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October 02, 2012

Overnight Open Thread (10-2-2012)
— Maetenloch

Mitt Romney and Disrespectin' the Garbage Man

Well based on the ad made by the AFSCME we're supposed to believe that Romney doesn't understand the lives of garbage collectors (and probably despises them too) because he never hugged or fist bumped the guy who used to pick up his trash in CA.

So the new narrative is that he's just a sheltered patrician who wouldn't know a 65-gallon PDE bin from a Boss Corinthian leather tissue box.

But clearly the AFSCME never read Romney's own autobiography (p. 251) where he talks about WORKING AS A GARBAGE MAN as NRO's Charles Cooke pointed out:

During my campaign for governor, I decided to spend a day every few weeks doing the jobs of other people in Massachusetts. Among other jobs, I cooked sausages at Fenway Park, worked on asphalt paving crew, stacked bales of hay on a farm, volunteered in an emergency room, served food at a nursing home, and worked as a child-care assistant. I'm often asked which was the hardest job - it's child care, by a mile.

One day I gathered trash as a garbage collector. I stood on that little platform at the back of the truck, holding on as the driver navigated his way through the narrow streets of Boston. As we pulled up to traffic lights, I noticed that the shoppers and businesspeople who were standing only a few feet from me didn't even see me. It was as if I was invisible. Perhaps it was because a lot of us don't think garbage men are worthy of notice; I disagree - anyone who works that hard deserves our respect. - I wasn't a particularly good garbage collector: at one point, after filling the trough at the back of the truck, I pulled the wrong hydraulic lever. Instead of pushing the load into the truck, I dumped it onto the street. Maybe the suits didn't notice me, but the guys at the construction site sure did: "Nice job, Mitt," they called. "Why don't you find an easier job?" And then they good-naturedly came down and helped me pick up my mess.

And now you know....the rest of the story.

And what a filthy sack of scumbag liars the AFSCME are.

The Tea Party Was Caused by Bad Toilet Training?

Well that's the thesis of a paper published on the NIH web site. Apparently believing in more liberty and smaller government is just a sign of anal stage trauma.

The Psychohistorical Roots of the American "Tea Party" Movement
Abstract
Extreme resistance to governmental taxation and authority is derived, according to Freud's theory of anal characterology, from premature and harshly coercive toilet training, in which a child is forced unfairly and against its will to surrender the products of his eliminations (which represent money, among other things, in the unconscious) to parental authority. Among these individuals anal eroticism plays a significant role in the psychogenesis of paranoia and conspiracy theorizing, which may represent a defense mechanism erected against repressed fears of passive submission.

This could be some satire that snuck through the 'layers of fact-checkers' or maybe it's for real. It's so hard to tell these days.

PJ O'Rourke: A Cool and Logical Analysis of the Bicycle Menace

I believe he wrote this essay in the 70's but his analysis still holds up today.

3. Bicycles are unsafe
Bicycles are top-heavy, have poor brakes, and provide no protection to their riders. Bicycles are also made up of many hard and sharp components which, in collision, can do grave damage to people and the paint finish on automobiles. Bicycles are dangerous things.

Of course, there's nothing wrong, per se, with dangerous things. Speedboats, racecars, fine shotguns, whiskey, and love are all very dangerous. Bicycles, however, are dangerous without being any fun. You can't shoot pheasants with a bicycle or water-ski behind it or go 150 miles an hour or even mix it with soda and ice. And the idea of getting romantic on top of a bicycle is alarming. All you can do with one of these ten-speed sink traps is grow tired and sore and fall off it.
Being dangerous without being fun puts bicycles in a category with open-heart surgery, the war in Vietnam, the South Bronx, and divorce. Sensible people do all that they can to avoid such things as these.

The 'Heinlein Maneuver'

As the Guest of Honor at the 1962 World Science Fiction Convention Theodore Sturgeon told this story of how Robert Heinlein once helped him overcome severe writer's block:

"I went into a horrible dry spell one time. It was a desperate dry spell and an awful lot depended on me getting writing again. Finally, I wrote to Bob Heinlein. I told him my troubles; that I couldn't write-perhaps it was that I had no ideas in my head that would strike a story. By return airmail-I don't know how he did it-I got back 26 story ideas. Some of them ran for a page and a half; one or two of them were a line or two. I mean, there were story ideas that some writers would give their left ear for. Some of them were merely suggestions; just little hints, things that will spark a writer like, 'Ghost of a little cat patting around eternity looking for a familiar lap to sit in.'
This mechanical, chrome-plated Heinlein has a great deal of heart. I had told him my writing troubles, but I hadn't told him of any other troubles; however, clipped to the stack of story ideas was a check for a hundred dollars with a little scribbled note, 'I have a suspicion your credit is bent.'
It is very difficult for words like 'thank you' to handle a man that can do a thing like that."

$100 in the 1950's would be worth around $800 today.

So Coach Was Wrong?

But more right than he knew.

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1 Firstest!

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 02, 2012 06:23 PM (ccXZP)

2 First?

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 06:23 PM (sZTYJ)

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

Posted by: steevy at October 02, 2012 06:24 PM (6o4Fb)

4 2 First? Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 10:23 PM (sZTYJ) Missed it by *that* much...

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 06:24 PM (sZTYJ)

5 Liberal desperation is reaching a fever pitch. Now voting Republican is somehow all about the anus. This is how they express fear.

Posted by: Splunge at October 02, 2012 06:24 PM (2IW5Q)

6 Trying to catch up on the video. Er, was there anything there?

Posted by: Methos at October 02, 2012 06:25 PM (6LvlL)

7 The Psychohistorical Roots of the American "Tea Party" Movement

Someone hasn't read his Asimov.

Posted by: Boulder Hobo at October 02, 2012 06:25 PM (QTHTd)

8 B-rack's in da house, yo! That shit is tight, dog. You know what I'm sayin'?

Posted by: back door barry soetoro at October 02, 2012 06:26 PM (yBF/9)

9 Autobiographies are a bitch. Sometimes your opponent is working as a garbage man, sometimes you're eating a dog.

Posted by: Whoever this is, it's definitely not Michael at October 02, 2012 06:26 PM (U9Dci)

10 Vote for me like your supple lady suits depend on it.

Posted by: Barack Obama at October 02, 2012 06:26 PM (9F2c1)

11 Mitt didn't hug his fellow trashman in that picture!!

Posted by: fluffy at October 02, 2012 06:26 PM (3SvjA)

12 Poll analysis for the 3 new polls that dropped tonight, including the insane Zogby poll. Link in my nic.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 02, 2012 06:27 PM (dX4hn)

13 Well with that video the election is all wrapped up. Whatever shall we talk about now?

Posted by: Golan Globus at October 02, 2012 06:27 PM (/1U3u)

14 Freud recanted all that 'oral / anal crap in his autobiography

Posted by: Bat Red in Baton Rouge at October 02, 2012 06:27 PM (Dll6b)

15 Now voting Republican is somehow all about the anus.

I feel tho vewy confwicted!

Posted by: Bawney Fwank at October 02, 2012 06:27 PM (R/Baw)

16 I think whoever wrote that stuff about the Tea Party and potty training is full of shit.

Posted by: huerfano at October 02, 2012 06:27 PM (bAGA/)

17 re the anal Tea Party thing -- I've scanned through my list of choices....

"Fuck you, asshole."

Posted by: GnuBreed Terminater at October 02, 2012 06:27 PM (ccXZP)

18 I want to know what's in the video, but I don't want to watch 40 minutes of Obama. What to do, what to do.

Posted by: Splunge at October 02, 2012 06:27 PM (2IW5Q)

19 I for one look forward to "The Psychohistorical Roots of the American Progressive" Movement

What? It could happen...

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at October 02, 2012 06:27 PM (vY2x+)

20 The more I learn about Romney, the more impressed I am, and the more I like him. What a truly decent guy. This reminds me of when he and his sons - without being asked - went to an employee's house at night to help her move furniture the moving company had just abandoned in her driveway.

Posted by: LASue at October 02, 2012 06:28 PM (wAhNv)

21 so a guy who can't be a garbage man wants to be president? That's settles it -- I'm voting.

Posted by: mallfly at October 02, 2012 06:28 PM (NI3M5)

22 I for one look forward to "The Psychohistorical Roots of the American Progressive" Movement

Their parents never stopped them from flinging their feces when they were little, and they haven't stopped to this very day.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 02, 2012 06:29 PM (R/Baw)

23 Jim bohannan is just unlistenable.

Posted by: Truman North, iPhone homer at October 02, 2012 06:30 PM (LGIRC)

24 What? It could happen... How difficult is 'Dues what eye telz ya, or ewe'll bee swimin wid da feces!' ?

Posted by: Adriane at October 02, 2012 06:30 PM (/OhbZ)

25 I want to know what's in the video, but I don't want to watch 40 minutes of Obama. What to do, what to do.

Drink? Just a suggestion.

I cannot believe I am reduced to rooting for the fucking Red Sox.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 06:31 PM (Gk3SS)

I was in a world of hurt last night with comments broken because my damn brother informed me that not only had my family lied to me in 2008 and they all voted for Obama, but that they are planning on voting for him again because Romney is an evil billionaire bastard.

Now, I am confident that he is half wrong, that my mom and dad did not cast their ballot for Obama. But, my siblings all told me they didn't vote McCain, but they didn't vote Obama either. Apparently, they lied.

And, what burns most of all is that my damn family is in Colorado. They fucking need to not vote for Obama this time. I talked until I was blue in the face and thought my head would explode but I could not convince him.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 06:31 PM (RZ8pf)

27 Romney once saved some puppies from Obama's grill. Even took them on vacation afterwards.

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 02, 2012 06:31 PM (BVkEs)

28 I was toilet trained before I was 2, and I've been doing just fine ever since. I'm a conservative.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 06:31 PM (v4zcA)

29 20 The more I learn about Romney, the more impressed I am, and the more I like him. What a truly decent guy.

Well, Obama's a decent guy, too. He...um, he...er, he...

Obama (whispering): "Blessed us with his presence"

Yeah, that. Oh, wait.

Posted by: Splunge at October 02, 2012 06:31 PM (2IW5Q)

30 The garbage man story is too much. Of all the jobs Romney did, he took special note of how deserving they were of respect.

HAHAHAHAAA!

The bastards.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 06:31 PM (piMMO)

31 I continue to be more and more impressed by Mitt Romney as a person. He's a mensch. A gentleman. Naturally the liberals have to destroy him. And I think it would be worth some Congressman's time to ask the director of NIH why taxpayer money is being spent to portray an American political movement as somehow psychopathological.

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 02, 2012 06:32 PM (AHM0q)

Does Obamacare cover the damage when you step on your crank?

'Cuz AFSCME has one hell of a claim to process.

Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at October 02, 2012 06:32 PM (2Oas0)

33 The more I learn about Romney, the more impressed I am, and the more I like him. What a truly decent guy.

That's why the Leftist hates him. George Bush Jr was also a truly decent guy, and the Leftist hated him. The Leftist understands his cause to be the cause of righteousness, and cannot understand how a decent man can possibly be for the Right.

(I am leaving aside here whether Bush Jr was a good President, or whether Romney will be a good President. The point here is to understand the relationship between the Leftist and a decent guy who is on the Right.)

Posted by: Boulder Hobo at October 02, 2012 06:32 PM (QTHTd)

I cannot believe I am reduced to rooting for the fucking Red Sox.

Orioles fan?

Posted by: fluffy at October 02, 2012 06:32 PM (3SvjA)

35 14 Freud recanted all that 'oral / anal crap in his autobiography

Posted by: Bat Red in Baton Rouge at October 02, 2012 10:27 PM

Not in mine, dog. You know what I'm sayin'?

Posted by: back door barry soetoro at October 02, 2012 06:32 PM (yBF/9)

36 Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiit.

Posted by: Barack McDipshit at October 02, 2012 06:32 PM (V/U0X)

37 The Psychohistorical Roots of the American "Tea Party" Movement Someone hasn't read his Asimov. Posted by: Boulder Hobo at October 02, 2012 10:25 PM (QTHTd) If Obama wins, I suggest you book a trip to Trantor...

Posted by: Encylcopedia Foundation at October 02, 2012 06:33 PM (sZTYJ)

38 Footboll has been berry, berry good to me.

http://tinyurl.com/9jc43ac

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 06:33 PM (piMMO)

39 Orioles fan?

Yankee hater. As all decent beings are.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 06:33 PM (Gk3SS)

40 The missing video from the Obama address (1 min 11 secs)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGBw8jS3sMw

Posted by: andycanuck at October 02, 2012 06:33 PM (vDl/w)

41 I am giddy with anticipation over the impending debate. Yo, Mitt, don't fuck this thing up, okay?

Posted by: Peaches always finds something to be pissed about at October 02, 2012 06:34 PM (kpCLl)

1 Firstest!

Posted by: GnuBreed

2 First?

Posted by: The Political Hat

The first shall be last and the last shall be first.

Posted by: Z Ryan at October 02, 2012 06:34 PM (tsC/8)

43 So according to psychiatric theory, fudge-packing is all about SAVING money? Who knew psychiatrists were so SMART?

Posted by: bigmike at October 02, 2012 06:34 PM (kuYZi)

44 36 Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiit.

Posted by: Barack McDipshit at October 02, 2012 10:32 PM

Word up, muh homie. Dat shit be whack.

Posted by: back door barry soetoro at October 02, 2012 06:34 PM (yBF/9)

45 Furthermore, my nephew is 5 and two of his most favorite things in the world are garbage trucks and recycling trucks. He also loves street sweeper trucks. If any of them are on fire, as he sees on YouTube videos courtesy of his wonderful aunt, even better.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 06:35 PM (v4zcA)

46 Now voting Republican is somehow all about the anus. I feel tho vewy confwicted! Posted by: Bawney Fwank at October 02, 2012 10:27 PM (R/Baw) What isn't about the anus?

Posted by: Barack Obama's Secret Gay Ex-Boyfriend at October 02, 2012 06:35 PM (sZTYJ)

47 I'm the trash man, yeaaaah, I'm the trash man.....

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 02, 2012 06:35 PM (BVkEs)

48 Is thread going to be overrun too?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 02, 2012 06:35 PM (GEICT)

49 41 Be prepared for the media pushing the meme that no matter how well he does he could have been better,he has more practice than Obama etc etc ad infinitum.

Posted by: steevy at October 02, 2012 06:36 PM (6o4Fb)

50 AlextheChick, remember that your cheering for the Red Sox is for a greater good. And I can't stand the Yankees either.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 06:36 PM (v4zcA)

51 Is thread going to be overrun too?

No. *stands guard*

Wait, overrun with what? Because if it's spiders, I'm heaving all y'all in front of me.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 06:37 PM (Gk3SS)

Peaches, I am terrified about the upcoming debate. I mean they've set the stage that Obama is just an "OK" debater, I'm sure they have hand fed him the questions, they've got every possible liberal media shill lined up to praise him after the debate.

Jesus Christ himself could appear and take the podium next to Romney and yet I fear that we'd still only hear all about Romney's mistakes and how "wooden" he is etc.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 06:37 PM (RZ8pf)

53 I'm back, bitches.

Posted by: Leo Ladenson at October 02, 2012 06:37 PM (mAm+G)

54 If Obama wins, I suggest you book a trip to Trantor...

We are already living in Trantor.

The "Empire" was never about the Emperor; it was about the permanent civil service.

Posted by: Boulder Hobo at October 02, 2012 06:37 PM (QTHTd)

55 39 Orioles fan? Yankee hater. As all decent beings are. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 10:33 PM (Gk3SS) I say we hunt down all the Steinbrenners and hang them from the gates of Alextopia.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 02, 2012 06:37 PM (GEICT)

56 [removed]

Posted by: Baraka McFuckwhistle at October 02, 2012 06:37 PM (V/U0X)

57 by the by, is Kimberly Strassel available? Me love her long time.

Posted by: mallfly at October 02, 2012 06:37 PM (NI3M5)

58 Vote like ~~your~~ soon to be my Lady Parts depend on it. I am Jame Gumb, and I approve of this message.

Posted by: Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb at October 02, 2012 06:38 PM (sZTYJ)

59 And tomorrow is "Punch a Garbage Man in the Mouth Day". How ironic?

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 02, 2012 06:38 PM (BVkEs)

60 51 Is thread going to be overrun too? No. *stands guard* Wait, overrun with what? Because if it's spiders, I'm heaving all y'all in front of me. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 10:37 PM (Gk3SS) Overrun by all that shit from the tape thread.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 02, 2012 06:38 PM (GEICT)

61 OK, I'll stop being depressed now. It was just a total blow to me that my dumb ass family won't take a stand this time and vote against Obama. And they complain about their health care costs, and the cost of gas, and how small businesses are shutting down, how many fewer hours they are working. Yet they will once again vote against their own interests because some stupid talking head on NBC tells them to.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 06:39 PM (RZ8pf)

62 @51 Yesterday I was driving in stop-and-go traffic on the highway while a spider was crawling around in the front of the car. At one point he dropped from the roof and was dangling a foot from my face. Mercifully, I was eventually able to fling him out the window. I can't imagine the web I would have had to fight through later that day if he had stayed in the car.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 06:39 PM (v4zcA)

63 PGiS, it's okay, we'll be fine. I do really think that the only people who buy into the media crap are the people who would vote for barky even as he was slaughtering their puppies. I have a feeling the ratings on this thing are going to be HUGE. I could be wrong . . .

Posted by: Peaches always finds something to be pissed about at October 02, 2012 06:39 PM (kpCLl)

Abdullah Al-Hussein's shirt collar tightening slowly, steadily as Jordan prepares to enjoy the fragrance of a blooming Arab spring.

http://tinyurl.com/8agvgwk

Posted by: HtP at October 02, 2012 06:39 PM (jx2j9)

65 Mitt riding a garbage truck. In blue Massachusetts. And no one bothered to read his book. Even Patton read Rommel's book. Yeah these folks are the intellectual ACME of this generation, Not.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 06:40 PM (u1Q5a)

66 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 02, 2012 06:40 PM (JMmQ9)

67 And the OWS crowd were allowed to shit wherever they pleased. Hey, i kind of like where you're going with this.

Posted by: RWC at October 02, 2012 06:40 PM (t+Sdx)

68 Yet they will once again vote against their own interests because some stupid talking head on NBC tells them to.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 10:39 PM (RZ8pf)

Sorry PGiS. That sucks. There's just no getting through to some people, unfortunately.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 02, 2012 06:40 PM (R/Baw)

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Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 02, 2012 06:40 PM (ovpNn)

70 Wait, overrun with what? Because if it's spiders, I'm heaving all y'all in front of me. --- Even worse. Spider-goat hybrids!!!

Posted by: mediumheadboy at October 02, 2012 06:40 PM (aHR5E)

71 Avoid contact with eyes. Ha!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 02, 2012 06:40 PM (PHb2k)

72 Hi! Hi! Hi!
(yeah, I won't be here long because I'm a slacker but I miss you guys and gals).

Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at October 02, 2012 06:40 PM (otfJ1)

Yes.

Election 2012: This time its anal.

Posted by: Jason at October 02, 2012 06:41 PM (xXhWA)

74 60 Overrun by all that shit from the tape thread.

You mean, by the delicious nothingburgers and fries?

Posted by: Leo Ladenson at October 02, 2012 06:41 PM (mAm+G)

75 51 Is thread going to be overrun too?

No. *stands guard*

Wait, overrun with what? Because if it's spiders, I'm heaving all y'all in front of me.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 10:37 PM

Is this a cue to talk about spiders? Big bitey ones?

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 06:41 PM (yBF/9)

76 alexthechick, speaking of spiders, my son and I were sitting on the couch watching a movie this afternoon (Dark Shadows, it was kind of dumb really) and the dog was sleeping on the floor next to us when suddenly he sat up and began staring intently at the floor by my feet, the next thing I know he is chasing a giant spider that I suspect had been sneaking up on me to dine on my leg and in general creep me out.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 06:41 PM (RZ8pf)

77 Heinlein, the winner of the first Grand Master Award given by the Science Fiction Writers of America, is my favorite 'old school' sci fi author. I thank (or blame) him in large part for my libertarian views.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 02, 2012 06:42 PM (ccXZP)

78 48 Is thread going to be overrun too? Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 02, 2012 10:35 PM (GEICT) All your thread are belong to us... make your time.

Posted by: cajun carrot at October 02, 2012 06:42 PM (3jgI1)

79 73 Hi! Hi! Hi! (yeah, I won't be here long because I'm a slacker but I miss you guys and gals). ______________ Hi! Have a great evening!

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 06:42 PM (v4zcA)

@20

This. Romney does look better and better...

It really is time to wrap up the garbage and kick the JEF and his warden to the curb, for the hard working trashman to haul off in his truck.

Posted by: Some Guy In Wisconsin at October 02, 2012 06:42 PM (2i+Jc)

81 Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 02, 2012 10:40 PM (ovpNn)

I admire your commitment, reverend. Hey, who's your friend, omg, is that Jesus? Oh, oh, introduce me!!!!

Posted by: Peaches always finds something to be pissed about at October 02, 2012 06:42 PM (kpCLl)

82 Oh noes! Spider-goat hybrids. Bring on the Ninja Babes from Outer Space!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 06:43 PM (u1Q5a)

83 anyone ever do the thing where, you think people are all driving like assholes, but then you park and realize you had forgotten to turn your headlights on? yeah . . . way to cap off a suck day at work ANYWAY - the tape. haven't watched more than Hannity had. I think it's damaging to Barry. That's good enough for me. I always thought he was basically in line with those suited dudes in Philly with the pamphlets (Nation of Islam? Black Liberation? Who the hell knows. they just glare at me) - that video told me I was right on the money. I think those of us who are fortunate enough to live in liberal cities like Philly or Boston or NYC are just all "eh" b/c we are so used to this kind of crap. BUT . . . we have to remember most people ARE NOT. they don't ever see those Farrakhan follower dudes. They will be taken aback by this!

Posted by: BlackOrchid-StillMissingDagny at October 02, 2012 06:43 PM (J6kXj)

84 I was picking a Bell pepper earlier this evening and nearly grabbed a spider along with it. We both jumped.

Posted by: huerfano at October 02, 2012 06:43 PM (bAGA/)

85 Bring on the Ninja Babes from Outer Space!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 10:43 PM (u1Q5a)

Are they scantily clad?

Posted by: Insomniac at October 02, 2012 06:43 PM (R/Baw)

86 "Garbadge Man" http://youtu.be/luliNnzwk5s

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 06:43 PM (V/U0X)

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Stories like that make my blood run cold .Richie Rich Romney is a common thread.

Posted by: USS Diversity at October 02, 2012 06:43 PM (0CiTm)

88 ha-ha! mitt romney as a garbageman is great! like i did, i'm sure most people's reaction to the video -- at least folks who aren't in the bag for obama -- was probably, "why do you have to understand the job of a garbageman to be president?" but it's even better...romney DOES understand the job of a garbageman...and we all know TFG sure hasn't ever suited down to go pick up trash. couldn't ask for a more perfect script. i have to feel like the freud thing about the tea party is fake. a couple of years ago, there was this physicist who wrote a paper that, iirc, he actually got published in a peer-reviewed journal, suggesting that the physics of quantum gravity had something to do with social constructs and the hegemony of prevalent sociopolitical structures throughout human history false informing our sense of reality. somehow, i have to believe that the tea party paper is little more than a scatological joke by some conservatives who will end up exposing how they got a peer-reviewed journal and the nih to publish a paper linking tea party attitudes with defecation and potty training. here's hoping, cuz that would be a better reveal than the romney-as-a-garbageman. of course, we *are* talking about psychology, here, and we all know how grounded in hard, testable science most freudian psychological theories are ~.~

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 06:44 PM (79EF9)

89 I did a little checking. The NIH didn't sponsor that Tea Party paper -- it's just indexed on PubMed, which is a massive database of all medical/psychiatric papers maintained by NIH. So they're not funding or endorsing it. The author (William W. Tilden) also wrote a book which apparently traces ALL American political ideas to Freudian anal repression. Which tells me something about Mr. Tilden. If anybody lives near him, I suggest TPing his house this Halloween.

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 02, 2012 06:44 PM (AHM0q)

90 Refusing to kiss a man until the third date makes the anal on the first two dates seem a little impersonal.

Posted by: Truman North at October 02, 2012 06:44 PM (I2LwF)

91 There's a ginormous spider about the size of my thumbnail hanging off my carport. And not 12 inches away there's another web with a little tiny spider about the size of a LED. It's kind of heartwarming in a creepy way.

Posted by: mediumheadboy at October 02, 2012 06:44 PM (aHR5E)

92 Honestly, I thought Hannity had the BHO/Blago tape following blagos blow-out win. Obama wore a shit eating grin while he expounded on 'Hot Rod' and accepted the congratulations of the assembled media.

Posted by: TheThinMan at October 02, 2012 06:44 PM (/2ODN)

93 suddenly he sat up and began staring intently at the floor by my feet, the next thing I know he is chasing a giant spider

That dog is a fuckin' hero, PGiS.

Posted by: Peaches always finds something to be pissed about at October 02, 2012 06:45 PM (kpCLl)

94 PGiS - Does your family hate you?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 02, 2012 06:45 PM (dX4hn)

95 Tonight's movie car trivia;

Name the movie that goes with the car

1. 1964 Buick Skylark
2. 1959 Cadillac Ambulance
3. 1964 Cadillac DeVille
4. 2007 Aston-Martin DBS
5. 1950 Ford
6. 1941 Lincoln Continental
7. 1970 Pontiac Grand Prix
8. 1972 Ford Gran Torino
9. 1981 DeLorean DMC 12
10. 2010 Camaro SS

Posted by: kbdabear at October 02, 2012 06:45 PM (wwsoB)

96 90 Mr. Tilden likes it in the pooper??

Posted by: steevy at October 02, 2012 06:45 PM (6o4Fb)

97 And the idea of getting romantic on top of a bicycle is alarming. All you can do with one of these ten-speed sink traps is grow tired and sore and fall off it.

Ahem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWI-3v6RukI

(mildly NSFW)

Posted by: OregonMuse at October 02, 2012 06:45 PM (jDvkT)

98 Spiders are no joke. The wifey was bitten by a brown recluse and that shit (directly and indirectly) cost us hundreds of dollars. The one upside is that the motherfucker didn't bite our baby; it probably would have killed him.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 06:46 PM (V/U0X)

99 Which 1950 Ford model?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 06:46 PM (u1Q5a)

100 97: That's my guess.

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 02, 2012 06:46 PM (AHM0q)

101 Dave in Fla, I don't know if they hate me but they are very disapproving of my "conservative" lifestyle.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 06:47 PM (RZ8pf)

102 99 True,those are no joke,the garden variety spiders in most houses are completely harmless though.

Posted by: steevy at October 02, 2012 06:47 PM (6o4Fb)

103 100 Which 1950 Ford model?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 10:46 PM

The 2 door coupe favored by moonshiners

Posted by: kbdabear at October 02, 2012 06:47 PM (wwsoB)

104 Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 02, 2012 10:40 PM (ovpNn) ---- Again, thanks for that. Dipshit coworker still has it up in his office.

Posted by: RWC at October 02, 2012 06:47 PM (t+Sdx)

105 Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 10:44 PM (79EF9) --JR, you may have redeemed yourself with that post.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 06:47 PM (V/U0X)

106 hey, Ima? did you get your "credentials" yet? I was right behind you in the queue.

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 02, 2012 06:47 PM (JMmQ9)

107 I mentioned this in the garbage man thread earlier today, but fortunately, we don't have to deal with unionized sanitation engineers where I live...the garbage picker-uppers are trustees from the county jail...they also take care of the roadside landscaping duties.

Posted by: Country Singer (likes teh ginger ladies) at October 02, 2012 06:47 PM (+r4NB)

108 Dear trolls, Methinks thou doth protest too much. Hugs and kisses, Honey Badger

Posted by: Honey Badger at October 02, 2012 06:47 PM (B2fm1)

109 logprof, good heavens! Did the spider get in your house?

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 06:47 PM (v4zcA)

110 Okay, I don't normally do this, but since it's current event-appropriate, I posted the story of how I became a garbageman (in three parts). Link in sig.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 02, 2012 06:48 PM (JDIKC)

111 Oh, I was a garbage man back in the day (working my way through college) I knew a guy that could spin a 55 gallon drum on a 15 foot straight line and even make the can turn a corner. was told at the time that he was one of the few black republicans in Chicago- I'm sure he's dead by now, but he'll vote for Obama

Posted by: TheThinMan at October 02, 2012 06:48 PM (/2ODN)

112 the only good spider is a dead spider . . . this is why we have shoes . . . and kleenex

Posted by: Peaches always finds something to be pissed about at October 02, 2012 06:49 PM (kpCLl)

113 Yesterday I was driving in stop-and-go traffic on the highway while a spider was crawling around in the front of the car. At one point he dropped from the roof and was dangling a foot from my face. Mercifully, I was eventually able to fling him out the window. I can't imagine the web I would have had to fight through later that day if he had stayed in the car.

****

Heh.

My old roommate was a big hunter and had a beat up old truck he used to drive to the lodge. He came home one weekend and parked the truck, in the garage, and drove his car to work. A few days later he was heading back to the camp when I heard him yelling for me to come to the garage. When I got there he was cracking up. A banana spider had spun a massive web inside of the cab. I was a little freaked out, out he thought it was hilarious.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 06:50 PM (piMMO)

114 Why are the hate on bikes? Still beats public transit.

Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at October 02, 2012 06:50 PM (KCvsd)

115 My wife had me kill a spider the other morning. I felt bad about it afterwards because it took three hits to kill it.

Posted by: mediumheadboy at October 02, 2012 06:50 PM (aHR5E)

116 LOL, You can find an "I" in "TEAM" if you look in the asshole.

Posted by: Bart who lurks with SMOD 2012, master of his domain at October 02, 2012 06:50 PM (he2LC)

117 97 90 Mr. Tilden likes it in the pooper??

Posted by: steevy at October 02, 2012 10:45 PM (6o4Fb)

William "Big Bill" Tilden was a tennis champion in the early 20th century. He was arrested for sex with a teenage boy at least once. So, probably.

Posted by: huerfano at October 02, 2012 06:50 PM (bAGA/)

118 The Psychohistorical Roots of the American "Tea Party" Movement Abstract Extreme resistance to governmental taxation and authority is derived, according to Freud's theory of anal characterology, from premature and harshly coercive toilet training, in which a child is forced unfairly and against its will to surrender the products of his eliminations (which represent money, among other things, in the unconscious) to parental authority. Among these individuals anal eroticism plays a significant role in the psychogenesis of paranoia and conspiracy theorizing, which may represent a defense mechanism erected against repressed fears of passive submission. Wow. From the Occupoopers. Projection Alert! Projection Alert! They shit in public and on cop cars and have to set up "rape-free tents" and then have the chutzpah to talk about toilet training and the Tea Party? And for these depraved lunatics to bring "anal eroticism" into it. WTFF! You cannot parody these worms. It's just impossible.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 02, 2012 06:51 PM (X3lox)

119 That Tea Party psychoanalysis reveals more about the left than the Tea Party. The left sees the government as mommy and daddy. Standard leftist axiom: The state is father; the state is mother. Or should that be "The state is non-gender specific parental-role caretaker...

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 06:51 PM (sZTYJ)

120 Peaches, and toilets to throw the spiders into, complete with flushing action.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 06:51 PM (v4zcA)

121 64 I'm assuming that Tea Party psych paper is a parody since Freudian psych has been out of favor for many decades. My only doubts stem from the fact that the Left is largely humorless and unable to pull off irony anymore. Posted by: runninrebel at October 02, 2012 10:39 PM (N/1Dm) ----- You mean the 'want a gun to compensate for a little pee pee' argument Isn't valid?!? There goes the anti's go-to play.

Posted by: RWC at October 02, 2012 06:51 PM (t+Sdx)

122 PGiS - I'm sorry for you, you are to be admired for continuing to have a relationship with them. I would likely cut them out.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 02, 2012 06:51 PM (dX4hn)

123 111 Okay, I don't normally do this, but since it's current event-appropriate, I posted the story of how I became a garbageman (in three parts). Link in sig.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 02, 2012 10:48 PM (JDIKC)

Back in college I once hauled trash and nuclear waste for most of a summer as part of clearing out a radiotherapy lab in a hospital.

Sadly it didn't give me any super-powers.

Posted by: Mætenloch at October 02, 2012 06:51 PM (pAlYe)

124 I thought a corvette compensated for a small wenis

Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 06:52 PM (Dnbau)

125 99 Spiders are no joke. The wifey was bitten by a brown recluse and that shit (directly and indirectly) cost us hundreds of dollars. The one upside is that the motherfucker didn't bite our baby; it probably would have killed him.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 10:46 PM

Holy shit. Those recluse mofos are nasty. Got some bad bastards around here, but none that will melt your flesh off and stuff.

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 06:52 PM (yBF/9)

126 110 logprof, good heavens! Did the spider get in your house? Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 10:47 PM (v4zcA) --It bit in the old apartment. Wifey thought it was just a minor thing like a mosquito bite and travelled to the new place with no issues, then the first night after that it swelled like crazy and she went to the ER.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 06:52 PM (V/U0X)

127 the only good spider is a dead spider . . . this is why we have shoes . . . and kleenex

****

North Florida is now owned by brown widows. Folks confuse them with black widows sometimes because they are frequently almost black. Luckily, they are not at all aggressive (unlike the black widow). Also, luckily, they die in their tracks when you hit them with bug spray.

The only cute spiders are jumping spiders.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 06:52 PM (piMMO)

128 Okay that was NOT a suggestion to start telling spider stories. Anyone busts out the clock spider, then, by the insanity of cthulhu, I will start discussing That Time Of The Month in great detail. Do not test me on this.

Overrun by all that shit from the tape thread.

What tape thread? *continues to ignore its existence*

Bring on the Ninja Babes from Outer Space!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 10:43 PM (u1Q5a)

Are they scantily clad?

Considering that I am pondering writing that, guess.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 06:53 PM (Gk3SS)

129

My siblings are the same way PGiS. They won't vote for Romney because they hate Nixon. Ask them though and they'll tell you they are independent. Fortunately they live in Kansas and Arizona so their votes will be largely irrelevant.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at October 02, 2012 06:53 PM (l3vZN)

130 I assume the Tea Party anal diagnosis is the same crap they tried to paint the guy blamed for coining Social Darwinism, even though he didn't. PJM had a article about some radicals doing a 'forensic autopsy' on they guy's writings and declaring about the same garbage as the fools trying to dump on the Tea Party.

Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at October 02, 2012 06:53 PM (KCvsd)

131 @114, I'm glad I didn't have to explain to a cop why I rear-ended someone because a spider was in my face. It was a beige-colored spider, whatever that means.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 06:53 PM (v4zcA)

132 115 Why are the hate on bikes? Still beats public transit. Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at October 02, 2012 10:50 PM

A certain ponytailed fatass control freak blogger is enough for me.

Posted by: kbdabear at October 02, 2012 06:53 PM (wwsoB)

133 How about the sabotage on all the American Airline flights. Maybe the media could cover this story. Unions look really bad, just my opinion

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 06:54 PM (UantK)

134

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 02, 2012 10:48 PM (JDIKC)

===

Did you ever go back or is that Part IV? That's some fetid shit, yo.

Posted by: USS Diversity at October 02, 2012 06:54 PM (0CiTm)

135 A banana spider had spun a massive web inside of the cab. I was a little freaked out, out he thought it was hilarious.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 10:50 PM

A fucking Wanderer!?

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 06:54 PM (yBF/9)

136 86 Bring on the Ninja Babes from Outer Space! Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 10:43 PM (u1Q5a) Are they scantily clad? And bisexual?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 02, 2012 06:54 PM (GEICT)

137

Back in college I once hauled trash and nuclear waste for most of a summer as part of clearing out a radiotherapy lab in a hospital.<<<<

There was a pretty funny movie with Chevy Chase, who got some type of super powers after getting nuclear waste dumped on his car while he was driving.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 02, 2012 06:54 PM (JDIKC)

138 This is earnest man, deadly earnest! How can they justify condescending claptrap about garbagemen? Sheeeeit. Oops.

Posted by: Crazy Joe at October 02, 2012 06:55 PM (bDUMn)

139 banana spiders have huuugee hammock like webs. All over SC

Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 06:55 PM (Dnbau)

140 Spiders are no joke. The wifey was bitten by a brown recluse and that shit (directly and indirectly) cost us hundreds of dollars. The one upside is that the motherfucker didn't bite our baby; it probably would have killed him.

****

The pain and scarring from their bites are well-known but I didn't know they can actually kill until last year.

There was a young lady here in Jax that was bitten several times when she sat down on a nest. The poison damaged her organs and she died just a few years later from organ failure at the age of something like 22 years old.

Very sad.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 06:55 PM (piMMO)

141

Dave in Fla, my brother owes me an enormous sum of money, he hasn't paid back on the loan since 2009. My financial guy informed me that I am basically blued screwed and tattooed for 2013 and I had better find some money quick and oh by the way my mortgage payments balloon in May. So, I had to swallow my bile and call my brother to ask him to please begin repaying.

Too bad, so sad for me, but he informed me he won't be doing that any time soon. Not sure which government agency is going to come after me first, many likely candidates.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 06:55 PM (RZ8pf)

142 The only cute spiders are jumping spiders. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 10:52 PM (piMMO) THERE ARE NO CUTE SPIDERS. All spiders must DIE. At the very least they must stay a minimum of twenty feet away from me or face the wrath of the vacuum cleaner. *SHUDDER*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b][/u] at October 02, 2012 06:56 PM (CA2NO)

143 I thought a corvette compensated for a small wenis

Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 10:52 PM (Dnbau)

Depends on the year. Porsches? All of them . . .

Posted by: Peaches always finds something to be pissed about at October 02, 2012 06:56 PM (kpCLl)

144 The big spiders in webs are all female,only females make webs.The ones that wander are males.

Posted by: steevy at October 02, 2012 06:56 PM (6o4Fb)

145 Found the article it was by Jonah Goldberg in the Weekly Standard. http://tinyurl.com/9seyjty "The most creative assault on Spencer must be Richard L. SchoenwaldÂ’s psychological autopsy in the 1968 summer issue of the esteemed journal Victorian Studies, in which the historian reveals that SpencerÂ’s twisted and deformed worldview stemmed from his fascination with feces. Starting with SpencerÂ’s childhood in the 1820s, Schoenwald concluded that Â“SpencerÂ’s self-esteem had been undermined hopelessly in the oral and anal stages of his development; he could commit himself only to paper, not to a woman.Â” As a baby, Spencer rejoiced in his ability to Â“create excrement.Â” He never forgave his parentsÂ’ efforts at toilet training, which revoked the Â“freedom in which he had gloried.Â” This Â“fearful attack from behindÂ” left permanent scars, which is why, for example, Spencer would one day oppose public sanitation regulation, because he Â“saw in sanitary reform an attack on his magical anal producing powers.Â” WeÂ’ll just let that speak for itself."

Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at October 02, 2012 06:56 PM (KCvsd)

146 There was a pretty funny movie with Chevy Chase, who got some type of super powers after getting nuclear waste dumped on his car while he was driving. That's a damn lie. Chevy Chase wasnt in a funny movie.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 02, 2012 06:56 PM (GEICT)

147 I'm all in to hugging garbage menz.

Posted by: Barky McFucknut at October 02, 2012 06:57 PM (BVkEs)

148 Looks like bicycles drive Cher into the same homicidal rage on Twitter as Republicans do;

FKNG bike riders on PCH! I HATE THEM ! Almost got in accident AGAIN ! Sic of these IDIOTS! Pull in front of u & theres nowhere 2 go!
Â—
Cher (@cher) September 30, 2012

http://tinyurl.com/98be7h3

Posted by: kbdabear at October 02, 2012 06:57 PM (wwsoB)

149 a couple of years ago, there was this physicist who wrote a paper that, iirc, he actually got published in a peer-reviewed journal, suggesting that the physics of quantum gravity had something to do with social constructs and the hegemony of prevalent sociopolitical structures throughout human history false informing our sense of reality.

Yep, it was Alan Sokal in Social Text.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies. The submission was an experiment to test the journal's intellectual rigor and, specifically, to investigate whether such a journal would "publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if it (a) sounded good and (b) flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions."^[2]

Posted by: Armando at October 02, 2012 06:57 PM (lyStv)

150

Yesterday I was driving in stop-and-go traffic on the highway while a spider was crawling around in the front of the car. At one point he dropped from the roof and was dangling a foot from my face. Mercifully, I was eventually able to fling him out the window. I can't imagine the web I would have had to fight through later that day if he had stayed in the car

Earlier this summer, I was driving home from work when I looked up and saw a huge, hairy spider sitting on my rear view mirror. I was only about 2 miles from home so I kept my eye on the thing all the way and as soon as I got home, I ran into the house, got a tissue, grabbed it and flushed the little sucker. Kept my windows up the rest of the summer. Stupid spiders.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at October 02, 2012 06:58 PM (DoZD+)

151 141 banana spiders have huuugee hammock Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 10:55 PM (Dnbau) How Howwible! Go awn!!

Posted by: Barney Frank at October 02, 2012 06:58 PM (V/U0X)

152 Why are the hate on bikes? Still beats public transit.

They get in my fuckin' way when I'm driving. They look like douchetards. They should just get priuses like the rest of their ilk. I will vote for anyone who says they will give me the right to run the bastids off the road.

Yeah, I'm the mean girl.

Posted by: Peaches always finds something to be pissed about at October 02, 2012 06:58 PM (kpCLl)

153 OMG, EOJ - Fucking hilarious.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 02, 2012 06:58 PM (dX4hn)

154 lou's a girl, the seats were sabotaged? Who was the target, American Airlines or Boeing?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 06:58 PM (RZ8pf)

155 Hey Empire of Jeff! That was a great write up on your short career as a garbageman. I enjoyed it. Well done.

Posted by: Some Guy In Wisconsin at October 02, 2012 06:58 PM (2i+Jc)

156 Who did all the "can't vote for evil richguy" people vote for in 2004?

Posted by: sistrum at October 02, 2012 06:58 PM (SUlmX)

157 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3mw49mk_x0

You're welcome.

Posted by: Corona at October 02, 2012 06:58 PM (fh2Y7)

158 I am a Catholic. Not the liberal drippy wet anus kind.

If Romney wins, I may join my daughter in the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints.

Kidding.

But seriously, if their theology wasn't crap, don't you respect them for living their faith?

Don't forget that Usama bin Laden lived his faith.

I learned many years ago, that just because a man believes his faith, doesn't make him not a heretic.

Posted by: Bart who lurks with SMOD 2012, master of his domain at October 02, 2012 06:58 PM (he2LC)

159

There was a young lady here in Jax that was bitten several times when she sat down on a nest. The poison damaged her organs and she died just a few years later from organ failure at the age of something like 22 years old.

.......

Man that is effing HORRIFIC.

Posted by: USS Diversity at October 02, 2012 06:58 PM (0CiTm)

160 Awwwww ARod looking all butthurt. Poor baby.

Also, for the record, I hate all of you.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 06:59 PM (Gk3SS)

161
That's a damn lie. Chevy Chase wasnt in a funny movie.

Umm, never heard of Caddyshack?

Posted by: jas at October 02, 2012 06:59 PM (KmJYu)

162 A fucking Wanderer!?

****

Well, he wandered from Waycross to Jacksonville!
A golden-orb weaver

http://bit.ly/2QDMTp

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 06:59 PM (piMMO)

163 #151, and that is a classic example of why the modern day academic world no longer can produce a Nikola Tesla.

Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at October 02, 2012 06:59 PM (KCvsd)

164 I think everyone needs to prepare themselves for the idea that the unemployment rate with drop below 8.0% either in this Friday's jobs report or the one that hits Nov 2nd. That to me is the one huge card Obama still has yet to play.

Posted by: Jaydee at October 02, 2012 06:59 PM (E5DLT)

165 katya, at least your spider stayed put until you took care of it!

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 07:00 PM (v4zcA)

166 Mitt Romney will haul trash out of the White House in January.

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 02, 2012 07:00 PM (BVkEs)

167 EoJ! We are kindred souls I was a streets and San worker on the east side of the 18th ward back in the day...first day on the job I was hit by a brick while working the block that Koko Taylor lived on. next week she brought out catfish and Strohs for the "poor white guy"...

Posted by: TheThinMan at October 02, 2012 07:00 PM (/2ODN)

168 Romney success for business, community and those in need paid in full. Obama failure for business, community and those in need paid for by me.

Posted by: Tax Payer Money! at October 02, 2012 07:00 PM (MG6Y6)

169 caddyshack, as much as I like it is not so much funny as stupid.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 02, 2012 07:01 PM (Z9EHQ)

170 Also, for the record, I hate all of you. Why? What did we do? Lemme rephrase that, what did we do that's different from what we normally do?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 02, 2012 07:01 PM (GEICT)

171 The big spiders in webs are all female,only females make webs.The ones that wander are males.

****

Well, she wandered a few feet into the cab of that truck!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 07:01 PM (piMMO)

172 Lemme rephrase that, what did we do that's different from what we normally do?

All the spider talk.

Can't sleep. Spider will eat me.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 07:01 PM (Gk3SS)

173 Is it a horrible thing that I've never seen Caddyshack? I have seen Slapshot three times, though.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 07:01 PM (v4zcA)

174 Also, for the record, I hate all of you. yeah, yeah, yeah, are you going to swallow or not ?

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 02, 2012 07:02 PM (Z9EHQ)

175 I think everyone needs to prepare themselves for the idea that the unemployment rate with drop below 8.0% either in this Friday's jobs report or the one that hits Nov 2nd. That to me is the one huge card Obama still has yet to play.

Yeah, that'll fool everybody but the 25% of people who are still actually unemployed.

nobody buys into this shit anymore, nobody. some choose to look the other way, but even they know it's all loose shit.

Posted by: Peaches always finds something to be pissed about at October 02, 2012 07:02 PM (kpCLl)

176 I am a Catholic. Not the liberal drippy wet anus kind. If Romney wins, I may join my daughter in the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints. Kidding. But seriously, if their theology wasn't crap, don't you respect them for living their faith? Don't forget that Usama bin Laden lived his faith. I learned many years ago, that just because a man believes his faith, doesn't make him not a heretic. Posted by: Bart who lurks with SMOD 2012, master of his domain at October 02, 2012 10:58 PM Whatever I first met Mormans in the Air Force. Everyone of them great, family first, help others kind of people. Please do not compare them with Bin Laden

Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 07:02 PM (Dnbau)

177 Also, for the record, I hate all of you. Let me guess - the spider talk.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b][/u] at October 02, 2012 07:02 PM (CA2NO)

178 PGiS - Not trying to be cruel, but your brother sounds like a stereotypical liberal douche.

If it were me, I would cut off the entire family while going chapter 7 and trying to get my life back together.

I'd tell them FOAD.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 02, 2012 07:02 PM (dX4hn)

179 AlextheChick, stompyboot will decimate any spider that dares to go near you.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 07:02 PM (v4zcA)

180 156 lou's a girl, the seats were sabotaged? Who was the target, American Airlines or Boeing?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 10:58 PM (RZ8pf)

According to American Airlines, there was no sabotage, but I just find it strange that rows of seats are coming loose, three times within the last couple weeks, plus flap problems, gas tanks not being filled,etc, that it was a AA union issue.

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 07:03 PM (UantK)

181 Hallmark cards to close Topeka plant. 3 plants being consolidated to two plants in the state. 500 workers at the Topeka plant. Statewide workforce will be cut from 1300 to 1000.

Posted by: teej says go K-State at October 02, 2012 07:04 PM (QbKVX)

182

OK, I'll switch to wasps if we are telling insects in car stories. Three weeks ago I picked my son up at school, began driving home, felt something on my head, reached up to brush it off, got stung, flung the wasp off me, swerved to the side of the road, we jumped out of the car and I eventually managed to get the bastard wasp to exit the car.

It was only the prelude. The next weekend I went to give my neighbors some bread I'd made, stopped to talk to another neighbor who was gardening and had apparently disturbed a wasp's nest. Unbeknownst to me the wasps landed on me, got to my neighbors, felt something on my head, it went downhill from there, straight to the ER with multiple wasp stings all over my head, throat, and chest. Thankfully, I got to the ER quick enough and started benadryl on my way there, so my airways didn't close. Felt like crap for 5 days after though.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 07:04 PM (RZ8pf)

183 spider-killin' has become theater here at Casa de AltonJackson: 1: I am summoned (with much shrieking) to come and dispatch the spider. B. I grab a KleenexÂ™, snatch the little fcuker, and proceed to the head, with the kids in tow III. I lift the lid and say in my best "bug-voice" "Do you expect me to talk?"; then I drop it in the bowl and use my bestest Bond villain voice to say "No, Mr.Bug, I expect you to die" as I flush.

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 02, 2012 07:04 PM (JMmQ9)

184 That's a damn lie. Chevy Chase wasnt in a funny movie. Umm, never heard of Caddyshack? Posted by: jas at October 02, 2012 10:59 PM (KmJYu) That was his robot stand in.

Posted by: The Gopher from Caddyshack at October 02, 2012 07:04 PM (sZTYJ)

185 I wonder if any unions were involved in the airplane seat sabotage? on the good side, the people in row 13 did get some more leg room.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 02, 2012 07:04 PM (Z9EHQ)

186 Good story Jeff but you can get SOMETHING cool from the garbage.My moms best friend was married to a garbage man and he gave me a sweet Daisy bb gun.The lever had broken off so someone tossed it.My dad fashioned a new lever and we got many years of fun from that old Daisy.

Posted by: steevy at October 02, 2012 07:04 PM (6o4Fb)

187 Posted by: kbdabear at October 02, 2012 10:53 PM (wwsoB) ---- LOL. Like his fat ass ever gets on a bike.

Posted by: RWC at October 02, 2012 07:05 PM (t+Sdx)

188 Ok, bad analogy.

Posted by: Bart who lurks with SMOD 2012, master of his domain at October 02, 2012 07:05 PM (he2LC)

189 Thankfully, I got to the ER quick enough and started benadryl on my way there, so my airways didn't close. Felt like crap for 5 days after though. Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 11:04 PM (RZ8pf) Thank God you're okay!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b][/u] at October 02, 2012 07:05 PM (CA2NO)

190 166 I think everyone needs to prepare themselves for the idea that the unemployment rate with drop below 8.0% either in this Friday's jobs report or the one that hits Nov 2nd. That to me is the one huge card Obama still has yet to play.

Posted by: Jaydee at October 02, 2012 10:59 PM (E5DLT)

But gas is super expensive, as is bacon, milk, eggs, produce, power bill, everything,etc.

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 07:05 PM (UantK)

191 American Airlines started outsourcing maintenance and the union that used to do it doesn't like it. Can you say sabatage?

Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 07:05 PM (Dnbau)

192 I always give my garbage collectors a spider for Christmas. The nice men are very shy and I have have to chase them, but they always get one.

Posted by: eman at October 02, 2012 07:05 PM (Wp4rQ)

193 THERE ARE NO CUTE SPIDERS. All spiders must DIE. At the very least they must stay a minimum of twenty feet away from me or face the wrath of the vacuum cleaner.

****

See? Cute!

http://binged.it/SBA328

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 07:05 PM (piMMO)

194 Also, for the record, I hate all of you.
Thank you, mistress. May I have another?

Posted by: andycanuck at October 02, 2012 07:05 PM (vDl/w)

195 You never heard about Thunder Valley, huh?

Posted by: Bart who lurks with SMOD 2012, master of his domain at October 02, 2012 07:05 PM (he2LC)

196 177 Perhaps. But it will suck up all the oxygen for the MFM and will be beat nonstop until the polls close Nov 6.

Posted by: Jaydee at October 02, 2012 07:06 PM (E5DLT)

197 Well we got the super heroes all lined up. Because of wear and chaffing issues, leather is right out except for accessory items like oh bull-whips of ecstatic pleasure.

We still need a challenge for our brave Space Ninja Babes. Could their spaceship been hit by a meteorite? And they need to kidnap smart men for various reasons? Or will they fight to liberate all their Earth sisters? Or they decided to visit a backwater planet to have a vacation from being space cops? Or all the above?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 07:06 PM (u1Q5a)

198 oh, I'd only heard about the seats, not about the other AA stuff. AA is teetering on the brink, I don't think their unions should be effing with them right now, they'll all end up unemployed if they aren't careful.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 07:06 PM (RZ8pf)

199 PGIS, you win!

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 07:06 PM (v4zcA)

200 175 Is it a horrible thing that I've never seen Caddyshack? I have seen Slapshot three times, though. Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 11:01 PM (v4zcA) --I confess to seeing neither movie.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 07:06 PM (V/U0X)

201 yeah, yeah, yeah, are you going to swallow or not ?

There is no possible answer I can give to that that will not come back to haunt me.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 07:07 PM (Gk3SS)

202 THERE ARE NO CUTE SPIDERS. All spiders must DIE. At the very least they must stay a minimum of twenty feet away from me or face the wrath of the vacuum cleaner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8dSBWysmnM

Posted by: Boris the Spider at October 02, 2012 07:07 PM (sZTYJ)

203 We still need a challenge for our brave Space Ninja Babes. Could their spaceship been hit by a meteorite? And they need to kidnap smart men for various reasons? Or will they fight to liberate all their Earth sisters? Or they decided to visit a backwater planet to have a vacation from being space cops? Or all the above? Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 11:06 PM (u1Q5a) How about their ship is hit by a meteorite.... filled with SPIDERS.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b][/u] at October 02, 2012 07:07 PM (CA2NO)

204 96 Tonight's movie car trivia;

Name the movie that goes with the car

1. 1964 Buick Skylark - My Cousin Vinny
2. 1959 Cadillac Ambulance - Ghostbusters
3. 1964 Cadillac DeVille - 48 Hours
4. 2007 Aston-Martin DBS - Casino Royale
5. 1950 Ford - Thunder Road
6. 1941 Lincoln Continental - The Godfather
7. 1970 Pontiac Grand Prix - Goodfellas
8. 1972 Ford Gran Torino - Gran Torino
9. 1981 DeLorean DMC 12 - Back to the Future
10. 2010 Camaro SS - Transformers

Posted by: kbdabear at October 02, 2012 07:08 PM (wwsoB)

205 Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 11:04 PM (RZ8pf)

*****

Holy cow! Thank God you thought to grab the Benadryl.

When I was a kid, Benadryl was still an Rx drug.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 07:08 PM (piMMO)

206 77 alexthechick, speaking of spiders, my son and I were sitting on the couch watching a movie this afternoon (Dark Shadows, it was kind of dumb really) and the dog was sleeping on the floor next to us when suddenly he sat up and began staring intently at the floor by my feet, the next thing I know he is chasing a giant spider that I suspect had been sneaking up on me to dine on my leg and in general creep me out.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 10:41 PM

Yeah, they'll do that. They will try to drag your lifeless body back to their lair. Similar deal happened awhile ago here. Watching TV with the kid on the floor. Looked down and a fair sized funnelweb was on the kidster's collar about to crawl into the shirt. Couldn't say anything, as the kid would move, no time to do anything else, had to grab it and throw it. Drowned it in hot water, but it bit through a few layers of the coat I wrapped it up in.

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 07:08 PM (yBF/9)

207 Hmmm.

And now a dime sized guy shimmies down his line to hang 2 feet in front of my face and stare at me for a minute. Then shimmies right back up.

I'm screwed. He's obviously on recon.

Posted by: esch at October 02, 2012 07:08 PM (/w9bT)

208 We still need a challenge for our brave Space Ninja Babes. Could their spaceship been hit by a meteorite? And they need to kidnap smart men for various reasons? Or will they fight to liberate all their Earth sisters? Or they decided to visit a backwater planet to have a vacation from being space cops? Or all the above? they need to battle their nemesis, the evil Thundercunt!

Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 07:08 PM (Dnbau)

209 My problem with American Airlines is that they don't enforce their carry-on baggage policies. Something I can take as a carry-on during one fight is verboten during another. Be consistent, please!

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 07:08 PM (v4zcA)

210 yeah, yeah, yeah, are you going to swallow or not ? There is no possible answer I can give to that that will not come back to haunt me. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 11:07 PM no, but you could be haunted and loved. qui audet adipiscitur

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 02, 2012 07:08 PM (Z9EHQ)

211 Caddyshak is worth the price of admission. Hell, Bill Murray's ad lib while chopping the flowers is worth. It's a Cinderella story, here at the masters. Toss in Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, oh yeah.

Posted by: teej says go K-State at October 02, 2012 07:08 PM (GX2fm)

212 It's funny. All the reports I've seen about that has included the AA's comment that these issues do not appear to be a result of union sabotage.
And so I figured that was the airlines way of telling the public that this is most certainly the result of union sabotage.

Posted by: runninrebel at October 02, 2012 11:06 PM (N/1Dm)

I know, in my whole 47 years on earth, this is the first time I have heard of seats not bolted down, now three times in two weeks, come on..

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 07:08 PM (UantK)

213 Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 11:04 PM (RZ8pf) --Wasps I can tolerate; they generally do not attack you unprovoked. I hope the spider that bit my wife got paralyzed by one of those wasps that sting and lay eggs so their larvae can eat them alive, but I'll be satisfied of the Hotshot bombed him.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 07:09 PM (V/U0X)

214 Brea Grant
http://tinyurl.com/9ayxlbh

Posted by: Jamie at October 02, 2012 07:09 PM (BYNdA)

215 175 Is it a horrible thing that I've never seen Caddyshack? I have seen Slapshot three times, though. Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 11:01 PM (v4zcA) --I confess to seeing neither movie. Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 11:06 PM (V/U0X) If you do watch Caddyshack, consider an O'Henry bar for a snack.

Posted by: eman at October 02, 2012 07:09 PM (Wp4rQ)

216 no baby ruth

Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 07:10 PM (Dnbau)

217 The world's most deadly spider is actually kind of cute!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcGb481PzEw

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 07:10 PM (piMMO)

218 175, 203 but have you guys at least seen Blazing Saddles?

Posted by: jaimo at October 02, 2012 07:11 PM (d8hzE)

219 201 oh, I'd only heard about the seats, not about the other AA stuff. AA is teetering on the brink, I don't think their unions should be effing with them right now, they'll all end up unemployed if they aren't careful. Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 11:06 PM (RZ8pf) --Seriously, how fucked up do you have to be to see US fucking Airways as a takeover threat?

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 07:11 PM (V/U0X)

220 PGiS, so glad you are okay!

We still need a challenge for our brave Space Ninja Babes. Could their spaceship been hit by a meteorite? And they need to kidnap smart men for various reasons? Or will they fight to liberate all their Earth sisters? Or they decided to visit a backwater planet to have a vacation from being space cops? Or all the above?

Right now the plot is that they kill people. As you can see, I have given this deep thought.

I am still kicking around doing The Horde does the ZA mainly because I want to make it a Walking Dead (tv-verse) xover so that the Horde can collectively look at Rick and say "What the fuck is wrong with you, are you trying to get everyone eaten?"

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 07:11 PM (Gk3SS)

221 If you do watch Caddyshack, consider an O'Henry bar for a snack.

****

I used to love those.

Dangit. Now I'm thinking about candy bars and want a Zero.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 07:11 PM (piMMO)

222 Yeah Rick is an idiot. Heck the writing is super stoopid, almost Biden grade dumb.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 07:12 PM (u1Q5a)

223 thats what Reggie Love siad

Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 07:12 PM (Dnbau)

224 You can tell what an author dislikes by reading their fiction Robert E Howard uses snakes almost all the time as non human enemies.David Drake uses giant spiders a lot.Though I can recall a Conan where he faced a giant spider too.

Posted by: steevy at October 02, 2012 07:12 PM (6o4Fb)

225 AtC, I believe you were concerned about being eaten by a spider. Allow me to alter that chain of thought.... http://tinyurl.com/9tka27o

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 02, 2012 07:13 PM (GEICT)

226
I'm screwed. He's obviously on recon.

****

LOL'd!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 07:13 PM (piMMO)

227 Posted by: steevy at October 02, 2012 11:04 PM (6o4Fb)

I used to work with a guy who was at one time a garbage man in Idaho. Told me he got all kinds of good stuff from the trash and held a yard sale a few times a year using things he'd saved. He said you could always tell when there was a spousal spat by the filled tackle boxes and perfectly good fishing rods that would appear curbside.

Posted by: Country Singer (likes teh ginger ladies) at October 02, 2012 07:13 PM (+r4NB)

228 AtC, I believe you were concerned about being eaten by a spider. Allow me to alter that chain of thought....

No. I am not clicking that.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 07:13 PM (Gk3SS)

229 logprof, I saw Caddyshack on party buses to Calgary to see Oilers-Flames games. The policy each time was no glass, but booze otherwise. It was at least 60-40 guys to gals with lots of booze. There's a scene in Slapshot with a gal in bed who is topless (with gravity). Every time I was on that bus when that scene came on the whole bus went silent. It was a miracle we got the whole bus loaded back to Edmonton without a problem. My record going to Calgary was 1-2.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 07:13 PM (v4zcA)

230 Okay, okay, wasps are worse than spiders. Spiders, creepy they may be, mostly mind their own business. Wasps generally wage war on me. IT'S MY CLOTHESLINE YOU STUPID WASPS! I would even share the clothesline with them but nooooooo. They wanted it all to themselves.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at October 02, 2012 07:13 PM (DoZD+)

231 WE'RE DOOMED! I say stock up on : guns/ammo food/ buttwipe liquor feminine products more liquor and porn From what I understand they bartered pporn in Iraq in 2003 (but in your sales/ barter pitch, don't say you have reviewed this movie every day)

Posted by: jake in ID at October 02, 2012 07:13 PM (2CiZb)

232 Spiders ain't cute...but i let them live as long as they're outside. I want them to grow large enough to eat the frogs that make me jump like a lil ninny when they surprise me.

Posted by: RWC at October 02, 2012 07:13 PM (t+Sdx)

233 222 175, 203 but have you guys at least seen Blazing Saddles? Posted by: jaimo at October 02, 2012 11:11 PM (d8hzE) --Yes, give me some credit.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 07:14 PM (V/U0X)

234 165 #151, and that is a classic example of why the modern day academic world no longer can produce a Nikola Tesla.

Also, the whole "looking like David Bowie and experimenting with transporters" nonsense. Wait, I think that was a movie starring Wolverine and Batman as dueling magicians.

Posted by: wooga at October 02, 2012 07:14 PM (vjyZP)

235 >Why are the hate on bikes? Still beats public transit.

1. Because the cocksuckers take a full lane when there's a bike lane 3 feet away.
2. Because they've never seen a stop sign or light that they wouldn't run, daring me to smoke their ass.
3. Because they dress up in Tour de France garb even when commuting to work.
4. Speaking of commuting to work, ride your bike to work and smell like stale piss for 8 hours. Rock on. Assholes.
5. They want all the space and rights of a car when its convenient, but don't follow the rules of the road that cars have to vis a vis turning into proper lane, signaling, etc.
6. I've seen them kick cars that get too close. When this happens to me, you'll probably read about it in the paper under the heading "Angry FJ Cruiser Driver Arrested for Yanking Asshole Bicyclist Off Bicycle and Beats Him Within Inch of His Miserable Life." and finally.....
7. They love to get in front of me and go 5 miles an hour during rush hour while wearing their stale piss smelling "racing" apparel. If you're gonna race motherfucker, race.

Posted by: DanInMN at October 02, 2012 07:14 PM (dyI4e)

236
The pain and scarring from their bites are well-known but I didn't know they can actually kill until last year.

There was a young lady here in Jax that was bitten several times when she sat down on a nest. The poison damaged her organs and she died just a few years later from organ failure at the age of something like 22 years old.

Very sad.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 10:55 PM

The recluse bastards creep me out. They might not kill you quick, but there's nothing you can do re an antivenene. They can dissolve you and maybe kill you later. Which I'm sure pleases them greatly. You can keep those bastards.

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 07:14 PM (yBF/9)

237 I am still kicking around doing The Horde does the ZA mainly because I want to make it a Walking Dead (tv-verse) xover so that the Horde can collectively look at Rick and say "What the fuck is wrong with you, are you trying to get everyone eaten? Oh mighty queen, if you write this crossover, may I request but a tiny cameo in which I grab Daryl Dixon, drag him into a room somewhere secluded, and proceed to do lewd and lascivious things with him? Pretty please with sugar plums on top?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b][/u] at October 02, 2012 07:15 PM (CA2NO)

238 @151 thanks, armando! i couldn't remember the name, but that's exactly the one i was thinking of.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 07:15 PM (79EF9)

239 Hubby and I going to fly next week, called the airline, not AA, but talked to the guy, he told me it was $20 per suitcase for checked luggage, strangly, when I booked the tickets, they failed to mention this. Pissed off. Should have just drove, but gas is almost $4.00 a gallon, they fuck ya one way or another.

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 07:15 PM (UantK)

240 caddyshack ok, blazing saddles, now that is funny.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 02, 2012 07:16 PM (Z9EHQ)

241 Buffalo Bill? Not exactly current, is it?

Posted by: A. at October 02, 2012 07:16 PM (8sUWs)

242 ROMNEY 2012: Because he knows how to take out the trash

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 02, 2012 07:17 PM (8sCoq)

243

Modern Problems!

That was the name of the movie.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 02, 2012 07:17 PM (JDIKC)

244 guns/ammo - Got 'em
food/ buttwipe - Got 'em
liquor - Make my own
feminine products - Got 'em (tampons are useful for gunshot wounds)
more liquor - See above
and porn - Make my own

Posted by: Country Singer (likes teh ginger ladies) at October 02, 2012 07:17 PM (+r4NB)

245 Now I want an Oh Henry Bar.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 07:17 PM (v4zcA)

246 I have wifi at work! Yay me. Evening all. No spiders here, but there are a bunch of mice running around this place tonight. FYI. If you're going to an museums in downtown DC, maybe bring a bag lunch, maybe.

Posted by: DC in Towson at October 02, 2012 07:17 PM (4QAQg)

247

Yeah, but multiple wasp stings can cause airways to swell shut which tends to be fatal if you can't get treated promptly.

I kind of have post traumatic wasp sting syndrome now. At least a few times a day I feel like there are wasps crawling through my hair even though there aren't.

The worst one was the one that had gotten tangled in the hair at my neck. I couldn't get it out, I had to stand in my neighbor's shower until I could get my hair wet enough to stun it and pull it out.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 07:17 PM (RZ8pf)

248 Hubby and I going to fly next week, called the airline, not AA, but talked to the guy, he told me it was $20 per suitcase for checked luggage, strangly, when I booked the tickets, they failed to mention this. Pissed off. Should have just drove, but gas is almost $4.00 a gallon, they fuck ya one way or another. Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 11:15 PM (UantK) I screw em by wearing a weeks worth of clothes, 10 layers, so I do not have to carry anything on. suck on that effin airlines. and so can the TSA, scan my fat 10 layered ass beyochs.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 02, 2012 07:17 PM (Z9EHQ)

249 Why all the hatin' on bicyclists recently?

Posted by: Mindy at October 02, 2012 07:17 PM (OXFrm)

250 Yankees win. Crap.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 07:18 PM (v4zcA)

251 232 Okay, okay, wasps are worse than spiders. Spiders, creepy they may be, mostly mind their own business. Posted by: katya the designated driver at October 02, 2012 11:13 PM Not all of the. Some hate you and crave human flesh. Like sharks. Spidersharks.

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 07:18 PM (yBF/9)

252 comment # 237 is spot on, I should think

well done young man

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 02, 2012 07:18 PM (8sCoq)

253 243 caddyshack ok, blazing saddles, now that is funny.

Have you watched it in the past 10 years? Aside from the racial humor, it doesn't really hold up anymore.

Cowboys eating beans and farting! Hooo weee! That's cutting edge humor!

Posted by: wooga at October 02, 2012 07:18 PM (vjyZP)

254

"Extreme resistance to governmental taxation and authority is derived, according to Freud's theory of anal characterology, from premature and harshly coercive toilet training, in which a child is forced unfairly and against its will to surrender the products of his eliminations (which represent money, among other things, in the unconscious) to parental authority. Among these individuals anal eroticism plays a significant role in the psychogenesis of paranoia and conspiracy theorizing, which may represent a defense mechanism erected against repressed fears of passive submission."

"Ordinary mortals donÂ’t engage in fancy mental gymnastics to reach conclusions that defy common sense. But intellectuals are particularly prone to this."

Posted by: harleycowboy at October 02, 2012 07:19 PM (BGVHF)

255 Oh mighty queen, if you write this crossover, may I request but a tiny cameo in which I grab Daryl Dixon, drag him into a room somewhere secluded, and proceed to do lewd and lascivious things with him? Pretty please with sugar plums on top?

Yes, yes, you may. I shall even allow you to hand him some bolts when he finally snaps and puts me and everyone else out of their misery and shoots Rick in the fucking face. Not that. I'm bitter or anything. Not me.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to fire up Scrivener and start making notes on what the totally and completely in no possible way Mary Sue character is going to do to Michonne.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 07:19 PM (Gk3SS)

256 ROMNEY 2012: Because he knows how to take out the trash Posted by: Jones in CO at October 02, 2012 11:17 PM (8sCoq) Romney 2012 - taking the trash out of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave for You!

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 02, 2012 07:19 PM (Z9EHQ)

257 231 AtC, I believe you were concerned about being eaten by a spider. Allow me to alter that chain of thought.... No. I am not clicking that. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 11:13 PM (Gk3SS) You should. It's safe.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 02, 2012 07:19 PM (GEICT)

258 144 The only cute spiders are jumping spiders.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 10:52 PM (piMMO)

THERE ARE NO CUTE SPIDERS. All spiders must DIE. At the very least they must stay a minimum of twenty feet away from me or face the wrath of the vacuum cleaner.

*SHUDDER*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter at October 02, 2012 10:56 PM (CA2NO)

AGREED 10000%.... I have found another effective way of ridding the corners of my ceilings of tiny little nasty spiders - masking tape stuck on the end of one of those reacher-thingeys. Grabs 'em and splats 'em.

Posted by: George W Beagle at October 02, 2012 07:19 PM (sZRY5)

259 245 ROMNEY 2012: Because he knows how to take out the trash Posted by: Jones in CO at October 02, 2012 11:17 PM (8sCoq) Heh, heh. Love it!

Posted by: Mindy at October 02, 2012 07:19 PM (OXFrm)

260 >Why all the hatin' on bicyclists recently?

Posted by: Mindy at October 02, 2012 11:17 PM (OXFrm)

because Obama's bike helmet

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 02, 2012 07:19 PM (8sCoq)

261 What happens when someone has a scrap Beetle and a junk Karmann Ghia, time on their hands, lots of metal beams, and a welder? They build spider cars.

http://www.break.com/pictures/spider-car-field-of-screams-2363500

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 07:19 PM (u1Q5a)

262 "Ordinary mortals donÂ’t engage in fancy mental gymnastics to reach conclusions that defy common sense. But intellectuals are particularly prone to this." Posted by: harleycowboy at October 02, 2012 11:19 PM (BGVHF) --Attribution?

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 07:20 PM (V/U0X)

263 I screw em by wearing a weeks worth of clothes, 10 layers, so I do not have to carry anything on. suck on that effin airlines. and so can the TSA, scan my fat 10 layered ass beyochs.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 02, 2012 11:17 PM (Z9EHQ)

OMG, love it, gonna do it.

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 07:20 PM (UantK)

264 Apparently public transit drivers also manage to get quite a haul. People leave a lot of stuff behind on buses.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 07:20 PM (RZ8pf)

265 Posted by: DanInMN at October 02, 2012 11:14 PM (dyI4e) true that, bicyclists are all tough untill you step out of your truck with a monkey wrench in your hand.......

Posted by: jake in ID at October 02, 2012 07:20 PM (2CiZb)

266 249 I have wifi at work! Yay me.

Evening all. No spiders here, but there are a bunch of mice running around this place tonight. FYI. If you're going to an museums in downtown DC, maybe bring a bag lunch, maybe.

Posted by: DC in Towson at October 02, 2012 11:17 PM (4QAQg)

Tonight's wildlife in my nice suburban backyard - possum up in a tree driving the beagle crazy, followed by a rat running along the power lines... Next it will be SPIDERS!!!!!

Posted by: George W Beagle at October 02, 2012 07:21 PM (sZRY5)

267 When I get to heaven, I'm going to ask God why he created mosquitoes, cockroaches, bees, and spiders.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 07:21 PM (v4zcA)

268 DC in Towson, where are you so I can avoid it????

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 07:22 PM (v4zcA)

269 I've got it figured out Alextc. The space ninja babes kidnap teej unaware of his love making soul. They all fall madly for him and he then informs them of what is about to happen to his home planet. They return with him, join up with the Horde and kick some serious backside. Fade to credits as the bacon and valu-rite fueled orgy is getting underway.

Posted by: teej says go K-State at October 02, 2012 07:22 PM (RYVE/)

270 When I get to heaven, I'm going to ask God why he created mosquitoes, cockroaches, bees, and spiders.

And democrats . . . and the fuckin' muzzies. He's got some 'splainin' to do, for sure.

Posted by: Peaches always finds something to be pissed about at October 02, 2012 07:22 PM (kpCLl)

271 >I first met Mormans in the Air Force. Everyone of them great, family first, help others kind of people. Please do not compare them with Bin Laden

I grew up in SW Missouri where there's a fairly sizable Mormon enclave. My experience is *exactly* like yours. 99.9% of the Mormons I grew up with were awesome people. The story about Mitt helping the employee move furniture on a moments notice sounds exactly like something a Mormon family would do. Their theology isn't my bag, but if I could pick my neighbors by religion I would pick Mormons every single time.

Now if they'd just quit riding bicycles......

Posted by: DanInMN at October 02, 2012 07:23 PM (dyI4e)

272 OMG, love it, gonna do it. Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 11:20 PM (UantK) glad I am able to be of service. FYI on day trips I always refuse the scanner and moan and groan lots of "oh yeahs", "right theres", and "good girls" while getting felt up.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 02, 2012 07:23 PM (Z9EHQ)

273 49 41 Be prepared for the media pushing the meme that no matter how well he does he could have been better,he has more practice than Obama etc etc ad infinitum.

Posted by: steevy at October 02, 2012 10:36 PM (6o4Fb)

Of course he had more practice - Obammy has been working oh, so hard on all that president-in' stuff, ya know - just ask Jay Carney.

Posted by: George W Beagle at October 02, 2012 07:23 PM (sZRY5)

274 What happens when someone has a scrap Beetle and a junk Karmann Ghia, time on their hands, lots of metal beams, and a welder? They build spider cars.

****

His neighbors must love him.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 07:23 PM (piMMO)

275 Jones, was Obama's helmet in the news recently? I must have missed it. I like to ride my bicycle; I like to ride my bike. I like to ride my bicycle; I like to ride it where I like. .... And I try to stay out of the motorists' way and not be a jerk.

Posted by: Mindy at October 02, 2012 07:23 PM (OXFrm)

276 Still not seeing any news on Camp NaNoWriMo about any November event.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 07:23 PM (u1Q5a)

277 Of course he had more practice - Obammy has been working oh, so hard on all that president-in' stuff, ya know - just ask Jay Carney. - oops,I meant David Fluff, or whatever-his-name-is...

Posted by: George W Beagle at October 02, 2012 07:23 PM (sZRY5)

278 Does anyone have anyone ever see their garbage man? Where do the liberals get this phony shit? You put your trash bin out Sunday night. Monday it's empty. And by the way, I love the garbage collectors in my dad's neighborhood because my beagle got loose on the day when all the trash companies collect in dad's neighborhood. As I spent 2 1/2 hours tearing around the neighborhood like a crazed lunatic calling my dog, they would stop and tell me where they had seen her. It helped me to keep track of where she was.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 02, 2012 07:23 PM (qq7w2)

279

last week at night there was something in the trees of my neighbor's yard that my beagle was actually scared of, which kind of concerned me because he isn't really scared of many animals. Thankfully this week it seems to be gone.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 07:24 PM (RZ8pf)

280 nothingburger

bupkis-on-challah

and for the SCOAMT

empty pita

Posted by: DaveA at October 02, 2012 07:24 PM (wcjj2)

281 Stupid fucking yankees. Godamned red sox ant get out of their own fucking way, the bums. It's been 15 fucking years, why does the universe hate me? *throwing things around the room with a primal scream*

Posted by: DC in Towson at October 02, 2012 07:24 PM (4QAQg)

282 last week at night there was something in the trees of my neighbor's yard that my beagle was actually scared of, which kind of concerned me because he isn't really scared of many animals. Thankfully this week it seems to be gone. Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 11:24 PM (RZ8pf) and biden is back in dc. coincidence?

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 02, 2012 07:25 PM (Z9EHQ)

283 Well November is NaNoWriMo, so the stuff is on the main site nanowrimo.org.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 07:26 PM (RZ8pf)

284 Fade to credits as the bacon and valu-rite fueled orgy is getting underway.

Hmmmm. It has possibilities but I am not known for fading to black.

Still not seeing any news on Camp NaNoWriMo about any November event.

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

The main NaNo is always November. Heh. I didn't realize the countdown is up.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 07:26 PM (Gk3SS)

285 >.... And I try to stay out of the motorists' way and not be a jerk.

Posted by: Mindy at October 02, 2012 11:23 PM (OXFrm)

you're in the minority then

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 02, 2012 07:26 PM (8sCoq)

286 282 last week at night there was something in the trees of my neighbor's yard that my beagle was actually scared of, which kind of concerned me because he isn't really scared of many animals. Thankfully this week it seems to be gone.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 11:24 PM (RZ8pf)

Maybe it was a possum - when they decide to bare their ugly little teeth, they can at least look menacing... my beagle cornered one on the ground once, and it was growling at him and making the ugliest face you've ever seen. But then it ran away!

Let's hope that's all you had in the trees, and that it wasn't a GIANT SPIDER!!!!

Posted by: George W Beagle at October 02, 2012 07:27 PM (sZRY5)

287 It could have been a Owl in the tree.

Posted by: steevy at October 02, 2012 07:27 PM (6o4Fb)

288 I can't decide if I am going to do NaNoWriMo this year. November is kind of up in the air in my life right now.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 07:27 PM (RZ8pf)

289 This could be some satire that snuck through the 'layers of fact-checkers'

Our tax money paid for another sack of stupid shit.

Posted by: Uncle SugarTits boundless lagress at October 02, 2012 07:27 PM (wcjj2)

290 280 Of course he had more practice - Obammy has been working oh, so hard on
all that president-in' stuff

He may not do much of anything except fundraisers, but, trust me, he's on call 24/7.

We haven't called him yet, but we know he's there if we ever need him.

Posted by: Jay Carney at October 02, 2012 07:28 PM (2IW5Q)

291 Just tried to volunteer with my county GOP but the online form rejected me several times for some unknown reason. Sigh. I've emailed them asking them to kindly help to resolve the issue. Oh, hi everyone!

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 07:28 PM (6zgse)

292 Hot Gas has a list of the 20 closest House races;

http://tinyurl.com/96m85jx

I'm thinking of donating to

Coffman CO6
Cravaak MN8

I did a little research and they both seem to be pretty conservative. Anyone on the ground in either area have any thoughts?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 02, 2012 07:28 PM (AUeaU)

293 Thanks PGIS. Guess I better stop giving story ideas to Alexthechick.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 07:28 PM (u1Q5a)

294 Well, I think we've solved the question as to who Obama's economic role model is: http://bit.ly/V9JNaC

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 07:28 PM (piMMO)

295 Did garbage man need Obama to help him act properly, speak properly and be punctual?

Posted by: Baldy at October 02, 2012 07:28 PM (opS9C)

296 Just tried to volunteer with my county GOP but the online form rejected me several times for some unknown reason. Sigh. I've emailed them asking them to kindly help to resolve the issue. Oh, hi everyone! Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 11:28 PM (6zgse) I would suggest it was not especially wise to mention you frequent this place or know anyone here.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 02, 2012 07:29 PM (Z9EHQ)

297 Obama was at Hoover Dam today, thought I smelled sulfur in the air when I went outside to water the plants, tee hee.

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 07:29 PM (UantK)

298

Hmm, I think Owl could be a possibility. He wouldn't be scared of a possum, we've had those before and he just barks at them in his "I am going to eat you up" tone. He doesn't seem to fear raccoons either, though I fear them for him, so I am careful to keep an eye out.

My big concern was a bobcat.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 07:30 PM (RZ8pf)

299 >I did a little research and they both seem to be pretty conservative. Anyone on the ground in either area have any thoughts?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 02, 2012 11:28 PM (AUeaU)

Please send a buck or two to whoever is running against Ed Perlmutter in CO 7. I hate that guy. And his lobbyist wife took Solyndra money.

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 02, 2012 07:30 PM (8sCoq)

300 299 I would suggest it was not especially wise to mention you frequent this place or know anyone here.

Yes, and definitely do not mention hobo-hunting. Not what today's GOP is looking for, I guess.

Posted by: Splunge at October 02, 2012 07:30 PM (2IW5Q)

301 Since atc would rather talk about menses than spiders........

Urban legend has it that women in close quarters synchronize their flow. It seems that this would make a run on tampons a sure thing at the local women's prison once a month.

Plus, if I was a guard I would call in sick that week. Picture a prison full of wimmens, hormonal and ragey, with a less than stellar appreciation of societal norms.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 02, 2012 07:30 PM (ccXZP)

302 >Does anyone have anyone ever see their garbage man?

Mine comes at 9AM on Wednesdays. I'm usually at this place called "work." I would imagine that Mitt Romney, having earned something like a half a billion dollars over the course of his career, also frequented this "work" place. Furthermore, my trash guy, also pursuing the noble concept of "work" probably doesn't give a shit that he's never met me, but rests well knowing that I am at work so I can pay my fucking trash bill and he in turn gets paid for his labor. He doesn't want a hug. He doesn't want a fist bump. He wants a paycheck, just like the rest of us.

Posted by: DanInMN at October 02, 2012 07:31 PM (dyI4e)

303 reminds me of this under reported story...Mike Rowe of "dirty jobs" open letter to Mitt Romney, the same one he sent to Obama 4 years ago (which he ignored) and Mitt Romneys positive response to the letter in 2012...
http://www.mikeroweworks.com/2012/09/mike-rowe-talking-work-with-mitt-romney/

Posted by: joebafett at October 02, 2012 07:31 PM (eNwh/)

304 yankeefifth, lol.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 07:31 PM (6zgse)

305 302 Hmm, I think Owl could be a possibility. He wouldn't be scared of a possum, we've had those before and he just barks at them in his "I am going to eat you up" tone. He doesn't seem to fear raccoons either, though I fear them for him, so I am careful to keep an eye out.

My big concern was a bobcat.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 11:30 PM (RZ8pf)

Yes, bobcat would be worth worrying about...

Posted by: George W Beagle at October 02, 2012 07:31 PM (sZRY5)

306

Too bad, so sad for me,but heinformed me he won't be doing that any time soon.Not sure which government agency is going to come after me first, many likely candidates. Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle

Sorry PGIS = I've done the same thing for my relatives (all liberals by the way) and they are "outraged" that I would dare ask for my money back after pulling their ass out of the fire. Since then, I don't loan money - if I give it, it is a one time "gift". Don't ever ask me again.

Posted by: Cheri at October 02, 2012 07:31 PM (EAgmr)

307 WHOA I forgot Superman nailed Lois in Superman II

hit it like it's goin' outta style, son

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 02, 2012 07:31 PM (8sCoq)

308 Thanks PGIS. Guess I better stop giving story ideas to Alexthechick

Why, it's as if you think I would steal them and use them for my own purposes. Mwahahahahahahahaha.

If I do NaNo, I'm going to try finishing the not!Batman thing I started for NaNo '10. The problem is that to get to where I want I have to do bad things to characters I like and I don't wanna.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 07:31 PM (Gk3SS)

309 OK, I'm out small successes, you take 'em where you can get 'em: I got to hang out on the ONOT, I actually posted something on my small (but tiny!) blog, and I'll be asleep before midnight. WINNING! tomorrow night, mi amigos

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 02, 2012 07:31 PM (JMmQ9)

310 304 Urban legend has it that women in close quarters synchronize their flow. It seems that this would make a run on tampons a sure thing at the local women's prison once a month.

This is not urban legend. You need to date more sorority girls.

Posted by: Splunge at October 02, 2012 07:32 PM (2IW5Q)

311 >My big concern was a bobcat.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 11:30 PM (RZ8pf)

or wolf-man

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 02, 2012 07:32 PM (8sCoq)

312 294 Just tried to volunteer with my county GOP but the online form rejected me several times for some unknown reason. Sigh. I've emailed them asking them to kindly help to resolve the issue. Oh, hi everyone! Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 11:28 PM (6zgse) Bless you, Chique!

Posted by: Mindy at October 02, 2012 07:32 PM (OXFrm)

313 Under Appellation Station -

'All the vampire novel names I can think of are terrible. :-/'

I thought it was the genre that was terrible after Twilight raped it.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 07:32 PM (u1Q5a)

314 For NaNoWriMo, I think I'll write a story about a garbage man who's upset that one of the wealthy residents on his route never gave him a hug or offered him a Gatorade. So when the wealthy man ends up running for President, the garbage man decides to help his opponent by shooting a commercial where he bitches about how unappreciated the Rich Man made him feel. ... Nah, that's too ridiculous. No one would ever believe it.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b][/u] at October 02, 2012 07:32 PM (CA2NO)

315 Heh.

The family Guy episode where Quagmire learns that their is pron on the internet.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 02, 2012 07:33 PM (piMMO)

316 @313 My brother wanted to make shirts that said 'Have a happy Happy Week'

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 07:33 PM (v4zcA)

317 so the garbage man is pissed romney never gives him a drink or shakes his hand. Does the garbage man evr make a point to thank Romney and everyfuckingoneelse who pays his salary and benefits?

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 02, 2012 07:33 PM (Z9EHQ)

318 Alexthechick, after the Joker put Batgirl in a wheelchair.. don't worry.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 07:33 PM (u1Q5a)

319 294 Just tried to volunteer with my county GOP but the online form rejected me several times for some unknown reason. Sigh. I've emailed them asking them to kindly help to resolve the issue.

Oh, hi everyone!

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 11:28 PM (6zgse)

Its not you, they never get back to me when I offer help, so not like the demoncrats.They know how to use their people!

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 07:33 PM (UantK)

320 Obama was at Hoover Dam today

He was demonstrating what could be built yesterday but couldn't be built today, because of some fucking shrimp or something. Thanks for the lesson Marxist fuckstick.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 02, 2012 07:33 PM (pfqFp)

321 If you want something really scary involving spiders, there is "Life with Arachne" from Japan [[b]NSFW]: http://tinyurl.com/9tf295w http://tinyurl.com/9tf295w ...and yes, there is a whole series of this with *others*...

Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at October 02, 2012 07:33 PM (sZTYJ)

322 Thanks, Mindy. I'm not a godless liberal, so I can't vote since I'm not a citizen, so I'm trying to do what I can to help. Obama. Must. Go.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 07:34 PM (6zgse)

323

Yeah I see one of my garbage guys. The one who has decided that idling blocking my driveway for 15 minutes while he takes a break is a great plan. Oh, and it is especially awesome for him to run the cruncher so that he leaves a nice trail of broken glass on the street in front of my house.

I have called before about it, and he stops for a while and then is back at it again. Asshat. He's also the one who has hit our mailboxes, the hedges, the trees on the other side of the road. It makes me so happy that he is making 70,000 plus a year plus benefits and retirement.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 07:34 PM (RZ8pf)

324 This is not urban legend. You need to date more sorority girls.
***
No honey, I really do need to go to my Army Reserve training every 28 days. I love you and all your friends in the sorority...really.

Posted by: Some Smart College Student at October 02, 2012 07:34 PM (AUeaU)

325 The creepy spiders are the ones that burrow in a lay eggs under the flesh.

Posted by: Invictus at October 02, 2012 07:35 PM (OQpzc)

326 Hmmm, run the credits over the orgy? No. That ruins opening the sequel with the orgy in progress. And we have to somehow work the planet being cleansed and renamed....wait for it.... Alextopia. And I wont be able to get it there tonight cause my battery is in the red. Love each other fellow babies.

Posted by: teej says go K-State at October 02, 2012 07:35 PM (/tk/V)

327 yeah well the real problem with synchronization is the hell week of pms.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 02, 2012 07:35 PM (Z9EHQ)

328 LOL. Guy on O'Rielly (hey, at least it's Stossel segment) is going to go through life as 'the ballness eunuch who says first yearers instead of freshman.' PC is awesome!!!

Posted by: RWC at October 02, 2012 07:36 PM (t+Sdx)

329 @322, I didn't think it was me, just a website that doesn't work properly. In fact, before I filled out the form, I thought to myself that I wouldn't be surprised if something went wrong. After all, it is the GOP. *sigh again*

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 07:36 PM (6zgse)

330 DaninMN, very well said. Succinct, logical, proper use of profanity. A solid 9.8, only because the East German judge gave it a 5.3. We were out in the yard last week when a huge bastard of a red tail hawk buzzed my beagle, and beagle proceeded to chase him up an down the yard. Once the hawk realized the beagle wasn't prey, he sat in a tree and taunted the poor dog for a while. Haven't seen him since.

Posted by: DC in Towson at October 02, 2012 07:37 PM (4QAQg)

331 >>>I want I have to do bad things to characters I like and I don't wanna They had it comming, they point and laugh at you and call you squeamish behind your back. They joke that you don't have what it takes to be hard on them, and its all sugar plums and ice cream from here on out. They make fun of your stompy boots and say you should pawn them to someone who will actually use them.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at October 02, 2012 07:37 PM (GE1+K)

332 They had it comming, they point and laugh at you and call you squeamish behind your back. They joke that you don't have what it takes to be hard on them, and its all sugar plums and ice cream from here on out. They make fun of your stompy boots and say you should pawn them to someone who will actually use them. Posted by: MikeTheMoose at October 02, 2012 11:37 PM (GE1+K) that's right man, they been callin' you coward ofthe county

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 02, 2012 07:38 PM (Z9EHQ)

333 If romney is asked about the video, he should ask everyone to watch it and make their own opinion about it.

Posted by: Temper Tantrum at October 02, 2012 07:38 PM (AWmfW)

334 332 @322, I didn't think it was me, just a website that doesn't work properly. In fact, before I filled out the form, I thought to myself that I wouldn't be surprised if something went wrong.

After all, it is the GOP.

*sigh again*

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 11:36 PM (6zgse)

That is sad, because they really are well funded, they just choose to be dumb on so much!

Hello, hire some computer smart guys! Problem solved!

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 07:38 PM (UantK)

335 In fairness to the Republicans Reince Preibus (sp?) is doing better then his predecessor.

OTOH, conservative have lives outside of politics and real jobs. We can't just cut off work for a month every two years...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 02, 2012 07:39 PM (AUeaU)

336 They had it comming, they point and laugh at you and call you squeamish behind your back. They joke that you don't have what it takes to be hard on them, and its all sugar plums and ice cream from here on out.

Heh. In my one writer's group, the other members said they could always tell which character I loved the most. That was the one who had the worst things happen to him/her.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 07:39 PM (Gk3SS)

337 My big concern was a bobcat.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 11:30 PM

How common around there?

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 07:39 PM (yBF/9)

338 I didn't think it was me, just a website that doesn't work properly. In fact, before I filled out the form, I thought to myself that I wouldn't be surprised if something went wrong. After all, it is the GOP. *sigh again* Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 11:36 PM (6zgse) you should give them a call and let them know. you would be doing them a favor.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 02, 2012 07:40 PM (Z9EHQ)

339 Chique, you're back. How's the lab teching going?

Posted by: Jerry at October 02, 2012 07:40 PM (4SKYj)

340 Okay, I'm out. Don't do anything I wouldn't do. Remember, one of the things I wouldn't do is get caught. Just. Sayin'.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 07:41 PM (Gk3SS)

341 Ace is Jewish?

Posted by: Truman North at October 02, 2012 07:41 PM (I2LwF)

342 331 LOL. Guy on O'Rielly (hey, at least it's Stossel segment) is going to go through life as 'the ballness eunuch who says first yearers instead of freshman.' PC is awesome!!! Posted by: RWC at October 02, 2012 11:36 PM (t+Sdx) --When I was in college we were bombarded with "freshpeople." :roll"

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 07:42 PM (V/U0X)

343 Urban legend has it that women in close quarters synchronize their flow. It seems that this would make a run on tampons a sure thing at the local women's prison once a month. Posted by: GnuBreed at October 02, 2012 11:30 PM (ccXZP) this is only true if they are exposed to human semen. Lesbo's never sync' or so the science says. (no human semen anywhere)

Posted by: jake in ID at October 02, 2012 07:42 PM (2CiZb)

344 *smacks face into keyboard*

On the NaNoWri page under Character Cafe in the lower right corner. This person must be stopped before it gets to the pr0n stage.

'Furry versus Elf or another imaginary creature'

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 07:43 PM (u1Q5a)

345 Obama was at Hoover Dam today That worries me because I'm going on Friday. Has anyone survived "The Obama Touch"?

Posted by: t-bird at October 02, 2012 07:44 PM (FcR7P)

346 346 Urban legend has it that women in close quarters synchronize their flow. It seems that this would make a run on tampons a sure thing at the local women's prison once a month. Posted by: GnuBreed at October 02, 2012 11:30 PM (ccXZP) this is only true if they are exposed to human semen. Lesbo's never sync' or so the science says. (no human semen anywhere) Posted by: jake in ID at October 02, 2012 11:42 PM (2CiZb) --I am pretty sure it has been observed in convents.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 07:44 PM (V/U0X)

347 Lesbo's never sync' or so the science says. (no human semen anywhere) Posted by: jake in ID at October 02, 2012 11:42 PM (2CiZb) Not according to all those lesbian pr0n movies... and they wouldn't lie to me right?

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 07:44 PM (sZTYJ)

348 Yankeefifth, I'll do that if they don't email me back by tomorrow. Hi Jerry, um, you may have the wrong chick(que). I'm not a lab tech. Which is very fortunate for any potential fellow lab workers safety-wise. Or are you racist and think all scientists do the same thing? (Racist covers that, yes? It covers everything else.)

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 07:45 PM (6zgse)

349 If I do NaNo, I'm going to try finishing the not!Batman thing I started for NaNo '10. The problem is that to get to where I want I have to do bad things to characters I like and I don't wanna. Actual bad things or bad things "the Horde has popcorn and is watching from the closet"?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 02, 2012 07:45 PM (GEICT)

350 Haven't seen him since.
Shit. I hope you meant the hawk!
;^)

Posted by: andycanuck at October 02, 2012 07:46 PM (vDl/w)

351 Re: Bicycles: Fuck You.

Posted by: Chris M at October 02, 2012 07:47 PM (4lyMJ)

352 Has anyone survived "The Obama Touch"?

Posted by: t-bird at October 02, 2012 11:44 PM

yes.

Posted by: reggie love at October 02, 2012 07:47 PM (yBF/9)

353 So can someone fill me in on the Obama video? I suspected it was probably much ado about nothing, but I hope I was wrong. I am too lazy to wade through the comments from that thread, and Ace didn't see fit to update the post.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 07:47 PM (6zgse)

354 Save a Goat Ride a Bicycle

Posted by: The Goat at October 02, 2012 07:47 PM (V/U0X)

355 Ace is Jewish?
It wouldn't hoit.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 02, 2012 07:48 PM (vDl/w)

356 348 Obama was at Hoover Dam today

That worries me because I'm going on Friday. Has anyone survived "The Obama Touch"?

Posted by: t-bird at October 02, 2012 11:44 PM (FcR7P)

Do so, Hoover Dam is awesome, and the bridge is completed, and really something to be seen. Stop at the Southwest Diner in Boulder City, and have breakfast, they are awesome, and Boulder City is really cool. If Ya stay a couple days, we have a big Art Festival this weekend, lots of wonderful artists to see!

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 07:48 PM (UantK)

357 I, too, was a garbageman once, and young. Not for very long, though. I'd been on the job a couple of days when, at lunchtime, the guy I'd been working with looked at me and said, "If you're going to work here, you have to take a drug test." I hadn't been expecting that, considering the demeanor of my co-workers. Then he pulled a joint out of his pocket and said "You have to take drugs." Another co-worker was a woman, maybe five feet and a couple-of inches, who was kind of stocky and probably the strongest woman I've ever met. She hoisted those cans up onto her shoulder and away she went, back and forth, all day long. Mind you, she wasn't some kind of butch, but rather attractive. She ran me into the ground.

Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at October 02, 2012 07:49 PM (dp1BR)

358 344 Ace is Jewish?

Posted by: Truman North at October 02, 2012 11:41 PM (I2LwF)

You know too much.

Posted by: Craig Poe, incognito at October 02, 2012 07:49 PM (BVkEs)

359 Oops, sorr Chique. My memory is going, it's been so long since I've seen you here. Thought our last conversation gave me the impression you were a lab tech. At least I didn't ask you about your painting.

Posted by: Jerry at October 02, 2012 07:50 PM (4SKYj)

360 Did Allen West really speak with a Dutch accent in reply to the 0bama Step 'n' Fetchit video or was that Morons joking?

Posted by: The Goat at October 02, 2012 07:50 PM (V/U0X)

361 Chique, basically Barry got up in front of a crowd and did a phony accent while trying to be Rev. Wright. Accused the Federal government of not caring about New Orleans like they did with NYC after 9/11 and Miami after Hurricane Andrew. Called out to help 'our' minority businesses. Decried the need for more roads to suburbs, there should be more public transport for his people to get to jobs.

Or to put it bluntly, he tried to be a race-baiting hustler like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 07:50 PM (u1Q5a)

362 Chevy Chase, who got some type of super powers

Modern Problems

He may actually have snorted coke somewhat like that. Which explains his later crap.

Posted by: DaveA at October 02, 2012 07:50 PM (wcjj2)

363 356 So can someone fill me in on the Obama video? I suspected it was probably much ado about nothing, but I hope I was wrong. I am too lazy to wade through the comments from that thread, and Ace didn't see fit to update the post. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 11:47 PM (6zgse) He spends 40 minutes talking in a stereotypical urban black preacher accent, much like Biden's "chains" comment. He talks about how people cared about the 9/11 victims because they were White while no attention or aid was given by the Govt to Katrina victims because they were Black. He gives a shout out to Rev. Wright about what he mean't to him. It is totally opposite of his phony narrative of being "above it all". Is the accent he uses what he is like in real life? No. But is shows he is a huckster of a politician, and has some views that are very similar to Sharpton and Jackson. This video matters for the indies who hate what has been done to the country in the past 4 years but can't yet pull the lever for Romney because they think Obama is a "likeable" person. Many posters are upset because the video isn't some statement from Obama like "I'm a Communist" or "I hate Whitey". It doesn't have to be to have an impact.

Posted by: cheese at October 02, 2012 07:52 PM (b6qQk)

364 Ace is Jewish? Posted by: Truman North at October 02, 2012 11:41 PM (I2LwF) Any bets that, after reading the above, "Reality Check" is in the shower, whimpering while trying to scrub off that non-Aryan touch of AoSHQ? AoSHQ: We make scum feel dirty...

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 07:52 PM (sZTYJ)

365 Ok, just back. EoJ doesnt post shit for 2 weeks, then we get a movie-review length tome on his one day as a garbage man, that ends...well, I won't spoil it. Secure all liquids before reading. Keyboards are expensive, y'know.

Posted by: DC in Towson at October 02, 2012 07:52 PM (4QAQg)

366 When I get to heaven, I'm going to ask God why he created mosquitoes, cockroaches, bees, and spiders. And democrats . . . and the fuckin' muzzies. He's got some 'splainin' to do, for sure.

I got bored one night and prank-called a used camel salesman.

Uh, sorry.

Posted by: Archangel Gabriel at October 02, 2012 07:53 PM (QTHTd)

367 My big concern was a bobcat. Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 02, 2012 11:30 PM (RZ8pf) Bobcat?? Are you in Issaquah?

Posted by: LASue at October 02, 2012 07:54 PM (wAhNv)

368 Ace is Jewish? Posted by: Truman North at October 02, 2012 11:41 PM (I2LwF) Ach! Im Himmel! Next thing you'll tell me that that Charlie Chaplin fellow who I admires to much that I adopted his mustache is actually Jewish too!!!

Posted by: Adolf Hitler, waiting for yet another whole pineapple to be shoved up his @$$ at October 02, 2012 07:55 PM (sZTYJ)

369 I got bored one night and prank-called a used camel salesman. Uh, sorry. Posted by: Archangel Gabriel at October 02, 2012 11:53 PM (QTHTd) --

Reminds me of the Pink Panther cartoon with "Honest Abdul's Used Camels"

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 07:55 PM (V/U0X)

370 Jerry, no problem. I'm trained as an engineer but am a modeling scientist by trade. (I don't even know if that's proper English but my brain is tired and doesn't care.) Maybe the source of confusion was that you read about my job during a discussion with Kratos (is he unbanned yet?), who, I believe, did work in a lab. And lol about the artist thing. That was funny. Anna, thanks for the summary!

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 07:55 PM (6zgse)

371 Lettermann??? Saying Romney has twenty eight days to show up. These fucks really think highly of themselves. Who do you hate more? Internal tracking has it at 47 percent O'Rielly/ 46 percent Lettermann

Posted by: RWC at October 02, 2012 07:56 PM (t+Sdx)

372 Yeah, Hitler kinda ruined that stache style...

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 02, 2012 07:56 PM (BVkEs)

373 If Ya stay a couple days, we have a big Art Festival this weekend, lots of wonderful artists to see! Thanks, but I'm in Vegas for an athletic event. Hoping to get to the dam and take a tour in the afternoon, although I hear that's really pushing it. If I can't get inside, walking around will be fine.

Posted by: t-bird at October 02, 2012 07:57 PM (FcR7P)

374

I am not a racialist.

Posted by: mr hilter at October 02, 2012 07:58 PM (yBF/9)

375 what did reality check say? too lazy to go look for it

Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 07:59 PM (Dnbau)

376 OK, I'm done. Time to pack it in. Good night, everyone!

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at October 02, 2012 07:59 PM (v4zcA)

377 376 Yeah, Hitler kinda ruined that stache style... Posted by: Craig Poe at October 02, 2012 11:56 PM (BVkEs) Fuck you. http://youtu.be/eYdhq1Y7nZo

Posted by: Michael Jordan at October 02, 2012 08:00 PM (V/U0X)

378 Letterman is such an idiot. Ooooh, I command you my audience minions of mental retardation level intelligence not to vote for Romney unless he comes on my show. And if he comes on my show, don't vote for him, I command you. Why would Romney want to be interviewed by some bitter, hostile, unfunny late night talk show host with a sense of importance that is inflated to the point of bursting?

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 08:00 PM (6zgse)

379 So, apparently justin bieber made an effort to swallow and it did not go so well. http://tinyurl.com/8sznp4r [Open in new window] whole milk and spaghetti indeed.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 02, 2012 08:01 PM (Z9EHQ)

380 Yeah Letterman, Mitt Romney was meeting with Bibi while Barry was waxing your tonsils. I know who is a more serious person of Presidential timber.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 08:02 PM (u1Q5a)

381 Why would Romney want to be interviewed by some bitter, hostile, unfunny late night talk show host with a sense of importance that is inflated to the point of bursting? Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 03, 2012 12:00 AM (6zgse) Screw chasing the Romney vote. I prefer to chase, manly, fugly women and cheat on them with babysitters.

Posted by: David Letterman at October 02, 2012 08:02 PM (V/U0X)

382 I haven't liked Letterman since I was up at Ft Drum and he kicked a bunch of soldiers out of his audience. Okay, one was a little drunk, but the others didn't do anything wrong.

Posted by: Jerry at October 02, 2012 08:03 PM (4SKYj)

383 The only time Letterman was funny was when he called Al Gore a successful NASA android.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 08:03 PM (u1Q5a)

384 Jerry, no problem. I'm trained as an engineer but am a modeling scientist by trade. (I don't even know if that's proper English but my brain is tired and doesn't care.) Maybe the source of confusion was that you read about my job during a discussion with Kratos (is he unbanned yet?), who, I believe, did work in a lab. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 11:55 PM (6zgse) It's always nice to see people who got a useful degree or research experience (e.g STEM+) In other words: SCIENCE! https://wearscience.com/img450/babe.png ...and for the ladies: https://wearscience.com/img450/hunk.png

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 08:04 PM (sZTYJ)

385 Aloha!

Just got here -- been cooking.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 08:04 PM (kaalw)

386 Thanks, but I'm in Vegas for an athletic event. Hoping to get to the dam and take a tour in the afternoon, although I hear that's really pushing it. If I can't get inside, walking around will be fine.

Posted by: t-bird at October 02, 2012 11:57 PM (FcR7P)

Good luck on the event! Obama seems like he has been here forever! WTF? This is the guy who said to avoid Vegas. What a prick, just my opinion!

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 08:05 PM (UantK)

387 Now that would have been funny, an elder god rising from beneath the podium to engulf Rev. Obama in dripping slimy tentacles. And to listen to Rev. Obama scream like a little baby.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 08:05 PM (u1Q5a)

388 C'mon, how many of you moronic teen heartthrobs have never puked in front of a live audience?

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 02, 2012 08:05 PM (BVkEs)

389 So I'm seeing a lot of Obama for America PAC ads. I don't know who the genius was that thought it was a good idea to put some in your face homosexuality and hardcore feminists in a Presidential ad but I hope they keep him on. These fuck'n morons actually believes their progressive cultural ideology will sell to most Americans.

Posted by: lowandslow at October 02, 2012 08:05 PM (GZitp)

390 And democrats . . . and the fuckin' muzzies. He's got some 'splainin' to do, for sure.
***
CS Lewis took a crack at the latter one. It is why you will never see the last few Narnia books made into a movie...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 02, 2012 08:06 PM (AUeaU)

391 390 Letterman understands that politicans generally want to be on shows that have actual people watching..right? Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at October 03, 2012 12:04 AM (OWjjx) I know, right!

Posted by: RWC in my Snuggie watching 'The View' at October 02, 2012 08:07 PM (t+Sdx)

392 In other words: SCIENCE! https://wearscience.com/___450/babe.png ...and for the ladies: https://wearscience.com/___450/hunk.png Posted by: The Political Hat at October 03, 2012 12:04 AM (sZTYJ) Dammit! http://tinyurl.com/8btpsww and http://tinyurl.com/9zjwx4j respectively...

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 08:08 PM (sZTYJ)

393 CS Lewis took a crack at the latter one. It is why you will never see the last few Narnia books made into a movie... Posted by: 18-1 at October 03, 2012 12:06 AM (AUeaU) --Wasn't an entire book of the Chronicles of Narnia a dialogue about Islam? I think it was not 100% slamming Islam but rather saying Islam should be restricted to Islamic lands and discouraged immigration.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 08:09 PM (V/U0X)

394 Rachel Maddow was way more butch than he seems to me now.

Posted by: The littl shyning man at October 02, 2012 08:10 PM (PH+2B)

395 399 Rachel Maddow was way more butch than he seems to me now. Posted by: The littl shyning man at October 03, 2012 12:10 AM (PH+2B) --I think you killed the thread.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 08:12 PM (V/U0X)

396 Good morning horde

Posted by: zeera at October 02, 2012 08:12 PM (3dXwx)

397 Morn Again.

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 02, 2012 08:13 PM (BVkEs)

398 399 Rachel Maddow was way more butch than he seems to me now.

Posted by: The littl shyning man at October 03, 2012 12:10 AM (PH+2B)

Has Rachel Maddow and Matthew Perry ever been seem in the same place? Just saying!

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 08:14 PM (UantK)

399 Think I watch some Netflix for a bit. Also, it's only Tuesday and I'm really wanting a beer or 10. Not good, gonna be a long time till Saturday night.

Posted by: DC in Towson at October 02, 2012 08:15 PM (4QAQg)

400 Letterman stopped being funny after Jerry Lawler slapped Andy Kaufman way back when. He was good back when he was on NBC because he was trying to suck up to Johnny, but when he went to CBS he went and became a bitter man.

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 02, 2012 08:15 PM (Zd/NW)

401

My garbage man comes at 7:30 a.m. I'm generally fixing my first cup of coffee at that time and am speaking and waving to nobody. Plus, the garbage guys in my city never get out of their trucks. Kinda hard to hug them that way.

Libs are idiots.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at October 02, 2012 08:16 PM (DoZD+)

402 Got polled tonight by "Obama for America". Mittens got the vote from a 19 yo black female. That should freak them out in Virginia.

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 02, 2012 08:17 PM (Zd/NW)

403 Romney in a 3rd round knockout.

Posted by: Vegas at October 02, 2012 08:18 PM (BVkEs)

404 398 CS Lewis took a crack at the latter one. It is why you will never see the last few Narnia books made into a movie... Posted by: 18-1 at October 03, 2012 12:06 AM (AUeaU) --Wasn't an entire book of the Chronicles of Narnia a dialogue about Islam? I think it was not 100% slamming Islam but rather saying Islam should be restricted to Islamic lands and discouraged immigration. After 9-11, I was a subversive little teacher, and during reading period I read "A Horse and His Boy" to my class.

Posted by: Mindy at October 02, 2012 08:19 PM (OXFrm)

405 Y5, you still here? If so can you add me to the credentials list. Posting on the yahoo group is way too cumbersome on the iPad. My email is my nic (no spaces) at yahoo.

Posted by: DC in Towson at October 02, 2012 08:19 PM (4QAQg)

406 Ase e Touchdown by the Knight Sabers.
http://youtu.be/22dMNQeavMU

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 08:20 PM (u1Q5a)

407 I think with the increased ads and the debates, the polls will continue to close. This does not have the trajectory of 2008 or even 2004. Low income black and hispanic voters will not turn out in the numbers they did in 2008, even though they will answer a pollster, and say that they will vote. 80% of those polled say they will vote in some of these polls? Nah.

Posted by: Interested Party at October 02, 2012 08:20 PM (RE+1w)

408 I'm getting the same d**n poll every other night. Same recording with the same exact choices in the same exact order. I am a high propensity voter and even voted in an off-year election when only one contest race for justice of the peace was on the ballot. I can understand the plethora of polls, but the same d**n recording? Am I some type of f**king "bellwether"???

Posted by: The Poliical Hat at October 02, 2012 08:21 PM (sZTYJ)

409 testing [\i] If I used italics when quoting, it would be easier to tell what I'm responding to.

Posted by: Mindy at October 02, 2012 08:21 PM (OXFrm)

410 Wonder what cadence the preezy is bringing tonight.....

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 02, 2012 08:21 PM (BVkEs)

411 Arrgh. My last comment didn't turn out right.

Posted by: Mindy at October 02, 2012 08:22 PM (OXFrm)

412 Standard leftist axiom: The state is father; the state is mother.

Or should that be "The state is non-gender specific parental-role caretaker...

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 10:51 PM (sZTYJ)

Therefore since they were unable too rebel against authority, they still shit their pants.

Posted by: rightlysouthern at October 02, 2012 08:22 PM (KEoMd)

413 After 9-11, I was a subversive little teacher, and during reading period I read "A Horse and His Boy" to my class. Posted by: Mindy at October 03, 2012 12:19 AM (OXFrm) --That is the actual first title from the Chronicles, but I think the one about Islam was a later volume, no?

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 08:24 PM (V/U0X)

414 Maddow on MSDNC ranting about the release of the speech tape: the right wants you to believe "he's way more black than he seems to you now." So, Rachel, how black does he seem to YOU now? Or are you so diverse you are color neutral and he just seems like that fucking guy?

Posted by: The littl shyning man at October 02, 2012 08:24 PM (PH+2B)

415 129 Okay that was NOT a suggestion to start telling spider stories. Anyone busts out the clock spider, then, by the insanity of cthulhu, I will start discussing That Time Of The Month in great detail. Do not test me on this.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at October 02, 2012 10:53 PM (Gk3SS)

By what, now?

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 08:25 PM (kaalw)

416 Why not re-boot the thread with ore '80s awesomeness? Posted by: logprof at October 03, 2012 12:19 AM (V/U0X) 413 Ase e Touchdown by the Knight Sabers. http://youtu.be/22dMNQeavMU Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 03, 2012 12:20 AM (u1Q5a) Mad Machine (from last nights thread) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfPzSC50JY4 Tinsel City - Kodoku no Angel (Angel of Loneliness) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oSHjzfvcqE

Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at October 02, 2012 08:25 PM (sZTYJ)

417 421 Maddow on MSDNC ranting about the release of the speech tape: the right wants you to believe "he's way more black than he seems to you now."

So, Rachel, how black does he seem to YOU now? Or are you so diverse you are color neutral and he just seems like that fucking guy?

Posted by: The littl shyning man at October 03, 2012 12:24 AM (PH+2B)

Theriously? Rachel Maddow needs to immediately apologize for her obviously racist comments, or be fired.

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 02, 2012 08:27 PM (BVkEs)

418 Wonder what cadence the preezy is bringing tonight..... You know, Barack, your father would disown you - AGAIN! - if he heard you pretending to be an American black.

Posted by: Evil Mitt Is Evil at October 02, 2012 08:27 PM (FcR7P)

419 Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at October 03, 2012 12:25 AM (sZTYJ) --Ah, to be 14 again. Steven Kilbey is like the Australian Mark Knopfler or Leonard Cohen. Robotech, Cosby, and Cheers on the TV, and great pop music on the radio. Truly good times.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 08:29 PM (V/U0X)

420 Maddow on MSDNC ranting about the release of the speech tape: the right wants you to believe "he's way more black than he seems to you now."

Like clockwork...just as I predicted. This tape was a Democrat psyop designed to get the media focused off Libya, which was getting pretty thorny, and back onto racism.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 08:31 PM (MQLiy)

421 I would have hugged my garbage man when I lived in L.A. if I only knew how to say "I want to hug you and I'm not gay" in Spanish

Posted by: kbdabear at October 02, 2012 08:31 PM (wwsoB)

422

OK listened to the Obama tape. Bunch of assholes on aos who think this video was not important, Obama, sounds completley different. Trolls everywhere on the tape thread, just my opinion!!

Obama is an utter racist!

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 08:32 PM (UantK)

423 Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 12:31 AM (MQLiy) So, Obama might say folks only care about the dead Ambassador because the dude was white?

Posted by: eman at October 02, 2012 08:34 PM (Wp4rQ)

424 Logprof, the second book, "The Magician's Nephew," was chronologically the first story. The first book published was "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe." "The Horse and His Boy" was the story of a runaway slave (in the muslim-type culture of Calormen) who joins up with a Calormene aristocrat girl who was running away from an arranged marriage.

Posted by: Mindy at October 02, 2012 08:34 PM (OXFrm)

425 405 Letterman stopped being funny after Jerry Lawler slapped Andy Kaufman way back when. He was good back when he was on NBC because he was trying to suck up to Johnny, but when he went to CBS he went and became a bitter man.
Posted by: MrCaniac at October 03, 2012 12:15 AM

Letterman always considered The Tonight Show his birthright when Johnny retired, and he never got over the NBC suits picking Leno over him.

He'll go to his grave being pissed off about that

Posted by: kbdabear at October 02, 2012 08:34 PM (wwsoB)

426 Obama doesn't actually care about black people. He just uses them for his purposes and pays no attention to them otherwise, knowing they will follow him like lemmings. He distributed his stimulus slush fund mostly to his friends - rich white liberal men.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 08:34 PM (6zgse)

427 403 399 Rachel Maddow was way more butch than he seems to me now. Posted by: The littl shyning man at October 03, 2012 12:10 AM (PH+2B) Has Rachel Maddow andMatthew Perryever been seem in the same place? Just saying! Posted by: lou's a girl at October 03, 2012 12:14 AM (UantK) I always thought Maddows doppleganger was Jason Biggs, but Ezra Klein (if he increases his testosterone dose) was a close second. Regarding Chandler, i thought he is a dead ringer for Cheeto Joe.

Posted by: RWC in my Snuggie watching 'The View' at October 02, 2012 08:36 PM (t+Sdx)

428 "That's one small step for Kenyan, one giant bong hit for my kind" - Obama, practicing for the debate

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 02, 2012 08:37 PM (BVkEs)

429 Obama doesn't actually care about black people. He just uses them for his purposes and pays no attention to them otherwise, knowing they will follow him like lemmings. He distributed his stimulus slush fund mostly to his friends - rich white liberal men. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 03, 2012 12:34 AM (6zgse) Indeed so. The man is a disturbed con artist.

Posted by: eman at October 02, 2012 08:37 PM (Wp4rQ)

430 Perhaps Mitt will do a Mormon accent during the debate.

Posted by: eman at October 02, 2012 08:38 PM (Wp4rQ)

431 Obama is an utter racist!

Of course. That's not gonna flip any votes though. If his support of the MB, and all the shenanigans Holder has pulled didn't move them, this ain't gonna either.

The honey boo boo's ain't watching the outlets that will cover this tape honestly -- they'll only be watching the outlets SPINNING it.

The Libya shit was getting major play in the right places, and the hard questions were starting to get asked.

Now that's all going to go away.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 08:39 PM (MQLiy)

432 Now that's all going to go away. Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 12:39 AM (MQLiy) Not if Mitt says otherwise.

Posted by: eman at October 02, 2012 08:41 PM (Wp4rQ)

433 Obama doesn't actually care about black people.

Narcissists don't care about anyone but the person in their mirror each morning.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 08:41 PM (MQLiy)

434 I hope Mitt shows up tonight wearing a cowboy hat. Yes, with a tie, of course....

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 02, 2012 08:42 PM (BVkEs)

435 432 Logprof, the second book, "The Magician's Nephew," was chronologically the first story. The first book published was "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe." "The Horse and His Boy" was the story of a runaway slave (in the muslim-type culture of Calormen) who joins up with a Calormene aristocrat girl who was running away from an arranged marriage. Posted by: Mindy at October 03, 2012 12:34 AM (OXFrm) --Ah, thanks for the clarification. I confess to having read only a portion of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (although I have seen all the movies one of Disney;s few remaining graces). I should remedy this along with having never read any of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 08:43 PM (V/U0X)

436 @PurpAv, I haven't seen the video yet, but I have to agree with you. In my opinion, the Benghazi criminal debacle eclipses anything this man has done in the past and all the deviousness of the media before this time. We need to pound it, and pound it hard. (Get your minds out of the gutter, you morons.

)

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 08:43 PM (6zgse)

437 Romney can scream till he's blue in the face and it ain't gonna drive the media focus onto something he wants. Hasn't so far...

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 08:43 PM (MQLiy)

438 Jon Stewart rips Obama on Libya: http://goo.gl/ig1LV

Posted by: Scobface at October 02, 2012 08:44 PM (IoNBC)

439 78 Heinlein, the winner of the first Grand Master Award given by the Science Fiction Writers of America, is my favorite 'old school' sci fi author. I thank (or blame) him in large part for my libertarian views. Posted by: GnuBreed at October 02, 2012 10:42 PM (ccXZP) Same here. Heinlein, Tolkien, Rush (band), and Rand shaped me as a teenager and Heinlein was by far the most influential.

Posted by: Grumpy the Younger at October 02, 2012 08:44 PM (jts1f)

440 445 Romney can scream till he's blue in the face and it ain't gonna drive the media focus onto something he wants. Hasn't so far... Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 12:43 AM (MQLiy) --If his handlers are worth shit, he'll bring it up in the foreign policy debate and it will be impossible to ignore.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 08:45 PM (V/U0X)

441 426 Posted by: ÂÂÂŽÂ¡Â“IÂ‚ÃˆÂ–XÂŽq at October 03, 2012 12:25 AM (sZTYJ)

--Ah, to be 14 again.

Steven Kilbey is like the Australian Mark Knopfler or Leonard Cohen. Robotech, Cosby, and Cheers on the TV, and great pop music on the radio.

Truly good times.

Posted by: logprof at October 03, 2012 12:29 AM

What's the Kilbey thing?

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 08:45 PM (yBF/9)

442 In my opinion, the Benghazi criminal debacle eclipses anything this man has done in the past and all the deviousness of the media before this time.

Obama's support for child slavery in Congo and Sudan is/was pretty vile too. He had to ignore a law passed by the Democrat controlled Pelosi/Reid congress in 08' and signed by Bush to pull that off.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 08:46 PM (MQLiy)

443 Romney can scream till he's blue in the face and it ain't gonna drive the media focus onto something he wants. Hasn't so far... Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 12:43 AM (MQLiy) Perhaps something like a debate will happen and Mitt will get a chance to talk about Benghazi to a wide audience.

Posted by: eman at October 02, 2012 08:46 PM (Wp4rQ)

444 What's the Kilbey thing? Posted by: otho at October 03, 2012 12:45 AM (yBF/9) --Kilbey was lead singer and chief songwriter for The Church. Tell me "under the Milky Way" is not one of the most gorgeous pop songs ever written.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 08:47 PM (V/U0X)

445

I will
start discussing That Time Of The Month in great detail.

Last week my son-in-law insisted on hanging around with my daughter and me. We nicely urged him to go hang out with my son and husband. He declined. I began discussing menopause in detail. Poof, he was gone.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at October 02, 2012 08:48 PM (DoZD+)

446 Perhaps something like a debate will happen and Mitt will get a chance to talk about Benghazi to a wide audience.

For what? Three minutes? Maybe four? The media was already doing that work for him, and doing it round the clock 7x24

Not a win in my book.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 08:48 PM (MQLiy)

447 It's like the Obama fans live on a different planet Bush is to blame for 9/11 but Obama is blameless on 1,360 dead in 'ghani and a dead ambassador

Posted by: Sven10077 at October 02, 2012 08:49 PM (LRFds)

448 For what? Three minutes? Maybe four? The media was already doing that work for him, and doing it round the clock 7x24 Not a win in my book. Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 12:48 AM (MQLiy) --Hey, don't you have the keys? Perhaps you can craft a post putting forward your opinion?

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 08:50 PM (V/U0X)

449 Mitt Zinger: "Mr. President, do you now know how much the debt is?"

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 02, 2012 08:50 PM (BVkEs)

450 For what? Three minutes? Maybe four? The media was already doing that work for him, and doing it round the clock 7x24 Not a win in my book. Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 12:48 AM (MQLiy) So there is no way for the story to get out, and darn it, it would have gotten out if it hadn't been for that pesky tape.

Posted by: eman at October 02, 2012 08:51 PM (Wp4rQ)

451 Rushed into production and onto YouTube, warts and all. http://bit.ly/GarbColl Meet Mitt Romney, Garbage Collector h/t Maet, comment from not Michael quoted. ("Autobiographies are a bitch....")

Posted by: A Mindful Webworker at October 02, 2012 08:51 PM (lBpVP)

452 PurpAv @ 451, can you put me some knowledge? I'm not up to speed on that one.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 08:51 PM (6zgse)

453 452 Kilbey was lead singer and chief songwriter for The Church.

Tell me "under the Milky Way" is not one of the most gorgeous pop songs ever written.

Posted by: logprof at October 03, 2012 12:47 AM

Oh, right. Yeah, knew those dudes pretty well. I thought there was a clip or something that I couldn't locate in your quote etc.

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 08:52 PM (yBF/9)

454 I got my first CD player Christmas '89. Starfish was the first CD I bought (first I received was a gift) and I still play it. Timeless.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 08:52 PM (V/U0X)

455 Oh, right. Yeah, knew those dudes pretty well. I thought there was a clip or something that I couldn't locate in your quote etc. Posted by: otho at October 03, 2012 12:52 AM (yBF/9) --Really? Saw them live in high school at the Boathouse (R.I.P.) on the Gold Afternoon Fix tour. Great show. Blue Aeroplanes (http://youtu.be/i8BS9F54El4)opened for them --wonder what happened to them.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 08:55 PM (V/U0X)

456 Congratulations taxpayers you now own a new federal prison! You may thank Lord Obama for its purchase at a garage sale price.http://tinyurl.com/9x397mj

Posted by: Don't Kill Me, I'm Only the Bearer at October 02, 2012 08:56 PM (UKF+e)

457 The Video is FUCKING HILARIOUS!

http://tinyurl.com/9bynns6

It looks like somebody cut off Stephanie Lie like a rug Cutters Hair and Tits and rubbed salt in both of her eyes.

the best part is the math...THE MATH IS HARD FOR THIS ONE!

12% HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 02, 2012 08:57 PM (ovpNn)

458 462 I got my first CD player Christmas '89. Starfish was the first CD I bought (first I received was a gift) and I still play it. Timeless.

Posted by: logprof at October 03, 2012 12:52 AM

Oh, ok. Haven't actually heard that one. It was when I mostly tuned out with most stuff going on, for one reason or another. Will give it a listen, especially under the milky way, since you reckon it's good. They had a great sound as a band.

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 08:58 PM (yBF/9)

459 SECURE OUR BORDERS - DEPORT OBAMA!

Back to the BowWow Chow Palace with you dog eater.

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 02, 2012 08:58 PM (ovpNn)

460

All that matters is we need to get out and vote on 11/6. Bring every republican voter you know to the polls too. Drag, cajole, whatever it takes to get them there.

If republicans turn out we will win. If you have time in the next five weeks, volunteer.

ABO 2012

Posted by: rd does not believe the MSM at October 02, 2012 08:59 PM (9sUlj)

461 Obama being perceived as a racist would have flipped a lot of votes in 2008, but it won't now. He hasn't governed like Al Sharpton acts, so people will shrug at him and not care so much, feeling all white guilty and stuff.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 08:59 PM (r4wIV)

462 If anybody checks my picture ID and dob I am now officially 1 year older (FL time, not quite there CO time). Backwards Boy has a youtube of the Brian Setzer Montreal concert over at his place so I`m kicked back sippin` suds. Double Nickels, time do fly.

Posted by: rightlysouthern at October 02, 2012 09:00 PM (KEoMd)

463 Heinlein was a great guy. Even though the author Philip K. Dick was a leftist, Heinlein helped him out financially when Dick was in dire straits because Heinlein respected Dick's writing ability. Interestingly enough, Heinlein ran as a Democrat in West L.A. (back when it was a GOP stronghold) in the '30's and was defeated in the Democratic primary by a Republican! Interestingly enough I ran for a seat once that covered some of the same ground...

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 09:01 PM (sZTYJ)

464 463 --Really? Saw them live in high school at the Boathouse (R.I.P.) on the Gold Afternoon Fix tour. Great show. Blue Aeroplanes (http://youtu.be/i8BS9F54El4)opened for them --wonder what happened to them.

Posted by: logprof at October 03, 2012 12:55 AM

Yeah, I reckon they were much better live, than on record. A bit more oomph, so to speak. Though the studio recordings were very good, all things considered. Dunno about the Blue Aeroplanes.

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 09:01 PM (yBF/9)

465 Speaking of garbage men, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies with Flotilla Thatch and the Virile Garbage Man. Sort of a rude song with hilarious lyrics:
http://youtu.be/4xNORXC60_4

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 09:02 PM (r4wIV)

466 468
All that matters is we need to get out and vote on 11/6. Bring every republican voter you know to the polls too. Drag, cajole, whatever it takes to get them there.

If republicans turn out we will win. If you have time in the next five weeks, volunteer.

ABO 2012

Posted by: rd does not believe the MSM at October 03, 2012 12:59 AM (9sUlj)

And look at a 'sample ballot', so you'll know to vote on those pesky local 'bond issues'.

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 02, 2012 09:02 PM (BVkEs)

467 Oh, ok. Haven't actually heard that one. It was when I mostly tuned out with most stuff going on, for one reason or another. Will give it a listen, especially under the milky way, since you reckon it's good. They had a great sound as a band. Posted by: otho at October 03, 2012 12:58 AM (yBF/9) --It's in my link above. I bet the whole album is posted somewhere on Youtube.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 09:02 PM (V/U0X)

468
Letterman always considered The Tonight Show his birthright when Johnny retired, and he never got over the NBC suits picking Leno over him.

He'll go to his grave being pissed off about that

Posted by: kbdabear at October 03, 2012 12:34 AM (wwsoB)

And the NBC suits laughed all the way to the bank. While Leno has a bunch of warts, from everything I have ever heard, he busts his ass. Letterman has been skating by on the same stuff for 30 years now. Even with the whole Conan fiasco and Jay's primetime failure, when he went back to the Tonight Show, he rocked Letterman's world. Craig Ferguson is a hell of a lot better than Letterman.

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 02, 2012 09:02 PM (Zd/NW)

469 460 PurpAv @ 451, can you put me some knowledge? I'm not up to speed on that one.

Ogabe has been waiving the requirements of the 2008 Child Soldiers Prevention act for a number of countries ever since he's been in office.

http://t.co/pFtEjqJD (direct link to the White-house servers, an original source)

Basically, American tax dollars are going to prop up vile thugs who kidnap, press gang, and otherwise shanghia kids as defacto slave soldier cannon fodder in their revolutionary struggles (or whatever the fuck).

If the USA is to have a core set of values, even if they're only the size of a spec of dust, opposing this kind of shit needs to be one of them. Its a line we should not cross. Ever.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 09:03 PM (MQLiy)

470 451 @PurpAv,

Keep pounding that point. It's important.

Just like the fact that TFG has issued 983 executive orders in less than 4 years, compared to GWB's 63 EOs in 8 years. In fact, one of those EOs was probably to authorize the end run around Congress on the child slavery law.

Another thing that has continually gotten my goat is all these agencies spending $s on whatever they fancy. Two cases in point -- Sebellius 'authorizing' the spending of over $8 billion on a coverup of the fact that OCare slashes Medicare Advantage, and the latest crapfest of Holder 'buying' the Thompson prison facility in IL out DOJ petty cash for a couple hundred million. The Thompson buy was blocked by Congress just 2 years ago.

This shit has me beyond mad and HAS to stop.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 02, 2012 09:03 PM (ccXZP)

471 Obama's support for child slavery in Congo and Sudan is/was pretty vile too. He had to ignore a law passed by

Distorting when he does the tough but necessary things doesn't help.

Soldier <> slave
Waiver <> Ignore
South Sudan is the piece we just got created to stop Darfur.
We need to keep drone zapping in Yemen so we need their govt.
The Congo is in the middle of an n-way civil war.

Posted by: DaveA at October 02, 2012 09:04 PM (wcjj2)

472

Night all, God Bless the guys willing to die for our bs. aka the journalist taken by the syrians. Sleep Tight!

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 09:05 PM (UantK)

473 Dunno about the Blue Aeroplanes. Posted by: otho at October 03, 2012 01:01 AM (yBF/9) --"Jacket Hangs" was the single out when I saw them: http://youtu.be/Q8pn_Yyrr7U

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 09:05 PM (V/U0X)

474

In my opinion, the Benghazi criminal debacle eclipses anything this man
has done in the past and all the deviousness of the media before this
time.

Obama's support for child slavery in Congo and Sudan is/was pretty vile too. He had to ignore a law passed by the Democrat controlled Pelosi/Reid congress in 08' and signed by Bush to pull that off.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 12:46 AM (MQLiy)

Sad to say, Obama and most democrats do not think of any one but themselves and their self-righteous positions. But they will abandon those moralistic positions at a drop of a hat, if those position inconveniences them. They do not care about the Africans. They do not care about the Mexicans either. If they did, they would enforce the child soldier laws and would never have done Fast and Furious.

Posted by: rd does not believe the MSM at October 02, 2012 09:06 PM (9sUlj)

475 429 I would have hugged my garbage man when I lived in L.A. if I only knew how to say "I want to hug you and I'm not gay" in Spanish

Posted by: kbdabear at October 03, 2012 12:31 AM (wwsoB)

Try: "Deseo su cuerpo como una puta."

Let me know how that works out for you.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 09:07 PM (kaalw)

476

I saw a large "PUMPKIN!!!"

Now I think there are some truth to the notion that Obama is a SCFOAMF.

Just saying...

Posted by: Richard at October 02, 2012 09:07 PM (aC3eq)

477 Yeah, Letterman was funnier than Leno when he was young and fresh, but he got old and boring. Jon Stewart is on the same career trajectory, he'll be doing the eyebrow raise and same gags 20 years from now hoping people think he's cool. Leno at least works his tail off every night and is consistently entertaining.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 09:08 PM (r4wIV)

478 476
Letterman always considered The Tonight Show his
birthright when Johnny retired, and he never got over the NBC suits
picking Leno over him.

He'll go to his grave being pissed off about that

Posted by: kbdabear at October 03, 2012 12:34 AM (wwsoB)

And the NBC suits laughed all the way to the bank. While Leno has a bunch of warts, from everything I have ever heard, he busts his ass. Letterman has been skating by on the same stuff for 30 years now. Even with the whole Conan fiasco and Jay's primetime failure, when he went back to the Tonight Show, he rocked Letterman's world. Craig Ferguson is a hell of a lot better than Letterman.

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 03, 2012 01:02 AM (Zd/NW)

Didn't Leno stab Conan in the back by reneging on a promise to retire in 2008?

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 02, 2012 09:08 PM (BVkEs)

479 Crank the RPM's up Dave. It is what it is. We're propping up vile thugs who deserve a fucking bullet, not dollars.

If we gotta support this kinda shit to get what we want...maybe, just maybe...WE'RE DEALING WITH THE WRONG FUCKING PEOPLE AND NEED SOME NEW PEOPLE? I'm just saying...

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 09:09 PM (MQLiy)

480 Leno is no Carson, of course. Nobody in late night talk has been that good ever again. Conan is funny sometimes, Kimmel is funny sometimes, but none of them match Carson's consistency of output and skill.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 09:10 PM (r4wIV)

481 Weird Al - Cat's in the Kettle
http://youtu.be/Zn2Sa5UGxK8

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 09:10 PM (u1Q5a)

482
--Really? Saw them live in high school at the Boathouse (R.I.P.) on the Gold Afternoon Fix tour. Great show. Blue Aeroplanes (http://youtu.be/i8BS9F54El4)opened for them --wonder what happened to them.

Posted by: logprof at October 03, 2012 12:55 AM (V/U0X)

The Boathouse in Norfolk?

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 02, 2012 09:10 PM (Zd/NW)

483 --"Jacket Hangs" was the single out when I saw them:

http://youtu.be/Q8pn_Yyrr7U

Posted by: logprof at October 03, 2012 01:05 AM

I like Jacket Hangs. Good sound on that single. Can't beat 3 guitars. Except with 4.

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 09:10 PM (yBF/9)

484 Thanks, @PurpAv.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 09:11 PM (6zgse)

485 Love unbound is dangerous territory

Posted by: Blue Aeriplanes at October 02, 2012 09:11 PM (V/U0X)

486 Didn't Leno stab Conan in the back by reneging on a promise to retire in 2008? Posted by: Craig Poe at October 03, 2012 01:08 AM (BVkEs) Apparently, Leno wanted to keep the deal, but NBC forced Conan out. I don't watch much late-night TV (aside from the occasional Red Eye), so I don't know how Conan is doing today, but his show was hilarious back in the day. The masturbating bear... is that the anti-Ace now-a-days?

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 09:11 PM (sZTYJ)

487 The Boathouse in Norfolk? Posted by: MrCaniac at October 03, 2012 01:10 AM (Zd/NW) --Yup, got torn down a few months ago.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 09:11 PM (V/U0X)

488

That clown that was in the trashman video... what a pussy. No self respect. Pathetic.

Stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable trash man

Posted by: The Jackhole at October 02, 2012 09:12 PM (DU15A)

489 Didn't Leno stab Conan in the back by reneging on a promise to retire in 2008?

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 03, 2012 01:08 AM (BVkEs)

They all stab each other in the back. They all stab each other in the back, so creepy, yet they get to decide the next big film. tv show, or who we all watch for the next season! or whatever. Time to say hell to the no fucking way to these assholes!

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 09:12 PM (UantK)

490 459 A Mindful Webworker,

Bravo. Well done. I wouldn't mind seeing that get a lot more exposure.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 02, 2012 09:12 PM (ccXZP)

491 Whoops not Weird Al, darn

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 09:12 PM (u1Q5a)

492 Craig Ferguson is really, really funny and clever, I do like his stuff. The best guy in the format was the first half show of Dave Chapelle. That show was brilliant and hilarious. Then the second half was "lousy rap act performs" and I'd switch to something else. Too bad he lost his nut, he was really, really talented and funny.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 09:13 PM (r4wIV)

493 'Nite all.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 09:14 PM (6zgse)

494 Weird Al - Cat's in the Kettle http://youtu.be/Zn2Sa5UGxK8 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 03, 2012 01:10 AM (u1Q5a) Not Weird Al. Neither is this, though it is funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy1MrGl4rGQ

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 09:14 PM (sZTYJ)

495 I like Jacket Hangs. Good sound on that single. Can't beat 3 guitars. Except with 4. Posted by: otho at October 03, 2012 01:10 AM (yBF/9) --Yeah, great mix of Bob Dylan and the jangly guitar rock that was en vogue in the '80s indie scene.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 09:14 PM (V/U0X)

496

I would hug my garbage man...cept...he never gets out of his G-Truck...it is all done hydralic lifts.. and he has his ear buds in all the time..and never even makes eye contact with me....WTF!!! HE WILL NOT KNOW WHO I AM!!

I feel so sad...that he care not....he..just hurts me....he just hurts...me!

Posted by: Richard at October 02, 2012 09:15 PM (aC3eq)

497 Does anyone here think Romney can win this? If yes, please state your name. If not, and your concern is the vid was too soft, the vid was too hard! Romney did this, he didn't do that! Is he being too stiff? Too relaxed? Oh look, he should have worn a red tie instead of the blue tie for the debates! All seriousness, eeyores please set up your own damn site. Concern trolls...if you're 'concerned' bite my ass and do something for the campaign.

Posted by: RWC at October 02, 2012 09:16 PM (t+Sdx)

498 Good Morning Miss Anna

Posted by: Birkenstock_Cowboy at October 02, 2012 09:17 PM (wnZ4S)

499 SOME NEW PEOPLE?

There are no new people in these places, no clean hands to be found. You watch Romney will have to do the same thing next year.

Posted by: DaveA at October 02, 2012 09:18 PM (wcjj2)

500 More '80s: "Swirling" http://youtu.be/KWh4DasRDGM

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 09:18 PM (V/U0X)

501 Yo Morons

Posted by: fluffy and trashy at October 02, 2012 09:18 PM (z9HTb)

502 And the hits just keep on coming:

(Reuters) - Iran would enrich uranium up to 60 percent purity if negotiations with major powers over its nuclear program fail, an Iranian lawmaker said on Tuesday, in comments that may add to Western alarm about Iranian intentions.

Mansour Haqiqatpour, deputy head of parliament's Foreign Policy and National Security Committee, said 60 percent enrichment would be to yield fuel for nuclear submarines, which often require uranium refined to high levels.

It's strange how their goalposts keep on moving, ain't it? It's almost as if they think the SCoaMF is a pussy.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 02, 2012 09:19 PM (ccXZP)

503

Posted by: RWC at October 03, 2012 01:16 AM (t+Sdx)

,If you will, so will I

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 09:19 PM (UantK)

504 The best part of David Letterman was Larry Bud Melman.

Posted by: Baldy at October 02, 2012 09:19 PM (opS9C)

505 "I think I'm a Clone Now" by the real Weird Al
http://youtu.be/1kw_d3d0XAo

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 09:20 PM (u1Q5a)

506 Mansour Haqiqatpour, deputy head of parliament's Foreign Policy and National Security Committee --Wow, hard to come up with a better name if I were writing a thriller novel.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 09:20 PM (V/U0X)

507 It's strange how their goalposts keep on moving, ain't it? It's almost as if they think the SCoaMF is a pussy. Posted by: GnuBreed at October 03, 2012 01:19 AM (ccXZP) That is an insult to both women and cats.

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 09:20 PM (sZTYJ)

508 Does anyone here think Romney can win this?

Looking at all the bogus polls with pathetic 9% response rates, and what I'm seeing in a heavily Dem FL area, I'm leaning towards McGovernesque blowout.

I've seen ONE Obama bumper sticker here in Palm Beach in the past three months...and it was on a car with NY plates. ONE.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 09:21 PM (MQLiy)

509 If my garbageman went on TV and complained that I never gave him a hug, I wouldn't give him a hug, I'd give him a restraining order. Also, the Administration of the SCOAMF is the most criminally corrupt in American history. I tried to catalog their crimes, there just isn't enough time. Someone tried to do it and gave up last fall at over 300. That doesn't, I think, include a run through all his EOs. I'm a little sick-sad the RNC doesn't have a team budgeted to do that, or rather did it already.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 02, 2012 09:21 PM (bxiXv)

510 Robotech, Cosby, and Cheers on the TV, and great pop music on the radio. --and, I forgot to add, Reagan in the White House.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 09:21 PM (V/U0X)

511

Richard J. Brehme Jr.

OBAMA IS FUCKING TOAST!

So it is written....so it shall be!

Posted by: Richard at October 02, 2012 09:21 PM (aC3eq)

512 Hey BC!!!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 09:21 PM (u1Q5a)

513
Didn't Leno stab Conan in the back by reneging on a promise to retire in 2008?

Posted by: Craig Poe at October 03, 2012 01:08 AM (BVkEs)

NBC did the same thing to Leno that they did to Carson. They promised the Tonight Show to someone else while the seat was already occupied. When it came time to make good on the promise, they showed the incumbent the door.

Posted by: MrCaniac at October 02, 2012 09:22 PM (Zd/NW)

514 Stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable trash man

If I worked with him, things would not end well. I'd tease him daily. From the look of him, he would burst into tears.

Posted by: fluffy at October 02, 2012 09:22 PM (z9HTb)

515 512 The best part of David Letterman was Larry Bud Melman. Posted by: Baldy at October 03, 2012 01:19 AM (opS9C) --I loved his tribute to the moon landing in '89. Fell off my chair laughing.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 09:23 PM (V/U0X)

516 This doesn't sound good ...

"Today, due to the continued US hostile policy towards the DPRK, the vicious cycle of confrontation and aggravation of tensions is an ongoing phenomenon on the Korean Peninsula, which has become the world's most dangerous hot spot and where a spark of fire could set off a thermonuclear war," Pak said.

Posted by: Henry Kissenger at October 02, 2012 09:23 PM (e8kgV)

517 These Iranian fuckwits can't even build their own commercial nuclear power station, since the Russians had to build their one and only one. Yet now they are going to design and build their own nuclear subs!

Or a nuclear explody thing. Take your pick.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 02, 2012 09:23 PM (ccXZP)

518

"465The Video is FUCKING HILARIOUS

http://tinyurl.com/9bynns6"

The deceptiveness of this Obama Campaign spin is quite striking. Notice that he starts off by saying that when Clinton left office we were on track to have no national debt by now. He never mentions what the national debt even was then, and my recollection was that the Clinton surpluses were pretty incosequential - the national debt was essentially stalled, not dropping. He completely ignores the demographics of the Baby Boomers starting to retire, while proceeding with this Obama-friendly folklore based on creative accounting.

And yet, it's practically a breath of fresh air, compares to the outright lying we've seen straight from the President!! In the "You didn't build that" affair he literally took out an ad to make sure we all saw his flat-out lie that it was "out of context" (I'm not sure I've ever seen a sitting President lie so blatantly and publically before). And that was about something I fact-checked myself - on the White House web site! - in just a few minutes. The Benghazi thing was a complete fabrication, too, that inexplicably went on for a week or two, and it appears that many of his empty promises were complete lies as well.

Posted by: Optimizer at October 02, 2012 09:25 PM (As94z)

519 GnuBreed, bet on a sub with a nuclear critical option.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 09:25 PM (u1Q5a)

520 And the Russians aren't exactly the ACME of construction or nuclear power plant design either. I wouldn't trust their labor, to put it mildly.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 09:25 PM (r4wIV)

521 There are no new people in these places, no clean hands to be found. You watch Romney will have to do the same thing next year.

I'll take that action. Put a proposition up on Intrade.

Don't need "clean hands", we just need hands that are TOO FUCKING TERRIFIED OF US TO DEFY US.

Bush apparently had no problem signing this law. Curious that.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 09:25 PM (MQLiy)

522 Looking at all the bogus polls with pathetic 9% response rates, and what I'm seeing in a heavily Dem FL area, I'm leaning towards McGovernesque blowout.

I'm not that optimistic, but I am looking for victory.

Posted by: fluffy at October 02, 2012 09:26 PM (z9HTb)

523 I am only going to say one word to you today. One word that should scare the hell out of you. Wolf Spiders! Lots of them! Jumpin' all around you! All different kinds of colors and hairy! On your back! On your face! In your hair! They're gonna put you back in caves! Crawl in your mouth! Take the prescription drugs from your belly! What's that on your leg? Wolf Spiders! Thank you United Workers of South Bend In the great state of Toronto!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 02, 2012 09:27 PM (MG6Y6)

524 Putting a Russian on the job is like getting the lowest bidder mixed with a mob construction crew. They had to import Swedes to build their stuff in the USSR and then it fell to pieces because nobody wanted to do the work to maintain it. "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work." The work ethic hasn't gotten better.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 09:28 PM (r4wIV)

525 503 --Yeah, great mix of Bob Dylan and the jangly guitar rock that was en vogue in the '80s indie scene.

Posted by: logprof at October 03, 2012 01:14 AM

That Blue Aeroplane stuff sounds pretty good. Had a listen to Under The Milkey Way. Sounds different to the early stuff. Very laid back, though they were going that way. Was around for Of Skins and Heart through to the mid eighties EP's. Not sure I remember what happened after that. Always liked the first one best though.

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 09:28 PM (yBF/9)

526 526 "I think I'm a Clone Now" by the real Weird Al http://youtu.be/1kw_d3d0XAo Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 03, 2012 01:20 AM (u1Q5a) Tiffany's version of the original song, because she was f**kin' hot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Q3mHyzn78 The "original" original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMFLUXTEwM Posted by: The Political Hat at October 03, 2012 01:25 AM (sZTYJ) --I lost all respect for Tiffany when she whored herself for Heffner.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 09:28 PM (V/U0X)

527 Richard J. Brehme Jr.
OBAMA IS FUCKING TOAST!
So it is written....so it shall be!

Posted by: Richard at October 03, 2012 01:21 AM (aC3eq)

brave, gonna put my real name out there. I could collect foodstamps, housing, etc. Choose not to do so,

Laurie K Bright!

My dad worked for the airforce, was civil air patrol, and taught us self respect. He is gone, sad

sadly, the men in this country have chosen a lesser path.

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 09:29 PM (UantK)

528 Time for us to start streeting some parade H-Bombs like the Ruskies do....after Nov. for sure...

Posted by: Richard at October 02, 2012 09:30 PM (aC3eq)

529 That Blue Aeroplane stuff sounds pretty good. Had a listen to Under The Milkey Way. Sounds different to the early stuff. Very laid back, though they were going that way. Was around for Of Skins and Heart through to the mid eighties EP's. Not sure I remember what happened after that. Always liked the first one best though. Posted by: otho at October 03, 2012 01:28 AM (yBF/9) --Yeah never owned any Blue Aeroplanes stuff but listening to them on Youtube makes me wish I had heard more of them back in the day.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 09:31 PM (V/U0X)

530 --I lost all respect for Tiffany when she whored herself for Heffner. Posted by: logprof at October 03, 2012 01:28 AM (V/U0X) Back in the day, my tallywacker would not have cared...

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 09:31 PM (sZTYJ)

531 TIffany was cute but she wasn't much of a singer. The original version of the song is better, I think. Tommy James and the Shondelles if I recall correctly.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 09:32 PM (r4wIV)

532 HBD Rightly.

I shall tip one in your honor.

Posted by: jc at October 02, 2012 09:33 PM (ufJKx)

533

"516Does anyone here think Romney can win this?

Looking at all the bogus polls with pathetic 9% response rates, and what I'm seeing in a heavily Dem FL area, I'm leaning towards McGovernesque blowout.

I've seen ONE Obama bumper sticker here in Palm Beach in the past three months...and it was on a car with NY plates. ONE."

I appreciate the problem with the polling, but it seems like we questioned the polling leading up to the election in 2008, and the result was actually worse than the polls were saying. Maybe it was a matter of the high D turnout not having been predicted.

As to bumper stickers, I notice VERY few, here in a reddish-purple enclave of the People's Repulic of Western New York. I remember seeing ONE lawn sign - in the countryside - for Mitt. I remember seeing 1 Mitt bumper sticker, one Obama '12, and I heard of one that said "Defend freedom; defeat Obama".

Seems like I saw more, last time 'round, but I don't really remember. Maybe people wear their sentiments on their FB page, instead of on their cars, these days.

Posted by: Optimizer at October 02, 2012 09:33 PM (As94z)

534 The Obamaphone button is gone from the sidebar. We have completed the descent into tyranny.

Posted by: fluffy at October 02, 2012 09:34 PM (z9HTb)

535 Hi! Please enjoy this culturist video version of the way the Presidential debates should go! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-bwwOb0hdU&list=UU0y5iR95pv7ggljfekdYU2Q&index=1&feature=plcp Thanks! John Press, Ph.D. www.culturism.us

Posted by: John Press, Ph.D. at October 02, 2012 09:35 PM (os4K6)

536 Seems like I saw more, last time 'round, but I don't really remember. Maybe people wear their sentiments on their FB page, instead of on their cars, these days.

Posted by: Optimizer at October 03, 2012 01:33 AM (As94z)

Yeah, Obama has it. Don't vote. Stay home. Let obama fuck us all!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 02, 2012 09:35 PM (UantK)

537 Not much in the way of yard signs or bumper stickers anywhere seems like, certainly very few where I live. I think people just want this all over with and aren't real enthused with either candidate. That doesn't bode very well for Obama, actually. Enthusiasm is the only hope he really has to retain office.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 09:35 PM (r4wIV)

538 Speaking of the Boathouse, here is Norfolk band from back in the day Waxing Poetics: http://youtu.be/UUOEnS5HB0c

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 09:36 PM (V/U0X)

539 What frustrates me is I'm not seeing the enthusiasm and furious determination to get Obama out of office I used to see online. Its like people are so shocked and horrified they're numbed or something.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 09:37 PM (r4wIV)

540 537 Time for us to start streeting some parade H-Bombs like the Ruskies do....after Nov. for sure...

FWIW, the USA dismantled all its fusion weapons quite a while ago. We don't have any more H-bombs. Some of the H-bomb inventory's fission initiators got repackaged into A-bombs.

The whole notion of mirving and patterning obsoleted the H-bomb.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 09:37 PM (MQLiy)

541

Or maybe a flight of BUFFS showing up on their door-step (after Nov)

for sure... cause the SCFOAMF is not the leader...he be..., just the... well you know....the SCFOAMF.. and he sucks at this! Because he is the SCKOAMF

Posted by: Richard at October 02, 2012 09:40 PM (aC3eq)

542 I don't have a Romney sign in my yard because I want my windows to remain intact.

Posted by: Scobface at October 02, 2012 09:40 PM (IoNBC)

543 I don't have a Romney sign in my yard because I want my windows to remain intact.
There's that effect too: the left has gotten so hostile and violent and willing to attack people for disagreeing with them politically, folks are restrained in showing open support.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 09:41 PM (r4wIV)

544 There's that effect too: the left has gotten so hostile and violent and willing to attack people for disagreeing with them politically, folks are restrained in showing open support. Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 03, 2012 01:41 AM (r4wIV) --It's like Rush put it: Only karma will cure those hardened fucktards.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 09:42 PM (V/U0X)

545 547 Speaking of the Boathouse, here is Norfolk band from back in the day Waxing Poetics:

http://youtu.be/UUOEnS5HB0c

Posted by: logprof at October 03, 2012 01:36 AM

Oh that's good. Nice. Telecaster and Jazz bass FTW!

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 09:44 PM (yBF/9)

546 I appreciate the problem with the polling, but it seems like we questioned the polling leading up to the election in 2008, and the result was actually worse than the polls were saying. Maybe it was a matter of the high D turnout not having been predicted.

Obama's 08' turnout was a one time event. That combination of circumstances was very rare. Polling response rates were better in 08' too.

This time the pollsters are only getting 9% response. That tells me people are pissed off. I think Nixon's "silent majority" is hiding in that 91% who don't want to talk to pollsters.

9% response. Only 40% trusting the media.

There's some very low frequency tectonic vibrations going on that aren't being detected yet.

I get polled all the time being in a "swing state" and I lie to them. I'm also registered as a Democrat. People are going rogue, they're monkeywrenching the system.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 09:45 PM (MQLiy)

547

536

I give not the "RAT'S ASS" anymore. Let my enemies know me so they will be drawn in! I wish to fight them now. I wish to show them a CRUSHING BLOW. I no longer wish to take the BULL-SHIT HIGH ROAD...only wish to crush them where they stand. This is THE last chance....

No Do Overs!

Posted by: Richard at October 02, 2012 09:48 PM (aC3eq)

548 Good evening.

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 09:48 PM (4ixH5)

549 The dearth of signs and bumper stickers compared to previous campaigns is actually a little unsettling. It's as if people are eyeing each other warily. The only sticker I have is THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU. I bought it a few months ago. I wish more people would get one, and the low information voters saw it everywhere they looked. Can't hurt. http://tinyurl.com/9o2ak22

Posted by: rickl at October 02, 2012 09:48 PM (sdi6R)

550 Oh that's good. Nice. Telecaster and Jazz bass FTW! Posted by: otho at October 03, 2012 01:44 AM (yBF/9) --Yeah, great bluesy sound, then they went major label and stunk.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 09:49 PM (V/U0X)

551 --Yeah, great bluesy sound, then they went major label and stunk.

Posted by: logprof at October 03, 2012 01:49 AM

Hahahaha. Oh, mercy...

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 09:50 PM (yBF/9)

552 @549 actually, it's precisely the opposite. pretty much all our remaining nuclear weapons are thermonuclear bombs...which are called "h-bombs" in the media, because their secondary stages use hydrogen fusion.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 09:50 PM (79EF9)

553 I don't have a Romney sign in my yard because I want my windows to remain intact.

Yep, same here. But being 80% black, my development should be a "safe" place to display Obama signs and bumper stickers...but they're not there...anywhere.

Talking with neighbors on the street, I'm getting the vibe that Obama ain't so popular anymore...lotta people blaming him for their mortage and job problems these days.

Maybe they won't pull the lever for Romney, but they're not gonna pull it for Obama either.

Even the black teens who were all walking around with Obama T-shirts for a couple of years ain't doing it this year. They must have all been used up as paint rags or something, because people ain't wearing them anymore.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 09:51 PM (MQLiy)

554 More '80s awesomeness! http://youtu.be/euB-o0yTfE4 (Saw them live at the Boathouse)

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 09:51 PM (V/U0X)

555 The most effective signs are those things people put on like gas pumps reminding people how low gas prices are when Bush left office, what's happened to food prices, etc. Little stuff like that. If you're walking down the grocery aisle and you see a post-it note pointing out that four years ago this cost 50 cents less and the box held more... that has an impression.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 09:52 PM (r4wIV)

556 9% response. Only 40% trusting the media. 9%. There's no way in hell that they're getting a clean random sample. And who talks to just any old person on the phone? I hear the distinctive clicks and noise variation of phone banking and I just hang up.

Posted by: t-bird at October 02, 2012 09:52 PM (FcR7P)

557 There's some very low frequency tectonic vibrations going on that aren't being detected yet. Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 01:45 AM (MQLiy) What we have at work here is shit tectonics, when two shit plates collide, what do you get? . . . Shitquake.

Posted by: Jim Lahey, Sunnyvale Trailer Park Supervisor at October 02, 2012 09:53 PM (V/U0X)

558 A guerilla marketing campaign the last week before the election plastering those post-its everywhere would be a good move actually. Just make up a couple pads worth for gas stations, stores, etc. Pop them on things you remember being bigger or holding more, costing less, etc. They don't even have to say "vote for Romney" they just can point out how bad inflation and prices are. Its all the reminder people need, they make the connection on their own.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 02, 2012 09:54 PM (r4wIV)

559 So, this is it? This is what we are going to do, lay down and die in front of these fascists? Just as well that I am too drunk to defend myself. poo

Posted by: and irresolute at October 02, 2012 09:56 PM (JvklE)

560 Hey Roberto.

'Sup ?

It's Rightly's BD.

Posted by: jc at October 02, 2012 09:56 PM (ufJKx)

561

The thing that really makes me wonder if Romney will win is that in my somewhat lengthy lifetime, a charismatic candidate always wins.

1980 and 1984, we had Reagan, who was quite the charmer. In 1988, there was no charismatic candidate, and so the one associated with a previous one won. In 1992, charasmatic slick Willie came along, and won against an uncharismatic incumbant, and won against a DECIDELY uncharismatic Dole in 1996.

In 2000, neither candidate was charismatic, and Bush (associated with his father, who was associated with charismatic Reagan) was essentially tied with Gore (associated with charismatic Clinton). In 2004, uncharismatic Bush had a hard time vs. a Herman Munster look-alike who was known for contradicting himself in the same sentence, and ran as both a war hero and an anti-war hero (for the same war!).

in 2008, you have an unknown charasmatic leftist radical running as a moderate besting a well-known, but uncharismatic war hero who was a moderate running as a conservative.

In a fairer world, people would see that the most remarkable thing about Obama is how far he's gotten despite a near complete lack of accomplishments. In contrast, Romney is extraordinarily accomplished, both professionally and as a person. This shouldn't even be a contest, but that's not the way it works.

They quote stats on unemployment, but that's like the Super Bowl predictors you see every year - with a relative handful of sample points, you can always find something that has matched the data, going back.

We need Romney to pull a Reagan, but Romney is no Reagan.

Still, we can look back to 2010, where people rose up a put a restraining order on Obama by showing up to vote and taking back the House by a wide margin. Maybe - just MAYBE - that will happen again.

And don't underestimate Romney. He may not be Reagan, but he's a pretty competent guy - he may just be able to figure this out, and make it happen. His reputation is as a "miracle worker", after all. He's not Reagan, but he IS Romney, and we may see a whole new kind of winning being defined here.

Posted by: Optimizer at October 02, 2012 09:56 PM (As94z)

562 Rickl, yeah, let's help move the preference cascade along. Part of that is getting people to realize that traditional media lies. A couple nights ago, a commenter posted a another great statement for a bumper sticker -- "Socialism is the opiate of the masses."

Posted by: Mindy at October 02, 2012 09:56 PM (OXFrm)

563 Howdy, JC!

Is it Rightly's birfday?

Happy birfday, Rightly!

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 09:57 PM (4ixH5)

564 Macross 30th Aniv. DYRL trailer.
http://youtu.be/IVEQ7npJVQ0

And nite all.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 09:58 PM (u1Q5a)

565 573 Macross 30th Aniv. DYRL trailer. http://youtu.be/IVEQ7npJVQ0 And nite all. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 03, 2012 01:58 AM (u1Q5a) --Seriously, 30??? No f'ing way.

Posted by: logprof feels old as farming at October 02, 2012 10:00 PM (V/U0X)

566 I'm out for the night. Since we're doing an '80's theme, I'll leave you with one of the best live albums ever... with the best intro ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0KnPr0JNIg

Posted by: The Political Hat \m/ at October 02, 2012 10:01 PM (sZTYJ)

567 Try: "Deseo su cuerpo como una puta."

Let me know how that works out for you.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 03, 2012 01:07 AM (kaalw)

I don't know what possessed me to scroll up. Destiny, methinks.

"Puta" means whore or bitch. Homosexual is...uh...well, a derogatory slang term would be "hoto" but I don't know the proper term.

For the record Google Translate translates that as "I want your body like a whore."

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 10:02 PM (4ixH5)

568 Good night, Hat.

Good night, Anna.

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 10:03 PM (4ixH5)

569 actually, it's precisely the opposite.

pretty much all our remaining nuclear weapons are thermonuclear bombs...which are called "h-bombs" in the media, because their secondary stages use hydrogen fusion.

Actually, you're pretty much full of shit. Name one single active inventory nuclear weapon type in the US nuclear arsenal that is a fusion weapon, JUST ONE. Everything we got left in active service is a Uranium or Plutonium fission design with Kt rather than Mt range yields.

Fin just one fusion design in active service, and I'll suck your dick for free.

Here's where you can start your research project:

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/Allbombs.html

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 10:04 PM (MQLiy)

570 The thing that really makes me wonder if Romney will win is that in my somewhat lengthy lifetime, a charismatic candidate always wins.

Obama is not charismatic. He is impressed with himself, and that sells, to a point. He is repellant, an arrogant jerk. He is the figurehead for a movement, not the leader of the movement.

A lot of people mistake him for a good speaker; he is not. He has a good voice, period. I won a Stradivarius; that doesn't make me a virtuoso.

Posted by: fluffy at October 02, 2012 10:04 PM (z9HTb)

571 Min-Mei and Lisa Hayes look as hot as I remember them as a pubescent lad of 13.

Posted by: logprof feels old as farming at October 02, 2012 10:05 PM (V/U0X)

572 @570 you don't think w was charismatic? i think his down-to-earth approach to politickin' made the soi-disant intellectuals of the left hate him more than they would have, were he less unashamed of his good-ol'-boy "southernness", but i feel like he was a pretty charismatic guy. he was definitely the type of candidate i could see myself having a beer or two with, and i don't even really like to drink! xP i think purple avenger brought up a good point...where are all those obama shirts and stickers? thinking back to 2008, they were literally *everywhere*. you couldn't walk down a street with a moderate amount of foot traffic and miss seeing that stupid o. they're all gone now! obama is still the same charismatic guy, but i think his ineptitude may possibly have exposed that charisma as being nothing more than an emerald curtain obscuring the scoamf behind it. whereas reagan and slick willie could play off of their political successes with an "aw, shucks" type of charisma that made them even *more* likeable, i wonder if obama's charisma might not be a double-edged sword making some voters at least subconsciously less apt to get off their couches on 6 nov and go check that box?

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 10:05 PM (79EF9)

573 Night, Morons.

Disclaimer: I don't really own a Stradivarius.

Posted by: fluffy at October 02, 2012 10:06 PM (z9HTb)

574 I was in a world of hurt last night with comments broken because my damn brother informed me that not only had my family lied to me in 2008 and they all voted for Obama, but that they are planning on voting for him again because Romney is an evil billionaire bastard.
--
Don't know if PGIS is still around, but FWIW...

A couple of years ago there was a link to an article (maybe here) written by someone who lived in France I believe during WW2. Years afterward, the author realized she could recognize amongst her acquaintances the profile of people who would have been nazi collaborators during WW2.

The article was terrific and she described the signals and characteristics that she recognized as being the same personality types as the collaborators. There were different types. One was those with a go-along-to-get-along attitude, the kind of person who doesn't stand up for their beliefs or for other people, but will easily and willingly do whatever they think will help themselves gain favor at the time. Essentially selfish people without a strong set of principles.

As I read the article I realized my sister would have been a collaborator. It was a sickening feeling and has bothered me ever since. PGIS's comments reminded me of that. It's an awful feeling when you realize something awful about a family member.

Posted by: Mayday at October 02, 2012 10:07 PM (F3s39)

575 575 I'm out for the night. Since we're doing an '80's theme, I'll leave you with one of the best live albums ever... with the best intro ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0KnPr0JNIg Posted by: The Political Hat \m/ at October 03, 2012 02:01 AM (sZTYJ) --I am by no means a metalhead but I like "Aces High."

Posted by: logprof feels old as farming at October 02, 2012 10:07 PM (V/U0X)

576 495) didn't the boathouse get destroyed in a hurricane like 14 years ago? I saw Collective Soul there back in 97.

Posted by: VBJonny at October 02, 2012 10:10 PM (mX1fc)

577 @578 ...are you capable of acting like an adult? you're wrong, and you don't have a clue what you're talking about. do you know what "two-stage themonuclear" means? it means H-BOMB. go look at the link you posted. EVERY SINGLE ACTIVE-SERVICE WEAPON IS A THERMONUCLEAR WEAPON. EVERY SINGLE ONE USES A BERRYLIUM TAMPER AND LITHIUM DEUTERIDE, THE HALLMARKS OF HYDROGEN FUSION DEVICES. don't be such a childish little punk when someone POLITELY corrects you for misinforming others. seriously, you really need to get yourself checked out, responding like that when i am trying to do you a favour so you won't go around looking ignorant all the time. by the way, nasty fat old men have offered to suck my dick in the past, and i've always turned them down, so you can keep those fantasies to yourself, thanks.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 10:11 PM (79EF9)

578 585 495) didn't the boathouse get destroyed in a hurricane like 14 years ago? I saw Collective Soul there back in 97. Posted by: VBJonny at October 03, 2012 02:10 AM (mX1fc) --Maybe it got hurt by Isabel in '03 but it was still around until a few months ago. The local paper had photos of its demolition.

Posted by: logprof feels old as farming at October 02, 2012 10:12 PM (V/U0X)

579 The NRCC is really hitting Hulu, I've been watching for a couple hours now and they an ad for my congressional race (Duffy) on every commercial break.

Posted by: lowandslow at October 02, 2012 10:13 PM (GZitp)

580

"555 ... Polling response rates were better in 08' too.

This time the pollsters are only getting 9% response. That tells me people are pissed off. ..."

I don't know if we can conclude that they're pissed off, althought hey might be. Mostly, isn't it just the changes in telecommunications, that make it harder to poll people? An increasing number of people have cell phones. Can they even get those numbers? And if they can, how many would answer a number they don't recognize? Even with land lines (that aren't unlisted), people have caller ID, and can't be bothered talking to pollsters.

So I really suspect that there are serious biases in the polls - even when they're not fudging the results, but how can you tell how things are really going?

Posted by: Optimizer at October 02, 2012 10:13 PM (As94z)

581 Good night, Fluffy.

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 10:13 PM (4ixH5)

582 here are the links for you: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/W80.html http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/W80.html http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/B83.html http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/W87.html http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/W88.html http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/W78.html the last one is the only one not confirmed to be a two-stage thermonuclear warhead, but the page STILL mentions that the weapon "Probably contains lithium-6 (95% enrichment) deuteride fusion fuel". it sounds like you don't have a clue what you're talking about, and that response you gave me when i politely corrected you the first time gives the lie to your concern about being "condescending". grow up and get over me. i'm not that big of a deal. i caught you last night still hyukking it up over me after i had been gone for two hours; there's something seriously wrong with an old man who has such a bitter agenda against someone who hasn't done anything wrong except know a few things. you're sick.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 10:15 PM (79EF9)

583

How do I state this to you my MandM friends?

There is no "Do Over"

There is only defeat the SCFOAMF..or welcome to Stalinist AMERIKA...

It is that important...dire and final for this vote.

God Bless America.....

Night All.......

Posted by: Richard at October 02, 2012 10:15 PM (aC3eq)

584 Morning middle of the night, 'rons and ettes!

Question for the medical types, so the CT scan of the sinuses came up with pretty much nothing. The lesion in the soft palate grew big time and my ENT doctor took about half a dozen punch biopsies leaving me with a fucking gaping hole in the roof of my mouth because he didn't like what he saw. So what's easier on that? Bourbon or beer? I think I already know the answer.

Posted by: ErikW at October 02, 2012 10:19 PM (J/GO1)

585 Actually - the other day ... pulled up next to a car ... open window ... and in waffs the sound of ABBA singing Waterloo ... Quick Glance at Driver: middle aged to older man To Each Their Own ...

Posted by: Adriane at October 02, 2012 10:20 PM (/OhbZ)

586 So I really suspect that there are serious biases in the polls - even when they're not fudging the results, but howcan you tell how things are really going?

Posted by: Optimizer at October 03, 2012 02:13 AM (As94z)

===

adding to your thoughts -- the link includes an interesting list of why people avoid the polls --

http://preview.tinyurl.com/8hfdjk9

Posted by: jc at October 02, 2012 10:21 PM (ufJKx)

587 So what's easier on that? Bourbon or beer? I think I already know the answer.

Posted by: ErikW at October 03, 2012 02:19 AM (J/GO1)

Ya know what they say, liquor is quicker!

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 10:21 PM (4ixH5)

588

"581@570

you don't think w was charismatic?

i think his down-to-earth approach to politickin' made the soi-disant intellectuals of the left hate him more than they would have, were he less unashamed of his good-ol'-boy "southernness", but i feel like he was a pretty charismatic guy. ..."

No, I don't. There were things about him that various people found likeable, but you have to admit - the guy literally couldn't spit out a sentence without stopping once or twice along the way. And that was to try to avoid screwing up, including his legendary made-up words (there must be a better name for what he did).

I do remember, however, that he was great at "Ground Zero" after 9/11, but that was the exception, not the rule, and not really what I'd call "charismatic" anyway. The charismatic speaker has some sort of fast track to people's emotions - their rational mind just sort of shuts down. Bush at ground zero was more like a general giving a pep talk than some motivational speaker.

Posted by: Optimizer at October 02, 2012 10:21 PM (As94z)

589 To Each Their Own ...

Posted by: Adriane at October 03, 2012 02:20 AM (/OhbZ)

*Nab*

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 10:22 PM (4ixH5)

590 Hey Adriane

Posted by: jc at October 02, 2012 10:22 PM (ufJKx)

591 Well, jimi returned to form. Guess I'll grab some breakfast and do some reading.

Posted by: DC in Towson at October 02, 2012 10:22 PM (4QAQg)

592 Not sure how much I believe this, myself, but it makes for an exciting tale: http://tinyurl.com/9ukgzx8

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 10:23 PM (kaalw)

593 @593 ha-ha, alcohol is a poison either way, and i'm pretty sure your doctor would tell you to keep away from it if you've got a hole in your palate! o.o still, the beer is a lot less alcoholic by content, so there's less poison per unit volume...the problem is, you'd be drinking a lot more beer, right, lol? if you *must* drink, i recommend probably going with the bourbon and downing it as quickly as you can ("shooting" it, we call it here). probably since you use the word "bourbon", you're more into sipping and savouring it, but i would try to keep it away from any holes leading up to the sinuses...the mucous membranes in your sinus cavities are pretty sensitive tissue!

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 10:24 PM (79EF9)

594 *Peek* oh it's Robert ... *Poke*

Posted by: Adriane at October 02, 2012 10:24 PM (/OhbZ)

595 Ya know what they say, liquor is quicker! Posted by: Robert at October 03, 2012 02:21 AM (4ixH5) I do have a prescription for Vicoden but I hate painkillers. I'd rather knock it out the old fashioned way.

Posted by: ErikW at October 02, 2012 10:27 PM (J/GO1)

596 601 Not sure how much I believe this, myself, but it makes for an exciting tale: http://tinyurl.com/9ukgzx8

Posted by: cthulhu at October 03, 2012 02:23 AM (kaalw)

===

when you do a pet theory you don't mess around with ordinary, do you?

Posted by: jc at October 02, 2012 10:27 PM (ufJKx)

597 *Poke*

Posted by: Adriane at October 03, 2012 02:24 AM (/OhbZ)

*Shielded with the lid of a can of Behr paint*

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 10:28 PM (4ixH5)

598

And for all of you ("I just want to play goody with no absolute...!)

"F**K OFF!!

Posted by: Richard at October 02, 2012 10:29 PM (aC3eq)

599 Hi jc - On the subject of strippers ... Tested the Citrus on the floor. First coat worked great with ribbons of loosened paint coming off. 2nd coat. Dried. No bubbling. No paint coming off. Cement Floor Stripper. 1st coat. Little blistering. Little paint scrapped off. 2nd coat - thicker by far than first. Mucho ribbons of paint scrapped off and over time, white streaks showing though. Either a bleaching effect from a higher acid content or reside that will come off during a wash. So ... prolly 1st coat: cement stripper and scrape. 2nd coat: cement stripper and buff. Wash. Wet vac. Repaint and SEAL THIS TIME, DAMMIT!

Posted by: Adriane at October 02, 2012 10:30 PM (/OhbZ)

600 I don't know what possessed me to scroll up. Destiny, methinks.
"Puta" means whore or bitch. Homosexual is...uh...well, a derogatory slang term would be "hoto" but I don't know the proper term.
For the record Google Translate translates that as "I want your body like a whore."

Posted by: Robert at October 03, 2012 02:02 AM (4ixH5)

"Maricon", perhaps?

I tried to keep it simple.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 10:32 PM (kaalw)

601 I do have a prescription for Vicoden but I hate painkillers. Dear God, NO!!! They gave my 80 yo father Vicoden after gall blader surgery and it knocked him out so bad, they were thinking he had dementia ... Much better now but sh!t it was strong stuff for him. Of course, my sister took it with nary a side effect. Go figure... And take care of yourself ...

Posted by: Adriane at October 02, 2012 10:32 PM (/OhbZ)

602

608 On the subject of strippers ..

WOOHOO!!!!!

oh wait

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 02, 2012 10:33 PM (cyGNg)

603 Strippers and acid can be a dangerous combination.

Just ask the Duke Lacrosse Team.

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 10:33 PM (4ixH5)

604 So what's easier on that? Bourbon or beer? I think I already know the answer.

Posted by: ErikW at October 03, 2012 02:19 AM (J/GO1)

Insty had a link to this yesterday -- http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/152269/

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 10:34 PM (kaalw)

605 *Shielded with the lid of a can of Behr paint* uh huh ... Nya Huh!!! What color of Behr paint?!?

Posted by: Adriane in her best Snidley Whiplash imitation ... at October 02, 2012 10:35 PM (/OhbZ)

606 Posted by: Adriane at October 03, 2012 02:30 AM (/OhbZ)

---

yuck. yuck, poo.

I think that is the industry toim.

what are your goals here?

Posted by: jc at October 02, 2012 10:35 PM (ufJKx)

607 Ooooohhhhh, right, Vicodin!

Took some after my second kidney stone last year.

AWFUL stuff.

Brain just got up and went on vacation.

Think it went to Thailand.

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 10:35 PM (4ixH5)

608 What color of Behr paint?!?

Posted by: Adriane in her best Snidley Whiplash imitation ... at October 03, 2012 02:35 AM (/OhbZ)

Uuuuhhhhhh...pink?

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 10:35 PM (4ixH5)

609

"579The thing that really makes me wonder if Romney will win is that in my somewhat lengthy lifetime, a charismatic candidate always wins.

Obama is not charismatic. He is impressed with himself, and that sells, to a point. He is repellant, an arrogant jerk. He is the figurehead for a movement, not the leader of the movement.

A lot of people mistake him for a good speaker; he is not. He has a good voice, period. I won a Stradivarius; that doesn't make me a virtuoso."

I agree with most of this, but there are apparently signals in how certain people speak that cause a large percentage of people to adhere to them. This happens a lot with people, like Obama, with narcissistic personality disorder.

Don't get me wrong - it's not a compliment. It's a sign of mental sickness that Obama is the way he is, and that people follow him as they do. Even my Obamaphile brother noticed that it's sick that people chanted "Obama! Obama!" at the DNC, vs. "USA! USA!" at the RNC. It's a classic cult of personality.

I'm talking about the kind of guy who can get a lot of people to drink the Kool-Aid, not about a great speaker, or a great leader who has something to say. Obama is a joke, compared to the likes of Winston Churchill, for example. His style is taken from that of the black preacher (esp Rev Wright), and the likes of Jim Jones are his role models.

Romeny is stiff and awkward in comparison, even if his ideas are like night vs. day compared to Obama.

Posted by: Optimizer at October 02, 2012 10:35 PM (As94z)

610 @597 well, he wasn't a very fluent speaker, and there were some times on live television that i was cringing inside seeing him trip up on simple phrases, but somehow in retrospect it seems like that shortcoming was almost a part of his charm! at any rate, it definitely helped establish a persona that was the exact opposite of the smooth-talking, slick-minded politician who was so quick on his feet that you can't really be certain that the words coming out of his mouth are anything more than carefully crafted, manipulative sleaze. it may be that you just have a better memory than i do, because i know that while i was happening, it was pretty embarrassing to have to say, "yeah, that's my guy..." "The charismatic speaker has some sort of fast track to people's emotions - their rational mind just sort of shuts down. Bush at ground zero was more like a general giving a pep talk than some motivational speaker." ...actually, i think you're right. "charisma" is not what bush had...likeability, sure, but not the sort of charisma that projects empathy and tunes in to others' emotional state. sorry, i was using the word wrong!

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 10:36 PM (79EF9)

611

wife and daughter are asleep on the couch

the girl is a true mini-me of her

gonna need more shotgun shells for the quickly arriving teen years

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 02, 2012 10:37 PM (cyGNg)

612 Not sure how much I believe this, myself, but it makes for an exciting tale: Given the fantasy world Jugears McTelepromter live in, this makes about as much sense as anything else he's done...

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 10:38 PM (/OhbZ)

613 when you do a pet theory you don't mess around with ordinary, do you?

Posted by: jc at October 03, 2012 02:27 AM (ufJKx)

I thought it had enough intrigue to keep someone's interest. Wouldn't be plausible with anyone who was more competent or had more integrity than the SCoaMF, though.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 10:38 PM (kaalw)

614

607

Well now. So my posts are"Photo-Shopped?"

Just as well....just as well..

Posted by: Richard at October 02, 2012 10:39 PM (iFDJr)

615 Repaint and SEAL THIS TIME, DAMMIT!

Posted by: Adriane at October 03, 2012 02:30 AM (/OhbZ)

===

http://tinyurl.com/8klaudv

Posted by: jc at October 02, 2012 10:40 PM (ufJKx)

616 Howdy, Richard, how you doin'?

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 10:40 PM (4ixH5)

617

"595 ===adding to your thoughts -- the link includes an interesting list of why people avoid the polls --

http://preview.tinyurl.com/8hfdjk9"

Checking that out. Thanks!

Posted by: Optimizer at October 02, 2012 10:40 PM (As94z)

618 And take care of yourself ... Posted by: Adriane at October 03, 2012 02:32 AM (/OhbZ) Thanks! I'm hypersensitive to pharms in general. I take Bystolic only so my heart doesn't explode.

Posted by: ErikW at October 02, 2012 10:40 PM (J/GO1)

619

625

Concerned

Posted by: Richard at October 02, 2012 10:41 PM (iFDJr)

620 Seal?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMD2TwRvuoU

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 10:42 PM (4ixH5)

621 navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 03, 2012 02:33 AM (cyGNg) Sorry for the false alarm ... Look here's a JPG. No hard feelings, eh? ahem .No pun intended ... http://tinyurl.com/8z42k98

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 10:43 PM (/OhbZ)

622 Concerned

Posted by: Richard at October 03, 2012 02:41 AM (iFDJr)

Still lookin' for work?

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 10:45 PM (4ixH5)

623 I do have a prescription for Vicoden but I hate painkillers. I'd rather knock it out the old fashioned way. Had a prescription for that myself after surgery a year ago. Other than being about the best sleep aid I've ever had I didn't notice it doing anything more appreciable for me than the extra strength Tylenol I was taking when I wanted the pain to go away but stay awake. So I didn't get any of the wonderful effects that lead people to take it illegally, but I din't get any of the nasty side effects either.

Posted by: Bete stays up at October 02, 2012 10:45 PM (8kIXE)

624 620 ncp,

Hey how 'bout them Cubbies? Two 100 loss teams enter, one 101 loss team leaves. Cubs lose! Cub lose!

That's okay though, the 21st Century is a rebuilding century.

They'll start winning next century, you betcha.

(gotta bring that Bear high of yours down a bit)

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 02, 2012 10:46 PM (ccXZP)

625 Anyone know of a Windows MKV ripper?

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 10:46 PM (kaalw)

626 More '80s goodness. Great album: http://youtu.be/-I_T3XvzPaM

Posted by: logprof feels old as farming at October 02, 2012 10:47 PM (V/U0X)

627

630 damn

more expensive than the strippers here

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 02, 2012 10:47 PM (cyGNg)

628

633 they are going all the way next year

just wait and see

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 02, 2012 10:48 PM (cyGNg)

629 gonna need more shotgun shells for the quickly arriving teen years or just the old fashion way ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkOek0e2E14

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 10:49 PM (/OhbZ)

630

"583 ...

A couple of years ago there was a link to an article (maybe here) written by someone who lived in France I believe during WW2. Years afterward, the author realized she could recognize amongst her acquaintances the profile of people who would have been nazi collaborators during WW2.

The article was terrific and she described the signals and characteristics that she recognized as being the same personality types as the collaborators. There were different types. One was those with a go-along-to-get-along attitude, the kind of person who doesn't stand up for their beliefs or for other people, but will easily and willingly do whatever they think will help themselves gain favor at the time. Essentially selfish people without a strong set of principles.

As I read the article I realized my sister would have been a collaborator. It was a sickening feeling and has bothered me ever since. PGIS's comments reminded me of that. It's an awful feeling when you realize something awful about a family member."

Yeah, that kind of evil is everywhere. Maybe there was once less of it here, because it took a certain kind of person to pack up and head across the Ocean, but I'm not so sure these days.

But that's nothing! I got numerous nieces and nephews who regularly spew anti-conservative, anti-American, and anti-Constitution hate speech, as though it's normal (and maybe it is now). I even have a nephew who is literally working for the Obama campaign in VA!! I wouldn't consider it such a disgrace if it were simply a Democrat, but considering Obama's anti-American agenda, and socialism, I think of it as practically treason.

He got all starry-eyed after meeting the President and First lady at some point on the job. Partly, I suppose it has to do with his being biracial.

Really, though, the kid strikes me as having picked up on his father's (my brother's) narcissism. Those guys and Obama are birds of a feather, convinced that they know what's best for you and I and that we should STFU and do what we're told - or else.

Posted by: Optimizer at October 02, 2012 10:50 PM (As94z)

631 wife and daughter are asleep on the couch the girl is a true mini-me of her gonna need more shotgun shells for the quickly arriving teen years Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 03, 2012 02:37 AM (cyGNg) --So glad my #1 was a male, my scion, my heir. Sucks to be you.

Posted by: logprof feels old as farming at October 02, 2012 10:51 PM (V/U0X)

632 Ooooh....someone mentioned "Tylenol"....but it's late, and I really don't feel like doing the rant. So, here's the Reader's Digest version:

Tylenol has the lowest gap between clinical dose and LD50 (dose at which 50% of patients die) of any non-prescription medication. That it is legal at all is a serious indictment of what is wrong with our medical system. I'm not a doctor, but I'm appalled at the damage done by this drug and I'd avoid having it in the house as much as possible, much less taking it.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 10:52 PM (kaalw)

633

631

Yup. Counting days til the hammer comes down, I try not to blow my cool day to day. My fam looks to me for support. Hard to look them in the eye and say "Dad's gotta it covered!" I'm not getting it done no matter how hard I try.

I hope I can hang in past Nov.

Posted by: Richard at October 02, 2012 10:53 PM (iFDJr)

634 So what's easier on that? Bourbon or beer? I think I already know the answer.

Posted by: ErikW at October 03, 2012 02:19

Let the liquor do the the thinking.

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 10:53 PM (yBF/9)

635 what are your goals here? Well. ahem ... Was going to try a 4 color faux granite floor. Maybe drill in some grooves (shallow) for grout. SEAL! SEAL! SEAL!

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 10:53 PM (/OhbZ)

636 He got all starry-eyed after meeting the President and First lady at some point on the job. Partly, I suppose it has to do with his being biracial. Really, though, the kid strikes me as having picked up on his father's (my brother's) narcissism. Those guys and Obama are birds of a feather, convinced that they know what's best for you and I and that we should STFU and do what we're told - or else. Posted by: Optimizer at October 03, 2012 02:50 AM (As94z) --According to the U.S. Census, my son is biracial but I'll be damned if he turns into an Obot. Even if you split the difference between parents, with the wifey apolitical and me virulently anti-Demotard he comes out sane.

Posted by: logprof feels old as farming at October 02, 2012 10:54 PM (V/U0X)

637 Let the liquor do the the thinking. Posted by: otho at October 03, 2012 02:53 AM (yBF/9) --Thank Gaia another TPB fan here.

Posted by: logprof feels old as farming at October 02, 2012 10:55 PM (V/U0X)

638 http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/images/w88-image10.jpg

Secondary (i.e. the one that makes the big bang) on the W-88 is fission designs. Any "fusion" going on in primary is incidental and used only as neutron donor to improve initiation(i.e. not the big bang) performance.

The W-88 is not and was never an "H-BOMB" design. This an optimized two-stage FISSION weapon design. Its bang comes from optimized FISSION, not fusion.

The United State simply doesn't have any more "H-Bombs", no matter how much sophist spinning you try to do.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 10:56 PM (MQLiy)

639

640 So glad my #1 was a male, my scion, my heir. Sucks to be you

yep

unless she marries rich....then WOOHOO!!!!!

Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 02, 2012 10:56 PM (cyGNg)

640 yep unless she marries rich....then WOOHOO!!!!! Posted by: navycopjoe has an iphone5 and you don't at October 03, 2012 02:56 AM (cyGNg) --Even then you better screen his ass like a mofo.

Posted by: logprof feels old as farming at October 02, 2012 10:57 PM (V/U0X)

641 unless she marries rich....then WOOHOO!!!!! Bill Gates is already married ... Prince Henry's still single ...

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 10:59 PM (/OhbZ)

642 "Under African Skies" my favorite from the album: http://youtu.be/0ptBc9v5a2U

Posted by: logprof feels old as farming at October 02, 2012 10:59 PM (V/U0X)

643 644 what are your goals here?

Well. ahem ...

Was going to try a 4 color faux granite floor.

Maybe drill in some grooves (shallow) for grout.

SEAL! SEAL! SEAL!

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 03, 2012 02:53 AM (/OhbZ)

I hate to start in the middle with these things, but....how big is the area? Maybe you should just float a chunk of actual granite....

When we moved into this place, the BH wanted "cultured marble" for the new shower, but we ended up with gaps and trim after we demo'd the old....so I filled with granite -- wasn't that expensive, and you can saw some of it with a tile saw.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 10:59 PM (kaalw)

644 SEAL! SEAL! SEAL!

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 03, 2012 02:53 AM (/OhbZ)

Goodness...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVIfT9qMvX4

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 11:00 PM (4ixH5)

645 644 what are your goals here?

Well. ahem ...

Was going to try a 4 color faux granite floor.

Maybe drill in some grooves (shallow) for grout.

SEAL! SEAL! SEAL!

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 03, 2012 02:53 AM (/OhbZ)

===

you done lost yer mind.

http://tinyurl.com/9lemry7

it's a beebee blaster with a vac attachment. takes the whole surface up so you can coat on completely clean, rough, concrete.

less work, but -- you still done lost yer mind.

Posted by: jc at October 02, 2012 11:00 PM (ufJKx)

646

"619 ...actually, i think you're right. "charisma" is not what bush had...likeability, sure, but not the sort of charisma that projects empathy and tunes in to others' emotional state. sorry, i was using the word wrong!"

At the risk of seeming argumentative, one point to remember about prople with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) - and Obama is the ultimate case - is that they LACK empathy.

That being said, you may be right anyway. It could be that they "project empathy" without actually HAVING empathy.

Another symptom is that they are notorious for being pathological liars. They believe their own lies, although deep down they probably realize the truth.

I'm convinced that the Benghazi business is more about Obama's NPD than about any clever political calculation. The way the WH acted really just made no sense. I think Obama was simply in denial, and he found some hapless sycophantic flunkies to spread the nonsense, even while other parts of the government were unwittingly spreading the truth. Hillary is obviously trying to cover up what she can, because a lot of it was her responsibility, but I presume that he's the one behind the absurd lies.

Posted by: Optimizer at October 02, 2012 11:01 PM (As94z)

647

Gotta go...

Night All........

Posted by: Richard at October 02, 2012 11:03 PM (iFDJr)

648 646 --Thank Gaia another TPB fan here.

Posted by: logprof feels old as farming at October 03, 2012 02:55 AM

TPB fans are pretty greasy.

Posted by: otho at October 02, 2012 11:03 PM (yBF/9)

649 'Night Richard

Posted by: logprof feels as old as farming at October 02, 2012 11:03 PM (V/U0X)

650 Good night, Richard.

Sleep well.

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 11:04 PM (4ixH5)

651 TPB fans are pretty greasy. Posted by: otho at October 03, 2012 03:03 AM (yBF/9) Obama lied to the guy in the chair. He lied to the guy in the fuckin' chair.

Posted by: Ray at October 02, 2012 11:04 PM (V/U0X)

652 (i.e. the one that makes the big bang) hmmm ... this is interesting though ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDFSPPd8HJ4 ... whistles innocently ...

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 11:05 PM (/OhbZ)

653 http://www.aintitcool.com/node/58800

Interview with the Wachowski Siblings on their new moie, Cloud Atlas.

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 11:06 PM (4ixH5)

654 Godzilla versus Biollante on bluray?

Kick ass!

http://tinyurl.com/9xtbmp5

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 11:07 PM (4ixH5)

655 I hate to start in the middle with these things, but....how big is the area? Maybe you should just float a chunk of actual granite.... Bedroom floor ... 10x12, 11x13 - ish ...

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 11:07 PM (/OhbZ)

656 I'm convinced that the Benghazi business is more about Obama's NPD than about any clever political calculation. The way the WH acted really just made no sense. I think Obama was simply in denial, and he found some hapless sycophantic flunkies to spread the nonsense, even while other parts of the government were unwittinglyspreading the truth. Hillary is obviously trying to cover up what she can, because a lot of it was her responsibility, but I presume thathe's the one behind the absurd lies.

Posted by: Optimizer at October 03, 2012 03:01 AM (As94z)

I don't know....every time reality slaps TFG, he doubles down on stupid -- and he always blames "messaging" when, in truth, what he's tried doesn't work and never has. My little thing about Benghazi as a failed PR maneuver gains plausibility from this factor....and he's got to be casting about for a "bold, new, effective messaging strategy" in that the failures keep piling up.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 11:07 PM (kaalw)

657 I am a dainty sugarplum!

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 11:08 PM (4ixH5)

658 Urk!

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 11:08 PM (kaalw)

659 argh!!!! Lost track of numbers !!!!

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 11:08 PM (/OhbZ)

660 666 I am a dainty sugarplum!

Posted by: Robert at October 03, 2012 03:08 AM (4ixH5)

===

that's one truly frightening mental image.

Posted by: jc at October 02, 2012 11:10 PM (ufJKx)

661 I am a dainty sugarplum! And you look pretty in a Behr generic pink paint colored tutu, I'll bet ... and a tiara, of course ...

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 11:10 PM (/OhbZ)

662 666 I am a dainty sugarplum!

Posted by: Robert at October 03, 2012 03:08 AM

If I had a son he'd look like Robert.

Posted by: back door barry soetoro at October 02, 2012 11:12 PM (yBF/9)

663 That being said, you may be right anyway. It could be that they "project empathy" without actually HAVING empathy.

NPD is not curable, but one of the "treatments" is to try and train them to intellectually recognize those situations where faking empathy is the right thing to do.

I don't think Obama ever had such professional help. His NPD is so extreme he wouldn't even accept that he had a problem and take measures to mitigate it

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 11:13 PM (MQLiy)

664 http://tinyurl.com/9lemry7 jc, we were kind of thinking more along the lines of http://tinyurl.com/9ebbmr7 but, I'll mention the BB gun in a box to the hubby ...

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 11:14 PM (/OhbZ)

665 664 I hate to start in the middle with these things, but....how big is the area? Maybe you should just float a chunk of actual granite....

Bedroom floor ...

10x12, 11x13 - ish ...

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 03, 2012 03:07 AM (/OhbZ)

Why on earth would you want real or simulated granite in a bedroom? What if you fell out of bed? What about your cold tootsies in the morning? Float a laminate.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 11:14 PM (kaalw)

666 Goodness... www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVIfT9qMvX4 hey ... I remember that song ...

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 11:15 PM (/OhbZ)

667 I don't think Obama ever had such professional help. His NPD is so extreme he wouldn't even accept that he had a problem and take measures to mitigate it Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 03:13 AM (MQLiy) --I think Bill Clinton has the same problem. His being white was the only check on it, but if Ear Leader fails re-election BJ will always have that one-up on him.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 11:16 PM (V/U0X)

668 Why on earth would you want real or simulated granite in a bedroom? What if you fell out of bed? What about your cold tootsies in the morning? Float a laminate. sorry. bedroom 'slated' to become music room. Hubby's drums and such ... speakers, amps, et cetera ...

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 11:17 PM (/OhbZ)

669 that's one truly frightening mental image.

Posted by: jc at October 03, 2012 03:10 AM (ufJKx)

Halloween *is* getting nearer.

If I had a son he'd look like Robert.

Posted by: back door barry soetoro at October 03, 2012 03:12 AM (yBF/9)

And he'd be just as disappointed in you as I am.

and a tiara, of course ...

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 03, 2012 03:10 AM (/OhbZ)

I feel so pretty!

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 11:18 PM (4ixH5)

670 160 I am a Catholic. Not the liberal drippy wet anus kind.

If Romney wins, I may join my daughter in the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints.

Kidding.

But seriously, if their theology wasn't crap, don't you respect them for living their faith?

Don't forget that Usama bin Laden lived his faith.

I learned many years ago, that just because a man believes his faith, doesn't make him not a heretic.

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

So your comparing your daughter to bin Laden because she is a heretic because she is a member of the LDS faith which is just like the Muslim faith and faithful Muslims = faith Mormons.... Got it. Your nuts dude. Glad your Catholic please stay Catholic.

Posted by: Evan Maughan at October 02, 2012 11:18 PM (iV63h)

671 Hubby's drums

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 03, 2012 03:17 AM (/OhbZ)

http://tinyurl.com/96bovaa

Posted by: Robert at October 02, 2012 11:19 PM (4ixH5)

672 Is there paint on this floor?

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 02, 2012 11:20 PM (MQLiy)

673 Corinth is known for its leather!

Posted by: Patrick at October 02, 2012 11:20 PM (LrlHu)

674 677 Why on earth would you want real or simulated granite in a bedroom? What if you fell out of bed? What about your cold tootsies in the morning? Float a laminate.

sorry.

bedroom 'slated' to become music room. Hubby's drums and such ... speakers, amps, et cetera ...

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 03, 2012 03:17 AM (/OhbZ)

Even more reason to float a laminate -- it'll help make it less "echo-ey".

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 11:21 PM (kaalw)

675 and a tiara, of course ... Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 03, 2012 03:10 AM (/OhbZ) I feel so pretty! Of course you do ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i_WpYc3YI4

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 11:22 PM (/OhbZ)

676 673 http://tinyurl.com/9lemry7

jc, we were kind of thinking more along the lines of

http://tinyurl.com/9ebbmr7

but, I'll mention the BB gun in a box to the hubby ...

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 03, 2012 03:14 AM (/OhbZ)

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those things are not up to very tough jobs. light problems, but not much else. closer to a polisher than a reclaimer.

the blastrac gizmos will give you a new surface, and you can control how deep it goes by the speed you travel. (we are talking mils, deepest would be something like maybe up to 1/8") I used them to prep for epoxy coated floors. one big advantage is it took off actual concrete so the previous shitty coating had to come up with it. another big advantage is the shot falls so clean up is easy and there is very good dust control. It does leave a rough surface, which is good if you want to stick something to it and have it really work.

Posted by: jc at October 02, 2012 11:23 PM (ufJKx)

677 Even more reason to float a laminate -- it'll help make it less "echo-ey". We talkin' Pergo from the land of Swedish Meatballs and IKEA and available at Dome Hepot kind of laminate?

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 11:24 PM (/OhbZ)

678 http://tinyurl.com/96bovaa Don't give him any ideas!!!!

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 11:27 PM (/OhbZ)

679 @647 /rolleyes not only are you wrong, but you can't even admit when you're wrong? it's incredibly childish to be unable to admit when you are wrong. please go back and check the links from the first page you gave me to "start my research project". i even provided the URL's here for you, so you don't even have to click your mouse! it took you like 30 minutes to dig up a *JPEG* that you think is going to controvert the actual textual information from the first link...you were happy to send me to that page to "start my research project", but then when it turns out that the page showed you to be WRONG, you went on a 30-minute crusade to try to find ANY source that would back you up...and you came up with a jpeg comprising somebody's (probably-incorrect) guess that seems to be based on the original weapon design. at any rate, the w88 and the w78 have not been sufficiently declassified for anyone to really know what is going on with them, but the website you linked me to, which has a LOT more information that the SINGLE JPEG it took you 30 minutes to find claiming that the w88 has a fission secondary, assumes that the w88 has a "probable" lithium deuteride fusion primary. (i am assuming that you know what "deuterium" is...H-BOMB.) since i actually know a little bit about the history of nuclear weapon development, i assume that the guess about a *fusion* secondary is the correct one, since fusion tech is the later-developed tech, and fuerthermore since fusion secondaries are FAR MORE EFFICIENT than purely-fissile weapons. in fact, whoever drew that jpeg it took you 30 minutes to find is probably basing his guess on the declassified "fat man" and "little boy" weapons, which did indeed have fission secondaries...way back in the *1940's*, since which time the technology has progressed QUITE a LOT. either way, leaving aside the "guesses" about the w88 and w78, there are still FOUR OTHER WARHEADS IN ACTIVE SERVICE from the page you linked me with MUCH MORE SPECIFIC INFORMATION...and they are all FUSION DEVICES. again, to assume that the two other warheads have fission secondaries would be to assume that a totally different, more inefficient, and REGRESSIVE nuclear technology reaching back to the 1940's is being used in just those two warheads. so i guess you still owe me four dick sucks. still gonna pass on those, champ! i know you are something of a science guy and everything, but you're exposing yourself as a nescient dilettante anent nuclear weapon science...with an ego the size of barack obama's! it's not "sophistry" to use the website YOU PROVIDED to try to put you to a little bit of education about the state of modern nuclear weapon technology. you'll notice whenever *i* make a mistake, i pull out a quick "touchÃ©", because, after all, people screw up all the time or sometimes have the wrong information. but don't get mad at *me* because you were wrong. i was polite to you the first time until you pulled out the sexual stuff and called me an idiot, which was totally uncalled for. now, i don't need you to apologise to me...and at any rate, i think you've made it clear that you're *far* to small a man to do so...but it would be nice for you to grant that you probably jumped the gun with your cocksucking challenge and go ahead and take your lick on this one. again, knoweldge of the progression of the science besides, YOUR website clearly shows that at LEAST 4 confirmed active-service nuclear warheads are of LiD fusion secondary. here's a cheap shot so that you can feel justified in your anger at me: is this how jesus would tell you to act when someone politely tries to correct you? i really don't wanna hear *anything* from you about me being condescending or an asshole anymore. i've been nice to you; i have complimented your grasp of science; i have never attacked you out of the blue as you seem to have so much trouble avoiding doing with me. if you're going to talk down to people, you might stick to the electrical engineering...that;s a field that you obviously know WAY more than me and probably everyone else on this blog. military nukephys, however, is clearly not in your area of expertise.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 11:30 PM (79EF9)

680 686 Even more reason to float a laminate -- it'll help make it less "echo-ey".

We talkin' Pergo from the land of Swedish Meatballs and IKEA and available at Dome Hepot kind of laminate?

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 03, 2012 03:24 AM (/OhbZ)

Home Depot has a red underlayment with little white beanbag-chair filler attached to it that I used when I did my hallway (side note -- nearly freakin' killed me.....laminate is super-easy in rooms, a hassle on edges, a big bitch in doorways -- guess what hallways have a lot of). I did Bruce and it looks and feels really nice. Pergo's generally thinner, and the IKEA stuff thinner, still -- but probably better than granite-painted concrete for that application.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 11:30 PM (kaalw)

681 Is there paint on this floor? yes. maroon. nice color. painted over concrete. left unsealed. So when we tried to scrub various layers of paint splatter off, the color came with and now we have a mottled or marbled maroon // distressed urban loft kind of look. So we planned on taking the unsealed paint off. Comparison of the various paint strippers has begun. Helpful hints arriving. Discussion continuing. Come on in ...

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 11:31 PM (/OhbZ)

682 Great, a flame war based on the definition of thermonuclear/H-bomb. The Scholastics would be proud.

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 11:32 PM (V/U0X)

683 I did Bruce and it looks and feels really nice. Pergo's generally thinner, and the IKEA stuff thinner, still -- but probably better than granite-painted concrete for that application. I mentioned pergo since we did some rooms at the old new house. flooring OK. pergo baseboards are the unbending work of the devil ... I was going with a faux granite paint look cause 4 cans of paint are ahem ... cheap ... But the hubby does like wood // wood looking laminate ...

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 11:36 PM (/OhbZ)

684 @655 ha-ha, if you've noticed how others on this blog tend to treat me when i am trying to be nice, you'll know i won't confuse you for being argumentative...in fact, you're positively a sweetheart by comparison♥ you're right about obama. i do think he is a narcissist without a doubt, and i do think that he doesn't actually have the capability to sympathise with others. however, i feel like he somehow has the ability to make it *seem* like he's in tune with others' feelings -- "project empathy" is a good way to put it. i may not have made it clear, but i was trying to agree with you that the "charisma" of a politician is not the same thing as an inherent likeablility...and if anything is more of a manipulative personality that somehow fools others into thinking that the charismatic is on their side. i'm not sure what you mean about benghazi -- you mean the denials, or you mean the fact that obama didn't feel the need to beef up the security because nobody would wanna attack barack obama's country in the first place? what i *do* think he really believes is this new business about it being *everybody else in washington's fault* that obama was unable to effect the changes he promised (except stopping the rise of the oceans...the maldives are still above sea level, so i guess obama was able to stop the real phenomenon of global warming!). i think obama is incapable of believing that *anything* is his fault, because i really think he believes in his own transcendent ability. i just dunno where he *got* an ago that size, given his pretty unspectacular life...

Posted by: jimi ray at October 02, 2012 11:41 PM (79EF9)

685 But the hubby does like wood // wood looking laminate ... Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 03, 2012 03:36 AM (/OhbZ) Uh, huh huh huhhuhuhuhuh Heeheeheeheehee

Posted by: Beavis and Butt-Head at October 02, 2012 11:45 PM (V/U0X)

686 Oh well... Roses are red, Violets are blue, Along with the paint stripping, I've weed spraying and laundry to do ... Good night, all! Better tomorrows.

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 02, 2012 11:45 PM (/OhbZ)

687 night, Adriane

Posted by: jc at October 02, 2012 11:47 PM (ufJKx)

688 692 I did Bruce and it looks and feels really nice. Pergo's generally thinner, and the IKEA stuff thinner, still -- but probably better than granite-painted concrete for that application.

I mentioned pergo since we did some rooms at the old new house. flooring OK. pergo baseboards are the unbending work of the devil ...

I was going with a faux granite paint look cause 4 cans of paint are ahem ... cheap ...

But the hubby does like wood // wood looking laminate ...

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at October 03, 2012 03:36 AM (/OhbZ)

IKEA's stuff is dirt cheap -- $0.12/ft for underlayment ("NIVÃ…") and SLÃ„TTEN flooring at $0.65/ft (or step-up to TUNDRA at $1.15). At 11x13, you're talking less than $200 of materials for the main floor. You'll want to change the baseboard all 'round, so figure that in, and -- here's where you'll flinch -- transitions at every doorway. I got so pissed that I fabricated custom moldings out of oak on a router table and cut 'em to size with a scrollsaw. At $32/gal for Behr concrete paint, laminate doesn't look half bad.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 11:56 PM (kaalw)

689 Oops, look like I did too much research.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 02, 2012 11:57 PM (kaalw)

690 Kevin Williamson FTW: Twenty years in the Reverend Jeremiah WrightÂ’s pews tells us a great deal more about what kind of political animal Barack Obama is than a lifetime of conventional Mormon piety tells us about what kind of political animal Mitt Romney is. The Mormon faith produces Mitt Romneys, but it also produces Harry Reids. Is black-liberation theology comparably diverse in its political consequences? No, it is not. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/329084/prophets-motives-kevin-d-williamson

Posted by: logprof at October 02, 2012 11:59 PM (V/U0X)

691 since i actually know a little bit about the history of nuclear weapon development, i assume that the guess about a *fusion* secondary is the correct one

The physical packaging, weight and (relatively) diminutive size of a mirv warheads suggests otherwise. It suggests that any fusion is simply producing free neutrons to optimize the fission reaction that's making the bulk of the bang.

You can't jam enough fusion material into a secondary's core in this diminutive form factor, no matter where its located, to have that be the main destructive power. You can't stuff 10lb of shit into a 5lb bag.

The most accurate way to describe these devices is hybrids. A tiny fusion reaction pumps neutrons to optimize a fission reaction that makes the bulk of the bang.

The fact that the majority of them have selectable yield should be a clue as to the nature of the secondary as well. You get selectable yields by using shuttering mechanisms to adjust neutron reflector efficiencies on fission cores...you can shape a blast this way too...

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 12:11 AM (MQLiy)

692 All right, shit done died. Time to call it a night. Sleep sweet, y'all, and oscillate wildly http://youtu.be/6rIPcbJ7jBw

Posted by: logprof at October 03, 2012 12:14 AM (V/U0X)

693 *shrug* I give my garbage man, mail carrier and UPS driver gifts every year, but I don't fault people who ignore them. Mitt "working" those jobs, even for a day is kind of humanizing. +1, Mitt, +1.

Posted by: Jordan at October 03, 2012 12:16 AM (RSG1I)

694 here's where you'll flinch -- transitions at every doorway.

Yea, they always want crazy money for that final finish trim shit. Router is the best way to go.

Best way to do new trims for a whole room too. I've turned cheap 1X dimensional lumber into pricy millwork looking stuff. To router all raw trim, shellac knots, and paint trim for an office only took about 3 hours.

A Roman Ogee bit makes a nice classy looking trim edge.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 12:17 AM (MQLiy)

695 "The Mormon faith produces Mitt Romneys, but it also produces Harry Reids." It produces dupes, charlatans and frauds. The "Mormon faith" is a cult. Not as bad as Islam, but it still stinks: Golden tablets, magic underwear and Mitt Romney. All lies and liars.

Posted by: Jordan at October 03, 2012 12:20 AM (RSG1I)

696 I hate dealing with low class idiots in large groups.

But...I think everything is sorted!

Too bad the thread died.

Posted by: Robert at October 03, 2012 12:22 AM (4ixH5)

697 Good night, Adriane!

Sweet dreams of Ben Browder stripping to Seal.*

Stripping here is defined as...nah, I'll just let you use your imagination.

Posted by: Robert at October 03, 2012 12:24 AM (4ixH5)

698 I guess I left out the most prominent feature of Mormonism. They fuck their kids. Why does Mitt's family come from Mexico? Because they could fuck their kids there, which was (is) illegal here. There's a group of FLDS just down the road from me. I'm sharpening my pitchfork and preparing the tar and feathers.

Posted by: Jordan at October 03, 2012 12:29 AM (RSG1I)

699

"Not as bad as Islam"

how generous of you.

Posted by: JParker at October 03, 2012 12:43 AM (8HhF2)

700 705 Too bad the thread died.

Posted by: Robert at October 03, 2012 04:22 AM

There's still activity in these remains. It's not dead yet.

Posted by: fuchs- outpost 31 at October 03, 2012 12:46 AM (yBF/9)

701 @700 i don't know anything about mirv warheads, and i'll freely admit that i didn't even know what that acronym meant until you used it here today (tho i had seen the acronym in nuke context before). i have been researching it a little in the meantime, and i came across this pitcure http://bit.ly/3KgLzK of a test of the usa peacekeeper mirv that is incredibly frightening o.o it's definitely true that fusion stages can be used to boost the output of a warhead that uses fission as it's primary blast (primary in the sense of "main", not as we were using it earlier) in precisely the way you describe, and that certainly has been done in the past, but that has been achieved with simple D2 and even T2 gas, not the much richer LiD that is used in the secondaries of thermonuclear weapons, so i really don't think that's what is going on with MOST of the weapons i linked to -- however, i have no problem granting that you might be right on time in the case of the mirv warheads, since the fusion-assisted-fission design does, as you say, allow for a smaller packaging that can be shaped in a lot of ways (even spherical). your point about variable yield -- in the *same proper warhead* -- is also well-taken. nevertheless, it's certainly possible to design a warhead with different amounts of fuel to alter the yield and still keep it in the same package; the usa has been doing that for ages throughout the era of nuclear testing. blast-shaping, too, is something that is totally independent of whether the warhead is primarily fusion- or fission-actuated. still, again, those weapons use *gas-phase* d2 (as opposed to solid LiD) as the fusion boosting fuel. since the *majority* of the weapons listed on that first appear to use LiD in "thermonuclear" (which is really the key word, because that only applied to the two-stage fusion weapons) designs, they cannot be fission weapons. ...HOWEVER, all that being said, re-reading the website on the *w87*, it is clear that the design uses not only a fissile uranium secondary, but D2-T2 gas...there is no LiD to be found in that warhead. apparently -- also according to that website -- this is the warhead that is deployed on the peacekeeper mirv's. SO! *yes*, the w87 is *not* an h-bomb, and it works *precisely* as you have describe here. i didn't know anything about this style of warhead still being in use, and i had no idea about the function of mirv's. while that really doesn't change the fact that the rest of the warheads...i..e, the "majority" of the us nuclear weapons stockpile, which was the original argument...are indeed still thermonuclear and would indeed still be called "h-bombs" in popular parlance, i have no problem admitting that you learned me something tonight. now, i want to revisit the w88, whose picture you linked, because while it is apparently based on the w87 design, and it does apparently use D2-T2 gas for reaction boosting, the website maintains that it uses an LiD fusion core for its main detonation. i'm not sure if that's because warheads that can be used on mirv's are very similar to the warheads that are used on more traditional BM's (the w88 is launched from nuke subs according to the website) but whatever the reason, the w88, which is based on the w87, doesn't appear to work anything like the w87 does. the website is making guesses on the w87 because of classification, but it all appears to check out with what i know. so, though it's still correct to say that the *majority* of the deployed weapons in the usa arsenal are thermonuclear -- and certainly incorrect to say that there is not a single thermonuclear weapon still in active service -- you're certainly right about the MIRV warheads being an modern implementation of the fusion-boosted-fission weapons that were used before the thermonuclear design had been perfected, and that is something that i did *not* know before tonight. now, see if we had *started* the discussion like this, we could have *both* learned something new today without you having to owe me any sexual favours

i really don't know what you have against me, because you're one of the posters i enjoy most...being as you're probably one of three or four posters here who could even have this discussion in the first place. i'm nice to you. there's no need to be so nasty to me just because i'm offering some information. :/

Posted by: jimi ray at October 03, 2012 12:47 AM (79EF9)

702 "Not as bad as Islam" how generous of you. Definitely not as bad as Islam. I hate religion, Mormons included. Child-fucking aside, they seem a decent lot. An unknown fact about Mormons is that they dominate city planning, being the best irrigators and water engineers.

Posted by: Jordan at October 03, 2012 12:49 AM (RSG1I)

703

anyway i think it's obvious that, regardless of whether people care all that much about the theology or not, Mormonism is a heretical form of Christianity. however i am a little (just a liiiittle) more sympathetic toward a heretical form of Christianity that largely retains a certain sense of morality and decency for its communities that the broader culture has lost, than a religion that inspires people to subjugate infidels and gives people excuses to act like lunatics.

of course, as we all know from our moral betters at Newsweek, people like Romney only help out other Mormons so nothing counts really. true compassion is passing out birth control and freeing the oppressed womyn spirit.

Posted by: JParker at October 03, 2012 12:50 AM (8HhF2)

704

"all religion sux"

tru intellectualism yo.

Posted by: JParker at October 03, 2012 12:52 AM (8HhF2)

705

i give you libs credit for being consistent at least: not only must every aspect of society be radically egalitarian, but everything Officially Bad must suck equally, whether it's a religion that inspires suicide bombers or the religion that founded the civilization without which your dumbass ideas wouldn't exist

Posted by: JParker at October 03, 2012 12:54 AM (8HhF2)

706 "all religion sux" x2 Yup. It does.

Posted by: Jordan at October 03, 2012 12:54 AM (RSG1I)

707 Yo.

Posted by: Jordan at October 03, 2012 12:57 AM (RSG1I)

708 "the religion that founded the civilization without which your dumbass ideas wouldn't exist" I'd like to think, though I may be wrong, that most of the ideas of republicanism and democracy came from the Greeks, who were not Christians. That said, I give due credit to the FF, who were.

Posted by: Jordan at October 03, 2012 01:01 AM (RSG1I)

709 703 here's where you'll flinch -- transitions at every doorway.

Yea, they always want crazy money for that final finish trim shit. Router is the best way to go.

Best way to do new trims for a whole room too. I've turned cheap 1X dimensional lumber into pricy millwork looking stuff. To router all raw trim, shellac knots, and paint trim for an office only took about 3 hours.

A Roman Ogee bit makes a nice classy looking trim edge.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 04:17 AM (MQLiy)

So, the hallway had stains in the wall-to-wall, looked like crap, wanted laminate with runners.....there were nine freakin' transitions in that little 3'x25' space -- and more than half had metal doorframes that were impossible to cut under.....and then the differences in flooring height! Go to carpet, go to tile, go to hardwood, go to vinyl over plywood....

It's done now, but I could have done a full basketball court with six doors easier than that little bitch. I really liked the product I was using, but if I had to do it all over again, I'd do it somewhere else.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 03, 2012 01:04 AM (kaalw)

710 Considering how successful Romney was in the line of work he was in, if he is worth only an estimated $250 million today, he must have given away a lot of money. He made billionaires. There are ranchers worth more than Romney is worth. There are CEOs that get $100 million per year in salary in this country. Romney isn't really all *that* rich. He most have given away 50 fortunes in his time.

Posted by: crosspatch at October 03, 2012 01:24 AM (ZbLJZ)

711 nevertheless, it's certainly possible to design a warhead with different amounts of fuel to alter the yield and still keep it in the same package

The dial-a-yield stuff we have is field configurable prior to use, not factory produced variations on a theme.

the website maintains that it uses an LiD fusion core for its main detonation.

As I said, you can't stuff 10lb of shit in a 5lb bag. Obviously, the tiny inner fusion secondary bump is being used to optimize fissile material usage by allowing the fissile shell to be compressed from inside and outside. Its a clever design.

Much more efficient than compressing solid uranium/plutonium baseball size spheres where the innermost region of the sphere wouldn't be a major player in the compression. The shell design has ALL the fissile material participating at optimum levels straight away.

But, the necessity of maintaining secondary's implosion integrity also kind of dictates that the secondary's fusion "mini-core" material (inside the fissile shell) has to be pretty isolated from the primary and won't be getting any fuel boost from anywhere anytime soon -- i.e. its yield has to be fixed and small for the most part.

Clearly the little fusion mini-core in the secondary blows after the outer fissile shell starts it implosion/compression. The x-ray pre-heat would get it ready to go, and the temperature rise and from the HE/HEI compression charges squeezing it and setting off the fissile material shell pushes it over the edge.

I suspect this fusion material mini-core subsystem is compelled to be very small physically just to maintain the physical integrity of the fissile shell during its first stages of compression. If the fissile shell krinkled up like a ball of aluminum foil due to poor physical integrity, the whole thing would go squib. There'd be a bang of some sort, but not what you expected.

If they were in fact using fusion as principal blast force, there's no need for all the complexity involved in the secondary with neutron reflectors, spherical shell fissile material, shuttering devices (which I infer must be present for field selectable yield), etc. You'd just use the primary to torch up fusion material (more or less) directly as Teller's scheme did.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 01:35 AM (MQLiy)

712 Big bomb go boom.

Posted by: Robert says brevity is the soul of wit at October 03, 2012 01:49 AM (4ixH5)

713 The shell design has ALL the fissile material participating at optimum levels straight away.

It should also be noted that having fissile material in a shell format rather than solid configuration (as in the A-bomb "classic" Iran/Nork type version) would allow the reflector shuttering have a finer and more predictable granularity of yield adjustment since more of the fissile material mass is near the reflector.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 01:57 AM (MQLiy)

714 sigh. i guess it's just too much to ask that you don't pretend like you're an expert on something that you didn't know anything about before doing some wikipedia research in the extreme lengths between all of your postings tonight so that you could throw out words like "clearly" and "obviously" in a pathetic play at sound like you've known what you're talking about all along. you didn't think it would be obvious what you were doing when you took a hour to write each new 4-pgph post? you really think someone like *me* wouldn't see thru that if you just peppered it with power words like "obviously"? i'm sick of playing games with a 60-year old whose ego couldn't fit into a *50*-lb bag, but let me just clue you in one last time: "If they were in fact using fusion as principal blast force, there's no need for all the complexity involved in the secondary with neutron reflectors, spherical shell fissile material, shuttering devices (which I infer must be present for field selectable yield), etc." L O L while it appears that the w88 weapon is in fact a simple implosion weapon, this statement is an *utterly nescient* statement that exposes an ignorance so about how the science of nuclear weapon design that it's baffling that you're still attempting to convince someone that obviously *does* understand the actual science of nuclear warheads without having had to spend this entire thread on wikipedia tonight that you have the first clue. ...yeah, let's just *waste* all that yield. it's a thermonuke, who cares about making it better? i know your type. they are *all* over the physics department -- and they all hate me, too. you're one of those who has to pretend he's an expert on *everything* to satisfy his desire for everyone to think he's a genius. at least it's becoming more clear why you don't like me...as you consider yourself someone who has an extreme amount of knowledge, you just can't stand the fact that someone half your age has somehow accumulated so much more than you in half the time. it's the same thing with phd's who can't stand that they have to come ask some kid with a bioE undergraduate degree who worked in finance and doesn't even have his phd yet when they need help on a general relativity. they don't mind coming to ask me for help, but they're sure to waste my time lecturing me on some totally irrelevant bit of physics in order to establish, in their own minds *only*, some sort of superiority over me. i figured at least stroking your ego a little bit would draw a concession, but nope, not from the PURPLE AVENGER. he'll never admit he's not an expert on everything in the world. /rolleyes starting to see why ace replaced you with rdbrewer (who also doesn't know as much about at least cosmology as he thinks)...it must have been pretty embarrassing to have a wikipedia-trash clown like you representing the science section of the smartest con blog on the net with stuff that is clearly plagiarised and reworded from wikipedia and other google-fu sources. ...you know, maybe i *will* collect on those cocksuckings, just so i can teach you a little humility.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 03, 2012 02:00 AM (79EF9)

715 @722 uh, yeah, that's a tautology. "it should be noted"? how poor is your grasp of the physics involved that you use that kind of language with a tautology? i'll try not to get it in your eye.

Posted by: jimi ray at October 03, 2012 02:02 AM (79EF9)

716 that you didn't know anything about before doing some wikipedia research

Never looked at Wiki at all writing any of that. Its all stuff that pretty much has to work that way (or pretty close) once you know the basics of how a bomb works, and what kind of physical form factor was crammed into.

Did you get that? THE PHYSICAL PACKAGE told me a lot about how the innards had to work.

Think like an engineer. You have this/that/the other constraints, you can't alter the laws of physics, now how may ways can something possibly work within those constraints?

We already know the internal primary/secondary general configuration from the non-classified stuff that came out in the PRC incident and the design defect review that showed the W-88 vulnerability to accidental detonations due to HE rather than HEI use, inadequate base heat shielding, and a couple of other issues.

Its a tech puzzle. Just fit the pieces together.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 02:18 AM (MQLiy)

717

Uh...Yeah. About Obama not speaking in negro dialect? I take that back.

Posted by: Harry Reid at October 03, 2012 02:19 AM (ZKyCh)

718 how poor is your grasp of the physics involved that you use that kind of language with a tautology?

I'm technically wrong? Do you believe its easier to tune yield on a solid fissile mass with a reflector shutter device rather than a shell configuration?

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 02:22 AM (MQLiy)

719 My garbage man is rarely the same person as he is someone from the county jail out on work privileges. Do I still have to hug him or would that be breaking the law?

Posted by: Up with people! A man. at October 03, 2012 02:31 AM (kzFo5)

720 morning all
I am thinking I should pick up a case of beer in anticipation of tonight's debate

Posted by: chemjeff at October 03, 2012 02:32 AM (d/5qf)

721 They just replayed the Bush nod, and laugh when Al Gore walked up to him at the debates. Still hilarious after all these years.

Posted by: Up with people! A man. at October 03, 2012 02:34 AM (kzFo5)

722 Does anyone have a tape of JFK or FDR speaking in a different accent to black audiences?

When did this become a requirement for democrat politicians? (Obama, Biden, and Hillary have all done it.)

Do Hispanics expect Obama to sound like Jose Jiminez? I don't think so. Do New Yorkers think he should sound like he grew up on the Lower East Side? No.

So is this expected now of speakers before black audiences? Is this something that became required over the last 10 years or so? I frankly don't understand why it is necessary. If Romney had appeared in front of the NAACP feigning a black accent I am sure they would have felt insulted.

Just throwing outsome questions because I am truly puzzled as to why Obama does this.

Posted by: Miss Marple at October 03, 2012 02:34 AM (GoIUi)

723 #730 I think that is when he won the election. One of the greatest moments in debate history!

Posted by: Miss Marple at October 03, 2012 02:35 AM (GoIUi)

724 Followup question - if I hug the garbage man is he going to think I'm his buddy and show up to my house when he finishes his jail sentence?

Posted by: Up with people! A man. at October 03, 2012 02:36 AM (kzFo5)

725 Look Jimi -- basic bomb design is not a deep dark secret.

Any reasonably competent science/engineering undergrad can design a bomb (on paper) that will go bang. In fact, one did years ago. Go Google the name John Aristotle Phillips. He was student in one of Dyson's undergrad physics classes and designed a bomb as a class project as a Hail Mary attempt to save a failing semester. When Dyson saw the Phillips design he called the FBI because it was his opinion it would work After the Phillips story leaked out to the press, Saddam had a couple of his goons looking to steal the Phillips design.

The Phillips design wasn't even a crude Trinity/FatMan bargain basement design either. It was compact, had neutron reflectors, and a lot of the refinements you might see in some of Ted Taylor's fission designs we deployed in the field.

The smallest self contained fission weapon we ever made was a Taylor design. He never said exactly how small it was only that it was smaller than a grapefruit, and larger than an orange ;->

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 02:40 AM (MQLiy)

726 re 731: well, when campaigning in southern Germany, didn't Hitler slip into saying "Du alles..."?

Posted by: mallfly at October 03, 2012 02:49 AM (NI3M5)

727 Definitely not as bad as Islam. I hate religion, Mormons included. Child-fucking aside, they seem a decent lot. An unknown fact about Mormons is that they dominate city planning, being the best irrigators and water engineers. Posted by: Jordan at October 03, 2012 04:49 AM (RSG1I) Child-f*cking aside? G-d you are a nasty person. What are you trying to do? Somehow say R is a pedophile? and then use some backhanded compliment about city planning.

Posted by: osu at October 03, 2012 02:49 AM (fDmoN)

728 That arrogant little prick Rahm I'mthemanuel is spending a couple gazillion to convert car lanes to bike lanes in city streets. This fucktard commie thinks that will cause people to stop using their cars and use bikes, instead Just what this city needs, narrower streets and more traffic congestion. jerkoff

Posted by: dodging bullets in Chicago at October 03, 2012 02:52 AM (befMf)

729 Yaaawnn. Mornin' good people.

Posted by: teej says go K-State at October 03, 2012 02:56 AM (HEWhR)

730 Rahm will overreach. He'll leave office in handcuffs.

Posted by: @PurpAv at October 03, 2012 03:13 AM (MQLiy)

731 Jordan, we wouldn't know jackshit about the Greeks and Romans had their works and ideas been preserved by monks during the Dark Ages. Christianity, unlike Islam, did not try to destroy all that came before it. You're an ignorant little puke, aren't you?

Posted by: Donna V. at October 03, 2012 03:44 AM (dcIHW)

732 Dear Penthouse Letters, I joined the Sanitation Workers Union to collect trash. Trash and hugs. Trash and hugs and a little something extra, youknowwhatimean? One hot and sweaty day...

Posted by: Richard Hayes, AFSCME Tool and Deluded Penthouse Letters Fan at October 03, 2012 04:04 AM (uXvLX)

733 The letter from Heinlein to Sturgeon was terrific. It was dated 1955, and mentions that Heinlein and his wife Virginia were about to leave the country on a trip. Could that have been the round-the-world jaunt they took that resulted in his memoir Tramp Royale[/]? It's been years since I read it, and I don't recall the dates of the trip.

The weird thing about the trip was that they went all around the world, nearly all by land or by sea, and never missed a connection until they got back to Denver and missed their plane to Colorado Springs. And the only place they hated was New Zealand. They said the food was awful, the people were rude -- to the extent that Ginny, who hated to fly, actually asked Robert if they could book a flight back to Hawaii. She wanted to get home, and fast.

I hope New Zealand has changed in 60 years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 03, 2012 06:00 AM (exvgC)

734 Oops.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 03, 2012 06:00 AM (exvgC)

735 704 "The Mormon faith produces Mitt Romneys, but it also produces Harry Reids."

It produces dupes, charlatans and frauds. The "Mormon faith" is a cult. Not as bad as Islam, but it still stinks: Golden tablets, magic underwear and Mitt Romney. All lies and liars.

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Who let the angry dumb troll in? Can someone please shut the window so more don't fly in.

Posted by: Evan Maughan at October 03, 2012 06:38 AM (iV63h)

736 Whaddya expect, a union to praise the personal values of scabs like Mitt Romney??!

Posted by: Chris Balsz at October 03, 2012 08:47 AM (3GtyG)

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