1 I'm going to run out of lifespan before these assholes run out of stupidity.

2 The real unemployment hasn't been less that 15% since Obama took office.  It is probably around 21% to 25% now.

3 I have a theory that during the last couple months of election a significant number of O. voters lied when polled about their unemployment status.  In order to make their guy look better.

4 wow you read my mind! I was just thinking the exact same thing.

5 merde

6

it's a skill with application outside of gaming (though those applications are kind of limited, too).

 

Might get you laid. Still seems easier to buy skanks drinks instead though.

7 LOL, Ace I took 4 years of Spanish in school. I used to be able to speak it very well.  Also learned some Tagalog in the Philippines.


I can't say shit in either language right now except a few curse words. 

8 >>>I'm having a difficult time ratcheting myself up for "Just get yourself to January 2017, and then we're on easy street, baby." See you in your nightmares!

9 Oooh, that Radio Lingua looks great!   I've been dying to try and get a little familiarity with Russian,   and bulk up what little I know of Japanese.   I suppose I should toss some romance languages in there, too, though speaking French makes me feel like I've got a huge snot ball in my throat.  

10 I think it's time to find happiness in pursuing your hobby as a prepper. Hey, tinning foods is fun! Wow let's learn to use this gun, awesome! I love researching large water tanks. Oh great, a good recipe for those giant bags of beans and wheat.

11

@3

 

Why do that when its so much easier to lie in the department of labor.

12 If things pretty much stay the same with economy, I'm not sure we'll be able to beat Hillary if she runs. I'm not even sure we'll beat Biden in 2016. The only way we'll win the White House is if the economy tanks. Wonderful, eh? Eight years of recession and we still might not be rid of a Democrat in the White House.

13 Time for another $800 billion stimulus plan.

14 Better be learning Chinese and what ever those guys who drive those funky cars around the Australian outback with Mel Gibson speak.

15 Four more years. Think about that. America is serving a medium-term prison sentence. It's for Larceny, you know stealing the futures of our children and grandchioldren.

16

"Four more years. Think about that. America is serving a medium-term prison sentence."

 

Yeah, Ace.

When can we apply for Parole?

 

I think we need a 'Countdown'...so we can mark off the days.

 

17

Unemployment suddenly dropped to below the Administration's chosen benchmark of 8% just before the election, and suddenly shot up to well past 8% just after the elecetion.  Yeah.

 

Anbody cretinous enough to fall for this scam should be institutionalized. They are a threat to themselves and others.

 

And of coures, if they can game one statistic, they can game any statistic. The official figures are not to be believed. A time-honored banana republic tradition.

18 I'm going to run out of lifespan before these assholes run out of stupidity.

We've got enough stupidity in reserve to survive your great grandkids.

19 >>>13 Time for another $800 billion stimulus plan. And please only spend half of it on 'Brought to you By the Stimulus' roadsigns this time.

20 >>America is serving a medium-term prison sentence

Oh trust me, shortly after release there will be parole violations and back in the slammer we will be.

21 Bullshit Ace. go back to porn. It's the only thing with heart.

22 Still seems easier to buy skanks drinks instead though. Two words: Faked accent.

23 But I know the economy will tank. I have not a doubt that by 2014 we'll be in a deep recession. So we got that going for us, which is just friggin great.

24 >>>This is part of the reason I'm encouraging people to look to other things for happiness. I know it's going to be very difficult for me to get through this. For the past four years I've had a mindset of "Just get to January 13, 2013, and then it's all smooth sailing." I'm having a difficult time ratcheting myself up for "Just get yourself to January 2017, and then we're on easy street, baby." I felt this too, which is why in between working 60hrs a week, getting a second Master's degree and making babies, I'm going to write a cookbook.

25 Since the election I have withdrawn from following politics completely in favor of focusing on my work, my art, and my family. My life satisfaction and happiness has soared, even though some would say that we (personally) are going through hard times. Ace, your "happiness" posts after the election helped me reassess how I wanted to live. And although you have lost a regular reader (I only peek in here once or twice a week), I still appreciate how your happiness approach helped me reconsider things.

26 >>>>This is part of the reason I'm encouraging people to look to other things for happiness. I know it's going to be very difficult for me to get through this. ace, don't listen to the cranks who tell you only to post about politics.

27 I've been miserable and hopeless since the election.  I'm still looking for an alternate source of happiness.  The problem is, I like doing creative things and it's pretty difficult to be creative if you're not feeling it.  Unless you're drunk, in which case it's often not all that creative the next morning.

28 I've been paying much less attention to politics and way more attention to reading and video games.  It's the only way I can stay sane.

29

Just get yourself to January 2017, and then we're on easy street, baby




Hahahahah!

Posted by: Clinton/Coumo 2016

30

13 Time for another $800 billion stimulus plan.

 

$800 billion is sooo 2009ish.

 

They're counting in Trillions now.

 

31

Well, out of the chaos of the english civil war came the enlightenment. Of course, the dark ages came after the fall of Rome....

 

What comes after the fall of the enlightenment?

32

Good advice about seeking hapiness elsewhere, because...

 

CHICAGO WILL NEVER LET GO OF WASHINGTON!!!

 

Ever!  In 2016 it will be Michelle or Rahm or some other Chitown crook running in the "election".  Actually, if Obama gets to replace a couple of the conservative supremes (watch your back Clarence) he'll just have them declare the 22nd amendment as invalid and "run" again.

 

The Republic is gone.

33 Of course it's above 8%. The Feds, which obama and his hunta control, fixed the numbers and the MSM was in on it. And that's no conspiracy theory, it's the truth and we all know it. Fucked up but true

34 Do they have a Coffee Break Vulcan for the nerds that hang out in the weekend gaming threads?

35 Yeah, I guess learning to speak Frog would make it easier when surrendering.

36 I felt this too, which is why in between working 60hrs a week, getting a second Master's degree and making babies, I'm going to write a cookbook.

Posted by: taylork at December 06, 2012 04:00 PM (ppNDn)

 

Keeping busy!  

 

What kind of cookbook are you planning to write?  

37

>>I'm not sure why I'm doing this but there is an element in satisfaction to it, kind of like leveling up in a video game...

 

I'd be a lot better a foreign languages if there was an RPG element to them.

38 I'm having a difficult time ratcheting myself up for "Just get yourself to January 2017, and then we're on easy street, baby."


By 2016 you'll look back on 2013 as the Golden Age.

39 >>>35 Do they have a Coffee Break Vulcan for the nerds that hang out in the weekend gaming threads? Did they ever actually speak Vulcan on any of the shows?

40 I want to discuss Naomi Judd's puffy breasts.  Non-political stuff like that.

41 Duolingo. 

42 And I was certain Hillary would never again, but now I dunno. 57% say they're okay with her running in 2016. We'll know in a few months if she's running or not.

43 Whatever....... I won bitches!

44 I learned a lot of Japanese from Japanesepod101.com. It's a similar podcast concept.

45 I'm writing a book. A conservative publisher is interested in it. It is a dystopia about overreaching gov't. It's fun. My heroine is fleeing from the awful govt drones all around the UK right now. Pretty entertaining dreaming it all up.

46 Hey, polly vu.  Baguette. 

47 Est-ca je peux vous dorker en la pooter?

48

Tres bien, Ace!

Ou va tu au j'hour-dui?

49 Beau coups denero.

50 I love French and understand quite a bit. Took it for 5 years in secondary school but that was a while ago. I'm doing a livemocha French course, but I'll check this one out. I've kind of given up hope that anything good is going to happen in the economy or culture, so >8% unemployment? Meh. I do feel sorry for all those affected, but only those who didn't vote for the Zero. I do understand that some people who have been unemployed for years may have been psychologically scarred and voted for zero as a perceived means of survival. I may have a smidgen of pity for those ones.

51 I'm writing a book. A conservative publisheris interested in it. It is a dystopia about overreaching gov't. It's fun. My heroine is fleeing from the awful govt drones all around the UK right now. Pretty entertaining dreaming it all up.

Posted by: Janetoo at December 06, 2012 04:02 PM (PROOX)

 

... This is fiction, right?   Sometimes it's just so hard to tell.  

 

 

52 Carpe feminam.

53 What kind of cookbook are you planning to write?

One in Kanamit.

54 Carpe pudenda.

55 >>>Ou va tu au j'hour-dui? je ne vais pas jemains.

56

>>America is serving a medium-term prison sentence<<

 

So that's why my ass hurts.

57 This topic does not interest me.

58 Elections have consequences.

59 Maybe I'll take up latin. Best thing about that is it makes you sound smart and not many people can tell when you fuck up.

60 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor

61 Elections have consequences is an understatement. An ignorant electorate leaves us open to four more years of bypassing congress, and lying to the people. Obama Bypassing Congress on Guns? http://nation.foxnews.com/gun-control/2012/12/06/obama-bypassing-congress-guns results? black market

62 How's the book coming Ace? Sci-Fi right?

63

Il-ya du monde dans la balcone.

64 I really would love to put some of my subversive art ideas into practice.   Dammit, why wasn't I born with an artistic bone in my body?   I'd call my webstore "Subversive Art: Stand Up to the Man," and it would be FULL of political art pieces that were humiliating to every bastard on the left or center left of the aisle, and a few on the center right, for that matter.    I'd sell them for low, low prices,   too, to get them out the door and into homes and galleries everywhere.

65 that wasn't right. I don't know how to say "anywhere" yet. Apparently I should have said, Je ne vais nulle part.

66 So, let's see - unemployment went up even during the holiday seasonal hiring stretch, Obamacare-related layoffs have yet to reach top speed, and the biggest season for consumer-related spending (any guesses on how strong it will be this year?) ends shortly... Just wait for the jobs and economic data by April. All I can do is laugh at these fuckstains now.

67 "America is serving a medium-term prison sentence."

Murder in California often gives the perpetrator less of a sentence.

68 >>>60 Maybe I'll take up latin. Best thing about that is it makes you sound smart and not many people can tell when you fuck up. All the pretentious douchebags I've ever known speak latin and work latin phrases into every day conversation to show how smart they are. It's a cock-punching magnet.

69 If you were an alien from an advanced civilization who came here to collect humans for food, would you really be dumb enough to bring along a cookbook?  When a cowboy rounds up the herd does he bring a recipe for Beef Wellington?

Advanced aliens, my ass.

70 Yeah Ace I am kinda down too. Instead of embracing something worthwhile or finding a new hobby, I am simply going to go full on old man bitter. I am going to find enjoyment in the ass fucking everyone in this country is going to get because of this asshole. They voted for this shit, so let them all enjoy it, good and hard. Personally I am doing very well, and knock on wood will continue to do so. Unlike alot of my college age friends I have had a job during this downturn, and my resume has been filling out. In addition to veterans preferences I might add. So fuck em, I will enjoy hearing the stories of a shitty economy, people getting screwed over, and the national debt going up over 20 trillion. The thing that galls me is that this was fucking choosen. It did not have to happen.

71 The MFM is all set to blame it on Hurricane Sandy. Because a storm that hit a small part of the country affected unemployment across the entire nation for an entire month

72 Watching this country turn into a communist sh*thole was not on my life's goals list. Sorry founders, I really admire all that "sacred honor" stuff, but I'm not made of your stuff. I'm gonna go find a huge pile of sand, stick my head in it, and live life like a lib.

73 @baseballcrank
Leading liberal blog: "The President says he wonÂ’t negotiate. And I believe him." http://is.gd/Vz6uI5

Link goes to Talking Poops Memo

So the Left is admitting the Zero is a fraud and we're still supposed to think that the GOP must be the bad guy here?

74 What burns my ass the most is the Republicans only talk about UE and jobs on the day of the reports. It's like oh, by the way, Obama is really bad for jobs, and stuff.

75

Just remember-those BLS folks who came up with the stats right before the election are a bunch of trained professionals.  No way they could be suborned and cook the books.  They are bureaucrats ie. incorruptible.

76 Medium prison term?  I think Ace has too optimistic of a view regarding the future.

77 I think that if JFK Jr hadn't assholed himself to death, Hillary/JFK2 would be P/VP until 2017, JFK2/Obama would have been in until 2025, and Obama would be president until 2033.

So really, it's like we've been paroled.

78 >>>How's the book coming Ace? Sci-Fi right? It had been coming okay, then I had some really bad sleep apnea (that's part of the reason I've been so crappy in my writing lately, and making all sorts of grammatical errors -- my head is barely working on many days). I'm getting that fixed with the CPAP machine.

79 "Unemployment Shoots Back Up Over 8% —Ace I can't believe TFG is still president." I can. The media completely covered his ass for him. Didn't we all know that the unemployment numbers would get worse right after the election? Talk to anyone who works in a business where they have to start dealing with that huge, stinking pile of crap Obamacare bill. It's not being administrated well by the administration. Deadlines are hitting, and no one knows what the hell is going on, or how to implement the requirements of the deadlines. Health care premioums are shooting up. Employers are going to respond to the bill by cutting hours, avoiding growth, or laying people off. I've been pissed since the idiot voters reelected the guy who inflicted all of this on us, and I am letting loose on any liberal who dares to bitch about inflation, gas prices, unemployment, crappy schools, high credit card rates, etc. Yeah, a couple of people are afraid to talk to me, and that just makes me proud. My respons

80 I'm writing a book (sporadically, in my free time) about how we need to get people to understand that giving the government the power to take my property rights means giving the government the power to take away *their* property rights.  Well, "book" is a bit of a grand title.  I imagine it'll come out somewhere south of 100 pages.

After that's done, I have a fantasy book begging to be written.

81 Keeping busy! What kind of cookbook are you planning to write? Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at December 06, 2012 04:01 PM (4df7R) Just stuff I make on a day to day basis that people seem to love when I share it with them. I work from home while my wife brings in leftover lunch that apparently makes her co-wokers jealous. Between the two of us, we spend $30-50 on groceries a week, so my focus is typically on things that are cheap, cost efficient, or the most part healthy, and delicious.

82 If you were an alien from an advanced civilization who came here to collect humans for food, would you really be dumb enough to bring along a cookbook? When a cowboy rounds up the herd does he bring a recipe for Beef Wellington?

Advanced aliens, my ass.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 06, 2012 04:06 PM (QKKT0)

 

I could understand bringing a cookbook, but why a cookbook IN ENGLISH?   Why    not a cookbook in alien lingo?     Cowboy's don't bring along recipes written in cowspeak.

83

je ne vais pas jemains.

C'est demains, n'est-ce pas?

84 French got any good swear words?

85 Yes, a stupid and ignorant electorate plays right into the leftard hand. Thus their desire for near complete control of the educational system. A stupid and ignorant electorate is A Zero electorate. Now he will bail out Detroit, whose schools graduate the illiterate, and who went 75% for da Zero.

86

I was always a pretty good singer, but have been of the opinion that male singers who don't also play an instrument are pretty ghey, so I took it upon myself to teach myself to play guitar a few years ago. I'm at the point now where I can pretty easily play any chords and rhythm parts and sing along.

 

I had planned on opening a restaurant next year following the defeat of the JEF. Got an unemployed friend who is a kick ass chef and money that's been burning a hole in my pocket. Well, fuck that operating a business shit now. Instead I bought me a brand new Fender Stratocaster. What's cooler than being able to sing and competently play guitar? How about being able to sing and shred the guitar? So I've also spent the last month 'leveling-up' as it were. I might have learned French as well, but I don't want to for the same reason I don't like singing without playing the guitar.

87 >>>70 If you were an alien from an advanced civilization who came here to collect humans for food, would you really be dumb enough to bring along a cookbook? When a cowboy rounds up the herd does he bring a recipe for Beef Wellington? Advanced aliens, my ass. Wait, there's still MORE space dust on here!

88 >>>Il-ya du monde dans la balcone. There is your world in the balcony?

89 Hawaii here I come! WOOT WOOT!!!

90
Most of the places you want to go to be taxed less speak Spanish, not French.

91 All the pretentious douchebags I've ever known speak latin and work latin phrases into every day conversation to show how smart they are.

It's a cock-punching magnet.

Carpe scrotum.

92 I just finished my forth day at work after 5 years of stay-at-home Dad and college to become a teacher. I was quickly scooped up by a company that works with GE Nuke. Iam going to be rebuilding control rod drives. There is work out there but you have to have a little common sense, some background in a trade and be able to pass a drug screening and a background check. Those last two? Drugs and felony convictions? Make it hard for some high end emplyees to find people. There is a lot of fucked up people out there.

93 And the good news just keeps on coming.

America needs the full Obama!

LiB

94 Permettre de brûler.

95 "...Just get to 2013 and happy days are here again...."
Nah, the Dark Ages have come, Ace. Rome has fallen, but not everyone's noticed yet. But - people you can still get laid, Valu-Rite drank, hobos skinned. Fiddles will be played as we Let It Burn.

96 Ace, no amount of jumping and shouting changes the fact that most Americans are fucking delighted with Obama.  Americans who live traditional lives - marriage, kids, church, mortgage, college - are to be punished to the fullest extent of the law; and then the law will be changed to allow more punishment.
I urge you, as I urge my four kids, to stay low, move fast, stay in cash businesses and avoid contact with the regulatory authorities. The trends are impossible to ignore.
If I had it to do over again I'd be dealing drugs instead of med school.

97 The only way we'll win the White House is if the economy tanks. Wonderful, eh? Eight years of recession and we still might not be rid of a Democrat in the White House.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2012 03:58 PM (jUytm)

Wadda ya talkin about?  If the Economy tanks, then that's an excuse to declare a national emergency, nationalize everything, start more government pump-priming jobs programs and slap down any dissenters.

Doesn't anyone remember what Stalin did to the farmers who didn't want to support Communism?

98 By 2017, dependency on Big Government might be too high for any Republican to ever be elected again.

Let It Burn

99 The enlightenment was sparked by Baruch Spinoza after he was rescued from death by a cannonball by Rebecca, wife of Mike Stearns. 

100 Carpe scrotum. Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at December 06, 2012 04:08 PM (+lsX1) LOL

101

It's a cock-punching magnet.

Carpe scrotum.

102 je ne compre pas. Je pondre qui "jemains" est Anglais pour "never."

103 There is your world in the balcony?

The white tiger guards the sleigh.

104 My respons

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 06, 2012 04:07 PM (C0pH1)

 

*gasp*    The CIA drones got nerdygirl!!

105

"I'm having a difficult time ratcheting myself up for "Just get yourself to January 2017, and then we're on easy street, baby.""

 

What makes you think there'll be a change of status quo in 2017?  We're talking about Marxist socialists here, committed revolutionaries. You think they'll give up power it took decades to acquire as the result of a free and fair election?

 

Engineer an economic crisis. Use media to successfully blame Republicans for crisis. Use crisis to expand and consolidate power. Repeat as necessary.

 

There is no stepping away, Ace. We can't go tend our own little gardens. They own our gardens, or soon will.

106 I met someone from the BLS back in July. Hippie scum and reeked of patchouli. Late 50's, self-centered, dyed-in-the-wool lib. I wish I was lying.

107 That's why the move to Heritage Foundation baffles me How in the heck is the obscure and bubbled Heritage Foundation gonna educate people about conservatism? Rush asked them today about reaching low-information voters, i.e., stupid people. They had no answer.

108

Unfortunately my childhood hobby of prepping is all the rage now.  I am kind of selfishly pissed that everyone is doing it now. 

 

How can I be the last man standing if everyone is prepping for the end of the world ! 

109 Think about that. America is serving a medium-term prison sentence. --- The better analogy is committed to a looney bin. And not a nice one but one where people are chained walls and are lucky to get swill.

110 Sorta' OT confession

I've spent much of the last 4 years in a alcohol and marijuana induced walking coma. Typically from 10pm til 2am I drink and smoke until I pass out. Much like my forefathers, I am a high (heh) functioning drug abuser so I've maintained employment as well as my maintained a good family life, once everyone hits the rack, I hit the pipe. I'm quitting b/c I've stagnated nad I'm a person who typically achieves things, I want to return to that.

Here's my fear - Even with the calming effects of pot, I'm furious at the direction of our country and the attitude of my countrymen. I'm not certain how I'll cope with what I expect will be previously unknown levels of rage and possibly despair. On the other hand, pot is definitely holding me back and perhaps a few achievements will restore my esteem and good nature. Worth a shot at least.

111 Forward.

112 The shooting sports are both relaxing and useful. You can clean and tinker for hours when not blasting hot death at something or other. Just saying.

113

There is your world in the balcony?

There's a crowd in the balcony. It's colloquial.

It would be used to describe Christian Hendricks.

114 What I find fascinating is that the people who voted for TFG are youngish people who are having difficulty finding decent paying full time jobs. A lot of employed people are actually underemployed and scraping by. I don't think that they understand that the guy who is pandering to illegal aliens isn't helping their employment prospects.

115 ace, don't listen to the cranks who tell you only to post about politics.

Posted by: Eaton Cox at December 06, 2012 04:00 PM (q177U)

If we're in LIB mode we might as well just focus on movie reviews and fart jokes.

Eaton Cox

116 Fuck learning French, I'm gonna learn me some chinese

117

I'm getting that fixed with the CPAP machine.

Posted by: ace at December 06, 2012 04:07 PM (LCRYB

--------------

It saved my life. SLEEP Apnea is nothing to fool around with.

118 By 2017, dependency on Big Government might be too high for any Republican to ever be elected again.

Au contraire, mon frere. Not when ze Republicanz weel govvern just like ze deemocratz.

119 Apparentment, je dus ecriter "jamais."

120 Posted by: BuckIV at December 06, 2012 04:11 PM (gedHR)

Can I buy some pot from you?

121 Totally off topic, but a referee was killed by 3 'youths' in Holland and almost no news agencies are reporting the ethnicity of said youths. (Moroccan) ..and the Dutch response?...in sleepy little villages they are now schooling the kids on how to deal with aggression on the soccer field. I cannot believe how the elephant in the room is ignored.

122 Inflation?  Rising gas prices?

Crude oil is at $86/bbl now after peaking at $147 while Bush was president.

Coal and natural gas are less than 1/2 old highs.

Seriously, get a grip.  Inflation is almost dead.

123 88 >>>70 If you were an alien from an advanced civilization who came here to collect humans for food, would you really be dumb enough to bring along a cookbook? When a cowboy rounds up the herd does he bring a recipe for Beef Wellington? Why shouldn't they bring it? They got everything they wanted and guessed correctly that they would.

124 Since the election I have withdrawn from following politics completely in favor of focusing on my work, my art, and my family. My life satisfaction and happiness has soared, even though some would say that we (personally) are going through hard times. Ace, your "happiness" posts after the election helped me reassess how I wanted to live. And although you have lost a regular reader (I only peek in here once or twice a week), I still appreciate how your happiness approach helped me reconsider things.

Posted by: freemo at December 06, 2012 04:00 PM (76iZ2)

I am with you on this. My relentless search through political websites of the latest news have become much more sparse, and i've undertaken to reduce my online presence significantly. I am turning my attention more to projects and making more money (something I never cared much about till lately) in an effort to get ahead of the tidal wave as much as possible.

We should all make more efforts to look to ourselves and our families.

125 >>>It saved my life. SLEEP Apnea is nothing to fool around with. I hope so. When I'm further along I'll write about it for anyone who might need to get it checked out. At the moment I'm just at the start of the process.

126 I cannot believe how the elephant in the room is ignored. Posted by: RondinellaMamma at December 06, 2012 04:12 PM (53riN) PC will kill us all

127 Posted by: BuckIV at December 06, 2012 04:11 PM (gedHR) Good for you. The sober life is well, well, oh shit, I have no idea, can I get a little help here?

128 Inflation is almost dead. Your mommy buys your groceries, doesn't she?

129 I;m changing my life.
I took up shooting. I'm moving out of California forever. I'm going to try to be happy no matter how bad it gets (because I own guns.)

130 I don't think that they understand that the guy who is pandering to illegal aliens isn't helping their employment prospects.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 06, 2012 04:12 PM (C0pH1)

The largest percentage of people who voted for the JEF are the FSB.

131 /poop appears on thread's floor

132 Once I've mastered that bitch I'll move on to the one I really want to learn, Italian. ___________ LOL! MAstering that bitch will take long time. In Soviet Obama gulag-- French masters--you!

133 Speaking of hobbies, I discovered a fun podcast from Radio Lingua. They do a bunch of different shows -- Coffee Break Spanish, Coffee Break French, Coffee Break Italian, Coffee Break German -- where the idea is that they'll give you a language lesson in 15-20 minutes. Hence, "Coffee Break." Comes in handy pre-travel. I have traveled a lot, and it was always fun to learn a bit of the language pre-travel. Germany was too much, so I was glad they all mostly spoke English. France, they are condescending no matter how hard you try while visiting... esp the restaurants. (I did work there for a bit, too, but we were all under the same corporation, so it was a happy fest). Italy - will love you and smile while you try. Ireland (I lived in Dublin for a while for work) -- you just have to learn to drink in smoke filled bars every night after work... Along with the translation dictionary, the Fodor's and Frommer's travel guides were really helpful to play with languages. There are usually common language sections in the back of the book. They used every day terms and sentences, and also showed how to pronounce them. Invaluable, as they catered to the culture, as well.

134 By the way, I started doing Coffee Break French in 2010 when I was in the Persian Gulf. Very entertaining. Mark (the instructor) and his friends from Scotland are very interesting. Yes, the French teacher has a Scottish accent.

135 I'm getting that fixed with the CPAP machine.
Posted by: ace at December 06, 2012 04:07 PM (LCRYB


Can I tell you about the benefits of a reverse mortgage?

136
What comes after the fall of the enlightenment?

Posted by: Jollyroger at December 06, 2012 04:01 PM (t06LC)

It's a cycle.

Tytler. Alex Tytler.

137 Remember when Jack Welch tweeted about the job numbers being phony? What a stupid dummy head that guy is. Geez.

138 I really thought it might be almost over and JEPOS would be freeing felons by the score at this point in December.

139 Gonna move to the country first chance we get and turn my back on the world.

140 I could understand bringing a cookbook, but why a cookbook IN ENGLISH? Why not a cookbook in alien lingo?

It was in alien lingo.  That was the twist at the end of the episode--the first part had finally been translated.

141 How do you say "Let It Burn" in French?

142 >>>. Mark (the instructor) and his friends from Scotland are very interesting. I'm a big fan of Anna. When she's not there, it's hardly worth listening to.

143 99 By 2017, dependency on Big Government might be too high for any Republican to ever be elected again.

Let It Burn

Posted by: Norcross at December 06, 2012 04:09 PM (MbUq6)

---------------------------

Unfortunately, we're already there.  I don't believe any Republican will be able to get into the White House until we have full and complete collapse.  But, at that point it will obviously be too late.   Burn.  Let it.

144 Sockray blue?

145 Ooh, cool, new, nearly nekkid hash!

146 I cannot believe how the elephant in the room is ignored.

The problem is that this elephant could go berserk at any moment, and no one wants to be the one that sets it off.  Of course, it goes berserk at random moments anyway- but no one wants to volunteer to be the one to get stomped.

Your mommy buys your groceries, doesn't she?

And probably pays for its electricity.

147 Ace, here's a good source for language education material, in this case Latin (primarily) and French. The guy who puts these together is a teacher in London who releases this material at very low cost. The Latin stuff usually comes with an accompanying text free of charge; I believe the French course comes with the same. (Haven't taken it yet; Latin is more my thing and his Latin material is first-rate.) Might be worth a look. Latin: http://tinyurl.com/c3kht75 French: http://tinyurl.com/bnvak3r

148 I can speak French and Latin.
I'm moving on to Italian.
Fuck Spanish.

149 PC will kill us all

PC is a purposeful cultural outgrowth of Marxism. That little scamp Marx gets everywhere!

150 At the moment I'm just at the start of the process. It's important to get a mask that fits comfortably. You may have to go through a couple of different manufacturers and models. I bought on of those with the "gel" schnozz piece and I don't like it at all. Going to have to go back to the floofy one.

151

@123

Nah, if the price of oil were determined by demand like they were during Bush, we would be north of $160 a barrel.

Preciesely what is keeping prices as high as they are is inflation. We have a glut of oil and nat gas right now, so much that we're looking to turn our import terminals into export terminals.

Buy an AK, they jumped about $200 in the last few years due to inflation alone.

152 Of course it's above 8%. The Feds, which obama and his hunta control, fixed the numbers and the MSM was in on it. And that's no conspiracy theory, it's the truth and we all know it. Fucked up but true

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 06, 2012 04:01 PM (79ueO)

I thought this when I first heard that it had dropped. "Of course it did, I said to myself." (and anyone else who would listen.)

153 2017, damn that feels like infinity right now.

154 Doho bugnao San Miguel, palihug!

155 I've started working out a lot over the past couple of weeks.  I'm sore as hell but I feel great.  Now if I would just cut back on the drinking I would probably feel amazing and start to really lose weight.

156 I don't know how to say let it burn but I think I'd be somewhere in the neighborhood with Laissez son brule.

157 The problem with recreational shooting is that it burns up ammo I might need to dissuade leftists when TSHTF and they expect me to do something other than sit on the porch eating a slab of pie while watching them skin and eat each other.

158

je ne compre pas.

Je pondre qui "jemains" est Anglais pour "never."

Je ne cromprends pas.

'jamais' = never

'demains' = tomorrow  -*-*- pronuncitation of this one is interesting

159 103 je ne compre pas. Je pondre qui "jemains" est Anglais pour "never." Posted by: ace who's only on lesson 48 at December 06, 2012 04:10 PM (LCRYB) ________________ Are you sure you don't mean-- Jermaine Jackson?

160 I'm going to run out of lifespan before these assholes run out of stupidity. Posted by: Wm T Sherman at December 06, 2012 03:55 PM (w41GQ) This is really all about our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, now.

161 I think some of the new aftermarket CPAP masks have an e-cig port. It's really the healthiest and most responsible way to smoke in bed.

162 Unless you're sleeping with someone who tells you that you stopped breathing, how do you know that you have sleep apnea?

163 Why learn a foreign language?

If you go to France or Italy, just speak English very very slow and loudly.  They'll understand you even if they pretend not to.

164 >>>117 Fuck learning French, I'm gonna learn me some chinese My girlfriend is Korean. I've told her she needs to learn Chinese so that when the inevitable happens she can claim that I'm just her white man-servant to our new Overlords.

165 Fuck Spanish.

Posted by: mpfs at December 06, 2012 04:16 PM (iYbLN)

Suit yourself.  They're your hedges.

166 Are you sure you don't mean--

Jermaine Jackson?

Little known fact: Tito is Spanish for... Tito.

167 Blessent mon cÂœur d'une langeur monotone

168 jim says let it burn is permettre de brûler. Permettrez de bruler? I don't know.

169 Speak the international language of MC, Visa and American Express.
Works every time.

170 If you go to France or Italy, just speak English very very slow and loudly. They'll understand you even if they pretend not to. Or just pull out a wad of cash, they all understand that.

171 Well, our brief Indian Summer is officially gone. It is overcast cold and the temps are dropping.  If I still lived in upstate NY I would say snow tonight.

172 "easy street" and "smooth sailing" were always unrealistic, Ace.

173 I'm forcing myself to watch youtube videos in French. Also French movies on Netflix could be useful. The Last Mistress-will help you bone up. Then--music on Pandora- Je recommend-- Gotan Project. Bon chance!

174 CÂ’est vraiment des conneries!

175 Ittekimasu, minna-san.      Dewa mata!

176 Fuck Spanish.


Posted by: mpfs at December 06, 2012 04:16 PM (iYbLN)

Suit yourself. They're your hedges.
Posted by: Your Gardener

If I had hedges I do them myself.

That sounds....wrong.

177 Still dealing with throat-clawing despair myself and, for the foreseeable future am limiting news and pop culture, except this site for sanity. Trying to refocus to personal wins--quit smoking the day after Ace's"you should quit smoking" post, so that is a big win, which I try to remind myself about often. Am also trying to rev up some other interests, I like the language idea Ace! Keep the suggestions coming they have helped a lot.

178 Well, our brief Indian Summer is officially gone. It is overcast cold and the temps are dropping. If I still lived in upstate NY I would say snow tonight. Posted by: Vic at December 06, 2012 04:19 PM (YdQQY) Hi Vic. My new Game CDRMs.

179 ma dapprima lei mi soffierà

180 CPAP masks . . . I'm partial to the Respironics (Philips) Simplicity.  Extremely light-weight.

181 Klaatu BarackO fucktus.

182 Speak the international language of MC, Visa and American Express.
Works every time.

You obviously haven't been to Nepal.

183 Looking for an old gun to refinish.

One that will take about four years.

184 Casse-toi!

185 >>>Unless you're sleeping with someone who tells you that you stopped breathing, how do you know that you have sleep apnea? well that's the big one. others include Waking up short of breath, or simply being tired all the time even after a good 8 hours of sleep, or waking up with bad headaches. very bad headaches upon waking up are a big sign your brain didn't get much oxygen while you were asleep.

186 I can't say shit in either language right now except a few curse words. Posted by: Vic at December 06, 2012 03:57 PM (YdQQY) I take it you do not have a landscaper/gardener... I had them when I lived in Southern Cal, and they did not speak one word of English.

187 I suppose we could take comfort in the fact that real unemployment in Greece is over 60%.

Yay.

188 CÂ’est vraiment des conneries!

Posted by: wheatie, learning to swear en Francais at December 06, 2012 04:20 PM (CM59X)

What about Sean?

189

Ore wa, kaizoku-ou ni naru otoko da!

 

That's about the limits of my mastery of Japanese.

190 Etlay itay urnbay, abybay.

191 Speak the international language of MC, Visa and American Express.
Works every time.

You obviously haven't been to Nepal.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)

Do they only take Discover?

192 those of you throwing french at me should know I'm still at that the Where is the house of Marc? stage.

193 "Unemployment Shoots Back Up Over 8%"

As I said before:

Victory in 2012 was in many ways a poisoned chalice.

If Romney had won, the avalanche of bad shit that is going to happen in 2013 would have paralyzed his ability to effect any long run change. He would have been forced into a tight nasty spiral of short term damage control.

What we need to work towards now is ensuring that the avalanche of bad shit that is going to happen in 2013 will paralyze OBAMA's ability to effect any long run change.

Biggest single way to paralyze Obama is to hit him relentlessly with detail. Drag him down into the mud and the weeds of policy specifics. Make him do math. On camera. He absolutely hates that stuff and he will start to flee for Hawaii and the golf course as soon as he can. From whence his ability to get stuff done will be greatly limited.

194

14 Better be learning Chinese ...

 

--------

 

Several years ago, I frequented a place called chinesepod.com. They had free 5 minute lessons that you could anonymously download. However, I think they noticed that I was methodically walking through their free lessons downloading a few gigabytes of stuff, because they went to an arrangement wherein you had to create an account (albeit free) before you could access their lessons.

 

I liked the thought of sneaking their lessons without letting the ChiComs know who I was...

 

195 169 jim says let it burn is permettre de brûler. Permettrez de bruler? I don't know. Posted by: ace at December 06, 2012 04:19 PM (LCRYB) _____________ Well there's the Cajun version which is more fun because it involves alcohol-- Laissez les burn temps rouler.

196 Do the hedges match the lawn?

197 Do they only take Discover?

Posted by: mpfs at December 06, 2012 04:22 PM (iYbLN)

Wait.  I thought nobody takes Discover.

198 "Obama Bypassing Congress on Guns? " And here's me saying "f**k you" to the hunters and gun-loving democrats in Michigan who voted for TFG. Those so-called supporters of our second amendment rights can bite me.

199 Babbel is a great language learning app that you can get for free. It is a mixture of audio and text, along with things like short vocab quizzes to help cement your knowledge.

200 well, fdr was reelected 3 times during great depression 1.0. I wonder about these spending levels though. I bet most federal agencies are just burying tons of $100 bills in their backyards because there's no way they're spending money this fast.

201 Or just pull out a wad of cash, they all understand that.

Wad of cash?  I just give them a quarter and a miniature American flag.  That's like a weeks salary to them.

If they curse at you or look disappointed, it's only because they were hoping for a bigger flag.

202 Donde esta la biblioteca, Pedro?

203

Posted by: mpfs at December 06, 2012 04:16 PM (iYbLN)

 

 

I have a sister-in-law who is half black/half latino (whatever) and she is expecting.  Anywho, she announced how she was going to be teaching her child to speak Spanish in the home.  My father looked at her and told her that "his grandchildren" would be speaking "English only" in his house.  Needless to say...she wasn't too happy.  LOL!

204

Ronald Wilson Reagan.  Tax rates at 28%. 

 

We never got to experience what could become of that though, because they only lasted for so long.

 

The lack of any concrete plans is astonishing by Republicans.  Put out a fucking plan on revenues that does not increase tax rates, the worst of all taxes is the income tax.

 

I would even change it and say my absolute top federal tax rate would be 33%.  Period.  And that starts at $500k per year and is indexed to inflation.

205

9 I've been dying to try and get a little familiarity with Russian...

 

---------

 

I also poked about RussianPod101.com for a while. However, I found that they didn't have anything at my level. They had plenty of stuff for beginners and for advanced folks, but pretty much nothing intermediate.

 

'Course, I was foolish enough to let them know who I was, so I still get spam from them begging me to sign up for their premium stuff.

 

206 Biggest single way to paralyze Obama is to hit him relentlessly with detail. Drag him down into the mud and the weeds of policy specifics. Make him do math. On camera. He absolutely hates that stuff and he will start to flee for Hawaii and the golf course as soon as he can. From whence his ability to get stuff done will be greatly limited.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 06, 2012 04:22 PM (ymG7s)

MFM: Like we're going to let our hero get into the mud

207

I had them when I lived in Southern Cal, and they did not speak one word of English.

"I can't pay you this week."

208 Anyone feel like puking?

http://tinyurl.com/b8z6963

Sorry if it's a repeat.

209 There's a funny Spanish phrasebook out there with the really useful phrases like I'm sorry, Officer. I had no idea that was illegal. Can I just pay you the fine? and The hooker was dead when I checked in, I swear it!

210

very bad headaches upon waking up are a big sign your brain didn't get much oxygen while you were asleep.

 

Heh! Posted on a forum inhabited by alcoholics.

211 My favorite French word is lagniappe. The 13th doughnut in a baker's dozen -- that's lagniappe.
 
An ace double post -- that's comment lagniappe.

212 >>>Also French movies on Netflix could be useful. oui oui, je regarde la cinema francais en Netflix, mais je ne compre pas toujours. (??? -- I don't understand enough yet, at the moment it's useless) >>>The Last Mistress-will help you bone up. I'll look for that. I'm watching this dumb CSI: Paris show called "Spiral."

213 Seriously, get a grip. Inflation is almost dead. Posted by: Herbert Hymenhopper at December 06, 2012 04:13 PM (vjq6E) What fucking planet are you on? I hope it's in this system because I can cock slap you from here. Inflation, lower median wages and persistently high unemployment just killed my business, dickhead. All things that didn't occur during the Bush admin. GFY

214 Speaking of ...

"A chlorine gas leak that sickened nearly 200 people at a Tyson Foods plant in Arkansas last year happened because a worker who couldn't read the English-language label on a barrel of chemicals inadvertently poured bleach into it, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report released Thursday."

Yay.

215 Is nobody interested in Esperanto? Doesn't world peace through mutual understanding have any allure today?

216 >>> Babbel is a great language learning app that you can get for free. It is a mixture of audio and text, along with things like short vocab quizzes to help cement your knowledge. i'll look for that.

217 Looking for an old gun to refinish.

One that will take about four years.>>

Here's the perfect project for you.

DIY-Shovel-AK  http://tinyurl.com/chuc4ku

218 165 >>>117 Fuck learning French, I'm gonna learn me some chinese China will collapse before we do, and then again about a decade from bow. They are colossally fucked.

219 >>>I'm having a difficult time ratcheting myself up for "Just get yourself to January 2017, and then we're on easy street, baby."

I'm sorry. But if one thing became patently clear in November, we may win an election, maybe, her and there, but there is no future easy street for us. No near victory that will allow us to relax. If we are lucky, 15-20 years from now will be easier years. I don't know where you will find it Ace, as I don't know where I will find it, the perseverance to continue what will be a very long struggle, with no chance to rest. I sincerely hope you find that will. I think the work you do here is important for the direction we must go to be successful.

220 I really would love to put some of my subversive art ideas into practice. Dammit, why wasn't I born with an artistic bone in my body? I'd call my webstore "Subversive Art: Stand Up to the Man," and it would be FULL of political art pieces that were humiliating to every bastard on the left or center left of the aisle, and a few on the center right, for that matter. I'd sell them for low, low prices, too, to get them out the door and into homes and galleries everywhere.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at December 06, 2012 04:06 PM (4df7R)

 

You engage an artist. Most of my commercial freelance work has consisted of non-artistic people giving me rough concept drafts and taking it from there. The weakness in your plan is that 'low, low prices' part of the business model. No one appreciates low prices in art. No one. If I purposefully lowball a project bid, the client thinks they're going to get substandard work.

221

those of you throwing french at me should know I'm still at that the Where is the house of Marc? stage.

10th grade, here.

Marc est a la piscine.

222 Posted by: ace at December 06, 2012 04:22 PM (LCRYB)

Va te faire enculer.

223 You want some good French swear words- Starters-- Esti! Tabernak! Chris' de Calvaire. Calice. And with that--I'm off!

224 Learning French?

Dood, I worry about you.

225 Slim chance = fat chance

I demand an explanation.

226 Fuck them ferners, speak english or get the fuck out.

227 I started spending less time on blogs, newspaper websites a few years back after SCOAMF Vs. 1.0 was launched. It's been much more enjoyable for someone who considered himself a political junkie. I tend to be more selective in what I do read now. I'm done trying to debate libs on different forums, it's a waste of time. I have zero respect for anyone who voted for that POS,  nor do I have any sympathy for those who did so and will now suffer under his regime. Stupid hurts. The big thing is that there is a bigger storm brewing. With BarkyCare being enacted it's going to make the unemployment #'s today look like the good old days. I can easily see it going over 10. Higher taxes, inflation, bigger deficits etc. etc. Yep, we told the idiots it was going to happen but they don't care because they are too stupid to use rationale when voting. I hope CA New York etc. have huge tax rates on the rich. And when those people leave in droves we can laugh as it burns. Seriously, liberalism really is a mental disorder.

228 Unfortunately  after 2017 we won't be released to anything better, we will be inundated with poverty inflicted on more millions and a govt that will not let us eat or drink as we want.

229

60 Maybe I'll take up latin.

 

-------

 

Yeah. I've been taking some Latin from the local community college. I haven't decided whether it is making my life more interesting or more annoying. I had no idea how much random Latin was being thrown around me until I started being able to break it down.

 

230

Sale  race  de  merde     is    a    universal   french   greeting.

 

Sale  crouillat   will   get   a  french   waiter's   attention   every   time.

 

Pauvre   encule'    works   too.

 

 

 

You're   welcome

231

So I casually dropped the bomb on my liberal husband last weekend that I would really like to have a gun and learn to shoot it.

 

Him: WHAAAAT??? Why on Earth would you want to do that?  You know I hate guns. 

 

Me: Oh, I don't know, it seems like a fun hobby.  I can't ski or do any sports, but maybe I can learn to shoot and maybe even hunt a little.  My friend back in Kentucky just got a Harley and learned to ride it, and she's my age.  It's never too late to try new things!  Besides, you are always nagging me to get outdoors and exercise more.

 

Him:  Welllll......it is good to try new things.  Maybe we can borrow a couple from (good friend who is from Texas and has a cabinet full of guns) and go to a shooting range sometime. 

 

Me:  Oh, you know (friend), his guns are his babies, I doubt he would loan them to us pikers.  Let's get one for ourselves and try it out.  C'mon. 

 

Him:  Mmmmm, so you wanna be a Pistol Packin' Mama, huh?  That is kinda sexy when you think about it.....

 

I'm dragging him to the gun shop this weekend.  :-D

232 Still seems easier to buy skanks drinks instead though. Two words: Faked accent. I have a buddy that spent a year in Australia and you'd think he's Crocodile Dundee the moment he enters a bar. He gets an impressive amount of good looking "birds" with this little gambit. It does not appear that there's a "Coffee House Aussie," however, so I guess I'm SOL. And I imagine Mrs. Jakeman wouldn't be fooled anyway.

233 Hamas seeks lawsuit against senior IDF officer Terrorist group wants to sue coordinator of government activities in the territories Major-General Eitan Dangot for role in Gaza blockade Elior Levy, AP Published: 12.06.12, 23:11 / Israel News Hamas official Ismail al-Ashqar said Thursday that the terrorist group is seeking a lawsuit at the International Criminal Court against Major-General Eitan Dangot, coordinator of government activities in the territories, for what it sees as his responsibility for the Gaza blockade. Yeah making the palis non-state members of the UN and able to access the Court in the Hague was a great idea sure to advance the "peace" process????? Bunch of dumb fucks

234

189...What about Sean?

 

Je mÂ’en fou!

 

Il est fils de salop.

235 Waking up short of breath, or simply being tired all the time even after a good 8 hours of sleep, or waking up with bad headaches. very bad headaches upon waking up are a big sign your brain didn't get much oxygen while you were asleep. Posted by: ace at December 06, 2012 04:20 PM (LCRYB) Sounds more like anxiety attacks. Make sure your head is not tilted to far up on the pillow as far as O2. Use feather pillows. Something cheap you might want to try that helps me. L-Lysine amino acid. For some reason it puts me into a deep sleep, and it's over the counter. Try a small dose to see if you have any reaction to it, first. I swear, I sleep like a baby -- and it can relax me during the day.

236 Is nobody interested in Esperanto?

Its the semi-official language of the Space Corps.  All officers are expected to learn it.

237 I'm getting that fixed with the CPAP machine.

 Posted by: ace at December 06, 2012 04:07 PM (LCRYB)

You and Andi Sullivan.

 

238 >>>Marc est a la piscine. ah oui, la piscine est tres belle. (I'm really freakin' rockin' this language, bitches...)

239 Posted by: rockmom at December 06, 2012 04:28 PM (aBlZ1)

You married a leftard?  How can you stand it?

240 PC will kill us all

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 06, 2012 04:13 PM (79ueO)

Last year I was having a discussion with this fellow from Austria. I pointed out how Islamic immigrants were going to out demographic native Europeans, and how that in 20 years or so, they will be enough of a political majority to actually take over the country,  at which time they will be little concerned about the rights or wishes of Atheists/Agnostics.

I told him, Europe is reaching a condition in which the only thing that might save them is Religious intolerance and Bigotry!

Well, I thought it was funny.

241 Maybe I'll take up latin. I've always wanted to do this.

242 Ace,
Now that you are learning French you will require some accoutrements.

Beret.
Hipster douchebag scarf, no fringe s'il vous plaît.
Pack of Gauloises cigarettes ( No need to smoke, just let it hang from your lip).
Very good sneer.
Ten lesson course in basic mime.
Brie.
Le Car.
Lots of wine.

243 The weakness in your plan is that 'low, low prices' part of the business model. No one appreciates low prices in art. No one. If I purposefully lowball a project bid, the client thinks they're going to get substandard work.
Posted by: troyriser

Correct. Art is largely a Giffen good.

People think the more expensive the piece, the better it is.

244 I'm going to the Star Trek universe.  Everyone speaks English there.

245

Sock fail

.......

I have the soft gell mask right now and like it. It sure as hell better than almost dying in your "sleep"

246 >>>Sounds more like anxiety attacks. well I have panic but no, I was diagnosed with apnea for real, all official and stuff. Sleep study and stuff. They caught me choking without air within 20 minutes of falling asleep.

247

The Michigan capitol in Lansing is on lockdown Thursday afternoon after more than 1,000 protesters flooded the building to protest new legislation that would weaken the power of labor unions in the state.

Michigan police arrested several protesters who tried to rush the Senate floor. Police also sprayed mace into the protesting crowd at one point, according to the Detroit Free Press. Police told CNN that they were forced to lock the doors when the building reached capacity (people are able to exit). Anyone who doesn't leave the building by 5:30 ET will face arrest.

Republican Gov. Rick Snyder has said the legislation, which is expected to easily pass the GOP-controlled legislature, is not anti-union. The proposed bill, called "right to work" legislation, bans the practice of requiring all employees who benefit from a labor contract to pay union dues. Indiana passed a similar bill earlier this year.

Maybe we'll have to break them state by state

248 Brain oxygen is overrated.  Why, I've spent entire nights with a plastic bag over my head and I didn't notice any effect at all.

Damn wife.

249 I'm going to write a book, The Decline and Fall of the American Republic. Barbarians were invading from the south and the people wanted to build a wall but the Democrats said, "Fuck that shit" and the Republicans said, "Fuck that shit" and the shit was fucked.

250

Perfect opportunity to make fun of learning French and mention monkeys and no one has done it. 

 

I'm suprised.

251 After 2008 I went eff you wrt to donating to UNICEF,  United Way and other outfits that strike me as left.   Let them get money from their dem buddies.  I'm trying not to go full curmudgeonly miser  --thank god for Soldiers Angels, and Salvation Army but I need a bigger list of what outfits actually do good stuff and don't push leftist pols.   I had thought Wounded Warriors would be added to the list but between wasting a good chunk of what I sent them sending my crap monthly if not more often trying to extract more and then supporting gun control they can lump it.  

252 Most important, douchebag can be feminine or masculine.

Le Douchebag
La Douchebag

Plural
Les Douchebags

253 ah oui, la piscine est tres belle. Pool is a euphamism, isn't it? To Le dictionnaire urbain!

254 I'm monolingual. I can barely handle English, actually. My new hobby is playing the piano. My last lesson was in 1983, but apparently 30 years of typing on computers has kept my fingers in good enough shape. I picked it up again surprisingly fast, and it keeps my brain clear of SCOAMFier thoughts.

255 Most important, douchebag can be feminine or masculine.

This is confusing even for us French.

256 Just shop at Costco you wingnuts who are worried about inflation!

257
They caught me choking without air within 20 minutes of falling asleep.

Posted by: ace at December 06, 2012 04:31 PM (LCRYB)

You need to trim that pelt. I hear tell that Ewok hairballs are a bitch.

258 "Americans who live traditional lives - marriage, kids, church, mortgage, college - are to be punished to the fullest extent of the law; and then the law will be changed to allow more punishment." Want to know how they would like to do it? There's a new movement called "Regionalism". Here's how it works. Cities like Detroit that are run by corrupt, incompetent people, and populated by people whose idea of a career is to spit out welfare babies, are in deep trouble. Solution, a thing called regionalism, where the suburbs, with married, educated, responsible people, will have to bail out the losers in the city. Because, well, the people in the cities just aren't getting enough out of the taxpayer trough yet. They want more. So all those educated, liberal suburbanites who voted for TFG? F**k 'em. I personally wouldn't mind watching Detroit trying to suck money out of the suburbs. And yes, there are plenty of middle class liberals in the Detroit suburbs who voted for TFG.

259

126 I hope so. When I'm further along I'll write about it for anyone who might need to get it checked out. At the moment I'm just at the start of the process.

 

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Curious about that. My experience with the CPAP was that the first night was rough getting used to the mask, but after the second night I felt like a million bucks. It made an *immediate* significant improvement.

 

260

Va te faire foutre

261

Americans - fat, lazy, couch potato slobs that they are, LIKE being on unemployment.  That's why they re-elected Baracko - so that they could stay on unemployment, which pays so well that there's no point in getting off of it.  Why get a job and work, when you can make enough on unemployment to sit around eating and watching TV?

The national character has changed for the worse.  We suck now.  Get used to it; it's only going to get worse.

262 It's four years of cowboy poetry for me.  Gotta work an angle for the bennies.

263

Posted by: ace at December 06, 2012 04:29 PM (LCRYB)

 

Can you conjugate the verb...'Foutre'?

264 Thanks for the link, Ace!

For all of you bakers out there: I discovered a mini scone and also a shortbread pan at TJ Maxx made by Nordic Ware. Nordic Ware is heavy bakeware made in USA. The selection on Amazon is unreal, and really fun stuff for parents of young kids as well. I got these for half price at TJ Maxx, but they are worth paying full price.

For the holidays, at any rate, I am cooking a lot and staying busy. Not sure what this means for the next four years. I could be the size of a dirigible by 2017 when we rejoice and are exceedingly glad in the FEMA camps (seeing as how I learned from Drudge this week that the feds are reading our emails...I wonder if they know who The Won and Dear Leader refer to?).

People are grim out there, that is for sure. I don't really think I have allowed the grief to set in since November, as I have been busy with travel and birthdays and holidays.

I was counting the days until January 2013. I have faith in God, however, and not a political party or man. So, chins up, Morons. Keep fighting anyway you can.

265 Pauvre   petit   chou.

266 240 Posted by: rockmom at December 06, 2012 04:28 PM (aBlZ1) You married a leftard? How can you stand it? Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 06, 2012 04:29 PM (QKKT0) I'm married to a French-Canadian (his first language is French) who's brother is one of the leaders of the Separatist groups in Quebec. We cannot talk politics.

267 Now that you are learning French you will require some accoutrements. Ace, check out some movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo, who was the "French Humphrey Bogart" back in the '60s. The guy had serious style. My favorite is "À bout de souffle", which is the original "Breathless," but a much better version (and different ending) from its gerbil-stuffing American cousin.

268 199 "Obama Bypassing Congress on Guns? "

And here's me saying "f**k you" to the hunters and gun-loving democrats in Michigan who voted for TFG.

Those so-called supporters of our second amendment rights can bite me.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 06, 2012 04:23 PM (C0pH1)

 

I saw that and wondered about it. I don't think its legally possible because title 2 firearms are pretty well spelled out within the law, and EOs can do so much. Of course that assumes the law will be followed...

I sitll see a lot of downside for him on this one.

269 Well look at that. A liberal I know on Facebook is having a bad day at work after a bunch of layoffs.

Hmmm... Well, I'm sure it's not related to anything.

270 Hi Vic. My new Game CDRMs.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 06, 2012 04:20 PM (3Y7RV)

LOL, you mean CRDMs.

271 My experience with the CPAP was that the first night was rough getting used to the mask Did you dream of alien ovipositors? I did.

272 Solution, a thing called regionalism, where the suburbs, with married, educated, responsible people, will have to bail out the losers in the city.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 06, 2012 04:33 PM (C0pH1)

That's called New Jersey.

273 ........

274 If I can't help the world around me at least I can help myself. Started to take up a little running. I can finally do ONE pull-up LOL. Lost a bunch of weight with Intermittent Fasting. I should thank this Obama fellow, I feel great!

275 Great post Ace.....sums up what all of us have been feeling for a month now. I still can't believe we lost. It is wrong on so many levels but it is clear now that the moochera have assumed control and that this will have to play itself out. Demint leaving the Senate to me is another signal that we are about to enter the wilderness. I am another who has withdrawn for endless blog surfing. I have not watched more than 45 minutes of Fox News since the election. This site helps keep me sane and many of the rest are just noise and self serving. Priorities have been refocused. My 10 year old son and I have been spending more time at the range and killing bad guys playing Halo. The wife and I have been spending more time drinking wine and just talking....how is that for something new. Oh, and I have two new rifles and 3000 more rounds of ammo just because I still can and that also keeps me sane. It is going to be a looooooong four years but I really think this is the path chosen. Internal refocusing is a good thing and may very well be time well spent when it hits the fan soon. And I am definitely in the Let It Burn camp. Fuck the moochers.

276

La Douchebagge, s'il vous plait!

277 A mother who beat her seven-year-old son to death for failing to learn the Koran by heart was found guilty by a British jury on Wednesday of murdering him and burning his body to hide the evidence. Sara Ege, 33, a mathematics graduate from India, treated her son Yaseen like a "dog", beating him with a stick when he failed to memorize religious texts, Cardiff Crown Court in Wales heard. Yaseen died in July 2010. It was initially thought that he had been killed in a fire at the family home in Pontcanna, Cardiff, but tests later revealed that he was dead before the blaze began. Ege denied killing her son, instead blaming her husband. Yousef Ege, 38, was cleared of failing to prevent the death of his son. She confessed to the murder, but later retracted the confession saying she had been forced into it by a threat of violence from her husband and his family. Ege was found guilty of murder and of perverting the course of justice, and will be sentenced in the new year. In her confession, which was recorded by police and shown to the jury, Ege detailed how her son had collapsed on the day of his death still murmuring extracts from the Koran, the holy book of Islam. She described undressing Yaseen when he collapsed and soiled himself, then dragging him to the kitchen to feed him milk. The child was left lying naked on the kitchen floor still reciting extracts from the Koran as she poured him the drink. Hey I know how to stop stuff like this: Let's ban Christmas Trees and Christmas celebrations. Yeah that's the ticket

278 "105 My respons Posted by: nerdygirl at December 06, 2012 04:07 PM (C0pH1) *gasp* The CIA drones got nerdygirl!!" No such luck, my beagle's climbing all over me.

279

261 Va te faire foutre

 

C'est foutu.

280 Grosse   tapette

281 Maybe we'll have to break them state by state

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 06, 2012 04:31 PM (1Jaio........................../////////////////////It is official household policy to never buy anything knowingly that was produced by a union. I will buy American whenever possible. But if it was made by a union dooche, no way. We are looking at new cars, I have never owned anything other than something made by the big three. No longer. I will not support the people that are helping to destroy our economy and way of life. Screw them.

282 The Coffee Break Spanish people have a Scottish accent.

I want Coffee Break Hungarian.  Going to Budapest this summer.

283

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2012 04:35 PM (GsoHv)

 

 

And there is talk of doing the same thing here in California.  It's for the children, of course.

284 Uckingfay luentfay,  itchesbay.

285

17 Unemployment suddenly dropped to below the Administration's chosen benchmark of 8% just before the election, and suddenly shot up to well past 8% just after the elecetion. Yeah.

 

Thanks, MSM.  He couldn't have scammed us nearly as badly without your efforts.  I want to particularly thank NPR, who found a way to make every fucking twitch in the numbers a positive for Obama.  I just wish I could return the favor, 'cause if I could you sons of bitches would not enjoy it very much at all.

286 is there a podcast for just useful french like learning to pronounce the words on a wine list. i'm 44 fucking years old and i still have to point to order wine. "I want the Le...Le...Le..Pouy....Pouyvou... that one."

287

"The shooting sports are both relaxing and useful. You can clean and tinker for hours when not blasting hot death at something or other.

Just saying."

 

New Gen 4 Glock 17 today.  Just sayin'.

 

Woot!

288 La Douchebagge, s'il vous plait!
Posted by: Mssr le fluffet


Pardonne moi.

289 7 years of French in school and I can't speak any of it. I can read it and comprehend it for the most part but I can't speak any of it.

290

174 I'm forcing myself to watch youtube videos in French. Also French movies on Netflix could be useful.

 

-------

 

One thing I've done that helps a lot with my Russian is swiping a lot of Russian music videos from Youtube. Crunched them down to MP3 and made a playlist.

 

I have one of those brains that always has something going on in the background. If I don't give it something to do, the background will interrupt me with thoughts it's cooked up. So I let it listen to Russian music while I'm working.

 

291

Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2012 04:32 PM (dkExz)

 

St. Jude Children's Hospital

292 Caleephornya:

Hey, let's take high-skill jobs and give them to jailbirds:

http://tinyurl.com/d99etns

Tucked deep back in the tightly guarded machine shop of California's oldest prison, well away from the muscle flexing inmates in "the yard," a select group of convicted felons has their eyes on space. They fabricate metal housing for miniature satellites designed to explore the heavens. That's right. San Quentin inmates serving time for horrible crimes are given easy access to some of the sharpest metal humans can make.

They are, most likely, the only prisoners on Earth helping to develop products for space exploration.

Ariel Wainzinger, a man with ten months left on his sentence, said: "You come to prison and you think it's gonna be all gloom and doom and you find yourself with a lot of different opportunities and you take advantage of it."

Working under the strict guidance of NASA, Ariel and a handful of other skilled inmate machinists are making something most people have never heard of: P-PODs, Poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployers, essentially, aluminum boxes designed to hold tiny satellites known as CubeSats, which ride "piggyback" into space as secondary payloads. The devices are part of a new generation of low-cost, miniature launch vehicles developed for research used by more than 150 universities worldwide.

Couldn't hurt much.

293 Oh gawd help me - that boring man JC Watts   is on Hannity.

294 Going to Budapest this summer.
Posted by: AmishDude

Had one of the best meals of my life there.

295 Pardonne moi.

Posted by: Marcel Marceau at December 06, 2012 04:38 PM (iYbLN)

I can't believe you said that

296 "Just get yourself to January 2017, and then we're on easy street, baby"

You bet - because I'll be president then: the smartest, beautifulest woman on Planet Earth! Barack said so himself!

297 I'm married to a French-Canadian (his first language is French) who's brother is one of the leaders of the Separatist groups in Quebec.

We cannot talk politics.

Posted by: beach & a kindle at December 06, 2012 04:34 PM (LpQbZ)

Why not?  Aren't you both for Quebec separation?

I sure am.

298

Once I've mastered that bitch I'll move on to the one I really want to learn, Italian.

--

Don't  be  afraid  to  join  us...

299 "Hey I know how to stop stuff like this: Let's ban Christmas Trees and Christmas celebrations. Yeah that's the ticket"

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 06, 2012 04:36 PM (79ueO)

Just wait until Sharia is considered acceptable. Then the 1st Amendment won't apply.

It's the law; it's not religion.

300 Hors chaussettes mal!!!!

301 I think we need a 'Countdown'...so we can mark off the days. 1505 days until Jan. 20th, 2017. Yeah, there's an Android app for that.

302 Mouche   a    merde

303 LOL, you mean CRDMs. Posted by: Vic at December 06, 2012 04:35 PM (YdQQY) Oooops, I hope you don't live close to a plant that has to scram. The training is really fun, I'm learning tons of stuff I didn't know. I work with many field services techs and my do they have the stories. So far what made me laugh the hardest was when they said what to do in case of an emergency. The answer? Time and distance, run like hell.

304  Oh, and I have two new rifles and 3000 more rounds of ammo just because I still can and that also keeps me sane.

Posted by: TehAdmiral at December 06, 2012 04:36 PM (I/f8E)

 

My ammo addiction is breaking me. Pretty soon I'll be wandering the streets with cardboard sign around my neck reading, 'WILL WORK FOR BRASS', scrounging lead weights from tire center floors at Walmart, that kind of thing.

 

There are worse addictions, I suppose.

305 >>>The guy had serious style. My favorite is "À bout de souffle", which is the original "Breathless," but a much better version (and different ending) from its gerbil-stuffing American cousin. I will. had to write a girlfriend's term paper about that. I had this idea of just willing my brain to understand the language by watching movies and tv shows but at the moment i am waaaayyyy too far away from listening comprehension. Pretty much all I pick up are "bonjour," "j'ecoutre," that sort of thing, one or two words here or there. In like four months maybe I'll start trying again.

306 I always wanted a titanium shank.

307 Sock it too me.

308 Going to Budapest this summer.

Had one of the best meals of my life there.

Going Atkins since 1400.

Stuffed cabbage is amazing.

309 Labelle taught all the French one ever needs to know, "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?"

310 219 China will collapse before we do, and then again about a decade from now. They are colossally fucked.   --------   Yeah, but I expect them to go out with a bang.  

311 Ace, Now that you are learning French you will require some accoutrements. Beret. Hipster douchebag scarf, no fringe s'il vous plaît. Pack of Gauloises cigarettes ( No need to smoke, just let it hang from your lip). Very good sneer. Ten lesson course in basic mime. Brie. Le Car. Lots of wine. Posted by: mpfs at December 06, 2012 04:30 PM (iYbLN) The movie Babette's Feast for the foodie culture.

312

A local bar has "Latin Night" every month. I think I'll head down there and try to learn how to conjugate some verbs.

313 Unemployment at 8%, shoot that's nothing. Wait till sequestration kicks in

314 Yeah, the hobbies --> happiness thing is the way to go at this point, I'd say. Got myself a smoker on Friday, learning to play bass, and (re)learning calculus. Le français, c'est déjà appris... peut-être j'essayerai l'allemand?

315 Posted by: scofflawx at December 06, 2012 04:38 PM (N1Rjx)

Just order the California wine. The French have made a marvelous industry out of tweaking unripe grapes, but the big boys in California and Australia make better wine.

And besides, you sound like a fag when you speak French.

316 Good thing all the retailers have staffed up for the holiday shopping season.

317 I had no idea we had so many frog speakers on this smart military blog.

318 >>>One thing I've done that helps a lot with my Russian is swiping a lot of Russian music videos from Youtube. Crunched them down to MP3 and made a playlist. >>>I have one of those brains that always has something going on in the background. If I don't give it something to do, the background will interrupt me with thoughts it's cooked up. So I let it listen to Russian music while I'm working. I read a guy who said he learned french in four months and he was very keen on this approach. One of his recommendations is to find dubs of english movies into the language you want -- because dubs are pretty clear and they speak a little more slowly. Then just listen to the dubbed soundtrack in background. He did it for Firefly, which had the french dub on the DVD. I don't know if you'd have that option with Russian for many movies or tv shows.

319

Posted by: Bertram Wilberforce Wooster at December 06, 2012 04:41 PM (I88Jc)

 

 

On the first day of class in French 1 of high school, my friend asked the teacher what that meant.  She blushed and refused to answer it. 

320 And besides, you sound like a fag when you speak French. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2012 04:43 PM (GsoHv) Yep, faggiest language ever.

321 I had this idea of just willing my brain to understand the language by watching movies and tv shows but at the moment i am waaaayyyy too far away from listening comprehension. Pretty much all I pick up are "bonjour," "j'ecoutre," that sort of thing, one or two words here or there.

In like four months maybe I'll start trying again.

Posted by: ace at December 06, 2012 04:40 PM (LCRYB)

Watch Amelie over and over again. At least you'll get to enjoy Audrey Tautou

322

303 Mouche a merde

 

Mangez merde.

 

323 Oooops, I hope you don't live close to a plant that has to scram.


At PWRs they use the term "trip" instead of SCRAM.

So far what made me laugh the hardest was when they said what to do in case of an emergency. The answer? Time and distance, run like hell.


I hope that was a joke.

324 Why not? Aren't you both for Quebec separation? I sure am. Posted by: AmishDude at December 06, 2012 04:39 PM (T0NGe) LOL, you have a point. I would love to see it happen. He, on the other hand, like many Quebeckers are cowards when it comes to the actual vote.

325 Latin is relatively easy.
Five declensions. None of this past perfect tense shit.
I enjoyed Latin so much I took five years of the lessons in grade/high school.

326 No matter that unemployment "fell" right before the election.  If it had still been 8% or higher, TFG would've still been, amazingly, reelected.  I'm convinced.  The idiot masses that voted for him obviously didn't care that the economy was and is in the crapper.  They obviously didn't care that they can't find work, or the work they can find is not what they are qualified for.  Then there's the free shit brigade, who could care less if it were 20% unemployment.  It is, however, pretty laughable that it's now going back up.  Gee, see my shocked face. 

327 I hope that was a joke. Posted by: Vic at December 06, 2012 04:44 PM (YdQQY) The actual word was, Flee.

328 Posted by: troyriser at December 06, 2012 04:40 PM (vtiE6)

I am so fucking jealous of you bastards who can shoot when you feel like it.

I found a gun club that is within a reasonable drive, finally got somebody to sponsor me, and just found out that it may take THREE TO FIVE YEARS before a slot opens up.

329 What we're seeing with economics numbers, and the media's help in hiding it, is intolerable. Last month 290k new home starts were announced. With a seasonal adjustment of +260k. Really, only 30knrwhome starts were begun. Unemployment claims had a -130k 'seasonal adjustment" to come in at 380k. BLS and others are now quietly releasing downward revisions to fucking EVERYTHING going back months. Methodology is no longer even being used on seasonal adjustments, etc. It's just the wholesale making up of numbers with constant backward revisions after themedia cycle has moved on. I think instapundit has been quoting Hayek's road to serfdom lately in this regard. The fed is now monetizing 90% of our debt issuances, which is a fancy way of saying "printing money to pay for debt." But, as ZH says, they wrap it all up in a way to "baffle them with BS." That's why I get so angry at the GOP. There are enough policy wonks there to know and articulate what us going on. But they don't. Lit it fucking burn. There is a special place in hell for people that do things like this to an entire civilization for their own benefit.

330 Should we have a thread once a week/month where the morons learn to swear in a foreign language?

I'm all for learning new stuff.

331 Deploying reservist gets degree early The Associated Press Posted : Thursday Dec 6, 2012 13:07:42 EST MARYVILLE, Mo. — A Northwest Missouri State student has managed to earn his degree just in time to deploy to Afghanistan. The Maryville school’s winter commencement will not take place until Dec. 14. That’s why the school threw together a commencement ceremony Wednesday just for Bryce Webb of Winterset, Iowa. Webb is in the Navy Reserve and learned recently that he would be deploying Thursday. He will be gone a year. In front of a small group of faculty and staff, Webb received a bachelor’s degree in horticulture with a minor in biology. The provost and the business college’s acting dean wore traditional commencement regalia. Webb joined the reserves after completing five years of active duty with the Navy in 2006. He said he loved college and eventually wants to pursue a master’s degree or doctorate. Well nice to know not ALL Colleges are dick weeds.

332 So we've kinda gone all ONT all the time at the HQ.

I approve.

(I've been out of the country for three months.)

What's the current AoSHQ-approved rate of alcohol consumption prior to 5:00 p.m. local time? I assume it's enough to maintain the buzz but not quite enough to start posting pictures of Helen Thomas.  And what's the current recommendation on chickens?

333 One of his recommendations is to find dubs of english movies into the language you want -- because dubs are pretty clear and they speak a little more slowly. Then just listen to the dubbed soundtrack in background. He did it for Firefly, which had the french dub on the DVD.

I don't know if you'd have that option with Russian for many movies or tv shows.

Probably free on Youtube.  They aren't fussed about stuff like copyright.

334 Delving back in to mountain biking and hiking. Perfect weather and plenty of trails here in the Carolinas.

335

Every time I took one of those aptitude tests they told me I would do a super job of learning to read/speak a foreign language.

 

So I never bothered to learn one.  I figured, if it's not that hard for me to do it, I wouldn't get any sense of accomplishment by doing it.

 

I have the same basic attitude about things like carpentry, plumbing, auto repair, etc. 

336 One of his recommendations is to find dubs of english movies into the language you want -- because dubs are pretty clear and they speak a little more slowly. Then just listen to the dubbed soundtrack in background. He did it for Firefly, which had the french dub on the DVD.

I don't know if you'd have that option with Russian for many movies or tv shows.

Posted by: ace at December 06, 2012 04:44 PM (LCRYB)

 

Can't you dub your TV to French and Spanish? 

337 I'm forcing myself to watch youtube videos in French. Also French movies on Netflix could be useful.

After five years of trying to learn German with movies and the odd conversational class (I have 37 kg of workbooks and CDs), I finally decided to enroll in the local state university and take a "real" German class. Woo-hoo, declension!

338

#267 Wow, that is wild.

 

What can I say, I met my husband in an earlier time (1982) when politics wasn't a blood sport and neither of us were very extreme in our views.  It's a real testament to what has happened in America that now people look at us like we have two heads.  If we met today, we almost certainly would not have more than a few dates. 

 

And both of us have gone further into our respective corners politically, and don't talk about it nearly as much as we used to.  He listens to NPR, I listen to Rush sometimes but not really that often.  He has his ultra-liberal sister to talk to and I have my ultra-conservative brother. 

 

Luckily we have other things in common. 

339 What I noticed afterCPAP was that I dreamed much more intensely.

340 I am so fucking jealous of you bastards who can shoot when you feel like it.

I found a gun club that is within a reasonable drive, finally got somebody to sponsor me, and just found out that it may take THREE TO FIVE YEARS before a slot opens up.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2012 04:46 PM (GsoHv)

 

Indiana rocks.

341 >>>Le français, c'est déjà appris... peut-être j'essayerai l'allemand? j'essaye apprender l'allemand pour six ans mais je ne apprende pas jamais l'allemand.

342 Or at least closed caption?

343 One of the major things they should be teaching you in GET is the different warning sirens, what you are supposed to do, and where you are supposed to muster.


Of course, the plant you are at is in cold shutdown so the possibility of any kind of serious accident is about 10-infintity.

344 Indiana rocks. Posted by: troyriser at December 06, 2012 04:47 PM (vtiE6) So does North Carolina. I sit on my back porch.

345 LOL, you have a point. I would love to see it happen. He, on the other hand, like many Quebeckers are cowards when it comes to the actual vote.

Let it burn!

The Scots aren't as supportive of Scottish independence as the English are.

And the EU makes it easy to be a sovereign country without having any of the difficulties of being actually sovereign.

They are all Luxembourg now.

346

"My ammo addiction is breaking me. Pretty soon I'll be wandering the streets withcardboard sign around my neck reading, 'WILL WORK FOR BRASS', scrounging lead weights from tire center floors at Walmart, that kind of thing.

There are worse addictions, I suppose."

 

We should form a support group.

 

I already spend an hour after IDPA shoots hunched over scrounging brass no matter the weather.

 

I already mine the berm for rich pockets of ore, smelt, it and recast it.

 

I already pounce on any loose wheelweight I see in the road regardless of traffic.

 

Conventional cast bullet lubing ain't good enough, so I'm beginning my adventures in powdercoating this weekend.

 

Yeah, it's a sickness.

 

347 The idiot masses that voted for him obviously didn't care that the economy was and is in the crapper. They obviously didn't care that they can't find work, or the work they can find is not what they are qualified for. Then there's the free shit brigade, who could care less if it were 20% unemployment. It is, however, pretty laughable that it's now going back up. Gee, see my shocked face.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 06, 2012 04:45 PM (lTVJy)

There are a lot of wealthy liberals who voted for Barry based strictly on all of the social issues BS. The economy meant nothing to them but binders did. Now they are bitching about taxes. Fuck them all in every language

348

I am so fucking jealous of you bastards who can shoot when you feel like it.I found a gun club that is within a reasonable drive, finally got somebody to sponsor me, and just found out that it may take THREE TO FIVE YEARS before a slot opens up.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2012 04:46 PM (GsoHv)

My problem in Houston is the crowd on the weekends. 

349 Two words

Gérard Depardieu

350

Ace,

 

I agree the next four years will likely be Godawful in many ways, and am preparing mentally because every day will bring a barrage of more hero worship of The Lightworker. Or constant cover fire for him as things go bad.

 

But, things are in an awful mess. Romney (not a Reagan to be sure) would have been like someone trying to save the Titanic (assuming Obama was the one who hit the iceberg) and having most of the passengers bitching at him to save the ship, but most being more angry that their cigars and brandy were being interrupted. 

 

It would be a lot better, no question, if Romney were in charge, but things are pretty far down the tubes. Not sure his moderate approach would have been able to make the changes that have to be made to really turn it around. 2016 could still have been coyote ugly, maybe just not double coyote ugly. 

 

Anyway, I'm turning inward a bit as well. If it burns, at least most of the folks here are the survivors. And even with Romney, the eventual burning might well not have been avoided.

 

Enjoy the break and take care of yourself!

351 Posted by: ace at December 06, 2012 04:44 PM (LCRYB)

Ace,

A buddy of mine is relatively fluent, but moved back to NYC from Europe. He wanted to remain skilled, and he found a French Speakers club. It's just a bunch of people at all levels of speaking ability who want to get better.

If you are interested I'll get the name of the club for you (he said that there are occasionally some attractive women).

352 Waking up short of breath, or simply being tired all the time even after a good 8 hours of sleep, or waking up with bad headaches.

You may have sleep apnea. That's when, for whatever reason, you simply stop breathing while asleep. There's many possible causes, some neurological and some involving constriction or blocking of the windpipe. The latter is often marked by severe snoring.

In any case, you should get this checked out by a physician.

353

Yep, faggiest language ever.

Clearly, Messieur has never heard ze Flemish.

354 Watch anything with Jean Reno.

355 Posted by: polynikes at December 06, 2012 04:49 PM (m2CN7)

Va te faire enculer.

356 L'allemand est difficile à apprendre.

357 319 I don't know if you'd have that option with Russian for many movies or tv shows.   ---------   Mosfilm has a youtube channel to which they have been posting a lot of movies.  

358 321 Part of the reason I speak none but can read some of it.

359 The thing is that this is Springtime for Obama.  It will go downhill from here.

The first shot across the bow was the Detroit city council.

They're finally asking what they're getting from their investment in Obama.

It will not turn out well for them.

360 My ammo addiction is breaking me. Pretty soon I'll be wandering the streets withcardboard sign around my neck reading, 'WILL WORK FOR BRASS', scrounging lead weights from tire center floors at Walmart, that kind of thing. There are worse addictions, I suppose. Posted by: troyriser at December 06, 2012 04:40 PM (vtiE6) No shit. From time I posted above until now I left Dick's thinking I needed a new winter coat and bought another 200 rounds instead. I may not be warm unless I start spooning a warm AR.

361

Curious about that. My experience with the CPAP was that the first night was rough getting used to the mask,but after the second night I felt like a millionbucks. It made an *immediate* significant improvement.

>>>>>

 

Let me second that. I had (still have) very bad sleep apnea. It was getting to the point where I was falling asleep standing. With the CPAP I get a normal sleep and I feel 20 years younger No more catnaps during the day (unless I was being bad the previous night, which I still do....) . I highly recommend.

362 342 >>>Le français, c'est déjà appris... peut-être j'essayerai l'allemand?

j'essaye apprender l'allemand pour six ans mais je ne apprende pas jamais l'allemand.

Posted by: ace at December 06, 2012 04:48 PM (LCRYB)

faggots.

363 341 I am so fucking jealous of you bastards who can shoot when you feel like it.I found a gun club that is within a reasonable drive, finally got somebody to sponsor me, and just found out that it may take THREE TO FIVE YEARS before a slot opens up.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2012 04:46 PM (GsoHv)

Indiana rocks.

Posted by: troyriser at December 06, 2012 04:47 PM (vtiE6)

 

Texas does. Nothing like going outside, peeing, and shooting off a full mag of ammo in your front yard.

Also, what I find funny is going outside on Christmas morning and hearing all the gunfire of new presents being tried out. The downside is all the ammo at Walmart is gone from November to May, but good times.

364 Dennis Leary had a joke about the French language that built up to the punchline that his last name (Leary) was silent. G*d, that always cracked me up! ahahahahahahaha! Well, I guess, you had to be there. Delivery is everything in humor. And timing.

365

Have any of the French speakers seen the movies "Jules et Jim" or "The Bride Wore Black" with Jeanne Moreau?  Those are two of my favorite. 

 

I would like to try learning to speak French...I can read it, but speaking it has always been a challenge for me. 

366 Eat eclairs and Napoleons.

367

You may have sleep apnea. That's when, for whatever reason, you simply stop breathing while asleep. There's many possible causes, some neurological and some involving constriction or blocking of the windpipe. The latter is often marked by severe snoring.

In any case, you should get this checked out by a physician.

 

Yeah that shit killed Reggie White and Bernie Mac.

368

I found a gun club that is within a reasonable drive, finally got somebody to sponsor me, and just found out that it may take THREE TO FIVE YEARS before a slot opens up.

 

Damn... all I do is go to any of several gun stores and shooting at the indoor range is free if you buy ammo at the counter...

 

And I live in the most anti-gun state in the union.

369 Lemme guess....

Unemployment went up because of
a) Sandy (damn those Republicans for ignoring global warming)

and

b) Fiscal Cliff (damn those Republicans for not wanting to tax the rich an extra $50B in order to solve a $16T debt problem)

370 New hobby: Star Wars The Old Republic. Like WoW, but cool and no pandas.

371 Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi offered nothing concrete to defuse the country's worst political crisis in nearly two years in a nationally televised speech late Thursday, refusing to rescind a disputed constitution drafted by his allies or his decrees giving him near absolute powers. A night after thousands of his supporters and opponents fought pitched battles outside his Cairo palace that left at least six dead and nearly 700 injured, he angrily accused some of the opposition protesters of serving remnants of the old regime. He vowed never to tolerate anyone working for the overthrow of his "legitimate" government. Once muslims have power they NEVER voluntarily give it up. Kinda like communists

372 Of course, the plant you are at is in cold shutdown so the possibility of any kind of serious accident is about 10-infintity. Posted by: Vic at December 06, 2012 04:48 PM (YdQQY) Oh yeah, they taught us the three sirens. I'm not at a Nuke plant, I'm at a maintenance facility. We also make fuel rods and bundles as well as the Boron filled shields and other assorted things. the CRDMs are hot. My first job is the shit job, tear down and clean. The hottest thing in the shop is the cleaning table. But I'm still learning. I'm only allowed 2 Rem a year, our state says 4 Rem and the feds say 5.

373 Va te faire enculer.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2012 04:51 PM (GsoHv)

 

I had to I phone app your ass.   That wasn't very nice.

374 I may not be warm unless I start spooning a warm AR.>>

I hear raccoon coats are warm. Sounds like you've got all the tools necessary for procuring the pelts.

375 340 What I noticed after CPAP was that I dreamed much more intensely.   --------   What does it for me is abrupt changes in caffeine level. If I drink either quite a bit more or quite a bit less caffeine than normal, I'll have vivid dreams that I remember.  

376 Watch the Simpsons in French.

377

#351 I am actually kind of amused by this election.  We're finally going to find out what a second Jimmy Carter term would have been like.  Since I was very involved in the 1980 election and did a lot of prognosticating about what would happen if Carter won, I am looking forward to seeing if I was right.

 

The USA deserved Reagan in 1980.  It doesn't deserve to be saved from Jimmy Carter II.  Once you realize that, it's a lot easier to survive. 

378 190 Ore wa, kaizoku-ou ni naru otoko da! You want to become a pirate king?

379

360 The thing is that this is Springtime for Obama. It will go downhill from here.

The first shot across the bow was the Detroit city council.

They're finally asking what they're getting from their investment in Obama.

It will not turn out well for them.

 

That will depend on whether he wants a big-ass crisis to exploit...or wants to keep things rolling along.

 

If everything crashes and burns, then he will have the perfect excuse to activate all those 'emergency powers' that he has given himself.

 

380

My problem in Houston is the crowd on the weekends.

Posted by: polynikes at December 06, 2012 04:49 PM (m2CN7)

 

Where at in Houston? I used to go to Top Gun on Chimney Rock. Seemed ok. They made you use frangibles for a rifle, but indoor rifle shooting isn't my thing anyway.

381 Solution, a thing called regionalism That's called New Jersey. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2012 04:35 PM (GsoHv) Good grief! I almost posted the same retort;we think alike!!!!

382

If you are interested I'll get the name of the club for you (he said that there are occasionally some attractive women).

Score!

Femme: Qu-est'ce que vous fait?

Ace: J'ecrive

383

352 -

 

Would you get me the name of that club too?  I figure, when society breaks down, and it's time for me to start shooting, I may need to work my way up to randomly picking off  civilians, so a club full of people speaking french would make it relatively easy for me to begin blowing people away without that pesky conscience thing getting in the way. 

384 374 Va te faire enculer.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2012 04:51 PM (GsoHv)

I had to I phone app your ass. That wasn't very nice. Posted by: polynikes



Bwahahahahaha

385 Posted by: entropy at December 06, 2012 04:53 PM (TULs6)

Illinois?

386 A lil OT, and as I usually lurk, I may not be up to speed, so forgive me..

I remember there's been some Art Threads here, and was wondering where people go to buy/sell stuff by unknowns?

Ace's topic above reminded me of doing what you like for a living, and my friend (Who's a pretty good painter as a hobby IMO) could make a few bucks selling those paintings occasionally.

I know of deviantart.com, but not sure these would fit into that..

Thanks for any help!

387 What can I say, I met my husband in an earlier time (1982) when politics wasn't a blood sport and neither of us were very extreme in our views. It's a real testament to what has happened in America that now people look at us like we have two heads. If we met today, we almost certainly would not have more than a few dates. And both of us have gone further into our respective corners politically, and don't talk about it nearly as much as we used to. He listens to NPR, I listen to Rush sometimes but not really that often. He has his ultra-liberal sister to talk to and I have my ultra-conservative brother. Luckily we have other things in common. Posted by: rockmom at December 06, 2012 04:47 PM (qE3AR) we live parallel lives And, we, too, have other things in common: big gamers, sport enthusiasts, and readers of sci-fi -- all apolitical.

388 I had to I phone app your ass. That wasn't very nice.

Posted by: polynikes at December 06, 2012 04:54 PM (m2CN7)

All in good fun......

389 BTW, has anybody seen those polls of presidents lately?  I wonder if the lib douche historians can actually bring themselves to not put Obama at the bottom.

I assume they do these regularly, we hear about it when they put W near the bottom

390 They seek him here, they seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven or is he in hell. That damned elusive Pimpernel.

391 >>>Yeah, it's a sickness.
Posted by: Jaws at December 06

Who's your favorite bullet maker. Mine's Nosler.

392 There are lots of jobs out there, good paying jobs. There is also a push to get people trained for those jobs, why aren't people doing what they need to to get one of those jobs? Makes no sense! I'm shocked and stunned!!

393 Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 06, 2012 04:54 PM (3Y7RV)

North Carolina?

394 This is part of the reason I'm encouraging people to look to other things for happiness. I know it's going to be very difficult for me to get through this. For the past four years I've had a mindset of "Just get to January 13, 2013, and then it's all smooth sailing."
I'm having a difficult time ratcheting myself up for "Just get yourself to January 2017, and then we're on easy street, baby."

Can you still take car trips? I can't. A ninety-minute drive to Hermosa Beach to meet one of my music idols nearly killed me. That's what Meniere's disease does to you. I had to eat a plain green salad with no dressing and plain toast, and then he had to literally hold me up, and I wasn't able to stay for his whole show. I hadn't seen him in twelve years, but I had to get home because I was on the verge of projectile vomiting even though I was full of Valium.

Did you have to give up playing your cherished musical instrument because of arthritis? I had to.

Did you ever meet someone and know instantly that you were supposed to be with her, and she felt the same way about you, and so you got together and had the three happiest years of your life, and then she dumped you because she was under unbelievable pressure form her family to marry a success and have kids, so she married a multimillionaire and had kids, and twenty years later she let you know that she made the wrong decision, but there isn't a thing either of you can do about it? I happened to me.

Do you come from a background of indescribable physical abuse that led you to spend fifteen years in a booze-and-drug fog? I did.

Are you losing your hearing? I am.

Did you save a feral cat who worked his ass off to be a good cat, finally conquered his demons, and then immediately died, leaving you with his toys and his cat door to remind you of his short life? His name was Syd.

But I'm happy. You know why?

Because I know the difference between what's really important and what's only somewhat important.

When I went to Japan, I found that the festival of Obon moved me intensely. Obon, or the Bon Festival, honors the spirits of the dead. There are three different time periods for celebrating Obon in Japan, depending on the region, but the most common is three days in August.

During the Bon Festival, families return to their ancestral homes and clean the gravestones of their dead. They also perform Bon Odori or Bon dancing. The music, vocals, and dancing are extremely hypnotic.

When you're there at night, watching it in person, you experience a kind of transport. You actually feel a connection to the dead, your brothers and sisters who've gone before you and experienced all you're experiencing yourself while you're alive. The Bon Festival communicates the universality of human existence. It represents commonality that transcends culture, ethnicity, religion, politics--everything. It's about the most elemental aspects of life: You're born to people; they help you through a process of change; they die; you help others through the same process of change; and then you die.

The Bon Festival drives home the point that though we're all here on a little rock, spinning through space, not knowing what'll happen next, we're here together, going through everything together. What makes the festival moving to me is that people are having fun. It's an occasion for celebration, not sadness. Everyone is literally laughing in the face of death.

I realize now why I was drawn to the Bon Festival: The attitude expressed is the one I've adopted only recently, that losses should be mourned, but the mourning period must be followed by acknowledgement of how lucky you were to once have had that which was lost. The connection to the departed continues to exist and can sustain you and bring joy, as Obon brings joy to the Japanese even though it's a festival of the dead.

Obon showcases taiko drummers, who have some of the funkiest, most syncopated rhythms around. The singing and dancing represent your sadness for that which is gone, while the drumming expresses the joy you feel for having had that which is now gone. Both emotions are equally important. Both are vital to the process of navigating through life. Too much sadness will destroy you, but being impervious to sadness makes you a vacuous weirdo or a monster.

The Bon Festival is an embracing of the departed rather than an attempt to erase them. They're honored, celebrated with grace and gratitude.

The answer for how to overcome loss was there all along, right under my nose, and I knew it the whole time. I only had to recognize it. Obon also gave me an insight into something that had always inexplicably moved me: a V-shaped flock of geese flying overhead into the dusk, honking to each other. Once I grasped the meaning of the Bon Festival, I understood what the geese were saying to each other as they flew into the unknown together.

"Are you there?"

"Yes, I'm here."

"And you? Are you there, too?"

"Yes, I'm here."

"What about you? Are you there?"

"Yes, I'm here. We're all here with you."

395 This post feels like the arrival of the last Horseman of the Apocalypse has just sauntered up. If we lose Ace, we've lost America. Nahhh, he's just feeling all vacationy & holiday-y. When he gets back he'll be screaming for blood in the streets and other fun stuff.

396

My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon.

Words of wisdom to cheer you up.

397 Where at in Houston? I used to go to Top Gun on Chimney Rock. Seemed ok. They made you use frangibles for a rifle, but indoor rifle shooting isn't my thing anyway.

Posted by: Jollyroger at December 06, 2012 04:55 PM (t06LC)

 

On the weekends Top Gun usuallly has a small wait time 20 to 30 minutes , at least the last couple of times I went.  The American Outdoor range was packed to the max this last weekend.  

398 La politique? Pouah. J'al d'autres chats à fouetter.

399 There's a crowd in the balcony. It's colloquial.
It would be used to describe Christian Hendricks.

Oh? Christina Hendricks has a brother?

400 I am actually kind of amused by this election. We're finally going to find out what a second Jimmy Carter term would have been like. SinceI was very involved in the 1980 election and did a lot of prognosticating about what would happen if Carter won, I am looking forward to seeing if I was right. The USA deserved Reagan in 1980. It doesn't deserveto be saved from Jimmy Carter II. Once you realize that, it's a lot easier to survive. Posted by: rockmom at December 06, 2012 04:55 PM (NYnoe) good points only problems are, TFG will destroy more of our country, create a larger peasant class, and skirt congress to change/pass laws that will be either written in such a way they cannot be undone, or do so much damage before they are... JEF is Jimmah on steroids

401 After reading post 395 I need a joint and a drink.

402 Posted by: Llarry at December 06, 2012 05:00 PM (y+lrr)

Wow, that was fascinating.

403 I don't think Carter actually hated his own country.

404 Waiting to do the paper work to sell my house....$54k less than the tax appraisal.....I've got to write a check for $15k to unload it. Our government has truly fucked shit up.

405 Springtime for Obama The United States was having trouble What a sad, sad story. Needed a Light Bringer to restore Its former glory Where, oh, where was he? Where could that man be? We looked around and then we found The man for you and me!

406

"Who's your favorite bullet maker. Mine's Nosler. "

 

Mine is "JawsCo".

 

I cast (2) flavors of .45, 9mm, .380, and 8mm Mauser.  Thinking of .223 if this powdercoating thing turns out to be as radical as folks are starting to claim.

407 404 I don't think Carter actually hated his own country. Posted by: toby928© for TB at December 06, 2012 05:03 PM Just the people in it.

408

@398

 

That sucks. It used to be no wait. Of course that was a few years ago. I remeber the last election, the gunshow at George R. Brown sold out of ammo within 2 hours the first day, the walls were bare at SOG armory, and Collector's was completly out of tactical/modern weapons for months.

409

I've been on the CPAP machine/mask for about six months now. Cardiologist and the sleep doc confirmed that sleep apnea can create some real nasty heart problems, and isn't something to mess with. Also lost about 25 lbs. Feel better than I have for several years.

 

The CPAP mask and maintenance of the system is kind of a pain, but you get used to sleeping with it very quickly, at least I did, and I've found I get a better night's sleep most of the time.

 

Good luck with it. Will be interested to hear the update and some chatter about what others think.

410   388 What can I say, I met my husband in an earlier time (1982) when politics wasn't a blood sport and neither of us were very extreme in our views. It's a real testament to what has happened in America that now people look at us like we have two heads. If we met today, we almost certainly would not have more than a few dates.


Posted by: rockmom at December 06, 2012 04:47 PM (qE3AR)

_______________________________

That's because in 1982 it didn't really matter who was president. The federal govt didn't rule our lives the way it does today so the stakes weren't so high. This changed with Clinton and went into full overdrive when Bush won in 2000.

411

Oh? Christina Hendricks has a brother?

That, or I may have mis-typed. Choose your preferred answer : -)

412

Posted by: Jollyroger at December 06, 2012 05:05 PM (t06LC)

 

Yep.  Not as bad now regard to supply but I can see it getting worse. 

413 I almost don't think it matters.  Look at California, they gave Democrats super majorities despite the fact it's collapsing.

Culturally, the country has moved just enough to the Left that it really doesn't matter how bad the economy gets.  The electorate is the problem, or at least the ones that are willing to show up.

414 What I find fascinating is that the people who voted for TFG are youngish people who are having difficulty finding decent paying full time jobs. A lot of employed people are actually underemployed and scraping by.

They don't want to be seen as uncool, and they honestly believe that they're part of the elite.

415 The first shot across the bow was the Detroit city council.

They're finally asking what they're getting from their investment in Obama.

It will not turn out well for them.


Did they take negotiating lessons from Boehner? If they didn't collect before the election they're sol now. SCOAMT doesn't need their support now, or not enough to pay for it.

416 time to call it a day folks. bbt

417 I'm trying to cut back on politics after the Thanksgiving incident.  I've also come to realize that losing those friends was good for me.  They were losers and trying to keep in their company only held me back.

I've picked up the violin again, scheduled dance lessons, will probably get a gym membership, and am looking at classes to take through the local community college next year.  I've decided that the world can go to hell and there's not much I can do about it, so I'll focus on educating myself and enjoying my own pursuits whether or not anyone else cares.

418 The electorate is the problem, or at least the ones that are willing to show up.

If you paid attention alot of places didn't need the electorate, the local ward bosses made their own.

419

Posted by: Llarry at December 06, 2012 05:00 PM (y+lrr)

 

I'd answer yes to some of those, Llarry: the lost loves, the bad hearing, the abusive childhood along with the drinking and the drugs to deal with it...

 

All that means is that you've actually lived. You haven't been a passive spectator to your own existence. And like you, I have hope. As Vaclev Havel once said, hope isn't the naive, childish belief that everything will turn out all right in the end. Hope is the faith that there is a point and purpose to our lives and work.

420

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 06, 2012 04:36 PM (79ueO)

___

At least that "mother" knew to attempt to hide the evidence.

 

Lately we in the Philly metro have been treated to stories of children being brutalized to death by their guardians, in some cases their natural parent. The guardians of the two little victims of the most brutal treatment called 9-1-1 when they realized the child was unresponsive after another episode of unspeakable abuse.

 

After collecting myself, thinking of the pain those children endured in their short lives, I had the same thought: Why did the parent call the paramedics, did they not know that this is the time to hide the evidence?

 

One of the stories was featured on the front page of the local paper on election day. In the middle of the excitement and anticipation  (because I believed Mitt would win)  that story stopped  me  cold  in  my  tracks  and  I  lost  my  appetite. Suddenly the election  seemed  far  away  and  insignificant. Because  if  we  live  on  a  planet where guardians of children make a career of abusing them  unto death, what is the use of  caring about anything at all?

421 Unemployment Shoots Back Up Over 8%

Unexpectedly.

422 420 The electorate is the problem, or at least the ones that are willing to show up.

If you paid attention alot of places didn't need the electorate, the local ward bosses made their own.
Posted by: KellyFromMesquite

The thing is, I don't buy into the fraud excuse.  I think Democrats do it all the time, but it's on the margins.  If the election had come down to PA and it was less than 1% of the vote, than yeah, I could buy that, but not every swing states and millions of voters.

Look around, America has changed.  I barely recognize my state anymore.

423 North Carolina? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2012 05:00 PM (GsoHv) Yep, why?

424

It doesn't deserveto be saved from Jimmy Carter II. Once you realize that, it's a lot easier to survive.

___

It's funny you say that. Pre Nov 6, when I would pray for the GOP to win, my prayers seemed to always be prefaced by: "God, I know this country doesn't deserve a good man to lead it"...and that occurred spontaneously, it wasn't like I had a script.

 

And it turned out to be the truth. Because the mean, bitter, greedy, grievance nurturing masses want a Chavez Junior to "lead" them. Let's  see  what  happens  in  a  little  while when  Assad  unleashes  the  Raid missiles  on  the  Al-Qaeda  cockroaches and preazy won't lift a finger to help out of fear of Putin. 

 

And his boyfriends in the SCM will not be able to spin it away.

 

Since ace is on a French kick:  Sauve qui peut.

425 kallisto . . . there are parts of Philadelphia and environs (like Chester City) that are literally Hell on Earth. my main takeaway from the election was "time to leave." not necessarily the US, but at least Pennsy. we are way overburdened with the Government Client Class in our state. and its going to be a state-by-state thing, the second Civil War. It may just all collapse. would I be okay in Pennsy when it collapses? my own family, i don't particularly trust, to be honest. Americans who live traditional lives - marriage, kids, church, mortgage, college - are to be punished to the fullest extent of the law; and then the law will be changed to allow more punishment. Living this way (among other ways!); living well, doing your best, whether married or not - that is reward unto itself.

426 kallisto, I had the same prayer. Same thoughts. See, we are in the belly of the beast; but having done some traveling around the country I know it's not like that everywhere. so . . . meanwhile I've had to stop working PT and gone back to work fulltime outside the home. It's been rough on the kids but I think good for me overall. And we just needed to, to keep up with the inflation that some say doesn't exist. So, am working as hard as I can to keep head above water. am hoping that in like two years, maybe less, Obama is in reality done. kwim? W and Clinton were done by then in their second terms.

427 395 Llarry, you make some powerful lemonade.

428

"America is serving a medium-term prison sentence."

Three things bother me about that...

1) My bunkmates in prison (debt, international enemies, liberal policy run amok)

2) Recidivism (depression, long-term implications of foreign policy, liberal policy run amok)

3) Job prospects post-prison (depression, loss of credit rating internationally, loss of credibility as a "great power"

429 Wow, that was fascinating.

For some reason you have a compulsion tell me how little my posts mean to you.

It's almost like what I'm saying gets to you, but you can't admit it to yourself because you're unable to deal with genuine emotion, so you have to denigrate what I write in a desperate attempt to convince yourself that you're not suffering from a crippling deficit.

Or maybe you're just a shallow, fatuous anus? Could that be it instead?

430 *** SERIOUS NOTE ACE!! *** Had the apnea for years, sleep tests in the hospital hooked up to wires, counsels with aholes in whitecoats etc. I got NUTTIN! So one night yet again I bolt upright to sit and hopefully breath. I usually do begin to breath, slowly as the panic subsides, but not this time. I start running around the house, the panicked running drowning. It doesnÂ’t take long when you canÂ’t breath to think there might be seconds left in your life. By happenstance, maybe desperation to swim to the top or in search of divine intervention, I look straight up. Gone, all of it in an instant, the panic, everything. Try it, look straight ahead, constrict your throat and breath, you wonÂ’t get as much air as you need ... while doing this look straight up, as I said- gone. So anyway, next time I see the doc, I tell him the story. HeÂ’s looking down writing something, or pricing yachts - mmm hmm. NO! Are you listening to me?! ... Try it! ... No, I understand ... You understaaand?! ...then why didnÂ’t you tell me, how could you not know this?! I SIMPLY OPENED MY THROAT! I never saw them again. Perhaps two minor episodes in the last 20 years. I look up, gone, then sleep like a baby whereas before IÂ’d be up for hours waiting for the grim reaper to knock again. I hate doctors.

431 If you are interested in learning another language, I recommend this web site:

fsi-language-courses.org/

It has pdf's of text documents and mp3's of audio tapes.  It is the course that was used to teach foreign languages to foreign service diplomats in the 1960s.  They learned other languages with this material and so can you.  It is free which is $500 cheaper than Rosetta Stone.

I personally recommend learning Spanish.  It is a lot more useful to know than French or Italian and, if you are so inclined, it might help you persuade some folks that the Democrats are not their friends.  This is an easier argument to make in neighborhoods where all the Democrat Party positions are held by Blacks who use their positions for the exclusive benefit of Blacks.

432

Taking a 15 minute lesson on how to surrender, in French? Sounds very

GOP Establishment.

433 Good for you, Ace, learning French!  Don't listen to 223, those swears are all Quebec French, and nobody understands that joual unless they come from there.  Once you get into it a bit more, try some French movies, and start with subtitled ones so you can connect the French words to the English.  "La Belle et la bete" by Cocteau is a good one: it's the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast", so you already know the plot.  And since they're not trying for gritty naturalism, but for poetic fantasy, they speak nice and slow.  You'll learn a lot of French that way.

434 This thread is making me feel like all ghey & frenchy. I can't wait until the Krauts get here ... they're sooo ou la la engineery, no?.

435 Unemployment Shoots Back Up Over 8%

Like it was ever under 8%. Jeebus.

436 402 After reading post 395 I need a joint and a drink. -- You're more altruistic than I. I want to swallow the serious end of a .45 ... or take up gardening.

437 Four more years.  Then 8 more years of biden. then 2 million years of the Dark Ages, again.  Then God gets to sort it out after all that.

438 Larry @395: that was memorable, especially the geese part . Thank you for sharing that. I feel. Suddenly plunged into the Chhristmas spirit.

439 And it also strikes me as another way to say Love One Another, which is a dangerously subversive way to undermine the coming tyranny. Love your families, love your kids and your mom and dad. If you're single, go to church and love people there, there are people around everywhere who are desperate for even a little question from you, from anyone, You still there? That connection with one another is what the government can never undo, and can never replace. It is the most powerful antidote to its power ever.