December 27, 2012

Top Headline Comments 12-27-12
— andy

The tv talking heads are all aflutter about Obama "cutting his vacation short" to "address the fiscal cliff".

Give me a break. They had 2 years to deal with this. They might as well say "Obama heroically crams for test".

Posted by: andy at 03:35 AM | Comments (246)
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1 Good Morning Morons.  Today is Thursday, December 27, 2012.  On this day in 1900 Carrie Nation found an unopened present under the tree when she was taking it down.  She took off her cotton and preceded to smash menÂ’s places with her new toy.  Too bad men did their normal thing and ignored her instead of beating the shit out of her.

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 03:35 AM (53z96)

2 Black robed turds find another tax.  The government can order you to do anything.


http://is.gd/mB2dad

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 03:35 AM (53z96)

3 What is the penalty in the US for an automaker who did not get a bailout?  It appears to be $1B.

http://is.gd/TvhA7U

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 03:36 AM (53z96)

4 There are almost 8 million turds collecting SSDI.  That means there are about 4.5 million criminals out there who will never be caught.

http://is.gd/w2yRLR

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 03:36 AM (53z96)

5 If they grade oboomba's test on the curve, we could all pass it without even taking the test. Yeah, he can go cram something alright.

Posted by: TheSev at December 27, 2012 03:36 AM (iHeMr)

6 Senate will not confirm the mule face until Clinton gets over her various ailments and comes clean.

http://is.gd/vxALZy

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 03:37 AM (53z96)

7 Netflix outage blamed on Amazon

http://is.gd/f0WMsm

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 03:37 AM (53z96)

8 LOL, payback, itÂ’s a MF.

http://is.gd/vtQ9C1

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 03:37 AM (53z96)

9 Turdnoggin wants you to have a happy Kwanzaa.

http://is.gd/VyFBFQ

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 03:38 AM (53z96)

10 Obamaconomy had nothing to do with shitty Christmas sales.  It was “the Cliff” and Republicans fault.

http://is.gd/LEBhtj

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 03:38 AM (53z96)

11

Good morning, ‘rons and ‘ronettes.  Up here in northeast Massachusetts, we got rain rather than snow, thank heavens.  I donÂ’t particularly like being wet, but I hate being cold and at least you donÂ’t have to shovel rain.

 

 

Today is the birthday of Marlene Dietrich, the sensuous German actress who first shot to fame as cabaret singer Lola-Lola in the von Sternberg film The Blue Angel.  Her iconic Weimar Republic costume of stockings, garters and top hat was inspired by a male cabaret artist whom Dietrich admired.

 

 

Although she was bisexual, Dietrich wasnÂ’t particularly enthusiastic about sex for many years.  At a young age she had been seduced by her music teacher, but found the experience completely underwhelming; so much so, that after the birth of her daughter, Dietrich instructed her husband that they could continue to live together as man and wife, but they would no longer have sex together.  However, when Dietrich did mature as a lover, she took to bedroom frolics with eagerness, using a daily vinegar and water douche to keep clean and never insisting on a condom because, as she told her daughter, “it makes them so grateful when you tell them they donÂ’t need it.”  During her life, her conquests included Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart, the writers Erich Maria Remarque and Mercedes de Acosta and also – among many others - John Wayne, JFK and George Bernard Shaw.  Her name was also linked romantically with Joan Crawford and Claudette Colbert, but there doesnÂ’t seem to be any evidence for those affairs other than wishful thinking.

 

 

Yul Brynner was also one of her lovers, but the affair ended badly.  Many years later, when Brynner was dying of cancer, Dietrich clipped a picture of his ravaged frame from the National Enquirer and sent it to her daughter with the scribbled note: “Goody, goody!  Serves him right!”

 

 

One story that made the rounds for years was that, after the war, Dietrich personally searched for her sister, finding her as a prisoner in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.  As it turns out, the sister and her family actually ran a movie theater catering to the campÂ’s officers, and it took all of DietrichÂ’s clout to keep them from being arrested as Nazi collaborators.

 

 

But let me end with a better story.  Many years after the film was made, cartoonist Al Hirschfeld saw DietrichÂ’s 1930 flick Morocco.*  He asked her, “Marlene, at the end of the movie when you kick off your shoes and follow Gary Cooper into the desert – how did you get that wonderful expression on your face?”

 

 

Dietrich was never one to concern herself with “art” when it came to making movies.  “I just did what Joe von Sternberg told me,” she shrugged.  “I counted from twenty-five backwards!”

 

 

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

 

 

*Her first American film, where she began her affair with Cooper.  It also contains a scene, very early on, where Dietrich, as a tuxedoÂ’d cabaret singer, kisses another woman, which nearly got the film condemned by the Legion of Decency.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 27, 2012 03:38 AM (zF6Iw)

12 Kindle Daily Deals

http://is.gd/HojNKN

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 03:38 AM (53z96)

13 Senate will not confirm the mule face until Clinton gets over her various ailments and comes clean. http://is.gd/vxALZy Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 07:37 AM (53z96) Yeah so? When she comes in she will say blah blah blah and they will say blah blah blah blah and nobody will learn anything and nobody will be held responsible and the world will go on.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 03:38 AM (79ueO)

14 I posted this at the end of the ONT thread but will repeat it here.

New Yorkers are yelling insults at Matt Lauer everywhere he goes

http://tinyurl.com/cjrfbc3

HA!  I believe all press and media people should be treated like this.

Posted by: Miss Marple at December 27, 2012 03:42 AM (GoIUi)

15 Heh, like he hasn't done the same thing with the last 7 vacations he's had.

Perpetual Campaign Mode. It's what he does.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at December 27, 2012 03:44 AM (sBwRF)

16 LOL, payback, itÂ’s a MF.

It looks like the permit holders have them outnumbered by a metric buttload. Ought to inspire a bit of respect.

Posted by: Retread at December 27, 2012 03:44 AM (zxitI)

17 11 MPPP,

You know Marlene was sexy enough straight girls find her sexy.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 27, 2012 03:46 AM (LRFds)

18 @13 "It's a tax"... Same s**t, different century: http://preview.tinyurl.com/crwf2t Bottom line is the Hamiltonians got an early start perverting the Revolutionary Spirit. And now our forms and practices of government are mutated beyond recognition.

Posted by: Thorvald at December 27, 2012 03:46 AM (1V6Pv)

19 The Fiscal Cliff as I have said, is like the oral book report due on Monday. The JEF and the rest of the Wash-holes are going to read the book in the car on the way to school and hope they don't get called on until Tuesday.

And they still will get an F.

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2012 03:47 AM (d6+Gd)

20
New Yorkers are yelling insults at Matt Lauer everywhere he goes

Pretty soon his favorite show will turn from Where in the World is Matt Lauer to Where Da F*ck is Matt Lauer.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at December 27, 2012 03:47 AM (sBwRF)

21 Hey, Matt Lauer, is that your head in your ass or is your colon just happy to see me?

Posted by: New Yorker at December 27, 2012 03:47 AM (a0nis)

22 10 Vic,

In Soviet America STATE SPENDS YOU!

Posted by: sven10077 at December 27, 2012 03:47 AM (LRFds)

23 Totally random OT:

But apparently Marvel is killing Spiderman today, for real apparently, and making Dr. Octopus the new Spiderman?


WTF??

Posted by: General Woundwort at December 27, 2012 03:48 AM (RrD4h)

24 @18 OOPS! My bad, s/b @2

Posted by: Thorvald at December 27, 2012 03:48 AM (1V6Pv)

25 @23 Heard that a while back. The Obama anti-Midas effect is far-reaching.

Posted by: JDTAY at December 27, 2012 03:51 AM (a0nis)

26 They might as well say "Obama heroically crams for test".



The same goes for his golfing partner and fellow nicotine slave Boehner.  Rather than boozing it up with country clubbers all fucking year, he could've been ready with a series of bills to present to the JEF to show that he's actually been doing his job.  The weepy pile of shit may as well be Rove for the way he's torpedoed every fucking principle which the party previously stood for.

Posted by: Captain Hate (more dagny and less curious) at December 27, 2012 03:51 AM (jhho+)

27 23 GW,

Just another brick in the wall.

I left DC for marvel back in '85 after Crisis on Infinite Jerks b/c Marvel had better story telling and less "do anything power" but I hate both sets of editors so badly that when my son outgrows it I will not buy a single issue.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 27, 2012 03:52 AM (LRFds)

28 You can no longer use dogs to hunt bear in CA.  I am surprised you can hunt bear at all in CA.

http://is.gd/pc3vha


Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 03:53 AM (53z96)

29

But apparently Marvel is killing Spiderman today, for real apparently, and making Dr. Octopus the new Spiderman?

 

 

Two words:  New.  Coke.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 27, 2012 03:54 AM (B+qrE)

30 But apparently Marvel is killing Spiderman today, for real apparently, and making Dr. Octopus the new Spiderman? At least one gimmick death happens every year in comics. The only people who can't come back from the dead are Batman's parent's and Spiderman's uncle.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at December 27, 2012 03:55 AM (uhAkr)

31 @28 In Soviet America, bear hunts you!

Posted by: JDTAY at December 27, 2012 03:55 AM (a0nis)

32
Put the "Savior from the Fiscal Cliff" on CNBC with Maria Bartiromo if he's so gung-ho to solve his own manufactured "crisis".

In other news, some close friends of ours who are Dims and who we see but once a year had some very unkind things to say yesterday about FEMA's "help" after their property in VT was damaged by the remnants of Hurricane Irene in 2011. It seems that their ne'er-do-well tenants got their FEMA bucks almost immediately and in copious amounts. Meanwhile, they have languished in bureaucratic hell for sixteen months over the disposition of their storm-damaged structures.

All the while I was hearing this, I was smiling quietly. Some lessons just have to be administered personally...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at December 27, 2012 03:59 AM (Jcd0S)

33 Getting that annoying scrunt Ann Curry fired is the only positive thing Metro Matt has ever done.

Posted by: Captain Hate (more dagny and less curious) at December 27, 2012 03:59 AM (jhho+)

34 The fiscal cliff is such a pile of nonsense. Congress could vote it out at will. Everybody is acting like the deadline is the End. Every Congress is sovereign. The only 'end' is when the US can't find a lender. That's it.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at December 27, 2012 04:01 AM (uhAkr)

35 33 Captain Hate,

Make 'em live up to their own rules bud.

Ann the scrunt was a double protected class.

Fuck the left.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 27, 2012 04:01 AM (LRFds)

36 The only 'end' is when the US can't find a lender. That's it.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at December 27, 2012 08:01 AM (uhAkr)


The US hasn't had a "lender" in a long time.  The treasury prints electronic T-bills and the the "fed" buys them.



Inflation, its what is for dinner.

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 04:03 AM (53z96)

37 6 Vic,

As long as we don't count food, fuel, electronics, property, or anything else there is no inflation comrade.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 27, 2012 04:04 AM (LRFds)

38 @36 You just don't understand. The economy is like a balloon, just a little more inflation and it'll start working again, honest!

Posted by: Damn Keynesian at December 27, 2012 04:04 AM (a0nis)

39 The fiscal cliff is such a pile of nonsense. Congress could vote it out at will. Everybody is acting like the deadline is the End. Every Congress is sovereign. The only 'end' is when the US can't find a lender. That's it. Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at December 27, 2012 08:01 AM (uhAkr) Sure and the new congress coming in next year could make all rates retroactive backwards to the New Year anyway

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 04:05 AM (79ueO)

40 Inflation, its what is for dinner That's very true. It's the solution Democrats and Republicans want - your taxes are low and you have full benefits, but those bastards selling bread charge a thousand dollars a loaf.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at December 27, 2012 04:05 AM (uhAkr)

41 Yeah so? When she comes in she will say blah blah blah and they will say blah blah blah blah and nobody will learn anything and nobody will be held responsible and the world will go on. Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 07:38 AM (79ueO just another day

Posted by: BignJames at December 27, 2012 04:06 AM (Sg0G/)

42 The economy is like a balloon,

One prick and it's gone

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2012 04:06 AM (d6+Gd)

43 Captain Hate:  What sven10077 said.

I don't really care about Ann Curry.  I quit watching "Today" years ago.  However,  Lauer is a visible NBC presence and I like it that one of their Big Stars is being mocked and insulted on the streets of New York. 

I also like that he is hearing sarcastic comments about his $25 million dollar salary, since NBC has been in the vanguard of promoting Obama's class envy stuff.

Furthermore,  this article was quoted on my Indianapolis radio station and I am sure elsewhere around the country.  I encourage people to talk about it and stir up the dim bulbs.  Let him (and NBC who has a lot of money invested in him) get a taste of the lynch mob attitude that has been stirred up by Obama.

Sauce for the goose,  etc.


Posted by: Miss Marple at December 27, 2012 04:07 AM (GoIUi)

44 I like it better when that asshat Obama is in Hawaii, hanging out with gangsta rappers, smoking choom, golfing, swiming and pissing on the US flag. At least the SCOAMF cant F anything up when he is outta DC!

Posted by: Judge_Roy_bean at December 27, 2012 04:08 AM (8kqab)

45 Top Syrian General Defects, Says Regime Using Chemical Weapons Against Rebels In HomsÂ… Weasel Zippers: Yeah but I don't believe that. I think the rebels ( read that as Al Quada and other Muslim Terrorists ) are tryiny to goad obama into acting on their behalf.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 04:09 AM (79ueO)

46 Hey, you need this much jack for all of Matt's head polish.

Posted by: Matt Lauer's $25 Million Dollars at December 27, 2012 04:09 AM (a0nis)

47 I like it better when that asshat Obama is in Hawaii, hanging out with gangsta rappers, smoking choom, golfing, swiming and pissing on the US flag. At least the SCOAMF cant F anything up when he is outta DC! Posted by: Judge_Roy_bean at December 27, 2012 08:08 AM (8kqab) And don't forget his bestest golfing pal is a convicted John.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 04:11 AM (79ueO)

48 Matt Lauer can take a flying fuck at the moon for all I care. He looks like a cocksucking worm.

Posted by: Killerdog at December 27, 2012 04:11 AM (mJ9Vt)

49 Miss Marple, I hope I didn't give the impression that I had anything resembling a positive opinion of Matt the dunce just because he acted like a whiny twatboy about the equally annoying Curry.  I'm sure he has an armed escort every time he takes one step away from 30 Rock Bottom Ratings Center.

Posted by: Captain Hate (more dagny and less curious) at December 27, 2012 04:13 AM (jhho+)

50 A general observation regarding the expression of the will of the people, let us remember that pitchforks are defensive weapon, if they are a weapon at all. Moreover, the tar used in tar 'n' feathers was pine tar with a much lower melting point than bitumen or asphalt. The rail, of course, meant that walking back to the same town was at least as painful as riding out of it on one. Lynching, however, is lethal force.

Posted by: Thorvald at December 27, 2012 04:14 AM (1V6Pv)

51 I would like to wish the eight turds who celebrate Kwanzaa eternal damnation.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 04:15 AM (NIZHJ)

52 Lynching, however, is lethal force.
Posted by: Thorvald

I was thinking more of a public caneing.
And not in the fun way.

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2012 04:17 AM (d6+Gd)

53 Hey does every one like those bogus resignations of those State Department assholes named in that bullshit report? They is all still getting paid and all they did was play musical chairs

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 04:17 AM (79ueO)

54 Why take any side in Syriana?

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 04:18 AM (NIZHJ)

55 Sign me up! I can swing a mean cane.

Posted by: Thorvald at December 27, 2012 04:18 AM (1V6Pv)

56 bruce there is a fun public caning?

Posted by: phoenixgirl, Merry 2nd day of Christmas at December 27, 2012 04:19 AM (GVxQo)

57 Keep the cane hand strong.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 04:20 AM (NIZHJ)

58 #23

Actually, the scans of the issue were around last week on torrent sites. The series ends, for now, with issue 700. During a recent storyline, the extremely decrepit Dr. Octavius took advantage of Spider-man hacking into his network that was connected directly to his brain. This was necessary because his body was so far gone. He took over Spider-man's body but has access to all of his memories, allowing him to fool anyone who knows him that he is Peter Parker. Whether he has managed to avoid any telepaths or can fool them too isn't covered yet. Charles Xavier is freshly dead and Emma Frost has had her powers scrambled. A time traveling teenage Jean Grey is now around but she doesn't have a good grasp on her freshly awakened powers yet. There are the Cuckoo Sisters, and Mentallo, I suppose.

Meanwhile, Peter Parker, stuck in Octavius' failing body, makes a bid to set things right by recruiting some of Octavius' henchmen, who happen to be long running Spider-man foes. The attempt fails and Doc Ock is defeated by Spider-man. At least, as far as the public knows. But accessing Parker's memories has forced Otto to confront the fact that both of them had a lot of bad stuff in their childhoods but Parker became a far better man than Otto. So he promises a dying Parker in his discarded body that he will continue as Spider-man. But Otto is still intensely ego driven and also swear to be a better Spider-man than Parker.

So the series restarts with The Superior Spider-man #1.


I'm expecting this to be like the Knightfall arc in the Batman books many years ago. I expect it will turn out there was no body transference, just a strong personality imprint in both directions. Eventually, Spider-man will think of himself more and more as Peter Parker and his personality will fade away just as he was achieving his goal of being better than Parker at being a super-hero.

Posted by: epobirs at December 27, 2012 04:20 AM (kcfmt)

59

Good morning!

 

From Kurt Schlichter:

 

"Truth bypassed the mainstream media and became a weapon for the side of fundamental rights."

 

link in name

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 27, 2012 04:21 AM (SUKHu)

60 Spiderman isn't real.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 04:21 AM (NIZHJ)

61 Maybe Matt Lauer can pull his head out of Brian Williams squeak hole long enough to kiss Barky's ass.

Posted by: Killerdog at December 27, 2012 04:21 AM (mJ9Vt)

62 The tight dungaree mafia continues their march to the sea.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 04:22 AM (NIZHJ)

63

Scary or Cool?

Advanced humanoid Roboy to be ‘born’ in nine months
drudge.tw/V6QF59

Posted by: spypeach at December 27, 2012 04:22 AM (pwTow)

64

Uh, I guess I could mention this is about liberals losing the gun narrative.

 

Coffee. Hot. More.

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 27, 2012 04:22 AM (SUKHu)

65 Spiderman isn't real. Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 08:21 AM (NIZHJ) Fuck Spiderman, please tell me the last 4 and the next 4 years are not real?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 04:22 AM (79ueO)

66 DAY 51 1,409 to go Mayans, Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, MIRV's, mutants, malcontents, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, miscreants, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, meeskeits, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 27, 2012 04:23 AM (XkWWK)

67

I swear I had spaces and hard returns, dammit.

 

drudge.tw/V6QF59

Posted by: spypeach at December 27, 2012 04:23 AM (pwTow)

68 Yiddish word of the day: "bubbe-meissah" - an old wive's tale

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 27, 2012 04:23 AM (XkWWK)

69 Dang, no Tsunami this year.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 04:24 AM (NIZHJ)

70 Fuck Spiderman, please tell me the last 4 and the next 4 years are not real? Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 08:22 AM (79ueO)

Sadly, it's all too true.

But you still have your health!

(For now.....)

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i] at December 27, 2012 04:24 AM (sbV1u)

71 Dang, no Tsunami this year. Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 08:24 AM (NIZHJ) The Year is not over

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 04:24 AM (79ueO)

72 Oh man, I still can't believe Obama's second term hasn't even started yet. I'll never make it.

Posted by: JDTAY at December 27, 2012 04:25 AM (a0nis)

73 Hobby Lobby should strip their whores of health insurance and cut their hours down to 27 per week. Fixed.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 04:26 AM (NIZHJ)

74 #30

They've been resurrected plenty in reality bending stories. Like the Flashpoint arc that lead to the reboot of the DC Universe last year. In the new reality, created by the Reverse Flash altering critical moments in history, it was the child Bruce Wayne who died in the mugging and Thomas Wayne became the Batman while Martha Wayne went nuts and became the Joker.

A temporary throwaway reality but it was a fun 'we can do whatever we want' lead-in to the reboot.

Posted by: epobirs at December 27, 2012 04:27 AM (kcfmt)

75 Phoenixgirl,

I went to check on the spelling and caneing was listed in Urban Dictionary as:
The act of performing a sexual act using a walking cane. Most commonly done on females but sometimes used on males.

So I'm guessing for some people it's fun.  I'm talking more of the Singapore type.

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2012 04:27 AM (d6+Gd)

76 I never realized that Obama's athletic prowess was such that he'd get an easy A on his final exams just for being present.  What team does he play for again?

Posted by: Fritz at December 27, 2012 04:28 AM (/ZZCn)

77 Only in feminist CA can you celebrate a holiday dedicated to beating women with electrical cords and puling on their breasts with pliers.


But its OK if your 7 "principles" are copied from the Communist Manifesto.

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 04:28 AM (53z96)

78 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at December 27, 2012 04:28 AM (/eBe8)

79 Oh man, I still can't believe Obama's second term hasn't even started yet. I'll never make it. Posted by: JDTAY at December 27, 2012 08:25 AM (a0nis)

Look at it this way...

When the meltdown comes - and it's coming - who do you think will be worse off in terms of civil disorder....red states or blue states?

The thought of viewing the eerie glow above Cambridge, Massachusetts as it burns just warms the cockles of my heart.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i] at December 27, 2012 04:29 AM (sbV1u)

80 Don't knock it if you haven't tried it.

Posted by: David Carradine at December 27, 2012 04:30 AM (NIZHJ)

81 4 epobirs,

the problem is Comicdom wants me to buy into their being modern mythology....

Thor did not become a Gay Transvestite Hestia clone depending on whi was swilling the mead....


Posted by: sven10077 at December 27, 2012 04:31 AM (LRFds)

82

Okay watching CW Philly news this morning.

There is a school named Imhotep and they are celebrating Kwanza.  Right, a school named after a very smart ancient Egyptian celebrating a modern holiday.

On Christmas night in Kensington area of Philadelphia another reason for SMOD.  A woman passed out in the street in front of a Dollar General.  Witnesses said the boyfriend tried to rouse her but left her in the street.  Later on a black SUV driven by a Hispanic woman ran the passed out woman killing her.

Calgon take me away.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 27, 2012 04:32 AM (XtMCO)

83

Hey, here's a thought. Instead of "cutting his vacation short," how about Obama not take a fucking vacation at all?   Eh?   Fuck him.

 

Also, morning, all.  I'm in a pissy mood because of the miserable weather.   I'm the only person at work at this point and I'm wondering why I bothered.  Oh, right, because the fucking federal government decided that December 31st has to be its reporting fucking deadline for my fucking program.  *headdesk*   So I'm here, unable to do anything without everyone who ISN'T here.  

 

I'm really looking forward to the commute home, since I spent the last half of the commute to work with my car fishtailing all over the road, and THAT was with the benefit of   only having snow under my tires.   But by the time I head home, I'll have sleet and freezing rain to add to the mix.

 

Ho ho fucking ho.

 

*sinks into a sulk*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at December 27, 2012 04:32 AM (4df7R)

84 Hey guys, I just found out where I can get 1000 rounds of 7.62 x 39 ammo for 220 dollars. Dammit, I already have 2 - 100 bricks coming. I hate my life! I really want to tell ya'all where that is at but every time I do that, before I get my 10K it be sold out. Sorry Guys, let me get mine first and I will post about it. The 2nd American Revolution will not be televised! I think the news anchors be tarred and feathered in advance! Bwah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah! I forgot an extra hah!

Posted by: Judge_Roy_bean at December 27, 2012 04:33 AM (tGegx)

85 "Hobby Lobby should strip their whores..." I gotta stop sniffing that Testors glue because I am missing out on all the loose hobby wimmens!

Posted by: unpainted models at December 27, 2012 04:33 AM (I88Jc)

86 82 Anna Puma,

Natural Selection gives gifts year round....

Posted by: sven10077 at December 27, 2012 04:34 AM (LRFds)

87 Ho ho fucking ho. *sinks into a sulk* Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at December 27, 2012 08:32 AM (4df7R)

Here, want some chocolate?

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i] at December 27, 2012 04:34 AM (sbV1u)

88 Later on a black SUV driven by a Hispanic woman ran the passed out woman killing her.


The deadliest of all SUV's. We must ban them, or at least limit there gas tanks.

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2012 04:34 AM (d6+Gd)

89 Here, want some chocolate?

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 27, 2012 08:34 AM (sbV1u)

 

*sniffle*  Yes, please.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at December 27, 2012 04:35 AM (4df7R)

90 I bet they have no idea that the Ancient Egyptians were British Isles and Spanish genetically.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 04:35 AM (NIZHJ)

91 88 Bruce,

We can ban Hispanics, SUVs, Black SUVs, or women.....

take your pick.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 27, 2012 04:35 AM (LRFds)

92 #81

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Posted by: epobirs at December 27, 2012 04:35 AM (kcfmt)

93 bruce ooooooooooooooookay

Posted by: phoenixgirl, Merry 2nd day of Christmas at December 27, 2012 04:36 AM (GVxQo)

94 90 Butters,

These are the same people who watch Thor and think Heimdall was originally a black dude....

stupidity is its own reward.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 27, 2012 04:36 AM (LRFds)

95 sven1077

We can ban Hispanics, SUVs, Black SUVs, or women.....

take your pick.

Somedays it's all of the above.

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2012 04:36 AM (d6+Gd)

96 Heh, the picture at Drudge right now is brilliant.   "Over the cliff we go!"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at December 27, 2012 04:37 AM (4df7R)

97 Speaking of Maet's "Sit in the Snow" ONT post... The GOP is incompetent. On New Year's Day, thanks to Boehner they officially become the Party of Tax Increases. When a compromise rolls back many of the tax increases a month later, the MSM will henceforth refer to them as the Obama Tax Cuts, when in fact the entire exercise produces a tax increase. Boehner needs to make his people "sit in the snow." They should have told the Democrats to bring Obama's disastrous tax plan to a vote as a Party abstained. Make Obama own the coming disaster. As it is now, his tax increases will only cause more misery, and he and the MSM will blame it on the GOP. BAH!!!!

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 04:37 AM (niZvt)

98 oops, forgot to roll it to the 3rd

Posted by: phoenixgirl, Merry 3rd day of Christmas at December 27, 2012 04:37 AM (GVxQo)

99 A wise Latina in an SUV FTW.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 04:37 AM (NIZHJ)

100 There are some "celebrity net worth" sites out there, and I wish they would advertise. Folks eyes would be opened as to who has the most. Their heroes in Hollywood, TV, and recording do. Oh, and their reps and senators. Most of these find ways to avoid paying any taxes, and even to get free money from the public coffers. Most of these have offshore accounts. Most of these have illegal immigrant household help. Funny we never saw any of the illegal immigrant household help on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous". Selective editing is fun! The tolerance for cognitive dissonance is unbelievable in the Left. Money is COOL! People with gobs of money (that they made by selling shit in the free market to people who wanted to buy it) and lots of toys and cars and vacation homes and soirees and private islands are COOL! But fuck the Koch Brothers. And Rush. And CEOs of Capitalist Corporations which produce something besides audio-visual sewerage, and who buy things with their money other than high-priced hookers, gold-plated Bugattis, guns, drugs, and cases of Cristal. And diamond-encrusted platinum dollar-sign medallions. Vain, proud, and super-fuckin' rich is good. Productive, humble, and kinda-sorta rich is bad.

Posted by: JDR at December 27, 2012 04:38 AM (e7KZr)

101 Hobby Lobby should strip their whores of health insurance and cut their hours down to 27 per week. Fixed.

Was talking with the missus this morning about this.  Having Hobby Lobby cancel their insurance is a feature of the law, not a bug.  I reminded her to watch what they do and not listen so much to what they say.  Single-payer is the endgame and this is just the first step to making that happen.

Posted by: Vizzini [/i] at December 27, 2012 04:38 AM (O7Q1u)

102 92 Epobirs,

"the do whatever we want because we can" bullshit in the editorial staff....

why should I give three fucks about Canon and continuity when the IP holders don't?

DC and marvel should thank God I am not a Judge because the minute they tried a copyright and trademark defense on say "The Question" I'd point out that the character as rendered was a chain smoking Objectivist for the last 40 years and who is this "lipstick latina lesbian" toon you are invoking protection for?

Posted by: sven10077 at December 27, 2012 04:38 AM (LRFds)

103 Ofuckface needs his girl's bicycle helmet and mom jeans for the over the cliff photo.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 04:39 AM (NIZHJ)

104 95 Bruce,

The neo-luddite tribe never rests.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 27, 2012 04:40 AM (LRFds)

105 *sniffle* Yes, please.  Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at December 27, 2012 08:35 AM (4df7R)

Would this work?

http://scoamf.us/5q

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i] at December 27, 2012 04:40 AM (sbV1u)

106

Aw, MWR.

 

Bad co-workers!

 

Please don't stay until it gets dark and icy.

 

We'll talk to your boss for you, if you think it would help.

 

Just post his/her phone number...what could go wrong?

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 27, 2012 04:40 AM (SUKHu)

107 This new 27 hour work week is going to be epic.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 04:41 AM (NIZHJ)

108

Okay, have they seriously NAMED this winter storm?  WTF?  If they're going   to name every storm from here on out then I demand that    any storm that dumps record snow and/or wreaks destruction on Washington DC be named "Storm Melissa."   That is how pissed I am right now.

 

Also, Storm Euclid?  Are you kidding me right now?   EUCLID?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at December 27, 2012 04:42 AM (4df7R)

109 bruce

ooooooooooooooookay
Posted by: phoenixgirl

My post regarding the black SUV is referencing the hate for the semiautomatic black "assault" rifle that seems to get the gun haters undies in a twist.
A black, and I'm sure a fully automatic SUV has got to make their heads explode.

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2012 04:42 AM (d6+Gd)

110 Boehner needs to make his people "sit in the snow." They should have told the Democrats to bring Obama's disastrous tax plan to a vote as a Party abstained.

What tax plan?  You mean the one where "only" the taxes on people making 250K+ go up?  But the Republicans tried to do that.  Actually, the Republicans tried to bring it to the floor in the Senate, IIRC, and Harry Reid called them "unserious."

Yes, the Republicans are incompetent, but not for failing to force a vote on that tax plan.  They're incompetent because they didn't force the tax rates to be permanent back when they had the chance (and they had a few), and because they're still trying to work with Democrats as though they're working to the same goal, just with different approaches.

They can't fix the former, but they can damn well stop working with the people who are trying to hang them.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at December 27, 2012 04:42 AM (/eBe8)

111 oh dear....the puppy is playing with his squeaky toy....

Posted by: phoenixgirl, Merry 3rd day of Christmas at December 27, 2012 04:42 AM (GVxQo)

112 Single-payer is the endgame and this is just the first step to making that happen.

Posted by: Vizzini at December 27, 2012 08:38 AM (O7Q1u)


And keep in mind that "single payer" is just another word for nationalizing the healthcare industry. This has been their aim all along.

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 04:42 AM (53z96)

113 97 Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 08:37 AM (niZvt) The day after the election, instead of imitating Phillipe Pétain or Vidkun Quisling, he should have written a simple tax bill that lowered taxes for the bottom 3 income brackets and kept the top 2 where they were. Sign, sealed, delivered to Harry the dementia-addled pederast Reid and gone home. Either the GOP is purged or it's third party time for me.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 27, 2012 04:42 AM (XkWWK)

114 How about Winter Storm Carl?

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 04:42 AM (NIZHJ)

115 Would this work?

http://scoamf.us/5q

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 27, 2012 08:40 AM (sbV1u)

 

Nnnnguh.

 

Yes,    that will do nicely.     Thank you.

 

*stares dreamily at pretty chocolates and paws at screen*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at December 27, 2012 04:43 AM (4df7R)

116 got that bruce...was referencing the caning definition.....

Posted by: phoenixgirl, Merry 3rd day of Christmas at December 27, 2012 04:43 AM (GVxQo)

117 MWR, no drooling.  It will short out the keyboard.

Posted by: Vizzini [/i] at December 27, 2012 04:43 AM (O7Q1u)

118 Just post his/her phone number...what could go wrong?

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 27, 2012 08:40 AM (SUKHu)

 

 

lol!   You know, I'm actually pretty sure my boss would have told me to stay the hell home.  She's quite cool like that.   But here I am with my stupid dedication to actually doing my job.   What the hell is wrong with me?   The FSA needs to      start giving lessons on how to not give a shit.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at December 27, 2012 04:44 AM (4df7R)

119 MWR, no drooling. It will short out the keyboard.

Depends on the keyboard.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at December 27, 2012 04:45 AM (/eBe8)

120 They cut the King Size Reece's Trees to 75 cents at the Kroger's.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 04:45 AM (NIZHJ)

121 MWR, no drooling. It will short out the keyboard.

Posted by: Vizzini at December 27, 2012 08:43 AM (O7Q1u)

 

Good point.

 

*places sponge under chin*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at December 27, 2012 04:45 AM (4df7R)

122 @110: I think that was what I was saying: At least with regard to tax cuts, they should have literally handed Obama a blank check and said, "Whatever you want, Big Guy! We won't vote against you! YOU own it - AND The Results!" But that would require at least the chess skills of a 6 year old... Too much for Boehner.

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 04:46 AM (niZvt)

123 I have loads of year end work to tie up for our corp. Had to get a loan to pay next year's malpractice insurance. I must take care, because any tiny error I make would be punitively death with by the govt. It would make it so simple if I could just kick the can down the road indefinitely and suffer no consequences for lacking a budget. Wah.

Posted by: Justamom at December 27, 2012 04:46 AM (Sptt8)

124 Image search: hip-hop album covers http://tinyurl.com/bull8mz That's "good rich", now. But a picture of a smiling, cigar-chomping Limbaugh with a nice golf course in the background (without guns, or wads of cash in each hand; without exotic women and cars in the picture; without a practiced look of mean concentrated hate; and without any precious-metal bejeweled giant medallions...) And cue the Left, en masse: "OMGWTF that is SO OVER THE TOP. Limbaugh is the devil for that picture and what it represents!" Then you go back and look at "hip-hop album covers" on google images. And your hypocrisy still is so deep within you that you cannot see it.

Posted by: JDR at December 27, 2012 04:46 AM (e7KZr)

125 *stares dreamily at pretty chocolates and paws at screen* Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at December 27, 2012 08:43 AM (4df7R)

They're in your neighborhood.  Only about an hour from Concord.

Best I've ever had. 

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i] at December 27, 2012 04:47 AM (sbV1u)

126 Boner made another Boner. No small task for the nutless.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 04:47 AM (NIZHJ)

127 Who is TFG trying to kid? He is either vacationing or campaigning or both.

Posted by: sTevo at December 27, 2012 04:47 AM (yIgZH)

128 The FSA needs to start giving lessons on how to not give a shit.

Lesson 1: Your employer cares less about you than about their own bottom line.  The moment your cost exceeds your benefit, they'll fire you.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at December 27, 2012 04:47 AM (/eBe8)

129

Just came back to my desk and watched in fascination as random images floated across my monitor...wondered if the PC was down, then remembered I had set my screensaver to do a slide show from my images right before the holidays.

 

Some of the pics were NSFW, but I didn't move to the keyboard to do anything about it until the London Boys jpeg crystallized into view.  I  must  have  been  hitting  the  punch  bowl  when  I  changed  the  screensaver  setting  last  week.

Posted by: kallisto at December 27, 2012 04:47 AM (jm/9g)

130 How about Winter Storm Carl?

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 08:42 AM (NIZHJ)

 

I'd prefer Winter Storm Daryl, but that's just me.

 

Speaking of which, my sister and her hubby got me    the Funko POP Daryl Dixon vinyl figurine for Christmas.      CHO KAWAII.   Daryl Dixon should not be hopelessly adorable, but that     little guy    is.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at December 27, 2012 04:49 AM (4df7R)

131 122 But that would require at least the chess skills of a 6 year old... Too much for Boehner. Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 08:46 AM (niZvt) The problem is it's impossible to espouse something, i.e. conservatism, if you yourself are against it. That's why Boehner is a failure. SCOAMF is riding us to hell in a Maserati; Boehner and the RINO's in a Model T. Same destination, just different speeds.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 27, 2012 04:49 AM (XkWWK)

132
Some of the pics were NSFW, but I didn't move to the keyboard to do anything about it until the London Boys jpeg crystallized into view. I must have been hitting the punch bowl when I changed the screensaver setting last week.

This describes your office's holiday party, doesn't it? 
http://youtu.be/M7byjAaLcRM

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at December 27, 2012 04:50 AM (/eBe8)

133 Winter storm name?  Barry the Blizzard?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 27, 2012 04:51 AM (XtMCO)

134 @113 Hear, hear! Sen. McCain (authentic war hero and suspected Democrat operative)... "My good friend, Sen. Kerry..." http://preview.tinyurl.com/bpd34et (Old news, and still bad news.)

Posted by: Thorvald at December 27, 2012 04:51 AM (1V6Pv)

135 Lesson 1: Your employer cares less about you than about their own bottom line. The moment your cost exceeds your benefit, they'll fire you.

Worked at a Fortune 500 company that said (like every other company I've ever worked for) "employees are our greatest asset."  What complete and utter bullshit.  I always said to start taking home office supplies and you'd quickly see what assets they valued most.

Posted by: Vizzini [/i] at December 27, 2012 04:51 AM (O7Q1u)

136 They're incompetent because they didn't force the tax rates to be permanent back when they had the chance (and they had a few), and because they're still trying to work with Democrats as though they're working to the same goal, just with different approaches.


They did not have 60 votes to force it through so they were forced to use "reconciliation" which meant it expired automatically after 10 years. Some Democrats (2) actually voted for those tax cuts but "moderate" Republicans like McCain, the darling of the MFM, voted against it. McCain, Snowe, and Chaffee were the three Republicans voting against it.



It was a 50-50 tie in the Senate and it took VP Cheney voting yeah to force it through.

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 04:52 AM (53z96)

137 I'd prefer Winter Storm Daryl, but that's just me.

But then wouldn't the next have to be "My Other Winter Storm Named Daryl?"

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at December 27, 2012 04:52 AM (/eBe8)

138 Some of the pics were NSFW, but I didn't move to the keyboard to do anything about it until the London Boys jpeg crystallized into view.

Posted by: kallisto at December 27, 2012 08:47 AM (jm/9g)

 

That's got to be one of the signs that you're a true member of AoSHQ Nation.   NSFW images are fine for a screensaver, but the London Boys pic is not.  lol!

 

Which makes me ask:  what on EARTH are you doing with the London Boys jpeg saved to your hard drive anyway?   O___o

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at December 27, 2012 04:52 AM (4df7R)

139 Glad to see the President focused like a laser on diverting the fiscal cliff. Did he fly his personal chef back to D.C.?

Posted by: USA at December 27, 2012 04:52 AM (RIg+t)

140 @132: WTF is "holiday" party? You mean a CHRISTMAS Party!!! Damnit.

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 04:53 AM (niZvt)

141 124 Posted by: JDR at December 27, 2012 08:46 AM (e7KZr) Somewhere, Frederick Douglass, Marian Anderson, Booker T. Washington, Duke Ellington, Jackie Robinson and Louis Armstrong are shedding tears of rage.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 27, 2012 04:53 AM (XkWWK)

142 How about we send Boehner and Reid to attend the Peruvian Punching Festival?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 27, 2012 04:53 AM (XtMCO)

143 Well one patient already cancelled because of the big bad snow storm.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 04:54 AM (79ueO)

144

Also, Storm Euclid? Are you kidding me right now? EUCLID?

 

Could be worse.  Storm Enis or Storm Pythagoras, for example

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 27, 2012 04:54 AM (BAS5M)

145
They did not have 60 votes to force it through so they were forced to use "reconciliation" which meant it expired automatically after 10 years. Some Democrats (2) actually voted for those tax cuts but "moderate" Republicans like McCain, the darling of the MFM, voted against it. McCain, Snowe, and Chaffee were the three Republicans voting against it.

Which is the fault of the Republicans.  Which was kind of my point.

Moreover, there were a few chances in the intervening years for Republicans to force the issue on their own terms, and they refused to do so.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at December 27, 2012 04:54 AM (/eBe8)

146 142 I think Reid is an actual Pugilist.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 04:54 AM (NIZHJ)

147 Which makes me ask: what on EARTH are you doing with the London Boys jpeg saved to your hard drive anyway? O___o

NTTAWWT

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i] at December 27, 2012 04:54 AM (sbV1u)

148 Euclid was the dude that wrote a math book that was in use for about 2000 years?

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 04:55 AM (NIZHJ)

149 142 How about we send Boehner and Reid to attend the Peruvian Punching Festival? Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 27, 2012 08:53 AM (XtMCO) Aren't they punchy enuff already?

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 04:56 AM (niZvt)

150 London Boys! I vomit every time I see that pix. Damn you Ace!

Posted by: Judge_Roy_bean at December 27, 2012 04:56 AM (tGegx)

151 Check out that "neutral" AP caption about Mandela in the Hillary pic: In this Aug. 6, 2012 file photo, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, meets with former South Africa President Nelson Mandela, 94, at his home in Qunu, South Africa. There may be no living figure so revered as Mandela around the world as a symbol of sacrifice and reconciliation, his legacy forged in the fight against apartheid, the system of white minority rule that imprisoned him for 27 years. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool-File) No editorializing there. Well, I don't revere his ass. In case you've forgotten, here's why Mandela was actually imprisoned: In 1961 Mandela became leader of the ANC's armed wing, the MK, which he co-founded. He coordinated sabotage campaigns against military and government targets, making plans for a possible guerrilla war if the sabotage failed to end apartheid. Mandela also raised funds abroad and arranged for paramilitary training of the group. n June 1961, Mandela sent a letter to South African newspapers warning the government, that if they did not meet their demands, the MK would embark on a campaign of sabotage. The demands were not met by the government and beginning on 16 December 1961, the group, with Mandela as its leader, launched a bombing campaign against government targets with the first action of the campaign being the bombing of an electricity sub-station. In total, over the next eighteen months, they would initiate dozens more acts of sabotage and bombings. The campaign of sabotage against the government included attacks on government posts, machines, power facilities, and crop burning in various places including Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Durban. While Mandela was imprisoned, police arrested prominent ANC group leaders on 11 July 1963 north of Johannesburg. Mandela was brought in, and at the Rivonia Trial they were charged with four charges of the capital crimes of sabotage, which Mandela admitted. The charge sheet at the trial listed 193 acts of sabotage in total. They were charged with the preparation and manufacture of explosives, according to evidence submitted, included 210,000 hand grenades, 48,000 anti-personnel mines, 1,500 time devices, 144 tons of ammonium nitrate, 21.6 tons of aluminum powder and a ton of black powder. The specifics of the charges to which Mandela admitted complicity involved conspiring with the African National Congress and South African Communist Party to the use of explosives to destroy water, electrical, and gas utilities in the Republic of South Africa. Naturally, Shrillary, John F'n Kerry, Bill the Rapist, Obamoa, and our Racist Racist Media revere this piece of shit as a hero.

Posted by: Blacksheep at December 27, 2012 04:56 AM (bS6uW)

152 Moreover, there were a few chances in the intervening years for Republicans to force the issue on their own terms, and they refused to do so.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at December 27, 2012 08:54 AM (/eBe


Republicans have not had 60 votes in the Senate for over 100 years.

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 04:57 AM (53z96)

153 148 Euclid was the dude that wrote a math book that was in use for about 2000 years? Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 08:55 AM (NIZHJ) You mean an irrelevant angry middle aged dead white guy?

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 04:58 AM (niZvt)

154 WTF is "holiday" party?

It's like a Christmas party, but with less lawsuits.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at December 27, 2012 04:58 AM (/eBe8)

155 JUSTICE REFUSES TO BLOCK MORNING-AFTER PILL RULE The interesting part: Attorneys for the government have said the drugs do not cause abortions and that the U.S. has a compelling interest in mandating insurance coverage for them. What exactly is that compelling interest? drudge

Posted by: beach at December 27, 2012 04:58 AM (LpQbZ)

156 It's like a Christmas party, but with less lawsuits. Sounds about as meaningful and touching as a Winter Concert.

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 04:59 AM (niZvt)

157 CoolCzech, how you doing?

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 27, 2012 04:59 AM (SUKHu)

158 Republicans have not had 60 votes in the Senate for over 100 years.

So what?  We never got cloture on ANY law during George W Bush's term?  Or George HW's?  Or Ronald Reagan's?  Come on, Vic, when Republicans push actual conservative policies, the people support them and wise Democrats at least go along for the ride.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at December 27, 2012 04:59 AM (/eBe8)

159

There may be no living figure so revered as Mandela around the world as a symbol of sacrifice and reconciliation, his legacy forged in the fight against apartheid, the system of white minority rule that imprisoned him for 27 years.

 

Pardon my blasphemy, but Jesus Christ!   Get a fucking room, caption writer.   No one needs to watch you fellate your anatomically correct collector's edition Nelson Mandela Bratz doll, okay?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at December 27, 2012 04:59 AM (4df7R)

160

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at December 27, 2012 08:50 AM (/eBe

___

 

I'd never heard of Straight No Chaser until a few weeks ago when I started listening to Sirius channel 4 for the Christmas music. Their versions of Christmas classics are pretty clever.

Posted by: kallisto at December 27, 2012 05:01 AM (jm/9g)

161 Sounds like the elder Bush is ill.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 05:01 AM (NIZHJ)

162 Could be worse. Storm Enis or Storm Pythagoras, for example

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 27, 2012 08:54 AM (BAS5M)

 

Heh.   "Enis."       *sniggering*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at December 27, 2012 05:01 AM (4df7R)

163 @155: "What exactly is that compelling interest?" Twelve year old schwangs will get holstered easier if twelve year old girls can pop them whenever. What could possibly be a worthier reason?

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 05:02 AM (niZvt)

164 I'd never heard of Straight No Chaser until a few weeks ago when I started listening to Sirius channel 4 for the Christmas music. Their versions of Christmas classics are pretty clever. Posted by: kallisto at December 27, 2012 09:01 AM (jm/9g) I thought I was the only one who listened to Sirus Channel 4? Well maybe I am the only Jooooo.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 05:03 AM (79ueO)

165 Sounds about as meaningful and touching as a Winter Concert.

Meh.  I'll think company holiday (or Christmas) parties are "meaningful and touching" about the time hell freezes over.  I think they're mostly used as an excuse to give the office one pretty nice thing to say, "See, we do value you!" and then treat the vast majority of the employees like crap the rest of the year.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at December 27, 2012 05:03 AM (/eBe8)

166 Oh, and how could I forget ... while he was in prison, Mandela's wife Winnie was a terrorist whore who used young men from a *ahem* soccer team as her personal consorts and vigilante band, who regularly kidnapped and tortured those who opposed her. Google the testimony of Jerry Richardson, coach of the notorious Mandela United Football Club, before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the late 90s if you're interested.

Posted by: Blacksheep at December 27, 2012 05:03 AM (bS6uW)

167 Come on, Vic, when Republicans push actual conservative policies, the people support them and wise Democrats at least go along for the ride.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at December 27, 2012 08:59 AM (/eBe


Wise Democrats????  All two of them voted for this bill.

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 05:03 AM (53z96)

168 151 Posted by: Blacksheep at December 27, 2012 08:56 AM (bS6uW) Whatever one thinks about apartheid, Mandela was a terrorist and should have been hung then and there. Question for those in the know; I have heard that when South Africa was first colonized, it was sparsely populated at best and that blacks were imported as cheap and/or slave labor. So, the whole movement to oust the whites is essentially bogus? Please clarify, since South Africa is now the model to de-legitimize and dismantle Israel. And Mandela along with Bishop Poo-Poo are big-time Jew-haters.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 27, 2012 05:04 AM (XkWWK)

169

>>I'd never heard of Straight No Chaser until a few weeks ago when I started listening to Sirius channel 4 for the Christmas music. Their versions of Christmas classics are pretty clever.

 

I like them. My family smiles politely and backs away quickly when I put their songs on.

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 27, 2012 05:04 AM (SUKHu)

170 Their versions of Christmas classics are pretty clever.

I love The Christmas Can-Can.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at December 27, 2012 05:05 AM (/eBe8)

171 Why are New Yorkers insulting Matt Lower?

Posted by: eman at December 27, 2012 05:05 AM (EWsrI)

172 OT: Where's Soothsayer? Last we heard, he was having serious stomach, gall bladder, appendix pains.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 27, 2012 05:05 AM (XkWWK)

173 The infinite page loads are back on Mozilla.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 05:05 AM (NIZHJ)

174 @168 And Mandela was a Commie, too.

Posted by: Thorvald at December 27, 2012 05:06 AM (1V6Pv)

175 171 Why are New Yorkers insulting Matt Lower? Posted by: eman at December 27, 2012 09:05 AM (EWsrI) In New York, Matt Lauer insult YOU!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 27, 2012 05:06 AM (XkWWK)

176 HARTFORD, Conn. -- Some of the police officers who responded to the school shooting in Newtown are so traumatized they haven't been working, but they have to use sick time and could soon be at risk of going without a paycheck, a union official said Wednesday.

The union, Council 15 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, is seeking more generous assistance in talks with the town's insurer. It is also reaching out to lawmakers and the governor's office with proposals to modify state law and expand workers' compensation benefits for officers who witness horrific crime scenes.

"The insurer for the town has taken a position that these officers are entitled to only what the statute allows. Unfortunately for these officers, the statute doesn't allow any benefits," said Eric Brown, an attorney for the union, which represents nearly 4,000 officers around Connecticut.

.. while we're on this subject of PTSD, why are Veteran's benefits shrinking ?

Posted by: George S. Patton at December 27, 2012 05:06 AM (e8kgV)

177 Mandela was a Commie, too. Posted by: Thorvald at December 27, 2012 09:06 AM (1V6Pv) Was?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 05:06 AM (79ueO)

178 I saw this morning that 10 states are increasing their minimum wage on January 1st.    I guess those that still have jobs will be happy.

Posted by: Vizzini [/i] at December 27, 2012 05:06 AM (O7Q1u)

179 @157: Doing good MamaAJ! How was your Christmas? Have you been tweeting lately? You follow me, right? @CoolCzech1. If you become Lucky Follower no. 1,300 you'll receive my new CD, "A Very CoolCzech Christmas: The Polka Edition."

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 05:07 AM (niZvt)

180 why are Veteran's benefits shrinking ? Posted by: George S. Patton at December 27, 2012 09:06 AM (e8kgV) Democrats, Liberals, Sequestration, and gross inefficiancy to name a few

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 05:08 AM (79ueO)

181 178 Instead of multiplying by 40 they can now multiply by 27.  You're welcome.

Posted by: Barry O'Fuckstick at December 27, 2012 05:08 AM (NIZHJ)

182 Breaking: politician cuts his vacation short to deal with an entirely manufactured "crisis" known as the Fiscal Cliff (tm) slated to be released Q1 2013. Preorder today!

Posted by: lockedandloaded at December 27, 2012 05:08 AM (ncq1x)

183

Matt Welsh on Free Staters and the lovely liberal tolerence:

 

"Cheshire County is a welcoming community but not to those..."

 

Link in name.

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 27, 2012 05:09 AM (SUKHu)

184 Beck taking the rest of the year off to play Apples to Apples?

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 05:09 AM (NIZHJ)

185 Meanwhile the Russian parliament votes to ban US couples from adopting Russian children.  Vlad the Impaler Putin is expected to sign the law.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 27, 2012 05:10 AM (XtMCO)

186 @177, touché. http://preview.tinyurl.com/cl4lcq3 My personal view is that 'once a Commie, always a Commie' holds in every case without a public, longstanding disavowal, as in the case of Whittaker Chambers.

Posted by: Thorvald at December 27, 2012 05:10 AM (1V6Pv)

187 Wise Democrats???? All two of them voted for this bill.

I said wise.  I didn't say smart, or principled, or anything of that sort.  Wisdom does not require a great deal of intelligence.

And, yes, wise Democrats.  The kind who voted for the Reagan tax cuts.  The kind who voted for Balanced Budget (even if it was via accounting tricks) in the 90's.

Republicans always seem to forget that our policies are actually the popular ones.  Democrats only successfully run against them when Republicans are too timid or too clumsy when defending them.

That was why we couldn't get 60 votes in the Senate for the original Tax cuts.  George Bush was supporting them as a stimulus measure ('let's get the economy going again') which was correct as far as it went, but allowed Democrats to say, "Oh, but once the economy is going again, we need to go back to 'more reasonable' rates."

When Reagan wanted cuts, he was able to force the Democrat controlled House to vote for his cuts, albeit with some compromise.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at December 27, 2012 05:11 AM (/eBe8)

188

Haven't we been told repeatedly that the President is never really on vacation and can be reached anywhere?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 27, 2012 05:11 AM (B+qrE)

189 Meanwhile the Russian parliament votes to ban US couples from adopting Russian children. Vlad the Impaler Putin is expected to sign the law. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 27, 2012 09:10 AM (XtMCO) Should create quite the black market in babies.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 05:11 AM (79ueO)

190 ugh....i don't like apples to apples......

Posted by: phoenixgirl, Merry 3rd day of Christmas at December 27, 2012 05:11 AM (GVxQo)

191 "Truth bypassed the mainstream media and became a weapon for the side of fundamental rights." link in name Posted by: Mama AJ at December 27, 2012 08:21 AM (SUKHu) Nice piece. I especially liked: Let’s start with the most obvious omen that this tsunami has peaked. President Obama thrilled his base by grandstanding at the memorial, and then promptly washed his hands of it by handing it over to a “blue ribbon commission.” Making Joe Biden its chairman was like staking a vampire through the heart, then hosing him down with holy water before burying his body beneath the Gilroy Garlic Festival.

Posted by: beach at December 27, 2012 05:12 AM (LpQbZ)

192 188 That is what the recorded message says if you call the red phone.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 05:12 AM (NIZHJ)

193

CC, Christmas was good and today my baby girl is 10.

 

And while I don't tweet much, I read there and await more pictures of your toes.

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 27, 2012 05:12 AM (SUKHu)

194 I don't think there is a better place on the intertubes to get your rage on than AoSHq.

Posted by: USA at December 27, 2012 05:12 AM (RIg+t)

195 I guess the Russians can go back to selling their children to third world pimps.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 05:13 AM (NIZHJ)

196 185 Meanwhile the Russian parliament votes to ban US couples from adopting Russian children. Vlad the Impaler Putin is expected to sign the law. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 27, 2012 09:10 AM (XtMCO) GOOD. So many of those Russian kids are damaged by horrible neglect in their hideous orphanages their poor adoptive parents spend years desperately taking them to therapy to try to make them "normal." We know a couple in precisely this situation.

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 05:14 AM (niZvt)

197

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 09:03 AM (79ueO)

___

Only fitting since the iconic Christmas song was written by Irving Berlin. Steve and Eydie swing a few Christmas classics as well. Good  music  knows  no  ethnic  or  religious  boundaries.

Posted by: kallisto at December 27, 2012 05:14 AM (jm/9g)

198 Drudge: President flew to Hawaii to spend 4 hours with his kids. Other time: golf & gym with the guys.

Posted by: USA at December 27, 2012 05:15 AM (RIg+t)

199

The tv talking heads are all aflutter about Obama "cutting his vacation short" to "address the fiscal cliff".

 

 

 

 

 

I am so sick of the vapid idiots who dominate my t.v. screen and their puny god worship.  Journalists top the list of my Ten Most Untrusted Occupations.  Above politicians, even.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 27, 2012 05:15 AM (DoZD+)

200 mama aj i just spit my tea yes cool czech garden pictures with your toes please!

Posted by: phoenixgirl, Merry 3rd day of Christmas at December 27, 2012 05:15 AM (GVxQo)

201 President Barack Obama revealed the ‘real reason’ he wanted a second term as president is because his daughter Malia, age 14, is about to start dating boys. ‘One of the main incentives of running was continued Secret Service protection so we can have men with guns around at all times,’ the father of two joked. The President and First Lady delved into their personal lives – including how they keep ‘the fire going’ in their marriage – during a chat with ABC’s Barbara Walters, their first sit-down interview since the election. Ya can't make shit like that up. In light of the CT shooting it reminds me of his "retard" joke about the special olympics. What an idiot and we lost to him?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 05:16 AM (79ueO)

202 He cut his vacation down to just under 4 years. The sacrifice. They should get him another Peace Prize.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 05:16 AM (NIZHJ)

203 "176 HARTFORD, Conn. -- Some of the police officers who responded to the school shooting in Newtown are so traumatized they haven't been working, but they have to use sick time and could soon be at risk of going without a paycheck, a union official said Wednesday. The union, Council 15 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, is seeking more generous assistance in talks with the town's insurer. It is also reaching out to lawmakers and the governor's office with proposals to modify state law and expand workers' compensation benefits for officers who witness horrific crime scenes. "The insurer for the town has taken a position that these officers are entitled to only what the statute allows. Unfortunately for these officers, the statute doesn't allow any benefits," said Eric Brown, an attorney for the union, which represents nearly 4,000 officers around Connecticut." It's not just what they saw. It's what they know about what WE don't know. Sad but true. Bullet-ridden teacher's car on the opposite side of the school from where the shootings took place? We are told officiously: "The bullets went through the brick walls. All of the brick walls." Johnny Dangerously had a gun that could shoot through schools, I'll admit. Guy-in-camo tackled in the woods after helicopter chase and subsequently put in FRONT SEAT of police car? No further information will be forthcoming. Other guy taken into custody at the fire station? No further information will be forthcoming. These guys are double-traumatized. They get to see 20 dead, bullet-ridden little kids, and then they get to STFU, or else, about something FAR MORE HEINOUS.

Posted by: JDR at December 27, 2012 05:16 AM (e7KZr)

204 Other time: golf & gym with the guys.

That cocksucker.

Posted by: Dept. of Accuracy Dept. at December 27, 2012 05:16 AM (+I8Mq)

205 "Truth bypassed the mainstream media and became a weapon for the side of fundamental rights." link in name Posted by: Mama AJ at December 27, 2012 08:21 AM (SUKHu) Great article. Leaves one wondering why can we come out in overwhelming force for the 2nd Amendment but can't seem to influence national elections and policy. Whatever the NRA and gun rights advocates did in the wake of Newtown MUST be repeated going forward on every issue so we can win in '14 and '16 as well as reshape the GOP or form an effective new party to replace it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 27, 2012 05:16 AM (XkWWK)

206 "190 ugh....i don't like apples to apples...... Posted by: phoenixgirl, Merry 3rd day of Christmas at December 27, 2012 09:11 AM (GVxQo)" Is that a new variety of porn I somehow missed, Phoenix?

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 05:17 AM (niZvt)

207 Obamaconomy had nothing to do with shitty Christmas sales. It was “the Cliff” and Republicans fault.

http://is.gd/LEBhtj

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 07:38 AM (53z96)



AP had a story over the weekend that the entire fiscal cliff was entirely the Republicans in Congress fault. The Democrats and Barry are totally blameless. I'm sure unemployment spiking up will be their fault too

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 27, 2012 05:18 AM (1Jaio)

208 200 mama aj i just spit my tea yes cool czech garden pictures with your toes please! Posted by: phoenixgirl, Merry 3rd day of Christmas at December 27, 2012 09:15 AM (GVxQo) I do have a stash of toe-to-mouth honeymoon pics I took...

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 05:18 AM (niZvt)

209 News dump thread is up.

Posted by: USA at December 27, 2012 05:18 AM (RIg+t)

210 Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied a request to block part of the federal health care law that requires employee health-care plans to provide insurance coverage for the morning-after pill and similar emergency contraception pills. Hobby Lobby Stores and a sister company, Mardel Inc., sued the government, claiming the mandate violates the religious beliefs of its owners. Sotomayer ha? And we're gonna be stuck with her for a long long long time

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 05:19 AM (79ueO)

211 ugh....i don't like apples to apples......

How can you not like Apples to Apples?  It's one of the best games ever.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at December 27, 2012 05:19 AM (/eBe8)

212 the ‘real reason’ he wanted a second term as president is because his daughter...is about to start dating boys.

***

He doesn't want to see her punished with a baby

Posted by: Dept. of Accuracy Dept. at December 27, 2012 05:20 AM (+I8Mq)

213 We are told officiously: "The bullets went through the brick walls. All of the brick walls."


The asshole used a .223.  A .223 will not penetrate a brick wall, much less multiple walls.

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 05:20 AM (53z96)

214 196 GOOD. So many of those Russian kids are damaged by horrible neglect in their hideous orphanages their poor adoptive parents spend years desperately taking them to therapy to try to make them "normal." We know a couple in precisely this situation. Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 09:14 AM (niZvt) Like the Mariel Boat Lift. Also, quite a few Soviet Jews who were allowed to emigrate during the 70's and 80's turned out to be hardened criminals from Soviet prisons. That's not to say that the majority weren't honest, decent people fleeing repression from both countries, but they took the opportunity to empty their prisons and send a lot of scum here.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 27, 2012 05:21 AM (XkWWK)

215 allen i love you bud....that game is hell....

Posted by: phoenixgirl, Merry 3rd day of Christmas at December 27, 2012 05:22 AM (GVxQo)

216 news dump up

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 05:22 AM (53z96)

217 Drudge: President flew to Hawaii to spend 4 hours with his kids. Other time: golf & gym with the guys.

Posted by: USA at December 27, 2012 09:15 AM (RIg+t)




Barry probably had quite a "work out" with the guys

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 27, 2012 05:22 AM (1Jaio)

218 I don't like Apples to Apples either. I like my pseudo puritan relatives even less.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 05:22 AM (NIZHJ)

219 That's not to say that the majority weren't honest, decent people fleeing repression from both countries, but they took the opportunity to empty their prisons and send a lot of scum here. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 27, 2012 09:21 AM (XkWWK) And to Israel and not to mention a few spies also

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2012 05:22 AM (79ueO)

220 Archeologists made a rare discovery at Tel Motza, to the west of Jerusalem, recently: evidence of the Jewish religious practices and rituals in the early days of the Kingdom of Judah. Among the finds are a ritual building and a cache of sacred vessels some 2,750 years old.

Anna Eirikh, Dr. Hamoudi Khalaily and Shua Kisilevitz, the directors of the excavation, released a joint statement provided by the Israeli Antiquities Authority in which they said: “The ritual building at Tel Motza is an unusual and striking find, in light of the fact that there are hardly any remains of ritual buildings of the period in Judaea at the time of the First Temple. The uniqueness of the structure is even more remarkable because of the vicinity of the site’s proximity to the capital city of Jerusalem, which acted as the Kingdom’s main sacred center at the time.”

Posted by: Moses, son of Amram at December 27, 2012 05:22 AM (e8kgV)

221

But a .223 is the most powerful cartridge EVAR! It can tear a deer in half, and leave little usable meat! It can almost stop a tank!

 

Yes, I have heard libs say all of the above.

 

Its a freaking .22 with some more oomph behind it.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert at December 27, 2012 05:23 AM (8cJXl)

222 #102

You misunderstand. All of the stuff in Flashpoint arc was temporary. It was a means to an end, which was the reboot. It was much like a Star Trek episode where a messed up time line gives them an excuse to stage a fabulous battle with all kinds of damage and death. Typically, such an episode ends with the time line reset and nobody remembering what happened. DC did it a little differently in that the time line got reset but when rolling infinite sided dice you'll never get the same result.

The current DC Universe is very recognizable with a lot of tweaks here and there, such as characters that were formerly in separate continuities being brought in. Not every choice has worked but nobody bats 1.000. Some of the ideas have been pretty effective while still retaining a familiarity to anyone who read the version that appeared twenty years ago.

If you were a judge and made such a ruling you wouldn't be on the bench much longer. The Question was an obscure character damned few people ever heard of before DC acquired the Charlton IP. The version written by Denny O'Neill for several dozen issues was far, far more widely read than the Steve Ditko version. (Despite the hipster following, Ditko has never had a solo hit.) Up until then, the character was the answer for a Watchmen trivia question. IP law is pretty clear and DC can do what they want. That includes killing the character and passing the name and methods to an heir.

As for the chain smoking, guess what killed Vic Sage?

The idea of a sacred Canon is useless to ongoing series set in the here and now. You want canon? Then Peter Parker, introduced as a 15 year old in 1962, is turning 65 this year. Reed Richards and Ben Grimm were originally WWII vets, which was reasonable in 1962 but became nonsensical as time progressed.

There was a Fantastic Four writer, maybe Jonathan Hickman but I'm not sure off the top of my head, who said his simple rule was to assume that for any story he wrote the Fantastic Four had started about ten years previously. So, if he was writing a story to be published in 2006 the event that gave them their powers occurred in 1996. Reed Richards would be born around 1970 and so on.

Some things become problematic. Captain America was originally on ice for less than twenty years and plenty of people he'd known before were still around. But nowadays his time frozen has stretched to around 60 years and growing. The only survivors from before are either very elderly or enjoy special circumstances ala Nick Fury, Namor, or the Original Human Torch.

Similarly, Tony Stark couldn't receive his nearly fatal injuries in Vietnam anymore. (And remember when Flash Thompson was a Vietnam vet?)

Such is life when your mythology is a moving target that has to keep up with the times. Nor is it like older mythology was cast in stone across the centuries. Just about every old story you ever heard from before Guttenberg made books widely available was greatly mutated from its origin. Did you know Maid Marian as a figure of legend predates Robin Hood by over a century and only became part of the Robin Hood mythos when somebody decided their version needed a love interest?

And then there are financial interests. You don't get to do comics very long if they don't sell. And they don't. Without movies and TV there would be damned little comics publishing anymore. So there are occasional annoyances when they force changes on a long running series to make it more recognizable to people who know the character primarily from a movie. Iron Man brought in the whole Arc Reactor thing that had never existed before the movie. At some point it was just there and became a plot device. But that hasn't stopped good writers from doing good work with the character.

Want stories that never change? Don't look for it in a comic series that runs for decades, unless you want to read about Peter Parker applying for SSI benefits.

Posted by: epobirs at December 27, 2012 05:23 AM (kcfmt)

223 Two threads this morning and none from the one I ignore.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 05:24 AM (NIZHJ)

224 Re: 209 Of course, it wasn't MY honeymoon... Just don't tell the neighbors...

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 05:25 AM (niZvt)

225

There is a school named Imhotep and they are celebrating Kwanza.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 27, 2012 08:32 AM (XtMCO)

 

 

I'm smelling some sweet lawsuit money in it for any enterprising, Philly conservatives that want to sue the school for promoting on set of beliefs over another.

 

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 27, 2012 05:27 AM (mV8sg)

226

From Mama AJ's link:

 

The Free State Project, described by Brian Doherty in these pages two years ago as "an interesting experiment to get 20,000 libertarians to all relocate to New Hampshire to reshape local and state politics in a place where those numbers are politically powerful," has been successful enough to make at least some New Hampshire Democrats declare this ragtag group of fill-in-the-blank-archists as Enemy Number One.

 

Yep.   They HATE the Free Staters.   I personally don't mind them, though most of them go libertarian and voted for Ron Paul and/or Gary Johnson this past year,   which sure didn't help Romney.     But oh well; that's the past.      What I appreciate about them is their tenacity and dedication to independence from government intervention.  That, of course, is what the Dems HATE.  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at December 27, 2012 05:27 AM (4df7R)

227 @227: Liberals do that all the time: They flooded the country with illegals, figuring they would be in eternal racial thrall to the Democrats. Libs love to leave liberal-created crapholes like CA and MA for states like CO and NH, and then start to busily convert them to what they left behind.

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 05:32 AM (niZvt)

228 Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied a request to block part of the federal health care law that requires employee health-care plans to provide insurance coverage for the morning-after pill and similar emergency contraception pills.



Something is missing from this story.  A single judge can not block a case from being heard by SCOTUS.  4 judges must vote to hear it or not.

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2012 05:35 AM (53z96)

229 Lawyers just pocketed a 1/4 $ Billion for milking Toyota's NONEXISTENT "sudden acceleration" problem that was caused driver's "suddenly" mashing the wrong pedal. Most "sudden" thing about it was the speed with which the issue went away, for no apparent reason whatsoever - just a repeat of the Audi 5000 bullshit.

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 05:36 AM (niZvt)

230 "So many of those Russian kids are damaged by horrible neglect in their hideous orphanages their poor adoptive parents spend years desperately taking them to therapy to try to make them "normal." We know a couple in precisely this situation." Not to mention the high rate of fetal alcohol syndrome among the infants.

Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at December 27, 2012 05:41 AM (zxrQh)

231 @59:  "The evidence is all around that this is not going to be the moment where America begins a slide into disarmed submission through an endless series of ever-harsher “reasonable restrictions” on our fundamental rights. You just have to look past the shrieking media harpies to see whatÂ’s really happening.

Let’s start with the most obvious omen that this tsunami has peaked. President Obama thrilled his base by grandstanding at the memorial, and then promptly washed his hands of it by handing it over to a “blue ribbon commission.” Making Joe Biden its chairman was like staking a vampire through the heart, then hosing him down with holy water before burying his body beneath the Gilroy Garlic Festival.

Why does Obama want this gun thing buried? While intensely popular with metrosexual pundits, coastal liberals, and cultural bigots slobbering at the opportunity to stick it to those banjo –strummin’, God-believers out in the hinterlands, gun control remains poison to Red State Democrats."

 

Thanks, Mama AJ.  I knew your linky would be a good 'un.

Posted by: RushBabe at December 27, 2012 05:42 AM (oknl8)

232

Oh, and how could I forget ... while he was in prison, Mandela's wife Winnie was a terrorist whore who used young men from a *ahem* soccer team as her personal consorts and vigilante band, who regularly kidnapped and tortured those who opposed her.

 

This.  I always ask any leftist clown saying nice things about Mandela, "do you know what 'necklacing' means?"  They're not too interested in talking much after that.

 

Fuck Mandela and that cringing, lickspittle toady "bishop" Tutu as well.  Both worthless anti-Western pieces of shit who'd still be squatting in huts hunting lions if it weren't for the evil white man.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 27, 2012 05:42 AM (zF6Iw)

233 I read somewhere that the 30 round "Bananana Clip" for the AR-15 was up from $10 to $60 a pop.

Posted by: Butters at December 27, 2012 05:45 AM (NIZHJ)

234 Something is missing from this story. A single judge can not block a case from being heard by SCOTUS. 4 judges must vote to hear it or not. Vic, each circuit is assigned a particular Justice for purposes of considering emergency relief. For example, here in the Fifth Circuit it is Scalia which is one reason why those about to be executed seldom get let off the hook at the last minute. Note there are more circuits than Justices, however, so some have to double up (there are only nine Justices of course, but 13 circuits -- the 1st through 11th plus the Ct. Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the D.C. Circuit Ct. of Appeals). This emergency review process is separate from the certiorari process you are referencing.

Posted by: Blacksheep at December 27, 2012 05:47 AM (bS6uW)

235 Quoth Wiki: As of September 28, 2010, the allotment of the justices among the circuits is: Circuit Justice District of Columbia Circuit Chief Justice Roberts First Circuit Justice Breyer Second Circuit Justice Ginsburg Third Circuit Justice Alito Fourth Circuit Chief Justice Roberts Fifth Circuit Justice Scalia Sixth Circuit Justice Kagan Seventh Circuit Justice Kagan Eighth Circuit Justice Alito Ninth Circuit Justice Kennedy Tenth Circuit Justice Sotomayor Eleventh Circuit Justice Thomas Federal Circuit Chief Justice Roberts

Posted by: Blacksheep at December 27, 2012 05:54 AM (bS6uW)

236 Oh, btw, did anyone else realize that Obama's Second Term hasn't even started yet? You're Welcome.

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 27, 2012 05:55 AM (niZvt)

237 Leaves one wondering why can we come out in overwhelming force for the 2nd Amendment but can't seem to influence national elections and policy. The 2nd Amendment has advocates that are well-organized, well-funded, and devout believers in the cause. Can you say the same for the rest of conservatism?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Lord Commander of the Ampersand Army at December 27, 2012 06:10 AM (GBXon)

238 You can dis-arm me outta my cold dead hands. F Obama and the leftist horse he rode in on.

Posted by: Judge_Roy_bean at December 27, 2012 06:14 AM (VHDN2)

239 23 epobirs,

Superman Red and Blue?

Look I get it...the new editors are teh awesomesauce.

Whatever agree to disagree or whatever the fuck.

If you change Mickey Mouse into Daffy Duck he is no longer Mickey Mouse.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 27, 2012 06:19 AM (LRFds)

240 233 MPPPP,

I am going to start adding, "you know your side keeps wanting to declare political war on my side.....I know what necklacing is."

Posted by: sven10077 at December 27, 2012 06:20 AM (LRFds)

241 Obama's approval rating is about twice as high as that of Congressional Republicans. The GOP will take the hit for the cliff and Obama knows it.

Posted by: occam at December 27, 2012 06:39 AM (bNPll)

242 #240

Actually, the Superman Red and Blue was an homage to a story from the 50s. So I guess it's a bit canony if you're of that generation.

It isn't an issue of whether the current creative staff is good, bad, or more of the same. How many hundreds of issues are they going to pump out without shaking things up occasionally?

Posted by: epobirs at December 27, 2012 06:41 AM (kcfmt)

243 242 Occam,

Apples and oranges thanks for playing.

How's Obarka's dick taste?

Posted by: sven10077 at December 27, 2012 06:42 AM (LRFds)

244 243 Epobirs,

I am to the point I sincerely do not care.

If every hero in comicdom needs to be a pc dicksucker to "save the business" someone else can save it.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 27, 2012 06:43 AM (LRFds)

245 RE: Hobby Lobby, perhaps they should just close down. Simple as that.

let it burn.

Of course, that would serve the goals of the President, the Democrats and obviously the Supreme Court, all of whom want everyone in the US to permanently on gubbermint assistance.

Posted by: shibumi at December 27, 2012 06:57 AM (z63Tr)

246 Hmmmph. I had figured that ol J-E-F was coming back to DC because somebody whispered the magic words in his ear: "Recess Appointment".

Posted by: A_Nonny_Mouse at December 27, 2012 02:06 PM (hq0VE)

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