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October 15, 2012

Overnight Open Thread (10-15-2012)
— Maetenloch

Yesterday was the 946 year anniversary of the Normans' victory over King Harold at the battle of Hastings. And the fact that I used the word anniversary instead of say minds-day is just one of the many consequences of what could have been just a minor battle among some Northern European tribes:

It was one of the most consequential battles ever fought. It would set England on a course that eventually led to the establishment of the British Empire-and the foundation of the United States. The Norman Conquest left its stamp on English culture and politics in ways that are still with us; its impact on the development of the English language was especially strong. The Norman conquerors brought the French language with them, and while the English of the majority would ultimately triumph, the language that emerged from the Norman dominion would be profoundly changed. For two hundred years, English disappeared as a language of learned and powerful people. In the royal court and the palaces of the nobility, French was spoken. The Church continued to use Latin. English was the language in which rich people spoke to their servants. By the time the French conquerors began to assimilate to the language and culture of the people they had conquered, English had changed.

The Normans and the French gave us an utterly screwed spelling system but they also gave us a grammatically stripped-down language (easy to learn but hard too spel korekly) and essentially a doubled vocabulary.

An ear for the difference between Saxon and Norman-French based words remains important even in popular literature. In the Harry Potter books, the good characters often have trustworthy Saxon or Celtic surnames (Weasley, Dumbledore) while you can tell the bad guys by their evil French names like Malfoy (bad faith) and Voldemort (flight of death). "Muggles" is about as Anglo-Saxon as an invented word can get, and to English ears it sounds like a word that ought to exist even if you have never heard it before.

That said I still blame the French and society for my misfortunes. They made me what I am.

Circle Dances and Leaving the Liberal Fold

Here Neo-neocon reflects on what it's probably like for Buzz Bissinger as he moves away from being a liberal.

We all want to dance in a ring, to a certain extent. It's wonderful to be part of a coherent movement, a whole that makes sense, joined with others working for the same goal and sharing the same beliefs. But there's a price to pay when something challenges the tenets of that movement. When that happens, there are two kinds of people: those who change their ideas to fit the new facts, even if it means leaving the fold, and those who distort and twist the facts and logic to maintain the circle dance.

Dennis Prager has long noted that most American Jews may be ethnically Jewish and practice Jewish rituals but their true religion is liberalism. Well that's true for most people on the left too. And when you no longer join in the liberal circle dances, it's apostasy.

George Will: Jimmy Carter is a Mother-Fucking Liar

Okay two things - this is old (2005) and he didn't use those exact words but if you understand Will-speak, that's clearly what he meant. Carter has long peddled the false story that George Will stole his debate briefing book and gave it to Reagan and has blamed his 1980 loss on this. Well Will was not pleased:

That last accusation, for which there is no evidence, is, as he has been told, false. But he is a recidivist fibber. Last Oct. 21, on National Public Radio, he said: "We found out later that one of Ronald Reagan's supporters inside the White House had stolen my briefing book, my top-secret briefing book that prepared me for the debate. And a very prominent news reporter was the one who took the briefing book to Ronald Reagan and helped drill him on the things that I might say if he said certain things." Asked who that reporter was, Carter replied, "It was George Will, and it was later known that he did that."
But one cannot know what isn't so, and "top secret" is a government classification inapplicable to campaign fodder. Still, Carter continues to retail -- and to embroider -- his fable.

...So strong, however, is the human impulse to believe comforting myths that Carter probably will continue to promulgate the fiction that I gave Reagan the utterly unimportant briefing book, thereby catalyzing the 1980 landslide. But to be fair: As a candidate, Carter promised only that as president he would never tell a lie, thereby leaving himself a loophole for his post-presidential career as a fabulist.

Carter has always been a nasty man and as well as a notorious cat-killer.

Got Your Costume Yet?

Don't fret - because you can still score a complete Boba Fett adult costume for just $499.

The 'Zero Dark Thirty' Trailer

In case you haven't seen it yet.

The Great Government Meteor Grab?

"New regulations by the Federal government define asteroidal material to be an antiquity, like arrowheads and pottery, rather than a mineral - and, therefore, not subject to U.S. mining law or eligible for mining claims. At the moment, these regulations only apply to asteroidal materials that have fallen to Earth as meteorites. However, they create a precedent that could adversely affect the plans of companies such as Planetary Resources, who intend to mine asteroids in space."

First there was the safety bra:

And now there's the smart cancer-detecting bra:

The Yahoo AoSHQ group. Bla bla bla.

And my twitter thang.

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Posted by: Maetenloch at 06:13 PM | Comments (742)
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1 Your mother smells of elderberries

Posted by: Isaac Davis White at October 15, 2012 06:14 PM (Dll6b)

2 ( waiting for Monty Python nerds to correct )

Posted by: Isaac Davis White at October 15, 2012 06:16 PM (Dll6b)

3 sproing MOOOO RUNAWAY!! RUNAWAY!!

Posted by: helofixer at October 15, 2012 06:16 PM (Pt9bY)

4 how much per square foot for this place???? Seems roomy....

Posted by: Isaac Davis White at October 15, 2012 06:16 PM (Dll6b)

5 A long post about the Battle of Hastings and no mention of longbows?

Posted by: logprof at October 15, 2012 06:17 PM (V/U0X)

6 Kaaah-niggits.

I denounce French people.

Posted by: Bang Out Of Order at October 15, 2012 06:17 PM (1H47k)

7 I am of the West Midlands - with some north English, and some Irish. We were not called to Harold's army.

Here is what William the Bastard did to the north of England:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrying_of_the_North

On behalf of my ancestors, I apologise for not volunteering more troops to that battle.

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 06:17 PM (QTHTd)

8 Daily Caller is teasing a story about Obama's past. Any guesses?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 15, 2012 06:18 PM (ZPrif)

9 "The Story of the English Language", I believe, has the Norman story. Fascinating book if you're a language nerd. (I am)

Posted by: t-bird at October 15, 2012 06:18 PM (FcR7P)

10 Yesterday was the 946 year anniversary of the Normans' victory over King Harold at the battle of Hastings.

I blame Teddy Roosevelt.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 15, 2012 06:19 PM (Gk3SS)

11 Yay! ONT!

Posted by: cthulhu at October 15, 2012 06:19 PM (kaalw)

12 Barack Obama is a fabulist. Joe Biden is a fabulist. 99% of all democrats are fabulists.

Posted by: George F*cking Will at October 15, 2012 06:19 PM (Ts3c9)

13 Oh, gosh, where to begin? Just when I think I've seen it all, the inestimable Maet puts up a post -- and not just any post, but an ONT -- about the Battle of Hastings. {shakes head, takes a knee}

And, as for a costume . . . lemme tell ya, if I really wanted to scare people, I would just run nekkid through the streets, I guess it's one of the advantages of age.

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 06:22 PM (kpCLl)

14 'Lo, 'rons and 'ettes. Mixed day for me: Finally got to buy a vehicle after using Dad's truck for the six months since the move to Oklahoma. I'm grateful he loaned it to me, but I'm glad I can take that responsibility again. The flip side is, now that I have a car payment again, I don't have the money to keep my web station, Project 42 Radio, operating. I'll have to shut down at the end of the month. It was a fun 3-1/2 year run programming a station the way I wanted.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 15, 2012 06:22 PM (5J54Q)

15 I take responsibility for Harald's defeat but I'm blaming it on a Yuengling.

Posted by: shillary clinton at October 15, 2012 06:22 PM (vDl/w)

16 "Dennis Prager has long noted that most American Jews may be ethnically Jewish and practice Jewish rituals but their true religion is liberalism. " Sounds like a good description of Pelosi style Catholics. Supposedly against abortion but have no problem supporting candidates who are out to promote abortion on demand, preferably free of charge.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 15, 2012 06:22 PM (rwbWy)

17 The French invasion of the English language is interesting. As the nobles used french, most of the now-English words for *abstractions* and property and such are French-derived. Meanwhile, the English terms for things the commoners were familiar with -- spoons, cows, horseshoes, thatch, and suchlike -- remained English.

Posted by: ace at October 15, 2012 06:22 PM (LCRYB)

18 Finally got around to roasting some peeps on Sunday.

Before
http://is.gd/QnxapU

After
http://is.gd/qRyd9s

Posted by: sTevo at October 15, 2012 06:23 PM (VMcEw)

19 Good night morons. And a hearty "Damn you sir!" to Harold for letting a bunch of frogs beat him.

Posted by: joncelli at October 15, 2012 06:23 PM (CWlPF)

20 too bad the english never learned to cook

Posted by: pointsnfigures at October 15, 2012 06:23 PM (EBPRt)

21 It was a fun 3-1/2 year run programming a station the way I wanted. Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 15, 2012 10:22 PM (5J54Q) I bet that was fun!

Posted by: USA at October 15, 2012 06:23 PM (RIg+t)

22 Shit! ace is here....quick put your pants back on!

Posted by: Tami at October 15, 2012 06:24 PM (X6akg)

23 Fuck. Peyton to Thomas.

Posted by: logprof at October 15, 2012 06:24 PM (V/U0X)

24 Good evening all. Just got off a long conference call. Hate conference calls

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2012 06:24 PM (j1gX1)

25 Dang. The Bob's Fett costume jumped up $200 bucks since Maet posted that.

Posted by: CDR M at October 15, 2012 06:24 PM (dKV5k)

26 Hi! I'm tired. I need to be entertained by morons for a bit before I succumb to the sandman.

Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at October 15, 2012 06:24 PM (otfJ1)

27 I know some who profess Christianity whose true religion is also liberalism. It's a mental disorder that crosses many lines.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 15, 2012 06:24 PM (5J54Q)

28 Right back in it? It's still 24-7?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2012 06:25 PM (j1gX1)

29 Looks like more teacher strikes in Illinois. Yeah, the people of Illinois need to keep caving in to these people. Nothing like rewarding teachers for keeping kids out of school. I really don't understand why parents tolerate this crap.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 15, 2012 06:25 PM (rwbWy)

30 Evening all, sTevo, those peeps look like something from a George Romero movie. Were they tasty??

Posted by: moki at October 15, 2012 06:25 PM (dZmFh)

31 Finally got around to roasting some peeps on Sunday.
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Huh. Never thought of that. I've got some peeps maturing from last Easter I might try that on.

Posted by: Methos at October 15, 2012 06:25 PM (6LvlL)

32 Ima!!! Long time, girl. How've you been? Still in school?

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 06:25 PM (kpCLl)

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

Posted by: steevy at October 15, 2012 06:25 PM (6o4Fb)

34 Well on good thing tonight: At least the Yankees can't lose and A-Rod can't strike out

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2012 06:25 PM (j1gX1)

35 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 15, 2012 06:25 PM (JMmQ9)

36 Buy my book 'Mother Tongue'. No, really- check it out-it's about the English language

Posted by: Bill Bryson at October 15, 2012 06:26 PM (Y//vu)

37 And a hearty "Damn you sir!" to Harold for letting a bunch of frogs beat him.

It wasn't frogs; it was mercenaries hired from all across Europe.

The Bastard imported the frogs later on, to help with the administration.

And don't forget that Harold's army was fresh off fighting another battle on the other side of England, against Harald Hadrada of Norway. The army was tired out -from the battle AND the march - and wounded. Even then it was a close thing.

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 06:26 PM (QTHTd)

38 Regarding the sidebar Daily Caller tease about something amazing in Obama's past...SQUIRREL!!!!

The only historical sh*t I want to talk about in the next 3 weeks is the last 4 years and how much of a SCoAMF Obama is. Ace, do not give into the SQUIRREL!!!111one!

Stay focused!

Posted by: Tonic Dog at October 15, 2012 06:26 PM (X/+QT)

39 There have been precious few democrats that have been worth a damn, Zella Miller, Daniel Patrick Moynahan and Ed Koch and that is all. Democrats are enemies of the Republic.

Posted by: General Woundwort at October 15, 2012 06:26 PM (DWgdc)

40 the "English" words for concrete objects are German ( Saxony )

Haus, Mutter, Vater, Bruder, Schwester, Raum, usw.

Posted by: Isaac Davis White at October 15, 2012 06:27 PM (Dll6b)

41 22 It sure was! I programmed the music, produced the IDs...even bought some jingles. It's not that it's all that expensive (about $100 in monthly operating costs), it's just that money is so dang tight. Having to pay for a car again pretty much kills almost all my discretionary income.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 15, 2012 06:27 PM (5J54Q)

42 Peaches, I graduated (finally) in May but work cranked up and it's been insane. I miss you 'rons and 'ettes so much!

Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at October 15, 2012 06:27 PM (otfJ1)

43 Oh, so, is this old, loose shit that y'all have already discussed? Somebody sent the dem lord and master a thing about Obama's "wedding" ring today and he was shocked, shocked, I tell ya. I found it over on WND . . . yeah

so wanted to see what the 'nation thinks about it. I personally loved it, but have not gone all in.

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 06:27 PM (kpCLl)

44 Peaches! Please pick up the red courtesy phone for one minute

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 15, 2012 06:28 PM (Z9EHQ)

45 There have been precious few democrats that have been worth a damn, Zella Miller, Daniel Patrick Moynahan and Ed Koch and that is all. Democrats are enemies of the Republic. Posted by: General Woundwort at October 15, 2012 10:26 PM (DWgdc) Scoop Jackson

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2012 06:28 PM (j1gX1)

46 too bad the English never learned to cook

For that much, we'll have to agree to... agree. Maybe we should have surrendered to Gandhi and moved the capital to Delhi

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 06:28 PM (QTHTd)

47 hi all
wow, Ace on the ONT!
so what is the appropriate gift for a 946th anniversary?

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 06:28 PM (d/5qf)

48 IMO, WND is the National Enquirer of the right.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 15, 2012 06:29 PM (5J54Q)

49 43 Peaches, I graduated (finally) in May but work cranked up and it's been insane. I miss you 'rons and 'ettes so much! Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at October 15, 2012 10:27 PM (otfJ1) Congratulations on both fronts! Graduating and having work!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 06:29 PM (bxiXv)

Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at October 15, 2012 10:27 PM (otfJ1)

Hi Ima! Congratulations on the graduation

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 06:29 PM (d/5qf)

51 Joe Lieberman ( with an asterisk )

Posted by: Isaac Davis White at October 15, 2012 06:29 PM (Dll6b)

Stop the presses: It turns out he's a semi-intelligent communist who got everywhere by affirmative action and teleprompter reading. Shocking, right?

And, that space shuttle would look a lot better pointed at the sky, strapped to an orange tank and two booster rockets. Too bad.

Posted by: Secundus, Judge Death Fan Club at October 15, 2012 06:29 PM (KzqC+)

53 Hello, all! Nothin'.

Posted by: Kalneva at October 15, 2012 06:30 PM (cQmXn)

54 Congrats, Ima!

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 15, 2012 06:30 PM (5J54Q)

55 Were they tasty?? Posted by: moki
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The caramelized shell is really something.

We had those in the freezer since Easter.

Posted by: sTevo at October 15, 2012 06:30 PM (VMcEw)

56 too bad the English never learned to cook For that much, we'll have to agree to... agree. Maybe we should have surrendered to Gandhi and moved the capital to Delhi Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 10:28 PM (QTHTd) oh they learned how to cook only not which foods to us or how to make them palatable.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 15, 2012 06:30 PM (Z9EHQ)

57 I would love it tomorrow if Romney goes Samuel L. Jackson and mocks Obama's "uh... uh... uh..." by saying "Wuh-wuh-wuh? Did I stutter, motherfucker?!"

Posted by: John the Libertarian at October 15, 2012 06:30 PM (bJQRu)

58 but work cranked up and it's been insane. Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at October 15, 2012 I told y'all that the economy was better. You bunch of morons.

Posted by: SCOAMF at October 15, 2012 06:30 PM (dKV5k)

59 Yesterday was also the 65th anniversary of Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier in the Bell X-1. For good measure, he did it again in an F-15, at age 89. http://www.edwards.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123321880

Posted by: rickl at October 15, 2012 06:31 PM (sdi6R)

60 And a hearty "Damn you sir!" to Harold for letting a bunch of frogs beat him. Normans- North Men- were Vikings.

Posted by: t-bird at October 15, 2012 06:31 PM (FcR7P)

61 Fucking Normans...

Posted by: Ælfrǣd þæs Mægen at October 15, 2012 06:31 PM (sZTYJ)

62 I like English style cooking. Meat and potatoes. Simple, basic.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 15, 2012 06:31 PM (ZPrif)

I remember reading that J.R.R. Tolkein thought that the Norman Invasion was the worst thing that happened as it prevented the cultural growth of the Anglo-Saxons. Geeky but confusing too. The Saxons were invaders themselves. Oh well, I is not smurt so no understandy. <br>

I really missing hockey right now as I could give a shit about the Broncos and Chargers. Same goes for the MLB. I'm reduced to watching old Penguin games on DVD and last years playoffs on NHL Network. Anybody else miss hockey?? [Crickets]......oh.

Posted by: stillers at October 15, 2012 06:32 PM (qz78g)

64 Is that that Rooney Mara in that movie?(her daddy is a billionaire so she gets to be in movies)Movie looks like shit.

Posted by: steevy at October 15, 2012 06:32 PM (6o4Fb)

65 Greta on Fox News is interviewing Mark Bowden on his book about killing bin Laden. He says that Joe Bidet advised Obama against going ahead with it.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 15, 2012 06:33 PM (rwbWy)

66 Irish dinner of six courses is even easier.

Posted by: sTevo at October 15, 2012 06:33 PM (VMcEw)

67 English girls. French girls. Busty. Slim. Choices....choices....

Posted by: EC at October 15, 2012 06:33 PM (doBIb)

68 oh they learned how to cook only not which foods to us or how to make them palatable.
Posted by: yankeefifth at October 15, 2012 10:30 PM (Z9EHQ)

I was dismayed during my visits to England to discover that the British have managed to find ways to make fried food taste bad. How that is that even possible?

Posted by: Mætenloch at October 15, 2012 06:33 PM (pAlYe)

69 Normans- North Men- were Vikings.

Meh, by then the Normans were mutts, mixed in with everyone. Including English:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_of_Normandy

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 06:33 PM (QTHTd)

70 53 Semi-intelligent? I think his IQ has got to be barely in the three figures. I guess that counts.

Posted by: Kalneva at October 15, 2012 06:34 PM (cQmXn)

71 The French invasion of the English language is interesting. As the nobles used french, most of the now-English words for *abstractions* and property and such are French-derived. Meanwhile, the English terms for things the commoners were familiar with -- spoons, cows, horseshoes, thatch, and suchlike -- remained English. Posted by: ace at October 15, 2012 10:22 PM (LCRYB) BÃ»ter, brea, en griene tsiis is goed Ingelsk en goed Frysk

Posted by: Se Léodweardprætt Hæt at October 15, 2012 06:34 PM (sZTYJ)

#30:

In the middle of the school year, having the teachers out on strike in a world without stay-at-home moms means a crisis for families. Someone needs to take care of the the kids, and there is only so much vacation that you can take all at once. Caving means getting out of the jam while passing the costs on to other people, mostly.

I'll be tagged as sexist, but the loss of the stay-at-home mom was a tragedy for society. I get the security and value of a married woman having her own job, but losing the parent-at-home changed a lot of things for the worse.

Posted by: Puzzled at October 15, 2012 06:34 PM (p9rYd)

Irish dinner of six courses is even easier.

I thought it was seven. Boiled potato and a six-pack.

Posted by: Secundus, Judge Death Fan Club at October 15, 2012 06:34 PM (KzqC+)

74 I really missing hockey right now as I could give a shit about the Broncos and Chargers. Same goes for the MLB. I'm reduced to watching old Penguin games on DVD and last years playoffs on NHL Network. Anybody else miss hockey?? [Crickets]......oh. Posted by: stillers at October 15, 2012 10:32 PM (qz78g) --I miss hockey but at least football is here. After the Super Bowl if there is still no NHL I'll be pissed, but for now all we're missing is filler games, and even one of my Canadian students thinks the NHL regular season is too long. Still, no city misses its team like Winnipeg does.

Posted by: logprof at October 15, 2012 06:35 PM (V/U0X)

75 Captain Whitebread at October 15, 2012 10:27 PM (5J54Q) Keep the faith! Things will get better eventually ...

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 06:35 PM (/OhbZ)

76 70 Yes and everybody was mixed with some German at that point.

Posted by: steevy at October 15, 2012 06:35 PM (6o4Fb)

77 Thanks, all!

I'm horrified by all of the recent news. I hope November brings us a little bit more time. I'm not adequately prepared but I'm working on it. BTW, what's up with all the moron gatherings so far from where I am? There are no morons in the SE?

Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at October 15, 2012 06:35 PM (otfJ1)

78 Peaches, I read that article on WND about the ring. I wanna think its something, but because it's WND, like you, I'm withholding judgment.

Posted by: someone at October 15, 2012 06:36 PM (bqjJT)

79 Wait, there's gonna be a moron meetup in the SE sometime?

where/when?

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 06:37 PM (d/5qf)

80 Daaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmnnnnnnn

Posted by: logprof at October 15, 2012 06:37 PM (V/U0X)

81 Did the Chargers and Colts trade uniforms during half time?

Posted by: buzzion at October 15, 2012 06:38 PM (GULKT)

82 not another Old English vs. Frisian debate....

Posted by: Isaac Davis White at October 15, 2012 06:38 PM (Dll6b)

83 Harold Godwinson wasn't particularly legitimate anyway. He'd only been king for a few months when William showed up to challenge him, and his claim to the throne was pretty much "because I can kick your ass, that's why."

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 15, 2012 06:38 PM (yWIC7)

84 *waves hi to peaches on a new thread* Sup chemjeff and Morons in general. Ace is here? Shit. Who did something wrong?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 06:38 PM (GEICT)

Ima Congrats on the Graduation!

Posted by: Infidel at October 15, 2012 06:38 PM (pzoRG)

86 John Fox probably had a mini stroke during half time and the players thought "maybe we should actually try so our coach doesn't die".

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 06:39 PM (/YJYi)

87 I think the guy with the club in the painting is Bishop Odo,William's brother.William had a legitimate claim to the throne btw.

Posted by: steevy at October 15, 2012 06:39 PM (6o4Fb)

88 The English fry the morning toast. Everything is cooked in the "We have no source of warmth except peat moss and animal fat so here's your Yorkshire pudding and fried everything else" style. Yorkshire pudding is still good, as is steak and kidney pie. You can hear your heart bogging down like a lawnmover engine full of 15w40, though.

Posted by: Secundus, Judge Death Fan Club at October 15, 2012 06:39 PM (KzqC+)

89 I say we must bring back the use of the letters "Ã†," "ᵹ," "Ãž," "Ƿ," and "Ã."

Posted by: Se Léodweardprætt Hæt at October 15, 2012 06:39 PM (sZTYJ)

90 Peaches, I graduated (finally) in May but work cranked up and it's been insane. I miss you 'rons and 'ettes so much!

Sweetie, congratulations!!!! And my sympathies. Working sucks. I can't believe the lottery is such a cruel bitch. I will no doubt drop over dead in the (purely platonic) service of some dem lawyer . . . way past the time I am totally okay with the concept.

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 06:40 PM (kpCLl)

91 "In the middle of the school year, having the teachers out on strike in a world without stay-at-home moms means a crisis for families. Someone needs to take care of the the kids, and there is only so much vacation that you can take all at once. Caving means getting out of the jam while passing the costs on to other people, mostly." Another option is to make teacher strikes illegal and enforce it. This is what happened in Michigan. There hasn't been a strike in Michigan as far as I know, since the 80's. It's enforced with fines or something. The people in Illinois don't have the guts to put a stop to it.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 15, 2012 06:40 PM (rwbWy)

92 Ok, so I asked yesterday and didn't get any answers...what are some reasonable PC desktop specs nowadays?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 15, 2012 06:40 PM (AUeaU)

93 As much as I hate france, as a political entity, the english needed a little civilizing. for what it is worth, my regard for the english is fading fast also.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 15, 2012 06:40 PM (Z9EHQ)

94 Some perspective on the previous thread: http://preview.tinyurl.com/cxtfl8w Prolly couldn't have said it better myself on short notice....

Posted by: Thorvald at October 15, 2012 06:40 PM (1V6Pv)

95 chemjeff, I've heard about nothing in our general area. The left coast seems to be active but nothing here. We should probably try to gen something up but you and I may be the only ones paying attention.

Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at October 15, 2012 06:40 PM (otfJ1)

96 Fill the rest of us 'rons in on the wedding ring thing. I tend, too, to stay away from WND. It's good, and I don't discount everything there, but kinda like MSNBC for conservatives.

Posted by: Kalneva at October 15, 2012 06:41 PM (cQmXn)

97 74 Irish dinner of six courses is even easier.
I thought it was seven. Boiled potato and a six-pack.

Posted by: Secundus, Judge Death Fan Club at October 15, 2012 10:34 PM (KzqC+)

Aren't you fancy, adding a potato!

Posted by: cthulhu at October 15, 2012 06:41 PM (kaalw)

98 logprof; Yeah, I know the NHL season doesn't get really cranked up till after Christmas. Still on nights like these where I'm off and could care less about the teams playing MNF it would be nice to watch a little hockey. Denver is coming back though. That might hold my interest a bit. Plus, I'm still sober. I'm working on that.

Posted by: stillers at October 15, 2012 06:41 PM (qz78g)

99 English breakfasts are wonderful.

When I was in school, I would load up on the breakfasts because I knew what horrors awaited me at lunch and dinner.

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 06:41 PM (QTHTd)

100 And, as for a costume . . . lemme tell ya, if I really wanted to scare people, I would just run nekkid through the streets, I guess it's one of the advantages of age. Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 10:22 PM (kpCLl) Hey it's the 21st century. I guarantee you that if you we're just a brain in a jar on a jazzy someone would be chasing after you wanting to have sex with ya.

Posted by: Hanoverfist at October 15, 2012 06:41 PM (+EVcO)

101 90-his missing English accent in Robin Hood, prince of Thieves? The only redeeming thing about that movie was Alan Rickman, as the extremely nasty Sheriff of Nottiingham. Otherwise, a travesty of Anti-Norman propaganda.

Posted by: moki at October 15, 2012 06:42 PM (dZmFh)

102 Aren't you fancy, adding a potato!

Just you wait . . .

Posted by: the ergot fungus, 1840s at October 15, 2012 06:42 PM (QTHTd)

103

@90

I heard he's being considered for Richelieu in the Three Musketeers reboot.

Posted by: Secundus, Judge Death Fan Club at October 15, 2012 06:42 PM (KzqC+)

104 48 hi all
wow, Ace on the ONT!
so what is the appropriate gift for a 946th anniversary?

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 10:28 PM

An eyepatch. They're always classy.

Posted by: otho at October 15, 2012 06:42 PM (yBF/9)

105 Thanks, peaches. I'm very thankful to have a job.

Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at October 15, 2012 06:43 PM (otfJ1)

106 Peaches . . you work for a dem lawyer too???

Posted by: Infidel at October 15, 2012 06:43 PM (pzoRG)

107 If Washington tries to seize your asteroid, send it to them free of charge. Nice pic of a space shuttle. Excellent view of its scale.

Posted by: eman at October 15, 2012 06:43 PM (+XD7n)

108 OT.
she's hot, conservative, and knows her onions.

http://tinyurl.com/7uuq4wl

Posted by: Jim Bouton at October 15, 2012 06:43 PM (xatoT)

109 101 logprof; Yeah, I know the NHL season doesn't get really cranked up till after Christmas. Still on nights like these where I'm off and could care less about the teams playing MNF it would be nice to watcha little hockey. Denver is coming back though. That might hold my interest a bit. Plus, I'm still sober. I'm working on that. Posted by: stillers at October 15, 2012 10:41 PM (qz78g) --I'm keeping my liquor wet until the debate tomorrow night.

Posted by: logprof at October 15, 2012 06:44 PM (V/U0X)

110

I knew that Carter was an idiot but I never had any idea he was a cat-killer. Oh, well. I guess it's better than being called the worst president. That title has been snatched away.

Posted by: Mo the Girl at October 15, 2012 06:44 PM (zXHgP)

111 What is that movie Flight about? I'm hoping Denzel bounces back after the so-so Safehouse.

Posted by: logprof at October 15, 2012 06:45 PM (V/U0X)

112 Gordon Ramsay makes good food, as far as I can tell. Plus he swears a lot.

Posted by: Kalneva at October 15, 2012 06:45 PM (cQmXn)

113 105-didn't ergot just affect rye? Did it also affect potatoes? I thought it was a stealth fungus that went relatively unnoticed until you made bread with affected rye flour, and then died eating a sandwich.

Posted by: moki at October 15, 2012 06:45 PM (dZmFh)

114 I'm still trying to figure out how you people are going to work Kevin Costner into this ONT.
Posted by: runninrebel at October 15, 2012 10:39 PM

Robin Hood came later, right? Some time after Richard I crusaded to the ~~Holy Land~~ Midwest?

Posted by: huerfano at October 15, 2012 06:46 PM (bAGA/)

115 Another option is to make teacher strikes illegal and enforce it.
***
I'd go a step further - any public sector union should be illegal, as should public sector strikes.

There is no point, from society's perspective, for a public sector union.

Schools are of course a special source of concern - since the government already forces you to pay for public schools, your ability to send your children to private school is often nominal.

Teachers are generally over credentialed and overpaid anyway to be honest. I have no doubt that your average class of snowflakes is a pain to teach - but when you consider that teachers make twice as much as say a career NCO, I just don't see the argument that they are underpaid...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 15, 2012 06:46 PM (AUeaU)

116 I knew that Carter was an idiot but I never had any idea he was a cat-killer. Oh, well. I guess it's better than being called the worst president. That title has been snatched away.
Posted by: Mo the Girl at October 15, 2012 10:44 PM (zXHgP)

I'm not kidding about the cat-killing thing. Google it.

Posted by: Mætenloch at October 15, 2012 06:46 PM (pAlYe)

117 Pic of Candy Crowley on Drudge. She looks like a Pre-op tranny truck driver.

Posted by: EC at October 15, 2012 06:47 PM (doBIb)

118 Link to WND story about Obama's Ring - fuel to the he's a Muslim fire or not?
http://tinyurl.com/8fryb2l

Posted by: someone at October 15, 2012 06:47 PM (bqjJT)

119 90 I'm still trying to figure out how you people are going to work Kevin Costner into this ONT.

Posted by: runninrebel at October 15, 2012 10:39 PM (N/1Dm)

When you're not shooting arrows from longbows at the French, why not dance with some wolves?

Posted by: Kevin Costner at October 15, 2012 06:48 PM (d/5qf)

120 Would a football team please throw a bucket of money at John Gruden?? He is just plain fucking awful as an announcer. I have muted the TV and I'm listening to a Kansas CD (the first album). I can now safely watch the game without throwing stuff at the TV.

Posted by: stillers at October 15, 2012 06:48 PM (qz78g)

121 That fucking comet ...

Posted by: King Harold at October 15, 2012 06:48 PM (ngsKr)

122

CNN reports that Hillary has "taken responsibility" for the security screw-up in Libya:

"Clinton insisted President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are not involved in security decisions.

"I want to avoid some kind of political gotcha," she added, noting that it is close to the election."

It's also the night before the 2nd debate. So Hill takes the rap for this - what has she been promised in return?

Posted by: Donna V at October 15, 2012 06:48 PM (dcIHW)

123 Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 10:22 PM (kpCLl) Hanoverfist at October 15, 2012 10:41 PM (+EVcO) And if you were just a brain in a jar running nekkid through the streets even more someones would be chasing after you wanting to have sex with ya.

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 06:48 PM (/OhbZ)

124 Ima, I'd love to have a moron meetup in the KC area
I tried to organize one earlier and it was, well, only sparsely attended
maybe if I promise not to attend the next one, more people will attend

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 06:48 PM (d/5qf)

125 that teachers make twice as much as say a career NCO, I just don't see the argument that they are underpaid...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 15, 2012 10:46 PM (AUeaU)

Those guys already get to board planes before anyone else, how much more do you want?!?!?11?!?

Posted by: Bill Ayers at October 15, 2012 06:49 PM (/YJYi)

126 moki -

[checks] You are right:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytophthora_infestans

The Famine wasn't ergot, it was this... greek thing I can't pronounce. I always thought it was ergot. So, thanks for putting me some knowledge.

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 06:49 PM (QTHTd)

127

121 Saw that last week. Meh. Wow's knows any of SCOAMF's secrets?

Better just to get him out of office asap.

Posted by: Infidel at October 15, 2012 06:49 PM (pzoRG)

128 she's hot, conservative, and knows her onions.

http://tinyurl.com/7uuq4wl
---
Isn't Russia Today Putin's propaganda network?
Yes, I know most of what they say is true. That's how bad things are.

Posted by: Methos at October 15, 2012 06:49 PM (6LvlL)

129 It's also the night before the 2nd debate. So Hill takes the rap for this - what has she been promised in return?
___
She can't have my blankee.

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 15, 2012 06:50 PM (AUeaU)

130 Hi BCochran

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 06:50 PM (d/5qf)

131 I'm a F'n ANTIQUITY????? and I thought the debates were nasty!

Posted by: SMOD at October 15, 2012 06:50 PM (lZBBB)

132 121 Thanks. Eww.

Posted by: Kalneva at October 15, 2012 06:50 PM (cQmXn)

133 Pic of Candy Crowley on Drudge. She looks like a Pre-op tranny truck driver. Posted by: EC at October 15, 2012 10:47 PM (doBIb) At least pre-op tranny truck drivers have an honest job

Posted by: Þe Political Hat at October 15, 2012 06:51 PM (sZTYJ)

134 she's hot, conservative, and knows her onions.

Does she wear them from a rope on her belt, as was the fashion in those days?

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at October 15, 2012 06:51 PM (hO8IJ)

135 ...and yes, I will be using the letter "Ãž" in the hopes of sparking a revival...

Posted by: Þe Political Hat at October 15, 2012 06:51 PM (sZTYJ)

136 That fucking comet ...

Posted by: King Harold at October 15, 2012 10:48 PM (ngsKr)

Tell me about it.

Posted by: The Lady at October 15, 2012 06:52 PM (6LvlL)

137 so - hi moki! How've you been ?

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 06:52 PM (QTHTd)

138 Yes, I know most of what they say is true. That's how bad things are.
***
In second or third world despotisms they worry that the people will completely stop taking their State Media seriously if they go as in the tank as ours...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 15, 2012 06:52 PM (AUeaU)

139 ack, chemjeff! KC? Can we get a little closer to Alabamda? If not, I'll adjust but I'm stuck in redneck country.

Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at October 15, 2012 06:52 PM (otfJ1)

140 At least it isn't Gruden AND Jaworski anymore.Ah,who am I kidding,I still mute it.

Posted by: steevy at October 15, 2012 06:52 PM (6o4Fb)

141 63 I like English style cooking. Meat and potatoes. Simple, basic.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 15, 2012 10:31 PM (ZPrif)

English/American translation: "meat' = guts pulled from something dead, probably roadkill. "potatoes" = any root that doesn't break your teeth. At least right away.

Posted by: johnd01 at October 15, 2012 06:53 PM (js5jY)

142 So Hill takes the rap for this - what has she been promised in return? well ... she's already old enough not to have to eat in Moochelle's school lunch program ...

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 06:53 PM (/OhbZ)

143 136 Pic of Candy Crowley on Drudge. She looks like a Pre-op tranny truck driver.
Posted by: EC at October 15, 2012 10:47 PM (doBIb)

At least pre-op tranny truck drivers have an honest job
Posted by: Ãže Political Hat at October 15, 2012 10:51 PM (sZTYJ)

And try to look decent.

Posted by: Mætenloch at October 15, 2012 06:53 PM (pAlYe)

144 In 2066 Great Britain will be even more fucked up than it is now. Hard to accept, but still quite likely. And Cyborg Queen Elizabeth II will still wake up Cyborg Prince Charles every morning with, "You will never be King!"

Posted by: eman at October 15, 2012 06:53 PM (+XD7n)

145 yes, I will be using the letter "Ãž" in the hopes of sparking a revival...

I do that when I shorthand "Thursday". That's the only time, though.

I haven't been hit by lightning yet, so it seems to be working for me.

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 06:53 PM (QTHTd)

146

@126

Short straw. Take the fall now or we hang it around your neck. Take the blame, you keep your bennies. Otherwise, you lose the whole thing and the IRS just happens to start an investigation into you and Cigar Hound.

Posted by: Secundus, Judge Death Fan Club at October 15, 2012 06:53 PM (KzqC+)

147

Taking responsibility for the deaths of four foreign service personnel, including an ambassador, must surely mean Hillary will resign.

Phfffft.

Posted by: Meremortal, will hell freeze over? at October 15, 2012 06:54 PM (1Y+hH)

148 you know who is hot? heather whats her name the girl that hulk hogan made the naked pretzel with on that sex tape. I saw a picture of her today. She is surprisingly good looking.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 15, 2012 06:55 PM (Z9EHQ)

149 At least pre-op tranny truck drivers have an honest job

I'm drivin' a truck
Drivin' a big ol' truck
Pedal to the metal, hope I don't run out of luck
Rollin' down the highway until the break of dawn
Drivin' a truck with my high heels on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZSBrM2SybY

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at October 15, 2012 06:55 PM (hO8IJ)

150 his claim to the throne was pretty much "because I can kick your ass, that's why." Isn't that about the basis of all claims of royalty?

Posted by: Fox2! at October 15, 2012 06:56 PM (1Qpmy)

151 Fine selection this night, Maetenloch! Re: Hastings, sometimes the wrong people win, as with Carter and L'il Barry (not that McCain (nor Ford, for that matter), war hero that he is, was the right guy: he's not even a Republican). Luckily, or Providentially, Moses won in The Battle of the Wilderness, and the Declogue still rules. Nonetheless, failure to take care of business means that various members of various tribes still peel off to the Cult of Death and worship of Moloch. If Moses, a made man (Ex 2,12), failed to TCB with the false god, didn't that leave a lasting legacy? Even in winning, if the right guy dies, and the wrong guy sets about, over two terms in the White House, to destroy yeoman agriculture and stifle the development of flying cars (Ezra Taft Benson and Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956), we're left withthe Cold War, millions of Liberty Lovers dead world-wide, when Patton would have cut the effin' Commies off at the knees before we lost China, before the Russkies stole the bomb: for 50 bonus points, how many million tons of aid did we send Stalin per year in WW II?

Posted by: Thorvald at October 15, 2012 06:56 PM (1V6Pv)

152 123 Would a football team please throw a bucket of money at John Gruden?? He is just plain fucking awful as an announcer. I have muted the TV and I'm listening to a Kansas CD (the first album). I can now safely watch the game without throwing stuff at the TV. Posted by: stillers at October 15, 2012 10:48 PM (qz78g) --Two of the local radio guys were joking on Gruden, namely, how can such a smart X's and O's guy be such a doofus on TV? As they put it, Gruden does not need to sell the game; North America is sold on it.

Posted by: logprof at October 15, 2012 06:57 PM (V/U0X)

153 Hastings, still one of the best Civ2 scenarios.

And William the Conqueror (Cankerer) still ended up worse off the Harold, exploding at his own funeral and setting the funniest funeral scene till Ayatollah Assaholah fell out of his casket almost a millennium later.

Posted by: Karusky at October 15, 2012 06:57 PM (dO4L7)

154 English/American translation: "meat' = guts pulled from something dead, probably roadkill. "potatoes" = any root that doesn't break your teeth. At least right away. We Irish decided if you just put it all in a pot a boil it for 17 hours, it tastes like nothing and keeps you from dying.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 06:57 PM (GEICT)

155 New Quentin Tarantino movie. HereÂ’s a spot for The Man With The Iron Fists, the kung fu actioner featuring Cung Le (highlighed here), RZA, Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu. It appeared today on the UFC homepage Â— right in the wheelhouse of the fighting picÂ’s target demo. Quentin Tarantino is presenting the pic, which RZA co-wrote with Eli Roth and directed. Universal releases it November 2. http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/man-with-the-iron-fists-trailer-cung-le-quentin-tarantino/

Posted by: o_O at October 15, 2012 06:57 PM (LpQbZ)

156 Matthew Boyle@mboyle1 I have an explosive story about Barack Obama's past coming tonight. yummy, what's next from The Daily Caller?

Posted by: o_O at October 15, 2012 06:57 PM (LpQbZ)

157 Peaches . . you work for a dem lawyer too???

Posted by: Infidel at October 15, 2012 10:43 PM (pzoRG)

2-time chairman of the CA dem party. And a sweetheart, I love him. But, yeah, a lobbyist.

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 06:58 PM (kpCLl)

158 his claim to the throne was pretty much "because I can kick your ass, that's why."

It was more "because all the English barons would rather have an English baron for a king".

Think Magna Carta in 1066, not in 1215.

William, the bastard, set back English freedom almost two centuries.

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 06:58 PM (QTHTd)

159 You have to read the actual article. Hillary's statement is meant to produce a headline that says, "she takes full responsibility" while actually taking no more responsibility than a choomin' High School punk. Bill's first instinct was to buy some lawyerin' and get to definin' what "is" is, and this is what they came out with.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 15, 2012 06:59 PM (kaalw)

160 I miss y'all but I've hit the limit. Hope to see you soon. Keep it real!

Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at October 15, 2012 06:59 PM (otfJ1)

161 131 she's hot, conservative, and knows her onions.

http://tinyurl.com/7uuq4wl
---
Isn't Russia Today Putin's propaganda network?
Yes, I know most of what they say is true. That's how bad things are.

i know who owns them. but hot , conservative, thinks bernanke is a hypocrite, msnbc is a joke,the market will take care of peak oil, and shows clips of mel brooks as the the king in "history of the world" to illustrate the inevitable eu troubles. what's not to like?

Posted by: Jim Bouton at October 15, 2012 06:59 PM (xatoT)

162 I am not getting why Hillary is taking the fall. Not a Clintonesque thing to do. Put a dummy some knowledge.

Posted by: Kalneva at October 15, 2012 06:59 PM (cQmXn)

163

160

Bring it, genius.

Posted by: Mirror Image Barack Obama at October 15, 2012 07:00 PM (1Y+hH)

164 I have an explosive story about Barack Obama's past coming tonight.

When will we have the red meat on that? Cause I am so ready.

The wedding ring thing, and you can google it, kalneva, is that it's a ring he's had since he was a small jihadi in Indonesia and is inscribed with "There is no god but allah" or some shit. Who knows, nothing surprises me at this point.

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 07:00 PM (kpCLl)

165 not to go all "Wyatt Earp" on the ONOT, but I've actually posted something on the subject at hand. Link in nick. I'm off to tap into tomorrow night's ration of Val-U-Rite.

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 15, 2012 07:00 PM (JMmQ9)

166 o_O - I noticed you spammed this site in the other threads below.

Thanks for letting me know not to watch any Tarentino movies for the next twelve months!

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 07:00 PM (QTHTd)

167 Hey it's the 21st century. I guarantee you that if you we're just a brain in a jar on a jazzy someone would be chasing after you wanting to have sex with ya. Posted by: Hanoverfist at October 15, 2012 10:41 PM (+EVcO) Well, let's just say if there was a naked brain in a jar running down my street, *I* wouldn't be wasting my time on the internet.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 07:01 PM (bxiXv)

168 Mitt's response to Hillary's phony mea culpa could be, "So, you're worthless. How about your boss?"

Posted by: eman at October 15, 2012 07:01 PM (+XD7n)

169 At the moment, these regulations only apply to asteroidal materials that have fallen to Earth as meteorites. However, they create a precedent that could adversely affect the plans of companies such as Planetary Resources, who intend to mine asteroids in space." This is pure insanity. This sets a precedent that any rock anywhere (or gas or liquid, for that matter) could be defined an "antiquity". For get "pure". This is well beyond insanity. Give a leftist an inch ... and they kill you. Fuckers.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 07:02 PM (X3lox)

170 Ã†," "ᵹ," "Ãž," "Ƿ," and "Ã." What's the letter between Ã† and thorn? I've always had a special place for edh

Posted by: Fox2! at October 15, 2012 07:02 PM (1Qpmy)

171 Well, at least it was Decker who got this TD.

Posted by: logprof at October 15, 2012 07:02 PM (V/U0X)

172 Old Vulcan proverb- carter is a prick.

Posted by: Berserker at October 15, 2012 07:03 PM (FMbng)

173 Sorry. Was trying furiously to type whilst everyone was answering the question I put forth. (Still can't work an iPad.)

Posted by: Kalneva at October 15, 2012 07:03 PM (cQmXn)

174 Peaches....as to the "#2, get a life"....I stunningly enough have a very good one. Wife, kids, house, good job, etc. Apparently, AoS has become a part of that life. *shrugs* There are worse things in life than being an active participant in an online community of smartasses, jackasses, wiseasses and astute conservative political commentators.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 07:03 PM (GEICT)

175 170 o_O - I noticed you spammed this site in the other threads below. Thanks for letting me know not to watch any Tarentino movies for the next twelve months! Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 11:00 PM (QTHTd) --I saw the ad earlier during the game, and was not terribly impressed.

Posted by: logprof at October 15, 2012 07:03 PM (V/U0X)

176 Peaches . . ack. I got a story today about how the Koch brothers are behind putting the kabosh on a case today. You know, I wouldn't like it since I'm a "conservative." Just no other jobs around here.

Posted by: Infidel at October 15, 2012 07:04 PM (pzoRG)

177 Why the funky British spelling of "endeavor"?

Posted by: schizoid at October 15, 2012 07:04 PM (NXBVJ)

178 carter is a prick

The bunny rabbits infesting the Boulder area must be Obama voters... none of them raided the Denver debate.

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 07:04 PM (QTHTd)

179 166 I am not getting why Hillary is taking the fall. Not a Clintonesque thing to do. Put a dummy some knowledge. Posted by: Kalneva at October 15, 2012 10:59 PM (cQmXn) I don't think she really did. She blamed someone else, gave her boss cover, gave the press something to give her credit for, and an excuse for the press to change the subject. It's like a non-apology.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 07:04 PM (bxiXv)

180 We should probably try to gen something up but you and I may be the only ones paying attention Are there any morons in UA (Upper Alabama)?

Posted by: Fox2! at October 15, 2012 07:04 PM (1Qpmy)

181

Did Manning steal ace's time machine and go get himself from 2008 to play the second half?

Posted by: buzzion at October 15, 2012 07:04 PM (GULKT)

182 All right, time to get away and mark some exams. Have a good night y'all!

Posted by: logprof at October 15, 2012 07:05 PM (V/U0X)

183 Your guy a litigator, Infidel?

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 07:05 PM (kpCLl)

184 Cracked has an article on movie stereotypes, and #1 is that Africa is a hell hole of armed men trying to kill people.

One of the movies that use as an example of this? Black Hawk Down.

Um...facts are stubborn things?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 15, 2012 07:05 PM (AUeaU)

185 Hi, I'm Candy. I promise to be fair-minded and only rip Mitt Romney's head off nine times.

Posted by: Candi Crawls Over There at October 15, 2012 07:05 PM (zXHgP)

186 Why the funky British spelling of "endeavor"?

Named after Cook's ship.

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 15, 2012 07:05 PM (ngsKr)

187 I noticed you spammed this site in the other threads below. = always the gentleman, eh? the thread was dead, I merely transferred to a lively one. to each his own. =p

Posted by: o_O at October 15, 2012 07:05 PM (LpQbZ)

188 Are there any morons in UA (Upper Alabama)?

Posted by: Fox2! at October 15, 2012 11:04 PM (1Qpmy)

I may be the only one.

Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at October 15, 2012 07:06 PM (otfJ1)

189 177 Old Vulcan proverb- carter is a prick. Posted by: Berserker at October 15, 2012 11:03 PM (FMbng) Vulcan proverb: Nixon may have been the only one who could have gone to China, but Carter is the only one who could get chased out of a lake by a rabbit.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 07:06 PM (bxiXv)

190 Nothing wrong with killing cats. Clean and quick keeps the meat nice and juicy.

Posted by: Gordon Shumway at October 15, 2012 07:06 PM (38ReL)

191 Old Romulan proverb- carter is a prick.

Posted by: Berserker at October 15, 2012 07:07 PM (FMbng)

192 I am not getting why Hillary is taking the fall. Not a Clintonesque thing to do. Put a dummy some knowledge. Posted by: Kalneva at October 15, 2012 10:59 PM (cQmXn) After she got away with that historically stupid ~~RESET~~ OVERCHARGED button, she figured that she was just totally invincible. She might be correct. In any sane society, the idiot who couldn't translate a simple, single word into a language that we've had to eavesdrop in and interpret for generations, for one of the most pathetic, dumbest, ridiculous and PUBLIC diplomatic entrees with a nation that could literally vaporize us, would have been tossed on the fire, along with everyone up the chain of command from her.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 07:07 PM (X3lox)

193 182 Why the funky British spelling of "endeavor"?

Posted by: schizoid at October 15, 2012 11:04 PM

That's how it was spelled on Captain Cook's ship?

Posted by: otho at October 15, 2012 07:07 PM (yBF/9)

194 172 Hey it's the 21st century. I guarantee you that if you we're just a brain in a jar on a jazzy someone would be chasing after you wanting to have sex with ya. Posted by: Hanoverfist at October 15, 2012 10:41 PM (+EVcO) Well, let's just say if there was a naked brain in a jar running down my street, *I* wouldn't be wasting my time on the internet. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 11:01 PM (bxiXv) *talking to self* Don't do it man. You know the rules, don't do it. It's gonna be bad. Do not google "having sex with a brain". You don't google shit from AoS....

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 07:07 PM (GEICT)

195 I am not getting why Hillary is taking the fall. She's not. "I take full responsibility for stuff people I inherited did or didn't do." is just some sort of inside Democrat joke on the rest of us.

Posted by: t-bird at October 15, 2012 07:08 PM (FcR7P)

196 140- Hey Boulder!!! Busy-daughter had her surgery, we were in the hospital 8 days, a week and a half recovery, and she's back at school, but still in a lot of pain. Second part of the procedure is next week, so we hope that will ease her pain. I am just tired, from sleeping on hospital cots. And eating hospital food-although they were really sweet to bring me food, since I was "an attending parent." And I wasn't trying to be snarky about the ergot-that was one of those factoids that I had stuffed in the brain-pan, and it comes up periodically. A wonderful class on fungus that I taught my daughter in a homeschool science class. I just thought that ergot perhaps had metamorphed into something that could attack root vegetables-it would not be out of the realm of possibility. How are you doing sweetie???

Posted by: moki at October 15, 2012 07:08 PM (dZmFh)

197 I do not know what Hillary is up to but, mark my words, nothing is as it seems with these Clintstones. And, first, she will blow me.

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 07:08 PM (kpCLl)

198 Old Centari proverb- carter is a prick, yeeuuus?

Posted by: Berserker at October 15, 2012 07:08 PM (FMbng)

199 I think I'll through something if a town hall questioner asks about contraception.

Posted by: Serious Cat at October 15, 2012 07:08 PM (zrpqj)

200 Ima, didn't you mention at one time meeting up at Tunica? Is that still an option?

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 07:09 PM (d/5qf)

201 Oops. I was supposed to sign off and head to bed earlier. I'll check tomorrow to see if there are any other NA morons who want to meet.

Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at October 15, 2012 07:09 PM (otfJ1)

202 these Clintstones

hah

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 07:09 PM (d/5qf)

203 Air has now been recategorized as an antiquity and the attendant restrictions on its use by the feral government will be in the offing.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 07:09 PM (X3lox)

204 Sorry everybody, I had a dildo up every orifice the night of the Benghazi attack. Barack only had one up his ass.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 15, 2012 07:09 PM (BVkEs)

205 {{{{{{moki!}}}}}} I'm so sorry that your darlin' is still dealing with this mess. Continued prayers that she will soon be on the other side of it and on the mend. Hugs to you both.

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 07:09 PM (kpCLl)

206 188 Yea, WC. Just 2 of us in the office here out the corporate office in Denver. We are "paperless" now.

Posted by: Infidel at October 15, 2012 07:09 PM (pzoRG)

207 Absolutely, chemjeff. I like Tunica. That is a definite possibility.

Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at October 15, 2012 07:10 PM (otfJ1)

208 I don't see where HRC takes responsibility. All I think she is saying is that AFTER the attack, she worked tirelessly. From NBC: "Rather than focusing on who to blame for the attacks, the State Department stayed "focused not on why something happened that was for the intelligence community to determine, but what was happening and could happen,Â” Clinton said. Â“We did everything we could to keep our people safe, which is my primary responsibility.Â” So AFTER the attack, State put an extra pot of coffee on and figured out how to keep people safe. I don't see her taking responsibility for the lack of security. From NBC: "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday in an interview with NBC News that she worked day and night following the fatal attacks on the Benghazi consulate to ensure the safety of other government workers abroad. I think this is carefully crafted. She is not taking the fall.

Posted by: USA at October 15, 2012 07:10 PM (RIg+t)

209 moki, wow, hang in there, and your daughter too

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 07:10 PM (d/5qf)

210 Mead doesn't really explain whether English changed because of French influence (I remember French grammar being only somewhat less complicated than German), or it just changed.

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 15, 2012 07:11 PM (ngsKr)

211 So Hill takes the rap for this - what has she been promised in return? Posted by: Donna V at October 15, 2012 10:48 PM (dcIHW) SCOAMF promises NOT to campaign for her in 2016? Either that or an introduction to Obama Girl.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 15, 2012 07:11 PM (Rhie+)

212 Well we're over 200 comments in, here's some boobehs for you.

http://tinyurl.com/94gdgbg

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 07:11 PM (/YJYi)

213 Way to be responsible, logprof! Goodnight! Thanks, Merovign, I shoulda known! Now that IS Clintonesque. I was busy making dinner and was not my usually informed self. I'll have to catch up. I had braised some beef chuck last night while husband was at the game, and he "forced" me to make enchiladas with it. Three hours away from current events takes a toll.

Posted by: Kalneva at October 15, 2012 07:12 PM (cQmXn)

214 Awwwwwwww, poor Ryan Leaf Jr.

Posted by: buzzion at October 15, 2012 07:12 PM (GULKT)

215 The Chargers are stuttering clusterf*cks of miserable failures.How does Norv Turner stay employed??

Posted by: steevy at October 15, 2012 07:12 PM (6o4Fb)

216 Well we're over 200 comments in, here's some boobehs for you. http://tinyurl.com/94gdgbg Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 11:11 PM (/YJYi) Wow.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 07:12 PM (X3lox)

217 {{{{{Peaches and chemjeff}}}} Thanks guys!! You are a balm to a weary heart!! She is one tough little cookie. She is just mad that the doc in Alabama didn't think anything was wrong. Our doc found a 2-3 cm hole in her bladder. How the hell do you miss that?

Posted by: moki at October 15, 2012 07:13 PM (dZmFh)

218 217 Well we're over 200 comments in, here's some boobehs for you. http://tinyurl.com/94gdgbg Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 11:11 PM (/YJYi) Ok, those? Those are FANTASTIC. Excellent work my friend.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 07:13 PM (GEICT)

219 Count me in as one who misses hockey.

Posted by: helofixer at October 15, 2012 07:13 PM (Pt9bY)

220 How does Norv Turner stay employed??

Ah, jeez, let's not open THAT can of worms again, okay? It's the Chargers, no one actually gives a shit.

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 07:13 PM (kpCLl)

221 Ima, would sometime after Christmas be a possibility?

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 07:13 PM (d/5qf)

222 ** for those that might have flipped off the DEN v SD game. Broncos were down 0-24 in first half. Now at 21-24 with an interception in last play. Possible 1st time lead in game inc.

Posted by: o_O at October 15, 2012 07:14 PM (LpQbZ)

223 Best part of the polls that came across today?

No Greg!

Posted by: kbdabear at October 15, 2012 07:14 PM (wwsoB)

224 Posted by: Gordon Shumway

IWYDT

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at October 15, 2012 07:14 PM (hO8IJ)

225 Night 'rons and 'ettes. Woke up at 3:30 this am. I'm beat.

Posted by: Infidel at October 15, 2012 07:14 PM (pzoRG)

226 2008? Closer to when Manning beat Tampa Bay in 2003.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at October 15, 2012 07:14 PM (hO8IJ)

227 The ring story is both bullshit and pointless. The photos of the ring, blown up and with helpful scribbly lines added, didn't show jack. It's just a fucking ring. If it says something in Arabic I doubt Obama knows it. More to the point, so fucking what? Bear in mind that I think Obama is easily the Worst President Ever -- but does anyone think some blurry photos of a ring with scribbly lines added are going to change anybody's vote? There are quite simply NO Democrat voters who will look at some blurry photos on WND and think "Oh my gosh! Obama must be a crypto-Muslim! I'll switch my vote to that nice Mr. Romney!"

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 15, 2012 07:15 PM (yWIC7)

228 Huh, Carter is crabby about this:
Carter has long peddled the false story that George Will stole his debate briefing book and gave it to Reagan and has blamed his 1980 loss on this.
Actually that makes him even sillier than before. Either he's most likely just sore that he lost and acting like a whiny child, or even better, that actually happened, and as the President of the United States with access to all sorts of security enhanced installments, he just left a supposedly Top Secret document laying around like an imbecile.
What a maroon!

Posted by: Bad Science at October 15, 2012 07:15 PM (RKCDH)

229 hugs to all yall-I have missed you guys. Remember, vote like your life depends on it. Because it probably does.

Posted by: moki at October 15, 2012 07:15 PM (dZmFh)

230 moki - don't worry about being snarky when I am *wrong*. Especially when my sock is making light of the Famine (grandma's ban sidhe is staring me down as I type this... I pray she doesn't yell at me).

I hope that your daughter (and you!) get through this.

Over here - well, work is going okay, eyesight is still meh, the weather is lovely. If the mountains get snow this year, which they didn't get last year, I'll be very happy indeed

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 07:15 PM (QTHTd)

231 Yeah getting ahead and trying to work the clock and not score anymore is such a good strategy when you're playing against Manning.

Posted by: buzzion at October 15, 2012 07:15 PM (GULKT)

232 Absolutely, chemjeff! And, with that, I'm really out for the night. I'll be in touch.

Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at October 15, 2012 07:16 PM (otfJ1)

233 TFG's ring has been debunked: http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/213872.php

Posted by: Grover's at October 15, 2012 07:16 PM (Kh0Kx)

234

Heh.

Pro: Michigan doesn't have teachers strikes anymore.

Con: Michigan public school teachers don't really teach anything of value anyway.

Pro: Michigan is a diverse state! Woot Woot!!

Con: Michigan will submit to Sharia law... it's only a matter of time.

Pro: Michigans school budgets can be cut in half when girls are no longer allowed to be educated under Islamic rule.

Con: Burkas cover up the pointy elbows.

Only sorta joking about this stuff...

Posted by: Morons hardest hit at October 15, 2012 07:16 PM (Ts3c9)

235 She is just mad that the doc in Alabama didn't think anything was wrong. Our doc found a 2-3 cm hole in her bladder. How the hell do you miss that?

Posted by: moki at October 15, 2012 11:13 PM (dZmFh)

moki, I know this sounds a little harsh, but have you consulted a med-mal attorney about any of this? Having followed this saga for so much longer than it should have endured, I cannot help but wonder if you have possibly had incompetent medical advice. And I know it's probably costing you a small fortune and if there is any way you can offset that, you might want to consider it. And, extra prayers up, girl. This needs to be set right.

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 07:16 PM (kpCLl)

236 True fact: Every time his boss tries to fire him, Norv Turner's acne scars induce overwhelming sympathy and he walks away. Norv's face craters serve as an Ugly Shield of Sympathy +3. Surprisingly useful.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 15, 2012 07:16 PM (ZPrif)

237 203 Old Centari proverb- carter is a prick, yeeuuus?

Posted by: Berserker at October 15, 2012 11:08 PM (FMbng)

I thought that was an old Groaci proverb.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 15, 2012 07:17 PM (kaalw)

238 231 2008? Closer to when Manning beat Tampa Bay in 2003.

Posted by: HeatherRadishÂ™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at October 15, 2012 11:14 PM (hO8IJ)

That was mentioned to Gruden already. But was ALL in the 4th quarter, not just the 2nd half. and Touchdown!

Posted by: buzzion at October 15, 2012 07:17 PM (GULKT)

239 I may be the only one. I'm up on the Mountain of Health

Posted by: Fox2! at October 15, 2012 07:17 PM (1Qpmy)

240 I blame Charles "The Hammer" Martel. If only Islam had won the English would have been left in peace to oppress the native Picts.

Posted by: Invictus at October 15, 2012 07:17 PM (OQpzc)

241 I'm not a Chargers or Broncos fan but damn SD. WTF??

Posted by: stillers at October 15, 2012 07:17 PM (qz78g)

242 And what Trimegistus said. The Dog-Eater ain't no Muslim. We might even be better off if he were.

Weird Nut Daily should not be our primary news source.

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 07:18 PM (QTHTd)

243 Huh. Broncos might save my pick after all.

Posted by: Methos at October 15, 2012 07:18 PM (6LvlL)

244 moki, that is so awful
I'm with Peaches here, as much as I think our health care system is screwed up due to lawsuits, this may be one of those times when it's justified

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 07:18 PM (d/5qf)

245 The Broncos have scored 28 straight points in 17 minutes. Amazing collapse by the Chargers D.

Posted by: toby928© at October 15, 2012 07:18 PM (QupBk)

246 195 I hope you enjoy mice. My lovely has presented me with no fewer than five dead mice. Lovingly placed at my doorstep this past week.

Posted by: Kalneva's kitty will be taken from her cold, dead hands at October 15, 2012 07:18 PM (cQmXn)

247 What's the letter between Ã† and thorn? I've always had a special place for edh Posted by: Fox2! at October 15, 2012 11:02 PM (1Qpmy) Insular G. Also, throw in "ȝ" (Gyfu) in as well...

Posted by: Se Léodweardprætt Hæt at October 15, 2012 07:18 PM (sZTYJ)

248

moki, what Peaches said. Never hurts to make a few phone calls.

Posted by: Infidel at October 15, 2012 07:18 PM (pzoRG)

249 Our doc found a 2-3 cm hole in her bladder. How the hell do you miss that?

Whut?

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 07:19 PM (QTHTd)

250 228 ** for those that might have flipped off the DEN v SD game. Broncos were down 0-24 in first half. Now at 21-24 with an interception in last play. Possible 1st time lead in game inc. Posted by: o_O at October 15, 2012 11:14 PM (LpQbZ) o_O

Posted by: Serious Cat at October 15, 2012 07:19 PM (zrpqj)

251 Mead doesn't really explain whether English changed because of French influence (I remember French grammar being only somewhat less complicated than German), or it just changed. Posted by: Waterhouse at October 15, 2012 11:11 PM (ngsKr) English has all the hallmarks of actually being a pidgin language. Simplification in grammer, the dropping of noun gender and declanation, &c.

Posted by: Þe Political Hat at October 15, 2012 07:19 PM (sZTYJ)

252 Here's a very NSFW Stacey Dash, just stunning.

http://tinyurl.com/93dw2us

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 07:21 PM (/YJYi)

253 I am no fan of the frogs - but French cuisine is great. Loaded with butter and fat, hell, how can any moron complain? I have a recipe for cassoulet that includes duck, garlic sausage, pork shoulder, lamb (optional - I like lamb, but many people do not, so I've left it out), white beans and a half a cup of bacon grease. I make it once a year because it takes hours to prepare and because I don't want to die of a heart attack. Believe me, it's great stuff. The French are fuck ups, but they do have wonderful food. The Brits? Well, I spent a semester in England many years ago. There is no swill on the face of the earth that compares to English cafeteria food. One morning, I thought the greasy fried eggs they served us tasted very weird, but I couldn't grasp why, exactly. Then it occurred to me - they had served greasy fish and chips the night before and hadn't cleaned off the grill properly. The eggs tasted like fish.

Posted by: Donna V at October 15, 2012 07:21 PM (dcIHW)

254 166 I am not getting why Hillary is taking the fall. Not a Clintonesque thing to do. Put a dummy some knowledge.

Posted by: Kalneva at October 15, 2012 10:59 PM (cQmXn)

It's being passed off as a fuck up by the career State Department employees, thus not a mistake by the political State Department members. The bureaucracy of the State Department is usually at odds with the White House, and this is just a way for the White House to look like they are not at fault. It will backfire, it always does because the bureaucrats have time and sensitive documents on their side. Documents that the White House would love to never see the light of day. Think "Wikilinks", but more embarrassing to the choomheads.

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 15, 2012 07:22 PM (Zd/NW)

255 I thought English evolved from a Norman elite, and German mercenaries trying to pick up English bar maids.

Posted by: Invictus at October 15, 2012 07:22 PM (OQpzc)

256 The ring story is both bullshit and pointless. The photos of the ring, blown up and with helpful scribbly lines added, didn't show jack. It's just a fucking ring. If it says something in Arabic I doubt Obama knows it. The lady protest too much, methinks. Why does this story bother you so much? Who else do you know even has any sort of elaborate wedding band, anyway (after all, they are wedding BANDS) and who wore said band even before they were married? More to the point, so fucking what? Bear in mind that I think Obama is easily the Worst President Ever -- but does anyone think some blurry photos of a ring with scribbly lines added are going to change anybody's vote? There are quite simply NO Democrat voters who will look at some blurry photos on WND and think "Oh my gosh! Obama must be a crypto-Muslim! I'll switch my vote to that nice Mr. Romney!" Posted by: Trimegistus at October 15, 2012 11:15 PM (yWIC7) arabic is nothing but scribbly lines, itself. Are you concerned that someone will associate you with us crazy-people? Or are you saying that you just think it doesn't matter? This isn't about changing anyone's vote, genius. It's about the truth. WTFFF?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 07:22 PM (X3lox)

257 Oh that's why Manning has been able to start shredding the defense. Jack Del Rio is now their defensive coordinator.

Posted by: buzzion at October 15, 2012 07:22 PM (GULKT)

258 Just a question, do the Vagina Based Life Forms get tired of the Democrat Party just treating them as a walking/talking vajayjay that needs birth control/abortion/school lunch for the kiddos or do other issues have enough merit enough to break the Vagina Based Life Form circle?

Posted by: jake in ID at October 15, 2012 07:23 PM (2CiZb)

259 English has all the hallmarks of actually being a pidgin language. Simplification in grammer, the dropping of noun gender and declanation, &c.

Yeah, some Oxford guy called "J R R Tolkien" offered an argument to that effect, that English started out as a Frisian dialect spoken by Welshmen. Even before the Bastard stomped in and made Norman French the prestige-language.

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 07:23 PM (QTHTd)

260 193 Are there any morons in UA (Upper Alabama)? Posted by: Fox2! at October 15, 2012 11:04 PM (1Qpmy) I may be the only one. Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at October 15, 2012 11:06 PM (otfJ1) Ahem!

Posted by: Scobface at October 15, 2012 07:24 PM (IoNBC)

261 Hehe. Another fantastic music video by Steven Crowder and Chris Loesch (Christoph Von LÃ¶sch). Presenting Â– Â“ObamaÂ’s Changes!Â” OBAMA'S CHANGES! (Official Music Video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vinI2Dqj9hc#! h/t gatewaypundit

Posted by: o_O at October 15, 2012 07:24 PM (LpQbZ)

262 Amazing collapse by the Chargers D.

Posted by: toby928Â© at October 15, 2012 11:18 PM (QupBk)

They're defending like Obama at a debate.

Posted by: Methos at October 15, 2012 07:24 PM (6LvlL)

263 That space shuttle picture is wonderful. We saw Discovery (?I think?) fly over D.C. I didn't expect to cry, but I did. It was really moving, everyone came out onto the Mall and cheered and waved (as other D.C. morons and ettes know). Good evening.

Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 15, 2012 07:24 PM (rBgOT)

264 202 I do not know what Hillary is up to but, mark my words, nothing is as it seems with these Clintstones. And, first, she will blow me.

She might take you up on that, if Huma is out of town.

This one may be close to as simple as it seems. Unlike Captain Wonderful, Hillary knows that stand-up people in charge take responsibility. Knowing that she was being hit with the blame by Obama and his people, this was by far her best tactical move. Now she looks better than him by contrast. In effect, she has said "Yes, I take responsibility for my department. Your move, asshole."

Posted by: Splunge at October 15, 2012 07:24 PM (2IW5Q)

265 Amazing collapse by the Chargers D.

Posted by: toby928Â© at October 15, 2012 11:18 PM (QupBk)

Chargers O isn't helping out either.

Posted by: Dan K. at October 15, 2012 07:25 PM (c32CV)

266 POP: Why does this story bother you so much?

Speaking for myself and not for Tri:

Because it's hard to prove, and it gives ammo to the people like the "its a mooslin!" troll, and if the Right does sign on to a conspiracy-theory it will deform the Right into something we won't like.

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 07:25 PM (QTHTd)

267 I blame Charles "The Hammer" Martel. If only Islam had won the English would have been left in peace to oppress the native Picts. Did someone say 'pict'? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_MvZxpE7YU

Posted by: Adriane Loves the Classics but is Easily Confused at October 15, 2012 07:26 PM (/OhbZ)

268 It's being passed off as a fuck up by the career State Department employees, thus not a mistake by the political State Department members.

Unfortunately for barky and company, nobody buys it. This was a straight-on clusterfuck and what ever happened to "the buck stops here?" Hillary is doing this because it just doesn't matter what she says.

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 07:27 PM (kpCLl)

269 I knew Carter was an idiot when he replied to a question: "I don't know."

Posted by: harleycowboy at October 15, 2012 07:27 PM (wSTfB)

270 In effect, she has said "Yes, I take responsibility for my department. Your move, asshole."

Posted by: Splunge at October 15, 2012 11:24 PM (2IW5Q)

Oh, yes, THIS!

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 07:28 PM (kpCLl)

271

NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.

[The Inquisition exits]

Posted by: Cardinal Ximénez at October 15, 2012 07:28 PM (e8kgV)

272 Unfortunately for barky and company, nobody buys it. This was a straight-on clusterfuck and what ever happened to "the buck stops here?" Hillary is doing this because it just doesn't matter what she says.

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 11:27 PM (kpCLl)

Yeah, it doesn't explain why they all lied for 9 days. If obama didn't know for 9 days then he needs to be fired...

Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna at October 15, 2012 07:28 PM (9+ccr)

273 257 Here's a very NSFW Stacey Dash, just stunning. http://tinyurl.com/93dw2us Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 11:21 PM (/YJYi) http://tinyurl.com/92rkqv2

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 07:28 PM (GEICT)

274 Hello! Long-time lurker, first time poster. I've been obsessed with this election for months now, so I figured I might as well channel it into reciting nonsense in the comment sections here. Anyways... Romney/Ryan 2012!

Posted by: TLGM at October 15, 2012 07:29 PM (appbn)

275 Yep, SD fell apart. Peyton was doing Peyton.

Posted by: o_O at October 15, 2012 07:29 PM (LpQbZ)

276 In Hillary's "confession" we have her telling us both Stalin and Pinhead were out of the loop. Well played.

Posted by: eman at October 15, 2012 07:29 PM (+XD7n)

277 ""NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is
surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear
and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear,
surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the
Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our
weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.""

You left out the comfy chair.

Posted by: Berserker at October 15, 2012 07:29 PM (FMbng)

278 Hi Peaches, you've taken a turn to the grumpy side, today. I'm sorry. =( I hope the ONT makes you not hate everything, after all.

Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 15, 2012 07:29 PM (rBgOT)

279

Because it's hard to prove, and it gives ammo to the people like the "its a mooslin!" troll, and if the Right does sign on to a conspiracy-theory it will deform the Right into something we won't like. Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 11:25 PM (QTHTd)

Yep. Not to mention, it reeks of desperation. We have lots of other ammo to use against Obama. Nobody -nobody- is going to decide to vote against him because of this story.

Posted by: Donna V at October 15, 2012 07:30 PM (dcIHW)

280 Actually, both the "ring is Arabic script" and "ring means nothing" groups are wrong. It's actually a sample of the ancient cursive script of the mortal inhabitants of R'lyeh. The side that the jawas show in hi-res ( http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/213872.php ), roughly translated, says: "clusterfuck". I'm assuming that the other side says "miserable" something.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 15, 2012 07:30 PM (kaalw)

281

Will Philip Rivers performance tonight finally remove the "great" label? He just isn't that good. I mean he's ok but......... Must be a fantasy football thing. He's never impressed me. I would go into a rant about how Ben Rothlesberger is constantly overlooked in the best QBs in the NFL but I won't. I just will mention that Rivers is overrated. Nice pass Philip.

Posted by: stillers at October 15, 2012 07:30 PM (qz78g)

282 Is that Mark Halperin story about OH slipping away according to Dem higher-ups a big deal?

Posted by: Pat Dye's Liver at October 15, 2012 07:30 PM (sy0ID)

283 Peaches: Hillary is doing this because it just doesn't matter what she says.

And it still won't work, because Obama is now an "Accessory After The Fact", with all his yes-men and -women and -androgynes running around blaming a Youtube troll's video for the last fortnight.

So - to Hillary - congratulations! your selfless act of courage has made Obama out to be this generation's Milhous Nixon. And that's if we believe you.

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 07:30 PM (QTHTd)

284 http://tinyurl.com/92rkqv2

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 11:28 PM (GEICT)

Very nice.

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 07:31 PM (/YJYi)

285 Remember how Communist China was a wonderful place where the glorious state could just declare that wonderful infrastructure could be built, and how America was going to be defeated by this? http://tinyurl.com/c3xwv7x Link contains ads that are [[b]NSFW

Posted by: Þe Political Hat at October 15, 2012 07:32 PM (sZTYJ)

286 Long-time lurker, first time poster.

Romney/Ryan 2012!

Posted by: TLGM at October 15, 2012 11:29 PM (appbn)

Welcome, friend!! Can I offer you a cool refreshing beverage?

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 07:32 PM (kpCLl)

287 275 In effect, she has said "Yes, I take responsibility for my department. Your move, asshole."

Posted by: Splunge at October 15, 2012 11:24 PM (2IW5Q)

Oh, yes, THIS!

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 11:28 PM (kpCLl)

I concur. Very nice analysis, and nicely put as well.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 15, 2012 07:32 PM (kaalw)

288 All those hydrogen atoms in water have been around a while too...like since the big bang. Oxygen is a new kid on the block though, and was made a bit later...

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 07:32 PM (D/sHG)

289 Speaking for myself and not for Tri: Because it's hard to prove, and it gives ammo to the people like the "its a mooslin!" troll, and if the Right does sign on to a conspiracy-theory it will deform the Right into something we won't like. Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 11:25 PM (QTHTd) I just saw the new image and that is a clearer one that shows just a pattern instead of writing. Big deal. That was all that was needed. But to make it out as if WND went out of their way to make shit up is silly. WND had the images available that they could find. They only added the outlines in the second article on it, not in the original and it wasn't to push anyone but to show why they were making those assumptions. I still find it amazing that people get so hyped up about any of these stories. So it got set stratight. Big fucking deal. That doesn't detract from the fact that Barky was born and raised a muslim (whether you like to acknowledge that FACT or not) and has worked in the interests of muslims (at the expense of the US) for his whole illegal Precedency. He also speaks bahasa but you'd label me a conspiracy theorist for saying it ... of course, I don't know what language people imagine was being used in Indonesian public schools that Barky spent years at ... as a muslim ... The ring, itself, is still weird and the fact that Barky wore it before he was married is even stranger. There is something to it, for sure. I'd bet that the real story is even odder than the shahada one.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 07:33 PM (X3lox)

290 I wonder if the ring says "ash Nazg durbatuluk", myself.

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 07:33 PM (QTHTd)

291

"Unfortunately for barky and company, nobody buys it."

We certainly don't buy it - but the MSM will use this as an excuse to pronounce the whole thing "case closed." "Hillary took responsibility and Biden was right when he said they didn't know. Now, let's go back to talking about the 47% and how Paul Ryan doesn't know how to wash dishes!"

Posted by: Donna V at October 15, 2012 07:33 PM (dcIHW)

292 249 moki, that is so awful I'm with Peaches here, as much as I think our health care system is screwed up due to lawsuits, this may be one of those times when it's justified Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 11:18 PM (d/5qf) This is a huge problem, and it fries my bacon how the leftards maintain this lie that conservatives don't care about horrible situations. Obviously, we care more than they, which is why we don't want the "one cure fits all" bullshit. I hope Romney can somehow bring this to light tomorrow. It's so fuckin easy to be a democrat and never put your money where your mouth is! I'm sick and tired to death of their ability to spout worthless feel-good crap out their asses and it just is accepted as gospel. I guaran-fucking-tee you that I give more to charity for truly needy people than Obama or Biden, et. al. (And nowhere near the amount Romney has. Even % wise.)

Posted by: Kalneva's kitty will be taken from her cold, dead hands at October 15, 2012 07:33 PM (cQmXn)

293 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_MvZxpE7YU Posted by: Adriane Loves the Classics but is Easily Confused at October 15, 2012 11:26 PM (/OhbZ) Groovy!

Posted by: Syd Barret high on Bath Salts at October 15, 2012 07:33 PM (sZTYJ)

294 286 Will Philip Rivers performance tonight finally remove the "great" label? He just isn't that good. I mean he's ok but.........Must be a fantasy football thing. He's never impressed me. I would go into a rant about how Ben Rothlesberger is constantly overlooked in the best QBs in the NFL but I won't. I just will mention that Rivers is overrated. Nice pass Philip.

Posted by: stillers at October 15, 2012 11:30 PM (qz78g)

Well look at the division Rivers has played in. He hasn't exactly needed to be all that impressive to be viewed favorably there.

Posted by: buzzion at October 15, 2012 07:33 PM (GULKT)

295 @Peaches Certainly! I will have a Yoohoo with a silly straw, sprinkled with liberal tears!

Posted by: TLGM at October 15, 2012 07:34 PM (appbn)

296 Long-time lurker, first time poster. Romney/Ryan 2012! Posted by: TLGM at October 15, 2012 11:29 PM (appbn) Welcome, friend!! Can I offer you a cool refreshing beverage? Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 11:32 PM (kpCLl) And have a brownie.

Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 15, 2012 07:34 PM (rBgOT)

297 Yep. Not to mention, it reeks of desperation. We have lots of other ammo to use against Obama. Nobody -nobody- is going to decide to vote against him because of this story. Posted by: Donna V at October 15, 2012 11:30 PM (dcIHW) On the one hand, people are incredibly frustrated because of the "lack of traction" of very real crimes and scandals, from finance and cronyism to FandF and Libya, so people *are* desparate. On the other hand, even if a chicken is real, that doesn't mean you should fuck it. We really need to discredit the press corps cover-up queens one by one, and get the real, concrete and large crimes into the public consciousness. Which is crazy frustrating because of people who swallow the MFM line.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 07:34 PM (bxiXv)

298 Hi Peaches, you've taken a turn to the grumpy side, today. I'm sorry.

Sweet elizabethe, no worries. I have been trending towards the cranky bitch side of things for almost 2 weeks. First a bad cold, which I never get, then a trip and fall which has left me in major pain. Fortunately for me, I enjoy a trip to the cranky side of life. Plus, I just want this election OVER WITH. It's seriously harshing my mellow. {{{{{}}}}}

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 07:34 PM (kpCLl)

299 Hahaha. Again I say, Poor Ryan Leaf Jr.

Posted by: buzzion at October 15, 2012 07:34 PM (GULKT)

300 and if the Right does sign on to a conspiracy-theory it will deform the Right into something we won't like. Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 11:25 PM (QTHTd) And please stop throwing around "conspiracy" the same way the left tosses out "raaaacist". You follow evidence where it leads you without worrying about what a bunch of retarded leftists think.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 07:35 PM (X3lox)

301 Posted by: TLGM at October 15, 2012 11:29 PM (appbn)

Welcome!

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 07:35 PM (d/5qf)

302 Subject: Hey, do me a favor

Friend --

Day after day, night after night, I've sat by Barack Obama's side as he made one gutsy decision after the other.

I get to see firsthand what drives this man. I get to see his enormous heart.

Tomorrow night, Barack is going to get up on that stage and debate Governor Romney for the presidency. He's going to fight for the things we believe in.

Do me a favor -- let him know you're with him before the debate, because it's time for you to get on board.

Make a donation of $5 or more today -- just 23 cents per day until November 6th.

When I had my turn on the debate stage last week, I spoke about the things we've accomplished together -- the values we all share.

That's exactly what Barack's going to do tomorrow night.

So as we enter the final days of this campaign, and before all of the work we've been doing in the field gets put to one, final test, let's show Barack what kind of grassroots organization he's got behind him -- one that's ready for whatever comes ahead.

Any donation you can make today, no matter how large or small, matters. Please don't wait any longer -- chip in $5 or more for the last days of this campaign:

Thanks,

Joe

P.S. -- The day after tomorrow happens to be the last FEC fundraising deadline of this campaign. If you've been waiting for the right time to make your donation, you've got it -- right now.

Let's hope that Obama does, indeed, do exactly what Joe Biden did last week.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 07:35 PM (piMMO)

303 Well I'm no Chargers fan but I hate to see a celebrity republican (Rivers) have a bad night.

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 07:35 PM (/YJYi)

304 RE: that $499.00 Boba Fett costume: don't buy it. I own a costume shop, and bought this costume (two of them!) at wholesale to use as rentals. It's made by the same company that make the excellent Storm Trooper and Darth Vader costumes, but their Boba Fett just doesn't fit together well. The body pieces are supposed to stick to the body suit via velcro attachments, but they are completely flat -- zero body contour -- so they look completely ridiculous, if they stay on at all. I sent both of them back.

Posted by: holygoat at October 15, 2012 07:35 PM (IGIFh)

305 Broncos as sea level....

Posted by: o_O at October 15, 2012 07:35 PM (LpQbZ)

306 This seems likes pretty good news. I mean Suffolk only called Fl, NC and VA a week ago so what do they know. >>Mitt Romney has pulled even with President Obama in New Hampshire, according to a poll released late Monday by the Suffolk University Political Research Center. http://tinyurl.com/9vvxprq

Posted by: JackStraw at October 15, 2012 07:35 PM (TMB3S)

307 289 http://tinyurl.com/92rkqv2 Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 11:28 PM (GEICT) Very nice. Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 11:31 PM (/YJYi) Because I'm a giver: http://tinyurl.com/99be9hg

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 07:36 PM (GEICT)

308 Chinese bridges literally built with styrofoam and trash. Holy cow.

Posted by: eman at October 15, 2012 07:36 PM (+XD7n)

309 Oh boy! A brownie!

Posted by: TLGM at October 15, 2012 07:36 PM (appbn)

310 295 I wonder if the ring says "ash Nazg durbatuluk", myself.

Posted by: boulder hobo at October 15, 2012 11:33 PM (QTHTd)

.....in the land of San Francisco where the Pelosi lies....

Posted by: cthulhu at October 15, 2012 07:36 PM (kaalw)

311 The ring, itself, is still weird and the fact that Barky wore it before he was married is even stranger. There is something to it, for sure. I'd bet that the real story is even odder than the shahada one.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 11:33 PM

Barry comes across as the sort of choomer who was into adopting affectations.

Posted by: otho at October 15, 2012 07:36 PM (yBF/9)

312 Hillary. Resign. Now.

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 15, 2012 07:37 PM (BVkEs)

313 Primordial Pair: The point is that "The Truth" is IRRELEVANT. Even if Barack IS a Muslim (and frankly I think he has no gods before himself) -- IT DOESN'T MATTER. Anyone who would vote against him because he's a Muslim is ALREADY voting against him because he's an arrogant incompetent fuckup. And everyone who is voting for him wouldn't care if he was a muslim -- or would be utterly unconvinced by some stupid blurry photos with scribbly lines added. This is a non-story. It is so irrelevant I could well believe it is an Axelrodian plant designed to drag the national debate off into equisitely trivial issues instead of addressing the much more pressing problem that the fucking President of the United States is an arrogant fuckup. I understand the desire for a magic wand that will convince all these mush-brained liberals that their little tin messiah is a fraud and a liar. But that magic wand doesn't exist. One blurry photo with scribbly lines won't do it. If America is to be liberated from the Obama occupation, it will be by the hard, unglamorous work of an election. It will be by citizen journalists publicizing the stories that matter -- the exploding national debt, the failure of Obama's foreign policy, the lies and deceptions his regime puts out hourly. FORGET ABOUT THE STUPID FUCKING RING.

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 15, 2012 07:37 PM (yWIC7)

314 Are there any morons in UA (Upper Alabama)? I lurk down in central AL, in that wretched hole we call a capital. (Still an improvement over B'ham...)

Posted by: Brother Cavil, New Caprica Sanitation Department at October 15, 2012 07:37 PM (x8wJs)

315

That doesn't detract from the fact that Barky was born and raised a muslim

He was born and raised a leftist fuck by a Commie mother. He's probably an atheist. He favors Muslims, not because he's Muslim, but because he's anti-Western.

Posted by: Donna V at October 15, 2012 07:37 PM (dcIHW)

316 Peaches, sorry to hear of your recent injuries

here, have a kitteh pic

http://tinyurl.com/5ut7j7p

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 07:37 PM (d/5qf)

317 313 Chinese bridges literally built with styrofoam and trash. Posted by: eman at October 15, 2012 11:36 PM (+XD7n) Another example of Chinese efficiency. We need to replicate that here in the US!

Posted by: Thomas "Mao" Friedman at October 15, 2012 07:37 PM (5Vuz/)

318 It's seriously harshing my mellow. {{{{{}}}}} Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 11:34 PM (kpCLl) I don't know why but that phrase made me laugh my ass off. okay, clink glasses to crankiness. I am ready for the election to be over, as well. In fact, I am going to cast my pointless D.C. vote early.

Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 15, 2012 07:37 PM (rBgOT)

319 OK, I'm out some stoopid asshat roped me into a meeting at 0700 tomorrow morning, so I must sleep now tomorrow night, we'll be basking in the glow of another off-standard debate performance by TFG I can hardly wait tomorrow night, mi amigos

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 15, 2012 07:38 PM (JMmQ9)

320 308 Well I'm no Chargers fan but I hate to see a celebrity republican (Rivers) have a bad night.

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 11:35 PM (/YJYi)

Pretty sure Peyton is a Republican too.

Posted by: buzzion at October 15, 2012 07:38 PM (GULKT)

321 So, question... Why has everyone spent all of their energy trying to defeat Obama in an election? Has anyone tried getting him to say his name backwards in order to send him back to the dimension from whence he came?

Posted by: TLGM at October 15, 2012 07:38 PM (appbn)

322 Would it be churlish of me to quote barky on the show we ALL saw, when he said, "my muslim religion" and was quickly corrected by whatever shitbird that was interviewing him? If I were Romney, I think I'd find a way to work that in . . . but he obviously has some damn good advisors and, so far, they have not put one foot wrong. Rock on, Mitt!

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 07:38 PM (kpCLl)

323 So Hillary says I'm responsible, sort of, and obama and biden didn't know so fuck all of you and go away. Nothing to see here. Does that pretty much sum it up?

Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna at October 15, 2012 07:38 PM (9+ccr)

324 CA=Mordor

Now it all makes sense...

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 07:38 PM (D/sHG)

325 http://tinyurl.com/92rkqv2

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 11:28 PM (GEICT)

Well fuck me with a screwdriver. Daaamnn!

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 07:38 PM (/YJYi)

326 Well I'm no Chargers fan but I hate to see a celebrity republican (Rivers) have a bad night.

But another celebrity Republican--Manning--is having a stellar night.

http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-250_162-10013061-13.html

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at October 15, 2012 07:39 PM (hO8IJ)

327 Chinese bridges literally built with styrofoam and trash. Holy cow. Posted by: eman at October 15, 2012 11:36 PM (+XD7n) That's because the greedy foreigners are buying all the spare body parts from all the people we execute. Corpses make such excellent building material...

Posted by: Mao Zedong, currently being anally violated by Satan's barbed cock at October 15, 2012 07:39 PM (sZTYJ)

328 Q10 Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion
of Honey Boo Boo?
Favorable........................................................ 3%
Unfavorable .................................................... 47%
Not sure .......................................................... 50%

Posted by: Push Polling Penes at October 15, 2012 07:39 PM (NXBVJ)

329
San Diego finishes a game like Obama debates.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk, commenting at the speed of Light. at October 15, 2012 07:39 PM (PHb2k)

330 'Night, all.

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 15, 2012 07:39 PM (yWIC7)

331 307 I get to see firsthand what drives this man. I get to see his enormous heart.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 11:35 PM (piMMO)

Hey, Joe Biden says that Obama has an enlarged heart! He's going to pop-off any minute now!

Posted by: cthulhu at October 15, 2012 07:40 PM (kaalw)

332 Pretty sure Peyton is a Republican too.

He's a friend of Teh Fred.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at October 15, 2012 07:40 PM (hO8IJ)

333 All of tonight's de-lurkers get one month of AoSHQ Prime for free. Must be this tall to apply. Offer void in Kansas and Oiho.

Posted by: eman at October 15, 2012 07:41 PM (+XD7n)

334 I agree, the ring is a non-starter. The real burning question is whether Obama's college "coke nail" is a real cocaine nail or was he just being a poser.

Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 15, 2012 07:41 PM (rBgOT)

335 Hmm, I thought Manning might be a republican but I wasn't sure.

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 07:41 PM (/YJYi)

336 He favors Muslims, not because he's Muslim, but because he's anti-Western. Posted by: Donna V at October 15, 2012 11:37 PM

Yeah, those are my feelings as well. That mofo would be a hari krishna if it was anti western.

Posted by: Berserker at October 15, 2012 07:41 PM (FMbng)

337 327 Would it be churlish of me to quote barky on the show we ALL saw, when he said, "my muslim religion" and was quickly corrected by whatever shitbird that was interviewing him? If I were Romney, I think I'd find a way to work that in . . . but he obviously has some damn good advisors and, so far, they have not put one foot wrong. Rock on, Mitt!

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 11:38 PM (kpCLl)

That was George Snuffelapagus.

Posted by: buzzion at October 15, 2012 07:41 PM (GULKT)

338 Not that I internet-stalk nerds or anything.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at October 15, 2012 07:42 PM (hO8IJ)

339 Looking a that photo of the shuttle, you just know that those kids will never, ever forget that moment.

I still remember when the bicentennial Independence Day parade in my tiny hometown featured a Blue Angels jet on a trailer.

At 11 years old, I was blown away.

I also know that if I were standing on that street as the shuttle passed by, nothing could have kept me from running up and touching it.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 07:42 PM (piMMO)

340

So Hillary says I'm responsible, sort of, and obama and biden didn't know so fuck all of you and go away. Nothing to see here. Does that pretty much sum it up? Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna at October 15, 2012 11:38 PM (9+ccr)

Nailed it. And the MSM will say, "Yep, nothing to see here. Romney, quit politicizing this, for God's sake!"

Posted by: Donna V at October 15, 2012 07:42 PM (dcIHW)

341 Shame on me for being ignorant. WTF happened to Peaches?

Posted by: eman at October 15, 2012 07:42 PM (+XD7n)

342 I went shopping today...and never left the house. I dug into the recesses of a closet I'd not looked into in 20 years.

I got me a new crock pot and a nice Craftsman router table.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 07:43 PM (D/sHG)

343 Hey, Joe Biden says that Obama has an enlarged heart! He's going to pop-off any minute now!

*****

Cardiomegaly is not a good thing!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 07:43 PM (piMMO)

344 339

The real burning question is whether Obama's college "coke nail" is a real cocaine nail or was he just being a poser.

Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 15, 2012 11:41 PM

Are those 2 things mutally exclusive?

Posted by: otho at October 15, 2012 07:44 PM (yBF/9)

345 WTF happened to Peaches?

Posted by: eman at October 15, 2012 11:42 PM (+XD7n)

Just a bad week or two, no biggie, just a little cranky-pants. How are you doin'?

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 07:44 PM (kpCLl)

346 Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 11:36 PM (GEICT)

*****

warning in order on that one

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 07:44 PM (piMMO)

347 I got me a new crock pot and a nice Craftsman router table.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 11:43 PM (D/sHG)

omg, are you one of those hoarders?

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 07:45 PM (kpCLl)

348 I'm so sorry about your travails, peaches! You don't seem grumpy to me. I admire your humor! Hope you're better!

Posted by: Kalneva at October 15, 2012 07:45 PM (cQmXn)

349 I just saw an Ewok do a line of blow with Princes Leia on SpikeTV.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at October 15, 2012 07:45 PM (gilQT)

350 Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 11:44 PM (kpCLl)

****

I wonder what was the first clue....

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 07:45 PM (piMMO)

351 Posted by: holygoat at How you Doing!!

Posted by: Achmed bin lonely at October 15, 2012 07:45 PM (2CiZb)

352 The damn players managed to take the game over in the end. But we'll be back next week and crush this little revolution. We run the game, not the players. We shall overcome!

Posted by: NFL Referee Local 82 at October 15, 2012 07:46 PM (1Y+hH)

353 Are those 2 things mutally exclusive? Posted by: otho at October 15, 2012 11:44 PM (yBF/9) another good question! the difference is whether he was really a cokehead or if he was just doing it with the other cool kids to be cool and didn't really use all that much.

Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 15, 2012 07:46 PM (rBgOT)

354 The 2010-2011 GCI report warns that our lack of macroeconomic stability will Â“likely weigh heavily on the countryÂ’s future growth.Â” The U.S.Â’s government-deficit ranking (139) is matched by Greece, Botswana and Swaziland. (No surprise that the Europeans did not want to be lectured by Timothy Geithner).

UPDATE: The 2012 GCI report issued September 5 downgraded the U.S. two more points from fifth to seventh on the second day of the Democratic national convention (See todayÂ’s Drudge Report).

The World Economic ForumÂ’s apolitical Global Competitiveness Index reinforces the Â“restore AmericaÂ’s greatnessÂ” mantra of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. It confirms that the American free enterprise system suffered serious setbacks under Obama. The GCI shows that the very things that Conservatives criticize Â— wasteful government spending, unsustainable deficits, burdensome regulations, crony capitalism, lack of government transparency, and business mistrust of government institutionsÂ– are indeed dragging down the US economy and must be corrected and soon.

Posted by: Friedrich Nietzsche at October 15, 2012 07:47 PM (e8kgV)

355 351 Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 11:36 PM (GEICT) ***** warning in order on that one Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 11:44 PM (piMMO) Lol. That was about the third or fourth one that Adam and I were swapping back and forth. I think everyone knew they were nsfw. Plus, ONT. So how's my fellow first coast moron doing this evening?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 07:47 PM (GEICT)

356 largest monday night football comeback... night!

Posted by: o_O at October 15, 2012 07:47 PM (LpQbZ)

357 242 cthulu
To cease your speciesist nattering immediately! To admire your eclectic reading tendencies!

(and all hail Retief!)

Posted by: bad cat robot at October 15, 2012 07:49 PM (wfSF5)

358 Niedermeyer's Dead Horse, are you still watching Grimm?

Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 15, 2012 07:49 PM (rBgOT)

359 So how's my fellow first coast moron doing this evening?

****

Not bad, but sleeepy. I won't make it in the ONT for long tonight.

How's my neighbor?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 07:49 PM (piMMO)

360 If America is to be liberated from the Obama occupation, it will be by the hard, unglamorous work of an election. Actually, it should be by impeachment and trial. If we still had any law left ... If you have come to the point where you think that one can break any law he wants and is then only liable to possibly not be re-elected ... then it's all over, already. It will be by citizen journalists publicizing the stories that matter -- the exploding national debt, the failure of Obama's foreign policy, the lies and deceptions his regime puts out hourly. Everyone knows all about ALL of these. People have known all of this shit for years. I don't know why you think you are going to being some magic dust to these issues that have been in public for YEARS and that will change something. Everyone knows about the debt. Everyone knows about the failure of his foreign policy. Everyone knows about his lies and deceptions. But much of America likes them and is happy to see this nation go straight down the shitter. We have gone well past a critical mass of people who hate the nation and what we stand for, which is why those who violate the Constitution (and Barky has done that like no one else in history has ever even come close to - orders of magnitude of difference) must be held accountable to the Constitution, not to the electorate. FORGET ABOUT THE STUPID FUCKING RING. Posted by: Trimegistus at October 15, 2012 11:37 PM (yWIC7) The ring was an interesting story that was relevant. That it was in error is no big deal. It was worth looking into. And, as I said, the whole thing is still weird and very un-American.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 07:49 PM (X3lox)

361 WTF happened to Peaches? Posted by: eman at October 15, 2012 11:42 PM (+XD7n) Just a bad week or two, no biggie, just a little cranky-pants. How are you doin'? Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 11:44 PM (kpCLl) Glad to hear it is no biggie. I am just ducky, thank you.

Posted by: eman at October 15, 2012 07:49 PM (+XD7n)

362 Obama fetishizes the Islamic world. It's part of what made him exciting and exotic. Here's the easiest way to impress and intimidate the academic Left -- have travel stories from places they've never been. The campus Left loves to think of themselves world travelers -- unlike those rubes and hicks who don't even have passports. The more exotic, the more dangerous, the better It's a status game. And if your travels are more exotic than theirs then you win.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 15, 2012 07:49 PM (ZPrif)

363
Peaches, would an irongrampa hug help?

Posted by: irongrampa at October 15, 2012 07:50 PM (SAMxH)

364 @318 right on. even arabic calligraphy, which is generally pretty free-flowing and permissible, couldn't find a way to make alif-lam-lam-ha out of three parallel lines with a little curvature. of course, the first clue that this was *not* a real issue was that it was a jerome corsi pet "scoop" published by wnd! you may be on to something, tho -- the obama "issues" pushed through that outlet, esp by mr corsi, convey such an utter sense of ridiculousness on those who would cleave to them that i really am wondering whether or not he's just some axelrod plant meant to give obama something to talk about when things aren't going his way. "now. i hearthey'retalkingabout my riing. let me be clear..."

Posted by: jimi ray at October 15, 2012 07:51 PM (79EF9)

365 I took a History of the English Language course several years ago. English is one of the true wonders of the world. It is so awesome that not even a semester of study does it justice.

Posted by: Tuna at October 15, 2012 07:51 PM (M/TDA)

366 Peaches, would an irongrampa hug help?

Help?!? It would be like a miracle cure!! {{{{{}}}}}

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 07:51 PM (kpCLl)

367 President Obama is campaigning as a champion of the oil and gas boom heÂ’s had nothing to do with, and even as his regulators try to stifle it. The latest example is the Interior DepartmentÂ’s little-noticed August decision to close off from drilling nearly half of the 23.5 million acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.

The area is called the National Petroleum Reserve because in 1976 Congress designated it as a strategic oil and natural gas stockpile to meet the Â“energy needs of the nation.Â” Alaska favors exploration in nearly the entire reserve. The feds had been reviewing four potential development plans, and the state of Alaska had strongly objected to the most restrictive of the four. Sure enough, that was the plan Interior chose.

Posted by: Vasily Zaytsev at October 15, 2012 07:51 PM (e8kgV)

368 I got me a new crock pot and a nice Craftsman router table.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 11:43 PM

Router tables rock!! I can't live without one.

Posted by: Berserker at October 15, 2012 07:51 PM (FMbng)

369 So what time does the "explosive story" about Obama's past drop tonight?

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 07:52 PM (/YJYi)

370 The coke thing should have been mentioned more the last 4 years. 90% of Americans, and 95%+ of voters have never done coke. Probably never seen it except in movies. Being an acknowledged coke-head makes you different, immoral and inferior to the average person.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 15, 2012 07:52 PM (ZPrif)

371 Niedermeyer's Dead Horse, are you still watching Grimm?

****

I missed a couple of shows and didn't want to watch it with missing pieces so I've been holding off until I can catch up with On-Demand.

You?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 07:52 PM (piMMO)

372 Oh! I thought that was an explosive story about Obama's pants when I first heard about it... I'm a bit disappointed now, I must say.

Posted by: TLGM at October 15, 2012 07:53 PM (appbn)

373 TWD is still stupid. The fighting/talking ratio was much better, but that's about all.

Posted by: eman at October 15, 2012 07:53 PM (+XD7n)

374 375 So what time does the "explosive story" about Obama's past drop tonight?

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 11:52 PM (/YJYi)

My guess is about 6 hours before Althouse calls it "ugly" again and reaffirms her specialness as an "undecided"

Posted by: buzzion at October 15, 2012 07:53 PM (GULKT)

375 Router tables rock!! I can't live without one.

Me, neither!!!!

Oh, wait . . .

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 07:53 PM (kpCLl)

376 Are you still here, Boulder Hobo? I've been meaning to ask how the starling protection went. Is it like living In an Alfred Hitchcock movie, now?

Posted by: Kalneva at October 15, 2012 07:53 PM (cQmXn)

377 Tuna at October 15, 2012 11:51 PM (M/TDA) Well Yeah ... but McBeth in the original Klingon is to die for ...

Posted by: Adriane Loves the Classics but is Easily Confused at October 15, 2012 07:53 PM (/OhbZ)

378 358 Are those 2 things mutally exclusive?
Posted by: otho at October 15, 2012 11:44 PM (yBF/9)

another good question!

the difference is whether he was really a cokehead or if he was just doing it with the other cool kids to be cool and didn't really use all that much.

Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 15, 2012 11:46 PM

IMHO, based on what I've drawn from his personality and background, Barry didn't do things with cool kids to be cool. Barry considered himself the benchmark of cool. Doing what Barry did made you cool. Was he a cokehead? Barry would do as much blow as he could get his hands on. Ditto everything else that came in baggies. No restraint, no brakes. He has/had the drug appetite of a T.Rex. I know the Barry type well.

Posted by: otho at October 15, 2012 07:54 PM (yBF/9)

379 The biggest difference with English (and what makes it the most flexible and strongest language around) is that English separated the nouns and the verbs (made words just "words", with nothing being a noun or a verb innately - generally) and constructed all sentences with acute attention paid to the time interval over which the action occurs. It is this time interval and the flexible manner of constructiing and describing it that seems to separate english from all others.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 07:54 PM (X3lox)

380 You? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 11:52 PM (piMMO) Yes, I am. I won't say anything if you're not caught up. The episodes are starting to build more on one another. So far I think it's doing well, except for that one episode with the sheep.

Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 15, 2012 07:55 PM (rBgOT)

381 364 Not bad, but sleeepy. I won't make it in the ONT for long tonight. How's my neighbor? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 11:49 PM (piMMO) Eh. Craptastic day. We hadn't worked with a certain company for prob 15 years or so. Recently, they pushed for us to work together again. We decided to give it a shot with the understanding that I would handle all projects with them as I didn't have any history with them. Thursday last week and today were very poignant reminders of why the situation was the way it was. And tomorrow could be worse.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 07:55 PM (GEICT)

382 Interesting if this is a reliable source;

WHITE HOUSE INSIDER: ObamaÂ’s Benghazi Lie Â– Valerie JarrettÂ’s West Wing Meltdown

http://tinyurl.com/8z9htgk

Posted by: kbdabear at October 15, 2012 07:56 PM (wwsoB)

383 Once a black man explained to me what was wrong with the president's other speech I got it. The problem is, when white people point out black racism, it's just ugly. Ugly I tell you!

Posted by: Ann Althouse at October 15, 2012 07:56 PM (/YJYi)

384 Prof. Althouse gets on my nerves. I quit reading her blog some time ago. Nothing special or intelligent about someone who fell for the Obama hopes changed thing.

Posted by: Tuna at October 15, 2012 07:57 PM (M/TDA)

385 Eh. Craptastic day. We hadn't worked with a certain company for prob 15 years or so. Recently, they pushed for us to work together again. We decided to give it a shot with the understanding that I would handle all projects with them as I didn't have any history with them. Thursday last week and today were very poignant reminders of why the situation was the way it was. And tomorrow could be worse.

****

Ick.

What's that thing about doing the same thing over and over?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 07:57 PM (piMMO)

386 So far I think it's doing well, except for that one episode with the sheep.

****

Sheep?

Okay, I won't ask.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 07:57 PM (piMMO)

387 omg, are you one of those hoarders?

Not really. I'm just doing a major life triage as part of retasking rooms. Tossing crap is kinda liberating. I'm going on the 1/5 rule right now...have I used it in the past year, or do I anticipate using it within the next years. If the answer is no to both questions, it hits the curb.

One of the things I've been doing is deploying "rediscovered stuff" to extract value from it. ex. I found some buried spice racks, mounted them and put my spices in them. That moved them from the "crap" category to useful.

The closets in the smaller bedrooms in the joint are shallow and wide, so the areas to the side of the door tends to be inaccessible and collect crap. The master BR's closet is deep and doesn't have those natural crap collection points.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 07:58 PM (D/sHG)

388 @ 371

Consider it double done, nice lady.

Posted by: irongrampa at October 15, 2012 07:58 PM (SAMxH)

389 Never, ever eat English food while visiting England....there's a friggin Indian resteraunt about every 10 feet, so shouldn't be a problem. Can never go wrong with curry chicken!

Posted by: Icedog at October 15, 2012 07:58 PM (PTS+l)

390

@PurpAv

Do you remember when you put that stuff there?

Posted by: concrete girl at October 15, 2012 07:59 PM (y2Ojs)

391 okay good night all
tomorrow I ask out the Hungarian biologist on a date
wish me luck

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 07:59 PM (d/5qf)

392 What's that thing about doing the same thing over and over? Yeah. It had been a long time, they do a lot of work in the area, we were hoping to make a fresh start, etc. My dad just keeps saying "I knew better. I fucking knew better."

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 07:59 PM (GEICT)

393 Kaley Cuoco on Letterman tonight

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 08:01 PM (piMMO)

394 okay good night all tomorrow I ask out the Hungarian biologist on a date wish me luck Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 11:59 PM (d/5qf) Break a leg, bro!

Posted by: eman at October 15, 2012 08:01 PM (+XD7n)

395 I predict hawt, sticky nights in your future chemjeff. Extra sticky.

Posted by: Nostradamus at October 15, 2012 08:01 PM (/YJYi)

396 397 okay good night all tomorrow I ask out the Hungarian biologist on a date wish me luck Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 11:59 PM (d/5qf) Good luck!

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 08:01 PM (GEICT)

397 Ditto everything else that came in baggies. No restraint, no brakes. He has/had the drug appetite of a T.Rex. I know the Barry type well. Posted by: otho at October 15, 2012 11:54 PM (yBF/9) Really? Interesting. I've always thought of him as being someone who is not really anything and so only does things to manipulate his image to get what he wants. Like, did he belong to Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years b/c he truly fervently believed in the "religion" Wright preaches or because he had to to gain credibility with the black community he wanted to vote for him?

Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 15, 2012 08:01 PM (rBgOT)

398 395 Really? I think my bunghole would disagree.

Posted by: Kalneva at October 15, 2012 08:01 PM (cQmXn)

399 Again IPad auto correct changed hopey changey to hopes changed. Sneaky little bastard. Have to watch it every second.

Posted by: Tuna at October 15, 2012 08:01 PM (M/TDA)

400

I wonder if Norv "Rasputin" Turner will still have a job tomorrow??

Posted by: stillers at October 15, 2012 08:02 PM (qz78g)

401 399 Kaley Cuoco on Letterman tonight

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 16, 2012 12:01 AM (piMMO)

Unless she's in a string bikini or less I'm not watching Letterman.

Posted by: buzzion at October 15, 2012 08:02 PM (GULKT)

402 NEW HAMPSHIRE BITCHEZ

Posted by: Jaydee at October 15, 2012 08:03 PM (E5DLT)

403 OMG, I totally forgot I had a thing of strawberry haagen dazs in the freezer. I am marginally content. Anybody want some?

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 08:03 PM (kpCLl)

404 I'm watching Mean girls, again (WTF?!) and feeling sad that such a young talent became, well, Lindsay Lohan.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 08:04 PM (piMMO)

405 376 The coke thing should have been mentioned more the last 4 years.

90% of Americans, and 95%+ of voters have never done coke. Probably never seen it except in movies.

Being an acknowledged coke-head makes you different, immoral and inferior to the average person.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 15, 2012 11:52 PM (ZPrif)

True if you're talking about perception, but coke is the mildest recreational drug out there. The stuff used to be in Coca-Cola after all.

Posted by: schizoid at October 15, 2012 08:04 PM (NXBVJ)

406

"Another option is to make teacher strikes illegal and enforce it."

Yes, and I'd be up for removing public sector unions in schools, and generally, too. Or vouchers, or a lot of options. All good. And all requiring advance planning and a huge effort. You can't wait for the strike to do them.

I'd start with making teacher strikes illegal - that's clean, easy, and probably the more politically palatable.

Posted by: Puzzled at October 15, 2012 08:04 PM (p9rYd)

407
Time for the old folk. Off for some goose hunting tomorrow, we'll see how Spastic Lab does first time out this year.

Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.

Posted by: irongrampa at October 15, 2012 08:05 PM (SAMxH)

408 Being an acknowledged coke-head makes you different, immoral and inferior to the average person.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 15, 2012 11:52 PM (ZPrif)

You obviously don't live in LA . . .

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 08:05 PM (kpCLl)

409 Every once in a while I think I should buy a crock pot, then I realize all I would want to do with it is use it to make a big vat mulled wine or spiced apple cider or hot chocolate and keep it warm as I served myself from the vat liberally throughout a cold snowy day. hmm... maybe I should go get a crock pot.

Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 15, 2012 08:05 PM (rBgOT)

410 410 Ain't that a shame. She was such a cute little thing. So sad to see her decline into nothingness.

Posted by: Tuna at October 15, 2012 08:05 PM (M/TDA)

411 Ace -- when do we start the pool to pick the "obvious Obama plant" in tomorrow night's "town hall" debate.

I'll stick with candy

Posted by: Riddick at October 15, 2012 08:06 PM (e8kgV)

412 'Night, irongrampa . . . and thank you, from the bottom of my hard little heart. <3

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 08:06 PM (kpCLl)

413 Do you remember when you put that stuff there?

I'd like to plead the 5th on that question.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 08:06 PM (D/sHG)

414 Night, lovelies! Three weeks! Our national nightmare will be over. (As an aside, my autocorrect suggested "our national beaver" will be over.) Let's hope not. What? How do you get beaver from nightmare? Oh...

Posted by: Kalneva at October 15, 2012 08:07 PM (cQmXn)

415 'Night, Kalneva! mwah!

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 08:07 PM (kpCLl)

416 417 Ponytail or no ponytail ?

Posted by: Tuna at October 15, 2012 08:08 PM (M/TDA)

417 There's good data on this. The overwhelming majority have never tried coke. Never even had it offered to them. It's really not as common as people think.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 15, 2012 08:08 PM (ZPrif)

418 peaches, eat all the ice cream yourself, you deserve it. {{{{{{}}}}}}

Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 15, 2012 08:08 PM (rBgOT)

419 367 Obama fetishizes the Islamic world. It's part of what made him exciting and exotic.

Here's the easiest way to impress and intimidate the academic Left -- have travel stories from places they've never been.

The campus Left loves to think of themselves world travelers -- unlike those rubes and hicks who don't even have passports. The more exotic, the more dangerous, the better

It's a status game. And if your travels are more exotic than theirs then you win.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 15, 2012 11:49 PM (ZPrif)

The left also fetishizes the 3rd world too, but that would include the muslim world.

Around here the libs love them some 3rd world restaruants. A fucking Ethiopian restaruant opened here a couple of years ago, and I pissed off some liberal acquatinces when I said they must be serving rice in cups of water with decor consisting of armed waiters and chairs made of burlap bags with "A Gift from the United Nations" stenciled on the side.

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 15, 2012 08:09 PM (Zd/NW)

420 so, not to me morbid, but Specter bought the farm and now McGovern is next. Who will be the third?? I can't suss it out.

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 08:09 PM (kpCLl)

421 Kisses, peaches.

Posted by: Kalneva at October 15, 2012 08:09 PM (cQmXn)

422 Old Klingon proverb: only a fool fights in a burning house and carter is a p'tach.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 15, 2012 08:10 PM (vDl/w)

423 Probably posted earlier but, still, Yay! Guiliani

http://fxn.ws/T6Ex7D

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 08:10 PM (piMMO)

424 oh, wait, what if it's Carter??? would that fuck with the election? meh, probably not

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 08:10 PM (kpCLl)

425 @411 @376 you know, i bet his numbers are a little low, given the 80's, and i bet further that obama most certainly wasn't a "cokehead"...because those are pretty rare even among the moneyed party types! cocaine is actually not a physically habituating drug. it causes compulsive usage while on it for having such a short duration of action and such an acute limbic reward, but there's nothing like a "cocaine withdrawal" as there is in the cases of opioids and benzodiazepenes (and alcohol, for that matter). now, the anecdotal comedowns are supposed to be pretty harsh. come to think of it, who the heck would even WANT to do a drug that makes you feel good for 15 minutes and then leaves you feeling horrible for the rest of the night??? i don't even like having more than one drink for the bad feeling i get when they wear off later on. i can't imagine something like cocaine. that being said, i seem to remember plenty of open speculation that bush "probably used coke" in his "fratboy" days, and what an unfit commander-in-chief and presidential example that made him. i think the speculation comes entirely from bush's recorded statement that he wouldn't want youth making the "same mistakes he made"...why "cocaine" is the go-to "mistake of youth" in the minds of hollywood liberal types is anyone's guess >.> next comes a messiah who freely admits that he did cocaine, and suddenly it's no longer an obstacle to being a good commander-in-chief or example to the youth. hell, everyone ought to do a little blow, expand their horizons a bit. -.- when can we get a news station that is dedicated to just pointing out other news stations' and pundits' hyprocrisy? that would be a 24/7 incumbency.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 15, 2012 08:10 PM (79EF9)

426

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 11:42 PM (piMMO)

In 1991, the shuttle Columbia was being piggy-backed on a 747 from Edwards AFB back to Florida and had a layover at Sheppard AFB, Tx (it normally would stop in Denver - we were an alternate). I was posted as a "close boundary" sentry on the right wingtip for 4 or 5 hours. It was supposed to be a day off for me, but I was happy as shit. The shear size of it is what really blew me away!

Posted by: Icedog at October 15, 2012 08:11 PM (PTS+l)

427 I'm told a crock pot can be handy for cleaning up decades of encrusted baked on oily gunk off model airplane engines. You fill it with antifreeze, set it on low, and a few days later all the baked on gunk just falls off the engine.

I've seen many people attest that this works. I presume it would work with any baked on black gunk.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 08:11 PM (D/sHG)

428 An interesting straw in the wind... I live in a very, very left-wing neighborhood in Portland, Oregon (I'd guess 95%+ Democrat). The last few days, it has been impossible to walk around without being accosted by some person with a clipboard asking if I am registered to vote, or if I've moved since the last election. Somebody is spending bucks to have all these people out there gathering registrations. Oregon doesn't have a gubernatorial election this year. It doesn't have a Senate election. The local left-wing Congressman could be declared legally brain-dead and still get 75% of the vote. The only significant person on the ballot in Oregon is Obama. Obama is also running lots of TV ads in Oregon. Obama won Oregon by sixteen points last time. I wonder why the Obama campaign feels the need to expend resources here? What are they worried about?

Posted by: Oregon Is Dumber Than Dirt at October 15, 2012 08:13 PM (Hu/Da)

429 373 Easy explanation for the ring: Gay Barry from Occidental college liked getting reamed by Pakistani men. One of them gave the ring to Barry and Barry turned it into his wedding ring when he agreed to marry a beard. He wears it so that he could remember his true self, his true gay self.

Posted by: runninrebel at October 15, 2012 11:51 PM (N/1Dm)

Probably more accurate.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 15, 2012 08:14 PM (kaalw)

430

Not sure if this will work...

Posted by: Icedog at October 15, 2012 08:15 PM (PTS+l)

431 Do you guys ever watch this show "Brazilian Butts"? This is amazing.

Posted by: Mr. Mojo Risin at October 15, 2012 08:15 PM (xXhWA)

432 @435 nah. i like yours the best. almost positive i see the syraic for "stutter" on one side of that thing...

Posted by: jimi ray at October 15, 2012 08:15 PM (79EF9)

433 It didn't....

Posted by: Icedog at October 15, 2012 08:15 PM (PTS+l)

434 402 Ditto everything else that came in baggies. No restraint, no brakes. He has/had the drug appetite of a T.Rex. I know the Barry type well.
Posted by: otho at October 15, 2012 11:54 PM (yBF/9)

Really? Interesting. I've always thought of him as being someone who is not really anything and so only does things to manipulate his image to get what he wants.

Like, did he belong to Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years b/c he truly fervently believed in the "religion" Wright preaches or because he had to to gain credibility with the black community he wanted to vote for him?

Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 16, 2012 12:01 AM

I was referring specifically to his younger days. But, he has always been something, besides a hedonist. A narcissist. That's like a full time job, for Barry. He would certainly become more flexible and restrained in later years, for obvious reasons. But, Barry doesn't do things because he thinks it will make him cool. He might do, though, if he thinks it will make him COOLER. Barry does something because he's cool. Wright's church? Yeah, he'll do that, since he's coooool. It may not sound like a big difference, but it is.

Posted by: otho at October 15, 2012 08:15 PM (yBF/9)

435 So. What's the over/under on Obama having some really, really, really bad stuff on Hillary or Bill (or both)?

I always was suspicious of how easily she caved to him and his really condescending way and then to become part of his admin. That boggled my mind. She's tougher and meaner than that.

Unless he had something that could actually put them both in prison.

My, my, my. She's not looking like the smartest woman in the world anymore, huh NOW?

Posted by: Jcw46 at October 15, 2012 08:16 PM (Vh0f5)

436 Obama won Oregon by sixteen points last time.

I wonder why the Obama campaign feels the need to expend resources here? What are they worried about?

Posted by: Oregon Is Dumber Than Dirt at October 16, 2012 12:13 AM (Hu/Da)

shweet . . .

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 08:16 PM (kpCLl)

437

Posted by: Icedog at October 15, 2012 08:17 PM (PTS+l)

438 Do you guys ever watch this show "Brazilian Butts"? This is amazing. Posted by: Mr. Mojo Risin at October 16, 2012 12:15 AM (xXhWA) and... that's my cue to leave. I'm up way past my bedtime anyway. see you all later. peaches, hugs, NDH, catch up on Grimm already. by by everyone else.

Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 15, 2012 08:17 PM (rBgOT)

439 Morons prayers for my mom. She was taken by ambulance about two hours ago to the hospital. I hope for the best but it's in God's hands right now.

Posted by: mpfs at October 15, 2012 08:17 PM (Mkhiu)

440 So how's that campaign going guys? Hehehehehe lololol hahahaha *plays with self*

Posted by: Jon at October 15, 2012 08:17 PM (/YJYi)

441 Prayers mpfs

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 08:18 PM (/YJYi)

442 416410Ain't that a shame. She was such a cute little thing. So sad to see her decline into nothingness.Posted by: Tuna at October 16, 2012 12:05 AM (M/TDA) Hey, at least she endorsed Romney. I guess we always had the VIP blonde cokehead vote but still.

Posted by: Mr. Mojo Risin at October 15, 2012 08:18 PM (xXhWA)

443 mpfs, I'm so sorry, I'll pray for you and your mom.

Posted by: elizabethe loves a brownie at October 15, 2012 08:18 PM (rBgOT)

444 William would've gotten his ass kicked if the two brothers weren't fighting each other and also the danes in the north at the same time he crossed.

Once again. United we stand, divided we fall. It's why diversity is such poppycock.

Posted by: Jcw46 at October 15, 2012 08:18 PM (Vh0f5)

445 395 Never, ever eat English food while visiting England....there's a friggin Indian resteraunt about every 10 feet, so shouldn't be a problem. Can never go wrong with curry chicken!

Posted by: Icedog at October 15, 2012 11:58 PM (PTS+l)

My favorite Chinese restaurant is in London ( http://www.bar-shu.co.uk/ ), and I live in the San Francisco Bay area! There's plenty of great food in the UK.....just avoid "tradition".

Posted by: cthulhu at October 15, 2012 08:18 PM (kaalw)

446 441 Bubba probably paid Obama to keep her out of the country for as long as possible

Posted by: Tuna at October 15, 2012 08:19 PM (M/TDA)

447 Guten Tag morons. Back at work and happy to have a job. How y'all doing tonight?

Posted by: zeera at October 15, 2012 08:19 PM (Lv9bM)

448 come to think of it, who the heck would even WANT to do a drug that makes you feel good for 15 minutes and then leaves you feeling horrible for the rest of the night??? i don't even like having more than one drink for the bad feeling i get when they wear off later on. i can't imagine something like cocaine.

Cocaine doesn't do that. It reaches its maximum effect immediately and then wears off for 30-60 minutes, leaving you where you were before. It's more like caffeine than alcohol.

Posted by: schizoid at October 15, 2012 08:19 PM (NXBVJ)

449 397 okay good night all
tomorrow I ask out the Hungarian biologist on a date
wish me luck

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2012 11:59 PM (d/5qf)

The "instrumentation" thing wasn't a date?!?!?

Posted by: cthulhu at October 15, 2012 08:19 PM (kaalw)

450 fuuuuhh..

I ate a big bowl of spaghetti and passed out. What happened?

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 15, 2012 08:19 PM (8sCoq)

451 I wonder why the Obama campaign feels the need to expend resources here? What are they worried about? Maybe they're going for the "but we won the popular vote" riots. And we know how Chief Justice Roberts responds to "the times".

Posted by: t-bird at October 15, 2012 08:20 PM (FcR7P)

452 445 Morons prayers for my mom. She was taken by ambulance about two hours ago to the hospital. I hope for the best but it's in God's hands right now. Damn mpfs. Thoughts and prayers. If you don't mind, what happened?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 08:21 PM (GEICT)

453 456 fuuuuhh..

I ate a big bowl of spaghetti and passed out. What happened?

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 16, 2012 12:19 AM (8sCoq)

San Diego did their best Obama at a debate impression.

Posted by: buzzion at October 15, 2012 08:21 PM (GULKT)

454

Ok, speaking of the shuttle....this is pretty funny.

http://tinyurl.com/9cd4438

Posted by: Icedog at October 15, 2012 08:21 PM (PTS+l)

455 I ate a big bowl of spaghetti and passed out. What happened?

Nothing. The level in your bottles of Scotch was always that low.

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 15, 2012 08:21 PM (ngsKr)

456 445 Bless you and your mom.

Posted by: Tuna at October 15, 2012 08:21 PM (M/TDA)

457 Posted by: mpfs at October 16, 2012 12:17 AM (Mkhiu) Reinforcements en route.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 08:22 PM (bxiXv)

458

Y'all know my fetish for fixing things. Our Kirby died and with the help of a youtube fetish I have completely disassembled it. Tomorrow I will track down the short, probably a cut out switch, and begin the reassembly. Hopefully no parts will be left over. While it is apart I think I will replace the fan impeller. It's pretty chewed up. That should increase the airflow and efficiency.

Also, I finally got my 2011 taxes in. My extention ran out at midnight so I limbo'd under the wire. I hate paperwork.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at October 15, 2012 08:22 PM (JKNDp)

459 448 416410Ain't that a shame. She was such a cute little thing. So sad to see her decline into nothingness.Posted by: Tuna at October 16, 2012 12:05 AM (M/TDA)Hey, at least she endorsed Romney. I guess we always had the VIP blonde cokehead vote but still.

Posted by: Mr. Mojo Risin at October 16, 2012 12:18 AM (xXhWA)

That's what happens when you've got more money than you can handle and plenty of people to tell you everything you do is super, fantastico.

Rock stars, politicians, kings, Queens, princes, princesses et al.

Posted by: Jcw46 at October 15, 2012 08:22 PM (Vh0f5)

460 From the "circle dances" link, if you click through twice to the original article by the sportswriter explaining his vote: Lisa considers me a traitor to the very essence of America, providing a helping hand to those in genuine need. There is a part of me that feels like a traitor myself, having seen firsthand on a sustained basis the cesspool of crime and crack and teenage prostitution and sinking-house dilapidation in which 25 percent of my hometown, the city of Philadelphia, lives, in poverty. Leaving aside the absurd notion that the essence of America is a"helping hand", this paragraph perfectly encapsulates what it is about Libs that makes me want to scream. He's concerned about the plight of inner city Philly. Philly is, and has been for the last few generations, dominated and run by the Dems. So are all the other rust belt cities. Libs are the REASON those cities are shitholes. YOU'RE THE FUCKING PROBLEM,ASSHOLE! IF YOU HAD ANY REAL COMPASSION, YOU'D HAVE VOTED R LONG AGO! Jesus! Fucking idiot Libs. Cause a goddamn mess, and then resist trying something new because " hey, look, we have a real mess here. I better vote for the Donk, he'll fix it!" Head. Desk. CRASH!

Posted by: Weirddave at October 15, 2012 08:22 PM (aH+zP)

461 The way to keep from feeling the bad effects of drinking is to just keep drinking...... I thought this was common moron knowledge.

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 08:22 PM (/YJYi)

462 In 1991, the shuttle Columbiawas being piggy-backed on a 747 from Edwards AFB back to Florida and had a layover at Sheppard AFB, Tx(it normally would stop in Denver - we were an alternate). I was posted as a "close boundary" sentry on the right wingtip for 4 or 5 hours. It was supposed to be a day off for me, but I was happy as shit. The shear size of it is what really blew me away!

****

Did you touch it?!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 08:23 PM (piMMO)

463 I think Peaches is cool. I like having her around.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at October 15, 2012 08:23 PM (JKNDp)

464 Prayers for you and your mom, MPFS!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at October 15, 2012 08:23 PM (RLZvP)

465 I had to bail earlier today but, bejeez, there was some weapons-grade trolling going on today,

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 08:24 PM (piMMO)

466 Prayers mpfs

Lots and lots of prayers, mpfs . . . my heart goes out to you.

Much love,

peaches

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 08:24 PM (kpCLl)

467

Posted by: cthulhu at October 16, 2012 12:18 AM (kaalw)

"Just avoid traditional"

I concur, "Excuse me gov'nah, would you like a bit of spotted dick and blood pudding?" ....just doesn't work for me.

Posted by: Icedog at October 15, 2012 08:24 PM (PTS+l)

468 #469: I agree, Dan!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at October 15, 2012 08:24 PM (RLZvP)

469 471 I had to bail earlier today but, bejeez, there was some weapons-grade trolling going on today, Really? About what?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 08:25 PM (GEICT)

470 Ok, speaking of the shuttle....this is pretty funny. Missing Taki 183 (see my nic) Of course, he was in Manhattan, not Manhattan Beach. In the '70s

Posted by: Fox2! at October 15, 2012 08:25 PM (1Qpmy)

471 Cut it out, you guys.

ops:

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 08:26 PM (kpCLl)

472 The whole thing about blow is you keep doing it until the bag is empty...its like Lays chips, you can't eat just one.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 08:26 PM (D/sHG)

473 Morons prayers for my mom. She was taken by ambulance about two hours ago to the hospital. I hope for the best but it's in God's hands right now.

****

Oh no.

I'm sorry that she isn't well. Prayers on the way.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 08:26 PM (piMMO)

474 Ohio Dan

If motor runs check the belt that runs off the motor (most vacuums have one. If motor no run check the brushes besides the switches and wires. Sometimes the wires run in tight places and wear and short or break. Certain metal alloys used in wires get brittle with heat/use then break.

I know a guy who does quite well fixing old vacuums and other small appliances. Takes lots and lots of experience to make money at it though. (and an outlet for repaired but unclaimed stuff or a place to take junk appliances for free)

Posted by: Jcw46 at October 15, 2012 08:26 PM (Vh0f5)

475 471 Was Greg back?

Posted by: Tuna at October 15, 2012 08:26 PM (M/TDA)

476 BCochran1981

My mom had breast cancer in 1990 and beat it. 20 years and one month later it had returned and metastasized in her back. The oncologist put her on Femara and it helped but we all know it isn't a cure. I spoke to her today and she sounded tired and she was in pain. My sister stopped to see her tonight and she was shaking and couldn't keep her balance, her sugar had flared up to 367. They have found another large growth in her back and she is at CAT scan right now. Prognosis is not good. I knew this was coming but you always believe there is more time.

Posted by: mpfs at October 15, 2012 08:27 PM (Mkhiu)

477 Years ago ... many years ago ... got to see a shuttle night launch. Being a newbie, I asked 'How do we know which is the shuttle?' In my defense, there were lots of lights circling the area as you might imagine. We were in Boca Raton, not across the bay. One of the other writers says, 'Honey, trust me!' - she could talk like that being from Texas, and all - 'after you see your first nigh launch, you'll never ask again!' Holy MF! Moly, was she right!

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 08:28 PM (/OhbZ)

478 Well, my uncle who passed away on September 11 was laid to rest today, but I couldn't get out there for the funeral. Damn it all. One disaster after another, but I guess Uncle Dan doesn't really care at this point. Would have been nice to see my Dad and maybe shore him up for this, but there are lots of folks out there so maybe it isn't so bad.

Posted by: tcn at October 15, 2012 08:28 PM (VLG62)

479 Damn mpfs I'm really sorry. Prayers are going out for you mom.

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 08:28 PM (/YJYi)

480 cocaine is actually not a physically habituating drug. it causes compulsive usage while on it for having such a short duration of action and such an acute limbic reward, but there's nothing like a "cocaine withdrawal" as there is in the cases of opioids and benzodiazepenes (and alcohol, for that matter). now, the anecdotal comedowns are supposed to be pretty harsh. Posted by: jimi ray at October 16, 2012 12:10 AM (79EF9) Cocaine is habituating, Einstein. It's not "[physically] addictive" is what you're trying to say. "Physical" and "habituate" don't really go together ... even if you throw a "limbic" or two in.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 08:29 PM (X3lox)

481 Really? About what?

****

Biden wining the debate and this wasn't our typical troll. This one was super-aggressive and persistent. Not just annoying. Started out this morning in the news dump thread.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 08:30 PM (piMMO)

482 477 The whole thing about blow is you keep doing it until the bag is empty...its like Lays chips, you can't eat just one.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 16, 2012 12:26 AM

The shit is insidious, like that.

Posted by: otho at October 15, 2012 08:30 PM (yBF/9)

483 Oh, crud, mpfs......I'm so sorry to hear that.

Having gone down many paths, myself, I hope that what needs to happen will happen for the best. May you find the easiest path through the harshest lands, and may you arrive strong and proud.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 15, 2012 08:30 PM (kaalw)

484 Posted by: mpfs at October 16, 2012 12:27 AM (Mkhiu) Damn. So sorry. I'm a Type 1 diabetic, have been for over 26 years now, so I know what high blood sugars can do and make you feel like.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 08:30 PM (GEICT)

485 Prayers for your mom, mpfs.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 08:31 PM (X3lox)

486

"Did you touch it?!"

I wish, but it never left the top of the 747...it's a little hard to climb on top of a 747 without being noticed.

...and it was in the middle of the day

Posted by: Icedog at October 15, 2012 08:31 PM (PTS+l)

487 Thank you all so much. It's going to be a crappy week. The 18th is the anniversary of my dad's passing 16 years ago. The sadness never quite leaves you.

Posted by: mpfs at October 15, 2012 08:31 PM (Mkhiu)

488 Sorry mpfs. Praying for your mom and her doctors.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 15, 2012 08:32 PM (BAS5M)

489 My first check will be to see if the safety switches are completing the circuit as designed. Then I will bypass all of them to see if the motor runs at full rpm. Then check brushes and contacts. If none of that does it I will need to go to a repairman.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at October 15, 2012 08:32 PM (JKNDp)

490 Biden wining the debate and this wasn't our typical troll. This one was super-aggressive and persistent. Not just annoying. Started out this morning in the news dump thread. BanHammer?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 08:32 PM (GEICT)

491 Posted by: tcn at October 16, 2012 12:28 AM (VLG62)

I'm so sorry, tcn. May God comfort you and your family and may you find a way to visit with your Dad soon.

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 08:33 PM (kpCLl)

492 Also, I finally got my 2011 taxes in. My extention ran out at midnight so I limbo'd under the wire. I hate paperwork.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at October 16, 2012 12:22 AM (JKNDp)

Same here. I never get mine in on 3/15 or 4/15 since I learned that you can get a 6 month extension!

I think that if you want to see real change in this country, make taxes due on October 15th, then everyone will be nice and pissed off about the amount of taxes that they actually pay when they go to the ballot box.

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 15, 2012 08:33 PM (Zd/NW)

493 482 Oh no. Damn cancer. My Mom had the beast 10 years ago and it came back in the other breast. So far so good. Keeping my fingers crossed. I'm so sorry. I know firsthand what how helpless you must feel

Posted by: Tuna at October 15, 2012 08:33 PM (M/TDA)

494 Biden wining the debate and this wasn't our typical troll. This one was super-aggressive and persistent. Not just annoying. Started out this morning in the news dump thread.

Oh that was Rupert Pupkin. He is a nasty piece of work. Notice though he didn't show up in the thread Ace posted about the poll showing Ryan won independents in the debate.

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 08:34 PM (/YJYi)

495 mpfs - prayers for you and your family. My dad is recovering slowly from gall bladder surgery and a whole host of intertwining conditions but he is recovering. Please stay strong...

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 08:34 PM (/OhbZ)

496 Preference cascade? Gyllenhaal is a firm lefty

Jake Gyllenhaal
‏@Jake_Gyllenhaal
As A Democrat, I'll say it now, I endorse Mitt Romney For President Of The United States #MyVoteIsMade

Posted by: fuzzy logic at October 15, 2012 08:43 PM (LpQbZ)

Posted by: kbdabear at October 15, 2012 08:34 PM (wwsoB)

497 KD, it looks like that was a false tweet

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 15, 2012 08:35 PM (8sCoq)

498 502 Preference cascade? Gyllenhaal is a firm lefty

Jake Gyllenhaal
Ã¾@Jake_Gyllenhaal
As A Democrat, I'll say it now, I endorse Mitt Romney For President Of The United States #MyVoteIsMade

Posted by: fuzzy logic at October 15, 2012 08:43 PM (LpQbZ)

Posted by: kbdabear at October 16, 2012 12:34 AM (wwsoB)

Fake twitter account.

Posted by: buzzion - at October 15, 2012 08:36 PM (GULKT)

499 Biden wining the debate and this wasn't our typical troll. This one was super-aggressive and persistent.

I don't think it ever realized how, in exactly mirroring Biden's debate "tactics", it proved exactly the opposite of what it was insisting.

Yelling and repeated baseless gainsaying is not a "win", except to that narrow spectrum of fuckwits, like that troll, who think being a complete fucking asshole is an attractive attribute.

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 15, 2012 08:37 PM (ngsKr)

500 Because English is a blend of Anglo-Saxon and Latinate French we have a massive vocabulary and much nuance and a plethora of synonyms. But yes, our spelling sucks. "The knights who say kanigt."

Posted by: lived in Angleland in previous incarnation at October 15, 2012 08:37 PM (Q2wni)

501 Alright Horde, I'm out. See you Morons tomorrow.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 15, 2012 08:37 PM (GEICT)

502 Scratch that, it was a fake;

Checked it, the Gyllenhaals wouldn't drop Obama unless he was running against Hugo Chavez

Fake Jake Gyllenhaal tweets Romney endorsement

http://tinyurl.com/9us27bu

Posted by: kbdabear at October 15, 2012 08:37 PM (wwsoB)

503 mpfs,

Sorry to hear about your mom. We'll say a prayer for her tonight.

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 15, 2012 08:38 PM (Zd/NW)

504 BanHammer?

****

It looks like its comments might have been deleted.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 08:38 PM (piMMO)

505 There's good data on this. The overwhelming majority have never tried coke. Never even had it offered to them. It's really not as common as people think. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 16, 2012 12:08 AM (ZPrif) But they do all do something different...

Posted by: Spotswood at October 15, 2012 08:38 PM (sZTYJ)

506 483 Years ago ... many years ago ... got to see a shuttle night launch.

Being a newbie, I asked 'How do we know which is the shuttle?'

In my defense, there were lots of lights circling the area as you might imagine. We were in Boca Raton, not across the bay.

One of the other writers says, 'Honey, trust me!' - she could talk like that being from Texas, and all - 'after you see your first nigh launch, you'll never ask again!'

Holy MF! Moly, was she right!

Posted by: Adriane at October 16, 2012 12:28 AM (/OhbZ)

Oh, you lucky, lucky....dog. I never got to do that, and now the era of shuttles is over. I've seen video, and it's amazing -- a spark on the horizon (they don't let you get that close) which turns into the wild Force of the world channeled by man into flinging a speck into the heavens. That so much raw power can be quietly assembled over days, then unleashed in such a way in seconds, is nothing short of amazing.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 15, 2012 08:39 PM (kaalw)

507 Actually, I take that back. There are lots of Che Gorilla comments in the debate thread

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 08:40 PM (piMMO)

508

Good luck mpfs. Prayers for your mother and family.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at October 15, 2012 08:40 PM (JKNDp)

509 On Letterman right now. Some band called The Whigs. It's this kind of shit that inspired my favorite guitar case sticker- "It's not that I'm old" "Your music really does suck"

Posted by: teej says go K-State at October 15, 2012 08:40 PM (PNi9V)

510 As a firm Communist, I'll say it now, my vote is for Mitt Romney

Posted by: Fidel Castro at October 15, 2012 08:40 PM (8HhF2)

511 Jesus! Fucking idiot Libs. Cause a goddamn mess, and then resist trying something new because " hey, look, we have a real mess here. I better vote for the Donk, he'll fix it!" Posted by: Weirddave at October 16, 2012 12:22 AM (aH+zP) And you can't explain it to them, because the decision is not being made in parts of the brain influenced by new information. It's all ego and core emotions. When Obama said he'd raise taxes even if they got less revenue because it would be "fair," anyone thinking with their forebrains heard "DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER." Democrats heard "fairness" and the forebrain went into some kind of dream state.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 08:41 PM (bxiXv)

512 477 The whole thing about blow is you keep doing it until the bag is empty...its like Lays chips, you can't eat just one.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 16, 2012 12:26 AM (D/sHG)

I never had a problem stopping when it was time to eat or sleep as long as I wasn't drinking. When I was drinking, ugh...worst hangovers of my life.

Posted by: schizoid at October 15, 2012 08:42 PM (NXBVJ)

513 506 Our spelling sucks but nothing is perfect. English is so superior in every other way that quirky spelling is a small price to pay.

Posted by: Tuna at October 15, 2012 08:42 PM (M/TDA)

514 Thank you all for your kind thoughts. I'm going to try to sleep for a little while.

Posted by: mpfs at October 15, 2012 08:45 PM (Mkhiu)

515 Good night mpfs. I hope you can sleep well.

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 08:47 PM (/YJYi)

516

@486 Speaking of addiction, nicotine is one of the most difficult drugs to withdraw from. It's not as intense a withdrawal but it lasts much longer, the withdrawing phase, that is. Lasts for weeks and sometimes months. And the failure rate is very high.

Nicotine not only opens up the pleasure centers in the brain but can act as both a sedative and a stimulant, a very pleasant "alert relaxation." Also suppresses the appetite. One of the reasons it's so difficult to kick is that despite all its negatives it does have psychological and pharmacological benefits. Another reason it's so addictive is that one can keep on dosing without the harmful intoxicating and thus limiting effects common to other drugs.

Posted by: lived in Angleland in previous incarnation at October 15, 2012 08:47 PM (Q2wni)

517 Oh that was Rupert Pupkin. He is a nasty piece of work. Notice though he didn't show up in the thread Ace posted about the poll showing Ryan won independents in the debate.

*****

I missed Pupkin, or is he using different socks? The one I was talking about defnitely did show up in the debate thread. Goes by Che Gorilla.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 08:48 PM (piMMO)

518 Our spelling sucks but nothing is perfect. English is so superior in every other way that quirky spelling is a small price to pay. Posted by: Tuna at October 16, 2012 12:42 AM (M/TDA) English spelling is the way it has to be because we have taken in so many words from other languages. Of course, we have been a bit too nice in allowing the retarded of some other languages to be adopted into the English (which really wasn't necessary) but that is just a marginal difference, anyway. Weird English trivia (actually, Latin alphabet trivia): We only have vowels because the Greeks originally took the Hebrew alphabet and screwed it all up. They mistook guttural consonants for vowels (as Hebrew had no vowels, since all words were of specific patterns). This was lucky for the West as the existence of independent vowels in the written alphabet gave it a flexibility that was necessary for the expansion of the language and importation fo foreign words.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 08:48 PM (X3lox)

519
HOLY COW!

ROMNEY IS IN TROUBLE!

BREAKING!!!
BREAKING!!!
BREAKING!!!

SECRET OBAMA PLAN FOR TOMORROW'S DEBATE REVEALED AND ROMNEY WON'T BE ABLE TO COUNTER IT EFFECTIVELY!

THIS IF GOING TO LEAVE A MARK LIKE NO OTHER!

http://tinyurl.com/9fsl525

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 15, 2012 08:48 PM (ovpNn)

520 I used to live in Eau Gallie, about 30 miles south of LC-39 (and still in Brevard County!). There is nothing like watching the Shuttle take off, then 150 seconds later the sound reaches you. And reaches you and reaches you. it seems to go on forever. Then in Orlando for a couple of years. the ducks swimming in the apartment complex "water feature" (fancy name for a retention pond) would always take off quacking when the double boom hit them as the shuttle came in for a landing.

Posted by: Fox2! at October 15, 2012 08:49 PM (1Qpmy)

521 Before I dumped 70lb my blood sugar was in the high 300's too when I found out I was T2. I felt tired all the time, and it retrospect had probably lapsed into a diabetic coma a few times without even realizing it.

I spent 20 years in the 300lb range...it did some permanent damage to my eyes. I got a couple of micro aneurism time bombs in one eye that could blind me if they ever go off.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 08:49 PM (D/sHG)

522 Nicotine not only opens up the pleasure centers in the brain but can act as both a sedative and a stimulant, a very pleasant "alert relaxation." Also suppresses the appetite. One of the reasons it's so difficult to kick is that despite all its negatives it does have psychological and pharmacological benefits. Another reason it's so addictive is that one can keep on dosing without the harmful intoxicating and thus limiting effects common to other drugs. Posted by: lived in Angleland in previous incarnation at October 16, 2012 12:47 AM (Q2wni) Yep. There's really no other drug like nicotine. I like it. A lot.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 08:50 PM (X3lox)

523 cthulhu at October 16, 2012 12:39 AM (kaalw) I hope to be lucky enough to see it's successor ... but hot dang! even at night you could see the little white triangle riding high on a ball of fire.

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 08:51 PM (/OhbZ)

524 515 On Letterman right now. Some band called The Whigs. It's this kind of shit that inspired my favorite guitar case sticker- "It's not that I'm old" "Your music really does suck" I heard a good song over the weekend: "Colonel Joe" by Alphaspin. I'd never heard of them before. The song is about Joseph Kittinger and his record-breaking parachute jump in 1960. It really rocks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcT8lKKpeXs&feature=player_embedded

Posted by: rickl at October 15, 2012 08:52 PM (sdi6R)

525
I missed Pupkin, or is he using different socks? The one I was talking about defnitely did show up in the debate thread. Goes by Che Gorilla.

That's who I was talking about. Che had Pupkin's hash.

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 08:52 PM (/YJYi)

526 Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 16, 2012 12:48 AM (ovpNn)

You magnificent bastid . . .

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 08:53 PM (kpCLl)

527
That's who I was talking about. Che had Pupkin's hash.

**

Ahhhh.

I was so beyond annoyed I had to leave.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 08:54 PM (piMMO)

528 532 Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 16, 2012 12:48 AM (ovpNn)

You magnificent bastid . . .

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 16, 2012 12:53 AM (kpCLl)

hahahah

How hilarious would that be if he actually came out like that tomorrow?

OMG i woudl pee my pants

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 15, 2012 08:54 PM (ovpNn)

529 524 Like I said up thread one semester of study does not do our language justice. It is endlessly fascinating.

Posted by: Tuna at October 15, 2012 08:55 PM (M/TDA)

530 @528 Me too. Which is why I'm smoking again after having quit for four months. But damn, I hate the cost! I've funded several battleships and retirees with what I've paid in cig taxes over the decades.

Posted by: lived in Angleland in previous incarnation at October 15, 2012 08:55 PM (Q2wni)

531 I used to be able to see the shuttle night launches from my front yard when the sky was clear. I think I'm about 150mi or so from the cape. I know the Sebastian I95 exit is exactly 100 miles from my house.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 08:56 PM (D/sHG)

532 @486 Speaking of addiction, nicotine is one of the most difficult drugs to withdraw from. It's not as intense a withdrawal butit lasts much longer, the withdrawing phase, that is. Lasts for weeks and sometimes months. And the failure rate is very high.

If you quit cold turkey, nicotine withdrawal peaks at 72 hours and lasts about five days. I've quit and restarted nicotine so many times it isn't funny. The key to success is to clear your schedule and not expect to get much done for the next 5 days.

Posted by: schizoid at October 15, 2012 08:56 PM (NXBVJ)

533 I seem to recall that the long bow wasn't invented in 1066. I thing the first time they showed up in combat was at Angicourt a couple of hundred years later. A secret weapon.

I'm not sure I believe that story about the wedding band - I think "Ask the Imam" made it clear that Islamic men were not allowed to wear gold.

Posted by: rabidfox at October 15, 2012 08:56 PM (tGrF2)

534 Yep. There's really no other drug like nicotine. I like it. A lot.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 16, 2012 12:50 AM (X3lox)

You havent tried coke i take it?

Posted by: Barry Soetoro buy one bag get one bag at half price - dis is teh good shit! at October 15, 2012 08:57 PM (ovpNn)

535

Our spelling sucks but nothing is perfect.

Our spelling sucks because Dr. Johnson was, at least on this score, an asshole. He's responsible for selecting funky, non-phonetic spellings for English words, where various letter combinations often have more than one pronounciation (e.g., "lead;" is that the antonym of "follow," or a metal used in bullets?).

Envy the Krauts in this respect, where all words are spelled phonetically. I don't think they bother with spelling tests and such; what would be the point?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 15, 2012 08:58 PM (U+DUu)

536 Well thanks rickl, when I'm at the library tomorrow I'll try to remember @530 so I can check it out. And the phone has the slows and I'm tired so... Love each other fellow babies.

Posted by: teej says go K-State at October 15, 2012 08:59 PM (GX2fm)

537 ^{I would have handled Plouffe, Axelrod, Reggie Love and Barney Frank much differently.}

Posted by: Longshanks at October 15, 2012 08:59 PM (2c1Cq)

538 I never liked coke. There was always a lot of drugs around the music scene, but I mostly stayed clear of that. I hated how coke made you feel, and I wanted a clear head to play, so I didn't even drink much. I could have out choomed barry though, he would fold like a cheap camera. lol

Posted by: Berserker at October 15, 2012 09:00 PM (FMbng)

539 540 Yep. There's really no other drug like nicotine. I like it. A lot.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 16, 2012 12:50 AM (X3lox)

You havent tried coke i take it?

Posted by: Barry Soetoro buy one bag get one bag at half price - dis is teh good shit! at October 16, 2012 12:57 AM (ovpNn)

No kidding. Coke is what nicotine users are looking for but aren't getting.

Posted by: schizoid at October 15, 2012 09:00 PM (NXBVJ)

540 I'm not sure I believe that story about the wedding band - I think "Ask the Imam" made it clear that Islamic men were not allowed to wear gold. I think it is not allowed to wear gold during fasting / haj.

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 09:00 PM (/OhbZ)

541 Ok this is a link to Daily COcks...erm Kos.

But this is a story you should read...its to awesome.

http://tinyurl.com/7utdgcf

Obama leads Romney by landslide numbers

hahahaha goood times....CHOOMIE!

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 15, 2012 09:01 PM (ovpNn)

542 Over and out, morons. God bless us, every one, and especially those of us who are having heartbreak over loved ones.

Posted by: Peaches hates everything at October 15, 2012 09:01 PM (kpCLl)

543 @538 My withdrawal lasted for weeks although it was only the first few days that were unbearable. But if I saw someone on TV or in a movie light up the craving would return. Very odd, the whole experience. Even in my second month of quitting I was having dreams every night where I was smoking. I never smoked in my dreams when I was smoking in real life, only when I quit. The experience of withdrawal and quitting was a real "brain" experience or "mind" experience, in how one's mind operates. Quite surreal.

Posted by: lived in Angleland in previous incarnation at October 15, 2012 09:01 PM (Q2wni)

544 I think "Ask the Imam" made it clear that Islamic men were not allowed to wear gold.

That may be the strict interpretation, but Obama, if he were a closet muslim, isn't the strict variety...he'd be more the Farrakhan "I like my bling" variety.

http://noticias.gospelmais.com.br/files/2012/04/louis-farrakhan.jpg

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 09:02 PM (D/sHG)

545 Like I said up thread one semester of study does not do our language justice. It is endlessly fascinating. Posted by: Tuna at October 16, 2012 12:55 AM (M/TDA) Yep. But it makes learning other languages very difficult because there are many things we can easily say in English that can't be translated in any simple way - and a lot of them are very basic forms of speech, such as the progressive verb form (in Hebrew I used to do a literal translation that would drive Israelis crazy

), not to mention half of our tense structures. We seem to have more future forms than many other languages have present forms (those I've heard of and spoken with native speakers about, at least). But, the biggest thing is that we just have words, not nouns or verbs, really. Very, very flexible, but it's made it difficult for me to pick up other languages since I always like to say exactly what I want to say.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 09:02 PM (X3lox)

546 Jay Guevara at October 16, 2012 12:58 AM (U+DUu) Yeah verily, but wes on the western side of the pond owe it more to Dr. Webster, who strived mightily to retain culture origins of words ... e.g. y pronounced same as i because myth is Greek in origin ...

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 09:03 PM (/OhbZ)

547 So the Daily Caller's big story is that Obama had a relationship with Jeremiah Wright dating to the 80's?

Really?

That's the big story?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 09:03 PM (piMMO)

548 The other view is that Obama was wearing haram gold jewellery because he was being treated like a woman as he was a catcher and not a pitcher.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 15, 2012 09:03 PM (vDl/w)

549 244 I may be the only one.

I'm up on the Mountain of Health

&&&&&&&&&&

Isn't that also known as "Mons Veneris"?

Posted by: Longshanks at October 15, 2012 09:03 PM (2c1Cq)

550 Well the daily caller "explosive story"? Obama knew Rev. Wright as early as 1987. Just more evidence that the liar is a lying liar.

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 09:03 PM (/YJYi)

551 541 The history of dictionaries. Another fascinating chapter in the history of the language.

Posted by: Tuna at October 15, 2012 09:05 PM (M/TDA)

552 You havent tried coke i take it? Posted by: Barry Soetoro buy one bag get one bag at half price - dis is teh good shit! at October 16, 2012 12:57 AM (ovpNn) Heh. Yeah, I tried it. Just for one very expensive summer, luckily. Never touched it again after.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 09:06 PM (X3lox)

553 #551 Purple: I hadn't thought of that. I suspect that NOI isn't as strict about stuff like that so maybe the story is true. Even so, it will never be verified and it doesn't make any difference. Conservatives think he's a screw-up regardless of the god he bows to and liberals think he walks on water.

Posted by: rabidfox at October 15, 2012 09:06 PM (tGrF2)

554 Well the daily caller "explosive story"? Obama knew Rev. Wright as early as 1987. Just more evidence that the liar is a lying liar.

*****

Because the other Wright stories have gained s much traction. This "explosive story" crap is getting old.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 09:06 PM (piMMO)

555 Good luck mpfs. Prayers for your mother and family. Posted by: Ohio Dan at October 16, 2012 12:40 AM (JKNDp) Thoughts and prayers

Posted by: Þe Political Hat at October 15, 2012 09:08 PM (sZTYJ)

556 Posted by: Berserker at October 16, 2012 01:00 AM (FMbng) Glad I caught you here. I tried to tell you on the other thread, I want to thank you for directing me to smokersoutlet. I got the Smokin G tobacco and absolutely love it. It's my favorite tobacco, now. Hands down. And cheap! Thanks again.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 09:08 PM (X3lox)

557 So, we are all agreed then? Coke is evil!!1!

Posted by: Pepsi at October 15, 2012 09:08 PM (sZTYJ)

558 I got an explosive story for you....just Let me finish this here double refreid bean burito

Posted by: El Presidente Barack Hugo Chavez Obama the Light Bringer and giver of Unicorn Farts Skittles and Fre at October 15, 2012 09:09 PM (ovpNn)

559 555 LOL. Remember Obama throwing the girly pitch in his mom jeans?

Posted by: Tuna at October 15, 2012 09:09 PM (M/TDA)

560 Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 16, 2012 01:06 AM (piMMO)

Yeah that's what I was getting at. It's nothing anybody who has been half paying attention doesn't know already.

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 09:09 PM (/YJYi)

561 Well, I think Pepsi is better than Coke, but Cherry Coke is better than Cherry Pepsi. Coke freezes better, though, it has a smoother texture, Pepsi freezes in flakes. Wait, what were you talking about?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 09:10 PM (bxiXv)

562 Hhhmm Obama the Ethelred?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 15, 2012 09:10 PM (vjJM3)

563 @548 What is a "TPM aggregate"? Where in the hell did kos get those numbers, from that dark narrow space hidden between his buttocks?

Posted by: lived in Angleland in previous incarnation at October 15, 2012 09:10 PM (Q2wni)

564 Yeah that's what I was getting at. It's nothing anybody who has been half paying attention doesn't know already.

****

I know and was agreeing.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 15, 2012 09:10 PM (piMMO)

565 All this talk about nicotine is driving me outside to suck clean air thru a filter. brb

Posted by: zeera at October 15, 2012 09:11 PM (Lv9bM)

566 Adam said: Well the daily caller "explosive story"? Obama knew Rev. Wright as early as 1987. Just more evidence that the liar is a lying liar.

Yep, past associations and limited-hangout statements about them is something any other politician would have to answer to.

But when we have an assassinated ambassador, 2 Navy SEALS and a state worker whose murder on the 11th anniversery of September 11th at the hands of al-Qaeda affiliates was obscured in a likely political cover-up spanning 2 weeks, the President, Secretary of State and Ambassador to the UN, which is barely being investigated and pushed by the media -- such stories about Obama's past just sort of fade away...

Posted by: Uriah Heep at October 15, 2012 09:12 PM (jhI6f)

567 Yep. But it makes learning other languages very difficult because there are many things we can easily say in English that can't be translated in any simple way

Language isn't just about verbal/written communication -- it frames the way you think. A too constrained language is going to product constrained thoughts as well.

As a practical matter, English was one of the west's secret weapons in its economic rise in the world.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 09:12 PM (D/sHG)

568 Glad I caught you here. I tried to tell you on the other thread, I want to thank you for directing me to smokersoutlet. I got the Smokin G tobacco and absolutely love it. It's my favorite tobacco, now. Hands down. And cheap! Thanks again.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 16, 2012 01:08 AM

That place is great, isn't it?

Posted by: Berserker at October 15, 2012 09:13 PM (FMbng)

569 557 Well the daily caller "explosive story"? Obama knew Rev. Wright as early as 1987. Just more evidence that the liar is a lying liar. Posted by: Adam at October 16, 2012 01:03 AM (/YJYi) I wish they had just put that in a memo titled "shit we already know" instead of calling it "explosive." I'm pretty sure that was in "Radical in Chief," and it's another one of these "game stasis moves."

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 09:16 PM (bxiXv)

570 That place is great, isn't it? Posted by: Berserker at October 16, 2012 01:13 AM (FMbng) Fantastic. And I think it's just an hour or so away from me. I'm telling the guy who first turned me on to MYO about it. I think he'll prefer it, too. And I like being able to buy lots of little 1/2 lb bags cheaply rather than having to purchase a big 5 pounder that I don't want to open (though I like having a couple of those in the closet ... just in case).

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 09:17 PM (X3lox)

571

The AngloSaxons used alliteration in their poetry rather than rhymes. I remind people of this who don't like un-rhymed modern poetry. It's imagery and metaphor and strong word pictures that make poetry, not necessarily rhymes.

Posted by: lived in Angleland in previous incarnation at October 15, 2012 09:19 PM (Q2wni)

572 Yep. But it makes learning other languages very difficult because there are many things we can easily say in English that can't be translated in any simple way

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 16, 2012 01:02 AM (X3lox)

I'm assuming you're talking about english? I tried a few years of latin and ancient egyptian, and it drove me fucking crazy. Three words in latin would do what 10 words in english would do because the rules were so different. There were all these rules and tenses and word endings that totally changed the meanings. Genitive this, and nominative that and accusative this and holy shit.....

I just couldn't get my head around it. Although it probably would have helped if I knew the rules of english to start with. lol

Posted by: Berserker at October 15, 2012 09:20 PM (FMbng)

573 a god fearing man. and a killer bunny fearing man. and just generally an asshole. but now -- a fabulist. never heard that word before.

Posted by: jc at October 15, 2012 09:21 PM (ufJKx)

574 In breaking news, Reggie Love has just been appointed as the new Ambassador to Libya.

http://cns.com/Imisshimsomuch

Posted by: Jim Sonweed at October 15, 2012 09:22 PM (2c1Cq)

575

"The more vocabulary we possess, the more efficient are these tools of thought. With a good vocabulary, which indicates scope of knowledge, we grasp the thoughts of others and be able to communicate our own thoughts to them.

As early as the 1930s, the HEL found a close relationship between a large, precise knowledge of English words and achievement in life. Worldly success, earnings and management status correlated with vocabulary scores. In follow-up studies of persons tested as much as twenty or thirty years ago, a limited vocabulary is proving an important factor in holding men and women back from achieving the position which their aptitudes showed they should have gained. The truth is that low vocabulary decreases the effectiveness of inborn gifts in any civilization."

http://www.wordsmart.com

Posted by: Icedog at October 15, 2012 09:23 PM (PTS+l)

576 so, if a woman wearing a cancer detecting bra is married to a man who is laid off from a mill after the mill is purchased by Bain Capital, what happens?

Posted by: jc at October 15, 2012 09:23 PM (ufJKx)

577 @580 The word "fabulist" has a tinge of gayness about it, to my ear, anyway. I denounce myself.

Posted by: lived in Angleland in previous incarnation at October 15, 2012 09:24 PM (Q2wni)

578 581 is a lie. I'd never send someone so near and dear to my heart to such a dangerous part of the world. Just some expendable whitey.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at October 15, 2012 09:24 PM (/YJYi)

579 Re English spelling:

George Bernard Shaw, a proponent of spelling reform, did a piece on how to pronounce the (made-up) word "ghoti" according to English.

Look it up.

Posted by: Jim Sonweed at October 15, 2012 09:25 PM (2c1Cq)

580 578
The AngloSaxons used alliteration in their poetry rather than rhymes. I remind people of this who don't like un-rhymed modern poetry. It's imagery and metaphor and strong word pictures that make poetry, not necessarily rhymes.

Posted by: lived in Angleland in previous incarnation at October 16, 2012 01:19 AM (Q2wni)

Fuck you buddy.

And from across the room at that.

Posted by: A Man from Nantucket at October 15, 2012 09:25 PM (GULKT)

581 so, if a woman wearing a cancer detecting bra is married to a man who is laid off from a mill after the mill is purchased by Bain Capital, what happens?
Posted by: jc at October 16, 2012 01:23 AM

In a perfect world? Every time she got near the husband it would beep "douchetool alert".

Posted by: Berserker at October 15, 2012 09:25 PM (FMbng)

582 The AngloSaxons used alliteration in their poetry rather than rhymes. I remind people of this who don't like un-rhymed modern poetry. It's imagery and metaphor and strong word pictures that make poetry, not necessarily rhymes. Roses are red, Violets are blue, There's a special place in heck, For heretics like you ...

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 09:25 PM (/OhbZ)

583 545 I never liked coke. There was always a lot of drugs around the music scene, but I mostly stayed clear of that. I hated how coke made you feel, and I wanted a clear head to play, so I didn't even drink much. I could have out choomed barry though, he would fold like a cheap camera. lol

Posted by: Berserker at October 16, 2012 01:00 AM

But teh choom's got a major problem for music. Short term memory loss. Going blank in the middle of a tune has a price... "uhhhhh... what's this song we're playing? And how does it go, again?" Choom comes 2nd only to acid as the worst for fucking your shit up as a player. If you could do it and not zone out, my hat's off.

Posted by: otho at October 15, 2012 09:25 PM (yBF/9)

584 581 In breaking news, Reggie Love has just been appointed as the new Ambassador to Libya.

http://cns.com/Imisshimsomuch

Posted by: Jim Sonweed at October 16, 2012 01:22 AM (2c1Cq)

Moochelle must have found out someone else was dipping into her honey jar.

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 15, 2012 09:25 PM (ovpNn)

585 "Just don't take any course where they make you read Beowulf."

Posted by: Annie Hall at October 15, 2012 09:26 PM (Q2wni)

586 Well the daily caller "explosive story"? Obama knew Rev. Wright as early as 1987. Just more evidence that the liar is a lying liar.
---
Wasn't the story already that he spent 20 years in those pews? Where's the kaboom?

Posted by: Methos at October 15, 2012 09:26 PM (6LvlL)

587 550 @538 My withdrawal lasted for weeks although it was only the first few days that were unbearable. But if I saw someone on TV or in a movie light up the craving would return. Very odd, the whole experience. Even in my second month of quitting I was having dreams every night where I was smoking. I never smoked in my dreams when I was smoking in real life, only when I quit. The experience of withdrawal and quitting was a real "brain" experience or "mind" experience, in how one's mind operates. Quite surreal.

Posted by: lived in Angleland in previous incarnation at October 16, 2012 01:01 AM (Q2wni)

I quit "dipping" 15 years ago. Every once in a while I still get a hankering for it, and this past weekend at my college's homecoming, a bunch of my old friends were dipping away. If MrsCaniac hadn't been with me, I just might have. Nicotine is a hell of a drug.

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 15, 2012 09:26 PM (Zd/NW)

588 Where's the kaboom?

Posted by: Methos at October 16, 2012 01:26 AM (6LvlL)

===

there's supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom !!

Posted by: marvin martian at October 15, 2012 09:28 PM (ufJKx)

589 I also gave a rousing speech on death panels. No no no, not the medical death panels, just death panels in general. As in, if the government doesn't think you are useful, time to die! A ravishing speech, if I do say so myself.

Posted by: George Bernard Shaw at October 15, 2012 09:29 PM (/YJYi)

590 @587 Don't make me unload my stock of dirty limericks.

Posted by: The lady from Wheeling who professed to lack sexual feeling at October 15, 2012 09:30 PM (Q2wni)

591 I quit "dipping" 15 years ago. Every once in a while I still get a hankering for it, and this past weekend at my college's homecoming, a bunch of my old friends were dipping away. If MrsCaniac hadn't been with me, I just might have. Nicotine is a hell of a drug.

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 16, 2012 01:26 AM (Zd/NW)

Nicotine only feels good when you're in withdrawal. Remember the first time you tried it? You felt sick and wanted to puke. That's how it will feel now after 15 years. If you want to relive the old feeling you will have to readdict yourself first.

Posted by: schizoid at October 15, 2012 09:31 PM (NXBVJ)

592 Posted by: Berserker at October 16, 2012 01:20 AM (FMbng) I guess Latin could English a run for its money in such descriptiveness ... if it weren't dead

And ancient Egyptian? It was Robert Downey Jr in Back to School who was doing the "dead language motif" for his studies, wasn't it? My understanding is that modern French doesn't even have the present progressive. They say "in the process of" or some such shit - which is what I used to say in Hebrew (without even knowing about the French thing). So, if I wanted to say, "I was walking to the store," I would say, "I was in the process of a walk to the store," and the Israelis would say, "WTFF??" Then we'd get into an argument of whether a "walk" was a process or not. I just spoke English most of my time there to save everyone the hassle.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 09:31 PM (X3lox)

593 @584 @580 The word "fabulist" has a tinge of gayness about it, to my ear, anyway. I denounce myself. Can't imagine saying it with out one hand on the hip and the other doing the "Z" with a snap (ala In Living Color's, "Men on Film")

Posted by: Icedog at October 15, 2012 09:31 PM (PTS+l)

594

Crazy gibberish!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7osGfFTQVtU

Posted by: Hubert Farnsworth at October 15, 2012 09:33 PM (GULKT)

595 You also thought Stalin did a bang-up job, George.

BTW, Your Majesty is like a stream of bat's piss. One of Shaw's. One of Shaw's.

Posted by: zombie oscar wilde at October 15, 2012 09:34 PM (vDl/w)

596 But teh choom's got a major problem for music. Short term memory loss. Going blank in the middle of a tune has a price... "uhhhhh... what's this song we're playing? And how does it go, again?" Choom comes 2nd only to acid as the worst for fucking your shit up as a player. If you could do it and not zone out, my hat's off.

Posted by: otho at October 16, 2012 01:25 AM

Nooo, I never had that problem. I never had the short term memory loss. It gave me laser focus for some reason. In my case it was like fueling up a fighter jet and sending it off to destroy shit. It really put me in the zone.

Acid is a whole different deal. I saw dudes on that shit, and angel dust. Holy shit man. I couldn't believe dudes thought doing that shit was a good idea, they were like retarded zombies. I learned not to to fuck with heavy drugs by watching those people. I saw a front man on angel dust start crying in the middle of a set.

On the other hand I did see my own front man get so drunk one night he sang a whole verse into his beer bottle thinking it was his mike. lol

Posted by: Berserker at October 15, 2012 09:36 PM (FMbng)

597 Lo! we have laboured   ||   long at our postings,
Writing of wreckage   ||   the Won hath caused.
Miserable failure   ||    of fucks enclustered,
Stuttering, stammering,   ||   stupid tyrant!

Posted by: sistrum at October 15, 2012 09:36 PM (SUlmX)

598 @598 I have friends who quit for 2 or more years and became readdicted after lighting up. I don't think they made an effort to become readdicted. You have to remain completely smoke free to become a lifelong quitter.

Posted by: The lady from Wheeling who professed to lack sexual feeling at October 15, 2012 09:36 PM (Q2wni)

599 A new chart from the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee details the fact that, since January 2009, for every person added to the labor force, 10 have been added to those not in the labor force.

Posted by: Friedrich Hayek at October 15, 2012 09:37 PM (e8kgV)

600 As early as the 1930s, the HEL found a close relationship between a large, precise knowledge of English words and achievement in life. Worldly success, earnings and management status correlated with vocabulary scores. In follow-up studies of persons tested as much as twenty or thirty years ago, a limited vocabulary is proving an important factor in holding men and women back from achieving the position which their aptitudes showed they should have gained. The truth is that low vocabulary decreases the effectiveness of inborn gifts in any civilization." http://www.wordsmart.com Posted by: Icedog at October 16, 2012 01:23 AM (PTS+l) doubleplusungood!

Posted by: INGSOC at October 15, 2012 09:38 PM (sZTYJ)

601 Just don't take any course where they make you read Beowulf.

I read Crichton's Eaters of the Dead/The 13th Warrior instead.

I have no idea how much it deviated from the original story, but if Crichton stayed true to his ambition, it proved that your average modern human could still enjoy the saga.

The fact that I was half-delirious with the worst flu fever I've ever had while I read it (and The Great Train Robbery at the same time) is immaterial.

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 15, 2012 09:39 PM (ngsKr)

602 The truth is that low vocabulary decreases the effectiveness of inborn gifts in any civilization

Dumbing down your native communication capability for a particular audience is easy, smartening it up is impossible.

There's only a small handful of people I interact with in person that I can exercise my full vocabulary on. Out on the street interacting with the general public, you gotta keep it to "see the dog" kinda shit...even with college grads sometimes.

I've got some old school primers printed in the 1800's. Flipping through those makes one lament the state of public education today. We have fallen far, very far.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 09:39 PM (D/sHG)

603 @606 R needs to use those factoids in his debates. That one and the household income dropping by $5000. Devastating.

Posted by: The lady from Wheeling who professed to lack sexual feeling at October 15, 2012 09:39 PM (Q2wni)

604 I know poetry too, sistrum:

There once was an Ewok from Australia,
who painted his fur like a dahlia,
The color was fine and likewise the design,
but the aroma, that was a failure.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 15, 2012 09:41 PM (vDl/w)

605 On the other hand I did see my own front man get so drunk one night he sang a whole verse into his beer bottle thinking it was his mike. lol Posted by: Berserker at October 16, 2012 01:36 AM (FMbng) Back when I played in the church praise band, I always played best when I was still drunk from the night before. I hated playing sober (forgive me Lord).

Posted by: ErikW at October 15, 2012 09:41 PM (+hBHL)

606 As a practical matter, English was one of the west's secret weapons in its economic rise in the world. Posted by: @PurpAv at October 16, 2012 01:12 AM (D/sHG) English is the linguistic equivalent of the Borg.

Posted by: Locutus of Borg at October 15, 2012 09:41 PM (sZTYJ)

607 603

Nooo, I never had that problem. I never had the short term memory loss. It gave me laser focus for some reason. In my case it was like fueling up a fighter jet and sending it off to destroy shit. It really put me in the zone.

Acid is a whole different deal. I saw dudes on that shit, and angel dust. Holy shit man. I couldn't believe dudes thought doing that shit was a good idea, they were like retarded zombies. I learned not to to fuck with heavy drugs by watching those people. I saw a front man on angel dust start crying in the middle of a set.

On the other hand I did see my own front man get so drunk one night he sang a whole verse into his beer bottle thinking it was his mike. lol

Posted by: Berserker at October 16, 2012 01:36 AM

Hahahahaha... Now that's what I call a stage presence.

Posted by: otho at October 15, 2012 09:42 PM (yBF/9)

608 The thing about English as a language is that it has a path for mutation. This allows it to keep up with the focus of communication.

Over the centuries, it has added jargon, it has cross-purposed nouns for adverbs, it has bolted on tenses and moods, it has taken on characteristics from computer programming languages (watch the quotes), and creatively embraced irony.....among other things.

It may be the best way to communicate a thought that exists in the world today.......and if it isn't, it might be in a couple of weeks.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 15, 2012 09:43 PM (kaalw)

609 since January 2009, for every person added to the labor force, 10 have been added to those not in the labor force.

Funemployment is good, right?

We gotta stop harping on this labor force thing and start championing Obama's impressive gains in the Leisure Force.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 09:44 PM (D/sHG)

610 doubleplusungood!

Posted by: INGSOC at October 16, 2012 01:38 AM (sZTYJ)

Yay! Someone else noticed!

Posted by: cthulhu at October 15, 2012 09:45 PM (kaalw)

611 Darmok ... and Jalal ... at Tanagra.

Posted by: some fuckhole who needs to learn himself some English, stat at October 15, 2012 09:46 PM (ngsKr)

612 Been putting in a lot of hours lately, so I haven;t been able to comment much.

Carter appears to be of the bizarre idea that those movies where one football team steals another team's playbook and thereby has a game winning advantage. In real life there are no plays so secret and dazzling as to be game deciders. The better team wins, especially if the better team is MUCH better.

So it goes for debates. You either have credible ideas and the ability to present them convincingly or you don't. No amount of information given to your opponent in advance can change that. Especially the ideas in question are your actual principles and you actually believe in them. Sincerity matters, unless you're a leftist.

That shuttle picture brings one caption to mind: Worst DUI ever.

Posted by: epobirs at October 15, 2012 09:46 PM (kcfmt)

613 apes eating figs, dig? Literary pretension! Gone! in November ...

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 09:47 PM (/OhbZ)

614 605 @598 I have friends who quit for 2 or more years and became readdicted after lighting up. I don't think they made an effort to become readdicted. You have to remain completely smoke free to become a lifelong quitter.

Posted by: The lady from Wheeling who professed to lack sexual feeling at October 16, 2012 01:36 AM (Q2wni)

I've been there. Here's what happens: you have fond memories of lighting up and it feeling good. So you decide to light up, just once, but it doesn't feel good. Then you think, WTF, it didn't work, let me try again. The second time it feels a little good, but not much. So you try again. The third time's the charm.

The good feeling comes from the relief of withdrawal symptoms. The first time there are no withdrawal symptoms so it feels like crap. The second time there are withdrawal symptoms from the first time so it feels a little good. By the third time you're an addict again.

Posted by: schizoid at October 15, 2012 09:47 PM (NXBVJ)

615 WASHINGTON (AP) Â— The Justice Department on Monday night sought dismissal of a lawsuit by a Republican-led House committee demanding that Attorney General Eric Holder produce records about the botched law enforcement probe of gun-trafficking called Operation Fast and Furious.

In its court papers, the Justice Department says the Constitution does not permit the courts to resolve the political dispute between the executive branch and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that is seeking the records. The political branches have a long history of resolving disputes over congressional requests without judicial intervention, the court filing said.

Doesn't this sort of ignore ...
United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974), was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision. It was a unanimous 8-0 ruling falling against President Richard Nixon and was important to the late stages of the Watergate scandal. It is considered a crucial precedent limiting the power of any U.S. president.

Posted by: Leon Jaworski at October 15, 2012 09:47 PM (e8kgV)

616 It may be the best way to communicate a thought that exists in the world today.......and if it isn't, it might be in a couple of weeks.

They're not official yet, but it recently added a very powerful notion of expressing whole thoughts as single symbols...

...we know them as emoticons.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 09:47 PM (D/sHG)

617 615 The thing about English as a language is that it has a path for mutation. This allows it to keep up with the focus of communication.

Over the centuries, it has added jargon, it has cross-purposed nouns for adverbs, it has bolted on tenses and moods, it has taken on characteristics from computer programming languages (watch the quotes), and creatively embraced irony.....among other things.

It may be the best way to communicate a thought that exists in the world today.......and if it isn't, it might be in a couple of weeks.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 16, 2012 01:43 AM (kaalw)

===

and yet, almost every single word, tense, noun, verb, adverb, adjective, etc. in english can be replaced with 'fuck.'

http://tinyurl.com/887jq8e

Posted by: jc at October 15, 2012 09:48 PM (ufJKx)

618 I take great umbrage with twatwaffle! I would much rather be known as a twatnugget. After all, a nugget is smaller than a waffle, and if we're talking about my twat, well....... The smaller the better. (regardless of the truth)

Posted by: Margery Eagan at October 15, 2012 09:49 PM (/YJYi)

619 Leon Jaworski at October 16, 2012 01:47 AM (e8kgV) dude. Nixon was a white guy ...

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 09:51 PM (/OhbZ)

620 Nooo, I never had that problem. I never had the short term memory loss. It gave me laser focus for some reason. In my case it was like fueling up a fighter jet and sending it off to destroy shit. It really put me in the zone.

Posted by: Berserker at October 16, 2012 01:36 AM (FMbng)

Back in the day, I remember lighting up and listening to music....and totally focusing on a particular performer -- you could pull the second clarinet out of Beethoven.

Unfortunately, the 2nd clarinet has a lot of rests.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 15, 2012 09:51 PM (kaalw)

621 So I notice a spelling mistake in the wikipedia page on OV-105 Endeavour.

Should I correct it?

Posted by: Waterhouse, grappling with the big issues at October 15, 2012 09:51 PM (ngsKr)

622 Should I correct it?

The wiki editors are fascists, even perfectly valid corrections don't stick. I gave up fixing Wiki shit many years ago.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 09:54 PM (D/sHG)

623 In its court papers, the Justice Department says the Constitution does not permit the courts to resolve the political dispute between the executive branch and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that is seeking the records. Posted by: Leon Jaworski at October 16, 2012 01:47 AM (e8kgV) So they're hiding the evidence of a conspiracy to kill Mexicans *on principle*, not because there was a conspiracy or anything. You know, that one they didn't do. It was an accident. They slipped and stuck their dick in Mexico.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 09:54 PM (bxiXv)

624 @624 Emoticons are language in the barest sense of the word, sort of like smoke signals. Communication yes, but not language. Sort of like rap and yodeling are not music but mere ululations.

Posted by: The lady from Wheeling who professed to lack sexual feeling at October 15, 2012 09:54 PM (Q2wni)

625 How now brown Ewok? Spread, etherized upon the table. [snap; snap; snap; snap]

Posted by: beatnik at October 15, 2012 09:55 PM (vDl/w)

626

Twat's that you say? I cunt hear you.

Posted by: an oldie but a goodie at October 15, 2012 09:57 PM (Q2wni)

627 Why can't I just eat my twatwaffle?! Just let me eat my twatwaffle.

Posted by: things obama would never say at October 15, 2012 09:58 PM (vDl/w)

628 Should I correct it? Grammar, spelling == whips and chains, racist tools and in the services of the male hegemony. in a word, no...

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 09:58 PM (/OhbZ)

629 "I told 'em we already got one!"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 15, 2012 09:58 PM (i0App)

630 If you edit a section, we reserve the right to save and track your IP address. (Or something like that)

Posted by: Wikipedia at October 15, 2012 09:59 PM (/YJYi)

631 "I told 'em we already got one!" haugh! haugh! haugh! haugh! haugh! haugh! haugh!

Posted by: Adrienne at October 15, 2012 10:00 PM (/OhbZ)

632 The courts and congress need their own enforcement arms assigned specifically to internal government compliance. I see this as a flaw in the US constitution.

We have never faced a situation like this where a completely lawless criminal executive uses its own enforcement arms to subvert the law to the extent that's going on now. Not even Watergate was this bad.

The framers never anticipated this level of lawlessness and malevolence would ever exist in the executive.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 10:00 PM (D/sHG)

633

There was a young woman named Fluke

Who said, Indeed it does rhyme with fuck.

But if you give me free BC

I'll screw all of DC

'Cept for Clinton who requested I suck.

Posted by: an oldie but a goodie at October 15, 2012 10:02 PM (Q2wni)

634

@PurpAv "I've got some old school primers printed in the 1800's. Flipping through those makes one lament the state of public education today. We have fallen far, very far."

A few years ago, I read an outstanding series of books called, "The Wilderness Empire" (or something to that effect). The series takes place in North America (1600s-1800) and is a mix of facts (events) and assumed dialogue between the actual historical figures. However, there are countless actual letters written during the period included in the books. Even the prose written by "commoners" and so-called "uneducated" farmers and foot soldiers would humble a modern day English professor.

Posted by: Icedog at October 15, 2012 10:02 PM (PTS+l)

635 Howdy fellow oddballs. Y'all have been busy yammerin' away, plus a surprise visit by the ewok hisself.

My one and only experience with the Shuttle program was a very bad one. I live on the MS Coast, and due to the entry path the Columbia was taking that am, it was supposed to pass almost directly overhead on it's way to Cape Canaveral. So once I saw it had entered the atmosphere on the net, I headed outside to see it fly over.

The expected time of it's passage came and went, so I waited a bit more and headed back inside only to find out that it had broken up over Texas.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 15, 2012 10:02 PM (ccXZP)

636 Except jc when a language is reduced to only one word. Are we thusly better than that Neolithic hunter using ochre and charcoal to scribble pictograms? Emoticons are doing the same thing, those who overuse such are sacrificing clarity for conciseness until all real meaning is lost.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 15, 2012 10:04 PM (vjJM3)

637 643 The courts and congress need their own enforcement arms assigned specifically to internal government compliance. I see this as a flaw in the US constitution.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 16, 2012 02:00 AM (D/sHG)

The courts are too powerful already. Giving them a SWAT team would be frightening.

Posted by: schizoid at October 15, 2012 10:05 PM (NXBVJ)

638 GnuBreed at October 16, 2012 02:02 AM (ccXZP) I remember that day. I read it on Instapundit and yelled for hubby to turn on the tv ... back when we had DISH ...

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 10:05 PM (/OhbZ)

639 The expected time of it's passage came and went, so I waited a bit more and headed back inside only to find out that it had broken up over Texas.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 16, 2012 02:02 AM (ccXZP)

Sad day. I remember when it happened. I was waiting in the car for my father after getting a haircut. The news came across the radio. A few minutes later my dad came to the car after finishing up his own haircut. I told him and he said "No you're getting confused, somebody is talking about Challenger". A few minutes later he was almost crying.

Posted by: Adam at October 15, 2012 10:06 PM (/YJYi)

640 If you edit a section, we reserve the right to save and track your IP address.

Thankfully, my shitty ISP conks out so frequently enough that my IP address changes on a daily basis.

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 15, 2012 10:06 PM (ngsKr)

641 Emoticons are doing the same thing, those who overuse such are sacrificing clarity for conciseness until all real meaning is lost. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 16, 2012 02:04 AM (vjJM3)

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 10:06 PM (bxiXv)

642 Is it smokersoutlet or rollyourown? or am I cornfused again?

Posted by: zeera at October 15, 2012 10:07 PM (Lv9bM)

643 Good night, fluffy ... Better tomorrows ...

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 10:07 PM (/OhbZ)

644 Communication yes, but not language.

They're an optional bolt on enhancement, not a stand alone thing. Their advantage is allowing terse conveyance that might otherwise take a half dozen normal words to express.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 10:07 PM (D/sHG)

645 so frequently enough

I'm beginning to think alcohol had a non-insignificant effect on the development of the English language.

/ponders NaNoWriMo theme

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 15, 2012 10:09 PM (ngsKr)

646 The same thing, Icedog, reading common soldiers' letters from the two world wars.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 15, 2012 10:09 PM (vDl/w)

647 Inagaddadavida!

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 10:09 PM (/OhbZ)

648 (_!_)

Posted by: andycanuck at October 15, 2012 10:09 PM (vDl/w)

649 I think Merovign needs to go back to looking at Chun-Li cosplayers. Or Jackie Chan as Chun-Li.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 15, 2012 10:10 PM (vjJM3)

650 Waterhouse needs a few beers and namshubs.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 15, 2012 10:10 PM (vjJM3)

651 and yet, almost every single word, tense, noun, verb, adverb, adjective, etc. in english can be replaced with 'fuck.' http://tinyurl.com/887jq8e Posted by: jc at October 16, 2012 01:48 AM (ufJKx) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26UA578yQ5g

Posted by: Þe Political Hat at October 15, 2012 10:11 PM (sZTYJ)

652 Granted, emoticons express a more generic sentiment than a half dozen carefully chosen words could, but I'm lazy so I see that as a plus 90% of the time.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 10:11 PM (D/sHG)

653 654 I get my tobacco for MYO from here:

http://www.smoke-n-chew.com/

Very reliable place. I've done business with them for years.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 15, 2012 10:11 PM (ccXZP)

654 Twas brillig, and the slithy toves...

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 10:11 PM (/OhbZ)

655 666?

Posted by: schizoid at October 15, 2012 10:11 PM (NXBVJ)

656 bugger

Posted by: schizoid at October 15, 2012 10:11 PM (NXBVJ)

657 Adriane is evil and what a perfect way to express it.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 15, 2012 10:12 PM (vjJM3)

658
The framers never anticipated this level of lawlessness and malevolence would ever exist in the executive.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 16, 2012 02:00 AM (D/sHG)

sure they did. that's why impeachment powers and the 2nd amendment.

Posted by: jc at October 15, 2012 10:13 PM (ufJKx)

659
They're an optional bolt on enhancement, not a stand alone thing. Their advantage is allowing terse conveyance that might otherwise take a half dozen normal words to express.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 16, 2012 02:07 AM (D/sHG)

in other words to help you NOT be jimmy ray

Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at October 15, 2012 10:13 PM (r7Ddb)

660 Gah!

Posted by: cthulhu at October 15, 2012 10:13 PM (kaalw)

661

huh?

Posted by: otho at October 15, 2012 10:14 PM (yBF/9)

662 "There are ten of us, all of family Zathras." ("There are many of us, each named Zathras.", "Zathras is one. Zathras has no one to talk to so Zathras talks to dirt.", "There are ten Zathras, well, nine now Zathras gone."). Ivanova: "Let's try this again." Zathras: "As you wish." Ivanova: "Zathras came with us to Babylon 4." Zathras: "Yes." Ivanova: "Zathras stayed in the past with Valen." Zathras: "Yes." Ivanova: "You are Zathras." Zathras: "Yes." Ivanova: "Therefore, you went into the past." Zathras: "No, that was not Zathras, that was Zathras. There are 10 of us, all of family Zathras, each one named Zathras. Slight differences in how you pronounce. Zathraas, Zathras, Zaathras. You are seeing now?" Ivanova: "There are ten of you?" Zathras: "Yes! Well, nine now."

Posted by: Zathras at October 15, 2012 10:15 PM (sZTYJ)

663 661 I think Merovign needs to go back to looking at Chun-Li cosplayers. Or Jackie Chan as Chun-Li. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 16, 2012 02:10 AM (vjJM3) Meh, I'm watching Dragonfire and assuming Ace is over 18.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 10:15 PM (bxiXv)

664 660 (_!_)

Posted by: andycanuck at October 16, 2012 02:09 AM (vDl/w)

===

you have been sitting in one place too long. maybe you should walk around a bit.

Posted by: jc at October 15, 2012 10:15 PM (ufJKx)

665 I've been advocating cocaine use all night, but Satan still forsakes me.

Posted by: schizoid at October 15, 2012 10:15 PM (NXBVJ)

666 Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 16, 2012 02:12 AM (vjJM3) I'm not a Frumious Bandersnatch! I'm not! I'm not! I'm not! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFCb4j0E2p4

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 10:17 PM (/OhbZ)

667 Posted by: Zathras at October 16, 2012 02:15 AM (sZTYJ) "Cannot run out of time. There is infinite time. You are finite. Zathras is finite. This... is wrong tool." "Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But, at least there is symmetry."

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 10:18 PM (bxiXv)

668
"Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But, at least there is symmetry."

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 16, 2012 02:18 AM (bxiXv)

so Zathras is a jewish mother?

Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at October 15, 2012 10:19 PM (r7Ddb)

669 Merovign careful of leaping to conclusions, might lead to beyond the beckoning chasm and into the abyss.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 15, 2012 10:19 PM (vjJM3)

670 and yet, almost every single word, tense, noun, verb, adverb, adjective, etc. in english can be replaced with 'fuck.'
http://tinyurl.com/887jq8e

The first Internet "meme" I was exposed to was an exposition on the uses of the word "fuck".

About the only thing I remember is Custer's apocryphal quote: "Where the fuck did all these fucking Indians come from?"

Ah, 1992.

Jenna W______ had some nice fucking tits.

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 15, 2012 10:21 PM (ngsKr)

671 so Zathras is a jewish mother? Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at October 16, 2012 02:19 AM (r7Ddb) Actually... sort of. 681 Merovign careful of leaping to conclusions, might lead to beyond the beckoning chasm and into the abyss. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 16, 2012 02:19 AM (vjJM3) *Sproing!*

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 10:22 PM (bxiXv)

672 681 Merovign careful of leaping to conclusions, might lead to beyond the beckoning chasm and into the abyss.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 16, 2012 02:19 AM

The shit abyss.

Posted by: mr lahey at October 15, 2012 10:22 PM (yBF/9)

673 Roses are red, Violets are blue, Good night everyone, Prayers and Good Wishes for your families, and you ...

Posted by: Adriane at October 15, 2012 10:22 PM (/OhbZ)

674 I got a couple of baby gecko's co-habitating in my bathroom. Cute little buggers.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jere7my/1197929850/

That's not my pic, but its representative of the ones I got. The tiny spider population seems suppressed since these guys showed up...

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 10:22 PM (D/sHG)

675 Is it smokersoutlet or rollyourown? or am I cornfused again? Posted by: zeera at October 16, 2012 02:07 AM (Lv9bM) I recommended rollyourown dot com. Berserker recommended smokersoutletonline dot com. Rollyourown has a bigger selection of tobaccos and tubes but smokers outlet has cheap prices and I loved their Smokin G tobacco (MRD and Pure Blend) better than any of the expensive ones I had ordered from rollyourown. They're both good sites but smokersoutletonline is cheaper for what it has. Rollyourown has the more chi-chi tobaccos. It's good, but a little more expensive on everything.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 10:22 PM (X3lox)

676

Fuck is an Anglo-Saxon word but was it a forbidden dirty word back then or merely a term that meant copulation? Afterall, they didn't have the latinate terms like "copulation."

My guess is that they were such earthy, pagan, down to earth types that bodily function terms weren't considered all that dirty.

Posted by: inquiring minds wish to know at October 15, 2012 10:24 PM (Q2wni)

677 @677 His barbed cock awaits you in the hereafter. Or so they tell me.

Posted by: some dem hack whose backside already chafes at October 15, 2012 10:28 PM (Q2wni)

678 Etymologists don't know where "fuck" came from.

Posted by: schizoid at October 15, 2012 10:30 PM (Q9IKH)

679

I'm hoping someone computer-literate is on.

I'm trying to start up WordPress, and it's asking me to install PHP and MySQL. I don't know these things. I only really know XTML.

Help?

Posted by: Truman North at October 15, 2012 10:30 PM (I2LwF)

680 Fukkit, I need to watch the fucking Wire again. That was fucking great.

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 15, 2012 10:30 PM (ngsKr)

681 Here's an interesting article at AmSpec:

http://tinyurl.com/9zcokr7

I learned something there that is very very troublesome -- you can make a nuclear bomb with less than 20% enriched uranium. We did it in a test explosion back in 1962.

That is the level that Iranians are enriching to right now.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 15, 2012 10:31 PM (ccXZP)

682 @689 Oh goody. I hope Saddam Hussein doesn't get jealous.

Posted by: schizoid at October 15, 2012 10:33 PM (Q9IKH)

683 fortheloveofGod, don't use me unless you are fucking supersure

Posted by: TRUNCATE MySQL command at October 15, 2012 10:33 PM (ngsKr)

684 I'm hoping someone computer-literate is on. I'm trying to start up WordPress, and it's asking me to install PHP and MySQL. I don't know these things. I only really know XTML. Help? Posted by: Truman North at October 16, 2012 02:30 AM (I2LwF) I never used WordPress but evidently it uses those programs (as any decent blog program would). Are you on hosted site? If so, you should be able to turn those on from your panel.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 10:34 PM (X3lox)

685 That was probably funny!

Posted by: Truman North at October 15, 2012 10:35 PM (I2LwF)

686 I can haz moth now?

http://tinyurl.com/9q5orh9

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 10:35 PM (D/sHG)

687

Nope, not hosted. I was trying to set it up before I went online with it.

So I can do that when I get a domain name? Is that what you mean?

Posted by: Truman North at October 15, 2012 10:36 PM (I2LwF)

688 That is the level that Iranians are enriching to right now.

*Jokeresque rictus*

/demented cackle

Posted by: Joe Biden, Derp, one heartbeat or excessive Choom session away from El Futbol at October 15, 2012 10:36 PM (ngsKr)

689 Truman: http://preview.tinyurl.com/bs5p25l You only need to do that to run a local server environment. If you're hosted elsewhere you shouldn't need to do that unless you want to test changes locally.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 10:37 PM (bxiXv)

690 Nope, not hosted. I was trying to set it up before I went online with it. So I can do that when I get a domain name? Is that what you mean? Posted by: Truman North at October 16, 2012 02:36 AM (I2LwF) Yes. Pretty much every domain host offers PHP and MySQL. They're pretty standard. If you want to do it on your personal computer just download the programs and set them up. They're both free. Just search "PHP download" and the same for MySQL and you'll find the download pages for each, for your OS. What OS are you on, BTW?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 10:37 PM (X3lox)

691 I learned something there that is very very troublesome -- you can make a nuclear bomb with less than 20% enriched uranium. We did it in a test explosion back in 1962.

That is the level that Iranians are enriching to right now.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 16, 2012 02:31 AM (ccXZP)

Don't know about a bomb, but enough LEU could make a nice Chernobyl-style meltdown.

Posted by: schizoid at October 15, 2012 10:39 PM (Q9IKH)

692

I'm using an Atari 800 with a plotter and a light gun.

Also, Windows 8.

Posted by: Truman North at October 15, 2012 10:39 PM (I2LwF)

693 690 Etymologists don't know where "fuck" came from.

Posted by: schizoid at October 16, 2012 02:30 AM

Fucking bug experts don't know a fucking thing.

Posted by: otho at October 15, 2012 10:40 PM (yBF/9)

694

Merovign, that is truly astounding. Ask, even at this hour, and someone has a link to the page.

Amazing.

Posted by: Truman North at October 15, 2012 10:40 PM (I2LwF)

695 Posted by: Truman North at October 16, 2012 02:36 AM (I2LwF) I do all my stuff on my own machine, first. I have Apache 2.2 for my web server and PHP with MySQL in the background. It's all pretty easy to set up and you should have a home installation, anyway.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 10:41 PM (X3lox)

696 Er, I'm watching Dead Snow (the snowbound nazi zombie movie) which I DVRed from IFC (Independent Film Channel 559 on Direct TV), and I just saw a commercial for the Trojan Twisting Vibrator.

I'm not really sure what to make of that.

Posted by: Methos at October 15, 2012 10:41 PM (6LvlL)

697 Yep, speaking a different language. Like, it's not even Anglo-Saxon. It's like some sort of language of the butterfly people of Venus VIII, where they communicate by reflecting sunlight off their wings... I am so lost

Posted by: Truman North at October 15, 2012 10:42 PM (I2LwF)

698 Amazing. Posted by: Truman North at October 16, 2012 02:40 AM (I2LwF) That site has many other tutorials as well, of course.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 10:44 PM (bxiXv)

699

Merovign, I'm at the WampServer page, and it's telling me I need C++

True?

Posted by: Truman North at October 15, 2012 10:44 PM (I2LwF)

700 Posted by: Truman North at October 16, 2012 02:42 AM (I2LwF) You can use your Windows 8 web server (IIS) and you just need to download PHP and MySQL for your OS. You'll have to do a little to make the PHP part of your web server but you should download the programs and then see what questions you have about it. Is your IIS web server set up, already?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 10:47 PM (X3lox)

701

>>I'm not really sure what to make of that.

I can make a hat, a brooch, a pterodactyl...

Posted by: garrett at October 15, 2012 10:47 PM (iD9TV)

702

I'm so lost.

My old blog was on Google. It was all done for me.

LOL

Posted by: Truman North at October 15, 2012 10:48 PM (I2LwF)

703 I'm using an Atari 800 with a plotter and a light gun.

Nice.

I looked up how Nintendo used a light gun for Duck Hunt and whateverthefuckelse.

Seriously clever.

Nowadays, computation speed seems to make a lot of things sadly brute-force.

By sadly brute-force, I mean shit I myself could easily postulate. Like how they paint the first-down lines for football games. Even I thought of that method.

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 15, 2012 10:48 PM (ngsKr)

704 >> 708 ....I just saw a commercial for the Trojan Twisting Vibrator.

>> I'm not really sure what to make of that.

Chubby Checker -- C'mon baby, Let's Do The Twist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqVFJNcQ4X0

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 15, 2012 10:48 PM (ccXZP)

705 I've got a story that is so explosive about Obama that I'm going to release it at 4:00 AM. Cause otherwise it might blow up the universe, or something.

Posted by: Matt Boil on the... at October 15, 2012 10:48 PM (1Y+hH)

706 ' It was all done for me.'

Posted by: Obama's Epitaph at October 15, 2012 10:49 PM (iD9TV)

707 711 Merovign, I'm at the WampServer page, and it's telling me I need C++ True? Posted by: Truman North at October 16, 2012 02:44 AM (I2LwF) I would assume they know what their software requires. That's the VC++ redistributable, BTW. If you have any remotely modern Steam games, you've probably installed it 50 times. Doesn't hurt *much* to do it again.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 10:50 PM (bxiXv)

708 Truman, do you have a working IIS web server on your machine? This is the start. If not, you can see if you can get it or you can download the apache server. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/platform/windows.html

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 10:51 PM (X3lox)

709 Truman, if all this is alien to you, you may be going down the wrong path. This is for hosting the site on the internet from your computer. If you have a host you want the stuff set up there anyway, and they already have the support stuff. You just need to use WP's web interface or software that can upload your posts to the site.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 15, 2012 10:52 PM (bxiXv)

710

Going to wait for Mrs. North to do the heavy lifting. If I install something stupid and break the computer, she'll be sore at me.

And you can tell by how my level of prose has descended, I'm feeling dumb at the moment.

Posted by: Truman North at October 15, 2012 10:52 PM (I2LwF)

711 On the off-chance you're as incredibly behind-the-times with pop music as I am.

Garbage plays Run Baby Run:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWsogDgEtXI

Shirley Manson asks you turn that RÃ¼ckenschmerz shit up.

In five seconds of searching, I can't find a better uncompressed version.

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 15, 2012 10:57 PM (ngsKr)

712

THE EXPLOSIVE STORY IS UP:

OBAMA KNEW REV WRIGHT IN 1987!

so there you go

Posted by: Matt Boil on the ass... at October 15, 2012 10:58 PM (1Y+hH)

713

OK. I just want to set up my blog. And I don't want it to be Blogger.

I will get a domain name, get it hosted, and then figure out what I want it to look like.

Actually, I already know what I want it to look like. And I can do XTML well enough to put that part of it together.

I was just hoping there was a way I could do it here on the home computer, and not put it online, so I could make sure it looks really good before I did go live.

No worries. I'll live.

Posted by: Truman North at October 15, 2012 10:59 PM (I2LwF)

714 For now, I'm just going to post to the facebook page of the organization. SSDD.

Posted by: Truman North at October 15, 2012 11:02 PM (I2LwF)

715 Goddammit.

I promised myself I'd go to sleep 3, at most 2.5, hours ago.

I blame William the Conqueror.

You fucking Norman jackwagon.

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 15, 2012 11:06 PM (ngsKr)

716 France is going to ban homework as part of education "reforms"...

...its all about "fairness". Some kids parents help, some don't, so the bar must be lowered.

http://tinyurl.com/8qkka9o

I'm guessing the fairness ploy plays well with progressives here in the US. We've been lowing the bar so much, we've had to dig a trench for it.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 15, 2012 11:06 PM (D/sHG)

717 I wonder how Guillaume would've translated "jackwagon".

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 15, 2012 11:08 PM (ngsKr)

718 #704

The Atari 1020 Plotter! I had one of those! Dire, dire, mistake of a purchase that was. Painfully slow and expensive as a printer and understanding how to program for it was a bit ahead of my curve then.

Posted by: epobirs at October 15, 2012 11:14 PM (kcfmt)

719 Posted by: @PurpAv at October 16, 2012 03:06 AM (D/sHG) I could feel the rabid insanity oozing out of that article as I read it. Unbelievable. And the shithead has the chutzpah to say "education is priority". LOL. I guess he meant, "banning education is a priority". And his idiocy about "Work should be done at school, rather than at home," is just plain offensive in its stupidity. But ... France voted for these turds (just as America voted for the Indonesian Imbecile). The suicidal rage of the West marches on, faithfully.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 15, 2012 11:15 PM (X3lox)

720 Google translate is no help at all.

Jacqueswagon, Guillaume.

Jacqueswagon.

I'm beginning to think you got kinda lucky.

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 15, 2012 11:17 PM (ngsKr)

721 Truman, once you have the hosting set up, if you're on a recent version of Windows you may want to take a look at Microsoft Live Writer. It's free and is essentially a mini word processor for blogging. Once you have it set up it makes a lot of stuff very easy. It knows Wordpress.

Posted by: epobirs at October 15, 2012 11:17 PM (kcfmt)

722

Voulez vous, fuck you!

Posted by: pvt. stuckey- louisiana national guard at October 15, 2012 11:37 PM (yBF/9)

723 I don't know about you guys but I've been burned out for a while on this. I'm in Central Ohio and from where I am, Romney's got this. I get no sense at all that Obama has any sort of traction here. As such, I'm soothing my soul by strumming some Zac Brown Band "Knee Deep." Yes, I can't sleep.

Posted by: ErikW at October 15, 2012 11:37 PM (lNOt/)

724 3:45 am... The only good thing about not being able to sleep is Red Eye.

Posted by: Truman North at October 15, 2012 11:45 PM (I2LwF)

725 So apparently the new PPP/Kos poll is bad news for Obama. Of course, a "bad" PPP poll will still be more favourable to O than any other poll out there But a debate is now going on at Kos about whether to suppress the poll! Lots of little lefty darlings demanding the poll be shelved to avoid hurting the Annointed One. hilarious.

Posted by: AussieMarcus at October 15, 2012 11:46 PM (RstsB)

726 733 Truman, once you have the hosting set up, if you're on a recent version of Windows you may want to take a look at Microsoft Live Writer. It's free and is essentially a mini word processor for blogging. Once you have it set up it makes a lot of stuff very easy. It knows Wordpress.

Posted by: epobirs at October 16, 2012 03:17 AM (kcfmt)

Yep LiveWriter is the shizzle for doing blog posts and best of all it's totally free. I've been trying to get the ace and cobs to use it since it eliminates about 85% of all the usual html goofs and makes embedding pics and video super-easy but...well Endor has never been known for its cutting edge technology.

Posted by: Mætenloch at October 15, 2012 11:47 PM (XkotV)

727 Ivanova: "There are ten of you?"

Zathras: "Yes! Well, nine now."

Posted by: Zathras at October 16, 2012 02:15 AM

and as Ivanova walks away......"NINE of them... Oy!!""

Zathras was a fucking great character.

Posted by: Berserker at October 15, 2012 11:53 PM (FMbng)

728 Evening all. Well, morning I guess.

Posted by: DC in Towson at October 16, 2012 12:10 AM (4QAQg)

729 evening works just as well.

Posted by: otho at October 16, 2012 12:15 AM (yBF/9)

730 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n5G0qFBsHM It's easy to play on the git fiddle too! Sometimes I just want a 28' Catalina.

Posted by: ErikW at October 16, 2012 12:28 AM (6LuZA)

731

Gee PIAPS, tell me something I don't know. Like why you are sending Chevy Volts to already safe and fully guarded embassies, and having NO security in unsafe embassies. A billion dollars in excess funds, so it wasn't lack of funding. We know its your fault. Always knew it was your fault. The job description makes it your fault. Thats a kindergarten piece of information.

But the buck doesn't stop at you no matter how much you need to to, the day before the debate. It stops at empty chair in the security briefings.

Saying "my bad" doesn't cut it. And what are you doing saying it in Peru? Get your fat ass back here and clean get your shit out of the State Dept.

Posted by: Up, up with people at October 16, 2012 02:36 AM (kzFo5)

732 Hmmmm....kinda quiet Monday ONT.......Chargers/Broncos musta took its toll.

Posted by: BignJames at October 16, 2012 02:36 AM (HtUkt)

733 latest from douchebag front Mitt Romney, when he was a missionary, was at a protest that was FOR the draft where they got this I do not know

Posted by: Thunderb at October 16, 2012 02:41 AM (Dnbau)

734 745 latest from douchebag front Mitt Romney, when he was a missionary, was at a protest that was FOR the draft where they got this I do not know Joe Biden....."I was there, man!"

Posted by: BignJames at October 16, 2012 02:47 AM (HtUkt)

735 was at a protest that was FOR the draft

Democrats have been agitating for a draft for years because of "fairness" or something...

So what's the problem?

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 16, 2012 02:48 AM (fJcck)

736 Yeah, I remember seeing all those protests FOR the draft in the 60's.

Posted by: Up, up with people at October 16, 2012 02:52 AM (kzFo5)

737 I just heard this on current TV, looking for their latest line of attack. Personally I prefer a volunteer force and not a draft. It just struck me as absurd. Romney is not that much older than I am and I do not recall any protests "for" the draft. If such protests occurred, it had to be 45 years ago. IIRC, didn't Al Sharpton and Charlie Rangel say the draft should be re-instituted at the beginning of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? I just get the feeling they are going to say anything, do anything. They sound desperate and enraged.

Posted by: Thunderb at October 16, 2012 02:56 AM (Dnbau)

738 BBC: "...Few doubt his (Obama's) mastery of the facts..."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19956631

Bwaaa, ha, ha, ha. The BBC brings teh funny.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 16, 2012 02:59 AM (fJcck)

739 I think Rangel has been pushing a bill the last 10-12 yrs. to reinstate the draft....goes nowhere...publicity stunt.

Posted by: BignJames at October 16, 2012 03:00 AM (HtUkt)

740 Wasn't "Safety Bra" an '80's hit for that band from America's hat, Men Without Work?

Posted by: RomneyLosesASockInTheDryer at October 16, 2012 04:26 AM (4P4ww)

741 Battle of Hastings: Not enough Saxon violence.

Posted by: pst314 at October 16, 2012 05:31 AM (T4dRn)

742 http://tinyurl.com/9aarr4u

Kid cleans room and rounds them all up.

Posted by: sTevo at October 16, 2012 06:32 AM (o5ZuD)

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