October 30, 2013

Adobe hacked - 38M user account names/passwords stolen
— Purple Avenger

I hope none of you were affected.

OAB: feeling safe
TNH: 7x24x365 perma-paranoia



POLL: VA gov race, McAuliffe 45, Cuccinelli 41, Sarvis 9. OK, Libertarians you proved your point, you're the kingmakers here. Now suck it up and prevent disaster. Hold your nose and break for Cuccinelli and finish it.

And it looks like Krispy Kreme is gonna be a walkover in NJ. 60/70-something'ish. The Dem is getting blown out.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 04:29 AM | Comments (295)
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1 "And it looks like Krispy Kreme is gonna be a walkover in NJ. 60/70-something'ish. The Dem is getting blown out."
Must disagree.   The Dem is winning in NJ too.   You can dress up a pig in many ways; it is still a pig.

Posted by: jb at October 30, 2013 04:32 AM (sXICw)

2 Sarvis voters want to deliver Virginia to one of the worst Democrats in the country?

Posted by: steevy at October 30, 2013 04:33 AM (zqvg6)

3 To bad the blow out is Christies waist line...

Posted by: Guy who makes the doughnuts at October 30, 2013 04:34 AM (4pjhs)

4 There are really 38 million Adobe accounts?

Posted by: RioBravo at October 30, 2013 04:36 AM (eEfYn)

5 what, you mean the twice daily Adobe updates weren't annoying enough?

Posted by: wooga at October 30, 2013 04:36 AM (jgnqm)

6 Clearly, Adobe was sharpening more knives than pencils.

Posted by: Ramadam Pon Farr at October 30, 2013 04:36 AM (efBdc)

7 Adobe getting hacked is like.....healthcare.gov not working right.

Posted by: EC at October 30, 2013 04:38 AM (GQ8sn)

8 There are really 38 million Adobe accounts?

Yea?
I download the updates when they come up, but I don't have an account or password.  Did I done download something ...bad?

Posted by: Paladin at October 30, 2013 04:38 AM (LtaK3)

9 I still can't believe anyone tried to sign on to obamafail the first day, or week, or month, for that matter. The first release of anything is a clusterfark. And, we're talking government made, here. 100 times worse. And, the very last people you want to have your information.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 30, 2013 04:40 AM (IXrOn)

10 Did I done download something ...bad?

In that Flash is an automated malware injection mechanism, by design, kinda...

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 30, 2013 04:40 AM (4tK7k)

11 Adobe sucks. Almost as bad as Java.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 56% more DOOM! at October 30, 2013 04:41 AM (09o/X)

12 When I read "Adobe" I think "Photoshop" or "PDF", not "browser."

Probably why I'll die alone.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at October 30, 2013 04:45 AM (hO8IJ)

13 The Dem is getting blown out.

--

Christie loosened his belt. 

If Quinnipiac is to be believed, Sarvis, the 3rd wheel, is going to give VA to McCauliffe.  And if McCauliffe is as bad as I've read, I feel bad for any sane person left in that state.  And to think it was once a pretty reliable red. 

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2013 04:46 AM (XB5Ak)

14 We all die alone.

Posted by: Henry Bemis at October 30, 2013 04:46 AM (efBdc)

15 Sebelius hearing.

http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN3/

Might want to update Adobe first, , , oh wait.

Posted by: lowandslow at October 30, 2013 04:46 AM (IV4od)

16 I delete with extreme prejudice all Adobe and Java updates.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at October 30, 2013 04:47 AM (qRD8F)

17 There needs be those who sharpen pencils and those who sharpen knives.
As for me, I'm sharpening knives.

Posted by: Dept. of Acuracy at October 30, 2013 04:47 AM (S5LPT)

18 Thanks for the heads up, Purp...I changed my Adobe ID for safety.

Posted by: CanaDave at October 30, 2013 04:49 AM (pZ6Eh)

19 Would somebody like to explain why the libertarians don't like Cuccinelli? Shouldn't Malor be declaring them worse than So-Cons?

Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at October 30, 2013 04:50 AM (K8N6v)

20 Cuccinelli is a good guy, and even if he weren't, he'd still be a damned sight preferable to that poopstew across the way. But say good bye to GOP victories for a while. Nothing personal.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 04:50 AM (SGt7E)

21 I don't know where to put this particular piece of info without violating the new stick to the topic rule, but I just heard Wolf Blitzer say that the website rollout for the ACA has only affected 5% of insurance holders.  He went on to say that this means 15 million individual policy holders.  I want someone to tear into this and point out that the dang law was supposed to fix insurance for 10% of the population, and they've already screwed half of the number of people they were supposed to help with 95% left of the market to go.  Heck of a job, Kathleen.

Posted by: no good deed at October 30, 2013 04:50 AM (k55Fc)

22 HOWIE CARR: “First he ruins the health care system. Now he wants to come in and wreck the World Series. . . . Yesterday, the White House was dithering back and forth over whether to go to Game 6 tonight. They haven’t been this confused since they were trying to decide whether to bomb Syria.” insty http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 30, 2013 04:51 AM (IXrOn)

23 Shouldn't Malor be declaring them worse than So-Cons?

Nah, the libertarians love them the gays, so he thinks they're just peachy.

Posted by: GMan at October 30, 2013 04:51 AM (sxq57)

24 Adobe sucks. Almost as bad as Java. Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 56% more DOOM! at October 30, 2013 08:41 AM (09o/X) I was just trying to come up with some at least it wasn't Java snark. Sort of kind of related if you tilt your head juuuuust so: http://xkcd.com/801/

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at October 30, 2013 04:51 AM (VtjlW)

25 16 I delete with extreme prejudice all Adobe and Java updates.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at October 30, 2013 08:47 AM (qRD8F)


Then you wont get NSA's latest back door.

Posted by: Temper Tantrum at October 30, 2013 04:52 AM (AWmfW)

26

Adobe?

Isn't that the little car made out of clay?

Posted by: Roy at October 30, 2013 04:52 AM (VndSC)

27 I feel bad for any sane person left in that state. Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2013 08:46 AM (XB5Ak) Mark Levin

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 30, 2013 04:52 AM (IXrOn)

28 Cuccinelli should, if he hasn't already, make a public appeal to the Libertarian voters and to Sarvis himself, unless he thinks Sarvis will resent it and rile up the Libertarians against KC even more.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 30, 2013 04:53 AM (ZshNr)

29 Has he lost weight? He had that gastric band back in February. He should have lost a 100 lbs by now.

Posted by: Jesse at October 30, 2013 04:53 AM (As/N8)

30

I still can't believe anyone tried to sign on to obamafail the first day, or week, or month, for that matter.

 

 

Jack  Meoff  signed  up  more  than  once  that  first  day. 

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at October 30, 2013 04:54 AM (rXcBX)

31 Cuccinelli's not worth holding my nose for.

Posted by: Eric J at October 30, 2013 04:54 AM (XCSw/)

32 This Virginia resident REALLY hopes the libertarians can refrain from making the perfect the enemy of the good.

I've been guilty of it myself, but I think I've learned some lessons.  Don't give us McDouchenozzle because Cucci isn't the best.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 30, 2013 04:54 AM (fwARV)

33 Adobe? Isn't that the little car made out of clay? I thought it was those Tex-Mex enchiladas with the hot peppers.

Posted by: Phinn at October 30, 2013 04:55 AM (MeVdV)

34 Adobe is one of the companies that signed tge Chamber of Commerce's pro-shamnesty letter sent to Boehner a month or so ago.

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at October 30, 2013 04:55 AM (5H6zj)

35 30 Looks like he has gained weight.

Posted by: steevy at October 30, 2013 04:55 AM (zqvg6)

36 Steve Jobs was an asshole, but he was right about Flash

Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 04:56 AM (CMlD4)

37 OK, Libertarians you proved your point, you're the kingmakers here. Now suck it up and prevent disaster. Hold your nose and break for Cuccinelli and finish it.

Not gonna happen.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 04:56 AM (JpC1K)

38 @36 I don't think so: http://bit.ly/19MMy6J

Posted by: Gran at October 30, 2013 04:57 AM (mw0FO)

39 Cuccinelli is O.O.U. ("One of Us"). I've been on his side since, as AG, he took O-Care to the Supremes. And now I've moved from MD to his VA. Please, libertarians, don't guarantee that the Blue State Hell Machine will follow me to my last refuge.

Posted by: herbork at October 30, 2013 04:57 AM (t1s5e)

40 IIRC Rand made a direct appeal to Libertarians to vote for Cuccinelli.

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at October 30, 2013 04:58 AM (5H6zj)

41 Jack Meoff signed up more than once that first day.

So did Heywood Yablowme and Mike Hunt.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 04:58 AM (JpC1K)

42 Thanks, Purp. I haven't done business with Adobe in years. But there are a couple security lessons people can take away. 1. If you are depending on the vendor, or even the US government, to keep your information secure, I have some oceanfront property in PA for sale. 2. Try not to use the same username and password everywhere. If hackers get the one, they have better odds of reeking havoc. If you have to write them down on a piece of paper (this is at home) and leave them laying around, I don't think robbers are going to break into your house and steal more then your laptop and/or pc, not a piece of paper with jibberish. 3. Debit cards are great but dangerous. Try to have a second account that you use them on. Keep as little money in DC account as possible. Push funds from primary to DC account as needed.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at October 30, 2013 04:58 AM (U2UQk)

43 Cuccinelli's not worth holding my nose for.

Posted by: Eric J at October 30, 2013 08:54 AM (XCSw/)

Non-snarky question:  Do you recognize, as a rational person, that voting for Sarvis is ensuring Governor McAuliffe?

If yes:  Is McAuliffe better or worse for Virginia (and you, specifically) than Cuccinelli?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 30, 2013 04:59 AM (fwARV)

44 He had that gastric band back in February.

He ate it, right after he ate the surgical team.

Posted by: Them Duke Boys, kew kew kew at October 30, 2013 04:59 AM (efBdc)

45 Somebody get Uncle Ben to call the Virginia Libertarians. With great power...

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 30, 2013 04:59 AM (ZshNr)

46 Not gonna happen. Posted by: Sean Bannion at October 30, 2013 08:56 AM (JpC1K) Would what'shisname, the guy whose turn it was and who is throwing the temper tantrum (mind like a steel seive baby!) because Cuccinelli is the candidate have been a better choice than Cuccinelli?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at October 30, 2013 05:00 AM (VtjlW)

47 Helpful hint - Busch Lite and Novocaine do not mix. And since when did those little dirt houses go all high tech ?

Posted by: ScoggDog ... feels a bit better at October 30, 2013 05:00 AM (emLJ8)

48 Cuccinelli has got a few minor things the Libertarian's would have a problem with but I'd vote for him.  Don't know about VA but in Texas having a statewide candidate get 10% gives you ballot access for four years so they may be after something along those lines.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at October 30, 2013 05:01 AM (epxV4)

49
Also in tech news:

Dell users: Latitude 6430u laptops "smell of cat urine"

BBC




Feature, not a bug......

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 30, 2013 05:01 AM (kdS6q)

50

The Cuccinelli poll is actually good news, most of the others have him losing by 10pts.

Posted by: MM at October 30, 2013 05:03 AM (ZMhO7)

51 Would what'shisname, the guy whose turn it was and who is throwing the temper tantrum (mind like a steel seive baby!) because Cuccinelli is the candidate have been a better choice than Cuccinelli?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at October 30, 2013 09:00 AM (VtjlW)

Bill Bolling?  Hmmmm, I hate "smarmy" so probably not.  

I also hate "self-promoter" (Cuccinelli) so maybe it's a wash.

I DO know this though...McAuliffe will be an epic disaster with multiple scandals.  Can't wait to rub the nose of my Dem neighbors in that in about a year.  They bitch about "Republican scandals" and never seem to look at how McAuliffe got where is is today.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:03 AM (JpC1K)

52 I still can't believe anyone tried to sign on to obamafail the first day, or week, or month, for that matter. Yes, you know the numbers were bad when they had to tout phony stories like Chad!

Posted by: runningrn at October 30, 2013 05:03 AM (PLOz8)

53 Heh, the troll at #1 was posting from U Penn, shocker eh?

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 30, 2013 05:04 AM (4tK7k)

54 Why does the JEF have this pathetic need to make the World Series about him? Particularly in a city that suffered a terrorist attack during a marathon because, in large part, his appointed fuckheads didn't do their job. I hope the Fenway crowd boos the fuck out of him.

Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at October 30, 2013 05:04 AM (K8N6v)

55

The more lies exposed the more shrill and arrogant the leftards get. Now they are saying only shitty health insurance is cancelled. And guess who decides what is good or shitty health insurance, why your leftard rulers of course.

Fuck the stupid sons of bitches.

Posted by: maddogg at October 30, 2013 05:05 AM (xWW96)

56 With McAuliffe, staying out of jail for his whole term would be considered success.  I used to live in Illinois - I know what a jailbait governor looks like.

Posted by: MM at October 30, 2013 05:05 AM (ZMhO7)

57 Now they are saying only shitty health insurance is cancelled.

That shit'll taper off as soon as they get their letters...

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 30, 2013 05:06 AM (4tK7k)

58 52 The Cuccinelli poll is actually good news, most of the others have him losing by 10pts. I wonder if things are tighter than reported. The Big Guns have come in, Bill and Hill. Now there are reports that Sheriff Joe and Barry are going to go to VA to campaign for Terry.

Posted by: runningrn at October 30, 2013 05:06 AM (PLOz8)

59 I don't have an Adobe account but I think Acrobat and Flash Player are on every machine I ever owned. Is the danger only for folks who have an account?

Posted by: Boss Moss the Redskin Savage at October 30, 2013 05:07 AM (ujMoa)

60 The president is going to campaign for the dem in Virginia.  People in Jersey are asking why he isn't stopping there to campaign for the dem running against Christie.

Posted by: just a citizen at October 30, 2013 05:07 AM (Nx76m)

61 Fuck the stupid sons of bitches.

Posted by: maddogg at October 30, 2013 09:05 AM (xWW96)

Even THAT is a lie.  Obama said, specifically, that I could keep my shitty insurance.

"Actually, ANY insurance that you currently have would be grandfathered in so you could keep it.  You could decide not to get in the exchange the better plan.  I could keep my Acme Insurance, just a high-deductible catastrophic plan.  I would not be required to get the better one."
  -- B.H. Obama  25Feb10

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 30, 2013 05:07 AM (fwARV)

62 I hope the Fenway crowd boos the fuck out of him. Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at October 30, 2013 09:04 AM

Got one word for ya, dude: BOSTON.

You think a town that's about to choose between two Irish Democrat free-spending yabbos (but I repeat myself) for mayor would diss Choom Boy?

Hell, if he shows up, the game will be called a rainout because the field will be too wet with all the slavering and drooling.

Posted by: MrScribbler at October 30, 2013 05:07 AM (kaGpp)

63 I hope the Fenway crowd boos the fuck out of him.

Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at October 30, 2013 09:04 AM (K8N6v)

Oh, don't worry, they will.

Ever drive in Boston rush hour traffic?

Ever drive in Boston rush hour traffic when there is a World Series game coinciding with a Presidential visit?

Half these people won't even make it before the 4th inning, and anyone who even makes it to Fenway on time is going to arrive pissed off and in no mood for his bullshit.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:08 AM (JpC1K)

64 Fortunately Obama said he's going to campaign for Mcauliffe, although he was probably lying.  He does that you know.  A lot.  Its like his mouth opens and bull$hit runs out.  Quite something when you think about it.

Posted by: dirks strewn at October 30, 2013 05:08 AM (kfcYC)

65 Sheriff Joe and Barry are going to go to VA to campaign for Terry

Ah yes, the vaunted leprosy endorsements.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 30, 2013 05:08 AM (4tK7k)

66 I'm still waiting on my email from Bolling telling me to vote for the Cooch ... or at least one telling me to vote for the down ticket Republicans.

This crap about the Establishment being upset over the convention versus a primary, is disgusting.  They have already forgotten how they rigged the primary rules so only Ron Paul and Mittens were on the ballot in '12.

Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 05:08 AM (CMlD4)

67 55 Heh, the troll at #1 was posting from U Penn, shocker eh? Hey, that's my younger sister's Alma Mater. She's a rock ribbed conservative.

Posted by: runningrn at October 30, 2013 05:09 AM (PLOz8)

68

It's New Jersey.  Christie is the best that can be done there for now.

 

He's not my governor so I really have nothing to say about how he does his job.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Your Vitriolic Harangues At The Outrage Outlet at October 30, 2013 05:09 AM (hLRSq)

69 62 The president is going to campaign for the dem in Virginia. People in Jersey are asking why he isn't stopping there to campaign for the dem running against Christie.

Posted by: just a citizen at October 30, 2013 09:07 AM (Nx76m)


It's like there's a deal made by the dems and Chistie...

Posted by: Temper Tantrum at October 30, 2013 05:09 AM (AWmfW)

70 Lordy, it's only 6am here and I am only on my 2nd cup of coffee and there is Waxman(D-Pig) on my TV scaring the shit out of me. C-Span should really put a warning out: Some of these people are not for early morning viewing

Posted by: Ma Bell at October 30, 2013 05:09 AM (RLdcX)

71 You think a town that's about to choose between two Irish Democrat free-spending yabbos (but I repeat myself) for mayor would diss Choom Boy?  Posted by: MrScribbler at October 30, 2013 09:07 AM (kaGpp)

I think you're confusing the crowd that goes to Fenway with the crowd that hangs out within a 5 block radius of Harvard Square.

Two.  Different.  Groups.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:09 AM (JpC1K)

72 "He had that gastric band back in February."


I saw Gastric Band open for Dinkin' Munchkins back in 85.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 30, 2013 05:10 AM (OuGy9)

73 Heh, the troll at #1 was posting from U Penn, shocker eh? If you put the Billy Penn statue as the epicenter of philly area liberals, you have to be be about 30 miles outside that blast area to find any sanity. Then those crazy libs decide to move out to the country and they try to bring the 'spend taxpayer dollars like there is no tomorrow' along with them.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at October 30, 2013 05:10 AM (U2UQk)

74 Sheriff Joe Arpaio? Oh, you mean Joey Cho Cho.

Posted by: Boss Moss the Redskin Savage at October 30, 2013 05:10 AM (ujMoa)

75

I used to live in Illinois - I know what a jailbait governor looks like.

 

Unless we're talking about Traci Lords, I'm not interested.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 30, 2013 05:10 AM (zF6Iw)

76 I wish Kos would go to Virginia, his endorsement is generally the instant cobra bite of death for a campaign.

Posted by: maddogg at October 30, 2013 05:10 AM (xWW96)

77 We all die alone. Not according to muzzie suicide bombers.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 30, 2013 05:10 AM (8D0/R)

78 66 Fortunately Obama said he's going to campaign for Mcauliffe, although he was probably lying. He does that you know. A lot. Its like his mouth opens and bull$hit runs out. Quite something when you think about it. Why Moochelle keeps a roll of toilet paper in her purse.

Posted by: runningrn at October 30, 2013 05:10 AM (PLOz8)

79 It was the U Penn philly campus

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 30, 2013 05:11 AM (4tK7k)

80 If he actually shows up at Fenway, I'm sure he'll get some boos. But the crowd isn't going to be in a booing mood, they'll be anticipating the biggest party of the Season kicking off. Sure, Republicans are outnumbered 3 to 1 on a good day, but a lot of the people who can afford tickets work in the surrounding Med Centers and Hospitals, they can't be too thrilled with him.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 30, 2013 05:11 AM (ZshNr)

81 That homosexual child molester and serial liar Michael Mann is trolling us?

Posted by: Boss Moss the Redskin Savage at October 30, 2013 05:11 AM (ujMoa)

82 And now they are fighting over swearing in the Scarecrow, oops I mean Sebelius

Posted by: Ma Bell at October 30, 2013 05:12 AM (RLdcX)

83 I don't have an Adobe account but I think Acrobat and Flash Player are on every machine I ever owned. Is the danger only for folks who have an account?

Posted by: Boss Moss the Redskin Savage at October 30, 2013 09:07 AM (ujMoa)


**

This^^well??




Posted by: dananjcon at October 30, 2013 05:12 AM (wmU4G)

84 Hey, that's my younger sister's Alma Mater. She's a rock ribbed conservative. Business major, perchance?

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at October 30, 2013 05:13 AM (U2UQk)

85 That homosexual child molester and serial liar Michael Mann is trolling us?


He's at Penn State.

Not UPenn.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:13 AM (JpC1K)

86 If you know who goes to Fenway tonight and the Sox lose...

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here)-also drooling imbecile incapable of doing algebra or something at October 30, 2013 05:13 AM (659DL)

87 Darth Sebelius goes before the Parliament of Whores.

Posted by: Boss Moss the Redskin Savage at October 30, 2013 05:13 AM (ujMoa)

88 72 Lordy, it's only 6am here and I am only on my 2nd cup of coffee and there is Waxman(D-Pig) on my TV scaring the shit out of me. C-Span should really put a warning out: Some of these people are not for early morning viewing That is frightening. Carl Levin is also another scary mofo. I wish Trey Gowdy was allowed to grill Kathleen Sebelius today. That would be epic. Sadly, we are

Posted by: runningrn at October 30, 2013 05:13 AM (PLOz8)

89 Curse of the Bambino replaced by the Curse of the Bozo?

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 30, 2013 05:14 AM (ZshNr)

90 Darth Sebelius goes before the Parliament of Whores. Don't insult the Sith like that.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here)-also drooling imbecile incapable of doing algebra or something at October 30, 2013 05:14 AM (659DL)

91 I hope Cucinneli wins, but the dem is under investigation for fraud, I believe, in at least two incidents. It should be illegal to run for elected office until you are proven innocent. IÂ’m really going to eat a muffin and get ready for work. I donÂ’t want to lose it watching FNC with this HHS secretary on my television! Why donÂ’t they have lie detector on with them? We know sheÂ’s full of it.

Posted by: CarolT at October 30, 2013 05:14 AM (z4WKX)

92 (oops, premature posting!) Sadly, the second string JV bumblers will probably be asking Sebelius the questions.

Posted by: runningrn at October 30, 2013 05:15 AM (PLOz8)

93 Re: O at the World Series

Police will limit crowds near the park. After the seventh inning, people won't be allowed into Fenway or the surrounding streets, and if people already there decide to leave, they can't come back.

Parking restrictions aim to thin out of the number of cars on streets around Fenway starting at 4 p.m., and officials warned people parking in local lots that they'll be stuck there for a while after the game.

The mayor said he'll be asking businesses in downtown Boston to relieve congestion by letting workers go home by 4 p.m. City staff has asked local bar owners to pull outside displays by the fifth inning and cover windows so crowds don't gather outside to watch their TVs.



Enjoy your Series, Beantown!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 30, 2013 05:15 AM (kdS6q)

94 Why do people think they look better with a stretched face, loaded with Botox and yet they sit there with a low cut blouse where every one can see their shriveled up necks?

Posted by: Ma Bell at October 30, 2013 05:15 AM (RLdcX)

95 I DO know this though...McAuliffe will be an epic disaster with multiple scandals. Can't wait to rub the nose of my Dem neighbors in that in about a year. They bitch about "Republican scandals" and never seem to look at how McAuliffe got where is is today. Posted by: Sean Bannion at October 30, 2013 09:03 AM (JpC1K) This is what you're thinking? Wow. You do realize that "rub their noses in it" is a waste of time, and doesn't work, right? This is childish. No offense.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 30, 2013 05:16 AM (IXrOn)

96 Since Christie was in the OP, this isn't OT. I mentioned my disdain for the man in the ONT and someone asked for details on the Sharia judge he appointed. Anyone interested, here's a link to Sultan Knish: http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2011/01/governor-christies-dirty-islamist-ties.html

Posted by: Weirddave at October 30, 2013 05:16 AM (N/cFh)

97

They didn't Mirandize her. 

Posted by: Boss Moss the Redskin Savage at October 30, 2013 05:16 AM (ujMoa)

98 Why do people think they look better with a stretched face, loaded with Botox and yet they sit there with a low cut blouse where every one can see their shriveled up necks?

Posted by: Ma Bell at October 30, 2013 09:15 AM (RLdcX)

Because they're idiots?

I dunno, just spitballin' here.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:17 AM (JpC1K)

99 When Trey Gowdy questions a witness, it brings to mind my many sessions in various Principle's offices while growing up..............

Posted by: maddogg at October 30, 2013 05:17 AM (xWW96)

100 Business major, perchance? She was an accounting major. She's a CPA that works for a small, family owned business now.

Posted by: runningrn at October 30, 2013 05:17 AM (PLOz8)

101 Half these people won't even make it before the 4th inning, and anyone who even makes it to Fenway on time is going to arrive pissed off and in no mood for his bullshit. Posted by: Sean Bannion at October 30, 2013 09:08 AM (JpC1K) I told my dad last night that TFG was going to be in Boston today and his reply was you have got to be kidding me, he's going to the game? I told him oh no, he's going to a huge fundraiser in Boston and might go to the game as well. He couldn't believe the arrogance of it. I told him I could. Honest question, if you wanted to make it in time for the first inning when would have to leave? Two hours ago?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at October 30, 2013 05:17 AM (VtjlW)

102 It should be illegal to run for elected office until you are proven innocent. 

Posted by: CarolT at October 30, 2013 09:14 AM (z4WKX)

I disagree.

See:  Palin, Sarah.  All you have to do is find a group with deep pockets (Soros) and you can prevent any conservative from running for office.  Ever. 

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 30, 2013 05:17 AM (fwARV)

103 Adobe has several "accounts", not sure which one got hacked.

Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 05:17 AM (CMlD4)

104 Yes, let us rely on libertarians because they are so gosh darned reliable.

Posted by: ejo at October 30, 2013 05:18 AM (GXvSO)

105 You do realize that "rub their noses in it" is a waste of time, and doesn't work, right?  This is childish. No offense.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 30, 2013 09:16 AM (IXrOn)


I'll remember to consult you that next time I'm looking for advice on manners.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:18 AM (JpC1K)

106 I predict that 2014 will be a wipeout year for the GOP. The GOP declared war on the Tea Party in January 2011, and the Tea Party has finally seen the writing on the wall; victory through the GOP is more costly than defeat, because it brings two hostile parties rather than one.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 05:18 AM (SGt7E)

107

Can someone tell me why Cucinneli has polled so low with women voters?  I caught the  tail  end  of a report  this  weekend on the polling  and missed  whether there was a specific explanation.     Like binders or tampons.  

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2013 05:18 AM (m2CN7)

108 >>>It should be illegal to run for elected office until you are proven innocent.

Terrible idea. Dems would simply fabricate indictments for all opponents.

See Tom Delay.

Posted by: Typo Dynamofo at October 30, 2013 05:18 AM (FtCW+)

109 Are those precautions for Obama, or to prevent a critical mass of revelers turned rioters from forming in case of a win? I really hope that if Obama shows up and gets put on the big screen, whatever, it's before the game, not during it. Nobody wants to see that shit between outs.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 30, 2013 05:19 AM (ZshNr)

110 If he does go to Fenway, I bet he gets MLB and the networks to delay the start for his convenience.

Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 05:19 AM (CMlD4)

111 Christie blowing out the sacrificial lamb in NJ is bad news for conservatives.

It will confirm the inside-the-beltway Republicans' view that a moderate can win anywhere.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 30, 2013 05:19 AM (oJ5Fd)

112 I predict that 2014 will be a wipeout year for the GOP. The GOP declared war on the Tea Party in January 2011, and the Tea Party has finally seen the writing on the wall; victory through the GOP is more costly than defeat, because it brings two hostile parties rather than one.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 09:18 AM (SGt7E)

 

Why only predict.  If you want them to lose so badly just vote for the Democrat.

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2013 05:19 AM (m2CN7)

113 I hope the Fenway crowd boos the fuck out of him.

Better chance of them Booing Sam Malone.  Most in that town think he was the best Releaver they ever had.

Posted by: Paladin at October 30, 2013 05:19 AM (LtaK3)

114 96 Why do people think they look better with a stretched face, loaded with Botox and yet they sit there with a low cut blouse where every one can see their shriveled up necks? I don't know, but the thing I think is even uglier and even more unfathomably are the women who get their lips done. WTF is that all about? It looks so trashy and unnatural. I don't get the whole trout pout, duck face, porn star vibe. Bleh!

Posted by: runningrn at October 30, 2013 05:20 AM (PLOz8)

115 (SGt7E) Another hash to add to my troll list.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at October 30, 2013 05:20 AM (U2UQk)

116 Honest question, if you wanted to make it in time for the first inning when would have to leave? Two hours ago?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at October 30, 2013 09:17 AM (VtjlW)

Yesterday.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 30, 2013 05:20 AM (fwARV)

117 She is a dumb bitch. You need a much longer enrolment period when the coverage isn't free or close to it.  Employers pay 80% or more. When you are giving stuff away, people take it readily. When you are selling a product that is overpriced and not wanted no enrolment period would be long enough.

Posted by: Boss Moss the Redskin Savage at October 30, 2013 05:20 AM (ujMoa)

118 I hope the Cooch pulls it off and Maddow cries live on tv

Posted by: Zakn at October 30, 2013 05:21 AM (zyaZ1)

119 The mayor said he'll be asking businesses in downtown Boston to relieve congestion by letting workers go home by 4 p.m. City staff has asked local bar owners to pull outside displays by the fifth inning and cover windows so crowds don't gather outside to watch their TVs. Enjoy your Series, Beantown! Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 30, 2013 09:15 AM (kdS6q) Are you fucking kidding me? Cover the windows so crowds won't gather to watch? You mean the crowds that will go hey it's cold, let's go inside and grab a beer? It's Stupid, all the way down.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at October 30, 2013 05:21 AM (VtjlW)

120 polynikes, war on wimmen part 2.  He is pro-life, he didn't vote for a bill making divorce easier, and some BS about banning contraception

Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 05:21 AM (CMlD4)

121 It should be illegal to run for elected office until you are proven innocent if you've ever voted for a Democrat.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 30, 2013 05:21 AM (zF6Iw)

122 Can someone tell me why Cucinneli has polled so low with women voters? I caught the tail end of a report this weekend on the polling and missed whether there was a specific explanation. Like binders or tampons.

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2013 09:18 AM (m2CN7)

Commercials are running in Virginia which say Cuccineli wants to change the divorce laws to force women to stay in abusive marriages.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 30, 2013 05:21 AM (fwARV)

123 Honest question, if you wanted to make it in time for the first inning when would have to leave? Two hours ago?  Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at October 30, 2013 09:17 AM (VtjlW)

I think noon or one would do it.

I'd then while away the time sitting here first, http://tinyurl.com/lhdztbn...and then here http://tinyurl.com/yhb9szm.

They're both within a block of the park. 

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:21 AM (JpC1K)

124 Since everything he touches goes to crap, I really hope O decides to stay away from the game! Survey says....not likely. There's something big going on, so he must interject himself.

Posted by: Mainah at October 30, 2013 05:21 AM (659DL)

125 To get to and from the Park, leave your car in a suburban lot and take the Green Line right to Yawkey Way. Only possible drawback is that riding the train back to your car you might be in a carload of "revelers".

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 30, 2013 05:21 AM (ZshNr)

126 I'll remember to consult you that next time I'm looking for advice on manners.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at October 30, 2013 09:18 AM (JpC1K)

Let's not talk about manners.

I asked for a small favor. A trifle; a triviality.

But no, when I look onto my driveway I see nothing.

An MiA2 with a full load of Beehives is too much for you?

I think that's rude.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 30, 2013 05:22 AM (oJ5Fd)

127 109 Can someone tell me why Cucinneli has polled so low with women voters? I caught the tail end of a report this weekend on the polling and missed whether there was a specific explanation. Like binders or tampons. I'm going with him being a "sexist" Guido. He doesn't just have binders, he Probably has locked file cabinets.

Posted by: runningrn at October 30, 2013 05:22 AM (PLOz8)

128 Not Penn State. Pedo State.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars [/i] [/b] [/s] at October 30, 2013 05:23 AM (NW4xW)

129 She is a dumb bitch. You need a much longer enrolment period when the coverage isn't freeor close to it. Employers pay 80% or more. When you are giving stuff away, people take it readily. When you are selling a product that is overpriced and not wanted no enrolment period would be long enough.

Posted by: Boss Moss the Redskin Savage at October 30, 2013 09:20 AM (ujMoa)

 

I  said before that I thought it would have been so obvious that the proper way to do the roll out would have been in stages based on specific criteria.    Having a free for all  of potentially 100 million  people with the best software  would have resulted in a number of glitches.    

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2013 05:23 AM (m2CN7)

130 I'm in Virginia, and while a lot of folks are trying to keep enthusiasm up, I think the writing is on the wall.

But I've been wrong before. Still going to go out and vote, but I'm not expecting anything awesome to happen.

Posted by: Matt S. at October 30, 2013 05:24 AM (PDTch)

131 Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 30, 2013 09:21 AM (fwARV)

I heard he wants to legalize rape, as long as she is 18.

I saw the proposed law in some papers I was sent by a disgruntled staffer.

Posted by: Dan Rather at October 30, 2013 05:24 AM (oJ5Fd)

132 I think those commercials that say that Cuccinelli wants to cut the tits off all women who file for divorce are exaggerated.

Posted by: Boss Moss the Redskin Savage at October 30, 2013 05:24 AM (ujMoa)

133 I really hope our precedent throws out the first pitch to start the game. The athletic prowess of the man in any sport is truly amusing amazing. Whether it be baseball, basketball, bowling, or golf.

Posted by: Low Information Voter [/i] at October 30, 2013 05:25 AM (U2UQk)

134 Fat boy don't like scaaaary  guns  either...



http://tinyurl.com/k58kxmp

Posted by: dananjcon at October 30, 2013 05:25 AM (wmU4G)

135 126 Since everything he touches goes to crap, I really hope O decides to stay away from the game! Survey says....not likely. There's something big going on, so he must interject himself. Oh, I bet $ he goes. Whenever he has a hard week, he like so surround himself with crowds of adulation. What better place than Boston? He can throw out the first pitch in his US Precedent Bomber jacket and mom jeans and wave to the adoring crowds who rise to their feet to a standing ovation.

Posted by: runningrn at October 30, 2013 05:25 AM (PLOz8)

136 WTF kind of meds is Waxman on? I want some, they must be some damn good happy pills. The dude sees things that do not exist.

Posted by: Ma Bell at October 30, 2013 05:25 AM (RLdcX)

137 (U2UQk) You can go ahead and add me by name.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 05:25 AM (SGt7E)

138 Where the heck is Vick?!l

Posted by: runningrn at October 30, 2013 05:26 AM (PLOz8)

139 An MiA2 with a full load of Beehives is too much for you?  I think that's rude.  Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 30, 2013 09:22 AM (oJ5Fd)

Dude, I was at the factory last month.  No kiddin'  Seriously, guys.

They're building it for you.  I even got you the version with the CROWS system. 

http://tinyurl.com/bulzu87

Six weeks for delivery you know.  Sorry, they can't build them any faster.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:26 AM (JpC1K)

140 Plus, the Dems in NoVa are spamming mailboxes with anti-Cuccinelli stuff. I'm getting two or three pieces in the mail EVERY. DAY.

Posted by: Mainah at October 30, 2013 05:26 AM (659DL)

141
Can someone tell me why Cucinneli has polled so low with women voters?
Posted by: polynikes




Because Todd Akin --  as one can expect to be lectured by the usual suspects.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 30, 2013 05:26 AM (kdS6q)

142 I'll remember to consult you that next time I'm looking for advice on manners. Posted by: Sean Bannion at October 30, 2013 09:18 AM (JpC1K) Please do. At least I got you to open up your mind to this.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 30, 2013 05:26 AM (IXrOn)

143 Commercials are running in Virginia which say Cuccineli wants to change the divorce laws to force women to stay in abusive marriages.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 30, 2013 09:21 AM (fwARV)

 

I assume that they  only contain a  splash of truth mixed in with a boatload of misinformation and lies? 

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2013 05:26 AM (m2CN7)

144

Not Penn State.

Pedo State.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at October 30, 2013 09:23 AM (NW4xW)

You're right.  Students who were in 3rd grade when the most recent incident happened are just as guilty as Jerry.  Hundreds of thousands of alumni, students and family are all to be tarred with the Sandusky brush.

So much for judging men one at a time.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 30, 2013 05:26 AM (fwARV)

145 Right off the bat our from congressman goes for the regulatory aspect of Obama's lie but is to stupid to hammer Sebelius.

Posted by: lowandslow at October 30, 2013 05:26 AM (IV4od)

146 Luis Tiant is throwing out the first pitch. I'd like to see Obama try to take the ball from him. El Tiante hates him some Communists.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 30, 2013 05:26 AM (ZshNr)

147

"OK, Libertarians you proved your point, you're the kingmakers here. Now suck it up and prevent disaster. Hold your nose and break for Cuccinelli and finish it."

 

Cuccinelli is against pot and porn, so this ain't gonna happen.

Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 30, 2013 05:27 AM (YYJjz)

148 Baseball = American Obama = not at all

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 30, 2013 05:27 AM (IXrOn)

149 I assume that they only contain a splash of truth mixed in with a boatload of misinformation and lies?

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2013 09:26 AM (m2CN7)

I really question the 'splash' to begin with.  It's pretty much just the boat.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 30, 2013 05:27 AM (fwARV)

150 At least I got you to open up your mind to this.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 30, 2013 09:26 AM (IXrOn)

Yes.  Yes, that's what you did.  You did exactly that.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:28 AM (JpC1K)

151 Is this the Senate? Why is Pig nose allowed to talk? Stuff an apple in his mouth already.

Posted by: Boss Moss the Redskin Savage at October 30, 2013 05:28 AM (ujMoa)

152 maniah - yeah, mcauliffe is spending silly amounts of cash shotgunning direct mail into dry holes.  Every pro-abortion anti-gun glossy 11x20 foldout just stokes my hate a little more.

Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 05:29 AM (CMlD4)

153 The SCoaMF is campaigning for Mcawful this weekend, and we know his record on people he campaigns for. So i've got a little candle burning

Posted by: Zakn at October 30, 2013 05:30 AM (zyaZ1)

154 Libertarian who often votes Republican here.

Not gonna happen.

You told us hold our nose and vote for McCain.

You told us hold our nose and vote for Romney.

Yes, you're right, in both cases that they were better than Obama (well, dubious on McCain), but all we libertarians got out of it was electing democrat light and compromising our principles.

You want the libertarian vote?  Earn it.  Don't act like you're entitled to it.

Posted by: Gringo at October 30, 2013 05:30 AM (SbfVm)

155 So tasty: http://therightscoop.com/sandy-victim-i-wish-obama-was-gone-tomorrow-because-he-lied-to-us/

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 30, 2013 05:30 AM (IXrOn)

156 1. Libertarians are not purist conservatives. While the math says if they all voted for Cucinelli, he would win, the polling does not bear out that they would all vote for him if they didn't vote Libertarian. 2. Cucinelli does not poll well with women for the same reason all Republicans don't poll well with women. Years and years of artillery strikes have prepared the way. Millions of dollars of Dem money have poured down on Virginia telling women that Cucinelli wants to rape them and then make them have babies. There does not seem to be an effective defense to that.

Posted by: blaster at October 30, 2013 05:30 AM (W6bkf)

157 Six weeks for delivery you know. Sorry, they can't build them any faster.

Its GD Sean, make that 6 months

Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 05:30 AM (CMlD4)

158 All the mailers I am getting are Independent but are leaning Cuccinelli.

Posted by: Boss Moss the Redskin Savage at October 30, 2013 05:31 AM (ujMoa)

159

Posted by: Gringo at October 30, 2013 09:30 AM (SbfVm)

 

----------

 

Are you honestly comparing Cuccinelli with McCain/Romney?

 

Really?

 

 

Posted by: @JohnTant at October 30, 2013 05:31 AM (eytER)

160 "Libertarians you proved your point, you're the kingmakers here. Now suck it up and prevent disaster. Hold your nose and break for Cuccinelli and finish it. " They are Libertarians. If they were rational, they wouldn't be Libertarians.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at October 30, 2013 05:31 AM (bb5+k)

161 Its GD Sean, make that 6 months  Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 09:30 AM (CMlD4)

I have a whole new appreciation for the UAW after those site visits.

But ONLY the UAW members at that plant.  The rest of them can get bent.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:32 AM (JpC1K)

162 Tomorrow night is Halloween. You know what that means, boys and girls? All the teens who had sex get hacked to bits by psychopaths while the good girl, who is a virgin and very smart because she studies all the time and wears glasses and has no dates, survives. Tell your kids...

Posted by: Jesse at October 30, 2013 05:32 AM (As/N8)

163 Nope, gringo. You render yourself irrelevant, not more relevant, when you enable the corrupt and over-reaching Government you pretend to decry. I'm sure it makes sense in your head, but in the real world you just don't count.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 30, 2013 05:32 AM (ZshNr)

164 Commercials are running in Virginia which say Cuccineli wants to change the divorce laws to force women to stay in abusive marriages.

 

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 30, 2013 09:21 AM (fwARV)

 

Which is beyond bizarre, considering who McCauliffe worked for.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 30, 2013 05:32 AM (zF6Iw)

165 You want the libertarian vote? Earn it. Don't act like you're entitled to it.

Posted by: Gringo at October 30, 2013 09:30 AM (SbfVm)

For the record, I don't believe asking for the libertarian vote is the same as acting entitled to it.  This is a common thread amongst libertarians (including myself).

This is one of the things about American politics that fascinates me from a strictly academic standpoint.  There are factions who are happy to suffer under a candidate they despise and who doesn't share their view on any issues rather than vote for a candidate who only shares their vews on 70% of issues.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 30, 2013 05:32 AM (fwARV)

166 haak.

Haven't seen your nic in quite some time.

Almost back to the time of the ponytailed bike seat sniffer.

You been off the grid, or did I just miss you?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 30, 2013 05:32 AM (OuGy9)

167 John Dingell hasn't died yet? WTF. He's been in congress since the 50s

Posted by: Zakn at October 30, 2013 05:33 AM (zyaZ1)

168

Morning, all!

 

Busy today, but I wanted to drop by and say -- it's snowing.  Only a little, and not enough that I have any right to complain (since I know other 'rons and 'ettes have already dealt with worse this year); but still.

 

Snow.

 

UGH.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 30, 2013 05:33 AM (4df7R)

169 Cuccinellijust needs to come pro-weed and the Libertarians will cascade to him, if they can remember to vote.

Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 05:33 AM (CMlD4)

170 Tomorrow night is Halloween. You know what that means, boys and girls? All the teens who had sex get hacked to bits by psychopaths while the good girl, who is a virgin and very smart because she studies all the time and wears glasses and has no dates, survives...


....because it's revealed in the end that SHE'S THE ONE WHO KILLED THEM ALL!!!

Posted by: EC at October 30, 2013 05:33 AM (GQ8sn)

171 To bad Halloween only comes once a year.

Posted by: Boss Moss the Redskin Savage at October 30, 2013 05:34 AM (ujMoa)

172 Commercials are running in Virginia which say Cuccineli wants to change the divorce laws to force women to stay in abusive marriages.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 30, 2013 09:21 AM (fwARV)

I assume that they only contain a splash of truth mixed in with a boatload of misinformation and lies?

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2013 09:26 AM (m2CN7)

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

He wants to take "no fault" divorce off the table in cases where there are minor children involved so that the divorce settlement will have to make provision for the children.

Somehow the Democrats have managed to spin that into a "War on Women".

So you're initial guess about binders and tampons was correct- or at least it makes as much actual sense as what is happening.

Posted by: Nighthawk at October 30, 2013 05:34 AM (OtQXp)

173 "You want the libertarian vote? Earn it. Don't act like you're entitled to it."

-- I always tell myself primaries are the hills to die on ideology for, general elections are for cold, calculating cost-benefits. And, what I dislike about Cuccinelli is a lot easier to swallow than what I don't like about the McAuliffe.

Posted by: Matt S. at October 30, 2013 05:34 AM (m7EhJ)

174 Snow. UGH. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 30, 2013 09:33 AM (4df7R)


Wet snow?  Or the fluffy kind you can't do anything with?

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:34 AM (JpC1K)

175

Yes yes, let's rip on libertarians for not "doing the grown-up thing", meaning voting for a party that takes them for granted when they aren't disdainfully looking down their noses at them.  It should be pointed out that most people who call themselves libertarians aren't party members of ANY party, they just can't call themselves republicans anymore.

 

Posted by: normal man spitting on his hands at October 30, 2013 05:35 AM (agLwc)

176

Luis Tiant is throwing out the first pitch.

 

Is he?  Then I'll have to watch.  I love El Tiante.  ven have his autograph somewhere.

 

Hey, Bannion, you seem to know Boston well.  When were you there?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 30, 2013 05:35 AM (zF6Iw)

177 I'm also expecting a McAuliffe win, but will of course vote regardless. All the commercials say Cuccinelli wants to ban all abortion, birth control, blow jobs. My wife had an ad pop op on her facebook news feed a few weeks ago that said Cuccinelli wants to ban the pill. Yes, I'm serious. Fuck Bill Bolling. He emailed me 12 times a day in 2012. Hasn't said shit for Cuccinelli.

Posted by: VBJonny at October 30, 2013 05:36 AM (ai/YP)

178 Does anyone recognize the father in the video?

Niedermeyer's Dead Horse should.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 30, 2013 05:36 AM (oJ5Fd)

179 There are factions who are happy to suffer under a candidate they despise and who doesn't share their view on any issues rather than vote for a candidate who only shares their vews on 70% of issues. Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 30, 2013 09:32 AM (fwARV) There is a method to this sort of madness. Sometimes you have to make EVERYONE suffer in order to generate political will to change things.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at October 30, 2013 05:36 AM (bb5+k)

180 "Hundreds of thousands of alumni, students and family are all to be tarred with the Sandusky brush. So much for judging men one at a time." Life is too short to judge people one at a time, unless they rise to your attention. This is why it is important to police your own community, school, workplace, political party, website, etc for trash. The failures to take this stuff seriously before it was overwhelming will leave a mark for a generation. This is not fair or just on an individual level, but as individuals have choices, the fortunes of the school should decline, and this is not wrong. This is how a free market operates. Nobody is calling a particular individual at the school a pedo, but the label is firmly attached to the *institution*, and won't be coming unfixed for a while. I do not see this as wrong. Consistent systemic failures of integrity and fidelity have consequences which are not fair in the individual, but which are indispensable in the aggregate. cf. the fate of the GOP. But fine, dismiss me as a troll.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 05:36 AM (SGt7E)

181 Dingell, one can hope the IPAB finds him unworthy.

Posted by: lowandslow at October 30, 2013 05:37 AM (IV4od)

182 Yes, you're right, in both cases that they were better than Obama (well, dubious on McCain), but all we libertarians got out of it was electing democrat light and compromising our principles.

You want the libertarian vote? Earn it. Don't act like you're entitled to it.

Posted by: Gringo at October 30, 2013 09:30 AM (SbfVm)

 

Wait,  you voted for McCain and Romney and all you got out of it was electing a democrat light?   Does not compute.  

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2013 05:37 AM (m2CN7)

183 MPPPP, that was the "Exclusive Breaking news" on my Red Sox feed this AM. Haven't seen it confirmed, they like to preserve a little mystery, but they also like to leak names to keep interest up. Still officially a Secret.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 30, 2013 05:37 AM (ZshNr)

184 Sean, I was a third tier supplier on the last Boeing/GD FCS goatrope.  I had some doozy meeting up there.

Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 05:37 AM (CMlD4)

185 Is he? Then I'll have to watch. I love El Tiante. ven have his autograph somewhere.  Hey, Bannion, you seem to know Boston well. When were you there?  Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 30, 2013 09:35 AM (zF6Iw)

I grew up there.  I was born in St. Elizabeth's, 10 blocks from Fenway.

Last lived there from 2003-2006, with a short vacation in Iraq in the middle of that somewhere in there.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:37 AM (JpC1K)

186 But fine, dismiss me as a troll. Not just a troll, but an ignorant one to boot.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at October 30, 2013 05:37 AM (U2UQk)

187 Put the Repub Governor in, and then Primary the delegates or run third party candidates against them. McCauliffe is a whore from New York who will disarm you. He is in League with Bloomberg.

Posted by: Boss Moss the Redskin Savage at October 30, 2013 05:37 AM (ujMoa)

188 If The Cooch wants to ban BJs, my wife will cross state lines to vote for him.

Posted by: ScoggDog ... is shocked at October 30, 2013 05:38 AM (mJKH0)

189 You want the libertarian vote? Earn it. Don't act like you're entitled to it. Posted by: Gringo at October 30, 2013 09:30 AM (SbfVm) lulz Vote for whoever you want. Vote out of spite and anger versus rational thought. I don't care. I just chuckle to see the childishness of it all. "I want to stick my neighbors noses in it" is a great reason for voting against rational thought and reasoning. Supposed party of individual liberty and thought. ha. Earn it? lulz, again. Wouldn't waste my energy. Vote for whoever you want. Like I do.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 30, 2013 05:38 AM (IXrOn)

190 Sean, I was a third tier supplier on the last Boeing/GD FCS goatrope. I had some doozy meeting up there.  Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 09:37 AM (CMlD4)

You going to get any work when they start up again in 2017?

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:38 AM (JpC1K)

191 Wet snow? Or the fluffy kind you can't do anything with?

Posted by: Sean Bannion at October 30, 2013 09:34 AM (JpC1K)

 

it's hardly even worth calling it snow; it's only flurries.  But   that said,    it's    the fluffy kind of "dry snow."    Bleh.

 

It'll be gone by the time I leave at the end of the day.  But I'll KNOW it was there.   And it's still there, in the clouds.


Waiting.

 

Watching...

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 30, 2013 05:38 AM (4df7R)

192 Posted by: Sean Bannion at October 30, 2013 09:26 AM (JpC1K)

I withdraw my criticism of your manners.

You are a gentleman and a scholar.

Can I keep the CROWS and mount it on my roof (for the zombies)?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 30, 2013 05:38 AM (oJ5Fd)

193 171 Cuccinellijust needs to come pro-weed and the Libertarians will cascade to him, if they can remember to vote. Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 09:33 AM (CMlD4) That does seem to be their primary hangup. They throw that other stuff in there for philosophical consistency, but the issue that really moves them deeply in their soul is the "right to get high." Been arguing with a pro-drug loon going on four years now.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at October 30, 2013 05:38 AM (bb5+k)

194 41 Cuccinelli is O.O.U. ("One of Us")... He damn sure ain't one of me. He'll get my vote, but it won't be enthusiastically. I can't believe how close we are to having the Clinton disease as Gov here. As someone said up above, we used to be pretty reliably red. It's become downright shameful lately.

Posted by: shredded chi at October 30, 2013 05:39 AM (vugdY)

195 If the Sox win tonight, I can't wait for the inevitable Mumbles Menino interview. "Great job by Manny Ortiz to help the Sox win the World Series Cup!"

Posted by: Mainah at October 30, 2013 05:39 AM (659DL)

196

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 09:36 AM (SGt7E)

 

You Penn bashers do know that the authorities and the DA had Sandusky years before he was turned in again by Paterno,  who incidently 'fired' him after the previous ball dropping by the authorities. 

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2013 05:39 AM (m2CN7)

197 while the good girl, who is a virgin and very smart because she studies all the time and wears glasses and has no dates, survives. Or gets whacked by Will Smith, ala Men in Black....

Posted by: rickb223 at October 30, 2013 05:40 AM (8D0/R)

198 Waiting.  Watching...   Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 30, 2013 09:38 AM (4df7R)

Sorta like a snowy peeping Tom.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:40 AM (JpC1K)

199

>>It should be illegal to run for elected office until you are proven innocent.

Posted by: CarolT at October 30, 2013 09:14 AM (z4WKX)

I disagree.

See: Palin, Sarah. All you have to do is find a group with deep pockets (Soros) and you can prevent any conservative from running for office. Ever.

.

.

.I agree.  Innocent unless proven guilty.

Posted by: Registered Voter at October 30, 2013 05:40 AM (Hdbf3)

200 It should be pointed out that most people who call themselves libertarians aren't party members of ANY party, they just can't call themselves republicans anymore. Posted by: normal man spitting on his hands at October 30, 2013 09:35 AM (agLwc) I've never been a republican. What's your point?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 30, 2013 05:41 AM (IXrOn)

201

Morning, all!


Busy today, but I wanted to drop by and say -- it's snowing. Only a little, and not enough that I have any right to complain (since I know other 'rons and 'ettes have already dealt with worse this year); but still.

Snow.

UGH.

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 30, 2013 09:33 AM (4df7R)

 

I heartily second the motion of "UGH."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 30, 2013 05:41 AM (zF6Iw)

202 Watching... Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 30, 2013 09:38 AM (4df7R) Soon.

Posted by: Mainah at October 30, 2013 05:41 AM (659DL)

203 It'll be gone by the time I leave at the end of the day. But I'll KNOW it was there. And it's still there, in the clouds. Waiting. Watching... Like a spider........

Posted by: rickb223 at October 30, 2013 05:41 AM (8D0/R)

204 Sebelius: "...because the highest security standards are in place..." Hope somebody pounces.

Posted by: Anachronda at October 30, 2013 05:41 AM (U82Km)

205 Village Idiot's Apprentice! Good to see you. I have been off most things for quite a while. After the 2012 nakhba I damn near had a heart attack. But it was Boehner's remarks the day after, practically gloating that ObamaCare was here to stay and the Tea Party could go screw ourselves that really tore it for me. I unplugged for quite a while.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 05:41 AM (SGt7E)

206 Commercials are running in Virginia which say Cuccineli wants to change the divorce laws to force women to stay in abusive marriages.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 30, 2013 09:21 AM (fwARV)





Is he going to put them in binders and take away all of their tampons too?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 30, 2013 05:41 AM (1Jaio)

207 Can I keep the CROWS and mount it on my roof (for the zombies)?  Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 30, 2013 09:38 AM (oJ5Fd)

Of course.  I got you the .50 cal version!  'Cause I'm a giver.

But remember....

Use 2:1 tracer.  NOT 3:1 tracer.  

Just....just trust me on that. 

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:42 AM (JpC1K)

208 I do not see this as wrong. Consistent systemic failures of integrity and fidelity have consequences which are not fair in the individual, but which are indispensable in the aggregate. cf. the fate of the GOP. But fine, dismiss me as a troll. Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 09:36 AM (SGt7E) Uriah Heep I presume? Same writing style.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at October 30, 2013 05:42 AM (bb5+k)

209 ....because it's revealed in the end that SHE'S THE ONE WHO KILLED THEM ALL ALREADY DEAD!!!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 30, 2013 05:42 AM (zF6Iw)

210 Sean, I was a third tier supplier on the last Boeing/GD FCS goatrope. I had some doozy meeting up there. Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 09:37 AM (CMlD4)

You going to get any work when they start up again in 2017? Posted by: Sean Bannion

FCS is going to rise from the ashes, no way it'll still be too heavy

Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 05:42 AM (CMlD4)

211 This Pallone guy is really a fucking dick. If arrogance would stink, they would have to clear that room right now

Posted by: Ma Bell at October 30, 2013 05:43 AM (RLdcX)

212 ....because it's revealed in the end that SHE'S THE ONE WHO KILLED THEM ALL ALREADY DEAD!!!


Saw that one coming a mile away!!!

Posted by: EC at October 30, 2013 05:43 AM (GQ8sn)

213 I had an earlier CROWS prototype at NVESD for sensor integration with an XBox controller.

Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 05:43 AM (CMlD4)

214 Diogenes: "They are Libertarians. If they were rational, they wouldn't be Libertarians." That's convenient, but not useful. I'm not a L'n (I have no use for pot, illegal aliens, or an Iranian nuke), but I prefer their logic (flawed though it is) to the cold calculations done by the GOP to destroy the Tea Party so that they keep their comfy situation -- a minority by design, with no responsibility, and a healthy cut of the proceeds.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 05:44 AM (SGt7E)

215 This hearing is a mutual ass kissing circle jerk. Damn them all.

Posted by: Boss Moss the Redskin Savage at October 30, 2013 05:44 AM (ujMoa)

216 "...10 blocks from Fenway."

Posted by: Sean Bannion at October 30, 2013 09:37 AM (JpC1K)

This explains a lot.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 30, 2013 05:44 AM (oJ5Fd)

217 FCS is going to rise from the ashes, no way it'll still be too heavy  Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 09:42 AM (CMlD4)

What it will morph into is the M1-A3

In the same way and for the same reason that we have an F/A-18 Super Hornet.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:44 AM (JpC1K)

218 In a documentary on Allende, all the commies complained that they had no weapons so they could neither fight back the coup or defend themselves. When the coup happened, about 500 of them ran to the university "to protect it" by rioting or something. What was the point in that? Did they really think shouting slogans was going to stop the army? All it did is put them in one place where the army could kill them and drag the rest off for torture, execution, and imprisonment. Commies are so smart!

Posted by: Jesse at October 30, 2013 05:44 AM (As/N8)

219 This explains a lot.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 30, 2013 09:44 AM (oJ5Fd)

And don't you forget it.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:44 AM (JpC1K)

220 I haven't seen any Cooch ads calling McAuffile a carpetbagger, maybe those are running a bit South of here

Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 05:45 AM (CMlD4)

221

Sorta like a snowy peeping Tom.

 

Posted by: Sean Bannion at October 30, 2013 09:40 AM (JpC1K)

 

 

Like a spider........

 

Posted by: rickb223 at October 30, 2013 09:41 AM (8D0/R)

 

 

Soon.

 

 

Posted by: Mainah at October 30, 2013 09:41 AM (659DL)

 

 

 

I    now have this image of Face Sized Spider in a hat and scarf with    little mittens on each of   his   eight legs, peering at my    bedroom   window over the top of a nearby snowdrift.

 

Happy Halloween!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 30, 2013 05:45 AM (4df7R)

222 189 Put the Repub Governor in, and then Primary the delegates or run third party candidates against them. McCauliffe is a whore from New York who will disarm you. He is in League with Bloomberg. Posted by: Boss Moss the Redskin Savage at October 30, 2013 09:37 AM (ujMoa) And see, this is where Libertarians need to draw the line; The natural right of self defense. Play games with any other issue, but that one will destroy us all if it is ever breached.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at October 30, 2013 05:45 AM (bb5+k)

223 Nood up

Posted by: rickb223 at October 30, 2013 05:45 AM (8D0/R)

224 I had an earlier CROWS prototype at NVESD for sensor integration with an XBox controller  Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 09:43 AM (CMlD4)

THAT would be effin' brilliant.

All the time that these kids spend on Call of Duty?  Sheeeit, we wouldn't even have to train them on the system.  They'd just "get it" from Day One.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:46 AM (JpC1K)

225

Waiting. Watching... Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 30, 2013 09:38 AM (4df7R)

 

 


Sorta like a snowy peeping Tom.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at October 30, 2013 09:40 AM (JpC1K)

 

Or a face-sized spider.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 30, 2013 05:46 AM (zF6Iw)

226 Village, I tried to get along in the Freep for a while, but they glitter-bomb you if you link to your own blog. Well, that was where I wrote. So screwthem. They liked their glittery bling crap a lot, and wound up sounding just like Bill Maher's audience of trained monkeys hooting and jeering, while any rational argument was dismissed because it appeared *on a blog*. And that was when I was fricking stalwart GOP.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 05:46 AM (SGt7E)

227 I don't see why libertarians should automatically be expected to vote for Cuccinelli.  The GOP supports very few libertarian positions, but lots of socon positions, even thought they are repellant to libertarians.  To top it off, the Virginia GOP nominated the most neanderthal socon available.

Maybe after enough Cuccinellis, Mourdocks, Santorums, Huckabees and Akins, the GOP will finally get the message.

Posted by: cool breeze at October 30, 2013 05:46 AM (A+/8k)

228 Just....just trust me on that.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at October 30, 2013 09:42 AM (JpC1K)

I will.

As a fan of awful monster movies, I am appalled at the lack of fire discipline in most of the protagonists.

Any advice is appreciated.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 30, 2013 05:46 AM (oJ5Fd)

229 Sean, the auto-loader or just the C2 stuff

Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 05:46 AM (CMlD4)

230 Sean, the vendor didn't have there custom controller ready, so the developers mapped one of those serial XBox controllers into it.  Worked well in the lab.  Doubt it would pass EMI, DS2 washdowns, etc.

Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 05:49 AM (CMlD4)

231 There are factions who are happy to suffer under a candidate they despise and who doesn't share their view on any issues rather than vote for a candidate who only shares their vews on 70% of issues. Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 30, 2013 09:32 AM (fwARV) --- That's because we realized the beatings are administered by those who disagree only 30% for the benefit of those who disagree 100%. Where's that Sam Adams quote about licking the hand and enjoying the chains?

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 05:49 AM (SGt7E)

232 "Maybe after enough Cuccinellis, Mourdocks, Santorums, Huckabees and Akins, the GOP will finally get the message."

-- I'm not a socon, but the problem is that Libertarians are not even engaging to try and change voter behavior. They're not trying to win primary fights like tea party candidates did and have done (and like successful and failed social conservatives have.) An outside party strategy, being a third-wheel, so to speak, is one strategy. The other is the strategy that social and fiscal conservatives took, infiltrate the party and change it from the inside.

Libertarians could see a lot more success that way, I think, than giving us Gov. McAuliffe.

Posted by: Matt S. at October 30, 2013 05:50 AM (PDTch)

233 Don't blame me. I voted for Perot

Posted by: blast from the past at October 30, 2013 05:50 AM (QupBk)

234 As a fan of awful monster movies, I am appalled at the lack of fire discipline in most of the protagonists.  Any advice is appreciated.  Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 30, 2013 09:46 AM (oJ5Fd)

I can still hear the voice of Drill Sergeant McCluskey...

"Three to five round bursts you fuckin' morons!  Three to five round bursts!!!  You're not John Fuckin' Wayne!"

::: shudder :::

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:50 AM (JpC1K)

235

@ 156 - "You want the libertarian vote? Earn it. Don't act like you're entitled to it."

 

Conversely, if you libertarians want to be taken seriously and have people bother trying to earn your vote, then take some time to earn our respect.  Don't act like you're entitled to it.

Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 30, 2013 05:51 AM (YYJjz)

236 Not just a troll, but an ignorant one to boot. Posted by: Schrödinger's cat at October 30, 2013 09:37 AM (U2UQk) --- I thought you were going to hurry up and block me. Get on with it.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 05:51 AM (SGt7E)

237 OK, Libertarians you proved your point, you're the kingmakers here. Now suck it up and prevent disaster.

I'll be voting libertarian this time around just because i can't bring my self to pull the lever for R's right now, but the sad truth is libertarians are well on their way to becoming another mindless social issues party. I've seen poll after poll for years now, including some for this VA guv race, that shows L's go for the D candidate if there's no third choice. Why? Because of teh gheys of course, and the undocumented immigrants of course, and the usual 'them repukes are stupid jeebus freaks who don't believe in teh science" , no concern about the size of govt, just the mindless social issue crap. So yeah, they get my vote this time  around because the small govt types still outweigh the idiot social issue types, but it doesn't look like that'll be the case for much longer.

Posted by: booger at October 30, 2013 05:51 AM (xRDdL)

238 That's convenient, but not useful. I'm not a L'n (I have no use for pot, illegal aliens, or an Iranian nuke), but I prefer their logic (flawed though it is) to the cold calculations done by the GOP to destroy the Tea Party so that they keep their comfy situation -- a minority by design, with no responsibility, and a healthy cut of the proceeds. Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 09:44 AM (SGt7E) My comment was a joke, and I agree with the rest of yours.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at October 30, 2013 05:51 AM (bb5+k)

239

Sebelius hearing:

 

Democrats are obviously coordinated, each attacking republicans and defending certain portions of Obamacare, with  Sebelius well  briefed on what her response should be.

 

Republicans are all over the place.  Totally uncoordinated, never hammering a point home, no response to outright lies about costs, pretty much the clusterfuck we've come to expect.

 

Apparently, it was far to complex for our side to have a 30 minute conference call to outline who should cover what topic.

 

 

Posted by: jwest at October 30, 2013 05:51 AM (u2a4R)

240 I've never been a republican. What's your point?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 30, 2013 09:41 AM (IXrOn

 

The point is, all of us have only known this two party coke/pepsi game, and we're mostly forced to choose sides, at least on election day.  Most of the conservatives I know have quit the republican party more than once.

The rest hold their noses and vote for the lessor of two evils, over and over, and here we are.  How's that working out for the country?

Hence the bump in percentage of people self-identifying as libertarians, but whom I suspect would gladly vote for a true small government constitutionally correct conservative/republican.

Posted by: normal man spitting on his hands at October 30, 2013 05:52 AM (agLwc)

241 Sean, the vendor didn't have there custom controller ready, so the developers mapped one of those serial XBox controllers into it. Worked well in the lab. Doubt it would pass EMI, DS2 washdowns, etc.

Posted by: Jean at October 30, 2013 09:49 AM (CMlD4)

It wouldn't.  Still a cool idea.  If you give them something that looks and feels like what they know they just pick it up and run with it.

But the CROWS joystick they have now is still pretty cool.  Sitting in an M1-A2 Commander's station is as close as an Army guy ever gets to being an F-18 pilot.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 05:53 AM (JpC1K)

242 The Cuccinelli poll is actually good news, most of the others have him losing by 10pts. Posted by: MM

Yesterday's weekend WaPo poll gave McAuliffe a 12 point lead.  If Barry does campaign for M over the weekend, that might be all that Cuccinelli needs to win.  Which would be sweet.

Posted by: mrp at October 30, 2013 05:53 AM (HjPtV)

243 Maybe after enough Cuccinellis, Mourdocks, Santorums, Huckabees and Akins, the GOP will finally get the message.

Posted by: cool breeze at October 30, 2013 09:46 AM (A+/8k)

 

Yeah,  pro life ,  anti drug and freedom of religion  are repellant to libertarians.   Great philosophy you  got there. 

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2013 05:53 AM (m2CN7)

244 Uriah Heep I presume? Same writing style. Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at October 30, 2013 09:42 AM (bb5+k) --- No, but I shudder to ask; I'll presume that was some loathsome troll here?

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 05:55 AM (SGt7E)

245 New York is going to annex Virginia.

Posted by: Boss Moss the Redskin Savage at October 30, 2013 05:55 AM (ujMoa)

246 Maybe after enough Cuccinellis, Mourdocks, Santorums, Huckabees and Akins, the GOP will finally get the message. Posted by: cool breeze at October 30, 2013 09:46 AM (A+/8k) I assure you they will not. Many of the SoCon's are motivated by religious teachings and they will NOT change their deep held beliefs. Maybe one of these days the socially liberal Libertarians will figure out that you are going to have to put up with them, or face REAL, NAZI STYLE EVIL.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at October 30, 2013 05:55 AM (bb5+k)

247 I thought you were going to hurry up and block me. Get on with it. No, no hurry. I'm enjoying your inane comments. Sort of the same way I used to enjoy listening to a fourth grade student pretending to be an intellectual. Big hat no cattle. You remind me of the lgfers who were still there after the purge.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at October 30, 2013 05:57 AM (U2UQk)

248 My comment was a joke, and I agree with the rest of yours. Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at October 30, 2013 09:51 AM (bb5+k) --- Sorry. I may be a little testy these days.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 05:59 AM (SGt7E)

249 "You remind me of the lgfers who were still there after the purge."

You know...no true Scotsman would ever use that argument.



Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 30, 2013 05:59 AM (OuGy9)

250

@ 248 "Maybe one of these days the socially liberal Libertarians will figure out that you are going to have to put up with them, or face REAL, NAZI STYLE EVIL."

 

If the Nazis let teh gheys get married, the libertarians will choose them in a heartbeat.

 

*spit*

Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 30, 2013 05:59 AM (YYJjz)

251 OK, Republicans, you proved your point, you're the kingmakers here. Now suck it up and prevent disaster. Hold your nose and break for Sarvis and finish it.

Posted by: mgd at October 30, 2013 05:59 AM (6B2Vm)

252 Vote out of spite and anger versus rational thought. I don't care. I just chuckle to see the childishness of it all.

"I want to stick my neighbors noses in it" is a great reason for voting against rational thought and reasoning.

No, you've got it exactly wrong, and are putting words into your opponent's mouth as well.  Didn't you read that study that showed libertarians scored the most of all parties on rationality tests?

See, if democrats keep winning, then it's sweet meteor of death in only a few years, and we can start rebuilding.  If Republicans win, then it's going to stabilize for a long time at the current shit level (no, I don't believe that unless the R party gets taken over by Cruzes and Pauls that Obamacare will ever be repeased, even if R's get a majority).

Give me worthwhile R's and I will vote for them, but they have to be comparable to the libertarian candidate.  There's no urge in me to vote R and keep the system, a little more and more left every year, chugging along.

I've compromised enough.  You're welcome for all my votes over the years, but you do seem a bit ungrateful-- what have I done for you lately, right?

Posted by: Gringo at October 30, 2013 05:59 AM (SbfVm)

253 You know...no true Scotsman would ever use that argument.

I LOL'd.  I did indeed.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at October 30, 2013 06:00 AM (JpC1K)

254 No, but I shudder to ask; I'll presume that was some loathsome troll here? Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 09:55 AM (SGt7E) Not really a troll, but more of a newbie. A rather intelligent one, I thought. He simply made the mistake of turning everyone against him by mocking Santorum's dead baby. After that, no one wanted to listen to anything else he had to say.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at October 30, 2013 06:00 AM (bb5+k)

255 Sorry. I may be a little testy these days. Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 09:59 AM (SGt7E) Tell me about it.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at October 30, 2013 06:02 AM (bb5+k)

256 Not just a troll, but an ignorant one to boot.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat at October 30, 2013 09:37 AM (U2UQk)


How is that ignorant? What he wrote is absolutely true.

Posted by: [/i][/b]KG at October 30, 2013 06:02 AM (p7BzH)

257

@ 254 - "Give me worthwhile R's and I will vote for them, but they have to be comparable to the libertarian candidate. There's no urge in me to vote R and keep the system, a little more and more left every year, chugging along."

 

Wait, I thought the problem was that the Rs were too far to the right on social issues?

 

The problem is actually that things keep moving too far to the Left?  So the solution is to help a guy into office who is going to move things WAY WAY too far to the Left in four years.

 

Absolutely brilliant.

Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 30, 2013 06:03 AM (YYJjz)

258 #198 Are you honestly trying to defend a school that just paid out over 2 million per family to make this go away? The most unseemly part of this whole fucking thing is how the Penn State football fans who have portrayed the program, with the complicity of ESPN idiots, as somehow above other major programs, are now presenting themselves as "victims". Do you realize how that looks to people outside of the cult? Spouting that on social media only compounds the problem. The school and its supporters need to STFU and let things play out.

Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at October 30, 2013 06:03 AM (K8N6v)

259 No, no hurry. I'm enjoying your inane comments. Sort of the same way I used to enjoy listening to a fourth grade student pretending to be an intellectual. Big hat no cattle. You remind me of the lgfers who were still there after the purge. Posted by: Schrödinger's cat at October 30, 2013 09:57 AM (U2UQk) --- Well, since you've gone out of your way to attack me three times running, perhaps you could just shut up if you refuse to change the channel. If you had any serious time in at the post-throb but pre-Ice LGF, you would know who I am.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 06:04 AM (SGt7E)

260

 

Libertarians can not be Kingmakers unless they make a King.

 

Unless they throw their weight behind the candidate they prefer, they will elect the candidate they do not prefer.  This makes them Anti-Kingmakers, because their only effect is to hasten that which they despise.

 

The way to build a movement is to take that power and use it to achieve something.  What they can achieve this year is to elect Cucinnelli and defeat McAuliffe.  Until they actually use their votes for some useful purpose, they will remain stuck in the spoiler zone. 

 

Elect Cucinnelli now, and use that power next time 'round to force a more Libertarian candidate out of the Republicans.  If you force the Republicans to try to win without your votes, they will have no choice but to run as almost-Democrats.

Posted by: Haiku Guy at October 30, 2013 06:05 AM (bIy5N)

261 The problem is actually that things keep moving too far to the Left? So the solution is to help a guy into office who is going to move things WAY WAY too far to the Left in four years.

Absolutely brilliant.

Yes.  It's time for collapse.  I'd rather ride out the balkanization/whatever that will happen to the USA than chain myself and my children, for the rest of their lives, to the system we have right now.  If democrats collapse things, that's better for me than if R's have me paying Obamacare rates for the rest of my life.

I notice nobody is trying to convince me that R's really, really, will, pinky swear, repeal Obamacare.  Because you know they won't.  Enough status quo.  You R's have made your point, now get with the program and stop voting for people who are "conservative" in the sense that they just want to roll things back to 2010 or 2002.

Posted by: Gringo at October 30, 2013 06:07 AM (SbfVm)

262 But fine, dismiss me as a troll.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 09:36 AM (SGt7E)

Troll?  I don't think I'd go that far. 

I will say that it's always interesting to hear from people who stopped listening to the facts as soon as they heard something that lined up with their pre-conceived notion of what happened/didn't happen.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 30, 2013 06:07 AM (fwARV)

263 Note: If you can ever get things together enough to lose the McCain's and Grahams as the Grand Voices of the party, then we can talk again.  Like I said, I'm cool with Cruz and Paul and quite a few others, actually-- a small minority, but they're there.  They have no power whatsoever, and get pilloried by the party in general when they do something decent, like Cruz's filibuster.

So get it together, and you'll get libertarian votes.  But no, we're only voting for Republican *radicals* at this point, not good GOPers or guys who are "more conservative than the other guy."

Posted by: Gringo at October 30, 2013 06:09 AM (SbfVm)

264 [Uriah Heep] simply made the mistake of turning everyone against him by mocking Santorum's dead baby. After that, no one wanted to listen to anything else he had to say. Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at October 30, 2013 10:00 AM (bb5+k) --- Fair enough.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 06:09 AM (SGt7E)

265

Posted by: Gringo at October 30, 2013 10:07 AM (SbfVm)

 

So you're voting for Sarvis because Cuccinelli hasn't repealed Obamacare?

Posted by: @JohnTant at October 30, 2013 06:09 AM (eytER)

266 If you had any serious time in at the post-throb but pre-Ice LGF, you would know who I am. You're not on a list that I see. http://kirls.blogspot.com/2009/05/banned-monium.html Different name?

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at October 30, 2013 06:11 AM (U2UQk)

267 I hope kjh0890) they didn't figure out mine. Which is also hidden in the text of this message.

Posted by: UWP at October 30, 2013 06:11 AM (fdXMW)

268 You want the libertarian vote? Earn it. Don't act like you're entitled to it.

Instead of knives or pencils - sharpen a big fat joint, then rant about Jews, St. Ventura, and CIA explosives in WTC Bldg. #7. Winning!

Posted by: Them Duke Boys, kew kew kew at October 30, 2013 06:13 AM (efBdc)

269 "Different name?"

Nope.
I have known haak for years.
Not in meatworld.
But as a fellow poster on the innerwebz.


Might I suggest that there are many decaffeinated coffees out there with just as much flavor.

Just sayin'

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 30, 2013 06:15 AM (OuGy9)

270 " ...people who stopped listening to the facts as soon as they heard something that lined up with their pre-conceived notion.." So is there a way to block people by hash, or was that just bolshy slovos? I came here for a fight, not to trade effete snark.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 06:15 AM (SGt7E)

271
>>So you're voting for Sarvis because Cuccinelli hasn't repealed Obamacare?

No, I'm voting for Sarvis because I'm not going to be a foot soldier helping out the GOP power wing.  I won't help indirectly promote the careeers of the McCains, etc, high up in the structure any more.

I had great hope about the Tea Party revolutionizing things, but until the old guard's back is broken, it's not going to happen, no matter how hopeful the signs.  Perhaps the GOP just needs a few years of rest, I dunno.  Try to get yourselves back to a Reagan attitude within the party, that's a level I can deal with.

Posted by: Gringo at October 30, 2013 06:17 AM (SbfVm)

272 I assure you they will not. Many of the SoCon's are motivated by religious teachings and they will NOT change their deep held beliefs.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at October 30, 2013 09:55 AM (bb5+k)


Sounds just like the jihadis.  There's some real Nazi style evil for you.

Posted by: cool breeze at October 30, 2013 06:17 AM (A+/8k)

273 Many Delegates run unopposed in Virginia, but a third party exists. Where?

Posted by: Boss Moss the Redskin Savage at October 30, 2013 06:17 AM (ujMoa)

274 Thanks, VIA. And no, Troll-Takfiri, I didn't actually come *here* looking for a fight. The fight is all around us, and we are losing. Mostly because people are quibbling over how to lose.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 06:19 AM (SGt7E)

275 I'm not going to be a foot soldier helping out the GOP power wing. I won't help indirectly promote the careeers of the McCains, etc, high up in the structure any more. I had great hope about the Tea Party revolutionizing things, but until the old guard's back is broken, it's not going to happen, no matter how hopeful the signs. -- Gringo --- Well stated.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 06:22 AM (SGt7E)

276 Sounds just like the jihadis. There's some real Nazi style evil for you. Posted by: cool breeze at October 30, 2013 10:17 AM (A+/8k) The Muslims were actually allies of Hitler. Look up the Mufti and Hitler. Beyond that, it is a display of ignorance to compare Christians and Islamists in terms of evil. Over a two thousand year period, many thousands of people were killed by supposed "Christians." Muslims killed 100 million Hindus in just a few years. To date, it remains the largest known mass death caused by an Ideology. Communism comes in as a close second.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at October 30, 2013 06:23 AM (bb5+k)

277 "Elect Cucinnelli now, and use that power next time 'round to force a more Libertarian candidate out of the Republicans. If you force the Republicans to try to win without your votes, they will have no choice but to run as almost-Democrats."

This makes sense. 

That's why capital-L-Libertarians will never do it.  They'd rather spark up in their mom's basement and prattle on about their superiority on the internet.

This, from what I gather, is about Cooch's unease about blowjobs or something.  LLibertarians would rather focus on that - something that will never amount to anything in real life - and hand the election to McAwful who absolutely will without a goddamn doubt  visit all kinds of  all kinds of legislative mayhem on VA. 

Idiocy.  Pure idiocy.

Posted by: Jaws at October 30, 2013 06:25 AM (4I3Uo)

278 And no, Troll-Takfiri, I didn't actually come *here* looking for a fight. The fight is all around us, and we are losing. Mostly because people are quibbling over how to lose. Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 10:19 AM (SGt7E) I think it's because we're quibbling instead of taking appropriate action. From my perspective, it is axiomatic that total Liberal Democrat Control of the Media constitutes the greatest threat this nation has ever faced. If we are not attacking that Mount Olympus, we aren't going to win in the long run.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at October 30, 2013 06:28 AM (bb5+k)

279 Hell, haak.

You don't need me to defend you.
I was, and for the most part, still go for the light, but quick response.
It doesn't require deep thinking, and doesn't make my brain hurt.

But I remember that although you and I did not always agree on a topic or view, I never regretted taking the time to read your words.
And in every case, I was smarter on the topic for taking the time to read your words.

In some cases, I had to read them two or three times to fully understand what you were trying to get across.

Anyhow.....glad to see you.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 30, 2013 06:33 AM (OuGy9)

280 >>That's why capital-L-Libertarians will never do it. They'd rather spark up in their mom's basement and prattle on about their superiority on the internet.

You know, I've never "sparked up" in my life.  As long as we're throwing around shit like that, how much of my money have you flushed down TARP lately?

Posted by: Gringo at October 30, 2013 06:36 AM (SbfVm)

281 VIA, you may have been the one who told me my writing was about as readable as stereo instructions :-) Whoever it was, it was spot-on.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 06:41 AM (SGt7E)

282 You know, I've never "sparked up" in my life. As long as we're throwing around shit like that, how much of my money have you flushed down TARP lately?

Posted by: Gringo at October 30, 2013 10:36 AM (SbfVm)

 

obviously you have no idea what TARP is or its status.  Did you mean to refer to the Stimulus package?

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2013 06:42 AM (m2CN7)

283 Schroedinger, if you must know, ask Kirly about me BY NAME. Hopefully you'll be satisfied and then block me.

Posted by: haakondahl at October 30, 2013 06:43 AM (SGt7E)

284

Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at October 30, 2013 10:03 AM (K8N6v)

 

I'm just stating facts.   Do with them as you please or ignore them all together.   And paying out settlements doesn't prove squat except that Penn state wanted this to go away as  soon as possible as it was and is a no win situation. 

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2013 06:51 AM (m2CN7)

285

No, I'm voting for Sarvis because I'm not going to be a foot soldier helping out the GOP power wing

 

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

 

Um, but it's Cuccinelli who is actually taking on the "GOP power wing."  There was a backroom deal whereby Bill Bolling was "supposed" to run for the Gov seat this term, but he got outmaneuvered by Cuccinelli.  This is why you don't see many VA GOPer in the "power wing" actually doing anything to help Cuccinelli win this race. 

 

Hell, Bolling gave an interview a couple of months ago where he tried to torpedo Cuccinelli by questioning his qualifications.

 

If you are truly tired of warmed over Democrats like Bolling continually getting access to the levers of power, the best message you can send them is electing the guy who evicted him from his "turn in line."  Cuccinelli took a chance by bucking the VA GOP Establishment, hoping that conservatives would support him, after all.

 

 

Posted by: @JohnTant at October 30, 2013 06:58 AM (eytER)

286 Elect Cucinnelli now, and use that power next time 'round to force a
more Libertarian candidate out of the Republicans.

And just how will voting for the R make them scared of people voting for libertarian? It's always just an excuse to say vote for us this time and we'll get to the real issues next time, well, my first election was in '92 and after 20 + years i'm ready to move on to the next time now, so i'm not wasting any more time on trying to make the R's live up to their small govt ideals. Like i said earlier, i think L's are going in the mindless social issues direction, but for now they're still a small govt party so i'll be voting for them instead of waiting yet again for R's to fight "next time".

Posted by: booger at October 30, 2013 07:00 AM (xRDdL)

287 Purp, I haven't read all the comments, but has anybody mentioned the fact that adobe's flash (video reading program for stuff like youtube and the video posted in this thread) and the current version of firefox don't work?

All you get is a crash and error message every time you load/refresh a page that has video embedded.

Posted by: Methos at October 30, 2013 07:05 AM (hO9ad)

288 I had just gotten a notice about passwords from Adobe a month or so ago. 

Of course, since they bundle all kinds of adware/malware with the Reader, it doesn't surprise me that they're vulnerable.

This is one reason I'll never move to the Adobe CC stuff.  Thanks but no thanks.

Posted by: Null at October 30, 2013 07:34 AM (P7hip)

289 Screw the libertarians. Ayn Rand should be assigned as one of bin Laden's 72 virgins.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at October 30, 2013 07:35 AM (qNWT5)

290 What's the difference brtween a Libertarian voter and an Alex Jones listener? Hah! Fooled ya! THERE ISN'T ANY!

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at October 30, 2013 07:39 AM (yuwre)

291 All you get is a crash and error message every time you load/refresh a page that has video embedded.

BTDT

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 30, 2013 07:42 AM (4tK7k)

292 There are lots of times that I could vote for a Libertarian. But, there is NO WAY I am going to give Terry Macauliffe (!!!!!!) a divide-and-conquer win. Cuccinelli is a solid conservative. Plus, the Dems ads against him have pissed me off. He gets my vote.

Posted by: Meli at October 30, 2013 09:44 AM (bovqv)

293 "And paying out settlements doesn't prove squat..."

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2013 10:51 AM (m2CN7)

So.....child rape that occurs on campus during officially sanctioned events run by the employees or those with official relationships to the university aren't the fault of the university?

Gotcha!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 30, 2013 10:17 AM (oJ5Fd)

294 BTDT?

Posted by: Methos at October 30, 2013 10:36 AM (hO9ad)

295 Read the wiki page. McAulliffe is a bigger scumbag than anyone ever realized.

Posted by: Anon at October 30, 2013 07:46 PM (7PjX7)

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