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May 02, 2012

Overnight Open Thread (4-2-2012)
— Maetenloch

Okay this is supposed to be a snarky criticism of the American military but perhaps unintentionally it also captures a key feature behind the success of the US military and the country at large: We're quite comfortable with a certain level of chaos.

Now that may not seem like much of an advantage until you realize just how poorly most other nations and cultures do handle it. Many places in the world are far better organized than we are - both government-wise and business-wise and even culturally. So in times of stability they will tend to do quite well since they're able to focus lots of national resources with far less inefficiency than the US does e.g. pretty much all the things which give Thomas Friedman a mental erection.

Which is great. Until times aren't so stable.

Then their organization and efficiency turns out to be quite brittle - when there's no official in charge and hence no 'official' way to keep the system running people will tend to just stop and wait for someone(else) to come handle it. You get paralysis instead of initiative.

But one of the hidden strengths in America is that while we tend to chafe at authority - especially the more centralized and organized it is - we are also very good at self-organizing. Throw a bunch of Americans together along with a challenging task and pretty quickly they'll come up with plan(s) and someone (or someones) will step up to take charge. It won't be pretty and it won't be very organized and it may not be the 'best' solution and it'll sure *look* like chaos, but it is likely to get done and work.

And because this kind of organization is organic it's also more robust - if the task changes or people come and go, the group can adapt and improvise on the fly. After all this isn't all that different from how most Americans operate in their daily lives at work.

So we'll never win awards for our national organization or have the trophy projects to show off like some countries, but when chaos does come we're able to deal with it, adapt, and even thrive on it. For us chaos = opportunity.

Which is good because I suspect there's going to be a good deal of chaos coming down the road.

Fox Sports' Tim McCarver: Global Warming is Causing More Home Runs in MLB

It's not newer parks, steroids, better training, or changes in the balls - nope it's ~~demons~~ global warmening:

On Fox Sports' coverage of Saturday's Milwaukee Brewers-St. Louis Cardinals baseball game analyst Tim McCarver theorized about why home runs seems to be flying out of ball parks. He thinks it's global warming/climate change:
Tim McCarver: "[T]he air is thinning.. There have been climatic changes over the last 50 years.. I think that's one of the reasons balls are carrying much better now."

Joe Buck [Fox Sports play-by-play announcer]: "So that's your 'inconvenient truth' about it?"
McCarver: "You're going to find it out one of these days, yes."

Yep the air is getting thinner. So in that case...wouldn't more CO₂ (or anything else) be a good thing?

Why India's Caste System Persists

My American friends frequently ask me why India's caste system, a pre-feudalistic division of labor that assigns one's line of work at birth, has persisted into the 21st century in defiance of every civilized notion of justice and equality. I thought I knew the answer: The need of the privileged upper castes for cheap labor to do their dirty work. But there is an even more tragic explanation that I discovered during a recent visit to New Delhi while talking to Maya, the dalit or untouchable-the lowest of the four castes-who has serviced my family for 35 years. Maya herself clings to her caste because it offers her the best possible life, even in modern India.

Read the article to see how the caste system offers those at the bottom a certain minimal standard of living even if it also limits them from ever escaping it. And in India even something low down is better than nothing.

The 5 Creepiest Disappearances That Nobody Can Explain

For 20 years, Ray Gricar was the district attorney of Centre County, Pennsylvania. He was a solid man with a tough reputation. On April 15, 2005, Gricar phoned his girlfriend and told her he was driving in the countryside and would be back soon.

He never returned.

Investigators found that at the time of his disappearance in 2005, Gricar was working on what would be known as the Penn State sex abuse scandal, which may or may not end up revealing an assistant football coach as a horrible dickbag who deserves all the prison. You know, that scandal that just broke last year. Gricar was working on it six years earlier.
Then he vanished.
Furthermore, investigators found out Gricar had in 1998 mysteriously refused to press charges against the coach despite having more than enough evidence. In 2005, same thing. It was almost like he was stacking evidence for the mother of all judicial beatdowns.

Welcome To The NFL - Here's Your New Life

An open letter to future top NFL draft picks Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III from former NFL player Nate Jackson:

After negotiating your contracts, you both will surely buy a house in an affluent suburb where no 22-year-old would be happy living. Your new neighbors will be rich as well, facelifted, lipo-sucked, Xanaxed and dripping in diamonds, simply delighted to welcome you to the neighborhood. You will commission an interior decorator, recommended by a neighbor, to furnish your home. This will guarantee it feels nothing like Home. And someday, when all of this is over, you'll walk through and gaze upon the marble columns and the embroidered drapes like artifacts in a museum, wondering why you ever listened to that woman.

No Jacking Off in Prison

Because if a female guard sees it, then you'll be listed as a sex offender:

(Hartford, Connecticut) At the Northern Correctional Institution, masturbating male inmates have been regularly observed by female workers.
According to Lisamarie Fontano, president of the prison workers union, over 500 official masturbation reports were recorded last year.

As a result, lawmakers have introduced legislation to seemingly criminalize acts of masturbation committed while incarcerated. It's reported that those prison inmates caught whipping the frosting will be required to register as sex offenders upon release from prison.
It's not clear how the scheme will work but it is conceivable that the offending inmate would simply have his file tagged for a post-release administrative adjustment.

Kittehs Need Relaxation Too

And the neck massager really hits the spot.

Kate Upton ~~Jiggles~~ Dances

Or something.

Teh Tweet!

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Posted by: Maetenloch at 06:25 PM | Comments (584)
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1 RIP Junior Seau. Prayers for his family and friends.

Posted by: NC Ref at May 02, 2012 06:27 PM (/izg2)

2 Hasn't total number of home runs actually dropped the last few years?

Posted by: Hurricanes at May 02, 2012 06:30 PM (NrdQS)

3 Woot, SCoaMF is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: Jimmah at May 02, 2012 06:30 PM (UpwlP)

4 Yo Morons

Posted by: fluffy at May 02, 2012 06:31 PM (O6q63)

5 American society encourages individualism and provides an opportunity for people to achieve success despite huge obstacles. That carries over into the spirit of American troops and God bless them for their service.

Posted by: NC Ref at May 02, 2012 06:31 PM (/izg2)

6 Feeling like something the cat drug in.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at May 02, 2012 06:32 PM (JKNDp)

7
We do and succeed because we're Americans, products of the best country on the planet.

Simple as that.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 02, 2012 06:33 PM (SAMxH)

8 That Kate Upton video was boring.

Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at May 02, 2012 06:33 PM (49JQ9)

9 Uh, how exactly does air get "thinner" when you add one co2 molecule per 100,000 air molecules. Seems to me it would get thicker by 1/100,000 th.

Posted by: Jimmah at May 02, 2012 06:34 PM (UpwlP)

10 I declare this thread squatch-free.

Posted by: toby928© at May 02, 2012 06:34 PM (NG097)

11 That article on Connecticut prisons is bullcrap. The sex offender label is in danger of becoming useless.

Posted by: Alex at May 02, 2012 06:34 PM (zSobX)

12 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable dog-eater.

And Kate Upton is haaaaaawwwwwwt....

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 02, 2012 06:34 PM (DvLEA)

13 McCarver is still in love with the sound of his own thoughts. There's a good reason that he has never managed a team himself.

Posted by: kbdabear at May 02, 2012 06:34 PM (Y+DPZ)

14 So the moron who's catch phrase is "end the end there will be only chaos" is being a Jingoistic American? Who knew?

Posted by: someone at May 02, 2012 06:34 PM (bqjJT)

15 How to explain Pujols batting this year, in LA? Lotsa warming there, duh.

Posted by: Justamom at May 02, 2012 06:34 PM (Sptt8)

Rangers/Caps 1 to 1 in OT

Thank God there is a new thread!

Posted by: jinxthecat at May 02, 2012 06:35 PM (l3vZN)

17 Spurs beat down Jazz, go up 2-0.

And it was good...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 02, 2012 06:35 PM (DvLEA)

18 Katherine Ross was definitely hot in her young days

Posted by: kbdabear at May 02, 2012 06:35 PM (Y+DPZ)

McCarver is still in love with the sound of his own thoughts. There's a good reason that he has never managed a team himself.

How does he feel about Castro?

Posted by: fluffy at May 02, 2012 06:36 PM (O6q63)

20 Kate Upton is the greatest dancer in our time. I can't quit watching, it's hypnotic. Thank God I'm not in prison right now, or I could be in some trouble.

Posted by: Jollyroger at May 02, 2012 06:36 PM (c7FHx)

21 I just saw the South Park episode "It's a Jersey Thing"

Now I remember why I haven't been back there in 15 years, and it's my home state

Posted by: kbdabear at May 02, 2012 06:36 PM (Y+DPZ)

22 Testing....

Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at May 02, 2012 06:36 PM (bWFjb)

23 That is in fact the worm at the heart of ANY attempt at a "planned" society: it presupposes a steady state, or at least changes which are easily predictable, so that the master planners can know what's going to happen. Unfortunately, the real world is NEVER like that. You see it in Europe, where the governments do their damnedest to stifle innovation and "disruption" by favoring large, established companies rather than encouraging start-ups.

If you could somehow succeed in stamping out all change in one country, there will still be disruption coming from abroad. And if you could get stasis-minded technocratic "elites" in charge everywhere, there are still unpredictable random events and discoveries which can't be suppressed.

And if even THAT could be controlled . . . then you're creating a perpetual living death for humanity.

Posted by: Trimegistus at May 02, 2012 06:38 PM (4rD2K)

24 Kate Upton in a formal bikini video ... adds class to everything.

Posted by: Arbalest at May 02, 2012 06:38 PM (9SiBC)

25 During the 80s when I was in, a bit of on your feet thinking for officers was encouraged. The amount I showed was frowned upon but I made rank at the earliest date everytime until I left.

Posted by: jukin at May 02, 2012 06:38 PM (5oKRH)

26 Pujols shouldn't have left St. Louis. His additional income will go to additional taxes and living expenses in LA. Plus, St. Louis is such an easy place to get around, good place to raise a family and super baseball town. But of course we wish him the best.

Posted by: Justamom at May 02, 2012 06:38 PM (Sptt8)

On the battlefield, chaos = opportunity in many cases.

Howdy, morons.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at May 02, 2012 06:39 PM (7yvLv)

28 Tim McCarver has always been a sanctimonious ass, also, i think the moron horde would be the perfect bunch to organize a protest against the criminalization of fapping. FREE TEH FAPPERS!

Posted by: booger at May 02, 2012 06:39 PM (HI6wa)

29 Warren Beatty was supposed to get the role that Dustin Hoffman got--it was written for Beatty and the movie would have been better / more believable

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at May 02, 2012 06:39 PM (Dll6b)

30 Yay, Maet!!!

And, I second the RIP Junior Seau. I was gobsmacked by that and I don't think he killed himself.

Posted by: Peaches at May 02, 2012 06:40 PM (lJ2es)

31 So an old creepy hipster tells Kate to dance and she dances.....I hate the world.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at May 02, 2012 06:40 PM (tKFT6)

32 PJ media has a good article up on the recent beatings of whites by blacks in the name of Justice for Travon. Looks like I'll be coming home this summer just in time for the race riots. Gonna be a hot summer in ol' Savannah. yay.

Posted by: hobbes at May 02, 2012 06:40 PM (+CcmI)

33 Yep the air is getting thinner. So in that case...wouldn't more CO₂ (or anything else) be a good thing?
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CO2 is denser then the more common compounds in the air - O2 and N2.

So...if the marginal increase in air density cause by increased CO2 emissions has any measurable effect at all it would reduce the speed of pitches and the number of home runs.

I'd chalk it up to better training regimes and probably harder to trace steroids.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2012 06:40 PM (3aXbg)

34 To quote the immortal line from Some Like It Hot:

"It's like jello on springs!"

Posted by: Trimegistus at May 02, 2012 06:41 PM (4rD2K)

35 I've got nothin'.

Posted by: Daybrother at May 02, 2012 06:41 PM (g1fN1)

36 Thinner air would mean faster, harder pitches to hit.

Posted by: McCarver extended at May 02, 2012 06:43 PM (ULGz+)

37 Who's going to see the Avengers at midnight tomorrow?

Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at May 02, 2012 06:43 PM (2D6pU)

38 Read the article to see how the caste system offers those at the bottom a certain minimal standard of living even if it also limits them from ever escaping it

Isn't that the message of liberalism?

Sure you'll be a peon...but a peon with free government cheese and all the abortions you want!

Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2012 06:43 PM (3aXbg)

39 So if McCarver is right, the air being thinner would cause less pressure pushing against Kate Uptons breasts allowing them to become larger. Global warming. Bring. It. On.

Posted by: Jollyroger at May 02, 2012 06:43 PM (c7FHx)

40 I'd chalk it up to better training regimes and probably harder to trace steroids.

IIRC, a lot it has to do with changes in hitting technique over the past ten years. Slight changes have helped to increase the number of home runs by creating more efficient swings. Steroids may not actually provide much of an enhancement at all.

Posted by: Alex at May 02, 2012 06:43 PM (zSobX)

41 Nice to know that Bubba the Strangler'd be able to assrape some tiny pothead and have the guards laugh it off; but if Bubba the Harmless Redneck let off the tension by himself and get caught, he'd be registered as a sex offender.

America!

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at May 02, 2012 06:44 PM (QTHTd)

42 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 02, 2012 06:44 PM (JMmQ9)

43 Read the 3rd paragraph - tiny.cc/vjopdw

Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 02, 2012 06:45 PM (YLOye)

44 How do you top the agony of watching a half hour at-bat?

When Tim McCarver has to analyze every excruciating detail of it

The only time I ever saw the idiot shut up was when he was in the booth at Candlestick when the 89 quake hit. He looked like he'd been hit with a cattle stunner

Posted by: kbdabear at May 02, 2012 06:45 PM (Y+DPZ)

45 I want to massage Ms. Upton's kitty...

Posted by: Alex at May 02, 2012 06:45 PM (zSobX)

46 Kate's boobehs are out of control.

Posted by: Crashpanic at May 02, 2012 06:46 PM (H7Nnh)

47 I think ol' Tim took one too many knuckleballs to the brainpan, followed by a few homeplate slides that went the other way.

But boy, does Uecker make great sport of him.

Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 06:46 PM (WhSRj)

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

Posted by: steevy at May 02, 2012 06:46 PM (7W3wI)

49 Hey all!!

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 06:46 PM (DGIjM)

50 At the Northern Correctional Institution, masturbating male inmates have been regularly observed by female workers.
***
Why the hell do we have female guards at a male prison?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2012 06:47 PM (3aXbg)

51 Read the 3rd paragraph - tiny.cc/vjopdw

Does this mean he's got a signed restraining order to go next to the one from Marco Rubio?

Posted by: Alex at May 02, 2012 06:47 PM (zSobX)

52 I'd let Kate Upton do criminal things to me.

Posted by: NewBrunswicker at May 02, 2012 06:47 PM (triNw)

The only sane way to watch a major league baseball game is with heavy drinking. Fun game to play, excruciating to watch.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at May 02, 2012 06:47 PM (7yvLv)

54 "But one of the hidden strengths in America...self-organizing from the bottom"

Government is 'NP-Hard' in programming-speak.

Really groking that makes a hell of a lot of sense out of pretty much most of history.

Take the Traveling Salesman problem. It gets pretty damn hairy if you're trying to (top-down) solve it for 330,000,000 people.

But... If you're willing to fundamentally view the problem as 330,000,000 individual salesmen each with a sliver of the same mission, you'll get something functional in no time flat.

Posted by: Al at May 02, 2012 06:47 PM (MzQOZ)

55 I kinda prefer the Kate Upton Dougie video. Something more alluring about leaving more to the imagination.

Posted by: Waterhouse at May 02, 2012 06:47 PM (EaIqd)

56 41 Who's going to see the Avengers at midnight tomorrow?

Won't be going at midnight, but going this weekend.

Posted by: booger at May 02, 2012 06:48 PM (HI6wa)

57 Albert Pujols stats as of tonight's game;

.206 average, 0 home runs, 5 rbi

He's 0-1 so far

Posted by: kbdabear at May 02, 2012 06:48 PM (Y+DPZ)

58 49 Read the 3rd paragraph - tiny.cc/vjopdw Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 02, 2012 10:45 PM (YLOye) OMG!!!!!!

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 06:48 PM (DGIjM)

59 Crap, Alex, warn us before you send us snorting over to HuffPoop.

Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 06:48 PM (WhSRj)

60 Why the hell do we have female guards at a male prison?

Equal Opportunity. I worked with an NCO who was a guard at a female prison in his civilian life. He said it wasn't uncommon to look into a cell and see some woman masturbating directly in his face. He shrugged it off and continued his rounds. Apparently these women are too sensitive to do that.

Posted by: Alex at May 02, 2012 06:49 PM (zSobX)

61 Why the hell do we have female guards at a male prison?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2012 10:47 PM (3aXbg)

Equal opportunity, ya know. Male guards in female prisons? Not so much, I'm sure.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at May 02, 2012 06:49 PM (7yvLv)

62 Katherine Ross. Yum.

Posted by: Chuck at May 02, 2012 06:49 PM (dSkY8)

63 OTOH, the Kate Upton boobeh pic CBD's been passing around leaves nothing to the imagination, but is wonderful.

Posted by: Waterhouse muses further to himself at May 02, 2012 06:51 PM (EaIqd)

64 69 Hi Shrimps! how is the lotto treating you? Posted by: chemjeff at May 02, 2012 10:50 PM (7FadD) Meh. I am lost since the Indiana lotto was won last week. The thrill is gone.

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 06:51 PM (DGIjM)

Okay this is supposed to be a snarky criticism of the American military but it perhaps unintentionally it also captures a key feature behind the success of the US military and the country at large: We're quite comfortable with a certain level of chaos.

Yeah this in no way seems like a negative to me. And it seems like something others understand even if they don't realize it. Video games and some sci-fi novels seem to recognize it.

Often times in sci-fi games the humans in the game tend to represent Americans and you get lines like "Put 3 humans into a room and you will wind up with 6 opinions"

Or you get a novel that talks about telling people to do something a certain way and they will do it, or you can give them a task to accomplish and they will come up with a method that wasn't even considered before.

Posted by: buzzion at May 02, 2012 06:52 PM (GULKT)

66 64 Seconded, JJS!

Posted by: no good deed at May 02, 2012 06:52 PM (mjR67)

67 A German-born friend of mine, who came to the US as a teenager and fought his way back to Germany with the 82nd Airborne, told me that the great strength of the German soldiers was that they always followed orders, while the great strength of the Americans was that they didn't always follow orders.

Posted by: MDinVA at May 02, 2012 06:52 PM (4oayD)

68 Wikipedia is basically run by those with the most free time and obsessive attention to detail -- ie the high functioning mentally ill. Too crazy to hold a job, sane enough to edit Wikipedia 24/7.

Posted by: Muhammad's Left Nut at May 02, 2012 06:53 PM (ZPrif)

69 49 Read the 3rd paragraph - tiny.cc/vjopdw
Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 02, 2012 10:45 PM (YLOye)

Ace said in the previous post, "I have a good excuse. I went squatching."

Posted by: Moronic P.I. at May 02, 2012 06:53 PM (ULGz+)

70 Flogging the log is a constitutional right!!

Posted by: steevy at May 02, 2012 06:53 PM (7W3wI)

71 Another big contract player not quite earning it

Jose Reyes

.224 average, 0 home runs, 3 rbi, 5 sb, 5 errors

Posted by: kbdabear at May 02, 2012 06:53 PM (Y+DPZ)

72 70 OTOH, the Kate Upton boobeh pic CBD's been passing around leaves nothing to the imagination, but is wonderful.

Posted by: Waterhouse muses further to himself at May 02, 2012 10:51 PM (EaIqd)

Hmmm..what is this pic you speak of?

Posted by: Red Shirt at May 02, 2012 06:55 PM (FIDMq)

73 49 Read the 3rd paragraph - tiny.cc/vjopdw

Oh geez, morons are meeting with Romney and i'm sitting here talking about fapping.

Posted by: booger at May 02, 2012 06:55 PM (HI6wa)

74 Get female feminist guards out of prison! Women are different from men.

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 06:55 PM (lkdo/)

75 The baseball season is very long,you can have a bad month or even 2 and still have a good season.

Posted by: steevy at May 02, 2012 06:55 PM (7W3wI)

Conservative Treehouse is being attacked. Can anyone help them?

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/

Posted by: Lurker person at May 02, 2012 06:55 PM (fNcvP)

77 62 41
Who's going to see the Avengers at midnight tomorrow?

Won't be going at midnight, but going this weekend.
Posted by: booger at May 02, 2012 10:48 PM

Ace says he's going Friday to see it and will write a review when he gets out

Block off the afternoon on your calendar if you plan to read it

Posted by: kbdabear at May 02, 2012 06:56 PM (Y+DPZ)

78 Oh geez, morons are meeting with Romney and i'm sitting here talking about fapping. Posted by: booger at May 02, 2012 10:55 PM (HI6wa) And we dont even need to mention the squatch thread. Not that we had any credibility.. but the shred we had is gone.

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 06:57 PM (DGIjM)

79 I've seen prison guard interviews and they all agree that women prisoners are worse.They hold grudges forever.

Posted by: steevy at May 02, 2012 06:57 PM (7W3wI)

80 It was chaos when I was deployed. I was in a guard tower on a base. The tower had minimal armor. A guy with a rocket launcher (on the US side) almost took me out shooting at the enemy. We also had different classes of hummers. Some could take a hit in the undercarriage. Most had little armor. Chaos.

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 06:57 PM (lkdo/)

81 For the gamers amongst us, another creepy disappearance would be Carl Sargent.

Sargent was a prolific game designer for TSR / D-ampersand-D's second edition, and (IMO) the best designer they had until the WotC buyout. Night Below: amazing. Iuz the Evil: classic. Toward the end he'd just about finished a piece on the Great Kingdom in the Greyhawk setting and -

- poof -

There's been talk that he got into some sort of "accident" but there was only ever one source for that, and that source clammed up afterward.

Interestingly before he became a D-amp-D designer he was a parapsychologist - like in Ghostbusters. There were a few experiments he got into in the 1970s, which I assume were bunk, but which many people seem to agree were harder to debunk than most other 1970s experiments of that sort.

Maybe the MIB got him.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at May 02, 2012 06:57 PM (QTHTd)

82 I turn down the sound when McCarver is calling the game. He suffers from Biden mouth.

Posted by: huerfano at May 02, 2012 06:57 PM (bAGA/)

83 78 Flogging the log is a constitutional right!! Posted by: steevy at May 02, 2012 10:53 PM

So is Queefing !!!

Posted by: Sharon Marsh at May 02, 2012 06:57 PM (Y+DPZ)

84 87 Shrimps I'm sorry, maybe it's time to change vices Posted by: chemjeff at May 02, 2012 10:57 PM (7FadD) Damn. I dont really like any other vice. I could start sniffing glue, I guess.

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 06:58 PM (DGIjM)

85 The Graduate was a coming-of-age movie for many of us in our teens in the sixties.

Yeah, it was stupid and cheesy, but it was perfect for the time - especially with Paul Simon's soundtrack featuring some of the most popular songs of the past century.

So, that's my 2 cents.. you younger dudes just wouldn't understand.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 02, 2012 06:58 PM (UTq/I)

86 My hair doesn't look squatchy, does it?

Posted by: Mitt at May 02, 2012 06:58 PM (ULGz+)

87 19 Katherine Ross was definitely hot in her young days

Posted by: kbdabear at May 02, 2012 10:35 PM (Y+DPZ)

This.

Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at May 02, 2012 06:58 PM (2Oas0)

Ace says he's going Friday to see it and will write a review when he gets out

Block off the afternoon on your calendar if you plan to read it

Posted by: kbdabear at May 02, 2012 10:56 PM (Y+DPZ)

I'm predicting no review. With a comment from him later that it was one of those movies where everyone came and did their jobs but it was nothing special. He's said that about several movies before.

Posted by: buzzion at May 02, 2012 06:58 PM (GULKT)

89 And.. The germans don't do "Chaos".. they do anal bookkeeping.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 02, 2012 06:59 PM (UTq/I)

90 So, we all know and love the Ewok, and are glad to have this sandbox to discuss issues, but it kinda makes you go 'hummm' when you realize that someone from the campaigns must have read through some of our especially colorful threads.

Just like Andrew -

Posted by: someone at May 02, 2012 07:01 PM (bqjJT)

91 Flogging the log is a constitutional right!!
****
Actually, in liberal legal land I bet it is. I mean if the government has to pay you to have sex, certainly it can't take away your "right" to "monosex"...right?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2012 07:01 PM (3aXbg)

92 "As a result, lawmakers have introduced legislation to seemingly criminalize acts of masturbation committed while incarcerated."

These fucking "lawmakers" need to be horsewhipped. Every single one of them, women included. Maybe some sense might come into their heads as a result.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at May 02, 2012 07:01 PM (TsNVA)

93 Hmmm..what is this pic you speak of?

http://preview.tinyurl.com/7ajmxa2

Posted by: Waterhouse at May 02, 2012 07:02 PM (EaIqd)

Hi, Morons. I read an article last night about a 14 year old girl who is sueing her classmates for online bullying. Basically, they made a fake Facebook page of her.

I lol'd at the bullies:

"She didnÂ’t know why she was being badgered until she discovered the phony Facebook page. It was her name and information, though her profile picture was doctored to make her face appear bloated.The page suggested Alex smoked marijuana and spoke a made-up language called Â“Retardish.Â”"

Posted by: Z Ryan at May 02, 2012 07:02 PM (tsC/8)

95 91 I turn down the sound when McCarver is calling the game. He suffers from Biden mouth.

Posted by: huerfano at May 02, 2012 10:57 PM (bAGA/)

How about the dynamic duo of McCarver and Buck...holy hell is that awful

Posted by: Red Shirt at May 02, 2012 07:03 PM (FIDMq)

96 @99... If anyone important is reading this blog... I NEED A job. Not the stupid job I have now in the Obama depression but a real job. Thanks.

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 07:03 PM (DGIjM)

97 Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do you and you will be surprised by their ingenuity. George Patton Ps. George says you German bitches got pwn3d, and you ruskies got lucky.

Posted by: Jollyroger at May 02, 2012 07:03 PM (c7FHx)

98 American are good at thinking on their feet. With almost every other military on the plannet, especially in the third world, if you damage the Command and Control part of the military. The entire orginazation shuts down most of the time

Posted by: avg. muslim dude at May 02, 2012 07:04 PM (AZ8Mb)

"As a result, lawmakers have introduced legislation to seemingly criminalize acts of masturbation committed while incarcerated."

Hmmmmm ... sounds like the first prisoner to get prostate cancer might have a good case against these attorneys ...

Posted by: Arbalest at May 02, 2012 07:04 PM (9SiBC)

100 ZRyan. Dr Oz recently said that we need to have zero tolerance for bullies. Crack down on every little thing the bully does. Anyone here bullied as a kid?

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:04 PM (lkdo/)

101 It's hard to listen to almost any sports announcer now days. I usually watch with no sound.

Posted by: Sports Fan at May 02, 2012 07:05 PM (ULGz+)

102 Let the prisoners masturbate. What else do they have to do?

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:06 PM (lkdo/)

103 Captain America is my favorite Avenger. I also like Spiderman when he's on the team. Spiderman is hilarious. Spiderman: I don't wear underwear under my costume. Spiderwoman: What!? Spiderman: I chafe... Spiderwoman: I want off the team.

Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at May 02, 2012 07:06 PM (2D6pU)

104 The Graduate was a horribly shitty movie.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 02, 2012 07:06 PM (X3lox)

105 Ace says he's going Friday to see it and will write a review when he gets out

Block off the afternoon on your calendar if you plan to read it

I probably won't read it so i don't get any spoilers, it's getting around 90% on Rotten Tomatoes which may mean that it's genuinely good or that there's some kind of lefty bullshit crammed into it.

Posted by: booger at May 02, 2012 07:06 PM (HI6wa)

106 man I love Kate Upton Posted by: chemjeff at May 02, 2012 11:04 PM (7FadD) Her Uncle is a helmet hair republican fuck. Fred Upton is why you can't buy a 100w incandecent light bulb now.

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 07:06 PM (AZ8Mb)

107 @110 Who didn't @113 Sodomy.

Posted by: Jollyroger at May 02, 2012 07:07 PM (c7FHx)

108 111 Shrimps, what kind of job? and why are you limping? what happened? Posted by: chemjeff at May 02, 2012 11:05 PM (7FadD) If Romney is reading this blog.. just thought I would put it out there. So.. remember that story about the cat that the guy tripped over and he stabbed himself? Today.. Fed Ex came to the door.. I got up and my cat tripped me (on purpose) I went flying to the ground... and hurt my knee.. again. darn cat!

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 07:07 PM (DGIjM)

109 56 At the Northern Correctional Institution, masturbating male inmates have been regularly observed by female workers.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2012 10:47 PM (3aXbg)

I suppose that these guards will be happier being beaten to a pulp when they deny a violent sociopath the simple release of fapping.

In Soviet Union, the state won't let you come.

Posted by: fozzy at May 02, 2012 07:08 PM (FEzSe)

110 Wife is having another baby. I don't know how I am going to afford the kid.

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:08 PM (lkdo/)

111 Holy shit!

I'm watching Jon Stewart and he is showing clips of Martin Bashir and Larry O'Donnel going after Romney's Mormonism.

They are repulsive.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 07:09 PM (piMMO)

112 Double OT Caps/Rangers

Posted by: jinxthecat at May 02, 2012 07:09 PM (l3vZN)

113 Plastics

Posted by: garrett at May 02, 2012 07:09 PM (TMHje)

114 I think Upton's biggest fan is Upton herself. She overexposes her body. I got the same impression from that Sports Illustrated cover, which is pretty much like what we see here.

The point of being sexy to males is to make them imagine how you'd look naked. With Upton, I can already see that she's 7/10 or 8/10. I get it.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at May 02, 2012 07:09 PM (QTHTd)

115 Ah, found it - here's the full-body version:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/dyghwda

Posted by: Waterhouse at May 02, 2012 07:10 PM (EaIqd)

116 Shrimp, where do you live and what do you do? I work for a bank that is hiring lots of people.

Posted by: rockmom at May 02, 2012 07:10 PM (YPgCz)

117 So, like, are we gonna get an after-action report on this super secret Romney meeting on Cap Hill Ace was presumable at?

Posted by: wte9 at May 02, 2012 07:10 PM (OYaaT)

118 Good evening.

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 07:10 PM (F79HU)

119 I turn down the sound when McCarver is calling the game. Love his foreign policy updates. For a scientist, he sure knows a lot!

Posted by: Barry Obanana at May 02, 2012 07:10 PM (FcR7P)

120 Brilliant ONT, Maet.

That opening demotivator had me chuckling like an idiot.

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 07:11 PM (F79HU)

121 115 The Graduate was a horribly shitty movie.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 02, 2012 11:06 PM (X3lox)

I used to think it was just okay until I heard the critique in the movie Barcelona and realized that Hoffman was actually the villain in the movie:

Fred: You think wedding vows are going to change everything? God, your naivete is astounding! Didn't you see "The Graduate"?

Ted: You can remember "The Graduate"?

Fred: Yeah, I can remember a few things. Apparently you don't. The end? Katharine Ross has just married this really cool guy - tall, blond, incredibly popular, the make-out king of his fraternity in Berkeley - when this obnoxious Dustin Hoffman character shows up at the back of the church, acting like a total a**hole. "Elaine! Elaine!" Does Katharine Ross tell Dustin Hoffman, "Get lost, creep. I'm a married woman"? No. She runs off with him - on a bus. That is the reality.

Posted by: Mætenloch at May 02, 2012 07:11 PM (pAlYe)

122 Anyone here bullied as a kid?

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 11:04 PM (lkdo/)

Who the hell wasn't? How else was the big dumb asshat supposed to get his homework done?

He never suspected the pig entrails from the dissection room in his locker after a nice warm weekend.

Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 07:11 PM (WhSRj)

123 Sodomy is ok in prison but not masturbation? BDSM in prison?

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:11 PM (lkdo/)

124 @122: Congrats! It's a blessing.

Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at May 02, 2012 07:11 PM (2D6pU)

125 The Soviets define chaos as when an NCO takes initiative and doesn't sit around waiting for orders from Stalin. The Germans had excellent NCO's and allowed initiative, so their argument would seem more valid, BUT they only had to manage a few hundred Tiger tanks while we have to manage tens of thousands of Sherman tanks...there is a quality of chaos that only quantity can produce.

Posted by: sexypig at May 02, 2012 07:11 PM (1gB33)

126 the problem with "planned" economies is that they rely on a "planned society" and that in itself stamps out individualism. As americans we have been very spoiled about being allowed to be who we are and do as we like as long and nobody is directly hurt by it.

i always nicker at these stupid utopians when i think about how freaking eccentric and individualistic they are, usually being dirty hippies and hipsters, and how the boot they plan for us will unexpectedly stomp on them too, perhaps more painfully. Because of course, they always planned to be wearing the boot, not UNDER it. My former soviet friends try to explain, and its so damn funny to watch. Only few get it.

Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at May 02, 2012 07:11 PM (r7Ddb)

127 CJ.. dont think I am not keeping my eye on that cat. Never trust a cat... no matter how sweet they look. So how is life treating you, CJ?

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 07:11 PM (DGIjM)

128 How about the dynamic duo of McCarver and Buck...holy hell is that awful

They really are horrible, if you thought baseball was a slow sport try watching it with McCarver and Buck calling it, it's like time stops and tries to run backwards, they're just so flat, dull and uninteresting and when they're not being dull they're making asinine comments about global warming.

Posted by: booger at May 02, 2012 07:12 PM (HI6wa)

129 Does this outfit make my right boobeh look bigger than the left?

Posted by: Kate Upton at May 02, 2012 07:12 PM (ULGz+)

130 Agreed that "The Graduate"'s script was shite.

Fantastic performances and the best soundtrack of the 1960s, papering over a rotten movie.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at May 02, 2012 07:12 PM (QTHTd)

131 My sister got sworn in to the Canadian army. Now I can't make fun of Canada without feeling guilty.

Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at May 02, 2012 07:12 PM (2D6pU)

132 Article on abc saying you can now buy a BACON COFFIN. Google bacon coffin.

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:12 PM (lkdo/)

133 Can I crochet in prison? Yes, I think I'd like to crochet.

Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at May 02, 2012 07:12 PM (GK5EN)

134 he is showing clips of Martin Bashir and Larry O'Donnel going after Romney's Mormonism That was a hallmark of AB's work, wasn't it? Make them comfortable and let them talk.

Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2012 07:13 PM (FcR7P)

135 122 Wife is having another baby. I don't know how I am going to afford the kid.

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 11:08 PM (lkdo/)

Same way you did the last one. Move little Johnny over and let little Sophie sleep next to him in the crib.

Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 07:13 PM (WhSRj)

136 128 Shrimp, where do you live and what do you do? I work for a bank that is hiring lots of people. Posted by: rockmom at May 02, 2012 11:10 PM (YPgCz) I live in Indy. I have my own business.. I inspect foreclosures.

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 07:13 PM (DGIjM)

137 Nominee for most obnoxious ad out is the mother and daughter crying at each other while they talk about something. I am a freaking ninja when it comes to handling a controller. I don't even know what product or service they are pushing.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at May 02, 2012 07:13 PM (JKNDp)

138 Good grief, 92-year-old Chipper Jones just hit a walk-off home run. Braves beat Phillies 15=13.

Posted by: rockmom at May 02, 2012 07:14 PM (YPgCz)

139 @122... Congrats!!!!

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 07:14 PM (DGIjM)

140 If in prison, I would only masturbate with a fine, robin's egg blue afghan that I made myself covering me to protect my modesty. I mean, really, what would the neighbors say?

Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at May 02, 2012 07:14 PM (GK5EN)

141 @150 I thought that kind of business would be gangbusters right now? No? Tired of kicking OWSers out pre inspection?

Posted by: Jollyroger at May 02, 2012 07:15 PM (c7FHx)

142

One Word:

Plastisquatch..I denounce myself...

Posted by: KZnextzone at May 02, 2012 07:15 PM (UXEgP)

143
The point of being sexy to males is to make them imagine how you'd look naked. With Upton, I can already see that she's 7/10 or 8/10. I get it.

*****

I think seeing Sofia Vergara in the nude would be awful. There is something very, very sexy about the fact that she DOESN'T show it all.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 07:15 PM (piMMO)

144 morons are meeting with Romney

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 02, 2012 07:15 PM (hUgWk)

145 Chemjeff..Thanks, hopefully some wealthy relatives will help. $300 per month in the reserves and my office job just isnt enough. Want my wife to stay home with the kids. If I get deployed again I will have plenty of cash. Actually hoping to get deployed

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:15 PM (lkdo/)

146 Ok i might sound really stupid, but why not only have women work in juvenile and women's facilities and have only men work at Mens facilities, and they they wont have any occasion to give psychotic possibly violent sex criminals the opportunity to amuse themselves by fapping at them?

Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at May 02, 2012 07:15 PM (r7Ddb)

147 Tomorrow? Spareribs, I think.

Posted by: mrp at May 02, 2012 07:15 PM (HjPtV)

148 If I had a New Jersey mother, she'd look like Patricia Krencil.

Posted by: Barty Obama at May 02, 2012 07:16 PM (FcR7P)

149 150 Damn, my company isn't in Indiana. Sorry.

Posted by: rockmom at May 02, 2012 07:16 PM (YPgCz)

150 Dammit! Premature postification. So mittens is about to have his garbage violated in unspeakable, furry ways?!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 02, 2012 07:16 PM (hUgWk)

151 Chaos means all forms of command are garggled. American troops are able to pick up the slack by sheer leadership. A PFC saying "do this!".
PFC Martin, also of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, who during the battle asked a retreating tank destroyer commander, "Are you looking for a safe place?" When the tank commander answered yes, PFC Martin replied, "Well buddy just pull that vehicle behind me -- I am the 82d Airborne and this is as far as the bastards are going."

And they did. One of the units that coalesced around that ad-hoc road block at Vielsam was commanded by Lt. Bill Rogers aka William Rogers Jr. (Will Rogers Jr.). Through out the night men from the busted line stopped and joined the forces there. Soon they had a road block the German's couldn't break. One guy saying "I've had ENOUGH of this shit and I'm done with it."

And _that_ 'ron and ronette's are why American soldiers are the toughest bastards on the planet. It's why the rest of the sissy world doesn't play _real_ football. It's why the Left has taken dodge ball out of school.

Posted by: Quilly Mammoth at May 02, 2012 07:16 PM (V31zQ)

152 @156... yeah, sadly its really busy. Economy is NOT getting better. I was directing that rant to any Romney campaign staffers who may read this blog.

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 07:16 PM (DGIjM)

153 I used to think it was just okay until I heard the critique in the movie Barcelona and realized that Hoffman was actually the villain in the movie:

Fred: You think wedding vows are going to change everything? God, your naivete is astounding! Didn't you see "The Graduate"?

Ted: You can remember "The Graduate"?

Fred: Yeah, I can remember a few things. Apparently you don't. The end? Katharine Ross has just married this really cool guy - tall, blond, incredibly popular, the make-out king of his fraternity in Berkeley - when this obnoxious Dustin Hoffman character shows up at the back of the church, acting like a total a**hole. "Elaine! Elaine!" Does Katharine Ross tell Dustin Hoffman, "Get lost, creep. I'm a married woman"? No. She runs off with him - on a bus. That is the reality.

Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at May 02, 2012 11:11 PM (pAlYe)

And that was after he porked her mother. Once you bed the mother, the daughter should really be off limits. I found that part of the movie insane.

Dustin Hoffman was also far too ugly for the part. It was an abuse of the audience to make him the love interest of one hot woman and her scorching daughter.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 02, 2012 07:17 PM (X3lox)

154 Howdy, Jefe!

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 07:17 PM (F79HU)

155 Actually hoping to get deployed

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 11:15 PM (lkdo/)

Well, God bless you and the family. It is never easy, even for those who think they have money. Tomorrow it can all be gone.

We are losing the house, one way or the other. I am hoping to avoid short sale, since that would mean living in a crappy rental and probably having to give up the dogs. This is the only house our son has ever known, but hey, it's just money.

Family, that lasts. The rest is a bag of dirt.

Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 07:18 PM (WhSRj)

156 I think seeing Sofia Vergara in the nude would be awful. I feel as if I'm losing my mind. Is that English?

Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2012 07:18 PM (FcR7P)

157 2 Hasn't total number of home runs actually dropped the last few years?

Posted by: Hurricanes at May 02, 2012 10:30 PM (NrdQS)

Like the global temperature.

Posted by: AmishDude at May 02, 2012 07:18 PM (J5tI6)

158 God. I love dodgeball. That hollow ping the ball makes when it connects with another humans cranium is just fucking magic.

Posted by: Jollyroger at May 02, 2012 07:18 PM (c7FHx)

159 Currently taking acetametaphine, decongestant, expectorant, zicam, vitamin c and scotch. Head stuffed up, nose running, chest is no longer on fire when I cough which is often, no longer hacking up phlegm, feel like dogshit, no energy and the scotch is barely enjoyable.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at May 02, 2012 07:19 PM (JKNDp)

160 163 Shrimps, things are okay - it is the end of the semester, looking forward to finishing it up entirely. then I am going to relax for about a week and then start my summer projects. Posted by: chemjeff at May 02, 2012 11:15 PM (7FadD) When is school over? Geesh its freakin May already.

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 07:19 PM (DGIjM)

161 Amen tch. Money can be gone in a moment. Glad you have a happy family. Mothers Day is coming up next!! Remember our Mothers!

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:19 PM (lkdo/)

162 My faith is restored. Thank you, chemjeff.

Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2012 07:20 PM (FcR7P)

163 I get your point about leaving something to the imagination, but damn. You can show me Kate. I'll still think you're sexy.

Posted by: Jollyroger at May 02, 2012 07:20 PM (c7FHx)

164

Damn you chemjeff -

I think I just broke my nose!

Posted by: garrett at May 02, 2012 07:20 PM (TMHje)

165 Sorry to hear that you might be losing the house. Not easy to deal with banks these days. I am renting now. If I get deployed I should save enough for a down payment. Don't really want to live in military housing.

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:20 PM (lkdo/)

166 TCN, here I am pissing and moaning about a cold that will be gone in a few days. Your problems far exceed mine. I hope you catch a break.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at May 02, 2012 07:21 PM (JKNDp)

167 God. I love dodgeball. That hollow ping the ball makes when it connects with another humans cranium is just fucking magic. Posted by: Jollyroger at May 02, 2012 11:18 PM (c7FHx) wasn't it McArther who said something like on the fields of sporting events American soldier are born or something like that

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 07:21 PM (AZ8Mb)

168 gushka- I have to wonder at the women who volunteer to work at mens' prisons.

Men who work at womens' prisons, I understand - men have to be at least on reserve because they might have to subdue some of the bigger female prisoners (whom the female guards can't).

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at May 02, 2012 07:21 PM (QTHTd)

169 Yeah chemjeff, tasteful. I like it.

Posted by: Jollyroger at May 02, 2012 07:21 PM (c7FHx)

170 Isn't Lampshade a troll, Raycon or something?

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 07:22 PM (AZ8Mb)

171 Remember our Mothers!

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 11:19 PM (lkdo/)

You know what else our mothers are good at? Babysitting. They don't take crap. They might spoil hell out of the kids, but they don't take crap.

Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 07:22 PM (WhSRj)

172 The point of being sexy to males is to make them imagine how you'd look naked. And yet, as chemjeff has just proven, when they're naked, you're still imagining what the other side of them looks like.

Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2012 07:22 PM (FcR7P)

173 The deal with American organizational methods - starting with the Constitution (before Marshall), Capitalism, and our military - is that they are designed from the ground up to embrace the eventual chaos. The Constitution assumes the mutual lust for power will keep all the branches of government watching each other (FU Harry Reid). Capitalism relies on Adam Smith's Invisible Hand to guide the economy rather then a rigid expert system. And, our NCO centric military encourages responsibility and problem solving at just above the lowest levels. So, when chaos arrives we adapt, quickly.

Posted by: Jean at May 02, 2012 07:23 PM (TcOjT)

174 Maybe the MIB got him.
***
If we had a government that could "take care of" troublesome psi researchers, don't you think Julian Assange would be a bit to dead to worry about rape charges? :-p

Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2012 07:23 PM (3aXbg)

175 An awful photo of Sofia Vergara. It makes me want to heave.

http://is.gd/rwCQyu

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at May 02, 2012 07:23 PM (nEUpB)

176 Crack down on every little thing the bully does. Anyone here bullied as a kid? I was. And my father had the perfect answer: pic one of the worst ones & beat the shit out of them. Too bad I didn't listen to him sooner, cause guess what. Sometimes violence IS the answer.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 02, 2012 07:23 PM (hUgWk)

177 morons are meeting with Romney

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 02, 2012 11:15 PM (hUgWk)

If the sites are to be used to help GOP get information out to the world does that mean we must to shower, fix our hair and dress 'correctly' before signing on?

and amazing Huffs commenters don't believe the media is all in for Obama.

Posted by: willow at May 02, 2012 07:23 PM (TomZ9)

178 189 Shrimps, semester is over next Saturday we are in the middle of finals right now Posted by: chemjeff at May 02, 2012 11:22 PM (7FadD) Geesh.. I bet you cant wait til its over.. well, your students probably want it over more than you.

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 07:23 PM (DGIjM)

179 Put all hope out of your mind. And masturbate as little as possible, it drains the strength!

Posted by: Warden Barrot at May 02, 2012 07:24 PM (ULGz+)

180 I agree that America's independence, self reliance, and ability to adapt and overcome in the past has been a huge advantage but these days... I'm not so sure.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 02, 2012 07:24 PM (r4wIV)

181 sofia vergara NSFW
http://tinyurl.com/8423xvm
Posted by: chemjeff at May 02, 2012 11:18 PM
*****************************
I am still at work and I clicked.

I am OK with it.

Dear God...dear Mary Jesus and Joseph, every square inch of that needs to be carefully explored, probed and bathed and perhaps spanked, if a little adult supervision is in order.

Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at May 02, 2012 07:24 PM (GK5EN)

182 tcn, I know your pain. I'm eight days in to my second round of Teh Won - induced unemployment...it forms a seal and applies suction

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 02, 2012 07:24 PM (JMmQ9)

183 Hey Lamp, don't knock military housing. For one thing, it's cheap. For another, there's almost always somebody around to watch the kids. And third, I designed a shitload of it in the 80's and back then, at least, it was pretty nice.

Just make sure to kill every living bug BEFORE you move your stuff in.

You do what you have to in order to keep the family afloat. Better times will come.

Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 07:24 PM (WhSRj)

184 Wife is having another baby. I don't know how I am going to afford the kid.

Are the others old enough to make wallets?

Posted by: Alex at May 02, 2012 07:25 PM (zSobX)

185 I just read the Ace is meeting with the next POTUS. There is a link at hot air.

Posted by: robtr at May 02, 2012 07:25 PM (MtwBb)

186 You realise that I've only seen Kate Upton pics here or wearing swimsuits on the supermarket racks.

If I was going to fantasise about her, I'd imagine her in a nun's outfit or dressed like a schoolteacher.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at May 02, 2012 07:26 PM (QTHTd)

187 Great ONT Maet!

Posted by: Ben at May 02, 2012 07:26 PM (UvdzB)

188 These are even more disgusting.

http://is.gd/xU5oyt

http://is.gd/k5vMxv

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at May 02, 2012 07:26 PM (nEUpB)

189 Ann Bancroft was 35 when she played Mrs. Robinson. The music was great and really added to the movie. The scene when she was scrubbing a spot from her hose showed what a cold indifferent bitch she was and she was using Hoffman purely for sex. It was a weird flick. I did get a strong so now what moment as they sat on the bus.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at May 02, 2012 07:26 PM (JKNDp)

190 The page suggested Alex smoked marijuana and spoke a made-up language called Â“Retardish.Â”"
***
Unlike you haters, I fully support young women learning not just French, Austrian, or Latinish, but some of the really obscure languages like this fine young woman.

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 02, 2012 07:27 PM (3aXbg)

191 I agree that America's independence, self reliance, and ability to adapt and overcome in the past has been a huge advantage but these days.... It's true more than ever. See all those red shapes on the sidebar map? They're adapting. Even this little microscopic red dot in the Bay Area is adapting.

Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2012 07:27 PM (FcR7P)

192 Chemjeff. Asked my pastor about baby clothes. He said that he is praying for me.

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:27 PM (lkdo/)

193 @203 Yeah, my wife found out she was pregnant when I was in school and couldn't get a job or I'd get thrown out. We made do. But I wouldn't trade it for the world, it was a good time looking back. Ask everyone you know for hand me downs. Most people only use most of it once.

Posted by: Jollyroger at May 02, 2012 07:28 PM (c7FHx)

194 As for India's caste system: that's partly due to Hinduism as well. Its a "sin" to try to better yourself, because you deserve your position on the wheel of karma based on your previous life. If you live a virtuous life, you'll reincarnate as a higher life form (humans actually don't rate very high on the list from what I've seen), but virtuous living is about giving up things and doing without, not gaining and bettering your life. After all: matter and the world is an illusion anyway.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 02, 2012 07:28 PM (r4wIV)

195
If anyone important is reading this blog... I NEED A job.
***
Ahem.

Posted by: Mel Gibson at May 02, 2012 07:29 PM (3aXbg)

196 I have to ask...who the F is Kate Upton???...I must be old. Now GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

Posted by: Chief Billygoat at May 02, 2012 07:29 PM (GsBJY)

197 @charliebrown, you seem to like the brunettes!

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:29 PM (lkdo/)

198 These are even more disgusting. http://is.gd/xU5oyt http://is.gd/k5vMxv Are the ONT's longer than four hours? I may have to call Bob Dole for medical advice...

Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2012 07:30 PM (FcR7P)

199 I went from $28/hr with overtime and a half, about 50 hrs/wk, to $800/mo. That ain't keepin' the house we bought and fixed and reframed and did the whole damned yard including a flower garden in the front and vegetable garden in the back that fills my cellar with lovely canned goods every fall. Now I've been out of real work for three years plus, and that JEF can bite my ruby red ass.

The plus side is that I have all the time in the world to work on the Walker campaign and any other good mischief that needs to happen to the democraps this year.

But really, I'd rather just vote, have my old job back and keep my house.

Oh well. This truly is the generation that will do worse than our parents, and it isn't our fault.

Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 07:30 PM (WhSRj)

200 Thanks tcn. I am praying for better times. I have faith.

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:30 PM (lkdo/)

201 I just read the Ace is meeting with the next POTUS. There is a link at hot air. That explains some things...I saw earlier today that RSM was prepping for a big meeting that included Secret Service involvement maybe the Romney campaign gets it after all

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

202 199 I agree that America's independence, self reliance, and ability to adapt and overcome in the past has been a huge advantage but these days... I'm not so sure.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 02, 2012 11:24 PM (r4wIV)

Well that's the trendy point of view these days but I don't think the country has really changed that much. A lot of our cultural strengths are hidden under fluff and triviality. So you won't see them appear until things get pretty rocky.

Posted by: Mætenloch at May 02, 2012 07:31 PM (pAlYe)

203 Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 11:29 PM (lkdo/)

I love blondes too. But so many of them are bleached and have no texture or variation in their hair.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at May 02, 2012 07:31 PM (nEUpB)

204 TCN, You aren't that far from that sweet sweet oil money in the Dakota's.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at May 02, 2012 07:31 PM (JKNDp)

205 Today.. Fed Ex came to the door.. I got up and my cat tripped me (on purpose) I went flying to the ground... and hurt my knee.. again.
darn cat!
***
And so I strike yet another blow for feline liberation! Legalize catnip, ban the bath. All you have to lose are your toy mice!

Posted by: Some 99%er cat at May 02, 2012 07:31 PM (3aXbg)

206 Jefe posts that pic of Sofia Vergera and I lose all sense of time.

Yikes!

Time for work, catch ya'll later.

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 07:32 PM (F79HU)

207 Everyone my age (post-Boomers) had the same reaction to "The Graduate":

"Take the fucking plastics job, you idiot! That's GOOD MONEY!"

Posted by: Trimegistus at May 02, 2012 07:32 PM (4rD2K)

208 When Kate Upton scored the cover of SI, I was "Eh?" Thought she was okay and all, but just standard-issue spring-break, Hooters girl. An exceptional member of that class, yes, but not truly memorable.

That video, though....She's starting to grow on me. Seems to be a good sport.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at May 02, 2012 07:32 PM (t28jU)

209 My wife is thinking about entering the workforce. She has never worked before. She is looking at retail to start

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:32 PM (lkdo/)

210 I spoke with Ace about putting him in the Cabinet... In the cellar...

Posted by: Mitt Romney at May 02, 2012 07:33 PM (ULGz+)

211 Good point, Ohio Dan. I have been looking farther afield as the job market has closed in. I'm trying to figure out how to take a job elsewhere while raising my 6 year old son, and whether he would stay here with hubby or go with me....

These are not good choices. We shall see.

Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 07:33 PM (WhSRj)

212 I'm watching Jon Stewart and he is showing clips of Martin Bashir and Larry O'Donnel going after Romney's Mormonism.
***
Expect a coordinated effort across a lot of the government-media complex. It will have the same level of organization, I would imagine, as the Palin smear in 08.

What will be interesting to see though is what the liberals who want Romney to beat Obama will do about it....

Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2012 07:33 PM (3aXbg)

213 Break out the oxygen masks, Rangers/Caps going to triple-OT.

Posted by: Waterhouse at May 02, 2012 07:34 PM (EaIqd)

214 I'll give Romney this - that SOB wants to win. I like that. I'm tired of that nobel loser shit from last time.

Posted by: Jollyroger at May 02, 2012 07:34 PM (c7FHx)

215 Well that's the trendy point of view these days but I don't think the country has really changed that much. A lot of our cultural strengths are hidden under fluff and triviality. So you won't see them appear until things get pretty rocky. Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at May 02, 2012 11:31 PM (pAlYe) The insideous Democrat programs to get able bodied people on govrmment programs is probably the biggest dammaging thing.

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 07:34 PM (AZ8Mb)

216 That Patricia Krentcil woman is hot!!!...even hotter than my Mommy!!!

Posted by: GERG! at May 02, 2012 07:34 PM (GsBJY)

217 216 If anyone important is reading this blog... I NEED A job. *** Ahem. Posted by: Mel Gibson at May 02, 2012 11:29 PM (3aXbg) Awwww... Crap, thats right. Never mind, important folks.. I have some serious skeletons and a history of bad judgement calls on this blog.

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 07:34 PM (DGIjM)

218 Dear Miss Upton,

Can I bite your ass?

Sincerely,

Lemmiwinks

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 02, 2012 07:34 PM (61yvg)

219 My wife is thinking about entering the workforce. She has never worked before. She is looking at retail to start Isn't there some really important $300,000/yr job in Chicago that's unfilled? Michelle can fill you in.

Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2012 07:35 PM (FcR7P)

220 Mel...lol. Have you considered joining the military? Good benefits/money. $300 per month in reserves for 1 weekend per month. Looks good on resume

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:36 PM (lkdo/)

221 231 Everyone my age (post-Boomers) had the same reaction to "The Graduate":

"Take the fucking plastics job, you idiot! That's GOOD MONEY!"

Posted by: Trimegistus at May 02, 2012 11:32 PM (4rD2K)

Heh. When I saw the movie not long after graduating from college my thoughts were that a job in a growing industry and little MILF-action were a pretty damn good way to start your post-college years. So why the fuck was Hoffman so mopey and resentful?

Posted by: Mætenloch at May 02, 2012 07:36 PM (pAlYe)

222 Does anyone have some spare tinfoil? I just saw a U.F.O. (F stands for floating.) Reddish orange ball of light hovering/floating above our neighborhood, then starting to drift away slowly (northwesterly direction) while dimming. Could hear neighbors commenting on it, too. Wonder if there will be any explanation in the news.

Posted by: Y-not at May 02, 2012 07:36 PM (5H6zj)

223 220 -- Que Bueno!

Posted by: El Grande Jefe Billygoat at May 02, 2012 07:36 PM (GsBJY)

224 Looks good on resume Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 11:36 PM (lkdo/) Uh.. no. I am too old and cranky for that.

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 07:36 PM (DGIjM)

225 Ohio Dan

A word of caution from your liver. It might get very cranky with this combo.
acetaminophen....scotch.

Seriously, we'd hate to have you sicker than you already are. Take care with that combo or maybe substitute something else.

Posted by: someone at May 02, 2012 07:36 PM (bqjJT)

226 Damn. I figured one of those puppies was coming out of there

Posted by: Zakn at May 02, 2012 07:37 PM (O7Rdl)

227 @247 Val-u-rite It's normal.

Posted by: Jollyroger at May 02, 2012 07:38 PM (c7FHx)

228 Posted by: Y-not at May 02, 2012 11:36 PM (5H6zj)

Sounds a bit squatchy.

Posted by: Dead Horse Beater at May 02, 2012 07:38 PM (ULGz+)

229 I have a friend who was just called up for jury duty again. They call her up every two years like clockwork. She tried to tell them that she's disqualified because of a manic-depressive martyr complex but they wont listen. She tried to tell the judge that her worthless slob husband has only been called up once in eleven years and everything is his fault anyway because of his horrible lib in-laws who voted for Obama but judge wouldn't listen. She tried to tell the bitch at the courthouse who doesnt speak English that her superpowered Marine son is off winning four wars simultaneously but bitch wouldnt listen either. It's looking like she'll have no choice but to show up for jury duty and possibly be sequestered and miss her bi-weekly electroshock treatments and who knows what might happen then. Can I have some prayers for her please? Thank u & God bless

Posted by: curious at May 02, 2012 07:38 PM (lOXdp)

230 does that mean we must to shower, fix our hair and dress 'correctly' Bwaaahhh, you funny! No way in hell I'm putting on a top. And good luck getting Peaches into pants.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 02, 2012 07:38 PM (hUgWk)

231 I'll give Romney this - that SOB wants to win. I like that.

I'm tired of that nobel loser shit from last time.

Posted by: Jollyroger at May 02, 2012 11:34 PM (c7FHx)

Friends...can't we all get along?

Posted by: John McLame at May 02, 2012 07:39 PM (GsBJY)

232 t bird. Yeah but michells graduated from Cornell or something. I just have a high school degree. Plan to start community college

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:39 PM (lkdo/)

233 Posted by: chemjeff at May 02, 2012 11:34 PM (7FadD)

I posted them more as method for desensitizing Niedermeyer's Dead Horse. It is possible that one day, Sofia might bare all, and I wouldn't want the shock and disgust be too much.

I might expand to other subjects like:

http://is.gd/tJo1aU

But just to protect NDH

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at May 02, 2012 07:40 PM (nEUpB)

234 It's not all gloom and doom folks. We still have the pop-up camper and Poot to pull it (he's a big ol' F-150 Triton), and if all goes to hell we will load up and head up the highway to AK to visit my folks. For an extended stay. Like, the next 30 years or so. A person can do fine up there living off the grid--I did it as a kid. It just isn't quite how I expected to make use of that Masters Degree and years of experience, but hey, those moose ain't gonna kill themselves.

Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 07:40 PM (WhSRj)

235 The thing is that many of my veteran buddies have come back home and cannot find jobs. The military promised that we would have skills and a leg up. I was told on job interviews that my skills didnt match and to stay in the military.

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:40 PM (lkdo/)

236 I was. And my father had the perfect answer: pic one of the worst ones & beat the shit out of them. Too bad I didn't listen to him sooner, cause guess what. Sometimes violence IS the answer.
***
Yep. A fist to the mouth of most bullies will have them looking for another target, even if you lose the fight.

I remember getting kicked off a school bus for a week for belting a bully. My parents never once complained about driving me to school...and he never bothered me again when we both got back on the bus...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2012 07:41 PM (3aXbg)

237 Maetenloch, Thanks for the ONT! out

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 07:41 PM (AZ8Mb)

238 Triple OT, some tired players on the ice now.

Posted by: jinxthecat at May 02, 2012 07:41 PM (l3vZN)

239 Clean up on aisle 255. Cat piss returns.

Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 07:42 PM (WhSRj)

240 TCN. I am 100 percent certain that you will find a job.

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:42 PM (lkdo/)

241 If the sites are to be used to help GOP get information out to the world does that mean we must to shower, fix our hair and dress 'correctly' before signing on?
***
And remember, if you want to keep your computer clean, bring it into the bath room with you. That steam will clean the webcam right up.

Posted by: Some Helpful Moron at May 02, 2012 07:42 PM (3aXbg)

242 @258 If you can get a hookup you could be a land man with little or no training. You have to follow the oil plays, but the money can be very very good. I'm a lawyer and some of those guys right out of high school make more than me.

Posted by: Jollyroger at May 02, 2012 07:42 PM (c7FHx)

243 We have a lot of paraglider type folks around here, but usually they are about 20 miles north at "the point of the mountain." But maybe it was something like that, except the dimming of the light seemed more like something burning out.

Posted by: Y-not at May 02, 2012 07:42 PM (5H6zj)

244 I'm tired of that nobel loser shit from last time. Comrades, you have nothing to fear from a Second Five-Year Plan.

Posted by: John McSsein at May 02, 2012 07:43 PM (FcR7P)

245 Come in, actual.
Banhammer target at 255

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at May 02, 2012 07:43 PM (ebPtk)

246 I really don't know what I would do without the army.

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:43 PM (lkdo/)

247
I hate seeing people whose only sin was to work hard and do well getting hurt during this shitstorm. A shame there isn't a way to insulate all of you from the bad. If there was, then I would say let it burn down and take the looters and moochers with it.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 02, 2012 07:44 PM (SAMxH)

248 anyone know when the 690 is supposed to be able to be ordered?

Posted by: The Dude at May 02, 2012 07:44 PM (tw6Ar)

249 I just read the Ace is meeting with the next POTUS. There is a link at hot air.
***
Governor Perry told me about all your great work at HotGas. By the way, I was expecting pants.

Posted by: Mitt Romney at May 02, 2012 07:44 PM (3aXbg)

250 During the day catp is always oZfic. It's also of interest to me how she doesn't change her IP. I'm guessing she posts@work.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at May 02, 2012 07:44 PM (QTHTd)

251 >>Could have been an experimental military weather balloon filled with swamp gas. My husband says he thinks it was an ultra light. Just seems odd to fly one of those things in at night over a residential neighborhood that is smashed up against mountains. Naturally, he was on Important Phone call with Boss so he missed it!

Posted by: Y-not at May 02, 2012 07:44 PM (5H6zj)

252 Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 11:42 PM (WhSRj)

Wrong hash, or maybe a proxy.

What's your masters in?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at May 02, 2012 07:45 PM (nEUpB)

253 Must have missed something. We can't call unidentified jurors female canines?

Posted by: Jollyroger at May 02, 2012 07:45 PM (c7FHx)

254 If I was going to fantasise about her, I'd imagine her in a nun's outfit or dressed like a schoolteacher.
***
I really don't get the nun fetish...

Posted by: Mitt Romney at May 02, 2012 07:45 PM (3aXbg)

255 I have to ask...who the F is Kate Upton???...I must be old. Now GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

*****

Here you go: http://bit.ly/mP8cEI

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 07:45 PM (piMMO)

256 and yes, Jane-stalker at 255 needs bannage nao

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at May 02, 2012 07:45 PM (QTHTd)

257 Clean up on aisle 255. Cat piss returns.
Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 11:42 PM
**************
I'm feelin' a moron doing some socking, there. Hash is different though it could have changed - mine does all the time. It's just too crazy and not as earnest. But I'm a lobster; what do I know...

Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at May 02, 2012 07:46 PM (GK5EN)

258 273 I really don't know what I would do without the army.

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 11:43 PM (lkdo/)

Sweetie, neither does anyone else here.

I was CofE right out of college, and they taught me so much I could pretty much take any job I wanted after I left for the Lower 48.

If they aren't supporting our families, they are keeping us safe and giving us something to cheer about in rotten times.

Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 07:46 PM (WhSRj)

259 277 During the day catp is always oZfic. It's also of interest to me how she doesn't change her IP. I'm guessing she posts@work.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at May 02, 2012 11:44 PM (QTHTd)

The hash never changes. It posts at all hours of the day and is always the same. That post above is some cowardly shit being an ass using the name to be nasty.

Posted by: buzzion at May 02, 2012 07:46 PM (GULKT)

260 Irongranpa. It says in the old testament book of proverbs that we get no richer by working. Life was not fair in the old days either.

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:47 PM (lkdo/)

261 Yeah don't think its the same curious.

Posted by: NC Ref at May 02, 2012 07:47 PM (/izg2)

262 Governor Perry told me about all your great work at HotGas. By the way, I was expecting pants.

Posted by: Mitt Romney at May 02, 2012 11:44 PM (3aXbg)

Well, then you are at the wrong address, sir. Here, pants are strictly optional.

Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 07:47 PM (WhSRj)

263 I don't think it's the real curious. It's a mocking sock - a smock.

Posted by: Mætenloch at May 02, 2012 07:47 PM (pAlYe)

264 I really don't get the nun fetish...
Posted by: Mitt Romney at May 02, 2012 11:45 PM
******************
Yeah, I grew up Catholic and when I think of nuns I don't exactly have any funny feelings, you know...down there.

Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at May 02, 2012 07:47 PM (GK5EN)

265 I just have a high school degree. Plan to start community college The focus at my JC seems to be nursing/therapy-type stuff. Big, big growth. Have been to a few hospitals lately. It's insane how many low-level, minimally trained workers there are.

Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2012 07:48 PM (FcR7P)

266 Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 11:45 PM (piMMO)

Or this one:

http://bit.ly/mP8cEI

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at May 02, 2012 07:48 PM (nEUpB)

267 Proverbs 10:22 "The blessing of the Lord makes one rich"

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:48 PM (lkdo/)

268 I just saw a U.F.O. (F stands for floating.) Reddish orange ball of light hovering/floating above our neighborhood, then starting to drift away slowly (northwesterly direction) while dimming. Could hear neighbors commenting on it, too. Wonder if there will be any explanation in the news.
***
Helicopter with a bright red light?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2012 07:48 PM (3aXbg)

269 buzzion - yeah, I've seen the non-oZfic "curious" posting at night before. You're probably right that it's not the catp we know and love.

This "curious" on this thread, though, is seriously evil.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at May 02, 2012 07:48 PM (QTHTd)

270 Oh, I'm an architect. The registered kind. But I'm a girl, so it isn't so easy. My husband the architect is doing fine, but we bought this place on two salaries. I have a feeling our next hovel will be somewhat reduced in scale and quality.

Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 07:49 PM (WhSRj)

271 It was almost like he was stacking evidence for the mother of all judicial beatdowns. Or . . . Blackmail?

Posted by: yosemite sam at May 02, 2012 07:49 PM (7id6Y)

272 anyone know when the 690 is supposed to be able to be ordered?

Didn't you just get a new card?

Posted by: Waterhouse at May 02, 2012 07:50 PM (EaIqd)

273 Big, big growth.

I'll show you some big, big growth.

Posted by: Bob Dole at May 02, 2012 07:50 PM (/izg2)

274 301 anyone know when the 690 is supposed to be able to be ordered?

Didn't you just get a new card?

Posted by: Waterhouse at May 02, 2012 11:50 PM (EaIqd)

I think The Dude might be a "Size Queen"

Posted by: buzzion at May 02, 2012 07:51 PM (GULKT)

275 The thing is that many of my veteran buddies have come back home and cannot find jobs. The military promised that we would have skills and a leg up. I was told on job interviews that my skills didnt match and to stay in the military.
***
IIRC, only two industries are growing: Government and computer software. If you can get into training for programming take it and hit the private sector when you can code.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2012 07:51 PM (3aXbg)

276 Further to the Nuns discussion; I'm more afraid of being hit with a precision, high velocity eraser at 100 yards. Damn, they were good.

Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at May 02, 2012 07:51 PM (GK5EN)

277 then starting to drift away slowly (northwesterly direction) while dimming. You live in Seattle and the sun just came out for the first time this year?

Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2012 07:51 PM (FcR7P)

278 Or this one:

http://bit.ly/mP8cEI

****

Is that different than the one I posted?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 07:52 PM (piMMO)

279 >>Helicopter with a bright red light? Couldn't hear anything. Also, it seemed to move more slowly than you might expect from a helicopter (based on my experience in SoCal where our neighborhood had police helicopters scanning the area on occasion). I guess ultralight makes the most sense and the light dimming was just a gradual change in direction.

Posted by: Y-not at May 02, 2012 07:52 PM (5H6zj)

280 18-1 not good with computers. Looking at government. Been working for Govt for past few years in the Army. Alot of waste

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:52 PM (lkdo/)

281 It won't be pretty and it won't be very organized and it may not be the 'best' solution and it'll sure *look* like chaos, but it is likely to get done and work. Short version: if it's stupid and it works, the it's not stupid. 'sup jackwagons

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 02, 2012 07:53 PM (Rhie+)

282 LOL t-bird

Posted by: Y-not at May 02, 2012 07:53 PM (5H6zj)

283 I'll show you some big, big growth. Posted by: Bob Dole Ninja please. Stand back while the master shows how it's done.

Posted by: The Warcock at May 02, 2012 07:53 PM (hUgWk)

284 What will be interesting to see though is what the liberals who want Romney to beat Obama will do about it....

*****

I wanted to slap the piss out of Bashir.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 07:55 PM (piMMO)

285 This has to be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. If the vid hangs up around the 10 sec mark, just click ahead and continue.

http://bit.ly/9pKXKq

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 07:55 PM (piMMO)

286 18-1 not good with computers. Looking at government. Been working for Govt for past few years in the Army. Alot of waste
***
I work in software and it amazes me in a time when we have 20% unemployment a significant chunk of my coworkers are H1Bs. Having been a hiring manager, it is amazing how many few Americans have the skills to take on the jobs we actually need.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2012 07:55 PM (3aXbg)

287 Holy crap, the Caps never got a chance to change defenders.on the full two minutes of PK.

Posted by: Waterhouse at May 02, 2012 07:56 PM (EaIqd)

288 I wanted to slap the piss out of Bashir.

And not rip his arm off? You must have had a good day today :^)

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at May 02, 2012 07:57 PM (QTHTd)

289 Night ChemJeff!!

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 07:57 PM (DGIjM)

290 Hi guys, hows everyone doing tonite? Good I hope. Hubby watching basketball, so here I is

Posted by: lous a girl at May 02, 2012 07:57 PM (fHyXI)

291 207 You realise that I've only seen Kate Upton pics here or wearing swimsuits on the supermarket racks.

If I was going to fantasise about her, I'd imagine her in a nun's outfit or dressed like a schoolteacher.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at May 02, 2012 11:26 PM (QTHTd)

Don't have to imagine, just see the Three Stooges movie.

Posted by: sistrum at May 02, 2012 07:58 PM (AyryN)

292 That site with the 5 creepiest disappearances misses the most intriguing one - the financier who disappeared out of an airplane over the English Channel.

The stock market sank a couple of percent just on his death, I think. I can't remember the guy's name.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 02, 2012 07:59 PM (X3lox)

293 Not sure if people wont hire me because of the meds I take for PTSD

Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 07:59 PM (lkdo/)

294 Okay . . . are those things real?

Usually I can tell, but not this time.

I GOTTA KNOW!

Posted by: Trimegistus at May 02, 2012 07:59 PM (4rD2K)

295 I've been listening to this hockey game for 4.5 hours......I'm worn out too.

Posted by: jinxthecat at May 02, 2012 08:00 PM (l3vZN)

296 Thanks, Chem, but what those boys are looking for isn't what I've got. I'm architectural design and production, and they need project management and engineer coordination. I looked into similar companies in AK, particularly Kuparuk and even Prudhoe, because the money is exquisite, but my qualifications aren't anything like what they need.

The hell of it is that I love the little tiny job I'm doing now, coordinating religious ed at a smallish parish and teaching kids all things Catholic. It lets me be done working when the boy is done with his school day, and it gives me lots of self-direction, and plenty of people to supervise. I can indulge my egghead side studying and teaching, creating lessons for every age and making sure the little ones get first communion and the older ones figure out how to get confirmed without offending the Bishop.

There's just no money in it.

Maybe I should become a community organizer and run for higher office..... but I'm probably the wrong color for that.

Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 08:00 PM (WhSRj)

297 Looks like Ron went and got a new name and hash again.

Posted by: buzzion at May 02, 2012 08:00 PM (GULKT)

298 GO CAPS!

Posted by: Truck Monkey at May 02, 2012 08:00 PM (jucos)

299 Here's the Bashir vid.

How the fuck does that man still have a job and why the hell does the Nuge take calls from him?

http://thedc.com/I637hL

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 08:00 PM (piMMO)

300 Well, if i can't get any good wishes for her here I'll just have to pray for her myself because Im seriously worried she could be carjacked mugged and raped in the courthouse parking garage tomorrow before she even makes it to jury selection. Im typing this in the emergensy room waiting area cuz i had to drive her to the hospital to get her knuckles stitched up after she punched her TV out during a commercial for summer camp and even that wasn't enough to get her let off JD. Its such a stupid system i think.

Posted by: curious at May 02, 2012 08:01 PM (lOXdp)

301 Having been a hiring manager, it is amazing how many few Americans have the skills to take on the jobs we actually need. From my side of things, the work has become really boring and low-paying. You're competing with $10/hr kids overseas doing elementary-school stuff with html. When was the last driver written in this country? I'm exploring.

Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2012 08:01 PM (FcR7P)

302 That site with the 5 creepiest disappearances misses the most intriguing one - the financier who disappeared out of an airplane over the English Channel.

The stock market sank a couple of percent just on his death, I think. I can't remember the guy's name.

Not me.

Posted by: D.B. Cooper at May 02, 2012 08:02 PM (/izg2)

303 I work in software and it amazes me in a time when we have 20% unemployment a significant chunk of my coworkers are H1Bs. Having been a hiring manager, it is amazing how many few Americans have the skills to take on the jobs we actually need. Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2012 11:55 PM (3aXbg) I'm in software also, sort of, The H1B's distort the market. When salaries rise so does the amount of peeps wanting to make those salaries.

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 08:02 PM (AZ8Mb)

304 Well, at least Uncle Ted DIDN'T take the call. Bashir is using second hand info.

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

305 Not me

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at May 02, 2012 08:02 PM (QTHTd)

306 So what's the deal with Kate Upton? I mean, she's purty and all but a lot of girls are. I keep seeing/reading the obsession with the boobehs. They don't do much for me. Don't get me wrong; I would kick them, or the lovely sheila they're attached to outa' bed for eatin' crackers...just, hmm. I don't get it.

If I understand any of it, it's that she's kinda cute and funny when caught in unguarded moments. THAT'S when I find her sexy; not when she's doing some sort of "look-at-how-sexy-I-am" thing.

I always thought the same thing about Jessica Simpson. Sure, she gets a lot of shit for being a bubble-head but I'm sorry, bubble heads don't create a business around their image worth $100,000,000.

Of course, there's my favorite picture of her in a US flag style bikini and fatigues.

So...there's that.

Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at May 02, 2012 08:03 PM (GK5EN)

307 Done whining. The pants are off. The liquor is raised. And then it's off to bed for another day, another dollar. Almost exactly. One dollar.

Posted by: tcn at May 02, 2012 08:03 PM (WhSRj)

308 Not sure if people wont hire me because of the meds I take for PTSD Posted by: Lampshade at May 02, 2012 11:59 PM (lkdo/) Look bro, you have some borderline troll tendencies. Please clean up your act.

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 08:04 PM (AZ8Mb)

309 And not rip his arm off? You must have had a good day today :^)

****

Check out the vid I linked above.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 08:04 PM (piMMO)

310 97 Ace says he's going Friday to see it and will write a review when he gets outBlock off the afternoon on your calendar if you plan to read it
Posted by: kbdabear at May 02, 2012 10:56 PM (Y+DPZ)

I'm predicting no review. With a comment from him later that it was one of those movies where everyone came and did their jobs but it was nothing special. He's said that about several movies before.

Posted by: buzzion at May 02, 2012 10:58 PM (GULKT)

No, no, no, no goddammit!

Look, I don't come to Ace of Spades HQ to read a review about The Avengers, geek movie of the century, just to get a meh and a shoulder shrug. No, no, no, no.

I want hours and hours of pleasurable reading. I want a review longer than the script. I want to know about the moles on The Hulk's face relative to Banner's. I want analysis on Hawkeye's archery form.

I want to read 10 paragraphs on Scarlett Johannson's hotness. I want to know why Samuel L. Jackson's performance was the most subtle since Snakes on a Plane.

I want Ace to spoil the end by repeatedly saying, "I don't want to spoil the ending, but..." I want background on Thor and Norse mythology. I want to know how cool Robert Downey Jr. is and how his character is an archetype for American conservatives of the confident sexy successful male who is nonetheless flawed and human.

I want him to look up the physics and mechanics of a helicarrier. I want him to say, "It can't carry the fuel required to keep it aloft." and then dismiss it as a conceit of the artform.

And I want 3 pages, single-spaced in 8 point font on Captain America, noblesse oblige, steroids, duty, honor and why the hell he hasn't been promoted in 80 years.

And on top of it all, I want to know if they have a whiny, two-faced, pansy of a president who takes credit for defeating Loki and claims that he's the only one who would have the guts to approve taking out the Norse trickster god after 16 hours of deliberation.

Posted by: AmishDude at May 02, 2012 08:04 PM (J5tI6)

311 Not me.

Posted by: D.B. Cooper at May 03, 2012 12:02 AM (/izg2)

No. It was a big Jewish financier.

Alfred Loewenstein

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 02, 2012 08:04 PM (X3lox)

312 Maybe I should become a community organizer and run for higher office..... but I'm probably the wrong color for that. Check your family lore. Harvard is hiring.

Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2012 08:05 PM (FcR7P)

313 I just rewatched the entire Bashir vid and it might be one of the worst excuses for reporting I have ever encountered.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 08:05 PM (piMMO)

314 Reformatted because, goddamn you, Pixy!

No, no, no, no goddammit!

Look, I don't come to Ace of Spades HQ to read a review about The Avengers, geek movie of the century, just to get a meh and a shoulder shrug.

No, no, no, no.

I want hours and hours of pleasurable reading. I want a review longer than the script. I want to know about the moles on The Hulk's face relative to Banner's. I want analysis on Hawkeye's archery form.

I want to read 10 paragraphs on Scarlett Johannson's hotness. I want to know why Samuel L. Jackson's performance was the most subtle since Snakes on a Plane.

I want Ace to spoil the end by repeatedly saying, "I don't want to spoil the ending, but..."

I want background on Thor and Norse mythology. I want to know how cool Robert Downey Jr. is and how his character is an archetype for American conservatives of the confident sexy successful male who is nonetheless flawed and human.

I want him to look up the physics and mechanics of a helicarrier. I want him to say, "It can't carry the fuel required to keep it aloft." and then dismiss it as a conceit of the artform.

And I want 3 pages, single-spaced in 8 point font on Captain America, noblesse oblige, steroids, duty, honor and why the hell he hasn't been promoted in 80 years.

And on top of it all, I want to know if they have a whiny, two-faced, pansy of a president who takes credit for defeating Loki and claims that he's the only one who would have the guts to approve taking out the Norse trickster god after 16 hours of deliberation.

Posted by: AmishDude at May 02, 2012 08:06 PM (J5tI6)

315 http://www.sweetslyrics.com/wallpapers/4522_jessica_simpson.jpg

that's the one

Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at May 02, 2012 08:07 PM (GK5EN)

316 Interesting, the freak that was calling Romney a racist yesterday was a paid Soros stooge http://is.gd/HDisBp

Posted by: Lurkasaurus at May 02, 2012 08:07 PM (sJKFk)

317 I can't remember the guy's name. ? It's as if I've pants-ed myself.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at May 02, 2012 08:07 PM (FcR7P)

318 176 Currently taking acetametaphine, decongestant, expectorant, zicam, vitamin c and scotch. Head stuffed up, nose running, chest is no longer on fire when I cough which is often, no longer hacking up phlegm, feel like dogshit, no energy and the scotch is barely enjoyable.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at May 02, 2012 11:19 PM (JKNDp)

Switch to ibuprofen. Acetaminophen, with or without alcohol, is in the top two causes of acute liver damage in both the US and UK. Has the smallest gap between clinical dose and LD50 (dose that kills 1/2 of the recipients) of any non-prescription medication.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 02, 2012 08:07 PM (kaalw)

319 Alfred Loewenstein

Hmmm thought that guy played OF for the Orioles back in the 80s. /

Posted by: NC Ref at May 02, 2012 08:08 PM (/izg2)

320 From my side of things, the work has become really boring and low-paying. You're competing with $10/hr kids overseas doing elementary-school stuff with html. When was the last driver written in this country? I'm exploring.
***
I haven't been involved with anything truly cutting edge, but it is certainly more involved then just HTML.

The average salary for a software developer nationwide is $74k. And related professions - project management, qa, etc aren't much less.

It is the plastics of the 2010s.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2012 08:08 PM (3aXbg)

321 Hey! What's going on?

Yeah, Mrs. Robinson was pretty sucky as a love story, but I still like the movie.

Come to think of it, Love Story was pretty sucky as a love story, too.

Posted by: Theresa at May 02, 2012 08:09 PM (Cf5RM)

322 She runs off with him - on a bus. That is the reality.
Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at May 02, 2012 11:11 PM

If you remember, his car was an Alfa Romeo Spider, and it did what comes naturally to Alfas, it broke down

Posted by: Sharon Marsh at May 02, 2012 08:12 PM (Y+DPZ)

323 349 Interesting, the freak that was calling Romney a racist yesterday was a paid Soros stooge

http://is.gd/HDisBp

Posted by: Lurkasaurus at May 03, 2012 12:07 AM (sJKFk)

Figures

Posted by: lous a girl at May 02, 2012 08:12 PM (fHyXI)

324 Hey Theresa, I am thinking about carrot cake with beer, but that might be even too weird for me.

Posted by: lous a girl at May 02, 2012 08:14 PM (fHyXI)

325 247 Does anyone have some spare tinfoil?

I just saw a U.F.O. (F stands for floating.) Reddish orange ball of light hovering/floating above our neighborhood, then starting to drift away slowly (northwesterly direction) while dimming. Could hear neighbors commenting on it, too. Wonder if there will be any explanation in the news.

Posted by: Y-not at May 02, 2012 11:36 PM

If you'd listened to my show last night, you'd know that the government is not only setting up a spying center in Utah, but the ET's have relocated from Area 51

Posted by: George Noury at May 02, 2012 08:14 PM (Y+DPZ)

326 Interesting, the freak that was calling Romney a racist yesterday was a paid Soros stooge

*****

It figures. She probably thought she would be assumed to be part of the OWS crowd.

It's telling of their lack of any real intelligence that in a world where everything is caught on video, she thought she could skate by without being identified.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 08:14 PM (piMMO)

327 The average salary for a software developer nationwide is $74k.

Developers, developers, developers, developers ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE

Posted by: Steve Ballmer at May 02, 2012 08:14 PM (EaIqd)

328 good finish to the game

Posted by: The Dude at May 02, 2012 08:15 PM (tw6Ar)

329 349 Interesting, the freak that was calling Romney a racist yesterday was a paid Soros stooge http://is.gd/HDisBp Posted by: Lurkasaurus at May 03, 2012 12:07 AM (sJKFk) They are going to lose and they know it. The desperation is unreal.

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 08:16 PM (DGIjM)

330 Lou! I say go for it. Maybe try just a bite of carrot cake first and see how it tastes.

I'm just beer tonight. Alas, not a bite of chocolate left in my stash.

Posted by: Theresa at May 02, 2012 08:16 PM (Cf5RM)

331 Great game. Not the way that I wanted it to end.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at May 02, 2012 08:16 PM (jucos)

332 For those looking for a job, the State of Texas is hiring alligator wranglers. Apparently, due to budget cuts, they are down to one official wrangler.

long time lurker....first post it note

Posted by: fozalgerts at May 02, 2012 08:16 PM (bNnwW)

333
Oddly, the bachelorhood thing I'm experiencing this week while Momma is touring the Bahamas isn't all that much fun.

The dog has been the recipient of an extended monologue most of this week and I'm at loose ends. Can't wait til she gets back.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 02, 2012 08:17 PM (SAMxH)

334 Un-frickin-believeable!

The Scream sells for $119.9M.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 08:18 PM (piMMO)

335 Apparently, due to budget cuts, they are down to one official wrangler.
long time lurker....first post it note
Posted by: fozalgerts at May 03, 2012 12:16 AM
-------------------------------
Did they get down to one wrangler by laying folks off, or was it through attrition?

Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at May 02, 2012 08:18 PM (GK5EN)

336 Hey Kids

Posted by: jc at May 02, 2012 08:19 PM (ufJKx)

337 No matter how much Jeremy Clarkson can piss me off at times, I always keep in mind that he punched out Piers Morgan on a flight from London to NY

That's worth a pass

I also excuse will.i.am for punching out Perez Hilton

Posted by: kbdabear at May 02, 2012 08:19 PM (Y+DPZ)

338 The average salary for a software developer nationwide is $74k. Yeah, less than what I started at thirty years ago. Which reminds me, how come inflation never helps me on the income side of things? I'd like my salary to hyperinflate.

Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2012 08:19 PM (FcR7P)

339 ha! some idiots we predicting it would get $200mm.

Posted by: yankeefifth at May 02, 2012 08:19 PM (Z9EHQ)

340

Posted by: Truck Monkey at May 03, 2012 12:16 AM (jucos)

the glory of having your team lose in the first round, being able to watch good hockey (even though the Flyers-Pens series was fucking amazing).

first day of hitting a car hop for the year and I feel bloated. I ate too many burgers

Posted by: The Dude at May 02, 2012 08:19 PM (tw6Ar)

341

I'm at loose ends. Can't wait til she gets back.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 03, 2012 12:17 AM (SAMxH)

Sweet, I get the same way when hubby goes on a boys weekend, I always miss him after a day, and want him back.

Theresa, trying the cake, will let you know.

Posted by: lous a girl at May 02, 2012 08:20 PM (fHyXI)

342 Hola fellow moronista's. Good or not-so-good ONT up to this point? Inquiring minds want to know before investing the time to read the comments...

Posted by: zeera at May 02, 2012 08:20 PM (XtxRN)

343 Will they allow me to fap to Jessica Simpson wearing a US Flag bikini when the little critters are sleeping?

Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at May 02, 2012 08:20 PM (GK5EN)

344 They are going to lose and they know it. The desperation is unreal.

****

And, for the man who was supposed to put forth the first ever $1B dollar campaign, the endless begging is unbelievable. I constantly receive emails begging for $3.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 08:20 PM (piMMO)

345 I don't mean ME wearing the bikini, you perverts.

Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at May 02, 2012 08:21 PM (GK5EN)

346 Hola fellow moronista's. Good or not-so-good ONT up to this point? Inquiring minds want to know before investing the timeto read the comments...

****

Well, it depends. Do you like photos of kinda pretty women and vids of incredible dickwad "reporters"?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 08:21 PM (piMMO)

347 The local news did not elaborate on the details.

So, I do not know the exact reason.

Posted by: fozalgerts at May 02, 2012 08:22 PM (bNnwW)

348 Correction: Clarkson threw a drink on Piers on that flight. He punched him out at the British Press Awards

Double pass

Posted by: kbdabear at May 02, 2012 08:22 PM (Y+DPZ)

349
NDH, you might try getting $3 in Zimbabwe currency and sending it.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 02, 2012 08:22 PM (SAMxH)

350 long time lurker....first post it note Posted by: fozalgerts at May 03, 2012 12:16 AM (bNnwW) welcome to chaos, really

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 08:23 PM (AZ8Mb)

351 haha, over at insty, Mitt Romney saved Cherokee Indian Eliazabeth Warren from prosecution by repealing a law in 2005 that banned Indians from Boston.

Posted by: robtr at May 02, 2012 08:23 PM (MtwBb)

352 Hi, irongrampa! Hang in, week's heading for the downward side and she'll be home soon.

I live alone, so my 4 little finches get the monologues and tirades from me.

Posted by: Theresa at May 02, 2012 08:24 PM (Cf5RM)

353 And, for the man who was supposed to put forth the first ever $1B dollar campaign, the endless begging is unbelievable. I constantly receive emails begging for $3. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 03, 2012 12:20 AM (piMMO) No attack is sticking.. They are floundering... stupid stunts like a soros paid idiot say desperation to me. I receive em too. stupid. The ones from Debbie whatsherface are the most ridiculous.

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 08:24 PM (DGIjM)

354 Okay. Maybe I'm the only one infuriated by Martin Bashir condemning Mitt Romney to hell.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 08:24 PM (piMMO)

355 Thanks jake. Been a reader for years.

Posted by: fozalgerts at May 02, 2012 08:24 PM (bNnwW)

356 387 Okay. Maybe I'm the only one infuriated by Martin Bashir condemning Mitt Romney to hell. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 03, 2012 12:24 AM (piMMO) He did what?! What an idiot.

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 08:27 PM (DGIjM)

357 NDH, you might try getting $3 in Zimbabwe currency and sending it.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 03, 2012 12:22 AM (SAMxH)

I don't know, could you break a $trillion? http://tinyurl.com/6zradqm

Posted by: NC Ref at May 02, 2012 08:27 PM (/izg2)

358 368 Apparently, due to budget cuts, they are down to one official wrangler.
long time lurker....first post it note

Posted by: fozalgerts at May 03, 2012 12:16 AM
-------------------------------
Did they get down to one wrangler by laying folks off, or was it through attrition?

Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at May 03, 2012 12:18 AM (GK5EN)

Just don't tell me that the next-to-last one was unexpectedly hit in the chest by a stingray.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 02, 2012 08:28 PM (kaalw)

359 Okay. Maybe I'm the only one infuriated by Martin Bashir condemning Mitt Romney to hell.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse

No, you most definitely are not. I can't stand that Bashir a-hole. Why he's even on TV is a mystery to me, along with some of the other a-holes in the MFM.

Posted by: Theresa at May 02, 2012 08:28 PM (Cf5RM)

360 Thanks jake. Been a reader for years. Posted by: fozalgerts at May 03, 2012 12:24 AM (bNnwW) Good peeps about, but the trolls are tedius... And if it ever happens that you are a moron in good standing but to drunk to post, just sleep it off and start fresh tomorrow.

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 08:29 PM (AZ8Mb)

361 Whippin' up some Obama-style meat.

http://tinyurl.com/bru6gxc

Posted by: Brian Gumbo at May 02, 2012 08:29 PM (0It32)

362 long time lurker....first post it note Posted by: fozalgerts at May 03, 2012 12:16 AM (bNnwW) Hi! Welcome.

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 08:29 PM (DGIjM)

363

387 Okay. Maybe I'm the only one infuriated by Martin Bashir condemning Mitt Romney to hell.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 03, 2012 12:24 AM (piMMO)

I don't know. Its kind of hard for me to get infuriated over something we knew they would be doing a year ago. Figure on a post about it tomorrow perhaps.

Posted by: buzzion at May 02, 2012 08:29 PM (GULKT)

364 387 Okay. Maybe I'm the only one infuriated by Martin Bashir condemning Mitt Romney to hell.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 03, 2012 12:24 AM (piMMO)

====

Sorry. I used up all my contempt for the mouthpieces of the slavery party years ago. I think of them as garbage, so it just doesn't matter much. Deny them your attention and emotions. The don't deserve either one.

Posted by: jc at May 02, 2012 08:30 PM (ufJKx)

365
Time for the old folk. Believe the grandkids are due for torment tomorrow.

Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 02, 2012 08:30 PM (SAMxH)

366 An old My Space page from George Zimmerman has surfaced that supposedly makes disparaging remarks about Mexicans. And, his own friggin lawyer concedes that it doesn't look good?!

I read it and it makes him look like a stupid ass 20 year old, but he wasn't disparaging Mexicans, he was talking about the Mexican hoods who were damaging cars.

Warning, it's a Huffpo link: http://huff.to/IEVph0

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 08:31 PM (piMMO)

367 Okay. Maybe I'm the only one infuriated by Martin Bashir condemning Mitt Romney to hell.Posted by: Niedermeyer

No, i hate that shithead's guts. I can't watch the clips on Newsbusters at all for the sake of my monitor.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at May 02, 2012 08:31 PM (ebPtk)

368 squatch, thip, squatch, thip, squatch, thip

Ooops, stepped in something on the older thread.

Posted by: DaveA at May 02, 2012 08:33 PM (eK23b)

369
And, for the man who was supposed to put forth the first ever $1B dollar campaign, the endless begging is unbelievable. I constantly receive emails begging for $3.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 03, 2012 12:20 AM (piMMO)

He likes people giving up money because of him. It's self-validation. He relentlessly campaigns not only because it's the only thing he knows how to do, but because it gives him what his psychology craves -- masses of people bending towards him, cheering, kowtowing, thrilled to death with His presence. It's not "begging" to him, it's exacting tribute.

Posted by: sistrum at May 02, 2012 08:34 PM (AyryN)

370 392 Why he's even on TV is a mystery to me, along with some of the other a-holes in the MFM.

Posted by: Theresa at May 03, 2012 12:28 AM (Cf5RM)

===

no mystery. it is because a corporate asshole chose him and is paying him to do exactly what he does. it is not an accident. nor is it a coincidence that all the supposedly independent news companies all agree that there is only murder case or missing girl at any one time.

Posted by: jc at May 02, 2012 08:35 PM (ufJKx)

371 You guys are too funny. My husband came home today from his job bitching about it being boring and so when the news came on about the alligator hunting job, I just looked at him and said there you go. He retired from the Army last year, so he is still adjusting to the civilian world.

Posted by: fozalgerts at May 02, 2012 08:35 PM (bNnwW)

372 the day before the 690 release and a bunch of AMD fanboys come out of the woodwork

Posted by: The Dude at May 02, 2012 08:35 PM (tw6Ar)

373 It's not "begging" to him, it's exacting tribute. Posted by: sistrum at May 03, 2012 12:34 AM (AyryN) Yeah, I think you are right.

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 08:36 PM (DGIjM)

374 No-hitter for Jered Weaver! 9-0 Angels over Twins.

Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at May 02, 2012 08:36 PM (IlZPo)

375 64 49 Read the 3rd paragraph - tiny.cc/vjopdw
Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 02, 2012 10:45 PM (YLOye)

OMG!!!!!!

Posted by: Jumbo limping Shrimp at May 02, 2012 10:48 PM (DGIjM)

I second that OMG!!!!!

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at May 02, 2012 08:37 PM (KL49F)

376 No, i hate that shithead's guts. I can't watch the clips on Newsbusters at all for the sake of my monitor.

****

This time he accused Romney of several lies and then read from the book of Mormon, specifically regarding lying, and said that Romney could manage to lie his way into office but would condemn his soul to damnation. Then, he smartly wondered aloud which Mitt thought was more important.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 08:38 PM (piMMO)

377 He retired from the Army last year, so he is still adjusting to the civilian world. Posted by: fozalgerts at May 03, 2012 12:35 AM (bNnwW) but not us morons aparently The real money next year is scrubbers for any online content of BHO's preezzy of the united steezyy. Serious, he scrubbed all his pre presidentin' stuff, what will keep him from scrubbing his post presidentin' stuff.

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 08:39 PM (AZ8Mb)

378 The real money next year is scrubbers for any online content of BHO's preezzy of the united steezyy.

****

Those B and O keys aren't going to remove themselves from the keyboards at the WH.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 08:40 PM (piMMO)

379 377 They are going to lose and they know it. The desperation is unreal. **** And, for the man who was supposed to put forth the first ever $1B dollar campaign, the endless begging is unbelievable. I constantly receive emails begging for $3. ----- Yeah, I get the strong feeling that the Zero & his fellow travelers are scared. Without the palace guard media, they would be getting pelted with rotten vegetables at press events. Some folks who I've been friends with since my teens have declared themselves "progressives" and are constantly cheering that JEF when I'm around. So I've been avoiding them like the plague. They're not people that the general public would consider "dumb", an MD, a software developer, an accountant and similar professions. They just don't pay very much attention to what's going on.

Posted by: Lurkasaurus at May 02, 2012 08:44 PM (sJKFk)

380 I just saw a U.F.O. (F stands for floating.) Reddish orange ball of light hovering/floating above our neighborhood, then starting to drift away slowly (northwesterly direction) while dimming. Could hear neighbors commenting on it, too. Wonder if there will be any explanation in the news. That likely was a Rigellian mapping probe. Probably a Mark III or IV. They're robotic, but they have a sense of mischief. They like to read about themselves in the local papers. Just be glad it wasn't an Arcturan sampling bot. They love to pick up passengers and test out their whole inventory of anal probes.

Posted by: eman at May 02, 2012 08:44 PM (XrDou)

381 Who the fuck still plugs into the MFM? That is a dead industry. When all the White Liberal Boomers pass on, nobody will read/watch that stuff, except for union goons. The conservative network is getting better every day. Weazel Zippers probably outdoes Drudge right now (not that Drudge does not step up, but the Weasels are chargers.)

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 08:45 PM (AZ8Mb)

382

An old My Space page from George Zimmerman has surfaced that supposedly makes disparaging remarks about Mexicans. And, his own friggin lawyer concedes that it doesn't look good?!

I read it and it makes him look like a stupid ass 20 year old, but he wasn't disparaging Mexicans, he was talking about the Mexican hoods who were damaging cars. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse

GOT HIM! Right?

The only reason anything race related is relevent to this story is the media lies. Fuck 'em. Let the moral equivilant of pimps and drug pushers, journalists, keep pretending like race matters because they got caught.

Posted by: Z Ryan at May 02, 2012 08:46 PM (tsC/8)

383 I find myself wondering how long it will be after SCOAMF is out of office before the real story comes out about all of the things we weren't told about Obama, and the shit that went on in this clusterfark of an administration. I'm hoping it happens, and I'm also hoping that I live long enough to see it.

Posted by: Theresa at May 02, 2012 08:46 PM (Cf5RM)

384 Ha, Ha,...true on the scrubbers.

Hi Jumbo limping Shrimp. I hope you get better soon. Damn furry critters...nothing but trouble sometimes.

Anybody got a roomba? It keeps my cats entertained for hours.

Posted by: fozalgerts at May 02, 2012 08:48 PM (bNnwW)

385 Zimmerman had to be white, because to ABC, NBC and CNN, white = motivation. Remember that anytime race is brought up in relation to this story.

Posted by: Z Ryan at May 02, 2012 08:48 PM (tsC/8)

386 Some folks who I've been friends with since my teens have declared themselves "progressives" and are constantly cheering that JEF when I'm around. So I've been avoiding them like the plague. They're not people that the general public would consider "dumb", an MD, a software developer, an accountant and similar professions. They just don't pay very much attention to what's going on. Posted by: Lurkasaurus at May 03, 2012 12:44 AM (sJKFk) in an unconfrontational way just state the truth as simple facts. or ask simple questions as in.. the top 1% of tax payers make 23% of the income but pay 38% of the fed income tax, what part needs to be more fair?

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 08:49 PM (AZ8Mb)

387 You all know the joke about the guy who asks a woman whether she'd sleep with him for $10,000 and she agrees, then says he'll give $100. When she angrily replies "What do you think I am?", he says "We've already established that, now we dicker about the price."

Some part of those innumerable $3 rafflings and donation hitups for Obama's campaign reminds me of that, but in reverse. He's so eager for you to establish yourself as someone who Gives Money To Him, he'll lower the bar as much as possible.

Posted by: sistrum at May 02, 2012 08:49 PM (AyryN)

388 We kick ass in war because we delegate combat decision making down to the lowest level. A private knows how to call in an airstrike and has on many occasions.

It has often struck me that many times the guy I was talking to on the radio wasn't even BORN when I went through flight school (198

.

This may seem like a dark time to some, but I look at the kids I served with in Iraq and Afghanistan and I have hope. The best fighting force in the history of the world.

They will come home and have a say in the course of this country.

Posted by: Phat at May 02, 2012 08:49 PM (VBeir)

389 I find myself wondering how long it will be after SCOAMF is out of office before the real story comes out about all of the things we weren't told about Obama, and the shit that went on in this clusterfark of an administration. I'm hoping it happens, and I'm also hoping that I live long enough to see it.

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The only thing the MFM loves more that BO is the smell of their own farts. When he is out of office, and no longer truly useful to them, they will fight to be the first to bring us the "breaking news" of his antics while in office.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 08:49 PM (piMMO)

390
Some part of those innumerable $3 rafflings and donation hitups for
Obama's campaign reminds me of that, but in reverse. He's so eager for
you to establish yourself as someone who Gives Money To Him, he'll lower the
bar as much as possible.

****

100 Million people adored me enough to donate to my campaign!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 08:51 PM (piMMO)

391 They will come home and have a say in the course of this country.

Posted by: Phat at May 03, 2012 12:49 AM (VBeir)

And it is our responsibility and duty to support them when they do. I look forward to it!

Posted by: NC Ref at May 02, 2012 08:52 PM (/izg2)

392 Want a quick summary of what is wrong with this World? Brian Williams is a millionaire.

Posted by: eman at May 02, 2012 08:52 PM (XrDou)

393

Posted by: Tree falling in forest at May 02, 2012 08:52 PM (IlZPo)

394 I hope so, NDH, but the part of me who has watched the MSM bow before His greatness in unholy awe just can't imagine there being anything but "glorious leader" stories coming out about him for quite a few years after his reign ends.

Posted by: Theresa at May 02, 2012 08:54 PM (Cf5RM)

395 Governor Scott gets it.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 08:55 PM (piMMO)

396 but I look at the kids I served with in Iraq and Afghanistan and I have hope. The best fighting force in the history of the world. Posted by: Phat at May 03, 2012 12:49 AM (VBeir) Especially since we've had the muzzle on for almost every part of it. In open warfare we'd win even by a bigger margin.

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 08:55 PM (AZ8Mb)

397 Just read George Wills coloumn for the washington post about his down syndrome son. Admit had a tear or two fall. Some of the comments from the liberals are downright cruel. Liberals/dems suck, that is all.

Posted by: lous a girl at May 02, 2012 08:56 PM (fHyXI)

398 OOPS!

Governor Scott gets it: http://yhoo.it/IA5k3X

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 08:56 PM (piMMO)

399

More likely, they're so hardcore into the mode of personal destruction of anyone who critisizes Obama that they'll go after whoever reports anything Obama was doing.

Then they'll go on that for a while, and maybe someone else will pull a John Lovitz and question why they're doing that. Then the story will briefly be about the press, as usual, before completely vanishing. And nothing will have been learned.

Posted by: Z Ryan at May 02, 2012 08:57 PM (tsC/8)

400 Want a quick summary of what is wrong with this World?

Brian Williams is a millionaire.

heh

Posted by: fluffy at May 02, 2012 08:57 PM (z9HTb)

401 Lou? You still here?

Posted by: Theresa at May 02, 2012 08:57 PM (Cf5RM)

402 in an unconfrontational way just state the truth as simple facts. or ask simple questions as in.. the top 1% of tax payers make 23% of the income but pay 38% of the fed income tax, what part needs to be more fair? Posted by: jake at May 03, 2012 12:49 AM (AZ8Mb) ------ They're mostly in "the 1%" or have household incomes over $150k so they fall for the lib guilt part of the class warfare shit (it's really quite sad). I've been quoting pieces of Obamacare to the Doc & he doesn't quite believe me. the stupid is strong with them.

Posted by: Lurkasaurus at May 02, 2012 08:57 PM (sJKFk)

403 Liberals/dems suck, that is all. Posted by: lous a girl at May 03, 2012 12:56 AM (fHyXI) well when the whells fall off this wagon, they will starve or get shot in the streets for trying to steel food from those not so dumb. Life is hard, it is even harder when you are stupid.

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 08:58 PM (AZ8Mb)

404 Ahhh, there you are Lou! Last thing I remember was you talking about beer n carrot cake. Was wondrin'...

I read the George Will story, too. It was very moving.

Posted by: Theresa at May 02, 2012 08:59 PM (Cf5RM)

405

The American ethos of officer training is to tell young officers to "Do Something." Faced with any situation, with or without orders, with or without resources, Do Something. If a US Army lieutenant is found by his boss, the worst thing he can be doing is Nothing. It is this "Do Something" ethos, combined with an ethos that values Winning above anything else (like following the rules), that makes our military what it is.

I've been reading the quotes about chaos in the US Army for decades. They ring true. For us, winning is more important than following the rules or demonstrating fidelity to the doctrine we slept through. It doesn't matter what you went through to win - you just have to win. I've seen situations where the Division planning group was busily going through their planning process when the Assistant Division Commander walked in to the TOC, looked at the map, and said, "Do this." The ADC's orders won the battle. The planning staff came out of thier meeting a few hours later, looked at the map, and said, "What happened? He can't do that without us!"

I spent a year training the Iraqi army. Their ethos is "Follow Orders." Iraqi officers do what they are told to do. If they are told that they will conduct a training march in a certain order, with first battalion going first and second battalion going second, they will do that. If first battalion is walking like crippled elderly people, second battalion will wait for them. In a US military unit, on the same march, second battalion will run past first battalion. Second battalion will then lord it over first battalion until the next training march, when first battalion will have the chance to regain their manhood by marching faster.

That is why we crushed them in a few hours. Twice.

Posted by: Penultimatum at May 02, 2012 09:01 PM (EEUs4)

406 as in..
the top 1% of tax payers make 23% of the income but pay 38% of the fed income tax, what part needs to be more fair?

Posted by: jake at May 03, 2012 12:49 AM (AZ8Mb)

===

we are all born with a finite amount of time between our birth and our death. how could it ever be fair for someone to steal your time cuz they don't want to use theirs? at the heart of all their bullshit is the concept that they own your time. funny -- at the heart of slavery is exactly the same thing. the slavery party never gets far from their roots. under Obuttsux they are trying to return to their roots faster than ever before.

Posted by: jc at May 02, 2012 09:01 PM (ufJKx)

407 eman,

You get to a point that we need to make. EVERY time a MSM talking head says anything about 99/1% we just need to ask a simple question: What is your salary, Mr/Mrs MSNBC talking head?

Where does that put you on the scale? How much do YOU give to charity? You're screaming at Mitt Romney to release his tax records. Can I see yours? How many STD's have you had? How many do you still have?

Turn the tables on these asshats. They are very stupid, undereducated J-school grads who couldn't find their butt if it had a bell on it.

Posted by: Phat at May 02, 2012 09:02 PM (VBeir)

408 439 Ahhh, there you are Lou! Last thing I remember was you talking about beer n carrot cake. Was wondrin'...

I read the George Will story, too. It was very moving.

Posted by: Theresa at May 03, 2012 12:59 AM (Cf5RM)

Theresa, I had the pleasure of living with my cousin who had down syndrome, he was so much fun. Just a lovely, great human being. He and I used to go to the bar for a beer and to play the nickle slots and people would freak out, it was weird.

Posted by: lous a girl at May 02, 2012 09:05 PM (fHyXI)

409 That is why we crushed them in a few hours. Twice.

Posted by: Penultimatum at May 03, 2012 01:01 AM (EEUs4)

****

Cee Lo Green and The Goodie Mob: http://bit.ly/Ju8WZ0

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 09:07 PM (piMMO)

410 Turn the tables on these asshats. They are very stupid, undereducated J-school grads who couldn't find their butt if it had a bell on it. Posted by: Phat at May 03, 2012 01:02 AM (VBeir) mock the shit out of them( make fun of, in my speak) few can stand up to being made fun of, especially if it is true.

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 09:08 PM (AZ8Mb)

411

I appreciate Maet's defending us from that absolutely hilarious demotivational, but he's a little off. I'll offer 2 short points:

1. Don't confuse chaos with flexibility. Our Armed Forces absolutely have doctrine, strategy, and tactics down better than anyone on the planet- but it's not a "suicide pact". The greenest butter bar understands regulations are more like guidelines than laws. I busted regs hundreds of time, and always received praise and top ratings for thinking outside the box. If you focus on the intent rather than the mechanics, you get a better result. There are a few dicks out there, but this was my near universal experience.

2. NCOs rule. An American sergeant has more authority and ability to shape a battle than other countries' colonels. If there are only 2 soldiers, 1 is in charge. Leadership is stressed at all levels. I'd say we have a deep bench when it comes to leadership, except there is no bench- everyone is a leader.

OK. I'll jump off my soapbox now.

Posted by: Beefy Meatball, whose Black Knights crushed Navy 3 times when he was trapped in Yankeeland at May 02, 2012 09:11 PM (mxnUd)

412 Posted by: Penultimatum at May 03, 2012 01:01 AM (EEUs4) This is why we win when we want to win

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 09:12 PM (AZ8Mb)

413 Pen knows.

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at May 02, 2012 09:14 PM (mxnUd)

414 OK. I'll jump off my soapbox now. Posted by: Beefy Meatball, whose Black Knights crushed Navy 3 times when he was trapped in Yankeeland at May 03, 2012 01:11 AM (mxnUd) that is a bad ass soap box, The great thing about America is we don't lose fights. unfortunately the politacle leadership looses too many fights.

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 09:16 PM (AZ8Mb)

415 Wow the stache is telling it like it is on the blind chinese activist story. Looks like obama has another terrible scandal on his hands, lets see what story pops up tommorow to take this one out of the media cycle.

Posted by: lous a girl at May 02, 2012 09:17 PM (fHyXI)

416 I personally thought of battle planning as sort of a vague vision statement with a bunch of useless filler material masquerading as details. More for practice in making decisions than producing a plan that would actually accomplish objectives. I was once told by a foreign senior officer that American doctrine was a clever wide scale misinformation campaign designed to throw off our enemies.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at May 02, 2012 09:19 PM (GE1+K)

417 Am I the first to noticed that this is the ONT for April 2nd?

Posted by: fluffy at May 02, 2012 09:21 PM (z9HTb)

418 I was once told by a foreign senior officer that American doctrine was a clever wide scale misinformation campaign designed to throw off our enemies. Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at May 03, 2012 01:19 AM (GE1+K) Logistics wins wars if the troops can fight. Nothing says surrender like a platoon of US Marines at your flank with fixed bayonettts

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 09:22 PM (AZ8Mb)

419 Am I the first to noticed that this is the ONT for April 2nd?

***

I didn't notice. Totally missed it.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 09:22 PM (piMMO)

420 If politicians hadn't cock blocked Patten and MacArthur, this would be a much better world. And, the fucking hippies are in charge today. God help us. Make love, not war has resulted in millions of lives lost and terrible misery; and, there's more coming.

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at May 02, 2012 09:24 PM (mxnUd)

421 erectile dysfunction , Who the f'-k are you kidding.take this and you get sudden decrease in heart beat, breathing, shortness of breath, hearing loss, death,loss of limbs, moodiness, menopause, cancer,dementia, grumpy, sleepy, shy etc. Really guys, is it worth it?

Posted by: lous a girl at May 02, 2012 09:25 PM (fHyXI)

422 best quote in the last 2 decades was an Army officer in front of congress answering why it took more than 8 weeks to make an Iraqui soldier. The answer was that the American spent 18 years being an American, then 8 weeks to be a soldier...

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 09:25 PM (AZ8Mb)

423 I didn't notice. Totally missed it. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 03, 2012 01:22 AM (piMMO) Ace fixed his time machine. He'll be busy banging Ancient Roman ass for at a week or two.

Posted by: eman at May 02, 2012 09:26 PM (XrDou)

424 >>>Really guys, is it worth it? It depends is that 4 hour erection a promise?

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at May 02, 2012 09:26 PM (GE1+K)

425 The first casualty of any battle is is battle plan.

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at May 02, 2012 09:26 PM (mxnUd)

426 I'd say we have a deep bench when it comes to leadership, except there is no bench- everyone is a leader.

As we said in the Infantry, "Follow Me"

Posted by: fluffy, 11B at May 02, 2012 09:27 PM (z9HTb)

427 Posted by: lous a girl at May 03, 2012 01:25 AM (fHyXI) did I miss something? where is that from?

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 09:27 PM (AZ8Mb)

428 Penultimatum,

A recent Academy class got a little heat for choosing Gen Robin Olds as their 'exemplar'. It's a relatively new 'tradition' to choose a historic AF figure who had leadership qualities that you hope your class will emulate.

Robin Olds was a profane, rule breaking son of a bitch. But he was probably the best fighter pilot in USAF history. I've met Chuck Yeager and Steve Ritchie over the course of my career, but Gen Olds was the BALLS.

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

The problem with Yeager and Ritchie is that they were phenomenal fighter pilots that weren't successful combat leaders. Olds rocked it at every level.

BTW, he grew out the 'stache as a big FU to the brass back at the Pentagon. At the time, he was bullet-proof. F-4 wing commander in Vietnam. Double ace, what the hell are the going to do to him and, BTW, when the last time you perfumed princes saw combat?

In a lot of ways he is the USAF's version of Gen Patton.

Posted by: Phat at May 02, 2012 09:27 PM (VBeir)

429 As we said in the Infantry, "Follow Me" Posted by: fluffy, 11B at May 03, 2012 01:27 AM (z9HTb) We get a lot more done at work when the bosses leave us alone.

Posted by: eman at May 02, 2012 09:28 PM (XrDou)

430 461 Posted by: lous a girl at May 03, 2012 01:25 AM (fHyXI)

did I miss something?

where is that from?

Posted by: jake at May 03, 2012 01:27 AM (AZ8Mb)

The ad for viagra or one of the miracle drugs, ya gotta listen to the side effects, crazy shit!

Posted by: lous a girl at May 02, 2012 09:29 PM (fHyXI)

431 In a lot of ways he is the USAF's version of Gen Patton.

****

And looked like a movie star!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2012 09:30 PM (piMMO)

432 I find myself wondering how long it will be after SCOAMF is out of
office before the real story comes out about all of the things we
weren't told about Obama, and the shit that went on in this clusterfark
of an administration. I'm hoping it happens, and I'm also hoping that I
live long enough to see it.
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DITTO times a million. I predict books by everyone Jarrett ever undercut. Geithner and Orsag for sure, probably Panetta maaaayybe Gates (ironically the Repub will play nicest of all), maybe Gibbs and Carney, a general or two. Ex-staffers will anonymously spill their guts about an administration gone to the ozone. Ozone, see what I did there?

Posted by: the new, improved arhooley -- now with 10% more cynicism! at May 02, 2012 09:30 PM (7I4GE)

433 >>>We get a lot more done at work when the bosses leave us alone. One of my problem solving approaches "I'm going to walk out and do xxx for 1 hour, when I get back this had better be taken care of, oh and I had better not hear about it from anyone else"

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at May 02, 2012 09:31 PM (GE1+K)

434

I called Obama the worst POTUS ever today, and a liberal -- who knows I'm Christian -- actually told me that it was "Christian" of me to condemn Obama... I gave her a lesson on what the Bible means when it says we aren't to "judge"/"condemn" (that it means we arern't to condemn people to Hell since that's God's job) and that the Bible actually tells us to be "wise as serpents" and to "know" (i.e. judge) a man by his fruits. Chrsitians are to use their God-given brains for judgement and diescernment otherwise we'd have no judicial system or crime-fighters.

I also told her that I find it funny that non-believers are always telling Christians that we are mindless 'bots for believing the Bible (esp. regarding Creationism) yet the second we show discernment they bitch at us that we're "judging" them.

Man, I hate liberals.

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at May 02, 2012 09:31 PM (KL49F)

435 The ad for viagra or one of the miracle drugs, ya gotta listen to the side effects, crazy shit! Posted by: lous a girl at May 03, 2012 01:29 AM (fHyXI) got it . no hablo that. All my plumbing and the fabulous wifes' plumbing is ok

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 09:32 PM (AZ8Mb)

436 Good evening again.

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 09:33 PM (4ixH5)

437 >>>Man, I hate liberals. Yeah they are taking a stab at the whole "make your enemy live up to their own rules" Except they know 0 about faith and Christian theology.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at May 02, 2012 09:34 PM (GE1+K)

438 Man, I hate liberals. Posted by: Aslan's Girl at May 03, 2012 01:31 AM (KL49F) don't let them impact your life, they suck, you know it. if any are boarderline help them with facts.' easy, peasy,

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 09:35 PM (AZ8Mb)

439 I always told my soldiers that I wasn't a quarterback, but a fullback. We'll snap the ball straight to you, and you run. You know better than me how to get to the endzone, so I'm gonna concentrate on knocking the shit outta anyone that tries to stop you. We made a lot of touchdowns.

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at May 02, 2012 09:36 PM (mxnUd)

440 Dang, I missed the 'stache on the Chen Guangcheng story. I'm so bedeviled by that. Can't tell who's telling the truth. I don't trust the State Dept spokesholes or Hillary or Obama, but I know nothing about this dissident and I've been punked a few times and am wary. Well, maybe RealClearPolitics will post video. I might go make some mischief at Kos about it anyway.

Posted by: the new, improved arhooley -- now with 10% more cynicism! at May 02, 2012 09:36 PM (7I4GE)

441 Olds Was a triple ace Fucking McShame was a black ace (lost 3 planes) But who ends up a senator? Politics SUCKS

Posted by: Lurkasaurus at May 02, 2012 09:37 PM (sJKFk)

442 Col Robin Olds. Occupation: MAN.

http://tinyurl.com/7o7vzjs

Posted by: Phat at May 02, 2012 09:37 PM (VBeir)

443 Except they know 0 about faith and Christian theology. Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at May 03, 2012 01:34 AM (GE1+K) The Goddess Irony says liberals also by and large know very little about the science they claim to accept and adore. They just use it as a hammer against their political foes.

Posted by: eman at May 02, 2012 09:39 PM (XrDou)

444 Yeah they are taking a stab at the whole "make your enemy live up to their own rules" Except they know 0 about faith and Christian theology. Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at May 03, 2012 01:34 AM (GE1+K) our problem is we don't point out how they don't follow their own rules Christianity sorta points out we don't live up to the rules

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 09:39 PM (AZ8Mb)

445 gotta go. make sure you peeps are armed and trained with firearms. It is comforting to be that

Posted by: jake at May 02, 2012 09:41 PM (AZ8Mb)

446 Talking army reminds me I need more 7.62, so l8rs- I'm off to cheaperthandirt.com

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at May 02, 2012 09:42 PM (mxnUd)

447 474 Dang, I missed the 'stache on the Chen Guangcheng story. I'm so bedeviled by that. Can't tell who's telling the truth. I don't trust the State Dept spokesholes or Hillary or Obama, but I know nothing about this dissident and I've been punked a few times and am wary. Well, maybe RealClearPolitics will post video. I might go make some mischief at Kos about it anyway.

Posted by: the new, improved arhooley -- now with 10% more cynicism! at May 03, 2012 01:36 AM (7I4GE)

I dont know the whole story, but i bet it gets taken off the air by our media within the next twelve hours, so that will tell me everything I need to know..

Posted by: lous a girl at May 02, 2012 09:42 PM (fHyXI)

448 I also told her that I find it funny that non-believers are always telling Christians that we are mindless 'bots for believing the Bible (esp. regarding Creationism) yet the second we show discernment they bitch at us that we're "judging" them. Posted by: Aslan's Girl at May 03, 2012 01:31 AM (KL49F) Are they really bitching at you because of what you do, or are they just oppositional-defiant reactionary jerks who lash out at everything that isn't identified as part of their "tribe" because they've learned they get their way more often when they're pushy trolls? Things that make you go "hmmmmm." It's not really a political philosophy, it's delinquency.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Squatch at May 02, 2012 09:44 PM (bxiXv)

449 Lurk,

I would have flown wing with that guy into hell. He was everything a pilot should aspire to. Yes, he had some personal issues (mainly with drinking and being an asshole), but he was the most charismatic person I've ever met.

A few of us 'old heads' were sitting around and trying to thing of the most inspiring General officer we've met.

I had one. LtGen Trazkoma, 15 AF/CC back in the early 90's. Other than that, crickets.

Posted by: Phat at May 02, 2012 09:46 PM (VBeir)

450 I dont know the whole story, but i bet it gets takenoff the airby our media within the next twelve hours, so that will tell me everything I need to know.. Posted by: lous a girl
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<seethe> And you know that in 2016 Hillary will tout her brilliant career as a diplomat in her Presidential run.

Posted by: the new, improved arhooley -- now with 10% more cynicism! at May 02, 2012 09:47 PM (7I4GE)

451 479 gotta go.

make sure you peeps are armed and trained with firearms.

It is comforting to be that

Posted by: jake at May 03, 2012 01:41 AM (AZ8Mb)

Night jake, lucky guy to live in that state you live in. Someday i will be there too. Dad was born and raised in Homedale, loved it as a kid.

Posted by: lous a girl at May 02, 2012 09:48 PM (fHyXI)

452
<seethe> And you know that in 2016 Hillary will tout her brilliant career as a diplomat in her Presidential run.

Posted by: the new, improved arhooley -- now with 10% more cynicism! at May 03, 2012 01:47 AM (7I4GE)

Yeah, she was raised by a conservative father and chose the other side, what a bitch!

Posted by: lous a girl at May 02, 2012 09:53 PM (fHyXI)

453 Heh.

http://tinyurl.com/7zvj2m3

Posted by: Theresa at May 02, 2012 09:54 PM (Cf5RM)

454 Wow,I killed the ont. Going to bed. God Bless Ya'll.

Posted by: lous a girl at May 02, 2012 09:55 PM (fHyXI)

455 Night, Lou!

Posted by: Theresa at May 02, 2012 09:55 PM (Cf5RM)

456 Theresa at May 03, 2012 01:54 AM (Cf5RM)

not exactly, but ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmf_qdU2LXE

Posted by: Adriane at May 02, 2012 09:58 PM (VVZaH)

457 night, lou's a girl ...

better tomorrows!

Posted by: Adriane at May 02, 2012 09:59 PM (VVZaH)

458 Kate Upton? I'd hit that so hard my sperm would exceed light speed.

As usual you morons have greatly entertained me without me lifting a finger, except maybe to scroll and right click.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 02, 2012 10:02 PM (ccXZP)

459 Good night, Lou!

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 10:03 PM (4ixH5)

460 Okay, skimmed the thread enough. So, who likes them some poonany? http://tinyurl.com/34agrbw

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 10:05 PM (4ixH5)

461 So psyched for The Avengers on Friday night.

PUMPED!

I've been waiting for this patiently since Iron Man came out. My expectations are nearing unreasonably high levels. I need to see Hulk smash.

I'm nerding out. I need to come down. Someone post something depressing and sad.

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 10:07 PM (4ixH5)

462

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 03, 2012 02:02 AM (ccXZP)

http://tinyurl.com/6x9skpp

Posted by: The Dude at May 02, 2012 10:08 PM (tw6Ar)

463 Bers needs to check his Book That Is A Face page more. Gushie posted this.

http://tinyurl.com/7ngrnmg

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 10:08 PM (4ixH5)

464 http://tinyurl.com/72j5x5w

Posted by: The Dude at May 02, 2012 10:12 PM (tw6Ar)

465 Most of the O-7 and higher folks that I've met for a long enough time to make a character judgement on were in Intel and some Special forces types. LTGEN William "Jerry" Boykin (Army) is one of the most dedicated men I have ever met. I briefly worked with GEN Hayden (USAF, yeah that Hayden) when he was promoted to O-7.

Posted by: Lurkasaurus at May 02, 2012 10:12 PM (sJKFk)

466 Man, I hate liberals.

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at May 03, 2012 01:31 AM (KL49F)

===

I am on a personal quest to get as many people as possible to call them "slavers." Why? because it is accurate. they claim to own your time. All leftist philosophies are some form a slavery -- why dance around the point?

no more liberal, progressive, totalitarian, socialist, communist, etc, etc, etc. One word - slaver.

Posted by: jc at May 02, 2012 10:13 PM (ufJKx)

467 Last post was to Phat if ur still there

Posted by: Lurkasaurus at May 02, 2012 10:13 PM (sJKFk)

468 Bers needs to check his Book That Is A Face page more. Gushie posted this.

http://tinyurl.com/7ngrnmg

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 02:08 AM (4ixH5)

Thats pretty cool. Yeah, I'm bad with the FB page. I only go there when I get an email telling me to. lol

Posted by: Berserker at May 02, 2012 10:17 PM (FMbng)

469 RE: US military not behaving according to their doctrine. Research a thing called OODA. While it was originally a concept for fighter pilots, the concepts have been extended into many aspects where there is competition of any sort. The basic idea is to be aware of your situation and react before your enemy can react which sounds really simple but if your decision cycle is consistently faster than theirs, they are reacting to a reality that has changed before they realize that it has changed. The notion is to get "inside" their decision/reaction cycle and take away the initiative by having them become reactive because you A: didn't do what they expected you to do which causes them to throw all of their training out of the window and have to adapt B: yourself adapt to the situation as it unfolds and are able to decide and make adjustments faster than they can figure out what you are doing.

The notion is to be able to observe what is going on, make an assessment and react while the enemy is still somewhere earlier in that cycle.

In the case where the enemy is relying on a specific response to a specific action relying on your doctrine and training to be HIS guide to your response, this can be fatal to the enemy if you do not react as expected. In the case of US forces, we have had for a long time a notion of adapting to situations as they unfold and most doctrine is only a guide to maybe an initial response and after that the notion is to take it as it comes and dish it out in return but to do it faster than the enemy can react to it.

Additional concepts are to overload the enemy's input with conflicting information by adding what appears to be chaos to the system forcing attention to be focused on many things in order to ascertain which things are actually the threat. As you gum up their observation and decision cycle it begins slow down.

Interesting stuff but the crux is to react FAST and in unexpected ways.

Posted by: crosspatch at May 02, 2012 10:19 PM (ZbLJZ)

470 hmm so Kindle stuff is on clearance at Amazon

Posted by: The Dude at May 02, 2012 10:23 PM (tw6Ar)

471 ""I am on a personal quest to get as many people as possible to call them "slavers." Why? because it is accurate. they claim to own your time. All leftist philosophies are some form a slavery -- why dance around the point?
no more liberal, progressive, totalitarian, socialist, communist, etc, etc, etc. One word - slaver.""

So... does this mean I can't call them cocksucking ankle grabbing chairman mao blowing leftist commie prick bastard piece of shit douchetools anymore?

Posted by: Berserker at May 02, 2012 10:24 PM (FMbng)

472 500 >> One word - slaver.

jc, liberals make the exact same argument though. Evil conservative businesspeople reap all the profits, leaving nothing more than smelly crusts of stale bread for the oppressed workers.

They attack capitalism itself. Even thought their anointed savior, Barky the 1st, got more from Wall Street fat cats than McCain did in the 2008 cycle. Hey, no sense in letting something like the truth get in their way.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 02, 2012 10:24 PM (ccXZP)

473 I am on a personal quest to get as many people as possible to call them "slavers." Why? because it is accurate. they claim to own your time. All leftist philosophies are some form a slavery -- why dance around the point? no more liberal, progressive, totalitarian, socialist, communist, etc, etc, etc. One word - slaver. ----- I agree. Progressivism is rooted in Communism. Wilson admired Lenin and the 1917 revolution in Russia yet this fuck is treated with reverence by public schools. The USA survived having assholes like Wison and FDR in the White House, it really didn't benefit from them.

Posted by: Lurkasaurus at May 02, 2012 10:24 PM (sJKFk)

474 Turned 21 at 12:00 a.m. May 3 my fellow Morons. My to do list this weekend when finals are over: -Look for my first handgun -Buy alcohol You guys are awesome, and thanks Ace for the wonderful blog!!!!

Posted by: TexasWulf at May 02, 2012 10:25 PM (v4Tmh)

475 So... does this mean I can't call them cocksucking ankle grabbing chairman mao blowing leftist commie prick bastard piece of shit douchetools anymore?

Posted by: Berserker at May 03, 2012 02:24 AM (FMbng)

As I understand it, that will continue to work, as well.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 02, 2012 10:25 PM (kaalw)

476

I just want to thank you all for not pointing out the many typos in my rant about libs... sheesh, how many typos can one person make, anyway? I mean, sure I can blame my keyboard b/c the spacebar is practically broken, but really that's no excuse for the abhorrent number of them in one post --especially when I left out one very important "not" (I was told that it was "not Christian" to say the truth about O, obviously). *sigh*

Man, I hate typos! But not as much as libs who are not themselves Christian but sure like to preach at me, lol.

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at May 02, 2012 10:27 PM (KL49F)

477 >> So... does this mean I can't call them cocksucking ankle grabbing chairman mao blowing leftist commie prick bastard piece of shit douchetools anymore?

You left out lying shitweasels.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 02, 2012 10:28 PM (ccXZP)

478 508 Turned 21 at 12:00 a.m. May 3 my fellow Morons. My to do list this weekend when finals are over:

-Look for my first handgun
-Buy alcohol

You guys are awesome, and thanks Ace for the wonderful blog!!!!

Posted by: TexasWulf at May 03, 2012 02:25 AM (v4Tmh)

In California, it was actually legal to purchase alcohol the day before the day in which you turned 21, to try to avoid shutting down liquor stores for pre-midnight purchases. Of course, good luck in actually doing that.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 02, 2012 10:28 PM (kaalw)

479 Lurk,

My dad was a '64 grad of USAFA ( I was '8

.

He spent a lot of time in Nam flying the F-100. A few of the guys from his squadron stayed in and made general. One asshat even made to CSAF (Gen McPeak).

This was totally a time/generational thing, but it does seem that that most of the assholes stayed in back then.

Now, i don't know. I have seen a lot more willingness to fire commanders in theater than I ever thought would happen. If you fuck up in the AOR, you're done.

I've received a bit of shit for not doing Air War College, but why on earth would I want to be an O-6 in this environment? I like flying airplanes and I like where I live. Both of those would go away if I got promoted. No thanks.

Posted by: Phat at May 02, 2012 10:30 PM (VBeir)

480 Good night ladies!

Posted by: Phat at May 02, 2012 10:30 PM (VBeir)

481 Posted by: The Dude at May 03, 2012 02:23 AM (tw6Ar) They were selling refurbished Fires but now are sold out. They got a deal for a Kindle DX with bookcover for like $300 bucks.

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 10:30 PM (4ixH5)

482

Katherine Ross is the most beautiful woman ever captured on film.

"The Graduate" may be a disgusting story, but I'll watch it every time, just to see that face.

Posted by: Sam Adams at May 02, 2012 10:30 PM (sWUSw)

483 Posted by: TexasWulf at May 03, 2012 02:25 AM (v4Tmh)

Happy 21st, and remember that guns and lots of alcohol do not mix together well.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 02, 2012 10:31 PM (ccXZP)

484 You left out lying shitweasels.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 03, 2012 02:28 AM (ccXZP)

Left out "retarded delusional reality-denying self-worshiping narcissists", too -- so I figured it had to have been edited for brevity.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 02, 2012 10:31 PM (kaalw)

485 They were selling refurbished Fires but now are sold out. They got a deal for a Kindle DX with bookcover for like $300 bucks.

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 02:30 AM (4ixH5)

starts tomorrow at their usual 30%. Be nice if they clearance the kindle cards (regular Amazon credit), there is always stuff I could use on Amazon

Posted by: The Dude at May 02, 2012 10:32 PM (tw6Ar)

486 The promotion to O-6 and O-7 seems to rid this country of far too many principled and qualified folks. Ive observed similar for NCO ranks at the E-7 level and up.

Posted by: Lurkasaurus at May 02, 2012 10:37 PM (sJKFk)

487 So... does this mean I can't call them cocksucking ankle grabbing chairman mao blowing leftist commie prick bastard piece of shit douchetools anymore?

Posted by: Berserker at May 03, 2012 02:24 AM (FMbng)

you have to add slaver in there somewhere.

Posted by: jc at May 02, 2012 10:37 PM (ufJKx)

488 I am on a personal quest to get as many people as possible to call them "slavers." Posted by: jc at May 03, 2012 02:13 AM (ufJKx) LEFTISTS ARE SLAVERS!!!!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Squatch at May 02, 2012 10:40 PM (bxiXv)

489 506 500 >> One word - slaver.

jc, liberals make the exact same argument though. Evil conservative businesspeople reap all the profits, leaving nothing more than smelly crusts of stale bread for the oppressed workers.

They attack capitalism itself. Even thought their anointed savior, Barky the 1st, got more from Wall Street fat cats than McCain did in the 2008 cycle. Hey, no sense in letting something like the truth get in their way.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 03, 2012 02:24 AM (ccXZP)

===

Don't let their bullshit stop you. It is all about ownership of the time of your own life. If they didn't own it, they couldn't sell it. A job is always different than theft.

If one of those assholes doesn't like his job he can always quit. But, see how they react if you want to quit paying their welfare -- whether it's blue collar, downtrodden, bureaucratic, white collar, corporate, or otherwise. Welfare creeps expect to be able to own all of their time and some of yours -- and the white collar welfare creeps are usually richer than the rest of us.

Posted by: jc at May 02, 2012 10:42 PM (ufJKx)

490 Posted by: jc at May 03, 2012 02:42 AM (ufJKx)

jc, I'm not disagreeing with your sentiment. I'm just pointing out the counter attack.

I'm a big fan of this James Madison quote:

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 02, 2012 10:52 PM (ccXZP)

491 http://tinyurl.com/7h69f9p http://tinyurl.com/84rn3od http://tinyurl.com/6o773ym http://tinyurl.com/6mxnfu6

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 10:53 PM (4ixH5)

492 Ok, so with the other's contributions here-

lying shitweasel ankle grabbing chairman mao blowing leftist commie prick bastard piece of shit retarded cocksucking delusional reality-denying self-worshiping narcissist douchtool slaver motherfuckers.

Does that about cover it? lol

Posted by: Berserker at May 02, 2012 10:53 PM (FMbng)

493 I see now, I can still drop multiple links if I don't have them listed vertically.

That's retarded.

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 10:54 PM (4ixH5)

494 Does that about cover it? lol

Posted by: Berserker at May 03, 2012 02:53 AM (FMbng)

You forgot to mention "ugly".

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 10:54 PM (4ixH5)

495 You forgot to mention "ugly". Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 02:54 AM (4ixH5) Also, "thieving." Still needs work.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Squatch at May 02, 2012 10:57 PM (bxiXv)

496 Does that about cover it? lol

Posted by: Berserker at May 03, 2012 02:53 AM (FMbng)

Good ol' Frank Herbert had one about "The Philosophy of the Knife" -- "this thing is finished because it is ended here."

Posted by: cthulhu at May 02, 2012 10:58 PM (kaalw)

497 You forgot to mention "ugly".
Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 02:54 AM

Also, "thieving." Still needs work. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Squatch at May 03, 2012 02:5

sigh...might be easier to just list the word jerkoff in every spoken language on the planet, along with a few long dead ones.

Posted by: Berserker at May 02, 2012 11:01 PM (FMbng)

498 525 I see Robert is trying to summon beaner.

526 Berzerker, I'd just say that it is a good start. Still, it'll be a bitch getting all that on a bumper sticker.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 02, 2012 11:02 PM (ccXZP)

499 524
jc, I'm not disagreeing with your sentiment. I'm just pointing out the counter attack.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 03, 2012 02:52 AM (ccXZP)

===

I know. Hope I didn't frustrate you.

One of the reasons I am asking people to call these assholes "slavers" (or Bers' contribution if you can remember the whole thing) is something I have concluded about most of the leftists for whom I still have hope -- they have serious inferiority/superiority issues. (ponder: why so many leftist PhDs--compensating for feelings of inferiority? countless other examples as well-- why all the superior act around Christians? Why the bullshit moral superiority about how much they care? etc, etc.)

They are malleable and subject to shame. It is time to use it, because if we don't it will only be a matter of time before we have to fight to remain free.

Posted by: jc at May 02, 2012 11:05 PM (ufJKx)

500

Posted by: Berserker at May 03, 2012 03:01 AM (FMbng)

дрочить ?

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 11:05 PM (4ixH5)

501 дрочити

Posted by: How about Ukrainian? at May 02, 2012 11:07 PM (4ixH5)

502 جاك قبالة

Posted by: Arabic is good too at May 02, 2012 11:09 PM (4ixH5)

503 জ্যাক বন্ধ

Posted by: Bengali anyone? at May 02, 2012 11:10 PM (4ixH5)

504 ג 'ק את

Posted by: Hebrew! at May 02, 2012 11:10 PM (4ixH5)

505 Robert should be able to make it all the way to the beastie one language at a time.

Posted by: jc at May 02, 2012 11:11 PM (ufJKx)

506 A beast in any other language is still needs chocolate cake ...

Posted by: Adriane at May 02, 2012 11:12 PM (VVZaH)

507 HAH!

Strangely enough, Google Translate can't seem to translate Jack Off into quite a few languages. Ya'd think the profanities would be the first thing people would want to know.

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 11:12 PM (4ixH5)

508 chocolate cake ...

Posted by: Adriane at May 03, 2012 03:12 AM (VVZaH)

*Plugs ears*

Posted by: LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!!!! at May 02, 2012 11:13 PM (4ixH5)

509 LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!!!! at May 03, 2012 03:13 AM (4ixH5)

um, dude ... you don't eat chocolate cake with your ears, man ...

Posted by: Adriane at May 02, 2012 11:19 PM (VVZaH)

510
Some folks who I've been friends with since my teens have declared themselves "progressives" and are constantly cheering that JEF when I'm around. So I've been avoiding them like the plague. They're not people that the general public would consider "dumb", an MD, a software developer, an accountant and similar professions. They just don't pay very much attention to what's going on.
Posted by: Lurkasaurus at May 03, 2012 12:44 AM (sJKFk)

No, they are dumb. Very dumb.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 02, 2012 11:22 PM (X3lox)

511 I don't get why you'd need that phrase in so many languages -- how about "Эй, детка!"

Posted by: cthulhu at May 02, 2012 11:22 PM (kaalw)

512 um, dude ... you don't eat chocolate cake with your ears, man ...

Posted by: Adriane at May 03, 2012 03:19 AM (VVZaH)

I'm thinking outside the box.

Now if you'll excuse me while I do something I've always wanted to try.

*Unzips pants*

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 11:23 PM (4ixH5)

513

Posted by: cthulhu at May 03, 2012 03:22 AM (kaalw)

Or maybe Эй, детка, хочу увидеть моего трактора?

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 11:25 PM (4ixH5)

514 I'm thinking outside the box.
Now if you'll excuse me while I do something I've always wanted to try.
*Unzips pants*

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 03:23 AM (4ixH5)

Skid marks pretty much look the same if it's chocolate cake....

Posted by: cthulhu at May 02, 2012 11:25 PM (kaalw)

515 Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 03:25 AM (4ixH5)

Nice try -- I think you probably meant "Эй, малыш, хочу кататься на тракторе?"

Posted by: cthulhu at May 02, 2012 11:28 PM (kaalw)

516 Acesis, you got some 'splainin' to do. Wahtcha doin' hangin' out wit that Romney feller?

What HAS the world come to?

I'm expecting a 40k word essay, minimum.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 02, 2012 11:32 PM (ccXZP)

517 550 Acesis, you got some 'splainin' to do. Wahtcha doin' hangin' out wit that Romney feller?

What HAS the world come to?

I'm expecting a 40k word essay, minimum.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 03, 2012 03:32 AM (ccXZP)

===

with a companion movie review?

Posted by: jc at May 02, 2012 11:34 PM (ufJKx)

518 I for one am doing my part -- I've not described Mitts as a flipflopping milquetoast teetotaler in at least 3 days,

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 02, 2012 11:36 PM (ccXZP)

519 Money is human time.

You know how you have tried to explain to some leftist that there is no such thing as government money? We need to get them to understand that money is only a proxy for our time. Government cannot have human time without taking it from humans.

Posted by: jc at May 02, 2012 11:37 PM (ufJKx)

520 with a companion movie review?

Posted by: jc at May 03, 2012 03:34 AM (ufJKx)

Yeah, if he can't dazzle us with style, I at least expect him to bury us in bullshit.

THAT I know he can do.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 02, 2012 11:39 PM (ccXZP)

521 Government doesn't "give" you money,
They purchase you on the installment plan.

Posted by: sistrum at May 02, 2012 11:41 PM (AyryN)

522 More James Madison goodness:

The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

(quick! someone inform those 537 elected bozos in DC about this stat.)

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 02, 2012 11:44 PM (ccXZP)

523 They purchase you on the installment plan. Posted by: sistrum at May 03, 2012 03:41 AM (AyryN) China has us on layaway.

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 11:50 PM (4ixH5)

524 Money is a proxy for human time. This is exactly the reason why runaway government debt is such a big deal. After all our time has been sold, what will we be then exactly?

Tea Party gets it. Slavers either too stupid or don't care.

Posted by: jc at May 02, 2012 11:52 PM (ufJKx)

525

Posted by: cthulhu at May 03, 2012 03:28 AM (kaalw)

I know!

Обама заикание черт кластера досадная ошибка

Posted by: Robert at May 02, 2012 11:52 PM (4ixH5)

526 Tea Party

Posted by: jc at May 03, 2012 03:52 AM (ufJKx)

BRAW! Racists! BRAW!

Posted by: Lefty Parrot at May 02, 2012 11:53 PM (4ixH5)

527 Jeff Beck with Imogen Heap --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z79pgPn357g

Also notice the quite cute bass player.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 02, 2012 11:57 PM (ccXZP)

528 561
Also notice the quite cute bass player.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 03, 2012 03:57 AM (ccXZP)

===

My drummer is totally in love with her.

Posted by: jc at May 02, 2012 11:58 PM (ufJKx)

529 Also notice the quite cute bass player. Posted by: GnuBreed at May 03, 2012 03:57 AM (ccXZP) I love Imogen Heap, but she doesn't really do my kind of music much. That bassist was hot... and *young*, gads.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Squatch at May 03, 2012 12:03 AM (bxiXv)

530 Been a bit busy but had to stop for Roberts bootyfull pics.. tnks Roberto,,excellento...

also shopping for more car stuff, the new shocks got me all jacked up to spend more money on it.. fast tru the corners is fun....

Posted by: beanervt at May 03, 2012 12:08 AM (KZLoo)

531 Kratos! I call upon your chemistry knowledge!

Posted by: Alex at May 03, 2012 12:13 AM (zSobX)

532 fast tru the corners is fun.... Posted by: beanervt at May 03, 2012 04:08 AM (KZLoo) This chick will let you go fast through her corners. http://tinyurl.com/6wra2yo

Posted by: Lefty Parrot at May 03, 2012 12:15 AM (4ixH5)

533 Stoopid sock!

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 12:15 AM (4ixH5)

534 Front
http://tinyurl.com/86o2llk
Back
http://tinyurl.com/7slxtf2

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 12:16 AM (4ixH5)

535 Lined up in a row!

http://tinyurl.com/6tm6avu

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 12:16 AM (4ixH5)

536 One of these is an exotic beauty, the other a horrow beyond imagining. Choose wisely

http://tinyurl.com/6urhuss
http://tinyurl.com/7epq49h

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 12:19 AM (4ixH5)

537 Horrow? Jesus...HorroR!

Horrow...that's like how a Kennedy might pronounce it.

While drowning.

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 12:20 AM (4ixH5)

538 This chick will let you go fast through her corners.

Heh heh,, I'll need more stickum not to spin off those mountains.... ya baby....

Posted by: beanervt at May 03, 2012 12:22 AM (KZLoo)

539 Okay, this is bizarre. A series of photos of women posing as drowning victims or somehow unconscious.

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 12:25 AM (4ixH5)

540 http://tinyurl.com/7ccczlk

Whoops.

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 12:25 AM (4ixH5)

541 Okay, this is bizarre.

How so? After a big slice of chocolate cake, I can be semi-conscious for awhile ...

Posted by: Adriane at May 03, 2012 12:30 AM (VVZaH)

542 Only semi-conscious?

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 12:38 AM (4ixH5)

543 Tom Tom Club ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=174JQUmzqM4

Posted by: Adriane at May 03, 2012 12:39 AM (VVZaH)

544 Only semi-conscious?

You know what they say about 'size matters' ...

Posted by: Adriane at May 03, 2012 12:40 AM (VVZaH)

545 575 Okay, this is bizarre.

How so? After a big slice of chocolate cake, I can be semi-conscious for awhile ...

Posted by: Adriane at May 03, 2012 04:30 AM (VVZaH)

I can't -- I'm rigging the house for low temperatures and sounding the "dive" klaxon. Soon it'll be "run silent, run deep".

Posted by: cthulhu at May 03, 2012 12:40 AM (kaalw)

546 570 One of these is an exotic beauty, the other a horrow beyond imagining. Choose wisely http://tinyurl.com/6urhuss http://tinyurl.com/7epq49h Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 04:19 AM (4ixH5) ----- Errrr ahhhhh yessssss it is truly a horrow. You Ace O Spades fellows pass around pictures just like my late brother used to pass around ~~naieve White House interns~~ errr ahhhh girlfriends, yessssss girlfriends Well, excuse me now.... it's time for morning PT with Lucipher.

Posted by: Zombie Ted Kennedy at May 03, 2012 12:43 AM (sJKFk)

547 I can't -- I'm rigging the house for low temperatures and sounding the "dive" klaxon. Soon it'll be "run silent, run deep".

True dat ...

It is really, Really, REALLY, hard to run very far after a large slice of chocolate cake ...

Posted by: Adriane at May 03, 2012 12:44 AM (VVZaH)

548 You know what they say about 'size matters' ... Posted by: Adriane at May 03, 2012 04:40 AM (VVZaH) Big hands means you can wield larger forks?

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 12:45 AM (4ixH5)

549 it's time for morning PT with Lucipher.

Posted by: Zombie Ted Kennedy at May 03, 2012 04:43 AM (sJKFk)

Tell Luce I said for him to call me!

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 12:46 AM (4ixH5)

550 Soon it'll be "run silent, run deep".

Posted by: cthulhu at May 03, 2012 04:40 AM (kaalw)

Anticipating dreams of Das Booty?

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 12:47 AM (4ixH5)

551 G'night, all! With luck, we'll wake up to more indications that this hell will end next January.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 03, 2012 12:47 AM (kaalw)

552 Good Morning ONT Morons

I will leaving in a few minutes to go in to have my porta-cath removed. So if any are staying over for day shift pass on that I will not be there for the morning news links today. Will be back tomorrow.

Posted by: Vic at May 03, 2012 12:52 AM (YdQQY)

553 And with luck we'll wake up to news that Sofia Vergera and Christina Hendricks made a sex tape together.

Good night, Cthulhu!

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 12:53 AM (4ixH5)

554 Good morning, Vic!

Will do.

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 12:53 AM (4ixH5)

555 584 Soon it'll be "run silent, run deep".

Posted by: cthulhu at May 03, 2012 04:40 AM (kaalw)

Anticipating dreams of Das Booty?

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 04:47 AM (4ixH5)

After we remodeled the kitchen, a very noticeable feature has been the twin active skylights. Whenever you close them, it's like you're in a 1960's sub flick -- they whir closed, then go "chunk" when they seal up. If you close your eyes, you can hear the "a-oo-ga! a-oo-ga! Prepare to dive; prepare to dive; diving planes, -10 degrees!"

Posted by: cthulhu at May 03, 2012 12:55 AM (kaalw)

556 http://tinyurl.com/7fknh7d

Occupy a threat to Democracy?

No shit!

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 12:56 AM (4ixH5)

557 hmm digging this band, The Red Stick Ramblers
http://tinyurl.com/83b687r

Posted by: The Dude at May 03, 2012 12:57 AM (tw6Ar)

558 New conspiracy theory

Could the OWS rioters and the self-generated race riots all promoted by the Democrats be the modern reichstag fire for seizing power?

Posted by: Vic at May 03, 2012 01:03 AM (YdQQY)

559

Posted by: Vic at May 03, 2012 05:03 AM (YdQQY)

Like a dry run for seizing power?

Crazier things have happened.

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 01:09 AM (4ixH5)

560 Not a dry run, get them all out rioting this summer then declare martial law.

Posted by: Vic at May 03, 2012 01:10 AM (YdQQY)

561 Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 04:47 AM (4ixH5) ----- Ahhhh, Bobby you lucky bastaaad. That moose limb Sirhan got you a first class ticket out of here didn't he? Ooops, falling behind in PT again. OOUCH

Posted by: Zombie Ted Kennedy at May 03, 2012 01:11 AM (sJKFk)

562 Well gotta go be back some time this afternoon

Posted by: Vic at May 03, 2012 01:16 AM (YdQQY)

563 Vic -

best of health ...

Posted by: Adriane at May 03, 2012 01:27 AM (VVZaH)

564 Roses are red,
Sometimes they're pink,
Truth is a beautiful chocolate cake,
I think ...

Posted by: Adriane at May 03, 2012 01:28 AM (VVZaH)

565 Take care, Vic!

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 01:29 AM (4ixH5)

566 Roses are red,
Sometimes they're pink,
Truth is a beautiful chocolate cake,
I think ...

Posted by: Adriane at May 03, 2012 05:28 AM (VVZaH)

GILLETTE!

Wait...no, that's not it...

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 01:30 AM (4ixH5)

567 Angels in the heavens,
Demons in the hells,
I didn't get any chocolate last grocery run,
As maybe, you all, can tells ...

Burmashave!

Posted by: Adriane at May 03, 2012 01:33 AM (VVZaH)

568 Are you daring enough to shave a burmese?

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 01:36 AM (4ixH5)

569 burmese are shy and retiring.

It's the African rock pythons that will rip you apart and your little dog too!

Posted by: Adriane at May 03, 2012 01:43 AM (VVZaH)

570 I was gonna rock my python after breakfast.

Eggs, toast, and a solid rocking. Sounds like a winner.

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 01:50 AM (4ixH5)

571 I would never have chosen the Dustin Hoffman. Good Morning morons,

Posted by: dagny at May 03, 2012 01:55 AM (4yXmp)

572 Aaaaaannnnddddd I'm out. Good night, Adriane! Good night, ONT!

Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2012 01:59 AM (4ixH5)

573 dang ... a mere 60 more to go ...

Good Night, Robert.

Better tomorrows ...

Posted by: Adriane at May 03, 2012 02:08 AM (VVZaH)

574 Good morning, Squatches! BTW, The Earth revolves around Kate Upton's ass. Just does. The science is settled.

Posted by: Phoebe Cates at May 03, 2012 02:13 AM (niZvt)

575 Shit Woke up again Oh well, get together for music practice tonight. I guess 3 hours a week that can actually be enjoyed is more than a lot of folks get.

Posted by: teej at May 03, 2012 02:14 AM (auda5)

576 609 Shit Woke up again Oh well, Posted by: teej at May 03, 2012 06:14 AM (auda5) A straight razor could help with that, you know! Oh, and off, phoebe sock.

Posted by: CoolCzech at May 03, 2012 02:21 AM (niZvt)

577 I once heard a Russian officer observing our field maneuvers tell my commander our greatest strength was a single American soldier with a radio could stop an entire battalion.

Posted by: jaxson at May 03, 2012 03:33 AM (wl2vr)

578
That's what I like, A Smart Chaotic Military Blog!

Posted by: sTevo at May 03, 2012 04:15 AM (MnSMu)

579 The Russian quote cracked me up. I was a Marine in the Gulf War in an Infantry Battalion. At one point we got some manuals - and I was stunned. I had no idea we had manuals for doing all the stuff we were already doing in ways we invented or some old Vietnam NCO had showed us.

Posted by: OP4 at May 03, 2012 05:55 AM (K5g5u)

580 You're mistaken: "Love Story" was the worst love story ever, thanks in no small part to Ali McGraw.

"The Graduate" was actually pretty well put together.

Posted by: Arms Merchant at May 03, 2012 07:22 AM (+XVQe)

581 I actually felt a bit of pride about that demotivational military poster.

Yup, that's us to a T!!! Organized Chaos, kicking shit and taking names.

Posted by: Feynmangroupie at May 03, 2012 11:59 AM (oI744)

582 Presser for McCarver: It's the CAD-micro-lathed, denser-wooded, triple-lacquered bats, all the newer, smaller ballparks, the bats, double expansion, modern kinesiology and nutrition, the bats, body-armor at the plate allowing hitters to dig in, and the bats. We would never dream of allowing pitchers to bring their own baseballs to the park, yet we allow hitters to not only bring their own bats, but also assorted bats engineered for different situations. We already found that out one of these days, yes. Like Gibson told you, "The only thing you know about pitching is that you can't hit it."

Posted by: BuddyPC at May 04, 2012 05:43 AM (KCuY9)

583 Some will tell you that the most important unit in the Army is the squad, they are wrong. It is the LGOP, Little Group of Paratroopers. In the confusion of the drop zone a strange thing happens, individual paratroopers link up with each other, forming small bands of pissed off 19 year olds, who collectively remember the Commanders intent from their Operations Order as "Move to the sound of the guns and kill everyone not dressed like you." Happily they go about their business.

Posted by: nessa at May 04, 2012 11:37 AM (Dv0vY)

584
IÂ’ve been looking everywhere for this! Thank goodness I found it on Bing.Thx

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