January 08, 2013
— Ace Nice thought.
One of the central weaknesses of radicalism is that radicals seem to lose track of the causes and foundations of the things even they value. They donÂ’t understand that peace is always and everywhere the end result of superior firepower, improved health the result of greater wealth, wealth the result of hardheaded and often greedy business dealing, and liberty deeply linked to a specific concept of manÂ’s relationship to God. They never consider that it may at least be questionable whether the cornerstone can be removed without the structure toppling over.Conversely, one of the central weaknesses of conservatism is that conservatives see all too clearly how every good thing we have is linked to everything else. They can trace in a moment how any change in the system might lead to disaster. Expand the definition of marriage and civilization falls. Raise taxes and end up in chains. Allow women to vote and government will become an all-embracing over-protective mother state infantilizing the population. Okay, maybe that last oneÂ’s true, but you see what IÂ’m getting at.
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Things, in other words, are almost as bad as they always are.
But while there are cycles and phases in history — and while everything made by mortals surely dies — modernity has shown itself full of unique moments and last minute rescues. I think of New York City before Giuliani; America before Reagan. Things can look pretty damn dark before the sun comes over the hill.
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Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 08, 2013 04:23 PM (yiIja)
Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2013 04:24 PM (9XBK2)
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at January 08, 2013 04:24 PM (r7Ddb)
Unless, of course, I'm in an alternate reality, which happened in the previous post.
What year is it?!
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 08, 2013 04:25 PM (yiIja)
Unless, of course, I'm in an alternate reality, which happened in the previous post.
What year is it?!
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 08, 2013 08:25 PM (yiIja)
Backwards Boy, have you been watching "Fringe" again?
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at January 08, 2013 04:26 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: fixerupper at January 08, 2013 04:28 PM (9MmIU)
The next Pinochet also won't be elected, but he might save us.
Posted by: boulder hobo at January 08, 2013 04:29 PM (QTHTd)
Backwards Boy, have you been watching "Fringe" again?
Umm, uh, yeah. Actually, that line was uttered by Tech Sargeant Kyle Reese in the first Terminator movie upon arriving here, wherever that might be.
I'm so confused... .
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 08, 2013 04:29 PM (yiIja)
Posted by: Aaron at January 08, 2013 04:30 PM (Tlix5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 08, 2013 04:30 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Sam in VA at January 08, 2013 04:30 PM (YCvRs)
Posted by: FURPC at January 08, 2013 04:30 PM (0ImZM)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 08, 2013 04:31 PM (p/cQy)
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As much as I like Klavan, I'm with steevy on this one. I see America as having morphed into something from which she will not readily recover. Call it demographics. Call it an acutely dumbed down citizenry. Call it complete infiltration into major pillars of society by communist/leftist radicals. Call it whatever. November 6, 2012 showed me that Americans don't have a clue where we are headed or what they are forfeiting to a centralized gov't. Look at the internet....awash in such gross stupidity and brainwashed bots, buying into practically everything spewed out of TFG's mouth or his media sycophants. So ignorant. Here's my gun...take it! Here's my right to live as I see fit....take it! DOOMed. {slinking back into lurk mode}
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 08, 2013 04:31 PM (ATdet)
Come on, do we have to write articles telling us we need not despair, and tart it up in Buckley-speak, to present it as a "case"?
Who the hell thinks like this? I love ya, Andrew, but stop it already.
Here: Despair is for losers. End of article. Where's my 25 damn dollars?
Posted by: K-Bob at January 08, 2013 04:32 PM (2XEg8)
Posted by: Congressman Hank Johnson (D) not Guam at January 08, 2013 04:32 PM (bAGA/)
This time really is different because of the emergence of the new Left.
The old Left, which was dominant before Reagan, was not the totalitarian beast we now face.
Preciously because the Left now embraces leftwing social policy, if not constrained it will eventually run into the same carnage that its peers in Europe and Asia ran into, baring something to stop it.
And let's be clear, there is nothing to stop it. The Republican party is a shell, and the left now controls almost every social institution.
Things are bad, worse then they have ever been in America...and it will continue to get worse.
Posted by: John Boehner at January 08, 2013 04:32 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: Adriane ... at January 08, 2013 04:32 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: teej at January 08, 2013 04:34 PM (cgXSq)
...near as I can tell.
***
I'd say it is 1933 and the Reichstag is just about to take up the Trillion Dollar Coin Enabling at.
Posted by: John Boehner at January 08, 2013 04:34 PM (AUeaU)
Andrew? 476 Anno Domini just called. He said it could also look pretty damn dark at the start of a very very long night.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose is Shrugging at January 08, 2013 04:35 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 08, 2013 04:36 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: USS Diversity at January 08, 2013 04:37 PM (MPjT8)
Posted by: Wooga at January 08, 2013 04:37 PM (RiGSV)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 04:38 PM (AgRBF)
Posted by: John Titor at January 08, 2013 04:39 PM (kcxit)
Posted by: John Boehner at January 08, 2013 08:32 PM (AUeaU)
Something we finally agree on.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose is Shrugging at January 08, 2013 04:39 PM (0q2P7)
Look. We can talk about the imminent destruction of our country or we can talk about movies. One of those topics makes me want to take up cutting again. One gives me Jason Statham punching people. Guess which one I prefer.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. We're not worthy. at January 08, 2013 04:39 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 08, 2013 04:39 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Mr Pink at January 08, 2013 04:40 PM (7KngJ)
Posted by: USS Diversity at January 08, 2013 04:41 PM (MPjT8)
Posted by: Adriane ... at January 08, 2013 04:41 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: @PurpAv at January 08, 2013 04:41 PM (iHs4Z)
Posted by: Eaton Cox at January 08, 2013 04:41 PM (q177U)
Don't want to see it. Ain't gonna start it. But...
I know what you mean. I wonder how many others are in my situation, trying to care and provide for a little family on very limited means. On the bright side, it does make one inventive and resourceful.
However, at the first sign, there's no telling what might happen. I feel like that day is coming much sooner than I, or anyone else, realizes.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 08, 2013 04:41 PM (yiIja)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 04:42 PM (AgRBF)
Yeah... But America RE-elected Barack F--king Obama.
Awwww, hellz no. Election-result dissection is showing fraud rates far more alarming than was previously thought. Did you know the Ogabe team is reported to have had a couple hundred "organizers" on the ground in northern FL ONE YEAR before the election?
Posted by: RushBabe at January 08, 2013 04:42 PM (tQHzJ)
Posted by: mon nom est mpfs , high seas at January 08, 2013 04:43 PM (SrGxF)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 04:43 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Dr Weir at January 08, 2013 04:44 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 08, 2013 04:44 PM (bxiXv)
Or watch more Didem. 
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 04:44 PM (AgRBF)
I actually had a highly educated conservative (a scientist, no less) strike up a conversation with me today at our son's ball game. He was the first to bash libs in the conversation (instead of me), without even knowing my political views. It was so refreshing to see someone else speak out, without giving a damn if it would offend someone.
I told him for our next chat at the game on Friday we could discuss currency collapse, and the merits of concealed carry.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 08, 2013 04:44 PM (4Mv1T)
Not easy, but I think it can be done.
Posted by: Miss Marple at January 08, 2013 04:45 PM (GoIUi)
Posted by: Adriane ... at January 08, 2013 04:45 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2013 04:45 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at January 08, 2013 08:24 PM (r7Ddb)
Huzzah for a Gushka sighting (and her adorable kitten too). Does he still play fetch? The pictures make it look like he's *very* comfortable napping.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette, still a Hobbit at January 08, 2013 04:45 PM (wbeNt)
Unfortunately I have a lingering fear there is a Caesar in our future.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 08, 2013 04:46 PM (uhAkr)
Did I miss something? All of these are true.
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 08, 2013 04:47 PM (9GaPd)
See Prof. Jacobson's post on it here--> http://tinyurl.com/b999wpk
Scoop has it here--> http://tinyurl.com/bcaoetf
(Jacobson removed the trackback link so Gawker doesn't get hits from his site. Scoop left it in, but published the essential article, so you don't need to go to gawker to see it)
Posted by: K-Bob at January 08, 2013 04:47 PM (2XEg8)
***
For good or ill there is no Julius or Augustus on the scene.
Now Neros and Caligulas? We have plenty of those.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2013 04:47 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: ConcealedKerry or subMitt Bitterly Clinging to his guns and guns at January 08, 2013 04:48 PM (gjMyO)
Hey gushie!
Posted by: Adriane ... at January 08, 2013 08:32 PM (TvO05)
hey there! I have missed you. Been lurking during the day and busy at night. I sorta agree with AtC on Jason Statham Vs the Destruction Of All We Hold Dear...
Oh and BB i just turned off the DVD of Fringe season 4. not thinking Terminator right now...
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at January 08, 2013 04:48 PM (r7Ddb)
One of those topics makes me want to take up cutting again. One gives me Jason Statham punching people. Guess which one I prefer.
Jason Statham cutting himself?
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 08, 2013 04:49 PM (o1kXv)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 08, 2013 04:49 PM (JDIKC)
I'm on the despair side. The only hope I have left is that maybe, just maybe, the Republicans finally understand that they are looking at an extinction level event with an electorate capable of re-electing someone like Obama and just say Fuck It, maybe we oughta just for once start acting like Republicans...acting like a fucking opposition... bite the bullet and embrace the fact that the traitorous, treasonous, lying, un-American media will paint us as Eeeeeeevil (which they will do anyway, even if they fellate Obama every day) and go out and do a Ride of the Valkyries and at least go down fighting and acting like they had some fucking backbone.
What the hell do they have to lose? The country's already gone anyway.
Fuck.
I can't remember, did I say Fuck?
Well, Fuck....just for the record.
Posted by: LGoPs at January 08, 2013 04:50 PM (4x8W0)
That is who we forgot for Ace's blockbuster 'Torture's Handmaiden' Need to put Jason Statham in there somewhere.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 04:51 PM (AgRBF)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 04:51 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Adriane ... at January 08, 2013 04:51 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 08, 2013 08:30 PM
Nice. One of yours? Is it trademarked? I've ranted about that very point, but in a prolix manner. That's to the point and a sweet turn of phrase.
Posted by: otho at January 08, 2013 04:52 PM (yBF/9)
Posted by: USS Diversity at January 08, 2013 04:52 PM (MPjT8)
I would feel more optimistic if I could get my hands on a SW Shield 40 Cal and SW MP AR -15 Sport and something for those damn drones!
Some group of somebodies has a drone killer, I saw it today as I was surfing the Intertubes. It also cut a girder in half at some ridiculous range. If I wasn't tired and lazy, I'd find the link for you.
I wouldn't want to stand in front of it. I imagine the effect would be much like a lightsaber.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 08, 2013 04:52 PM (yiIja)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at January 08, 2013 04:53 PM (qkP36)
What ever happened to just getting on with the job?
"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet."
-- Maj. Gen. James Mattis
Posted by: K-Bob at January 08, 2013 04:54 PM (2XEg8)
So our despair is obvious and justified.
And Klavan can bite me.
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 08, 2013 04:54 PM (9GaPd)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 04:54 PM (AgRBF)
Posted by: Jones in CO at January 08, 2013 04:54 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at January 08, 2013 04:54 PM (qkP36)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 08, 2013 04:55 PM (bxiXv)
Huzzah for a Gushka sighting (and her adorable kitten too). Does he still play fetch? The pictures make it look like he's *very* comfortable napping.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette, still a Hobbit at January 08, 2013 08:45 PM (wbeNt)
Glad to see you too!
yes he plays fetch but has gotten lazier. However, he has taught Jellybean the game, and now she pays too. And drops what he is fetching in my shoe!
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at January 08, 2013 04:55 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 08, 2013 04:56 PM (v4mPu)
Posted by: Clemenza at January 08, 2013 04:56 PM (x59Gv)
Oh, Gushie, damn what a blast from the past. I haven't seen you around these parts for a while.
Kittehs are good, I take it. And the Science Channel shows Fringe every Tuesday night. In order, I think. They're coming up on the series finale this week, I think.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 08, 2013 04:57 PM (yiIja)
Posted by: Clemenza at January 08, 2013 04:57 PM (x59Gv)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 04:58 PM (GEICT)
And sometimes dusk settles on the hill, the inhabitants crushed by the darkness and no chance to face the next sunrise. So, yeah, good and bad cycles; sometimes for a few and sometimes for the many. This is not insight.
Insight would be explaining why humans must destroy the good cycles every. single. time. And then having a formula to break that cycle.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 08, 2013 04:58 PM (eHIJJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 04:58 PM (AgRBF)
Posted by: Jones in CO at January 08, 2013 04:59 PM (8sCoq)
I do have confidence in reality, the unfortunate truth is that the democrats have a LOT of wealth and goodwill to play games with and are ruthless.
Reality trumps their bullshite though.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 04:59 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 05:00 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 08, 2013 05:00 PM (v4mPu)
until the assholes can get over their "inability to vote GOP" and accept we have offered the two most palatable canidates we could they will be defacto sabatuers of our economic health.
They have more faith in the democrats wanting US growth than the saints had in Christ.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:01 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: piercello at January 08, 2013 05:01 PM (E/6f0)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 05:01 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Don't ask me how I know either at January 08, 2013 05:02 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: Invictus at January 08, 2013 05:02 PM (OQpzc)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 05:02 PM (AgRBF)
Posted by: Judas Iscariot at January 08, 2013 05:03 PM (v4mPu)
Posted by: Clemenza at January 08, 2013 05:03 PM (x59Gv)
Did I miss an edict by Ace disallowing spines recently?
Posted by: K-Bob at January 08, 2013 05:03 PM (2XEg8)
Posted by: L, elle at January 08, 2013 05:03 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: Clemenza at January 08, 2013 09:00 PM (x59Gv)
we need to all get some old hickory and start giving the progs some wood shampoos
I say, if ya can't beat 'em, beat 'em
Posted by: Jones in CO at January 08, 2013 05:04 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: ConcealedKerry or subMitt Bitterly Clinging to his guns and guns at January 08, 2013 05:04 PM (gjMyO)
Posted by: Clemenza at January 08, 2013 05:04 PM (x59Gv)
The article seems pretty much equivalent to:
"When the Borg destroyed my world, my people were scattered throughout the universe. We survived - as will humanity survive. As long as there's a handful of you to keep the spirit alive, you will prevail - even if it takes a millennium."
But you know, most of us still end up assimilated or destroyed...
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 08, 2013 05:05 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 08, 2013 05:05 PM (v4mPu)
Posted by: Invictus at January 08, 2013 05:06 PM (OQpzc)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 08, 2013 05:06 PM (v4mPu)
"I actually had a highly educated conservative (a scientist, no less) strike up a conversation with me today at our son's ball game. He was the first to bash libs in the conversation (instead of me), without even knowing my political views. It was so refreshing to see someone else speak out, without giving a damn if it would offend someone.
I told him for our next chat at the game on Friday we could discuss currency collapse, and the merits of concealed carry."
Was he a chemist named Jeff?
Posted by: Ohio has too many idiots Dan at January 08, 2013 05:06 PM (JKNDp)
Posted by: Clemenza at January 08, 2013 05:07 PM (x59Gv)
or you know Argentinian.....
point being liberty and capitalism will survive...the united States as their best handmaiden may not.
Fucking free shit army.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:07 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: K-Bob at January 08, 2013 05:07 PM (2XEg8)
Oh, Gushie, damn what a blast from the past. I haven't seen you around these parts for a while.
Kittehs are good, I take it. And the Science Channel shows Fringe every Tuesday night. In order, I think. They're coming up on the series finale this week, I think.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 08, 2013 08:57 PM (yiIja)
i have been lurking. Stuff in the news brushed me a little too close and too personally and i actually am still freaked.
Fringe has been my mental comfort food and i have been watching on Grim's Amazon prime, and on DVD. I have no patience to watch on a network's schedule. I think the last time i posted was right after my beloved Hairless Pusseh died of Lymphoma and that was the Thurs before christmas. Sorry i was so quiet. But i have been broken hearted. The kittens have been helping, and my clients who brought in two new horses, but its made me busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at January 08, 2013 05:08 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 05:09 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 08, 2013 05:09 PM (v4mPu)
But as it is, we not only have the commies and the MFM to contend with, but the Boehners, McConnells, Roves, Bushes and the rest of the lily livered sellouts of the statist lite GOP undermining us.
Posted by: ontherocks at January 08, 2013 05:09 PM (aZ6ew)
so does .45-70....
which to be fair when I say is "80% as effective as .50 BMG" I am discussing in "realistic effectiveness on softish targets" not "it competes with light artillery in a wholly different class of weapon.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:09 PM (LRFds)
It looks like this pick-me-up post by Ace is having the opposite effect. I think most of us feel outnumbered and powerless.
Weren't those willing to fight in the Revolution the THREE PERCENTERS?
Posted by: RushBabe at January 08, 2013 05:10 PM (tQHzJ)
Posted by: ALL_IS_LOST at January 08, 2013 05:10 PM (T/L2Z)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 08, 2013 05:10 PM (v4mPu)
neither is taking some crash work in aat a minimum PM level gunsmithing.
I aim to learn reloading this winter.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:11 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: LGoPs at January 08, 2013 05:11 PM (4x8W0)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 05:11 PM (AgRBF)
Posted by: Clemenza at January 08, 2013 05:11 PM (x59Gv)
The Germans have it.
That would be it. I'd really like to see that little guy in action.
A very long time ago, I saw a military documentary that showed an interesting piece of hardware: a tank with a glass dome on top. It was supposed to be a weapon that contained an early mobile laser that could pick out and destroy individual bullets aimed at it. Don't know the name or what became of it, but it sounds pretty cool too.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 08, 2013 05:12 PM (yiIja)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 08, 2013 05:12 PM (v4mPu)
Posted by: The Fed at January 08, 2013 05:12 PM (oUOWQ)
3-5% initially were the "fighters" popular support was in the ~12-15% range IIRC.
The rage was over less than 2% of the colonial economy being hijacked.
We are not fit to lick their boots.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:12 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 05:13 PM (AgRBF)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 08, 2013 05:14 PM (bxiXv)
well he does that he knocks the paathetic GOP into a rage.
God I hate people "too principles to vote" as much maybe more than free shit army.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:14 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 08, 2013 05:14 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 05:14 PM (AgRBF)
Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 08, 2013 05:14 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 08, 2013 05:14 PM (v4mPu)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 05:14 PM (GEICT)
It'll be us....the kids that Billy Ayers built will be voting next cycle.
"Yay"
Infant Amerika
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:15 PM (LRFds)
Weren't those willing to fight in the Revolution the THREE PERCENTERS?
Well played, Ma'am.
Huzzah!
At a conservative gathering this morning, an unknown 21-year-old delivered an off-the-cuff speech on the saving grace of federalism and telling the feddal gubmint to stuff it. (He was more eloquent than that). I thought all the oldsters were going to give him a standing O. We prob'ly should have. Talk about your fire in the belly! There IS hope.
Posted by: RushBabe at January 08, 2013 05:15 PM (tQHzJ)
Posted by: L, elle at January 08, 2013 05:16 PM (0PiQ4)
Weren't those willing to fight in the Revolution the THREE PERCENTERS?
Assumes of course that, in the eyes of history, we're the Revolutionaries rather than the Loyalists, the Cowboys rather than the Indians....
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 08, 2013 05:16 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: The Fed at January 08, 2013 05:16 PM (oUOWQ)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at January 08, 2013 05:17 PM (FsUAO)
"we're doomed...
But I think "the time of burning" is a lot farther down the road than we realize"
Agreed. The PTB can carry on like this for decades. Ugly decades for an increasing number of people as it progresses.
Unless there is an awakening, a revolution.
Posted by: Meremortal, time to slutdrop the GOPe at January 08, 2013 05:18 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 05:18 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 09:14 PM (LRFds)
Me too sven. Here we are on Last Stand Hill and half of us can't be bothered to shoot at the fucking howling savages all around us because we're not fully approving of our leadership.
Like I said before...Fuck.
Posted by: LGoPs at January 08, 2013 05:18 PM (4x8W0)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 08, 2013 05:19 PM (v4mPu)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 08, 2013 05:20 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 08, 2013 05:20 PM (v4mPu)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 05:20 PM (GEICT)
We have to get into the media/hollywood complex. All the rest is pissing in the wind, even though we're right.
Posted by: USS Diversity at January 08, 2013 05:20 PM (MPjT8)
"Get back to work. You're not being paid to believe in the power of your dreams."
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 08, 2013 09:14 PM (v4mPu)
Gotta love them demotivational posters. My fave is the one with a picture of a pack of fries. It says, "Not everyone gets to be an astronaut."
Posted by: K-Bob at January 08, 2013 05:20 PM (2XEg8)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at January 08, 2013 05:21 PM (FsUAO)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 09:14 PM (AgRBF)
Ha I named mine Mischief! He has a habit of jumping up on everything finding stuff like pens and carrying them in mouf to the hardwood floors and batting them all over. Sounds like an elephant the 5 LB Kitteh
Posted by: ConcealedKerry or subMitt Bitterly Clinging to his guns and guns at January 08, 2013 05:21 PM (gjMyO)
Posted by: Zombie Patrick Swayze at January 08, 2013 05:21 PM (oUOWQ)
I opined as much WRT "project Wideawake" we have allowed the left to fuck us with impunity and no punishment using the infotainment complex.
We MUST be ruthless enough to hit them hard enough they stagger.
Burn them first.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:22 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 08, 2013 05:22 PM (v4mPu)
I like things that are great!
Posted by: Jones in CO at January 08, 2013 05:22 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 05:22 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 08, 2013 05:23 PM (bS6uW)
Posted by: Marcia Cramer at January 08, 2013 05:23 PM (/b8+5)
Posted by: fixerupper at January 08, 2013 05:23 PM (9MmIU)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 08, 2013 05:23 PM (v4mPu)
you can name the number of times an underarmed insurgency has failed a lot easier than succeeds because the numbers favor the locals.
The left will become what they pretend to hate to kill us it ever comes to that, and it ever come to them doing that I will happily become what I have thus far subsumed.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:23 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Golan Globus at January 08, 2013 05:24 PM (oUOWQ)
and cost us Vietnam.....
the level of commitment necessary to cow an armed populace bleeding to say "fuck you" is staggering.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:24 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 08, 2013 05:25 PM (v4mPu)
The kittens have been helping, and my clients who brought in two new horses, but its made me busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.
You, like the other despondent Morons here, will persevere. Occasionally we have to have a thread where we can vent, I think this may be one of them. The shit's getting heavy, but once we regain our bearings, we'll start formulating a cohesive plan. I can think of quite a few Things That Must Be Done, but this isn't the place to discuss them.
The time is approaching for Good to fight Evil, and I do mean that in the Biblical sense. There are far too many occurences that have been foretold for me to think otherwise. I have no idea what my, or anyone else's role will be until the time comes, but I have faith that the Good will prevail. I'm certain it will be quite ugly, uglier than today. We must steel ourselves, trust each other, and have Faith.
We are being tested.
Anyway, it's good to hear from you. We need all the Morons we can find.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 08, 2013 05:25 PM (yiIja)
Posted by: Marcia Cramer at January 08, 2013 09:23 PM (/b8+5)
that's too difficult. It's easier to f*** with law-abiding citizens. It's all about being seen as Doing Something.
Posted by: Jones in CO at January 08, 2013 05:25 PM (8sCoq)
The Left says -- Oh, really? The govt has tanks and jets and laser guided weapons. Are you gonna fight them with a few rifles?
I'm going from memory but I think it may have been Solzheneytsin (sic?) who wrote that resistance, as in taking out a couple of secret policemen when they came for you in the middle of the night...making them afraid that they might no go home that night, would have been a powerful deterrent to the tyranny that the State visited on its people. Something to that effect.
I guess the trick is to know when to resist. Waiting until you're on the train to the gulag or to Auschwitz is too late.
Posted by: LGoPs at January 08, 2013 05:25 PM (4x8W0)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 05:26 PM (GEICT)
correct....
my grandma made great orange peel candy and she explained to me that skinning a secret policeman or an informer is an act of love for your kids and grandkids.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:26 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Golan Globus at January 08, 2013 05:27 PM (oUOWQ)
It's like I don't even know you! *sobs*
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. We're not worthy. at January 08, 2013 05:27 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 08, 2013 05:27 PM (bxiXv)
A new 2.5 ton compressor should be OK on a 20A wiring. Some of the old inefficient ones in that capacity range would draw over 20A. The one I helped a neighbor with recently was drawing under 8A.
If part of the rewiring job is replacing/upgrading the old A/C wiring out to the point of the outside compressor disconnect, then deferring an A/C change isn't a big deal.
The electrician doing it can easily organize the work so that the old A/C unit is only down for an hour or two.
Posted by: @PurpAv at January 08, 2013 05:28 PM (iHs4Z)
Posted by: L, elle at January 08, 2013 05:28 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 08, 2013 05:28 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: fixerupper at January 08, 2013 05:29 PM (9MmIU)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 08, 2013 05:29 PM (v4mPu)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 05:29 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Typical moron at January 08, 2013 05:29 PM (oUOWQ)
Posted by: USS Diversity at January 08, 2013 05:30 PM (MPjT8)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 05:30 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 08, 2013 05:30 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 08, 2013 05:30 PM (djdc7)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 08, 2013 05:31 PM (v4mPu)
Posted by: Socrates at January 08, 2013 05:32 PM (v4mPu)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 08, 2013 05:32 PM (ZPrif)
Well Isis the 7.5lb gray fluff ball seems to be bouncing back. No sneezing and lots of pounce. Roo, I think he is closing in on 8.5lbs, was his usual chirping self and playing with Isis. Ra was off somewhere and so was mama cat.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 05:32 PM (AgRBF)
Posted by: Stateless_Infidel at January 08, 2013 05:33 PM (AC0lD)
so i'll take my mouth off the tailpipe, Yet, We do have a group in power that actually could give two shits about a least half the country and the other half he is in agreement with are insane jerks that are not adding up the damage that is being done for the greater good.
So what will we have far millions more dem voters through Amnesty, or spending far beyond our ability to pay it back?
Business's not willing to do business as before, jobs lost ...
Do we actually even Hear from our side a plan to fiscally save the country? and? the deals are mocking us.
Posted by: ette- at January 08, 2013 05:33 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 05:33 PM (AgRBF)
Posted by: Golan Globus at January 08, 2013 05:33 PM (oUOWQ)
I don't know what you lost. I haven't lost a damn thing. It'll be a bitch for our kids and grandkids, but I see absolutely nothing impeding me from my work. It's still America, for a little while longer at least.
Clearly, I'll just have to work around you lollygagging "conservatives" who seem to have the time to luxuriate in despair.
Looks like the Moronettes need to order up some of these for the 'roons.
http://www.kurtlightner.com/blog/CAD/balls.jpg
Posted by: K-Bob at January 08, 2013 05:34 PM (2XEg8)
"... for the specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unconscious of being despair." -- Søren Kierkegaard, "Sickness Unto Death"
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Posted by: Thorvald at January 08, 2013 05:34 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: Cato the Younger's Dido at January 08, 2013 05:35 PM (I88Jc)
http://youtu.be/ow2JZvqqeXM
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 05:35 PM (AgRBF)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 08, 2013 09:30 PM (ZPrif)
If it's crazy but it works, it isn't crazy.
Posted by: Invictus at January 08, 2013 05:35 PM (OQpzc)
Posted by: L, elle at January 08, 2013 05:35 PM (0PiQ4)
They'll usually say something like "use breaker in 25-40A range" or something like that. IMO, it pays to upsize the compressor wiring one size beyond whatever the electric code minimums calculate out to. If its a really long run of wire from panel to the compressor, maybe even two sizes to reduce voltage drop.
Here in FL almost every residential A/C I've ever seen was wired to bare minimums, and that results in a lot of voltage drop at the compressor, as well as wasting a lot of power just heating skinny minimal wire. Fatten up the wire, and you'll get that back in performance and probably never need a "start kit".
Posted by: @PurpAv at January 08, 2013 05:36 PM (iHs4Z)
1 fiscal insanity
2 amnesty
3 gun rights
that isn't including every wet dream the left has had.
what has been happening through the holidays, you know that's Their favorite time to pass legislation so we don't hear about it.
Posted by: ette- at January 08, 2013 05:36 PM (nqBYe)
She was a White Russian who ran from Obama's ideological proctor.
I don't think I'll get to go to the camps.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:37 PM (LRFds)
Not yet. That reminds me, I do need to take a shower.
Where were you?????? You're supposed to be the damn expert around here!
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 09:29 PM (GEICT)
Now, grasshopper, you know that you must be shoved out of the nest to fly on your own or something like that.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. We're not worthy. at January 08, 2013 05:38 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Marcia Cramer at January 08, 2013 05:38 PM (/b8+5)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 05:39 PM (AgRBF)
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 08, 2013 05:39 PM (Vk2pI)
You don't beat them, you wear them out to the point that they quit and leave you alone.
Posted by: @PurpAv at January 08, 2013 05:40 PM (iHs4Z)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 08, 2013 09:32 PM (ZPrif)
Totally correct.
Posted by: K-Bob at January 08, 2013 05:40 PM (2XEg8)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 05:40 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Jones in CO at January 08, 2013 05:40 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 08, 2013 05:41 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 05:41 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 08, 2013 05:42 PM (ZPrif)
millions don't
and some of us that do are raking 35-40% of our previous existence.
heck i would feel alright if i could believe this shit is temporary.
Posted by: ette- at January 08, 2013 05:43 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: fixerupper at January 08, 2013 05:43 PM (9MmIU)
THIS My generation didn't go to war except for Vietnam (not to belittle the efforts of our troops, but our own land was not under direct threat), we've had the government to feed, clothe us, and medicate us. We've had a few big storms and that's about it. It's time to suck it up and put our backs into it! I hope my grandfather isn't watching me whine and cry - he was 5'2" because he didn't get enough to eat in Wales where he grew up as a human pit pony. His children were all 6' or more, including the girls.
I've had no struggle comparable to previous generations in my family. I hoped my ease would continue into my golden years. Guess not. Time for me to show I've got the same genes, the same stuff they had.
Posted by: Pentangle at January 08, 2013 05:43 PM (HR2TI)
Their rank and file sooner or later fear the leaders and vice versa. The rank and file get less diligent and then turn.
The tyrants bunker down.
You pour gasoline down their air vents and megaphone them: "Are you coming out?"
Posted by: Thorvald at January 08, 2013 05:44 PM (1V6Pv)
No one said anything about quitting, Bob.
I just hate it when someone tries to blow sunshine up my ass.
Posted by: Invictus at January 08, 2013 05:44 PM (OQpzc)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 08, 2013 05:44 PM (ZPrif)
A cordless sawzall and a bag of batteries is probably worth more than the rifle.
Posted by: @PurpAv at January 08, 2013 05:44 PM (iHs4Z)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 08, 2013 09:41 PM (ZPrif)
I think the Left would be amazed at the level of destruction that could be done to their nice, orderly worlds should / when the time comes. And these are people that don't like it when their feelings get hurt.
Posted by: Stateless_Infidel at January 08, 2013 05:45 PM (AC0lD)
and some of us that do are raking 35-40% of our previous existence.
heck i would feel alright if i could believe this shit is temporary.
Posted by: ette- at January 08, 2013 09:43 PM (nqBYe)
I hear ya, Miss-- I am currently UEd but I'll live
Posted by: Jones in CO at January 08, 2013 05:45 PM (8sCoq)
The five stages of GRIEF:
1) Denial
2) Anger
3) Bargaining
4) Depression
5) Acceptance
I arrived at # 5 yesterday. I am tired of being pissed every damn day. I am now better prepared for possible eventualities without turning my entire life on it's ear and getting divorced. I'm better armed, have a good deal more of less-perishable food in the pantry. More financially prepared (read: get liquid where you can).
Now I plan to get back to making money when/where I can, and laughing.
Oh, and drinking.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 08, 2013 05:45 PM (4Mv1T)
You don't beat them, you wear them out to the point that they quit and leave you alone.
IMO, that comes later, after the crushing blow that makes them think twice about sticking their heads up. This may take several applications to sink in.
We appear to be outnumbered. We know better, but we have no voice today. I can't help but think that there are a lot of folks just waiting to pounce on the leftards. As Insty says, something that can't go on, won't. Sanity will make a comeback.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 08, 2013 05:46 PM (yiIja)
I know...most of us here are.
What terrifies me is once upon a time even most democrats I knew when the chips were down loved freedom to some degree.
Hollywood had drive them nuts.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:46 PM (LRFds)
Trying to think of the Obama equivalent...
Posted by: Thorvald at January 08, 2013 05:46 PM (1V6Pv)
Go to the links in @58
Your second link is just them doing that "I dressed like a vagina today, what are you staring at?" schtick that is the service mark of the fool.
Yeah, they'll probably get death threats. Just like the cops and prison guards whose names were published by that Lower Hudson Vally rag. Fuck 'em. They will aslo get sued through bankruptcy and on into homelessness. They deserve every muck-scraping, gutter-crawling inch of it, too.
Posted by: K-Bob at January 08, 2013 05:47 PM (2XEg8)
Yup....
I'm trying to be more cryptic but given that this will not be a nice geographic split "hit hard" will likely not be pretty or something I look forward to.
I look forward to barry O'Bammy lecturing me on liberty and freedom.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:47 PM (LRFds)
Their rank and file sooner or later fear the leaders and vice versa. The rank and file get less diligent and then turn.
The tyrants bunker down.
You pour gasoline down their air vents and megaphone them: "Are you coming out?"
Posted by: Thorvald at January 08, 2013 09:44 PM (1V6Pv)
this is really it. We react. we play defense only.
we react at everything thrown at us by their design.
we need to change that..
Posted by: ette- at January 08, 2013 05:47 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Eeyore at January 08, 2013 05:48 PM (jucos)
Posted by: @PurpAv at January 08, 2013 05:48 PM (iHs4Z)
We are being tested.
Anyway, it's good to hear from you. We need all the Morons we can find.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 08, 2013 09:25 PM (yiIja)
thanks man. I had no idea i was missed.
xoxoxo
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at January 08, 2013 05:49 PM (r7Ddb)
http://youtu.be/HmG9LwzyS2A
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 05:49 PM (AgRBF)
Sorry did not realize someone had linked to this already. I apologize. I'm just kind of shocked that they would do something like this. I think if I were a gun owner I'd be very upset.Posted by: Marcia Cramer at January 08, 2013 05:49 PM (/b8+5)
Improvised sex toys will save us?
Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 08, 2013 05:49 PM (qo244)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mattis
Because if so it cool he was a local boy.
I tend to agree with Klaven and I'm know for my negativity. Look the Republicans have more state legislatures than in a long time. It's the result of the tea party moment. It will take time for those people to move into national politics, but it will happen. The question is will the national as a whole be too far gone by then?
Posted by: Thermadin at January 08, 2013 05:50 PM (W+08+)
An Arab Spring thought. The Left often mocks the 2nd amendment people who say the 2nd amendment is there to protect us from a tyrannical govt.
The Left says -- Oh, really? The govt has tanks and jets and laser guided weapons. Are you gonna fight them with a few rifles?
But isn't that exactly what happened in Libya and now Syria?
It's even worse for them, since in those places, not to mention Iraq and Afghanistan, we're often dealing with barely literate populations. An insurgency in a modern first world country with access to advanced manufacturing equipment and a significant knowledge base would be an absolute nightmare for any military.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 08, 2013 05:50 PM (o1kXv)
the problem is we value the nation more than they do despite not wanting it for "daddy."
The things we'll do if it comes to that are not to ever be thought of lightly.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:50 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Thorvald at January 08, 2013 09:46 PM (1V6Pv)
The best thing about Obama is....
-his grades at Harvard.
-his parents.
-his deep intellenge and intellectual curiosity.
-his big stick (for Biden)
-his compassion and empathy
This is kind of fun. I'm two beers in but this needs to be a game...
Posted by: Stateless_Infidel at January 08, 2013 05:50 PM (AC0lD)
wut you guys looking at in that webcam?
I'm not really sure, but it looks like a couple of Velociraptors.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 08, 2013 05:50 PM (yiIja)
I just hate it when someone tries to blow sunshine up my ass."
Posted by: Invictus at January 08, 2013 09:44 PM (OQpzc)
Exactly. Neither did I say anything about "quitting." As for sunshine, you haven't read my other comments in the thread.
Posted by: K-Bob at January 08, 2013 05:52 PM (2XEg8)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 08, 2013 05:52 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: fixerupper at January 08, 2013 05:52 PM (9MmIU)
Posted by: ette- at January 08, 2013 05:52 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 05:52 PM (AgRBF)
A cordless sawzall and a bag of batteries is probably worth more than the rifle.
"Everything I need for the revolution, I can buy at Wal-Mart."
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 08, 2013 05:52 PM (o1kXv)
Posted by: Beatles Bailey, Pvt. FSA at January 08, 2013 05:53 PM (I88Jc)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 05:53 PM (AgRBF)
If only SCOAMF had an off button.
"er uh far too often we have faced discrimination and have far more work....*bzzt*"
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:55 PM (LRFds)
Reagan undid much of the damage wrought in the 70s but had to treat everything done by FDR as normal and never to be undone. Some stupid policies that came into being under Clinton have likewise become the new normal. The next genuinely conservative President, should there ever be one, will be able to call it a massive accomplishment just to undo a fraction of what Obama has already done, never mind what the next four years portends.
We take a few inches here and there but only after the left pushes forward by yards. Eventually, something has to break in a big way.
Posted by: epobirs at January 08, 2013 05:55 PM (En0Pk)
Posted by: Marcia Cramer at January 08, 2013 09:49 PM (/b8+5)
I wasn't busting your chops. Sorry if it came across that way! Yeah, gun owners should feel justifiably pissed. However, we're all on a list somewhere, so what's the diff? The good news is some of us are prepared for the idiots who feel empowered to do something very, very stupid.
Posted by: K-Bob at January 08, 2013 05:55 PM (2XEg8)
Think unguarded comms/power/transport/fuel infrastructure.
Its impossible to guard every critical item of infrastructure in a modern society.
When I was in college one of the guys in the dorm stole the light bar off one of the campus security cars. Every time he saw them go do a floor walk through a dorm, he knew he had 10 minutes and would go out with his wrench and take one turn on the bolts holding it down.
After about a month of that, it was hanging by a thread, and was gone in a wink.
The moral of that story is -- don't get greedy. Be patient.
Posted by: @PurpAv at January 08, 2013 05:55 PM (iHs4Z)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 05:56 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: General Woundwort at January 08, 2013 05:56 PM (zOP5o)
Posted by: Peaches, Pats fan for life at January 08, 2013 05:57 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 05:57 PM (AgRBF)
"beware the fury of a patient man."
words to live by....
brown outs will be "the new normal"
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:57 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: luke duke at January 08, 2013 05:57 PM (Y4Ay9)
Posted by: @PurpAv at January 08, 2013 05:57 PM (iHs4Z)
I'd never advocate poisoning anyone.....of course making sure that states kept 'their water" by sabotage in a jam?
Entirely different matter.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 05:58 PM (LRFds)
I love Andrew Klavan. I hope that his optimism is realized.
I put my faith not in princes.
Posted by: Al at January 08, 2013 06:00 PM (V70Uh)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 06:00 PM (AgRBF)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 09:52 PM (AgRBF)
Maaaaaybe. Though I think it's more this - http://youtu.be/oJ0zFmbORVQ (NSFW) (You're v v welcome)
RE: the sawzall sex toy: That thing is all the not right.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. We're not worthy. at January 08, 2013 06:00 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Bart Simpson, shortsighted scourge of Shelbyville at January 08, 2013 06:01 PM (I88Jc)
Posted by: ette- at January 08, 2013 06:01 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 06:01 PM (AgRBF)
Good for him.
Posted by: K-Bob at January 08, 2013 06:02 PM (2XEg8)
Posted by: fixerupper at January 08, 2013 06:02 PM (9MmIU)
I read this article a little before coming here. I thought he made some valid points. I remember watching a documentary a long time ago about marijuana farmers in Georgia. Farmers there were growing pot because, as one farmer said,"It's the only crop where a farmer sets his own price." The sheriff was doing his best to arrest all of them, but then he didn't get re-elected. The people finally had enough. The former sheriff told the interviewer that "You can only police people as much as they want to be policed."
.
Posted by: ALH at January 08, 2013 06:02 PM (eqV3Q)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 08, 2013 06:03 PM (jucos)
I agree...I was pointing it out in text b/c "because"....
I hate the idea of NBC use....
I'm a cold war baby I dealt with the possibility of knowing what my popcorn feels like.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 06:03 PM (LRFds)
Yes I knew where you were going but just had to make the joke. The other part of infrastructure is you can suck them into guarding one thing to attack another. Like putting harmless crap in the water supply on camera. Split their resources and keep them spinning and the best way to do that is freak the population with fake crap on the internet so they have to shut down their own communication.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 08, 2013 06:03 PM (qo244)
True story. The dispatcher asked the problem. "Unclosed incision."
The kid had doped himself on barbiturates, operated on himself in a mirror, but experienced "unexpected pain upon retracting the liver".
Why?
He'd set about to enervate his adrenal glands.
I wish I knew what his plan was after that.
Posted by: Thorvald at January 08, 2013 06:04 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: ette- at January 08, 2013 06:04 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 06:04 PM (GEICT)
Actually, most of us get our water from Sparkletts. In bottles. If you think you can poison me in the shower, take your best shot. For some insane reason, even Arizona did not withhold theirs, after the "boycott Arizona" craziness after they took a hard line on illegals swarming the border. Go figure.
Posted by: Peaches, Pats fan for life at January 08, 2013 06:04 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: Han Solo at January 08, 2013 06:05 PM (CypDC)
Posted by: K-Bob at January 08, 2013 06:05 PM (2XEg8)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 08, 2013 06:06 PM (yiIja)
Current conditions aren't reminiscent of Carter/Reagan, try the fall of Rome, try the rise of Lenin or Stalin. Not to be dramatic, but seriously, this is the building golden calf stage, a lot of wilderness time yet to come.
Posted by: Andrew at January 08, 2013 06:06 PM (HS3dy)
Let "The Avengers" help with this despair....
Captain America : "We need a plan of attack."
Iron Man: "I have a plan, attack."
Captain America: "There is only one God, ma'am, and I don't think He dresses like that"
Agent Colson: "You can't win, it isn't in your nature. You lack conviction."
Dr. Bruce Banner: "That's my secret... I'm always angry".. spoken just before turning into a giant green rage monster who smashes the shit out of the bad guys.
This movie is awesome and full of surprises. I bet even the leftists liked it without realizing how seriously it stomps on their golden calves.
Posted by: MadameMayhem at January 08, 2013 06:06 PM (iRgZG)
again "not poisoning and ma'am we have an app for that bottled water too....
I explained in detail how to pop a municipal grid.
I'd much prefer you reassure me California is just around the corner from getting off marx's package than my having to ponder how to wreck the Kommisars should it come to that.
PLEASE reassure me Moonbeam is making new GOPers?
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 06:07 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Truman at Stop (ampersand) Shop at January 08, 2013 06:07 PM (I2LwF)
I AM always angry.....
as my dad once said "thank God I have a small d**k God knows what more trouble I'd have gotten into with a big one."
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 06:08 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 08, 2013 06:09 PM (9Bj8R)
Posted by: Peaches, Pats fan for life at January 08, 2013 06:09 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 06:10 PM (AgRBF)
we wound up having it by chance because the unit kept wife until 1900.....
Whore E Wood thinks only THEY get to make profit....
fuck 'em
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 06:10 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 10:07 PM (LRFds)
Don't be ridiculous. They keep voting for higher taxes!! I paid 9 percent at Costco the other day. And there's more coming. We. Are. Fucked.
Posted by: Peaches, Pats fan for life at January 08, 2013 06:10 PM (kpCLl)
it comes to it I'll leave a Conex for you ma'am....
I sorta figured....
Sanity and California are seldom in the same solar system these days.....
my sister in law for example.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 06:12 PM (LRFds)
Hope afterwards.
Leave despair for when its impossible (wif yer dead).
Posted by: Thorvald at January 08, 2013 06:12 PM (1V6Pv)
Just to make the point that that wasn't an invention of my mind but one of the left.
http://tinyurl.com/4h33xts
Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 08, 2013 06:14 PM (qo244)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 08, 2013 06:15 PM (GEICT)
I wish I knew what his plan was after that.
probably to chew on his own adrenal gland
makes meth seem like mother's milk
Posted by: Jones in CO at January 08, 2013 06:15 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Sudden Impact at January 08, 2013 06:16 PM (I88Jc)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 08, 2013 10:14 PM (qo244)
Nice link.
Next: Fisting for fifth graders.
Posted by: Stateless_Infidel at January 08, 2013 06:17 PM (AC0lD)
Drop one major power transmission line tower, and they'll be forced to divert resources to guard ALL of them.
Posted by: @PurpAv at January 08, 2013 06:17 PM (iHs4Z)
Whew. I'd drink her bathwater... .
OK, y'all, gotta go fix a late supper for me and B'Gal. Have fun and try not to trash the place, 'k?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 08, 2013 06:18 PM (yiIja)
http://youtu.be/p-dx6S_Aqn0
Honestly once I made it to the end, I understood the video. Though a meteor in space will not be on fire since there is no atmosphere to generate friction.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 06:19 PM (AgRBF)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 08, 2013 06:20 PM (AgRBF)
Posted by: The Dead Pool, where failed socks get flushed at January 08, 2013 06:20 PM (I88Jc)
Posted by: Sefton at January 08, 2013 06:22 PM (/G/kZ)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 08, 2013 06:23 PM (bxiXv)
no, really- firefox locked up
but hey if it's funnier the other way, sure
Posted by: Jones in CO at January 08, 2013 06:23 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: MadameMayhem at January 08, 2013 06:24 PM (iRgZG)
Do not despair. Despair is failing to have faith in the Lord. We are passing through terrible times. Do not lose faith. Be the best you can be. Live your faith. Do not despair.
Posted by: Al at January 08, 2013 06:26 PM (V70Uh)
Welcome to the 21st century version of Ghost Dancing
Posted by: kbdabear at January 08, 2013 06:28 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: butch at January 08, 2013 06:30 PM (nK2Sx)
I have I have found a chronic weakness for your nick.
Yes a 1903 cannot get it at operational altitude, that said there are windows of vulnerability and if man builds it man can wreck it given enough time and motivation.
Jihadi Jim shot down more US aircraft in a raid than we had lost since 'nam.....
where there's a will there's a way.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 06:34 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 10:34 PM (LRFds)
Yes.
I've seen too many folks on the right, in gun threads, usually, who like to sound authoritarian about how vastly superior the US military is, so we should, like, just give up the guns or something. I never really understand their point.
Often these same sorts of bozos are the ones who like to laugh at how the Russians were taken to the woodshed by a few Afghanis armed with highly inferior weapons.
The point is, be armed. Stay armed. Stay populous. Stay active.
Posted by: K-Bob at January 08, 2013 06:46 PM (2XEg8)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 08, 2013 06:51 PM (piMMO)
Most of their leaders are self absorbed pricks, and aging boomers. Their shit doesnt work. Reality bites them in the ass eventually. The more time goes on, the more that becomes clear. In a lot of ways we have time on our side. Not against the immediate damage, it will get deeper. We get the values right though, and most of us DO have that right, and we win the long fight. Mostly I dont want to give the pricks the satisfaction of thinking I will give in, or that they have WON anything important, or in having a moments peace. I will dedicate myself to making them miserable and surviving this bullshit with my values intact. Fuck em. You know what creates good values? Surviving hardship! Time is NOT on their side. Im fairly old. How many times have we been told over the years our kids couldnt fight, and couldnt stand up when they needed to? Have they? You bet your ass they have. The next generation CAN stand up. Its time we lead, and bury the metrosexual self absorbed boomer pricks in the way.
Posted by: BoGart at January 08, 2013 06:52 PM (Ugngr)
Sorry Merovign, the major cities are infested with FSA types and the new would-be mandarin class. We don't have time to recover the media and the schools. It took them decades to seize them.
War is coming. War to the knife, knife to the hilt.
Posted by: butch at January 08, 2013 06:58 PM (nK2Sx)
Posted by: butch at January 08, 2013 07:06 PM (nK2Sx)
I'd hit it during the ramp phase, the craft though not vulnerable to the human element on a biological scale with regards to Gs on take off is limited by its powerplant so the take offs are likely not exactly Mariner one Mars Shot impersonations.
The command and control is reliant on EW vulnerable bursts.
We'll likely have people sympathetic to our cause in the Mil complex to aid efforts at sabotage.
The drone removal problem is a big one because it opens up RealTime OpTempo for the opfor.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 08, 2013 07:23 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Bill at January 08, 2013 07:42 PM (cQ6oO)
Posted by: ALL_IS_LOST at January 08, 2013 08:10 PM (T/L2Z)
Posted by: Butch at January 08, 2013 08:13 PM (nK2Sx)
Posted by: Marcia Cramer at January 08, 2013 08:18 PM (/b8+5)
Posted by: Marcia Cramer at January 08, 2013 08:52 PM (/b8+5)
Posted by: Clemenza at January 08, 2013 11:01 PM (x59Gv)
Not my words, but my brotherÂ’s, after having read KlavanÂ’s commentary:
i did not feel so bad when clinton got elected,
and did not feel so bad when obama got elected the first time.
but the second timeÂ…
i agree with the author when he say, “things, in other words, are almost as bad as they always are.”
actually, iÂ’m glad we arenÂ’t expecting a mongol or viking invasion, or anything THAT bad.
but it is hard to say what “rolling the sun up the hill” is really supposed to mean.
work harder?
become politically active?
buy guns and ammo whenever i can find them on sale?
a lot of people are probably thinking “what can i really do about any of this?”
one thing i donÂ’t like is the idea
that conservatives need to “change” if they want to have a stake in future american politics.
the way a person votes is SUPPOSED to be about PRINCIPLES.
i think it is ok to compromise on things that do not matter, and perhaps politicians should do more of that.
but if it means conservatives are supposed to become like liberals,
just to woo a lot of bleeding hearts who canÂ’t tell an underdog from an under-handed dog,
then why should i be happy if a conservative wins if he might just as well have been a liberal?
it think i learned last election to be happy with the way i voted,
even if everyone else in america voted against me.
Posted by: Crowley at January 09, 2013 12:55 AM (3wa9V)
Posted by: mycherrysmores at January 09, 2013 05:14 AM (qLxQ4)
Posted by: mycherrysmores at January 09, 2013 05:14 AM (qLxQ4)
re #35
Merovign is spot on. It's not impossible, just a daunting task. If you skim over our country's history, you'll see that we've had a lot of dark, perilous moments and through the exertions of a small group of determined folks, we made it over the hill, if even just barely. Despair is easy but not helpful. We start one small bite at a time, our personal sphere of influence and move out from there. To paraphrase Zapata, it's better to die fighting, standing on your two feet than to continue living on your knees. Either way, we gotta get through tough times, it comes to how we're going to get through it. My cent and half. Y'all rock.
Posted by: fastfreefall at January 09, 2013 05:36 AM (zUvAE)
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie ® at January 09, 2013 08:10 AM (1hM1d)
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Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 08, 2013 04:23 PM (yiIja)