March 25, 2013
— Maetenloch
Remembering Operation Linebacker II
CBS apologized this week for using the wreckage of a US B-52 shot down in Vietnam as a prop in its show "The Great Race" but most viewers probably didn't know how it got there, what it's significance was or why it mattered so much at the end of the Vietnam war.
And Spook86 at In From the Cold explains it for those who've forgotten or never knew.
When the North Vietnamese walked away from the Paris Peace Talks (yet again), President Nixon decided to force Hanoi's hand militarily. He ordered his commanders to prepare a "maximum air effort" against the North. Unlike earlier, incremental air power campaigns (such as Rolling Thunder), the new offensive, dubbed Linebacker II, would feature large numbers of sorties against a wide range of North Vietnamese targets from the onset. And most importantly, the new campaign would send waves of B-52s over Hanoi, in the largest American bomber raids since World War II.The offensive began on December 18, 1972. North Vietnam's Soviet-designed air defense network (built around the SA-2 surface-to-air missile system), offered massive resistance. By some estimates, almost 2 SAMs were launched for every "Buff" sortie, meaning that North Vietnamese crews fired over 200 missiles during some of the nighttime raids.
But there were also concerns about potential losses; if too many Buffs went down over North Vietnam, SAC would have difficulty maintaining political support for its bomber force and B-52 losses were irreplaceable, since the Boeing assembly line had been shut down a decade earlier.
...The heaviest losses occurred in the early phases of the campaign; three B-52s were lost on the first night over Hanoi, and six more (4 "G" models and 2 "D" models) went down on the third night, forever known as "Black Thursday" in the B-52 community. Overall, SAC lost 15 Buffs during Linebacker II, including the one now used as a memorial in North Vietnam. A total of 33 B-52 crew members were killed, and an equal number were captured by the North Vietnamese. Among the six men who flew on the B-52 whose wreckage now forms that memorial, only four survived.
But for possibly the first time the North Vietnamese leadership were afraid and felt they needed to do something to get Americans to stop the bombing.
But the bombers achieved their goals. North Vietnam suddenly decided to finalize the Paris Peace Accords, wondering what that "madman" Nixon might do next. Inside the Hanoi Hilton, hundreds of American POWs also noticed a change of heart. Senator McCain (and others) recall seeing genuine fear on the faces of their guards, who had mocked and taunted their prisoners for years. With the B-52s roaming over Hanoi, they too, were worried about what might be in the offing. Treatment of the POWs finally began to improve.On February 12, 1973, barely six weeks after the last B-52 sortie over North Vietnam, a U.S. C-141 landed in Hanoi to repatriate the first group of American prisoners. Among the men on that flight was Navy Commander Everett Alvarez, the first pilot taken prisoner by North Vietnam in 1964, and Air Force Technical Sergeant James Cook, a B-52 gunner who suffered two broken legs, a broken back and fractures in his shoulder and arm during the bailout from his stricken aircraft, which was hit by three SA-2s. When the C-141 landed in the Philippines, Cook saluted the American flag from his stretcher.
The Homecoming flights continued for almost two months, until the last of 591 POWs were repatriated.
This was the fate of the men flying that particular B-52:
RR=POW Repatriated.
NR=Negotiated Remains Returned
Callsign: Rose 1, B52D
Aircraft: No. 56-0608
Date of Loss 12-19-72 Hanoi
Based: U-Tapao
Pilot: Capt Hal Wilson, Status: RR
Co-Pilot: Capt Charles Brown, Status: RR
R/Nav: Maj Fernando Alexander, Status: RR
Nav: Capt Richard Cooper, Status: NR
EWO: Capt Henry Barrows, Status: RR
Gunner: E6 Charlie Poole, Status: NR
And these are the four men who survived the ejection and captivity as POWs:
It's believed that Cooper and Poole survived the crash but died later in captivity.
Trayvon Martin's Family's Attorney Facing Perjury Charges?
Now that we know that his girlfriend lied under oath it appears that the family attorney, Ben Crump, also lied about his role in coaching her testimony.
Now it seems clear that Mr. Crump has been caught in an obvious lie, a lie under oath-perjury. It is possible that this is only the first. It is further possible that truthful and complete testimony by Mr. Crump would unearth additional lies and the machinations of a racial grievance machine intent not only on convicting George and Shelly Zimmerman regardless of the lack of evidence against them, but on enriching the Scheme Team and its associates.
...He left himself an out by claiming he remembers nothing, but that's not likely to be convincing when he is confronted by his own voice coaching Dee Dee. One can, however, expect him to take the Fifth. Oh yes: the more trouble Mr. Crump finds himself in, the more fervently the race card will be played.
And why Zimmerman opted to skip his stand-your-ground hearing:
I postulated a few weeks back that Zimmerman attorney Mark O'Mara dropped the SYG hearing because he'd unearthed evidence that destroyed the prosecution's case and wanted Zimmerman exonerated in a court of law.
Was Esquire Duped by the Bin Laden Shooter?
I don't have enough info to judge the credibility of Brandon Webb's post at SOFREP but if true, it severely undermines the shooter's story.
One story coming out of Joint Special Operations Command is that the Esquire "shooter" isn't the shooter after all. To be clear, he wasn't the point man that put the well placed rounds into UBL's head that ended the terrorist leaders life. Sure he was there, and deserves credit but he wasn't the man who shot UBL, and ended his life. And this is an important fact that must be clarified.The actual shooter at Naval Special Warfare Development Group (NSW DEVGRU or SEAL TEAM 6) has continued to maintain his professional integrity and has not come forward with the story, and most likely never will. Looks like Esquire and Bronstein are the ones who are really screwed, not their interviewee; our sources say he's off cashing large checks from unsuspecting donors who bought the Esquire pity piece.
Here are some interesting insider facts:
- The "Shooter" was removed from his DEVGRU Squadron for talking about the operation openly after being warned to "can it'
- He was encouraged by leadership to remain in the SEAL community to finish out his career and gain his full retirement benefits
- Apparently against his concerns about personal security he has been very active on the public speaking circuit
The Downside of Universal Background Checks
In order for everyone to undergo a background check when buying a gun, then background checks will have to open to anyone. I have to admit that this is something I didn't consider when I first heard about the proposal.
Currently access to the FBI's background check system is limited to licensed firearms dealers, who have an incentive not to abuse it lest they lose their license. If it's opened up to all prospective sellers of guns-that is, to everybody-what's to prevent someone from abusing it, say by requesting a background check on Greg Sargent, who presumably has no interest in acquiring a gun?
The system only gives a yes-or-no answer as to whether the putative buyer is eligible to own firearms under federal law. But if you're looking to dig up dirt on someone, a "no" answer on a firearms background check would give you a nice clump of it.
Horace Mann, Child Molestation, and Personality Cults
A long piece in this week's New Yorker by Marc Fisher about more alleged sexual abuse at The Horace Mann School, a prep school in the Bronx. Fisher's piece focuses on Robert Berman, an English teacher at the school for many years.
This piece didn't sound very interesting to me but once I started reading I ended up reading it all the way to end.
The Odds of a Perfect NCAA Bracket
Are pretty damn small even if you know something about basketball.
The first probability is based on a 50/50 split of correct picks, which is like using fair coin flips to pick winners. Bergen doesn't really go into how he calculated the second probability, but that smaller number comes up by bumping up the probability of picking the right team for each game. I think he's using an average probability of slightly less than 70% (based on simulation results from this old Wall Street Journal column).
So offering a million dollar prize for a perfect bracket run is a pretty safe bet for contest organizers.
These favorable conditions make insuring these prize offers a good business, as the Dallas company SCA Promotions has discovered. SCA, founded by 11-time world bridge champion Robert D. Hamman, has taken on the insurance risk for roughly 50 perfect-bracket prizes -- including a Sporting News offer of $1 million in 2001, according to vice president Chris Hamman, the founder's son. In the 12 years it has been doing so, SCA has never had to pay out a claim.
Federal Government: Your Laser Pointers Are Too Powerful Fun
So expect a crackdown or partial banning soon.
"Commercial grade green and red laser pointers emit energy far beyond what is safe, posing skin, eye and fire hazards. That was the conclusion of a National Institute of Standards and Technology study on the properties of handheld lasers. The study tested 122 of the devices and found that nearly 90% of green pointers and about 44% of red pointers tested were out of federal safety regulation compliance."
The Yahoo AoSHQ group. Bla bla bla.
And my twitter thang.
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Posted by: MrCaniac, now known as Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at March 25, 2013 06:14 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 25, 2013 06:14 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 06:15 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: BumperStickerist at March 25, 2013 06:15 PM (9P+hO)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 25, 2013 06:16 PM (VwC86)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2013 06:16 PM (S7KLd)
Some Air Force type can check me on this, but I believe that part of the cause of the downed aircraft is that the geniuses planning the missions ORDERED the pilots to take the same routes into the target, mission after mission.
Posted by: Die Trying at March 25, 2013 06:17 PM (w7J/R)
//BHO2 I faked my daddy's dreams
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 06:17 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Crocs™Jackson at March 25, 2013 06:18 PM (JMmQ9)
"This is a Class I Laser. Do not look directly into the light . . . with your remaining eye."
Posted by: Charlton Heston at March 25, 2013 06:18 PM (NaNKB)
Ace, please get a bitcoin address and post it on the front page. I will send 20 BTC there as soon as I see it.
Posted by: schizoid at March 25, 2013 06:18 PM (kSGAe)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 25, 2013 10:14 PM
Texas was reliably democrat until the commies took over that party. I know people who are more conservative than I am who are still registered dems because that's what they've always been and always will be. They just don't vote that way.
Posted by: huerfano at March 25, 2013 06:19 PM (bAGA/)
Posted by: filbert at March 25, 2013 06:19 PM (NaNKB)
Posted by: Davros at March 25, 2013 06:20 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: MrCaniac, now known as Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at March 25, 2013 06:20 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: Jones in CO at March 25, 2013 06:20 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 25, 2013 06:21 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: Jones in CO at March 25, 2013 06:23 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2013 06:25 PM (piMMO)
nah not from me.....
I am argued out on it...
gonna read some Lo Kuanchung and hit the hay....
if I am not in a lot this week like the last two know I always miss you and often read without comment when able.
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 06:25 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2013 06:26 PM (sqp6o)
Posted by: Ides at March 25, 2013 06:27 PM (cvrr4)
Posted by: ExSnipe at March 25, 2013 06:27 PM (PBm/l)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2013 06:27 PM (GEICT)
The study tested 122 of the devices and found that nearly 90% of green pointers and about 44% of red pointers tested were out of federal safety regulation compliance.
Studies and statistics carry about as much weight as polls.
Posted by: katya the designated driver at March 25, 2013 06:27 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at March 25, 2013 06:27 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Jones in CO at March 25, 2013 06:27 PM (8sCoq)
Order of magnitude error?
This sucker might not make 100.
Posted by: filbert at March 25, 2013 06:27 PM (NaNKB)
Posted by: rev dr e buzz at March 25, 2013 06:29 PM (HQml1)
Posted by: Jones in CO at March 25, 2013 06:29 PM (8sCoq)
I got up at 5:30 and am fading fast.
Have a great evening and ONT, everyone!
Posted by: Miss Marple at March 25, 2013 06:29 PM (GoIUi)
Posted by: Blacksheep at March 25, 2013 06:29 PM (bS6uW)
I'm on day three of my five day weekend. So far I've done almost nothing of importance. I feel kind of bad, because there are about six projects that I need to work on, but then my inner slacker takes over.
How is everyone else doing tonight?
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 25, 2013 06:30 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: ExSnipe at March 25, 2013 06:30 PM (PBm/l)
Texas was reliably democrat until the commies took over that party. I know people who are more conservative than I am who are still registered dems because that's what they've always been and always will be. They just don't vote that way.
Posted by: huerfano at March 25, 2013 10:19 PM (bAGA/)
That's what it used to be like in Virginia until the 90's. The Dems had absolute control of the legislature and city/county governments until the 90's. To have any hope you needed to be a Dem, but we all voted for the GOP. My dad remained a Dem until he died in 94. He hadn't voted for a national Dem since the 60's, but he needed to be a Dem to get anything done down at City Hall. Probably the same in Texas.
Posted by: MrCaniac, now known as Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at March 25, 2013 06:30 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: katya the designated driver at March 25, 2013 06:31 PM (DoZD+)
Hell, my first day at my most recent job, nearly the first thing a new co-worker said to me was "I couldn't find your facebook". I smiled ever so sweetly and replied "And that is exactly why I don't have one."
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at March 25, 2013 06:32 PM (Gk3SS)
er yes the collective "you"...
//blush...
no seriously yeah I was speaking of the whole but your bit on Noir did make me smile and given my foul mood today that was no mean feat...
thanks.
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 06:32 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Kalneva at March 25, 2013 06:32 PM (S+/pH)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at March 25, 2013 06:32 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Blacksheep at March 25, 2013 06:33 PM (bS6uW)
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Please. This isn't happening in my lifetime.
Posted by: sluggo at March 25, 2013 06:33 PM (vVv3V)
I saw that coming months ago. The largest systematic abuses of an "opened up" NICS will be by employers looking to use the system as an employment screening tool.
In one shot it finds more dirt on a potential employee than thousands of dollars worth of private investigation would...
....although I suspect many PI's are already in league with FFL's and use that go/no-go result as a way to get a quick buck out of people looking for girlfriend/boyfriend checks. They probably use it for some employment screening too.
Who's to know if some FFL is doing checks for cash for PI's? A check doesn't imply a purchase, and a purchase doesn't always result in a check, and doing it probably isn't even strictly illegal
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 06:33 PM (/gHaE)
I aim to try to stop it...
check out the non blog on the pioneer project...
we can stop the tide maybe.
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 06:34 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at March 25, 2013 06:34 PM (6IKyK)
Yup, and the lack of prosecution tells you all you need to know....
part of "divorce"
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 06:35 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2013 06:35 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: clemenza at March 25, 2013 06:35 PM (HMQ8k)
it's a tool in the toolbox...
another use for it is if you pay the correct people you can use a SS# and name and find out the last place a BRC was ran....
that's useful in some lines of work
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 06:36 PM (LRFds)
I can just feel it coming on
Posted by: Jones in CO at March 25, 2013 10:23 PM (8sCoq)
Professor Turgeson would like to weigh in on the matter.
http://tinyurl.com/c37mxhq
Posted by: MrCaniac, now known as Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at March 25, 2013 06:36 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: Blacksheep at March 25, 2013 06:36 PM (bS6uW)
Posted by: clemenza at March 25, 2013 06:37 PM (HMQ8k)
History of the Vietnam war-
part-1 America and allies invade Vietnam to plunder rice.
part-2 Ear necklaces.
part-3 Burning villages.
part-4 Killing babies.
part-5 Bombing burnt villages and dead babies.
part-6 Tet.
part-7 Woodstock festival.
part-8 Liberation of Saigon.
part-9 Nixon is a crook.
part-10 Watergate.
Posted by: otho at March 25, 2013 06:38 PM (yBF/9)
Maet, I am forever in your debt for the (be still, my heart) Steve McQueen pic. Was there ever anyone cooler? whew!
And, Happy Passover to the Jewish morons.
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 06:38 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Hopeless at March 25, 2013 06:38 PM (NSO0r)
Posted by: clemenza at March 25, 2013 06:38 PM (HMQ8k)
The standard history curriculum needs to show that Tet '68 wiped out the Cong b/c we did that. After Tet, it was the NVA, 'way geoplitical, and Jane Fonda/Walter Cronkite.
Cronkite is coals for the newly-arrived's marshmallow roasting in Hell (before Satan determines their eternal torture... it's his whimsy, which adds to the torture). Fonda is still alive, married to a media magnate, never been tried for treason, nor kidnapped and drowned in retribution in the pool surrounding that B-52. Others from that era and ilk run the government, mentor tomorrow's leaders, and live with impunity in the Republic they still seek to destroy.
Y'all still got your shovels?
Posted by: Thorvald at March 25, 2013 06:39 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: soothsayer, of the Righteous & Harmonious Fists at March 25, 2013 06:39 PM (DlaLh)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2013 06:39 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: puddleglum at March 25, 2013 06:39 PM (/LnoO)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2013 06:39 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: soothsayer, of the Righteous & Harmonious Fists at March 25, 2013 06:39 PM (xIzGn)
Posted by: clemenza at March 25, 2013 06:40 PM (HMQ8k)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 25, 2013 06:40 PM (/Z7MT)
Simply require the purchaser show a photo ID, and require the states to put something on their official state ID if the person with the ID has lost his/her right to possess a firearm?
Then a background check is easy on everyone except for former felons...no?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2013 06:40 PM (zPVBH)
Not exactly a regular commenter here, but something I thought I'd share....
I applied for a special agent position with the FBI and today received an e-mail that due to the sequester, there will be no Phase I testing for the position until the budgetary issues are "resolved".
Make of that what you will.
Posted by: La Mauvaise New Yorkaise at March 25, 2013 06:41 PM (I8mbz)
Posted by: clemenza at March 25, 2013 10:38 PM (HMQ8k)
That's a wise decision.
Posted by: Mætenloch at March 25, 2013 06:41 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2013 06:42 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2013 06:42 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: STV at March 25, 2013 06:42 PM (tr+QE)
Not exactly a regular commenter here, but something I thought I'd share....
I applied for a special agent position with the FBI and today received an e-mail that due to the sequester, there will be no Phase I testing for the position until the budgetary issues are "resolved".
Make of that what you will.
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Seems there is other hiring going on..., I mean aside from Paris hotels
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2013 06:42 PM (aDwsi)
I really am going to go to bed in a bit so we may not have this out properly...
I get what you are sayig, I even suspect on a strategic level you are correct but Hopeless I am not in the mood to becomne Tammany GOP to Donkey Tammany...
you simply cannot out donk the donk and be true to the economic ideals I don't just prefer but hold as dearly as a borderline secular faith.
A GOP Tammany will be every bit the evil a mule Tammany is...
it will by its very nature add bullshit specious 'rules and regulations" and grift productive resources from proper flow.
I'd rather die staring at a dead volcano in Texas than be part of that valley of shit.
I am not writing that as a personal reproach to you, I simply want no part of our freeshit cannoning the left.
I'd rather leave the country than do that.
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 06:43 PM (LRFds)
DHS's "Real ID" shit that's coming in a few years.
The left ain't spun up to max RPM's on it yet. They're gonna be gobsmacked when they see what's coming.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 06:43 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: rickl at March 25, 2013 06:43 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: soothsayer, of the Righteous & Harmonious Fists at March 25, 2013 06:44 PM (vyPsz)
Vietnam was my war.
All I have to say on that is one of my life goals is living long enough to piss on John Kerry's grave.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 25, 2013 06:44 PM (SAMxH)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2ktbnz
Posted by: Thorvald at March 25, 2013 06:44 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2013 06:44 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: Country Singer at March 25, 2013 06:44 PM (CgcOa)
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Is the pick-up handled by Navy?
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2013 06:45 PM (aDwsi)
Oh, yay, Tru!!! I've been looking for you ever since the other night when we were talking about the origins of New England and, of course, America. There's a book I wanted to recommend and I finally spotted it on the shelves. It is amazing. Riveting. Nathaniel Philbrick "Mayflower." I promise you will love it!
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 06:45 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2013 06:45 PM (sqp6o)
Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2013 06:45 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 06:46 PM (+iA5G)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 25, 2013 06:46 PM (/Z7MT)
Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2013 06:46 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 25, 2013 06:46 PM (Vk2pI)
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Our international Bahamian outreach program doesn't pay for itself you know.
Posted by: Barack Obama at March 25, 2013 06:46 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: Crocs™Jackson (old new content up) at March 25, 2013 06:47 PM (JMmQ9)
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Hey, but Nixon used the government against his political enemies.
Uh, but in a different way then JFK, LBK, and BJ Clinton.
And really, don't we have enough Asians in Asia anyway?
Posted by: Some Liberal at March 25, 2013 06:47 PM (zPVBH)
You don't need to register an account to donate to Ace through PayPal. All you need is a CC#.
Posted by: In Exile at March 25, 2013 06:48 PM (0401c)
Posted by: Blacksheep at March 25, 2013 06:48 PM (bS6uW)
that they got their Pretty Little hate Machine going again speaks volumes to the efficacy of the bush administration frankly.
TN I hate the DeLay K street mob as much as the Pelosi brand....
I wish you luck I guess but I want a cleaner system not a better GOP gumming up of the works.
It is in the end my one "idealistic dreamer" thing I suppose.
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 06:48 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: irongrampa at March 25, 2013 10:44 PM (SAMxH)
That just made the patented Peaches prayer list, my friend! And if there is any way I can help, you just let me know. xoxo
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 06:48 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 25, 2013 06:48 PM (Vk2pI)
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That's pretty damn good - might not have been a bad line for Mittens to use on the campaign path.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2013 06:49 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: Javems at March 25, 2013 06:49 PM (c8xU9)
Posted by: rickl at March 25, 2013 06:50 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2013 06:50 PM (sqp6o)
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You've heard of the American justice system right...where a year in prison for rape reduces news anchors to tears...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2013 06:50 PM (zPVBH)
Here, have a special brownie. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2013 10:35 PM (GEICT)
nomnomnom
Oh, I loved doing it, I got to tell people what to do and they absolutely had to (pretend to) listen to me and do what I said. As I'm sure will shock the Horde, that is one of my very favorite things in the world.
The only time it became in issue was when I was asked to do a training class for the paralegals and the Big Boss's wife flipped out because she adamantly refused to believe that training during office hours was anything but a waste. I went to the Big Boss and negotiated a two hour training session from 4-6 and I offered to spring for the pizza for dinner. This was a not inconsiderable cost since there were 20+ people coming. He said fine and so I worked after hours for three weeks getting everything ready and making a booklet up and the whole nine yards. The day before the session, the Big Boss pulls me aside and announces he was cancelling it because the women with kids came to him and gave a sob story about how disruptive and inconvenient it was. It's important to note that I was the only single woman with no children in the entire office. I. Lost. My. Shit. Seriously lost my shit at him and went on a good 10 minute rant about how I didn't want to hear about how they had husbands and kids because I had absolutely no one, not a single soul within 100 miles of me, who was available to help me with anything. Laundry, shopping, picking up dry cleaning, shoveling snow, taking the car in, it was all on me with no one to help and I did not want to hear about how hard they had it to stay until 6 when I hadn't left the office before 9 in three weeks or so. It ended up with me bursting out rage crying, which was even more humiliating than it sounds. To his credit, he admitted he'd never thought of that and put his foot down and made the training from 3-5 one day the next week. I did yank my offer of pizza though.
God, I do not miss that job at all.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at March 25, 2013 06:51 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Hopeless at March 25, 2013 06:51 PM (g2ruq)
Just imagine you're swimming a river to get to a certain point on the opposite bank.
Set the rear gear down, and stomp the rudder to bring the nose over before you bring the attitude down.
Easy-peasey! It's not a carrier landing.
Or a re-supply of Lima Site 85.
Posted by: Thorvald at March 25, 2013 06:51 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: Florida Gulf Coast University at March 25, 2013 06:51 PM (/LnoO)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 25, 2013 06:51 PM (IDSI7)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 25, 2013 10:48 PM (Vk2pI)
I have repeated this sentiment, well, repeatedly. Shall not be infringed. sounds simple to me!
Posted by: Cicero Kid at March 25, 2013 06:52 PM (UrENZ)
Posted by: Jones in CO at March 25, 2013 06:52 PM (8sCoq)
Last night's ONT Jones in CO linked to a Pron Star Name Generator. Here's some politicians names.
Barack Obama-Doctor Assmaster
Michelle Obama-Tonya Pantsmaster, Esq.
Joe Biden-Ronnie Pimplebutt
Albert Gore-Humpy Pickle. If he was pet-Hamster Anus
John F. Kerry-Mister Looselips
Chuck Hagel-Pud Slickbooty
Bill Clinton-Maxx Spunky
Hillary Clinton-Mandi Muffmuncher
Mayor Bloomberg-Doctor Bangz
and from NBC, Brian Williams-Harly Spreadum
Posted by: ExSnipe at March 25, 2013 06:52 PM (PBm/l)
Posted by: In Exile at March 25, 2013 10:48 PM (0401c)
I have never registered on paypal. I have hit the tip jar numerous times, you just click the box where you wish to use paypal as a one-time guest or whatever. I get a little irked when I see all these peeps saying, oh, I need to have an address for Ace and I will send a check. OTOH, I am very easily irked.
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 06:52 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Lick at March 25, 2013 06:52 PM (PTA3L)
Oh, yay, Tru!!! I've been looking for you ever since the other night when we were talking about the origins of New England and, of course, America. There's a book I wanted to recommend and I finally spotted it on the shelves. It is amazing. Riveting. Nathaniel Philbrick "Mayflower." I promise you will love it!
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 10:45 PM
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Ancestry assures me (kinda) that Stephen Hopkins and Myles Standish are my 10th grandfathers
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2013 06:52 PM (aDwsi)
Apparently you've never checked out who runs Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio. The black, Hispanic and gay armies run these cities now.
Posted by: Blacksheep at March 25, 2013 10:36 PM (bS6uW)
That is any decent sized city in any state in the US.
Posted by: MrCaniac, now known as Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at March 25, 2013 06:52 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: Blacksheep at March 25, 2013 06:52 PM (bS6uW)
Posted by: soothsayer, of the Righteous & Harmonious Fists at March 25, 2013 06:53 PM (DlaLh)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2013 10:35 PM (GEICT)
Oh, me me me me me!!!!! You are so much hotter than Steve McQueen. I bet he always wished he could be you. I can haz special brownie now???
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 06:53 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2013 06:53 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 25, 2013 06:54 PM (/Z7MT)
The left ain't spun up to max RPM's on it yet. They're gonna be gobsmacked when they see what's coming.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 10:43 PM
That's the rush on "comprehensive immigration reform." Gotta get the illegals normalized so they can't be found and deported.
Posted by: huerfano at March 25, 2013 06:54 PM (bAGA/)
Posted by: H. at March 25, 2013 06:54 PM (HoxZS)
In case anyone is interested about the wreckage of Rose 1 in the pictures. That is what is left of the bomb bay you are seeing there.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 06:55 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at March 25, 2013 06:55 PM (csi6Y)
Bronstein? Bronstein? Where have I heard that name before?
Oh yes, that's right. Lev Bronstein. Aka Leon Trotsky.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 25, 2013 06:55 PM (IDSI7)
Apparently you've never checked out who runs
Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio. The black, Hispanic and gay
armies run these cities now.
Posted by: Blacksheep at March 25, 2013 10:36 PM (bS6uW)
That is any decent sized city in any state in the US.
Posted by: MrCaniac, now known as Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at March 25, 2013 10:52 PM
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Atlanta, Charlotte. Beware, BTW, Obama about to appoint Foxx of Charlotte as Sec. Transportation. Foxx was co-chair of the convention, stiffed the taxpayers for $10 million. Not that it would be a crony pay-off....
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2013 06:55 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: obamuh at March 25, 2013 06:55 PM (QPZ01)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2013 06:56 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at March 25, 2013 06:56 PM (bxiXv)
Just askin'
As you were.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 25, 2013 06:56 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: soothsayer, of the Righteous & Harmonious Fists at March 25, 2013 06:56 PM (39q3n)
Posted by: AltonJackson (old new content up) at March 25, 2013 06:56 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Jones in CO at March 25, 2013 06:57 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Trevor (@tjexcite) at March 25, 2013 06:57 PM (jOPzC)
Posted by: Leon Trotsky at March 25, 2013 06:58 PM (Vk2pI)
You're making a false distinction.
They have fused their enviro nuts and other nuts into an inside/outside double bind game of "drain the evil swamp"....
EPA and IRS are not giving classes to Donk protected classes on how to successfully sue them because the game is dutch in any way shape or form.
The wealthy of the left gave seed money to support the salad days and then magically once they got enough inside their FreeShit Militia became a self-funding community chest laundering donation mechanism.
Yes it "would be nice" if magically we had Gajillionaires who would fund this shit and not hamstring the economic engine of the nation to fund their bonfire of the vanities but that is misreading what the structure we face is and how its revenue stream flows....
DonkA$$MoFo doesn't spend money donating to Moonatd causes he makes money by controlling the rigged game lock stock and two smoking bores...
it's be like hiring AlexTheChick to regulate stompy boots, or me rigging a game that paid me by the post here....
that IS WHAT EPA IS a self-contained donk printing press of money and coercive shakedown potential.....
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 06:58 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: ExSnipe at March 25, 2013 10:52 PM
Not possible. Lurch has no lips. They've been botoxed out of existence.
Posted by: huerfano at March 25, 2013 06:59 PM (bAGA/)
Posted by: Jones in CO at March 25, 2013 06:59 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at March 25, 2013 06:59 PM (csi6Y)
What?
Couldn't hear you. Got something stuck in my ear...
Good job, too. Too bad it didn't happen a lot sooner.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 25, 2013 07:00 PM (IDSI7)
These are the same people who came to me with a 45 minute long video tape and asked me to convert it to mp4 format 20 minutes before the thing they needed it for. When I said that I could not do that, I got yelled at about how I always refused to help out and constantly gave excuses for why I wouldn't do things. Mind you, it was 6:40 p.m. when this happened. When I then tried to explain that it was physically impossible for me to capture the video in that time frame, I was asked, in all seriousness, why I couldn't just hit fast forward and capture it like that.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at March 25, 2013 07:00 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2013 10:56 PM (GEICT)
I try to stay a little hungry all the time. But, yeah, I get your drift. You're the best. I would hug you all over if I had half a chance. 
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 07:01 PM (8lmkt)
When POWS are incarcerated, only escapees will jump motorcycles.
When race cars go 68 mph on their lesbian lubricated fisting queef power units, only outlaws will have race cars.
Posted by: Thorvald at March 25, 2013 07:02 PM (1V6Pv)
http://annapuna.blogspot.com/2005/11/breaking-milk-bottles.html
Another area where Nixon stuck it to North Vietnam was Operation Pocket Money. When the US Navy dropped aerial mines that strangled the Communist supply line to North Vietnam.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 07:03 PM (iGhmo)
I see we are discussing Disney! OK, then.
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2013 07:03 PM (S8AWK)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at March 25, 2013 10:32 PM (Gk3SS)
speaking of facebook, I guess Mark Zuckerman is gong to invest millions and become political (immigration) etc.
hell what can't facebook do?
Posted by: willow at March 25, 2013 07:03 PM (nqBYe)
To do list:
1. Buy another new gun... looking for a good bolt action .223 (any recommendations?)
2. Buy more ammo.
3. Wait patiently...for the burning times.
4. Repeat1-2 with slight modifications. As. Necessary.
5. Wait patiently...for the burning times.
Etc. etc. and so forth....
Posted by: confiscate my 401k at your own risk at March 25, 2013 07:04 PM (2ykTc)
If anyone wants a good read about the Viet Nam Veterans and how their heroes and history was robbed, I recommend "Stolen Valor" by B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley.
After reading it if you don't want to strangle a leftist then you have no soul.
Posted by: ExSnipe at March 25, 2013 07:05 PM (PBm/l)
Posted by: Hopeless at March 25, 2013 07:05 PM (tKhxE)
yeah pretty much....
we should weaponize our money.....
*that* we can do and it does not undermine Capitalism...
the way we're headed we are stuck devolving this nation to the 3d world either way....
the only "correct' answer to that should be "no"
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 07:06 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2013 07:06 PM (GEICT)
To do list:
1. Buy another new gun... looking for a good bolt action .223 (any recommendations?)
Posted by: confiscate my 401k at your own risk at March 25, 2013 11:04 PM
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Like everything..., depends on how much you want to spend, and what you expect to use it for (the gun)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2013 07:06 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: willow at March 25, 2013 07:07 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Jones in CO at March 25, 2013 07:07 PM (8sCoq)
And, yet, ladies love outlaws . . .
Here's the original, it's fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8367UyK5pIs
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 07:09 PM (8lmkt)
http://annapuna.blogspot.com/2010/10/gov-moonbeams-traitor.html
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 07:09 PM (iGhmo)
Keep in mind that I had never attempted to do that.
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Yup. Been there. "They tell me that what I want is on this DVD"...., says he 5 minutes before the start.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2013 07:09 PM (aDwsi)
"Jerusalem will stand."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/cxuw3xa
Posted by: Thorvald at March 25, 2013 07:09 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2013 07:09 PM (GEICT)
there's an interesting new gizmo from Mossberg on that front....
http://tinyurl.com/akd6kew
the Mossberg Predator fires legit 5.56 Nato, uses AR-15 mags and is a beaut....
~$513....
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 07:09 PM (LRFds)
Take a look at Thompson Center rifles.
Posted by: Country Singer at March 25, 2013 07:10 PM (CgcOa)
there's an interesting new gizmo from Mossberg on that front....
http://tinyurl.com/akd6kew
the Mossberg Predator fires legit 5.56 Nato, uses AR-15 mags and is a beaut....
~$513....
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Gee..., you think M'berg sensed a market oportunity?
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2013 07:11 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2013 07:11 PM (GEICT)
Keep in mind that I had never attempted to do that. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2013 11:06 PM (GEICT)
Gah. Yeah, I have no patience, at all, for people who don't understand tech and who are not willing to show even the teeny tiniest bit of understanding for what it takes to make things run. Not to mention that if your sermon or speech absolutely requires a prop and you are not presenting say budgetary analysis or the cut away of a new design, then your sermon or speech is a failure.
I keep getting pestered to work with the a/v and computer stuff at my church and I'm running out of polite ways to say no. Apparently saying I am wholly unfamiliar with Mac systems and have no desire to learn is insufficient. Though Mommy did manage to explain to someone that telling me that not sharing my gifts with the church community was a damn great way to make sure I stopped going to church for a few weeks. Let's just say that I do not respond positively to emotional blackmail.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at March 25, 2013 07:12 PM (Gk3SS)
well came out last year I think but "heh"....
I'd buy a dozen if I were equipping a squad...
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 07:12 PM (LRFds)
Then in the early eighties, I was stationed at Lemoore Naval Air Station, which was the Light Attack base for the Pacific. Used to fly Spads and Skyhawks, when I was there it was about evenly divided between A-7s and F/A-18s. The on base housing development was named Alvarez Village, after that guy mentioned in the article.
While I was going to OCS in 19790, my father's last tour was at the Naval War College when Admiral Mark Stockdale was commander there and I got to meet him. When I was stationed in Korea the Chief of Staff for CNFK was a Captain (Navy O-6) with a Medal of honor and face a composed half of scar tissue, who always made a point of dropping by to see how I was doing. So yeah, those names are real people for me.
Posted by: Steve Skubinna at March 25, 2013 07:13 PM (XLQXo)
Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at March 25, 2013 07:13 PM (LbHHd)
Posted by: esch at March 25, 2013 07:13 PM (MV6z6)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlywcuw-1TU
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 07:14 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 25, 2013 07:14 PM (OryqQ)
Posted by: Kalneva at March 25, 2013 07:14 PM (S+/pH)
Posted by: Blacksheep at March 25, 2013 07:14 PM (bS6uW)
Posted by: Bigfoot at March 25, 2013 11:11 PM (cvrr4)
i guess as we were all discussing earlier how tinfoil hat is becoming seemingly mainstream these days..
Hell even ron paul can be right occasionally
but info wars?
Posted by: willow at March 25, 2013 07:14 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: willow at March 25, 2013 11:11 PM (nqBYe)
*slides over part of my special brownie*
At least in infowars you know straight up it's batshit. Zerohedge links may or may not be fine, right up to the point where you read the comments and it's Joooooooos all the way down.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at March 25, 2013 07:15 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Tuna at March 25, 2013 07:15 PM (M/TDA)
Hey, kalneva!! Big hug, babygirl!! And, yeah, I don't sign up for shit, but I still hit my favorite ewok on a regular basis via teh paypal. Easy peasy.
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 07:16 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: John F'n Kerry at March 25, 2013 07:16 PM (l3vZN)
Yes, McQueen was smokin' hot.
I watched "Papillion" for the first time about a month ago. Lord what a shithole Devil's Island was. In terms of setting up penal hells in the armpits of the earth, nobody beat the Russkies and the Nazis, but the frogs and the Brits (Norfolk Island, about 1000 miles off the coast of Australia was godawful) set up some really vile holes themselves.
Posted by: Donna V. at March 25, 2013 07:17 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2013 07:18 PM (GEICT)
Nothing that vaccinations can't solve am I right?
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 25, 2013 07:18 PM (NzBQO)
hey mike,
looking to spend between 500-800 or so..... just wondering if any morons own a good .223 bolt action that is accurate 100-200-250 yards or so... no biggy if noone has info- I'm sure I can get someone at the stores to give me their "expert" opinion.... oh yeah, it's for hunting wabbits...wabbits drawn on target paper....
Posted by: confiscate my 401k at your own risk at March 25, 2013 07:18 PM (2ykTc)
At least in infowars you know straight up it's batshit. Zerohedge links may or may not be fine, right up to the point where you read the comments and it's Joooooooos all the way down.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at March 25, 2013 11:15 PM (Gk3SS)
mmm brownie, looks at Peaches staying hungry feels bad, offers half ..takes a bite .
I know zero hedge has a lot going for it. avoiding comments is often/ MOSTLY - necessary
Posted by: willow at March 25, 2013 07:18 PM (nqBYe)
well came out last year I think but "heh"....
I'd buy a dozen if I were equipping a squad...
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 11:12 PM
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Everyone is having fantasies (they are fantasies,right?) about ripping off fire-fight quantities of semi-auto fire. That piece looks to be ideal for coyotes, ground hogs, etc. I have a project .222 mag (is this being recorded?)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2013 07:19 PM (aDwsi)
See, that's because you're a good person.
Okay, Horde, I'm throwing in the towel on today. Please be sure to wipe down all surfaces with that bleach over there once you're done doing those unspeakable things to the blog.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at March 25, 2013 07:20 PM (Gk3SS)
111The Feds should freeze all hiring until the budget is balanced.
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That's pretty damn good - might not have been a bad line for Mittens to use on the campaign path.
Hiring Freeze, Pay Freeze, Penzion Freeze, Earmark Freze, Baseline Budgeting Freeze...it would have been useful for Stiff Mitt to say something after the first debate.
Posted by: ALittleEnglish at March 25, 2013 07:20 PM (IAajI)
How bout we stop our imperialist wars and then we won't have any anti-imperialist war memorials to worry about?
Posted by: W.C. Varones at March 25, 2013 07:20 PM (QMAPJ)
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2013 07:20 PM (LUnTP)
Posted by: Jones in CO at March 25, 2013 07:20 PM (8sCoq)
Over at Twitchy, I saw that Donna Brazile said that the NRA's solution to every problem is to shoot it.
Judging from Brazile's picture, she thinks the solution to every problem is to eat it.
Posted by: Donna V. at March 25, 2013 07:20 PM (R3gO3)
but are there any Mactards out here? Because I got a new iMac and it hasn't gone fubar yet and I need to scrub the old one, but the disk drive has been fubar for years on that, so I need the scrub/reinstall thingie in some other format. I'd be forever grateful. e me at carolinvenice at teh hooyah if you can help. TIA!Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 07:21 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2013 07:21 PM (LUnTP)
Posted by: A. Pendragon at March 25, 2013 07:21 PM (wJliR)
Posted by: Jones in CO at March 25, 2013 07:21 PM (8sCoq)
May God bless all our heroes, past and present.
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 25, 2013 07:21 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Jones in CO at March 25, 2013 07:22 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: AltonJackson (old new content up) at March 25, 2013 07:22 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: AltonJackson (old new content up) at March 25, 2013 07:23 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: esch at March 25, 2013 11:13 PM (MV6z6)
--Not a bad show, eh?
Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 07:23 PM (+iA5G)
Haven't had any good news on the political front for a while. Found something that made me happy, thought I'd share. According to the Blaze, Paul, Cruz, and Mike Lee are sending a letter to Harry Reid (Pederast, Nevada) stating they will oppose preceding on any bill which restricts the second ammendment. I think this means filibuster.
Posted by: Simon Jester at March 25, 2013 07:23 PM (EhSF0)
Posted by: Jerry at March 25, 2013 07:23 PM (4SKYj)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2013 07:24 PM (sqp6o)
Heh coyotes with engine blocks...
yeah no I like the Predator b/c I have several AR mags and a boy to teach to shoot.
The main thing I learned about rapid fire is while very useful it is not a panacea and definitely not easy to learn to use well.
I want the boy to learn to break broomsticks before he learns to spray and pray.
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 07:24 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 25, 2013 07:24 PM (NzBQO)
Posted by: W.C. Varones at March 25, 2013 07:25 PM (QMAPJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 07:25 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: Blacksheep at March 25, 2013 07:26 PM (bS6uW)
Posted by: soothsayer, of the Righteous & Harmonious Fists at March 25, 2013 07:26 PM (OZ9Xn)
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 07:27 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Donna V. at March 25, 2013 11:17 PM
Norfolk Island was bad. Very bad. But it was like a scout camp compared to Macquarie Harbour. Hell. On. Earth. A virtual death sentence. The only thing worse than Macquarie Harbour, was escaping from Macquarie Harbour.
Posted by: otho at March 25, 2013 07:27 PM (yBF/9)
In the past, we all levered up, bought a big house, enjoyed capital gains tax-free, lived in the thing, and then, when the kids grew up and left home, we sold it to someone in our children's generation. Unfortunately, that doesn't work so well when there start to be more pensioners than workers.
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 25, 2013 07:27 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: AltonJackson (old new content up) at March 25, 2013 07:28 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Jerry at March 25, 2013 07:28 PM (4SKYj)
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2013 07:28 PM (LUnTP)
Or do you like your VC lover to take your broken arms and hang you from the rafters. So you feel your shattered bones pulling apart followed by your shoulders dislocating. While they use a rubber hose cut into a flail to turn your fat a** into hamburger.
Delenda Est and get the ban hammer stat.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 07:29 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at March 25, 2013 07:29 PM (csi6Y)
Notice that Jim Carrey's video mocks the "shitkicker redneck" type as it's very safe for Hollywood hypocrites to do so. It wasn't a shitkicker who shot up Newtown or Columbine, those were suburban losers with liberal parents. Carrey certainly wouldn't mock minority gangbangers who kill toddlers in their strollers.
Most of those gun deaths Jim Carrey laments are minorities shooting other minorities in the inner cities, not some guy named Billy Bob pulling a Bushmaster off the rack on his pickup truck
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2013 07:29 PM (mCvL4)
How bout we stop our imperialist wars and then we won't have any anti-imperialist war memorials to worry about?
Posted by: W.C. Varones at March 25, 2013 11:20 PM (QMAPJ)
--So, pray tell, what was the imperialist plan for America to exploit Viet Nam?
Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 07:29 PM (+iA5G)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 25, 2013 07:29 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: phoenixgirl,commenter on a conservative award winning blog at March 25, 2013 07:30 PM (GVxQo)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at March 25, 2013 07:30 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: Blacksheep at March 25, 2013 07:30 PM (bS6uW)
Posted by: .87c at March 25, 2013 07:30 PM (FVdef)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at March 25, 2013 07:31 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2013 07:31 PM (S8AWK)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2013 07:31 PM (mCvL4)
Has there ever been another actor as cool as Steve McQueen?
Posted by: Tuna at March 25, 2013 11:15 PM (M/TDA)
James Garner had some cool
Robert Mitchum and Lee Marvin too.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 25, 2013 07:32 PM (IDSI7)
Please.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 25, 2013 07:32 PM (4Mv1T)
Judging from Brazile's picture, she thinks the solution to every problem is to eat it.
Posted by: Donna V. at March 25, 2013 11:20 PM (R3gO3)
You know i was thinking of the great divide earlier .
while reading slate on to drone or not to drone, polls results.
I had read comments (unfortunately) but not commented.
there was an Obama advocate stating how WE blah blah only care Obama is doing this, we didn't mind Bush doing it. etc (Ahmed Hijazi 2002 ) a killing of Al Queda group without knowing an american was in that group. He mentions we spit in Their face while they had protests marches...
He mention Their protests !
While He is now supporting Obama going further x 1,000. He mentions patriot act (which i actually hated it i knew it Could lead to this shit with another President ) never give em that much authority!
without blinking an eyelash.
how are we ever going to come to any agreement with the other half of the country?
Posted by: willow at March 25, 2013 07:32 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Hopeless at March 25, 2013 07:32 PM (62WS0)
Posted by: Tuna at March 25, 2013 07:33 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: AltonJackson (old new content up) at March 25, 2013 07:34 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Boomer Redneque hates the fucking cold at March 25, 2013 07:34 PM (9m8VQ)
Posted by: confiscate my 401k at your own risk at March 25, 2013 07:34 PM (2ykTc)
Robert Mitchum and Lee Marvin too.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 25, 2013 11:32 PM (IDSI7)
Yes, they did, and I love them all. However, nobody is even in the same zip code as McQueen. He was the uber-cool-dude, even in the 60s when cool was king.
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 07:34 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Kalneva at March 25, 2013 07:35 PM (S+/pH)
Posted by: brass at March 25, 2013 07:35 PM (T5r1H)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at March 25, 2013 07:35 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2013 11:31 PM (S8AWK)
--Actually the subject of an earlier ONT.
Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 07:35 PM (+iA5G)
Posted by: Blacksheep at March 25, 2013 07:36 PM (bS6uW)
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 11:34 PM (8lmkt)
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Robert Mitchum was the spitting image of my uncle, who recently passed away just short of the century mark.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 25, 2013 07:36 PM (IDSI7)
No discussion is desired at this point on the merits of iron vs, optical sights.
The Savage should be good, too.
Both offerings will suffice as legal rifles for F-class T/R competition, or "belly bench-rest". Not sure about the Savage, but the Mossberg's 1:9 barrel twist will handle the longer, heavier pills necessary to beat the wind at longer ranges.
One of my rifle mentors, although he is too gruff to admit something like that, I have learned a lot from him, shot an F-T/R match with a bolt action .223 a few years ago that I helped officiate. He didn't win the class, but I think he had an ammo issue.
If you're looking for an "only" rifle, or if this will be your first accuracy rifle, there are other considerations. But, if you want an accurate bolt-action rifle chamber in .223, go for it.
Posted by: Thorvald at March 25, 2013 07:36 PM (1V6Pv)
It is called dissonance. You can create it any number of ways. It begs for resolution, but sometimes does not get resolution, which is why you feel tense. Dissonance dances on a fine line between that which endurable and that which creates irritation, such as the sound of metal screeching on metal. Dissonance occurring at lower frequency levels can be actually pleasant. The higher up the frequency range it goes, the more intense, the more demanding, the more, if you will, irritating. Think shower scene in "Psycho". High frequency, high volume, rhythmic.
Dissonance can actually be measured on a scientific, acoustical basis.
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2013 07:36 PM (S8AWK)
Posted by: Hopeless at March 25, 2013 07:36 PM (VdNG6)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2013 07:37 PM (sqp6o)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2013 07:37 PM (mCvL4)
Thanks, Mero! It's a 2005 iMac with a PowerPC OS, that no one has supported in dog's years (which is why I recently paid for a new one). The disk drive hasn't worked for a long time. I do have the disks, but they are useless to me. I am NOT using a hammer. I have some good Mac guys over in SM, I guess I will call them, they'll probably want the thing anyway.
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 07:38 PM (8lmkt)
For Steve McQueen fans the motorcycle documentary "On Any Sunday" is a must have.
Also "The Sand Pebbles" about the Navy in China 1927. My personal favorite McQueen film.
Posted by: ExSnipe at March 25, 2013 07:39 PM (PBm/l)
how are we ever going to come to any agreement with the other half of the country?
No. Hence the revolution or a divorce, same goes for Colorado.
I don't see any way of changing the hearts and minds of the left. I don't think we have that much time. But that is just me.
Posted by: Infidel at March 25, 2013 07:39 PM (gqEUi)
Cool is, as cool does.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 25, 2013 07:40 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: lou's a girl at March 25, 2013 07:40 PM (vgd4f)
Posted by: AltonJackson (old new content up) at March 25, 2013 07:40 PM (JMmQ9)
Keep in mind that I had never attempted to do that.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2013 11:06 PM (GEICT)
Sounds about right. Back when I worked in radio, we used to get all kinds of things sent to us that we "just have to play, right now!!!1eleventy!!111!!" After we listened to their cassette tape recording that we could barely understand, we would ask for a cd, reel to reel tape, or even a record. They would look at you like you had 3 heads because their Mr Microphone into a mono tape deck song just doesn't pass the standards of any radio station and how dare you dismiss their musical genius.
Even worse, the political ads. Every politician felt like sitting in the back seat of a car reading some policy statement into a micro recorder is the height of fidelity.
Posted by: MrCaniac, now known as Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at March 25, 2013 07:40 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 25, 2013 11:36 PM (IDSI7)
How cool . . . I had the hugest crush on Mitchum. I think it was Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison that roped me in. With Deborah Kerr. I was probably 6 or 7. He awakened theretofore unknown feelings in my little self.
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 07:40 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Tuna at March 25, 2013 07:41 PM (M/TDA)
I'm sure that Jim Carrey wasn't one of them since he was part of In Living Color and he felt that therefore he would get a pass from the looters
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2013 07:41 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: Hopeless at March 25, 2013 07:42 PM (g8+Vr)
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 11:40 PM (8lmkt)
My uncle (a Southerner born and bred) even sounded like Robert Mitchum. Everyone used to comment on the uncanny resemblance.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 25, 2013 07:42 PM (IDSI7)
Posted by: joanne at March 25, 2013 07:43 PM (Cjcon)
Posted by: Infidel at March 25, 2013 11:39 PM (gqEUi)
I know we know we have issues in America politically , but it's become that it can't be left at the door when people visit or work.
The immensity of this is actually appalling they have way to much worship for tfg.
Posted by: willow at March 25, 2013 07:43 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at March 25, 2013 07:44 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: esch at March 25, 2013 07:44 PM (MV6z6)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2013 07:44 PM (sqp6o)
that is the number 1 thing about cool, you either have it or you don't. trying is a cool-killer.
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 07:44 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at March 25, 2013 07:45 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at March 25, 2013 07:45 PM (LbHHd)
Yup....I did not try to evangelize them out of Clinton worship...I won't for Obama either but I am ready for the divorce and I want it now I never did before.
I would not trust these people to popper scoop my yard, I am tired of entrusting them with my family's posterity.
"leave me be"
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 07:45 PM (LRFds)
So did we miss an episode?Posted by: lou's a girl at March 25, 2013 07:46 PM (vgd4f)
stay frosty and remember the donks are for beating not being....
Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 25, 2013 07:47 PM (LRFds)
Did anyone watch the "Beach Boys Shred 'I Get Around'", featured on Althouse today. I laughed my ass off, multiple times, but apparently it's not funny to lots of people. I wonder what the morons thought.
http://tinyurl.com/c8vw6jr
Posted by: kalneva at March 25, 2013 07:47 PM (S+/pH)
Posted by: Tuna at March 25, 2013 07:47 PM (M/TDA)
they really need cult intervention or something/
Posted by: willow at March 25, 2013 07:48 PM (nqBYe)
Willow, Can't talk about it at work. Have a mortgage to pay. It sucks. I keep trying to talk to people and attend various local functions, most times I just tell myself LIFB! I'm prepared, they are not. At least I know where the cameras are at City Hall now.
Posted by: Infidel at March 25, 2013 07:49 PM (gqEUi)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at March 25, 2013 07:50 PM (CAGTx)
Posted by: Tuna at March 25, 2013 07:50 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: esch at March 25, 2013 11:44 PM (MV6z6)
--Yeah, it's not 100% history, but I love the storytelling. It's just a notch below Rome, which is a compliment.
Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 07:50 PM (+iA5G)
Posted by: willow at March 25, 2013 07:50 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 25, 2013 07:51 PM (FqcJu)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 25, 2013 11:45 PM (bxiXv)
Thanks, Mero! I've got it all transferred over to the new high-priced ho, I just want the old one scrubbed before I rid myself of it. I will figure it out and thank you again for the advice.
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 07:53 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2013 07:53 PM (sqp6o)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at March 25, 2013 11:50 PM
step 1- steal rice
step 2- ???
step 3- profit!
Posted by: otho at March 25, 2013 07:54 PM (yBF/9)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 25, 2013 07:54 PM (BAS5M)
Are they all named after Steve McQueen?
Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at March 25, 2013 11:45 PM (LbHHd)
No. "Steve" became a popular name around 1950, and continued as such for a while, but now has passed out of favor.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 25, 2013 07:54 PM (IDSI7)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2013 11:37 PM (sqp6o)
That dude is the worst. I still find it hard to believe that a Viking woman would stop a rape of a Saxon woman.
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 25, 2013 07:54 PM (NzBQO)
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2013 07:54 PM (LUnTP)
He and Miss Kerr had great on-screen chemistry but then again she was great with whoever she worked with. Think about it. Gable, Holden, Cary Grant, Mitchum , etc. she was one lucky actress.
Posted by: Tuna at March 25, 2013 11:47 PM (M/TDA)
--Deborah Kerr was hawt. Beat Liz Taylor IMO.
Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 07:55 PM (+iA5G)
Haven't had any good news on the political front for a while. Found something that made me happy, thought I'd share. According to the Blaze, Paul, Cruz, and Mike Lee are sending a letter to Harry Reid (Pederast, Nevada) stating they will oppose preceding on any bill which restricts the second ammendment. I think this means filibuster.
Posted by: Simon Jester at March 25, 2013 11:23 PM (EhSF0)
I don't think Reid is going to mind, nor a lot of Dem senators in red states. This will give them cover so they can bitch about not being able to do anything to the anti 2nd amendment dopes, and it gives him more time to bitch about the filibuster while not doing anything.
It really is a win win for Reid.
It is also a win for the 2nd amendment.
Posted by: MrCaniac, now known as Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at March 25, 2013 07:56 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: Piercello at March 25, 2013 07:56 PM (E/6f0)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at March 25, 2013 07:56 PM (CAGTx)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 25, 2013 07:57 PM (MBqvE)
Posted by: lou's a girl at March 25, 2013 07:57 PM (vgd4f)
Evening 'rons and 'ettes. Night 8 of 11 just getting underway. Drink 'em if you got 'em, since professionalism and umpteen statutes keep me from enjoying some bourbon tonight.
Way ahead of you. I have a glass of bourbon and am about to light up a cigar.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 25, 2013 07:58 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at March 25, 2013 08:00 PM (CAGTx)
Posted by: Craig Poe at March 25, 2013 08:02 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2013 08:02 PM (sqp6o)
"I would really like somebody to detail our imperialist plans for Vietnam."
Groundwork for future Pho franchisees here in the good ol' USA?
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 25, 2013 08:03 PM (BAS5M)
Posted by: Hopeless at March 25, 2013 08:03 PM (1kPLg)
Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2013 08:03 PM (I2LwF)
Via @nprnews: New York's Met Museum Is Sued Over 'Deceptive' Entrance Fees
http://n.pr/13rzy74
KBDaBear @kbdabear
@Stranahan @nprnews Joe Biden went there and complained that he didn't see anything on Seaver, Gooden, Strawberry, Piazza, or Wright
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2013 08:04 PM (mCvL4)
The coolest thing about Steve McQueen? After a certain point, he stopped giving interviews to major publications like People magazine but actually agreed to do an interview with a high schooler writing for his student newspaper. I think it was the last interview he did before passing away
Posted by: The Q at March 25, 2013 08:04 PM (yVmMc)
Alex: boy oh boy oh boy oh boy...
After I got let go at my most recent job over a bogus sexual harassment complaint, a friend of one of my former co-workers, both of whom were immigrants from Sierra Leone, asked me to come do some work for her on an as-needed basis.
Well, I couldn't get unemployment bennies and needed money bad. But I called her, and made what I thought was an agreement to do some word processing and desktop publishing work for her. A week later I went to her place, a few miles from me. What did she want me to do? Assemble her new Big Lots el-cheapo computer stand for her.
With some help from another guy in the neighborhood, we got it done. And I continued to work for her, but things just continued to get worse and worse and worse. First, she INSISTED I do everything at her dogshit-reeking apartment, sitting in a chair barely big enough to fit a toddler, even though she could have easily have sent me roughs via email and I had far better material to work with at home. But alas, the poor dear just couldn't be bothered to figure out how to do email with attachments. She also wanted me to call local businesses to solicit sponsorships for her business, which (at least according to her) was an IRS-recognized charity supporting local arts education, as well as improving living conditions in Sierra Leone. I agreed to make some calls as long as the targets were easy-- a gift card from Starbucks here, a membership from Costco there. But I could just never get it through her thick head that I was a computer, writing, and desktop publishing person.
On top of that, she was constantly bugging me to do blogging for her to promote her group. So I got her started up with a Blogger.com account. But that wasn't good enough... she wanted something completely customized from the ground up. I must have told her at least a dozen times: that's NOT my specialty, I barely know how to do it, and unless you've got $500 for me to buy a copy of Dreamweaver and six months for me to take to learn how to use it, stop asking me.
And then the final straws... she had organized a drum class for "at-risk" youth at a nearby music store in Long Beach. Okay, fine. She wanted me to use my point-and-shoot Canon to take some raw video for her. Well, stupid me. I saw an opportunity to promote my burgeoning video skills. So I took the video... then had a brainstorm to turn it into a full-fledged five-minute video with narration, short interviews with the instructor and the owner of the music store, the background of my client's charity... the works.
So I did it. No it wasn't backbreaking, but I'd say I spent about 30 hours in one week doing it. My client loved it too, and after making some stupid minor changes her spoiled teenage daughter demanded, it was done. She agreed to show it at her Christmas Event in Los Alamitos in a month.
But again, I was stupid. I hadn't worked out compensation. She barely wanted to pay me $50. I told her-- and it was true-- that for this level of promotional video, most professionals would charge her at least 10 times that. But since it was my idea, I was willing to come down as low as $200. She didn't like it... at all... but agreed.
Finally the Christmas event came, and it was time to show the video to her invited supporters and community sponsors. So what happens? She forgot her good-quality laptop to use with projection equipment to play the video, so she had to borrow one from one of the party attendees... that had barely enough RAM to access the web, forget play video. So nothing more than awkward snippets got shown of my video; she explained them as if it were a two-bit slide show, and never even acknowledged I had produced it for her, until about an hour later during another presentation when she suddenly "remembered." So much for my attempt to promote my video production skills with anyone at the party.
To add injury to insult, she swore she would pay me my $200 after the party. So I approached her, swearing under my breath it would be the last time I would ever have to deal with her... and she refused to pay. "Come to my place tomorrow," she insisted. This was in 2011.
The last time I had to deal with this woman was six months ago, when (I kid you not) she wanted me to (you guessed it!) build another website for a project her daughter had going in a class at a nearby community college-- in other words, basically do her kid's homework for her. I had already done one website for her daughter at Blogger and wasn't about to be snookered again. I begged off, and made up a bogus story of having too much to do for other (nonexistent) clients. Thankfully, I haven't heard back from her since. I don't know whether to laugh or cry about the whole experience anymore.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 25, 2013 08:05 PM (7B7jB)
Posted by: The Q at March 25, 2013 08:05 PM (yVmMc)
Posted by: RWC at March 26, 2013 12:02 AM (sqp6o)
Yeah I keep thinking Ragnar is gonna leave on a raid comeback and boom! Kids Christianized!
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 25, 2013 08:05 PM (NzBQO)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2013 08:05 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 25, 2013 08:05 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2013 08:06 PM (sqp6o)
Posted by: AltonJackson (old new content up) at March 25, 2013 08:06 PM (JMmQ9)
http://tinyurl.com/bm4uxc8
Posted by: xbradtc at March 25, 2013 08:07 PM (O0L6N)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at March 25, 2013 08:07 PM (CAGTx)
Posted by: Tuna at March 25, 2013 08:08 PM (M/TDA)
The language that we use to discuss these things is so convoluted and backward that nothing makes sense. People who call themselves "conservative" today hearken back to "classical liberalism" and a golden age pre-FDR. People who call themselves "Democrats" today would recoil if Andrew Jackson offered to shake hands, and are far more similar to the nomenklatura of Soviet Russia. Academic history labels the Nazis as "extreme right-wing", despite the full name of their movement being the "National Socialist Party"....and, BTW, kowtowing to every currently fashionable cult from veganism to gaia-worship.
You cannot create a foundation that perpetually supports freedom, because every foundation in the history of mankind has always ended up supporting foundations. And who benefits when all of humanity's efforts are channeled into foundations and groups?.....let me give you a hint, it ain't the Ayn Rand fan club.
We need to tear into government with chainsaws, not co-opt it or its methods, nor the methods of the Government Party. We need to say, "labor law -- it's the states'.....any national labor law is duplicative and wasteful. Education? Local school boards.....andy national or state bureaucracy is duplicative and wasteful." Here in California, we are blessed with "Cal-EPA".....believe it or not. And, yes, that means that whatever industries the EPA is strangling have to be strangled harder, because otherwise Cal-EPA would be a freakin' ridiculous duplicate waste-of-time.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2013 08:08 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 25, 2013 08:08 PM (7B7jB)
Posted by: xbradtc at March 25, 2013 08:08 PM (O0L6N)
But it was like a scout camp compared to Macquarie Harbour. Hell. On. Earth. A virtual death sentence. The only thing worse than Macquarie Harbour, was escaping from Macquarie Harbour. Posted by: otho at March 25, 2013 11:27 PM (yBF/9)
Maybe that was the place I was thinking of. I read "A Fatal Shore" by Robert Hughes a long time ago. That book stayed with me.
Posted by: Donna V. at March 25, 2013 08:09 PM (R3gO3)
All the Commies, of course, wanted them at the mall. The latest thing for the Commie-fag-junkie Complex on campus.
Now they run the government and the SEIU.
Posted by: Thorvald at March 25, 2013 08:10 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2013 08:12 PM (Z9EHQ)
Berman is a Svengali. A Charles Manson who taught English literature and warped/hurt/stunted hundreds of minds.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 08:12 PM (iGhmo)
Drinking since 5PM EST, so I'm out. I mean OUT. Hugs and kisses y'all.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 25, 2013 08:13 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2013 08:13 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Lonely Dude at March 25, 2013 08:14 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Mindy at March 25, 2013 08:14 PM (wk9P4)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at March 25, 2013 08:14 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: Seamless Muldoon at March 25, 2013 08:14 PM (p8Mda)
http://tinyurl.com/bm4uxc8
Posted by: xbradtc at March 26, 2013 12:07 AM (O0L6N)
--Great read!
Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 08:15 PM (+iA5G)
John Kerry, Jim Carrey - who's the bigger asshole and why do they spell their names differently ?
HOLY COW- Harry Carey
Posted by: seamrog at March 25, 2013 08:15 PM (5mtsk)
Posted by: t-bird at March 25, 2013 08:16 PM (FcR7P)
Any moron currently wearing pants is officially reprimanded.
That is all.
Carry on.
So we have to wear skirts now?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 25, 2013 08:16 PM (xKC/c)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 25, 2013 08:16 PM (Lqy/e)
I once had a chance to have drinks with Robert Mitchum. And I begged off, because it was the night before midterms.
Wow, ITC, that would haunt me forever. Like the day I did not go roller-skating with the crew and they ended up sitting next to Sean Connery at the Sidewalk. Sticks in my craw like a fuckin' rogue cat hair to this very day.
And, yo, 'rons, how 'bout a little Connery cool?
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 08:17 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 11:25 PM (iGhmo)
AKA armpit sauce.
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at March 25, 2013 08:17 PM (zrSl3)
We were meeting treaty obligations. You know, that International Law thing lefties worship. Except, apparently when it means aiding an ally against aggression. And North Vietnam was definitely the aggressor - the VC were not an indigenous rebel group dissatisfied with RVN corruption.
Posted by: Steve Skubinna at March 25, 2013 08:18 PM (XLQXo)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at March 25, 2013 08:18 PM (csi6Y)
Any moron currently wearing pants is officially reprimanded.
That is all.
Carry on.
Posted by: Seamless Muldoon at March 26, 2013 12:14 AM (p8Mda)
SAFE!!!!!!
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2013 08:19 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at March 25, 2013 08:20 PM (csi6Y)
Print out this article. Glue it to a 2x4. And smack those idiots with your clue-bat.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 08:20 PM (iGhmo)
http://tinyurl.com/ca5awpp
Posted by: xbradtc at March 26, 2013 12:08 AM (O0L6N)
--Hot. And isn't she the real-life wife of the dude who plays Ron Swanson?
Posted by: logprof at March 25, 2013 08:20 PM (+iA5G)
Posted by: xbradtc at March 25, 2013 08:20 PM (O0L6N)
"National Socialist German Worker's Party"
Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2013 12:16 AM (FcR7P)
OK, the first line expansion of their acronym. I was born in 1962, and was in public school until I graduated college in 1983. Why did I have to learn that Nazis were socialists on my own???
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2013 08:21 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: alex® at March 25, 2013 08:22 PM (TT/cW)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 08:22 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at March 25, 2013 08:22 PM (CAGTx)
Posted by: Prepositions Fists And A Beginners SMOD Kit at March 25, 2013 08:23 PM (f4m0b)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 08:23 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at March 25, 2013 08:24 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 08:24 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 08:25 PM (8lmkt)
It still goes on. Just last month I got an email with new spots from a client. CD quality is 44.1 kilohertz in stereo. These ads were 11 kilohertz in mono...it sounded like they'd been recorded over a telephone, and they were scheduled to start the next day. I told the boss there was no way ads that crappy were airing on any station I was associated with. It's flippin' embarassing.
Hello, Horde!
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Lonely Dude at March 26, 2013 12:14 AM (5J54Q)
Do advertisers still send in 35 second long 30 second ads? Those always made a couple of satellite shows we ran sound real professional. Plus we had a "dual market" and we had a stick in the smaller distant market so that we had a primo signal there. Our goal was to run the same programming with separate ads but the lack of conformity in the ad lengths really screwed it up.
But television, oh the Gods of television would never allow them to do that so their ads were 30 and 60, not 31 and 61.
Posted by: MrCaniac, now known as Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at March 25, 2013 08:26 PM (Zd/NW)
"Evil flourishes when good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 08:26 PM (iGhmo)
2. Narrow the slot for who qualifies. ("You want a gun?!? Yer frootloops.)
3. Isolate and vilify. Use the mass culture. Ridicule.
4. Seize. B/c emergency and all that. "You didn't buy that." "We're taking 40% b/c we have to take 40% of your after-tax accounts." "Hunting? You just need to practice with that longbow/crossbow with field points only."
Posted by: Thorvald at March 25, 2013 08:26 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at March 25, 2013 08:27 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Thorvald at March 25, 2013 08:27 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 08:28 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 08:28 PM (iGhmo)
McQueen ranks as the coolest, ever. Let that be understood.
A close second would be Paul Newman. Sure, a libtard, but loyal to his wife of many decades, and a serious race car driver into his 80s.
And I mean 80s. As in years, not MPH.
Lee Marvin was cool to a degree, but he was aware of himself, took stock of his coolness, thus limiting it.
Mitchum was cool, but a drunken libertine. Lack of self discipline, just aint cool.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 25, 2013 08:29 PM (vvk2F)
Posted by: alex® at March 25, 2013 08:29 PM (TT/cW)
That Horace Mann story is fucking terrifying. Very well-written, but horrible. That's the kind of story that makes you kind of get some of the helicopter parenting people do. Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 25, 2013 11:14 PM (OryqQ)
It really is horrible. And not only the physical sexual abuse - the way the guy mindfucked them, turned them against their own parents, made them believe they were budding literary geniuses. When I was a teen and fighting with my parents all the time, one of the few classes I liked was English class because I was blessed with some very good (non-exploitative) teachers. I can understand very well how a mesmerizing teacher, introducing kids to great lit, could get into the heads of these boys and make them think he had the magic code for living a great life. And how their rejection of his advances would mean that they were unworthy schubs who weren't destined for greatness.
Of course, he wouldn't have been interested in me. I'm female.
Posted by: Donna V. at March 25, 2013 08:30 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: alex® at March 25, 2013 08:30 PM (TT/cW)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 25, 2013 08:31 PM (7B7jB)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 08:31 PM (iGhmo)
It's a kilt, dammit
New topic: The Army should adopt a tactical kilt for wear in the field. Agree / Disagree?
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 25, 2013 08:32 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2013 12:28 AM (iGhmo)
As if it were only one. I didn't stay at the same school for more than a year until 5th/6th grade.....and after that it was 11th/12th (and then I did college in 3 years, 2 quarters). My folks moved a lot.
I had my issues even before the Nazi thing -- when I was a kid, I'd read European histories....and -- surprise, surprise! -- they didn't match up with the school's American history textbooks. As in, try to find "The French and Indian War" in anything not created by a US school board.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2013 08:34 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: xbradtc at March 26, 2013 12:20 AM (O0L6N)
--Thanks! 
Posted by: logprof, only 95% douche at March 25, 2013 08:34 PM (+iA5G)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 25, 2013 08:35 PM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: The Dude at March 25, 2013 08:35 PM (vJdyz)
Anna, how is the writing coming along?
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 25, 2013 08:36 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: alex® at March 25, 2013 08:37 PM (TT/cW)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2013 08:38 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: .87c at March 25, 2013 08:38 PM (FVdef)
Those parents who didn't give a prepubescent daughter to the paedophile Mao were nonetheless prevented from bearing a second child.
Your own family ruled by the state.
Socialism or malaria? No contest. Socialism killed 'way more.
Disagree? Send me your GPS loc and let's talk, ok?
Posted by: Thorvald at March 25, 2013 08:39 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2013 08:39 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at March 25, 2013 08:40 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 08:40 PM (iGhmo)
Is it wrong that I would vote for someone whose campaign slogan was "Time to cull the herd?" Because I am kinda there, and I'm not sure that's the beer talking.
I'm the same way. I'm at the point where I've started looking at stupid libs and thinking, "I hope when everything collapses, I can be the one to shoot you."
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 25, 2013 08:41 PM (lr3d7)
"Tropic Thunder" taught us about the dangers of going full retard.
Newman went halfway - Redford went full libtard
Posted by: The Q at March 25, 2013 08:42 PM (yVmMc)
Posted by: The Rowdy Roddy Kilt Wearing Q at March 25, 2013 08:43 PM (yVmMc)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2013 12:31 AM (7B7jB)
Yeah, that works well. The entertainment industry is made up of whores. Local radio stations fight over pennies, so a local/regional advertiser that sends them a 34 second ad gets their ad played, in entirety. TV stations can always talk about their network, so the advertisers make sure that their ads are 30/60. Radio doesn't have that since most of its programming is local. Advertisers treat TV like it is the second coming while radio is thought of as being hick cousin who lives in a van down near the docks.
Posted by: MrCaniac, now known as Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at March 25, 2013 08:45 PM (Zd/NW)
Anna,
You have my sympathies. I'm about 2500 words into this story and am hitting writer's block something fierce. At least the alcohol and nicotine seem to have loosened me up a little bit.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 25, 2013 08:45 PM (lr3d7)
About Fine: what is wrong now was wrong in 1966, so he's full of shit. But I remember that mindset: sex is always 100% good and it's wonderful when children discover their sexuality and they shouldn't repress it or they'd become uptight prudes. Does anybody else remember a godawful book called "Our Bodies, Ourselves" by the Boston Women's Collective? My sister had it as a textbook for a class at a CATHOLIC women's college in the '70's. The book was '70's feminism at it's worse - full of ugly women with hairy bodies celebrating their femaleness. I remember one story in it about how a feminista's little 4 year old daughter peed into a cardboard toliet paper roll in the middle of the living room and the feminista thought that was great. She enjoyed the shock of her "prudish"50's mother, who disapproved of kids peeing on the floor.
With the attitude that sex is great and sexualized kids are great, well, it's not surprising that some sick adults rationalized that they'd "help" the kiddies down the path of sexual discovery and that they were doing the kids a favor by initiating them. There have always been child molesters. When the sexual revolution rolled around the pervs didn't feel so freaky any more.
Posted by: Donna V. at March 25, 2013 08:45 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 08:46 PM (iGhmo)
Colorado Alex, what is the stumbling block? Motivation? You hate your main character?
Just one scene that I don't know how to write. The main character is having dinner with the lady of the manor and her husband, and he's supposed to impress her with his culture. The result is that he is invited to stay despite her husband's initial hesitation. I've just bracketed a summary of what I want and am moving on to the next chapter. Once I have more of the story written, I can come back to it.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 25, 2013 08:49 PM (lr3d7)
They'll probably starve to death before that has to happen. They think food comes from the store.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 08:50 PM (/gHaE)
So I watched that IRS video. I am appalled at the utter waste of US tax dollars.
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2013 08:52 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 25, 2013 08:52 PM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 08:53 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 26, 2013 12:49 AM (lr3d7)
He presents his right hand to her when he asks her to "Pull my finger"
Posted by: buzzion at March 25, 2013 08:54 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: Icedog at March 25, 2013 08:54 PM (ZolUS)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 08:54 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: Alfred Kinsey at March 25, 2013 08:56 PM (Vk2pI)
I love literature, and writing. But at a certain point, when your profession is about the imaginary and the intangible - bluntly, nothing - you realize literary analysis is making something out of nothing. Berman clearly learned that lesson early. Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at March 26, 2013 12:40 AM (csi6Y)
Excellent point. Norman Mailer once wrote an essay praising young black thugs who had beaten a white store owner to death. I remember in college I read some literary analysis of that essay which said Mailer was brilliantly subverting conventional morality, blah, blah, blah. It was then I became aware that the world of literature was not always about the good and great and the "best that has been said and thought." There's also a lot of weasels out there sprouting morally repellent horseshit. Not an original or brilliant insight on my part - it was just the first time it struck me.
It was a good lesson to learn.
Posted by: Donna V. at March 25, 2013 08:56 PM (R3gO3)
Three suggestions.
If you don't have a plot outline of basic characters and scenes, its time to create one.
Speak a chapter/scene out loud as if narrating 3rd party.
Start writing complete crap you know will be revised or tossed later on. Just get the fingers moving.
If you haven't revised some section at least 10-20 times before you're done, then its not done.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 08:56 PM (/gHaE)
He's a mercenary who was hired to retrieve their runaway daughter. His backstory is that he's a former officer in a prestigious cavalry regiment who left in disgrace after being framed. In addition to his military service, he grew up under the care of an uncle who was a magician, so he's actually quite educated.
The lady's husband is her second one, and in the story is in fact a dark magician who is conducting obscene rituals and using the women and servants to do so. Obviously, hilarity ensues
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 25, 2013 08:57 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: Jean at March 25, 2013 08:57 PM (QH36x)
Posted by: Jean at March 25, 2013 08:58 PM (QH36x)
Can we get Ayers on this? President Michael Jackson?
In the early 1900s it was legal here.
For a long time it was not an issue outside the 12-mile limit.
Now it is in the realm of thought crime: some rogue website hijacks your browser, they bust you for the ghost thumbnails of the pictures you never downloaded.
Dam' fool, or felon/danger to The People?
Depends on your politics in the 21st-c.
That ain't right.
What's wrong is wrong. The law should reflect such, and not be a seine to gather political enemies on some pretext.
That said, I'd love to get a team working on L'il Barry in Pock-E-stahn.
Posted by: Thorvald at March 25, 2013 08:58 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 08:59 PM (iGhmo)
I do know where, but being trained as a laser safety officer, hell if I'd tell you. The laser classes and safety levels are set by ANSI standard for good reason.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at March 25, 2013 08:59 PM (opLk0)
@PurpAv
I'm doing all of that already: I've got an outline of the story that I'm working from, a lot of "filler" that I'll go back and edit later, and I've wandered in circles around my apartment talking out the scene.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 25, 2013 09:00 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: Thorvald at March 25, 2013 09:00 PM (1V6Pv)
You shut your alien green whore mouth!
Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at March 25, 2013 09:00 PM (yVmMc)
So that's where the Star Trek plot devices came from.
Posted by: Jean at March 26, 2013 12:58 AM (QH36x)
You want to take a left, and then just straight on through the chompers.
Posted by: Galaxy Quest at March 25, 2013 09:01 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 09:02 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: Jean at March 25, 2013 09:03 PM (X1lGS)
Posted by: Piercello at March 25, 2013 09:04 PM (E/6f0)
Loosely, that's the plot of Mike Lundy's "Baby Farm".
The ghost writer (Ed McBain) who reworked the original author's manuscript for Lyle Stuart fucked it up bad though and really wrecked the story. The original was actually a largely true story and was hard to put down.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 09:04 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at March 25, 2013 11:13 PM (LbHHd)
Dunno on industrial level but Wicked Lasers make really nice consumer ones. Love my Spider III with the lightsaber housing (when it's not jerry rigged to a rifle)
Posted by: The Dude at March 25, 2013 09:07 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at March 25, 2013 09:09 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Jean at March 25, 2013 09:09 PM (fW/Ev)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2013 09:10 PM (mCvL4)
Colorado Alex, what is the stumbling block? Motivation? You hate your main character?
Just one scene that I don't know how to write. The main character is having dinner with the lady of the manor and her husband, and he's supposed to impress her with his culture. The result is that he is invited to stay despite her husband's initial hesitation. I've just bracketed a summary of what I want and am moving on to the next chapter. Once I have more of the story written, I can come back to it.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 26, 2013 12:49 AM (lr3d7)
Have the guy repeatedly compliment the husband in ways that the wife will see as subtle criticisms because she's more educated.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2013 09:10 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 09:11 PM (iGhmo)
Anyone got any tips? Brand names, distributors, etc. Purely for
informational purposes, you understand.
Wickedlasers.com. I've been thinking of buying one for some time, but I'm afraid I'll shoot my eye out.
Posted by: schizoid at March 25, 2013 09:11 PM (kSGAe)
What I just stated was not original, of course, far from it. I learned it from Sammy Cahn.
Have a work ethic. Abide by it.
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2013 09:13 PM (S8AWK)
Posted by: schizoid at March 26, 2013 01:11 AM (kSGAe)
They really do hurt when point them at skin from about up 15 feet and they can and will leave scorch marks on the ceiling
This game looks really good but Clair de Lune makes anything great
http://tinyurl.com/ce79265
Posted by: The Dude at March 25, 2013 09:14 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Adriane is completely clueless on certain concepts ... at March 25, 2013 09:15 PM (TvO05)
http://tinyurl.com/ykhd4q7
Night of the Lepus anyone?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 09:16 PM (iGhmo)
Colorado Alex I will be most disappointed if there is not at least one ripped bodice in this story. Plus the usual damsel in distress, unless you want to put the mercenary in peril and have the damsel rescue him
Anna, the sex scenes were all in my last short story. It actually started out as an exercise after Tammy told me that I needed to write porn.
And yes, the stepdaughter does end up in distress. I've got the final scene largely mapped out, with the magician Viscini preparing to cast his spell while using the girl's, Penthelia, young suitor as his sacrifice when the mercenary Cerr bursts in and battles the magician's possessed servants, including Penthelia. There's magic, and swordplay, and sacrifice, and sorrow.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 25, 2013 09:18 PM (lr3d7)
If true, my hat's off to 'em. The banksters think they'll screw the Russians by proxy in Cyprus, the Russians slip the noose. The only way it could have been better was if the banksters ended up screwed themselves.....and it could easily still happen.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2013 09:18 PM (kaalw)
Sounds like you're over thinking it or have written yourself down a rabbit hole you don't know how to get out of. Just move on to the next chapter for now.
...and then the boiler blew up.
Chapter n+1
...after coming to in the wreckage, John looked around stunned and staggered towards his car.
<blah><blah><blah>
That kind of thing is an easy out that lets you move on for now and if you keep it, it can tie up a lot of dangling shit you might have had to jump through hoops to tie up otherwise.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 09:20 PM (/gHaE)
What I just stated was not original, of course, far from it. I learned it from Sammy Cahn.
Have a work ethic. Abide by it.
I've found that to be the key to anything. It takes time to get into "writing mode" and the more you practice it the easier it becomes. Plus the hardest part is getting that first draft done. You can edit all day long, if you have something to work with. A blank piece of paper is like an endless desert that you have to cross, and about as frightening at times.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 25, 2013 09:20 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 26, 2013 01:20 AM (/gHaE)
That's what I've been doing. I just put "[description of the scene]", highlight it in yellow, and then move on.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 25, 2013 09:21 PM (lr3d7)
Sound like you do have some daring-do in store for your characters. I to have such a thrilling almost climax for my story. But I am mired about eight hours before that happens trying to escape a room.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 09:22 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 09:25 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 25, 2013 09:25 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 09:27 PM (iGhmo)
Maybe that was the place I was thinking of. I read "A Fatal Shore" by Robert Hughes a long time ago. That book stayed with me.
Posted by: Donna V. at March 26, 2013 12:09 AM
Norfolk was pretty horrific and like Port Arthur, is going to stick in one's memory so it's a good call, anyway. Macquarie Harbour is more obscure, for some reason, possibly because it didn't last all that long. It was the Alcatraz of the colonies for breakout artists and the worst of the worst. Hanging was considered preferable to that place, by many. At least it would be quick. Escaping usually meant taking a number of fellow convicts with you, so you would have something to eat. "Fatal Shore" is a ggreat history. Pretty revealing and pulls no punches.
Posted by: otho at March 25, 2013 09:28 PM (yBF/9)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2013 09:31 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Adriane is completely clueless on certain concepts ... at March 25, 2013 09:33 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 26, 2013 01:31 AM (Z9EHQ)
depends on which version you're using but check the fonts. There should be a phonetic font which includes it
Posted by: The Dude at March 25, 2013 09:34 PM (vJdyz)
It helps to take a story you lived through and tweak it a bit. I stayed with "Mike Lundy" (retired NYPD detective) for about a year when he was cranking shit out.
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1740586W/Raven
Almost every manuscript he wrote was from his real life experiences as a detective. The story, basic dialog, were all true even though they were presented as "fiction".
He'd relate a story verbally, then have a first cut manuscript 3 days later...and that was working on an PC with dual floppy and Wordstar.
If you can talk the story from beginning to end in some detail, use that as your first cut. Dialog specifics and fluff can be injected later as needed.
When creating the first draft he never edited anything. Grammar errors, spelling errors, sentence fragments, continuity issues, etc were all ignored. He only had one direction -- forward at maximum warp.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 09:35 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 25, 2013 09:36 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2013 09:38 PM (Z9EHQ)
Since you linked a pic of your figurine, a WoW sketch of mine:
http://tinyurl.com/bkb7rwb
What I wish I could draw:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/afn25bl
Would have liked a pic of *your* figurine, unpainted or not, but hey.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 25, 2013 09:38 PM (7um7O)
Cyprus is delaying bank re-opening again;
http://tinyurl.com/d4vehrd
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2013 09:39 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 09:39 PM (iGhmo)
I guess they didn't get the message with the first bomb...
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 09:41 PM (/gHaE)
Ano? What figurine?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 09:44 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: Jean at March 25, 2013 09:46 PM (QH36x)
People will start to use bulldozers to make forced with drawls from banks. While Anonymous will hack online to liberate peoples money.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 09:48 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: Jean at March 25, 2013 09:48 PM (fW/Ev)
You linked a pic of the figurine you have that you haven't painted yet, that was causing you to wait on the other 2 figurines you just bought.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 25, 2013 09:50 PM (7um7O)
Yep. In the small rural upstate NY town I grew up in one of the local rednecks used a backhoe at a nearby construction site to forcibly remove an ATM one night maybe 15 years ago and tote it away.
The cops found the backhoe a few miles down the road, I don't know if they ever found the ATM or who did it, but I'm guessing alcohol was involved somehow...
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 09:55 PM (/gHaE)
Well I have started on the figure. But tis a daunting thing.
Good gosh I am creating a 'source document' or story bible for that story.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 09:55 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: Donna V. at March 25, 2013 09:58 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2013 10:01 PM (Z9EHQ)
Heavily armored ladies armed with might and magic. Am rather partial to those.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 25, 2013 10:02 PM (7um7O)
Posted by: Arbalest at March 25, 2013 10:03 PM (QSLf4)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at March 25, 2013 10:03 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: lou's a girl at March 25, 2013 10:04 PM (vgd4f)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 10:05 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: Daybrother at March 25, 2013 10:06 PM (PtWmF)
-------
*pauses at a thought*
Silly Social Democrat tool holds up a sign outside the German Army's attempts to contain the nymphs. "Save the Nymphs!" or "Nymphs: Menace or Misunderstood."
Next to the male SD tool is an unkempt and hairy armpit SD female tool holding up a sign reading "Death to the Nymphs!" while glaring at the guy.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 10:06 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at March 25, 2013 10:09 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at March 25, 2013 10:15 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Adriane is completely clueless on certain concepts ... at March 25, 2013 10:17 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Adriane is completely clueless on certain concepts ... at March 25, 2013 10:18 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Jake in ID at March 25, 2013 10:18 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: Adriane is completely clueless on certain concepts ... at March 25, 2013 10:19 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: lou's a girl at March 25, 2013 10:21 PM (vgd4f)
So...anybody seen or heard from Assad yet, hmmmmm???
I thought he was on some ship at sea. No wifi?
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2013 10:21 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: a mindful webworker at March 25, 2013 10:22 PM (wPzgV)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 10:23 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2013 10:24 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2013 10:25 PM (Z9EHQ)
Probably just bad diodes on diode bridge or a bad VRM on the bridge output.
Those won't be tiny SMT stuff due to the power levels involved. snip, snip, solder, solder. Good as new.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 10:26 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: Jake in ID at March 25, 2013 10:27 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: alex® at March 25, 2013 10:27 PM (TT/cW)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 26, 2013 02:03 AM (bxiXv)
A picture is worth a thousand words, right?
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 25, 2013 10:32 PM (7um7O)
"The castle on the Burgberg called the Harzburg is famous in German history. It was built between 1065 and 1069, but was laid in ruins by the Saxons in 1074; again it was built and again destroyed during the struggle between the emperor Henry IV. and the Saxons."
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 10:32 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 25, 2013 10:33 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 10:33 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at March 25, 2013 10:34 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at March 25, 2013 10:35 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at March 25, 2013 10:35 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at March 25, 2013 10:38 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Syd Barret at March 25, 2013 10:39 PM (Vk2pI)
I know...I'm fiddling a IBM Server 310 back to life tonight (basically a PC 750 stood on edge with server'ish cosmetic plastic)
Its gonna be a Windows95 machine to run the EPROM burner, because my parallel port EPROM burner's software runs on Win95, and its too stupid to recognize the bidirectional DMA parallel ports on a PS/2 Model 95.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 10:39 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at March 25, 2013 10:41 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: lou's a girl at March 25, 2013 10:42 PM (vgd4f)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2013 02:32 AM
and then I built the next one, and that sank into the swamp. Then I built the next one and that sank into the swamp. Then I built the next one, that caught fire, fell over, then sank into the swamp......
Posted by: Berserker at March 25, 2013 10:42 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2013 10:44 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at March 25, 2013 10:44 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: lou's a girl at March 25, 2013 10:45 PM (vgd4f)
But it proves one thing - never invites the Saxons over for a castle warming.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 10:46 PM (iGhmo)
Posted by: JHW at March 25, 2013 10:46 PM (B38OD)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at March 25, 2013 10:47 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at March 25, 2013 10:48 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at March 25, 2013 10:49 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at March 25, 2013 10:50 PM (TvO05)
Anyway. Night, all, sweet dreams and God bless.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 25, 2013 10:52 PM (xjpRj)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2013 10:58 PM (iGhmo)
IBM Professional Graphics Adapter
XT/370 processor card (ran mainframe code on XT's)
i860 Wizard coprocessor for PS/2's
Atron Probe debugger board for 8088's
...
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 11:04 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 26, 2013 02:35 AM (bxiXv)
What's the going rate then?
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 25, 2013 11:04 PM (7um7O)
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 11:06 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 25, 2013 11:08 PM (7um7O)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at March 25, 2013 11:17 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at March 25, 2013 11:18 PM (bxiXv)
IBM Professional Graphics Adapter
XT/370 processor card (ran mainframe code on XT's)
i860 Wizard coprocessor for PS/2's
Atron Probe debugger board for 8088's
...
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 26, 2013 03:04 AM (/gHaE)
There is actually a market for old computer crap???
Posted by: Berserker at March 25, 2013 11:18 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 26, 2013 02:47 AM
Huhuhuh uh huhuh... you said "wang"... huhuh uh huhuh...
Posted by: butthead at March 25, 2013 11:34 PM (yBF/9)
Stuff with historical significance, yes.
Generic Taiwan 286/386/486 clone not so much...
But the GenericClones can be parts donors for upgrading the valuable stuff. You can get math coprocessors, Overdrive chips, etc out of them.
I went on the warpath a while ago and killed any IBM machines I had that used a Dallas DS127 chip because new ones aren't available anymore and the integral battery in any NOS parts anyone is hawking is as dead as the one in the machines. There's hacks for fitting a CR2032 to the old Dallas but I don't have the patience anymore.
I did one of those hacks and it was tedious involving a Dremel, pin peeling/soldering under a magnifying glass. Fuck that shit. IMO, anything that had a Dallas chip was born with genetics not worthy of preserving.
But, those machine yielded up some SCSI cards, cabling, and 80387SX math chips which are interesting.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 11:40 PM (/gHaE)
Sweet. Updated device lists too. I'm not sentenced to burning EPROMs with Win95 anymore.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 25, 2013 11:50 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at March 25, 2013 11:52 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at March 25, 2013 11:53 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: DAve at March 26, 2013 12:01 AM (XDC0v)
Market segmentation. They probably used the same mobo in the more expensive corporate grade stuff and didn't want people to realize that, or the business customers would start buying the cheaper one.
Back in the 1960's IBM sold two lowish end models of the S/360, the model 20 and the model 30. They were physically and electrically identical save for one small difference -- the model 20's CPU microcode had delays inserted in it so it would be slower than the model 30 and give more market segmentation than selling only one machine type on the low end.
Of course, field "upgrades" from a 20 to a 30 were available...at a nice markup and involved nothing by swapping a microcode board.
The old DG Eclipse minicomputers had an optional added cost "math acceleration" package. It was actually built into every machine by default and disabled by a jumper wire.
DG charged BIG CASH to come out and "install" the math "upgrade", which could be done in 5 minutes, but the techs would take several hours to make it look like something was actually being done other than snipping a wire.
Of course, some enterprising ex-DG techs went into the 100% compatible "math upgrade" business and offered to do the "installation" for far less than DG did.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 26, 2013 12:17 AM (/gHaE)
Of course, field "upgrades" from a 20 to a 30 were available...at a nice markup and involved nothing by swapping a microcode board.
Posted by: @PurpAv
Holy S! You peeps know about that too!
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at March 26, 2013 12:18 AM (UCv7P)
Posted by: and irresolute at March 26, 2013 12:20 AM (DBH1h)
The XT/370 processor card that went into an otherwise stock PC/XT was actually Motorola 68k CPU's that had their microcode rewritten to emulate a S/370. The 68k was a very flexible chip being both vertically and horizontally microcoded.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 26, 2013 12:26 AM (/gHaE)
Posted by: and irresolute at March 26, 2013 12:28 AM (DBH1h)
Posted by: epobirs at March 26, 2013 12:29 AM (kcfmt)
That QM-1 machine was architecturally interesting as heck. They sold a bunch of them to military/space contractors who deal with weird CPU's with limited availability. ex Rockwell bought one for doing emulation of the shuttle flight computers and avionics systems.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 26, 2013 12:31 AM (/gHaE)
Posted by: and irresolute at March 26, 2013 12:32 AM (DBH1h)
Posted by: and irresolute at March 26, 2013 12:43 AM (DBH1h)
So, the OS ran with a (programmer visible) machine architecture optimized for OS things, Fortran apps ran on a Fortran optimized architecture, and Cobol apps ran on a Cobol optimized architecture.
Cool eh? Burroughs made some really interesting machines. One of their architects was a grad school prof of mine. Dude was sharp.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 26, 2013 12:43 AM (/gHaE)
Trusting Eric fucking Holder to not extradite you because of double jeopardy is a gamble I'd not be willing to make. She ain't black enough.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 26, 2013 12:47 AM (/gHaE)
I read that, and my forehead burst out in an acne rash -- and my old pocket protector leaped out from it's storage box and lay flapping on the floor, like a fish out of water.
Or maybe it was fapping on the floor. It is hard to tell what a pocket protector is up to.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2013 01:07 AM (ccXZP)
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 26, 2013 01:24 AM (/gHaE)
The (ex) wife worked on System 36, System 38, and As-400 machines as a consultant. At one point, we considered buying a used 36, but at $15k, decided against it for a dead letter tech.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2013 01:40 AM (ccXZP)
Posted by: otho at March 26, 2013 01:51 AM (yBF/9)
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 26, 2013 01:53 AM (/gHaE)
"Pluto is cold. Very very cold."
Which sounds about right ;->
BING actually has the 2*5 answer and gives back 10.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 26, 2013 01:57 AM (/gHaE)
Posted by: otho at March 26, 2013 02:00 AM (yBF/9)
Posted by: rickl at March 26, 2013 02:00 AM (sdi6R)
Google does it as well and presents you with some sort of web based scientific calculator too along with the answer.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 26, 2013 02:03 AM (/gHaE)
You're asking the wrong question if the answer is "heat" ;->
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 26, 2013 02:05 AM (/gHaE)
Posted by: otho at March 26, 2013 02:11 AM (yBF/9)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at March 26, 2013 02:12 AM (bxiXv)
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 26, 2013 02:13 AM (/gHaE)
http://tinyurl.com/czy6tky
Sweet
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 26, 2013 02:19 AM (/gHaE)
Posted by: otho at March 26, 2013 02:25 AM (yBF/9)
You owe me 500 internet quatloos for a warningless link to another pic of the Fuckhead-in-Chief.
I'm sick of his useless mug; more importantly, I'm sick of his Fuckhead policies. I guess I should just plan on staying 'sick'.
Sigh. And so it goes.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2013 02:30 AM (ccXZP)
Posted by: zeera at March 26, 2013 02:37 AM (3dXwx)
Also fed the kittehs. Good night or good morning.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2013 03:23 AM (iGhmo)
Some Air Force type can check me on this, but I believe that part of the cause of the downed aircraft is that the geniuses planning the missions ORDERED the pilots to take the same routes into the target, mission after mission.
Posted by: Die Trying at March 25, 2013 10:17 PM (w7J/R)
Somewhat true. There were three strikes each day of the first three days and they all ran the same route. Not unreasonably, losses increased each day (two, day one; four, day two; six, day three) and the last strike on the third day was recalled after it was in the air because of this.
When strikes into the Hanoi area took up again on 26 December, it's rumored that HQSAC wanted to use that same flight plan again and the Wing Commander at Andersen refused the order and told them his staff would take over the planning. The 26th December raid was certainly very different, using ~120 BUFs to strike seven targets simultaneously from multiple attack axes. Losses dropped immediately to two B-52s.
It's apparent from the lack of SAM activity after the 26 December raid that the NVN ran out of SAMs that night. They shot off a bunch of SAMs without any guidance radars up (I know because I was there), but subsequent raids saw either no or a very few SAMs fired.
Posted by: PersonFromPorlock at March 26, 2013 08:59 AM (5hNpF)
Somewhat true. There were three strikes each day of the first three days and they all ran the same route. Not unreasonably, losses increased each day (two, day one; four, day two; six, day three) and the last strike on the third day was recalled after it was in the air because of this.
When strikes into the Hanoi area took up again on 26 December, it's rumored that HQSAC wanted to use that same flight plan again and the Wing Commander at Andersen refused the order and told them his staff would take over the planning. The 26th December raid was certainly very different, using ~120 BUFs to strike seven targets simultaneously from multiple attack axes. Losses dropped immediately to two B-52s.
It's apparent from the lack of SAM activity after the 26 December raid that the NVN ran out of SAMs that night. They shot off a bunch of SAMs without any guidance radars up (I know because I was there), but subsequent raids saw either no or a very few SAMs fired.
Posted by: PersonFromPorlock at March 26, 2013 09:02 AM (5hNpF)
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