Ben,

the fluky goals the Islanders keep getting is maddening. The guy on NHL Network said you'd see 1 off the boards, off the pads and in goal against a good goal tender once every 4 months. The NY has 4 such goals in 3 games.

The Pens are totally bi-polar in this series and Malkin is playing stupid.

By the way...

Does anyone have any York peppermint patties, or Andes mints?  I suddenly desire mint and chocolate.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 08, 2013 09:34 AM (da5Wo)

These thread-jackings aren't nearly as fun now that I have a client who expects me to work at work.

Andes mints... damn and double damn. I love those things.

Admit it: when you go to Olive Garden, it's for the Andes mints at the end.

I know it's the reason I go.

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at May 08, 2013 09:33 AM (WD0KF)

What are you referencing?  There are some accounting things that go on that do that for tax purposes.

Jay,

I can barely even talk about it. I'm so pissed. Fleury is having another meltdown, which is okay considering we've got Vokoun as a back up. I think it goes without saying that Vokoun will be starting in game five.

What bothers me is Malkin. He's pretty much solely responsible for the fifth goal last night and has played a terrible defensive game all series long.  We can't scratch Malkin. He's going to be out there. He's been taking stupid penalties, specifically the f*cking retaliatory penalties. He's been playing with passion instead of brains. Either he gets his head right or he's one of the main reasons we have a first round exit when we should be making a legitimate cup run.

Fortunately the series is only tied 2-2. Despite the epic meltdown, the series is still ours for the taking. There really is nothing to do at this point but hope they pull their head out of their asses and begin playing up to their talent level.

Posted by: at May 08, 2013 09:36 AM (/PCJa) 

**

Yeah,  I should be nose deep in a spread sheet right now. 

Pffft.

Girl Scout thin mint cookies.

Meh.  I wasn't a big fan of Girl Scout cookies even before I knew they were big supporters of Planned Parenthood.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 08, 2013 09:38 AM (da5Wo)

**

Linky no worky

Sad.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at May 08, 2013 09:39 AM (/PCJa)

And that is unbelievably frustrating. 

I got cornered by a pair of girls, not more than seven, at my local grocery store a few months back.  I'd turned from grabbing my bags, and was headed to the door, and -

"Would you like to buy some cookies, sir? o.o o.o"

...on the one hand, I hate PP with all my soul, and I do not want to give even a dime to a company that supports them.  On the other hand, the little girls in question have nothing more on their minds than being cute and selling cookies. 

Conflicting directives are a pain in the neck.  I broke and bought a bunch of cookies.  -_- I hate PP.

I do not think gun crime is up because I grew up in Florida in the  1970s and 1980s.   I remember a   high volume  gun battle on one of our beaches in quiet  Manatee County.   Ever see the cable documentary about the Columbian  cartel  eh woman down in Miami?

I hate getting old.  

Griselda Blanco

What   prompted Iowahawk's tweet?

What did McCain say prior to the tweet? I know it had to be something idiotic. 

Posted by: RWC at May 08, 2013 09:43 AM (fWAjv)

**

And a GS thin mint cookie as a peace offering....we can't have the princess of pudgy punditry pining for polite politics.

What did McCain say prior to the tweet? I know it had to be something idiotic.

I was guessing it was something about the SC election.  But I don't know that.

Princess McCain said that the election of cheater Sanford is why young people do not vote for Republicans. 

Cause she is an expert or something

anyway, that was Iowahawk's retort

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at May 08, 2013 09:49 AM (/PCJa)

That makes sense.

Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2013 09:47 AM (m2CN7)

I believe she was bitching about Sanford because he cheated on his wife or something along those lines.

Princess McCain spoketh

Really republicans? We're gonna get behind Mark Sanford and claim gay couples will ruin marriage. This is why young people don't vote GOP!!!

Iowa Hawk retorteth

"@MeghanMcCain if it wasn't for politicians cheating on their wives, you wouldn't exist."

"I don't eat cookies. Sorry."

simple enough

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 08, 2013 09:53 AM (lVPtV)

She'll switch to independent the day her dad leaves the Senate in a bodybag (because that asshole won't leave until he suffers a heart attack on the floor)  and she'll be a democrat by the next presidential election after that.

By itself, Iowahawks tweet was a pretty good slam though appears kind of mean.

As a retort,  its the best tweet evah! 

Twitchy link in name because she didn't just whine about Sanford being elected.

She also tied it to gay marriage. Well, didn't tie it at all, just waved her arms and mentioned both.

She also wrote "I've been doing this since my gestation."

She also had written an article in 2009 that said "But what goes on in Governor SanfordÂ’s personal life, I believe, just isnÂ’t relevant to his role as a public official."

Oy.

Posted by: RoyalOil at May 08, 2013 09:49 AM (VjL9S)

This is 100% correct.  I just wish that I wasn't pretty sure this would happen:

LIV sees premiums jump and coverage decline

LIV: "What!?  But they said it would bend the cost curve down!"

DEMS: "Well, it would have if those evil Republicans hadn't tried to stop us at every turn.  Do you know, some states even refused to create exchanges?  If they'd just acted in the spirit of the law, it would all be better.  See, you need to vote for us so we can have the power to implement ObamaCare fully.  Then you'll see your costs go down."

LIV: "Oh, that makes sense.  Thanks for looking out for The Little Guy, Democrats?"

LIV pulls lever for Democrats in national elections

That is not to say that Republicans should have done anything differently (after OCare passed.  Before it passed was a whole different matter), but I'm pretty sure that's how that conversation is going to go.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 08, 2013 09:31 AM (jE38p)

No, it's the result of that Chimpy McBusHitler engaging in illegal wars and stretching the military beyond its limits because of Big Oil and Neo-Jew-Cons.

- - every goddamned braindead leftist.

I'm picturing Megaton locked in her apartment eating Big Macs for the rest of the week.

So... like a normal week then?

Are the Health Exchangey thingers portable to different States, even States that aren't going to implement ?

Because places like Texas ought to make anybody running away from O-Care adhere to their bad choices for X years before they can qualify to get real insurance.

Has Juggy McCain taken to the airwaves yet  to tearfully  receive her official victimization award?

Effin' scrunt.

In January, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended her handling of the attack before Senate and House committees and was angered at Republican accusations that the administration had misled the country over whether the attacks stemmed from a protest.

Issa denied that Wednesday's hearing is an effort by Republicans - who hold a majority in the House - to discredit the Democratic administration.

"Why aren't the Democrats just as upset that we didn't do all we could do to save American lives?" he asked on CNN.

An official inquiry into the incident released in December concluded that "leadership and management failures" in two State Department bureaus led to a security posture "inadequate for Benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place."

Posted by: Thunderb at May 08, 2013 10:00 AM (nH8jP)

Though the guy seems to be doing the right things now which I give him credit, hero is a little strong since he was just happened to be the right place at the right time and did what any normal person would have done.

A hero goes beyond what a normal person would have done. 

Many of us are not liking Mark Sanford, but if the alternate choice is a Democrat? No contest.

I'm prepared not to care about Mark Sanford.  If he serves honorably (which includes things like NOT taking off to "hike the Appalaichan Trail"), then I'm prepared to let the past be past. 

As I understand it, he basically didn't even fight in the divorce: "Here, I royally screwed up, and I admit it.  Can I at least see my kids sometimes?" and he really did marry the lady with whom he was having the affair.  As Iowahawk pointed out- McCain did roughly the same thing at least once, and we don't throw that in his face.

Posted by: Thunderb at May 08, 2013 10:00 AM (nH8jP)

Well I thought it had been mentioned that police had been called there before, but they never actually entered the house.

Yeah, I should be nose deep in a spread sheet right now.Pffft.

Speaking of nose deep and spread sheets:

http://tinyurl.com/bnqbqp5

there is something not right in that neighborhood and all these people claiming they didn't know. I am not declaring anyone a hero in this just yet. Wait, more info will come out

First off, this guy says he was only there a year.  That he wouldn't have seen anything actionable during that time is plausible.

Second, they were saying on the radio that other people had seen -and reported to the police- weird things.  The police would do minimal follow-up and leave.

So it's not like no one ever said anything.

Posted by: The Obsidian Owl at May 08, 2013 10:05 AM (tWmgi)

I honestly wonder about those kinds of people.  This is the internet.  >.> If a person doesn't know what something is/refers to, there are dozens of different search engines that can be used to educate oneself in short order.  Why ask dumb questions on Twitter?

Posted by: Lazy chique at May 08, 2013 09:59 AM (6zgse)

College professors get handed a list of students who require "special handling".  That list will of course include Senator's kids.

OTOH, can you imagine the complexity of the lists at Sidwell Friends as to which Special Snowflake is the mostest special?

This happened Sunday but it still bothers me....

Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson said this about Sen. Ted Cruz, on ABC “This Week”: “I don’t think he should be defined as a Hispanic.”

The headline on the “This Week” web site:

“Bill Richardson: ‘I’m not a fan’ of Ted Cruz

This is what it looks like to protect a political party.

Holy  fucking  formatting  Batman.  The site is  devolving

>>She ought to be mocked off the world stage.

I'm starting to think no amount of mockery would be enough.

Why ask dumb questions on Twitter?

Is 'dumb' a cynoynm for gestation?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2013 10:12 AM (/WLC3)

Hmm.  Looks like those sabres I ordered from Bannion yesterday are going to get a workout sooner than I expected.

Fortunately I am deleting 78GB of deleted mails in the HR mailbox using Powershell.  It's taking a loooooong time.

So I can read AoSHQ for a while.

Point, and point.  Hadn't thought of it that way.

If mockery falls in the vast empty forest that is her head...

...will it ever gestate into a sound she hears?

It's silly to extrapolate, but.....this may bode well for 2014. if a thoroughly tarnished Republican can win against a candidate who is receiving a lot of support from the DCCC, then there is hope.

I wouldn't lay too much money on that proposition.  We're talking SC, not (going purple) Virginia, or Missouri, or Colorado.  The only thing that made the race interesting was the fact it was played as being so close (when, obviously, it wasn't really).

About the neighbors, it just bugs me that a woman who lived across the street from them for 40 years claims she had no clue, as did all the neighbors.  Yet we hear these weird stories about naked women on leashes in the back yard, a baby with a slit throat, possible bodies in the yard, two of them are drunks, house all boarded up.  They all claim they had no clue.  In any other neighborhood except possible East St Lious, this family and house would be infamous 

And about the authorities not knowing?  These guys had other kids.  Wonder if child protective services ever went to the address at some point?  No way child protective services, or some court or police haven't looked at this family for some reason before.  And the cops had been there. 

Something in the milk aint clean

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2013 09:56 AM (/WLC3)

Daddy's not so little girl.

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 08, 2013 10:06 AM (VtjlW)

What I want to know is how well the police department sleeps--the ones who were called a year ago about the Castro brothers having naked girls on leashes in their backyard?  The ones who never responded to that call.

Speaking of spiders that get into people's mouths.

Did you know that during an average person's lifetime you will ingest dozens of spiders?

While sleeping.

So if you wake up with an itch on your lips, it might be one of those 8 legged hairy beasts.

"The 0bama regime is wobbling, folks. "

Yeah, No. 

If it was a GOP administration responsible for all this crap, sure - it'd be wobbling like Juggy McCain's funbags staggering  around drunk  through Georgetown at 3am  on a Tuesday.  But no.  They're democrats and they will always have  cover from the MSM.

This will be a BFD in the Rightosphere, but overall it will be nothing. 

Just lie back and think of this:

http://tinyurl.com/cqz5h98

I was went to the dentist once in my physical fitness uniform. The shorts are really baggy. The dentist, she had really soft hands, soothing voice and I popped a boner. Damn it was awkward. I know she noticed because she paused to look towards my feet.

>>Again, the problem devolves down to the Liberal Democrat Media controlling all means of communication with the American People

They are the ones giving her attention and making her feel special. Once they get tired of her, they'll start making fun of her or worse yet, ignore her.

They bill her as a Republican--one of those good ones, ya know.

...And yet conservatives like Iowahawk make fun of her.

It's a gestating conundrum.

@169

...Yet we hear these weird stories about naked women on leashes in the back yard, a baby with a slit throat, possible bodies in the yard, two of them are drunks, house all boarded up....

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

WTF do you have to do to be suspicious up there? 

WTF do you have to do to be suspicious up there?

Be white?

Cops spend their entire careers arresting assholes for domestic abuse and then the wife/gf beats them to the police station to bail him out. They see so much that is bad, they lose sight of the horrible. Just another day at the office for the patrolmen.

I think there's a lot to that.  Not excusing the really shitty cops that suck donkey balls, but I think many go into it with pretty good intentions, but after dealing with all the shitrats on a daily basis, PC bullshit from political superiors, and the general ass-suckery of  Western justice systems, they get jaded purely for mental survival.

Again, not trying to excuse it.  Many get well compensated to sit on their asses, and if they can't mentally deal with life's bullshit  perhaps they should get another job.....but I can see how it happens.

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 08, 2013 10:21 AM (VtjlW)

Thank you Empress!

Although I doubt it, my dentist is probably going to push Invisalign at me again.  I don't really want it.  Plus last time they told me I had a small cavity and come back to have it filled, and, umm, I didn't.  So they will be mad at me for that.  Plus I think I have to get my full X-rays done and I have a strong gag reflex.  So it is mainly going to suck all around.

On the bright side, I'll get another free toothbrush.  Yay.

"About the neighbors, it just bugs me that a woman who lived across the street from them for 40 years claims she had no clue, as did all the neighbors."

In neighborhoods like that, snitching to the cops is an invitation for personal violence.  Snitched get stitches.  It's been that way for a long time.

That said, the times the cops were actually called out to that location in the past with nothing being done really makes you wonder about the CPD and the police in general.

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 08, 2013 10:30 AM (VtjlW)

I saw a cute sign the other day that asked, "What do you have after you lick the icing off a cupcake?"

Answer: a muffin.

Yep. I read a giant Reddit thread (mistake!) about this and had the same thought I'm having now: This demographic is not familiar with what police in a shitty neighborhood actually do. I've done some 'hood time, slumming-bohemian style, and I quickly learned what the deal is--and that I'd better be prepared to save my own ass at all times.

Police don't find out what's up when a Loser seems to be in trouble. If they can't "help" them by fucking them up, it's none of their business. The way Loser crime is dealt with is to encircle it, not to stop it.

You can be fine with that, of course. And "we" obviously are. It's a near-universal strategy with clear benefits...for non-victims of it. But people like those girls (and the funny interview guy) are abandoned so we can keep people like their captors out of our lives. That's the deal.

"What do you have after you lick the icing off a cupcake?"

Kate Upton's nipples?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2013 10:25 AM (/WLC3)

There was an assistant in the office I go to that always dragged her boobehs across my face when she would lean over me to reach for something. I swear it seemed like it became a game for her.

Posted by: Waldo at May 08, 2013 10:22 AM (sXWmd)

Based on her stupid Tonight Show appearance, bring up Sarah Palin.

Posted by: Jaws at May 08, 2013 10:29 AM (4I3Uo)

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I've heard the stuff listed above (women on leashes, possible bodies)  and even someone reporting  "screams"  to the police.  I guess we will  sort this  out  over  time.

But with missing girls and women nearby, how the hell did this fly under radar?

An  expanding  grid  search  knocking  on  doors  might  have  turned  them up  at  any  time.

Greg Gutfeld is rightly nailing the psychic who years ago claimed she knew  a victim  was dead.  Wonder  if  some  cops  bought  that  crap?    

Posted by: Jaws at May 08, 2013 10:29 AM (4I3Uo)

The Tremont neighborhood is a strange one.  It used to be where all the DPs lived who worked in the steel mills and was a nice family neighborhood.  Then it got a major fuck job in the 70s when they constructed interstates all around it and a lot of the families said fuck this shit and left.  Since then it's been a mixture of people who stuck around, arty types, gentrification types and lowlifes.  My point is that any concept of a cohesive neighborhood went down the shitter a long time ago and it's very possible for shitheads to live isolated lives there where nobody knows what the fuck they're doing.

Cleveland cops have been on a prolonged streak of fucking things up for a while now.  I'm not sure if this will lead to things getting better but they don't have that much further to drop.

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 08, 2013 10:37 AM (VtjlW)

We have a cookie place close to my house that sells high end cookies--$1.82 to $3.50.  They are also worth every penny.

>>She has a Breakfast Cupcake.

I'm already googling that and finding interesting recipes...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2013 10:25 AM (/WLC3)

Shortly after I moved to where I'm living now, I needed to have a crown put on.  So I checked Angie's List in search of a dentist.  Found one with an all female staff.  Bingo!  Plenty of hotness in scrubs, and they did excellent work with my tooth.

Charles Rescue Ramsey:

"I knew something was wrong when a little, pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway."

Meh. No little pretty black girls ever  ran into my arms.  That aside, good job  buddy.

Posted by: Vote Lord Humungus 2016 at May 08, 2013 10:42 AM (HEa5q)

Many years ago, there was a little boy that disappeared from his elementary school, the same one my youngest stepson (the Marine) went to.  He vanished from the school, never made it home.  A search went on for months, and a psychic met with the family trying to re-assure them saying he's alive and eating doughnuts and getting fat.  A few weeks later, the police find his body stuffed inside a suitcase in an empty field near where I used to live.  He had been dead for quite some time.  His estranged father kidnapped him and murdered him.  Police had him as a suspect from day one, but he never gave up any info.

257 so if you see your neighbor walking a naked woman on a leash take a fucking picture so the cops can't ignore it.

-----

Unless it's me.  I just be taking Tina out for a pee.

Blah

Never liked frosting.

Posted by: thunderb at May 08, 2013 10:50 AM (QXhk4)

____________

Did you read the articles? Several people knew something was going on. They called the police on several occasions and the police didn't do shit for years.

Posted by: Vote Lord Humungus 2016 at May 08, 2013 10:42 AM (HEa5q)

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I took that seminar.   But sometimes they are kept for years.  If the  police   automatically knee jerk to family and dead every serial killer and  stalking  sex predator gets away.     

Reading the latest on that limo fire (yes it continues to bother me, I want to know what caused it) to me it seems like part of the reason 5 of them died is because one of the ones who got out ran around and opened the door by the fire which gave it oxygen and made it burn even more. I am speculating (because I don't even play a fire investigator on tv) that if that door had been left closed at least a couple of the other women could have gotten through the front panel.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at May 08, 2013 10:49 AM (xAtAj)

Wrong.  When the economy goes in the shitter companies cut back on projects and just maintain the bare essentials.

Three women were held hostage for a decade. Repeatedly raped. Impregnated. Beaten until they miscarried multiple times.

How the fuck could it have been much worse?

-----

It could have been me?

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 08, 2013 10:54 AM (kwR+3)

__________

Only the stupid companies. The smart companies understand that long term investment in technology is a money saver.

>>>Has anyone ever asked Meggy Mac why ahe calls herself Republican? What Republican core tenets does she actually believe in?

What are these 'core tenets' of which you speak?

Posted by: WalrusRex at May 08, 2013 10:56 AM (Hx5uv)

I'm suing for trademark infringement.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at May 08, 2013 10:57 AM (HDgX3)

I don't know how anybody makes money without your unique brand of genius to guide them.

@291.. okay, that is definately weird!!  That's a WTF??

Posted by: BCochran1981

I always manage to do ok.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at May 08, 2013 10:58 AM (xAtAj)

_______________

Yep. And not just CS grads. I've worked with lots of computer-y people who had history and poli-sci degrees but got into IT consulting one way or another. They're all doing fine and weren't affected at all by the recession.

Not investing in technology is suicide, recession or no recession. And this goes for any company in any industry.

Has anyone ever asked Meggy Mac why ahe calls herself Republican?

She's the  style of "Republican" she's paid  to portray by  MSLSD.  It's not  really any different than Joe Scarbought or David "Pants Crease" Brooks.

If / when the source of the paycheck changes, the opinion will change too.  They're professional wrasslin' heels in business attire  instead of lycra singlets.  I just wish they hit each other with metal folding chairs once in awhile.

Posted by: Pimp at May 08, 2013 11:03 AM (da5Wo)

Yeah!!!  What he said!

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at May 08, 2013 10:54 AM (RZ8pf)

All cars should have car doors which you simply open and get the hell out.  Did this limo not have doors where the women were located or did the doors get stuck or what.  That's what bothers me.  Open door, bail out.  Seems simple but something obviously prevented this. 

Posted by: DangerGirl at May 08, 2013 10:55 AM (zr7nZ)

Whatever falls out of her addled shitstain father's mouth.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at May 08, 2013 11:03 AM (HDgX3)"

That is not my experience.  I can also introduce you to a couple of dozen other people who will refute the "no recession for comp sci folks" meme that you are peddling.