July 28, 2013
— Maetenloch
Wait - The National Conversation on Race Has Rules?!?
Of course it does - and they're all designed to shut down (and shut up) any argument a white person might have. I learned this early on in high school when I fell for the classic 'frank conversation about race' gambit - which is never a conversation but rather an occasion for white people to be confronted about/confess their racist errors and seek absolution from any non-white members of the 'conversation'.
Given this why would any white person ever voluntarily enter into one of these traps? Well apart from sheer cowardice.
Anyway Jenée Desmond-Harris of TheRoot has issued some rules about the Great National Conversation which are about what you'd expect:
1. Talking about race isn't racist. Don't say that. Vilifying people who discuss race and point out racism - making them the bad guys - is one of the ways racism is maintained. So is acting as if "blacks suffer from racism" and "whites suffer from reverse racism" are equally valid points of view....
5. Black people shouldn't have to fit your definition of what's respectable to deserve equality or justice. It's silly and unfounded to blame inequality caused by institutionalized racism on, say, sagging pants or rap music. If you want to celebrate black people who are educated and high-achieving and defy persistent stereotypes, great, but that can't be a requirement for fair treatment. We got into trouble with this type of thinking when evidence that Trayvon Martin was a normal teenager messed up so many people's impression of him as a sympathetic victim.
Patterico has some fun with her claim that they're for 'everyone' - not just white people.
Is This The Next Zimmerman Case?
Always remember how abysmally the media 'reported' the Zimmerman case at the start and keep that in mind when reading the details of this case.
Merritt Landry, a 33-year-old "white caucasian" shot the victim, a 14-year-old black boy, in the head. A single spent cartridge case was recovered at the scene, indicating that a semi-automatic weapon was used and suggesting that a single shot was fired. The hour of the shooting was approximately 2:00AM, on Friday, July 26, 2013. As of this writing the victim is reported to remain alive, in critical condition at a local hospital.The victim was shot within feet from the rear door of Landry's dwelling in New Orleans, in an area accessible only by having to scale a locked fence, suggesting forcible entry onto the property by the victim.
...The Hazouri recording purportedly shows the two teens talking in the middle of the street outside of Landry's house at about 1:44AM. One wore a dark tank top and the other wore a light tank top. The teen in the light tank top climbed over Landry's fence and into the yard. Landry's large dog began to bark, alerting Landry to the intruder.
Hazouri reports that Landry, who has a baby daughter and whose wife is pregnant, believed that the victim was trying to break into his house. "All I know is that Merritt had told his family that he had said: 'Freeze!' and it looked like the guy turned at him and had his hand on his hip," Hazouri reported.
So of course Landry is being charged with attempted second degree murder. No word on his relationship with Peruvia or the notorious race-criminal, G. Zimmerman.
Same Weather Programs + Different Computers = Different Weather Forecasts
Most major weather services (US NWS, Britain's Met Office, etc) have their own supercomputers, and their own weather models. But there are some models which are used globally. A new paper has been published, comparing outputs from one such program on different machines around the world. Apparently, the same code, running on different machines, can produce different outputs due to accumulation of differing round-off errors. The handling of floating-point numbers in computing is a field in its own right. The paper apparently deals with 10-day weather forecasts. Weather forecasts are generally done in steps of 1 hour. I.e. the output from hour 1 is used as the starting condition for the hour 2 forecast. The output from hour 2 is used as the starting condition for hour 3, etc.
One thing you learn in Numerical Analysis is that non-linear systems can be quite sensitive to initial conditions (and guess what - most weather models are non-linear). So under some conditions just the errors from floating point rounding operations can be enough to make your results diverge. Now this is weather modeling not climate modeling but it's a cautionary tale about betting the farm (and world economy) on the output of computer models. But hey SCIENTIFIC CONCENSUS!
Gawker: 80% of All Adults in U.S. Face Near-Poverty or Unemployment
During their lives. Which ends up casting such a gigantic net as to make the statistic meaningless.
Also true: 84% of all Adults in US Face Car Fires, False Imprisonment, and the heartbreak of Psoriasis.
Chicago Firearms Confiscation Begins
Or reason #57 why registration always leads to confiscation.
In Illinois, gun owners are required to get a Firearms Owners ID card, or FOID. It's good for 10 years, and then you need to renew it. But if you don't renew your card, or if you do something that displeases the powers that be, your FOID is NULL and VOID. Which means you can't own guns legally.
Cook County police officers have become increasingly worried that when someone's FOID card is revoked, their guns aren't instantly confiscated. So they're doing exactly what gun control advocates have said that registration would never result in - door to door confiscation.
Unless the reasons the FOID was invalidated would also make you a prohibited person, I don't see how this could be constitutional. Buy hey it's Illinois.
2) Judging by their response, the meanest thing you can do to people on the Internet is to give them really good software for free.3) Three things never work: Voice chat, printers and projectors.
7) Most websites treat "I like it" and "This is good" as the same thing, leading to most people on the Internet refusing to distinguish between "I don't like it" and "It's not good".
So What Do Bears Actually Do In the Woods?
Luckily that tree can't talk.
Weekly AoSHQ Commenter Standings
Top 10 commenters:
1 [595 comments] 'Vic' [83.52 posts/day]
2 [559 comments] 'EC'
3 [495 comments] 'Anna Puma (+SmuD)'
4 [446 comments] 'thunderb'
5 [426 comments] 'AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est'
6 [415 comments] 'Jane D'oh'
7 [365 comments] 'Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016'
8 [365 comments] 'logprof'
9 [361 comments] 'Miguel Ambivalence'
10 [361 comments] 'J.J. Sefton'
Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [104 names] 'phreshone' [14.60 unique names/day]
2 [85 names] 'Adam'
3 [73 names] 'Cicero (@cicero)'
4 [68 names] 'logprof'
5 [62 names] 'The Political Hat'
6 [51 names] 'AnonymousDrivel'
7 [44 names] 'andycanuck'
8 [40 names] 't-bird'
9 [40 names] 'ChristyBlinky, Redneck Queen'
10 [39 names] 'zsasz'
The group. Yeah.
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Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 06:19 PM (4Mv1T)
Zimmerman's Ace of Spades Burglar Alarm Company:
http://tinyurl.com/mjcok25
Posted by: Brisco_County at July 28, 2013 06:19 PM (B0Zzk)
Posted by: Chest Rockwell at July 28, 2013 06:19 PM (FlRtG)
Posted by: The Political Hat at July 28, 2013 06:19 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Thrawn at July 28, 2013 06:20 PM (KiyII)
Posted by: The Political Hat at July 28, 2013 06:20 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: JDesmondHarris at July 28, 2013 06:21 PM (Aif/5)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 28, 2013 06:22 PM (KJ5y7)
Posted by: GuyfromNH at July 28, 2013 06:22 PM (cJD7u)
Posted by: CDR M at July 28, 2013 06:23 PM (dKV5k)
Posted by: DC in Towson at July 28, 2013 06:23 PM (jIaZt)
Posted by: EC at July 28, 2013 06:24 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 06:24 PM (77l1L)
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That story is not passing the smell test, if for that reason only.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 06:25 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 06:25 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: shnee at July 28, 2013 06:25 PM (zivRx)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 06:25 PM (GEICT)
Hi y'all. I heard that Anthony Weiner's campaign director resigned, causing him to reorganize his campaign.
I've always heard that if you shake up your staff more than once you are just playing with it.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 28, 2013 06:25 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: what dead horse? at July 28, 2013 06:25 PM (1mtV3)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at July 28, 2013 06:25 PM (CA2NO)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 06:26 PM (77l1L)
Posted by: model_1066 at July 28, 2013 06:26 PM (QeafI)
Posted by: Adam at July 28, 2013 06:26 PM (Aif/5)
Posted by: SpongeBob ReaverSaget at July 28, 2013 06:26 PM (kxSZr)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 28, 2013 06:26 PM (2pc1N)
I go to New Orleans a lot for vacation. I love the city immensely, but many of the locals I meet tell me that they or someone they know has a friend that has been murdered at random. It hardly ever involves someone that the victim knows, or a gang dispute. It's a mugging, a carjacking, or even worse: a random shooting for the hell of it. And guess what the age and race of the murderers are 100% of the time.
So if two black teenagers jump my fence in New Orleans and I have a family inside, I'm going to be just as trigger happy.
Posted by: Brisco_County at July 28, 2013 06:27 PM (B0Zzk)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 06:27 PM (77l1L)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 06:27 PM (GEICT)
And is the mother (I assume absentee father) going to be charged with child welfare violations for allowing her 14-y-o out at 2 a.m.?
BTW, whoever first linked the story in the ONT whenever it happened--Friday night/Saturday morning IIRC, I noticed the linked report left out the 2 a.m. fact using the vaguer "early Saturday morning" instead.
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at July 28, 2013 06:27 PM (BQ10H)
Posted by: DC in Towson at July 28, 2013 06:27 PM (jIaZt)
the Pervia thread got me into the top ten sadly...
congrats and commiserations to the top tens.
Vic bless you for you victory in the rankings.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 06:27 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 28, 2013 06:27 PM (KJ5y7)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 06:28 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: The Kyriarchical Hat at July 28, 2013 06:28 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: DC in Towson at July 28, 2013 06:28 PM (jIaZt)
My 24th is this year. Hope I don't get thrown under the bus.
It could happen. {{{{{shudders}}}}}
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 06:28 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 28, 2013 06:29 PM (KJ5y7)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 06:29 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Vendette, fellow Baptist at July 28, 2013 06:29 PM (77l1L)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes more nonsense...... at July 28, 2013 06:29 PM (9bMee)
Posted by: EC at July 28, 2013 06:30 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 06:30 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 28, 2013 06:30 PM (d7tB2)
Posted by: Waldo at July 28, 2013 06:30 PM (tXGg/)
Let he who is without sin cast the first stoned...
Peruvia Traditions, Mores, and Spicoli Tossing
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 06:30 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: elliot m at July 28, 2013 06:30 PM (zPich)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 28, 2013 06:30 PM (KJ5y7)
Posted by: Vendette, fellow Baptist at July 28, 2013 06:30 PM (77l1L)
Posted by: The Political Hat at July 28, 2013 06:31 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: model_1066 at July 28, 2013 06:31 PM (QeafI)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 28, 2013 06:31 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Thrawn at July 28, 2013 06:31 PM (KiyII)
Posted by: The Byzantine Hat at July 28, 2013 06:32 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 28, 2013 06:32 PM (d7tB2)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 06:32 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: rickl at July 28, 2013 06:32 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Trivial Pursuer at July 28, 2013 06:32 PM (/sohm)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 28, 2013 06:32 PM (RJOKC)
Posted by: DC in Towson at July 28, 2013 06:32 PM (jIaZt)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at July 28, 2013 06:33 PM (CA2NO)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 28, 2013 06:33 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: DC in Towson at July 28, 2013 06:33 PM (jIaZt)
Please includeany "out-of-the-box" solutions.
Posted by: elliot m at July 28, 2013 10:30 PM (zPich)
At this website? How about 10000 variations of the same unfunny joke and a fat girl riding a horse?
Posted by: shnee at July 28, 2013 06:33 PM (zivRx)
Look you can't force the African-Americans to act like human beings or follow those tomes of "suggestions" you call laws...
Trayvon Martin was simply engaged in some Venture Finance
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 06:33 PM (LRFds)
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Congratulations to them!
Posted by: Tobacco Road, also a fellow Baptist at July 28, 2013 06:34 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: EC at July 28, 2013 06:34 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Zombie Al Capone at July 28, 2013 06:34 PM (9bMee)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 28, 2013 06:34 PM (KJ5y7)
Posted by: Waldo at July 28, 2013 06:34 PM (tXGg/)
Posted by: Baron bon Mot at July 28, 2013 06:35 PM (7clBZ)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes more nonsense...... at July 28, 2013 06:35 PM (9bMee)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 28, 2013 06:35 PM (2up3Q)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 28, 2013 06:35 PM (RJOKC)
Posted by: CDR M at July 28, 2013 06:35 PM (dKV5k)
Posted by: eman at July 28, 2013 06:36 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 06:36 PM (77l1L)
Posted by: A Canuck in France at July 28, 2013 06:36 PM (/izg2)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 28, 2013 06:36 PM (ZPrif)
I'll go Hot-Air, "in fairness" on this one and say that if it's got rules, it's at least a debate (or a boxing-match), and I'm fine with that. Fuck, I'm fine with dueling.
But I agree on the last bit - if the rules are set up to support a specific side, the match is rigged.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 28, 2013 06:36 PM (d7tB2)
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I sold a really nice professional grade banjo I could buy back. Goes with my bow ties.
Posted by: Tobacco Road, also a fellow Baptist at July 28, 2013 06:36 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: ConcealedKerry or SubMitt at July 28, 2013 06:37 PM (uUXp6)
Posted by: rickl at July 28, 2013 06:37 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at July 28, 2013 06:37 PM (CA2NO)
http://www.hlj.com/cgi-perl/hljlist?SaleGroup=130718_Pla&header=plamosale130718
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 28, 2013 06:37 PM (RJOKC)
Posted by: Ma Bell at July 28, 2013 06:37 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: underground vulgarian at July 28, 2013 06:38 PM (TI6nB)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 06:38 PM (77l1L)
Posted by: DC in Towson at July 28, 2013 06:38 PM (jIaZt)
Posted by: dr. shatterhand at July 28, 2013 06:38 PM (wGCtp)
The victim has to be alive for that charge. Posted by: eman
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Thank you. I completely missed the "attempted" in "attempted 2nd degree murder." That does clear it up.
Posted by: Tobacco Road, also a fellow Baptist at July 28, 2013 06:39 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Arbalest at July 28, 2013 06:39 PM (FlRtG)
Thank you #72-
"At this website? How about 10000 variations of the same unfunny joke and a fat girl riding a horse?"
Maybe the best idea includes a fat girl riding a horse. Keep them coming.
Posted by: elliot m at July 28, 2013 06:39 PM (zPich)
Just wait until they start charging you with crimes against humanity for denying AGW...
I've basically come to accept that the "middle" has decided the leftbats are gonna get to go full bore "Shining" on the sanity scale before they blink...
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 06:39 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 28, 2013 06:39 PM (KJ5y7)
Posted by: eman at July 28, 2013 06:39 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: model_1066 at July 28, 2013 06:40 PM (QeafI)
Posted by: Lauren at July 28, 2013 06:40 PM (ELdpj)
The black Diaspora?
That's pumped!
A ticket from Houston to Lagos is $824...
Nike Air Yeezy 2 NRG wolf grey ii kanye west galaxy platinum zen net tan yeezys
$5,000
just sayin'
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at July 28, 2013 06:40 PM (0It32)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 06:40 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: model_1066 at July 28, 2013 06:41 PM (QeafI)
At this website? How about 10000 variations of the same unfunny joke and a fat girl riding a horse?
Posted by: shnee at July 28, 2013 10:33 PM (zivRx)
*****
And yet here you are.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 28, 2013 06:41 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: eman at July 28, 2013 06:41 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: Lauren at July 28, 2013 06:41 PM (ELdpj)
Posted by: arminius at July 28, 2013 06:41 PM (cDnhR)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 06:42 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: EC at July 28, 2013 06:42 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: DC in Towson at July 28, 2013 06:42 PM (jIaZt)
We have been married for 45 years. Either a testament to true love or endurance.
Sometimes my wife tends toward the endurance part.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 28, 2013 06:42 PM (SAMxH)
No, but this overcharging by prosecutors is getting ridiculous.
There needs to be a rule that you can't include lesser charges. Want to go after second degree murder? Fine, but no manslaughter included as well.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 28, 2013 06:42 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: model_1066 at July 28, 2013 06:42 PM (QeafI)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 28, 2013 06:43 PM (KJ5y7)
You mean like Peruvia? Oh come on, now. Lets be realistic.
Posted by: what dead horse? at July 28, 2013 06:43 PM (1mtV3)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes more nonsense...... at July 28, 2013 06:43 PM (9bMee)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at July 28, 2013 06:43 PM (CA2NO)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 28, 2013 06:44 PM (KJ5y7)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 06:44 PM (77l1L)
1. Yeh, slavery was bad, do you expect me to invent a time machine so I can go back and free the slaves?
2. Rule #1 applies to Jim Crow
3. I don't have the money any more to take any guilt trips
4. Your friendship with me cuts both ways. If you have rules on how I can talk with you, or speaking with you becomes a chore, I have other friends
5. The First Amendment was created to protect speech you don't like too
6. I'm at the point where I no longer care
Posted by: kbdabear at July 28, 2013 06:44 PM (/9IC1)
Posted by: EC at July 28, 2013 06:44 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: USA at July 28, 2013 06:45 PM (VIaw0)
No I'm mocking the fuck out of liberals who are more racist by breakfast than I am at the end of a fortnight.
My favorite economics minds extant are Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell, I'm sick and tired of the Race Hustlers pretending that their "people" can't be citizens.
It is tiresome, and nettlesome. The good news is I am moving out of my house in all likelihood by Wed and I will be on the road to SC and then TX so I won't be wearing anyone else out for a while except maybe my alternate personality. As was pointed out upthread there is rank intellectual dishonesty afoot WRT "baggy drawers and hoodies are not crimes"
Nope they're not, of course Trayvon Martin did a little bit more than wear droopy pants and hoodies.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 06:45 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Carol T at July 28, 2013 06:45 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 06:45 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: DC in Towson at July 28, 2013 06:46 PM (jIaZt)
Posted by: eman at July 28, 2013 06:46 PM (AO9UG)
Um, Bill Cosby sounds like a person you could use here. Also Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, etc.
Posted by: docweasel at July 28, 2013 06:46 PM (YPpzf)
Posted by: Baron bon Mot at July 28, 2013 06:46 PM (7clBZ)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at July 28, 2013 06:46 PM (CA2NO)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 28, 2013 06:46 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: Gingy at July 28, 2013 06:47 PM (aH+zP)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 28, 2013 06:47 PM (KJ5y7)
Posted by: Ktgreat: assho at July 28, 2013 06:47 PM (Gmg3+)
Posted by: EC at July 28, 2013 06:47 PM (doBIb)
Chicago Next? Windy City Cash Balance Plummets To Only $33 Million As Debt Triples
http://tinyurl.com/n7gky32
Posted by: kbdabear at July 28, 2013 06:47 PM (/9IC1)
Posted by: Lauren at July 28, 2013 06:47 PM (ELdpj)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 06:47 PM (77l1L)
Posted by: The Political Hat at July 28, 2013 06:48 PM (Vk2pI)
http://www.hlj.com/product/HSGSP306/Air
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 28, 2013 06:49 PM (RJOKC)
Posted by: Peruvia Dept. of Education at July 28, 2013 06:49 PM (FcR7P)
Well, we also came up with some fine forms of public entertainment.
Posted by: Ahuitzotl, speaker for the gods at July 28, 2013 06:49 PM (d7tB2)
Posted by: Michael Moore'd in the Boobeh at July 28, 2013 06:49 PM (rCS6C)
Posted by: EC at July 28, 2013 06:49 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Lauren at July 28, 2013 06:49 PM (ELdpj)
Posted by: rickl at July 28, 2013 06:49 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at July 28, 2013 06:50 PM (CA2NO)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 06:50 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Lauren at July 28, 2013 06:51 PM (ELdpj)
I'm pretty sure that you're not allowed to bring up black on white crime when the subject of St Trayvon comes up
Mob Of Teens Brutally Attack Man In Heart Of Little Italy (Baltimore)
http://tinyurl.com/kvwl82m
Posted by: kbdabear at July 28, 2013 06:51 PM (/9IC1)
Posted by: Jones in CO at July 28, 2013 06:51 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at July 28, 2013 06:52 PM (CA2NO)
Posted by: Nancy Reagan at July 28, 2013 06:52 PM (1mtV3)
Posted by: USA at July 28, 2013 06:52 PM (VIaw0)
Posted by: Baron bon Mot at July 28, 2013 06:52 PM (7clBZ)
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CAGE-MATCH!
Posted by: Tobacco Road, also a fellow Baptist at July 28, 2013 06:53 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 28, 2013 10:37 PM (RJOKC)
Linky no work.
Posted by: Tree at July 28, 2013 06:53 PM (J2GaP)
Posted by: NAACP at July 28, 2013 06:53 PM (Aif/5)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 28, 2013 06:53 PM (RJOKC)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 06:53 PM (77l1L)
Posted by: Dagda Mor at July 28, 2013 06:54 PM (KiyII)
Posted by: Ktgreat: assho at July 28, 2013 06:54 PM (Gmg3+)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at July 28, 2013 06:55 PM (CA2NO)
I'm pretty sure under Louisiana law the guy made a clean shoot...
that was the case when an exchange student got perforated.
You don't trespass in Louisiana, and you don't raise too much hell on a private businesses' property.
You just don't.
http://tinyurl.com/k8ggtql
US Carry article on LA Senate efforts to weaken their laws...
essentially this whole "Let's have a talk on race" horseshit (which I went to the aptly named "Root" aka "dick" and read and St Trayvon worship is being done to grant license for physical assault to the "protected."
I hate the passive-aggressive cocksuckers more and more each day it gets more and more obvious they are babystepping towards some enabling act.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 06:55 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 06:55 PM (GEICT)
Get into a conversation with your black co-workers about "race."
Hilarity and firings will ensue, but mostly firings.
Most likely yours.
Posted by: Kreplach at July 28, 2013 06:56 PM (zOP5o)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at July 28, 2013 06:56 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Lauren at July 28, 2013 06:57 PM (ELdpj)
Posted by: Joey B. at July 28, 2013 06:57 PM (1mtV3)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 06:57 PM (77l1L)
Congratulations on your 12th, EC. I hope they keep on coming, with each more special than the last.
My Gram used to say that to us each year.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 28, 2013 06:58 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at July 28, 2013 06:58 PM (RZ8pf)
"The teen in the light tank top climbed over Landry's fence and into the yard. Landry's large dog began to bark, alerting Landry to the intruder."
Just because they jumped over the fence and looked like thugs they shouldn't be profiled. really you guys, that's a racism rule # 675.
Posted by: Guido - proud father of a new Baby Glock26' at July 28, 2013 06:58 PM (A96MH)
Posted by: eman at July 28, 2013 06:58 PM (AO9UG)
'sup horde.
I'm just browsing the web tonight while I figure out what to do with this beard I grew for no other reason than I've never actually grown one before.
Posted by: tsrblke (tablet) at July 28, 2013 06:58 PM (GaqMa)
BUT DON'T YOU DARE GENERALIZE!
yeah no...really go on over to "the root" and see "the rules" essentially I am not allowed to express reservations about their worst actors on race hustling, I am not allowed to assume uniformity on their part despite you know 93% plus block voting...
I used to have these "conversations on topic x" at 0230 AM with my mom at age 7...
they're monologues really but the punishment if you don't follow the script can be profound...
do not correct her when she says that her friend the housefly is not really 5 weeks old, do not explain that you can not spend the same 50 bucks 3 times in adult accounting....
yeah I've played this game before.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 06:59 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Dave Bowman at July 28, 2013 06:59 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 06:59 PM (77l1L)
TFG and HUD are going to have certain zip codes designated as "racist" in order to force integration of poor minorities into middle class neighborhoods
HUD Launches Scheme To Racially Diversify Suburbs
http://tinyurl.com/n7vbeuk
Diversity: Now even ZIP codes are racist, and according to this race-obsessed administration, you're racist for living in a suburban area with little public housing. And it plans to change that.
In his speech, Donovan vowed to help urban blacks relocate to suburban neighborhoods, where they can have access to "good schools, safe streets, jobs, grocery stores," among other things. He claimed suburban realtors and landlords still discriminate against blacks.
"African-Americans," Donovan said, "are being denied their freedom of choice."
He said the HUD database will detail by neighborhood what "access African-American families have to community assets — including jobs, schools and transit," which he added "is something the NAACP has long called for."
Posted by: kbdabear at July 28, 2013 07:00 PM (/9IC1)
Posted by: tsrblke (tablet) at July 28, 2013 10:58 PM (GaqMa)
tickle your sweetheart with it
Posted by: Jones in CO at July 28, 2013 07:00 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 07:01 PM (GEICT)
I'm just browsing the web tonight while I figure out what to do with this beard I grew for no other reason than I've never actually grown one before.
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My son didn't notice for two weeks after I grew one like Chewbacca, and wife didn't notice when I cut it off.
I rule all that I survey.
Not.
Posted by: Tobacco Road, also a fellow Baptist at July 28, 2013 07:01 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Baron bon Mot at July 28, 2013 07:01 PM (7clBZ)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 07:02 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Lauren at July 28, 2013 07:02 PM (ELdpj)
It's uh...
erm I'm uh tire....not funny
or something
basically they want license to engage in felonies unilaterally...you notice not one of these "let's chats" addresses the physical assault predilictions a certain superior to the real minority despite being a majority Americans for "walking, breathing, staring, door locking, etc etc etc
yeah this "conversation" is gonna lead to a great place.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 07:02 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 28, 2013 07:02 PM (ZPrif)
Fu...man...chu
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 11:02 PM (GEICT)
Neck beard.
The Full Mose.
Posted by: underground vulgarian at July 28, 2013 07:03 PM (TI6nB)
Posted by: Northernlurker at July 28, 2013 07:03 PM (BLAfs)
Oh no. I can definitely attest to the cultural enrichment recently brought here. Last afternoon I saw a family - a family, man, woman and two children - of African Americans, or African something anyway.
Right outside the McDonald's a couple blocks from my home. Panhandling.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 28, 2013 07:03 PM (d7tB2)
while I figure out what to do with this beard I grew for no other reason than I've never actually grown one before.
It's like taking a vacation from yourself.
Posted by: George Costanza at July 28, 2013 07:03 PM (jjBwR)
Posted by: joncelli at July 28, 2013 07:03 PM (5zY4+)
Posted by: Carol T at July 28, 2013 07:03 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at July 28, 2013 07:03 PM (CA2NO)
Posted by: Thrawn at July 28, 2013 07:04 PM (KiyII)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 28, 2013 07:04 PM (d7tB2)
Posted by: newrouter at July 28, 2013 07:04 PM (kfeRL)
Posted by: Baron bon Mot at July 28, 2013 07:04 PM (7clBZ)
Posted by: zsasz at July 28, 2013 07:04 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: NCwoof at July 28, 2013 07:04 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at July 28, 2013 07:05 PM (BQ10H)
That's right....somehow we are using our thought rays to freeze out folk...
I mean it couldn't be that there are choices and differential dynamics of valuation of occupancy in play...
or that self-segregation starts in Junior High and is in full swing before they go to college....but Mr GOP guy you have got to import the NAACP even if it is against their will...
another round of reparations I guess...
I notice a decided lack of Horde presence in 90210....
is this also an example of a lack of "freedom of choice?"
I hate these people.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 07:05 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: eman at July 28, 2013 07:05 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 28, 2013 07:05 PM (RJOKC)
Posted by: Carol T at July 28, 2013 07:05 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at July 28, 2013 07:06 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Adam at July 28, 2013 07:06 PM (Aif/5)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 07:07 PM (77l1L)
Posted by: tsrblke (tablet) at July 28, 2013 10:58 PM (GaqMa)
Do you suddenly feel like you are your own evil doppelganger?
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at July 28, 2013 11:03 PM (CA2NO)
Random thought - how does one identify the evil doppelganger of a female? I assume they don't grow beards.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at July 28, 2013 07:07 PM (J2GaP)
that was the case when an exchange student got perforated.
The Hattori shooting is still notorious in Japan as an example of crazy Americans with guns. And it does sound crazy - but when I read the details of the case, I could see why the jury acquitted the man. But I do blame the wife for panicking over nothing and creating the entire situation that lead to Hattori's death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiro_Hattori
Posted by: Mætenloch at July 28, 2013 07:07 PM (XkotV)
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Flatbush. I like your posts, but I don't think we get a pass on this one.
If we didn't kill 'em all, we sure as hell pushed them off all their land.
Posted by: Tobacco Road, also a fellow Baptist at July 28, 2013 07:07 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 28, 2013 07:08 PM (RJOKC)
Posted by: EC at July 28, 2013 07:08 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 07:08 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 11:02 PM (GEICT
Heh, it's not that long.
This is The first time it hasn't come in clumpy, in fact in my early 20 I considered laser hair removal because my chances of growing A decent beard looked slim.
Posted by: tsrblke (tablet) at July 28, 2013 07:09 PM (GaqMa)
Posted by: Harry Chapin at July 28, 2013 07:09 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at July 28, 2013 07:09 PM (CA2NO)
Or are you disqualified by being one or the other?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at July 28, 2013 07:11 PM (28TG+)
I don't know, sometimes it just freaks me out to think about other planets. Been reading too much Bradbury lately.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at July 28, 2013 07:11 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 07:11 PM (77l1L)
Posted by: Cindy Crawford at July 28, 2013 07:11 PM (GmTxn)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 07:11 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: eman at July 28, 2013 07:12 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at July 28, 2013 07:12 PM (CA2NO)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 28, 2013 07:12 PM (RJOKC)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at July 28, 2013 07:12 PM (Vk2pI)
Btw MWR,
I was alreadt my evil twin. Well evil.
But right now I'm rocking The full neckbeard because, academic 
. Actually I just haven't shaped it yet since it's only 4 weeks in
Posted by: tsrblke (tablet) at July 28, 2013 07:13 PM (GaqMa)
DC: avoid the modern. My gift of wooden tongue depressors did not go over very well. See above.
Posted by: Sacred Cow at July 28, 2013 07:13 PM (htcXk)
I am not fond of mistakes, and the Hattori case was a horrible mistake. The law is what it is in Louisiana, and I was politely made very aware of it. I've gone on at length about how even a clean shoot is a life altering event, and I wish people erred more often on the side of caution but I refuse to try to passive-aggressive chickenshit nibble and grasp at changing the law through the methodology of "lawfare."
Peer pressure is a lot more effective at changing the mental climate of folks WRT self-defense than this game we're stuck in.
I stood guard at our shop in the Parish during Rita's aftermath.
Looting is not the Pelican State's State Sport in any Parish outside of Orleans parish because at the end of the day the law is decidedly on the landowner and businessman's side.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 07:13 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Big Ben at July 28, 2013 07:13 PM (I5Htn)
Posted by: Guy Karate, Member, The League of Ugly Shirted Gentlemen at July 28, 2013 07:14 PM (FlRtG)
Vendette, well 2 this month so far. One in the spring. One last fall. 3 last year, 2 the year before that. Those are the big fires, there have been smaller more quickly put out fires that didn't do much damage.
On the plus side, the buildings have automated fire alarm calls, so the minute smoke is detected the first fire trucks are dispatched. I think that has really saved them a more serious situation.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at July 28, 2013 07:14 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子+Spam at July 28, 2013 07:14 PM (Vk2pI)
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I see you've never fought the government over eminent domain.
It ain't pretty, or cheap.
Posted by: Tobacco Road, also a fellow Baptist at July 28, 2013 07:14 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 28, 2013 07:14 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 28, 2013 07:15 PM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at July 28, 2013 11:12 PM (CA2NO)
Got it, so when I want to ditch the not yet existed kid, shave.
Posted by: tsrblke (tablet) at July 28, 2013 07:15 PM (GaqMa)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 28, 2013 07:15 PM (RJOKC)
Oh, we can. We can give them discipline if we had the will to do it. But we've been told it was "Jim Crow" and "apartheid".
When 92% of a certain population just plain doesn't believe in the rule of law (at least as it applies to them) - as we find with the Martin / Zimmerman case, with 8% agreeing with the jury's verdict - then 92% of that population are simply going to have to be treated like they're not fit to be treated as if they were part of our civilisation.
Otherwise they will keep push, push, pushing until our rotten facade falls around our ears.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 28, 2013 07:15 PM (d7tB2)
Police said a man, 28, from Bethesda, Md., was attacked in the 1700 block of Euclid Street, NW, in Adams Morgan. The victim said he was approached by three black males who kicked and punched him to the ground.
According the victim, one of the attackers yelled, “This is for Trayvon,” during the assault. The victim suffered lacerations to the face from the attack.
Police said the suspects took the manÂ’s wallet and iPhone.------
I wouldn't think he'd have much use for them.
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at July 28, 2013 07:15 PM (0It32)
Well we're the only beings on this Earth who are to feel total original unforgiveable sin and shame BC...
never mind I am part Sioux and my Great Great Grandfather gave his wife the best living in Ohio he could foster...
no sir sin...
now since Haji is borrowing England and France and Italy and Spain and Sweden and...
and the Chinese are not really so down with us squatting there...given the Mexican's laws against El Gringo Norte owning land... and Africa being "for Africans"...the fact we stole "Oz"....I am beginning to think I need to learn either Penguin or Polar Bear...
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 07:16 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 07:16 PM (77l1L)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at July 28, 2013 07:17 PM (CA2NO)
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They wear boots with 4 inch heels.
Posted by: EC at July 28, 2013 11:08 PM (doBIb)
Doesn't AtC wear those ... ?
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at July 28, 2013 07:17 PM (J2GaP)
They of course never violated any treaties or pacts that they made with the settlers.
The Indians just minded their own business and were innocent of all wrong doing.
Sure.
Now some of the tribes further west were more peaceably inclined but by they were few in number and by then any human with red skin was assumed to be more savagely inclined than not.
Also, one must wonder about how they dwelt in the Americas for so long and (especially in the North) NEVER allied themselves or formed large cultures.
Perhaps their bloody minded tribalism played a part? N'est ce pas?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at July 28, 2013 07:17 PM (28TG+)
Awful tired of the racism bullshit. Haven't got time for it anyway.
But what we are seeing is the outcome of LBJ's little brainchild,his Great Society.
Buy the votes and doom a race to eternal welfare. And this is the result. All that was needed was the race hustlers to perpetuate the myth of being downtrodden.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 28, 2013 07:17 PM (SAMxH)
You okay with eminent domain?
I'm in litigation now, so chose words carefully.
Posted by: Tobacco Road, also a fellow Baptist at July 28, 2013 07:17 PM (4Mv1T)
I think my Kelo meltdown was legendary in one small corner of the webverse...
essentially the Conmservative is about to be the new Indians without the benefit of you know "reservations."
We won't get reservations because the entire point of the exercise is to force us to change in ways they would never dream of trying to force the modern AmerInds to do so.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 07:18 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Lauren at July 28, 2013 07:19 PM (ELdpj)
Posted by: zsasz at July 28, 2013 07:19 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 07:19 PM (77l1L)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at July 28, 2013 07:20 PM (b9K4P)
Posted by: EC at July 28, 2013 07:20 PM (doBIb)
Prepare for the camps.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky at July 28, 2013 07:20 PM (baL2B)
I'm a little spoiled, but not so you would hate me.Posted by: Gingy at July 28, 2013 07:20 PM (aH+zP)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 07:21 PM (GEICT)
I get it I really do...
I'll stick to Peruvia jokes and piping in on the gun thread and making cameos on the ONT...
there's one original sin and that is being from here without feeling the need to subject yourself to a ritual spiritual cleansing through praying to Al Sharpton.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 07:21 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at July 28, 2013 07:22 PM (RZ8pf)
"For the first time since 1975, the number of white single-mother households who were living in poverty with children surpassed or equaled black ones in the past decade, spurred by job losses and faster rates of out-of-wedlock births among whites. "
A shitty economy, the ultimate war on women.
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at July 28, 2013 07:22 PM (b9K4P)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 28, 2013 07:22 PM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: The Political Hat at July 28, 2013 07:22 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: EC at July 28, 2013 07:23 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 28, 2013 07:23 PM (aDwsi)
Random thought - how does one identify the evil doppelganger of a female? I assume they don't grow beards.
Unless they're from Peruvia.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 28, 2013 07:23 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at July 28, 2013 07:23 PM (CA2NO)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at July 28, 2013 11:22 PM (RZ8pf)<<
Just look at the out of wedlock birthrates over time. You are entirely correct - I am very sad to say.
Posted by: Muad'dib - back in WI at July 28, 2013 07:23 PM (mHjMr)
Posted by: Lauren at July 28, 2013 07:24 PM (ELdpj)
Posted by: lindafell at July 28, 2013 07:24 PM (PGO8C)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/l8xl9wl
It appears they are going to focus on the exceptionally high-demand calibers/configurations.
Posted by: Country Singer at July 28, 2013 07:24 PM (U22Yw)
This might sound indelicate - so what if we did?
And by that I mean it wasn't me or my family, we came here in the early 1900's so it was done by an earlier set of people adhering to a very different set of principles.
The subjugation and dislocation of people is part of the human condition.
No people have tried to right their wrongs more than the American people specifically white people.
In fact we are so accommodating that we are going to allow ourselves to be swamped by millions of people from a 3rd world shit holes of Mexico and South America.
Europe has been doing the same with African and Islamic countries, with smashing results, mostly car windows and jaws broken.
Wither the Anglosphere, wither the world!
Posted by: Kreplach at July 28, 2013 07:24 PM (zOP5o)
Posted by: eman at July 28, 2013 07:25 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: AmishDude at July 28, 2013 07:25 PM (xSegX)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 28, 2013 07:25 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at July 28, 2013 07:25 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 07:25 PM (77l1L)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at July 28, 2013 07:25 PM (CA2NO)
Posted by: Gingy at July 28, 2013 07:27 PM (aH+zP)
Posted by: The Political Hat at July 28, 2013 07:27 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Jenny Hates All The Things at July 28, 2013 07:27 PM (GmTxn)
Posted by: Baron bon Mot at July 28, 2013 07:27 PM (7clBZ)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at July 28, 2013 07:28 PM (CA2NO)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at July 28, 2013 11:25 PM (CA2NO)
Hey, I didn't grow the beard for shock value
.
Posted by: tsrblke (tablet) at July 28, 2013 07:28 PM (GaqMa)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 07:28 PM (77l1L)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 07:29 PM (GEICT)
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Flatbush. My point is not whethee they can take it. They have taken 6th generation land and given 1/3 the value. We are having to sue the shit out of the state and it has been three years. This is not fair.
Unless you have had this happen to you, you do not know of what you speak.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 07:29 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 28, 2013 07:30 PM (ZPrif)
Ah, the usual liberal get-out-of-jail-free pass given for antisocial behavior.
Posted by: The Third Horseman Of The Apocalypse at July 28, 2013 07:30 PM (uLzrM)
A long time ago I discovered that people are either people or assholes. They get there by their own devices.
Skin color is irrelevant to that process.
So I guess I'll continue to hold that viewpoint and piss on the rest.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 28, 2013 07:30 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 07:31 PM (77l1L)
Posted by: Gingy at July 28, 2013 07:31 PM (aH+zP)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at July 28, 2013 07:31 PM (CA2NO)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at July 28, 2013 07:31 PM (RZ8pf)
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If we could do that there'd never be a reason to leave the house.
Just sayin'
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 07:32 PM (4Mv1T)
Why? Would that stop him?
Posted by: Muad'dib - back in WI at July 28, 2013 07:32 PM (mHjMr)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 07:32 PM (77l1L)
Somewhere some hairy guy is wearing my wedding gown and veil, drinking my expensive vodka whilst looking at my two golden retriever's ashes. Oh yeah using the family silver. Fuckers. I want my stuff.
Posted by: mpfs, @mpfs79 at July 28, 2013 07:33 PM (65dQq)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 28, 2013 07:33 PM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: Jenny Hates All The Things at July 28, 2013 07:34 PM (GmTxn)
Posted by: Gingy
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If we could do that there'd never be a reason to leave the house.
Just sayin'
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 11:32 PM (4Mv1T)
The dog might look at you funny when you get down there.
Posted by: buzzion at July 28, 2013 07:34 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Gingy at July 28, 2013 07:34 PM (aH+zP)
Posted by: rickl at July 28, 2013 07:35 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 07:35 PM (GEICT)
oh mpfs, that is horrible, I hope they get your boxes back for you. Damn jerks. So sorry.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at July 28, 2013 07:35 PM (RZ8pf)
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Simpler than you would ever wish to know.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 07:36 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Gingy at July 28, 2013 07:36 PM (aH+zP)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 28, 2013 07:36 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: The Political Hat at July 28, 2013 07:36 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 07:38 PM (77l1L)
He left the safety of his house to go outside and confront the perp. And, I ain't defending the perp. He clearly had bad intentions.
But "castle" laws in most states only apply if the perp enters your house. Being outside, it doesn't matter a whit how close he was to someone's door. If you shoot the guy and he was unarmed - and he wasn't attacking you - you fucked up and you are gonna be charged with something. Attempted murder? I dunno.. he's not dead so you can't charge hm with manslaughter. But he fucked up and he will be charged with something.
This has no relation to the George Zimmerman csae.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 28, 2013 07:38 PM (UTq/I)
at the end of the day with tripe like the Root's "rules on race" the lines get more stark and we will fall further and further into the trap of group identity they are spinning, but given that decency is falling by the wayside more rapidly than credibility of people who do the race hustle it seems inevitable.
Nazis, Communists, and Socialists of every stripe are really big into immoral math on group guilt....
the enlightenment's candle is blowing in the wind.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 07:38 PM (LRFds)
when did I run out of a Disney hotel? No, this was in Seattle at the Hyatt. I have been in 3 hotel fires and been in a hotel by Disneyland in a 7.1 earthquake.
Yeah, people do think twice before they travel with me.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at July 28, 2013 07:39 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at July 28, 2013 07:39 PM (CA2NO)
150 Boxes and those didn't make it. It's not the money it's the sentimental value.
For the booze it's the money and it's my fucking booze. I had a Crystal Head Vodka bottle unopened signed by Dan Ackroyd that was a gift.
Fuckers.
Posted by: mpfs, @mpfs79 at July 28, 2013 07:39 PM (65dQq)
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Sounds pretty much like the argument we probably gave the amerindians.
And let's put this one to bed. We can agree to disagree, because this is surely water under the bridge. I just think they got screwed. You are free to think otherwise. Peace.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 07:39 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 07:39 PM (GEICT)
Guess what?
That's the law in Louisiana, another reason they don't tend to have too much carjacking is in Louisiana legally WRT castle doctrine ethics your car is your home.....
the split the baby right is gonna get their wish and have more crime in rural America soon enough champ...no need for you to blatantly ignore Louisiana law.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 07:40 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Baron bon Mot at July 28, 2013 07:40 PM (7clBZ)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at July 28, 2013 07:40 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: AmishDude at July 28, 2013 07:40 PM (xSegX)
there is only one true victim class out there people
and that's people who were not born in Chicago
they will never know what its like to just be superior in all ways
Posted by: navycopjoe at July 28, 2013 07:40 PM (V75zy)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 28, 2013 07:41 PM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 28, 2013 11:22 PM (Tnlh/)
Well then, what is the reason for the majority of Blacks seeming refusal to either reject or correct the growing and widely seen thuggery of their peers?
When 30% of a group is committing 80% of the crime and the crimes are mostly done to other members of that group, how does an outside group observing these facts react otherwise than supposing that for some reason those committing the crimes are being sheltered or cheered on?
This sort of criminality was not widespread until after the '60's and the Civil Rights Movement gained traction and the massive riots.
What. Happened?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at July 28, 2013 07:41 PM (28TG+)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 07:41 PM (77l1L)
Two of my siblings are felons...I'm not a big fan of "collective" anything...
at the end of the day what they are seemingly after is license.
Go ahead and grant it to them and let us overtly be 3d class citizens in "our own land" I'm tired of the charades.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 07:42 PM (LRFds)
How is it that karma always works that way with moving boxes? Why don't the boxes filled with dirty towels and Tupperware ever disappear? Why is it always the ones that mean something?
My mom shipped me 21 boxes of stuff from my childhood home. 20 boxes arrived unscathed. 1 box arrived smashed to bits. It was the box with the antique glass in it.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at July 28, 2013 07:42 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 07:43 PM (GEICT)
when did I run out of a Disney hotel? No, this was in Seattle at the Hyatt. I have been in 3 hotel fires and been in a hotel by Disneyland in a 7.1 earthquake.
Yeah, people do think twice before they travel with me.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at July 28, 2013 11:39 PM (RZ8pf)<<
My very first day in Japan was the Kobe earthquake in 1995(?). I was on the 48th floor of a hotel and awoke at about 0545 to the sound of my suitbag swinging back on forth in the closet, hitting either wall. The top of the hotel was swinging back and forth about 6 feet. Which was good because swinging is better than collapsing.
Posted by: Muad'dib - back in WI at July 28, 2013 07:43 PM (mHjMr)
Posted by: kbdabear at July 28, 2013 07:43 PM (/9IC1)
Posted by: RWC at July 28, 2013 07:43 PM (8FeS+)
Well when they're on groups maybe they would. But my point was that no individual has ever called me those things face to face upon learning my political leanings.
I think that it's mostly the province of Internet badasses.
Posted by: baldilocks at July 28, 2013 11:41 PM (Tnlh/)
And the TV class, and the newsmedia class in general.
Posted by: buzzion at July 28, 2013 07:43 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: mindful webworker, sittin' & whittlin' at July 28, 2013 07:44 PM (U13jb)
Posted by: AmishDude at July 28, 2013 07:45 PM (xSegX)
Bastards.
Posted by: mpfs, @mpfs79 at July 28, 2013 07:45 PM (65dQq)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 11:21 PM (GEICT)
If that's what you meant, allow me to state the obvious.
I don't have to turn on the TV to check a see if they are still distorting reality. Did we just go through a prime example of this? And, you and I and all the rest know why the Organized Left has been doing their thing for past 100 years, infiltrating our government and certain part of our culture.
But, for a moment there, you sounded fooled by the distorted picture of black Americans that the Left is trying to paint. And here's the thing: we know that, because of the down spiral effects of generational illegimacy, that picture is becoming more real everyday (gang activity is a direct result of mass illegitimacy). This is an assimilation of a culture, just as eman originally pointed out.
Posted by: baldilocks at July 28, 2013 11:33 PM (Tnlh/)
Have I mentioned lately how much I admire you and cherish the times you drop by?
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 07:45 PM (T1005)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at July 28, 2013 07:46 PM (RZ8pf)
Bastards.
Posted by: mpfs, @mpfs79 at July 28, 2013 11:45 PM (65dQq)<<
I just got back from Alaska and I saw no hairy guys in wedding dresses whatsoever.
Posted by: Muad'dib - back in WI at July 28, 2013 07:47 PM (mHjMr)
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence
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Dude.. I have the slightest inkling you are exaggerating or misrepresenting Louisiana law.You are telling me that anyone in Louisiana has a "right" to shoot dead anyone found in their yard? Or, a "right" to shoot dead anyone found NEAR their car or house?
I know shit is pretty fucked up down in Louisiana, but I highly doubt it is that fucked up.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 28, 2013 07:48 PM (UTq/I)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 28, 2013 07:48 PM (Tnlh/)
"I swear to all that is good, if this dog doesn't stop licking his junk, I'm going to crate him. "
Posted by: Gingy
Give me a Break !!!!
I lick my junk because...I HAVE NO THUMBS!!!
Posted by: Gingy's Dog at July 28, 2013 07:48 PM (WDovF)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 28, 2013 07:48 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Thrawn at July 28, 2013 07:48 PM (KiyII)
Quite. Louisiana also adheres to this quaint notion that you need permission to "cut across property lines." Archaic and outdated in this age of "I go where da fuk I wanna" and all that but there it is.
You probably do not need to be on another person's property after dark who doesn't know you, period.
90% of Louisiana this would not be a case, but the New and Improved Creep Ass Cracka had to fuck up and pretend that NOLA is part of Louisiana...
I'm gonna go to bed soon, so I REALLY am gonna be silent on my love for the "Major Metro" areas and their penchant for shitting themselves on TV to get their way.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 07:49 PM (LRFds)
362 boys and puberty....good luck
I was like a dog in heat back in the day, drove my parents nuts
my kid gets home tomorrow from her summer vacation, it was so quiet here
Posted by: navycopjoe at July 28, 2013 07:49 PM (V75zy)
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Fixed
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 07:49 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Muad'dib - back in WI at July 28, 2013 07:50 PM (mHjMr)
I guess I'm to blame for helping this man act uppity.
Posted by: Big Ben at July 28, 2013 07:50 PM (I5Htn)
Posted by: Thrawn at July 28, 2013 07:50 PM (KiyII)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at July 28, 2013 11:25 PM (CA2NO)
Heh, that reminds me. wife and I have been estate sale shopping to save some cash and we saw a rocking chair we liked, but it sold before we got their. I was telling my and she says "oh, I have my grandma's rocker downstairs, you want it?"
Apparently her cousins and her fought over it, she won, used it and now it's been in their basement since they moved
Posted by: tsrblke (tablet) at July 28, 2013 07:50 PM (GaqMa)
The governmental actions of the Left are and always have been the real problem.
Don't forget their Media allies. Since we lost Breitbart, I have come more and more to his conclusion: that the media is the real enemy. Government will always want to grow in power and loosen its restrictions, like the rule of law. The Media is supposed to check that, not encourage it.
Posted by: Splunge at July 28, 2013 07:50 PM (bKA83)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at July 28, 2013 07:50 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: Lauren at July 28, 2013 07:51 PM (ELdpj)
Posted by: Baron bon Mot at July 28, 2013 07:51 PM (7clBZ)
Posted by: Gingy at July 28, 2013 07:52 PM (aH+zP)
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Ours is as as such, however, the bastards are acting like pirates, which is why I got my dander up. The littel farmers in the path of this "progress" are getting screwed.
We won't.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 07:52 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 07:52 PM (GEICT)
Whoops wrong quote, I meant to reference PGiS.
Posted by: tsrblke (tablet) at July 28, 2013 07:52 PM (GaqMa)
Posted by: AmishDude at July 28, 2013 07:53 PM (xSegX)
Of course. They also tell me why didn't you count them on arrival. Well gee asshole, I wasn't here yet. You said 7 pallets, 7 pallets arrived. Dickweeds.
How's Shreveport sir?
Posted by: mpfs, @mpfs79 at July 28, 2013 07:53 PM (65dQq)
Posted by: Gingy's Dog
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Fixed
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 11:49 PM (4Mv1T)
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Little white dog, big black balls. And he will happily show them to you.
Posted by: Gingy at July 28, 2013 11:52 PM (aH+zP)
Show me your junk dog.
Posted by: buzzion at July 28, 2013 07:53 PM (LI48c)
382 the legality of the situation wouldn't stop me from pulling the trigger to defend my family.
no cookies for Lauren
Posted by: girl scouts everywhere at July 28, 2013 07:53 PM (V75zy)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at July 28, 2013 07:54 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Lauren at July 28, 2013 07:54 PM (ELdpj)
Time for the old folk. Rednecks like me need extra rest. I hate being a tired racist.
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 28, 2013 07:55 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Gingy's Dog at July 28, 2013 07:55 PM (Aif/5)
Posted by: Jenny Hates All The Things at July 28, 2013 07:55 PM (GmTxn)
Posted by: Muad'dib - back in WI at July 28, 2013 07:55 PM (mHjMr)
That's funny. I'd much rather live in "fucked up Louisiana" than in any part of your Illinois paradise. Property and law and good manners mean something there.
Your type of "conservative" is so desperate to be the rewarded trained little lapdog of the progressives that you desperately want to show "I get it no really I do let's cut the little shit in half!" and in so doing Solomon knows you are in fact not the parent.
In the State of Louisiana you have the right to security of property and self.
http://tinyurl.com/kastvku
http://tinyurl.com/m8yjq8k
I know this is a "radical" concept but you do not have the right to trespass, engage in assault, or take the life or threaten the same from another person.
Society would be a LOT better off if the entire nation adopted Cajun' Law on Self-defense.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 07:56 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at July 28, 2013 07:56 PM (RZ8pf)
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* Gingy's dog looks up from episode of "privates licking"*
*** Blank Dog Stare ***
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 07:56 PM (4Mv1T)
394 true that
the other day I asked the wife is she was going to the airport with me to pick her up
T: who?
me: A
T: who?
me: our daughter
T: we have a daughter? oh yeah, wow it was quiet wasn't here
Posted by: navycopjoe at July 28, 2013 07:57 PM (V75zy)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 28, 2013 07:57 PM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: Jenny Hates All The Things at July 28, 2013 07:58 PM (GmTxn)
Posted by: Vendette at July 28, 2013 07:58 PM (77l1L)
The dog might look at you funny when you get down there.
Posted by: buzzion at July 28, 2013 11:34 PM (LI48c)
Mine likes it!
Posted by: Stephanie Mikles at July 28, 2013 07:59 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: lou's a girl at July 28, 2013 07:59 PM (vgd4f)
Posted by: Lauren at July 28, 2013 07:59 PM (ELdpj)
Posted by: Gingy at July 28, 2013 07:59 PM (aH+zP)
That's true to a large degree I'd wager. I did not like the Napoleonic model of jurisprudence in many ways but the overt presence of an active Judiciary and the deference they show to the DA and Sheriff lends itself to allowing true community sense of intent WRT "the law." The fact is you learn your Sheriff and DA's "rules" for the road and if smart follow them.
I am not a fan of trigger happy firearms antics, despite people's reading of my posts on the issue as flippant.
I will not begrudge another man his judgement or sense of safety in a game of "I am a moral ethical guy too" games that are rigged with the left.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 07:59 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: lou's a girl
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That was funny right there.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 08:00 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 28, 2013 08:00 PM (Tnlh/)
395 ewwwwwwwww
let's see, i'll take every box of thin mints you have (seriously, we do that) and toss in some boxes of tagalongs, maybe a few do-si-dos.....and a box of abortion cookies please
doesn't have quite the ring to it
Posted by: navycopjoe at July 28, 2013 08:01 PM (V75zy)
You and Lauren would make a good couple.. tend castle doctrin to your car WHEN YOU ARE IN IT and someone tries to enter forcibly.
What's the literacy rate in LA?
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 28, 2013 08:01 PM (UTq/I)
Posted by: Baron bon Mot at July 28, 2013 08:01 PM (7clBZ)
Posted by: Daybrother at July 28, 2013 08:01 PM (JNLNe)
Posted by: mindful webworker with brain cells to spare at July 28, 2013 08:02 PM (U13jb)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 08:02 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 28, 2013 08:03 PM (UTq/I)
Posted by: Lauren at July 28, 2013 08:03 PM (ELdpj)
Don't forget their Media allies. Since we lost Breitbart, I have come more and more to his conclusion: that the media is the real enemy. Government will always want to grow in power and loosen its restrictions, like the rule of law. The Media is supposed to check that, not encourage it.
Posted by: Splunge at July 28, 2013 11:50 PM (bKA83)
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How true. I don't want to sound like Captain Obvious but the fact is that no matter how much we talk and bitch and moan, it makes no difference if the media doesn't take up wahtever the hell we're talking/bitching/moaning about. Like it or not, they are our voice and since they've decided to go all in for the Left, we have no voice. Period.
And for that they need to be Delenda Est'ed. With a fucking wrecking ball.
Posted by: LGoPs at July 28, 2013 08:04 PM (lL1xY)
Posted by: Baron bon Mot at July 28, 2013 08:05 PM (7clBZ)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry
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You can correct stuff here? If only.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 08:05 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at July 28, 2013 08:05 PM (Y5I9o)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 28, 2013 08:06 PM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at July 28, 2013 08:07 PM (Y5I9o)
Posted by: Thrawn at July 28, 2013 08:07 PM (KiyII)
Okay, it was HEAVY drinking.
Breaking the cycle is easy enough, but boring as hell.
Cue Rod Serling.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 08:08 PM (4Mv1T)
The Louisiana statute governing the "use of force or violence in defense" says:
"there shall be a presumption that a person lawfully inside a dwelling, place of business, or motor vehicle held a reasonable belief that the use of force or violence was necessary to prevent unlawful entry thereto, or to compel an unlawful intruder to leave the premises or motor vehicle" if "the person against whom the force or violence was used was in the process of unlawfully and forcibly entering or had unlawfully and forcibly entered the dwelling, place of business, or motor vehicle" and "the person who used force or violence knew or had reason to believe that an unlawful and forcible entry was occurring or had occurred." A homicide likewise is considered justified "when committed by a person lawfully inside a dwelling, a place of business, or a motor vehicle...against a person who is attempting to make an unlawful entry into the dwelling, place of business, or motor vehicle, or who has made an unlawful entry into the dwelling, place of business, or motor vehicle, and the person committing the homicide reasonably believes that the use of deadly force is necessary to prevent the entry or to compel the intruder to leave the premises or motor vehicle."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2013 08:08 PM (gqgiP)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 28, 2013 08:08 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 08:08 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Thrawn at July 28, 2013 08:08 PM (KiyII)
I posted the vehicular law for a reason there genius. The entire body of Louisiana law reads that you are secure in your property. You don't get to park your car in a public park, shoot hoops, and randomly pop a gang banger or "St Trayvon" for a laugh.
You can conceal a nice pistol in your vehicle and it is not a felony if the perp enters your vehicle and you plant him he's gone. Your as usual mastery of logic and reason would be better served pondering as analogy whether a person hopping up and down on your car threatening you is fair game. That is a closer equivalent to "he's in my yard!" How fucked up is your cesspool that they only have 33 million in slush money around these days CTJ?
You do not get to enter another man's property in the State of Louisiana and invoke some horsefuck "right" to be there.
This ain't the UK yet no matter how hard you try. I do so love you major metro "conservatives" trying to "fix" the rest of the nation.... It's awesome that you can't win power locally but YOU can manage Louisiana better than the Louisianans....
I think I'll call this the Christie Principle.
If I go across a person's yard at 2am in Louisiana I am (in theory) owed one "get off my property".....
which is often translated as "click"
and again I'd rather live there than Shit-Ka-go
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 08:09 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Some dumbass at July 28, 2013 08:09 PM (Aif/5)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 28, 2013 08:09 PM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 08:10 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Weirddave at July 28, 2013 08:10 PM (DcFUD)
Posted by: Lena Dunham at July 28, 2013 08:11 PM (GmTxn)
Yup pretty much Vernon Parish handled it pretty fairly don't go into another man's property black, white, flying spaghetti monster...
the game is definitely a different game the further south you get or close to a casino or that matter.
the law is the law, you are not supposed to have "extra license to engage in felony behavior" because Al Slim Shady has a speed dial.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 08:11 PM (LRFds)
My dog gets on the couch then starts in on his non-balls. I have to yell at him frequently to knock it off.Posted by: lou's a girl at July 28, 2013 08:11 PM (vgd4f)
John Derbyshire -- who lost his post at _National Review_ for his honest and heartfelt contribution to the "conversation about race" -- would have said that mistake #1 by Mr. Landry was being white and in New Orleans.
A big, big chunk of what got Derb canned was his frank advocacy of avoiding black people. White flight is, he said, an entirely rational and justified personal safety strategy.
Per Derb, if you are white, and if you live somewhere that there is a lot of black crime, it's utterly foolish to arm up to defend yourself while staying there. Instead, move. Move somewhere safer and whiter. Fast as you can. Take a loss if you have to. Declare bankruptcy if you have to. You can rebuild your own credit but you can't revive your own corpse. Just get out while you're able and before your neighborhood becomes completely Detroit-ified.
If George Zimmerman had followed Derbyshire rules, and bailed the fuck out of Sanford, FL, instead of volunteering for neighborhood watch, he would have been spared the giant lapful of shit that the State of Florida dumped on him. He would be safely anonymous today and would be spared having to sit facing the door for the rest of his life.
And, without Zimmerman around, maybe Saint Trayvon Of The Bloodied Hoodie would have mixed up and socked back some "purple drank" and then broken into Jane Surdyka's house to wreak havoc. She certainly deserved that and worse.
You can call Derbyshire racist. But, um, Derbyshire would *openly agree* with you if you thus described him. He welcomes the label. That's a pretty rare level of definitional courage in 21st century America.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 28, 2013 08:11 PM (gqT4g)
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You'll get small "w"s, and like them.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 08:12 PM (4Mv1T)
435 yep, got everything off the lanai, checked the hurricane kit, got spam and water
the big island and maui will get hit first and hardest,
the other side of the island will take the worst of the flooding and winds, here in Waikiki it should be like a usual December storm
Posted by: navycopjoe at July 28, 2013 08:12 PM (V75zy)
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Wait. The vet took them, right? And doggy thinks there still there?
"Ghost" balls.
I WANT SOME!!
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 08:14 PM (4Mv1T)
Nah CTJ's a lot like Tatoo De Plane...they are gonna tell people who lived there and have worked in Security work the law on force THERE.
I love it never a dull moment, add in Amish Dude and I engaging in an analysis of the intellectual dishonesty present in the Japanese Student's case..."no Gaijin climbing 8 foot fence VERY normal back in his home..." and the fun really begins...
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 08:14 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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The best cheap scotch money can buy. Why does everybody ask me that?
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 08:15 PM (4Mv1T)
Your ancestor was Captain Blood? Posted by: Baron bon Mot
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Nah. But there is more than a passing chance that he was related to Black Sam Bellamy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bellamy
Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 28, 2013 08:15 PM (aDwsi)
You interwebz spellcheckers better keep a lid on it.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 08:16 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Gingy at July 28, 2013 08:16 PM (aH+zP)
Posted by: The Political Hat at July 28, 2013 08:17 PM (Vk2pI)
As long as there is ice in it, I can dip pretty close to the bottom shelf for scotch.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2013 08:17 PM (gqgiP)
443 dude, I would kill a family member for a box of frozen off season thin mints
getting ready to take the charvel to this chick on the strip who does the sketches of peoples faces
she said she'll do a spider clown for $50 bucks
then toss in some clearcoat and hours of sanding and tada...super ax
Posted by: navycopjoe at July 28, 2013 08:17 PM (V75zy)
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 28, 2013 08:18 PM (JMmQ9)
Gack! Time for bed.., hoping for sweet dreams of Peruvia.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 28, 2013 08:18 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Thrawn at July 28, 2013 08:18 PM (KiyII)
Posted by: Baron bon Mot at July 28, 2013 08:18 PM (7clBZ)
I just don't want a family member to kill me this next week.
You need to find unclaimed islands somewhere guy.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 08:19 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: RWC at July 28, 2013 08:20 PM (8FeS+)
Posted by: navycopjoe at July 28, 2013 08:20 PM (V75zy)
I really did love the place until about '89-'93 I'd wager. Once upon a time I bought into the lie that there was a secret society of sane democrats there. Time has proven me very very wrong.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 08:20 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 28, 2013 08:21 PM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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My experience has been that after the second drink the tastebuds are pretty much ready for anything that doesn't actually hurt.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 28, 2013 08:21 PM (aDwsi)
sigh, and another h8r of the land of greatness
Posted by: navycopjoe at July 29, 2013 12:19 AM (V75zy)
You love the two places responsible for Obama.
Posted by: buzzion at July 28, 2013 08:21 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 28, 2013 08:21 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 28, 2013 08:21 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Baron bon Mot at July 28, 2013 08:23 PM (7clBZ)
Well this is part and parcel of the media's little game of "report no *evil* ever"
and by *evil* we mean things like Black on White Crime, Sudden Jihad Syndrome etc etc
Whites are not allowed to protest or get angry or notice things like Jena and the Memphis attack on the one couple...b/c "racist" and "profiling"....
and the funny thing is for about 25 years I bought it...
my "race" is human and the victim of violent crime is my target of sympathy end of story.
I'd back a black man blasting a white Trayvon the same as George Zimmerman and in Louisiana as well.
I am really at a loss why the ethnicity, gender, or income level of the accused should be a factor in determining whether they acted within the law...
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 08:25 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at July 28, 2013 08:25 PM (Y5I9o)
I promise to not give a crap about your race if you promise to not give a crap about mine. Now, get your damned hand outta my pocket and get a damned job, and quit with the whining.
How's that for honest?
Posted by: tcn at July 28, 2013 08:25 PM (RnmNY)
Posted by: Daybrother at July 28, 2013 08:26 PM (+/liv)
Double dittoes.
Recently due to the non "Conversation On Race"™, Ol' Rich Lowry was spouting off about the realities of white/black relationships.
The nerve of some people's children. I commented that he owed Derbyshire an apology and his job back before he started pontificating about such.
I get really tired of people saying "racist" when someone states facts.
Racism is when a group or individual believes and promotes the belief that one race is superior than another and based solely on skin color.
Bigotry is similar but can be an equal opportunity hate.
Being critical of a black person (or any person of color other than beige) is not racism nor bigotry.
In fact profiling is a daily requirement in so many ways, it's laughably ridiculous that profiling is made out to be some evil and hate filled act.
Liberalism IS a disease and the MEDIA is in the final stage with no signs of remission.
MFM Delenda Est.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at July 28, 2013 08:26 PM (28TG+)
In a "someone shut off the irony" byline Arkansas and Louisiana are both "more Texas than Texas" in some ways. I love Louisiana, and frankly the entire Ark-La-Tex-Ok region. If we could figure out some way to have the middle of the nation leave there'd be a boom like no other once we got the shale up and going.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 08:29 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: RWC at July 28, 2013 08:33 PM (8FeS+)
Some areas have little disease while others are rotting and pus ridden.
There can be no remission until the truth is allowed to be heard.
Which is why the MEDIA is to blame for all the deaths and riots.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at July 28, 2013 08:34 PM (28TG+)
August is this week. Holy Carp.
That's right. Carp.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 29, 2013 12:29 AM (4Mv1T)
Carp? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Bf0WhvsNk
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 08:35 PM (T1005)
Trouble is, too many of those who have this thug attitude come from good homes with parents who are law abiding.
Problem is they refuse to see the evilness in rap and a culture that promotes ignorance and promiscuity and they don't take the steps necessary to prevent their children from being drawn into the cesspool.
Same with white families happens. And it's even tougher to counter the social pressure.
Which again is why the MEDIA is to blame. It's through those organs of music, tv, video that the trash is disseminated and it's made hard to resist.
It doesn't help to have black celebrities thrown up as idols to be emulated and they turn out to be thugs under the tats.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at July 28, 2013 08:38 PM (28TG+)
From your mouth to God's ears.
It is, unfortunately, at this point on the trajectory of national decline and disintegration, high time to figure out what we are all going to do post-America. And how to reassemble functioning new nations out of the fragments of failure of the USA.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 28, 2013 08:38 PM (gqT4g)
i'm out kids, we're going to walk around the strip and get the guitar done
for the aspiring axheads I give you http://tinyurl.com/l7hq3cz
Posted by: navycopjoe at July 28, 2013 08:39 PM (V75zy)
Posted by: Arbalest at July 28, 2013 08:39 PM (FlRtG)
Posted by: Daybrother at July 28, 2013 08:39 PM (vudZp)
In an ideal world profiling would be done WRT the content of a person's character and their demeanor, of course the idea in play now is that your melanin content is license and compulsion not to strive to show character.
I need help to navigate this brave new world that looks FAR too close to a funhouse mirror image of the Democrats' "paradise" of the Jim Crow era for my liking.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 08:42 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at July 28, 2013 08:44 PM (BXLPR)
Arbalest, it's me Sven.
I'm just about resigned to being a hermit as far into the badlands as I can endure.
This nation is devolving into the world's largest open aired insane asylum.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 08:45 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Arbalest at July 28, 2013 08:47 PM (FlRtG)
I'll change my nick back after the move...
I thought it was witty in a Carlos Danger way...
I am not trigger happy, I always warn people firing that weapon into a human being has Earth shattering consequences whether charges are filed or not.
I just want a civil society in all directions.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 08:49 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 08:51 PM (qyfb5)
My definition of "parents" is limited to those who actually parent. Not just to sperm donors and fetus incubators and AFDC check cashers.
There is colloquial conversation these days among white yuppies of their mania for protectiveness and control having gone too far, and of it being important for their kids to be more "free range", as the talk terms it.
At age 14, in the daytime, I was a pretty damned free range kid.
But at zero-one-four-four hours, on any night of the week, if I was not squared away in my bed at home, then when I did get home, it would be to find every light blazing, one parent on the phone going full blast to figure out where I was, and the other parent in the car out performing a quartering search.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 28, 2013 08:52 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: RWC at July 28, 2013 08:53 PM (8FeS+)
Posted by: Zombie Al Capone at July 28, 2013 10:34 PM (9bMee)
**********************
Threaten to send them all to Peruvia with Al Sharpton.
Posted by: gracepmc at July 28, 2013 08:55 PM (rznx3)
Posted by: Cato at July 28, 2013 08:57 PM (fNVKc)
Posted by: RWC at July 28, 2013 08:57 PM (8FeS+)
I was gonna go to bed and forgive my indelicacy get my toes tickled but Chi-Town Jerry's pap is a small scale indicator of why the GOP is fucked.
McCain, Graham et al want patted on the head and to be the good token GOPer to the media and they will go split the baby every time needed to protect their media drug pushers.
Their drug is "approval."
I don't want the media's approval b/c the mission I am on with my political beliefs and my expectation of leaders on "my side" is the obliteration of these tribal identifiers and a law abiding, ethical America.
I don't want the baby split, because frankly that baby is "the American people" and I strive for and desperately want the American "tribal identity" to be a respect for Locke and Smith not my skin color, accent, or place of origin.
The reason I'm doomed to die in misery on the matter is the mission of the left and media to remove the blue and white from our flag and the betrayal of our mission by rent seeking Oligarchial assholes in our caucus.
It'd be a bitter pill to swallow if the GOP forcefully went down arguing that "no goddamn you assholes the goal is to get past this race bullshit and have a color blind society" but I will not even get the comfort of knowing we went down swinging instead we get the split baby and Lindsay and McCain begging for reach arounds from Chuck Todd...
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 09:04 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: gracepmc at July 28, 2013 09:05 PM (rznx3)
If this is considered normal in your community or culture, there is a whole other conversation needed.
Posted by: epobirs at July 28, 2013 09:07 PM (kcfmt)
Nice follow up on the Houston Rifle Self-defense story...
Quanell X told Fox 26 he spoke to Daniel's family members and they were unable to supply him with any proof of the alleged debt between Lewis and Sheniquia.
He said his representatives even tried to verify the supposed relationship between the two but were unable to do so.
Quanell said Shanequia Mcdonald is adamant that she never did drugs with Lewis Daniel and he didn't owe her any money.
If I ever get access to Ace's Time Machine I am gonna go kneecap the fucker who invented scrabble.
Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 28, 2013 09:10 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 09:12 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: RWC at July 28, 2013 09:13 PM (8FeS+)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 09:14 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: NCwoof at July 28, 2013 09:14 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 28, 2013 09:18 PM (RJOKC)
Posted by: I Work for Dick Jones at July 28, 2013 09:20 PM (MSrqi)
Posted by: Arbalest at July 28, 2013 09:21 PM (FlRtG)
Posted by: SFGoth at July 28, 2013 09:23 PM (LxJzi)
Posted by: SFGoth at July 28, 2013 09:23 PM (LxJzi)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 28, 2013 09:24 PM (2vuT6)
Any happily-ish married men in their 40s-60s in here that would like to help???
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 29, 2013 01:24 AM (2vuT6)
I may or may not qualify. Not married, but working on our third decade together....
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 09:29 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Shoey at July 28, 2013 09:30 PM (m6OUa)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 28, 2013 09:30 PM (RJOKC)
Posted by: Fox2! at July 28, 2013 09:31 PM (XFTOV)
Posted by: NCwoof at July 28, 2013 09:33 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 09:40 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Arbalest at July 28, 2013 09:43 PM (FlRtG)
Is that the one that cracked at the first go? I continue to see desktop CNC as a superior solution to 3D printing in the firearms space. Especially when you can turn the results pretty colors without compromising strength -- http://www.focuser.com/atm/anodize/anodize.html
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 09:49 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 09:51 PM (qyfb5)
>>> I could help you with a bitter, disillusioned, unmarried point of view.
I can pitch in with the bitter, disillusioned, divorced pov if Merv can't handle it.
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2013 09:51 PM (vRMco)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 28, 2013 09:53 PM (2vuT6)
Posted by: Arbalest at July 28, 2013 09:59 PM (FlRtG)
But, I am ridiculously crazy about him, and have been for months. I'm so attracted to him. And I think about him often...too often.
I respect marriage, and I know to actually ACT on it would be just plain wrong. But, no matter how much I tell myself to stop, I can't stop getting butterflies in my stomach when I see him.
There have been times when I have thought that MAYBE he might have...a little interest in me too, which makes things that much harder.
It's at the point where I just need to get it on with him once, just so I can get past it and move on...or something else would have to happen too snap me out of it.
Help snap me out of it....please...
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 29, 2013 01:53 AM (2vuT6)
This is common to the point of cliche.....and has been for most of recorded history. Younger woman falls for accomplished older man. Sometimes the older man falls for the younger woman, sometimes not....but things seldom turn out well.
More disturbing, however, is the concept of "get it on with him once, just so I can get past it." How on earth is that supposed to work? I mean, if every time you've "gotten it on" has been a one-night stand, this might seem a reasonable sentence....
Anyway, I think the moron horde can completely agree about one thing in your situation, we'll need to further investigate and deliberate after you post pics.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 10:08 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 10:09 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 10:10 PM (qyfb5)
cthulhu: That's the one. But 3D printing makes good moldable items, and many modern bolt-action receivers are cast, machined and heat-treated. This knowledge is useful for your files.
Posted by: Arbalest at July 29, 2013 01:59 AM (FlRtG)
Yeah, but if you were doing amateur gunmaking in your garage, would you really want to be melting metals instead of just flinging a few chips? Castings require a whole 'nother level of infrastructure and introduce a whole 'nother level of dangers into a shop.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 10:11 PM (T1005)
However, I will say that I come across handsome, intelligent, unmarried straight men in your age bracket all the time. They really do exist. So if you do decide to let this current infatuation quietly lapse without acting upon it, you may feel as though that decision is the end of the world. Rest assured that it is not.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 28, 2013 10:12 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 10:12 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2013 10:13 PM (vRMco)
That would definitely be wiser than...
...dammit, I talked myself into a corner again, didn't I?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 29, 2013 02:10 AM (qyfb5)
Oh, yeah....Tickled Pink, you should also let us know what city you're in so we can see if there are any local morons who could "help you out." Sort of like an AA buddy, or something.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 10:14 PM (T1005)
But maybe the circles I travel in are more sarcastic than normal.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 29, 2013 02:12 AM (qyfb5)
You think Pink was being sarcastic? That wasn't my read.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 10:15 PM (T1005)
Posted by: garrett at July 29, 2013 02:13 AM (vRMco)
I knew I had the Horde's pulse on that.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 10:16 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 28, 2013 10:23 PM (2vuT6)
Er, you need pics? Um, why? Of him or of me? And what would it matter? Wouldn't the advice be the same regardless?
Of you of course. And why? Because we're all a bunch of horndogs.
Posted by: buzzion at July 28, 2013 10:25 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 28, 2013 10:26 PM (9GG/0)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 10:26 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 10:32 PM (qyfb5)
Er, you need pics? Um, why? Of him or of me? And what would it matter? Wouldn't the advice be the same regardless?
Yeah, the sleep with him thing was partially sarcastic, as I am sure he would be crazy good in bed, and that would make things even more difficult.
Yes, there are many men in my age bracket that are single...none of em are interested in ME persay, but hey they are there. And sadly, I find myself uninterested in them. I am looking past the handsome 20-somethings in church to look at the older married man, just to have a glimpse of him....
It's pathetic, honestly.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 29, 2013 02:23 AM (2vuT6)
The pics would be of you, dearie, and would both be fodder for our usual crowd of deranged weasels and also give us some insight into your situation. Advice could be quite different dependent on how you looked, especially if you were the last woman in this group -- http://tinyurl.com/k4spnfl , or one of these ladies http://tinyurl.com/6zs2awu .
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 10:35 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 29, 2013 02:23 AM (2vuT6)
It's tradition for men to be the initiator, for a lot of reasons that's not as much the case.
A lot of guys who are interested won't say so until you hit them with a brick.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 29, 2013 02:32 AM (qyfb5)
I had one girlfriend who ended up throwing her wadded-up towel at me. Previously, it had been the only thing she was wearing.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 10:37 PM (T1005)
It's pathetic, honestly.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 29, 2013 02:23 AM (2vuT6)
I thought you had said you were 30. Why would you be looking at 20-somethings?
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 10:40 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 10:41 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 10:42 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 02:37 AM (T1005)
Brag, brag, brag.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 29, 2013 02:41 AM (qyfb5)
Well, it doesn't say much for my having been suave, sophisticated, and debonair that I hadn't picked up on things beforehand.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 10:43 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 10:45 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 02:40 AM (T1005)
Cradlerobber.
My Mom married a veteran 15 years younger for her second marriage. Then again she would get carded in her 40s.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 29, 2013 02:42 AM (qyfb5)
I've actually never had a relationship with a woman younger than myself, so I've got a bit of an outsider's view....but if she's trying to say that her choices are 20-somethings or married 60-year-olds, I think there might be a bit of a setup going on.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 10:46 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 28, 2013 10:46 PM (2vuT6)
Human mating rituals have truly gotten strange.
*pads on out to continue watching Ugetsu Monogatari*
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 28, 2013 10:47 PM (RJOKC)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 28, 2013 10:51 PM (RXQ2T)
Posted by: DAve at July 28, 2013 10:53 PM (albkL)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 11:02 PM (qyfb5)
rofl no nothing like that lot. My eyes are clear, my hair is healthy. I don't look like I am on crack. I don't drink, and I've never touched drugs in my life, so I've aged well, I think...I look my age, maybe even younger. I would say I am pretty average.
@552
I don't know what that towel thing means.
@553
Well most of the 30-somethings are married, so...
Besides, if they are between 25-29, I really don't consider myself that much older than them. I am lusting after a 60 year old man, and you find it odd that I would look at 20-somethings? At this point, I think the latter would be more than acceptable all things considered.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 29, 2013 02:46 AM (2vuT6)
So, you're saying 30-somethings are out because most are married, but this 60-something is reasonable despite being married? And you're saying that you consider yourself contemporaneous with 25-29 year-olds ["don't consider myself that much older"] but you find yourself uninterested in them? I suspect that you were setting yourself up with a false dichotomy here....
Which, of course, doesn't say "why?" We haven't even started to figure out why you're uninterested in 25-29 year-olds, why you disregard the existence of 30-59 year olds, and what you find particularly attractive about this specific 60-year-old.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 11:02 PM (T1005)
Posted by: SFGoth at July 29, 2013 02:57 AM (LxJzi)
I don't think that works to cut down on illicit urges in women.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 11:09 PM (T1005)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 28, 2013 11:10 PM (RXQ2T)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 11:15 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Cato at July 28, 2013 11:16 PM (fNVKc)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 28, 2013 11:18 PM (RXQ2T)
~~~~~
Seriously:
1. Find another church NOW
2. Wait until his wife dies
3. Find a single man between the ages of 30-100
4. He is MARRIED. Do NOT be that kind of woman.
This is not a game. His wife may be the jealous type and the type that can strip, clean, recombine, lock and load an M16 in under 60 seconds in the dark and adultery is not looked on kindly.
Finding another church is your best option and the easiest.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 29, 2013 03:10 AM (RXQ2T)
I don't think the underlying issue is the church -- which doesn't mean that finding another one is a bad idea, BTW.
I guess the thing that I get from your advice is that it comes from several different premises. #1 is about exposure/avoidance; #2 is availability; #3 is alternatives; #4 is shame; and the M16 is consequences. That's all over the map. It really depends on what drives her as to which is the better tactic.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 11:20 PM (T1005)
On the thinking he might share your interest-you're infatuated and likely projecting. And if you're not, see previous paragraph.
I wouldn't advise adultery in any context, but a church is probably the worst place to do it.
Except maybe Twitter.
Posted by: Methos at July 28, 2013 11:23 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 28, 2013 11:27 PM (Wk9TK)
Posted by: DAve at July 28, 2013 11:29 PM (albkL)
I agree that what she describes is as dangerous, anti-social, and harmful as sticking people's heads in vises in 99-44/100% of cases.....but it is not quite as illegal and significantly more common. I could just say that it's a dumb idea and she should change churches/relocate/fap, but she specifically said "Help snap me out of it....please..." That's not just saying "help me stop the action", she's asking about "help me stop the compulsion".
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 11:29 PM (T1005)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 28, 2013 11:30 PM (RXQ2T)
Posted by: Cato at July 28, 2013 11:30 PM (fNVKc)
Your dance card will be filled in about 45.6 nanoseconds.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 29, 2013 03:30 AM (RXQ2T)
What if he's a dentist? At any given time, he might have 60-80 dentures, but possess great oral health himself....
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 11:34 PM (T1005)
another beautiful night and sunset. great summer in these parts. odd that it followed such a late, late, late, late spring.
Posted by: jc at July 28, 2013 11:35 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: DAve at July 28, 2013 11:36 PM (albkL)
Posted by: DAve at July 28, 2013 11:37 PM (albkL)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 11:38 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 28, 2013 11:38 PM (Wk9TK)
This is going to be an, ahem, interesting 500+ comments to wade thru ...
So while you wait:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU_2oNF9CZE
Venus and Mars / Rock Show
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 29, 2013 03:27 AM
Ah, the LP version rather than a live one. Didn't know you were parial to McCartney's solo stuff, A.
Posted by: otho at July 28, 2013 11:38 PM (9gNQd)
I suddenly have an urge to kick Michael Vick's ass.
Posted by: King David at July 28, 2013 11:38 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Cato at July 28, 2013 11:39 PM (fNVKc)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 28, 2013 11:39 PM (RXQ2T)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 28, 2013 11:40 PM (Wk9TK)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 11:41 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 28, 2013 11:42 PM (Wk9TK)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 11:43 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 28, 2013 11:45 PM (RXQ2T)
Tinkled Pink may Buddha grant you the enlightenment to see a better path.
Oyasumi.
*pads off and curls up to slumber*
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 28, 2013 11:46 PM (RJOKC)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 28, 2013 11:47 PM (Wk9TK)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 11:49 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 28, 2013 11:49 PM (Wk9TK)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 28, 2013 11:50 PM (Wk9TK)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 28, 2013 11:50 PM (RXQ2T)
Posted by: Cato at July 29, 2013 03:16 AM (fNVKc) -- she hasn't said that she'd do anything wrong, she was asking for help in controlling her urges and not her behavior.
Posted by: DAve at July 29, 2013 03:36 AM (albkL) -- marriage is not chattel ownership, as Huma Abedin well knows.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 29, 2013 02:51 AM (RXQ2T) -- what if she finds another older married guy to lust after in the new church?
Mind you, I find much to commend in Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 29, 2013 02:51 AM (RXQ2T)'s #4, Posted by: torquewrench at July 29, 2013 02:12 AM (gqT4g), Posted by: Methos at July 29, 2013 03:23 AM (hO9ad), and Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 29, 2013 02:09 AM (qyfb5).....
....and to Posted by: buzzion at July 29, 2013 02:25 AM (LI48c) -- shut up, dude!
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 11:50 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Cato at July 28, 2013 11:51 PM (fNVKc)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 11:52 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: DAve at July 29, 2013 03:41 AM (albkL)
Perhaps a Terminator Cthulhu?
Posted by: cthulhu at July 28, 2013 11:53 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 11:54 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 28, 2013 11:55 PM (qyfb5)
I have Venus and Mars in album form somewhere ...
:- )
Get off my ass...troturf !!!
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 29, 2013 03:49 AM
V and M was not a bad effort at all from McCartney. He was patchy with his stuff, but no more so than the others, really. He really knew how to write a great song when he put his mind to it. Here's what I reckon was the best thing he ever produced post-Beatles.... the excellent Take #16 of Junior's Farm. This could have been on the White Album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CcLRSpdFOk
Posted by: otho at July 28, 2013 11:55 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 28, 2013 11:56 PM (Wk9TK)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 29, 2013 12:00 AM (RXQ2T)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 03:50 AM (T1005)
You'll be amazed what can happen sometimes if you're just honest 
Posted by: buzzion at July 29, 2013 12:01 AM (LI48c)
My compass notoriously swings to #2, but I have too much common sense to have had any fun from it.
#7 is right out.
#5 and #9 are rapidly becoming a tolerable idea, but I can also imagine how terribly that could turn out.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 29, 2013 03:54 AM (qyfb5)
I once had a business lunch with a guy who opened up about his wife being #5 -- but, seriously, in a "special-ed" sort of way. About how he appreciated that she was always glad when he got home, and how pleased he was to be able to make her smile. It was.....unusual, and a bit disturbing....but -- at least from his description of the relationship -- both parties were happy.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 12:01 AM (T1005)
Found four of the drives I was digging up for Merovign. Thought there were more but the is so much accumulated stuff in there. I've spent an absurd amount since 2004, when I moved from a much larger place, to keep a hold of this stuff. And so much of it has become worthlessly obsolete or no longer has an emotional bond for me. I've already gotten rid of a large portion of my books and still need to haul a lot more to the library for donation. It's especially ridiculous to keep paperback novels by the cubic foot that can be reduced to a single DVD-R full of EPUB and MOBI files. Even the more visually oriented stuff loses its appeal when you have a good big high res monitor and debts that should be paid instead of storing this stuff.
And a lot of this stuff could simply have been replaced for a fraction of what it has cost to store over the years. And would have commanded a far better price if I'd sold it off back then. I told myself, lied to myself really, that the situation was just temporary and someday soon I'd have ample space for book shelves and disc racks again. I cannot comprehend the people on those hoarders shows but I surely have a clue as to how it gets started.
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 12:01 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at July 29, 2013 12:07 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 29, 2013 12:08 AM (Wk9TK)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 29, 2013 12:10 AM (Wk9TK)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at July 29, 2013 12:10 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 29, 2013 12:10 AM (Wk9TK)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at July 29, 2013 12:11 AM (qyfb5)
I turned 49 today but feel like I never did any of the stuff I was supposed to have done by now. Like have a family or any sort of a career.
I do finally have a decent bicycle. Some family members decided to help out with the cost since it had been some years since I'd had any kind of significant birthday action. That was as mostly my fault because my birthday rarely put me in a good mood.
Oddly, I received a present from my sister's dog. It was two items, a Hollee Rollee ball that allows us to play in the house with concern for breaking the walls or his compromised tooth (his favorite game is to lie at the top of the stairs and roll the ball down to me so I can throw it back to him), and a package of 12 pair of the socks I where most days. This because the same dog has a penchant for stealing and shredding my socks. This may be due to my sister using discarded old socks as dog toys when he was a pup, leading him to believe my socks were fair game, regardless of vintage.
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 12:13 AM (kcfmt)
1. since the emancipation proclamation was 150 years ago, if you ever say the words "400 years of slavery in the U.S." you have to present a birth certificate showing you are over 550 years old.
Posted by: jc at July 29, 2013 12:15 AM (PlzOe)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at July 29, 2013 12:17 AM (qyfb5)
2. you must acknowledge that there is not one single living human being that is not a descendant of slaves -- or you must document the lineage that somehow never included a single slave in every time and place throughout human history.
Posted by: jc at July 29, 2013 12:18 AM (PlzOe)
I'm in the process myself.
When I was a kid, my parents had a weird thing going where we'd move annually -- sometimes even more frequently. The money that sent me to college came from building houses, moving into them before they were finished, finishing them, moving to the next, and selling them off. My mom had family in Orange County and a job near Long Beach; my dad had family in Santa Clarita and worked downtown -- every so often there'd be a huge argument where my mom would go, "you haven't taken out the trash in two weeks and I'm tired of living so close to your stupid brother" and my dad would reply, "ok, we'll move."
So I found comfort in "stuff". I couldn't know what I'd find when I walked out the door to my bedroom, or out the front door of the house, so I had continuity in the books and knick-knacks that were hauled from place to place. But now, I've lived in this house for longer than anywhere else.....and I've got a ton o' shit that's gotta go.
That said, a lot of it is tokens for various dreams. As Adriane said, craft projects never started. Wishes never realized. And a lot of it is a past that I would like to remember fondly in details....but that I may have plastered over in my memories....sometimes to cover pain, and other times merely to move on.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 12:19 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at July 29, 2013 12:21 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at July 29, 2013 12:22 AM (qyfb5)
I figger the biggest reason to buy a home is so you don't have to move.
Posted by: jc at July 29, 2013 12:23 AM (PlzOe)
Yep, got it. So far, appears to be two 120 GB units (Maxtor and WD), an 80 GB Hitachi, and surprisingly, a 10 or 20 GB Maxtor. The model, 91000D8, produces conflicting results in a search.
There may be more but I need to make some trips to Goodwill and the library to get a better handle on what all is in there.
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 12:24 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 29, 2013 12:24 AM (Wk9TK)
I am always interested in toys (as I call computer parts).
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at July 29, 2013 12:26 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: DAve at July 29, 2013 12:26 AM (albkL)
I'm cool with late birthday presents. Really.
My sister-in-law less so. Twenty-one years ago my mother had forgotten her not yet DIL's birthday and found a cute card for the missed occasion, which had a punch line inside reading "Better late than pregnant!" Michelle received the card in the mail and read it less than an hour after finding out she was in fact pregnant.
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 12:33 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 12:35 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: DAve at July 29, 2013 04:26 AM (albkL)
It's not wrong to cherish mementos of times past, or people who have gone -- but it is also a burden -- things must be maintained, and connections must be remembered. Behind all of us is a howling whirlwind, threatening to leave no trace of our loved ones, our selves, our memories.
Don't bless the whirlwind or curse those who love.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 12:36 AM (T1005)
I'm cool with late birthday presents. Really.
My sister-in-law less so. Twenty-one years ago my mother had forgotten her not yet DIL's birthday and found a cute card for the missed occasion, which had a punch line inside reading "Better late than pregnant!" Michelle received the card in the mail and read it less than an hour after finding out she was in fact pregnant.
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 04:33 AM (kcfmt)
Awkward.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 12:39 AM (T1005)
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 04:33 AM (kcfmt)
I got a ticket. I figured that winning would be about the only way that it could make sense to stay in California.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 12:42 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 12:43 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: BornLib at July 29, 2013 12:44 AM (zpNwC)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 29, 2013 12:45 AM (Wk9TK)
If you can't recognize your own racism in statements that lump "white people" together into some accusation or complaint, why should anyone waste their time in a conversation with someone as obtuse as you?
Posted by: jc at July 29, 2013 12:46 AM (PlzOe)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 12:48 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: zombie at July 29, 2013 12:49 AM (+cx5n)
It's kind of sad how they screwed up selling that game. The first in the series was on the Sega Dreamcast and ended on a cliff hanger. Thus anyone who never had a Dreamcast and the first game had little incentive to pick up the sequel. They should have done an enhanced port of the first game and packaged it together with the second, which would have attracted some interest in Japan and been accessible to newcomers in the rest of the world.
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 12:50 AM (kcfmt)
I've settled on "Beautiful day!" It just seems appropriate when everyone in a park has driven half an hour to get there, is walking through a forest smelling the trees and the earth, watching the birds, and listening for wildlife. People generally respond with "yes, it is" or just smile. Wouldn't work in a parking lot or mall, but it's the best greeting I've found so far.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 12:50 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 12:52 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Chromoly Man at July 29, 2013 12:53 AM (hZKDR)
Then, again, maybe I should still GTFO if I win the lottery.....
I'm in Silicon Valley -- when I first moved here, my next-door neighbor was living as a woman though born a man, in an occasional submissive relationship with a dominant woman whose husband had taken to spending excess time in a zen dojo. Amazingly enough, I met the BH because my neighbor's wiccan group included a woman who worked near me in the same building as the BH, and we'd meet up for lunch. Really. This stuff actually happens, and people deal with it like it's normal.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 01:00 AM (T1005)
Posted by: zombie at July 29, 2013 01:04 AM (+cx5n)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 29, 2013 01:05 AM (Wk9TK)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 01:05 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 29, 2013 01:07 AM (Wk9TK)
I think I'd also spend a certain amount on taking out full page ads in major newspapers, discussing the details of important stories the newspaper itself neglected to include.
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 01:07 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 01:09 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: richgmu at July 29, 2013 01:10 AM (KHiTY)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 01:10 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 29, 2013 01:11 AM (Wk9TK)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 01:13 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 29, 2013 01:13 AM (Wk9TK)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 01:13 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 29, 2013 01:13 AM (Wk9TK)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 01:14 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 01:14 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 29, 2013 01:15 AM (Wk9TK)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 01:16 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 29, 2013 01:18 AM (Wk9TK)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 29, 2013 01:19 AM (Wk9TK)
Posted by: Merovign"
Just think of all the venereal diseases you're not going to get. Morality aside, I oftimes just shudder at the thought of all those germs sloshing around in all those mucus membranes, one big citywide hot tub of infectiousness.
Posted by: zombie at July 29, 2013 05:04 AM (+cx5n)
It's not just venereal diseases. Tom Wolfe had a great bit in "The Great Relearning" [http://www.unz.org/Pub/AmSpectator-1987dec-00014?View=PDFPages]: "At the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic there were doctors who were treating diseases no living doctor had ever encountered before, diseases that had disappeared so long ago they had never even picked up Latin names, diseases such as the mange, the grunge, the itch, the twitch, the thrush, the scroff, the rot." It's a great piece that really illustrates the horror behind "start from zero."
Incidentally, I had a situation where I got conflicting "urgent care" diagnoses about what my doctor properly identified later as gout. A while later, we were talking about something and he came up with another straightforward (and probably accurate) diagnosis....so I composed a little something for my physical.......and laid it on him: "You're always talking about this basic stuff. Why don't you ever diagnose something official, like "Pasteurella pestis"; or with initials, like "MRSA"; or even in Latin, like "intracerebral haemorrhage" -- or is that all reserved for your better patients?" He stammered "but you wouldn't want any of those...." before he realized it was a put-on.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 01:20 AM (T1005)
Perhaps media outlets should be required to make the full unedited interview available on their sites. Call it the Truthiness Requirement. Nothing held back from anyone who wants the full details.
The same should be done for court recordings. Consider that video on Conservative Treehouse of the cell phone analyst guy whose testimony the judge in the Zimmerman trial chose not to allow to be entered into evidence and thus made available to the jury, who were not there to see the testimony. The networks and newspapers completely ignored the testimony as well, even though they must have had as much access to it as the Treehouse guys.
I'm willing to bet a very small portion of the Justice for Trayvon types are aware of what was revealed by the contents of his cell phone. Some would refuse to acknowledge what it meant but a fair number would be shocked at the info or the fact that the family sought to selectively delete items from the phone that might reflect badly on Martin.
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 01:21 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 29, 2013 05:14 AM (qyfb5)
Too busy telling a story......which says something, I suppose.....
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 01:22 AM (T1005)
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 05:21 AM (kcfmt)
I'm sure the pr firm and Martin family lawyers knew pretty well they had to cover all that up.
Posted by: rich@gmu at July 29, 2013 01:31 AM (KHiTY)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police at July 29, 2013 01:32 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police at July 29, 2013 01:34 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: rich@gmu at July 29, 2013 01:40 AM (KHiTY)
Posted by: DAve at July 29, 2013 01:45 AM (albkL)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police at July 29, 2013 01:46 AM (bS6uW)
pixy's reject message is annoying too.
hipster traps...
http://tinyurl.com/kt8o4c7
what will they think up of next?
Posted by: rich@gmu at July 29, 2013 01:47 AM (KHiTY)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 01:47 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police at July 29, 2013 01:51 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police at July 29, 2013 05:51 AM (bS6uW)
that's some foul shit right there.
and yeah me! moving day.
Posted by: rich@gmu at July 29, 2013 01:54 AM (KHiTY)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police at July 29, 2013 01:56 AM (bS6uW)
It's a variation of SimCity, where you must restore the town Springfield after Homer wipes it out accidentally. The way they monetize the free game is by letting you use real money to buy virtual donuts that can be used in place of cash and more importantly are the only means to acquire certain unique items in the game, such as Hank Scorpio and his volcano lair.
The game gives you donuts every once in a while, when you complete a level and a few other occasions. These donuts don't amount to much when it takes dozens or even hundreds to buy the coolest stuff. But some of the cheap items have special qualities. For instance, the park bench variant with the coat resting on the back slats serve not only decorative value, just like the plain park bench that sells for straight cash within the game and is very inexpensive, it also adds .25% to the money and XP generated by properties on timed cycles and characters when they complete an assigned job, like shopping at the Kwikee Mart.
Failing to note this, I'd used up most of my donuts so far on accelerating events for a quick payoff. Very wasteful. If I'd applied them solely to decorative items with bonuses I could have enhanced my cash and XP acquisition rate by at least 5% by now.
Sigh. I don't know if it's just because I've had too much time on my hands lately or the game is that insidious.
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 01:58 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 02:02 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 02:03 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 02:03 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police at July 29, 2013 02:03 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 02:05 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police at July 29, 2013 02:08 AM (bS6uW)
Except she'd probably be all runabout and anti-cis-gendery and stuff.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 29, 2013 06:05 AM (qyfb5)
Who knows -- if you start having lunch with one, you might end up with someone more normal who is new in town.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 02:10 AM (T1005)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police at July 29, 2013 02:10 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 02:13 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 02:14 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police at July 29, 2013 02:14 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 29, 2013 06:14 AM (qyfb5)
Back when I was in school, we had introvert clubs. Mind you, they were called something else......
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 02:17 AM (T1005)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police at July 29, 2013 02:18 AM (bS6uW)
Unfortunately, it's very obvious. The information is all right there out in the open. .25% may seem like a tiny, tiny enhancement but it really adds up if you do the math and realize how far ahead it puts you on getting cash to do more stuff.
I wonder how EA is doing on the donut sales. The game lets you buy as few as 60 or as many as 2400. I haven't checked all of the prices but the value gets better for larger quantities. For example, you get 60 for $4.99, 132 for $9.99 and 300 for $19.99.
A donut here and a donut there. Pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 02:18 AM (kcfmt)
Not just a Star Wars reference but also a Matrix reference for extra hybrid character points.
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 02:20 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 02:22 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 02:24 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police at July 29, 2013 02:24 AM (bS6uW)
When trying to explain to people, I'd say, remember the old Kaufman joke about not joining any club that would have me as a member? Well, LASFS is that club.
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 02:24 AM (kcfmt)
Unfortunately, it's very obvious. The information is all right there out in the open. .25% may seem like a tiny, tiny enhancement but it really adds up if you do the math and realize how far ahead it puts you on getting cash to do more stuff.
I wonder how EA is doing on the donut sales. The game lets you buy as few as 60 or as many as 2400. I haven't checked all of the prices but the value gets better for larger quantities. For example, you get 60 for $4.99, 132 for $9.99 and 300 for $19.99.
A donut here and a donut there. Pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 06:18 AM (kcfmt)
Sounds like you should get as many as it takes for the price per to get to zero......
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 02:26 AM (T1005)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police at July 29, 2013 02:27 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police at July 29, 2013 02:30 AM (bS6uW)
So you were ahead of the curve. It isn't like the Wachowskis invented the name.
I used to go by the name Nathan Brazil online. In fact, my first personal email address not tied to a specific company's service was nbrazil@ix.netcom.com. But I first adopted it as a handle for BBS use when I got my first modem back in 1982.
A surprising number of people asked me if I was a friend of Jack Chalker and whether he'd named the character after me. Yes, I'd explain, many authors are part of a cult revolving around time machine use to steal ideas from the future. Like Shakespeare mining West Side Story for his pale shadow imitation Romeo and Juliet.
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 02:31 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police at July 29, 2013 06:27 AM (bS6uW)
Y'know, this whole thing about pagan flexibility is overrated. Sure, she's 24% more likely to provide anal, but it's 12% more likely that's all she's got -- 'cause the other innie is an outie. Sure, she's 68% more likely to do a threesome.....but 42% of the time it's with an extra guy.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 02:33 AM (T1005)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police Legislating from the Distant Future at July 29, 2013 02:34 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 02:35 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police Legislating from the Distant Future at July 29, 2013 02:37 AM (bS6uW)
NONE of the climate model code I've examined (about a dozen models) respects any of the 754 features and behaviors. It ALL took whatever the compiler defaults were setup by the standard runtime library startup code.
Hence, default rounding could be up/down/chop/nearest as the RTL chose.
I've NEVER seen any code to handle denormal situations or loss of precision interrupts. All the code ran with masked responses (typical RTL startup code default) meaning things SILENTLY flush to zero, become infinity, etc.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at July 29, 2013 02:39 AM (S3yfV)
Today is national chicken wing day.
And it was Groucho Marx who said the club joining joke first.
Posted by: Invictus at July 29, 2013 02:39 AM (OQpzc)
A very annoying aspect is that you cannot find out the price for a quantity of donuts without initiating a purchase. To avoid completing the purchase you have to tap outside the transaction dialogue and generate and error. It kicks you back into the game with the message "Ay Caramba! Some might have gone wrong with your purchase!"
I need to check with Google Play to make sure nothing actually got billed. Because I am not buying any damn donuts. Absolutely not. Ain't gonna happen. No way. Uh-uh, no sirree.
At least not yet.
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 02:39 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Hands Off My Weiner! at July 29, 2013 02:40 AM (tCBZk)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 29, 2013 02:41 AM (T1005)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police Legislating from the Distant Future at July 29, 2013 02:42 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 02:43 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Invictus at July 29, 2013 02:45 AM (OQpzc)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 02:45 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Hands Off My Weiner! at July 29, 2013 02:48 AM (tCBZk)
Posted by: The Peruvian Morality Police Legislating from the Distant Future at July 29, 2013 02:49 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 29, 2013 02:50 AM (2vuT6)
I still have two machines with the Netcruiser app on them. The first was my first laptop (and really the first Wintel PC I owned), an NEC Versa 486SX running Win3.11. Netcruiser had the big advantage of having its own TCP/IP stack built-in and thus was a lot easier to get going than most other straight internet choices back then.
The other machine is a Toshiba Libretto, an incredibly tiny Win95 machine running a Pentium 75. Most people who saw me using it thought it was a largish PDA. Toshiba originally sent it to Jerry Pournelle but he quickly gave up trying to use it. I got custody of it and quickly became very attached. Had Office 97, Netcruiser and little else on its little drive. It was the item that lead me to create the Cold Dead Fingers Award, as in toshiba can have it back when they pry it from my...
Toshiba found this greatly amusing when Jerry told them this and even used that paragraph from the column in some of their ads in Japan.
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 02:57 AM (kcfmt)
DLC is one reason I hold out for the Game of the Year Edition or equivalent. I think I already mentioned how I was stuck having to find something for $55 or more at TRU or lose the value completely when I returned the bicycle I got there. After some soul searching I got the Skyrim Legendary Edition with all of the bug patches and DLC included. I normally would have held out for it to get a big mark down or appear in the Best Buy Deal of the Day.
On digital stuff I always hold out for the sales, both for the game and the DLC. No rush. My backlog will hold me for years, so under normal circumstance there isn't much temptation to pay full price for anything of a gaming nature. I still manage to spend far more than I should.
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 03:04 AM (kcfmt)
http://tinyurl.com/kzbj8tv
Posted by: epobirs at July 29, 2013 03:07 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 03:07 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 29, 2013 03:35 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Flyover Country at July 29, 2013 03:53 AM (ULH4o)
Have you heard the term "hypergamy"? Because you're experiencing a full-on, absolutely <i>classic</i> case of hypergamy right now. Your hindbrain, which does not care about morality in any way, is telling you "that guy would make a great father for my kids", and the rest of your body is reacting accordingly. If he were available, this would be a good thing... but he's not.
What you're trying to do right now is to stop being attracted to him. It won't work. Let me say that again: IT WON'T WORK. The hindbrain does not listen to reason, or morality, or anything else. The hindbrain has its own agenda, and you cannot change its mind.
You have only two choices. One, continue where you are, where you will eventually give in to temptation and ruin a perfectly happy marriage. Don't kid yourself that you wouldn't do it if the opportunity arose. You already know that you probably WOULD -- you've said yourself that you don't know if you'd be able to resist the temptation. And that's when you're NOT confronted with the possibility; actual temptation is always stronger than temptation contemplated in the mind alone. If he made a pass at you, you'd be so caught up in the rush of endorphins that you would accept; I guarantee it.
Your other choice is the only good choice open to you: run away from the situation. If you can, leave the parish and find another one to attend. If you're not willing to do that, then you must, I repeat, MUST take active steps to cut that temptation off. One of the best things you can do, if you don't actually want to commit adultery with this man, is to <i>talk to his wife</i>. Take her aside after church one day and confess to her that you're developing a crush on her husband, and you don't intend to do anything about it but you don't trust yourself not to if the occasion should arise. Trust me, she will be <i>highly</i> motivated to help make sure the occasion never arises.
Those are your only two real options. You will NOT be able to make the attraction go away by using reason. Your only two options are to commit adultery (let's face up to what it would really be), or to take active steps RIGHT NOW to put the temptation permanently out of reach. Leaving the parish or else confessing your temptation to the man's wife are the best way to do that.
Posted by: Buckaroo Banzai's watermelon at July 29, 2013 04:27 AM (29MvT)
That area, the Faubourg Marigny, is the section of town just downriver from the French Quarter. We've been hearing a lot about attacks, robberies, and shootings by "black males" in that area, especially since so many whites are attempting to gentrify it. I say, why move to an area where you as good a chance of being shot as you do ruining your car's suspension in a pothole -- and you have nearly a 90% chance of that? The rents are cheaper than in the Quarter, though they're still insane.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 29, 2013 06:09 AM (BDU/a)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 29, 2013 10:09 AM (RXQ2T)
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