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December 19, 2013

Overnight Open Thread (12-19-2013)
— Maetenloch

So all but one of my computers are currently down while I'm restoring them which means I've got nothing really. So you'll get whatever scraps I happened to have lying around and you'll like them.

Who Disapproves of ObamaCare?

Well mostly the very people it was supposed to help - the health care uninsured.

Fifty-three percent of the uninsured disapprove of the law, the poll found, compared with 51 percent of those who have health coverage. A third of the uninsured say the law will help them personally, but about the same number think it will hurt them, with cost a leading concern.

Moreover the uninsured really don't like the idea of mandated coverage and many are foregoing the mandated insurance either because they can't afford the new plans, just don't think they need any, or are philosophically opposed to being forced to buy insurance just for living in the US.

Seventy-seven percent of the uninsured said they disapproved of the mandate, compared with 65 percent of those who already have health insurance.

...Of the uninsured who said they were not likely to sign up by the deadline, fully half said it was because of the high cost. Twenty-nine percent said they planned to go without coverage because they object to the government's requiring it, and 11 percent said they did not need health insurance

Just one more layer in the giant FAIL onion of Obamacare: Even the very people it was designed to help hate it.

The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

The love of vajayjay that is.

It seems like, to me, a vagina Â— as a man Â— would be more desirable than a manÂ’s anus. ThatÂ’s just me. IÂ’m just thinking: ThereÂ’s more there! SheÂ’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what IÂ’m saying?

Meanwhile the Robertson family says no Phil, no show:

We want to thank all of you for your prayers and support. The family has spent much time in prayer since learning of A&EÂ’s decision. We want you to know that first and foremost we are a family rooted in our faith in God and our belief that the Bible is His word. While some of PhilÂ’s unfiltered comments to the reporter were coarse, his beliefs are grounded in the teachings of the Bible. Phil is a Godly man who follows what the Bible says are the greatest commandments: Â“Love the Lord your God with all your heartÂ” and Â“Love your neighbor as yourself.Â” Phil would never incite or encourage hate.We are disappointed that Phil has been placed on hiatus for expressing his faith, which is his constitutionally protected right.We have had a successful working relationship with A&E but, as a family, we cannot imagine the show going forward without our patriarch at the helm. We are in discussions with A&E to see what that means for the future of Duck Dynasty. Again, thank you for your continued support of our family.

Police Pulling Over Drivers For More Random DNA Tests

This time in Pennsylvania.

"Pennsylvania police this week were pulling people to the side of the road, quizzing them on their driving habits, and asking if they'd like to provide a cheek swap or a blood sample - the latest in a federally contracted operation that's touted as making roads safer. The same operation took place last month at a community in Texas. Then, drivers were randomly told to pull off the road into a parking lot, where white-coated researchers asked if they'd like to provide DNA samples for a project that determines what percentage of drivers are operating under the influence of drugs or alcohol at given times. With uniformed police in the background, the researchers also offered the motorists money - up to $50 or so - for the blood or saliva samples."

Charlie Stross: Bitcoin Should Die in a Fire

Meh - I find his arguments against Bitcoin pretty weak. And it's not like government-backed money is cost-free either.

The Best Bike Trick of 2013

Here Ethen Godfrey Roberts pulls off a Superman double backflip.

The Story of the Photo

On 21st December 1989, Jean Guichard traveled to the lighthouse in a helicopter when such a storm broke out. Guichard was a celebrated photographer of maritime heritage around France and decided to take photos of the lighthouse during the storm. Inside, the lighthouse keeper ThÃ©odore Malgorn was waiting to be rescued, and thought Guichard's helicopter was his rescue helicopter.
He hurried downstairs to open the door - a moment which coincided with a giant wave enveloping the lighthouse. Malgorn rushed back inside and managed to close the door, and Guichard took a series of seven photos that became instantly famous. They sold over one million copies in poster print and earned him the World Press Photo award.
Two years later, automation came to Breton lighthouses; La Jument's keeper was retired 1991.

Camo That Changes Color With the Season

Why Does Grover Cleveland Count as Two Presidents?

Besides girth that is.

10 of the Most Hated People on the Internet

Eh - 2.5 of these people might actually qualify as evil. And Jackie Chan is hated by the most people world-wide - really? Further proof that the internet has the judgment of a 14 year old mean girl.

Yahoo group. That is all.

The group thingy. And the middle class.

And my Twitter spew.

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1 Woot

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 19, 2013 06:47 PM (HVff2)

2 Double woot

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 19, 2013 06:47 PM (HVff2)

3 12 Posts of Christmas, 2013 (Day 7) From the warped mind of Cyriak: Â“The Spirit of ChristmasÂ” More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=4467

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 19, 2013 06:48 PM (Vk2pI)

4 I'm getting in the first 20 - just for Tami.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 06:48 PM (LxcRK)

5 Notfirst!

Posted by: Brother Cavil needs to sort his socks at December 19, 2013 06:48 PM (m9V0o)

6 Triple woot

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 19, 2013 06:48 PM (HVff2)

7 NevadaÂ’s own Â“Napoleon XIVÂ½Â” Throws a Temper Tantrum NevadaÂ’s own Â“Napoleon XIVÂ½Â” Jon Ralston threw a temper tantrum on his blog about how Sen. Dean HellerÂ’s office was sooo unprofessional. Why? Because HellerÂ’s office had better things to do than to cater to (yet another) malignant narcissist, who is not above belittling the accent of an immigrant. He is the textbook description of someone with a Napoleon complex, abet in the case of Ralston it is more of a Napoleon XIVÂ… and a halfÂ… complex. More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=4451

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 19, 2013 06:48 PM (Vk2pI)

8 Lol! You go Dave!

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at December 19, 2013 06:48 PM (bCEmE)

9 So, I was stuck in traffic today and a song came on from years ago. Singing along, my brain cross associated the song to something I did at the time it was a hit that I'm not proud of, and suddenly my conscience went into overdrive and decided that the drive home would be beat-up-on-the-brain time. I got into a thought loop where I kept remembering bad stuff I'd done 20 or more years ago. Nothing major or prosecutable, no rapes, murders or bank robberies, just the small beer of being an imperfect human. "Remember that girl who was sweet on you at 18? You totally used her for sex for about a week then dumped her, I bet you hurt her! Hey, then there was that party in Catonsville where you drove home too shitfaced drunk to see! You lied to XXX! You totally stole that thing dude! You were intentionally mean to XXX for no reason whatsoever!", and so on and so on. Now, as I said, all of this was over 20 years ago, and I probably am the man I am today because of the idiot I was then, but some of that stuff was so....foreign to who I am now that I wound up feeling guilty decades later! I am willing to bet the same thing happens to everybody (everybody with a sense of honor and virtue anyway). I wouldn't do any of those things today. I couldn't do them today, just...could not do them. But I did do them back then. Oy. I realize that everybody is an asshole sometimes, and while I can't change the past I can make sure not to be an asshole today or tomorrow. That's hard enough at times, it doesn't seem fair to have to remember stupid shit I did decades ago.

Posted by: Weirddave at December 19, 2013 06:48 PM (N/cFh)

10 Lesson: Never assume a Frenchman in a helicopter is going to save you first.

Posted by: Arbalest at December 19, 2013 06:49 PM (FlRtG)

11 Triple Wooot

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 06:49 PM (iu8IB)

12 Ethan Krupp is not a nice person even as he sips organic latte in his oranigc hemp onesies...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 19, 2013 06:49 PM (Zm0GY)

13 Oh ONT! We've eagerly awaited your arrival.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 06:50 PM (DmNpO)

14 no, I will not provide a DNA sample. leave me the F alone.

Posted by: knob at December 19, 2013 06:50 PM (H1bc7)

15 That looks like Harrison Ford in the Crystal Skull.. I would be hiding in a porta potty too if I was involved in that piece of shit!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 19, 2013 06:50 PM (b/lt+)

16 Yep Chi-Town Jerry. Indy is going, "Cr@p, Comrade Blanchett has found me!"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 19, 2013 06:51 PM (Zm0GY)

17 Evening morons! Found a nice beer store a little bit out of the way but with a nice selection. Stocked up on some Ommegang brews while I was there. They sell 750 mL bottles of 3 Philosophers, I may burn some serious cash there.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at December 19, 2013 06:51 PM (5iWtj)

18 Why Does Grover Cleveland Count as Two Presidents? Cleveland was actually two separate Presidents until one ate the otherÂ…

Posted by: The Non-Consecutive Hat at December 19, 2013 06:51 PM (Vk2pI)

19 Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 19, 2013 10:49 PM (Zm0GY) smoke! that onesies ... might mean .... different things to different people ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 06:51 PM (iu8IB)

20 Sitting here with scotch, three new auto parts in the box for my old truck, and new rifle sights, in the box.

Which to install first?

Scotch.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 19, 2013 06:51 PM (4Mv1T)

21 17 Stocked up on some Ommegang brews

Cut. Jib. Newsletter.

Posted by: Iasonas at December 19, 2013 06:52 PM (FHNkr)

22 no, I will not provide a DNA sample. leave me the F alone. Posted by: knob at December 19, 2013 10:50 PM (H1bc7) That wasn't a requestÂ…

Posted by: Leviathan, now with 20% anal probes at December 19, 2013 06:53 PM (Vk2pI)

23 18 Why Does Grover Cleveland Count as Two Presidents? Cleveland was actually two separate Presidents until one ate the otherÂ… Posted by: The Non-Consecutive Hat at December 19, 2013 10:51 PM (Vk2pI) Didn't he give birth to Brian Denehey?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 19, 2013 06:53 PM (HVff2)

24 I realize that everybody is an asshole sometimes, and while I can't change the past I can make sure not to be an asshole today or tomorrow. That's hard enough at times, it doesn't seem fair to have to remember stupid shit I did decades ago. Posted by: Weirddave
............
Embrace the suck, Dave.

You are what you are because of EVERYTHING that made you what you are today.

That said.. I understand.. I go through that too..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 19, 2013 06:54 PM (b/lt+)

25 We thank you, thank you, Maetenloch, for this scrappy ONT. When we've finished actually reading it, the more thankful we shall be ... Burma Shave!!!!!

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 06:54 PM (iu8IB)

26 TR parts for? And sights for?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 19, 2013 06:54 PM (HVff2)

27 so, obamacare, hoo boy, who even knows anymore. all it is anymore is disruptive .

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 06:55 PM (rDidD)

28 Why Does Grover Cleveland Count as Two Presidents? Cleveland was actually two separate Presidents until one ate the otherÂ… Posted by: The Non-Consecutive Hat at December 19, 2013 10:51 PM (Vk2pI) Didn't he give birth to Brian Denehey? Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 19, 2013 10:53 PM (HVff2) Sprung forth from Cleveland's head fully formed like AthenaÂ…

Posted by: The Non-Consecutive Hat at December 19, 2013 06:55 PM (Vk2pI)

29 Which to install first?

Scotch.
Posted by: Tobacco Road
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Followed by rifle parts (or truck parts?)? Glad I am here and you are there!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 19, 2013 06:55 PM (b/lt+)

30 Didn't he give birth to Brian Denehey? Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Brian Denehey was acquired in the Louisiana Purchase.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 19, 2013 06:55 PM (4Mv1T)

31 The AoS barrel in its early years. Before it was gravely scarred by the realities of a cruel world and grimy Morons.
http://tinyurl.com/malnsjp

Adriane, let me rephrase that - organic soy latte that was not prepared or picked by him...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 19, 2013 06:55 PM (Zm0GY)

32 Don't forget that some jurisdictions said that blood samples without consent were ok until SCOTUS smacked that down and said "no, get a warrant"

Posted by: Iasonas at December 19, 2013 06:56 PM (FHNkr)

33 Twenty-nine percent said they planned to go without coverage because they object to the government's requiring it Almost a third say because... Government... I Like.... What most don't know is that only about 1/3 of those in the colonies really wanted to Rebel.... 1/3 wanted to stay English... 1/3 wanted to sit it out... It does not even take a Majority to start change... even radical change.... just a certain percentage of people COMMITED to change..

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2013 06:57 PM (lZBBB)

34 Jackie Chan has been sucking up to the Commies/Fascists all his life.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at December 19, 2013 06:57 PM (V70Uh)

35 where white-coated researchers asked if they'd like to provide DNA samples for a project that determines what percentage of drivers are operating under the influence of drugs or alcohol at given times. Yet, reporter does not ask obvious question: "How does DNA show if you're under the influence?"

Posted by: --- at December 19, 2013 06:57 PM (MMC8r)

36 The AoS barrel in its early years. Before it was gravely scarred by the realities of a cruel world and grimy Morons.
http://tinyurl.com/malnsjp

I was so awkward then.

Posted by: The Barrel at December 19, 2013 06:57 PM (JawqV)

37 Tonight ABC ran A Charlie Brown Christmas. I'm surprised that they left the scene in where Linus recites the Gospel of Luke. I mean aren't they afraid of offending people with religion? Has the ACLU and other assorted lefties sued them yet for running it?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 19, 2013 06:58 PM (JivuR)

38 The AoS barrel in its early years. Before it was gravely scarred by the realities of a cruel world and grimy Morons. http://tinyurl.com/malnsjp : -) and yet, I prefer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SfyObUd5e8

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 06:58 PM (iu8IB)

39 charlie brown special always sucked. depressing.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 06:58 PM (rDidD)

40 And for the record, the only one who gets my DNA samples... Is my Girlfriend....

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2013 06:58 PM (lZBBB)

41 35 where white-coated researchers asked if they'd like to provide DNA samples for a project that determines what percentage of drivers are operating under the influence of drugs or alcohol at given times.

Yet, reporter does not ask obvious question: "How does DNA show if you're under the influence?"

Posted by: --- at December 19, 2013 10:57 PM (MMC8r)

It doesn't, but once the cops get you to roll down the window all they have to do is say that they smelled alcohol/marijuana and your day is ruined.

Posted by: Iasonas at December 19, 2013 06:59 PM (FHNkr)

42 What's up, Duck?

Posted by: fluffy at December 19, 2013 06:59 PM (Ua6T/)

43 I'm among the fortunate, I'm pretty unlikely to ever have to deal with the Obamacare Exchange. My company is pretty committed to providing insurance for employees and is large enough to have significant pull.

However, I decided that if I were ever to lose it, I will pay a fine before using that web site. I will never enter my personal information into that thing.

Related, I read a really great article the other day about doctors that are setting up fee for service practices that don't accept insurance at all. All procedures are listed up front on a menu, and generally run about 20% of the going rate.

If Obamacare never gets repealed, then I'm willing to bet that becomes the new market, with insurance companies out of the loop. Which wouldn't be a terrible outcome. My doctor already moved to a concierge practice, which I'm paying out of pocket for.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 06:59 PM (LxcRK)

44 "Am I under arrest, officer? No? Well then, you have a nice night. 'Bye."

(drives away)

Posted by: filbert at December 19, 2013 06:59 PM (roTS7)

45 "How does DNA show if you're under the influence?"
They discovered the gay gene.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 19, 2013 06:59 PM (YQUIz)

46 Because Grover Cleveland was the original MasterBlaster.

Posted by: --- at December 19, 2013 06:59 PM (MMC8r)

47 Good evening, Horde! I knit so much today my hands are aching. Thankfully the recipients are knit-worthy. I will never again knit for people who aren't appreciative of the work that goes into their gifts. Unless they are paying customers.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 19, 2013 07:00 PM (N/cFh)

48 Adriane, let me rephrase that - organic soy latte that was not prepared or picked by him... That can be a hangin' offense in Progressylvania ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 07:00 PM (iu8IB)

49 And for the record, the only one who gets my DNA samples... Is my Girlfriend.... Posted by: Romeo and her hair girl.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 07:00 PM (rDidD)

50 "Fifty-three percent of the uninsured disapprove of the law, the poll found, compared with 51 percent of those who have health coverage. A third of the uninsured say the law will help them personally, but about the same number think it will hurt them, with cost a leading concern." Because the insured don't know how crappy the offered plans are. You have to sign up for an account and go through several steps, on a site that doesn't work a good share of the time, before you can find out what the plans really are. If you get through all that you find out that the cheap plans (bronze) have such high deductibles and co pays, that you may as well be uninsured. You will pay a couple hundred dollars a month in premiums, then when you get hurt and go to the hospital emergency room, you will pay the entire $4000 yourself to meet the deductible. But you get a free mammogram, which must make the dudes feel great. If you get a higher level plan, silver, you pay several hundred per month premiums, but you still have higher deductible and copays than you had with your old insurance. People who have insurance through their employers like I used to know none of this.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2013 07:00 PM (AtSBz)

51 TR parts for? And sights for? Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Ignition control module, pick-up coil, and vacuum advance for the distributor. Very small parts with even smaller screws and washers. Spewing curse words in advance of installation.

45 degree quick acquisition back up iron sights. I don't like them, and sold them an hour after I got 'em.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 19, 2013 07:01 PM (4Mv1T)

52 #9 Yeah I get those guilt dumps too. You'd think they'd get shorter over the decades.

After School Special Moral: kids, try not to be an asshole unless it's absolutely worth it.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 19, 2013 07:01 PM (XO6WW)

53 37: They had trouble putting in that scene in way back in 1965 but Shultz stood firm and the network backed down.

Posted by: puddleglum at December 19, 2013 07:01 PM (15w2J)

54 I knit so much today my hands are aching.
Then how's your . . . oh, never mind.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 19, 2013 07:01 PM (YQUIz)

55 Stunt sports -- like bmx, skateboarding, snowboarding, etc -- all seem to hit diminishing returns pretty quick. The 200th time I see somebody do a backflip just isn't that interesting. It's like the NBA dunk competition. Doesn't take long before you run out of new interesting things to do.

Posted by: Franch Dressing at December 19, 2013 07:01 PM (ZPrif)

56 "Hey, then there was that party in Catonsville where you drove home too shitfaced drunk to see!"

Pretty much describes every party in Catonsville.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 07:01 PM (LxcRK)

57 >>>Tonight ABC ran A Charlie Brown Christmas. I'm surprised that they left the scene in where Linus recites the Gospel of Luke. I mean aren't they afraid of offending people with religion? Has the ACLU and other assorted lefties sued them yet for running it?<<<

That's ok. To offset the religious aspect of the original, tomorrow we are going to run an updated, edgier version -- A Charlie Brown Dildo's Christmas.

Posted by: ABC at December 19, 2013 07:01 PM (GDgxf)

58 Stocked up on some Ommegang brews

Jealous.

Someone left a Three Philosophers on the program manager's desk today. I almost popped it open.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ drinking heavily at December 19, 2013 07:02 PM (hO8IJ)

59 54 I knit so much today my hands are aching. Then how's your . . . oh, never mind. Posted by: andycanuck at December 19, 2013 11:01 PM (YQUIz) --- . . .

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 19, 2013 07:02 PM (N/cFh)

60 In a nutshell. Democrats and liberals shouldn't be allowed to run a lemonade stand and I am pissed at anyone who voted for Obama and his pile of shit law. I'm hoping the subject of Obamacare doesn't come up over Christmas when my liberal sister in law is here. I'd hate for me to lose it and hit her up side the head.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2013 07:03 PM (AtSBz)

61 Weirddave - I am haunted by my past. Like you, it isn't malicious things, not truly evil things, but sins of omission, indifference, self-interest, a failure to consider others, failure to keep the needs of others uppermost in my mind.. The terrible part is, the older I get, the more those things come to mind. There is no way to atone for them.

A couple of times in the last day A Christmas Carol has been quoted. Last night someone here quoted Marley with what for me is one of the most memorable bit from the story:
"I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it."

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 19, 2013 07:03 PM (aDwsi)

62 I know that I am three days early for the Sunday Book Thread, but I finished "The Guns of August" this evening.

Just wow. What a bunch of flaming assholes, cowards, bullies, fools, etc.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at December 19, 2013 07:03 PM (V70Uh)

63 But you get a free mammogram, which must make the dudes feel great.

Men get breast cancer, too.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ drinking heavily at December 19, 2013 07:03 PM (hO8IJ)

64 Good evening, all You think that camp is Co? Check out this shit: http://tinyurl.com/lc9x9cl Watch the whole thing - or at least give it a minute, it's not just lights... Technology is really startng to scare me.

Posted by: shredded chi at December 19, 2013 07:04 PM (LqrJL)

65 Tonight ABC ran A Charlie Brown Christmas. I'm surprised that they left the scene in where Linus recites the Gospel of Luke. I mean aren't they afraid of offending people with religion? Has the ACLU and other assorted lefties sued them yet for running it? We had our church Christmas pageant last week, and Gabriel(le) forgot her lines right in the middle of telling the shepherds not to be afraid. I found myself reciting the passage in KJV - pretty much the only place I could have learned it in that version was from Charlie Brown Christmas.

Posted by: Grey Fox at December 19, 2013 07:04 PM (T57zv)

66 Sounds like the scotch was a good 1st choice TR

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 19, 2013 07:05 PM (HVff2)

67 For AlextheChick and MWR

http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Liz-Climo-cute-animals-20.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 19, 2013 07:05 PM (Zm0GY)

68 "Then, drivers were randomly told to pull off the road into a parking lot, where white-coated researchers asked if they'd like to provide DNA samples for a project"

I would have looked around furtively a couple of times, reached down and unzipped my pants, and muttered _sotto voce_, "I'll just pull off over on the side there. But only one of you at a time, OK?"

Posted by: torquewrench at December 19, 2013 07:05 PM (gqT4g)

69 Men get breast cancer, too. Posted by: HeatherRadishÂ™ drinking heavily at December 19, 2013 11:03 PM (hO8IJ) Yeah.... but strangely? Never been asked to get a mammogram...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2013 07:05 PM (lZBBB)

70 That's ok. To offset the religious aspect of the original, tomorrow we are going to run an updated, edgier version -- A Charlie Brown Dildo's Christmas. True Story: Ken Russell plagiarized the story boards for In the Lair of the White Worm from this ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 07:06 PM (iu8IB)

71 "Then, drivers were randomly told to pull off the road into a parking lot, where white-coated researchers asked if they'd like to provide DNA samples for a project that determines what percentage of drivers are operating under the influence of drugs or alcohol at given times." Yeah, I'm always impressed with people in white lab coats. The ones working the cosmetics counter at the department store are very professional.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2013 07:06 PM (AtSBz)

72 Sure you van have a DNA sample.

But FIRST YOU WILL BLOW ME.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 19, 2013 07:07 PM (TI3xG)

73 Use Arm&Hammer to trap funky fridge olders.

Posted by: National Treasure at December 19, 2013 07:07 PM (R6JT1)

74 62: I haven't read The Guns of August but WW1 is fascinating to me. There is sort of this gallows, morbid, humor to it all. Amazing how all those highly educated world leaders completly fucked shit up. Wouldn't happen today of course.

Posted by: puddleglum at December 19, 2013 07:07 PM (15w2J)

75 Sounds like the scotch was a good 1st choice TR Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Some choices are easy.

And it's 68 here tomorrow. Truck parts installed in the morning, and I'll terrorize the expressway afterwards to see if they work.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 19, 2013 07:08 PM (4Mv1T)

76 Mike Hammer at December 19, 2013 11:03 PM (aDwsi) For every bad memory, do one good deed, forgive yourself and ... move on ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 07:09 PM (iu8IB)

77 "Tonight's post brought to you by this might work:" It isn't so much of a stretch when you remember that I survived a fall from an airplane onto a mountain cliff using a rubber life-raft.

Posted by: Indiana Jones at December 19, 2013 07:09 PM (ZyqBH)

78 Just wow. What a bunch of flaming assholes, cowards, bullies, fools, etc.

Posted by: Grampa
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And it set the stage for a slaughter that no sane person would contemplate.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 19, 2013 07:09 PM (aDwsi)

79 Didn't we all kind of know, the moment he climbed into that fridge, that the franchise had jumped the shark?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 07:09 PM (DmNpO)

80 TR enjoy the drive. I got the go ahead to drive next week. Hell, I don't want to go for a chauffeured ride let along drive

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 19, 2013 07:10 PM (HVff2)

81 Pretty much describes every party in Catonsville.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 11:01 PM (LxcRK)

_________________

If I lived in Catonsville I would probably have to start drinking again.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 19, 2013 07:11 PM (jucos)

82 From twitter... Silent Night, scrubbed of all Christian references. Only "Heaven" remains. http://t.co/PMvP4pjeuL

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 07:11 PM (DmNpO)

83 Obama did not follow the War Powers Resolution in regard to Libya, yet he does so now, in South Sudan (by sending a letter to Congress within 48 hours).

Posted by: Baldy at December 19, 2013 07:11 PM (2bql3)

84 Catonsville makes you pine for Beirut.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 07:12 PM (LxcRK)

pajama boy, about what you might have expected (don't know if anyone already linked to this):

http://tinyurl.com/l7upp53

Posted by: mallfly at December 19, 2013 07:12 PM (zjcTL)

86 You can take the girl out of Catonsville, but you can't take the gum out of her mouth.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 07:13 PM (LxcRK)

87 Hey-o! Sorry I'm late, but the Xmas cards are now outside. That's better than last year, when we ended up not sending any at all.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 07:13 PM (T1005)

88 Did Obama send it or did the Autopen?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 19, 2013 07:13 PM (YQUIz)

89 Did anyone ever confirm PJ Boy's major? There were a lot of educated guesses.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 19, 2013 07:13 PM (aDwsi)

90 Posted by: Baldy at December 19, 2013 11:11 PM (2bql3) Link? Is this Obama's Wag the Dog?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2013 07:13 PM (lZBBB)

91 Catonsville is no Dundalk though Hun....

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 19, 2013 07:14 PM (jucos)

92 Catonsville is the only place I've ever seen with more bars than Starbucks.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 07:14 PM (LxcRK)

93 I really fucking hate Autocorrect on this phone. * @64 think that camo is cool?

Posted by: shredded chi at December 19, 2013 07:14 PM (LqrJL)

94 mallfly, check out The Daily Caller.

Ethan Krupp was a very unfunny mean little person at UW-Madison. To paraphrase him, "The one who accused me of being a Beck supporter. I murdered him."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 19, 2013 07:14 PM (Zm0GY)

95 I think you mean Wagyu the dog!

Posted by: president o'bumbles at December 19, 2013 07:14 PM (YQUIz)

96 Didn't we all kind of know, the moment he climbed into that fridge, that the franchise had jumped the shark? Many people have substituted the phrase "nuked the fridge" for "jumped the shark" these days.

Posted by: Overheard by the Gods of the Copybook Headings at December 19, 2013 07:15 PM (N/cFh)

97 79 Didn't we all kind of know, the moment he climbed into that fridge, that the franchise had jumped the shark? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 11:09 PM (DmNpO) The franchise had jumped the shark even before the 4th movie's opening roll finished. It was the movie nobody wanted to make, in the words of Steven Spielberg.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 19, 2013 07:15 PM (ZyqBH)

98 Checked out the NYT's pick of the comments on that article about how disapproves of Obamacare. The Unbelievable Bullshit light when strobe: "A couple months ago I was especially glad we had insurance when I was rushed to the hospital for a "minor" heart problem that I was not aware of. A shot in the arm fixed it in about two minutes, and I was released 48 hours later (no surgery, only some "tests"). The hospital bill was $40,000, but thanks to medicare and my supplemental policy I'm still solvent." Their comments section is about as genuine as a "reality show."

Posted by: Burn the Witch at December 19, 2013 07:15 PM (Qt/d2)

99 Dear Lord I love the Brian Denehy meme. Never gets old. Laughing... out loud, no less.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Hibernian Hooligan at December 19, 2013 07:15 PM (6rcHp)

100 And "Dun Daak" ain't no Sparrows Point.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 07:15 PM (LxcRK)

101 Hey-o! Sorry I'm late, but the Xmas cards are now outside. That's better than last year, when we ended up not sending any at all.
Posted by: cthulhu
--------------

Kudos. Mrs. Hammer writes the notes in 'em, I do the addresses. In the morning, I swear, I will have them to the at P.O. tomorrow.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 19, 2013 07:15 PM (aDwsi)

102 Catonsville is the only place I've ever seen with more bars than Starbucks.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 11:14 PM (LxcRK)
_______________________

Ever been to any small town in WI?

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 19, 2013 07:15 PM (jucos)

103 After the situation in New Mexico, swabbing for DNA seems positively warm and welcoming. BTW, it happened again, this time in Texas(?) David Mastio ‏@DavidMastio 3h Drug Warriors Kidnap and Sexually Assault a Woman After Getting Permission From a Dog http://t.co/3uZTnHseGI

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 07:16 PM (DmNpO)

104 Krup, the Alexander Portnoy of Raw Liver Rape...

Posted by: Alex Portnoy at December 19, 2013 07:17 PM (vHRtU)

105 Weirddave: sounds like you have a conscience. Be grateful; it's much better than being oblivious to the shortcomings in your life, especially if you learn something from that inner voice.

Posted by: PabloD at December 19, 2013 07:17 PM (dZw75)

106 hey, someone suggested ethan as a possible name for this beta male. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! he has been branded by the scarlet organizing for america "O". his family will disown him his children will put themselves up for adoption.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 07:17 PM (rDidD)

107 Didn't we all kind of know, the moment he climbed into that fridge, that the franchise had jumped the shark?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 11:09 PM

No. Opening credits... "Harrison Ford, Ray Winstone, Karen Allen, John fucking Hurt... this might actually be...

Shia LeBoof...

...Ohhhh."

Posted by: otho at December 19, 2013 07:17 PM (9gNQd)

108 Romeo13, AndyCanuck - Amid violence this week, Obama sent 45 U.S. service members to South Sudan. In a letter to Congress, he said the troops were deployed "to support the security of U.S. personnel and our Embassy. http://tinyurl.com/labxs86

Posted by: Baldy at December 19, 2013 07:17 PM (2bql3)

109 92 Catonsville is the only place I've ever seen with more bars than Starbucks.

Posted by: Dave in Fla

I see you have never visited the city I grew up in: New Castle, PA. I'm not sure a Starbucks is even there.

Posted by: puddleglum at December 19, 2013 07:17 PM (15w2J)

110 101 Hey-o! Sorry I'm late, but the Xmas cards are now outside. That's better than last year, when we ended up not sending any at all. Posted by: cthulhu -------------- Kudos. Mrs. Hammer writes the notes in 'em, I do the addresses. In the morning, I swear, I will have them to the at P.O. tomorrow. Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 19, 2013 11:15 PM (aDwsi) Congrats morons. I did ours except for dropping them off in the mail. Mrs. Misanthrope had better do that tomorrow.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 19, 2013 07:17 PM (HVff2)

111 Many people have substituted the phrase "nuked the fridge" for "jumped the shark" these days. *** Sweet! Even the yungins can grasp the concept.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 07:17 PM (DmNpO)

112 Did anyone ever confirm PJ Boy's major? There were a lot of educated guesses.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 19, 2013 11:13 PM (aDwsi)

He was going for a music degree until he found out the skin flute wasn't an actual instrument.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at December 19, 2013 07:18 PM (FMbng)

113 There's some background on Master Krupp linked in my ~~pajamas~~ sock.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 19, 2013 07:18 PM (YQUIz)

114 No. Opening credits... "Harrison Ford, Ray Winstone, Karen Allen, John fucking Hurt... this might actually be... Shia LeBoof... ...Ohhhh." *** I like Shia LeBouf.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 07:18 PM (DmNpO)

115 63 But you get a free mammogram, which must make the dudes feel great. Men get breast cancer, too. Posted by: HeatherRadishÂ™ drinking heavily at December 19, 2013 11:03 PM (hO8IJ) Yeah, but I can't imagine them having that thin little piece of flesh squished into the mammogram vise. Also the free mammogram isn't much of a reward for the increased cost of Obamacare plans.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2013 07:18 PM (AtSBz)

116 43

If Obamacare never gets repealed, then I'm willing to bet that becomes the new market, with insurance companies out of the loop. Which wouldn't be a terrible outcome. My doctor already moved to a concierge practice, which I'm paying out of pocket for.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 10:59 PM (LxcRK)

I can definitely see that becoming popular (at least until an executive order seizes all assets and revokes licenses of doctors who dare do that).

I'm curious if the damned labs will follow suit. I'm not gonna pay $1000+/year out of pocket for a couple of CBCs and metabolic and thyroid panels just so I may have the privilege of continuing to buy my blood pressure and thyroid pills from a local pharmacy. If/when it comes to that, I'll just cut the doctor out altogether and buy the fucking drugs from Mexico (until my assets are seized and I'm imprisoned).

Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm at December 19, 2013 07:18 PM (e4elg)

117 Did anyone ever confirm PJ Boy's major? There were a lot of educated guesses. *** 18th Century French Poetry

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 07:19 PM (DmNpO)

118 Good point, but in WI they have an excuse ... snow.

On the other hand Catonsville has an excuse too ... O'Malley

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 07:19 PM (LxcRK)

119 "And Jackie Chan is hated by the most people world-wide - really? Further proof that the internet has the judgment of a 14 year old mean girl." According to the article, he's p'o'ed a lot of people in China because of his incessant sucking-up-to-the-Chinese-Communist-Party. And it didn't even mention his tirades against what he says is the most corrupt country in the world: the United States.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at December 19, 2013 07:19 PM (PgNb6)

120 15 That looks like Harrison Ford in the Crystal Skull.. I would be hiding in a porta potty too if I was involved in that piece of shit!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 19, 2013 10:50 PM (b/lt+)

In my opinion, only the original (Raiders of the lost Ark) WASN'T a piece of shit. All the other movies in that series sucked.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 19, 2013 07:19 PM (XnALK)

121 I have a request for the 10 Anniversary For the Ace of Spades top list. http://ace.mu.nu/archives/217301.php#217301 It is the first post I ever read here and it would not have been as funny if it had not been followed by the Seven Dirty Words Challenge about 12 hours later.

Posted by: Picric at December 19, 2013 07:19 PM (QnQ+g)

122 102 Catonsville is the only place I've ever seen with more bars than Starbucks. Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 11:14 PM (LxcRK) _______________________ Ever been to any small town in WI? Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 19, 2013 11:15 PM (jucos) Amen Truck Monkey

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 19, 2013 07:19 PM (HVff2)

123 @119. Heard the same things. So, there you go.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Hibernian Hooligan at December 19, 2013 07:20 PM (6rcHp)

124 Many people have substituted the phrase "nuked the fridge" for "jumped the shark" these days. Posted by: Overheard by the Gods of the Copybook Headings at December 19, 2013 11:15 PM (N/cFh) Too bad "Frying the Coke" never became a big thing: http://tinyurl.com/6abvmu9

Posted by: Thrawn at December 19, 2013 07:20 PM (ZyqBH)

125 92 Catonsville is the only place I've ever seen with more bars than Starbucks. Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 11:14 PM (LxcRK) --- That's the only reason I go there. My good friend and a drinking buddy live over there.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 19, 2013 07:20 PM (N/cFh)

126 >>>Amid violence this week, Obama sent 45 U.S. service members to South
Sudan. In a letter to Congress, he said the troops were deployed "to
support the security of U.S. personnel and our Embassy<<<

Mother. Fucker.

Posted by: Zombie Ambassador Stevens at December 19, 2013 07:20 PM (GDgxf)

127 >>>And Jackie Chan is hated by the most people world-wide - really? Further proof that the internet has the judgment of a 14 year old mean girl.

I don't know. If I'm unfortunate enough to be born in communist China, but dreaming about the day of getting free of that evil regime, I think it would be pretty difficult to just shrug off those that align themselves with my oppressors.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 19, 2013 07:20 PM (IN7k+)

128 so how much is obama able to repeal, waive, and delay before some rule the entire law void?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 07:21 PM (rDidD)

129 I see you have never visitedthecity I grew up in:New Castle, PA. I'm not sure a Starbucks is even there.>>

There is not a Starbucks in any of the 5 small towns within 20 miles of my home either.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 19, 2013 07:21 PM (TI3xG)

130 10

Lesson: Never assume a Frenchman in a helicopter is going to save you first.

Posted by: Arbalest at December 19, 2013 10:49 PM (FlRtG)

Wham! Arbalest, right out of the gate, brings it.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 07:21 PM (T1005)

131 No redeeming that Indy Jones #Farce but at least they should have put racks of electronics that looked like sensor equipment to make it the barest of believable sequences. But nooooooo~

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 19, 2013 07:21 PM (0nxbr)

132 Catonsville does have one nice house.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 19, 2013 07:21 PM (jucos)

133 Posted by: Baldy at December 19, 2013 11:17 PM (2bql3) Thanks.... had missed that one.... I've been paying attention to the South China Seas... and the Cold War Games now being played between the USN and Com China. USN Son is a traveling Tech over there, stationed in Guam (on Tenders, but TAD a LOT).... and is now off the radar...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2013 07:22 PM (lZBBB)

134 Whoever had hipster anti-semite OFA douchbag in the pool, please step up and collect your winnings.

*does a quick head count*

Ok, you each get 5 cents.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 07:22 PM (LxcRK)

135 Silent Night, scrubbed of all Christian references. Only "Heaven" remains.
http://t.co/PMvP4pjeuL Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 11:11 PM (DmNpO)
Maybe they should just hum it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 19, 2013 07:22 PM (VpMO0)

136 Too bad "Frying the Coke" never became a big thing: http://tinyurl.com/6abvmu9 **** OMG!!! I am one minute in and I now get it. That is the WORST AD PLACEMENT in the history of ad placement.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 07:22 PM (DmNpO)

137 Jackie is an ungrateful commie-sucking asshat.

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at December 19, 2013 07:22 PM (zDsvJ)

138 I've been contemplating buying a duck call, just to have handy during Lefty spews. Just start blowing quacks in response to whatever they say. If Kay Hagan holds a Town Hall between now and election time, look for me on the news. I'll be the guy blowing duck squawks as he is dragged away.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 19, 2013 07:22 PM (aDwsi)

139 107

No. Opening credits... "Harrison Ford, Ray Winstone, Karen Allen, John fucking Hurt... this might actually be...

Shia LeBoof...

...Ohhhh."

Posted by: otho at December 19, 2013 11:17 PM (9gNQd)

"George Lucas"

Oh, shit.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm at December 19, 2013 07:22 PM (e4elg)

140 To be fair, a good majority of Catonsville's women have most of their teeth still.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 19, 2013 07:22 PM (jucos)

141 Here is the Daily Caller article on Ethan Krupp
http://tinyurl.com/ksvocq7

Â“We have no morals, and we will attack you. But you really donÂ’t have to worry because no one reads the paper anyway,Â” Krupp added.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 19, 2013 07:23 PM (Zm0GY)

142 Does it have *two* cars up on blocks in the front yard?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 07:23 PM (LxcRK)

143 132 Catonsville does have one nice house. Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 19, 2013 11:21 PM (jucos) --- And that restaurant that sells only grilled cheese sandwiches.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 19, 2013 07:23 PM (N/cFh)

144 >>>In my opinion, only the original (Raiders of the lost Ark) WASN'T a piece of shit. All the other movies in that series sucked. You didn't like Indiana Jones and the Early Bird Special?

Posted by: fluffy at December 19, 2013 07:23 PM (Ua6T/)

145 140 To be fair, a good majority of Catonsville's women have most of their teeth still. Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 19, 2013 11:22 PM (jucos) --- You're talking shit about Dundalk here, aren't you.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 19, 2013 07:24 PM (N/cFh)

146 Maybe they should just hum it *** Maybe they should just ckufing skip it and sing something about Santa instead.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 07:25 PM (DmNpO)

147 I like Shia LeBouf.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 11:18 PM

Someone has to, I guess. I'll shut my mouth about him now. But yeah, it was a shitty film with or without him.

Posted by: otho at December 19, 2013 07:25 PM (9gNQd)

148 does duck dynasty have a ring tone? duck call or "happy, happy, happy" ?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 07:25 PM (rDidD)

149 sumbitch

Posted by: Email * at December 19, 2013 07:26 PM (q23kr)

150 You're talking shit about Dundalk here, aren't you.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 19, 2013 11:24 PM (N/cFh)

____________________

I need to get my Google on and find Dundalk Barbie. Brb.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 19, 2013 07:26 PM (jucos)

151 I'll be the guy blowing duck squawks as he is dragged away.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 19, 2013 11:22 PM (aDwsi)

What's your number?

Posted by: duck squawks at December 19, 2013 07:26 PM (QFxY5)

152 Posted by: otho at December 19, 2013 11:25 PM (9gNQd) And the sword fighting??? REALLY????

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2013 07:26 PM (lZBBB)

153 I'm stunned to find out that Pajama boy, Ethan Krupp, is a steaming pile of excrement.

Posted by: puddleglum at December 19, 2013 07:26 PM (15w2J)

154 9 I realize that everybody is an asshole sometimes, and while I can't change the past I can make sure not to be an asshole today or tomorrow. That's hard enough at times, it doesn't seem fair to have to remember stupid shit I did decades ago. Posted by: Weirddave at December 19, 2013 10:48 PM (N/cFh) Yes, I frequently think about stupid shit I said or did decades ago, and there was plenty of it. Much of it is still cringeworthy to this day. I guess it's part of having a conscience, and a sense of right and wrong.

Posted by: rickl at December 19, 2013 07:27 PM (sdi6R)

155 138 I've been contemplating buying a duck call, just to have handy during Lefty spews. Just start blowing quacks in response to whatever they say. If Kay Hagan holds a Town Hall between now and election time, look for me on the news. I'll be the guy blowing duck squawks as he is dragged away. Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 19, 2013 11:22 PM (aDwsi) Buy Duck Commander brand. Your proposed plan sounds great Mr. Hammer

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 19, 2013 07:27 PM (HVff2)

156 Posted by: otho at December 19, 2013 11:25 PM (9gNQd)

He was good in "Holes," but that was before he turned into an incredible raging asshole.

Posted by: duck squawks at December 19, 2013 07:27 PM (QFxY5)

157 "George Lucas"

Oh, shit.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm at December 19, 2013 11:22 PM

Haha! Yes... "Oh, God no."

Posted by: otho at December 19, 2013 07:27 PM (9gNQd)

158
Related, I read a really great article the other day about doctors that are setting up fee for service practices that don't accept insurance at all. All procedures are listed up front on a menu, and generally run about 20% of the going rate.

If Obamacare never gets repealed, then I'm willing to bet that becomes the new market, with insurance companies out of the loop. Which wouldn't be a terrible outcome. My doctor already moved to a concierge practice, which I'm paying out of pocket for.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 10:59 PM (LxcRK)

It has long been my opinion that medical "insurance" is the primary cause of excessive charges for medical procedures. It disconnects the normal feedback loop between needs and costs and encourages overcharging on the part of the medical suppliers, and unconcern regarding costs from the Medical care recipients.

Medical costs would be much more reasonable if the market wasn't so heavily distorted by these perverse incentives.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 19, 2013 07:27 PM (XnALK)

159 Sigh......

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2013 07:27 PM (QFxY5)

160 I really shouldn't be ragging on Catonsville, it honestly was nicer than where I grew up in Brooklyn Park.

But I do recall that all the parties seemed to be going on in Catonsville.

"Dude, there's a party tonight, pretty sure there will be chicks and I know there is booze"

"Where?"

"Catonsville"

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 07:28 PM (LxcRK)

161 153 I'm stunned to find out that Pajama boy, Ethan Krupp, is a steaming pile of excrement. Posted by: puddleglum at December 19, 2013 11:26 PM (15w2J) I believe the official AOS Stylebook says you must use the term.... 'shocked'...

Posted by: Capt. Renault at December 19, 2013 07:28 PM (lZBBB)

162 If I blow my coyotte call in the house I get no sex from the wife. She really does not like it when I do that.

Posted by: Email * at December 19, 2013 07:29 PM (q23kr)

163 Weirddave,

It happens to everyone. A year ago I had a falling out with my college friends after I drank too much one night and lost my temper. Hardly a day goes by that I don't think about what happened and regret it. But it happened, I can't undo it, so instead I try and make myself a better person out of the experience.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at December 19, 2013 07:29 PM (lr3d7)

164 Jackie Chan left a good impression on me.

Posted by: The Wall at December 19, 2013 07:30 PM (R6JT1)

165 120

In my opinion, only the original (Raiders of the lost Ark) WASN'T a piece of shit. All the other movies in that series sucked.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 19, 2013 11:19 PM (XnALK)

Aside from turning Brody and Sallah into buffoons, I rather like Last Crusade. Temple of Doom never really did anything for me though it's not terrible. That recent abomination, though, I've only watched with the RiffTrax crew playing in the background.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm at December 19, 2013 07:31 PM (e4elg)

166 UberFacts ‏@UberFacts 1h If you say the radius of a pizza is "z" and its thickness is "a" -- The volume of the pizza will be calculated by pi*z*z*a.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 07:31 PM (DmNpO)

167 119 "And Jackie Chan is hated by the most people world-wide - really? ..... According to the article, he's p'o'ed a lot of people in China because of his incessant sucking-up-to-the-Chinese-Communist-Party. And it didn't even mention his tirades against what he says is the most corrupt country in the world: the United States. Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at December 19, 2013 11:19 PM (PgNb6) Together with his sucking every dollar he can get out of our evil capitalist system.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2013 07:31 PM (AtSBz)

168 If I blow my coyotte call in the house I get no sex from the wife.>>

Who would have thought the screams of a wounded bunny wouldn't attract some hungry pussy. Weird.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 19, 2013 07:32 PM (TI3xG)

169 >>>Inside, the lighthouse keeper ThÃ©odore Malgorn was waiting to be rescued, and thought GuichardÂ’s helicopter was his rescue helicopter.

Silly rabbit! That's not what reporters do. Their job is to make sure the misery is fully depicted, not to help you out.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 19, 2013 07:32 PM (IN7k+)

170 Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2013 11:22 PM (lZBBB) --- Understandable. FWIW, the So Sudan stuff was just reported tonite.

Posted by: Baldy at December 19, 2013 07:32 PM (2bql3)

171 A restaurant that only makes grilled cheese sandwiches sounds interesting. Has it been featured on any Food TV shows?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 19, 2013 07:32 PM (YQUIz)

172 The Duck Dynasty statement

"We want to thank all of you for your prayers and support. The family has spent much time in prayer since learning of A&E's decision. We want you to know that first and foremost we are a family rooted in our faith in God and our belief that the Bible is His word. While some of PhilÂ’s unfiltered comments to the reporter were coarse, his beliefs are grounded in the teachings of the Bible. Phil is a Godly man who follows what the Bible says are the greatest commandments: Â“Love the Lord your God with all your heartÂ” and Â“Love your neighbor as yourself.Â” Phil would never incite or encourage hate. We are disappointed that Phil has been placed on hiatus for expressing his faith, which is his constitutionally protected right. We have had a successful working relationship with A&E but, as a family, we cannot imagine the show going forward without our patriarch at the helm. We are in discussions with A&E to see what that means for the future of Duck Dynasty. Again, thank you for your continued support of our family."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2013 07:33 PM (QFxY5)

173 I have "Pi" icecube trays that we break out every March 14th.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 19, 2013 07:33 PM (LxcRK)

174 NEVER understood the acclaim for Charlie Brown cartoon. ( watched it grow from a tiny strip at the edge of other columns into the big strip so I experienced the whole dreary lineage of the sad sack that was Charlie Brown)

Schulz was a jerk in real life and that was reflected most of the time in his strip.

Never found them amusing. They were to me about equal to Dondi or one of the soap strips.

The Specials were always a bore also.

The only slightly amusing character is Snoopy and that's because Schulz didn't know enough to create a downbeat, negative caricature of a dog because dogs are generally pretty upbeat.

Him and Dr. Seuss can blow me.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 07:33 PM (LSDdO)

175 79 Didn't we all kind of know, the moment he climbed into that fridge, that the franchise had jumped the shark?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 11:09 PM (DmNpO)

It jumped the shark when they made "Temple of Doom". That movie was utterly stupid.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 19, 2013 07:33 PM (XnALK)

176 Posted by: andycanuck at December 19, 2013 11:32 PM (YQUIz)

Fuck Yes!

Diners, Drive-ins and Dives for one.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2013 07:33 PM (QFxY5)

177 Anyone care to explain how this is possible? Rotten Tomatoes ‏@RottenTomatoes 3h Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is #CertifiedFresh at 75% with 131 reviews: http://t.co/IunJ15KZhM

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 07:35 PM (DmNpO)

178 171 A restaurant that only makes grilled cheese sandwiches sounds interesting. Has it been featured on any Food TV shows? Posted by: andycanuck at December 19, 2013 11:32 PM (YQUIz) --- Dunno. But some of their wares have been in my mouth. Nom.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 19, 2013 07:35 PM (N/cFh)

179 Civil Rights Act of 1964:

It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer:

(1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individualÂ’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2013 07:35 PM (QFxY5)

180 What's the name of the restaurant?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 19, 2013 07:35 PM (YQUIz)

181 The franchise had jumped the shark even before the 4th movie's opening roll finished. It was the movie nobody wanted to make, in the words of Steven Spielberg.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 19, 2013 11:15 PM (ZyqBH)

Well, except for Harrison Ford, I think. I read at the time that he jumped at the chance to play "Indiana Jones" one last time.

Now that I think about it, He specifically said words to this effect during an interview I saw at the time.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 19, 2013 07:36 PM (XnALK)

182 Grilled Cheese & Co.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 19, 2013 07:36 PM (N/cFh)

183 143 132 Catonsville does have one nice house.
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 19, 2013 11:21 PM (jucos)
---
And that restaurant that sells only grilled cheese sandwiches.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 19, 2013 11:23 PM (N/cFh)

I heard "cheese".

Posted by: Meghan McCain at December 19, 2013 07:37 PM (vgH+s)

184 "People who have insurance through their employers like I used to know none of this."

They will soon and that is what has the Demorats scared.

Posted by: JohnMc at December 19, 2013 07:37 PM (wjASS)

185 It has long been my opinion that medical "insurance" is the primary cause of excessive charges for medical procedures. While you're pretty much right, EMTALA is the real elephant in the room. The people behind EMTALA are the assholes who missed the point that King Canute was trying to make.

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at December 19, 2013 07:38 PM (V3kRK)

186 It has long been my opinion that medical "insurance" is the primary cause of excessive charges for medical procedures. Posted by: D-Lamp at December 19, 2013 11:27 PM (XnALK)
How much would an oil change cost if it were covered as "wellness" for your car on your auto insurance policy?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 19, 2013 07:38 PM (VpMO0)

187 What's the name of the restaurant?

Posted by: andycanuck at December 19, 2013 11:35 PM (YQUIz)

http://meltbarandgrilled.com

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2013 07:38 PM (QFxY5)

188 Anyone care to explain how this is possible?

Rotten Tomatoes Ã¾@RottenTomatoes 3h
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is #CertifiedFresh at 75% with 131 reviews: http://t.co/IunJ15KZhM

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 11:35 PM

Is it any good?

Posted by: otho at December 19, 2013 07:38 PM (9gNQd)

189 John Galecki probably should get himself a makeover.

A radical one.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 07:38 PM (LSDdO)

190 Nuh uh, CBD. http://www.ilovegrilledcheese.com

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 19, 2013 07:39 PM (N/cFh)

191 Is it any good? *** I can't imagine how it could be.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 07:39 PM (DmNpO)

192 The NYPost had a story today about a teacher with 16 years experience being fired because of his alternative lifestyle. Hetero, married, with kids. And a man, not lesbian Should marry that up with the DD story

Posted by: Thunderb at December 19, 2013 07:39 PM (zOTsN)

193 Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 19, 2013 11:39 PM (N/cFh)

Oooh! That looks like fun. And I am in the Baltimore area occasionally.

Melt started as just grilled cheese, but they seem to have watered down the menu.

Bastards.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2013 07:40 PM (QFxY5)

194 Weird Dave--thanks for that brave comment. Often have the same kind of thoughts myself--in fact just today. Makes me feel better to know I'm not alone. (Also a very good comment for Advent.)

Posted by: Caliban at December 19, 2013 07:41 PM (2ArJQ)

195 Oh no! The war of the grilled cheese states breaks out!

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 19, 2013 07:41 PM (YQUIz)

196 138 I've been contemplating buying a duck call, just to have handy during Lefty spews. Just start blowing quacks in response to whatever they say. If Kay Hagan holds a Town Hall between now and election time, look for me on the news. I'll be the guy blowing duck squawks as he is dragged away.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 19, 2013 11:22 PM (aDwsi)

I think this is an excellent idea. It could become iconic, like those Guy Fawkes masks.

It is, perhaps the single best response one can make to a liberal argument.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 19, 2013 07:41 PM (XnALK)

197 There's a thought going round that Pajama Boy was/is a setup. Watching Ethan's (first?) video, at the link provided in Comment #85, there's some seriously weird psychological shit being displayed by the writers. It's severely raw material for a wide variety of mockery, analysis (or anal-ysis), and therapy.

Posted by: Arbalest at December 19, 2013 07:41 PM (FlRtG)

198 Let us know when you're coming to town. We will feed and/or booze you, as required.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 19, 2013 07:41 PM (N/cFh)

199 Hmm. The Senate is still in session. C-Span 2.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 07:41 PM (DmNpO)

200 I heard "cheese".Posted by: Meghan McCain at December 19, 2013 11:37 PM (vgH+s)
I heard "boy".

Posted by: Maureen Dowd at December 19, 2013 07:42 PM (VpMO0)

201 I found the pictures of Dundalk Barbie. Terrific. It won't let me link it though.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 19, 2013 07:42 PM (jucos)

202 Senate in session? So Harry Reid is having a sleep over?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 19, 2013 07:42 PM (Zm0GY)

203

Weird Dave, you aren't the only one. With age comes wisdom.

At least for some of us.

Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2013 07:42 PM (6bvBO)

204 That's hard enough at times, it doesn't seem fair to have to remember stupid shit I did decades ago. Posted by: Weirddave at December 19, 2013 10:48 PM (N/cFh) Welcome to my world. My brain does that to me ALL THE TIME. Just when I think I'm doing alright, it has to remind how stupid an idiot I really am. Hello, Horde.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 19, 2013 07:43 PM (5J54Q)

205 Fox News ‏@FoxNews now BREAKING: Senate approves Defense Authorization Bill by 84-15

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 07:43 PM (DmNpO)

206 Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 19, 2013 11:41 PM (N/cFh)

To be more precise...Towson! The elder brat (and holder of the permanent trophy in 20-something stupidity) goes to school there.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2013 07:43 PM (QFxY5)

207 All this talk of Duck Dynasty and Phil Robertson and A&E, but precious little of the gorilla in the room, which would be GLAAD. This group has immense power, and I do mean immense. They are the reason gays a way over-represented in all television shows. They are the reason God isn't mentioned ever in a positive manner, and why gays are almost never the butt (pun intended) of jokes. They made on call to A+E, and the execs there decided to fuck with their most successful cash cow ever. One call.

Posted by: Normal man spitting on his hands at December 19, 2013 07:43 PM (agLwc)

208
I guess it's part of having a conscience, and a sense of right and wrong.

Posted by: rickl at December 19, 2013 11:27 PM (sdi6R)

You can probably treat that condition temporarily with copious quantities of Ethanol.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 19, 2013 07:43 PM (XnALK)

209 The only slightly amusing character is Snoopy and that's because Schulz didn't know enough to create a downbeat, negative caricature of a dog because dogs are generally pretty upbeat. I had the Pandora running Christmas tunes while I was wrapping gifts on Saturday morning. "Christmas Time is Here" (from the Peanuts Christmas TV special) came on, and that song is so damned downbeat that I caught myself pouring a drink—at 9:30 in the morning!

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at December 19, 2013 07:43 PM (V3kRK)

210 Senate in session? So Harry Reid is having a sleep over? *** {{{shiver}}}

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 07:44 PM (DmNpO)

211 199 Hmm. The Senate is still in session. C-Span 2. Can the ceiling collapse, so we can start over fresh?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 19, 2013 07:45 PM (HVff2)

212 yeah the charlie brown thing is why suicides spike in the holidays. effing depressing.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 07:45 PM (rDidD)

213 I count as two Presidents because I can thrash any man who says I don't. I will pummel anyone who dares to call me a single President until his bones are so much gravel and his internal organs are an undifferentiated mass of pulp. My fury will not be sated until my victim is reduced to a bag of skin filled with a slurry of blood, phlegm, and pureed entrails. That emaciated crank Andrew Jackson could never do as much damage as I can. That ridiculous poseur Theodore Roosevelt will never match me in sheer violence. I am so terrifying I cannot be confined to a single Presidency. I am two Presidents because I am twice as powerful, in the physical sense, as any other pair of Presidents you care to name. My sheer animal vitality extends to the sphere of romance. I can sire a nearly infinite number of offspring. My seed is inexhaustible, infinitely potent, and will quicken a generation of near-supermen. Women are drawn to my manly power, and after coitus with me are so overwhelmed that many have gone insane. Others, unable to consider any man after me, have become nuns. I can eat two whole prize hogs at a sitting. I can sign my name on the side of a speeding freight train. I can smash mountains with my fists. When I use the privy, my flatulence breaks windows as far away as Philadelphia. The hairs of my magnificent mustache can scratch diamonds. I drink a gallon of flaming whiskey with every meal. Nor am I lacking in intellectual attainments. I have written every book in the Library of Congress, using a variety of pseudonyms because of my tremendous modesty. I have lectured in Constitutional Law at the nation's finest universities, and am the superior of all my staff at their tasks. I have ten thousand patents to my name, and Mr. Nobel of Sweden is inventing a special prize to give me, in recognition of my vast accomplishments. My virtue is such that roses grow spontaneously at every spot on which I urinate. Sick and malformed persons are spontaneously cured by my spittle. I once clouted an imbecile on the back of the head with my open palm, and the blow made him the most intelligent man in the State of Indiana. The Pope and the Grand Mufti routinely send me telegrams, requesting my opinion on matters of theology and ethics, for they consider my words to be the equivalent of Divine Writ. Gentlemen, I count as two Presidents because of my titanic superiority in all aspects of existence. If you doubt anything I have said here, beware my wrath.

Posted by: Grover MUTHAFUKIN Cleveland at December 19, 2013 07:45 PM (ZOnD2)

214 A random thoughts on earlier posts: "A&E Suspends Phil Robertson" Â— Brilliant point, brilliantly made. The First Amendment exists to safeguard a cultural value of freedom of speech: our right to express our opinions. (Among other rights.) This is a critical component of Anglosphere culture. When retributive, life destroying persecution becomes the norm for expressing unpopular opinions, that right is lost, and our culture has lost one of its most valuable liberties.

Posted by: cormac_mcroadie at December 19, 2013 07:45 PM (mjO9h)

215 To be more precise...Towson! The elder brat (and holder of the permanent trophy in 20-something stupidity) goes to school there. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2013 11:43 PM (QFxY5) --- We live five minutes from the university.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 19, 2013 07:45 PM (N/cFh)

216 Senate in session? So Harry Reid is having a sleep over? *** {{{shiver}}} Posted by: Niedermeyer' his sleepovers have never been half as much fun since jerry quit coming.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 07:45 PM (rDidD)

217 We live five minutes from the university.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 19, 2013 11:45 PM (N/cFh)

If he pukes on your lawn you have my explicit permission to beat him with a stick.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2013 07:46 PM (QFxY5)

218 That looks like a great menu, Gingy. I could see going through the entire menu one week (or twice a week!) until I got through them all.
Mmm. Fancy cheese.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 19, 2013 07:47 PM (YQUIz)

219 214 A random thoughts on earlier posts:

"A&E Suspends Phil Robertson" Â— Brilliant point, brilliantly made. The First Amendment exists to safeguard a cultural value of freedom of speech: our right to express our opinions. (Among other rights.) This is a critical component of Anglosphere culture.

When retributive, life destroying persecution becomes the norm for expressing unpopular opinions, that right is lost, and our culture has lost one of its most valuable liberties.

Posted by: cormac_mcroadie at December 19, 2013 11:45 PM (mjO9h)

See Piers Morgan's clueless tweets and replies. Funny. twitchy.com

Posted by: Sphynx at December 19, 2013 07:47 PM (cll/q)

220 You can probably treat that condition temporarily with copious quantities of Ethanol.>>

They don't allow that medication where I work. So there's at least 40 hours a week to suffer through.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 19, 2013 07:47 PM (TI3xG)

221

To be more precise...Towson! The elder brat (and holder of the permanent trophy in 20-something stupidity) goes to school there.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2013 11:43 PM (QFxY5)
_________________________

One of my Cousins is a professor there. Sociology. Worst professor in the Northern Hemisphere.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 19, 2013 07:47 PM (jucos)

222 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2013 11:33 PM (QFxY5)

Reading between the lines, I interpret their message as being "Fuck you Bitches!"

This is not Burger King. You will not get it your way, you will get it OUR way, or you won't get the son of a bitch at all!

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 19, 2013 07:47 PM (XnALK)

223 "The Costs of Repeal" If they're arguing against repeal, they must fear it's a real possibility. This is a very hopeful sign.

Posted by: cormac_mcroadie at December 19, 2013 07:47 PM (mjO9h)

224 The only slightly amusing character is Snoopy and that's because Schulz didn't know enough to create a downbeat, negative caricature of a dog because dogs are generally pretty upbeat. Him and Dr. Seuss can blow me. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 11:33 PM (LSDdO) I once started reading a biography of Schulz and stopped. It focused on the poor relationships he had in his life. He apparently had a nag for a wife, and Lucy was supposed to have been based on her. I seem to recall that he also had difficulty relationships with his mother and other female relatives. As I recall he was an unhappy man.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2013 07:48 PM (AtSBz)

225 Pelosi drove her broom up to the White House and had a message for Obama on Obamacare. Embrace the suck.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at December 19, 2013 07:48 PM (VAche)

226 221 One of my Cousins is a professor there. Sociology. Worst professor in the Northern Hemisphere. Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 19, 2013 11:47 PM (jucos) --- Well. Sociology.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 19, 2013 07:48 PM (N/cFh)

227 Him and Dr. Seuss can blow me.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 11:33 PM (LSDdO)

You have, strangely enough, summed up my opinion on the topic as well.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 19, 2013 07:49 PM (XnALK)

228 I want Phil Robertson to have a chat with pajama boy

Posted by: Thunderb at December 19, 2013 07:49 PM (zOTsN)

229 Posted by: Grover MUTHAFUKIN Cleveland at December 19, 2013 11:45 PM (ZOnD2) Woah!

Posted by: fluffy; excellent adventurer at December 19, 2013 07:50 PM (Ua6T/)

230 I want Phil Robertson to have a chat with pajama boy phil's not interested

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 07:50 PM (rDidD)

231 Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2013 11:48 PM (AtSBz)

He built a beautiful skating rink in Santa Rosa, CA. I skated there a few times, and had a great time.

Other than that.....can't say much about him.

But....there is a scene from an early Peanuts TV show in which Linus speaks eloquently about the real meaning of Christmas, and it is worth seeking out.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2013 07:51 PM (QFxY5)

232 This story breaks my heart. Someone in the People's Republic of Philadelphia set a kitten on fire. The kitteh needed $5,000 worth a medical treatment and the animal hospital was hoping people would donate to cover it. Turns out $20k was raised and plenty of people would like to adopt the little guy.

http://tinyurl.com/lb9mqcf

There's a $5k reward for information leading to the conviction of the perp.

Despite his injuries, the little guy is still cute as hell.

Posted by: Iasonas at December 19, 2013 07:51 PM (FHNkr)

233 Grover, the white ancestor of our narcissistic TFG?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 19, 2013 07:52 PM (HVff2)

234 OH. And Schulz very subtly taught an entire generation of boys to just give up because girls were going to kick your ass.

Charlie Brown NEVER WINS. NEVER.

He never gets rewarded. All he gets to do is struggle to find some thing good to say about his miserable life after he gets screwed for the umpteenth time.

I absolutely hated that he did the football thing with Charlie and Lucy and NEVER showed Charlie either kicking her azz or faking a kick to make her fall on her face.

Charles Schulz was miserable person.

Sorry if this disturbs anyone or ruins their perceptions but that kcufer has been a thorn in my head for 50 years and I absolutely hate that he gets kudos when he was such a jerk.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

*click* We regret the previous outburst. We now return you to the "normal" Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgate Edition). *click*

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 07:52 PM (LSDdO)

235 Well CBD, now you have a place to stay when you come visit numb one son. Our place is cleaner than the dorms and doesn't charge by the hour like the Towson East Motel (surprisingly enough, none of the things I'm ashamed was done there. Miracle, really ).

Posted by: Weirddave at December 19, 2013 07:53 PM (N/cFh)

236 Towson? I have a flaming Lib friend who's wife is a Prof., there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 19, 2013 07:53 PM (aDwsi)

237 There's a $5k reward for information leading to the conviction of the perp. Despite his injuries, the little guy is still cute as hell. Posted by: Iasonas skip the 5k reward, how much is a hit on the sadistic little freak .

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 07:53 PM (rDidD)

238 He built a beautiful skating rink in Santa Rosa, CA. I skated there a few times, and had a great time *** Speaking of skating, Brian Boitano has come out as gay. Well no ckufing kidding.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 07:54 PM (DmNpO)

239 More people signed a petition supporting Phil in one day than have signed up for (o) care in two plus months.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 19, 2013 07:54 PM (bXdYS)

240 I have a flaming Lib friend who's wife is a Prof., there.
Would he like a kitten?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 19, 2013 07:55 PM (YQUIz)

241 "Rape Culture" Around the World Did you know that in Bosnia, UN soldiers frequented brothels where the sex workers were 15-year-old slaves kept chained to in rooms with buckets for toilets and mattresses soaked in bodily fluids and filth? Every single UN nation on deployment there had soldiers who frequented the establishments. Except the US. Rape cultures exist Â— countries that tell people it's acceptable to rape. But according to feminists, it's jokes by Americans that really cause rapes, and real rape cultures should be ignored. (See: http://www.prisonplanet.com/teenagers_used_for_sex_by_un_in_bosnia.html and many other places.)

Posted by: cormac_mcroadie at December 19, 2013 07:57 PM (mjO9h)

242 Posted by: Weirddave at December 19, 2013 11:53 PM (N/cFh)

Thank you!

We usually make it a drive-by...that way we limit the exposure to the stench of his house. But a drink would be lovely.

I hate college towns...mostly because I hate college students.....and college professors...so a friendly face would be very nice.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2013 07:57 PM (QFxY5)

243 "WSJ: "people whose policies had been canceled because of new requirements" will be "allowed to purchase Â‘catastrophicÂ’ plans" "

Seems to me we already purchased a catastrophic plan, in 2008. Then we re-upped, in 2012.

I do not know why this happened.

Posted by: dissent555 at December 19, 2013 07:57 PM (yR6A1)

244 Posted by: cormac_mcroadie at December 19, 2013 11:57 PM (mjO9h)

100% correct.

The UN is a malign influence in this world.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2013 07:59 PM (QFxY5)

245 Y'know, this week we have seen the major rift between our two major political parties. Republicans think that Democrats are a party of, by, and for smirking infantilized hipster douchebags -- and Democrats gave us Pajama Boy to indicate that they're thinking, "you say that like it's a bad thing...."

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 08:00 PM (T1005)

246

The LIV's that are not happy with (o)care are the idiots who thought it would be free/

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 19, 2013 08:02 PM (bXdYS)

247 That says a lot about the quality of the UN Forces now doesn't it?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:02 PM (LSDdO)

248 so ?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:02 PM (rDidD)

249

Speaking of skating, Brian Boitano has come out as gay.

No shit, my gaydar went off the first time I saw him and heard him speak. What 15 years ago?

Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2013 08:02 PM (6bvBO)

250 fuckin minnesotans.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:02 PM (rDidD)

251 225 Pelosi drove her broom up to the White House and had a message for Obama on Obamacare.
Embrace the suck.
Posted by: Comanche Voter at December 19, 2013 11:48 PM (VAche)
So Barry gave her a hug.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 19, 2013 08:02 PM (VpMO0)

252 Shaka, when the masculinity fell...

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 19, 2013 08:03 PM (V4CBV)

253 Pelosi drove her broom up to the White House and had a message for Obama on Obamacare. Embrace the suck. Posted by: Comanche Voter at December 19, 2013 11:48 PM (VAche) So Barry gave her a hug. Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 20, 2013 12:02 AM (VpMO0) no, he said where is reggie?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:04 PM (rDidD)

254 >>>The UN is a malign influence in this world.<<<

Just wait. When I'm out of office, and need a way for people to worship me some more, I'll become Secretary General and do wonders with the UN.

Posted by: SCOAMT at December 19, 2013 08:04 PM (GDgxf)

255 Speaking of skating, Brian Boitano has come out as gay. It seems that the answer to the question "What would Brian Boitano do?" is Brian Orser.

Posted by: Weirddave at December 19, 2013 08:05 PM (N/cFh)

256 I'll become Secretary General and do wonders with the UN.
Posted by: SCOAMT at December 20, 2013 12:04 AM (GDgxf)

That happens, I'm gonna be out there with a big chain saw and separate that part of Manhattan, let it float down the East River in to the Harbor and out to sea.

Let them find somewhere else to hold their 3rd world freak show.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:06 PM (LSDdO)

257 so how does brian boitano actually come out as gay, is there a form he has to complete or a box he has to check to make it official?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:07 PM (rDidD)

258 Thanks Maet, Good luck with your computers. Does anyone know if viral pneumonia is worse than bacterial? I should look it up. My brother called miserable the other day, begging me to try to get him transferred to MA. I canÂ’t do that, it has to be info from admissions director and social worker. I was pissed off because I called and begged one and she said she remembered him and would call me yesterday. I am still sick and called Paul at the hospital to tell him to get SW on it. He didnÂ’t call me back until an hour ago. He has viral pneumonia now. He thinks itÂ’s worse. He has womanÂ’s name to have SW call tomorrow.

Posted by: Carol at December 19, 2013 08:08 PM (z4WKX)

259 It seems that the answer to the question "What would Brian Boitano do?" is Brian Orser. *** Heh. I had forgotten about that.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 08:09 PM (DmNpO)

260 Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon. Charlie Brown Christmas is not depressing. Not sure where this is coming from or how you get to that conclusion. I'm biased in that its my favorite Christmas special. Fine, Schultz was an ass and had issues. That describes the majority of the planet at one time or another. In end, its just a cartoon. Chill. Oh well, no biggie. Merry Christmas!!

Posted by: puddleglum at December 19, 2013 08:09 PM (15w2J)

261 fuckin minnesotans.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 20, 2013 12:02 AM ..............C'mon man. Cut us a break.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 19, 2013 08:09 PM (bXdYS)

262 Posted by: yankeefifth at December 20, 2013 12:07 AM (rDidD)

I think the usual way is to introduce one's Life Partner who's the same sex.

The idea gets around pretty fast after that.

Of course we pretty much knew this years ago. N'cest ce pas?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:11 PM (LSDdO)

263 Does anyone know if viral pneumonia is worse than bacterial? I should look it up. My brother called miserable the other day, begging me to try to get him transferred to MA. I canÂ’t do that, it has to be info from admissions director and social worker. I was pissed off because I called and begged one and she said she remembered him and would call me yesterday. I am still sick and called Paul at the hospital to tell him to get SW on it. He didnÂ’t call me back until an hour ago. He has viral pneumonia now. He thinks itÂ’s worse. He has womanÂ’s name to have SW call tomorrow. *** I'm sorry to learn of your brother's condition, and yours. Who/what is SW? I don't know about pneumonia, specifically, but I've experienced both viral and bacterial bronchitis. The bacterial was much worse as far as the bronchitis itself, but was treatable with antibiotics.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 08:11 PM (DmNpO)

264 Does anyone know if viral pneumonia is worse than bacterial? >>

Antibiotics only work against Bacterial infections not viral ones.

The common cold is viral and there is no cure other than riding it out.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 19, 2013 08:12 PM (TI3xG)

265 >>>so how does brian boitano actually come out as gay, is there a form he has to complete or a box he has to check to make it official?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 20, 2013 12:07 AM (rDidD)<<<

I think he has to take a "poll" first.

Posted by: SCOAMT (um, er, uh... not that I would know) at December 19, 2013 08:12 PM (GDgxf)

266 249 Speaking of skating, Brian Boitano has come out as gay. No shit, my gaydar went off the first time I saw him and heard him speak. What 15 years ago? Posted by: Infidel at December 20, 2013 12:02 AM (6bvBO) If you wait to come out you get a tax payer funded trip to Sochi. So we're sending a gay delegation to Russia and the 'American Male' is a little Theta in footies. The Japanese Self Defense Navy commercial is pointing at us and laughing.."that's so gay!"

Posted by: RWC (Vagina Owl from the Future) at December 19, 2013 08:12 PM (Q6HBD)

267 Posted by: Minnfidel at December 20, 2013 12:09 AM (bXdYS)

Why?

YOU gave us Al Freekin' Franken.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:12 PM (LSDdO)

268 Oh, Social worker

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 08:12 PM (DmNpO)

269 hey, y'all see the chuck norris thing on the main aoshq page? funniest thing I have seen all day. scotch through nose.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:13 PM (rDidD)

270 I had viral pnumona while I was pregnant in '81. Bacterial i understand is worse, little infidel is fine and a little whippersnapper. It is miserable.

Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2013 08:14 PM (6bvBO)

271 Why?

YOU gave us Al Freekin' Franken.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 20, 2013 ............Every Family has it's black sheep. Every village has it's idiots.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 19, 2013 08:15 PM (bXdYS)

272 I still say that Van Damme commercial was CGI also.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:15 PM (LSDdO)

273

Brian Boitano has come out as gay.

He came out years ago or so I thought? Special Snowflake syndrome seems to be spreading. Getting tired of it.

Posted by: puddleglum at December 19, 2013 08:15 PM (15w2J)

274 minnesota is great, effin fantastic cold weather, it is the minnesotans that are the problem. having family there I am confident saying as much.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:15 PM (rDidD)

275 Speaking of skating, Brian Boitano has come out as gay.

What? Just now.... not like 10 years ago?

If that's true, then he was the last person on earth to know.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2013 08:16 PM (MaP11)

276 Posted by: Minnfidel at December 20, 2013 12:15 AM (bXdYS)

Yeah. And you all have had your quota for the next 50 years.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:16 PM (LSDdO)

277 hey, y'all see the chuck norris thing on the main aoshq page? funniest thing I have seen all day. scotch through nose. *** thanks. Just checked it out. Very nice.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 08:16 PM (DmNpO)

278 Speaking of skating, Brian Boitano has come out as gay. What? Just now.... not like 10 years ago? If that's true, then he was the last person on earth to know. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 20, 2013 12:16 AM (MaP11) Out? When was he ever in?

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 19, 2013 08:17 PM (Vk2pI)

279 Posted by: Infidel at December 20, 2013 12:14 AM (6bvBO) Thank you, Infidel. I thought bacterial was worse too.

Posted by: Carol at December 19, 2013 08:17 PM (z4WKX)

280 >>>Every village has it's idiots.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 20, 2013 12:15 AM (bXdYS)<<<

Not since the Bidens illegally immigrated to the US.

Posted by: villages in Ireland at December 19, 2013 08:17 PM (GDgxf)

281 brian boitano came out as gay? he could not get back into the closet if he had a team of SEALs to kick the door in.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:18 PM (rDidD)

282 Posted by: Iasonas at December 19, 2013 11:51 PM (FHNkr) It would scare me to know that a maladjusted freak like that lived in my neighborhood. There was an incident where some guy got a jail sentence for doing something like that to a dog. A person I know told me he didn't think the incident warranted a jail sentence. My response to him was, "Would you want this guy working as a custodian in your child's school, or working a day care center?" A person who is sick enough to torture animals is capable of other sick behavior.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2013 08:18 PM (AtSBz)

283 269 hey, y'all see the chuck norris thing on the main aoshq page? funniest thing I have seen all day. scotch through nose. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 20, 2013 12:13 AM (rDidD) Only bad thing about that is Lockheed being involved. Funny, but fuck 'em.

Posted by: RWC (Vagina Owl from the Future) at December 19, 2013 08:19 PM (Q6HBD)

284
Cool NDH thanks for pointing that out.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2013 08:19 PM (MaP11)

285 OH like Boeing or Airbus is soooo much different?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:19 PM (LSDdO)

286 A person who is sick enough to torture animals is capable of other sick behavior. Posted by: nerdygirl screw it, I will get a rope

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:20 PM (rDidD)

287 As a Minnesotan at least when we send shitty Dems to Washington they are ineffectual. Has Al F done anything other than vote with the dems of note?

Boxer Reid...

There are way worse dem states.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 19, 2013 08:20 PM (TI3xG)

288 lockheed just screwed the boy scouts.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:21 PM (rDidD)

289 Posted by: The Hickster at December 20, 2013 12:20 AM (TI3xG)

He stole the election and was a deciding vote on Obamacare.

Is that effectual enough?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:21 PM (LSDdO)

290 240 I have a flaming Lib friend who's wife is a Prof., there. Would he like a kitten? Posted by: andycanuck at December 19, 2013 11:55 PM (YQUIz) Where do you sign? I left a message on A&E's Facebook, but where is the petition?

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2013 08:22 PM (AtSBz)

291 I wonder how long it took to get they tree stacked on norris. I cannot imagine doing that without a chute.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:23 PM (rDidD)

292 I just noticed Chuck Norris thing. It is the best thing I have seen today. I should look at the sidebar on main page more often.

Posted by: Carol at December 19, 2013 08:23 PM (z4WKX)

293 Has Al F done anything other than vote with the dems of note?

Oh I should have added RINOS like McCain and Lindsey do the same. At least we don't pretend to send serious representation.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 19, 2013 08:24 PM (TI3xG)

294 I absolutely hated that he did the football thing with Charlie and Lucy and NEVER showed Charlie either kicking her azz or faking a kick to make her fall on her face.

There was one arc where Lucy was held to a promise to hold the ball so Charlie Brown could kick it.

Lucy kept the promise.

Charlie missed, kicked her hand and (I think) fractured some metacarpals.

It was an accident, but I suspect something subconscious in Charlie made him do it . . .

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo: Tobiam libera! at December 19, 2013 08:24 PM (Xfl0F)

295 288 lockheed just screwed the boy scouts. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 20, 2013 12:21 AM (rDidD) And that is what I was talking about with the 'fuck 'em' comment.

Posted by: RWC (Vagina Owl from the Future) at December 19, 2013 08:24 PM (Q6HBD)

296 lockheed just screwed the boy scouts.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 20, 2013 12:21 AM (rDidD)

Ah. That was THEM?

Carry on.

(the Boy Scouts will do just fine as there's a whole lot of churches and other small town charities that will step up for them. Let the libs go down as being for butt fucking and against kids.)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:25 PM (LSDdO)

297 Bleacher Report about Boitano. Here, too, TFG gets a mention. http://bit.ly/1bfBf5b

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 08:25 PM (DmNpO)

298 Nice to see you Carol, hope you and your brother are well.

Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2013 08:26 PM (6bvBO)

299 Anyway, as we Brits like to say I'm fagged out for the night, so see y'all later

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo: Tobiam libera! at December 19, 2013 08:27 PM (Xfl0F)

300 Is that effectual enough?>>

Touche.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 19, 2013 08:27 PM (TI3xG)

301 when I was young and first started watching Bond movies Moore was Bond. I thought he was pretty cool but I quickly switched over to being a Connery fan. Eventually I became quite an Clint Eastwood fan, especially his westerns. Ceteris paribus I have a feeling Clint takes Bond hands down; characterwise. I always thought Norris was a little hoke but he is certainly up to taking any Bond .

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:28 PM (rDidD)

302

After reading why Jackie Chan is hated I can understand why. Its not as if we have much respect for celebrities that spout Obama's bullshit talking points. Should we expect less from the Chinese people that do not like the Totalitarian rule of their communist government?

Posted by: buzzion at December 19, 2013 08:29 PM (LI48c)

303 I realize that everybody is an asshole sometimes, and while I can't change the past I can make sure not to be an asshole today or tomorrow. That's hard enough at times, it doesn't seem fair to have to remember stupid shit I did decades ago.

Posted by: Weirddave at December 19, 2013 10:48 PM (N/cFh)

===

I don't just remember that stuff, I tend to relive entire episodes in detail with all the shame I feel now projected onto the former me in that time/place.

Sometimes I even groan out loud when it happens. Then the missus will ask me what the groan was all about and I just don't want to explain. It also happens that I'll be somewhere in public groaning like an idiot and then become aware that people noticed.

The whole experience is ridiculous. The worst part is that I gained so little through my shitty behavior that absolutely none of it was ever worth trading my dignity away.

Posted by: jc at December 19, 2013 08:29 PM (PlzOe)

304 Bleacher Report about Boitano. Here, too, TFG gets a mention.

http://bit.ly/1bfBf5b

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 20, 2013 12:25 AM (DmNpO)

Hard to recognize bleacher report without it being a list, they're slippin.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at December 19, 2013 08:29 PM (WdbF7)

305 Megyn Kelly demanded a glass desk so she could see what her guests are doing under the table.

Posted by: RWC (Vagina Owl from the Future) at December 19, 2013 08:29 PM (Q6HBD)

306 as big as those c5s are you would not think it was necessary to have luggage racks. never put anything in 'em anyway.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:31 PM (rDidD)

307 Posted by: The Hickster at December 20, 2013 12:27 AM (TI3xG)

Course you can't be blamed for the GOP NEVER demanding recounts when ballots are "unexpectedly" discovered that strangely enough put the Democrat over the top.

The Att'y Gen race in Virginia was one. They just capitulated.

See this is why I'm not supporting the GOP anymore. They won't fight when they do get in they cave to the Dems when they do manage some fiscal control they cut the wrong stuff and do it stupidly.

Plus the just don't seem to want to win. And since they don't want to, I'm going to grant them their wish.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:31 PM (LSDdO)

308 >>>Megyn Kelly demanded a glass desk so she could see what her guests are doing under the table.<<<

She's probably glad she can't see into many of the homes that are watching her. IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: villages in Ireland at December 19, 2013 08:34 PM (GDgxf)

309 TV's too DISTRACTING.

I like STILLS.

Artfully and tastefully posed of course.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:35 PM (LSDdO)

310 It's seems too early for midnight.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:36 PM (LSDdO)

311 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:36 PM (LSDdO)

312 Brian Boitano has come out as gay. Is he the last to know?

Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2013 08:37 PM (FcR7P)

313 Is he the last to know? *** Apparently so.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 08:37 PM (DmNpO)

314 Posted by: t-bird at December 20, 2013 12:37 AM (FcR7P)

Somehow, I don't think so.

Maybe his Aunt in Saskatoon didn't know.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:38 PM (LSDdO)

315 Ugh. Off drunken sock.

Posted by: no Irish at December 19, 2013 08:38 PM (GDgxf)

316 Posted by: villages in Ireland at December 20, 2013 12:34 AM (GDgxf) Black tape over the SmarTV works.. Right?

Posted by: RWC (Vagina Owl from the Future) at December 19, 2013 08:38 PM (Q6HBD)

317 I am an not sure that lockheed norris thing is real. not enough wind, clothing is hardly moving.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:38 PM (rDidD)

318 Posted by: no Irish at December 20, 2013 12:38 AM (GDgxf)

Will we REALLY notice a difference?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:38 PM (LSDdO)

319 Brian Boitano gay? No freaking way! http://bit.ly/18ClgTU

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 08:39 PM (DmNpO)

320 Posted by: yankeefifth at December 20, 2013 12:38 AM (rDidD)

Ya THINK?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:39 PM (LSDdO)

321 I am an not sure that lockheed norris thing is real. not enough wind, clothing is hardly moving. *** It's more realistic than that Kanye/Kardashian video.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 08:40 PM (DmNpO)

322 >>>Will we REALLY notice a difference?<<<

Heh. Probably not.

Posted by: no Irish at December 19, 2013 08:40 PM (GDgxf)

323 You know when South Park sang the song "What would Brian Boitano Do?" none of what he would do involves sleeping with a woman.

Posted by: buzzion at December 19, 2013 08:40 PM (LI48c)

324 I just got a gift card from my dad today for Christmas and am pissed. I sat at my computer and bought him a very thoughtful gift that was recently delivered. And all he got me was a gift card from some website.

Never mind That I'm giving cash to my kids.

/sarc

Posted by: The Hickster at December 19, 2013 08:40 PM (TI3xG)

325 I imagine brian boitano getting a call from his parents before thanksgiving telling him that had somethin' to talk about, as ethan's parents did. instead of telling him he needed obamacare they told him he was gay.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:41 PM (rDidD)

326 317 I am an not sure that lockheed norris thing is real. not enough wind, clothing is hardly moving. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 20, 2013 12:38 AM (rDidD) Serious? I am 99 percent sure it's fake. The only reason I give that 1 percent of doubt is the 'freeclimbers.' I was SURE that was fake, but nope. Balls of steel.

Posted by: RWC (Vagina Owl from the Future) at December 19, 2013 08:41 PM (Q6HBD)

327 Be glad he's alive.

Now go call him or if he's close go give him a hug.

At least buy him a beer.

Believe me when I tell you he deserves it for putting up with your whiny ass when you were young.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:42 PM (LSDdO)

328 It's more realistic than that Kanye/Kardashian video. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 20, 2013 heh

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:43 PM (rDidD)

329 Arkham City Origins is 50% off on Steam right now if you're interested in getting it.

Posted by: buzzion at December 19, 2013 08:43 PM (LI48c)

330 Of course it's fake, Norris looks like a video game character in that video.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at December 19, 2013 08:43 PM (WdbF7)

331 Balls of steel.
Posted by: RWC (Vagina Owl from the Future) at December 20, 2013 12:41 AM (Q6HBD)

More like a titanium taint.

When the planes separated, I cringed. (yes I know it's fake but still)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:44 PM (LSDdO)

332 I am an not sure that lockheed norris thing is real. not enough wind, clothing is hardly moving. You have to lean into a 600mph wind a little bit more.

Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2013 08:44 PM (FcR7P)

333 That Indian Jindal fellow is friends with that Robertson fellow. CRUSH THEM!!!

Posted by: RWC (Vagina Owl from the Future) at December 19, 2013 08:45 PM (Q6HBD)

334 if brian boitano were any more gay he would be in danger of spontaneously combusting. if he ever boards a float on fifth avenue it is gonna be "poof" gone.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:45 PM (rDidD)

335 The camera plane is cutting the wind.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:45 PM (LSDdO)

336 It's 2 days old and that damn Eyebrony Pajamaboy still sets my teeth on edge. GDamn, is it un-agnostic of me to wish the non-existent knockout game has a few friendly fire causalities?

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 19, 2013 08:46 PM (0nxbr)

337 it is gonna be "poof" gone.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 20, 2013 12:45 AM (rDidD)

That'd be POOFTER gone.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:46 PM (LSDdO)

338 Speaking of, if you haven't watched that KK vid, you simply must. It is SOOOOOOO bad that you can't miss it. Right from the beginning, with the landscapes and the horses.... just.... freaking...awful. Not to mention him asking his bitch for other bitches for Christmas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBAtAM7vtgc Keep in mind. This is his love song to his baby-mama.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 08:47 PM (DmNpO)

339 Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2013 12:46 AM (0nxbr)

We could hire a couple black guys to rough him up.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:47 PM (LSDdO)

340 I was watching to outtakes from the norris commercial, there was a funny one where he had stickem on his shoes and he would not let the planes separate.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:47 PM (rDidD)

341 The camera plane is cutting the wind. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and that makes sense. so embarased I did not even think of camera plane.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:49 PM (rDidD)

342 my favorite outtake was where they flew the planes backwards.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:49 PM (rDidD)

343 I was watching to outtakes from the norris commercial, there was a funny one where he had stickem on his shoes and he would not let the planes separate. *** LOL

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2013 08:50 PM (DmNpO)

344 Free-climbers. http://tinyurl.com/dx4njk8 Screw that.

Posted by: RWC (Vagina Owl from the Future) at December 19, 2013 08:50 PM (Q6HBD)

345 You have to lean into a 600mph wind a little bit more. heh

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:50 PM (rDidD)

346 That's not hard they switch the Autopilot to the tolipotuA position.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:50 PM (LSDdO)

347 >>>We could hire a couple ~~black guys~~ little girls to rough him up.<<<

FIFY

Posted by: no Irish at December 19, 2013 08:51 PM (GDgxf)

348 Heh

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 08:52 PM (LSDdO)

349 kanye kardashian, what a disaster, he wrecked her figure and she has ruined his career they are both done. in a year or so she will be a waitress at dennys and he will be parking cars; as a valet or simply moving his cars around in and out of his garage all day.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:54 PM (rDidD)

350 We could hire a couple black guys to rough him up. Posted by: Bitter Clinger I'd have to imagine the roughnecks of any hood would refuse on account of professional pride. The Digerschmuckeratz in question would run from a pack of girl scouts. There's no point in the threat. He's a dink's joke of a laughing stock.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 19, 2013 08:54 PM (0nxbr)

351 PJ Boy is a crazed Obama Queer Boy, ain't he?

Posted by: pat at December 19, 2013 08:55 PM (KCg4m)

352 That's not hard they switch the Autopilot to the tolipotuA position. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and A heh, I finally got your joke, ynnuf.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:55 PM (rDidD)

353 347 >>>We could hire a couple black guys little girls to rough him up.<<<

FIFY

Posted by: no Irish at December 20, 2013 12:51 AM (GDgxf)

The ironic thing is that being stomped by a couple of little girls would give him more of an education about healthcare in one day than working for years in the OFA pressroom.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 08:56 PM (T1005)

354 ethan would pay to have a couplea black guys or some little girls rough him up, he already has.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:57 PM (rDidD)

355 PJ Boy is a crazed Obama Queer Boy, ain't he? Posted by: pat Hi Random Moby. Nope, no one assumed he was ghey. No one cares. Thanks. Say Hi to Kos, Soros, and Podesta for us.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 19, 2013 08:57 PM (0nxbr)

356 Brian Boitano came out of the closet today and immediately laughed at Pajamaboy.

Posted by: no Irish at December 19, 2013 08:57 PM (GDgxf)

357 if brian boitano and ethan were cellmates, boitano would have a bunk full of cigarettes.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 08:58 PM (rDidD)

358 sigh. chuck norris + plane. smile.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 09:00 PM (rDidD)

359 (It's Just) Pat, shouldn't you be defending your offspring?

Posted by: no Irish at December 19, 2013 09:00 PM (GDgxf)

360 if brian boitano and ethan were cellmates, boitano would have a bunk full of cigarettes.>>

Both?

Posted by: The Hickster at December 19, 2013 09:00 PM (TI3xG)

361 if brian boitano and ethan were cellmates, boitano would have a bunk full of cigarettes.>>

Both?
Posted by: The Hickster>>

Crap I read it as Who would have a bunk full of cigarettes?

Posted by: The Hickster at December 19, 2013 09:01 PM (TI3xG)

362 One more thing, how did everyone get up on norris's choulders? either they hadda go across the wing or maybe jump in? anyone?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 09:03 PM (rDidD)

363 Crap I read it as Who would have a bunk full of cigarettes? Posted by: The Hickster at December 20, 2013 01:01 as long as it made you smile eventually.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 09:03 PM (rDidD)

364 I just saw the "Obama Breaks Tradition and Politicizes Olympics With Gay US Delegation" headline on Gateway Pundit. The gay Olympic politicization was going on at least since 1996 when, during the running of the lit Olympic torch, the torch was thrown into a van and driven through some town that wouldn't acknowledge "gay marriage" via a recent vote. That was the year I officially quit caring about the Olympics.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm at December 19, 2013 09:04 PM (e4elg)

365 To hell with it, I'm not reading all these comments. I have a fog light to put in the Mustang tomorrow and I haven't seen the pajamaboy ad yet. What are all of you morons up to?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 19, 2013 09:05 PM (yh0zB)

366 Posted by: yankeefifth at December 20, 2013 01:03 How goes the Twitter Adventures of YankeeFifth?

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 19, 2013 09:05 PM (0nxbr)

367 One more thing, how did everyone get up on norris's choulders? either they hadda go across the wing or maybe jump in? anyone? I am in awe as the guys on Chuck Norris' shoulders first had to take the weight of the world off of them ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 09:06 PM (iu8IB)

368 "Obama Breaks Tradition and Politicizes Olympics With Gay US Delegation" Does that mean he's going?

Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2013 09:07 PM (FcR7P)

369 ...I have a fog light to put in the Mustang tomorrow and I haven't seen the pajamaboy ad yet. What are all of you morons up to? fog machines and disco lights are so passe ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 09:07 PM (iu8IB)

370 How goes the Twitter Adventures of YankeeFifth? Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2013 01:05 well, enough. I have a good enough understanding. now we are strategizing.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 09:08 PM (rDidD)

371

This.. is a better concern re: Lockheed. Local news reported today that scouts cannot even TOUR their facility, which has happened since it was built, because we can't haz the gayz as scout "leaders"...

http://tinyurl.com/kqgr8xj

Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at December 19, 2013 09:08 PM (0tHG6)

372 "Obama Breaks Tradition and Politicizes Olympics With Gay US Delegation">>

Does that mean the phrase "wow he really blew it" will have a different meaning in this Olympics?

Posted by: The Hickster at December 19, 2013 09:09 PM (TI3xG)

373 sport.woot.com is now doing a Backpack of Crap.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 09:09 PM (T1005)

374 gay delegation? he sent reggie to london.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 09:10 PM (rDidD)

375 >>>Does that mean he's going?

Posted by: t-bird at December 20, 2013 01:07 AM (FcR7P)<<<

Hey-o!

(but seriously, he'd never go, with Vlad hosting the games, right?)

Posted by: Zombie Ed McMahon at December 19, 2013 09:10 PM (GDgxf)

376 Under armor. Big sponsor of DD, says they stand by them This is gonna back fire

Posted by: Thunderb at December 19, 2013 09:10 PM (zOTsN)

377 Oh my. DO NOT ever read old interviews of General Ashley Clarke (he started some conspiracy thingie years ago we were going to invade 7 countries in 5 years or something)... Good night everyone.

Posted by: Baldy at December 19, 2013 09:12 PM (2bql3)

378 fog machines and disco lights are so passe ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 20, 2013 01:07 AM (iu8IB)

...so...should I hang the mirror ball from the rear-view, or no?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 19, 2013 09:12 PM (yh0zB)

379 Under armor. Big sponsor of DD, says they stand by them >>

So did Skyjacker which will be getting some of my money soon.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 19, 2013 09:12 PM (TI3xG)

380 Viral pneumonia feels worse because you tend to spike a big fever. In a lot of older folks it can morph into bacterial because they feel lousy and lie in bed and bugs multiply in the inflamed bronchi. There are lots of things that present like simple community acquired pneumonia but are much more serious and complicated so it is important to rest, drink fluids, use something to keep the lungs open (tea, sudafed, inhaler, whatever) and follow up if it doesn't get better. I'm not licensed in your State.

Posted by: Daybrother at December 19, 2013 09:13 PM (1oD0a)

381 Are there any KCMO area roonz/ettez on the line?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 19, 2013 09:15 PM (yh0zB)

382 >>>275 Speaking of skating, Brian Boitano has come out as gay. >>>What? Just now.... not like 10 years ago? Has-beens in any field pull the "coming out" card in trying to reinvigorate their slumping careers. It's nothing new.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 19, 2013 09:19 PM (V4CBV)

383 I'm coming out now as a heterosexual.

Posted by: Daybrother has joined the rebel resistance at December 19, 2013 09:21 PM (Vv2+u)

384 #234, Schultz's Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, and occasional June 6th D-Day commemoratives went a long way toward keeping him a decent guy in my book. He sometimes brought out Mauldin's "Willie and Joe" of WWII Stars and Stripes fame to keep them in the public eye and Mauldin's estate selling books. Again, good move. Then again he was a WWII combat veteran himself, even if the 20th Armored arrived too late in theater to do much.

Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at December 19, 2013 09:21 PM (604CD)

385 207 All this talk of Duck Dynasty and Phil Robertson and A&E, but precious little of the gorilla in the room, which would be GLAAD. This group has immense power, and I do mean immense. They are the reason gays a way over-represented in all television shows. They are the reason God isn't mentioned ever in a positive manner, and why gays are almost never the butt (pun intended) of jokes. They made on call to A+E, and the execs there decided to fuck with their most successful cash cow ever. One call. Posted by: Normal man spitting on his hands at December 19, 2013 11:43 PM (agLwc) Shows that are popular with audiences are not always popular with the advertising department. Many shows with good ratings have been cancelled while low rated ones stay on the air because the ad department and ad agencies like the shows, and Duck Dynasty is one of those shows that the ad department hates. When the show was a concept, the ad department thought it would be great because they envisioned the wine and cheese crowd in the Northeast laughing at the rednecks on the television, when they didn't tune in and middle America started watching and relating to the Robertsons, A&E freaked out. It didn't matter that the show is highly rated, the execs started to become embarrassed by the show. Same thing happened to WCW and WWF/WWE. The networks that were showing them decided they were above having pro wrestling on and decided to cancel or not renew the shows even though both were in the top 10 of cable shows. One organization moved to another channel, the other folded. The reason, the network execs were embarrassed by it. Make no mistake, A&E wants to be rid of the Robertsons, and it appears they will get their wish.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at December 19, 2013 09:22 PM (BXLPR)

386 Repeating myself from a dead earlier thread:

Uh, Moronettes, be REAL careful before you go getting Ace of Spades tattoos and showing them off. Those have a VERY specific meaning in the interracial-fetish subculture. I found this out when those weirdoes couldn't keep to their own websites and parties and started crashing BDSM events. Imagine a hot MILFy white chick, her younger black boyfriend she's out with, and some guy she's married to who looks like Ethan Krupp back home masturbating thinking about it.

Google "Are you a Queen of Spades?"

Posted by: some dude at December 19, 2013 09:22 PM (604CD)

387 Going back to the premise that Cops can cop your DNA minus your consent....."Officer, you can have my DNA when swab your own mouth when we're done with this little inquisition."

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at December 19, 2013 09:23 PM (ojnk6)

388
The only slightly amusing character is Snoopy and that's because Schulz didn't know enough to create a downbeat, negative caricature of a dog because dogs are generally pretty upbeat.
Him and Dr. Seuss can blow me.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 11:33 PM (LSDdO)

I once started reading a biography of Schulz and stopped. It focused on the poor relationships he had in his life. He apparently had a nag for a wife, and Lucy was supposed to have been based on her. I seem to recall that he also had difficulty relationships with his mother and other female relatives. As I recall he was an unhappy man.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2013 11:48 PM (AtSBz)

As I recall, one of us long-time Morons used to live down the street from Schultz, and had issues with him. Local, neighbor type squabbles that could be traced to Schultz being a miserable prick.

For the life of me, I can't remember which one of us it was.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2013 09:24 PM (MBqvE)

389 you know who is a depressing fellow? joseph heller. he is depressing enough to ruin catch 22.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 09:25 PM (rDidD)

390 I don't think A and E wants to be rid of DD. I think they thought they could get away with bullying them. They guessed wrong

Posted by: Thunderb at December 19, 2013 09:26 PM (zOTsN)

391 Local news reported today that scouts cannot even TOUR their facility, which has happened since it was built, because we can't haz the gayz as scout "leaders"... In the late 90s, I was with a company that did some work for LMCO. At their building in Bethesda, Lockheed had a pre-op sex change employee. Bizarre. He not only was dressing as a woman, he wore orange Buddhist nun robes. LMCO accommodated this to the point of letting him use the women's bathrooms. The accommodation was groundbreaking as it was not understood to be required by law at the time (I was doing HR-related work, so I was familiar with employment rules).

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at December 19, 2013 09:28 PM (V3kRK)

392 376 Under armor. Big sponsor of DD, says they stand by them

This is gonna back fire

Posted by: Thunderb at December 20, 2013 01:10 AM (zOTsN)

You don't need to be a weatherman to feel the wind blow.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 09:28 PM (T1005)

393 385 207 All this talk of Duck Dynasty and Phil Robertson and A&E, but precious little of the gorilla in the room, which would be GLAAD.
...
They made on call to A+E, and the execs there decided to fuck with their most successful cash cow ever.
One call.

Posted by: Normal man spitting on his hands at December 19, 2013 11:43 PM (agLwc)

Yep apparently GLAAD made a single call to A&E execs and during the call A&E agreed to suspend Robertson. And rumors are that they informally agreed that he'll never appear on the show again.

That is the power of the Gafia.

Posted by: Mætenloch at December 19, 2013 09:28 PM (pAlYe)

394 In my opinion, only the original (Raiders of the lost Ark) WASN'T a piece of shit. All the other movies in that series sucked.

Temple of Doom is a good film, ruined only by Kate Capshaw. Take her out of it, and it's a damn good adventure film. Last Crusade, not so much -- it felt really mechanical.

Posted by: Behind on the Fashion Curve at December 19, 2013 09:30 PM (BdXis)

395 You know who is really depressing? Hitler. Man, what a legacy.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 19, 2013 09:30 PM (V4CBV)

396 I wanna see a hitler bunker video where he learns boitano is gay.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 09:31 PM (rDidD)

397 They get away with it so often, the bullying into silence. They assumed they would be able to do it again. They hadn't bumped into anyone with values more important than the dollar

Posted by: Thunderb at December 19, 2013 09:31 PM (zOTsN)

398 glaad is gonna do same thing obama has done. overplay their hand. sometime every ounce of clout they have will disappear in one flash. clout to no clout in a second.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 09:33 PM (rDidD)

399 They'll end up somewhere else. Beck was practically begging today. If I were them I would sue to try and stop A and E from showing the old shows

Posted by: Thunderb at December 19, 2013 09:34 PM (zOTsN)

400 A&E stepped on the crwnk with spiked golf shoes, and now can't find a way out of bowing to about 3 percent of our population, none of which ever, ever watched this show. Great job, Marketing Hipster geniuses.....

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at December 19, 2013 09:35 PM (ojnk6)

401 We're seeing another round of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge -- media/politicos have to be "thought leaders", they have to "move minds", they have to "shape culture" -- so they can't bother to engage, persuade, or entertain. They have to keep the wisdom of the ages, rational examination of issues, and empathy with anyone besides smirky hipster douchebags at far remove......lest they lose their exalted position in society.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 09:35 PM (T1005)

402 ...so...should I hang the mirror ball from the rear-view, or no? trail hitch, in place of ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 09:36 PM (iu8IB)

403 Now PETA lecturing A and E about the teachings of Christ Good grief

Posted by: Thunderb at December 19, 2013 09:38 PM (zOTsN)

404 397 They get away with it so often, the bullying into silence. They assumed they would be able to do it again. They hadn't bumped into anyone with values more important than the dollar Posted by: Thunderb at December 20, 2013 01:31 AM (zOTsN) Probably have never run into people who don't make their money from being on TV. If the Robertsons never appeared on TV ever again, they would be just like they were 5 years ago, happy, happy, happy.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at December 19, 2013 09:38 PM (BXLPR)

405
They get away with it so often, the bullying into silence. They assumed they would be able to do it again. They hadn't bumped into anyone with values more important than the dollar

Posted by: Thunderb at December 20, 2013 01:31 AM (zOTsN)

Isn't the family worth upwards of $400 million clams, with most of it coming from BEFORE the TV show? I seem to remember reading that somewhere. Kind of tough for GLAAD to bully someone who could buy their organization 10 times over, and still be rich as Croesus.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2013 09:40 PM (MBqvE)

406 Prolly happier. I think Phil was using the show to be able to talk about family values and living a religious life

Posted by: Thunderb at December 19, 2013 09:40 PM (zOTsN)

407 What did Jake Tapper (to his credit) say the other day about journalists? They've never had a real job, they all talk to the same people (just like themselves) and they all live in NY or DC. They are Liberal womb dwellers. They went into journalism to "make a difference" not to see or relate the facts. The Robertsons are not at all stupid and they don't need the money.

Posted by: Daybrother has joined the rebel resistance at December 19, 2013 09:41 PM (DANAw)

408 Cthulhu, The state of Colorado calls it deferred, but yes it is calendared until December 2014. I could not get back on ONT last night. We were too busy "celebrating". No not really.......just trying to destress. To think that he gets more rights than our daughter and that it has taken so much effort and time on our part to see justice is infuriating.

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 19, 2013 09:42 PM (7Dbui)

409 Night all. Here is "Victim Of Changes" by Judas Priest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKSU1W0ZUmQ

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 19, 2013 09:43 PM (Vk2pI)

410 This is funny -- someone sent this link to me: https://twitter.com/WeWillHateThis/status/413917765477494784 "If you agree with Phil Robertson, tweet #IPreferVagina ; if you disagree with him, tweet #IPreferAnus. Let's see which trends higher!" I don't do Twitter, so I'm posting it here for those who do!

Posted by: zombie at December 19, 2013 09:44 PM (+cx5n)

411 westminsterdogshow at December 20, 2013 01:42 AM (7Dbui) Best wishes for you and your family. May you find strength and beauty in unexpected moments ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 09:44 PM (iu8IB)

412 One other little note....GLAAD's very existence relies on persuading donors that it is GLAAD, and not basic human decency, that is responsible for the donors' well-being. This being the case, they occasionally are tempted to draw a distinction between themselves and basic human decency to prove which one is more effective.

Unfortunately for them, basic human decency is like gravity -- it's the weakest of the four fundamental forces of physics.....but usually manages to be the most relevant.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 09:49 PM (T1005)

413 I'm going to sleep soon, but I just had to pop in and say "hi" to Westminsterdogshow. Hi!

Posted by: Mindy aka Cupcake at December 19, 2013 09:49 PM (GRLuN)

414 I don't do Twitter, so I'm posting it here for those who do! Posted by: zombie #IpreferCivilityInPublic

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 19, 2013 09:50 PM (H4Rpo)

415 That is the power of the Gafia.
Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at December 20, 2013 01:28 AM (pAlYe)

Am a little annoyed to see my church's pastor's son argue that it's dumb to talk about this. Doesn't seem to notice that there's a culture war going on, it seems.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at December 19, 2013 09:52 PM (ohV1B)

416 I don't really get the Chuck Norris '60s-era-air freighter-Obvious-CGI thing, but since it was one of the first action movies I ever saw, I'll crank up the theme to The Delta Force anyway. Fuck yeah, motorbikes with rockets! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQUeQOIlcDM

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 19, 2013 09:52 PM (Sd47w)

417 >>>This is funny -- someone sent this link to me:

Posted by: zombie at December 20, 2013 01:44 AM (+cx5n)<<<

That kinda leaves an awkward choice for the ladies to tweet.

Posted by: loves to hate at December 19, 2013 09:54 PM (GDgxf)

418 That movie poster is great. Lee Marvin staring into your girly-man eyes as his weapon blasts terrorists somewhere off to the right.

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 19, 2013 09:55 PM (Sd47w)

419 410 This is funny -- someone sent this link to me:

https://twitter.com/WeWillHateThis/status/413917765477494784

"If you agree with Phil Robertson, tweet #IPreferVagina ; if you disagree with him, tweet #IPreferAnus. Let's see which trends higher!"

I don't do Twitter, so I'm posting it here for those who do!

Posted by: zombie at December 20, 2013 01:44 AM (+cx5n)

*rollseyes* I can't wait 'til this gets exposed to San Francisco: #IPreferWhips, #IPreferTongue, #IPreferWatersports....

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 09:55 PM (T1005)

420 obvious cgi says who? did you see the van damme commercial?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 09:55 PM (rDidD)

421 411 westminsterdogshow at December 20, 2013 01:42 AM (7Dbui)

Best wishes for you and your family. May you find strength and beauty in unexpected moments ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 20, 2013 01:44 AM (iu8IB)

Like she said. The momentum of a bureaucracy is both awesome and horrible.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 09:56 PM (T1005)

422 I think "#iprefermanus" is a better option.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 19, 2013 09:56 PM (rDidD)

423 De-lurking. GGE, I'm in central MO. You might be coming through, yes?

Posted by: Piercello at December 19, 2013 09:56 PM (P4dpU)

424 "If you agree with Phil Robertson, tweet #IPreferVagina ; if you disagree with him, tweet #IPreferAnus. Let's see which trends higher!"

I don't do Twitter, so I'm posting it here for those who do!

Posted by: zombie at December 20, 2013 01:44 AM

Dammit. I can't get the "U" key to work.

Posted by: barry soetoro at December 19, 2013 09:57 PM (9gNQd)

425 @FLOTUS tweets: #IPreferSpermDonor

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 09:59 PM (T1005)

426 Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at December 20, 2013 01:22 AM (BXLPR) You are correct. A+E is in the business of influence, not the business of making money.

Posted by: Meremortal, , .." at December 19, 2013 10:04 PM (1Y+hH)

427 "If you agree with Phil Robertson, tweet #IPreferVagina ; if you disagree with him, tweet #IPreferAnus. Let's see which trends higher!" I don't do Twitter, so I'm posting it here for those who do! Posted by: zombie at December 20, 2013 01:44 AM (+cx5n) Brilliant. Love it.

Posted by: Meremortal, , .. at December 19, 2013 10:07 PM (1Y+hH)

428 Hi Mindy! And thank you to cthulhu and Adriane for your support!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 19, 2013 10:08 PM (7Dbui)

429 De-lurking. GGE, I'm in central MO. You might be coming through, yes?

Posted by: Piercello at December 20, 2013 01:56 AM (P4dpU)

Yes, sometime on the 3rd of January.

trail hitch, in place of ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 20, 2013 01:36 AM (iu8IB)

Trailer hitch? On a Mustang???

I think not.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 19, 2013 10:09 PM (yh0zB)

430 You know Frankie and Harry and Lyndon and Dickie, Georgie and Jackie and Jimmie and Willie, But can you forget The bigizest bullshitter yet? Barry the two-faced tyrant Had a very longish nose And if you ever watched him You would even say it grows All of the other choomsters Used to think he was a jerk He would have all the goodies Ripping off the ones who work Then one year a fog rolled up Soros saw his chance Barry with your nose so long You can mix up right and wrong Then how the free shit army Followed Barry O the Blind Now he wants me on OCare He can kiss my dang behind!

Posted by: Serendipitydoodah, Santa's mindful webworker at December 19, 2013 10:12 PM (KdfFa)

431 Mindy.....all done grading?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 19, 2013 10:14 PM (7Dbui)

432
Isn't the family worth upwards of $400 million clams, with most of it coming from BEFORE the TV show? I seem to remember reading that somewhere. Kind of tough for GLAAD to bully someone who could buy their organization 10 times over, and still be rich as Croesus.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 20, 2013 01:40 AM (MBqvE)

And most of that money comes from the type of people that aren't going to give two shits that they have the Christian view that homosexuality is a sin. Because most of them do actually go there for the hunting.

Posted by: buzzion at December 19, 2013 10:15 PM (LI48c)

433 Trailer hitch? On a Mustang??? I think not. Well if you think you know more about cars than a pedestrian ... but I think this would make a great hood ornament ... http://tinyurl.com/6goftlx

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 10:16 PM (iu8IB)

434 but I think this would make a great hood ornament ...
http://tinyurl.com/6goftlx

Posted by: Adriane... at December 20, 2013 02:16 AM (iu8IB)

That would take a large hood...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 19, 2013 10:17 PM (yh0zB)

435 Hey, all. What's cooking?

Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2013 10:19 PM (QD3l5)

436 "Yes, sometime on the 3rd of January." As far as I know I'll be around, if you are looking for Moron company to break up the drive. I've a few 1000+ mile drives under my belt, so I know that's not a given.

Posted by: Piercello at December 19, 2013 10:19 PM (P4dpU)

437 I have seen a trailer hitch on a Mustang, in fact there was one at Mustang Week that had a trailer that had been formed out of another Mustang. Binging "mustang with trailer" comes up with several examples of the same.

Just not on mine. I'd have to cut a hole in the bumper cover and I don't want to do that.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 19, 2013 10:21 PM (yh0zB)

438 I've a few 1000+ mile drives under my belt, so I know that's not a given.

Posted by: Piercello at December 20, 2013 02:19 AM (P4dpU)

I'm just trying to judge interest really. There has been talk of KC area meet-ups, but then again I've tried to get a NC meet up going for a while, too. Like herding cats.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 19, 2013 10:23 PM (yh0zB)

439 Buzzion.... This has never been about money for the Robertson's. I truly think that AE thought they were getting a show to make fun of rednecks and had absolutely no clue that the show wouldbe a success with Americans. They have now nixed their cash cow by cowtowing to bullies.

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 19, 2013 10:25 PM (7Dbui)

440 I'd be game for a meet-up, KC style. Maybe ChemJeff could host it at his local Applebees...

Posted by: Piercello at December 19, 2013 10:28 PM (P4dpU)

441 Maybe ChemJeff could host it at his local Applebees...

Posted by: Piercello at December 20, 2013 02:28 AM (P4dpU)

There's an idea for you...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 19, 2013 10:32 PM (yh0zB)

442 Congress meets let tonight and changes the rules regarding accusations of sexual assault in the military, taking them out of the hands of the commander. Even murder charges are proffered by the commander Also voted to ease the restrictions on repatriating GITMO detainees like to Sudan and Somalia

Posted by: thunderb at December 19, 2013 10:32 PM (zOTsN)

443 Or at a BBQ place, where we can discuss the merits of Memphis dry rub vs East Carolina vinegar sauces and the barbarism that comes from putting tomato in barbecue sauce.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 19, 2013 10:34 PM (yh0zB)

444 Thunderb...... Where you at?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 19, 2013 10:34 PM (7Dbui)

445 Definitely a better idea. Heh.

Posted by: Piercello at December 19, 2013 10:35 PM (P4dpU)

446 440 I'd be game for a meet-up, KC style. Maybe ChemJeff could host it at his local Applebees...

Posted by: Piercello at December 20, 2013 02:28 AM (P4dpU)

Y'know, every so often, I get a mental image from some words....and it's often entertaining or useful, but it's the result of a widely-ranging imagination running amok. So you mentioned ChemJeff's local Fapplebees, and I just flashed to:

A group of morons, in the style of CSI investigators, wearing long coats and latex gloves, armed with tight-beam flashlights and #plotdevice "miracle lights" that are supposed to make organic stains glow, moving through a darkened Fapplebees with atmospheric fog and seeing dripping fluorescence everywhere.....and making snarky comments like (dripping off one pull-out chair) "I guess she was eager" and (on a salt shaker) "Ewwwww....."

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 10:41 PM (T1005)

447 I love my people who are lesbian, homosexual, transgender. DonÂ’t make no difference, I love you. But I have to teach you that which will make us more pleasing in the sight of God because his wrath now is coming down on America and on the world. And if youÂ’re not on the right side, you will receive a terrible chastisement. YouÂ’re not a beast." Speech in Jackson, Mississippi, 3/25/11 by louis farrakhan did you hear the outcry? me neither

Posted by: thunderb at December 19, 2013 10:43 PM (zOTsN)

448 Heh. Weather underground just revised my anticipated low temp for tonight upward. It's still within the bounds where I'd cover things, but barely -- it's those downward revisions near midnight that nail your plants.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 10:45 PM (T1005)

449 I'm not your enemy. I'm your brother, and I do love you." However, he said "sin is sin according to the standard of God." "Males coming to males with lust in their hearts as they should to a female," he said. "Now don't you dare say Farrakhan was preaching hate; he's homophobic. I'm not afraid of my brothers and sisters or others who may be practicing what God condemned in the days of Lot. That's not our job to be hateful of our people. Our job is to call us to sanity." farrakhan in a speech last year

Posted by: thunderb at December 19, 2013 10:46 PM (zOTsN)

450 Shades of "Ghostbusters." You have to admit, the Moron snark would be epic.

Posted by: Piercello at December 19, 2013 10:47 PM (P4dpU)

451 Bishop Timothy Clarke, head of the First Church of God, a large African-American church with a television ministry in Columbus, Ohio, was perhaps most typical. He felt compelled to address the president's comments at a Wednesday evening service and again Sunday morning. He was responding to an outpouring of calls, emails and text messages from members of his congregation after the president's remarks. What did he hear from churchgoers? "No church or group is monolithic. Some were powerfully agitated and disappointed. Others were curious -- why now? to what end? Others were hurt. And others, to be honest, told me it's not an issue and they don't have a problem with it." What did the bishop tell his congregation? He opposes gay marriage. It is not just a social issue, he said, but a religious one for those who follow the Bible. "The spiritual issue is ground in the word of God."

Posted by: thunderb at December 19, 2013 10:50 PM (zOTsN)

452 Damnit cthulhu........our plants have been gone since October. I am jealous.

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 19, 2013 10:52 PM (7Dbui)

453 Houston Texas. Cant sleep. Had a three hour dental appointment today and a wicked cold coming on tonight

Posted by: thunderb at December 19, 2013 10:52 PM (zOTsN)

454 farrakhan in a speech last year Posted by: thunderb NoI is immune to ridicule no matter how many members end up in violent altercations/ and or unPC speech. Again, the Protect Victims aren't subject to the same PC crusade the rest of us are.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 19, 2013 10:53 PM (H4Rpo)

455 garrett at December 20, 2013 02:19 AM (QD3l5) I went to Fresh & Easy and picked up some Fried Rice and Pineapple Chicken ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 10:54 PM (iu8IB)

456 thunderb at December 20, 2013 02:52 AM (zOTsN) Pot stickers and chili oil, PRONTO!!!!!

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 10:56 PM (iu8IB)

457 Night all. Final score for the evening: belt sander 2, thumb knuckle 0. I'm hoping for a scoreless draw in tomorrow's rematch...

Posted by: Piercello at December 19, 2013 10:56 PM (P4dpU)

458 afraid the chili oil would make my tender mouth en fuego!

Posted by: thunderb at December 19, 2013 10:57 PM (zOTsN)

459 Thunderb.......stay well. Just thought you were in co by some of your comments

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 19, 2013 10:59 PM (vCIzq)

460 452 Damnit cthulhu........our plants have been gone since October.

I am jealous.

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 20, 2013 02:52 AM (7Dbui)

Well, to start with, I'm in Silicon Valley.....so it's a different climate from CO. Even so, I've got tropical gingers and orchids, and they aren't real fond of freezing....so we have a few of these little beauties -- http://www.flowerhouses.com/products/6%27-x-6%27-x-6.5%27-SpringHouse.html We have some potted citrus, as well, but they can lose the outer leaves so we just throw a sheet over 'em.

I'm looking to leave Taxifornia, and one of the big concerns is dealing with favorite plants in other climates.....I suspect I may have to live partially inside a greenhouse.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 11:00 PM (T1005)

461 Thinking about the Memphis TN area when I relocate in another 4 years or so. It's a bit farther from Raleigh than it is from Jacksonville or from the parents in SW Iowa, but not too much further (about 70 miles) so I think it would be a pretty good central spot between the kids and the parents/sibs.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 19, 2013 11:01 PM (yh0zB)

462 453 Houston Texas. Cant sleep. Had a three hour dental appointment today and a wicked cold coming on tonight

Posted by: thunderb at December 20, 2013 02:52 AM (zOTsN)

Zinc, vitamin C, and unusually spicy food.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 11:02 PM (T1005)

463 ruined only by Kate Capshaw.

Indeeee!

Indeeee!

Indeeee!

I wanted to choke a bitch. (and I think she's cute and all)

What a twat. Shows how SHE got to be a STAR.

*clue; it wasn't her acting ability*

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 11:02 PM (LSDdO)

464 President Barack Obama's half brother is publishing an autobiography that details the domestic abuse that served as the theme for his earlier semiautobiographical novel, which featured an abusive parent patterned on their late father. Mark Obama Ndesandjo also recounts his sporadic but intense encounters with his brother over the years in "Cultures: My Odyssey of Self-Discovery." The self-published book, to be released in February, also tries to set the record straight on some points in the president's bestselling 1995 memoir, "Dreams From My Father." In that book, Obama seeks to learn more about their father, a mostly absent figure, after learning of his death in a car crash in 1982 at age 46. Ndesandjo's book comes four years after his novel, "Nairobi to Shenzhen: A Novel of Love in the East." As in his first book, Ndesandjo wanted to raise awareness of domestic abuse by using his family's story, although he said in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday that the president's relatives have not universally welcomed his airing of private matters in public. Ndesandjo spoke ahead of a news conference to launch the book in Guangzhou on Thursday. When asked how he would describe his relationship with his brother, he said, "Right now it's cold and I think part of the reason is because of my writing. My writing has alienated some people in my family."

Posted by: thunderb at December 19, 2013 11:04 PM (zOTsN)

465 Well, lots to do tomorrow so I'm out. Later roonz and roonettez, fear no evil!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 19, 2013 11:04 PM (yh0zB)

466 In his new book, Ndesandjo recalls alcohol-fueled beatings meted out by his father to his mother. He recounts one incident in which his father held a knife to his mother's throat because she took out a restraining order against him.

Posted by: thunderb at December 19, 2013 11:05 PM (zOTsN)

467 The book recounts Ndesandjo's first encounter with Obama, who was visiting Kenya in 1988. They did not hit it off. "Barack thought I was too white and I thought he was too black," Ndesandjo said. "He was an American searching for his African roots, I was a Kenyan, I'm an American but I was living in Kenya, searching for my white roots." The 500-page book includes an appendix listing a number of alleged factual errors in Obama's 1995 memoir, "Dreams from my Father," such as quotes incorrectly attributed to Ndesandjo's mother. "It's a correction. A lot of the stuff that Barack wrote is wrong in that book and I can understand that because to me for him the book was a tool for fashioning an identity and he was using composites," Ndesandjo said. "I wanted to bring it up because first of all I wanted the record to be straight. I wanted to tell my own story, not let people tell it for me," he said.

Posted by: thunderb at December 19, 2013 11:06 PM (zOTsN)

468 GN, GGE ... happy fog lighting!

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 11:07 PM (iu8IB)

469 Half brother?

Which half?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 11:08 PM (LSDdO)

470 Who is this fireball on RedEye???

She's fucking awesome.

Posted by: loves to hate at December 19, 2013 11:09 PM (GDgxf)

471 461 Thinking about the Memphis TN area when I relocate in another 4 years or so. It's a bit farther from Raleigh than it is from Jacksonville or from the parents in SW Iowa, but not too much further (about 70 miles) so I think it would be a pretty good central spot between the kids and the parents/sibs.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 20, 2013 03:01 AM (yh0zB)

Odd....I kinda liked Nashville and Knoxville, but thought Memphis was too urbanized, too prone to tornadoes, and too flat.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 11:12 PM (T1005)

472 What, did everyone run off to ogle the chick on redeye?

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 11:30 PM (T1005)

473 #470 Sonny Johnson.

Posted by: CAC at December 19, 2013 11:30 PM (BrJ4Y)

474 *Sonnie

Posted by: CAC at December 19, 2013 11:31 PM (BrJ4Y)

475 Roses are red, Violets are blue, Ask not for whom the post office closing bell tolls, I'm not even half way through ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 11:36 PM (iu8IB)

476 Apparently so.

I went and boiled a couple eggs. Made some drink mix and even had a few minutes to contemplate my belly button lint.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 11:41 PM (LSDdO)

477 Fog lighting's for sissies.

High beams and pedal to the floor.

If you don't know the road, you shouldn't be out there.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 11:43 PM (LSDdO)

478 Here we go again.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 11:43 PM (LSDdO)

479 My connection these last couple days seems a little throttled.

Loading my home page is ridiculous but everything else is okay.

Effn Verizon. I got a good deal on just broadband. no voice no tv no extra bs.

They've jacked my rate 8 dollars in 4 years and they've also said I can't ever upgrade without buying a whole package of shite I don't want or need so I'm stuck at this speed.

I keep thinking they're screwing with those like me to make us either quit or upgrade.

well, kcufers, I am a stubborn ol' basterd and you can suck on a lemon ball as big as a Buick before that happens.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 11:48 PM (LSDdO)

480

...ogle the chick on redeye?

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 03:30 AM (T1005)

just switched over.

beautiful woman.

Posted by: dDan at December 19, 2013 11:48 PM (hwYmz)

481 Okay. So I'm talking to myself.

Not something that doesn't normally happen but usually not on the intertubez.

So self, how was your day?

I had an okay day. Yesterday was better though. I got some tests done that I needed to have but was too lazy to go in for them.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

*I've bored myself*

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 11:50 PM (LSDdO)

482 Good news: we are finally getting a big screen TV. Bad news: Our place is so insanely packed that to free the space to accommodate it, I need to redistibute several pieces of furniture. Worse news: My measurements were a little off, and the bookcase I thought I could shimmy into the bedroom is juuuust a smidge too tall to get in upright. The hallway is too narrow to get it in anyway but upright. Until I figure which direction to go now, it's on its side in the hallway. Hell, it basically IS the hallway. I may have just crossed the line from "American Pickers" to "Hoarders".

Posted by: Sister Sestina at December 19, 2013 11:50 PM (Em6d4)

483 Divinyls

When I talk about me

I bore myself.

Oh oh oh

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 11:51 PM (LSDdO)

484 482 Good news: we are finally getting a big screen TV.

Bad news: Our place is so insanely packed that to free the space to accommodate it, I need to redistibute several pieces of furniture.

Worse news: My measurements were a little off, and the bookcase I thought I could shimmy into the bedroom is juuuust a smidge too tall to get in upright. The hallway is too narrow to get it in anyway but upright. Until I figure which direction to go now, it's on its side in the hallway. Hell, it basically IS the hallway.

I may have just crossed the line from "American Pickers" to "Hoarders".

Posted by: Sister Sestina at December 20, 2013 03:50 AM (Em6d4)

As someone whose life is totally balanced on that line....can you get it out of the house, open the window all the way, remove the screen, and pass it in that way?

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 11:52 PM (T1005)

485 Worse news: My measurements were a little off, and the bookcase I thought I could shimmy into the bedroom is juuuust a smidge too tall to get in upright. Tilting the bookshelf backwards makes it harder for the books to jump out ... problem solved!

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 11:53 PM (iu8IB)

486 Posted by: Sister Sestina at December 20, 2013 03:50 AM (Em6d4)

Time to get out the plane or the rasp or a chisel.

I have to do like one of those square puzzles with all the numbers where you have to move the numbers around and get them in order?

put this there and then I can move that over there and then I can move the other thing where that was and then I can get just enough space to put that other stuff HERE>.

So I know the feeling. I'm still unpacking from moving 6 years ago.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 11:54 PM (LSDdO)

487 Medium boiled eggs ... with toast ... um ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 19, 2013 11:54 PM (iu8IB)

488 I'm NOT a hoarder.

I'm merely saving things that will come in handy later.

Maybe. Someday. I'm sure I can use that eventually.

Do you know how much I paid for that?

There's still good use there. For something.

I'm gonna need a bigger house.

Or at least a bigger shed.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 11:56 PM (LSDdO)

489 Hey Kids

Posted by: jc at December 19, 2013 11:56 PM (PlzOe)

490 I may have just crossed the line from "American Pickers" to "Hoarders". Posted by: Sister Sestina at December 20, 2013 03:50 AM (Em6d4) As someone whose life is totally balanced on that line....can you get it out of the house, open the window all the way, remove the screen, and pass it in that way? Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 03:52 AM (T1005) =================== That's one of the options I'm considering. The other is to rearrange even more of the bookshelves to shuffle the two shortest ones into the bedroom. If I go the first, it will be interesting to see if I can out as easily as it got it...since I had MUCH less stuff occluding its passage when I first bought it. It's rapidly become a Magic Square problem, only wrought in oak.

Posted by: Sister Sestina at December 19, 2013 11:58 PM (Em6d4)

491 True story -- there's an open (non-doored) doorway between my pantry area and my kitchen....and there's a scrape on it from when we installed the cabinet-depth fridge. Forgot to include the particleboard underlayment for the flooring in the measurement and left myself 1/4"....underlayment was 3/8".

Posted by: cthulhu at December 19, 2013 11:58 PM (T1005)

492 Magic Square.

That's the name of that puzzle thingy.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 19, 2013 11:59 PM (LSDdO)

493 It could be worse. My husband was telling this all to a friend of his. Said friend said he's facing much the same issue at his house -- only his strategy to get a new big screen TV involves demolishing and rebuilding a wall. At least I'm just shoving wood, not doing carpentry!

Posted by: Sister Sestina at December 20, 2013 12:01 AM (Em6d4)

494 493 It could be worse. My husband was telling this all to a friend of his. Said friend said he's facing much the same issue at his house -- only his strategy to get a new big screen TV involves demolishing and rebuilding a wall. At least I'm just shoving wood, not doing carpentry!

Posted by: Sister Sestina at December 20, 2013 04:01 AM (Em6d4)

Don't knock carpentry, it has its moments.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 12:02 AM (T1005)

495 Don't knock carpentry, it has its moments. Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 04:02 AM (T1005) === Yeah, like the moments I'm running for the Neosporin and bandages. Sharp tools are generally not friendly with me. The day we got computers and I no longer had to wield an X-acto knife to fulfill my job duties was one of the happiest in my life.

Posted by: Sister Sestina at December 20, 2013 12:07 AM (Em6d4)

496 I am pretty happy these days without TV after most of a lifetime of watching the box. Apparently giving it up saves a lot of furniture relocation and carpentry as well.

Posted by: jc at December 20, 2013 12:09 AM (PlzOe)

497 jc at December 20, 2013 03:56 AM (PlzOe) Hey, jc! Hope you're feeling better ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 20, 2013 12:10 AM (iu8IB)

498 I fucked up. I soo did on Tuesday and I am so heartily, fucking sorry. Dad SAID, specifically that he wouldn't pony up $400 for our $660 fucking RENT even though I told him about this expense 4 fucking WEEKS AGO!! This was Tuesday the 17th, when our rent was fucking one day past DUE!! and also the BULLSHITT $95x2 costs to the landlord to file for EVICTION notices, TWICE! I've given EVERYTHING for my Dad. He can't (or won't) give our landlord his due??? I don't even have a DRIVERS LICENSE any more (I owe Pima County like $700 now), much less the CAR that I took out a $300 p/m loan, I can't pay. I can't get a new job! I can't get a new apartment! I don't even have a fucking DRIVERS LICENSE at this point, much less title to my RAV4! I made so, soo many stupid fucking decisions! I should have been better. I am so sorry! I just can't do it. I deserve to be a bag-lady!

Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 12:11 AM (ad4e8)

499 jc at December 20, 2013 04:09 AM (PlzOe) well, when the terminators come, we'll all be using them for fireplaces anyway ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 20, 2013 12:12 AM (iu8IB)

500 jeez Deety. My condolences on your situation. I hope you find your way thru this mess with dignity and peace in your heart.

Posted by: jc at December 20, 2013 12:16 AM (PlzOe)

501 497 jc at December 20, 2013 03:56 AM (PlzOe)

Hey, jc!

Hope you're feeling better ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 20, 2013 04:10 AM (iu8IB)

====

Thanks. Mostly. Still got a cough some part of each day.

Howz U?

Posted by: jc at December 20, 2013 12:19 AM (PlzOe)

502 tired of being an enabler

Posted by: DAve at December 20, 2013 12:20 AM (b7yum)

503 498 I fucked up.

I soo did on Tuesday and I am so heartily, fucking sorry.

Dad SAID, specifically that he wouldn't pony up $400 for our $660 fucking RENT even though I told him about this expense 4 fucking WEEKS AGO!!

This was Tuesday the 17th, when our rent was fucking one day past DUE!! and also the BULLSHITT $95x2 costs to the landlord to file for EVICTION notices, TWICE!

I've given EVERYTHING for my Dad.

He can't (or won't) give our landlord his due???

I don't even have a DRIVERS LICENSE any more (I owe Pima County like $700 now), much less the CAR that I took out a $300 p/m loan, I can't pay.

I can't get a new job!

I can't get a new apartment!

I don't even have a fucking DRIVERS LICENSE at this point, much less title to my RAV4!

I made so, soo many stupid fucking decisions!

I should have been better.

I am so sorry!

I just can't do it.

I deserve to be a bag-lady!

Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 04:11 AM (ad4e

Oh, Deety, I'm so sorry.....but that doesn't change the advice I'm about to give.

All your previous bad decisions are done. You have a current situation, and the opportunity to make the best decisions possible for NOW. Start making them. You can mourn the previous bad decisions when you have a chance to sit and think a bit.....but you really need to make a good decision or two immediately.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 12:22 AM (T1005)

504 Deety - May you find strength. These are the crazy years ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 20, 2013 12:23 AM (iu8IB)

505 I deserve to be a bag-lady!

Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 04:11 AM (ad4e

draging yourself down like that, won't make it any better.

I wish the best for you.

Posted by: dDan at December 20, 2013 12:25 AM (hwYmz)

506 Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 04:02 AM (T1005)

You get to buy MORE TOOLS!!!111!!!!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 20, 2013 12:29 AM (LSDdO)

507 I'm scared about being a bag-lady. Like, when do they sleep? Where? I would like to keep my Car and my PC and my Phone to get future employment but I worry about where to sleep. Okay, I don't want to get rousted as a bum & neither do I want to get raped and robbed... Where are SAFEish places for single ladies to park a car between 2AM-6AM? If,you become a hobo?

Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 12:30 AM (ad4e8)

508

"I've given EVERYTHING for my Dad."

This sounds like grade A bullshit. He wanted an adult child who could maintain a driver's license

Posted by: DAve at December 20, 2013 12:31 AM (b7yum)

509 What are you clinging to so tightly that you're trying to make homelessness work to keep from giving it up???

Posted by: DAve at December 20, 2013 12:33 AM (b7yum)

510 506 Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 04:02 AM (T1005)

You get to buy MORE TOOLS!!!111!!!!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 20, 2013 04:29 AM (LSDdO)

I have all the tools necessary for being a rough carpenter, and have not begun to exhaust the things that need doing with them.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 12:33 AM (T1005)

511 First there's shelters and particularly for women.

Being homeless, women usually get a better choice and more of them.

(ymmv depending on where you live but on average it's better)

Do you also have to provide for your dad?

If not then you're even more better off.

Move to a warmer clime (after checking what services might be available for you where you are.)

Move to where jobs are. (N.Dak, Alaska, Texa) stay away from large cities stay away from tourist places.

I've lived rough for a few months and though it ain't pretty or cozy, I got by and managed to parlay that into a job that lasted me almost 20 years.

Be smart be alert don't let it get you down and don't let people's opinion's make you feel inadequate.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 20, 2013 12:35 AM (LSDdO)

512 Parking in your car could be hazardous and depending on the size of the police force (and the composition of the area) they may patrol and spot you and roust you. Without a driver's license you could get hassled a lot.

Try some shelters.

Go to churches. they can at least tell you where to go for help if they can't/won't help you then.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 20, 2013 12:37 AM (LSDdO)

513 Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 04:33 AM (T1005)

Every one can always use a few new tools.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 20, 2013 12:38 AM (LSDdO)

514 All your previous bad decisions are done. You have a current situation, and the opportunity to make the best decisions possible for NOW. Start making them. Thanks, Cthulu!

Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 12:38 AM (ad4e8)

515 507 I'm scared about being a bag-lady.

Like, when do they sleep?

Where?

I would like to keep my Car and my PC and my Phone to get future employment but I worry about where to sleep.

Okay, I don't want to get rousted as a bum & neither do I want to get raped and robbed...

Where are SAFEish places for single ladies to park a car between 2AM-6AM?

If,you become a hobo?

Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 04:30 AM (ad4e

Deety, you need not exaggerate the issue beyond what it is -- it's plenty dire enough. And if you're looking for a literal answer, it is well known that people pull into Walmart parking lots for overnights all the time. You can also try at trucker places like Pilot -- they even have showers for rent. The YMCA (or YWCA) also has info on such things locally.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 12:43 AM (T1005)

516 I just can't pay $700 to Pima County right now. How many days in jail are a good trade, do you think? I would say NEVER but I'm not exactly earning right now, am I?

Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 12:44 AM (ad4e8)

517 'Forgot to include the particleboard underlayment for the flooring in the measurement and left myself 1/4"....underlayment was 3/8".'

Missed it by Thaaat much *raises index and thumb separated 1/8"*

Posted by: Maxwell Smart at December 20, 2013 12:45 AM (AWwDY)

518 People around here seem to have a very short memory

Posted by: DAve at December 20, 2013 12:46 AM (b7yum)

519 Deety,

Sorry for my spotty memory. Have you told us before that your dad is suffering from Alzheimer's disease?

Posted by: jc at December 20, 2013 12:46 AM (PlzOe)

520 I've lived rough for a few months and though it ain't pretty or cozy, I got by and managed to parlay that into a job that lasted me almost 20 years.

Be smart be alert don't let it get you down and don't let people's opinion's make you feel inadequate.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 20, 2013 04:35 AM (LSDdO)

Listen to this guy. Being poor and homeless in the United States is better than being a prince in 90% of the world.....largely because it's likely to be temporary.

And I forgot to mention, talk to the Salvation Army guys. Did you know they're actually a church? And that -- very rare among charities -- their executives aren't wealthy? The fundamental principle of the SA is that they need to go where there are souls who need saving, so they have a lot of knowledge about things that other churches/institutions just gloss over.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 12:50 AM (T1005)

521

Posted by: DAve at December 20, 2013 04:46 AM (b7yum)

alright, I'll step in it.

what are you trying not to say?

Posted by: dDan at December 20, 2013 12:51 AM (hwYmz)

522

516 MANY hobos and homeless DELIBERATELY commit crimes to gain the advantages of being locked up. Seems like you have a wonderful opportunity here to really demonstrate the strength of your convictions and kill two birds with one stone.

Or this is all bullshit and you're just looking for assistance in further insulating yourself from the consequences of a course of acting and deciding that you refuse to significantly alter or improve.

Posted by: DAve at December 20, 2013 12:52 AM (b7yum)

523

Posted by: DAve at December 20, 2013 04:52 AM (b7yum)

ok, disregard my last post, if you desire.

Posted by: dDan at December 20, 2013 12:54 AM (hwYmz)

524 514 All your previous bad decisions are done. You have a current situation, and the opportunity to make the best decisions possible for NOW. Start making them.

Thanks, Cthulu!

Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 04:38 AM (ad4e

I'm hoping that's heartfelt. My advice to you certainly was. Never, never, never, never, never beat yourself up about previous bad decisions to the point where you can't make good ones going forward. What's in the rearview mirror isn't nearly as relevant as what's up front.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 12:54 AM (T1005)

525 There's a Pilot at 5570 E. Travel Plaza Way, Tucson, AZ 85756 -- you won't be the only person sleeping in a vehicle in their parking lot, and I think they have video surveillance.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 12:58 AM (T1005)

526

521 This has been going on for months/years. 516 says most of it. And here we are trying to be compassionate and help DT make it work again.

Not sure that's a helpful direction.

I've already done my time in that regard long ago, and it looks like a pattern is emerging that calls for an alternative approach. Bleeding heart is not always the best way to help somebody.

And on that note, I'm convinced DT truly knows what she must do and just needs to make it happen. And I hope against hope she will.

Posted by: DAve at December 20, 2013 01:02 AM (b7yum)

527 What are you clinging to so tightly that you're trying to make homelessness work to keep from giving it up??? Nothing really, I guess. I honestly don't understand your concern. What am I supposed to "Give UP"? A.) I am clinging too tightly to homelessness B.) I don't UNDERSTAND homelessness and so, should cling "less". C.) I am trying to "make homelessness work to keep from giving it up!" Seriously, WTF is IT that you lunatics want me to "give up"?

Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 01:03 AM (ad4e8)

528 As an aside....if you're about to be evicted, there are a number of opportunities involved. Landlords hate having to evict people, with all the legal fuss and bother, and you can even do deals like, "I'm so sorry, I can't pay you -- I can't really pay anybody....I'll be sleeping rough for a while. But I know I'm going to get through this and things will get better. If I immediately vacate, can I earn a few bucks by painting and cleaning the place, and not have this reported as an eviction?"

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 01:05 AM (T1005)

529 527 What are you clinging to so tightly that you're trying to make homelessness work to keep from giving it up???

Nothing really, I guess.

I honestly don't understand your concern.

What am I supposed to "Give UP"?

A.) I am clinging too tightly to homelessness

B.) I don't UNDERSTAND homelessness and so, should cling "less".

C.) I am trying to "make homelessness work to keep from giving it up!"

Seriously, WTF is IT that you lunatics want me to "give up"?

Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 05:03 AM (ad4e

Ahem.....that last line, where you said "you lunatics"? You have a number of individuals here who are all trying to help in their own way -- it'd be best if they weren't all painted with the same brush.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 01:09 AM (T1005)

530

526: DAve,

thought that was where you were going, even though I posted after you posted, etc.

still will put up nest post w/ uncertainty and best wishes.

Posted by: dDan at December 20, 2013 01:17 AM (hwYmz)

531

@Deety:

i'll go soft then hard.

I admire your dedication to your father. I don't know any father that wouldn't appreciate that dedication.

you shift from father to self.

conflict cannot continue. I don't know any father that would desire that dedication over child attaining potential.

there will be a break in the chain.

Posted by: dDan at December 20, 2013 01:18 AM (hwYmz)

532 531 @Deety:
i'll go soft then hard.

I admire your dedication to your father. I don't know any father that wouldn't appreciate that dedication.

you shift from father to self.

conflict cannot continue. I don't know any father that would desire that dedication over child attaining potential.

there will be a break in the chain.

Posted by: dDan at December 20, 2013 05:18 AM (hwYmz)

dDan, you're speaking in shorthand. Deety's at the end of her rope and isn't in a position to read between the lines. Spell things out clearly and completely, or stop messing with her.

Deety, dDan seems to be trying to come at this from a friendly direction, but it's late at night and he's trying to get from A to B without showing his work. If there's stuff that doesn't make sense, ignore it until it does.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 01:22 AM (T1005)

533 Deety, you need not exaggerate the issue beyond what it is -- it's plenty dire enough. And if you're looking for a literal answer, it is well known that people pull into Walmart parking lots for overnights all the time. I'm not exaggerating you doofus! And it IS fucking DIRE! I've had reason to get PAID ($350 per) to watch Taco Bell's lighting from 6PM to 2AM, sometimes, from a Wal-Mart Parking lot. Don't tell ME the TPD and Pima Deputies don't harass people they think are "vagrants". Usually worked out well for me. WTF, happens if I am the vagrant? Like, where do I go?

Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 01:25 AM (ad4e8)

534 KGB Operations in North America

If you jump to 8:06 it gets pretty interesting. There is an interview with former weatherman (and FBI informant) Larry Grathwohl talking about the Weather Underground's Cuban connections and training. He speaks in concrete terms about Bill Ayers connections to Cuban efforts to undermine the US. I honestly had never seen this information before.

Posted by: bestie1 at December 20, 2013 01:26 AM (AzO5R)

535

@ Deety

also:

dDan, you're speaking in shorthand. Deety's at the end of her rope and isn't in a position to read between the lines. Spell things out clearly and completely, or stop messing with her.

Deety, dDan seems to be trying to come at this from a friendly direction, but it's late at night and he's trying to get from A to B without showing his work. If there's stuff that doesn't make sense, ignore it until it does.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 05:22 AM (T1005)

good advice.

didn't realize I was being unhelpful.

my apoligizes.

Posted by: dDan at December 20, 2013 01:33 AM (hwYmz)

536

yes, trying to come from friendy direction.

I will back off w/ best wishes.

Posted by: dDan at December 20, 2013 01:35 AM (hwYmz)

537 533 Deety, you need not exaggerate the issue beyond what it is -- it's plenty dire enough. And if you're looking for a literal answer, it is well known that people pull into Walmart parking lots for overnights all the time.

I'm not exaggerating you doofus!

And it IS fucking DIRE!

I've had reason to get PAID ($350 per) to watch Taco Bell's lighting from 6PM to 2AM, sometimes, from a Wal-Mart Parking lot.

Don't tell ME the TPD and Pima Deputies don't harass people they think are "vagrants".

Usually worked out well for me.

WTF, happens if I am the vagrant?

Like, where do I go?

Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 05:25 AM (ad4e

A vagrant is a homeless person who has no lawful means of support. "Living rough" is not "vagrancy".

There are a number of resources available to those who cannot afford to pay rent -- so many, in fact, that it's impossible to catalog the variety without extensive research. I've mentioned a few upthread -- and, oddly enough, however much of assholes the Pima PD might be, they can be a resource as well. Much of the problem is that people don't ask. So start asking.

And, yeah, I'm a doofus -- but I honestly wish for your situation to get better and I'm trying to help.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 01:39 AM (T1005)

538 535 @ Deety

also:

dDan, you're speaking in shorthand. Deety's at the end of her rope and isn't in a position to read between the lines. Spell things out clearly and completely, or stop messing with her.Deety, dDan seems to be trying to come at this from a friendly direction, but it's late at night and he's trying to get from A to B without showing his work. If there's stuff that doesn't make sense, ignore it until it does.
Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 05:22 AM (T1005)

good advice.

didn't realize I was being unhelpful.

my apoligizes.

Posted by: dDan at December 20, 2013 05:33 AM (hwYmz)

As a complete aside -- this comes from SCUBA training. We had an entire unit about complicated things that can happen to divers, and emphasizing simple mitigation policies requiring minimal explanation.

You can be helpful, and you help would be appreciated, but you have to break things down and be extremely clear, straightforward, positive, and complete at this stage. It's sort of like, "before you discuss decompression issues, make sure the diver isn't running out of air."

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 01:48 AM (T1005)

539 533 Deety, you need not exaggerate the issue beyond what it is -- it's plenty dire enough. And if you're looking for a literal answer, it is well known that people pull into Walmart parking lots for overnights all the time.

I'm not exaggerating you doofus!

And it IS fucking DIRE!

You are not automatically a "bag lady" if you don't have an apartment for a few weeks.....and you're not automatically going to get raped and robbed once you don't have one. It ain't like you're staying in the Ritz-Carlton, but you can make it through this with minimal disruption.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 02:01 AM (T1005)

540

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 05:48 AM (T1005)

no problems.

I spoke in a place where people ask for help and people give help.

if my thoughts don't help, i expect you people to tell me.

that is a good thing.

Posted by: dDan at December 20, 2013 02:05 AM (hwYmz)

541 Deety, you're a long time favorite of mine here. I know you have had, in general, a tough go.

It sounds to me that you need to for the safety net. section 8 housing, food stamps, utility assistance, maybe even seeing if your dad qualifies for extra disability payments.

You and he have paid into the system before; it's now time to ask for some of it back.

I noticed the reco to car camp out at truck stops -- not bad at all. Pay by the day for internet access, video surveillance, showers available for around $3 If there's a McDs nearby you can access the web for free.

I'm sending positive vibes in your direction.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 20, 2013 02:10 AM (cHZB7)

542 540 Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 05:48 AM (T1005)

no problems.

I spoke in a place where people ask for help and people give help.

if my thoughts don't help, i expect you people to tell me.

that is a good thing.

Posted by: dDan at December 20, 2013 06:05 AM (hwYmz)

I could see that @531, especially, was well-meant, but didn't fill in the gaps enough to be smoothly understood -- and, sometimes, clarity must come first. The urge to help is always a good thing. Stay, help, heal. But understand that nuance has its place.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 02:15 AM (T1005)

543 "35 where white-coated researchers asked if they'd like to provide DNA samples for a project that determines what percentage of drivers are operating under the influence of drugs or alcohol at given times.

Yet, reporter does not ask obvious question: "How does DNA show if you're under the influence?"

Posted by: --- at December 19, 2013 10:57 PM (MMC8r)"

With DNA they can tell if you are descended from Native Americans, Irish or Scandis and then just save the time and effort of a breathalizer, blood or pee test and just haul you in. It's kind of like the system used in "Minority Report".

Posted by: Obnoxious A-hole at December 20, 2013 02:16 AM (BcCwi)

544 Somebody graphic this up will you?
http://img.poptower.com/pic-85140/phil-robertson-duck-dynasty.jpg?d=600

"Wears flannel. Drinks iced tea.
Ready for that little talk now?"

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 20, 2013 02:17 AM (xq1UY)

545 Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 04:50 AM (T1005)

Good one. Forgot that. (face palm)

One of the places that helped me when I was bad off was the Salvation Army.

They can at the least help you get help.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 20, 2013 02:18 AM (LSDdO)

546 Jackie Chan, John Mccain. Bout the same. Manchurian candidates?

Posted by: Huggy at December 20, 2013 02:19 AM (o00SF)

547 Nice ONT Maet,

those morons about to ride into harm's way a safe journey...

those morons hosting gatherings a safe hearth.

Any morons alone a healthy heart.

God bless us everyone.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 20, 2013 02:22 AM (9jfyN)

548 544 Somebody graphic this up will you?
http://___.poptower.com/pic-85140/phil-robertson-duck-dynasty.jpg?d=600

"Wears flannel. Drinks iced tea.
Ready for that little talk now?"

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 20, 2013 06:17 AM (xq1UY)

Are those footie-PJs? Maybe he should have some hot chocolate....

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 02:22 AM (T1005)

549 548 544
Somebody graphic this up will you?
http://___.poptower.com/pic-85140/phil-robertson-duck-dynasty.jpg?d=600

"Wears flannel. Drinks iced tea.
Ready for that little talk now?"

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 20, 2013 06:17 AM (xq1UY)

Are those footie-PJs? Maybe he should have some hot chocolate....

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 06:22 AM (T1005)

BTW, the missing letters are gmi backwards. *rolls eyes, shakes head*

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 02:24 AM (T1005)

550 I'm telling you, if I was john Gelecki, I'd sue.

For the Google impaired that's Leonard from Big Bang Theory.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 20, 2013 02:24 AM (LSDdO)

551 don't you love a piece of software you have to use sema phore to get your idea across?

replace the holder token with the following rebus clues:

eye am gee

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 20, 2013 02:27 AM (LSDdO)

552 Over at HA, one Headline guy postulates that AnE expected Duck Dynasty to be laughed at, kinda like Honey boo Boo. But it didn't work out that way, which horrified the PTB; but the money was rolling in. So now they have found a way to get rid of it.

DD will find a new home if they want to; they've made nice pile already so they can be picky or even quit completely.

To me, I've never seen an episode nor do I plan to. Cable shows get dropped all the time. Nut I think these guys have options if they want them.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 20, 2013 02:28 AM (cHZB7)

553 552 GnuBreed at December 20, 2013 06:28 AM (cHZB7)

There is no problem believing the bastards fully intended it to be every bit an accurate depicition of the Duck crew that Lizard Licker Towing is an accurate reflection of a Southern Vehicular Recovery towing operation.

They hate us end of fucking story.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 20, 2013 02:31 AM (9jfyN)

554 I have to say, the time I spent living rough was some of the best times I had. No clock, no boss, few worries, no stuff, no money.

It was very interesting and these days I look back on it with fondness and a wish I could go and do it again. Alas my health might be a problem and my age and agility.

I ain't a spring chicken anymore. Hell I'm not even a fall chicken.

I'm about 2 steps ahead the axe.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 20, 2013 02:31 AM (LSDdO)

555 [i[b]]Landlords hate having to evict people, with all the legal fuss and bother, and you can even do deals like, "I'm so sorry, I can't pay you -- I can't really pay anybody....I'll be sleeping rough for a while. But I know I'm going to get through this and things will get better. Yeah, they do. My Landlord had 3 Residents die of CANCER this year. On this BLOCK! So, I feel like a right DOUCHE when I can't make the rent and FORCE him to go to court.

Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 02:32 AM (ad4e8)

556 Posted by: sven10077 at December 20, 2013 06:31 AM (9jfyN)

At this point in time with further experience and a jaundiced eye, I have concluded that the majority of shows on TV for at least the last 30 years have been more "laughing at" than "laughing with".

Some very vile and disturbing attitudes can be seen in some surprising places on some of the shows.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 20, 2013 02:33 AM (LSDdO)

557 553 552 GnuBreed at December 20, 2013 06:28 AM (cHZB7)

There is no problem believing the bastards fully intended it to be every bit an accurate depicition of the Duck crew that Lizard Licker Towing is an accurate reflection of a Southern Vehicular Recovery towing operation.

They hate us end of fucking story.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 20, 2013 06:31 AM (9jfyN)

Slight correction is due.....they hate us, and envy the stuff we earned by being us.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 02:34 AM (T1005)

558 If you look at the DD clan, and a breakdown of their cash flow in, A&E and the series are NOT the major source of income that one would expect.

Duck Commander, Buck Commander and the other side businesses are actually greater contributors to the total income.

And frankly, if Phil walked away from the NFL to shoot ducks, I think he is perfectly fine with a parting of the ways between he and A&E.

This, IMHO is a man who is truly more beholding to his faith then he is to either fame or fortune.

And a man who has nothing to lose has freedoms that others do not.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2013 02:35 AM (teMpq)

559

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 06:15 AM (T1005)

caught where things i could say in reply are not in the spirit of the initial conversation.

no problems w/ approach to Deety or myself.

Posted by: dDan at December 20, 2013 02:35 AM (hwYmz)

560 Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 06:32 AM (ad4e

Talk to your landlord. If they won't listen or don't believe you or don't want to be bothered (cause they've been lied to too many times by you or others) then go to legal aid they can advise you on the process of eviction and what you can do to gain time.

Most areas have laws to prevent instant evictions (that doesn't mean they don't happen cause some landlords take a chance that you don't know the law and won't come back on them)

That's why my first stop would be the landlord with and explanation and the legal aid if the landlord won't work with you.

If you have income, there's no reason for you to be thrown on the streets. If you have any outstanding warrants that could be trouble and interfere with your resolution. Get that fixed asap.

Don't worry about problems that MAY happen. Worry about the problem before you and it maybe that your fears won't come to pass. Worrying about what may happen just wastes time and energy. Apply your mind to solving what you can and figuring out how to solve what you can't at this time. Worry about what you might have to do if this or that happens only serves to bring on stress and overload.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 20, 2013 02:38 AM (LSDdO)

561 Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 06:32 AM (ad4e

--------------- I will be thinking of you. I had to ask my awful mother for money since my idiot boss/brother didn't pay me yet... Most of my decisions in life have been wrong, and I probably don't have much time left. I hope you find the right answers for you and things improve, if that is possible.

Posted by: Baldy at December 20, 2013 02:39 AM (2bql3)

562 Nood

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2013 02:40 AM (teMpq)

563 555 [i]Landlords hate having to evict people, with all the legal fuss and bother, and you can even do deals like, "I'm so sorry, I can't pay you -- I can't really pay anybody....I'll be sleeping rough for a while. But I know I'm going to get through this and things will get better.

Yeah, they do.

My Landlord had 3 Residents die of CANCER this year.

On this BLOCK!

So, I feel like a right DOUCHE when I can't make the rent and FORCE him to go to court.

Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 06:32 AM (ad4e

You need start looking at things as whether they advance you or not. If 3 residents died of cancer because the place where you lived was a horrendously contaminated shithole DOES NOT MATTER in the context of your eviction. And making the landlord suffer for any of that is way beyond your pay grade. Make things better for you, today. Make good decisions for you, today. Make responsible moves, today. See what you can do about keeping blots off your credit rating; earn a few bucks, don't have legal actions with your name on them -- try the painting/cleaning thing. Put your stuff in storage, try the various suggestions here about living rough. Things will get better -- make sure you're there when they do.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 02:44 AM (T1005)

564 uh-oh....did I inherit a problem?

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 02:45 AM (T1005)

565

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 06:44 AM (T1005)

uh-oh....did I inherit a problem?

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 06:45 AM (T1005)

at least what i see....the barrell awaits the next victim.

Posted by: dDan at December 20, 2013 02:48 AM (hwYmz)

566 " uh-oh....did I inherit a problem?"

Looks good so far.

Take 'er up to about 95, and see if the shimmy is gone.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2013 02:49 AM (teMpq)

567 Don't worry about problems that MAY happen. Worry about the problem before you and it maybe that your fears won't come to pass. Worrying about what may happen just wastes time and energy. Apply your mind to solving what you can and figuring out how to solve what you can't at this time. Worry about what you might have to do if this or that happens only serves to bring on stress and overload.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 20, 2013 06:38 AM (LSDdO)

This is also excellent advice. Considering hypothetical problems is a LUXURY. Don't buy luxuries when you're on the edge.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 02:49 AM (T1005)

568 *Waves nervously at barrel*

Hi.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 02:50 AM (T1005)

569 It's sort of like, "before you discuss decompression issues, make sure the diver isn't running out of air." Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 05:48 AM (T1005) No. VERY RARELY are divers out of "Air". They, usually are panicked and need some slappin' around and eye-contact at 40 ft. Just, BREATHE, you dope! IN & OUT, IN & OUT.... MY JOB to get you to surface and back on the boat.

Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 02:51 AM (ad4e8)

570 569 It's sort of like, "before you discuss decompression issues, make sure the diver isn't running out of air."
Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 05:48 AM (T1005)

No.

VERY RARELY are divers out of "Air".

They, usually are panicked and need some slappin' around and eye-contact at 40 ft.

Just, BREATHE, you dope!

IN & OUT, IN & OUT....

MY JOB to get you to surface and back on the boat.

Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 06:51 AM (ad4e

So, look into my eyes -- losing an apartment isn't the end of the world. Sometimes the strategic thing is to fall back. Look forward, not back -- make plans, not excuses or laments. Seek opportunities everywhere.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 02:55 AM (T1005)

571 Criminy, Gabe's gettin' in early....

Posted by: cthulhu at December 20, 2013 03:05 AM (T1005)

572 If 3 residents died of cancer because the place where you lived was a horrendously contaminated shithole DOES NOT MATTER in the context of your eviction. BTW the place that I live, is NOT a contaminated, shit-hole! Just because 3 of his renters succumbed to cancer (or possibly cancery suicide) in the past few months doesn't make him a bad man. He's doing the best he can, with an Autistic boy who is 6 years old and still needs diapers from the lady who died of cancer, last April. Tell ME how he's a cold-hearted bastard! I DARE You!

Posted by: Deety at December 20, 2013 03:14 AM (ad4e8)

573 LET'S TALK ABOUT

MY LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT

Posted by: ULTRAMARINE at December 20, 2013 04:09 AM (yhJhK)

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