1 Google? *checks calendar for April Fool's*

2 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

3 Finally.

Google does one right.

4 Does anyone still use Google?

5

Awwwwwwwww! 

 

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!

 

That's beautiful! 

 

Okay, Google.  You have    earned    a   moment's grudging admiration.

6 One of the 'Ettes was asking (some time ago) about a Conservative alternative to the Girl Scouts.  Today I heard of one on the Radio- American Heritage Girls.  They are apparently a (new) sister organization to the Boy Scouts, including being allowed to use Boy Scout facilities (I'm guessing there's a "for free" hidden in there, because I can't imagine the Boy Scouts would tell the Girl Scouts to pound sand if the GS were willing to pay to use a campground).

I haven't checked them out, yet, but I'm about to.

7

Yesterday the comments wouldn't load, today they are all blurry.

8
Good Mornin Ya'all....



Drudge has a link up on Mooch mulling an extended summer vacation.

..... or what the rest of us call a "trial separation".

9 I'm surprised it wasn't a picture of Obama running to hug Che Gueverra.

10 Drudge has a link up on Mooch mulling an extended summer vacation.

..... or what the rest of us call a "trial separation".

Posted by: fixerupper at May 23, 2013 08:53 AM (nELVU)

She can't take him blowing his boyfriend anymore.

11 4 Does anyone still use Google? I just checked Ask and they suggested Bing

12 Okay, it was a quick look, but they look like a winner.

http://www.ahgonline.org/

My daughter is still a year out from being able to join, but we'll be doing that instead of Girl Scouts, I think.

13 I'd just like to remind everyone that, uh... that's the "O" from Obama, I graciously loaned at a very low rate, shedding rays of money and love... uh, for that Federal employee and his dependent.

14

Allen, I went to a meeting about AHG just a couple weeks ago.

 

Trying to get a new troop started in our part of town.

15 Tellin' you morons, it's tax revolt time.

The congressmen keep saying, "you tell us to give you time, but what happens when a person is late filing their return?"

Let's starve the beast. Oh, we'll pay the taxes, it will just be 1000 calendar days late. Sorry, but you know... delays and stuff. Interest? Nope, sorry. Those tax exempt organizations didn't get interest on the exemptions they missed.

16 Trying to get a new troop started in our part of town.

I wish you luck.  Hopefully they'll take over the banner of helping girls grow up to be good young women.

17 The problem with a tax revolt is that the IRS doesn't need to send an agent to every protestor's house, they can simply deal with the taxpayer's employer. You can't not pay what has already been withheld.

18 Wonderful doodle. Congrats to Sabrina and I wish her much success in her art schooling. She's very talented.

19 Ben's pay has been appropriately docked.

----

Does that mean I get a rebate on this months AoSHQ Platinum Membership dues???

20 FLOTUS mulling an extended summer vacation May be evil, but she no foo'. Rats know what to do when the ship is sinking. Encouraging sign, perhaps.

21 I'm surprised it wasn't a picture of Obama running to hug Che Gueverra.


Next year.

22

Yes, it's really a sad thing that I was shocked when I saw that doodle.

I was totally surprised when I realized that the Google Logo not only contained American flag imagery, but could be construed as somewhat patriotic.

Bravo to Google to raising for my estimation of them up a notch from zero where I've held them for quite some time.  Perhaps Google actually could learn to be somewhat less a contemptuous citizen of the world, and a bit more a citizen of the nation that Google possible.  Please?

23 That is a fantastic doodle. Now back to my normal baseline bitchiness - and the only reason Google put it up is because it was voted the winner.

24 change your withholding.

25

Allen, I liked a lot about it. It's for girls 5 up to 18, which is different than church and other groups that have them divided up into at least 2 groups.

 

They won't do everything the same and together, but still.

 

Only thing that has me a tiny bit concerned is that it's similar to what my daughter is already doing in church. More of the same is mostly good, just the "more" part that I'm wondering about.

26 Until you run afoul of the IRS and your withholding is taken completely out of your hands. Happens every day for child support, etc.

27 Ben's pay has been appropriately docked. ---- Does that mean I get a rebate on this months AoSHQ Platinum Membership dues??? THAT'S an audit. - IRS.

28 the only reason Google put it up is because it was voted the winner.

Dang, you beat me to it, AtC.

29 7 Yesterday the comments wouldn't load, today they are all blurry. Posted by: Mama AJ at May 23, 2013 08:52 AM (SUKHu) Are you wearing your glasses, Mama?

30 Payback for the jihadi attack:

http://tinyurl.com/pb93448


"Our next generation are being taught through schools that Islam is a religion of peace. It's not. It never has been. What you saw today is Islam. Everyone's had enough. There has to be a reaction, for the government to listen, for the police to listen, to understand how angry this British public are."


Maybe there's still hope?

31

Hee!   Via Insty, a quote from one of Jay Leno's recent monologues:

 

JAY LENO: “The Obama White House is still denying he knew anything about the IRS scandal in advance. They say that would have been inappropriate because Obama was too busy not knowing about the Benghazi scandal.”

 

Now that Jay's cruising to retirement, he's     upped the snark in his monologues.  I    don't watch late night TV, but it's nice to know at least ONE of them is making even a token effort to    backhand the benighted Preezy.

32

change your withholding.

 

That  may work for the first year, but then the IRS is empowered to tell your employer to withhold at zero exemptions, and the employer is required to comply.

33 Drinking some Czechoslovakian (thank God for spell check) booze called Slivka....not bad. Nice kick, but I heard their 12 year olds drink it...

34 Very nice

35 Which is why you have to start the petition. Don't make a move until you have enough people agreeing to do it that it will cause significant damage.

36 names would be kept secret to protect people from IRS attacks.

37 British Jihadists Who Beheaded Soldier Muslim Converts, Both Known To MI5Â… And And? So were the scum in Boston. Being known means jack shit if you don't act on it!

38 A petition without names is a blank piece of paper.

39 FLOTUS mulling an extended summer vacation

--

Being a Mooch is hard business.  So many difficult decisions.

40

>>Are you wearing your glasses, Mama?

 

Just appreciating the Google doodle.

 

(sniffle)

41 You guys amaze me. You whine like little tampon wearing 14 year old girls. Who cares about your whining? NO ONE! What are you going to do about it? When are you fucking retards going to man up? Do you think writing your corrupt congressman does anything? I tried that, a totaL , DISMAL FAILURE! Man up, Lets burn this crap down and start anew! I will even fly back, old gun runner plane with stealth tech, kissing the wavetops for that. (salt on the landing gear to duck radar, landing in a field with a plane load of hand picked killers). Just like the days of yore. Are any of you pussies ready for that? Or do you, pussies just like sitting in front of your puter, seeing how the DEMS AND REPUBS SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS DAILY and then whining about like little girls?

42 No link dum today? Pikers. The tradition of Thursday Tittehs remains intact however... http://www.vthek.net/ 2013/05/boobs-and-things.html

43 Here's how you protect the names. All names, when signed are digested with SHA-1 or some other algorithm. Thus a person can only type in their name against the database to prove they're in it - you can't extract the names except by a stupid amount of brute force work.

So no one can take the names from you.

44 Just appreciating the Google doodle. (sniffle) Posted by: Mama AJ at May 23, 2013 09:10 AM (SUKHu) Ah. That doodle was touching. You are too subtle for me this morning. More coffee please.

45 I've been notified by Google management that this was a mistake by a low level employee in a foreign office. That employee has been fired (in lieu of their planned retirement at the end of May). Google apologizes for this error, and promises never to use such exclusionary, offensive imagery in the future.

46 "Our next generation are being taught through schools that Islam is a religion
of peace. It's not. It never has been. What you saw today is Islam.
Everyone's had enough. There has to be a reaction, for the government to
listen, for the police to listen, to understand how angry this British
public are."


Wow... I'm actually stunned to see that printed by a Western media outlet.

Of course, the speaker will be head-chopped within the next few days.

47 What is involved with docking someone's pay who essentially provides free labor? I am reminded about a funny article by Mark Steyn where he unloads on someone who complains that the Bush tax cuts didn't effect her because she paid zero taxes :-)

48 The underground economy IS the tax revolt.

49 Bronx Tour Bus Company Forced to Stop Offering 'Ghetto Tours' After Community Activists Got All Pissy About It. http://scoamf.us/A5

50 Posted by: Cartman's _Evil_Twin at May 23, 2013 09:10 AM (5OT45)

Maybe try decaf next time...

51 Only thing that has me a tiny bit concerned is that it'ssimilar to what my daughter is already doing in church. More of the same is mostly good, just the "more" part that I'm wondering about.

It looks a lot like the scouting I did as I grew up- just for girls.  From their web page, it looks like they do a lot of the same kind of "learn stuff" activities at their meetings, and then go outdoors and do camping type stuff.

Really the recipe isn't that hard: fun and learning useful skills (I like their emphasis on Christianity, too), and then go out and use them (supervised, of course).

52

>>Now that Jay's cruising to retirement, he's upped the snark in his monologues. I don't watch late night TV, but it's nice to know at least ONE of them is making even a token effort to backhand the benighted Preezy.

 

Ha! I'm going with "safe to make fun of Obama now that he's re-elected". Or "good to make fun of Obama to make way for claiming next pres. candidate is new and improved".

 

With a little dash of "see, we totally make fun of Democrats (when it couldn't possibly hurt them) so we're totally not biased".

53 The IRS might actually get some use out of those sawed off shotguns they bought back in Feb 2010.

54

The Newsmax interview with Dershowitz    linked in the   sidebar   is an interesting one,   but one bit annoyed me.  See if you spot it    in the passage I've quoted below:

 

He said the issue goes back to the "bad old days" of McCarthyism, during hearings in which suspected Communists were grilled by the House on American Activities Committee and Senate committees.

 

I guarantee      that at least 80% of you saw it immediately   and said, "Oh FFS."  

55 No link dum today? Pikers. The tradition of Thursday Tittehs remains intact however...

http://www.vthek.net/ 2013/05/boobs-and-things.html

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at May 23, 2013 09:10 AM (QXlbZ)

Ha!  Nice blog Gregory!

56 Also: this is your first reminder of the day: All trolls are Average Joe... you know the rest.

57

>>More coffee please.

 

Certainly.

 

In a cup this time, perhaps? I find that helps.

58 I'll bet google enjoyed posting that as much as they'd enjoy a root canal with no anaesthetic.

59 All the "community activists" were trying to tell the bus company is that they were looking for some love and the bus company misread their overtures.

If the bus company had offered them say $20/bus in graft, the objections would have vanished into thin air

60

>>they do a lot of the same kind of "learn stuff" activities at their meetings, and then go outdoors and do camping type stuff.

 

Faith and service and learning skills.

 

That's what impressed me. Not the fact that there. is. a. cake-decorating. badge.

61 I guarantee that at least 80% of you saw it immediately and said, "Oh FFS."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at May 23, 2013
09:13 AM (4df7R)

I wondered this:  If those days (targeting people for their political affiliations) count as the 'bad old days,' are these days (targeting people for their political affiliations) the 'bad new days'?

62 >>>FLOTUS mulling an extended summer vacation

Perhaps she's getting out in front of a looming scandal where parents discover Michelle's been poisoning their children with mercury-laced Whitehouse garden vegetables.

63 Dershowitz's take on the 5th is interesting. I've read half a dozen or mire diff opinions from legal scholars in the subject so I guess it's not as cut and dried as some suggested. Re youth groups. When your kids reach high school age they (boys and girls) can join the Explorers. I was in that in high school. Learned a bunch of science stuff and things like orienteering. Ours was associated with an engineering-oriented company.

64 41 You guys amaze me. You whine like little tampon wearing 14 year old girls. Who cares about your whining? NO ONE! Clearly, you do.

65 I will even fly back, old gun runner plane with stealth tech, kissing the wavetops for that. (salt on the landing gear to duck radar, landing in a field with a plane load of hand picked killers). Just like the days of yore. ------------- That's the plot Han Solo used in Return of the Jedi. You've got some milk on your upper lip, killer.

66 Hah @ Washinton Nearside. No decaf for me. It's late here in commie land.(thats where I am staitioned). I'm drinking beer. I only drink 2-3 cups of coffee a day. But you did not answer my question. We all hate this crap that's going on. What are doing except for whine about it sonny?

67 I haven't checked them out, yet, but I'm about to. Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at May 23, 2013 08:52 AM (/PCJa) yes, I've heard good things about American Heritage Girls from my conservative friends who have their daughters signed up with them.

68 I saw the McCarthyism ref but it didnt bother me. It makes it harder for libs to dismiss Alan's opinion imho.

69 Monaco GP practice is just wrapping up. I should really make the pilgrimage some year.

70 So a dude on the Internet is whining about all the dudes on the Internet whining., It's 1998 again!

71 N.B., though given public acknowledgment by Google, remember that this was an entry from an outside, independent source. Sabrina Brady, Brava! Strikes home, ESPECIALLY in America. Internationally? Still 'Yankee Go Home'... too little appreciation for the sacrifices made by our military personnel and by our taxpayers. Blame our political leaders where the onus rests, especially in Congress where the bipartisan shared values of corruption exceed all expectation. Barry-O? No surprise, knew it all along before he ever declared his campaign to become Potus. All it took was reading his paper trail, as plenty existed online before he won the presidency. Start with his Dad's Kenyan publication for 100% confiscation of the population's income; followed by the Ayers ghostwritten "Dreams Of", and then the initial video of Obama, Jr. outlining his own ideological platform, promises, prior to the DNC ticket gifted his way.

72 What is involved with docking someone's pay who essentially provides free labor? Posted by: JJLive at May 23, 2013 09:11 AM (F7c4B) He has to do time in the barrel. Or maybe he just gets kicked a couple of times as a warning against being such a derelict again.

73

"Does that mean I get a rebate on this months AoSHQ Platinum Membership dues???"

 

 

 

U get a coupon good for one greasy pizza box.

74 OT

Humble Bundle is offering Alan Wake and all sorts of other bonus content.  Anyone play it?  Any good?

75 Go to Pjmedia and read Roger Simon's piece about new Benghazi whistleblowes with big info on what actuually happened.  Let's hope this one gets out and is true   COULD BE HUGE!!!

76 Google tends to drift off the left side of the page too often.  This makes amends for oen day.  Good job young lady.

77 Was Google taken over by non-commies?

78 Good on Google

79

Washington Nearsider and Y-Not:   I actually wasn't referring to the McCarthyism thing, since it's de rigeur from the lefties.

 

I was,   in fact, referring to this:   "House on American Activities Committee."

 

That is incorrect.

 

It was   in fact the "House UN-American Activities Committee,"    also known as HUAC.   

 

How can an editor not catch that?  

80 That's what impressed me. Not the fact that there. is. a. cake-decorating. badge. Posted by: Mama AJ at May 23, 2013 09:17 AM (SUKHu) Why was this information being withheld?

81 Monaco GP practice is just wrapping up. I should really make the pilgrimage some year. Posted by: Waterhouse at May 23, 2013 09:21 AM (irlNU) Yeah, Monaco is like the Fenway/Wrigley/Yankee Stadium of race tracks. I'm more of an endurance/GT race fan myself. Did you catch any of the Nurburgring 24 hours? Love that race.

82 That doodle is awesome.  Congrats to Sabrina.  I think it gave me allergies, because my eyes got all watery.

Having said that, I just went the US Google site and it is not up.  The article was dated May 22, and said "tomorrow", so I was expecting to see it today.  What gives?

83 @ 70 I deserved that, kinda sorta of. Let me rebutt, a guy whining, about people complaining about people whining . 1998 again my friend! Welcome to the WAyBACK machine!

84 Having said that, I just went the US Google site and it is not up. The article was dated May 22, and said "tomorrow", so I was expecting to see it today. What gives?

Posted by: grognard at May 23, 2013 09:27 AM (/29Nl)

 

Odd.   I see it.

 

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww

 

?

85 I am torn on this, as it indirectly glorifies war and that makes me quite "uncomfortable". This young lady really should have known better.

Why GOOGLE allowed this entry to win is beyond me.

86 The Brit jihadist mentioned 'eye for an eye' as justification for his butchery. Apparently the koran embraces the Code of Hammurabi from about 4,000 years ago.

87 Gotcha, MWR. My brain did an auto-correct when I read that!

88 Odd. I see it.

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=entab=ww


Weird.  Generic Google logo for me.  Must be different from Canada, even when accessing the same URL.  Grrr...

I'll have to try a free proxy.

89 Is little Cart Cart's upper lip trembling?

90 Yeah, Monaco is like the Fenway/Wrigley/Yankee Stadium of race tracks. I'm more of an endurance/GT race fan myself. Did you catch any of the Nurburgring 24 hours? Love that race.


I have driven on the Nurburgring track many times.


On my PC.




Friend of mine should be there now since he's a huge F1 fan.  Said he was going to take lots of pics of the cars and grid girls.

91 I am torn on this, as it indirectly glorifies war and that makes me quite "uncomfortable". This young lady really should have known better. Why GOOGLE allowed this entry to win is beyond me. Posted by: Chris "the painfully thoughtful" Hayes at May 23, 2013 09:29 AM (4eNxd) Well since you see no mother, the Soldier is clearly gay, so that is why google allowed it.

92

EDL last hope of the British?

http://tinyurl.com/pgmxy5r

Probably, and probably too little too late. The event horizon has already been crossed.

93 I have driven on the Nurburgring track many times. On my PC. Friend of mine should be there now since he's a huge F1 fan. Said he was going to take lots of pics of the cars and grid girls. Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 09:30 AM (GQ8sn) Hahah, me too! Have you heard of Project Cars? New partially crowd-sourced simulator that's in development.

94 Gotcha, MWR. My brain did an auto-correct when I read that!

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at May 23, 2013 09:29 AM (OApiq)

 

When you know what    SHOULD be there it's an easy    autocorrect to make, that's for sure!   It just jarred me    right   out of the    article when I   read it.  

95 I sure hope the British citizens rise up and demand some action re this jihadi stuff. Not very hopeful. Yesterday on twitter it took several of us multiple tweets with links to convince some Britsh dude (a college lecturer, natch) that the link to Islam was crystal clear. He did eventually see tge bloody hands vid, but then his PC brain was asking why that video was disseminated when that was what the killer wanted. Talk about being an ostrich.

96 I keep hearing conflicting accounts: Are the London terrorists dead or alive? I heard they were shot dead and in other news reports that they are in a hospital.

97 Let's see, tomorrow begins the Memorial Day weekend.  I wonder what news will be dumped by the administration? 

98 this is the same google that never changes their logo, for veteran's day, memorial day or independence day? i'm fucking stunned.

99

"86 The Brit jihadist mentioned 'eye for an eye' as justification for his butchery. Apparently the koran embraces the Code of Hammurabi from about 4,000 years ago"

 

 

 

 

 

So, the group with the most eyes wins?

100

No link dum today? Pikers. The tradition of Thursday Tittehs remains intact however...

http://www.vthek.net/ 2013/05/boobs-and-things.html

 

Well, I posted this yesterday concerning tittehs, but it certainly bears a repeat bow for your pleasure:

 

http://tinyurl.com/owf2vrt

101 Some prominent health insurers, including industry giant UnitedHealth Group Inc., are not participating in California's new state-run health insurance market, possibly limiting the number of choices for millions of consumers. UnitedHealth, the nation's largest private insurer, Aetna Inc. and Cigna Corp. are sitting out the first year of Covered California, the state's insurance exchange and a key testing ground nationally for a massive coverage expansion under the federal healthcare law. Meanwhile, the biggest insurers in the state — Kaiser Permanente, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California — are all expected to participate in the state-run market for individual health coverage. For those who don't know, this means we are clearly headed to a 2 tier health care system in America at best and probably a one carry system ( the GOV) which is even worse. ie: everything we all said is coming true. Fuck all liberals, democrats, and obama commie bastards

102 Dershowitz's take on the 5th is interesting. I've read half a dozen or mire diff opinions from legal scholars in the subject so I guess it's not as cut and dried as some suggested. You claim you are innocent & have committed no crimes. Then you plead the 5th against self incrimination. Against what? You have already claimed innocence. I don't own a bull, but that doesn't mean I don't know bullshit when I see it.

103 ...the Code of Hammurabi...

It's the law of the River Boats
"It's an aye for an aye and a toot for a toot."

104 So a dude on the Internet is whining about all the dudes on the Internet whining., It's 1998 again! Posted by: lincolntf at May 23, 2013 09:22 AM (ZshNr) That does explain the comment formatting features.

105 This is from May 11th. I haven't heard of this before. Missouri Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R) directly blamed President Obama for ordering the stand down which facilitated the assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Wagner was asked by talk show host Dana Loesch, “Because you have been an ambassador, you have been overseas with similar responsibilities and similar missions - who gives such an order to stand down? Where does that come from?” “The President of the United States,” responded Wagner. No proof. Just policy. http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/302943.html Just odd I haven't seen this. Must have been a blip on the radar.

106 96 I keep hearing conflicting accounts: Are the London terrorists dead or alive? I heard they were shot dead and in other news reports that they are in a hospital.

Posted by: Waldo at May 23, 2013 09:34 AM (dHIHO)

..................

 

 

I read that they were being treated in a British hospital. If they aren't dead yet it should just be a matter of time.

107 What's with the 'oh look, we found some Obama prom pics!'.  How conveeeeeenient these come out now.






http://tinyurl.com/qz9jhfo

108 Hahah, me too! Have you heard of Project Cars? New partially crowd-sourced simulator that's in development.


No, I haven't.  I like racing games, but I don't get into the hardcore simulations where you adjust every little spring on the car.  I like mine to be a little more on the arcade-y side.   I'm waiting for GRID2 to come out.  The last racing game I played was NFS:Shift2 and it was a piece of shit.  The soundtrack is great though, and I listen to it in my car.  I also picked up NFS: Hot Pursuit, but the catch-up AI is just too hard to deal with.

109 It was in fact the "House UN-American Activities Committee," also known as HUAC. How can an editor not catch that? My favorite part is when lefties say McCarthy was a part of HUAC. SENATOR McCarthy.

110 ...I read that they were being treated in a British hospital. If they aren't dead yet it should just be a matter of time.

Posted by: Molly k. at May 23, 2013 09:38 AM (WgeYS)

 

 

No death penalty for them, but yeah, we all die eventually.

111 Humble Bundle is offering Alan Wake and all sorts of other bonus content. Anyone play it? Any good? Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 09:24 AM (GQ8sn) I love me some Alan Wake. Protip - play super late at night. During a storm. With no other lights on. It's awesome for your mental health! Once your done with that, boot up some Silent Hill and you will be the most well adjusted person ever.

112 The Brit jihadist mentioned 'eye for an eye' as justification for his butchery. Apparently the koran embraces the Code of Hammurabi from about 4,000 years ago" I'm down with that.

113 Is there a IRS hearing today? I can no where find a schedule.

114 ah.... schools out for my children!!!! morning chaos is put on hold until august........

115 Well, I posted this yesterday concerning tittehs, but it certainly bears a repeat bow for your pleasure:

http://tinyurl.com/owf2vrt

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 23, 2013 09:35 AM (zF6Iw)

Jordan Carver needs to stop teasing and show us the goods.

116 I can no where find a schedule. Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 23, 2013 09:41 AM (aDwsi) There where to find schedule

117 What's with the 'oh look, we found some Obama prom pics!'. Obama pr0n pics? No thank you.

118 No, I haven't. I like racing games, but I don't get into the hardcore simulations where you adjust every little spring on the car. I like mine to be a little more on the arcade-y side. I'm waiting for GRID2 to come out. The last racing game I played was NFS:Shift2 and it was a piece of shit. The soundtrack is great though, and I listen to it in my car. I also picked up NFS: Hot Pursuit, but the catch-up AI is just too hard to deal with. Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 09:39 AM (GQ8sn) Gotcha. Yeah, agreed on NFS:Shift 2. Didn't like it at all. Grid 2 does look decent.

119

Posted by: maddogg at May 23, 2013 09:39 AM (OlN4e) ...

 

 

I was referring to their wonderful nationalized healthcare system. I haven't heard real good things about it.

120 Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 09:14 AM (GQ8sn) Thank you EC

121 alex - then Play Doom 3 with no lights on. That's fun for all ages!

122 Well, rick, Gabe and Drew are insisting that they are correct that she didn't waive her rights. On the other side, you have a Harvard and a Princeton law prof with decades of experience. Obviously, you should go with the thirty-something anonymous Internet bloggers.

123 I love me some Alan Wake. Protip - play super late at night. During a storm. With no other lights on. It's awesome for your mental health! Once your done with that, boot up some Silent Hill and you will be the most well adjusted person ever.


I did that with Dead Space and Doom3. 


I consider myself a well-grounded person with a strong grasp on what's real and what's not.  I admit I almost pee'd my pants at certain times and had to shut it off.

124 I read that they were being treated in a British hospital. If they aren't dead yet it should just be a matter of time.

 

Posted by: Molly k. at May 23, 2013 09:38 AM (WgeYS)

 

NHS death panels are only for home-grown Brits.  Islamist swine will get red-carpet treatment.

 

And the poor PC who shot them can kiss any kind of promotion goodbye.  The Met is probably drawing up prosecution charges against her right now.

125 I'm ready to go, I just need a plane...and some green face paint....probably a few weeks to get in shape......Okay, check back in mid-July

126 I was referring to their wonderful nationalized healthcare system. I haven't heard real good things about it.

Posted by: Molly k. at May 23, 2013 09:42 AM (WgeYS)

Good point, but mostly true for old Brits. Young murderers will get the best treatment taxpayers can afford.

127 I'm with the evil twin here. At some point as Americans it becomes our duty to resist. Our Christian duty to show fear to kings applies to kings - the king is in this case, the people. So if it is the people who is being disregarded, we must show them regard. It is our law.

128 Gotcha. Yeah, agreed on NFS:Shift 2. Didn't like it at all. Grid 2 does look decent.


Codemasters is an old hat in the racing games dept.  I liked their DiRT games a lot.  Just pick a car and race!

You ever play Split Second?

129 89 Is little Cart Cart's upper lip trembling? I think he has the vapors. Last seen swooning gently onto the fainting couch with the back of one perfumed wrist delicately placed pressed to his forehead.

130 What's with the 'oh look, we found some Obama prom pics!'. >>

Well if it's to help prove he's hetro that signature in the year book aint going to help. Love "heart symbol"

131 I read that they were being treated in a British hospital. If they aren't dead yet it should just be a matter of time. Posted by: Molly k. at May 23, 2013 09:38 AM (WgeYS) Thank you. That's fucked up. They should have had a couple of clips emptied in them. These muslim assholes are given huge benefits in the UK. It's ridiculous.

132 NHS death panels are only for home-grown Brits. Islamist swine will get red-carpet treatment.


By all accounts, they are indeed UK born.

133 My favorite part is when lefties say McCarthy was a part of HUAC.

SENATOR McCarthy.

Posted by: blaster at May 23, 2013 09:39 AM (W6bkf)

 

I love that.  These people wouldn't know their asshole     from their mouth, which is why they     eat by shoving food up their rectum and    fart    loudly    when they talk.

 

If you want to blow    a lefty's mind, just tell them that some of those blacklisted Hollywood    stars    who were SO poorly treated    were, in fact, commies.   It makes their eyes cross.

134 Heh. Dersh sez Lerner waived the Fifth. Today should be interesting.

135 Obviously, you should go with the thirty-something anonymous Internet bloggers. Rush, who I suspect has good legal advice, said that the thing that had to be done is force her to give an answer to each and every question, even if she takes the fifth. It lays the groundwork. He was pretty irate. Which I think is why they're calling her back in today.

136 I consider myself a well-grounded person with a strong grasp on what's real and what's not. I admit I almost pee'd my pants at certain times and had to shut it off. Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 09:44 AM (GQ8sn) Now imagine playing all those games next year with the Oculus Rift! http://www.oculusvr.com/

137 But you did not answer my question. We all hate this crap that's going on. What are doing except for whine about it sonny?

Posted by: Cartman's _Evil_Twin at May 23, 2013 09:20 AM (5OT45)

I've actually discussed this here before. 

We all bitch and whine, but all within this box.  No one is willing to be first.  Since I haven't seen you in the news for engaging members of the federal government, you're counted among the whiners. 

I lost my select-fire weapons when I got out, but you've apparantly still got yours.  Hop up on the barricade, champ.  We'll be right behind you.

138 I did that with Dead Space and Doom3. I consider myself a well-grounded person with a strong grasp on what's real and what's not. I admit I almost pee'd my pants at certain times and had to shut it off. Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 09:44 AM (GQ8sn) You know what it is? It's the sound placement. I'm not kidding, the sound design, particularly in Dead Space, is very well done. Your higher mental functions know it's a game. Your lizard brain hears something coming up behind you and yeah. Alan Wake is also huge on sounds. Because you're effectively blind at points, learning to listen for bad guys is important. Also completely paranoia inducing. I played like five minutes of Dead Space at around midnight one night and actually threw the controller across the room freaking out. I dived for the remote to kill the tv like TFG suddenly popped up on it.

139 morning all
so when does the Lerner grilling commence?

140 Go to Volokh Conspiracy to read Orrin Lerr's take on the 5th. (sorry I cant link on this phone)

141 Thats Kerr not Lerr.

142

I read that they were being treated in a British hospital. If they aren't dead yet it should just be a matter of time.

Posted by: Molly k. at May 23, 2013 09:38 AM (WgeYS)

 

I actually want them to survive.   I want them on video and audio   proclaiming over and over again that they did it for Allah, that they did it for Islam, that they'd do it again, and that they won't ever stop.   If they end up dead then the Brit government and the international       media     will be more than happy to let the furor fade away;    and it WILL fade away.   If that happens then that poor soldier's death will have been all the more tragic and senseless, because NOTHING will have been learned    from    it     and no actions taken to    prevent it from ever happening again.

143 Now imagine playing all those games next year with the Oculus Rift!

http://www.oculusvr.com/


I tried nVidia's 3D glasses for Batman Arkham Asylum but it gave me headaches.  It's a nice system, but 3D is just a gimmick right now.

I have a three-24"-screen Eyefinity setup at home which I turn on from time to time to play certain games.  Racing games look spectacular on them, especially if you turn on cockpit mode.  It's like you're really there!

144 hi alexthechick!
This is for you

http://tinyurl.com/pwwlxf3

145 As far as I can tell, there is no Ways and Means Committee (IRS) scheduled today

146 And to all you nutters who are against capital punishment, fuck you. If these shitheads live, they will eventually be releases and while in custody they will be praised. You never really hear muslim terrorists committing terrorist acts in the name of dead terrorists. They do commit terrorist acts, however, because they think they can force the assholes to be released from prison.

147 106
So Gabe, there's a sidebar full of links rebutting your and Drew's insistence yesterday that Lerner did not waive her 5th Amendment rights.

Any comment?
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 23, 2013 07:52 AM (JDIKC)
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Attaaaack Waaaaatch!!

148

"These muslim assholes are given huge benefits in the UK. It's ridiculous. "

 

Completely unlike the  murderous muslim asshole  here who had collected $270k  in  taxpayer-privided salary and strung along  the courts over his goddamn  grooming habits.  His victims?  Well they get jack shit.

 

Next up:  Let's talk about the bennies Speedbump and PezHead got before they went all assplodey in Boston.

 

Madness.  Western Civ has a deathwish.

149 Ali Khamenei:
The European races are barbaric. They wear freshly pressed suits and ties, and they smell of eau de cologne, but deep down, they still have the same barbaric nature known from history. They kill with ease. They murder people without any problem. Therefore, beating women in their homes is of no consequence to the [Europeans] and Americans, whereas in an Islamic environment, it is unimaginable.

150 If you want to blow a lefty's mind, just tell them that some of those blacklisted Hollywood stars who were SO poorly treated were, in fact, commies. It makes their eyes cross.

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at May 23, 2013 09:46 AM (4df7R)

 

It's very rare to come across any mention of the "Hollywood Ten" that actually mentions the prevalence of the Communist Party in Hollywood.  One of the few I know that does is Neal Gabler's An Empire Of Their Own.

 

And, BTW, the boobeh clip I linked is my humble suggestion to Her Imperial Malevolence for the post of  Alextopia pastry chef.

151 You never really hear muslim terrorists committing terrorist acts in the name of dead terrorists. They do commit terrorist acts, however, because they think they can force the assholes to be released from prison.

Posted by: Waldo at May 23, 2013 09:50 AM (dHIHO)

False.  Mohammad was a terrorist.  They kill for him and Allah all the time.

152 You know what it is? It's the sound placement. I'm not kidding, the sound design, particularly in Dead Space, is very well done. Your higher mental functions know it's a game. Your lizard brain hears something coming up behind you and yeah.

EXACTLY!!!

Visceral Games did an excellent job on the sound FX work in that game.  Playing with 5.1 or headphones will mess with your mind.

153 #149

Wow, 100% projection. My people respected women and gave them watch and power over the household and business before his drooling ancestors could figure out how to use the word for club.

154 We only need give Trey Gowdy (pronounced Yowdy I think) the task of questioning the miscreants. How would you like to follow that act?

155 When is the Mocha Messiah scheduled to do his Preezy Presser this morning?

156 You ever play Split Second? Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 09:45 AM (GQ8sn) Saw some stuff on it, but never played it. You ever play FlatOut? It's a really fun demolition derby/racing game.

157
Meghan McCain ‏@MeghanMcCain

I need your help twitter. We're trying to choose a show mascot for Raising McCain - a bearded dragon or a tarantula? VOTE AND LET ME KNOW!




Dugong....

158 When is the Mocha Messiah scheduled to do his Preezy Presser this morning?

osted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at May 23, 2013 09:53 AM (4df7R)

About 40 minutes before he'll show up. 

159 If you want to blow a lefty's mind, just tell them that some of those blacklisted Hollywood stars who were SO poorly treated were, in fact, commies. It makes their eyes cross.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at May 23, 2013 09:46 AM (4df7R)
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My favorite trick when talking to lefties about the "Red Menace" days is to ask them how long Julius Rosenberg worked on the Manhattan Project.

160 About 40 minutes before he'll show up.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, The Colossus of Independence at May 23, 2013 09:54 AM (fwARV)

 

Point.

161 Greatest nuts ever....pistachios or cashews?

162 My favorite trick when talking to lefties about the "Red Menace" days is to ask them how long Julius Rosenberg worked on the Manhattan Project.

Posted by: Nighthawk at May 23, 2013 09:54 AM (OtQXp)

 

*snigger*

163 Saw some stuff on it, but never played it.

It's arcade, but you could set up traps for the AI cars and do all sorts of dynamic track changes like blowing up a bridge and forcing the other cars behind you to take a longer route to catch up to you.  There's different game modes to keep it exciting too.

Haven't played FO.

164 Dugong....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 23, 2013 09:54 AM (kdS6q)

 

No self-respected seacow would   have anything to do with Meggy Mac.

 

Elephant seal.

165 s far as I can tell, there is no Ways and Means Committee (IRS) scheduled today Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 23, 2013 09:50 AM (aDwsi) I didn't see it either. On all 3 cspans,

166 Ohhh thanks chemjeff! I might actually need those today. And, BTW, the boobeh clip I linked is my humble suggestion to Her Imperial Malevolence for the post of Alextopia pastry chef. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 23, 2013 09:52 AM (zF6Iw) *taps chin* You do have a compelling argument.

167 Greatest nuts ever....pistachios or cashews?

Cashew. 

Pistachios = too much work.

168 Or do you, pussies just like sitting in front of your puter, seeing how the DEMS AND REPUBS SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS DAILY and then whining about like little girls? Posted by: Cartman's _Evil_Twin at May 23, 2013 09:10 AM (5OT45) LOL...and you're here doing 'what' exactly? Silly rabbit.

169

AP Story by  KIMBERLY DOZIER— May. 21 9:04 PM EDT

 

The decision not to seize the men militarily underscores the White House aim to move away from hunting terrorists as enemy combatants and holding them at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The preference is toward a process in which most are apprehended and tried by the countries where they are living or arrested by the U.S. with the host country's cooperation and tried in the U.S. criminal justice system.

 

The U.S. could ask Libya to arrest the suspects, hoping that Americans would be given access to question them and that the Libyans gather enough evidence to hold the men under their own justice system. Another option is to ask the Libyans to extradite the men to the U.S., but that would require the U.S. to gather enough solid evidence linking the suspects to the crime to ask for such an action.

 

today the JEF is gonna announce that they are releasing GITMO prisoners to Yemen.  Yemen.

 

Our new policy is to ask Yemen, Libya, Pakistan, Afghanistan to prosecute jihadis that attack us, or let us do it. 

 

We are closing GITMO and counting on terrorist states to prosecute terrorists for us.

 

What could go wrong?

170 Cashews. I havent eaten a pistachio since their obnoxious ad campaign started (esp the one featuring Bristol's ex).

171 Meggy Mac's mascot should be a red assed baboon with the shits.

172

Meghan McCain þ@MeghanMcCain

I need your help twitter. We're trying to choose a show mascot for Raising McCain - a bearded dragon or a tarantula? VOTE AND LET ME KNOW!

Dugong....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 23, 2013 09:54 AM (kdS6q)

 

A slab of fatback.

173 When is the Mocha Messiah scheduled to do his Preezy Presser this morning? Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at May 23, 2013 09:53 AM (4df7R) that was on the cspan schedule, when I looked earlier but, didn't care to take note

174

We are closing GITMO and counting on terrorist states to prosecute terrorists for us.

 

Cute, isn't it?

175 I have a three-24"-screen Eyefinity setup at home which I turn on from time to time to play certain games. Racing games look spectacular on them, especially if you turn on cockpit mode. It's like you're really there! Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 09:50 AM (GQ8sn) Niiiiice. I don't have the space for a setup like that, but I plan to have one once we move. I've got just a single 42" tv that I connect my PC to.

176 I don't know....faded colors....big O...it strangely looks like an Obama logo in background, I still think Google are a bunch of dicks.

177

Congress is not in session today.  Memorial Day holiday weekend

 

Congress will be back in session Monday, and then they can call Lerner back

178 Cashews. Tossed a few on my stir fry last night.

179 *taps chin* You do have a compelling argument.

 

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies. at May 23, 2013 09:56 AM (VtjlW)

 

**bows deeply, touched**

 

Yours to command and yours to serve, Imperial One.

180
Greatest nuts ever....pistachios or cashews?
Posted by: Icedog




Deez...

181 I have an honest question way off topic. As mentioned in other thread we are going to DC this weekend. First time for this Texas gal. I know I can't bring my Glock (duh!!) but can I check through my knife and carry it around in my purse when I get there??? We are planning on going to the Smithsonian museums, memorial, Arlington, etc. It just make me very uneasy not to have a self defense of some kind. Oh will be carry my 650lumens police flashlight.

182 Congress will be back in session Monday, and then they can call Lerner back

Posted by: thunderb at May 23, 2013 09:58 AM (nH8jP)

 

So they have Thursday and Friday off, but not the actual    day of   Memorial Day?   

 

That's... bizarre.

183 165 s far as I can tell, there is no Ways and Means Committee (IRS) scheduled today
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 23, 2013 09:50 AM (aDwsi)


I didn't see it either. On all 3 cspans, Posted by: artisanal 'ette
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Yeah. In spite of the assertions here, there doesn't seem to be a meeting scheduled today.

184 Why does Congress go off on Friday when the rest of us have Monday off?

185 Well, rick, Gabe and Drew are insisting that they are correct that she didn't waive her rights. On the other side, you have a Harvard and a Princeton law prof with decades of experience. I think she did. All I'm saying is it doesn't matter to me if she did or didn't. I think she's guilty as hell.

186 Niiiiice. I don't have the space for a setup like that, but I plan to have one once we move. I've got just a single 42" tv that I connect my PC to.


It rawks!  The only "complaint" I have is that on certain games like FPS's, there's too much to look at.  You're trying to keep up with three different screens at one time and it gets crazy.

187 Theorem of the day:

If it is feasible for the IRS to assume the administrative burden to enforce compliance of ObamaCare by demanding 300 million Americans have documentation sent in to verify proper insurance status, then it is even more feasible for the IRS to enforce immigration laws by having employers send in documents for each worker to verify proper work status. It is even more feasible because there are fewer EINs than SSNs, and businesses must have one if they are to pay social security and payroll taxes, thus there will be fewer targets to randomly audit to insure compliance and lack of forgeries (as can also happen with ObamaCare). The IRS's job, in this sense, would be easier than insuring proper ObamaCare compliance (as each work site would have central records, something 50 taxpayers would not, but 50 employees of the same firm would).

This thus means there is no need for amnesty, for an IRS big enough to insure ObamaCare compliance can also insure work status compliance, and illegal aliens, being unable to gain work in enough numbers, will self deport.

It is only lack of will that prevents this, not magnitude of the problem, because Democrats already wrote into law a similar size mandate for the IRS.

188 Empire of Jeff
But do you expect Gabe to seriously respond?

Odds of snark: 1:1
Odds of insult: 3:1
Odds of misdirect: 4:1
Odds of strawman: 6:1

189

"I actually want them to survive. I want them on video and audio proclaiming over and over again that they did it for Allah, that they did it for Islam, that they'd do it again, and that they won't ever stop"

 

Disagree.  IMO, that does more harm than good.

 

It's not like anybody with a brain  (a minority of people) doesn't know  what these assholes are.   The rest of us (a majority of idiots) are ripe to be sympathetic to their cause,  outright turncoated, or in the case  of  some women impregnated  during a conjugal visit.  Just look at the  all the panty dampness on the internet over the surviving Boston bomber for proof on the last item.  Disgusting.

 

No.  Fuck these animals.  They need to be speedily convicted and quickly thereafter turned into fertilizer.   Our current SOP is insanity and we will not survive it.

190 Why does Congress go off on Friday when the rest of us have Monday off?


Because they're better than the rest of us.

191 The only thing that BHO has had _consistently_ working for him is the stock market rally since Mar 2009. If we have a panic or acute financial crisis now, he's got nothing left to support his approval ratings. The corporate cronies, media, pop culture and lofo's will turn against him quickly.

192 We are closing GITMO and counting on terrorist states to prosecute terrorists for us.

Cute, isn't it?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at May 23, 2013 09:57 AM (4df7R)

Well, after all that good faith they earned by capturing and prosecuting bin Laden.

Oh... right...

193 184 Why does Congress go off on Friday when the rest of us have Monday off?

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at May 23, 2013 09:59 AM (jwi8H)

 

I'm sure they have monday off too.

 

194 pistachios if those are my only choices

195 @137, great comment, I feel ya. I have to run, its bed time for bonzo (10 PM here). Smell ya all later! God Bless all!

196 *snigger*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at May 23, 2013 09:55 AM (4df7R)

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Yup- and if they take the bait I get to launch off into my "Stalin's Spy Network was More Important to Them Than Their Own Children" rant.

197 What's with the 'oh look, we found some Obama prom pics!'. Trying to make the psychopath look human. Won't change anyone's mind, though. The LIV's are already on that planet. If this is all the scoamf and mooch have to try to distract from the sh*tstorm, good. The killing of Americans is something most of us already knew, too. Now, THAT might hit a few LIV's off the fence, but I wouldn't count on it. Tomorrow's dump should be interesting.

198 Posted by: San Antonio Rose at May 23, 2013 09:59 AM (8SJac)

It's honestly best if you leave your blade at home too.  The last thing you want on your vacation is to be acosted by some hyped-on-authority jackwagon who thinks bad people don't exist.

199

sorry.  Congress prolly has Monday off too.

 

They gotta go home and march in parades, shake hands, kiss babies.

200 I consider myself a well-grounded person with a strong grasp on what's real and what's not. I admit I almost pee'd my pants at certain times and had to shut it off. Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 09:44 AM (GQ8sn) --- Which reminds me... I still need to throw Eternal Darkness into the Wii and attempt to play through it late one night. Not only is it scary, but the game itself starts fucking with you when your player's sanity level falls too low. You get screens saying you need to reload and "accidentally" deletes all of your data, etc.

201 What's with the 'oh look, we found some Obama prom pics!'.


I almost, ALMOST, thought you said "porn pics".


*barfs*

202 #105  I happened to hear that broadcast by Dana Loesch with Ann Wagner.

Wagner is not a conspiracy type.  She is a center-right Republican who was also appointed an ambassador to Luxembourg by President George W. Bush.

Her knowledge comes from being briefed on protocol and rules from when she took the job.

I thought I had discussed that here at one time,  but maybe not.  I also go to another site with news.

It's interesting how this is sort of being ignored.

203 @108 I find his statements of opinion represented as statements of fact irritating. In general it is not a good sign when experts/scholars do that.

204 The only thing that BHO has had _consistently_ working for him is the stock market rally since Mar 2009. If we have a panic or acute financial crisis now, he's got nothing left to support his approval ratings. The corporate cronies, media, pop culture and lofo's will turn against him quickly. Posted by: gp at May 23, 2013 10:01 AM (+Jpqc) I was thinking the same thing. Remember when he said he didn't want the next president (Romney) to get credit for the American comeback? heh. Socialism doesn't work, O'Idiot.

205 Greatest nuts? Whichever happens to be on my chin at the time.

206 I expect a big dump of info Friday night, perfect time to release bad info.  Holiday weekend

207

I think it's fairly clear that Lerner waived her fifth amendment rights. 

"I didn't do anything wrong."

 

"Were you involved in    the   targeting   of    specific groups based on their political ideology, in direct contravention of the first amendment?"

 

"I plead the 5th."

 

She wants to     have her cake and eat it, too.     I'm not a lawyer and I haven't stayed at a Holiday Inn Express recently, but I'm pretty sure that ain't going to fly. 

208

Juggy McStupid's new mascot should be a Deer Tick.

209 They gotta go home and march in parades, shake hands, kiss babies.
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Ugh. Evoked an image of Harry Reid kissing a baby. That deteriorated into an image of Barney Frank doing the same thing.

I would like to ask a Massachusetts Dem parent if they would like Barney Frank kissing their baby...

210 Has anyone seen Ironman 3? If so, how was it?

211 Haven't played FO. Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 09:55 AM (GQ8sn) Gameplay. http://tinyurl.com/ppx2l2l Yeah, I can imagine FPS's get a little crazy. I always wish I had them for racing because you can more easily see other cars coming alongside you. Not so much with a single screen.

212 I thought I had discussed that here at one time, but maybe not. I also go to another site with news. It's interesting how this is sort of being ignored. Posted by: Miss Marple at May 23, 2013 10:04 AM (GoIUi) You probably did discuss it. Somehow this flew right past me. Thanks MM. She can't be the only one with the balls to say this -- someone with integrity and real knowledge.

213 201 What's with the 'oh look, we found some Obama prom pics!'. I almost, ALMOST, thought you said "porn pics". *barfs* --- No, they didn't find any Obama ones. Just the Stanley Dunham ones

214

Empire of Jeff
But do you expect Gabe to seriously respond?

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

 

Of course not.  We are beneath him. 

215 Juggy McStupid's new mascot should be a Deer Tick. Posted by: Jaws
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Crap. I had to pick a couple of ticks off this past weekend.

216 Not only is it scary, but the game itself starts fucking with you when your player's sanity level falls too low. You get screens saying you need to reload and "accidentally" deletes all of your data, etc.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 23, 2013 10:03 AM (zA7Zp)

 

 

That game is CREEPY.   I have it for GameCube, and I haven't summoned the nerve to    replay it   in YEARS.

217 Stock market is breaking records. Can I get a hamburger and fries? http://tinyurl.com/oqb6awj

218 Ugh. Evoked an image of Harry Reid kissing a baby. --- Anyone else take one look at Harry Reid and think of The Tall Man from the Phantasm films?

219 I would like to ask a Massachusetts Dem parent if they would like Barney Frank kissing their baby...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 23, 2013 10:05 AM (aDwsi)

Massachusetts Dem parents have shown a willingness to overlook evil that leads me to believe they'd beg Barney Frank to do more than that.

220 Ugh. That was referencing 188 not108 (odds of Gabes responses). Stupid phone.

221 It just make me very uneasy not to have a self defense of some kind. Oh will be carry my 650lumens police flashlight. Posted by: San Antonio Rose at May 23, 2013 09:59 AM (8SJac) Hi Rose, I hope you enjoy D.C. Every single museum has a metal detector and security bag check you have to go through. Now, admittedly, I've never tried to get a knife through any of them, but I have to think that the security will not look kindly upon such a thing. they also may have random periodic bag searches on the metro (I think they are still doing this, not sure). I think as long as you are not out walking alone in the very early hours or the very late hours, and don't walk with your iphone held out in your hand where someone can snatch it, you'll be okay.

222 further evidence, uh, I would point out of climate change. Posted by: President Barky
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... and the need for a bigger, better-funded FEMA.

223 You get screens saying you need to reload and "accidentally" deletes all of your data, etc. Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 23, 2013 10:03 AM (zA7Zp) It doesn't actually delete anything though, does it?

224 Ugh. Evoked an image of Harry Reid kissing a baby. voice going up another female octave.

225

Anyone else take one look at Harry Reid and think of The Tall Man from the Phantasm films?

 

BOY!!!

226

Anyone else take one look at Harry Reid and think of The Tall Man from the Phantasm films?

 

I'm always reminded of the lisping pedophile from "Family Guy."    They could be brothers.

227 alexthechick glad you like them
hope you noticed the pattern

228 224 You get screens saying you need to reload and "accidentally" deletes all of your data, etc. Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 23, 2013 10:03 AM (zA7Zp) It doesn't actually delete anything though, does it? --- No, it is just an interface screw when ED claims to have done it. The game that really DOES delete your data is Earthbound, if you're using a bootleg version of the game. When the game notices it is a bootleg version, you automatically get a much harder game than normal. Then, when you get to the final boss, the game locks up, and then you find all your data is deleted when you restart.

229 Hey MWR!

I want you to promise me you'll do this at the NoVaMoMee.  Force feed BCochran and Bannion a couple (dozen) belts of whiskey and then make them do karaoke to this:

http://youtu.be/g7IVAH1JauE

Take some video for Youtube!

230 227 Anyone else take one look at Harry Reid and think of The Tall Man from the Phantasm films? BOY!!! --- You play a good game, boy! But the game is finished! And now you die!

231 Y-not, I don't buy Wonderful Pistachios, they are the ones with the terrible ads (in the black packages). You can find other brands of pistachios, though.

232 #2222 - THANKS!! Will not even pack my knife then. I appreciate the advice.

233 Empire of JeffBut do you expect Gabe to seriously respond?
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Of course not. We are beneath him.
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Well, he did at the end to Vic. So, I'll give him that. 'Course, it was a "I already so did on Twitter." And a sorta "I'm right, they're wrong."

So, I guess that's a good start.

234 Of course not. We are beneath him.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 23, 2013 10:06 AM (CJjw5)

He responded in the previous thread.

235 Has anyone seen Ironman 3? If so, how was it?

I saw it, and I liked it.

Warning, though:  I go for things going all 'splodey with a side of snark.  If you're going for "the story" you're going to the wrong movie. 

That said, it looks like they're moving to the "next phase" of Tony Stark (TS2.0, perhaps).

It wasn't as good as the first two, really, but it was fun and I didn't want my money back at the end.

****SPOILER ALERT****
This always happens in the comics- it doesn't make sense that someone who can invent the equivalent of cold-fusion and build the Iron Man suits would be constrained by medical science (especially when the problem is a mechanical one- in the current iteration: the shrapnel around his heart).  Just as always happens in the comics, he has himself fixed.

How they will handle this in Avengers 2, I have no idea.  Also: if the only reason I hadn't been mind-jacked by Loki was the fact his little scepter thing couldn't touch my heart, I think I'd keep the little thing that prevents weird mind-control scepters from touching my heart.  Just sayin'.
****END SPOILERS****

236 Take some video for Youtube!

Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 10:10 AM (GQ8sn)

*pleased he avoided targeting*

237 Teh Fred! opines on the fifth at Natl Review.

238 Posted by: gp at May 23, 2013 10:01 AM (+Jpqc)

god another stock market meltdown would suck right now

I really really hope it doesn't come to that

239

about Ms Lerner and the 5th,

 

didn't Martha Stewart catch a charge of false statements for simply standing on the court house steps and saying she was not guilty of insider trading?

240

 

 

  A word for all you who are upsettled that no one is on the ramparts, guns blazing--defending this country doesn't ALWAYS mean the use of weaponry. 

   That is the ultimate last resort. 

   Getting involved with your community is the best and easiest place where you can actually SEE results.

  This means school boards, local elections, town meetings--the real nuts and bolts of involvement.  Screw the national scene,repairing the damage has to begin at the most basic level.

    Nowlaugh at me for saying this.

 

 

241 Thx AllenG. Wold thought but you should get a blog. ;-)

242 AllenG, I haven't seen the film but, if the ending is what I think it is, keep in mind that Tony has a tendency to fake his own death every so often so that he can recuperate from all the damage he'd taken. They did this for a year or two back in the 90s, with War Machine (Rhodey) replacing him as Iron Man while he was in a form of stasis getting fixed.

243 *pleased he avoided targeting*

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, The Colossus of Independence at May 23, 2013 10:12 AM (fwARV)

There were three members to House of Pain. 

244 A word for all you who are upsettled that no one is on the ramparts, guns blazing--

Yeah, I think we realize that.  Of course "all you..." was one probable troll- certainly it wasn't a nic/hash I recognized.

245

Everybody just simmer down now or Cartmans Evil Twin is gonna get fire up his Cessna 150 to fly into Washington with his milkmen.

 

Seriously dude STFU.

246 Everybody just simmer down now or Cartmans Evil Twin is gonna get fire up his Cessna 150 to fly into Washington with his milkmen.

But he made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs!

247

This is about the quinzillionth story I've seen like this.

 

The Quran as a blueprint for murder.   Usually  buried  in  paragraph  27 and mentioned  cryptically   in passing or only on boutique anti-jihad blogs. Apparently the  beheading  jihadi  yesterday  was  really  into  Al-Tawba,  or  Sura  Nine.

 

The UNC SUV jihadi did a nice Quranic exegesis online, as did Nidal Hasan on Power Point.   If anyone is interested.   

 

Nobody in counterterror of course.  That is forbidden.     

 

Jihad Watch link below.  

248 I haven't seen the film but, if the ending is what I think it is, keep in mind that Tony has a tendency to fake his own death every so often so that he can recuperate from all the damage he'd taken.

Even with my spoiler alerts I don't want want to get too spoilery, but- no, you are under no illusions that he's dead at the end of the movie.  Frankly, I don't think they can do that until near the end of the Franchise (and we all know there will at least be Avengers 2 and Iron Man 4), when you're not even sure there will be a next movie.

249 There were three members to House of Pain.

Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 10:14 AM (GQ8sn)

*displeased he drew attention to himself*

250 The two thugs are connected to Anjem Choudary, a hate preacher who led the riots against returning soldiers in Lutton a few years back. He's also has received huge gov benefits instead of getting a fucking job.

251 Momma  says  she's  sick  and  tired  of  'Cake  Boy'.   Maybe   she  is  going  to  fire  the WH  baker.

252 That last film ticked me off, with the way they had promo'd the Mandarin, I suspected it would be a McGuffin, but not such a lame one,

253 *displeased he drew attention to himself*

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, The Colossus of Independence at May 23, 2013 10:16 AM (fwARV)

It's either that or London Boys! 

254 Teh Fred! opines on the fifth at Natl Review. Yes, yes he does. Clever link. http://tinyurl.com/FredRocksTheFifth

255 He's also has received huge gov benefits instead of getting a fucking job. --- That's SOP for many people in Britain. Their job market is fucked, so many people get the doctor to declare them "disabled" so they can be permanently on the dole.

256

Teh Fred! opines on the fifth at Natl Review.

 

I read that earlier.  I still grind my teeth when I think that he could have been president.  First GOPer other than Ronaldus Maximus I would have been happy to pull the lever for.

257 one of the jihadi's daddies is a nurse for the national health service

258 258 Teh Fred! opines on the fifth at Natl Review. I read that earlier. I still grind my teeth when I think that he could have been president. First GOPer other than Ronaldus Maximus I would have been happy to pull the lever for. --- This thing is going to get out of control. It's going to get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it!

259 It's either that or London Boys!

Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 10:18 AM (GQ8sn)

Well... with enough good scotch, anything is possible.

260 Screw the national scene,repairing the damage has to begin at the most basic level. Nowlaugh at me for saying this. Posted by: irongrampa at May 23, 2013 10:13 AM (NGuNB) Yeah, I keep saying I need to get on the HOA where I live. Our HOA fee has gone up every year because the board is full of retirees who have nothing better to do than spend money on crap. "You know what, let's uproot that maple over there and replace it with a spruce. I don't like maples." I'm seriously going to go to the next meeting and ask if anyone EVER brings up the idea of decreasing spending and lowering everyone's HOA fee.

261 one of the jihadi's daddies is a nurse for the national health service --- So, killing people is a family tradition, then.

262

*headdesk*

 

So I'm actually doing WORK  (I know, crazy), and I'm ready to punch a mofo.    I have three times explained to my co-workers, "No,    our Department's internal servers cannot be accessed by users outside of the network.   THIS IS A GOOD THING.   No, I am not going to ask the IT department to give the feds access to our internal servers because I don't want to be laughed off the planet.  This is why we    use the    FTP server    when we have lots of things to share    with them.      And in this case we're talking about a grand total of six Word documents,   for a grand total of MAYBE 200kb.      JUST USE EMAIL."

 

*HEAD*

*DESK*

 

 

263 This thing is going to get out of control. It's going to get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it!

I used to say that as hyperbole... Not so much anymore.

264 Momma says she's sick and tired of 'Cake Boy'. Maybe she is going to fire the WH baker. Can we haz moar cake girl then?

265 *HEAD* *DESK* Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at May 23, 2013 10:20 AM (4df7R) Also remember never to give administrative passwords to anyone except good customers.

266 *HEAD*
*DESK*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at May 23, 2013 10:20 AM (4df7R)

Manhattan?

*slides some chilled, neat goodness MWR's way*

267 irongrampa, I am with you.

To slay Leviathan, we can't think like a dragon slayer.  We've got to think more like Lilliputians.

268 *HEAD*
*DESK*

That's their heads, right?  On the corner of the desk?

269

Good news!

 

Eva Longoria has graduated from Cal State with a masters degree in Chicano Studies!

 

Wonder if she ever went to a class?  Wonder if she ever learned anything?  Wonder why she bothered? 

 

Should prolly be called "Grievance Studies" or "La Raza Studies"

270 Work would be great except for all this crap I gotta do.

271

Well... with enough good scotch, anything is possible.

 

Why d'ya think they call me tha miracle wurrrker, laddie?

272 #2222 - THANKS!! Will not even pack my knife then. I appreciate the advice. Posted by: San Antonio Rose at May 23, 2013 10:10 AM (8SJac) you bet. Here's some more: Don't waste your time and money on the aquarium. American Indian Museum has the best food of all the museums in their Cafeteria but it is very pricey. But good. The museum itself is meh. I just go there for the food. Don't bother with the zoo if you have limited time. It's nothing special. If you are a zoophile and MUST go to the zoo, go early, the grounds open at 6 AM (before the zoo "officially" opens at 10) and you can see a lot of the animals. Some of the buildings are also open before they are supposed to, so check doors. If you can save the Natural History Museum for the late afternoon, that is best, most of the kids have cleared out.

273 *slides some chilled, neat goodness MWR's way*

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, The Colossus of Independence at May 23, 2013 10:22 AM (fwARV)

 

*downs in one gulp*

 

I also enjoy that they expect me to read their mind.    I got a CC on an email my boss sent to the feds this morning that said, in short, "MWR has prepared the response to your questions regarding evidence for monitoring questions A,  B,    C..."

 

News to me!   

 

So    I emailed her back and said,     essentially,   "Uh... WTF?"

 

I honestly really like my boss, but she forgets sometimes that I don't actually live in her back pocket and therefore don't actually know everything she does    and/or   says.

274 271 Good news! Eva Longoria has graduated from Cal State with a masters degree in Chicano Studies! Wonder if she ever went to a class? Wonder if she ever learned anything? Wonder why she bothered? Should prolly be called "Grievance Studies" or "La Raza Studies" --- This is black history and I'm black, so I get an automatic "A", right? WRONG! Failed it! Ain't that some sad shit, a black man failing black history.

275 271 read that as Chicago Studies which, come to that, might have more worth as a degree

276 Titzworth,

If you're going to link to Zerohedge you need to add a warning about the comments.

The comments there are a festering pit of anti-semetic, wall-eyed coprophiliacs and should be avoided at all costs.

277 That's their heads, right? On the corner of the desk?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at May 23, 2013 10:23 AM (/PCJa)

 

If I have to explain it one more time, yes.  Yes it will be.

278 I honestly really like my boss, but she forgets sometimes that I don't actually live in her back pocket and therefore don't actually know everything she does and/or says.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at May 23, 2013 10:25 AM (4df7R)

Sounds like we have the same boss.

"I didn't ask you to wrap up this investigation for me?  Well, I know I thought about it.  I need it by lunch."

279 I'm on the path, the path to ceetizenship.
America very nice countries to me.

280 *slides MWR another one*

281
My favorite trick when talking to lefties about the "Red Menace" days is to ask them how long Julius Rosenberg worked on the Manhattan Project.
=========
Try being in college and bringing up the Venona Transcripts to your leftie history teacher.
After she had gone on a bit about the innocence of known communists.

"Sputter, sputter! Well, that's just some people's interpretation/ that's not proof!"

282 *slides MWR another one*

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, The Colossus of Independence at May 23, 2013 10:28 AM (fwARV)

I see where this is going....

283 The comments there are a festering pit of anti-semetic, wall-eyed coprophiliacs and should be avoided at all costs.

And not to mention, they are just terrible in the sack!

284 "I didn't ask you towrap upthis investigation for me? Well, I know I thought about it. I need it by lunch."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, The Colossus of Independence at May 23, 2013 10:27 AM (fwARV)

 

"MWR,    I need    enrollment numbers of all students in the state with IEPs,   broken down by district,    and how those enrollments compare to IEP enrollments in    our programs."

 

Five minutes later, "You have them yet?"

 

Five mintues later still.  "Now?"

 

Three more minutes,  "How's it coming along?"

285 Do we have confirmation as to whether or not Ms Lehrner is alive or suffered so type of freak accident last night...?

286 *slides MWR another one*

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, The Colossus of Independence at May 23, 2013 10:28 AM (fwARV)

 

*eyes drink*

 

There's a roofie in it, isn't there?

287 Come on, they wouldn't be Drew and Gabe if they didn't annoy the majority of us at least once a week. That's why I like this place so much.

288 "MWR, I need enrollment numbers of all students in the state with IEPs, broken down by district, and how those enrollments compare to IEP enrollments in our programs." Five minutes later, "You have them yet?" Five mintues later still. "Now?" Three more minutes, "How's it coming along?" --- That's about the time I tell them that the results will be ready on the 32nd of Nevember.

289 Try being in college and bringing up the Venona Transcripts to your leftie history teacher.
After she had gone on a bit about the innocence of known communists.

"Sputter, sputter! Well, that's just some people's interpretation/ that's not proof!"

Posted by: RoyalOil at May 23, 2013 10:28 AM (VjL9S)
=============

Since they've been published you can just shove the volume right in her face.

290 That's about the time I tell them that the results will be ready on the 32nd of Nevember.

29th of February works too.  Hehe...

291 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at May 23, 2013 10:29 AM (4df7R) Wow..... I'm sorry. I totally feel your pain. drinking before noon is okay, this weekend is a holiday weekend so basically it's already started, right?

292
Eva enrolled at CSU Northridge* three years ago and is receiving her Master's degree in Chicano Studies with her thesis on "Success STEMS From Diversity: The Value of Latinas in STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics] Careers."




*Go Matadors!

293 Hey look!  I found a pic of MWR's boss!

http://tinyurl.com/obntz6h

294 In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

295 I heard Rush talking about this yesterday. Yeah, *that* Forbes Magazine. Economically, Could Obama Be America's Best President? http://preview.tinyurl.com/ForbesIsFullOfShit

296 292 That's about the time I tell them that the results will be ready on the 32nd of Nevember. 29th of February works too. Hehe... --- Only roughly 3/4 of all times you try it.

297 Hey look! I found a pic of MWR's boss!


She better file those TPS reports by noon!

298

who thinks Ms Longoria wrote her own thesis?

 

Show of hands?

299 There's a roofie in it, isn't there?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at May 23, 2013 10:31 AM (4df7R)

Nope.  I was raised by a southern mother.  If charm, humor, wit and passable looks don't get it done, it's not getting done. 

But here, have a third one.

300

That's about the time I tell them that the results will be ready on the 32nd of Nevember.

 

lol!   I like that!   May have to put that in my toolbox of witty replies.

 

Okay then, folks.  Back to the grindstone.  Hopefully I'll BBL to play with Obammy's      vivisected     presser    statement,    which I expect y'all to eviscerate with the usual aplomb.

301 "Success STEMS From Diversity: The Value of Latinas in STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics] Careers."


I'm in a STEM industry right now.  I see zero latinas.

302 Eva enrolled at CSU Northridge* three years ago and is receiving her Master's degree in Chicano Studies with her thesis on "Success STEMS From Diversity: The Value of Latinas in STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics] Careers." --- Wow, a Master's in Chicano Studies. That and $5 might get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks but probably won't help you get a job that isn't "community organizing".

303 *eyes drink* There's a roofie in it, isn't there? No. No. Drink. Drink.

304 Drew has gotten mire conservative, on twitter anyway. He is really pissed since the election, esp on immigration/amnesty. I find him less annoying that the "socons made us lose" crowd.

305 Hey look! I found a pic of MWR's boss!


I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday...

306

I believe Ms Longoria's undergrad degree was in gym (phy ed).

 

 

307

My favorite trick when talking to lefties about the "Red Menace"
days is to ask them how long Julius Rosenberg worked on the Manhattan
Project.
=========
Try being in college and bringing up the Venona Transcripts to your leftie history teacher.
After she had gone on a bit about the innocence of known communists.

 

Also bring up the KGB archives, which confirmed that Alger Hiss was a Soviet spy. Then bring up Harry Dexter White, also a (now) known Soviet source.

308 Posted by: San Antonio Rose at May 23, 2013 09:59 AM (8SJac)

I left the DC area in 2008 (so my recollection may not be the most current info), but they have security airport-like scanners at the Smithsonian museums (and other places on the mall, especially the Holocaust museum). I would advise against having a weapon in your bag or in a pocket when visiting these buildings. There has generally been a greater police/security presence since 9/11.
 There were no checks at the Arlington cemetery the last time we visited.
Two places off the beaten path you might want to consider (depending on your time available and transportation:
*Teddy Roosevelt island (on the VA side across from Georgetown)
*Air and Space museum annex in Dulles, VA

Have fun!

309 Forbes et al are just drooling at the possibility of 11 million new people willing to work even CHEAPER.

310 IsnÂ’t it ironic that the Tea Party now stands for the rule of law and that elements of the United States government and the Washington establishment have become the rogue, criminal element in America?

311 San Antonio Rose, just stay out of Anacostia

312 I'm  willing  to  help  FLOTUS  pack  for  her  extended  vacation.  Once  she  leaves I  can  pack  fudge  all  summer.

313 Wow on the Coburn ripping Morning Joe clip at freebeacon.com Wow. http://freebeacon.com/coburn-schools-morning-joe-hosts-on-disaster-relief/ Gold standard.

314 Since they've been published you can just shove the volume right in her face. Posted by: Nighthawk at May 23, 2013 10:32 AM (OtQXp) I also like pointing out how Ted Kennedy talked with the KGB and Soviet leaders about undermining Reagan's security policies.

315

Try being in college and bringing up the Venona Transcripts to your leftie history teacher.
After she had gone on a bit about the innocence of known communists.

"Sputter, sputter! Well, that's just some people's interpretation/ that's not proof!"

--------   -------- ------- --------

 

Communism just fell back into the universities.   It was never defeated.   I was there when the Berlin Wall came down.  Some became Greens.  Most just kept calling themselves nonpartisan and progressives. 

 

Hell, if I'm honest, I was maybe  a third lefty at one point.   Got into the whole anti-colonial  evil  white man  (like myself)  thing.  Good for the  long-suffering  GPA at the end there.   Quit trying to swim upstream.  

316 I'm in a STEM industry right now. I see zero latinas. Senor, we do a lot of STEM. landScaping Tree trimming Earth moving Mulching

317

He responded in the previous thread.

 

Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 10:11 AM (GQ8sn)

 

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

 

They're wrong. I explained the law extensively on Twitter yesterday. I see no reason to do it again.

 

Well, he wrote something.  I'm not sure  it qualifies as a "response"   unless "fuck off"  is considered responsive.

 

Hmm.

 

Maybe he  did respond.

318

Eva enrolled at CSU Northridge* three years ago and is receiving her Master's degree in Chicano Studies with her thesis on "Success STEMS From Diversity: The Value of Latinas in STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics] Careers."

---

Wow, a Master's in Chicano Studies.

 

OK, so I'll ask the obvious question: why didn't this "Latina" have her little ass actually studying a STEM subject, instead of pontificating about the value of "Latinas" value at such? And let's face it, Chicano Studies is an intellectual sandbox. They probably offer a major in lawn mowing.

319

Drew and Gabe are the bestest cobloggers evah!  Their  insight is unquestionable.   They balance each other perfectly.  One blames Republicans and Bush except for Gingrich for every Democrat fuck up and  one makes excuses  and defends most Democrat fuck ups. 

 

A marriage made in  heaven.

320 Five minutes later, "You have them yet?"

Five mintues later still. "Now?"

Three more minutes, "How's it coming along?"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at May 23, 2013 10:29 AM

===========

I used to work for a guy like that- we called him "Ya Dunn Yett" 'cause that was the first words out of his mouth: "Ya done yet?"  Used to go to meetings and when I'd introduce myself and say I worked for _____ everybody would reflexively say "oh, I'm sorry!"

In retrospect it was a good experience for me since in the future whenever I had to supervise people I'd just think about what he would do- and do the opposite.

321 *HEAD* *DESK* Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at May 23, 2013 10:20 AM (4df7R) Yeah. I used to get oh hey what's the password for the wireless here? When I would say um why I would get "Opposing counsel needs it to go online!" I would then say no. Then I would get yelled at. Then I would explain that we didn't have guest internet only access set up and that the password would allow access to the entire network and, let me repeat, no. I once got a phone call from someone at around 3:30 p.m. on a Friday and the person on the other end was blathering on and on and on about a trial starting Monday. I finally said "Why are you telling me this?" and got "Because you're going to court to run the presentation" all snotty. I said "Well, considering that I'm not going to be in the country, this is a problem." All hell broke loose and I was more or less threatened with my job unless I cancelled a vacation that had been scheduled for five months, was noted on the calendar in all caps and red and for which I had made each and every attorney in the place sign off that they knew that I wouldn't be there that week. Oh then there was the fact that a decree had come down from on high a few weeks before that I was to no longer go to court to run the presentations. Thankfully, the case settled before my bosses realized that I wasn't kidding when I said that I was going on my vacation, either as a vacation from which I would return or with all my new free time. There was also the grand fun of explaining that, yes, Canada is a whole other country so that when I said I wouldn't be in the country and got you're only going to Canada, well, um, that's out of the country.

322 Gabe from previous thread:  "They're wrong. I explained the law extensively on Twitter yesterday...."


An extensive legal explanation.....on TWITTER?!

323 I have no doubt the U gave her "life experience credit" and then she had her assistant write the thesis anyway.  Prolly got a little help from the mayor of LA and the Castro brothers too. 

324 I'm in a STEM industry right now. I see zero latinas. Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 10:34 AM (GQ8sn) Ah. but the extension of Title IX quotas to college STEM departments just began this year. Expect it be as just as successful as it was in college sports, where it caused widespread disappearance of men's teams in sports such as wrestling, diving, and gymnastics.

325 IsnÂ’t it ironic that the Tea Party now stands for the rule of law and
that elements of the United States government and the Washington
establishment have become the rogue, criminal element in America?

----

Just another example of lefty projection.  

The United States.....through the IRS squashing political dissent.... wide net seizing of the press's phone records....the lying, posturing and covering up.....  is NOW the ruthless authoritarian regime they've always said it was.

326 There was also the grand fun of explaining that, yes, Canada is a whole other country so that when I said I wouldn't be in the country and got you're only going to Canada, well, um, that's out of the country.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies. at May 23, 2013 10:40 AM (VtjlW)

I love people.  One of my favorite things to do is to explain to black people that yes, Egypt is in Africa.

327

An extensive legal explanation.....on TWITTER?!

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

 

I know, right?  Fucking  priceless.

328 Finally Google does something right.

22 days until I leave the SoCal hellhole!

Yeah!!

329 Shit. I swear I put line breaks in there. Bannion! Hamster chow, asap!

330

Hell, if I'm honest, I was maybe a third lefty at one point. Got into the whole anti-colonial evil white man (like myself) thing. Good for the long-suffering GPA at the end there. Quit trying to swim upstream.

 

I'm counseling little Guevara - who's about to go off to college, and is more conservative than I am - to keep his head down as much as possible. No point putting a bullseye on your back for the Reds to aim at.

 

He already got a taste of the problem in high school. He had to work on a project with another kid who wrote an encomium to W and turned it in to a melanin-rich English "teacher" whose classroom featured a life-size cutout of Prince Hussein (rather brighter than the original, btw), and who specialized in writing vocabulary worksheets with laughably wrong definitions.

 

Result? The worst grade he ever received on a project. No payback there, I'm sure.

331 324 Gabe from previous thread: "They're wrong. I explained the law extensively on Twitter yesterday...." An extensive legal explanation.....on TWITTER?! Posted by: Tami at May 23, 2013 10:41 AM (X6akg) I like that. Every new law passed by Congress should be written for Twitter, too.

332 I love people. One of my favorite things to do is to explain to black people that yes, Egypt is in Africa.


Ummm...where else would it be?  Did it move?

333 And let's face it, Chicano Studiesis an intellectual sandbox.They probably offer a major in lawn mowing. --- More like an intellectual "rubber room". Many of the original gender / ethnic studies programs at major universities were pretty much a place where Affirmative Action entries were sent if they couldn't cut it in a real major. They didn't want to look bad by throwing out someone unable to hack it, so they just gave them a worthless degree to work on.

334 One of my favorite things to do is to explain to black people Nubians that yes, Egypt is in Africa.

335 So...what does one do with a Master's in Chicano Studies?

336 Forbes et al are just drooling at the possibility of 11 million new people willing to work even CHEAPER.

Senor, you number seems, how you say? Low.

337 336 One of my favorite things to do is to explain to blackpeople Nubiansthat yes, Egypt is in Africa. --- What's a Nubian?

338

I'm in a STEM industry right now. I see zero latinas.
Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 10:34 AM (GQ8sn)

We have a Texan teenage girl of hispanic heritage who is going to light up the world of  mechanical engineering in the near future.  Robotics specifically.  Forgot her name but she was on our local news recently.  Exception  that proves the rule?  

339 An extensive legal explanation.....on TWITTER?! Posted by: Tami at May 23, 2013 10:41 AM (X6akg) Yeah, I saw that and was a wee bit taken aback. Also, I hate the whole "oh I explained that on twitter, go read there". Let me think, no.

340

>>>An extensive legal explanation.....on TWITTER?!

 

Why not? All legal arguments should be reduced to soundbites, bumperstickers, tweets, and 20 second adverts.

 

1st A: STFU

2nd A: BANGlulz

3rd A: No way, dude

4th A: GTFO

5th A: FYNQ

etc

341

Banky:  "What's a Nubian?"

 

Hooper X:  "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

342 "Our next generation are being taught through schools that Islam is a religion
of peace. It's not. It never has been..."


Muhammad preached Islam with a sword in one hand and the Quran in the other.

—Prof. Wilfred Cantwell Smith

343 So...what does one do with a Master's in Chicano Studies?


Posted by: Lizzy

You are the supervisor of the lawn crew.

I denounce myself.

344 Forbes et al are just drooling at the possibility of 11 million new people willing to work even CHEAPER.

...but now they'll have to pay the Social Security tax, and Obamacare fines and whatnot for all those people who used to work for cash.

345 Ummm...where else would it be? Did it move?

Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 10:44 AM (GQ8sn)

You'd be stunned at the number of people who just don't know this.  It's like they think Egypt sits alone, off in the corner somewhere.  No one puts Egypt in a corner. 

346 oldest child is a junior and looking at colleges now. All the staff of admissions offices tend to be Art History, Grievance Studies, or Literature majors.   All of em. 

347 337 So...what does one do with a Master's in Chicano Studies? --- Either "organize a community" or say "You want fries with that?" Much like a degree in acting, which my geology professor referred to as a "food service major" my first week on campus.

348

Many of the original gender / ethnic studies programs at major universities were pretty much a place where Affirmative Action entries were sent if they couldn't cut it in a real major.

 

True, but that wasn't the purpose of those departments. Their purpose was to provide a sinecure for Communist agitators. Warehousing the cognitively disenfranchised and then giving them a certificate of attendance - which is effectively all a degree in "studies" amounts to - was a subordinate goal.

349 I love people. One of my favorite things to do is to explain to black people that yes, Egypt is in Africa. Posted by: Washington Nearsider, The Colossus of Independence at May 23, 2013 10:42 AM (fwARV) Anybody seen 3,000 miles to Graceland? Cybil Waingrow: This looks Beautiful. Murphy: It's one of my favorite pieces. Cybil Waingrow: Yeah. Where's it from? Murphy: [whispers] Out my ass. Cybil Waingrow: Excuse me. Murphy: It's an African piece. Cybil Waingrow: Looks Egyptian to me

350

Gotta be quicker on the draw around here.

351

So...what does one do with a Master's in Chicano Studies?

 

Start a gang?

352 337 So...what does one do with a Master's in Chicano Studies? Apply for a fuck-ton of Government grants so that one can pursue a Doctorate in Ch...yeah.

353 Of course...I have confidence that Google will find a way to put up something honoring a communist degenerate next week on the actual Memorial Day. I have faith in them.

354 No one puts Egypt in a corner.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, The Colossus of Independence at May 23, 2013 10:47 AM (fwARV)

-----

....**cough**....

355 Warehousing the cognitively disenfranchised and then giving them a certificate of attendance - which is effectively all a degree in "studies" amounts to - was a subordinate goal. --- I'm reminded of a good bit from Futurama. "I went to Bending University where I majored in benging!" "What did you minor in?" "Robo-American studies."

356

As a faculty member in the physical sciences, I used to refer to English as "Secretarial Studies."

 

Turns out that English faculty members don't have much of a sense of humor.

357 Shouldn't it be a Maestro in Chicano Estudios

358 As a faculty member in the physical sciences, I used to refer to English as "Secretarial Studies." Turns out that English faculty members don't have much of a sense of humor. --- If they had a sense of humor, they wouldn't be teaching English.

359 All the staff of admissions offices tend to be Art History, Grievance Studies, or Literature majors. All of em.

Semi-useful work at non-government employers? I bet they really have to hang their heads in shame at the departmental alumni reunions.




Just managed to shove a mind-numbing gov't-paperwork-generating task off onto the intern.  BWAHAHAHAHAHA.

360
Their purpose was to provide a sinecure for Communist agitators.
Posted by: Jay Guevara




Nowadays, mostly for government workers to check the Master's box on their CV so they go up in pay grade.

See also, Education - Master's in.

361 Posted by: Menachem Begin at May 23, 2013 10:49 AM (nELVU)

How's that Peace Prize treating you?  Muslim Brotherhood still behaving?

362 Cashews are not nuts,  so Pistachios win.  Although cashews are nicer to eat.

363

Nowadays, mostly for government workers to check the Master's box on their CV so they go up in pay grade.

See also, Education - Master's in.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 23, 2013 10:52 AM (kdS6q)

 

Yep. I was referring to the faculty in my sinecure comment, but your point holds.

364 Just managed to shove a mind-numbing gov't-paperwork-generating task off onto the intern. BWAHAHAHAHAHA.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at May 23, 2013 10:52 AM (ZKzrr)

That's what they're for, right?

Besides, judging by the army of blue-shirt​ed boys and scantily-c​lad sundressed girls (all of whom are afraid to cross the street without the walk sign) I'​d say skintern season is upon us.

365 Nowadays, mostly for government workers to check the Master's box on their CV so they go up in pay grade. See also, Education - Master's in. --- Yeah, that's why there was a scandal at Southern University in BR a few years back. People were buying credits and entire degrees in education from crooks in the registrar's office in order to get higher pay from their jobs in the public schools. IIRC, none of the buyers went to jail or got fired, they just had to pay back the overage on what they got paid for the degree vs. what they should have made.

366 Muhammad preached Islam with a sword in one hand and the Quran in the other. —Prof. Wilfred Cantwell Smith Immortalized in frieze at the Supreme Court of the United States of America. http://preview.tinyurl.com/MoHavingAGoodDay

367

>>>Cashews are not nuts, so Pistachios win. Although cashews are nicer to eat.

 

Why's it always gotta be about the cashews?

368

@332 Jay Guevara

 

I had about a ten minute discussion with a professor, in _1984_ about Honiker of East Germany being a "great and wonderful reformer", better than President Reagan  "crazy cowboy"  for sure anyway.

 

His first response to my about a minute loaded question about oppression, the Stasi, and the Fulda Gap or whatever was "And your name is...?"

 

So I just took the F and never went back.   Out of drops.   

369 If they had a sense of humor, they wouldn't be teaching English.

----

No shit.

EVERY instructor that I ever had in creative writing, American Lit, English Lit, etc etc etc.... was some dour faced, bitter fucktwit that had resigned themself to the fact they were NOT going to be the next Walt Whitman or Ernest Hemingway and had to trudge out the rest of their mortal existence without any appreciation of their "special talents".

370
Well, rick, Gabe and Drew are insisting that they are correct that she didn't waive her rights.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff


Gabriel Malor ‏@gabrielmalor
And via @drewmtips, I'm not the only one that thinks Lerner didn't waive the Fifth.




Thelma and Louise, over the cliff together...

371 Ben's pay has been appropriately docked. 0% of 0 is 0.

372 Waaaay back when, the Eye for an Eye thing was not meant as punishment for a crime but rather as service.  If you poked out someone's eye, you didn't get yours poked out but instead you were now bound to the injured eyeless one as his eyes, to make amends for what you did.  You were at the victim's service.  The concept was corrupted along the way. 

373

As a faculty member in the physical sciences, I used to refer to English as "Secretarial Studies."

Turns out that English faculty members don't have much of a sense of humor.

---

If they had a sense of humor, they wouldn't be teaching English

 

True. Deconstructing everything doesn't lend itself to having a sense of humor.

 

Having said that, my best one was at the local high school, which was closing a recently built Taj Mahal-like facility for "alternative education" for "students at risk" (translation: gang members and other punks out of juvy, going for their master's degree in the retail side of criminology).

 

The school wanted more money to expand its facilities to accommodate these punks students at risk. I suggested that they just fence off part of the grounds and suspend a tire from a tree limb in that area.

 

Turns out liberal educational bureaucrats don't have a sense of humor either.

374

I'​d say skintern season is upon us.

 

I'm currently feeling the exact same amount of shame I felt upon discovering that  I'd made it all the way to early middle age  and  never heard, nor managed to create, the terms 'spank-bank' and 'finger-bang'.

 

Skintern.  Awesome.

375

EVERY instructor that I ever had in creative writing, American Lit, English Lit, etc etc etc.... was some dour faced, bitter fucktwit that had resigned themself to the fact they were NOT going to be the next Walt Whitman or Ernest Hemingway and had to trudge out the rest of their mortal existence without any appreciation of their "special talents".

 

 

Funny. My English teacher in High School (the year I wasn't homeschooled) was one of the nicest people you could find.

376 O/T - The FBI's neatly tied bow is unravelling somewhat. Drudge headlines it as: Officials back off account of FBI agent who shot man in Orlando... http://preview.tinyurl.com/p9swukg

377 >>>So...what does one do with a Master's in Chicano Studies?

Livin' la vida loca, bebé!

378 Skintern. Awesome.

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at May 23, 2013 10:59 AM (BrQrN)

I'm glad you appreciate it :-)  Feel free to use it today.  A dozen times.  At least once, inappropriately.

379

Waaaay back when, the Eye for an Eye thing was not meant as punishment for a crime but rather as service. If you poked out someone's eye, you didn't get yours poked out but instead you were now bound to the injured eyeless one as his eyes, to make amends for what you did. You were at the victim's service. The concept was corrupted along the way.

 

Did you also have you also have to chew someone's food for them if you knocked out a tooth? Source?

380

@370 Beagle -

 

I had a discussion once with an idiot who wouldn't believe me when I told him the GOP was funded as an anti-slavery party.  "I don't go for that,"  he kept repeating.

 

Need I say he was an Obamabot and union thug?

381 "I don't know....faded colors....big O...it strangely looks like an Obama logo in background, I still think Google are a bunch of dicks." Big Brother can be subtle at times. I was about to give them a little credit. They've gone from dicks to sneaky bastard subliminal dicks.

382 Off topic but it must be said. No wonder Huma didn't take Weiner's name, can you imagine "hello I'm Huma Weiner." Can't make that up.

383 "I don't go for that," he kept repeating.

Need I say he was an Obamabot and union thug?

He didn't go for what?  Empirical facts?

Of course he's an Obamabot.  The Venn Diagram of those who don't give a fuck about facts and those who vote Dem is pretty much a perfect circle. 

384 Well, rick, Gabe and Drew are insisting that they are correct that she didn't waive her rights.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff


Gabriel Malor ‏@gabrielmalor
And via @drewmtips, I'm not the only one that thinks Lerner didn't waive the Fifth.

Well Mr. Dershowitz thinks differently.  I believe I will put my money on him.

385 Obviously, you should go with the thirty-something anonymous Internet bloggers.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 23, 2013 09:44 AM (eMQm3)

EoJ,

While I'm not so sure about Gabe and Drew, Orin Kerr and his list of friends at least point to the idea that there's disagreement.  So I wouldn't say it's wrapped up quite yet.  I think Dershowitz makes sense and some of the commenter over at Volokh have pointed out that this is the equivalent to testifying

"Did you murder the man?"

"No, and I now invoke my fifth amendment rights not to be cross examined."

But it's far from clear.  (Kerr notes that you apparently have a complex ability to use the 5th at a grand jury testimony).

386

I'm glad you appreciate it :-) Feel free to use it today. A dozen times. At least once,inappropriately.

 

Inappropriate is already complete.  Onto the dozen!

 

387 bitter fucktwit angry at the world for NOT recognizing them to be the next Walt Whitman or Ernest Hemingway
=======
FIFY

They never accept their lack of greatness--the world is at fault for not seeing it.

Reality: You're teaching "creative writing" to a bunch of barely literate high school "grads" who piss and moan because you've asked them to write a mere 250 word interpretation of a 20 page short story.
And more than half of the stupid shits need extra days to turn it in.

388

EVERY instructor that I ever had in creative writing, American Lit, English Lit, etc etc etc.... was some dour faced, bitter fucktwit that had resigned themself to the fact they were NOT going to be the next Walt Whitman or Ernest Hemingway and had to trudge out the rest of their mortal existence without any appreciation of their "special talents".

 

For my sins, I once had to sit on a committee that awarded postgraduate scholarships, most of which went to the arts. We interviewed candidate after candidate deconstructing this, that, and the other, writing criticism of some obscure 17th century Italian author, or offering his/her take on Shakespeare.

 

Finally, I'd had enough. I pressed one for why she was writing literary criticism. She wrapped herself in the flag, bleating about "art" and "literature," etc. (Btw, I minored in literature in college, so I'm not a total Philistine.)

 

I pointed out that she was conflating "literature" with "literary criticism," not the same thing at all. After all, Shakespeare was a pretty fair country writer, and he never took a course in literary criticism, did he? So I asked again what the point was of literary criticism.

 

Long silence. VERY long silence.

389

>>>I had a discussion once with an idiot who wouldn't believe me when I told him the GOP was funded as an anti-slavery party

 

And pro-women. Suffragettes were GOP, first female congressmen were also

390 Skintern.


I had a Brazilian skintern once. 

Yeah....

391 381

As I understand it, blood feuds were common responses to wrongs. I.e. you do something that breaks my finger, so I break your hand, so your brother cuts my sister's hand off, so my brother kills your sister, etc, etc.

The concept then was, you can't ask or receive retribution greater than the wrong inflicted on you.

So the idea of 'becoming the person's eye' is one way of compensating if you don't want to give up an eye. But you couldn't be expected to do more than that, nor would he be free from punishment for inflicting something worse upon you.

392 I see that the "conservative" PM Cameron is saying that there's nothing in Islam to support surprise attacks on enemy soldiers. I mean, apart from the Prophet's example, his speeches, the Qur'an and mainstream Islamic law.

393 I pointed out that she was conflating "literature" with "literary criticism," not the same thing at all. After all, Shakespeare was a pretty fair country writer, and he never took a course in literary criticism, did he? So I asked again what the point was of literary criticism. Long silence. VERY long silence. --- I agree with Mel Brooks that the critic is an afterbirth of the artist, as the entire point of the critic is to piss all over the work of the artist.

394 I had a Brazilian skintern once.

Yeah....

Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 11:06 AM (GQ8sn)

Did it hurt?

395 Did it hurt?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, The Colossus of Independence at May 23, 2013 11:08 AM (fwARV)

Every time I saw her bend over.

396 394 I see that the "conservative" PM Cameron is saying that there's nothing in Islam to support surprise attacks on enemy soldiers.

I mean, apart from the Prophet's example, his speeches, the Qur'an and mainstream Islamic law.

That's ok, ABC, NBC, and CBS never mention Islam in their reporting. See? Common street violence...move along.

397 394 I see that the "conservative" PM Cameron is saying that there's nothing in Islam to support surprise attacks on enemy soldiers. I mean, apart from the Prophet's example, his speeches, the Qur'an and mainstream Islamic law. --- Anyone else think we're going to see a bunch of droogs viddy a bit of the old ultraviolence and bring forth the red red kroovy on tap by the end of this?

398

@382

My favorites are the scary things environmentalists say when they think you are one of them.

 

No secret they are not so opposed to massive human extinctions.    But to hear them write off Africans because them using fossil fuel  or DDT  could tweak the environment  is different in person.   Not that I am some great supporter of Africans in my spare time, aside from protesting apartheid in college,  like Bono,   but  I  sure as hell   don't want to kill them to save the planet from CO2.   

399 Every time I saw her bend over.

Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 11:09 AM (GQ8sn)

Nicely played.

400 I'm currently feeling the exact same amount of shame I felt upon discovering that I'd madeitall the wayto early middle age and never heard, nor managed to create, the terms 'spank-bank' and 'finger-bang'. Skintern. Awesome. Posted by: Lurking Canuck at May 23, 2013 10:59 AM (BrQrN) You must admit, the HQ will expand your vocabulary. Not necessarily in ways you would desire and not without that whole pesky deep psychological scarring thing but still. Knowledge has a price.

401 Well since you see no mother, the Soldier is clearly gay, so that is why google allowed it.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 23, 2013 09:33 AM (9Bj8R)

'I really doubt it. Homosexual men are incapable of being warlike. If more men were homosexual there would be no wars'

402 @394--hence the rise of the UK Independence Party (UKIP)...the true inheritors of Churchill's political movement.

403 386 Well, rick, Gabe and Drew are insisting that they are correct that she didn't waive her rights.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff


Gabriel Malor ‏@gabrielmalor
And via @drewmtips, I'm not the only one that thinks Lerner didn't waive the Fifth.

Well Mr. Dershowitz thinks differently. I believe I will put my money on him.

Posted by: mpfs, LLE, Takes the 5th....of Vodka at May 23, 2013 11:05 AM (iYbLN)

==================

Attaaaaaack Waaaaatch!

Personal attaaaaack!

404 No secret they are not so opposed to massive human extinctions. --- My response to that is "You first."

405 I had a Brazilian skintern once.

Yeah....

Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 11:06 AM (GQ8sn)

Did it hurt?


A spray or two of Bactine should fix you up.

406 I had a Brazilian skintern once.

Yeah....

Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 11:06 AM (GQ8sn)

---

Yeah.... those hurt.   I had to get a stitch. 

I guess Im a littlle "loose" down there.

407 RE: Amnesty

Why, oh why must we accept the straw man argument that "...you want to send them all back..." if you are against amnesty.  There is a whole lot of options between "rounding people up" and full citizenship rights.  Grant them a blanket "temporary work visa", if we must.  Long enough, 10-15 years, until eVerify is in place nationwide.  But don't pretend that swearing in 10s of millions of illegal immigrants as U.S. citizens is the only reasonable option.

408 I guess Im a littlle "loose" down there.

Posted by: Meghan McCain at May 23, 2013 11:12 AM (nELVU)

Bitch, please.

409 In my opinion, government employees should get similar rights as soldiers get. Because the rights of those in power = more power over us. So Gabe and Drew are exactly wrong. It should be easier for hacks to lose their Constitutional protections. Not harder.

410 Posted by: Meghan McCain at May 23, 2013 11:12 AM (nELVU)

Aaaaaaaaaand...

I'm out.

411 Well Mr. Dershowitz thinks differently. I believe I will put my money on him.


Posted by: mpfs, LLE, Takes the 5th....of Vodka at May 23, 2013 11:05 AM (iYbLN)
==================Attaaaaaack Waaaaatch!
Personal attaaaaack!
Posted by: RoyalOil

Am I banned or is it the barrel of monkeys for me?

412 I mean, apart from the Prophet's example, his speeches, the Qur'an and mainstream Islamic law. Posted by: boulder toilet hobo

Sometimes I feel sorry for the UK. And then other times, meh.

Going from Gordon Brown to the walking twisted testicle that is Cameron ... really? Really, UK? That's your call?

413 Long silence. VERY long silence.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 23, 2013 11:06 AM (IDSI7)

They don't preload these fools with talking points to answer real questions. I am surprised however that she didn't try the typical jargon-filled blather to obfuscate enough to escape.

And...speaking of Shakespeare: My English 1B instructor at Cal gave us a long exegesis on the current state of scholarship on the Bard, complete with suggestions of homosexuality, that his wife was the real writer, that he was obviously over taught, that he was really a hack writer who used standard constructions....blah, blah, blah.

Then he said, "However, I believe him to be the greatest writer in the English language."

414 Literary Criticism is fine, its purpose is supposed to be to help broaden the understanding of some works, which can be more or less opaque to those not versed in certain works or without certain special knowledge. Take Eliot's Wasteland: though he offers some notes on the work, there's a lot about it that may remain outside of the understanding of someone who doesn't write poetry or who hasn't read ancient poetry, etc.

The sub-purpose is to help people figure out which works they should read and which they should not; when we talk negatively about literary criticism we never mention the times when it saved our arse from having to read something really bad.

It doesn't really have a strong position, though, I wager; and critiquing is only useful for most people to learn if they're going to write and need to be able to self-examine their own work.

But as Frost put it, there's no substitute for 'believing the work into being' - something that is disturbingly uncritical!

415

Re the taking of the Fifth:

 

I don't understand why the rules about taking the Fifth before Congress are so up for debate.

 

Like it's never happened before??

416 417 Re the taking of the Fifth: I don't understand why the rules about taking the Fifth before Congress are so up for debate. Like it's never happened before?? --- Most people taking the Fifth before Congress don't fuck up and do something that can be interpreted as waiving that right. Mafiosi brought before Congress answered all questions with the Fifth to ensure they couldn't be forced to testify about anything.

417 I don't understand why the rules about taking the Fifth before Congress are so up for debate.

Like it's never happened before??



I agree.  There should be zero leeway given.

418 I for one eagerly await the arrival of cute Elder Gods who are after our hentai manga, anime, and games.

http://youtu.be/tYlAq-NhR1w

419 NFA Machine Guns by State YAY VIRGINIA!!! http://tinyurl.com/aqgk7ks 17,500 - 24,500 or higher.

420 >>>386 Well, rick, Gabe and Drew are insisting that they are correct that she didn't waive her rights. Posted by: Empire of Jeff __ Let's assume there is no precedent on these exact facts. How would you argue this analogy: Lawyer: Your honor, the defense calls the Defendant to the stand.... Mr. Defendant, did you break any law, are you guilty as charged? Defendant: I broke no law. I am not guilty as charged. Lawyer: Nothing further from this witness. And now the Defendant invokes his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and will answer no questions. --- Yesterday, the "witnesses," including Lerner, were sworn in. After being sworn, each witness was asked if he or she wanted to make an opening statement. Lerner said yes and did. She testified: Lerner: Good morning, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. My name is Lois Lerner, and I’m the director of exempt organizations at the Internal Revenue Service.... I initially practiced law at the Department of Justice and later at the Federal Election Commission. In 2001 I became — I moved to the IRS to work in the exempt organizations office, and in 2006 I was promoted to be the director of that office. ... My professional career has been devoted to fulfilling responsibilities of the agencies for which I have worked, and I am very proud of the work that I have done in government. On May 14th the Treasury inspector general released a report finding that the exempt organizations field office in Cincinnati, Ohio, used inappropriate criteria to identify for further review applications from organizations that planned to engage in political activity, which may mean that they did not qualify for tax exemption. On that same day, the Department of Justice launched an investigation into the matters described in the inspector general’s report. In addition, members of this committee have accused me of providing false information when I responded to questions about the IRS processing of applications for tax exemption. I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws, I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations, and I have not provided false information to this or any other congressional committee. And while I would very much like to answer the committee’s questions today, I’ve been advised by my counsel to assert my constitutional right not to testify or answer questions related to the subject matter of this hearing. After very careful consideration, I’ve decided to follow my counsel’s advice and not testify or answer any of the questions today. Because I’m asserting my right not to testify, I know that some people will assume that I’ve done something wrong. I have not. One of the basic functions of the Fifth Amendment is to protect innocent individuals, and that is the protection I’m invoking today. Thank you. REP. ISSA: Thank you for your testimony. If that ain't testimony, "the law is an ass." Charles Dickens, 1838.

421

>>Most people taking the Fifth before Congress don't fuck up and do something that can be interpreted as waiving that right.

 

Ah.

 

Should have assumed "incompetence of Obama administration", considering it was a day ending in "Y".

 

Thanks.

422 Whoops, off Doohan sock.

423

Lehner did more than just say she did nothing wrong in her statement.  It was bascially testimony that she is now claiming she cannot be crossed examined about because of the Fifth. 

 

Can Gable provide an example of any other person providing an extensive opening statement before Congress and then taking the Fifth?  The reason why he may be hardpressed to come up with one is because most statements  are provided by counsel because of the very reason being debated now.

424

They don't preload these fools with talking points to answer real questions. I am surprised however that she didn't try the typical jargon-filled blather to obfuscate enough to escape.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 23, 2013 11:14 AM (O6Tmi)

 

She was too stunned. I'd asked another when she thought there had been enough exegesis of Shakespeare. I pointed out that in my field, when I could consistently predict the results of experiments, I figured we understood this area and it was time to move on. So at what point, and on what evidence, would she consider the Shakespeare vein played out?

 

Another long silence. She'd never thought about this. Amazing. My arts colleagues later said I was "a fierce interviewer."

425 Going from Gordon Brown to the walking twisted testicle that is Cameron ... really? Really, UK? That's your call?
Posted by: weft cut-loop
-------------------------------------
The real precedent-setter was tossing Churchill aside for Eden. I still find that almost inconceivable. That set the stage for Britain's downward spiral into the swamp of socialism. Incidentally, here is some very moving video of the grief/respect shown by the Brits at Churchill's funeral. We will never see this sort of thing again for a statesman. Never. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Xkr8z3lEo

426 Am I banned or is it the barrel of monkeys for me? Posted by: mpfs, LLE, Takes the 5th....of Vodka at May 23, 2013 11:13 AM (iYbLN) barrel of monkeys? LOL!!!! what a quaint idea.

427 Sometimes I feel sorry for the UK. And then other times, meh.

Going from Gordon Brown to the walking twisted testicle that is Cameron ... really? Really, UK? That's your call?
Posted by: weft cut-loop

The UK has gone from "The Sun Never Sets On The British Empire" to "The Dying Sun Of The British Empire."

428 Is the UK salvageable? No, Prime Minister Cameron said that the murder in broad daylight in the street was a "betrayal of Islam." They are doomed

429 NFA Machine Guns by State


YAY VIRGINIA!!!

http://tinyurl.com/aqgk7ks


17,500 - 24,500 or higher.


What's up with that?  I can understand Texas, but CA?

430

@trailerbike (because that's how your nic reads in my mind)

 

Precisely.  It's the entire appealing to themselves as the absolute authority, while actual noted authorities allow that the matter is not as simple as that.  Hell, even in my own industry, I don't pretend to be an expert on every area of practice.  But where I am not, I  hire those with expertise to fill in those gaps.  Have a little bit of humility, would you?

 

DrewM has always been a humorless, condescending prig about these things, and now Gabe seems to be stepping up his game as well.

431 Posted by: RiverC at May 23, 2013 11:14 AM (El+h4)

The conceit is the outrageous extrapolation into the rest of the world. I doubt that Whitman was talking about feminism and its relationship to the patriarchal subtext in the New Testament.

Frost also spoke about his poetry being a simple thing, without the trappings of the academy being hung on it by over-educated fools.

432 I had a Brazilian skintern once.

Yeah....

Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 11:06 AM (GQ8sn)

 

Was she the one with the huge pair of Jane Austens who always dressed like it was Carnival?

433 Churchill WAS getting infirm by that point, I must admit. But replacing him with Happy Pills Eden - with someone even further from reality - well, that's the Tories for you

434 The Mafia is in awe of this regime and fuck pixy

435 What's up with that? I can understand Texas, but CA? Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 11:22 AM (GQ8sn) My guess is that some of these are surprising because they are looking at the total number per state, not per capita.

436 Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 23, 2013 11:22 AM (CJjw5)

Gabe is a young lawyer in a town that glorifies the law. He has an excuse.

Drew doesn't.

I'm going with Dershowitz on this one. He has tremendous real-world experience and a solid academic record.

437 Was she the one with the huge pair of Jane Austens who always dressed like it was Carnival?


Yes.  When I met her, I understood why Victoria's Secret got all their underwear models from Brazil.

438 Another long silence. She'd never thought about this. Amazing. My arts colleagues later said I was "a fierce interviewer." Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 23, 2013 11:20 AM (IDSI7) she was a piker. There's an proper deconstructionist answer to that question that she should have had down pat. I hope she didn't get accepted.

439 Re the taking of the Fifth:

I don't understand why the rules about taking the Fifth before Congress are so up for debate.

Like it's never happened before??

Posted by: Mama AJ at May 23, 2013 11:15 AM (SUKHu)

=================

Here's a handy guide:

Republican taking the Fifth = A crime was committed by said individual and more hearings and investigations are needed.

Democrat taking the Fifth = All possible interpretations that said individual did not commit a crime must be indulged and the matter ought to be closed.

And that's the Problem: Republicans are trying to apply the Republican Rule to a Democrat. Democrats are insisting that the Democrat Rule apply.

Does that explain why a certain individual is coming down on the "well, the law is unclear, we're not sure if she waived her Fifth" side?

440 Anyone else take one look at Harry Reid and think of The Tall Man from the Phantasm films?
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 23, 2013 10:07 AM (zA7Zp)

More like Reverend Kane in Poletergeist II

"God is in... His holy temple...."

441 While 'Bammy and boyfriend were playing in bed In Benghazi Four Americans ended up dead

442 "...the huge pair of Jane Austens..."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 23, 2013 11:23 AM (zF6Iw)

Please to explain this euphemism?

443 My guess is that some of these are surprising because they are looking at the total number per state, not per capita.

I thought for sure that all those full auto guns were evil in the eyes of CA.

I'm going to take a guess and say that most of those registered are in only one or two cities.

444 Homosexual men are incapable of being warlike.

Say whaaaaaaaa, bitch?

445 However, I believe him to be the greatest writer in the English language." *** Can't hold a candle t Swahili play writes, though.

446 Skintern. Awesome. Posted by: Lurking Canuck at May 23, 2013 10:59 AM (BrQrN) LC- Here's another one for you: FUMU. Stands for F* up, move up. Works for many people in government.

447 MD has lots of machineguns. Makes sense; gun ownership is based on need, the type of gun reflecting the need. WVA has few machineguns? Why would you need one out there?

448

OH..... Loook.....

 

 

How cute.... a little Girl hugging her Daddy, who just came back from his Job as a DHS Guard at the Conservative Reeducation Camps...

449 Precisely. It's the entire appealing to themselves as the absolute authority, while actual noted authorities allow that the matter is not as simple as that. Hell, even in my own industry, I don't pretend to be an expert on every area of practice. But where I am not, I hire those with expertise to fill in those gaps. Have a little bit of humility, would you?

DrewM has always been a humorless, condescending prig about these things, and now Gabe seems to be stepping up his game as well.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 23, 2013 11:22 AM (CJjw5)

When I saw Gabe's tweet using DrewM as his backup, at first I thought, "Oh Drew must have some quote from an authority on this at his blog."  So I click on the link Gabe include....I was gobsmacked that it was Drew's  own opinion he was using as authority to prove he was right.

And you're right...have a little humility to at least admit there is disagreement among experts on this issue.

450

Homosexual men are incapable of being warlike.

BS.  Have you ever  seen a serious slap  fight?   Brutal.  

451 MD has lots of machineguns. Makes sense; gun ownership is based on need, the type of gun reflecting the need.


My guess is:  MD = lots of govt employees/contractors who do the kind of work where you carry one.

452 And you're right...have a little humility to at least admit there is disagreement among experts on this issue.

Posted by: Tami at May 23, 2013 11:27 AM (X6akg)

Piker.

453

You must admit, the HQ will expand your vocabulary. Not necessarily in ways you would desire and not without that whole pesky deep psychological scarring thing but still. Knowledge has a price.

Posted by: alexthechick

 

Indeed.  Little Miss Canuck will eventually be given Horde...ummm...exposure  for educational purposes.  The chief one being the  world's  general all around perviness.

 

I may have to temporarily change my nic.

454 One of the ways to destroy the value of a culture you abhor is to act the learned critic.  And in that role start reading negative things into great representations of that culture.  Thereby causing the people of the culture to become ashamed.

455 452 Homosexual men are incapable of being warlike.
BS. Have you ever seen a serious slap fight? Brutal. Posted by: polynikes
---------------

I even witnessed a pair throwing shoes at each other.

456 Or you elect the idiots who want to destroy your culture and civilization.

457

Homosexual men are incapable of being warlike.

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

 

 

A-ha-ha-ha!

 

Alexander the Great.  Mic drop.  

458 Google must be steaming today. Will they have something extra-insipid for Memorial Day to balance things out?

459 Homosexual men are incapable of being warlike.
BS. Have you ever seen a serious slap fight? Brutal.

 

 

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2013 11:28 AM (m2CN7)

 

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

 

No, because  by the time I got here, Ace  had  already taken down the post  with that video and was fussing the shit out of all you for misbehaving  in the comments.

460 Homosexual men are incapable of being warlike.

BS. Have you ever seen a serious slap fight? Brutal.

Posted by: polynikes
---------------

I even witnessed a pair throwing shoes at each other.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 23, 2013 11:29 AM (aDwsi)

ace once posted a video of a hipster slapfight.  It was comedy gold.  Two grown men, and no one getting hurt.

461 I'm going with Dershowitz on this one. He has tremendous real-world experience and a solid academic record. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 23, 2013 11:24 AM (O6Tmi) That's my go to on pretty much anything criminal law - what Dershowitz says. He's not infallible by any means but his batting average is really damn high.

462 Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 23, 2013 11:22 AM (CJjw5)

It's an honor to my my nic mutilated by you, our resident intellectual .

I wasn't saying "I know best."  I'm just saying they may incidentally be right.  Having said that a few things:
1) The Dersh has spoken, I'd be curious to see if Kerr's list of friends (and I trust Kerr he's not quite as up there as the Dersh, but at least he puts his reputation on the line) will now change their mind (since they were as Kerr implied, up in the air about it.)
2) CBD has it nailed I think, Gabe is a young lawyer in a town that fetishes the law.  Also a town infatuated with their own "expertise" (note the scare quotes) and "authority."  He may simply have sipped some of it's kool-aid (and now thinks he is an "expert" on something that is far from clear cut (never mind the overwhelming lack of experience) (A town by the way that would be decent for my career to move there, but still I stay away, I'm not that stupid or desperate.)
3) DrewM is constantly "no drama man."  He for some reason never wants to engage confusing situations...no no..better to find a new more clear line of attack.
Well I hate to break it to Drew, but you win on the margins, not on the clear cut lines of attack.  This may very well be a vague area, but if we don't stake a claim here, why bother.

463 but his batting average is really damn high for a Joooo.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies. at May 23, 2013 11:30 AM (VtjlW)

You're slacking.....

464
Gabe is a young lawyer in a town that glorifies the law.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo




He took the midnight train goin' -- anywhere

465 Homosexual men are incapable of being warlike. "This is Sparta!"

466 Mehmet II the Victorious, also. But he was more into little boys.

467 so, if I want to keep rats out of my trash can, should I spray the coyote pee inside the trash cans, on the outside of the trashcans, around the perimeter of my driveway, or every where? what? is that OT?

468 Alexander the Great was a flaming queen.

469

I hope she didn't get accepted.

Posted by: elizabethe at May 23, 2013 11:24 AM (qPCAa)

 

Nope, she didn't.

 

For my part, I wouldn't have granted scholarships to the vast majority of the arts types, not because I'm a Philistine, but because I see them as pretending to be doing something worthwhile while in fact pursuing a hobby/hiding from life. Few of them will get faculty positions, without which their studies will be completely pointless. Who is going to hire someone who spent years studying ancient Greek pottery, or knows everything about some 17th century Italian poet that no one has ever heard of?

 

I used to do the same thing with my grad students (in chemistry) who weren't Ph.D. material. I'd suggest to them that perhaps they might better spend their time in something that would prove more rewarding to them. It was doing them a favor, IMO. If you're 150 lbs. dripping wet, it's time to move on from that dream of playing defensive end for the Packers.

470 so, if I want to keep rats out of my trash can, should I spray the coyote pee inside the trash cans, on the outside of the trashcans, around the perimeter of my driveway, or every where?


You have coyote pee?

471

Homosexual men are incapable of being warlike.

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery on line one.

472 470

Greek men of his sort were pansexuals, not homosexuals.

473 I can't believe we're not discussing this.
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/169475/

474

@464

 

I agree with everything you said there.

475

451 -

 

Humility?  I've never been to law school, but I'm pretty sure they don't teach it.  And Gabe is nothing if not a textbook example of what can go wrong if you spend too much time in law school. 

476 475 I can't believe we're not discussing this. http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/169475/ --- Sorry, what was that? Can't read it well, as my eyes are going out.

477 Shakespeare said "shoot the lawyers first" right?

478 Here's the point: you don't become homosexual because you are attracted to men / have relations with them. To be homosexual, you would have to be attracted exclusively / enjoy relations exclusively with men. These guys that fathered many children plus did the homosex on the side - let's face it, they were just into the sex. That's what it means to be pansexual.

479 I don't think she waived her 5th A Rights at all, but that's something for lawyers to yammer on about

480 My arts colleagues later said I was "a fierce interviewer."

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 23, 2013 11:20 AM (IDSI7)

I hope you weren't flattered.

481 Yeah, but can we have warlike metrosexuals?

482 Fox alert:

Issa:  Lerner's 5th amendment assertion is no longer valid; may be called back.




I don't know what's with the 'maybe'....

483 BREAKING: Nintendo announces time for E3 "Direct" on Twitter...

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Nintendo of America ‏@NintendoAmerica 34m

Hello. We already announced we will have another #NintendoDirectNA at E3, but now we can share the date/time: 6/11 at 7 am PT.
------


* schedules day off from work *

484 Homosexuals are incapable of... what now? 

485

"Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery on line one."

 

Probably about as helpful as Richard Simmons changing a truck tire. 

486 So...what does one do with a Master's in Chicano Studies?

Three choices:

1) Teach it to others
2) Find corporations to shake down over their lack of diversity.
3) Stock shelves at Walmart

487

Can't hold a candle t Swahili play writes, though.

Posted by: WalrusRex at May 23, 2013 11:27 AM (6QfkH)

 

That's my knock on the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here we have a play in Swahili, a novel in English, poetry in Mandarin, and a freeway overpass (the preferred medium of this demographic) in Spanish. Hmmm. How to compare literary merit?

488 Heh.  Drudge has a headline up, "Cuomo flogs Weiner."

489 "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

Henry VI part 2

490 You have coyote pee? Posted by: EC at May 23, 2013 11:34 AM (GQ8sn) desperate times call for desperate measures.

491 Alexander the Great. Mic drop. Posted by: Beagle
----------------
Dropped mic? I hear that from time-to-time. When I ask for a source, I usually get, "Everyone knows it to be true."  Perhaps so, but no one seems able to provide specific evidence. When someone does  mention it, I point out the following, from Plutarch,   "On the Luck and Virtue of Alexander" : "When Philoxenus, the leader of the seashore, wrote to Alexander that there was a youth in Ionia whose beauty has yet to be seen and asked him in a letter if he (Alexander) would like him (the boy) to be sent over, he (Alexander) responded in a strict and disgusted manner: "You are the most hideous and malign of all men, have you ever seen me involved in such dirty(sexual) work that you found the urge to flatter me with such hedonistic business?"

492 I'll show you warlike. Here, grab my staff.

493 Thanks for the Helen Mirren story, Gabe. I liked her in the brit miniseries, Prime Suspect. Watched it all the way through. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098898/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

494 Posted by: @PurpAv at May 23, 2013 11:37 AM (QFWBu)

Heh, at least my degree in biology qualifies me to work in labs. (Although there are currently only 2 Monsanto positions I've got a shot at.)

495 Admittedly though, there probably should be an exception for pre-21st century Brits, and ancient Greeks. 

496 484 Fox alert: Issa: Lerner's 5th amendment assertion is no longer valid; may be called back. I don't know what's with the 'maybe'.... --- The "Maybe" is her choice to go to prison for contempt if she doesn't want to appear, IMHO.

497 Here I sit in deep  despair.

Came for  a dump

And it wasn't there.

498 490 Heh. Drudge has a headline up, "Cuomo flogs Weiner." --- Isn't it against the law to do that in public?

499 473 Homosexual men are incapable of being warlike.
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery on line one.    

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 23, 2013 11:34 AM (659DL)

 

 

You say that like its supposed to disprove the point?

500 Instead of reading all this, I think I shall fix myself some lunch.  Which in itself is a metaphor only English could conjure up.  If lunch is broke, why fix it so you can eat it?

501 Posted by: T.E. Lawrence at May 23, 2013 11:37 AM (TOk1P)

Probably asexual rather than homosexual, but I agree with the larger point.

Of course we are talking about the outliers. It's the middle of the curve that matters.

502

I hope you weren't flattered.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 23, 2013 11:36 AM (O6Tmi)

 

Not really. I just figured I was doing my job. I was astonished at how they played pat-a-cake with candidates. It was like a White House press conference (with a Democrat President).

503 490 Heh. Drudge has a headline up, "Cuomo flogs Weiner." Sandra Lee hardest hit.

504 My newspaper's weekend magazine has a fashion section with pics of men in long skirts.  In Savannah. 

I give up.  *pounds head on desk*

505 That's my knock on the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here we have a play in Swahili, a novel in English, poetry in Mandarin, and a freeway overpass (the preferred medium of this demographic) in Spanish. Hmmm. How to compare literary merit? Posted by: Jay Guevara
--------------------

Identify the African Tolstoy, and I will read his work.

506 "Three choices:

1) Teach it to others
2) Find corporations to shake down over their lack of diversity.
3) Stock shelves at Walmart"

Better go for 1 or 3.  Jesse Jackson hates competition.

507 486 Homosexuals are incapable of... what now? Posted by: T.E. Lawrence at May 23, 2013 11:39 AM (TOk1P) --- Thank you for proving my point about the name Lawrence, as you are clearly not a sailor!

508 Yeah, but can we have warlike metrosexuals?

Can't get very far humping fifty pounds of styling product in addition to your usual pack.

509 Also Trey Gowdy is no slouch about the law.

I'll take Dershowitz and Trey Gowdy's opinion plus the points.

510 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 23, 2013 11:40 AM (pyjZt)

Great idea for a filler post. The comments will fill with grammatically correct but nonsensical phrases.

511 That makes you a lunch  repair(wo)man.

512

You say that like its supposed to disprove the point?

 

For all his failings, Monty did do a good job of kicking Rommel's ass in North Africa.

513 "Heh. Drudge has a headline up, "Cuomo flogs Weiner."


Sandra Lee hardest hit."

She'll get drunk earlier than usual tonight.

514 506 My newspaper's weekend magazine has a fashion section with pics of men in long skirts. In Savannah. I give up. *pounds head on desk* --- Note to those talking to a man wearing a kilt: The pouch worn on the front is a "sporran", NOT a "scrotum".

515 Can't get very far humping fifty pounds of styling product in addition to your usual pack. Worse yet, Coach does not make bivouac equipment.

516
Sandra Lee hardest hit."

She'll get drunk earlier than usual tonight.

Posted by: cool arrow at May 23, 2013 11:41 AM (WMsq+

But her tablescapes will be faaaabulous.

517

Also Trey Gowdy is no slouch about the law.

 

Four words:  Attorney General Trey Gowdy

518 Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 23, 2013 11:40 AM (IDSI7)

These are people whose greatest aspiration is to impress a bunch of 20-year-olds.

519

>>>Homosexual men are incapable of being warlike.

 

Arabs. Not successfully warlike, but certainly bloodthirsty.

 

They're not homosexuals, so they say, just like screwing men.

520 Alexander the Great went in to battle with a male concubine who whispered in A the G's ear that he too, was mortal.

Yeah, total flamer. But, lots of style points.

521

Mike Hammer,

My Greek history prof insisted he kept a young male companion by his side by the name of  yeah right that was, ah, doing math,  20+ years ago.  

 

I could google Alexander the Great and gay but the search results could be spotty at best.     

522

"My newspaper's weekend magazine has a fashion section with pics of men in long skirts. In Savannah. "

 

There's about a 4 square block area in Sav where a fella could pull that look off.  Outside that zone, well, Nancy's gonna have a rough day.

523 506 My newspaper's weekend magazine has a fashion section with pics of men in long skirts. In Savannah.

It's not a skirt - it's a *mirt*!  A man-skirt!  Yeah!  That's the ticket!

524 http://www.glamour.com/fashion/blogs/dressed/2011/06/the-hottest-trend-out-of-mens.html

Jane D'oh  Check out the little tennis number there.

525 Admittedly though, there probably should be an exception for pre-21st century Brits, and ancient Greeks.

How about the Sturmabteilung?

526 Posted by: mpfs, LLE, Takes the 5th....of Vodka at May 23, 2013 11:41 AM (iYbLN)


I think The Dersh's weighing in pushes it over the line.  Like I said, Kerr said his sources leaned towards "didn't waive" but were still a toss up.  But one of the biggest experts in the field has weighed in, which should shift opinion.

527 But her tablescapes will be faaaabulous.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 23, 2013 11:42 AM (lVPtV)

She is well liked by the Morons...she has a fabulous rack to go with those tablescapes.

528

>>>Alexander the Great went in to battle with a male concubine who whispered in A the G's ear that he too, was mortal.

 

You're mixing up greek and roman culture

529 Say, speaking of Sandra Lee, this is great.  The stupid bint made a cocktail out of lemonade, cream, and vodka.  Here she is, trying it in slow motion.

http://tinyurl.com/ycc5fuo

530 *blinks*

Sure dahling wear that and be ready for me to smirt at your mirt.  Because lassie ye aint a Scott and that be no kilt.

531 The "Maybe" is her choice to go to prison for contempt if she doesn't want to appear, IMHO. Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 23, 2013 11:39 AM (zA7Zp) Per the Newsmax piece "Congress . . . can actually hold you in contempt and put you in the Congressional jail." heh. Throw her in the dungeon! http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/lerner-irs-held-contempt/2013/05/22/id/505922

532 It's what'cha call "warrior wear," get used to it says the man.

533

>>>How about the Sturmabteilung?

 

Yeah. You know, why don't we just reverse it now and say gays are fucking psycho warfags and call it a day?

534 522 Alexander the Great went in to battle with a male concubine who whispered in A the G's ear that he too, was mortal.  

Yeah, total flamer. But, lots of style points.  
 

Posted by: navybrat at May 23, 2013 11:43 AM (eXjgS)

 

 

Yep... and tamed that great wild horse... uh... when he was like... three... yeah... that's the ticket...

535 526 http://www.glamour.com/fashion/blogs/dressed/2011/06/the-hottest-trend-out-of-mens.html

Jane D'oh Check out the little tennis number there.



o_O

536 >Ben's pay has been appropriately docked. have the persons responsible been sacked?

537 speaking of Sandra Lee, this is great. The stupid bint made a cocktail out of lemonade... If Sandra makes the lemonade the way the girls do at Hot Dog on a Stick, count me in.

538

>>>"Congress . . . can actually hold you in contempt and put you in the Congressional jail."

 

Don't laugh. It's hell. They play an endless loop of   Cynthia   McKinney   speeches.

539

Might be time to bring back the Cansaikus. Looks like he is in a little trouble, or alleged to be in a little trouble for assault of the sexual nature:

 

LAS VEGAS (AP) - May 23, 2013 (WPVI) -- Former baseball slugger Jose Canseco Jr. has been accused of sexual assault in Las Vegas, in an investigation that the former baseball slugger made public with postings on a social media website claiming that a woman falsely accused him of rape.

540 Hephaestion, iirc., was Alex's squeeze.

541 >>> Google must be steaming today. Will they have something extra-insipid for Memorial Day to balance things out? Or on Monday no acknowledgement whatsoever.

542 lolsandra.

heheehe

543 538 >Ben's pay has been appropriately docked. have the persons responsible been sacked? --- The persons responsible for the sacking have also been sacked.

544

503 -

 

I don't know what the source is regarding Lawrence's homosexuality, but I was under the impression he had more or less admitted to it.

 

However, it is reasonably certain that ALL males who attended public (meaning private) boarding schools in England, pretty much since forever, were subject to intense pressure to "experiment" with their sexuality whilst at school.  Which is why there tends to be a fairly high prevalence of homosexuality among upper class Brits.

 

In other words, nurture rather than nature, probably has much more to do with it than  can be permissibly said in the political climate in which we operate today.  Sadly, science is on the retreat. 

545 "If Sandra makes the lemonade the way the girls do at Hot Dog on a Stick, count me in."

Sandra doesn't really *make* anything.  She just opens cans and bags.

546 506 My newspaper's weekend magazine has a fashion section with pics of men in long skirts. In Savannah.

I give up. *pounds head on desk*
Posted by: Jane D'oh
---------------

Jane--- Are you in Savannah?

547 542 Hephaestion, iirc., was Alex's squeeze. For a moment there, I thought I read "hepatitis."

548 Here are some warriors. I hope I can skip away in time. http://preview.tinyurl.com/o9l9o9x

549 > If you are a zoophile and MUST go to the zoo, go early, the grounds open at 6 AM Um, that word doesn't mean what you think it means.

550
337 So...what does one do with a Master's in Chicano Studies?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 23, 2013 10:46 AM (0qqnb)

Pr0n.

551 CBD, it would truly go off the rails such a post when we delve into regionalisms. 

From New Orleans for example 'gonna make groceries.'  Though it is a phrase that is vanishing.

552 541 Might be time to bring back the Cansaikus. Looks like he is in a little trouble, or alleged to be in a little trouble for assault of the sexual nature: LAS VEGAS (AP) - May 23, 2013 (WPVI) -- Former baseball slugger Jose Canseco Jr. has been accused of sexual assault in Las Vegas, in an investigation that the former baseball slugger made public with postings on a social media website claiming that a woman falsely accused him of rape. --- Jose's defense will be that it was his twin brother, Ozzie. This will be supported by the history of Jose sending Ozzie in to pinch-hit for him in a celebrity boxing match.

553 Nood

554

These are people whose greatest aspiration is to impress a bunch of 20-year-olds.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 23, 2013 11:43 AM (O6Tmi)

 

Funny you say that, but it's absolutely true. In my experience, science faculty view teaching much like mowing the lawn, a minor chore to be done well but as expeditiously as possible to allow one to get on to something more important.

 

Arts faculty live for the chance to pontificate before late adolescents, and to wow them with their erudition. (And to pork the female ones, of course, a little fringe benefit for the arts faculty.)

 

Why anyone would care what late adolescents think about anything I could not and still cannot imagine.

555 Sandra Lee's infamous Kwanza Cake:

http://tinyurl.com/2438d8l

556 Claim your dependents in Mexico. Claim about 20. A "loophole" in the law says you don't have to prove that with SSI numbers since your dependents are mexicans. Google it.

557 A recent Beer Institute analysis found that more than 40 percent of what consumers paid for beer went to the tax man. That makes beer one of the most taxed consumer products.

http://is.gd/xmf208

558 The concept of the returning soldier to his daughter is awesome. My problem is the freaking "O" sun in the sky. What the heck is up with that??

559 "Sandra Lee's infamous Kwanza Cake:"

Awful cake for a fake holiday.  Seems appropriate to me.

560 Drudge has changed it: "Cuomo Slaps Weiner: 'Shame On Us' If We Elect Him..." ...which is the opposite of flogging.

561 I tried  putting  lemon and milk in tea once.  Once.

The   chemistry  doesn't work.  I learned that when I was  ten.

562 Every time I hear Lerner's "I have not done anything wrong." I think of Clinton's "I did not have sex with that woman." The tone and cadence are the same: lying.

563 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 23, 2013 11:49 AM (pyjZt)

Off the rails? I'm in!

564 499 Here I sit in deep despair.

Came for a dump

And it wasn't there.

Posted by: eleven at May 23, 2013 11:39 AM (KXm42)

Ex-lax my friend

565 483 Yeah, but can we have warlike metrosexuals?   Sure.....they're usually just referred to as "Mean bitches". Really, really mean bitches.

566

However, it is reasonably certain that ALL males who attended public (meaning private) boarding schools in England, pretty much since forever, were subject to intense pressure to "experiment" with their sexuality whilst at school. Which is why there tends to be a fairly high prevalence of homosexuality among upper class Brits.

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

 

Christopher Hitchens  definitely  had more than a passing familiarity with the taste of penis from his boarding  school days, and allowed that it was not at  all uncommon.

 

BORN.  THAT.  WAY.

567 Arts faculty live for the chance to pontificate before late adolescents, and to wow them with their erudition. (And to pork the female ones, of course, a little fringe benefit for the arts faculty.) I can attest from personal experience in higher education this is in fact absolutely true.

568 561 "Sandra Lee's infamous Kwanza Cake:" It's made with sand and grub worms.

569 560 The concept of the returning soldier to his daughter is awesome. My problem is the freaking "O" sun in the sky. What the heck is up with that??   Look closer at the entire background until you see most of the other letters in "Google".

570 Some of you are praising Google. Remember, Google didn't choose this entry, the voting public did. They were obligated to use it since it won.

571 Please to explain this euphemism?

 

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 23, 2013 11:25 AM (O6Tmi)

 

Boobehs.

572 And continuing my last remark, I'm required to state that if you follow my tax advice, you pretty much deserve to have the IRS show up and gang rape you on the front lawn.

573

I'm going with Dershowitz on this one. He has tremendous real-world experience and a solid academic record.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 23, 2013 11:24 AM (O6Tmi)

That's my go to on pretty much anything criminal law - what Dershowitz says. He's not infallible by any means but his batting average is really damn high.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies. at May 23, 2013 11:30 AM (VtjlW)

 

For myself, Dersh and Nat Hentoff are the best.  Probably the only honest Democrats I know of.

574

473 Homosexual men are incapable of being warlike. Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery on line one.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 23, 2013 11:34 AM (659DL)

 

You say that like its supposed to disprove the point?

 

Posted by: Gen. Patton at May 23, 2013 11:40 AM (lZBBB)

 

This from the man who was screwing his niece. . .

575 For myself, Dersh and Nat Hentoff are the best. Probably the only honest Democrats I know of. ---- Is Mickey Kaus a Democrat?

576 Boobehs.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 23, 2013 11:55 AM (zF6Iw)

Well duh!

The origin of the euphemism.....

577 It's been eons, but my favorite museums in DC were the American History Museum, the Air & Space Museum, and the Hirschorn. Also have fond memories of going to the zoo as a kid. IIRC, it is very woodsy with uneven terrain. Exhibits weren't top-notch, but the overall experience was nice. Growing up in the DC metro area was really a treat as a kid. My dad worked at DC Superior Court. Mom, sister, & I used to go in with him and take the bus back.

578 It's serendipitous obama propaganda. Just. Is. tD

579 Some of you guys are so mean spirited. It's not pro-Obama propaganda. It's not a giant letter "O" in the sky shining its benevolent rays of joy on the earth, it's an annular solar eclipse.

580 Maybe the O signifies the soldier returning to console the girl whose father died in a war, in which, Obama got elected, in part, by promising to end. Maybe the soldier is telling the girl your father died because Obama is a liar and a fraud. I am taking a lot of artistic license here but that is what the big O as the sun says to me. Obama's failures shine down on us all, and it burns.