Posted by: chemjeff at July 17, 2012 06:54 AM (d/5qf)

Thanks, I am doing OK, wife is "getting by".

Posted by: chemjeff at July 17, 2012 06:57 AM (d/5qf)

Was she a RP nut?  And how about this Republic of United States?  I never heard of it.

Hmmmm lobster... http://tinyurl.com/c58qkrv

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Morn ya'll

Posted by: chemjeff at July 17, 2012 07:17 AM (d/5qf)

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Ugh...my warehouse guy is on vacation this week. I'll be picking and packing orders all week. Warehouse temp yesterday @ 2pm...102. Meh..at least I'll drop a few LB's.

Posted by: chemjeff at July 17, 2012 07:21 AM (d/5qf)

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Yeah, his ears will be ringing around 3:00 when I'm on my 3rd shirt change...prick.

Posted by: chemjeff at July 17, 2012 07:22 AM (d/5qf)

Yes there is a rule for that.  You must take temperature and humidity readings using calibrated instruments and either provide protection, or calculate "stay times".

However, if the warehouse is a separate unit and has less than 50 employees most OSHA regulations do not apply.

Yes there is a rule for that. You must take temperature and humidity readings using calibrated instruments and either provide protection, or calculate "stay times".
However, if the warehouse is a separate unit and has less than 50 employees most OSHA regulations do not apply. <=<<

"Wet Bulb" readings, I think.

Posted by: Vic at July 17, 2012 07:28 AM (YdQQY)

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We are less than fifty.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 17, 2012 07:30 AM (JDIKC)

We used a sling psychrometer which is a type of wet-bulb/dry bulb system. In some cases we had to have workers wear an ice pack vest and limit stay times both.

Posted by: dananjcon at July 17, 2012 07:33 AM (eavT+)

LOL, then you are free to be susceptible to heat stress. But do be advised that if this is not your normal job that it takes time to be acclimatized to working in hot environments. Take lots of breaks in A/C spaces for the first week.

Look up precautions and symptoms and know them.

Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.  Thanks, Vic and Gabe, for the headlines.  BTW, don't bother reading the comments at the Paul Ryan link; the stupid is epic.

Today in 1916, the film Purity was released by the Mutual Film Corporation.  Starring Audrey Munson, a model also known as "The American Venus," it was her second movie, as well as being the second in which she appeared totally nude (her first, Inspiration was earlier in the year).  The plot, like each of her four movies, casts her as an artists' model in order to get her clothes off.

In 1919, Munson was living in a New York boarding house, whose owner fell in love with her, murdering his wife so he could ask for Munson's hand.  Although Munson had moved out before the murder, the publicity essentially killed her film career, and she was reduced to being a door-to-door saleswoman.  In 1922, she tried to commit suicide, but was unsucessful.  Drifting into schizophrenia and paranoia, she was sent to the St. Lawrence Hospital for the Insane in 1931 and was confined there until her death in 1996.

All of her films were considered lost, but a print of Purity was discovered in France in 2004.  It is not available for public viewing.

If you are in New York, she was the model for the Isidor and Ida Straus Memorial in Straus Park.  She is also immortalized as the female mounted over the proscenium at the New Amsterdam Theatre on West 42nd Street and was the model for Lady Liberty on the 1916 half dollar.

So now that we've established nudity and sex at the beginning of the movies, here, from 1936, are three of screenwriter Gene Fowler's Ten Commandments for the Motion Picture Industry:

FIRST COMMANDMENT:  Thou shalt not photograph a lady and gentleman in bed together, even though said lady and gentleman have been properly introduced, one to the other.  Thou mayst try it, but thou wilt get theyself into one hell of a jam.  In the wicked city of Chicago, minions of the law did break in and find one buckaroo in such aforesaid state with two ladies of blonde extraction and he did cry out that he learned such trick from the movies.  To wit that such scenes are hereby deemed subversive of the public morals.

THIRD COMMANDMENT:  Thou shalt not photograph the wiggling belly, the gleaming thigh or the winking navel, especially to music,as goings-on of this ilk sorely troubleth the little boys of our land and so crammeth the theaters with adolescence that papa cannot find a seat.

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

Posted by: General Woundwort at July 17, 2012 07:32 AM (06lNq)

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I take comfort in your optomism and would like to subscribe to your news letter. But it seems Romney's camp who after weeks of nimble offense has gone on vacation...maybe with my warehouse guy....pricks! 

Posted by: Vic at July 17, 2012 07:36 AM (YdQQY)

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Thanks Vic..yeah I'm staying hydrated and working in 2hr shifts with 1/2hr breaks. Unfortunately we're not too busy, fortunately its only for this week. I am a desk jockey and only have to do this a couple times a year so I don't complain.

Posted by: Former Weather Nerd at July 17, 2012 07:38 AM (7+pP9)

Yes, and we carried a separate thermometer for the temperature not used in the wet/dry bulb comparison. The charts required both temp and humidity.

Your take?<<<<<

They're a bunch of retards, like Wesley Snipes.  The central tenet of this group is that there is always some "secret" loophole that will allow you to avoid paying taxes, or cancel your mortgage and any other debt you owe.

The 16th Amendment was never REALLY ratified.

A secret Supreme Court ruling allows you to not pay your debt.

The UCC "Strawman" theory.

These people are fucking looney tunes, and when the true wide-eyed believers stick to their pop guns, they end up in jail.  Every. Time.

This broad needs a fucking slap.  Even for a Paultard, she's an exceptional idiot.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 17, 2012 07:46 AM (JDIKC)

I agree.  But my overall point was that they had to put "Republican" in the headlines. If it had been a Democrat the Party affiliation wouldn't even be buried in the article, much less in the headline.

Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 17, 2012 07:46 AM (Cnqmv)

You should try my metoprolol.  I take that before assembling the news.

Posted by: Captain, Road Prison 36 at July 17, 2012 07:45 AM (BAnPT)

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Peeing while sitting down builds character and promotes unity between the sexes...

...Bought to you by the Gloria Steinem military handbook.

@69,

Yeah, I know, but you might as well go yell at the wind.  I don't do too much bitching about elemental forces and universal constants, like water being wet, gravity sucking, and liberal bias in the media.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 17, 2012 07:58 AM (05RcU)

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Didn't Romney/Bain turn around DD as well??

@76 -

I had to stop at MickeyD for breakfast because I banned the DD next door. They shortchanged me once and I haven't been back. I knew she did it on purpose because when I went back in to get my correct change the lady's face got beet red. I'll go to other DDs though, it's not a universal banning.

In other news - yesterday I found out a close friend was a holocaust denier. There's no words to describe how I felt when he started spouting that insane shit. I told another friend about it and he suggested that the denier guy has "something else going on".

Re the new femi-carriers, why not just make some all-women combat ships?  Better for everyone.  Women get to have a taste of shooting war, which apparently they really crave.  Men will not have to see women getting burned up, shot to peices, etc. during the battle, which they would find distracting.  When an actual war starts, the female sailors will find it more difficult to get pregnant and avoid service in combat, or at the very least it will only incapacitate a few ships.  Then, when an all-women ship finally goes down to the deep with massive loss of life, as sometimes happens in wars, America will have an incident sufficiently grim to bring some adult-level clarity to our thinking on the matter.

Separate but equal - it's the best solution in this case.

82 Another irritating thing about Obama's big govt speech--

It was quite possibly the most retarded thing I've ever heard a pol say. Cribbing a  speech from Elizabeth Warren takes balls or sheer lazy stupidty. Par for the course for the SCOAMF.

>> goings-on of this ilk sorely troubleth the little boys of our land and so crammeth the theaters with adolescence that papa cannot find a seat.

...And that's why teh Intertubes are slow today.

Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 17, 2012 08:06 AM (Cnqmv)

SHHHHH!  Don't give them any ideas.

Posted by: TFC3Tweets at July 17, 2012 08:15 AM (bgzAd)

Bill Clinton was never a "moderate".  He was a frustrated liberal.

From TownHall.com dated July, 11...

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Romney and his partners raised the capital they used to invest from private investors, and their success with Staples provided them with additional resources to invest in other entrepreneurs to expand their enterprises.

Bain grew, and in the process it hired a lot of business analysts and other support personnel. The companies they invested in or acquired in buyout deals became hugely successful enterprises: Domino's Pizza, Sealy, Sports Authority, Dunkin' Donuts, Toys R Us, Burger King and countless other firms whose expansion over the years have created thousands of jobs.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at July 17, 2012 08:17 AM (OWjjx)

You managed to turn on the computer and find your way here. I suspect you of being one of the post generating bureaucrats.

Still no Dunkin Donuts in the whole state. One is supposed to be opening in Shreveport this year.

I'm less excited now that I rarely eat wheat, but still, There Should Be One Around, ya know?

Consider her Republic as a religious counterbalance opposed to Marxism. Make allies on common ground, as purists come in all political/ideological forms. <<<<

Fuck that.  Lunatics are notoriously unreliable.  They are PRETENDING to be a separate government of the United States.

Nutjobs aren't useful allies.  They're nutjobs.

Posted by: Vic at July 17, 2012 08:17 AM (YdQQY)

This.  I'm sick of hearing of Bill Clinton's historical rehabilitation.  He was, and is, a worthless shit-sack traitor, and I hope one to day to take a steaming dump on his grave.  He sold this country down the river, betraying us to the Muz and to the Chinese.  F**k him, and that nag of a wife he rode in on.  Just because Obama is an even worse piece of dog crap does not mean we should forgive Billy Jeff his crimes.

Mornin', 'rons 'n 'ettes.

I found a bit of good news, and with the help of the government, was able to post it over at my place.

We  have more energy reserves than we know what to do with. Enough oil and  natural gas to make the Mideast irrelevant in the very near future.

Click my nic, and let your  blood pressure go down for once.

WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the country's oldest civil rights groups says President Barack Obama may have a tougher time winning at least three battleground states in November should black voter turnout fall at least 5 percentage points below the record levels that helped to put him in the White House.

Black voter turnout of 64.7 percent was a significant factor in Obama's victory in 2008, and African Americans are considered solidly behind Obama now. But having achieved the milestone of electing Obama as the nation's first black president, black voters may be less motivated to return to the polls in droves again, the National Urban League said in a report to be released Tuesday.

The MFM wringing its hands over its boyfriend's re-election chances. Funny they never seem to worry about what it will take for Mitt to win

Posted by: Vic at July 17, 2012 06:55 AM (YdQQY)

That is in-fucking-sane.

Posted by: Captain, Road Prison 36 at July 17, 2012 08:32 AM (BAnPT)

The Fed isn't printing money in that sense.  All money is created when it is spent into existence by Congress.  The Fed does not have the power, nor should it, to limit the spending authorized by Congress.  This is an overblown concern that distracts from the real problem - spending choices made by the elected legislature.

Personally I think a lot of the heat Ben B. gets is unwarranted.  He's making the best of a bad situation not of his making. 

The worst possible outcome would be to engineer a needless debt default.  The shit storm from that would sink the global economy into oblivion.

Posted by: Ruby at July 17, 2012 08:44 AM (QAUe4)

This is an absolute given.  Food costs ARE going to go up.  Time to hoard canned good, and not for the zombie/libtard apocalypse.  Heard this morning that this is the 6th worst drought on record.

Down side:  costly food here, reduced exports.  Many farmers badly hurt economically.

Possible up side:  Way fewer enemies in the M.E. and other parts of the 3rd world.  Good riddance. 

Posted by: catman at July 17, 2012 08:42 AM (YKUmW)


The only thing remaining is the seasonal adjustment to the data to make it conform to the non-reality. 

You are better off today than you were four years ago Comrade!

Posted by: Captain, Road Prison 36 at July 17, 2012 08:46 AM (BAnPT)

Bail outs of foreign sovereigns, in US dollars, reinforce the dollar as reserve currency while returning liquidity to the system.  It's not ideal, but it's not the end of the world.  Whereas if Europe goes into a true depression, the fallout will be very unpleasant.  Nobody wants that, because we'll see capital destruction on an unprecendented level. 

The Fed participates, because it has limited options.  You don't bite the hand that feeds you.  The Fed knows that if Congress gets pissed off enough crazy things can, and will, happen.  The Fed has to play ball, and try to manage the situation to the best of their ability.  Will the banksters make more money?  Yup.  But guess what - that's a tale as old as time, and just part of life.  May as well get used to that.

As for Congress auditing the Fed, to what end?  For what purpose?  They already know what's going on.  Who profits by turning over that rock?  It's just one more thing that will stir up uncertainty and worry and further erode investor and consumer confidence.  Congress can audit all they like for all I care.  But I'd rather they kept the results to themselves.

It's like these foolish wranglings over the mythological "debt ceiling."  It's a sham, and a waste of time.  Worse, it gets people all worked up and worried about default and massive disruption of the status quo.  All for nothing.

Male morons, you might want to check out this safe for work story about an olympic shooter with a verrry nice double barrel. Blam.

http://tiny   url.com/76uxxk2

Posted by: nickless at July 17, 2012 08:56 AM (h5njn)

You didn't get the joke?

Take the space out of the tinyurl I posted above.

Posted by: catman at July 17, 2012 09:00 AM (NYdB

Different scenario.  Weimar's problems came from owing war indemnity debt in gold, and at abusive terms.  They had to print money to buy gold.  The cost of gold in Marks would go up.  Then they'd have to print more, to buy more gold, which would go up again in response, and so on.  All that gold then left Germany for France, England, etc.  It was a spiral from which there was no escape.  Eventually they hit the reset button, but the massive cultural and economic damage had already been done.  A lesser culture would have been permanently wrecked.

The deficit numbers are big (too big) but given that this is a balance sheet recession much of the inflationary effect is mitigated.  Not all, but much.  We have a huge amount of unused capacity in this nation - especially labor.  The government can consume it without competing with the private sector.

Also, if you want a balanced budget (or nearly balanced) right now, consider our choices.  They are as follows:

1.  Massive spending cuts, followed by destruction of capital (many firms go out of business do to loss of consumption), more massive unemployment, and eventually riots.

2.  Massive tax increases, followed by the economy tanking as consumption takes another hard hit and companies flee the US.

3.  Some inflation.  Maybe "high" inflation.  If you are working, that will probably translate into a compensatory wage hike.  If you own productive assets, you will get a higher price to cover inflation.  If you are just hoarding cash you'll get spanked.  If you have all fixed-income investments, you're hosed. 

“His unfortunate remarks over the weekend show an utter lack of understanding and appreciation for the people who take a huge personal risk and work endless hours to start a business and create jobs."

ya think...?

Posted by: Al Green at July 17, 2012 09:07 AM (e8kgV)"

They BO team probably had their copy right stuff in order.  The Romney team just has to get permission.  The romney team, according to media ite is going for "fair use".

Probably is just easier and way cheaper, to get the rights.

Posted by: Miss Marple at July 17, 2012 09:13 AM (GoIUi)

Bank interest rates are based on the fed rates.  They are keeping them artificially low, so blame them.

Posted by: Vic at July 17, 2012 09:12 AM (YdQQY)

I agree re monetizing debt, but with respect, how do you hide massive inflation?  

I'm told food is up, though I've not seen it.  I pay the same price for meat and fruit and canned soup that I paid 4 or 5 years ago, and milk has only gone up a moderate amount since then.  But assuming food IS up - why not?  We have increased standards of living in the 3rd world, since that's where all the jobs went.  They eat more meat, thus less cheap food.  Russia's wheat fields burned up a few years back and they went from exporting massive amounts of wheat to a total export ban.  Australia's wheat got flooded out a couple years back. 

Gas is way up - but why is that a shocker?  India and China are using more and more, the Gulf is STILL largely in shut down mode, and the new sources of oil are mostly low-flow-rate deposits.  Nat gas is at record lows, so low they're shutting down capacity to restore profitability. 

Right now, I contend that the price increases we see are mainly due to supply and demand.  Not money supply increases.

Posted by: AuthorLMendez at July 17, 2012 09:24 AM (yAor6)

Or it could mean that both sides look the same to you.  Power hungry people who benefit from their power positions.  So you choose not to support either.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 17, 2012 09:26 AM (05RcU)

Obviously do not have a lot of sea time eh?  They were no harder to clean than the toilets or the sinks or anything else in the head.  And yes, they will be missed.

Posted by: toby928© repeats himself endlessly at July 17, 2012 09:16 AM (QupBk)

You might be right, but I'm not convinced it has to be some biblical-scale chastening.  Our puritan heritage makes us think in terms of atoning for our sins, but that's bunk when it comes to economic policy. 

Much of the "money" out there in the system was generated by the QE asset swaps that were made in order to recapitalize the banks.  If there is ever a recovery, those assets will go back to the banks and the cash will return to the nothingness from whence it came.  This will encourage banks to recapitalize via deposits, and as the economy gets better and rates rise people will once again have a reason to put money in bank accounts.  That need to create more reserves will help drain the excess from private hands, mitigating inflation.

As I see it, the main inflation risk is not the volume of money, but the velocity.  If things get better, velocity will pick up.  If that happens it will be important to pull back reserves and begin to raise rates, so that it is manageable and doesn't create some wild swing.  Govt spending must also be slashed when the economy picks up, so we better have a majority by then.  Tax revenues will go up, because the govt taxes every damn transaction that happens in this nation, so that will offset the deficits somewhat also, and will act as another cash-drain / brake.

It doesn't have to be horrible coming out of this.

Posted by: Al Green at July 17, 2012 09:07 AM (e8kgV)

Have those cum guzzlers taken down the JEF's ad of Romney singing America the Beautiful?

Posted by: Vic at July 17, 2012 09:32 AM (YdQQY)

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Many of the defense-related organizations were supporting the Treaty this year too. I must admit I have not studied it in detail since it came up at one point back in the 90's when I decided it was, on balance, a bad thing. I  have since forgotten the details.

Support seems to boil down to 'having a seat a the table' when decisions are made regarding use of the sea. And this will be good for Lockheed and other companies who are interested in seabed mining. Also supposed to be good for naval navigation. (I didn't know we were having a problem with that.)

(The seat seems to be working out for us nicely at the WTO or not.)

Posted by: Reactionary at July 17, 2012 09:31 AM (xUM1Q)

Depends upon who is guiding you out. 

Someone who really knows the economy, ie, has a MBA with that JD or someone who just has the JD.

"Make him own it."

Apparently the left's idea of private property extends to things like responsibility and accountability because this shithead has never owned or owned up to anything in his life.

Someone who really knows the economy, ie, has a MBA with that JD or someone who just has the JD.

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But there's no difference between the two, any enlightened independent thinker knows that!

This administration is reeking havoc that will remain long after they are gone.

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I see what you did there, Vic- you are either (a)  fiendishly clever or  (b)  your Freudian slip is showing. I'm voting (a)

Posted by: Miss Marple at July 17, 2012 09:29 AM (GoIUi)

Hmm.  Well, that does suck.  I don't buy much bacon, but I have noticed it's up.  Never $6 a pound here or even close, but it's up.  Cereal here is pretty cheap, but then again I live in the cereal capital of the US. 

I buy things like boneless chicken breasts, which are cheaper per pound than ever - $2 usually.  Chicken meat with bones in it usually runs me about $1 per pound.  Most pig meat I buy I get for between $1.5 and $1.9 per pound.  Loins, ribs, mostly.  Big soup cans are about a buck each - technically that's a sale price, but they're always on sale.  Fruits of various types cost me about $1 per pound.

That said, I still fall back on my prior statement - supply and demand are more significant to food costs than is the money supply.  Most of the new money is chasing stocks and bonds, not food.  The rich can only eat so much.  The Chinese are eating more pork.  Phillipinos are eating more pork and beef.  It's a common theme that diets are improving.  Our farmers are major exporters now, even as the dollar continues to hold its own against foreign currencies.

This year's crop destruction will make things even worse.

Fuck!  I forgot to file my Monday taxes.

brb

Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 17, 2012 09:47 AM (rX1N2)

Not to worry, your partner and helper in Washington will file them for you.

Posted by: Vic at July 17, 2012 09:47 AM (YdQQY)

Those nations invariably had debt denominated in a foreign currency, massive civil unrest, or both.  We're not there yet. 

I believe our policies re the underclass are the bigger threat.  For Pete's sake, we're breeding them!  Paying them to make more, even as we drive up the costs for productive people to have and maintain children.  That's what's going to kill us.  Useless slum vermin. 

Posted by: HeatherRadish was forced to wear a dress to work today at July 17, 2012 09:49 AM (ZKzrr)"

Hey, my mother didn't have indoor plumbing until she was 16 (born in MS in the early 40s.  Nineteen forties that is). 

Looks like she might live long enough to go back to that life.

Posted by: Reactionary at July 17, 2012 09:50 AM (xUM1Q) 

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Pretty good import business going on too. That will sever as a buffer should domestic production decline.

Posted by: HeatherRadish was forced to wear a dress to work today at July 17, 2012 09:58 AM (ZKzrr)

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It was that or pay a tax...

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at July 17, 2012 09:52 AM (Ho2rs)

Have YOU ever had to live and go to school among them?  I have.  We have an entire sub-culture within this nation that is bereft of all the good Western traditional values.  They're a culture of drugs, sex, TV, and little else. 

Your feelings for the "poor" are noble, but largely misplaced.  We're not talking about the enterprising, clean, hard-working poor of the past, which my grandparents were.  We're talking about a morally depraved subculture that sucks the life blood from the rest of us, either through welfare abuse or outright victimization/crime/violence. 

I tire of hearing the excuses made for people who behave as our underclass does.  I'm sick of hearing how it's my damn job to pay for a thousand bastards, when I didn't even get the dubious pleasure of fucking their mothers.

Posted by: RioBravo at July 17, 2012 10:02 AM (eEfYn)

The U.S. Maritime industry has been bankrupted by the same ting that bankrupts the auto companies and railroads.  Government regulations, taxes, and unions.

Posted by: Reactionary at July 17, 2012 10:03 AM (xUM1Q)"

And that's why I read AoSHQ right there.  Copied into my Little Notebook of Improved Vernacular.

Trayvon Martin's family is upset that the ity government of Sanford took away the makeshift memorial marking where he died.  They are now demanding a permanant memorial, like a statue, be erected at the spot.  Discuss.

Posted by: Joe Biden, original thinker at July 17, 2012 10:16 AM (bAGA/)"

Do you Joe?  Do you know plagiarism?

Posted by: Thunderb at July 17, 2012 10:11 AM (Dnbau)

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but, but...all Trayvon mama wanted was an arrest! That's what B. Crump told us.

So many mothers of fallen military are mourning the loss of their children without these narcissistic temper tantrums and demands for public memorials. FFS stop the madness. I hope the people of Sanford put an end to this shit.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 17, 2012 08:29 AM (d0Tfm)

Alas, there will always be a snail darter/delta smelt/hoot owl species nobody's ever heard of whose welfare REQUIRES not exploiting a resource, or anything within a radius of 500 miles around it. These things all make sense if you work on the assumption that they WANT us to be poor and dependent. Affordable resources = prosperity; ecological fascism = dependence on government.

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Police, fire, teachers and salt truck drivers.  Don't forget the salt trucks.  I don't know about you, but where I am if we get more than an inch and a half of snow the whole town shuts down. 

Alas, there will always be a snail darter/delta smelt/hoot owl species nobody's ever heard of whose welfare REQUIRES not exploiting a resource, or anything within a radius of 500 miles around it. These things all make sense if you work on the assumption that they WANT us to be poor and dependent. Affordable resources = prosperity; ecological fascism = dependence on government.

Yeah, well there's that, but the article points out that this boom is mostly happening on private land. If the enviroweenies could stop it, they already would have done so. This boom's been going on for a while, right under the EPA's nose.

It goes without saying that anyone   in   Washington  who tries to stop this will be political toast.  I certainly hope we aren't  that stupid, although '08 wasn't a good sign.

I salute you. Well played, sir. Well played.

Given the nic, shouldn't that be "sirs?"

Someone school me please:

Where's the media's motivation come from to keep talking about the first wookie as though she's "elegant" and "classy" and "sooooo beautiful"? She's not as smart as Odumbdumb and the stewpid is epic in him. She's got a huge entourage to prepare her and still looks like she dresses from Kmart and is unprepared for the most basic of function. Yet all the media can talk about is "her guns" and "how beautiful and classy she is".

Never in my life have I worn beer goggles THAT thick.

OK, y'all, I gotta run and take B'Gal  to a doctor's appointment in a bit. Then if the weather holds out, I gotta go see if   I can find out why my truck   died on the way to the Friday night gig. Was sitting at a light and the engine  quit and wouldn't restart.

Hope Betsy II hasn't given up the ghost after 22 years and 237K. Wish me luck that it's something cheap and easy to fix like a broken rotor button or something.

Have fun and try  not to trash  the place, 'k?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 17, 2012 10:21 AM (nEUpB) .

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$24 a pound is what I saw on the signs at the wharves along Commercial Street  in Portland. Maybe for the hardshell lobsters? Anyway, that's what I saw at the end of June.

also some transcripts

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My dad had his own business.   It was required that he belong to the union, and all his life those people did nothing but take money out of his pocket, and coerce him into hiring deadbeats  when he didn't want or need the help.

He was still working until he got too sick to work, because it was the one thing they couldn't take away from him. 

I suspect there are many union men like my dad who have just about had it with the D party, and good-for-nothings like our President. 

@38 - it's basically a political party that uses the same thought processes of my 20-year-old stepdaughter.

My role in the relationship is to sit down, shut up, stop "judging" her poor life-choices, and answer the phone within the first two rings when she needs bail at 11pm on a Friday night.

There's a microcosm of the current US situation going on in my office.  I work for a very small family owned firm.  Over the last two years, we've shed half our employees due to a downturn in business.  The patriarch of the firm spent over 40 years building the business and earning a good reputation.  The son took over and, without going into detail, within three years he burnt that to the ground.  The son is now out of the business and is blaming everyone but himself for the horrible things that he did.  The father, who was looking forward to enjoying the retirement he spent a lifetime savings towards, is now working 60+ hours per week in an attempt to undo the damage.  I can't help but think of this every single time I hear the SCOAMT talking.  Person A spends a lifetime earning things, Person B considers it his birthright and blows it all and then Person A is left picking up the pieces.

To say this fills me with incandescent rage is a tad of an understatement.

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Oh, we'll have little trouble recognizing potential terrorists in the near future.  They'll be the ones occupying and ruling most of Europe. 

Posted by: reason at July 17, 2012 10:59 AM (XiVKO)

I'm there and doing that with a stepson. But God forbid I say something judgmental. That would be even worse than, say, doing drugs and getting into fights.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 17, 2012 10:15 AM (sbV1u)

First off, I stated no specific policy above, so you are assuming what my solution is.  But let's take the worst case things you've assumed - at least I can offer a solution, and frankly my solution is damn humane compare to what lies ahead.  For the record, if it were up to me we'd have mandatory workfare (unpleasant jobs that do not compete with the private sector), and mandatory (reversible) sterilization prior to getting any benefits other than unemployment.  Plus a lifetime max payout.  Get at the root of the problem - stop making more of them.

I have yet to see anything proposed by the damn do-gooders that will do anthing but make the problem worse.  Sure - local charity.  Good stuff, and worthy.  Yet totally inadequate to meet the needs of the current horde of underclass.  This problem was created by the state, and unless we are willing to see mass starvation it must be fixed by state policy.

My policy is humane.  All others are not.

There are engineers picketing in the driveways of my building, slowing down traffic.

I am making them pay dearly for slowing down my progress.  Every single time.

Let's see how many of these nerds are willing to approach my window in a week.

DNC = Pakleds

The employer these fucksticks are on strike against hasn't even moved into the building yet.  So I tell this to the dick in the driveway.

"Okay."

So, you're a fucking retard.

"Okay."

5Headline says:

Iowa Republican defends ending run for state Senate, joining shadow government

 

If this had been a Democrat candidate would that be in the headline? And who has ever heard of this group?


http://is.gd/w1ZQr6

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I've never heard of this group, Vic.

On the latest episode of the show, 'The Glades', there was a similar sort of group depicted.

But this one was issuing it's own drivers licences, vehicle tags, etc.

'Sovereigns'....is what they called themselves.

The most interesting thing though.....was that a big plotline in the show, was about the practice of Lawfare.

The 'Sovereigns' were engaging in it....against the government, filing hundreds of lawsuits and filing leins on properties.

The detectives on the show were referring to it as "terrorism"......"paper terrorism".

In this instance, this fringe group was

405....oops

*In this instance, this fringe group was being depicted as sort of a left-wing anti-government group.

@406

Its an office building. 

Posted by: Vic at July 17, 2012 11:10 AM (YdQQY)

Answer: Who are the Kennedys?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 17, 2012 11:16 AM (1Jaio)

Nah, they made their fortune during prohibition bootlegging liquor.

Hi Truman.

How's the campaign going?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July><><<

No, because I like my freedom.  But I just went out for coffee and when I came back I told the fat bitch in front of my car, "If you work as slow as you fucking walk, it's no wonder you don't have a job. Now get the fuck out of the way."

She said, "Well, we have the legal right to slow you down," while some fucking Asian kid in a muscle shirt tried to maddog me.

"Bullshit, you do." And then I gunned it past Mr. Fucking Moto.

426 -

Egad, that comment reminded me waaaay too vividly of my red-haired girlfriend from my high school daze.

everyone knows Asians dont have muscles<<<<<

He didn't. He had a muscle shirt.  And spiky hair - I know, right?! What are the odds?

What amazes me on this whole 'issue'.... is that Conservatives and even Libertarians know that there ARE places for the Government to spend money... Roads, Defense, even a public school as long as other options are available...

BUT, we do have a problem when they keep wanting to take MORE money, and spend it on other, frivalous, things... especialy things like DHS, which take AWAY our Freedoms...

Fedex is still non-Union....isn't it?

I remember when that UPS strike happened in '97....it pissed me off.

420 We will survive the loss of urinals.

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Sides which, we'll still have sinks.

441....I will write about it some soon.

That could be perilous for you, Truman.

I don't remember the candidate's name, myself....but I remember you posting a link one time which ID'd him.

If you ever want to work on another campaign, with anyone, it's probably not a good idea to do a post about it.

You never know who lurks here and reads.

Posted by: soothsayer, of the Wolverines at July 17, 2012 11:37 AM (3RjNU)

Yeah, but he probably plays a shitload of Dead or Alive and Tekken.  Maybe he picked up some of those moves.

449....Union workers are going to have to wise up.

They should be demanding audits of their Pension accounts.....all of them, all across the country.

Union bosses have been donating millions to the Dems.

Where do they take that money from?

400 Yesterday I caught a few minutes of Varney just crushing a leftist who was defending Obama's economic policies. I was embarrassed for the lib. He probably went home and slit his wrists.

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Nonsense. He probably thinks he crushed Varney.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 17, 2012 11:34 AM (05RcU)

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Word.   I amaze people when I tell them I have NEVER seen an episode of Friends, Lost, Dancing With the Stars, American Idol, etc.

CBD, it could have been just for the meat. I'm not a huge lobster fan but if I had seen prices of $6 a pound I probably would have brought home a few crates!

For what it's worth, the signs also advertised crabs, clams and mussels "at market price". I guess you had to stop in to find out what that price was.

In the side-bar....in Ben's news dump links:

"The Incredible Bane Jobs Machine"

That should probably be....'Bain'....not 'Bane'.

Posted by: DaveA at July 17, 2012 11:44 AM (yVsIQ)

Maybe the navy needs to invest in Chlorox tablets...you put them in the tank, they last about a month, probably less with a lot of people flushing and they not only keep things sparkling clean but they appear to even breakdown feminine products that idiot visitors throw in the bowl.

@ 372 - My role in the relationship is to sit down, shut up, stop "judging" her poor life choices and answer the phone within the first two rings when she needs bail at 11pm on a Friday night.

She sounds like she's living the AoS lifestyle.  She busy tonight?

"Hope Betsy II hasn't given up the ghost after 22 years and 237K. Wish me luck that it's something cheap and easy to fix like a broken rotor button or something. "

When was the last time you checked your muffler bearings?

I was unwinding and watching a Nazi Occult documentary on the Military Channel.  During the breaks, they were advertising that they would be showing the on-air fellatio of Brian Williams about the Greatest Act of Heroism Ever Accomplished By a President.  Bamster should have waited until October 2011 to have killed the Bin Laden. 

Guys, I'm concerned about the military--I checked out the Air Force Slimes during my UTA this weekend and saw the headline that the military vote could swing the election.  There should be no question about the military vote (except for the blacks).  I used to think that there were like-minded men who cared about the Republic in the ranks, who would engage in an overthrow of the government before allowing it to be led by a tyrant.  I would think there would be no question in their minds about the way to proceed...I fear the transition we worried about in the 1990s is complete. 

If Romney should win, he should conduct a Stalinesque blood purge of the flag ranks. 

"They were in the hot sun losing money and I was having a blast at work.

That gave me lol."

I enjoy the occassional strikes the union workers will stage at my place of employment every so often.

The parking is great.  And the  home-made signs, though few in number, are ironic-comedy-gold.  Which is probably why the union usually forces everyone to use the pre-printed (union labor, natch) signs.

I am only sad that I do not have any production prior-experience to offer as a temporary worker.  If I get called-in to fill a job from the strike, I'll probably get something in Sanitation.  Which I would  still do proudly, I will say.

I'd hate to be the one to break it to the union guys, but every time the strike, they only galvanize the rest of us as anti-union.

"Maybe the navy needs to invest in Chlorox tablets..."

I'm sure they would love to use something as easy and effective as that.  Care to be the first to tell all the tree-huggers that the entire Navy fleet now flushes Clorox back into the oceans every time someone in the crew takes a leak?

The reason they blow tons of money into researching "citric acid powders" isn't because they never heard of Clorox.  It's because  whatever they ultimately use needs to be completely inert from a biological standpoint within a reasonable period of time,  or they wind up with a massive PR nightmare.

I mean, they are currently getting hated on for "deafening the poor whales" with  sonar, fur fuck's sake...

I close the threads around here.

Well, me and the spambots.

Mostly the spambots.