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December 22, 2013

Open Thread
— CAC

For all of your non-astronomy needs, here's Rob Ford dancing and singing along to Bob Marley's One Love.

Open Thread.

Posted by: CAC at 04:35 PM | Comments (82)
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1 Ford cut taxes AND spending. By all means let's demonize him.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at December 22, 2013 04:38 PM (0LHZx)

2 Really bad cover singer.

Posted by: wooga at December 22, 2013 04:42 PM (jgnqm)

3 This guy is either a complete fucking retardÂ…or a genius.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 22, 2013 04:43 PM (GEICT)

4 Our politicians look like cardboard cut outs next to this guy.

Posted by: navybrat at December 22, 2013 04:45 PM (AW7Gr)

5 Hey at least the song is a good one.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 22, 2013 04:46 PM (k/Mc/)

6 I like that he used the I was blacked out drunk so I didn't know I was smoking crack defense.

Posted by: blaster at December 22, 2013 04:50 PM (4+AaH)

7 Eh, rather see him air guitar Tom Sawyer.

Posted by: puddleglum at December 22, 2013 04:51 PM (Q5N0C)

8 For a fat guy he can dance. Crack gives you some energy, but you usually lose weight.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 22, 2013 04:52 PM (0FSuD)

9 Rob Ford, bringing sexy back

Posted by: Albie Damned at December 22, 2013 04:52 PM (cGaCp)

I like that he used the I was blacked out drunk so I didn't know I was smoking crack defense.

Posted by: blaster at December 22, 2013 08:50 PM (4+AaH)

Hey, Don't sell him short. - "Bitch set me up!" worked for me.

Posted by: marion barry at December 22, 2013 04:55 PM (D+lxs)

11 He's got a significant drug and alcohol problem, and he could stand to lose a few pounds. Hardly a demon.

Posted by: Meremortal , Hey Ducky Way at December 22, 2013 05:02 PM (1Y+hH)

12 I like that Toronto/Canada seems to going, Eh, vs tearing him to pieces as a conservative who OMG is not perfect.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 22, 2013 05:02 PM (cQZV0)

13 White man overbite for sure

Posted by: Big Swingin Al at December 22, 2013 05:03 PM (OZtuG)

14 Heez bald--like that Hush Limbaugh!

Posted by: P. Hilton earning it at December 22, 2013 05:04 PM (R6JT1)

15 That's Lush Rimjob to you.

Posted by: PajamaBoy what thinks he's a wit at December 22, 2013 05:07 PM (dZGNV)

16 I didnÂ’t watch the video, but heÂ’s more conservative than most of the republicans in Congress.

Posted by: Carol at December 22, 2013 05:07 PM (z4WKX)

17 Better than watching the damn Bears game...Cutler sucks

Posted by: dumbartist at December 22, 2013 05:07 PM (ahBY0)

18 Perhaps Canadians have decided it's better to be drunk on drugs than drunk on power. It's Canada, let them have their fun. They'd best hold off on the security clearances though.

Posted by: Meremortal , Hey Docky Way at December 22, 2013 05:10 PM (1Y+hH)

19 Can someone clue me in on the sidebar link by redbrewer to the Fukushima radiation? Seemed like a total paranoid nut page to me.

Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 22, 2013 05:10 PM (dZGNV)

20 The guy is mayor of a city. In Canada.

Do you people really feel the need to get defensive about the guy?

He's a buffoon. If you want him on your team, be my guest. Meanwhile the rest of us will point and laugh.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2013 05:11 PM (BeSEI)

21 There is a picture of SCOAMF & Mochelle on Drudge and they both look miserable. I hope they are miserable.

Posted by: Carol at December 22, 2013 05:11 PM (z4WKX)

22 At least he didn't say "Ah did not have sucks with that crack pipe."

Posted by: Sister Sestina at December 22, 2013 05:13 PM (Em6d4)

23 Meanwhile the rest of us will point and laugh.

Pres. Ronald Reagan?! The actor?!

Posted by: Back to the Future's '50s Doc Brown at December 22, 2013 05:13 PM (R6JT1)

24 If I want to talk about the fine Taurus automobile my wife drove in the 90s, should I be in this thread or the Taurus space thread?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 22, 2013 05:18 PM (Txl/u)

25 They'd best hold off on the security clearances though. Posted by: Meremortal , Hey Docky Way at December 22, 2013 09:10 PM (1Y+hH) Really????

Posted by: Barry Choom Boy Soteoro at December 22, 2013 05:19 PM (lZBBB)

26 "I hope they are miserable." Her moods vary from miserable to bitchy, to phony good humor, a pretense she cannot carry off for very long. He's miserable, and the ground regarding why has been sufficiently flailed.

Posted by: Meremortal , Hey Docky Way at December 22, 2013 05:20 PM (1Y+hH)

27 Posted by: Sister Sestina at December 22, 2013 09:13 PM (Em6d4) "Didn't inhale' worked for me....

Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 22, 2013 05:20 PM (lZBBB)

28 Albie Damned, How was the Redford movie last night or was it the night before?

Posted by: Carol at December 22, 2013 05:21 PM (z4WKX)

29 Â“The presidentÂ’s most powerful weapon as president is his ability to inspire Â— thatÂ’s his greatest strength,Â” Susteren began. Â“And then he comes out last Friday in the press conference. He was depressing, he was pathetic, he sucked the oxygen out of the room. The media beat up on him, the media had bad questions, they kept punching him. I mean, he ends the year where you just want to slit your throat almost, because it was so depressing. HeÂ’s completely lost his ability to inspire.Â”

Posted by: Jack the Ripper at December 22, 2013 05:22 PM (e8kgV)

30 24 -

I drove a rented Taurus for about a week once. Not a bad car, but not exactly what you would call luxury.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2013 05:22 PM (BeSEI)

31 Are Senators required to have security clearance? Be interesting to see the Presidents and if he was truthful about his drug use. Of course if he was a Republican that would have leaked faster than Jeri Ryan at a swingers party.

Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 22, 2013 05:23 PM (dZGNV)

32 As this is an open thread, here is a link to what I regard as a fascinating commentary from a former Homosexual. He knows what he's talking about in a way that very few can. The link goes to "American Thinker" and the Author is Robert Oscar Lopez. http://preview.tinyurl.com/lnqrg3w Why post this now? Because I just ran across it (over at Free Republic) and it is simply one of the best commentary on the topic which I have seen in a along time.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 22, 2013 05:25 PM (bb5+k)

33 Cicero, you want to talk about a Taurus? I assume this will mostly involve unexpected roadside interludes of repose and various tales of complicated and mysterious repairs.

Posted by: Meremortal , Hey Doocky Way at December 22, 2013 05:26 PM (1Y+hH)

34 29 -

First of all, the man has never inspired anyone to do anything other than feel good about themselves for voting for a black guy. So now he's feeling sorry for himself, which means all those people who wanted him to be a symbolic savior, don't have anything left onto which to take hold.

Boo freakin' hoo. You expect the rest of us to feel sorry for you because you are JUST NOW figuring this out??

No, suck on your depressive air suck, idiot.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2013 05:27 PM (BeSEI)

35 29 Â“The presidentÂ’s most powerful weapon as president is his ability to inspire Â— thatÂ’s his greatest strength,Â” Susteren began. Â“And then he comes out last Friday in the press conference. He was depressing, he was pathetic, he sucked the oxygen out of the room. The media beat up on him, the media had bad questions, they kept punching him. I mean, he ends the year where you just want to slit your throat almost, because it was so depressing. HeÂ’s completely lost his ability to inspire.Â” Posted by: Jack the Ripper at December 22, 2013 09:22 PM (e8kgV) I think you mean "the rubes have awakened." He never could inspire. He could only sell moon-dust to the naive and gullible.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 22, 2013 05:27 PM (bb5+k)

36 Coburn opened with a subtle swipe at his own party. Â“I guess I canÂ’t really speak for Republicans,Â” he claimed. Â“My thoughts are, the American people donÂ’t believe we have a debt ceiling because we always increase it, and they donÂ’t believe we have the discipline in Washington.Â”

The senator then took aim at GregoryÂ’s implications that these Â“tough issuesÂ” can only be solved through bipartisan compromise. Â“The reason weÂ’re in trouble on deficits and debts is not because we didnÂ’t agree, but because we did,Â” Coburn contended. Â“We agreed to spend $740 billion we didnÂ’t have last year. We agreed to waste $30 billion Â— as I put in the Wastebook Â— this year. We agreed to continue to let Medicare have $80 billion a year in fraud in it. WeÂ’re going to have $80 billion a year in fraud in Obamacare. We agreed to all those things.

Â“So the story coming out of Washington, that we donÂ’t get along? I would dispute that,Â” the senator declared. Â“We get along just fine with the status quo of the government being ineffective and inefficient. So we pass a bill that raises spending and raises taxes and denies what we promised the American people, and everybody says Â“Oh my goodness how great! You grew the government some more and you charged us more taxes and you didnÂ’t fix any of the problems.Â”

Posted by: Yuichi Ono at December 22, 2013 05:28 PM (e8kgV)

37 I would gladly pay you Tuesday for some regolith today.

Posted by: Wimpy, Bull Moose candidate at December 22, 2013 05:30 PM (R6JT1)

38 Also, of general interest is this article and photographs taken of nuclear explosions with extremely high speed cameras. "Eerie Rapatronic Nuclear Photographs:Taken Within 10 Nano-Seconds of Detonation" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3104424/posts

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 22, 2013 05:31 PM (bb5+k)

39 Bambi made the biggest freebie-goodie promise of all time, the Golden Fleece of handouts, and he didn't come through and they know it. That's his whole problem. *hint hint to any campaign types*

Posted by: Meremortal , Hey Doocky Way at December 22, 2013 05:32 PM (1Y+hH)

40 And.... Ryan doubled down on Military Retirements today.... My question to him.... why is it the FIRST and ONLY thing to actually get cut?

Posted by: Romeo13, Vet at December 22, 2013 05:35 PM (lZBBB)

41 >>28 Albie Damned,
How was the Redford movie last night or was it the night before?

Posted by: Carol at December 22, 2013 09:21 PM (z4WKX)<<

In a word...weird; at least from what I remember while trying to forget what I was watching by getting drunk out of my gourd.

It was a period piece but had a strangely anachronistic music score. In one scene where they were trying depict decadence of the day by partying, "I Want Candy" by Bow-Wow-Wow was playing.

Another scene showed Marie Antoinette's massive shoe collection which actually had a pair of Converse Chuck Taylor high tops.

..or maybe not. I WAS drinking heavily

Posted by: Albie Damned at December 22, 2013 05:35 PM (cGaCp)

The presidentÂ’s most powerful weapon as president is his ability to inspire Â— thatÂ’s his greatest strength

Only if you are inspired by bumper sticker slogans. Apparently 52% of the country was,,,,,twice. Bullshit uber alles!!

Posted by: puddleglum at December 22, 2013 05:37 PM (Q5N0C)

43 Holy shit, FNC's showing Firing Line reruns now?

Posted by: ZZ Top's Legs at December 22, 2013 05:43 PM (R6JT1)

44 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 22, 2013 05:44 PM (JMmQ9)

45 DA Bears...

Posted by: Mr. Natural at December 22, 2013 05:44 PM (KArqF)

46 Still Suck!

Posted by: Mr. Natural at December 22, 2013 05:45 PM (KArqF)

47 I can always find the upside of politics here eh?

Posted by: LTD at December 22, 2013 05:48 PM (HBxHk)

48 Posted by: Romeo13, Vet at December 22, 2013 09:35 PM (lZBBB) Because to a politician, volunteer troops are expendable, AND they don't make big campaign contributions!

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 22, 2013 05:49 PM (o3MSL)

49 Damn, it's a onetime glance at a saner time.

Posted by: Let the goodtimes roll on another's tab at December 22, 2013 05:50 PM (R6JT1)

50 you're really going to make me watch the Rob Ford vid before I get a proper ONT? Really? OK, fcukers, I'll go watch it.

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 22, 2013 05:52 PM (JMmQ9)

51 Has anyone commented on the infighting over at National Review Online, concerning Mark Steyn's terrific weekend column about the Phi Robertson situation and Mark's editor's limp-wristed whiny reply, and then Mark's rebuttal and the lip-wristed's further whine and another writer's Bravo to Mark? It is extremely worth your time to read em all. Mark gets it, the editor might as well come out of the closet with GLAAD. Here's the link to Mark's column that started it all: http://tinyurl.com/mtl5rft

Posted by: My Name is Nobody at December 22, 2013 05:53 PM (5Q1ZU)

52 This looks interesting and not just because I really like Jamie Bell:

http://bit.ly/1kxNsdu

I know ace was disappointed that Sleepy Hollow is X-Files on crack and not about the Revolutionary War so this might make him happy.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at December 22, 2013 05:54 PM (Gk3SS)

53 >>>Cicero, you want to talk about a Taurus? I assume this will mostly involve unexpected roadside interludes of repose and various tales of complicated and mysterious repairs ----------- It was a company car for my wife, who was a pharm detailer. It wasn't overtly offensive compared to the Chevy Monte Carlo it replaced. If I wanted to travel from point A to point B without attracting attention, that was the car.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 22, 2013 05:54 PM (Txl/u)

54 If Toronto Mayor Rob Ford told me he had a drug-dealing pimp friend named "T-Bone," I'd believe him.

Posted by: Fritz at December 22, 2013 05:55 PM (TKFmG)

55 @40

Paul Ryan is a fucking scumbag.

When it comes to military pensions, you cut them as a last resort when you have cut everything else to the bone you fucking maggot.

I notice NPR and PBS wasn't touched, nor cowboy poetry, nor any of the other shit we fucking piss money away on.

Paul Ryan is a joke, a sick demented joke.

Posted by: Kreplach at December 22, 2013 05:56 PM (Xkr8I)

56 Posted by: Romeo13, Vet at December 22, 2013 09:35 PM (lZBBB)

Look at past history. America (note - America, the nation, not Americans as individuals) has always treated its vets this way. The only reason the vets didn't get kicked to the curb after WW2 is because the Cold War kicked in right after that. Without that it would have been Hoovervilles all over again. As it was the only reward we got for winning the cold war were drawdowns and BRACs.

I cash my retirement check every month knowing that with a stroke of a pen it could be the very last one. We just aren't a big enough voting bloc for the politicos to worry about...but we sure do make a nice press image with our pretty uniforms on, and that's all that matters to those suckers of cock.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 22, 2013 05:56 PM (xa1/W)

57 OK, I'm back.

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 22, 2013 05:57 PM (JMmQ9)

58 I could really use a grilled cheese sammich about now...

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 22, 2013 05:58 PM (JMmQ9)

59 Kreplach..... This!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 22, 2013 05:59 PM (qbnUn)

60 If Toronto Mayor Rob Ford told me he had a drug-dealing pimp friend named "T-Bone," I'd believe him. Posted by: Fritz at December 22, 2013 09:55 PM This.

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 22, 2013 06:00 PM (JMmQ9)

61 Break time is over. Back to work.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 22, 2013 06:02 PM (xa1/W)

62 If you want a mayor the opposite of Rob Ford, move to NYC in 2014.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 22, 2013 06:07 PM (f6z8e)

63 Has everyone read that Town Hall used one of AceÂ’s Comments as Number 14 in the top 30 this year? Here is link: http://tinyurl.com/mpc2rhb I posted it earlier in AceÂ’s post about Chicago.

Posted by: Carol at December 22, 2013 06:09 PM (z4WKX)

64 After watching the pilot for "Sleepy Hollow", my sister asked "So, is this just going to be 'Ghoul of the Week?'"

Nailed it on the head.

We've been calling it "Spooky Hollow" ever since.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at December 22, 2013 06:10 PM (V70Uh)

65 Regarding the NRO Mark Steyn thing, I posted the comment "RIP NR. Disneyland just wasn't as much fun after Walt died."

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at December 22, 2013 06:13 PM (V70Uh)

66 Evening, fappers. I'm heading to paradise tomorrow, and I don't think I'll have internet access. So I want each and every one of you morons to have a happyfun s safe Christmas. Also, plenty of drunken debauchery.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 22, 2013 06:13 PM (eQJwb)

67 Mark Steyn on Rob Ford linked in my sock.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 22, 2013 06:14 PM (f6z8e)

68 I kind of like Sleepy Hollow. Its premise is silly but still. Helps that Nicole Beharie and Katia Winter are cuter that frolicing kittens in a field of posies.

Posted by: puddleglum at December 22, 2013 06:16 PM (Q5N0C)

69 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 22, 2013 09:54 PM (Txl/u) I was always curious about the SHO, but never got to drive one.

Posted by: Meremortal , Hey Doocky Way at December 22, 2013 06:16 PM (1Y+hH)

70 Regarding the NRO Mark Steyn thing, I posted the comment "RIP NR. Disneyland just wasn't as much fun after Walt died."
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo
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Something happen? What'd I miss??

He posted his usual weekend piece at NRO.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 22, 2013 06:16 PM (4Mv1T)

71 <

Posted by: Carol at December 22, 2013 06:16 PM (z4WKX)

72 Can't compete with a dancing Rob Ford: Stories of great hymns- "I wonder as I wander" The story of a haunting ballad heard in Appalachia in 1933. The Mayor of Murphy, NC tells the story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FttMHRyD6E.. A beautiful version sung by Joan Baez: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FttMHRyD6E The words: I wonder as I wander out under the sky How Jesus the Saviour did come for to die For poor on'ry people like you and like I; I wonder as I wander out under the sky When Mary birthed Jesus 'twas in a cow's stall With wise men and farmers and shepherds and all But high from God's heaven, a star's light did fall And the promise of ages it then did recall. If Jesus had wanted for any wee thing A star in the sky or a bird on the wing Or all of God's Angels in heaven to sing He surely could have it, 'cause he was the King I wonder as I wander out under the sky How Jesus the Saviour did come for to die For poor on'ry people like you and like I; I wonder as I wander out under the sky

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 22, 2013 06:17 PM (BC6cY)

73 I was being ironic. Do you think William F. Buckley would have written the pajamaboy shit that the current editor of National Review wrote regarding Mark Steyn's article?

Since WFB died, the magazine has gone downhill.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at December 22, 2013 06:19 PM (V70Uh)

74 52 This looks interesting and not just because I really like Jamie Bell: http://bit.ly/1kxNsdu I know ace was disappointed that Sleepy Hollow is X-Files on crack and not about the Revolutionary War so this might make him happy. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at December 22, 2013 09:54 PM (Gk3SS) It DOES look interesting, and it so happens that I have a tiny bit of knowledge in this area. Benjamin Franklin actually ran what constituted America's spy service at this juncture in history, and do you happen to know what book was used as the key code for decrypting the coded communications between our operatives? It was "Droit des Gens" by Emerich Vattel. http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~room4me/america/code/frankli2.htm The Book most quoted by Chief Justice John Marshall, and the most quoted (by anyone) International Law book of that era. The book that everyone was perusing for their secret communications is also the very book which is regarded as the source of the "natural born citizen" clause in Article II. (Section 19) on Citoyens and Naturels.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 22, 2013 06:19 PM (bb5+k)

75 >>>>69 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 22, 2013 09:54 PM (Txl/u) I was always curious about the SHO, but never got to drive one. ----------- That was the Yamaha engine. The pharmaceutical company didn't hand those out, unfortunately. We had a cheesy Ford six banger. Rental car fodder, but it was free.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 22, 2013 06:20 PM (Txl/u)

76 73 I was being ironic. Do you think William F. Buckley would have written the pajamaboy shit that the current editor of National Review wrote regarding Mark Steyn's article? Since WFB died, the magazine has gone downhill. Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at December 22, 2013 10:19 PM (V70Uh) I will point out John O'Sullivan's law. "All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing. " http://old.nationalreview.com/flashback/flashback-jos062603.asp

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 22, 2013 06:26 PM (bb5+k)

77 BTW, the Left called Bush 43 a buffoon too.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 22, 2013 06:27 PM (f6z8e)

78 Ok, been busy and just now getting caught up with the posts. The story about 1st Lt. Washburn caused my allergies to act up.

Posted by: tbodie at December 22, 2013 06:28 PM (izPgb)

79 72 A beautiful version sung by Joan Baez: Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 22, 2013 10:17 PM (BC6cY) Even into the 60s, left-wing folk singers still honored and respected our cultural heritage.

Posted by: rickl at December 22, 2013 06:40 PM (sdi6R)

80 I vaguely remember MomÂ’s Mabley onJohnny Carson &/or other talk shows when I was growing up. I just put on an HBO documentary about her. I have her confused with another woman from the 60s that my late father loved but I donÂ’t remember her name.

Posted by: Carol at December 22, 2013 07:13 PM (z4WKX)

81 The problem with Rob Ford, is that, sure, he may have rolled back taxes but you just know darned well that he will eventually do irreparable harm to himself, and maybe others, maybe even yourself, so, no use falling in love with the guy.

Posted by: navybrat at December 22, 2013 08:06 PM (AW7Gr)

82 Ok, so here's the deal: I'm registering an official AoS MoronCopyright for the following phrase: "Huckabee? What the fuckabee?" I know. I'm a friggin genius...

Posted by: Auntie M at December 22, 2013 08:29 PM (AIC5Z)

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