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October 20, 2013

Non-Elbow Open Thread [OregonMuse]
— Open Blogger

If you want to jawbone about politics, rather than football, this is the place to do it.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 04:10 PM | Comments (65)
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1 OK so where are the elbows?

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 20, 2013 04:13 PM (0FSuD)

2 Can we talk about booze here? Booze and elbows go together, right?

Posted by: Cicero Kid at October 20, 2013 04:14 PM (DHQv9)

3 A guy at work told me a member of the Nigerian royal family is going to transfer 40 million dollars into his bank account. I told him Prince SCOAMF of Kenya is gonna tax the shit out of him and give me free health care and a phone.

Posted by: Buck Ofama at October 20, 2013 04:20 PM (Eibjh)

4 I was promised elbow's. GaaGaaGaaGaa.

Posted by: popeye at October 20, 2013 04:28 PM (V+Pei)

5 Elbows? They are in Elbonia.

Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at October 20, 2013 04:29 PM (v6hyJ)

6 Elbow's?

Posted by: stretch armstrong at October 20, 2013 04:30 PM (V+Pei)

7 Ok, so the story is John Roberts got blackmailed into endorsing O-care because his children's adoptions were shady under Irish law http://tinyurl.com/k5gm3gz I wonder if its true.

Posted by: Iblis at October 20, 2013 04:30 PM (jljrr)

8 So when does Valerie Jarrett send Kathleen Sebelius out on a fishing boat

Posted by: Fredo at October 20, 2013 04:31 PM (Pr6hk)

9 AUNT ORGANIZES FACEBOOK EVENT TO CONFRONT NEPHEWÂ’S BULLY AT SCHOOLÂ…AND A LOT OF PEOPLE SHOW UP pretty sweet story at the blaze http://tinyurl.com/kmk7c6d On Friday, car after car after car rolled into South Salem High SchoolÂ’s parking lot ultimately carrying about 100 people to the campus.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 20, 2013 04:32 PM (IXrOn)

10 I've alway's been partial to cankles

Posted by: Bill C, not to be confused with Bill W at October 20, 2013 04:33 PM (V+Pei)

11 Hey guys, help me out here. I'm filling in my calendar. Can any of you tell me when the Boy Scouts Jamboree is?

Posted by: Harry Reid is a pederast at October 20, 2013 04:33 PM (Pr6hk)

12 o.k. you rethuglicans. you need to sign up for your ACA approved insurance, otherwise how can we deny your procedures

Posted by: IPAB at October 20, 2013 04:36 PM (Pr6hk)

13 There is no doubt Roberts was threatened with something.

Posted by: Mr. Moo moo at October 20, 2013 04:36 PM (7fqVz)

14 Can you say "taqiyya"? I think you can.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/kpteyjo

Posted by: Cretin, high grade moron isotopes in thousands of centrifuges at October 20, 2013 04:37 PM (xdqW8)

15 13 There is no doubt Roberts was threatened with something. Posted by: Mr. Moo moo at October 20, 2013 08:36 PM (7fqVz) Yeah. But if he resigns, Barry gets another pick. Is a blackmailable Roberts better than a outright commie judge?

Posted by: Iblis at October 20, 2013 04:38 PM (jljrr)

16 We will find a suit for you Hillary, I guarantee it

Posted by: The men's warehouse at October 20, 2013 04:39 PM (V+Pei)

17 8 So when does Valerie Jarrett send Kathleen Sebelius out on a fishing boatPosted by: Fredo at October 20, 2013 08:31 PM (Pr6hk)
When top Democrats start criticizing Sebelius.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 20, 2013 04:44 PM (WLywR)

18 Instead of a new parallel political thread for every non-political Sunday thread, there whould just be regular open political threads opened up throughout the day, with new ones only popping up when the older threads become a bit rank...

Posted by: We need a dedicated Hat thread because people aren't wearing enough Hats at October 20, 2013 04:46 PM (Vk2pI)

19 It's gotten so bad lately I had to tune out Alex Jones. Now I only get my news from The Daily Mail.

Posted by: tinfoil yamica at October 20, 2013 04:47 PM (V+Pei)

20 Â“The tactic of defunding the government unless [President Obama] repealed his signature issue was as poorly designed as Â‘ObamacareÂ’ itself, almost. I canÂ’t imagine President Bush agreeing to repeal the Bush tax cuts if the Democrats had challenged him with the following proposition: We will fund all of the government, Mr. President, if you, President Bush, would give up on your tax cuts. President Obama was never going to give up on his signature issue.Â” Â– Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) on CBSÂ’s Â“Face the NationÂ” I posted earlier that I watch five to ten minutes of the various talk shows today starting around 10:30. Our Hero Miss Lindsey really pissed me off with this one. The dems do not blame each other or bad mouth other dems in public. Why donÂ’t these fools learn that? I know the answer, because they are the stupid party!

Posted by: CarolT at October 20, 2013 04:47 PM (z4WKX)

21 Is a blackmailable Roberts better than a outright commie judge?

Posted by: Iblis at October 20, 2013 08:38 PM (jljrr)

At this time, what difference does it make?

Also: that link goes to an article that references another one and that one is dead.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at October 20, 2013 04:49 PM (lAZep)

22 wonder if its true. Posted by: Iblis at October 20, 2013 08:30 PM (jljrr) I always thought they had something on Roberts to make him change his vote. Two or three weeks ago a man called local radio show host in Boston, Howie Carr with the story. Howie had never heard it and then after the break came on and said itÂ’s all over the internet. It has to have some truth to it because the law is clearly Un-Constitutional!

Posted by: CarolT at October 20, 2013 04:50 PM (z4WKX)

23 Not to bead a dead ~~horse~~ rat, but socialized healthcare apparently involves letting the elderly getting their faces eaten off by rats: http://tinyurl.com/l6lm3ha

Posted by: Face Eating Rat, M.D. at October 20, 2013 04:51 PM (Vk2pI)

That is a really cropped pic.

For all we know she's curb stomping a lefty and is disgusted at all the puss that leaked out of its ears.

Posted by: Invictus at October 20, 2013 04:51 PM (FBkKA)

25 can you imagine being a Mid 50's caucasian at this time in US History ? Not to be racist, but you get up each day and look at the clock, debt that is and say WTF...

Posted by: Clemenza at October 20, 2013 04:52 PM (70CRT)

26 Posted by: We need a dedicated Hat thread because people aren't wearing enough Hats at October 20, 2013 08:46 PM (Vk2pI)

Beyond a certain number of comments, the thread becomes hard to refresh.

And it's difficult to track the whole thing if it gets too long.

In a 1k comment thread, it's unusual for the starting topic to still be the major topic by then.

I think this whole political vs non political division is a waste of time, dilutes both threads and makes for confusion which will some will find annoying enough to spend more time elsewhere.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it is a good motto for a reason.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at October 20, 2013 04:53 PM (lAZep)

27 can you imagine being a Mid 50's caucasian at this time in US History ? --------------------------------- Imagine it? Hell, I'm living the dream, er, nightmare.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at October 20, 2013 04:56 PM (4Mv1T)

28 23face eating dr rat. Dude, did you see the study that said 200,000 plus die in hospitals every year due to needless causes? Ya, how do you think this craptastic system is gonna work?

Posted by: oc joe at October 20, 2013 04:56 PM (V+Pei)

29 Posted by: Clemenza at October 20, 2013 08:52 PM (70CRT)

Try mid 60's Caucasian.

I started out like everyone my age thinking things can only get better.

Then there was Viet Nam, The LA Riots, Assasinations, Feminism, Affirmative Action, Nixon, Carter, The Hostages in Iran and the Failed rescue, Even Reagan wasn't the golden boy some try to make him out to be seeing as how he gave us, GHWBush, Lost Opportunities in the Gulf War (thank you Coward Powell), Bill Clinton and his Puppet Masters, Failed Impeachment even though it was clear he lied, George Bush, Al Gore trying to steal the election, 9-11, The Iraq War (another bunch of failed opportunities), Republican hubris, The Democrats in power in the House, McCain, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama etc.

Things looked so good in 1963.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at October 20, 2013 05:00 PM (lAZep)

30 Hey guys, Obama is going to call the glitches "unacceaptable." Good for him, it's about time he made up his mind whether they were "intended," "proof of the failure of the private insurer model" or "unacceptable." (FWIW, they were also entirely expected by us all here.)

Posted by: tsrblke PhD(c) (No Really!) at October 20, 2013 05:00 PM (GaqMa)

31 23 Not to bead a dead horse rat, but socialized healthcare apparently involves letting the elderly getting their faces eaten off by rats:

http://tinyurl.com/l6lm3ha
Posted by: Face Eating Rat, M.D. at October 20, 2013 08:51 PM (Vk2pI)
Didn't Krugman or Friedman or Reich or one of those joker say something like :
You will hear lots of stories about single payer and all of them are false or something like that?
The goofy game for dopey doctors.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 20, 2013 05:00 PM (WLywR)

32 "I always thought they had something on Roberts to make him change his vote."

Even before the Obamacare vote, at the time Roberts was confirmed, I saw a photo of Roberts, his wife, and their two small and quite white children, and read that it was via adoption, and said to myself, "How'd they swing *that*?"

I know several infertile white couples who have gone to adopt and basically been told they could have any color but white. For a white couple to get not one but two white kids, who were not twins, struck me as very odd at the time.

If true, and if true that it has opened Roberts to blackmail, it would be absolutely in keeping with Chicago rules. Note also that if a GOP renaissance occurs, but Roberts remains as Chief Justice, he's still vulnerable to quiet pressure in high profile cases. The institutional left isn't going away, and if they've got the goods on him, they've got the goods.

Another wonderful legacy from George W. Bush.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 20, 2013 05:01 PM (gqT4g)

33 Kneemail request. Friends of mine just had a baby. Hooray! Kid made an early entrance by about 12 weeks. Hasn't cracked two pounds. Boo! Please keep Baby Phoebe in your prayers.Looks good so far.. .

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at October 20, 2013 05:01 PM (P50Ng)

34 Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at October 20, 2013 08:53 PM (lAZep) It's broke depending on who you ask. Gaming threads got derailed regularly in the old model. Some decent software would make this a lot easier but ace doesn't want to spring for some 2005 Blogger or Wordpress tech.

Posted by: tsrblke PhD(c) (No Really!) at October 20, 2013 05:01 PM (GaqMa)

35 Stossel's "Myths, Lies, and Complete Stupidity" starting now, and airing again at midnight.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 05:04 PM (DmNpO)

36 Kneemail request. ** You know it.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 05:06 PM (DmNpO)

37 31.... If anybody listened to krugman et al we would be 20-22 trillion in debt. How people take these people seriously is beyond me

Posted by: oc joe at October 20, 2013 05:06 PM (V+Pei)

38 I get the separate posts for the Book, Gaming and Astronomy threads, but can the poster of the football and gun threads just hang a sign that says 'Moron Friendly' and call it at that?

Posted by: phreshone at October 20, 2013 05:07 PM (Pr6hk)

39 Beyond a certain number of comments, the thread becomes hard to refresh. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at October 20, 2013 08:53 PM (lAZep) It works fine on the new iPad that my two Daddies got me on the Wifi network in downtown Berkley where I can like troll you wingnut fascist Kyeriarch H8ers!!1!

Posted by: We R teh 99 persent!!1! at October 20, 2013 05:08 PM (Vk2pI)

40 Personally, I'm a little put off by being told I must comment only about certain things on certain threads.

What's the point?

Why is it so important?

The notice about this just didn't seem a good justification for the trouble.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at October 20, 2013 05:11 PM (lAZep)

41 I get the separate posts for the Book, Gaming and Astronomy threads, but can the poster of the football and gun threads just hang a sign that says 'Moron Friendly' and call it at that? *** I always liked that the football thread was sort of an open thread. Not every minute of every game is noteworthy.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 05:12 PM (DmNpO)

42 The trouble with redoing the site to be more user friendly is that it would mean having to change being able to us an alias nic and many of the current commenting systems make it difficult to read a thread from start to finish AND they also take away control of the comments from the blogger.

I like the way it runs as is.

But then I'm a conservative and don't much like stuff I'm used to to change.

It never seems to change for the better.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at October 20, 2013 05:14 PM (lAZep)

43 40... RESPECT mumble mumble TCP... mumble mumble Sock it to me squared

Posted by: Arethra at October 20, 2013 05:14 PM (V+Pei)

44 I guess you could even have parallel blogs, based on ip address or browser sniffer or nics or some algorithmic result of all the stuff teh internet lets you collect.
One for the frontier gibberish that I like.
One for dainty sandwich recipes and teh ghey "marriage"/Go Christie! folks.
Parallel blogs, multiple threads on each, knitting how-to in the sidebar... Jeez, I oughta have my own blog.

Posted by: Cretin, high grade moron isotopes in thousands of centrifuges at October 20, 2013 05:15 PM (xdqW8)

45 NDH... The gun thread, is by definition in today's environment, a 'political' thread - IMHO

Posted by: phreshone at October 20, 2013 05:16 PM (Pr6hk)

46 Yeah, and changing yourself to suit your girl/boy friend ALWAYS works out so well.

Love me. Love my faults.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at October 20, 2013 05:17 PM (lAZep)

47 With this being an open thread, does that mean it will wander on-topic pretty soon?

Posted by: fluffy at October 20, 2013 05:19 PM (z9HTb)

48 Mammals all urinate for about 21 seconds. Why? | Trending News - Home http://t.co/5g5qV1Y5uN

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 05:22 PM (DmNpO)

49 Mammals all urinate for about 21 seconds. Why? | Trending News - Home http://t.co/5g5qV1Y5uN Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 09:22 PM (DmNpO) The study didn't include animals that had been drinking heavily, did it?

Posted by: We R teh 99 persent!!1! at October 20, 2013 05:27 PM (Vk2pI)

50 NDH...Hey, in my world this study is full of crap,but then again,who would want to live in my world?

Posted by: Budman at October 20, 2013 05:27 PM (V+Pei)

51 /off stinky occupy sockÂ…

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 20, 2013 05:27 PM (Vk2pI)

52 It's always a good day when the Cowboys win and President Goat-buggerer doesn't make some kind of speech.

On the other hand, for the 3,958th day in a row, Firefly has not been un-canceled.

Fuck the whole universe.

Posted by: Dominari Nolo at October 20, 2013 05:36 PM (Em374)

53 Mammals all urinate for about 21 seconds. Why?

It's clearly a Tea Party conspiracy, and proves we're racist.

Posted by: Dominari Nolo at October 20, 2013 05:38 PM (Em374)

54 I just watched the greatest movie trailer ever. Bad Grandpa. I think I have a new hero

Posted by: It's not really my fault at October 20, 2013 05:43 PM (V+Pei)

55 What about mammalss with enlarged prostates? Is that why referees throw a yellow flag the rest of the year?

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at October 20, 2013 05:43 PM (tibpa)

56 I just can't get over that story featuring a video of animals peeing.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 05:48 PM (DmNpO)

57 52 It's always a good day when the Cowboys win and President Goat-buggerer doesn't make some kind of speech.
Posted by: Dominari Nolo at October 20, 2013 09:36 PM (Em374)

Heard on the radio today that President Goat-buggerer is planning to make a speech tomorrow. He can't help himself, the lousy copulating sphincter.

I'm relatively new to the site.
Could someone tell me what "TFG" stands for, or at least point me to the correct answer?

Thanks.

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 20, 2013 06:12 PM (QdOC1)

58 <i>Could someone tell me what "TFG" stands for, or at least point me to the correct answer?</i>

That I recall, TFG = The Fucking Genius, i.e., the Bamster, who believes in Navy Zombies, are as he might say it Navy Corpsemen. Or as he otherwise might say it, "those racists".

I'm sort of new here too. How do all you racists get something to show up in italics, since the italics thing seems to show up correctly when I'm in draft, then ignores me and/or mocks me after I post.

Posted by: Dominari Nolo at October 20, 2013 06:26 PM (Em374)

59 I see that the <i></i> doesn't do it either. Damn racist comment thingie.

Posted by: Dominari Nolo at October 20, 2013 06:27 PM (Em374)

60 Great, thanks!
I figured it was the fucking SOMETHING.

That is why I am not a TFG.
Instead, I'm a fucking moron.

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 20, 2013 06:31 PM (QdOC1)

61 Do this be italic?

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 20, 2013 06:33 PM (QdOC1)

62 italic = [ i ] value [ /i ] ...

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 20, 2013 06:34 PM (QdOC1)

63 TFG = The Fucking Genius

You dolled it up too purty.

That Effin' Guy.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at October 20, 2013 06:44 PM (eHIJJ)

64 ONT

Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 20, 2013 06:50 PM (aDwsi)

65 That Effin' Guy.

Both mysteries solved. Thanks Galt, and AnonymousDrivel.

Hey, wait a minute! They occasionally call me 'that guy' at work. I always thought they meant it in the sense of Bruce Willis in DH4, where 'that guy' is the reluctant hero.

Jokes on me....

Posted by: Dominari Nolo at October 20, 2013 06:57 PM (Em374)

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