February 13, 2013
— Maetenloch
So...I guess you found your way here then. Okay have some love in Bacon Pie Form...
Jim Geraghty: Bah Humbug on Valentine's Day
How Japan Does Valentine's Day
Dennis Prager on the Dangers of Victimhood
A whole lot of evil has been justified by victimhood.
A lifelong study of good and evil has led to me conclude that the greatest single cause of evil is people perceiving of themselves or their group as victims. Nazism arose from Germans’ sense of victimhood — as a result of the Versailles Treaty, of the “stab in the back” that led to Germany’s loss in World War I and of a world Jewish conspiracy. Communism was predicated on workers regarding themselves as victims of the bourgeoisie. Much of Islamic evil today emanates from a belief that the Muslim world has been victimized by Christians and Jews. Many prisoners, including those imprisoned for horrible crimes, regard themselves as victims of society or of their upbringing. The list of those attributing their evil acts to their being victims is as long as the list of evildoers.
This is also true in the micro realm. Family members whose primary identity is that of victim usually feel entirely free to hurt others in the family. That is why psychotherapists who regularly reinforce the victim status of their patients do the patient and society great harm.
If my belief is even partially correct, the preoccupation of much of America with telling whole groups that they are victims — of racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia and classism, among other American sins — can only increase cruelty and evil in America.
ICC Now Putting Capitalism on Trial
Death Probabilities for Supreme Court Justices
According to Meep the actuary these are the odds of each justice surviving for 4 more years:
Roberts (57): 96.3%
Scalia (76): 80.1%
Kennedy (76): 80.1%
Thomas (64): 92.9%
Ginsberg (79): 80.8%
Breyer (74): 83.3%
Alito (62): 94.1%
Sotomayor (58 ): 97.3%
Kagan (52): 98.5%
Does Every Animal Get 1 Billion Heartbeats?
An Analysis of the Battle of Hoth
also The Tarkin Doctrine and the Sith Way of War
Thanks to BenK.
Shirley Maclaine: Mommy-Dearest of the Year?
Her daughter, Sachi Parker, tells in her recent book how her mother orchestrated her losing her virginity at 17 to a sex therapist:
“Sachi says Phyllis told her mother: ’It would be a fabulous opportunity for Sachi, to have her first introduction to sex with all of us here as a support group. We could talk about it afterwards and validate her feelings.’ As Sachi flushed with embarrassment, she says her mother declared: ‘I think it’s a wonderful idea. We’re all here to help you, sweetheart.’ Once [her] mission was accomplished, we had to face the next hurdle: reporting back. We hid out in the bedroom until we heard a light knock on the door, and Mom’s voice, ‘Is everything OK in there?’”
Yahoo group. That is all.
And my Twitter spew.
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Posted by: grease monkey at February 14, 2013 06:38 PM (VSWPU)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at February 14, 2013 06:40 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Pompous pedant who is also correct at February 14, 2013 06:41 PM (GsoHv)
Posted by: L, elle with Yoda on her lap at February 14, 2013 06:41 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: Buzzion at February 14, 2013 06:42 PM (xtcKN)
Posted by: B C Eagle at February 14, 2013 06:42 PM (7TwHV)
Posted by: Peaches at February 14, 2013 06:44 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: alex at February 14, 2013 06:45 PM (4YlNx)
Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at February 14, 2013 06:46 PM (wR+pz)
Put some pants on kid, so I can kick your butt
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 14, 2013 06:46 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 14, 2013 06:46 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 14, 2013 06:49 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Hal at February 14, 2013 06:50 PM (0XQAI)
Posted by: L, elle at February 14, 2013 06:50 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: Buzzion at February 14, 2013 06:51 PM (xtcKN)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 14, 2013 06:51 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 14, 2013 06:52 PM (8sCoq)
e-mail it to your desktop or laptop or whatever you use at home for porn.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 14, 2013 06:53 PM (GsoHv)
Posted by: L, elle at February 14, 2013 06:54 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: alex at February 14, 2013 06:54 PM (4YlNx)
Posted by: Stonecutters at February 14, 2013 06:55 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...... at February 14, 2013 06:55 PM (Md8Uo)
Twas bryllyg, and ye slythy toves
Did gyre and gymble in ye wabe:
All mimsy were ye borogoves;
And ye mome raths outgrabe.
/Since we're through the mirror and down the rabbit hole.
Posted by: Shel at February 14, 2013 06:55 PM (Lr7HR)
I will rely on training, experience, proper optics, and accurate aimed fire.
"I mentioned the other day about ordering an Aimpoint PRO from Brownell's, as they were the only ones I could find with 'em in stock. Going to zero mine this weekend.
They're sold out now. Good on you if you ordered one. "
Posted by: Tommy Vercetti's sekrit post at February 14, 2013 06:55 PM (Ipowt)
Posted by: L, elle at February 14, 2013 06:56 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 14, 2013 06:56 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...... at February 14, 2013 06:56 PM (Md8Uo)
Posted by: Infidel at February 14, 2013 06:56 PM (vTi1t)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 14, 2013 06:56 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: .87c at February 14, 2013 06:57 PM (rKWA4)
Especially if I get banned posting on this thread.
Posted by: andycanuck at February 14, 2013 06:57 PM (ORGYc)
I only made it because someone cheated and posted a link in the other thread
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 14, 2013 06:58 PM (8sCoq)
It's. A. Blog.
Only Ace gets to get pissed about anything around here.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 14, 2013 06:58 PM (GsoHv)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 14, 2013 06:58 PM (Vk2pI)
Well, CJ, they will just have to catch the right answer. I forget who it was.
Can I has some bacon pie?
Posted by: Infidel at February 14, 2013 06:58 PM (vTi1t)
How can we have two posts on one thread.
Magic!
Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at February 14, 2013 06:58 PM (wR+pz)
fify and, yeah, me too. actually more than one person. it wasn't that hard to find.
oh, and, penis!!
Posted by: Peaches at February 14, 2013 06:59 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 14, 2013 06:59 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Andy at February 14, 2013 07:00 PM (OZPoa)
Posted by: no good deed at February 14, 2013 07:01 PM (mjR67)
And another one withing that?
It's ONTs all the way down, infinity
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 14, 2013 07:01 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at February 14, 2013 07:01 PM (hpDVh)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 14, 2013 07:01 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 14, 2013 10:59 PM (GEICT)
Never met her.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 14, 2013 07:01 PM (GsoHv)
Posted by: alex at February 14, 2013 07:01 PM (4YlNx)
Posted by: Endeavor to Persevere at February 14, 2013 10:59 PM (zZJJp)
codpieces
Posted by: Peaches at February 14, 2013 07:02 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: Ytown guy at February 14, 2013 07:02 PM (VfveQ)
Posted by: no good deed at February 14, 2013 11:01 PM (mjR67)
I learned more from a fraulein in Munich than I ever did from my parents
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 14, 2013 07:02 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Andy at February 14, 2013 07:02 PM (OZPoa)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 14, 2013 07:03 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: chemjeff at February 14, 2013 07:03 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 14, 2013 07:03 PM (piMMO)
Shirley McClaine and her brother, Warren Beatty. (yes they really are brother and sister)
A lot of Hollywood seems to be full of these kinds of sociopaths. There is a guy (?) that posts in the morning as "Mary Poppins Practically Perfect Piercings",, that writes a long daily comment about some past decadence of Hollywood. Really cool stuff.
I know people are frequently weirder than they seem, but Shirley is one strange ranger.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...... at February 14, 2013 07:03 PM (Md8Uo)
Posted by: Buzzion at February 14, 2013 07:04 PM (xtcKN)
***
smear some Vicks under your nose.
Posted by: Peaches at February 14, 2013 07:04 PM (kpCLl)
Do I dare eat a Peaches?
That's from an American poem, ain't it?
Posted by: andycanuck at February 14, 2013 07:04 PM (ORGYc)
Posted by: Mark Shaw at February 14, 2013 07:04 PM (jeNGi)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 14, 2013 07:05 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 14, 2013 07:05 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: chemjeff at February 14, 2013 07:05 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: chemjeff at February 14, 2013 07:06 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...... at February 14, 2013 07:06 PM (Md8Uo)
I was watching a show on HBO one night about a whorehouse in Nevada. They interviewed some guy in his late thirties who was a virgin, so his mother brought him to that place and bought him a girl.
Freaks all around.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at February 14, 2013 07:07 PM (hpDVh)
Posted by: alex at February 14, 2013 07:07 PM (4YlNx)
Posted by: Andy at February 14, 2013 07:07 PM (OZPoa)
There's probably a utility out there that will convert from a printscreen.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 14, 2013 07:08 PM (GsoHv)
Posted by: alex at February 14, 2013 07:09 PM (4YlNx)
Anyone remember sitting in the barber chair, mirrors in front on the walls, and mirrors in back on the walls, and there are reflections till infinity in either direction, only dimmer and dimmer??
Posted by: Tobacco Road at February 14, 2013 07:09 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Endeavor to Persevere at February 14, 2013 07:11 PM (zZJJp)
Posted by: Ytown guy at February 14, 2013 07:13 PM (VfveQ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 14, 2013 07:16 PM (iB886)
Posted by: Infidel at February 14, 2013 07:17 PM (vTi1t)
Posted by: Viridian at February 14, 2013 07:18 PM (y5LXw)
Come aboard, were expectorating you
Crap, life's shittiest reward
Let it flow, it floats back to you
Crud Boat soon will be making another runs
The Crud Boat promises something from every bum
Set a course for adventure
Your mind on a new romance
Crap won't shart anymore
Its an open smile on a friendly shore
Yes, Crap...
It's Crap...
Crud Boat soon will be making another runs
The Crud Boat promises something from every bum
Set a course for adventure
Your mind on a new romance
Crap won't hurt anymore
It's an open smile on a friendly shore
It's Crap...
It's Crap...
It's Crap...
It's the Crud Boat
It's the Crud Boat
Posted by: andycanuck at February 14, 2013 07:19 PM (ORGYc)
Posted by: Viridian at February 14, 2013 07:20 PM (y5LXw)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 14, 2013 07:21 PM (xKC/c)
And that Prager article is spot-on, but as victimhood is currently the national pastime, it will be completely discarded.
Posted by: MadisonConservative at February 14, 2013 07:22 PM (sb+ta)
Congrats Viridan.
So does the slowness mean I'm the only one without a date tonight, or is Maet monitoring 2 ONT's?
Posted by: Infidel at February 14, 2013 07:23 PM (vTi1t)
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 14, 2013 07:23 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: chemjeff at February 14, 2013 07:24 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at February 14, 2013 07:24 PM (GE1+K)
Posted by: CarolT at February 14, 2013 07:25 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Viridian at February 14, 2013 07:26 PM (y5LXw)
I posted this on other ONT, Rove was with House republicans today on their messaging! I wonder which one of them had the idea to get Rove's help?
My guess would be Gramnasty, McJuan and I believe they will pull Rubio into the fold of the rino's.
Posted by: Infidel at February 14, 2013 07:28 PM (vTi1t)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at February 14, 2013 07:30 PM (FqcJu)
Posted by: L, elle at February 14, 2013 07:36 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: Infidel at February 14, 2013 07:37 PM (vTi1t)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at February 14, 2013 11:30 PM (FqcJu)
Fixed!
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 14, 2013 07:40 PM (XkotV)
Posted by: L, elle at February 14, 2013 07:42 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Ampersands Anonymous at February 14, 2013 07:43 PM (mbxHg)
Posted by: Mr. Anderson at February 14, 2013 07:44 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channeling Breitbart at February 14, 2013 07:45 PM (nUH8H)
Posted by: holygoat at February 14, 2013 07:46 PM (IGIFh)
Posted by: Infidel at February 14, 2013 07:47 PM (vTi1t)
Posted by: L, elle at February 14, 2013 07:50 PM (0PiQ4)
This is how it used to be in Raleigh NC in the previous decade after every magazine in the U.S. of A. rated us as the Best Place on the planet to live, breed, do business, retire, die, etc. I didn't understand it at the time. People all over the U.S. were moving here... without jobs.
Regarding TX, I get it now.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at February 14, 2013 07:52 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at February 14, 2013 07:57 PM (FqcJu)
Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at February 14, 2013 07:58 PM (1DpQI)
Posted by: DM at February 14, 2013 08:00 PM (LaKlJ)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 14, 2013 08:00 PM (ORGYc)
Posted by: L, elle at February 14, 2013 08:02 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: Baldy at February 14, 2013 08:03 PM (opS9C)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 14, 2013 08:14 PM (ORGYc)
Posted by: Mjölnir, banhammer from the gates of Hell at February 14, 2013 08:24 PM (Jls4P)
(I am having one of my "episodes." A mixture of panic attack, headache, with possible neurological stuff too... )
Posted by: Baldy at February 14, 2013 08:28 PM (opS9C)
Wow... so this is what the executive washroom looks like at the HQ? Neat!!!!
Posted by: Mjölnir, banhammer from the gates of Hell at February 15, 2013 12:24 AM (Jls4P)
Silence, slave! You're here to clean, not to gape.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at February 14, 2013 08:29 PM (FqcJu)
Posted by: epobirs at February 14, 2013 08:36 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at February 14, 2013 08:36 PM (GG3ch)
Hasn't SJL been defined as the official state *sshole of Texas? Could you guys get a proclamation to that effect?
Posted by: Conservative Crank at February 14, 2013 08:42 PM (FqcJu)
Posted by: epobirs at February 14, 2013 08:42 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Baldy at February 14, 2013 08:47 PM (opS9C)
Posted by: CarolT at February 14, 2013 08:47 PM (z4WKX)
It could be a lot worse. An elderly friend of my sister had this huge Rottweiler named Gus. Great dog but recently his owner was hospitalized for a few days. When she came home the dog was so excited to see her he knocked her off her feet and she broke a hip. She died a few weeks later from complications of the trauma to a nearly 90 year old body. Gus has been adopted by a neighbor he has known for years. He cannot possibly understand what he did.
Posted by: epobirs at February 14, 2013 08:54 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Baldy at February 14, 2013 08:59 PM (opS9C)
Fed Gov maybe, certainly not the Obama campaign team. They're about as white as Uncle Ben's rice.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at February 14, 2013 09:02 PM (FqcJu)
It could be a lot worse. An elderly friend of my sister had this huge Rottweiler named Gus. Great dog but recently his owner was hospitalized for a few days. When she came home the dog was so excited to see her he knocked her off her feet and she broke a hip. She died a few weeks later from complications of the trauma to a nearly 90 year old body. Gus has been adopted by a neighbor he has known for years. He cannot possibly understand what he did.
Posted by: epobirs at February 15, 2013 12:54 AM (kcfmt)
We have neighbors who are serious dog people, and there's a group that have Labs. Anyway, one was on a trip out of town so another (who owns Gabi) was dogsitting Francis. Gabi can be walked to the park off-leash, and will stop and sit before crossing streets when permission is granted. Francis, by contrast, saw a cat and yanked our neighbor off her feet, breaking her wrist and dragging her on the ground. Thing is, they're Labs -- lovable lugs of dogs -- how the heck does "bad dog!" begin to cover such a situation?
Posted by: cthulhu at February 14, 2013 09:03 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Baldy at February 14, 2013 09:05 PM (opS9C)
Posted by: Baldy at February 15, 2013 12:59 AM (opS9C)
Maybe Serbia has a "work camp" out in Siberia near there?
Posted by: cthulhu at February 14, 2013 09:05 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Baldy at February 14, 2013 09:10 PM (opS9C)
Posted by: bill-o at February 14, 2013 10:15 PM (AWwDY)
Posted by: Loc-Nar at February 14, 2013 10:36 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 14, 2013 10:45 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle at February 14, 2013 11:33 PM (OA8sl)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 14, 2013 11:53 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle at February 14, 2013 11:58 PM (OA8sl)
wait one...someone at the door...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 15, 2013 12:06 AM (yh0zB)
Love the Feb ginger. Well done Maet!
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 15, 2013 12:38 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at February 15, 2013 12:39 AM (FqcJu)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 15, 2013 12:43 AM (yh0zB)
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