October 29, 2013
— Ace Sebelius telegraphed her plan to blame the private contractors for her and her boss' SCOAMF website.
And then comes a memo, likely leaked by CGI, noting that they warned Sebelius that the site wasn't ready but she proceeded to launch anyway, apparently thinking Coding Elves would come in overnight and fix it.
Tomorrow should be fun then.
Niedermeyer's Dead Horse tried to sign up for Obamacare -- and ran into a bureaucratic nightmare. Her tweets on her experience were Storified (put into readable order) by @tsrblke.
It's very short. Click on it, you gooniebirds. I can't excerpt something so brief and to the point.
Also reporting an Obamacare nightmare... David Frum?!?!
And also David Fredoso, who shares his own experiences with the system. His choices: He can either get the same plan he had but pay 3.5 times as much for it, or pay a mere 2.5 times as much for a plan with a deductible twice as high.
Thirteen Democrats who echoed Obama's Big Lie.
Finally, some people who aren't incompetent, for a change. A guy and gal dress up in the best Halloween costumes ever-- as Plastic Army Men.
And man, are they realistic.
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and I have it! Obamacare logic applied to the real world:
"You said you wouldn't cheat on me!!"
"Yes, but you haven't been giving me that much anymore..."
Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 04:16 PM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at October 29, 2013 04:16 PM (MhA4j)
Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2013 04:17 PM (bKA83)
Posted by: mama winger at October 29, 2013 04:17 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2013 04:18 PM (bKA83)
Sebeezlebub Bus 44 is coming baby
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 04:18 PM (9jfyN)
Those plastic army dudes aren't realistic unless they have been subjected to the focused beam of the sun through a magnifying glass in the hands of an 8-year-old.
Just to see if they melt.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 29, 2013 04:19 PM (N/Sup)
Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 04:19 PM (bJm7W)
Posted by: fluffy; gooniebird at October 29, 2013 04:19 PM (kS8RA)
Speaking of which, my wife asked me "How come we keep seeing all this incompetence from this administration, and when you look deeper, it turns out that a woman is in charge? Don't they know any men?"
Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2013 04:20 PM (bKA83)
Posted by: mama winger at October 29, 2013 04:20 PM (P6QsQ)
"Mom, if I had a son killed in Benghazi, and that limp-dicked "C-iC" had tried to shake my hand, I would have 'powdered' my hand and bitch-slapped that pussy into the next century,"
I love my son.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 29, 2013 04:21 PM (lVPtV)
Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 04:22 PM (bJm7W)
Posted by: mama winger at October 29, 2013 04:22 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami - GO CARDS!!! at October 29, 2013 04:22 PM (bCEmE)
New Constitutional Amendment about whether Government employees are allowed to use computers at work?
Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2013 04:22 PM (bKA83)
Posted by: navycopjoe at October 29, 2013 04:23 PM (qVKcL)
Posted by: mama winger at October 29, 2013 08:22 PM (P6QsQ)
Thank you, sweetheart, so did you!
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 29, 2013 04:23 PM (lVPtV)
Posted by: navycopjoe at October 29, 2013 04:23 PM (qVKcL)
Posted by: nothinglefttolose at October 29, 2013 04:24 PM (h1gQR)
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 29, 2013 04:25 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Nelson Muntz at October 29, 2013 04:25 PM (aTXUx)
I hope you get that shit sorted soon.
Posted by: DangerGirl, home sweet home at October 29, 2013 04:25 PM (GrtrJ)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 29, 2013 04:26 PM (60Vyp)
What I love best of all is that by Cruz saying this should have been delayed and Choom Boy doubling down and saying "No!", he now cannot, cannot CANNOT allow this to be delayed.
He is screwed.
As much as I hate the suffering that those of us who did not want this are experiencing, I gotta say, I am having a whale of a time watching all of the angst on the Left.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at October 29, 2013 04:26 PM (PZ6/M)
Posted by: Dianna at October 29, 2013 04:27 PM (4z7KM)
Posted by: kbdabear at October 29, 2013 04:27 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 29, 2013 04:28 PM (N/Sup)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 29, 2013 04:29 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 29, 2013 04:30 PM (N/Sup)
Posted by: Y-not at October 29, 2013 04:30 PM (5H6zj)
Teresa, the pain was always going to be there. Baked in the cake. Might as well enjoy the ride, and hope that Progressivism has finally shot itself fatally.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 29, 2013 04:30 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Caliban at October 29, 2013 04:30 PM (DrC22)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 29, 2013 04:31 PM (60Vyp)
Posted by: baldilocks at October 29, 2013 04:33 PM (Tnlh/)
The Bazooka Army Guy was second only to the Prone Shooter Army Guy.
Radio Guy sucked because his antenna invariably broke off.
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2013 04:33 PM (tnBuP)
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (All my Hate cannot be found) at October 29, 2013 04:33 PM (ial2b)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 29, 2013 04:33 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: choom-in-chief at October 29, 2013 04:33 PM (mkBNt)
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2013 08:33 PM (tnBuP)
****
Same with Infantry Guy's bayonet.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 29, 2013 04:34 PM (N/Sup)
Posted by: NeverEvermore at October 29, 2013 04:35 PM (dd5lM)
Posted by: Caliban at October 29, 2013 04:35 PM (DrC22)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 04:35 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: mama winger at October 29, 2013 04:35 PM (P6QsQ)
Sebelius Baby--in the world of private enterprise, you'd be fired so fast that your skirt would fly up over your head as you were thrown out the door.
Yes, you want to blame the contractors. But you picked the contractors.
I spent a good part of my work life writing capital construction contracts in the petroleum refining industry. I worked on the owner side as in house counsel. My clients were in house project managers. Like Obamacare, many of these contracts had a four or five year time horizon from the time you hired the contractor; they did their engineering design work and testing, and new vessels and reactors had to be ordered, built and delivered--frequently from Japan or Korea. The contractors themselves frequently had multiple subcontractors that they had to coordinate and manage. Installation of the finished work frequently took place in a very short time window--10 days to 20 at the most during a refinery turnaround. So the work had to be ready to install on a very specific date; and if the contractor screwed up or didn't deliver on time, great financial losses occurred.
So the rule was no fuckups. You selected your engineering contractor carefully. You interviewed the people who the contractor would have manage his work. You made them lay out a detailed time table and schedule for how they would complete the work; they also laid out an estimated cost to do the job or project budget; and you monitored the snot out of their project progress. If they couldn't keep to the planned schedule--and couldn't give you a contingency plan as to how they would get back on schedule, you fired them. I've been in several meetings where nonperforming contractors had their contracts cancelled, and got thrown off the job.
Now if you were the owners' project management team--and you let a contractor get off schedule or over budget (these were time and materials contracts with a negotiated overhead and profit percentage) you'd better fix the situation--and get the contractor back on schedule and back on the previously agreed on budget. If you couldn't do it, you just didn't manage any more projects for the company; your career was blighted. And if you really screwed up in your oversight, well you left the company shortly afterwards.
It's not hard---we had a lot of successful project managers. You just have to pay close attention. Over the course of a dozen years, I probably wrote six or seven billion dollars in project contracts. And at my project managers direction I terminated several of those contracts when the situation was appropriate. We got ourselves another boy to do the job on time, and hopefully on the original budget.
But you have to pay attention. And you didn't, and as a result, in the real world, you would have been out on your ass in six month's time.
So wake up and do your damned job--although I sincerely doubt that you're capable of it. Ignorance can be fixed--but stupid and incompetent is forever.
Now if you were the owner's project manager
Posted by: Comanche Voter at October 29, 2013 04:36 PM (0fuCe)
I keep hoping to wake up one morning and find the last five years have been a Pam Ewing (Dallas) nightmare.
Only problem is I'd be sleeping with Bobby Ewing.
Posted by: Cock at October 29, 2013 04:36 PM (0a0u+)
Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2013 04:36 PM (bKA83)
Other highly recommended ones:
@charlescwcooke
@noahcrothman
@philipaklein
@hotlinejosh (Josh Kraushaar, National Journal - straight news reporting but trust me, he leans conservative)
@esotericCD (Some guy named "Jeff B@AoSHQ", dunno who the hell he is but apparently he just got a Twitter account).
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 29, 2013 04:37 PM (8lbgd)
Niedermeyer's Dead Horse is a girl?
I'm pretty sure LaceyUnderalls is a former Defensive Lineman from OSU.
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2013 04:37 PM (tnBuP)
Posted by: Caliban at October 29, 2013 04:37 PM (DrC22)
Posted by: steevy at October 29, 2013 04:37 PM (zqvg6)
Posted by: tsrblke PhD(c) (No Really!) at October 29, 2013 04:37 PM (GaqMa)
I read a prediction that O-care is going to be the most unpopular and evaded law since Prohibition. I thought that was a stretch back then, but now I think it was true.
What the "affordable healthcare for all Americans" did with this clusterfuck is indeed about what the Temperance movement did back then.
You had a bunch of moralist, busybody scolds who became convinced that alcohol was the root of all evil in American society. If that just banned it, then it would be Utopia. You had a bunch of ax-wielding mamas running around and busting up saloons and agitating, literally thumping Bibles and all that crap.
The lefist harpies of today are the exact same thing, they just have a different cause.
And what was the result? Al Capone and organized crime, not to mention making drinking more dangerous and glamorous seeming. Beforehand, very few women drank all that much. Hell, many saloons and bars banned women. During Prohibition, women started drinking in droves along with the men. It was a clusterfuck.
O-Care is the same sort of clusterfuck forced on us by moralist scolds, who don't have the slightest clue what they're doing.
Posted by: publius(NotBreitbartPublius) at October 29, 2013 04:38 PM (M5Os+)
Megan McArdle has a story about a friend who had his/her policy canceled due to the ACA and found that none of the Obamacare plans, not even the "Platinum", offer access to Cedars-Sinai or UCLA.
http://tinyurl.com/lcs75ed
Posted by: jeannebodine at October 29, 2013 04:38 PM (2LJqa)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 04:38 PM (GEICT)
I didn't eat army guys, I ate (no joke!) "Go" chips. As in, the metallic-stone pieces used to play the ancient Chinese game.
You can imagine the indigestion that resulted.
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 29, 2013 04:38 PM (8lbgd)
Posted by: Caliban at October 29, 2013 04:39 PM (DrC22)
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 29, 2013 08:34 PM (wNF3N)
Ha! She's probably now registered in all 57 states. As a Democrat, of course.
Posted by: Retread at October 29, 2013 04:39 PM (IiAs3)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 04:40 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at October 29, 2013 04:40 PM (MhA4j)
I ate (no joke!) "Go" chips. As in, the metallic-stone pieces used to play the ancient Chinese game.
You were a special little snowflake, weren't you?
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2013 04:41 PM (tnBuP)
Posted by: mama winger at October 29, 2013 04:41 PM (P6QsQ)
"Psst, buddy! Yeah, over here in the alley. Come over here and talk to me for a minute. No, don't worry, I just want to talk to you. So, I hear you need some chemo, and the Federal boys won't play because you vote wrong. Yeah, I can help you out, and the IPAB won't know nothing. I can get you over to Canada the back way, no muss, no fuss. Wanna talk?"
Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2013 04:41 PM (bKA83)
Could you imagine what the Democrats would be doing right now if a policy promulgated by a Republican administration and congress failed this spectacularly!
Posted by: Kreplach at October 29, 2013 04:42 PM (dwtaK)
Posted by: Caliban at October 29, 2013 04:42 PM (DrC22)
Great job by tsrblke with the Storyfication, btw.
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 29, 2013 04:42 PM (8lbgd)
Posted by: Dave S. at October 29, 2013 04:43 PM (UvR6d)
Excellent post, but I'd bet that if the Federal Government ever worked that way, that it hasn't in the last 35 years.
Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2013 04:43 PM (bKA83)
are experiencing, I gotta say, I am having a whale of a time watching
all of the angst on the Left.
Teresa, the pain was always going to be there. Baked in the cake. Might as well enjoy the ride, and hope that Progressivism has finally shot itself fatally.
Posted by: GnuBreed
There are no substitutes for experience nor are there harsher lessons.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at October 29, 2013 04:43 PM (xz0nG)
well his mother was a serious one anyway..
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 04:43 PM (9jfyN)
It was my dad's set. The first one was an accident, when my brother snuck up on me and startled me while I was sucking on one (why? hell if I know?).
The next few...were not accidental.
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 29, 2013 04:43 PM (8lbgd)
Posted by: RushBabe at October 29, 2013 04:43 PM (hrIP5)
Posted by: Bufalobob at October 29, 2013 04:44 PM (r8ENS)
Posted by: Lauren at October 29, 2013 04:46 PM (ELdpj)
As autumn leaves, lies fall.
Winter, cold truths lay bare.
Do I need another line for a proper haiku?
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 29, 2013 04:46 PM (4tK7k)
Posted by: nothinglefttolose at October 29, 2013 08:24 PM (h1gQR)
Cuz and I just set them on fire with a match and held them over a big rock that we played on. The plastic made a cool whizzing sound as it dripped. Not sure why. We set up battlefields and shot them down with BB guns. I'd do that again today! Good times.
Posted by: Guido at October 29, 2013 04:46 PM (JvtXj)
Posted by: mama winger at October 29, 2013 08:41 PM (P6QsQ)
This is the second comment I've noticed about November 1st. What's the scoop?
Posted by: Retread at October 29, 2013 04:46 PM (IiAs3)
Posted by: baldilocks at October 29, 2013 04:46 PM (Tnlh/)
Yes, it is. EPA is showing constantly that it is perfectly willing to destroy entire industries for larks and agenda. Thus far SCotUS has not once said, "you know you cocksuckers are a limited power regulatory agency for fuck's sakes..."
because well "Constitution" as in "hyper regulatory fiat" ain't in the cookbook at all.
Let me know if that needs translated, my personal critic's gallery says I am more off the reservation than normal in coherence.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 04:47 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 29, 2013 04:47 PM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Dang at October 29, 2013 04:47 PM (Hx2XA)
All this clusterfuck was predicted, and by us. But did the media and low-info types pay any attention? Hell, no. Now they are seeing it for themselves, hitting them right in their wallets. That was the only way they were going to realize the truth.
Before reality hit, all of us were just mean, racist, sexist, yada-yada cartoon villains who just wanted the poor and afflicted to die for want of healthcare. And we'd laugh maniacally as we watched them die. That's what they thought. A lot of them really did.
And yep, I'm laughing my ass off when they say things like "I was for affordable care, but I didn't know I'd have to pay for it."
Posted by: publius(NotBreitbartPublius) at October 29, 2013 04:48 PM (M5Os+)
Posted by: Caliban at October 29, 2013 04:48 PM (DrC22)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff, True RINO at October 29, 2013 04:48 PM (JDIKC)
O-Care is the same sort of clusterfuck forced on us by moralist scolds, who don't have the slightest clue what they're doing.
Posted by: publius(NotBreitbartPublius) at October 29, 2013 08:38 PM (M5Os+)
And Prohibition was a Progressive project. The WCTU may have been Bible-thumping harpies, but they were left-wing Bible-thumping harpies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2013 04:48 PM (60Q+L)
Posted by: tsrblke PhD(c) (No Really!) at October 29, 2013 04:48 PM (GaqMa)
Posted by: lowandslow at October 29, 2013 04:48 PM (IV4od)
I don't normally think of catching leprosy in those terms.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 29, 2013 04:48 PM (4tK7k)
Posted by: Retread at October 29, 2013 08:46 PM (IiAs3)
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That's the day the reduction in EBT money goes into effect.
Posted by: mama winger at October 29, 2013 04:49 PM (P6QsQ)
I really should fill up on turkey salami and lima beans, just in case.
Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 04:49 PM (bJm7W)
http://tinyurl.com/khbdmb6
"The Universal Obamaphone"
Posted by: Sharkman at October 29, 2013 04:49 PM (8+xjO)
Posted by: Roy Batty at October 29, 2013 04:49 PM (X506E)
Ugly on the inside based on her bullying of religious organizations into violating their conscience. She just emanates, "Fuck you, I get to decide."
Oh, and I can't wait for CGI to provide proof that HHS kept changing the requirements, leading them to re-write code late in the development cycle and the eventual go-live without testing.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2013 04:50 PM (JRmiD)
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 29, 2013 08:38 PM (8lbgd)
So they didn't make you "go"? So much for truth in advertising.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2013 04:50 PM (60Q+L)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 04:50 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at October 29, 2013 04:50 PM (MhA4j)
Hey, remember the Hillary! commercial in 2008? The tooth fairy's elephantine aunt giving away stuff that wasn't hers to give away in the first place?
Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 04:51 PM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff, True RINO at October 29, 2013 04:52 PM (JDIKC)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 04:52 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: L, elle at October 29, 2013 04:53 PM (0xqKe)
Posted by: lowandslow at October 29, 2013 08:48 PM (IV4od)
Bill O'Reilly is a fat and happy Dbag, is that wrong to say?
Posted by: Guido at October 29, 2013 04:53 PM (JvtXj)
Ugh! One of the most naked displays of Lefty thinking: we take your money and then spending it on what we want is our gift to you. You're welcome.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2013 04:53 PM (JRmiD)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 29, 2013 04:53 PM (DmNpO)
Sure do - have family up there, and soon-to-be Ms. Jeff B. also has family there as well. Why do you ask?
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 29, 2013 04:53 PM (n/+FT)
Because: Democrat Politicians Lie, and they lie exceedingly well, and they are almost never called on their lies by their fellow travelers in the media.
Posted by: filbert, remote undisclosed location #7734 at October 29, 2013 04:53 PM (2/txq)
Posted by: Titanium at October 29, 2013 04:54 PM (IgOQg)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 29, 2013 04:54 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Purp
Well, you have 6 and 6 there so?
The 5-7-5 count is considered de rigueur for 'haiku' - also, english haiku can use 'a' and 'the' without counting as a syllable.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at October 29, 2013 04:55 PM (xz0nG)
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 29, 2013 04:55 PM (4tK7k)
Posted by: steevy at October 29, 2013 04:55 PM (zqvg6)
Posted by: mama winger at October 29, 2013 08:49 PM (P6QsQ)
Ah. So it's going to be flash mobs grocery shopping, is it?
Posted by: Retread at October 29, 2013 04:55 PM (IiAs3)
http://tinyurl.com/lcs75ed
Posted by: jeannebodine at October 29, 2013 08:38 PM (2LJqa)
We simply cannot have just anyone have access to the finer medical facilities. After all, a well-connected political figure or Congressperson might need care.
Posted by: Hrothgar Medicare and DMV Administraitor at October 29, 2013 04:55 PM (XdnQT)
I have a more mundane example -- Coors beer. If you've seen Smokey And The Bandit, they portrayed accurately that you couldn't buy Coors east of the Mississippi back in the 70s.
I swear its true, if you had a case of Coors in MS, even a poor dweeb like me could get some face time with a pretty girl. Hell, I was once faced with the dilemma of losing my job or missing a date; fuck that, I could always get another job.
Anyhow, just a vignette of the cachet of contraband.
PS Coors beer actually tastes like I imagine monkey balls do.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 29, 2013 04:56 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at October 29, 2013 04:56 PM (MhA4j)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff, True RINO at October 29, 2013 04:58 PM (JDIKC)
"We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems" -- William S. Burroughs
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 29, 2013 04:59 PM (4tK7k)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 04:59 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: steevy at October 29, 2013 05:00 PM (zqvg6)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 29, 2013 05:00 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 05:01 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at October 29, 2013 05:01 PM (MhA4j)
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2013 05:01 PM (tnBuP)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 05:02 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: Cock at October 29, 2013 05:03 PM (0a0u+)
All of this is unfortunately supported by precedent. The Feds established the notion of negative economic activity as a regulatable battlefield in the '30s, and price controls setting price point above what a market would as an acceptable policy tool in the early 40s with the Maged case.
49 year old immigrant dry cleaner who charged 35 cents instead of the NRA mandated 40 cents went to jail for 90 days....
http://tinyurl.com/mzacmwg
George Will on the matter.
Yeah we need either an article V convention or a national divorce.
The founders killed people over a 2% tax.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 05:03 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Madamex at October 29, 2013 05:03 PM (islXR)
Yep, that's another big thing. The O-care exchange plans have *zero* out-of-network coverage. I think all of them do from what I gather. None of them available in my state have them. Basically the in-network is going to be the cheapes, shittiest, Medicaid level crap. If your doctor doesn't want to put up with the crap that comes with taking Medicaid, he's not going to take this crap either, for long.
Besides the ridiculously low actuarial value for the cheapest "Bronze" level plans, and high deductibles, you can't go out-of-network at all. There may be some legal requirement about "emergency" coverage, but basically, if you're travelling out of state and you sick, you may be shit out of luck.
All of this was known, and designed into O-care. That's what you have to do if you want to cover high risk people/pre-existing conditions. You have to get everyone in the same risk pool and then make them pay for it. They get shittier coverage in order to cover the high riskers. Not to mention paying for Sandra Fluke's slutcare type of femiNazi agitated-for crap.
Posted by: publius(NotBreitbartPublius) at October 29, 2013 05:03 PM (M5Os+)
Posted by: jc at October 29, 2013 05:03 PM (i8c5b)
Not quite, RushBabe. The ammo industry will still be able to import all the lead they need. As an example, we import most our steel nowadays. It's still a perfect example of the EPA ruining yet another American industry.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 29, 2013 05:04 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 29, 2013 05:04 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 05:05 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 29, 2013 05:05 PM (DmNpO)
I agree, nice job on that one. Just be sure he's kidding.
My daughter just moved, and her boyfriend came up here (CT) from a deep southern state, a bit in the boondocks. She had to admonish him that no matter how much people pissed him off it was NOT OK to hit them. He was puzzled, but agreed.
Posted by: West at October 29, 2013 05:05 PM (Wtuyy)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 05:06 PM (GEICT)
I prefer not to guess about things like that -- andy sullivan probably has a good description - but did you ever have a Zima? Castrate a beer and you have an idea of the taste, and no I'm not a beer drinker.
Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 05:06 PM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 29, 2013 05:06 PM (UbDLm)
http://tinyurl.com/l6bvxzd
Posted by: just a citizen at October 29, 2013 05:06 PM (Nx76m)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 29, 2013 05:06 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 05:07 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: Puttanesca, the sauce at October 29, 2013 05:07 PM (1ThpN)
Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2013 05:07 PM (JRmiD)
****
If it's warm it's exactly
Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at October 29, 2013 09:01 PM (MhA4j)
When I was in HS me and my best friend (now a 25 year LE vet... go fkn figure) got busted with a 12-pack of stroh's.
Stroh's is not the hill to die on, kids.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 05:08 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 29, 2013 05:08 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami - GO CARDS!!! at October 29, 2013 05:09 PM (bCEmE)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 29, 2013 05:09 PM (UbDLm)
You'll probably get quicker care than I am on a bas eunder tricare....
I can't get an MRI until the 10th of December.
It used to take a week.
Thanks Comrade Soetoro.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 05:09 PM (9jfyN)
All of this is not necessarily the fault of incompetent liberals. Adding them to the mix certainly doesn't help, but simple bureaucratic inefficiency, magnified by government sclerosis and dysfunctionality explains a lot. How many layers of management are there between the people who were certainly screaming bloody murder and Sebelius? I have worked for several network equipment manufacturing companies and if a field guy watched a switch/router/rack of modems burst into flames and throw itself into the garbage, by the time the report made it to senior management it would read "Implementation issues have been encountered".
Posted by: West at October 29, 2013 05:09 PM (Wtuyy)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 29, 2013 09:08 PM (DmNpO)
Brother, since I can't help you... I respectfully request your permission to point and laugh.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 05:09 PM (x3YFz)
That was wonderfully funny.
Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2013 05:09 PM (bKA83)
Not quite, RushBabe. The ammo industry will still be able to import all the lead they need. As an example, we import most our steel nowadays. It's still a perfect example of the EPA ruining yet another American industry.
It is causing a bit of concern (though not panic) among us muzzleloaders, though. We like having a supply of pure lead...
Posted by: Grey Fox at October 29, 2013 05:10 PM (4BqG3)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at October 29, 2013 05:10 PM (BQeyg)
Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2013 05:10 PM (JRmiD)
So what your saying is, now is the time to invest in Ambulatory services or maybe even start one. Flying and driving patients around the country so they're back in network. I might just make enough money to buy some insurance for myself.
Posted by: lowandslow at October 29, 2013 05:10 PM (IV4od)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 29, 2013 05:10 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Jim in Virginia at October 29, 2013 05:11 PM (0a0u+)
Posted by: Puttanesca, the sauce at October 29, 2013 05:11 PM (1ThpN)
I am wondering if pewter can be used to extend the lead bars a bit?
Anyway it sucks, they suck, and we the people suck.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 05:11 PM (9jfyN)
G-D help me retain my pure thoughts. Ah to late
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 29, 2013 09:09 PM (UbDLm)
Dude. She's married with a rock on her finger the size of Houston and has spawned like 18 kids. There's Tampa cheerleaders you can fap to without feeling guilty.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 05:11 PM (x3YFz)
Nice to know that Coors is just as good as something. Actually, I think Coors is better than Obamacare.
Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2013 05:11 PM (bKA83)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 29, 2013 05:11 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 29, 2013 05:12 PM (0FSuD)
.................
watch for my email inviting you to connect with me on linkedin.
pls ignore that the return url will be zzzzyzzzxx.zyxzyxzy-at-mallfly.za because it's really real
once you pay the taxes and fees, we can split the 20 million dollars that I inherited from my uncle Barack Obama Sr, Senior Black Gold Oil Minister in the Republican Democratical Kingdom of Kenyattastantoo.
(but seriously, I hope you can straighten out the thing with the obamacare shitheads.)
Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 05:12 PM (bJm7W)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 05:12 PM (g1DWB)
Sounds like a winner, I'll get my EMT 1 and CDL...
you get a bartender's license and we'll be rolling.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 05:12 PM (9jfyN)
SHOCKER.
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 29, 2013 05:13 PM (n/+FT)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 29, 2013 09:11 PM (DmNpO)
I've spent time in the barrel. Is healthcare.gov worse than that?
Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2013 05:13 PM (bKA83)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 29, 2013 09:11 PM (DmNpO)
Yer so fucked. Fake your death. Now.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 05:13 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 29, 2013 05:13 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: teej at October 29, 2013 05:13 PM (JCIjD)
Posted by: The Chicken at October 29, 2013 05:14 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: choom-in-chief at October 29, 2013 05:14 PM (mkBNt)
A competent executive knows their minions will spin charts at every level...unless they're punished harshly for doing it.
I've seen one executive in 20+ years who blasted the shit out of lackeys who brought him happy talk charts. ONE.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 29, 2013 05:14 PM (4tK7k)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 29, 2013 05:14 PM (UbDLm)
Medicaid? God help you. And I mean that sincerely. If you can pay directly for simple services, do that if you can. None of the docs I go to take Medicaid and the mere mention of it sends them off on profanity-laced tirades.
It's a bureaucratic nightmare and is notorious for not paying and taking ages to pay what little it does pay. And they are getting more and more fed up with Medicare.
Posted by: publius(NotBreitbartPublius) at October 29, 2013 05:14 PM (M5Os+)
They cut staff on the Radiology techs I think.
It's just for the hand, I had a med student examine me....
she had a cute laugh when I explained to her that I broke my hand working on my manners.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 05:14 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 29, 2013 05:15 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 05:15 PM (GEICT)
What's with that?
Posted by: The Chicken at October 29, 2013 09:14 PM (0FSuD)
Magic 8 balls says: "Chicken should keep a low profile"
There's gonna be lots of upset toasters in the near future and you don't wanna be 'round that.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 05:16 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Caliban at October 29, 2013 05:16 PM (DrC22)
I am wondering if pewter can be used to extend the lead bars a bit?
Anyway it sucks, they suck, and we the people suck.
It has been done before (Revolutionary War! Lead based pewter though...) but it isn't idea because for best results in a rifle the lead needs to be soft. Smoothbores are less picky, and folks commonly use lead-antimony alloy from wheel weights. Another good reason to build myself a smoothbore, I guess...
Posted by: Grey Fox at October 29, 2013 05:16 PM (4BqG3)
Posted by: Puttanesca, the sauce at October 29, 2013 05:16 PM (1ThpN)
Posted by: steevy at October 29, 2013 05:17 PM (zqvg6)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at October 29, 2013 05:17 PM (0LHZx)
Not really how it works. There's real friction between the CIA and the NSA, moreso than ever now that sigint and computer-tech approaches to intel-gathering have become exponentially more important -- the CIA keeps trying to encroach upon the area and the NSA keeps fighting them off with a stick like Yoda angrily banging on R2D2's dome in The Empire Strikes Back.
But the intelligence community (inter-agency, that is) is almost always of one unified mind about the presidential administrations they serve -- they're either on-side as a team, or opposed as a team. (Think of it as analogous to Cylon unity in Battlestar Galactica -- deviations from the interagency consensus on these matters aren't impossible, but they're quite rare.) If the NSA is going after Obama, it's safe to say he's not popular in the DCI's office either.
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 29, 2013 05:18 PM (n/+FT)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 29, 2013 09:14 PM (UbDLm)
Yeah, but given the amount of young'ns she's spawned over the last 8 years I'm pretty sure her panty hamster is occupied. Daily.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 05:18 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: The Chicken at October 29, 2013 05:18 PM (0FSuD)
"Army Men"? That's pretty sexist. You should be ashamed of yourself for oppressing that chick with your oppressive patriachy oppression.
I demand that you change it to "Army Persons".
Posted by: otho at October 29, 2013 05:18 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: Oh, wait... at October 29, 2013 05:19 PM (8Ywi+)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 29, 2013 05:19 PM (12t4d)
I can't wait to see it.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 29, 2013 05:20 PM (BeSEI)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at October 29, 2013 05:20 PM (760k7)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 29, 2013 05:20 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 29, 2013 05:20 PM (0FSuD)
Deluxe box of 219 Army Men. Only $19.99.
Now! With Tits! Really Good Ones, Too!
Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2013 05:20 PM (bKA83)
She's cute...wife is armed so no date.
Good practice though.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 05:22 PM (9jfyN)
>>>When does some mid or high level flunkie get fed up by Obama throwing them under the bus, and call the papersto dish the dirt?
What do you think is happening right now? Did you read that L.A. Times article last night, the one with the big scoop that all this surveillance of foreign leaders the White House claims to be unaware of was SPECIFICALLY APPROVED and known to them all along?
How do you think the Los Angeles Times got that story? Or the sources that were willing to give quotes for it?
Two recommendations: 1.) never get involved in a land war in Asia; 2.) in a domestic media war between a presidential administration and its spooks, always bet on the spooks.
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 29, 2013 05:23 PM (n/+FT)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami - GO CARDS!!! at October 29, 2013 05:23 PM (bCEmE)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 29, 2013 05:23 PM (12t4d)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 29, 2013 05:24 PM (UbDLm)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 05:24 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 29, 2013 05:25 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 29, 2013 09:23 PM (n/+FT)
Yuppers. Piss off the CIA/NSA at your peril.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 05:25 PM (x3YFz)
http://tinyurl.com/mvc343p
The army folks reminded me of this.
I admire people who are that creative, amazing costumes.
Posted by: just a citizen at October 29, 2013 05:25 PM (Nx76m)
A lot of Farmboys are unhappy cowboys with having been Ogabe's designated fall guy on foreign policy the last 5 years...
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 05:26 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 05:26 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami - GO CARDS!!! at October 29, 2013 05:26 PM (bCEmE)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at October 29, 2013 05:26 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: mama winger at October 29, 2013 05:27 PM (P6QsQ)
Per Wiki, Megyn Kelly married her second husband in 2008. They have three children.
What a fine looking 43 year old.
Posted by: Jim in Virginia at October 29, 2013 05:27 PM (0a0u+)
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 09:26 PM (9jfyN)
No one talks about fight club.
but yes. agreed.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 05:27 PM (x3YFz)
I always got the sucky toys when I was a kid. One time my mom got me a giant bag of plastic Air Force Guys. But it was the set without any pilots.
They had 'Sit On My Fat Ass Behind a Desk' Guy, he was okay.
And, 'Three Hot Meals a Day on Per Diem' Guy.
and dozens of 'Rear Area Logistics' Guys.
My friends mocked me mercilessly.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 29, 2013 05:27 PM (N/Sup)
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at October 29, 2013 05:27 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 05:28 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Rick James at October 29, 2013 05:28 PM (1ThpN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 05:28 PM (aDwsi)
Brother!
Posted by: SNAFU at October 29, 2013 09:22 PM (x3YFz)
*****
Dudes!
Posted by: BOHICA at October 29, 2013 05:29 PM (N/Sup)
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at October 29, 2013 05:29 PM (Dwehj)
You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here, who the f**k do you think you're talking to?
Posted by: V. Plame at October 29, 2013 05:30 PM (BeSEI)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 29, 2013 05:30 PM (COPHV)
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at October 29, 2013 09:29 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at October 29, 2013 05:30 PM (MnSla)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 29, 2013 05:31 PM (UbDLm)
the expression MILF. Actually I only learned that phrase a few years
ago. I am always the last one to know
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 29, 2013 09:14 PM (UbDLm)
I only heard it a few years ago myself, around the time I first saw sarah palin, yeah go figure. I was at my high school reunion and there was one chick who was pretty hot in high school, and she showed up looking as good as ever. I said to the dude next to me, "now thats a prime example of a MILF". The dude says yeah no shit, and her daughter just had a kid. I said, "sooo, a GILF?"
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Div at October 29, 2013 05:31 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 05:31 PM (aDwsi)
http://tinyurl.com/kgxjhvt
Ooo mary has put on the pounds, mary lay off the Americone Dream.
Posted by: just a citizen at October 29, 2013 05:31 PM (Nx76m)
222: Jeff B, the LA Times story is what I was thinking of. It's low level stuff. "You never told us."
"Yes we did."
I'm waiting on a leak of Obama's college transcripts. Or the wiretaps on his White House phone, or the visitor logs.
Posted by: Jim in Virginia at October 29, 2013 05:32 PM (0a0u+)
Industrial X-ray guys always have lots of pure lead. The paper on lead screens or tape would just be slag in your melting pot. I have no idea how pure the lead letters are but as a last resort this might be a (spendy) way to get pure lead.
http://tinyurl.com/k4w2rql
http://tinyurl.com/k4936us
And anybody that makes X-ray cabinets will have tons of lead around.
Posted by: The Hickster at October 29, 2013 05:32 PM (MVBSu)
And yet they managed to sufficiently intimidate anyone with knowledge of their Benghazi incompetent for over a year. NDAs, changing their names, moving them around.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2013 05:32 PM (JRmiD)
chicken chicken frying lightly
seeing you I smile brightly
cripsy golden breaded skin
I cannot wait to soon dig in
welcome to my night's din din
...
but just another biscuit word
where's the gravy, f**king bird!?
(William Blake, Poesy Eatery, 1795)
Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 05:32 PM (bJm7W)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami - GO CARDS!!! at October 29, 2013 05:32 PM (bCEmE)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 29, 2013 05:32 PM (0FSuD)
The law says (yeah, I know, shut up) that citizens in states with federally run Exchanges are ineligible for subsidies (and employers in those states are exempt from the Evil Mandate, but that's another comment).
So far, of course,our Betters in Capital City (ie The IRS, et al) are ignoring that.
But a lawsuit challenging the IRS on their refusal to abide by the law has been given the go ahead by a Federal judge:
http://tinyurl.com/o5c2g54
Posted by: speedster1 at October 29, 2013 05:33 PM (yeM7r)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 29, 2013 05:33 PM (UbDLm)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 29, 2013 05:33 PM (COPHV)
Have they stopped selling lead on Ebay?
Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at October 29, 2013 05:33 PM (MnSla)
"Why?" You ask. Well. It's because the 20 year old girls show up dressed as Barbie. And the whole time (since you're an old guy) you have to just stare at the pavement and keep repeating to yourself "I'm not a creepy old guy" over and over.
Fuck I hate getting old. If I was 22 again half the campus would be pregnant. Then there's that fake your death/change your name thing, but still.... Old sucks.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 05:33 PM (x3YFz)
You get a message like this: "If you live in Virgin Islands, you're not eligible to use the Marketplace to apply for health insurance. Check with your territory's government offices to learn about health coverage options."
Equal protection clause?
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 29, 2013 05:33 PM (4tK7k)
I think so, but me brain no good since I stop meth.
Posted by: CozMark at October 29, 2013 05:33 PM (WAHqd)
Posted by: speedster1 at October 29, 2013 05:34 PM (yeM7r)
Posted by: Caliban at October 29, 2013 05:34 PM (DrC22)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 05:34 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 05:35 PM (aDwsi)
233 There's Mark Warner in the rogues gallery. Virginia is really getting some losers lately, and it is getting worse.
First Mark Warner, then Tim Kaine. Coming up, Governor McAwful.
Posted by: Jim in Virginia at October 29, 2013 05:35 PM (0a0u+)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 29, 2013 05:35 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 29, 2013 05:36 PM (COPHV)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 29, 2013 05:36 PM (UbDLm)
Posted by: The Hickster at October 29, 2013 09:32 PM (MVBSu)
Buying new would probably be prohibitively expensive, but that is a useful source to keep an eye on. Thanks.
Posted by: Grey Fox at October 29, 2013 05:37 PM (4BqG3)
"Why?" You ask. Well. It's because the 20 year old girls show up dressed as Barbie. And the whole time (since you're an old guy) you have to just stare at the pavement and keep repeating to yourself "I'm not a creepy old guy" over and over.
Fuck I hate getting old. If I was 22 again half the campus would be pregnant. Then there's that fake your death/change your name thing, but still.... Old sucks.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 09:33 PM (x3YFz)
You need to become pharaoh, that solves everything.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Div at October 29, 2013 05:38 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: teej at October 29, 2013 05:38 PM (Nsomq)
"Why?" You ask. Well. It's because the 20 year old girls show up dressed as Barbie. And the whole time (since you're an old guy) you have to just stare at the pavement and keep repeating to yourself "I'm not a creepy old guy" over and over.
Fuck I hate getting old. If I was 22 again half the campus would be pregnant. Then there's that fake your death/change your name thing, but still.... Old sucks.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 09:33 PM
Just... let go. Embrace the inner creep. Whip it out. Chicks dig that.
Posted by: otho at October 29, 2013 05:38 PM (9gNQd)
Firecrackers were totally legal back then, you could get a pack of 'Black Cats' for 10 cents or so. The toy soldiers suffered considerably. Kids today do not what great times they are missing.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 09:35 PM (aDwsi)
1000? dude! probably for like $9.99 right? They tell us (the women is "they") we should grow up but goddam if I could buy 1K little green army men I had in my back yard in 1978 I'd snatch them up.
Talkin to a guy who has 500 star wars figures in boxes. And an original AT-AT and TIE Fighter. Never could get an X-wing.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 05:38 PM (x3YFz)
And when they said they would grandfather your insurance plan, they meant "grandfathered" in the sense of:
The IPAB just 'grandfathered' your grandfather...
...and your grandmother.
Posted by: BOHICA at October 29, 2013 05:38 PM (N/Sup)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 29, 2013 05:38 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 29, 2013 05:38 PM (CeNUw)
Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at October 29, 2013 05:38 PM (MhA4j)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami - GO CARDS!!! at October 29, 2013 05:39 PM (bCEmE)
===
Heh.
Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2013 05:39 PM (HjPtV)
Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 05:40 PM (bJm7W)
Posted by: otho at October 29, 2013 09:38 PM (9gNQd)
Lawsuits. Being that guy on the headlines: "Professor whips it out in class."
Naw
I'll just play golf and make inappropriate advances to the girls that come out to clean the clubs. I'll tip well.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 05:40 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami - GO CARDS!!! at October 29, 2013 05:40 PM (bCEmE)
Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at October 29, 2013 05:40 PM (MhA4j)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 05:40 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: steevy at October 29, 2013 05:41 PM (zqvg6)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 05:42 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami - GO CARDS!!! at October 29, 2013 05:42 PM (bCEmE)
They're gonna get paid with gub'mint cheese vouchers and they're gonna like it. Or else.
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at October 29, 2013 05:42 PM (Dwehj)
eh close...I always picture Nanny Bloomberg eating corn on the cob with his fourth point of contact, "just to change things up..."
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 05:43 PM (9jfyN)
You had me at "competent executive".
And Tangonine, right there with ya.When I was younger, I more than once said I aspired to become a dirty old man. If I say it now (to anyone other than my wife), it's creepy.
Posted by: West at October 29, 2013 05:43 PM (Wtuyy)
Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at October 29, 2013 09:38 PM (MhA4j)
WTF is it with those guys? Kissinger's ranch bordered ours and goddammit if that fucker's ranch hands didn't spend every day cutting our fence.
No shit I started carrying a 30.30 with me on Misha, my arab, when we rode fence just hoping to catch one of those bastards.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 05:43 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Hrothgar Medicare and DMV Administraitor at October 29, 2013 05:43 PM (XdnQT)
"I'll just play golf and make inappropriate advances to the girls that come out to clean the clubs. I'll tip well."
heheheh eh heheh eh heheh...
Posted by: beavis at October 29, 2013 05:43 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: George Washington at October 29, 2013 05:43 PM (g2i/p)
Posted by: otho at October 29, 2013 09:38 PM (9gNQd)
Ok that was fucking funny. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Div at October 29, 2013 05:44 PM (FMbng)
I like how all of the caveats to "if you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance" are all now said.
Course, back when they were saying that, gee, they just completely totally fuckin forgot to say "READ THE FINE PRINT, IT DOESN'T APPLY TO YOU".
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2013 05:44 PM (nKUHR)
My grandfather indirectly worked for Buick....
he told me to get my car swimming lessons if my last name was Kennedy....
thanks grandpa.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 05:44 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at October 29, 2013 09:42 PM (Dwehj)
*****
I was okay with this plan until I found out that these vouchers are not actually made out of gub'mint cheese.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 29, 2013 05:45 PM (N/Sup)
Have they stopped selling lead on Ebay?
We are thinking long-term. We can certainly still buy lead now, either pre-formed or bars, though most folks who mold their own try to find salvaged lead as it is much, much cheaper. I have a couple pounds from an old pipe I melted down, for example. The problem is what is going to happen years down the road.
Posted by: Grey Fox at October 29, 2013 05:45 PM (4BqG3)
There is something to be said for aging gracefully, but here's a thought, and I don't mean this to sound condescending: actually spend some time listening to the 20 something year old chicks, and like them.
I'm not even kidding just a little bit. I like young women. If they are given half a chance, they can be interesting. Not all of them, but enough of them to make it worthwhile to try.
At this point in my life, I'm certainly not trying to "date" them, but I sure don't mind looking at them either, and frankly, they don't mind it either.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 29, 2013 05:45 PM (BeSEI)
Posted by: Caliban at October 29, 2013 05:45 PM (DrC22)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at October 29, 2013 05:46 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: just a citizen at October 29, 2013 05:46 PM (Nx76m)
My grandfather was a barber.
He advised me to hold still or he would clip my ear.
Thanks Grandpa!
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 29, 2013 05:46 PM (N/Sup)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 29, 2013 05:46 PM (0FSuD)
More like "None of this applies to US, serfs!"
Posted by: Hrothgar Medicare and DMV Administraitor at October 29, 2013 05:46 PM (XdnQT)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 05:46 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: teej at October 29, 2013 05:47 PM (ma+gB)
I'm such an accomplished liar that I managed to fool a doctor. Heh.
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at October 29, 2013 05:47 PM (Dwehj)
I'm doing fine Jack, except for being 41 and my family's finances being held hostage by Chrispy Chreme's dance partner....
thanks for the concern though bud.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 05:48 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 29, 2013 05:48 PM (qv2M9)
Thanks grandpa!
Posted by: BurtTC at October 29, 2013 05:49 PM (BeSEI)
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at October 29, 2013 05:49 PM (Dwehj)
Keep in mind that they now admit that they didn't really mean it when they said "if you like you insurance you can keep it."
You know what that means about, "If you like your doctor you can keep him."
Fourth level of suck begins in 3...2...1...
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 29, 2013 05:49 PM (N/Sup)
Posted by: West at October 29, 2013 05:50 PM (Wtuyy)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 05:50 PM (GEICT)
My grandpa was a chicken farmer and he told me to always pull out...
thanks Grandpa!
//L Flynt esq
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 05:50 PM (9jfyN)
Thanks grandpa!
Posted by: BurtTC at October 29, 2013 09:49 PM (BeSEI)
***
LOL
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 29, 2013 05:51 PM (N/Sup)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami - GO CARDS!!! at October 29, 2013 05:51 PM (bCEmE)
hey just wait for them to revel in "well okay IPAB IS A DEATH PANEL!"
WINNING! a GOP that can't beat this is well as useful as the GOP that sat in power from 2001-2007
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 05:52 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 05:52 PM (GEICT)
adding to the love nest I hope ma'am....
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 05:52 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 29, 2013 05:53 PM (qv2M9)
then: mensheviks, trotskyites, zionists, revisionists, cosmopolitans...
and now tea party, Beck and Limbaugh, Cruz and Rand, Koch brothers...
I've been saying for years that being a right winger is like being a Jew, somehow you're going to get the blame for whatever goes wrong
Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 05:53 PM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Rick James at October 29, 2013 05:53 PM (1ThpN)
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at October 29, 2013 05:53 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 05:54 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 29, 2013 05:54 PM (DmNpO)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAf0JQWM1xY
Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2013 05:54 PM (JRmiD)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 29, 2013 05:55 PM (0FSuD)
This is true. Of course it can be a tricky tightrope walk, when either person is not entirely sure of the ground rules. Then of course, if she has a significant other, that complicates matters even more, because I've generally not had any success at befriending husbands/boyfriends when I started a friendship with their partner first.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 29, 2013 05:55 PM (BeSEI)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 29, 2013 05:55 PM (qv2M9)
We're not being set up for a happy place.
The GOP is to blame for a law passed without a single one of our votes, with the administration actively thwarting congressional oversight, that we initiated litigation against.
Just imagine being persecuted for something we've actually done.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 05:55 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at October 29, 2013 09:46 PM (4Mv1T)
One of my old bosses was a green beret field captain during vietnam. The dude could parachute into cambodia and compass his way to his target through the jungle, but would get totally lost while driving his car.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Div at October 29, 2013 05:56 PM (FMbng)
My grandfather was a deaf-mute.
He told me something, but I don't know American Sign Language.
Thanks for nothing, Grandpa.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 29, 2013 05:56 PM (N/Sup)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami - GO CARDS!!! at October 29, 2013 05:56 PM (bCEmE)
His bother worked for Olds....
Uncle Olaf just handed me a snorkel and a neck brace...
he was an odd duck.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 05:56 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 29, 2013 05:57 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 05:58 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at October 29, 2013 05:58 PM (/IXKu)
Heh Mika was flowing heavy and seemed rather more butthurt than normal....
did anyone notice Ray Maddow having a particularly satisfied glow this evening?
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 05:59 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Tami - GO CARDS!!! at October 29, 2013 09:56 PM (bCEmE)
No, no! That's your husband in your bed....notBCochran!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 05:59 PM (oJ5Fd)
My other grandfather (on my dad's side) was a dairy farmer.
He advised me not to hook the bull up to the milking machine.
Best advice I ever got, Gramps!
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 29, 2013 05:59 PM (N/Sup)
Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 09:40 PM (bJm7W)
Don't be silly. Common term for spies? Spooks.
HELLO? Get it, they are like ghosts?
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 29, 2013 09:46 PM (0FSuD)
The sad part is... I think he was actually serious when he determined "spooks" was racist. I really think that's, no shit, how stupid he/she is.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 05:59 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 09:28 PM (aDwsi)
Geeze, and here I thought it was the Nazi's belt-fed machine guns that went "budda-budda-budda" in the comic books.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2013 06:01 PM (60Q+L)
+11 internets....
insert witty build up to "go get some prop wash"
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 06:01 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 06:01 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 09:40 PM (bJm7W)
And the Dumbass of the Week Award goes to:
(drum roll)
MALLFLY!
congratulations.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 06:01 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 29, 2013 06:01 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 29, 2013 06:02 PM (qv2M9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 06:02 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: My Name is Nobody at October 29, 2013 06:02 PM (5Q1ZU)
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 29, 2013 06:03 PM (mHWo2)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 06:03 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 29, 2013 06:03 PM (qv2M9)
We've hit bottom folks.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 09:54 PM (GEICT)
*************
Supposed to be about a pit bull rescue center and parolee volunteers ....
Posted by: gracepmc at October 29, 2013 06:03 PM (rznx3)
I was wondering how the hell they got stuck in a cigarette?
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 06:03 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 09:28 PM (aDwsi)
DUDE!
True story. I was like 7 years old. A super hot 10 year old chick lived up the street. She would pedal her bike down to the store, buy me a Sgt Rock comic and a slushie every saturday. I loved her.
If you're out there Sgt Rock Slushie Girl, I Love You!
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 06:04 PM (x3YFz)
I used to buy the 1000 packs of lady fingers. They came with a ton of extra fuse, which was perfect for splicing onto a lady finger, putting it at the entrance to an ant hill, waiting for the ants to pull it in, then lighting the fuse.
Today? I would be hauled off to a juvenile psychiatric facility, medicated, probably receive electroshock, and then spend two years in juvenile hall.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 06:05 PM (oJ5Fd)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 29, 2013 06:05 PM (qv2M9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2013 10:01 PM
Just checked some old issues. The thompsons and BAR go "budda budda". The MG42's and MP40's go "brrrrrrrp".
Posted by: beavis at October 29, 2013 06:05 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 06:07 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Dancing Queen at October 29, 2013 06:08 PM (FDGeg)
There was an exchange recently, between a woman I have known for years, and a young lady we just met a few weeks ago. The older woman is 40ish, and she announced the younger woman's age at 26. The younger woman was not pleased to have her age revealed.
It was an interesting exchange. Again, neither of these women are competing to be my love muffin, but that does not seem to matter. Competition is fierce amongst the dames, regardless of the stakes.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 29, 2013 06:09 PM (BeSEI)
Today? I would be hauled off to a juvenile psychiatric facility, medicated, probably receive electroshock, and then spend two years in juvenile hall.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 10:05 PM (oJ5Fd)
Dude, we destroyed the better half of a corn field with lady fingers and black cats. We did the ant thing too. No I don't feel bad about it any more than one of those little fucking fire ants feels bad about biting me.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 06:09 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami - GO CARDS!!! at October 29, 2013 06:10 PM (bCEmE)
I used to buy the 1000 packs of lady fingers. They came with a ton of extra fuse, which was perfect for splicing onto a lady finger, putting it at the entrance to an ant hill, waiting for the ants to pull it in, then lighting the fuse.
I wonder if that would work on yellow jackets. My little sister discovered a really big nest the hard way last Saturday, and they are due a little payback. Not to mention that we have to get the leaves out of that flowerbed at some point, and the yellow jackets respond badly to the leaf blower...
Posted by: Grey Fox at October 29, 2013 06:10 PM (4BqG3)
Posted by: Baldy at October 29, 2013 06:10 PM (tyDFN)
Posted by: eman at October 29, 2013 06:11 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: BurtTC at October 29, 2013 10:05 PM (BeSEI)
Heh. pack a lunch.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 06:11 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 06:12 PM (aDwsi)
No, this is exactly what you'd picture when you hear "parolee".
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 10:07 PM (GEICT)
********
checked out their FB -- pups are rescued and loved.
Posted by: gracepmc at October 29, 2013 06:13 PM (rznx3)
Posted by: Baldy at October 29, 2013 06:13 PM (tyDFN)
Posted by: Baldy at October 29, 2013 10:10 PM (tyDFN)
Well, having been at this internet thing since people knew what Archie and Veronica and Gopher were, I'd guess it's because they mostly are men.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 06:13 PM (x3YFz)
Only if you like getting stung.
Get a can of insecticide and hose the fuckers down.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 06:13 PM (oJ5Fd)
The best times were when the ants came out of the nest smoking and missing limbs.
Fuck it...I will not be shamed for being a boy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 06:15 PM (oJ5Fd)
On the bright side, my 10-year-old grandson understood one of my puns this past weekend. He asked what would happen if he hit his Jack-O-Lantern pumpkin with a big hammer. I said, "Squash!"
He got the funniest little smile on his face! He's got Moron potential.
But when I told him he was out of his gourd, he just rolled his eyes.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 29, 2013 06:15 PM (N/Sup)
heh.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 06:15 PM (x3YFz)
339: Oh you were erroneously "enrolled" in Medicaid. I see now. I read a post about this somewhere happening to someone else. So this is apparently a thing, and how big, hell I don't know. Who knows how many of the ridiculously large number of reported Medicaid referrals we're heaing about are screw-ups like this.
This just clinches it. Stay away from healthcare.gov. Do not enter any real information into the thing.
Posted by: publius(NotBreitbartPublius) at October 29, 2013 06:16 PM (M5Os+)
You know you owe him a shot and a beer......
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 06:16 PM (oJ5Fd)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 06:16 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 29, 2013 06:17 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 06:17 PM (g1DWB)
That's the thing though, I'm pretty sure the numbers are coming down. Back in the early part of teh internets, it was probably about 95/5, male to female, and so chances are if you "encountered" a female online, (s)he wasn't.
Nowadays, the numbers are probably closer to 50%. How much closer? I haven't a clue. Probably depends on where you are hanging out. Doilies.com? She's probably telling you the truth. Creepycollegeprofs.com though... but you probably already know that.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 29, 2013 06:18 PM (BeSEI)
Posted by: beavis at October 29, 2013 10:05 PM (9gNQd)
Well, there ya go. Can't argue with an authority like that. I stand corrected. Well, actually, I sit corrected.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2013 06:18 PM (60Q+L)
Posted by: Tim Fountain at October 29, 2013 06:19 PM (iYlIC)
Posted by: roasted at October 29, 2013 06:19 PM (R6JT1)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 06:19 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: speedster1 on the iPad at October 29, 2013 06:19 PM (yeM7r)
You know you owe him a shot and a beer......
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 10:16 PM (oJ5Fd)
*****
I did him one better (considering he's 10). At dinner his dad wanted him to order plain cheese nachos off the kid's menu, but he was eyeballing the steak nachos on the regular menu. I popped for the steak nachos. He enjoyed them greatly.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 29, 2013 06:20 PM (N/Sup)
My dad stopped billing them because they would pay about $6 for a three hour consultation.
That doesn't mean he stopped seeing the patients...it was a hospital practice and they were all very sick. He just ate the cost.
He actually thought of suing for violation of the minimum wage laws.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 06:20 PM (oJ5Fd)
Posted by: just a citizen at October 29, 2013 06:21 PM (Nx76m)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 06:21 PM (aDwsi)
The German uniforms were always a sort of wierd blue color.
I was addicted to another comic about a Stewart tank haunted by a Cnfederate General.
It was good, but that little tank kept destroying German Tiger tanks.
Not so much.
Posted by: eman at October 29, 2013 10:11 PM
I know right? Sgt. Rock is totally unrealistic. All the german uniforms are blue. Even in north africa. It's bogus, man. That other comic is "the haunted tank". They start off in a Stuart, then go to a Grant and end up in a Sherman, eventually. The Stuart taking out Tigers was bullshit. But, Sgt Rock has some out there stuff. Sgt. Rock attacks a Tiger tank single handed under MG fire from hull and turret... he lobs a grenade at the Tiger, which lands in the open hatch of the turret. Tiger blows apart like it was hit by a naval gun. I mean really? Who do they think they were kidding? I expect better from my go to sources for WW2 essays.
Posted by: otho at October 29, 2013 06:21 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: thunderb at October 29, 2013 06:21 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 29, 2013 10:20 PM (N/Sup)
That is your job. Spoil the shit out of him as long as he behaves like a boy, and then later on as a man.
And....you are buying him his first gun......
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 06:21 PM (oJ5Fd)
The dirty little secret is those plans WILL be affected, it just takes a bit longer for the cost increases to be passed along, for the increased benefits to drive more employers away from providing the benefit (many will be switching to vouchers and forcing employees into the individual market), and for the claims experience from a declining pool to alter plans in unforeseen ways as well as driving up prices.
It's a total nightmare. But the idea that by screwing up the entire health care insurance system the Democrats would then be entrusted with establishing a single payer system is preposterous. They were never going to be able to spin their way out of responsibility for a stupid system put in place without a single Republican vote. They will pay the political price in the end.
For if the American public were so inclined to adopt single payer after even the Obama404Care experience they are now beginning to endure, there was never any future for conservative ideas in this country. It would mean the tipping point has been passed where the parasites dictate terms to the productive, and all is lost.
Posted by: Adjoran at October 29, 2013 06:22 PM (473jB)
Congrats Jack you guys were the ONLY people to see it was an unsustainable rolling clusterfuck....
of course last time I checked it is not repealed and even the GOP reps are playing games like "The Keep Your HealthCare Act" rather than you know pushing for repeal.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 06:23 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 10:17 PM (g1DWB)
Show me where Ace took the opposite stance, and I'll agree.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 06:23 PM (oJ5Fd)
Fuck it...I will not be shamed for being a boy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 10:15 PM (oJ5Fd)
I used to stick lightning bugs in an air rifle. Made it really easy to see where you hit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Div at October 29, 2013 06:23 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: logprof at October 29, 2013 06:23 PM (4BA+Y)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 06:24 PM (GEICT)
and flaming armies of straw men is a JWest specialty.
Jack is good people, he just takes "let it burn" personally....
as if we can stop a President who has a flamethrower factory.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 06:24 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Div at October 29, 2013 10:23 PM (FMbng)
That is brilliant.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 06:24 PM (oJ5Fd)
Posted by: © Sponge at October 29, 2013 06:24 PM (0TFZw)
I think he is trying to relitigate the shutdown like Malor's quoting Hashnish PooPoo was this morning.....
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 06:25 PM (9jfyN)
I don't know any 10th group guys. Know some 5th and 19th (R) guys.
Years ago I'd morse code .- .-. -- -.-- / ... ..- -.-. -.- ... on the flashlight as the chinooks flew over but it took so damn long I realized the light stick approach was easier.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 06:26 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at October 29, 2013 06:26 PM (MnSla)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 06:26 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 10:21 PM (aDwsi)
That'll learn me for trusting my own fallible memory. But I do know not to put my finger on pin #3 of a live 6L6, so there's that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2013 06:26 PM (60Q+L)
And....you are buying him his first gun......
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 10:21 PM (oJ5Fd)
***
The funny part is his dad joked, "How am I going to get him to pay attention to me and be a fine upstanding human being with you spoiling him?"
I said, "Once he gets a taste for steak, and then sees what it costs, he'll have all the more motivation to work hard and be successful." Motivation, it's what's for dinner.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 29, 2013 06:26 PM (N/Sup)
I wholeheartedly agree, at that point states have to be pushed to leave the union, or barring that the first American diaspora needs to begin and we must spread the seeds of Locke and Smith to new shores.
Those are the stakes, nice post.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 06:27 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 06:27 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Div at October 29, 2013 10:23 PM (FMbng)
That is brilliant.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 10:24 PM (oJ5Fd)
It was kinda fun. When those 17 year locust thingys popped out in 1979 we wasted 1000's of them with fire crackers. They were so stupid we would find the ones on the sides of trees and hand them a firecracker and the dumb bastards would grab it. All you had to do was light the fuse and step back.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Div at October 29, 2013 06:28 PM (FMbng)
How about giving credit to those of us who have been right all along.
Posted by: JackStraw
yesss
its good to see you giving credit to Cruz and Lee and Paul and Sessions
Posted by: thunderb at October 29, 2013 06:28 PM (zOTsN)
Not the training film I was looking for but for this purpose it wil woork just fine.
http://tinyurl.com/kgqe33z
Posted by: The Hickster at October 29, 2013 06:29 PM (MVBSu)
Indeed...I have largely moved on from the shutdown fight. The lines are drawn and the McCain gang is a more hated target for me than Obama. They undermine the conservative cause and as such are now fair game for conservatives to undermine in my eyes.
If the "sane put the fires out" GOP moderate heroes won the shutdown fight so handily why are they still dwelling on it?
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 06:29 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 06:29 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Jean at October 29, 2013 06:31 PM (CMlD4)
Posted by: EROWMER at October 29, 2013 06:31 PM (OONaw)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 06:32 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: ant man at October 29, 2013 06:33 PM (R6JT1)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 06:33 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 29, 2013 06:33 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2013 10:26 PM (60Q+L)
Try that shit with a KT88 and you will glow.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Div at October 29, 2013 06:34 PM (FMbng)
Get in line six legs...the bastards have not even made peace and restitution with me yet!
//Reparations for Neanderthals
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 06:34 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: navycopjoe at October 29, 2013 06:36 PM (qVKcL)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 06:37 PM (aDwsi)
Yes because we would be far better positioned not having endured the barbs for a relatively meaningless shutdown as trying to thwart this bullfuckery by whatever means were necessary....
Jack the media overshot their mark and actually strengthened our standing as hating this idiocy.
It is a big part of why even Morning Choad on MSLSD is having to try to bale water on the topic.
You called your shot on Ogabecare sucking....
man such powers of prognostication heretofore existed only in the tales of the oracle at Delphi....
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 06:37 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 06:39 PM (aDwsi)
Oh...I thought that was aftermath from my corned beef and cabbage lifestyle...
thank God I'm not to blame.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 06:41 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 29, 2013 06:41 PM (oFCZn)
All three network newscasts -- including NBC -- led tonight's broadcasts with lengthy segments about the administration blatantly lying about "If you like your plan you can keep your plan" and the hilarious backpedaling they're attempting right now. All three networks called Obama a liar in so many words.
This isn't going away. Wait until the enrollment numbers come out in two weeks. And the security flaws are revealed, or people's data has been shown to have been compromised.
If we can't run on a simply Obamacare message in 2014 (AND NOTHING ELSE NO ABORTION NO FUCKING NOTHING JUST OBAMACARE, ECONOMY, AND SPENDING) and win then we deserve to lose.
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 29, 2013 06:41 PM (n/+FT)
Posted by: Jean at October 29, 2013 06:41 PM (CMlD4)
Posted by: The boy king and pride of Chicago at October 29, 2013 06:41 PM (/7Xis)
Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at October 29, 2013 06:42 PM (a5ljo)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 10:39 PM (aDwsi)
You work with what you've got.
So here: http://tinyurl.com/n8uzz8v
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 06:42 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 29, 2013 06:43 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami - GO CARDS!!! at October 29, 2013 06:44 PM (bCEmE)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 06:44 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami - GO CARDS!!! at October 29, 2013 06:44 PM (bCEmE)
Yes because the democrats hid from their social preferences and have not been wrecking the nation chasing the dragon.
Got the memo SoCons of any stripe?
The message is we're not allowed to expect any sort of political representation.
ie
NAMBLA gets better treatment from Pelosi than SoCons can expect from the GOP....
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 06:45 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: propter hostem civitatum at October 29, 2013 06:45 PM (R6JT1)
my new personal favorite....
"the contractor is to blame...let's get a refund...!"
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 06:46 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 29, 2013 06:46 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 29, 2013 06:46 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 29, 2013 06:46 PM (GEICT)
If there's anything I'm more opposed to than the shutdown foolishness it's relitigating the matter post facto (notice my conspicuous silence on the matter?), but I will just point out that we didn't need to shut down the government to get it across to voters that the Republican Party was opposed to Obamacare. That wasn't going to be any more baked into our 'brand identity' than it has been since 2009.
>>>You called your shot on Ogabecare sucking....
The important thing here, as far as I'm concerned, is that one thing several of us anti-shutdowners continually emphasized was not to give up hope. It was and continues to be my belief that the enthusiasm for the shutdown, and the willingness to believe in unrealistic 'shortcut' solutions, was borne out of an all-consuming despair, this belief that "once Obamacare goes into action we're all doomed, it's over, the junkies will need their smack."
Predicting that Obamacare would suck? That's not a particularly bold prediction, IMO. But pointing out that the whole "once an entitlement starts it can never be stopped" talking point used as justification for an apocalyptic Losing But Noble Battle did not apply to the case of Obamacare? That was a point that too few people realized, and which JackStraw and I (among others) kept hammering on. We're seeing that in action right now: this shit has never looked more fragile, or its catastrophic collapse more likely.
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 29, 2013 06:47 PM (n/+FT)
Well Mitch McConnell didn't get the memo....
and frankly since even an addled incoherent virtual raccoon like me diagnosed the impact of McConnell's flipping the reqs, and Jack Lew's pension trick...
ah fuck it who cares right?
"No More Shutdowns" which loosely translated means "no new pressure ever" if I translated the GOP NewSpeak well enough...
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 06:48 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Jean at October 29, 2013 06:48 PM (CMlD4)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 06:49 PM (g1DWB)
is it repealed yet?
Thus far all I see is it being given a blank check to try to "save it."
I'm pretty sure we won't do anything rash like force it to be curtailed.
Ogabe just extralegally jedi hand waved away dates again didn't he?
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 06:52 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: mugiwara at October 29, 2013 06:57 PM (hpYnL)
And I'm pretty sure we don't WANT to do anything like that. Megan McArdle (whom I will keep pimping out around here until Ace makes her an honorary cob-logger) makes this point extremely well on her Bloomberg Blog: it would actually be terrible for the health insurance market for the individual mandate ALONE to be delayed a year. She says the only two options that are reasonably responsible are "full speed ahead" or "full stop" (i.e. complete delay of ALL Obamacare -- presumably with reinsurance legislation passed by Congress to let the people whose plans were cancelled get coverage back -- for a year). The GOP should not allow itself to be a collaborator in anything else, including the politically tempting "delay the mandate only" option.
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 29, 2013 06:57 PM (n/+FT)
I LOVE OBAMACARE!!!!! IT'S THE BOMB.COM. I AM A DEMOCRAT ALL THE WAY!!!!! I LOVE BARACK OBAMA! WOOOO!!!
Posted by: thunderb at October 29, 2013 06:58 PM (zOTsN)
Meh. Amnesty's dead. Rubio backed away from his own plan, meaning It's Over. Look, even Mickey Kaus (who is the most paranoid man in American when it comes to fears of Congress passing an amnesty) is saying that he think's dead.
I really like Kaus a lot, by the way. Guy singlehandedly got The Velvet Underground play at his high school during lunchtime back in 1968 by convincing the school principal that their songs weren't about drugs, but rather "existential nihilism." Top that.
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 29, 2013 06:59 PM (n/+FT)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 07:01 PM (g1DWB)
You know, just because you can keep your kid on your health insurance plan until she's 26 doesn't mean you have to...
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 29, 2013 07:02 PM (n/+FT)
If the argument in relitigating the shutdown is "it didn't help the narrative" if we accept that the media is 85%(and I am being generous) against our point of view then I am wondering how we can just trust that the media will not try to spin Obama unilaterally waiving the individual mandate as anything but "a typical act of kindness from the SCOAMF king"?
Anyway whatever... I think he and the media will bankrupt the nation or have people dying in the streets before allowing painless repeal.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 07:02 PM (9jfyN)
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/28/lou-reed-at-beverly-high/
Gotta check it out if not.
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 29, 2013 07:03 PM (n/+FT)
Posted by: Lloyd Loar at October 29, 2013 07:05 PM (9u2hL)
He can't do that without an act of Congress. (Which is why Democrats in both the Senate and House, like Joe Manchin and Rep. Gene Green of Houston, are drafting legislation to allow him to delay the mandate a year as we speak.) Now look, I get really tired of the "zomg he'll just do it anyway he's so LAWLESS!" Well yes, Obama is a lawless fuck, but he only does that with shit that he knows will fly under the radar and that he can get away with. A unilateral delay of the mandate for one year, without any Congressional consultation? In violation of the written word of the law? I'd be stunned if he tried that.
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 29, 2013 07:06 PM (n/+FT)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 07:11 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: just a citizen at October 29, 2013 07:24 PM (Nx76m)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 29, 2013 10:46 PM (DmNpO)
That's funny on the surface. And I did laugh.
BUT... you SSN address birth date etc... You *might* win lotto someday and you so don't want that shit out there.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 07:32 PM (x3YFz)
No, you have clue whats going on. You thing because you get back pats from the choir here you know how the world works.
You're wrong.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 11:01 PM (g1DWB)
English, motherfucker, do you speak it?
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 07:35 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2013 11:11 PM (g1DWB)
Pretty fucking sure us "true conservatives" don't give 2 shits what your life is all about.
Posted by: tangonine at October 29, 2013 07:37 PM (x3YFz)
http://tinyurl.com/mocgncn
Ah, this will definitely make you cry but it will give you lots and lots and lots of hope, it's worth a look see.
Posted by: just a citizen at October 29, 2013 08:33 PM (Nx76m)
http://bit.ly/1dMRw8b
Posted by: Obamacare is an abortion at October 30, 2013 04:27 AM (ywVGN)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at October 30, 2013 04:36 AM (8JJ6O)
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