April 30, 2013
— Maetenloch
I'm back my babies. Let me quell your pain.
Memo to the South: Go Ahead, Secede Already!
A screed by Lee Siegel. But first a little context on Siegel:
Disgraced ex-sock puppeteer Lee Siegel, whose cranky-old-man cultural criticism and woe-is-me whining have led to a fruitful career writing for every single liberal publication you've ever heard of, has landed, like these people do, at The Daily Beast, where he has just coughed up one of the lamest hairballs of a political semi-humor column you will ever read: "Memo to the South: Go Ahead, Secede Already!"
According to Siegel America would be idyllic nay almost utopian if only those icky Southerners could be somehow be gotten rid of.
A solid block of Southern states continues to refuse to expand Medicaid, thus squashing one of the linchpins of the president's health-care reform. The South will likely be the last and most stubborn battleground in the fight for gay marriage. Gun control? The more the two sides seem to get cozier with each other, the faster gun-control legislation gets watered down-and more and more red states are passing laws making it legal to carry a concealed weapon. As for immigration, the red states seem to be relaxing their anti-immigrant fervor, but nothing approaching new legislation is even on the horizon.
...Just think what America would look like without its mostly Southern states. (We could retain "America": they could call themselves "Smith & Wesson" or "Coca-Cola" or something like that.) Universal health care. No guns. Strong unions. A humane minimum wage. A humane immigration policy. High revenues from a fair tax structure. A massive public-works program. Legal gay marriage. A ban on carbon emissions. Electric cars. Stronger workplace protections. Extended family leave from work in case of pregnancy or illness. Longer unemployment benefits. In short, a society on a par with most of the rest of the industrialized world-a place whose politics have finally caught up with its social and economic realities.
So much stupid in such a few lines.
On the left paradise is somehow always just one more purge away. Siegel semi-jokingly advocates for secession but I don't doubt he'd be down just as much with disenfranchisement and internment camps if he actually had the power.
Okay given that this appeared in the amateur webzine I expected it to be a full-on apologia for the marathon bombers. But actually William Saletan makes the case that the Tsaraevs were a family of petty criminals in general and Tamerlan already a violent thug. Then Islam gave him a purpose and a justification for indulging in all his dark impulses.
By now, most of us have heard that the bombers' mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, was arrested last year for shoplifting and destruction of property. This weekend's stories confirm that the charge was a felony, that the quoted value of the merchandise was $1,600, and that the owner of the property was Lord & Taylor, the same company whose security cameras captured the bombers at the marathon.
...Now it turns out that the bombers' father might be a shoplifter, too. Anzor Tsarnaev fixed cars for a living. "Sometimes, when he needed parts, he would show up at Nissenbaum's Auto, a nearby parts and repair shop," the Post reports. "Several times, workers said, Anzor went into the parts yard to find a bracket or screw and emerged offering to pay a small sum for a handful of items. But employees would see his pockets stuffed. Confronted, they say, he admitted picking up a few other meager items."
Tamerlan had a propensity to beat up anyone who upset him and the rest of his siblings were apparently pot dealers as well.
Islam also gave Tamarlan and the rest of the family convenient excuses for their failings. And a reason to strike out against the very country that had given him refugee status and his family over $100,000 in welfare benefits.
The New York Times suggests a different answer: Tamerlan's explanation of why he quit boxing is false. He didn't do it for Islam. He did it because his lack of U.S. citizenship blocked his eligibility to compete in tournaments and build a career in the sport. He just used Islam as an excuse, a story to tell others.
That would explain why, in January of this year, Tamerlan was rebuking a speaker at his local mosque who praised Martin Luther King Jr. The Post says that according to an official at the mosque, Tamerlan "yelled that King represented American values." Tamerlan's worldview wasn't about nonviolence. It was about anti-Americanism. Three months later, he detonated.
Bruce Holbert's Gun Accident in the New York Times
His account sure seems bogus if not a little suspicious. But because he was idiot with a loaded gun (as was his friend/victim) therefore guns are bad, bad, bad and must be restricted.
I never had much interest in guns. Yet it is I who killed a man.It was the second week in August, a Friday the 13th, in fact, in 1982. I was with a group of college roommates who were getting ready to go to the Omak Stampede and Suicide Race. Three of us piled into a red Vega parked outside a friend's house in Okanogan, Wash., me in the back seat. The driver, who worked with the county sheriff's department, offered me his service revolver to examine. I turned the weapon onto its side, pointed it toward the door. The barrel, however, slipped when I shifted my grip to pull the hammer back, to make certain the chamber was empty, and turned the gun toward the driver's seat. When I let the hammer fall, the cylinder must have rotated without my knowing. When I pulled the hammer back a second time it fired a live round.
My friend, Doug, slumped in the driver's seat, dying, and another friend, who was sitting in the passenger seat, raced into the house for the phone.
...My friend was killed by a man who misunderstood guns, who imagined that comfort with - and affection for - guns was a vital component of manhood. I did not recognize a gun for what it was: a machine constructed for a purpose, one in which I had no real interest.
Yes guns can be deadly. And they're deadlier when you're stupid.
Also see if you can spot all the flaws in Holbert's story.
George Jones and Clarence Thomas
An interviewer in 2010 saw this letter from Clarence Thomas framed on Jones' wall.
You can hear "The Right Left Hand" here.
This is a striking statistic I recently ran across in preparing to teach the post-war period for my A.P. European History class: there are more people in Britain today working for in Indian restaurants than in the coal, steel, and railroad industries combined. On one hand, that is not so surprising considering the state of those industries in today's Britain. However, in the grand scope of British history, I found that statistic truly startling.
And things were worse at the beginning of the 19th century:
In 1816, the net public debt of the UK reached 240 per cent of gross domestic product. This was the fiscal legacy of 125 years of war against France. What economic disaster followed this crushing burden of debt? The industrial revolution.
...Between 1815 and 1855, for example, debt interest accounted for close to half of all UK public spending.
The Great Literature of Pancake Making
It always worthwhile to study the classics.
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Asking for a friend.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Take us away. at April 30, 2013 05:19 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: EC at April 30, 2013 05:20 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Joey Tenebris (noob) at April 30, 2013 05:20 PM (eR2aG)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 30, 2013 05:23 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Joey Tenebris (noob) at April 30, 2013 05:23 PM (eR2aG)
short, a society on a par with most of the rest of the industrialized world-a place whose politics have finally caught up with its social and economic realities.
I.e., bankrupt.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 30, 2013 05:23 PM (IDSI7)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 30, 2013 05:24 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 30, 2013 05:24 PM (lVPtV)
If the US broke up, the Left's "paradise" would be nearly deserted in less than twenty years.
You know what? Let's go ahead and divide up the country. They get the Northeast and the West Coast. We'll take flyover country.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 30, 2013 05:24 PM (lr3d7)
AlextheChich with a super powered Sybian?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 05:25 PM (1zr4/)
Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at April 30, 2013 05:25 PM (wR+pz)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 05:25 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Helen Thomas at April 30, 2013 05:25 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Grey Fox at April 30, 2013 05:26 PM (D/fQ0)
We were just there last March.
Watch out for the pubes in the tub. Seriously.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 30, 2013 05:26 PM (lVPtV)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 05:26 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: kbdabear at April 30, 2013 05:28 PM (mCvL4)
USS Atlanta CL-51 was a 'light battlecruiser' now? I think something got lost in somebody's Babblefish..
http://www.globalunderwaterexplorers.org/story/uss-atlanta-project
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 05:28 PM (1zr4/)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2013 05:28 PM (INYkK)
Posted by: kbdabear at April 30, 2013 09:28 PM (mCvL4
On the scrub cycle.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 30, 2013 05:29 PM (lVPtV)
Both admirals were old friends. In the 1920's Halsey commanded a destroyer flotilla and Spruance was one of the destroyer commanders in that flotilla.* They got along very well - and no surprise Halsey recommended that Spruance take over for Midway when Halsey returned from the Tokyo Raid ill. They were very different men with very different styles; both were complete professionals.
*Halsey's flotilla was known for being well-drilled - in a fleet exercise they dropped smoke, went back into the smoke screen, came out, turned, dropped torpedoes on the 'enemy' battle-line, then went back into the smoke screen. The dud torpedoes went home and caused some damage to the battleships just by striking them. My source for the story is 'The Quiet Warrior', a biography of Raymond Spruance.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at April 30, 2013 05:29 PM (gmoEG)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 30, 2013 05:29 PM (PkYpQ)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 30, 2013 05:30 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 30, 2013 05:30 PM (RwRRP)
Posted by: The Q at April 30, 2013 05:30 PM (XQzGn)
T'would be easier if the North would secede this time.
Posted by: General Robt. E. Lee at April 30, 2013 05:30 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2013 09:28 PM (INYkK
I'm always ashamed when I make it. I realize I need to spend more time on important things in my life.
But, dammit, I love this place.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 30, 2013 05:30 PM (lVPtV)
Posted by: Joey Tenebris (noob) at April 30, 2013 05:30 PM (DoDTY)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 05:31 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 05:31 PM (1zr4/)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 30, 2013 05:31 PM (PkYpQ)
Posted by: EC at April 30, 2013 05:31 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: jewells45 at April 30, 2013 05:31 PM (u25eL)
Posted by: fluffy at April 30, 2013 05:31 PM (JgpDI)
Those fleeing high taxes and nanny statism of their utopian paradise cannot just move to the South and vote for the Lee Siegels who made the place they fled
They must immigrate, fill out paperwork, go to the back of the line, and pass a written uncurved citizenship test
Posted by: kbdabear at April 30, 2013 05:32 PM (mCvL4)
Oh, and once we get rid of the southern states, then of course we will have to get rid of the western states, and probably Alaska as well, and then there's the issue of the U.P. and northern Minnesota, and on and on and on. Liberals always think they are in the majority no matter where they are, and the southern mind (much like the Alaskan mind) remains a complete mystery to them, so they assume southerners and Alaskans (and probably Montanans and the like) are a bunch of knuckle-dragging imbeciles. Of course, we are the ones with the guns, so it probably isn't too wise to piss us off, but what's a liberal to do if they can't be pissing someone off.
Liberalism and Islam are both mental diseases.
Posted by: tcn at April 30, 2013 05:32 PM (VLG62)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 05:32 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Sean Bannion, Channeling Yul Brenner at April 30, 2013 05:32 PM (MgGCn)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 09:29 PM (GEICT)
Congratulations. Polly will be along shortly with your participation ribbon.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Take us away. at April 30, 2013 05:32 PM (Gk3SS)
"Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific"
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 05:33 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Barack Obama at April 30, 2013 05:33 PM (C8mVl)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 05:33 PM (1zr4/)
Posted by: El Guapo at April 30, 2013 05:33 PM (2iGYB)
He was. May they rest in peace
Posted by: kbdabear at April 30, 2013 05:33 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: EC at April 30, 2013 05:33 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 05:33 PM (GEICT)
feel like a resident alien in a blue state even though I've lived here my entire life here except when I was in college in the southPosted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2013 05:33 PM (INYkK)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 05:34 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: harleycowboy58 at April 30, 2013 05:34 PM (yfeAd)
What planet is this guy from again?
Most of the rest of the industrialized world have politics which, _contra_ being "caught up", instead are panting and out of breath and running desperately behind the social and economic realities. The politics fall further behind with every step as the realities steadily accelerate away.
Look at Europe. The Eurosocialist model is imploding and collapsing. The single currency model has brought incredible misery to half the eurozone. Europe's own intrinsic ethnic schisms are deepening, and worse yet, they've imported violent and nonassimilating Islam in large quantities. The place is a disaster across the board.
Yet the politics of Europe continue to be about trying energetically to resuscitate the decaying corpse, dress it in formalwear and make it dance. As far from the "social and economic realities" as anyone could ever imagine.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 30, 2013 05:34 PM (gqT4g)
"Islam gave him a purpose and a justification for indulging in all his dark impulses."
A religion based on desert nomad raider culture where being a criminal and a thug is perfectly fine because God says you can do all of the desert nomad raider stuff to the unbelievers. Or anyone else who does not believe exactly the way you do.
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at April 30, 2013 05:34 PM (gmoEG)
My husband and I are blessed to have a close cousin of Justice Thomas as a friend.
Google Pin Point, GA to see Justice Thomas' birthplace (which is just a few miles from where we live).
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 30, 2013 05:35 PM (lVPtV)
The American Left: the last people on the planet to realize that the same ideology which can't even last two generations on communal farms the size of postage stamps can't be implemented in a country encompassing the greater part of a continental landmass. If they could take a minute from patting themselves on the back for their great genius, they might finally understand this.
Posted by: BS Inc. at April 30, 2013 05:35 PM (Jgssj)
Stupid beta meat sack w/extra genetic fuckuppery Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 09:33 PM (GEICT)
Noooo. Lemme shove some booze through the intertubes.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Take us away. at April 30, 2013 05:35 PM (Gk3SS)
The idiot who wrote about letting the South Secede?
Has no idea of how the WESTERN US operates (outside of Hollyweird) either.
Its Rural vs. Urban IMO.... not North vs. South... and the rural folks have the food, and are better shots...
Posted by: Romeo13... .... at April 30, 2013 05:35 PM (lZBBB)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 05:35 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Jake in ID at April 30, 2013 05:35 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 30, 2013 05:35 PM (PkYpQ)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 30, 2013 05:36 PM (RwRRP)
Posted by: kbdabear at April 30, 2013 05:36 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 05:36 PM (5J54Q)
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... and demonstrate a history of self-support, as well as desirable skills.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 05:36 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: rickl at April 30, 2013 05:36 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 30, 2013 05:37 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: wassup? at April 30, 2013 05:37 PM (qKpun)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 05:37 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 30, 2013 05:37 PM (PkYpQ)
Posted by: jewells45 at April 30, 2013 05:37 PM (u25eL)
Posted by: Joey Tenebris (noob) at April 30, 2013 05:38 PM (eR2aG)
You don't pull the hammer back to make certain the chamber is empty. You swing the cylinder out.
Oh, right. Modern ones, anyway. I kinda missed that, since my only handgun is a cap-and-ball replica.
Posted by: Grey Fox at April 30, 2013 05:38 PM (D/fQ0)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 05:38 PM (GEICT)
Who pulls the hammer back to check for a round anyway? I notice the story took place in 1982 (pre-Internet) so that checking local news archives would be more difficult. Smells like BS.
Oh, and the Avalanche are NOT going to the Super Bowl.
Oh, and good evening all.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 30, 2013 05:39 PM (pxDth)
And this is absolutely why it will not be a north/south or east/west geographical divide. It might become one if it becomes an actual shooting war, but for now, it is literally neighbor against neighbor.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 30, 2013 05:39 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Waterhouse at April 30, 2013 05:39 PM (jlmwe)
I suspect that if we could just spin-off DC into its own little country, we would go a long ways toward alleviating many of our present problems...
Posted by: junior at April 30, 2013 05:39 PM (DWqDw)
Posted by: EC at April 30, 2013 05:39 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 05:39 PM (5J54Q)
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Or break the revolver open
Posted by: Webley .455 at April 30, 2013 05:39 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 30, 2013 05:39 PM (1o6s9)
Posted by: Helen Thomas at April 30, 2013 05:40 PM (jucos)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 30, 2013 05:40 PM (RwRRP)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 30, 2013 05:40 PM (jucos)
Oh, and good evening all. Posted by: Seamus Muldoon
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That was my first thought. WTF??
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 05:41 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 05:41 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 05:41 PM (GEICT)
You don't pull the hammer back to make certain the chamber is empty. You swing the cylinder out.
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Or break the revolver open
If you're a liberal, look down the barrel and pull the trigger to rotate the cylinder to see if a chamber is empty.
Posted by: harleycowboy58 at April 30, 2013 05:42 PM (yfeAd)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 30, 2013 05:42 PM (C8mVl)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 30, 2013 05:42 PM (MgGCn)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 30, 2013 05:42 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 05:43 PM (5J54Q)
You must really suck when the guy who bought you for a buck says publicly that he got screwed in the deal
Newsweek/Daily Beast Owner: ‘I Wish I Hadn’t Bought Newsweek, It Was a Mistake’
http://tinyurl.com/d747qj3
Posted by: kbdabear at April 30, 2013 05:43 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 05:43 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: AltonJackson at April 30, 2013 05:43 PM (JMmQ9)
However you decide to divide up the US, just take Alberta with you in the conservative and free area. They deserve so much better than to be saddled to the rest of this Canadian shithole. Let the liberal areas of both countries burn.
Hmmm, I'm angry and bitter today.... Good night all.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at April 30, 2013 05:43 PM (AC0lD)
No, that's not quite it.
The deal with Islamics in western welfare state countries is that they are often specifically encouraged at the mosque to work the rules as aggressively as possible, and claim every penny in benefits they can get.
They are especially told to have lots and lots of little Muslim kids, whose keep will be paid for by the infidels. As in fact Speedbump's wife and kid were pulling AFDC benefits.
Islamics call this gaming of the system _jizya_, after the obligatory tax which is levied on non-Muslims in Muslim countries.
But wait. This isn't a Muslim country!
NOT YET. But the fact that they use that particular phrase should clue you in to the fact that they intend to make it into one over the long haul. That's what the idea of having plenty of kids at the expense of the _kuffar_ via welfare benefits is all about. Demographic warfare. And in Europe, the local imams are scarily specific and direct in calling it just that.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 30, 2013 05:44 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 05:44 PM (aDwsi)
*shoves some through for you too*
Stupid. Fucking. Meatsack. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 09:38 PM (GEICT)
Gah, that truly sucks.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Take us away. at April 30, 2013 05:44 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 30, 2013 05:44 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 30, 2013 05:44 PM (MgGCn)
So the US splits along the Mason-Dixon line. And people in the rust belt suddenly realize how truly a hell hole the north is. So we have mass immigration south. Will the progressive-socialists erect a wall to keep people in the north?
You betcha they would.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 05:44 PM (1zr4/)
How you judge the start of a battle is interesting. Trafalgar did not last long (for example) but the there was the build-up as the fleets scouted for each other across the Atlantic, and that was weeks if not months. Coral Sea was brief for the direct carrier actions (aircrews were lost, and survivors tired; and aircraft were damaged) were very brief with only a couple of days for that before they had to pull back and rest/repair/re-equip/ and so forth.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at April 30, 2013 05:45 PM (gmoEG)
It's been awhile, but once you guys secede, we're back in the barrel
Posted by: the Jews at April 30, 2013 05:45 PM (XQzGn)
Oh, right. Modern ones, anyway.
Yes, like the "service revolver" his trooper buddy was carrying.
Webleys are fun. As are S&W number 3s.
Posted by: Skookumchuk at April 30, 2013 05:45 PM (x4x3r)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 05:45 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: rickl at April 30, 2013 05:45 PM (sdi6R)
Please lay off New York. Most of the state is conservative in outlook but has less population than the blue urban centers, NYC being the worst.
We lose the vote battle every time and having a dysfunctional party helps nothing. There are those of us who are working to change this--starting at a LOCAL level. Our own long march, as it were.
I really dislike getting lumped in with the bi-pedal feces currently infesting government.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 30, 2013 05:45 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 30, 2013 05:46 PM (RwRRP)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 05:46 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 09:43 PM (GEICT)
I think many of us have obnoxious "dealing with this treacherous body" stories. For me, it's my neck. I sure as hell didn't design those bones, and I sure as hell didn't misalign them, so that once or twice a week I have headaches that send me to hugging the commode and hoping for quick amputation.
Now the stupid bastards that run the insurance company say I need to do a medial nerve block before I can get my radiofrequency denervation, even though it is clear (after about a dozen years) that the RFD is the only thing that works. So, another couple of months before I can get relief, thank you Obamacare and the horse you rode in on.
/good night for a medical rant, but now I'm done.
Posted by: tcn at April 30, 2013 05:46 PM (VLG62)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 30, 2013 05:48 PM (Zd/NW)
I really dislike getting lumped in with the bi-pedal feces currently infesting government.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 30, 2013 09:45 PM (SAMxH)
If it makes you feel better, I'm in Dane County in Wisconsin--yes, that Dane County. Try being a conservative here sometime. One bumper sticker challenging the hive mind and you get your car keyed and people bang on your hood at stoplights.
Posted by: tcn at April 30, 2013 05:48 PM (VLG62)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 05:48 PM (GEICT)
At least NYC has half a leg to stand on when portrayed as the Center of the Universe. I don't know how the rest of you guys deal with Toronto being portrayed as NYC but better
Although, all of those reporters who do so have probably never been in any part of The Bronx except for a direct limo ride to the $900 seats at the House That Greed Built.
Posted by: The Q at April 30, 2013 05:48 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: rickl at April 30, 2013 05:48 PM (sdi6R)
Pre-Utopia checklist-
Universal health care...CHECK
No guns...CHECK
Strong unions...CHECK
A humane minimum wage...CHECK
A humane immigration policy...CHECK
High revenues from a fair tax structure...CHECK
A massive public-works program...CHECK
Legal gay marriage...CHECK
A ban on carbon emissions...CHECK
Electric cars...CHECK
Skittles...No
Unicorn farts...No
Hey serious guys, who forgot the Skittles and Unicorn farts??
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 30, 2013 05:49 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 30, 2013 05:49 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: waldo at April 30, 2013 05:49 PM (1hBkG)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 05:50 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 05:50 PM (5J54Q)
I've read Dick O'Kane's book (can't recall the name). Also recommedn 'Red Sorpion' by Pete Sasgen on the USS Rasher (his dad's sub). And there is 'Thunder Below' (IIGTR) by Eugene Fluckey - the USS Barb - the sub that landed a group to mine a railroad on Hokkaido because they were there, saw the RR line and thought 'why not'?
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at April 30, 2013 05:50 PM (gmoEG)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 30, 2013 05:52 PM (MgGCn)
Posted by: Grand Admiral Thrawn at April 30, 2013 05:52 PM (JqnAE)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 05:52 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 05:53 PM (5J54Q)
An absolute ban on carbon emissions. Now that would be hilarious.
Please, won't one state try this? The red states aren't stopping you.
Posted by: El Guapo at April 30, 2013 05:53 PM (2iGYB)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 30, 2013 05:53 PM (RwRRP)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 05:53 PM (1zr4/)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 30, 2013 05:53 PM (C8mVl)
Come to the conclusion that if stupidity actually WERE painful, intensive care would be inundated.
Apropos of nothing, just an observation.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 30, 2013 05:53 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at April 30, 2013 05:54 PM (52n2x)
Of course a couple years ago I had to explain to members of my son's school's PTA why having the teachers wear yellow stars on their clothes might not be the best idea.
And last year one of the suggestions for the movie theme was "Looking for Mr. Goodbar"
So, I guess it would be a short slide to having "muffin top mondays" ourselves.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 30, 2013 05:54 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 05:54 PM (5J54Q)
Thanks for those links to Primary Weapons last night. Great looking stuff.
I'm out (early day tomorrow), but.....trigger jobs for 10-22s? Drop-in stuff or gunsmith?
I'll catch you tomorrow night.
Cheers.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 30, 2013 05:54 PM (/WLC3)
Posted by: EC at April 30, 2013 05:55 PM (doBIb)
I'll never forget his confirmation hearings. I wasn't even remotely into politics at the time, but my husband had it on the telly. I was so outraged.. Biden was such a fucking jerk. Him and many others.
Posted by: jewells45 at April 30, 2013 09:37 PM (u25eL)
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Me too. I was landscaping at the time and wrote "CONFIRM THOMAS" on the back of my shirt, just because asshole Biden and the rest of the bullshit. It used to through the homeowners for a loop who thought we were just a bunch of worker drones.
Posted by: USS Diversity at April 30, 2013 05:55 PM (5wHPS)
Posted by: chemjeff hates ants at April 30, 2013 05:55 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 05:55 PM (1zr4/)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 05:55 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at April 30, 2013 05:56 PM (XvrTA)
Posted by: Trimegistus at April 30, 2013 05:56 PM (jIHVp)
@158
An absolute ban on carbon emissions. Now that would be hilarious.
Please, won't one state try this? The red states aren't stopping you.
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Give it time. I'm sure it's only a few more years before our state government in Sacramento tries it.
Posted by: junior at April 30, 2013 05:56 PM (DWqDw)
Posted by: TejasJudio de la Frontera at April 30, 2013 05:56 PM (lD8ju)
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I have to admit, this guy is the sort of gun owner that seriously worries me.
As an aside..., how many of you have pulled the trigger on a non-firing cartridge? Unsettling ain't it? I usually have the urge to bury the gun for a day or so before dealing with it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 05:57 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 05:57 PM (GEICT)
I asked my wife if we could make pancakes. She waffled.
Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at April 30, 2013 09:56 PM (XvrTA)
***
Yucch. That's kind of crepe-y
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 30, 2013 05:58 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: chemjeff hates ants at April 30, 2013 05:58 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 30, 2013 05:58 PM (Vk2pI)
lurk, you are a goddess . . . thank you from the bottom of my hard little heart . . . will happily take whatever you've got.
Posted by: Peaches hates everything except bacons at April 30, 2013 06:00 PM (8lmkt)
I just keep the thing pointed down range for a moment. I've had hangfires go off doing that, you're absolutely right, it is unnerving.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 30, 2013 06:00 PM (SAMxH)
We also had 8 cars burn in the airport parking garage here today. Before the fire was even out, before an arson investigator could get anywhere near it they were saying "total accident, not arson, not terrorism" and then they said that they think it has something to do with a BMW leaking fuel which ran under other cars and ignited. All spontaneous and such.
I love how arson investigators don't even need to get near crime scenes anymore in order to determine if the fire was arson or an accident.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 30, 2013 06:01 PM (RZ8pf)
I remember during the confirmation process, I was an undergraduate, and right after the vote in the Senate, I was walking to class and I overheard two other students having a conversation, one of them said "but now it goes to the House, right? the confirmation can be stopped in the House, right?" and I just stopped and said "Nope, he's a justice now." and I just kept walking. I'm sure that person was just crestfallen. heh
Posted by: chemjeff hates ants at April 30, 2013 06:01 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 30, 2013 06:01 PM (RwRRP)
**Ahem**
Posted by: Dick Trickle at April 30, 2013 09:58 PM (E2rCV)
Oh, crap, I was just about to go Dick Trickle and then I saw your nic. {doffs hat}
Posted by: Peaches hates everything except bacons at April 30, 2013 06:01 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 30, 2013 09:58 PM (Vk2pI)
First test case will be interesting.... are Illegals my PEERS? as in, a Jury of?
Posted by: Romeo13... .... at April 30, 2013 06:01 PM (lZBBB)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 30, 2013 06:01 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 06:01 PM (5J54Q)
I just keep the thing pointed down range for a moment. I've had hangfires go off doing that, you're absolutely right, it is unnerving.
Posted by: irongrampa
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Particularly if it is black powder..
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 06:02 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at April 30, 2013 09:56 PM (XvrTA)
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I'll bet if you get really blintzed she looks like she is stacked.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 30, 2013 06:02 PM (pxDth)
I've always felt that Canada and America had a lot in common as far as political dynamics, if not in actual political reality (universal healthcare). Specifically, the rural area were like ours and the west like ours.
Vancouver = LA or Seattle
Calgary and Edmonton = Dallas and another western city not named Denver
Ottawa = DC
Toronto = NYC
Montreal = Boston
Posted by: The Q at April 30, 2013 06:02 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: zsasz at April 30, 2013 06:02 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 06:02 PM (GEICT)
And I suppose the taxpayers will get to pay for the friggin' interpreters. My wife works for a hospital and they have to hire contract interpreters for the non-english speaking patients.
So the taxpayers, or every other insured asshole like ourselves gets to not only pay for the treatment, but for the $600 an hour explanation to the alien who gets the teratment.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 30, 2013 06:03 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 06:03 PM (5J54Q)
Calgary and Edmonton = Dallas and another western city not named Denver
Ottawa = DC
Toronto = NYC
Montreal = Boston
Posted by: The Q at April 30, 2013 10:02 PM (XQzGn)
so which one is Detroit? the basket case that everyone makes jokes about
and which one is Chicago? the corrupt hellhole
Posted by: chemjeff hates ants at April 30, 2013 06:04 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Ants hate chemjeff at April 30, 2013 06:04 PM (C8mVl)
Sometimes I think this is all a grand plan to make Jerry Brown look like a reasonable, pragmatic moderate.
Dude, you banged Linda Ronstadt in your prime, no need to go to these lengths to look like someone worthy of praise.
Of course, I looked at the Democratic primary of 1992 equally: Jerry Brown boned one 10, and his major opponent equalized by boning ten 1s down in Arkansas . . .
Posted by: The Q at April 30, 2013 06:04 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 30, 2013 06:05 PM (RwRRP)
Lincoln, Nebraska?
Posted by: chemjeff hates ants at April 30, 2013 06:06 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: TexasDan at April 30, 2013 06:06 PM (Fa3Hi)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 30, 2013 06:06 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 06:06 PM (aDwsi)
I'm sure that person was just crestfallen. heh
Posted by: chemjeff hates ants at April 30, 2013 10:01 PM (BBWjt)
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Ha ha ruining a libtard day is worth getting up for.
Posted by: USS Diversity at April 30, 2013 06:06 PM (5wHPS)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 30, 2013 06:06 PM (Z9EHQ)
I make poison
Your days are numbered
Posted by: chemjeff hates ants at April 30, 2013 06:07 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: teej at April 30, 2013 06:07 PM (xDlyw)
it's a promotional deal to get you to sign up for AoSHQ Platinum
Posted by: chemjeff hates ants at April 30, 2013 06:08 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 30, 2013 06:08 PM (piMMO)
there are more people in Britain today working for in Indian restaurants
than in the coal, steel, and railroad industries combined
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but in previous lives I bet many of them did work in industry. So it all evens out karma-wise.
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 30, 2013 06:08 PM (sYTYw)
do I get free pudding with this? is the food pre-chewed or is there a tableside chewing service if I left my teeth in a jar?
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 30, 2013 10:06 PM (Z9EHQ)
*****
Get off my lawn salad bar.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 30, 2013 06:08 PM (pxDth)
He will go up against Ed Markey in a June 25th election.
Please consider sending him some money.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl7UrlrpEhI
http://www.gomezforma.com/
Posted by: Jose at April 30, 2013 06:08 PM (zc/sw)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 06:09 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: jason chasin' collins at April 30, 2013 06:09 PM (mGBy8)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 30, 2013 06:09 PM (+z4pE)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 30, 2013 06:09 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 06:10 PM (GEICT)
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The Great Southeast Music Hall...., and I am not mentioning her name...
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 06:10 PM (aDwsi)
You bring up the train and resupply ammunition, food, and fuel, and bring up replacement aircraft and aircrew. That is how the tempo is kept up until the other guy breaks - attrition - and then some. For all of their professionalism, the Japanese could not keep up with that tempo, and it broke them fast.*
*Three and a half years from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay is pretty darn fast.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at April 30, 2013 06:11 PM (gmoEG)
Posted by: Christopher Stevens at April 30, 2013 06:11 PM (ypzqs)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 30, 2013 06:11 PM (RwRRP)
The psychological support dog park
Posted by: The Q at April 30, 2013 06:11 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 30, 2013 06:12 PM (sYTYw)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 30, 2013 06:12 PM (RwRRP)
Posted by: Trayvon Martin at April 30, 2013 06:13 PM (Vk2pI)
I used to enjoy running to Asilomar, Pebble Beach, and Lover's Point when I was in Monterey, CA.
Posted by: no good deed at April 30, 2013 06:13 PM (mjR67)
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They will not need oil..., because CO2
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 06:13 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 06:14 PM (GEICT)
And here I thought I was on a roll...Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 06:14 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: fluffy at April 30, 2013 06:14 PM (JgpDI)
More great names in baseball:
Leddell "Cannonball" Titcomb
Urban Shocker
Johnny Gooch
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and Rusty Kuntz
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 30, 2013 06:14 PM (sYTYw)
Sounded like you were really on to something, and I just call 'em like I see 'em.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 30, 2013 06:15 PM (4Mv1T)
Canada's greatest criminal name.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Dick
Posted by: andycanuck at April 30, 2013 06:16 PM (mGBy8)
Posted by: EC at April 30, 2013 06:16 PM (doBIb)
I used to enjoy running to Asilomar, Pebble Beach, and Lover's Point when I was in Monterey, CA.
Posted by: no good deed at April 30, 2013 10:13 PM (mjR67)
Stairway to Heaven.... Oahu Hawaii.... a race to the top with 5 other guys.... and then MASSIVE amounts of beer at Chinamans Hat... (came in third...)
Posted by: Romeo13... .... at April 30, 2013 06:16 PM (lZBBB)
How is that yo-yo planning to charge his electric car?
*****
He'll probably use his daddy's credit card.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 30, 2013 06:17 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 30, 2013 06:17 PM (HDgX3)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 06:17 PM (1zr4/)
Posted by: TexasDan at April 30, 2013 06:17 PM (Fa3Hi)
Posted by: fluffy at April 30, 2013 06:18 PM (JgpDI)
Posted by: TexasDan at April 30, 2013 06:18 PM (Fa3Hi)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 30, 2013 06:18 PM (Z9EHQ)
They will collect their small animal's dried droppings to fuel their meager fires, on which they will cook their small animals, and their children.
This is the shit I say when I run out of scotch.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 30, 2013 06:18 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 30, 2013 09:24 PM (lr3d7)
-- If you can figure out how to do it I am so there!
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at April 30, 2013 06:18 PM (R8hU8)
You cut off his head. You cut off his legs. You cut off his arms. How could you, Mrs Dick?!
*****
Because he was inarticulate?
(wait for it...)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 30, 2013 06:19 PM (pxDth)
*****
Because he was inarticulate?
(wait for it...)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 30, 2013 10:19 PM (pxDth)
*****
Sorry, that comment was a little dis-jointed.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 30, 2013 06:19 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: zsasz at April 30, 2013 06:19 PM (MMC8r)
Uh, okay. Just handed it over, fully loaded? Fine specimen of that county's finest, clearly.
Posted by: tdpwells at April 30, 2013 06:20 PM (01otU)
Posted by: EC at April 30, 2013 06:20 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Anita Dick at April 30, 2013 06:20 PM (ypzqs)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at April 30, 2013 10:11 PM (gmoEG)
Same as we did in Europe... with Bomber groups...
Just keep throwing bombers with fighter escort at a diminshing amount of defending fighters... they broke, but not until we had lost a lot of aircraft...
Posted by: Romeo13... .... at April 30, 2013 06:20 PM (lZBBB)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 06:21 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 30, 2013 06:21 PM (Z9EHQ)
Right...asshole progressives, enslaving and destroying the world one country at a time. It never occurs to these fucking enema nozzles that we became great by NOT being like the rest of the fucking planet.
Posted by: Berserker at April 30, 2013 06:21 PM (FMbng)
Then the states that vote yes get together and start from scratch with a new constitution.
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 30, 2013 06:22 PM (HDgX3)
What do you think of that? Working out okay?
I'm asking for a friend.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 30, 2013 06:22 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: waldo at April 30, 2013 06:22 PM (1hBkG)
Posted by: EC at April 30, 2013 06:22 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Ants hate Fuehrer Ant at April 30, 2013 06:23 PM (C8mVl)
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 30, 2013 10:12 PM (RwRRP)
not sure what you mean, I've been coming to AoS since before 2008
why?
Posted by: Jose at April 30, 2013 06:23 PM (zc/sw)
The clerk at Dicks mentioned Fuquay G&G selling .22 by the box of 50, and wouldn't sell a brick. Hell, even Dicks said they were selling boxes of 50 .22LR for $10.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 30, 2013 06:23 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 06:24 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 30, 2013 06:24 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 30, 2013 10:23 PM (4Mv1T)
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Didn't Dick's say they'd stop selling guns after Sandy Hook? But they still sell ammo. That makes a lot of sense.
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 30, 2013 06:25 PM (HDgX3)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 30, 2013 06:25 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: EC at April 30, 2013 06:26 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 30, 2013 06:26 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Synova at April 30, 2013 06:27 PM (7/PU+)
DC is already its own universe. Several universes, really.
What? Oh, I thought you were talking about comic books, not the truly absurd.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 06:27 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 30, 2013 10:21 PM (Z9EHQ)
*****
After several years of infantry, most of us move on to adultery, unless you want to count adolescence.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 30, 2013 06:27 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 30, 2013 06:28 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Captain James Tiberius Kirk at April 30, 2013 06:28 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: teej at April 30, 2013 06:28 PM (r60DJ)
Posted by: filbert at April 30, 2013 06:28 PM (7vimm)
If you're gonna exercise, might as well run sprints in an orchard! What's the most beautiful or unusual place you've ever exercised? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 30, 2013 10:08 PM
Meghan McCain @MeghanMcCain 29 Apr
I fucking hate feeling vulnerable.
Meghan McCain @MeghanMcCain 7h
Raising McCain starts filming in less than 3 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOOO!!!!! OH SHIT!!!!!!
Posted by: kbdabear at April 30, 2013 06:28 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: EC at April 30, 2013 06:29 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 30, 2013 06:29 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at April 30, 2013 06:29 PM (vHxiM)
I was there buying a basketball fer cryin' out loud. The rest of you principled Morons can boycott. If someone's selling scarce commodities (i.e boolets) at the right price, I'm buying. I don't give a shit if they're Nazis.
And I don't go in for boycotts. Too much like union bullshit.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 30, 2013 06:29 PM (4Mv1T)
If you're in NY, I advise you to buy ammo and weapons before next year, when you will be required to give name and address before any ammo purchase. The seller will run a background check BEFORE you get ammo, and if NICS is busy, you get to wait until the check is made.
Rumor has it that there is more legislation in the pipeline, but I can't verify this, my sources are silent.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 30, 2013 06:29 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 10:21 PM (1zr4/)
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Heh- the old "ball and chain" detached the old "ball and socket".
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 30, 2013 06:29 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 30, 2013 06:29 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 06:29 PM (5J54Q)
@247 They will not need oil..., because CO2
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 10:13 PM (aDwsi)
I can't wait to see how the heat their homes.
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All the hot air that appears every time they open their mouths to pontificate.
Posted by: junior at April 30, 2013 06:30 PM (DWqDw)
Posted by: EC at April 30, 2013 06:30 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Peaches hates everything except bacons at April 30, 2013 06:31 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 30, 2013 10:28 PM (mGBy
*****
Hmmm. At first I read that as "stop being so nerdy". But then I thought, he wouldn't have called me....
...oh never mind.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 30, 2013 06:31 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 06:31 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: CarolT at April 30, 2013 06:31 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 30, 2013 06:32 PM (Z9EHQ)
At night, it would look like the satellite photo of the Korean peninsula
By day, South would look like West Berlin, the North like East Berlin
Posted by: kbdabear at April 30, 2013 06:32 PM (mCvL4)
Go ahead and secede Southerners, the Country is split down the middle. Don`t believe he is too well versed in geography, or math and statistics. Typical libthink, after the Secession split down the middle there would be no immigration excepting via a massive fucking boatlift.
Posted by: gdukes63@aol.com at April 30, 2013 06:32 PM (uOxBm)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 30, 2013 06:33 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 06:33 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Ragamuffin at April 30, 2013 06:33 PM (fzFF6)
Posted by: alex® at April 30, 2013 06:33 PM (q7WBr)
A little late to the thread, as always.
Things that shouldn't have happened:
1. Sheriff's dept. guy letting Holbert handle his revolver.
1a. Handing Holbert a loaded revolver.
2. Holbert pulling back the hammer to make sure the chamber was empty. I think the approved way to safety check a DA or DA/SA revolver would be to rotate the cylinder out. He did the equivalent of racking slide on a semi-auto, with the mag in.
3. Holbert: "When I let the hammer fall, the cylinder must have rotated without my knowing" Using a gun with out knowing how it works is a clear fail. Not sure how he let the hammer fall, he doesn't say.
4. Holbert: "When I pulled the hammer back a second time it fired a live round." No it didn't. He fired the gun.
5. Pointing a gun at something, (the back of the driver's seat), you don't want to shoot is fail in the extreme.
6. Lastly if you have no interest in guns, or knowledge, or experience with them, don't play with them.
Hopefully the guy did a stretch for involuntary manslaughter, or whatever it's called. I've never owned, fired or handled a gun, but even I wouldn't have done any of the crap this idiot did, especially in a Vega with 2 other people.
Posted by: jbarntt at April 30, 2013 06:34 PM (UNFot)
Posted by: CarolT at April 30, 2013 06:34 PM (z4WKX)
Says he's trying to fix a problem. But we don't have to do it. Its for the good of the country.
Posted by: Serious Cat at April 30, 2013 06:34 PM (UOjzE)
I was there buying a basketball fer cryin' out loud.
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Something you can actually afford to shoot nowadays.
Posted by: USS Diversity at April 30, 2013 06:34 PM (5wHPS)
Posted by: EC at April 30, 2013 06:34 PM (doBIb)
Oh, plus I kicked a hippie in Denver. It was awesome.
Posted by: Christina Hendricks' Mighty Jugs are Really SMOD in Disguise at April 30, 2013 06:36 PM (+AV7H)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 06:37 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 30, 2013 06:37 PM (+z4pE)
Posted by: gp at April 30, 2013 06:38 PM (mk9aG)
Posted by: Ragamuffin at April 30, 2013 06:38 PM (fzFF6)
Yeah... that'll work. Maybe Siegel will volunteer to stop breathing and stop his own nasty CO2 emissions.
Posted by: Peregrine Took, Hobbit SOB at April 30, 2013 06:38 PM (erlzv)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks' Mighty Jugs are Really SMOD in Disguise
Oh, do tell, darlin' . . . you might have just pulled my day out of the crapper. xoxo
Posted by: Peaches hates everything except bacons at April 30, 2013 06:38 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: EC at April 30, 2013 06:38 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 06:39 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: L, elle at April 30, 2013 06:39 PM (0PiQ4)
Hopefully the guy did a stretch for involuntary manslaughter, or whatever it's called. I've never owned, fired or handled a gun, but even I wouldn't have done any of the crap this idiot did, especially in a Vega with 2 other people.
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it's not clear from the text if the car is moving, but that'd be another layer of stupid if it were.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at April 30, 2013 06:39 PM (sYTYw)
And the off-duty cop did what the whole time, sat there watching? Saw no prob with the guy pulling back the hammer the first time, let him do it a second without comment? I know there's dumb cops out there but c'mon.........
Posted by: tdpwells at April 30, 2013 06:39 PM (01otU)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 30, 2013 06:39 PM (mGBy8)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 06:40 PM (GEICT)
Sure it is. Everything THEY infest would look like detroit.
Posted by: Berserker at April 30, 2013 06:40 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Christina Hendricks' Mighty Jugs are Really SMOD in Disguise at April 30, 2013 10:36 PM (+AV7H)
Gather round Morons! It's story time!
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 10:37 PM (GEICT)
Stompy Boots??? /pant pant...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2013 06:40 PM (lZBBB)
Posted by: Trimegistus at April 30, 2013 06:40 PM (jIHVp)
Oh, plus I kicked a hippie in Denver. It was awesome.
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did you bring enough hippies for us all to kick???
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at April 30, 2013 06:41 PM (sYTYw)
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 30, 2013 06:41 PM (SAMxH)
Scalia's a boss, no doubt, but he's gotten overtly political at times and let that enter into his opinions and arguments, whereas Thomas has always maintained his interpretation of the Constitution as the central feature of his jurisprudence.
Plus, Gonzales v. Raich, bro.
Posted by: The Q at April 30, 2013 06:41 PM (XQzGn)
I got bashed a few months back for buying something from Cheaperthandirt for the same reasons.
I am the truest of capitalists in this regard. If someone fucks me, they lose my business, if they screw EVERYONE else, and still treat me well, that's all the more for me.
Harsh, but how it works in my little corner of the universe.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 30, 2013 06:42 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Jake in ID at April 30, 2013 06:42 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: EC at April 30, 2013 06:42 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Berserker at April 30, 2013 06:43 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 30, 2013 06:43 PM (+z4pE)
I got my burrito bowl and got the hell outta there fast, wasn't waiting around to see what the rest of the crowd was going to do.
I think I'm getting more violent these days. I blame society.
Posted by: Christina Hendricks' Mighty Jugs are Really SMOD in Disguise at April 30, 2013 06:43 PM (+AV7H)
Once again, I would like to promote a book I recently wrote, My Teachers are Zombies! available here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CKJ70AW
It's at a fourth-grade reading level and appropriate for all ages. It's a "kid's book" but it won't insult their intelligence. In fact, I incorporated a few facts into the book. I also used some foreshadowing and lamp shading because it is a bit of a silly story.
I invite you all to purchase it and review, or ask me about it. Also there's a free sample available.
Posted by: Tom In Korea at April 30, 2013 06:44 PM (oJkTX)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 30, 2013 06:44 PM (C8mVl)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 06:44 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at April 30, 2013 06:45 PM (oBhEo)
Posted by: EC at April 30, 2013 06:45 PM (doBIb)
Fucking idiot was all up in my space while I'm waiting to get my chipotle, so I goose stepped his balls. I think he was too wasted to even feel it then, but he still kinda keeled over like he was going to sleep.
I got my burrito bowl and got the hell outta there fast, wasn't waiting around to see what the rest of the crowd was going to do.
I think I'm getting more violent these days. I blame society.
*sniff* That was beautiful, man.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 30, 2013 06:46 PM (+z4pE)
Posted by: Jake in ID at April 30, 2013 06:46 PM (zzeVM)
>>I've always thought Amanda Knox was guilty of something.
The case against her is growing
...in my pants.
Posted by: garrett at April 30, 2013 06:46 PM (dGodl)
Posted by: Grand Admiral Thrawn at April 30, 2013 06:46 PM (JqnAE)
Posted by: Jeepers at April 30, 2013 06:46 PM (XDRsa)
speaking of Boston
Ed Markey will beat off the Obama-supporting Republican, Gabriel Gomez.
er, ...
Posted by: soothsayer at April 30, 2013 06:46 PM (DlaLh)
Posted by: Up With People! at April 30, 2013 06:47 PM (FmFB3)
We're discussing the judicial equivalent of Lou Gehrig and Stan Musial - even if one has a slight preference over the other, they're still two of the greatest of all time and we can enjoy so much from the careers both.
Posted by: The Q at April 30, 2013 06:47 PM (XQzGn)
It was the second week in August, a Friday the 13th, in fact, in 1982.
"...I was at summer daycamp with my bestest kindergarten buddy Tommy. I was chewing my Pop Tart aimlessley, as small children are wont to do. It must have been a subconscious gun fetish, because the next thing I knew, the Pop Tart was shaped like an AK-72 semi-assault full automatic machine pistol. Tommy laughed and pointed his index finger at me, with his thumb straight up. 'Ka-pow' he giggled. I instinctively raised my Pop Tart, and without realizing it racked the cylinder and a shell ejected from the clip into the magazine and before I knew it, the Pop Tart gun fired itself. When I opened my eyes, my imaginary friend Biff lay in an imaginary pool of imaginary blood. Looking up at me with his imaginary blue eyes he moaned, 'Why, oh why did you have to believe that Pop Tarts were a crucial part of manhood'. My life has been a hell on earth ever since that fateful day."
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 30, 2013 06:47 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Otto at April 30, 2013 06:48 PM (HiKk0)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 06:48 PM (GEICT)
She's a good looking chick. But, serious you guys, I don't think she's a 'good kid' as they say.
Oh wait, maybe I'm confusing her with that Louise Woodward witch.
Posted by: soothsayer at April 30, 2013 06:48 PM (vanqS)
Posted by: Hawkins1701 at April 30, 2013 06:49 PM (gU6OW)
Posted by: Gromulin at April 30, 2013 06:49 PM (3cB5+)
>>I've always thought Amanda Knox was guilty of something.
The case against her is growing
...in my pants.
Posted by: garrett at April 30, 2013 10:46 PM (dGodl)
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That is teh funneh.
Posted by: Craig Poe at April 30, 2013 06:49 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: CarolT at April 30, 2013 06:50 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 30, 2013 10:47 PM (pxDth)
Baby CheChe weeped when she read that, Seamus.
Posted by: garrett at April 30, 2013 06:50 PM (dGodl)
Posted by: ET at April 30, 2013 06:51 PM (YpjaN)
Nice WKRP / Johnny Fever quote.
Posted by: Gromulin at April 30, 2013 10:49 PM (3cB5+)
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So, that's where Dennis Miller got it from?
Posted by: Craig Poe at April 30, 2013 06:51 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: gdukes63@aol.com at April 30, 2013 06:51 PM (uOxBm)
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LOL. Seriously though, stay away from Denver. Ever since the hemp shit you have mass crowds getting stoned and then immediately packing all the food joints to eat. Gee I wonder why.
Posted by: Christina Hendricks' Mighty Jugs are Really SMOD in Disguise at April 30, 2013 06:51 PM (+AV7H)
Posted by: Josef at April 30, 2013 06:52 PM (Kd2Tr)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 06:52 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 06:52 PM (1zr4/)
Isn't it amazing, Carol?
Only in MA does this happen -- voters have a choice between shitbum #1 and liar #2.
Posted by: soothsayer at April 30, 2013 06:52 PM (LPRBM)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 30, 2013 06:52 PM (UTq/I)
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You know, I've been noticing the adverse change in driving habits on I-25 over the past few years I've been frequenting Colorado, and it never occurred to me that some of it is due to the damned hippies.
Posted by: Christina Hendricks' Mighty Jugs are Really SMOD in Disguise at April 30, 2013 06:54 PM (+AV7H)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 06:54 PM (1zr4/)
Posted by: Jean at April 30, 2013 06:55 PM (bR2AR)
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And parts of Wyoming.
Posted by: Christina Hendricks' Mighty Jugs are Really SMOD in Disguise at April 30, 2013 06:55 PM (+AV7H)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 06:55 PM (GEICT)
Us boozers have similar "issues". 16yo son decides to buy "Fried Pork Rinds" last night. Eats a few, decides he hates them, and crams the bag in kitchen trash. 2 hours later, I finish 37th scotch on the ONT, and see said "Fried Pork Rinds" crammed in trash.
30 minutes later? Damn those were good.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 30, 2013 06:55 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: AltonJackson at April 30, 2013 06:55 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Jake in ID at April 30, 2013 06:55 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: Jean at April 30, 2013 06:56 PM (bR2AR)
anyone whatching this Diane Sawyer-Amanada Knox informercial
Color me: Unmoved
I just do not like this person. There's something about Amanda...
Posted by: soothsayer at April 30, 2013 06:57 PM (LPRBM)
30 minutes later? Damn those were good.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 30, 2013 10:55 PM (4Mv1T)
*****
Tobacco Road you are a man after my own heart!
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 30, 2013 06:57 PM (pxDth)
anyone watching this Diane Sawyer-Amanada Knox informercial
Color me: Unmoved
I just do not like this person. There's something about Amanda...
Posted by: soothsayer at April 30, 2013 06:57 PM (8dspl)
Posted by: Jake in ID at April 30, 2013 06:58 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 30, 2013 06:58 PM (UTq/I)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 06:58 PM (1zr4/)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 30, 2013 06:58 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 06:58 PM (GEICT)
America would look A LOT more racist and hate crimey if the south were taken out of the national figures.
According to the FBI latest hate crimes data, all those "enlightened" liberal northern states are hate crime'n at a 2X-3X greater rate than the southern states.
This jaggoff is stuck in a time warp to 60 years ago. The south largely got over that shit and has moved on, the north never did.
Posted by: @PurpAv at April 30, 2013 06:58 PM (Km0x9)
Posted by: Jean at April 30, 2013 06:59 PM (bR2AR)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 06:59 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 07:00 PM (1zr4/)
Oh my goodness... Lee Siegel's article was filled with so much stupidity that I think the cognitive part of my brain aborted itself to escape from having to process all of his shit.
I don't think even a strict diet of biscuits and gravy, grits, cornpone, black-eyed peas and hog jowls washed down with Jack Daniel's could cure him of his stoopid.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 30, 2013 07:00 PM (+z4pE)
We have a rule in this household.
Younger family members must clean plates of what they take. Younger family members must eat every bite of their impulse purchases, no matter how weird or ill-considered. The only out is if the food is demonstrably unfit for consumption.
After a few iterations, this has remarkable results.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 30, 2013 07:00 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Jean at April 30, 2013 07:00 PM (bR2AR)
Posted by: AltonJackson at April 30, 2013 07:00 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: filbert at April 30, 2013 07:00 PM (7vimm)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 10:59 PM (GEICT)
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Yeah, that kid in net for the Wild is stonewalling the 'Hawks. Gonna go watch the end.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 30, 2013 07:00 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: filbert at April 30, 2013 07:01 PM (7vimm)
Posted by: Jake in ID at April 30, 2013 07:01 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: Secundus at April 30, 2013 07:01 PM (skII7)
Posted by: and irresolute at April 30, 2013 07:02 PM (DBH1h)
on the news just now about Republican Gomez's primary win: "Gomez is already painting himself as someone who will reach across the aisle."
Posted by: soothsayer at April 30, 2013 07:03 PM (KeJAW)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 30, 2013 10:58 PM (UTq/I)
Yeah, I liked how he stated that the north would have a ban on carbon emissions (not a reduced level, not carbon trading, but a ban) and electric vehicles. Where does he think electricity comes from? The south would thrive just by selling energy to the north, if this guy has anything to say about it.
Posted by: Mullaney at April 30, 2013 07:03 PM (s8XaI)
As luck would have it my wife is a serious health nut. Always has been, and for once it worked in my favor. Son thought said Pork Rinds were simply awful, and wife encouraged him to dispose of them.
To the winners go the spoils, and I won.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 30, 2013 07:04 PM (4Mv1T)
I don't think he will have to worry about reaching across to anyone.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 30, 2013 07:05 PM (ajFZf)
Ed Markey tonight on his primary win: This election will not be easy. Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers see this election as the first step to stop Obama's agenda and retake the Senate.
Posted by: soothsayer at April 30, 2013 07:05 PM (FC8Yl)
Posted by: Jake in ID at April 30, 2013 07:05 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: Trimegistus at April 30, 2013 07:05 PM (jIHVp)
As luck would have it my wife is a serious health nut. Always has been, and for once it worked in my favor. Son thought said Pork Rinds were simply awful, and wife encouraged him to dispose of them.
To the winners go the spoils, and I won.
Posted by: Tobacco Road
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I prefer locally made..., they have more bristles in them. Cold beer, pork rinds, how good does it get?
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 07:05 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Mommy Corrie at April 30, 2013 07:06 PM (HiKk0)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 07:06 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Secundus at April 30, 2013 07:06 PM (skII7)
your friend
your feet
your car stereo
your dog
your dick
your butt cheak
your trucks radiator
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The jury is still out on the computer...
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 07:07 PM (aDwsi)
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Hater
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 07:08 PM (aDwsi)
Yes. Here's your number one travel tip:
Stay the fuck away from Vegas and don't spend a single polished penny there until Nevada quits re-electing Dingy Harry Reid. And by "Nevada", I mean "Vegas". Absent the votes of Clark County, the disgusting Reid would be retired by now.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 30, 2013 07:08 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian at April 30, 2013 07:09 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: navybrat at April 30, 2013 07:09 PM (2ZO++)
Posted by: Jake in ID at April 30, 2013 07:10 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: Secundus at April 30, 2013 07:10 PM (skII7)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 07:11 PM (GEICT)
Not basically. They ARE deep fried pork fat. When you consume distilled spirits in the volume I do, they can break down plutonium. I am basically a living, breathing human cockroach. I can eat anything and survive.
For now, anyway.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 30, 2013 07:11 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys theys ridin ponies) at April 30, 2013 07:11 PM (uOxBm)
Posted by: mama winger, maybe today at April 30, 2013 07:12 PM (P6QsQ)
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What about my legal brothels? Can I still have my legal brothels?
Posted by: Christina Hendricks' Mighty Jugs are Really SMOD in Disguise at April 30, 2013 07:12 PM (+AV7H)
Posted by: Otto Zilch at April 30, 2013 07:13 PM (eEa5w)
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 07:13 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Jake in ID at April 30, 2013 07:13 PM (zzeVM)
Fuck them. I WANT the South to secede. Maybe some remnant of America can survive that way.
Back before PJ Media banned me, they had a review of Memphis Blue. The reviewer was codswalloped that there was so much civility in the dialogue, no hint of racism or condescension. Everybody treated each other as equals.
I replied that the South has been like that for quite a while and this was pretty much SOP for us.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 30, 2013 07:14 PM (+z4pE)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian at April 30, 2013 07:14 PM (HVff2)
Alright, zero carbons? What powers....everything? What heats your homes? What powers hospitals? What charges your electric car? Electric semi trucks to haul your food? Enjoy bread at $20 a loaf.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 11:06 PM (GEICT)
I'd love to see those electric semis have to stop every 100 miles to recharge. Also, the ironic thing is that it's actually more energy efficient to cool your home than to heat it. I guarantee that the average Southerner has a smaller "carbon footprint" than the average Northerner.
Posted by: Mullaney at April 30, 2013 07:14 PM (s8XaI)
Posted by: and irresolute at April 30, 2013 07:15 PM (DBH1h)
Posted by: Secundus at April 30, 2013 07:15 PM (skII7)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 07:16 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 07:16 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Secundus at April 30, 2013 11:06 PM (skII7)
So is chickin skin.
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys theys ridin ponies) at April 30, 2013 07:17 PM (uOxBm)
They would ban semis and move all freight by rail. They love trains.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 30, 2013 07:17 PM (ajFZf)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian at April 30, 2013 07:18 PM (HVff2)
homes? What powers hospitals? What charges your electric car? Electric
semi trucks to haul your food? Enjoy bread at $20 a loaf.
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I can't wait to see the solar powered airliners. "Cloud! Cloud!"
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 07:18 PM (aDwsi)
Tom in Korea: Today, I bought your book for my 4th grade granddaughter. She loves to read, so I'm sure she will enjoy it.
Posted by: Savannah Granny at April 30, 2013 07:18 PM (zWnke)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 07:18 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: CarolT at April 30, 2013 07:18 PM (z4WKX)
All I can tell you is exercise ain't for the old. I decided to spend a little time with some mild weight training in the basement. Used to lift a lot in my twenties.
Two months of pushups, flies, and curls sent me to the friggin physical therapist to straighten out my shoulder
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 30, 2013 07:19 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: toby928© One comment, Vasili, one comment only please at April 30, 2013 07:19 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian at April 30, 2013 07:20 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: RWC at April 30, 2013 07:20 PM (Wl/Ht)
A while back I was house sitting for a friend and noted they had a package of microwave pork rinds. It was the same packaging as microwave popcorn but in this case create puffed pork fat.
Really awful.Put me in mind of the Mike Myers joke about most Scottish food being based on a dare.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 07:20 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 07:20 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Secundus at April 30, 2013 07:21 PM (skII7)
Posted by: Jake in ID at April 30, 2013 07:21 PM (zzeVM)
Yup. Hot air rises. So you're heating your space from the top, benefitting no one, down to the bottom where everyone is. When you cool, it's from the floor up. Muuuuch easier.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 30, 2013 11:16 PM (GEICT)
True, but not just that. Air conditioning is just more efficient than heat. We could all save energy by moving South. Although, as an Ohioan, I won't reveal that secret to the rest of us Northerners.
Posted by: Mullaney at April 30, 2013 07:21 PM (s8XaI)
Cap'n, there's a saying: You can't out-train bad nutrition.
Nutrition is 80% of losing fat.
Training is mostly for gaining muscle.
Posted by: soothsayer at April 30, 2013 07:21 PM (Fely/)
Posted by: mugiwara at April 30, 2013 07:21 PM (hpYnL)
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Powered by...., electricity? Produced..., how?
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 07:21 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Synova at April 30, 2013 07:21 PM (7/PU+)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 30, 2013 07:22 PM (Zd/NW)
http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/guide/safe-exercise-patients
You can probably find a lot more, and your cardiologist probably has a book he'd recommend.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 07:22 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 07:23 PM (5J54Q)
Thought about this earlier. Wouldn't that actually be a jury of peers?
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 30, 2013 07:23 PM (4Mv1T)
Double action revolvers commonly used by the police in 1982 have a cylinder release on the left side. You pull it back if Smith and Wesson or push it forward for a Colt. Rugers have a rocker and you rock the cylinder release back to open the cylinder. Second, looking at the cylinder from the side, you can see the cartridge heads--by 1982 very few revolvers still had the recessed heads. Even if you pulled the hammer back, the firing pin hole is much too small to see whether a cartridge is present without a very strong flashlight. Others which use transfer bar safeties--at the time would be Colt Pythons and Rugers Six series totally block any visibility of the cylinder.
It is possible that it was a single action of some sort without the transfer safety bar--Colt S/A or old style Ruger S/A. I am not a specialist on these but usually it requires putting the revolver on half cock, opening the loading gate, and rotating the cylinder. This would tell you whether cartridges are present. However, you would never let the hammer fall from half cock (it is a primitive safety of a sort) and then cock the hammer again. This will always cause the next cylinder (loaded or not) to come up unless the revolver is defective (if on half cock, one can spin the cylinder manually so that you may load new cartridges and get rid of spent ones).
Old style single actions are designed to be carried on an empty chamber so a six shooter really carries five loaded and one unloaded. Ruger redesigned their single action in the 1970's and added a transfer bar safety so that six rounds may be carried safely.
So, Holbrook's actions were with a careless disregard of human life and were not justified whether the revolver was single action or double.
Posted by: wg at April 30, 2013 07:24 PM (Q4PYs)
Northerners still think the South is poor. They think Southerners are racist. They think the Klan is powerful and widespread. They really believe this bullshit, and they vote for stupid motherfuckers like Obama because of it.
Posted by: Trimegistus at April 30, 2013 11:05 PM (jIHVp)
Only the northern leftist dickbags think that way.
Posted by: Berserker at April 30, 2013 07:24 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Secundus at April 30, 2013 07:24 PM (skII7)
Oh, and this is the most important part:
TELL THEM WHY. Politely but firmly. Write them a letter.
Silent boycotts don't really get the point across so much as vocal ones do.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 30, 2013 07:24 PM (gqT4g)
CarolT, we won't have to worry about having another Squish in the Senate, heh. Markey will crush Gomez and then die in that Senate seat.
btw, that KFC on the corner of Rte 16? That's my home away from home.
Posted by: soothsayer at April 30, 2013 07:24 PM (LVtr+)
Captain Whitebread. Just start by walking to the end of the street and back. Or walk up a couple of flights of stairs. It took you a long time to get so sick, so there is no reason to expect that it won't take you some time to stop being afraid of killing yourself. The good news is that the human body, generally, is very happy to be working and moving. It is the mind where the voices are, those pangs of fear and doubt, so just go slow and gain confidence.
Posted by: and irresolute at April 30, 2013 07:24 PM (DBH1h)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 30, 2013 07:25 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Savannah Granny at April 30, 2013 11:18 PM (zWnke)
That's really encouraging to hear, thank you for doing that. ^.^
If she ever wants to give some feedback when she finishes it, I'll be glad to hear it. I'm hoping to write some more and keep improving.
Posted by: Tom In Korea at April 30, 2013 07:25 PM (oJkTX)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian at April 30, 2013 07:26 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: rfichoke at April 30, 2013 07:26 PM (CcIvJ)
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Powered by...., electricity? Produced..., how?
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 11:21 PM (aDwsi)
From the plug socket in your wall, duh.
Posted by: Sooper Smart City Lib at April 30, 2013 07:27 PM (hpYnL)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 30, 2013 07:27 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: RWC at April 30, 2013 07:28 PM (Wl/Ht)
Posted by: Berserker at April 30, 2013 11:24 PM (FMbng)
We know that. But your outnumbered.
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys theys ridin ponies) at April 30, 2013 07:29 PM (uOxBm)
Posted by: and irresolute at April 30, 2013 07:29 PM (DBH1h)
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Powered by...., electricity? Produced..., how?
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 30, 2013 11:21 PM (aDwsi)
Seriously, I really wonder where leftists think electricity comes from. I don't want to assume that they're that stupid, but they really seem to think it springs forth from nowhere. A tiny proportion of energy in the US is produced by wind and solar.
Posted by: Mullaney at April 30, 2013 07:30 PM (s8XaI)
Posted by: CarolT at April 30, 2013 07:30 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: LindaFell at April 30, 2013 07:30 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian at April 30, 2013 07:31 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 30, 2013 07:31 PM (Vk2pI)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-3InSFvtKg
Electric but very much driven by fossil fuel, and a great beast.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 07:31 PM (kcfmt)
I personally think people over-do it on the cardio. Or they under-do it.
If you do cardio, remember: the idea is to elevate your heart rate, not 'sweat' away your fat. It doesn't work. Give your heart muslcle a little workout by making a beat moderately fast for several minutes.
If you have a Planet Fitness in your area, join it. It's cheap and has everything you need.
Posted by: soothsayer at April 30, 2013 07:31 PM (Fely/)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 10:48 PM (1zr4/)
....Howdy, AP! and now I'm caught up with myself -- just 127 comments behind.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 30, 2013 07:31 PM (tyF2+)
Posted by: and irresolute at April 30, 2013 07:31 PM (DBH1h)
Posted by: Jonathan Quick (LA Kings goalie) at April 30, 2013 07:31 PM (zdOO0)
So, what do they do now that Chavez is dead? He was supplying them heating oil.
Posted by: navybrat at April 30, 2013 07:31 PM (2ZO++)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 30, 2013 07:32 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 30, 2013 07:32 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: puddleglum at April 30, 2013 07:33 PM (5A9RX)
Posted by: Jake in ID at April 30, 2013 07:33 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: AltonJackson at April 30, 2013 07:34 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 30, 2013 07:34 PM (5J54Q)
And produce great pyrotechnics. A bunch of the guys who put on the annual Desert Blast live in or have operations in Pahrump.
Desert Blast had a single page of rules, with nearly all of them ending in 'or we will shoot you.' Except the rule against bringing dogs, which ended in the warning that the dog would be shot, and then you.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 07:35 PM (kcfmt)
The worse junk foods I ever tried were when I was teaching in Korea (Hi Tom!)
They had candied squid which just reeked after it was open.
Probably even worse was a can of peanuts and anchovies. I love peanuts! I love anchovies! But like liberals and conservatives, the two are probably best separated.
bedtime....good night all...
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at April 30, 2013 07:35 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: mindful webworker has nothing else to strive for at April 30, 2013 07:35 PM (U13jb)
BackwardsBoy- May I ask why you were banned?
I have no idea. I always liked that place and was respectful, no cussing or ranting. They started a new registration system recently, I went through all the steps and posted one or two comments, and now, I can't log in or comment at all there.
Before that, I noticed that more than a couple of my comments were deleted later. This isn't the first time this has happened to me. That's why I'm not on Twitter. Logged in, got a password, and now, nothing.
Strange...
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 30, 2013 07:36 PM (+z4pE)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys theys ridin ponies) at April 30, 2013 11:29 PM (uOxBm)
yeah true. The sad thing is conservatives in the north actually own WAY more acres of land than the leftists. The left likes to pile their people like cord wood in their shitty cities.
Posted by: Berserker at April 30, 2013 07:36 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys theys ridin ponies) at April 30, 2013 07:37 PM (uOxBm)
Posted by: RWC at April 30, 2013 07:37 PM (Wl/Ht)
Once they've got the pizza, the North has nothing of worth
Posted by: The Q at April 30, 2013 07:37 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 30, 2013 07:37 PM (mGBy8)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian at April 30, 2013 07:38 PM (HVff2)
Grand Central Station refers to the post office across the street.
http://tinyurl.com/cz3eds7
Posted by: Al at April 30, 2013 07:39 PM (sxnF+)
Posted by: Secundus at April 30, 2013 07:39 PM (skII7)
Posted by: freeTibet with purchase of equal or greater value Tibet at April 30, 2013 07:39 PM (quLHy)
Posted by: puddleglum at April 30, 2013 07:40 PM (5A9RX)
I'm planning to get an armature device that will hold a tablet in front of me on the treadmill so it doesn't die from the vibration. Add a keyboard with a touchpad and you can ONT while you exercise.
It's almost... virtuous.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 07:40 PM (kcfmt)
to them, they view the wealth of the rich as being stolen and illegitimately obtained, so therefore, government must act like Robin Hood and redistribute it, and therefore return the wealth to the people, in the form of 'free' health care, which automatically should belong to the people anyway since they would have purchased their own health care had not the evil rich stolen everyone's money.
or something.
Posted by: chemjeff hates ants at April 30, 2013 07:41 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: sTevo at April 30, 2013 07:41 PM (sa6D2)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian at April 30, 2013 07:42 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: RWC at April 30, 2013 07:43 PM (Wl/Ht)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 30, 2013 07:44 PM (jucos)
As part of not feeding the beast, I made the conscious decision to do without A/C for about 4 years now.
My power bills are under $50/mo winter or summer. $45'ish in the winter running a small space heater, $35'ish in the summer running fans.
The first summer was a little rough, but I've got the system figured out now about where fans need to go, what windows need to be open and such for the casa to be tolerable.
The key thing I determined experimentally, is to restrict caloric intake to only what's absolutely needed in the summer. Any excess makes you feel a LOT hotter. A modest deficit during the hottest hours of the day allows even 86 degrees to be tolerable.
When it goes up over 88, you're fucked. That's gonna fell hot no matter how you slice it.
When I think of the thousands and thousands of dollars I gave FPL over the years paying $250/mo power bills it makes me nauseous.
Posted by: @PurpAv at April 30, 2013 07:44 PM (Km0x9)
Posted by: RWC at April 30, 2013 07:45 PM (Wl/Ht)
Dried squid is the best. You have to love a snack food that comes with it's own dipping sauce in the packet.
Posted by: Tom In Korea at April 30, 2013 07:45 PM (oJkTX)
Wow ONT & exercising how awesome is that?! I'm afraid to tell the Mrs about that
Come for the smart militaryness, stay for the fried pork rinds.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 30, 2013 07:45 PM (+z4pE)
Captain Whitebread. Just start by walking to the end of the street and back. Or walk up a couple of flights of stairs. It took you a long time to get so sick, so there is no reason to expect that it won't take you some time to stop being afraid of killing yourself. The good news is that the human body, generally, is very happy to be working and moving. It is the mind where the voices are, those pangs of fear and doubt, so just go slow and gain confidence.
Posted by: and irresolute at April 30, 2013 11:24 PM (DBH1h)
We found nice parks with forests that we could walk in, and worked up to 5-mile hikes with 700-foot vertical top-to-bottom slopes.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 30, 2013 07:46 PM (tyF2+)
Posted by: chemjeff hates ants at April 30, 2013 07:46 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Jake in ID at April 30, 2013 07:47 PM (zzeVM)
..so if states do...
....Obama will let them go?
Has Obama heard about this? Does he approve? Has he been briefed?
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at April 30, 2013 07:47 PM (2JDwz)
And don't forget, one of the most notorious white supremacist leaders (and registered democrat) Tom Metzger made his home in bluer than blue Southern CA after leaving the Army in 1964.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 07:47 PM (kcfmt)
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5 kilometers? Isn't that like 3 1/2 feet?
Posted by: Craig Poe at April 30, 2013 07:48 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: AltonJackson at April 30, 2013 07:48 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian at April 30, 2013 07:48 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: RWC at April 30, 2013 07:48 PM (Wl/Ht)
http://tinyurl.com/83hur4y
This is funny
Posted by: Caustic at April 30, 2013 07:50 PM (/b8+5)
smh
Posted by: and irresolute at April 30, 2013 11:31 PM (DBH1h)
umm no offense but we do tons of PC stuff in the gaming threads
Posted by: The Dude at April 30, 2013 07:50 PM (vJdyz)
So you're now about 70 kilometers away from home. Did you bring a laptop and stop at a coffee shop with WiFi?
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 07:50 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian at April 30, 2013 07:52 PM (HVff2)
So you're now about 70 kilometers away from home. Did you bring a laptop and stop at a coffee shop with WiFi?
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 11:50 PM (kcfmt)
heh
Posted by: The Dude at April 30, 2013 07:52 PM (vJdyz)
don't think about it, just do it. that is what I had to do.
I would think and fret and worry and agonize and read and ponder and do all sorts of things to plan out an exercise routine. I got to the point where I was just so confused about everything.
so one day I just went to the gym and said "oh fuck it, I am just going to do the elliptical, how hard could it be". and it isn't hard, and it didn't kill me.
if doc said "don't overdo it", then just put the setting on resistance 1 (lightest resistance) and try it. I guarantee you won't pass out on that setting. if you are healthy enough to walk to the elliptical, then you are capable of doing resistance level 1.
but just do something. not too much reading.
Posted by: chemjeff hates ants at April 30, 2013 07:53 PM (BBWjt)
So you're now about 70 kilometers away from home. Did you bring a laptop and stop at a coffee shop with WiFi?
Two electrons leave Microsoft Headquarters in Redmond heading in opposite directions. How long is it before their stock splits?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 30, 2013 07:54 PM (+z4pE)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 07:55 PM (1zr4/)
"I'm seven foot tall . . . I can bang with Shaq."
Don't wake me up, Moochelle Ewing!
Posted by: Kcarab Hussein Amabo at April 30, 2013 07:55 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: CarolT at April 30, 2013 07:56 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 30, 2013 07:56 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian at April 30, 2013 07:57 PM (HVff2)
small steps towards recovery, that is awesome
Posted by: chemjeff hates ants at April 30, 2013 07:57 PM (BBWjt)
He meant to do that. Much more efficient parking methodology. Everyone is going to be doing soon. Just you wait and see.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 07:58 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: @PurpAv at April 30, 2013 11:44 PM (Km0x9)
You are making yourself a cracker house ie: Florida Cracker. Go to Googly Earth and Lake Butler FL and see photos of cracker houses in and around that area. I come from a long line of `em.
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys theys ridin ponies) at April 30, 2013 07:58 PM (uOxBm)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 30, 2013 07:59 PM (qyfb5)
Are they vested? Are they PMs or minions?
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 11:56 PM (kcfmt)
it has been awhile since the last stock split if I remember correctly. Still worth just south of $270 billion I believe
Posted by: The Dude at April 30, 2013 07:59 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian at April 30, 2013 07:59 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Weirddave at April 30, 2013 08:00 PM (gbD0f)
Yes, but Metzger reached the height of his notoriety long after that, after Jerry Brown had largely erased any good work Reagan had done.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 08:01 PM (kcfmt)
http://tinyurl.com/boxudxh
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 11:55 PM (1zr4/)
still not the craziest car related thing I've ever seen in Memphis, a place that you could build a complete car within 2 miles due to all the spare parts on the side of the highway
Posted by: The Dude at April 30, 2013 08:01 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 30, 2013 08:01 PM (+z4pE)
Yep - next step is REMOVE the damned insulation in the attic. In south FL, I'm convinced attic insulation is a hindrance rather than a help.
Its that nasty blown cellulose anyway, so if you come out of the attic, you wind up looking pretty squatchy and covered with the shit.
Posted by: @PurpAv at April 30, 2013 08:03 PM (Km0x9)
Posted by: AltonJackson at April 30, 2013 08:04 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Bunkerintheburbs at April 30, 2013 08:06 PM (X3xYu)
OK, Honorary Southerners, it's bedtime for Bonzo.
Y'all have fun and try not to trash the place, 'k?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 30, 2013 08:07 PM (+z4pE)
HELL, if Texas breaks loose. The hell with y'all I'm leaving Tennessee and going to Texas.
Posted by: Paladin at April 30, 2013 08:08 PM (ExWNO)
I have an extremely uncommon name. My search produced not a single listing for a person who I didn't immediately recognize as a close relative. (Even my mother's maiden name is very uncommon, although if you reverse the syllables it becomes common as dirt.) My friend, Alex Pournelle did a search on his family's name and got a longer list than me but nearly all of them known to him.
The one mystery listing was for a person in Florida by the name of, I'm not kidding, Crackerneck Pournelle. Alex's father was also at a loss to say who this person could be.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 08:08 PM (kcfmt)
I wish. I used to get to go to a lot of that stuff when I did magazine work. Plus, a lot of it was close enough to just to it, such as Las Vegas or San Francisco.
I really miss WinHEC. That was geek heaven in terms of seeing all of the tech that was going to be standard in PCs within a few years. For instance, the first public demo of SATA was at a WinHEC.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 08:11 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: The Dude at April 30, 2013 08:11 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 08:12 PM (1zr4/)
Posted by: CarolT at April 30, 2013 08:12 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian at April 30, 2013 08:12 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: waldo at April 30, 2013 08:13 PM (1hBkG)
Posted by: waldo at April 30, 2013 08:14 PM (1hBkG)
Posted by: Bunkerintheburbs at April 30, 2013 08:14 PM (X3xYu)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian at April 30, 2013 08:14 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Canuk at April 30, 2013 08:15 PM (XnGFh)
Posted by: CarolT at April 30, 2013 08:16 PM (z4WKX)
I would normally say that this is a tragic event and no blame should be placed upon any of our loyal intelligence agents for failing to connect 5 dots out of 1000.
But since we've apparently taken a PDB from 8/6/01 as smoking gun proof that Bush should've stopped 9/11, then this proof that Obama fucked up and people died because of him being a massive fuck up
Posted by: The Q at April 30, 2013 08:16 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: @PurpAv at April 30, 2013 08:18 PM (Km0x9)
Good evening all. So I see Drudge has this tonight:
"UK DAILY MAIL: Saudi Arabia warned USA IN WRITING about Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2012, and rejected his application for an entry visa to visit Mecca in 2011... Developing..."
This admin was warned by TWO foreign governments that Tamerlan needed an eye kept on him and they were ignored. The left lost their minds over a vague August 2001 memo about planes being flown into buildings even though there were no specifics whatsoever. Here, we have a name (Taerlan), we have a location (MA), and O gets away with botching this. If this were W, the left would be claiming that he ignored this on puropse for some nefarious reason.
In other news, I enjoyed watching Rep. Trey Gowdy on Greta tonight. He said Benghazi is "heating up". Praise God! I'm so glad he's "teasing" the upcoming hearings on May 8th. It's good to create "buzz" about it to get people curious and tuning in. I also liked how he scoffed at the investigation the admin claims to have done comparing it to a student grading his own paper. Love him.
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at April 30, 2013 08:19 PM (KL49F)
If Holbert had killed his friend driving his car because he was stupid about traffic, would he call for a ban on cars?
Well, he's a statist so maybe he would
Posted by: kbdabear at April 30, 2013 08:19 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: Mistress Overdone at April 30, 2013 08:19 PM (2/oBD)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 30, 2013 08:21 PM (qyfb5)
Little did I know when I bought this bargain priced laptop it would come with such a lovely bunch of coconuts, pre-installed.
Miss Tamy al-Thor, and most others on the ONT, are right as usual. The battle is not N v S. It's rural v urban.
Before moving seven years ago, we lived in the Owens Valley. There was a local Democrat Club. The only member was my barber. He had the good grace to speak only of fishing.
Favorite pub songs were Up Against the Wall, Red Neck Mother and Prop Me Up By The Juke Box When I Die.
Don't get me wrong. There were some higher priced classy joints. But they were reserved for the tourists.
Stay thirsty, my friends.
Posted by: Sangria Whine at April 30, 2013 08:25 PM (yDWX4)
Posted by: CarolT at April 30, 2013 08:25 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 30, 2013 08:26 PM (qyfb5)
Jack Fletcher was in overall command. But TF16 and TF17 operated independently. This became more pronounced because TF17 had to wait and recover her scout bombers that morning. That is one of the things the pilots in combat had to face, their carriers operating under radio silence so had to hope their carrier would be in the spot of ocean they were promised it would be when they launched. If not and the pilots could not find their carrier by searching, a ditching followed by a swim while praying for a PBY to rescue them would follow. IIRC there was a bomber crew, either Lexington or Yorktown, before Coral Sea that ditched and was in a raft for almost 30 days.
The reason for the scout bombers was Jake Fletcher not wanting to be stung again like he did at Coral Sea. An incomplete contact report from a Dauntless caused Sherman and him to throw two complete air wings at the Japanese light carrier Shoho. Shoho went down but while that was happening the second string air wings of Shokaku and Zuikaku struck the Americans. Despite the best efforts of Wildcats as top CAP and Dauntless dive bombers acting as a low level anti-torpedo bomber screen, both carriers were hit. And later Lexington was lost. Hence on that morning Fletcher sent out scout bombers since he did not fully trust the contact reports they had been getting from Midway.
And that separation probably saved Enterprise and Hornet was this dispersion. The Japanese seemed to have TF17 on their GPS that day as Hiryu flung progressively weaker attacks at the Americans. At one point Hornet F4Fs on CAP tried to help Yorktown's beleaguered CAP.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 08:26 PM (1zr4/)
There were two legitimate reasons for the GWB administration to be concerned at the time:
1. The G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy, was almost interrupted by some Islamic nut trying to fly a plane into the summit.
2. Most of the 9/11 conspiracies originate from the fact that the military was doing its wargames exercises at the time of the attacks, and The Left has managed to conflate two parts of the wargames into one excuse: 1) Arab terrorists hijack the plane to gain some objective; 2) Cuban terrorists fly the planes into skyscrapers
With that said, 9/11 probably would've been prevented if the FBI had talked to the CIA. Thanks a lot, Jamie Gorelick.
In my opinion, Boston couldn't have been prevented (either Jahar or Tamerlan's wife would've gone through with it even if we had gotten Tamerlan for his douchbaggery), and I don't blame the Obama Administration for it.
But if we're blaming the Bush Administration for 9/11, then turnabout is fair play
Posted by: The Q at April 30, 2013 08:28 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: Methos at April 30, 2013 08:30 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 08:30 PM (kcfmt)
The Saudis and Russians named names. That's "actionable" intel.
But due to "a misspelling" he got through the system. Or so they claim.
Posted by: harleycowboy at April 30, 2013 08:30 PM (+9AX9)
So, what other specific infomation is O ignoring RIGHT NOW?! What other suspected jihadis are planning an attack on a major US city as we go to bed tonight that O has been specifically warned about but is doing nothing to stop it?
When does Congress' investigation into this begin? And how will they schedule time for it between their investigation into Benghazi? Not to mention dealing with the crap bills the GOP keeps coming up with (i.e. amnesty).
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at April 30, 2013 08:32 PM (KL49F)
For the infantile thinkers, I suggest appealing to their other senses. And since you mentioned "Anthem," perhaps the important Rush albums should be an introduction to the Moron lifestyle
Posted by: The Q at April 30, 2013 08:33 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: Grand Admiral Thrawn at April 30, 2013 08:36 PM (JqnAE)
Posted by: Extremely grumpy momma bear at April 30, 2013 08:36 PM (GGjRU)
Posted by: Paladin at May 01, 2013 12:08 AM (ExWNO)
How they do that? Somebody drives up, looks at your front door and sees GTT carved in it. Gone To Texas.
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys theys ridin ponies) at April 30, 2013 08:37 PM (uOxBm)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 30, 2013 08:39 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: zeera at April 30, 2013 08:39 PM (3dXwx)
Send a copy of this book to the office of the Governor of the state you're leaving:
http://tinyurl.com/c38fvce
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 08:41 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: @PurpAv at April 30, 2013 08:43 PM (Km0x9)
wut
Wasn't the point of DHS to tell all the hands what the fuck the others know and are doing?
Posted by: Methos at April 30, 2013 08:43 PM (hO9ad)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwU-ftZfc04
Just remember, I like blonds. Thank me later.
Posted by: Joe Diffie at April 30, 2013 08:48 PM (yDWX4)
Posted by: BignJames at April 30, 2013 08:48 PM (H9MGI)
RE: Getting Healthy,
I'm in the same boat after gaining weight for the past couple of years (a deployment and then unemployment after I got out of the Army doesn't help my waistline). A couple of things:
Focus on capabilities. Set goals to run a certain distance, then run it in a certain time. Make a goal to lift a certain amount of weight. Don't focus just on losing weight, which can fluctuate day to day and week to week based on a lot of different factors.
Find something active that interests you. I'm a big fan of Argentine Tango because it keeps me active and gives me a decent social circle. I have a friend who is very big into mountain biking. It's a lot easier to pull yourself off the couch and go dancing or hiking or anything else but go to the gym. And if you have an activity that you can focus your attention on, you'll gain some focus at the gym.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 30, 2013 08:49 PM (lr3d7)
Two yellow eyes glared down from above. "My precious Fluffy," his client had said, "my dearest little angel is trapped and needs your help." What she had failed to mention was that her angel was an Avatar of Hate, eyes burning with malice at all in sight.
As she continued her natter behind him, he wondered if this was Fluffy's attempt to escape a tortured existence. For the briefest of moments, he felt a pang of sympathy for the feline - but a job was a job, and a wizard needed to pay his bills the same as anyone else.
Richard combed his mind for an appropriate chant, and settled upon a Litany of Protection to the Dark and Terrible Lady. A well known prayer half a world away, few knew the language here, so the arcane sounding words would project wizardly mystique. And, he thought, perhaps it would please Her Grace to shield him from Fluffy's wrath.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 30, 2013 08:50 PM (rm+Am)
Posted by: Endeavor to Persevere at April 30, 2013 08:53 PM (zZJJp)
Didn't realize that I was creeping into people's nightmares.
Posted by: fluffy at April 30, 2013 08:55 PM (z9HTb)
See, again, I can't blame O for this, because I took the GWB approach to terrorism, which (coming back to ONT-worthy subjects) I applied to pregnancies as well:
"You have to be right all the time. They only have to make you wrong once."
There have been two problems in the interim:
1. The Left has discounted every real and very legitimate threat on our soil between 2001-2008, including the very real attempt to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge in 2003-2004.
2. They'll do anything to protect Obama, so Boston will be ignored, just as Hassan, Times Square Paki, and Benghazi were ignored (to be fair, DC Sniper, which to me was jihad, was not blamed on Bush, and neither were the anthrax attacks)
Posted by: The Q at April 30, 2013 08:57 PM (XQzGn)
Well, no. How can it when Napolitano insists that every incident is isolated and inexplicable?
Posted by: Methos at April 30, 2013 08:57 PM (hO9ad)
I walked into a bar today doubting myself and my standards: I thought I was too strict, and too many girls I'd written off were really cute if I gave them a second look.
On reflection, I should've given those girls a second look, because they were cute. But this blonde bartender was the Jupiter to their Mrs - so out of their world that it was unbelievable.
Posted by: The Q at April 30, 2013 09:00 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: Methos at April 30, 2013 09:01 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: wte9 at April 30, 2013 09:02 PM (6Tcdo)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 ~です at April 30, 2013 09:02 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: wte9 at April 30, 2013 09:04 PM (6Tcdo)
Posted by: Barry of Benghazi at April 30, 2013 09:04 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: BignJames at April 30, 2013 09:04 PM (H9MGI)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 ~です at May 01, 2013 01:02 AM (Vk2pI)
how is Aiura?
Posted by: The Dude at April 30, 2013 09:04 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Endeavor to Persevere at April 30, 2013 09:05 PM (zZJJp)
Posted by: The DHS at April 30, 2013 09:12 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Bunkerintheburbs at April 30, 2013 09:13 PM (X3xYu)
Posted by: t-bird at April 30, 2013 09:14 PM (FcR7P)
Don't worry, El Douche! No one has time for TIME or Newsweek, for that matter
Posted by: The Q at April 30, 2013 09:14 PM (XQzGn)
I've come to realize the big mistake Nintendo made in their Wii U strategy. Everything else was fixable but make the GamePad part of the base system was a huge mistake.
A lot of the appeal of the Wii early on was the combination of novelty and low price. The Wii, including bundled mini-games, was only $250 while the Xbox 360 and PS3 were a lot more. (Unless you count the semi-crippled Xbox 360 Arcade model with no hard drive.) This time around the Wii U is about the same price as the competing machines with very mature libraries and system software, as well as far superior back-end services.
Nintendo could have avoided this by making the GamePad optional and having the base 32 GB Wii U include a Wiimote, nunchuk, and low cost standard controller that plugged into the Wiimote for its wireless connection. (A module that added a rechargeable battery and RF transmitter to the controller to make it a standalone unit could be an optional accessory.) Considering that the GamePad sells for the equivalent of over $150 in Japan, It's safe to assume Nintendo could have offered my proposed package for $200 with losing money per unit.
A beefed up HD-capable Wii for $200 should have been an easy sell, and the GamePad option would add uniqueness without being an albatross around the platform's neck. (This would have been even more enticing if they had done the same as Microsoft when running original Xbox games on the 360 and upscaled Wii games to HD resolution.) Thus far, the GamePad has been little more than a gimmick for single player use. It just isn't that useful if it means taking your eyes off the TV. As Zero Punction pointed out, the same thing as ZombieU's scanner could just as easily be done with a translucent overlay making you constantly veer your gaze away from the menu to lookout for approaching threats.
Where the GamePad really shows potential is in asymmetric multi-player, where the GamePad user takes on a dungeon master role or has a separate POV because his task differs form the other players, who may or may not cooperate against him. As such, if they got the GamePad down to around $100, it should be no harder to sell than additional Wiimotes. There wouldn't be a 1:1 ratio of GamePads to Wii Us but there would be a hell of a lot more Wii Us getting into homes.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 09:16 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: The Dude at April 30, 2013 09:17 PM (vJdyz)
Saudis warned Homeland about Tamerlan by name in written letter stating there would be an attack on a major US city.
At this point what does it matter?
Posted by: hillary at April 30, 2013 09:19 PM (+9AX9)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 ~です at April 30, 2013 09:19 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 ~です at April 30, 2013 09:21 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Case at April 30, 2013 09:27 PM (o00SF)
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 30, 2013 09:27 PM (tisYn)
Posted by: epobirs at May 01, 2013 01:16 AM (kcfmt)
Main missteps IMO is the lack of games (how they didn't know that they needed bigger staffs to make HD assets is laughable), power to price ratio is perplexing but I really the way they advertised it and the name was it's biggest downfall. Majority of the advertising said upgrade and included a pic of the gamepad when it was launched. Throw in a name that doesn't give a clear distinction of a separation between the two and it's almost a perfect storm. They're not on the level of Apple to get away with something like that
Posted by: The Dude at April 30, 2013 09:27 PM (vJdyz)
R is for...
...?
Right picture (Tamarlan is [L]eft). Though my first impression was that they somehow botched her party ID.
On the Wii U, I am amazed at how many people don't get the concept of 'next gen.' I had lunch with a friend whose son wanted it for Christmas and he didn't think the addons to their old system were worth the price.
I guess that's what happens when you target casual gamers at the expense of everyone else.
Posted by: Methos at April 30, 2013 09:33 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: The Dude at April 30, 2013 09:36 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Snake Oil Baron at April 30, 2013 09:38 PM (inpXa)
They've had far worse launches. When the SNES came out it had Super Mario World in the box and Pilot Wings was also available. That was IT for over a month. Then there was a trickle of third party games but most of them were gimmick crap like HyperZone. Gradius III and Super Castlevania (IV) were the first serious titles outside of the bundled Mario game.
The N64 was as bad but Mario 64 kept people content for a good while and Wave Race, the only other title at launch, helped a little. From there it was a looong wait until title came out at a decent pace.
The Gamecube launched with no must have game. Luigi's Mansion was good but not great. The best game at launch was from a third party, Sega's Monkey Ball. And even that wasn't the sort of thing to commit to a new system over.
If anything, the Wii U has about the best Nintendo console launch lineup since the US NES. And the NES had the advantage of being a three year old system in Japan when it hit the US market. (In Japan the big title at launch was the original arcade Mario Bros. game, rather than the huge hit Super Mario Bros. we had from our launch.) In terms of the number of titles and their variety, the Wii U had little to complain about. That releases stalled almost immediately is another issue though. But six months after launch, most of the previous Nintendo systems had smaller libraries in the stores. They also lacked backward compatibility and an online retail venue for games too small to merit a disc release.
If I could have gotten the Wii U without the GamePad for $200, I'd be far happier with my purchase. It would only be a minorly greater expense than getting the Wii while still gaining access to its library and the new software should more than qualify that additional expense. Over time, there might even be enough good software to justify plunking down for the GamePad. (Doubtful as I so rarely have any guests who are gamers.)
As it stands, it feels like Nintendo conned me into buying something that doesn't meet its promise. A significantly lower cost of entry would have fixed that and made it much more of an impulse buy for a lot of consumer, like the Wii.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 09:46 PM (kcfmt)
The US does not use a standard system. (afaik, assuming they have not changed it in the past 5 years.)
Posted by: Endeavor to Persevere
"John" is always written the same in Japanese because of the historical contact of the English speaking peoples with Japan.
You could probably come up with as many hiragana versions of "Dzhokhar" as you could come up with "Mohammed" in English.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 30, 2013 09:46 PM (Yr6sH)
Posted by: Professor Bernardo de la Paz at April 30, 2013 09:47 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Deety at April 30, 2013 09:50 PM (IFXnr)
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Posted by: Bunkerintheburbs at April 30, 2013 09:54 PM (X3xYu)
Posted by: Bunkerintheburbs at May 01, 2013 01:51 AM (X3xYu)
yeah though I'm weird I guess, think my self to be a somewhat fiscal con (grew up with the idea of THE end goal for any country should be to have no debt since I don't think any country in the history of the world has done it before) but that goes out the window as soon as someone mentions space exploration and military.
Posted by: The Dude at April 30, 2013 09:56 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 30, 2013 10:03 PM (Vk2pI)
Done right, with a hand off to private enterprise, space development should be a big money maker. But it needs the kind of committed investment private enterprise won't take on without more assurance of a obtainable profit.
Once a government program proves asteroid mining is doable, there is no shortage of billionaires who'll jump in. Or an orbital tower. Taxpayer funding need only demonstrate feasibility. Given that, business will build the real thing.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 10:04 PM (kcfmt)
epobirs,
I believe there are already companies building on the idea of "tourists in space", and I believe that it will quickly follow that asteroid mining is not that far behind.
Where there are ideas that are profitable, I think the government just needs to get the heck out of the way.
You savvy?
Posted by: alamogordo at April 30, 2013 10:08 PM (HUTO5)
LOVE Jerry Jeff Walker!
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at April 30, 2013 10:08 PM (un8zR)
Posted by: cold water at April 30, 2013 10:10 PM (BmwyI)
StPatrick_TN,
I was lucky to see Jerry Jeff Walker both before he sobered up, and shortly after.
My most favorite concerts for that music in the world. I still have a T-shirt that will be made into either a wall-hanging or a quilt here at my house.
He is a lot of fun in concert, but more-so when sober.
Posted by: alamogordo at April 30, 2013 10:11 PM (HUTO5)
I still haven't seen him when he passes (rarely) through Nashville. Caught Pat Green out in Colorado last year for St. Pat's, which was great. Still waiting for concert dates from zombie Chris Ledoux.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at April 30, 2013 10:16 PM (un8zR)
Posted by: rfichoke at April 30, 2013 10:20 PM (CcIvJ)
StPatrick_TN
My mom was in Australia with Dad on business, and I sent her the London Monday Morning Blues song (And I wanna go home to the armadillos, good country music from Amarillo to Abilene song)
And she called me in tears because she was homesick, but having such a good time with the Aussies.
Jerry Jeff is good fun.
Also, one of my favorites is David Allen Coe, the best country-western music song ever written - You don't have to call me darlin', darlin', with the added verse of going to pick up momma from the train.....
You probably know ....
Posted by: alamogordo at April 30, 2013 10:22 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: BignJames at April 30, 2013 10:27 PM (H9MGI)
"My good friend Steve Goodman wrote that song, and he said he'd written the *perfect* country and western song. I wrote him back..." Little known fact - Steve Goodman also wrote the song "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request", which the team hated. As revenge, he wrote a peppy and intentionally crappy pop song called "Go Cubs Go" which won a Tribune contest and subsequently was played at games - they still play it after every win. Somewhere in heaven, Steve Goodman is laughing.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at April 30, 2013 10:30 PM (un8zR)
OK BignJames, sorry - I just took the longest time to learn the name of it, because one would guess the name would be Home with the Amardillos or something, I had a hard time learning the actual name of the darned song.
I do love me some Jerry Jeff anyways.
And David Allen Coe and Jerry Jeff helped me to paint most of a house once.
And do you know the "best country song ever written?
Posted by: alamogordo at April 30, 2013 10:34 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: BignJames at April 30, 2013 10:34 PM (H9MGI)
Posted by: BignJames at April 30, 2013 10:36 PM (H9MGI)
Posted by: rfichoke at April 30, 2013 10:36 PM (CcIvJ)
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 10:38 PM (kcfmt)
Oh c'mon guys!
David Allen Coe song - You don't have to call me Darlin', Darlin, you never even called me by my name!
And the verse he had to add to make it the best country song ever had to include mama, and pick-up trucks, and rain, trains, and his dog
Come on!
So the verse he added:
Posted by: alamogordo at April 30, 2013 10:40 PM (HUTO5)
General consensus says Possum's "He Stopped Loving Her Today". I was at his last show at the Ryman - and George knew it was his last Ryman gig, and brought his wife out, told stories, etc. - as a guest of his fiddle player. Great show, even if the voice wasn't what it once was.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at April 30, 2013 10:43 PM (un8zR)
got out of prison.
And I went to pick her up
in the raaaiiiinnnn.
But before I could get her into my pickuuuup truck
She got runned over by a damned-old traaainnnn
So I'll hang around...
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at April 30, 2013 10:46 PM (un8zR)
Oh gosh, now I'm thinking of the Possum, He was awesome.
When my Dad passes, I will play that song at his funeral, or when we mix his ashes with Mom's and sprinkle them every where they enjoyed. If brothers object to the song at the funeral.
I was just trying to get y'all going thinking maybe you had heard David being all full of himself ever.
Posted by: alamogordo at April 30, 2013 10:47 PM (HUTO5)
Oh, so you did know what I meant with the other reference. Ok I don';t feel so bad now.
But you are correct, I think "he Stopped Loving Her Today" is about the best ever!
Posted by: alamogordo at April 30, 2013 10:49 PM (HUTO5)
Thanks for the save alamogodo. I was toast there for awhile.
For sure I broke the blog with silliness, which was the point.
Posted by: Random lurker at April 30, 2013 10:50 PM (yDWX4)
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at April 30, 2013 10:52 PM (un8zR)
Posted by: alamogordo at April 30, 2013 10:55 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at April 30, 2013 10:56 PM (un8zR)
Those companies are only happening after decades of government spending on demonstrating feasibility.
Business will accept one unknown but not two.
You can have either 1. Is it doable? or 2. Is there money in it?
You can't have both. The majority of people with capital to throw around will not accept that level of risk. I'm a pretty libertarian type but there are endeavors where government can take on a role that private industry won't. The first trick is to do it in a form that ties in to stuff the government is actually obligated to do. For example, getting good at putting satellites in orbit enabled us to build the GPS system, which had huge benefits for the military. Given cheap launch systems, private enterprise would happily take over maintaining and improving the GPS system but only because the means of creating it and its value are both proven things.
The second trick is getting government to step aside when the time comes. NASA was created with a horrible defect: Johnson sold it to the Southern states by packaging it as Civil War reparations. A shitload of money and jobs would would come into the South, where at the time there were plenty of people who'd heard from their parents and grandparents what things were like after the War and carry on the resentment.
After Apollo ended (which rationally should have come AFTER a well developed infrastructure for getting to orbit had been created) there wasn't much reason for the agency to continue with more than a fraction of its staff until a genuinely useful new mission was found. Developing a real spaceplane as a series of X Programs in conjunction with aerospace companies wouldn't require nearly as many personnel directly on the federal payroll. But NASA at that point didn't exist to encourage development of space technologies. It existed to employ a horde of people in Southern states.
Thus we are still paying the price for doing things backward today. Apollo was a fantastic accomplishment but it derailed what would have been the proper course of developing our ability to do things in orbit and beyond.
Business won't do it if they think the risk is too great. But they also won't do it if they have to compete with a federal monopoly.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 10:56 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: BignJames at April 30, 2013 10:56 PM (H9MGI)
OH yeah, BignJames. That's another guy I am really happy I have seen in concert.
Only problem was, it was on a Blues Cruise, and I guess ole Commander Cody didn't think it was bluesy enough for the cruise.
Luckily, I had seen him previously perform that song, and I have it on and LP from the day.
Posted by: alamogordo at April 30, 2013 11:01 PM (HUTO5)
epobirs,
The thing with the space exploration, is it has already gone to the guys who WILL commercialize it.
I live in NM, and we have a "spaceport" built.
I am sure it is not large enough just yet, but Mr. Richard Branson himself already has been here, and launched a ship from it.
He landed at HOFB, I think (I did not keep up with every single detail, but I think he is getting close to the "tourist" part of it, which is his thing just now), but IT is coming, the profitabilty part.
I just hope I can hang in here long enough, and win the lottery for either myself, or my nephew, who is BIG into space, to make a trip without the government being involved.
Posted by: alamogordo at April 30, 2013 11:07 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: BignJames at April 30, 2013 11:09 PM (H9MGI)
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at April 30, 2013 11:13 PM (un8zR)
Posted by: Mike at April 30, 2013 11:16 PM (zmrml)
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at April 30, 2013 11:17 PM (un8zR)
Posted by: rfichoke at April 30, 2013 11:20 PM (CcIvJ)
Posted by: Mike at April 30, 2013 11:22 PM (zmrml)
You aren't telling me anything I don't know. I was at Mojave Air Field, the first FAA licensed space port in the nation, when Spaceship One was launched for the first time. I was hanging out with my friends at XCOR, who are longtime veterans of the effort to make aerospace a civilian activity.
Heck, I was at White Sands in 1996 to see the DC-X do what Larry Niven called the Death Swoop but the Air Force preferred to call the Orbital Reentry Maneuver. The SDI program was conceived in Larry Niven's living room during an assemblage of SF writers, scientists, and aerospace folks (some had credentials in all three fields) that was put together to produce policy papers seeking to encourage government investment in infrastructure to get things to the point where business would find a self-sustaining role of its own beyond fulfilling DoD and NASA contracts. When that group met a second time in the 90s, I was there as an assistant.
Yes, stuff is happening but we're still a long ways from any of it becoming a real self-sustaining business. And it could all fall apart. It has happened before. More than once. Things are more hopeful this time around but I'm not inclined to overconfidence. If the government is going to spend itself blind, I'd rather do so establishing a functional access to orbit infrastructure than by keeping people on the dole and propping up unions. If taxpayer dollars must wasted, I'd rather they be wasted on something might be a genuine investment rather than tossed down the gullets of the LIV masses.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 11:23 PM (kcfmt)
They know the price is too high but it's too late to make the GamePad optional. So we'll probably see the entry level go down to $250 by the holiday season.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 11:27 PM (kcfmt)
This is a great moron song, all about family, albeit a dysfunctional one what tells John Law to stuff it. Highly recommended.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at April 30, 2013 11:30 PM (un8zR)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 30, 2013 11:30 PM (1zr4/)
They know the price is too high but it's too late to make the GamePad optional. So we'll probably see the entry level go down to $250 by the holiday season.
Posted by: epobirs at May 01, 2013 03:27 AM (kcfmt)
Deluxe edition at $300 and I would be tempted
Posted by: The Dude at April 30, 2013 11:32 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: rfichoke at April 30, 2013 11:34 PM (CcIvJ)
epobirs,
I agree with what you are saying, but I am at the point I don't want the Feds involved at ALL.
I think if we let the government, especially at the Federal level, be too involved, then we will have lost the American dream of being into space.
I think the Spaceport, in New Mexico with this governor we have, will see a lot of progress.
At least I hope so. And I very much plan on helping her or her successor keep that going.
The NM government has pretty much stayed out of the way, from what I hear.
Posted by: alamogordo at April 30, 2013 11:35 PM (HUTO5)
Ray Wiley Hubbard (TX) - "Screw You We're From Texas": http://tinyurl.com/d7tdyxw
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at April 30, 2013 11:38 PM (un8zR)
Posted by: alamogordo at April 30, 2013 11:45 PM (HUTO5)
And, to bed, perchance to dream -
Of big ole pickup trucks and loving my Mom and etc. etc.
Thank y'all - for being here when I need to feel normal.
And my hubby used to perform a nice version of Willy Nelson - Pick up the Tempo, except the drummer used to always think he had to play faster, so instead of a waltz, so it would almost sound like head-banging music.
Oh the days of being a roadie for hubby in the bars.
What fun!
Good-night all my moron friends!
Posted by: alamogordo at April 30, 2013 11:50 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: Adriane... at April 30, 2013 11:51 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: The Dude at April 30, 2013 11:54 PM (vJdyz)
It would be a given if the Basic goes down fifty bucks to expect the same of the Deluxe. Though it might have been a better idea to have no built-in user data storage at all and leave it to the consumer to decide how much to buy. Or just have a minimal SD card of a few gigs and dual SD card slots. This is simpler than having the user storage mounted directly to the board and makes it easier to shift gears and offer differing amounts as prices go down. Far easier to just put a higher capacity SD card in the machine than change the manufacturing of the board itself. The inclusion of a 4 GB card with the 3DS XL where the 3DS came with a 2 GB card is a good example.
This also means purchases must be tied to accounts and not specific hardware units. Making it a hassle to switch up to a higher capacity card only serves to limit eShop sales.
What I'd really like to have seen was an eSATA port behind a cover on the back of the unit. Allow a serious amount of storage to be added via an enclosure that goes under the main unit and connects to the eSATA, along with some attach points to prevent damage if the main unit is picked up and
the drive enclosure doesn't follow. Preferably, the unit could have been purchased with a drive installed or empty to be filled with any standard 9mm 2.5" drive, like the PS3. After a custom encrypted format is applied you have some real storage of the level needed by a company serious about selling downloads of the entire library. (As it stands, Lego Undercover is too big to put even on the Deluxe model after you subtract the space consumed by the firmware.)
This would at least mean that Nintendo was getting serious about digital sales and ready to play with the big boys. But no, the only real options for serious storage is USB 2.0 hard drives, which are too slow to make a good alternative to loading from disc.
But Nintendo is still getting the hang of 2005 while the other console makers are getting ready to up the ante in 2013.
Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2013 11:57 PM (kcfmt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeWY00gTCvo
Sleep beckons. G'night all. It's been swell.
Posted by: Can't resist at May 01, 2013 12:06 AM (yDWX4)
Posted by: Adriane... at May 01, 2013 12:11 AM (TvO05)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys theys ridin ponies) at May 01, 2013 12:36 AM (uOxBm)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys theys ridin ponies) at May 01, 2013 12:37 AM (uOxBm)
High-larious! Thanks for that.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at May 01, 2013 12:40 AM (un8zR)
Posted by: Endeavor to Persevere at May 01, 2013 01:06 AM (zZJJp)
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at May 01, 2013 01:11 AM (un8zR)
of course, there's always having your lecture notes prepared, having the assignments graded in time, having the experiment prepped for lab, etc...
Posted by: chemjeff at May 01, 2013 01:13 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: chemjeff at May 01, 2013 01:13 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at May 01, 2013 01:15 AM (un8zR)
you must have upgraded to the AoSHQ Silver membership
Posted by: chemjeff at May 01, 2013 01:17 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: BignJames at May 01, 2013 01:21 AM (H9MGI)
Posted by: BignJames at May 01, 2013 01:27 AM (H9MGI)
do people even know how to budget anymore?
is this one of those dying skills that people really ought to know? (like driving a stick shift, but more important)
Posted by: chemjeff at May 01, 2013 01:29 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: BignJames at May 01, 2013 01:32 AM (H9MGI)
everything I learned about budgeting, I learned from him
Posted by: chemjeff at May 01, 2013 01:38 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: BignJames at May 01, 2013 01:42 AM (H9MGI)
it's the ones involving the tangled financial situations involving family which always seem to be the saddest ones though.
Posted by: chemjeff at May 01, 2013 01:49 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: BignJames at May 01, 2013 01:55 AM (H9MGI)
Posted by: BignJames at May 01, 2013 01:58 AM (H9MGI)
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Posted by: CarolT at May 01, 2013 03:37 AM (z4WKX)
Won't have to imagine it, we already have it - it's called California. And yeah, it's "working" about as well as any rational, thinking person (aka, non-leftists) would expect.
Posted by: DocJ at May 01, 2013 04:04 AM (A5uiv)
Posted by: ejo at May 01, 2013 06:05 AM (GXvSO)
I'll take that a step further and say that I'd like to see the country break into a few different regions/nations. Hell, i'd be downright excited if it happened. I have absolutely nothing in common politically and little cuturally with "deep blue" voters. I'm not a socialist, i'm not gleeful over killing babies, I LOVE GUNS, and believe social welfare (see: handout) programs should barely exist. We could make/enforce our own immigration policy, lower taxes, ease regulation, or in short - re-establish the America the founders intended by casting off the dead weight blue voters and their freeloading, low-info voting tendencies. Let them have their oppressive taxes, dead baby fetishes, "multicultural" (see: anti-white) paradise, burdensome regulations, and union thugs. Hell, we'd gladly send them those that sympathize with their cause. You want multiculturalism? Hey, here's a few million illegals. Have fun! Eventually, after we followed the "Texas model," we'd end up poaching all their jobs, while they whined, complained, and demonized any company that makes a profit. Most of their "paradises" are crime-addles urban hellholes now, with their constituents destroying entire parts of every medium and large city in this country. Wanna see the end result of total "blue governance" - look at Detroit, Chicago, or California. All toilets.
I say, bring it on.
Posted by: Ed at May 01, 2013 07:40 AM (udRDY)
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