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August 04, 2013

Overnight Open Thread (8-4-2013)
— Maetenloch

"The bottom line is we're not broke, there's plenty of money, it's just the government doesn't have it,"
"The government has a right, the government and the people of the United States have a right to run the programs of the United States. Health, welfare, housing - all these things."
-- Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN)

Quote of the Day II

"If fewer civilians carried weapons, police might be less trigger happy."

-- David Frum

Quote of the Day III

"Thank God I was not on the property at the time of this attempted break in. I am an avid hunter and marksman and I will not hesitate to shoot anyone who has myself or family in fear for our lives. I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously regardless of who you are."

- Kid Rock

The Real Helen Thomas

She may have been the first woman reporter in the DC press corps but she was also a Jew-hating, hack of a reporter. And a fairly nasty person.

Still, as time went by, the awards poured in as Thomas became a Washington institution, with cameos in Hollywood movies and even The Simpsons. But the "odd thing about her awards and citations," Chait noted, "is that they almost never mention any specific contributions she has made to journalism save for being female and, well, old."
Or as journalist Andrew Ferguson once put it, "Everybody admires Helen, though nobody can tell you why."
The best answer I can come up with: She had a long tradition of existence.

Will Hillary Be the One?

I'm with Jonah on this one - Hillary has never been a great politician, given a moving speech, or had a compelling message. Pretty much her only qualifications are 1) that she's married to Bill Clinton and 2) hated by the Right.

Plus she's been on the public stage for over 20 years already which makes her fairly stale by historical presidential candidate standards.

Quick: Can you think of a single truly interesting thing Hillary Clinton has ever said?

...The simple fact, by my lights at least, is that Hillary Clinton is not a compelling personality in her own right. Even Bill Clinton's harshest critics have to concede that he was a masterful politician, a jazz impresario mixing deep insights, policy minutiae, and folksy cornpone peppered with compelling half-truths and daring outright lies. Barack Obama isn't nearly as gifted as Bill was on the stump or in the backrooms, but the man has political talent. Hillary's a very solid policy wonk, but the only thing that makes her a rock star is that people keep calling her one.

Tawana Brawley Finally Starts Paying For Her Lies

Steven Pagones tracked her down in Virginia and had her wages garnished.

Twenty-five years after accusing an innocent man of rape, Tawana Brawley is finally paying for her lies.
Last week, 10 checks totaling $3,764.61 were delivered to ex-prosecutor Steven Pagones - the first payments Brawley has made since a court determined in 1998 that she defamed him with her vicious hoax.

A Virginia court this year ordered the money garnisheed from six months of Brawley's wages as a nurse there.

She still owes Pagones $431,000 in damages. And she remains defiantly unapologetic.

"It's a long time coming," said Pagones, 52, who to this day is more interested in extracting a confession from Brawley than cash.
"Every week, she'll think of me," he told The Post. "And every week, she can think about how she has a way out - she can simply tell the truth."

The New Reverse Amazons?

But instead of cutting off their breasts members of the German ceremonial Guard Battalions seem to be growing moobs. And doctors think they know why:

They set out "to investigate the increased incidence of left-sided gynecomastia in members of the German Ministry of Defense Guard Battalion who perform ceremonial duties in Berlin . A possible explanation is the mechanical impact of the carbine against the left side of the body during the drills that these soldiers regularly perform as part of their ceremonial duties".
Seventy-five percent of the gynecomastiacal Guard Battalion chest-slappers had an enlarged left - only the left, not the right - breast.
The other patients - the non-chest-slappers - as a group showed neither sinister nor dexter breastedness. One third of them did have an enlarged left breast only. But another third of them had only a big right breast. The third third had a big pair.

Eight People Who Were Banned From Baseball

For pretty much bullshit reasons. Including Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays.

Following their careers, Mantle and Mays spent some of their time working as goodwill ambassadors for casinos in Atlantic City. They weren't working for MLB at the time, and it's not like they were pit bosses, either. The two would show up to greet casino patrons, sign autographs, play in golf tournaments, and do other little appearances to raise their casinos' profiles. In Mays' case, his services contract with the casino actually forbid him from doing any gambling himself, so the whole thing seemed harmless enough.

Commissioner Bowie Kuhn wasn't having any of it, though. He felt that baseball legends shouldn't be hanging around casinos, so he banned both men from working for baseball teams in any capacity. Cooler heads eventually prevailed, and Kuhn's successor, Peter Uberroth, overturned the bans.

Man Attempts to Woo Women Via the PowerPoint Method

A highly eligible single guy now known as the "the Mad Bachelor of Australia" hands out a 99-page manual to all women before their first date with him in which he lays out his like/dislikes, preferences, plans for the relationship, as well as pertinent details like the taste of his semen, the six stages of his orgasms, and when you'll be allowed to meet his family.

Meh I've read HR policy manuals that were sexier than this. So I'm guessing this is a case of a full-on Asperger's persuing his dream to be a Playa.

Weekly AoSHQ Commenter Standings

Top 10 commenters:
1 [591 comments] 'Anna Puma (+SmuD)' [82.91 posts/day]
2 [414 comments] 'EC'
3 [410 comments] 'MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit </s>
4 [353 comments] 'Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016'
5 [350 comments] 'Jane D'oh'
6 [350 comments] 'J.J. Sefton'
7 [310 comments] 'willow'
8 [309 comments] 'rickb223'
9 [308 comments] 'BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk'
10 [306 comments] 'FenelonSpoke'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [79 names] 'The Political Hat' [11.08 unique names/day]
2 [69 names] 'phreshone'
3 [62 names] 'Adam'
4 [46 names] 'Cicero (@cicero)'
5 [44 names] 'steveegg'
6 [43 names] 'Doctor Fish'
7 [34 names] 'logprof'
8 [33 names] 'andycanuck'
9 [31 names] 'what dead horse?'
10 [27 names] 'pep'

The group. Yeah.

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1 Hi

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at August 04, 2013 05:26 PM (HVff2)

Posted by: Peaches at August 04, 2013 05:27 PM (8lmkt)

3 curses . . . foiled again!

Posted by: Peaches at August 04, 2013 05:27 PM (8lmkt)

4 Shorter Keith Ellison: You have money. I know better how to spend it. Give it to me.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2013 05:28 PM (Lhux0)

5 Can we get a collection to hire a person to follow David Frum around and bitch slap him every ten minutes?

Posted by: Evil Blogger Lady at August 04, 2013 05:29 PM (UYjru)

6 "Highly eligible" sounds like "permanently alone to me.

Posted by: Y-not at August 04, 2013 05:30 PM (5H6zj)

7 I know the word "gynecomastia" from the Cheers episode where it was a side effect of Cliff's anti-worry medication. See? TV is good for something.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at August 04, 2013 05:30 PM (BQ10H)

8 29 years ago today, 8/4/84, I married my true love. Still waiting for the manual.

Posted by: Y-not at August 04, 2013 05:30 PM (5H6zj)

9 *Steven Pagones tracked her down in Virginia and had her wages garnished. According to that story, the prosecutor would forgive that debt in return for Brawley being truthful and publicly confessing. Guess that's a step too far for her.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 04, 2013 05:30 PM (KiyII)

10 So we get a cartoon instead of a cheerleader pic? *weak*

Posted by: DAve at August 04, 2013 05:31 PM (OksBo)

11 Easily explained. After seeing how the Dolphins are playing their cheerleaders all quit

Posted by: DAve at August 04, 2013 05:32 PM (OksBo)

12 Congrats & good luck Y-not

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at August 04, 2013 05:32 PM (HVff2)

13 Happy Anniversary, Y-not (and the ever-fortunate Mr. Y-not)!!

Posted by: Peaches at August 04, 2013 05:32 PM (8lmkt)

14 8 Happy Anniversary!

Posted by: steevy at August 04, 2013 05:32 PM (9XBK2)

15 Apropos of nothing, relaxing after a hard day celebrating my birthday with family and friends. Small children are a total energy suck. I'm done.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 04, 2013 05:33 PM (kSJg9)

16 We need to confiscate all that sweet Jooo Gold.

Posted by: Keith Ellison at August 04, 2013 05:33 PM (AB86q)

17 The bottom line is I'm not broke, there's plenty of money, it's just I don't have it, it's in other people's bank accounts. I think I'll start taxing people for their money, because I have a right to fund my programs. Ya know, vacations, expensive dog toys for my beagle, nice meals, better clothes. The whole concept of private property is bullshit. Keith Ellison says so.

Posted by: nerdygirl K. Ellison at August 04, 2013 05:34 PM (6tmNL)

18 Did you all see that USMC stress test question? Real or hoax? It's at WZ.

Posted by: RWC - Team Mace FTW at August 04, 2013 05:34 PM (8FeS+)

19 *drives up in a DeLorean*

Heyyy morons! I come with bitchin' gifts -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwvMqoDdfCU

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 04, 2013 05:34 PM (d7tB2)

20 15

Happy birthday! Isn't this barky's alleged birthday as well?

Posted by: Peaches at August 04, 2013 05:34 PM (8lmkt)

21 What are the tax policies of the muzzie countries? I suggest Ellison go to some 3rd world toilet, errr I mean country and represent them in some sharia ghetto

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at August 04, 2013 05:35 PM (HVff2)

22 "The government has a right..."

Funny, I thought it as CITIZENS that had rights.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2013 05:35 PM (Lhux0)

23 My parish priest used a version of the Ellison quote. "The church has plenty of money. Unfortunately its in your pockets." The left looks at our savings accounts and 401k's and salivates at how much money they have

Posted by: McCool at August 04, 2013 05:35 PM (tMLEl)

24 Happy Anniversary, Y-not. btw, another example of "elections have consequences": Statue of Stalin to be reinstated in Gori, Georgia http://tinyurl.com/nxb62ka Putin smiles.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 04, 2013 05:35 PM (KiyII)

25 Birthday cakes are cool. After she had wedding cake my wife's throat closed up iykwimaityd

Posted by: DAve at August 04, 2013 05:35 PM (OksBo)

26 "If fewer civilians carried weapons, police might be less trigger happy." -- David Frum

Boy, it was really important that a Republican be elected in 2000, so that twats like this wouldn't get the ear of the President.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 04, 2013 05:35 PM (d7tB2)

27 Happy Anniversary Y-Not.

Posted by: RWC - Team Mace FTW at August 04, 2013 05:35 PM (8FeS+)

28 Posted by: Thrawn at August 04, 2013 09:30 PM (KiyII) Never speak against the narrative, no matter what the cost!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 04, 2013 05:36 PM (XdnQT)

29 helpful hint as awesome as Dr Sheldon Cooper is do not use his Relationship Agreement as a guide to life.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 04, 2013 05:36 PM (Gk3SS)

30 Evening morons, 'ettes and any other degenerates. Stuck on the overnight shift tonight. Now, dance for my amusement!

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 04, 2013 05:36 PM (sQ0LB)

31 Happy birthday, RedMindBlueState!

Posted by: Y-not at August 04, 2013 05:36 PM (5H6zj)

32 "And a fairly nasty person." Yeah, her being a nasty person didn't show up in her face at all. smirk Honest to gawd, the woman didn't need to wear a witch costume for Halloween. Put a broom in her hand and she was good to go.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 04, 2013 05:37 PM (6tmNL)

33 Evening all! Well, those first two "Quotes of the Day" nicely boosted my blood pressure. You know, next time I go into anaphylactic shock I'll have to remember that Ellison quote. The fury alone will be enough to keep my heart pumping until I get to the hospital. Good gracious do I hate that man. And don't get me started on David "Wormlips" Frum, may he roast in Hell.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 05:37 PM (CA2NO)

34 Can you think of a single truly interesting thing Hillary Clinton has ever said?

"[McCain] will put forth his experience. I will put forth my experience. Sen. Obama will put forth a speech he made in 2002."

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 04, 2013 05:37 PM (d7tB2)

35 Happy birthday, RedMindBlueState! *throws confetti!*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 05:37 PM (CA2NO)

36 Evening, fappers. I do not wish to think about or comment on the content, so I will say that St. Elmo's Fire is a damn fine drink.

Posted by: DC in Towson at August 04, 2013 05:37 PM (jIaZt)

37 Huh. The NFL is on TV. Seems like the Super Bowl was just a couple of months ago.

Posted by: Weirddave at August 04, 2013 05:38 PM (aH+zP)

38 Pics of Keith Ellison, Hillary Clinton, and Al Sharpton all in one ONT... are you trying to goad me into punching my computer, or is it just happenstance?

Posted by: PabloD at August 04, 2013 05:38 PM (hhp7Q)

39 If PowerPoint Guy finds the woman of his dreams, I predict that she will eventually get a restraining order against him after she realizes he's batshit crazy.

Posted by: rickl at August 04, 2013 05:38 PM (sdi6R)

40 The left looks at our savings accounts and 401k's and salivates at how much money they have Posted by: McCool at August 04, 2013 09:35 PM (tMLEl) Coming soon to an emerging third world banana republic very near you!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 04, 2013 05:38 PM (XdnQT)

41 Put a broom in her hand and she was good to go.

Don't remind me... *shudder*

Posted by: Helen Thomas's broom has seen the mouth of hell at August 04, 2013 05:38 PM (d7tB2)

42 "According to that story, the prosecutor would forgive that debt in return for Brawley being truthful and publicly confessing. Guess that's a step too far for her."

I'm not one to welch on a deal, but in that case I would make an exception. I'll take the confession and the money.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 04, 2013 05:38 PM (Fz2C7)

43 Here is the "News of the Week" compilation of the news: http://politicalhat.com/?p=2902

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 04, 2013 05:39 PM (Vk2pI)

Posted by: Y-not at August 04, 2013 09:30 PM (5H6zj)

Congratulations on the Anniversary.

and damn it, I'm going to get on that wall of shame.

Posted by: rich@gmu at August 04, 2013 05:39 PM (5Tm6g)

45 >>>>You know, next time I go into anaphylactic shock I'll have to remember that Ellison quote. The fury alone will be enough to keep my heart pumping until I get to the hospital. Good gracious do I hate that man. I'm pretty sure I'm in love with you. Don't tell Cougar.

Posted by: DC in Towson at August 04, 2013 05:39 PM (jIaZt)

46 What's wrong with being a Jew-hater?

America is reaching out to me!

Posted by: President Hasan Rouhani at August 04, 2013 05:39 PM (gqgiP)

47 Told you 401(k) confiscation is coming. Then comes the Emburnening.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 04, 2013 05:39 PM (Gk3SS)

48 The government has a right to tell you how to live your life. To tell you how to worship and whoe to worship.

Posted by: Keith Ellison Future Comments at August 04, 2013 05:39 PM (Aif/5)

49 MWR - If you want to see what Ellison is supporting with the comments check out this site: http://robinhoodtax.org/

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2013 05:40 PM (Lhux0)

50 *drives up in a DeLorean* Heyyy morons! I come with bitchin' gifts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwvMqoDdfCU Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 04, 2013 09:34 PM (d7tB2) Jeff Conaway! He was my favorite character in Grease, and in Babylon 5.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 05:40 PM (CA2NO)

51 The only relationship advice I've ever heard that made a lick of sense was "if mama ain't happy, nobody gonna be happy."

Of course, only an insane person would even contemplate a relationship with me, now that I am no longer young and teeming with horniness. Plus, I have fluffy now . . .

Posted by: Peaches at August 04, 2013 05:40 PM (8lmkt)

52 But instead of cutting off their breasts members of the German ceremonial Guard Battalions seem to be growing moobs. And doctors think they know why:

I think I have a better theory.

Posted by: the Ming Dynasty court snipper at August 04, 2013 05:40 PM (d7tB2)

53 Telling quotes there. The Honorable Representative and the professional intellectualoid reveal themselves to be nitwits compared to the guy with scruffy hair and an amusing fedora.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 04, 2013 05:41 PM (C8mVl)

54 I never really thought I would find myself wishing that Kid Rock was president.

Posted by: real joe at August 04, 2013 05:41 PM (5wsCu)

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 04, 2013 09:33 PM (kSJg9)

happy birthday.

Posted by: rich@gmu at August 04, 2013 05:41 PM (5Tm6g)

According to my math, Kid Rock is worth approximately 1170 Keith Ellisons, 987 David Frums, and 2192 Helen Thomases combined.

But I didn't check my work, so those numbers could be off.

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at August 04, 2013 05:41 PM (o5q2C)

57 Grats on being #1 commentator, AnnaP.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 05:41 PM (Dscv4)

58 All that dating document needs is some percentile die ranges and we'll make a fucking fortune!

Posted by: Gary Gygax at August 04, 2013 05:41 PM (g63Ex)

59 Not saying it was a good day, but took Little VIA paintballing after church.
He's fifteen, and full of youth and vigor.
I was in my forties when he was born.
He plays speedball.
I slug through the woods playing at a much slower pace

The boy has a lump in the middle of his forehead that looks like someone poleaxed him tonight.

That makes up for the other weekend that he nailed me in the back of the head.

So, on second thought...it was a good day today.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2013 05:41 PM (c8tlE)

60 Football season is on and no pointy elbow pics ? Time for me to exchange my embarrassing Mets cap for my embarrassing Jets cap. Years of losing builds character.

Posted by: McCool at August 04, 2013 05:42 PM (tMLEl)

61 Observation 1 I checked all 232 articles about Car plows into crowd in LA and not one single one of them is calling for Car Control Measures, Limits on Premium Gas, Better Background Checks or Weight Limits for Vehicles. Just imagine how different the story would have been cast if this guy had used a gun. That's right, it would be Time for a Discussion on Guns. (No one is safe leaving their home after this tragedy and enough is finally enough - we must act no matter what the cost to personal freedom or that old silly piece of paper, the constitution). Observation 2 Police arrest suspect. Kind of a misleading headline since he walked into a police station and confessed. I would imagine if they didn't arrest him after that they would have been fired.

Posted by: Organic Non-GMO Free Range Hate at August 04, 2013 05:42 PM (+Ps3k)

Posted by: the Ming Dynasty court snipper at August 04, 2013 09:40 PM (d7tB2)

yikes. steroids would do it too.

Posted by: rich@gmu at August 04, 2013 05:42 PM (5Tm6g)

63 Happy birthday, RedMindBlueState. Never speak against the narrative, no matter what the cost! Posted by: Hrothgar at August 04, 2013 09:36 PM (XdnQT) Exactly. Pity that these corrupt people will soon realize the cost of selling their souls (or if you prefer, their dignity and integrity) for power is much higher than they thought.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 04, 2013 05:42 PM (KiyII)

64 Vote for Keith Ellison. Because the Congressional Black Caucus just isn't getting the job done.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 04, 2013 05:42 PM (d7tB2)

65 Pics of Keith Ellison, Hillary Clinton, and Al Sharpton all in one ONT... are you trying to goad me into punching my computer, or is it just happenstance? Posted by: PabloD at August 04, 2013 09:38 PM (hhp7Q) The ONT: Not just informative; it's cardio!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 05:43 PM (CA2NO)

66 Egyptian belly dancer makes anti-Obama video: http://tinyurl.com/nywtfqa She also proves that a belly dancer doesn't have to be scantily-clad in order to be hawt. (SFW, in other words.) Sama Elmasry > Kate Upton

Posted by: rickl at August 04, 2013 05:43 PM (sdi6R)

67 >>>now that I am no longer young and teeming with horniness I call bullshit.

Posted by: DC in Towson at August 04, 2013 05:43 PM (jIaZt)

68 59 ha ha, thanks for the chuckle & you too Peaches

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at August 04, 2013 05:43 PM (HVff2)

69 Ellison is a flunked out spokesman for CAIR and the MB. He's heartbroken over the events in Egypt and for Morsi being canned. He's it he most idiotic racist of em all.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at August 04, 2013 05:43 PM (n8LUb)

70 What's with Ellison? The jizya is supposed to allow infidels to keep some of their money.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2013 05:44 PM (2P2Fb)

71 PETA has veggie dog day in DC.
http://tinyurl.com/pz9m7qt

Weiner was unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 05:44 PM (0WdQr)

72 Another blood boiler: new developments in the government plans to micromanage community development, ensuring people are packed like sardines in the cities by preventing further development in the suburbs. In this case, San Francisco and Minnesota.
http://tinyurl.com/lnnkujx

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2013 05:44 PM (Lhux0)

73 >>60 Football season is on and no pointy elbow pics ? Holy crap! I forgot it was on tonight.

Posted by: Y-not at August 04, 2013 05:44 PM (5H6zj)

74 Top 10 sockpuppeteers: 1 [79 names] 'The Political Hat' [11.08 unique names/day] Couldn't have done it without all the other voices in his head!

Posted by: Voice No. 84 in the Political Hat's Head at August 04, 2013 05:44 PM (Vk2pI)

75 What's with Ellison? The jizya is supposed to allow infidels to keep some of their money.

That works great 'til you run out of infidels

Posted by: the Umayyads at August 04, 2013 05:44 PM (d7tB2)

76 happy anniversary Y-not, and happy birthday to RMBS.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 04, 2013 05:44 PM (sQ0LB)

77 Dayum I used to be teh fat. Now I look like a bobble head doll. Probably the cardio and the crack. But mostly the crack.

Posted by: Al Sharpton at August 04, 2013 05:45 PM (Aif/5)

78 so, where the hell is all this muzzie hellfire and damnation we were supposed to get today? don't tell me it's another one of those phony crises to divert attention from another gun-running scheme. oh, noes!!!

Posted by: Peaches at August 04, 2013 05:45 PM (8lmkt)

79 *shakes fist at Fi* One of these days.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 05:45 PM (0WdQr)

80 You top tenners are toast when Sven gets back.

(and probably glad, right?)

Posted by: Tobacco Road at August 04, 2013 05:45 PM (4Mv1T)

81 "Posted by: Peaches at August 04, 2013 09:34 PM"

Thanks, Peaches....I'm trying to forget that. My mother shares a b-day with Juan McCain...2008 was an interesting August. Both sides of the ticket covered.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 04, 2013 05:46 PM (kSJg9)

82 51 Mama's emotional state holds the whole family hostage? Sounds awesome!!!

Posted by: DAve at August 04, 2013 05:46 PM (OksBo)

83 Don't run, we are your friends!

Posted by: Keith Ellison holding translator box from Mars Attacks at August 04, 2013 05:47 PM (Aif/5)

84 78 so, where the hell is all this muzzie hellfire and damnation we were supposed to get today? don't tell me it's another one of those phony crises to divert attention from another gun-running scheme. oh, noes!!! We still got time for that; the closings were extended to until August 10. But remember, AQ "is on the run".

Posted by: Thrawn at August 04, 2013 05:47 PM (KiyII)

85 Who Owns Your Labor? More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=2776

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 04, 2013 05:48 PM (Vk2pI)

86 Wait, AtC is sans snark in her sig? I call bullsh*t.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 04, 2013 05:48 PM (sQ0LB)

87 51 Of course, only an insane person would even contemplate a relationship with me, now that I am no longer young and teeming with horniness. Plus, I have fluffy now . . . Posted by: Peaches at August 04, 2013 09:40 PM (8lmkt) Aww. I love kittehs. Oh. Right.

Posted by: rickl at August 04, 2013 05:48 PM (sdi6R)

88 The Tea Party should run that belly dancer vid in their commercials.

(the RNC won't dare)

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 04, 2013 05:49 PM (d7tB2)

89 Hey, I'm highly eligible. Also, that ad was creepy. Anyway: Quick: Can you think of a single truly interesting thing Hillary Clinton has ever said? "What does it matter (that four people just died under my command largely as a result of my inaction)?" I admit "We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good" and "We are the President" were not bad. Also the entire sniper incident story, that was pretty interesting in that it was complete bullpuckey.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 05:49 PM (qyfb5)

90 Posted by: Thrawn at August 04, 2013 09:47 PM (KiyII) They get an extra week because Obama wanted to make it fair!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 04, 2013 05:50 PM (XdnQT)

91 Of course, only an insane person would even contemplate a relationship with me, now that I am no longer young and teeming with horniness. Plus, I have fluffy now . . . Posted by: Peaches at August 04, 2013 09:40 PM (8lmkt) Hey, let's make it a commiseration thread!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 05:50 PM (qyfb5)

92 MWR - If you want to see what Ellison is supporting with the comments check out this site: http://robinhoodtax.org/ Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2013 09:40 PM (Lhux0) Robin Hood? More like Dennis Moore: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2k0azGP2Po

Posted by: The Political Hood at August 04, 2013 05:50 PM (Vk2pI)

93 Daily reminder: I once ejaculated inside of Helen Thomas. And by "Helen Thomas" I mean an old catcher's mitt.

Posted by: Yep at August 04, 2013 05:51 PM (6sqK6)

"The ONT: Not just informative; it's cardio!"

Yeah, I suppose a ragestroke is a form of cardio...

Posted by: PabloD at August 04, 2013 05:51 PM (hhp7Q)

95 "Happy birthday, RedMindBlueState! *throws confetti!* Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 04, 2013 09:37 PM"

*basks in falling confetti*

But someone noted the other night that the HQ birthday greeting tradition imported from Peruvia involved dropped panties. I'm suspecting that someone was being less than honest here....:-P

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 04, 2013 05:51 PM (kSJg9)

96 Even Bill Clinton's harshest critics have to concede that he was a masterful politician, a jazz impresario mixing deep insights Name one.

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 04, 2013 05:51 PM (D88tF)

97 Who Owns Your Labor? Posted by: The Political Hat at August 04, 2013 09:48 PM (Vk2pI) Whichever thug gets or prints the most votes, and their cronies. Seems to be the historical norm, with or without the votes part.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 05:51 PM (qyfb5)

98 *googles Jeff Conaway*

Died in 2011. Far too young.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 04, 2013 05:53 PM (d7tB2)

99
"Hillary's a very solid policy wonk"

Sure, and her success can be measured by the socialist single-payer healthcare system instituted during the reign of her male acquaintance, Billy Bob Clinton.

Posted by: Doctor Fish at August 04, 2013 05:53 PM (pJF+c)

100 Hillary sure wonked it out of the park with the Russkies.

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 04, 2013 05:54 PM (D88tF)

101 I can't believe Bud Selig is gonna let A-Rod play . What a coward

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2013 05:54 PM (jE38p)

102 Anybody in the SoCal area looking to adopt a kitten or more.

http://tinyurl.com/njnneoa

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 05:54 PM (0WdQr)

103

AtC,

I too worry about a great 401k caper.

How do you think it would go down? And aside for making my 401k gold filled and forging my employer match, what am I to do to protect myself?

Posted by: tsrblke (tablet) at August 04, 2013 05:54 PM (GaqMa)

104 3 curses . . . foiled again! Posted by: Peaches at August 04, 2013 09:27 PM (8lmkt) You can be 1st the next couple of nights Peaches, I will be traveling on business again.

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at August 04, 2013 05:54 PM (HVff2)

105 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 04, 2013 09:51 PM (kSJg9) In Peruvia, belly dancer dances on your belly!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 04, 2013 05:56 PM (XdnQT)

106
"If fewer civilians carried weapons, police might be less trigger happy."
David Frum

David Frum: The National Review's gift to conservatism.....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 04, 2013 05:56 PM (kdS6q)

107 Um, why is there so much interest in making a fictional character gay? Does it add anything to the comics/movies? Gay, narcissistic and kinky Â– Batman as you always suspected him to be http://tinyurl.com/ogsvzd6

Posted by: Thrawn at August 04, 2013 05:56 PM (KiyII)

108
I never humped Helen Thomas or agreed to hump Helen Thomas. I remain pure as the driven snow, and as horny as Ellen Degenerate in a room full of dicks.

Posted by: Abe Vigoda at August 04, 2013 05:56 PM (pJF+c)

109 The earlier steak thread is making my stomach growl.

Posted by: toby928© at August 04, 2013 05:56 PM (QupBk)

110 "Another blood boiler: new developments in the government plans to micromanage community development, ensuring people are packed like sardines in the cities by preventing further development in the suburbs."

More utter policy incoherence in the Obama era. Liberals can't decide if they love or hate suburbs.

When white people fled from the cities to suburbs to get away from urban blacks, liberals decided that suburbs had to be the greatest most wonderful thing ever, since it was discriminatory and awful that blacks weren't in those nice places in large numbers, and Section 8 had to be urgently expanded in order to get urban blacks into the suburban awesomeness.

Now, suburbs have become evil again and must be punished and destroyed.

It's rather all along the lines of George Will's comment that the Obama administration "says it can see a future without the internal combustion engine, but finds itself unable to imagine that future without the Chrysler Corporation somewhere in it."

Posted by: torquewrench at August 04, 2013 05:56 PM (gqT4g)

111 Robin Hood stole from the government and gave back to the private sector, such as it was. Back then the government was rich and the private sector was poor, as opposed to modern times, where... Dammit, talked myself into a corner again.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 05:56 PM (qyfb5)

112 Ok, I'm out. A brand new shiny week of work starts in 7 hours. Plus, the booze isn't strong enough to dull the pain in my ripped up ankle.

Posted by: DC in Towson at August 04, 2013 05:57 PM (jIaZt)

113 *hands Merovign a portable hole*

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 05:57 PM (0WdQr)

114 http://youtu.be/zBFFrsvgu1Y for every jerk bicyclist in NYC.

Posted by: vivi at August 04, 2013 05:57 PM (+/8mE)

115 I don't have a weapon, but this is my gun *Grabs crotch* Which Ron wants it?

Posted by: David Frum at August 04, 2013 05:58 PM (Aif/5)

116 Anybody in the SoCal area looking to adopt a kitten or more. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 09:54 PM (0WdQr) They're Bengals, too. Should help them be adopted quickly. They can be demanding but they are still in demand AFAICT.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 05:58 PM (qyfb5)

117 Posted by: tsrblke (tablet) at August 04, 2013 09:54 PM (GaqMa) The 401k gambit has been in the plans for some time now. At some point, they actually believe that you have made enough money. What they don't tell you is they also believe that they haven't stolen enough of your money yet!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 04, 2013 05:58 PM (XdnQT)

118 "I too worry about a great 401k caper. How do you think it would go down? And aside for making my 401k gold filled and forging my employer match, what am I to do to protect myself?" Me too.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 04, 2013 05:59 PM (l3vZN)

119 Long time reader, first time poster. I just had to post when I didn't see my most favorite Hillary quote of all time: "What difference at this point does it make?" That will be what always comes to mind when I hear the name Hillary. She is rather pointless, no?

Posted by: PinkRoses at August 04, 2013 05:59 PM (l+qoZ)

120 Quick: Can you think of a single truly interesting thing Hillary Clinton has ever said? You know, I'm not sitting here Â– some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette.

Posted by: Organic Non-GMO Free Range Hate at August 04, 2013 05:59 PM (+Ps3k)

121

BTW Ellison's H.R.1579 - Inclusive Prosperity Act of 2013 just happens to exclude State and Municipal instruments from his transaction tax because --- ummm --- some pigs more equal.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 04, 2013 05:59 PM (kdS6q)

122 Hillary is a great marketer. That RESET button was pure genius.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2013 05:59 PM (2P2Fb)

123 113 *hands Merovign a portable hole* Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 09:57 PM (0WdQr) What, you want me to climb into it? Or is it just somewhere to store my troubles?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 05:59 PM (qyfb5)

124

Posted by: David Frum at August 04, 2013 09:58 PM (Aif/5)

Come here big boy, I've got a present for you.

Posted by: Lorena Bobbit at August 04, 2013 05:59 PM (GaqMa)

125 Argentina stole all the private retirement accounts. Papered over the cracks for a little while a lot more fled the country.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 06:00 PM (0WdQr)

126 Come here big boy, I've got a present for you.

Posted by: Lorena Bobbit at August 04, 2013 09:59 PM (GaqMa)

I've got 10 bucks that says it's inverted.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2013 06:00 PM (2P2Fb)

127 More utter policy incoherence in the Obama era. Liberals can't decide if they love or hate suburbs. Posted by: torquewrench at August 04, 2013 09:56 PM (gqT4g) It was never about suburbs, it was always about power and control.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:00 PM (qyfb5)

128 Well there was the rant about having a 'right to dissent' or words of that nature, she's a grifter, crook, demagogue,

Posted by: john smallberry at August 04, 2013 06:01 PM (Jsiw/)

129 Um, why is there so much interest in making a fictional character gay? Does it add anything to the comics/movies? Posted by: Thrawn at August 04, 2013 09:56 PM (KiyII) Because straight white "cis-gendered" males are the designated boogie-men. Thus they can not be good. Any good historical or fictional character must be gay or non-white or female. The easiest to twist historically is the gay ret-conning.

Posted by: The Ret-Conned Hat at August 04, 2013 06:01 PM (Vk2pI)

130 Hillary's greatest moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y

Posted by: Y-not at August 04, 2013 06:01 PM (5H6zj)

131 Merovign, be creative with it.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 06:01 PM (0WdQr)

132

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 04, 2013 09:58 PM (XdnQT)

I get it, just not sure how to protect myself, not putting into the 401k seems like a bad idea, on the flip side putting it in and having it nationalized would also be bad.

Posted by: Lorena Bobbit at August 04, 2013 06:01 PM (GaqMa)

133 Lorena Bobbit at August 04, 2013 09:59 PM (GaqMa)

Now there's a hash that's moderately disturbing

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 04, 2013 06:02 PM (d7tB2)

134 Whoever the GOP candidate is against Shrillary had better run that cackle clip 24/7.

Posted by: Y-not at August 04, 2013 06:02 PM (5H6zj)

135 Hillary's greatest moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y Posted by: Y-not at August 04, 2013 10:01 PM (5H6zj) For a second there, I though you linked to some '70's Lesbian porn flickÂ…

Posted by: The Lesbianic Hat at August 04, 2013 06:03 PM (Vk2pI)

136 Good nite horde, be well

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at August 04, 2013 06:03 PM (HVff2)

137 Anybody in the SoCal area looking to adopt a kitten or more.

http://tinyurl.com/njnneoa

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 09:54 PM (0WdQr)

OMG, Anna Puma, they cannot possibly even think about euthanizing bengal kittens!!! I will try to think of who I can alert to this who may be able to help.

Posted by: Peaches at August 04, 2013 06:03 PM (8lmkt)

138 Ack, off dick cutting sock!

Posted by: tsrblke (Tablet) at August 04, 2013 06:03 PM (GaqMa)

139 Whoever the GOP candidate is against Shrillary had better run that cackle clip 24/7. Posted by: Y-not at August 04, 2013 10:02 PM (5H6zj) Don't forget the "Â…and your little dog too!" bit.

Posted by: Cory Booker for President 2016 at August 04, 2013 06:03 PM (Vk2pI)

140 @ AnnaP:

Question about WWII stuff from earlier thread - you mentioned "a small PT force kept bottled up a force that could have taken whole countries."

Is there a specific battle or was it more of a campaign? Was trying to follow up and get more details.

And am quite curious how large a force to take whole countries. Future Moron project?

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 06:04 PM (Dscv4)

141 Quick: Can you think of a single truly interesting thing Hillary Clinton has ever said?

http://youtu.be/NJxmpTMGhU0

Posted by: Trevor (@TJexcite) at August 04, 2013 06:04 PM (Jsmzu)

142 Keith Ellison is not a Muslim. He's just your average anti-white, anti-Western, anti-semitic, anti-Christian, anti-American, bitter little fool. What a clown!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 04, 2013 06:05 PM (C8mVl)

143 Power point guy knows what his semen tastes like? Why?

Posted by: BignJames at August 04, 2013 06:05 PM (ZNQKl)

144

29 years ago today, 8/4/84, I married my true love.

When did you marry your current husband? *ducks*

Seriously, congratulations and many more happy years together.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 04, 2013 06:05 PM (lr3d7)

145 Posted by: torquewrench at August 04, 2013 09:56 PM (gqT4g) Look at the government efficiencies involved. If you have everybody already living in urban housing developments, they can be converted to re-education camps very quickly, without the expense of the high speed trains to take the recalcitrant members of the populace to out-lying camps.

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 04, 2013 06:05 PM (XdnQT)

146

Quick: Can you think of a single truly interesting thing Hillary Clinton has ever said?

Listen Webb, never ask me to suck it!

Posted by: Webb Hubbell at August 04, 2013 06:05 PM (pJF+c)

147 I mean, honestly, that 12 second clip alone should disqualify Hillary. Who the fuck in a position of authority cackles like that when another country's leader is assassinated?

Posted by: Y-not at August 04, 2013 06:06 PM (5H6zj)

148 Mideast embassies shut down.

A Year late, Four Deaths Short.

Posted by: Craig Poe at August 04, 2013 06:06 PM (BVkEs)

149 Lorena Bobbit. Mmm, that's a sexy name. You could make my dreams come true IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Dave Frum at August 04, 2013 06:06 PM (Aif/5)

150 And the Hat is off to an early lead in socks for this week as well.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 04, 2013 06:06 PM (sQ0LB)

151 Anna Puma: I left before the VW Rabbit pickup discussion got started last night. Factory was in New Stanton, Penna. and lasted until 1980 when the tooling was moved to South Africa, where it was produced for another quarter century. Production of the "VW Caddy" ended in 2007. As an aside, production of the AMC designed Jeep Cherokee--one of the best small SUVs ever made--continues to this day in China, as the Jeep 2500. I would buy one in a heartbeat. I thought you'd like to know, because you have a lot of knowledge about VW's.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 04, 2013 06:07 PM (l3vZN)

152 Good evening everyone! Happy Anniversary Y-not and Happy Birthday RMBS!

Posted by: pac10077 (Mrs. Sven) at August 04, 2013 06:07 PM (LRFds)

153 Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2013 09:28 PM (Lhux0)

In other words; a thug in a suit.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at August 04, 2013 06:07 PM (28TG+)

154 I like butter. Lots of butter

Posted by: David Frum Quote of the Day III at August 04, 2013 06:07 PM (/9IC1)

155 131 Merovign, be creative with it. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 10:01 PM (0WdQr) I threw a bunch of honey badgers in it and taped it loosely to the bottom of a municipal bus.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:08 PM (qyfb5)

156 Vivi 114 hilarious because it's true.

Posted by: real joe at August 04, 2013 06:08 PM (5wsCu)

157 107 Um, why is there so much interest in making a fictional character gay? Does it add anything to the comics/movies? Gay, narcissistic and kinky Â– Batman as you always suspected him to be http://tinyurl.com/ogsvzd6

Posted by: Thrawn at August 04, 2013 09:56 PM (KiyII)

They're trying to redefine normal by taking cool characters and giving them abnormal traits.

It works on some level as young people acceptance of homosexuality trend shows; but it also destroys the icon.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 06:08 PM (Dscv4)

158 "I can't believe Bud Selig is gonna let A-Rod play . What a coward"

Yeah, he's really taking this seriously. A-Rod makes his farewell tour, McGwire continues as a coach, etc., etc.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 04, 2013 06:08 PM (Fz2C7)

159 47 Told you 401(k) confiscation is coming. Then comes the Emburnening. Posted by: alexthechick at August 04, 2013 09:39 PM (Gk3SS) The Obots will love it. The collective is greater than the individual to them. I bet right after that, they will come for life insurance policies which have about $6 trillion in assets which is larger than the estimate $5 trillion in 401k's. Other retirement accounts hold about $14 trillion. So the Feds can take over about $25 trillion and solve the nation's debt in one stroke of the pen. I really hate these fuckers because that is how they actually think.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 04, 2013 06:09 PM (BXLPR)

160 Posted by: Lorena Bobbit at August 04, 2013 10:01 PM (GaqMa) Yes, don't you love it when a plan comes together!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 04, 2013 06:09 PM (XdnQT)

161 Mideast embassies shut down. A Year late, Four Deaths Short. Look at the up side: Closing down embassies means "A Terrorist Attack Prevented!", which is unprecedented and awesome.

Posted by: t-bird at August 04, 2013 06:09 PM (FcR7P)

162 OMG, Anna Puma, they cannot possibly even think about euthanizing bengal kittens!!! Posted by: Peaches at August 04, 2013 10:03 PM (8lmkt) Well, at least it's not a fawn named Giggles, so they have a chance.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:09 PM (qyfb5)

163 82 51 Mama's emotional state holds the whole family hostage? Sounds awesome!!! Posted by: DAve at August 04, 2013 09:46 PM (OksBo) Even better when mama has a personality disorder...

Posted by: Insomniac at August 04, 2013 06:09 PM (NEIxp)

164 80 Tobacco Road,

We have been very busy lately. That's why he didn't make the top 10 this week.

Posted by: pac10077 (Mrs. Sven) at August 04, 2013 06:10 PM (LRFds)

165 I really hate these fuckers because that is how they actually think. Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 04, 2013 10:09 PM (BXLPR) And the really funny thing is, they will have spent it before it gets to the debt-holders.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:10 PM (qyfb5)

166 OMG, Anna Puma, they cannot possibly even think about euthanizing bengal kittens!!! Hey, now! We're providing a choice...

Posted by: The SPCA at August 04, 2013 06:11 PM (FcR7P)

167 The401(k) thing will not be confiscation. No no it's investing in guaranteed government backed annuities to protect you from predation from greedy Wall Street bankers. Also am sans snark because on tablet and forgot to put it in.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 04, 2013 06:11 PM (Gk3SS)

168 I want a woman with a personality disorder. I only say that because I don't get what I want, so I'm kind of trying to jinx the jinx.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:11 PM (qyfb5)

169 Rubber chicken.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at August 04, 2013 06:12 PM (4Mv1T)

170 Also am sans snark because on tablet and forgot to put it in. Posted by: alexthechick at August 04, 2013 10:11 PM (Gk3SS) Well, I ain't gonna say it. Anyone else wanna take this one?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:12 PM (qyfb5)

171 156 131 Merovign, be creative with it.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 10:01 PM (0WdQr)

I threw a bunch of honey badgers in it and taped it loosely to the bottom of a municipal bus.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 04, 2013 10:08 PM (qyfb5)

Huh. Does that make them mad? Don't give a shit implies they don't care; or is it more that they don't take any shit?

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 06:12 PM (Dscv4)

172 Huh. Does that make them mad? Don't give a shit implies they don't care; or is it more that they don't take any shit? Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 10:12 PM (Dscv4) Well, it's an experiment.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:13 PM (qyfb5)

173 Morning, y'all.

Posted by: Bomber at August 04, 2013 06:13 PM (+Wfbd)

174 Heh. Stayed off the top list again. My plan is working.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 06:13 PM (aDwsi)

175 72 Another blood boiler: new developments in the government plans to micromanage community development, ensuring people are packed like sardines in the cities by preventing further development in the suburbs. In this case, San Francisco and Minnesota. http://tinyurl.com/lnnkujx Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2013 09:44 PM (Lhux0) Here's another article I saw earlier tonight, which goes into more detail: http://tinyurl.com/n6qdgaa If this isn't enough to start an uprising, we may as well just pack it in and submit.

Posted by: rickl at August 04, 2013 06:13 PM (sdi6R)

176 I'd start watching football once again if they announced that they were using Ellison's head as the football for the first game of the season.

Then I'd donate $100 to the first player to spike the football. He can pick the charity.

Because, at heart, I'm a giver.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 04, 2013 06:13 PM (ccXZP)

177 'sup Hammer.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at August 04, 2013 06:13 PM (4Mv1T)

178 Rubber chicken. -------- Please get here quick!

Posted by: Chicken in Yemen at August 04, 2013 06:14 PM (Aif/5)

179 Hey, Bomber!!!! You get your leave soon?

Posted by: Peaches at August 04, 2013 06:14 PM (8lmkt)

180 Hmmm. Are those Model 98 Mausers that the Krauts are carrying? Kinda looks like it to me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 06:14 PM (aDwsi)

181 Well, it's an experiment.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 04, 2013 10:13 PM (qyfb5)

Carefully measure number of people mauled with respect to honey badger's time in hole.

Take good notes, it's For Science (TM)!

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 06:15 PM (Dscv4)

182 TR - Slow day..., the kind I like.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 06:15 PM (aDwsi)

183 Hey TR, Nothing to report at the show. Some vendors were still selling per-panic ammo stocks for ridiculous prices, trying to recover their sunk money. Honestly, LGS still have the edge in terms of prices. I did see a PS90 there. $1575!!!

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 06:15 PM (doBIb)

184 If this isn't enough to start an uprising, we may as well just pack it in and submit. Posted by: rickl at August 04, 2013 10:13 PM (sdi6R) Most horrors aren't opposed until it's too late, this is largely because most people don't know shit. Not having a remotely functional free press does not help. (MFM delenda est.)

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:15 PM (qyfb5)

185 Fi, was not Hollandia.

At Halmahera, for instance, six PTs picked up Lieut. General Ishii, Commanding General of the army base there and Captain Fujita of, Naval Commander, and took them to 93rd Division headquarters on Morotai, where they surrendered 37,000 troops, 4,000 Japanese civilians, 19,000 rifles, 900 cannon, 600 machine guns, and a mountain of miscellaneous supplies.

- pg 247 The Mosquito Fleet. Bern Keating

In different wording but same amounts of material and men can be found listed on pg 442 of At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy by Robert Bulkley Jr. Naval Institute Press.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 06:16 PM (0WdQr)

186 Posted by: alexthechick at August 04, 2013 10:11 PM (Gk3SS) Yes, ~~citizens~~ residents, your retirement accounts need security and stability, so that is why tonight I am announcing the Retirement Security Act whereby the IRS will convert all your investments to stable US Treasury Bonds and manage all payouts.

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 04, 2013 06:16 PM (XdnQT)

187 "PETA has veggie dog day in DC. http://tinyurl.com/pz9m7qt" And some background music for their veggie dog day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQynViAF6Ds

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 04, 2013 06:16 PM (6tmNL)

188 134 Whoever the GOP candidate is against Shrillary had better run that cackle clip 24/7.

Posted by: Y-not at August 04, 2013 10:02 PM (5H6zj)

The McAmnesty wing of the party will probably invite her to the convention. Juan would be proud to lose against her.

in re: 401k's. Cyprus did something similar as Argentina I believe. Teresa Ghilarducci has a thought out plan to seize 401ks and has testified on Capitol Hill a few times. It would be out of fairness...and the children...and the middle class.

Posted by: rich@gmu at August 04, 2013 06:17 PM (5Tm6g)

189 >>>> Hey, Bomber!!!! You get your leave soon?

Start the trip tomorrow. Might make it home by next week.

Posted by: Bomber at August 04, 2013 06:17 PM (+Wfbd)

190 Take good notes, it's For Science (TM)! Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 10:15 PM (Dscv4) Nah, I'm doing it like a climate study, I just wrote down what I want as a result and I'll fill in the data when I have time. Post-Normal Science. Which is a Thing, I'm not kidding.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:17 PM (qyfb5)

191 Cock hygiene is a phrase not used enough.

Posted by: Lauren at August 04, 2013 06:17 PM (ELdpj)

192 "Most horrors aren't opposed until it's too late, this is largely because most people don't know shit." And the ignorant will tell you 'you're just being alarmist.'

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 04, 2013 06:17 PM (l3vZN)

193 "The bottom line is we're not broke, there's plenty of money, it's just the government doesn't have it,"

It's kind of a shame there isn't a nice, clear video of the guy saying this.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at August 04, 2013 06:17 PM (Cn4aq)

194

De-lurking. I missed the steak thread earlier, but caught Vic's comment about threatening a grandson after ketchup usage. Mrs. Zesty loves ketchup. Everytime she pulls ketchup out I tell her it's the devil's condiment and she's going to hell if she uses it.

Posted by: Big Zesty at August 04, 2013 06:17 PM (K1zj1)

195 I see where 22 embassy's in the Middle East will be closed all week now. Zero's Foreign Policy is imploding, and the worst part is I'm almost out of Margarita Mix.

Posted by: ALH at August 04, 2013 06:17 PM (2LTPq)

196 169 I want a woman with a personality disorder. I only say that because I don't get what I want, so I'm kind of trying to jinx the jinx.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 04, 2013 10:11 PM (qyfb5)

So you end up getting no woman with a personality disorder. Man, trying to jinx jinxes is *tough*.

I'd hate to imagine what happens when you try to jinx "don't want a woman" ...

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 06:18 PM (Dscv4)

197 I have improved that Hillary pic, by the way. Not my best work, but I suck at manips without a mouse to work with. http://i40.tinypic.com/zm1lj5.jpg

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 06:19 PM (CA2NO)

198 101 I can't believe Bud Selig is gonna let A-Rod play . What a coward Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2013 09:54 PM (jE38p) CBA says that he gets to play while appealing a suspension, and if Selig ignores it, it goes before a mediator or the NRLB. All the other players accepted their suspensions in exchange for shorter suspensions. A-Rod being A-Rod means that he could never accept that he is a total douchebag.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 04, 2013 06:19 PM (BXLPR)

199 EC- Glad to know I didn't miss anything.

And Hammer- Glad for a slow one.

My eldest called from Beantown today. It's always high drama when he calls. Lost his apartment, so I guess I'll move his tall ass back home. Glad plane tickets are cheap from here to there.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at August 04, 2013 06:19 PM (4Mv1T)

200 Hopefully enough people who can provide help for the kitties will step up and save them. That one is adorable.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 06:19 PM (0WdQr)

201 Cock hygiene is a phrase not used enough. Hopefully it is performed enough.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 06:19 PM (nZyMu)

202 Good job MWR!

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 06:20 PM (doBIb)

203 Start the trip tomorrow. Might make it home by next week.

Posted by: Bomber at August 04, 2013 10:17 PM (+Wfbd)

Hope your trip is safe and uneventful, my friend. You must be so excited to see your wife and kids soon.

Posted by: Peaches at August 04, 2013 06:20 PM (8lmkt)

204 Sean - clean, dry, and serviceable?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 06:20 PM (0WdQr)

205 And the ignorant will tell you 'you're just being alarmist.' Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 04, 2013 10:17 PM (l3vZN) And then when it's too late they ask you to save them, and I'll lean over and whisper "no," because honestly that was the best part of that graphic novel anyway.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:21 PM (qyfb5)

206
With Marxism gradually spreading throughout the US, Peruvia may not be a bad choice for great food, good looking women, and cheap blow, and a nice place to spend your final years in piece and tranquility. Or maybe peace?

Posted by: Doctor Fish at August 04, 2013 06:21 PM (pJF+c)

207 Anna Puma, I sent the link to Gushka, she may know people. Prayers up for all those poor little darlins.

Posted by: Peaches at August 04, 2013 06:21 PM (8lmkt)

208 "Twenty-five years after accusing an innocent man of rape, Tawana Brawley is finally paying for her lies. ... A Virginia court this year ordered the money garnisheed from six months of Brawley's wages as a nurse there."

As a _nurse_. Think about that for a minute.

Someone said that when they contemplated what Obamacare would mean to them personally ten years from now, the image that came to mind was Rachel Jeantel as the clerk sitting behind the desk deciding whether or not their treatment was going to happen.

Now add to that the idea that if you do manage to qualify for treatment, it's going to be Nurse Tawana checking up on your central line. Oh joy.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 04, 2013 06:21 PM (gqT4g)

209 So you end up getting no woman with a personality disorder. Man, trying to jinx jinxes is *tough*. Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 10:18 PM (Dscv4) Pretty much that. I figure if I keep the jinx busy at least it won't have time to get *creative*.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:22 PM (qyfb5)

210 My hatred of cats is instinctual, but today Mrs. Crank had finally had enough. Her 10 year old tuxedo cat has baptized our leather couch for the last time. She's now in solitary, but will hopefully be going to another home soon.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 04, 2013 06:22 PM (sQ0LB)

211

Posted by: pac10077 at August 04, 2013 06:22 PM (LRFds)

212 In Peruvia, you don't retire, Peruvia retires you!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 04, 2013 06:22 PM (XdnQT)

213 MWR - *Chuckle*

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 06:23 PM (aDwsi)

214 196 ----"...and the worst part is I'm almost out of Margarita Mix." Posted by: ALH at August 04, 2013 10:17 PM (2LTPq) ------------------------ You rang?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 04, 2013 06:23 PM (C8mVl)

215 Two weeks of leave turns into a month away from work when the military sets up the travel. Not a bad deal. I'm gonna be real tempted to just not come back here.

Only downside - I have to shave. Been four and a half months.

Posted by: Bomber at August 04, 2013 06:23 PM (+Wfbd)

216 Keith Ellison and David Frum are some dum mudda fukkas I would pay $100 USD to watch either of them change a tire on a 4x4 pickup

Posted by: Jake in ID, lets get it over with and let it burn already at August 04, 2013 06:23 PM (DWF95)

217 Sean - clean, dry, and serviceable? Sergeant! I will inspect my penis for rips, cracks, tears, abrasions, dry rot, or anything which would make my penis unserviceable, Sergeant!

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 06:23 PM (nZyMu)

218 MWR, should add some Mardi Gras beads to that picture.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 06:23 PM (0WdQr)

219 Re: Hillary I linked this yesterday, but it bears repeating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB_6chO1uD0&feature=player_embedded My favorite part is at 0:38. YEAAHH.

Posted by: rickl at August 04, 2013 06:23 PM (sdi6R)

220 Yo Morons

Posted by: fluffy at August 04, 2013 06:24 PM (z9HTb)

221 Posted by: torquewrench at August 04, 2013 10:21 PM (gqT4g)

The situation described already exists.

and will only get worse.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at August 04, 2013 06:24 PM (28TG+)

222 And then when it's too late they ask you to save them, and I'll lean over and whisper "no," because honestly that was the best part of that graphic novel anyway.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 04, 2013 10:21 PM (qyfb5)

You don't understand, I'm not locked in here with you - you're locked in here with me.

Posted by: Rorschach in the Camps at August 04, 2013 06:24 PM (Dscv4)

223 Congratulations and commiserations for the top posters.

Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at August 04, 2013 06:24 PM (LRFds)

224 I don't have a weapon, but this is my gun *Grabs crotch* Which Ron wants it? Posted by: David Frum at August 04, 2013 09:58 PM (Aif/5) That's cute. What is it, a Swiss Mini Gun? http://www.swissminigun.ch/gallery_steel.html

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 06:24 PM (CA2NO)

225 Peaches, thanks.

Hopefully they get saved. Though not by Gushka, she has enough critters on the farm to take care of.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 06:25 PM (0WdQr)

226 Posted by: Bomber at August 04, 2013 10:23 PM (+Wfbd) Bomber! How is the Open Carring going with the Beretta?

Posted by: Jake in ID, lets get it over with and let it burn already at August 04, 2013 06:25 PM (DWF95)

227 So Fi, have I answered your WWII question?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 06:25 PM (0WdQr)

228 Power point guy knows what his semen tastes like? Why?

Posted by: BignJames at August 04, 2013 10:05 PM (ZNQKl)

Some questions are better left unanswered, methinks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2013 06:26 PM (fNpC1)

229 As a _nurse_. Think about that for a minute. Posted by: torquewrench at August 04, 2013 10:21 PM (gqT4g) She hasn't been hiding out under the name "Diesel," has she? (I always liked High Anxiety.)

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:26 PM (qyfb5)

230 TR- Think of it as preserving the nuclear family. Hell, at least he wasn't making his 'one phone call'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 06:26 PM (aDwsi)

231 I see where 22 embassy's in the Middle East will be closed all week now. Zero's Foreign Policy is imploding, and the worst part is I'm almost out of Margarita Mix. Posted by: ALH at August 04, 2013 10:17 PM (2LTPq) Obammy's foreign policy is, "If we hunker down under the desk and wait, then the cops will show up before the big bad terrorists manage to kill all of us!" He's basically made all of our embassies into Gun Free Zones.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 06:26 PM (CA2NO)

232 That's cute. What is it, a Swiss Mini Gun? http://www.swissminigun.ch/gallery_steel.html
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 04, 2013 10:24 PM (CA2NO)

Is that your anti-spider arsenal?

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 06:26 PM (Dscv4)

233 "The bottom line is we're not broke, there's plenty of money, it's just the government doesn't have it,"

Ridiculous, Krugnuts assures me we can print as much money as we want, we should never go broke.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at August 04, 2013 06:27 PM (b9K4P)

234 Men get arrested. Dogs get put down.

Posted by: Rorshach, stealing the whole fucking comic at August 04, 2013 06:27 PM (d7tB2)

235 229 Power point guy knows what his semen tastes like? Why? There are 21 bodily fluids in the human body. And I'm proud to say I've tasted every one of them.

Posted by: PowerPoint Guy at August 04, 2013 06:27 PM (nZyMu)

236 Welcome roses

Posted by: Kentucky Kid at August 04, 2013 06:28 PM (WaEWN)

237 any idea how to kick all the pussy ass fukkers out of the conservative movement? specifically D. Frum and Kathleen Parker?

Posted by: Jake in ID, lets get it over with and let it burn already at August 04, 2013 06:28 PM (DWF95)

238 176 72 Another blood boiler: new developments in the government plans to micromanage community development, ensuring people are packed like sardines in the cities by preventing further development in the suburbs. In this case, San Francisco and Minnesota. http://tinyurl.com/lnnkujx Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2013 09:44 PM (Lhux0) Here's another article I saw earlier tonight, which goes into more detail: http://tinyurl.com/n6qdgaa If this isn't enough to start an uprising, we may as well just pack it in and submit. Posted by: rickl at August 04, 2013 10:13 PM (sdi6R) The rumor in the real estate biz is that Obama is going to put low income families into homes foreclosed by the banks that were insured by FHA or VA. In other words, almost every home in the US would be eligible to be used by HUD for Section 8 housing. And when I say eligible, I mean it will be used as Section 8 housing.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 04, 2013 06:28 PM (BXLPR)

239 >>>> How is the Open Carring going with the Beretta?

Some days I don't even bother. Would get in too much trouble if I used it on the people I want to use it on.

Posted by: Bomber at August 04, 2013 06:28 PM (+Wfbd)

240 There are 21 bodily fluids in the human body. And I'm proud to say I've tasted every one of them. ------------ Me Too!!!!!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at August 04, 2013 06:28 PM (Aif/5)

241 228 So Fi, have I answered your WWII question?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 10:25 PM (0WdQr)

Thanks for the lookup - but still have a Q: How many (WWII) soldiers does it take to conquer a country? Curious what rules of thumb one would use for that eval.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 06:29 PM (Dscv4)

242 Peruvia put me in the top ten sockpuppereers, even though my hash changed a couple times during the week. All Glories to Peruvia!

Posted by: what desd horse? at August 04, 2013 06:29 PM (1txX0)

243 Oh, hey, just noticed I'm commenter #3 this past week! WOO! Go me! That's what happens when everyone else is out of the office and it's basically me and only me at work.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 06:29 PM (CA2NO)

244 so what Ellison is saying is, if the government is out of money, just seize private accounts to make up the shortfall

I think the mask just slipped.

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 04, 2013 06:29 PM (8sCoq)

245 Me Too!!!!! Here's my number. Call me, maybe.

Posted by: PowerPoint Guy at August 04, 2013 06:30 PM (nZyMu)

246 Beat you by 4 MWR!!! Lol!

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 06:30 PM (doBIb)

247 Is Kid Rock related to Ted Nugent? I like Redneck Rock stars.

Posted by: ALH at August 04, 2013 06:31 PM (2LTPq)

248 " And when I say eligible, I mean it will be used as Section 8 housing." All part of the plan.

Posted by: Cloward Plivan at August 04, 2013 06:31 PM (ELdpj)

249 And when I say eligible, I mean it will be used as Section 8 housing. Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 04, 2013 10:28 PM (BXLPR) This is why, in a very perverted way, I really admire the liberals. The f*ckers never stop thinking of and implementing methods to screw us in every conceivable way.

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 04, 2013 06:31 PM (XdnQT)

250 Is that your anti-spider arsenal? Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 10:26 PM (Dscv4) My anti-spider arsenal consists of a Louisville Slugger (c/o Vendette) and a vacuum cleaner. If I used a gun, my walls would be full of so many holes you'd think I was making Swiss cheese.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 06:31 PM (CA2NO)

251 Ahh yes, I remember when Section 8 housing first came to our fair western suburb of the City of Chicago. Within two months of the first new family moving in, my 10 yo son was being chased down the leafy boulevard by a knife wielding misunderstood yoot of recent local provenance.

Cultural shock and all, dontcha know.

It wasn't too long after that my family left the fair confines of IL for warmer climes.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 04, 2013 06:31 PM (ccXZP)

252 In other words, almost every home in the US would be eligible to be used by HUD for Section 8 housing. And when I say eligible, I mean it will be used as Section 8 housing.

Aww, what could be wrong with that? Your kids will be perfectly safe going to school with Section 8 kids. http://tinyurl.com/mhcrvvs

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 04, 2013 06:32 PM (d7tB2)

253 Beat you by 4 MWR!!! Lol! This is an achievement, is it?

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 06:32 PM (nZyMu)

254

Posted by: alexthechick at August 04, 2013 10:11 PM (Gk3SS)

Oh joy, just what government needs, a dedicated lending stream.

Fwiw. My wife's 401k equivalent defaulted to government bonds (surprise). We switched it to a life cycle fund asap.

Posted by: tsrblke (Tablet) at August 04, 2013 06:32 PM (GaqMa)

255 254 Beat you by 4 MWR!!! Lol! This is an achievement, is it? Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 10:32 PM (nZyMu) Every little bit counts in the new normal.

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 06:33 PM (doBIb)

256 Beat you by 4 MWR!!! Lol! Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 10:30 PM (doBIb) *shakes fist at sky* ECCCCCCCCCC!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 06:33 PM (CA2NO)

257 I guess this is why I'm kind of into fantasy webcomics and 80s shows these days.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 04, 2013 06:33 PM (d7tB2)

258 David Frum is,of course, an idiot.

Posted by: Digoenes' Lamp at August 04, 2013 06:33 PM (txvbW)

259 "My anti-spider arsenal consists of a Louisville Slugger (c/o Vendette) and a vacuum cleaner. If I used a gun, my walls would be full of so many holes you'd think I was making Swiss cheese. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 04, 2013 10:31 PM"

I swear...you and my sister must have been separated at birth....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 04, 2013 06:34 PM (kSJg9)

260 This is an achievement, is it? Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 10:32 PM (nZyMu) We are simple people.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 06:34 PM (CA2NO)

261 *shakes fist at sky* ECCCCCCCCCC! Good. Very good. Do that again. On the trampoline

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 06:34 PM (nZyMu)

262 Fi, for example Japan used 4 divisions plus to take the Philippines. What was surrendered at Morotai was almost half the strength of what took the Philippines.

http://www.fireandfury.com/orbats/phillipines1941japanese.pdf

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 06:34 PM (0WdQr)

263 This is why, in a very perverted way, I really admire the liberals. The f*ckers never stop thinking of and implementing methods to screw us in every conceivable way. Posted by: Hrothgar at August 04, 2013 10:31 PM (XdnQT) If leftists were animals, they would be Great White Sharks wearing sheep costumes which, despite being about as convincing as you would expect a sheep costume on a Great White Shark to be, would nevertheless convince a majority of people that it was, in fact, a 19-foot long 4,000 lb sheep and not a Great White Shark.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:34 PM (qyfb5)

264 The rumor in the real estate biz is that Obama is going to put low income families into homes foreclosed by the banks that were insured by FHA or VA. In other words, almost every home in the US would be eligible to be used by HUD for Section 8 housing.

And when I say eligible, I mean it will be used as Section 8 housing.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 04, 2013 10:28 PM (BXLPR)

Most of those foreclosed-on homes have dangerously bad wiring in them. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2013 06:34 PM (fNpC1)

265 "Quick: Can you think of a single truly interesting thing Hillary Clinton has ever said?" No, but I can think of a few interesting things she's lied about.

Posted by: sinalco at August 04, 2013 06:34 PM (7580N)

266 I swear...you and my sister must have been separated at birth.... Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 04, 2013 10:34 PM (kSJg9) When it comes to dealing with spiders, I am the soul sister of many. *solemn nod*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 06:35 PM (CA2NO)

267 And then when it's too late they ask you to save them, and I'll lean over and whisper "no," because honestly that was the best part of that graphic novel anyway. Posted by: Merovign
=======================

Ah. An opportunity for me to expose the horde to some more vintage Micky Spillane. In this case from "I, The Jury"

It emerges that Charlotte Manning, the dishy lady psychiatrist with whom Hammer has inexplicably fallen in love, murdered Jack Williams, his wartime buddy. Once he makes this discovery, Hammer pumps a .45 slug into the general vicinity of Charlotte's navel, setting up the last three lines of the book:

"How c-could you? she gasped.

I only had a moment before talking to a corpse, but I got it in.

"It was easy," I said.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 06:35 PM (aDwsi)

268 There's more than one way to steal your money.

Posted by: skinned cat in sheep clothing at August 04, 2013 06:36 PM (1txX0)

269 Good. Very good. Do that again. On the trampoline Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 10:34 PM (nZyMu) *rolling eyes* Fiiiiine, Mr. Task Master. *bounds onto trampoline* WOOHOO!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 06:36 PM (CA2NO)

270 "When it comes to dealing with spiders, I am the soul sister of many. *solemn nod* Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 04, 2013 10:35 PM"

Word.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 04, 2013 06:37 PM (kSJg9)

271 This is why, in a very perverted way, I really admire the liberals. The f*ckers never stop thinking of and implementing methods to screw us in every conceivable way.
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 04, 2013 10:31 PM (XdnQT)

Entropy personified: It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

In the End, there will be only Chaos. (but not really)

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 06:37 PM (Dscv4)

272 Oh hello dear friends in gray boxes. Nine??? I'll take it.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 06:37 PM (GEICT)

273 Good evening. What am I doing here? Has my life really come to this? More importantly, which moron was this? (h/t Drudge) Man arrested for DUI after driving burning truck 15 miles with no tires... (Link in nick, if you really need it.)

Posted by: mindful webworker lost in the phaug at August 04, 2013 06:37 PM (U13jb)

274 *bounds onto trampoline* WOOHOO! *gets neck cramp*

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 06:37 PM (doBIb)

275 Hillary is a blank slate, you wingnutz!

She is Teh (Next) Won.

So ignore all of her mistakes, where she actually accomplished something (not a good thing, btw), and get prepared for another wave of Democrat awesome, just like we've had for the last two terms.

Obviously.

Posted by: dissent555 at August 04, 2013 06:37 PM (yR6A1)

276 MWR, I was near that 700 acre property in Rumney today. There is a gun club about two miles away as the crow flies, about 7 miles by car.

Posted by: fluffy at August 04, 2013 06:38 PM (z9HTb)

277 8 29 years ago today, 8/4/84, I married my true love. Still waiting for the manual. Posted by: Y-not at August 04, 2013 09:30 PM (5H6zj) Congrats!

Posted by: sinalco at August 04, 2013 06:38 PM (7580N)

278 *bounds onto trampoline* WOOHOO! Hey! You forgot the tassels thus time. You know the rules.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 06:38 PM (nZyMu)

279 273 Oh hello dear friends in gray boxes. Nine??? I'll take it. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 10:37 PM (GEICT) *passes BC a drink*

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 06:38 PM (doBIb)

280 so what Ellison is saying is, if the government is out of money, just seize private accounts to make up the shortfall

I think the mask just slipped.

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 04, 2013 10:29 PM (8sCoq)

This aspect is baked into the socialist cake.

Posted by: Digoenes' Lamp at August 04, 2013 06:39 PM (txvbW)

281 If this hasn't come up before, but the Gatewaypundit has a thread on an Egyptian belly dancer making fun of Obama. While I agree with a lot of what she says, it still makes me cringe.

Posted by: rabidfox at August 04, 2013 06:39 PM (Gejy0)

282 If leftists were animals, they would be Great White Sharks wearing sheep costumes which, despite being about as convincing as you would expect a sheep costume on a Great White Shark to be, would nevertheless convince a majority of people that it was, in fact, a 19-foot long 4,000 lb sheep and not a Great White Shark. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 04, 2013 10:34 PM (qyfb5) Candygram!

Posted by: Not a leftist… just a dolphin at August 04, 2013 06:39 PM (Vk2pI)

283 Entropy personified: It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 10:37 PM (Dscv4) Would you like to make a contract?

Posted by: /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\ at August 04, 2013 06:41 PM (Vk2pI)

284 Obama is spending $2B to buy up land and give it to Indian tribes. So America will literally shrink under Obama.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 06:41 PM (ZPrif)

285 Plumber!!

Posted by: dissent555 at August 04, 2013 06:41 PM (yR6A1)

286 In the End, there will be only Chaos. (but not really) Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 10:37 PM (Dscv4) At the end of all eternity, all that will be left is a fine grey mist of infinitely dispersed matter cooling to absolute zero. And the middle class.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:41 PM (qyfb5)

287 I was near that 700 acre property in Rumney today. There is a gun club about two miles away as the crow flies, 700 acres and you won't need the gun club. We used to live on 400 acres nearby. The best thing about more acres? Nobody else lives on it.

Posted by: t-bird at August 04, 2013 06:41 PM (FcR7P)

288 If this hasn't come up before, but the Gatewaypundit has a thread on an Egyptian belly dancer making fun of Obama. While I agree with a lot of what she says, it still makes me cringe. -------- Oh she's Hawt. And I mean grab dat ass Hawt.

Posted by: Bobby Filner at August 04, 2013 06:41 PM (Aif/5)

289 Obama is spending $2B to buy up land and give it to Indian tribes. So America will literally shrink under Obama. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 10:41 PM (ZPrif) I trust the tribes more than I trust Obama.

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 04, 2013 06:41 PM (Vk2pI)

290 *passes BC a drink* Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 10:38 PM (doBIb) Thanks. Much needed. My wife is embroiled in a debate about schooling. *sigh* The problem is, my wife was a teacher and the exception. She took great pride in her work and she really loved her students. She spent time and money and sweat and tears and heartache on the kids. I've tried very hard to make her understand why people have such animosity, and why it's deserved, towards teachers.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 06:42 PM (GEICT)

291 Hi, I hope everyone had a nice Sunday. I did, I spent it out in my rose garden. There is never enough time to do all that I plan to but then thereÂ’s next weekend. I wasted yesterday doing stupid things in my house, only a few productive things. Sometimes I am glued here but I turned it off last night and turned it back on this am. But I stayed off the blog until now.

Posted by: CarolT at August 04, 2013 06:43 PM (z4WKX)

292 >>> 700 acres and you won't need the gun club.

Damn right. My goal in life now is to own enough land for my own private runway/rifle range.

Posted by: Bomber at August 04, 2013 06:43 PM (+Wfbd)

293 She took great pride in her work and she really loved her students. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 10:42 PM (GEICT) Me too!

Posted by: Mary Kay Letourneau at August 04, 2013 06:43 PM (Vk2pI)

294 The rumor in the real estate biz is that Obama is going to put low income families into homes foreclosed by the banks that were insured by FHA or VA. In other words, almost every home in the US would be eligible to be used by HUD for Section 8 housing. And when I say eligible, I mean it will be used as Section 8 housing. Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 04, 2013 10:28 PM (BXLPR) Been trying to sell my place in NC for the fourth summer. Have some new neighbors around the corner who have had their grass cut twice this year.But their precious young teen boy has a practice dummy out in the driveway for his kick boxing shit. I'm bout ready to go off.

Posted by: Kentucky Kid at August 04, 2013 06:43 PM (WaEWN)

295 >>> 700 acres and you won't need the gun club. I know, I'm just trying to point out that it is a respectable neighborhood.

Posted by: fluffy at August 04, 2013 06:43 PM (z9HTb)

296 >>Keith Ellison is not a Muslim.

He says he's a Muslim, he was sworn in using Jefferson's Koran, and he made the Hajj to Mecca in December 2008.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2013 06:44 PM (Lhux0)

297 Posted by: Mary Kay Letourneau at August 04, 2013 10:43 PM (Vk2pI) I'll smack you TPH

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 06:44 PM (GEICT)

298 Damn right. My goal in life now is to own enough land for my own private runway/rifle range. Posted by: Bomber at August 04, 2013 10:43 PM (+Wfbd) 640 acres is a mile square

Posted by: Jake in ID, lets get it over with and let it burn already at August 04, 2013 06:44 PM (DWF95)

299 "The 401k gambit has been in the plans for some time now. At some point, they actually believe that you have made enough money. What they don't tell you is they also believe that they haven't stolen enough of your money yet!" My response to anyone who is for raising taxes, is that I'm against increasing taxes because they'll never get enough of our money. They're squandering it on stupid crap now and they'll keep squandering it on stupid crap.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 04, 2013 06:45 PM (6tmNL)

300 This is why, in a very perverted way, I really admire the liberals. The f*ckers never stop thinking of and implementing methods to screw us in every conceivable way. Posted by: Hrothgar at August 04, 2013 10:31 PM (XdnQT) Whatever the craziest one in congress submits for a vote will become the "mainstream" Dem position in 20 years. So whatever 80% of America is laughing at today that the Dems want to do, they will pass by the year 2040.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 04, 2013 06:45 PM (BXLPR)

301 There was totally some... stuff I was going to do today.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:45 PM (qyfb5)

302 Wagging the dog? Operator ‏@911BUFF 3m ALARMING! HOMELAND SECURITY HAS NOTIFIED THE SAN FRANCISCO POLICE TO BE ON HIGH ALERT FOLLOWING SERIOUS AL-QAEDA THREAT. ABC. #911BUFF

Posted by: Thrawn at August 04, 2013 06:46 PM (KiyII)

303 Have y'all seen the crazy story about the woman who claims that her son was called a faggot for wearing a headband to Walmart? Well, it's obviously fake, but the woman is craaaaaazy. Hilariously crazy.

Posted by: Lauren at August 04, 2013 06:46 PM (ELdpj)

304 Ugh terror threat in the heart of terror sympathyville.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:47 PM (qyfb5)

305 Damn right. My goal in life now is to own enough land for my own private runway/rifle range.
Posted by: Bomber
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Maybe you can buy it from the Indians...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 06:47 PM (aDwsi)

306 I cry about the children too. Except when they're aborted. Then I laugh.

Posted by: Karen Lewis at August 04, 2013 06:47 PM (Aif/5)

307 *gets neck cramp* Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 10:37 PM (doBIb) That's what you get for trying to watch while hiding in the bushes. You forgot the tassels thus time. You know the rules. Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 10:38 PM (nZyMu) But it's coooold outside. *magnificent pout* MWR, I was near that 700 acre property in Rumney today. There is a gun club about two miles away as the crow flies, about 7 miles by car. Posted by: fluffy at August 04, 2013 10:38 PM (z9HTb) Excellent! What was the terrain like? It's been a while since I've been up to Rumney. I keep wanting to call it Plymouth. Evening, BC! Your wife would fall into the category that I call "GENUINE teachers." Those are people who chose to teach not because they wanted a paycheck, but because they really wanted to teach. She's worth her weight in gold in that respect, and is far, far too rare a breed these days.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 06:47 PM (CA2NO)

308 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 10:34 PM (0WdQr)

You're a treasure. =)

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 06:48 PM (Dscv4)

309 I really, really, really hope the current round of terror threats is just cynical manipulation and/or incompetent reaction, and not actual real terror threats. Not only because of death blood and violence, but because The Ratchet Turns, and rarely seems to tighten down on the *actual* bad guys.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:48 PM (qyfb5)

310 Whatever the craziest one in congress submits for a vote will become the "mainstream" Dem position in 20 years. So whatever 80% of America is laughing at today that the Dems want to do, they will pass by the year 2040. Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 04, 2013 10:45 PM (BXLPR) It's long past time since the R's had a fixer. A shark. Someone willing to not only push ideas, but knife someone in the gutter to get it done. Politics is dirty business. We need someone willing to do the dirty work for our cause.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 06:48 PM (GEICT)

311

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 10:42 PM (GEICT)

While i'm sorry to hear your wife is embroiled in controversy, that's my every day lately. We have two nonacredited school districts near us, and everyone seems to think the solution is just to pay teachers more to hire better ones.

My suggestion of vouchers didn't go over well with my wife's aunt, former union teacher.

I'll tell you this, I'm getting involved with my school board at least a year before any kids I have go in. I'll make may voice heard.

Posted by: tsrblke (Tablet) at August 04, 2013 06:48 PM (GaqMa)

312 This is a rather eklectic ONT so far.

Posted by: Jake in ID, lets get it over with and let it burn already at August 04, 2013 06:49 PM (DWF95)

313 Obama is spending $2B to buy up land and give it to Indian tribes. So America will literally shrink under Obama. Nothing to worry about there. There isn't a tribal government in the U.S. that isn't a cesspool of corruption and incompetence. Only so much damage they can do, mostly to themselves.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 06:49 PM (nZyMu)

314 I know, I'm just trying to point out that it is a respectable neighborhood. Posted by: fluffy at August 04, 2013 10:43 PM (z9HTb) And close enough to Vermont that you could take a day trip there and play target practice with some granola crunching hippies. You know. If that floats your boat and all. *cough*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 06:49 PM (CA2NO)

315 There was totally some... stuff I was going to do today. Posted by: Merovign
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Slacker.
I had 'Take afternoon nap' on my list, and by god, I did it. Sometimes you just have take care of things.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 06:49 PM (aDwsi)

316

Bomber,

Yeah, it's an extra two weeks, but you get to spend it at places like Bagram and Ali Al-Salim. Not exactly my idea of resorts.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 04, 2013 06:50 PM (lr3d7)

317 Bill's Doormat 2016

Posted by: Craig Poe at August 04, 2013 06:50 PM (BVkEs)

318 The rumor in the real estate biz is that Obama is going to put low income families into homes foreclosed by the banks Do you get a tax credit and do you get to choose the house that you stopped paying for?

Posted by: t-bird at August 04, 2013 06:50 PM (FcR7P)

319 all I managed to do today was ride a large American-made motorcycle at high speed and eat 2 hot dogs for lunch

oh and I bought cigarettes

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 04, 2013 06:51 PM (8sCoq)

320 I don't contribute a dime to my 401(k) precisely because I don't expect them to be around in another ten years.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 04, 2013 06:51 PM (lr3d7)

321 Have y'all seen the crazy story about the woman who claims that her son was called a faggot for wearing a headband to Walmart?

Well, it's obviously fake, but the woman is craaaaaazy. Hilariously crazy.

Posted by: Lauren at August 04, 2013 10:46 PM (ELdpj)

Well, if the headband sports the slogan, "I like to suck dick", I can see how some people might jump to that conclusion.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2013 06:51 PM (fNpC1)

322 I sing the body eklectic.

Posted by: dissent555 at August 04, 2013 06:51 PM (yR6A1)

323 Evening, BC! Your wife would fall into the category that I call "GENUINE teachers." Those are people who chose to teach not because they wanted a paycheck, but because they really wanted to teach. She's worth her weight in gold in that respect, and is far, far too rare a breed these days. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 04, 2013 10:47 PM (CA2NO) I know. God bless her, she thinks that there are simply good teachers and bad teachers out there. I've tried very hard to make her see that, no, there are an overwhelming amount of horrible teachers and very very few like her. The protests in Wisconsin were excellent for demonstrating that to her.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 06:51 PM (GEICT)

324 Yeah, it's an extra two weeks, but you get to spend it at places like Bagram and Ali Al-Salim. Not exactly my idea of resorts. Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 04, 2013 10:50 PM (lr3d7) J-bad is the shizzle this time of year.......

Posted by: Jake in ID, lets get it over with and let it burn already at August 04, 2013 06:51 PM (DWF95)

325 Or Fi. Each Japanese regiment could have 2,600 or 3,500 men. Lets use the lower number - 2,600. 37,000 troops means 14 regiments plus flotsam for HQ.

A Japanese infantry division could have 3 or 4 infantry regiments. Then there are the artillery regiments, 900 cannon. Plus supporting battalions and companies like MP and engineer. So depending on if we say each division has 3 regiments we get 4 divisions or 4 regiments and get 3 divisions. So there was a powerful force that could have taken Malay bottled up useless by two squadrons of PT boats.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 06:51 PM (0WdQr)

326 You know. If that floats your boat and all. *cough*
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 04, 2013 10:49 PM (CA2NO)

Culling the herd for its own good. /cough

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 06:52 PM (Dscv4)

327 >>> Maybe you can buy it from the Indians...

Maybe my destiny is still manifest.

Posted by: Bomber at August 04, 2013 06:53 PM (+Wfbd)

328 I think I have to go get away from current events before I go completely mental. Have fun.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 06:53 PM (qyfb5)

329 So did I miss anything worthwhile today? This morning was....hectic...at church and I spent the rest of the day reading and decompressing.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 06:54 PM (GEICT)

330 Oh, and fuck the NCAA. I don't care if Manziel sold his autograph. College sports is a racket and I'm fine with the whole thing crumbling.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 06:54 PM (ZPrif)

331 328?!? Oh, my!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 06:54 PM (T1005)

332 If anyone IS interested in big swaths of otherwise unpopulated, undeveloped land, northern New England really is a place to look. There are parts of Maine that I really don't think have ever been explored, except in very cursory fashion. And of course good ole NH. Indian Stream Republic FTW!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 06:54 PM (CA2NO)

333 >>> Yeah, it's an extra two weeks, but you get to spend it at places like Bagram and Ali Al-Salim. Not exactly my idea of resorts.

I have an actual room in Bagram this trip, so no transient tent.

Posted by: Bomber at August 04, 2013 06:55 PM (+Wfbd)

334 If more civilians carried cronuts, police might be less trigger happy.

The fried ribs we had tonight were very filling, only had 2 and I'm miserable.

Posted by: SpongeBob ReaverSaget at August 04, 2013 06:55 PM (kxSZr)

335 Ever notice that the Terrorists never go after the South? I think they know what bee hives not to poke. Just sayin.

Posted by: Cato at August 04, 2013 06:55 PM (4VEEC)

336 Colleges should just sponsor minor league pro teams that are age limited. College sports prop up the leftist academic trash anyway.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 06:55 PM (ZPrif)

337 MWR. Win Powerball. Katafanga Island.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 06:55 PM (0WdQr)

338 You know. If that floats your boat and all. *cough* You know, nothing says "I care" to people like that quite like a barrage of 155mm Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions. Jus' sayin'

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 06:55 PM (nZyMu)

339 I wanna be eklectic!

Posted by: Alice Cooper at August 04, 2013 06:55 PM (1txX0)

340 Operator ‏@911BUFF 3m ALARMING! HOMELAND SECURITY HAS NOTIFIED THE SAN FRANCISCO POLICE TO BE ON HIGH ALERT FOLLOWING SERIOUS AL-QAEDA THREAT. ABC. #911BUFF Posted by: Thrawn at August 04, 2013 10:46 PM (KiyII) So long as SFGoth and zombie are okay, I really don't care what happens to SF. This is how much I've come to loathe the left.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 06:56 PM (CA2NO)

341 Snea, unless you have an MLRS track in the back yard.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 06:56 PM (0WdQr)

342 So, I'm on "vacation" in NJ. Got here yesterday. Started getting a cold today, things are starting off just great!!! Was in the car with my FIL, who claims to be a RINO, I mean Republican but voted for JEF twice, I know, don't say it, and we're talking about Spitzer since an ad came on the radio. He says, well it was a legitimate affair, etc. Brings up Hillary and how he had no respect for her after she stuck by Bill after his affairs came out but she gained it all back after her stint as SOS. Yeah, my jaw hit the floor. It was all I had to bite my tongue and not smash my head into the dashboard. I was gobsmacked. I guess he forgot about a little incident called Bengazi??? I want to go home to Texas, even if it is in Austin. At least it's cool.

Posted by: lindafell in hell aka NJ at August 04, 2013 06:57 PM (ccH+N)

343 If any of us wins the Powerball, we should buy as many islands from the Greek government as the money will buy, and call our new nation Peruvia.

Posted by: Cato at August 04, 2013 06:57 PM (4VEEC)

344 MWR. Win Powerball. Katafanga Island. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 10:55 PM (0WdQr) What's the pot up to now? I take it the two tickets I bought for Saturday didn't win. Curses!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 06:57 PM (CA2NO)

345 There are parts of Maine that I really don't think have ever been explored, except in very cursory fashion. Go look at a topo map of Aroostook County sometime. There are towns so remote that they don't even have names. The map shows them with numerical designations like, T-4, T-5 and so on.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 06:58 PM (nZyMu)

346
It's long past time since the R's had a fixer. A shark. Someone willing to not only push ideas, but knife someone in the gutter to get it done. Politics is dirty business. We need someone willing to do the dirty work for our cause.

Posted by: BCochran1981-Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 10:48 PM (GEICT)

Did someone mention my name?

Posted by: The Ghost of Lee Atwater at August 04, 2013 06:58 PM (txvbW)

347 Legitimate affair? While he was AG? Yeah....

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 06:58 PM (doBIb)

348

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 10:49 PM (nZyMu)

Stossel has some tribe he always uses as the contra example to that. They didn't take any government money or build casinos. Instead I thank they built a mill. anyway, they're supposedly fairly stable.

Posted by: tsrblke (Tablet) at August 04, 2013 06:58 PM (GaqMa)

349 Wednesday jackpot is estimated to be a $400 million annuity or a $230 million cash payout.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 06:58 PM (0WdQr)

350 If any of us wins the Powerball, we should buy as many islands from the Greek government as the money will buy, and call our new nation Peruvia. Posted by: Cato at August 04, 2013 10:57 PM (4VEEC) I'm pretty sure if we won Powerball we could just buy GREECE, islands and all. Of course then you'd have to deal with, y'know, all those GREEK people.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 06:59 PM (CA2NO)

351 "More utter policy incoherence in the Obama era. Liberals can't decide if they love or hate suburbs. Posted by: torquewrench at August 04, 2013 09:56 PM (gqT4g) It was never about suburbs, it was always about power and control. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith" Exactly. Another idea that many of them push is "regionalism". That's how they'd like to bail out failing cities. Make the suburbs, and neighboring areas, that haven't spent themselves bankrupt, cover the costs of the cities' irresponsible behavior.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 04, 2013 06:59 PM (6tmNL)

352 There's a reason those parts of Maine haven't been explored. I'm pretty sure the Pilgrim Fathers built a big wall of ice across the 45th parallel

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 04, 2013 06:59 PM (d7tB2)

353 A lot of those foreclosed homes are in bad shape. Stuff has been stolen out of them like appliances, outlets, light fixtures, etc. Then a lot of them haven't been running their environmental systems so there is plenty of mildew and funk.

Posted by: CDR M at August 04, 2013 06:59 PM (dKV5k)

354 351 If any of us wins the Powerball, we should buy as many islands from the Greek government as the money will buy, and call our new nation Peruvia. Posted by: Cato at August 04, 2013 10:57 PM (4VEEC) I'm pretty sure if we won Powerball we could just buy GREECE, islands and all. Of course then you'd have to deal with, y'know, all those GREEK people. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 04, 2013 10:59 PM (CA2NO) "Get off our lawn."

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 06:59 PM (doBIb)

355 346 There are parts of Maine that I really don't think have ever been explored, except in very cursory fashion. Some timber companies might contend otherwise.

Posted by: fluffy at August 04, 2013 07:01 PM (z9HTb)

356 Let the Greek people have Thera.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 07:01 PM (0WdQr)

357 Of course then you'd have to deal with, y'know, all those GREEK people. Shit, 55 gallon drum of KY is all you need for Greek. Amirite?

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 07:01 PM (nZyMu)

358

Posted by: CDR M at August 04, 2013 10:59 PM (dKV5k)

Barky has an EO to fix that.

Posted by: tsrblke (Tablet) at August 04, 2013 07:01 PM (GaqMa)

359 341 So long as SFGoth and zombie are okay, I really don't care what happens to SF. This is how much I've come to loathe the left. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 04, 2013 10:56 PM (CA2NO) Yep, same here. A couple of weeks ago there was a link to a site that showed the effects of various sized nuclear explosions. I discovered that a Hiroshima-sized nuke could go off in Center City Philadelphia, and all I would notice is a mushroom cloud on the horizon. Provided the wind wasn't blowing my way, that is. So have at it.

Posted by: rickl at August 04, 2013 07:01 PM (sdi6R)

360 If any of us wins the Powerball, we should buy as many islands from the Greek government as the money will buy, and call our new nation Peruvia. Posted by: Cato at August 04, 2013 10:57 PM (4VEEC) Then, we should make ourselves Ambassadors so we can do whatever we like anywhere in the world with complete impunity! Think about it: Trans-continental Hobo hunting!

Posted by: Future Peruvian Vice-Minister of Hat at August 04, 2013 07:02 PM (Vk2pI)

361 358 Of course then you'd have to deal with, y'know, all those GREEK people. Shit, 55 gallon drum of KY is all you need for Greek. Amirite? Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 11:01 PM (nZyMu) Party at Bannion's place!!!!

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 07:02 PM (doBIb)

362 CDR M don't know if you saw it, but around 0100 Eastern I posted a thanks for the .gif last night.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 04, 2013 07:02 PM (sQ0LB)

363 Why nuke Red State communities when we got Section 8 and a permanent underclass?

Posted by: some guys in Hyde Park in the 90s, thinkin' outside the box at August 04, 2013 07:03 PM (d7tB2)

364 And when I say eligible, I mean it will be used as Section 8 housing.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 04, 2013 10:28 PM (BXLPR)

Yep. The political class wants to export their creation to the suburbs so they can feel bad about "the poor" without actually dealing with the poor.

Posted by: rich@gmu at August 04, 2013 07:03 PM (5Tm6g)

365 Maine had an affair with 2 foot guage railroads around the turn of the century. The Sandy River and Rangely Lakes system was several hundred miles at its zenith. This probably interests no one.....

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 04, 2013 07:03 PM (l3vZN)

366 >>> Party at Bannion's place!!!! 55 gallons of KY? I'll skip that party.

Posted by: fluffy at August 04, 2013 07:03 PM (z9HTb)

367 Nice to actually contribute to the conversation sometime. I'm pretty sure it'd confuse the hell out of most mariners when we got done with the renamings. "So we just passed Fordor, past it is Endor, Bendor, Mordor, then Backdor?"

Posted by: Cato at August 04, 2013 07:04 PM (4VEEC)

368 Go look at a topo map of Aroostook County sometime. There are towns so remote that they don't even have names. The map shows them with numerical designations like, T-4, T-5 and so on. Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 10:58 PM (nZyMu) I can believe it! As that repository of all knowledge, Wikipedia, states, they've got roughly 72K people in an area larger than Rhode Island and Connecticut combined. So it's basically a few people and a shitload of moose, bear, deer, and a metric fuckton of trees. My kind of place!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:04 PM (CA2NO)

369 Speaking of Hobos, apparently "Big Rock Candy Mountain" is actually about Hobo related pedophilia. http://tinyurl.com/mz5ee7o In completely unrelated news, Harry Reid is planning to announce his campaign's 2016 re-election theme music: "Big Rock Candy Mountain"

Posted by: The Candied Hat at August 04, 2013 07:04 PM (Vk2pI)

370 *streeeeeeetch* Finished the books I was reading. Now to try and reenter the actual physical world.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 07:05 PM (GEICT)

371 So we just passed Fordor, past it is Endor, Bendor, Mordor, then Backdor?" You forgot Hodor.

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 07:05 PM (doBIb)

372 The official sport of Peruvia - cosplay
http://www.ufunk.net/japon/51-cosplay-sexy-et-colores/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 07:06 PM (0WdQr)

373 You forgot Hodor. Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 11:05 PM (doBIb) HODOR! HODOR!

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 07:06 PM (GEICT)

374 60 Football season is on and no pointy elbow pics ?

Time for me to exchange my embarrassing Mets cap for my embarrassing Jets cap. Years of losing builds character. Posted by: McCool at August 04, 2013 09:42 PM

Be safe my brother, for you and I are the last of our kind

Posted by: kbdabear at August 04, 2013 07:06 PM (/9IC1)

375 Hodor is slightly to the left of that route.

Posted by: Cato at August 04, 2013 07:06 PM (4VEEC)

376 "Did someone mention my name?
Posted by: The Ghost of Lee Atwater at August 04, 2013 10:58 PM (txvbW)

Geez, Lee; well the hell ya been. Listen, a one ghost haunting of the GOP is not gonna be enough. Go get some friends. Oh, and see if Lincoln is available too.

Posted by: dissent555 at August 04, 2013 07:07 PM (yR6A1)

377 Don't forget Twodor. It comes before Fordor.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:07 PM (CA2NO)

378 Jinx -- Last night, after I signed off, it occurred to me that probably not one person in 50,000 would have the question about the curved dash Olds.

Anyhow..., were that not a lot of narrow guage railroads? It seems to me that they were common for logging companies.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 07:08 PM (aDwsi)

379 "HOMELAND SECURITY HAS NOTIFIED THE SAN FRANCISCO POLICE TO BE ON HIGH ALERT FOLLOWING SERIOUS AL-QAEDA THREAT."

The SFPD are the biggest joke of a police force anyone could possibly imagine.

Of course, their total ineffectuality at law enforcement doesn't stop them from pulling down truly jaw-droppingly huge public-sector-union compensation packages.

The former SFPD chief retired about five or six years ago.

At age _53_. On a pension package of nearly three hundred thousand dollars per annum. Yes, you read that figure correctly. The SF taxpayers will be forking out roughly three hundred grand a year to this one individual, year after year for many decades to come. With a generous cost of living multiplier.

Liberalism is a great racket for those in the inner circle.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 04, 2013 07:08 PM (gqT4g)

380 " Quick: Can you think of a single truly interesting thing Hillary Clinton has ever said? " WE are the president! I always thought that was pretty darned interesting.

Posted by: shredded chi at August 04, 2013 07:09 PM (t+Ksb)

381 Be safe my brother, for you and I are the last of our kind You know your team is in trouble when even your most rabid superfan (Fireman Ed) quits.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 07:09 PM (e5ztf)

382 I recently drove thru Maine on the way to Canada. Rt 9. Holy shit, those people are hardy. You want your alone time, you got it in spades.

Posted by: t-bird at August 04, 2013 07:09 PM (FcR7P)

383 354 A lot of those foreclosed homes are in bad shape. Stuff has been stolen out of them like appliances, outlets, light fixtures, etc. Then a lot of them haven't been running their environmental systems so there is plenty of mildew and funk. Posted by: CDR M at August 04, 2013 10:59 PM (dKV5k) Shovel ready jobs for our souther friends since Americans won't do em

Posted by: Kentucky Kid at August 04, 2013 07:10 PM (WaEWN)

384 At age _53_. On a pension package of nearly three hundred thousand dollars per annum. Yes, you read that figure correctly. The SF taxpayers will be forking out roughly three hundred grand a year to this one individual, year after year for many decades to come. With a generous cost of living multiplier. Liberalism is a great racket for those in the inner circle. Posted by: torquewrench at August 04, 2013 11:08 PM (gqT4g) And s/h/it will probably get another job in the interim, just for the hell of it. And if s/h/it holds true to form, that job will be with the gubmint, too. Soaking the taxpayers twice over! YAY for leftism!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:10 PM (CA2NO)

385 55 gallons of KY? I'll skip that party. You were combat arms. You're used to taking it dry. Like a man.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 07:10 PM (e5ztf)

386
That contract dude can't be real can he? He had to do it for a joke.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 04, 2013 07:11 PM (4+FWp)

387 297 >>Keith Ellison is not a Muslim. He says he's a Muslim, he was sworn in using Jefferson's Koran, and he made the Hajj to Mecca in December 2008. Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2013 10:44 PM (Lhux0) ----------------- Oh yeah. It's an amusing hobby for him. He's a Muslim like the NOW hags are pro-women and Al Sharpton is pro-black. It's his particular mode of expressing his anti-Western animus. But what happens when his Leftism comes into conflict with his Islam? How in the world can a Muslim, a defender and supporter of Sharia, celebrate gay 'marriage?' Not tolerate, but CELEBRATE. He's a fraud, a clown. There's nothing positive there, just the same old hey-hey-ho-ho-Western-civ-has-to-go.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 04, 2013 07:11 PM (C8mVl)

388 there were a lot of narrow gauge roads, but mostly 3 ft gauge in this country. (Standard is 4' 8 1/2") Maine was unique with the 2' guage. That is pretty narrow for a 'real' steam locomotive. Colorado used to have an extensive ring system of 3' gauge tracks, mostly Denver Rio Grande & Western. Over time they were converted or abandoned. A few fragments remain as tourist roads.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 04, 2013 07:11 PM (l3vZN)

389 346 There are parts of Maine that I really don't think have ever been explored, except in very cursory fashion. Go look at a topo map of Aroostook County sometime. There are towns so remote that they don't even have names. The map shows them with numerical designations like, T-4, T-5 and so on. Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 10:58 PM (nZyMu) There's a theory that Nungesser and Coli made it as far as Maine, about two weeks before Lindbergh flew the Atlantic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Bird Of course, Lindbergh survived his flight.

Posted by: rickl at August 04, 2013 07:11 PM (sdi6R)

390 In obscure new Florida and NC now have interoperable electronic toll systems. A national e-tolling system is being rolled out piece meal. It's basically gonna be nationwide EZPass. Several states built their own systems and those will, over time, be absorbed. EZPass already has the northeast and midwest and no is steadily absorbing the southeast.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 07:12 PM (ZPrif)

391 I recently drove thru Maine on the way to Canada. Rt 9. Holy shit, those people are hardy. You want your alone time, you got it in spades. Posted by: t-bird at August 04, 2013 11:09 PM (FcR7P) Once you get away from the coast, Maine empties out like a Tijuana chop shop when the federales pull up out front.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:12 PM (CA2NO)

392 National interoperability is kinda like picking a single gauge of track for the national railroad system.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 07:12 PM (ZPrif)

393 391 In obscure new Florida and NC now have interoperable electronic toll systems. NC's toll only covers a very limited portion of Raleigh's outer belt line. Easily avoidable.

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 07:13 PM (doBIb)

394 Once you get away from the coast, Maine empties out like a Tijuana chop shop when the federales pull up out front. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 04, 2013 11:12 PM (CA2NO) You paint excellent word pictures. So pretty. So bright.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 07:13 PM (GEICT)

395 "s/h/it"

Awesome word.

Posted by: Bomber at August 04, 2013 07:13 PM (+Wfbd)

396 @kbdabear I've encouraged my kids to be NYGiants fans to break the cycle. I will never buy them Yankee apparel though.

Posted by: McCool at August 04, 2013 07:14 PM (tMLEl)

397 Thanks, Peaches....I'm trying to forget that. My mother shares a b-day with Juan McCain... Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 04, 2013 09:46 PM (kSJg9) And with me! Happy birthday.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 04, 2013 07:14 PM (Tnlh/)

398 MWR, 135 acres in Aroostook County

http://www.landwatch.com/Aroostook-County-Maine-Land-for-sale/pid/205025956

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 07:15 PM (0WdQr)

399 You paint excellent word pictures. So pretty. So bright. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 11:13 PM (GEICT) I live to serve. *bow that turns into upward bounce on trampoline* WOO HOO!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:15 PM (CA2NO)

400 Here is an island for you, Anna: link in nic, I hope.

I've been to this island complex and it is totally awesome. There are a fair number of islands for sale here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2013 07:16 PM (fNpC1)

401 Shovel ready jobs for our souther friends since Americans won't do em Oh, fuck. Imagine a new Homestead Act for illegals. I don't think they'd find the frontier too friendly in Detroit, but those decisions aren't mine to make.

Posted by: t-bird at August 04, 2013 07:16 PM (FcR7P)

402 I live to serve. *bow that turns into upward bounce on trampoline* WOO HOO! Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 04, 2013 11:15 PM (CA2NO) Easy, don't want to overbalance yourself. So I just finished some reading, pretty damn disappointed. Which sucks.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 07:16 PM (GEICT)

403 As a national toll system develops, and gas tax revenue keeps decreasing, expect more toll roads. Gas tax revenue is no longer enough to pay for roads. States are looking elsewhere for cash. Toll roads are an easy way and all-electronic tolling makes it much more palatable to citizens. People get more pissed at stopping to fish for coins to pay a $1 toll than driving past a tag reader that automagically takes $2.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 07:17 PM (ZPrif)

404 AoP looks nice except for one thing. Too darn close to Daniel Ortega.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 07:17 PM (0WdQr)

405 MWR, 135 acres in Aroostook County http://www.landwatch.com/Aroostook-County-Maine-Land-for-sale/pid/205025956 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 11:15 PM (0WdQr) *whimper* So pretty. *paws at it* It's like someone plucked a picture out of my dreams and sold it on the internet for $70K. *sigh* All it needs are some mountains and it would be heaven.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:18 PM (CA2NO)

406 Three problems with Maine: Dukakis, Snowe, and language. "ayup".

Posted by: Arbalest at August 04, 2013 07:18 PM (FlRtG)

407 Anyhow..., were that not a lot of narrow guage railroads? It seems to me that they were common for logging companies.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
--------------------------

Great Grand Dad built one into Red Springs about 110 years ago to haul out timber.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at August 04, 2013 07:18 PM (4Mv1T)

408 I'm out. G'night to all my friends in the box. With a special shout out to NoVAMoMee veterans.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 04, 2013 07:18 PM (e5ztf)

409 Easy, don't want to overbalance yourself. Is it true that MWR is somewhere in between Nicola Bryant and that witch character in that Japanese fighting game?

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 07:18 PM (doBIb)

410 Easy, don't want to overbalance yourself. So I just finished some reading, pretty damn disappointed. Which sucks. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 11:16 PM (GEICT) Awwww. What were you reading?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:19 PM (CA2NO)

411 MWR, 520 acres Ludlow Aroostook County
http://www.landwatch.com/Aroostook-County-Maine-Land-for-sale/pid/224672924

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 07:19 PM (0WdQr)

412 Good night, Senor Bannion! Say good night to your lovely wife for me, too. ^_^

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:19 PM (CA2NO)

413 >>>> http://www.landwatch.com/Aroostook-County-Maine-Land-for-sale/pid/205025956

Damn that's pretty. And so is the price tag. Might have to expand my search for my future undisclosed location.

Posted by: Bomber at August 04, 2013 07:20 PM (+Wfbd)

414 Is it true that MWR is somewhere in between Nicola Bryant and that witch character in that Japanese fighting game? Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 11:18 PM (doBIb) lol! You have a one track mind, EC. And in holding with this thread, I would say it's a narrow gauge track at that.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:21 PM (CA2NO)

415 Outside EZPass, the main systems are Florida, Texas, and California which all built their own tag/toll systems. Especially for trucking, a national system is better.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 07:21 PM (ZPrif)

416 Frum is truly a diminished capacity plea waiting to happen. Actually, if MORE civilians were armed, then cops would be less trigger happy. More criminals would be dead before the cops got involved and the average cop would experience far fewer moments of peril in his life.

In other news, I read that the record holding lottery winner was an 84-year-old Florida woman. I brought this to my mother's attention, reminding her that she was 84 and was a Florida woman some decades ago. So she shouldn't let that old bitch show her up.

Posted by: epobirs at August 04, 2013 07:21 PM (kcfmt)

417 *nods* Goodnight Sergeant at Arms Bannion Awwww. What were you reading? Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 04, 2013 11:19 PM (CA2NO) Hunger Games Trilogy

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 07:21 PM (GEICT)

418 My lawn (someday I hope) git off it.

http://tinyurl.com/olvqdyk

Posted by: SpongeBob ReaverSaget at August 04, 2013 07:21 PM (kxSZr)

419 aren't there yetis and stuff just outside the towns in Maine? And indians...

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 04, 2013 07:21 PM (8sCoq)

420 Hah, before I found out about the real lyrics of that song, I really was singing "big rock candy mountains" when I first got to see the Front Range on the horizon. I was just east of Raton, NM.

"The jails are made of tin
And you can bust right out of 'em as soon as you are in"

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 04, 2013 07:22 PM (d7tB2)

421 MWR, he is going to stay fixated until you smack him on the nose with a copy of the Boston Globe.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 07:22 PM (0WdQr)

422 MWR, 520 acres Ludlow Aroostook County http://www.landwatch.com/Aroostook-County-Maine-Land-for-sale/pid/224672924 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 11:19 PM (0WdQr) Is it wrong that I'd buy it just so no one stupid and ugly and regressive could have it?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:22 PM (CA2NO)

423 415 Is it true that MWR is somewhere in between Nicola Bryant and that witch character in that Japanese fighting game? Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 11:18 PM (doBIb) lol! You have a one track mind, EC. And in holding with this thread, I would say it's a narrow gauge track at that. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 04, 2013 11:21 PM (CA2NO) Just trying to get some confirmation. You know..... ....for the children. And the middle class.

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 07:22 PM (doBIb)

424

Gas tax revenue is no longer enough to pay for roads. States are looking elsewhere for cash.
Toll roads are an easy way and all-electronic tolling makes it much more palatable to citizens.

You know what? I'm ok with that. Requiring the users of a highway to pay a toll is perfectly reasonable.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 04, 2013 07:23 PM (lr3d7)

425 MWR, there is plenty of pretty unspoiled land out there. But exercise due diligence just in case there are strange conditions on the property.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 07:23 PM (0WdQr)

426 #404

It has the added benefit, from the government perspective, of constraining people from traveling for its own sake due to the expense. social micro-managers hate mobility in a population.

Posted by: epobirs at August 04, 2013 07:24 PM (kcfmt)

427 My lawn (someday I hope) git off it. http://tinyurl.com/olvqdyk Called "El Despoblado"? That's not promising. The nice thing about Maine is you get water. This landwatch.com thing, whoever started it: it's addicting!

Posted by: t-bird at August 04, 2013 07:24 PM (FcR7P)

428 422 MWR, he is going to stay fixated until you smack him on the nose with a copy of the Boston Globe. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 11:22 PM (0WdQr) It's going to be only two pages thick! Hahaha!!!

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 07:25 PM (doBIb)

429 Notice who is selling the 520 acres plus the adjoining 1,800 acres? Scot Walker.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 07:25 PM (0WdQr)

430 Hunger Games Trilogy Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 11:21 PM (GEICT) Ah. Understood. I couldn't get through the first book. I just cannot STAND first person prose.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:25 PM (CA2NO)

431 MWR, there is plenty of pretty unspoiled land out there. But exercise due diligence just in case there are strange conditions on the property. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 11:23 PM (0WdQr) Alas, until I win the Powerball it's all just dreams and wishes anyway.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:27 PM (CA2NO)

432 331 Oh, and fuck the NCAA. I don't care if Manziel sold his autograph. College sports is a racket and I'm fine with the whole thing crumbling. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 10:54 PM (ZPrif) D4 football is coming. The NCAA knows it, and they are scared shitless. It will be SEC, Big10, Big12, ACC, and PAC12, and that is it. It is why Notre Dame "joined" the ACC. BYU will join the Big12, and that's it. Once they do this, players will get a stipend, and we will get a 8 team playoff. The big schools are tired of the small schools calling the shots while they bring the money into the NCAA because no one cares about watching SMU play Rice when Clemson is playing Virginia Tech. Thus, the NCAA will allow the new "D4" division made up of those schools.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 04, 2013 07:27 PM (BXLPR)

433 This is the second time I have completely agreed with Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard. He wrote that Â“a year ago Al Queda were on the run & NOW we are!Â” Does anyone think itÂ’s a good idea to let the world know that the Senators on the Intel Committee let word out that this is the most chatter since 9/11/2001? Sometime it is best to keep it quiet. If they STFU intelligence sources wouldnÂ’t know that theyÂ’ve been outed. Remember the doctor in jail in Pakistan? The one that helped the US get Bin Laden? HeÂ’s still in jail as far as I know. SCOAMT did nothing to help the man. He should have had him & his family lifted out of there the day before they got Osama. But the SCOAMF just does nothing and the man is in jail for how long? Remember when the US was feared? It isnÂ’t now. We are a joke because they LIVs and FSA reelected TFG!

Posted by: CarolT at August 04, 2013 07:27 PM (z4WKX)

434 I'm neither for or against toll roads. It's just a reality that states are having increasing difficulty affording to maintain their existing road network, let alone build new roads. As the EPA forces higher fuel mileage on cars, gas tax revenue is declining per mile driven. And electric cars don't pay gas taxes at all. The gas tax was originally supposed to be the use fee. But the linkage is breaking.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 07:28 PM (ZPrif)

435 This is more my speed.

http://www.landwatch.com/Bledsoe-County-Tennessee-Land-for-sale/pid/205004342

Posted by: Country Singer at August 04, 2013 07:28 PM (5ae6g)

436 "A lot of those foreclosed homes are in bad shape. Stuff has been stolen out of them like appliances, outlets, light fixtures, etc. Then a lot of them haven't been running their environmental systems so there is plenty of mildew and funk."

You haven't seen "bad shape" till you have seen what Section 8 tenants can do to properties.

First off, they do no maintenance themselves. Nothing. Not even the ordinary basics that have traditionally been figured as renter responsibilities. If a light bulb burns out, they expect that it will be changed for them by someone else. If the sink clogs, instead of buying a can of Drano first, they'll insist on calling the most expensive 24-hour plumber they can find, and forwarding the bill to the property owner, to be paid on pain of litigation by the government. If they lose keys, likewise with the locksmith.

But many S8 tenants not only do not do minor fixes, they don't do ANYTHING.

One S8 horror story I heard involved a guy who rented his late parents' home via the program. He lived out of the area and thought it would be a quick fix while he got his own home squared away for sale. A year later, the city insisted he evict the Section 8 crew. They had already secured new S8 quarters elsewhere and moved into those.

He showed up to find that not only was the interior of the house unfit for habitation, and red-tagged by the city, but the backyard was filled with hundreds of pounds of rotting trash. A neighbor said that he had never seen the Section 8 tenants lug the cans to the curb for pickup even once in the entire year. They just tossed the garbage off the back deck.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 04, 2013 07:28 PM (gqT4g)

437 http://tinyurl.com/olvqdyk I don't mind the style and I was more or less ok until the (nonexistent) end. The fuck was that?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 07:29 PM (GEICT)

438 You know what I love about that Masardis 135 acre property? This in the description: Extremely private setting with excellent hunting opportunities. "Extremely private" being real estate lingo for "There is no one else for, like, fifty miles in any direction, Serious You Guys. You can, like, run naked through the woods shouting the lyrics to The Who's Tommy and no one is going to care. But you'll get mauled by a bear if you do, so exercise caution."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:30 PM (CA2NO)

439 If the NCAA dies can schools escape Title IX? I hate Title IX. So fucking stupid. All it did was kill college wrestling and a bunch of other men's sports, while giving a bunch of rich chicks full rides to run cross country.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 07:30 PM (ZPrif)

440 Country Singer that is nice looking.

MWR, I understand about the dreams. I probably should get back to writing. Our little fox spirit chat inspired a short story idea. Then there is the small pile of plot/note cards on story been working on.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 07:31 PM (0WdQr)

441 There is a farm for sale next to me. Three crop no till rotation per two year cycle. Timber too. Virginia's Northern Neck

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 04, 2013 07:31 PM (l3vZN)

442 And I have no idea how I included that link....

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 07:31 PM (GEICT)

443 I don't mind the style and I was more or less ok until the (nonexistent) end. The fuck was that? Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 11:29 PM (GEICT) Hey BC, is your wifes name Ann by any chance?

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at August 04, 2013 07:31 PM (XIxXP)

444 most chatter since 9/11/2001

There may be someone I missed, but it seems that all of the senators saying this is a BFD are quislings. Useful idiots participating in a distraction.

Posted by: SpongeBob ReaverSaget at August 04, 2013 07:31 PM (kxSZr)

445 "Extremely private" being real estate lingo for "There is no one else for, like, fifty miles in any direction, Serious You Guys. You can, like, run naked through the woods shouting the lyrics to The Who's Tommy and no one is going to care. But you'll get mauled by a bear if you do, so exercise caution." That's what I like too. I want to be away from other people, and not see other people. If I want to, I'll drive into town or something. Till then, I'd rather be left alone.

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 07:31 PM (doBIb)

446 I submit these dual candidates for the Mars Exploration/Climate Aversion Program:

The Two Ronnies sketch (ends at 29:00)

http://youtu.be/UshGr9GofJg?t=22m50s

Posted by: wtfl at August 04, 2013 07:31 PM (tgvJj)

447 that witch character in that Japanese fighting game?
Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 11:18 PM (doBIb)

That narrows the field, how? You might as well ask which Moron it was that likes the alcohol.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 07:32 PM (Dscv4)

448 MWR, I understand about the dreams. I probably should get back to writing. Our little fox spirit chat inspired a short story idea. Then there is the small pile of plot/note cards on story been working on. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 11:31 PM (0WdQr) OSP Says.........

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at August 04, 2013 07:32 PM (XIxXP)

449 Ummmm....I feel like I'm being set up here...no, no it's not.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 07:33 PM (GEICT)

450 You can run naked on my place, but the chiggers will get you.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 04, 2013 07:33 PM (l3vZN)

451 AoP looks nice except for one thing. Too darn close to Daniel Ortega.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 11:17 PM (0WdQr)

Ortega is old, and not real healthy; he won't be around forever. And he has morphed into an old-style caudillo; kind of a Somoza-lite. The die-hard Sandinistas despise him for betraying the revolution. But he has liberalized land ownership, and instituted a pretty respectable mining law, which has encouraged foreign investment. All things considered, he's less of a bane than Obama.

Right now, there are real bargains to be had in Nica real estate. Ten years from now, there won't be, for sure.

Did you know that Ortega has banned abortion in Nicaragua, a cynical attempt to get the RC Church on side? It's true.

I have to say, I do like the people there a lot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2013 07:34 PM (fNpC1)

452 You haven't seen "bad shape" till you have seen what Section 8 tenants can do to properties. My father rented our old house for a couple of years after we'd moved. Several of teh tenants were S8. It was next to impossible to get the mofos out even when they hadn't paid the rent for six months or so. Anyway, when they finally DID shove off, the house was an absolute disaster. My "favorite" part was where the husband -- it was a couple -- had decided to tune up his motorcycle in the living room. HUGE puddle of oil right in the middle of the carpet, grease on the walls and ceiling, you name it. And let's not talk about the state of the bathroom.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:34 PM (CA2NO)

453 So, we heard that you are all looking for some cheap landÂ…

Posted by: Fukushima Chamber of Commerce at August 04, 2013 07:34 PM (Vk2pI)

454 Ummmm....I feel like I'm being set up here...no, no it's not. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 11:33 PM (GEICT) OK, someone named Ann Cochran wrote a really nice review for my novel on Amazon, just wondered. You are the only Cochran I know.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at August 04, 2013 07:34 PM (XIxXP)

455 448 that witch character in that Japanese fighting game? Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 11:18 PM (doBIb) That narrows the field, how? You might as well ask which Moron it was that likes the alcohol. Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 11:32 PM (Dscv4) The one from the gaming thread earlier today. Click on it! I dare ya!

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 07:34 PM (doBIb)

456

at OSP. Been going in circles on story trying to figure out how to get it all really moving. As in not making progress.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 07:34 PM (0WdQr)

457 You can, like, run naked through the woods shouting the lyrics to The Who's Tommy and no one is going to care.

You don't need much space to do that. Release you inhibitions and come up with something worthy of 100+ acres.

Posted by: SpongeBob ReaverSaget at August 04, 2013 07:35 PM (kxSZr)

458 You don't need much space to do that. Release you inhibitions and come up with something worthy of 100+ acres. Posted by: SpongeBob ReaverSaget at August 04, 2013 11:35 PM (kxSZr) "Rappers Delight?"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:37 PM (CA2NO)

459

You don't need much space to do that. Release you inhibitions and come up with something worthy of 100+ acres.

Pot, moonshine, homebrew, hookers, and guns.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 04, 2013 07:37 PM (lr3d7)

460 Wow. For $12 million get a 16,000 acre island in Chile.
http://www.landwatch.com/Chile-Land-for-sale/pid/130003071

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 07:37 PM (0WdQr)

461 And let's not talk about the state of the bathroom. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 04, 2013 11:34 PM (CA2NO) I live in a very nice, upscale suburban neighborhood. Nice couple moves in across the street. THey're renting. After a bout a year, they move out. We find out they were forced out. The owner, who was our prev neighbor showed up. Not only did the renters take thinks like lightbulbs and fixtures and sinks and tub/shower attachments and toilets, the ripped the built in sound system out of the wall.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 07:38 PM (GEICT)

462 456 448 that witch character in that Japanese fighting game?
Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 11:18 PM (doBIb)

That narrows the field, how? You might as well ask which Moron it was that likes the alcohol.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 11:32 PM (Dscv4)

The one from the gaming thread earlier today. Click on it! I dare ya!
Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 11:34 PM (doBIb)

Oh, Sorceress. /rollseyes

For reference, this was the first witch character in a fighting game that came to mind:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/l8w7zvj

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 07:38 PM (Dscv4)

463 Tierra del Fuego is fantastic this time of the year....

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 04, 2013 07:38 PM (l3vZN)

464 Great Grand Dad built one into Red Springs about 110 years ago to haul out timber.
Posted by: Tobacco Road
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Red Springs. Heh. I have some stories about the girls at Vardell Hall.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 07:39 PM (aDwsi)

465 Pot, moonshine, homebrew, hookers, and guns.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 04, 2013 11:37 PM (lr3d7)

http://youtu.be/xvaEJzoaYZk

Posted by: Country Singer at August 04, 2013 07:39 PM (5ae6g)

466 Pot, moonshine, homebrew, hookers, and guns. Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 04, 2013 11:37 PM (lr3d7) In Maine the only one of those that'd be hard to come by is the hookers. You'd have to import them from Bangor.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:39 PM (CA2NO)

467 Oh, nope, not kin to me unless I just don't know it.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 07:39 PM (GEICT)

468 One thing that has changed with regard to buying a backwoods place since I was a kid, especially in the Northeast, has been the insane profusion of Lyme-disease carrying ticks.

I didn't have to worry about running through the trees in shorts, T-shirt and sneakers. Half my blood was consumed by skeeters, sure, but they didn't transmit anything infectious. Now, kids have to be swaddled in long clothes, boots, and DEET for fear of the ticks.

I think I'd rather be out in the desert somewhere.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 04, 2013 07:39 PM (gqT4g)

469 You haven't seen "bad shape" till you have seen what Section 8 tenants can do to properties. When I worked at the big HD, we had four houses on our property, inner city Milwaukee, that was being rented. Other neighbors complain that roaches were coming from the house. It was boarded up and the big boss wanted me to unscrew the plywood from the front door to see what was up. I'm glad I'm not squeamish. The carpet literally undulated as millions of roaches had taken over. It was like a horror film. Garbage was stashed in the spare bedrooms. I can'y be more descriptive than that. They ended up tenting it, then tearing it down.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at August 04, 2013 07:39 PM (XIxXP)

470 I'm thinking a couple of hundred acres of Detroit could be had pretty cheap.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 07:40 PM (aDwsi)

471 But you'll get mauled by a bear if you do, so exercise caution. Bears? You'll need this: http://freebeacon.com/the-largest-caliber-rifle-ever/

Posted by: t-bird at August 04, 2013 07:40 PM (FcR7P)

472 The owner, who was our prev neighbor showed up. Not only did the renters take thinks like lightbulbs and fixtures and sinks and tub/shower attachments and toilets, the ripped the built in sound system out of the wall. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 11:38 PM (GEICT) This is why I will never, EVER be a landlord. I'd end up murdering my tenants if they pulled shit like that.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:41 PM (CA2NO)

473 Chile is pretty darned fantastic. Like the way California used to be.

Posted by: navybrat at August 04, 2013 07:41 PM (isH/7)

474 Pot, moonshine, homebrew, hookers, and guns. Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 04, 2013 11:37 PM (lr3d7) Shit, that's what Mr. Roark would have presented me with on fantasy Island, Tatoo would have been wearing one of those midget nacho sombreros.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at August 04, 2013 07:41 PM (XIxXP)

475 One last time, in honor of the award-winning Hellin Thomas's birthday, and with special sentiment for Preznit Birthday BuryO, I link to a graphic in my nic which I don't recomment clicking. (You were warned. NSFEyeballs.) I've enjoyed hovering over you all tonight looking down, like a near-death out-of-the-body experience, but now I must leave you to your little gray boxes and go close my eyes and watch for meteors. Y'all keep watch over things for me tonight. I don't want to wake up hearing that San Francisco is a smoking crater. Got a nephew there.

Posted by: mindful webworker watching the skies at August 04, 2013 07:42 PM (U13jb)

476 I'm thinking a couple of hundred acres of Detroit could be had pretty cheap. Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 11:40 PM (aDwsi) There be some mighty fine hobo huntin' in them thar ruins.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:42 PM (CA2NO)

477 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 04, 2013 07:42 PM (JMmQ9)

478 445 most chatter since 9/11/2001

There may be someone I missed, but it seems that all of the senators saying this is a BFD are quislings. Useful idiots participating in a distraction.

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Inquiring minds are dying to learn how you know what you claim to be true.

Posted by: Cheese Louise at August 04, 2013 07:42 PM (OxC+n)

479 Why is Delaware so unpopulated? How come it didn't fill up like Long Island did? The whole Delmarva peninsula is pretty damn empty.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 07:42 PM (ZPrif)

480

This is why I will never, EVER be a landlord. I'd end up murdering my tenants if they pulled shit like that.

I pay someone else to manage the property to avoid those headaches.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 04, 2013 07:43 PM (lr3d7)

481 The old Packard Factory is still available in Detroit. Could make a redoubt of it.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 04, 2013 07:43 PM (l3vZN)

482 454 So, we heard that you are all looking for some cheap landÂ… Posted by: Fukushima Chamber of Commerce at August 04, 2013 11:34 PM (Vk2pI) Lot healthier than the barrel.

Posted by: RWC - Team Mace FTW at August 04, 2013 07:43 PM (8FeS+)

483 Don't you get it Flatbush Joe? If you support institutions just for men, you are a chauvinist. I got called that yesterday for saying that the Citadel should have stayed men-only.

By a "conservative".

But you could have guessed that.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 04, 2013 07:43 PM (d7tB2)

484 Finds that Chilean island on map. Its in the Roaring 40s and south of Santiago. Um pass.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 07:43 PM (0WdQr)

485 Lot healthier than the barrel. Posted by: RWC - Team Mace FTW at August 04, 2013 11:43 PM (8FeS+) The Barrel actually owns a vacation property in Fukushima.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:44 PM (CA2NO)

486 HMMM, Johnny football is in deep shit. Made 5 figures signing autographs.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at August 04, 2013 07:44 PM (XIxXP)

487 478 I'm thinking a couple of hundred acres of Detroit could be had pretty cheap.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 11:40 PM (aDwsi)

There be some mighty fine hobo huntin' in them thar ruins.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 04, 2013 11:42 PM (CA2NO)

It's liike those cycles of nature, where one species follows another.

First comes the Leftists to reduce a productive city into ruins, which draws the hobos, after which comes the Morons who hunt the hobos, which then opens up the ruins for ...

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 07:45 PM (Dscv4)

488 I'd need a couple ironclad guarantees before I ever took any part of Detroit. I get control of that which I take over and no debt assumption.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 07:45 PM (GEICT)

489 487 Lot healthier than the barrel. Posted by: RWC - Team Mace FTW at August 04, 2013 11:43 PM (8FeS+) The Barrel actually owns a vacation property in Fukushima. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 04, 2013 11:44 PM (CA2NO) When the Barrel fucks up, it goes in the Cooling Tower!

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 07:45 PM (doBIb)

490 >>You know what? I'm ok with that. Requiring the users of ahighway to pay a toll is perfectly reasonable.

The Mass Turnpike Authority is an example of what is wrong with toll roads. Thesy set up tolls to pay for the road, with the stipulation that once the road was paid off the tolls would go away. It should have been paid off sometime during the 70's. But, being MA, the MTA became the place where friends of the Governor went, and they earn crazy salaries (even their secretaries make crazy money). The MTA continues to find new ways to go into dept just so that they can continue to exist, even when it means going into debt to build spiffy buildings next to the tolls for the benefit of the toll collectors (who would be unnecessary if not for the debt).

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2013 07:45 PM (Lhux0)

491 Chile is pretty darned fantastic. Like the way California used to be. Posted by: navybrat at August 04, 2013 11:41 PM (isH/7 Your welcome.

Posted by: Augusto Pinochet at August 04, 2013 07:45 PM (Vk2pI)

492 Finds that Chilean island on map. Its in the Roaring 40s and south of Santiago. Even more south? I love the tropics!

Posted by: Joey the Biden at August 04, 2013 07:45 PM (FcR7P)

493 A bunch more colleges would have hockey teams, except thanks to Title 9 they have to have a women's team, too. Which pretty much doubles the cost without bringing in any additional revenue since only the girl's parents will pay to watch them play.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 07:46 PM (ZPrif)

494 Extremely private setting with excellent hunting opportunities.

And I'm guessing that they're pretty flexible as to who exactly will be the "hunter" in those opportunities.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 04, 2013 07:47 PM (d7tB2)

495 435 I'm neither for or against toll roads. It's just a reality that states are having increasing difficulty affording to maintain their existing road network, let alone build new roads. As the EPA forces higher fuel mileage on cars, gas tax revenue is declining per mile driven. And electric cars don't pay gas taxes at all. The gas tax was originally supposed to be the use fee. But the linkage is breaking. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 11:28 PM (ZPrif) There was enough money in the highway funds, but they renamed them "transportation funds" and transfered the money from roads to airports, seaports, bus stations, choo choo trains, subways, and bike paths. When they ran low on money, they blamed the shortfalls on "sprawl".

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 04, 2013 07:47 PM (BXLPR)

496 "I don't want to wake up hearing that San Francisco is a smoking crater."

If SF ever gets nuked by the Religion of Peace or by anyone else, my goal afterward is to evade the perimeter cordon and get close enough to the blast center to be able to salvage one of those dopey "COEXIST" bumper stickers that the SF proglodytes love so much.

Flash-burned and curling at the corners and having to be kept for safety in a leaded-glass box with the Geiger counter nearby.

It'll take a couple of years off my life but the rest of my family will have an heirloom.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 04, 2013 07:47 PM (gqT4g)

497 As Joycelyn Elders said: "we all will probably die with something". Out in the desert there is hantavirus, and occasionally a critter with plague.

Posted by: SpongeBob ReaverSaget at August 04, 2013 07:47 PM (kxSZr)

498 A bunch more colleges would have hockey teams, except thanks to Title 9 they have to have a women's team, too. Which pretty much doubles the cost without bringing in any additional revenue since only the girl's parents will pay to watch them play. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 11:46 PM (ZPrif) As the father of daughters I am conflicted about this. My real feeling is that all sports other than intermurals should be banned from college and force the pro sports to run ther own farm teams.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at August 04, 2013 07:48 PM (XIxXP)

499 I'd need a couple ironclad guarantees before I ever took any part of Detroit.

I get control of that which I take over and no debt assumption. Posted by: BCochran1981
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I think the catch is like the comment above (Oldsailor?) about the house that had to be tented, i.e., you would have to tent the entire acreage.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 07:49 PM (aDwsi)

500 I looked this up once, but the average Div1 women's head coach makes like $200k/yr. And the avg Div1 women's team loses like $500k/yr.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 07:49 PM (ZPrif)

501 Ok, dumbass when it comes to real estate but I know there is a downside to buying property in Detroit. What is it? (Besides the obvious) Say I bought a block of houses - do I own the land as well?

Posted by: RWC - Team Mace FTW at August 04, 2013 07:50 PM (8FeS+)

502 Ok, dumbass when it comes to real estate but I know there is a downside to buying property in Detroit. What is it? (Besides the obvious) There is a reason they call something obvious.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at August 04, 2013 07:51 PM (XIxXP)

503 Ok, I see that my question has already been asked.

Posted by: RWC - Team Mace FTW at August 04, 2013 07:51 PM (8FeS+)

504 As the father of daughters I am conflicted about this. My real feeling is that all sports other than intermurals should be banned from college and force the pro sports to run ther own farm teams.
Posted by: Oldsailors
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That. 100%. MIT gets along fairly well without intercollegiate sports.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 07:51 PM (aDwsi)

505 Ok, dumbass when it comes to real estate but I know there is a downside to buying property in Detroit. What is it? (Besides the obvious) Say I bought a block of houses - do I own the land as well? Posted by: RWC - Team Mace FTW at August 04, 2013 11:50 PM (8FeS+) Why, hello there!

Posted by: Eminent Domain at August 04, 2013 07:51 PM (Vk2pI)

506 All these $1 houses come with hefty back tax bills, for start. and all of them have been stripped of any metal...and not in a conscientious manner, either.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 04, 2013 07:51 PM (l3vZN)

507 I think each college should be able to field as many or as few teams as they want. I think the Feds should stay the hell out of it. It's not a federal concern.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 07:52 PM (ZPrif)

508 I think the catch is like the comment above (Oldsailor?) about the house that had to be tented, i.e., you would have to tent the entire acreage. Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 11:49 PM (aDwsi) I would buy blocks at a time, not houses, it they gave me those two stipulations.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 07:52 PM (GEICT)

509 As the father of daughters I am conflicted about this. My real feeling is that all sports other than intermurals should be banned from college and force the pro sports to run ther own farm teams. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at August 04, 2013 11:48 PM (XIxXP) The thing that aggravates me is that college athletics, like athletics in any level of schooling, should not be the defining characteristic of the school nor of the students. You go to school to learn something. If you happen to be very good at a sport, that's great. If you're good enough at it that you earn a scholarship, that's even better. But please note that an athletic scholarship is just that -- a SCHOLARSHIP. You are going to college on the strength of your athletic ability, but it is called a SCHOLARSHIP for a reason. As soon as a college becomes known more for its athletic program than the quality of its graduates, I throw up my hands in frustration.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:53 PM (CA2NO)

510 I know there is a downside to buying property in Detroit. What is it? You are subject to the whims of the Detroit city gov't, and to the whims of each union: police, fire, garbage, transport, roads, etc. They will be negotiating with each other over your money. I haven't even gotten to your new neighbors...

Posted by: t-bird at August 04, 2013 07:53 PM (FcR7P)

511 THere's no need for Feds to ban college sports. Or regulate them in anyway.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 04, 2013 07:53 PM (ZPrif)

512 All these $1 houses come with hefty back tax bills, for start. and all of them have been stripped of any metal...and not in a conscientious manner, either. Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 04, 2013 11:51 PM (l3vZN) You might as well build an outdoor meat market on the Serengeti.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at August 04, 2013 07:54 PM (XIxXP)

513 Ok, dumbass when it comes to real estate but I know there is a downside to buying property in Detroit. What is it? (Besides the obvious)

Say I bought a block of houses - do I own the land as well?>>

To make them salable/rent able. The cost of Kevlar wallpaper amd bulletproof windows is cost prohibitive.

Posted by: McGregor at August 04, 2013 07:54 PM (qo244)

514 Detroit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCT_g_n61gY

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 04, 2013 07:54 PM (l3vZN)

515 You would have to be completely out of your skull to buy a house or a block in Detroit. For one thing, there is no way you could defend it, no one to put your house out when it is on fire, no cops to do anything other than draw your chalk outline around your lifeless corpse, followed by fucking up the paperwork later.

Try again.

Posted by: navybrat at August 04, 2013 07:55 PM (isH/7)

516 Might as well buy outright at least 10 blocks of Detroit. Throw up walls and gates around your zone. Then rent it out for people playing survival games or when SyFy needs cheap external sets for monster/disaster flick.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 07:56 PM (0WdQr)

517 Time to euthanize Detroit: http://tinyurl.com/afvrenr

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 04, 2013 07:57 PM (Vk2pI)

518 I know there is a downside to buying property in Detroit. What is it? You are buying property in Detroit. That means that you will be paying taxes and fees to the city of Detroit. that means that you will be one of the few solvent individuals who can actually support the city's collapsing leviathan of government workers and union thieves. That means your bank account will be emptied faster than you can say Jack Robinson as they bleed you dry of every red cent.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 07:57 PM (CA2NO)

519

Sorry, but Jonah Goldberg completely beclowns himself there. Clinton (Bill) was a masterful politician? Really? Mr 43% in a 3-way election stumbles around with idiotic ideas, helps his party get clobbered and lose the House for the first time since he was born, and pathetically mumbles at a press conference that "the president is still relevant"? Oh - and then the internet economy boom (and bubble) occurs, while he stands there wondering what it's all about, and he's a fucking genius? Only worthwhile thing he ever did was succumb, finally and pathetically, to GOP insistence that the immoral catastrophe of welfare be reformed. (OK, he did right on NAFTA, and actually had to break a sweat to do something - but even Carter had airline and gas de-regulation - so even the worst presidents get ONE thing right)

Policy "wonk"? Are you fucking kidding? Oh, compared to the absurd affirmative-action non-entity ignoramus now "president", perhaps - but compared to an intelligent person? How so?

Oh, and as a statesman, he "fathered" the obviously disastrous, unworkable, and unwise Oslo nonsense, and after the theretofore biggest domestic terrorist event in US history, absurdly and outrageously slanders political talk radio as the cause?

His "wife"? Are you kidding? She's actually no more mediocre and pathetic than he - it's just that people for reasons beyond understanding are "charmed" by Bill's micron-deep undergraduate grifting act. whereas Hillary is so arrogant and dim and clumsy that she beclowns herself nearly continuously.

Obama? Are you kidding? A "talented" politician? Examples of his political talent? A degraded, dumbed-down, racist, narcissism-worshipping husk of a country disgracefully throws its panties and hotel room key on the stage of an uninteresting, unaccomplished, nasty, clumsy, inarticulate, uneducated, astonishingly unwordly little creature raised in the cretinous and despicable swamps of left-wing racist soft fascism? Talent? When, where?

As I've said before, it's not just the politicians, and civil servants, and journalists that are sub-mediocre (and getting worse fast) - it's the pundits, too. They were mostly unreadably superficial or clueless 25 years ago - now they're as dumb, and arrogant, as the typical successful Beltway mediocrity.

Posted by: non-purist at August 04, 2013 07:57 PM (afQnV)

520 397 @kbdabear

I've encouraged my kids to be NYGiants fans to break the cycle. I will never buy them Yankee apparel though. Posted by: McCool at August 04, 2013 11:14 PM

You know the pain of watching a team that can't score lose Wright to a hammy, then watch them call up Baxter who can't hit when you wanted them to call up Wilmer Flores

The same pain repeats for the Jets when you know that no matter how much Capt Buttfumble sucks in the preseason, Rex will start him in the opener and every game unless he gets murdered out there by a blitzing linebacker.

Take this to the bank; Santonio Holmes won't play before November if he plays at all this year. Not like it mattered since Buttfumble would suck even if he had Calvin Hill, Andre Johnson, and Victor Cruz to pass to

Posted by: kbdabear at August 04, 2013 07:57 PM (/9IC1)

521 Gibbon's description of 6th century Rome makes what the Goths and Vandals did seem like a paradise: Â“Survey the other hills of the city, the vacant space is interrupted only by ruins and gardens. The forum of the Roman people, where they assembled to enact their laws and elect their magistrates, is now enclosed for the cultivation of pot-herbs, or thrown open for the reception of swine and buffaloes. The public and private edifices, that were founded for eternity, lie prostrate, naked, and broken, like the limbs of a mighty giant; and the ruin is the more visible, from the stupendous relics that have survived the injuries of time and fortune.Â”

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 04, 2013 07:58 PM (Vk2pI)

522 Gotta watch out for the wild dogs too, eh, MWR?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 04, 2013 08:00 PM (l3vZN)

523 To make them salable/rent able. The cost of Kevlar wallpaper amd bulletproof windows is cost prohibitive. Posted by: McGregor at August 04, 2013 11:54 PM (qo244) Oh, i don't care if it's livable. There won't be houses, just want the land.

Posted by: RWC - Team Mace FTW at August 04, 2013 08:00 PM (8FeS+)

524 Moved from bad book to bad movie. The movie at least offers come comedic reprieve

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 08:00 PM (GEICT)

525 Oh, i don't care if it's livable. There won't be houses, just want the land. The hell for? It's Detroit!

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 08:00 PM (doBIb)

526 #492 Lizzy, they did the same damn thing here with the Mid-Bay Bridge toll. As soon as it was paid off they began a new building project to keep the tolls going and then abandoned the upgrade for a re-route. The toll was originally $1.00 - now it's $3.00. I hate tolls.

Posted by: rabidfox at August 04, 2013 08:01 PM (Gejy0)

527 "'So, we heard that you are all looking for some cheap land?' Posted by: Fukushima Chamber Of Commerce"

If there's ever a nuclear plant meltdown somewhere that I'd like to live -- unlikely on multiple counts -- I'd be all over buying a great big swathe of contaminated land and living on it. After the first few months and the decay of the hottest isotopes, it's just not that big an issue any longer.

I would not have been volunteering to be on the Chernobyl first responder crew, picking up pieces of glowing hot fuel rods in my hands and tossing them over the edge of the reactor hall roof. But I wouldn't be especially alarmed about living in Pripyat today, if Pripyat were a place I wanted to live. (Wouldn't want to live there even under normal conditions.)

Shit, there are elderly Belorussian babushkas living in little cottages in the woods around Pripyat right now. But guess what? No rude young punks show up to steal their stuff, which is what happens to elderly babushkas all the time in most of the rest of that part of the world.

Think of living in a fallout zone as the ne plus ultra of "get off my lawn".

The San Onofre plant north of San Diego just got scheduled for an early decommissioning. A damned shame. I would have been up for spending my golden years sitting on the beach in northern San Diego County. Putting up big warning signs with radiation trefoils and skulls and crossbones, warning outsiders that they'll die in hours if they trespass.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 04, 2013 08:01 PM (gqT4g)

528 Oh, i don't care if it's livable. There won't be houses, just want the land.>>

To do what with that will be more profitable than the taxes?

Posted by: McGregor at August 04, 2013 08:01 PM (qo244)

529 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 04, 2013 11:57 PM (CA2NO) And that is the downside.

Posted by: RWC - Team Mace FTW at August 04, 2013 08:01 PM (8FeS+)

530 The problem with detroit property is you can't afford the taxes. It's a tax hell which is why everyone left. That and the killin.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at August 04, 2013 08:01 PM (XIxXP)

531 To do what with that will be more profitable than the taxes? Posted by: McGregor at August 05, 2013 12:01 AM (qo244) Nothing I guess. I was living in fantasyland.

Posted by: RWC - Team Mace FTW at August 04, 2013 08:03 PM (8FeS+)

532 532 The problem with detroit property is you can't afford the taxes. It's a tax hell which is why everyone left. That and the killin. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at August 05, 2013 12:01 AM (XIxXP) How do the people still remaining in Detroit manage to stay?

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2013 08:03 PM (doBIb)

533 OCP has to start somewhere....

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 08:03 PM (GEICT)

534 How do the people still remaining in Detroit manage to stay? Posted by: EC at August 05, 2013 12:03 AM (doBIb) Welfare.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at August 04, 2013 08:04 PM (XIxXP)

535 464 Tierra del Fuego is ~~fantastic~~ en fuegothis time of the year.... fixt

Posted by: Anachronda at August 04, 2013 08:04 PM (U82Km)

536 I remember last year turning down a road near some abandoned projects near Greektown in Detroit. I did a hurried turnabout because the road was covered with bums, sunning themselves on the pavement. There must have been a score of them, like seals.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 04, 2013 08:05 PM (l3vZN)

537 527 Oh, i don't care if it's livable. There won't be houses, just want the land. The hell for? It's Detroit! Posted by: EC at August 05, 2013 12:00 AM (doBIb) Because they built this city They built this city They built this city on ROCK. AND. ROLL.

Posted by: RWC - Team Mace FTW at August 04, 2013 08:05 PM (8FeS+)

538 My first apartment was on the second floor of a converted house. It was an old building dating from around 1920, and, honestly, it was kind of a dump. But my landlady did the best she could keeping it in good repair. Neither one of us was rich. I'm not handy at all with home repairs, so there wasn't much I could do in that respect. I mowed the lawn, and when the place got infested with mice, I tracked down the opening where they were getting in and installed a piece of screen which solved the problem. Of course I always paid my rent on time. She called me a "dream tenant" and every Christmas sent me a card and a tin of homemade cookies. She said that I treated the place as if it were my own, which I took as a great compliment. I lived there for seven years, and was kind of sad to move out, since I had gotten used to the building's flaws and eccentricities, and had such a good relationship with the landlady.

Posted by: rickl at August 04, 2013 08:05 PM (sdi6R)

539 That and the killin. Posted by: Oldsailors
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Well..., there were the roaches also...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 08:05 PM (aDwsi)

540 Buy land in Detroit.
Secede from Detroit.
Profit.

Posted by: Bomber at August 04, 2013 08:06 PM (+Wfbd)

541 There are some beautiful neighborhoods still left, and the architecture is spectacular. But it is risky, for one abandoned house can start the sudden decline.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 04, 2013 08:07 PM (l3vZN)

542 Wild dogs or politicians/residents in Detroit, is there a difference?

At night the stray dogs invaded the city. Hundreds and hundreds of dogs who taking advantage of the people's fear poured through the deserted streets, the empty squares, the abandoned alleys, and where they came from nobody knew because during the day they never appeared. Perhaps during the day they hid in the rubble, inside the cellars of the shattered houses, in the sewers among the rats, or perhaps they did not exist because they weren't dogs but ghosts of dogs who materialized with the darkness to imitate the men who killed them. Like men they divided into bands consumed by hate, like men they wanted only to tear each other to pieces, and the monotonous rite always took place under the same pretext: the conquest of a sidewalk made precious by food scraps and scum.

- pg 1. Inshallah. Oriana Fallaci. 1992

City she was describing was Beirut.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 08:07 PM (0WdQr)

543 Ah. We've hit on something. Lobby Oblamer to spend the $2 billion for land purchases in Detroit. Give it to the Indians. Win/win.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 08:08 PM (aDwsi)

544 How do the people still remaining in Detroit manage to stay?>>

Detroit realizes they can't get blood from a stone. So it is likely a kind of tax amnesty for those single houses that quit paying and stay. But If they thought you were a milking cow the would go for it.

Posted by: McGregor at August 04, 2013 08:08 PM (qo244)

545 373 The official sport of Peruvia - cosplay http://www.ufunk.net/japon/51-cosplay-sexy-et-colores/ now *there's* a spectator sport i can get behind. perhaps we can start a fantasy cosplay league?

Posted by: Anachronda at August 04, 2013 08:09 PM (U82Km)

546 Ah. We've hit on something. Lobby Oblamer to spend the $2 billion for land purchases in Detroit. Give it to the Indians. Win/win. Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 05, 2013 12:08 AM (aDwsi) The 1/64th indians will build casinos, buy the rest out for a couple thou which will be quickly spent on meth and fire water.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at August 04, 2013 08:09 PM (XIxXP)

547 >>rabidfox at August 05, 2013 12:01 AM (Gejy0)

Exactly - Tolls exist to get money to sustain the bureaucracy that mans and manages the toll booths. They may fund other things, too - when I lived in MA you could always count on the MTA to have its plows out as soon as the first snowflake was spotted. The MTA makes sure they spend your money in ways that make you think you couldn't survive without them.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2013 08:12 PM (Lhux0)

548 Ah. We've hit on something. Lobby Oblamer to spend the $2 billion for land purchases in Detroit. Give it to the Indians. Win/win.>>

They have tribes already in that state which have good lawyers so no this wont work.

Posted by: McGregor at August 04, 2013 08:13 PM (qo244)

549 Good night everyone.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 04, 2013 08:13 PM (l3vZN)

550 Good night everyone. Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 05, 2013 12:13 AM (l3vZN) G'night Jinxy.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at August 04, 2013 08:13 PM (XIxXP)

551 Gotta watch out for the wild dogs too, eh, MWR? Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 05, 2013 12:00 AM (l3vZN) Of course! But don't let go of that shopping cart full of scrap metal. That stuff's worth it's weight in gold!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 08:15 PM (CA2NO)

552 527 Oh, i don't care if it's livable. There won't be houses, just want the land.

The hell for? It's Detroit!

Posted by: EC at August 05, 2013 12:00 AM (doBIb)

Escape From Detroit: A Documentary

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 04, 2013 08:15 PM (sQ0LB)

553 Posted by: RWC - Team Mace FTW at August 04, 2013 11:50 PM (8FeS+) Ok, dumbass when it comes to real estate but I know there is a downside to buying property in Detroit. What is it? (Besides the obvious) Say I bought a block of houses - do I own the land as well? Many years ago, I lived very near the corner of 10 Mile Rd and Van Dyke. I spent some time in the area. The land is relatively flat, and is mostly reasonably good farmland that was changed to suburban housing. In some cases, it was very heavy industry, but the ruins are still there. Telling the difference is usually very easy. One problem with the "housing" areas is that, legend has it, starting in the 70's, but maybe sooner, workers who wanted to make a couple of extra bucks and/or get in good with the boss, would dispose of "things" in their backyard. These "things" were usually a barrel or 4 of chemicals. Since people in the area were not changing homes very often, this was not a problem. And even if they did change homes, no one told. It might be a problem now ... not that you want to farm the land, but that tests might detect the stuff, or it might show up later as genetic defects or cancer ... Tests are better, but there's a cost ... and a cleanup cost. Then there are the people. To really change the reality of Detroit government, the locals will have to start believing and behaving differently. Very probably, a lot of them see reality and have religion now, and will like you a lot ... will "a lot" be enough? Buying is easy, selling is tough. Check the tax rates. Can you walk away; more specifically, if you walk away, how far can Detroit pursue your money? The murder rate there is ... non-trivial. The article yesterday notwithstanding, coming back to life is real tough.

Posted by: Arbalest at August 04, 2013 08:15 PM (FlRtG)

554 Yup. It's late.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 04, 2013 08:15 PM (aDwsi)

555 Nite Jinx

Anachronda lol

And now got an inkling of getting the story rolling.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 08:17 PM (0WdQr)

556 A preview of the Discovery Channel's fall fare, McCreary's Gold Snatched from Hatfield M.C. Coy's False Teeth:

The Two Ronnies sketch (ends at 29:33)

http://youtu.be/ZSfiD4IKfF8?t=25m30s

Posted by: wtfl at August 04, 2013 08:17 PM (tgvJj)

557 Biggest reason to not save Detroit even if it's profitable. FUCK THEM.

Posted by: McGregor at August 04, 2013 08:19 PM (qo244)

558 Night all. Here is "Warp Rider" from The Sword: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2SCIoq0VX4

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 04, 2013 08:20 PM (Vk2pI)

559 Here ya go EC. How Marilyn Monroe told Jackie about her affair with JFK.
http://tinyurl.com/nbkwl3q

Or perhaps this one -
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/selection-du-weekend-47-32.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 08:20 PM (0WdQr)

560 Good night, Jinx!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 08:20 PM (CA2NO)

561 532 The problem with detroit property is you can't afford the taxes. It's a tax hell which is why everyone left. That and the killin.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at August 05, 2013 12:01 AM (XIxXP)

The problem with Detroit property is the powers that be drove it from prosperity to despair with stupidity, and won't sell it without the stupidity still attached.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 08:22 PM (T1005)

562 All right, folks. Time for me to be heading off to bed. See you all daywalking!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 04, 2013 08:22 PM (CA2NO)

563 OK, I'm out took my daughters to see The Band Perry at the Jackson County Fair this evening. I knew next to nothing about the band prior to tonight; they put on a great show. If their tour is anywhere near you, go see them. Even if you don't like "country" acts, go see them. They did a rollicking cover of Queen's Fat-Bottomed Girls that brought the house down. tomorrow night, mi amigos

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 04, 2013 08:24 PM (JMmQ9)

564 night folks

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 04, 2013 08:26 PM (GEICT)

565 So, the chatter from AQ is so serious that all the MENA embassies have to be closed and TFG has to go golfing?

Other intel agencies said that AQ was talking about this brazenly even though they knew they were being watched

Makes me think the scenario in Heat where Neil sets up a phony heist plan near a scrapyard in order to draw the detectives into the open is in play here

Posted by: kbdabear at August 04, 2013 08:26 PM (/9IC1)

566 Probably should bail. And do some writing.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 04, 2013 08:26 PM (0WdQr)

567 I have seen on PBS stories about Nixon and the Vietnam war popping up lately. All forced to make the wrong lesson.

I get the feeling they don't get what the quote "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
- Winston Churchill"
Means

Posted by: McGregor at August 04, 2013 08:27 PM (qo244)

568 People bail out as if they had jobs around here.

How quaint.

Posted by: wtfl at August 04, 2013 08:28 PM (tgvJj)

569 Probably should bail. And do some writing. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 05, 2013 12:26 AM (0WdQr) You go girl. Goodnight rons.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at August 04, 2013 08:29 PM (XIxXP)

570 ESPN clutching their pearls with "what about the CHILLLDRENNN" with A-Hole-Rod

They listen to rap, hear about sex nonstop on prime time tv, and hear Katy Perry sing about the joys of getting drunk and fucking whomever is nearby

The horse left long ago and the barn is on fire, ladies

Posted by: kbdabear at August 04, 2013 08:29 PM (/9IC1)

571 Or as I like to put it: "Those of us who do remember history are condemned to repeat it anyway because those who don't are in the majority."

Posted by: rickl at August 04, 2013 08:30 PM (sdi6R)

572 Another Rail Disaster caused by Global Warming as the epidemic continues. This one is in Louisiana and leaking chemicals. Graphs don't lie my friends.

Posted by: Organic Non-GMO Free Range Hate at August 04, 2013 08:30 PM (+Ps3k)

573 Ya'll are really putting me off of buying my own city dammit.

Posted by: RWC - Team Mace FTW at August 04, 2013 08:31 PM (8FeS+)

574 ESPN clutching their pearls with "what about the CHILLLDRENNN" with A-Hole-Rod

They listen to rap, hear about sex nonstop on prime time tv, and hear Katy Perry sing about the joys of getting drunk and fucking whomever is nearby

The horse left long ago and the barn is on fire, ladies>>

There is a money source here to drain from so it will continue.

Posted by: McGregor at August 04, 2013 08:31 PM (qo244)

575 568 Probably should bail. And do some writing.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 05, 2013 12:26 AM (0WdQr)

If you're looking for cat rotation material, here's another webcomic with foxgirl:
http://kitsune.rydia.net/comic.html

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 04, 2013 08:32 PM (Dscv4)

576 If Riley Cooper plays and the crowd loudly cheered him, Roger Goodell, ESPN, and every elitist lefty in the MSM would shit enough bricks to rebuild Detroit all the way out to Ann Arbor

Posted by: kbdabear at August 04, 2013 08:33 PM (/9IC1)

577 HMMM, Johnny football is in deep shit. Made 5 figures signing autographs.

So, straight to the NFL. Spend the next six months working out with QB coaches on an advance from an agent.

Posted by: Jean at August 04, 2013 08:35 PM (CMlD4)

578 Anyone think that ESPN would be clutching their pearls over Johnny Manziel if he was a black QB who sold his autograph for some cash?

Posted by: kbdabear at August 04, 2013 08:36 PM (/9IC1)

579 Ya'll are really putting me off of buying my own city dammit.>>

Have you visited Detroit lately? Land is cheap in lots of places but if you want a city you need to draw people too it. And I'd rather live in a safe but crappy place like North Dakota where jobs are abundant. What is the draw to get people to populate your city.

Posted by: McGregor at August 04, 2013 08:36 PM (qo244)

580 Ya'll are really putting me off of buying my own city dammit.>>

But if you want a compound and can afford to build a wall Detroit may be a good option.

Posted by: McGregor at August 04, 2013 08:39 PM (qo244)

581 Looks like Rick Perry has a Clark Kent thing going on: http://tinyurl.com/ma9hygt

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 04, 2013 08:39 PM (Vk2pI)

582 Kissinger: Do you think the French Revolution was a success?

Zhou: It's too early to tell.

Wow, that sounds profound. Except we have known for at least several years that Zhou thought Kissinger was talking about the Paris student riots in 1968Â—not the Â“let them eat cake,Â” guillotine-shadowed debacle that started in 1789. Zhou was a being an evasive politician, not a profound philosopher. Yet the story is still frequently told in Washington cocktail circlesÂ—and always with the wrong context.

Posted by: Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus at August 04, 2013 08:40 PM (e8kgV)

583 "Roller" by Sasquatch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlnQu1tZ_eI

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 04, 2013 08:43 PM (Vk2pI)

584 Got an idea for those surplus MRAPs, modify the crows interface to run spotlights and lasers, lease a small lot near Detroit, then run war-zone tours at night. Profit

Posted by: Jean at August 04, 2013 08:44 PM (CMlD4)

585 Kissinger: Do you think the French Revolution was a success?

Zhou: It's too early to tell.

Wow, that sounds profound. Except we have known for at least several years that Zhou thought Kissinger was talking about the Paris student riots in 1968Â—not the Â“let them eat cake,Â” guillotine-shadowed debacle that started in 1789. Zhou was a being an evasive politician, not a profound philosopher. Yet the story is still frequently told in Washington cocktail circlesÂ—and always with the wrong context.>>

So Zhou treats history just like our politicians do. Not to learn the lessons but to draw a point that agrees with their stance.

Posted by: McGregor at August 04, 2013 08:45 PM (qo244)

586 We're from the government and we're here to help ...

But on Monday night, HillÂ’s daughter Alexandria, or Alex as they liked to call her, was rushed to a Rockdale hospital with severe head injuries, then flown to Scott and White ChildrenÂ’s Emergency Hospital in Temple and immediately placed on life support.

Alex was living with foster parents after DFPS removed her from her parent's home last November for "neglectful supervision."

Hill admits they were smoking pot when their daughter was asleep.

Â“We never hurt our daughter. She was never sick, she was never in the hospital, and she never had any issues until she went into state care.Â”

Posted by: Hannibal Lecter, M.D. at August 04, 2013 08:45 PM (e8kgV)

587 ESPN, the TV networks, and the NCAA rake in billions off of college sports who pay the athletes nothing other than a pretend college education, and they get self-righteous over some of the athletes making a little money off their work? PLEASE

When murdering thugs or dog torturing monsters get slurped with praise of "redemption" with the kiddies watching, give me a break

Posted by: kbdabear at August 04, 2013 08:47 PM (/9IC1)

588 588 Rage is my only response.

Posted by: McGregor at August 04, 2013 08:49 PM (qo244)

589 ESPN, the TV networks, and the NCAA rake in billions off of college sports who pay the athletes nothing other than a pretend college education, and they get self-righteous over some of the athletes making a little money off their work? PLEASE

If I were Johnny football - my response to the NCAA would be a quiet FYNQ. You even try to investigate me, talk to my friends, call my coach, anything -- I walk and SEC football ratings take a hit.

Posted by: Jean at August 04, 2013 08:51 PM (CMlD4)

590 Frum is still baselining the koolaid I see.

Posted by: BarakaTarkata at August 04, 2013 08:52 PM (si4cu)

591 "589 ESPN, the TV networks, and the NCAA rake in billions off of college sports who pay the athletes nothing other than a pretend college education, and they get self-righteous over some of the athletes making a little money off their work? PLEASE"

Nothing fake about me, Pal...

Posted by: Kinesiology at August 04, 2013 08:53 PM (HYFht)

592 By my reckoning, this random average late-night AoS thread has gotten about 600 comments in 3 hours and 20 minutes, which is 180+20 minutes or 200 minutes, which (halved) is 300 comments in 100 minutes, or (this is how non-math-whizzes like me do arithmetic) 3 comments in 1 minute, or 1 comment every 20 seconds. Seriously, does anyone know of any other blog (aside from HuffPo, but does that really count as a blog?) which gets this volume and rapidity of commentary? Right or left? Or even non-political? Wonder if anyone has ever done a study of comment stats on blogs. The downside to this seemingly good news is that each individual comment -- include this one right here - is thereby rendered comparatively meaningless, washed away in a sea of other comments. I've got to start commenting on silent untrafficked blogs. At least there I'd stand out.

Posted by: zombie at August 04, 2013 08:54 PM (+cx5n)

593
I've got to start commenting on silent untrafficked blogs. At least there I'd stand out.>>

The trade off of standing out is to be unread. And boobies.

Posted by: McGregor at August 04, 2013 08:57 PM (qo244)

594 .

Posted by: Masked Midnight Man at August 04, 2013 08:58 PM (Bfbpz)

595 594 zombie LGF comes to mind ... no

Posted by: Arbalest at August 04, 2013 08:58 PM (FlRtG)

596 bummer. sorry.

Posted by: Masked Midnight Man at August 04, 2013 08:58 PM (Bfbpz)

597 "The trade off of standing out is to be unread. And boobies. Posted by: McGregor" Which is better: To be worshipped by dozens, or ignored by millions?

Posted by: zombie at August 04, 2013 08:58 PM (+cx5n)

598 Kinesiology

WTF is that? All I know about it is that my brother in law has a degree in that, and he is assistant coach at USC for the big bucks.

I'm thinking it is made-up bullshit along the lines of "women's studies," where they don't study real women but just a bunch of dried up old harpies.

Posted by: tcn at August 04, 2013 08:58 PM (RnmNY)

599 from the follow-up to 588

Harris says Thursday morning, Small finally told them the truth.

"She had evidently been frustrated with the child all day long. She had... the child... had evidently gotten up before the Small's did and she had went and got into some food and some water," said Harris. "That is what Mrs. Small was initially upset with her about.... had made her stand in a dark room, according to our reports, for at least three-to-four hours, wouldn't let her sit or anything."

Then around 7:00 that night, the young child, so full of life, was knocked unconscious.

"She actually admitted that she had slung the child down on the floor," said Harris.

Small told investigators she raised the toddler over her head and slung her down toward the floor twice.

"On the third time down she said she lost her grip and dropped the child. Slammed the child down on the floor," explained Harris.

Harris says Small's husband, who wasn't home when the incident happened, became emotional and even cried when talking to police. But not Small.

"I did not see a whole lot of remorse. I think it's more like a lot of times these people's, they're sorry that they're in trouble. This is the sense that I get. It's still about them, it's not really remorse about the child. I never got that feeling," added Harris.

The Small's had another foster child who is eight-months-old. That child has been removed.

Police say neither Small or her husband had jobs, but were instead planning to foster between five and six children as a source of income.

Small is in the Milam County Jail. Her bond has been set at $100,000.

I hope they don't run out of death juice before her spot in the queue comes due.

Posted by: Jean at August 04, 2013 08:59 PM (CMlD4)

600 (try again) It's midnight in the middle of America and that means it's time for the... oh, forget it.

Posted by: Masked Midnight Man at August 04, 2013 09:01 PM (Bfbpz)

601 Wait, THAT zombie?

Posted by: Lewis at August 04, 2013 09:01 PM (UB1pV)

602 zombie, its 0100 for me - anywhere else on the internet this active at this hour probably puts me in marriage counseling

Posted by: Jean at August 04, 2013 09:02 PM (CMlD4)

603 So, at what point are charges discussed? You know, the I word?

Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula_51 at August 04, 2013 09:04 PM (HkQRm)

604 Which is better: To be worshipped by dozens, or ignored by millions?>>

That depends on it what you post will get you SWATed. I know no one notices me cause my posts are responses to others thoughts. If you get noticed for being a threat it probably doesn't matter where you post it.

Posted by: McGregor at August 04, 2013 09:04 PM (qo244)

605

I'm thinking Braveheart-style execution is warranted for Ms. Small.

Also, nobody makes money as a foster parent if they're doing it right--that should have been a tremendous red flag to children's services right there.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 04, 2013 09:05 PM (sQ0LB)

606 589 ESPN, the TV networks, and the NCAA rake in billions off of college sports who pay the athletes nothing other than a pretend college education, and they get self-righteous over some of the athletes making a little money off their work? PLEASE When murdering thugs or dog torturing monsters get slurped with praise of "redemption" with the kiddies watching, give me a break Posted by: kbdabear at August 05, 2013 12:47 AM (/9IC1) Thus the reason the big 5 conferences are going to push the "D4" classification. Under that, each college athlete will get some sort of stipend, even the members of the cross country team. If the NCAA doesn't go along with it, the ACC, Big10, Big12, SEC and PAC12 will walk and form their own organization. At that point, the NCAA becomes a shell of its former self.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 04, 2013 09:05 PM (BXLPR)

607 Paul Robeson's "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"

http://youtu.be/sI0eIo7gI3Y

Posted by: wtfl at August 04, 2013 09:06 PM (tgvJj)

608 zombie, its also cool to see someone on the interwebs from five plus years ago. Alot of LGF's end up here

Posted by: Jean at August 04, 2013 09:06 PM (CMlD4)

609 Seriously, you guys. I have come to oppose weasels, weiners, trolls, hobos and commies, and fight for truth, justice, and... wait, what boobies? I didn't see any boobies except the cosplay jailbait's.

Posted by: Masked Midnight Man at August 04, 2013 09:06 PM (7KxSm)

610 Which is better: To be worshipped by dozens, or ignored by millions? Posted by: zombie at August 05, 2013 12:58 AM (+cx5n) Depends. Do I get to pick the dozens?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 09:07 PM (qyfb5)

611 Does this cape look ghey?

Posted by: Masked Midnight Man at August 04, 2013 09:08 PM (7KxSm)

612 Sixteen tons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfp2O9ADwGk

Posted by: McGregor at August 04, 2013 09:08 PM (qo244)

613 Good evening, Horde. I have a final in the morning, and should be asleep. Stop being interesting.

Posted by: Gingy at August 04, 2013 09:08 PM (aH+zP)

614 Oh, and WRITE, ANNA, WRITE!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 09:10 PM (qyfb5)

615 My arch-nemesii are threatening to wreck havok. Does that seem cliched?

Posted by: Masked Midnight Man at August 04, 2013 09:13 PM (7KxSm)

616 615 Good evening, Horde. I have a final in the morning, and should be asleep. Stop being interesting. Posted by: Gingy at August 05, 2013 01:08 AM (aH+zP) I like grey. And vanilla. Puse is a tacky color. I wish I had more money. Let me tell you about my role-playing game collection.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 09:13 PM (qyfb5)

617 Good evening, Horde. I have a final in the morning, and should be asleep. Stop being interesting.>>

Good luck with the test but some of my best test results came from taking the test so tired I couldn't look for the tricks they rarely put in them.

Posted by: McGregor at August 04, 2013 09:14 PM (qo244)

618 OH NO! I KILLED THE BLOG! (crawls off in shame, opens the lead-lined box with the white kryptonite...)

Posted by: Masked Midnight Man at August 04, 2013 09:15 PM (7KxSm)

619 Zombie, Glad to see you here. Your site is one that I point people to when I want them to see what is really going on "behind the scenes" with the lefties!

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 04, 2013 09:17 PM (BXLPR)

620 (realize I'm not kryptonian, go on home to Uncle Ben and Auntie Em.)

Posted by: Masked Midnight Man at August 04, 2013 09:17 PM (7KxSm)

621 OH NO! I KILLED THE BLOG! (crawls off in shame, opens the lead-lined box with the white kryptonite...)

Posted by: Masked Midnight Man at August 05, 2013 01:15 AM (7KxSm)>>

Oh crap we have someone new that thinks they have way more power than they actually have.

Posted by: McGregor at August 04, 2013 09:18 PM (qo244)

622 Oh crap we have someone new that thinks they have way more power than they actually have. Posted by: McGregor at August 05, 2013 01:18 AM (qo244) So today ends in a "y" is what you're saying.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 04, 2013 09:23 PM (qyfb5)

623 Good luck Gingy.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 04, 2013 09:24 PM (sQ0LB)

624

And props to zombie--those deep cover videos/pics are something to behold.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 04, 2013 09:26 PM (sQ0LB)

625 Tantalizing cleavage that leads to a c-section scar, that letter "Y".

Posted by: wtfl at August 04, 2013 09:27 PM (tgvJj)

626 OK, I'm out. A new work week approaches. Hi, zombie. Yes, there are lots of great blogs that get little traffic. More than I have time to read, but I do the best I can.

Posted by: rickl at August 04, 2013 09:32 PM (sdi6R)

627 Odetta "The Ballad of John Henry"

http://youtu.be/RBE3vAfYj0M

Damn you, Steampunks.

Posted by: wtfl at August 04, 2013 09:37 PM (tgvJj)

628 oh shit, Adam Baldwin in talks to lend his voice to the WarMachine videogame

Posted by: The Dude at August 04, 2013 09:38 PM (vJdyz)

629 630 oh shit, Adam Baldwin in talks to lend his voice to the WarMachine videogame Posted by: The Dude at August 05, 2013 01:38 AM (vJdyz) Man talk about a downgrade. From superman and the green lantern to tony stark's sloppy seconds.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 04, 2013 09:46 PM (rdj52)

630 A cat eating corn: http://tinyurl.com/mrff5wk

Posted by: The Political Corn at August 04, 2013 09:47 PM (Vk2pI)

631 Man talk about a downgrade. From superman and the green lantern to tony stark's sloppy seconds.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 05, 2013 01:46 AM (rdj52)

not that WarMachine but rather an upcoming videogame adapation of the WarMachine boardgame

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/409030043/warmachine-tactics

Posted by: The Dude at August 04, 2013 09:48 PM (vJdyz)

632 Zombie,

I don't want you to stand out. Your one value is your anonymity... and your intelligent commentary! Your two values are...

I remember you from the Small Verdant Sports Equipment days.

I appreciate having you around here.

Posted by: Bobymandius Destroyer of Threads at August 04, 2013 09:56 PM (eGb5D)

633 WTF is that? All I know about it is that my brother in law has a degree in that, and he is assistant coach at USC for the big bucks.

I'm thinking it is made-up bullshit along the lines of "women's studies," where they don't study real women but just a bunch of dried up old harpies.

Posted by: tcn at August 05, 2013 12:58 AM (RnmNY)

Kinesiology is the science of understanding how muscles and body structures work to DO work. Or sports. Basically mechanical engineering for humans.

Not inherently moonbatty, but I suppose any branch of science can be contaminated by moonbattery.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2013 09:59 PM (fNpC1)

634 When you put Barky and I together in a Frisco bathhouse it's like putting a bull and and steer together. Barky plays the steer. He squeals like a castrated bovine. He makes a top cut of rump roast! Money for nothing and your Barky for free.

Posted by: Barney F. at August 04, 2013 10:03 PM (m5Tr1)

635 the Neptunia anime has gotten better since the first two episodes

Posted by: The Dude at August 04, 2013 10:10 PM (vJdyz)

636 "Quick: Can you think of a single truly interesting thing Hillary Clinton has ever said?"

"I ain't no ways tahrd..."

Oh, wait. Someone else said it first. I guess that leaves us with:

"What difference does it make...?!"

which is terribly interesting in every way Clinton et al. wish it wasn't.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at August 04, 2013 10:13 PM (eHIJJ)

637 594 By my reckoning, this random average late-night AoS thread has gotten about 600 comments in 3 hours and 20 minutes, which is 180+20 minutes or 200 minutes, which (halved) is 300 comments in 100 minutes, or (this is how non-math-whizzes like me do arithmetic) 3 comments in 1 minute, or 1 comment every 20 seconds.

Seriously, does anyone know of any other blog (aside from HuffPo, but does that really count as a blog?) which gets this volume and rapidity of commentary? Right or left? Or even non-political?

Wonder if anyone has ever done a study of comment stats on blogs.

The downside to this seemingly good news is that each individual comment -- include this one right here - is thereby rendered comparatively meaningless, washed away in a sea of other comments.

I've got to start commenting on silent untrafficked blogs. At least there I'd stand out.

Posted by: zombie at August 05, 2013 12:54 AM (+cx5n)

Zombie, sweetheart, you stand out fine in the blogosphere.....and after all of your glorious reporting of events IRL, it's a damned good thing that you don't in-person.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 10:15 PM (T1005)

638 here is a quick review of the 3D jerk off game

http://tinyurl.com/k9o86cp

Posted by: The Dude at August 04, 2013 10:21 PM (vJdyz)

639 and no, that isn't my review

Posted by: The Dude at August 04, 2013 10:21 PM (vJdyz)

640 the Neptunia anime has gotten better since the first two episodes Posted by: The Dude at August 05, 2013 02:10 AM (vJdyz) True. Plenty of references to go around. I'm sure I'm only getting a fraction of them.

Posted by: The Neptunian Hat at August 04, 2013 10:26 PM (Vk2pI)

641

"Quick: Can you think of a single truly interesting thing Hillary Clinton has ever said?"

' I have no idea how the Rose firm billing records that have been requested for years showed up in the White House waiting room'

not a direct quote.

Posted by: spc at August 04, 2013 10:26 PM (WDovF)

642 here is a quick review of the 3D jerk off game http://tinyurl.com/k9o86cp Posted by: The Dude at August 05, 2013 02:21 AM (vJdyz) It's only a matter of time before a Fujoshi version comes outÂ… *shudders*

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 04, 2013 10:27 PM (Vk2pI)

643 640 here is a quick review of the 3D jerk off game

http://tinyurl.com/k9o86cp

Posted by: The Dude at August 05, 2013 02:21 AM (vJdyz)

I had not previously heard of that, at all -- but I can't say that I'm terribly surprised.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 10:27 PM (T1005)

644 644 here is a quick review of the 3D jerk off game

http://tinyurl.com/k9o86cp

Posted by: The Dude at August 05, 2013 02:21 AM (vJdyz)

It's only a matter of time before a Fujoshi version comes outÂ…

*shudders*

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 05, 2013 02:27 AM (Vk2pI)

Would a Fujoshi version involve......tentacles?

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 10:28 PM (T1005)

645 Wow! So this is what it's like after the Easterners go to bed....

Maybe I should move!

Posted by: Gem State-visiting Moron at August 04, 2013 10:30 PM (sAicm)

646 It's only a matter of time before a Fujoshi version comes outÂ…

*shudders*

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 05, 2013 02:27 AM (Vk2pI)

DAMN YOU PIXELATION!!!

heh

Posted by: The Dude at August 04, 2013 10:30 PM (vJdyz)

647 Would a Fujoshi version involve......tentacles?

Posted by: cthulhu at August 05, 2013 02:28 AM (T1005)

no, it involves gay dudes

Posted by: The Dude at August 04, 2013 10:31 PM (vJdyz)

648 649 Would a Fujoshi version involve......tentacles?

Posted by: cthulhu at August 05, 2013 02:28 AM (T1005)

no, it involves gay dudes

Posted by: The Dude at August 05, 2013 02:31 AM (vJdyz)

Ugh.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 10:33 PM (T1005)

649 650 649
Would a Fujoshi version involve......tentacles?

Posted by: cthulhu at August 05, 2013 02:28 AM (T1005)

no, it involves gay dudes

Posted by: The Dude at August 05, 2013 02:31 AM (vJdyz)

Ugh.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 05, 2013 02:33 AM (T1005)

How disappointing.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 10:33 PM (T1005)

650 interesting hash you have there cthulhu. Has Skynet realized that where machines fail, insanity might prevail?

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 04, 2013 10:35 PM (sQ0LB)

651 Would a Fujoshi version involve......tentacles? Posted by: cthulhu at August 05, 2013 02:28 AM (T1005) That's for the expansion packÂ…

Posted by: 政治的な帽子~です at August 04, 2013 10:36 PM (Vk2pI)

652 Here's a cosplay pic for next week's gaming thread: http://tinyurl.com/lpk8uvy

Posted by: 政治的な帽子~です at August 04, 2013 10:38 PM (Vk2pI)

653 Now I lay me down to sleep....
Have a great and productive Monday, 'rons 'n' 'ronettes!

Posted by: Gem State-visiting Moron at August 04, 2013 10:38 PM (sAicm)

654 Could anyone here honestly have a relationship with a member of the opposite sex and opposite party? it has become such a sore subject that we don't even converse about politics. After the elections of 2008, all bets are off as far as I am concerned .. I mean to where someone stands ... maybe I am just holding a huge grudge. Thoughts?

Posted by: jacksontn at August 04, 2013 10:38 PM (cCcme)

655

Posted by: 政治的な帽子~です at August 05, 2013 02:38 AM (Vk2pI)

I've posted her Kerrigan before, that girl is so fucking hot

Posted by: The Dude at August 04, 2013 10:40 PM (vJdyz)

656 652 interesting hash you have there cthulhu. Has Skynet realized that where machines fail, insanity might prevail?

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 05, 2013 02:35 AM (sQ0LB)

I have no idea what you're talking about.......*beep*

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 10:42 PM (T1005)

657 still trying to find a good non-NSFW Super Sonico cosplay photo

Posted by: The Dude at August 04, 2013 10:45 PM (vJdyz)

658 Night all (this time for totes realz). Here is the theme from Doctor Who: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75V4ClJZME4

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 04, 2013 10:46 PM (Vk2pI)

659 still trying to find a good non-NSFW Super Sonico cosplay photo Posted by: The Dude at August 05, 2013 02:45 AM (vJdyz) Might find something here: http://tinyurl.com/lc2y8bh

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 04, 2013 10:47 PM (Vk2pI)

660 656 Could anyone here honestly have a relationship with a member of the opposite sex and opposite party? it has become such a sore subject that we don't even converse about politics. After the elections of 2008, all bets are off as far as I am concerned .. I mean to where someone stands ... maybe I am just holding a huge grudge. Thoughts?

Posted by: jacksontn at August 05, 2013 02:38 AM (cCcme)

Well, considering that over half the Libertarian wing of the GOP are actually Jacksonian Democrats.....it depends on what you mean by "opposite party". If you mean the racism of Bull Connor, the race pandering of Al Sharpton, the race payoffs of Pigford, the crony thefts of Jon Corzine, the nihilistic blind worship of the nothing (BHO), the utter depravity of Pelosi, the jacking of Constitutional structure by Harry Reid.....probably not. If you mean, "my grandparents and my parents voted for Democrats because they wanted to live like they wanted and deal with others fairly" Dems.....er, maybe. But they'd either have to be really removed from things or dumb as posts to not have noticed what a cesspool the party has become.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 10:50 PM (T1005)

661 Woah! Is it that close?

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 10:50 PM (T1005)

662 Hey, kids -- what time is it?

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 10:50 PM (T1005)

663 So "Sharknado" was supposed to be released in theaters this weekend, but apparently nowhere around where I live. What's wrong with this country?! And it's nearly 2 AM. Almost time for the Morning Open Thread!

Posted by: sinalco at August 04, 2013 10:51 PM (7580N)

664 It's Howdy-Doody Time!!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 10:51 PM (T1005)

665 I guess this pic is only slightly NSFW

http://tinyurl.com/lf4ysbo

Posted by: The Dude at August 04, 2013 10:52 PM (vJdyz)

666 Can't believe I totally hosed "whoa". I obviously don't text horses enough.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 10:53 PM (T1005)

667 http://tinyurl.com/n2pfhnv

Interesting bit on Zero Hedge. Bloomberg fires a guy, 20 years with the company, who accidentally posted an incorrect headline on a minor story and corrected in a few minutes.

But another guy writes a piece for Bloomberg noting that a group of Congresspeople are all white males, except for the two that aren't. That guy still has his job.

Posted by: epobirs at August 04, 2013 10:59 PM (kcfmt)

668

schedule mix up - off for the night

reading this ONT, drinking beer and grilling pork chops.

perhaps I'm on the wrong level at the moment

saw something I need to comment on.

kiss before you kick, right?

Posted by: dDan at August 04, 2013 11:03 PM (q1RJB)

669

Posted by: epobirs at August 05, 2013 02:59 AM (kcfmt)

eh, not to be on Bloomberg's side but I'd bet $1 that it was because of the 20 years rather than messing up on a headline as Bloomberg has been laying people off lately

Posted by: The Dude at August 04, 2013 11:06 PM (vJdyz)

670 jacksontn, I think I was GOP before I was born--hard right on almost any issue you care to name when I was a teenager, now a bit more of a libertarian streak. I think it's what that excellent sidebar piece earlier today called a Jacksonian Republican. Mrs. Crank comes from a hard right family, but she's registered Dem, I'd call her a Reagan Democrat. She's pro-life, pro-gun, pro-death penalty--she suffers from the delusion that conservatives are absolute knuckle draggers on gay rights which is her biggest hangup, as far as I can tell.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 04, 2013 11:10 PM (sQ0LB)

671 #671

Yeah, I suspected that myself. Still, the utter douchebaggery on display there...

Posted by: epobirs at August 04, 2013 11:10 PM (kcfmt)

672 669 http://tinyurl.com/n2pfhnv

Interesting bit on Zero Hedge. Bloomberg fires a guy, 20 years with the company, who accidentally posted an incorrect headline on a minor story and corrected in a few minutes.

But another guy writes a piece for Bloomberg noting that a group of Congresspeople are all white males, except for the two that aren't. That guy still has his job.

Posted by: epobirs at August 05, 2013 02:59 AM (kcfmt)

That would be interesting, except that I've already got Bloomberg on the "cosmic, nuclear-grade asshole" list and figure that nothing related to him is other than effluvium. He could exhume Mother Teresa for necrophilic sex and I wouldn't despise him any more; he could donate his fortune to good works and become a Franciscan and I wouldn't despise him any less. The only news I could see myself interested in regarding Bloomberg would necessarily involve someone else -- either someone got the political gumption to indict him, or his company figured out how much of a liability he was and gave him the punt.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 11:12 PM (T1005)

673 Also, that sidebar article made me want to go out and start a 3rd party, like yesterday. I think Constitution party or something like it is already taken, so I was thinking Original Construction Party, or OCP.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 04, 2013 11:13 PM (sQ0LB)

674 Sooo... this whole "reckoning", as far as the Continuing Resolution goes? Does anyone else feel like it should be primarily[i/] about the ACA, (obamacare), but with everything else thrown in?

Can't we have each individual idiot (R) take offense to everything from F&F through the IRS? Can't there be a case made for grandstanding over each-and-every issue, tied-in, collectively?

The very thought of Eric Holder's obstinacy, alone could sail one-thousand ships, let alone the grand-sum of all evils. ...right?

Should I be one of the Congresscritters at a Town Hall, speaking with my constituency, I'd let fly with a compare-and-contrast style with a touch of Southern Baptist Unholy Hell over EVERYTHING.

Selling Freedom should never be this tough. I think it was Breitbart that said, "If you can't sell Freedom and Liberty, you suck.

Leave the question "open-faced", in the style "Progressives". Keep asking "Why?" ...for no other reason that just to turn the Progs in attendance, like Reagan Democrats in the seventies.

I think Charles Krauthammer is wrong when he says that you can't make decisions, persuasions and government from one-half of one-third of a Representative Republic; the problem being that it is one-fourth. The MFM being the ultimate obstacle and fourth branch of government.

...The Fed being another. Damnit. Whatever. I think you get my point, however and I'd tie everything into this administration's failures.

When the House holds the purse-strings, there is leverage. When the message is correct, you have persuasion. When Liberty is at stake, you have fear. When Freedom Rings, people listen.

Why don't we know more about these scandals? Why? Why did the President say one thing and do another? ...multiple times. Why? Why won't this administration govern instead of threaten gloom-and-doom? I thought that was what the "Progressives" hated about Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et. al. -? Why?

*Hyperbolic Fiction to Follow*...

-A.P.: Dateline, Washington D.C.: The People vs. Washington D.C. -The People Lost in a split 5-4 Supreme Court Decision. Justice Kennedy wrote the dissenting opinion, as Scalia strangled Roberts with his shoelace.

-"We could have had a Representative Republic, but you couldn't keep it." Kennedy said as tears rolled down his face and into the mouths of the Free Shit Army. "We lost today because Case Law has superceded Constitutional Law. We've forgotten where we've come from and it seems we no longer care."

-Kennedy was found dead in his office within hours, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

-President Obama has already mentioned Nanci Pelosi and Al Sharpton as replacements for the fallen justices. Mr. Scalia's attorneys could not be reached for comment.

Truth? nope. Justice? nope. ...the American Way?

-It is already being written out of every history book and movie.

Fuck ME. Now I feel like Ace.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 04, 2013 11:23 PM (lq3Ak)

675 open-assed italics

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 04, 2013 11:24 PM (lq3Ak)

676 Quick recovery--not sure if that's barrel-worthy or not.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 04, 2013 11:27 PM (sQ0LB)

677 Close. I'd take a ride, should it be deemed necessary by the late-night Horde.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 04, 2013 11:28 PM (lq3Ak)

678 675 Also, that sidebar article made me want to go out and start a 3rd party, like yesterday. I think Constitution party or something like it is already taken, so I was thinking Original Construction Party, or OCP.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 05, 2013 03:13 AM (sQ0LB)

Under a Parliamentary system, it is much, much, much, much easier to start a third party. Under our system, there has to be a serious and long-lasting crisis of confidence -- because it is designed to have only two parties that matter.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 11:28 PM (T1005)

679

594: Posted by: zombie at August 05, 2013 12:54 AM (+cx5n)

599: Posted by: zombie at August 05, 2013 12:58 AM (+cx5n)\

difference between daywalker/nightwalker comenter posts is astonishing.

But, watch the ONT posts from start to finish. Foundation is same.

Posted by: dDan at August 04, 2013 11:30 PM (q1RJB)

680 only two parties that matter.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 05, 2013 03:28 AM (T1005)

===

are you sure that isn't two matters that party?

cuz it seems to me that the definition of GOP and/or Republican is:

"a candidate that somehow says things in a way that jc wants to hear it, but has absolutely no intention of ever doing anything at all that matches what they said."

Posted by: jc at August 04, 2013 11:33 PM (PlzOe)

681 In my defense, I didn't need a cob-logger to come to my rescue. I closed it quickly on my own and wound up being self-sufficient.

Maybe my long post has made it barrel-worthy, however. I can only hope that the content allows for some sort of meritocracy.

...one can hope.

*grabs brush*

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 04, 2013 11:33 PM (lq3Ak)

682 Nah, it's all about loose tags. ace would be in the barrel 3 times a day if length were criteria.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 04, 2013 11:40 PM (sQ0LB)

683 680 675
Also, that sidebar article made me want to go out and start a 3rd party,
like yesterday. I think Constitution party or something like it is
already taken, so I was thinking Original Construction Party, or OCP.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 05, 2013 03:13 AM (sQ0LB)

Under a Parliamentary system, it is much, much, much, much easier to start a third party. Under our system, there has to be a serious and long-lasting crisis of confidence -- because it is designed to have only two parties that matter.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 05, 2013 03:28 AM (T1005)

And, BTW, I first registered to vote in 1983 as a Libertarian -- because that party had something to believe in: full support of individual rights; minimization of the role of government; market-based solutions to tradeoffs....and watched it go from irrelevance to batshit crazy over the next 25 years -- supporting no rights but pot-smoking, supporting statism, and allocating attention through politics. After 2008, I joined the GOP because the progressive elite Dems were so incredibly vile -- but my attention was piqued by the surge of the tea party in 2010. Nevertheless, I sucked it up with the GOP for 2012....

The GOP is setting themselves up for a preference cascade. They think they've got everyone in the bag because the Left is so widely hated, not realizing that they are only slightly less loathed, themselves. We could truly be at one of those points where a new party can arise.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 11:40 PM (T1005)

684 ...the gist of my post being that the House can hold those purse-strings tight, should they come out firing on all cylinders, both barrels, fully aware that Freedom and Liberty is at stake.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 04, 2013 11:40 PM (lq3Ak)

685 Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 05, 2013 03:40 AM (sQ0LB)

LOL... Thanks, CC. By the way, I didn't like the movie.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 04, 2013 11:42 PM (lq3Ak)

686 686 ...the gist of my post being that the House can hold those purse-strings tight, should they come out firing on all cylinders, both barrels, fully aware that Freedom and Liberty is at stake.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 05, 2013 03:40 AM (lq3Ak)

The House is comprised of 435 opportunists, headed by a nose-counting hack.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 11:43 PM (T1005)

687 "The House is comprised of 435 opportunists, headed by a nose-counting hack."
Posted by: cthulhu

...and by my reasoning, (self-preservation being the key), they should unite under scandal. The one thing this country seems to despise.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 04, 2013 11:46 PM (lq3Ak)

688 We never talk about what is right. What is wrong is a uniting factor amongst the idiots. I've found that true amongst the "Progressives", even in my fantasy baseball league. ...Give them numbers and it can be awash in "statistics". Give them "what is fucked up about the rule/trade/player", and they respond.

Selling negatives is easier, even though the sizzle is sexier that the steak.

Milquetoast Romneys and McDemocrats can't handle the skillet. They need to be removed from the kitchen.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 04, 2013 11:50 PM (lq3Ak)

689

which movie is this?

I actually gave some thought to this--if I won the Powerball jackpot, would I burn all that cash to start a 3rd party? If I did that though, I think Mrs. Crank would kill me.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 04, 2013 11:52 PM (sQ0LB)

690 689 "The House is comprised of 435 opportunists, headed by a nose-counting hack."

Posted by: cthulhu

...and by my reasoning, (self-preservation being the key), they should unite under scandal. The one thing this country seems to despise.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 05, 2013 03:46 AM (lq3Ak)

If half the politicians that deserved to hang from lampposts actually were, you'd only have 217 Representatives, 50 Senators, and either the President or Vice-President to convince that self-preservation was an issue.....and they might be amenable to discussion. Instead, you continue to see government packed with superannuated crapweasels whose firm grip on incumbency is matched only by their razor-sharp focus on concerns within Washington -- rather than the effects of their policies in "flyover country."

Posted by: cthulhu at August 04, 2013 11:53 PM (T1005)

691 ...and I know Boehner well. I'm ten counties away from him in Ohio. He talks like a Conservative when he wants to get re-elected, and he is "always better that the alternative", so it goes.

Making "Primary Examples" out of these fools is paramount. There needs to be a message sent, and I think it is starting this year.

The Tea Parties have been adequately "held-off" by the IRS and Bitch Lerner for a few years. Long enough to get Obama re-elected.

...that will turn. I pray. I can only hope that this trend will continue on its path to Liberty, Freedom and Justice.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 04, 2013 11:55 PM (lq3Ak)

692 Slap, where in Ohio are you? 10 counties migth be Cuyahoga depending on your route.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 05, 2013 12:04 AM (sQ0LB)

693 I can only hope that this trend will continue on its path to Liberty, Freedom and Justice.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 05, 2013 03:55 AM (lq3Ak)

=====

something tells me that in a post-obama/holder era the best you can realistically achieve will be 2 outa 3.

Posted by: jc at August 05, 2013 12:05 AM (PlzOe)

694 693 ...and I know Boehner well. I'm ten counties away from him in Ohio. He talks like a Conservative when he wants to get re-elected, and he is "always better that the alternative", so it goes.

Making "Primary Examples" out of these fools is paramount. There needs to be a message sent, and I think it is starting this year.

The Tea Parties have been adequately "held-off" by the IRS and Bitch Lerner for a few years. Long enough to get Obama re-elected.

...that will turn. I pray. I can only hope that this trend will continue on its path to Liberty, Freedom and Justice.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 05, 2013 03:55 AM (lq3Ak)

Again, I'm an old-school Libertarian....which means I'm closer to Tea Partiers than current Libertarians; I'm currently in the GOP because of my revulsion to progressive Dems.....which means I'm closer to Tea Partiers than GOP leadership. I believe in the Constitution and American exceptionalism, which means I'm closer to Tea Partiers than RINOs. If anyone believes that I'm so thoroughly GOP that they can continue to lie to me, badger me for funds, go limp against the Dem agenda, and advance ANY FUCKING THING LABELED "COMPREHENSIVE" [when such has been demonstrated over-and-over-and-over-and-over as a shit sandwich] -- they're nuts.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 05, 2013 12:05 AM (T1005)

695 "Instead, you continue to see government packed with superannuated crapweasels whose firm grip on incumbency is matched only by their razor-sharp focus on concerns within Washington -- rather than the effects of their policies in "flyover country." "
Posted by: cthulhu

Yeah, I know. I addressed that in my "movie review" earlier. Our Representative Republic now has a Legislature; bicameral House & Senate, (that no longer represents the States), an Executive, (that is no longer exposed by the media), and a Judiciary, (that relies on Case-Law in lieu of Constitutional Law).

-There is also the Fourth Estate, the MFM. (Delenda EST).

-And The Fed as the Fifth Branch of Tomfoolery.

I still believe that one-half of the Legislature can bring purse-string power to the fallacies of a top-down system. Self-preservation is a big selling point. Liberty is also a common bond.

Should these (R) fuckers not be able to unite behind these BASIC policies? I see no other recourse than using "Progressive" tactics to cut the cancer out of our own party.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 05, 2013 12:06 AM (lq3Ak)

696 I'm with you, Cthulu. One-Hundred Percent. I don't think I've ever disagreed with anything you've posted by more than .0001-degree off-target.

That may be the difference between Jefferson and Franklin, but you get my drift.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 05, 2013 12:11 AM (lq3Ak)

697 698 I'm with you, Cthulu. One-Hundred Percent. I don't think I've ever disagreed with anything you've posted by more than .0001-degree off-target.

That may be the difference between Jefferson and Franklin, but you get my drift.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 05, 2013 04:11 AM (lq3Ak)

Thing is, we don't have to totally agree -- I don't know if I wouldn't disagree with my own posts by a degree or two, depending on when I'd written them.....but I know that "future me" and "past me" could agree on a bunch of things and discuss the others. I get a lot of crap from the Repubs saying that we're so simpatico and that they value my input.....and then I see grenades lobbed against Cruz or Paul (not to mention the total demonization of Palin or Bolton), and total sucking-up by McCain, Graham, Collins, et al....and I thing, "oh, really?"

It's like we have dueling hypocrisies -- the Dems claim to despise America, but really want to own it; the GOP claims to hate government, but really wants to run it.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 05, 2013 12:25 AM (T1005)

698 Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 05, 2013 12:31 AM (sQ0LB)

699 That was probably the most lucid I've been, as an insomniac, posting on the ONT. There was a stream of consciousness that pissed me off enough to actually believe that a singular defining thread between RINOs, Libertarians and "The Otherwise (R)-Elected" would be self-preservation.

Perhaps delusion is a better word than "lucidity". At 4:28 am EST, I mistake words for reason, perhaps

Administrative scandals and unanswered questions should be enough to unite a disparate bunch of pussies, should it not?

I wonder how an enormous Shit-Hammer of Justice remains unused. Why can't the enormity of these scandals be used to justify a hold-up of the purse-strings?

Did the last "Government Shutdown" go in favor of the "popular" Clintons? It did not. The Republicans gained the Senate for the first time in fifty years.

It is good to be correct. It is good to be right. It is good to have mathematics on your side.

...what sucks? GOP idiots who won't employ reason due to media pressure. Math is math. Six trillion with nothing to show for it is math.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 05, 2013 12:36 AM (lq3Ak)

700 I'm in Medina County. I'm just South of Cuyahoga.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 05, 2013 12:38 AM (lq3Ak)

701 Ok, I reside in Fairfield.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 05, 2013 12:40 AM (sQ0LB)

702 701 That was probably the most lucid I've been, as an insomniac, posting on the ONT. There was a stream of consciousness that pissed me off enough to actually believe that a singular defining thread between RINOs, Libertarians and "The Otherwise (R)-Elected" would be self-preservation.

Perhaps delusion is a better word than "lucidity". At 4:28 am EST, I mistake words for reason, perhaps

Administrative scandals and unanswered questions should be enough to unite a disparate bunch of pussies, should it not?

I wonder how an enormous Shit-Hammer of Justice remains unused. Why can't the enormity of these scandals be used to justify a hold-up of the purse-strings?

Did the last "Government Shutdown" go in favor of the "popular" Clintons? It did not. The Republicans gained the Senate for the first time in fifty years.

It is good to be correct. It is good to be right. It is good to have mathematics on your side.

...what sucks? GOP idiots who won't employ reason due to media pressure. Math is math. Six trillion with nothing to show for it is math.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 05, 2013 04:36 AM (lq3Ak)

If the House had possessed anything even resembling cojones, they would have passed 500 individual bills funding conservative priorities for the next two years, sent 'em to the Senate, and adjourned until the next Federal election. If the Senate sat on 'em, vital government functions would have gone unmet -- but there'd be no House to argue against. If the President veto'd 'em -- vital government functions might get shut down -- but there'd be no House to argue against. Any attempt to say, "House obstruction...." could be met in the districts by "we passed it -- what obstruction are you talking about?"

Posted by: cthulhu at August 05, 2013 12:45 AM (T1005)

703 Maybe we could get together for a beer, CC. We could meet in Columbus and commiserate! lol j/k.

...I'm sure we both don't have time for that, but I'll continue to offer my heartfelt prayers for Maddie. I've been on my knees every night for that little girl and your family.

May God Bless you, sir. May God Bless your family.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 05, 2013 12:49 AM (lq3Ak)

704 Thanks Slap. Weasel Boy Brewery in Zanesville might be a bit closer to a halfway point though--supposed to have some pretty good brews there. Hopefully I'll have a Maddie update tomorrow.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 05, 2013 12:57 AM (sQ0LB)

705 Somewhat O/T -- but I've been musing about the Benghazi thing. Everyone is going off on the "it's because there was weapons-trading run by a couple-dozen CIA at the Annex" line......but that's so old that it really doesn't warrant a coverup as big as it has gotten.

I'm thinking that the real story is that the CIA was transferring weapons to someone actually on the forbidden terrorists list that could cause a great deal of trouble to the Assad regime -- that would be mildly scandalous, since anyone on the list is officially a pariah....but easily forgiven, since Assad's not exactly on the buddies list.

This was conveniently sited in Libya, where there was no central government left to check armaments in-and-out of the country and presumably far enough away that Syria and Iran couldn't readily get there.

Through a combination of incompetence, negligence, and specific actions traceable to the Adminstration, Iranian forces/paramilitary/allied jihadists successfully attacked the Consulate and Annex, driving out the Americans and capturing arms (that Americans weren't supposed to have).

Again, supposition -- but it might help explain the amount of soiled panties in the political class.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 05, 2013 01:04 AM (T1005)

706 I can't argue/agree with you any longer, Cthulu. I would love to have proven a point here, tonight, but I can't. I can only offer a glue that the House seems destined to reject.

All I can accomplish on my own is making calls every day. Sometimes I am met by sycophantic idiots. Sometimes I am met by hard-core opponents, sometimes I am met by "just taking opinions"- boy/girl.

Ohio is a battleground State and I was amazed that my district was taken over by Betty Sutton, (D), as it has gone (R) for fifty-plus years. Gerrymandering has made my district's positional House-Seat a mix of inner-city and gun-rural. Guess whose population is greater?

I am pissed.

I try. I'll continue to try.

-I have no newsletter.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 05, 2013 01:07 AM (lq3Ak)

707 708 I can't argue/agree with you any longer, Cthulu. I would love to have proven a point here, tonight, but I can't. I can only offer a glue that the House seems destined to reject.

All I can accomplish on my own is making calls every day. Sometimes I am met by sycophantic idiots. Sometimes I am met by hard-core opponents, sometimes I am met by "just taking opinions"- boy/girl.

Ohio is a battleground State and I was amazed that my district was taken over by Betty Sutton, (D), as it has gone (R) for fifty-plus years. Gerrymandering has made my district's positional House-Seat a mix of inner-city and gun-rural. Guess whose population is greater?

I am pissed.

I try. I'll continue to try.

-I have no newsletter.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 05, 2013 05:07 AM (lq3Ak)

We need not argue, nor agree 100%, to recognize each other as companions and brothers-in-arms. I heartily encourage you to fight the good fight, and wish you luck and success. As for my part -- at least you're in a battleground state....I'm in California.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 05, 2013 01:12 AM (T1005)

708 God Bless you, Cthulu. We're out there for those of you who don't think you'll ever have a voice. All is not lost.

The Tea Party WILL have greater influence this go-around. I was also optomistic about Ohio 2012, but efforts were IRS-retarded.

...THEY went Full-Retard.

...WE will get the truth out in Local, State and National elections this time.

I can only ask that politicians bring all guns Starboard. Obamacare? This is the Hill to Die on. BRING IT ALL.

-One man's opinion.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 05, 2013 01:19 AM (lq3Ak)

709

The point of war isn't to die for your country--it's to make the other poor bastard die for his!

-George C. Scott, Patton

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 05, 2013 01:22 AM (sQ0LB)

710 damn tags, how do they work?

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 05, 2013 01:22 AM (sQ0LB)

711

Test

Test

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 05, 2013 01:26 AM (sQ0LB)

712 "Thanks Slap. Weasel Boy Brewery in Zanesville might be a bit closer to a halfway point though--supposed to have some pretty good brews there. Hopefully I'll have a Maddie update tomorrow."
Posted by: Conserative Crank

You're so very, very, welcome, sir. That little girl has been paramount in my mind for weeks. My knees cannot hit the ground often enough to allow for the prayers to flow.

I ask of God his personal connection for your blessed loved ones. I ask of Him His Grace and Love for the afflicted innocent and those who surround and love her.

I've shed tears for the innocent, as this little girl is amongst them. May He Grace your lives and assuage your fears. May His Holy Love infect your souls with warmth and comfort.

...In Jesus' Name, I Pray.

-Amen

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 05, 2013 01:30 AM (lq3Ak)

713 712 damn tags, how do they work?

Use [ ], insted of < >

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 05, 2013 01:32 AM (lq3Ak)

714 Morning all....have no idea why I'm up at 5:30 am and yet, here I am.

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 05, 2013 01:34 AM (X6akg)

715 Hi, Tami. God Bless you, but I'm nearly off to bed. Please pray for Maddie this morning, as well as the Tea Party.

I have no more mental capacity for diatribes, but my earlier posts kept me from the barrel --barely.

...Pun intended.

G'night Horde. God Bless.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 05, 2013 01:38 AM (lq3Ak)

716 Prayers sent, Slapweasel and sleep well.

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 05, 2013 01:40 AM (X6akg)

717

Hey Tami!

italics?

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 05, 2013 01:42 AM (sQ0LB)

718 Hi CC....You've mastered the italicans!

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 05, 2013 01:45 AM (X6akg)

719 The problem with that is, since I never used tags before, I wasn't in risk of going to the barrell. Now it's a real possibility.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 05, 2013 01:48 AM (sQ0LB)

720 also, spelling is hard at the end of shift. *barrel*

Posted by: Conserative Crank at August 05, 2013 01:49 AM (sQ0LB)

721 Here's a way to help avoid the barrel.... Put these [ /i][ /b][ /u][ /s] after your name in the 'Name' box. (I've put in an extra space before each slash to show you....remove that when you do it.) It's an automatic tag close should you forget.

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 05, 2013 01:51 AM (X6akg)

722 Yeah, I think that showed up for MWR in the stats this week.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at August 05, 2013 02:04 AM (sQ0LB)

723 Just took the dog out....it's like friggin' Fall out there!

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 05, 2013 02:07 AM (X6akg)

724 I killed the ONT...just to watch it die....

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 05, 2013 02:18 AM (X6akg)

725 I killed the ONT...just to watch it die....
Posted by: Tami at August 05, 2013 06:18 AM

The eavesdropping Feds will love you! They can take a coffee break now....

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 05, 2013 02:31 AM (kaGpp)

726 Morning everyone.

Time to feed the cats. Feed myself. And avoid this place so I can write and make progress.

Hope you are doing well Tami.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 05, 2013 02:35 AM (0WdQr)

727 Just took the dog out....it's like friggin' Fall out there! 84 at wake up in Dallas this morning. Yuck.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 05, 2013 02:40 AM (XCfYI)

728 Morning Anna....I'm doing ok. Hope you have a productive day!

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 05, 2013 02:42 AM (X6akg)

729 Unleash the Vic!

Posted by: Conservative Crank at August 05, 2013 02:45 AM (sQ0LB)

730 84 at wake up in Dallas this morning. Yuck. Posted by: rickb223 at August 05, 2013 06:40 AM

It's 59 here in Eastern MA this morning. Even better, the humidity is way down. Feels like Fall, and I love it!

Of course that means even colder days are coming, and I'm not looking forward to the snowy, frozen days and nights ahead. I'll be shivering in three layers of clothing plus heavy coat, and thinking nostalgically about those 84-degree mornings in Dallas.

Also thinking nostalgically about other things in Texas and regretting having come to MA, but that's another story....

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 05, 2013 02:47 AM (kaGpp)

731 Thanks Tami, hope you have a good and productive day also.

And on August 5th, 1943 not much happening in WWII except the Soviets counter-attacking the Germans.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 05, 2013 02:52 AM (0WdQr)

732 Wow. 59. I think the fridge is 59. Nothing else. The older I get, the harder it is to deal with it.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 05, 2013 02:55 AM (XCfYI)

733 Â“The best way to die is to sit under a tree, eats lots of bologna and salami, drink a case of beer and blow up.Â”

Posted by: Baldy at August 05, 2013 04:10 AM (tyDFN)

734 It takes a village (of leftist journalists) to make Hillary seem interesting.

Posted by: edj[/i] at August 05, 2013 04:15 AM (9Ko7L)

735 Thank you ~~Tami.~~

Posted by: phunctor[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 05, 2013 04:39 AM (p12qs)

736 And leading spaces to make it invis..

Posted by: phunctor [/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 05, 2013 04:40 AM (p12qs)

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