September 14, 2013

Overnight Open Thread (14 Sep 2013)
— CDR M

This news isn't gonna get my kids to move out when they're old enough damn it. Nearly half of American jobs will be done by computers in 20 years.

The authors believe this takeover will happen in two stages. First, computers will start replacing people in especially vulnerable fields like transportation/logistics, production labor, and administrative support. Jobs in services, sales, and construction may also be lost in this first stage. Then, the rate of replacement will slow down due to bottlenecks in harder-to-automate fields such engineering. This “technological plateau” will be followed by a second wave of computerization, dependent upon the development of good artificial intelligence. This could next put jobs in management, science and engineering, and the arts at risk.
A Very Bad Movie Rumor

I'm sure this is just a joke/hoax/ploy, but if it is true, I think it will just kill the Superman/Batman movie. Could Justin Bieber be cast as Robin?

Vera Wang Cheerleader Outfits

Philadelphia Eagles cheerleaders getting Vera Wang threads.

Ig Nobel Prizes

Heh. Beer goggle study wins Ig Nobel Award.

The Cost Of Leaving Afghanistan

The logistical challenge of withdrawing from Afghanistan.

By the end of next year, U.S. officials say, they need to pull out 24,000 vehicles and 20,000 shipping containers, one way or another.

The Pentagon has budgeted $5 billion to $7 billion to ship all that gear home. But the final tab will hinge greatly on the extent to which the military can rely on the ground routes through Pakistan.

The primary alternative is to load the equipment on cargo planes and fly it out — either all the way back to the United States, or to seaports in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. But those options are three to seven times as expensive as the route through Pakistan.

Another alternative is to ship cargo by rail or truck across AfghanistanÂ’s northern borders into Central Asia and Russia. But the Defense Department, after working for years to secure transit agreements with those countries, expects to move only 1 or 2 percent of its equipment along those corridors, according to a senior defense official who spoke on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the Pentagon.

The northern land routes, though cheaper than air cargo, take the longest and are more expensive than the Pakistan option, the official said.

Infidel

C'mon now. I bet we're called this every day in a mosque near you. Michigan refuses veterans request for a vanity license plate that says "Infidel".

Michigan rejected Michael Matwyuk's request for INFIDEL plate under its "offensive to good taste and decency" provision.

Text To Speech Theater

It does have some harsh language so watch volume if you are at work.

Powderpuff Game Cancelled

High school cancels powderpuff football game over gender politics.

The gender-specific nature of the game also resulted in its cancelation.

Funny. I could argue all of the other sports discriminate that way as well.

al Queda's Global Network

Funny. This does not look like it is in decline.

And it looks like al Queda has declared war on two other insurgent factions in Syria. Good thing we're probably stopping arms shipments.

Microwave Energy Gun

I wonder what the range on this is. Ray gun fries electronics, disables car bombs.

Inventions

Inventions that were originally intended for other uses.

Clear Bras

Don't be afraid to ask how clear bras work.

Cat Video

Lazy cat fight.

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1 First?

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 06:04 PM (aH+zP)

2 Holy cow!

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 06:05 PM (aH+zP)

3 I can do this all night.

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 06:05 PM (aH+zP)

4 I was a bad little conservative today. Went with wife and little to the wedding of a friend. I was a lovely ceremony, held on a farm in Pennsylvania on a perfect September day. The denomination of the service was "independent" catholic, which I gather is a spin off church that retains the ceremony of the mother church but is gay friendly and ordains women. ( I don't really have a problem with that, to my mind the New Testament prohibitions against gay folks is weak-Jesus never addressed it and Paul did but twice, and one of those times was pretty clearly aimed at pedophilia in the original Greek. I like the idea of religious gay people, they have souls that need nurturing just like heterosexual people and I'd far rather live with moral people, no matter their bedroom practices. I do think gay "marriage" is a joke, marriage means a man and a woman, but gay folks should have a parallel structure for themselves, let's call it "gayriage". Gay people claiming to be married is just weird, like Eric Idle demanding that the People's Front of Judea stand up for his right to have a baby. Dude, you're a man, you can't have a baby. Dude, you're a man, you can't be married to another man. Neither position belittles the person, it's just that some things aren't possible. I can't get a pap smear. So what? ) Anyhow, we were seated at a table with a gay couple, lets call them Adam and Steve. Adam said something about "People that have too much undeserved money" and I jumped on it. "No such thing". We talked back and forth for a bit, quite cordially, and the Koch brothers came up. I asked for an example of what the Koch brothers had actually done that was so bad and was met with silence. Then Steve spoke up: "Climate denial" If I had jumped on the idea of undeserved wealth earlier, here I climbed up a ladder, took an elevator from there to the top floor, put on clown shoes and pounced feet first. "Of course they deny it, there is no reputable science behind it" Steve, who I later learned was an environmental engineer or some such, immediately assumed the posture of a cat with it's back up. He came back with "The polar ice is melting.." "There's 1 million square miles more of Arctic ice this year than there was last year." "Polar bears.." "The polar bear population is currently greater than it's been since they started counting." *sputter* My wife is stepping on my foot. "Look, what I just said is fact. How do you respond to those facts? Science isn't consensus, it isn't conjecture, it's repeatable and falsifiable. If the results don't support the hypothesis, the hypothesis has to change to meet the results. The average global temperature hasn't risen by even a fraction of a degree in 17 years, as the models said it would. Models are speculation, and they've been proven to be inaccurate. As a scientist, how do you respond?" "I'm an engineer, not a scientist, but.." And here he started to list a whole bunch of talking points that frankly I didn't hear clearly( "...CO2 at 400 PPM,..." ) because they had started doing the toasts over the loudspeaker. This ended the conversation, but when the table started talking after the toasts, I couldn't resist one more parting shot. Adam, knowing my wife is Canadian, asked her if she had bought little a hockey stick yet. I responded: "Yea, we picked one up at Michael Mann's yard sale, he doesn't use it anymore" The whole table, even Adam, burst into laughter. Steve looked like he had bitten into a lemon, and shortly thereafter went over to talk to some other people. I feel bad because a wedding really isn't the time or place, but I'm getting tired of holding my tongue in the face of liberal idiocy because I'm generally polite. C'est la guerre.

Posted by: Weirddave at September 14, 2013 06:05 PM (aH+zP)

5 I just might.

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 06:05 PM (aH+zP)

6 That's weird. Why did it do that. Honey? Anyone else here?

Posted by: Weirddave at September 14, 2013 06:06 PM (aH+zP)

7 Happy Peaches? I waited to say good night.

Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at September 14, 2013 06:06 PM (MnSla)

8 It's the Weirddave and Gingy show!

Posted by: Weirddave at September 14, 2013 06:06 PM (aH+zP)

9 So it's the Dave and Gingy show. Hi y'all.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at September 14, 2013 06:06 PM (4Mv1T)

10 Too funny.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at September 14, 2013 06:06 PM (4Mv1T)

11 Hand Over Our Children and Guns to the U.N.? At an East St. Louis anti-gun rally, the final speaker spoke out in favor of handing over, to the United Nations, America’s sovereign right to decide its own laws regarding our children and our guns. The speaker, Dr. Robert Flood, states that this “Children’ Rights Amendment” is necessary to “allow a more solid legal foundation to so-called counterbalance the legal interpretation of the Second and 14th Amendment.” More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=2594

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 14, 2013 06:07 PM (Vk2pI)

12 I'm not gonna get my tits out. The dress I wore to the wedding was low-cut enough.

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 06:07 PM (aH+zP)

13 I put it into notepad to clear out the control characters and I got.....that.

Posted by: Weirddave at September 14, 2013 06:08 PM (aH+zP)

14 Wow... where is everybody?

Posted by: jewells45 trying to keep from going crazy at September 14, 2013 06:09 PM (u25eL)

15 Como Estan bitchez ! What up ?

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at September 14, 2013 06:09 PM (0iJzo)

16 Gingy and wierddave have it going on

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at September 14, 2013 06:09 PM (R8hU8)

17 Hey, I can see my house on the Al Qaeda network!

Posted by: Barry of Arabia at September 14, 2013 06:09 PM (FcR7P)

18 You're damned right we do. Clever, attractive, and conservative.

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 06:10 PM (aH+zP)

19 Ha, too funny. I feel we've got Weirddave and Gingy in a fish bowl. Hurry, put a cover on it before things get freaky!

Posted by: Lauren at September 14, 2013 06:11 PM (ELdpj)

20 "I'm an engineer, not a scientist, but.." And here he started to list a whole bunch of talking points that frankly I didn't hear... Ah, that dodge. Sorry, it doesn't take a PhD in a STEM field to realize that if the climate cannot be accurately modeled and doomsday predictions haven't been coming true, then the AGW people are wrong, wrong, wrong.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2013 06:11 PM (Dsds2)

21 So I got drunker that shit last night and had to go over to help mom unpack in her new place. Gah!! Why do I never learn??

Posted by: jewells45 trying to keep from going crazy at September 14, 2013 06:11 PM (u25eL)

22 4 That was a good story.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2013 06:12 PM (0axsw)

23 This should be formatted properly. Sorry for the double post, but this will be easier to read. I hope. I was a bad little conservative today. Went with wife and little to the wedding of a friend. I was a lovely ceremony, held on a farm in Pennsylvania on a perfect September day. The denomination of the service was "independent" catholic, which I gather is a spin off church that retains the ceremony of the mother church but is gay friendly and ordains women. ( I don't really have a problem with that, to my mind the New Testament prohibitions against gay folks is weak-Jesus never addressed it and Paul did but twice, and one of those times was pretty clearly aimed at pedophilia in the original Greek. I like the idea of religious gay people, they have souls that need nurturing just like heterosexual people and I'd far rather live with moral people, no matter their bedroom practices. I do think gay "marriage" is a joke, marriage means a man and a woman, but gay folks should have a parallel structure for themselves, let's call it "gayriage". Gay people claiming to be married is just weird, like Eric Idle demanding that the People's Front of Judea stand up for his right to have a baby. Dude, you're a man, you can't have a baby. Dude, you're a man, you can't be married to another man. Neither position belittles the person, it's just that some things aren't possible. I can't get a pap smear. So what? ) Anyhow, we were seated at a table with a gay couple, lets call them Adam and Steve. Adam said something about "People that have too much undeserved money" and I jumped on it. "No such thing". We talked back and forth for a bit, quite cordially, and the Koch brothers came up. I asked for an example of what the Koch brothers had actually done that was so bad and was met with silence. Then Steve spoke up: "Climate denial" If I had jumped on the idea of undeserved wealth earlier, here I climbed up a ladder, took an elevator from there to the top floor, put on clown shoes and pounced feet first. "Of course they deny it, there is no reputable science behind it" Steve, who I later learned was an environmental engineer or some such, immediately assumed the posture of a cat with it's back up. He came back with "The polar ice is melting.." "There's 1 million square miles more of Arctic ice this year than there was last year." "Polar bears.." "The polar bear population is currently greater than it's been since they started counting." *sputter* My wife is stepping on my foot. "Look, what I just said is fact. How do you respond to those facts? Science isn't consensus, it isn't conjecture, it's repeatable and falsifiable. If the results don't support the hypothesis, the hypothesis has to change to meet the results. The average global temperature hasn't risen by even a fraction of a degree in 17 years, as the models said it would. Models are speculation, and they've been proven to be inaccurate. As a scientist, how do you respond?” "I'm an engineer, not a scientist, but.." And here he started to list a whole bunch of talking points that frankly I didn't hear clearly( "...CO2 at 400 PPM,..." ) because they had started doing the toasts over the loudspeaker. This ended the conversation, but when the table started talking after the toasts, I couldn't resist one more parting shot. Adam, knowing my wife is Canadian, asked her if she had bought little a hockey stick yet. I responded: "Yea, we picked one up at Michael Mann's yard sale, he doesn't use it anymore" The whole table, even Adam, burst into laughter. Steve looked like he had bitten into a lemon, and shortly thereafter went over to talk to some other people. I feel bad because a wedding really isn't the time or place, but I'm getting tired of holding my tongue in the face of liberal idiocy because I'm generally polite. C'est la guerre.

Posted by: Weirddave at September 14, 2013 06:12 PM (aH+zP)

24 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson is on the road at September 14, 2013 06:13 PM (DCC9P)

25 So I got drunker that shit last night Heh

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at September 14, 2013 06:13 PM (0iJzo)

26 The "polar bear" dodge pisses me off. How many fucking years did I live in the non earth? How many Iqaluimmiut and Nunavummiut are my friends? Ask someone who knows, assholes.

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 06:13 PM (aH+zP)

27 It's past 10 PM. I will read no long posts.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at September 14, 2013 06:13 PM (4Mv1T)

28 Someone mentioned, on the last thread, about what a mess John Kerry's face looks these days.

John Kerry = Grecks (from Fallout New Vegas).

http://scoamf.us/kerry

http://scoamf.us/grecks

The resemblance is uncanny, I tells ya. Conjoined twins linked at the face, and split with a dull rusty chainsaw.

Posted by: ʃnaʊzərSoße at September 14, 2013 06:13 PM (SM8RA)

29 IIRC, R. Lee Ermy's lines in Full Metal Jacket were mostly improv. Dunno if he was a DI in real life though, but he may have heard some of those lines from his DIs.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2013 06:14 PM (Dsds2)

30 Tobacco Road, there might be links to busty redheads (not me).

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 06:14 PM (aH+zP)

31 Arm up all the remaining coalition forces in Afghanistan and have them march south through Pakistan to the ocean for pickup, burning every village, town and city along the way and executing every male over the age of ten.  Teach those fuckers a lesson about what happens when we decide to take the gloves off.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at September 14, 2013 06:15 PM (lr3d7)

32 Posted by: Weirddave at September 14, 2013 10:05 PM (aH+zP) *Snaps fingers*

Posted by: The Beatnik Hat at September 14, 2013 06:16 PM (Vk2pI)

33 Tobacco Road, there might be links to busty redheads (not me). Posted by: Gingy --------------------- Thanks. But I'm married to a busty brunette who hasn't thrown me under the bus. Yet.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at September 14, 2013 06:17 PM (4Mv1T)

34 Fast food will be automated as soon as minimum wage laws make labor more expensive than the machines that have already been developed

Good time to ask for union representation and $15/hr, losers

Posted by: kbdabear at September 14, 2013 06:17 PM (/9IC1)

35 26 The "polar bear" dodge pisses me off. How many fucking years did I live in the non earth? Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 10:13 PM (aH+zP) I knew I married an alien, but I didn't realize I'd married an ALIEN!

Posted by: Weirddave at September 14, 2013 06:18 PM (aH+zP)

36 NOT NON EARTH. DAMN IT. NORTH NORTH NORTH.

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 06:18 PM (aH+zP)

37 I refuse to endorse Vera Wang cheerleader outfits that hide the elbows

Posted by: kbdabear at September 14, 2013 06:18 PM (/9IC1)

38 Don't droids make fast food in Japan?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2013 06:18 PM (0axsw)

39 Ermey played a hello-copter pilot in 'Apoc Now' in Duval's Huey

Posted by: Pepe Loco at September 14, 2013 06:20 PM (omBWL)

40 The powderpuff thing doesn't surprise me.  The goal of the left has long been to eliminate the idea that there are any differences between the sexes.  Any evidence of it, or any activity which might suggest that men and women are different and that difference is a good thing, must be ruthlessly destroyed. 

Incidentally, it's the whole reason for Title IX and the reason why cheerleading is not and will never be considered a "sport", no matter how many girls are injured or killed each year.  Title IX allowed radical feminists to attack male sports, especially smaller ones, push money to women's teams which had no interest or support, all in the name of equality.  Listing competitive cheerleading as a sport would bring back some parity, which the radicals don't want.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at September 14, 2013 06:20 PM (lr3d7)

41 20 "I'm an engineer, not a scientist, but.."
 

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2013 10:11 PM

I'm a doctor, not an engineer. Great way to say "fuck you, it's not my job"

Posted by: Dr Leonard McCoy at September 14, 2013 06:20 PM (/9IC1)

42 Yahoo dumped the NE/JYJ game out of the pickem. Assholes. @New England vs New York (NYJ) 13.0 12.5 12.0 12.0 DISQUALIFIED NOTE: We messed up. The spread for the Week 2 NYJ-NE Thursday Night game changed in the afternoon, affecting people who picked before it changed. To keep the game fair, we are removing the game from week 2 for groups that use the spread. Apologies for the fumble. We felt this was the fairest way to resolve the error.

Posted by: toby928© at September 14, 2013 06:21 PM (QupBk)

43 That looks like Walter White's kitteh at the top

Posted by: kbdabear at September 14, 2013 06:21 PM (/9IC1)

44 Posted by: Weirddave at September 14, 2013 10:05 PM (aH+zP) Speaking of gay marriage, I got into a little "debate" with someone over on reddit about it. The other person declared that forcing businesses to violate their 1st Amendment rights was the libertarian thing to do because everyone had to do it and that "H8" was evil and ought to be illegal and stuff. http://tinyurl.com/p6tow6u

Posted by: The Heterosexual Hat at September 14, 2013 06:22 PM (Vk2pI)

45 12 I'm not gonna get my tits out. The dress I wore to the wedding was low-cut enough. Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 10:07 PM (aH+zP) *ahem*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 06:22 PM (GEICT)

46 that p'shop of dick trumpka in the sidebar always cracks me up

who ever did the shop-work on that, thank you very much

Posted by: AltonJackson is on the road at September 14, 2013 06:22 PM (DCC9P)

47 This twerking will get out of hand and people will get hurt.

Posted by: EROWMER at September 14, 2013 06:22 PM (OONaw)

48 The McDonald's by my house already has a crazy automated cup filling/drink dispensing machine.

Posted by: Lauren at September 14, 2013 06:22 PM (ELdpj)

49 The A-stan pullout is gonna be clusterfuck squared.  The logistics aspect is something I've been pondering for a couple years now.

Just the material staging in A-stan should be almost complete by now for a 2014 pullout.  If it ain't all done by the time next winter rolls in, you're force to sit tight until the spring. 

I don't see how you can do transport force protection at the same time we're drawing manpower.  Do we plan on vending out convoy protection to the Pakis?  I'm sure that would be clusterfuck cubed.  Of 100 trucks, 10 would be lucky to ever make it to port.

I bet we wind up just abandoning huge quantities of shit or destroying it in place just like the Soviets did.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 14, 2013 06:23 PM (9MLX+)

50 OH yeah.. I'm talking so drunk that I didn't realize I was walking naked thru my house and my neighbors could probably see me. Hope they were all asleep.

Posted by: jewells45 trying to keep from going crazy at September 14, 2013 06:23 PM (u25eL)

51 47 This twerking will get out of hand and people will get hurt we'll be lucky to live through it. Posted by: EROWMER at September 14, 2013 10:22 PM (OONaw) Come on now, that's like the most basic part of the AoSHQ StyleGuide.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 06:23 PM (GEICT)

52 Obviously Justin is on line to play Carrie Kelley.

Posted by: TB at September 14, 2013 06:24 PM (8u/5i)

53 31 Arm up all the remaining coalition forces in Afghanistan and have them march south through Pakistan to the ocean for pickup, burning every village, town and city along the way and executing every male over the age of ten. Teach those fuckers a lesson about what happens when we decide to take the gloves off.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at September 14, 2013 10:15 PM (lr3d7)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That is completely medieval, barbaric, and uncivilized. I FUCKING LOVE IT!!! 

Posted by: madamemayhem at September 14, 2013 06:24 PM (S2RnE)

54 29 IIRC, R. Lee Ermy's lines in Full Metal Jacket were mostly improv. Dunno if he was a DI in real life though, but he may have heard some of those lines from his DIs.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2013 10:14 PM (Dsds2)

 

Yes apparently he was a real Drill Instructor.

Posted by: buzzion at September 14, 2013 06:24 PM (LI48c)

55 50 OH yeah.. I'm talking so drunk that I didn't realize I was walking naked thru my house and my neighbors could probably see me. Hope they were all asleep. Posted by: jewells45 trying to keep from going crazy at September 14, 2013 10:23 PM (u25eL) How YOU doin? *says every Ron in attendance*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 06:24 PM (GEICT)

56 "Amateurs think strategy, pros think logistics"

Which is probably why Generalissimo Barry didn't think it through before pissing off Putin

Posted by: kbdabear at September 14, 2013 06:25 PM (/9IC1)

57

oh my god

I taught my spawn how to make the greatest of all foods.......

a Chicago deep dish pizza

 

it was oh so damn good

 

must sleep now

Posted by: navycopjoe at September 14, 2013 06:25 PM (M1wQA)

58 Gingers, souls some disassembly required....


Nice ONT CdrM, I am a bookshelf building fool

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

59 42 Yahoo dumped the NE/JYJ game out of the pickem. Assholes.

@New England vs New York (NYJ) 13.0 12.5 12.0 12.0 DISQUALIFIED

NOTE: We messed up. The spread for the Week 2 NYJ-NE Thursday Night game changed in the afternoon, affecting people who picked before it changed. To keep the game fair, we are removing the game from week 2 for groups that use the spread. Apologies for the fumble. We felt this was the fairest way to resolve the error.

Posted by: toby928© at September 14, 2013 10:21 PM (QupBk)

 

There was no change between the Wednesday and the Final Spread numbers.  They are full of shit.

Posted by: buzzion at September 14, 2013 06:26 PM (LI48c)

60 Hey all! I just got an e-mail at work from my superintendant urging us to contact our state senators and let them know that we want them to support Common Core. I was furious! I refuse! I will not! Commie scum!

Posted by: Jmel at September 14, 2013 06:26 PM (cfFqn)

61 Clear. Cheerleader. Outfits.

Posted by: ʃnaʊzərSoße at September 14, 2013 06:26 PM (SM8RA)

62 ...Nearly half of American jobs will be done by computers in 20 years.... Until the EMP...then they'll be done with superintelligent apes.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 14, 2013 06:26 PM (Ec6wH)

63

Clear Bras

Don't be afraid to ask how clear bras work.

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

Okay, that was just mean!

Posted by: RoadRunner at September 14, 2013 06:27 PM (/KJkv)

64 The funny thing about increasing automation is that if it is allowed to work then the result is an increased quality of life and lower cost of living for everyone, especially the poor. 

Posted by: Colorado Alex at September 14, 2013 06:27 PM (lr3d7)

65  Al Catpone has fine taste in guns. If I'm not mistaken the pistol on the right is S&W M41 22lr target model.

Posted by: JimK at September 14, 2013 06:28 PM (+R7VH)

66 We call this Rise of the Machines. http://www.wcvarones.com/2010/07/rise-of-machines.html Put your speakers on 11 and play AC/DC's Who Made Who.

Posted by: W.C. Varones at September 14, 2013 06:28 PM (QMAPJ)

67 Logistics Lesson;

Don't wave your dick around if your getaway car is blocked in the garage

Posted by: kbdabear at September 14, 2013 06:28 PM (/9IC1)

68 52 TB,

or Cassie Brown IIRC

Posted by: sven10077 at September 14, 2013 06:28 PM (9jfyN)

69 And that Bieber as Robin rumor is obviously one started by some ass that knows people are pissed about Ben Affleck as Batman and just wants to piss them off more.

Posted by: buzzion at September 14, 2013 06:28 PM (LI48c)

70

For some reason the kitty reminds me of Kid Rock more than Al Capone.  That is very odd.

Posted by: madamemayhem at September 14, 2013 06:29 PM (S2RnE)

71 Yahoo dumped the NE/JYJ game out of the pickem. Assholes. Figures, since I picked it right. What a load of crap.

Posted by: Waterhouse at September 14, 2013 06:29 PM (qVqgW)

72 31 Arm up all the remaining coalition forces in Afghanistan and have them march south through Pakistan to the ocean for pickup, burning every village, town and city along the way and executing every male over the age of ten. Teach those fuckers a lesson about what happens when we decide to take the gloves off.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at September 14, 2013 10:15 PM (lr3d7) That is completely medieval, barbaric, and uncivilized. I FUCKING LOVE IT!!! Posted by: madamemayhem at September 14, 2013 10:24 PM

I totes support the re-creation of "Sherman's March to the Sea" as an exit strategy

Posted by: AltonJackson is on the road at September 14, 2013 06:29 PM (DCC9P)

73

>>> a Chicago deep dish pizza

 

Take a shit in a pan.  Throw it out the window.  Order a thin crust pie for delivery.

Posted by: garrett's Deep Dish Recipe at September 14, 2013 06:29 PM (zrs8s)

74 OH yeah.. I'm talking so drunk that I didn't realize I was walking naked thru my house and my neighbors could probably see me. Hope they were all asleep.

Thank God my wife encouraged me to take up astronomy!

Posted by: Jewells neighbor with the telescope at September 14, 2013 06:29 PM (lr3d7)

75 64 Colorado Alex,

I'd rather die than enslave the cylons...

Posted by: sven10077 at September 14, 2013 06:30 PM (9jfyN)

76 But there's no place to work.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2013 06:30 PM (0axsw)

77 I was wondering if sometime in this century pro football will be played by cyborgs

Someone suggested gorillas, but the offsides rules would be an issue

Posted by: kbdabear at September 14, 2013 06:30 PM (/9IC1)

78 69 And that Bieber as Robin rumor is obviously one started by some ass that knows people are pissed about Ben Affleck as Batman and just wants to piss them off more. Posted by: buzzion at September 14, 2013 10:28 PM (LI48c) Nope. Bieber tweeted a pic of himself holding what appears to be the script. http://tinyurl.com/nfpppy6

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 06:30 PM (GEICT)

79 For some reason the kitty reminds me of Kid Rock Bawitdaba da bang a dang kitty kitty kitty

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 14, 2013 06:30 PM (Ec6wH)

80 that's not really an outfit, it's more like underwear. Vera Wang designs underwear for cheerleaders.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at September 14, 2013 06:30 PM (RZ8pf)

81 >>> The A-stan pullout is gonna be clusterfuck squared. The logistics aspect is something I've been pondering for a couple years now.

And Karzai and his buddies charging something like $1,000 duty on every damn connex.  Goddamn ingrates.

Posted by: Bomber at September 14, 2013 06:30 PM (+Wfbd)

82 And Karzai and his buddies charging something like $1,000 duty on every damn connex. Goddamn ingrates. Posted by: Bomber at September 14, 2013 10:30 PM (+Wfbd) I'd love to see exactly how they thing they're gonna collect....

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 06:31 PM (GEICT)

83 In fact we were both so drunk hubby didn't even know he had gone out on the front porch in his boxers until a neighbor told him he looks cute in boxers.

Posted by: jewells45 trying to keep from going crazy at September 14, 2013 06:32 PM (u25eL)

84 heheh eh heheh... "wang"... heheheh

Posted by: beavis at September 14, 2013 06:32 PM (9gNQd)

85 Biggest problem with the Afghan pullout is who is in charge of it.

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2013 06:32 PM (zrs8s)

86 ...Nearly half of American jobs will be done by computers in 20 years.... Until the EMP...then they'll be done with superintelligent apes. Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 14, 2013 10:26 PM (Ec6wH) Who better? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxLFLTXk6ck

Posted by: Dr. Zaius at September 14, 2013 06:32 PM (Vk2pI)

87 >>> I'd love to see exactly how they thing they're gonna collect....

We'll pay.  You remember who's holding the checkbook, right?

Posted by: Bomber at September 14, 2013 06:32 PM (+Wfbd)

88 Give that bastard Karzai the money in the form of ordinance delivered at high velocity.  This means less to drag home, no chance it winds up in the wrong hands, and puts the shithole out of commission.

Posted by: madamemayhem at September 14, 2013 06:33 PM (S2RnE)

89 "Amateurs think strategy, pros think logistics" Which is probably why Generalissimo Barry didn't think it through before pissing off Putin Posted by: kbdabear at September 14, 2013 10:25 PM (/9IC1) You got that right!

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 14, 2013 06:33 PM (l3vZN)

90

I don't really have a problem with that, to my mind the New Testament prohibitions against gay folks is weak-Jesus never addressed it and Paul did but twice, and one of those times was pretty clearly aimed at pedophilia in the original Greek.

Okay, I have to respond to this.

Considering that the idea of "gay folks" is a late Victorian invention, it is not surprising that "gayness" is not overtly condemned. OTOH, having sex with members of the same sex is condemned in no uncertain terms in the Old Testament. Jesus never said anything about homosexuality because he didn't have to - everyone he spoke to already knew the Law. Paul pretty clearly condemns it - he refers to it a punishment in the first chapter of Romans as a matter of fact. Incidentally, I don't see rape mentioned as wrong by either, so are we to conclude that rape is not now a sin?

 

Given that sex is supposed to be between married couples only, and marriage is to be between men and women, how anybody could decide that Jesus and Paul were accepting of homosexuality is beyond me.

 

Posted by: Grey Fox at September 14, 2013 06:34 PM (3Yxy0)

91 78 69 And that Bieber as Robin rumor is obviously one started by some ass that knows people are pissed about Ben Affleck as Batman and just wants to piss them off more.

Posted by: buzzion at September 14, 2013 10:28 PM (LI48c)



Nope. Bieber tweeted a pic of himself holding what appears to be the script.

http://tinyurl.com/nfpppy6         And how does that undermine remark about some ass starting the rumor and wanting to piss them off more?  Do you contend that Beiber is not an ass?

Posted by: buzzion at September 14, 2013 06:34 PM (LI48c)

92 I taught my spawn how to make the greatest of all foods.......a Chicago deep dish pizza Sausage or spinach? And yes, it's gratifying to see this knowledge passed to the young uns, like a Knights Templar to his protege.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 14, 2013 06:34 PM (Ec6wH)

93 We'll pay. You remember who's holding the checkbook, right? Posted by: Bomber at September 14, 2013 10:32 PM (+Wfbd) *sigh* Yeah, I know.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 06:34 PM (GEICT)

94 heheh eh heheh... "Pullout"... heheheh

Posted by: Butthead at September 14, 2013 06:34 PM (aH+zP)

95 So when do we get to the stage where no one has to do any work at all because our machine slaves just build everything and do everything for us? Because that will totally not end badly for anyone.

Posted by: Lauren at September 14, 2013 06:34 PM (ELdpj)

96 ...Nearly half of American jobs will be done by computers in 20 years.... Я твой слуга Я твой работник http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ

Posted by: Die Roboter at September 14, 2013 06:34 PM (Vk2pI)

Posted by: 4 dumplings at September 14, 2013 06:35 PM (CwqiX)

98 The need for any asset that has to be abandoned in place to be  booby-trapped Is Serious You Guys

Posted by: AltonJackson is on the road at September 14, 2013 06:35 PM (DCC9P)

99 And how does that undermine remark about some ass starting the rumor and wanting to piss them off more? Do you contend that Beiber is not an ass? Posted by: buzzion at September 14, 2013 10:34 PM (LI48c) Lmfao. Fair enough.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 06:35 PM (GEICT)

100 heheh eh heh... "sausage"... heheheh

Posted by: beavis at September 14, 2013 06:36 PM (9gNQd)

101 Ogabe whole A-stan "surge" seems stupid given that it massively increased the egress logistics nightmare.

All to what end?  He had no plans to stick around and try to make it into a win anyway.

OK, the Talibs were pretty stupid and took the bait rather than just fading away and waiting him out in peace, and died in droves for their stupidity.  But we have no plans of going back should the Taliban dethrone Karzai, so all seems like a futile exercise

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 14, 2013 06:36 PM (9MLX+)

102 halp me! I don't know how many vietnamese eggrolls to order.

Posted by: le soothsayier (the french version) at September 14, 2013 06:36 PM (soKpm)

103 95 Lauren,

I don't want to have to drive my interceptor into the sun...

Posted by: sven10077 at September 14, 2013 06:37 PM (9jfyN)

104 huhuh uh huh... he said "boob"... huhuh

Posted by: butthead at September 14, 2013 06:37 PM (9gNQd)

105 jmel, our school district released a very politically correct press release about how the district is now on the common core standards with a  lot of rah rah about it. But, it really read as somewhat half hearted rah rah. I believe that, much like Obamacare, now that it has passed and people are getting a look at what is in it they are going "holy crap, this is beyond bad."

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at September 14, 2013 06:37 PM (RZ8pf)

106 Dave should not be allowed to control the remote.

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 06:37 PM (aH+zP)

107 I don't know how many vietnamese eggrolls to order. Posted by: le soothsayier (the french version) at September 14, 2013 10:36 PM (soKpm) How many leftovers do you need?

Posted by: Vendette at September 14, 2013 06:38 PM (CtSLQ)

108 Posted by: RoadRunner at September 14, 2013 10:27 PM (/KJkv) I'll make it up to you next weekend.

Posted by: CDR M at September 14, 2013 06:38 PM (OJvfL)

109 My brother is In the hospital again & has been since Wednesday before 5 am. First they said he had urinary tract infection,the next day it was also pneumonia. They are giving him antibiotics through a picline. That is used when the antibiotics are so strong they'd burn skin if they used IV antibiotics. Paul wouldn't talk yesterday because he felt terrible. Today he told me that doctor thinks it may be that frigging strep bacteria again or they never killed the infection. I have lost 7 - 8 lbs since March 30 when he first got sick. They took the cultures Wednesday & they need five days to grow before they know exactly what he has. I think it's strep bacteria.

Posted by: CarolT at September 14, 2013 06:38 PM (z4WKX)

110 halp me!

I don't know how many vietnamese eggrolls to order.

Posted by: le soothsayier (the french version) at September 14, 2013 10:36 PM

all of them

Posted by: AltonJackson is on the road at September 14, 2013 06:38 PM (DCC9P)

111 Dave should not be allowed to control the remote. Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 10:37 PM (aH+zP) Dave, be a dear and hand the remote over to your beloved better half. Merci.

Posted by: Vendette at September 14, 2013 06:38 PM (CtSLQ)

112 Dave - Good on ya. For years we conservatives have kept our mouths shut and the libturds have interpreted it as agreement. I won't start talking about politics, but if some idiot starts spouting off, I respond.

Posted by: Another fapping moron at September 14, 2013 06:38 PM (EV3Uf)

113 They took the cultures Wednesday & they need five days to grow before they know exactly what he has. I think it's strep bacteria. Posted by: CarolT at September 14, 2013 10:38 PM (z4WKX) Thoughts and prayers

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 14, 2013 06:39 PM (Vk2pI)

114 77 I was wondering if sometime in this century pro football will be played by cyborgsSomeone suggested gorillas, but the offsides rules would be an issue
Posted by: kbdabear at September 14, 2013 10:30 PM (/9IC1)
Like the boxing robots from the old Twilight Zone.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 14, 2013 06:39 PM (NELfC)

115 106 Dave should not be allowed to control the remote. Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 10:37 PM (aH+zP) Skinemax?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 06:39 PM (GEICT)

116 ...Nearly half of American jobs will be done by computers in 20 years.... ------------------------------- I've placed automation engineers as a headhunter for 25 years. All jobs aren't going to vanish due to computers and robots. It is a disruptive technology, yes, but this has been going on for 30 years. I don't see everything winding to a halt in 20 years.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at September 14, 2013 06:39 PM (4Mv1T)

117

When I was watching the Liberace biopic last night it came as a bit of a shock to me that he tried to adopt the guy he was banging. I wonder if there were a lot of gay men in the late 70s early 80s who adopted their lovers for financial reasons. Of course in Liberace's case it was a bit of a bait and switch for his lover since his attorney held the paperwork and never filed it so it was never recognized in the courts so the guy got the big goose egg in the end. (he probably deserved it though because he had turned to drugs in order to face doing the deed with Liberace).

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at September 14, 2013 06:39 PM (RZ8pf)

118 109 CarolT,

prayers...eat Carol you need to take care of yourself...

Posted by: sven10077 at September 14, 2013 06:40 PM (9jfyN)

119 BCochran1981 @ 51-
No seriously, I think I pulled something.

Posted by: EROWMER at September 14, 2013 06:40 PM (OONaw)

120 The authors believe this takeover will happen in two stages. First, computers will start replacing people in especially vulnerable fields... second wave of computerization, dependent upon the development of good artificial intelligence.... ___ How very peculiar. I was just saying this to my son the other day. Maybe not as well... but pretty much.

Posted by: mindful webworker, just reading the ol' tea leaves at September 14, 2013 06:40 PM (U13jb)

121 Karzai and his buddies charging something like $1,000 duty on every damn connex.

I'd tell'em: "You know, we could just murder you and pay $0.00 per container, right?".

Someone needs to go all Retief on his ass and do a little bare knuckles "diplomacy"

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 14, 2013 06:40 PM (9MLX+)

122 you guys dont remrmber that stupid poem, do you?

Posted by: le soothsayier (the french version) at September 14, 2013 06:40 PM (soKpm)

123 >>> Ogabe whole A-stan "surge" seems stupid given that it massively increased the egress logistics nightmare.

Everything he has done over here is political.  In 2008, he had to use Afghanistan as "the good war" to bash Bush on Iraq.  Talked himself into a corner, and here we sit, just waiting on an arbitrary date he later pulled out of his ass to cover his previous not-well-thought-out position. 

Seems like he does that a lot.

Posted by: Bomber at September 14, 2013 06:40 PM (+Wfbd)

124 LET_IT_BURN!

Posted by: 4 dumplings at September 14, 2013 06:40 PM (CwqiX)

125 "The Long Roads Home" is a pretty good classical military history joke. Xenophon and 10,000 Greeks ("The Myriad") signed on for mercenary service, were doing all right until the king they were working for (Cyrus the Younger) got killed in battle in Iraq. They had to fight their way back to the Med, about a thousand miles. It's quite a story. 

The book he wrote about it is often translated as "The Road Home."
He planted a memorial grove, and had all the veterans over for drinks every year.
You might say he founded the VFW.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 14, 2013 06:41 PM (JNUY4)

126 Obama has probably built more highways in Afghanistan than America.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 14, 2013 06:41 PM (ZPrif)

127 115 106 Dave should not be allowed to control the remote. Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 10:37 PM (aH+zP) Skinemax? Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 10:39 PM (GEICT) --- No, that would be ok. I just watched an interaction between a smug, non-funny comedian and the Prancercize lady.

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 06:41 PM (aH+zP)

128 No seriously, I think I pulled something.

 

Posted by: EROWMER at September 14, 2013 10:40 PM

 

 

heheheh eh hehehehe eh heheh...

Posted by: beavis at September 14, 2013 06:42 PM (9gNQd)

129 98 The need for any asset that has to be abandoned in place to be booby-trapped Is Serious You Guys Posted by: AltonJackson is on the road at September 14, 2013 10:35 PM (DCC9P) Wonder how much material Iran will also get in the chaos of trying to get all that material out of country/destroyed?

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2013 06:42 PM (Dsds2)

130 I am going to force feed myself something. I'll be back after I eat. My next door neighbor told me she was watching me get in my car the other day & there looks like there is nothing left to me. I'm small & a bit underweight most of the time. 8 lbs. is close to 6% of my weight.

Posted by: CarolT at September 14, 2013 06:43 PM (z4WKX)

131 I had this dream the other night that I was a patient in an all automated hospital with android nurses that looked like Japanese sexbots

It was okay until the nurse brought be breakfast ...

It was Kaboom

I woke in a cold sweat

Posted by: kbdabear at September 14, 2013 06:43 PM (/9IC1)

132 sup?

Posted by: jake at September 14, 2013 06:43 PM (CwqiX)

133 >>> Obama has probably built more highways in Afghanistan than America.

No.  Nobody builds roads in Afghanistan.

Posted by: Bomber at September 14, 2013 06:43 PM (+Wfbd)

134 watched the free preview of the new show "the Trophy Wife". It was kind of dumb. I have a feeling a bunch of the new season's shows are going to be kind of dumb.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at September 14, 2013 06:43 PM (RZ8pf)

135 No, that would be ok. I just watched an interaction between a smug, non-funny comedian and the Prancercize lady. Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 10:41 PM (aH+zP) I didn't know Dane Cook and Obama had ever met.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 06:44 PM (GEICT)

136 No, that would be ok. I just watched an interaction between a smug, non-funny comedian and the Prancercize lady.

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 10:41 PM (aH+zP)

 

Tosh.0?

Posted by: buzzion at September 14, 2013 06:45 PM (LI48c)

137 120 The authors believe this takeover will happen in two stages. First, computers will start replacing people in especially vulnerable fields... second wave of computerization, dependent upon the development of good artificial intelligence.... Speaking of AI: SPANISH SCIENTISTS CREATE SELF-HEALING 'TERMINATOR' PLASTIC http://tinyurl.com/q4zq4ax

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2013 06:45 PM (Dsds2)

138

The book he wrote about it is often translated as "The Road Home."

 

"Anabasis" in the original Greek, and the most common English title to that work, if anyone wants to read it. It is available for free on kindle, or at least was.

Posted by: Grey Fox at September 14, 2013 06:45 PM (3Yxy0)

139 Just gotta say right now life sucks but I'll get over it.

Posted by: mpfs at September 14, 2013 06:46 PM (ejMVW)

140 wont we all feel a bit better if notre dame loses to purdue?

Posted by: dr kill at September 14, 2013 06:46 PM (AFC4a)

141 Some viral video thing.

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 06:46 PM (aH+zP)

142

...Nearly half of American jobs will be done by computers in 20 years.... 

 

 

That didn't work out well for Wallowitz.

Posted by: Rajesh Kuthrapali at September 14, 2013 06:47 PM (zrs8s)

143 bsu victory over air force acadeny yesterday

Posted by: jake at September 14, 2013 06:47 PM (CwqiX)

144 134 watched the free preview of the new show "the Trophy Wife". It was kind of dumb. I have a feeling a bunch of the new season's shows are going to be kind of dumb.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at September 14, 2013 10:43 PM (RZ8pf)

 

The only new show I've seen commercials for that I have an interest to possibly maybe catch is Sleepy Hollow.  Nothing else has appealed to me.   Oh well, at least Survivor starts Wednesday.

Posted by: buzzion at September 14, 2013 06:47 PM (LI48c)

145 I trimmed the monster 12 foot hedge between the neighbor's house today. Had to dump 10 gallons of 4 month old gas into the old truck because the new gas hedge-trimmer wouldn't run old gas. Filled up the gas tanks with Premium. Then cooked on the charcoal grill. I'm pooped. Night all.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at September 14, 2013 06:48 PM (4Mv1T)

146 >>> Just gotta say right now life sucks but I'll get over it.

I know the feeling.  Hang in there.

Posted by: Bomber at September 14, 2013 06:48 PM (+Wfbd)

147 The powderpuff article was an episode of King of the Hill. If I recall correctly they got back at the liberal bedwetters who banned it by using their own tolerance rules against them.

Posted by: Serena at September 14, 2013 06:48 PM (LLbZn)

148 Awww man Role Models is on but its almost over.

Posted by: buzzion at September 14, 2013 06:48 PM (LI48c)

149 Thank you Sven . Don't ask me why I'm using iPad because its not the best for this blog. I have Gresham delicious & my favorite pastry & I haven't touched it all day. I'm going to them.

Posted by: CarolT at September 14, 2013 06:48 PM (z4WKX)

150 Any of you on Twitter should check out @JohnEkdahl's timeline for a tweet-fest of Meggy Mac's #RaisingMcCain debut. It includes sparring with one of her attack poodle editors.

Posted by: Y-not, jinx queen at September 14, 2013 06:49 PM (5H6zj)

151 >>> Just gotta say right now life sucks but I'll get over it. I know the feeling. Hang in there. Posted by: Bomber at September 14, 2013 10:48 PM (+Wfbd) *Jams brownies through the USB port for Bomber and mpfs*

Posted by: Vendette at September 14, 2013 06:49 PM (CtSLQ)

152 "The powderpuff article was an episode of King of the Hill." Further proof that KotH has done everything. I love me some Hank Hill.

Posted by: Lauren at September 14, 2013 06:50 PM (ELdpj)

153 Damnit Jim. I'm a doctor not a climatator.

Posted by: Bones McCoy at September 14, 2013 06:50 PM (NELfC)

154 Grey Fox, I don't accept the Levitican laws as applicable to me. Jesus created a new covenant, replacing the old. Do you follow those laws WRT food? Or clothing? Or defecation? If so, then God bless, but if not, then you're picking and choosing what appeals to you to justify your prejudices. As to your final point, gay sex being a sin, so what? Hetero sex outside of marriage is a sin. Envy is a sin. The list of sins is endless, and as humans each and every one of us is irrevocably tainted by our countless sins. I know of no grading scale of sin, all of us sin, all sins are equal, we're all doomed except for redemption through the blood of Christ. Saying "It's a sin!" generates a great big meh from me, one who sins every day. If person A's sin is sucking a dick and my sin is using the Lord's name in vain, we're both sinners, equally unworthy of salvation. Making any other judgement is nothing more than human vanity and status seeking.

Posted by: Weirddave at September 14, 2013 06:52 PM (aH+zP)

155 I have this fear that automated fast food machines will not understand English language orders, will put on onions when you wanted pickles, and will have a saliva injector before it charges you for a large coke when you wanted a medium

Other than that, I look forward to them

Cashiers at McDonalds only do what anyone can do, put their fingers on menu screens and swipe a credit card

Posted by: kbdabear at September 14, 2013 06:52 PM (/9IC1)

156 The powderpuff article was an episode of King of the Hill. If I recall correctly they got back at the liberal bedwetters who banned it by using their own tolerance rules against them. Posted by: Serena at September 14, 2013 10:48 PM (LLbZn) Does anyone really expect the Left to be morally consistent?

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 14, 2013 06:52 PM (Vk2pI)

157 Regarding our other table-mates at the wedding, I had a lovely conversation sotto voce with the gentleman next to me about firearms and Maryland government overreach pertaining thereto. And his wife, who was TANKED.

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 06:53 PM (aH+zP)

158 Hug to you Bomber. Thanks Vendetta. Sometimes life does feed you a shit sandwich but you have to learn how to make it better.

Posted by: mpfs at September 14, 2013 06:53 PM (ejMVW)

Posted by: Nancy Sinatra at September 14, 2013 06:53 PM (zrs8s)

160 Does anyone really expect the Left to be morally consistent? Well, they're consistently inconsistent So there's that

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at September 14, 2013 06:54 PM (yz6yg)

161 Plus I hate autocorrect.

Posted by: mpfs at September 14, 2013 06:54 PM (ejMVW)

162 SUGAR TOWN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjsh2j7W6Bo Posted by: Nancy Sinatra at September 14, 2013 10:53 PM (zrs8s) Funky Town: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_krgBgGlXE

Posted by: The Funky Hat at September 14, 2013 06:54 PM (Vk2pI)

163 Nice! I can't wait for the time when computers will do construction tasks. I will hire bunch of them .....

Posted by: Regular Guy at September 14, 2013 06:54 PM (N3Al8)

164 Not just Justin Beeber as Robin. Justin Beeper twerking as Robin. FIF?

Posted by: mindful webworker, with good news, everybody at September 14, 2013 06:54 PM (U13jb)

Posted by: PRETENDERS at September 14, 2013 06:55 PM (zrs8s)

Posted by: Townes Van Zandt at September 14, 2013 06:57 PM (zrs8s)

167 150 Any of you on Twitter should check out @JohnEkdahl's timeline for a tweet-fest of Meggy Mac's #RaisingMcCain debut. It includes sparring with one of her attack poodle editors. Posted by: Y-not, jinx queen at September 14, 2013 10:49 PM (5H6zj) Oh my God, there's a so-to-be Meggy Mac TV show? *sighs* Hope things improve for you soon, mpfs...

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2013 06:58 PM (Dsds2)

168 mPFS, this is the only way I can get autocorrect to ignore spelling. Your mother passed away this week. You have right to feel like life sucks, . There is an old The Fools song, Life Sucks& Then Zhou Die. My mother always used to say that. I had to tell my cousins that was a song. I had it on cassette & wished I could have found it on iTunes to burn to CD for my mothers stereo system in nursing home, she had Alzheimer's & list interest in most things but loved music. My nephew found it for me & burned to CD for me the day of her funeral.

Posted by: CarolT at September 14, 2013 06:58 PM (z4WKX)

169 164 Not just Justin Beeber as Robin. Justin Beeper twerking as Robin. FIF? Posted by: mindful webworker, with good news, everybody at September 14, 2013 10:54 PM (U13jb) There's just no call for that kind of shit.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 06:58 PM (GEICT)

170 Well, if Bieber is Robin you may be able to count how many times he says "Eh" in the movie.

Posted by: Vendette at September 14, 2013 06:58 PM (CtSLQ)

171 That bit about bringing stuff back from Afghanistan reminds me of all the stories I've heard over the years about all the things that were destroyed rather than returned from all the far away places our troops inhabited during WWII.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 14, 2013 06:59 PM (NELfC)

172 PATCHES
http://youtu.be/IvfsfS6NVUc

Posted by: AltonJackson is on the road at September 14, 2013 06:59 PM (DCC9P)

173 Justin Beeper twerking as Robin. FIF? Posted by: mindful webworker, with good news, everybody at September 14, 2013 10:54 PM (U13jb) KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

Posted by: The Pyromaniacal Hat at September 14, 2013 07:00 PM (Vk2pI)

174

Lonesome Town Rick Nelson 

 

http://tinyurl.com/cm3zlpq

Posted by: Regular Guy at September 14, 2013 07:01 PM (N3Al8)

175 171 That bit about bringing stuff back from Afghanistan reminds me of all the stories I've heard over the years about all the things that were destroyed rather than returned from all the far away places our troops inhabited during WWII. Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 14, 2013 10:59 PM (NELfC) We can't destroy all those caches because of the carbon pollution. Best to give all of it to the Iranians, as "incentive" to give up their nuclear program.

Posted by: President Obama at September 14, 2013 07:01 PM (Dsds2)

176 Powderpuff.

In the federal building I used to work in, there's an equipment-maintenance supervisor, ex-helo maintainer, tall rangy woman IYKWIM. Lives with her Dad.

One day a couple of her grunts were, while about some task, casually discussing the applicability of one or another football strategy in the preceding night's game.
In passing, she tossed off a quick opinion. And one of the techs said, What the hell would SHE know about football?

It got real quiet in there. Other guy says, You know who she is, right? She played for the Troopers.

There used to be a professional women's football league, and their boss was QB of their Perfect Season. For certain statistics, on a certain color paper, she is the most successful quarterback in professional football history. And some of them didn't know.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 14, 2013 07:01 PM (JNUY4)

177 mpfs, condolences for you loss

Posted by: AltonJackson is on the road at September 14, 2013 07:01 PM (DCC9P)

178 Well that's a strange chart as the older T Dawg met with a leader of the Kavkaz (Chechen Emirate) and at least one other plotter,  Faisal was guided by a Tekri Taliban leader, but yes it doesn't seem like they are much dimished.

Posted by: Jeffrey Pelt at September 14, 2013 07:02 PM (Jsiw/)

179 The cheerleaders picture... is it just me or or those outfits pretty hideous? Compared with the average outfit on the Football posts. Best in middle to worst on outside.

Posted by: mindful webworker, not particularly cheered at September 14, 2013 07:02 PM (U13jb)

180

I refuse to link 'New Kid in Town'.

I had a really bad day.  And I hate the fucking Eagles.

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2013 07:03 PM (zrs8s)

181 Dear graphics people at Fox5 News (DC), it's Navy- Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, not Navy Marine Corp Stadium. Thank you.

Posted by: Vendette at September 14, 2013 07:04 PM (CtSLQ)

182 I'm not buying that transportation / logistics will be replaced by machines. The Traveling-Salesman Problem kicks in, and not only that but the Pissed Off Salesman Problem. (I think I read that right here at the HQ actually.)

Oh, story time! This one comes from my mum. (Hi, Mum! Hope you don't read this . . .)

When Mum was just a poli-sci grad straight from college, she had failed to earn her M.R.S. degree, so she needed work. She got work routing supply-ships around the Indian Ocean. This was grunt work that really just meant "send ship A to port A, refuel, get supplies, go to port B" yadda yadda.

Mum discovered that some tankers were smaller and quicker than others. And when port A was clamouring for supplies WE NEED SUPPLIES NAO, oftentimes just a few supplies were needed, and a smaller ship was conveniently available.

She ended up using the same ships all the time. And then there was a mutiny.

Not many kids can claim to have a mother whose face launched a thousand ships to Troy. I can't either . . . my mother launched one ship to a thousand Troys.

I reckon that logistical AI will behave, at best, like a 24 year old girl fresh out of college, with no real understanding of how to get from A to B consistently.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 14, 2013 07:04 PM (d7tB2)

183 mpfs, condolences for you loss Posted by: AltonJackson is on the road at September 14, 2013 11:01 PM (DCC9P) Thoughts and prayers.

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 14, 2013 07:04 PM (Vk2pI)

184 mpfs, my sincerest  condolences.   

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2013 07:05 PM (zrs8s)

185 mpfs, my condolences to you as well.

Posted by: Vendette at September 14, 2013 07:06 PM (CtSLQ)

186 I didn't discover this, a friend on another blog did, but remember the discussion about gingers;

Posted by: Jeffrey Pelt at September 14, 2013 07:06 PM (Jsiw/)

187 Guess who has a new blog post.  (If you guessed AllenG, you're probably right.)

But *I* also have a new blog post.  But before you click, GUESS WHAT!!!

Yahoo blog posting sucks so hard that I cannot access my blog's control panel.  So you'll get no new blog post from me until those Yahoo [expletive deleted]s fix everything.  I've got it all written and formatted and stuff, but I can't post it for the entertainment and enlightenment of all morons everywhere.

Sorry for being such a loser and everything.

Also, there yellow-jackets in the house.  I hate those guys.

Posted by: Null at September 14, 2013 07:06 PM (xjpRj)

188 Help me Mr. Wizard!

Posted by: SuaveJav at September 14, 2013 07:06 PM (qQk+U)

189 Marine Corpse Stadium.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2013 07:06 PM (0axsw)

190 Anyway, I am very sorry for your loss, mpfs.

Remember the fun times, is all I will say. Remember when she made you laugh.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 14, 2013 07:07 PM (d7tB2)

191 There's just no call for that kind of shit. Posted by: BCochran1981 Well, the movie is going to be a musical, they say. Gonna revive/update the Batusi. http://youtu.be/EC8DmmeWcZU

Posted by: mindful webworker, in a crossover alternate universe reboot at September 14, 2013 07:08 PM (U13jb)

192 Dave is hollering quotes from "Full Metal Jacket".

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 07:09 PM (aH+zP)

193 No you misunderstand. My mom didn't pass away but you are all so sweet thank you. I was diagnosed with another medical issue that is also incurable, treatable but incurable. When your immune system is weak anything can get a foothold.

Posted by: mpfs at September 14, 2013 07:09 PM (ejMVW)

194 I was diagnosed with another medical issue that is also incurable, treatable but incurable. When your immune system is weak anything can get a foothold. Posted by: mpfs at September 14, 2013 11:09 PM (ejMVW) Extra thoughts and prayers, then!

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 14, 2013 07:10 PM (Vk2pI)

195

Tears of a Clown Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

 

http://tinyurl.com/3cyvkrp

 

 

Hey at least it rhymes with town :}~

Posted by: Regular Guy at September 14, 2013 07:12 PM (N3Al8)

196 ..Nearly half of American jobs will be done by computers in 20 years.... Good, we'll need all the workers we can get to keep resetting and rebooting those computers.

Posted by: t-bird at September 14, 2013 07:12 PM (FcR7P)

197

My mom didn't pass away but you are all so sweet thank you. 

 

Well, damn, mpfs.  

Things are looking up, already!

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2013 07:12 PM (zrs8s)

198

Still, sorry to hear that things aren't going well. 

 We can watch a musical?  Would that cheer you up?

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2013 07:13 PM (zrs8s)

199 Listening to Jon in TX's YouTube post. Listenable! Video's kind of boring though. [First (to say it)]

Posted by: mindful webworker, needs better speakers at September 14, 2013 07:14 PM (U13jb)

200 No Powerball results yet. $317 million.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 14, 2013 07:14 PM (kcfmt)

201 Speaking of Bieber, an issue of Men's Health claims that JB is a standard for "perfect" pecs. If that's the case, it's far past time to flee this planet.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2013 07:14 PM (Dsds2)

202 When your immune system is weak anything can get a foothold. Posted by: mpfs at September 14, 2013 11:09 PM (ejMVW) As someone with an auto-immune disease, I feel your pain. Hang in there.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 07:15 PM (GEICT)

203 Null: I miss when I could just upload HTML, PDFs and JPEGs to my Yahoo webserver. They killed that service two years ago. Bah.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 14, 2013 07:15 PM (d7tB2)

204 The tragedy is, every ounce of steel in Afghanistan is imported. Every rebar, every rail, every beam. As you can imagine, this makes the cost of constructing anything astronomically higher, in a nation that desperately needs infrastructure.

We have tons and tons of steel, in the form of vehicles and conexes, that we are paying good money to remove from Afghanistan and destroy, when there are Afghans who would gladly buy scrap from us to repurpose as rebar, rails, beams, etc.

There is a little bit of this going on -- down at Kandahar (where we built the command center that was never occupied and everyone on earth told the Corps of Engineers not to build it), they are using blowtorches to turn MRAPs into little pieces. The Afghans buy the bits and call them "gold dust," because they cost so much to make.

Does anyone, anywhere, have common sense?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at September 14, 2013 07:16 PM (QVC7W)

205 Talkin' boobs on the twitter.

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 07:17 PM (aH+zP)

206 Speaking of Bieber, an issue of Men's Health claims that JB is a standard for "perfect" pecs.

For real?!  I don't think that can be claimed if you are unable to grow at least one hair on that chest.  Joe Manganiello is the standard I prefer. 

Posted by: no good deed at September 14, 2013 07:17 PM (k55Fc)

207 We just got the first one mixed and uploaded to YouTube

I liked it...quite a bit. 

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 14, 2013 07:19 PM (9MLX+)

208 >>>IIRC, R. Lee Ermy's lines in Full Metal Jacket were mostly improv. Dunno if he was a DI in real life though, but he may have heard some of those lines from his DIs. So when I post a cool Gunny comment on the last thread, no one wants to talk about it, but now it's all FMJ, huh? Well, fuck you guys. I'm gonna repost the comment. Right after I refill my water dish.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 07:19 PM (ZFinx)

209 205 Talkin' boobs on the twitter. Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 11:17 PM (aH+zP)

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 07:19 PM (GEICT)

210 Garrett, I know exactly what musical you're talking about! I'm watching Sons of Anarchy.

Posted by: mpfs at September 14, 2013 07:19 PM (ejMVW)

211 Well, fuck you guys. I'm gonna repost the comment. Right after I refill my water dish. Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 11:19 PM (ZFinx) That water better be brown.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 07:19 PM (GEICT)

212 Regarding the A-stan pullout, I forget my history here. How did we get it all there in the first place? I remember some agreements with some of the local northern bordering 'stans for some things. Why are we not simply doing, in reverse this time, what we did originally? Oh, and didn't know about Ermey being in Ap' Now. I'll have to watch extra hard the next time I see it. By the by, that was.......is............and always will be a seriously fckued up movie.

Posted by: Walt at September 14, 2013 07:20 PM (Z4QDo)

213 205 Talkin' boobs on the twitter. Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 11:17 PM (aH+zP) Great way to increase your follower count, lol.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2013 07:20 PM (Dsds2)

214 Prayers to you mpfs.

Posted by: Null at September 14, 2013 07:20 PM (xjpRj)

215 Men's Health is a  daughter of Rolling Stone.   Jan Wenner  likes them hairless, I guess.

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2013 07:21 PM (zrs8s)

216 199 Listening to Jon in TX's YouTube post. Listenable!

Video's kind of boring though. [First (to say it)]

****

Thanks, appreciate it.  Vid definitely needs work.

Posted by: Jon in TX at September 14, 2013 07:24 PM (PKRPm)

217 207 We just got the first one mixed and uploaded to YouTube

I liked it...quite a bit.

******

Thanks Purp, appreciate it.

Posted by: Jon in TX at September 14, 2013 07:24 PM (PKRPm)

218 We had a tree taken down this week. The Craigslist jack wagons who came to take the wood woke me up at 7:30 this morning. Jerks.

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 07:24 PM (aH+zP)

219 Oh, and didn't know about Ermey being in Ap' Now. I'll have to watch extra hard the next time I see it. By the by, that was.......is............and always will be a seriously fckued up movie.

 

Posted by: Walt at September 14, 2013 11:20 PM

 

If you blink you'll miss him in the original, but, you can hear him a couple of times. You get more Ermey and more dialogue from him in the special edition.

Posted by: otho at September 14, 2013 07:24 PM (9gNQd)

220 You guys would not believe the improvements in the painting.  It now has a name thanks to Feynmangroupie. 

And stuff.

Posted by: Null at September 14, 2013 07:25 PM (xjpRj)

221 Weirddave, good for you! I have a tendency to hold my tongue around libs at social gatherings because I don't want to ruin the occasion by getting into a political fight, but when I think back to the political fights I have been in - jeez, the libs were the ones who brought up politics in the first place (because they expect everyone to nod and agree with them) and when I disagreed (politely) with them, they're the ones who got hostile and personal. They can't debate, they can't abide anybody who thinks differently than they do - and I'm the one who's supposed to feel guilty for "starting things?"

Posted by: Donna V. at September 14, 2013 07:26 PM (R3gO3)

222 >>>That water better be brown Kinda amberish. Jameson & ginger. From the last thread: got a text from an old college buddy. He ran into R Lee Ermey tonight in NoVa. The Gunny is in town for an NRA speech or convention or something. Gunny asked them about a good local place to eat, and to quote my buddy "he was really nice and sociable, much to my disappointment. He didn't even call us fucking jackwagons" So my friend got to shake hands with the Gunny. And yes, he was a real live Drill Instructor. Promoted from SSgt to GySgt at his retirement.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 07:27 PM (ZFinx)

223

Grey Fox, I don't accept the Levitican laws as applicable to me. Jesus created a new covenant, replacing the old. Do you follow those laws WRT food? Or clothing? Or defecation? If so, then God bless, but if not, then you're picking and choosing what appeals to you to justify your prejudices.

 

No, I am not just picking and choosing. There is a distinction between the ceremonial law - which has been fulfilled, not erased, by Christ's sacrifice - and the moral law, which is still in effect. This is basic Christian doctrine.

 

As to your final point, gay sex being a sin, so what? Hetero sex outside of marriage is a sin. Envy is a sin. The list of sins is endless, and as humans each and every one of us is irrevocably tainted by our countless sins. I know of no grading scale of sin, all of us sin, all sins are equal, we're all doomed except for redemption through the blood of Christ. Saying "It's a sin!" generates a great big meh from me, one who sins every day. If person A's sin is sucking a dick and my sin is using the Lord's name in vain, we're both sinners, equally unworthy of salvation. Making any other judgement is nothing more than human vanity and status seeking.

 

Of course we are all sinners, and the New Testament does not single out homosexuality for special condemnation apart from that passage in Romans. The problem is that you declared homosexuality nott a sin when it very clearly is. That is what I am responding to.

Jesus' command to the woman caught in adultery was "Go and sin no more," not "well, since there are none left to condemn you, feel free to go on sinning."

 

I will also add: The modern concept of "gayness" is a Late Victorian idea that didn't catch on until the 1950s. It is the logical equivalent of declaring someone an alcoholic even if they never get drunk, a thief just because they may desire someone else's belongings but never act on it, or a murderer just because they get angry often  but never strike a blow. That wasn't what Jesus was talking about in the Sermon on the Mount.

Set aside the modern notion that people with one particular set of impulses are somehow a special and separate branch of humanity, and you will view the issue in a whole new way.

Posted by: Grey Fox at September 14, 2013 07:27 PM (3Yxy0)

224 Good for you for pulling a Breitbart, BTW.

Posted by: Grey Fox at September 14, 2013 07:30 PM (3Yxy0)

225 How did we get it all there in the first place?

Slowly, and at great cost.   The thing is there's like 13+ years of inbound accretion laying around. 

Unless the job is well underway at this point, there's no way its gonna be done by 2014. 

At the same time, there's gonna still be ongoing flow inbound too to support force protection, convoy security, and ongoing maintenance needs during withdrawal.

Its not like we just close the in valve in open the drain valve.  During the occupation buildup it was mostly just an open in valve, with little draining to be done. 

In a place as big as A-stan, you can just kinda shove the busted shit needing depot maintenance aside and not think about it much if you didn't need to.  Now we're gonna have piles of semi-functional, semi-stripped, kinda whupped, but not quite hopeless shit laying around we don't want the Taliban to get its hands on. 

You can pack a lotta crap in a garage over 13 years.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 14, 2013 07:31 PM (9MLX+)

226 OT Innocent bystander shot and killed by NYPD in Times Square. This lady...https://twitter.com/knesbeth...was there and watched it. Pics up. She has a pic of the guy dead on the ground.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 07:31 PM (GEICT)

227 Rennaisance Faire tomorrow. I thought I said I wasn't going to get my tits out.

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 07:32 PM (aH+zP)

228 "Gunny asked them about a good local place to eat, and to quote my buddy "he was really nice and sociable, much to my disappointment. He didn't even call us fucking jackwagons" I'd be a little disappointed too. Ermey is a screaming, cussing, take-no-shit, blood-and-guts, get shit done major Mo Fo in my own mind. If he didn't call me a jackwagon I wouldn't know how to respond. And I'd be depressed for the rest of my life. The rest of my life.

Posted by: Walt at September 14, 2013 07:32 PM (Z4QDo)

229 "Innocent bystander shot and killed by NYPD in Times Square. " Well, I'm having an outlaw country kind of night, so let me respond with a sneer towards all the jackasses who like to tell us that only trained professional officers should have a gun.

Posted by: Lauren at September 14, 2013 07:35 PM (ELdpj)

230 They ought to burn all the stuff up in A-Stan.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2013 07:35 PM (0axsw)

231 204 We have tons and tons of steel, in the form of vehicles and conexes, that we are paying good money to remove from Afghanistan and destroy, when there are Afghans who would gladly buy scrap from us to repurpose as rebar, rails, beams, etc. Yeah. You gotta be careful with that. A few years ago, Euros were being shipped to China for scrap. The EU figured that pushing the center out of the coins was enough to destroy them. The Chinese figured out hiw to push the centers vack in and were shipping them back as money.

Posted by: Anachronda at September 14, 2013 07:37 PM (gJeEJ)

232 >>>Rennaisance Faire tomorrow. I thought I said I wasn't going to get my tits out. We're going in two weeks. One of my favorite days of the year. A good excuse for day drinking. Plus, axe throwing. Plus boobehs in corsets.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 07:37 PM (ZFinx)

233 I hate you, zombie Steve Jobs!

Posted by: Anachronda at September 14, 2013 07:38 PM (gJeEJ)

234 I just put a new plastic garbage bag in the kitchen garbage bin and noticed the bag had "Warning: Holding bag over mouth or nose may be fatal to infants" imprinted on it. Just think - some 'tard let their baby play with a plastic garbage bag, the baby died and the 'tard sued the makers, so we now all have to be warned to keep plastic trash bags away from the mouths and noses of infants. Yeah, I know most products have stupid warnings now - they still get to me every now and then.

Posted by: Donna V. at September 14, 2013 07:40 PM (R3gO3)

235 Seems I was in the other room beating up on Mom's piano the other night when the visiting relative launched into praise of the speech Our President gave on Syria. The conversation had moved on by the time I got back in the kitchen. Thank you, Lord, for propitious timing. "Wife," I said to the wife, "why is your tongue bleeding?" :heh:

Posted by: mindful webworker, relatively isolated at September 14, 2013 07:40 PM (U13jb)

236 I'm not really 'up' for cheerleaders with Wang

Posted by: Danger, Carlos Danger - Agent Double O Naught at September 14, 2013 07:41 PM (Pr6hk)

237 Where the fuck is everyone? I'm bored, someone entertain me. Although the bottle of really expensive whiskey that flung itself out of the cabinet and kerploded all over the room earlier was entertaining. For certain values of entertaining.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 07:41 PM (ZFinx)

238 The old warlords got pretty creative about getting a lot of abandoned Soviet junk back in service. 

This is a part of the world where there's people who can build a functioning AK-47 knock off with hand tools, from scratch.  I remember back in the 80's reading an article (maybe in SOF?) on those dudes.  Impressive craftsmanship.

Leave those guys anything, anything at all, to work with and they'll make it go again.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 14, 2013 07:42 PM (9MLX+)

239 mpfs, my condolences, also. I've been there. It's tough.

Posted by: Donna V. at September 14, 2013 07:43 PM (R3gO3)

240 Posted by: Grey Fox at September 14, 2013 11:27 PM (3Yxy0) I don't think there is any such thing as sin. Sin demands that God or something else greater than Man exists, and it is there to judge us. There is no evidence to support this belief. Humans are intelligent self-aware animals that exhibit a range of behaviors; some are good, some are bad. Good and bad are worthy concepts and we are equipped to define them and distinguish between them, but sin introduces a bias that creates more harm than good.

Posted by: eman at September 14, 2013 07:43 PM (AO9UG)

241 OT:  Could someone please tell Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO that he is about 150 pounds to heavy to play Charles Bronson, and could he please go and get his own look already?


Thank you.

Posted by: Mikey NTH Spittle-Flecked Diatribes Now 25% Off! at September 14, 2013 07:43 PM (gmoEG)

242 Sigh. My kids call me a jackwagon.

Posted by: Low Information Voter at September 14, 2013 07:43 PM (Dwehj)

243 I'm not really 'up' for cheerleaders with Wang Posted by: Danger, Carlos Danger - Agent Double O Naught at September 14, 2013 11:41 PM (Pr6hk) H8er!!1! We'll get you for that!

Posted by: California Legislator at September 14, 2013 07:45 PM (Vk2pI)

244 What's up DC? We could always start posting inappropriate pics of really hot women in order to liven things up...

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 07:45 PM (GEICT)

245 "In a place as big as A-stan, you can just kinda shove the busted shit needing depot maintenance aside and not think about it much if you didn't need to. Now we're gonna have piles of semi-functional, semi-stripped, kinda whupped, but not quite hopeless shit laying around we don't want the Taliban to get its hands on. " I get what you're saying. Undoing what took over a decade to do can hurt. Aircraft? Out. Armor? Out, but at cost. Small arms, ammo? Out. Then we get to vehicles, stores, etc. Yeah. I remember hearing stories after the first Gulf War about the shear numbers of truck, Humvees, trailers, and, other stuff that was left to rot in the desert as it was deemed more expensive to move than return. Make sense. My uncle in WW2 had stories about when shipping back home from the Pacific seeing brand new trucks and bulldozers driven off ships into the ocean as they had no place to go. Unneeded commodities were sent to the bottom to make room for personnel headed back to the states.

Posted by: Walt at September 14, 2013 07:45 PM (Z4QDo)

246 If Bieber has perfect pecs, you'd think he'd be able to throw a damn baseball. He threw the first pitch out at some ballgame a while back and it was almost as pitiful as Obama's sad-assed ceremonial pitch.

Posted by: Donna V. at September 14, 2013 07:45 PM (R3gO3)

247 At least I think they're my kids.

Posted by: Low Information Voter at September 14, 2013 07:46 PM (Dwehj)

248 Cat fight, pause, lick, lick and stare into space at clear bras; and then scrabble to make it big on the currency exchange punting USD versus OZ and Canucks. We are in a weird wolrd where Putin bitch slaps the POTUS, SOS, and SOD with both hands tied behind the onion domes of the Kremlin.

Posted by: angel with a sword at September 14, 2013 07:46 PM (hpgw1)

249 My job will be safe, I repair machines that fuck up.

Posted by: TC at September 14, 2013 07:47 PM (ygAxO)

250 eman: I don't think there is any such thing as sin. Sin demands that God or something else greater than Man exists, and it is there to judge us.

I'm not sure about sin, but I do believe in hubris. And Nemesis is one bitch you don't want to leave the toilet seat up around, IYKWIM

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 14, 2013 07:47 PM (d7tB2)

251 >>>We could always start posting inappropriate pics of really hot women in order to liven things up... Hmm. That idea is intriguing to me. Perchance you have a newsletter, or possibly a club for married gentlemen who still appreciate the beauty of the female form?

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 07:48 PM (ZFinx)

252 246 If Bieber has perfect pecs, you'd think he'd be able to throw a damn baseball. He threw the first pitch out at some ballgame a while back and it was almost as pitiful as Obama's sad-assed ceremonial pitch. Its all been down shit slick hill since baseball was no longer the national sport.

Posted by: angel with a sword at September 14, 2013 07:48 PM (hpgw1)

253 but I'm getting tired of holding my tongue in the face of liberal idiocy because I'm generally polite. C'est la guerre. Posted by: Weirddave You're probably gone already, but good show. Happy warriors still get to stick people with sharp, pointy retort.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 14, 2013 07:48 PM (oIiZv)

254 I used to repair machines that fucked up. Then, the got rid of the machines.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 14, 2013 07:51 PM (l3vZN)

255 or possibly a club for married gentlemen who still appreciate the beauty of the female form? Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 11:48 PM (ZFinx) Amazingly, I was at one point the Marginally Honorable Chairman of just such a club. Not really sure what happened there.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 07:52 PM (GEICT)

256 "This is a part of the world where there's people who can build a functioning AK-47 knock off with hand tools, from scratch. I remember back in the 80's reading an article (maybe in SOF?) on those dudes. Impressive craftsmanship." True. There are some smart sorts in that part of the world. Don't know about AKs, but, I do know about Enfields and one of the things you look for when buying a "questionable" Enfield are the marks of a "Khyber." Khybers are Enfield copies make in India/Pak/A'stan. Made generally out of scrap metal melted down and re-purposed. Might be made out of railroad line or melted down pots and pans. Metallurgy is highly questionable. All that said, some Khybers function perfectly well for decades while others can grenade on you after a few shots. You takes your chances......

Posted by: Walt at September 14, 2013 07:52 PM (Z4QDo)

257

"I don't think there is any such thing as sin. Sin demands that God or something else greater than Man exists, and it is there to judge us. There is no evidence to support this belief. Humans are intelligent self-aware animals that exhibit a range of behaviors; some are good, some are bad. Good and bad are worthy concepts and we are equipped to define them and distinguish between them, but sin introduces a bias that creates more harm than good."

 

Preach it, brother! Yeah, those ignorant Christianists tell us things like woe to those who lead children astray, it's better for them to have never been born, but hey, that introduces a bias that creates more harm than good. 'Cause what's a little mild pedophilia?

Posted by: Richard Dawkins at September 14, 2013 07:53 PM (R3gO3)

258 Posted by: mindful webworker, relatively isolated at September 14, 2013 11:40 PM (U13jb)

My uncle and his uber-liberal wife are down from Washington state (she's originally from Tacoma).  Everyone in the family is bitching about them being around, as my aunt is leftist not only in thought, but also in action and demands that everyone accommodate her whims.  Her latest thing is trying to scandalize "all those rednecks down there" by loudly announcing that my cousin is a lesbian...something we've all known for 30 years.  Fortunately, I live 7.5 hours away, so I don't have to deal with it.

Posted by: Country Singer at September 14, 2013 07:56 PM (LGM9b)

259

angel with a sword at September 14, 2013 11:48 PM (hpgw1)

 

 I agree, angel. Think of the America of Ruth, DiMaggio, Musial Aaron and Mantle. Gone downhill since the '60's.

Posted by: Richard Dawkins at September 14, 2013 08:00 PM (R3gO3)

260 Her latest thing is trying to scandalize "all those rednecks down there" by loudly announcing that my cousin is a lesbian...something we've all known for 30 years. Fortunately, I live 7.5 hours away, so I don't have to deal with it. Posted by: Country Singer at September 14, 2013 11:56 PM (LGM9b) To which I would immediately respond "AND YOU'RE A RUDE AND OBNOXIOUS BITCH"......"What? I thought we were yelling out obvious statements that everyone already knows?"

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 08:01 PM (GEICT)

261 +1 to BCochran My response would probably be to obnoxiously play up my redneckism. I hope she likes Jerry Jeff Walker.

Posted by: Lauren at September 14, 2013 08:02 PM (ELdpj)

262 Howdy, y'all!

Posted by: cthulhu at September 14, 2013 08:03 PM (T1005)

263 Oh, hell, off sock.

Posted by: Donna V. at September 14, 2013 08:03 PM (R3gO3)

264 Weirddave, if you're still here, (I'm late as always) have you heard Dennis Prager's view of taking the lord's name in vain? It's not how we do it, it's people like the Fort Hood guy and other terrorists, who do bad in the name of their god. Alahu Akbar is the best example, but I think it would also apply to many other crimes, eg, not getting medical treatment for your kids, bombing abortion clinics, etc.

Posted by: Kalneva at September 14, 2013 08:04 PM (XyrkB)

265 "all those rednecks down there" by loudly announcing that my cousin is a lesbian...something we've all known for 30 years. I think I would be tempted to say "No!!!, really??! Thanks so much for that bit of enlightenment all the way from Washington State. We rednecks will be sure to get the wood and matches out for Cousin ____ before we leave" but that's just me. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2013 08:04 PM (IFvPu)

266 >>>Not really sure what happened there. Haven't had a quorum in a minute. I think it's because Bannion's nurse makes him turn the computer off before the ONT really gets rolling.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 08:06 PM (ZFinx)

267 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 15, 2013 12:01 AM (GEICT)

The best comeuppance was many years ago.  She was informing us of how backward and inept Southern schools were in comparison to Washington when her oldest son walked into the room with my brother's science text book.

"Look Mom!  Charles' class uses the same book we use in my class!" 

He was in 8th grade at the time, my brother in 6th.

The stammering was priceless.

Posted by: Country Singer at September 14, 2013 08:06 PM (LGM9b)

268 That story makes me happy, Country Singer.

Posted by: Lauren at September 14, 2013 08:08 PM (ELdpj)

269 The best comeuppance was many years ago. She was informing us of how backward and inept Southern schools were in comparison to Washington when her oldest son walked into the room with my brother's science text book. "Look Mom! Charles' class uses the same book we use in my class!" He was in 8th grade at the time, my brother in 6th. The stammering was priceless. Posted by: Country Singer at September 15, 2013 12:06 AM (LGM9b) God is a funny funny guy. Gotta love it.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 08:08 PM (GEICT)

270 Haven't had a quorum in a minute. I think it's because Bannion's nurse makes him turn the computer off before the ONT really gets rolling. Posted by: DC in Towson at September 15, 2013 12:06 AM (ZFinx) And EC is rarely around at night...and the same with CBD.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 08:09 PM (GEICT)

271 worked hard with my son guiding him on installing a lift kit on his Toyota. Bones and hands hurt tonight but it was worth it. Beautiful day and watching him all grown up.....I think it all warrants a glass of sherry as a nightcap.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 14, 2013 08:10 PM (l3vZN)

272 And for the record, yes, she is a Volvo owner.  Won't drive anything else.  Also, there's no way she'd be able to fit her fat ass in a Prius.

Posted by: Country Singer at September 14, 2013 08:10 PM (LGM9b)

273 "I don't think there is any such thing as sin. Sin demands that God or something else greater than Man exists, and it is there to judge us. There is no evidence to support this belief. Humans are intelligent self-aware animals that exhibit a range of behaviors; some are good, some are bad. Good and bad are worthy concepts and we are equipped to define them and distinguish between them, but sin introduces a bias that creates more harm than good." I am no rabid Christian. I got kicked off of Free Republic if that helps frame this pic any. However, man is different from the rest of the animal kingdom. Tell me of any animal that feels shame. Tell me of any animal that feels love. Tell me of any animal the feels remorse, pitty, hate, or a sense of humor. They don't exist. We humans have been granted with an array of senses and emotions that don't exist in the greater animal world. Where did it come from? I don't know. The vast majority of animals exist to simply ensure their own existence, be it at the expense of other animals, fine. I ranch and I've never known a cow who thought about the well-being of another cow. A pig will eat another pig if they are hungry and the other pig seems weak to them. Humans are truly unique in this respect. They have an understanding of other humans that no other animal, insect, or plant had. That sense was introduced into us by "something." GOD. Aliens. I don't know. But somewhere we acquired an entire range of emotions and intellect that no other living matter that we know of ever has or is even close to getting. Sin? As defined by the seriously questionable Bible? Yeah, holes there. Sin as in how normal human beings interact with other normal human beings. I don't think so. When the normal human being runs into the abnormal human being, well, then things can change.

Posted by: Walt at September 14, 2013 08:11 PM (Z4QDo)

274 >>>The stammering was priceless. It always is. But I'm sure it didn't cause any re-evaluation of her bigotry. Because you're just a dumb hick, and she is an enlightened progressive who Believes in Causes.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 08:11 PM (ZFinx)

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2013 08:12 PM (0axsw)

276 Posted by: DC in Towson at September 15, 2013 12:11 AM (ZFinx)

Spot on assessment.

Posted by: Country Singer at September 14, 2013 08:13 PM (LGM9b)

277 I, too, am tired of always remaining politely quiet when libtards start spewing their nonsensical, rote talking points. One of the strategies that works, when you're at a wedding or something like that, where you don't want to be pooping in the punch bowl, is to just be quiet quiet, when it's obvious you're expected to chime in on whatever the fuck. They look at you for approval, and you give them a stare, and then glance away. Like they're talking about pedophilia, or something. They always back down, because they're so used to the echo chamber. Granted this doesn't solve anything, just for times when you don't want a scene.

Posted by: Kalneva at September 14, 2013 08:15 PM (XyrkB)

278 This may be the slowest ONT I've ever seen.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 08:15 PM (GEICT)

279 >>>This may be the slowest ONT I've ever seen. Well, make witht the boobeh pics already. I tried, but the iPad hates me. Also, lazy.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 08:17 PM (ZFinx)

280 This may be the slowest ONT I've ever seen. Needs more speed holes.

Posted by: Homer Simpson at September 14, 2013 08:18 PM (GD6xi)

281 Yeah, it's pokey around here tonight. Normally, I have a hard time keeping up with things - refresh, and there are 20 new comments.

Posted by: Donna V. at September 14, 2013 08:18 PM (R3gO3)

282 Quick, someone say something hastily thought out and controversial.

Posted by: Lauren at September 14, 2013 08:19 PM (ELdpj)

283 And where the fuck is Peaches?

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 08:19 PM (ZFinx)

284 Lmao DC. Alright. Lemme see...what to choose, what to choose... Ok, here we go...http://tinyurl.com/pto4rdu

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 08:20 PM (GEICT)

285 Hi Horde!   Sorry it's slow here tonight.

Posted by: Steck at September 14, 2013 08:20 PM (RL7U1)

286 And where the fuck is Peaches? Posted by: DC in Towson at September 15, 2013 12:19 AM (ZFinx) Probably passed out on a pile of Nattie Lite cans.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 08:20 PM (GEICT)

287 237 Where the fuck is everyone? I'm bored, someone entertain me. Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 11:41 PM (ZFinx) --- Sorry. Getting my garb together. I need a new corset. The one I bought around Valentine's Day isn't appropriate for wear outside of the house.

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 08:21 PM (aH+zP)

288

Probably passed out on a pile of Nattie Lite cans.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 15, 2013 12:20 AM (GEICT)


... with a Parlie.

Posted by: Steck at September 14, 2013 08:22 PM (RL7U1)

289 I feel like I'm at a party and I need to suggest party games because everyone is standing around looking at their shoes. Celebrity doppelgangers I'll start. I look disturbingly like Emily Mortimer.

Posted by: Lauren at September 14, 2013 08:22 PM (ELdpj)

290 What's everyone drinking tonight?  Got a 2 oz. glass of Grand Marnier here.  No, you can't have any.

Posted by: Steck at September 14, 2013 08:23 PM (RL7U1)

291 IÂ’m glad I missed that too. I read one rather long response & I though IÂ’m turing computer of & going to do something else. LeÂ’s lighten up the ONT.

Posted by: CarolT at September 14, 2013 08:23 PM (z4WKX)

292 I get tired of the assumption liberals always make that if they like you and you seem educated, you must be liberal too. They've convinced themselves that they are the only smart, nice people in the country and conservatives are either hanging out on the Koch yacht drinking cocktails made of the blood of minorities or else they look like the People of Walmart.

Posted by: Donna V. at September 14, 2013 08:24 PM (R3gO3)

293 >>>Quick, someone say something hastily thought out and controversial. I like tats on a hot woman. Let it burn. Pot should be legal. I've decided to quit drinking. Archer is a crappy tv show. Rubio for president! Ready...go!

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 08:24 PM (ZFinx)

294 282 Quick, someone say something hastily thought out and controversial. Posted by: Lauren at September 15, 2013 12:19 AM (ELdpj) The Mass Effect 3 ending wasn't *that* bad...

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2013 08:25 PM (Dsds2)

295 I like tats on a hot woman. Posted by: DC in Towson at September 15, 2013 12:24 AM (ZFinx) You mean like so? http://tinyurl.com/q4wsfkr Me too.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 08:26 PM (GEICT)

296 Quick, someone say something hastily thought out and controversial. Posted by: Lauren at September 15, 2013 12:19 AM (ELdpj) I'm angry at my parents so there is no God!!d

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 08:27 PM (GEICT)

297 Posted by: mpfs at September 14, 2013 11:09 PM (ejMVW) IÂ’m sorry, I thought you posted something Monday that your hippie Mother passed away. I shouldnÂ’t read here when IÂ’m at work. I started it tonight. Im sorry you have another incurable condition. Carol

Posted by: CarolT at September 14, 2013 08:27 PM (z4WKX)

298 Ok.... I'll play.  I look like William Hurt.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at September 14, 2013 08:27 PM (jucos)

299 Celebrity doppelgangers

I'll start. I look disturbingly like Emily Mortimer. Posted by: Lauren at September 15, 2013 12:22 AM

The guys back in the shop all think I look like Conway Twitty

I don't get it, either

Posted by: AltonJackson is on the road at September 14, 2013 08:28 PM (DCC9P)

300 >>>You mean like so? brb. (nine seconds later) Ok, I'm back. Yeah, she's...ok. I guess.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 08:28 PM (ZFinx)

301 I look like Alan Hale Jr.

Posted by: Janet Napolitano at September 14, 2013 08:29 PM (0axsw)

302 294 282 Quick, someone say something hastily thought out and controversial. Posted by: Lauren at September 15, 2013 12:19 AM (ELdpj) Boobehs aren't all that and a bag of potato chips...

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2013 08:29 PM (Dsds2)

303 Someone once told me I look like the wife from "The Girl With The Pearl Earring;" another time, it was Samantha Bee. I don't know who that is, so I had to look her up. NO.

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 08:29 PM (aH+zP)

304 Here's a ONT question - I ate a Five Guys cheeseburger tonight and damn it was tasty. It's going to be my go-to place for big sloppy greasy burgers from now on - goodbye, MickeyD's. I've heard people say Five Guys burgers are similiar to In-And-Out burgers on the West Coast but I've never had an In-And-Out burger. If you've had both, which one is better?

Posted by: Donna V. at September 14, 2013 08:29 PM (R3gO3)

305 Wow.  Things I wished could happen.  Things that happened anyway.  I guess I am the 80s unless I'm lucky and die soon

Posted by: Null at September 14, 2013 08:29 PM (xjpRj)

306 "The guys back in the shop all think I look like Conway Twitty" Oooh which hairstyle? Fro or Elvis?

Posted by: Lauren at September 14, 2013 08:29 PM (ELdpj)

307 Posted by: Lauren at September 15, 2013 12:22 AM (ELdpj)


Evidently, I look like a skinnier Daryle Singletary.

Posted by: Country Singer at September 14, 2013 08:30 PM (LGM9b)

308 Donna V. That's what is so infuriating! You nailed it. If you're smart, you must be a democrat! Ugh. Although, it's worked the other way for me, too, thinking smart people are conservative, and they aren't. Always mystifies me. Especially small business owners. Difference is, I let it go, and don't get up in their faces, shouting and spitting.

Posted by: Kalneva at September 14, 2013 08:30 PM (XyrkB)

309 Rubio for president, It wonÂ’t happen. HeÂ’s turned off the base. I donÂ’tÂ’ think he was ever the independentsÂ’ darling so it is almost impossible. Maybe he should run against Hillary, Kerry & Biden in dem primary.

Posted by: CarolT at September 14, 2013 08:30 PM (z4WKX)

310 "Boobehs aren't all that and a bag of potato chips..." Too far! Burn the witch!

Posted by: Lauren at September 14, 2013 08:30 PM (ELdpj)

311

294 282 Quick, someone say something hastily thought out and controversial.

 

 I hate bacon.

Posted by: Donna V. at September 14, 2013 08:30 PM (R3gO3)

312 BCochran, why can't they *all* look like that?


Who had the idea (mom's?) the other day about wearing a tattoo on a T-Shirt for a year before getting it inked?

Posted by: Steck at September 14, 2013 08:31 PM (RL7U1)

313 >>>Celebrity doppelgangers I've heard Kurt Warner before, but my hair was longer back then. Also, Kurt Warner was famous.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 08:31 PM (ZFinx)

314

Quick, someone say something hastily thought out and controversial.

Posted by: Lauren at September 15, 2013 12:19 AM

 

Go away... Batin'.

Posted by: otho at September 14, 2013 08:31 PM (9gNQd)

315 Here's a ONT question - I ate a Five Guys cheeseburger tonight and damn it was tasty. It's going to be my go-to place for big sloppy greasy burgers from now on - goodbye, MickeyD's. I've heard people say Five Guys burgers are similiar to In-And-Out burgers on the West Coast but I've never had an In-And-Out burger. If you've had both, which one is better? Posted by: Donna V. at September 15, 2013 12:29 AM

It's an ONT question, alright; right up there with crossbow vs. longbow, 870 vs. Mossberg, tastes great vs. less filling...

I haven't had either burger, so I do not know

Posted by: AltonJackson is on the road at September 14, 2013 08:32 PM (DCC9P)

316 Quick, someone say something hastily thought out and controversial.

I'm a virgin.

Posted by: Sandra Flook at September 14, 2013 08:32 PM (Dwehj)

317 1. Evil: you err but don't realize it. 2. Sin: you realize it but do it anyway. 3. Iniquity: you've done it on purpose so long you can't quit. Psychic disruption is the finale. Dr Uber's Handy Dictionary of Faith Mortals do evil, pretty much inevitably. You probably sin more often than you could with a little more willpower. Some people really are full-blown iniquitous.

Posted by: mindful webworker - theology 101 at September 14, 2013 08:33 PM (7KxSm)

318 Kalneva, around here everyone assume's your a liberal, regardless.


Of course, it's NE Illinois...


Time to move to Texas.

Posted by: Steck at September 14, 2013 08:33 PM (RL7U1)

319 "But the final tab will hinge greatly on the extent to which the military can rely on the ground routes through Pakistan."

Avoid Pakistan. Sure, it'll cost more, but it's not worth whatever they'd try to worm from us. The only thing Pakistan deserves from us is a Hiroshima-yield bomb dropped right on top of their ISI headquarters.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at September 14, 2013 08:34 PM (ItfcE)

320 The only celebrity I've been repeatedly compared to (here I go, dating myself) is Christine Lahti. That was so long ago, I doubt it holds anymore. But I'll take it.

Posted by: Kalneva at September 14, 2013 08:34 PM (XyrkB)

321 I like 5 guys because they do the best bunless burger. You can get them to make it with two patties and no lettuce. They put all the fillin' in between the two patties and then wrap it all up in foil. Basically it's a burger version of the double down. It is so good.

Posted by: Lauren at September 14, 2013 08:34 PM (ELdpj)

322 Cinderelli, Cinderelli
shakes her carriage like
hydraulics with Pirelli's
 

Posted by: adams re-animator porn at September 14, 2013 08:34 PM (gQKHE)

323 OK, I'm out

tomorrow night, mi amigos

Posted by: AltonJackson is on the road at September 14, 2013 08:35 PM (DCC9P)

324 AoS formatting question ... how does Peaches (pbuh) make the different smileys in her posts?

Posted by: Steck at September 14, 2013 08:36 PM (RL7U1)

325 315  5 guys is way overpriced and not that special.  In n' Out is a block away from my house and to a great extent working off its rep from the olde days

Posted by: DAve at September 14, 2013 08:36 PM (b7yum)

326 Burgers are too easy to cook to eat out.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2013 08:36 PM (0axsw)

327

"Quick, someone say something hastily thought out and controversial"

 

All females want me. And god knows, I do enjoy frisking with a fine young filly!

Posted by: John Kerry at September 14, 2013 08:36 PM (R3gO3)

328 Nite AJ. How we doing over there DC? You good or want a few more? That particular photographer does some excellent work with some excellent models.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 08:36 PM (GEICT)

329 heheh eh heh... she said "in and out"... heheh eh heheh...

Posted by: beavis at September 14, 2013 08:37 PM (9gNQd)

330 Well we're just about ready for Monday.

For any 'ettes in the mood for a good cry; I feel the need to share this.

A brother's love:

http://youtu.be/Voi0h4y9t8w

Posted by: esch at September 14, 2013 08:37 PM (eEEbp)

331 Good, we'll need all the workers we can get to keep resetting and rebooting those computers. Posted by: t-bird at September 14, 2013 11:12 PM (FcR7P) WeÂ’ll need all those workers to remove the NSA tracking on the computers.

Posted by: CarolT at September 14, 2013 08:38 PM (z4WKX)

332 #304

Don't forget Tommy's. Was just three locations in LA for decades but went franchise or something a few years ago. I've always preferred them to In-and-Out.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 14, 2013 08:38 PM (kcfmt)

333 AoS formatting question ... how does Peaches (pbuh) make the different smileys in her posts? http://smilies.mee.nu/

Posted by: robot helper at September 14, 2013 08:39 PM (TjKer)

334 >>>That particular photographer does some excellent work with some excellent models. I thought they might be related. I think its the pose. Maybe the clothing choice. Maybe the blinding hotness of the models. Who can say, really?

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 08:39 PM (ZFinx)

335 238 The old warlords got pretty creative about getting a lot of abandoned Soviet junk back in service.

This is a part of the world where there's people who can build a functioning AK-47 knock off with hand tools, from scratch. I remember back in the 80's reading an article (maybe in SOF?) on those dudes. Impressive craftsmanship.

Leave those guys anything, anything at all, to work with and they'll make it go again.

Posted by: Purp at September 14, 2013 11:42 PM (9MLX+)



If it was the one I read, I think it was in National Geographic. The Pashtun are the go-to source for guns in canes, guns in fountain pens, swords in canes, guns in camera cases.....

Posted by: cthulhu at September 14, 2013 08:39 PM (T1005)

336

321 I like 5 guys because they do the best bunless burger. You can get them to make it with two patties and no lettuce. They put all the fillin' in between the two patties and then wrap it all up in foil

 

Oooh, that does sound good...

Posted by: Donna V. at September 14, 2013 08:39 PM (R3gO3)

337 (^^^)

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2013 08:39 PM (0axsw)

338 #331

If they've gotten to Intel and some other chip companies, it is at too low a level for anyone in IT to do anything about.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 14, 2013 08:40 PM (kcfmt)

339 I don't know about those burgers previously mentioned, but I will tell you morons that if you are on the road in WA or OR, go to Burgerville. Quality food, for fast food. Real Tillamook cheese, Walla Walla onions, etc. it's like locavore fast food.

Posted by: Kalneva at September 14, 2013 08:40 PM (XyrkB)

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2013 08:40 PM (0axsw)

341 I've heard people say Five Guys burgers are similiar to In-And-Out burgers on the West Coast but I've never had an In-And-Out burger. If you've had both, which one is better? Posted by: Donna V. Five Guys is 'Mortons" to a 'home grilled steak.' Sure Mortons is tasty, but a burger, fries, and coke should not cost $11.50 In n Out is simple, fresh, and unassuming fare for a far sight less. It's not the end all of all beef fare, so restraint in expectation is warranted. However, anecdote: we had a Canadian IT vendor working at our office years ago. I was hungry and offered to fetch the lunch ticket without saying anything about IN N OUT. Canadian ate it and said, "It was like I was 5 yrs old again eating my first restaurant hamburger." YMMV

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 14, 2013 08:40 PM (eQI/a)

342 Thank you robot helper! 

Posted by: Steck at September 14, 2013 08:41 PM (RL7U1)

343 One more drink? Sure, why not.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 08:41 PM (ZFinx)

344 Every lyric from Wire always works great.

Interrupting my train of thought,lines from longitude to lattitude..

Yeah no love.  NO LOVE.

Posted by: Null at September 14, 2013 08:41 PM (xjpRj)

345 I thought they might be related. I think its the pose. Maybe the clothing choice. Maybe the blinding hotness of the models. Who can say, really? Posted by: DC in Towson at September 15, 2013 12:39 AM (ZFinx) Indeed. The boobehs always get top billing around here (for good reason), but that means that other, very worthy body parts get neglected. http://tinyurl.com/ohsg82p http://tinyurl.com/pyzb84l http://tinyurl.com/o75n52m

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 08:42 PM (GEICT)

346 Here's a ONT question - I ate a Five Guys cheeseburger tonight and damn it was tasty. It's going to be my go-to place for big sloppy greasy burgers from now on - goodbye, MickeyD's. I've heard people say Five Guys burgers are similiar to In-And-Out burgers on the West Coast but I've never had an In-And-Out burger. If you've had both, which one is better? Posted by: Donna V. at September 15, 2013 12:29 AM (R3gO3) They are very different. Both are good, but 5 Guys tastes like other good burgers. In N' Out is satisfying in a way most other burgers aren't, though you have to get it "Animal Style." There is just something about cooking the patty in mustard and onions, and then adding all that gooey cheese.

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 14, 2013 08:42 PM (Vk2pI)

347 "A brother's love" I seem to have something in my eye.

Posted by: Lauren at September 14, 2013 08:43 PM (ELdpj)

348 heh, heh, heh...she said "5 guys".. The best fast-food burger I had was at a local place around here called Sam's Southern Eatery. I thought I had died and went to Heaven after I finished a burger from there.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2013 08:43 PM (Dsds2)

349 Damn. Now I want to go to Cali just to eat an In-And-Out burger.

Posted by: Donna V. at September 14, 2013 08:44 PM (R3gO3)

350 Garb is together. Time to sleeeeep before the Ren Faire day drinking. Later Horde.

Posted by: Gingy at September 14, 2013 08:44 PM (aH+zP)

351

I had Tommy's w/o the chili and it was the nastiest cheapest school-cafeteria level shite I had since... school.

Fatburger is worth the trip

Hahaha I live in So Cal, am extremely well-equipped and enjoy range time often but since most of the socal 'ettes treat me like dogshit no rangetrips for you!!!

Posted by: DAve at September 14, 2013 08:45 PM (b7yum)

352 BC, number two, please. Not that one and three would be turned away at the door.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 08:45 PM (ZFinx)

353 "A brother's love" I seem to have something in my eye. Posted by: Lauren at September 15, 2013 12:43 AM (ELdpj) Incest and a little mild pedophilia? Sounds like fun!

Posted by: Richard Dawkins at September 14, 2013 08:45 PM (Vk2pI)

354 <img src="http://smilies.mee.nu/light/15_yellow/icon_eek.gif" />

Posted by: Sandra Flook at September 14, 2013 08:45 PM (Dwehj)

355 In-n-Out doesn't have pickles. Grr! And, after waiting in the one I go to (and you *will* wait), you absolutely reek of the grease. That being said, it's nice to be able to get a 4x4, protein-style with no fuss.

Posted by: t-bird at September 14, 2013 08:45 PM (FcR7P)

356 FML

Posted by: Sandra Flook at September 14, 2013 08:45 PM (Dwehj)

357 heheh eh heh... "animal style"... heheheh

Posted by: beavis at September 14, 2013 08:46 PM (9gNQd)

358 In-n-Out doesn't have pickles. Grr! And, after waiting in the one I go to (and you *will* wait), you absolutely reek of the grease. That being said, it's nice to be able to get a 4x4, protein-style with no fuss. Posted by: t-bird at September 15, 2013 12:45 AM (FcR7P) But you can get pickles at In N' Out.

Posted by: The Cheeseburger Hat at September 14, 2013 08:46 PM (Vk2pI)

359 Have fun Gingy. Let me know if the German comedian/juggler guy is back. He wasn't there last year.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 08:47 PM (ZFinx)

360 Speaking of Beavis inspirations, I must report that the local Kum n Go is now some ordinary-named convenience store.

Posted by: mindful webworker - accuracy mattress at September 14, 2013 08:47 PM (F3WsD)

361   ?

Posted by: Steck at September 14, 2013 08:47 PM (RL7U1)

362 They closed down Fudd Ruckers a ways back.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2013 08:47 PM (0axsw)

363

baldi is a friend of mine

we can go blastin anytime

Posted by: DAve at September 14, 2013 08:47 PM (b7yum)

364 I'd rather have lettuce for a wrapping than to accidentally bite into foil. Foil on burgers is asking for trouble.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 14, 2013 08:47 PM (eQI/a)

365 But you can get pickles at In N' Out. ?! Do tell. Mine said no. Haven't asked since.

Posted by: t-bird at September 14, 2013 08:48 PM (FcR7P)

366

I used to drive past what I think was the original Five Guys place in No. VA near DC for years, never went there.  Then they became "a thing", expanded, and now you can do that taste-test comparison side-by-side if you'd like here in CA, where of course there is In-n-Out, and Five Guys has opened.  Finally went to one after a shootin' match up in Corona - was quite good.  The two chains are different enough that you can like both, and also not really compare them directly to each other.  Burgers, fries, shakes, clean stores, both good.

 

I have gone through three distinct "you look like" phases.  In the mid-80s, in DC, I had 3 separate people (in the course of a few months) say "you look like Anthony Perkins!" (slasher guy in Psycho, for those who don't recall him).  Once at a party, once on a Metrobus on P Street near Dupont Circle, once I can't recall the details.  About 10 years later, also in DC, two different people said "you look like Tommy Lee Jones!".  All these people were strangers, in public.

 

Fast forward to the last few years.  Twice I've been told "you look like John McEnroe!".  Once at a store somewhere, once at the Kenneth Volk winery near San Luis Obispo.  Lately, nobody has said anything like this.

 

For the record, the Tommy Lee Jones and McEnroe comparisons have some shred of logic, depending on the angle, but the Anthony Perkins thing never made sense to me.

 

WWII logistics stories.  I believe it was in a book called "The Last Great Victory" (a very enjoyable and interesting read covering all sorts of things great and small that transpired in the last months of WWII - published I think on the 50th anniversary in 1995).  Guam.  Brand new deuce-and-half trucks, packed with bags of cement, driving on on top of the other to form the spine of a jetty at the harbor there (Apra?).  Kinda hard to beat that one. 

 

My father, who never left the States and served in the Army medical service, told me about how shortly after VJ Day, at his post in NC, they dug trenches with bulldozers, into which they placed cartons of new office equipment and lab gear (microscopes, chemistry glass, etc.) and other things.  The senior officers let every man grab a few things for themselves (my dad got a pair of binoculars, think they disappeared only in the last 10 years), then the dozers drove over everything and then buried it.

 

 

Posted by: non-purist at September 14, 2013 08:48 PM (afQnV)

367 Speaking of someone who had a 4.0 at UCLA, mustard and pickles are gross

Posted by: DAve at September 14, 2013 08:49 PM (b7yum)

368

Kum and Go?

 

 There used to be a Big Dong restaurant in DC.

Posted by: Donna V. at September 14, 2013 08:49 PM (R3gO3)

369 Speaking of Beavis inspirations, I must report that the local Kum n Go is now some ordinary-named convenience store.

 

Posted by: mindful webworker - accuracy mattress at September 15, 2013 12:47 AM

 

 

heheh eh heh... wait. I don't get it.

Posted by: beavis at September 14, 2013 08:50 PM (9gNQd)

370 But you can get pickles at In N' Out. ?! Do tell. Mine said no. Haven't asked since. Posted by: t-bird at September 15, 2013 12:48 AM (FcR7P) Really? It is an available option, and comes automatically when you order your burger "animal style." The one thing of theirs that I'd love to try is the Chili dogs that they only serve at company picnics...

Posted by: The Cheeseburger Hat at September 14, 2013 08:50 PM (Vk2pI)

371 Anyone know how the fight is going? Hubby went to his main Mexican's house, who bought it, and thought it would be over by now. Maybe too many tequila shots. Luckily it's only about a mile down a dirt road.

Posted by: Kalneva at September 14, 2013 08:51 PM (XyrkB)

372 366  Hey non-p I shoot at Corona sometimes.  Are you around beuatiful la Verne?

Posted by: DAve at September 14, 2013 08:51 PM (b7yum)

373 #351

Probably wasn't a real Tommy's. There are dozens of fake Tommy's in the San Fernando Valley alone.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 14, 2013 08:51 PM (kcfmt)

374 They closed down Fudd Ruckers a ways back. Posted by: Boss Moss at September 15, 2013 12:47 AM (0axsw) I remember when Fudd Ruckers was good. Decades ago they had the butcher shop right there and you could see the cows being sliced up, ground, and cooked for you fresh. Damn good burgers. Now, they seem so bland.

Posted by: The Cheeseburger Hat at September 14, 2013 08:52 PM (Vk2pI)

375 Political Hat, dumb question for ya - just read the top article on your blog.


Is East St. Louis in Missouri, or Illinois?  (If Illinois, with the new CCW laws, I can see how they might feel, um, threatened.)

Posted by: Steck at September 14, 2013 08:52 PM (RL7U1)

376 273 "I don't think there is any such thing as sin. Sin demands that God or something else greater than Man exists, and it is there to judge us.

There is no evidence to support this belief.

Humans are intelligent self-aware animals that exhibit a range of behaviors; some are good, some are bad. Good and bad are worthy concepts and we are equipped to define them and distinguish between them, but sin introduces a bias that creates more harm than good."

I am no rabid Christian. I got kicked off of Free Republic if that helps frame this pic any. However, man is different from the rest of the animal kingdom. Tell me of any animal that feels shame. Tell me of any animal that feels love. Tell me of any animal the feels remorse, pitty, hate, or a sense of humor. They don't exist. We humans have been granted with an array of senses and emotions that don't exist in the greater animal world. Where did it come from? I don't know.

The vast majority of animals exist to simply ensure their own existence, be it at the expense of other animals, fine. I ranch and I've never known a cow who thought about the well-being of another cow. A pig will eat another pig if they are hungry and the other pig seems weak to them.

Humans are truly unique in this respect. They have an understanding of other humans that no other animal, insect, or plant had. That sense was introduced into us by "something." GOD. Aliens. I don't know. But somewhere we acquired an entire range of emotions and intellect that no other living matter that we know of ever has or is even close to getting.

Sin? As defined by the seriously questionable Bible? Yeah, holes there. Sin as in how normal human beings interact with other normal human beings. I don't think so. When the normal human being runs into the abnormal human being, well, then things can change.

Posted by: Walt at September 15, 2013 12:11 AM (Z4QDo)



Oh, no, you don't --



Shame: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ISzf2pryI



Love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8dMVRSpwG8




I won't bother with the rest.....you're on the wrong track

Posted by: cthulhu at September 14, 2013 08:53 PM (T1005)

377 You have a blog?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2013 08:53 PM (0axsw)

378 I also once had a customer tell me my speaking voice sounded like Charlie Sheen.  That was an interesting one.

Posted by: Country Singer at September 14, 2013 08:53 PM (LGM9b)

379 371  Just think, those guys are getting the livin' shit beaten out of them and they only get to keep like 30% of it after Uncle sam takes what's only fair

Posted by: DAve at September 14, 2013 08:53 PM (b7yum)

380 Probably wasn't a real Tommy's. There are dozens of fake Tommy's in the San Fernando Valley alone. Posted by: Epobirs at September 15, 2013 12:51 AM (kcfmt) And some of them were worse than others. Best burger I've had was a little burger shack next to the "buck fifty" sandwich place in Westwood near UCLA.

Posted by: The Cheeseburger Hat at September 14, 2013 08:53 PM (Vk2pI)

381 Probably wasn't a real Tommy's. There are dozens of fake Tommy's in the San Fernando Valley alone. Posted by: Epobirs haha! yeah, Tommie's , Tomy's, Tomas', Tommey's. Then again, i've had the orginial; meh. Not really chili per se but adequate for a 1am burger run.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 14, 2013 08:53 PM (eQI/a)

382

There's a Fu-kin Chinese Restaurant in Cooperstown, NY.

Saw a lot of people taking pictures in front of the place, but never knew anyone who ate there.

 

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2013 08:54 PM (L4CtF)

383 Well, two different guys told me once that my eyes looked like Michelle Pfieffer's. I would have rather been told that the entire rest of me looked like Michelle Pfieffer, but hey, you take what you can get

Posted by: Donna V. at September 14, 2013 08:54 PM (R3gO3)

384 Is East St. Louis in Missouri, or Illinois? (If Illinois, with the new CCW laws, I can see how they might feel, um, threatened.) Posted by: Steck at September 15, 2013 12:52 AM (RL7U1) Illinois, IIRC

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 14, 2013 08:55 PM (Vk2pI)

385 Chitty Wok.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2013 08:55 PM (0axsw)

386 It is an available option, and comes automatically when you order your burger "animal style." That's weird, I've gotten plenty of animal-styles. Thanks, I'll have to conduct some 'research' tomorrow.

Posted by: t-bird at September 14, 2013 08:55 PM (FcR7P)

387 Posted by: Boss Moss at September 15, 2013 12:47 AM (0axsw)


There's a Fuddruckers not far from me.  I eat there from time to time.

Posted by: Country Singer at September 14, 2013 08:55 PM (LGM9b)

388 Argh. Origin is broken and 120 million Springfields cannot be accessed.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 14, 2013 08:55 PM (kcfmt)

389 You have a blog? Posted by: Boss Moss at September 15, 2013 12:53 AM (0axsw) I do?

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 14, 2013 08:55 PM (Vk2pI)

390 >>>Anyone know how the fight is going? A quick look at bleacher report says its almost all Mayweather, after maybe 4 rounds. Kinda hard to follow with just twit snapshots, but I think it's still ongoing.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 08:56 PM (ZFinx)

391 Yes. Remember that bit?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2013 08:56 PM (0axsw)

392 Well, I know that cows have a hierarchy that allows some to feed before others. Same with all animals. I don't think there's any empathy, like hey, I went first last time, it's all yours today! I've seen my cat eat her kittens! Dogs aren't really shamed, that's anthropomorphizing. They know they're in trouble, not the same as shame. Like Anthony Weiner.

Posted by: Kalneva at September 14, 2013 08:59 PM (XyrkB)

393 338 #331

If they've gotten to Intel and some other chip companies, it is at too low a level for anyone in IT to do anything about.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 15, 2013 12:40 AM (kcfmt)



....and they've gotten to Intel and other chip companies.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 14, 2013 08:59 PM (T1005)

394 Celebrity doppelgangers: When I was about 16 I was told that I look quite a bit like Elizabeth McGovern http://bit.ly/18hHPWX from Once Upon a Time in America. I thought then, and looking at old HS pics now still do think that's about right. She's about 10 years older than I am though. I still get carded for cigs & booze, so I don't think we aged the same. Though, if this is what I have to look forward to a decade from now, looks-wise, I can't really complain now, can I? Elizabeth McGovern http://bit.ly/1bjGXIy Downton Abbey.

Posted by: Deety at September 14, 2013 09:01 PM (UaCt0)

395

DAve, nope down in America's Finest City (there's a story behind that).  I go up to Corona for the Steel Madness shoots.  Very fun.  At Rahaague's.  Look for Shooting Sports Association/Steel Madness website - they have them every other Sunday morning - not cheap @ $35 (I think), but only place I know to shoot a bunch of different stages (usually at least 5) of steel, sometimes with Rube Goldberg door-opening-starts-target-moving sorts of action.  They don't do it anymore (tragedy), but in late October they used to have a night shoot - ridiculously fun.  Last time they even had an actual squad car "borrowed" from a local law enforcement agency as part of one stage - colored lights flashing, spotlights illumating targets, you leapt out started firing.

 

People who run it are all characters, memorable folks.  A little bit of oddball shooting culture tucked away between the smelly dairy farms and the sparkling new sub-divisions sprouting up in that area.

 

And of course being just a mile from the Chino airport, you sometimes get a nice glimpse of a WWII warbird overhead while you're reloading your mags ....

 

Posted by: non-purist at September 14, 2013 09:04 PM (afQnV)

396 Here's the headline, guess the country (link in sig) "Rapist accompanied only by a female therapist during ‘reintegration to society’ session is on the run... now her body is discovered"

Posted by: Lauren at September 14, 2013 09:04 PM (ELdpj)

397 At least he learned his lesson.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2013 09:06 PM (0axsw)

398 F* Skynet! Or, as Miles Dyson said to Sarah Connor, "  I feel like I'm gonna throw up!". Anybody not wearing 2 million sunblock is gonna have a real bad day, is exactly right Sarah. .... I think my pc is watching me ...

Posted by: and irresolute at September 14, 2013 09:06 PM (RqHWH)

399 Oh, and I have Carly Simon's lips. That comparison pleases me much less than the Michelle Pfieffer eyes one because Carly Simon has a big damn mouth - but I can see it more than I can see the Pfieffer one. I have to be careful with my choice of lipstick/lip gloss because pick the wrong shade and you see this mouth coming down the street.

Posted by: Donna V. at September 14, 2013 09:08 PM (R3gO3)

400 1. If you don't like your stuff taken or your nose pinched, and you respect what it means that The Other Fellow doesn't like his stuff taken or his nose pinched either, you've figured out good & evil. Morality. The Golden Rule. The Social Contract. 2. Because lists of three look better than lists of two. 3. If you can figure out morality, the Source put that potential in the universe, in you.

Posted by: mindful webworker - theology 102 at September 14, 2013 09:08 PM (kUq7A)

401 Thanks, DC! Good to know it's a good fight, anyway. The purse is like 42 M?

Posted by: kalneva at September 14, 2013 09:10 PM (XyrkB)

402 Those two on the ends of that lineup need to be very wanged for sure!

Posted by: and irresolute at September 14, 2013 09:10 PM (RqHWH)

403 395  Raahauge's is exactly it!!!  Run n' gun matches every Sat.  I believe:  http://tinyurl.com/qgvq2sn  or jvdynamics

Posted by: DAve at September 14, 2013 09:10 PM (b7yum)

404 I've heard people say Five Guys burgers are similiar to In-And-Out burgers on the West Coast but I've never had an In-And-Out burger. If you've had both, which one is better? I really like both but for different reasons. In my town I can get both now so I don't have any dog in the fight of which one is "better", although I would class In-And-Out as a more appropriate substitute for McDonalds. I dont think 5-Guys and In-Annd-Out are similar burgers at all.

Posted by: Deety at September 14, 2013 09:13 PM (UaCt0)

405 Nope. Bieber tweeted a pic of himself holding what appears to be the script.

http://tinyurl.com/nfpppy6

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 10:30 PM (GEICT)


Well, Bieber is certainly ghey enough to play Robin, the boy cockholster. Seeing as it is a movie I plan never to watch for, they could use zombie Helen Thomas as Robin, and it would be jake with me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2013 09:13 PM (8Fl6F)

406 403  I have to get back there soon.  After the ammo supply dried up I took a hiatus

Posted by: DAve at September 14, 2013 09:14 PM (b7yum)

407 The purse is like 42 M? Man, that's like a two-man lotto, isn't it? Probably a much more civilized fight, though, than if you and the only other known ticket-holder discovered each other.

Posted by: t-bird at September 14, 2013 09:14 PM (FcR7P)

408 DAve, it just fuckin' dawned on me what your occupation must be. Der. All this time I just thought you were a bad typist.

Posted by: kalneva at September 14, 2013 09:15 PM (XyrkB)

409 Celebrity? Michelle says I have The Bieb's pecs!

Posted by: Barack at September 14, 2013 09:17 PM (FcR7P)

410 >>>Good to know it's a good fight, anyway. All the sports talky people agree it's all Floyd. Canelo gave it a good run, just out matched. Should be over by now, I would think.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 09:17 PM (ZFinx)

411 I look like the salt monster in Star Trek. No, seriously, that movie where th little suburban kid is lost on the dirty big city streets and bumps into the ragged, gray, drooling, squinky-eyed old bum with a few jagged yellow teeth? Him.

Posted by: mindful webworker - celebrity like-a-look at September 14, 2013 09:18 PM (6B4ha)

412 Speaking of burgers, have any of the Southern California morons eaten at Slater's 50/50? I understand it's called that after their signature hamburger - made with 50% ground beef and 50% ground bacon. I. Must. Go.

Posted by: Sister Sestina at September 14, 2013 09:19 PM (1wI7y)

413

Oh, the America's Finest City reference.  Relying only on memory, and doing no research, I believe this was a somewhat tongue-in-cheek reaction to the cancellation of the GOP national convention here in 1972 (Nixon's re-election convention).  Can't remember exactly why they cancelled/switched to Miami Beach, but probably security (MB convention essentially held on islands that could be isolated from the world around them).  Anyway, big controversy, some had civic pride butthurt, but most were not too concerned.

 

Try to remember what an absurdly wonderful place San Diego was at that time.  Before the big growth (that started about then, actually).  Best climate in North America. Uncrowded, perfect and new infrastructure and roads.  Housing prices moderate.  Uncrowded, clean beaches (with few rules or prohibitions).  Little crime.  Fantastic public schools, from K through univsersity - which was also inexpensive to boot (yes, it's true - in fact the outrage that is today's CA grows only more amazing when you recall just how well the place was administered and governed 40 years ago).  Fairly decent economy, anchored by a huge Navy/Marine presence, growing tourism.  Hell, even Mexico was cheap, safe, friendly - we treated Baja's beaches as just an extension of ours, just with $1.50 six packs of Tecate in steel cans and a stack of fresh/hot tortillas for 15 cents when you got out of the water for a snack.

 

So very few were that upset by the GOP move - this place was fairly close to paradise for a modern urban area, and people knew it.  Partly as tongue in cheek "compensation", a civic boosterism slogan was coined:  "America's Finest City".  More recently there was a new nickname, "Enron by the Sea" - but honestly that slanders the major part of Enron that was, in fact, a pioneering and fabulously profitable enterprise (check out the bidding wars by some of the world's deepest pockets for the components of the company when it was disbanded).  San Diego's troubles were a microcosm of America's and California's:  collapse of integrity, voter incompetence, disappearance of the public service mindset/rise of public sector unions/alliance with one party.

 

Posted by: non-purist at September 14, 2013 09:19 PM (afQnV)

414 #394

Really. I always thought Elizabeth McGovern had an amazing face. The sort that might cause you to embarrass yourself when caught staring too long.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 14, 2013 09:19 PM (kcfmt)

415

Thanks, DC. Luckily hubby has to get up to go to the Hawks game tomorrow, so I have no doubt he'll be home soon.  Hawks have an evening game, but they want to get there early, to stake out a place to watch all the other games. Plus we're 2.5 hours away from Seattle. Kalneva day tomorrow! I'll probably be pestering you guys all day;]

Posted by: kalneva at September 14, 2013 09:21 PM (XyrkB)

416 404 me neither

Posted by: DAve at September 14, 2013 09:21 PM (b7yum)

417 >>>made with 50% ground beef and 50% ground bacon. There a place in B-more that has a beefless burger. 100% bacon. I took home leftovers because having carnal relations with your dinner is apparently against the law.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 09:23 PM (ZFinx)

418 408 I finally exposed my occupation today on an earlier thread where I was getting shit for not knowing anything about cars

Posted by: DAve at September 14, 2013 09:23 PM (b7yum)

419 Just looked at the slaters5050.com menu. I'm getting very hungry.

Posted by: t-bird at September 14, 2013 09:23 PM (FcR7P)

420 394, I've always thought Elizabeth McGovern was so beautiful. She's aged very well, too. Compare and contrast to say, Melanie Griffith. If E  McG has had  any work done, it's been graceful.

Posted by: kalneva at September 14, 2013 09:25 PM (XyrkB)

421 290 Noah's Mill, a particularly nice bourbon. 112 proof and 12 yrs IIRC. My mother-in-law used to give me a bottle of the 20-yr-old Pappy Van Winkle every Christmas, until they started shipping most of their production to Asia. Now you can't find it, and it's ridiculously (rather than merely seriously) expensive. Noah's Mill is one of my favorite alternatives.

Posted by: Guy who puts you to sleep and often wakes you up again too at September 14, 2013 09:25 PM (rFx6h)

422 Fight is over. Official decision upcoming. Mayweather by unanimous decision, it sounds like.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 09:26 PM (ZFinx)

423 409 Celebrity? Michelle says I have The Bieb's pecs! Posted by: Barack at September 15, 2013 01:17 AM (FcR7P) I think your ass looks like The Bieb's too!

Posted by: Reggie Love at September 14, 2013 09:27 PM (fC5if)

424

The Habit here in So Cal has great burgers

Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 14, 2013 09:27 PM (/7Xis)

425 >>>Noah's Mill is one of my favorite alternatives. That is a tasty beverage. Needs a rock or two, but really damn good. With that, I'm out.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 14, 2013 09:28 PM (ZFinx)

426 418, DAve, which thread? I wanna go read it.

Posted by: kalneva at September 14, 2013 09:28 PM (XyrkB)

427 424 and good onion rings w/ranch.  Fatburger's still better burger

Posted by: DAve at September 14, 2013 09:29 PM (b7yum)

428 'night, DC!

Posted by: kalneva at September 14, 2013 09:30 PM (XyrkB)

429 SoCali's coming out of the woodworks tonite.  Hola Paisas!!!

Posted by: DAve at September 14, 2013 09:30 PM (b7yum)

430 One of the judges in the Mayweather bout scored it a draw. The corrupt boxing organizations are the reasons I stopped giving a shit about boxing. Sort of how I have started feeling about NASCAR now.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac in the OBX at September 14, 2013 09:31 PM (fC5if)

431 Alright, I'm out folks. DC, one more tatted hottie for ya on my way out the door.....http://tinyurl.com/pueuwnu

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 14, 2013 09:31 PM (GEICT)

432 426  "Faces of Progressivism", post 99

Posted by: DAve at September 14, 2013 09:34 PM (b7yum)

433

Am I being Willowed?

Posted by: kalneva at September 14, 2013 09:34 PM (XyrkB)

434 Good night,Horde. I have bad feeling about my brother. I had to consent to treatment & admit him to hospital March 30, the took him off ventilator a week plus a few days on Tuesday & he couldn't move anything. It took eight days for ME hospital to do full body MRI & strep bacterial infection was in cervical,spine (neck). Surgeon took out infected discs & now he can only use left arm. He probably has strep in urinary tract & pneumonia. I hate to say this, but if it were me, I would rather die than spend rest of my life in a skilled nursing facility at his age , 51. I know he's felt suicidal, but can't do anything, It is in God's Hands. Ood Night. Carol

Posted by: CarolT at September 14, 2013 09:35 PM (z4WKX)

435 DAve, thanks! Good night!

Posted by: kalneva at September 14, 2013 09:36 PM (XyrkB)

436 I'm sorry, Carol. It doesn't sound good.

Posted by: rickl at September 14, 2013 09:37 PM (sdi6R)

437 435 G'nite

Posted by: DAve at September 14, 2013 09:38 PM (b7yum)

438 Here's a ONT question - I ate a Five Guys cheeseburger tonight and damn it was tasty. It's going to be my go-to place for big sloppy greasy burgers from now on - goodbye, MickeyD's. I've heard people say Five Guys burgers are similiar to In-And-Out burgers on the West Coast but I've never had an In-And-Out burger. If you've had both, which one is better?

Posted by: Donna V. at September 15, 2013 12:29 AM (R3gO3)

IMHO, the two aren't comparable. I've eaten at In-And-Outs in California and Arizona, and they are fast-food burgers, definitely a cut above the major chains, but still very firmly in the fast-food camp. Five Guys has some locations here in Alberta, and I like their burgers a lot. And you have to wait for them, as they are built to order. And I much prefer Five Guys fries, which are thick chipped from fresh spuds, with the skin on, and fried in peanut oil. They actually taste like potato inside. I know some folks like the uber-skinny, over-crisp fries, but not this cowboy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2013 09:41 PM (8Fl6F)

439 No Powerball winner. Goes to $400 million next Wednesday.







Sigh.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 14, 2013 09:42 PM (kcfmt)

440 IMHO, the two aren't comparable. I've eaten at In-And-Outs in California and Arizona, and they are fast-food burgers, definitely a cut above the major chains, but still very firmly in the fast-food camp. Five Guys has some locations here in Alberta, and I like their burgers a lot. And you have to wait for them, as they are built to order. And I much prefer Five Guys fries, which are thick chipped from fresh spuds, with the skin on, and fried in peanut oil. They actually taste like potato inside. I know some folks like the uber-skinny, over-crisp fries, but not this cowboy. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 15, 2013 01:41 AM (8Fl6F) But you can't get 5 Guys fries done "Animal Style"

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 14, 2013 09:44 PM (Vk2pI)

441 Holy crap. I never saw this before. FZ on "What's My Line" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTj-xNcvfzI

Posted by: rickl at September 14, 2013 09:45 PM (sdi6R)

442 I didn't discover this, a friend on another blog did, but remember the discussion about gingers;

Posted by: unbroken strings of text are extremely annoying at September 14, 2013 11:06 PM (Jsiw/)



April Macie. Yum.



Evening roonz and roonettez!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at September 14, 2013 09:46 PM (yh0zB)

443 Well, I am pissed/depressed. Like I said, Husband went to Mexican's house for fight. Anthems were both sung, and they were "eh" about the American National Anthem.  They are supposed to be Americans. We need to be a melting pot, again. I hate this diversity bullshit.  I'm only third generation, but even my mom and dad don't know their original languages or anthems. They're American. This shit can't end well.

Posted by: kalneva at September 14, 2013 09:47 PM (XyrkB)

444 If E McG has had any work done, it's been graceful. I really don't think she has, Kalveva. I searched for one of her less "glamorous" pics from her latest work (which is a period drama) and despite the tiara and the makeup, I think the idea was to portray the actress as being roughly the same middle age as the charachter.

Posted by: Deety at September 14, 2013 09:48 PM (UaCt0)

445

Like I said, In-n-Out and Five Guys are different.  Personal taste is gonna prefer one to the other for some people.  As for that puzzling pickle discussion earlier, I believe Animal Style is basically Russian dressing with pickle relish and cheese, no?  I love it on the fries, never have had it on the burgers.

 

One thing about In-n-Out (don't know about Five Guys), it's run a bit differently than most fast-food chains.  Employees are paid a lot more (I think), and they do things like check grades and want references for the teenagers applying there.   Anyway it seems to show up in the results.  My foreign-born wife has always marvelled at the polite, prompt, old-fashioned attitude we find on our occasional In-n-Out visits.

 

Posted by: non-purist at September 14, 2013 09:53 PM (afQnV)

446 Am I being Willowed? que? Is someone pouring you tea over the intarwebz or something?

Posted by: Deety at September 14, 2013 09:53 PM (UaCt0)

447 Soupy Sales, FTW!

Posted by: Epobirs at September 14, 2013 09:53 PM (kcfmt)

448 Posted by: CarolT at September 15, 2013 01:35 AM (z4WKX)

Carol. So sorry to hear that.

Prayers.

Posted by: esch at September 14, 2013 09:53 PM (eEEbp)

449 Grey Fox, you're probably gone, but I never said homosexual sex wasn't a sin. I just never felt qualified to judge another's sin worse than my own. You also seem to be posting from the POV that being gay is a choice. I've known enough gay folks to know that's just not true. I won't say it's all genetic, to me it seems that it must be a combination of genetics and environment, but they could no more sleep with a woman than I could with a man. Sure we could do it, physically, but..And this notion that being gay somehow appeared in the 50s is just flat wrong. On a lighter note, I've just been stung by hornets! I went out to the wooded half of my lot to have a fire in the fire pit, and while scrounging wood from the forest, I felt a sting on my thigh. Then one on my ankle. I shined the light from my miners hat down and saw hornets on my leg. I dropped the wood, brushed them off and ran. Thank God it's chilly and they're sluggish. I got the wood for my fire from another area. I have a real nice fire going now, and also a fire in my leg. Tomorrow I'll find the nest and burn it out. Ouch!

Posted by: Weirddave at September 14, 2013 09:54 PM (zfs2X)

450 Oh, and before anyone chides me for describing my husband's employee/friend as "Mexican" and then deriding him for not being American, that is a descriptor. Just like they used to say, the Swede, or the what-have-you. Anyone can be an  American. That's what separates us  from other countries. I don't think there's anything wrong about descriptors;  what I have a problem with is hyphenated Americans. (This will not play well in today's hypersensitive society.)

Posted by: kalneva at September 14, 2013 09:56 PM (XyrkB)

451 Cook Out burgers FTW!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at September 14, 2013 09:59 PM (yh0zB)

452 Bees and hornets usually chill out after dark.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2013 10:00 PM (0axsw)

453 445  In n out is run by Mormons.  explains a lot don't it

Posted by: DAve at September 14, 2013 10:04 PM (b7yum)

454 Like I said, In-n-Out and Five Guys are different. Personal taste is gonna prefer one to the other for some people. As for that puzzling pickle discussion earlier, I believe Animal Style is basically Russian dressing with pickle relish and cheese, no? I love it on the fries, never have had it on the burgers. Posted by: non-purist at September 15, 2013 01:53 AM (afQnV) Animal Style fries = spread + grilled onions + melted cheese. Animal Style burger has the burger grilled with onion in mustard, with pickles added thereto. It's nice and gooey and satisfying. Also, you can custom order your fries. You can have them nearly raw or crisped to near oblivion... It's you choice. There are a lot of variations, and you can even get animal style fries inside your animal style burger. Of course, you can also get a 100 x 100 with 100 patties and 100 slices of cheese: http://tinyurl.com/f52z3

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 14, 2013 10:06 PM (Vk2pI)

455 This was  an epiphany for me, when we were  in Coeur d'Alene last month.  Yellow jackets EVERYWHERE! Several traps at the rental house, and every restaurant patio.  But no flies! It raised a question, among us, and we would all take the yellow jackets! Horde please put knowledge on why either/or is dominant in different sectors. I think animals must have something to do with it.  Ooh, here's a story about that. While Hubby and I were "taking a nap", son and GF spotted a mouse under the sofa. Live, but barely.  Son scooped it up with cardboard and deposited it outside.  Hours later mouse was  swarmed with yellow jackets. *shiver* I didn't look.

Posted by: kalneva at September 14, 2013 10:08 PM (XyrkB)

456 I have in n out and Mc D's just about as far away and I go to Mc D's more often

Posted by: DAve at September 14, 2013 10:08 PM (b7yum)

457 In n out is run by Mormons. explains a lot don't it Is it a franchise deal or are all the locations corporately owned? I've seen them in two states and the cosistency in the "polite, prompt, old-fashioned attitude" from the staff and just sparkling cleanliness of each location is impressive. And...nice. That's just it. They are nice.

Posted by: Deety at September 14, 2013 10:10 PM (UaCt0)

458 If you want a real Moron burger, try the Heart Attack Grill (and yes, people have died there due to heart attacks). http://www.heartattackgrill.com/ The fries are fried in lard. The burger comes in single, double, to octuple bypass burgers (the last haveing 4 lbs. of meat). If you finish, the "nusre" wheels you around in a wheelchair. If you fail, she spanks you! Also, unfiltered cigarettes and beer.

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 14, 2013 10:11 PM (Vk2pI)

459 There's not much better than spending a few hours on a Saturday night with friends, family and beer in the pool and hot tub.

Posted by: Adam at September 14, 2013 10:12 PM (Aif/5)

460 Bees and hornets usually chill out after dark I agree. Tell them that. My leg might have an opinion on the subject.

Posted by: Weirddave at September 14, 2013 10:13 PM (JP1Pf)

461 #457

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-N-Out_Burger

It appears they all remain under single ownership. They also, as noted in the article, have limited expansion thus far to an area within a singles day's drive of the corporate HQ, which makes it easier to pay proper attention to all of the locations.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 14, 2013 10:15 PM (kcfmt)

462 They also, as noted in the article, have limited expansion thus far to an area within a singles day's drive of the corporate HQ, which makes it easier to pay proper attention to all of the locations. Ahh! I like that! Kind of anticipated that CBS reality show where they have CEOs and whatnot fly around their farflung empires donning shitty wigs and working as low-level trainees, no?

Posted by: Deety at September 14, 2013 10:20 PM (UaCt0)

463 Night all. Here is "Riding On The Edges" from Christian Mistress: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5DHxm-XgMc

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 14, 2013 10:51 PM (Vk2pI)

464 So, today's adventure was going to an ex-boss' annual house party. Started off as the company picnic, we both ended up out of the company. People flew in from New Jersey and North Carolina to attend.




Back at the old company, he and I had a "rivalry" going on about guitar/bass collections. I topped out at about 14 or so.....he kept going. Main event for the party was jams going from about 11 am-7 pm. BH stayed until 2, I stayed until 8 to work the tear-down.




Interestingly, he's gone Variax on his electrics. He had a V left, but he only had two Variax guitars and one Variax bass besides that.




I'm quite proud of myself for doing bass on Collective Soul's "December" without fucking up too bad.....which gives the cognoscenti a pretty good idea on how rudimentary my musical skills are....but I come by it naturally. When I was taking piano lessons, it was pre-LASIK, so I required 5+ diopters of optical correction to approximate actual vision. This meant that I couldn't learn music in realtime, 'cause I usually couldn't see it. I used to play fairly complex ragtime piano that I painstakingly pieced together from books, but then played "by ear" once learned.




But when it comes to a group endeavor, with songs I'm unfamiliar with......er......yeah, my playing sucks donkey dongs. I'm forever running around going "what's the song? what's the key?" and, as a major contributing factor to the misery, there's typically horrible monitors on keys. So I frequently have to guess, blindly.




I did a few fills on keys that went pretty well. One where I got asked to turn it down. Several I didn't attempt or gave up on. Declined a couple of solo offers. Not too bad.




Good friends, good fun, good times.....

Posted by: cthulhu at September 14, 2013 11:28 PM (T1005)

465 Afghanistan and have them march south through Pakistan to the ocean for

Start in Dearborn.

Posted by: DaveA at September 14, 2013 11:32 PM (DL2i+)

466 Just went through a PJMedia link about some dancing around the Continuing Resolution. I am just so tired of that shit.



Item one, do a CR for the military. STOP




Item two, Left bitches about government shutdown. Nicely ask, "what can you possibly mean?" They say "courts, post office, census, ICE, TSA, medicare, social security, etc." Fund those on individual bills (with dropouts). STOP




Repeat Item Two. Left can't find any more popular programs to whinge about defunding.... STOP.




That's all it takes.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 14, 2013 11:42 PM (T1005)

467 Soupy recognized his voice

Posted by: Beto at September 15, 2013 12:12 AM (MhA4j)

468

Posted by: cthulhu at September 15, 2013 03:28 AM

 

Nicely done on that song. Good tune.

Posted by: otho at September 15, 2013 12:20 AM (9gNQd)

469 Oh, well. That was fun! I just lost Internet & TV at about 11:33 PM West Coast time (but not phone!) for no fucking reason. Did I mention that I sells this Major Cable Company's services Door-to-Door, as an IC? (Had a great day today, BTW! Saved some $$ on 2 custs bills and signed up 2 new addreses! ) I don't get any discount on my services, being an IC, but I still signed up for all of the cool shit 2 mo. ago when I was finally free of my DirecTV contract. Being as how I was representing the product and all... The Whole Home DVR has NEVER worked properly after the first 2 weeks of install even after I had the 2nd tech out here on 9/11 (dude spent 4 hours, couldn't do anything except for install an Amp. "No way to get past the constant upgrades to the CISCO boxes", he sez. So...anyway, being worried about all this techy fooling around, I called Tech Support and apologized and promised that, "Honest to Pete! None of us really needs DVR service on any TV, once you think about it. I suppose that we all should be grateful for the KABOOM! of On Demand. Was told that I was shut off for unpaid bills... NOT POSSIBLE! I have the bank statements to PROVE it!!! (Well, I would. If I had acess to the internet!) So, I just paid a charge of $150 + $9.50 processing fee, (that I don't owe!) so Dad can have football tomorrow and I can dispute and look for work elsewhere, on Monday. So, now I have no money & won't have for 2 weeks, at best. I mean NO MONEY, not nuthin' not even CASH! But I don't know how to dispute w/out the internet anymore. So, I paid it. Mebbe, I'll get it back or maybe I won't. Had to be done.

Posted by: Deety at September 15, 2013 01:14 AM (JOXw+)

470 Good morning to all my imaginary friends in the magic lap box.
Spent most of yesterday at Navy/Marine Corp stadium watching Delaware score somewhat slightly less than Navy.
Interesting that due to sequester, there was no opening flyover by F18's out of Oceana. That sort of sucked.
Yesterdays game attendance was the highest on opening day on record, and the 8th highest in stadium history. That helped explain the incredible traffic going to the game.

Of course, that kept me from spending time here with the horde, so I am about 18 hours behind the rest of you all on content, concepts, commentary and comedy.

Anyhow, one might be inclined to ask, "What the hell is VIA running on at the mouth about, at five O'clock in the morning"?

Some of it could be attributed to eating to many buffalo wings, too late at night. But mostly it could be attributed to a topic of discussion that I saw Gingy mention earlier...Maryland and gun control.

As I am slowly working my way towards the legal ownership of an AR platformed gun, and Mrs VIA has ordered her S&W MP9, and October first is the date for implementing our new gun laws, I have become pretty attuned to the challenges of legal gun ownership here in the Peoples Democratic Republic of Maryland. And because of that, I have recently begun to spend time at MDShooter.com, and reading about the efforts by my government to impede legal gun ownership, to include the State possibly violating both Federal and State privacy laws. Now most of this battle continues behind the scenes, and  away from the eyes of a mostly disinterested media and citizenry, with minimal constitutional interest by pretty much anyone except gun owners. Well, sometime this morning between the TUMS and the cat wanting to know what the hell I was doing up at this time of night, and not feeding/petting her, it hit me.

Why can we not couch the gun control argument in a context that most people can understand? Minorities and Civil Rights.
Why must the government continue to disenfranchise minorities by placing such onerous requirements in front of minorities in order to grant them access to one of the most basic of Civil Rights, the right to live without fear of attack by persons with evil intent?
Courts long ago decided that a Poll Tax was a barrier placed in front of minorities in a thinly disguised effort to keep minorities from exercising their right to vote. In Maryland, the burden of State firearm ownership fees is fixing to take a huge jump upward.

Currently, Maryland gun applications are backlogged, with almost forty thousand applications not yet reviewed by the Maryland State Police, with only fifteen days left before the new laws come into play. To put it in a different context, the minority grandmother that Mrs VIA is attending the NRA handgun safety course with, (true story)  may not be able to exercise her constitutional right to own a firearm for quite some time,, And   the 17 round standard capacity magazines that come with the weapon, and have already been paid for, and are currently legal to buy in this state? If her paperwork is not completed by October first, and the gun shop due to political pressure does not release the weapon to the new owner till government approval is granted....those standard capacity magazines, bought and paid for prior to the ban going into effect will not be legal for her to take possession of.  
Can you imagine an election approaching, and a minority being told "You may not be able to vote in this election if your voter registration is not processed by the state in time" and there not being an uproar about disenfranchising voters that would be so loud that the State House rafters would rattle from it?

Ah well, had to get that off my chest, and thanks for listening.

Now to get ready for a glorious day of paintball up near Chesapeake City Md.
Little VIA may have a chance to get picked up by one of the teams, and Mrs VIA and I get to go romp in the woods and shoot at people.
It's a win-win for all.

 

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 15, 2013 01:35 AM (zzbNp)

471 If her paperwork is not completed by October first, and the gun shop due to political pressure does not release the weapon to the new owner till government approval is granted....those standard capacity magazines, bought and paid for prior to the ban going into effect will not be legal for her to take possession of.

FWIW, VIA, the gun shop down the road from me will hand over the magazines before October 1st if the gun purchase is paid in full even though they have to hold the gun itself until the paperwork goes through. They tell  me said paperwork is taking 14 weeks on average.

Posted by: Retread at September 15, 2013 02:17 AM (Oz+LZ)

472 Retread

There is a chance that the one she is dealing with will do the same thing.

Don't know if you have been in any shops lately, but last week I was in four of them, from Baltimore to Bel Air, and it's crazy.
Buyers are on edge, and owners/staff are stressed to the limit on volume of sales, and the number of 1st time buyers.

Not a pretty time to be here.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 15, 2013 02:22 AM (zzbNp)

473 Why can we not couch the gun control argument in a context that most people can understand? Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 15, 2013 05:35 AM (zzbNp) Happens all the time, but you're competing against power-mad politicians and bureaucrats, and long-march academics and the MFM. And frankly individual rights tend to be the kind of thing valued most by people who don't want to control others and aren't up in other people's **** all the time, so we're at a natural disadvantage.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 15, 2013 02:31 AM (qyfb5)

474 "And frankly individual rights tend to be the kind of thing valued most by people who don't want to control others and aren't up in other people's **** all the time, so we're at a natural disadvantage."

Oh, I agree about the natural disadvantage.
But, if the right to vote is considered an individual right, it seems that the liberals have owned that right for the purpose of legislation and judicial ruling.
Look at the argument concerning the requirement to show SOME sort of ID to vote.

I fully expect that at some point, an argument will be put forth that the prohibition against appearing at a Polling Place while naked is a thinly veiled attempt to disenfranchise nudists.

It just seems that for a liberal supported "right", no supporting argument    is too absurd.

For a conservative supported "right", no supporting argument is cogent, nor fact based enough.

Does anyone know if one must show ID to apply for an EBT card?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 15, 2013 02:41 AM (zzbNp)

475 I've only been in one but they've abandoned the old practice of handing over the gun after seven days if no failure of the background check has been reported to them. They implied their own license would be in jeopardy if they did otherwise, so the new law is in practical effect already. People's republic, indeed.

Posted by: Retread at September 15, 2013 02:48 AM (Oz+LZ)

476 And frankly individual rights tend to be the kind of thing valued most by people who don't want to control others and aren't up in other people's **** all the time.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And frankly individual rights tend to be the kind of thing valued most by people who had them once and have lost them. FIFY

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 15, 2013 02:49 AM (UeUjL)

477 It just seems that for a liberal supported "right", no supporting argument is too absurd. For a conservative supported "right", no supporting argument is cogent, nor fact based enough. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 15, 2013 06:41 AM (zzbNp) It was never about rights, it was always about power and control. Sometimes *in the minds* of the leftist, especially on the bottom rungs, it can be about rights. They can even act consistently that way. They can really believe in it. Heck, a few of them actually accomplish something in those areas. But the results always go the other way eventually because the core philosophy believes in things like "government should be a force for good" and "human society is perfectible" and "humans are all responsible for each other" and so on. It's guaranteed to become pathological because it's emotionally rewarding enough to be as hard to drop as crack, and yet will always disappoint. That's why they have to "ramp up" the demands / pressure constantly - the demand can neither be satisfied nor abandoned. If the pendulum of power swings far enough you end up with Revolutionary France, Soviet Russia, Communist China, North Korea, etc.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 15, 2013 02:54 AM (qyfb5)

478 "They implied their own license would be in jeopardy if they did otherwise, so the new law is in practical effect already."

Yup, heard that one as well.
Interesting but not small point to be made.
It was not an informal practice to release the weapon after seven days.
The actual law, and State policy was, and is still worded that FFLs may release a weapon to the purchaser if seven days has elapsed, and there is no reply to the contrary from the Maryland State Police.

But several shop owners have reported that the word from the Maryland AG is that if they follow the law, and release prior to MSP response, that the AG is coming after them.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 15, 2013 02:54 AM (zzbNp)

479 "But the results always go the other way eventually because the core philosophy believes in things like "government should be a force for good" and "human society is perfectible" and "humans are all responsible for each other" and so on."

Firefly

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 15, 2013 02:56 AM (zzbNp)

480 Interesting that due to sequester, there was no opening flyover by F18's out of Oceana. That sort of sucked. If it makes you feel any better, Village Idiot, I'm quite sure, that the Drum & Bugle Corps of Annapolis just shocked the fuck awake some dreamy, Liberal Arts Major trying to sleep off a hangover yesterday as they set out towards Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium via the King George St. Bridge over College Creek on way to Rowe(?) Blvd.

Posted by: Deety at September 15, 2013 03:24 AM (JOXw+)

481 Deety
Yes, that would be Rowe Blvd.

And hearing that......my life has just gotten a little bit better.
Thanks!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 15, 2013 03:28 AM (zzbNp)

482 Oooh, totally wrong! I meant the US Navy Drum & Bugle Corps. Very different. Annapolis has nothing to do with nothing!

Posted by: Deety at September 15, 2013 03:29 AM (JOXw+)

483 "394 Celebrity doppelgangers:

When I was about 16 I was told that I look quite a bit like Elizabeth McGovern http://bit.ly/18hHPWX from Once Upon a Time in America.

I thought then, and looking at old HS pics now still do think that's about right. She's about 10 years older than I am though.

I still get carded for cigs & booze, so I don't think we aged the same.

Though, if this is what I have to look forward to a decade from now, looks-wise, I can't really complain now, can I?

Elizabeth McGovern http://bit.ly/1bjGXIy Downton Abbey.

Posted by: Deety at September 15, 2013 01:01 AM (UaCt0)"



Elizabeth McGovern has certainly aged better than Christine Keeler.



http://tinyurl.com/moyxso5

Posted by: Obnoxious A-hole at September 15, 2013 03:53 AM (31Nrp)

484 Eh, this was before 2001. I came from the "hippy-dippy", Santa Fe, campus. I only heard the drums, noted the lack of sirens in my building, knotted up my hiking-boots, brought my wool-short coat (you know, justincase you have to beat the flames out of somebody) slapped down every magnetic door pull on the two stair wells in my 1870's building, floor by floor on my way down... (They were ALWAYS supposed to be kept closed, in case of fire but that never actually happened, really) Until one of the 8 ROTC's noticed my confusion and told me what all of the hullaballoo was about. "Oh, it's a Football Game!" "That explains EVERYTHING!" Well, silly me. When is the brekfast that is NOT cereal? Huh, more than an hour? NO! I don't want a fucking ticket to the game. Who am I supposed to root for?

Posted by: Deety at September 15, 2013 04:23 AM (JOXw+)

485 The ray gun: This is why many post apocalyptic ideas about a primitive future could be prophetic.  If this technology proliferates, and you know it will, it will be used by those who have less technological war making ability to even the playing field.  When the playing field is well evened out, we will arrive at Mad Max: guns, knives, swords, pikes, horses, and vehicles that run on a 1950's level of mechanical simplicity.

Posted by: teapartydoc at September 15, 2013 05:48 AM (4U98b)

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