October 09, 2013
— Maetenloch
More From Vaclav Havel's 1978 Essay, "The Power of the Powerless"
In which he lays out what it means to be a 'dissident', how to live 'within the truth' and ways to resist a totalitarian system even when you have no power at all.
In 1974, when I was employed in a brewery, my immediate superior was a certain S, a person well versed in the art of making beer. He was proud of his profession and he wanted our brewery to brew good beer. He spent almost all his time at work, continually thinking up improvements, and he frequently made the rest of us feel uncomfortable because he assumed that we loved brewing as much as he did. In the midst of the slovenly indifference to work that socialism encourages, a more constructive worker would be difficult to imagine.The brewery itself was managed by people who understood their work less and were less fond of it, but who were politically more influential. They were bringing the brewery to ruin and not only did they fail to react to any of S's suggestions, but they actually became increasingly hostile toward him and tried in every way to thwart his efforts to do a good job. Eventually the situation became so bad that S felt compelled to write a lengthy letter to the managers superior, in which he attempted to analyze the brewery's difficulties. He explained why it was the worst in the district and pointed to those responsible.
His voice might have been heard. The manager, who was politically powerful but otherwise ignorant of beer, a man who loathed workers and was given to intrigue, might have been replaced and conditions in the brewery might have been improved on the basis of S's suggestions. Had this happened, it would have been a perfect example of small-scale work in action. Unfortunately, the precise opposite occurred: the manager of the brewery, who was a member of the Communist Party's district committee, had friends in higher places and he saw to it that the situation was resolved in his favor. S's analysis was described as a "defamatory document" and S himself was labeled a "political saboteur." He was thrown out of the brewery and shifted to another one where he was given a job requiring no skill. Here the notion of small-scale work had come up against the wall of the post-totalitarian system. By speaking the truth, S had stepped out of line, broken the rules, cast himself out, and he ended up as a sub-citizen, stigmatized as an enemy. He could now say anything he wanted, but he could never, as a matter of principle, expect to be heard. He had become the "dissident" of the Eastern Bohemian Brewery.
I think this is a model case which, from another point of view, illustrates what I have already said in the preceding section: you do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society. This is why our situation is not comparable to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, when the Czech nation, in the worst period of Bachs absolutism, had only one real "dissident," Karel HavlÃček , who was imprisoned in Brixen. Today, if we are not to be snobbish about it, we must admit that "dissidents" can be found on every street corner.
And his essay secretly passed from hand to hand eventually helped lead to the rise of Solidarity in Poland and contributed to the crumbling of apparent internal support for other Eastern Bloc governments.
This essay reached us in the Ursus factory in 1979 at a point when we felt we were at the end of the road...we had been speaking on the shop floor, talking to people, participating in public meetings, trying to speak the truth about the factory, the country, and politics. There came a moment when people thought that we were crazy. Why were we doing this? Why were we taking such risks? Not seeing any immediate and tangible results, we began to doubt the purposefulness of what we were doing...Then came the essay by Havel. Reading it gave us the theoretical underpinnings for our activity. It maintained our spirits; we did not give up, and a year later - in August 1980 - it became clear that the party apparatus and the factory management were afraid of us. We mattered. And the rank and file saw us as leaders of the movement...[5]
-- Zbigniew Bujak, Solidarity activist, recalling the effect that Havel's essay had upon the leaders of Poland's nascent Solidarity movement
Despite the Shutdown The Military is Still Getting the Equipment It Needs
Which in the case of the Utah National Guard includes a $47, 174 mechanical bull. Of course this is a mil-spec mechanical bull to replace the previous one that got broken.
And I for one do not want our boys going into a combat rodeo without having the finest training possible on hi-tech mechanical bulls. Our freedom may ride on this.
Liberal Journalist: Hey Let's Junk This Whole Separation of Powers Thing
Funny how it's only a problem when it interferes with Democrat presidents getting their way. Like why should some 100-year old piece of paper get in the way of progress man?
It's hard to discuss these issues calmly, given that the Constitution and the Federalist Papers have taken on a Holy Scripture-like role in American political debate. One does not debate if they're right, but only the proper way to interpret them on a given matter, which is then presumed to be correct.
...But it's not just that Madison's system is unnecessary. It's potentially dangerous. Scholars of comparative politics have shown that presidential systems with a separation of executive and legislative functions, like America's, are considerably more likely to collapse into dictatorship than are parliamentary systems where the executive and legislative branches are merged. That's because there are competing branches of government able to claim democratic legitimacy and steer the ship of state at the same time - and when they disagree profoundly, there's no real mechanism for resolving the dispute.
His suggestion: a dictatorship - but of course a benevolent, elected one:
Max Weber, in conversation with Gen. Erich Ludendorff, advanced my personal favorite theory of democracy: "In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' " People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business. .Later the people can sit in judgment. If the leader has made mistakes - to the gallows with him!"
Hanging leaders rather than failing to reelect them seems a mite harsh, but the overall idea here is exactly right. For a government to be truly accountable to the people, it needs to actually control the circumstances over which the people will judge it. ...If voters expect their leaders to deliver favorable economic outcomes, then those leaders should actually be able to control favorable economic outcomes
One of the morons mentioned this in the comments earlier in the week.
In the early 1980s, transit officials in Washington couldn't figure out why traffic on the Beltway would grind to a near halt every day around the exact same time. The usual explanations didn't fit.Then it was discovered that a single driver was to blame. Every day on his drive to work, this commuter would plant himself in the left lane and set his cruise control to 55 mph, the posted speed limit, forcing those behind him to merge right. You can imagine the effects.
To his credit, this driver came forward in a letter to the editor of the Washington Post. The man's name was John O. Nestor. He explained that the left lane was great; less traffic, less merging - why not ride it into work every day? Besides, he wrote, "Why should I inconvenience myself for someone who wants to speed?"
He achieved immortality by being transformed into a Dickensian-sounding verb: "Nestoring," defined as an absolute adherence to the rules, regardless of the larger consequences.
18 People You Didn't Know Were Engineers
And 22 More People You Didn't Know Were Engineers
There is a place in the US where all radio broadcasting including cell phones and WiFi is banned. It's in Eastern West Virginia and known as the National Radio Quiet Zone.
So if you truly want to disconnect, this is the place to go.
Four Changes to English So Subtle We Hardly Noticed They Started Happening
1. Shift from "they started to walk" to "they started walking"
There are a number of verbs that can take a complement with another verb in either the "-ing" form or the "to" form: "They liked painting/to paint;" "We tried leaving/to leave;" "He didn't bother calling/to call." Both of these constructions are still used, and they have both been used for a long time. But there has been a steady shift over time from the "to" to the "-ing" complement. "Start" and "begin" saw a big increase in the "-ing" complement until leveling out in the 1940s, while emotion verbs like "like," "love," "hate," and "fear" saw their proportion of "-ing" complements start to rise in the 1950s and 60s. Not all verbs have participated in the shift: "stand," "intend," and "cease" went the "to" way.
Also A list of British words not widely used in the United States
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Le AoSHQ groupe de Yahoo. Ooh la la!
Yahoo group. That is all.
Tonight's post brought to you by Mike Stone, James Coburn, Chuck Norris & Bruce Lee (circa 1969):
In the late 60s karate seemed to be the odd connection between a lot of celebrities including Tom Jones, Elvis, Steve McQueen and Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
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Posted by: Peaches at October 09, 2013 06:46 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 09, 2013 06:47 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Justamom at October 09, 2013 06:50 PM (PNi9V)
Posted by: and irresolute at October 09, 2013 06:51 PM (RqHWH)
Posted by: lindafell at October 09, 2013 06:51 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: Justamom at October 09, 2013 10:50 PM (PNi9V)
YESH!!!! Those fuckin' dodgers want to play pretty much anyone but the Cards, so, GO CARDS!!!
Posted by: Peaches at October 09, 2013 06:52 PM (8lmkt)
Thank you for that excerpt from Havel.
He and his compatriots are great men, and I am in awe of their bravery.
He and a few others like Sharansky looked into the gaping jaws of the Soviet bear and said, "Fuck you. We are free men."
They and other great men like Ronald Reagan and Pope JP II brought a profound evil to its knees.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 09, 2013 06:52 PM (/kU/5)
Posted by: lindafell at October 09, 2013 06:53 PM (PGO8C)
...Wainwright is a witch!
Congrats to the Cardinals. That fan-base is awesome.
Posted by: Slapweasel at October 09, 2013 06:53 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 09, 2013 06:54 PM (+YFcy)
Posted by: otho at October 09, 2013 06:54 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 09, 2013 06:55 PM (DmNpO)
Hanging leaders rather than failing to reelect them seems a mite harsh
I'd be willing to try it, once.
Posted by: garrett at October 09, 2013 06:55 PM (vZX1o)
Oh well. I'm a Western PA expat so I'm a bit of a homer when it comes to Pittsburgh. Thanks Pirates for making baseball no longer a joke in Pittsburgh. Yea, you got creamed tonight but considering I was advocating a ticker tape parade for getting over .500 I would say this season was a success. You finally had a winning season though it took 20 maddening seasons. Almost won the NL Central and you gave the Cards all they could handle (except tonight and game 1). So congrats for a great season and please keep it going next year.
Posted by: puddleglum at October 09, 2013 06:55 PM (Ic8Nj)
Posted by: hello, it's me also a creep-assed cracka.. at October 09, 2013 06:56 PM (9+ccr)
Link - http://tinyurl.com/kucw5c9
McAuliffe lied to federal investigators in a fraud cause. (WaPo)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 09, 2013 06:56 PM (+YFcy)
Posted by: Inspector Asshole at October 09, 2013 06:56 PM (Kg8B4)
Posted by: Thrawn at October 09, 2013 06:57 PM (ZyqBH)
Posted by: hello, it's me also a creep-assed cracka.. at October 09, 2013 10:56 PM (9+ccr)
Jay Carney knows at least 3 Terry McAuliffe's.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 09, 2013 06:57 PM (+YFcy)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 09, 2013 06:58 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: puddleglum at October 09, 2013 06:58 PM (Ic8Nj)
Posted by: bigdaddygeo at October 09, 2013 06:58 PM (3kOxn)
Posted by: Gingy (tired monkey) at October 09, 2013 06:58 PM (jt8G9)
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 09, 2013 06:59 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 06:59 PM (l5zzX)
Posted by: Moonbat_one at October 09, 2013 06:59 PM (W1Xmu)
Posted by: Paul Zummo at October 09, 2013 07:00 PM (caPl0)
Obama would have been out on a no-confidence vote years ago.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 07:01 PM (l5zzX)
Posted by: Merovign , Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at October 09, 2013 07:02 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: puddleglum at October 09, 2013 10:55 PM (Ic8Nj)
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From what I understand, there are more arms coming for Pitt. I don't see them going away anytime soon. Built a solid farm, which is what the Cards have done also. I think these 2 teams will be tangling for a few years.
Posted by: Dave S. at October 09, 2013 07:02 PM (UvR6d)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at October 09, 2013 07:02 PM (i4xvM)
Is that Pete "Fortney" Stark?
What a fucking retard.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 09, 2013 07:02 PM (/kU/5)
Posted by: eman at October 09, 2013 07:03 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at October 09, 2013 07:03 PM (OHCDZ)
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How one is pushed into being a dissident. Nice timing on the post, Maet.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 09, 2013 07:03 PM (ECVlr)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 09, 2013 07:04 PM (74mEg)
Posted by: T. at October 09, 2013 07:05 PM (WYir0)
Didn't leave the Dem party, the party left me. Didn't leave the Rep party, the party left me.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 07:06 PM (l5zzX)
Posted by: and irresolute at October 09, 2013 07:06 PM (RqHWH)
Posted by: Occupations For America [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at October 09, 2013 07:06 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Y-not popping in for a sec on the phone at October 09, 2013 07:07 PM (5H6zj)
Even managed a round since the shutdown.
Posted by: Tiger Woods at October 09, 2013 07:08 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 09, 2013 11:04 PM (74mEg)
I miss him.
By the way, ask most Africans in the AIDS belt what they think of George Bush.
He is considered a great American president.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 09, 2013 07:08 PM (/kU/5)
Posted by: CarolT. at October 09, 2013 07:08 PM (z4WKX)
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Defenestration is under-practiced in this country.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 09, 2013 07:08 PM (nch4c)
The lens of time changes all.
Nixon ain't looking so bad these days..
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 07:08 PM (l5zzX)
Posted by: Northernlurker at October 09, 2013 07:09 PM (BLAfs)
Posted by: Purp at October 09, 2013 11:08 PM (l5zzX)
The bar has been lowered quite a lot in the last five years.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 09, 2013 07:09 PM (/kU/5)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 09, 2013 07:09 PM (nch4c)
Posted by: lindafell at October 09, 2013 07:09 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: eman at October 09, 2013 07:09 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: and irresolute at October 09, 2013 07:10 PM (RqHWH)
Posted by: Beto at October 09, 2013 07:11 PM (MhA4j)
Posted by: Justamom at October 09, 2013 07:11 PM (Sptt8)
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Troop moral..., from watching the Guardettes ride.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 09, 2013 07:11 PM (nch4c)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at October 09, 2013 07:12 PM (BXLPR)
I think that South Korean style legislature would be fun to watch. Lotsa action. Posted by: Justamom
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I think the Japs engage in a dust-up now and then. Pretty sure the Taiwanese also.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 09, 2013 07:13 PM (nch4c)
Posted by: Y-no
My guess would be some sort of recruiting stunt. Slap some paint and "Go Guard" stickers on it and haul it to rodeos or something.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at October 09, 2013 07:13 PM (y5n9M)
I read a book years ago that did case studies on many revolutions and coups and one of the common factors on those that failed was allowing the previous administration honchos to stay alive.
It doesn't guarantee success, but it almost always guarantees failure.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 07:13 PM (l5zzX)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 09, 2013 11:08 PM (nch4c)
Bohemia is where defenestration was elevated to a form of political art. The "First Defenestration of Prague" occurred in the 1400s. It worked out so well there was a actually a Second Defenestration of Prague 200 years later. It was a trigger of the Thirty Years War.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 09, 2013 07:13 PM (ECVlr)
Posted by: Merovign , Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at October 09, 2013 07:13 PM (qyfb5)
I do not like his health care scam.
I do not like these dirty crooks,
Or how they lie and cook the books.
I do not like when Congress steals,
I do not like their secret deals.
I do not like this ex-speaker Nan,
I do not like this ‘YES, WE CAN’.
I do not like this spending spree,
IÂ’m smart, I know that nothingÂ’s free.
I do not like your smug replies,
When I complain about your lies.
I do not like this kind of hope.
I do not like it. Nope, nope, nope!
Posted by: Theodor Geisel at October 09, 2013 07:14 PM (/kU/5)
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 07:14 PM (l5zzX)
Posted by: elliot at October 09, 2013 07:15 PM (8zGOf)
Posted by: Cicero
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I think the satisfaction may make it worth the risk.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 09, 2013 07:15 PM (nch4c)
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 09, 2013 07:15 PM (JMmQ9)
I read a book years ago that did case studies on many revolutions and coups and one of the common factors on those that failed was allowing the previous administration honchos to stay alive.
Yeah, it was called The Prince
Posted by: Colorado Alex at October 09, 2013 07:16 PM (y5n9M)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 09, 2013 07:16 PM (74mEg)
Did I miss a memo somewhere? I keep seeing us called a democracy. Last I understood the governance here was a republic.
Was Franklin wrong?
Posted by: irongrampa at October 09, 2013 07:16 PM (SAMxH)
retired undefeated. ---- lots of outstanding karate in SoCal in the late 60s, including the dudes in the photo
Posted by: Major _______ de Coverly at October 09, 2013 07:17 PM (omBWL)
Posted by: Merovign , Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at October 09, 2013 07:17 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: puddleglum at October 09, 2013 07:18 PM (Ic8Nj)
Posted by: fluffy at October 09, 2013 07:18 PM (0hXna)
But the kung-fu movies haven't worn well at all.
Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at October 09, 2013 07:19 PM (81H5s)
Posted by: Gingy (tired monkey) at October 09, 2013 07:19 PM (jt8G9)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 09, 2013 07:20 PM (74mEg)
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 09, 2013 07:21 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2013 07:21 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 09, 2013 07:22 PM (74mEg)
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I'm coming to it rather late, but I've been reading 'With the Old Breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa'. Excellent recounting of those two actions in the Pacific. Really a diary by E.B Sledge who participated in both invasions. An excellent+ read.
He comments in the early pages how surprised returning troops were to find civilians stateside complaining about the most inconsequential things, like waiting in line, or rain....
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 09, 2013 07:23 PM (nch4c)
Actually, precisely the opposite is happening. When in your life have your EVER seen conservatives involved in mass civil disobedience?
And here in SoCal, all the lefties are screaming bloody murder about how Obama lied to them about their health insurance.
Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at October 09, 2013 07:23 PM (81H5s)
There's a weekend post in reviewing popular old movies to see how well they stand the test of time...
ex. Kubrick's 2001 - kinda sucks ass when watched from start to finish. The crazy computer gimmick, which worked at the time, hasn't worn well.
The 1950's Destination Moon holds up much better though even with paleo-FX and cheesy sets/costumes.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 07:24 PM (l5zzX)
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 09, 2013 07:24 PM (JMmQ9)
Dead center of the tree, about 40" from the ground is its face looking back at you. You can see the dark tip of its tail a cat's length below the face.
Now to throw one off my bed and crawl into it myself. Much, much blessed sleep is in need. Tomorrow, h8ters.
Posted by: Ed Anger at October 09, 2013 07:25 PM (tOkJB)
Posted by: eman at October 09, 2013 07:25 PM (AO9UG)
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee-yoi! Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-yip! Bao-weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
STOP MAKING THOSE NOISES!
Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at October 09, 2013 07:25 PM (81H5s)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 09, 2013 07:26 PM (nch4c)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 09, 2013 07:29 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: jmel at October 09, 2013 07:30 PM (cfFqn)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 09, 2013 07:30 PM (74mEg)
Levin was Tea Party, whereas Johnson was what he thought was political reality.
...Interesting.
Posted by: Slapweasel at October 09, 2013 07:30 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Barky McDouche at October 09, 2013 07:30 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at October 09, 2013 07:30 PM (i4xvM)
ALL of Kubrick's work looks awful now. I just watched Full Metal Jacket, and it was like it was made for cretins. I don't remember it being so simple minded.
Same with Dr. Strangelove. Did you see that article about how Kubrick used a bogus lawsuit to keep Fail Safe from being released at the same time as Strangelove? So when Fail Safe--a far superior film--finally came out, everyone thought it was a ripoff of Kubrick's movie.
Henry Fonda was a big leftist, but nobody played a better president.
There's an idea: best and worst movie presidents.
Worst of all time, hands down, is Jeff Bridges in The Contender. The most retarded leftist wet dream movie ever. In that film Gary Oldman played a Republican who chain smoked and ate nearly raw steak.
Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at October 09, 2013 07:31 PM (81H5s)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 09, 2013 07:31 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo, reliving the late 1990s at October 09, 2013 07:31 PM (OHCDZ)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 09, 2013 07:32 PM (74mEg)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 09, 2013 07:33 PM (E0/Ok)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 09, 2013 07:33 PM (74mEg)
Posted by: Donna V. at October 09, 2013 07:33 PM (R3gO3)
A 2011 fraud, conspiracy and identity theft indictment against Joseph Caramadre and an aide, Raymour Radhakrishnan, also alleges that McAuliffe misled a federal postal inspector who was inquiring about a $2,000 check Caramadre had sent him.
Posted by: Donkey Macaca at October 09, 2013 07:33 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 09, 2013 07:34 PM (74mEg)
Posted by: Ma Bell at October 09, 2013 07:34 PM (RLdcX)
piss off, bloody wanker!
Posted by: bill-o at October 09, 2013 07:34 PM (AWwDY)
Posted by: Merovign , Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at October 09, 2013 07:35 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: mindful webworker - choose at October 09, 2013 07:35 PM (U13jb)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 09, 2013 07:35 PM (DmNpO)
Haven't seen it since college. Is it as openly perverted as The Professional?
Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at October 09, 2013 07:36 PM (81H5s)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 09, 2013 11:33 PM (E0/Ok)
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From he crowd that promises to give us the worst of both worlds.
Posted by: Dave S. at October 09, 2013 07:37 PM (UvR6d)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 09, 2013 07:37 PM (74mEg)
Posted by: Slapweasel at October 09, 2013 07:37 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: newrouter at October 09, 2013 07:38 PM (dsgCY)
Haven't seen it since college. Is it as openly perverted as The Professional?
Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at October 09, 2013 11:36 PM (81H5s)
It'll stimulate a perverted imagination.
Posted by: film buff at October 09, 2013 07:38 PM (tToJO)
“We’ve got the obvious here. A man sitting in the courtroom, he appears to be in good health,” Davis said….
But the three-year time limit on the death ruling is clear, Davis said.
“I don’t know where that leaves you, but you’re still deceased as far as the law is concerned,” Davis said.
Posted by: Grim Reaper at October 09, 2013 07:38 PM (e8kgV)
In this small piece of flyover country you cannot tell there is a shutdown.
Life goes on unchanged. For all practical purpose, it matters not a whit.
Leads a body to think there is a lesson here.
Posted by: irongrampa at October 09, 2013 07:38 PM (SAMxH)
Fucking Bu$hCo FASCIST!
Posted by: Timetravelling Leftard from 2005 at October 09, 2013 07:38 PM (IDypm)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 09, 2013 07:40 PM (74mEg)
piss off, bloody wanker!
Posted by: bill-o at October 09, 2013 11:34 PM
Ya mum takes it up the khyber pass, you great mincing ponce.
Posted by: otho at October 09, 2013 07:40 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 09, 2013 07:41 PM (74mEg)
I asked him two questions.
1) What was it like filming airplane
2) What was Bruce Lee like.
Doing airplane was the craziest shit he had ever done.
He could only get out the words, "He was a beautiful person." when he described Bruce Lee. He did not say anything more after that.
Posted by: Kreplach at October 09, 2013 07:41 PM (hmUex)
In his book "Cultural Amnesia" Clive James writes about a now-forgotten French writer (forgotten in the English-speaking world, that is) named Chamfort who basically died because he made a joke during the Reign of Terror. Chamfort said of the revolutionaries that their motto was "Be my brother or I will kill you."
Sums up the left perfectly, doesn't it? The murderous lefties didn't like that joke very much and arrested Chamfort. Chamfort decided to jump out the window to his death rather than wait to get "shaved with the national razor" but he made a mess of it and lingered on a few days before dying. He said "If it wasn't for me I would do brilliantly."
James also describes him as a wastrel and a "mightly lover of women" who said he would never get married because he might have a son like himself.
I think Chamfort was the first moron.
Posted by: Donna V. at October 09, 2013 07:42 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: gracepmc at October 09, 2013 07:42 PM (rznx3)
Posted by: Merovign , Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at October 09, 2013 07:43 PM (qyfb5)
During his eight years on the City Council, Bill de Blasio advocated for millions of dollars in city money for Maimonides Medical Center.
The councilman was Bill de Blasio, now the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York.
During his eight years on the Council, he had advocated for millions of dollars in city money for the hospital, Maimonides Medical Center.
Maimonides did not have a job open for Mr. de BlasioÂ’s wife, Chirlane McCray. So it created one.
Posted by: Deja Vu all over again at October 09, 2013 07:44 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Lech Walesa at October 09, 2013 07:45 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 09, 2013 07:45 PM (74mEg)
Posted by: Merovign , Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at October 09, 2013 07:46 PM (qyfb5)
I just watched FMJ too. The final scene, when they are marching to the river singing Mickey Mouse was especially infuriating. I forgot about that scene, and can't believe how insulting it is to Hue Marines.
About the only scene that stands the test of time is the Gunny's scene at the beginning.
Posted by: elliot at October 09, 2013 07:46 PM (8zGOf)
Posted by: PMRich at October 09, 2013 07:46 PM (KDUNf)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 09, 2013 11:41 PM (74mEg)
The Stupid Party is giving TM a lot of help as well!
Posted by: Hrothgar at October 09, 2013 07:47 PM (XdnQT)
So, I've been married for 15 years. Real pretty girl, makes even prettier babies. Politics didn't really matter to either one of us back then. But she was raised a Democrat, and she doesn't like thinking about it enough to change her mind.
Last night (this afternoon), we were talking about the death gratuity FU. I actually heard her say (or saw her type) "I didn't vote for this shit." Made me smile, a little.
Posted by: Bomber at October 09, 2013 07:49 PM (4Mwv/)
Posted by: Merovign , Dark Lord of the Sith
Self-Awareness has never been a strong point of the LIV.
"Constitut-a-what?!?"
If you have no level foundation, you have no real resale value.
Posted by: Slapweasel at October 09, 2013 07:50 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: eman at October 09, 2013 07:50 PM (AO9UG)
>>> About the only scene that stands the test of time is the Gunny's scene at the beginning.
FMJ is a great movie if you turn it off right after Pyle shoots himself.
Posted by: Bomber at October 09, 2013 07:50 PM (4Mwv/)
115 >>>ALL of Kubrick's work looks awful now.
Lolita is a fun film.
Posted by: film buff at October 09, 2013 11:34 PM (tToJO)
I got 2001 in a TCM DVD set with Forbidden Planet/Soylent Green/The Time Machine (1960). 2001 is unwatchable. It .........sucks. I much prefer Forbidden Planet.
I still like "Paths of Glory" though. The rest?
meh.....
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 09, 2013 11:37 PM (74mEg)
Kubrick did battle scenes pretty damned well. Paths of Glory, Barry Lyndon, FMJ, Strangelove all had great battle scenes. Watch the battle scenes in Strangelove and think about Saving Private Ryan. He won't admit it, but I'm positive that Spielberg lifted a lot of the Omaha Beach scene from Strangelove.
Quentin Tarantino also lifted the time-displaced narrative thing in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction wholesale from Kubrick's The Killing. To QT's credit, he's admitted as much.
'sup jackwagons
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2013 07:51 PM (MBqvE)
Posted by: irongrampa at October 09, 2013 11:38 PM (SAMxH)
Same here in my county of 14,000, Gramps.
Posted by: Meremortal at October 09, 2013 07:53 PM (1Y+hH)
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at October 09, 2013 07:55 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: wooga at October 09, 2013 07:56 PM (+2uXd)
Posted by: Merovign , Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at October 09, 2013 07:57 PM (qyfb5)
Did I miss a memo somewhere? I keep seeing us called a democracy. Last I understood the governance here was a republic.
Was Franklin wrong?
Posted by: irongrampa at October 09, 2013 11:16 PM (SAMxH)
**************
Barrycade Barry uses it all the time -- drives me craaazzzy
Posted by: gracepmc at October 09, 2013 07:57 PM (rznx3)
Posted by: eman at October 09, 2013 07:57 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at October 09, 2013 07:58 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: rickl at October 09, 2013 07:58 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: thunderb at October 09, 2013 07:59 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 09, 2013 07:59 PM (CeNUw)
brings back memories of the 80s that name does and this
http://tinyurl.com/3sss3ef
pull up to the bumper
Posted by: bill-o at October 09, 2013 07:59 PM (AWwDY)
The Shining would be the closest, but still the overacting in every scene by all the actors grates after a while.
In fact that's what it is.
For some reason the most prominent feature of a Kubrick film is all of the actors playing to the back row.
Posted by: Kreplach at October 09, 2013 08:00 PM (hmUex)
>>> Last I saw, England is much further down the road to full-blown totalitarianism than the U.S. is.
Yeah but we're trying real hard to catch up.
Posted by: Bomber at October 09, 2013 08:01 PM (4Mwv/)
Posted by: Merovign , Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at October 09, 2013 08:02 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: thunderb at October 09, 2013 08:02 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Donna V. at October 09, 2013 08:04 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: Merovign , Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at October 09, 2013 08:04 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Slow Joe at October 09, 2013 08:04 PM (XFTOV)
Posted by: newrouter at October 09, 2013 08:05 PM (dsgCY)
Posted by: eman at October 09, 2013 08:05 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: tasker--PIRATES!!!!!!!!! at October 09, 2013 08:06 PM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Merovign , Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at October 09, 2013 08:06 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: RWC at October 09, 2013 08:10 PM (LpbKr)
http://www.bouldercounty.org/env/healthyhome/pages/takeastand.aspx
Short version: "someone is smoking near you? rat him out! take a stand and you'll be a hero."
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at October 09, 2013 08:10 PM (d7tB2)
Posted by: Thrawn at October 09, 2013 08:11 PM (ZyqBH)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 09, 2013 08:12 PM (DmNpO)
Havel writes this as if it's a bad thing. We face a post-totalitarian system that wants to deny us medical care if we don't cooperate. Survival sounds to me like a good basis for dissent.
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at October 09, 2013 08:12 PM (kxSZr)
It is almost like he made them to be analyzed and not to be loved. Posted by: eman at October 10, 2013 12:05 AM (AO9UG)
Yeah -there's an emotional distance from all of Kubrick's characters, with the exception, I suppose, of the wife and kid in "The Shining" - you want them to survive.
I remember reading that Anthony Burgress was pretty disgusted by the movie of "A Clockwork Orange." He didn't want people to have sympathy for Alex, who was even more of a monster in the book. If I remember correctly Alex rapes a little girl in the book. Burgress left that out and makes Alex's victims unsympathetic.
Posted by: Donna V. at October 09, 2013 08:12 PM (R3gO3)
Troop moral..., from watching the Guardettes ride.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 09, 2013 11:11 PM (nch4c)
Nope.... read it was used as a recruiting tool... take it to Country Fairs and such...
Posted by: Satan at October 09, 2013 08:12 PM (lZBBB)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 09, 2013 08:13 PM (nch4c)
Posted by: logprof at October 09, 2013 08:13 PM (bufJH)
Posted by: thunderb at October 09, 2013 08:13 PM (zOTsN)
DUDE! Paragraphs! Last Call for Non-Bloc Text!
Posted by: Slapweasel at October 09, 2013 08:14 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Inspector Asshole at October 09, 2013 08:15 PM (Kg8B4)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 09, 2013 08:15 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at October 09, 2013 08:17 PM (d7tB2)
The "No Labels" operates in a totally different level of fantasy land. They prey on the disengaged, and try to forcefeed the canard that everybody can have their cake and eat it too.
You don't like taxes? We don't either! You don't want anything reformed or scaled back? We don't either! No policies need to change, not so much anyway, we just need to change the "tone in Washington". We just need to get along and continue this slow (or not so slow) march to our death.
If libs and conservatives have any common ground, it's that we think these assholes are complete charlatans, even if from totally opposite perspectives. These guys make a living selling snake oil to the idiots, and that prevents having the cut and dried battle that we need.
Posted by: Dave S. at October 09, 2013 08:19 PM (UvR6d)
Posted by: rickl at October 09, 2013 11:58 PM (sdi6R)
Its actually just an inherent flaw in the idea of Government...
It does not matter the form, eventually a small group gets enough power to entrench itself in position of power... then somewhere down the power chain, the successors are not up to the Task of Governance, and the Government falls.
EVERY Government type has followed this historic trend. Monarchies get a weak Monarch... Republics become Democracies and will not make the hard decision needed for survival... Dictators? Die or get ousted once they become unpopular...
America is to that point.... where those in power have used Government largesse to bribe enough of the mob to support them.... and have no idea of how to Govern Effectively... because they must continue to increase bribes to stay in power.
Posted by: Satan at October 09, 2013 08:20 PM (lZBBB)
Posted by: RWC at October 09, 2013 08:21 PM (LpbKr)
And he is nowhere to be found on what is supposed to be his bread and butter, Debt, Deficits and Spending.
Son of bitch is a fraud, straight up no chaser.
Posted by: Kreplach at October 09, 2013 08:21 PM (hmUex)
Max Weber, in conversation with Gen. Erich Ludendorff, advanced my personal favorite theory of democracy.....
Interesting line from Weber's Wiki article "While recognising bureaucracy as the most efficient form of organisation and even indispensable for the modern state, Weber also saw it as a threat to individual freedoms and the ongoing bureaucratisation as leading to a "polar night of icy darkness", in which increasing rationalisation of human life traps individuals in the aforementioned "iron cage" of bureaucratic, rule-based, rational control."
Not really related to a "theory of democracy" but I'm not so sure that WaPo cockholster would know the difference.
By the way, I'll note that we're talking about the same Erich Ludendorff that threw the weight of his military reputation behind the Nazis in the 20s and 30s, but was largely cast aside by the party after 1933 because the Nazis thought he was TOO WHACKADOODLE CRAZY.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2013 08:23 PM (MBqvE)
Feelings and hearsay are default fallbacks.
"Progressive" bullshit fits on a bumper-sticker. Reality, History, Mathematics and Liberty requires intelligence and a paragraph.
Posted by: Slapweasel at October 09, 2013 08:23 PM (lq3Ak)
For those of you who remember the Tom Clancy novel where the commuter who kept driving slow in the fast lane in the D.C. area caught a sniper's bullet to the brain, $20 says Clancy was killing Nestor by proxy...
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at October 09, 2013 08:26 PM (FvyJS)
and even indispensable for the modern state, Weber also saw it as a
threat to individual freedoms and the ongoing bureaucratisation as
leading to a "polar night of icy darkness", in which increasing
rationalisation of human life traps individuals in the aforementioned "iron cage" of bureaucratic, rule-based, rational control."
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 10, 2013 12:23 AM (MBqvE)
--I wonder if Tolkein read any of that writing of Weber's, given that an inspiration for one of the themes of LOTR was the bureaucratization of evil practiced by the Nazis.
Posted by: logprof at October 09, 2013 08:27 PM (bufJH)
No labels should be called Establishment Status Quo.
Posted by: thunderb at October 09, 2013 11:59 PM (zOTsN)
Democrat Party Fifth Column
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2013 08:28 PM (MBqvE)
Exactly right. Great photography but O'Neal is always junk.
For the guys, if you ever get a chance to see The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud, Marisa Berenson just may be the hottest woman ever captured on film. There's something about her in that movie that's irresistible. She's the perfect age, and her humor goes great with her spectacular bod.
Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at October 09, 2013 08:28 PM (81H5s)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 09, 2013 08:29 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: tasker--PIRATES!!!!!!!!! at October 09, 2013 08:32 PM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 09, 2013 08:32 PM (ZPrif)
One guy died and the other one misplaced his Starbucks card.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 09, 2013 08:33 PM (ECVlr)
The "Public Sector", a.k.a. Central Government is a Racket for the Enrichment of Insiders, Bureaucrats and Interest Groups.
If you remember this and can convey it to the LIV?
...we've got a foundation. It is Level, Plumb, Straight and real.
Posted by: Slapweasel at October 09, 2013 08:34 PM (lq3Ak)
That's precisely what I felt about A Clockwork Orange. I couldn't believe all the fuss over it. And then Eyes Wide Shut was pure horseshit.
Kubrick's lifelong goal was to make an X-rated film with A-list actors. Supposedly Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie really did it in the sex scene in Don't Look Now.
Also, the Spanish made a film called Sex and Lucia that has Spain's most famous actors appearing to have actual sex, but I think they're body doubles. Don't bother renting it. Easily the most depressing film ever made.
Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at October 09, 2013 08:34 PM (81H5s)
*shrug*
Posted by: Theresa D., Tea Party Terrorista at October 09, 2013 08:34 PM (/BCgx)
Posted by: tasker at October 09, 2013 08:34 PM (r2PLg)
Posted by: rickl at October 09, 2013 08:35 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 09, 2013 08:35 PM (DmNpO)
Truly despicable.
Posted by: tasker--PIRATES!!!!!!!!! at October 10, 2013 12:32 AM (r2PLg)
--Weird, I just read about Montel on the Engineers list a few minutes ago.
Posted by: logprof at October 09, 2013 08:37 PM (bufJH)
Posted by: tasker at October 09, 2013 08:38 PM (r2PLg)
Posted by: tasker--PIRATES!!!!!!!!! at October 10, 2013 12:32 AM (r2PLg)
If Montel had a clue, he would understand that the ONLY person standing in the way of the military being funded.... is HARRY REID!
The House passed the Military Appropriations bill in July, and it has sat on Harry Reid's desk... where he will not allow it to come to a vote in the Senate.
THAT is the bill that needs to be passed.... not a continuing resolution.
OH, and for the record, IF Obama wanted that bill to get a vote in the Senate? All he needs to do is send Joe Biden over.... as the Vice President IS the President of the Senate, and can thus bring bills up for a vote.
Posted by: Satan at October 09, 2013 08:38 PM (lZBBB)
The Yellowstone Gestapo stuff is getting some legs. You never go full retard and yet that is what they managed there.
Okay, that's two Nazi references in my first ONT post of the night. What do I win?
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 08:38 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Slapweasel at October 09, 2013 08:38 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: tasker at October 09, 2013 08:38 PM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 09, 2013 08:38 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 09, 2013 08:39 PM (z679N)
Posted by: tasker at October 09, 2013 08:40 PM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 09, 2013 08:40 PM (z679N)
I do like Peter Sellers as the British officer having to deal with the insane general. And Slim Pickens is always great. But the last time I saw it, I found it too heavy handed for my current tastes.
I had to turn off The Shining the other night. The pacing was awful, and Nicholson was chewing the scenery.
Kubrick was such a control freak he had a studio typist actually type each page that said "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." He wouldn't let her photocopy them, so the typist went nuts and started rearranging all the words into those crazy patterns. Luckily Kibrick liked them.
Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at October 09, 2013 08:40 PM (81H5s)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr
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Switched to Decaf, enthusiasm dropped...
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 09, 2013 08:42 PM (nch4c)
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2013 12:38 AM (wNF3N)
--I think you're confusing Havel with the former president of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus. At least I know Klaus has been critical of the OMG AGW crowd, but I had never heard Havel speak on it while he was alive.
Posted by: logprof at October 09, 2013 08:42 PM (bufJH)
Posted by: T. at October 09, 2013 08:42 PM (WYir0)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 10, 2013 12:42 AM (nch4c)
I would not renew their Starbuck's gift card....
Because.... that's the way I roll..... Mu HAA HAA
Posted by: Satan at October 09, 2013 08:43 PM (lZBBB)
Posted by: tasker at October 09, 2013 08:43 PM (r2PLg)
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1. Lutherans
2. Radical Methodists
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 09, 2013 08:43 PM (nch4c)
and ya pop is a poof when he ain't shagging sheep!
Posted by: bill-o at October 09, 2013 08:43 PM (AWwDY)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 09, 2013 08:44 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Anachronda at October 09, 2013 08:45 PM (U82Km)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 09, 2013 08:46 PM (Vk2pI)
You're right, logprof, I did confuse the two.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 08:47 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: tasker at October 09, 2013 08:47 PM (r2PLg)
"they numpties couldnae organise a pissup in a brewery."
In reference to MSPs( members of scottish parliment)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 09, 2013 08:48 PM (nch4c)
Posted by: Joe at October 09, 2013 08:48 PM (jkZaJ)
Posted by: tasker at October 09, 2013 08:49 PM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 09, 2013 08:49 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Dept. of Homeland Insecurity at October 09, 2013 08:50 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: logprof at October 09, 2013 08:50 PM (bufJH)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at October 09, 2013 08:51 PM (FvyJS)
Raining hard for three days here. The car is parked on a little hummock, but we will have to wade out to it tomorrow.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 09, 2013 08:51 PM (nch4c)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 10, 2013 12:46 AM (Vk2pI)
But sometimes they still talk.
Posted by: R. Polanski at October 09, 2013 08:52 PM (bufJH)
Think that's canuckese, never heard that one - roundabouts, panda crossings, zebras, etc, but traffic lights are rare and called traffic lights, or stop lights ...
Posted by: Joe at October 09, 2013 08:52 PM (jkZaJ)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 09, 2013 08:53 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 09, 2013 08:54 PM (z679N)
Posted by: rickl at October 09, 2013 08:54 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: You Humble Narrator Alex at October 09, 2013 08:54 PM (Vk2pI)
Anyway, the idea is this:
Temporary tattoos.
No, no, I don't mean the ones that wash off in the shower. I mean tattoos that last at least a year before wearing away.
Think about it. Some tattoo person wants "ObamaCare Rules!" across his pecs, or, her buttocks. Fine, needle it in. Then, in a few months, when the pain of the actual ObamaCare starts, they can go to meet friends, etc, secure in the knowledge that "they didn't mean it" because "Hey, check it out [zip] see? It's like gone and stuff!"
If they really meant it, they can have a re-do with the indelible inks and be fools in their 90s.
Come on, someone do this, and then send me money because they made billions and, being nice guys, figure I should get something.
Posted by: Null at October 09, 2013 08:57 PM (xjpRj)
@195 @191
And he is nowhere to be found on what is supposed to be his bread and butter, Debt, Deficits and Spending.
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I've been reading recently that he (Ryan) is acting as a behind the scenes advisor to Boehner on the current mess.
Posted by: junior at October 09, 2013 08:59 PM (wX+eD)
http://tinyurl.com/m9k2fg4
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2013 12:56 AM (wNF3N)
Well, now I know the answer to my question.
Posted by: garrett at October 09, 2013 09:00 PM (0lP/k)
Think that's canuckese, never heard that one - roundabouts, panda crossings, zebras, etc, but traffic lights are rare and called traffic lights, or stop lights ...
Posted by: Joe at October 10, 2013 12:52 AM (jkZaJ)
--I liked when I learned about another traffic animal, the "pelican," since we have a lot of those here in Winnipeg (no pushing a fake button for the WALK sign here. There are others that escape me, also probably unique to Canada. One is referring to the booze store as the "Commission." Also, here at the university exams are not proctored, but envigilated. I'd probably be reminded of more if I watch some more Trailer Park Boys. 
Posted by: logprof at October 09, 2013 09:00 PM (bufJH)
Posted by: RWC at October 09, 2013 09:02 PM (LpbKr)
I can't believe the cordoned off Ol' Faithful with Gov't SUVs.
You couldn't sell that script in Hollywood.
Posted by: garrett at October 09, 2013 09:02 PM (0lP/k)
"Barry Lyndon" was beautifully photographed but I just couldn't accept
Ryan O'Neal as an Irish adventurer. It wasn't quite as bad as Brad Pitt
playing an IRA guy in some movie, but it was close
Agreed. O'Neal's pretty bad.
I read a review once on Walter Hill's The Driver in a book on film noir. Reviewer said O'Neal was perfectly cast as the pro getaway driver, because the point of the character was that he was only alive while behind the wheel. While discussing O'Neal's performance, there was some mention of the word "tree", and possibly "maple" or "redwood". My memory is kind of vague on the point.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2013 09:03 PM (MBqvE)
http://tinyurl.com/ovldota (CNN)
I wonder I wonder if that is related somehow to this Libyan gubmint official getting kidnapped?
Nah, couldn't be.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 09:05 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Joe at October 09, 2013 09:06 PM (jkZaJ)
Posted by: Joe at October 10, 2013 01:06 AM (jkZaJ)
--I first heard it my last year of college and it is still stuck.
Posted by: logprof at October 09, 2013 09:08 PM (bufJH)
Posted by: Leon Trotsky at October 09, 2013 09:09 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Joe at October 09, 2013 09:10 PM (jkZaJ)
As long as Hannity continues to approve of Rove and other various jackasses within the GOP, I'll find myself elsewhere.
Ace was right. The GOP is what Glenn Beck said it was.
..."progressive light" is no way to slam into a wall.
I'm going to fight. I'm going to call everyone I can. I'm going to make sure that I have a concrete foundation.
Sean Hannity gives credence to non-conservative "conservatives".
Posted by: Slapweasel at October 09, 2013 09:10 PM (lq3Ak)
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I've been reading recently that he (Ryan) is acting as a behind the scenes advisor to Boehner on the current mess.
Posted by: junior at October 10, 2013 12:59 AM (wX+eD)
Probably trying to push him into bringing up amnesty for a vote. I have no respect for that worthless idiot Ryan nor do I have any for the "Facillitator" Boehner.
Posted by: buzzion at October 09, 2013 09:17 PM (LI48c)
Friend of mine was a Philosophy professor who used A Clockwork Orange in one of his classes. He claimed what *really* pissed off Anthony Burgess was that the American edition of the book omitted the last chapter, in which Alex softens and decides to change his ways.
Posted by: Anachronda at October 09, 2013 09:20 PM (U82Km)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at October 09, 2013 09:22 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at October 09, 2013 09:23 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Case at October 09, 2013 09:24 PM (jhRZ+)
@266 Probably trying to push him into bringing up amnesty for a vote. I have no respect for that worthless idiot Ryan nor do I have any for the "Facillitator" Boehner.
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I don't know about you, but I haven't heard a word about amnesty the last couple of weeks - other than the usual (i.e. non-Congressional related) back and forth over at NRO (which is normal - a couple of their regular writers are pretty die-hard supporters, and some of their other regular writers always respond in the opposite direction whenever the former bring the subject up). For all intents and purposes, amnesty is dead for at least the rest of the year. I think you're overlooking the obvious here.
Ryan's a budget guy. He came to national prominence for figuring out long-term budget-related stuff. The current mess in DC is partly budget-related. Ergo, Ryan's the exact kind of guy that you want providing advice to the people calling the shots. *Not* having Ryan act as an advisor to Boehner would be a surprise in the current impasse would be a surprise.
Posted by: junior at October 09, 2013 09:26 PM (wX+eD)
Posted by: logprof at October 10, 2013 01:00 AM
Rakkans are traffic animals. I 've nearly run them over heaps of times.
Posted by: ricky at October 09, 2013 09:27 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: fluffy at October 09, 2013 09:27 PM (z9HTb)
Posted by: The Bully Hat at October 09, 2013 09:29 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Null at October 10, 2013 12:57 AM (xjpRj)
I vote for using a chainsaw to cut it in permanently
Posted by: Berserker at October 09, 2013 09:29 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Case at October 10, 2013 01:24 AM (jhRZ+)
I do believe it was the scumbag from jersey, and scumbag is being kind.
Posted by: Berserker at October 09, 2013 09:31 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: fluffy at October 09, 2013 09:32 PM (z9HTb)
I LOVE MARGE FOREVER; do MARGE in the UV ink and put in the next name of the chick you want to bang when Marge quits putting out.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 09:37 PM (wNF3N)
We were living it. Little did we know. I did my job well and I'm proud of it. Made me sort of unpopular but they were a little afraid of me too.
Posted by: PJ at October 09, 2013 09:40 PM (ZWaLo)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at October 09, 2013 09:41 PM (i4xvM)
Posted by: and irresolute at October 09, 2013 09:42 PM (RqHWH)
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at October 09, 2013 09:43 PM (uu42x)
Anti-bully programs are so people can feel good about "doing something".
If you actually want to stop bullying, the bully needs a victim to step up and beat the crap out of them.
I used the latter approach once in my life in HS as a freshman being bullied by a senior and its effectiveness was 100% and lasted for the remaining 3 years. No blowback at all. The whole school and administration knew the dude had it coming, and the dude filed no complaints. Incident never happened according to him.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 09:46 PM (l5zzX)
Those other items like "Commission" for the liquor store must be Manitoba-isms. Here a provincial-government-run liquor store is just "the LCBO" for example.
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at October 09, 2013 09:47 PM (i4xvM)
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at October 09, 2013 09:48 PM (uu42x)
Yep. Actual competence scares the crap out of incompetents.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 09:48 PM (l5zzX)
A longtime Democratic operative, Karen Finney, explained the Democrats’ intransigence on MSNBC to a delighted Joan Walsh (aka the most easily fooled person on TV) by comparing House Republicans to a teenager trying to borrow his mother’s car. “No, I’m not negotiating!” Mother says. “It’s MY CAR!”
This wasnÂ’t a stupid slip of the tongue that other Democrats quickly rejected. Finney had used the exact same metaphor to a panel of highly agreeable MSNBC guests the day before. (MSNBC books no other kind of guest.)
The left thinks the government is their car and the peopleÂ’s representatives are obstreperous teenagers trying to borrow the government. Which belongs to Democrats.
http://tinyurl.com/kys7auo
I added the bolding. It's a pretty good article btw.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 09:50 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at October 09, 2013 09:52 PM (uu42x)
Posted by: Donald Rumsfeld at October 09, 2013 09:53 PM (e8kgV)
She admitted as much in an interview some years ago.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 09:55 PM (l5zzX)
I believe the DARE anti-drug program has been proven ineffective as well.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 09, 2013 09:55 PM (E0/Ok)
I liked this. Well done. I don't know if I have ever read all the articles of impeachment for Nixon.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 09:56 PM (wNF3N)
I believe the DARE anti-drug program has been proven ineffective as well.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 10, 2013 01:55 AM (E0/Ok)
Telling all the kids what are the most common places to find the drug dealers. Yeah can't imagine why that was so useless.
Posted by: buzzion at October 09, 2013 09:58 PM (LI48c)
Consent is the antonym for Dissent.
Given that only 17% believe they've consented per the Declaration of Independence, this means 83% of the US populace is Dissenters, right?
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 09:58 PM (l5zzX)
According to RIA Novosti's twitter feed, the prime minister of Libya was arrested on the orders of the country's general prosecutor.
@rianru Ситуация с премьером Ливии немного прояснилась: его задеожали по распоряжению генпрокуратуры страны
The thick plottens: Libyan prosecutor doesn't know about the order to arrest the prime minister.
@rianru Генпрокуратура Ливии не знает об ордере на арест премьера
guess that'll learn me.
Posted by: Anachronda at October 09, 2013 09:58 PM (U82Km)
Most people in the North Hollywood "Hood",
put D.A.R.E bumpersnickers on their rides to mock the P.D to the fact that they are De-Facto Mexicant's Drug Cartel players......
word...
Posted by: Richard's Winter at October 09, 2013 10:01 PM (m12E4)
As for the first two episodes, I very much enjoyed the murder porn/Minecraft episode because I have a friend who was a Minecraft player. He's also shown me some videos of an Aussie video-game player who does online reviews of video games that I assume was also being parodied in the episode.
I didn't like the premiere because of the gratuitous shot at the R.C. Church at the end and they tried too hard to paint both pro- and anti-NSA sides as nuts while not really belittling the NSA.
I guess the brave libertarians believe that the NSA really is just trying to defend America and would never allow itself to be used against the Obama administration's domestic foes as the IRS was used and Obama doing things like getting rid of the Bush Era rule about domestic surveillance requiring a court order isn't an indication of that. (Especially after the NSA stopped all those terrorist acts like the Boston Bombing.)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at October 09, 2013 10:01 PM (i4xvM)
Posted by: buzzion at October 09, 2013 10:03 PM (LI48c)
No, wingnut. The saying "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" obviously only applies when Repukes are in charge.
How many times do we have to explain this to you?
Posted by: A Progressvie liberal at October 09, 2013 10:04 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 09, 2013 10:05 PM (qyfb5)
hey purp, got a hardware ? for you or any other geek who may be lurking
I want to run three laptop screens off just one laptop, can I just go with a standard video adapter like I would use with monitors?
also, one lappy has 2 vid cards vice one (all cards are GTX680s)
should I use that one to drive the video?
oh, and Da BEARS!!!!
Posted by: navycopjoe at October 09, 2013 10:06 PM (FDSEc)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at October 09, 2013 10:06 PM (i4xvM)
Posted by: yankeefifth at October 09, 2013 10:09 PM (Z9EHQ)
ncj wants to watch Da Bears lose in 3D.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 10:10 PM (wNF3N)
The weird thing is they'll keep believing even as they're kneeling on the edge of a mass grave with the cold steel of a pistol barrel at the nape of their neck.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 10:10 PM (l5zzX)
Posted by: yankeefifth at October 09, 2013 10:10 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: navycopjoe at October 09, 2013 10:11 PM (FDSEc)
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at October 09, 2013 10:11 PM (uu42x)
Posted by: Arbalest at October 09, 2013 10:12 PM (FlRtG)
Because I did.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 10:13 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 09, 2013 10:13 PM (qyfb5)
A screen is just a screen with no intelligence. How is the data supposed to get to it if not through normal laptop operation? Do these satellite machines have a passthrough mode?
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 10:14 PM (l5zzX)
1st decent rain in So-Cal today,
I'm betting a long cold winter for the 1st time since 81'.
Maybe some epic flooding to boot......
Really hoping for a 100 year F-5 Tornado right through the heart of Sacramento...now THAT would make my happiness dance.....
"Shit!"....."I'll toast that!!!"
Posted by: Richard's Winter at October 09, 2013 10:15 PM (m12E4)
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 10:15 PM (l5zzX)
Posted by: ChicagoRefugee,what supports Sam Clovis, Iowa Senate candidate and his tasty garbage. at October 09, 2013 10:16 PM (ruk3B)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 09, 2013 10:17 PM (qyfb5)
Ya know, I noticed that too.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 10:21 PM (wNF3N)
Commies!!!
Remember when we used to just smile nice at Grandpa when he slammed his cane tip on the living room floor and with that weird fire in his eyes just shouted..."Commies!"
Yeah......that!
Posted by: Richard's Winter at October 09, 2013 10:22 PM (m12E4)
"Now, reach into that bag and get my wallet out."
"Which one is it?"
"The one that says 'Stupid Motherf**ker'."
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 10:24 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: They Might Be Giant Hats at October 09, 2013 10:24 PM (Vk2pI)
Violence has been the preferred answer to problems on this planet for billions of years.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 10:28 PM (l5zzX)
Posted by: logprof at October 10, 2013 12:50 AM (bufJH)
A "lamp-standard" is the pole that supports a traffic light or streetlight, especially a metal pole. That's the only usage of "standard" that I know of in that context.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2013 10:30 PM (8Fl6F)
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 10:33 PM (l5zzX)
Violence has been the preferred answer to problems on this planet for billions of years.
I blame the Sneetches without stars upon thars!
Posted by: Star Bellied Sneetch at October 09, 2013 10:34 PM (0lP/k)
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 10:35 PM (l5zzX)
For that journalist joining the chorus of those who want to replace the Constitution with a parliament, it should be noted that of the nations he listed, all of their current government structures are not as old as the U.S. Of them:
1 that goes back to the American Civil War is currently collapsing due to Muslim immigration and socialist policies
1 that goes back to the American Civil War is struggling to recover from a socialist period where free speech was suppressed and gun rights are still absent
1 that goes back to WWI is also collapsing due to Muslim immigration and socialist policies
2 CAUSED WWII with their parliaments
1 that was established after WWII is on the verge of bankruptcy after less than 50 years of existence
1 that was established after WWII is degenerating to where the one established before the ACW was because of socialism
1 that was established after WWII is barely able to form a government on a regular basis in the last 20 years
1 that was established after WWII is, technically speaking, a socialist country that barely manages to hold with massive aid from the U.S.
And finally the U.K. did in fact have a pair of bloodless coups to end both the power of the monarchy and then the power of their upper house
Those are supposed to be good examples of why we should dump what James Madison put together?
Posted by: Sam at October 09, 2013 10:36 PM (Eba7/)
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 10:38 PM (l5zzX)
>>> I wonder what'll happen if some states get uppity and demand the administration of parks be handed back to them?
Saw something yesterday about a state legislator in Utah working on a bill that said if the parks aren't open within 30 days the state will treat them as abandoned and reclaim them.
Posted by: Bomber at October 09, 2013 10:39 PM (4Mwv/)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 09, 2013 10:46 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Daybrother at October 09, 2013 10:52 PM (eZHcZ)
Privatization of public parks has been done quite successfully before. Case in point:
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=23683
Note that this a State handing over some control of the park, not the Feds. The principle still applies.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 10:54 PM (wNF3N)
>>> I wonder what'll happen if some states get uppity and demand the administration of parks be handed back to them?
Saw something yesterday about a state legislator in Utah working on a bill that said if the parks aren't open within 30 days the state will treat them as abandoned and reclaim them.
Posted by: Bomber at October 10, 2013 02:39 AM (4Mwv/)
It all goes back to Article I, section 8 -- the enumerated powers. Go ahead and find "controlling a substantial portion of a state's landmass" in there. You can find the interstates if you squint at "post roads" hard enough; you can find post offices and embassies and military bases....but I don't see National Parks or National Monuments or National Seashores in there at all.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2013 11:12 PM (T1005)
There was this......
90 years + after the massive artillery shell that exploded almost on top of them, yet did nothing more than bury them (alive?) in their trench, French Highway workers discovered the remains of German soldiers from WWI
arrayed "En Situ" from the exact moment they met their end. So well preserved was the trench and the soldiers that they were able to recover artifacts right down to letters from home and newspaper articles along with
armaments and leather goods. Bottles of wine, razors, reading glasses and other personal items that acted as a "time stamp" as to what they were doing on the very day of their collective end.
How this plays into the ONT is beyond me......much of everything these days is beyond the ONT......and frankly beyond me as well....
We are so f*c*ing behind the curve on most things dear to our future
and that is our lament.......
I'm going back to drinking.......
Posted by: Richard's Winter at October 09, 2013 11:17 PM (m12E4)
Would it cripple the geyser sooooo much if a McDonalds was next door, too? It's all about the narrative.
At least when you are on the hadj in Medina, you get to get close and cast stones at The Devil. It's part of the ritual. Just like when you go to Yellowstone, part of the ritual is to go see the geyser. No, it's not exactly the same, but the concept is similar. A trip to Yosemite is not complete without that stop.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 11:27 PM (wNF3N)
Is that Pete "Fortney" Stark?
What a fucking retard.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 09, 2013 11:02 PM (/kU/5)
====
I can't picture Pete Stark passing any math class ever. Some things are unexplainable.
Posted by: jc at October 09, 2013 11:28 PM (PlzOe)
Got it.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 11:31 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Purp at October 09, 2013 10:59 PM (l5zzX)
Is that Pete "Fortney" Stark?
What a fucking retard.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 09, 2013 11:02 PM (/kU/5)
====I can't picture Pete Stark passing any math class ever. Some things are unexplainable.
Posted by: jc at October 10, 2013 03:28 AM (PlzOe)
When they give exams in STEM classes, they should hire someone to come in and shout "social justice!" and "income disparity!" and "the 99%" every ten minutes or so.....'cause if you can't think clearly even while being barraged with that bullshit, you really shouldn't pass the class.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2013 11:32 PM (T1005)
345
Uh....."Map-Quest" check....maybe a new GPS?
Dis-similar locations or you have a line on dual time-space continuums?
Can I have some of what your taking at the very least?
The wine is weak tonight.......
Posted by: Richard's Winter at October 09, 2013 11:34 PM (m12E4)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2013 11:37 PM (T1005)
Hear tell some truckers may put a major hurt on the Beltway within the next 24 hours......
if only....X2
Posted by: Richard's Winter at October 09, 2013 11:38 PM (m12E4)
345
Uh....."Map-Quest" check....maybe a new GPS?
Dis-similar locations or you have a line on dual time-space continuums?
Can I have some of what your taking at the very least?
The wine is weak tonight.......
Posted by: Richard's Winter at October 10, 2013 03:34 AM (m12E4)
If the grape disappoints, seek return from the grain....
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2013 11:38 PM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2013 03:37 AM (T1005)
===
Only if the person(s) who had to pay the costs were the actual humans that did the deed. The idea that some asshole bureaucrat can screw over ordinary citizens and then ordinary citizens have to fund the damages doesn't sit well with me. For example, Lois Lerner should be homeless and completely without assets by now -- and I should not have to pay one cent to rectify the fact that she is a complete asshole.
Posted by: jc at October 09, 2013 11:41 PM (PlzOe)
http://tinyurl.com/kzqzg4z
Teh stupid, it burns
Posted by: bill-o at October 10, 2013 03:35 AM (AWwDY)
===
Godwin's Law needs a corollary for situations when a person actually does want to go Nazi.
Posted by: jc at October 09, 2013 11:44 PM (PlzOe)
If you need high performance you're probably out of luck, unless it is an odd laptop with more than the usual external video ports.
If high performance for gaming isn't an issue, you can run several additional screens with USB adapters. My brother has four monitors hanging off a docked HP laptop. One is being driven directly by the laptop and the others are hanging off USB 3.0 video adapters. His job requires him to remote into multiple client machines simultaneously, plus he needs screen area for his reference materials to resolve the problems in the client's machines.
For that purpose it works pretty well. For anything needing a high frame rate it isn't a solution, though 30 fps video is fine.
Posted by: Epobirs at October 10, 2013 12:00 AM (kcfmt)
Only if 'loser pays' applies too. That is the one major chink in our civil laws.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2013 03:47 AM (wNF3N)
One huge problem we have in civil litigation is that anyone can sue anybody when they feel "wronged", regardless of whether they were "wronged" in the first place or whether the defendant is actually the person who wronged 'em.
In a classic example, let's posit a company that made an "affirmative-action hire" of a candidate who was borderline for meeting the essential qualifications of a position. As it happens frequently in borderline situations, the employee wasn't quite what the business needed and is let go. The employee sues his manager because "it isn't fair, it's racist."
1. Why should the manager pay legal and court costs?
2. Why should racism favor the employee when it was racism (affirmative action) that put him in the company in the first place?
3. If the company gets embroiled in this, why should their "good deed" of seeing whether someone deficient in qualifications can actually perform be held in a "bad light" because they didn't? It's not like the company was hoping for the guy to fail.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2013 12:03 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2013 12:05 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2013 04:05 AM (T1005)
What do they do as an encore? Recommend Mein Kampf to anyone who has recently purchased a menorah?
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2013 12:11 AM (T1005)
I assume this is related to the post about the 26-year-old woman who looks 12 that was hired by Obama to devise nudging strategies to annoy the living shit out of all Americans who don't live how Barry and Mooch think they should.
Posted by: Epobirs at October 10, 2013 12:16 AM (kcfmt)
So I guess there is an internal logic there. The opponent of the aggrieved is almost always going to be the loser. That could be why 95% of all criminal charges are pleaded out. It's also why most (% unknown by me) civil suits are settled out of court too.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2013 12:19 AM (wNF3N)
356
I get no love here to link and or a riposte....such is my station,
You win Gnu.....site unseen.....though Yellowstone/Yosemite are miles apart, something about gushing thermal waters related threw me off...
but then, weakness of the grape and all that......
cthulhu thinks I should be spanking the single malt at this point.
Posted by: Richard's Winter at October 10, 2013 12:20 AM (m12E4)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at October 10, 2013 12:21 AM (zZJJp)
I assume this is related to the post about the 26-year-old woman who looks 12 that was hired by Obama to devise nudging strategies to annoy the living shit out of all Americans who don't live how Barry and Mooch think they should.
Posted by: Epobirs at October 10, 2013 04:16 AM (kcfmt)
I think there's a market for that unauthorized sequel. What a complete and total asshole.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2013 12:25 AM (T1005)
Lol. I'm still trying to figure out why Netflix created a category for me of homosexual themed movies. Look, just because I've sipped a couple of penis flavored drinks doesn't mean I'm gay.
j/k, you pervs. Actually, I think it was because I watched Brokeback Mountain. I wanted to see what the Academy Awards were so excited about; yuk.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2013 12:27 AM (wNF3N)
So apparently an apocalypse isn't really what they fear. It's just not on their schedule. Makes you wonder what they plan to have in place by 2025.
Posted by: Epobirs at October 10, 2013 12:30 AM (kcfmt)
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Get yourself a nice 18V cordless check Makita, Milwaukee
power for the home projects, you already got the impact, so those 2 noted should fit the bill...unless you want to go high end German.....then
get yourself a copy of a "Fine Homebuilding Mag." they detail all the best of the power tools and such with solid ratings on each product...
That Help?
Posted by: Richard's Winter at October 10, 2013 12:34 AM (m12E4)
Ahhh. Richard, the aerial photo is of Old Faithful, surrounded by human shit in all its glory. Because I was tired of typing Yellowstone Park, I did a related search using Yosemite instead of YP, which immediately popped the words 'Yellowstone Park'. So I figured they were part of the same park system.
Your rant was unclear but probably right. However, do check out that photo of Old Faithful to see just how surrounded it is by non-Nature. That was the focus of MY rant.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2013 12:35 AM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at October 10, 2013 12:37 AM (zZJJp)
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at October 10, 2013 12:39 AM (uu42x)
368
Dude?
Do we need to talk about power tools and hunting rifles?.....Maybe some man cave football/Baseball Play-offs?........TRUCKS!!!!!
We can talk trucks......
I'm hear for ya buddy...........
Posted by: Richard's Winter at October 10, 2013 12:41 AM (m12E4)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at October 10, 2013 12:42 AM (zZJJp)
It may be necessary to reeducate many of you.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2013 12:45 AM (wNF3N)
So apparently an apocalypse isn't really what they fear. It's just not on their schedule. Makes you wonder what they plan to have in place by 2025.
Posted by: Epobirs at October 10, 2013 04:30 AM (kcfmt)
There are two very disparate things going on with the talk of "default"....the first (and easiest), is that it's totally bullshit. Real financial default is when your income can't pay your interest, and we are very far from that.
Then there is the talk of "default" as lies -- stuff like "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" or "this will lower costs for everyone by $2500", or "we'll be the most transparent administration, ever." By that metric, this administration has defaulted on pretty much everything all around already.
But the added wrinkle is -- what would happen in the case of an honest-to-God financial default? With respect to everyone else's default in the world, this has lead to an actual, published financial plan for repayment and guarantees against actual, real things. So where they're currently issuing 10-year bonds at 2.7% based on unicorns shitting skittles, they'd have to provide securities based on more explicit things like "10-year notes based on new homes purchased" or "5-year notes based on interest rates going down".
Posted by: cthulhu at October 10, 2013 12:46 AM (T1005)
I loved this part: 'Norton said she was compelled to interject when Obama suggested in his response to her that the budget crunch facing the District is similar to how other congressional districts are adjusting during the shutdown.
"That demanded that I give a response," she said. "Obviously weÂ’re the only District in the United States. WeÂ’re uniquely in this position."'
Obama made another gaffe today thinking that we have a lot of districts like DC when DC is the only one of its kind (thank God, lol); just another "57 states" from Genius-in-Chief.
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at October 10, 2013 12:50 AM (KL49F)
375
Check out some of the back issues to 2010
They walk the walk and talk the talk.......serious building homes people,
and DO know the tools of the trade.....
"Fine Home Building"
Posted by: Richard's Winter at October 10, 2013 12:53 AM (m12E4)
Posted by: Epobirs at October 10, 2013 12:55 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Merovign , Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at October 10, 2013 12:55 AM (qyfb5)
Argentina has already gone tits up once in fairly recent years and looks to be repeating the process now. Everyone seems to assume that the US cannot do the same; they are wrong. It will just be more painful to the world.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2013 12:56 AM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at October 10, 2013 12:56 AM (KL49F)
376
"Old Dog."
"New Tricks?"...........May have to double up on the Viagra............
jus sayin......
Posted by: Richard's Winter at October 10, 2013 12:58 AM (m12E4)
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at October 10, 2013 12:59 AM (uu42x)
Let me introduce you to my Senate 'seat'.
Posted by: Hairy Reid at October 10, 2013 12:59 AM (wNF3N)
385
So your sayin "We Boned?"......or,
Will we have at least enough jizz to make it to the next election cycle?
Or, was 2012 our end game? I have not yet built a bunker.....
am I, and most of us "Skull-Fucked?" at this current junction?
jus askin........
Posted by: Richard's Winter at October 10, 2013 01:07 AM (m12E4)
Bad Things always happen to Good People.......
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are SAINTS in my book.......
Posted by: Richard's Winter at October 10, 2013 01:17 AM (m12E4)
Posted by: THEE OPRAH at October 10, 2013 01:19 AM (yL0v8)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at October 10, 2013 01:23 AM (yh0zB)
Thinking of getting a new cordless drill, ... and I wonder if i should get the hammer drill or just regular driver drill. I have an impact driver, and i doubt will ever drill into concrete, so would it be useless to me?
anyone have an opinion on this?
The hammer drill seems to make the drill longer -- which can be a pain, and they cost more...
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at October 10, 2013 04:21 AM (zZJJp)
===
the dewalt cordless package with one drill and one hammer drill is worth it. try 'em you'll like 'em.
Posted by: jc at October 10, 2013 01:29 AM (PlzOe)
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at October 10, 2013 01:31 AM (uu42x)
Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at October 10, 2013 01:42 AM (U2UQk)
http://youtu.be/jag3HwS74pc
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 10, 2013 01:47 AM (9sCKW)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 10, 2013 01:57 AM (P/47D)
go ahead Vaginia elect the donk ass motherfucker.
Posted by: sven10077 at October 10, 2013 02:01 AM (9jfyN)
Apparently the Libyan PM has been kidnapped by the rebels. He had been interviewed by the BBC and said "that his country was being used to export weapons throughout the region."
Hmmmmmmm...I am sure its nothing, nothing at all. Move along now citizens.
ever get the feeling Barry's a con man and international arms dealer not a Lawyer?
Posted by: sven10077 at October 10, 2013 02:02 AM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 10, 2013 02:03 AM (9sCKW)
Yeah pretty much, except Peter Sellers was a far more pleasant and learned man than Choom King.
Wrap your head around that b/c I am a huge fan and still accept the reality of the Life and Death of Peter Sellers.
Posted by: sven10077 at October 10, 2013 02:05 AM (9jfyN)
Youse guys are more suspicious than a genital crab at an orgy.
Just hop on and dig in, okay?
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2013 02:06 AM (wNF3N)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 10, 2013 02:08 AM (P/47D)
Posted by: sven10077 at October 10, 2013 02:10 AM (9jfyN)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 10, 2013 02:15 AM (P/47D)
Seldom....that said I always thought he raged on Dubya b/c only Thunder Dan was allowed to Malprop
Posted by: sven10077 at October 10, 2013 02:16 AM (9jfyN)
Posted by: sven10077 at October 10, 2013 06:18 AM
What happened? ...
btw an underated Sellers flick is George Pal's(?) "tom thumb". Good kid's movie, but Sellers and Terry Thomas are fantastic together in it.
Posted by: otho at October 10, 2013 02:22 AM (9gNQd)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 10, 2013 02:26 AM (P/47D)
Partly because you know fucking rude and arrogant to the point of solipsism, but partly because it creates greater danger, not just through the obvious method of aggravating the living shit out of people, but because *differential speed* is a far greater hazard than idiots seem to think.
Posted by: Merovign , Dark Lord of the Sith at October 10, 2013 12:04 AM (qyfb5)"
I always though that the appropriate police response to Nestoring ought to be to handcuff the individuals to a guard rail on the median strip for 24 hours.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-hole at October 10, 2013 02:33 AM (31Nrp)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 10, 2013 02:41 AM (1RQeV)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 10, 2013 02:46 AM (1RQeV)
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at October 10, 2013 02:48 AM (0+rpw)
Posted by: sven10077 at October 10, 2013 06:01 AM (9jfyN)
Virginia's looking at the same thing that elected Bronco: wimmins, blacks and federal employees (esp in Northern VA). "Abortions! Eleventy!" still holds more sway than anyone with a normal IQ could imagine.
Posted by: RushBabe at October 10, 2013 02:50 AM (hrIP5)
Posted by: RushBabe at October 10, 2013 02:53 AM (hrIP5)
Why, that sounds very egalitarian Mr. Fuckstick. Why don't you suck on a 40mm mortar round; all the best commies do.
One thing you can be sure of -- I will NEVER go to NYC again unless I am dragged there in chains. Even then, I'll be proudly sporting several skull lumps; or as they call them, motivators.
Your city is about to be seriously fu*ked up.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 10, 2013 02:57 AM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at October 10, 2013 02:59 AM (U2UQk)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 10, 2013 03:01 AM (1RQeV)
Posted by: sven10077 at October 10, 2013 04:23 AM (9jfyN)
All worthy stuff today.
They Havel essay is too important to bury however.
We should circulate that essay, because we, by necessity, are once again dissidents, and more people need to know that they are not alone!!!
Things really are messed up and the Democrat/Media cabal really are to blame and I hope they really can be overcome!
Posted by: petunia at October 10, 2013 07:13 AM (DAcBA)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 09, 2013 11:30 PM (74mEg)
My father in law is in that book I think.
Posted by: petunia at October 10, 2013 07:17 AM (DAcBA)
Posted by: A Conservative Teacher at October 10, 2013 04:17 PM (idosS)
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