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December 26, 2013

Overnight Open Thread (12-26-2013)
— Maetenloch

"We in the United States may not believe that we are engaged in an ideological struggle with anybody, but other people are engaged in an ideological struggle with us. We in the United States may not believe that there is any real threat to our longtime alliance structures in Europe and Asia, but other people think those alliances are vulnerable and have set out to undermine them. ...We are intellectually, economically and militarily unprepared to contemplate Great Power conflict, let alone engage in the hard work of renewing alliances and sharpening strategy. But History is back, whether we want it to be or not. Happy New Year."

Quote of the Day II

I said in an earlier post, and I'll say again here: The Left makes inroads into institutions, while conservatives abandon them. Theirs is the better tactic. Or, as I've also said before, Leftists have horrible ideals and great tactics; conservatives have great ideals and horrible tactics.

Obama Engaged in a Campaign of Civil Disobedience Against ObamaCare

Heh. At this point I don't even know what parts of the law will still be operative later this week. And Obama probably hasn't decided that yet either.

In the great tradition of American civil disobedience, President Barack Obama is defying a law. It's just one that he himself lobbied for, signed, and lost a house of Congress over. Even Henry David Thoreau would be hard-pressed to understand this one.

It's Good to be Part of the Nomenklatura

So you don't have to worry about those pesky laws meant for unimportant people.

No charges will be filed against a Montrose city councilwoman who said she forgot her handgun was inside her purse when she brought it through security last month at Montrose County Regional Airport, while the councilwoman has agreed to participate in adult diversion, Mesa County District Attorney Pete Hautzinger said Friday.

Or regulations about letting your service weapon get stolen through sheer negligence.

Jesse Jackson Is Desperately Seeking Relevance

So he's trying to insert himself into the A&E-Duck Dynasty affair.

Rev. Jesse Jackson weighed in on the raging Duck Dynasty controversy over star Phil Robertson's opinion on homosexuality, claiming, "the statements uttered by Robertson are more offensive than the... driver" of civil rights icon Rosa Parks' bus.
According to the Daily Mail, Jackson added: "At least the bus driver, who ordered Rosa Parks to surrender her seat to a white person, was following state law." But Robertson said what he said "without cover of the law." And Jackson said the statements Robertson made in answering a GQ reporter's question were given "in a context of... 'white privilege.'"
...Instead, Jackson is demanding that Robertson's "indefinite" suspension be upheld and he also wants a meeting "within 72 hours with A&E executives and Cracker Barrel's CEO to discuss the future of Duck Dynasty memorabilia."

Yes I'm sure Jackson is very interested in di$cu$$ion$ about raÂ¢iaÂ£ hÂ€aling. With Jesse Jr. in the pen I guess someone's gotta run the family shakedown business even if it means coming out of returement.

Unemployed Single Mom Borrowed Â£1,700 From 8 Payroll Loan Companies To Buy Hundreds of Christmas Presents for her Kids

And now she says she can't pay them back. And somehow it's all the loan companies' fault. Irresponsibility thy name is Katie McGill.

A single mother-of-two who lives on benefits used payouts from eight payday loan companies so her children could have a special Christmas.
Unemployed Katie McGill borrowed Â£1,690 from the controversial firms and will have start paying back Â£3,000 from January 2.

The 28-year-old from Devizes, Wiltshire, took out the loans of between Â£80 and Â£380 to buy 'hundreds' of presents for her children, but now fears she will not be able to provide for them when she tries to cover the repayments.

She bought a bike, a TV and a DVD player for both Mya-Renee, three, and Calvin, eight, and took them for a meal.

The jobless mother said: 'There were hundreds of presents under the tree. Their gran passed away this year so it was nice to be able to treat them.
'They got loads of computer games for their Xbox, they got a new TV and DVD player each, new bikes and loads more.'

I suspect her plan was to use her sob story to get people to give her enough money to pay off the loans after Christmas. Sadly it'll probably work.

End of the Line for Red Lobster?

I have fond memories of the lobster as a kid including the time they had an all-you-can-eat-shrimp night and a young Maet discovered he really, really, really liked shrimp. And the manager was really, really glad to see us finally leave.

Red Lobster isn't making enough money and its parent company, Darden, (which also owns Olive Garden and other chains), all but rang a death knell when it announced today that it would either spinoff or sell the seafood chain. While no Red Lobster locations are disappearing for now, this is bad news for the chain.

Yet Another Hate Crime Hoax

A man who told police he had been robbed and beaten at a Paris health food store a few days before Thanksgiving was arrested after he allegedly withheld information about the incident and has now been charged with filing a false report.
Joe Williams, 32, of 803 E. Wood St. was arrested Friday afternoon after turning himself in at the Henry County jail.

Williams originally told officers he had been beaten and robbed Nov. 20 at Healthy Thyme, which is at the same address as Williams' home. There was also a fire, and Williams had a homosexual slur written on his forehead.
Officers later found inconsistencies in Williams' story. Paris Police Sgt. Ricky Watson said Williams failed to bring up certain facts known to investigators on three different occasions.

"I can tell right now you don't know shit about dynamite."

Heh. Shit being the operative word here. It's a slow build so stick with it until the end.

Global Warming Researchers Trapped in Antarctic Ice

Yahoo group. That is all.

The group thingy. And the middle class.

And my Twitter spew.

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1 this ont kicks ass

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 06:03 PM (d6+u5)

2 Watching a show on UNCTV pbs station called "fordes and mills" about water in NC. The historian said "it was not unusual to walk fifteen miles in a day, you had to cross fifteen streams, there is hardly a mile in NC without a stream." Very interesting to me, not something I have considered but I have walked many miles in NC and I can see that his statement is hardly an exaggeration.

Posted by: traye at December 26, 2013 06:04 PM (b4WC6)

3 We are engaged in an ideological struggle with half the country.

Posted by: NCKate at December 26, 2013 06:05 PM (Auy5s)

4 I totally agree, Ace. Nice work.

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2013 06:05 PM (ao0zO)

5 Thank goodness! I couldn't look at that gross photo one more time!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 26, 2013 06:05 PM (DmNpO)

6 Can the Global Warming Researchers have the Shackleton Experience?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 26, 2013 06:06 PM (04hTF)

7 >>No charges will be filed against a Montrose city councilwoman who said she forgot her handgun was inside her purse when she brought it through security last month at Montrose County Regional Airport, while the councilwoman has agreed to participate in adult diversion, Mesa County District Attorney Pete Hautzinger said Friday. the political class does not have the same rules as the rest of us. this will be their undoing

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 06:07 PM (d6+u5)

8 Heh. I like that 'Resist' poster...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 06:09 PM (aDwsi)

9 How odd is it that the one television program in history that has a seamless mechanism to change its lead actor can't keep its lead actor for more than three seasons?

And what exactly have Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Matt Smith anticipated would be better future gigs than one of the most popular and beloved shows in the world?

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at December 26, 2013 06:09 PM (celt+)

10 Jesse Jackson, bastard, who real dad was his next door neighbor, who was fucking his married mother, who of course has a bastard daughter in LA on PUSH's payroll, disparately want hisself some shake down money from Cracker Barrel so he can help his felon son, in jail, repay the money he stole. That enough run on sentences? NC A&T's most famous "graduate".

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 06:10 PM (0FSuD)

11 Nice ONT Maet,

you know if I didn't know any better I'd say the evangelical Goreons of the Gaia Watermelon Kult had no fucking idea what their theory is really all about....

but as "Duh Day After Tomorrow" said "Global Warming Causes Ice Ages"....

http://youtu.be/aAGLUwbYu8Q

and Tornadoes that blend into F-7 Middle Fingers of Gawd Tornaders

Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 06:10 PM (9jfyN)

12 I suspect her plan was to use her sob story to get people to give her enough money to pay off the loans after Christmas. Sadly it'll probably work. *** I would bet money on that scenario.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 26, 2013 06:12 PM (DmNpO)

13 WTF? I hadn't heard about the Montrose woman and Hautzinger is the DA in my county. He's a dem asshole. Although, I did hear CC permit requests are up 25% over last year in Montrose County.

Posted by: Infidel at December 26, 2013 06:12 PM (6bvBO)

14 very cool "brought to you by" photo

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 26, 2013 06:12 PM (DmNpO)

15 We are engaged in an ideological struggle with half the country. Posted by: NCKate at December 26, 2013 10:05 PM (Auy5s) less than that. The LIV's don't pay attention. So it is 30% vs. 30%

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 06:12 PM (d6+u5)

16 I suspect her plan was to use her sob story to get people to give her enough money to pay off the loans after Christmas. Sadly it'll probably work. *** her kids aparently don't have the same inseminator

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 06:13 PM (d6+u5)

17 Gaia Watermelon I read that as Giada's Melons.

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2013 06:13 PM (ao0zO)

18 Unemployed Brit mom proud of being a thief? Something odd here. No sign of a dad? Wow, what a shock, but it looks like one of her kids might grow up to be PM/President like Barry. He's half White. I denounce myself.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 06:13 PM (0FSuD)

19 A few of us are having a little fun... outraged fun... at this absurd caption. http://t.co/OOTsucvHMH

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 26, 2013 06:14 PM (DmNpO)

20 USM should go to jail for theft by fraud. She has no intention of paying back the loan. Insanity a possible defense.

Posted by: tmitsss at December 26, 2013 06:14 PM (Pa9vP)

21 I honestly tried pretty hard to make the first post tonight, how do people do it?

Posted by: Dave M at December 26, 2013 06:14 PM (dbm77)

22 17 wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 10:13 PM (d6+u5)

She's narrowed the Candidate list down to the Municipal Phone Book.....

Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 06:14 PM (9jfyN)

23 With Jesse Jr. in the pen I guess someone's gotta run the family shakedown business. Who do think Jesse Jr. learned from?

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 26, 2013 06:14 PM (teFlO)

24 18 garrett at December 26, 2013 10:13 PM (ao0zO)

I saw Smashmouth open for Gaida's Melons back in '79

Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 06:15 PM (9jfyN)

25 sheesh. Who do YOU think Jesse, Jr. learned from? my bad.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 26, 2013 06:15 PM (teFlO)

26 Aloha!

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 06:16 PM (T1005)

27
What's wrong with Kate flat-backing for cash to pay off her debt? It's only fair for liberals to be punished for their actions.

Posted by: Doctor Fish at December 26, 2013 06:16 PM (pJF+c)

28 so I just watched the Blu-Ray of 2008's The Spirit and the film had two things going for it...

and they were both attached to Eve Mendez

Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 06:16 PM (9jfyN)

29 Maet, You forgot the "all you could eat" King Crab legs! Man could we eat some crab legs.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 06:17 PM (0FSuD)

30 @3

We have been involved in an ideological struggle with half the country since it's founding.

Posted by: Kreplach at December 26, 2013 06:17 PM (Xkr8I)

31 Unemployed Katie McGill borrowed Ã‚Â£1,690 from the controversial firms and will have start paying back Ã‚Â£3,000 from January 2.

vs.

Unemployed Katie McGill borrowed Â£1,690 from the controversial firms and will have start paying back Â£3,000 from

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 26, 2013 06:17 PM (dwArK)

32 28 Doctor Fish at December 26, 2013 10:16 PM (pJF+c)

You're speaking of course of the entire UK make population then?

Giving her ALL for Xmas

Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 06:17 PM (9jfyN)

33 That quote from Jesse Jackson has to be doctored. The man speaks gibberish like a stroke victim huffing carb cleaner.

Posted by: wooga at December 26, 2013 06:18 PM (2qbmc)

34 Nice ONT Maet. Saw the "You don't know shit about dynamite" clip earlier. Very funny!1!1

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 06:18 PM (u6lBN)

35 I saw Smashmouth open for Gaida's Melons back in '79 Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 10:15 PM (9jfyN) I saw 'Lord of the Flies' open for 'Jolie's Motor-boating Mellons' at the Superdome in '73. awesome compared to Nuggent/INXS in '70.

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 06:19 PM (d6+u5)

36 Anybody else notice that amongst all the nifty presents that Welfare Twat Fraud Artist bought for her spawn, there was nary one book? At least none was mentioned in the Mail story.

She should be jailed for fraud, and the kids adopted out to parents able to care for them. No farther(s), and a mom who is a sleazy con artist is no way for a child to go through life.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2013 06:20 PM (TKUw7)

37 40th!

Evening, 'rons

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 26, 2013 06:21 PM (b/lt+)

38 Saw "The Desolation of Smaug" today. Meh. Inevitably the Hobbit movies will suffer in comparison to LotR, but gratuitous (and crappy) CGI is a self-inflicted wound. Seeing a hero fighting a cartoon is not emotionally gripping.

Towards the end, though, I came to a realization that will make me appreciate these films more. This isn't a heroic quest trilogy like LotR. The characters - Bilbo, Thorin Oakenshield, even the Elves - are morally weak, and that moral weakness extends to all of Middle Earth. Their greed and self-concern are destructive, not least of all in enabling the return of Sauron and setting the stage for the redemptive struggle of the Rings trilogy. The films work better when seen as a tragic prequel to the heroic triumph of LotR.

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at December 26, 2013 06:21 PM (celt+)

39 I said in an earlier post, and I'll say again here: The Left makes inroads into institutions, while conservatives abandon them. Theirs is the better tactic. Or, as I've also said before, Leftists have horrible ideals and great tactics; conservatives have great ideals and horrible tactics.

This is almost too good a point for an ONT. It begs for a long, long Ace post of the sort that ends up in a Quotes Of The Year list somewhere.

Posted by: Splunge at December 26, 2013 06:21 PM (bKA83)

40 I'm too tired to go back to that thread but "Frumious" wrote a nice piece about UUs (Unit Uni) They are very kind people and invested in helping others and their services do provide a sense of community. My problems with the hymns is when they take a original hymn Like "All Creatures Of Our God our KIng" and change it to "All creatures of the earth and air" and because I'm a trinitarian I like hymns about Jesus as Lord. I'm not trying to a thread to start to bash Unitarians. I just feel strongly about hymnody .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2013 06:21 PM (BC6cY)

41 Well, as Boxing Day comes to a close, I just want to thank all my constituents for the fine "Zombie Wings"

Posted by: Rob Ford at December 26, 2013 06:22 PM (0FSuD)

42 Anyone else gone into someone's house and noticed there are no books or magazines around? it is weird, real weird

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 06:22 PM (d6+u5)

43 What's wrong with Kate flat-backing for cash to pay off her debt? It's only fair for liberals to be punished for their actions.

Posted by: Doctor Fish at December 26, 2013 10:16 PM (pJF+c)

Well, at two bucks a go, it'd still take her a long time to pay it off. Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at December 26, 2013 06:22 PM (TKUw7)

44
The only CEO to ever stand up to and denounce Jackson was TJ Rogers of Cypress Semiconductor.

Jackson attempted to shake down Rogers, but he refused to be intimidated and with a stellar civil rights record, challenged Jackson to a debate. Jackson never answered the call, and TJ Rogers to this day gloats about the spineless Jackson who refused to debate.

Posted by: Doctor Fish at December 26, 2013 06:23 PM (pJF+c)

45 37 She should be jailed for fraud, and the kids adopted out to parents able to care for them. No farther(s), and a mom who is a sleazy con artist is no way for a child to go through life.

Excuse me, but I believe my victim credentials are in order. Did you not see the official stamp?

Posted by: Katie McGill at December 26, 2013 06:23 PM (bKA83)

46 Katie McGill for Treasury Secretary! We need her now more than ever! heh.

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 06:23 PM (u6lBN)

47 Unemployed Katie McGill borrowed Ã‚Â£1,690 from the controversial firms and will have start paying back Ã‚Â£3,000 from January 2.

Wait -- it's the firms that are controversial?

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 06:23 PM (T1005)

48 I said in an earlier post, and I'll say again here: The Left makes inroads into institutions, while conservatives abandon them. Theirs is the better tactic. Or, as I've also said before, Leftists have horrible ideals and great tactics; conservatives have great ideals and horrible tactics. Very well said.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2013 06:24 PM (BC6cY)

49 Dang old cowpoke may still be talkin' 'bout that old cistern. I gave up at minute six....

Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 26, 2013 06:24 PM (dZGNV)

50
Stay out da bush!

-Jesse Jackson

Posted by: Doctor Fish at December 26, 2013 06:24 PM (pJF+c)

51 I guess I have narrowed my pool of friends. Everyone I know has books and magazines around. Ammo too.

Posted by: Infidel at December 26, 2013 06:25 PM (6bvBO)

52 51 Doctor Fish at December 26, 2013 10:24 PM (pJF+c)

"Bury yo'self in love....NO NOT REGGIE LOVE YOU JUG-EARED FOO!"

//$uper Je$$e Jack$on to Barry

Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 06:26 PM (9jfyN)

53 One of the more remarkable moments was when Jesse Jackson went to the WH to 'provide council' to Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky affair.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 06:26 PM (aDwsi)

54 Pricing of clothes is a total mystery. Wife bought me a down Barbour vest for Christmas, $400. Didn't fit so back to Orvis, which did not have my size. Searched the net for an hour, found one in upstate NY for $230, no tax, free shipping. Same vest. Go figure.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 06:26 PM (0FSuD)

55 Coem to my house. Books fill up almost every available surfaceof tables and cabinets.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2013 06:27 PM (BC6cY)

nice ont Maetenloch.

the resist graphic is a nice touch.

and they have those payday loan places over in England? and how can she get a payday loan if she is unemployed? ...and now for the rest of the story...

Posted by: rich@gmu at December 26, 2013 06:27 PM (ga+7c)

57 54 One of the more remarkable moments was when Jesse Jackson went to the WH to 'provide council' to Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky affair. I remember thinking, he knows how to unload ho's, so it was a good call bringing him in to talk. I am serious.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 06:28 PM (0FSuD)

58 Coem to my house. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2013 10:27 PM (BC6cY) That is Welsh right?

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 06:28 PM (d6+u5)

59 Anyone else gone into someone's house and noticed there are no books or magazines around? it is weird, real weird Posted by: wasabi -------------------- Crap..., we have trouble finding a place to put all of our books.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 06:28 PM (aDwsi)

60
So, judging by the post below, the Big Tent now includes crack smoking sex addicts because -- fiscally conservative if you squint or something.

Whatever guys. Have fun storming the castle!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 26, 2013 06:29 PM (kdS6q)

61
"America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed."

-Jesse Jackson

This from America's talking turd.

Posted by: Doctor Fish at December 26, 2013 06:29 PM (pJF+c)

62 Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 10:28 PM (d6+u5) LOL. It's Fenelonish. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2013 06:30 PM (BC6cY)

63 Go figure. Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 10:26 PM (0FSuD) vest=CCW The new vest cover the CCW real nice?

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 06:30 PM (d6+u5)

64 Wonder why the Muslims haven't burned out the payday lenders in England? They have major issues with banking and interest rates.

Posted by: NCKate at December 26, 2013 06:30 PM (Auy5s)

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 10:23 PM (T1005)

probably a test case to close them down...just guessing, but why have a pr campaign already up and running?

Posted by: rich@gmu at December 26, 2013 06:30 PM (ga+7c)

66 Around here it is the apex of high class to take your girlfriend to Red Lobster in Fort Worth when you propose.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at December 26, 2013 06:30 PM (kxSZr)

67 America's status as a superpower rested on five pillars: we had a superior population that could be drafted in greater numbers than most other nations; we could manufacture more than all other industrial powers combined (150% of all other WW2 combatants, Axis and Allied, with 50% of our production still going to commerce); we had a technological edge with the intellectual resources to make our own tech obsolescent within a few years; we were the leaders of a global alliance of Westernized capitalist powers; and we had the nukes and would use them. Today, in 2013, bringing back the draft would start a civil war; we can't understand or administer the tech we have (Snowden/Ames/Bradley), and wouldn't stay ahead if immigration was halted by a war; NATO governments would fall if they stood with us in a tough one; our manufacturing capability is a shell of what it was; use of WMD is understood to be a war crime requiring the imprisonment of everybody involved. And when my 8 friends tried that Endless Lobster promotion, after the sixth round they told us the oven broke. All tied together, as I believe God is punishing Gorbachev. "Ah! If only we held out 10 more years! TEN MORE YEARS!!!"

Posted by: Chris_Balsz at December 26, 2013 06:31 PM (5xmd7)

68 60 Anyone else gone into someone's house and noticed there are no books or magazines around? it is weird, real weird Posted by: wasabi Tell me about it. I threw away 180,000 lbs of books that I had in inventory that no one would take for free. That's 90 TONS

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 06:31 PM (0FSuD)

69 Yeomans work here Maet. The very fact that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are still walking the streets is sad commentary on where we are as a country. They should both be penniless and in jail.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 26, 2013 06:31 PM (jucos)

70 61 Laurie David's Cervix at December 26, 2013 10:29 PM (kdS6q)

If we demand that our icons not have felonies and/or hard narcotic habits we've already lost or something....

though honestly they are attacking Ford while giving marion "Bitch set me up" Barry a pass

Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 06:31 PM (9jfyN)

71 49 I said in an earlier post, and I'll say again here: The Left makes
inroads into institutions, while conservatives abandon them. Theirs is
the better tactic. Or, as I've also said before, Leftists have horrible
ideals and great tactics; conservatives have great ideals and horrible
tactics.

Very well said.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2013 10:24 PM (BC6cY)

We move on because we're unwilling to kill enough of them to shut them up. By contrast, they're quite eager to kill in order to "make a statement" [Bill Ayres, SLA, Red Brigades, etc.].

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 06:31 PM (T1005)

72 I remember thinking, he knows how to unload ho's, so it was a good call bringing him in to talk. I am serious. Posted by: Nip Sip ---------------------- Yeah. It was reported as 'spiritual counseling', but it was really political posturing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 06:32 PM (aDwsi)

73 While driving back home from visiting the daughter, son-in-law and Cutest Granddaughter In The World (TM), I stopped at a convenience store to "pause for the cause". As is the case in many a men's convenience store restroom, there was a condom machine. This one, however, had a question written in big magic marker lettering from a previous visitor: "Are these covered under Obamacare?" Hello, Horde!

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 26, 2013 06:32 PM (5J54Q)

"Global warming researchers trapped in antartic ice"-

That there is the feel good story of the day.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 26, 2013 06:32 PM (KlVdw)

75 I had to buy a bigger house to fit all the books.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 26, 2013 06:33 PM (u82oZ)

76 The new vest cover the CCW real nice? Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 10:30 PM (d6+u5) I will not get a CCW in NC. Changes the DUI limit to .02 not .08 if you have one.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 06:33 PM (0FSuD)

77 61
"So, judging by the post below, the Big Tent now includes crack smoking sex addicts because -- fiscally conservative if you squint or something.

Whatever guys. Have fun storming the castle!"

--------------------

As far as I'm concerned, any President who balances the budget and reduces the national debt by $500 billion a year can shoot heroin while I suck his dick.

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at December 26, 2013 06:33 PM (celt+)

78 What's wrong with Kate flat-backing for cash to pay off her debt? It's only fair for liberals to be punished for their actions.

Posted by: Doctor Fish at December 26, 2013 10:16 PM (pJF+c)

________________

She has already been punished with kids....How much more should be expected to endure?

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 26, 2013 06:34 PM (jucos)

79 Wonder why the Muslims haven't burned out the payday lenders in England? They have major issues with banking and interest rates.

Posted by: NCKate at December 26, 2013 10:30 PM (Auy5s)

They probably are the payday lenders, in many cases. Just another way to collect jizya from the infidels, by the beard of the profit!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2013 06:34 PM (TKUw7)

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 26, 2013 10:29 PM (kdS6q)

ha. I took it as adding some context to the crazy. Was wondering if this is something new or if he had been able to hide it really, really well.

Posted by: NCKate at December 26, 2013 10:30 PM (Auy5s)

asians might own them...not interest but lots and lots of fees. bizarre story and sad.

Posted by: rich@gmu at December 26, 2013 06:34 PM (ga+7c)

81 As far as I'm concerned, any President who balances the budget and reduces the national debt by $500 billion a year can shoot heroin while I suck his dick. Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at December 26, 2013 10:33 PM (celt+) Can you shoot Meth and fuck teenagers?

Posted by: Zombie JKF at December 26, 2013 06:35 PM (0FSuD)

82 I will not get a CCW in NC. Changes the DUI limit to .02 not .08 if you have one. Posted by: Nip Sip ------------- What?! Hell's bells..., I didn't know that. So, you get stopped, they run you license, and the fact that you have been issued a CCW comes up?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 06:35 PM (aDwsi)

83 *your

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 06:35 PM (aDwsi)

84 As far as I'm concerned, any President who balances the budget and reduces the national debt by $500 billion a year can shoot heroin while I suck his dick.

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at December 26, 2013 10:33 PM

Reaaaaalllly? ... *ponders* ... nah, I can get the smack and blow job without having to do that shit.

Posted by: barry soetoro at December 26, 2013 06:36 PM (9gNQd)

85 The films work better when seen as a tragic prequel to the heroic triumph of LotR.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto
............
Blah.. The Hobbit is a kid's story... being from the 30's, it's much more adult themed than kid's stories of today. Perhaps we can call it a young-adult novel.

It's a quest for gold.. an adventure. There are very little noble emotions involved with the main quest. But, there are redemptions.. and growth. and loyalty.

Don't make more out of it than was meant to be.

The Hobbit, IMHO, is much better done than Jackson's LOTR. LOTR was rushed and cheap.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 26, 2013 06:36 PM (b/lt+)

86 11 "...disparately want hisself some shake down money from Cracker Barrel so he can help his felon son, in jail, repay the money he stole." Excellent observation. Rainbow PUSH must be a little short on ducats. A tribute is in order to save and rehabilitate misunderstood Prisoner JJ JR. Another outstanding ONT Maet.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel at December 26, 2013 06:37 PM (0SmH0)

87 Crap..., we have trouble finding a place to put all of our books. Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 10:28 PM (aDwsi) no shit. What is even worse is going into a house with young kids and not a book to be seen. not even Mr, Brown can Moo! Can you? dibble, dibble, drop, drop drop!

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 06:37 PM (d6+u5)

88 "Can you shoot Meth and fuck teenagers?"

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$600 billion a year, they have to be at least 16, and it has to be consensual.

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at December 26, 2013 06:37 PM (celt+)

89 Mike, Your CCW is keyed to your DL and your tag if it's in your name. If you do not state upon being stopped you have a CCW, you can be arrested immediately. The cops knows and if you don't say something, you going to jail. Yes some cops say the BAC is zero, that is only in a bar. .02 in a car. DON'T GET ONE.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 06:38 PM (0FSuD)

90 ...and late...coffetime.

Posted by: rich@gmu at December 26, 2013 06:38 PM (ga+7c)

91 Heh. At this point I don't even know what parts of the law will still be operative later this week. And Obama probably hasn't decided that yet either. In the great tradition of American civil disobedience, President Barack Obama is defying a law. It's just one that he himself lobbied for, signed, and lost a house of Congress over. Even Henry David Thoreau would be hard-pressed to understand this one. ***** It seems he has invented the Mobius pretzel.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 26, 2013 06:38 PM (g4TxM)

92 That dynamite story was full of shit.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 06:38 PM (5aFK0)

93
Red Lobster in North Palm Beach closed about five years past. In keeping with our new sensitivity towards minorities, I will carefully construct the reason for closure.

The restaurant demographic began to change, and the wait staff had a difficult time making a living because certain groups refused to tip. The staff was in constant turmoil, and the managers lasted for short periods.

After approximately a year, the elderly white retired population no longer went for the "early bird" or the family groups for the early evening dinner.
The corporate management attempted to save the location, but finally came to the realization that it would never recover the reliable white clientele, and closed the location due to "unforeseen circumstances."

Today, the location is a father/son orthopedic surgeon facility coupled with physical therapy. No good deed goes unpunished.

Posted by: Doctor Fish at December 26, 2013 06:39 PM (pJF+c)

94 For anyone wishing to do something nice for the troops, you can adopt or send a care package via Homefront Hugs: https://twitter.com/HomefrontHugs They have a great guide as to how you can send a package and the most requested/needed items: http://www.homefronthugs.org/carepackages/

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 26, 2013 06:40 PM (DmNpO)

95 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 26, 2013 06:40 PM (JMmQ9)

96 Trust the government. Report thought crime. Eat recycled food.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at December 26, 2013 06:40 PM (BZAd3)

97 I will not get a CCW in NC. Changes the DUI limit to .02 not .08 if you have one. Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 10:33 PM (0FSuD) even if you don't have a weapon on you? serious?

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 06:40 PM (d6+u5)

evening AltonJackson.

Posted by: rich@gmu at December 26, 2013 06:42 PM (ga+7c)

99 I think Red Lobster made a mistake 20-30 years ago picking their locations. That was when Pillsbury owned them and they always went for cheap land in marginal areas. I think they were thinking they were going to be the McD's of seafood or something.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 06:42 PM (0FSuD)

100 Has anyone seen Lone Survivor yet? It's still not in my little burg.

Posted by: Infidel at December 26, 2013 06:43 PM (6bvBO)

101 even if you don't have a weapon on you? serious? Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 10:40 PM (d6+u5) YES

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 06:43 PM (0FSuD)

102 100 Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 10:42 PM (0FSuD)

Fucking delusional bakers.....

//Captain D "Long John" Silver

Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 06:43 PM (9jfyN)

103 Hi ont. Hope everyone had a beautiful Christmas.

Posted by: lous a girl at December 26, 2013 06:43 PM (vgd4f)

104 I will not get a CCW in NC. Changes the DUI limit to .02 not .08 if you have one.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 10:33 PM (0FSuD)
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Incorrect. No alcohol, period, in NC if you are carrying with CCW.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 26, 2013 06:44 PM (4Mv1T)

105 104 lous a girl at December 26, 2013 10:43 PM (vgd4f)

a lot of laughter over a lot of miles....

ran into a wall of rain and was flooded out of my hotel in Indiana....

was awesome actually

Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 06:44 PM (9jfyN)

106 Speaking of guns. My best gift? The one I got for myself. Always wanted one. http://tinyurl.com/kw6g6wk

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 06:45 PM (0FSuD)

107 Too bad Jesse Jackson isn't stuck in some ice.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 26, 2013 06:46 PM (wMHFj)

108 I am fucking disgusted that 108 comments into this ONT, nobody has blamed the Joooos.

I want my platinum membership dues refunded.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2013 06:46 PM (QFxY5)

109 I too saw that dynamite story earlier, as Gerard dropped by and made a post (reminding me to check his site for new stuff).

The first time we ate at a Red Lobster was in Chicago, where they way overcooked the shrimp so that it was like rubber. Coming from the Gulf Coast, that was quite a letdown.

And when my best bud and I were around 18, his future ex-wife had an uncle with an all you can eat catfish place. Back then all you can eat places were rare. We got invited to dinner there, and decided to make them suffer. We each fasted for over a day, and ate northward of 5 platters of fish EACH, plus assorted side items.

It was our one and only invite.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 26, 2013 06:46 PM (wNF3N)

110 Boxing Day More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=4540

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 26, 2013 06:46 PM (/YkzI)

111 Incorrect. No alcohol, period, in NC if you are carrying with CCW. Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 26, 2013 10:44 PM (4Mv1T) TR, I thought that was only in bars, and you got .02 driving??

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 06:46 PM (0FSuD)

112 37 Anybody else notice that amongst all the nifty presents that Welfare Twat Fraud Artist bought for her spawn, there was nary one book? At least none was mentioned in the Mail story. She should be jailed for fraud, and the kids adopted out to parents able to care for them. No farther(s), and a mom who is a sleazy con artist is no way for a child to go through life. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2013 10:20 PM (TKUw7) Huh?

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 26, 2013 06:46 PM (BXLPR)

113 >>>If you do not state upon being stopped you have a CCW, you can be arrested immediately. The cops knows and if you don't say something, you going to jail. where I'm at(intermountain west) I don't have to say anything. However, if they ask you to step out of the vehicle, that is a good time to mention you have a CCW, as a courtesy not a requirement.

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 06:47 PM (d6+u5)

114 107 Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 10:45 PM (0FSuD)

Nice, I won a 1858 Target Carbine I am planning on converting to .45 LC....

Hog Killing Gun I'd wager

Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 06:47 PM (9jfyN)

115 I am fucking disgusted that 108 comments into this ONT, nobody has blamed the Joooos.

I want my platinum membership dues refunded.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Alright, ALRIGHT!

You did it.

Happy?

Now, what are we drinking?

Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 26, 2013 06:47 PM (4Mv1T)

116 Gary Sinise on Dennis Miller in just a minute http://www.mainstreamnetwork.com/listen/player.asp?station=waam-am&listen=Listen+Live

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 26, 2013 06:47 PM (JMmQ9)

117 Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 10:45 PM (0FSuD)

Dude.....

Guns are always....ALWAYS great gifts.

But the Ruger is such a PITA to clean!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2013 06:47 PM (QFxY5)

118 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2013 10:21 PM (BC6cY) Thank you Fenelon. It being a soul-crushing thread-ender I assumed no one had read it.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at December 26, 2013 06:48 PM (1xUj/)

119 109 I am fucking disgusted that 108 comments into this ONT, nobody has blamed the Joooos. I want my platinum membership dues refunded. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2013 10:46 PM (QFxY5) Tonight? We're hating Jesse, leave the himmey town guys out of this.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 06:48 PM (0FSuD)

120 In AZ if you blow say .04 the next question is "Are you carrying tonight". Note the phrasing as we have "Constitutional Carry" in this state. If the reply is "Nope, knew I was gonna have a couple tonight", the reply is "Have a nice Evening!"

Posted by: Old Dog at December 26, 2013 06:48 PM (tQYJH)

121 Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 26, 2013 10:47 PM (4Mv1T)

A Smoked Bourbon Old Fashioned.

Smoked: as in burning hickory wood.

Yes, I have a great bartender.

Oh...some other stuff, equally good.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2013 06:49 PM (QFxY5)

122 Gary Sinise is up now http://www.mainstreamnetwork.com/listen/player.asp?station=waam-am&listen=Listen+Live

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 26, 2013 06:49 PM (JMmQ9)

123 TR, I thought that was only in bars, and you got .02 driving?? Posted by: Nip Sip
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New law as of 10/1 says you can carry in a bar now, if not posted, but you still can't consume.

Or anywhere else, and carry.

Doesn't impact BAC for DUI. Has to be zero if you have one on you, or concealed in your vehicle.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 26, 2013 06:50 PM (4Mv1T)

124 Hog Killing Gun I'd wager

Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 10:47 PM (9jfyN)

Are you a hog murderer?

If so, what do think of the 6.8 SPC on an AR-15 lower as a hog gun?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2013 06:50 PM (QFxY5)

125 But the Ruger is such a PITA to clean! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2013 10:47 PM (QFxY5) Never had one, but read that on the web. Fuck reading the manual, looks like it is a fucking bitch to reassemble. I also read you can fire 10,000 rounds in it before you need to worry about cleaning it. I won't fire that EVAH. Where would I find the ammo?

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 06:51 PM (0FSuD)

126 CCW - A few years back, was standing in a bar parking lot after closing time one night talking with a gal from pool league (yes, she was hawt), probably 2:30, 3 AM. Cop pulls up. She's in her driverseat, I'm at her window trying to get my game on. Cop asks the stupid question, i told him i'm working here, he checks our IDs. Comes back within a minute with a serious attitude hassling her - you have a CC permit. Are you carrying now? Why didn't you tell me? He basically ignored me once he ran her tag and/or DL (not sure which is connected in VA), but i wondered why he was so concerned with a law abiding gun owner, while i could've been holding and he turned his back on me as if i wasn't there.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 06:51 PM (5aFK0)

127 55 Pricing of clothes is a total mystery. Wife bought me a down Barbour vest for Christmas, $400. Didn't fit so back to Orvis, which did not have my size.
Searched the net for an hour, found one in upstate NY for $230, no tax, free shipping. Same vest.
Go figure.

I think it's like buying books or DVDs. Expensive when they come out, astonishingly cheap sometime later. The real price is the price if it didn't have the designer label on it. But to realize that price, you have to catch it when they're no longer extracting money from those who regard the newest thing in clothing as equivalently exciting to a new movie that has just come out on DVD. (and yes, I sort of called those people, if they're not women, ghey, but it was really subtle, right?)

Posted by: Splunge at December 26, 2013 06:51 PM (bKA83)

128 We're hating Jesse, leave the himmey town guys out of this.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 10:48 PM (0FSuD)

I dated a chick who was fast friends with the Jackson family.

$1,000,000 body....10 cent head.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2013 06:52 PM (QFxY5)

129 Hi sven10077. Wow, crazy. You got a great attitude

My granddaughter will be two soon, she was so funny, She loved the little toy cell phone I got her, she squealed, yes squealed with delight when I took it out of the package for her.

Posted by: lous a girl at December 26, 2013 06:52 PM (vgd4f)

130 Anyone get a particularly awesome gift this year? Mrs. Squirrel and I adopted a rescue dog for our three mini squirrels, and they are quite thrilled. But, it's been a while since I have trained a dog. She is a yellow lab and border collie mix. Very nice dog and sharp! We named her Leelu. Can any Morons guess the name of the movie that features a Leelu as the movie's heroine ?

Posted by: Secret Squirrel at December 26, 2013 06:53 PM (0SmH0)

131 125 CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2013 10:50 PM (QFxY5)

6.8 would do the job and is in a good ballistic window.

The wife and boy are strongly in favor of going back to the former homestead in Louisiana when she gets out to establish "Moron Estates"....

I plan on handloading my .45 LC loads.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 06:53 PM (9jfyN)

132 I can tell right now that Obama don't know shit about shit.

Posted by: Roy at December 26, 2013 06:54 PM (tiOTz)

133 There was a local restaurant in South St Paul called the Anchor Inn. They had all you can eat King Crab Legs for $19.95 (1982 dollars). My friends and I would go there and clean them out. The wait staff tried in vain to fill us up on Salad and Rolls and sides. It was funny. I was probably partly responsible for closing them down.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 26, 2013 06:54 PM (jucos)

134
Meanwhile, in mysterious East:

Japanese man documents Christmas date with virtual girlfriend, proudly shows ass to the world

http://tinyurl.com/kl7f6ye

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 26, 2013 06:54 PM (kdS6q)

135 What?! Hell's bells..., I didn't know that. So, you get stopped, they run you license, and the fact that you have been issued a CCW comes up? Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 10:35 PM (aDwsi) almost all states have your CCW come up when they run your plate. in the good states it normally indicates you are a good guy. I got more trafic tickets before my CCW than after. I drive the same before/after.

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 06:54 PM (d6+u5)

136 130 lous a girl at December 26, 2013 10:52 PM (vgd4f)

Thanks, no I had my wife and son together and mostly having a good time.

The trip went well enough the fact literally NOTHING went as planned was not in any way a damper.

2 year olds are a treasure.

Glad you had a good holiday as well.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 06:55 PM (9jfyN)

137 I almost never watch a 12 minute YouTube video, but that was epic. I was sucked in right from the beginning.

Posted by: rickl at December 26, 2013 06:55 PM (sdi6R)

138 Jesse took time out from his busy reverendy schedule, like preaching in his nonexistent church and schtoinking the help to dawn the cloak of offense in humility and offensiness as ordained by god and profit.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at December 26, 2013 06:55 PM (BZAd3)

139 Doesn't impact BAC for DUI. Has to be zero if you have one on you, or concealed in your vehicle. Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 26, 2013 10:50 PM (4Mv1T) Another reason not to have one. Sen Fountain, D Meck, fucked the original bill up and the new R's are too chicken shit to change the BAC rule. I'll risk carrying illegally before I go down that road. I also own some throw away guns. Just saying, an openly displayed gun is not hard to do in a car, quickly.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 06:55 PM (0FSuD)

140 Darden prostrated themselves at the altar of Moochelle and her "put what I want on your menu or else" campaign

Some companies deserve their tickets to the scrap heap

Posted by: kbdabear at December 26, 2013 06:55 PM (aTXUx)

141 99 How bout not driving when likkered up in NC. Just a thought. Will banish self for now.

Posted by: NCwoof at December 26, 2013 06:55 PM (aUQgu)

142 127 CCW - A few years back, was standing in a bar parking lot after closing time one night talking with a gal from pool league (yes, she was hawt), probably 2:30, 3 AM. Cop pulls up. She's in her driverseat, I'm at her window trying to get my game on. Cop asks the stupid question, i told him i'm working here, he checks our IDs. Comes back within a minute with a serious attitude hassling her - you have a CC permit. Are you carrying now? Why didn't you tell me? He basically ignored me once he ran her tag and/or DL (not sure which is connected in VA), but i wondered why he was so concerned with a law abiding gun owner, while i could've been holding and he turned his back on me as if i wasn't there. Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 10:51 PM (5aFK0) It's tied to the DL in Virginia, IIRC. What part of Virginia did this happen in? Different areas have different reactions to CC.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at December 26, 2013 06:56 PM (BXLPR)

143 I own no cars listed in my name. My family LLC owns all my vehicles and the address is a PO Box. EAT ME.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 06:57 PM (0FSuD)

144 "In the great tradition of American civil disobedience, President Barack Obama is defying a law. It's just one that he himself lobbied for, signed, and lost a house of Congress over. Even Henry David Thoreau would be hard-pressed to understand this one." not hard at all, you just have to accept that his goal is destruction and nothing else.

Posted by: Shoey at December 26, 2013 06:57 PM (vA94g)

145 Can the Global Warming Researchers have the Shackleton Experience? Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 26, 2013 10:06 PM (04hTF) I'd prefer to see them get the Robert Falcon Scott Experience. In glorious 1080p. 'sup jackwagons

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 26, 2013 06:58 PM (c2oll)

146 144 I own no cars listed in my name. My family LLC owns all my vehicles and the address is a PO Box.

Witness Protection Program?

Posted by: Splunge at December 26, 2013 06:58 PM (bKA83)

147 43 Anyone else gone into someone's house and noticed there are no books or magazines around? it is weird, real weird Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 10:22 PM (d6+u5) I have piles of books on every flat surface.

Posted by: rickl at December 26, 2013 07:00 PM (sdi6R)

148

About clothes being expensive. My Grandma had a sportwear shop in Palm Springs back in the '60's to early '90's. When I was in grade/jr high, I would spend Easter Break and some summer with her. Even went to Market with her in LA one year. I asked her why she raised the price from what she paid so much. She doubled it from what she paid and added a little for shipping. That way she could still make a little on sales and cover all the overhead. Seemed to be similar at the temp Christmas job I had in retail clothes about 20+ years later.

I guess that vocab dates me a little.

Posted by: Infidel at December 26, 2013 07:00 PM (6bvBO)

149 "No charges will be filed against a Montrose city councilwoman who said she forgot her handgun was inside her purse when she brought it through security last month at Montrose County Regional Airport, while the councilwoman has agreed to participate in adult diversion, Mesa County District Attorney Pete Hautzinger said Friday." at all levels they are drunken on their own power

Posted by: Shoey at December 26, 2013 07:00 PM (vA94g)

150 137 Sven, that's the key. Being with family! Glad you were. And she really is a treasure, she's got personality, and cute as a bug, and hubby and I are wrapped around her little finger!

Posted by: lous a girl at December 26, 2013 07:00 PM (vgd4f)

151 If so, what do think of the 6.8 SPC on an AR-15 lower as a hog gun? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2013 10:50 PM (QFxY5) not as good as an AR-10 type platform .243, .260, 7mm-08, .308 boom!

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 07:00 PM (d6+u5)

152 134 There was a local restaurant in South St Paul called the Anchor Inn. They had all you can eat King Crab Legs for $19.95 (1982 dollars). My friends and I would go there and clean them out. The wait staff tried in vain to fill us up on Salad and Rolls and sides. It was funny. I was probably partly responsible for closing them down. Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 26, 2013 10:54 PM (jucos) Back in college during the mid 80's, we used to go to Myrtle Beach for about a week after exams. There was an all you can eat crab legs and pizza place we would go to. 15 college aged guys going somewhere for their one meal a day put a hurting on that place that week.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at December 26, 2013 07:00 PM (BXLPR)

153 Puffy Scamper, Norfolk, Va Beach line. Literally, on the boderline. Cop was so pissed she didn't reveal (she wasn't carrying that night for some reason), that he totally ignored me. I could've clubbed the dumbass from behind.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 07:01 PM (5aFK0)

154 134 >> There was a local restaurant in South St Paul called the Anchor Inn. They had all you can eat King Crab Legs for $19.95 (1982 dollars).

TM, several casinos here on the MS Coast have all you can eat supper buffets with King crab (snow crab) and/or Dungeness crab legs for around $22 to $24.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 26, 2013 07:01 PM (wNF3N)

155 Witness Protection Program? Posted by: Splunge at December 26, 2013 10:58 PM (bKA83) Liability and anonymous. I don't need a cop to know who I am when he's trolling for a stop. Something to do with who you are. Being known is not always a good thing.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 07:02 PM (0FSuD)

156 We can all laugh at the Brit with the payday loans, but how many of our fellow Americans go into credit card debt to buy The Latest Crap for their kids at Christmastime? You can't get much dumber than going to payday loan place, but going thousands of dollars into credit card debt ain't much smarter either.

I'm all for presents but there's also a point at which you gotta tell your kids "No." I frequently heard that word growing up and I believe I am the better person for it.

Posted by: Iasonas at December 26, 2013 07:02 PM (FHNkr)

157 I have piles of books on every flat surface.

Posted by: rickl at December 26, 2013 11:00 PM (sdi6R)

What a fucking savage.

Flat surfaces are for booze bottles.

Bookcases and toilet tops and bed-stands and the floor next to the bed are for books.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2013 07:02 PM (QFxY5)

158 152 wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 11:00 PM (d6+u5)

I figure if comparing it to .45 LC it is near parity.

I am leery as a Buckeye by birth and breeding of using 7.62*51mm as a mid-range weapon...

YMMV

Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 07:02 PM (9jfyN)

159
Best gift I received for Christmas was being able to spend another year with my family.

Just gets no better than that.

Posted by: irongrampa at December 26, 2013 07:03 PM (SAMxH)

160 Meanwhile, in mysterious East:

Japanese man documents Christmas date with virtual girlfriend, proudly shows ass to the world

http://tinyurl.com/kl7f6ye

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 26, 2013 10:54 PM (kdS6q)

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Seems perfectly normal to me.

Posted by: Doctor Kreiger at December 26, 2013 07:03 PM (KlVdw)

161 boom!

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 11:00 PM (d6+u5)

I like the ballistics, and the idea of two uppers for one lower is just great.

It's pretty much a .270.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2013 07:04 PM (QFxY5)

162 @22 just sum luck make that dumb. I'm learning on the wife's kindlfire. Itsza hitch.

Posted by: thefarmer at December 26, 2013 07:05 PM (6+Ysi)

163 Further proof that no amount of money can buy class: http://t.co/ewFpwODlqM

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 26, 2013 07:05 PM (DmNpO)

164 My family LLC owns all my vehicles and the address is a PO Box. EAT ME. Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 10:57 PM (0FSuD) you are stealthy bro

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 07:05 PM (d6+u5)

165 On Nova now: Building the Great Cathedrals

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 26, 2013 07:05 PM (DmNpO)

166 Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 11:02 PM (0FSuD)

Don't forget...cops are no longer our friends.

They are the enforcers for the burgeoning police state.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2013 07:05 PM (QFxY5)

167 I have a CPL. I never leave the house unarmed. Currently interred in Michigan (just outside the wire of The Peoples' Republik of AnnArbor); the law is that if you're carrying, the BAC limit is 0.02%. Not carrying? (like that's gonna happen): the 0.08% BAC rules apply

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 26, 2013 07:08 PM (JMmQ9)

168 Cop was so pissed she didn't reveal (she wasn't carrying that night for some reason), that he totally ignored me. I could've clubbed the dumbass from behind. Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 11:01 PM (5aFK0) he would blend so well in Casper, WY

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 07:09 PM (d6+u5)

169 you are stealthy bro Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 11:05 PM (d6+u5) Until recently you could not find out who were the principals of the LLC's. Now NC lists them, so until I reorganize, you can find out the principal with a little work. Not in a cop car.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 07:09 PM (0FSuD)

170 Japanese man documents Christmas date with virtual girlfriend, proudly shows ass to the world

That sentence is ambiguous, and was not at all what I expected.

Posted by: pep at December 26, 2013 07:10 PM (6TB1Z)

171

Ahh, a stream of barely teenage girls, drunk off their collective asses, being brought in from a Pedo Party where said Pedo was in the process of getting their pants off when one sobered up enough to call her parent. Nothing better than doing serial rape exams on a load of drunk puking teenagers. FML.

Said Pedo is in custody although will becoming in for exam after falling down the stairs at the single floor PD. Shame, that.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 07:11 PM (QuZie)

172 I am leery as a Buckeye by birth and breeding of using 7.62*51mm as a mid-range weapon... YMMV Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 11:02 PM (9jfyN) details man, details!

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 07:12 PM (d6+u5)

173 154 Puffy Scamper, Norfolk, Va Beach line. Literally, on the boderline. Cop was so pissed she didn't reveal (she wasn't carrying that night for some reason), that he totally ignored me. I could've clubbed the dumbass from behind. Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 11:01 PM (5aFK0) The "big" city cops in Virginia tend to be anti-gun when it comes to citizens because their city councils are all controlled by one certain party. I really wish we would move out of Roanoke City, but the wife loves the house, so we stay. Year after year, more goblins pop up in the city, and the city government does nothing but "try to understand them".

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at December 26, 2013 07:12 PM (BXLPR)

174 .02 BAC for CCWs? So how long until CCW holders are told they have to live in certain neighborhoods? I mean, if we group them all together, there's less chance a *insert leftist straw-example* will get shot, right?

Posted by: Iasonas at December 26, 2013 07:13 PM (FHNkr)

175 I'm declaring a one-girl war against The Wolf of Wall Street, 165 minutes of drug-addled bullshit. The only character I didn't loathe was Leo's first wife, gone the instant he spots the smokin' hot blonde who'll be his second wife.I hate hate hate hate hate this repulsive and stupid movie. That said, there are many gorgeous naked hookers from start to finish. But the only person who could like this movie is the pathetic loser who thinks he really made a profound personal connection with the stripper who listened to his stupid drug stories all night while she milked him for thousands of dollars.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at December 26, 2013 07:13 PM (a5ljo)

176 Ahh, a stream of barely teenage girls, drunk off their collective asses, being brought in from a Pedo Party where said Pedo was in the process of getting their pants off when one sobered up enough to call her parent. Nothing better than doing serial rape exams on a load of drunk puking teenagers. FML. Said Pedo is in custody although will becoming in for exam after falling down the stairs at the single floor PD. Shame, that. Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 11:11 PM (QuZie) Amateur...

Posted by: Roman Polanski at December 26, 2013 07:14 PM (/YkzI)

177 172 Ahh, a stream of barely teenage girls, drunk off their collective asses, being brought in from a Pedo Party where said Pedo was in the process of getting their pants off when one sobered up enough to call her parent. Nothing better than doing serial rape exams on a load of drunk puking teenagers. FML.

Said Pedo is in custody although will becoming in for exam after falling down the stairs at the single floor PD. Shame, that.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 11:11 PM (QuZie)

Sometimes getting into and out of a police car can be very challenging. Things get bumped.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 07:14 PM (T1005)

178 173 wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 11:12 PM (d6+u5)

It's like I told my Louisiana friends....

"we use deer slugs or bows back home, you have to get real close to retire Bambi comparatively speaking..."

Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 07:15 PM (9jfyN)

179 172 Ahh, a stream of barely teenage girls, drunk off their collective asses, being brought in from a Pedo Party where said Pedo was in the process of getting their pants off when one sobered up enough to call her parent. Nothing better than doing serial rape exams on a load of drunk puking teenagers. FML. Said Pedo is in custody although will becoming in for exam after falling down the stairs at the single floor PD. Shame, that. Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 11:11 PM (QuZie) Any phone numbers?

Posted by: Roman Polanski at December 26, 2013 07:16 PM (BXLPR)

180 I've looked back through the comments, and anybody who hasn't watched the 12-minute video about the guy talking about dynamite really needs to. That wins the internet for today.

Posted by: rickl at December 26, 2013 07:16 PM (sdi6R)

181 "we use deer slugs or bows back home, you have to get real close to retire Bambi comparatively speaking..." Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 11:15 PM (9jfyN) What really happened to Bambi... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM7dxdi4o_8

Posted by: Cliff Richard's Hat at December 26, 2013 07:17 PM (/YkzI)

182 CTJ, you're insane. The Hobbit movies look worse with all of the CGI. They get stuck in the real people in a cartoon feeling too often. Jackson did much better in LOTR with balancing real effects with CGI. I'm not a CGI hater but I believe it works better when it is part of a real scene. It breaks down when it is the scene for an extended period with just actors and a few props.

Posted by: Chris at December 26, 2013 07:17 PM (crkWb)

183 I went to a red lobster for the first time in decades this summer, it was in times square and it had nypd stationed inside. I have a feeling any analyst is able to tell you why red lobster is not working.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 26, 2013 07:18 PM (rDidD)

184 Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 11:11 PM (QuZie) Ice on those sidewalks can be a bitch

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 26, 2013 07:18 PM (c2oll)

185 "we use deer slugs or bows back home, you have to get real close to retire Bambi comparatively speaking..." Posted by: sven10077 at December 26, 2013 11:15 PM (9jfyN) I guess our definitions of mid range vary mid range to me is 250 to 450 yards what is mid range for you?

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 07:20 PM (d6+u5)

186 only person who could like this movie is the pathetic loser who thinks he really made a profound personal connection with the stripper who listened to his stupid drug stories all night while she milked him for thousands of dollars. Posted by: Little Miss you apparently have never had any first hand experience with strippers, it is very unlikely you will find an insincere stripper anywhere outside a mfm movie or television show. silly woman.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 26, 2013 07:20 PM (rDidD)

187 It's late, anyone want some hot chocolate?

Posted by: Pajama Boy at December 26, 2013 07:20 PM (0FSuD)

188 Re: Leeloo..... Fifth Element

Posted by: catman at December 26, 2013 07:22 PM (gY+CK)

189 "I hate hate hate hate hate this repulsive and stupid movie." Sounds like a repeat of The Departed.

Posted by: Chris at December 26, 2013 07:22 PM (crkWb)

190 Sometimes getting into and out of a police car can be very challenging. Things get bumped. Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 11:14 PM Getting in to the back seat of a police car is ridiculously easy; getting out of the back seat of a police car is ridiculously difficult... just sayin'...I'm responding for a friend

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 26, 2013 07:22 PM (JMmQ9)

191 172 Ahh, a stream of barely teenage girls, drunk off their collective asses, being brought in from a Pedo Party where said Pedo was in the process of getting their pants off when one sobered up enough to call her parent. Nothing better than doing serial rape exams on a load of drunk puking teenagers. FML.

Said Pedo is in custody although will becoming in for exam after falling down the stairs at the single floor PD. Shame, that.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 11:11 PM (QuZie)

The Pedo is just lucky the girls didn't have a baseball bat, wasp spray, and knives.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 07:23 PM (T1005)

192 181 I've looked back through the comments, and anybody who hasn't watched the 12-minute video about the guy talking about dynamite really needs to. "Shit hits the fan" is sobbing in its beer, having heard the tale of "Dynamite hits the shit".

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at December 26, 2013 07:24 PM (1xUj/)

193 I guess our definitions of mid range vary

mid range to me is 250 to 450 yards

what is mid range for you? Posted by: wasab
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Well then what in the hell is long range?

Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 26, 2013 07:25 PM (4Mv1T)

194 Oh, the wonderful things Mr. Brown can do! He can go like a cow. He can go Moo Moo

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 07:25 PM (d6+u5)

195 Well then what in the hell is long range? Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 26, 2013 11:25 PM (4Mv1T) When you miss. It was too far.

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

196 Well then what in the hell is long range? Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 26, 2013 11:25 PM (4Mv1T) More than 451 !

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 07:26 PM (d6+u5)

197 When you miss. It was too far. Posted by: Nip Sip

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Good one.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 26, 2013 07:27 PM (4Mv1T)

198 189- hat tip to you sir! but then it wasn't a very hard challenge for the horde! Leelu just marked her territory yet again in my family room.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel at December 26, 2013 07:29 PM (0SmH0)

199 I really wish we would move out of Roanoke City, but the wife loves the house, so we stay ________ Just spent the day with my nephew (here in town) - he's in college in Roanoke. I love visiting out there. It's beautiful - & been way too long. I would think the local PD would be pretty friendly out there. I guess they're getting a little big for their britches?

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 07:29 PM (5aFK0)

200 Boom Boom Boom Mr. Brown is a wonder. Boom Boom Boom Mr. Brown makes thunder. He makes lightning. Splatt Splatt Splatt and it's very, very hard to make a sound like that

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 07:30 PM (d6+u5)

201 Resist we much.

Global warming scientists trapped in ice.

The irony; it burns, it burns.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at December 26, 2013 07:31 PM (LSDdO)

202 Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 11:29 PM (5aFK0) Shredded Chi- Did you see my apology from around 8 pm tonight? I put some letters in all caps so that it would stand out. I did it while @ work and used my iPhone. I canÂ’t format on this Mac.

Posted by: Carol at December 26, 2013 07:32 PM (z4WKX)

203 AMF Boxing Day comes to a close and I didn't get shit.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 07:33 PM (0FSuD)

204 188Â It's late, anyone want some hot chocolate? _________ I'll take one PJ boy. Just leave out the milk and cocoa on mine. Add in 2 ice cubes and 3 fingers of bourbon. Then punch yourself in the place where your dick should be. Stir gently. Thanks for the hot chocolate!

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 07:33 PM (5aFK0)

205 22 I honestly tried pretty hard to make the first post tonight, how do people do it? Nothing better to do with their time and no dogs to walk.

Posted by: Angel with a sword at December 26, 2013 07:34 PM (hpgw1)

206 @62 Yes Jesse the turf may know greed. Sacrifice not so much. damnable spelcheck turdd.

Posted by: thefarmer at December 26, 2013 07:35 PM (6+Ysi)

207 I'm having trouble deciding who is dumber for being stuck in the situation they are in: the global warming twats, or the UK welfare twat.

Posted by: model_1066 at December 26, 2013 07:35 PM (6O+h7)

208 You must say this looks like jolly good fun. http://tinyurl.com/p6oaok7

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 07:37 PM (0FSuD)

209 Carol, yes. Good to see you - hope you're doing well & had a great Christmas. Know that you and Paul are in my thoughts. I replied back in that MessNBC thread - i think around #300... 306? Go back & read. Reply if you want. No need to bring my depressing life into the fun of the ONT. I'll check back there. You too, Fenelon.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 07:37 PM (5aFK0)

210 Am I the only on whose scroller thingy on the mouse sounds exactly like a duck?

Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 26, 2013 07:37 PM (4Mv1T)

211 "spelcheck turdd" For your information the correct spelting is spelting-czech turddda.

Posted by: Angel with a sword at December 26, 2013 07:38 PM (hpgw1)

212 208 Individually, the welfare twat. Collectively, the AGW twats. No need to choose one here.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at December 26, 2013 07:38 PM (ojnk6)

213

It's good to be part of the nomenklatura[/]

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I'm suprised, she turned out to be a Republican and they didn't hang her from the highest yardarm.

Posted by: Doctor Kreiger at December 26, 2013 07:39 PM (KlVdw)

214

Posted by: Doctor Kreiger at December 26, 2013 07:39 PM (KlVdw)

215 I read on Drudge that a white man has been arrested in an attack on a black man in Tejas for a hate crimeÂ…the knockout game. you know, the game that is fictional and is nothing more than a hoax perpetuated by the right wing crazies. I'm curious as to what Federal law was broken that necessitated a US Attorney filing on this guy over state charges.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel at December 26, 2013 07:39 PM (0SmH0)

216

*singing*

Roll out the barrel.....

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 26, 2013 07:39 PM (KlVdw)

217 good catch

Posted by: Tobacco Road at December 26, 2013 07:40 PM (4Mv1T)

218 206Â 22 I honestly tried pretty hard to make the first post tonight, how do people do it? Â Nothing better to do with their time and no dogs to walk. ______________ I always assumed the HQ was made up of millionaires that had robots to monitor when a new post was up. But your answer is basically the same thing, I guess.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 07:40 PM (5aFK0)

219 216 I read here this morning that the kid admitted on video that his victim was selected because he was black. And he broke the old mans' jaw

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 07:42 PM (5aFK0)

220 What's this "Boxing Day" crap? It's the Feast of St. Stephen, you idiots.

Posted by: Good King Wenceslaus at December 26, 2013 07:42 PM (dfYL9)

221 204 AMF

Boxing Day comes to a close and I didn't get shit.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 26, 2013 11:33 PM (0FSuD)

If you'd used a few sticks of dynamite....

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 07:43 PM (T1005)

222 "I'm curious as to what Federal law was broken that necessitated a US Attorney filing on this guy over state charges." Because RACIST!

Posted by: Angel with a sword at December 26, 2013 07:44 PM (hpgw1)

223 If "WestJet" is a real airline in Canada, they did something pretty amazing for Christmas: http://t.co/jeLXdZi26V If not, well, it's still a nice story.

Posted by: t-bird at December 26, 2013 07:45 PM (FcR7P)

224 Shredded Chi, I am posting in iPad, while watching dynamite film on laptop. I will go back & read. I glanced once or twice, but I am one of those people that are not happy unless I do what I planned to at work. I missed it.

Posted by: Carol at December 26, 2013 07:46 PM (z4WKX)

225 Flesh! Wine! Pine logs!

Posted by: Good King Wenceslaus at December 26, 2013 07:46 PM (dfYL9)

226 Just to get this on an active thread, I'll hope you'll forgive the re-commenting...

A great night I picked to go out.

There's no reason for you to care about Toronto and the MFM up here (especially as mayors here don't have alot of special powers---they're mainly just one more vote on a city council, which is why it's different to support Mayor Ford than squeaky-clean P.M. Harper) but with the U.S. MFM covering Ford and Ace once and cobs covering him in full posts here and in the sidebar several times through the MFM lens, I wanted to set you straight and there are some things that apply to or lessons for the U.S. situation.

There's also too much to go into over the past 3 years about all of this like Ford always being available to his constituents and the media hate-on for the guy but here are a few items for you.

Political assessment from a liberal source (note: one annoying but quick to close pop-up):
http://tinyurl.com/n6mbt54
...and from a conservative source:
http://tinyurl.com/mfucy9r

MFM coverage and fat, nouveau riche scion Rob Ford (expect coverage like this if Christie, even RINO Christie, is your nominee). At least watch the first 14 minutes or so...
ezralevant.com/2013/11/media-party-bias.html

Some of the same points are made here in written form if watching videos online, well, political videos at least, isn't your thing:
ezralevant.com/2013/11/people-love-mr-mayor-despite-t.html

A conservative (or libertarian-conservative) blogger [brief]:
http://tinyurl.com/k99lvga

And about the second- and third-hand reports on Ford's behavior from the same blog:
http://tinyurl.com/kw3asrs
BTW, that information is from a police warrant (called an ITO) when never in my life have I ever heard of an ITO being released to the public anywhere in Canada so much so that I had never even heard of an "ITO" before this.

Ford's political base in the suburbs continued support for him (from HuffPo oddly enough):
http://tinyurl.com/nxvn27u

Mark Steyn's view... A Ford, Not a Lincoln:
http://tinyurl.com/mj5gwoe

Conrad Black with some background about the Toronto Star's ~~crusade~~ jihad against Ford:
http://tinyurl.com/macrzrx

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 26, 2013 07:48 PM (f6z8e)

227 Know what's sad? That picture of Pajama Boy reveals what is wrong with our spineless GOP: Sadly, Pajama Boy IS punching back twice as hard.

Posted by: model_1066 at December 26, 2013 07:48 PM (6O+h7)

228 Just spent the day with my nephew (here in town) - he's in college in Roanoke. I love visiting out there. It's beautiful - & been way too long. I would think the local PD would be pretty friendly out there. I guess they're getting a little big for their britches? Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 11:29 PM (5aFK0) Roanoke County cops are pretty laid back about things since it is the "Republican" part of the area, same with Salem City. Roanoke City? Nice looking downtown that they keep pouring money into on the latest "get rich quick" schemes that every "progressive little city like Asheville, NC" is doing. So now the police department is getting the "progressive city" bullshit hoisted upon it, and it is starting to show. Very few of the upper level officers are promoted from within, and those who are, are of certain protected classes. Lots of Lt.'s on down are retiring to go to work for other police departments in the region.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at December 26, 2013 07:48 PM (BXLPR)

229 That was a funny story about the dynamite. It did take long. The blog is broken on my Mac, I havenÂ’t seen any gray boxes around comments since early yesterday. It may have been the day before. I think I used my iPad early Christmas morning. ItÂ’s fine on iPad & iPhone. I shut this off this morning to see if they returned.

Posted by: Carol at December 26, 2013 07:49 PM (z4WKX)

230 what is funny is that on the website of my local Komo News in Seattle, the leftist hipster assholes are doing cheetah flips and gyrations in the comments section explaining away that this was, in fact, the knock out game, but that the other acts of violence perpetuated by "urban youth" against peoples not resembling them in color, is simply a hoax crafted by Fox News. I really despise liberals.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel at December 26, 2013 07:50 PM (0SmH0)

231 Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at December 26, 2013 11:13 PM (a5ljo) I'm so with you, awful people doing awful things to one another...

Posted by: Shoey at December 26, 2013 07:50 PM (vA94g)

232 7 >>No charges will be filed against a Montrose city councilwoman who said she forgot her handgun was inside her purse when she brought it through security last month at Montrose County Regional Airport, while the councilwoman has agreed to participate in adult diversion, Mesa County District Attorney Pete Hautzinger said Friday.

the political class does not have the same rules as the rest of us.

this will be their undoing

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 10:07 PM (d6+u5)

They've always had different rules (privilege ="private law"). They haven't before been exposed like this before.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at December 26, 2013 07:51 PM (Nk6GS)

233 181 I've looked back through the comments, and anybody who hasn't watched the 12-minute video about the guy talking about dynamite really needs to. Hell yeah!! Myself and my former boss used to blow up beaver dams with tnt in the 70's. It was so much fun. Couple other stories I wish I could tell.......

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 07:51 PM (u6lBN)

234 Good evening, Horde. I've been too busy and then too exhausted for the ONT the past few nights. Lost my voice mid-midnight mass but got it together for that high B and blasting it to the altar for the choir loft. Dave is watching Top Gun. I hate it.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 26, 2013 07:52 PM (N/cFh)

235 When you miss. It was too far. ------------------ Nah. Downrange winds, that you could not detect. Always.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 07:52 PM (aDwsi)

236 Dave is watching Top Gun. I hate it. *** You've gotta love the volleyball scene.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 26, 2013 07:53 PM (DmNpO)

237 234 181 I've looked back through the comments, and anybody who hasn't watched the 12-minute video about the guy talking about dynamite really needs to. Hell yeah!! Myself and my former boss used to blow up beaver dams with tnt in the 70's. It was so much fun. Couple other stories I wish I could tell....... Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 11:51 PM (u6lBN) I respect the old guy, but any funny story that takes longer than ten minutes to tell stops being funny. I did watch the whole thing though.

Posted by: model_1066 at December 26, 2013 07:53 PM (6O+h7)

238 I loved the story with the old feller and the cistern!
There is a similar story with a New England origin about the lobsterman who goes out with his wife to set traps. Has about the same duration, if delivered correctly. May or may not be fiction.

Posted by: navybrat at December 26, 2013 07:53 PM (AW7Gr)

239 Hell yeah!! Myself and my former boss used to blow up beaver dams with tnt in the 70's. It was so much fun. Posted by: t-dubyah-d Not so much fun for the beavers, I imagine. Was there a function to the TNT/beaver thing, or purely for recreational purposes?

Posted by: zombie at December 26, 2013 07:54 PM (+cx5n)

240 224 If "WestJet" is a real airline in Canada, they did something pretty amazing for Christmas: http://t.co/jeLXdZi26V If not, well, it's still a nice story. Posted by: t-bird at December 26, 2013 11:45 PM (FcR7P) --- It is real. --- 237 Dave is watching Top Gun. I hate it. *** You've gotta love the volleyball scene. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 26, 2013 11:53 PM (DmNpO) --- Nope.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 26, 2013 07:55 PM (N/cFh)

241 Looks like Pedo Pete swings both ways, the boys are rollin in...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 07:55 PM (QuZie)

242 Looks like Pedo Pete swings both ways, the boys are rollin in... *** Okay. I clearly missed something.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 26, 2013 07:56 PM (DmNpO)

243 Was there a function to the TNT/beaver thing, or purely for recreational purposes? Posted by: zombie at December 26, 2013 11:54 PM (+cx5n) Beavers steal water from other creatures so they can have it all to themselves. TNT is merely their comeuppance.

Posted by: model_1066 at December 26, 2013 07:57 PM (6O+h7)

244

In this case, the man accused is 27-year-old Conrad Alvin Barrett, who the Justice Department says attacked a 79-year-old black man in Fulshear, Texas, just west of Houston. Justice Department officials said they brought the case to make a point about hate crimes.

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From the Washington Times. Suspect admits he intentionally sought out a black man. So clearly there is a racial component to the story. Personally I would do away with Hate crime legislation- I think assault charges are enough. Plus with the victim's advanced age, I would toss in a wreckless indifference charge or something similar to add some time just because of the high likelihood of injury.

But eff Eric Holder for going after the a white on black crime example, when the knockout game has been mostly black on white.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 26, 2013 07:57 PM (KlVdw)

245 Okay. I clearly missed something. _______ I think that conversation started @ #172, NDH.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 07:57 PM (5aFK0)

246 shredded chi, I was at the Huff PooPoo today and they said that Ace was on the Koch Brothers payroll. J/k

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 08:00 PM (u6lBN)

247 Shredded Chi, we all feel like weÂ’re among friends and says things that are harder to say in person. I think Sven yelled at me because IÂ’m Catholic but do not go to Mass. I believe all the Catholic traditions but donÂ’t like to sit through Mass. The office tower I work in opens to a Mall and it has a walkway to another mall in Boston. I havenÂ’t been over to the other one in size years, if not longer. There is a church right near the entrance & exit of our tower and I often go in and light a candle and kneel & pray. I donÂ’t think I have to sit through a Mass to feel religious. Some people like the ritual. I donÂ’t. I hate to sit still, which they understand at work and usually do not include me in meetings. They know IÂ’ll drive them crazy by fidgeting, etc & getting playing with paper clips until I break them.

Posted by: Carol at December 26, 2013 08:01 PM (z4WKX)

248 Tomorrow is Friday. ALL day.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 26, 2013 08:01 PM (V4CBV)

249 shredded chi, I was at the Huff PooPoo today and they said that Ace was on the Koch Brothers payroll. J/k

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 27, 2013 12:00 AM (u6lBN)

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Is Ace a Kochsman? I'll never tell.

Posted by: Barney Frank at December 26, 2013 08:02 PM (KlVdw)

250 Zombe, no it was just for "conservation" efforts.

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 08:02 PM (u6lBN)

251 I think that conversation started @ #172, NDH. *** Thanks, but WTH is that about?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 26, 2013 08:02 PM (DmNpO)

252 Not sure, NDH... I guess OG is an ER doc? I know we get stories from ConCrank, but I'm still trying to do the math on that one too...

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 08:05 PM (5aFK0)

253 HEHHEH< He said Kochsman Beavis

Posted by: Buttthead at December 26, 2013 08:07 PM (u6lBN)

254 OG is an ER doc on a marathon shift. 4 days I think.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 26, 2013 08:07 PM (o9Rp5)

255 Not sure, NDH... I guess OG is an ER doc? *** Ugh. What an awful task to undertake.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 26, 2013 08:08 PM (DmNpO)

256 OG is an ER doc on a marathon shift. 4 days I think. *** God Bless 'em

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 26, 2013 08:08 PM (DmNpO)

257 240 Hell yeah!! Myself and my former boss used to blow up beaver dams with tnt in the 70's. It was so much fun.
Posted by: t-dubyah-d

Not so much fun for the beavers, I imagine.

Was there a function to the TNT/beaver thing, or purely for recreational purposes?

Posted by: zombie at December 26, 2013 11:54 PM (+cx5n)

Beavers will totally re-landscape your environment, cutting off water to your irrigation/drainage and flooding outbuildings/roads, and the dams are quite solid. Dynamiting beaver dams is a cost-effective and efficient way of (a) restoring the desired landscape and (b1) giving the beavers a hint to relocate or (b2) sending them along to that great beaver lodge in the sky.

It helps if you start thinking of them as giant tree-killing flood-causing rodents.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 08:09 PM (T1005)

258 At an all-you-can-eat Japanese place my three skinny wargaming friends and my two fat wargaming friends (and fat me) spent all day playing a game and didn't take a lunch break at all so we were all hungry for dinner. One of the skinny guys told me that as we left he caught the chef behind the sushi bar look at him and shake his head in a "we took a lickin' on letting you guys in tonight" way.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 26, 2013 08:10 PM (f6z8e)

259 You've gotta love the volleyball scene. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 26, 2013 11:53 PM (DmNpO) fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap

Posted by: Barney Frank at December 26, 2013 08:11 PM (BXLPR)

260 245
In this case, the man accused is 27-year-old Conrad Alvin Barrett, who the Justice Department says attacked a 79-year-old black man in Fulshear, Texas, just west of Houston. Justice Department officials said they brought the case to make a point about hate crimes.
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From the Washington Times. Suspect admits he intentionally sought out a black man. So clearly there is a racial component to the story. Personally I would do away with Hate crime legislation- I think assault charges are enough. Plus with the victim's advanced age, I would toss in a wreckless indifference charge or something similar to add some time just because of the high likelihood of injury.
But eff Eric Holder for going after thea white on black crime example, when the knockout game has been mostly black on white.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 26, 2013 11:57 PM (KlVdw)

Look, it's just like the story said, "Justice Department officials said they brought the case to make a point about hate crimes." Here's the point: they only apply against whites.

Posted by: Eric "My People" Holder at December 26, 2013 08:12 PM (T1005)

261 I hate to post that cause I know that Ace likes beaver. He was on a roll with it on his twitter feed the other day.

Posted by: T-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 08:12 PM (u6lBN)

262 jeesh barney, all that fap and no squirt?

Posted by: T-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 08:13 PM (u6lBN)

263 We dynamite beaver dams here too in the Home of the Beaver (3:12 minutes):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePD-yInTx5o&feature=related

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 26, 2013 08:14 PM (f6z8e)

264 From the Washington Times. Suspect admits he intentionally sought out a black man. So clearly there is a racial component to the story. Personally I would do away with Hate crime legislation- I think assault charges are enough. Plus with the victim's advanced age, I would toss in a wreckless indifference charge or something similar to add some time just because of the high likelihood of injury. But eff Eric Holder for going after thea white on black crime example, when the knockout game has been mostly black on white. Posted by: Darth Randall at December 26, 2013 11:57 PM (KlVdw) Gotta have something to fire the base up in 2014. Lil Trayvon was so 2012.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at December 26, 2013 08:14 PM (BXLPR)

265 Just spotted a beaver tonight while walking the dog, by Beaver Lake. Coincidence?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 08:15 PM (aDwsi)

266 251 Zombe, no it was just for "conservation" efforts. Posted by: t-dubyah-d In the sense of restoring the river/creek to its original state before it was converted by the beavers into a pond? Beavers present an interesting ontological challenge to the notion of what counts as "natural," because they're one of the few (if not the only) species aside from humans that build large-scale structures that completely alter an ecosystem. We as humans have always differentiated our activities as inherently "unnatural" or artificial as opposed to anything any other species does, which by definition is inherently "natural." Human activity is conceived of by our philosophical betters as being in opposition to (and thus always destructive of) "the natural environment." Animals, conversely, "can do no wrong" environmentally because they are nature - -thus whatever an animal does is "natural" and thus good. But along come beavers and they, in all their naturalness, built huge dams that can be just as disruptive to environments as anything an individual man could do. If a dude dammed a river, he'd be an environmental villain and get fined by the EPA. If some beavers dammed the same river in the same place, it'd be perceived as a beautiful expression of nature's glory. This reveals something wrong with how we define "natural." I say man is part of nature too. Even so: Is blowing up a beaver dam "restoring" a natural environment -- or is it destroying the natural environment -- the natural environment that the dam itself represents, being created by all-natural animals?

Posted by: zombie at December 26, 2013 08:17 PM (+cx5n)

267 jeesh barney, all that fap and no squirt?

Posted by: T-dubyah-d at December 27, 2013 12:13 AM (u6lBN)

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Fap fap fap fap fap fap *pant* *pant* fap fap fap fap fap

*pant* wait for it *pant* fap fap fap fap fap

Posted by: Barney Frank at December 26, 2013 08:18 PM (KlVdw)

268 Sorry morons. 2 posts in a row from a noob I'm usually not that wordy.

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 08:19 PM (u6lBN)

269 Tonight's lesson: Get the septic tank pumped. Save the dynamite for fishing.

Posted by: fluffy at December 26, 2013 08:19 PM (Ua6T/)

270 Damn. I thought i was here alone and that the thread was dead, but: *Gingy hating Top Gun (including/especially the volleyball scene) - maybe ginger's DO have souls! (i know, i know...) *Ace is most certainly on the Koch payroll (heehee), and probably has robots patrolling the threads. *beaverdams + dynamite = t-dubyah living the Duck Dynasty life to the fullest. You are channelling Uncle Si *OG - keep up the good work. I don't envy you, but i do respect you greatly. Now, about that "hot chocolate" PJ boy was going to make me... ?

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 08:20 PM (5aFK0)

271 Kraken Spiced Rum + Root Beer = Win

Posted by: Iasonas at December 26, 2013 08:20 PM (FHNkr)

272 Re: beavers. (The ones that are a kind of weasel, you filthy fucking perverts). If you don't cull them and un-dam some their dams they build dams everywhere and flood land tha wouldn't ordinarily flood. Which is fine out in beaver world. Survival of the bucktoothed and whatever. But MA banned trapping a decade or so and a lot of suburbs have flooding and undevelopableness and stuff.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at December 26, 2013 08:20 PM (1xUj/)

273 Delurking here. if you haven't watched the Duck Dynasty episode where Phil and uncle Si go after the beavers because they've cut off the water supply for the ducks you should it's hilarious. Oh and the episode where they blow up the old ratty duck blind lots of splody.

Posted by: Fourth Horseman at December 26, 2013 08:20 PM (KuZ6A)

274 Nice beaver!

Posted by: frank drebin at December 26, 2013 08:20 PM (f6z8e)

275 267 Zombie, that gets us into a discussion about who truly owns the land in question. If nature had a force that destryoed beaver dams for their benefit, I would go with humans being an alternate opposite reaction to said dwms. As I personally know of none, tough to answer.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at December 26, 2013 08:24 PM (ojnk6)

276 267 >> Even so: Is blowing up a beaver dam "restoring" a natural environment -- or is it destroying the natural environment -- the natural environment that the dam itself represents, being created by all-natural animals?

Deep thoughts for an ONT, zombie. I once had a neighbor that lost an expensive tree to a beaver; he wanted it d-e-d dead but the animal control folk captured it and relocated it.

If he had instead shot and ate the beaver, would that would be natural too?

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 26, 2013 08:25 PM (wNF3N)

277 267 >> Even so: Is blowing up a beaver dam "restoring" a natural environment -- or is it destroying the natural environment -- the natural environment that the dam itself represents, being created by all-natural animals?

Deep thoughts for an ONT, zombie. I once had a neighbor that lost an expensive tree to a beaver; he wanted it d-e-d dead but the animal control folk captured it and relocated it.

If he had instead shot and ate the beaver, would that would be natural too?

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 26, 2013 08:25 PM (wNF3N)

278 Wow. It's late. Well, evening Morons. Just got done playing cards with the family.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 26, 2013 08:25 PM (JpFMR)

279 Wow. It's late. Well, evening Morons. Just got done playing cards with the family.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 26, 2013 08:25 PM (JpFMR)

280 267 251 Zombe, no it was just for "conservation" efforts.
Posted by: t-dubyah-d

In the sense of restoring the river/creek to its original state before it was converted by the beavers into a pond?

Beavers present an interesting ontological challenge to the notion of what counts as "natural," because they're one of the few (if not the only) species aside from humans that build large-scale structures that completely alter an ecosystem. We as humans have always differentiated our activities as inherently "unnatural" or artificial as opposed to anything any other species does, which by definition is inherently "natural." Human activity is conceived of by our philosophical betters as being in opposition to (and thus always destructive of) "the natural environment." Animals, conversely, "can do no wrong" environmentally because they are nature - -thus whatever an animal does is "natural" and thus good.

But along come beavers and they, in all their naturalness, built huge dams that can be just as disruptive to environments as anything an individual man could do.

If a dude dammed a river, he'd be an environmental villain and get fined by the EPA.

If some beavers dammed the same river in the same place, it'd be perceived as a beautiful expression of nature's glory.

This reveals something wrong with how we define "natural." I say man is part of nature too.

Even so: Is blowing up a beaver dam "restoring" a natural environment -- or is it destroying the natural environment -- the natural environment that the dam itself represents, being created by all-natural animals?

Posted by: zombie at December 27, 2013 12:17 AM (+cx5n)

Yep, you're homing in on the right wavelength.....the only last bit is -- you don't go off into virgin forests and blow up beaver dams -- 'cause that's their turf, not yours. You do it when the little bastards are setting up shop in the managed forest where you planted 1,000 trees 10 years ago, or at the radio repeater station that isn't going to appreciate being four feet underwater, or where they're going to inundate the spot where early settlers signed a peace treaty with the indigenous people, or at the low spot of the road that people depend on to get from A to B....

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 08:26 PM (T1005)

281 267 251 Zombe, no it was just for "conservation" efforts.
Posted by: t-dubyah-d

In the sense of restoring the river/creek to its original state before it was converted by the beavers into a pond?

Beavers present an interesting ontological challenge to the notion of what counts as "natural," because they're one of the few (if not the only) species aside from humans that build large-scale structures that completely alter an ecosystem. We as humans have always differentiated our activities as inherently "unnatural" or artificial as opposed to anything any other species does, which by definition is inherently "natural." Human activity is conceived of by our philosophical betters as being in opposition to (and thus always destructive of) "the natural environment." Animals, conversely, "can do no wrong" environmentally because they are nature - -thus whatever an animal does is "natural" and thus good.

But along come beavers and they, in all their naturalness, built huge dams that can be just as disruptive to environments as anything an individual man could do.

If a dude dammed a river, he'd be an environmental villain and get fined by the EPA.

If some beavers dammed the same river in the same place, it'd be perceived as a beautiful expression of nature's glory.

This reveals something wrong with how we define "natural." I say man is part of nature too.

Even so: Is blowing up a beaver dam "restoring" a natural environment -- or is it destroying the natural environment -- the natural environment that the dam itself represents, being created by all-natural animals?

Posted by: zombie at December 27, 2013 12:17 AM (+cx5n)

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 08:26 PM (T1005)

282

Oh, thats gotta hurt. Haven't seen the xrays yet, but it looks like Pedo Pete broke his nose, lost a couple teeth, and maybe broke his jaw when he fell down the stairs at the PD.

Shame, that.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 08:26 PM (QuZie)

283

Oh, thats gotta hurt. Haven't seen the xrays yet, but it looks like Pedo Pete broke his nose, lost a couple teeth, and maybe broke his jaw when he fell down the stairs at the PD.

Shame, that.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 08:26 PM (QuZie)

284 " I donÂ’t think I have to sit through a Mass to feel religious. Some people like the ritual. I donÂ’t. I hate to sit still, which they understand at work and usually do not include me in meetings. They know IÂ’ll drive them crazy by fidgeting, etc & getting playing with paper clips until I break them." Become a Hospitality Minister and watch the narthex during Mass.

Posted by: Chris_Balsz at December 26, 2013 08:27 PM (NsFuc)

285 What's the Pedo Pete thing? And evening all.

Posted by: RWC at December 26, 2013 08:28 PM (Q6HBD)

286 We blew up dams back in the 1970's in the flatlands of Nebraska to prevent flooding of the fields. People first!!

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 08:28 PM (u6lBN)

287 Beaver = vicious Man tries to take photo of beaver; it kills him: http://tinyurl.com/d696ppr

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 08:28 PM (aDwsi)

288 Be a shame if nobody told the nurses about those x-rays. "Here's some hot soup!"

Posted by: t-bird at December 26, 2013 08:29 PM (FcR7P)

289 We also built Hydro=Electric dams for environmental reasons back then also.

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 08:30 PM (u6lBN)

290 If nature had a force that destryoed beaver dams... _________ Hurricanes. Floods. Now, then. Is man not just an animal himself? If so, what would make anything said animal does UNnatural? I would posit that man, and any & all of his actions are natural, thus, shooting that godforsaken beaver, making a hat out of his hide & a soup out of hos ass, then blowing up his damn dam is just as natural as a rainbow in April.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 08:31 PM (5aFK0)

291 In Chapel Hill (where else?) there were beaver problems in a local lake. Trees being killed. A local enviro type pointed out that there were no natural predators, and suggested re-introducing the Red Wolf. Being Chapel Hill.., I endorsed the idea. Figured a few red diaper babies might be hauled away.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 08:32 PM (aDwsi)

292 285 Be a shame if nobody told the nurses about those x-rays. "Here's some hot soup!" Cut, Jib, Newsletter!

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 08:33 PM (QuZie)

293 I hate to ask but who is pedo pete?

Posted by: GMB-Schoolyard bully at December 26, 2013 08:33 PM (nkPV9)

294 288 In Chapel Hill (where else?) there were beaver problems in a local lake. Trees being killed. A local enviro type pointed out that there were no natural predators, and suggested re-introducing the Red Wolf. Being Chapel Hill.., I endorsed the idea. Figured a few red diaper babies might be hauled away. Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 27, 2013 12:32 AM (aDwsi) SoÂ…instead of merely going out and shooting a few beavers every now and then, they wanted to introduce an apex predator into the mix? What could go wrong?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 26, 2013 08:33 PM (JpFMR)

295 Ace has a pet beaver named Pedo Pete...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 08:33 PM (QuZie)

296 Pedo pete started @ 172. Scroll down from there

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 08:34 PM (5aFK0)

297 My book. Man=Nature. No more no less!

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 08:34 PM (u6lBN)

298 280 Oh, thats gotta hurt. Haven't seen the xrays yet, but it looks like Pedo Pete broke his nose, lost a couple teeth, and maybe broke his jaw when he fell down the stairs at the PD.

Shame, that.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 27, 2013 12:26 AM (QuZie)

My level of concern is inversely proportional to the number of positive rape kits adjusted by a constant.....and I'm thinking that about three is where he needs to go practice stairs again.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 08:34 PM (T1005)

299 What could go wrong? Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 27, 2013 12:33 AM (JpFMR) Yeah, it's not like wolves eat anything else, right?

Posted by: model_1066 at December 26, 2013 08:35 PM (6O+h7)

300 I'm confused (re: the Jackson family shakedown business empire).

Should we consider Jesse Jr. to be Sonny, Fredo or Michael?

Posted by: dissent555 at December 26, 2013 08:35 PM (yR6A1)

301 Pedo Pete in his earlier days: http://youtu.be/jItz-uNjoZA

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 26, 2013 08:36 PM (JawqV)

302 Got it. I thought maybe dingy harry had acquired a new nom de plume.

Posted by: GMB-Schoolyard bully at December 26, 2013 08:36 PM (nkPV9)

303 If nature had a force that destryoed beaver dams for their benefit, I would go with humans being an alternate opposite reaction to said dwms. As I personally know of none, tough to answer Nature does have a force that destroys beaver dams. (Damn, Nature has an answer for everything!). Beaver dams alter their environment. They provide good conditions for the growth of saplings and access to the same and beavers live in beaver heaven. Then they eat all the saplings and new ones won't grow and the beavers fuck off to dam a new stream. The old beaver dam rots and bursts and streamflows return. But that's in real nature, which has time. We cohabit restlessly with nature, so we intervene sometimes.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at December 26, 2013 08:37 PM (1xUj/)

304 287 Agreed, man is part of nature and this must be factored in. My point was that if blowing up dams is to be considered wrong or against nature, doesn't one need to look at what is considered "ownership" of the land? I'm all for blasting them if they're screwing with land where it's detrimental to human owners, fyi. Just responding to zombie's thought provoking post.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at December 26, 2013 08:37 PM (ojnk6)

305 OG, Was pedo Pete by any chance also drinking? Why yes you say well just give him some IV fluids and have the nurses insert as large a catheter as they can find preferably a coude. Sober him up eventually and he'll never know why his dick is on fire. Never seen it nope never...ha ha.

Posted by: Fourth Horseman at December 26, 2013 08:38 PM (KuZ6A)

306 Yeah, it's not like wolves eat anything else, right? Posted by: model_1066 at December 27, 2013 12:35 AM (6O+h7) I promise you the dumbass who suggested can't think past the first level.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 26, 2013 08:38 PM (JpFMR)

307 291 288 In Chapel Hill (where else?) there were beaver problems in a local lake. Trees being killed. A local enviro type pointed out that there were no natural predators, and suggested re-introducing the Red Wolf.

Being Chapel Hill.., I endorsed the idea. Figured a few red diaper babies might be hauled away.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 27, 2013 12:32 AM (aDwsi)

SoÂ…instead of merely going out and shooting a few beavers every now and then, they wanted to introduce an apex predator into the mix?

What could go wrong?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 27, 2013 12:33 AM (JpFMR)

Come to think of it, red wolves are terribly inefficient. Let's start releasing suburban mountain lions.

Posted by: Tree-hugging Chapel Hill geniuses at December 26, 2013 08:38 PM (T1005)

308 Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 27, 2013 12:34 AM (5aFK0) Thanks. Read the comment, but is there a story behind it?

Posted by: RWC at December 26, 2013 08:38 PM (Q6HBD)

309 Wynona's Big Brown Beaver: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDfwUJzYQg

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 26, 2013 08:38 PM (/YkzI)

310 i mean a news story.

Posted by: RWC at December 26, 2013 08:39 PM (Q6HBD)

311 The old beaver dam rots and bursts and streamflows return. But that's in real nature, which has time. So dynamite is more nature, faster. It's a time machine!

Posted by: t-bird at December 26, 2013 08:39 PM (FcR7P)

312 Great comment, Zombie. I have been irritated for years at how we humans are considered somehow unnatural when in fact we are the absolute pinnacle of nature, as are all of our works. Nuclear weapons? Natural. Natural human brain thinks up something and builds it using materials found in nature and processed using ingenuity found in that same natural human brain. The same is true for every single human creation. Our intellectual betters are dumshits. I like beaver.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 26, 2013 08:39 PM (8+xjO)

313 May some of the Chapel Hill supporters of the red wolves embrace the circle of life. Not just everyone's pets.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 26, 2013 08:40 PM (04hTF)

314 I love beaver. Especially when I park my nose right in the middle of it

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 08:40 PM (d6+u5)

315 Not that I know of, RWC. just OG commenting on life in the ER, I think.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 08:41 PM (5aFK0)

316 Frank Drebin, "Nice beaver you got there."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 26, 2013 08:42 PM (04hTF)

317 309 Great comment, Zombie. I have been irritated for years at how we humans are considered somehow unnatural when in fact we are the absolute pinnacle of nature, as are all of our works.

Nuclear weapons? Natural. Natural human brain thinks up something and builds it using materials found in nature and processed using ingenuity found in that same natural human brain. The same is true for every single human creation.
Our intellectual betters are dumshits.

I like beaver.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 27, 2013 12:39 AM (8+xjO)

Truer than you know -- there was actually a natural atomic reactor that ran for a number of years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 08:43 PM (T1005)

318 308 The old beaver dam rots and bursts and streamflows return. But that's in real nature, which has time. So dynamite is more nature, faster. It's a time machine. You are correct sir!!

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 08:44 PM (u6lBN)

319

I like when they auto-TURP themselves by ripping out the catheter with the balloon still inflated...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 08:44 PM (QuZie)

320 312 Not that I know of, RWC. just OG commenting on life in the ER, I think.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 27, 2013 12:41 AM (5aFK0)

If it hits the news, it'll be in OG's town in a couple of days. OG is working through it in real-time.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 08:44 PM (T1005)

321 A new Rob Ford-related item from just today if you'll forgive me.

One of the things about this is that Ford has had his (few) mayoral powers curtailed with the councillors unprecedentedly appointing a deputy mayor/overseer when legally the only thing that can see a mayor replaced by council for according to the letter of the law is for the mayor to be convicted of a criminal offence. (Ford hasn't been charged let alone convicted of a criminal offence.) BTW, the left is refusing calls for a quickie mayoral election to settle this issue.

The other day Purp bitched in a sidebar link about Ford not declaring a state of emergency because of the ice storm. Today the deputy mayor abandoned the city to fly to Florida for a one-day family get-together.

See the sock for a quick view of it and read the very brief report linked therein to the liberal-leftist Star reporting on the trip and guess how the report would have read had it been Ford flying out even just for one day.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 26, 2013 08:45 PM (f6z8e)

322 312 Not that I know of, RWC. just OG commenting on life in the ER, I think. Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 27, 2013 12:41 AM (5aFK0) Thanks. Makes sense. Thought it may have been a comment on that Lost Prophets fucker but I looked up his name and it was Ian.

Posted by: RWC at December 26, 2013 08:45 PM (Q6HBD)

323 So what was this genius planning on doing when the Red Wolf population started overrunning the area? Release bears?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 26, 2013 08:46 PM (JpFMR)

324 So dynamite is more nature, faster. It's a time machine! TNT Time Machine! I think we can start pitching the screenplay.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at December 26, 2013 08:46 PM (1xUj/)

325 so is 2014 the year of the crash/burning times? or 2015?

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 08:48 PM (d6+u5)

326 We have had beaver problems here. 50 years ago, the problem could have been solved by a couple of kids with .22's Now, we have to hire a licensed trapper to nab them. What does the trapper do with them? Are our furry friends transported to a new home in the wild? That's what all of the do-gooders think, but no. By state law he has to kill them.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 08:49 PM (aDwsi)

327 So what was this genius planning on doing when the Red Wolf population started overrunning the area? Release bears? Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 27, 2013 12:46 AM (JpFMR) helicopter hunting

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 08:49 PM (d6+u5)

328 Google "Yellowstone Ecosystem" for examples of human intervention fucking up an ecosystem. A slow motion train wreck if ever there was one. Sorry about the previous typos. New tablet.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at December 26, 2013 08:50 PM (ojnk6)

329 Beaver tale leather is great for natural waterproof boots I've heard. It certainly makes sense.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 26, 2013 08:50 PM (f6z8e)

330

We need a penal colony for child rapers. Full of wolves and mountain lions. Like a big zoo. PPV. Think of the viewership! Hunger Games of Perverts. The wolf or mountain lion that has the most kills is the winner, retires in luxury...

Native American perp & vics = no news coverage, 'cause the MFM could not care less...

/rant off/

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 08:50 PM (QuZie)

331 316Â I like when they auto-TURP themselves by ripping out the catheter with the balloon still inflated _________ Not sure what that means, but true story - My brother Evel Kneiveled himself back in '83 on a crotch rocket. In a coma for nine days, we knew he was a goner. He was, of course, intibated (sp?). He woke up, somehow pulled the tube out (both arms were shattered and in giant metal contraptions). Ruined his vocal chords. Well that, and/or the windscreen on the bike.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 08:50 PM (5aFK0)

332 Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 27, 2013 12:49 AM (aDwsi) sucks to be you. go to a free state. like Wyoming

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 08:51 PM (d6+u5)

333 324 So what was this genius planning on doing when the Red Wolf population started overrunning the area?

Release bears?
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 27, 2013 12:46 AM (JpFMR)

helicopter hunting

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 27, 2013 12:49 AM (d6+u5)

Drone strikes.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 08:51 PM (T1005)

334 Release bears?
Don't the bears usually end up choking?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 26, 2013 08:51 PM (f6z8e)

335 Beaver tale leather is great for natural waterproof boots I've heard. It certainly makes sense. Posted by: andy ------------- Wonderful material for top hats.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 08:52 PM (aDwsi)

336 Don't the bears usually end up choking? Posted by: andycanuck at December 27, 2013 12:51 AM (f6z8e) only in Chi-town

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 08:52 PM (d6+u5)

337 Please do not mention fire. The alarm system just freaked and reporting the whole house is afire. So far not found any evidence of such but is my home security system conspiring with SkyNet now?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 26, 2013 08:53 PM (04hTF)

338 I don't know why, but this is driving me nuts. This genius looked at an animal population that was causing a problem, says "You know, there's no predator thinning them out" and thinks the best option is to introduce an animal that not only has no natural predator but is a predator itself. *headdesk*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 26, 2013 08:53 PM (JpFMR)

339 Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 27, 2013 12:49 AM (aDwsi) sucks to be you. --------------------------- To whatever extent that may be true, it has little to do with beaver.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 08:54 PM (aDwsi)

340 216 He ADMITTED that he only did it cuz the vic was black

Posted by: DAve at December 26, 2013 08:54 PM (b7yum)

341 such but is my home security system conspiring with SkyNet now? Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 27, 2013 12:53 AM (04hTF) load shotguns now

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 08:54 PM (d6+u5)

342

338 such but is my home security system conspiring with SkyNet now?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 27, 2013 12:53 AM (04hTF)

Cong in the wire! Fire the foo-gas and call Spooky!

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 08:55 PM (QuZie)

343 *headdesk* Posted by: BCochran --------------- It is a veritable macrocosm of liberal thought. An analog for everything that they do.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 08:55 PM (aDwsi)

344 Beaver tale leather is great for natural waterproof boots I've heard. It certainly makes sense.Â ___________ I hear that's what Randy Leather wears - exclusively. (were any of you guys and gals around this morning?)

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 08:55 PM (5aFK0)

345

>Not sure what that means...

Sorry, Medspeak has little to do with the King's English. Suffice to say it's a bad thing, m'kay?

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 08:57 PM (QuZie)

346 When your eyes start getting fuzzy, did you drink too much, or are you in need of an emt

Posted by: lous a girl at December 26, 2013 08:57 PM (vgd4f)

347 Wasabi says go to Wyoming! BTW. That is where my hero lives. V.P. Richard Cheney!!!!1!1!11!111!1!!!! As an aside, the people, of the USA, need to take Montana back. ASAP!1!1!!1

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 08:57 PM (u6lBN)

348 335 Agreed BC. Hence m5 post about Yellowstone. Thinking one step ahead only is never, generally, a good idea......

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at December 26, 2013 08:57 PM (ojnk6)

349 A turp is a trans urethral resection of the prostate guys I likey OG.

Posted by: Fourth Horseman at December 26, 2013 08:58 PM (KuZ6A)

350 Nothin better than Beaver Chaps. Assless. Crotchless. With barbed wire trim.

Posted by: Randy Leathers at December 26, 2013 08:58 PM (QuZie)

351 shredde - I got it. Boots from the Randy Leather store.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 08:58 PM (aDwsi)

352 I promise you the dumbass who suggested can't think past the first level. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 27, 2013 12:38 AM (JpFMR) I'm surprised that they didn't even consider the likelihood of a wolf killing and eating a beaver. Just another example of those who are so adamant about "changing the world", because they are too stupid or lazy to understand it first.

Posted by: model_1066 at December 26, 2013 08:58 PM (6O+h7)

353 My chaps are made from Sydney's Beaver Flaps.

Posted by: Randy Leathers at December 26, 2013 08:59 PM (QuZie)

354

I like when they auto-TURP themselves by ripping out the catheter with the balloon still inflated
_________
Not sure what that means,

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 27, 2013 12:50 AM (5aFK0)

-----------

Transurethral resection of the prostate. It's when they roto-rooter your wang to make sure you can pee. OG celtic american is talking about when some rocket scientist pulls their catheter out, they have a bulb that is inflated with 5-10ml of water to make sure they don't come out accidentally. That equates to about 1 inch diameter bulb that said patient has pulled from his bladder all through his urethra and out of his penis. Usually results in a lot of pain and bleeding.

Posted by: Barney Frank at December 26, 2013 08:59 PM (KlVdw)

355 Fourth - I genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, hope never to hear that phrase spoken in my presence.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 08:59 PM (aDwsi)

356 2 days with "Rocksmith".

Conclusion: Ubisoft is amateur hour.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 26, 2013 08:59 PM (JawqV)

357 the people, of the USA, need to take Montana back. ASAP!1!1!!1 Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 27, 2013 12:57 AM (u6lBN) from the union goons yes. Oil will kill off unions in MT by 2017

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 09:00 PM (d6+u5)

358 Â Suffice to say it's a bad thing, m'kay? ________ In context, i gather it means 2+2= ouch. Sharkman - still around?

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 09:00 PM (5aFK0)

359 280 Oh, thats gotta hurt. Haven't seen the xrays yet, but it looks like Pedo Pete broke his nose, lost a couple teeth, and maybe broke his jaw when he fell down the stairs at the PD. Shame, that. Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 27, 2013 12:26 AM (QuZie) When he gets to jail/prison, his squeekhole will end up looking like the Holland Tunnel.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at December 26, 2013 09:00 PM (BXLPR)

360 Best sock evah!

Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at December 26, 2013 09:00 PM (5lVZz)

361 I'm surprised that they didn't even consider the likelihood of a wolf killing and eating a beaver. Posted by: model_1066 at December 27, 2013 12:58 AM (6O+h7) http://redwolves.com/rwc/about_wolves/facts_stats.html "Prey - Primarily white-tailed deer, nutria, marsh rabbits, raccoons and small rodents. Red wolves consume 2-5 pounds of food a day if prey is plentiful. Red wolves may travel up to 20 miles a day in search of food." Huh. Seems like there's something missing...

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 26, 2013 09:01 PM (JpFMR)

362 The Ancient Beach Boy's latest hit, "Auto-TURPin USA..."

Posted by: Randy Leathers at December 26, 2013 09:01 PM (QuZie)

363 Hammer I hope you don't either usually drunks get violent with ER staff been hit, kicked and had to sit on them just to get em under control took my licks.

Posted by: Fourth Horseman at December 26, 2013 09:02 PM (KuZ6A)

364 BCochran, remember Bugs vs Tasmanian Devil.

"Doesn't say wabbit."

Taz turns page, "Especially wabbit."

Typical Gaia worshiper, gets the silly thing in reverse. Wolf is a predator, hence it will eat a beaver. Only if a beaver is the only thing to eat. Else good bye family pets.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 26, 2013 09:03 PM (04hTF)

365 not all beavers are furry fyi

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 09:03 PM (d6+u5)

366 Usually results in a lot of pain and bleeding.[/I[ *ahem* But does that give it more girth?

Posted by: Bee stung bespoke at December 26, 2013 09:03 PM (R6JT1)

367

Posted by: Bee stung bespoke at December 26, 2013 09:03 PM (R6JT1)

368 334 Please do not mention fire. The alarm system just freaked and reporting the whole house is afire. So far not found any evidence of such but is my home security system conspiring with SkyNet now?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 27, 2013 12:53 AM (04hTF)

Maintain vigilance for a bit -- it could be picking up smoldering. Where are the sensors?

We live in the 'burbs, and every so often, we smell smoke. The neighborhood was built-out in 1955, and many of the original owners are still here, and it isn't all that unlikely that one is burning trash in his fireplace.

In fact, two doors down we have one of the old-time politically-connected lawyers from when this town was pretty-"Wild West" -- and we've got a little story that we tell ourselves about how he gets the newspaper in the morning and reads the obituaries, goes to his filing cabinet and pulls the dossiers, reviews them during the day and burns 'em at night. Who was blackmailing who, covert affairs, bribes, payoffs....so every time we smell smoke, we think to ourselves that a little bit of the *real* history of Silicon Valley is going away forever.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 09:03 PM (T1005)

369 Late to the party but I did get a chance back in the late 70s to play with a case of dynamite. The brother in law wanted to dig a pond on his farm and we tested out the dynamite as right the tool to get it done. The instructions that came with the dynamite were from about 1920 and mostly explained how to blow up ditches instead of digging them. Fun stuff but a heavy equipment was what dug his pond since it was cheaper and he wanted it near the house. Which the testing showed us was a bad fit for dynamite..

Posted by: The Hickster at December 26, 2013 09:03 PM (TI3xG)

370 Alright Horde, I'm out. See you folks tomorrow.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 26, 2013 09:04 PM (JpFMR)

371 Bee stung only until the swelling goes down therefore too painful to actually use.

Posted by: Fourth Horseman at December 26, 2013 09:04 PM (KuZ6A)

372 *ahem*
But does that give it more girth?

Posted by: Bee stung bespoke at December 27, 2013 01:03 AM (R6JT1)

----------

You'll have to watch out for Girth defects.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 26, 2013 09:04 PM (KlVdw)

373

> But does that give it more girth?

More length, for a few seconds, 'till it crawls up inside, whimpering.

Posted by: Randy Leathers at December 26, 2013 09:05 PM (QuZie)

374 The sensor that went off is the only smoke detector which is in the living room.

So yes watching things. And walking around house.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 26, 2013 09:05 PM (04hTF)

375 Actually, they have re-established (or are trying to re-establish) the Red Wolf in coastal NC. I'm dubious about it. There are some large swampy areas, but I suspect the wolves would rather forage around the inhabited areas, so domestic critters are going to get eaten.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 26, 2013 09:06 PM (aDwsi)

376 And walking around house. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 27, 2013 01:05 AM (04hTF) with a shotty or a carbine right? handguns are for those ill-prepared

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 09:07 PM (d6+u5)

377 Out, night all OG be careful on your drive home.

Posted by: Fourth Horseman at December 26, 2013 09:07 PM (KuZ6A)

378 343 When your eyes start getting fuzzy, did you drink too much, or are you in need of an emt

Posted by: lous a girl at December 27, 2013 12:57 AM (vgd4f)

Depends -- if you mean "vision gets blurry", you're just tired and/or drunk; if you mean "corneas have enough hair to comb a part", call the EMTs.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 09:07 PM (T1005)

379 G'night, BC. 4th. Merry Christmas.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 09:08 PM (5aFK0)

380 2 days with "Rocksmith".

Conclusion: Ubisoft is amateur hour.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 27, 2013 12:59 AM (JawqV)

Thats the guitar teaching thingy? I'm guessing it sucks?

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2013 09:08 PM (FMbng)

381 70's was the prime time for beaver. Then the 80's and 90's came along with their 'landing strip' 'bermuda triangle' and 'full brazillian.'

Posted by: RWC at December 26, 2013 09:08 PM (Q6HBD)

382 No No. Unions will kill nothing off in MT, just look at the free market in North Dakota

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 09:09 PM (u6lBN)

383 Posted by: RWC at December 27, 2013 01:08 AM (Q6HBD) you need to appologise for being 'fur-centric' some beavers are furry some aren't

Posted by: wasabi ! at December 26, 2013 09:10 PM (d6+u5)

384 Save me from reading ALL the comments... Some of it I got, but, tell me, Brain, what exactly was this Pedo Pete person doing with the beavers? And how was Ace involved?

Posted by: mindful webworker - got French Hens? at December 26, 2013 09:11 PM (ma3QC)

385 The US is on express elevator to Hell...going down! Game over man, game over!

Want some candy?

Posted by: Null at December 26, 2013 09:11 PM (xjpRj)

386 70's was the prime time for beaver.

Then the 80's and 90's came along with their 'landing strip' 'bermuda triangle' and 'full brazillian.'>>

That only made the beavers habitat more palatable not less abundant.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 26, 2013 09:11 PM (TI3xG)

387 382 Peddle that bitch-ass despair shit elsewhere

Posted by: DAve at December 26, 2013 09:13 PM (b7yum)

388 So yes watching things. And walking around house. Any open windows? Maybe smoke from a neighborhood chimney?

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 09:13 PM (m3Cp/)

389 Want some candy? I like See's chocolates !!!!!

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 09:14 PM (m3Cp/)

390 Nearest neighbor in any direction is about a quarter mile away.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 26, 2013 09:15 PM (04hTF)

391 Arrright. Agreed that we all like beaver, Just can't decide on what flavor.

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 09:15 PM (u6lBN)

392 A well trimmed beaver perhaps with a bit of bling is a thing of beauty... the Omaha Zoo is famous for its groomed beavers in a natural setting...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 09:17 PM (QuZie)

393 Arrright. Agreed that we all like beaver, Just can't decide on what flavor.>>

Oh crap it comes in different flavors now? How much will this cost me?

Posted by: The Hickster at December 26, 2013 09:17 PM (TI3xG)

394 371 The sensor that went off is the only smoke detector which is in the living room.

So yes watching things. And walking around house.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 27, 2013 01:05 AM (04hTF)

Anna, this is The Talk. You should have one in practically every room. They are cheap, they save lives, and you can use the pattern of alerts to screen out false positives and almost instantly focus in on real problems. We actually don't have one in our living room just now (though we have one in our garage), but when we had the godkids spend weekends here I put one up over the convertible couch.

I assumed you pulled it so that it'd shut up. Move it to a bedroom and put the battery back in. Then tour other rooms with it and see if it has a problem in any of 'em.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 09:18 PM (T1005)

395 Still here, shredded chi.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 26, 2013 09:18 PM (8+xjO)

396 Did anyone see Aces twitter feed about beaver?

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 09:20 PM (u6lBN)

397 Anna ,

Had a buddy who with a smoke detector that kept randomly going off. It turned out ants had got into it and were setting it off. If you don't see or smell smoke it could be something getting into the sensor.

Posted by: thermadin at December 26, 2013 09:21 PM (W+08+)

398 390 Arrright. Agreed that we all like beaver, Just can't decide on what flavor.>>

Oh crap it comes in different flavors now? How much will this cost me?

Posted by: The Hickster at December 27, 2013 01:17 AM (TI3xG)

How much have you got?

Posted by: Mae East at December 26, 2013 09:21 PM (T1005)

399 Non residential smoke detectors in a multiplexed system typically compensate for average amounts of dust build up. I wonder if the residential models do as well. Insects getting through or around internal screens in detectors also often cause false alarms.

Posted by: smokey at December 26, 2013 09:22 PM (R6JT1)

400 How much have you got?
Posted by: Mae East>>

I'll need a sample first.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 26, 2013 09:22 PM (TI3xG)

401 My Favorite Flavor for Beaver=Muskrat

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 09:23 PM (u6lBN)

402 Damn. Shoulda changed my nic toTenille

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 09:25 PM (u6lBN)

403 Google Piers-shown-no-mercy-from-Lee for a Christmas gift from Oz.

Posted by: Next Up at December 26, 2013 09:26 PM (BI6IN)

404 391 cthulhu If the house is up to modern code, all detectors in the home communicate with one another and will alarm in unison. If older, just battery operated units, your idea works. Just be vigilant, Anna, and don't go to bed until you're satisfied. Poke your head in the attic for peace of mind. Sharkman - I saw your comment a week or so ago and replied. I think too late - you must've dipped out. If you even remember what I'm talking about...

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 09:27 PM (5aFK0)

405 Damn. Shoulda changed my nic toTenille>>

This was going to be my response until I read that.
http://tinyurl.com/mypzav9

Oozes 70s

Posted by: The Hickster at December 26, 2013 09:28 PM (TI3xG)

406 @ 400 gotta link?

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 09:29 PM (u6lBN)

407 Good point. Yes, dust will affect residential smoke alarms, too.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 09:30 PM (5aFK0)

408 Is that where muskrat love comes from?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 26, 2013 09:30 PM (f6z8e)

409 Good point. Yes, dust will affect residential smoke alarms, too.>>

And Spiders.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 26, 2013 09:31 PM (TI3xG)

410 What the hell IS muskrat love, assuming it isn't butt pounding the little water rats...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 09:33 PM (QuZie)

411 Here's Piers Morgan playing cricket...
www.cricket.com.au/video/Piers-shown-no-mercy-from-Lee

I think the Australia versus England cricket series, The Ashes, is being played.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 26, 2013 09:33 PM (f6z8e)

412 I was just scrolling back thru the comments - did you pay extra for that hash, OG? Or does it come with the platinum membership? Seems appropriate, what with all the talk of beavers...

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 09:34 PM (5aFK0)

413 Tenille says they whirl and twirl and dangle? Is that correct?

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 09:34 PM (u6lBN)

414 Old photoelectric detectors were serviceable, in that you could open up the chamber to fully clean it out. Now, if canned air cannot do the job (oily residues), you're stuck buying a new device.

Posted by: smokey at December 26, 2013 09:34 PM (R6JT1)

415 Time to find a new site!!!111!!!1!1! J/K

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 09:35 PM (u6lBN)

416 Chi, ya, I was probably zonked by the time you responded so I missed it. Please feel free to hit me with an email, and we can talk about it. I am zonking now but will be around tomorrow and on the weekend. Oh, I certainly do remember the subject. My daughter and two "ex" stepkids are in the middle of a month long trip to South Africa with my ex-wife to visit her family. I understand what you are going through. Goodnight, everyone, and God Bless you all.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 26, 2013 09:36 PM (8+xjO)

417 Shark, never saw an email for you. When i do, i will probably touch base. If even just to rant about bitches. You can catch me at ftuckerfish at the g mail place if u want. Goodnight.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 09:39 PM (5aFK0)

418 398 My Favorite Flavor for Beaver=Muskrat

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 27, 2013 01:23 AM (u6lBN)

So, random comment on beavers, muskrat, etc.

I was born in California, raised in California, I've seen skunks and possums, coyotes and rattlesnakes, deer and bobcats....and I go visiting my aunt in Tennessee, and I'm driving in a mall parking lot, and there is this large creature moving around in a planted area, and I'm going, "holy shit! What IS that?!?!?"

And, thus, I was introduced to the woodchuck -- also known as the groundhog -- a 30-inch, 30-pound rodent that can burrow, swim, and climb trees. Oddly enough, they're seldom found in western zoos and they evidently litter the eastern landscape to the point where they're unworthy of comment unless observing weather-related phenomena in February.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 09:42 PM (T1005)

419 Chi: rjp at t3ce.com for me. I will shoot you an email in the am. It gets better.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 26, 2013 09:43 PM (8+xjO)

420 I... never mind.. tomorrow beckons... Remember, thank your angels... they volunteer. z

Posted by: mindful webworker - got French Hens? at December 26, 2013 09:45 PM (5SlKF)

421 If it doesn't attack, don't shoot back.

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 09:45 PM (u6lBN)

422 I fuckin' hope so. Preesh.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 09:45 PM (5aFK0)

423 The US is on express elevator to Hell...going down! Game over man, game over!

Want some candy?

Posted by: Null at December 27, 2013 01:11 AM

Shit happens.

Posted by: predator 2 at December 26, 2013 09:48 PM (9gNQd)

424 unless you feel threatened.

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 09:48 PM (u6lBN)

425 401 391 cthulhu
If the house is up to modern code, all detectors in the home communicate with one another and will alarm in unison. If older, just battery operated units, your idea works.
Just be vigilant, Anna, and don't go to bed until you're satisfied. Poke your head in the attic for peace of mind.

Sharkman - I saw your comment a week or so ago and replied. I think too late - you must've dipped out. If you even remember what I'm talking about...

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 27, 2013 01:27 AM (5aFK0)

This is one classic case where, as Dickens reports, "the law is an ass." It's a reason to have individually-batteried units, even where it would be easier to wire them to house current -- and easy to improve, as well. If an alarm is shrieking at say, F#, then all the concurring alarms should shriek at C.

And you can still buy individual battered units.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 09:49 PM (T1005)

426 And, thus, I was introduced to the woodchuck -- also known as the groundhog -- a 30-inch, 30-pound rodent that can burrow, swim, and climb trees. They can also chuck wood and sing the Lumberjack Song ... although, more often than not, off key ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 09:51 PM (m3Cp/)

427 gnite kids.

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at December 26, 2013 09:51 PM (u6lBN)

428 And you can still buy individual battered units. sound like a Law & Order plot line ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 09:53 PM (m3Cp/)

429 Good Night, t-dubyah-d ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 09:53 PM (m3Cp/)

430 Hey Kids,

true story. my mom used to use dynamite quite a bit. no, I am not going to explain that.

Posted by: jc at December 26, 2013 09:55 PM (PlzOe)

431 407 What the hell IS muskrat love, assuming it isn't butt pounding the little water rats...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 27, 2013 01:33 AM (QuZie)

Muskrats are yet another flavor of rodent (not weasel!) discussed tonight. They can have three litters a year of up to eight young each, but that requires that they show up promptly and work assiduously at it.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 09:59 PM (T1005)

432 The woodchuck in Canada (1 minute long)...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G17Dcl8lIkM

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 26, 2013 10:00 PM (f6z8e)

433 425 And you can still buy individual battered units.

sound like a Law & Order plot line ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 27, 2013 01:53 AM (m3Cp/)

More like onion rings.....

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 10:02 PM (T1005)

434 425 - Adriane Took me a minute, but I see what you did there. Yeah, cth - i think with modern alarm systems one can still determine which detector is sensing the "danger" if you can get to a control panel. But, in your avg new construction house, code says they all go off so you GTFO. If one lived in one of these newer homes, and one were so inclined, one could disable the "communication" wire that interconnects all smoke detectors, thus making them all work as individual units. But, I'm sure that by snipping or disconnecting that red wire, ones homeowners' insurance would be null and void in the event of a fire.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 10:03 PM (5aFK0)

435 true story. my mom used to use dynamite quite a bit. no, I am not going to explain that. A cousin of my grandmother's was a well blower. Did a lot of dynamiting. Did lots of running too. Was careful with his money though. Able too retire when he got too fat and old to run as fast as the youngins. Standard Oil was his employer, IIRC ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 10:05 PM (m3Cp/)

436 Muskrats are yet another flavor of rodent (not weasel!) discussed tonight. ____________ Is this going to devolve so far that the nutria will rear it's ugly head?

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 10:06 PM (5aFK0)

437 More like onion rings..... I almost bought some frozen onion rings tonight ... The gourmet Christmas cookies - the lemon kind - are not even worth the 1/2 price ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 10:08 PM (m3Cp/)

438 Night all. Here is "Jerry was a race car driver" by Primus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XVtfWxNMss

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 26, 2013 10:13 PM (/YkzI)

439 Here's a video to confirm that woodchucks are rodents as large as cats (although they can be larger) -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lUePsAa8J0 -- dude, that just ain't right.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 10:15 PM (T1005)

440 Small ground hogs are some times called junior woodchucks, but only the ones with webbed feet ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 10:27 PM (m3Cp/)

441 Here is "Jerry was a race car driver" by Primus:

Posted by: The Political Hat

Makes Red Hot Chili Pepps look like mfing geniuses.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 26, 2013 10:29 PM (dwArK)

442 Ok, then. Goodnight good morons. I'm popping an old movie in the DVD & settling in to bed (white fang). I give you the Habitat destroying, orange toothed water rat almost everyone hates, the nutria: http://tinyurl.com/c68t2t

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 26, 2013 10:34 PM (5aFK0)

443 I only have gotten about 200 into the comments, so forgive me if this has been mentioned before, but Red Lobster's troubles come with all sorts of schadenfreudy goodness for me, because they were express supporters of the Occupy movement.

So, you know, phooey on them.

Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at December 26, 2013 10:40 PM (IlZPo)

444 Good Night, bed settlin' shredded chi ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 10:40 PM (m3Cp/)

445 Good Night, Political Hat ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 10:41 PM (m3Cp/)

446 Capybara -- world's largest rodent (South America) -- 200 lbs.

Nutria -- South America -- 20 lbs.

Beaver -- world's second largest rodent (North America) -- > 55 lbs.

Woodchuck -- large North American rodent -- 30 lbs.

Porcupines and guinea pigs are also rodents, not weasels (in case you're wondering, the defining characteristic of rodents [from Latin "rodere" -- to gnaw] is their continuously growing pairs of teeth) and they're about 40% of all species of mammal.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 10:44 PM (T1005)

447 Makes Red Hot Chili Pepps look like mfing geniuses. Larry LaLonde is a hell of a guitar player. His style is not universally appealing, but he riocks. Almost as good as Chris Haskett (Rollins Band).

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2013 10:45 PM (m22xh)

448 ...and the guy who traps behind my house regularly traps Beaver that weigh over 75 lbs. Huge. Beaver.

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2013 10:46 PM (m22xh)

449 I thought Al Gore was the largest rodent ... but ya learn something new every day !

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 10:47 PM (m3Cp/)

450 Largest stinking messy rodent? Michael Lattea of Ruck for Warriors. Liar and fraud. Pond scum. Hurting people who really need help with his greed.

http://tinyurl.com/qxkgkzg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 26, 2013 10:53 PM (04hTF)

451 446 I thought Al Gore was the largest rodent ... but ya learn something new every day !

Posted by: Adriane... at December 27, 2013 02:47 AM (m3Cp/)

See, that right there was why I put in the defining characteristic -- continuously growing rodent teeth. Al Gore doesn't have -> Al Gore is a weasel.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 10:53 PM (T1005)

452 446 I thought Al Gore was the largest rodent ... but ya learn something new every day !

Posted by: Adriane... at December 27, 2013 02:47 AM (m3Cp/)

===

cloven hooves

Posted by: jc at December 26, 2013 10:54 PM (PlzOe)

453 AlGore is an overweight fire-breathing debil-weasel?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 26, 2013 10:55 PM (04hTF)

454 445 ...and the guy who traps behind my house regularly traps Beaver that weigh over 75 lbs.

Huge. Beaver.

Posted by: garrett at December 27, 2013 02:46 AM (m22xh)

Just another 125 lbs.....

Posted by: Gainin' on Number One!!!! at December 26, 2013 10:56 PM (T1005)

455 450 AlGore is an overweight fire-breathing debil-weasel?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 27, 2013 02:55 AM (04hTF)

pretty much sums it up.

Posted by: jc at December 26, 2013 10:56 PM (PlzOe)

456 Capybaras as pets ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYGz3xqiR2U

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 11:03 PM (m3Cp/)

457 http://tinyurl.com/qxkgkzg A nogoodnik fer shere! Looked up ruck in the urban dictionary. Seems a weird name for a charity ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 11:05 PM (m3Cp/)

458 so a quick review knowing now what we only suspected then --

Mondale/Ferraro --- actually fairly decent people. too far left for my tastes, but I'd share a meal with them without retching.

Dukakis/Bentsen --- couple of schmucks. way too far left and not too swift. Maybe I just lack inside knowledge, but I can't think of any reason why I thought they should have done jail time.

Clinton/Gore --- a rapist turd who will say or do anything to save his own ass and an idiot hell bent on starting a death cult who hasn't the slightest idea of the difference between science and religion.

Gore/Lieberman --- same idiot and a pretty decent guy that is just a little too far left for my tastes.

Kerry/Edwards --- a gigolo coward idiot and a complete fucking jerk.

Obama/Biden --- a marxist incompetent (thankfully) malignant narcissist asshole who never did anything useful in an entire lifetime and an idiot that is generally a complete joke on the national and world stage.

trend line ...... not looking so good.

Posted by: jc at December 26, 2013 11:09 PM (PlzOe)

459 Adriane, what that luser promised was to backpack, ruck, to raise donations to help with PTSD and suicide.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 26, 2013 11:12 PM (04hTF)

460

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 11:13 PM (T1005)

461 455 so a quick review knowing now what we only suspected then --

Mondale/Ferraro --- actually fairly decent people. too far left for my tastes, but I'd share a meal with them without retching.

Dukakis/Bentsen --- couple of schmucks. way too far left and not too swift. Maybe I just lack inside knowledge, but I can't think of any reason why I thought they should have done jail time.

Clinton/Gore --- a rapist turd who will say or do anything to save his own ass and an idiot hell bent on starting a death cult who hasn't the slightest idea of the difference between science and religion.

Gore/Lieberman --- same idiot and a pretty decent guy that is just a little too far left for my tastes.

Kerry/Edwards --- a gigolo coward idiot and a complete fucking jerk.

Obama/Biden --- a marxist incompetent (thankfully) malignant narcissist asshole who never did anything useful in an entire lifetime and an idiot that is generally a complete joke on the national and world stage.

trend line ...... not looking so good.

Posted by: jc at December 27, 2013 03:09 AM (PlzOe)

I've done a similar mental exercise. Yeah, it doesn't look good.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 11:15 PM (T1005)

462 457

Posted by: cthulhu at December 27, 2013 03:13 AM (T1005)

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you don't say

Posted by: jc at December 26, 2013 11:15 PM (PlzOe)

463 Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 27, 2013 03:12 AM (04hTF) you're right ... ud mentioned that definition of ruck ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 11:16 PM (m3Cp/)

464 Mondale/Ferraro --- actually fairly decent people. too far left for my tastes, but I'd share a meal with them without retching.

Dukakis/Bentsen --- couple of schmucks. way too far left and not too swift. Maybe I just lack inside knowledge, but I can't think of any reason why I thought they should have done jail time.

Clinton/Gore --- a rapist turd who will say or do anything to save his own ass and an idiot hell bent on starting a death cult who hasn't the slightest idea of the difference between science and religion.

Gore/Lieberman --- same idiot and a pretty decent guy that is just a little too far left for my tastes.

Kerry/Edwards --- a gigolo coward idiot and a complete fucking jerk.

Obama/Biden --- a marxist incompetent (thankfully) malignant narcissist asshole who never did anything useful in an entire lifetime and an idiot that is generally a complete joke on the national and world stage.

trend line ...... not looking so good.

Posted by: jc at December 27, 2013 03:09 AM (PlzOe)

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Yeah so what's next

Hillary/?

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 26, 2013 11:17 PM (KlVdw)

465 Hillary/Daily Kos, Hillary/Maureen Dowd, Hillary/Nancy Pelosi ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 11:19 PM (m3Cp/)

466 Hillary/Krispie Kreme

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 26, 2013 11:19 PM (04hTF)

467 Hillary/Rosa Kleb

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 11:22 PM (m3Cp/)

468 Hillary/Club Sammich

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 26, 2013 11:27 PM (04hTF)

469 Hillary/Bill ... but prolly not. Don't think Bill could take being "2nd fiddle" ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 11:28 PM (m3Cp/)

470 So, hopefully good Christmas, Anna?

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 11:29 PM (m3Cp/)

471 Got the breakfast nook, coat 1 painted on the floor and removed 20 - 30 lbs more of rotted wood and drywall from the guest bathroom ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 11:30 PM (m3Cp/)

472 Pretty good. Spent time with family. Nary a peep from house. Get home, feed cats, unpack, and then home alarm system decides to freak out. At least it did not happen while with family. And so far nothing to report, guess need to clean the sensor.

You?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 26, 2013 11:33 PM (04hTF)

473 future possibilities --

A carpet-munching bitch supposed feminist that will ride a mans coattails or otherwise use men in any fashion necessary, will sacrifice the life anyone at any time because after all -- what difference does it make, and constantly shits on anyone she thinks is beneath her.

a mobbed up pederast with Hans Gruber morals and tendencies

a neo-marxist bitch with the economic math skills of a mentally defective cockroach that lied about her heritage to get a cushy job

gun grabbers, mother stabbers, and father rapers

Posted by: jc at December 26, 2013 11:36 PM (PlzOe)

474 Is the sensor close to a a/c//heating register ? I am thinking if you were gone, you turned the temp down, then back up when you returned ... We had a Christmas brunch with my Sis, BIL, and their family... Then, Christmas dinner with my stepson and his family ... Seriously good food! Got the hubby ... some new socks! Strangely enough, he got me some new socks as well! Gosh how did that happen. : -) We have some gear to buy in Jan, so we really didn't buy Christmas gifts ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 11:39 PM (m3Cp/)

475 gun grabbers, mother stabbers, and father rapers No need for her to create a Pubic Disturbance t sit on the Group 8 bench!!!!!

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 11:42 PM (m3Cp/)

476 And we've now come to that part of the game show where we....Ask. The. Horde!!!!!

We're in California, south of SFO. We were hiking on Christmas Day and heard a sound was being made by some wildlife, but we couldn't identify it. There were at least two sources for the sound, and one would respond to the other, and then there'd be silence, and then they'd repeat. There was quite a bit of resonance involved, so it wasn't something squirrel-sized or smaller, and it was very low-pitched, sounding something like "K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K".

I certainly don't want to give it away or prejudice anyone, and I'd really like to know if there are some deer or birds that use that call.....but the closest match I'd heard before was an African lion at the Atlanta zoo, and it did sound sort-of-like an extended version of the part from 3:48 in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVZCAQP6eQM . Thing is, we'd hear it from far away down the canyon, then we'd hear it sort of close from uphill, then a pause, then far away downhill, and sort of close up....until it was sort of close down.

If there are two talking to each other, they're clearly not hunting, though I was keeping an eye on the rock and stone inventory nearby. But it did make our Christmas hike a bit more interesting than otherwise.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 11:42 PM (T1005)

477

Two elderly burn victims from a house fire... ugly.

Sigh. This is a grim place. Guess thats why I'm here. Wish some (all) overpriv cluess doucheteens could spend some time out here voluntolding... might give them pause. Or not.

But at least some of 'em might get eaten out of the gene pool...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 26, 2013 11:42 PM (QuZie)

478 "I thought Al Gore was the largest rodent"

nope weasel...

Posted by: bill-o at December 26, 2013 11:44 PM (AWwDY)

479

I'm predicting a Bill Ayres and Charlie Manson nomination. It'll be called "The Helter Skelter Ticket"...

2016 "It's coming down fast".

Posted by: otho at December 26, 2013 11:44 PM (9gNQd)

480 It is not dangerously close to any a/c or heat sources. And been in house for about 7 hours before this happened and about 4 hours after cooking dinner. So this was a new one.

Well almost 3am and nary a new peep. So perhaps slumber I go. No writing was accomplished.

You have a good evening. Thanks to Amazon PDK now have $1.2 to report as book royalties.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 26, 2013 11:44 PM (04hTF)

481 469 Pretty good. Spent time with family. Nary a peep from house. Get home, feed cats, unpack, and then home alarm system decides to freak out. At least it did not happen while with family. And so far nothing to report, guess need to clean the sensor.

You?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 27, 2013 03:33 AM (04hTF)

Even if everything is all clear and hunky-doo tonight -- get yourself some more alarms soonest!!!!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at December 26, 2013 11:44 PM (T1005)

482 Wish some (all) overpriv cluess doucheteens could spend some time out here voluntolding... might give them pause. Or not. True.

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 11:46 PM (m3Cp/)

483 cthulhu at December 27, 2013 03:42 AM (T1005) Bigfoot, man!

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 11:48 PM (m3Cp/)

484 Two elderly burn victims from a house fire... ugly.

Sigh. This is a grim place. Guess thats why I'm here. Wish some (all) overpriv cluess doucheteens could spend some time out here voluntolding... might give them pause. Or not.

But at least some of 'em might get eaten out of the gene pool...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 27, 2013 03:42 AM (QuZie)

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My first experience with trach care was on a 91 y/o male who thought it would be a good idea to stoke his chimney fire with a can of gasoline. Third degree burns from the waist up. That was a bad Christmas.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 26, 2013 11:49 PM (KlVdw)

485 otho at December 27, 2013 03:44 AM (9gNQd) I wouldn't be surprised ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 11:49 PM (m3Cp/)

486 Darth Randall at December 27, 2013 03:49 AM (KlVdw) Dementia? Alcohol? otherwise, how the hell did he live to 91 being that clueless?

Posted by: Adriane... at December 26, 2013 11:51 PM (m3Cp/)

487

There was quite a bit of resonance involved, so it wasn't something squirrel-sized or smaller, and it was very low-pitched, sounding something like "K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K".

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Sounds like the mating call of the wild Pelosi. Be careful, because when they are in heat, it ain't safe for man nor beast outside.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 26, 2013 11:51 PM (KlVdw)

488 Dementia? Alcohol?

otherwise, how the hell did he live to 91 being that clueless?

Posted by: Adriane... at December 27, 2013 03:51 AM (m3Cp/)

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Don't know. I only took care of him once he made it to the med-surg floor so I didn't get the full history on him. Never saw any family while I took care of him.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 26, 2013 11:54 PM (KlVdw)

489 an obnoxious stupid lying leftist bitch that actually likened her own bill to a stool sample when she said you have to pass it to find out what's in it.

Posted by: jc at December 26, 2013 11:54 PM (PlzOe)

490 Seen at the other McCain via Insty:

A&E is now cancelling Â“Duck DynastyÂ” and replacing it with a new show about life in the White House. It will be called Â“Duck Responsibility.Â”

Posted by: bill-o at December 26, 2013 11:58 PM (AWwDY)

491 480 cthulhu at December 27, 2013 03:42 AM (T1005)

Bigfoot, man!

Posted by: Adriane... at December 27, 2013 03:48 AM (m3Cp/)

Funny you should mention that -- we do this hike all the time and have seen amazing things.....but usually not with our cameras handy. As an example, one time there was this whole flock of deer that was eating the landscaping around the entrance booth, and another time there was a huge flock of wild turkey invading the picnic area. So we've got a running gag that we'll see bigfoot fighting a space alien whenever we don't take our cameras. Because I'd used that very line, we were actually carrying a camera.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 27, 2013 12:00 AM (T1005)

492 probably the only reason we have all that Russian Fireball footage is that every moose and squirrel in Russia have a dash cam to prevent insurance fraud against them ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 27, 2013 12:12 AM (m3Cp/)

493 Oy. too tired to get to 500, let alone ... The Unspoken Number ... Roses are red, Pine boughs are green, May things get back to sanity, in 2014 ... burma shave! night, all ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 27, 2013 12:14 AM (m3Cp/)

494 >> ...sounding something like "K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K".-------

>>>> Sounds like the mating call of the wild Pelosi. Be careful, because when they are in heat, it ain't safe for man nor beast outside.

Nah, the wild Pelosi makes a sound like riiip; the sound of your wallet being extracted from your person by force. She can also bray on command.

K-K-K-K is the sound Boner makes, as he agrees to everything the Dems want. Usually followed by the *sob* sound.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 27, 2013 12:22 AM (wNF3N)

495 Vista Workers Told Their U.S. Health Plan Fails Test ------- WASHINGTON Â— The Obama administration has told Vista volunteers and other AmeriCorps workers that their government-provided health coverage does not measure up to the standards of the new health care law, and that they may be subject to financial penalties unless they obtain insurance elsewhere. -----

http://preview.tinyurl.com/l4vyjx8

Posted by: Baldy at December 27, 2013 12:28 AM (2bql3)

496 491 >> ...sounding something like "K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K".-------

>>>> Sounds like the mating call of the wild Pelosi. Be careful, because
when they are in heat, it ain't safe for man nor beast outside.

Nah, the wild Pelosi makes a sound like riiip; the sound of your wallet being extracted from your person by force. She can also bray on command.

K-K-K-K is the sound Boner makes, as he agrees to everything the Dems want. Usually followed by the *sob* sound.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 27, 2013 04:22 AM (wNF3N)

Yeah, guys -- I'm thinking I may have marched up a trail between two pumas on Christmas and circled around the upper one. No gates, no fences. We've seen deer up this way, and even a puma kill lower down. Botoxed slatterns and RINO bartenders don't really figure in to the narrative.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 27, 2013 12:34 AM (T1005)

497 This genius looked at an animal population that was causing a problem, says "You know, there's no predator thinning them out" and thinks the best option is to introduce an animal that not only has no natural predator but is a predator itself.

*headdesk*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 27, 2013 12:53 AM (JpFMR)

...while hamstringing the natural apex predator that is already in place, IE, us. Open season on the little critters for a couple of months, problem solved. But then it is Chapel Hill...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 27, 2013 12:39 AM (yh0zB)

498 Vista Workers Told Their U.S. Health Plan Fails Test ------- WASHINGTON Â— The Obama administration has told Vista volunteers and other AmeriCorps workers that their government-provided health coverage does not measure up to the standards of the new health care law, and that they may be subject to financial penalties unless they obtain insurance elsewhere. -----

http://preview.tinyurl.com/l4vyjx8

Posted by: Baldy at December 27, 2013 04:28 AM (2bql3)

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Substandard insurance from the government?

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 27, 2013 12:44 AM (KlVdw)

499 The only wild cat I've ever heard was a bobcat while riding my Schwinn bike; did you know that those single gear bikes can reach 40 mph?

They can if you are motivated. Here's the bobcat sound:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_FH7B0XcyA

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 27, 2013 12:48 AM (wNF3N)

500 Four below zero on the F scale and the weather service is predicting 'wintery mix' for later in the day.

As a kid growing up, freezing rain was a common thing on New Years Eve, with an occasional three day blizzard just to keep your party planning interesting.

Meanwhile the furnace is burning those imaginary internet account entries right up the chimney. Time to fire the sauna. Call me when the woodchuck wakes up.

Posted by: Wilson Slickit at December 27, 2013 12:58 AM (0Xlnm)

501 Posted by: Darth Randall at December 27, 2013 04:44 AM (KlVdw) ---- It is amazing how messed up this is. Just when I think it can get more screy, I read something like that in the NYT, of all places...

Posted by: Baldy at December 27, 2013 12:58 AM (2bql3)

502 It is amazing how messed up this is. Just when I think it can get more screy, I read something like that in the NYT, of all places...

Posted by: Baldy at December 27, 2013 04:58 AM (2bql3)

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I shouldn't laugh, because pretty soon all of us will find out how substandard (and expensive) government insurance is.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 27, 2013 01:11 AM (KlVdw)

503 497 Still lovely outside at midnight with shorts on in l.a.

Posted by: DAve at December 27, 2013 01:15 AM (b7yum)

504 Anybody know how to set an ipod back to the factory defaults?

Posted by: GMB-Schoolyard bully at December 27, 2013 01:19 AM (nkPV9)

505 OG, whereabouts are you working?

Posted by: Conservative Crank at December 27, 2013 01:31 AM (b2cFu)

506 Well, guess I finished off this ONT.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at December 27, 2013 02:02 AM (b2cFu)

507 Come on, daywalkers...

Posted by: Conservative Crank at December 27, 2013 02:30 AM (b2cFu)

508

Release the Vic!

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 27, 2013 02:39 AM (KlVdw)

509 501 Anybody know how to set an ipod back to the factory defaults? Posted by: GMB-Schoolyard bully at December 27, 2013 05:19 AM (nkPV9) You could try dropping it.

Posted by: BignJames at December 27, 2013 02:54 AM (ZNQKl)

510 Posted by: Darth Randall at December 27, 2013 05:11 AM (KlVdw) -- I had govt insurance, and they cut me off the week of the Obamacare rollout, so not sure if they'll ever give it back (even though lawyer & govt said they should have given me notice, at the least).

Posted by: Baldy at December 27, 2013 03:53 AM (2bql3)

511 The first one reminds me of Trotsky's quote, You may not be interested in war but war is interested in you.

Posted by: PJ at December 27, 2013 08:35 AM (ZWaLo)

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