1 Another day, another dollar.

2 Children – The Front Line Troops for Obamacare Time and time again, Obama and his confederates have used children as agents of propaganda and indoctrination. Children are easy targets for the Progressive left to indoctrinate and turn into brainwashed little foot soldiers on their assault on America and Western Civilization in general. They now feel so secure, that they are not even trying to hide what they are doing. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is spending nearly a MILLION DOLLARS on training children to propagandize the glories of Obamacare to their parents. More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=2694

3 Evening.

4 Thanks Maet. Another fine ONT.

5 thanks Maet! AoS is da heat

6 Hey, everyone, I've got a bitchin' idea!

Let's go over every fucking detail of the fucking Zimmerman trial again on this thread.

Won't it be FUN?????

Or, maybe . . .

I hereby move that this ONT be a Zimmerman-Free Zone.

Is there a Second?

7 Le Sigh. Six.

8 "Reagan doesn't have that presidential look." -- United Artists Executive,... in 1964. And, in 1964, he was right.

9 So, many of you know that I just returned from Canada. I did a bad, bad thing. I willfully and with much planning aforethought, gleefully smuggled back into the US with me something that has been totally banned by the US. Today I waited until my child was in bed, closed all the curtains and, with hands shaking with anticipation-It's been so long!- carefully, carefully unpacked and actually used..... 100 watt incandescent bulbs. OMG serious you guys, you don't know what a difference they make. We've been conditioned like the frog in the pot to these twirly things so we don't remember what was. My kitchen is bright! I can see! It's like living in the 20th century again! Flick the switch...light! Lots of it! Instantly! Shit, the border's only 8 hours away, I am seriously thinking of heading out one weekend, just to buy more of the bulbs. I bought a dozen. I should have bought a gross. The contrast is amazing, and I didn't even realize until I got a chance to go back. Now I'm pissed, I've been living like a neanderthal in a cave, just to appease some watermelon wackos. No more, I tell you, no more.

10 howdy TR

11 Is there a Second?

Posted by: filbert at July 15, 2013 10:18 PM (7vimm)

Seconded.

12 Martin family attorney says she's a "social engineer". 

13 Interesting quotes re: Thatcher and Reagan. It's surprising how fast the "conventional wisdom" can change. Gives me hope that the age of statism and the LIV may someday pass into the history books.

14 Jake. 93 predicted on Friday for the practice match. Lightning struck their a/c at this particular range, which leads me to believe their ventilation will be minimal. Think I'll wait for a cool spell.

15 "and rather querulously insistent that there be goldfish crackers."

That's crackas, you fucking racist

16 filbert, yeah, I second that. We'll have that opportunity in other threads, I'm sure.

17 Anti-Rape Lingerie? Is there a gun in the bodice? 'Cause that would be cool.

18 Greta is tearing this bitch a new asshole... HahAha

19
Me to Moe Lane: Nations change. People change.

20 Posted by: Weirddave at July 15, 2013 10:18 PM (aH+zP) Canadians don't have 6L/1.6G toilets either so in some aspects theyt are smarter than us cuz they can flush their shit with out plunging and see that their shit went down with 100w light

21 Aloha!

22 Ok, I'd like to talk about Saint Trayvon...but not the trial or the incident itself. Specifically, Trayvon should be held up as a role model in schools...for exactly what decisions you should NOT make. Trayvon went from a cute 12 year boy to a wasted looking petty thief with a drug habit who died because he thought he was invincible. Don't be Trayvon should be the mantra that they are drilling into school children...

23 Evening Horde

24 Why is it the mostly white "blacks" seem to hate whitey the most? Can you have daddy issues against a whole race? ---- I copied this from the prior thread. It wasn't referring to Zero, but I do think he had mommy issues. I think he must have a seething hatred of her to have as much animosity towards whitey as he has. Otherwise, he's got a bad case of self hatred to act the way he does. Kind of like the rumors about Hitler being half Jewish. Oh dear, I've gone Godwin already.

25 Me to Moe Lane: Nations change. People change. Posted by: soothsayer at July 15, 2013 10:21 PM (8dspl) Yup. Especially when that was the plan all along...

26

Those of you not watching Greta really should have been. 

 

Greta said she'd put up her civil rights record against this arrogant little snot anytime. 

 

Gosh, I hope this gets on You Tube. 

 

Tonight's fallout from  GZ/St Trayvon of Sanford verdict has truly been popcorn-worthy. 

27 My kitchen is bright! I can see! It's like living in the 20th century again! Flick the switch...light! Lots of it! Instantly!

Posted by: Weirddave at July 15, 2013 10:18 PM (aH+zP)

http://tinyurl.com/mgnjvej

Made in the USA, so your purchase may just help some moron keep his phony baloney job...just sayin'...

28 Funny. From 79-89 I was a factory rep for Sylvania lighting. I sold lighting by the truck load to distributors. And what do I still use? 100 year old technology.

Can't beat a good supply of 40, 60, 75 and 100 watt light bulbs.

29 Seeing as how, in Moron-land, two "seconds" can be reasonably inferred to represent not only a quorum but a landslide majority vote of the resolution in question, I offer a second motion:

I offer the motion that anyone, henceforth insisting on discussion shit about the Zimmerman shit on this aforementioned ONT, be deemed as Barrel-worthy for the duration of the ONT.

Second?

30 g'evenin', 'rons

31 So, there's a man crawling through the desert. He'd decided to try his SUV in a little bit of cross-country travel, had great fun zooming over the badlands and through the sand, got lost, hit a big rock, and then he couldn't get it started again. There were no cell phone towers anywhere near, so his cell phone was useless. He had no family, his parents had died a few years before in an auto accident, and his few friends had no idea he was out here. He stayed with the car for a day or so, but his one bottle of water ran out and he was getting thirsty. He thought maybe he knew the direction back, now that he'd paid attention to the sun and thought he'd figured out which way was north, so he decided to start walking. He figured he only had to go about 30 miles or so and he'd be back to the small town he'd gotten gas in last. He thinks about walking at night to avoid the heat and sun, but based upon how dark it actually was the night before, and given that he has no flashlight, he's afraid that he'll break a leg or step on a rattlesnake. So, he puts on some sun block, puts the rest in his pocket for reapplication later, brings an umbrella he'd had in the back of the SUV with him to give him a little shade, pours the windshield wiper fluid into his water bottle in case he gets that desperate, brings his pocket knife in case he finds a cactus that looks like it might have water in it, and heads out in the direction he thinks is right. He walks for the entire day. By the end of the day he's really thirsty. He's been sweating all day, and his lips are starting to crack. He's reapplied the sunblock twice, and tried to stay under the umbrella, but he still feels sunburned. The windshield wiper fluid sloshing in the bottle in his pocket is really getting tempting now. He knows that it's mainly water and some ethanol and coloring, but he also knows that they add some kind of poison to it to keep people from drinking it. He wonders what the poison is, and whether the poison would be worse than dying of thirst. He pushes on, trying to get to that small town before dark. By the end of the day he starts getting worried. He figures he's been walking at least 3 miles an hour, according to his watch for over 10 hours. That means that if his estimate was right that he should be close to the town. But he doesn't recognize any of this. He had to cross a dry creek bed a mile or two back, and he doesn't remember coming through it in the SUV. He figures that maybe he got his direction off just a little and that the dry creek bed was just off to one side of his path. He tells himself that he's close, and that after dark he'll start seeing the town lights over one of these hills, and that'll be all he needs. As it gets dim enough that he starts stumbling over small rocks and things, he finds a spot and sits down to wait for full dark and the town lights. Full dark comes before he knows it. He must have dozed off. He stands back up and turns all the way around. He sees nothing but stars. He wakes up the next morning feeling absolutely lousy. His eyes are gummy and his mouth and nose feel like they're full of sand. He so thirsty that he can't even swallow. He barely got any sleep because it was so cold. He'd forgotten how cold it got at night in the desert and hadn't noticed it the night before because he'd been in his car. He knows the Rule of Threes - three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food - then you die. Some people can make it a little longer, in the best situations. But the desert heat and having to walk and sweat isn't the best situation to be without water. He figures, unless he finds water, this is his last day. He rinses his mouth out with a little of the windshield wiper fluid. He waits a while after spitting that little bit out, to see if his mouth goes numb, or he feels dizzy or something. Has his mouth gone numb? Is it just in his mind? He's not sure. He'll go a little farther, and if he still doesn't find water, he'll try drinking some of the fluid. Then he has to face his next, harder question - which way does he go from here? Does he keep walking the same way he was yesterday (assuming that he still knows which way that is), or does he try a new direction? He has no idea what to do. Looking at the hills and dunes around him, he thinks he knows the direction he was heading before. Just going by a feeling, he points himself somewhat to the left of that, and starts walking. As he walks, the day starts heating up. The desert, too cold just a couple of hours before, soon becomes an oven again. He sweats a little at first, and then stops. He starts getting worried at that - when you stop sweating he knows that means you're in trouble - usually right before heat stroke. He decides that it's time to try the windshield wiper fluid. He can't wait any longer - if he passes out, he's dead. He stops in the shade of a large rock, takes the bottle out, opens it, and takes a mouthful. He slowly swallows it, making it last as long as he can. It feels so good in his dry and cracked throat that he doesn't even care about the nasty taste. He takes another mouthful, and makes it last too. Slowly, he drinks half the bottle. He figures that since he's drinking it, he might as well drink enough to make some difference and keep himself from passing out. He's quit worrying about the denaturing of the wiper fluid. If it kills him, it kills him - if he didn't drink it, he'd die anyway. Besides, he's pretty sure that whatever substance they denature the fluid with is just designed to make you sick - their way of keeping winos from buying cheap wiper fluid for the ethanol content. He can handle throwing up, if it comes to that. He walks. He walks in the hot, dry, windless desert. Sand, rocks, hills, dunes, the occasional scrawny cactus or dried bush. No sign of water. Sometimes he'll see a little movement to one side or the other, but whatever moved is usually gone before he can focus his eyes on it. Probably birds, lizards, or mice. Maybe snakes, though they usually move more at night. He's careful to stay away from the movements. After a while, he begins to stagger. He's not sure if it's fatigue, heat stroke finally catching him, or maybe he was wrong and the denaturing of the wiper fluid was worse than he thought. He tries to steady himself, and keep going. After more walking, he comes to a large stretch of sand. This is good! He knows he passed over a stretch of sand in the SUV - he remembers doing donuts in it. Or at least he thinks he remembers it - he's getting woozy enough and tired enough that he's not sure what he remembers any more or if he's hallucinating. But he thinks he remembers it. So he heads off into it, trying to get to the other side, hoping that it gets him closer to the town. He was heading for a town, wasn't he? He thinks he was. He isn't sure any more. He's not even sure how long he's been walking any more. Is it still morning? Or has it moved into afternoon and the sun is going down again? It must be afternoon - it seems like it's been too long since he started out. He walks through the sand. After a while, he comes to a big dune in the sand. This is bad. He doesn't remember any dunes when driving over the sand in his SUV. Or at least he doesn't think he remembers any. This is bad. But, he has no other direction to go. Too late to turn back now. He figures that he'll get to the top of the dune and see if he can see anything from there that helps him find the town. He keeps going up the dune. Halfway up, he slips in the bad footing of the sand for the second or third time, and falls to his knees. He doesn't feel like getting back up - he'll just fall down again. So, he keeps going up the dune on his hand and knees. While crawling, if his throat weren't so dry, he'd laugh. He's finally gotten to the hackneyed image of a man lost in the desert - crawling through the sand on his hands and knees. If would be the perfect image, he imagines, if only his clothes were more ragged. The people crawling through the desert in the cartoons always had ragged clothes. But his have lasted without any rips so far. Somebody will probably find his dessicated corpse half buried in the sand years from now, and his clothes will still be in fine shape - shake the sand out, and a good wash, and they'd be wearable again. He wishes his throat were wet enough to laugh. He coughs a little instead, and it hurts. He finally makes it to the top of the sand dune. Now that he's at the top, he struggles a little, but manages to stand up and look around. All he sees is sand. Sand, and more sand. Behind him, about a mile away, he thinks he sees the rocky ground he left to head into this sand. Ahead of him, more dunes, more sand. This isn't where he drove his SUV. This is Hell. Or close enough. Again, he doesn't know what to do. He decides to drink the rest of the wiper fluid while figuring it out. He takes out the bottle, and is removing the cap, when he glances to the side and sees something. Something in the sand. At the bottom of the dune, off to the side, he sees something strange. It's a flat area, in the sand. He stops taking the cap of the bottle off, and tries to look closer. The area seems to be circular. And it's dark - darker than the sand. And, there seems to be something in the middle of it, but he can't tell what it is. He looks as hard as he can, and still can tell from here. He's going to have to go down there and look. He puts the bottle back in his pocket, and starts to stumble down the dune. After a few steps, he realizes that he's in trouble - he's not going to be able to keep his balance. After a couple of more sliding, tottering steps, he falls and starts to roll down the dune. The sand it so hot when his body hits it that for a minute he thinks he's caught fire on the way down - like a movie car wreck flashing into flames as it goes over the cliff, before it ever even hits the ground. He closes his eyes and mouth, covers his face with his hands, and waits to stop rolling. He stops, at the bottom of the dune. After a minute or two, he finds enough energy to try to sit up and get the sand out of his face and clothes. When he clears his eyes enough, he looks around to make sure that the dark spot in the sand it still there and he hadn't just imagined it. So, seeing the large, flat, dark spot on the sand is still there, he begins to crawl towards it. He'd get up and walk towards it, but he doesn't seem to have the energy to get up and walk right now. He must be in the final stages of dehydration he figures, as he crawls. If this place in the sand doesn't have water, he'll likely never make it anywhere else. This is his last chance. He gets closer and closer, but still can't see what's in the middle of the dark area. His eyes won't quite focus any more for some reason. And lifting his head up to look takes so much effort that he gives up trying. He just keeps crawling. Finally, he reaches the area he'd seen from the dune. It takes him a minute of crawling on it before he realizes that he's no longer on sand - he's now crawling on some kind of dark stone. Stone with some kind of marking on it - a pattern cut into the stone. He's too tired to stand up and try to see what the pattern is - so he just keeps crawling. He crawls towards the center, where his blurry eyes still see something in the middle of the dark stone area. His mind, detached in a strange way, notes that either his hands and knees are so burnt by the sand that they no longer feel pain, or that this dark stone, in the middle of a burning desert with a pounding, punishing sun overhead, doesn't seem to be hot. It almost feels cool. He considers lying down on the nice cool surface. Cool, dark stone. Not a good sign. He must be hallucinating this. He's probably in the middle of a patch of sand, already lying face down and dying, and just imagining this whole thing. A desert mirage. Soon the beautiful women carrying pitchers of water will come up and start giving him a drink. Then he'll know he's gone. He decides against laying down on the cool stone. If he's going to die here in the middle of this hallucination, he at least wants to see what's in the center before he goes. He keeps crawling. It's the third time that he hears the voice before he realizes what he's hearing. He would swear that someone just said, "Greetings, traveler. You do not look well. Do you hear me?" He stops crawling. He tries to look up from where he is on his hands and knees, but it's too much effort to lift his head. So he tries something different - he leans back and tries to sit up on the stone. After a few seconds, he catches his balance, avoids falling on his face, sits up, and tries to focus his eyes. Blurry. He rubs his eyes with the back of his hands and tries again. Better this time. Yep. He can see. He's sitting in the middle of a large, flat, dark expanse of stone. Directly next to him, about three feet away, is a white post or pole about two inches in diameter and sticking up about four or five feet out of the stone, at an angle. And wrapped around this white rod, tail with rattle on it hovering and seeming to be ready to start rattling, is what must be a fifteen foot long desert diamondback rattlesnake, looking directly at him. He stares at the snake in shock. He doesn't have the energy to get up and run away. He doesn't even have the energy to crawl away. This is it, his final resting place. No matter what happens, he's not going to be able to move from this spot. Well, at least dying of a bite from this monster should be quicker than dying of thirst. He'll face his end like a man. He struggles to sit up a little straighter. The snake keeps watching him. He lifts one hand and waves it in the snake's direction, feebly. The snake watches the hand for a moment, then goes back to watching the man, looking into his eyes. Hmmm. Maybe the snake had no interest in biting him? It hadn't rattled yet - that was a good sign. Maybe he wasn't going to die of snake bite after all. He then remembers that he'd looked up when he'd reached the center here because he thought he'd heard a voice. He was still very woozy - he was likely to pass out soon, the sun still beat down on him even though he was now on cool stone. He still didn't have anything to drink. But maybe he had actually heard a voice. This stone didn't look natural. Nor did that white post sticking up out of the stone. Someone had to have built this. Maybe they were still nearby. Maybe that was who talked to him. Maybe this snake was even their pet, and that's why it wasn't biting. He tries to clear his throat to say, "Hello," but his throat is too dry. All that comes out is a coughing or wheezing sound. There is no way he's going to be able to talk without something to drink. He feels his pocket, and the bottle with the wiper fluid is still there. He shakily pulls the bottle out, almost losing his balance and falling on his back in the process. This isn't good. He doesn't have much time left, by his reckoning, before he passes out. He gets the lid off of the bottle, manages to get the bottle to his lips, and pours some of the fluid into his mouth. He sloshes it around, and then swallows it. He coughs a little. His throat feels better. Maybe he can talk now. He tries again. Ignoring the snake, he turns to look around him, hoping to spot the owner of this place, and croaks out, "Hello? Is there anyone here?" He hears, from his side, "Greetings. What is it that you want?" He turns his head, back towards the snake. That's where the sound had seemed to come from. The only thing he can think of is that there must be a speaker, hidden under the snake, or maybe built into that post. He decides to try asking for help. "Please," he croaks again, suddenly feeling dizzy, "I'd love to not be thirsty any more. I've been a long time without water. Can you help me?" Looking in the direction of the snake, hoping to see where the voice was coming from this time, he is shocked to see the snake rear back, open its mouth, and speak. He hears it say, as the dizziness overtakes him and he falls forward, face first on the stone, "Very well. Coming up." A piercing pain shoots through his shoulder. Suddenly he is awake. He sits up and grabs his shoulder, wincing at the throbbing pain. He's momentarily disoriented as he looks around, and then he remembers - the crawl across the sand, the dark area of stone, the snake. He sees the snake, still wrapped around the tilted white post, still looking at him. He reaches up and feels his shoulder, where it hurts. It feels slightly wet. He pulls his fingers away and looks at them - blood. He feels his shoulder again - his shirt has what feels like two holes in it - two puncture holes - they match up with the two aching spots of pain on his shoulder. He had been bitten. By the snake. "It'll feel better in a minute." He looks up - it's the snake talking. He hadn't dreamed it. Suddenly he notices - he's not dizzy any more. And more importantly, he's not thirsty any more - at all! "Have I died? Is this the afterlife? Why are you biting me in the afterlife?" "Sorry about that, but I had to bite you," says the snake. "That's the way I work. It all comes through the bite. Think of it as natural medicine." "You bit me to help me? Why aren't I thirsty any more? Did you give me a drink before you bit me? How did I drink enough while unconscious to not be thirsty any more? I haven't had a drink for over two days. Well, except for the windshield wiper fluid... hold it, how in the world does a snake talk? Are you real? Are you some sort of Disney animation?" "No," says the snake, "I'm real. As real as you or anyone is, anyway. I didn't give you a drink. I bit you. That's how it works - it's what I do. I bite. I don't have hands to give you a drink, even if I had water just sitting around here." The man sat stunned for a minute. Here he was, sitting in the middle of the desert on some strange stone that should be hot but wasn't, talking to a snake that could talk back and had just bitten him. And he felt better. Not great - he was still starving and exhausted, but much better - he was no longer thirsty. He had started to sweat again, but only slightly. He felt hot, in this sun, but it was starting to get lower in the sky, and the cool stone beneath him was a relief he could notice now that he was no longer dying of thirst. "I might suggest that we take care of that methanol you now have in your system with the next request," continued the snake. "I can guess why you drank it, but I'm not sure how much you drank, or how much methanol was left in the wiper fluid. That stuff is nasty. It'll make you go blind in a day or two, if you drank enough of it." "Ummm, n-next request?" said the man. He put his hand back on his hurting shoulder and backed away from the snake a little. "That's the way it works. If you like, that is," explained the snake. "You get three requests. Call them wishes, if you wish." The snake grinned at his own joke, and the man drew back a little further from the show of fangs. "But there are rules," the snake continued. "The first request is free. The second requires an agreement of secrecy. The third requires the binding of responsibility." The snake looks at the man seriously. "By the way," the snake says suddenly, "my name is Nathan. Old Nathan, Samuel used to call me. He gave me the name. Before that, most of the Bound used to just call me 'Snake'. But that got old, and Samuel wouldn't stand for it. He said that anything that could talk needed a name. He was big into names. You can call me Nate, if you wish." Again, the snake grinned. "Sorry if I don't offer to shake, but I think you can understand - my shake sounds somewhat threatening." The snake give his rattle a little shake. "Umm, my name is Jack," said the man, trying to absorb all of this. "Jack Samson. "Can I ask you a question?" Jack says suddenly. "What happened to the poison...umm, in your bite. Why aren't I dying now? How did you do that? What do you mean by that's how you work?" "That's more than one question," grins Nate. "But I'll still try to answer all of them. First, yes, you can ask me a question." The snake's grin gets wider. "Second, the poison is in you. It changed you. You now no longer need to drink. That's what you asked for. Or, well, technically, you asked to not be thirsty any more - but 'any more' is such a vague term. I decided to make it permanent - now, as long as you live, you shouldn't need to drink much at all. Your body will conserve water very efficiently. You should be able to get enough just from the food you eat - much like a creature of the desert. You've been changed. "For the third question," Nate continues, "you are still dying. Besides the effects of that methanol in your system, you're a man - and men are mortal. In your current state, I give you no more than about another 50 years. Assuming you get out of this desert, alive, that is." Nate seemed vastly amused at his own humor, and continued his wide grin. "As for the fourth question," Nate said, looking more serious as far as Jack could tell, as Jack was just now working on his ability to read talking-snake emotions from snake facial features, "first you have to agree to make a second request and become bound by the secrecy, or I can't tell you." "Wait," joked Jack, "isn't this where you say you could tell me, but you'd have to kill me?" "I thought that was implied." Nate continued to look serious. "Ummm...yeah." Jack leaned back a little as he remembered again that he was talking to a fifteen foot poisonous reptile with a reputation for having a nasty temper. "So, what is this 'Bound by Secrecy' stuff, and can you really stop the effects of the methanol?" Jack thought for a second. "And, what do you mean methanol, anyway? I thought these days they use ethanol in wiper fluid, and just denature it?" "They may, I don't really know," said Nate. "I haven't gotten out in a while. Maybe they do. All I know is that I smell methanol on your breath and on that bottle in your pocket. And the blue color of the liquid when you pulled it out to drink some let me guess that it was wiper fluid. I assume that they still color wiper fluid blue?" "Yeah, they do," said Jack. "I figured," replied Nate. "As for being bound by secrecy - with the fulfillment of your next request, you will be bound to say nothing about me, this place, or any of the information I will tell you after that, when you decide to go back out to your kind. You won't be allowed to talk about me, write about me, use sign language, charades, or even act in a way that will lead someone to guess correctly about me. You'll be bound to secrecy. Of course, I'll also ask you to promise not to give me away, and as I'm guessing that you're a man of your word, you'll never test the binding anyway, so you won't notice." Nate said the last part with utter confidence. Jack, who had always prided himself on being a man of his word, felt a little nervous at this. "Ummm, hey, Nate, who are you? How did you know that? Are you, umm, omniscient, or something?" Well, Jack," said Nate sadly, "I can't tell you that, unless you make the second request." Nate looked away for a minute, then looked back. "Umm, well, ok," said Jack, "what is this about a second request? What can I ask for? Are you allowed to tell me that?" "Sure!" said Nate, brightening. "You're allowed to ask for changes. Changes to yourself. They're like wishes, but they can only affect you. Oh, and before you ask, I can't give you immortality. Or omniscience. Or omnipresence, for that matter. Though I might be able to make you gaseous and yet remain alive, and then you could spread through the atmosphere and sort of be omnipresent. But what good would that be - you still wouldn't be omniscient and thus still could only focus on one thing at a time. Not very useful, at least in my opinion." Nate stopped when he realized that Jack was staring at him. "Well, anyway," continued Nate, "I'd probably suggest giving you permanent good health. It would negate the methanol now in your system, you'd be immune to most poisons and diseases, and you'd tend to live a very long time, barring accident, of course. And you'll even have a tendency to recover from accidents well. It always seemed like a good choice for a request to me." "Cure the methanol poisoning, huh?" said Jack. "And keep me healthy for a long time? Hmmm. It doesn't sound bad at that. And it has to be a request about a change to me? I can't ask to be rich, right? Because that's not really a change to me?" "Right," nodded Nate. "Could I ask to be a genius and permanently healthy?" Jack asked, hopefully. "That takes two requests, Jack." "Yeah, I figured so," said Jack. "But I could ask to be a genius? I could become the smartest scientist in the world? Or the best athlete?" "Well, I could make you very smart," admitted Nate, "but that wouldn't necessarily make you the best scientist in the world. Or, I could make you very athletic, but it wouldn't necessarily make you the best athlete either. You've heard the saying that 99% of genius is hard work? Well, there's some truth to that. I can give you the talent, but I can't make you work hard. It all depends on what you decide to do with it." "Hmmm," said Jack. "Ok, I think I understand. And I get a third request, after this one?" "Maybe," said Nate, "it depends on what you decide then. There are more rules for the third request that I can only tell you about after the second request. You know how it goes." Nate looked like he'd shrug, if he had shoulders. "Ok, well, since I'd rather not be blind in a day or two, and permanent health doesn't sound bad, then consider that my second request. Officially. Do I need to sign in blood or something?" "No," said Nate. "Just hold out your hand. Or heel." Nate grinned. "Or whatever part you want me to bite. I have to bite you again. Like I said, that's how it works - the poison, you know," Nate said apologetically. Jack winced a little and felt his shoulder, where the last bite was. Hey, it didn't hurt any more. Just like Nate had said. That made Jack feel better about the biting business. But still, standing still while a fifteen foot snake sunk it's fangs into you. Jack stood up. Ignoring how good it felt to be able to stand again, and the hunger starting to gnaw at his stomach, Jack tried to decide where he wanted to get bitten. Despite knowing that it wouldn't hurt for long, Jack knew that this wasn't going to be easy. "Hey, Jack," Nate suddenly said, looking past Jack towards the dunes behind him, "is that someone else coming up over there?" Jack spun around and looked. Who else could be out here in the middle of nowhere? And did they bring food? Wait a minute, there was nobody over there. What was Nate... Jack let out a bellow as he felt two fangs sink into his rear end, through his jeans... Jack sat down carefully, favoring his more tender buttock. "I would have decided, eventually, Nate. I was just thinking about it. You didn't have to hoodwink me like that." "I've been doing this a long time, Jack," said Nate, confidently. "You humans have a hard time sitting still and letting a snake bite you - especially one my size. And besides, admit it - it's only been a couple of minutes and it already doesn't hurt any more, does it? That's because of the health benefit with this one. I told you that you'd heal quickly now." "Yeah, well, still," said Jack, "it's the principle of the thing. And nobody likes being bitten in the butt! Couldn't you have gotten my calf or something instead?" "More meat in the typical human butt," replied Nate. "And less chance you accidentally kick me or move at the last second." "Yeah, right. So, tell me all of these wonderful secrets that I now qualify to hear," answered Jack. "Ok," said Nate. "Do you want to ask questions first, or do you want me to just start talking?" "Just talk," said Jack. "I'll sit here and try to not think about food." "We could go try to rustle up some food for you first, if you like," answered Nate. "Hey! You didn't tell me you had food around here, Nate!" Jack jumped up. "What do we have? Am I in walking distance to town? Or can you magically whip up food along with your other powers?" Jack was almost shouting with excitement. His stomach had been growling for hours. "I was thinking more like I could flush something out of its hole and bite it for you, and you could skin it and eat it. Assuming you have a knife, that is," replied Nate, with the grin that Jack was starting to get used to. "Ugh," said Jack, sitting back down. "I think I'll pass. I can last a little longer before I get desperate enough to eat desert rat, or whatever else it is you find out here. And there's nothing to burn - I'd have to eat it raw. No thanks. Just talk." "Ok," replied Nate, still grinning. "But I'd better hurry, before you start looking at me as food. Nate reared back a little, looked around for a second, and then continued. "You, Jack, are sitting in the middle of the Garden of Eden." Jack looked around at the sand and dunes and then looked back at Nate sceptically. "Well, that's the best I can figure it, anyway, Jack," said Nate. "Stand up and look at the symbol on the rock here." Nate gestured around the dark stone they were both sitting on with his nose. Jack stood up and looked. Carved into the stone in a bas-relief was a representation of a large tree. The angled-pole that Nate was wrapped around was coming out of the trunk of the tree, right below where the main branches left the truck to reach out across the stone. It was very well done - it looked more like a tree had been reduced to almost two dimensions and embedded in the stone than it did like a carving. Jack walked around and looked at the details in the fading light of the setting sun. He wished he'd looked at it while the sun was higher in the sky. Wait! The sun was setting! That meant he was going to have to spend another night out here! Arrrgh! Jack looked out across the desert for a little bit, and then came back and stood next to Nate. "In all the excitement, I almost forgot, Nate," said Jack. "Which way is it back to town? And how far? I'm eventually going to have to head back - I'm not sure I'll be able to survive by eating raw desert critters for long. And even if I can, I'm not sure I'll want to." "It's about 30 miles that way." Nate pointed, with the rattle on his tail this time. As far as Jack could tell, it was a direction at right angles to the way he'd been going when he was crawling here. "But that's 30 miles by the way the crow flies. It's about 40 by the way a man walks. You should be able to do it in about half a day with your improved endurance, if you head out early tomorrow, Jack." Jack looked out the way the snake had pointed for a few seconds more, and then sat back down. It was getting dark. Not much he could do about heading out right now. And besides, Nate was just about to get to the interesting stuff. "Garden of Eden? As best as you can figure it?" "Well, yeah, as best as I and Samuel could figure it anyway," said Nate. "He figured that the story just got a little mixed up. You know, snake, in a 'tree', offering 'temptations', making bargains. That kind stuff. But he could never quite figure out how the Hebrews found out about this spot from across the ocean. He worried about that for a while." "Garden of Eden, hunh?" said Jack. "How long have you been here, Nate?" "No idea, really," replied Nate. "A long time. It never occurred to me to count years, until recently, and by then, of course, it was too late. But I do remember when this whole place was green, so I figure it's been thousands of years, at least." "So, are you the snake that tempted Eve?" said Jack. "Beats me," said Nate. "Maybe. I can't remember if the first one of your kind that I talked to was female or not, and I never got a name, but it could have been. And I suppose she could have considered my offer to grant requests a 'temptation', though I've rarely had refusals." "Well, umm, how did you get here then? And why is that white pole stuck out of the stone there?" asked Jack. "Dad left me here. Or, I assume it was my dad. It was another snake - much bigger than I was back then. I remember talking to him, but I don't remember if it was in a language, or just kind of understanding what he wanted. But one day, he brought me to this stone, told me about it, and asked me to do something for him. I talked it over with him for a while, then agreed. I've been here ever since. "What is this place?" said Jack. "And what did he ask you to do?" "Well, you see this pole here, sticking out of the stone?" Nate loosened his coils around the tilted white pole and showed Jack where it descended into the stone. The pole was tilted at about a 45 degree angle and seemed to enter the stone in an eighteen inch slot cut into the stone. Jack leaned over and looked. The slot was dark and the pole went down into it as far as Jack could see in the dim light. Jack reached out to touch the pole, but Nate was suddenly there in the way. "You can't touch that yet, Jack," said Nate. "Why not?" asked Jack. "I haven't explained it to you yet," replied Nate. "Well, it kinda looks like a lever or something," said Jack. "You'd push it that way, and it would move in the slot." "Yep, that's what it is," replied Nate. "What does it do?" asked Jack. "End the world?" "Oh, no," said Nate. "Nothing that drastic. It just ends humanity. I call it 'The Lever of Doom'." For the last few words Nate had used a deeper, ringing voice. He tried to look serious for a few seconds, and then gave up and grinned. Jack was initially startled by Nate's pronouncement, but when Nate grinned Jack laughed. "Ha! You almost had me fooled for a second there. What does it really do?" "Oh, it really ends humanity, like I said," smirked Nate. "I just thought the voice I used was funny, didn't you?" Nate continued to grin. "A lever to end humanity?" asked Jack. "What in the world is that for? Why would anyone need to end humanity?" "Well," replied Nate, "I get the idea that maybe humanity was an experiment. Or maybe the Big Guy just thought, that if humanity started going really bad, there should be a way to end it. I'm not really sure. All I know are the rules, and the guesses that Samuel and I had about why it's here. I didn't think to ask back when I started here." "Rules? What rules?" asked Jack. "The rules are that I can't tell anybody about it or let them touch it unless they agree to be bound to secrecy by a bite. And that only one human can be bound in that way at a time. That's it." explained Nate. Jack looked somewhat shocked. "You mean that I could pull the lever now? You'd let me end humanity?" "Yep," replied Nate, "if you want to." Nate looked at Jack carefully. "Do you want to, Jack?" "Umm, no." said Jack, stepping a little further back from the lever. "Why in the world would anyone want to end humanity? It'd take a psychotic to want that! Or worse, a suicidal psychotic, because it would kill him too, wouldn't it?" "Yep," replied Nate, "being as he'd be human too." "Has anyone ever seriously considered it?" asked Nate. "Any of those bound to secrecy, that is?" "Well, of course, I think they've all seriously considered it at one time or another. Being given that kind of responsibility makes you sit down and think, or so I'm told. Samuel considered it several times. He'd often get disgusted with humanity, come out here, and just hold the lever for a while. But he never pulled it. Or you wouldn't be here." Nate grinned some more. Jack sat down, well back from the lever. He looked thoughtful and puzzled at the same time. After a bit, he said, "So this makes me the Judge of humanity? I get to decide whether they keep going or just end? Me?" "That seems to be it," agreed Nate. "What kind of criteria do I use to decide?" said Jack. "How do I make this decision? Am I supposed to decide if they're good? Or too many of them are bad? Or that they're going the wrong way? Is there a set of rules for that?" "Nope," replied Nate. "You pretty much just have to decide on your own. It's up to you, however you want to decide it. I guess that you're just supposed to know." "But what if I get mad at someone? Or some girl dumps me and I feel horrible? Couldn't I make a mistake? How do I know that I won't screw up?" protested Jack. Nate gave his kind of snake-like shrug again. "You don't. You just have to try your best, Jack." Jack sat there for a while, staring off into the desert that was rapidly getting dark, chewing on a fingernail. Suddenly, Jack turned around and looked at the snake. "Nate, was Samuel the one bound to this before me?" "Yep," replied Nate. "He was a good guy. Talked to me a lot. Taught me to read and brought me books. I think I still have a good pile of them buried in the sand around here somewhere. I still miss him. He died a few months ago." "Sounds like a good guy," agreed Jack. "How did he handle this, when you first told him. What did he do?" "Well," said Nate, "he sat down for a while, thought about it for a bit, and then asked me some questions, much like you're doing." "What did he ask you, if you're allowed to tell me?" asked Jack. "He asked me about the third request," replied Nate. "Aha!" It was Jack's turn to grin. "And what did you tell him?" "I told him the rules for the third request. That to get the third request you have to agree to this whole thing. That if it ever comes to the point that you really think that humanity should be ended, that you'll come here and end it. You won't avoid it, and you won't wimp out." Nate looked serious again. "And you'll be bound to do it too, Jack." "Hmmm." Jack looked back out into the darkness for a while. Nate watched him, waiting. "Nate," continued Jack, quietly, eventually. "What did Samuel ask for with his third request?" Nate sounded like he was grinning again as he replied, also quietly, "Wisdom, Jack. He asked for wisdom. As much as I could give him." "Ok," said Jack, suddenly, standing up and facing away from Nate, "give it to me. Nate looked at Jack's backside. "Give you what, Jack?" "Give me that wisdom. The same stuff that Samuel asked for. If it helped him, maybe it'll help me too." Jack turned his head to look back over his shoulder at Nate. "It did help him, right?" "He said it did," replied Nate. "But he seemed a little quieter afterward. Like he had a lot to think about." "Well, yeah, I can see that," said Jack. "So, give it to me." Jack turned to face away from Nate again, bent over slightly and tensed up. Nate watched Jack tense up with a little exasperation. If he bit Jack now, Jack would likely jump out of his skin and maybe hurt them both. "You remember that you'll be bound to destroy humanity if it ever looks like it needs it, right Jack?" asked Nate, shifting position. "Yeah, yeah, I got that," replied Jack, eyes squeezed tightly shut and body tense, not noticing the change in direction of Nate's voice. "And," continued Nate, from his new position, "do you remember that you'll turn bright purple, and grow big horns and extra eyes?" "Yeah, yeah...Hey, wait a minute!" said Jack, opening his eyes, straightening up and turning around. "Purple?!" He didn't see Nate there. With the moonlight Jack could see that the lever extended up from its slot in the rock without the snake wrapped around it. Jack heard, from behind him, Nate's "Just Kidding!" right before he felt the now familiar piercing pain, this time in the other buttock. Jack sat on the edge of the dark stone in the rapidly cooling air, his feet extending out into the sand. He stared out into the darkness, listening to the wind stir the sand, occasionally rubbing his butt where he'd been recently bitten. Nate had left for a little while, had come back with a desert-rodent-shaped bulge somewhere in his middle, and was now wrapped back around the lever, his tongue flicking out into the desert night's air the only sign that he was still awake. Occasionally Jack, with his toes absentmindedly digging in the sand while he thought, would ask Nate a question without turning around. "Nate, do accidents count?" Nate lifted his head a little bit. "What do you mean, Jack?" Jack tilted his head back like he was looking at the stars. "You know, accidents. If I accidentally fall on the lever, without meaning to, does that still wipe out humanity?" "Yeah, I'm pretty sure it does, Jack. I'd suggest you be careful about that if you start feeling wobbly," said Nate with some amusement. A little later - "Does it have to be me that pulls the lever?" asked Jack. "That's the rule, Jack. Nobody else can pull it," answered Nate. "No," Jack shook his head, "I meant does it have to be my hand? Could I pull the lever with a rope tied around it? Or push it with a stick? Or throw a rock?" "Yes, those should work," replied Nate. "Though I'm not sure how complicated you could get. Samuel thought about trying to build some kind of remote control for it once, but gave it up. Everything he'd build would be gone by the next sunrise, if it was touching the stone, or over it. I told him that in the past others that had been bound had tried to bury the lever so they wouldn't be tempted to pull it, but every time the stones or sand or whatever had disappeared." "Wow," said Jack, "Cool." Jack leaned back until only his elbows kept him off of the stone and looked up into the sky. "Nate, how long did Samuel live? One of his wishes was for health too, right?" asked Jack. "Yes," replied Nate, "it was. He lived 167 years, Jack." "Wow, 167 years. That's almost 140 more years I'll live if I live as long. Do you know what he died of, Nate?" "He died of getting tired of living, Jack," Nate said, sounding somewhat sad. Jack turned his head to look at Nate in the starlight. Nate looked back. "Samuel knew he wasn't going to be able to stay in society. He figured that they'd eventually see him still alive and start questioning it, so he decided that he'd have to disappear after a while. He faked his death once, but changed his mind - he decided it was too early and he could stay for a little longer. He wasn't very fond of mankind, but he liked the attention. Most of the time, anyway. "His daughter and then his wife dying almost did him in though. He didn't stay in society much longer after that. He eventually came out here to spend time talking to me and thinking about pulling the lever. A few months ago he told me he'd had enough. It was his time." "And then he just died?" asked Jack. Nate shook his head a little. "He made his forth request, Jack. There's only one thing you can ask for the fourth request. The last bite. After a bit Nate continued, "He told me that he was tired, that it was his time. He reassured me that someone new would show up soon, like they always had. After another pause, Nate finished, "Samuel's body disappeared off the stone with the sunrise." Jack lay back down and looked at the sky, leaving Nate alone with his memories. It was a long time until Jack's breathing evened out into sleep. Jack woke with the sunrise the next morning. He was a little chilled with the morning desert air, but overall was feeling pretty good. Well, except that his stomach was grumbling and he wasn't willing to eat raw desert rat. So, after getting directions to town from Nate, making sure he knew how to get back, and reassuring Nate that he'd be back soon, Jack started the long walk back to town. With his new health and Nate's good directions, he made it back easily. Jack caught a bus back to the city, and showed up for work the next day, little worse for the wear and with a story about getting lost in the desert and walking back out. Within a couple of days Jack had talked a friend with a tow truck into going back out into the desert with him to fetch the SUV. They found it after a couple of hours of searching and towed it back without incident. Jack was careful not to even look in the direction of Nate's lever, though their path back didn't come within sight of it. Before the next weekend, Jack had gone to a couple of stores, including a book store, and had gotten his SUV back from the mechanic, with a warning to avoid any more joyriding in the desert. On Saturday, Jack headed back to see Nate. Jack parked a little way out of the small town near Nate, loaded up his new backpack with camping gear and the things he was bringing for Nate, and then started walking. He figured that walking would leave the least trail, and he knew that while not many people camped in the desert, it wasn't unheard of, and shouldn't really raise suspicions. Jack had brought more books for Nate - recent books, magazines, newspapers. Some things that would catch Nate up with what was happening in the world, others that were just good books to read. He spent the weekend with Nate, and then headed out again, telling Nate that he'd be back again soon, but that he had things to do first. Over four months later Jack was back to see Nate again. This time he brought a laptop with him - a specially modified laptop. It had a solar recharger, special filters and seals to keep out the sand, a satellite link-up, and a special keyboard and joystick that Jack hoped that a fifteen-foot rattlesnake would be able to use. And, it had been hacked to not give out its location to the satellite. After that Jack could e-mail Nate to keep in touch, but still visited him fairly regularly - at least once or twice a year. After the first year, Jack quit his job. For some reason, with the wisdom he 'd been given, and the knowledge that he could live for over 150 years, working in a nine to five job for someone else didn't seem that worthwhile any more. Jack went back to school. Eventually, Jack started writing. Perhaps because of the wisdom, or perhaps because of his new perspective, he wrote well. People liked what he wrote, and he became well known for it. After a time, Jack bought an RV and started traveling around the country for book signings and readings. But, he still remembered to drop by and visit Nate occasionally. On one of the visits Nate seemed quieter than usual. Not that Nate had been a fountain of joy lately. Jack's best guess was that Nate was still missing Samuel, and though Jack had tried, he still hadn't been able to replace Samuel in Nate's eyes. Nate had been getting quieter each visit. But on this visit Nate didn't even speak when Jack walked up to the lever. He nodded at Jack, and then went back to staring into the desert. Jack, respecting Nate's silence, sat down and waited. After a few minutes, Nate spoke. "Jack, I have someone to introduce you to." Jack looked surprised. "Someone to introduce me to?" Jack looked around, and then looked carefully back at Nate. "This something to do with the Big Guy? "No, no," replied Nate. "This is more personal. I want you to meet my son." Nate looked over at the nearest sand dune. "Sammy!" Jack watched as a four foot long desert rattlesnake crawled from behind the dune and up to the stone base of the lever. "Yo, Jack," said the new, much smaller snake. "Yo, Sammy" replied Jack. Jack looked at Nate. "Named after Samuel, I assume?" Nate nodded. "Jack, I've got a favor to ask you. Could you show Sammy around for me?" Nate unwrapped himself from the lever and slithered over to the edge of the stone and looked across the sands. "When Samuel first told me about the world, and brought me books and pictures, I wished that I could go see it. I wanted to see the great forests, the canyons, the cities, even the other deserts, to see if they felt and smelled the same. I want my son to have that chance - to see the world. Before he becomes bound here like I have been. "He's seen it in pictures, over the computer that you brought me. But I hear that it's not the same. That being there is different. I want him to have that. Think you can do that for me, Jack?" Jack nodded. This was obviously very important to Nate, so Jack didn't even joke about taking a talking rattlesnake out to see the world. "Yeah, I can do that for you, Nate. Is that all you need?" Jack could sense that was something more. Nate looked at Sammy. Sammy looked back at Nate for a second and then said, "Oh, yeah. Ummm, I've gotta go pack. Back in a little bit Jack. Nice to meet ya!" Sammy slithered back over the dune and out of sight. Nate watched Sammy disappear and then looked back at Jack. "Jack, this is my first son. My first offspring through all the years. You don't even want to know what it took for me to find a mate." Nate grinned to himself. "But anyway, I had a son for a reason. I'm tired. I'm ready for it to be over. I needed a replacement." Jack considered this for a minute. "So, you're ready to come see the world, and you wanted him to watch the lever while you were gone?" Nate shook his head. "No, Jack - you're a better guesser than that. You've already figured out - I'm bound here - there's only one way for me to leave here. And I'm ready. It's my time to die." Jack looked more closely at Nate. He could tell Nate had thought about this - probably for quite a while. Jack had trouble imagining what it would be like to be as old as Nate, but Jack could already tell that in another hundred or two hundred years, he might be getting tired of life himself. Jack could understand Samuel's decision, and now Nate's. So, all Jack said was, "What do you want me to do?" Nate nodded. "Thanks, Jack. I only want two things. One - show Sammy around the world - let him get his fill of it, until he's ready to come back here and take over. Two - give me the fourth request. "I can't just decide to die, not any more than you can. I won't even die of old age like you eventually will, even though it'll be a long time from now. I need to be killed. Once Sammy is back here, ready to take over, I'll be able to die. And I need you to kill me. "I've even thought about how. Poisons and other drugs won't work on me. And I've seen pictures of snakes that were shot - some of them live for days, so that's out too. So, I want you to bring back a sword. Nate turned away to look back to the dune that Sammy had gone behind. "I'd say an axe, but that's somewhat undignified - putting my head on the ground or a chopping block like that. No, I like a sword. A time-honored way of going out. A dignified way to die. And, most importantly, it should work, even on me. "You willing to do that for me, Jack?" Nate turned back to look at Jack. "Yeah, Nate," replied Jack solemnly, "I think I can handle that." Nate nodded. "Good!" He turned back toward the dune and shouted, "Sammy! Jack's about ready to leave!" Then quietly, "Thanks, Jack." Jack didn't have anything to say to that, so he waited for Sammy to make it back to the lever, nodded to him, nodded a final time to Nate, and then headed into the desert with Sammy following. Over the next several years Sammy and Jack kept in touch with Nate through e-mail as they went about their adventures. They made a goal of visiting every country in the world, and did a respectable job of it. Sammy had a natural gift for languages, as Jack expected he would, and even ended up acting as a translator for Jack in a few of the countries. Jack managed to keep the talking rattlesnake hidden, even so, and by the time they were nearing the end of their tour of countries, Sammy had only been spotted a few times. While there were several people that had seen enough to startle them greatly, nobody had enough evidence to prove anything, and while a few wild rumors and storied followed Jack and Sammy around, nothing ever hit the newspapers or the public in general. When they finished the tour of countries, Jack suggested that they try some undersea diving. They did. And spelunking. They did that too. Sammy finally drew the line at visiting Antarctica. He'd come to realize that Jack was stalling. After talking to his Dad about it over e-mail, he figured out that Jack probably didn't want to have to kill Nate. Nate told Sammy that humans could be squeamish about killing friends and acquaintances. So, Sammy eventually put his tail down (as he didn't have a foot) and told Jack that it was time - he was ready to go back and take up his duties from his dad. Jack, delayed it a little more by insisting that they go back to Japan and buy an appropriate sword. He even stretched it a little more by getting lessons in how to use the sword. But, eventually, he'd learned as much as he was likely to without dedicating his life to it, and was definitely competent enough to take the head off of a snake. It was time to head back and see Nate. When they got back to the US, Jack got the old RV out of storage where he and Sammy had left it after their tour of the fifty states, he loaded up Sammy and the sword, and they headed for the desert. When they got to the small town that Jack had been trying to find those years ago when he'd met Nate, Jack was in a funk. He didn't really feel like walking all of the way out there. Not only that, but he'd forgotten to figure the travel time correctly, and it was late afternoon. They'd either have to spend the night in town and walk out tomorrow, or walk in the dark. As Jack was afraid that if he waited one more night he might lose his resolve, he decided that he'd go ahead and drive the RV out there. It was only going to be this once, and Jack would go back and cover the tracks afterward. They ought to be able to make it out there by nightfall if they drove, and then they could get it over tonight. Jack told Sammy to e-mail Nate that they were coming as he drove out of sight of the town on the road. They then pulled off the road and headed out into the desert. Everything went well, until they got to the sand dunes. Jack had been nursing the RV along the whole time, over the rocks, through the creek beds, revving the engine the few times they almost got stuck. When they came to the dunes, Jack didn't really think about it, he just downshifted and headed up the first one. By the third dune, Jack started to regret that he'd decided to try driving on the sand. The RV was fishtailling and losing traction. Jack was having to work it up each dune slowly and was trying to keep from losing control each time they came over the top and slid down the other side. Sammy had come up to sit in the passenger seat, coiled up and laughing at Jack's driving. As they came over the top of the fourth dune, the biggest one yet, Jack saw that this was the final dune - the stone, the lever, and somewhere Nate, waited below. Jack put on the brakes, but he'd gone a little too far. The RV started slipping down the other side. Jack tried turning the wheel, but he didn't have enough traction. He pumped the brakes - no response. They started sliding down the hill, faster and faster. Jack felt a shock go through him as he suddenly realized that they were heading for the lever. He looked down - the RV was directly on course for it. If Jack didn't do something, the RV would hit it. He was about to end humanity. Jack steered more frantically, trying to get traction. It still wasn't working. The dune was too steep, and the sand too loose. In a split second, Jack realized that his only chance would be once he hit the stone around the lever - he should have traction on the stone for just a second before he hit the lever - he wouldn't have time to stop, but he should be able to steer away. Jack took a better grip on the steering wheel and tried to turn the RV a little bit - every little bit would help. He'd have to time his turn just right. The RV got to the bottom of the dune, sliding at an amazing speed in the sand. Just before they reached the stone Jack looked across it to check that they were still heading for the lever. They were. But Jack noticed something else that he hadn't seen from the top of the dune. Nate wasn't wrapped around the lever. He was off to the side of the lever, but still on the stone, waiting for them. The problem was, he was waiting on the same side of the lever that Jack had picked to steer towards to avoid the lever. The RV was already starting to drift that way a little in its mad rush across the sand and there was no way that Jack was going to be able to go around the lever to the other side. Jack had an instant of realization. He was either going to have to hit the lever, or run over Nate. He glanced over at Sammy and saw that Sammy realized the same thing. Jack took a firmer grip on the steering wheel as the RV ran up on the stone. Shouting to Sammy as he pulled the steering wheel, "BETTER NATE THAN LEVER!", he ran over the snake. Feghoot? Never heard of such a thing.

32 Hooligan video is most excellent. Kinda weak tactics & technique, but that's why they're called hooligans and not warriors. Thanks, Maet!

33
Me to Moe Lane: To wit: Cuba

50 years ago Cuba was a tropical paradise. Today...

34 Thanks Mæt. Another fine ONT you've gotten us into. I've got to work tomorrow, so someone entertain me. Fast.

35 Kind of like the rumors about Hitler being half Jewish. Thanks G-D obama has never claimed to be half jewish, we gots enough problems

36 Can you have daddy issues against a whole race?

Kill them. Kill them all.

37 What. In. The. Heck?

38 Into the barrel WeirdDave!

39 Jake in ID -

My favorite part of the whole banning of 100W bulbs is that if you go to Home Depot they've got 300 and 200 W incandescent bulbs for sale. Didn't think incandescents went that high, but there they are. I wonder which asshole in Congress decided that only 100 watters posed a specific and credible danger to the environment.

40 nice ont maet...

41 WTH ?

42 Damn, weird dave, I'm pretty sure that unreadable epic tome of test is a barreling offense.

43 "Reagan doesn't have that presidential look." -- United Artists Executive,... in 1964. And, in 1964, he was right. Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 15, 2013 10:18 PM (d7tB2) Even if he had the look back then, no way in hell would a Donk have lost the '64 election, what with JFK getting whacked less than a year before. 'sup jackwagons

44 Gives me hope that the age of statism and the LIV may someday pass into the history books. *** Statism - the desire to rule others as you are better then they is as old as mankind itself - we may pull ourselves out of our current decline but we will never vanquish the sin itself as men will always be corruptible. As for the LIVs, they are the norm and we are not. The problem is fundamentally that our elites do not act as a check on each other, as the original American system intended. Instead of government at all levels, religious groups, social groups, and businesses all with differing powers and constraints we are rapidly moving to a monolithic oligarchy where all practical power is held in the hands of the few.

45 I stocked up on those 100 watt incandescents last year.

46 Posted by: Weirddave at July 15, 2013 10:24 PM (aH+zP)

Barrel.

Now.

Reason:  tl,dr.

47 Second?

Posted by: filbert at July 15, 2013 10:23 PM (7vimm)

Seconded.

Oh, and Mr. Wall of Text, your barrel awaits.

48 What did I miss? I posted something about lightbulbs, look up and see a friggin book in the comments? Is that the AoS required summer reading?

49 45 comments in and it looks like 450.........

50 The reason the percentage of non-drinking French has more than doubled is because of the increasing Muslim population. Bye, Bye viticulture.

51 100 watt incandescent bulbs.
Posted by: Weirddave at July 15, 2013 10:18 PM (aH+zP)

Got at least 100 of them in the basement.

52 Into the barrel WeirdDave! --- Hey I thought it was mine turn. NO FAIR! No penis, no peace!

53 Those football hooligans seem to have a code of conduct of a sort.

54 Gonna need a LONG barrel for weirddave.

55 Yeah, it was pretty common, unfortunately, at least in the Caribbean for mixed-race progeny to "hate the father and despise the mother".

56 hi all
ugh

57 Hya chemjeff. No matter how bad it is, it ain't that bad.

58 My favorite part of the whole banning of 100W bulbs is that if you go to Home Depot they've got 300 and 200 W incandescent bulbs for sale. Didn't think incandescents went that high, but there they are. I wonder which asshole in Congress decided that only 100 watters posed a specific and credible danger to the environment. Posted by: WolfinNC at July 15, 2013 10:25 PM (HVOxM) they also did not ban 'heavy duty' bulbs either, so you can still buy them in any wattage some guy called into Rush a few years ago who worked at a plant in the USA that made them ban -free congress is so mudda fukkin stoopid

59 I loaded up on incandescent bulbs before The Darkness fell.

60 ZimTrial fanatics can debate desert survival tactics with Weirdave during their night's sojourn in The Barrel.

Don't mind the stench.  The 'ettes didn't have a chance to sluice it out yet today.  I'd say you'll get used to it but . . . you won't.

61 Holy TLDR, Batman.

62 holy shit weirddave wtf was that

63

Posted by: Weirddave at July 15, 2013 10:18 PM (aH+zP)

IIRC, South Carolina specifically okayed incandescents by writing it into their state law!  Do a search on them.

64 FRom the anti-rape lingerie:

"capable of sending shock waves of 3,800 kV"

Ummmm..... No.

65 Geez, that's a MOVIE REVIEW!

66 Or, as George Zimmerman could say to Mr and Mrs Martin, "I won."

67 "Posted by: Weirddave at July 15, 2013 10:24 PM"

Heed!  Barrel!  Now!!!

68 ....um, before they were lost in a horrible canoeing accident, I mean.

69 >>>52 Those football hooligans seem to have a code of conduct of a sort. The way I saw it: gangs on gangs ok, just not serious damage. One on one: more damage allowed, but back off at sign of surrender or ko. Gangs on one: minimal damage, just a few bruises while the one makes his escape. Actually not terrible way to settle a dispute, seeing as how dueling is out.

70 A new hi-tech chastity belt with a TASER and GPS.  The reporting to police and family, someone like Rachel Jenteal will probably sue about that violating her privacy even as the NSA lives in her Obamaphone.

71 Shouldn't a shaggy dog story at least have a shaggy dog? Barrel!

72 Saw this on TownHall and I think it gets to the point pretty well: http://tinyurl.com/lufbmtg I grew up in a country where the rule of law was supreme. Or at least it seemed that way. But somewhere along the line the varnish of polite society has been worn off so that the brass now shows through.

73 congress is so mudda fukkin stoopid

Posted by: Jake in ID at July 15, 2013 10:29 PM (IxRjw)

Yeah, but don't tell them about it. They'll write another 1000 page pork-laden bill to "fix" that problem, too.

74 So---what is the next thing that we should be stocking up on before it is gone and we are sneaking into Canada--when not posting War and Peace on this blog--to get supplies?

75 oh GGE I think it is that bad.
The summer is slipping away and I have squandered a great deal of it.
but beer is tasty, and games are addictive, and AoSHQ is fun, let me tell ya

76 Oops - I blame white hispanics for my sock fail.

77 Anyone have some nicorette?

78 I got a bunch of 95 watt bulbs.
Hard to tell the difference.

79 STOP

BARREL - TIME

Ohohoohohohoohoohoh~!

80 weirddave, that was retarded SIR

81 31 that's a barreling

82 I saw some kerosene lamps and lamp oil (not kerosene) at the hardware store last week. I used to have some when I was young a LONG time ago. Thought I might buy a couple "just in case".

Friggin 2 liter bottle of lamp oil was twenty dollars.

I can run my generator cheaper methinks.

83 congress is so mudda fukkin stoopid /cries

84 Posted by: The littl shyning man at July 15, 2013 10:30 PM (8YnX9)


*stuffs lsm into the barrel with weirddave*

85 Shouldn't a shaggy dog story at least have a shaggy dog? Barrel!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 15, 2013 10:30 PM (pxDth)

Day-um, Seamus . . . you got far enough through it to figure out what (if any) ending it had?

You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.

86 Idiot protesters blocking 880 in both directions in Oakland. Douchery

87 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 15, 2013 10:30 PM (QbyMe) You guys need to pay for it all too. Serious you guys.

88 I got a bunch of 95 watt bulbs ___ Ok, I give what are the bulbs? Petunias?

89 that's a barreling *** That's a drone strike!

90 24 Why is it the mostly white "blacks" seem to hate whitey the most?

Can you have daddy issues against a whole race?
----
I copied this from the prior thread. It wasn't referring to Zero, but I do think he had mommy issues. I think he must have a seething hatred of her to have as much animosity towards whitey as he has. Otherwise, he's got a bad case of self hatred to act the way he does. Kind of like the rumors about Hitler being half Jewish.

Oh dear, I've gone Godwin already.

Posted by: Mayday at July 15, 2013 10:23 PM (eHc+1)

Godwin With The Wind? Wasn't that the old movie where some chick was Fiddle-dee-dee'ing on a plantation called Terror before the Great War that killed the Jews?

91 18-1 -

I agree with what you've said, but I would add the caveat that the LIVs were not always present in such high percentages. Our elites have always run the show, but I think that for most of our country's history, their values have at least tangentially coincided, if not outright agreed with our values, and the different strains of thought among the populace were represented among our representatives and senators.

Today, there are 535 congresscritters, 9 SC justices, and 1 SCOAMF who share the same worldview and couldn't care less what the other 300 million of us think. That somewhere between 47 and 53 percent of the population happens to support that elite, I think, is down to the browbeating of the leftist press.

92 82 congress is so mudda fukkin stoopid

/cries

Posted by: John Boehner at July 15, 2013 10:32 PM (zPVBH)

 

For some reason, I laughed out loud at that. 

93 The summer is slipping away and I have squandered a great deal of it.
but beer is tasty, and games are addictive, and AoSHQ is fun, let me tell ya

Posted by: chemjeff at July 15, 2013 10:30 PM (5p18q)

So...what did you squander your time on?

94 85 Idiot protesters blocking 880 in both directions in Oakland. Douchery Posted by: Yo at July 15, 2013 10:32 PM (HPNED) Now we need an earthquake like in '89. No more double deck sections though right?

95 Well, fucking fuckity fuck, that was hell. Never do that again.

96 53 How do you know?

97
"Never in my lifetime will the USA elect a man with the middle name 'Hussein,' who's friends with terrorists, and has a paper-thin resume."

-- Stuff I Never Said, Vol. II
September 12, 2001

98 GGE, well, it was on: beer, games and the HQ

99 Godwin With The Wind? Wasn't that the old movie where some chick was Fiddle-dee-dee'ing on a plantation called Terror before the Great War that killed the Jews? --- That was such a great movie. I remember watching it in the theaters when President Wilson banned racism. Ah, those were the days.

100 Cola flavored whine>>
Is my response to a weak but expensive Rum an Coke.

101 dave re-invented the barrel

102 You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din. Posted by: filbert at July 15, 2013 10:32 PM (7vimm) *** I only read every tenth word.

103 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 15, 2013 10:34 PM (GEICT)


so...what exactly are we not doing?

104 I don't have TV at this time....is the sweet delicate flower of Rachel gracing the screens with the limey asshat of Morgan yet?

105 I spent half my summer on alcohol, gambling, and wild women, the other half I squandered.

106 Good. The final nudge I needed to go ahead and pull the plug on my oft-neglected Facebook account. Good riddance to yet more liberal rubbish.

107 Must be the heat.

108

"Anti-rape Lingerie" is it?  I guess some marketing genius finally got around to renaming the fucking chastity belt, which has been around for a few years, IIRC.

109 Greta has put on a great show tonight.

110

Okay, I'll try again pixy.

 

*rage meter pegged*

 

WTF is a family atty for traytable saying she is a social engineer?  Fuck me running.  She needs a cunt punt?

111 that's a barreling
***
That's a drone strike!
--------------------

The hamsters are on strike. They said they're not hauling that load for one more thread.

112 >>>Never do that again. Said that a whole shitload of times. And I meant every one of em. Then, reality interfered, the bitch.

113 Jake in ID -

Amen, brother, amen. As was said in one of my favorite movies, Citizen X... "They might be stupid, but they're in charge."

114 GGE, well, it was on: beer, games and the HQ

Posted by: chemjeff at July 15, 2013 10:35 PM (5p18q)

I spent my money on wine, women and song...and then I wasted the rest...

115 Hey, y'all.

I don't think I had ever seen the beginning of the Nate story before, so  I read until the second time I had to scroll down before I gave up.

116 I'm a dentist but what I am really is a social engineer . Now give me money .

117 I liked it, WeirdDave.

118 To go with the Reagan quote there is always the time the British Army tried to pawn off the KdF factory in a town that was not named Wolfsburg yet to Ford.  A certain Ford executive reported - "Frankly Mr. Ford, what we are being offered here isn't worth a damn."

This gentleman would later go on to promote the Edsel.  So it was not just an off day for him.

119 so...what exactly are we not doing? Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 15, 2013 10:35 PM (yh0zB) TEXT WALL

120 When I was young I spent all my money on cars, beer and women.

The rest I wasted.

121 I thought the Campaign of Hate against 100 watt incandescent bulbs was ended

122 "Anti-rape Lingerie" is it? I guess some marketing genius finally got around to renaming the fucking chastity belt, which has been around for a few years, IIRC. ___ Do they makes those for girls of the uh...4 legged variety? Don't let them know, but I do not trust Achmed, Muhammed, Mohammed, or Muhamid if I leave Dolly with them.

123 Anyway, if I can toot my own horn for a bit, this weekend I'm doing a 5K walk and raising money to build a Fisher House in Milwaukee.  You can learn more here:

http://www.fisherhousewi.org/

Then if you've got $10 you don't need, click the link in my handle.

Bonus, I don't expect to have access to the internets on my vacation, so y'all get a vacation from me.  Heh!

124 So, I just watched the World's Cutest Kitteh playing with a beetle that found it's way inside the house. She being feral, said beetle also found it's way down her gullet.

125 I'm a dentist but what I am really is a social engineer . Now give me money . Posted by: DrDrill at July 15, 2013 10:36 PM (BPTZu) They still tell me they left all their money, credit cards,and checks at home? Then they get in their Beamer and drive home

126 Tell me more about this anti rape lingerie.

127 Out for now, see ya later morons!

128 TEXT WALL

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 15, 2013 10:37 PM (GEICT)

Oh, right...yeah, don't do that...

129
Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream
I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been
To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen
They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed

130 An actual book thread, I'm on chapter 3.

131 I think Weirddave is tonight's barrel engineer

132 Sen. Frank Niceley ‏@SenFrankNiceley 1m And in foreign news today the Chinese State Media demanded American citizens disarm. http://tinyurl.com/cwwv6ms

133 82 congress is so mudda fukkin stoopid

/cries

Posted by: John Boehner at July 15, 2013 10:32 PM (zPVBH)

With all due respect, Mr. Speaker, the local stylebook requires you describe them as such: "they talk like fags and their shit's all retarded".  I expect you'll follow the rules from here on out.

134 An actual book thread, I'm on chapter 3. ___ It turns out in the end the he is a she!

135 "Anti-rape Lingerie" is it? I guess some marketing genius finally got around to renaming the fucking chastity belt, which has been around for a few years...
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My wife wore her roomy, frilly pink maternity nightgown for like five years after Road boy #1 arrived. When it started looking worse than the rags I wax the car with I demanded she toss it out.

She complied, with reticence.

A few days later I noticed she had dug it out of the trash and was wearing it again.

I called it the "Birth Control Nightgown."

136 I got the tune put into the car today, but I really haven't tested it out fully. I can say that going by the seat of the pants it seems to have a bit more punch, but the big diff is in the transmission. No more throttle delay and the shifts are a lot harder, I can get rubber at WOT when it shifts.

137 What is a social engineer?  Do they do like hard math and calculations and stuff?

Such bullshit.  As a mom I am more of a "social engineer" as this scrunt will ever be.  This is the same type of wyman that believes that the mayor of San Diego, Ted Kennedy, Spitzer, Wiener and all of the rest of the sick fucks are ok because they are democrats.  No war on women there.

The Tea Party and those damn constitutionalists are our enemy.

Oh, and abortion on demand!

138 And now that I've hit y'all up for money, I'm going to sleep. 

Good night, people who live in my computer.

139 the Chinese State Media demanded American citizens disarm

And our reply? Fuck you, charlie.

140 I got a bunch of 95 watt bulbs. Hard to tell the difference. Posted by: navybrat at July 15, 2013 10:31 PM At work we built a triple purge and vacuum 120w bulb with a nichrome filament in an old train signal lens. With a copper base and a Vespel post insulator it should burn for three or four hundred years.

141 With all due respect, Mr. Speaker, the local stylebook requires you describe them as such: "they talk like fags and their shit's all retarded". *** You know right now I'd trade POTUS for Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in a heart beat.

142 good night HeatherRadish

143 Evidence compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of Citizens has found Zimmerman to be guilty of at least several major civil rights-related crimes. Having found no sign of racism in ZimmermanÂ’s background, prosecutors plan to file charges of Involuntary Racism in the Commission of a Hate Crime, punishable by up to 20 years tinyurl.com/oqsl4ct

144 I called it the "Birth Control Nightgown."

Assuming that there is a Road Boy #2, you must have found a way to persevere.

145 Good night sweet Heather!  Sleep well darling.

146 the Chinese State Media demanded American citizens disarm And our reply? Fuck you, charlie. Posted by: The Third Horseman Of The Apocalypse at July 15, 2013 10:41 PM (uLzrM) Well that's your reply and my reply, but obama's reply? I don't think so

147 Poo. You bring up feghoots and then run away from a real, live fully feghootian one. Wimps.

148 I disagree with Moe Lane. The Chicago Democratic Machine will last longer than roaches post nuclear attack.

149 I've actually got a a huge amount of empathy for the Average Black Person--they're in an even worse position than most LIV's because they get not just the single Democrat-Media Complex firehose consisting of the standard leftist, "progressive" rightthink fare, but they also get the other Democrat-Media Complex firehose blast consisting of some of the most depraved racially-based politics-of-entitlement and -envy-based shit you could possibly imagine.

They have literally been brainwashed, and they have virtually no way out.

The hardest chains and shackles to break are the ones that those who've enslaved you have forged in your own mind.

Many black Americans literally have no mental map to even conceive of how totally they have been subjugated by the Democrat-Media Complex.

If it's anyone's fault, it's ours--liberty-loving Americans of good will, who somehow let this atrocity happen.

Some--a glorious few--escape:  Thomas Sewell, Clarence Thomas, Walter E. Williams, a few others.  But most are utterly, completely, hopelessly trapped by the D-M C.

150 And in foreign news today the Chinese State Media demanded American citizens disarm.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 15, 2013 10:40 PM (jjvz+)

All those pesky guns makes invasion such a dicey proposition...

151 You know right now I'd trade POTUS for Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in a heart beat.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 15, 2013 10:42 PM (zPVBH)

I'd trade him for a real person.  At this point, I'd take a moron, any moron.

152 Assuming that there is a Road Boy #2, you must have found a way to persevere.
Posted by: Scanner Dan
-------------------------

Yup. He's 16 and 6 foot even.

153

Anyway, if I can toot my own horn for a bit, this weekend I'm doing a 5K walk and raising money to build a Fisher House in

 

 

 

 

Dear Lord, wear comfortable shoes.  Did a 5k over the 4th. 

154 I called it the "Birth Control Nightgown." ___ I've got a few of those. Turns out covering your whole body with latex in a gang bang is a good idea. Who knew? Speaking of which, I've got an opening from 11:15-11:37 if anyone and their posse is up for anything tonight.

155 it the "Birth Control Nightgown." Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 15, 2013 10:40 PM (4Mv1T) *** Now THAT'S funny.

156 Andi Cooper scores Teh Interview.

157 Sorry for the drive-by posting, but Pookette got her 4&6-month shots today, so we're both exhausted. She really did not want to be out of our arms tonight. Anyway, here is my contribution, after seeing Lieutenants Winters and Nixon.

http://tinyurl.com/onm2wkl

*sacrifices a squirrel to get the formatting correct in the post*

158 'night Ms Radish. May your dreams not be as weird as mine.

159 >>>A few days later I noticed she had dug it out of the trash and was wearing it again. I called it the "Birth Control Nightgown." Dude, this Husband 101 level stuff. Steal it, destroy it, got to nice lingerie shop, buy *item*. One, something comfortable but still sexy that she can wear most nights. The other should something she would never never ever buy for herself. when she wears that one, its game on. You can call the second one The Baby Maker.

160 What is a social engineer? Do they do like hard math and calculations and stuff? **** They try to convince innocent four year olds to be homosexual. See....no more pesky babies.

161
But when you want money
for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait

162 Are you kidding, at this point would trade Gaylord Focker for a Furby.

163 Speaking of which, I've got an opening from 11:15-11:37 if anyone and their posse is up for anything tonight.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at July 15, 2013 10:44 PM (zPVBH)

Just one opening? I can do better.

164 8 "Reagan doesn't have that presidential look." -- United Artists Executive,... in 1964. And, in 1964, he was right.

Looked pretty darn presidential in his tv speech that summer.

165 Well that's your reply and my reply, but obama's reply? I don't think so

Yeah, I meant "us" - as in the sane and the rational.

166 Fisher House is a worthy and well-run organization. We've donated to them in previous years.

167 13 Interesting quotes re: Thatcher and Reagan. It's surprising how fast the "conventional wisdom" can change. Gives me hope that the age of statism and the LIV may someday pass into the history books. Posted by: WolfinNC at July 15, 2013 10:19 PM (HVOxM) And then you see Rachel Jenteal on television and your hope smashes into the iceberg of doom and slips beneath the waves like the Titanic.

168 Fisher House is a worthy and well-run organization. We've donated to them in previous years. Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 15, 2013 10:46 PM (pxDth) I just passed on this weekend in front of Portsmouth Naval Hospital in VA

169 You know right now I'd trade POTUS for Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in a heart beat.

hell I'd trade POTUS for some random guy in the phone book

170

And in foreign news today the Chinese State Media demanded American citizens disarm.

 

 

ROFLMFAO

 

 

171 Posted by: pookysgirl at July 15, 2013 10:45 PM (kMnHs)


w00t! Go Hawkeyes!

172 The Chicago Democratic Machine will last longer than roaches post nuclear attack.

And me, mate.

173 And then you see Rachel Jenteal on television and your hope smashes into the iceberg of doom and slips beneath the waves like the Titanic.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 15, 2013 10:47 PM (V1ZIU)

She is the product of all the "good intentions" the professional left has had for the last ~50 years.  There's plenty of decent people who haven't received the full-on treatment and can be salvaged.

174 Folks, I've had about enough of this craptastic bday. Gonna call it a night here shortly. See you folks tomorrow.

175 I've been buying 130 volt lights for a while because they're supposed to last longer. Lately they seem to burn out just as fast as the 120s

176 Woah.

I go off and pound out Deep Heartfelt, Meaningful Comment on the ONT (yes, I know, WTF do I think I was doing, just there?) and come back to find Weirddave's magnum opus has been snipped with nearly extreme prejudice.

I must respectfully protest.

While it was hideously offensive and definitely Barrel-worthy, it did give this ONT a certain wildly bizarre character which . . . er . . . well, actually, most ONT's have.

But this one could have been Epic.

Therefore, I humbly Protest.

177 169 And in foreign news today the Chinese State Media demanded American citizens disarm.


ROFLMFAO

Posted by: Infidel at July 15, 2013 10:47 PM (SkhKv)

Yep.  You want them?  Come and take them.

178
Good evening and welcome to Slaggers
Featuring Denis O'Bell
Come on Ringo, let's hear it for Denis

Good evening
You know my name
Better look up the number

179 Up until this day I had never seen nor heard of this word feghoot, and if I never hear nor see it ever again I don't think I'll miss it at all.

180 Another reason why Lil Trayvon's family doesn't want to sue Zimmerman, discovery. All of Lil Trayvon's records will then be open to Zimmerman's attorneys now, and that is a can of worms they don't want opened.

181 I have one compelling question after watching the interview of Angela Corey and her prosecutor: Did HLN have to build a special chair to hold all of Angela Corey's fat ass? Inquiring minds want to know.

182 See ya BC! But why so craptasticl, if you wanna hang around here and vent a while. I got your favorite...bottom shelf whiskey.

183 The Robots can help us win immigration! http://tinyurl.com/pj6bte8

184 If the Martin family sues Zimmerman in a civil trial, they won't be funding it themselves.

Someone who has an interest in 'race-baiting' will step forward with the money.

185 I detest the swirly bulbs. Btw, what can the common moron do about the facebook thing?

186 Just started this as a random thought, but there's some surprisingly apt touches: Reagan - Augustus Bush 1 - Tiberius Clinton - Caligula Bush 2 - Claudius Preezy - Nero

187 I almost died twice two years ago. The first time was after a surgical complication, which required major surgery, which pretty much did me in. I stopped breathing briefly and they put me in ICU. The surgeon told my wife to make preparations. I really had no idea where I was or who I was for 4 days. It was touch and go. The first night, I had a dream, or vision, where I talked with God. I was bathed in kind of a warm, honey-colored glow. I didn't see him, but I heard him and it was more real than any experience I've ever had. He told me he loved me, that he had plans for my life, but he wanted me to adjust some of my priorities. I've done the best I could since then to keep my priorities straight. The second time was about 5 months later, when I contracted septic shock from a bladder infection. The docs told my wife I had a 50-50 chance of making it, and she told me. Despite several of my organs shutting down for a few days, I never went into a coma, which I understand is very unusual. For the first few days, I had a new nurse every shift, and the first thing they said was, "I can't believe you're conscious. Your vital signs say you shouldn't be." I survived the second hospitalization, as I knew I would, and made a quick recovery. It was a good opportunity to witness about God's goodness to other patients and the hospital staff. Since my dream or vision, the first night, I've had no fear or apprehension of death. I hope I don't suffer before I die, but when it's my time, I know that I will be with God, and he is good. That is all.

188 Well folks, I'm out as well. I'm gonna go test that new tune some more.


Later roonz and roonettez!

189 Night Heather, I made a measly little donation, Thank you for letting us know, great organization. Night BC...Happy Birthday!

190 Someone who has an interest in 'race-baiting' will step forward with the money. Posted by: gastorgrab at July 15, 2013 10:51 PM (FX38i) You rang?

191 I saw some kerosene lamps and lamp oil >>

Kerosene lamps that use a mantle like a propane or white gas Coleman lantern are great.

http://www.auraoil.com/aladdin2301.html

But a White gas (Unleaded) Coleman pump lantern is gonna be a lot cheaper to find and fuel.

http://tinyurl.com/kchcdw6

Oh crap Coleman makes a Kerosene version I will have to get now that I've seen it.

http://tinyurl.com/md4tvcy

192 I've been buying 130 volt lights for a while because they're supposed to last longer. Lately they seem to burn out just as fast as the 120s
---------------------------
Having been an industrial/commercial rep for Sylvania many eons ago, that is theoretically true. If the voltage rating of the lamp is higher than the juice you're feeding it, the life of the lamp goes up exponentially, while the light output only diminishes only incrementally.

But they make those bulbs in some crappy factories these days so we get what we pay for.

193 Don't blame, I didn't snip weird Dave's post.

194    You can buy rough service bulbs in the banned sizes. They are for vibration areas, or trouble lights etc. There is an online outfit selling them, I think he called in to Rush one day. Exact same size just heavier built.

195 May your dreams not be as weird as mine.
The best things about dreams is the weird.

196 *And in foreign news today the Chinese State Media demanded American citizens disarm. molon labe.

197 Winters:  You're hammered aren't you Nix?

Nixon:  Fuckin' A.  The Vat 69.  Accept no substitutes.

198 Night GGE!

199 The "Kill Zimmerman" page has disappeared.

200 You mean like the people who stepped forward to pay off the judgement against Al Sharpton for defamation of Pagones in the Tawana Brawley case?

201 I know someone who had a snake attack him in the toilet. No other anecdote I've ever heard quite matches it for the combination of silliness and fear-inducing paranoia. "I had a sudden realization that something was moving in the bowl, and got off the toilet just in time to avoid getting a snakebite to the balls! Then I clubbed it to death with the plunger and, well, people had started asking what all the noise was about, but they went really quiet when they saw the bathroom...." I check the can for snakes now.

202 Shit. I'm out too. Later taters.

203 Better Nate than lever. *** Justice for WeirdDave!! No justice, no peace.

204 The "Kill Zimmerman" page has disappeared. Posted by: holygoat at July 15, 2013 10:54 PM (IGIFh) FB's lawyers must have said " What are you fuckin crazy, take that POS down"

205 Posted by: Michael the Hobbit, but you can call me Michael at July 15, 2013 10:52 PM (vVMIQ) Awesome!

206 Just started this as a random thought, but there's some surprisingly apt touches: But then ... Carter would be Caesar.

207

Did HLN have to build a special chair to hold all of Angela Corey's fat ass?

Inquiring minds want to know.

 

 

Yep, the were green and recycled the one they used for tire neck on Peers Morgan.

208 WeirdDave -- that was quite an epic tale, and well told.....but if you ever, EVER drop a hot and steamy one like that in the middle of an ONT again, you should be permanently barreled and stored upside-down.

209 Happiness is a warm gun
( bang bang shoot shoot )
Happiness is a warm gun, yes it is
(bang bang shoot shoot)

When I hold you in my arms (oh yes)
When I feel my finger on your trigger (oh yes)
I know nobody can do me no harm
Because happiness is a warm gun, momma
( bang bang shoot shoot )
Happiness is a warm gun
( bang bang shoot shoot )
-Yes it is.
Happiness is a warm, yes it is...
Gun!
( bang bang shoot shoot )
Well don't ya know that happiness is a warm gun, momma? (yeah)

210 But why so craptasticl, if you wanna hang around here and vent a while. I got your favorite...bottom shelf whiskey. Posted by: DC in Towson at July 15, 2013 10:51 PM (jIaZt) Woke up massively late for work. Out the door and I realize, fairly quickly why I had a headache. After many years of being free, my anxiety/panic attacks decided to show themselves. 15-20 times today. Chest pain, rapid heart beat, shortness of breath, feeling flushed. Which only exacerbates the headache. Broken ac. Now fixed. But ugh. Dinner at parents went as well as possible. Wife and I were both wiped by the time we got home and got the kids to bed, so that awesome bday sex? Buahahahahahahahahaha.

211 Belay my last post. The Kill Zimmerman page is still there, but the link at Jawa is bad. Sorry.

212 I got your favorite...bottom shelf whiskey. Posted by: DC
-------------------------------------

You asked last night "what's your poison" right before I ducked out to pick up Road boy #2 from the gym. Bottom shelf scotch is the answer. This Clan Macgregor tastes as good as Dewars, as long as you give a good splash.

Neat? Not so much.

213 But they make those bulbs in some crappy factories these days so we get what we pay for.
Posted by: Tobacco Road

Yeah. older lights were US made I think (feits) Newer are Chinese (also Feits). They DO look a bit different, but with 16 foot ceilings, I HATE to pull the ladder out to change a bulb.

214 I'm still waiting for my money people . Social Engineers don't work for net points . O bye the way the rioting in LA has began , I mean macro social engineering has started beta testing .

215 One time, I was in Chita, Siberia and heard splashing coming from the bathroom in the room I was staying at in some Russian army barracks. I went to check it out and it was a fucking giant rat swimming laps in the toilet. I hit the flush lever and thankfully he went down the drain. Glad it was only an overnight stop.

216 The best things about dreams is the weird.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at July 15, 2013 10:53 PM (tb0Jd)

Depends.  If you fall asleep really fast you get the weird ones you have to fight to wake up from...did one last night that I did not enjoy at all.  If you fall asleep too quickly, you get to REM before the body is ready, and it is not fun...I'm sure others here have done it - they're the dreams that seem real and scare you, but you can't wake up, and that's because you can't.  Until the brain reaches enough of a "high alert" status, the body remains paralyzed.

217 Another reason why Lil Trayvon's family doesn't want to sue Zimmerman, discovery. All of Lil Trayvon's records will then be open to Zimmerman's attorneys now, and that is a can of worms they don't want opened. Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, So we get to find out what truly lousy parents they were in every way possible. That's fabulous - because I'm guessing no one was watching the store in any sense.

218 Happy Birthday, BC! I'm sorry you don't feel well.

219 WeirdDave, Barrel time. Not for the Ace-review-length story (which was holding my interest), but for that awful pun at the end. Hello, Horde.

220 176 Just remember who your gov't keeps coming back to for more money to borrow, citizen.  What's that Golden rule again???

221 Posted by: Michael the Hobbit, but you can call me Michael at July 15, 2013 10:52 PM (vVMIQ)


---


Can I get a witness?,,,,

222 Thanks NDH

223 Amazon has 100w GE incandescent bulbs by the case (4 for appx 1.02 ea

224 Now on to something important - I had the best Bloody Mary in my life yesterday. Trying to figure out the recipe. What makes a bloody mary bloody good? Put me some f'n knowledge, moron herd, or else!

225 223 Now on to something important - I had the best Bloody Mary in my life yesterday. Trying to figure out the recipe.

What makes a bloody mary bloody good? Put me some f'n knowledge, moron herd, or else!

Posted by: Jade Sea at July 15, 2013 10:59 PM (F9sxd)

 

Bloody Marys are good; Caesars are better!! 

226 Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.

227
It is miserably hot here.

228 What's a Ceasar?

229 What makes a bloody mary bloody good?

real blood? 

230 Now I need to look up what a Caesar is.

231 Oh, great, lookin' like they gonna maybe burn down the hood tonight.  In honor of that innocent child, of course.  fuckin' dipshits.

232 What makes a bloody mary bloody good? Put me some f'n knowledge, moron herd, or else! Posted by: Jade Sea
----------------------------------

100 octane Vodka,

and some whatsthishere sauce.

233

Happy Birthday, BC. 

234 I guess I should not have wished BCochran to have a Jaeger bday.  He was the Russian Jaeger today.

Hope you doing better.

235 Evening y'all from beautiful Lake Norman! I'm on vacation this week. Fish count: EC: 0 Mrs EC: 4

236 What makes a bloody mary bloody good? Put me some f'n knowledge, moron herd, or else!

Posted by: Jade Sea

horseradish . . . lots and lots of horseradish.

237 If you fall asleep really fast you get the weird ones you have to fight to wake up from..
I've never had that "problem". It takes a long time for me to get to sleep. I've had the bad dreams but very infrequently.

238 Get better soon, BC. Maybe you can get a make-up date on the birthday whoopee.

239 214 One time, I was in Chita, Siberia and heard splashing coming from the bathroom in the room I was staying at in some Russian army barracks. I went to check it out and it was a fucking giant rat swimming laps in the toilet. I hit the flush lever and thankfully he went down the drain. Glad it was only an overnight stop.

Posted by: CDR M at July 15, 2013 10:57 PM (dKV5k)

So they couldn't (and still can't) compete when it comes to bombers, missiles, or satellites, but they have better toilets?  Sneaky bastards!

Also, goodnight.  Time for sweet dreams of face-sized spiders being thrown by clowns and scarecrows with coals for eyes... For anybody affected by that last sentence, of course; I have no idea what I'll dream of.

240 And in foreign news today the Chinese State Media demanded American citizens disarm.

molon labe.

Posted by: Thrawn at July 15, 2013 10:53 PM (KiyII)

 

 

You forgot MOTHERFUCKERS , Molon Labe, MOTHERFUCKERS

241 Night DC!

242 Honestly, Weirddave, I got the damned pun by the first time you named the snake "Nate."


I grew up in the house of the painful pun.


You will have to do better than that to get this goat. Something along the lines of "That was the beer that made Mel Famey walk us.":

243
A "caesar" is a men's hairstyle, no?

A short hair length combed forward.

244 223 What makes a bloody mary bloody good? Put me some f'n knowledge, moron herd, or else! I think this is one of those "there are many paths to enlightenment" things. Personally, I'd make sure that celery bitters and white pepper and a touch of Tobasco were in there, among other things.

245 Ok - found it - a Caesar is make with clamato instead of just tomato. Hmmmm - I might not be up to that.

246 EC- You can't watch the Mrs. when you're supposed to be watching that cork. And I can only imagine what she's not wearing while she's reeling them in.

247 223: I use this one most days: 1 quart V8 juice 1 cup vodka 1/2 cup lemon juice (about 3 lemons) 3 tablespoons lime juice (about 2 small limes) 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 3 tablespoons prepared horseradish 2 tablespoons hot sauce, preferably Crystal brand 1 tablespoon olive juice, preferably from Manzanilla olives 1/2 teaspoon celery salt 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder 1/4 teaspoon black pepper

248 Captain Whitebread, But the pun is the point, that's what a feghoot is. The pun! The pun the thing wherein we catch the feghoot's subtle zing!

249 EC- You can't watch the Mrs. when you're supposed to be watching that cork. And I can only imagine what she's not wearing while she's reeling them in. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. She's a fish whisperer.

250 Something else for EC to watch.
http://en.bijin-snap.com/2013/06/29/no-942/

251 Evening Horde Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 15, 2013 10:22 PM (GEICT) have you considered my advice?

252 247 I didn't know that. Like Breitbart, I only read the comments.

253 We are announcing a name change this year. Jeantel will be used for the letter J this year.

254 EC- You can't watch the Mrs. when you're supposed to be watching that cork. And I can only imagine what she's not wearing while she's reeling them in.>>

Shorter version: You are watching the wrong bobbers.

255 249 Something else for EC to watch. http://en.bijin-snap.com/2013/06/29/no-942/ I bet she could catch some fish.

256 Happy-ish Monday Evening to you all ... despite being 97 degrees ...

257 It is miserably hot here.

South FL has been having a pretty mild summer.  Not a single unbearably hot day yet, and the days are starting to get shorter now.

Typical highs in the 87-88 range, but that only lasts a few hours.  Night time lows in the high 70's.

258 You know, snakes and rats in the toilet are some things I haven't worried about in a long time. Thanks, you boneheads, for bringing that back to me.

259

Posted by: CAC at July 15, 2013 11:06 PM (b5bZo)

 

I missed your advice, but I'm assuming it involves getting high.

260 Thank you MoeRon - BRB - I have some shopping to do. I'm having a powerful cravin' that only a proper Bloody Mary (just about to abbreviate it but B.M. is just not right) will fix!

261 168 You know right now I'd trade POTUS for Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in a heart beat.

hell I'd trade POTUS for some random guy in the phone book

Posted by: chemjeff at July 15, 2013 10:47 PM (5p18q)

I know this is probably late (delayed by the WeirdDave monstrosity), but I'd trade POTUS for a rabid wombat with terminal mange.....and probably wouldn't shoot it right off in hopes it might bite Valjar and Mooch.

262

Bloody Mary is a matter of taste.

 

Good Vodka, lemon pepper, lemon juice, tomatoe juice, worsteshire sauce and a little hot sauce.  Helps if you have them with some home made eggs benedict.

263 Don't forget this weekend is RED2 and RIPD.

264 Tcn, you really don't want to get me started. Ask my wife.

265 68 and rain tonight in south-central Oklahoma. "....and LOVING it!"

266 Michael the Hobbit, that's an amazing experience you had. I've read and seen (on tv) other accounts of near death experiences. Did you see any of your family members? When my uncle was near death, in and out of consciousness, he told my cousins he saw my father (his brother) who had died several years before.

267 hell I'd trade POTUS for some random guy in the phone book

I'd trade that POS for a used condom.

268 Oh yea, and celery salt too.

269 Nothing lasts forever. Except menopause.

270 I offer the motion that anyone, henceforth insisting on discussion shit about the Zimmerman shit on this aforementioned ONT, be deemed as Barrel-worthy for the duration of the ONT. Posted by: filbert at July 15, 2013 10:23 PM (7vimm) Well, since you brought it up, get in the damned barrel.

271 Peaches..  *must not comment*  Something about seamen and Reggie Love..  must not go there....


*gack!*  *thud*

272 Wait, WeirdDave got snipped?!? At least put the damned thing in the sidebar and toss a link.

273 263 Tcn, you really don't want to get me started. Ask my wife.

Posted by: Weirddave at July 15, 2013 11:08 PM (aH+zP)

Honey, if that WASN'T started, I don't know how to get there from here.

That dog wasn't shaggy--he had mange.

274 244 Ok - found it - a Caesar is make with clamato instead of just tomato. Hmmmm - I might not be up to that.

Posted by: Jade Sea at July 15, 2013 11:04 PM (F9sxd)

 

I was squeamish about trying them, because I absolutely HATE seafood. But I love them. 

 

My husband makes the best Caesars.

 

On a cruise we went on 2 years ago, he taught our bartender how to make them. 

 

More than a few Canadians on board also imbibed.

 

By the time we got to Mexico the next day, the staff had to go look for more Clamato. 

 

I think they bought every available can of it in Cozumel.  And we finished every one. 

275 271 Wait, WeirdDave got snipped?!? At least put the damned thing in the sidebar and toss a link. Posted by: cthulhu at July 15, 2013 11:11 PM (T1005) Seconded.

276 263 Tcn, you really don't want to get me started. Ask my wife. NO YOU DON'T. I'm pretty sure I'd be extradited for murder.

277 Yes the pun is the thing. But if you have to work too hard, it gets turned around and becomes a 'nup'. And as we all know, a nup is a nup. (Wait for it...)

278 they all out there throwin' down on the LAPD now.  this will not end well.  plus, 99% of 'em have no fuckin' idea what the issue is, they just wanna have some fun, trash some cars, loot some stores. 

279 I'd trade that POS for a used condom. Posted by: Peaches at July 15, 2013 11:09 PM (8lmkt) On our local "buy/sell/trade" facebook page today, some LIV actually posted a used condom for sale. With picture.

280 256 South FL has been having a pretty mild summer. Not a single unbearably hot day yet, and the days are starting to get shorter now. Mrs Splunge was talking with some lib acquaintances the other day, and the conversation turned to the cool temperatures we've been having this year. Unable to resist, she blurted out "must be global warming." The others nodded sagely, utterly unaware of any logical incongruity. These are the low-information voters with which we must contend.

281

Posted by: Purp at July 15, 2013 11:07 PM (lm0Rv)

 

Damnable,

 

We're heading to the wrong side of 90 this week. And I'm fiddling with the Thermostat while the wife is away and it's not pleasant while I try to find the most cost effective temps.

282 And as we all know, a nup is a nup.
(Wait for it...) Posted by: Seamus Muldoon
------------------------

I am picturing your toasts at important family gatherings.

283 speaking of "feghoots"...my all time favorite was an Isaac Asimov short story about a bank robber (jewel thief? whatev) named Stein. Stein stole the stuff, stashed it, then time-traveled forward until the statute of limitations had expired. He then retrieved the loot, then subsequently was captured. Big trial: the prosecution arguing that Stein hadn't actually lived the intervening years, but had "leaped" forward in time; the defense arguing the calendar, "that was then, this is now", the calendar shows the statute of limitations has expired. The "feghoot" moment came in the judge's ruling: "A Niche in Time saves Stein" Bing the phrase, it's quite popular sorry for going all "weirddave" btw, weirddave: I enjoyed your talking snake story.

284 One guy I used to work with was deathly afraid of snakes. Watched him jump and run walking across a Field cause he saw a garter snake. Anyways he sitting on the can in his basement and a garter snake came out from between the suspended ceiling tiles. That crap can only happen to people that have the fear. Ive never seen anything like that.

285 Stay safe Peaches.

286 And as we all know, a nup is a nup. 'Nup said

287 have you considered my advice? Posted by: CAC at July 15, 2013 11:06 PM (b5bZo) I think I may have missed your advice. Can you restate?

288 >>> When my uncle was near death, in and out of consciousness, he told my cousins he saw my father (his brother) who had died several years before. If you are in such a place, avoid the dead relatives. Go to the Light.

289 Peaches, sounds like some need to get a whiff of grapeshot.

290 What part of LA they tearing up, Peaches? I have good friends in Lynwood. Should I call?

291 There's somethin' happenin' here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Tellin' me, I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down

292 You all need to stop encouraging him. He's told at least one other awful one to me since posting that.

293 That Kill Zimmerman facebook page is really sick.

294 Go to the Light.

Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2013 11:15 PM (z9HTb)

Tastes great (or is that, less filling?).

295 When I went to bed last night it was 80.  In my room.  We hit 125 outside yesterday.

296 288 Peaches, sounds like some need to get a whiff of grapeshot. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 15, 2013 11:15 PM (QbyMe) I wish common sense and self-control was contagious.

297 Stay safe Peaches.

Posted by: Infidel at July 15, 2013 11:14 PM (SkhKv)

ah, it's nowhere near me, i'm just watching it on the teevee.  not even gonna put some .38s in fluffy.  the lapd is all fired up, i saw a bunch of squad cars downtown today, made me happy.

298

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 15, 2013 11:15 PM (GEICT)

 

Bah, this just calls for socking the coblog, but alas, the rules.

299 btw, weirddave: I enjoyed your talking snake story. Posted by: AltonJackson at July 15, 2013 11:14 PM hit enter too soon I meant to add: Don't do that again. K? THX try this http://www.blogger.com. It don't cost nuthin'... still, it was a compelling read

300 Sorry Richie Furay, right now there's a man with a pun over here.

301 The Chicago Democratic Machine will last longer than roaches post nuclear attack. And me, mate. Posted by: Keith Richards at July 15, 2013 10:49 PM (uLzrM) Posers

302 What part of LA they tearing up, Peaches? I have good friends in Lynwood. Should I call?

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 15, 2013 11:15 PM (Pb0zF)

Crenshaw and Slauson at the moment, headed north.  We do have a couple of 'ette friends who may be kinda in that area, but they're pretty smart cookies.

303 271 Wait, WeirdDave got snipped?!? At least put the damned thing in the sidebar and toss a link.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 15, 2013 11:11 PM (T1005)

Well see there's this new fangled thingy called a "hyperlink" that you can use to point other people to things. Apparently it's popular with all the kids these days.

304 Good Peaches.  I lived in HB and Lakewood for a number of years.  May be too far south for the heathens.

305 So we get to find out what truly lousy parents they were in every way possible. That's fabulous - because I'm guessing no one was watching the store in any sense. Posted by: Jade Sea at July 15, 2013 10:57 PM (F9sxd) Plus, his criminal and school discipline records become admissible, IIRC.

306 301  Hahaha that's right where I work but I'm off for the summer

307 301 Peaches,

ma'am use good judgement.

Be safe if things spread...

stupidity is its own reward and the race hustlers in Indy better step it up the locals looked absolutely apathetic when I went to the Pyramids to talk to my lawyer...

308 277 they all out there throwin' down on the LAPD now. this will not end well. plus, 99% of 'em have no fuckin' idea what the issue is, they just wanna have some fun, trash some cars, loot some stores. Posted by: Peaches at July 15, 2013 11:13 PM (8lmkt) LETZ GIT LOOTIN'!

309 What makes a bloody mary bloody good? Put me some f'n knowledge, moron herd, or else! Posted by: Jade Sea ---------------------------------- V8 juice Good vodka tobasco Worshershire suase Pickled Dill Grean Bean and pepper celery salt salt and whatever make you have Horseraddish sounds fun so does Dill pickle juice and plastic party cups, cus cleaning out glasses after a BM festival sux

310 People who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones.

311 Am I the only one getting weary of facing a fresh outrage every day?

312 I stocked up on 100 watt bulbs ages ago... Oh, and ammo too.

313 Y'all know that Nate story wasn't original, right?  Not as impressive when you know it was cut-and-paste from google.

314 304  TM's father (who raised him) was/is a Crip.  See the Other Mc Cain and the Conservative Treehouse

315 The Robots can help us win immigration! http://tinyurl.com/pj6bte8 Posted by: Iblis at July 15, 2013 10:51 PM (Yd7xL) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ

316 I'm so glad I don't live in CA.

317 And I'm fiddling with the Thermostat while the wife is away and it's not pleasant while I try to find the most cost effective temps. Posted by: tsrblke (tablet) at July 15, 2013 11:13 PM (GaqMa) I am very hot natured. I'm seldom every mean or bitchy, but Thor learned within three months of marrying me that a slightly high electric bill was a small price to pay for domestic peace. I like it at 65.

318 Peaches- Now would be a good time to practice loading that gun.  Plus I just like handling guns and boolets at my desk. Makes one more comfortable with the little beasts.

319 there are folks out in Leimert Park who are just peacefully protesting.  this shit down on Crenshaw and Slauson is a bunch of hood rats lookin' for new 'lectronics and whatnot.  Cops are all over it.

320 I believe a moron or ette reported that FB page and got a response stating some such shit that it doesn't violate their TOS. Reported it as well, but nothing received. By the by, any of the horde in Oakland? If not, burn that shit hole to the ground. And if you are there still..why?

321 Not to be contrarian, but I thought Weirddave's story was actually fun to read. 

322 http://tinyurl.com/olq6hyh

Breaking TX Judge Shot Dead in Chambers...

wow....

Corpus Christi and a case of "what the hell?"

323 On the subject of 200 and 300 watt light bulbs, they are nice and bright but if your house is wired with 14 gauge wire, and it probably is, they will draw so much amperage that the wires will heat up and bake the plastic insulation until it is brittle and cracks like old pasta.

324 Just a little too much work.  Though the 64 sunroof would be tempting.
http://jackson.craigslist.org/pts/3809858580.html

325 Not as impressive when you know it was cut-and-paste from google. On this blog, pasting without fucking up the page is impressive!

326 People who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones.>>

I think you meant to say: People who live in grass houses shouldn't get stoned

327 I've always thought that "the doctor says you're gonna die" joke is one of the funniest ever. But to a gay male, or a female, it probably ain't very funny.
 
I'm just conjecturin' here.
 
btw weirddave, that was a damn fine story. Did you write it?

328 I wonder if it is self-inflicted or a perp got his gun...

sad...

329 322  300 watts divided by 120 volts = less than three amps.  14 guage is rated for 15A

330

 TM's father (who raised him) was/is a Crip. See the Other Mc Cain and the Conservative Treehouse

 

 

If true, not suprised.  If they want gangs colors against whitey, bring it on!

331 Well see there's this new fangled thingy called a "hyperlink" that you can use to point other people to things. Apparently it's popular with all the kids these days. Posted by: Mætenloch at July 15, 2013 11:19 PM I still have it in an open tab. I'll dump it into Notepad for posterity. Seriously, weirddave, if that's your original content, you should have a blog.

332 I am very hot natured. I'm seldom every mean or bitchy, but Thor learned within three months of marrying me that a slightly high electric bill was a small price to pay for domestic peace. I like it at 65. Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 15, 2013 11:21 PM (Pb0zF) Wow. That's practically freezing. I keep my place in the mid-80's...

333 All I can smell is molasses!

334 We hit 125 outside yesterday. Posted by: Bomber at July 15, 2013 11:17 PM (+Wfbd) hey Bomber 125 hadjiis? or degrees F? So are you eating Bacon everyday durring Ramidan this year? I got home today and it smelled like bacon, I asked Mrs. Jake what is the bacon all about? She goes, its a ham so had yummy bacon ham for my Ramidan dinner tonight

335 I lived in HB and Lakewood for a number of years. May be too far south for the heathens. Posted by: Infidel at July 15, 2013 11:19 PM (SkhKv) Me, too. Have we had this discussion?? I am amazed at how that seems to be a trend. Did you end up back in Lakewood?

336

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 15, 2013 11:21 PM (Pb0zF)

 

Do you also like it warm in the winner? Because for my wife I have to pay in both seasons.

We're still learning about the house. One of the things we learned, is even if we like it cool, dropping the house more than 2 degrees at a time leads to a cold downstairs.

337 Silly rabbi. Kicks are for Trids.

338 Wow. That's practically freezing. I keep my place in the mid-80's... Posted by: The Dry-Heat Hat at July 15, 2013 11:24 PM (Vk2pI) Dear Lord. I wouldn't even wave as I hauled ass past your place.

339 200 I know someone who had a snake attack him in the toilet. No other anecdote I've ever heard quite matches it for the combination of silliness and fear-inducing paranoia. "I had a sudden realization that something was moving in the bowl, and got off the toilet just in time to avoid getting a snakebite to the balls! Then I clubbed it to death with the plunger and, well, people had started asking what all the noise was about, but they went really quiet when they saw the bathroom...."

I check the can for snakes now.

Posted by: Locarno at July 15, 2013 10:54 PM (zVHPa)

I think if the snake had bitten you in the schlong or ballsack it's officially called a "Snake Blumpkin."

340 302 271 Wait, WeirdDave got snipped?!? At least put the damned thing in the sidebar and toss a link.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 15, 2013 11:11 PM (T1005)

Well see there's this new fangled thingy called a "hyperlink" that you can use to point other people to things you want them to read. Apparently it's popular with all the kids these days.

Posted by: Mætenloch at July 15, 2013 11:19 PM (pAlYe)

That's what I was alluding to -- pop it into AoS space, put a link in the sidebar as "WeirdDave's epic Feghoot that was much, much, much too large to post on the ONT and we'll kill the sonovabitch that pulls this shit next." and stick a link @31 where the original monstrosity lived.

Are you implying that it's a C&P and not a WeirdDave production?

341 What was that book-length tale told in snippets at the bottom right of the pages of The Whole Earth Catalog? I was too high to remember any details.

342 Miss Tammy!!! It's always a steady 72 here at Casa Del Whitebread.

343 215

Depends. If you fall asleep really fast you get the weird ones you have to fight to wake up from...did one last night that I did not enjoy at all. If you fall asleep too quickly, you get to REM before the body is ready, and it is not fun...I'm sure others here have done it - they're the dreams that seem real and scare you, but you can't wake up, and that's because you can't. Until the brain reaches enough of a "high alert" status, the body remains paralyzed.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at July 15, 2013 10:57 PM (un8zR)

I hate that. And as you're drifting into the "dream," it usually has the feeling that it's going to be a very unpleasant one. Then when you're fighting your way out of it to wake up. it feels like you're stuck under water drowning and trying to get your head above water. At least that's my description of the experience.

344 Wow. That's practically freezing. I keep my place in the mid-80's... Posted by: The Dry-Heat Hat at July 15, 2013 11:24 PM (Vk2pI) --------- Do you sleep on a heat rock like an iguana? That ain't fit for human habitation.

345 So, what did we learn class? Stay in the truck. The truck has far more foot-pounds than any pistol. (Stolen from VFTP)

346 All right you reprobates. I'm outta here. Endeavor to persevere.

347 Oh man. We have one of those standoffs with the cops going on here in Roanoke right now. Rumor is that it is a former State Trooper taking someone hostage, and he is rumored to be armed to the gills. 10th hour of the standoff, and all we can get is the twitter feed of a local newspaper reporter.

348 I keep my place in the mid-80's... Posted by: The Dry-Heat Hat at July 15, 2013 11:24 PM (Vk2pI) I have heard rumors of such things, but I never believed it.

349 I had that story saved in an old email from when I was wooing Gingy, can't hyperlink that. And although I've told a much shorter version around campfires for decades, that one I grabbed online somewhere sometime in the 90s. It is a damn fine feghoot though.

350 Well, God bless the legit protesters. I hope assholes stay clear of them.

351 Nutin but red headlines on drudge.... one of those days I guess.

352 We be goin ta CHIMP OUT tonite!!

353 >>>> So are you eating Bacon everyday durring Ramidan this year?

So far so good.

I learned this week that the Ramazan (Afghan spelling) fast is not just no food and water, but also no sex.  At least during daylight hours.  So,  I suggest that all morons and moronettes participate in as much daytime sex as possible for the next month.  So for me that means daily fapping.  Also known as just another day on deployment.

354 I think if the snake had bitten you in the schlong or ballsack it's officially called a "Snake Blumpkin." Posted by: Slappy at July 15, 2013 11:26 PM I thought it was a "Pliss Snake-in"?

355 Do you sleep on a heat rock like an iguana? That ain't fit for human habitation. Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 15, 2013 11:28 PM (JDIKC) Never understood people that bitch it's too cold in the house/office/whatever. Then go put more clothes on. There are practical, and legal, limits to how much I can take off.

356 334 I lived in HB and Lakewood for a number of years. May be too far south for the heathens.
Posted by: Infidel at July 15, 2013 11:19 PM (SkhKv)


Me, too. Have we had this discussion?? I am amazed at how that seems to be a trend. Did you end up back in Lakewood?

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 15, 2013 11:25 PM (Pb0zF)

I've lived in Lakewood before, in 10th grade....and I vaguely recall one time prior....perhaps Kindergarten?

357 Hey, all! You guys saved me this weekend. Went camping, and for some reason had enough 3G to read a tiny bit about the verdict, then all Internet not available, but I had already loaded the thread on my iPad, and spent the next 48 hours (well, when I needed to read) enjoying the moron commentary. What a day to be cut off from everything! I would have been nuts without that thread!

358 Do you sleep on a heat rock like an iguana? That ain't fit for human habitation. Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 15, 2013 11:28 PM (JDIKC) I'm on yer heat rock, stealing yer NRG!

359 313 304 TM's father (who raised him) was/is a Crip. See the Other Mc Cain and the Conservative Treehouse Posted by: DAve at July 15, 2013 11:21 PM (albkL) We need one of those "The more you know" little rainbow star comets for the blog. Did not know, thanks.

360 Jeantel: "The jury, they old. They old school people." Old people don't know nuthin', of course. Except how to read and write English. And do math.

361

Me, too. Have we had this discussion?? I am amazed at how that seems to be a trend. Did you end up back in Lakewood?

 

 

Born in Santa Ana before it was wet back.  Folks bought a house in HB when I was about six months old when it was still cabbage fields.  They moved us to GJ in 75 and in my rebellious days, moved back and forth a number of times and ended up in WA for a couple yrs.  Back in GJ now.  Bank still owns my house here after 14yrs. 

362 I'd cut a bitch if our house was in the mid-80s. Multiple times. And then I'd bust a cracka ass, and hang his head on a pole in they yard as a warning to anyone else who fucked with my ac.

363 I am very hot natured. I'm seldom every mean or bitchy, but Thor learned within three months of marrying me that a slightly high electric bill was a small price to pay for domestic peace. I like it at 65. Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 15, 2013 11:21 PM (Pb0zF) How you doing?

364 It was "Devine Right's Trip," yeah, that was it.

365 Wow. That's practically freezing. I keep my place in the mid-80's.. *** I can't imagine that. I keep it at about 72 and that's just about low enough to fight all the humidity.

366 >>> Do you sleep on a heat rock like an iguana? That ain't fit for human habitation. I remember your description of the Deep South as "Satan's Sweaty Ball Sack" He's been tea-bagging southern New England for the past three weeks. 81F in Boston, dew point of 74.

367

Posted by: The Dry-Heat Hat at July 15, 2013 11:24 PM (Vk2pI)

Yeah, around here, I'd have to run a dehumidifier to keep that a dry heat.

Not running the ac makes it damp as the humidity gets in.

368 Now I've been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating, why can't we live in bliss

369 331

I keep my place in the mid-80's...

Posted by: The Dry-Heat Hat at July 15, 2013 11:24 PM (Vk2pI)

The mid-80's? Do you walk around your house wearing only a loincloth and throwing spears at your household pets?

370 Then when you're fighting your way out of it to wake up. it feels like you're stuck under water drowning and trying to get your head above water. At least that's my description of the experience. Posted by: Slappy
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I have had to get out of bed, throw on a robe, and walk outside into the night air where I could see the stars and open sky.

371 Old people don't know nuthin', of course. Except how to read and write English. And do math. Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 15, 2013 11:32 PM ...and read cursive... just sayin'

372 81F in Boston, dew point of 74. Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2013 11:33 PM (z9HTb) Man, that's a light, comfortable day down here.

373 I keep my place in the mid-80's...
Some like it hot.

374 It's 8 am here, and 97 degrees already.

375 65 degrees, and God bless legitimate protesters. Shit.

376

Whatever Bloody Mary recipe one uses, the final touch must be a lime moistened glass, coated with celery salt on the rim.

On another subject, not getting any news about LA even in other parts of CA. Anyone with updates?  Is LAPD assertive or falling back like last time?

377 Bernie Goldberg tonight pointed out that it might be decades before the damage from the Martin thing is healed (if ever), and it was intentionally  put in play by Obama.

378 It's 8 am here, and 97 degrees already. *** Japan? I can't remember.

379 I've lived in Lakewood before, in 10th grade....and I vaguely recall one time prior....perhaps Kindergarten? Posted by: cthulhu at July 15, 2013 11:31 PM (T1005 I remember you saying that! YOu knew all about the area of Long Beachwe were looking at,too. I think qrdsteve is a LKWDian as well. Infidel, I"m drawing a blank on GJ?

380 That was swift for the government.  The low level NTSB intern who confirmed those phony names for the Asiana flight crew has been fired.  Now if we could only fire Eric Holder and all of the DoJ that quickly.

381 >>> Japan? I can't remember.

Jalalabad

382 shit's turning ugly, they're attacking cars and drivers (probably their neighbors), kicking out windows in the stores they shop in.  church of st. trayvon, in session now.  fucking assholes.

383 In the winter the thermostat is at 68 In the summer the single window AC is set as low as it goes. Since it's in the living room that on real hot days is where I sleep.

384 375 Bernie Goldberg tonight pointed out that it might be decades before the damage from the Martin thing is healed (if ever), and it was intentionally put in play by Obama. I was told that if I voted for Mitt Romney, race relations would be set back at least 50 years. They were right!

385 ....359......grew up in HB in the 70's.. yep a lot of farm land back then. Won't find an acre of undeveloped land there today .....

386

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 15, 2013 11:35 PM (GEICT) 

 

My uncle throws a Mexican themed booze party each year. This year it's Saturday. It's supposed to be in the upper 90s with a heat index in the high hundreds.

387 I keep my place in the mid-80's... Posted by: The Dry-Heat Hat at July 15, 2013 11:24 PM (Vk2pI) Yeah Verily! ... cause other wise I am looking at a $600 / (summer) month electric bill ...

388 Hey Bomber it did start with a J 

389 >>> Man, that's a light, comfortable day down here. That is current conditions.

390 ...and read cursive... just sayin' Posted by: AltonJackson at July 15, 2013 11:34 PM (JMmQ9) Tha's retarded, sirrrr.

391 Die Hard turns 25 today.

392 I learned this week that the Ramazan (Afghan spelling) fast is not just no food and water, but also no sex. ..... Posted by: Bomber at July 15, 2013 11:30 PM (+Wfbd) what the fukk is a hadji going to do in his native homeland durring Raminzan daylight/ no job no food no drink no sex with wimmins[goats and chickens don count] then they go to Sweden where it don't get dark at night an riot

393 Here it is 68.8,  humidity high, but NO rain today.

394 I was going to post something, but Wierddave used up all of the words on the entire internet.

395 Jalalabad **** Ohhhhhh!

396 OK, Horde, I'm going to need some prayers, my dad got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer today.  I'll be over here in the corner drinking heavily.

397 The mid-80's? Do you walk around your house wearing only a loincloth and throwing spears at your household pets? Posted by: Slappy at July 15, 2013 11:34 PM (LTbLf) Loincloths are a form of pants, and thus against the AoSHQ styleguide. If it ever gets too cold (i.e. Low 70's I might throw on a kilt and go regimental...

398 O caritas, o caritas
Nobis semper sit amor
Mos perituri mortem salutamus
Sola resurgit vita

399 Country Singer, praying now.

400 Evening everyone.  I think going to the gym and having a salad for dinner nullifies the fried cheese sticks I had with lunch.  What say you all?

401 When my uncle was near death, in and out of consciousness, he told my cousins he saw my father (his brother) who had died several years before. Posted by: Mayday at July 15, 2013 11:08 PM (eHc+1) Thanks for the kind words. No, I didn't see anyone else and didn't even think about it at the time. I was too focused on what (I believe) God was telling me to wonder about other things. Though I stopped breathing for about minute before they got me going, my heart never stopped and I never died. I figure that's why I didn't experience what others have. After I came to my senses, I decided it was a New Life Experience, not a near death experience. I've long been an Evangelical semi-Charismatic Christian but it deepened my outlook on everything and what really matters in eternity: our relationship with God and our relationship with others, in that order. All else is chaff that blows away. One of my grandfathers saw relatives and had a more classical near death experience with his first heart attack in the early 1940s. That was long before such things were widely known or discussed outside of hushed tones. I believe your uncle did see your father.

402 It's supposed to be in the upper 90s with a heat index in the high hundreds.
That's carrying authenticity to a ludicrous degree.

403 Peaches, I think we got the memo from the Office of PC Nomenclature earlier today. Those folks in LA torching their neighborhoods are to be referred to as "mostly peaceful protesters".

As to the actual "mostly peaceful protesting", are they staying in their neighborhoods, or have the parishioners of St. Traytable worked their way to the hispanic neighborhoods for revenge yet?

404 I keep my house in the mid-80's too- I listen to Howard Jones and brush my mullet

405 Speaking of California.  From 1978 comes Zoltan, Dracula's Dog!.  Here is the trailer.  Seems better than Cujo.

http://youtu.be/KHYQDmhIx2I

406 398 Evening everyone. I think going to the gym and having a salad for dinner nullifies the fried cheese sticks I had with lunch. What say you all? Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 15, 2013 11:40 PM (lr3d7) Sounds like good science to me!

407 OK, Horde, I'm going to need some prayers, my dad got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer today.

Prayers up, Country Singer.  I'm so sorry . . . God bless.

408 Greg Abbott ‏@GregAbbott_TX 14 Jul I just announced I am running for Governor. I will work for your vote and fight for your liberty. #txlege #txgop #tcot #NRA

409 Country Singer>> Prayers.

410 Re Greg Abbot... who didn't see that coming?

411 Country Singer -

Oh no. Sending prayers up for your dad now.

412 Jesus, country, I"m sorry.

413 Jalalabad
Posted by: Bomber
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Oh. Well, crap. I should have asked a long time ago. Which service?

414 It hasn't gotten above 75 degrees for the past two days in Dallas, and it's been raining off and on. Yeah, Dallas, Texas. I've never seen such cool temperatures in July. That kind of weather usually ends in May and we're lucky if it gets below 80 degrees at night until the end of September.

415 Now going to determine why AtC is a skeeredred of spiders and won't anseres my reqested for a date.

416 Prayers for you and you family, Country Singer ...

417 I'm sorry Country Singer. Prayers for your dad and your family.

418 Bicycle boy is still a crackerjack reporter after all these years.  Through all the riots. the closed freeways, death threats and mayhem over the past couple of days, he found a story of some high, White chick jumping on stage, pushing Lester Chambers (of the Chambers Brothers), and hollering "It's your fault!"

http://tinyurl.com/ljglhnr (KTVU news)


She had a crazed look in her eye," said Kurt Kangas, a friend of Chambers who ran to his aid. "I saw the devil there."

http://tinyurl.com/kk9qz4f (Contra Costa Times)

419 Tammy, Grand Junction, CO.  I remember when I was a kid, I used to spend time with my great aunt, twin sister to my grandma.  She lived in Loonnggaa Bitch.  She taught me to sew on her tredle sewing machine and how to make bread.  We used to walk over the bridge in our jammies and robes to the church and always felt safe.  Of course, that was a long time ago.  I miss those days.

420 Jalalabad is fun.  All the drones that go to Pakistan are based here.

Earlier this week, we sortof recreated a scene from Top Gun.  Only instead of a motorcycle, it was a beat up John Deere Gator.  And instead of F-14s, we were racing a Predator on it's takeoff roll.  Looked cool for a minute or two, then I really started missing the 80s.

421 I think going to the gym and having a salad for dinner nullifies the fried cheese sticks I had with lunch. What say you all? Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 15, 2013 11:40 PM (lr3d7) I say there's better ways to work that off!

422 368

I have had to get out of bed, throw on a robe, and walk outside into the night air where I could see the stars and open sky.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 15, 2013 11:34 PM (aDwsi)

Yep, the whole experience messes you up. I usually get up and walk around the house, maybe pop on the TV for a few minutes, go on the computer, go out on my porch, etc. I NEVER try to go back to sleep immediately.

For probably 10 years or so during my childhood, I kept having the same nightmare every few months and it would start with that same feeling in which I had to fight my way out of the dream. Believe me, as soon as I started dozing off and I could tell that dream was starting again, I would fight my way out of it and wake-up panting and shaken up. Thankfully it's been a long time since I've had to deal with that.

423 The old gypsy lady told me that before tonight is over some commenter will be banned. My bet is on e8kgV. I suggest everyone stay together and keep an eye out for the TB3K.

424 Tammy...  is that a come hither post for the She Devil with a Sword? 

425 Hey yo, Rons! Everyone pause for a sec. One of our own needs us. Country Singer, may God continue to be with you in this valley. May He lend you his strength and His peace. May He heal, as only He can do.

426 OK, Horde, I'm going to need some prayers, my dad got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer today.
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Prayers..., for you and your dad.

427 Country Singer, hang in there.  Lots of people praying for you and yours.

428 I say there's better ways to work that off! Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 15, 2013 11:44 PM (Pb0zF) Go on...

429 348 I had that story saved in an old email from when I was wooing Gingy, can't hyperlink that. And although I've told a much shorter version around campfires for decades, that one I grabbed online somewhere sometime in the 90s. It is a damn fine feghoot though.

Posted by: Weirddave at July 15, 2013 11:29 PM (aH+zP)

Oh, shit -- that much verbiage, and it was cut'n'paste?!?!? Barrel. Don't come out until the next comet.

430 Ugh. Off, stupid Goresock.

431 394 OK, Horde, I'm going to need some prayers, my dad got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer today. I'll be over here in the corner drinking heavily.

Posted by: Country Singer at July 15, 2013 11:39 PM (U22Yw)

I'm so sorry to hear that. My prayers go out to you, your father, and the rest of your family.

432 Dont turn on MSNBC. You will be blinded.

433 Grand Junction is fun. We went and looked at the dinosaur stuff there. I love CO. Have the grieving masses got into to any major shopping areas yet, Peaches, or are they content to merely destroy their neighbors property?

434 429 394 OK, Horde, I'm going to need some prayers, my dad got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer today. I'll be over here in the corner drinking heavily. Posted by: Country Singer at July 15, 2013 11:39 PM (U22Yw) Fuck. Prayers sent.

435 The internet story I like the most is the hotel in London and the stack of little soaps ...

436 Dont turn on MSNBC. You will be blinded. ** My dear congresswoman!

437 And instead of F-14s, we were racing a Predator on it's takeoff roll. Looked cool for a minute or two, then I really started missing the 80s.
Posted by: Bomber
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I had a friend who was a Tomcat jock..., and rode trick CB750 too. He used say the difference between himself and Tom Cruise was that he actually did ride a motorcycle and fly an F-14

438

I say there's better ways to work that off!

 

Uh-oh, someone's frisky tonight.

439 Mike and your friend is taller than Tom Cruise.

440 377 I've lived in Lakewood before, in 10th grade....and I vaguely recall one time prior....perhaps Kindergarten?
Posted by: cthulhu at July 15, 2013 11:31 PM (T1005

I remember you saying that! YOu knew all about the area of Long Beachwe were looking at,too.

I think qrdsteve is a LKWDian as well.


Infidel, I"m drawing a blank on GJ?

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 15, 2013 11:37 PM (Pb0zF)

I'd guess Grand Junction, CO. (Paternal grandfather lived in Delta).

441 411 US Navy.  Still wondering how the hell I ended up here.  Twice.  With another one lined up for 2015 if we're still here.

442 395

Loincloths are a form of pants, and thus against the AoSHQ styleguide.

If it ever gets too cold (i.e. Low 70's I might throw on a kilt and go regimental...

Posted by: The Political Kilt at July 15, 2013 11:39 PM (Vk2pI)

A kilt, huh? Are you acting out battle scenes from "Braveheart" in your living room, like I do every couple of months? My neighbors usually get pissed off at me when I yell, "FREEDOM!" at the top of my lungs at 2 a.m. or so.

443 I remember your description of the Deep South as "Satan's Sweaty Ball Sack" He's been tea-bagging southern New England for the past three weeks. 81F in Boston, dew point of 74. Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2013 11:33 PM (z9HTb) We have had 14 inches of rain since the beginning of July, and the temps are in the mid to upper 90's this week, I can't even begin to describe what the humidity feels like here but I can't wait until hockey season. Prayers being delivered Country.

444 394 Oh crap. I'm so sorry and prayers coming your way right now.

445 Prayers added.

446 Mike and your friend is taller than Tom Cruise.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Goes without saying..., but then Robert Reich is probably taller than Cruise.

447

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 15, 2013 11:45 PM (GEICT)

 

This.

Also, the horde is here to do what we do best, add humor wherever we can. Also people vent here all the time, it'd like the worlds worst group therapy.

448 So, the VW dealer wants $1,300 for a timing belt replacement on my diesel...

I can get a complete kit of the needed parts/belts to do everything, including water pump for <$350 (half that for one minus water pump).  All the trick special VW tools to make it go smoothly in a few hours are about $130.  Factory repair manual DVD VW dealers use -- $130 from Bentley.

Doing it myself is like paying myself $150/hr...and I get to keep the tools and manual.

An independent repair shop gave me a $850 price.

Given that this is an every 60k ritual on this car, and I plan on keeping it for a while since it gets 50mpg, this seems like a no-brainer.  I'm going to spend an afternoon doing a timing belt.

449 Irene F. Irene ‏@irenefingirene 2m LAPD spokesretard: "Don't want to turn this into confrontation btwn protesters & police" so we'll leave the civilians to fend for themselves

450 A kilt, huh? Are you acting out battle scenes from "Braveheart" in your living room, like I do every couple of months? My neighbors usually get pissed off at me when I yell, "FREEDOM!" at the top of my lungs at 2 a.m. or so. Posted by: Slappy at July 15, 2013 11:50 PM (LTbLf) Not if I'm wearing my authentic-design Roman toga...

451 413 Now going to determine why AtC isa skeeredred of spiders and won't anseres my reqested for a date. Posted by: Sherman in teh Way Back Machine at July 15, 2013 11:43 PM (qLYdI) It's a game dude. (She really loves spiders) Here, go give her this box of assorted arachnids. Ravage gotta eat. Might as well be delivery.

452 Well it's official - triple digit temperature at 0823.

I'm off to find some Ramazan bacon.  Will be back in a few.

453 http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/live-video/

454 NDH -

Wow. The LAPD is really gonna let the fire rage without containment? That's retarded, sir.

455

Posted by: Country Singer at July 15, 2013 11:39 PM (U22Yw)

So sorry, prayers for you and your family!

456 394 OK, Horde, I'm going to need some prayers, my dad got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer today. I'll be over here in the corner drinking heavily.

Posted by: Country Singer at July 15, 2013 11:39 PM (U22Yw)

Awww, shit. ***pause*** OK, mine's in.

Steve Jobs' cute little trick was to have lawyers get him on multiple states' transplant lists. I don't know your situation, but it might be a play.

457 My dear congresswoman! Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 15, 2013 11:49 PM (jjvz+) So you were witness to the beautiful neon lime green shawl? WTF?

458 Well see there's this new fangled thingy called a "hyperlink".... @Mætenloch Just peeked back a few minutes ago at the page that had been up and found The Wall of Text. Took the record for the longest non-troll non-spam comment, right? I have thanked Pantzaretorn (whatever) for the long ones, which make my occasional accidental verbiage-overflows comparably concise. But this thing made Panz's longest comment look like a tweet. I knew what I'd see when I reloaded, so I saved the page before reloading. Might even read that thing some day. Except I glimpsed the end. Sigh. As for the snippage, if y'gotta snip, that was a courteous enough way to do it, I'd say. Firm but friendly. Ah, love y'all. Bet this is just what Ace expected when he started this place!

459 OK, Horde, I'm going to need some prayers, my dad got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer today. I'll be over here in the corner drinking heavily. Posted by: Country Singer at July 15, 2013 11:39 PM (U22Yw) Best wishes to your Dad, you, and all involved.

460 Peaches, you still here? You want my address & phone number to bug out to my house?

461 Looting time!!!

462 444 Mike and your friend is taller than Tom Cruise. Posted by: Anna Puma my dad knew the commander of Mirimar when they filmed. Aparently you could only see the top of Tom Cruise's helmet in an F14 if he was not sitting on a pillow

463

Rachel Jeantel has a new job.  She's a translator at the UN.  Her first day on the job went like this:

Senegalese Ambassador to the UN: 'What did the Kazakh Ambassador say?'

Rach: 'ThatÂ’s retarded, Sir.  I don't hear 'cursive,' Mr AssHO!'

464 394 OK, Horde, I'm going to need some prayers, my dad got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer today. I'll be over here in the corner drinking heavily.

Posted by: Country Singer at July 15, 2013 11:39 PM (U22Yw)

Prayers for your father and your family.

465 448

Not if I'm wearing my authentic-design Roman toga...

Posted by: The Political Toga at July 15, 2013 11:52 PM (Vk2pI)

Ahhh, so you must be doing scenes from "Animal House" or "Caligula." How's that for a range of different activities?

466 Purp - sounds like you could be opening your own VW shop.

There is a total tool who is suckering in customers on his father's reputation - http://tinyurl.com/ke3w29x

467

Posted by: Purp at July 15, 2013 11:52 PM (lm0Rv)

 

Last time my Aveo needed a timing belt, I skipped on the water pump, figuring, eh aveo.

468 Given that this is an every 60k ritual on this car, and I plan on keeping it for a while since it gets 50mpg, this seems like a no-brainer. I'm going to spend an afternoon doing a timing belt.>>

I would make the same decision. But I also know I would be doing a lot of swearing as I busted my knuckles in the tight spaces. Timing chains were a breeze on a 70 GTO now they suck.

469 Given that this is an every 60k ritual on this car, and I plan on keeping it for a while since it gets 50mpg, this seems like a no-brainer. I'm going to spend an afternoon doing a timing belt.

Posted by: Purp
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I'm still pissed about the whole timing belt deal. Quieter? Yes. Less expensive? Yes. On the other hand, I have had two Datsuns/Nissans go 200K+ with requiring a new timing chain.

470 Its investigators also are probing two allegations that the Internal Revenue Service “targeted for audit candidates for public office,” the Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration, J. Russell George, has privately told Sen. Chuck Grassley. In a written response to a request by Mr. Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, Mr. George said a review turned up four cases since 2006 in which unidentified government officials took part in “unauthorized access or disclosure of tax records of political donors or candidates,” including one case he described as “willful.” In four additional cases, Mr. George said, allegations of improper access of IRS records were not substantiated by the evidence. ... and of course nobody was prosecuted

471 Posted by: Country Singer at July 15, 2013 11:39 PM (U22Yw) take care

472

so we'll leave the civilians to fend for themselves

 

 

WTF?  I guess we now know who they are protecting and serving.

473 448 Damn, that was a good movie. Why did Mel have to go and ruin his career with that big mouth of his?

474 So you were witness to the beautiful neon lime green shawl? WTF? *** At least she wasn't wearing one her hats.

475 476 EDIT : "...two Datsuns/Nissans go 200K+ without requiring a new timing chain"

476 Sorry, i WILL drive through an LA intersection. Fuck em.

477 MSNBC showing the LAPD prtests

478 I had a friend who was a Tomcat jock..., and rode trick CB750 too. He used say the difference between himself and Tom Cruise was that he actually did ride a motorcycle and fly an F-14 Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 15, 2013 11:49 PM (aDwsi) Your friend doesn't pack fudge either I bet.

479 Crap...., 467 Edit.

480 LA streets are getting heated, savages running wild

live stream

http://therightscoop.com/cbs-news-live-feed/

481 Time for bed...

482 Country Singer, I am so sorry. Been through that with my dad. Please research ALL available treatments before doing anything.

483 Mæt, sorry, no match for e8kgV Quoting Led Zep lyrics has to buy some bonus points, yes???....

484 US Navy. Still wondering how the hell I ended up here. Twice. With another one lined up for 2015 if we're still here. Posted by: Bomber at July 15, 2013 11:50 PM (+Wfbd no shit 2015 is 1.5 years away.....

485 459.... from WZ looks like Crenshaw... not sure if i can make a surprise face

486 Your friend doesn't pack fudge either I bet. Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper
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Guy was f**cking chick magnet.

487

394:  I'll send prayers for your father and family tonight. 

 

Best to you and your dad.

 

488 Does that Walmart have a skyway over to a Macy's or am I seeing that wrong? Fancy...

489 we'll leave the civilians to fend for themselves And the fucking leftists can't imagine why anyone would need a gun.

490 You better be packin' fudge if some crazy ass-cracker is stalking you.

491 Goes without saying..., but then Robert Reich is probably taller than Cruise. Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 15, 2013 11:51 PM (aDwsi) And Reich hasn't sucked a mile of cock.

492 Country Singer: all the bestest of my happy-thoughts

493 I'd like to see the withheld evidence phone pic of Trayvon's pile of stolen loot on the bed on some MFM page with the headline:

The Tragic Residue of a Profiled Youth's Innocence.

494 I'm watching the link NDH posted.  Do we really have to keep calling the people looting Wal-Mart demonstrators and protestors. 

495 360 I'd cut a bitch if our house was in the mid-80s. Multiple times. And then I'd bust a cracka ass, and hang his head on a pole in they yard as a warning to anyone else who fucked with my ac. Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 15, 2013 11:33 PM (Pb0zF) I like my house at 60 degrees. Its easy to get there in the NW. My mother in law loves to set their house around 80 degrees. I want to kill her every time I go over. She's a damn lib to boot. Thank god her daughter is 180 degrees different.

496 That's right. They're "mostly" peaceful demonstrators and protesters.

497 Does that Walmart have a skyway over to a Macy's or am I seeing that wrong? Fancy... *** That's what I was thinking. A fancy little Walmart they have there.

498 Heh. "Demonstration" taking place at a Walmart?

499 Holy fuck. Fucking MSNBC is pushing the Byrd killing. Fuck them. Die in an acid bath along with a fire. Seriously, fucking die you cockfuck race baiting Pieces of fucking shit.

500 >>> 481 Mæt, sorry, no match for e8kgV A regular commenter. Should now not to mess around after the warning.

501

Checking out,  night horde.  Be safe!

 

 

Peaches, load her up.

502 NDH -

And this is the "hood", correct?

503 Michael, I find comfort in hearing about experiences such as yours, and was happy my uncle saw a friendly face, and that the brothers would be reunited soon. 

BTW, I'm in Dallas too, unbelievable weather.  I'd say heavenly, but that might be a little flippant, but then again I tend to be.

504 Justice for Martin! Let's protest all the biases that we're violent...by acting out violently and looting! Michael van Poppel ‏@mpoppel 4m WATCH LIVE/KCAL-TV: Zimmerman protests turn violent in Los Angeles: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/live-video/

505 Evening, horde. Anyone care to chime in on trapezoidal pistol sights? I may have an opportunity.

506 Walmart will be empty tomorrow..., or burned.

507 358 Jeantel: "The jury, they old. They old school people."

Old people don't know nuthin', of course. Except how to read and write English. And do math. Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 15, 2013 11:32 PM

Oh, haven't you been hearing the MSM trying to present her as a "star", a gracious, dignified, and even intelligent person. You see, she speaks English, just not as most people know it. Time even dug up an "expert" to decodify her linguistics as some sort of advanced new language

It's almost like the MSM are carnival shows trying to present Mighty Joe Young to us.

508 Al Sharpton hit songs...
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ALSharptonHitSongs&src=hash

509

'Zimmerman-trial protesters marching in traffic in Los Angeles on Crenshaw Boulevard near 60th Street – @ABC7'

Maybe, a few semis will experience brake failureÂ…unexpectedly, of course.

510 Anyone care to chime in on trapezoidal pistol sights? I may have an opportunity. Posted by: Piercello at July 16, 2013 12:05 AM (E/6f0) um, who is the manufacture?

511 And this is the "hood", correct? *** Crenshaw My limited knowledge says yes.

512 That's right. They're "mostly" peaceful demonstrators and protesters.>>

Most battles in a war are mostly non shooty too. But that's because ammo is heavy and gun barrels overheat. I'm guessing the mostly peaceful protests are because rocks are heavy and they get tired.

513 487  Good thing we just lost open carry in  CA. last year

514 After Obama got reelected, I was so pissed off and scared for my country that I got physically ill. Was depressed for months. Not once did I feel the need to burn things and take any five finger discounts. This is unacceptable. And not one of these wusses on the TV will say so.

515 Not if I'm wearing my authentic-design Roman toga... Posted by: The Political Toga at July 15, 2013 11:52 PM (Vk2pI) Ahhh, so you must be doing scenes from "Animal House" or "Caligula." How's that for a range of different activities? Posted by: Slappy at July 15, 2013 11:56 PM (LTbLf) I've always favored the early and middle Republic, back before the rot started to set in. The patricians back when the Celts first sacked Rome wore their hair long and had long beards. Their gods hadn't become Greek-ified. They wore nothing but their Togas. Above all else, they didn't f**k each other over to impose Agustus-care...

516 I'm intentionally carrying these days. Can't wait for a Travon advocate to fuck up.

517 Obviously the yutes in LA are following the Rodney King model.  Protest by looting.  And this time they are going for the soft target and not the small stores owned by armed South Koreans.

518 Seriously, fucking die you cockfuck race baiting Pieces of fucking shit. Posted by: RWC at July 16, 2013 12:04 AM (8FeS+) I want you to do the on-air rebuttals on MSNBC. That's the only way I would watch that trash propaganda station.

519 421 MAet,

Please hammer don't hurt 'em heh...

nighto all

520 Crenshaw is a dump

521 Nothing says "we want justice!" more than destruction of private property and "procuring" a few items while you're at it.

522 Not having been in position to write it down at the time, I am not _sure_, but google-assisted memory says it was probably a Steyr. Not sure what make.

523 Given that this is an every 60k ritual on this car, and I plan on keeping it for a while since it gets 50mpg, this seems like a no-brainer. I'm going to spend an afternoon doing a timing belt. Posted by: Purp at July 15, 2013 11:52 PM (lm0Rv) Awesome! Keep us up to date on the process.

524 real frog-strangler of a rain gonin' on here just outside the wire of The Peoples' Republik of AnnArbor

525 Country Singer, prayers for your pop. Foe anyone who wants the feghoot I posted earlier, I posted it here: http://increasinglyuncommoncommonsense.blogspot.com/ That's a blog I haven't touched for years but you will find some of my original writings there if you want to look cthulhu, including two that I am proud of : My Memorial Day and A Moment Frozen in Time.

526 Peaches, seriously, load Fluffy up.  That thing was not designed to be a club.  Use the good stuff too, not 38s.

Sad that you got a better chance of getting shot at than I do right now.

527 NewsBreaker ‏@NewsBreaker 3m BREAKING: LAPD tells LA Weekly citywide tactical alert is back for #Trayvon protests (3rd night in a row)

528 478 FUCK THAT SHIT- they're looking for the next Reginald Denny

529 NDH -

So, in the 'hood where people riot because something happened to someone they didn't know 3,000 miles away, they get a multi-story Walmart with a skyway to a larger mall.

In my area, which is one of the fastest growing in the nation, with one of the lowest crime rates in the country, we get a 1980s style Walmart next to a Chinese buffet and a Staples that's never open. WTF are we doing wrong?

530 fuk bro, Ima gunna get an new tv, a new couch and 4 months of booze free Dom

531 Wow. The LAPD is really gonna let the fire rage without containment? That's retarded, sir. Posted by: WolfinNC at July 15, 2013 11:54 PM (HVOxM) Their leadership got P***y-whiped but good back in the '90's...

532 I donÕt want to talk about GZ but I did just watched what was left of the interview with the juror. She was good. I did NOT like that asshat Toobin on afterwards, what a jerk. IÕm glad the juror made it very clear that nothing in the case was about race. If only the LIVs would get that through their heads and someone would tell Sharpton to STFU, the troublemaker. I read that a group went after a Hispanic man in Baltimore, the woman who witnessed it was worried about her hispanic neighbors. I am watching CNN, I didnÕt know what Rachel Jeantel is like. I didnÕt watch any of the trial. Moe Lane welcomed me when I first joined that website five years ago but havenÕt gone there much since last year when they ÒupgradedÓ it to use Disqus.

533 I got tired of the little dead kid jumping me in my dreams every time I got up to get a drink at night when we live in the old duplex. He'd always hide in the gap between the fridge and the counter, where I couldn't see him. He'd mostly jump out to scare me, shove me down and run. It was real enough to freak me out when I did go get a drink. So, I said, "f this," and made it a point to get him next time. So, I did. Tackled his ass the next and was going to beat him good. But, being a ghost, he slipped away. Last I ever "saw" of him, I could see him and hear him through the back wall and door, crying and asking why I wanted to ruin his fun. Always attack ghosts.

534 There is a total tool who is suckering in customers on his father's reputation

O/o  That dude got ripped real hard...rusty crowbar BCOS kinda hard.

535 Jeantel about to consume some crackers.

536 OK, Horde, I'm going to need some prayers, my dad got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer today. I'll be over here in the corner drinking heavily. Posted by: Country Singer at July 15, 2013 11:39 PM (U22Yw) Thoughts and prayers.

537 In my area, which is one of the fastest growing in the nation, with one of the lowest crime rates in the country, we get a 1980s style Walmart next to a Chinese buffet and a Staples that's never open. WTF are we doing wrong?>>

Making purchasing decisions based on value instead of what's left on the EBT.

538 Purp I would probably be in jail on assault charges if a mechanic said 'I kept your part for my car.'

539 509 And this is the "hood", correct? Yeah, it's the hood. But if they are headed west on Stocker, they are headed for the nicer parts of town. Although if they go far enough up stocker, Lapd can trap them. But, that's also a great spot for them to start a brush fire & wipe out an upper class black neighborhood

540 "For the most part, it's been peaceful."  For some strange reason, watching a mob jump on cars, stop traffic, walk down the middle of a busy street, randomly assault people, rip up fences, and swarm a Wal-Mart doesn't give me a warm fuzzy peaceful feeling.  It pretty much disturbs my gorram calm. 

541 In my area, which is one of the fastest growing in the nation, with one of the lowest crime rates in the country, we get a 1980s style Walmart next to a Chinese buffet and a Staples that's never open. WTF are we doing wrong? *** No idea because my Walmart looks like a friggin warehouse

542 http://tinyurl.com/kt7rxvu

LA Police scanner

543 'I kept your part for my car.'

Integrity?  Wazzat?

544 Not having been in position to write it down at the time, I am not _sure_, but google-assisted memory says it was probably a Steyr. Not sure what make. Posted by: Piercello at July 16, 2013 12:10 AM (E/6f0) I tried out a Steyer with similar sights. If it is your first pistol you won't notice the grip angle, but if you have shot a Glock or a 1911 much the grip angle does not match either no idea on how reliable a Steyer pistol is, I don't know anyone who shoots one

545 There's a pretty nice black neighborhood not far from there, but I"m guessing they got security or their own weapons Saturday night when the verdict came down.

546 Jeantel about to consume some crackers. *** Now I'm craving Spicy Red Bean Triscuits

547 542 sock fail

548 All its gonna take is one driver to get spooked/ freak out and run someone over. Then all hell is gonna break loose.

549 Bebe -

Well, there's nothing that says justice like burning out some Uncle Toms in a wealthy black neighborhood. Which they obviously must be because they can read cursive.

550 'Jeantel: "The jury, they old. They old school people.'

Two sentences, no verbs.

551 I want you to do the on-air rebuttals on MSNBC. That's the only way I would watch that trash propaganda station. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 16, 2013 12:08 AM (yoh1c) I may be confused with Ben Jealous. Srsly, why do I look similar to the head of the NAACP? (And i love how this is a response to something days later. Fuckers.) And BJ said Zims brother said George shot him because of race. Can you really lie like that and get away with it?

552 LA has put on far better riots than this.

553 ...a mob jump on cars, stop traffic, walk down the middle of a busy street, randomly assault people, rip up fences, and swarm a Wal-Mart...

Sounds like a pretty good time to start dropping the ringleaders with sniper fire.

554 Now I'm craving Spicy Red Bean Triscuits

The Rosemary and Olive Oil Triscuits are mighty tasty. 

555 Just watched KCAL interview with Angela Corey. Still saying Zimmerman should have to pay.

556 496 Heh. "Demonstration" taking place at a Walmart? Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 16, 2013 12:03 AM (aDwsi) They have a pretty good electronics section. As I have said, any "demonstration" is just a diversion for the looting of Best Buy, Target or Wal-Mart.

557 The Rosemary and Olive Oil Triscuits are mighty tasty. *** Sounds yummy

558

Trapezoidal pistol sights.

 

If that's a Styer M-9, or the .40 S&W variant thereof, buy the SOB just as soon as you can.

 

Unusually great ergonomics, soft recoil characteristics, and some of the finest machining quality on the planet.

 

Bonus, if you get the earlier M-9, with the manual safety.

 

I rue the day I sold mine, and I shall find another.

 

 

 

Jim

Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

 

P.S.  Thermostat set at 76.  Keeps it cool and dehumidified enough, but doesn't go all Torqemada on the utility bill.  Even here on the Tejas Gulf Coast.

559 a mob jump on cars, stop traffic, walk down the middle of a busy street, randomly assault people, rip up fences, and swarm a Wal-Mart... This is not altogether different than any other day in some parts of LA. Just a few more doing it in the same spot.

560 LA has put on far better riots than this. Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 16, 2013 12:17 AM (Pb0zF) They won't really riot until their EBT cards stop working.

561 Well good night all.

562 OK. I'm out tomorrow night, mi amigos

563 LIve in CA but I am not worried. I live in a "gated community" with some very heavily armed guards, called an AF Base

564 Hundreds of millions to spy on innocent AMERICAN CITIZENS- $0 to protect people who are just taking their family to Mc Donald's

565 Time even dug up an "expert" to decodify her linguistics as some sort of advanced new language. They found an Ebonics expert ?

566 So, in the 'hood where people riot because something happened to someone they didn't know 3,000 miles away, they get a multi-story Walmart with a skyway to a larger mall. I'm pretty sure Magic Johnson is heavily invested in the Crenshaw mall/area. That's why they have some nice stuff, he likes to invest in the community & get interested parties to help themselves.

567 I'm still waiting for the folks here in SE Raleigh and Durham to get home from the "Moral Monday" protest and start rioting for Trayvon. I'm hoping they stay distracted, because I need to drive through Durham quite a bit this week.

568 The Rosemary and Olive Oil Triscuits are mighty tasty.

^^^THIS.  Last year, Big Lots had kinda dinged up boxes of them for like $1.  None recently. 

569 If it's like the Rodney King riots, they'll burn or loot every store in the hood, then whine when there's no place close to buy groceries and other shit

And the idiots in the MSM who live on the West Side will feel sorry for them

The Crenshaw Walmart is scary and dirty anyway

570 I disagree strongly with the idea that you need a good vodka in any bloody mary. As a matter of fact, a bloody mary is the perfect opportunity to use the cheapest vodka available. Nobody will ever know the difference, as it simply doesn't matter. The ideal vodka has no distinctive flavor. Yes, what you pay for in good vodkas is their approximation to water. Every ingredient totally overpowers anything good vodkas bring to the table, and they more than mask the flaws of any cheap vodka. Get good tomato juice, good pepper, and the cheapest rotgut vodka you can find.

571 They won't really riot until their EBT cards stop working. Posted by: The Political Hat at July 16, 2013 12:20 AM (Vk2pI) Bro, it's the 15th. That money been gone.

572 17 Anti-Rape Lingerie? Is there a gun in the bodice? 'Cause that would be cool. No gun but the lingerie does come with 2 100w light bulbs. When the would be victim realizes the rape is about to start she pulls out the bulbs gripping them tightly. In a quiet, but firm voice she says, "one bulb is for your asshole, you asshole, and the other bulb is for your urethra. So do you feel luck punk, do you want to make my day." Remember to squint when you say this

573 Speaking of VWs, Seinfeld talks to the MST3K guy while in a Karmann Ghia: http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/joel-hodgson-a-taste-of-hell-from-on-high

574 Bebe -

Wow, Magic has some dough left to spend after dropping 2 bil on the Dodgers? It's good to be the king...

Seriously, it's nice that he did that. But of course, the people who live there don't give a shit. Which is why welfare and giving people like that free stuff isn't working.

575 I broke. I had to lower the ac a bit, the humidity is killer even at night.

576 then whine when there's no place close to buy groceries and other shit

Some things need to be relearned with each new generation. 

577 564 You can't IMAGINE the amount of federal money that makes it into the hood.  If people knew where their tax money was really going WE'D be the ones walking the streets

578 I'm pretty sure Magic Johnson is heavily invested in the Crenshaw mall/area. Several celebs tried really, really hard to revitalize that shit hole. Last I was there, it was rapidly reverting.

579 And BJ said Zims brother said George shot him because of race. Can you really lie like that and get away with it? Posted by: RWC at July 16, 2013 12:17 AM (8FeS+) Yes. Because no one enforces honesty. And no one has the megaphone to shout louder than the liars. And clearly no one on the left gives a shit that people die because of their lies, historically we're at a low point for their death toll.

580 Jeantel is the modern day "Gabby Johnson" (think Blazing Saddles)

581 Sounds like a pretty good time to start dropping the ringleaders with sniper fire.>>

I'm OK with that but the Guy from Detroit with the armored vehicle and fake Ma Deuce  would be funny as hell to send into this crowd.

http://tinyurl.com/lhq96kd

582 550 LA has put on far better riots than this. Pffttt, they're just getting warmed up. I think we're headed for Rodney king territory, especially since LAPD is letting them run amok just like in '92. Can we haz USMC like Compton did in '92? Gangbangers fired at the Marines ONCE. Marines fired back and voila, no more problems in Compton for the duration.

583 528 fuk bro, Ima gunna
Is that one of those Asiana pilots?

584 Oh look, the flame of justice burning in a trash can. I'm inspired.

585

Country Singer at July 15, 2013 11:39 PM

Prayer sent.

586 Thanks Jake and Jim. Out for tonight.

587 I'm pretty sure Magic Johnson is heavily invested in the Crenshaw mall/area. That's why they have some nice stuff, he likes to invest in the community & get interested parties to help themselves. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 16, 2013 12:20 AM (jaMS0) No, Magic gets government to front him the money, then he gets "investors" to come in, repays the govt, less his fee, then he gets the big box stores to come in to the malls because it will look good to the race hustlers. Of course, Magic gets his fee from the investors for bringing in the big boxes. He's just Jesse Jackson with HIV.

588 Posted by: McGregor at July 16, 2013 12:24 AM (qo244)

http://staceydavid.com/projects/sgt-rock

589 And Reich hasn't sucked a mile of cock.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac stating the obvious at July 16, 2013 12:01 AM (BXLPR)

===

Objection:  assumes a fact not in evidence.

590 Duck Dynasty is on here. Completely changed my outlook. They are in Hawaii. Much happier, and have smile on my face.

591 561 LIve in CA but I am not worried. I live in a "gated community" with some very heavily armed guards, called an AF Base Posted by: Ma Bell at July 16, 2013 12:20 AM (RLdcX) Nice one

592 Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 16, 2013 12:25 AM (jaMS0) I don't know, I am not feeling enough umph for much more than this. Oakland appears to be putting LA to shame. I suspect they have more Occupooper types agitating up there. On the other hand, I forget it's only 930 out there. Early yet.

593 What goes around, is all around.

594 >>> I'm OK with that but the Guy from Detroit with the armored vehicle and fake Ma Deuce would be funny as hell to send into this crowd.

Would be funny till they figured out it was fake.  If we're sending civilian vehicles in, we need a Killdozer.

595 While Jessie with HIV made me laugh. It is harsh.

596 ______________________________

Ace,

I would like to draw your attention to the only high profile reaction to Zimmerman's acquittal that is not only sane but is also spot on.

Ted Nugent published a thoughtful and potent public declaration that citizens' patrols and self-defense against thug attacks have been unequivocally vindicated in the exoneration of George Zimmerman.

Nugent is correct, and he is the only high profile speaker who's analysis of what happened is 100% accurate.

As far as I know, he is a lone voice on the issue.

Nugent feels absolutely no need to fantasize that somehow someway George Zimmerman exercised "poor judgment" in reporting the suspicious activities of Trayvon Martin.
Instead, Nugent lauds Zimmerman's performance as a responsible member of his community doing his best to look out for his community.

Nugent's position is not belligerent, but it is not apologetic and it gives no quarter to the fantasists that insist that Zimmerman was wrong to "get out of his vehicle" in order to provide the police better information about the suspiciously behaving and subsequently suspiciously fleeing Martin.

Ted Nugent seems to be the only high profile voice who is doing this.

Is there any other major voice out there who is likewise pointing out the obvious???

597 Look at this. These "mostly peaceful protesters" are swarming cars, yet LAPD is letting cars through their "skirmish lines" (as the newscopter guy is calling them) so they can get swarmed. Protect and serve my ass.

598 If people knew where their tax money was really going WE'D be the ones walking the streets
But if we were walking the streets there wouldn't be any tax money.

599 Protect and serve my ass. Posted by: WolfinNC at July 16, 2013 12:30 AM (HVOxM) You have to go to West Hollywood for that...

600 Bro, it's the 15th. That money been gone. Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 16, 2013 12:22 AM (Pb0zF) Nope. Not as simple as it once was. Now there are so many on it that the last digit of Uncle Sugars designated bank account number for dear citizen is when it gets reloaded.

601 Best comment over at Jawa RE: Facebook debacle:

9 One could imagine a fazebook page called "Kill Everyone Who Wants to Kill Zimmerman" that autoposts links to every friend of the KZ page, but racist, right?

Posted by: Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder

602 TMZ did a shockingly level headed bit on the Zimmerman thing.

603 I think cowboy and I have gone round and round on this before, but I do like the pricier vodkas in my Bloody Marys. Much smoother. Celery salt on the rim, for sure. I also add garlic chili sauce to mine. And I take a bamboo skewer and load it up with green olives, pepperoni, red bell pepper and cherry tomatoes and plop it in.

604 Is that where I have to go? Shit, why aren't these things on a map?

605 This is what happens when you create such a high concentration of people who don't have to worry about getting up for work in the morning

606 Ok horde, time for me to peace out. Adios.

607 Country Singer, so sorry to hear about your dad's diagnosis, and you and your family are in my prayers.  I've been down that road with too many friends and family members, and have a special place in my heart for people in your situation. 

Right now you are at one of the worst times, having the diagnosis but (I assume) before any treatments have begun.  Once you and your dad get to that point (though often not a walk in the park), there is a feeling of more control, of action being taken, of something being done, which is more bearable. 

I have a friend who has had stage 4 colon cancer for years, and she's doing so well it's easy to forget she has cancer.  My dad was like that for years on end too.  To a person, the people I have known with cancer have amazed me, their attitudes and their courage. 

Whatever comes, and I hope and pray that means his full recovery, I know you will get through it. 

608 Posted by: LC LaWedgie at July 16, 2013 12:28 AM (0It32)>>

I was at a mud run competiton  and saw a stock one of those beat all the fancy big engine/tired jeeps. The fucker sunk to the bottom and drove (slowly since it was plowing mud) right through up and out of the run they set up.

609 Ah shit, the battery on the laptop is dead. Time to go anyway.

'night!

610 Appearing on MSNBC’s Martin Bashir show, Rangel said, “I think it's possible if the police had got a black Zimmerman, the question would be whether they would have beat him to death and then threw handcuffs on him and dragged him into the precinct." ... so are we to believe that the police beat Trayvon Martin to death ??

611 I also add garlic chili sauce to mine.

I'm saving that for future use.  Sounds great.

612 But if we were walking the streets there wouldn't be any tax money.>>

Which is why they shouldn't be blocking the freeways.

613 Oh cripes!  I left some ice cream out to soften and came to the ONT for just a few minutes...about 45 minutes ago.

There ain't nothing much better than Blue Bell ice cream, even if it's all melty.  Strawberry Cheesecake, mm mm good.

614 yet LAPD is letting cars through their "skirmish lines"

Its like surviving a bear attack -- you only have to run faster than your friend.  The cops are distracting the bear with some bait

615 no good deed, I call it Rooster sauce, some call it cock sauce, but I think the real name is Sriracha? The garlic version is practically my life's blood.

616 "Under the circumstances, we have not been able to talk to him," Gladys Zimmerman told Walters. "To tell you the truth, we don't trust anything, not even the phones." "We have had an enormous amount of death threats. George's legal counsel has had death threats, the police chief of Sanford, many people have had death threats," Robert Zimmerman said."'Everyone with Georgie's DNA should be killed' -- just every kind of horrible thing you can imagine."

617 Is it too late for us crackers to "protest" the O.J. verdict? I need a new TV.

618 IÕm surprised Magic Johnson is still with us, wasnÕt he the first athlete to come out with AIDS or HIV? I admit I do not know the difference. I learn medical terms and conditions when I have to. I know itÕs been at least 20 year for Magic.

619 no good deed, I call it Rooster sauce, some call it cock sauce, but I think the real name is Sriracha? The garlic version is practically my life's blood. Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 16, 2013 12:38 AM (Pb0zF) Eggs ain't eggs unless they are smothered in that tasty goodness.

620 Thanks everyone for all of your support.  I'll keep everyone updated as I find out more.  Right now all I know is that the area is 4mmx4mm and the doc says it's inoperable.  I'd have a better feeling about this if he hadn't already been dealing with skin, prostate, and bladder cancer the past few years.  Evidently we'll have more info tomorrow.

621

Hmmm. Heating up now in LA.

LAPD hanging back. Way back. Like in Arizona someplace

622 Yes, I was a part of a round about vodka, Tammy. But I'm largely on the side of liking them, neat or on the rocks. There's a side that ridicules the very idea of a great vodka, and I'm not a part of that. As I said, the great ones all coalesce around the taste of water, that's the ideal. So of course it's hard to tell the difference among the premium brands such as Ketel One or Grey Goose. Want a sipping vodka? Get a great one. Want a bloody mary, use Aristocrat. Your recipe sounds interesting -- I've never had bamboo in a bloody mary. Have to give it a shot!

623 It looks like the little bastards are squaring off against the cops now

624 I have some Sriracha in my fridge.  I usually put Tobasco in mine, but Sriracha sounds so much better. 

625

LAPD called those skirmish lines. Ha. Haha.

They really don't want to engage. I guess they thought that strategy workrd so well last time they'd try it again.

626 How to make the perfect Bloody Mary: 1). Open a bottle of val-u-rite 2). Stare at splotch on couch that vaguely resembles a tomato 3). Chug 4). Repeat as necessary.

627 Apropos of nothing really, I am always amazed at how bleak black ghettos are. There is never even a scrap of green or any softening element whatsoever. Hispanic ghettos are ghetto-looking, but in the apartments, you'll see birdcages and flowers hanging off the balconies, many of the houses are lush with palms and banana trees and figs and those cactus they eat, and I garo-damn-tee you many of those banana trees will have lights strung up in them. What this has to do with any thing is beyond me, but there ya go.

628 Chris Sevier, a 36-year-old man from Tennessee, got so addicted to porn videos that his wife took his children and left him. Now he has sued Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), saying the Cupertino, Calif.-based company failed to install any filter in its devices to prevent his affliction. In a 50-page complaint, Sevier calls Apple a “silent poisoner” responsible for the proliferation of “arousal addiction, sex trafficking, prostitution, and countless numbers of destroyed lives.” Sevier is seeking damages from Apple, but said he will drop the lawsuit if Apple agrees to sell devices with a “safe mode.”

629 A crazy friend turned me on to his sicko favorite drink: beer + Clamato. If you like a bloody mary you'll like it!

630 "Under the circumstances, we have not been able to talk to him," Gladys Zimmerman told Walters. "To tell you the truth, we don't trust anything, not even the phones." "We have had an enormous amount of death threats. George's legal counsel has had death threats, the police chief of Sanford, many people have had death threats," Robert Zimmerman said."'Everyone with Georgie's DNA should be killed' -- just every kind of horrible thing you can imagine." Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at July 16, 2013 12:39 AM (e8kgV) George Z needs to openly start shooting IDPA and USPSA. Ditch the Kel Tec and get a Full size Glock in 9mm, .40 or .45ACP

631 'Night kids. Gotta work so .gov can send money to dumb fucks who burn their neighborhoods.

632 Thanks everyone for all of your support. I'll keep everyone updated as I find out more.>>

I know it will be hard but keep your head up. Docs can be wrong and miracles can happen. Best of luck to your dad and invest your energy in him not worry.

633

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 16, 2013 12:44 AM (Pb0zF) 

 

Pride of ownership. It matters.  Pruitt-Igo here was a similar example. Lack of caring destroyed it.

634 I know its been at least 20 year for Magic.

--

We have a family friend who was diagnosed as HIV positive in the 80's, still here today.  He recently had some sort of health problem related to it though, had to miss a family wedding, so I'm not sure how he's doing right now.

635 Cowboy....I just got started on the Clamato and beer kick about a week ago. I love that stuff! Try it with a squeeze of lime and celery salt. Had one about an hour ago.. Yum.

636 Eric Holder is an ass. I changed to Hannity after watching Rachel whatÕs her name. I wasnÕt interested in it, I just wanted to see her after reading comments here. Holder should be investigating the IRS agents illegally accessing candidates and donors tax returns etc. My iPhone app went off with that but he only cares about one race and doesnÕt work for the rest of this country unless you are that race. He is a racist and a race baiter. If CNN and the others would stop talking about the trial the protests and attacks would stop but no, they keep fueling the fire! I was never interested in this but now the AG of the US is more interested in that than the case of the Fort Hood Killer! I hadnÕt heard much but read it over at HA, itÕs going on as we speak. Where is the media?

637 Had to take the wife to the Detroit airport once. She had never seen a big city at the time. We get off the wrong exit in the middle of the slums. First yard she looks at there's two dogs procreating among the ruins. IOW - a typical democrat run town. She wanted TF out of there ASAP.

638 Apropos of nothing really, I am always amazed at how bleak black ghettos are. There is never even a scrap of green or any softening element whatsoever. Hispanic ghettos are ghetto-looking, but in the apartments, you'll see birdcages and flowers hanging off the balconies, many of the houses are lush with palms and banana trees and figs and those cactus they eat, and I garo-damn-tee you many of those banana trees will have lights strung up in them. What this has to do with any thing is beyond me, but there ya go. Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 16, 2013 12:44 AM (Pb0zF) All is means is that the Progressives have been working longer to turn Blacks into Leviathan's slaves, and the areas they live in into totalitarian hell-holes, longer than they have been working on doing the same to Hispanics.

639 Apple lawyer: we got a safe-mode.  Its called the power switch.

640 My father-in-law throws a beer in the blender when he makes margaritas.  They are surprisingly good.

641 HIV is the virus, AIDS is the active diease, basically. He has enough money to have gotten all the expensive anti-viral drugs. AIDS ain't pretty, but it's more manageable now than they thought it would be.

642 Dang it, I just saw a little boy who looks to be about six years old in the crowd of hooligans.

643 So some mild unrest from the Obama maggots across the country. Seems like mostly general dickery and intimidation. And the cops are taking a hands off approach it seems. I hate these fucking Obama scum.

644 I've got a several year old bottle of Sriracha in my fridge. Can this stuff go bad or is it good forever.

645 cowboy, you're right ......I think I could drink Grey Goose straight! I am not a drinker at all, but it is so smooth. Frankly, I like Bloody Mary mix just fine on it's own, lol.

646 624 How to make the perfect Bloody Mary: 1). Open a bottle of val-u-rite 2). Stare at splotch on couch that vaguely resembles a tomato 3). Chug 4). Repeat as necessary. --- Reminds me of my daughter, having me babysit her kids. How you ask? When she came to pick them up she saw a long stain on the couch, whitish in color (not sperm BTW). Figured one of the kids did it. Goes into the kitchen and gets a wet rag and starts scrubbing it. It wont go away. Then she figures out its the sun beaming through the blinds.

647 Country Singer, your poor dad has been through the ringer and it sounds like you all are unfortunately quite the veterans at all of this.  Prayers to you and yours.

648 They are proving that they are indeed all Trayvon Martin

649 I used to live in a gentrified area bordering public row housing entirely filled with a black population. Lots of stories, but regarding the upkeep of the place: every three years the state would come through and renovate the row houses and the landscaping. They'd look nice during those years, but quickly decline into decrepitude. The tenants took the attitude of renters. All problems were things they logged as owed for correction.

650 Posted by: McGregor at July 16, 2013 12:50 AM (qo244) I once came across a bottle that was all but black and kind of thick. I didn't have the nerve to eat it, but it smelled great. I used it to clean some old cast iron skillets and it worked like a charm with the addition of plenty of salt for scour-power!

651 394 OK, Horde, I'm going to need some prayers, my dad got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer today. I'll be over here in the corner drinking heavily.

Posted by: Country Singer at July 15, 2013 11:39 PM (U22Yw)

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I have added my prayers to the others. 

suggestion:  Make sure someone goes with him to all his appointments, at least for a while.  The info will be coming at him so fast that it is hard to take it all in, and he will miss things while he is still thinking about the last thing that was said.  Take notes for him so he can concentrate on what he is being told.

Also it is a big help if more than one person understands the medications, protocols, etc.  Mistakes will be made sooner or later and you can help catch them before they cause problems.

652 Reminds me of my daughter, having me babysit her kids. How you ask? When she came to pick them up she saw a long stain on the couch, whitish in color (not sperm BTW). Figured one of the kids did it. Goes into the kitchen and gets a wet rag and starts scrubbing it. It wont go away. Then she figures out its the sun beaming through the blinds. Posted by: UWP at July 16, 2013 12:51 AM (r98SZ) Solar Spludge!

653 I'm glad Moe Lane has optimism.  I don't.  Once you break something, it often stays broken. 

Until there is a terrible plague that only infects and kills members of the Media, doom is our only future.

654 NewsBreaker ‏@NewsBreaker 5m NOW: LAPD on S. LA mob: "not going to end well if they remain" - @nbcla livestream pic.twitter.com/qzJJlk69gR

655 George Z needs to openly start shooting IDPA and USPSA. Ditch the Kel Tec and get a Full size Glock in 9mm, .40 or .45ACP

Posted by: Jake in ID at July 16, 2013 12:45 AM (IxRjw)

Actually about a year ago Zimmerman bought an FN Five-seveN - which is an interesting (and pricy) choice. It's concealable but with an spare magazine he's carrying 61 rounds.

http://www.bob-owens.com/2012/07/fn-five-seven-zimmermans-choice-for-panthers/

656 600 TMZ did a shockingly level headed bit on the Zimmerman thing. Posted by: otho at July 16, 2013 12:34 AM (9gNQd) I've actually started watching their show, and Harvey Levin seems to be somewhat conservativeish.

657 Hispanic ghettos have a broader swath of hispanics. Some are smart, hard-workers just starting out in America. Black ghettos tend to be a self-selected group of the dumbest, laziest, most criminal blacks. The smart, hard-working honest blacks moved out long ago. Hispanic ghettos have more influx of new arrivals. Black ghettos are permanent and the residents have given up on ever achieving anything. Asian ghettos are the nicest.

658 640 Dang it, I just saw a little boy who looks to be about six years old in the crowd of hooligans. Posted by: no good deed at July 16, 2013 12:50 AM (WmLrU) BOOOOOOOOSHHHHH!!!!

659 They've declared it an unlawful assembly and are ordering the crowd to disperse. 

660 Solar Spludge! Posted by: Nanauatzin at July 16, 2013 12:55 AM (Vk2pI) --- Turns out one of the kids got into a bar of deodorant from her purse recently and she thought it was that again. We laughed and laughed her thinking the sun was a stain. Then I ejaculated on the couch, so then it wasn't funny anymore.

661 Asian ghettos are the nicest. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 16, 2013 12:57 AM (ZPrif) I have only ever seen Asian ghettos in the Hmong (Cambodian) community in Long Beach CA. Run down, but bustling.

662 568 I disagree strongly with the idea that you need a good vodka in any bloody mary. As a matter of fact, a bloody mary is the perfect opportunity to use the cheapest vodka available. Nobody will ever know the difference, as it simply doesn't matter. The ideal vodka has no distinctive flavor. Yes, what you pay for in good vodkas is their approximation to water. Every ingredient totally overpowers anything good vodkas bring to the table, and they more than mask the flaws of any cheap vodka. Get good tomato juice, good pepper, and the cheapest rotgut vodka you can find.

Posted by: Cowboy at July 16, 2013 12:21 AM (m5TOl)

Not QUITE the cheapest.....

663 And the cops are taking a hands off approach it seems. I hate these fucking Obama scum. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 16, 2013 12:50 AM (ZPrif Why get involved? If they hurt a special snowflake their career and any semblance of a regular life is over. They have no duty to protect you, just remember that.

664 Oh, my....we're close. And I'm back in 568.....

665 Black ghettos tend to be a self-selected group of the dumbest, laziest, most criminal blacks.>>

Who have also graduated from the University of EBT. If they spent half the time learning the 3Rs they could be free.

666 And thats not to say I don't loathe the pieces of shit.

667 ....but lurking, lurking......

668 Nabbed?

669 ....and back to 569.

670 I'm no riot/crowd expert. I'll defer to the cops who usually seem to employ a strategy of letting a mob burn themselves out.

671 http://www.bob-owens.com/2012/07/fn-five-seven-zimmermans-choice-for-panthers/ Posted by: Mætenloch at July 16, 2013 12:56 AM (XkotV) I did not know that. If I was GZ today, I'd just live with an AR. Deterance works

672 In my experience with the black ghettos, the place is destroyed by drugs and by federal incentives that doom family formation. Drugs are the huge thing. The drug problem is unbelievable. And the welfare incentives promote single motherhood. I think we all know this, and we have for a while. Yet we can't do anything about it, that's not allowed. Blacks are the liberals' guinea pigs, they are the unwitting subjects of the grand liberal experiment in compassion. It's killing them, it's keel-hauling their whole culture. It's an outrage, really. They truly are back on the plantation. Unawares. And dogged by dysfunction on every side.

673 MSNBC is reporting that Zimmerman was chanting 'hail Satan' on his way out of the courtroom.

Devolving.....

674 40 Dang it, I just saw a little boy who looks to be about six years old in the crowd of hooligans. --- Was out on the porch earlier but after dark, and saw a white van, 15 passenger, with side windows going the same speed as a kid on a bike. So that caught my attention. Why would a white van be going the same speed as a kid on a bike? Then I saw in the windows that the van was full of other kids sitting in the rows of seats. Remembering back on Big Sis wanting me to notice suspicious activity and report it to her, I figured it was nothing and went in the house.

675 Alberto Gonzalez says GZ is clearly Hispanic, just like his sons are Hispanic, and just like Potus is AA.. I wasnÂ’t aware that Hispanics were deemed capable of racism against blacks in the Civil Rights Laws. Let me rephrase that, I thought the Civil Rights Law mainly addresses white on black racism. I did say that the NAACP was trying to make Hispanics into Republicans.

676 Posted by: Cowboy at July 16, 2013 01:05 AM (m5TOl) So right, yet will never be spoken except in shadowy corners and hushed tones.

677 636 Apropos of nothing really, I am always amazed at how bleak black ghettos are. There is never even a scrap of green or any softening element whatsoever.

Hispanic ghettos are ghetto-looking, but in the apartments, you'll see birdcages and flowers hanging off the balconies, many of the houses are lush with palms and banana trees and figs and those cactus they eat, and I garo-damn-tee you many of those banana trees will have lights strung up in them.

What this has to do with any thing is beyond me, but there ya go.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 16, 2013 12:44 AM (Pb0zF)

All is means is that the Progressives have been working longer to turn Blacks into Leviathan's slaves, and the areas they live in into totalitarian hell-holes, longer than they have been working on doing the same to Hispanics.

Posted by: The Political Hat at July 16, 2013 12:48 AM (Vk2pI)

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In a nutshell you have described what happens when people are disjointed from ownership.  Sadly, an attempt to start doing something about that ended up the sub-prime mess.

There is no bigger evidence of why socialism/communism cannot work.  No one has any respect for things they have but did not earn.

678 Posted by: Cowboy at July 16, 2013 01:05 AM (m5TOl) eleventy!!!!!1!! They say in any given society, it takes about 10 generations to overcome slavery; they were well ahead of schedule til LBJ and The Great Society shit. Welfare destroyed them, drugs nailed the lid down on the coffin. Same thing now happening in the poor white class. (Well, it's been happening for a good while!)

679 Obviously, we need one of Zobama's "wonder speeches" where he "changes the course of mighty rivers, bends steel in his bare hands, and who ..." I wonder if the TOTUS is still up to it.

680 Black ghettos tend to be a self-selected group of the dumbest, laziest, most criminal blacks.

Some maybe, but not all by any means.  A lot of Rockwell's space shuttle engineers at the Downey plant grew up in Compton and Watts.  There's ways out, but it involves staying in school and avoiding the gangsta shit and drugs.

681 670 In my experience with the black ghettos, the place is destroyed by drugs and by federal incentives that doom family formation. Drugs are the huge thing. The drug problem is unbelievable. And the welfare incentives promote single motherhood. I think we all know this, and we have for a while. Yet we can't do anything about it, that's not allowed. Blacks are the liberals' guinea pigs, they are the unwitting subjects of the grand liberal experiment in compassion. It's killing them, it's keel-hauling their whole culture. It's an outrage, really. They truly are back on the plantation. Unawares. And dogged by dysfunction on every side.

Posted by: Cowboy at July 16, 2013 01:05 AM (m5TOl)

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and they are now the voting block that those same leftist jerks will use to force the rest of us back into serfdom, too.

682 A lot of the problems aren't about race. It's about young males with no father at home and a school system without corporal punishment. As a pre man, fear was necessary to keep me on the path to becoming a man (which I got at school and at  home). Take that away and you get feral cats fucking and killing crap for sport..

683 Compton and Watts didn't used to be ghettos.  That's why.

684 Some maybe, but not all by any means. A lot of Rockwell's space shuttle engineers at the Downey plant grew up in Compton and Watts. There's ways out, but it involves staying in school and avoiding the gangsta shit and drugs. Posted by: Purp at July 16, 2013 01:13 AM (lm0Rv) Oh, you mean being a "cornball brother".

685 I just dropped $230 on the Bentley service manual (hard copy) and VW dealer mechanic's repair DVD for my ride. 

I have a feeling that shit's gonna pay for itself in spades the first time I reference it.

686 McGregor, you are so right. You take any city/town that is all white and there will still be poor people acting up. Usualy fatherless kids and lots of alcohol ( and drugs) involved. Young men are glorious, breath-taking, mouth-wateringly delicious bundles of testosterone that need to be tamed and inspired and lead by real men.

687 Posted by: UWP at July 16, 2013 12:51 AM (r98SZ) Was that a joke? How could she not realize it was the sun? At least you cracked me up after a few long and horrible months.

688 I have a feeling that shit's gonna pay for itself in spades the first time I reference it.>>

I assume you already have an OBD reader. That little tool has saved me tons of time and money.

689 624 How to make the perfect Bloody Mary:

1). Open a bottle of val-u-rite

2). Stare at splotch on couch that vaguely resembles a tomato

3). Chug

4). Repeat as necessary.

Posted by: The Ethanolic Hat at July 16, 2013 12:43 AM (Vk2pI)

There are several mixed drinks that seem tailor-made to make you feel worse about drinking than just slugging liquor straight or over ice, and a Bloody Mary is one.

690 Holy crap! Assistant attorney to Trayvon's family, Jasmine getting her butt kicked by Greta. Jasmine actually said "I have a job more important than being a lawyer, and that's being a social engineer." That in a nutshell is exactly what was wrong with the Prosecution's case. They weren't ever interested in upholding the law. Disgusting!

691 626 Chris Sevier, a 36-year-old man from Tennessee, got so addicted to porn videos that his wife took his children and left him. Now he has sued Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), saying the Cupertino, Calif.-based company failed to install any filter in its devices to prevent his affliction.
In a 50-page complaint, Sevier calls Apple a “silent poisoner” responsible for the proliferation of “arousal addiction, sex trafficking, prostitution, and countless numbers of destroyed lives.” Sevier is seeking damages from Apple, but said he will drop the lawsuit if Apple agrees to sell devices with a “safe mode.”

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy - at July 16, 2013 12:44 AM (e8kgV)

Shit. I gotta stop cruisin' porn sites with "private browsing" on Safari???

692 K, Horde, I'm going to need some prayers, my dad got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer today. I'll be over here in the corner drinking heavily. Posted by: Country Singer at July 15, 2013 11:39 PM (U22Yw) I have asked for prayers many times in the past four month and the Horde always comes through. I will say a prayer as soon as I post this. Carol

693 AoS News Exclusive (dumped in an ONT in the wee hours): B37 and her husband voted Obama. Keep in mind as the character assassination commences. Wife tried to warn them.

694 Holy crap! Assistant attorney to Trayvon's family, Jasmine getting her butt kicked by Greta. Jasmine actually said "I have a job more important than being a lawyer, and that's being a social engineer." Posted by: runningrn at July 16, 2013 01:23 AM (PLOz Americans in general and the inner cities in particular are up to their nostrils in "social engineering," and it don't smell like roses.

695 "being a social engineer." Yea, they have all these kinds of "engineers" designing, building and running their society and that's the fucking reason why they're crashing and burning.

696 I wonder if those idiot looters know that Walmart is chock full of high resolution security cameras.

697 Beagle, you mean the juror lady?!

698 688 runnigrn - I've had lawyers say the exact same thing to me. Two of them on separate occasions. They were both tax lawyers who explained to me that the IRS tax code is crucial to the project of social justice. What's important is keeping your eye on that ball, social justice, and not getting tripped up in the weeds worrying about individualistic stuff. That's so passe!

699 Young men are glorious, breath-taking, mouth-wateringly delicious bundles of testosterone that need to be tamed and inspired and lead by real men.>>

Much like the riddle of steel from Conan the barbarian. We need to be beaten into shape to become less barbaric.

700 I just saw George's brother offer a spirited defense on Greta. He did a great job. If that was my brother I'd be so proud of him.

701 Posted by: McGregor at July 16, 2013 01:28 AM (qo244) That element of fear has to be there!

702 *igoring cthulus snark about her drink of choice*

703 And I am off to Slumber Land.... goodnight, dear ones. Thanks for keeping me laughing!!! Sleep good!

704 693 "being a social engineer."


Yea, they have all these kinds of "engineers" designing, building and running their society and that's the fucking reason why they're crashing and burning.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 16, 2013 01:26 AM (Pb0zF)

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and they have no clue what engineering actually is, the underlying premises that make engineering succeed, and the discipline required by engineers not to over-believe their own BS.  Those clowns might be social, but they sure as hell are not engineers.  "Social diseases" is probably a far more accurate term.

705 Night, MissT.   sweet slumber to you.

706 659 Asian ghettos are the nicest.
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 16, 2013 12:57 AM (ZPrif)


I have only ever seen Asian ghettos in the Hmong (Cambodian) community in Long Beach CA. Run down, but bustling.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 16, 2013 01:02 AM (Pb0zF)

East Asian ghettos (Korea, China, Japan, and sort-of Vietnam) are rarely hostile to anyone (though they will rip you off without a qualm), have hustle sixteen-ways-from-Sunday, but generally have poor sanitation (less with the Japanese). I'd rather spend a year in one than an hour in Detroit.

707 That element of fear has to be there!>>

A quote from my father "It was easier to raise my five boys than my one girl". I'm pretty sure that's cause he knew how to instill fear in us but not her.But that is a problem for all fathers which is why we should keep mothers around and vice versa.

708 684 McGregor, you are so right. You take any city/town that is all white and there will still be poor people acting up. Usualy fatherless kids and lots of alcohol ( and drugs) involved.

Young men are glorious, breath-taking, mouth-wateringly delicious bundles of testosterone that need to be tamed and inspired and lead by real men.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 16, 2013 01:19 AM (Pb0zF)

Ladies and Gentlemen -- THAT is an 'ette!

Well said, Tammy! I'd hug ya 'cept for the lonely Thor over there....

709 and they have no clue what engineering actually is, the underlying premises that make engineering succeed,>>

Well I'm guessing tensile testing of social materials is frowned upon. So hard data for social engineering is hard to come by

710 "Assistant attorney to Trayvon's family, Jasmine", wearer of The Shroud of Trayvon, has a bright future in ... pole dancing.

711 700 *igoring cthulus snark about her drink of choice*

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 16, 2013 01:32 AM (Pb0zF)

De gustibus non est disputandum -- but I won't be ordering the same.

712 Night all. Here is "The Ritual" by Testament: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqyvVeCCsGM

713 Country Singer, Prayers for your father, you, and your family. God may sometimes seem far away, but he is close to all of you right now.

714 okay back
is everyone going to bed now?

715 707 and they have no clue what engineering actually is, the underlying premises that make engineering succeed,>>

Well I'm guessing tensile testing of social materials is frowned upon. So hard data for social engineering is hard to come by

Posted by: McGregor at July 16, 2013 01:42 AM (qo244)

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looking at those rioters again I am thinking you might have a good suggestion in formulation there.

716 712 okay back
is everyone going to bed now?

Posted by: chemjeff at July 16, 2013 01:49 AM (9GG/0)

Wouldn't you like to know?

717 heh
well, maaaaaybe...

718 IIRC, CJ, you had somewhat recently acquired "Casa de Chemjeff"....have you started doing projects to modify it?

719 "A quote from my father "It was easier to raise my five boys than my one girl". I'm pretty sure that's cause he knew how to instill fear in us but not her.But that is a problem for all fathers which is why we should keep mothers around and vice versa." --- Fathers are naturally advantaged when dealing with daughters, less so with sons. And, it's natural for a father to worry ten times more about his daughter than any son. Teenage girl == heap big trouble. Drives dads nuts.

720 NewsBreaker ‏@NewsBreaker 48s NEW: More tear gas being deployed at 15th and Broadway as #Trayvon #Oakland marchers refuse to back up -

721 cthulhu, no real projects to modify the house per se.  a couple of things to modify the lawn and do a bit of landscaping.  It is a pain in the neck.  I'm starting to regret not getting a condo.

722 NDH, but are they "mostly peaceful protests"?  With a little bit of "mostly peaceful" vandalism thrown in?

723 NewsBreaker ‏@NewsBreaker 45s NEW DETAILS: @NBCLA reports @CBSLA TV crew assaulted in S. Los Angeles, photographer assaulted, reporter also injured pic.twitter.com/pOvJLmivB9

724 NDH, but are they "mostly peaceful protests"? With a little bit of "mostly peaceful" vandalism thrown in? *** but of course

725 oh good, some mostly peaceful assault and battery as well
as long as it's mostly peaceful

726 After Obama got reelected, I was so pissed off and scared for my country that I got physically ill. Was depressed for months. Not once did I feel the need to burn things and take any five finger discounts. This is unacceptable. And not one of these wusses on the TV will say so. Posted by: WolfinNC at July 16, 2013 12:08 AM (HVOxM) This. And note that despite Zimmerman being a Democrat, no one from our side wanted to see him lynched. It's about justice - not "social justice" which is another name for bigotry flimsily justified. Anyhoo - thanks for all the Bloody Mary advice. I made to the store and bought a boatload of potential ingredients, but am too tired to mix anything up tonight. Had the best Mary of my life at a lake resort last week and I want to try to figure out the secret before the memory of the experience fades. I do think there was Lawry's seasoned salt on the rim. The garnishes were a pickled asparagus, olives, hot pepper and lime wedge. The product was pure tomato peppery goodness. Taken with a seafood omlet = perfection!

727 NewsBreaker ‏@NewsBreaker 1m DEVELOPING: #Oakland Police reporting @Florarestaurant waiter hit in the head by masked protester - @KTVU

728 Just as an FYI, the BH and I bought "Casa de Cthulhu" on tax day, 1997. We moved in around August, after rejiggering the floor plan to expand the master closet, remodeling the master bath, installing drop-down attic stairs, and opening a door from BR4 to the garage. Since then we've replaced the patio with pavers, turned the side yard into raised planter-boxes, redone the floor in the living room/dining room, replaced a crank-out window with a nice bay window in the dining room, faced the fireplace with granite, totally insulated the attic with fiberglass batting, added AC to the HVAC, totally insulated the floor with fiberglass batting, replaced the fence on the side street, replaced the fence with our neighbor, put in a shade structure to provide a nice environment for plants that liked it under a tree that died, installed stone paths through the garden, totally remodeled the kitchen (2004), replaced the crank-out window in the master bath with a pseudo-arts-and-crafts oak frame with glass blocks and a vinyl window, decked most of the useful area in the attic, built storage racks in the alleyway closest to our neighbor,  moved the water heater to the garage, moved the HVAC to the attic, installed AC, reroofed [and redesigned attic ventilation], changed the eastern wall of the house to standard insulation/drywall, rebuilt the HVAC/water heater closet into two closets.....eh, there's more, but I'm starting to worry about repeating myself.



Point being, having your own place is a tremendous opportunity for self-expression.....and a time sink.

729 Anybody have "roman shades" on the windows? dust catchers? hardware failures?

730 911 Operator ‏@911BUFF 27m RIGHT NOW! LOCAL CBS CREWS ATTACKED IN SF, LA AND OAK BY ZIMMERMAN PROTESTORS. MEDIA CREWS ASSAULTED. #911BUFF

731 Adriane, I have roman shades on the windows in my office.  They suck.  The straps have all broken and now they don't raise up and down.  They look better than venetian blinds but they break so easily.

732 727 Anybody have "roman shades" on the windows?

dust catchers? hardware failures?

Posted by: Adriane ... at July 16, 2013 02:15 AM (Wk9TK)

We have tiny Roman shades on the window of our mudroom that faces into the neighbor's place. We don't move 'em much.

733 cthulhu, I don't have the expertise or the money to do any of that.  How did you learn to do all that?

734  I'm going to need some prayers, my dad got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer today. I'll be over here in the corner drinking heavily.
Posted by: Country Singer at July 15, 2013 11:39 PM (U22Yw)

You and your family is in my prayers.

735 Prayers do get answered.


My friend surfaced tonight. hes been blown up and very sick and hes still not right, but hes alive, remembers me, and he called.

736 I got a cheapy kerosene lamp and tried it with tiki torch oil. Worked fine. Burned for about 20 hours on a single little well.

737 Country Singer, so sorry to hear about your dad

738 well it seems to me that the focal point for the Florida racial outrage is, where else, California?

739

This case sounds sort of familiar....

 

El Paso police officer dies after severe beating

 

An El Paso police officer allegedly knocked unconscious and then beaten violently by a 17-year-old died Friday morning at University Medical Center, police said.

Officer Jonathan Molina, 29, who did tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Marine Corps, died a little more than nine days after suffering a fractured skull, internal head injuries and facial fractures.

SNIP

The situation began to escalate when Gonzalez stepped between the officer and Gomez.

Molina "pushed" Gonzalez out of the way and redirected his attention to Gomez, the most recent affidavit says.

Then Gonzalez allegedly punched Molina in the face with his fist, stunning the officer.

Gonzalez then quickly grabbed Molina around his knees and jerked his legs upward, the affidavit says.

That caused Molina "to fall backwards and head first onto the concrete driveway," the affidavit says. The blow to Molina's head knocked him unconscious, it says.

Gonzalez then "squatted over (Molina) and began to beat (him) multiple times around the face and head," the affidavit says.

 

I guess  a 17-year-old  can use  punches and a sidewalk  to kill someone...

 

740

736 well it seems to me that the focal point for the Florida racial outrage is, where else, California?
****

 

testing out the flash mob riot apps before they go national.

741 Hi gushie ... it is good to hear from long lost friends ...

742 I guess a 17-year-old can use punches and a sidewalk to kill someone... *** Just terrible.

743 728 911 Operator ‏@911BUFF 27m
RIGHT NOW! LOCAL CBS CREWS ATTACKED IN SF, LA AND OAK BY ZIMMERMAN PROTESTORS. MEDIA CREWS ASSAULTED. #911BUFF

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 16, 2013 02:17 AM (jjvz+)

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In spite of my shame for laughing about bad things happening to people, this absolutely cracks me up.  The media has been begging for riots so they could film it.  Now they got it, and the only people around to be designated victims are them.   Assholes.  Waddya think was going to happen?

Dogshit has a higher IQ.

744 731 cthulhu, I don't have the expertise or the money to do any of that. How did you learn to do all that?

Posted by: chemjeff at July 16, 2013 02:19 AM (9GG/0)

My dad, who retired as the #3 Engineer for the City of Los Angeles, built 5 houses to make the money that put my sister and I through college. Though my punk kid self thought it was oppression when I was forced to participate, I actually learned a thing or two along the way....and it did really pay for my degree, so there's that. But there's not a lot of rocket surgery there -- most of it can be done by anyone.

745 The MBR has 1 west facing window: 6' wide x 2' long, fairly centered on a 13.5 ' x 8' wall. Husband hates dust catchers and foofoos, so trying to go for a minimalist shade that still looks pretty kind of thing.

746 I guess a 17-year-old can use punches and a sidewalk to kill someone...

Posted by: Icedog at July 16, 2013 02:25 AM (ZolUS)

I'll be darned -- who could have guessed?

747 Anonymous ‏@YourAnonNews 59s #LAPD Chief says tomorrow night the gloves are coming off. @LANow reports 13 arrests for vandalism and assault -- number may increase. #LA

748 I guess a 17-year-old can use punches and a sidewalk to kill someone...

Posted by: Icedog at July 16, 2013 02:25 AM (ZolUS)

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unpossible!!!  the 17 yo is just a child, and the 29 yo had combat training!!!!!

Skittles!!!!!!

749 743 The MBR has 1 west facing window: 6' wide x 2' long, fairly centered on a 13.5 ' x 8' wall.

Husband hates dust catchers and foofoos, so trying to go for a minimalist shade that still looks pretty kind of thing.

Posted by: Adriane ... at July 16, 2013 02:29 AM (Wk9TK)

I hate to point this out, but west-facing windows in bedrooms mean that they stay lit and warm long into the evening. Perhaps your better move would be to put a solid wall about 6' out, a shade over top, and a fern garden just outside between the window and the wall. Then you wouldn't need much of a curtain, could have airflow, and have something nice to look at.

750

So I will say again....

 

Al (race baiter) Sharpton....and his inbred kin (Jesse "How Much Money? Jackson).

 

Will be raking it in over the next few weeks because that is the cycle and HOE DE GET MO MONEY!!.....BITCHES!!! 

751 aloha Coothie!

752 Looks like I'm gonna go with the metalnerd  TDI tools.  Not cheap, but trying to do the timing belt without them looks like mission impossible, with 100% chance of fucking up real bad. 

http://www.metalnerd.com/cat03.htm

753 cthulhu well maybe I will start with something small.
what do you suggest?

754 Oh bejeezus. I just saw an ad for a *watch and sniff* episode of Honey Boo Boo. I can't imagine what that scent would be.

755 The w-f-w has a solid wall about 6' out... I've been hosing it down along with the house wall. Have considered outdoor awnings ... heat filmed the window. also have been considering trellising the block wall to add some height and bio-shade for the house wall. looking at the usual suspects like jasmine, honeysuckle, roses ... but 1) this is az and 2) I don't like bougenvilla which is one of the only vines that grows here...

756 actually I know where to start, the splash guard behind my kitchen sink needs caulking.

757 My MBR has a block wall facing west.  The sun heats that block up and its radiating heat into the MBR until freaking midnight.

NEVER. AGAIN.

Didn't think about it when I was a noob buying this joint back in 89'.  Now I know.

I don't know if some foil faced RMAX crudely tacked to the exterior wall would help or hurt...

758 I don't like bougenvilla which is one of the only vines that grows here... *** how can you not love it? It is one of the the most beautiful plants.

759 Best of luck, Purp... Have the auto mechanical ability of the nerds on TBBT ... except for changing my own flat tires ...

760 751 cthulhu well maybe I will start with something small.
what do you suggest?

Posted by: chemjeff at July 16, 2013 02:41 AM (9GG/0)

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I suggest coming to your senses before he talks you into stuff. 

761 I can't imagine what that scent would be.

Rotting flesh decomp...the odor of a society dying.

762 When I bought my first home ... the old new house ... it had bougenvilla growing under the french door and into the family room. Colorful but thorny ...

763 I only got to comment 148 by Filbert when I had to jump ahead and comment.  Fil, I was just having this conversation yesterday with a fellow conservative who said something so well I've been itching for a place to repeat it.

"When black Americans realize what the Democratic party has done to them, its over . . . forever.  Its only a matter of time."

The cracks are already there.  Its inevitable. 

764 759 I can't imagine what that scent would be.

Rotting flesh decomp...the odor of a society dying.

Posted by: Purp at July 16, 2013 02:44 AM (lm0Rv)

the word you are looking for is "decrepitation"

765 The sun heats that block up and its radiating heat into the MBR until freaking midnight. yeah verily! was hosing it down last-ish week when the temps soared.

766 733 Prayers do get answered.


My friend surfaced tonight. hes been blown up and very sick and hes still not right, but hes alive, remembers me, and he called.

Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at July 16, 2013 02:22 AM (r7Ddb)

I'm a chickenshit. I hit that and just stopped, then went on to reply to others.

But I'm back now.

That's such good (but guarded) news! I'm hoping, hoping, hoping, hoping that he's on the mend.....and wishing, wishing, wishing that he catches some breaks.

And where I'd normally be happy-dancing to see you, I'm clenching down to send effort and comfort to him.

767 And where I'd normally be happy-dancing to see you, I'm clenching down to send effort and comfort to him.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 16, 2013 02:47 AM (T1005)

please do. that man is in as bad trouble as i had guessed. physically hes better, emotionally hes a mess and with the scar on his brainbox hes just not the same. will yake more investigation, but he does remember the yellow sundress and that i always love him no matter what, no matter how ugly. I feel pretty good tonight. But this mans life i gather has become even more complicated.

768 754 actually I know where to start, the splash guard behind my kitchen sink needs caulking.

Posted by: chemjeff at July 16, 2013 02:42 AM (9GG/0)

OK, so here's the secret to caulking -- it doesn't stick to things that are wet. So if you want to caulk a seam, thoroughly dry it before you begin, squirt the goop deep in there, and when it's done, use a wet finger to smooth it.

769

Trayvon could have walked his FUCKIN WANNA-BE G-BLACK-HOOD-ASSED-POS-GOLD TOOTH'D-FUCKIN THUG-WANNA BE...BITCH SELF up into the "Hood" where he was staying......and never seen Zimmerman again.

BUT NO!!! WHAT THE MEDIA DON'T SAY......TRAYVON circled back just to confront Zimmerman.......THATS RIGHT BITCHES.....the gold tooth'd pos BLACK ASSHOLE turned into the hunter to be the BIG BLACK THUG BITCH......he-he...his bad.....thug bitch gets his due and just as well

need more of the same......DAILY!!!

770 749 aloha Coothie!

Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at July 16, 2013 02:37 AM (r7Ddb)

Hiya, Gushka! Still forcing good thoughts towards your friend.

771 well maybe I will start with something small.  what do you suggest?

You bought an older place, right? 

Your basement probably leaks cold air like a sieve in winter.  Finding those leaks and shooting them full of Great Stuff and/or stuffing the joist bays around the sills with fiberglass will go a long way towards keeping the 1st floor floors warm in the winter. 

Older single pane basement windows let a lot of heat out too.  They could be replaced with thermopane, or simply bricked in if the lighting in the basement is good enough.

I did this treatment to a 100+ year old 4 unit apartment building 10 years ago and it made a massive difference in the heating bills (which I was paying since it only had one boiler serving all units).

If the basement thermal integrity is high, you can remove insulation from boiler piping and the 1st floor will get a lot of indirect radiant heating because the basement will stay warm.  When I was done with that 100yo joint, you could work in the basement in a t-shirt on a zero degree day, and the 1st floor tenents had their thermostats turned off.

772 766 754
actually I know where to start, the splash guard behind my kitchen sink needs caulking.


Posted by: chemjeff at July 16, 2013 02:42 AM (9GG/0)


OK, so here's the secret to caulking -- it doesn't stick to things that are wet. So if you want to caulk a seam, thoroughly dry it before you begin, squirt the goop deep in there, and when it's done, use a wet finger to smooth it.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 16, 2013 02:53 AM (T1005)

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also, if it has been loose for a while assume that there are several horrible biological experiments growing behind it.  inject a little disinfectant within a few hours before you caulk.

773 Do not caulk over loose bad caulk either. 

774 How come my cars never look this clean when I go to work on them?  Do these people spend their time driving around on astroturf under a dome all day or something?

http://www.metalnerd.com/images/crank_lock_on_engine.JPG

775 753 The w-f-w has a solid wall about 6' out...

I've been hosing it down along with the house wall.

Have considered outdoor awnings ...

heat filmed the window.

also have been considering trellising the block wall to add some height and bio-shade for the house wall.

looking at the usual suspects like jasmine, honeysuckle, roses ... but 1) this is az and 2) I don't like bougenvilla which is one of the only vines that grows here...

Posted by: Adriane ... at July 16, 2013 02:42 AM (Wk9TK)

I used something very like http://tinyurl.com/kt5dl8g as a shade cloth, on a structure I designed using 4x4 uprights and pseudo-I-beams made from 2x4s, sitting on http://tinyurl.com/lh49zkn -- if you want pics, find a way to get me an email addy.



Do you know your Sunset climate zone? I may be able to suggest a vine or two, as well as other plants.

776 Hi late ont. anyone still here? Question, my lab keeps eating cicadas (sic?) is he crazy or hungry and has he lost his ever loving dog mind

777 758 751
cthulhu well maybe I will start with something small.
what do you suggest?


Posted by: chemjeff at July 16, 2013 02:41 AM (9GG/0)


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I suggest coming to your senses before he talks you into stuff.

Posted by: jc at July 16, 2013 02:43 AM (PlzOe)

Hah!

778 yeah there is probably nasty stuff growing back there, it was never caulked.  and now the wood by the backsplash is getting swollen and the veneer stuff is starting to buckle so I will have to glue that back down first.

there is about a 1/8" gap between the back of the backsplash and the wall, is that a problem?

779 I just got one of those bamboo sun shades that hangs from the eaves. Drops the temp a lot. You have to remember to roll it up on windy days, or it will destroy itself. But it is cheap, easy and works great.

780 762 759
I can't imagine what that scent would be.

Rotting flesh decomp...the odor of a society dying.


Posted by: Purp at July 16, 2013 02:44 AM (lm0Rv)



the word you are looking for is "decrepitation"

Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at July 16, 2013 02:46 AM (r7Ddb)

The BH is oddly fond of her potted Dracunculus vulgaris -- she loves to put it in the front atrium while in bloom....and giggles when she thinks of the mailman's reaction.

781 765 And where I'd normally be happy-dancing to see you, I'm clenching down to send effort and comfort to him.


Posted by: cthulhu at July 16, 2013 02:47 AM (T1005)


please do. that man is in as bad trouble as i had guessed. physically hes better, emotionally hes a mess and with the scar on his brainbox hes just not the same. will yake more investigation, but he does remember the yellow sundress and that i always love him no matter what, no matter how ugly. I feel pretty good tonight. But this mans life i gather has become even more complicated.

Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at July 16, 2013 02:53 AM (r7Ddb)

Shit shit shit shit shit shit.....and hopeful thoughts. Comforting thoughts. Strengthening thoughts. As much as I can.

782 685 Posted by: UWP at July 16, 2013 12:51 AM (r98SZ) Was that a joke? How could she not realize it was the sun? At least you cracked me up after a few long and horrible months. --- The second part was, about the ejaculation. A joke, and having the flu and hopped up on Mucinex D for two days. Matter of fat, its 3:14 AM and I'm still all fucked up. But hung a microwave and am ready for bed. Maybe I'll be normal tomorrow.

783 OK, I've been elsewhere tonight. Just a quick hit and run before bedtime. Karl Denninger opens a can of whoop-ass on Eric Holder: http://tinyurl.com/kkl9qmq

784
The BH is oddly fond of her potted Dracunculus vulgaris -- she loves to put it in the front atrium while in bloom....and giggles when she thinks of the mailman's reaction.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 16, 2013 03:10 AM (T1005)

clever, diabolical girl!

785

Posted by: Purp at July 16, 2013 02:57 AM (lm0Rv)

Purp that is all great advice.  What type of "Great Stuff" do you recommend to fill in gaps between bricks?

786 774 Hi late ont. anyone still here?
Question, my lab keeps eating cicadas (sic?) is he crazy or hungry and has he lost his ever loving dog mind

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 16, 2013 03:06 AM (vgd4f)

I had a dog that had learned to eat bees. He'd snap 'em out of the air and let them drop to the ground, then paw them until they were scrambled enough to where their stingers weren't an issue, then he'd lick 'em up. Compared to that, cicadas are a cinch.

787 wood by the backsplash is getting swollen and the veneer stuff is starting to buckle so I will have to glue that back down first.

Lotta back splashes are just Formica over particle board.  When particle board gets repeatedly wet it expands, gets bloaty, and has the strength of oatmeal.  Formica is rigid and flat.  It'll probably never glue down properly.  If there's any flex at all, the contact cement will eventually fail again.

A 1/8" gap is more than enough to allow a lot of water down into the cabinets and rot the bottoms out of them.

788 Konichiwa good people. Im ready to head back to the good ol' USA. Fuck all the naysayers and bad-mouthers ofmy homeland.

789 776 yeah there is probably nasty stuff growing back there, it was never caulked. and now the wood by the backsplash is getting swollen and the veneer stuff is starting to buckle so I will have to glue that back down first.

there is about a 1/8" gap between the back of the backsplash and the wall, is that a problem?

Posted by: chemjeff at July 16, 2013 03:08 AM (9GG/0)

Ideally, the top deck is waterproof to the point where you could have egg fights or huge water spills and it wouldn't get into your cabinets. A 1/8" gap is totally unacceptable. On top of everything else, it sounds like you need a http://www.amazon.com/Leak-Frog-LF001-Water-Alarm/dp/B000WMSTUO (BTW, don't pay $25 for one).

790 What type of "Great Stuff" do you recommend to fill in gaps between bricks?

Large chunks of mortar that's fallen out of the brick should probably be repointed with fresh mortar.  If its old enough, you may have a lime mortar (soft, crumbly), newer will have a cement based mortar.  That's a project though.

If you're in a hurry, the red can high expanding stuff works good.  Shoot it in, let it foam up and ooze out.  When hardened up the next day, the oozed out globs can be easily sliced off with a bread knife.

791 Lotta back splashes are just Formica over particle board.

that is what mine is, yeah.

A 1/8" gap is more than enough to allow a lot of water down into the cabinets and rot the bottoms out of them.

see that's what I am afraid of.

So what should I do?  Please don't tell me to replace the entire kitchen counter.

792 Cthulhu, yeah, I am kinda worried, my house is sprayed with bug poison, and he's eating them dead or alive. However this dog has been known to eat a rock, so maybe I shoul not be too concerned.

793 791 Cthulhu, yeah, I am kinda worried, my house is sprayed with bug poison, and he's eating them dead or alive. However this dog has been known to eat a rock, so maybe I shoul not be too concerned.

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 16, 2013 03:26 AM (vgd4f)

Ooh....I wouldn't be too concerned about eating the live ones....but bug poisoned ones? Who did the poisoning, and what do they recommend? (Which, BTW, includes calling the poison vendor if you did the poisoning yourself.)

794 Please don't tell me to replace the entire kitchen counter.

You can get lengths of just backsplash stock that are pre-Formica covered.  Color matching might be an issue...

Alternatively, you could do a tiled backsplash...

Or peel the bad Formica off, dry it all out, sand it down a bit, seal with shellac or polyurethane, sand again, and go with some sort of epoxy paint.  The KlassCote 2-part epoxy's "flow out" very well and produce a nice finish even when you put'em on with a really shitty barn brush.

795 Do you know your Sunset climate zone? I may be able to suggest a vine or two, as well as other plants. USDA: 9 Sunset: 13 - low desert ...

796 790 Lotta back splashes are just Formica over particle board.

that is what mine is, yeah.

A 1/8" gap is more than enough to allow a lot of water down into the cabinets and rot the bottoms out of them.

see that's what I am afraid of.

So what should I do? Please don't tell me to replace the entire kitchen counter.

Posted by: chemjeff at July 16, 2013 03:26 AM (9GG/0)

Wait a second....are we talking 1/8" between the deck and the backsplash (very, very bad) or between the deck and the wall (who was stupid enough to do that?)?

The problem is water going from above the deck to below. If there's a leak between the backsplash and the wall, 5" above the deck, who cares?

797 Chtulhu, i did. Oh shit, he ate one over the weekend and he's still kicking, man now I'm worried. Swear I feed my dogs, I even make them an egg when I make hubby and I breakfast, wtf?

798 Purp, no, what do I do about figuring out if the wood is all rotted out behind the kitchen counter?

799 FWIW, Formica over particle board is the cheapest counter-top material there is.  

800 fastfreefall at July 16, 2013 03:23 AM (Rw8tn) happy traveling / homeward bound ...

801 what do I do about figuring out if the wood is all rotted out behind the kitchen counter?

Poke it with an awl in an unobtrusive spot. 

OTOH, maybe that's something you'd rather not know right now ;->

802 cthulhu, I don't know what you mean by "deck".  There is a kitchen counter, and attached to the back of the counter is a backsplash.  There is no gap there.  But between the backsplash and the wall, there is a 1/8" gap.  The backsplash isn't all that high (4"), so it is possible for some water to splash down the gap.

803 Purp, I can't even get to the wood or see it.

804
798 FWIW, Formica over particle board is the cheapest counter-top material there is.

Posted by: Purp at July 16, 2013 03:37 AM (lm0Rv)

yeah I'm kinda figuring out that I bought the place from a flipper

805 Hi chemjeff. Hope your good!

806 801 cthulhu, I don't know what you mean by "deck". There is a kitchen counter, and attached to the back of the counter is a backsplash. There is no gap there. But between the backsplash and the wall, there is a 1/8" gap. The backsplash isn't all that high (4"), so it is possible for some water to splash down the gap.

Posted by: chemjeff at July 16, 2013 03:40 AM (9GG/0)

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hard to get significant amounts of water into a space like that.  however, if your backsplash itself is seeming dilapidated you should be able to tell if it was soaking up water from the bottom or top by where the delaminations are located.

807 hi lou!  well, doing okay I suppose.  I am sorry that your puppeh is eating poisoned bugs.  that sounds kinda bad to me.

808 jc, no the backsplash isn't dilapidated, it's just cheap.

809 Best bug poison for dogs, and humans, and horses to be around would be a thing called cv-80d (pyrethrins). It's fly spray but paralyzes the nervous system of any insect. Doesn't affect people or animals because we have an enzyme that gets rid of it easily, which is why we can breath it. NOT to be used much around cats though. They don't have the enzyme thing, and will die if you spray it on them. Anyway, I spray it in the house anytime I see a fly, and the residual gets any other bug. House is devoid of bugs.

810 lou, this is for you regarding your puppeh's dining habits

http://tinyurl.com/mz9chek

811 But between the backsplash and the wall, there is a 1/8" gap.

OK, so the top is kinda tilted towards the center of the room, but the bottom is tight.  That's not so bad.  Since its cheap junk anyway, just lay a heavy bead of caulk on top and call it a day, unless its kinda loose hinging on the bottom caulk.

812 794 Do you know your Sunset climate zone? I may be able to suggest a vine or two, as well as other plants.

USDA: 9
Sunset: 13 - low desert ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at July 16, 2013 03:34 AM (Wk9TK)

All sorts of fun -- http://tinyurl.com/kje6p3p -- are you looking for tropical, water-wise, lush, specimen?

813 Thanks Adriane!

814 lush - the vine, not me - as we are hoping to have afternoon shade ... water wise - always good in the desert, fragrant, humming bird or bee or butterfly friendly not poisonous for cats ... not invasive, or house foundation lifting ... i don't want much

815 I've been thinking about tapcon'ing some standoffs (maybe about 4" or so) to the offending west wall and just stretching a big white tarp over it.

Anything has to be better than letting the direct sun hit that wall...

816 Thanks chemjeff. Thanks UWP. Don't know what to do with this dog anymore, he's crazier then me, and I love him, feed him, got him a new dog bed, I think he's gone round the bend

817 796 Chtulhu, i did. Oh shit, he ate one over the weekend and he's still kicking, man now I'm worried. Swear I feed my dogs, I even make them an egg when I make hubby and I breakfast, wtf?

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 16, 2013 03:35 AM (vgd4f)

Some poisons only hit invertebrates....some nuke everything; some poisons only dose small critters.....some go all-out. The vendor of the poison should be able to advise.

As a practical matter, poisoning is not as easy as most suppose. As an amusing example, rat poison is hazardous to humans because (a) rats have a good memory for things they have eaten, and (2) have no vomit reflex. So if you under-poison a rat and it survives, it will never take the bait again....but if you over-poison it, it can't reduce the dose.....so most rat poisons have enough toxin in 'em to kill a horse.....or a human.

818 Purp at July 16, 2013 03:56 AM (lm0Rv) I was thinking about buying a dye kit and some stencils and going to town on a cotton tarp w/ grommets from Deep Homot ... But then I remembered I have an annual report due for the arts festival... I have a no time to get creative sad ...

819 also I have a 'we just finished the floor but the monsoon season has moved in and I'm worried about yellow streaks if I seal the floor in this humidity' sad ...

820 elder god - if this is a dup, I apologize ... http://www.cuttingedgestencils.com/wall-stencil-stripe.html 9 north to south segments and 6 east to west (4 corners) and 2 middlens ... stencil color == baseboard color

821 801 cthulhu, I don't know what you mean by "deck". There is a kitchen counter, and attached to the back of the counter is a backsplash. There is no gap there. But between the backsplash and the wall, there is a 1/8" gap. The backsplash isn't all that high (4"), so it is possible for some water to splash down the gap.

Posted by: chemjeff at July 16, 2013 03:40 AM (9GG/0)

I'm 90% sure you should just jam some goo into it and forget it. The "deck" is your countertop....if you're using it frequently, there's ample opportunity for it to be wet -- and to leak at the kitchen faucet, around the sink, around the dishwasher airgap, or over the edges.

You can get water damage to your cabinets if your plumbing leaks (which people check) or if you have leaks between your deck and the cabinets.

822 I think my neighbors have a Chinese wisteria but they grow it as a shrub rather than a vine on a trellis ... I think ...

823 Ugh 12 hour shift from hell finally over.

824 #whiterage on twitchy looking hilarious ...

825 Happy-ish tuesday morning, buzzion ...

826 Roses are red, violets are blue, everybody stay safe, happy, and thrifty ... And a touch of beer, bacon, or chocolate too ...

827 Soon to sleep, I'm afraid....

828 Adriane, that's the best poetry I've read in a while

829 buzzion, congrats

830 chtulhu, the sad thing is. I killed an oleander bush. Finally tired, getting sleep is getting far to rare for me. Love you guys. Thanks for the advice!!

831 lou, love ya too
sweet dreams

832 yes, you all give good advice, thanks

833 829 chtulhu, the sad thing is. I killed an oleander bush. Finally tired, getting sleep is getting far to rare for me. Love you guys. Thanks for the advice!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 16, 2013 04:17 AM (vgd4f)

Oleander looks nice, low maintenance......toxic as hell to everything. Got rid of the one this property before we moved in -- replaced it with a pineapple guava.

It's a great plant for freeway medians -- I wouldn't want it at my house (except, maybe, along the front in the "fuck you" strip).

834 WTF, ESPN Radio has been leading off segments with, and blasting highlights of, the *Home Run Derby*.  Hey, I get that sports is a sideshow, and fluff, but even by that score this is a sideshow of a sideshow of a sideshow.

835 802 Purp, I can't even get to the wood or see it.

Posted by: chemjeff at July 16, 2013 03:41 AM (9GG/0)

Thaaaaaaaat's what she said!

836 807 jc, no the backsplash isn't dilapidated, it's just cheap.

Posted by: chemjeff at July 16, 2013 03:47 AM (9GG/0)

**BPFHHHH**

837 BEEP


BEEP


BEEP


BEEP


BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

838 Very civilized of the hooligans to eschew bludgeons, saps, and even hand powered projectile weapons.  That's rocks for those of you in New Jersey.  I've always found a nice piece of Ash or Hickory will cut a nice swath through a crowd like that.  A pick handle has just the right balance for me, and better reach than a Louisville Slugger.

839 Even though I'm from Brooklyn, I prefer the pick handle to the aluminum bat.  Call me contrary.