August 20, 2012
— Maetenloch
Dreams From My Father, Blocked Calls From My Brother
Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast in February:
"Living by the principle that we are our brother's keeper. Caring for the poor and those in need," Obama said before an audience of about 3,000 at the Washington Hilton. These values, he said, "They're the ones that have defined my own faith journey."
But apparently this principle only applies in the abstract. When it comes to actual brothers - not so much.
Because Barack's real-life brother, George Obama, the youngest of Barack Obama Sr's eight children lives in a shanty in the Huruma slum in Nairobi, Kenya. And when George's son needed $1000 to pay for medical treatment for a chest condition, instead of turning to his President brother who's not really into the whole keeping thing, he was forced to ask for money from...Dinesh D'Souza?
Okay this sounded completely bizarre to me but apparently it's true:
A few days ago I received a call from a man I recently met named George. He was a bit flustered, and soon informed me that his young son was sick with a chest condition. He pleaded with me to send him $1,000 to cover the medical bills. Since George was at the hospital I asked him to let me speak to a nurse, and she confirmed that George's son was indeed ill. So I agreed to send George the money through Western Union. He was profusely grateful. But before I hung up I asked George, "Why are you coming to me?" He said, "I have no one else to ask." Then he said something that astounded me, "Dinesh, you are like a brother to me."
Actually, George has a real life brother who just happens to be the president of the United States. (George Obama is the youngest of eight children sired by Barack Obama Sr.) George's brother is a multimillionaire and the most powerful man in the world. Moreover, George's brother has framed his re-election campaign around the "fair share" theme that we owe obligations to those who are less fortunate.
Now I'm cynical enough to strongly suspect some kind of scam going on here and George Obama would probably make Billy Carter look good in comparison but then George *does* live in a dirty shack in Kenya and the rest of the Obama clan is not living a whole lot better.
If I were a president worth millions, I think I could at least get my African extended family out of shanties, some basic medical care, a TV and possibly a basic cable package. Hell my family does that already with my deadbeat cousins and they're just pathetic losers.
Well according to the narrative it's supposed to be the Republicans, but surveys of attitudes and behavior don't back this up and in fact point to the Democrats as the slightly stronger bastion of residual racism.
| Favor Laws Against Interracial Marriage | |||||
| Democrat | Ind | Repub | Other | TOTAL | |
| YES | 11.9 | 9.6 | 11.5 | 5 | 10.8 |
| NO | 88.1 | 90.4 | 88.5 | 95 | 89.2 |
|
Would Vote for Black President | |||||
| STRONG DEMOCRAT | NOT STR DEMOCRAT | NOT STR REPUBLICAN | STRONG REPUBLICAN | ||
| YES | 92.4 | 94 | 93.9 | 94.7 | |
| No | 7.6 | 6 | 6.1 | 5.3 | |
MA Imposes De Facto Doctor Price Controls
Eventually there will be no independent medical care - there will only be Zool ObamaCare.
Under the new law, all Massachusetts doctors, hospitals, and other providers must register with a new state bureaucracy as a condition of licensure. Yes, if you are any kind of health care provider in Massachusetts, you now belong to the state- that is, if you want to actually earn a living in your field. The new "state bureaucracy," not unlike the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) in ObamaCare, will have a lot to say about what providers do each day as it tracks and reports their financial performance, price and cost patterns, state-sanctioned quality measures, market share, and other statistics.
...According to the new law, no registered provider is permitted to make "any material change to its operations or governance structure," without the commission's approval. In addition, the commission has the authority to rewrite the terms of provider contracts with insurers as well as payment levels and methods if they are "deemed to be excessive," to police providers who exceed benchmarks, and demand "performance improvement plans" of those providers found to be spending too much money on patient care.
Viva la revolution.
Predictions of 2012 According to SciFi Writers in 1987
Some got it pretty close:
ROGER ZELAZNYIt is good to see that a cashless, checkless society has just about come to pass, that automation has transformed offices and robotics manufacturing in mainly beneficial ways, including telecommuting, that defense spending has finally slowed for a few of the right reasons, that population growth has also slowed and that biotechnology has transformed medicine, agriculture and industry-all of this resulting in an older, slightly conservative, but longer-lived and healthier society possessed of more leisure and a wider range of educational and recreational options in which to enjoy it-and it is very good at last to see this much industry located off-planet, this many permanent space residents and increased exploration of the solar system. I would also like to take this opportunity to plug my new book, to be published in both computerized and printed versions in time for 2012 Christmas sales-but I've not yet decided on its proper title. Grandchildren of Amber sounds at this point a little clumsy, but may have to serve.
And others not so much - I'm looking at you Asimov and Orson Scott Card.
Maid Cosplay + .50 Rifle = Weird Kind of Awesome
Apparently from a Japanese girl's gun tour of Guam.
Also Bookworm has some thoughts on the difference between Japanese and Americans and Canadians:
Americans, traditionally, have appeared more like surly herded cats than enthusiastic lemmings. For every stain on American history (slavery, the treatment of the Indians, the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans, Jim Crow), there have been countervailing forces, vigorously protesting these injustices. Yes, the injustices happened, but they were never the product of a unanimous society mindlessly going along. Instead, they were the result of societal tension and were destroyed by that same societal tension.
The Yahoo AoSHQ group. Bla bla bla.
And my twitter thang.
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Posted by: Satan at August 20, 2012 06:36 PM (bAGA/)
Posted by: USS Diversity at August 20, 2012 06:37 PM (2d71t)
Posted by: Jake in ID at August 20, 2012 06:37 PM (LyEfv)
Posted by: JParker at August 20, 2012 06:38 PM (8HhF2)
Posted by: steevy at August 20, 2012 06:38 PM (6o4Fb)
Yeah SCOAMF is not being a hypocrit if you think it through. He fully intends to treat us all like his 1/2 bro as soon as he can.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 20, 2012 06:38 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Underground Vulgarian at August 20, 2012 06:39 PM (OIuTH)
Posted by: toby928© Ravel Rouser at August 20, 2012 06:39 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2012 06:40 PM (wwsoB)
http://tinyurl.com/6hx3e43
I pretty much never post around here, but I had to share this.
Posted by: Long-time Commenter, First-time Reader at August 20, 2012 06:40 PM (v5lxX)
Posted by: HoboJerky, profit of DOOM! at August 20, 2012 06:41 PM (MrM2k)
Posted by: Hobbitopoly at August 20, 2012 06:41 PM (d6TfZ)
Posted by: Avi at August 20, 2012 06:41 PM (51xVX)
Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2012 10:40 PM
Who certainly knows nothing about female biology.
Posted by: huerfano at August 20, 2012 06:41 PM (bAGA/)
Posted by: Peaches at August 20, 2012 06:41 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: Zombie Sen. Robert Byrd, D-WV, The Clanfather at August 20, 2012 06:41 PM (OIuTH)
A snap of the latex glove ... then the question: "Do you have bad credit"
I'd rather have Clint Eastwood ask me if I feel lucky ...
Posted by: Arbalest at August 20, 2012 06:42 PM (CcTJw)
Posted by: Scobface at August 20, 2012 06:42 PM (IoNBC)
Posted by: Y-not at August 20, 2012 06:43 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: MrCaniac at August 20, 2012 06:44 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: eman at August 20, 2012 06:44 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: MrCaniac"
He certainly knows how to make an entertaining sales pitch, but I question his gynecological skills.
Posted by: Hobbitopoly at August 20, 2012 06:44 PM (d6TfZ)
http://tinyurl.com/6hx3e43
I pretty much never post around here, but I had to share this.
Posted by: Long-time Commenter, First-time Reader
Spectacular.....but is that a Legitimate Acoustic guitar or just a acoustic acoustic guitar?
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 06:45 PM (ovpNn)
Posted by: steevy at August 20, 2012 06:45 PM (6o4Fb)
Is Akin gone yet?
Posted by: Boots
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That's what I was asking.
Posted by: Serious Cat at August 20, 2012 10:44 PM (zrpqj)
Every time you ask the Akin blog clock gets reset back to zero. At this rate Christmas won't get here for at least another 6 months.
Posted by: Mætenloch at August 20, 2012 06:46 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 20, 2012 06:46 PM (hgSh3)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at August 20, 2012 06:46 PM (Gk3SS)
Bunk.
Jeez, am I the only who faps to the "Local on the 8s" on the Weather channel?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 20, 2012 06:46 PM (xKC/c)
Tea party rogue: Todd Akin defies GOP bosses by staying in race
Posted by: Serious Cat at August 20, 2012 06:46 PM (zrpqj)
Posted by: eman at August 20, 2012 06:46 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: Captain Joe Hazelwood at August 20, 2012 06:47 PM (ccXZP)
I took a shot of cocaine and shot my woman down
I went right home and I went to bed
I stuck that lovin' forty-four beneath my head.
Posted by: Johnny Cash at August 20, 2012 06:47 PM (vjyZP)
Posted by: eman at August 20, 2012 06:48 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: thunderb at August 20, 2012 06:48 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Choomin at August 20, 2012 06:49 PM (/YJYi)
Posted by: Captain Joe Hazelwood at August 20, 2012 10:47 PM (ccXZP)
Well, then deploy the panty unbuncher and kick his sorry ass to the curb. Tonight.
Posted by: Peaches at August 20, 2012 06:49 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: toby928© Ravel Rouser at August 20, 2012 06:50 PM (QupBk)
That the way narcissists are. There's only people they can use and exploit. If you got nothing they need, they don't want to know you.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 06:50 PM (K9aub)
Obama is not the vice-president of some management consultant firm based in Dubai. Such a person would indeed be making his own wage, and could choose to spend it on hot Filipina hookers or else helping out his family.
Obama is supported by... us. Taxpayers.
This is exactly what brings down so many African (and Caribbean, and Asian, and maybe even local American) governments. The ruling party gets in; all those poor relatives come along with their hands out; various people go hire their nephews to do bullshit "work".
So on this score I must praise Obama.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 20, 2012 06:50 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: CDR M at August 20, 2012 06:50 PM (dKV5k)
Posted by: gp at August 20, 2012 06:50 PM (mk9aG)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 20, 2012 06:51 PM (GEICT)
You know, my Dad was a veteran of WWII. What if he fathered some illegitamite Filipino child, who would be 60 some years old now? What if I found out I had a half brother?
I don't know if I would be ecstatic, but it would be interesting. I would want to know something about this man.
Obama is a cold, self-centered egotist. To not even care a whit about his half brother. This is who he is. He is a scary man to be President of these United States. Under a certain kind of pressure, or in a certain kind of situation, he might do anything. I don't think he has a conscience, really, and wouldn't flinch at doing something totally sociopathic to preserve himself.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at August 20, 2012 06:51 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: Serious Cat at August 20, 2012 06:52 PM (zrpqj)
Oh, and Akin needs to GTFO.
Posted by: holygoat at August 20, 2012 06:53 PM (auGuV)
Posted by: dodging bullets in Chicago at August 20, 2012 06:53 PM (WqcDi)
none of us should ever have to listen to that outsource shit again, and if we do, we should just point out that liberals like to outsource all their charity responsibilities to the gubmint. if da gubmint doesn't choose to help you in liberal land, you are just pretty much screwed.
Posted by: jc at August 20, 2012 06:54 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: thunderb at August 20, 2012 06:54 PM (Dnbau)
That's tough love for a drug and alcohol addicted half brother.
Like every other thing that Obozo does, he only does it half way, and he screws that part up.
Posted by: Comanche Voter at August 20, 2012 06:54 PM (oe1aw)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 20, 2012 06:54 PM (T0NGe)
Posted by: SH at August 20, 2012 06:54 PM (2XIvU)
Sorry, BTH, I just don't follow your thinking there. Once he's been paid, whether by the taxpayers or any other entity, the money is his, right? To do with as he pleases?
Hell, for all we know, George once told him to have carnal knowledge of himself and they are "estranged".
Posted by: L Rob in OK at August 20, 2012 06:54 PM (7yvLv)
Hardly. That's the cheapest mention in international press you can get. He just bought himself another year of relevancy and a slew of talk show appearances...wanna bet he got a new book coming out soon?
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 06:55 PM (K9aub)
I wish this were true. Unfortunately I think he does have emotions and they are negative, mainly against whites. (At least, the wrong sort of whites.) This was something D'Souza was right about.
A heartless bastard of a President who just wanted to be left well enough alone... that may have been Coolidge. I think I can live with another President Coolidge.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 20, 2012 06:55 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Jose at August 20, 2012 06:55 PM (srIqv)
Posted by: Serious Cat at August 20, 2012 06:56 PM (zrpqj)
Posted by: aquaviva at August 20, 2012 06:56 PM (T3Dw+)
Posted by: eman at August 20, 2012 06:56 PM (Wp4rQ)
This is exactly what brings down so many African (and Caribbean, and Asian, and maybe even local American) governments. The ruling party gets in; all those poor relatives come along with their hands out; various people go hire their nephews to do bullshit "work".
So on this score I must praise Obama.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 20, 2012 10:50 PM (QTHTd)
Yes but the money he earns is his own plus the assets he and Michelle has before he became president. He can afford to help his Kenyan family out of his own pocket.
Posted by: Mætenloch at August 20, 2012 06:56 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: eman at August 20, 2012 06:57 PM (Wp4rQ)
Obama earned millions from book sales before the election and since. He doesn't need to touch any of his Presidential salary to assured his family in Africa is well taken care of. As ne'er do well relatives go they'd be pretty cheap to keep fed, clothed, and housed.
Posted by: epobirs at August 20, 2012 06:58 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 20, 2012 10:46 PM
I fap to the MILF every time she turns sideways. Nice rack
Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2012 06:58 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: eman at August 20, 2012 06:58 PM (Wp4rQ)
This is exactly what brings down so many African (and Caribbean, and Asian, and maybe even local American) governments. The ruling party gets in; all those poor relatives come along with their hands out; various people go hire their nephews to do bullshit "work".
So on this score I must praise Obama.
In that sense you are right. He can't give his brother some job. George Obama isn't qualified for anything except Homeland Security secretary, but he could actually give his brother cash from his Dreams from My Father stash.
Barack is a sociopath, though. He doesn't genuinely care for anyone. He "gives" via the IRS, like a good liberal.
Posted by: AmishDude at August 20, 2012 06:59 PM (T0NGe)
)Barack has known about George for a long time. It's not as if he just fell out of the woodwork. Apparently Barack was over in Kenya years ago and met a lot of his father's "extended family".
I mean really, how much would it cost to help them just a little? A few thousand here or there, from his royalties on his stupid book (or Bill Ayer's book," Dreams of my Neighbor") "Dreams of my Father" (the socialist fink that he was).
He's a creep. Nothing says creep more that being unwilling to help his brother. Maybe he did help him and George blew it all off, and is just an African junkie. But still, it is creepy.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at August 20, 2012 06:59 PM (sJTmU)
He certainly knows how to make an entertaining sales pitch, but I question his gynecological skills.
Posted by: Hobbitopoly at August 20, 2012 10:44 PM (d6TfZ)
Hard to say. My Spanish professor in college was an attorney from Cuba who fled from Castro. He was an attorney of some reputation there, but couldn't practice here. My college hired him, and the guy was so anti communist that it would have made Reagan blush. He was also paranoid as hell that Castro had a hit squad out for him, and he was always packing, even in class.
Posted by: MrCaniac at August 20, 2012 07:00 PM (1grxW)
If this is true, it shouldn't be too hard to get him to make some ads bashing his brother. A $100,000 "donation" would probably buy a couple of hours worth of scandalous accusation, lies, and invective about Ogabe.
Dopers and boozers tend to be loyal to whoever is willing to fund their addictions.
It would force Obama to paint his brother as a liar.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 07:01 PM (K9aub)
In all fairness, if they're anything like Barack, Sr., there will be no getting rid of them. Give them $1000, they'll demand $10,000 the next day.
Posted by: AmishDude at August 20, 2012 07:01 PM (T0NGe)
Fareed Zakaria Resigns From Yale University's Governing Board
http://tinyurl.com/cq6d2pl
Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2012 07:02 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 20, 2012 07:02 PM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Mætenloch at August 20, 2012 07:03 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: toby928© Ravel Rouser at August 20, 2012 07:04 PM (QupBk)
Why? They haven't hurt him yet.
Posted by: chemjeff at August 20, 2012 07:04 PM (d/5qf)
If he works for the state, he is our servant. So the money he earns is not his own; it's ours. It's spending money. It's an allowance.
And the money he - and Michelle - "earned" was all earned out of politics. Michelle's job was what, Diversity-counselling in a hospital, wasn't it? Which function was cancelled after she left? As for Obama's book, from what I hear, fewer people actually read it than read "The Satanic Verses". People bought it after he got famous so they could display it. He didn't really earn that either.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 20, 2012 07:04 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Fareed Zakaria at August 20, 2012 07:04 PM (ek1JB)
MA Imposes De Facto Doctor Price Controls
The Massachusetts Senate voted 38-0 and the House of Representatives, 132-20, to approve the sweeping health care bill.
Current Party Representation
Senate: 35-4
House: 127-33
Massachusetts Republicans, we know you're going to lose, but is it SUCH a big effort to at least not vote yes and give this the old bipartisan shine?
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 20, 2012 07:06 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: eman at August 20, 2012 07:06 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: rickl at August 20, 2012 07:07 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Dinesh D'Souza at August 20, 2012 07:08 PM (8HhF2)
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 20, 2012 07:08 PM (QTHTd)
And the money he - and Michelle - "earned" was all earned out of politics. Michelle's job was what, Diversity-counselling in a hospital, wasn't it? Which function was cancelled after she left? As for Obama's book, from what I hear, fewer people actually read it than read "The Satanic Verses". People bought it after he got famous so they could display it. He didn't really earn that either.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 20, 2012 11:04 PM (QTHTd)
Really? Anyone who works for the government doesn't really own their pay?!
Does this form of inverse-communism also apply to congressmen and members of the military?
Posted by: Mætenloch at August 20, 2012 07:09 PM (pAlYe)
The Massachusetts Senate voted 38-0 and the House of Representatives, 132-20, to approve the sweeping health care bill.
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I wonder if the Fugitive Doctor Act to prevent any doctors in MA from bailing the fuck out of that socialist dystopia is far behind?
Posted by: Hagbard Celine at August 20, 2012 07:09 PM (+/VIS)
Posted by: Waterhouse at August 20, 2012 07:10 PM (gBJfr)
Posted by: Michelle Obama at August 20, 2012 07:10 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: Todd Akin at August 20, 2012 07:11 PM (8HhF2)
Posted by: Splunge at August 20, 2012 07:11 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: ザ 政治的 帽子 at August 20, 2012 07:11 PM (sZTYJ)
I then further checked and the book is readily available on Amazon right now.
Still, this story does show the JEF in a bad light and I'm all for that.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 20, 2012 07:11 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: norrin radd at August 20, 2012 07:12 PM (Vsk+0)
I disagree with you. No, seriously.
I think that public employees whilst they are serving should treat their money as an allowance.
After leaving public service - and I stress, government employment is service - then, yes, you keep your money.
Until then, all you "earned" was extorted from Massachusetts taxpayers. The citizens did not have the choice of going with a service other than what you provided, short of leaving your state.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 20, 2012 07:12 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Mætenloch at August 20, 2012 11:03 PM (pAlYe)
About 15 years ago, there was a tv show with a NFL player on who had bought his parents a new home. He and his wife lived in a 2 br condo. He had to keep buying new shit for his parents, but couldn't afford to get things for his place. Basically, his entire salary was supporting his parents, and he couldn't even save anything for after football. Finally he had to tell them that he couldn't keep paying their living expenses anymore, they responded by suing him.
People like the Obamas are nothing more than grifters.
Posted by: MrCaniac at August 20, 2012 07:13 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: weather geek at August 20, 2012 07:13 PM (LyEfv)
Posted by: Soona at August 20, 2012 07:13 PM (PYs9T)
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 07:13 PM (ovpNn)
Hey, where's your brother
What am I, his boss??
The Bible doesn't say we're supposed to be our brother's keeper. It says we're supposed to love our neighbor, even if we think he's our enemy.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 20, 2012 07:14 PM (r4wIV)
Yeah @ 94
I would imagine a lot of high-paid specialists are looking for the escape hatch right now. They will be the canaries in the coal mine.
When the dental assistants leave, then you will know that Massachusetts is totally screwed. 
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at August 20, 2012 07:14 PM (sJTmU)
Mr. D'Souza has been a bit of a clueless dick in the past, yes. But this "George Obama" thing is all kinds of awesome. And apparently he's doing a documentary on the guy, or something like that. That puts me in a forgiving mood.
Possibly the $1 large he threw to this neglected Obama brother is the best grand ever spent.
Posted by: Splunge at August 20, 2012 07:14 PM (2IW5Q)
Yes. Perhaps especially those who bear arms and training superior to what citizens bear at home.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 20, 2012 07:14 PM (QTHTd)
In their defense, they're the only writers who even bother to try thinking about the future.
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 20, 2012 07:15 PM (5ApbQ)
Why does he look so much like Frank Marshall?
http://tinyurl.com/cn8roay
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 20, 2012 07:16 PM (ovpNn)
Posted by: Mindy at August 20, 2012 07:16 PM (UxGCM)
Posted by: eman at August 20, 2012 07:16 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: Truman North at August 20, 2012 07:16 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: ザ 政治的 帽子 at August 20, 2012 07:16 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 20, 2012 07:16 PM (r4wIV)
Yes. Perhaps especially those who bear arms and training superior to what citizens bear at home.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 20, 2012 11:14 PM (QTHTd)
Sorry but if you really think that members of the military don't actually own their own pay, then that's simply an idiocy too far. I'm now moving you to the For Amusement Only category.
Posted by: Mætenloch at August 20, 2012 07:17 PM (pAlYe)
According to Survey USA 54% of Mo thinks Akin should bail, 35% think he should stay, 11% say rapist need love too.
http://tinyurl.com/cv85bu8
Posted by: robtr at August 20, 2012 07:17 PM (MtwBb)
In their defense, they're the only writers who even bother to try thinking about the future.
There's certainly plenty of amusement in the failure of the 50's SF writers to predict what the computer and Internet revolutions would look like (though Orson Scott Card got ahead of the game a bit). But check out Charles Stross' Halting State sometime, for a near-future SF vision that could actually be pretty close to what things might look like within a few decades.
Posted by: Splunge at August 20, 2012 07:18 PM (2IW5Q)
Yeah @ 94
I would imagine a lot of high-paid specialists are looking for the escape hatch right now. They will be the canaries in the coal mine.
When the dental assistants leave, then you will know that Massachusetts is totally screwed.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at August 20, 2012 11:14 PM (sJTmU)
You know some enterprising young doctors are going to set up shop right over the line from Massachusetts. Kind of like the stores that sell lottery tickets next door to a state that doesn't have the lottery.
Posted by: MrCaniac at August 20, 2012 07:18 PM (1grxW)
Things didn't go well for the would be thieves.
http://tinyurl.com/9b8mrq2
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 20, 2012 07:18 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 20, 2012 07:19 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: George Obama at August 20, 2012 07:20 PM (6uY89)
Posted by: the Mr. David Brooks at August 20, 2012 07:20 PM (LyEfv)
Instead of gratitude for the money we spent, it's insults. But, well, I should have expected that.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 20, 2012 07:21 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 20, 2012 07:21 PM (r4wIV)
shhhhh we don't talk about how unPC blacks are!
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 20, 2012 07:23 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 20, 2012 07:23 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 20, 2012 11:19 PM (sZTYJ)
And gender. The black women do not like seeing the brothers with non sisters.
Posted by: MrCaniac at August 20, 2012 07:23 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: eman at August 20, 2012 07:24 PM (Wp4rQ)
@ 125
I would guess that the difference is pretty much statistical noise. But the Democrats (led by Lyndon Johnson as Majority Leader of the Senate), blocked all kinds of Civil Rights legislation in the 1950's. When it was more politically convenient for Lyndon, then it was passed.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at August 20, 2012 07:24 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: steevy at August 20, 2012 07:25 PM (6o4Fb)
Posted by: Hobojerky at August 20, 2012 07:25 PM (MrM2k)
He's an ass sucking lib/commie, they love to be generous with other people's money.
Posted by: Berserker at August 20, 2012 07:25 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Billy Quizboy at August 20, 2012 07:26 PM (FEzSe)
Posted by: toby928© Ravel Rouser at August 20, 2012 07:27 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: cate simpleton at August 20, 2012 07:27 PM (1JJGO)
Posted by: Waterhouse at August 20, 2012 07:27 PM (gBJfr)
“Well,” he said, chuckling, according to a person who witnessed the encounter. “Tell your boy to watch it. He might get his ass kicked.”
Posted by: steevy at August 20, 2012 11:25 PM (6o4Fb)
Why is this not caught on tape, phone, etc?
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 20, 2012 07:27 PM (EPbpF)
Posted by: eman at August 20, 2012 07:27 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: toby928© Ravel Rouser at August 20, 2012 07:28 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: eman at August 20, 2012 07:29 PM (Wp4rQ)
As to whether they could be given more in the way of salary, that's a difficult question; overpaying the military has also brought down nations. They of course deserve a lot more for the sacrifices they give. How that is quantified is something I don't dare judge.
The Obamas and "civilian" government employees are in a different category.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 20, 2012 07:29 PM (QTHTd)
Now with nekomimi!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFa1LmrOmWU
Posted by: ザ 政治的 帽子 at August 20, 2012 11:16 PM (sZTYJ)
Ha ha! God love the Japanese.
Posted by: holygoat at August 20, 2012 07:29 PM (auGuV)
What is JEF shorthand for? Is there an acronym guide around here somewhere for a debutante 'ette?
That would be Jug Earred Fool(or something else).
Posted by: JimboHoffa at August 20, 2012 07:31 PM (dAfqy)
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at August 20, 2012 07:31 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 20, 2012 07:31 PM (sZTYJ)
http://tinyurl.com/8cfld5v
Posted by: MrCaniac at August 20, 2012 11:27 PM (1grxW)
I think they really want him to stay in the race, keep the story out there
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 20, 2012 07:31 PM (EPbpF)
Obama has game!
Obama has a big mouth, and a willingness to lie about everything about himself.
Will to win? When was he ever challenged to "win"? When they smeared Jack Ryan to drive him out of the Senate Race? Playing the caucus game in the Democrat party primaries to trash Hillary, who was and is a somewhat hated woman among some Democrats?
In the only political race in his life where it was an uphill battle, he got battered by Bobby Rush (former Black Panther) for an Illinois Congressional seat Democrat nomination.
Yeah, he's got game.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at August 20, 2012 07:32 PM (sJTmU)
I hope it's not. If it were, his campaign would probably release it themselves. He'd love it -- Obama relaxed, looking vaguely tough in a way that only academic types would think was tough, throwing out an insult whose vulgar history he has a racial immunity from. That's not how we'll kick his ass. We'll kick his ass either by, on the one hand, putting him on the defensive and getting him angry, so he looks like the petulant, prissy narcissistic solipsist that he is, or by getting him relaxed enough to spout more "you didn't build that" Marxist successful-upper-middle-class-people-are-the-enemy bullcrap.
Posted by: Splunge at August 20, 2012 07:33 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: steevy at August 20, 2012 07:33 PM (6o4Fb)
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 07:34 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Splunge at August 20, 2012 11:33 PM (2IW5Q) , True that would be a plus for his voters.
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 20, 2012 07:34 PM (EPbpF)
Yeah he really hid it well, if the rumors are to be believed. Rock was all that is man, he definitely doesn't fit the stereotype.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 20, 2012 07:37 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: Weirddave at August 20, 2012 07:38 PM (2x+V2)
Posted by: toby928© Ravel Rouser at August 20, 2012 07:38 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Scobface at August 20, 2012 07:38 PM (IoNBC)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 20, 2012 07:39 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: toby928© Ravel Rouser at August 20, 2012 11:38 PM (QupBk)
yeah, her and another girl was announced as the first women members today
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 07:39 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: JimboHoffa at August 20, 2012 07:40 PM (dAfqy)
Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 20, 2012 07:40 PM (a4CUi)
43, 47
I do not think he has a true emotional attachment to anyone.If you got nothing they need, they don't want to know you.That the way narcissists are. There's only people they can use and exploit
This! Anyone who has had the misfortune of being closely associated with a narcissist can instantly recognize the signs. I pegged SCOAMF (as I know y'all did, too) right away. The Greek columns shoulda tipped off the ones who weren't.
Posted by: Kalneva at August 20, 2012 07:40 PM (cQmXn)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 20, 2012 07:40 PM (vDl/w)
Posted by: Mindy at August 20, 2012 07:40 PM (UxGCM)
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 20, 2012 07:40 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 20, 2012 07:42 PM (vDl/w)
Posted by: t-bird at August 20, 2012 07:42 PM (FcR7P)
That was one of the interesting bits in Sons of Guns when they chopped a 50 cal rifle down and put a suppressor on it; it didn't suppress much and it lost a crapload of power. They eventually worked it out but the first try was an amazing display of how pressure and muzzle velocity work together.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 20, 2012 07:42 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 20, 2012 07:43 PM (vDl/w)
Posted by: steevy at August 20, 2012 07:44 PM (6o4Fb)
Posted by: MrCaniac at August 20, 2012 07:45 PM (1grxW)
I do not think he has a true emotional attachment to anyone.
If you got nothing they need, they don't want to know you.That the way narcissists are. There's only people they can use and exploit
He does seem to be a caring father. That's just about the only thing about him I can compliment.
btw - I just now noticed that the last 3 presidents have no sons. Huh. Conspiracy theory being hatched.
Posted by: Billy Quizboy at August 20, 2012 07:46 PM (FEzSe)
He could be saying that about anyone in the military. Don't take the men seriously, then. Take what they say.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 20, 2012 07:46 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at August 20, 2012 07:46 PM (6zgse)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 20, 2012 11:42 PM (vDl/w)
they've been spazzing out because David Brevik shat on D3 in an interview and are now going after forum posters
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 07:47 PM (tw6Ar)
The Obamas and "civilian" government employees are in a different category.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 20, 2012 11:29 PM (QTHTd)
That's already been decided, when I joined the Marines at $210 a month we had a military where some would go fight if there was a fight and we would fill in with the draft. 75% of Vietnam Vets enilisted. Before that in WWII 33% enlisted 66% were drafted.
Now we want/have a professional military. There is no draft and not a whole lot of people want to join. So if you want a professional Military you have to meet the market with wages and benefits.
Posted by: robtr at August 20, 2012 07:47 PM (MtwBb)
Of course he doesn't. In his mind, he bagged bin Laden himself, fired the shot, flew the frickin Stealth helicopter. Bet you anything he had already worked out whom to blame if the raid went wrong. Gutless piece of dung.
Posted by: Splunge at August 20, 2012 07:48 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: JimboHoffa at August 20, 2012 07:48 PM (dAfqy)
Posted by: cate simpleton at August 20, 2012 07:50 PM (1JJGO)
It's such BS that the left gets away with that "brother's keeper" line. Totally the opposite meaning. But then most of 'em haven't even cracked a bible, let alone made it through the first chapter.
Posted by: Not a thumper, but thinks one should be literate at August 20, 2012 07:50 PM (cQmXn)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 20, 2012 07:51 PM (vDl/w)
Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 20, 2012 07:52 PM (a4CUi)
Posted by: Jake in ID at August 20, 2012 07:53 PM (LyEfv)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 20, 2012 07:53 PM (SkyIE)
Posted by: Jake in ID at August 20, 2012 07:56 PM (LyEfv)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 20, 2012 11:51 PM (vDl/w)
it's mainly in how bad the loot tables are setup, me having to junk legendaries because my blues are better should never be allowed to happen as it defeats the purpose of loot whoring
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 07:56 PM (tw6Ar)
Oops, "book", not chapter. Doh.
Posted by: Pedant for whom it's been a long time since Sunday School at August 20, 2012 07:56 PM (cQmXn)
Until then, all you "earned" was extorted from Massachusetts taxpayers."
That's retarded. Like, window-licking, plushy-fucking with a football helmet retarded. So soldiers, police officers, mayors, and judges are subject to state-approval as to what they do with their wages? So, preventing them from, say, contributing to political campaigns is kosher? Or buying foreign products? Or even out of state products? How about hiring servants of one class or another? Buying a firearm? And if someone DOES receive such money, are they subject to these restrictions as well?
Does this "logic" extend to corporate salaries as well? After all, the shareholders are the owners of the entity, and all moneys "belong" to them; any money paid to employees or officers or directors is "extorted" from them and the only way to escape this (other than firing the directors) is to sell your shares and go elsewhere.
This whole idea should have been aborted immediately. It's logically unsustainable and asinine to boot.
Posted by: Dawnfire at August 20, 2012 07:56 PM (bIeax)
108
Yeah @ 94
I would imagine a lot of high-paid specialists are looking for the escape hatch right now. They will be the canaries in the coal mine.
***************************************
That ship already sailed. Small private practices across the country are rapidly becoming a thing of the past, as doctors see the writing on the Obamacare wall and bail in one of three different directions-
1. Become a hospital employee
2. Join a mega-group practice (Kaiser Permanente et al.)
3. Figure out a way to take early retirement and do something other than medicine.
Once the private practice of medicine is gone, the owners will have the docs over the proverbial barrel. The coming shortage of primary care docs will be EPIC in nature. The specialists are trying to carve out niches where they will be able to do "the fun stuff" while minimizing actually avoiding sick people. When I owned my practice it was not unusual to work 30 days out of 31 in a given month. I gave my cell phone number to patients and actually answered it after hours. I went the extra mile for 'my' patients. The regulatory burdens and shrinking reimbursements were squeezing me hard. Now that I am "on the clock"- not so much. I meet the terms of my employment contract, but when I am off duty, I am all the way off duty. Primary care docs are abdicating ownership of their practices left and right. More and more docs are job sharing (working part time), and fewer and fewer define themselves primarily as a physician. Try calling a primary care office and speaking to a physician some time. Even as a consultant physician calling to speak to a primary doc about 6-8 times out of 10 the doc I need to talk to is "out of the office" or "not working today" or otherwise not available. And the federal government is so deeply enmeshed in the whole reimbursement and accreditation schemes that simply moving across a state line will not alleviate the problem. The pace of all this is accelerating in my view. /rant off
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 20, 2012 08:00 PM (hgSh3)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 20, 2012 08:01 PM (vDl/w)
I didn't hear "boy!"
Posted by: Maureen Dowd at August 20, 2012 08:01 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: Jake in ID at August 20, 2012 11:56 PM (LyEfv)
only 50 cal scene ever needed
http://tinyurl.com/9qsa5m5
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 08:02 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Boulder TruCon at August 20, 2012 08:03 PM (8HhF2)
Posted by: Malfunctioning Eddie at August 20, 2012 08:03 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 21, 2012 12:00 AM (hgSh3)
The other 'new' thing is a lot of young Drs. are traveling, and working multiple offices at the same time (different days of the week). I know of one local Doc who words at 4 different clinics.... a day here... a day there... to take care of walk in patients...
but he's not building the relationships we got used to growing up... he is treating symptoms and cases, not patients IMO.
( I work in IT, specializing in Electronic Medical Record Programs)...
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 20, 2012 08:06 PM (lZBBB)
Posted by: Sting at August 20, 2012 08:07 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 08:07 PM (tw6Ar)
I'm thinking that the Japanese chick needs some shootin' lessons from yours truly. She won't even need to alter her position, except maybe lift her hips a bit.
I'm also thinking that maybe the Japanese really shouldn't be provoking the Chinese over those desolate little islands.
Posted by: somebody else, not me at August 20, 2012 08:08 PM (nZvGM)
The established doctors also cut out newcomers to monopolize as many billings to themselves as possible. I have a heart surgeon friend who's moved to the States (he has an American wife too though) because he couldn't get a full-time gig at a hospital even in areas outside of the Toronto area. One hospital heart surgeon who had a virtual veto over his hiring was doing something like twice as many heart surgeries p.a. as the average American heart surgeon to make as many billings as possible.
Posted by: andycanuck at August 20, 2012 08:09 PM (vDl/w)
Save GM from its Defenders
http://tinyurl.com/ctr4hzu
Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2012 08:10 PM (wwsoB)
Its been back and forth for decades. Each side claims them, neither really has them. The bottom line is oil; Japan has controlled them for a long time and China sort of made noises about wanting them, but suddenly now oil has been discovered in the area, now they are pressing the issue.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 20, 2012 08:10 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 20, 2012 08:12 PM (a4CUi)
Posted by: eman at August 20, 2012 08:13 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 20, 2012 08:13 PM (vDl/w)
@209- Yeah, there is a lot of jostling over an ever shrinking pie. Some places it is downright cutthroat. It'll be interesting to see how it shakes out here. I can guarantee that the PPACA will not improve access to health care of good quality at decreased costs. Probably two of the three will take a hit (access, quality, cost).
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 20, 2012 08:13 PM (hgSh3)
My primary care physician joined a hospital group and now my costs to see him have skyrocketed. He's a good doc, but I pay cash and I just can't afford hospital type rates.
I'm looking into a monthly fee doc now. You pay $20/month to be a member....then office visits are $15 and unlimited, minor surgeries/stitches are $25, and bloodwork is hella cheap for the stuff they do in-house. As an example, a cholesterol test is $12 versus $80 charged through my PCP.
If the g.d. gubmint would get the hell out of the way, healthcare could become affordable once again.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 20, 2012 08:15 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 20, 2012 08:15 PM (d/5qf)
Posted by: steevy at August 20, 2012 08:16 PM (6o4Fb)
Posted by: eman at August 20, 2012 08:17 PM (Wp4rQ)
Shut. The. Fuck. Up. Now.
Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 20, 2012 11:52 PM (a4CUi)
Cops and firemen aren't even in the top ten most dangerous professions. I'll reserve my awe for the farmers and fishermen who put the food on my table and have far more deadly work environments (after the servicemen, of course).
Posted by: somebody else, not me at August 20, 2012 08:17 PM (nZvGM)
Posted by: Kalneva at August 20, 2012 08:18 PM (cQmXn)
Kenichi Sonoda will be found fapping in his bunk .... all she is missing is neko ears.
Cannon God Exaxxion anyone?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 08:19 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 21, 2012 12:12 AM (a4CUi)
But of the total of Government emplyees, just how many ARE Firefighters, Police, or frontline Teachers....
I personaly have no problem compensating them well.... its the F'n Stupid overpaid DMV clerk... or EPA wonk... ie... the other 90% of Government employees...
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 20, 2012 08:19 PM (lZBBB)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 20, 2012 08:20 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: steevy at August 20, 2012 08:20 PM (6o4Fb)
Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 20, 2012 08:21 PM (a4CUi)
What's that you say? Instead of firing the cops, fire the Assistant Associate Vice-Administrator for Transgender Diversity? No no no, that person is *indispensable*!
Posted by: Typical Liberal Fearmonger at August 20, 2012 08:21 PM (d/5qf)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 21, 2012 12:19 AM (cubpP)
actually never read that series
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 08:23 PM (tw6Ar)
Now I'm cynical enough to strongly suspect some kind of scam going on here
Now would an Obama be a grifter?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 20, 2012 08:23 PM (oX7vY)
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 20, 2012 08:24 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: eman at August 20, 2012 08:25 PM (Wp4rQ)
230 There will be riots in the streets! Whole neighborhoods will burn down! Anarchy will reign!
Posted by: Typical Liberal Fearmonger at August 21, 2012 12:21 AM (d/5qf)
Is it Nov 7th already?
Posted by: JimboHoffa at August 20, 2012 08:25 PM (dAfqy)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 20, 2012 08:25 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Kalneva at August 20, 2012 08:26 PM (cQmXn)
Posted by: Journolist at August 20, 2012 08:28 PM (q7YYY)
If only they were!
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 20, 2012 08:29 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: cate simpleton at August 20, 2012 08:29 PM (1JJGO)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 20, 2012 08:29 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 20, 2012 08:29 PM (a4CUi)
obama dismisses Navy Seals because of their politics, hello, they have a right to their opinion, even though they brought up a serious issue of National Security.
AOS cover this, disgraceful
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 20, 2012 08:30 PM (EPbpF)
**Advance warning: language and ultraviolent imagery below. Yeah, IÂ’m pissed off.
Re Akin: ItÂ’s at this point that I think itÂ’s time the inner GOP apparatus finally stops behaving like pampered ivy-league lettermen, and learns to keep its nominees in line like the gangland thugs in the DNC do.
First, make it an ironclad new rule in the GOP: it doesn’t matter if you won your primary by 9000%. If you embarrass the party in any way before the party’s selection deadline, you, your career, funding support, and whole staff “disappears.” Literally. Forever.
And then, if I were Reince Priebus, I’d fly directly to Missouri, sit this idiot down and, in my all-time best R. Lee Ermey impression voice, say to him, “Mr. Akin, you utter and complete dumb-ass, stupid, shit-for-brained son of a bitch from hell, I don’t care if Jesus Christ, Buddha, and Yahweh themselves all personally came down from heaven last night and lined up to each give you blowjobs that would kill Bill Clinton, and I don’t give a flying fuck what all your major or minor malfunctions are, or how many nights you’ve wasted massaging your tiny, tiny dick and fantasizing of being Senator or King or the Emperor of Ice Cream. Tell me you’ve decided to quit this race in the next five seconds, or you and your entire family will die early from the enormous lifelong stress we’ll place you all under for the rest of your shitstained lives. Get the hell out of this senate race THIS VERY SECOND, or we’ll throw you out, off a bridge, and directly onto a revving chainsaw blade.”
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 20, 2012 08:32 PM (7B7jB)
In effect, my family worked for him.
It should be the other way around.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 20, 2012 08:33 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 08:34 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Todd Akin at August 20, 2012 08:36 PM (8HhF2)
Posted by: ザ 政治的 帽子 at August 20, 2012 08:37 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: Zombie Chesty Puller at August 20, 2012 08:37 PM (jaYl7)
SECOND, or weÂ’ll throw you out, off a bridge, and directly onto a
revving chainsaw blade.”
I think something like this will happen, very soon. But it won't be in public. I will be very surprised if the withdrawal form is not duly filed in plenty of time for the deadline, tomorrow, unless Akin is a very strange bird, of the Obama/Crist type.
Posted by: Splunge at August 20, 2012 08:38 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 20, 2012 08:40 PM (vDl/w)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 21, 2012 12:20 AM
After all these lefties telling us that GM's problem was that they "weren't selling cars people want to buy", Americans are still ignoring the cars that politicians want them to buy. The bulk of their final sales outside of fleet and rental companies are the full size trucks and SUVs. You know, the gaia killing gas guzzlers the people didn't want anymore.
The bread and butter of companies are the mid sized 4 door sedans. When I visit dealerships, I see the Chevy Malibu and Kia Optima, and the Optima looks like a better car for less money. Ford's Fusion isn't much better for the money either. Best value is probably still the Camry.
If I had the money, and I don't, I'd go with the Audi A6. The A4 isn't bad either
Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2012 08:40 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: George Washington McClintock at August 20, 2012 08:40 PM (jaYl7)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 20, 2012 08:42 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: ザ 政治的 帽子 at August 20, 2012 08:45 PM (sZTYJ)
Human genius scientist gets a hold of alien tech. So one of the first things he creates are very busty and happy female androids. He is also a pervert and a super genius. And he gives his grandson the keys to a super giant mecha to fight off the aliens who have occupied the Earth while pretending to be there to help mankind.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 08:45 PM (cubpP)
http://tinyurl.com/94p4osb
Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2012 08:46 PM (wwsoB)
Using attrition makes it less heinous. Replace only for the critical, retrain/reassign if someone is good, etc. Takes a bit longer, but accomplishes the same thing and reduces the sudden shocks to the system.
One thing that needs to happen is more cross agency deployment of resources. It should become commonplace for people to move around during their careers and do different jobs. The military does it as a matter of course in the development of its senior officer corps.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 08:47 PM (WnzOT)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 20, 2012 08:48 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: eman at August 20, 2012 08:49 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: ADM Chuichi Nagumo at August 20, 2012 08:50 PM (jaYl7)
Getting rid of, for example, the farrier's position in Detroit is a matter of a few jobs. Getting rid of the National Endowment for the Arts? That's lot of worthless jobs lost.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 20, 2012 08:50 PM (r4wIV)
Plus, it's no doubt of grave importance to some of the morons here. You know who you are.
Posted by: Mayday at August 20, 2012 08:50 PM (F3s39)
Mechanically, they're usually the same thing as the VW Passat and Jettas. You pay a high premium for a little better interior in the Audi's and slightly different sheet metal.
The A8 is a completely different matter.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 08:51 PM (WnzOT)
I think that with the CAFE standards, the future Corvettes will be downsized turbo V6's. Which they'll put on sale before it's right, and by the time they get it right they'll dump it.
Unless GM goes tits up for good and Chevy is bought by the Germans
Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2012 08:51 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: Inscrutable Japanese Hentai Factory at August 20, 2012 08:52 PM (jaYl7)
The A8 is a completely different matter.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 21, 2012 12:51 AM
Audi does it right and builds a solid car. BMW seems to be determined to build an iPad on wheels and Mercedes loves to experiment and take risks, bless them, but it's an expensive experiment to buy
Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2012 08:54 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 21, 2012 12:45 AM (cubpP)
does sound like something I would dig, I'll have to track it down
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 08:54 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 20, 2012 08:56 PM (a4CUi)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 21, 2012 12:45 AM
Knowing our government's benevolent and wise hand at guiding research and development, we'll end up with Flo-Bot
Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2012 08:57 PM (wwsoB)
The NEA can be defunded over a period of say 5 years, and encourage private foundations to make up the difference. If the NEA is valuable enough to people, they'll find the support in the public sector. If its not, then it should die.
Challenging the public to make up the difference, and allowing them time to do it, removes a lot of the "evil" stigma that you'd otherwise be painted with.
NSF hands out a lot of bullshit grants to study shit we can't afford right now too. Some is worthwhile, some not. I'd like to see a more draconian review process instituted.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 08:59 PM (WnzOT)
Is there any doubt left?
I don't think he's a concern troll.
A psychotic asshole who's demanded the heads of Americans on pikes, sure, but not a concern troll.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 20, 2012 09:00 PM (xKC/c)
Find a clapped out 2002Tii and do a ground up restoration. Bare essentials, all fun.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 09:02 PM (WnzOT)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at August 20, 2012 09:03 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: Inscrutable Japanese Hentai Factory at August 20, 2012 09:04 PM (jaYl7)
They're into all that weird bondage S/M stuff. Buying Chevrolet will certainly bring the pain.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 09:06 PM (WnzOT)
Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 20, 2012 09:07 PM (a4CUi)
GM did get it really right with the Corvette, I'll give them that. Its a
sweet ride. But the rest of their line is pretty awful.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 21, 2012 12:42 AM
I think that with the CAFE standards, the future Corvettes will be downsized turbo V6's. Which they'll put on sale before it's right, and by the time they get it right they'll dump it.
Unless GM goes tits up for good and Chevy is bought by the Germans
Posted by: kbdabear at August 21, 2012 12:51 AM (wwsoB)
I don't think the Germans will buy a healthcare and pensions company.
Posted by: Jeremy Clarkson at August 20, 2012 09:08 PM (1grxW)
but he's not building the relationships we got used to growing up... he is treating symptoms and cases, not patients IMO.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 21, 2012 12:06 AM (lZBBB)
That's exactly what my father, a physician who's retiring at the end of the year, says about how medicine is being practiced now. He's always taken the time to listen to patients and pick up on things they might not have thought mattered, but that kind of diagnosis is becoming a dying art in favor of ordering tests left and right. Doctors have become so squeezed for time, you're lucky if you get a full 15 minutes in an appt.
Posted by: venus velvet at August 20, 2012 09:09 PM (g94P/)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at August 20, 2012 09:10 PM (csi6Y)
Chevy is bought by the Germans
They're into all that weird bondage S/M stuff.
I am THERE!
Now where's my nipple clamps?
Posted by: The Fluke in leather and ballgag at August 20, 2012 09:11 PM (dAfqy)
So the Facebook linking of Akin and Paul Ryan is in full swing, since they co-sponsored a bill with about 100 other congressmen, but that part of the story is conveniently left out. Fauxahontas is there too, slamming Brown and getting lots of likes in the process.
Akin is an anchor and needs to be cut loose, I sure hope he's gone when I get back here in the morning.
Posted by: Boots at August 20, 2012 09:12 PM (neKzn)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at August 21, 2012 01:10 AM (csi6Y)
Forgiving, hell, Cat Pee still comes around here.
Posted by: MrCaniac at August 20, 2012 09:12 PM (1grxW)
That's more a case of terminal lack of self-awareness, though.
Posted by: Waterhouse at August 20, 2012 09:14 PM (gBJfr)
Posted by: ABC News at August 20, 2012 09:14 PM (aMcNE)
I don't either. Seen him take some bizarre positions. This is one.
Jugears can spend his whole salary on a platinum coated, diamond encrusted butt plug, if he wants.
Posted by: fluffisimo at August 20, 2012 09:15 PM (z9HTb)
Or course as I have posted the new 2015 Mustang might get a 6 or even a turbocharged 4. Which made me run outside to hug my GT500.
So we are probably seeing the temporary death of the muscle car again. And perhaps the true reason is CAFE.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 09:15 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Rep. Bob Etheridge at August 20, 2012 09:19 PM (dFN3f)
My FIL drives an A6 station wagon. "Liked it's glued to the road", or something. Not sure if VW handles so well.
Posted by: fluffisimo at August 20, 2012 09:19 PM (z9HTb)
http://www.ufunk.net/videos/jedi-condoms/
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 09:20 PM (cubpP)
Or course as I have posted the new 2015 Mustang might get a 6 or even a turbocharged 4. Which made me run outside to hug my GT500.
So we are probably seeing the temporary death of the muscle car again. And perhaps the true reason is CAFE.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 21, 2012 01:15 AM (cubpP)
This is the 70's all over again. Government mandating that the car makers make little death boxes for fuel efficiency, American public says no thanks, government pushes harder to make sure we buy them. We are forced to buy them, highway fatalities jump, cars then get bigger, fatalities drop.
Posted by: MrCaniac at August 20, 2012 09:22 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: Dr Phil at August 20, 2012 09:23 PM (/YJYi)
Posted by: Berserker at August 20, 2012 09:23 PM (FMbng)
When you stop working, you stop being paid, period, end of story, FYNQ.
Posted by: cm9000 at August 20, 2012 09:24 PM (lzvtR)
Kenichi Sonoda will be found fapping in his bunk .... all she is missing is neko ears.
I admit I had to look up Kenichi Sonada. Then I lol'd. ^_^
Posted by: holygoat at August 20, 2012 09:24 PM (auGuV)
I'll sit where I want, you walrus-lookin' mother fucker.
Posted by: fluffy gets angry and lazy at August 20, 2012 09:26 PM (z9HTb)
The VW handle well. For far less than the price delta between the VW and an Audi, you can make the VW handle like a F1 car with aftermarket parts.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 09:26 PM (WnzOT)
Posted by: Splunge at August 20, 2012 11:14 PM (2IW5Q)
Apparently you are fucking clueless! Do you not know about D'Souza's movie?
Fuck you and your "forgiveness"!
What have YOU done, skippy, other than post limp-wristed criticisms???
Posted by: Jim Sonweed at August 20, 2012 09:27 PM (41zfH)
History book wrong.
Posted by: Inscrutable Japanese Hentai Factory at August 21, 2012 01:04 AM (jaYl7)
Chevy bombed Pearl Harbor? I be damned. Fooken Unions.
Posted by: robtr at August 20, 2012 09:27 PM (MtwBb)
Since Sonoda sensei is one of the early gun otaku who then proceeded to express his love of German weapons by having girls tote them around.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 09:28 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 20, 2012 09:30 PM (d/5qf)
If only carbon fiber was price competitive with steel, then it would be a lot easier to meet the standards
Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2012 09:30 PM (wwsoB)
I can see my 73 yr old FIL tooling around in a GTI with curb feelers and neon lights in the under carriage :--)
Posted by: fluffy at August 20, 2012 09:32 PM (z9HTb)
Ach! Eine Cobalt !!!
Posted by: Wolfgang Fluke at August 20, 2012 09:34 PM (wwsoB)
There are two examples in my GT500 I never use. Satellite radio, I have a 6 CD changer than can handle mp3. Why should I listen to Sirius on the off chance I will hear a song I like and while hoping the trees don't block the signal. Next one is just a WTF were they thinking. I have foot well and cup holder mood lighting that I can change from blue to white to amber and so on. I find it distracting so turn it off.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 09:36 PM (cubpP)
If only carbon fiber was price competitive with steel, then it would be a lot easier to meet the standards
Posted by: kbdabear at August 21, 2012 01:30 AM (wwsoB)
You actually expect for our leaders to ride around in a sedan and not a limo? You my friend are a h8er.
Posted by: MrCaniac at August 20, 2012 09:36 PM (1grxW)
I really wish the wind had taken him and his wife into a minefield
Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2012 09:36 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: Berserker at August 20, 2012 09:36 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 09:37 PM (cubpP)
If it was up to me the cockholsters would be traveling by fucking rickshaw.
Posted by: Berserker at August 20, 2012 09:39 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: flufffy at August 20, 2012 09:39 PM (z9HTb)
There are two examples in my GT500 I never use. Satellite radio, I have a 6 CD changer than can handle mp3. Why should I listen to Sirius on the off chance I will hear a song I like and while hoping the trees don't block the signal. Next one is just a WTF were they thinking. I have foot well and cup holder mood lighting that I can change from blue to white to amber and so on. I find it distracting so turn it off.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 21, 2012 01:36 AM (cubpP)
I've got Satellite radio but not really for the music. The NFL, NHL and NASCAR have channels so I get all my sports news on it since my local media doesn't cover those sports for shit. But a 6 disk CD changer that can play mp3s is a bit of an overkill.
Posted by: MrCaniac at August 20, 2012 09:39 PM (1grxW)
Since Sonoda sensei is one of the early gun otaku who then proceeded to express his love of German weapons by having girls tote them around.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 21, 2012 01:28 AM (cubpP)
Your comment about Kenichi Sonoda fapping in his bunk to the video of the loli-maid firing the .50 was funnier after I learned who he was.
Posted by: holygoat at August 20, 2012 09:39 PM (auGuV)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 21, 2012 01:36 AM (cubpP)
I use my XM 
never had problems with it, and that is including going up and down the smokey moutains
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 09:39 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: skinnydipinacid at August 20, 2012 09:40 PM (zEPqG)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 21, 2012 01:36 AM
You'll appreciate that Sirius radio if the Fairness Doctrine makes its return
Safety features also resulted in heavier cars, but I think that design innovations could cut the weight down. Actually, they know how to design it, they just don't know how to do it in cost effective manner
Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2012 09:41 PM (wwsoB)
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But he's got the guy in the boat covered.
Posted by: irright at August 20, 2012 09:42 PM (5UU+7)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 09:42 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Berserker at August 21, 2012 01:39 AM (FMbng)
That would create more jobs than Obama's "shovel ready" jobs bills did.
Posted by: MrCaniac at August 20, 2012 09:42 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: Berserker at August 21, 2012 01:39 AM (FMbng)
Well maybe but they would have us pulling it.
Posted by: robtr at August 20, 2012 09:42 PM (MtwBb)
Posted by: Adam at August 20, 2012 09:44 PM (/YJYi)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 09:45 PM (cubpP)
First of all, having a longbow would at least make me listen to you, but having a CHARTREUSE longbow is kinda ghey, so unless you are a woman, you have even less credibility than someone who is lord of the crossbow.
Second, if I had a brother in those kind of circumstances, I'd help in any way I could, and our income is a combined $65k per year. (at least until October, when I get laid off)
No, Maetenloch is right..."If I were a president worth millions, I think I could at least get my African extended family out of shanties, some basic medical care, a TV and possibly a basic cable package."
Simple stuff, really, especially done in a discount place like Kenya.
Obama doesn't give a rip about his brother, and you know it.
Posted by: Mr_Write at August 20, 2012 09:45 PM (CLkAH)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 09:47 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 09:49 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Toby the Beagle at August 21, 2012 01:46 AM (Ks4nX)
If not the thread winner, certainly runner-up.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 20, 2012 09:49 PM (xKC/c)
Posted by: MrCaniac at August 21, 2012 01:22 AM
It was thought that we'd never see powerful cars again, then when the car companies found out that people wanted them and gas didn't go to 5 bucks a gallon, they found out that electronic fuel injection did wonders.
Lee Ioccoca thought that V8's and RWD were gone for good, and blessed us with the K-Car. If not for the minivan, there wouldn't have been a Chrysler to bail out again in 2008.
Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2012 09:50 PM (wwsoB)
Car wiring has become a nightmare, because there are 8 frigging billion things that need power. There is probably more wiring just for the sensors alone than there would be in that whole 1970 Torino.
Posted by: Berserker at August 20, 2012 09:50 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Kyle Broflovski, Clinically Depressed Fecalphiliac at August 20, 2012 09:50 PM (sZTYJ)
That's more than multimillionaire Obama ever did for George.
Posted by: Mr_Write at August 20, 2012 09:51 PM (CLkAH)
Posted by: ザ 政治的 帽子 at August 20, 2012 09:53 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: ザ 政治的 帽子 at August 20, 2012 09:53 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: Adam at August 21, 2012 01:44 AM (/YJYi)
Yeah that's a problem we have, we all want somebody to fight our wars, put out our fires, teach our kids, raise the kids we don't want aborted...just not us, or some of us.
If you really want smaller, less expensive, non professional government there is an easy solution. Go spend for years in the Military or the DMV for shit pay and then start your career. Otherwise we have the government we want.
Posted by: robtr at August 20, 2012 09:53 PM (MtwBb)
Ken Sonoda's Gunsmith Cats is the official manga of the Moron Nation.
It's got hot chicks.
It's got guns.
It's got fast cars.
It's got hot chicks firing guns from their fast cars.
It's got big tits and chicks making out with each other.
I highly recommend Gunsmith Cats to all the Morons looking for some fun reading material.
Four omnibus editions and five volumes of the follow up "Burst" available from Dark Horse Comics.
Posted by: Robert's Invincible Rape Sperm at August 20, 2012 09:57 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Berserker at August 20, 2012 09:57 PM (FMbng)
I really wanted to see Leonard Nimoy go searching for him, find his body, and return his katra to him
Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2012 09:58 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: Robert's Invincible Rape Sperm at August 21, 2012 01:57 AM (4ixH5)
wish more was done with Bean though the way they whored Minny was always fun.
I have to laugh at the mofo's driving those smart cars. I always laugh
knowing that if they ever get in an accident they are already driving
their fucking urn.
Posted by: Berserker at August 21, 2012 01:57 AM (FMbng)
they're actually fun to drive on ice
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 09:58 PM (tw6Ar)
I have the VHS tapes.
Rockin' stuff.
Posted by: Robert's Invincible Rape Sperm at August 20, 2012 09:59 PM (4ixH5)
There was also a Bean Bandit anime that pre-dates GSC and is non-continuity. Marvel at the white, blonde and totally not Pakistani Rally Vincent!
Posted by: Robert's Invincible Rape Sperm at August 20, 2012 10:01 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Adam at August 20, 2012 10:01 PM (/YJYi)
Posted by: Robert's Invincible Rape Sperm at August 21, 2012 02:01 AM (4ixH5)
which really makes you like the McQueen mother fucker
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 10:02 PM (tw6Ar)
If you really want smaller, less expensive, non professional government there is an easy solution. Go spend for years in the Military or the DMV for shit pay and then start your career. Otherwise we have the government we want.
Posted by: robtr at August 21, 2012 01:53 AM (MtwBb)
I have no idea what you are babbling about. I don't need a government to do anything for me.
Posted by: cm9000 at August 20, 2012 10:02 PM (lzvtR)
This is why Sonoda is also a dirty old man manga artist. His anime portfolio includes: Wanna-Bes [ female pro wrestling meets a strength serum with side effects], Gall Force [all female race battle in space against a bio-mechanical race], Bubblegum Crisis [Blade Runner type universe. All female mercenary unit in form fitting HardSuits], and Gunsmith Cats.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:04 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Robert's Invincible Rape Sperm at August 20, 2012 10:06 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at August 20, 2012 10:07 PM (csi6Y)
The drawing that green lighted Gunsmith Cats can be found in the Sonoda artbook 'On' on pg 94. The proto-Rally in that image is still blond and the Minnie May prototype is just ugh.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:07 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Robert's Invincible Rape Sperm at August 21, 2012 02:06 AM (4ixH5)
really? hmm really loved that series. I guess you can check out 2040 which is more modern and fleshes out the OAVs
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 10:07 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:09 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Adam at August 21, 2012 02:01 AM (/YJYi)
Well good for you, I spent 13 months fighting one. That wasn't my point though. When I grew up we didn't have EMT's , no where in America, where I grew up we had a volunteer fire department who didn't show up if someone was sick or at a traffic accident. My point is that if we want professionals no matter what government service they are doing and we decide we don't want to do it we are going to have to pay them.
Posted by: robtr at August 20, 2012 10:09 PM (MtwBb)
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 10:13 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:13 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 10:17 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Adam at August 20, 2012 10:17 PM (/YJYi)
*Pulls himself together*
Patlabor movie special editions on sale cheap cheap cheap cheap!!!!!
I have them on VHS from Manga Entertainment. Never did get them on divvy dee.
LOVED the Patlabor movies!
Posted by: Robert's Invincible Rape Sperm at August 20, 2012 10:22 PM (4ixH5)
The stories from the original OVAs were more varied and interesting. The characterizations popped out more for me. Plus had linkage to Madox-01 Metal Skin Panic. Of course the obvious tie-in to Blade Runner [Priss and the Replicants] was cool. Though the more obscure American link with Streets of Fire and Konya Wa Hurricane is a plus.
Crash and 2040 also occurred after the AIC and Artmic split. Which meant they had to change the universe around enough to avoid legal problems with Crash. In 2040 it was instant dislike for the El-Hazard character designs while Priss and Linna came off as bland characters.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:25 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Adam at August 21, 2012 02:17 AM (/YJYi)
Heh, well at least I moved up from asshole to drunk asshole. If you would have stopped to read what I said I was agreeing with you. I think I did in my second response as well. My alternate point was that very few of us want to do what we want done and we don't really want to pay for it either.
So I offered a solution to that bit of hypocrisy on our part. Spend 4 years doing some of that stuff you want but don't really want to pay for. Sorry you missed it.
Posted by: robtr at August 20, 2012 10:26 PM (MtwBb)
Posted by: Robert's Invincible Rape Sperm at August 21, 2012 02:22 AM (4ixH5)
don't buy the dvds, they don't look that great. Buy the blu-rays as they are a substantial upgrade
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 10:26 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: ザ 政治的 帽子 at August 20, 2012 10:27 PM (sZTYJ)
Riding Bean for the 1980s had a kinda risque opening. Robbers in a mall dragging a totally naked woman around as hostage. Then there was Semmerling, Sonoda named her after a small automatic.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:30 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:32 PM (cubpP)
World ends:
Jolted by the possibility of a syphilis outbreak among its ranks, a Los Angeles-based trade group that represents the adult film industry announced a nationwide moratorium on X-rated productions while more than 1,000 porn performers are tested.
The Free Speech Coalition issued the call on its website after reporting that one performer tested positive for syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease, and had begun notifying sexual partners of that information.
The moratorium was announced Saturday, a day after Los Angeles County's Public Health Department said it was investigating a cluster of possible syphilis cases within the porn industry. The agency said it had received reports of at least five cases involving adult performers within a week.
LA Times
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 20, 2012 10:33 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at August 20, 2012 10:33 PM (YOZSv)
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 10:33 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: ザ 政治的 帽子 at August 20, 2012 10:33 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: The Dude at August 21, 2012 02:26 AM (tw6Ar)
The Manga DVDs or the Bandai Visual DVDs?
Manga...ugh! A few years ago I bought some DVD editions of Ghost in the Shell and Ninja Scroll. Awful! It was like they just took any random VHS copy and copied it to DVD.
Posted by: Robert's Invincible Rape Sperm at August 20, 2012 10:35 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Adam at August 20, 2012 10:36 PM (/YJYi)
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at August 21, 2012 02:33 AM (YOZSv)
the Akin thing is a better story. Politicians getting blowjobs has been done before, politician saying stupid shit about rape is always news
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 10:36 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:38 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Ms Choksondik, extremely extreme radical extremist at August 20, 2012 10:40 PM (YOZSv)
Manga...ugh! A few years ago I bought some DVD editions of Ghost in the Shell and Ninja Scroll. Awful! It was like they just took any random VHS copy and copied it to DVD.
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Which is why I call them Mangle Entertainment. If given a chance they will mess something up. Their UK branch relabeled Vampire Princess Miyu as Miyu: Queen of the Blood Suckers.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:40 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 20, 2012 10:41 PM (sZTYJ)
http://tinyurl.com/9zazxoq
The original version you played mahjong tile game to get pieces so at the end you get to see a naked anime girl.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:44 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Ms Choksondik, extremely extreme radical extremist at August 20, 2012 10:44 PM (YOZSv)
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 10:45 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Ms Choksondik, extremely extreme radical extremist at August 21, 2012 02:44 AM (YOZSv)
porn isn't filmed in LA anyways, it's all San Fernando
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 10:47 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:51 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 21, 2012 02:51 AM (cubpP)
if you dig crime stories and haven't watched it, it's essential viewing as long as you keep in mind on when it was made as it can feel like an old hat due to newer movies and tv (it's been ripped off a shit ton since it came out). And watch it as a tv series instead of one long viewing as it gets tiring
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 10:55 PM (tw6Ar)
Living in California, I am well aware that government can be a bloated, corrupt, collection of empires consisting of smallminded bureaucrats intending to micromanage the affairs of anyone unfortunate enough to not work for the State. Just to be clear, there are some 1200 state agencies staffed by the nephews and supporters of other government employees who -- among other things -- do the same work as the EPA at an even more ridiculous level (CalEPA); ensure that nobody can modify anything within sight of a beach without buying off the government somehow, even if the beach is inaccessible (California Coastal Commission); or achieves absolutely nothing because they haven't even bothered to meet for 3-1/2 years while drawing pay.
The problem that you get when speaking about such a government is separating the wheat from the chaff. Easily 2/3 of Sacramento is useless moneywasting corrupt nepotists, but blanket statements like "they should all lose their jobs, their pensions, and their prospects for a future" are belied by the other 1/3 that provides essential government services -- and which is, by and large (and especially as compared to the parasites) underpaid.
Much of this confusion is by design. Statists are expert at blending 90% crap and 10% chocolate and asking "now, will you eat it?" (see "comprehensive XXX reform", where XXX is immigration, healthcare, patent, copyright, privacy, financial, telecom, or whatever). Blanket statements about the government as a whole tend to be based on a perception of some small part of it.
So I can see BTH's point when he's hatin' on government, and I can see his critic's point when they support the government that helps us out.....but I also see that this looks very different from different angles.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 20, 2012 10:55 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 10:56 PM (tw6Ar)
That woulda been cool, and besides, Spock owes him one. The needs of the one and all that...
Posted by: Mr_Write at August 20, 2012 10:57 PM (CLkAH)
Posted by: epobirs at August 21, 2012 02:56 AM (kcfmt)
thought it was out of LA's reach of the law though
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 10:57 PM (tw6Ar)
I have Kino's final final restoration of Metropolis. So am used to being jarred by connections from that movie. Like it recently came to me, in some ways Blade Runner and Bubblegum Crisis are nods to Metropolis because of Rotwang transforms his mechanical bride Hel into the semblance of a living woman - Maria. And like those later replicants, her programming is a bit buggy.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 10:59 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: epobirs at August 20, 2012 10:59 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: epobirs at August 21, 2012 02:59 AM (kcfmt)
I stand corrected then
new hole in one of my favorite shirts
looks like some hair band would have worn in the 80's
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 11:02 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: The Political Hat, who Escaped from L. A. at August 20, 2012 11:02 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 11:05 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Drew in MO at August 20, 2012 11:07 PM (MkgGw)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 20, 2012 11:11 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 21, 2012 02:55 AM (kaalw)
===
but there is a way to sort it all out. analyze the assumptions and react where the assumptions fail to hold true.
Posted by: jc at August 20, 2012 11:13 PM (ufJKx)
Apparently Pelosi had a meeting with Obama about the DoD sequestration that is still about to fall. This was back in mid-2012. She was worried about all the unhappy contractors not giving money apparently.
"Obama told the former speaker what he had been saying for months – that he wasn’t budging on the defense cuts. Doing so would surrender his only leverage in forcing House Republicans to accept the expiration of tax cuts for the wealthy – the only weapon he had against their efforts ‘to delegitimize me,’ as he put it. Moreover, he bluntly called on Hill Democrats to reorient their priorities – from them to him. ‘Look, guys,’ he told Pelosi, Harry Reid, and several other congressional leaders, according to a person briefed in detail on the interaction. ‘I plan on winning this race. If I don’t win, then anything we say now doesn’t matter. I plan on winning this race. So let’s figure out how to win this race.’"
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 11:17 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Jerry at August 20, 2012 11:19 PM (4SKYj)
government, and I can see his critic's point when they support the
government that helps us out.....but I also see that this looks very
different from different angles.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 21, 2012 02:55 AM (kaalw)
Well there's hatin' on government and then there's claiming that government employees do not actually own their own earnings and can't spend their pay any way they like.
That's koo-koo-bananas shit.
Posted by: Mætenloch at August 20, 2012 11:20 PM (xROTy)
Posted by: epobirs at August 21, 2012 03:15 AM (kcfmt)
There are probably several, but Signal Hill is surrounded by Long Beach in California.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 20, 2012 11:20 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 20, 2012 11:21 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: Mætenloch at August 21, 2012 03:20 AM (xROTy)
It *is* pretty close to amputating toes to cure earaches. But it doesn't mean that earaches shouldn't be treated.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 20, 2012 11:23 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: derit at August 20, 2012 11:24 PM (ruiF1)
Posted by: rickl at August 20, 2012 11:25 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: The Dude at August 21, 2012 03:22 AM (tw6Ar)
Yep. Well identified!
And while I could care less what political parasites receive, if only it makes less of them -- scrips and company stores would likely make the patronage system worse and tighter.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 20, 2012 11:26 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: derit at August 20, 2012 11:28 PM (ruiF1)
Posted by: Disgruntled Lurker at August 20, 2012 11:28 PM (UPoZk)
It used to turn up in books of useless knowledge a lot, like the Bathroom Reader series. I owned the domain bathroombooks.com for several years but never developed the book club idea I had.
Posted by: epobirs at August 20, 2012 11:28 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: derit at August 21, 2012 03:28 AM (ruiF1)
Lack of gruntles?
Posted by: cthulhu at August 20, 2012 11:29 PM (kaalw)
Sorry, I was summoned away by my mother freaking out over her latest online traffic school confusion. She might actually finish tonight.
Posted by: epobirs at August 20, 2012 11:30 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: The Political hat at August 20, 2012 11:32 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 21, 2012 03:26 AM (kaalw)
yeah, my mom collects scrips in a sense of never forgetting about that bullshit
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 11:33 PM (tw6Ar)
West Hollywood hasn't existed as a separate entity that long. The question is a mite dated but the discussion raised the memory.
Posted by: epobirs at August 20, 2012 11:37 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: derit at August 20, 2012 11:44 PM (ruiF1)
They're having free downloads for the month, while still crediting uploads and giving new users a chance to build up a good ratio. I've found that sites with ratio systems tend to have a better class of particpants.
Posted by: epobirs at August 20, 2012 11:44 PM (kcfmt)
Well there's hatin' on government and then there's claiming that government employees do not actually own their own earnings and can't spend their pay any way they like.
That's koo-koo-bananas shit.
Posted by: Mætenloch at August 21, 2012 03:20 AM (xROTy)
Government employee earnings is an oxymoron. They earn nothing, they are parasites supported by the tax payer.
Posted by: cm9000 at August 20, 2012 11:45 PM (lzvtR)
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 11:45 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Disgruntled Lurker at August 20, 2012 11:47 PM (UPoZk)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 20, 2012 11:51 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: derit at August 20, 2012 11:54 PM (ruiF1)
Posted by: cm9000 at August 21, 2012 03:45 AM (lzvtR)
Yep teachers, policemen, garbage collectors, and even the dreaded DMV employees do absolutely no work at all and therefore deserve nothing.
Okay then. Good luck in your battle with economics.
Posted by: Mætenloch at August 20, 2012 11:55 PM (xROTy)
Cork soakers:
Lawyers From Suits Against Big Tobacco Target Food Makers
More than a dozen lawyers who took on the tobacco companies have filed 25 cases against industry players like ConAgra Foods, PepsiCo, Heinz, General Mills and Chobani that stock pantry shelves and refrigerators across America.
The suits, filed over the last four months, assert that food makers are misleading consumers and violating federal regulations by wrongly labeling products and ingredients. While there has been a barrage of litigation against the industry in recent years, the tobacco lawyers are moving particularly aggressively. They are asking a federal court in California to halt ConAgraÂ’s sales of Pam cooking spray, Swiss Miss cocoa products and some HuntÂ’s canned tomatoes.
“It’s a crime — and that makes it a crime to sell it,” said Lawyer. Barrett, citing what he contends is the mislabeling of those products. “That means these products should be taken off the shelves.”
The food companies counter that the suits are without merit, another example of litigation gone wild and driven largely by the lawyers’ financial motivations. Mr. Barrett said his group could seek damages amounting to four years of sales of mislabeled products — which could total many billions of dollars.
NYT
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 20, 2012 11:57 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: cm9000 at August 21, 2012 03:45 AM (lzvtR)
See, there's another example. SOME government workers provide essential functions that are beneficial to all to an extent greater than their cost (but would not be individually purchased due to the "tragedy of the commons" effect).....whereas a large proportion produce little of value and subsist on extractions from the populace under threat of force. But both kinds are intentionally mixed together by the latter in order to elicit statements like cm9000's.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 20, 2012 11:57 PM (kaalw)
thoughts of curvy mental images, from which spring forth sexy
enlightenment! (whaaa?)
Posted by: derit at August 21, 2012 03:54 AM (ruiF1)
Yeah, I see it. Needs a gruntle between "mental" and "images".
Posted by: cthulhu at August 20, 2012 11:59 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Lord Keynes at August 21, 2012 12:01 AM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 21, 2012 12:01 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 21, 2012 12:02 AM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 21, 2012 12:13 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: Madeleine Albright at August 21, 2012 12:13 AM (sZTYJ)
My mudder is the queen of procrastination. She's 83 and still getting birth marks.
Posted by: epobirs at August 21, 2012 12:14 AM (kcfmt)
I think the point trying to be made is for the most part their work isn't involved in adding to the wealth(in the broadest terms) of the nation. What they're involved in, and it is necessary, is the preservation of presently existing wealth, and in some rare cases recovery/restoration of lost wealth(ex. Smithsonian artifact restoration staff, Navy/NOAA sonar mapping that sometimes locates wrecks that are salvaged). Of course, due to retard govt policy, they often involved in the destruction of existing wealth as well...EPA is (in)famous for this.
Occasionally, they add to the wealth with various scientific work that is made public.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 21, 2012 12:15 AM (WnzOT)
If you see bacon popcorn, don't bother. I recently picked up several boxes a local supermarket was dumping for 50 cents each. Almost complete fail. It'll fill your house with the aroma of bacon but have nearly no detectable bacon flavor, thus adding insult to injury.
Posted by: epobirs at August 21, 2012 12:17 AM (kcfmt)
Occasionally, they add to the wealth with various scientific work that is made public.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 21, 2012 04:15 AM (WnzOT)
But when did this become the measure of whether someone 'earns' their pay?
Is this a Libertarian thing?
The guy who washes my car or trims my trees doesn't really add to the wealth of the nation either. But they provide a service that I'm willing to pay money for. And that's true for lots of jobs. Including government ones.
Posted by: Mætenloch at August 21, 2012 12:21 AM (xROTy)
Posted by: derit at August 21, 2012 12:25 AM (ruiF1)
When government takes money by force, as the threat of force is inherent in any taxation, to apply to purposes of dubious value to the taxed, is against the intent of trade. It is an essential reason to desire small government.
Posted by: epobirs at August 21, 2012 12:35 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Mætenloch at August 21, 2012 04:21 AM (xROTy)
The problem is that individual trades are always mutually beneficial -- if you didn't feel that you got more value for what you gave up, you wouldn't have swapped. That's not to say that some don't go bad.....but hopefully you factored in the risk.
The "tragedy of the commons" scenario is where everyone wants to free-ride and nothing gets done. There is a legitimate case that government is necessary to do things like provide for a common defense -- having only those folks living on the border paying for border control leads to rapidly contracting borders. Exacting reasonable amounts for common benefits that would not otherwise happen is a good thing.
But then you get to things like banning light bulbs or funding Solyndra.... If anyone, anywhere, thinks it's a good idea to extract funds from citizens under threat of force in order to push such an agenda, it is prima facie evidence that they are a dangerous nutbag -- even if they have a voluptuous and fun-loving niece. Government in this case is actively destroying value, destroying what is good for people, perverting markets, kneecapping the economy, and ensuring a future more dismal than the present. There can be no consequence too horrid for such evil -- and calls for mere forfeiture of salary are but a down-payment on potential costs.
But that's not "government". Even the people who answer phones and push paper in agencies devoted to such loathsome ends aren't the "government" that deserves such ill-repute. The great mass of people working there could be doing their level best to accomplish what they've been set to do......while through mismanagement they've been steered toward unproductive tasks.
The whole "add to the wealth of the nation" misses the point. If you're in government, you should be doing the desirable things that benefit the commonwealth but that individuals wouldn't do.....but not doing the things that individuals, couples, groups, companies, joint-ventures, and conglomerates wouldn't.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 21, 2012 12:48 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 21, 2012 01:01 AM (kaalw)
I want one.
Those features go bad after a few years, in my experience.
I have been driving around a car with a rear door that will not open, at all, and on the other side, the window won't roll down. Dealer wants $700 to fix it and said that they would have to torch off the old lock.
That sucks, since the car is not that old.
Posted by: navybrat at August 21, 2012 01:16 AM (xn8dF)
Junk yard parts? DIY costs nothing but time (and skin--and that'll grow back).
Posted by: derit at August 21, 2012 01:21 AM (ruiF1)
It is stuck in the deployed position.
I don't have a torch.
It is just plain annoying...
Posted by: navybrat at August 21, 2012 01:24 AM (xn8dF)
I have brought it to several reputable mechanics, including the dealer.
Stumped them all so far.
Posted by: navybrat at August 21, 2012 01:36 AM (xn8dF)
Posted by: epobirs at August 21, 2012 01:39 AM (kcfmt)
Other problems, yes. But doors and windows? These should open and close. Not fail due to electrical bs. That is a given.
Posted by: navybrat at August 21, 2012 01:43 AM (xn8dF)
Another thing with a motor that goes out a bit too often for me.
Posted by: navybrat at August 21, 2012 01:44 AM (xn8dF)
Maintenance of existing wealth is usually a useful service. I never claimed otherwise.
From a wealth creation POV, it is valid to view maintenance as a necessary systemic "friction". IOW, it costs, but if you don't do it, you lose value.
Generally, its desirable to reduce this sort of friction in a system if its excessive or costing more in maintenance than allowing a certain level of deterioration, then doing a replacement with new (ex. the cost/value equation in doing maintenance on a $400 PC is considerably different today than when PC's cost $3,000.)
One of the problems with government is the survival instinct of bureaucracy. This prevents recognizing when maintain versus buy new crossovers happen, and as a result we wind up with sub optimal expensive maintenance of systems that should have been retired due to not being needed anymore, or replaced (ex. union horseshoe'ers for a town that has no horses, railroad union demands to keep train staff at levels not needed with automated braking systems, etc)
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 21, 2012 01:46 AM (WnzOT)
I have brought it to several reputable mechanics, including the dealer.
Stumped them all so far.
If the solenoid coil isn't showing a dead short -- i.e. there's some ohms of resistance, then the plunger is stuck/jammed. This happens all the time with starter solenoids on cars when a bit of rust develops. A solenoid is a dead simple device, there's only a couple of ways for it to fail.
A squirt of WD40 on the plunger and a few taps with a small ball peen hammer on the housing may cure the problem if the coil checks out.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 21, 2012 01:51 AM (WnzOT)
This is kinda like when a battery is low and all you hear is click from the starter. That's the solenoid kicking, but the punk battery doesn't have enough oomph to turn the more demanding starter motor.
The wiring harness going to the solenoid may also have developed the dreaded black wire disease. Its a corrosion condition that sometimes develops in DC systems. The copper wire starts oxidizing and and this dark color crud starts to propagate through the whole harness. It would happen more often in corrosive atmospheres (like near salt/brackish water), less in places like a desert.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 21, 2012 01:58 AM (WnzOT)
Posted by: teej at August 21, 2012 02:04 AM (ma+gB)
I hope someone has pointed out that we are not our brother's keeper; that Cain was merely smarting off to God when he asked if he was Abel's keeper. Notice that God never answered him.
Obama quotes the bible in the same manner as his father--and I don't mean BHO Sr. or FMD.
Posted by: baldilocks at August 21, 2012 02:09 AM (6kWFm)
Posted by: teej at August 21, 2012 02:11 AM (+jNI+)
Posted by: teej at August 21, 2012 02:13 AM (+jNI+)
Roger Zelazny
It is sad that he was incorrect only on two of his predictions for 2012. We have no space colonies and this wonderful sci-fi writer is no longer alive to pen his simple but enjoyable stories.
Posted by: jones at August 21, 2012 02:51 AM (bgj72)
Posted by: mugiwara at August 21, 2012 03:02 AM (rLvxx)
and started dead on time or a couple minutes early. Did great work in all phases of testing different types of soil strengths beneath where bridges and retaining walls were going to be built. Important work yes?
But now that individual, who has always felt he owed an honest days work for an honest days pay is out of a job due to bumping rules etc.
Care to contact the DOT Secretary and tell him how wrong that is?
Now, what to do with my first day of funemployment?Posted by: teej at August 21, 2012 03:04 AM (GX2fm)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 21, 2012 03:05 AM (9TTOe)
The glove snapping gynecologist advert part might bring in an otherwise disenfranchised segment.
Liberate some Jerbs.
Freedomize some welfare-ist.
Posted by: sTevo at August 21, 2012 03:05 AM (VMcEw)
Posted by: Corona at August 21, 2012 03:06 AM (fh2Y7)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 21, 2012 03:08 AM (9TTOe)
"No pinching. Just punching." Toddlers forced to fight at daycare by three black child care workers who made video, providing police with evidence.
The women's excuse? The kids needed the exercise. Just ask the First Lady.
Hands of Our Future: No pinching. Just punching.
Posted by: Moochelle "Move" Agenda at August 21, 2012 03:08 AM (BAnPT)
Posted by: teej at August 21, 2012 03:09 AM (GX2fm)
He rates far below a dolt.
The backlash to his stupidity "graces" abortion, just as the hateful clinic bombers and assassins of doctors affects.
So today he's begging for forgiveness, qualifying his mind as yet pure. Yet, his PR "crime" was mental due to full blown falsehood that he truly believed. What's his point, to ask for forgiveness while insisting innocence? Well, that's how everyone qualifies apologies; the only sort given these days is the non-apology.
If the dolt wants to purge his image of backward stupidity, he has to say where he was WRONG, and that he realizes that scientifically, a rape victim or ANY FEMALE can not simply wish away the very real physical effect of impregnation.
How difficult is it to STFU about rape except to assure that you "feel their pain" and regarding abortion, to simply deny tax funds as abortion is a personal choice and privately funded organizations provide that service.
What has the RNC learned yet from Christine ODonnell and this farthead? Nothing. But for national campaigns, there should be an interview process with a standardized GOP platform to initiate candidates seeking national campaign funding, specifying qualified statements on touchy subjects, and warning taboo to go full blown stupid impromptu. That's Biden's role in the other party.
Posted by: panzernashorn at August 21, 2012 03:41 AM (BAnPT)
UNLESS THE GOP IS REALLY WILLING TO FIGHT BACK WITH THAT FACT THIS IS BAD FOR US
sorry to scream with caps, honest but that is my overall point.
I know our "leaders lack the will to turn the tide by hurting Obama using the media with this.
We could end the media's bias in about ten seconds if Mitt Romney answered with "You know that's an interesting question do I agree with Akin on rape, do you agree with Barack Obama that the police should not investigate when a failed abortion in late term delivers a baby that is then left to die screaming in a linen closet because Barack Obama argued in the Illinois legislature he felt that way?"
BOOM the media will back the hell off...until we Moron types nominate THOSE people to run the party and get them picked we are suckers.
Posted by: sven10077 at August 21, 2012 05:49 AM (LRFds)
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