March 18, 2013
— Monty
Last week no DOOM at all, this week a puny pared-down DOOM hardly worth the name. It's not due to any lack of grim news, I assure you. Next week I shall endeavor to load the DOOM ship to the gunwales before it sets sail.
They'll turn us all into beggars 'cause they're easier to please, as Instapundit often says. But slavery of this kind is not imposed upon a reluctant and conquered people -- it is offered with a smile, and accepted by the grateful recipients with a glad heart. And that's the terrible tragedy of this kind of slavery -- we have not only asked for the chains that bind us, but we forged many of the links ourselves.
Walter Russel Mead has written often about how the the death of the so-called "blue social model" is not a war of white against black or rich against poor, but of the young against the old. This is even more true in Europe than it is here. Europe is in the process of eating its own seed-corn. America is not quite as far down the path as our cousins over on the Continent, but we're getting there -- and our war between young and old may be even more bitter than the one in Europe.
The death of the Westphalian nation-state model may be in progress right now -- bankrupt nation-states are increasingly turning to old-fashioned thievery to pay the bills (though they lay a thin gloss of the law on it and call it "taxation" or "confiscation"). (Like I said: old-fashioned thievery.)
It's not so much that austerity was tried and found too difficult. It's that it was found too difficult and not tried.
If, as I do, you assume that we must tear down before we can rebuild, ObamaCare may be the best gift Democrats have ever given the nation. It's doing a bang-up job of ruining the medical industry already, and it's not even fully implemented yet.
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Contemplative DOOM kitteh contemplates DOOM contemplatively.
Must have been planning to retire in Cyprus.
Posted by: Lurking Canuck at March 18, 2013 04:24 AM (BrQrN)
Posted by: Bruce at March 18, 2013 04:26 AM (LqbcL)
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 18, 2013 04:30 AM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Janeane Garloaf-lol at March 18, 2013 04:34 AM (Vgxrl)
Posted by: Jean at March 18, 2013 04:34 AM (VRCBg)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 18, 2013 04:34 AM (Jcd0S)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 18, 2013 04:34 AM (XkWWK)
Nothing like a nice hot cup of morning DOOM. At least we're not quite as screwed as Cyprus account holders today. Yet.
SNAFU.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 18, 2013 04:38 AM (+z4pE)
Posted by: mallfly at March 18, 2013 04:38 AM (bJm7W)
Posted by: phoenixgirl,commenter on a conservative award winning blog at March 18, 2013 04:40 AM (GVxQo)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 18, 2013 04:40 AM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Jean at March 18, 2013 04:43 AM (VRCBg)
Posted by: a mindful webworker at March 18, 2013 04:43 AM (i5xnd)
Posted by: BignJames at March 18, 2013 04:44 AM (Sg0G/)
Posted by: SCOAMF Search Committee at March 18, 2013 04:45 AM (sUoE4)
Posted by: Jean at March 18, 2013 04:46 AM (3f/jH)
Posted by: SCOAMF Search Committee at March 18, 2013 04:47 AM (sUoE4)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 18, 2013 04:47 AM (Jcd0S)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 18, 2013 04:47 AM (9Bj8R)
Posted by: Jean at March 18, 2013 04:48 AM (3f/jH)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at March 18, 2013 04:48 AM (FsUAO)
Prediction: In two years, Obama will be confiscating 10% of various accounts here. Run on Banks? No problem: By Executive Order, in frutherence of the Emergency Banking Shitstorm Relief Act of 2013/14, all Federal Reserve Notes will be invalid as legal tender, and illegal for any transactions. Citizens must turn in all physical cash to their local bank for conversion to electronic deposits.
That is coming. Bank on it.
Posted by: publius(NotBreitbartPublius) at March 18, 2013 04:49 AM (Pqgwi)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at March 18, 2013 04:50 AM (FsUAO)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 18, 2013 04:50 AM (Jcd0S)
The Devil in "The Bible" looks remarkably familiar.....
Fantastic. Will we also meet his hench-demon Reggie?
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2013 04:50 AM (OevbG)
This is not the hill to die on you're looking for.
Posted by: Pragmatic GOP at March 18, 2013 04:51 AM (eHIJJ)
Posted by: SCOAMF Search Committee at March 18, 2013 04:51 AM (sUoE4)
She was only stopped when the other Egyptian gods brewed up a whole lot of beer and got her drunk. Thus humanity was saved, because of beer.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 18, 2013 04:51 AM (oScG1)
Funny, I don't remember voting for a command-and-control Soviet-style economy where everyone is dependent on the government for handouts.
But that appears to be what I received. I thought I was voting for people who recognized the power of capitalism to lift all the ships in the harbor, where everyone could have a shot at being as self-sufficient as possible and have as much money as their pockets could contain. People who saw that Big Government = Smaller Economy, and would work to actually get that government down to a manageable size.
Silly me.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 18, 2013 04:51 AM (+z4pE)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 18, 2013 04:52 AM (Jcd0S)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 18, 2013 04:52 AM (XkWWK)
Good to see you and well worth checking on to see your reaction to the apricot of Cypriot A geddon....
is this the start of full tard festivities by the political class or just a canary fart?
Tune in to same doom time, same doom channel...
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 18, 2013 04:53 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: clemenza at March 18, 2013 04:53 AM (HMQ8k)
Posted by: blaster at March 18, 2013 04:53 AM (/1U3u)
Posted by: SCOAMF Search Committee at March 18, 2013 04:53 AM (sUoE4)
I'm certain that the Cypriot situation won't spill over into Greece. The thought "this could happen here" never crosses anyone's mind in Athens, I'm sure.
Or Spain
Or Italy
Those people are sleeping tonight, certain that nobody will raid their bank accounts.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Posted by: RobM1981 at March 18, 2013 04:54 AM (FgxCS)
Posted by: Jean at March 18, 2013 04:54 AM (3f/jH)
Morning, all! Happy DOOM!
So today is a national holiday in Cyprus, which means the banks are closed, which means it was even MORE of a colossal dick move of the Cypriot government to announce their 10% haircut of everyone's bank accounts on Friday. I foresee a LOT of ATMs being maxed out today.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 18, 2013 04:55 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at March 18, 2013 04:56 AM (jCQ+I)
while I agree with you, do note that the currency in question is largely immaterial...
we'll devolve to barter before we're slaves like they want I suspect....
the spartans used shitty iron for their coin...
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 18, 2013 04:56 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: BignJames at March 18, 2013 04:56 AM (Sg0G/)
Posted by: SCOAMF Search Committee at March 18, 2013 04:57 AM (sUoE4)
Yet I once suggested in these very comments that people on our side need to stop bitterly clinging to Soc Sec benefits that the did not need and where beyond what they had paid in and was soundly thrashed by several morons. If WE don't get it, we surely can't expect a movement to fix it.
Posted by: typo dynamofo at March 18, 2013 04:57 AM (WVMUQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 18, 2013 04:58 AM (oScG1)
Posted by: clemenza at March 18, 2013 04:58 AM (HMQ8k)
Posted by: SCOAMF Search Committee at March 18, 2013 04:58 AM (sUoE4)
Posted by: DangerGirl at March 18, 2013 04:58 AM (AK0yr)
Posted by: Jean at March 18, 2013 04:58 AM (3f/jH)
Umm, backwards boy, not what you voted for, but you lost.
Yeah, with my losing track record, I should seriously consider becoming a Dim.
I feel like the Typhoid Mary of conservative politics. Time to spread the love, as it were?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 18, 2013 05:00 AM (+z4pE)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 05:00 AM (4OvDk)
And Russia is sending ships to the Med? One Krivak class?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 18, 2013 05:01 AM (oScG1)
Posted by: DangerGirl at March 18, 2013 08:58 AM (AK0yr)
'Tis European socialism
And the Cypriots are the sun.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 18, 2013 05:01 AM (4df7R)
that is the fuel for my rage at the machine there bud...
Soc Sec/Mediscam are a con job by the only people legally able to force you to join the con at gunpoint....
the most regressive tax under the sun and the donks drink it like Richard Simmons drinks sperm....
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 18, 2013 05:01 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Tsar Nicholas II at March 18, 2013 05:02 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at March 18, 2013 05:03 AM (jCQ+I)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 05:03 AM (4OvDk)
As world markets recoil at the harsh terms of the European Union's bank bailout for tiny Cyprus, expect plenty of soothing words from Stateside market partisans. The this-too-shall-pass crowd will point out the trivial economic profile of the Mediterranean island, decrying traders' knack for overreacting to weekend surprises and reiterating the sturdy economic fundamentals that, they'll tell you, continue to support stock indexes shadow-boxing all-time highs.
Funny how the market never reacts negatively to things in the States it's always because of Europe or Asia
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 18, 2013 05:03 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 05:04 AM (4OvDk)
The rest just makes my head hurt cause we agree.
Posted by: typo dynamofo at March 18, 2013 05:04 AM (WVMUQ)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 05:04 AM (4OvDk)
I see Heart is in the side bar. I always liked Heart when I was a youngster, but cant get over the fact that they got all in a huff over the song "Barracuda" being associated with Sarah Palin. What is it with the musicians and their 3 year old "its mine!" attitude?
Posted by: kawfytawk at March 18, 2013 05:04 AM (qdzWt)
There will be no need to turn in the paper currency once it is declared illegal and carries a fine and imprisonment for possession. However, due to the instability of the power grid and sporadic nature of electronic communications, a new paper currency will be issued to replace the old.
We'll call the new currency... Blue Bucks.
Posted by: Kommissar Janeane Garloaf-lol at March 18, 2013 05:05 AM (Vgxrl)
Posted by: clemenza at March 18, 2013 05:05 AM (HMQ8k)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 18, 2013 05:05 AM (oScG1)
Posted by: SCOAMF Search Committee at March 18, 2013 05:06 AM (sUoE4)
Posted by: Jean at March 18, 2013 05:06 AM (+NNlC)
Posted by: phoenixgirl,commenter on a conservative award winning blog at March 18, 2013 05:07 AM (GVxQo)
We'll call the new currency... Blue Bucks.
Posted by: Kommissar Janeane Garloaf-lol at March 18, 2013 09:05 AM (Vgxrl)
Will it be redistributed "fairly"?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 18, 2013 05:07 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 05:07 AM (4OvDk)
Posted by: clemenza at March 18, 2013 05:07 AM (HMQ8k)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 18, 2013 09:05 AM (oScG1)
And Macro dieting
Posted by: kawfytawk at March 18, 2013 05:07 AM (qdzWt)
I too am not of the tear down/ let it burn camp. I have no faith that what would emerge would be any better than what has generally emerged from the blood and smoking flesh of revolution. Our own was a blessed anomaly.
Posted by: typo dynamofo at March 18, 2013 05:07 AM (WVMUQ)
Posted by: Jean at March 18, 2013 05:08 AM (+NNlC)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 18, 2013 05:08 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: Bigby's Orthotic Elbow at March 18, 2013 05:09 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 05:09 AM (4OvDk)
Posted by: TiminAL at March 18, 2013 05:09 AM (fF17W)
Posted by: clemenza at March 18, 2013 05:09 AM (HMQ8k)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 18, 2013 05:09 AM (Jcd0S)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at March 18, 2013 05:11 AM (FsUAO)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 18, 2013 05:11 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: phoenixgirl,commenter on a conservative award winning blog at March 18, 2013 05:12 AM (GVxQo)
Posted by: clemenza at March 18, 2013 05:13 AM (HMQ8k)
Posted by: Jean at March 18, 2013 05:13 AM (qjFNd)
Given that the liberal mindset wants to go Thelma and Louise and refuses any reform of the system it is sadly likely the most honest mindset to approach tomorrow with.
If you think those of us who see the inbound boning are under illusions it is an Eisenstein film in the making where the happy peasant rides off into the sunset don't worry...
a lot of pain between here and better tomorrows.
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 18, 2013 05:13 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 18, 2013 05:14 AM (Jcd0S)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 18, 2013 05:14 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 18, 2013 05:15 AM (Jcd0S)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 05:15 AM (4OvDk)
huh....I always recognized that tune but didn't know from where.
Posted by: kawfytawk at March 18, 2013 05:15 AM (qdzWt)
Posted by: Jean at March 18, 2013 05:15 AM (qjFNd)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 18, 2013 05:16 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at March 18, 2013 05:17 AM (FsUAO)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 05:17 AM (4OvDk)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 18, 2013 05:17 AM (0N5pL)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 18, 2013 05:17 AM (4df7R)
You know why I am willing to buy in and back you w/cash when able?
You get that the insistence on Detroit letting donkey "fix this" devastated the seedcorn for a Michigan surge?
The physical plants being dismantled as part of the bailouts was insane, as was undermining the healthy bankrupting of the GMUAW and CHRYSLERUAW companies and preventing those assets from being used by new blood.
The Blue Wolverine model ran off the human resource and because they were not lobbied for in an organized way a lot of legacy skill is at risk of loss.
That's where dead technology comes from.
Zap me an e-mail when you paypal is up.
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 18, 2013 05:18 AM (LRFds)
Got the Ford corporate customer service 1-800 on phone.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 18, 2013 05:18 AM (oScG1)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 18, 2013 05:19 AM (0/zfR)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 18, 2013 05:19 AM (XkWWK)
Apropos of nothing, don't go to India unless you want to be blamed for your own rape. Just like you shouldn't go to Mexico if you don't want to be blamed for your own brutal murder and beheading.
Six men arrested over gang-rape of Swiss tourist in India: woman must share blame for attack, say police
UK Independent: http://tiny.cc/hm84tw
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 18, 2013 05:20 AM (4df7R)
Look at it this way. There are 7,000 grains in one pound. Bullet weights and powder measures are weighed in grains. For example, your average .45 acp full jacket bullet itself is 230 grains, with a powder measure of between (approximately) 3.5 - 7.0 grains depending on the powder you are using for reloading.
But ammunition reloading tools and components will be illegal anyway, comrade, and only gang members and criminals will possess sensitive scales.
Posted by: Kommissar Janeane Garloaf-lol at March 18, 2013 05:20 AM (Vgxrl)
You may want to check out these beautiful pink ribbons of the Bolivian army...
[link on handle]
Posted by: RioBravo at March 18, 2013 05:20 AM (eEfYn)
UK Independent: http://tiny.cc/hm84tw
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 18, 2013 09:20 AM (4df7R)
Of course, because she didn't use her whistle or run into the safe zone
Posted by: kawfytawk at March 18, 2013 05:21 AM (qdzWt)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 18, 2013 05:21 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 18, 2013 05:22 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: RioBravo at March 18, 2013 05:23 AM (eEfYn)
Posted by: kawfytawk at March 18, 2013 09:21 AM (qdzWt)
Naturally. And neither could her husband. And wouldn't you know it, neither of them had a ballpoint pen handy.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 18, 2013 05:24 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 18, 2013 05:24 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: RioBravo at March 18, 2013 09:23 AM (eEfYn)
Heh. Good point.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 18, 2013 05:24 AM (4df7R)
They're taking his money and the money of his comrades: "Speculation continues that Russian businessmen and government officials, perhaps even Russian President Vladimir Putin, hold funds in Cyprus banks."
See more from on Russians using Cypriot banks to avoid taxes: http://preview.tinyurl.com/bs74j6s
Posted by: Lizzy at March 18, 2013 05:25 AM (0/zfR)
Posted by: Jean at March 18, 2013 05:25 AM (qjFNd)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2013 05:25 AM (GFM2b)
Student loans are awesome, no?
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at March 18, 2013 05:26 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Jean at March 18, 2013 08:34 AM (VRCBg)
Any news?
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at March 18, 2013 05:26 AM (bb5+k)
Monty, so nice to be depressed this early.... Then again, it wasn't that much of a change.
The Germans, if they initiated the 'one time charge' have just declared war...
Think about it like this, it's effectivly taking, at the point of a gun (Goverment 101) money from all citizens that have accounts. Effectivly, all the productive citizens just got tagged and if they complain what are they going to do?
Posted by: Gmac - Waiting for the revolution at March 18, 2013 05:26 AM (IanLz)
Posted by: phoenixgirl,commenter on a conservative award winning blog at March 18, 2013 05:26 AM (GVxQo)
also who do you think the Russian Mob kicks up to?
115 Lizzy,
The best answer I can come up with is take a side job in an entry level business like pizza delivery and salvage someone every year or two.
It sounds belittling to the person I am helping but it's not.
Guy is a hard worker who had serious emotional damage inflicted on him by his hippie mother's thrice weekly "I should have aborted you!" meltdown so I started rehabilitating his self-confidence, and he's a manager at a shop down south a ways now.
The only way to get people to believe in themselves is to talk over the sound of the moonbat media Oz Enabling machine...
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 18, 2013 05:26 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 18, 2013 09:24 AM (4df7R)
I am certain the State Department will express their *concern* And toss their file in with the the file of the Christian pastor held in Iran
Posted by: kawfytawk at March 18, 2013 05:26 AM (qdzWt)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 18, 2013 09:24 AM (4df7R)
What? Neither one of them could muster up a vomit?
Posted by: Tami[/i] at March 18, 2013 05:27 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: Jean at March 18, 2013 05:27 AM (qjFNd)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2013 05:27 AM (GFM2b)
You were in my home area?
Did you see the riot I posted coverage of in the ashes of the ONT?
I was tipped ten bucks by a student loan hero the other weekend here...
I went berzerk about it after close.
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 18, 2013 05:27 AM (LRFds)
That is coming. Bank on it.
Posted by: publius(NotBreitbartPublius) at March 18, 2013 08:49 AM (Pqgwi)
I do not doubt they would dearly like to do this. All arrows point in the direction of Slavery and Oppression.
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at March 18, 2013 05:27 AM (bb5+k)
Gone Galt three years.
Thank you EU, rapists of Cyprus, for the heads-up! I know what I'll being taking care of next.
Posted by: SurferDoc at March 18, 2013 05:28 AM (6H6FZ)
Posted by: alex® at March 18, 2013 05:28 AM (TT/cW)
Get. Him. Out. Of. There!
House Speaker John Boehner says he "absolutely" trusts President Barack Obama - not that they don't have their differences
Sorry, but that particular ship full of DOOM has already sailed. Boner is embedded in DC like an Alabama tick.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 18, 2013 05:28 AM (+z4pE)
The Germans, if they initiated the 'one time charge' have just declared war...
According to the German finance minister, it wasn't Germany's idea.
From the Hartford Courant: http://tiny.cc/3184tw
"The levy on deposits below 100,000 euros was not the creation of the German government," [German finance minister Wolfgang] Schaeuble told reporters in Berlin. "If one reached another solution we would not have the slightest problem."
Of course, who are you going to believe in this fucked up mess?
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 18, 2013 05:28 AM (4df7R)
>>>>How do we recover when Progressives have ensured that the younger generations are idiots and completely indoctrinated? For example, how many quality doctors are graduating from medical school today vs.20, 30, 40 years ago? How much knowledge and experience will be lost during the collapse of the medical industry?
Yep. Doctors are going to dwindle due to costs and be largely specialist-only, nurses will take over a lot of general medical functions doing prescriptions, screenings, ordering tests and doing referrals. Which in turn means the ones doing nursing now will be replaced by your local high school dropout who went to a trade school advertising on TV because they'll need to fill some serious holes in the system and will thus, predictably, lower standards.
Posted by: Bigby's Orthotic Elbow at March 18, 2013 05:29 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Ed Anger at March 18, 2013 05:29 AM (tOkJB)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 05:29 AM (4OvDk)
The only way to get people to believe in themselves is to talk over the sound of the moonbat media Oz Enabling machine...
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 18, 2013 09:26 AM (LRFds)
I prefer to regard them as enemy propaganda broadcasts.
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at March 18, 2013 05:29 AM (bb5+k)
Posted by: torabora at March 18, 2013 05:29 AM (N4zV8)
You were in my home area?
I wanted to go Friday to see a game, but I can't find anyone to go with me and I'm not comfortable driving alone in strange cities in the middle of the night anymore.
But the game is on CBS so I can drunk-tweet it from my couch.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at March 18, 2013 05:30 AM (/kI1Q)
Yup and if anything worse is on the horizon.
I would NEVER "tell" anyone to chuck their IRAs and 401ks lightly but I would say everyone should look at what they benefit more from the use in a bad jam of their capital pool from prudence, or the gamble that Bawney Fwank won't in the end Bowwow the capital....?
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 18, 2013 05:30 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: VIA, on the tiny keyboard at March 18, 2013 05:31 AM (oIu7g)
I haven't heard from you regarding my last email. I presume you are busy, just as I have been. Have you heard any news?
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at March 18, 2013 05:31 AM (bb5+k)
ah...well enjoy...
either way I am a Wright State alum well "alum" since I quit....you know the drill...
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 18, 2013 05:31 AM (LRFds)
Or they'll be replaced by imported Third Worlders. In Iowa they already are (the VA at least gets women from the Marshall Islands).
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at March 18, 2013 05:32 AM (/kI1Q)
In the US this will still work for a while.
Borrow, borrow, borrow.
Inflate, inflate, inflate.Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at March 18, 2013 05:32 AM (FsUAO)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 05:32 AM (4OvDk)
that was my cryptic beat around the bush way of saying the same thing...
face it team we *need* to go be missionaries....
we need to start separating the wheat from the chaff and trust me when the boning hits all will reap what they sow.
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 18, 2013 05:33 AM (LRFds)
Yep, that's exactly what happened in the UK.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 18, 2013 05:33 AM (0/zfR)
Posted by: phoenixgirl,commenter on a conservative award winning blog at March 18, 2013 09:26 AM (GVxQo)
Isn't that cute? I loved that. I especially liked this quote:
No one stops there,” he said. “Why did they choose that place?
Well gosh, maybe they chose that place because they assumed that the hills weren't teeming with brutal rapists. That's not an unreasonable assumption; or at least it shouldn't be. Maybe you should try putting up signs that say, "Don't sleep here or you'll be raped, murdered, or otherwise viciously attacked."
"They would have passed a police station on the way to the area they camped. They should have stopped and asked about places to sleep.”
Ah, I see. So even though there's a police station right in the vicinity, the odds of the police actually being able to capture any of the violent criminals currently crawling through the Indian backwoods is so minimal as to be worthless. The best the police in this area can do is act as tour guides. "Oh, you'll want to sleep here, not there. If you sleep there your chances of being raped are 85%. If you sleep here, though, those odds go down to 50%, which is a lot better!"
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 18, 2013 05:33 AM (4df7R)
And then there's the fact so many of them are just raging leftists, and hate the idea that Republicans can identify with their songs.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 09:29 AM (4OvDk)
So many copyleft heads exploded when Glee decided to use a Jonathon Coulton (geek favorite) Song without contacting him (which he finally found out was legal since his song was a cover of "Baby got back" with a new arrangement.)
I tried to explain this their railing against it made 0 sense given the whole "fair use for everybody!" thing but whatever. (They did give him no credit which was strange.
Posted by: tsrblke at March 18, 2013 05:34 AM (GaqMa)
And power plants. Vic will help set 'em up for us
Posted by: Bigby's Orthotic Elbow at March 18, 2013 09:31 AM (3ZtZW)
I'm doing both. I have four Kilns. Kilns are a great and simple way of melting aluminum, brass, or copper. I'm looking to get into cast iron, but it appears the best way of doing that is with coal.
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at March 18, 2013 05:35 AM (bb5+k)
Posted by: Tami at March 18, 2013 09:27 AM (X6akg)
Swiss tourists on a cycle tour through India? Nah. I'm assuming they were probably subsisting on granola and other crunchy hippy crap that won't get you more than a teaspoon of vomit, let alone feces.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 18, 2013 05:35 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2013 05:37 AM (GFM2b)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 05:37 AM (4OvDk)
Posted by: JDTAY at March 18, 2013 05:37 AM (a0nis)
Posted by: Snarky the Bear at March 18, 2013 05:37 AM (/b8+5)
Posted by: joncelli, pedantic as he wants to be at March 18, 2013 05:38 AM (RD7QR)
Better get some K-Y and practice, like some Muslim asking his Imam if it was all right to practice with his buddies, so's he'd be better to cram explosives up his ass. Posted by: publius(NotBreitbartPublius) at March 18, 2013 05:38 AM (Pqgwi)
depends on if you enjoy being the retort's punchline as well...
anyone who thinks that the main reason they haven't tried that shit here yet is not our guns needs help...
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 18, 2013 05:38 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at March 18, 2013 05:38 AM (epxV4)
Feel free to laugh. Just remember: "There, but for the Grace of God..."
It's funny to me because I KNOW they didn't vote for that shit, but they ended up taking it in the ass anyway. If I were them, it'd be a clear sign to move the hell out.
Posted by: EC at March 18, 2013 05:39 AM (GQ8sn)
Considering this may be IMF testing the water on this idea in hopes that it can be replicated elsewhere, I'm hoping that there's rioting and serious blow-back (as seen from Russia).
Posted by: Lizzy at March 18, 2013 05:39 AM (0/zfR)
And power plants. Vic will help set 'em up for us
Posted by: Bigby's Orthotic Elbow at March 18, 2013 09:31 AM (3ZtZW)
Vic's knowledge of homegrown power solutions dates all the way back to the era of Gilgamesh, when muscular slaves in loin cloths pushed big wheels to mill grain. Vic was the crotchety old guy off to the side who barked at any slave who dared set foot on his lawn during their dreary, daily circle march.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 18, 2013 05:39 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 18, 2013 09:35 AM (4df7R)
See....they should have been drinking from the local water supply. Remember that if you're ever traveling in a strange land so you can work up a vomit in the case of rape. If no rape occurs, just consider it a weight loss plan.
Posted by: Tami[/i] at March 18, 2013 05:39 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 05:40 AM (4OvDk)
Yeah I am thinking the KGB er uh "State Security" er uh "nice elected Sov er Russian Federation fellas are in fact running their mob's finances....
which is a smart thing to be doing....
it is after all how Queen Liz the first got shit done...
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 18, 2013 05:40 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2013 05:40 AM (GFM2b)
I was helping a friend clean out an old home yesterday, and came across a fully functional Collins No Battery wind-up flashlight from around 1923.
When everyone else is using animal fat, I'm gonna have light!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 18, 2013 05:40 AM (Fp0nO)
Posted by: SurferDoc at March 18, 2013 05:40 AM (6H6FZ)
Detroit...
Does it end in recovery, or Fire Sale?
Discuss.
BOTH. Enough burns down that it chases out the rats. It'll be like the Great Fire of London during the plague.
Posted by: Bigby's Orthotic Elbow at March 18, 2013 05:41 AM (3ZtZW)
Just wondering if I should be pointing and laughing at the Cypriots or not.
Your pointing and laughing will be subject to the newly implemented Pointing and Laughing Tax of 40% which will be automatically deducted from your bank account effective immediately.
We just passed that tax this morning. Have a nice day.
Posted by: Yourapeein Union "Financial Regulators" at March 18, 2013 05:41 AM (+z4pE)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 05:41 AM (4OvDk)
our friend the .38 special preferably fired out of a +p or Magnum rated .357
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 18, 2013 05:41 AM (LRFds)
FIFY.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 09:40 AM (4OvDk)
I'd say "finally the masses will pay taxes!" (Looking for the silver lining.)
But we all know most of the 47% don't have any savings, investments, 401(k)s etc.
:le sigh:
They always punish the people watching their money don't they.
Posted by: tsrblke at March 18, 2013 05:42 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 18, 2013 05:43 AM (0/zfR)
Posted by: Tami at March 18, 2013 09:39 AM (X6akg)
Excellent advice. Frommers, eat your heart out.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 18, 2013 05:43 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 05:43 AM (4OvDk)
It's about how the Cabaret Tax immediately after WWII changed American music. There was a 30% tax on any drinking or dining establishment that offered dance music with a vocalist. There was a bizarre exemption for "mechanical" and "instrumental only" music, so the big bands died overnight, and juke boxes and Be-bop were the immediate rage. You may have thought this was a merely social phenomenon, but it was tax policy pure and simple. Unintended consequence.
Felten has skin in the game. He's a trombonist and leads a dance orchestra. I've written on this subject before; it's a real cultural pivot point. If I get the chance I will bring it up again in ONT. Really interesting period, just before I was born.
You can tell a lot about musicians' background and training by asking them to improvise in E flat.
Posted by: comatus at March 18, 2013 05:44 AM (qaVK+)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 05:44 AM (4OvDk)
Hey Rick....
what if an enterprising moron came up with a truck bed for 450s that had a 5th wheel trailer hitch and a gate mechanism for carrying barrels of the coal back to texas on deadheads from delivering travel trailers or say CONEXs being delivered to coal land for "hunting lodges" after conversion?
even a small profit margin on the backbound is better than no margin....
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 18, 2013 05:44 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 18, 2013 09:41 AM (4OvDk)
lol! The question is, who made the edit and why?
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 18, 2013 05:45 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Snarky the Bear at March 18, 2013 05:45 AM (/b8+5)
Europeans.
It's to the point where I think we have to seriously consider "European" a DSM-V classification of severe mental retardation.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 18, 2013 05:46 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2013 09:40 AM (GFM2b)
I am certainly in a coal poor area. Apart from shipping it in, what other choice is there?
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at March 18, 2013 05:47 AM (bb5+k)
Posted by: Ed Anger at March 18, 2013 05:48 AM (tOkJB)
You can tell a lot about musicians' background and training by asking them to improvise in E flat.
Reese Wynans was added as the keyboard player to Double Trouble in the latter days. Stevie Ray Vaughn always tuned down a half-step to E-flat to get a fuller sound from his Strat, as did bass player Tommy Shannon.
Reese was once asked how he transposed his solos on a Hammond B-3 since the pitch couldn't be adjusted as an electronic keyboard could. He replied, "I play a lot of black keys."
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 18, 2013 05:49 AM (+z4pE)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 18, 2013 05:51 AM (MBqvE)
Hey, Detroit burned to the ground in 1805. They used to have a great museum about that in the JL Hudson building, now removed of course. After the fire, they laid out a magnificent street plan, and kinda sorta looked down on DC and Gay Paree. Folk seem to forget that Detroit was a hell of a town before the automobile was invented, mostly getting rich by supplying the farms of the northern Lower Peninsula, which then all failed because of...climate change.
After the auto explosion, it became fashionable to look down on Detroit, long before the civil rights thing. Proper people did not approve of all those Polacks and hillbillies. Youse can look it up.
Posted by: comatus at March 18, 2013 06:03 AM (qaVK+)
Posted by: toby928© sips the sweet tea of despair at March 18, 2013 06:13 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: ette at March 18, 2013 06:35 AM (nqBYe)
Posted by: gracepmc at March 18, 2013 07:19 AM (rznx3)
Posted by: Mekan at March 18, 2013 09:26 AM (hm8tW)
This island of Cypronus is now suffering from Bush's lies. Bush lied and they believed his lies and Presdent Obama now has to help this island county of the coast of Californica. When will peeple wise up and supports Presdent Obama and his plan to fix Bush's screw-ups?
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at March 18, 2013 10:09 AM (HlUFk)
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