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December 16, 2013

Overnight Open Thread (12-16-2013)
— Maetenloch

In John Hawkin's annual ranking of the top 40 conservative web sites of 2013. No one knows exactly how they're calculated but I can definitely state that after viewing the ever paltry AoSHQ coffers that no graft or payola was involved on our part. :-(

Now #7 Instapundit is not going to an easy target to take down for next year - he is a freakin' juggernaut of blogging. But as fearsome as he can seem we do know that he has a few weaknesses - primarily an inordinate fondness for gadgets, chocolate, and Ann Althouse. Come on people - let's use this knowledge and our animal cunning to claw our way up to #7 in 2014.

Remember - in the end there can only be one!

The Turtle-Lies of Obamacare

'Obamacare was sold on a trinity of lies."
That ornate phrase, more suitable for the Book of Revelations or perhaps the next installment of Game of Thrones, comes from my National Review colleague Rich Lowry. But I like it. Most people know the first deception in the triumvirate of deceit: "If you like your health insurance you can keep it, period." The second leg in the tripod of deception was "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

But the third plank in the triad of disinformation hasn't gotten much attention: Obamacare will save you, me, and the country a lot of money. This lie took several forms.
...Obamacare may have been sold on a trinity of lies, but it turns out it's also lies all the way down.

Columnist: Hey Let's Give Marijuana to Young People Who Sign Up For Obamacare

Among other prizes and major awards.

First, announce and advertise that everyone between the ages of 18 and 34 who enrolls on the health-care exchanges by the end of the year is automatically entered in a lottery. Winners will receive everything from a free iPhone or iPad to a full-year of health-care underwritten by Uncle Sam. Refer a friend and get a discount. Buy one (year), get one free. In states that have legalized marijuana for recreational use - Colorado and Washington - by all means, throw in a bag of cannabis.

But here's why they ultimately won't - pot or no pot:

Average premiums for young people will range from $157 to $201 a month, which comes out to $1,884 to $2,412 per year. (This doesn't account for deductibles, copays, etc.) Most uninsured young people don't have that extra cash lying around - or if they do, they would prefer to spend it elsewhere.

To Question the Existence of 'Rape Culture' Is Rape Culture

Much has been said about the campus "war on rape" and the way it imperils students' due process rights, but there is another casualty as well: the free exchange of ideas on college campuses when it comes to the subject of sexual offenses.
A particularly revealing recent example comes from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. On November 5, Katherine Krueger, editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Badger Herald, ran a long piece explaining why the previous day's edition had featured a letter to the editor from a student named David Hookstead questioning the existence of "rape culture." Krueger wrote that she had made the decision to run the letter "after careful deliberation and debate with our managing editor and opinion editors."
The fact that Krueger felt the need to justify the letter's publication is remarkable enough; but the reason she gave for publishing it was even more striking. Hookstead's letter, you see, was an object lesson in "what rape culture looks like," since it expressed "morally repugnant, patriarchal and offensive" views that are "an embodiment of rape culture" itself.

You know just like computer code.

Also: Can a Drunken Male and Female Student 'Rape Each Other'?

Bogus Interpreter Also A Fan of 'Necklacing'

20% of All British C-130s Taken Out by Hail

The Many Benefits of Owning a Sailboat

As described in an ad for a 27 foot sailboat ($5000 or best offer). Remember a boat isn't just a cash-hungry declining asset - it's also a bank account-draining lifestyle.

What does captian kurt [sic], popeye, captain hook and tommy lee have in common? They are all bad ass people. Why? Because they were all in command of ships. You should be in command of a ship. You should buy my boat. I can offer you the opportunity to be in command of this Catalina 27 sailing ship for about the cost of a lot of the stupid stuff you bought, buy or are thinking about buying.

...I understand you have many options on how to spend your free time. How you choose to recreate says a lot about a human being. What I am offering you is the open Pacific Ocean, fishing, going to islands, breathing salty air at sea, breathing atomic four gas powered exhaust fumes, drinking rum, drinking whiskey, drinking cheap beer, drinking expensive beer, drinking the dead sea monkeys floating in the drink that your friend backwashed, spear fishing anything that moves, endless supply of gold colored fish to make into tacos, trapping crabs, getting crabs, free membership to hbyc, a money pit, a fist pumping teeth grinding laser eating dance platform, a new kitchen, a boom that might hit you in the head, a $270 slip fee, the ability to t-bone a stand up paddle boarder, the ability to bbq a t-bone steak, the ability to bone in the v-birth, the chance to see whales, the improved chance to bring a whale out of najas and tying knots. These are fine things. These are gentlemanly things. They certainly beat sitting in car traffic towing your sand rail or three wheeler past a bunch of meth labs to glamis or driving a boat in circles in the std filled cess pool commonly referred to as "the river" or any other so called lake. Does a real man or woman want to recreate in a standing pool of "fresh water" or in a hot desert with a bunch of drunk yahoos with engines strapped to their backs?

And you know what's better than buying a boat? Getting a friend to buy a boat - so be sure and pass this ad on to him.

George Takei, Top Amazon Reviewer

Apparently George Takei spends a lot of his time tweeting and the rest reviewing products on Amazon, making himself a Top-1000-Reviewer and probably the Top-50-Funniest-Reviewers. Here is his review of the inflatable human hamster ball:

When Brad asked what I wanted for my birthday, I said "jet pack," just like I have for the past four years. Now, Brad thinks I'm too far into my "Golden Years" to strap on any kind of propulsion unit, so each year his gifts have been disappointing: A bow-tie. A snuggie. Gel insoles.
Imagine my delight when I came home to the ZORB HUMAN HAMSTER BALL in our back yard. "Not as good a jet pack," Brad noted, shrugging. "But safer."
Brad was a bit winded after blowing it up for six hours (I recommend an air pump), so we left it inflated. We strapped it to our car roof using the 120 left-over bungee cords from our home bungee jumping kit (I would NOT recommend this product). We then drove up to the Hollywood Hills sign for a test roll.

A Cop Does Good

The Baltimore Humane Society honored Officer Dan for compassionate service this week for his actions in rescuing a Pit bull after responding to a call about a "vicious" dog on the loose this past May.

For those that don't know his story, Officer Dan arrived on the scene and and saw a Pit bull being chased by kids who were throwing glass bottles at him. He called the dog over to him, and the Pit bull came over, sat next to him and began licking him affectionately. After taking the dog to the Baltimore Animal Rescue & Care Shelter (BARCS), he ended up adopting the dog a few days later and named him Bo.

Finally: A Phased Laser Rifle in the 7 Watt Range

Forget it kid - you'll just shoot your eye out.

Do Not Want For Xmas

The Yahoo AoSHQ group. Bla bla bla.

And my twitter thang.

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1 Yay ONT!

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2013 06:14 PM (UAMVq)

2 Got a lot of sunglasses in that list...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 06:14 PM (PWHzv)

3 In before Vic.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 16, 2013 06:15 PM (wNF3N)

4 Good evening horde

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 06:16 PM (DmNpO)

5 Am I blind, or is there neither Kirk nor Scotty in that pic?

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 16, 2013 06:17 PM (vX2Du)

6 Hope I didn't miss anything.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 16, 2013 06:17 PM (4Mv1T)

7 >>>Brad was a bit winded after blowing it up for six hours<<<

Oh my!

Posted by: Mr. Sulu at December 16, 2013 06:18 PM (VJpOJ)

8 Hot Air is number 4? YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID

Posted by: Eton Cox at December 16, 2013 06:18 PM (q177U)

9 OK, that could be Scotty in the back with the beard.

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 16, 2013 06:18 PM (vX2Du)

10 Hi all, ready for a glass of wine? I've got a scary story to you all.

Posted by: The Farmer at December 16, 2013 06:18 PM (eBupg)

11 Leave Insty alone, lets take out Hot Air

Posted by: Jean at December 16, 2013 06:19 PM (4JkHl)

12 I'll assume Kirk is in the cargo bay looking for a space stewardess.

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 16, 2013 06:19 PM (vX2Du)

13 12 Posts of Christmas, 2013 (Day 4) Christopher Lee. A Heavy Metal Christmas. More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=4387

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 16, 2013 06:19 PM (Vk2pI)

14 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson (@SupSidePolitics) at December 16, 2013 06:19 PM (JMmQ9)

15 Damn, look at all those leisure suits worn by the ST cast and crew. Boy, the 70's sure did suck, didn't they.

Posted by: GuyfromNH at December 16, 2013 06:19 PM (kbOju)

16 #7?

Just think if we weren't a bunch of foul-mouthed troglodytes!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2013 06:20 PM (QFxY5)

17 Well won't shoot your eye out with that DIY laser rifle, well may blind yourself if you fire directly into a mirror with it...

Dee, Takei, Doohan, Nichols, Nimoy, Roddenberry, and Koenig plus a few NASA folk. And I think Dee worse that necklace in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 06:20 PM (PWHzv)

18 I'm laughing at all the smiley faces in the post.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2013 06:20 PM (GEICT)

19 Good for Jim Hoft. He's had a rough year.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 16, 2013 06:20 PM (P6QsQ)

20 Eighth isn't like terrible or anything.

Posted by: Inveterate Tide Fan at December 16, 2013 06:21 PM (JQuNB)

21 Just think if we weren't a bunch of foul-mouthed troglodytes! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2013 10:20 PM (QFxY5) We'd be a pretty fucking boring bunch of assholes. I mean, how much would this shit suck if AtC couldn't go all rangy?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2013 06:22 PM (GEICT)

22 Taking down Instapundit: it's all about publicizing his tendency to put puppies in blenders. Poor, innocent puppies. Savage, savage blenders.

Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 06:22 PM (bKA83)

23 May 1976 fashions stay in Hell where they belong. Of course I had a lime-green leisure suit with an orange tie back in he day. Dy-No-Mite!

Posted by: eman at December 16, 2013 06:23 PM (AO9UG)

24 Aloha!

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 06:23 PM (T1005)

25 20 Eighth isn't like terrible or anything.
Posted by: Inveterate Tide Fan at December 16, 2013 10:21 PM (JQuNB)

Well sure - if you enjoy being loser! </Tiger mom meme>

Posted by: Mætenloch at December 16, 2013 06:23 PM (pAlYe)

26 They've got The Corner @ #13 and NRO @ #16. The Corner is at NRO, unless there is some other "The Corner"

Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 16, 2013 06:23 PM (4Mv1T)

27 Someone explain gateway pundit to me. He's one step above captain ed in my book. What am I missing?

Posted by: NCKate at December 16, 2013 06:24 PM (R2eVV)

28 Oh my! Posted by: Mr. Sulu at December 16, 2013 10:18 PM (VJpOJ) *** http://t.co/m7vrHTR5u6

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 06:24 PM (DmNpO)

29 Everyone ahead of Ace is a heavy hitter indeed. There are no slackers to pick off there. Can we attack RCP's bona fides? "Conservative? The site that interviewed Bill Ayers in the front seat of a car? Make me laugh!" Seems hard.

Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 06:24 PM (bKA83)

30 Hot Air? Hot Air? Geez, that reminds me of my ex-wife. What a gasbag she was.

Posted by: Rodney Dangerfield at December 16, 2013 06:25 PM (dCwZe)

31 8 is great! #1 in my book.

Posted by: freaked at December 16, 2013 06:25 PM (MAdwI)

32 your lead about the british c130s was wrong, instead of saying "20% of british c130s" wiped out by hail it should have read "british only have 25 c130s"

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 06:25 PM (rDidD)

33 Insty is not really a blog, imho. More of a targeted news feed. Really AoSHQ is the #3 blog given that Gateway Pundit and Hot Gas are the only other two blogs in the top 8.

Posted by: Y-not, Team Cat at December 16, 2013 06:26 PM (zDsvJ)

34 27 Someone explain gateway pundit to me. He's one step above captain ed in my book. What am I missing?

Timing, perhaps.

Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 06:26 PM (bKA83)

35 Top TV shows on cable last Monday 1. Monday Night Football - 16M viewers 2. WWE Monday Night Raw - 4.1M 3. Sportscenter (after MNF) - 4M 4. Love and Hip Hop (VH1) - 3M 5. Fast N Loud - 3M 6. Chrissy and Mr. Jones 2 (VH1) - 2.2M 7. Black Ink Crew 2 (VH1) - 2.1M VH1 seems to be becoming the new BET.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 06:26 PM (ZPrif)

36 Anybody watch Street Outlaws (about street racing in OK)?

AoSHQ is Farmtruck. Insty is our next call out.

Posted by: no one important at December 16, 2013 06:26 PM (VJpOJ)

37 Althouse is a conservative blog? Okay, then......

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at December 16, 2013 06:26 PM (dCwZe)

38 Awww, shit, it's websites not blogs. My bad.

Posted by: Y-not, Team Cat at December 16, 2013 06:26 PM (zDsvJ)

39 Why does Insti keep linking to Infowars. Drives me nuts.

And NewsMax causes me to have my 80 years old mom anesthisized. I told her over the phone five hours away that she is forbidden to read NewsMax or anything by Alex Jones.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 16, 2013 06:27 PM (4Mv1T)

40 So are we going to all chip in and get the Hillary stormtrooper for Maet?

Posted by: CDR M at December 16, 2013 06:27 PM (LsJl8)

41 Sailboats are for wimps. Let's all chip in for this: http://tinyurl.com/olnqj9q

Posted by: RS at December 16, 2013 06:27 PM (YAGV/)

42 Oh, speaking of pot: Melissa Clouthier ‏@MelissaTweets Yep RT @CNN: Pot smokers may share similar brain changes as schizophrenics. http://cnn.it/1gCdSuw

Posted by: Y-not, Team Cat at December 16, 2013 06:27 PM (zDsvJ)

43 Proposal: Deliver a quantity of "excellent weed" to Democratic voters the night before Election Day.

Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 06:28 PM (bKA83)

44 UberFacts ‏@UberFacts 25m Mastrophobia is the irrational fear of breasts.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 06:28 PM (DmNpO)

45 If Number 1 is our goal, we need more hobo recipes and hunting lessons on Sundays. In fact, hobo hunting improves teamwork, family bonding, neighborliness, map reading, and awareness of police activity. All very helpful to the Moron Nation.

Posted by: eman at December 16, 2013 06:28 PM (AO9UG)

46 Insty is not really a blog, imho. More of a targeted news feed. Really AoSHQ is the #3 blog given that Gateway Pundit and Hot Gas are the only other two blogs in the top 8. Posted by: Y-not, Team Cat Insty has comments now. For realz. Sort of a blog, sort of a news and link aggregator, sort of a move to boost eyes on his Amazon links.

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at December 16, 2013 06:28 PM (dCwZe)

47 I like GatewayPundit. Gateway is much more aggressive than HotAir. For example, Gateway covers anti-white violence that HotAir is too squishy to cover. HotAir seems to want to avoid the subject for fear of arousing the wrong sort of person or emotion.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 06:29 PM (ZPrif)

48 Mastrophobia is the irrational fear of breasts.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 10:28 PM (DmNpO)

We just call it "being gay".

Posted by: Colorado Alex at December 16, 2013 06:29 PM (lr3d7)

49 Win the Mega Millions Tuesday night. $586 million annuity. Buy an island nation and then place an order for four fast patrol craft for maritime security. Along with another smaller island so AlextheChick can keep her Raptors and Emus.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 06:29 PM (PWHzv)

50 22 Taking down Instapundit: it's all about publicizing his tendency to put puppies in blenders. Poor, innocent puppies. Savage, savage blenders. Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 10:22 PM (bKA83) At Amazon, markdowns on puppy blenders.

Posted by: Iranian Nuclear Scientist at December 16, 2013 06:29 PM (SM196)

51 I'm not sure whether this doggeh hasn't figured out how to swim or whether he thinks he's above such banal pursuits. http://t.co/evLRrXN5GJ

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 06:30 PM (DmNpO)

52 Lulling a pit bull into a false sense of security before you rain down a hail of bullets on it several months later--brilliant.

Posted by: Officer Rube Goldberg at December 16, 2013 06:30 PM (R6JT1)

53 Weirdly, in today's crossword, was the word 'Ailurophobia'. I had no idea what it was about, had to look it up. Now I know.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 06:30 PM (aDwsi)

54 I mean, how much would this shit suck if AtC couldn't go all rangy? Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2013 10:22 PM (GEICT) Not to mention MWR.

Posted by: Vendette - Yay Navy! at December 16, 2013 06:30 PM (sv2CE)

55 I h8 being 8! It is not that gr8!

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 16, 2013 06:30 PM (jucos)

56 Lulling a pit bull into a false sense of security before you rain down a hail of bullets on it several months later--brilliant. *** Made me LOL

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 06:31 PM (DmNpO)

57 fox tonight, robocop and headless horsemen

Posted by: antenna tv at December 16, 2013 06:31 PM (5fkya)

58 Mastrophobia is the irrational fear of breasts. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 10:28 PM (DmNpO) A better use of the word irrational would be very hard to find.

Posted by: eman at December 16, 2013 06:31 PM (AO9UG)

59 I haven't seen Insty link to InfoWars much. Drudge does. Drudge clearly has a bit of a paranoic streak. But that's ok.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 06:31 PM (ZPrif)

60 Where's Carol?! I need to know whether she watched Homeland last night.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 06:31 PM (DmNpO)

61 Why does Insti keep linking to Infowars. Drives me nuts. And NewsMax causes me to have my 80 years old mom anesthisized. I told her over the phone five hours away that she is forbidden to read NewsMax or anything by Alex Jones. Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 16, 2013 10:27 PM (4Mv1T) NewsMax dropped their ads from my site because it was apparently too hardcoreÂ…

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 16, 2013 06:31 PM (Vk2pI)

62 44 Mastrophobia is the irrational fear of breasts.

Why does this word even exist?

Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 06:32 PM (bKA83)

63 BCochran, I enjoyed your video, but I couldn't pick out you and your daughter. Which ones were you?

Posted by: Mindy at December 16, 2013 06:32 PM (GRLuN)

64 Flatbush Joe, I just can't get into gateway or malkin. The histrionics get to me with both and I can't concentrate on content. I guess delivery is the issue.

Posted by: NCKate at December 16, 2013 06:32 PM (R2eVV)

65 Lucianne? I thought she was.....dead? Not hardly.

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at December 16, 2013 06:32 PM (dCwZe)

66 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently enflamed drivers in Fort Worth, Texas when drivers came upon a roadblock and were asked to participate in a Â“voluntaryÂ” testing of their DNA. Uniformed policeman with flashing lights and roadblocks flagged drivers off the road and directed drivers to an adjacent parking lot where they were asked to "voluntarily" consent to a DNA test. None of the drivers had done anything wrong, they merely happened to be traveling on a road that was being used to conduct the NHTSA National Roadside Survey. The federal government has already spent $7.9 million to research the number of impaired or drunk drivers on the road. http://blogs.christianpost.com/friday-tidings/dna-tests-at-government-roadblocks-18965/ Soona posted about this. Very creepy, not only our phones but the roads.

Posted by: The Farmer at December 16, 2013 06:32 PM (eBupg)

67 Mindy, how did it go at the meetup?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 06:32 PM (DmNpO)

68
Damn, look at all those leisure suits worn by the ST cast and crew. Boy, the 70's sure did suck, didn't they.

Posted by: GuyfromNH at December 16, 2013 10:19 PM (kbOju)

No shit.

Funny though, you could transplant the squares in suit and ties into today's day and age and they'd blend right in. The hip actors would look like epic douchebags.

'sup jackwagons

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2013 06:33 PM (MBqvE)

69 Where's "Just One Minute"? Where's "The American Thinker"? Where's the justice? Where's the love? Where's the bacon?

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at December 16, 2013 06:33 PM (dCwZe)

70 We're #8! We're #8!

Posted by: sluggo at December 16, 2013 06:34 PM (vVv3V)

71 feminists are stupid, feminists in college are weaponized stupid. some feminist let in on some kind of affirmative action something or other in my class wrote a letter to the editor of our paper about how it was sad joan jett wrote a song about men beating her - hit me with your best shot. never knew for sure if she was too lazy and stupid and never read lyrics or was incapable of understanding lyrics.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 06:34 PM (rDidD)

72 59 I haven't seen Insty link to InfoWars much. Drudge does. Drudge clearly has a bit of a paranoic streak. But that's ok.

Drudge is all about the headlines, which are amazing. I suspect him not so much of buying into infowars, as of thinking that he can get some really provocative headlines out of them.

Drudge's juxtapositions often make my day, when there is little other news of interest. I am with Krauthammer, he's a genius in his narrow realm.

Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 06:34 PM (bKA83)

73 Ratings eh? Moar accidental lesbian pron links .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at December 16, 2013 06:34 PM (XWw96)

74 Which ones were you? Posted by: Mindy at December 16, 2013 10:32 PM (GRLuN) Uhh..those were the instructors. My daughters are 6 and 3. And I was the guy up front with the big dollar sign.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2013 06:34 PM (GEICT)

75 *eyes number 8*

Soon.

Posted by: The Federalist at December 16, 2013 06:35 PM (VJpOJ)

76 If I win the Mega-thingie; I'm buying an island where a thousand 'ettes and maybe two dozen dudes and I will live out the rest of our lives...party style Piss off...I can dream, can't I?

Posted by: AltonJackson (@SupSidePolitics) at December 16, 2013 06:35 PM (JMmQ9)

77 May 1976 fashions stay in Hell where they belong.

Of course I had a lime-green leisure suit with an orange tie back in he day.

Dy-No-Mite!

Posted by: eman at December 16, 2013 10:23 PM

You take that back! Don't talk smack about '76. If you're not still wearing your lime green leisure suit and orange tie, it's coz you were never groovy. I wear mine all the time and the chicks are like "hey, daddio... where's the key party?" Yeah, I still got it. The 70's were the height of cool fashion, baby. Don't let the squares give you no jive about it.

Posted by: otho at December 16, 2013 06:35 PM (9gNQd)

78 How can commentors help lift a blog rating?

Oh, and HotAir isn't a conservative web sight. It is a conservative baiting web site that is very tolerant of leftist trolls and very intolerant of the much derided and maligned 'true conservatives.'

Posted by: Well Allrighty Then at December 16, 2013 06:35 PM (hFc2S)

79 Two best days of a boat owners life..... The day he bought his boat and the day he is finally able to dump it onto someone else.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 16, 2013 06:35 PM (jucos)

80 I like that their are aggressive, in-your-face right wing blogs out there. When I want calm I'll read National Review.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 06:36 PM (ZPrif)

81 Hit me With Your Best Shot
Written by Eddie Schwantz
top 40 tune recorded by Pat Benatar,

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 06:36 PM (aDwsi)

82 67 Mindy, how did it go at the meetup? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 10:32 PM (DmNpO) It was awesome! Good turnout; good people. I met some new (to me) morons. We're already looking forward to a spring meet up hosted by RightlySouthern.

Posted by: Mindy at December 16, 2013 06:36 PM (GRLuN)

83 Those folks by the Space Shuttle look like star trek peeps

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 06:36 PM (hDwX8)

84 Words and phrases that tell you that the person speaking or writing is not to be taken seriously:

Rape culture
Patriarchy
Hermeneutics

Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 06:36 PM (bKA83)

85 Oooops. 'Schwartz'

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 06:36 PM (aDwsi)

86 It was awesome! Good turnout; good people. I met some new (to me) morons. We're already looking forward to a spring meet up hosted by RightlySouthern. Posted by: Mindy at December 16, 2013 10:36 PM (GRLuN) any lurkers?

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 06:37 PM (hDwX8)

87 What the hell are these? None of these are on my list of Republican, conservative web sites. Where's HuffPo, for example?

Posted by: Paul Ryan, Boy Genius at December 16, 2013 06:37 PM (FcR7P)

88 story about pitbull would have been syrupy sweet if cop had given each of the clowns tormenting the dog a demonstration of pepper spary and taser techniques.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 06:37 PM (rDidD)

89 directorblue.blogspot (Doug Ross) not even mentioned. Bad and sad

Posted by: NCwoof at December 16, 2013 06:38 PM (aUQgu)

90 Hermeneutics sounds like a cross between Herman's Hermits and some German techno band.

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at December 16, 2013 06:38 PM (dCwZe)

91 Two best days of a boat owners life..... The day he bought his boat and the day he is finally able to dump it onto someone else. Posted by: Truck Monkey
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Yeah..., but I get weepy when I think about the little Rhodes Bantam that I sold.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 06:38 PM (aDwsi)

92 Those "voluntary" roadblocks are really interesting. They say that you don't have to submit to a test, but guess what? As soon as you roll down that window, even if you decline the test, if the officer smells any alcohol or other substances, you probably won't get a choice anymore if you take a test or not. Just as if you were pulled over for a minor infraction, say speeding, and then the officer smells alcohol. Not gonna be a fun night for you.

Posted by: Iasonas at December 16, 2013 06:38 PM (FHNkr)

93 Words and phrases that tell you that the person speaking or writing is not to be taken seriously: ........ Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 10:36 PM (bKA83) First one to use the word community is a homo, I say.

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 06:39 PM (hDwX8)

94 Uhh..those were the instructors. My daughters are 6 and 3. And I was the guy up front with the big dollar sign. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2013 10:34 PM (GEICT) That explains why I didn't see anyone who appeared young enough to be one of your daughters. I thought the idea was for you to dance with your daughter.

Posted by: Mindy at December 16, 2013 06:39 PM (GRLuN)

95 *lurky lurk lurk*

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 06:39 PM (eQJwb)

96
Sailboats are for wimps. Let's all chip in for this:

http://tinyurl.com/olnqj9q

Posted by: RS at December 16, 2013 10:27 PM (YAGV/)

One of my partners lives on his boat, can't shut him up about nautical shit. He sends me links to the GSA auctions sites all the time for minesweepers. Good boats, but unfortunately, they all have their weapons mounts ripped out. What a gyp.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2013 06:39 PM (MBqvE)

97 77 May 1976 fashions stay in Hell where they belong. Of course I had a lime-green leisure suit with an orange tie back in he day. Dy-No-Mite! Posted by: eman at December 16, 2013 10:23 PM It (the leisure suit) has stood the test; it's still the best!

Posted by: Leisure Suit Larry at December 16, 2013 06:39 PM (ZyqBH)

98 'Sustainable'

Just stop reading there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 06:40 PM (aDwsi)

99 >>89 directorblue.blogspot (Doug Ross) not even mentioned. Bad and sad Yeah, that's becoming a more regular stop for me.

Posted by: Y-not, Team Cat at December 16, 2013 06:40 PM (zDsvJ)

100 All you need to know about the 70s is women wore wigs. Women with hair. Women in their prime. Voluntarily.

Posted by: Y-not, Team Cat at December 16, 2013 06:40 PM (zDsvJ)

101 No Shat in the shuttle picture? I guess NASA wouldn't pay him to show up.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at December 16, 2013 06:41 PM (SREVj)

102 That grey blue suit the guy on the left is wearing, last thursday same suit

Posted by: Jean at December 16, 2013 06:41 PM (4JkHl)

103 "Remember - in the end there can only be one!" After I've banniated everyone else from the Internets, that one will be me!

Posted by: Chalres Jhonson at December 16, 2013 06:41 PM (ZyqBH)

104 Is Glen fucking Althouse? Her blog is stupid and without Insty's links would die a quiet death. Let the Obama voting lawyer's blog die.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 06:41 PM (0FSuD)

105 I thought the idea was for you to dance with your daughter. Posted by: Mindy at December 16, 2013 10:39 PM (GRLuN) Depends on what they're going for. Two years ago the dads did a skit/dance to the 12 Days of Christmas. Very funny. Last year they went serious/sweet. They had dads in tuxes ballroom dancing with their daughters. Obv back to funny this year. The real point is to get the dads involved and up on stage.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2013 06:41 PM (GEICT)

106 any lurkers? Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 10:37 PM (hDwX Mebbe. Yoo hoo, guy who told the six-year-old presidential aspirant that she was a Republican, are you lurking here tonight?

Posted by: Mindy at December 16, 2013 06:42 PM (GRLuN)

107 retired military ships and ice strengthened ships, especially tug boats, are all the rage these days. Refitted and luxed up it is the way to go. I would much prefer an old ship over some luxury barge everyone is churning out these days.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 06:42 PM (rDidD)

108 @96 WTF would you do with it, if you weren't smuggling dope?

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 06:43 PM (0FSuD)

109 The fact that Krueger felt the need to justify the letter's publication is remarkable enough; but the reason she gave for publishing it was even more striking. Hookstead's letter, you see, was an object lesson in "what rape culture looks like," since it expressed "morally repugnant, patriarchal and offensive" views that are "an embodiment of rape culture" itself.

No surprise that this comes from a university. The indulgence of insanity is mainly a leftist phenomenon. The right mostly shuns its kooks.

Posted by: cm9000 at December 16, 2013 06:43 PM (3qZbZ)

110 93 First one to use the word community is a homo, I say.

It's probably true these days, but only because our side is so crippled as to only be in opposition. Most of what Government does now should really be done by the community, and this is something that the Right needs to rediscover, even in these days of despair.

Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 06:43 PM (bKA83)

111 78 True that. I'm one of those that got bounced for calling out the squishes that manage the place by usingtrue Conservative arguments. Salem can keep their collection of Rino sites. Fuck them with a thorny copy of a rolled up Constitution (because I can say that here).

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at December 16, 2013 06:43 PM (ojnk6)

112 I read Insty a lot less since I got on Twitter.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 06:43 PM (ZPrif)

113 Is Glen fucking Althouse? Her blog is stupid and without Insty's links would die a quiet death. Let the Obama voting lawyer's blog die. Posted by: Nip Sip Yeah, she has a nice rack for a.....60 year old woman, I guess. Dr. Helen is HAWT, Althouse, well...... And I also get torqued at Reynolds linking that ship-dit Megan McCardle all the time. I think I loathe her more than Althouse.

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at December 16, 2013 06:44 PM (dCwZe)

114 A million dollars to someone that can get ESPN announcers to STFU for TWO minutes. Just TWO fucking minutes.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 06:44 PM (0FSuD)

115 "Columnist: Hey Let's Give Marijuana to Young People Who Sign Up For Obamacare" Hell, just give 'em heroin. Insurance is mandated to cover substance abuse treatment, so no problem. A consequence of Obama's presidency is that I have gone from disagreeing with liberals to actively hating them.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 16, 2013 06:45 PM (mck3/)

116 Here is something over the top and absolutely cool. http://www.seawolfexpedition.com/

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 06:45 PM (rDidD)

117 108 That's what cigarette boats are for

Posted by: NCwoof at December 16, 2013 06:46 PM (aUQgu)

118 On Sunday morning, North Carolina Rucho tweeted, Â“Justice RobertÂ’s pen & Obamacare has done more damage to the USA then the swords of the Nazis, Soviets & terrorists combined.Â”

The Left has gone ballistic, on a national scale.

Google 'Rucho Obamacare', you won't believe it.

That would be bad enough...., except the NCGOP Chairman Claude Pope has said: "The tweet is highly offensive and he should apologize,"

I have fired off a *very* angry note to the NCGOP

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 06:46 PM (aDwsi)

119 lookin' at that pic again, Koenig looks pissed...

Posted by: AltonJackson (@SupSidePolitics) at December 16, 2013 06:46 PM (JMmQ9)

120 It's probably true these days, but only because our side is so crippled as to only be in opposition. Most of what Government does now should really be done by the ~~community~~ our towns and cities or neighborhoods, and this is something that the Right needs to rediscover, even in these days of despair. Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 10:43 PM (bKA83) comunity is a made up word sorta like Kwanza

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 06:46 PM (hDwX8)

121 HotAir used to be the main blog that I would read but I gave up on it awhile ago. Once Townhall took over I felt it was going downhill. Then it just seemed that every comment section was a trollfest and the non-liberals there couldn't help themselves from taking the trollbait. Plus, people there, grown adults mind you, on the internet mind you, say stuff like "h-e-double-hockeysticks." Really? This isn't church. Give me a break.

I much prefer the HQ and how trolls are handled here. And being around adults who aren't afraid to talk like adults is nice too.

Posted by: Iasonas at December 16, 2013 06:46 PM (FHNkr)

122 15 DAYS TIL THE BAN ON INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! today i stopped by my local Costco ( actually not the local one, but the bigger one that sells liquor), to check out on stocking up on bulbs. Sadly they no longer sell incandecants, but I hoped they had a good price on LED's, because unlike the mercury shit , they are good. But $18 for an LED flood is a bit high. My house has close to 50 recessed ceiling floods - mosts on dimmers which I prefer- so do the math -fuck that. so I went to Home depot and purchased a few boxes of dozen old fashioned bulbs. There was a middle class female shopper who i began to chat with who complained that her cfc didn't last long and was UNAWARE of the ban or why there would be a ban. I wonder how many people are aware that they'll be spending 10-20 dollars per good bulb soon or will be stuck with the cfc shit? Im glad I stocked up on bulbs , but am disappointed with the cost of LEDs. they may be the future , but the prices aren't dropping , and I wonder will they? If I replaced all my bulbs with them ( $900) , they'd provide good light for 20 years. But Ill be out of the house by then or maybe be dead. If they last as long as claimed , I won't be replacing them and there will be little profit incentive for companies to mass produce them . so maybe the prices won't fall much. what happens if i stay in a rental for two months, will I spend $20 for a light there? would anyone?

Posted by: Avi at December 16, 2013 06:47 PM (kcF49)

123 Buy an island nation and then place an order for four fast patrol craft for maritime security.>>

You didn't read the post did you? Boats are a money drain find friends to buy and run them.

Posted by: Charpy Tester at December 16, 2013 06:47 PM (TI3xG)

124 118 Should read NC State Senator Rucho tweeted...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 06:47 PM (aDwsi)

125 I like McArdle. She's a pretty standard wealthy, northeast, socially liberal, libertarian type. She's never going to say anything that gets her excluded from dinner parties in the BosNyWash corridor. But she's smart and interesting and, because she has her rich northeast bona fides, she gets to push back somewhat form within the leftist media bubble. And that's probably why Insty links her. He's encouraging what little non-doctrinaire leftism there is inside the bubble.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 06:47 PM (ZPrif)

126 @116 So you buy a rigged up old fishing boat? You are going to get no respect in the Mediterranean in that tug boat.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 06:47 PM (0FSuD)

127 btw, speaking of banning, this is what Reddit's Science Forum is doing to "climate denier" comments: "RedditÂ’s science forum banned climate deniers. Why donÂ’t all newspapers do the same?" http://tinyurl.com/lxulqa8

Posted by: Thrawn at December 16, 2013 06:48 PM (ZyqBH)

128 Then there is Katie 'no longer chirpy; Couric Tweeting a pic of De Blasio's mayoral bed.

From Twitchy
http://tinyurl.com/n475z7k

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 06:48 PM (PWHzv)

129

CONGRATULATIONS!

That is a very impressive ranking, especially considering Ace of Spades is leading Breitbart & Daily Caller.

Posted by: Baldy at December 16, 2013 06:48 PM (2bql3)

130 113 And I also get torqued at Reynolds linking that ship-dit Megan McCardle all the time. I think I loathe her more than Althouse.

I will not defend Insty's Althouse fixation, except to note that every great man has one flaw, but I will defend McCardle. No, she is not on our side, but she produces a great column very often. Have you not noticed her extended series of great work on Obamacare? Obama wouldn't appreciate it, but I do.

Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 06:48 PM (bKA83)

131 May 1976 fashions stay in Hell where they belong.

Dude on the far left (appropriate placement) looks like a younger version of Harry Reid. OTOH, maybe it is the Dingy One.

Posted by: Basement Cat at December 16, 2013 06:48 PM (53cD3)

132 I may have been the only moron here who didn't scoff at the notion of a female-oriented programming language... which is ironic given how just far I've been pulled into the Dark Enlightenment. Or maybe not. But anyway.

I'll repeat - if you're a writer, consider Inform 7 to help plot your stories in the form of interactive-fiction.

I do take male / female thought-patterns as different, and I take them seriously. Inform 7 isn't my thing, exactly - because I am very left-brained, not to say "half autistic" - but many game designers swear by it.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo: für Toby Freiheit at December 16, 2013 06:48 PM (Nsoq9)

133 Hot Air is useless. Where is the coveted, recently purchased"Townhall"?

Posted by: NCwoof at December 16, 2013 06:48 PM (aUQgu)

134 It was awesome! Good turnout; good people. I met some new (to me) morons. We're already looking forward to a spring meet up hosted by RightlySouthern. *** Wonderful. I'm glad you guys had a good time.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 06:49 PM (DmNpO)

135 Why is Althouse on the list of conservative blogs? She's not a conservative. She's a lib who doesn't march in total lockstep with the left.

Posted by: Donna V. at December 16, 2013 06:49 PM (R3gO3)

136 I don't see The Federalist on that list...

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 06:49 PM (0Vjfm)

137 hot air was too prissy and prissy and after michell malkin left it was even worse. pissier, prissier, not michelle malkin.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 06:50 PM (rDidD)

138 RIP Ray Price ;(

Posted by: Baldy at December 16, 2013 06:50 PM (2bql3)

139 Mike, Bob was probably drunk. He's a dentist and sometimes he just doesn't think about shit. WTF is he doing tweeting? I will give him shit after Christmas. Obviously, the left has nothing to do if they think his tweet is so offensive.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 06:50 PM (0FSuD)

140 Stand up Ace, let everyone see ya!

Posted by: Joey Biden at December 16, 2013 06:50 PM (NYe7x)

141 80 I like that their are aggressive, in-your-face right wing blogs out there. When I want calm I'll read National Review.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 10:36 PM (ZPrif)

Exactly. A couple weeks back on the podcast Ace and the crew were wondering if they should keep the foul language. Now, I like NR and Ricochet. But it's fucking awesome to listen to people who were guests of, or have their own Ricochet podcast (lookin' at you Hemmingways) who normally do their Sunday morning news show best while on Ricochet finally let loose on the AoS podcast and call fucking bullshit, fucking bullshit.

So keep the cursing. Jackwagons.

Posted by: J. Random Dude at December 16, 2013 06:50 PM (8OfdL)

142

Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 10:48 PM (bKA83)

Yeah, McArdle's articles on Obamacare have been very, very good.

Posted by: Donna V. at December 16, 2013 06:50 PM (R3gO3)

143 'Sustainable' Just stop reading there. Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 10:40 PM (aDwsi) ah yes, That one too, especially since it is newer than "community"

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 06:50 PM (hDwX8)

144 The bulb ban is a classic example of stupid Repub policies. Bush signed it hoping he'd get some cred from the eco-crowd. But no, Bush and the Repubs are called earth-hating, right-wing nazis who will happily rape the planet and poison our river if they can make a $ or find a gallon of oil. So he and we got no credit for banning the bulbs. And now that the bulbs are being banned, we can't rally people against the stupid eco-fascism -- because it was Republican Bush who signed the fucking law!

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 06:50 PM (ZPrif)

145 Re: Lightbulbs. I just don't think the LIVs know what is going on. I read an article that said Home Depot still has a six month or so supply. So in June or July when the LIVs unglue themselves from the XBox or the iPad long enough to pick up some good ol' Edison bulbs from the local Home Depot, it will be really interesting to watch.

Posted by: Iasonas at December 16, 2013 06:51 PM (FHNkr)

146 @96

WTF would you do with it, if you weren't smuggling dope?

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 10:43 PM (0FSuD)

Alextopia needs a Navy. I don't think raptors can swim.

Failing that, there's always bacon smuggling.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2013 06:52 PM (MBqvE)

147 126 @116 So you buy a rigged up old fishing boat? You are going to get no respect in the Mediterranean in that tug boat. Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 10 go anywhere, do anything, sail through anything stay out months at a time. apocalypse come and get me.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 06:52 PM (rDidD)

148 118 [Mike H] I called Senator Rucho's office today and offered full support for his comments. We are in fact being ruled by National Socialists. He is absolutely correct. Claude Pope should apologize to Rucho. Too bad this happened--he is our top conservative legislator.

Posted by: NCwoof at December 16, 2013 06:53 PM (aUQgu)

149 McArdle's Obamacare pieces were highly effective not just because they were well written -- but because mainstream media will actually read her stuff and take her arguments seriously because she's one of them, northeast child of privilege with the proper academic credentials.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 06:53 PM (ZPrif)

150 Then there is Katie 'no longer chirpy; Couric Tweeting a pic of De Blasio's mayoral bed. From Twitchy http://tinyurl.com/n475z7k Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, was she in there with his wife?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 06:53 PM (rDidD)

151 Nip Sip - Search Rucho Obamacare.

No need to criticize Rucho..., but you can tell Pope to stop sniping at his fcuking people. He could at least keep his mouth shut.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 06:53 PM (aDwsi)

152 Re: Instapundit and Althouse. As much as I respect Glenn Reynolds, and while he does criticise the Ivy Tower, you can tell he loves being a part of it. So that might explain Althouse. /shrug.

Posted by: Iasonas at December 16, 2013 06:54 PM (FHNkr)

153 Alextopia needs a Navy. I don't think raptors can swim.Failing that, there's always bacon smuggling. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2013 10:52 PM (MBqvE) I can think of several people who could be officers in the Alextopia Navy: Vic, Y5, GGE, Nevergiveup... (Apologies to those who I forgot.)

Posted by: Vendette - Yay Navy! at December 16, 2013 06:54 PM (sv2CE)

154 We need more officers like Officer Dan; too many stories of cops killing dogs lately.

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at December 16, 2013 06:54 PM (KL49F)

155 Claude Pope should apologize to Rucho. Too bad this happened--he is our top conservative legislator.
Posted by: NCwoof
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151

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 06:55 PM (aDwsi)

156 I mean, how much would this shit suck if AtC couldn't go all rangy? Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2013 10:22 PM (GEICT) Hell, that's half...ok, 75 percent...of the reason I come here. Wassup, Morons?

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 16, 2013 06:55 PM (5J54Q)

157 go anywhere, do anything, sail through anything stay out months at a time. apocalypse come and get me. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 10:52 PM (rDidD) Not enough fuel, too small. It's a warm weather cruiser. Would you sail in the Northern Atlantic in that bath tub? Good luck.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 06:55 PM (0FSuD)

158 some feminist let in on some kind of affirmative action something or other in my class wrote a letter to the editor of our paper about how it was sad joan jett wrote a song about men beating her - hit me with your best shot. never knew for sure if she was too lazy and stupid and never read lyrics or was incapable of understanding lyrics. Posted by: yankeefifth She's a fricking idioit it was Pat Benatar.

Posted by: The Farmer at December 16, 2013 06:55 PM (eBupg)

159 (Apologies to those who I forgot.) NCJ knows his way around a barrel.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 06:55 PM (LaRKr)

160 115 "Columnist: Hey Let's Give Marijuana to Young People Who Sign Up For Obamacare" Posted by: nerdygirl at December 16, 2013 10:45 PM (mck3/) I vote for cyanide.

Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2013 06:55 PM (sdi6R)

161 Whitebread - Where you been?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 06:55 PM (aDwsi)

162 106 any lurkers? Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 10:37 PM (hDwX In case I misinterpreted your question, all attendees were people I have seen comment here: RightlySouthern, PaleRider, Joe, Prothonotary Warbler, Westminsterdogshow, and Colorado Alex. Wait, there is an exception. My husband, Mr. Bassman, doesn't comment here. I may be able to persuade him to someday.

Posted by: Mindy at December 16, 2013 06:55 PM (GRLuN)

163 "Average premiums for young people will range from $157 to $201 a month, which comes out to $1,884 to $2,412 per year. (This doesn't account for deductibles, copays, etc.) " Those premiums are for the lowest level of insurance. The deductibles and copays are such that if you need the insurance for something like a trip to the emergency room, you are probably going to pay the whole thing out of pocket. One of them had a deductible of $5,800. I can't remember if the co-pays even count toward the deductible. They may be in addition to it. In comparison, my insurance that I got from BCBS through my previous employer had a deductible of $750 per year, and the co-pays were much lower.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 16, 2013 06:56 PM (mck3/)

164 She's a fricking idioit it was Pat Benatar.
Posted by: The Farmer
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and she didn't write the song either..

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 06:56 PM (aDwsi)

165 I wouldn't worry about Bob, you mistake him for someone that gives a shit about the state GOP.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 06:56 PM (0FSuD)

166 We need more officers like Officer Dan; too many stories of cops killing dogs lately. *** Much-too-much shoot first ask questions later going on.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 06:57 PM (DmNpO)

167 NCJ knows his way around a barrel. Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 10:55 PM (LaRKr) I'll blame my support of the Packers for neglecting NCJ.

Posted by: Vendette - Yay Navy! at December 16, 2013 06:57 PM (sv2CE)

168 you can tell he loves being a part of it.

Yep, Reynolds enjoys telling his commenters every so often that he went to Yale for law school.

Posted by: Basement Cat at December 16, 2013 06:57 PM (53cD3)

169 Then there is Katie 'no longer chirpy; Couric Tweeting a pic of De Blasio's mayoral bed. *** The fan-girl thing just isn't attractive after a certain age.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 06:58 PM (DmNpO)

170 And I was the guy up front with the big dollar sign. Posted by: BCochran1981 I missed the link, where is it?

Posted by: The Farmer at December 16, 2013 06:58 PM (eBupg)

171 Fuck the 70s were ugly.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at December 16, 2013 06:58 PM (JtqMs)

172 Congrats on #8 for Ace and I am glad to see WZ and JWF getting some love too.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2013 06:58 PM (MaP11)

173 "No one knows exactly how they're calculated"

If this blog is near the top, it's a cinch there is no consideration given for ease of use, appearance, grammar, or spelling.

Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at December 16, 2013 06:59 PM (Vr4Mo)

174 No Shame America, exhibit A: http://t.co/HAGK8NtvRg

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 06:59 PM (DmNpO)

175 Yep, Reynolds enjoys telling his commenters every so often that he went to Yale for law school. Posted by: Basement Cat at December 16, 2013 10:57 PM (53cD3) What I can not figure out about Insty, is the randy links he gives to sex sites? WTF is that all about, traffic? At least once a week he has a link to some site about servicing your husband, etc.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 07:00 PM (0FSuD)

176
Alextopia needs a Navy. I don't think raptors can swim.Failing that, there's always bacon smuggling.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2013 10:52 PM (MBqvE)

I can think of several people who could be officers in the Alextopia Navy: Vic, Y5, GGE, Nevergiveup...

(Apologies to those who I forgot.)

Posted by: Vendette - Yay Navy! at December 16, 2013 10:54 PM (sv2CE)

Vic would get pissed that there weren't oars and a ram.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2013 07:00 PM (MBqvE)

177 Have you not noticed her extended series of great work on Obamacare? Obama wouldn't appreciate it, but I do. Posted by: Splunge If she was that intelligent and had any personal intellectual integrity, she could have written that stuff 3 years ago. But she did not, because it would not have been acceptable at the Atlantic at the time. She writes it NOW because they have allowed her to write it because the reality of Obamacare is such that opposition is somewhat popular, and the Atlantic is hedging their bets. Reading the comments indicates that a lot of Atlantic readers don't like this at all. If she had written this three years ago, they would have been unanimously against her, and she would have gotten bounced from her job. Yet, it would have meant something then if there had been more intellectual honesty at that time, and might have gotten Obama un-elected. But that would have been double -plus ungood, from the Liberal Establishment. The will fight tooth and nail to keep socialized medicine, and Hillary will be their new champion in 2015 campaigning to save them from the troglodyte Republicans in 2016.

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at December 16, 2013 07:01 PM (dCwZe)

178 I don't really give a shit about boats, but I really do like motorboating my better half

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 07:01 PM (hDwX8)

179 Hey, Mike! Things get incredibly busy at the radio station in November and the first half of December. That, and co-starring in a local theatre production has taken up all my evening time until the final show this past Saturday. It's been work, rehearsals, bed, lather, rinse, repeat. I'm getting too old for this $***. (I hope doing community theatre doesn't mean I have to turn in my Moron Card. I'm thisclose to getting that 10th punch for a free month of AoSHQ Prime.)

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 16, 2013 07:02 PM (5J54Q)

180 She's a fricking idioit it [Hit Me With Your Best Shot] was Pat Benatar.

And it was about a girl - on - girl fight, at that.

Yeah, I know; we both surrender our man-cards for this

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo: für Toby Freiheit at December 16, 2013 07:02 PM (Nsoq9)

181 I much prefer the HQ and how trolls are handled here.

I agree with you; but it really would be nice to have some trolls to whack once in a while. We haven't had many for a long time. When we do get them now they're just idiots. There was a time when we had both legitimately crazy and, occasionally, smart ones.

Posted by: AD at December 16, 2013 07:02 PM (nuiAZ)

182 "RedditÂ’s science forum banned climate deniers. Why donÂ’t all newspapers do the same?" http://tinyurl.com/lxulqa8 Posted by: Thrawn at December 16, 2013 10:48 PM (ZyqBH) I have been informed, by the local haruspex that a forum on scientific knowledge (in a tube of some sort) called Â“/r/science," which is part of a series of "tubes" called Reddit will no longer allow ignorant whelps to comment on its august pronunciations. I am fully in support of this! To allow valuable a valuable series of tubes that are somehow involved in disseminating knowledge to be clogged by such doubters of science. Some type of Â“climate changeÂ” is happening in the future and the science is apparently settled. Why, allowing such ridiculous comments would be like allowing fools to suggest that the Earth revolves around the Sun! In both cases, the science is settled. Perhaps small improvements can be made by adding epicycles here or there, but the basic facts are absolute and unquestionable. As such, I applaud this Â“RedditÂ” and this "/r/science" for standing up against those who would doubt them!

Posted by: Claudius Ptolemy at December 16, 2013 07:02 PM (Vk2pI)

183 Yeah the 70's were ugly, in a Stooges, Ramones, Sex Pistols kinda way...Seventies fashion may have suckt but teh music was bitchen

Posted by: For the Turnstiles at December 16, 2013 07:03 PM (NYe7x)

184 I agree with you; but it really would be nice to have some trolls to whack once in a while. We haven't had many for a long time. When we do get them now they're just idiots. There was a time when we had both legitimately crazy and, occasionally, smart ones. Posted by: AD at December 16, 2013 11:02 PM (nuiAZ) Miss me?

Posted by: Palin Steele at December 16, 2013 07:03 PM (0FSuD)

185 Me Me Me, call on me!

Posted by: Erg at December 16, 2013 07:04 PM (0FSuD)

186
I much prefer the HQ and how trolls are handled here.

I agree with you; but it really would be nice to have some trolls to whack once in a while. We haven't had many for a long time. When we do get them now they're just idiots. There was a time when we had both legitimately crazy and, occasionally, smart ones.

Posted by: AD at December 16, 2013 11:02 PM (nuiAZ)

A bloody-clawed Horde is a happy Horde.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2013 07:04 PM (MBqvE)

187 To be honest, I'm surprised to find out that some of the sites on that list still exist.

Posted by: AD at December 16, 2013 07:04 PM (nuiAZ)

188 What I can not figure out about Insty, is the randy links he gives to sex sites? WTF is that all about, traffic? At least once a week he has a link to some site about servicing your husband, etc. Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 11:00 PM (0FSuD) he used to post pics of hot wimins but stopped that years ago you will see a lint to The Frisky or Cafe Mom several times per week. Sex does sell

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 07:04 PM (hDwX8)

189 Anyone following the story out of NJ about the fatal carjacking at the Short Hills mall? The victim was shot in the head with his wife right there. Really sad. http://tinyurl.com/l6jzbx9

Posted by: Iasonas at December 16, 2013 07:05 PM (FHNkr)

190 The hip actors would look like epic douchebags. 'sup jackwagons Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2013 10:33 PM (MBqvE) Don't they always?

Posted by: Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of Lounge Lizards at December 16, 2013 07:05 PM (Vk2pI)

191 Ever notice when you scroll the wheel on your mouse really hard to get to the bottom of the comments...

That it sounds like the Aflack duck?

Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 16, 2013 07:05 PM (4Mv1T)

192 Seventies fashion may have suckt but teh music was bitchen Posted by: For the Turnstiles at December 16, 2013 11:03 PM (NYe7x) The same decade that brought us Barry Manilow, disco and "Muskrat Love".

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 16, 2013 07:05 PM (5J54Q)

193 I can think of several people who could be officers in the Alextopia Navy: Vic, Y5, GGE, Nevergiveup... (Apologies to those who I forgot.) Posted by: Vendette - Yay Navy! at December 16, 2013 Vendette! I am in. I have to warn you I am only scotch, no rum.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:06 PM (rDidD)

194 I don't visit Althouse much any more, but her site was the go to place during all the Walker/union confrontations in Madison.

Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at December 16, 2013 07:06 PM (U0t2o)

195 To keep my 100 watt bulbs what if a company sold science project bulbs. Where the idea was experimentation wink wink. If the tiny bit of research I did is correct. Light bulbs are filled with Argon instead of being vacuum now. What if one made a base unit with replaceable tungsten filaments inside the globe? Yes it would be spendy but if we formed clubs or had the spendier equipment at a store that made their money from the filaments as a loss leader for great customers. It might just work. I use replaceable filaments in X-ray systems and Scanning electron microscopes. And these niche filaments are for $200K equipment cost as little as $14. Just to poke them in the eye would be worth it. IIRC Edison's bulbs were built this way in the beginning.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 07:06 PM (TI3xG)

196 Interception!

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 07:06 PM (eQJwb)

197 I agree with you; but it really would be nice to have some trolls to whack once in a while. We haven't had many for a long time. When we do get them now they're just idiots. There was a time when we had both legitimately crazy and, occasionally, smart ones. Posted by: AD at December 16, 2013 11:02 PM (nuiAZ) yooo hooo!

Posted by: Mary Clogensteiein now with freshly shaved legs!! at December 16, 2013 07:07 PM (hDwX8)

198 Flacco had to climb up another player to stand after that hit.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 07:07 PM (DmNpO)

199
What I can not figure out about Insty, is the randy links he gives to sex sites? WTF is that all about, traffic? At least once a week he has a link to some site about servicing your husband, etc.
Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 11:00 PM (0FSuD)

he used to post pics of hot wimins but stopped that years ago

you will see a lint to The Frisky or Cafe Mom several times per week.

Sex does sell

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 11:04 PM (hDwX

As I see it, most of the sex stuff on Insty seems to tie in with Helen's books. It's link bait, sure. But there's usually some underlying reasoning.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2013 07:07 PM (MBqvE)

200 Miss me?

Posted by: Palin Steele at December 16, 2013 11:03 PM (0FSuD)

Yes, damnit I do. And Diderot's Dog (legitimately crazy), Reality Check (nuts, but intelligent enough to be interesting), and Brown Line (actually intelligent).

I wasn't here when Downtown Lad posted in the comments, but, my god, that must have been epic.

Posted by: AD at December 16, 2013 07:07 PM (nuiAZ)

201 Takei is a top 1000 reviewer? Pffft. I was #29 at one time.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 16, 2013 07:07 PM (oFCZn)

202 >>>I am in. I have to warn you I am only scotch, no rum. I notice you've got no problems with sodomy and the lash.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 07:08 PM (eQJwb)

203 So we are trying to now slot people into the Imperial Alextopia Forces for Aggression? So Vendette is in charge of BuPers?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 07:08 PM (PWHzv)

204 She's a fricking idioit it was Pat Benatar. Posted by: The Farmer at December 16, we always wondered if it was published as some sort of male on female aggression.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:08 PM (rDidD)

205 Interception!

Matt Schaub and Case Keenum should demand royalties from the NFL every time this happens.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo: für Toby Freiheit at December 16, 2013 07:08 PM (Nsoq9)

206 Yes, damnit I do. And Diderot's Dog (legitimately crazy), Reality Check (nuts, but intelligent enough to be interesting), and Brown Line (actually intelligent). I wasn't here when Downtown Lad posted in the comments, but, my god, that must have been epic. Posted by: AD at December 16, 2013 11:07 PM (nuiAZ) Anyone remember the guy from Michigan who used to whinge all the time about his failures with life and wimmins? The Horde eventually humiliated him and he left.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 16, 2013 07:09 PM (oFCZn)

207 I notice you've got no problems with sodomy and the lash. Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, well, I 'm here with you so

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:09 PM (rDidD)

208 Yeah, well....FM radio ruled back then - Manilow, etc, were more AM tupe of product.....also, hash oil helps the listening experience for any decade's music....but mostly teh seventies

Posted by: For the Turnstiles at December 16, 2013 07:09 PM (NYe7x)

209 Anyone following the story out of NJ about the fatal carjacking at the Short Hills mall? The victim was shot in the head with his wife right there. Really sad. http://tinyurl.com/l6jzbx9 Posted by: Iasonas at December 16, 2013 11:05 PM (FHNkr) I never saw the perps description, so assume they are black sucks to be unarmed in Jersy

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 07:09 PM (hDwX8)

210 Hickster - 'Wideband IR Emitters'

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 07:10 PM (aDwsi)

211
>>>I am in. I have to warn you I am only scotch, no rum.

I notice you've got no problems with sodomy and the lash.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 11:08 PM (eQJwb)

Dammit, stole my painfully obvious joke. Bastard.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2013 07:10 PM (MBqvE)

212 I'll tell you a site that most of the horde would enjoy, called Good Shit. Run by an old professor who is 84. Always has some naked women, and some really interesting shit. A little left, but fun. http://tinyurl.com/6x3xrv

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 07:10 PM (0FSuD)

213 Michael from Michigan.

Posted by: NCKate at December 16, 2013 07:10 PM (R2eVV)

214 Damn. Justin Tucker with 23 fantasy points tonight.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 07:10 PM (DmNpO)

215 160 115 "Columnist: Hey Let's Give Marijuana to Young People Who Sign Up For Obamacare"

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 16, 2013 10:45 PM (mck3/)

I vote for cyanide.

Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2013 10:55 PM (sdi6R)

Sorry, it's already spoken for.

Posted by: Death Panels at December 16, 2013 07:11 PM (T1005)

216 I never saw the perps description, so assume they are black sucks to be unarmed in Jersy Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 11:09 PM (hDwX

Fox had a story and questioned why the video tapes have not been released? They DID mention, da huh, two BLACK males were the suspects.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 07:11 PM (0FSuD)

217
I miss john ryan and his Intrade fetish. *snif*

Posted by: In before the troll at December 16, 2013 07:11 PM (MBqvE)

218 I am holding my judgement on the short hill mall shooting, it is really unusual and I give it a 10% chance of being something other that what it appears. lots of women in jersey whack husbands.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:11 PM (rDidD)

219 I don't visit Althouse much any more, but her site was the go to place during all the Walker/union confrontations in Madison. Posted by: Fritz That was straight up good reporting, that no one else would do, even the networks. She commented on one of her video interviews that she could almost sympathize with the demonstrators, and that got her nowhere. Madison is a college town full of animals. It should be burned to the ground and sowed with radioactive cobalt so nothing grows there for a thousand years.

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at December 16, 2013 07:12 PM (dCwZe)

220 >>>well, I 'm here with you so http://tinyurl.com/7xay7te

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 07:12 PM (eQJwb)

221 Anyone following the story out of NJ about the fatal carjacking at the Short Hills mall? The victim was shot in the head with his wife right there. Really sad. http://tinyurl.com/l6jzbx9

Posted by: Iasonas at December 16, 2013 11:05 PM (FHNkr)

Yeah, a bad story. One of the few times I've felt sympathy for a lawyer.

Posted by: cm9000 at December 16, 2013 07:12 PM (3qZbZ)

222 Calvin Johnson is a manchild.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 07:13 PM (LaRKr)

223 Violent crime has gone up 15% each of the last two years. Not that the media are interested in reporting that.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 07:13 PM (ZPrif)

224 on the downside of forming a navy, any time you put five morons on a boat you get pirates.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:14 PM (rDidD)

225 208 I'm just a tad too young to remember any really good FM album rock stations from my childhood in Appalachia. When I finally started paying attention to what was playing on the radio in the late 70s, the best signals were from either country or Top 40 stations, and the rock acts I did get to hear were along the lines of KISS or Skynyrd. I didn't even hear a Ramones tune until I was almost out of high school, but one listen to "I Wanna Be Sedated" and I was hooked.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 16, 2013 07:14 PM (5J54Q)

226 Obama's War on America has ended a 20 year decline in the murder rate. The media is entirely uninterested in why the violent crime rate, which had been declining for 20 years, has suddenly reversed course.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 07:15 PM (ZPrif)

227 Well, the mall in Short Hills, is ALL white. Profiling two Black thugs in the parking lot would be..... RACIST!

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 07:15 PM (0FSuD)

228 Hey! Is this open thread? Cause I quit Geico auto insurance today, told the helpful gal on the phone that she should suggest their marketing and advertising team consider NOT insulting customers or potential customers

Posted by: For the Turnstiles at December 16, 2013 07:15 PM (NYe7x)

229 >>>on the downside of forming a navy, any time you put five morons on a boat you get pirates. You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 07:15 PM (eQJwb)

230 @100 Do find myself liking some of the ladies' duds in the 70's . I was but a mere swaddling squid at the time so I couldn't enjoy them in person.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 16, 2013 07:15 PM (0dX4Q)

231 http://tinyurl.com/7xay7te Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 11:12 PM (eQJwb) heh. I always assumed the "C" was for cabin boy.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:15 PM (rDidD)

232 on the downside of forming a navy, any time you put five morons on a boat you get pirates. Posted by: yankeefifth
-------------------

Perhaps Navycop could maintain order.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 07:15 PM (aDwsi)

233 Live TV coverage of the first Space Shuttle drop test in 1977: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i40XddxwQMs There is a "Back to the Future" aspect to this video. Can you guess what it is?

Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2013 07:16 PM (sdi6R)

234 >>>lots of women in jersey whack husbands. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 11:11 PM (rDidD) not enough, the last good hand job I got in Pensylvania just sayin'

Posted by: The Situation at December 16, 2013 07:16 PM (hDwX8)

235 Perhaps Navycop could maintain order.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Wait..., is it Ncopjoe..., crap..., something like that

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 07:16 PM (aDwsi)

236 Ravens seem determined to lose this game.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 07:16 PM (eQJwb)

237 I don't normally wade into the overnight thread, but I'll just say this:

Hawkins is a putz.

Oh, and I can't wait for tomorrow morning, when we get Gabe's take on the Pope's latest moves to make the Church more palatable for leftists.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 16, 2013 07:16 PM (BeSEI)

238 So Vendette is in charge of BuPers? Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 11:08 PM (PWHzv) With the indulgence of AtC, of course.

Posted by: Vendette - Yay Navy! at December 16, 2013 07:16 PM (sv2CE)

239 You know what GEICO stands for right? Government Employees Insurance Company. Use to be a co op for teachers.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 07:16 PM (0FSuD)

240 Avast thar! We be keelhaulin the scurvy lot of yew land lubbing hipster d-bags!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 07:17 PM (PWHzv)

241 Drudge's juxtapositions often make my day, when there is little other news of interest. I am with Krauthammer, he's a genius in his narrow realm. Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 10:34 PM (bKA83) The refreshing of the site drives me nuts.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 16, 2013 07:17 PM (mck3/)

242 n the downside of forming a navy, any time you put five morons on a boat you get pirates. You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, apolgies for the corporate speak. I am all in on the piracy thing, I would prefer to start out as privateers.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:17 PM (rDidD)

243 Live TV coverage of the first Space Shuttle drop test in 1977: It was used in the inter montage for Enterprise.

Posted by: Johannes Gratian at December 16, 2013 07:17 PM (XFTOV)

244 Perhaps Navycop could maintain order. Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 11:15 PM (aDwsi) 'Bomber' is Navy also O-5 I think

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 07:17 PM (hDwX8)

245 inter = opening

Posted by: Johannes Gratian at December 16, 2013 07:18 PM (XFTOV)

246 I generally skip Gabe threads. I do read what Gabe himself says . . . in the same spirit as I read over New York Times frontpage articles at the Starbucks.

But they come pre-debunked. I don't even need the morons' comments to tell me why.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo: für Toby Freiheit at December 16, 2013 07:18 PM (Nsoq9)

247 'Bomber' is Navy also O-5 I think Posted by: Ron Stump
--------------------

O-5?? Geeze..., I missed that.

*scurries off to practice salute in mirror*

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 07:18 PM (aDwsi)

248 apolgies for the corporate speak. I am all in on the piracy thing, I would prefer to start out as privateers.>>

Doesn't that require a govt/nation as a sponsor?

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 07:18 PM (TI3xG)

249 Hey! Is this open thread? Cause I quit Geico auto insurance today, told the helpful gal on the phone that she should suggest their marketing and advertising team consider NOT insulting customers or potential customers Posted by: For the Turnstiles at December 16, 2013 11:15 PM (NYe7x) While Geico was great to work with when the front bumper belonging to one of their policyholders got up close and personal with my back bumper, I refuse to even look at them for myself because they bombarded me with junk mail for several years before I even owned a car.

Posted by: Vendette - Yay Navy! at December 16, 2013 07:19 PM (sv2CE)

250 did someone quit geico over geicos commercial referencing the tea party? I heard it as I was walking by a game over the weekend, I assumed I had heard it wrong, who insults paying customers?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:19 PM (rDidD)

251
Doesn't that require a govt/nation as a sponsor?

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 11:18 PM (TI3xG)

Letters of Marque from Her Majesty, Queen of Alextopia.......

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2013 07:20 PM (MBqvE)

252 Actually, learned what GEICO stood for just recently...all I wanted, about 8 years ago, was affordable auto insurance, and at the time they were the best value...I was gonna change carriers soon anyway, and then I saw that teabagger commercial. Goodbye geico.

Posted by: For the Turnstiles at December 16, 2013 07:20 PM (NYe7x)

253 So, how have these folks managed to escape the gnarly mitts of feminist justice? http://menonlyfamilylawonly.com/

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 07:20 PM (DmNpO)

254 who insults paying customers When you're trying to out-Flo Progressive.

Posted by: Johannes Gratian at December 16, 2013 07:21 PM (XFTOV)

255 While Geico was great to work with when the front bumper belonging to one of their policyholders got up close and personal with my back bumper, I refuse to even look at them for myself because they bombarded me with junk mail for several years before I even owned a car. Posted by: Vendette - Yay Navy go with usaa.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:21 PM (rDidD)

256 @215 +1 for R.Crumb scary clown reference

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 16, 2013 07:21 PM (xq1UY)

257 MNF poll: catch or no? Ravens been getting some love from the refs tonight

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 07:21 PM (eQJwb)

258 , told the helpful gal on the phone that she should suggest their marketing and advertising team consider NOT insulting customers or potential customers
----------------

Hold it..., did she look like this?

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2654/3735181167_ab36174cd3_z.jpg

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 07:21 PM (aDwsi)

259 There is a "Back to the Future" aspect to this video. Can you guess what it is? Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2013 11:16 PM (sdi6R) It involved 1.21 Jiggawatts?

Posted by: Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of Lounge Lizards at December 16, 2013 07:21 PM (Vk2pI)

260 " but the prices aren't dropping , and I wonder will they?"

Why should they, we banned their competition.

Posted by: Jean at December 16, 2013 07:21 PM (4JkHl)

261 Letters of Marque and Reprisal are required to be issued by a government to allow a ship to operate as a privateer in that country's name.

Can be very dicey for a small country. Better to join the world in calling them pirates while taking in a small percentage.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 07:22 PM (PWHzv)

262 'Bomber' is Navy also O-5 I think Posted by: Ron Stump -------------------- O-5?? Geeze..., I missed that. *scurries off to practice salute in mirror* Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 11:18 PM (aDwsi) NGU is about a week away from officially being an O-5 as well.

Posted by: Vendette - Yay Navy! at December 16, 2013 07:22 PM (sv2CE)

263 MNF poll: catch or no? *** Just now? Catch.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 07:22 PM (DmNpO)

264 It is going to be challenging to crew a ship with 80% intjs.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:22 PM (rDidD)

265 Also, going with AAA - good rates and way better coverage for the cost

Posted by: For the Turnstiles at December 16, 2013 07:22 PM (NYe7x)

266 go with usaa. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 11:21 PM (rDidD) I'm currently with Erie, and I like them. (SO has USAA)

Posted by: Vendette - Yay Navy! at December 16, 2013 07:23 PM (sv2CE)

267 Catch and a cheap shot by the safety.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 07:23 PM (LaRKr)

268 /off Lounge Lizard sock.

Posted by: The Leisure Hat at December 16, 2013 07:23 PM (Vk2pI)

269 Short Hills Mall is the most posh shopping mall in the state, surrounded by some extremely wealthy towns. A car jacking there was unheard of. Did the fat man make any statements about it?

Posted by: thunderb at December 16, 2013 07:23 PM (zOTsN)

270 >>>It is going to be challenging to crew a ship with 80% intjs. And one entj. I guess that makes me the skipper. Shit, touchdown Kittehs.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 07:24 PM (eQJwb)

271 Damn! Forgot to ask if she was a robot

Posted by: For the Turnstiles at December 16, 2013 07:24 PM (NYe7x)

272 And Detroit pulls ahead with a little over 2 mins remaining

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 07:24 PM (DmNpO)

273 No Free Republic? Granted, it's gone downhill but...

Posted by: Rex Graine at December 16, 2013 07:24 PM (JXtHh)

274 My plan - I expect panic demand/price gouging to drive up the costs of incandescents around the end of the year; then once the panic wears off, prices will drop in Feb/Mar. Stock up then, because by May/June the real supply crunch will start driving prices up.

Posted by: Jean at December 16, 2013 07:24 PM (4JkHl)

275
It is going to be challenging to crew a ship with 80% intjs.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 11:22 PM (rDidD)

Not to mention, a bunch of giggling Morons trying to paint the torpedoes pink.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2013 07:24 PM (MBqvE)

276 259 There is a "Back to the Future" aspect to this video. Can you guess what it is? Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2013 11:16 PM (sdi6R) It involved 1.21 Jiggawatts? Posted by: Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of Lounge Lizards at December 16, 2013 11:21 PM (Vk2pI) I was thinking "Governor Jerry Brown".

Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2013 07:24 PM (sdi6R)

277 I just sent my check to Geico recently. If someone has a link to what they did I'd appreciate it I may have to actually quit. I picked them over Progressive for obvious reasons. And if somebody has done the research what is the least repulsive (or hopefully good) choice.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 07:24 PM (TI3xG)

278 I am a USAA member, because of my Dad, when you had to be an army officer to use it. I have a CC, but that's it. Everyone says their insurance is the best.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 07:24 PM (0FSuD)

279 I would like to request an interview with Cake Girl, illustrated with photos, to run in some future ONT. Thank you.

Posted by: MTF at December 16, 2013 07:24 PM (qCtp4)

280 NGU is about a week away from officially being an O-5 as well. Posted by: Vendette
--------------------

Okay..., that's it. I was never in the service. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
*begins abrading Army tattoos off*

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 07:26 PM (aDwsi)

281 intjs I think they prefer to be called "Native Americans."

Posted by: Idjit at December 16, 2013 07:26 PM (R6JT1)

282 I am a Baltimore COLTS fan. Fuck the Ravens.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 07:26 PM (0FSuD)

283 I love USAA.

Posted by: thunderb at December 16, 2013 07:26 PM (zOTsN)

284 218 I am holding my judgement on the short hill mall shooting, it is really unusual and I give it a 10% chance of being something other that what it appears.

lots of women in jersey whack husbands.

Perhaps they do. But when they carjack, do they abandon the car in Newark? Seems less likely.

Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 07:27 PM (bKA83)

285 Letters of Marque and Reprisal are required to be issued by a government to allow a ship to operate as a privateer in that country's name. Can be very dicey for a small country. Better to join the world in calling them pirates while taking in a small percentage. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, fine. I move we sail for somalia and get some practice in on the locals. After fine tuning we head for the south china sea and tow the liaoning back and convert it to tranny hotel in Thailand, by which I mean drop anchor and raise a rainbow flag, otherwise it is ready for customers. hey it is getting towed one way or another us or the chicoms.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:27 PM (rDidD)

286 *begins abrading Army tattoos off* Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 11:26 PM (aDwsi) Go Navy. They beat Air Force and Army on a regular basis.

Posted by: Vendette - Yay Navy! at December 16, 2013 07:27 PM (sv2CE)

287 Course, Detroit sucks too.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 07:28 PM (0FSuD)

288 For any Packer fan who wins the Mega Millions -
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/islands/green-bay-island

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 07:28 PM (PWHzv)

289 the vic in NJ was a lawyer but he worked reviewing contracts for construction companies I think Mob hit?

Posted by: thunderb at December 16, 2013 07:28 PM (zOTsN)

290 What a disaster. Goodbye playoff hopes.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 07:28 PM (eQJwb)

291 But when they carjack, do they abandon the car in Newark? It's like the Albania of the Northeast.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 07:29 PM (LaRKr)

292 252 ...I was gonna change carriers soon anyway, and then I saw that teabagger commercial. Goodbye geico. Posted by: For the Turnstiles at December 16, 2013 11:20 PM (NYe7x) ------------------------------ I haven't seen (or heard of) it. All we get in my area are geckos and pigs.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 16, 2013 07:29 PM (dfYL9)

293 I am a Baltimore COLTS fan. Fuck the Ravens. Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 11:26 PM (0FSuD) There was a discussion in a thread yesterday about the Baltimore CFL Colts. I own a t-shirt.

Posted by: Vendette - Yay Navy! at December 16, 2013 07:29 PM (sv2CE)

294 >>>>t is going to be challenging to crew a ship with 80% intjs. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 11:22 PM (rDidD) Someone will have to be able to make grog, ammo and fuel. Otherwise the booze, ammo and gas/deisel budget will cripple us, burn alot of gas with the throttle at max speed.

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 07:29 PM (hDwX8)

295 People need to learn to say the following when someone on the right says something true about the left and the leftists go into their offended routine:

"If you are offended by (my/his/her) words about your actions, try to imagine for just a minute how much your actions offend us."

Push back. They will quit their offended act when it stops working for them.

Posted by: jc at December 16, 2013 07:29 PM (PlzOe)

296 convert it to tranny hotel in Thailand, by which I mean drop anchor and raise a rainbow flag, otherwise it is ready for customers.

Probably should ensure the trannies drop anchor first.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo: für Toby Freiheit at December 16, 2013 07:29 PM (Nsoq9)

297 265 Also, going with AAA - good rates and way better coverage for the cost

Posted by: For the Turnstiles at December 16, 2013 11:22 PM (NYe7x)

I liked AAA myself, but had three claims in five years (not at-fault for any of 'em), and they tossed me.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 07:30 PM (T1005)

298 I'm always late to these things.

George Takei's cologne? Set phasers to Fabulous!

Posted by: johnd01 at December 16, 2013 07:31 PM (r0+v0)

299 But when they carjack, do they abandon the car in Newark? It's like the Albania of the Northeast. Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 11:29 PM (LaRKr) Now that's just uncalled for!

Posted by: Zombie Enver Hoxha at December 16, 2013 07:31 PM (Vk2pI)

300 252 Actually, learned what GEICO stood for just recently...all I wanted, about 8 years ago, was affordable auto insurance, and at the time they were the best value...I was gonna change carriers soon anyway, and then I saw that teabagger commercial. Goodbye geico.

Do you have a link? I am not a customer, but I would have considered them, unlike Progressive. A link to such a commercial would cross them off my list for good, absent a REALLY good apology.

Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 07:31 PM (bKA83)

301 lots of women in jersey whack husbands. Perhaps they do. But when they carjack, do they abandon the car in Newark? Seems less likely. Posted by: Splunge at December 16, I am not trying to be insensetive but you frequently hear about some random shooting, especially in ny/nj where a couple was walking along and all of a sudden someone shoots 'em. happened with a muslim couple in jersey - hsuband shot wife or hired someone. in another incident some wife shot or had someone shoot her husband in a park. why all of a sudden would some guys sho up at short hills to jack a suv? two guys approach him with a gun and he gets shot in the head?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:31 PM (rDidD)

302 George Takei's cologne? Set phasers to Fabulous! *** I giggled that it's 'Eau My'

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 07:32 PM (DmNpO)

303 Mob hit? Posted by: thunderb at December 16, 2013 11:28 PM (zOTsN) NO two fucking thugs from Newark. They have them on tape, but won't release it. That or there are two dead Black guys in Newark.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 07:32 PM (0FSuD)

304 Apropos of nothing: I pass by the site of a future development on my way to work. The developer's name is Weadick, which is kind of an unfortunate name. I do hope his first name is Willy. Now back to the serious stuff.

Posted by: Northernlurker, moron wannabe at December 16, 2013 07:32 PM (BLAfs)

305 Geico tea commercial, for those who are interested: http://tinyurl.com/ndu48eo

Posted by: Iasonas at December 16, 2013 07:32 PM (FHNkr)

306 Well, the progressives are getting closer to the inevitable: forced participation in ObamaCare. You've already seen calls for doctors to be forced to participate, and now a Bloomberg opinion writer is calling for forced participation by young, healthy people. A punitive tax on being young and healthy can only lead to fewer American young and healthy people, but progressives don't care. I call the corner hut on the shady side of the FEMA camp. http://bloom.bg/199PXQW

Posted by: MTF at December 16, 2013 07:32 PM (qCtp4)

307 And one entj. I guess that makes me the skipper. >>

Reporting for duty Capetian Queeg.

And no I don't know anything about your dam Strawberries!

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 07:33 PM (TI3xG)

308 Yankeefifth, I think I found our pirate base of operations
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/islands/ambil-island

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 07:33 PM (PWHzv)

309 282 -

Somewhat related, I was thinking about this recently: is there any particular reason Houston couldn't come up with a better name for their football team?

Obviously it makes no sense in this age for them to go with anything related to the space program, and for other obvious reasons they can't go with something like the Colt 45s, but Texans? Really??

You had NOTHING better to call yourselves, like Fatasses, or something else for which the city is equally famous?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 16, 2013 07:33 PM (BeSEI)

310 a 60 yard FG?

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 07:33 PM (LaRKr)

311 I love USAA. Posted by: thunderb at December 16, 2013 11:26 PM (zOTsN) Same here. I was in the room when my 90+yo dad failed every sequirity question on a phone call but they still helped him out since he was using my phone.(phone # is logged) I'll bet they get a ton of calls from really old vets and still make everyone happy

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 07:33 PM (hDwX8)

312 301 why all of a sudden would some guys sho up at short hills to jack a suv? two guys approach him with a gun and he gets shot in the head?

Foragers may go where the food is.

Seriously, you may be right, but I'd be more inclined to believe a convoluted plot if the wife were the victim, and if the husband were a doctor. Somehow doctor husbands seem to be disproportionately implicated in this sort of thing.

Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 07:34 PM (bKA83)

313 ... it's 'Eau My' Think of it as Brut ... but for the other team.

Posted by: Slab Manly, Member, The League of Ugly Shirted Gentlemen at December 16, 2013 07:34 PM (FlRtG)

314 who wants to alienate the tea party demographic? it has to be the ideal for insurers. does buffett have geico or progressive?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:34 PM (rDidD)

315 Apparently it was the (former) voice of the Geico Gecko who insulted the Tea Party: http://tinyurl.com/3x2v9ae

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 07:34 PM (sv2CE)

316 GOOD FROM 61!!!!!

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 07:35 PM (eQJwb)

317 Baltimore's kicker makes a 61-yarder!

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 07:35 PM (sv2CE)

318 HOLY SHIT! GOOD!

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 07:35 PM (0FSuD)

319 I'll go ahead and be That Guy. The gecko's tea bag blows off the saucer, into Boston harbor, and he says "Guess that party's over." And then there's fifes playing Yankee Doodle in the background. Sink me, but I didn't find it offensive. Just a bit of wordplay, and it did run just before the anniversary of the real Tea Party. And I'm about as touchy on ideology as they come. Your mileage obviously varies.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 16, 2013 07:35 PM (xq1UY)

320 Well, that's just sick.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 07:35 PM (LaRKr)

321 Go Navy. They beat Air Force and Army on a regular basis. Posted by: Vendette
--------------

Don't make me bring pelicans up.....

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 07:35 PM (aDwsi)

322 Seriously, you may be right, but I'd be more inclined to believe a convoluted plot if the wife were the victim, and if the husband were a doctor. Somehow doctor husbands seem to be disproportionately implicated in this sort of thing. Posted by: Splunge at December 16, 2013 in the park shooting I mentioned the husband and wife were both dentists or doctors.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:36 PM (rDidD)

323 Wow

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 16, 2013 07:36 PM (jucos)

324 sequirity ... Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 11:33 PM (hDwX

wow, I think I made up a new word and displayed some poor keystroking skills

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 07:36 PM (hDwX8)

325 That barely stayed within the right upright. On the other hand, he wasn't assisted by altitude.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 07:36 PM (sv2CE)

326 People don't get shot in short hills, let alone randomly shot

Posted by: Thunderb at December 16, 2013 07:37 PM (zOTsN)

327 I've had USAA for about 12 years now, love them. Car and house.

Posted by: lindafell at December 16, 2013 07:37 PM (PGO8C)

328 Yankeefifth, I think I found our pirate base of operations http://www.privateislandsonline.com/islands/ambil-island Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 11:33 I am in.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:37 PM (rDidD)

329 The US never joined the Paris Declaration of 1856 which functionally outlawed privateering (not much sense in taking prizes if no court is going to recognize it). But we haven't issued Letters of Marque and Reprisal since the end of the War of 1812. The CSA was a different matter.

Posted by: Johannes Gratian at December 16, 2013 07:37 PM (XFTOV)

330 Good night Detroit.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 16, 2013 07:37 PM (xq1UY)

331 Interception! Flag pending....

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 07:37 PM (eQJwb)

332 And Stafford goes Romo.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 07:37 PM (LaRKr)

333 So Vendette is in charge of BuPers?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 11:08 PM (PWHzv)

May want to ping Anachronda for BuOrd. I believe he works at that place that's not in China and doesn't have a lake.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at December 16, 2013 07:38 PM (ohV1B)

334 Buffett's company owns GEICO. It's his favorite company, he often says. Progressive is a public company, whose recently deceased chairman was a huge funder for the ACLU and pot legalization, as well as being a great Cleveland booster for much of his life (even though he bailed for Coconut Grove as he aged). USAA is a great company.

Posted by: MTF at December 16, 2013 07:38 PM (qCtp4)

335 They were both lawyers. Married about 3 years. No kids.

Posted by: Thunderb at December 16, 2013 07:39 PM (zOTsN)

336 does buffett have geico or progressive? Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 11:34 PM (rDidD) geico progressive is some other lefty who I don't remember his name

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 07:39 PM (hDwX8)

337 With Detroit's loss Da Bears now have the inside track to the Play-Offs. They win the next two games and they are in. They Control their own Destiny.

Posted by: cm9000 at December 16, 2013 07:39 PM (3qZbZ)

338 33 FF points for Tucker tonight. It's amazing that he is owned in only 90% of the ESPN leagues.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 07:39 PM (DmNpO)

339
On the other hand, he wasn't assisted by altitude.

But it was indoors with no prevailing winds and not 10 degree weather.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2013 07:39 PM (MaP11)

340 326 People don't get shot in short hills, let alone randomly shot Posted by: Thunderb at December 16, 2013 11:37 PM (zOTsN) A GOOD Point. I use to live in Madison. Chatham does not even sell houses to Blacks. SERIOUSLY.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 07:40 PM (0FSuD)

341 "and for other obvious reasons they can't go with something like the Colt 45s, but Texans? Really??" I've always hated it and I am a Texan. It's stupid. Kansas City Kansans. New Orleans Coon-Asses. Detroit Thugs. New York WOPs. San Francisco Homos. Baltimore Crab-Eaters. Etc.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 16, 2013 07:40 PM (16xAG)

342 *snoopy dance* Alas, stupid work doesn't care that I stayed up late watching the game and hanging with you degenerates, so I must to bed. *snoopy dances more*

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 07:40 PM (eQJwb)

343 The MLS (soccer) team in Houston are the Houston Dynamo. The original name, though, was announced with great fanfare Houston 1836. The name was to celebrate Texas independence. The name was quickly changed to Dynamo, though, after a media controversy when the name "Houston 1836" was declared racist and anti-Mexican by hispanic protesters.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 07:41 PM (ZPrif)

344

Well AoS is already #7 and Instapundit is #6. One should take DrudgeReport off the list for two reasons:

1) Lifetime achievement award. Drudge is in a class by himself just on his editorial/pictorial juxtaposition of the liberal state of mind.

2) His site is more newspaper than blog. Drudge is what WaPo is not.

His is the first thing I read every morning.

Posted by: JohnMc at December 16, 2013 07:41 PM (3h0SS)

345 But it was indoors with no prevailing winds and not 10 degree weather. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2013 11:39 PM (MaP11) True. The kicker looks like he's a teenager. He gave a shoutout to fantasy owners.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 07:42 PM (sv2CE)

346 It was the GEICO rejection to work with a firearm company that soured me on them.

Posted by: Clipper ship 'Flippers' at December 16, 2013 07:43 PM (R6JT1)

347 I also find it interesting that the NY Slime moved the story off the front page pretty quickly. Don't want to scare the shoppers or incite a race story, unless a Black gets killed.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 07:43 PM (0FSuD)

348 TDdaily ‏@TDdaily 24s Final in Detroit: Justin Tucker 18, Lions 15 #MondayNightFootball

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 07:43 PM (DmNpO)

349 341 -

Heh... except that would be Kansas City Missourians.

Still, I am truly at a loss for any other option for Houston.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 16, 2013 07:43 PM (BeSEI)

350 Yankeefifth, if we take the cash option and after sundry taxes looking about roughly $200 million US.

That island purchase would be almost petty cash.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 07:43 PM (PWHzv)

351 I saw this documentary on fantasy football owners a year or so ago and was just agog at how much time and money they spent on it, not to mention the emotional commitment and family abandoning during the season.

Amazing.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2013 07:44 PM (MaP11)

352 Shorts hills victim worked for his dad

Posted by: Thunderb at December 16, 2013 07:44 PM (zOTsN)

353 >>>The kicker looks like he's a teenager. He gave a shoutout to fantasy owners. He also speaks five languages and is a trained opera singer. Google Justin Ticker Dr. Pepper.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 07:44 PM (eQJwb)

354 Here's the Houston 1836 logo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Houston1836.png That's how far America has fallen. A sports team celebrating Texan independence is considered racist. Cause a large and growing % of the residents of Texas, and America, believe that is stolen land and something to be ashamed of, not proud of.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 07:44 PM (ZPrif)

355 I also find it interesting that the NY Slime moved the story off the front page pretty quickly. Don't want to scare the shoppers or incite a race story, unless a Black gets killed. Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 lots of local media in ny are no longer stating the race of suspects so as not to but hurt minorities.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:44 PM (rDidD)

356 @344 I agree. Drudge is not a blog. It is the most valuable web site in the world. Someone figured out it has more traffic than the NY Slime and only ten employees!

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 07:45 PM (0FSuD)

357 Houston used to have a perfectly good name for a team. They were the Oilers.

Cannot believe protests against "1836." More Texicans in the rebellion were Mexican than Tennessean. What a warped presentation of history.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 16, 2013 07:45 PM (xq1UY)

358 Yankeefifth, if we take the cash option and after sundry taxes looking about roughly $200 million US. That island purchase would be almost petty cash. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 everything I do is petty. pay schmay, we will jack the island.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:45 PM (rDidD)

359 Or Tucker. Whatever. Now to bed for real

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 07:45 PM (eQJwb)

360 Damn they're fast. Wiki is already updated with the 61 yd FG.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 07:46 PM (DmNpO)

361 " I'll go ahead and be That Guy. The gecko's tea bag blows off the saucer, into Boston harbor, and he says "Guess that party's over." And then there's fifes playing Yankee Doodle in the background. Sink me, but I didn't find it offensive." No, I'll be "that f'ing guy" with you. I've seen it several times and never thought it anti-Tea Party but rather a clear reference to the historic event and not the current movement. I don't know what interest GEICO has in pissing off large blocks of potential premium payers and I don't recall them ever, overtly or covertly, trying to relay a political message in the past. Correct me if wrong.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 16, 2013 07:46 PM (7enx5)

362 Re: Rape Culture There are many cultures around the planet who explicitly endorse rape. Just one example: in South Africa, more women get raped than learn to read. Yet feminists attack America, and ignore the rest of the world. "Rape a woman anywhere you want, we don't care. But joke about prison showers in America, and WE WILL DESTROY YOU!"

Posted by: cormac_mcroadie at December 16, 2013 07:46 PM (mjO9h)

363 He speaks five languages and is a trained opera singer. Google Justin Ticker Dr. Pepper. Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 11:44 PM (eQJwb) Born in 1989. Now I'm depressed.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 07:47 PM (sv2CE)

364 night DC in Towson

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:47 PM (rDidD)

365 Oh my... just read about the mother who discovered the baby she gave up for adoption died - in the Lockerbie bombing. She saw his picture on a memorial website and thought he looked just like her dad, then saw his birthdate and put two and two together. Heartbreaking.

Posted by: Baldy at December 16, 2013 07:47 PM (2bql3)

366 360 Damn they're fast. Wiki is already updated with the 61 yd FG. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 11:46 PM (DmNpO) NDH, you know you can be an editor at Wiki. Just fill out the form. I am one, but I've never edited a damn thing.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 07:47 PM (0FSuD)

367 Or Tucker. Whatever. Now to bed for real Posted by: DC in Towson at December 16, 2013 11:45 PM (eQJwb) I knew what you meant. You're OK!

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 07:48 PM (sv2CE)

368 BurtTC, the Sheila's would work for me.

Posted by: Jean at December 16, 2013 07:48 PM (4JkHl)

369 Born in 1989. Now I'm depressed. Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 11:47 PM (sv2CE) that is when the wife graduated HS

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 07:48 PM (hDwX8)

370 that is when the wife graduated HS Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 11:48 PM (hDwX

I have cars in my driveway older than that.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 07:49 PM (0FSuD)

371 I also have something of a concern about having lots of winsome moronettes walking about in pirate garb, I have a feeling we will be running aground frequently.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:49 PM (rDidD)

372 371 I also have something of a concern about having lots of winsome moronettes walking about in pirate garb, I have a feeling we will be running aground frequently.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 11:49 PM (rDidD)

Are you suggesting they shouldn't be wearing pirate garb?

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at December 16, 2013 07:50 PM (ohV1B)

373 As a nearly-decade-long lurker and sometime commenter, I can't help feeling some kind of likely undeserved pride at being a part of this weird, sad little club. And I am kicking myself for missing the CO meetup last weekend. Stoopid office party and all.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Hibernian Hooligan at December 16, 2013 07:50 PM (6rcHp)

374 I edited some wiki pages a few years, within a few minutes my edits had been reverted by some super left-wing wiki-admin type. I gave up after a few wasted efforts. There are some stats floating out there on the structure of who actually edits and controls Wikipedia. Ultimately, Wikipedia is run by a very small # of obsessive, hard-left shut-ins.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 07:50 PM (ZPrif)

375 Are you suggesting they shouldn't be wearing pirate garb? Posted by: ConservativeMonster at December 16, 2013 simply saying we should be aware of the potential problem.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:51 PM (rDidD)

376 Drudge is what WaPo is not.
His is the first thing I read every morning. Posted by: JohnMc

He just needs to cut a deal to get a weather and traffic feed

Posted by: Jean at December 16, 2013 07:51 PM (4JkHl)

377 368 -

The Australian meaning of the word? Or is there something else I'm missing?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 16, 2013 07:51 PM (BeSEI)

378 Sunkist and Ocean Sprayed

Posted by: Salivation at December 16, 2013 07:51 PM (R6JT1)

379 and syndicate Hagar

Posted by: Jean at December 16, 2013 07:51 PM (4JkHl)

380 Well Ravens play NE next week at home, I'm guessing that one will be highlighted quite prominently.

Miami at Buff, Cincy gets Vikes at home, and Broncs play at the 1836.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2013 07:51 PM (MaP11)

381 BurtTC, yep. Then I hate Tenn because they were once the Oilers.

Posted by: Jean at December 16, 2013 07:53 PM (4JkHl)

382 Alternate base of operations
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/islands/geraldo-island-brazil

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 07:53 PM (PWHzv)

383 If we become Pirates can't we just lash container ships we capture together to make our own island? That way no one needs to win the Mega millions. (translated from Latin it's Million Millions) And Floating Alextopia is not at risk of "Math" postponing it's inception.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 07:53 PM (TI3xG)

384 So who won the bastardization of soccer match between the Ravens of Baltimore and Lions of Detroit?

Posted by: RWC at December 16, 2013 07:53 PM (Q6HBD)

385 simply saying we should be aware of the potential problem. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 11:51 PM (rDidD) There is an 'ette who is former Navy (I can't remember who she is, but she a regular). She'll be in charge.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 07:53 PM (sv2CE)

386 370 -

This time of year in 1989, I'm pretty sure I was stomping around in the mud and snow of Grafenwoehr, Germany (yes, I had to look up the spelling).

Posted by: BurtTC at December 16, 2013 07:53 PM (BeSEI)

387 BurtTC and in honor of their smartest woman

Posted by: Jean at December 16, 2013 07:54 PM (4JkHl)

388 #341: You know, we should probably be glad that football isn't nearly as squeamish about name-changes as basketball used to be. Otherwise, there'd be an NFL team called the Kansas City Texans.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 16, 2013 07:54 PM (RGQmh)

389 simply saying we should be aware of the potential problem.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 11:51 PM (rDidD)

Speaking of which, I think I recently read an article involving female pirates ...

Here we go:

http://www.scifiwright.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/pirate_girl.jpg

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at December 16, 2013 07:54 PM (ohV1B)

390 "Cannot believe protests against "1836." More Texicans in the rebellion were Mexican than Tennessean. What a warped presentation of history." Me either. As you say, there were plenty of Mexicans revolting against Santa Ana along with the Anglos. The purpose wasn't a "white" state but a free state. Juan Sequin. Dan Diego. Jose Ruiz. Jose Navarro. Lorenzo de Zavala, etc.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 16, 2013 07:55 PM (7enx5)

391 373 As a nearly-decade-long lurker and sometime commenter, I can't help feeling some kind of likely undeserved pride at being a part of this weird, sad little club. And I am kicking myself for missing the CO meetup last weekend. Stoopid office party and all. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Hibernian Hooligan at December 16, 2013 11:50 PM (6rcHp) Pug, do I have contact information for you? We're planning a spring gathering and we'd love to meet you!

Posted by: Mindy aka Cupcake at December 16, 2013 07:55 PM (GRLuN)

392 Don't blunder into her bust there Fi.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 07:55 PM (PWHzv)

393 305 -- Oh, yes. I've seen that ad but never thought it had anything to do with current politics. Just a cutesy Boston reference. 315 --- If they fired the guy, that's good. It tells me that they emphatically do not want anyone associated with their brand to insult 1/2 of the American people. Eh. I'll give them a pass.....for now.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 16, 2013 07:56 PM (dfYL9)

394 NDH, you know you can be an editor at Wiki. Just fill out the form. I am one, but I've never edited a damn thing. *** Yep. I've only edited one page. The site had some incomplete information about ischemic/non-ischemic cardiomyopathy.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 07:56 PM (DmNpO)

395 Pug, do I have contact information for you? We're planning a spring gathering and we'd love to meet you! Posted by: Mindy aka Cupcake at December 16, 2013 yeah, that is not a trap, nope.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:56 PM (rDidD)

396 Megan McArdle is a NorthEast libertarian, but she does seem to be coming out of her comfort zone little by little. Especially after she moved to DC with her husband and bought a house. She had a great column a while back about the cultural differences between the NYC-DC-Boston corridor and flyover country when it came to education and buying a house. I use it during my classes.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at December 16, 2013 07:56 PM (lr3d7)

397 Are you suggesting they shouldn't be wearing pirate garb? Posted by: ConservativeMonster at December 16, 2013 11:50 PM (ohV1B) That is dog whistle stuff for bikini's right? bebe's boobs in a bikini, mmmmmmm

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 07:56 PM (hDwX8)

398 OK, AMF. Maet. Good ONT. As Christmas gets closer I suspect we will have a lot more LATE LATE night fun.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 16, 2013 07:57 PM (0FSuD)

399 381 -

Obviously there are some strong feelings about this. I'm beginning to see why they just went with Texans.

No doubt they also did it partially to piss off Dallas.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 16, 2013 07:57 PM (BeSEI)

400 371 I also have something of a concern about having lots of winsome moronettes walking about in pirate garb. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 11:49 PM (rDidD) 'Concern?' My counselor calls it something different, fantasy maybe?

Posted by: RWC at December 16, 2013 07:57 PM (Q6HBD)

401 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 11:55 PM (PWHzv)

Har! Am slow, blunderbuss, eh.

Anything in the publish pipeline yet?

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at December 16, 2013 07:58 PM (ohV1B)

402 First thing I read in the morning are Vic's links.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 07:59 PM (LaRKr)

403 First thing I read in the morning are Vic's links. Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 on drudge?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 07:59 PM (rDidD)

404 Speaking of Drudge, this little gem might be important:
North America to Drown in Oil as Mexico Ends Monopoly

Posted by: Jean at December 16, 2013 07:59 PM (4JkHl)

405 First thing I read in the morning are Vic's links. Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 11:59 PM (LaRKr) This place cannot function properly without them.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 08:00 PM (sv2CE)

406 did y'all read paglia's piece on drudge?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 08:00 PM (rDidD)

407 394 -

"ischemic/non-ischemic cardiomyopathy"

Does that have something to do with aerobic exercising fish who can't see very well?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 16, 2013 08:00 PM (BeSEI)

408 the Sheila's... In Austrailia, that means hookers or party girls right. I was once told Australian girls love american accents

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 08:01 PM (hDwX8)

409 ...and just saw the pics of the NJ Short Hills victim. His widow is kinda hot.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 08:01 PM (LaRKr)

410 @391, Mindy. I've not done the contact info thing here, and am paranoid about my personal NSA sniffer (Hi, Chadwick) finding out where I live. But I know there are a lot of us here in the Front Range and it would be cool as hell to meet some time.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Hibernian Hooligan at December 16, 2013 08:01 PM (6rcHp)

411 Just looked at weather.com to see how cold it's going to be when I go home to Canuckistan. While I'm sure the Weather Channel wants to name winter storms because it's a good schtick, it's annoying.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 08:02 PM (sv2CE)

412 also have something of a concern about having lots of winsome moronettes walking about in pirate garb, I have a feeling we will be running aground frequently.>>

Isn't that what he barrel is really for? To Help a pirate release his naughty thoughts.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 08:02 PM (TI3xG)

413 @395...uh, Chadwick?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Hibernian Hooligan at December 16, 2013 08:02 PM (6rcHp)

414 yeah,oogling, intentionally or unintentionally, grieving victims in new stories is a sing you need a get laid.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 08:03 PM (rDidD)

415 Fi... working on Kickstarter and the marketing/networking thing. Plus writing.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 08:04 PM (PWHzv)

416 408 -

I think it's just basically any hot chick. Partiers may be a more specific reference, but I don't think there is any connection to prostitution.

Definitely no connection to Congressmonster Jackson-Lee.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 16, 2013 08:04 PM (BeSEI)

417 yeah,oogling, intentionally or unintentionally, grieving victims in new stories is a sing you need a get laid. Posted by: yankeefifth same applies to murder victims in crime shows.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 08:04 PM (rDidD)

418 "No doubt they also did it partially to piss off Dallas. " Not sure how that pisses off Dallas unless you are referring to the old AFL Dallas Texans? Nobody remembers them anywho that being 50-odd years ago. As a Texan I've never, and never will, consider Houston a part of Texas. It's just a weird little place near Louisiana that, thank God, I don't have to deal with. I'm actually in favor of Houston secession.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 16, 2013 08:05 PM (+mfsm)

419 I edited some wiki pages a few years, within a few minutes my edits had been reverted by some super left-wing wiki-admin type. I gave up after a few wasted efforts.

There are some stats floating out there on the structure of who actually edits and controls Wikipedia. Ultimately, Wikipedia is run by a very small # of obsessive, hard-left shut-ins.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 11:50 PM (ZPrif)

When it comes to culture; conservatives are conspicuous by their absence.

Posted by: cm9000 at December 16, 2013 08:05 PM (3qZbZ)

420 is a sing you need a get laid oh, you don't know the half of it.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 08:05 PM (LaRKr)

421 When it comes to culture; conservatives are conspicuous by their absence.

Posted by: cm9000
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Busy living their personal lives.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 08:07 PM (aDwsi)

422 418 -

No, right... that's what I mean. If you are from Dallas, and the people of Houston decide to call their team the Texans, isn't that sort of a slap in the face? As in, how dare they commandeer the name of the whole state for themselves?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 16, 2013 08:08 PM (BeSEI)

423 "In Austrailia, that means hookers or party girls right. " I always thought that just, slang, meant unattached Aussie chicks. Ya know, the kind you might ply with beer and cigarettes into your lodging for the evening. Sweet little angels of mercy that you couldn't take home to momma. Sort of.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 16, 2013 08:08 PM (+mfsm)

424 "In Austrailia, that means hookers or party girls right. " why not just go with australians?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 08:09 PM (rDidD)

425 415 Fi... working on Kickstarter and the marketing/networking thing. Plus writing.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2013 12:04 AM (PWHzv)

You have a kickstarter project? Would like to check it out if you don't mind linking.

Should be getting my first kickstarted project soon - card game involving raptors and ninjas. =D

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at December 16, 2013 08:09 PM (ohV1B)

426 yeah,oogling, intentionally or unintentionally, grieving victims in new stories is a sing you need a get laid. Posted by: yankeefifth wait, wut?

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 08:10 PM (hDwX8)

427 I signed up for a pre-Obamacare 'bad' insurance policy today. Annual deductible of $7,500, but the monthly premiums are just $165, and since I never go to the doctor, I'm not too worried about the deductible. I won't be able to renew the policy in 2015, but who knows what the insurance marketplace will look like then? I'm so relieved to know that I've got something in place that's affordable come January 1.

Posted by: biancaneve at December 16, 2013 08:10 PM (2sR50)

428 When it comes to culture;>.

A Petri dish is the perfect apropos.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 08:10 PM (TI3xG)

429 In Russia, Hot Air has an AoSHQ Button

Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2013 08:10 PM (aTXUx)

430 Busy living their personal lives.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 17, 2013 12:07 AM (aDwsi)

As the country reels to destruction.

Posted by: cm9000 at December 16, 2013 08:10 PM (3qZbZ)

431 My project is approved. But right now building the infrastructure to ensure I meet my funding goals.

Would you believe there is a Mega Man board game project on Kickstarter 300% funded.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 08:11 PM (PWHzv)

432 I'm so relieved to know that I've got something in place that's affordable come January 1. It's only affordable if you don't need it, though.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 08:11 PM (LaRKr)

433 yeah,oogling, intentionally or unintentionally, grieving victims in new stories is a sing you need a get laid. Posted by: yankeefifth wait, wut? Posted by: Ron Stump at December 17, 2013 12:10 when you are watching a csi rerun or ncis rerun and you buddy says, in reference to a corpse, she hot, no?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 08:11 PM (rDidD)

434 Houston Hobos

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 16, 2013 08:11 PM (dfYL9)

435 the Sheila's... In Austrailia, that means hookers or party girls right. Posted by: Ron Stump at December 17, 2013 12:01 AM (hDwX

Back when Brian Mulroney was Prime Minister of Canuckistan, one of his cabinet ministers told a member of the Liberal opposition, Sheila Copps, to "Just quieten down, baby." At a fundraiser later on, he said that she reminded him of the song, "Pass the tequila, Sheila, and lie down and love me again." As you can imagine, it went over well. Sheila later became a cabinet minister in the Liberal government (pre-Stephen Harper) before retiring from politics but she does have the nickname "Tequila Sheila".

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 08:12 PM (sv2CE)

436 smart thing to do for now is get some insurance and stay healthy until thsi mess sorts itself out and you are able to get some decent insurance again.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 08:13 PM (rDidD)

437

In Austrailia, that means hookers or party girls right.

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 17, 2013 12:01 AM

No. It's pretty much all chicks are sheilas. Hookers are Pro sheilas or, "boot bound" sheilas. Party girls are slutty sheilas.

Posted by: otho at December 16, 2013 08:13 PM (9gNQd)

438 when you are watching a csi rerun or ncis rerun and you buddy says, in reference to a corpse, she hot, no? Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 12:11 AM (rDidD) got it

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 08:13 PM (hDwX8)

439 19 Good for Jim Hoft. He's had a rough year. Posted by: grammie winger at December 16, 2013 10:20 PM

That piece of shit ponytailed fatass was mocking Hoft's insurance cancellation due to Obamacare. Hoft is #2, and Bike Boy isn't even in the top 100 leftist blogs and is reduced to Twitter trolling

Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2013 08:13 PM (aTXUx)

440 Anyone else have a bad week: http://tinyurl.com/k5j7t7t

Posted by: Jean at December 16, 2013 08:13 PM (4JkHl)

441 "he ended up adopting the dog a few days later and named him Bo."
Later, Bo affectionately ate his face.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 16, 2013 08:15 PM (zfY+H)

442 It's only affordable if you don't need it, though. --------------- Exactly, which is why I got it. This year I've been paying $350/mo for insurance and have nothing to show for it - not one doctor visit, not one medical test, nada, zip, zilch. $165/mo for nothing is better than $350/mo for nothing.

Posted by: biancaneve at December 16, 2013 08:15 PM (2sR50)

443 If I win the Mega-thingie; I'm buying an island where a thousand 'ettes and maybe two dozen dudes and I will live out the rest of our lives...party style Piss off...I can dream, can't I? Ehhh... Be careful of what you wish for, (W.W. Jacobs' The Monkey's Paw and all that)! What if you were THE ONLY dude on the island that ALL of the 'Ettes felt really comfortable talking to, "just as a friend"? Those two dozen dudes would make your life a living hell.

Posted by: Deety at December 16, 2013 08:15 PM (ad4e8)

444 Dallas Romos

Posted by: Thunderb at December 16, 2013 08:15 PM (zOTsN)

445 is it inappropriate to anonymously write critical and sarcastic comments about your co workers at your company blog?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 08:15 PM (rDidD)

446 cause it is a wonderful feeling.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 08:16 PM (rDidD)

447 is it inappropriate to anonymously write critical and sarcastic comments about your co workers at your company blog? Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 12:15 AM (rDidD) Your company has a blog?

Posted by: Vendette is so boring she isn't a Sheila at December 16, 2013 08:16 PM (sv2CE)

448 write critical and sarcastic comments about your co workers at your company blog? Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 12:15 AM (rDidD) you'll get busted.....

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 08:16 PM (hDwX8)

449 A Petri dish is the perfect apropos.
Posted by: The Hickster
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Easy for you to say..

Posted by: Agar-agar at December 16, 2013 08:16 PM (aDwsi)

450 #422: No different from Boston's football team being called the Patriots. What, like I'm not a patriot just because I live in Denver? No, that actually doesn't bother me.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 16, 2013 08:17 PM (RGQmh)

451 I doubt that Glen would think about tapping Althouse since Dr Helen bears a strong resemblance to Andi McDowell

Glen told me once that they're from the same part of NC, so Dr Helen and Andi might be related

Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2013 08:17 PM (aTXUx)

452 Don't get caught, they will figure it out

Posted by: Thunderb at December 16, 2013 08:17 PM (zOTsN)

453 pits are not nearly as dangerous as everyone makes them out to be. don't start nothin won't be nothin. all my methlab desires is to sleep by me, eat every so often and sniff doggehs.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 08:18 PM (rDidD)

454 Post such comments from a Starbucks that is far far from your house on a rescue laptop.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 08:18 PM (PWHzv)

455 well, cm9000, feel free to use your free time to obsessively fight edit wars in Wikipedia, while outnumbered 10-1. Good luck with that. Meanwhile, I got better things to do.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 08:19 PM (ZPrif)

456 and Bike Boy isn't even in the top 100 leftist blogs and is reduced to Twitter trolling

Posted by: kbdabear at December 17, 2013 12:13 AM (aTXUx)

It couldn't have happened to a more frivolous and pathetic figure.

Posted by: cm9000 at December 16, 2013 08:19 PM (3qZbZ)

457 445 is it inappropriate to anonymously write critical and sarcastic comments about your co workers at your company blog? Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 12:15 AM (rDidD) Are you friends with the IS/T department?

Posted by: RWC at December 16, 2013 08:20 PM (Q6HBD)

458 Your company has a blog? Posted by: Vendette is so boring she isn't a Sheila at December 17, 2013 yes.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 08:20 PM (rDidD)

459 Dallas Romos Houston Homos (NTTIAWWT) Dallas Twinkies Houston Hohos

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 16, 2013 08:20 PM (dfYL9)

460 Post such comments from a Starbucks that is far far from your house on a rescue laptop. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2013 12:18 AM (PWHzv) or put it here, with a link, WE CAN HELP !!

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 08:20 PM (hDwX8)

461 Andi McDowell

Glen told me once that they're from the same part of NC, so Dr Helen and Andi might be related

Posted by: kbdabear
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I have some personal experience with Rose..., uh..., Andie.
Shallow..., *very* shallow.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 08:20 PM (aDwsi)

462 "No, right... that's what I mean. If you are from Dallas, and the people of Houston decide to call their team the Texans, isn't that sort of a slap in the face? As in, how dare they commandeer the name of the whole state for themselves? " It's not a slap in the face. It's an abject disregard for history and culture and reality. Like naming a team in New York the "Wranglers." Houston doesn't know shit about cattle drives or fighting Indians or going without water. It's a fucking swamp next to New Orleans. I loved the part in "Independence Day" where the B-2 dropped the nuke on the saucer hovering above Houston. I wanted the aliens to win that one and they did. !!!! I wish Houston away. Away from my great state of Texas. Shoot it off into the Gulf. Give it to Louisiana. Nuke it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 16, 2013 08:20 PM (RL5iA)

463 Does anyone know what President Obama is giving Michelle for Christmas. I think this is very important know about our leader and his wife. Michele is so beautiful and smart too. We are blessed to have her ass our co-leader.

Posted by: Chrissy Liebowitz at December 16, 2013 08:21 PM (iB0Q2)

464 Are you friends with the IS/T department? Posted by: RWC at December 17, 2013 12:20 no. I have been using unsecured wifi connections, throw away laptop, unregistered.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 08:21 PM (rDidD)

465 or put it here, with a link, WE CAN HELP !! Posted by: Ron Stump at December 17, 2013 12:20 I am more afraid of 'em learning I hang our here.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 08:22 PM (rDidD)

466 Does anyone know what President Obama is giving Michelle for Christmas. . Posted by: Chrissy
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CD, speeches.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 08:23 PM (aDwsi)

467 Anyone else have a bad week:>>

When I go hunting in Minnesota I carry food, several protein bars and snickers bars, matches and the clothes it would take to survive the night. Part paranoid and part I've gotten lost and lucky that it was a decent day weather wise. All those pockets on the surplus Army pants can come in handy. That guy was a lucky idiot.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 08:23 PM (TI3xG)

468 I am off for bed. Let me know if anything happens with the pirate LLC. Night all.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 08:24 PM (rDidD)

469 463 We are blessed to have her ass our co-leader.
Posted by: Chrissy Liebowitz at December 17, 2013 12:21 AM (iB0Q2)
That sounds about right.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 16, 2013 08:24 PM (VpMO0)

470 They are already erecting a security cordon in Hawai'i for when the President visits. No word if his South African sign language expert will be visiting.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 08:24 PM (PWHzv)

471 Posted by: The Hickster at December 17, 2013 12:23 AM (TI3xG) Add a film canister of Vaseline soaked cotton balls and a space blanket to that list. A hook and some mono never hurts, either.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 08:25 PM (LaRKr)

472 Good night, everyone!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 16, 2013 08:26 PM (RGQmh)

473 Posted by: The Hickster at December 17, 2013 12:23 AM (TI3xG)
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Map? Compass?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 08:26 PM (aDwsi)

474 I won't be giving Michelle anything sweet. She don't like it and I don't roll that way. I will be giving Reggie a candy cane, however.

Posted by: president wee wee at December 16, 2013 08:27 PM (9gNQd)

475 They are already erecting a security cordon in Hawai'i for when the President visits. No word if his South African sign language expert will be visiting. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2013 12:24 AM (PWHzv) I'm sure that local businesses have adapted somewhat, but I'm sure that many of them lose customers because of the restrictions.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 08:28 PM (sv2CE)

476 Good night, PW!

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 08:28 PM (sv2CE)

477 As soon as you roll down that window, even if you decline the test, if the officer smells any alcohol or other substances, you probably won't get a choice anymore if you take a test or not. It says SOMETHING I think on that Ft. Worth "study" that they were paying $10 for "voluntary" cheek swabs. Is there any research being done, like there is for "drug-dogs" as far as false-positives go? Like, "Officer Hanson has requested X many BAC blood tests based on his whiffer and Y many have or have not been substantiated by later blood testing?"

Posted by: Deety at December 16, 2013 08:29 PM (ad4e8)

478 Gay Patriot and I are tweeting back and forth about HGTV. Neither of us get it. If you're a woman who is attracted to a man who looks exactly like a man, aren't you attracted to men? I mean, I know the working parts are different, but presumably one is attracted to another BEFORE seeing the working parts.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 08:29 PM (DmNpO)

479

The four-minute piece, which used high-tech motion sensors and accelerometers to measure the quarterbackÂ’s forced and ill-advised throws, revealed that Romo possesses the exceptional ability to fuck up in just 0.64 seconds. The segment also sought to explain the physics involved in Romo haphazardly chucking a perfect spiral directly into the hands of an opposing cornerback.

Â“We observed Romo missing 98 percent of our targets,Â” Brenkus said. Â“While studying the footage, we were able to determine that his capacity to make poor decisions in less than a second greatly influence why heÂ’s so imprecise.Â”

Â“ThereÂ’s not a quarterback in the NFL who can make a mistake as quickly as Romo,Â” Brenkus added.

Posted by: Americans for Obama's War at December 16, 2013 08:29 PM (e8kgV)

480 Eldest son hit a deer today, now the passenger door won't open. The roads of Loudoun County are like driving through the Pleistocene, in the words of Theodore Roosevelt. On a brighter note, driving down Wednesday to VMI to pick up my youngest son.....the Rat. He's doing very well so far, but it is a lot of hard work and pressure. The middle son arrives home from Hampden-Sydney too. It will be nice to have a full house for a while.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 16, 2013 08:30 PM (l3vZN)

481 Does anyone know what President Obama is giving Michelle for Christmas. I think this is very important know about our leader and his wife. Michele is so beautiful and smart too. We are blessed to have her ass our co-leader.

Posted by: Chrissy Liebowitz at December 17, 2013 12:21 AM (iB0Q2)

Michelle is a woman of extraordinary beauty. Just as Barack is a towering intellect.

Posted by: cm9000 at December 16, 2013 08:31 PM (3qZbZ)

482 I am more afraid of 'em learning I hang our here. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 12:22 AM (rDidD) same, my current employer is based in MN. Pinko's all around

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 08:31 PM (hDwX8)

483 Google motto 2004: DonÂ’t be evil
Google motto 2010: Evil is tricky to define
Google motto 2013: We make military robots

Posted by: Mark Suckerberg at December 16, 2013 08:31 PM (e8kgV)

484 445 is it inappropriate to anonymously write critical and sarcastic comments about your co workers at your company blog? Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 12:15 AM

Nah, that HR manager whom you called an incompetent ape in the blog will be laughing jovially as she takes your exit paperwork and hands you your final paycheck

Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2013 08:32 PM (aTXUx)

485 Sports teams often try to claim a larger geography in hope of getting more fans. Usually it's the first name, though, not the nickname. Minnesota Vikings. All the Minnesota teams do the same thing. New England Patriots tries to grab a whole region. As do the Carolina Panthers and Hurricanes. Washington Nationals trying to grab the whole damn country. Don't think that's gonna work. Recently some have gone to more localized versions. Florida Marlins rebranded as the Miami Marlins. But the Florida Panthers still try to claim the whole state. The Denver teams sometimes claim Denver and sometimes claim all of Colorado. The Golden State Warriors are especially balllsy trying to claim all of California when there's 3 other teams in the state. Hasn't worked very well either.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 08:32 PM (ZPrif)

486 Map? Compass?>>

Yes a compass not always the map though since I know I'll hit a road in X miles if I head in a single direction. Alaska I'd likely have the map, Compass, emergency beacon GPS etc...

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 08:32 PM (TI3xG)

487 The mention of Althouse makes me wish Empire of Jeff were on the ONT more often so we could get his opinion on her.

Posted by: buzzion at December 16, 2013 08:33 PM (LI48c)

488 Also, for any cig smokers who are trying to move to e-cigs, it can work. I've come to really hate the cig and like the e-cig in its place. I'm not preaching here, just letting it be known that it can happen. The transition is on-going and I'm prone to lapses for sure. But, I can see the day where they make me forget the cig.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 16, 2013 08:33 PM (qYD+K)

489 Eldest son hit a deer today, now the passenger door won't open. The roads of Loudoun County are like driving through the Pleistocene, in the words of Theodore Roosevelt. Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 17, 2013 12:30 AM (l3vZN) I'm glad it was the passenger side! I hope you have a great holiday with all of your sons!

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 08:33 PM (sv2CE)

490 The Denver teams sometimes claim Denver and sometimes claim all of Colorado. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 17, 2013 12:32 AM (ZPrif) Wyoming too.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 08:34 PM (sv2CE)

491 3 other NBA teams, that is.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 08:34 PM (ZPrif)

492 The middle son arrives home from Hampden-Sydney too. It will be nice to have a full house for a while. Posted by: Jinx the Cat
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Sorry to hear about the deer. It's no consolation, but it could have come through the windshield, so there's that.

Sounds like you have a good Christmas lined up.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 08:34 PM (aDwsi)

493 Funny spoof. Fake translator at Mandela funeral makes balloon animals during Obama's speech: http://tinyurl.com/ln2p8v6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2013 08:35 PM (BC6cY)

494 Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 17, 2013 12:33 AM (qYD+K) What do you use?

Posted by: RWC at December 16, 2013 08:35 PM (Q6HBD)

495 I just meant in the name. Denver Nuggets and Broncos vs Colorado Rockies and Avalanche.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 08:35 PM (ZPrif)

496 Hello NYC I am gon nned a rape your mouth

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 16, 2013 08:36 PM (cGyzJ)

497 485 Sports teams often try to claim a larger geography in hope of getting more fans. Usually it's the first name, though, not the nickname.
Minnesota Vikings. All the Minnesota teams do the same thing.
New England Patriots tries to grab a whole region.
As do the Carolina Panthers and Hurricanes.
Washington Nationals trying to grab the whole damn country. Don't think that's gonna work.

Recently some have gone to more localized versions.
Florida Marlins rebranded as the Miami Marlins. But the Florida Panthers still try to claim the whole state.

The Denver teams sometimes claim Denver and sometimes claim all of Colorado.

The Golden State Warriors are especially balllsy trying to claim all of California when there's 3 other teams in the state. Hasn't worked very well either.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 17, 2013 12:32 AM (ZPrif)

The Angels are horrible offenders of this. They were the Anaheim Angels, but that wasn't good enough. But they had some deal requiring Anaheim in the name or something like that. So their name is The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

Posted by: buzzion at December 16, 2013 08:38 PM (LI48c)

498 EOJ!

The Horde craves your opinion of Ann Althouse.

Posted by: Steck at December 16, 2013 08:38 PM (RL7U1)

499
What its really all about: You are a tax slave on the govt plantation.

Obamacare. But there will be people caught unaware that their houses effectively belong to the government because the government forced them into Medicaid coverage.

http://tinyurl.com/lp7ghak

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2013 08:39 PM (MaP11)

500 I know we don't have any standards in this club but I would like to think voting for Obama twice would be enough to get someone kicked out.

Posted by: Thatch at December 16, 2013 08:39 PM (qYvEa)

501 11 Leave Insty alone, lets take out Hot Air Posted by: Jean at December 16, 2013 10:19 PM (4JkHl) Hot Air sucks dong. Down, George, down.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at December 16, 2013 08:40 PM (XZtJK)

502 I mean, I know the working parts are different, but presumably one is attracted to another BEFORE seeing the working parts. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 17, 2013 12:29 AM (DmNpO) yes until internet porn got to be free

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 08:40 PM (hDwX8)

503 Minnesota Vikings. All the Minnesota teams do the same thing. *They have chunks of the Dakotas too. Trust me. As do the Carolina Panthers and Hurricanes. *The Panthers have to deal with Redskins fans from time immemorial. The Hurricanes? There shouldn't be a hockey team there. Washington Nationals trying to grab the whole damn country. Don't think that's gonna work. *Peter Angelos is enough of a problem, let alone the country. Although Teddy the Racing President should be appreciated by all. But the Florida Panthers still try to claim the whole state. *They shouldn't exist. The Denver teams sometimes claim Denver and sometimes claim all of Colorado. *Wyoming (as mentioned earlier). The Golden State Warriors are especially balllsy trying to claim all of California when there's 3 other teams in the state. Hasn't worked very well either. *They need a self-esteem boost.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 08:41 PM (sv2CE)

504 Hi Horde, I used to go to some of the other sites, but since before the 2012 election, I start here and usually stay here. I was here early this am, struggling to stay awake. IÂ’m sick with a throat thing and couldnÂ’t sleep. I was trying to stay awake. My boss didnÂ’t call until 11:30 and I finished up around 2 and took a nap this afternoon.

Posted by: Carol at December 16, 2013 08:42 PM (z4WKX)

505 Maybe Houston Texans was payback for Dallas taking the Texas Rangers. Houston Astros get a tiny sliver of the fanbase the Rangers get. Of course, that's mainly because they suck. None of the Atlanta pro teams take the Georgia name. Probably cause they hope to pull fans for Alabama, TN, SC, and NC.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 08:42 PM (ZPrif)

506 If teams had to name themselves for the cities they actually play in, there would be some interesting names ..

East Rutherford Giants, Foxboro Patriots, Arlington Cowboys..

The Arlington Cowboys used to be the Irving Cowboys. I always wondered why the star wasn't 6 pointed

Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2013 08:42 PM (aTXUx)

507 500 I know we don't have any standards in this club but I would like to think voting for Obama twice would be enough to get someone kicked out.

Posted by: Thatch at December 17, 2013 12:39 AM (qYvEa)

Eh. She says she voted for Romney the second time. But she had to make a big deal about agonizing over her vote and how important her choice was. And so her decision was at the last second.

Posted by: buzzion at December 16, 2013 08:43 PM (LI48c)

508 That list of top 40 sock puppets... I don't seem to remember hardly any of them commenting.

Posted by: tipsy moron who thinks it's Sunday at December 16, 2013 08:43 PM (AMsS5)

509 everything I do is petty. pay schmay, we will jack the island. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 11:45 PM (rDidD) Need some help? We're open to free agent offers. Certified 99.99% ghey free. If your interested in the South Pacific, we have some maps laying around, somewhere.

Posted by: 3rd Bn 5th Marines at December 16, 2013 08:43 PM (XZtJK)

510 get drunk with y'all and have some left overs as a snack or go to bed early so i can clean the shit out of the house before everyone comes over for Christmas?

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 08:43 PM (hDwX8)

511 If you're a woman who is attracted to a man who looks exactly like a man, aren't you attracted to men?>>

I assume the first man in that sentence should be woman.

Yes but you have Daddy issues. The Lesbian girl next door when I was growing up dated Manly girls. And is now married with children. Yes anecdotal but she brought home the most obvious ones. Picture the mid 70s A girl in a plaid shirt and a white T shirt underneath. When that girl went for a smoke they were rolled up in the sleeve of the T shirt.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 08:44 PM (TI3xG)

512 The NHL's Calgary Flames? Formerly the Atlanta Flames. Gary Bettman tried to put another team in Atlanta, called the Thrashers. The team moved to Winnipeg.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 08:44 PM (sv2CE)

513 Holy crap! AoS beat out Brietbart. Wow.

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at December 16, 2013 08:44 PM (6RwsK)

514 The Horde craves your opinion of Ann Althouse -----'''-'-------''----- Ok I ts s like thus. If I were designing a sexbot that would fulfill all my fantasies and instead thar sexbot w er re a fat, slack-skinned lu mm p of pale pasty white flabby whale shit... I'd have Ann Althouse.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 16, 2013 08:44 PM (cGyzJ)

515 Oh and all your 8 ellipses belong to smiley face.

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at December 16, 2013 08:45 PM (6RwsK)

516 Right, I don't mean the geography they hope to attract, I was just referring to the actual geographic terms they include in the team names. It's mostly cities, some states, and then the rare regional term like New England or Golden State. Actually are those the only two? I guess technically Tampa Bay is a region, right? Tampa is the city.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 08:46 PM (ZPrif)

517 is it inappropriate to anonymously write critical and sarcastic comments about your co workers at your company blog? Yes, yes it is... BUT... if you are at a Christmas Party with at least 3 other similarly disgruntled and inebriated coworkers one of whom is one level higher on your or someone elses' chain of command I say, GO FOR IT!!! When are THOSE ASSHOLES gonna know what really happens day-today here, am I right? They'd probably shit their pants if someone told them what a clusterfuck this organization really is! Except for Carol. She's OK. She just has to act like a bitch for THOSE GUYS, besides she has the keys.

Posted by: Deety Evil HR at December 16, 2013 08:46 PM (ad4e8)

518 Night you bunch of miscreants...

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 16, 2013 08:47 PM (cuHUU)

519 Yeah, Quebec Nordiques are really hoping Atlanta gets another franchise.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 08:47 PM (ZPrif)

520 I guess technically Tampa Bay is a region, right? Tampa is the city. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 17, 2013 12:46 AM (ZPrif) If you're talking hockey, it's both the city and a region. However, hockey in Florida? The NHL brass is counting on snowbirds from Canada and whatever base they can build up from locals.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 08:48 PM (sv2CE)

521 Posted by: The Hickster at December 17, 2013 12:44 AM (TI3xG) what part on MN you in? I summer near Detroit Lakes

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 08:48 PM (hDwX8)

522 Also, not to rain on the parade, but that ranking isn't a ranking of traffic. It's just one dude's opinion of the "best" right-wing sites.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 08:49 PM (ZPrif)

523 Night folks. Time to feed the stove and hit the hay.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 16, 2013 08:49 PM (l3vZN)

524 Picture the mid 70s *Turns down Hawkwind, Exhales bong hit* Whut?

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at December 16, 2013 08:49 PM (XZtJK)

525 Yeah, Quebec Nordiques are really hoping Atlanta gets another franchise. Posted: Flatbush Joe at December 17, 2013 12:47 AM (ZPrif) They're trying to build a new arena. If I was a betting woman, if a team goes back to Quebec City once the arena is built it won't be an expansion team.

Posted by: Vendette takes her hockey seriously at December 16, 2013 08:50 PM (sv2CE)

526 what part on MN you in?

I summer near Detroit Lakes>>

Hunt near Grand Rapids Live in Chanhassen.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 08:50 PM (TI3xG)

527 The Kid: Because you wouldn't pass the initiation. Apollonia: What initiation? The Kid: Well, for starters, you have to purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka. Apollonia: What? The Kid: You have to purify yourself in Lake Minnetonka. [She strips down, and runs towards the lake] The Kid: Hey! Wait a minute! That's...

Posted by: RWC at December 16, 2013 08:51 PM (Q6HBD)

528 Ron Stump OMG when I was a kid we had a place at Big Toad Lake. I buried my dog there

Posted by: Thunderb at December 16, 2013 08:51 PM (zOTsN)

529 522 Also, not to rain on the parade, but that ranking isn't a ranking of traffic. It's just one dude's opinion of the "best" right-wing sites. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 17, 2013 12:49 AM (ZPrif) Well then, Hot Flatulence should be somewhere around GeoCities.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at December 16, 2013 08:51 PM (XZtJK)

530 Obama beats out George W Bush as a historical figure, recent polls not withstanding.

Posted by: cm9000 at December 16, 2013 08:51 PM (3qZbZ)

531 OK so i saw the Rockettes today. Damn. 10/10 would spank in public .

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 16, 2013 08:52 PM (cGyzJ)

532 Also, not to rain on the parade, but that ranking isn't a ranking of traffic. It's just one dude's opinion of the "best" right-wing sites.
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per the thread header
"No one knows exactly how they're calculated..."

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 08:52 PM (aDwsi)

533 522 Also, not to rain on the parade, but that ranking isn't a ranking of traffic. It's just one dude's opinion of the "best" right-wing sites. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 17, 2013 12:49 AM

Simple formula then; "who's retweeting me the most"

Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2013 08:52 PM (aTXUx)

534 EoJ, you're in Toronto, right?

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 08:55 PM (sv2CE)

535 Hawkins also keeps a list that ranks according to Alex ranks. HotAir is #18 conservative site on that list. 2nd # is overall Alexa rank 1) Fox News: 173 2) Wall Street Journal: 304 3) The Drudge Report: 486 4) The Blaze: 1000 5) New York Post: 1,034 6) Breitbart: 1,316 7) Newsmax: 1,329

WorldNetDaily: 1987 9) The Daily Caller: 2,407 10) The Washington Times: 2,862 11) Real Clear Politics: 3,844 12) TownHall: 4,211 13) National Review: 4,238 14) The Weekly Standard: 4,811 15) Newsbusters: 5,514 16) Independent Journal Review 5,985 17) Free Republic: 6,106 1

Hot Air: 6,334 19) PJ Media/Instapundit: 6,648 20) The Washington Examiner: 6,674

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 16, 2013 08:56 PM (ZPrif)

536 I summer near Detroit Lakes Posted by: Ron Stump at December 17, 2013 1 but are you from DL? chanhassen isn't there a dinner theatre there?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 08:57 PM (rDidD)

537 @473 Mom's cafe serves extra helpings of french fries, mustard and ketchup.

Map, compass, sun protection, extra food and water, headlamp, firestarter kit, first aid kit, matches and knife.

(Memory Needs Extraneous Material, Or Not In Charge.)

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 16, 2013 08:57 PM (xq1UY)

538 OK so i saw the Rockettes today.

Damn.

10/10 would spank in public .

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 17, 2013 12:52 AM

Don't. It can only finish in an unhappy ending.

Posted by: pee wee herman at December 16, 2013 08:57 PM (9gNQd)

539 rockettes are not as hot when you get up close. also, not as uncommon as you think. lots of 'em and a high turnover.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 08:58 PM (rDidD)

540 chanhassen isn't there a dinner theatre there?>>

Why yes there is and it is quite the artistic hotspot.

Well let's just say it got me laid once.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 08:59 PM (TI3xG)

541 I like rockettes beter than kennedys, though I have never net any kennedys.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:00 PM (rDidD)

542 EoJ, you're in Toronto, right? Posted by: Vendette at December 17, 2013 12:55 AM (sv2CE ------------- No. I live west of Hamilton. Flew down to NYC for a couple of days.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 16, 2013 09:00 PM (cGyzJ)

543 Well let's just say it got me laid once. Posted by: The Hickster at December 17, 2013 1 YES!

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:00 PM (rDidD)

544 Y5! Any Manhattan restaurant recommendations?

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 09:01 PM (sv2CE)

545 No. I live west of Hamilton. Flew down to NYC for a couple of days. Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 17, you should have told me you were coming, I would have made plans.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:01 PM (rDidD)

546 No. I live west of Hamilton. Flew down to NYC for a couple of days. Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 17, 2013 01:00 AM (cGyzJ) You've been in Pearson, right? Is there any decent place to eat in the entire airport? (Sorry about the Ti-Cats)

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 09:02 PM (sv2CE)

547 Wasn't "I Buried My Dog by Big Toad Lake" a big c/w crossover hit for Chaw Baccy and the Special Forces?

Posted by: tipsy moron who thinks CCR is c/w at December 16, 2013 09:02 PM (AMsS5)

548 Y5! Any Manhattan restaurant recommendations? Posted by: Vendette Are you here too?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:02 PM (rDidD)

549 Ace is #8 because we're all INTJ's and we're working on it. Bwaa ha ha ha ha... (on second thought, the evil laughter is probably an ENTJ.)

Posted by: Synova at December 16, 2013 09:02 PM (7/PU+)

550 Had an aunt who was a Rockette...we'd go see them perform when I was a kid. I could rarely pick her out of the lineup at any real distance... kinda took them off the fap radar for me.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 09:02 PM (LaRKr)

551 you should have told me you were coming, I would have made plans.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 01:01 AM

Phrasing!

Posted by: sterling archer at December 16, 2013 09:03 PM (9gNQd)

552 Are you here too? Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 01:02 AM (rDidD) No, visiting for one night in a few months. I'm in the DC area.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 09:03 PM (sv2CE)

553 Went to a special screening for Anchorman 2 tonight. I know Ferrell is a flaming libtard........but OMG was that some funny shit.

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 16, 2013 09:03 PM (WnGDS)

554 kinda took them off the fap radar for me. Posted by: garrett at December 17, 2013 01:02 yeah but not your aunt, she stayed fappable.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:03 PM (rDidD)

555 YES! Posted by: yankeefifth>>

I got at least a couple Oh gods out of it so yes the Chanhassen theater is an attraction for me.

Might have to lure a new city girl out here now that you mention it.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 09:04 PM (TI3xG)

556 I haven't seen that many bell-bottoms since I cleaned out my closet in '89.

Posted by: Behind on the Fashion Curve at December 16, 2013 09:05 PM (BdXis)

557 Y5! Any Manhattan restaurant recommendations? Posted by: Vendette at December 17, 2013 01:01 AM (sv2CE) ---'''' --------' Ate @ Four Seasons tonite. Worth it.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 16, 2013 09:05 PM (cGyzJ)

558 kill his dog, break his neck ... unless they are on our side.

Posted by: and irresolute at December 16, 2013 09:05 PM (RqHWH)

559 No, visiting for one night in a few months. I'm in the DC area. Posted by: Vendette at December 17, 2013 well if you do not have plans let me know. It is all a matter of what you are fond of for food. My standbys are all steak places mostly because that is where the clients like to go. I have a great sushi place. Pick your poison.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:06 PM (rDidD)

560 well if you do not have plans let me know. It is all a matter of what you are fond of for food. My standbys are all steak places mostly because that is where the clients like to go. I have a great sushi place. Pick your poison. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 01:06 AM (rDidD) Raw fish = bad. Steak = good.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 09:06 PM (sv2CE)

561 If'n you like Sushi you should hit up Yama. Goes double for lunchtime at the Irving Plaza Location.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 09:07 PM (LaRKr)

562 I like rockettes beter than kennedys, though I have never net any kennedys. *** A few days ago there was a photo floating around twitter of a letter to Santa that was written by Teddy when he was a child. It was sad, really, because no child ever dreams of growing up to become a homicidal alcoholic. Unless he's a Kennedy.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 09:09 PM (DmNpO)

563 Ace is #8 because we're all INTJ's and we're working on it. Bwaa ha ha ha ha... (on second thought, the evil laughter is probably an ENTJ.) *** I alternate between INTP and INTJ. Does that make me an outcast?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 09:10 PM (DmNpO)

564 In re auto insurance and GEICO:

Those of you who have received a traffic ticket courtesy of a cop with a radar gun may well have GEICO to thank for it.

After Warren Buffett took over that outfit, he realized that more traffic tickets and more points on drivers' records meant that GEICO could charge higher premiums. So he graciously undertook to buy radar guns for thousands of police departments across the country. For the public good, you understand.

I would ride a tired-out bicycle uphill in the snow both ways before I would insure a car with Buffett's GEICO. Add to which that Buffett has been a huge Obama backer going back to the very beginning? Fuck the bicycle. I'll walk. Barefoot.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 16, 2013 09:12 PM (gqT4g)

565 Raw fish = bad. Steak = good. Posted by: Vendette at December 17, 2013 01:06 well, peter luger is the place everyone wants to go to but it is overrated and not easy to get to - it is in brooklyn. Sparks is good, Palm is good, BLT is hot at the moment, Del Friscos is newer but has a devoted following, Bobby Van's is good depending on which one you go to.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:12 PM (rDidD)

566 Posted by: The Hickster Are AR15's legal in MN? I think I'm putting on a Long Range Rifle clinic in July. My BiL has an AR that can get out to 1200 yards but he lives not in MN any help would be apreciated, thanks

Posted by: Arles at December 16, 2013 09:13 PM (hDwX8)

567 Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 01:12 AM (rDidD) Thanks! Now I want steak.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 09:13 PM (sv2CE)

568 If you want over the top sushi go to sushi yasuda, nobu is a close second.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:14 PM (rDidD)

569 On a brighter note, driving down Wednesday to VMI to pick up my youngest son.....the Rat. He's doing very well so far, but it is a lot of hard work and pressure. Oh, Congratulations and Happy Holidays! Just let "The Rat" know that the hard work and pressure will always get worse the better he does. It sounds (it IS) perverse but that's the way of this world since Man first trod. I hope that he knows how proud of his achievements YOU ARE thus far. Don't be all slobbery parenty about it! It's still basically AWAY College and "You can't possibly know what, I'm going through!" Just be soo happy to have your children with you!

Posted by: Deety Evil HR at December 16, 2013 09:14 PM (ad4e8)

570 Posted by: The Hickster Are AR15's legal in MN? I think I'm putting on a Long Range Rifle clinic in July. My BiL has an AR that can get out to 1200 yards but he lives not in MN any help would be apreciated, thanks Posted by: Arles at December 17, 2013 01:13 AM (hDwX

whoa, sock fail

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 09:14 PM (hDwX8)

571 If you want over the top sushi go to sushi yasuda, nobu is a close second. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 01:14 AM (rDidD) No sushi; he hates fish and I want it cooked. We're boring that way.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 09:15 PM (sv2CE)

572 so you know, peter luger is a dump and waiters are gruff, it is their schtick. everything else more polished.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:15 PM (rDidD)

573 Posted by: yankeefifth >>

Are you near Fogo de ChÃ£o They have one of them in Minneapolis and If someone else is paying it is a meat eaters paradise.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 09:16 PM (TI3xG)

574 No sushi; he hates fish and I want it cooked. We're boring that way. Posted by: Vendette at December 17, no problem. I hadda learn to like sushi.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:16 PM (rDidD)

575 Are you near Fogo de ChÃ£o They have one of them in Minneapolis and If someone else is paying it is a meat eaters paradise. Posted by: The Hickster at December 17, 2013 01:16 AM (TI3xG) We've been to the DC location. Indeed it is a meat-eaters paradise.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 09:16 PM (sv2CE)

576 Most Sushi places have lots more than just Sushi to offer...but why anyone would want anything but good sushi is beyond me.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 09:16 PM (LaRKr)

577 You're BLOWIN' it if you're missing Conservative Treehouse, Five Feet of Fury, and Sultan Knish

Posted by: DAve at December 16, 2013 09:19 PM (b7yum)

578 Are you near Fogo de ChÃ£o They have one of them in Minneapolis and If someone else is paying it is a meat eaters paradise. Posted by: The Hickster at December 17, I am not near the one in nyc but I have been meaning to go there for some time, have heard it is really good.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:19 PM (rDidD)

579 Going back to the main post, is it a bad thing that I think that Twitchy is overrated?

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 09:19 PM (sv2CE)

580 any day with a giant slab of meat and scotch is a good day.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:20 PM (rDidD)

581 362 What exactly IS funny about men being raped in prison, exactly???

Posted by: DAve at December 16, 2013 09:22 PM (b7yum)

582 whoa, sock fail

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 17, 2013 01:14 AM (hDwX >>

Looking for a long range shooter location?

My place is in the woods so sub100 yards but I have friends/contacts.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 09:22 PM (TI3xG)

583 Going back to the main post, is it a bad thing that I think that Twitchy is overrated? *** No. Not bad. There are times when I find it amusing but often I've already seen the tweets they've compiled.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 09:23 PM (DmNpO)

584 any day with a giant slab of meat and scotch is a good day.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 01:20 AM (rDidD)

Fucking eh.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2013 09:24 PM (FMbng)

585 What exactly IS funny about men being raped in prison, exactly???

They often deserve it.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 09:25 PM (TI3xG)

586 "Most Sushi places have lots more than just Sushi to offer...but why anyone would want anything but good sushi is beyond me."

The fundamental problem in the USA is finding "good" sushi that actually is what it claims to be. There have been a couple of surveys which used DNA analysis to figure out what was actually being served, versus what was claimed to be being served.

Typically, stuff that was described as being the likes of top grade tuna often actually turned out to be bottom feeding garbage fish.

National epicenter for this mislabeling of sushi? New York City.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 16, 2013 09:25 PM (gqT4g)

587 577 You're BLOWIN' it if you're missing Conservative Treehouse, Five Feet of Fury, and Sultan Knish

Posted by: DAve at December 17, 2013 01:19 AM (b7yum)

I thought Conservative Treehouse's coverage of Trayvonmania was outstanding.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 09:25 PM (T1005)

588 I thought Conservative Treehouse's coverage of Trayvonmania was outstanding. *** It was. They did far more comprehensive and investigative work than did anyone in the MSM.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 09:26 PM (DmNpO)

589 but are you from DL? Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 12:57 AM (rDidD) no just get fukkin drun near there. sorte by pelican lake.. I founf Big Taod Lake that is East of DL

Posted by: Arles at December 16, 2013 09:26 PM (hDwX8)

590 What exactly IS funny about men being raped in prison, exactly??? The look of surprise on their faces?

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 09:26 PM (LaRKr)

591 585 What exactly IS funny about men being raped in prison, exactly???

They often deserve it.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 17, 2013 01:25 AM (TI3xG)

The problem is that we have a seriously screwed-up "justice" system, which not infrequently slaps wrists for truly heinous offenses by truly awful people...but that doesn't exactly get fixed by making the experience of incarceration worse for everyone there.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 09:29 PM (T1005)

592 Yeah, there's really not a lot of fish that can be faked if you know anything about Sushi / fish. Now, the lesser grades can be pawned off as higher grade, but again, not if you know what you are eating.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 09:31 PM (LaRKr)

593 What exactly IS funny about men being raped in prison, exactly??? *** Nothing, but I think the point was that the left is hypocritical in their outrage about violence in one culture/environment and not another.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 16, 2013 09:32 PM (DmNpO)

594 Sushi oiishi!

Oyasumi.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 09:33 PM (PWHzv)

595

585 Men deserve to be raped? What the fuck is wrong with you???

Of course you must agree that women deserve to be raped too, surely.

Again, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU???

Posted by: DAve at December 16, 2013 09:33 PM (b7yum)

596 You're BLOWIN' it if you're missing Conservative Treehouse, Five Feet of Fury, and Sultan Knish Posted by: DAve at December 17, 2013 01:19 AM (b7yum) For a conservative Canuck perspective, blazingcatfur and Small Dead Animals are good sites to visit.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 09:33 PM (sv2CE)

597 an odd aspect of living in nyc is you have to know who you are dealing with. I know everyone I deal with on a regular basis by their first name - from my grocer to the people that serve me coffee to the manager at my steak place. if you want to get the good stuff, or not the bad stuff, you have to know 'em. I did not grow up in ny, but in flyover land and it took me a while to get the difference. in flyover land you always got what you asked for and it was not big deal.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:34 PM (rDidD)

598 >>Looking for a long range shooter location?My place is in the woods so sub100 yards but I have friends/contacts. Posted by: The Hickster at December 17, 2013 01:22 AM (TI3xG) I've got Farmer access to out ot 1200+, I think If You can make it I'll send some contact info will be in July as of now

Posted by: Ran Stump at December 16, 2013 09:36 PM (hDwX8)

599 Picture the mid 70s *Turns down Hawkwind, Exhales bong hit* Whut? Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at December 17, 2013 12:49 AM (XZtJK) A little mood music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOb52Pogn7k

Posted by: Psychedelicat dancing with Stacia at December 16, 2013 09:36 PM (Vk2pI)

600 so vendette, why are you and mrvendette coming to nyc?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:36 PM (rDidD)

601

595 I'll go ahead and let you discourse on the correlation you presume between the men that GET raped and the men that "DESERVE" it...

Posted by: DAve at December 16, 2013 09:36 PM (b7yum)

602 595 I'll go ahead and let you discourse on thecorrelation you presume between the men that GET raped and the men that "DESERVE" it... Posted by: DAve at December 17, 2013 01:36 AM (b7yum) No one should.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 09:38 PM (sv2CE)

603 PRISON SEX http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf1vC8ubnkY

Posted by: TOOL at December 16, 2013 09:38 PM (LaRKr)

604 always avoid fast food in nyc.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:38 PM (rDidD)

605 so vendette, why are you and mrvendette coming to nyc? Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 01:36 AM (rDidD) Mid-February.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 09:39 PM (sv2CE)

606 Mid-February. Posted by: Vendette at December 17, 2013 01:39 AM valentines day?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:39 PM (rDidD)

607 valentines day? Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 01:39 AM (rDidD) After that.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 09:40 PM (sv2CE)

608 oh good, never eat out on valentines day it us awful

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:40 PM (rDidD)

609 The 70's: Music to Smoke Weed By: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su0BB6cEcww

Posted by: Organizational Head Drummer at December 16, 2013 09:41 PM (FlRtG)

610 rule is take you wife out day before or after valentines day, take mistress out valentines day;they feel special and everyone else is out with their mistresses so you do not have to worry about seeing your wife's friends unless they are a mistress.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:42 PM (rDidD)

611 oh good, never eat out on valentines day it us awful Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 01:40 AM (rDidD) Several Valentine Days' ago, I shoveled his driveway because it had snow on it and I have standards (because of my Canuck heritage). He was happy.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 09:42 PM (sv2CE)

612 Posted by: Ran Stump at December 17, 2013 01:36 AM (hDwX

boy that is some terrible keyboarding skills right there plus a lack of proof reading

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 09:43 PM (hDwX8)

613 Personally, I know that Valentines Day and NYE are amateur hour so I have no need to go out for dinner those nights.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 09:44 PM (sv2CE)

614 never eat out on valentines day What do lesbians do, then?

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 09:44 PM (LaRKr)

615 So AR15's are good to go in MN?

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 09:45 PM (hDwX8)

616 595
585Men deserve to be raped? What the fuck is wrong with you???
Of course you must agree that women deserve to be raped too, surely.
Again, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU???

Posted by: DAve at December 17, 2013 01:33 AM (b7yum)

I suspect that it's not rape in particular, but the thought that some violent crimes should receive an earthly version of Dante's seventh circle.

Of course Dante thought these folks should be partially submerged in a river of blood and fire, shot with arrows by demons when they raised themselves too far from their just punishment.....but, y'know, takin' it up the squeakhole.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 09:46 PM (T1005)

617 Several Valentine Days' ago, I shoveled his driveway because it had snow on it and I have standards (because of my Canuck heritage). He was happy. Posted by: Vendette at December 17, 2013 sounds like true love. couple of weeks ago Mrs. Yankeefifth brought me coffee and a pastry, I was flabbergasted and very happy.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:47 PM (rDidD)

618 Instapundit's hot and brainy spouse, Dr. Helen Smith:

http://tinyurl.com/k5cpw7f

No wonder he's always seen smiling!

Posted by: Hari Seldon at December 16, 2013 09:47 PM (BYZzw)

619 What do lesbians do, then? Posted by: garrett at December 17, 2013 it is a festival of donkey punching.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:48 PM (rDidD)

620 604 always avoid fast food in nyc.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 01:38 AM (rDidD)

Why? I would think that the chains would impose brand standards of cleanliness and food quality. Now, mind you, a no-name taqueria......

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 09:48 PM (T1005)

621 sounds like true love. couple of weeks ago Mrs. Yankeefifth brought me coffee and a pastry, I was flabbergasted and very happy. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 01:47 AM (rDidD) She is worth her weight in gold. Later after the shoveling incident, I bought him a better shovel. Earlier than that I gave him a proper scraper/brush/squeegee for his car. I really do have standards.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 09:49 PM (sv2CE)

622 We've been to the DC location. Indeed it is a meat-eaters paradise. Posted by: Vendette at December 17, 2013 01:16 AM (sv2CE) Ever been to Tejas De Brazil? Same concept, just wondering for comparison. When we went I thought the food was good but the wait staff hovering was too much. Granted, it was their opening weekend when we had a crap load of snow.

Posted by: RWC at December 16, 2013 09:50 PM (Q6HBD)

623 I would think that the chains would impose brand standards of cleanliness and food quality. Yeah, about that...

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 09:50 PM (LaRKr)

624 Personally, I know that Valentines Day and NYE are amateur hour so I have no need to go out for dinner those nights. Posted by: Vendette at December 17, 2013 agreed. NYE is the ultimate scam, no one ever has as much fun as they are trying for on nye.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:50 PM (rDidD)

625 The problem is that we have a seriously screwed-up "justice" system, which not infrequently slaps wrists for truly heinous offenses by truly awful people...but that doesn't exactly get fixed by making the experience of incarceration worse for everyone there.>>

I agree there should be tiers of incarceration.

1 Nonviolent crime offenses is more like a campus you are not allowed to leave. Hardly any guards. An Honor system.

2 Semi violent offenses that put no one in mortal danger (not including rape)A secluded farm with high fences but still limited guards you are not allowed to leave.

3 Violent offenses and or repeated dumbassery An island like Devils Island from Papaillon or a gulag you can't escape due to nature. And fuck you figure this civilization thing out between each other.

And severe punishments like kicking you to the next tier if you're a dick or try to run off.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 16, 2013 09:50 PM (TI3xG)

626 Posted by: yankeefifth at December are you planning on retiring in NYC or moving elsewhere? Me, I would not even think of being in NYC unless I took home 6k per week. But I live in the Intermountain west and have 'attitude'

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 09:51 PM (hDwX8)

627 Posted by: cthulhu at December 17, 2013 01:46 AM (T1005)

Sorry, shot by centaurs when they climb too high. Presumably due to union work-rules.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 09:52 PM (T1005)

628 Why? I would think that the chains would impose brand standards of cleanliness and food quality. Now, mind you, a no-name taqueria...... Posted by: cthulhu at December 17, 2013 01:48 AM every so often you find an outlier but on average it is awful. frequently owned by people that have a different standard of cleanliness. staff is bottom of barrel in food service.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:52 PM (rDidD)

629 I get to go to a parole hearing in Wednesday morning for the man that raped my stepdaughter when she was sixteen. Unfortunately, he is not in jail for that........he is in jail for mortgage fraud. We plea bargained for 20 years probation.

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 16, 2013 09:53 PM (n10od)

630 Ever been to Tejas De Brazil? Same concept, just wondering for comparison. When we went I thought the food was good but the wait staff hovering was too much. Granted, it was their opening weekend when we had a crap load of snow. Posted by: RWC at December 17, 2013 01:50 AM (Q6HBD) We haven't, although if he needs a meat fix we could visit.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 09:54 PM (sv2CE)

631 Once there was a decade called the seventies. Nixon, Ford and Carter, disco if you please. Fashion took a nosedive, polyester pants. John Travolta's floor moves taught us how to dance In our bell-bottom trousers, Awful platform shoes. Thank god it's over, a decade of bad news.

Posted by: zombie at December 16, 2013 09:55 PM (+cx5n)

632 Me, I would not even think of being in NYC unless I took home 6k per week. But I live in the Intermountain west and have 'attitude' Posted by: Ron Stump at December 17, 2013 I moved here for a job years ago. I am trying to get out and go to Texas but it is always one more little thing before me move. Not really a lot of lateral moves to Texas.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:55 PM (rDidD)

633 Should I continue, or is that sufficient, parody-wise?

Posted by: zombie at December 16, 2013 09:55 PM (+cx5n)

634 I get to go to a parole hearing in Wednesday morning for the man that raped my stepdaughter when she was sixteen. Unfortunately, he is not in jail for that........he is in jail for mortgage fraud. We plea bargained for 20 years probation. Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 17, 2013 01:53 AM (n10od) Probation???? Prayers for you and your stepdaughter.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 09:56 PM (sv2CE)

635 Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 17, 2013 01:53 AM (n10od) fuck! why is he not in jail for raping a 16yo? how bad does the burn hurt?

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 09:56 PM (hDwX8)

636 3 Violent offenses and or repeated dumbassery An island like Devils Island from Papaillon or a gulag you can't escape due to nature. And fuck you figure this civilization thing out between each other.

And severe punishments like kicking you to the next tier if you're a dick or try to run off.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 17, 2013 01:50 AM (TI3xG)

The funny thing is that when they do figure the civilization thing out, they tend to be better at it than those who get book-learned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_colony

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 09:57 PM (T1005)

637 633 Should I continue, or is that sufficient, parody-wise? Posted by: zombie at December 17, 2013 01:55 AM (+cx5n) go for shit bro, that ain't a sock right?

Posted by: Ron Stump at December 16, 2013 09:58 PM (hDwX8)

638 She is worth her weight in gold. Later after the shoveling incident, I bought him a better shovel. Earlier than that I gave him a proper scraper/brush/squeegee for his car. I really do have standards. Posted by: Vendette well, she is worth her weight in gold but it has nothing to do with bringing me coffee. It was remarkable because it was a one-off occurrence.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 09:58 PM (rDidD)

639 614 never eat out on valentines day

What do lesbians do, then?

Posted by: garrett at December 17, 2013 01:44 AM (LaRKr)

====

I LOL'd a few days back when someone wrote that Madcow used a fleshlight on her strap-on.

Posted by: jc at December 16, 2013 10:00 PM (PlzOe)

640 Thanks Vendette It was a "friend". Neither my stepdaughter nor the perpetrator's daughter wanted to testify so that is what we agreed to. However, he got caught on something else and we are trying to argue that he is in violation of the terms of that probation

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 16, 2013 10:03 PM (i5ol1)

641 Most Sushi places have lots more than just Sushi to offer...but why anyone would want anything but good sushi is beyond me. Deep fried fish head! I don't crunch all the deep-fried bones and eyeballs and shit you "cookists" insist upon but "fish-cheeks" are AWESOME! Never et them raw but "fish-cheeks" brought home from a Greek-Diner, line cook, UG roommate in a bit of butter & Olive Oil was AWESOME. He brought home 4 fucking "trash" FISH HEADS, from work. This is 5 YEARS before the Food Network even existed. We had 8 little perfect medallions of why fish should be eaten and fished to extinction. FOR THEIR HEADS!!!!

Posted by: Deety at December 16, 2013 10:03 PM (ad4e8)

642 Hiya, zombie!!!

The thing about the 70s.....is that we turned the page in the 80s and really thought we'd "knocked that shit off". So it's easy to remember it as the "darkness before the dawn" time -- horrible, but with better days to come.

Today, we've seen better days, and good reasons, and solid principles, and good feelings, and prosperity and the great majority of people being happy with their healthcare....and its all going into the meatgrinder. We can see it and complain, but BHO's shoving it in and Reid's turning the handle, and the bureaucracy is taking everything we hold dear -- from jobs to light bulbs to healthcare to light and heat in the darkness of winter -- and it's gonna come out hamburger.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 10:06 PM (T1005)

643 Yo Morons

Posted by: fluffy at December 16, 2013 10:06 PM (Ua6T/)

644 Hamachi Kama, FTW!

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 10:06 PM (LaRKr)

645 The thing about the 70s.....is that we turned the page in the 80s and really thought we'd "knocked that shit off". So it's easy to remember it as the "darkness before the dawn" time -- horrible, but with better days to come.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 17, 2013 02:06 AM (T1005)

I like to think of as when disco finally fucking died and metal ruled the earth.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2013 10:08 PM (FMbng)

646 We haven't, although if he needs a meat fix we could visit. Posted by: Vendette at December 17, 2013 01:54 AM (sv2CE) It's pretty good. I think I got my lifely allowance of bacon wrapped filet that night. As for our 'justice' system we are fu8ed. We don't need any more laws, we just need to enforce the ones on the books and hold judges accountable. I have linked the ChasThugLife before but if that isn't telling about our BS justice I don't know what is.

Posted by: RWC at December 16, 2013 10:08 PM (Q6HBD)

647 640 Thanks Vendette

It was a "friend". Neither my stepdaughter nor the perpetrator's daughter wanted to testify so that is what we agreed to. However, he got caught on something else and we are trying to argue that he is in violation of the terms of that probation

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 17, 2013 02:03 AM (i5ol1)

I'm so sorry.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 10:08 PM (T1005)

648 Posted by: Deety at December 17, 2013 02:03 AM (ad4e

Hope you're not in sales or offering up the daily special

That almost got me sick.

Posted by: RWC at December 16, 2013 10:11 PM (Q6HBD)

649 DALLAS 1PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n93N5vzG90

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 10:12 PM (LaRKr)

650 Damn, I forgot the Saxon sock.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 10:12 PM (LaRKr)

651 Actually you would be surprised at how many LE had no problem with a 40+ year old raping a 16 year old. It took us almost 2 years to prosecute.

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 16, 2013 10:12 PM (EvEIZ)

652 581 Â— What makes a prison shower joke worse than actual rape? Or this comic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/8/11/ Which caused a three year campaign of intimidation and harassment against the writers? Yeah, sometimes "don't drop the soap" jokes are funny. But even when they're not, they're not worse than: Cuba. Child prostitution by the government. "Come rape our children for money." Afghanistan. 9-year-old bride. Raped by her "husband", died of internal bleeding the next day. And on and on. Dozens of real rape cultures in the world. The US isn't one of them.

Posted by: cormac_mcroadie at December 16, 2013 10:13 PM (mjO9h)

653 It was a "friend". Neither my stepdaughter nor the perpetrator's daughter wanted to testify so that is what we agreed to. However, he got caught on something else and we are trying to argue that he is in violation of the terms of that probation Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 17, 2013 02:03 AM (i5ol1) You are a great stepdad. I wish there was more of you around.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 10:14 PM (sv2CE)

654 DALLAS 1PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n93N5vzG90

Posted by: garrett at December 17, 2013 02:12 AM (LaRKr)

I always had a love/hate thing when it came to Saxon. They had some really good tunes, like "Princess of the night" and "Crusader" for example. They never seemed to have more than a couple of good tunes on any album. I guess they kind of straddled the fence between rock and metal and never really picked a definite direction.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2013 10:15 PM (FMbng)

655 Fluffy, the fluffster that fluffs! (or however it goes....hang on.....*glug, glug*.....still looks ok.....)

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 10:16 PM (T1005)

656 Vendette.......I am a moronette

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 16, 2013 10:17 PM (EvEIZ)

657 651 Actually you would be surprised at how many LE had no problem with a 40+ year old raping a 16 year old. It took us almost 2 years to prosecute. Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 17, 2013 02:12 AM (EvEIZ) Have no doubt. LEO's have turned the corner from being a stranger you can run to to run as far and as fast as you can away from them. (Yes, there are good ones, but I'd rather have the least amount of contact nowadays.) Strength for tomorrow. Sorry about that situation.

Posted by: RWC at December 16, 2013 10:17 PM (Q6HBD)

658 Every once in a while Saxon finds their way onto my turntable. I only have a couple albums.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 10:19 PM (LaRKr)

659 Is Mr Sulu wearing spats in that pic?

Posted by: fastfreefall at December 16, 2013 10:20 PM (dS5nN)

660 What RWC said. Strength for tomorrow.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 10:21 PM (T1005)

661 Have no doubt. LEO's have turned the corner from being a stranger you can run to to run as far and as fast as you can away from them. (Yes, there are good ones, but I'd rather have the least amount of contact nowadays.)

Posted by: RWC at December 17, 2013 02:17 AM (Q6HBD)

They have waaaay turned the corner. Vast majority are pricks these days. My friend got pulled saturday night right after a snow storm because the snow on his windshield was covering his inspection sticker. I mean, really??

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2013 10:21 PM (FMbng)

662 So, are we into the swapping of You-Tube videos part of the ONT? Like, what was the POINT of the ONT anyway? Tail end of it, is ALWAYS going to be the same old, same old. Some of us, including "Paranoid in Seattle" ( she became PGIS),on the West Coast wanted a forum to comment on some of the stories of the day. NOPE!

Posted by: Deety at December 16, 2013 10:23 PM (ad4e8)

663 Every once in a while Saxon finds their way onto my turntable. I only have a couple albums.

Posted by: garrett at December 17, 2013 02:19 AM (LaRKr)

Yeah I only have a few. I haven't listened to much of the later stuff they did over the last 10 years. I probably should hit you tube one of these days and listen.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2013 10:24 PM (FMbng)

664 So, are we into the swapping of You-Tube videos part of the ONT?

Posted by: Deety at December 17, 2013 02:23 AM (ad4e

Yeah not me. The shit I listen to would grow hair on a tombstone.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2013 10:25 PM (FMbng)

665 It has always been the case that cops come in five flavors (with apologies to Heinlein): Gentlemen, Keepers of the Peace, Cops, Pigs, and Assholes. If you're in LA, you're lucky to get better than grade 4. I went to school in Santa Barbara and have visited there many times since -- I think they average around grade 1.8 there.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 10:25 PM (T1005)

666 Now?

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 10:25 PM (T1005)

667 Anyone hear from MissTammy lately?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 10:25 PM (rDidD)

668 Apropos of nothing: I pass by the site of a future development on my way to work. The developer's name is Weadick, which is kind of an unfortunate name. I do hope his first name is Willy.
Now back to the serious stuff.

Posted by: Northernlurker, moron wannabe at December 16, 2013 11:32 PM (BLAfs)

If memory serves me right, the Calgary Stampede was founded by a cowboy, name of Weadick.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2013 10:25 PM (TKUw7)

669 Some of us, including "Paranoid in Seattle" ( she became PGIS),on the West Coast wanted a forum to comment on some of the stories of the day.
NOPE!
Posted by: Deety at December 17, 2013 02:23 AM (ad4e

Well no one is stopping you. [And then points a finger at the 'Open' part of Overnight Open Thread].

Posted by: Mætenloch at December 16, 2013 10:26 PM (XkotV)

670 Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2013 02:21 AM (FMbng) Last two times I got pulled was flashing my hi-beams on a desolate road and a tail-light out. Hi-beams. - having a deer tackle your car tends to cause some disruption. Tail light - my fault. Didn't know. Got off with a warning on both but seriously? What kind of danger did I pose?

Posted by: RWC at December 16, 2013 10:27 PM (Q6HBD)

671 All hail the mighty Cthulhu!

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 10:27 PM (LaRKr)

672 Vendette.......I am a moronette Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 17, 2013 02:17 AM (EvEIZ) *Hangs head in shame* Now the morons are on notice.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 10:28 PM (sv2CE)

673 In all fairness it would have been more obvious to Vendette if you had chosen "westminsterbitchshow" .

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 10:30 PM (rDidD)

674 671 All hail the mighty Cthulhu!

Posted by: garrett at December 17, 2013 02:27 AM (LaRKr)

I wasn't really expecting to grab the number, but I've gotten into the habit of always checking my comments after posting to see what Pixy did to 'em -- and immediately, I saw that I was Lurking at the Threshold.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 10:30 PM (T1005)

675 In all fairness it would have been more obvious to Vendette if you had chosen "westminsterbitchshow" ...or pics?

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 10:31 PM (LaRKr)

676 In all fairness it would have been more obvious to Vendette if you had chosen "westminsterbitchshow" .

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 02:30 AM (rDidD)

Funny shit.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2013 10:31 PM (FMbng)

677 672 Vendette.......I am a moronette

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 17, 2013 02:17 AM (EvEIZ)

*Hangs head in shame*

Now the morons are on notice.

Posted by: Vendette at December 17, 2013 02:28 AM (sv2CE)

Is this like that scene in "Victor/Victoria"?

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 10:31 PM (T1005)

678 In all fairness it would have been more obvious to Vendette if you had chosen "westminsterbitchshow" . Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 02:30 AM (rDidD) *Is probably shorter than Y5* *Shinkicks Y5*

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 10:31 PM (sv2CE)

679 ...or pics? Posted by: garrett at December 17, 2013 02:31 always the preferred method of verification.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 10:32 PM (rDidD)

680 675 In all fairness it would have been more obvious to Vendette if you had chosen "westminsterbitchshow"

...or pics?

Posted by: garrett at December 17, 2013 02:31 AM (LaRKr)

Let's see, consulting "Ace's Rules of Order, Twelfth Edition" -- ah, yes, "A motion to request pics of an 'ette is always in order."

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 10:34 PM (T1005)

681 always the preferred method of verification. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 02:32 AM (rDidD) You wish.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 10:34 PM (sv2CE)

682 You wish. Posted by: Vendette at December 17, no really, I prefer pics, really.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 10:35 PM (rDidD)

683 678 In all fairness it would have been more obvious to Vendette if you had chosen "westminsterbitchshow" .

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 02:30 AM (rDidD)

*Is probably shorter than Y5*

*Shinkicks Y5*

Posted by: Vendette at December 17, 2013 02:31 AM (sv2CE)

*reading further* "....as are all 'ette shinkicks resulting therefrom."

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 10:36 PM (T1005)

684 besides, and I believe cthulhu can verify this in Ace's Rules of Order, Twelfth Edition", all ettes are effin hotter than a maserati on 110th street at 1am on a monday.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 10:37 PM (rDidD)

685 Speaking of pics, back in the FGL days I sent a pic to what would be considered an 'ette of a meet-up we had locally. It was actually a Cliff Yablonski pic with a group of guys. Bless her heart she was so nice in commenting on it. Would have loved to know what she actually thought.

Posted by: RWC at December 16, 2013 10:38 PM (Q6HBD)

686 besides, and I believe cthulhu can verify this in Ace's Rules of Order, Twelfth Edition", all ettes are effin hotter than a maserati on 110th street at 1am on a monday. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 02:37 AM (rDidD) The rest of the week requires explanation.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 10:40 PM (sv2CE)

687 The rest of the week requires explanation. Posted by: Vendette at December 17, 2013 02:40 AM sigh, fine, it is a rule, all ettes are hot, always.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 10:42 PM (rDidD)

688 I can prove it, send me a pic.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 10:42 PM (rDidD)

689 sigh, fine, it is a rule, all ettes are hot, always.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 02:42 AM (rDidD)

For it is written.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2013 10:43 PM (FMbng)

690 sigh, fine, it is a rule, all ettes are hot, always. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 02:42 AM (rDidD) Damn straight.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 10:44 PM (sv2CE)

691 While flipping channels I notice that QVC has an 8 inch Strawberry Swirl Christmas Cheesecake with Chocolate Cake for $43.84 (shipping included). Yowza.

Posted by: Vendette at December 16, 2013 10:47 PM (sv2CE)

692

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 10:48 PM (rDidD)

693 Cheese cake is one of my weaknesses.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2013 10:48 PM (FMbng)

694 Night Vendette, Bers, RWC, cthulhu, garrett, everyone I missed and westminsterdeliberatelyambigusousdogshowmoronette. I am off. See y'all tomorow.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 16, 2013 10:48 PM (rDidD)

695 Old as hell but Yablownski still has me in tears.

Posted by: RWC (Vagina Owl from the Future) at December 16, 2013 10:48 PM (Q6HBD)

696 Y5........i am an ette but not a bitch

And I cannot abandon the nickname from the SCOAMF eating dog days

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 16, 2013 10:49 PM (EvEIZ)

697 'Night yankeefifth

Posted by: RWC (Vagina Owl from the Future) at December 16, 2013 10:49 PM (Q6HBD)

698 684 besides, and I believe cthulhu can verify this in Ace's Rules of Order, Twelfth Edition", all ettes are effin hotter than a maserati on 110th street at 1am on a monday.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 02:37 AM (rDidD)

Yep. Page 5. Had to get past the definition of an 'ette.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 10:49 PM (T1005)

699 690 sigh, fine, it is a rule, all ettes are hot, always.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 02:42 AM (rDidD)

Damn straight.

Posted by: Vendette at December 17, 2013 02:44 AM (sv2CE)

Yep, right before the previous citation. "All 'ettes are hot, always -- specifically, they are hotter than a maserati seen on 110th street at 1 am on a Monday."

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 10:52 PM (T1005)

700 The US isn't one of them. Posted by: cormac_mcroadie at December 17, 2013 02:13 AM (mjO9h) Tell me about itÂ…

Posted by: Roman Polanski at December 16, 2013 10:56 PM (Vk2pI)

701 Had to get past the definition of an 'ette.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 17, 2013 02:49 AM (T1005)

Sounds like a pretty interesting definition. I'm assuming there is some kind of math equation included that deals with the hotness ratio of the average 'ette compared the left's Hagravens.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2013 11:03 PM (FMbng)

702 Looks like I even missed Deety. What a day, what a day. Just flying by to say nite, all.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at December 16, 2013 11:19 PM (qyfb5)

703 701 Had to get past the definition of an 'ette.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 17, 2013 02:49 AM (T1005)

Sounds like a pretty interesting definition. I'm assuming there is some kind of math equation included that deals with the hotness ratio of the average 'ette compared the left's Hagravens.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2013 03:03 AM (FMbng)

Yeah, well first it had to do a preamble and define Morons....you know how that stuff is written.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 11:19 PM (T1005)

704 Night all. Here is Iron Maiden's cover of "The King of Twilight" originally by Nektar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3vWC2ROvj4

Posted by: The Hat Up The Irons! at December 16, 2013 11:20 PM (Vk2pI)

705 702 Looks like I even missed Deety. What a day, what a day.

Just flying by to say nite, all.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 17, 2013 03:19 AM (qyfb5)

Anything interesting?

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 11:20 PM (T1005)

706 All ettes are hot.........so it is written

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 16, 2013 11:21 PM (BCUEp)

707 ahem ***taps mike*** Da BEARS are in FIRST!!!

Posted by: navycopjoe Bring me Rodger's head on a plate!!! at December 16, 2013 11:29 PM (JFrBt)

708 if it comes down to the GB-Bears game, looks like me and nck are flying to chicago

Posted by: navycopjoe Bring me Rodger's head on a plate!!! at December 16, 2013 11:30 PM (JFrBt)

709 I have a sneaking suspicion that few morons are even familiar with the song "Bell Bottom Trousers" that was parodied in comment #631 above. To rectify that, here it is on YouTube -- THE major hit on the airwaves at the moment WWII ended in 1945. At least 8 different versions were in the Top 40 between May an August 1945: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmhg-kOK1fE

Posted by: zombie at December 16, 2013 11:36 PM (+cx5n)

710 I looked up hagraven. Holy shit, a very apt description of a few lefty broads that I know.

Posted by: fastfreefall at December 16, 2013 11:38 PM (dS5nN)

711 I have to say, the Ninkasi guys are doin' brewin' right.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2013 11:52 PM (T1005)

712

You know who doesn't fuck around when it comes to crime and punishment? Singapore. A dude was scaring riders on the MRT with a samurai sword, he's facing 5yrs in the can and minimum 5 strokes of the cane. Fuck.

http://tinyurl.com/mys47yl

Posted by: fastfreefall at December 16, 2013 11:59 PM (dS5nN)

713 Nice ONT Maet,, We're #8 we're #8! Highest rated pantsless right site online.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 17, 2013 12:11 AM (9jfyN)

714 712
You know who doesn't fuck around when it comes to crime and punishment? Singapore. A dude was scaring riders on the MRT with a samurai sword, he's facing 5yrs in the can and minimum 5 strokes of the cane. Fuck.

http://tinyurl.com/mys47yl

Posted by: fastfreefall at December 17, 2013 03:59 AM (dS5nN)

There was a couple at our fish club that hailed from Singapore. People seldom lock their houses.....so that they can sometimes call their neighbors to shut off the stove. It's a weird combo of Ozzie and Harriet and 1984. We had a CNC rep who would talk about how banquets would be taxed on the amount of excess food.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 17, 2013 12:14 AM (T1005)

715 714 cthulhu at December 17, 2013 04:14 AM (T1005)

Singapore's love of autocracy largely springs from its pirate haven past.

Posted by: sven at December 17, 2013 12:33 AM (9jfyN)

716 298 johnd01 at December 16, 2013 11:31 PM (r0+v0)

Set your phasers to STUNNING!

Posted by: sven at December 17, 2013 12:34 AM (9jfyN)

717 I can prove it, send me a pic.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 17, 2013 02:42 AM (rDidD)

I'll save you the trouble. She's as cute as a speckled puppy in a little red wagon.

And now that I've waded through miles of comments...back to work. Later roonz and roonettez, fear no evil.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 17, 2013 12:55 AM (xa1/W)

718 Well no one is stopping you. [And then points a finger at the 'Open' part of Overnight Open Thread]. Okay... I'm not arguing AGAINST the 'Open' part of the ONT, just the 300+ "first!" comments and the fucking HOUR of scrolling it takes to get to the bottom for some of us on the West Coast. It's like those East-Coast Sleeztaks HATE the IDEA of an ONT thread. "Oh! An 8PM OTN! How wicked!!

Posted by: Deety at December 17, 2013 01:01 AM (ad4e8)

719 Yeah, well first it had to do a preamble and define Morons....you know how that stuff is written.! I have always assumed Morons as an AXIOM!

Posted by: Deety at December 17, 2013 01:14 AM (ad4e8)

720 I'm currently drinking my last Ninkasi SLEIGHR, which is a seasonal-release dark double alt ale -- i.e. not Bud Light.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 17, 2013 01:19 AM (T1005)

721 All right you cretins, coffee break is over. Back on your heads.

Waaay up yonder in the comments, Nip Slip provided a link to GoodShit, a blog I have visited before. But it has been a while, so I went back.

Hot nude pics notwithstanding, Nip's description of the site owner as 'a bit lefty' leaves a whole lot to be desired. We have stories of NJ teachers that give up their careers to become organic farmers (hint -- even with $200k in parent investment money, they are losing their asses), a research biologist bitching about the quality of reading material found in the field (Louis L'Amour, oh the humanity!), and best of all, an article from The Atlantic by Beth something or other about 'welfare queens'.

Strap your sanity down tight, folks, you're about to enter The Liberal Zone. We find out that white people receive more SNAP bennies than black people do, 45% to 23%, except there is absolutely no mention of their relative prevalence in the US population. We find out that 'astoundingly', 25 states have refused to expand their Medicaid eligibility under 404Care. After all, the feds have promised to pay those costs; how can they turn down free money?!??!?

And NEVER, I repeat never, does Beth explain where the gubmint gets all this largesse to dispense. That's why it is insane to not take this free money. See, the gubmint has this huge plantation of money trees, probably tended to by undocumented immigrants, that produces moar money than they know what to do with. Yet those Evil Repukes want to cut SNAP by 5% over 10 years, on a program that has grown 50% in 5 years. Moar Oh the Humanity! stuff follows.

Try as I might over the last 30-40 years to kill off brain cells, I cannot achieve the IQ reduction necessary to write for The Atlantic. Thus, I post lengthy late night posts on the HQ in the hopes that just one or two sane people get a few seconds of enlightenment or at least a good sneer of derision at my efforts.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 17, 2013 01:44 AM (wNF3N)

722 *sneering with derision in the general direction of GnuBreed Morning, horde. What'd I miss?

Posted by: shredded chi at December 17, 2013 01:56 AM (C2ugk)

723 722 *sneering with derision in the general direction of GnuBreed

Morning, horde. What'd I miss?

Posted by: shredded chi at December 17, 2013 05:56 AM (C2ugk)

I wouldn't be too sneery in GnuBreed's direction, he's on a roll.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 17, 2013 02:01 AM (T1005)

724 I wouldn't be too sneery in GnuBreed's direction, he's on a roll.

Is that a BUTTERED roll?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 17, 2013 02:03 AM (LSDdO)

725 We want the Vic

Bring on the Vic

Yeah

We want the Vic

Bring on the Vic

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 17, 2013 02:04 AM (LSDdO)

726 >> *sneering with derision in the general direction of GnuBreed

All sneers appreciated. Next up, tats I've never gotten but wanted.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 17, 2013 02:16 AM (wNF3N)

727 We should be fine this morning. as long as no-one uses butter, butt and biscuit in the same sentence,

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 17, 2013 02:17 AM (GztZn)

728 >> Bring on the Vic

See my comment #3. If The Brown hasn't gotten him, he'll be along shortly.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 17, 2013 02:19 AM (wNF3N)

729 727 One of my favorite meals involves butternut squash, buttermilk biscuits, and a Boston Butt roast.

(okay I'm lying about the squash -- the horror of the food world. I think chefs add squash to a recipe as a gullibility check)

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 17, 2013 02:26 AM (wNF3N)

730 Did anyone notice the Drudge link about multivitamins being a huge nothingburger?

Been there, decided that a long time ago.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 17, 2013 02:30 AM (wNF3N)

731 Actually, butternut squash isn't bad at all. Roazted with brown sugar and cinnamon, it's a lot like sweet potatoes

Posted by: shredded chi at December 17, 2013 02:31 AM (C2ugk)

732 It's a toss-up between squash and okra.

The human race would continue fine without either one.

My first actual okra sighting was in 78. Heard the word used in a sentence before. Just never actually laid my eyes on the stuff. Tour of mess cooking in the Wardroom Galley of a Frigate. During my first almost semi-hurricane at sea, ship rocking from here to hell and back, in a hot. tiny galley....there sits a pot of bubbling Navy grade Okra.

Never touched it since.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 17, 2013 02:33 AM (GztZn)

733 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 17, 2013 06:33 AM (GztZn) Okra should be breaded w/cornmeal and fried...'til it rattles. Stewed okra is a precursor to....paste.

Posted by: BignJames at December 17, 2013 02:41 AM (ZNQKl)

734 "Stewed okra is a precursor to....paste."

Or, Mother Nature's sinus drainage.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 17, 2013 02:45 AM (GztZn)

735 >> My first actual okra sighting was in 78...

You think that's bad; my grandmother used to send me out to the garden to pick that shit. It's covered with tiny, sticky, itchy hairs.

Okra duty sux.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 17, 2013 02:47 AM (wNF3N)

736 I hate getting up earlier than the headlines thread. Makes it seem too early.

You'll have to start getting up earlier, gabe and andy (and Vic!).

Posted by: Jay in Ames at December 17, 2013 02:50 AM (bzb6V)

737 Nood!!

It's here.
Bring on the Vic.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 17, 2013 02:58 AM (GztZn)

738 How is RCP "Conservative?" It's amazing, if you put any conservative views into your site, at all, you're Conservative. But RCP includes just about every Krugman, Friedman, etc. article there is. Amazing...

Posted by: RobM1981 at December 17, 2013 03:23 AM (zurJC)

739 Proud to say that I frequent the top ten every.day. And of the 40, 18 total. Nice. Alright, Ace. Guess I must sweeten your pot....Woop!

Posted by: DefendUSA at December 17, 2013 04:31 AM (nAHMK)

740 I agree with #738 above. Why is simply reporting all the news rather than only what does not hurt Democrats considered "Conservative". Drudge and Fox are both Balanced.

Posted by: tillurdizzy at December 17, 2013 04:36 AM (S5y5p)

741 But Number 1 in our hearts...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 17, 2013 04:43 AM (vHRtU)

742 We find out that 'astoundingly', 25 states have refused to expand their Medicaid eligibility under 404Care. After all, the feds have promised to pay those costs; how can they turn down free money?!??!? And NEVER, I repeat never, does Beth explain where the gubmint gets all this largesse to dispense. Fucking JAN BREWER and all her fucking AZ cronies know! Janet Napolitano didn't have the balls to RAPE the state of AZ like Brewer and the GOP cronies are doing. Jan Brewer thinks that it is fucking funny to leave Arizonans with insurmountable Medicaid bills to the next century so long as her buddies get paid the next 2 years! Ha ha ha ha! You fuckin' BASTARDS in fuckin' SCOTTSDALE!!!

Posted by: Deety at December 17, 2013 05:11 AM (ad4e8)

743 (okay I'm lying about the squash -- the horror of the food world. I think chefs add squash to a recipe as a gullibility check) Other than zucchini, I think that you are correct. Just NASTY fucking taste sinks are squashes, for the most part. Just be fucking HAPPY you get to gnaw on this awful tuber, in the end times!

Posted by: Deety at December 17, 2013 05:29 AM (ad4e8)

744 Ya know, I distinctly remember either Andy or Dave (I think it was Andy, but who the hell knows) telling me this site had no political pull a while back.

Posted by: Dick (@DicksTrash) at December 17, 2013 10:10 AM (GrtrJ)

745 Enny yaw don lak okra is raycis.

Posted by: EROWMER at December 17, 2013 10:23 AM (OONaw)

746 Your sites listed are about 1/3 RINO. You should be closer to #1

fail (I know it's not your list.)

Posted by: JB at December 17, 2013 11:04 AM (K/J3u)

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