crunch rather than Raisin Bran? Not so much. State brand, if they had it. Extrapolate that throughout your local supermarket. Milk, bread, meat (might get lucky and grab pork chop or pork sausage ... banner fuckin day at the Czech grocery store). On and on.
Families packed into houses divided into apartments. No one owns anything. Pride of ownership? Ever seen Alphabet City on the Lower East Side? If they had a private apartment in some high-rise, it's cus they were lucky enough to know someone or have gotten on the list early enough before the last tenant died.
Six month to a year waiting list for a car. A shitty Fiat-knockoff that might start or not. Tough shit, prole.
Everyone has a job, sure, but ain't no money. What are you gonna buy, anyway?
Want fast food? There's a stand every half mile or so that serves sausage and bread, with a spoon of mustard. Oh, don't like that? Walk another half mile and you can have s ausage and bread, with a spoon of mustard. Try selling that vision to an American middle schooler.
Malls? Nah. State department stores. Don't like the fashion? Tough shit, prole. You're lucky we have coats, this year.
Go to the dentist. Want novocaine with your fillings? Hope you got something to trade for it ... Johnny Walker Red and Marlboro Reds were how we tipped our household servants, so they could get many of the things we take for granted on a daily basis.
Rampant black market ... all in order to get hard currency. Tourists were regularly locked up for trading currency. Hell, I used to get offered $50 bucks for the Levis off my ass.
And the Tuzex stores. A special version of the Czech Corona that could be spent on Western goods. Seems nice right? Not so fast, prole. Only for high-ranking Party members.
I can go on, and at some point I will, but you get the idea.
And one more thing. Complain, and you'd find yourself in a prison somewhere in Slovakia, never to be heard from again.
Next time one of your lib asshole friend pines for "equality", show them this.
Posted by: eastvalleyphx is climbing out of the crawlspace at October 10, 2012 07:00 PM (GRvW4)
Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 10, 2012 07:00 PM (q7Aum)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 07:01 PM (NHR2W)
Posted by: The forgotten man at October 10, 2012 07:01 PM (W7JEz)
http://tinyurl.com/9a6ntzm Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 10, 2012 10:40 PM
That is such a sweet story.
Posted by: kbdabear at October 10, 2012 07:01 PM (wwsoB)
Go and report back to the horde.
Posted by: Will Never Vote For a dhimmocrat at October 10, 2012 07:01 PM (kXoT0)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 07:01 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 10:54 PM (GEICT)
Plus, um, DEAD! Although his vote still counts here in the land of the tiny-brained.
Posted by: Peaches hates California at October 10, 2012 07:01 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 10, 2012 07:01 PM (sZTYJ)
Space Needle is open to dine in for lunch too, the food is a bit pricey, but you can't beat the view.
There's a new Glass garden at the Seattle Center, but it costs for admission.
Don't bother with our Science Center unless you want to see the Tut exhibit. It sucks, which is disappointing considering how important sciency things are to Seattle.
Museum of Flight is a little bit south of Seattle, but if you like planes it is awesome.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 10, 2012 07:01 PM (RZ8pf)
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Don't let the man tell you that you cannot wear a mini skirt with garters ladies. In fact, it is your obligation as proud womyns to just say no to the patriarchy!
Down with pantyhose! Up with skirts!
Posted by: Some Moron at October 10, 2012 07:01 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: real joe at October 10, 2012 07:02 PM (PD2ad)
Posted by: FaceBooker Just wanted Bruce & A Pizza at October 10, 2012 07:03 PM (AzwZn)
Posted by: eman at October 10, 2012 07:03 PM (+XD7n)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 10, 2012 07:03 PM (4ramR)
whole concept of one bathroom per bedroom, give or take. Much of the
rest of the world gets by and is satisfied with one bathroom for the
whole house, or neighborhood. Savages.
I think I read on the HQ once that the Japanese separate the bath rooms - with the toothbrushes etc - from the rooms with the toilets in them. Which is a point for them over us.
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I only have one tiny bathroom but I close the lid when I flush and I don't store my toothbrush in the bathroom.
I always knew there was some Japanese in me somewhere.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 07:03 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: real joe at October 10, 2012 11:02 PM (PD2ad)
Heh, breathe it in . . . oh, I got high!
Posted by: Peaches hates California at October 10, 2012 07:04 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: Craig Poe at October 10, 2012 07:04 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 07:04 PM (NHR2W)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 10, 2012 07:05 PM (X3lox)
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Interestingly you are seeing more and more of that here. Hell, cigarette smuggling is become a major industry on the east coast.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 10, 2012 07:05 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: Hanoverfist at October 10, 2012 07:05 PM (HiKk0)
Posted by: buster hymen at October 10, 2012 07:05 PM (vDl/w)
Posted by: otho at October 10, 2012 07:06 PM (yBF/9)
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I could be wrong, but would have sworn Palin was the loudest critic.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 07:06 PM (piMMO)
had been caught in the squeeze gate while working cattle, the doctor
struck up a conversation with the old man. Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at October 10, 2012 10:21 PM (HZCkA)
True family story. My paternal grandfather cut both thumbs wide open to the bone on a cattle chute on the farm. They lived in town. He held his thumbs clamped shut with his fingers, drove home using his elbows to steer. When he gets there, he waits for my Grandma to walk home from teaching school. He has clean tea towels wrapped around his hands. He asks her if she has any silk thread. He tells her to get it and sew him up. She did. He only consented to a tetanus shot because she cried. Now mind you, he would not go into the doctor's office. The doctor and his nurse came out to the pickup and gave him the shot through the window. He also asked the doctor if there was anything wrong with Grandma's stitching, the doctor wisely said no, it should hold.
So, hell, no, this Okie is not gonna let America go without a fight.
Posted by: Will Never Vote For a dhimmocrat at October 10, 2012 10:45 PM (kXoT0)
Lord, I know all about this.
My Dad was up late one night, about 2 in the morning, printing a big jobup due the next day. And, him being who he was. The press was running so good, he broke out the mop and started cleaning. Well, he slipped and fell. Broke his leg. Crawled over to the press and finished the job. Crawled over to the phone and called my brother, told him he had a minor injury and needed to go to the Doctor, what all needed to be done the next day, and not to call my Mom before 7:00, you know, not to wake her up.
Then he crawled to the car and drove himself to the hospital.
Posted by: redclay at October 10, 2012 07:07 PM (xatoT)
As in Redmond Town Center? That's a weird mall. We're in the NW people, it rains here, maybe outdoor malls aren't the way to go. Plus it skews to the teen demographic in terms of stores. But there are a couple of good restaurants and Pinkabella has good cupcakes. There's an REI there too. The comic book store is OK, but they are grumpy I always feel like they are judging me or something. Not at all like the comic book store on Big Bang Theory.
If you meant the town center of Redmond, yeah, it's strange too. But, you can go for a walk on the Sammamish River Trail. It's a nice walk. I don't think there's any "must see" in Redmond. You can drive by Microsoft, but there isn't any "tourist" spot. There's a visitor's center in building 92, but I don't know if you are allowed to wander there alone.
Not sure how long you are staying but Redmond has an awesome Saturday market in the empty space next to Redmond Town Center. Oh and Matador on the corner of Leary way has an awesome happy hour, cheap but delicious Mexican food. They scalp you on the drinks prices though.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 10, 2012 07:08 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 10, 2012 07:08 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: The forgotten man at October 10, 2012 07:08 PM (W7JEz)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 07:09 PM (GEICT)
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With a battery operated auto-pen?
Posted by: Craig Poe at October 10, 2012 07:09 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 10, 2012 07:09 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Will Never Vote For a dhimmocrat at October 10, 2012 07:09 PM (kXoT0)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 07:10 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 10, 2012 07:10 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: someone at October 10, 2012 07:11 PM (bqjJT)
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totally unrelated but I am reminded of this: http://bit.ly/WTPec3
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 07:11 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: tcn at October 10, 2012 07:11 PM (VLG62)
Posted by: eman at October 10, 2012 07:11 PM (+XD7n)
Posted by: real joe at October 10, 2012 07:12 PM (PD2ad)
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Low-flow toilets, eh?
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 07:12 PM (piMMO)
Yup, I was raised by real men. I can spot a phony a mile off.
Posted by: Will Never Vote For a dhimmocrat at October 10, 2012 07:12 PM (kXoT0)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 10, 2012 07:12 PM (4ramR)
I'll be around Saturday too, so I'll look for the market then too.
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 07:12 PM (NHR2W)
demands that we respect her culture and tradition of wearing Somali garb and a full head-scarf in public
What makes her think anybody cares about her garb and headgear? This is America, where people have the freedom to go to the grocery store in their pj's. She needs to get over herself.
Posted by: katya the designated driver at October 10, 2012 07:12 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: goldilocks at October 10, 2012 07:13 PM (OETVg)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 10, 2012 07:13 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 11:12 PM (piMMO)
Nope. Just small pipes, so they clog well below any point that a plumber's helper would help. Ew.
Posted by: tcn at October 10, 2012 07:13 PM (VLG62)
Ivars and Dicks are two decent local small-chain fast food places. Ivars is fried seafood, Dicks is hamburgers. Taco Time is a little more widespread (You didn't say where you are from.)
You've arrived just in time for our first rainfall in two months. No, I don't know WTFBBQ, more used to seeing the -sun- once in two months.
The King Tut exhibit is at the Pacific Science Center - that's next door to the Space Needle. The Space Needle itself is still cool - actually eating there is $$$, but still worth it at least once.
Seafood is big. Not a seafood guy though. The original three Ivars are real sit down restaurants. Not too upscale, but the food is good.
Upscale is the Metropolitan Grill. The bill will cause an aneurism, but anything beef (or 'non-seafood' like lamb, etc.) will knock your socks off. El Gaucho is my second favorite place to eat.
Everything else I'd point at would be "Standard Tourist Stuff". Pike Place Market, Monorail, Seattle Art Museum, maybe Aquarium. Goggle at the insanity that is a ten story library with no stairs. And the five-car-wide roads striped for two lanes of cars and two lanes of bikes. Everywhere.
Note that all the people you see are Leftists or tourists. Jim McDermott gets 80% of the vote here - and the other 20% is for someone to his left.
Oh, speaking of which: Come to Fremont, "Center of the Universe", and get your picture with our beloved statue of Lenin. And this is quite close to a statue "Waiting for the Interurban" (which was a private bus line that made a profit on the same route the city can't manage it after they killed it off.) And there's a Troll Statue under the Aurora Bridge that's interesting. Once.
Posted by: Al at October 10, 2012 07:13 PM (MzQOZ)
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Nope, never, yet Japanese men are the only non-WASPy ethnicity to which I am attracted.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 07:13 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Jon at October 10, 2012 07:14 PM (/YJYi)
Posted by: katya the designated driver at October 10, 2012 11:12 PM (DoZD+)
Not to mention what they wear to WallMart.
Posted by: tcn at October 10, 2012 07:14 PM (VLG62)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 07:14 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 10, 2012 07:14 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 10, 2012 07:15 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 07:16 PM (NHR2W)
Posted by: Craig Poe at October 10, 2012 07:16 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: Thunderb at October 10, 2012 07:16 PM (Dnbau)
@223
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 10, 2012 11:08 PM (sZTYJ)
Dude! Check out this cool drinking fountain! Water tastes kinda soapy tho.
Posted by: Some stoner dude at October 10, 2012 07:16 PM (HiKk0)
TP is a No No at the 2" lines.
Posted by: Bart who lurks with SMOD 2012, master of his domain at October 10, 2012 07:16 PM (he2LC)
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at October 10, 2012 07:17 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: tcn at October 10, 2012 07:17 PM (VLG62)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 07:17 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: eman at October 10, 2012 07:17 PM (+XD7n)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 07:17 PM (NHR2W)
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Seattle is so depressing that even the bridges commit suicides?Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 10, 2012 07:18 PM (jucos)
Don't eat at Dicks, they are DICKS. You can't customize your burger at all. You get it the way they make it and shut up and be happy about it or the skeevy Seattlite with odd body piercings and underarm hair will spit at you. Plus, since we banned transfats the fries aren't that good anymore.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 10, 2012 07:18 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: nothernlurker at October 10, 2012 07:18 PM (gpvAx)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 10, 2012 07:18 PM (X3lox)
No, that's Boulder shit... just ask around here
Posted by: boulder hobo at October 10, 2012 07:18 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 07:19 PM (NHR2W)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJazvumHNyk
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I had to stop when he unbuckled his belt!
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 07:19 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Thunderb at October 10, 2012 07:20 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 10, 2012 07:20 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: helen thomas's droopy boobs at October 10, 2012 07:21 PM (vDl/w)
Posted by: someone at October 10, 2012 07:21 PM (bqjJT)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 07:21 PM (NHR2W)
Don't know why, but we were put on the VIP floor, in a five-room suite that was elegantly appointed in "Fancy Scandinavian" style. We didn't have to pay extra for the upgrade, which perplexes us to this day.
Turning on the TV, we got a Finnish station showing Larry Bird dribbling down the court --- in a country where local TV's had to be secretly altered to get anything but state-owned Estonian stations.
Downstairs, I got got pushed around for no apparent reason by a security goon. I pushed back, cursing him loudly in English. He backed off.
Wife and I talked very quietly in our room about how the Russky presence was palpable. How the stores contained nothing but basics. How you had to apply for permission to use a Xerox machine.
Recently, I read where Estonians described the Viru Hotel as being made of micro-concrete: concrete mixed with microphones.
Maybe it was a good thing we kept our voices down.
Posted by: Jim Sonweed at October 10, 2012 07:21 PM (2c1Cq)
Posted by: eman at October 10, 2012 07:21 PM (+XD7n)
The Golden Gate Bridge is #1
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 10, 2012 07:21 PM (BuSM8)
Posted by: rfichoke at October 10, 2012 07:21 PM (SPxVS)
Posted by: Ohio Dan at October 10, 2012 07:22 PM (JKNDp)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 11:19 PM (NHR2W)
LOL - yes. You think we're kidding when we talk about the lefties here?
Posted by: someone at October 10, 2012 07:22 PM (bqjJT)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 07:22 PM (NHR2W)
Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 10, 2012 07:23 PM (q7Aum)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 10, 2012 07:23 PM (j1gX1)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 07:23 PM (NHR2W)
Any relation to Johnny Cochran?
*sigh*
15+ years later and still people don't realize our names are spelled different. And, you know, HE'S BLACK.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 10:54 PM (GEICT)
Wait a second -- I went back and checked. You're black scribbles in a little grey box upthread. Don't you see yourself that way?
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 07:23 PM (kaalw)
I don't know, were people jumping off the Fremont Bridge? I think that's the one.
There are a few statues in Fremont, besides Lenin other famous ones are the Troll and "Waiting for the Interurban"
Had awesome Japanese food at a place called Maneki in the International District.
Over on our side, if you want good seafood head to Bellevue and SeaStar. Good steak you can get at Daniel's Broiler, or we have an El Gaucho over here too.
You'll pay a toll to drive across the 520 bridge, no toll on I-90.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 10, 2012 07:24 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 07:24 PM (bxiXv)
That was the Aurora Bridge. It's a high state highway bridge. They've added a pretty high fence across the bridge to stop people from landing on Adobe.
But there's still no center barrier with opposing traffic going 60mph in abnormally narrow lanes with no shoulder. (The real speed limit is something saner, but no one but the bikes are going that fast.)
Posted by: Al at October 10, 2012 07:25 PM (MzQOZ)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 10, 2012 07:25 PM (RZ8pf)
Oh, the Aurora Bridge, that's right!
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 10, 2012 07:26 PM (RZ8pf)
Lance Armstrong is a fucking cheat after all.
What has he taken something like 500 tests?
Whoda thunk the doctors would be in on it too?
I hate a damn cheat.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 07:26 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 07:26 PM (NHR2W)
Posted by: Joe Biden at October 10, 2012 07:28 PM (+XD7n)
There is also the crossover with tabletop roleplaying games, though. People who sell that stuff do want to meet lots of new people who are also interested in playing RPGs.
RPGs are a social activity, even if they're for social nerds.
Posted by: boulder hobo at October 10, 2012 07:28 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 10, 2012 07:28 PM (BuSM8)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 10, 2012 07:28 PM (RZ8pf)
Ryan - 8 years
Rubio - 8 years
That's what it's gonna take America.
*****
Where does President Gowdy fit into the mix?
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 07:28 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 07:29 PM (NHR2W)
In Seattle, Washington, more than 230 people have died by suicide from the George Washington Memorial Bridge, making it the second deadliest suicide bridge in the United States.[3][4] In a span of a decade ending in January 2007, nearly 50 people jumped to their deaths, nine in 2006.[5] [1]. At a cost of $5,000,000, a suicide barrier was completed on February 16, 2011.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 10, 2012 07:29 PM (BuSM8)
Posted by: Hobo Rancheros at October 10, 2012 07:29 PM (MG6Y6)
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Well, they have them in Venice. Took the family there a few years back, stayed in Mestre, the city next door.
Found the kids on the bathroom floor playing with their tiny skateboard toys in the bidet, which makes for a decent half-pipe.
Posted by: Jim Sonweed at October 10, 2012 07:29 PM (2c1Cq)
Here is what gets me. Drudge says that (to date) 26 people are ratting him out.
Okay. So, this was an open secret for a long time. So: why the HELL are they just coming out with this, NOW?!
Posted by: boulder hobo at October 10, 2012 07:29 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 07:29 PM (NHR2W)
Posted by: Peaches hates California at October 10, 2012 07:29 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: eman at October 10, 2012 07:30 PM (+XD7n)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 10, 2012 07:30 PM (jucos)
Posted by: gmannyc at October 10, 2012 07:30 PM (BmRlw)
Posted by: SARDiver at October 10, 2012 07:31 PM (W7uqn)
Right where you did is great. I could listen to stories like that for the length of a typical ONT, and hang on every word. I grew up with the idea around me that the USSR was just an alternate way of organizing society, separate but equal. I knew it wasn't true but had no resources to show otherwise, until one day I read Ayn Rand, and, a later day, Reagan said the words "Evil Empire," and I knew I was not alone.
Stories that confirm my childhood vision about that are like food to me.
Posted by: Splunge at October 10, 2012 07:31 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 07:31 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 07:31 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 10, 2012 07:31 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Thunderb at October 10, 2012 07:32 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: gmannyc at October 10, 2012 11:30 PM (BmRlw)
You should have called the interviewer a liar!
Posted by: Hrothgar at October 10, 2012 07:32 PM (Cnqmv)
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Well, look at how his teammate was treated when he called him out.
I'm gonna guess that others were offered the same type of drugs along the way. Armstrong might not have been the one spilling the beans.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 07:32 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 10, 2012 07:33 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 10, 2012 07:33 PM (RZ8pf)
But there are lots of the little shops and pubs with names like "Logan's Hammer" and "People's this-or-that". Just smile, the local's can't recognize a conservative because they're too stoned.
All the little shops, (yes -all- of them) with a little green plus, cross, crescent, cadeucus, leaf, shield or whatever are "Medical Mary Jane" places. No, I have no idea how we can sustain more MMJ places than Starbucks - and we have a lot of StarBucks.
And there are plenty of places that provide "Massage". Al Gore likes to get his chakra loosened up there.
Posted by: Al at October 10, 2012 07:33 PM (MzQOZ)
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God Bless the U.S.A.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 07:33 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 10, 2012 07:33 PM (4ramR)
Of course, the French do have bidets, although I have never seen one
or used one on many visits to France. I think they are a myth.
I've seen them in Egypt, but Nile water has more dangerous microorganisms than your ass.
Posted by: schizoid at October 10, 2012 07:34 PM (54QU8)
Fuck Glee. This is a smart military blog.
I have a military question. I have this "ammo" box I got. Need some knowledge put to me. Looks like a baby trunk, wood on the inside. Printing on the outside says:
G210 00 332 375 /
LT OP AR ACFT
? SE CC/G SET 500-1
PKG 5 OF 13
The innards are gone but some what looks like some sort of block storage is on the inside.
Posted by: Infidel at October 10, 2012 07:34 PM (9tjlm)
We have a good friend of the family whose French Canadian wife insisted on putting in a bidet in their new big bathroom.
So, we're over their visiting with our kids and Mr. elizabethe leaves our 3 year old in that bathroom briefly to go potty, and the next thing you know you hear him yelling "ahhhhhh!"
yeah, back in the mid 70's a friend of mine had a father who owned a decent size masonry company. They spent a shitload of money adding a level to their house, and added a big addition on the back, and when they did that one of the downstairs bedrooms became a huge ass bathroom with a sauna ,and a bidet. Well we were pretty young and never saw a bidet, and one of our friends peed in it. He poked his head out of the door and says "hey , are you supposed flush this thing?"
We laughed for years about that.
Posted by: Berserker at October 10, 2012 07:34 PM (FMbng)
There must be shit other planets in that river.Posted by: eman at October 10, 2012 07:35 PM (+XD7n)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 07:35 PM (GEICT)
Well if you're a low-on-the-media-foodchain podcast you make use of Tom's love of collecting old typewriters
I don't know if Nerdist is really that low on the media foodchain now actually. Right around that July date of this year it was announced that they were purchased by Warner Bros.
Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 10, 2012 07:35 PM (GULKT)
Human nature is the same, and even the conservatives amongst us are just transplanted Europeans.
Americans want our free shit like Europeans do. But Americans have this fixation on the "rugged individualist". So what to do - cognitive dissonance - oh! I know! don't tax the people, tax the EVIL CORPORATIONS!
Because corporations are run by devils, or Star Control's Druuge. They're not people, man.
Posted by: boulder hobo at October 10, 2012 07:35 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 10, 2012 07:36 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 07:38 PM (bxiXv)
I don't know about that...Posted by: Barney Frank at October 10, 2012 07:38 PM (sZTYJ)
Well I assumed he didn't have a Magnesuim framed bike, a bastard file and a blow torch since then he wouldn't have been talking about being late for work.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 07:39 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 10, 2012 07:39 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: boulder hobo at October 10, 2012 07:39 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Thunderb at October 10, 2012 07:39 PM (Dnbau)
Of all of the things that a person could say about a girl in a burka, the last thing I ever thought that I would say is fap, fap, fap!
Posted by: and irresolute at October 10, 2012 07:39 PM (JvklE)
Posted by: george costanza at October 10, 2012 07:40 PM (vDl/w)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 10, 2012 07:40 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 10, 2012 07:40 PM (4ramR)
Posted by: jerry seinfeld, maybe at October 10, 2012 07:40 PM (vDl/w)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 07:41 PM (NHR2W)
Posted by: and irresolute at October 10, 2012 07:41 PM (JvklE)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 10, 2012 07:41 PM (9Taqp)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 11:28 PM
OK, Love / Gowdy 2036
do the maths from there
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 10, 2012 11:39 PM (JMmQ9)
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Zee math, it hurts....
Posted by: Joe "Joe" Biden at October 10, 2012 07:41 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: eman at October 10, 2012 07:42 PM (+XD7n)
Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 10, 2012 07:42 PM (q7Aum)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 07:43 PM (bxiXv)
The grade above my elder daughter's grade made a month-long class trip to China. They manage to see the Dalli Lama and get the -school- declared persona non grata. Torqued the school off it did - they loved China and visited all the time. The cognitive dissonance is amusing.
Posted by: Al at October 10, 2012 07:43 PM (MzQOZ)
Is this still the tampon thread?
Posted by: joey biden at October 10, 2012 07:44 PM (vDl/w)
Posted by: Adam at October 10, 2012 07:44 PM (/YJYi)
At what point did "do the math" get urbanized into "do the maths"? Do the maths? The maths? What is that!
Posted by: and irresolute at October 10, 2012 07:44 PM (JvklE)
Just hope it's not a sneaky terrorist cause then it will be the same as a Kilt
A Wang.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 07:44 PM (GeJs5)
Sorry, but Alex Karras died today, and who cares at this point about freaking N.K. If they were Muslim, Obama would be all over them making excuses, just like with the freaking attacks that killed the ambassador to Libya. I can't imagine what the families of the four killed are going through-- and then to have one's own GOVERNMENT covering it up, sweeping it under the rug, blaming everyone but themselves....
I'm guessing Mongo wasn't the ONLY pawn in game of Life...
Posted by: Cynthia at October 10, 2012 07:44 PM (lhhNH)
Posted by: RWC at October 10, 2012 07:45 PM (t+Sdx)
Posted by: gmannyc at October 10, 2012 07:45 PM (BmRlw)
Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 10, 2012 07:46 PM (q7Aum)
Posted by: navybrat at October 10, 2012 07:46 PM (KgvEy)
Posted by: MSNBC in toto at October 10, 2012 07:46 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: zombie at October 10, 2012 07:46 PM (+cx5n)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 10, 2012 07:47 PM (9Taqp)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 10, 2012 07:47 PM (rzSn3)
Wait I'm confused, the Fremont statue is actually a statue of Lenin? O_O
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 11:19 PM (NHR2W)
LOL - yes. You think we're kidding when we talk about the lefties here?
Posted by: someone at October 10, 2012 11:22 PM (bqjJT)
I should point out that St. Petersburg, Russia, doesn't have very much Lenin stuff around these days.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 07:47 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: gmannyc at October 10, 2012 07:48 PM (BmRlw)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 07:48 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper at October 10, 2012 07:48 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: Hobo Rancheros at October 10, 2012 07:48 PM (MG6Y6)
Are they beginning to turn on Obama?
Are the rats abandoning the sinking ship?
Is Andrew sullivan getting banged in the ass by some random guy in an alley again tonight?
These and more questions will be answered after the fallout from tomorrows debate.
Best case scenario for the Republicans Biden gets destroyed.
Worst Case scenario for the Democrats, Biden doesnt get destroyed but does much better than Obama did.
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 10, 2012 07:49 PM (ovpNn)
Bluer-than-blue Washington State among the 10 best business tax climates?
Joltin' Joe Biden can explain it in only two words... "Boeing"
Posted by: sherlock at October 10, 2012 07:49 PM (f29LO)
Posted by: gmannyc at October 10, 2012 07:50 PM (BmRlw)
I wonder if the Occupy assholes will ever comprehend the reality of what they naively envision as some kind of paradise. For their sake, I hope they stay stupid. It would be mortifying to have to look back and see what a fool you were, for so long.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 10, 2012 07:50 PM (pwyhn)
Posted by: goldilocks at October 10, 2012 07:51 PM (OETVg)
all the Europeans/non-native English speakers I know say "maths," plural.
Because mathematics is plural, so why shouldn't the abbreviation be as well, right?
Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 10, 2012 11:46 PM (q7Aum)
No, no. Voting no on stuff that Europeans/non-native English speakers do to the language of the dominate power on planet Earth! Do the math! :-)
Posted by: and irresolute at October 10, 2012 07:51 PM (JvklE)
Because mathematics is plural, so why shouldn't the abbreviation be as well, right?
Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 10, 2012 11:46 PM
Not just non-native speakers. It's used in english speaking countries, as well.
Posted by: otho at October 10, 2012 07:51 PM (yBF/9)
Of course, the French do have bidets, although I have never seen one
or used one on many visits to France. I think they are a myth.
************
Well, they have them in Venice. Took the family there a few years back, stayed in Mestre, the city next door.
Found the kids on the bathroom floor playing with their tiny skateboard toys in the bidet, which makes for a decent half-pipe.
Posted by: Jim Sonweed at October 10, 2012 11:29 PM (2c1Cq)
35 years ago, I was on a 30-day low-budget tour of Europe....and the place we stayed in Paris was a girls' school (except in Summer, when we were there). The individual rooms did not have a toilet -- that was down the hall -- but each had bidets.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 07:52 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: navybrat at October 10, 2012 07:53 PM (KgvEy)
Posted by: and irresolute at October 10, 2012 07:53 PM (JvklE)
I push the "maths" thingie as a tweak at the urbanized lingo
to paraphrase Ron White: "I may have the RIGHT to remain silent, but I do not have the ability"Posted by: AltonJackson, pawn in the game of checkers...wait, what? at October 10, 2012 07:53 PM (JMmQ9)
This time, the commies will get it right. They promise!
Posted by: navybrat at October 10, 2012 07:55 PM (KgvEy)
This time, the commies will get it right. They promise!
*****
I'm doing my best!
Posted by: That Fucking Guy at October 10, 2012 07:57 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: t-bird at October 10, 2012 07:58 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Jordan at October 10, 2012 07:59 PM (MBFJC)
That must be a misprint. Hillary is actually 165.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 10, 2012 07:59 PM (pwyhn)
Angry bitter people age faster.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 08:00 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 10, 2012 08:00 PM (9Taqp)
Still ashamed of her country?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 10, 2012 08:00 PM (pwyhn)
Posted by: navybrat at October 10, 2012 08:01 PM (KgvEy)
Posted by: Steff McKee at October 10, 2012 08:01 PM (JEajI)
Posted by: Chris M at October 10, 2012 08:01 PM (4lyMJ)
The description on IMDB:
The Lives of Others
"In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives. "
Posted by: not the mama at October 10, 2012 08:02 PM (kzCIn)
Angry bitter people age faster.
****
What did our teachers say? It takes twice as many muscles to frown as to smile?
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 08:02 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Jordan at October 10, 2012 08:03 PM (MBFJC)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 08:03 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: not the mama at October 10, 2012 08:03 PM (kzCIn)
Posted by: The Dude at October 10, 2012 08:03 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Adam at October 10, 2012 08:04 PM (/YJYi)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 08:04 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: navybrat at October 10, 2012 08:04 PM (KgvEy)
Wow I didn't know ankle muscles are used to frown.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 08:05 PM (GeJs5)
Angry bitter people age faster.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 11, 2012 12:00 AM (GeJs5)
Yikes! When the Obamas go to Hawaii, it'll be like that Star Trek episode....they might not last a month.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 08:06 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Adam at October 10, 2012 08:07 PM (/YJYi)
Posted by: Waterhouse at October 10, 2012 08:07 PM (ie9Et)
For BHO I think you need to use Grand in that sentence.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 08:07 PM (GeJs5)
Yeah. Patriotism. That's what I think of first when I think of Michelle Obama.
Glad you got what you wanted out of her appearance.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 10, 2012 08:08 PM (pwyhn)
Posted by: Craig Poe at October 10, 2012 08:08 PM (BVkEs)
*****
A female V.P. when not a hell of a lot of women could reach that level of success.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 08:08 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Thunderb at October 10, 2012 08:08 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 10, 2012 08:08 PM (hBHhF)
At midday today it progressed into something between the Spanish Flu and the Ebola virus.
If this continues, I'll be officially classified as a WMD by tomorrow. Hopefully my internal disinfection regime (Makers Mark) will stave off my impending death.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 10, 2012 11:41 PM (9Taqp)
Sounds like you've got what I'm living through. Started last week with a patchy sore throat and evolved into a sore throat/pinkeye/cough/plugged sinuses disaster. Now I'm over the pinkeye, cough, and congestion but it feels like the sore throat might've morphed into tonsillitis on one side of my throat.
This sucks big time. I haven't had tonsillitis in over 20 years.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 10, 2012 08:08 PM (BuSM8)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 08:09 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Jordan at October 10, 2012 08:09 PM (MBFJC)
Posted by: RWC at October 10, 2012 08:09 PM (t+Sdx)
Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 10, 2012 08:10 PM (hBHhF)
Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 10, 2012 08:11 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: Thunderb at October 10, 2012 08:11 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Adam at October 10, 2012 08:11 PM (/YJYi)
My favorite place there was the Cloud Room, atop the Camlin. Alas.
On Pier 54 is Acres of Clams, where the Alaskan crab is from water so cold that the shell shatters like porcelain. Ho-hum to Alaskans, but as good a heavy crab as you'll find in the lower 48.
Their opera used to do the Ring every year. I guess the interval has changed, but they will have it next August. You won't forget the Ring.
Posted by: comatus at October 10, 2012 08:12 PM (qaVK+)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 11, 2012 12:09 AM
That's al-YOO-min-ee-um, you uncultured philistine.
Posted by: otho at October 10, 2012 08:12 PM (yBF/9)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 08:13 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Captionelli at October 10, 2012 08:13 PM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Adam at October 10, 2012 08:13 PM (/YJYi)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 10, 2012 08:13 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: Jordan at October 10, 2012 08:14 PM (MBFJC)
Posted by: Captionelli at October 10, 2012 08:14 PM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Waterhouse at October 10, 2012 08:14 PM (ie9Et)
Posted by: Thunderb at October 10, 2012 08:14 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 08:15 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Adam at October 11, 2012 12:13 AM (/YJYi)
Well she was nothing more than your typical racist white person.
Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 10, 2012 08:15 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: Jordan at October 10, 2012 08:16 PM (MBFJC)
Posted by: Thunderb at October 10, 2012 08:16 PM (Dnbau)
Her hubby has pretty much taken care of that. The new American dream is somehow managing to land a job as a Walmart greeter and finding a way to work your graduate degree into it.
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 10, 2012 08:17 PM (zhygd)
Posted by: Splunge at October 10, 2012 08:17 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: Thunderb at October 10, 2012 08:18 PM (Dnbau)
Can't go wrong with some good pie.
Sorry fir the delay, I was away form my computer ,
I love cake and pie !!!!!!!!
159 Cake or pie? Um, pudding?
Pudding is Awesome, too!!!!! Will there be plenty of pudding on the evening of Nov. 6 th ?
Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 11, 2012 12:08 AM (hBHhF)
Actually, I'm kind of hoping for a nationwide glut of used pudding as soon as polls close and for some time thereafter....
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 08:19 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 08:19 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: osu at October 10, 2012 08:19 PM (xR46S)
Posted by: Adam at October 10, 2012 08:19 PM (/YJYi)
I was looking at it after I'd written it and was wonder which completely unnecessary letter I had left out, thanks.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 11, 2012 12:15 AM
Ah. Touche.
Posted by: otho at October 10, 2012 08:20 PM (yBF/9)
Did she mention that OsamaCare included a 100% complete govt takeover of the student loan business? Private sector student loans no longer exist.
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 10, 2012 08:20 PM (zhygd)
Posted by: Craig Poe at October 11, 2012 12:08 AM (BVkEs)
Thanks, but I could do without a Supreme Court loaded with David Souters. He's a good attack dog for the campaign, but I don't want him anywhere near policy and neither should you if you value your property rights.
Posted by: somebody else, not me at October 10, 2012 08:21 PM (nZvGM)
Posted by: AltonJackson, pawn in the game of checkers...wait, what? at October 10, 2012 08:21 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Jordan at October 10, 2012 11:59 PM
So do I
Posted by: Max Cleland at October 10, 2012 08:21 PM (wwsoB)
yes I heard part of it on the radio. Her story abot them eschewing corporate jobs in spite of their student loan debt in order to "community organize". How awfully irresponsible and immoral to purposely take a job that will not satisfy your loans debts and obligations in order to satisfy your ego.
THIS^^^
Posted by: Infidel at October 10, 2012 08:21 PM (9tjlm)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs Reporting for Duty at Romney HQ at October 10, 2012 08:22 PM (NHR2W)
I just cruised through a few liberal blogs where they think Biden is gonna beat that little eddie munster punk sensless in the debate.
These delusional democrats clearly dont know good old joe.
I dont doubt the douchebag that gives less than 250 dollars a year to charity is gonna be laying it on think with the schtick, but seriously, are these liberals truly this stupid to think that its going to be a blowout for biden?
ludicrous
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 10, 2012 08:22 PM (ovpNn)
Jordan is one of our regular O-bot trolls
Posted by: kbdabear at October 10, 2012 08:23 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: Thunderb at October 10, 2012 08:23 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Look Around You at October 10, 2012 08:23 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: osu at October 10, 2012 08:23 PM (xR46S)
Only if you don't count what the MFM did for obama in 2008.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 08:24 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: The Dude at October 10, 2012 08:24 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Jordan at October 10, 2012 11:59 PM
So do I
Posted by: Max Cleland at October 11, 2012 12:21 AM
Me too, love ..
Posted by: Heather Mills at October 10, 2012 08:25 PM (wwsoB)
When Biden destroys your precious scrumpdilleicious hottie Paul Ryan and Romney begins his free fall in the polls as a result don't say i didnt told you so.
Posted by: Greg at October 10, 2012 08:25 PM (ovpNn)
Posted by: Craig Poe at October 11, 2012 12:22 AM (BVkEs)
Now, there's someone I'd love to see in a Romney Administration!
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 08:25 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 10, 2012 08:25 PM (pwyhn)
Posted by: zeera at October 10, 2012 08:25 PM (Lv9bM)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 10, 2012 08:25 PM (sZTYJ)
I'm thinking Ryan doesn't need to say a word. He can just cede all his time to Biden.
Moderator: "Your turn Mr Ryan"
Ryan: "I'll pass and give Joe my time, he's on a roll"
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 10, 2012 08:26 PM (zhygd)
Posted by: Craig Poe at October 11, 2012 12:08 AM (BVkEs)
Thanks, but I could do without a Supreme Court loaded with David Souters. He's a good attack dog for the campaign, but I don't want him anywhere near policy and neither should you if you value your property rights.
Posted by: somebody else, not me at October 11, 2012 12:21 AM (nZvGM)
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I don't think even John knew about Souter, in the barn, with pictures. See how fast Souter fled the court.
Posted by: Craig Poe at October 10, 2012 08:26 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: Thunderb at October 10, 2012 08:26 PM (Dnbau)
Mongo only pawn in game of life
Posted by: Mongo at October 10, 2012 08:27 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 10, 2012 08:27 PM (ovpNn)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 10, 2012 08:28 PM (9Taqp)
Posted by: Chris M at October 11, 2012 12:01 AM (4lyMJ)
Maths stands for Mathematical Anti-Telharsic Harfatum Septomin
http://tinyurl.com/9c56678
Posted by: Look Around You at October 11, 2012 12:23 AM
I thought it stood for Mathematiques, which is the correct thingy for those of us who are intellectaul and shit?
Posted by: otho at October 10, 2012 08:28 PM (yBF/9)
***
I do, too, and he has the Uncle Joe thing going on. He's a feeble-minded old prick, but if Ryan abuses him, he'll look like an asshole.
As someone said here a few days ago, Ryan needs to play the patient nephew role.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 08:28 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: jordan ribber at October 10, 2012 08:28 PM (vDl/w)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 08:29 PM (bxiXv)
***
And, uh, dated both Axel Rose and Donald Trump.
I think she likes the gingers.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 08:30 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 10, 2012 08:30 PM (ovpNn)
I think she likes the gingers.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 11, 2012 12:30 AM (piMMO)
Or egotists with lots of money.
Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 10, 2012 08:31 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: D. Hopper at October 10, 2012 08:31 PM (AVfT8)
Posted by: stace at October 10, 2012 08:31 PM (8KGvR)
Answer all calls with:
"Homicide bureau. Where did you get this phone number and what is your relationship to the person who used to own this phone?".
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 10, 2012 08:32 PM (zhygd)
461 Liz Cheney on Benghazi: "Worst cover up in the history of the Republic"
Posted by: Craig Poe at October 11, 2012 12:22 AM (BVkEs)
Clarification: "ONE of the worst cover ups..."
Sorry.
Posted by: Craig Poe at October 10, 2012 08:34 PM (BVkEs)
Six months is a good target longevity for a half assed coverup.
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 10, 2012 08:36 PM (zhygd)
The story going around in the early 90's involved the visit of some high-level NORK officials to Seoul.
Perhaps projecting his country's practice of creating Potemkin-like facades, one such visitor, seeing traffic jams along the route to their meeting place, sneered at an ROK official that
"It must have been really difficult getting all your country's cars to congregate here in Seoul".
To which the ROK guy replied,
"Yes, but not nearly as hard as dragging in all these skyscrapers and high-rises."
Also, in those days ROK newspapers gleefully ran a photo of Kim Il Sung's neck, taken from behind and displaying an English-muffin-sized tumor squatting thereon.
Posted by: Jim Sonweed at October 10, 2012 08:36 PM (2c1Cq)
Posted by: Jordan at October 10, 2012 08:36 PM (MBFJC)
Over at Drudge: Camille Paglia voting for the Green Party. I hope she can drag at least a few other libs over there with her.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 10, 2012 08:37 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 08:38 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Jordan at October 10, 2012 08:39 PM (MBFJC)
Newsflash -- If you spent 3hr in a line for that, you're one of them.
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 10, 2012 08:39 PM (zhygd)
A few pollsters still playing funny buggers...
Gravis uses a D+5 in Colorado (vs R+1 in 200
to get Obama up only 2
PPP cranks it up to D+9 in Nevada just to get Obama above MoE
And NBC despite having reasonable looking FL and VA polls apparently likes to play games with Ohio. I heard talk of a D+11(!) sample to get Obama up 5-6. Although talk elsewhere they only had Obama up 2?
Posted by: AussieMarcus at October 10, 2012 08:40 PM (EwxYH)
Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 10, 2012 08:40 PM (hBHhF)
Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 10, 2012 08:42 PM (hBHhF)
My project until election day is to convert Gary Johnson voters to Obama voters. I'm pretty sure I have two already.
Posted by: Jordan at October 11, 2012 12:39 AM (MBFJC)
Well, isn't that special? -- but now that you got both of 'em, you're done.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 08:42 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Ohio Dan at October 10, 2012 08:42 PM (JKNDp)
Posted by: mpfs at October 10, 2012 08:43 PM (Mkhiu)
Posted by: Richard at October 10, 2012 08:43 PM (eo6Gw)
Did you get them like the James O'Keeffe project did?
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 08:44 PM (GeJs5)
Evening roonz and roonettez!
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 08:45 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Ohio Dan at October 10, 2012 08:46 PM (JKNDp)
No that is proper redistribution! Feel good cause you should.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 08:46 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: TD at October 10, 2012 08:46 PM (+uFux)
Posted by: Craig Poe at October 10, 2012 08:47 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: mpfs at October 10, 2012 08:47 PM (Mkhiu)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 10, 2012 08:49 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: Jordan at October 10, 2012 08:49 PM (MBFJC)
Posted by: mpfs at October 11, 2012 12:47 AM (Mkhiu)
He probably thought he was being funny. And Hebrew Nat'l are some good dogs!
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 08:49 PM (yh0zB)
Since you do not own it, I, and everyone else, has a say in how you live it.
That "say" is limitless.
Posted by: navybrat at October 10, 2012 08:50 PM (KgvEy)
I looked at him took a 5 from my wallet, slid it across the counter and said "This Hebrew is going to buy you a decent breakfast.". Then I turned and walked away.
Posted by: mpfs at October 11, 2012 12:43 AM (Mkhiu)
Way to go! Every so often, you have to break the glass and try to get people looking at reality.
As some of you may know, I went to Disneyland a while back. Bumping around Downtown Disney while the BH was shopping, I found one of the poor guys with the empty "Disney Vacation Plan" booths hanging out. I noticed that the hometown on his badge was Athens, Greece, so I asked him if he had any word about how things were going there. He 'splained that he was a tot when they moved, but he talked to his relations and they were plenty worried. So I gave him one of the Andrew Jackson Presidential dollar coins that I normally carry around and told him that he should look up what happened to the Second National Bank of the United States, and also look at what happened in Iceland just a couple of years ago (going into quite a bit of detail), and make sure to talk to his cousins about it.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 08:50 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 08:51 PM (yh0zB)
Where in the name of God do you find them?
Posted by: AD at October 10, 2012 08:51 PM (dfVq9)
Posted by: mpfs at October 10, 2012 08:52 PM (Mkhiu)
She just wrote a good article about how capitalism could save art, how anyone can realize the benefits of capitalism and then turn around and vote for the Green party is beyond me, i can only assume a severely mentally unbalanced split personality is the cause.
Posted by: booger at October 10, 2012 08:52 PM (HI6wa)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 08:52 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 08:53 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Jordan at October 10, 2012 08:53 PM (MBFJC)
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 08:53 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: jake in ID at October 10, 2012 08:54 PM (2CiZb)
Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 10, 2012 08:55 PM (hBHhF)
1.1 million likes out of 900 million Facebook accounts? That's not something I'd call a wave
Posted by: kbdabear at October 10, 2012 08:55 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: JEM at October 10, 2012 08:56 PM (o+SC1)
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 11, 2012 12:51 AM
Greg is busy with "retraining"
Posted by: Axelrod Political Officer at October 10, 2012 08:57 PM (wwsoB)
I see people claiming to be Libertarian that have a tighter claim on being a bag of week-old sourdough bread.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 11, 2012 12:52 AM (bxiXv)
2001, actually. September the 11th. That was the day they couldn't come up with a coherent unified stand on whether the GWoT was good and they were for it or bad and they were agin' it. A week later I sent my LP membership card back and told them that they really were just the party of dope smoking pacifists and they should drop the whole "Party of Principal" schtick.
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 08:57 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Jordan at October 11, 2012 12:39 AM
Convert 100,000 corpses into live Obama voters and then you can brag
Posted by: Chicago Democratic Party at October 10, 2012 08:59 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: Axelrod Political Officer at October 11, 2012 12:57 AM (wwsoB)
Yea? Well he sucks, send us an...on second thought, nah just leave him right there.
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 08:59 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 10, 2012 09:00 PM (zhygd)
Posted by: Max Power at October 10, 2012 09:00 PM (+wxCD)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 09:00 PM (bxiXv)
The Second Bank of the United States was authorized for a 20-year period during James Madison's tenure in 1816. As President, Jackson worked to rescind the bank's federal charter. In Jackson's veto message, the bank needed to be abolished because:
It concentrated the nation's financial strength in a single institution,
It exposed the government to control by foreign interests,
It served mainly to make the rich richer,
It exercised too much control over members of Congress,
It favored northeastern states over southern and western states,
Banks are controlled by a few select families.
Following Jefferson, Jackson supported an "agricultural republic" and felt the Bank improved the fortunes of an "elite circle" of commercial and industrial entrepreneurs at the expense of farmers and laborers. After a titanic struggle, Jackson succeeded in destroying the Bank by vetoing its 1832 re-charter by Congress and by withdrawing U.S. funds in 1833. (See Banking in the Jacksonian Era)
The bank's money-lending functions were taken over by the legions of local and state banks that sprang up. This increased credit and speculation. At first, as Jackson withdrew money from the Bank to invest it in other banks, land sales, canal construction, cotton production, and manufacturing boomed.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 09:00 PM (kaalw)
Much like abortion the President can't do shit about gun control (Supreme Court ring a bell) so I don't know why dumbasses bring these up every election. But on the Civil liberties side not being able to pick what health insurance I'll buy is a pretty dam big cut in those for me.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 09:01 PM (GeJs5)
One dorm room, two guys, one bed
You tell me
Posted by: Axelrod Institute at October 10, 2012 09:01 PM (wwsoB)
1 million likes probably only set them back $30-50K or so.
Posted by: Hagbard Celine at October 10, 2012 09:01 PM (+/VIS)
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 10, 2012 09:02 PM (zhygd)
Posted by: Jordan at October 10, 2012 09:02 PM (MBFJC)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 10, 2012 09:03 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 09:03 PM (bxiXv)
I blame lazy Germans stopping the noble Russians. After all, idle Hans are the Devil's playground.
Posted by: jordan ribber at October 10, 2012 09:03 PM (vDl/w)
Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 10, 2012 09:04 PM (hBHhF)
Much like abortion the President can't do shit about gun control (Supreme Court ring a bell) so I don't know why dumbasses bring these up every election.
Au contraire mon ami
"We're working on gun control under the radar." -Obama
Of course, I assume this doesn't get mentioned.
Posted by: AD at October 10, 2012 09:04 PM (dfVq9)
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 10, 2012 09:04 PM (zhygd)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 11, 2012 01:01 AM (GeJs5)
That's the Congress as well. Bammycare isn't really Bammycare, it's PelosiReidCare. Bammy just signed the final bill, in his own words he "didn't do that, someone else made that happen."
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 09:05 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 09:06 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 10, 2012 09:07 PM (zhygd)
Posted by: Jordan at October 10, 2012 09:07 PM (MBFJC)
Posted by: Jordan at October 11, 2012 01:02 AM (MBFJC)
So you were part of the Carole Moore faction. I was more of a Boortz type.
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 09:08 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 09:08 PM (bxiXv)
BRB -- have to take blood pressure medication....
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 09:08 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 11, 2012 01:00 AM (zhygd)
The Libertarian Party desperately needed a William F. Buckley to weed out the cranks from the respectable parts.
Given the way the electoral system is structured in the U.S., I think a third party (any third party except under incredible circumstances) was doomed anyway, though.
Posted by: AD at October 10, 2012 09:09 PM (dfVq9)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 10, 2012 09:09 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 10, 2012 09:10 PM (9Taqp)
I'd like to think that Americans....for the most part...are STILL Americans.
So this election should be a simple task..a pull of the lever...simple task that re-afirms....yup I'm an AMERICAN! How hard can this be?
Serious?
Posted by: Richard at October 10, 2012 09:10 PM (eo6Gw)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 11, 2012 01:09 AM (X3lox)
Oh yeah. I'm still stunned by the "it's a tax so it's OK" decision, both on how he got to that conclusion and how the fuck it's OK.
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 09:10 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Steck at October 10, 2012 09:11 PM (RL7U1)
Posted by: Waterhouse at October 10, 2012 09:11 PM (ie9Et)
Of course, I assume this doesn't get mentioned.>>
Well in my defense I forgot that crap like that can happen cause I still live in my dream state of a country ruled by laws and a Constitution.
But yes they keep whittling away with EOs and regs.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 09:12 PM (GeJs5)
Your agonizer, Mr Jordan
Posted by: Bearded Spock, ISS Enterprise at October 10, 2012 09:14 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 09:15 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: booger at October 10, 2012 09:16 PM (HI6wa)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 10, 2012 09:16 PM (HC7j7)
Posted by: Jordan at October 10, 2012 09:16 PM (MBFJC)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 09:17 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: jordan ribber at October 10, 2012 09:18 PM (vDl/w)
The Stanley Steamer is a more efficient coal-powered car.
Posted by: fluffy at October 10, 2012 09:18 PM (z9HTb)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 10, 2012 09:20 PM (9Taqp)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 11, 2012 01:16 AM (HC7j7)
Great day for it, the sun was shining and it was in the high 70's. We didn't have the turnout we wanted, I think the big part of that is there was a big shindig in Myrtle Beach the same day (beach or Raleigh, beach or Raleigh, what to do...), but it went pretty well.
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 09:20 PM (yh0zB)
libertarians, one of many where Obama has the superior record.
That's why he got the NRA's endorsement...
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 10, 2012 09:20 PM (zhygd)
The "O" must go....we be so tired of this player's shitcycle...don't ya know?
Posted by: Richard at October 10, 2012 09:20 PM (eo6Gw)
Posted by: fluffy at October 11, 2012 01:18 AM (z9HTb)
True, AND it can be converted to natural gas to be even more efficient.
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 09:21 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 10, 2012 09:22 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 11, 2012 01:20 AM (9Taqp)
Last election they got 52 percent.
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 09:22 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: fluffy at October 10, 2012 09:22 PM (z9HTb)
Posted by: Steck at October 10, 2012 09:22 PM (RL7U1)
"I wonder what Vice President Ryan is doing tonight."
Crying? Biden will win. He has nothing to lose.
Posted by: A Tampon User at October 10, 2012 09:23 PM (z9CKW)
Jordan, which candidate did the NRA just heartily endorse? My memory is slipping a bit in my old age so help me out there.
Big L libertarians -- yeah, I was one of them myself back in the 70s. Who knows, I may become one yet again if RR doesn't work out so well.
Because I'm damn well NEVER voting for a Dem again. Fuck them all with the Rusty Chainsaw Of Death.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2012 09:23 PM (ccXZP)
Ok we'll go with that now tell me which party's congress/senate (you ever watch school house rock?) Will tend to get dragged along with the prez the American people vote for.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 09:23 PM (GeJs5)
You'll need a 1,000A 3P electric service upgrade and your own substation for that to ever happen.
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 10, 2012 09:24 PM (zhygd)
Posted by: Steck at October 11, 2012 01:22 AM (RL7U1)
No fucking way...there's an Illinois Rifle Association? They must not be worth a shit, Ill-Noise is the only state I have to disarm when I drive through there on the way to see the folks.
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 09:25 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: jordan ribber at October 10, 2012 09:26 PM (vDl/w)
Posted by: fluffy at October 11, 2012 01:22 AM (z9HTb)
--
Please, no Big Bird images on empty chairs. It may set the Middle East on fire. Again.
Posted by: Craig Poe at October 10, 2012 09:26 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: Steck at October 10, 2012 09:27 PM (RL7U1)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 09:27 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 11, 2012 01:24 AM (zhygd)
I don't have a gas station in my backyard now so what's the diff where I go to fill up as long as it only takes 15 minutes and I can go at least 300 miles on the charge? My point is that is what it is going to take for electric cars to compete with gasoline for the average consumer.
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 09:27 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: booger at October 10, 2012 09:28 PM (HI6wa)
Posted by: jordan ribber at October 10, 2012 09:29 PM (vDl/w)
Posted by: Steck at October 11, 2012 01:27 AM (RL7U1)
My apologies, yes it is a shame that Chicago rules the entire state.
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 09:29 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 10, 2012 09:29 PM (hBHhF)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 10, 2012 09:30 PM (9Taqp)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 11, 2012 01:20 AM
Funny shit. lol
Posted by: Berserker at October 10, 2012 09:30 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 11, 2012 01:30 AM (9Taqp)
I would like a lever gun just cause they are so darn cool, but I don't know what caliber I'd want it in. I don't own a revolver, I'd want to pick the wheel gun to go along with the lever action so they would be the same. .44 maybe.
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 09:31 PM (yh0zB)
I already own 2 cars so if I could have one that (total cost) was cheaper for my 80 mile a day commute hell yeah I'd buy one. But that's the problem these pricks want to force a solution (I know you already know that) for some gaia crap.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 09:32 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: Steck at October 10, 2012 09:34 PM (RL7U1)
Except for the hash shifters, it works out pretty well.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2012 09:34 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Adam at October 10, 2012 09:35 PM (/YJYi)
How about a Circuit Judge for your wheel gun?
http://tinyurl.com/czmgu2y
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 09:37 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: Steck at October 10, 2012 09:37 PM (RL7U1)
http://tinyurl.com/2mg9n5
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 09:38 PM (kaalw)
Reality beats lofty principle into the ground once again.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2012 09:38 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 10, 2012 09:39 PM (9Taqp)
Not done it myself but have some hardcore 4 wheel drive friends that have. So if your looking for conversion kits try the 4x4 sites. They do it because no matter what angle the truck is it still gets fuel.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 09:42 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: The Jackhole at October 10, 2012 09:42 PM (DU15A)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 09:46 PM (GeJs5)
Oh, and I'm still getting a chuckle out of Reason having to go to a registration system for comments.
Reality beats lofty principle into the ground once again.
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Yea, doesn't this seem sort of hypocritical from the open borders crowd at Reason? You can freely come into this country without anyone asking who you might be....BUT YOU CANT POST ON OUR SITE!!!
Which brings me to a point about the "true" libertarians. The ones who open borders types. How do you square that policy with supposedly strong private property rights? How can you say everyone on Earth is entitled to come to this country whenever and however they please and then at the same time talk up individual property rights?
Posted by: Rich at October 10, 2012 09:47 PM (pnHKr)
Posted by: Secret Service Log at October 10, 2012 09:48 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 09:49 PM (bxiXv)
In the city or the Suburbs? I live in New Auburn about 50 miles west from Minneapolis.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 09:50 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 10, 2012 09:50 PM (ovpNn)
1:52 AM - He's wearing his Depends, we'll wait until he wakes up to change him.
Posted by: Secret Service Log at October 10, 2012 09:51 PM (HI6wa)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 10, 2012 09:51 PM (9Taqp)
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 10, 2012 09:52 PM (ovpNn)
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 11, 2012 01:29 AM (yh0zB)
I have almost a dozen friends in various areas around Chicago, usually 30 -40 miles in any direction away from the city. I go out there a few times a year and always have a blast. You can feel chicago "machine" stupidity though.
Posted by: Berserker at October 10, 2012 09:53 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 09:53 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Craig Poe at October 10, 2012 09:54 PM (BVkEs)
1:52 AM - He's wearing his Depends, we'll wait until he wakes up to change him.>>
Log shows this as a nightly event no worry's.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 09:54 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 10, 2012 09:55 PM (ovpNn)
Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 10, 2012 09:56 PM (hBHhF)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 10, 2012 09:56 PM (9Taqp)
Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 11, 2012 01:56 AM (hBHhF)
Lets be honest, Joe is gonna bring the LULZ tomorrow whether he wants to or not.
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 10, 2012 09:57 PM (ovpNn)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 09:59 PM (bxiXv)
No investments nothing.
He must have spent all those campaign contributions and pay to play bribes on Coke, Booze, and Plugs.
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 10, 2012 10:00 PM (ovpNn)
yes it is a shame that Chicago rules the entire state
heathens....
CHICAGO RULES THE WORLD!!!!!!!!
GO BEARS!!!!!
yo all
Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 10, 2012 10:01 PM (cyGNg)
There used to be parts of the North that were still safe due to still being the old ethnic mix are you in one of those?
Grew Up in south Minneapolis (~44th and France) so I know something about them still.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 10:02 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 10, 2012 10:03 PM (9Taqp)
Posted by: Truman North at October 10, 2012 10:06 PM (I2LwF)
Which is why it is really dangerous for a real gear head to come into money.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 10:06 PM (GeJs5)
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/10/10/old-smirkin-joe/
If he runs true to this form, he's going to try and make Ryan look bad any way he can. I just hope Ryan has been fully clued into his tricks.
Also, I hope Joe glues his dick to his forehead in a crazy glue/Doh! type moment.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2012 10:08 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: grumpy momma bear at October 10, 2012 10:08 PM (hBHhF)
Ryan being a hunter will know the game he's going after so this is likely to be a turkey shoot.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 10:10 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 10:12 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Tonic Dog at October 10, 2012 10:13 PM (X/+QT)
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/10/10/old-smirkin-joe/
If he runs true to this form, he's going to try and make Ryan look bad any way he can. I just hope Ryan has been fully clued into his tricks.
Also, I hope Joe glues his dick to his forehead in a crazy glue/Doh! type moment.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 11, 2012 02:08 AM (ccXZP)
I'm going to assume that the smart and hypercompetent folks at Team R/R will have that one nailed down. (I hope)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 10:13 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 10:14 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 10, 2012 10:15 PM (9Taqp)
None will as long as the current administration is in power.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2012 10:15 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Bill H at October 10, 2012 10:15 PM (3sZO1)
This hair plug sportin blowhard barely held his own against Sarah Palin
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 10, 2012 10:15 PM (ovpNn)
Posted by: Tonic Dog at October 11, 2012 02:13 AM (X/+QT)
That is a helluva good question.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 10:16 PM (kaalw)
What do you use the speed of the posts to pace your faps and want to go to bed?
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 10:16 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 11, 2012 01:56 AM (9Taqp)
Roseville checking in.
Posted by: Tonic Dog at October 10, 2012 10:16 PM (X/+QT)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at October 10, 2012 10:16 PM (RLZvP)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 11, 2012 02:03 AM (9Taqp)
A man can always stand a little bit more...
http://tinyurl.com/8vb8fsg
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 10:17 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 10, 2012 10:17 PM (ovpNn)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 10:18 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 10, 2012 10:18 PM (ovpNn)
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 10, 2012 10:19 PM (ovpNn)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at October 10, 2012 10:19 PM (RLZvP)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at October 11, 2012 02:16 AM (RLZvP)
And respond appropriately to the "Pics or it never happened" posts.
And be worth the response.
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 10:20 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at October 10, 2012 10:21 PM (RLZvP)
Posted by: zombie at October 10, 2012 10:21 PM (+cx5n)
http://textfromdog.tumblr.com/page/9
I'm on page 9 but you savvy peeps can navigate your way around to the beginning. There's some ace level humor on display.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2012 10:22 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: cthulhu>>
What do you use the speed of the posts to pace your faps and want to go to bed?
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 11, 2012 02:16 AM (GeJs5)
I check in with the Horde occasionally as I do other things (*gasp!*) or even check out other webpages (*quick breath intake*), and try to pace things so that there aren't too many new comments when I come back. So, yeah, I do notice the speed of the posts......
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 10:23 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 10:23 PM (yh0zB)
There are some pretty nasty parts of the North side. But back in the 80s a friend and I went into a little bar up there and it was just like the bar in my little town. Everybody stared when we walked in. I assumed that was bad at the time but now I know it's a sign of a really tight neighborhood. Their staring was wondering who your related to not that they want trouble or to rob you. Just was weird since I grew up where that was not the way things were.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 10:24 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2012 10:25 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 10:25 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: zeera at October 10, 2012 10:26 PM (Lv9bM)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at October 11, 2012 02:19 AM (RLZvP)
Thing is, you can't get pardoned for stuff you haven't been indicted for. After Teh Won is out in January, I want every f***in' one of his stooges indicted for every single high crime and misdemeanor within the statute of limitations.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 10:26 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: rickl at October 10, 2012 10:27 PM (sdi6R)
Minny-Sota? I had an uncle that owned a lot of property near Battle Lake MN.
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 10:28 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 10, 2012 10:29 PM (9Taqp)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 10:30 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 10, 2012 10:30 PM (ovpNn)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 11, 2012 02:26 AM (kaalw)
Him, too.
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 10, 2012 10:30 PM (yh0zB)
http://tinyurl.com/9v2wsno
Posted by: rickl at October 11, 2012 02:27 AM (sdi6R)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3svW8PM_jc
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 10:31 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 10:31 PM (GeJs5)
Oh, and I saw Teej earlier today saying he wanted Jay Sekulow for Romney's Attorney General. Man, that would be awesome!
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at October 10, 2012 10:31 PM (RLZvP)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 11, 2012 02:29 AM (kaalw)
Yeah, nice job avoiding that fanboi moment there...
Posted by: GGE says SQUEEEE at October 10, 2012 10:32 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: zeera at October 10, 2012 10:32 PM (Lv9bM)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 10, 2012 10:33 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at October 10, 2012 10:34 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Truman North at October 11, 2012 02:06 AM (I2LwF)
===
the Tea Party needs to infiltrate and take over the Ds.
Posted by: jc at October 10, 2012 10:34 PM (ufJKx)
Oh that reminds me, I've got to go back to yesterdays ONT and check out the link I couldnt' get to while at work.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at October 10, 2012 10:34 PM (yh0zB)
f***in' one of his stooges indicted for every single high crime and
misdemeanor within the statute of limitations.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 11, 2012 02:26 AM (kaalw)
Him, too.
Posted by: GGE Is Looking For Brazilian Ginger Twins at October 11, 2012 02:30 AM (yh0zB)
And roll 'em up into him, his controllers and financiers, and those behind them. If they're out of the country -- and many probably are -- that whole "drone-list" thing may not work out quite the way they planned.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 10:35 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at October 11, 2012 02:34 AM (yh0zB)
===
part of the Al Franken decade.
Posted by: jc at October 10, 2012 10:35 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at October 10, 2012 10:36 PM (RLZvP)
Posted by: booger at October 10, 2012 10:36 PM (HI6wa)
Piss off who's President right now?
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 10:36 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 10, 2012 10:36 PM (9Taqp)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2012 10:37 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Adriane at October 10, 2012 10:39 PM (/OhbZ)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 10:42 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Adriane at October 10, 2012 10:42 PM (/OhbZ)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 10, 2012 10:42 PM (9Taqp)
Posted by: Adriane at October 10, 2012 10:44 PM (/OhbZ)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 11, 2012 02:42 AM
Being in "You can't stop the music" wasn't enough to discourage him?
Posted by: otho at October 10, 2012 10:46 PM (yBF/9)
Posted by: Adriane at October 10, 2012 10:46 PM (/OhbZ)
WTF are you going to do in February if this weather is cold for MN.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 10:46 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: zeera at October 10, 2012 10:46 PM (Lv9bM)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at October 10, 2012 10:48 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 10:49 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: Robert at October 10, 2012 10:49 PM (4ixH5)
Good night, Adriane!
Sweet dreams of Ben Browder washing your sheets and other assorted fine linens.
Posted by: Robert at October 10, 2012 10:50 PM (4ixH5)
Heh - my father, as an unabashed capitalist, co-owned at least 3 different over-40-ft boats, all consecutively moored at Stimson's Marina in Ballard. I did the Ballard Locks many times as someone being looked 'at' - you had to be aware that you were under surveillance. It was a little different being watched as you handled the boat's mooring lines with an audience and possibly cameras. But we were always friendly and conversed with whoever had questions or comments.
Christina's Mighty Jugs - if you want a fabulous lunch with great Seattle atmosphere, you might want to try 'Duke's'. It's not large, but it's a Seattle-only place with PHENOMENAL food. Full bar - large screen TV's. You would likee.
Posted by: dwagyak at October 10, 2012 10:52 PM (fhcrm)
Ryan I am sure is about a thousand times smarter and more articulate, but let's not assume any of this will be easy skating. All it will take is some "Joe won big!" screams from the Media and the people who turned to Romney might turn back to Obama.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 10, 2012 10:54 PM (i0App)
Posted by: Robert at October 11, 2012 02:49 AM (4ixH5)
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I am a fan of "offer them all a chance to quit their jobs, but if they choose to stay, hang 3 each week until taxes are lowered, the budget is balanced, the debt is payed, and morale improves."
Posted by: jc at October 10, 2012 10:54 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: Up with people! at October 10, 2012 10:56 PM (kzFo5)
If Joe can keep it close enough maybe but the MFM even admitted TFG lost the first debate so it's all up to Joe and if you want to bet he's got the skills to kill I'll take that bet.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 10:57 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at October 10, 2012 11:00 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 10, 2012 11:01 PM (GeJs5)
Posted by: Up with people! at October 10, 2012 11:02 PM (kzFo5)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at October 10, 2012 11:02 PM (RLZvP)
Posted by: Zakn at October 10, 2012 11:04 PM (LbwgI)
Posted by: Robert at October 11, 2012 02:49 AM (4ixH5)
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I am a fan of "offer them all a chance to quit their jobs, but if they choose to stay, hang 3 each week until taxes are lowered, the budget is balanced, the debt is payed, and morale improves."
Posted by: jc at October 11, 2012 02:54 AM (ufJKx)
Since all they seem to care about is reelection, political offenses should default to lifetime bans on holding elective office -- stuff like "not enacting a budget on time", "voting for an unbalanced budget", "accepting improper contributions", "having a law you voted for declared unconstitutional by the SCOTUS", etc.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 11:04 PM (kaalw)
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so would 537 of 'em get a lifetime ban every year?
Posted by: jc at October 10, 2012 11:10 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: Up with people! at October 10, 2012 11:12 PM (kzFo5)
Posted by: Up with people! at October 11, 2012 03:12 AM (kzFo5)
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with the kiddie rapers.
Posted by: jc at October 10, 2012 11:14 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: Up with people! at October 10, 2012 11:19 PM (kzFo5)
Posted by: Sexypig at October 10, 2012 11:31 PM (WHsSP)
Posted by: Robert at October 11, 2012 02:49 AM (4ixH5)
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I am a fan of "offer them all a chance to quit their jobs, but if they choose to stay, hang 3 each week until taxes are lowered, the budget is balanced, the debt is payed, and morale improves."
Posted by: jc at October 11, 2012 02:54 AM (ufJKx)
How about, government is expressly forbidden to "invest". It must "spend" on what can have benefits now.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2012 11:47 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Up with people! at October 10, 2012 11:58 PM (kzFo5)
Posted by: jc at October 11, 2012 12:03 AM (ufJKx)
Posted by: Up with people! at October 11, 2012 12:07 AM (kzFo5)
Note that the same description accurately describes the Obama Administration.
Death to Communism.
Death to Tyranny.
May mankind one day live FREE.
Posted by: Sam Adams at October 11, 2012 12:28 AM (krJF0)
I predict when the subject of behngazi comes up, Romney will lay out the timeline of what happened versus what the president the sec of state and the administration said and then pointedly say to Obamas face "You and your administration lied to the American people Mr. President."
The meltdown will be complete after that.
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 11, 2012 12:54 AM (ovpNn)
Posted by: Robert is considering taking up panhandling as a vocation at October 11, 2012 01:00 AM (4ixH5)
where do you find this stuff. Do you just have encyclopedic knowledge of musi and whatnot?
Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 10, 2012 10:55 PM (q7Aum)
Google. And Bing. Never saw that particular movie myself. But search "German expressionist horror films" and you can find some goodies.
It helps that FW Muranau's most famous film is probably Nosferatu. *The* vampire movie that everyone wants to rip-off. He did several other horror movies along with that one.
And speaking of Nosferatu! There's a DVD release by Image Entertainment that contains the most wonderful commentary track/essay by some guy named Lokke Heiss. It's GREAT! It also contains two audio tracks, an organ score and a "symphonic" score (dude on a keyboard).
Ten bucks on Amazon.
http://tinyurl.com/9zvp2ez
I think there's a more complete version released by Kino but I'm happy with this one.
Posted by: Robert at October 11, 2012 01:09 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: otho at October 10, 2012 11:06 PM (yBF/9)
Uuhhhh...*Checks TCM's schedule*...I know I saw that somewhere...
Posted by: Robert at October 11, 2012 01:09 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 11, 2012 01:51 AM (ozUBj)
And speaking of Nosferatu! There's a DVD release by Image Entertainment that contains the most wonderful commentary track/essay by some guy named Lokke Heiss. It's GREAT! It also contains two audio tracks, an organ score and a "symphonic" score (dude on a keyboard).
Ten bucks on Amazon.
http://tinyurl.com/9zvp2ez
Posted by: Robert at October 11, 2012 05:09 AM
Will have to get it at $10.
Posted by: otho at October 11, 2012 02:02 AM (yBF/9)
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 11, 2012 02:06 AM (ozUBj)
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 11, 2012 06:06 AM
Really? There hasn't really been much in the way of old silents for easy buying round here. Apart from Chaplin etc. Seen some of the weird ones at the movies awhile ago, but not on DVD retail.
Posted by: otho at October 11, 2012 02:16 AM (yBF/9)
Mitt Romney Strapped My Vagina To The Roof of His Car and Took Me For a Cross-country Drive!
Something that surreal would immediately reverse any losses in the Gary Johnson pot-smoker contingent.
Posted by: JB at October 11, 2012 02:22 AM (xVcWj)
Is doing a huge line of coke off a starlet's tits one of them?
Posted by: JB at October 11, 2012 02:35 AM (xVcWj)
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 11, 2012 06:06 AM (ozUBj)
Posted by: Robert at October 11, 2012 02:59 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: USS Diversity at October 10, 2012 10:28 PM (0CiTm)
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The "Service Engine SOON" light comes on in the dash.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 11, 2012 06:41 AM (exvgC)
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