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September 30, 2013

Overnight Open Thread (9-30-2013)
— Maetenloch

Extremely Extreme Extremists and Why Government Budgeting is So Fucked Up

So why are we lurching from continuing resolution to continuing resolution with the occasional temporary government shutdown in between?

Well Stacy McCain explains that it's pretty much all the fault of Harry Reid and President Obama and their decision to abdicate one of their primary constitutional duties for short-term political gain:

The answer is that the budgeting process has completely broken down in recent years, and the two men most responsible for that breakdown are President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. For three consecutive years - 2010, 2011, and 2012 - the Democrat-controlled Senate did not pass a budget bill because Reid knew that it would be a political liability to do so. Passing a budget that detailed the Democrats' plans for spending and revenue as official policy would have exposed the "something for nothing" swindle that Reid and his colleagues are perpetrating on the American people. Republican challengers campaigning against Democrat senators could have cited their votes for the budget bill, saying that the incumbent voted for this, that, or the other unpopular component of the measure.
Reid and the Democrats knew this. They knew very well that the federal deficit was spiraling out of control, that there was not enough tax revenue to pay the mushrooming cost of entitlement programs (Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment, et cetera), and certainly there wasn't enough revenue to pay for all the boondoggles and giveaways the Democrats voted for in the name of "stimulus." Adding to this, there was not enough revenue to pay the cost of Obamacare, which Democrats rammed through Congress in March 2010 on a party-line vote. Passing an actual budget would have made clear the unsustainable fiscal nightmare into which Democrat policies have plunged the nation during the Obama Age, and so Harry Reid simply didn't pass a budget for three years.
Inevitably, there will be serious fiscal and economic consequences for what has been done in Washington since 2009. Democrats, however, cared less about such real-world matters than they did about the short-term political gain to be had by promoting the pleasant fiction that liberal "generosity" with taxpayer money (including trillions of dollars in deficit spending) had no real cost.

To actually pass a budget would be to admit and own what they've done. So they finance the beast through crisis instead.

And count on Ezra Klein to boil the budgeting crisis down to a single sentence of stupidity and utter un-self-awareness:

The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics - it is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.

Yet somehow as a political 'outlier' the GOP still manages to control the House, hold a 46% minority in the Senate, and got 47% of the national vote in the 2012 presidential election. So yeah they're like totally freaky-deaky crazy-time political outliers.

Bill Clinton: Still the Shameless Lying Bill Clinton We All Knew

From a quote by director Charles Ferguson explaining why the Hillary movie will never be made - because nobody wants it made and nobody wants to see it.

In June, I attended a dinner for Bill Clinton, which was educational. Clinton spoke passionately about his foundation, about African wildlife, inequality, childhood obesity, and much else with enormous factual command, emotion, and rhetorical power. But he and I also spoke privately. I asked him about the financial crisis. He paused and then became even more soulful, thoughtful, passionate, and articulate. And then he proceeded to tell me the most amazing lies I've heard in quite a while.
For example, Mr. Clinton sorrowfully lamented his inability to stop the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which banned all regulation of private (OTC) derivatives trading, and thereby greatly worsened the crisis. Mr. Clinton said that he and Larry Summers had argued with Alan Greenspan, but couldn't budge him, and then Congress passed the law by a veto-proof supermajority, tying his hands. Well, actually, the reason that the law passed by that overwhelming margin was because of the Clinton Administration's strong advocacy, including Congressional testimony by Larry Summers and harsh public and private attacks on advocates of regulation by Summers and Robert Rubin.
Wow, I thought, this guy is a really good actor.

Yeah that's what we call it - 'acting'.

UK NHS Bans Minor Operations on Smokers Unless They Promise to Quit

This is how government-provided health care 'nudges' your behavior - by withholding medical procedures if they disapprove of how you live.

Patients are being denied minor treatments because they smoke, The Mail on Sunday has found.
In one case a healthy middle-aged man was told he could not have a ten-minute operation to cut a small benign growth off the side of his head, because of his habit.

Paul Merrett thought it would be no problem to get the inch-long fatty lump, called a lipoma, removed.

...But when he attended King George Surgery in Stevenage, his GP said he could not have the minor operation - which doctors often do under local anaesthetic in their own consulting rooms.

Mr Merrett, 46, said: 'I was told, in no uncertain terms, that unless I gave up smoking or signed up to a quitting clinic they would refuse to treat me. I was gobsmacked.'
He claims the doctor told him: 'These directions are not mine. It's not me refusing this treatment, it's the NHS trust.'

World Cultures Made Simple

According to linguist Richard Lewis.

The behavior of people of different cultures is not something willy-nilly. There exist clear trends, sequences and traditions. Reactions of Americans, Europeans, and Asians alike can be forecasted, usually justified and in the majority of cases managed. Even in countries where political and economic change is currently rapid or sweeping (Russia, China, Hungary, Poland, Korea, Malaysia, etc.) deeply rooted attitudes and beliefs will resist a sudden transformation of values when pressured by reformists, governments or multinational conglomerates.

Apparently I'm Swiss/Vulcan in outlook.

The Most Interesting Star Trek Redshirt in the World

That's right - the World's Most Interesting Man was a red shirt on Star Trek. And of course he survived.

'Baby Got Back' Remixed by Flula

With a very special guest performer.

Expectations Vs Reality

The Dangers of Tylenol

I pretty much gave up on tylenol in college after I learned the LD50 dose was only a few times that of a therapeutic dose.

One of the key problems with Tylenol is that it doesn't take all that many extra pills to start experiencing harmful side effects. For instance, the maximum recommended daily dose is eight extra-strength tablets. Just two additional tablets a day, taken over a long period, can cause liver damage.

The Yahoo AoSHQ group. Bla bla bla.

And my twitter thang.

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1 Hi

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 30, 2013 06:11 PM (HVff2)

2 AnnaPuma, if you missed my reply over on the other thread:

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 30, 2013 09:54 PM (JaA49)

I got picked up on another contract here in GA late on Friday afternoon two weeks ago. I was scheduled to interview with Raytheon for a job in Forest at their plant. I probably would have wound up living in Brandon.

Posted by: Country Singer at September 30, 2013 06:12 PM (T7XIT)

3 Howdy and G'Night

Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at September 30, 2013 06:13 PM (MnSla)

4 "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at September 30, 2013 06:15 PM (bb5+k)

5 Evening all. care to hear about my continuing hell that is my brother and his idiot GF?

Posted by: jewells45 trying to keep from going crazy at September 30, 2013 06:15 PM (u25eL)

6 There is a simply way for the GOP to with the continuing resolution fight: Pass a C.R. with only one other provision: Obamacare applies fully to Congress. That is a messaging war that can be easily won! After all, if Obamacare is so great, then why are the Democrats willing to shut down the government to avoid having to be under it?

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 30, 2013 06:15 PM (XvHmy)

7 Maet, your mom and mine have the same keyboard. Only thing missing is the key to totally screw up the printer output.

Posted by: never enough caffiene at September 30, 2013 06:16 PM (GfBk2)

8 Hey, fappers . . . praise allah that this fuckin' day is over. Hope y'all had a good day. And, Country Singer, congrats on the work contract!!! Yay!

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 06:16 PM (8lmkt)

9 Boys Will Be Boys One of the greatest assaults on civilization, and indeed on reality itself, is the denial by the rabid Left that boys are boy and that girls are girls. Their social Lysenkoism seeks to abolish the differences between the sexes as just Â“genderÂ” being a Â“social construct.Â” They go so far as to force transvestitism and metrosexuality as normal. Sometimes it takes a lady (or two) to point out the lunacy of the ProgressivesÂ’ war on boys. More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=3307

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 30, 2013 06:16 PM (XvHmy)

10 Hi Peaches!

Posted by: jewells45 trying to keep from going crazy at September 30, 2013 06:16 PM (u25eL)

11 Yo Morons

Posted by: fluffy at September 30, 2013 06:17 PM (z9HTb)

12 Well if we are going to talk CR & stuff. Why doesn't the GOP legally challenge TFG disregarding the employer mandate? Argh at least they are hanging tough for now. & great subject matter tonight Maet, thanks

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 30, 2013 06:18 PM (HVff2)

13 One thing I always admire British actors for is that they all seem to know how to ride a horse well. Can you imagine the pretty boys we have here on a horse?

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 30, 2013 06:19 PM (paOCA)

14 The World Cultures thing is bunk.

All of them are positive, and we know that ain't the case.

Just sayin'

Posted by: RiverC at September 30, 2013 06:19 PM (9hUiB)

15 Good evening, Horde. It was a three hours of yoga, too much homework, muffin baking kinda day. My back hurts and Dave's snoozing so I can't get a rub.

Posted by: Gingy (yes, married to our own Weirddave) at September 30, 2013 06:20 PM (jt8G9)

16 Evening folks. Alright, NDH has been trying to set it up for over a year, we need to finally do it. Any Florida/Georgia Morons interested in a MeetUp? Jacksonville area most likely for MeetUp.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 30, 2013 06:21 PM (GEICT)

Dang, I've got to hurry over to the Colorado National Monument to use the toilets before the federal shutdown kicks in.

Kind of makes me wonder where hikers used to poop before the National Park Service installed all the stinky outhouses.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at September 30, 2013 06:21 PM (N/Sup)

18 The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics - it is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. The mind reels. Projection is not just a river in Egypt.

Posted by: toby928© at September 30, 2013 06:21 PM (QupBk)

19 Yo yo Ma!

Posted by: Kramer at September 30, 2013 06:21 PM (rG4dM)

20 Pass a C.R. with only one other provision: Obamacare applies fully to Congress. AND any and everybody that works for government at all levels. So they can feel our pain. Fucktards.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 06:21 PM (vREma)

21 7 Maet, your mom and mine have the same keyboard. Only thing missing is the key to totally screw up the printer output.
Posted by: never enough caffiene at September 30, 2013 10:16 PM (GfBk2)

Actually my mom is the complete other side of the spectrum - she *loves* technology and has to have the latest cool gadgets and toys.

But she never reads the manuals and just starts fiddling with controls and mucking around on the system. And that's why her PCs never run right, the bridged wifi networks are dog-ass slow, the webcams are unreliable, and the Roomba vaccum-bots are always eating the rugs and tumbling down the stairs. And could I please fix it all remotely by phone. :-(

Posted by: Mætenloch at September 30, 2013 06:21 PM (pAlYe)

22 Eat more bakery that will helo the back Mrs. Weirddave

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 30, 2013 06:21 PM (HVff2)

23 oh, doG; I actually posted a comment on the MNF thread below whilst waiting for the ONT. g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 30, 2013 06:21 PM (JMmQ9)

24 Hi, jewells!!! Hi, fluffy!! Hi, Mis (etc.)!! Hi, Hat!! Hi, all you awesome morons!!!

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 06:22 PM (8lmkt)

25 The NHS, as a matter of policy, killed hundreds of thousands of patients by way of neglect. That should not only have killed Obamacare but should have killed the NHS. Unfortunately, people are bafflingly, mind-bogglingly, catastrophically and abyssally stupid. Which causes a lot of problems, you *may* have noticed.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 06:22 PM (qyfb5)

26 Every time I hear that jug eared, dog eating prick say "Congress needs to do their jobs!!" I just want to scream. You know he's speaking to the House and the lap dog cockholsters in the media will carry his bucket of dogshit...

Tell fucking Harry Reid to DO HIS JOB and pass a fucking budget and you dumb asses won't have to go through this bullshit.

Posted by: Portnoy at September 30, 2013 06:22 PM (g9Osd)

27 Howdy y'all

Posted by: Alamo at September 30, 2013 06:23 PM (ZzApf)

28 Hey Peaches you Fluffy toting chick

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 30, 2013 06:23 PM (HVff2)

29 I spent all Friday night recovering someone online from an infection from one of those ads disguised as the download button on a website. I do want to find those people and kneecap them. With a grenade.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 06:24 PM (qyfb5)

30 Can I just cork off for one little minute? Why are the Republicans (most of whom I loathe with the same loathing I have for the Dems) being blamed for "shutting down the government?" If congress sends it to that fuckin' shitweasel and he vetoes it, why is it not HIM who is causing this (frankly very amusing) problem? grrrrrrrrr

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 06:24 PM (8lmkt)

31 where in GA CS?

Posted by: bill-o at September 30, 2013 06:24 PM (REZnZ)

32 I like that "dog-eating". I forgot he ate dogs. Loathsome.

Posted by: simplemind at September 30, 2013 06:24 PM (BmWNr)

33 Aloha!

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 06:24 PM (T1005)

34 I'm Israeli, apparently. Evening haters.

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at September 30, 2013 06:24 PM (5H6zj)

35 Hey, Y!! {{{{{}}}}}

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 06:25 PM (8lmkt)

36 Kosher dogs.

Posted by: Alamo at September 30, 2013 06:25 PM (ZzApf)

37 I avoid tylenol as well. It's quite possible that it was the cause of my brother's liver damage.

Oh, and you want to kill a cat? Give it two tylenols. Sure death.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 30, 2013 06:25 PM (wNF3N)

38 Posted by: bill-o at September 30, 2013 10:24 PM (REZnZ)

Still working at Benning School for Boys, just in a different department now.

Posted by: Country Singer at September 30, 2013 06:25 PM (T7XIT)

39 Evenin' everyone.

Posted by: Blamco Basura at September 30, 2013 06:26 PM (JawqV)

40 If congress sends it to that fuckin' shitweasel and he vetoes it, why is it not HIM who is causing this (frankly very amusing) problem? grrrrrrrrr

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 10:24 PM (8lmkt)

Dorm Room Professor must not be tainted

Posted by: MFMSM at September 30, 2013 06:26 PM (FIDMq)

41 Why are the Republicans (most of whom I loathe with the same loathing I have for the Dems) being blamed for "shutting down the government?" Cause the MFM said so. And the LIV are only too happy to snarf down their shit sandwich

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 06:26 PM (vREma)

42 I would never take tylenol cause, well, drinking. duh!

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 06:26 PM (8lmkt)

43 Well, I'm obviously linear-active, and if there's a kitteh version of it, so are the kittehs (very result-oriented when it comes to food; plan ahead to get the hoomin to open the can/bag of treats; stick to agenda by yowling periodically; do one thing at a time--eat; sleep; use litter box; eat; sleep . . . ; restrained body language-- especially when sleeping, which is most of the time for older kittehs).

Posted by: Basement Cat at September 30, 2013 06:26 PM (eawoP)

44 The hell? ‏@911BUFF 1m EXPLOSION AT THE BERKLEY CA CAMPUS: -STUDENTS INJURED -STUDENTS TRAPPED -EVACUATIONS ORDERED. DALYCAL. pic.twitter.com/OmokqQYoYw

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 06:26 PM (Dsds2)

45 Why are the Republicans (most of whom I loathe with the same loathing I have for the Dems) being blamed for "shutting down the government?" Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 10:24 PM (8lmkt) Seriously? They do not have MFM (delenda est) where you are from? It's known as "the grandiose lie," AKA "news coverage."

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 06:26 PM (qyfb5)

46 Harry Reid's legacy won't be complete until we locate all of the unmarked burial mounds of little broken bones in the desolation of Nevada's cold, cold desert.

Posted by: Fritz at September 30, 2013 06:26 PM (x2W/k)

47 21. Maet. been away for three months. Will have to completely clean up mom's laptop when I get home. Had to have the Geek Squad visit her a month back since she screwed up her internet connection. I need one of those remote control connections the techies use to connect to her computer remotely.
Mom is 89 and loves her computer. So proud when she learned to restore it to a previous day. Of course that didn't clean out the raging virus she had downloaded accidentally.

Posted by: never enough caffiene at September 30, 2013 06:26 PM (GfBk2)

48 Shalom, Peaches! Or whatever I'm supposed to say if I'm Israeli!

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at September 30, 2013 06:27 PM (5H6zj)

49 I knew a pharmacist who killed himself with Tylenol. even if they pump your stomach, you will die of liver failure. Bryant Gumbel was reporting once about an athlete who tried to kill himself with Tylenol and was mocking him saying it was not a serious attempt cause it was only Tylenol. Very very stupid of Bryant

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 06:28 PM (zOTsN)

50 My M-I-L who is in her late 70s loves all the techno things out there. She can run circles around me with computers & such. I know enough that I don't know enough.

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 30, 2013 06:28 PM (HVff2)

51 PEACHES!!!!!!!! i saw an ad on craigslist for a boutique law firm in venice or santa monica a couple days ago. You should check it out.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 06:28 PM (vREma)

52 Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 10:26 PM (Dsds2)

haha!

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 06:28 PM (8lmkt)

53 ...has to have the latest cool gadgets and toys.
I'd reword that if I were you.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at September 30, 2013 06:28 PM (qnPg9)

54 Anyone catch the Breaking Bad finale?? Thoughts??

Posted by: jewells45 trying to keep from going crazy at September 30, 2013 06:28 PM (u25eL)

55 Peter King got one other guy to vote with him, after 23 or so got pealed off by the UnHenry the Fifth that leads the House. So the next time King starts threatening a Presidential run because of all the crazy extremists, I will enjoy the inevitable flameout. Jackass.

Posted by: T. at September 30, 2013 06:28 PM (nVPn7)

56 so what happened to teej and chem jeff and all the others? Marple ?

Posted by: Alamo at September 30, 2013 06:28 PM (ZzApf)

57 Relax people. We just converted Deuce Bigelow (sidebar). Its all good.

Posted by: simplemind at September 30, 2013 06:29 PM (BmWNr)

58 I would never take tylenol cause, well, drinking. duh! Yup. Aspirin downed with a large quantity of water.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 06:29 PM (vREma)

59 I'm "Linear-Active-Angry."

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 06:29 PM (qyfb5)

60 i saw an ad on craigslist for a boutique law firm in venice or santa monica a couple days ago. You should check it out.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 10:28 PM (vREma)

BEBE!!!!!! Did they say they were lookin' for old bitches who, if they'd lived their lives right, or even gotten the alimony they were statutorily entitled to, would already be swilling geritol in some geezer village by now?

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 06:29 PM (8lmkt)

61 The expectations piece about after sex was dead on.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 30, 2013 06:30 PM (DmNpO)

62 57 Relax people. We just converted Deuce Bigelow (sidebar). Its all good. Good, but too bad that won't keep his movies from sucking.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 06:30 PM (Dsds2)

63 "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it." Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at September 30, 2013 10:15 PM Well said, Admiral Painter. One of the bestest lines from the book / movie. I have the YouTube clip from the movie spooled up on my 'puter @ work; whenever anyone starts pissin' and moanin' (six or seven times each day) I play it really loud.

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 30, 2013 06:30 PM (JMmQ9)

64 49 Very very stupid of Bryant Well you know he is not the brightest bulb in the package

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 30, 2013 06:31 PM (HVff2)

65 No, the media has fooled the democrats into thinking that they don't have to compromise because the media will spin it to their advantage no matter what.

It works to some extent, but eventually it will backfire horribly. This might be the beginning of something... loud.

Posted by: RiverC at September 30, 2013 06:31 PM (9hUiB)

66 How about saving the Breaking Bad spoilers for a month from now or go to a fan site and discuss the ending in detail there instead?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at September 30, 2013 06:31 PM (qnPg9)

67 Did they say they were lookin' for old bitches who, if they'd lived their lives right, or even gotten the alimony they were statutorily entitled to, would already be swilling geritol in some geezer village by now? They wanted someone who knows their shit, and that sounded like YOU!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 06:31 PM (vREma)

68 59 "Don't make me Linear-Active Angry. You won't like me when I'm Linear-Active-Angry."

Posted by: T. at September 30, 2013 06:32 PM (nVPn7)

69 The saudis andarabic folks courteous? In what fuckin dimension? Those are some rude motherfuckers and heaven forbid you're an infidel. Sheeet

Posted by: fastfreefall at September 30, 2013 06:32 PM (Tz35j)

70 Looking at that World Cultures thingie hurts my head. I'm Canadian by birth and upbringing but I've been here long enough that I'm mostly American now. I don't know where I fit there.

Posted by: Gingy (yes, married to our own Weirddave) at September 30, 2013 06:32 PM (jt8G9)

71 anyone know where the local fight club is meeting in nyc ?

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 06:32 PM (Z9EHQ)

72 Hooray for shutdown!!!

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at September 30, 2013 06:32 PM (UR1wn)

73 I apologize for the churlishness of my remark vis a vis the generator explosion at Berzerkeley. I'm not usually quite that mean and I didn't realize that people were injured, trapped, etc.

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 06:32 PM (8lmkt)

74 Well the fins have been daggered. Time to maybe wet a brush or 2 in the studio. Later horde, be well.

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 30, 2013 06:32 PM (HVff2)

75 NO 28 MIA 10

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 06:32 PM (8sCoq)

76 25 The NHS, as a matter of policy, killed hundreds of thousands of patients by way of neglect.

That should not only have killed Obamacare but should have killed the NHS.

Unfortunately, people are bafflingly, mind-bogglingly, catastrophically and abyssally stupid.

Which causes a lot of problems, you *may* have noticed.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 30, 2013 10:22 PM (qyfb5)

In Britain, the government itself runs the hospitals and employs the doctors. We've all heard scare stories about how that works in practice; these stories are false. - Paul Krugman

Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 06:33 PM (aTXUx)

77 Heh merovign @59. That reminds me if a friend's D&D character alignment - chaotic greedy.

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at September 30, 2013 06:33 PM (5H6zj)

78 I read on Twitter that President Petulant is claiming that the GOP will ruin Christmas and kill Santa Claus.surely satire, but probably not far from what he would say.

Posted by: Jmel at September 30, 2013 06:33 PM (cfFqn)

79 66 The part where you found out Walter was actually his mother too was shocking.

Posted by: T. at September 30, 2013 06:33 PM (nVPn7)

80 NO 28 MIA 10 Posted by: Jones in CO is that some sort of im code?

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 06:33 PM (Z9EHQ)

81 UK NHS Bans Minor Operations on Smokers Unless They Promise to Quit Every single gay man should be out in the streets protesting Obamacare at the top of their lungs. For that matter, oral contraception is a public health hazard.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 30, 2013 06:33 PM (xSegX)

82 They wanted someone who knows their shit, and that sounded like YOU!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 10:31 PM (vREma)

I will check it out, bebe. I worked late today down in skeevytown and left for the westside around 5:30, straight into the fuckin' sun. I think it gave me a brain tumor.

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 06:34 PM (8lmkt)

83 So Coothie, whats the LA plan stan? Can't wait to see you and the BH.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 06:34 PM (vREma)

84 56 so what happened to teej and chem jeff and all the others? Marple ? Posted by: Alamo at September 30, 2013 10:28 PM (ZzApf) Teej has been gone a long time. He's still around the Yahoo Group. I have no idea where chemjeff went. Marple got banned by ace for needling ace at EXACTLY the wrong moment.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 30, 2013 06:34 PM (GEICT)

85 I still cant get over the epic Volcano scene in the Breaking Bad finale, where Walter White throws himself into the volcano!

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 06:34 PM (zOTsN)

86 Biden says something even stupider than usual... "If there were not an Israel, then we would have to invent one." Link in sock.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at September 30, 2013 06:35 PM (qnPg9)

87 TheBlaze ‏@theblaze 1m

It will be illegal to walk on National Mall if govÂ’t shuts down, National Park Service says

it's an open grassy FUCKING AREA

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 06:35 PM (8sCoq)

88 Paul Krugman hasn't met Theodore Dalrymple. In fact, I think there is a anti-matter / matter relationship between the two men, for if Krugman so much as is forced to endure the elocution of Theo regarding the actual facts of DHS doctors - Krugman would destabilize and be annihilated: the energy of the reaction would be such as to also obliterate Theo and the surrounding chairs, tables, and factotums.

Posted by: RiverC at September 30, 2013 06:36 PM (9hUiB)

89 left for the westside around 5:30, straight into the fuckin' sun Yeah, been there done that when I was working about a mile from USC. Dodging human shit in the parking lot is just wrong. Find yourself a better gig on the west side and then you can move back venice way.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 06:36 PM (vREma)

90 81 For that matter, oral contraception is a public health hazard. Posted by: AmishDude at September 30, 2013 10:33 PM (xSegX) --- I don't know if it messed with my health, but it sure fucked up my libido.

Posted by: Gingy (yes, married to our own Weirddave) at September 30, 2013 06:36 PM (jt8G9)

91 @85 - he wouldn't have had to do it if he could have gotten that ring off.

Posted by: Blamco Basura at September 30, 2013 06:36 PM (JawqV)

92 man is this place moving slow. are the government employees having a work slowdown on the hamster wheels to protest their impending furlough?

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 06:36 PM (Z9EHQ)

93 6 There is a simply way for the GOP to with the continuing resolution fight:

Pass a C.R. with only one other provision: Obamacare applies fully to Congress.

That is a messaging war that can be easily won! After all, if Obamacare is so great, then why are the Democrats willing to shut down the government to avoid having to be under it?

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 30, 2013 10:15 PM (XvHmy)

The GOP needs to stop arguing with itself when Reid says "no" -- and just adjourn. They've tossed two CRs over the wall, they should blow town and say, "there will be more to talk about once either one of the two gets passed."

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 06:36 PM (T1005)

94 #87

Sounds like a great civil disobedience waiting to happen!

Posted by: RiverC at September 30, 2013 06:36 PM (9hUiB)

95 I don't get this 'keep off the Mall' gambit.

You park your car, walk a few steps, AND THERE'S THE MALL. What are they gonna do- fence it off?

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 06:37 PM (8sCoq)

96 It will be illegal to walk on National Mall if govÂ’t shuts down, National Park Service says it's an open grassy FUCKING AREA Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 10:35 PM (8sCoq) Wait...what? How does the shut down make walking on the Mall illegal?

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 30, 2013 06:37 PM (bCEmE)

97 Pass a C.R. with only one other provision: Obamacare applies fully to Congress.

AND any and everybody that works for government at all levels. So they can feel our pain. Fucktards. Posted by: bebe's boobs
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No waivers, no exemptions.
Not for companies, not for unions, no one.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 30, 2013 06:37 PM (aDwsi)

98 86 Well, considering the love Hagel and Obama have for the place, that may be a prophecy.

Posted by: T. at September 30, 2013 06:37 PM (nVPn7)

99 it's an open grassy FUCKING AREA

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 10:35 PM (8sCoq)

Oh, sure, those are totally safe.

Posted by: JFK at September 30, 2013 06:37 PM (8lmkt)

100 Walter White throws himself into the volcano! Brian Dennehy played the volcano. I missed Nick Searcy's cameo though.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 06:37 PM (vREma)

101 57 Relax people. We just converted Deuce Bigelow (sidebar). Its all good.
Posted by: simplemind at September 30, 2013 10:29 PM (BmWNr)

If true, that's a pretty dramatic conversion.

He was on an Adam Carolla about two years ago or so and was spewing so many mindless liberal talking points regardless of the topic that I finally just fast-forwarded past his entire segment and skipped any future episodes where he appeared.

Posted by: Mætenloch at September 30, 2013 06:37 PM (pAlYe)

102 Remember the Danny Boyle produced London Opening Ceremonies with the children dancing on gurneys in praise of the NHS?

I knew then he was a commie fuckwad and never would I waste time or money on any of his movies

Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 06:37 PM (aTXUx)

103 Are there any King Taco joints in the West Side ?

Posted by: Alamo at September 30, 2013 06:37 PM (ckLMp)

104 Leftists lie. About anything and everything.

Why do they do it?

Because it is easier than telling the truth.

But mostly because they are corrupt.

Posted by: cm9000 at September 30, 2013 06:38 PM (3qZbZ)

105 Wait...what? How does the shut down make walking on the Mall illegal? Posted by: Tami
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See what those eeeevil Republicans have done?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 30, 2013 06:38 PM (aDwsi)

106 I don't know if it messed with my health, but it sure fucked up my libido. Its worked its way into the water supply all over the place. Maybe why there are so many girlie men running around putting product in their hair?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 06:38 PM (vREma)

107 I don't mind the phoney endings, T., but two assholes in this Morning's Headline thread gave out two big spoilers. Dicks.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at September 30, 2013 06:38 PM (qnPg9)

108 bebe, no lie, when I roll out of the surface lot at 8th and Grand ($140/mo), and turn on the a/c in the Jeep of death, it smells like urine for the first 5 minutes (otherwise known as 'about a block'). just a fuckin' slice of heaven, it is.

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 06:39 PM (8lmkt)

109 biggest scam is obama closing the white house as part of the sequester. you know that wanna be emperor cosksucker loves keeping the masses out of his pimpshack.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 06:39 PM (Z9EHQ)

110

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 10:28 PM (zOTsN)

That was a bit stupid of Gumble, but when I spent some time working in an ER we has a Tylenol suicide attempt come in and a nurse said "only thing Tylenol gets you is to the top of the transplant list."

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (tablet) at September 30, 2013 06:39 PM (GaqMa)

111 >Sounds like a great civil disobedience waiting to happen!

Posted by: RiverC at September 30, 2013 10:36 PM (9hUiB)

forget the tourists- thousands of downtown workers use that area every day- for a walk on lunch hour, gathering place after work, pass secret information to foreign nationals- there will be a hue and cry across the land SO GREAT THAT PHARAOH WILL SUR-

sorry.... got carried away

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 06:39 PM (8sCoq)

112 Yo Bitches! Maetenloch, excellent ONT. The expectations link gave me a good laugh. heh

Posted by: Yip at September 30, 2013 06:40 PM (/jHWN)

113

National Mall is a National Park. The feds can close a National Park. If the government shuts down, keeping the National Parks open is not essential an they will close. So You Will Be Arrested For Entering The National Park

serious you guys

and this little piece of facism will be All Republicans And Ted Cruz's Fault

its so logical

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 06:40 PM (zOTsN)

114 Landrieu has been running her mouth for something like 15 minutes and I swear I have no idea what she's talking about.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 30, 2013 06:40 PM (DmNpO)

115 Posted by: The Political Hat at September 30, 2013 10:15 PM (XvHmy)

There are two possible explanations why the House Repubs don't become proactive on Ocare with three sure winners:

1. Delay individual mandate just like it has been waived for so many other favored groups;

2. Deny any and all special medical waivers and funding for members of Congress and senior government officials, specifically including the Supreme Court; and

3. Remove the medical device tax from the legislation.

If they stood firm on these three (or almost any subset) , they would have a clear, understandable, coherent position that resonated with even LiVs.

If they (Boehner) don't offer these alternatives and stand fast on them, the House Repubs are either incompetent or statist faux democrats and should not be allowed to represent us.

Posted by: Hrothgar at September 30, 2013 06:40 PM (XdnQT)

116 85 The part where Walter clicked his heels three times and we found out he had actually been a doctor at St. Eligius the entire show was a little hokey. Until he made out with Bobby in the shower. Didn't see that one coming.

Posted by: T. at September 30, 2013 06:40 PM (nVPn7)

117 The squabbling tomorrow morning will be epic.

Posted by: eman at September 30, 2013 06:40 PM (AO9UG)

118 I still cant get over the epic Volcano scene in the Breaking Bad finale, where Walter White throws himself into the volcano! The cameo by Dennehy as the volcano was a master stroke.

Posted by: obligatory at September 30, 2013 06:40 PM (QupBk)

119 Yo bebe's boobs, hell yeah i wear product in my hair. So much so it's a fuckin gel-met, damn near as tough as kevlar BUT, I aint no fruitcake or girlieman

Posted by: fastfreefall at September 30, 2013 06:41 PM (Tz35j)

120 Illegal to go to any national park. Cause you can't look at nature without the government supervising you.

Posted by: simplemind at September 30, 2013 06:41 PM (BmWNr)

121 it's an open grassy FUCKING AREA
Posted by: Jones in CO

Oh, sure, those are totally safe.
Posted by: JFK
Well then, that's totally unsuitable to emplace a weather station. Not nearly enough asphalt surrounding it.

Posted by: mikey mann, nobel prize winner at September 30, 2013 06:42 PM (qnPg9)

122 I liked the part where Walter did some manscaping so the Brian Dennehy volcano would find him worthy. Although, the Miley Cyrus part was good, too. Revolting, but good.

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 06:42 PM (8lmkt)

123 the pharmacist had all kinds of drugs at his fingertips to kill himself with and he chose Tylenol. He did not get to the top of the transplant list. He got a dirt nap.

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 06:42 PM (zOTsN)

124 I didn't get the part where Walter woke up next to Suzanne Pleshette.

Posted by: T. at September 30, 2013 06:43 PM (nVPn7)

125 NO 34 MIA 10

PAT pending

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 06:43 PM (8sCoq)

126 When the NHS goes 100 percent totalitarian, I predict a huge uptick in travel bookings to India for those Brits who still want some semblage of freedom with their treatment

India is already doing a pretty good business treating Europeans who find out what you get for "free"

Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 06:43 PM (aTXUx)

127 you know what? I think I got a bad batch or tilex. I went through two bottles and nothing even fizzled in my shower. One new bottle and now it shines brighter than the ice on obamas after presidency grill.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 06:43 PM (Z9EHQ)

128 54 Anyone catch the Breaking Bad finale?? Thoughts?? Posted by: jewells45 trying to keep from going crazy at September 30, 2013 10:28 PM (u25eL) I thought this would have made a better final: http://goo.gl/kjJVZq I think it was the final but they decided it was too dark. It also ties in when Walt initially returns to his house and he is looking at the kitchen floor, the kicked in door of the bedroom, and finally when he hears what sounds like a baby's laughter, looks out the window at the pool. It was unrealistic to think that Gretchen & ? would be stupid enough to laundry that money for him. It's a disservice to promote this myth that some how walt earned that money. He did not. it was loot from a criminal empire and many murders, including the murder of that young boy. It was fucking immoral for walt to tell sylar to use the location of Hank and Gommie's body as a bargaining chip. How the fuck would her sister feel about it? Sure, she wants to give Hank a burial but how wd she her sister after she pulled that shit? Also, it wouldnt work. Plus, they should have been able to find the bodies on their own. They knew Hank called marie and could figure out the location. They could have gone out there, seen all the tire tracks, seen maybe the bullet casings, and bought out cadaver dogs. Walt was extremely greedy. If he had taken the 5 million from the sale of the chemical, he wd have done fine. Actually, spent time with his family before he died. But, noooooo! Now jesse is free but with no job skills and no money. Will go back to making meth, most likely. Glad to see Lydia get her comeuppance. I'm surprised she didnt start whining about her kid. Both her and Walt used their children every time they were in a jam. If they really cared for them, they wouldn't have done the shit they did.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 30, 2013 06:43 PM (paOCA)

129 PAT is good

35-10 Nawlins

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 06:44 PM (8sCoq)

130 NO 34 MIA 10 PAT pending The emcrushening.

Posted by: toby928© at September 30, 2013 06:44 PM (QupBk)

131 oh yeah, I got some shoe laces.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 06:44 PM (Z9EHQ)

132 he pharmacist had all kinds of drugs at his fingertips to kill himself with and he chose Tylenol.

what a maroon . . .

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 06:44 PM (8lmkt)

133 In Britain, the government itself runs the hospitals and employs the doctors. We've all heard scare stories about how that works in practice; these stories are false. - Paul Krugman Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 10:33 PM (aTXUx) I don't want to descend into vulgarity, but fuck that fucking fuck.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 06:44 PM (qyfb5)

134 102 Remember the Danny Boyle produced London Opening Ceremonies with the children dancing on gurneys in praise of the NHS? I knew then he was a commie fuckwad and never would I waste time or money on any of his movies Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 10:37 PM (aTXUx) Ken Loach is also a commie fuckwad.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 30, 2013 06:44 PM (paOCA)

135 That is a messaging war that can be easily won! After all, if Obamacare is so great, then why are the Democrats willing to shut down the government to avoid having to be under it? Posted by: The Political Hat at September 30, 2013 10:15 PM (XvHmy) They are trying. Really don't understand why they just don't do it.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at September 30, 2013 06:44 PM (bb5+k)

136 hell yeah i wear product in my hair. Brylcream is acceptable to remain presentable. all that other shit, like scented mousse and dry shampoo is metro.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 06:45 PM (vREma)

137 I didn't get the part where Walter woke up next to Suzanne Pleshette.
And what was it with that "where sweaters more" comment???

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at September 30, 2013 06:45 PM (qnPg9)

138 I've had two in-law family members go though liver problems recently. All their docs said 'NO!!! NO!!! NO!!!' when they asked if they could take Tylenol.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 30, 2013 06:45 PM (bCEmE)

139 Oh noes, only an hour and 15 minutes left before the Panda Cam (for DC) goes dark. We're all gonna die; chaos reigns!

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 06:45 PM (Dsds2)

140 imagine a company where the CEO wants to invest in something, and the board does not approve, so the CEO says "fuck it, let the company burn if I don't get my way." And the press has everyone convinced that the CEO is right, since the board will not give him the budget he demands. The problem is that if you just listen to the knob-polishing-media, it all seems so reasonable. Of course the R's are wrong. of course the guy in charge of *administering* the governement should throw temper tantrums and create as much havoc as possible to get his way.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at September 30, 2013 06:45 PM (zZJJp)

141 Ooops. "wear sweaters more"

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at September 30, 2013 06:45 PM (qnPg9)

142 25 The NHS, as a matter of policy, killed hundreds of thousands of patients by way of neglect. That should not only have killed Obamacare but should have killed the NHS. Unfortunately, people are bafflingly, mind-bogglingly, catastrophically and abyssally stupid. Which causes a lot of problems, you *may* have noticed. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 30, 2013 10:22 PM (qyfb5) Alternatively they aren't given accurate facts to work with. The NHS doesn't report that they fuck up constantly, and neither do the journalists, except for an occasional isolated story.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at September 30, 2013 06:46 PM (bb5+k)

143 sheesh, who has not woken up next to suzanne pleshette at least once? probably everyone but suzanne pleshette.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 06:46 PM (Z9EHQ)

144 In Britain, the government itself runs the hospitals and employs the doctors. We've all heard scare stories about how that works in practice; these stories are false. - Paul Krugman
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Yeah. I always go to Krugman when I want an opinion on my health care.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 30, 2013 06:47 PM (aDwsi)

145 Wait, I thought the end of Breaking Bad was that they get stranded in Latham, MA and get arrested and convicted for violation of the Good Samaritan law...

Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 06:47 PM (aTXUx)

146 Oh noes, only an hour and 15 minutes left before the Panda Cam (for DC) goes dark. We're all gonna die; chaos reigns! Posted by: Thrawn balaclava down, night vision goggles on. I will be back in a while. Anyone hungry?

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 06:47 PM (Z9EHQ)

147 29 I spent all Friday night recovering someone online from an infection from one of those ads disguised as the download button on a website. I do want to find those people and kneecap them. With a grenade. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 30, 2013 10:24 PM (qyfb5) Some of that malware is nasty. I've had more than one occasion where it was less trouble to simply get off the files I wanted to keep, and then format the hard drive and reinstall the operating system.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at September 30, 2013 06:47 PM (bb5+k)

148 One thing I always admire British actors for is that they all seem to know how to ride a horse well.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman

It only seems that way with the giant stick up their asses.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 30, 2013 06:48 PM (ligos)

149 Former Enron Financial Adviser Paul Krugman

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at September 30, 2013 06:48 PM (QupBk)

150 I'm just glad Walter was able to take out The Smoking Man in the finale.

Posted by: T. at September 30, 2013 06:48 PM (nVPn7)

151 A kid (19) at school today asked me about Canada's health care system. I told him the truth. He was frightened.

Posted by: Gingy (yes, married to our own Weirddave) at September 30, 2013 06:48 PM (jt8G9)

152

I am in the bunker with a bath tub full of water, some tang and some spam. I have a battery operated radio, a flashlight with fresh batteries and a baseball bat. I have practiced my serpentine running patterns, and have black out on my face. The kids are in camo pajamas. We have turned out all the lights

we a ready for the shut down apocalypse.

are you ready? do you have your plan?

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 06:48 PM (zOTsN)

153 Cause the MFM said so. And the LIV are only too happy to snarf down their shit sandwich Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 10:26 PM (vREma)

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at September 30, 2013 06:48 PM (bb5+k)

154 sheesh, who has not woken up next to suzanne pleshette at least once?
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Hell..., I've done it hundreds of times.

Posted by: Bob Newhart at September 30, 2013 06:48 PM (aDwsi)

155 The NHS doesn't report that they fuck up constantly, and neither do the journalists, except for an occasional isolated story. The Daily Mail has horror stories about the NHS on an almost daily basis.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 06:48 PM (vREma)

156 In Britain, the government itself runs the hospitals and employs the doctors. We've all heard scare stories about how that works in practice; these stories are false. - Paul Krugman Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 10:33 PM (aTXUx) Pffft.....Krugman doesn't know shit about fuck.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 30, 2013 06:48 PM (bCEmE)

157 Merovign, your NHS rant is spot-on. Where's Chique, though?

Posted by: LadyS at September 30, 2013 06:48 PM (oTXXN)

158 One thing I always admire British actors for is that they all seem to know how to ride a horse well. Posted by: Jesse Pinkman It only seems that way with the giant stick up their asses. Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2013 1 actually on english saddles, there is an optional stick the just have the rider sit on.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 06:49 PM (Z9EHQ)

159 @128 BB ending: I liked it. So many ways they could have messed it up, but as I've thought of it, they did a good job with high expectations and character limits. The over arcing theme? Doing drugs or dealing drugs will lead you to nothing good.... Well done.

I was thinking too, not one freaking gay character forced on us. Not one muzzie to feel good about. No abortions. Characters often written against type.. oh, I forgot.. they did have the Chicken guy as a ghey, but quietly and was black ... against type and very violent. Heh.

Posted by: Yip at September 30, 2013 06:49 PM (/jHWN)

160 Why w0uld a pandacam go dark? Are they cutting off the power to DC? If only!

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 30, 2013 06:49 PM (paOCA)

161 Anyone hungry? Yeah. Bring root beer floats. its still nice and toasty warm here and Peaches and I need a refreshing treat.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 06:49 PM (vREma)

162 sheesh, who has not woken up next to suzanne pleshette at least once? -------- Hell..., I've done it hundreds of times. Posted by: Bob Newhart I am sure it seemed as if it were even more. He was wise to dump her before he moved and opened that bnb

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 06:50 PM (Z9EHQ)

163 I didn't get the part where Walter woke up next to Suzanne Pleshette. *** One of the best endings ever.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 30, 2013 06:50 PM (DmNpO)

164 83 So Coothie, whats the LA plan stan? Can't wait to see you and the BH.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 10:34 PM (vREma)

Early November, after we get back from visiting my 'rents in the Great White North (j/k -- they're in Oregon).

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 06:50 PM (T1005)

165 Walking on the mall Walking on the maa-all. Nobody walks on the mall. (repeat)

Posted by: Freaked Out! at September 30, 2013 06:51 PM (ryyVW)

166 I think the majority of LIVs have no idea what we're headed for with TFG-care

I think THEY think they're going to go to the doctor/dentist for free

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 06:51 PM (8sCoq)

167 Yeah. Bring root beer floats. its still nice and toasty warm here and Peaches and I need a refreshing treat. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, well fine but it is gonna be panda flavored

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 06:51 PM (Z9EHQ)

168 it's an open grassy FUCKING AREA Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 10:35 PM (8sCoq) And it belongs to the People.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 30, 2013 06:51 PM (GEICT)

169 I have booze and cigarettes to barter with, and gassed up the vehicles. also, hording chocolate.

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 06:51 PM (zOTsN)

170 Posted by: Bob Newhart There was a just a story in the LA Times about how Newhart's real life wife is the one that came up with the series finale.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 06:51 PM (vREma)

171 Damn. Gotta go so soon. Later peeps.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at September 30, 2013 06:51 PM (bb5+k)

172 Walter White a very bad man. Very bad.

Posted by: pakistani witness at September 30, 2013 06:51 PM (qnPg9)

173 In Britain, the government itself runs the hospitals and employs the doctors. We've all heard scare stories about how that works in practice; these stories are false. - Paul Krugman Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 10:33 PM (aTXUx) Yup that's why when the Middle East Arab SOBs get sick they always go to the Mayo Clinic in London or Columbia University Medical Center in Brighton?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, 2013 06:52 PM (UbDLm)

174 'These directions are not mine. It's not me refusing this treatment, it's the NHS trust.' This is the argument against single payer. When the government can potentially wield that kind of control over your life, they WILL take advantage of it.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at September 30, 2013 06:52 PM (/IXKu)

175 I will be back in a while. Anyone hungry?
The paws that refreshes.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at September 30, 2013 06:52 PM (qnPg9)

176 I think THEY think they're going to go to the doctor/dentist for free Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 10:51 PM (8sCoq) Remember the stories of people going to a doctor's office demanding to see the doctor for free....the day after the bill was passed?

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 30, 2013 06:53 PM (bCEmE)

177 isn't this the sort of emergency Shep Smith was supposed to be reporting on? I want to know when the cannibalism and enrapening begins

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 06:53 PM (zOTsN)

178 Merovign, your NHS rant is spot-on. Where's Chique, though? Posted by: LadyS at September 30, 2013 10:48 PM (oTXXN) Oh, that wasn't a rant. I could rant, but I'd probably get a time out. Let's just say the administrators of that system, at least those responsible for the LP debacle, should be on the Liverpool Pathway themselves.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 06:53 PM (qyfb5)

179
"See that grassy area adjacent to the sidewalk?"

"Yeah?"

"It's closed."

"Dude it's a big lawn."

"Yeah, closed."

"WTF? How can you close 'the grass' ?"

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 06:53 PM (8sCoq)

180 I'm reserving judgement on the micro vs. macro economic effects of Obama-care until I hear the lunatic ravings of Paul Krugman.

Posted by: cm9000 at September 30, 2013 06:54 PM (3qZbZ)

181 IT'S A COOKBOOK !!!

Posted by: Breaking Bad Spoiler at September 30, 2013 06:54 PM (aTXUx)

182 Hey Maet? You wanna do/continue this thing? Personally, I'd rather do it tomorrow or another night. Not feeling great. But if you want to, I'll go.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 30, 2013 06:54 PM (GEICT)

183

So if the govt shuts down does that mean DC turns off all the lights?

Awesome.

Posted by: CAC at September 30, 2013 06:55 PM (KZTw3)

184 Keith Olbermann is prolly in his bathtub alternately weeping and raging what with the end of times approaching

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 06:55 PM (zOTsN)

185 Agreed on the LP, just trying to butt in/think of happier things for you and another favored commenter. Good night, all. LadyS is an ONT wimp.

Posted by: LadyS at September 30, 2013 06:55 PM (oTXXN)

186 Yeah. Bring root beer floats. its still nice and toasty warm here and Peaches and I need a refreshing treat. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 10:49 PM (vREma) Have you ever had a really good Root Beer Milkshake? They're rare, but dayam.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 06:55 PM (qyfb5)

187 and how will Algore keep the lights on in the house?

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 06:55 PM (zOTsN)

188 177 isn't this the sort of emergency Shep Smith was supposed to be reporting on? I want to know when the cannibalism and enrapening begins
Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 10:53 PM (zOTsN)

Well I prefer the reverse order because I'm old school but it's just a matter of taste I suppose.

Posted by: Mætenloch at September 30, 2013 06:56 PM (pAlYe)

189 Canadian health service. Funny story. Was watching a documentary called "Paddle to Seattle" about two guys kayaking from Alaska down the inside passage to Seattle. Was pretty funny, anywho, the one guy gets like Giardia which is a bug causing GI distress. They were off coast of Canada, and landed reported to customs and went looking for a doctor. Wound up not seeing anyone. No clinic open and would cost 800 in cash to open up. Right there in the documentary - socialized medicine for ya.

Posted by: simplemind at September 30, 2013 06:56 PM (BmWNr)

190 That cultural triangle should be upside down. Western (Linear-Active) and Eastern (Reactive) cultures tend to work, for the most part. Those near the Multi-Active vertex tend to be dysfunctional.

Posted by: rickl at September 30, 2013 06:56 PM (sdi6R)

191 Why w0uld a pandacam go dark?

that was my thought . . . how labor intensive is it, really? utter fucking load of horseshit, that's what this all is. shut it down, let it burn.

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 06:56 PM (8lmkt)

192 ...Paul Krugman That son of a bitch can eat a load of pig shit.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at September 30, 2013 06:56 PM (/IXKu)

193 I still kind of miss Daryl and Daryl.

Still, we have Obama and Reid, so there's that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 30, 2013 06:56 PM (aDwsi)

194 I'm gonna join lovely husband in dreamland. Ta, y'all.

Posted by: Gingy (yes, married to our own Weirddave) at September 30, 2013 06:57 PM (jt8G9)

195 I don't know if it messed with my health, but it sure fucked up my libido. Posted by: Gingy (yes, married to our own Weirddave) at September 30, 2013 10:36 PM (jt8G9) What I mean is that kids on the pill think they're "safe" when they're on oral contraception and then end up getting and spreading STDs. Not true of everybody, of course, but sexually active women with multiple partners can really cause social problems this way.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 30, 2013 06:57 PM (xSegX)

196 the dems told me there were two Americas and they were right. One for Congress, and on for everybody else

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 06:57 PM (zOTsN)

197 You wanna do/continue this thing? Can we all just get alloooonnnngggg?!

Posted by: Obligatory Rodney King quote at September 30, 2013 06:57 PM (vREma)

198 It's not FAIR! It's not FAIR!

There was TIME now!!

Posted by: Breaking Bad Spoiler at September 30, 2013 06:57 PM (aTXUx)

199 the government shut down is making me misspell

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 06:58 PM (zOTsN)

200 Wow. Playing Words with Friends, I tried to play the word Muslim. Was told that is not a word. WTF

Posted by: Ma Bell at September 30, 2013 06:58 PM (RLdcX)

201 >>>...should have killed the NHS. The NHS survives because it has become a point of national identity. After they lost India and the rest of the empire, and after they showed how craven their gov. was leading up to the war, and after their beloved island was turned into a target range for the nazi's, and a staging ground for the yanks, and after their beloved auto industry started stinking up the place, all they had was the queen, their snotty attitudes, and the NHS -- the three eternals of England.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at September 30, 2013 06:58 PM (zZJJp)

202 Please don't mistake my posting Paul Krugman's NHS quote as endorsement.

It's there for the mocking

Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 06:59 PM (aTXUx)

203 Oh, and this is fucking awesome: http://nicedoggie.net/?p=9133 Read.The.Whole.Thing.

Posted by: rickl at September 30, 2013 06:59 PM (sdi6R)

204 182 Hey Maet? You wanna do/continue this thing?
Personally, I'd rather do it tomorrow or another night. Not feeling great.
But if you want to, I'll go.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 30, 2013 10:54 PM (GEICT)

Eh - the moment has passed. Not to worry there'll always be another cause for fighty-fight soon enough.

Posted by: Mætenloch at September 30, 2013 06:59 PM (pAlYe)

205

Rand Paul wants a clean CR good for a "week or two" in order to "negotiate with Democrats".

No, I don't know either....

Posted by: Meremortal at September 30, 2013 06:59 PM (1Y+hH)

206 184 Keith Olbermann is prolly in his bathtub alternately weeping and raging what with the end of times approaching Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 10:55 PM

Believe it or not, TBS has hired him as an analyst for the MLB playoffs

Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 06:59 PM (aTXUx)

207 Have you ever had a really good Root Beer Milkshake? They're rare, but dayam. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith Yeah, thats pretty much how I make them. Maybe you should alternate those with the dark side cookies.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 06:59 PM (vREma)

208 Gingy (yes, married to our own Weirddave)

wait, what???? how in the name of all that is holy did I miss that? srsly, this working shit gots to stop.

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 06:59 PM (8lmkt)

209 194 I'm gonna join lovely husband in dreamland. Ta, y'all. Posted by: Gingy (yes, married to our own Weirddave) at September 30, 2013 10:57 PM (jt8G9) Yes... Come to Freddy.

Posted by: Freddy Krueger at September 30, 2013 07:00 PM (Dsds2)

210 Three eternals of England? I thought those were: Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.

Posted by: simplemind at September 30, 2013 07:00 PM (BmWNr)

211 54 Anyone catch the Breaking Bad finale?? Thoughts??

I can usually tell how good a TV episode is by how long I'm still thinking about it (keeping in mind my attention span is measured in fractions). Its been over 24 hours and I'm still thinking about it. It was really really good.

Posted by: puddleglum at September 30, 2013 07:00 PM (8SsiG)

212 Please don't mistake my posting Paul Krugman's NHS quote as endorsement. It's there for the mocking Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 10:59 PM (aTXUx) We know. I was mocking Krugman

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, 2013 07:00 PM (UbDLm)

213 all they had was the queen, their snotty attitudes, and the NHS -- the three eternals of England. Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at September 30, 2013 10:58 PM (zZJJp) Actually they go so far as to call it "the Welfare State." Sadly not my first audible groan in the first season of the new Dr. Who when they brought that up.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 07:00 PM (qyfb5)

214 200 Wow. Playing Words with Friends, I tried to play the word Muslim. Was told that is not a word. WTF Posted by: Ma Bell at September 30, 2013 10:58 PM (RLdcX) Neither is God, Jew, Imam, Ewok, and lots of other common "words". Exactly, WTF???

Posted by: lindafell at September 30, 2013 07:01 PM (PGO8C)

215

don't be too hard on Rand. I think some Senate dems really really want the delay, and the removal of the medical device tax. Reid will let them vote for it after he gets the government to shut down and try an blame the Republicans

overplaying their hand I would say. I think we can turn some dems

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:02 PM (zOTsN)

216 203 Oh, and this is fucking awesome: http://nicedoggie.net/?p=9133 Read.The.Whole.Thing. Posted by: rickl at September 30, 2013 10:59 PM (sdi6R) I just read that over at the Young Cons! Epic letter.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 30, 2013 07:02 PM (bCEmE)

217 everyone stuff a sock in it about the panda cam. I have been waiting for this forever. shhhh.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:02 PM (Z9EHQ)

218 213 I actually stopped watching back in 2006 or 7 because of little things like that, and because some of the tales were just too horror-flavored for my liking.

Posted by: T. at September 30, 2013 07:03 PM (nVPn7)

219 Eh - the moment has passed. Not to worry there'll always be another cause for fighty-fight soon enough. Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at September 30, 2013 10:59 PM (pAlYe) Oh boooo. I love a good debate. And I was upset I had to duck out last night. Family responsibilities. But alright, we can engage in some non-violent violence later.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 30, 2013 07:03 PM (GEICT)

220 @DavidMDrucker @pkcapitol The House plan is to re-pass its CR -- delay of mandate + Vitter -- and include language asking for conference. Senate will reject.#shutdown

@ChadPergram Reid: We will not go to conference till we get a clean CR #fnpolitics

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at September 30, 2013 07:04 PM (YjDyJ)

221 Anyone who can afford it goes private in the UK. Shit, it's the only way to get antibiotics.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 30, 2013 07:04 PM (paOCA)

222 Three eternals of England? I thought those were: Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.

That's just our Navy. And we reserve the latter two mainly for the French

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 30, 2013 07:05 PM (d7tB2)

223 Does anyone else ever wonder whether Justice Roberts regrets not having seen the forest for the twisted toothpick? Still trying to figure out if it was a brain fart or what.

Posted by: Justamom at September 30, 2013 07:05 PM (Sptt8)

224 Please don't mistake my posting Paul Krugman's NHS quote as endorsement.

It's there for the mocking

Posted by: kbdabear
---------------

What?! Mocking Krugman?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 30, 2013 07:05 PM (aDwsi)

225 Bachman is complaining congressman will lose health insurance with the Vetter bill an voted no on it

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:05 PM (zOTsN)

226 I will be back in a while. Anyone hungry? Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 10:47 PM Starving. If you would bring back $15 worth of Jack-in-the-Box tacos, I'll pay you $20. Arbitrage. Bring me what I can't get and I'll pay handsomely for it. It works the same in reverse...

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 30, 2013 07:05 PM (JMmQ9)

227 Vitter I mean. Dman government shut down. Making me make mistakes

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:05 PM (zOTsN)

228 So when is the Earth shattering ka-boom of this shutdown?

If your life shatters because the government shuts down then you are a mere serf serving your government lord.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 30, 2013 07:06 PM (sSHNB)

229 Yeah, thats pretty much how I make them. Maybe you should alternate those with the dark side cookies. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 10:59 PM (vREma) http://www.roadfood.com/photos/10092.jpg

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 07:07 PM (qyfb5)

230 155 The NHS doesn't report that they fuck up constantly, and neither do the journalists, except for an occasional isolated story.

The Daily Mail has horror stories about the NHS on an almost daily basis.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 10:48 PM (vREma)

Had an employee in the UK on business, she slipped on the glass-smooth shower and fell out. She's still in pain at the assignment, so they send her off to the NHS.....where they gave her some jumbo-dose Tylenol crap with even less of a safety margin than the regular stuff (which, BTW, I will not have in my house or take knowingly -- at all).

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 07:07 PM (T1005)

231 >> Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.

Ahh, the three ObamaCare treatment options.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 30, 2013 07:07 PM (wNF3N)

232 its gonna be like WWZ. I am digging a moat with a backhoe and my garden hose

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:07 PM (zOTsN)

233 The NHS survives because it has become a point of national identity. They get a lot of smug out of it. And they complain. A lot. But comfort themselves in thinking they're not "suffering" under a private system. Even as they wait months for care.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 30, 2013 07:07 PM (xSegX)

234 @223

John Roberts is an asshole and rewrote the law as presented by congress, I will never say passed because it wasn't, becoming the Jim Joyce of Supreme Court Justices.

Posted by: Kreplach at September 30, 2013 07:08 PM (hmUex)

235 221 Anyone who can afford it goes private in the UK. Shit, it's the only way to get antibiotics. Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 30, 2013 11:04 PM (paOCA)
Private is supposedly illegal in Canada isn't it?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 30, 2013 07:08 PM (Rla3K)

236 Rum, Sodomy and the Lash. Ahh, the three ObamaCare treatment options. Posted by: GnuBreed at September 30, 2013 11:07 PM (wNF3N) Gee nobody had ever explained it that way to me before.OK I'm in!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, 2013 07:08 PM (UbDLm)

237 Most all our troubles these days can be traced back to the feckless lies and obfuscation of the Mass Media.

Their total sell out to only one side of the political equation, and even that dishonestly, has rendered the nation into a blind, deaf and ignorant stumble bum groping it's way around on the top of a cliff.

No matter what happens in the next few years those who care must somehow correct this and make those who caused it to happen pay.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 07:09 PM (lAZep)

238 Bachman on FOX. She is an idiot

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, 2013 07:09 PM (UbDLm)

239 Still trying to figure out if it was a brain fart or what. I think it was photographs. Real or pshop?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 07:09 PM (vREma)

240

anyone of any means at all in the UK pays privately for medical care to concierge practices. They wouldn't dream of going to NHS

that's for poor people

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:09 PM (zOTsN)

241 @225

Wait...

Michelle Bachman did what???

Posted by: Kreplach at September 30, 2013 07:09 PM (hmUex)

242

I'm still humming that song that closed BB last night. Badfinger tune, cant' remember the name of it.

Posted by: puddleglum at September 30, 2013 07:10 PM (8SsiG)

243 Private is supposedly illegal in Canada isn't it?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 30, 2013 11:08 PM (Rla3K)

Yep. The only reason the Canadian system works is because it has the American health system as an escape valve to cover its deficiencies.

Posted by: Mætenloch at September 30, 2013 07:10 PM (pAlYe)

244 Â“Wow, I thought, this guy is a really good actor.Â” Reminds me of what Jonathan Chait claims to have thought after watching Stephen Glass lie on the phone: Â“Steve Glass is a terrible liar. If he ever tries to lie to me, IÂ’ll know it right away.Â” In retrospect, this was not the correct lesson to draw. No shit.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 30, 2013 07:10 PM (CeNUw)

245 Isn't Michelle Bachmen retiring???

Fucking asshole!!

Posted by: Kreplach at September 30, 2013 07:10 PM (hmUex)

246 I thought "Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash" was Miley Cyrus' newest album.

Posted by: T. at September 30, 2013 07:10 PM (nVPn7)

247 Bachman is complaining congressman will lose health insurance with the Vetter bill an voted no on it Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 11:05 PM (zOTsN) She's an Idiot and does not understand the Law nor how the exchanges work and what they cost. Fuckin idiot

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, 2013 07:10 PM (UbDLm)

248 Bachman on FOX. She is an idiot

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, 2013 11:09 PM (UbDLm)

Our idiot.

Posted by: cm9000 at September 30, 2013 07:11 PM (3qZbZ)

249 Yep. The only reason the Canadian system works is because it has the American health system as an escape valve to cover its deficiencies. Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at September 30, 2013 11:10 PM (pAlYe) *had*

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 07:11 PM (qyfb5)

250

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 11:02 PM (zOTsN)

I wasn't trying being hard on Rand, was just saying I had no idea why he wanted a short CR.

My first thought was, that's bad. My next thought was, well, if it's two weeks, what's the harm?

Your take may have some merit.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 30, 2013 07:11 PM (1Y+hH)

251 John Roberts is an asshole and rewrote the law as presented by congress, I will never say passed because it wasn't, becoming the Jim Joyce of Supreme Court Justices. I still think there was something very fishy there. He worked WAY too hard to vote that way. Unfortunately, we'll never be able to prove it because he'd never admit to it. It'd undermine the integrity of his precious court.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 30, 2013 07:11 PM (xSegX)

252 242 I'm still humming that song that closed BB last night. Badfinger tune, cant' remember the name of it.

Posted by: puddleglum at September 30, 2013 11:10 PM (8SsiG)

Baby Blue

Posted by: Red Shirt at September 30, 2013 07:11 PM (FIDMq)

253

Bachman said the Vitter bill wont put Congress into OCare, it will mere take away their private insurance and, darn it, some of them have really sick family members!! and it will cost them 19,000 per year to get insurance!!!

gah

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:11 PM (zOTsN)

254 Dear Bachman

Retire in silence.

Thanks,

The Conservatives

Posted by: RiverC at September 30, 2013 07:12 PM (9hUiB)

255 Bachman on FOX. She is an idiot Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, 2013 11:09 PM (UbDLm) Our idiot. Posted by: cm9000 at September 30, 2013 11:11 PM (3qZbZ) Unlike democrats, we call our spades a spade. Urh, so to speak

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, 2013 07:12 PM (UbDLm)

256 Yep. The only reason the Canadian system works is because it has the American health system as an escape valve to cover its deficiencies. Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at September 30, 2013 11:10 PM damn straight

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 30, 2013 07:12 PM (JMmQ9)

257 http://www.roadfood.com/photos/10092.jpg Too blended. The ice cream doesn't have that yummy crust from the root beer.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 07:12 PM (vREma)

258

Tylenol

Broke my elbow in my 20's. Finally had surgery two years later. After the prescription painkillers ran out, went to see the doctor something. For the pain, the doctor said, "Go ahead, you can take 2 times the recommended dose of Tylenol AND Advil for the pain. Take Both. It will not hurt you." I was in my twenties, and drank like a fish to help with the pain.

I am lucky to be alive.

Posted by: rd at September 30, 2013 07:12 PM (D+lxs)

259 Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: How Harry Reid spends his free time.

Posted by: simplemind at September 30, 2013 07:12 PM (BmWNr)

260

Bill said his nose was longer. Much longer.

Posted by: Monica at September 30, 2013 07:12 PM (DHQv9)

261 #253

Oh, but doesn't Bachman know that

It's. The. Law. ?

Posted by: RiverC at September 30, 2013 07:12 PM (9hUiB)

262 Bachman on FOX. She is an idiot I don't get it. Reid's going to kill it anyway.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 30, 2013 07:13 PM (xSegX)

263 I am lucky to be alive. Posted by: rd at September 30, 2013 11:12 PM (D+lxs) Don't worry, we're working on that one

Posted by: Obamacare at September 30, 2013 07:13 PM (UbDLm)

264 Chait, the co-author of at least one of Glass's fabrications to TNR.

I don't believe I'll be taking his word on much, either.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 30, 2013 07:13 PM (d7tB2)

265 Why don't they just pass a new CR every fucking day?

Posted by: Freaked Out! at September 30, 2013 07:13 PM (ryyVW)

266 AND Advil for the pain. Take Both. It will not hurt you." I was in my twenties, and drank like a fish to help with the pain. I am lucky to be alive. Posted by: rd at September 30, 2013 11:12 PM sounds as if you and I and everyone I knew in my 20s did same thing.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:14 PM (Z9EHQ)

267 Posted by: Justamom at September 30, 2013 11:05 PM (Sptt

Due to his inexplicable 180 on the subject and given Obama's Chicago style of "winning" by intimidation, I've always assumed that Mr. Roberts has some deep dark secret that he's willing to subvert his position on the court and his place in history to keep from being revealed.

My first guess is that he's gay.
My second guess is that he likes boys (or girls) of a very young age.

I know it must be horrendous (at least to him).

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 07:14 PM (lAZep)

268 everyone stuff a sock in it about the panda cam. I have been waiting for this forever. shhhh.

Panda Burgers?

Or Panda rape?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2013 07:14 PM (JawqV)

269 she had some vaccine that gave her brain damage or somethin

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:14 PM (zOTsN)

270 It's OVAH

Now NASA gets to tell us whether we have any money and I guess the bros in upper will decide if they want to charge NASA overtime and keep working on the off-site work.

Posted by: RiverC at September 30, 2013 07:14 PM (9hUiB)

271 I thought "Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash" was Miley Cyrus' newest album. I thought it was her standard week night. I don't wanna know what she does on the weekend.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 07:14 PM (vREma)

272 Even as they wait months for care. Drives me crazy. I compare it to computer advancementÂ—if we had computer insurance from the government, our laptops would still look like the Osborne-1.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 30, 2013 07:14 PM (CeNUw)

273 Too blended. The ice cream doesn't have that yummy crust from the root beer. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 30, 2013 11:12 PM (vREma) Well then you can't have any.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 07:14 PM (qyfb5)

274 everyone stuff a sock in it about the panda cam. I have been waiting for this forever. shhhh. Panda Burgers? Or Panda rape? Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2013 11:14 PM both, either order, whatever you wish.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:15 PM (Z9EHQ)

275 @251

If you remember the dissent read like a majority opinion because it was the majority opinion until Roberts switched at the 11th hour.

John Roberts is a clown and I hold him in low regard.

Just an umpire calling balls and strikes my ass.

Posted by: Kreplach at September 30, 2013 07:15 PM (hmUex)

276 The Left makes idiots of all our women. Palin, Bachman etal. Fuck Them.

Posted by: cm9000 at September 30, 2013 07:15 PM (3qZbZ)

277 I think Roberts bought into the Catholic social justice bullshit.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 30, 2013 07:15 PM (paOCA)

278 253 Bachman said the Vitter bill wont put Congress into OCare, it will mere take away their private insurance and, darn it, some of them have really sick family members!! and it will cost them 19,000 per year to get insurance!!! gah Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 11:11 PM (zOTsN) Awwwww. I pay just over $19k a year in premiums. Plus copays. Plus deductibles. And I don't make anywhere near what those in DC make. So suck it Bachmann.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 30, 2013 07:16 PM (GEICT)

279 Anyway, if we get shut down I'll let ya'll know and we can go and terrorize D.C.

It will be fun!

Posted by: RiverC at September 30, 2013 07:16 PM (9hUiB)

280 SO

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, 2013 07:16 PM (UbDLm)

281 Believe it or not, TBS has hired him as an analyst for the MLB playoffs

Well, the Evil Empire didn't make the postseason this year, so Keefums will do as a substitute spoiler.

Posted by: Basement Cat at September 30, 2013 07:16 PM (eawoP)

282 I saw Rum, Sodomy and The Lash open for Lita Ford at The Paladium in 1986.

Posted by: Kramer at September 30, 2013 07:16 PM (pyPwP)

283 both, either order, whatever you wish.

I'll just take the burger, then. The government's been raping us enough, don't feel like adding to it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2013 07:16 PM (JawqV)

284 223
Does anyone else ever wonder whether Justice Roberts regrets not having seen the forest for the twisted toothpick?

Still trying to figure out if it was a brain fart or what.

Posted by: Justamom at September 30, 2013 11:05 PM (Sptt

It wasn't a brain fart.

Posted by: The NSA's huge file on Justice Roberts at September 30, 2013 07:16 PM (T1005)

285 SO Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, 2013 11:16 is that a word or are you abbreviating sod off?

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:16 PM (Z9EHQ)

286

My Congresswoman is a retard. Anyone can buy health insurance if they can afford it. And Congress critters should be able to afford it. Even with 23 foster children.

I think the problem is she is too honest and too stupid to know how to become a millionaire like every crooked Congress critter seems too.

Posted by: rd at September 30, 2013 07:17 PM (D+lxs)

287

These Dolphins don't look so hot.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 30, 2013 07:17 PM (1Y+hH)

288 Is panda rape even possible? I mean, aren't they sort of a mutual "not tonight dear, I've got a headache" species?

Posted by: T. at September 30, 2013 07:17 PM (nVPn7)

289 #286

Yep. Bachman don't ruin it for us... let the Dems and their media finally pay of their hubris!

Hoist the black flag!

Posted by: RiverC at September 30, 2013 07:18 PM (9hUiB)

290 So, thirty-nine years ago, this Chicago girl I met at college says she's coming to visit me in Oklahoma. Oct 1, she's going to arrive at 7 in the morning in Ponca City on the train. Passenger trains stop in Oklahoma? I had no idea. And why Ponca City? Why didn't they stop in Tulsa? Sheesh! I'd never even been to Ponca City. Wasn't sure where it was. So I drove over to pick her up, at seven in the morning, at the train station, in Ponca City. Well, skip forward a little bit, and three kids and thirty-nine years later, that girl and I have a hotel room with a hot tub for the night. Cheers!

Posted by: mindful webworker screaming HOWDY! above the din at September 30, 2013 07:18 PM (U13jb)

291 Is panda rape even possible? I mean, aren't they sort of a mutual "not tonight dear, I've got a headache" species? Posted by: T. at September 30, working hard here on a pitpanda mix to solve the lazy panda problem.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:18 PM (Z9EHQ)

292 There really was a band called Rum Sodomy and the Lash.

Posted by: simplemind at September 30, 2013 07:19 PM (BmWNr)

293 "First there was the old Corps, then there was the new Corps; now there's this shit" -- Butch MSgt USMC (RET) http://preview.tinyurl.com/pw3y9jv

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:19 PM (6J+oK)

294 I saw Rum, Sodomy and The Lash open for Lita Ford at The Paladium in 1986.

Not actually a joke, when you consider that was the name of the Pogues' 1985 album

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=421pZgg-vlY

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 30, 2013 07:19 PM (d7tB2)

295 Well, skip forward a little bit, and three kids and thirty-nine years later, that girl and I have a hotel room with a hot tub for the night. Cheers! Posted by: mindful webworker screaming HOWDY! above the din at September 30, 2013 11:18 PM (U13jb) CONGRATS man. Live it up!

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 30, 2013 07:19 PM (GEICT)

296

congrats mindful. Now no more details, but get er done before the end of the world in 30 minutes

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:20 PM (zOTsN)

297 There really was a band called Rum Sodomy and the Lash. Posted by: simplemind at September 30, 2013 I thought those were the names of roberts children.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:20 PM (Z9EHQ)

298 I really think John Gruden has Tourette's

spider two wide banana!

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 07:20 PM (8sCoq)

299 is that a word or are you abbreviating sod off? Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 11:16 PM (Z9EHQ) Sock Off

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, 2013 07:21 PM (UbDLm)

300 Driving off into the sunset with a 55gal drum full of cash is something I could get used to.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 30, 2013 07:21 PM (9MLX+)

301 well we are in luck since no one listens to Bachman anyway

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:21 PM (zOTsN)

302 Unless Obamacare's first order of business is to explain to us how the vagina works, it's a colossal waste of time and resources.

Posted by: Fritz at September 30, 2013 07:21 PM (x2W/k)

303 Okay, what's left to watch on television this fall? Homeland TWD Boardwalk Empire American Horror Story That's it!

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 30, 2013 07:21 PM (paOCA)

304 Is there an "End of the World" countdown wrt the impending government (partial) shutdown.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 07:21 PM (Dsds2)

305 @DavidMDrucker 12m RT @ZekeJMiller: OMB Director expected to order executive agencies to shut down in 20 minutes or so #FF @OMBPres

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at September 30, 2013 07:21 PM (YjDyJ)

306 I'll just take the burger, then. The government's been raping us enough, don't feel like adding to it.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2013 11:16 PM (JawqV)

Plus panda rape sounds like it might involve some work and effort. I'll just hang around for the burgers.

Posted by: Mætenloch at September 30, 2013 07:22 PM (pAlYe)

307 Pelosi really upset about shut down costing jobs. Lets start with hers

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:22 PM (zOTsN)

308 I saw Rum, Sodomy and The Lash open for Lita Ford at The Paladium in 1986. Not actually a joke, when you consider that was the name of the Pogues' 1985 album http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=421pZgg-vlY Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 30, you saw 'em, that is the title a chapter in my biography for second semester of my senior year. It is all based on second hand accounts as I do not remember anything. It was Thanksgiving then I was at a desk building spreadsheets.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:22 PM (Z9EHQ)

309 234 John Roberts is an asshole and rewrote the law as presented by congress, I will never say passed because it wasn't, becoming the Jim Joyce of Supreme Court Justices. Posted by: Kreplach at September 30, 2013 11:08 PM (hmUex) At least Jim Joyce publicly apologized to Armando Galarraga. I'm still waiting for Roberts' apology.

Posted by: rickl at September 30, 2013 07:22 PM (sdi6R)

310 PSA- Meaghan McCain is on Bravo. For those that are into that.

Posted by: RWC-bring on O-Care at September 30, 2013 07:22 PM (LpbKr)

311

I thought those were the names of roberts children.

Snorthworthy.

Posted by: simplemind at September 30, 2013 07:23 PM (BmWNr)

312 I hate Democrats and mices to pices

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, 2013 07:23 PM (UbDLm)

313 Rum sodomy and the lash sounds like what goes on in the barrel.

Posted by: Freaked Out! at September 30, 2013 07:23 PM (ryyVW)

314 Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 30, 2013 10:43 PM (paOCA) Dude. It's Heisenberg. He's the villain of the story.

Posted by: HoboJerky, Hash Hunter at September 30, 2013 07:23 PM (CgVEi)

315 Sock Off Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, same difference

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:23 PM (Z9EHQ)

316 Dems - It's the Republicans fault that we haven't had a budget. Oh FFS!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 07:24 PM (BAS5M)

317 We really need Sven's take on what is about to unfold at midnight.

Has he been unbanished yet?

Posted by: Kreplach at September 30, 2013 07:24 PM (hmUex)

318 NO 38 MIA 17

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 07:24 PM (8sCoq)

319 310 PSA- Meaghan McCain is on Bravo.
For those that are into that.

*crickets*
(tumbleweed rolls by, slowly)

Posted by: Splunge at September 30, 2013 07:24 PM (bKA83)

320 D you understand how awesome the commute will be tomorrow if TFG shuts down the .gov. Crossing fingers

Posted by: RWC-bring on O-Care at September 30, 2013 07:24 PM (LpbKr)

321

in sum

dems have the House bill, they will not have time to act on it so they are stuck with the hot potato of government closure

this press conference is their signal to the press that it is not their fault. and of course what to write. what BS

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:24 PM (zOTsN)

322

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 11:14 PM (Z9EHQ)

Tylenol was not even close to the stupidest things we did back then.

Hell, I was a good student and known as a non troublemaker in HS. My friends kids are getting SUSPENDED for stuff that we did regularly. And when we got caught, we were at worst, given detention.

Posted by: rd at September 30, 2013 07:24 PM (D+lxs)

323 Sock off, swampie.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at September 30, 2013 07:24 PM (qnPg9)

324 290 mindful. Congrats Hi ont, I am happily awaiting the government shutdown.

Posted by: lou's a girl at September 30, 2013 07:25 PM (vgd4f)

325 Posted by: Splunge at September 30, 2013 11:24 PM (bKA83) You know you want to

She is totse into Rubio.

Posted by: RWC-bring on O-Care at September 30, 2013 07:25 PM (LpbKr)

326

government closure - what difference does it make?

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:25 PM (zOTsN)

327 Watching C-SPAN and my disgust for Chris Van Holland is only tempered by my complete and utter disdain for his ability to accurately quote McCain to further the D talking points.

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:25 PM (6J+oK)

328 OK, I'm out tomorrow night, mi amigos

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 30, 2013 07:26 PM (JMmQ9)

329 What's wrong with a little fun?

Posted by: Rum sodomy and the lash at September 30, 2013 07:26 PM (ryyVW)

330 The once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with Blood, or Inhabited by Slaves

Posted by: George Washington at September 30, 2013 07:26 PM (6S4Ai)

331 Chait, the co-author of at least one of Glass's fabrications to TNR. I don't believe I'll be taking his word on much, either. Right. Liar or gullible, either way, not trustworthy. Funny bit in the article I linked, he wrote that Glass was not a good writer. Chait rewrote most of GlassÂ’s stuff at the last minute to make it coherent. In other words, Jonathan Chait claimed that all the good parts of GlassÂ’s work was his, all the lies were totally GlassÂ’s.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 30, 2013 07:26 PM (CeNUw)

332 That's why I don't use 'totse' or whatever the word is.

Posted by: RWC-bring on O-Care at September 30, 2013 07:26 PM (LpbKr)

333 Watching C-SPAN and my disgust for Chris Van Holland is only tempered by my complete and utter disdain for his ability to accurately quote McCain to further the D talking points. Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 11:25 PM (6J+oK) If McCain has any pride left he'd just go home, but.......

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, 2013 07:27 PM (UbDLm)

334 326 government closure - what difference does it make? Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 11:25 PM (zOTsN) Was that a quote from Secretary Cankles?

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:27 PM (6J+oK)

335 Rum sodomy and the lash sounds like what goes on in the barrel.

I'll never tell.

Posted by: The Barrel at September 30, 2013 07:27 PM (JawqV)

336 Oh & Peter king can fuck himself bitching about the townhall people, hey asshole they are your boss, yeah I know you forgot that but fu!

Posted by: lou's a girl at September 30, 2013 07:27 PM (vgd4f)

337 Unless Obamacare's first order of business is to explain to us how the vagina works, it's a colossal waste of time and resources. EWWWWWWWW. Icky!

Posted by: Andrew Sullivan at September 30, 2013 07:27 PM (vREma)

338

yesssss

and DC is McCains home

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:27 PM (zOTsN)

339 317 We really need Sven's take on what is about to unfold at midnight.
Has he been unbanished yet?
Posted by: Kreplach at September 30, 2013 11:24 PM (hmUex)

The Sven roams free once again. But I'm not sure if he's aware of it.
So shhhh - no one say anything and it'll be a surprise. :-)

Posted by: Mætenloch at September 30, 2013 07:28 PM (pAlYe)

340 Boehner the Orange should fire the CR funding ODisastercare paper airplane style @ Reid as they walk out the door.

Posted by: Red Shirt at September 30, 2013 07:28 PM (FIDMq)

341 REp Steny Hoyer hates the Gheys he only referred to traditional "Barilla Pasta" families in the D press conference.

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:28 PM (6J+oK)

342 Almost thirty minutes to shutdown!!! Its like Christmas morning!!! I am perfectly willing to shoot this hostage.

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 07:28 PM (efwq5)

343 Oh & Peter king can fuck himself bitching about the townhall people, hey asshole they are your boss

I thought we were his boss.

Posted by: the IRA at September 30, 2013 07:28 PM (d7tB2)

344 I miss Sven

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:28 PM (zOTsN)

345 Dude. It's Heisenberg. He's the villain of the story. Posted by: HoboJerky, Hash Hunter at September 30, 2013 11:23 PM (CgVEi) Your always uncertain just where he stands....

Posted by: T. at September 30, 2013 07:29 PM (nVPn7)

346 Ok, I show up and Alton leaves, every time. I am getting paranoid

Posted by: lou's a girl at September 30, 2013 07:29 PM (vgd4f)

347 Oh man, Sven's still banninated

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 30, 2013 07:30 PM (d7tB2)

348 the government closes and Sven can come back. The rapture is nigh!!

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:30 PM (zOTsN)

349 Tylenol was not even close to the stupidest things we did back then. Hell, I was a good student and known as a non troublemaker in HS. My friends kids are getting SUSPENDEDfor stuff that we did regularly. And when we got caught, we were at worst, given detention. Posted by: rd at September 30, 2013 11:24 PM heh. well, you did it the smart way. I have basically the same story. I never did anything illegal but lots and lots of mischief, pranks, skirting the rules, shortcuts, fun. it is a lot easier to get away with stuff if you are not wearing a heavy metal band shirt and smelling of beer and cigarettes. all of my best stuff was in college.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:30 PM (Z9EHQ)

350 Oh & Peter king can fuck himself bitching about the townhall people, hey asshole they are your boss, yeah I know you forgot that but fu! Posted by: lou's a girl at September 30, 2013 11:27 PM (vgd4f) No, the government is his boss, he's the employee, and you're the product.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 07:30 PM (qyfb5)

351 My Congresswoman is a retard. Anyone can buy health insurance if they can afford it. And Congress critters should be able to afford it. Even with 23 foster children.

I think the problem is she is too honest and too stupid to know how to become a millionaire like every crooked Congress critter seems too.

It's not the congresscritters, it's their aides. Having to find a job that actually pays well would severely curtail the number of cute 22 y.o. blondes that can work for peanuts on some Senator's staff.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at September 30, 2013 07:30 PM (lr3d7)

352 Boehner the Orange! Bwahahahaha I'm sooo stealing that

Posted by: Justamom at September 30, 2013 07:30 PM (Sptt8)

353 If they (Boehner) don't offer these alternatives and stand fast on them, the House Repubs are either incompetent or statist faux democrats and should not be allowed to represent us. Posted by: Hrothgar at September 30, 2013 10:40 PM (XdnQT) The reason I suggest only including the requirement that Congress live under Obamacare is because the messaging favors the GOP/Anti-Obamacare people. They can state their case in a convincing way in a single sentence. The Dems/Pro-Obamacare people can't. With the LIVs, you only get at best a single sentence to make your case. If you can do that while making it impossible for your enemy to do that as well, the you will win. Any tactic that can be implemented via a LOLcat meme is a winning tactic.

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 30, 2013 07:30 PM (Vk2pI)

354 Sven left? Banned? Or just left?

Posted by: Tobacco Road at September 30, 2013 07:30 PM (4Mv1T)

355 332 That's why I don't use 'totse' or whatever the word is.
Posted by: RWC-bring on O-Care at September 30, 2013 11:26 PM (LpbKr)
Some kind of shoe or umbrella or something.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 30, 2013 07:30 PM (Rla3K)

356 Steve King needs to lose his seat.

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 07:31 PM (efwq5)

357 Sven has been posting under Phantom Menace the last few days. People are getting ban-paranoid.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 07:31 PM (qyfb5)

358 Rum sodomy and the lash sounds like what goes on in the barrel. Posted by: Freaked Out! at September 30, 2013 11:23 PM There is no rum. Trust me. Sodomy and the lash? I don't wanta talk about it...

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 30, 2013 07:31 PM (JMmQ9)

359 337 Unless Obamacare's first order of business is to explain to us how the vagina works, it's a colossal waste of time and resources. EWWWWWWWW. Icky! Posted by: Andrew Sullivan at September 30, 2013 11:27 PM (vREma) Air compressor, hammer drill, and various personal massagers. Oops, thought it was 'show and tell.'

Posted by: Randy Sandy Fluke at September 30, 2013 07:31 PM (LpbKr)

360 Sven's banned. He's lurking right here trying to post but TB auto-kills his comments.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 30, 2013 07:31 PM (d7tB2)

361 SVEN! COME BACK, SVEN! SWVEN, COME BACK!

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 30, 2013 07:32 PM (paOCA)

362 350 Merovign, hi. How are you bracing for the shutdown ?

Posted by: lou's a girl at September 30, 2013 07:32 PM (vgd4f)

363 357 Sven has been posting under Phantom Menace the last few days. People are getting ban-paranoid. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 30, 2013 11:31 PM (qyfb5) One of the other bannees has been around too under a different name.....

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 30, 2013 07:33 PM (bCEmE)

364 344 I miss Sven Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 11:28 PM (zOTsN) Thirded, fourthed, whatever number. I agree.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 07:33 PM (LpbKr)

365 Pelosi on the Senate bill "this is their [House GOP] language, they wanted two things the 986 number and repeal of the Affordable Care Act, they got one but failed on the other" liberal logic defined. "this is a proxy fight on the size of government" -- pelosi

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:33 PM (6J+oK)

366

Sven was not banned but in timeout for some reason I do not know of. I think it had something to do with needling a COB persistently, not sure about what. If anyone can find him, tell him to come back. Tonight calls for some Sven prose

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:33 PM (zOTsN)

367 FREE SVEN!

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 30, 2013 07:33 PM (paOCA)

368 356 Steve King needs to lose his seat.
Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 11:31 PM (efwq5)
Steve King or Peter King (or both)?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 30, 2013 07:33 PM (Rla3K)

369 Your always uncertain just where he stands.... Posted by: T
-----------------

I've always found the good professor to be a man of principle.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 30, 2013 07:34 PM (aDwsi)

370 I think we better get some sleep, come morning we'll need all our energy for the burning times.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 30, 2013 07:34 PM (APJIX)

371 All of these D assholes at the press conference during the last 30 minutes are preventing a vote on any House action

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:34 PM (6J+oK)

372 So the feds are seriously shutting down? How crazy. No non-essential personnel, it'll be like a Sunday, but on a Tuesday! Not sure how I'll make it, hope to see ya'll on the other side.

Posted by: mugiwara at September 30, 2013 07:34 PM (hpYnL)

373 Peter King is the IRA guy who needs to DIAF.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 30, 2013 07:34 PM (d7tB2)

374 I saw Phantom Menace posts yesterday, or today. Sven, I know you can hear me. You are one crazy sumbitch, but you are a smart effer, and when the SHTF, I want to be standing behind you, my friend.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at September 30, 2013 07:34 PM (4Mv1T)

375 I always saw Jesse/WW as the protagonists, albeit deeply flawed and dark ones. They cared about product quality, which is an admirable trait in a world of lowered expectations, and didn't whack anyone unless it seemed necessary. Jesse's ongoing attachment to his stoner homie buds was always interesting.

Hank was just too freaking stupid and cartoonish to be a heroic character.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 30, 2013 07:34 PM (9MLX+)

376 360 Sven's banned. He's lurking right here trying to post but TB auto-kills his comments.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 30, 2013 11:31 PM (d7tB2)

No I think he was officially unbanned - unless he has another hash that is banned too. But when the government finally shuts down, perhaps some of recently banished will escape containment.

Posted by: Mætenloch at September 30, 2013 07:35 PM (pAlYe)

377 Calling for the drunken robot? I think that's my cue. Good night folks, see yall later.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 30, 2013 07:35 PM (GEICT)

378 Sven get your ass in here and make with the barely coherent stream of consciousness awesomeness you are known for!

I need you, your country needs you and most of all the horde needs you!

Posted by: Kreplach at September 30, 2013 07:35 PM (hmUex)

379

darn it. I am not done with my moat yet!!!

and I haven't had a chance to board up the windows

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:35 PM (zOTsN)

380 Well, if SMOD comes for us, we'll never know until it's too late. GOODBYE EARTH. RT @AsteroidWatch In the event of government shutdown, we will not be posting or responding from this account.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 07:36 PM (Dsds2)

381 369 Your always uncertain just where he stands.... Posted by: T ----------------- I've always found the good professor to be a man of principle. Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 30, 2013 11:34 PM (aDwsi) Ehh, I don't know. You just can't pin him down.

Posted by: T. at September 30, 2013 07:36 PM (nVPn7)

382 370 I think we better get some sleep, come morning we'll need all our energy for the burning times. Posted by: lowandslow at September 30, 2013 11:34 PM (APJIX) Agreed, I need to be up early before the sun to move my giant fire starting magnifying glass to amplify the sun rising in the west after the calamity that is the shutdown.

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:36 PM (6J+oK)

383 350 Merovign, hi. How are you bracing for the shutdown ? Posted by: lou's a girl at September 30, 2013 11:32 PM (vgd4f) Not so much bracing as rooting. Actually not so much rooting as ignoring. Or trying to ignore. Sorry sliding into grump night, haven't slept properly since last wednesday.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 07:36 PM (qyfb5)

384 Steve King or Peter King (or both)? Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 30, 2013 11:33 PM (Rla3K) Scuse me. Peter King.

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 07:36 PM (efwq5)

385 how hard is going around a ban? hop onto a wifi connection and you are in

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:36 PM (Z9EHQ)

386 Some kind of shoe or umbrella or something. Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 30, 2013 11:30 PM (Rla3K) Totes: A shorter more convenient form of the word: totally. This word is most commonly used by teenage girls Well, now I know why I don't use it. And what sites to go on. What? Who's Chris Hanson?

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 07:36 PM (LpbKr)

387 Just informed my turncoat Rep that he better enjoy the next year because he's coming home in 2014.

He won by a squeaker last time because they did some redistricting as PA lost a seat.

I was suspicious of him from the get go as he's an Eastern PA liberal.

He won't get my vote next year. Told him so too.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 07:37 PM (lAZep)

388 Barilla sold out: http://tinyurl.com/phoaa5t

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 30, 2013 07:37 PM (Vk2pI)

389 and when the SHTF, I want to be standing behind you, my friend. Posted by: Tobacco Road at September 30, 2013 11:34 PM (4Mv1T) Hey Sven, call for you. Caller ID says "Admiral Ackbar."

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 07:37 PM (qyfb5)

390 Both Steve King and Peter King voted against the CR.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 07:37 PM (lAZep)

391 Will the roads still be working tomorrow? I need them to get to work. Maybe I should just stay home.

Posted by: mugiwara at September 30, 2013 07:38 PM (hpYnL)

392 387 Just informed my turncoat Rep that he better enjoy the next year because he's coming home in 2014. He won by a squeaker last time because they did some redistricting as PA lost a seat. I was suspicious of him from the get go as he's an Eastern PA liberal. He won't get my vote next year. Told him so too. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 11:37 PM (lAZep) Who?

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 07:38 PM (efwq5)

393 why is it thst everytime I read about the panalty for no insurance no details of exactly *how* that penalty is collected?

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 30, 2013 07:38 PM (UOjzE)

394 Not even sure that "totes" is used by teens anymore. The fandom wank sites, which is about as close as I get to YA fandom, use "totes" when they're mocking teenage fangrrlz.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 30, 2013 07:38 PM (d7tB2)

395 so when the govt shuts down at midnight, is it gonna be like that thing in Die Hard where the vault suddenly opens and the music swells to a crescendo?

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 07:38 PM (8sCoq)

396 It saddens me that Sven was banned. I hope that someday cooler heads will prevail and Sven will return to the fold.

Posted by: cm9000 at September 30, 2013 07:38 PM (3qZbZ)

397 how hard is going around a ban?

Physically power off your cable/DSL box for an hour or two, and it'll probably get a fresh IP lease when its powered back up.

Course there's always the anon proxy trick.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 30, 2013 07:38 PM (9MLX+)

398 *ahem* by "fandom wank" I mean this:
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/

not the shit that our cat lady might post

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 30, 2013 07:38 PM (d7tB2)

399 Oh, and this is fucking awesome: http://nicedoggie.net/?p=9133 Read.The.Whole.Thing. Posted by: rickl at September 30, 2013 10:59 PM (sdi6R) I just read that over at the Young Cons! Epic letter. Posted by: Tami at September 30, 2013 11:02 PM (bCEmE) His future in academia is officially over at this point. Still, he had balls to state the truth.

Posted by: The Pseudo-Academic Hat at September 30, 2013 07:39 PM (Vk2pI)

400 All the federal interstate highways will roll up at midnight

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 07:39 PM (8sCoq)

401 @393

The IRS will be collecting and enforcing the taxes as per John "Deuche" Roberts.

Posted by: Kreplach at September 30, 2013 07:39 PM (hmUex)

402 So what got Sven banned, I apparently missed that.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 30, 2013 07:39 PM (9MLX+)

403 how hard is going around a ban? Physically power off your cable/DSL box for an hour or two, and it'll probably get a fresh IP lease when its powered back up. Course there's always the anon proxy trick. Posted by: Purp at September 30, 2013 11:38 PM I have never been banned but I make a point to do that every so often simply because.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:39 PM (Z9EHQ)

404 339 317 We really need Sven's take on what is about to unfold at midnight.
Has he been unbanished yet?
Posted by: Kreplach at September 30, 2013 11:24 PM (hmUex)

The Sven roams free once again. But I'm not sure if he's aware of it.
So shhhh - no one say anything and it'll be a surprise. :-)

Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at September 30, 2013 11:28 PM (pAlYe)

TY.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 07:40 PM (T1005)

405 Agreed, I need to be up early before the sun to move my giant fire starting magnifying glass to amplify the sun rising in the west after the calamity that is the shutdown. Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 11:36 PM (6J+oK) How can the sun rise if the government is shutdown?

Posted by: "LIV" at September 30, 2013 07:40 PM (nVPn7)

406 Barilla sold out:

http://tinyurl.com/phoaa5t Posted by: The Political Hat
--------------

I think you mean 'caved'.
The ghey mafia must have got at them.
The Left are genuine thugs..., dangerous.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 30, 2013 07:40 PM (aDwsi)

407

Sven pick up the white courtesy phone

we need our Murrow from the trenches of the great closing of 2013, the emboning

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:40 PM (zOTsN)

408 These Dolphins don't look so hot. Posted by: Meremortal at September 30, 2013 11:17 PM (1Y+hH) I dunno. That one over there looks pretty hotÂ… and easy!

Posted by: Aquaman at September 30, 2013 07:40 PM (Vk2pI)

409

Posted by: Aquaman at September 30, 2013 07:41 PM (Vk2pI)

410 > So what got Sven banned, I apparently missed that.

Twisted Syntax

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 07:41 PM (8sCoq)

411 C-Span needs to broadcast a "viewer discretion" warning before broadcasting images and audio of Rep Slaughter - D-NY

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:41 PM (6J+oK)

412 My Rep Dave Reichert voted for Cap and Trade, wants to vote for amnesty, and usually votes with the dems on most issues and also joined the other statists voting to support the NSA. And his district was made even safer in 2012. So yeah.

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 07:41 PM (efwq5)

413 don't let me down people- that's a hanging curve...

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 07:41 PM (8sCoq)

414 Soooo cloooose, Aquaman, soooo clooose.

Posted by: The Barrel at September 30, 2013 07:41 PM (JawqV)

415 You know that PC mad exclusionary behavior in the humanities, history, and climate science? It's *everywhere*. I had some Astronomy and Astrophysics buds years ago and they got it too, top-down cloistered You Must Obey. Pretty much everything needs to be decentralized like a mofo if we want to survive.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 07:41 PM (qyfb5)

416 Twisted Syntax Posted by: Jones in CO --------------------------- It was Klingon. I'm sure of it.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at September 30, 2013 07:42 PM (4Mv1T)

417 is it me or does the "Ban Hammer" sound like one of those dirty Scandi weapons?

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:42 PM (6J+oK)

418 Physically power off your cable/DSL box for an hour or two, and it'll probably get a fresh IP lease when its powered back up. Course there's always the anon proxy trick. Posted by: Purp at September 30, 2013 11:38 PM (9MLX+) That never worked for me. I've had power out for a week and still had the same hash when it came back on.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 30, 2013 07:42 PM (bCEmE)

419 Where does Aquaman go to the bathroom?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at September 30, 2013 07:42 PM (qnPg9)

420 aquaman is the gimp in the league of justice or whatever they call that gang of do gooders. poor guy nearly starved after someone forgot to unzip his mouth. fucking merman

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:43 PM (Z9EHQ)

421 I saw Twisted Syntax open for Homophone in 1972, Indy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 30, 2013 07:43 PM (aDwsi)

422 I saw Twisted Syntax open for Depeche Mode in 1989.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 07:43 PM (qyfb5)

423 I think Ban Hammer used to tour with Golden Earring

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 07:43 PM (8sCoq)

424 I heard it was mixed metaphors and florid descriptions

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:43 PM (zOTsN)

425 Damn it, Hammer!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 30, 2013 07:43 PM (qyfb5)

426 No-one shoots Aquaman in the barrel.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 30, 2013 07:43 PM (d7tB2)

427 The IRS will be collecting and enforcing the taxes as per John "Deuche" Roberts. Posted by: Kreplach at September 30, 2013 11:39 PM (hmUex) yes, but *how*?

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 30, 2013 07:43 PM (UOjzE)

428

If the gov't shuts down in a few minutes, does that mean we no longer have to see/hear the Dems spout off?

Just wishing.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 07:43 PM (BAS5M)

429 Where does Aquaman go to the bathroom? Posted by: andycanuck at September 30, bed, pants, wherever.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:43 PM (Z9EHQ)

430 So what got Sven banned, I apparently missed that.

Posted by: Purp at September 30, 2013 11:39 PM (9MLX+)

I don't know, but we attempt to recover from these tragic events.

Posted by: cm9000 at September 30, 2013 07:44 PM (3qZbZ)

431 >Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 30, 2013 11:43 PM (qyfb5)

(Marv Albert voice)

Yyyy-ess!

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 07:44 PM (8sCoq)

432 "How's my ass taste?" in response to rep slaughter lamenting the fact that democrats were made irrelevant in the House much like the GOP in the Senate...

Posted by: Boehner the Orange at September 30, 2013 07:44 PM (6J+oK)

433 yes, but *how*?

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 30, 2013 11:43 PM (UOjzE)

Nice refund you *had* there.

Posted by: IRS at September 30, 2013 07:45 PM (FIDMq)

434 Sorry.

Charles Dent.

Out of Allentown.

Soon to be on funemployment.

And I guess it wasn't that much of a squeaker. My mistake.

It will be in 2014.

Douchebag.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 07:45 PM (lAZep)

435 That never worked for me. I've had power out for a week and still had the same hash when it came back on. Posted by: Tami at September 30, 2013 sometimes after I do a thorough computer cleaning I get a new hash. do you ever clear out your cookies?

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:46 PM (Z9EHQ)

436 Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 30, 2013 11:40 PM (aDwsi) Geebus the comments there are pitiful. 'i'm straight, Christian and conservative.. But you have offended me.' Bet that jackass printed the comment and showed it to his buddies to be more edgy.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 07:46 PM (LpbKr)

437

I think that when you file your taxes you will be required to file a certificate of health insurance from your provider. If you don't, you will be assessed a fine of 95 dollars or about 2 per cent of you income, whichever is higher. the tax will be withheld from your refund, assuming you get one

so, they collect at tax time

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:46 PM (zOTsN)

438 Where does Aquaman go to the bathroom? Let's just say don't drink the water.

Posted by: Freaked Out! at September 30, 2013 07:46 PM (ryyVW)

439 You morons checking out the pinup girl seated next to Slaughter?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 30, 2013 07:46 PM (DmNpO)

440 From what I understand, Sven was going after one of the cobs too hard (summarizing)

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 07:46 PM (efwq5)

441 All the federal interstate highways will roll up at midnightÂ… The roads could use a good roll.

Posted by: Stephen Price Heinlein at September 30, 2013 07:47 PM (CeNUw)

442 do you ever clear out your cookies? Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 11:46 PM (Z9EHQ) Every year on Passover

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, 2013 07:47 PM (UbDLm)

443 $95, or 1% of your income, whichever is higher, for 2014.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at September 30, 2013 07:48 PM (4Mv1T)

444 Where does Aquaman go to the bathroom? *** don't drink the water. Fish fuck in it.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 30, 2013 07:48 PM (DmNpO)

445 12 minutes until doom, death, and complete destruction!

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 07:48 PM (Dsds2)

446 All the federal interstate highways will roll up at midnightÂ… Pretty please, can they stop the freaking construction on them? It's been five years since you could drive anywhere without a traffic jam.

Posted by: t-bird at September 30, 2013 07:48 PM (FcR7P)

447 How can the sun rise if the government is shutdown? Posted by: "LIV" at September 30, 2013 11:40 PM (nVPn7) Pfft. On the backs of birth control deprived womyn and children silly.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 07:48 PM (LpbKr)

448 sometimes after I do a thorough computer cleaning I get a new hash. do you ever clear out your cookies? Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 11:46 PM (Z9EHQ) That's rather personal. (No, I don't)

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 30, 2013 07:48 PM (bCEmE)

449 If the gov't shuts down in a few minutes, does that mean we no longer have to see/hear the Dems spout off? DonÂ’t worry, the government doesnÂ’t shut down for a few hours in California. WeÂ’ll keep the country moving forward!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 30, 2013 07:49 PM (CeNUw)

450 don't drink the water. Fish fuck in it. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse ---------------------------- These are the words of a scotch drinker.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at September 30, 2013 07:49 PM (4Mv1T)

451 so I have been in a grudge match with a major retailer. I sent a couple of unsatisfactory items back and said "swap 'em for same thing only ones that work- jackwad." Instead I got a gift card for the right amount, however, if I go to the store to buy them I will have to pay the 8.7% sales tax on them.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:49 PM (Z9EHQ)

452 @427

The same way when you don't give the government it's tribute.

You will be assessed a penalty, er, tax.

Posted by: Kreplach at September 30, 2013 07:49 PM (hmUex)

453 Posted by: Serious Cat at September 30, 2013 11:38 PM (UOjzE)

From what I understand (but who the ckuf knows how it will really work) that the IRS won't dun anyone for the "tax" but if you are supposed to get a refund and you owe the "tax" then they will take it out of your refund.

What happens if you owe them but don't pay the "tax" I don't have a clue if they will then claim you didn't pay in full and try to collect.

I hope everyone gets so confused and pissed off that the number of non payers jumps up and the IRS gets overloaded.

serve em right.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 07:49 PM (lAZep)

454 395 so when the govt shuts down at midnight, is it gonna be like that thing in Die Hard where the vault suddenly opens and the music swells to a crescendo?Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 11:38 PM (8sCoq)
In this case the door slams shut.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 30, 2013 07:49 PM (Rla3K)

455 Now they're testin' the trap and it chills my spine 11 more minutes to go

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:49 PM (6J+oK)

456 443 $95, or 1% of your income, whichever is higher, for 2014. Posted by: Tobacco Road at September 30, 2013 11:48 PM (4Mv1T) Is that when we file in 2015 for 2014 year or 2014 for this year?

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 07:49 PM (efwq5)

457 I can hardly wait. I'm lovin this end of the world shit.

Posted by: Freaked Out! at September 30, 2013 07:49 PM (ryyVW)

458 Nice refund you *had* there. Posted by: IRS at September 30, 2013 11:45 PM (FIDMq) I haven't had a refund in over ten years. i always under withhold.. worrying i could get laid off and don't want my monies locked up in a no interest loan to government.

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 30, 2013 07:50 PM (UOjzE)

459 Saints takin' a knee

38-17 FINAL

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 07:50 PM (8sCoq)

460 Right now, Keith Olberman is on TBS talking to Pedro Martinez about the baseball game between Tampa Bay and Texas (Tampa Bay won, and will play Cleveland at Cleveland Wednesday night). He is acting moderately normal, and Pedro is a funny guy.

Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at September 30, 2013 07:50 PM (v6hyJ)

461 @ChadPergram At 11:47 pm et, OMB instructs agencies to "execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to the absence of appropriations." #fnpolitics

@ChadPergram With OMB's message to federal agencies, shutdown is official at midnight et. #fnpolitics

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at September 30, 2013 07:50 PM (YjDyJ)

462 And the trap and the rope aw they work just fine got 10 more minutes to go

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:50 PM (6J+oK)

463

gosh it feels like New Years

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:50 PM (zOTsN)

464 I've had power out for a week and still had the same hash when it came back on. You could be on static IP.

Posted by: t-bird at September 30, 2013 07:50 PM (FcR7P)

465 when we file in 2015 for 2014 year

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 07:50 PM (8sCoq)

466 Well I'm waitin' on the pardon that'll set me free with 9 more minutes to go

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:51 PM (6J+oK)

467 8 minutes till the END TIMES.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 07:51 PM (lAZep)

468 And count on Ezra Klein to... This is another douchebag that seriously needs to be force-fed a footlong shit sandwich.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at September 30, 2013 07:51 PM (/IXKu)

469 But this is for real so forget about me got 8 more minutes to go

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:52 PM (6J+oK)

470 410 >
So what got Sven banned, I apparently missed that.

Twisted Syntax

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 11:41 PM (8sCoq)

I think I saw Twisted Syntax open for INXS back in the late 80s....

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 07:52 PM (T1005)

471 How long do you think it's going to take for the Republicans to cave. Will they make it 24 hours?

Posted by: Freaked Out! at September 30, 2013 07:52 PM (ryyVW)

472 425 Damn it, Hammer! Posted by: Merovign
------------------------

The quick and the dead..., the quick and the dead.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 30, 2013 07:52 PM (aDwsi)

473

what is the preferred doom beverage for this end of the universe scenario?

klien's butt hurt on Greta is so delicious

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:52 PM (zOTsN)

474 when aquaman is in his mild mannered journolist outfit, he goes by the name ezra klein.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:52 PM (Z9EHQ)

475 I was kidding before, but what, did Sven really get banned?.

Posted by: cm9000 at September 30, 2013 07:53 PM (3qZbZ)

476 8 minutes till the END TIMES. Not to rub it in, but we still get three more hours of salty, Federal overlord-ness out here.

Posted by: t-bird at September 30, 2013 07:53 PM (FcR7P)

477 I think the preferred beverage should be s hot, so we don't waste water

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:53 PM (zOTsN)

478 when aquaman is in his mild mannered journolist outfit, he goes by the name ezra klein.

That's really not fair to Aquaman.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2013 07:53 PM (JawqV)

479 460 Yeah, closet liberals at TBS and ESPN, to the last. If Olbermann had been Beck-like in political preference, there would be no career recovery.

Posted by: Seems like... at September 30, 2013 07:54 PM (nVPn7)

480 The Federal Shutdown WILL EXCEED THE SPEED OF LIGHT.

it will be INSTANTANEOUS.

maybe we can harness this for Star flight.

Strap democrat Senators to the engine pods.

"they've voted and voted cap'n and we canna get anymore speed"

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 07:54 PM (lAZep)

481 Seven minutes and then the Void will be opened. 'Ho-Lords will come worth and enslave us all! Wait, if this really is all a computer program run by the government, perhaps we'll all "die" at midnight EST.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 07:54 PM (Dsds2)

482 Speaking of the NHS, their denying help to smokers is actually pretty tame compared to their usual passive euthanasia of babies and the elderly through slow tortuous deathÂ… http://politicalhat.com/tag/nhs/

Posted by: The Medical Hat at September 30, 2013 07:54 PM (Vk2pI)

483 417 is it me or does the "Ban Hammer" sound like one of those dirty Scandi weapons?

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 11:42 PM (6J+oK)

It's Jan Hammer's brother, the one that handles the business side and coordinates touring.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 07:54 PM (T1005)

484

a shot

damned shut down, messes with my spaces

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:54 PM (zOTsN)

485 This is almost as good as Fitzmas. Almost.

Posted by: jakeman at September 30, 2013 07:55 PM (vH4YP)

486 With my feet on the trap and my head on the noose got 5 more minutes to go

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:55 PM (6J+oK)

487 Jimmy Graham gave me 36 FFL points.

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at September 30, 2013 07:55 PM (5H6zj)

488

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 07:55 PM (8sCoq)

489 How many days before John Boehner cries and caves to Harry Reid?

Posted by: buzzion at September 30, 2013 07:55 PM (LI48c)

490 when aquaman is in his mild mannered journolist outfit, he goes by the name ezra klein. That's really not fair to Aquaman. Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30 yeah, I was angling at saying ezra klein is into watersports,

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:55 PM (Z9EHQ)

491 Out of scotch, switched to beer. Come on SMOD

Posted by: Tobacco Road at September 30, 2013 07:55 PM (4Mv1T)

492 465 when we file in 2015 for 2014 year Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 11:50 PM (8sCoq) Oh good. I am going to max out my refund next year and then increase my withholding so I don't get any refund for 2014. Don't care about tax and I will not comply.

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 07:55 PM (efwq5)

493 Not to rub it in, but we still get three more hours of salty, Federal overlord-ness out here.

Posted by: t-bird at September 30, 2013 11:53 PM (FcR7P)

Ever try anything gov't after 5?

Posted by: Red Shirt at September 30, 2013 07:55 PM (FIDMq)

494 heh, my mom still has to go and work at the base tomorrow morning

Posted by: The Dude at September 30, 2013 07:55 PM (vJdyz)

495 It won't be long now til th-

hey...

what's that bright light in the sky outside?

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 07:55 PM (8sCoq)

496 Won't somebody come and cut me loose with 4 more minutes to go

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:56 PM (6J+oK)

497 yeah, I was angling at saying ezra klein is into watersports,

Heh.

And... eeewwww!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2013 07:56 PM (JawqV)

498 Will the sequester still continue after the shutdown?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at September 30, 2013 07:56 PM (qnPg9)

499 hey... what's that bright light in the sky outside? Posted by: Jones in CO is that a blimp over there?

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:56 PM (Z9EHQ)

500 OH and you west coasties; the Federal Government shut down time is set by EDT.

So suck it westies. You lose 3 hours of government teat time.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 07:56 PM (lAZep)

501 I can see the mountains I can see the skies with 3 more minutes to go

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:57 PM (6J+oK)

502 496 If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Any last words?

Posted by: Seems like... at September 30, 2013 07:57 PM (nVPn7)

503 I'm,cheering more for a shutdown than if the Steelers were in the Superbowl.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 07:57 PM (nifdH)

504 I can feel it

I can feel it

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 07:57 PM (8sCoq)

505 in the manner of all those who call the JEF's bluff, I'm having a white russian

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:57 PM (zOTsN)

506 Or perhaps we should count in minutes for him instead.

Posted by: buzzion at September 30, 2013 07:57 PM (LI48c)

507 Sven has been posting the last couple of days, under the sock The Phantom Menace. Watch for this sock to climb into the top 10 in the near future.

He can change handles, but the syntax is permanent.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 30, 2013 07:57 PM (wNF3N)

508 stop

Dave

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 07:57 PM (8sCoq)

509 Sven.. Sven.. Sven..

Sven..Sven..Sven..

Sven..Sven..Sen..

Posted by: Kreplach at September 30, 2013 07:57 PM (hmUex)

510 This is another douchebag that seriously needs to be force-fed a footlong shit sandwich. Tell him itÂ’s administration policy and heÂ’ll do it voluntarily.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 30, 2013 07:57 PM (CeNUw)

511 @uscapitol: Due to a lapse in government funding, this account will not be active until further notice. I'm all broke up.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 30, 2013 07:57 PM (bCEmE)

512 500 Bitter Clinger, on no what will I do? What will become of me,

Posted by: lou's a girl at September 30, 2013 07:57 PM (vgd4f)

513

my mind is going

I can feel it

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 07:58 PM (8sCoq)

514 And it's to dern pretty for a man that don't wanna die 2 more minutes to go

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:58 PM (6J+oK)

515 Jimmy Graham gave me 36 FFL points. *** Yes. He totally effed me over.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 30, 2013 07:58 PM (DmNpO)

516 465 when we file in 2015 for 2014 year Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 11:50 PM (8sCoq) oh, wow. i thought it started this comming April. So, I guess we also wont be seeing those new IRS forms related to mandate this year?

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 30, 2013 07:58 PM (UOjzE)

517 joke will be on us when the gove forgets to pay their electric bill and someone cuts the internets off.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:58 PM (Z9EHQ)

518

OMB Director Sylvia Burwell has ordered federal agencies to implement their shutdown plans - @ZekeJMiller

Posted by: Meremortal at September 30, 2013 07:58 PM (1Y+hH)

519 Dear Republicans:

When you're standing on the gallows, you have little to lose by kicking the hangman in the balls.

Regards,
M. Hammer

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 30, 2013 07:58 PM (aDwsi)

520 So suck it westies. You lose 3 hours of government teat time. It's already dry here in the AZ desert. We're used to it.

Posted by: jakeman at September 30, 2013 07:58 PM (vH4YP)

521

I can feel it

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 07:58 PM (8sCoq)

522 For the next 24 hours, all crime is legal.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 07:58 PM (Dsds2)

523 448 sometimes after I do a thorough computer cleaning I get a new hash. do you ever clear out your cookies?

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 11:46 PM (Z9EHQ)

That's rather personal.

(No, I don't)

Posted by: Tami at September 30, 2013 11:48 PM (bCEmE)

Oh, it's totes necessary to toss your cookies every once in a while....

Posted by: Low Information Comp Tech at September 30, 2013 07:58 PM (T1005)

524 In honor of the government shutdown, I am going to go to the bathroom.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 30, 2013 07:59 PM (wW0fZ)

525 I can see the buzzards I can hear the crows 1 more minute to go

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 07:59 PM (6J+oK)

526 He can change handles, but the syntax is permanent. Posted by: GnuBreed -------------------- That is the fact, JACK.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at September 30, 2013 07:59 PM (4Mv1T)

527 For the next 24 hours, all crime is legal. Posted by: Thrawn you mean for everyone and not obama alone?

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 07:59 PM (Z9EHQ)

528 This is like waiting for SMOD, only a lot duller. One minute.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 30, 2013 07:59 PM (wNF3N)

529 For the next 24 hours, all crime is legal. *** And here I am, 800 miles or so from DC.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 30, 2013 07:59 PM (DmNpO)

530 My last post to you all before the government shutdown closes down the interwebs. Goodluck and Godspeed my friends.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at September 30, 2013 07:59 PM (BXLPR)

531

it tits up time people

smoke em if you got em

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 07:59 PM (zOTsN)

532 500 OH and you west coasties; the Federal Government shut down time is set by EDT. So suck it westies. You lose 3 hours of government teat time. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 11:56 PM (lAZep) Damn! I should have gotten my welfare check today!! Damn it! How am I going to afford my new escalade??

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 07:59 PM (efwq5)

533 And... 'ere we go! Doom has arrived! May all those who oppose the Obama-Mind feel the wrath of the Swarm!

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 08:00 PM (Dsds2)

534 This is better than watching the ball drop in Times Square.

Posted by: jakeman at September 30, 2013 08:00 PM (vH4YP)

535 And ... 3 2 1 Panda cam down!

Posted by: Freaked Out! at September 30, 2013 08:00 PM (ryyVW)

536 For the next 24 hours, all crime is legal.

Fuck, it's like being back in Stockton.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2013 08:00 PM (JawqV)

537 brace

BRACE

BRACE

BRACE

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 08:00 PM (8sCoq)

538
Congress, you fucked me!

Posted by: Uncle Sam at September 30, 2013 08:00 PM (pJF+c)

539 522 For the next 24 hours, all crime is legal.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 11:58 PM (Dsds2)

Then why is the government shutting down?

Posted by: buzzion at September 30, 2013 08:00 PM (LI48c)

540 And now I'm swingin' and here I go-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 08:00 PM (6J+oK)

541 That's it!

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 30, 2013 08:00 PM (aDwsi)

542 00:00

We're DOOMED.

DOOMED I SAY.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:00 PM (lAZep)

543 I just watched Ironclad. It wasn't bad. Some nice battle axe usage. I think the ladies would like the welsh actor with the funny name who was in it. He also plays King Richard in the White Queen.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 30, 2013 08:00 PM (paOCA)

544 WAAAA HOOOOOOOOO MOUNTAIN DEW

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 08:00 PM (8sCoq)

545

It's on. I didn't hear anything....

Reminds me of Y2K.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 30, 2013 08:00 PM (1Y+hH)

546 Wheeeeeeeeeeee

Posted by: lou's a girl at September 30, 2013 08:00 PM (vgd4f)

547 Jones- You're crakin' me up tonight.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at September 30, 2013 08:00 PM (4Mv1T)

548 http://tinyurl.com/nrjs977

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 08:00 PM (6J+oK)

549 Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnndddddddddddd Its official.

Posted by: Gmac-Pondering the coming implosion at September 30, 2013 08:00 PM (IanLz)

550 Muthafucka my Obamaphone isn't working!

Posted by: jakeman at September 30, 2013 08:01 PM (vH4YP)

551 Are you all still here? Does the interwebs still work?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at September 30, 2013 08:01 PM (BXLPR)

552 *sad trombone* so anticlimactic

Posted by: Red Shirt at September 30, 2013 08:01 PM (FIDMq)

553 Hello, all! So, we're shutdown then, yeah? *looks around* So far I'm not seeing any signs of apocalypse. No hellfire raining from the sky, no rotting corpses rising from their graves. It was my understanding the world would end if the gubmint shut down. The Dems weren't LYING, were they?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 08:01 PM (CA2NO)

554 Fuck yes!!!!

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 08:01 PM (LpbKr)

555

faaaaccckckkkkkk

I must be in Hell

I see Harry Reid

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:01 PM (zOTsN)

556 539 buzzion, ok I lol. I know, I'm easy

Posted by: lou's a girl at September 30, 2013 08:01 PM (vgd4f)

557 If the government is shutdown why does this D-bag's mic still work?

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 08:01 PM (6J+oK)

558 A little mood music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KN0_-HgWNo

Posted by: The Musical Hat at September 30, 2013 08:01 PM (Vk2pI)

559 How long until the wave of chaos and destruction from the shutdown reaches the west coast? Long enough for me to execute my plans to become a regional warlord?

Posted by: PabloD at September 30, 2013 08:01 PM (jedP8)

560 I do what I can.

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 08:01 PM (8sCoq)

561 Don't forget to kiss the person you are with. Happy New Shutdown!

Posted by: Seems like... at September 30, 2013 08:02 PM (nVPn7)

562 It's like wearin' khakis with no underwear. Free falling.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at September 30, 2013 08:02 PM (4Mv1T)

563 Day One: The Shut Down begins.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:02 PM (lAZep)

564 BRACE

BRACE

BRACE
Posted by: Jones
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That there is the funniest fucking thing I have heard all night.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 30, 2013 08:02 PM (aDwsi)

565 Its HEEEEEERRREEE!!!

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 08:02 PM (efwq5)

566 How long until the wave of chaos and destruction from the shutdown reaches the west coast? Long enough for me to execute my plans to become a regional warlord? Posted by: PabloD you only have until 2016.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 08:02 PM (Z9EHQ)

567 What a jyp. The air raid sirens didn't even go off.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 30, 2013 08:02 PM (wNF3N)

568 I need a couple of tacos.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 30, 2013 08:02 PM (paOCA)

569 strategic corporal, did you make it??

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:02 PM (zOTsN)

570 How long until MSNBC starts it's broadcasts with "Day ?, America held hostage"?

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 08:03 PM (Dsds2)

571 Reid better cut it short. The kids are up WAY past their bed-time.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 08:03 PM (LpbKr)

572 well the lights are still on and the toilet still flushes

how y'all managing so far

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 08:03 PM (8sCoq)

573 Down goes panda!!! Down goes panda!!!

Posted by: zombie howard cosell at September 30, 2013 08:03 PM (qnPg9)

574 yawn, I am out, talk about anti-climactic

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2013 08:03 PM (Z9EHQ)

575 538 Congress, you fucked me! Posted by: Uncle Sam at October 01, 2013 12:00 AM (pJF+c) I'll adopt the kids from the union!!!!!!!!! I can haz Obamacares?

Posted by: Michelle Bachman at September 30, 2013 08:03 PM (BXLPR)

576 I am drinking Harry Reid's Tears of Unfathomable Sadness right now.

Posted by: jakeman at September 30, 2013 08:03 PM (vH4YP)

577 556 539 buzzion, ok I lol. I know, I'm easy Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2013 12:01 AM (vgd4f) Wait, what?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 30, 2013 08:03 PM (qyfb5)

578 Is Reid drunk? What was the mic throw?

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 08:03 PM (LpbKr)

579 Anybody near D. C.? Any govt worker riots yet?

Posted by: Meremortal at September 30, 2013 08:04 PM (1Y+hH)

580 >> I must be in Hell

>> I see Harry Reid.

LOL, thunderb wins my vote.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 30, 2013 08:04 PM (wNF3N)

581 Okay, show us your tits. It's the Obamalypse.

Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at September 30, 2013 08:04 PM (v6hyJ)

582 Here's a twwwwwist: @amyvrwc: We've been Shyamalan'd. The government has been shut down THE WHOLE TIME.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 08:04 PM (Dsds2)

583 Dear Diary,

Well, the worst has happened. The fear is palpable..., we are in shut down. All around me darkness has set in. I expect the worst.

This may be my last entry.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 30, 2013 08:04 PM (aDwsi)

584

well isn't this worse than a limp dick

talk about anti-climatic

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:04 PM (zOTsN)

585 The government just shut down. Can someone call 911? I've fallen and I can't get up!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 30, 2013 08:04 PM (oFCZn)

586 Government shutdown?

Never heard of it.

Posted by: Cahlers Sibgon at September 30, 2013 08:05 PM (lAZep)

587 "So far I'm not seeing any signs of apocalypse. No hellfire raining from the sky, no rotting corpses rising from their graves. It was my understanding the world would end if the gubmint shut down. The Dems weren't LYING, were they?" This is the part of Wargames where Harry Reid starts trying to figure out the launch codes.

Posted by: Seems like... at September 30, 2013 08:05 PM (nVPn7)

588 574 yawn, I am out, talk about anti-climactic Posted by: yankeefifth at October 01, 2013 12:03 AM (Z9EHQ) Holy shit! Cruz just shoved Reid!! Of course, i'm kidding.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 08:05 PM (LpbKr)

589 Shutdown + 00:05:00

All quiet, too quiet. Guns are loaded and ready. Sandbags up around the bedroom door. Windows locked. The hordes wandering the wastes may get to me, but they'll have a fight on their hands.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2013 08:05 PM (JawqV)

590 Since I don't believe the republicans actually have balls, over/under when they cave?

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 08:06 PM (efwq5)

591 Rush hour traffic will be clear in Maryland for those woking in privte sector.

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 30, 2013 08:06 PM (UOjzE)

592 ( . Y . )

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at September 30, 2013 08:06 PM (5H6zj)

593 Coooouraaage.

Posted by: d. rather at September 30, 2013 08:06 PM (qnPg9)

594 It sounds like they are caving with Chelsea Manning. I don't think they will cut off his balls but he may get his hormones. But then he gets boobs and needs a bra. So, how would they keep him in a male prison? I guess he could use them as a bargaining chip. Tits for ~~fags~~ cigs!

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 30, 2013 08:06 PM (paOCA)

595 Thank you MH

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 08:06 PM (8sCoq)

596 Conan O'Brian is on, TBS is still working. I still have cable. Nuts!

Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at September 30, 2013 08:06 PM (v6hyJ)

597 It was a dark and shudowny night

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:06 PM (lAZep)

598 572 well the lights are still on and the toilet still flushes how y'all managing so far Posted by: Jones in CO at October 01, 2013 12:03 AM (8sCoq) I've got a bag of lime to sprinkle on the cat hole I wil be forced to dig in my back yard, luckily I have been trhough survival school so I can make a solar still to turn my urine into potable water.

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 08:07 PM (6J+oK)

599 Holy shit! Cruz just shoved Reid!! Of course, i'm kidding. Posted by: RWC at October 01, 2013 12:05 AM (LpbKr) I'd love to see a Taiwan style shutdown.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 30, 2013 08:07 PM (bCEmE)

600 I just picked off two looters trying to steal my lawn jockey statue.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 30, 2013 08:07 PM (wNF3N)

601 I feel...refreshingly unregulated. Anyone selling black market toilets?

Posted by: Splunge at September 30, 2013 08:07 PM (bKA83)

602 Have the Russians invaded yet? I've been prepared for this since Y2K! Wolverines!

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 30, 2013 08:07 PM (ZPrif)

603

I was hoping they would cut off the mic and turn out the lights

booo

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:07 PM (zOTsN)

604 What we need is a good caning in the Senate.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 30, 2013 08:07 PM (l3vZN)

605 579 Anybody near D. C.? Any govt worker riots yet? Posted by: Meremortal at October 01, 2013 12:04 AM (1Y+hH) Hold on, getting a call. It's from in my house!! No, fuckers are too lazy to get upset. They get taxpayer funded vacation, I get a nice commute tomorrow.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 08:07 PM (LpbKr)

606 So. You think harry and john get together for a little bdsm this a.m.?

We know who'll be on the bottom.

And crying.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:08 PM (lAZep)

607 I think you've taken this "anarchy" thing way too farÂ…

Posted by: Sid Vicsious snorting heroin off of Nancy Spungen's ass at September 30, 2013 08:08 PM (Vk2pI)

608 It's like wearin' khakis with no underwear. Free falling. Posted by: Tobacco Road at October 01, 2013 12:02 AM (4Mv1T) It's comments like this that keep me coming back to the HQ day after day. We're going streaking! ( . )( . )

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 08:08 PM (CA2NO)

609 Jackass is about to speak.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 08:08 PM (LpbKr)

610

I just sent a message to Obama thru the whitehouse.gov site:

"Dear President Obama,

I am currently unemployed. I'm a diabetic and asthmatic. I do not have health insurance. I will not comply with Obamacare. I will not sign up through any exchanges, nor will I pay any fines. Excuse me, taxes. I won't answer any questions my doctor asks that I don't consider as germain to my conditions. In short, I will not comply, period. Your healthcare plan doesn't have anything to do with health or with care. I've never been in the military, nor sworn an oath other than the pledge of allegiance, but I consider it my duty to disobey unconstitutional laws. Make no mistake, Obamacare is unconstitutional on it's face, and my duty as a citizen compels me to not comply regardless of my health conditions or possible repercussions.

Sincerely,

Big Zesty"

I used my real name, address, & phone number. Good evening morons.

Posted by: Big Zesty at September 30, 2013 08:08 PM (K1zj1)

611 Bad news folks I decided like twenty minutes ago to visit a national park and now I can't These are real tears

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 30, 2013 08:08 PM (oFCZn)

612 But what about PandaCam? DOES NOBODY CARE ABOUT PANDACAM?!?!?!?!?!?!

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 08:08 PM (Dsds2)

613 You pissy little fuck.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 08:08 PM (LpbKr)

614 Early reports of cannibalism in the Superdome.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 30, 2013 08:08 PM (ZPrif)

615 I am drinking Harry Reid's Tears of Unfathomable Sadness right now.

Don't drink them. Heat 'em boiling hot, then throw them back into the Cryptkeeper's face.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 30, 2013 08:08 PM (T/XcG)

616 Ha! Shut. It. Down. Don't ever bring it back. Fuck all that noise, we do not need them.

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 08:09 PM (8lmkt)

617 Shutdown +00:09:00

Heard something outside the window. Emptied a full magazine. Neighbor's cat and I missed him. Will probably have paw prints all over my windsheild in the morning. Need to get window replaced.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2013 08:09 PM (JawqV)

618

gentlemen, y-not just showed tits

I am shocked at the lack of response and can only blame the shutdown

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:09 PM (zOTsN)

619 Hey, I've just seen cats and dogs living togetherÂ… what's up?

Posted by: LIV taking a break from browing kitteh videos on Youtube at September 30, 2013 08:09 PM (Vk2pI)

620 That whirring clanking sound you are hearing is the US shutting down.

Posted by: Freaked Out! at September 30, 2013 08:09 PM (ryyVW)

621 You just can't shut the pandacam down. It has to be powered down.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 30, 2013 08:09 PM (paOCA)

622 I feel...refreshingly unregulated. Anyone selling black market toilets? Posted by: Splunge at October 01, 2013 12:07 AM (bKA83) Yeah, anyone know the hook-up for some black market dish detergent? You know, the GOOD stuff. *wink wink*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 08:09 PM (CA2NO)

623

Get ready for 'reporters' in North Face jackets interviewing disgruntled tourists at the entrances to National Parks.

"Well, me and Mabel always wanted to see Yosemite, and I don't know that she'll live through this disappointment."

Posted by: Meremortal at September 30, 2013 08:09 PM (1Y+hH)

624 This is going to be terrible for the economy. All the government workers will be blowing their money at Costco tomorrow.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 30, 2013 08:09 PM (l3vZN)

625 BREAKING

Cats And Dogs Living Together- Mass Hysteria Grips Nation

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 08:09 PM (8sCoq)

626 604 What we need is a good caning in the Senate.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at October 01, 2013 12:07 AM (l3vZN)

This town need an enema! *party whistle*

Posted by: Joker at September 30, 2013 08:10 PM (FIDMq)

627 10 minutes after

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 08:10 PM (BAS5M)

628 Is there a bar in the House of Congress? The french have bars in all their government bldgs.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 30, 2013 08:10 PM (paOCA)

629 I was planning on visiting all of the national monuments simultaneously at midnight and now cannot because Republicans hate happiness.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 30, 2013 08:10 PM (ZPrif)

630 I'd love to see a Taiwan style shutdown. Posted by: Tami at October 01, 2013 12:07 AM (bCEmE) Isn't our Congress boring when compared to others

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 08:10 PM (LpbKr)

631 Early reports of cannibalism in the Superdome. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 01, 2013 12:08 AM (ZPrif) lol! Ah, Katrina.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 08:10 PM (CA2NO)

632 Think of all the money we're saving!!!

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 08:10 PM (8lmkt)

633 Holy shit! Chris Matthews is on with Olbermann on TBS! No, wait, It's Curt Schilling. Man, they look a lot alike! And now, over analyzing a baseball game. These people have got to get paid, I guess.

Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at September 30, 2013 08:10 PM (v6hyJ)

634 Where's the kaboom? I was expecting an earth shattering kaboom!

Posted by: Marty the Martian at September 30, 2013 08:11 PM (aTXUx)

635 I just sat on my balls. I blame the government shutdown.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 30, 2013 08:11 PM (oFCZn)

636

MWR showed tits too

since we are tits up

and no response, damn shut down

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:11 PM (zOTsN)

637 P.S. I just realized I didn't include my vows to my wife. Sorry honey, even if you don't read this site. Won't matter to obammy anyway. He doesn't think duty is important.

Posted by: Big Zesty at September 30, 2013 08:11 PM (K1zj1)

638 Don't open it back up. We shouldn't be funding "nonessential" employees anyways.

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 08:11 PM (efwq5)

639 This just in: Chris Matthews spotted running around DC naked, peeing himself and screeching in abject panic.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 30, 2013 08:11 PM (T/XcG)

640 Hello MWR, good to see you. You take care of yourself in these days of anarchy.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 30, 2013 08:12 PM (l3vZN)

641 Day 1: The Shut-Down I'm here in my "command center". Electricity and water still work, but I dunno how long it'll last. Fortunately, I have 10 bags of Doritos and 5 light-saber repair kits; My provisions should last me at least a couple days. I keep hearing voices outside...must keep my noise level to an absolute minimum.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 08:12 PM (Dsds2)

642 DaisyÂ… DaisyÂ… give me your answerÂ… do. I'm halfÂ… crazy all for theÂ… loveÂ… ofÂ… yyyooouuuÂ…

Posted by: Leviathan-9000 at September 30, 2013 08:12 PM (Vk2pI)

643 628 Is there a bar in the House of Congress? If there is, it is a very low one.

Posted by: Seems like... at September 30, 2013 08:12 PM (nVPn7)

644 This isn't going to affect the PowerBall, is it?

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 08:12 PM (8lmkt)

645 Somebody please remember to unplug the Washington Monument

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 08:12 PM (8sCoq)

646 http://youtu.be/grbSQ6O6kbs

Posted by: The Dude at September 30, 2013 08:12 PM (vJdyz)

647 Bad news folks I decided like twenty minutes ago to visit a national park and now I can't These are real tears Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 01, 2013 12:08 AM (oFCZn) *Lowers head in sympathy* Stay strong, my man. Stay strong. BTW, can someone explain to me why the hell it's necessary for the gubmint to be open for business in order for me to set foot in a National Park?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 08:12 PM (CA2NO)

648 No, fuckers are too lazy to get upset. They get taxpayer funded vacation, I get a nice commute tomorrow.

Posted by: RWC at October 01, 2013 12:07 AM (LpbKr)

We'll hope for further dispatches from the trenches. Carry on!

Posted by: Meremortal at September 30, 2013 08:12 PM (1Y+hH)

649 This just in: Chris Matthews spotted running around DC naked, peeing himself and screeching in abject panic.

So, a normal Monday for him?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2013 08:12 PM (JawqV)

650 You just gotta KNOW Olbermann is just literally shitting himself with rage right now, because he's not allowed to talk politics.

His pants will probably explode within the hour.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 30, 2013 08:12 PM (T/XcG)

651 It was the best of time it was the worst of times. The Clear malt beverage crazy proved unsustainable nad thanks to Zima the Federal Government was shutdown.

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 08:12 PM (6J+oK)

652 Psst?

Wanna buy some . . . phosphate?

How about a 5 gal flush toilet from Canadia?

100 watt incandescent bulb?

C'mon. buy SOMETHING. It's your patriotic duty.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:13 PM (lAZep)

653 Pete Sessions is a fucking saint.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 30, 2013 08:13 PM (DmNpO)

654 This just in: Chris Matthews spotted running around DC naked, peeing himself and screeching in abject panic.

Posted by: qdpsteve

no. that's just closing time

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:13 PM (zOTsN)

655 Hello MWR, good to see you. You take care of yourself in these days of anarchy. Posted by: Jinx the Cat at October 01, 2013 12:12 AM (l3vZN) I will! You, too! Make sure to be on the lookout for any packs of feral dogs. They'll chase ya.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 08:13 PM (CA2NO)

656 And now, over analyzing a baseball game. These people have got to get paid, I guess.

Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at October 01, 2013 12:10 AM (v6hyJ)

Nobody overanalyzes the minutiae like Keith Law. He makes Jeff B look succinct

Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 08:13 PM (aTXUx)

657 Blanco, let me check the DC police blotter... yep, you're right. Situation normal.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 30, 2013 08:13 PM (T/XcG)

658 Since the Feds own most of Utah I guess our whole state is closed effective immediately.

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at September 30, 2013 08:13 PM (5H6zj)

659 we are all corpsemen now

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:13 PM (zOTsN)

660 This is going to be terrible for the economy. All the government workers will be blowing their money at Costco tomorrow. Now they'll know what it's like. ...except that they'll still get paid and have jobs.

Posted by: t-bird at September 30, 2013 08:13 PM (FcR7P)

661 Oh for the days of Lincoln when congressmen beat each other with their canes.

Posted by: Freaked Out! at September 30, 2013 08:13 PM (ryyVW)

662 Now would be a good time for the Liechtensteinians to invade us. We are totes defenseless.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 30, 2013 08:13 PM (wNF3N)

663 That whirring clanking sound you are hearing is the US shutting down.
So it's like the exact opposite of the Game of Thrones opening credits, then.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at September 30, 2013 08:14 PM (qnPg9)

664 This just in: Chris Matthews spotted running around DC naked, peeing himself and screeching in abject panic. Posted by: qdpsteve Shoot, Shoot to kill.

Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at September 30, 2013 08:14 PM (v6hyJ)

665 BTW, can someone explain to me why the hell it's necessary for the gubmint to be open for business in order for me to set foot in a National Park?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 01, 2013 12:12 AM (CA2NO)

They can lock the gates but they can't do much about foot access, they aren't going to be around.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 30, 2013 08:14 PM (1Y+hH)

666 Seems the internet is still working. Could go any minute though.

Posted by: mugiwara at September 30, 2013 08:14 PM (hpYnL)

667 Pools Closed

Posted by: Old Internet Meme at September 30, 2013 08:14 PM (Vk2pI)

668 Is there a bar in the House of Congress?

If there is, it is a very low one.

Posted by: Seems like... at October 01, 2013 12:12 AM (nVPn7)

very well played, Seems like . . .

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 08:14 PM (8lmkt)

669 @ZekeJMiller 1m http://Healthcare.gov Apply Now link is now live https://www.healthcare.gov And yet we CAN'T WATCH THE PANDA?!

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 30, 2013 08:14 PM (bCEmE)

670 So, should I go with the Lord Humungus crowd that just rang the doorbell, looking for volunteers, or answer the Refinery Folks want-ad in the paper?

Posted by: Seems like... at September 30, 2013 08:15 PM (nVPn7)

671 We are now entering the Mutara Nebula

Posted by: Capt Spock at September 30, 2013 08:15 PM (aTXUx)

672 Harry Reid: Enema of The State.

He either LOOKS like he could use one or He JUST had one and is holding it in.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:15 PM (lAZep)

673 good thing federal isn't in charge of trash,water,power,air. They would have shut those off 12 sharp

Posted by: Red Shirt at September 30, 2013 08:15 PM (FIDMq)

674

You just gotta KNOW Olbermann is just literally shitting himself with rage right now, because he's not allowed to talk politics.

His pants will probably explode within the hour.

Posted by: qdpsteve

no. his pants explode because he literally is a fat ass, with a pear shaped body

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:15 PM (zOTsN)

675 666 Seems the internet is still working. Could go any minute though. Posted by: mugiwara at October 01, 2013 12:14 AM (hpYnL) I thought D̶A̶R̶P̶A̶ Al Gore designed the Internet to sustain a nuclear war and republican caused government shutdown.

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 08:16 PM (6J+oK)

676 Dana Loesch ‏@DLoesch 4m

I'm putting in 100 watt bulbs! GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN CAN'T STOP ME

Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 08:16 PM (aTXUx)

677 I forgot fire departments and police layoffs

Posted by: Red Shirt at September 30, 2013 08:16 PM (FIDMq)

678 Please don't talk about exploding pants after this week's episode of Boardwalk Empire. *shudders*

Posted by: Waterhouse at September 30, 2013 08:16 PM (pEj5R)

679 Oh for the days of Lincoln when congressmen beat each other with their canes. Â“The ballot box is desecrated, GodÂ’s law set at nought, armed legislators stalk the halls of Congress, freedom of speech is beaten down in the Senate. The rivers and highways are infested by border ruffians, and men are made to feel the iron heel of slavery.Â”

Posted by: Frederick Douglass at September 30, 2013 08:17 PM (CeNUw)

680 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! http://tinyurl.com/px9f2w5

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 30, 2013 08:17 PM (bCEmE)

681 ‏@CongHuelskamp 2m ItÂ’s 12:09 a.m. EDT and the #ObamaCare exchanges do not work. #Glitch pic.twitter.com/L0wSaS8xI8

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 08:17 PM (Dsds2)

682 The park employees will be there, there will just be a locked gate between them and the pesky public. No fooling.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 30, 2013 08:17 PM (l3vZN)

683 A house should fall on Rep Lowey

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 08:17 PM (6J+oK)

684

its so .....dark...outside

of course it is night

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:17 PM (zOTsN)

685 Dana Loesch ‏@DLoesch 7m

As I said on air today, cue the Stay Puft man! #shutdownapocalypse

Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 08:17 PM (aTXUx)

686 If EBT cards go empty will the Homicide rates in Chicago and Detroit go down?

Posted by: The Hickster at September 30, 2013 08:17 PM (iTEZE)

687

Geraldo probably setting up in front of the National Zoo tomorrow for tear-fest over its closing.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 30, 2013 08:18 PM (1Y+hH)

688 Oh, and how did Breaking Bad end? Did Walt and his buddies Elaine, Kramer and George ever bust out of jail?

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 30, 2013 08:18 PM (T/XcG)

689 So am I to expect the feds to provide me with only the services I'd get on a weekend or holiday tomorrow? I don't think I'm gonna make it people.

Posted by: mugiwara at September 30, 2013 08:18 PM (hpYnL)

690 Man, the navigation on that site is retarded. Want answers? Question Question Question Huge list of ambiguous statements followed by a link somewhere else to start over.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 30, 2013 08:18 PM (qyfb5)

691 I still gots tee vee . . . looks like they are as inept at shutting down as they are at whatever else it is they do. Haha!!

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 08:18 PM (8lmkt)

692 How about a moment of silence for those poor federal workers, about to endure an extra paid vacation this year?

Who's with me? *backs away, quickly*

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 30, 2013 08:18 PM (wNF3N)

693 who will pay the trolls?

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:18 PM (zOTsN)

694 693 who will pay the trolls?

Posted by: thunderb at October 01, 2013 12:18 AM (zOTsN)

who says they get paid in money?

Posted by: Red Shirt at September 30, 2013 08:19 PM (FIDMq)

695 It's 16 minutes into the Federal Government shutdown. I've gotten a skype from Singapore to see if we are still here. I'm told the Chinese are laughing at us. TV, Cable, Power, light and water are still on. The neighborhood is quiet now, maybe too quiet. It is 12:15 am here. So that might explain the quiet.

Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at September 30, 2013 08:19 PM (v6hyJ)

696 Cong. Tim HuelskampVerified account ‏@CongHuelskamp ItÂ’s 12:09 a.m. EDT and the #ObamaCare exchanges do not work. #Glitch http://t.co/L0wSaS8xI8

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 30, 2013 08:19 PM (DmNpO)

697 20 minutes in

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 08:20 PM (BAS5M)

698 Well, Reid pulled the plug on it. As we continue with this Kabuki bullshit, it's time to reflect on the great wisdom of our Founding Fathers, who -- through the enumeration of limited Federal powers -- actually tried to ensure that the Feds don't do anything useful in the first place.

Murder is still illegal -- because it's a STATE crime. Fraud is still illegal -- because prosecution for fraud is handled by STATES. Except for Defense, very little of what the Feds do is beneficial -- and what is beneficial is probably unconstitutional (e.g. "National Parks" -- find that in here somewhere, if you can: http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html).

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 08:20 PM (T1005)

699 RUN FOR YOUR LIVES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-sALU_hveA

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 08:20 PM (8sCoq)

700 I'm told the Chinese are laughing at us.

Well, sure, they do that on days that end in "y."

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 08:20 PM (8lmkt)

701 I'm saddest about all the roads evaporating at midnight. Now we have to build all the roads again because Republicans hate happiness, black people, women with vaginas, and the Interstate Highway System.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 30, 2013 08:20 PM (ZPrif)

702 We are now entering the Mutara Nebula Posted by: Capt Spock at October 01, 2013 12:15 AM (aTXUx) SCoooooaaaaaMF! http://tinyurl.com/laswga3

Posted by: Admiral Kirk at September 30, 2013 08:20 PM (Vk2pI)

703 I see thrawn beat me to it.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 30, 2013 08:20 PM (DmNpO)

704 @KiraAynDavis Yrs from now ppl will still ask, "Where were u when the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Interagency Coordinating Committee went dark?"

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 30, 2013 08:20 PM (bCEmE)

705 who will pay the trolls?

No worries, man.

Posted by: Walter White at September 30, 2013 08:20 PM (T/XcG)

706 Doomsday sex is anti-climactic. I mean, after the first 20 seconds, - now what?

Posted by: Fritz at September 30, 2013 08:20 PM (x2W/k)

707 So it's tomorrow on the east coast. Has all hell broken lose yet? Are planes falling from the sky? Are women dying on the steps of abortion clinics?

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 30, 2013 08:20 PM (HDgX3)

708 illegals hardest hit . . .

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 08:21 PM (8lmkt)

709 Geraldo sucks monkey balls. There's no way they will let him come close to a zoo.

Posted by: Freaked Out! at September 30, 2013 08:21 PM (ryyVW)

710 I don't believe in the no win scenario

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:21 PM (zOTsN)

711 Neighbors dog barking in the backyard! .Gov.. Save me!!!

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 08:21 PM (LpbKr)

712 Damn just spilled my drink! Damn government shutdown!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 30, 2013 08:21 PM (oFCZn)

713 If EBT cards go empty will the Homicide rates in Chicago and Detroit go down? Posted by: The Hickster at October 01, 2013 12:17 AM (iTEZE) They'll run out of people to murder eventuallyÂ…

Posted by: Statistical Reality at September 30, 2013 08:21 PM (Vk2pI)

714 Geraldo probably setting up in front of the National Zoo tomorrow

Congress will be in session?

Posted by: Basement Cat at September 30, 2013 08:22 PM (eawoP)

715 "Bachman said the Vitter bill wont put Congress into OCare, it will mere take away their private insurance and, darn it, some of them have really sick family members!! and it will cost them 19,000 per year to get insurance!!!"

And mandatory Tardasil injections! Shock horror! Eleventy!!!

Why does Bachmann care anyway? She's leaving Congress.

Oh, wait, that's right. She's leaving Congress, but she and her family are not leaving the FEHBP health care plan which covers Congress. They'll be on that for decades yet to come.

What? What's that you say? When _you_ have a job, and it has health care benefits, and you leave that job, you get to keep your benefits only for a short while via COBRA and you pay handsomely for the privilege? You don't get to tote that health coverage around with you endlessly afterwards?

Silly you! You should have run for office!

As Ace notes, we ordinary working stiffs have "jobs", with benefits that largely end when the job does. Whereas the Beltway cadre -- left, right, and everything in between -- have "careers", with things like perpetual post-employment benefits at your expense.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 30, 2013 08:22 PM (gqT4g)

716 and now Rep Chakka Kahn is lobbying for a job in the Hilary 2016 administration

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 08:22 PM (6J+oK)

717 With the govt shutdown, do we revert to the Articles of Confederation or are we British subjects again?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 30, 2013 08:23 PM (ZPrif)

718 There are still planes in the air. Hopefully they can land properly in this, the Age of Chaos after the Gov't Shutdown.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 08:23 PM (Dsds2)

719 So it's tomorrow on the east coast. Has all hell broken lose yet? Are planes falling from the sky? Are women dying on the steps of abortion clinics? I saw a skunk go into the old shed up by the barn.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 30, 2013 08:23 PM (l3vZN)

720 *Third* site, 18th page, no answers yet. This reminds me of the "Medicare Book" with hundreds of page references, only half of which actually lead to relevant answers.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 30, 2013 08:23 PM (qyfb5)

721 "Are women dying on the steps of abortion clinics?" More than normal, that is.

Posted by: Doc Gosnell at September 30, 2013 08:23 PM (nVPn7)

722 If EBT cards go empty will the Homicide rates in Chicago and Detroit go down?

Posted by: The Hickster at October 01, 2013 12:17 AM (iTEZE)

Yo man. Bullets is one of the five food groups.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:23 PM (lAZep)

723 Maddow's brow is so furrowed she is beginning to look like a rectum

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:24 PM (zOTsN)

724 BWAHAHAHAH

Screen grab of how the NY State Health Exchange website is working in its initial moments @BuzzFeedBen pic.twitter.com/dwrtxHZoMU

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 08:24 PM (8sCoq)

725 Whenever there's a govt shutdown in Peruvia , the legislature tips the bartenders and goes home for the night

Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 08:24 PM (aTXUx)

726 @thrasherxy: How NY State Health Exchange website is working in its initial moments http://tinyurl.com/ojrtmbk

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 30, 2013 08:24 PM (bCEmE)

727 717 With the govt shutdown, do we revert to the Articles of Confederation or are we British subjects again? Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 01, 2013 12:23 AM (ZPrif) Putin is going to claim sovereignty as history reflects that the native americans crossed the ice bridge from Russia to the New World without paying the toll.

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 08:24 PM (6J+oK)

728 With the govt shutdown, do we revert to the Articles of Confederation or are we British subjects again?

We're all British now, bloke. Turn in your guns IMMEDIATELY!

Posted by: Piers Morgan at September 30, 2013 08:25 PM (T/XcG)

729 Update from the Eastern Time Zone. The sound of gunfire Off in the distance I'm getting used to it now.... No, there is actually no gunfire, but the spaghetti I had for dinner is giving me gas. And my dog and three cats have been living together for years. Will Obama's daughters still have Secret Service protection tomorrow at Sidwell Friends? This concerns me.

Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at September 30, 2013 08:25 PM (v6hyJ)

730 Maddow's brow is so furrowed she is beginning to look like a rectum *** LOL

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 30, 2013 08:25 PM (DmNpO)

731 721 "Are women dying on the steps of abortion clinics?" More than normal, that is. Posted by: Doc Gosnell at October 01, 2013 12:23 AM (nVPn7 Don't worry bro, saved the feetses. Not to be confused with 'fetuses.'

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 08:25 PM (LpbKr)

732 I need to move to Texas

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 08:25 PM (6J+oK)

733 Stories from the Shut Down: Day One - It Begins The hammer has fallen and the Shut Down has begun. At the stroke of midnight a wild dog* howled; since then, it has been silent beyond my window. An eerie, deathly silence. I shudder to think what carnage will face me when the sun rises in the morning, bathing the world in the cold, unflinching light day. May God have mercy on our souls. *Or possibly my neighbor's yappy schnauzer mix barking at a squirrel.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 08:26 PM (CA2NO)

734 can't.... stop.... masturbating....

Posted by: Harry Reid at September 30, 2013 08:26 PM (T/XcG)

735 They're looting the Food King!

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 08:26 PM (8sCoq)

736 yes. yes you do.

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:26 PM (zOTsN)

737

"Geraldo sucks monkey balls. There's no way they will let him come close to a zoo."

He'll be safely outside the locked gates. With the crying children.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 30, 2013 08:26 PM (1Y+hH)

738 I saw a skunk go into the old shed up by the barn.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at October 01, 2013 12:23 AM (l3vZN)

and so it begins . . .

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 08:26 PM (8lmkt)

739 Does Alaska revert to Russian control? What about the Louisiana Purchase? Frenchies taking over, I assume. Why do Republicans hate puppies and happiness and hand-crafted Navajo dream-catchers so much? Why???

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 30, 2013 08:27 PM (ZPrif)

740 out in the garden a dog howled, making a melon collie sound.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 30, 2013 08:27 PM (l3vZN)

741 So.

How long before Obama or some other Demo blames the Shut Down on Bush?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:27 PM (lAZep)

742

booing in the House. like the House of commons. I like it

there are two Americas

one for the ruling class

one for everybody else

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:27 PM (zOTsN)

743 725 Whenever there's a govt shutdown in Peruvia , the legislature tips the bartenders and goes home for the night

You're talking tips as in cows, right?

Posted by: Anachronda at September 30, 2013 08:28 PM (U82Km)

744 734 can't.... stop.... masturbating.... Posted by: Harry Reid at October 01, 2013 12:26 AM (T/XcG) Field Trips are ending. Get it in while you can.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 08:28 PM (LpbKr)

745 With the shutdown, there are reports that Sandra Fluke has been spotted begging for birth control pills on Beltway off ramps

Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 08:28 PM (aTXUx)

746

my dog has ticks

fucking shutdown

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:28 PM (zOTsN)

747 Now we'll all experience 'life during wartime'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DblvhECdws0

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 08:28 PM (8sCoq)

748 Â We have barred the gates ... can hold them long if ... horrible ... suffer ... We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They have taken the Bridge and second hall. FrÃ¡ and LÃ³ni and NÃ¡li fell there. ... went 5 days ago ... the pool is up to the wall at Westgate. The Watcher in the Water took Ã“in. We cannot get out. The end comes ... drums, drums in the deep ... They are coming...They are coming.

Posted by: United States of Moria at September 30, 2013 08:28 PM (nVPn7)

749 700 I'm told the Chinese are laughing at us.

Well, sure, they do that on days that end in "y."

Posted by: Peaches at October 01, 2013 12:20 AM (8lmkt)

They do that a lot more in years when POTUS' initials are BHO than when they are RR.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 08:29 PM (T1005)

750 With FDA inspections down I've taken the proactive step of immediately burning all my food. My assumption is all of my food became poisonous at midnight with no govt to protect me. Starting to get a bit hungry ...

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 30, 2013 08:29 PM (ZPrif)

751 I just tried to use the website to get my free health insurance. I already got it, but I figure what the fuck, it's free, might as well get some more. NY State of Health is FUBAR though.

Posted by: mugiwara at September 30, 2013 08:29 PM (hpYnL)

752 I need to go to sleep before I say something I am extremely proud of or extremely embarrassed by, the margin is as thin as the reception of a rape joke...

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 30, 2013 08:29 PM (6J+oK)

753 724 BWAHAHAHAH Screen grab of how the NY State Health Exchange website is working in its initial moments @BuzzFeedBen pic.twitter.com/dwrtxHZoMU Posted by: Jones in CO at October 01, 2013 12:24 AM (8sCoq) ____________ Google Washington Health Finder to see how Washington State is doing. Yeah this is going to work well.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 30, 2013 08:29 PM (HDgX3)

754 Pssst. Anyone need any aerosol hairspray or gasoline widdout ethanol in it?

Posted by: jakeman at September 30, 2013 08:29 PM (vH4YP)

755 Last night I took the Kobayashi Maru test.

Michelle unexpectedly pulled the plug at midnight.

Posted by: Fritz at September 30, 2013 08:29 PM (x2W/k)

756 741 So. How long before Obama or some other Demo blames the Shut Down on Bush? Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at October 01, 2013 12:27 AM (lAZep) He had a taped message where he blamed Congress/GOP.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 08:29 PM (LpbKr)

757 Next up, Bane will start freeing the "oppressed" from Federal Supermax prisons.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 08:30 PM (Dsds2)

758 Republicans hate free trade coffee, too. And mocha lattes. And panda cams. 30 minutes into the shut down, and they are still analyzing the Tampa Bay - Texas baseball game. Disturbing.

Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at September 30, 2013 08:30 PM (v6hyJ)

759 It's like Lucifer's Hammer all over again! Save the power plant at all costs.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 08:30 PM (BAS5M)

760 The GOP is not an outlier, but Ezra Klein IS an out-and-out liar.

Posted by: dissent555 at September 30, 2013 08:30 PM (yR6A1)

761 734 can't.... stop.... masturbating.... Posted by: Harry Reid at October 01, 2013 12:26 AM (T/XcG) Someone needs to introduce a bill banning Senator Reid from subscribing to BoysÂ’ Life.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 30, 2013 08:30 PM (CeNUw)

762 @freddoso: Just removed my car's catalytic converter.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 30, 2013 08:30 PM (bCEmE)

763 One vote to rule them all, one vote to find them, one vote to bring them all and in the shut down bind them."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:31 PM (lAZep)

764 If the Republicans were smart they would put up the next CR bill to make the law passed take effect no exemptions. Only way this farting around is 3 dimensional chess.

Posted by: The Hickster at September 30, 2013 08:31 PM (iTEZE)

765 717 With the govt shutdown, do we revert to the Articles of Confederation or are we British subjects again?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 01, 2013 12:23 AM (ZPrif)

I'd be happy to revert to the Constitution.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 08:31 PM (T1005)

766 They need to introduce a bill to make this permanent.

Posted by: Peaches at September 30, 2013 08:31 PM (8lmkt)

767 It's like Lucifer's Hammer all over again! Save the power plant at all costs. Was that the one with the camping Girl Scouts?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 30, 2013 08:31 PM (l3vZN)

768 I got some groceries

some peanut butter

to last a couple of days

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 08:32 PM (8sCoq)

769

we should all listen to a rep from Camden NJ

jeebus

fix your own house

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:32 PM (zOTsN)

770 Government shutdown or not, them zombies aint gettin' my TV !!!!

Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 08:32 PM (aTXUx)

771 Oh, shit- How am I going to get a vasectomy during the shutdown?!

Posted by: The Weatherman at September 30, 2013 08:33 PM (FcR7P)

772 you oughtta know not to

stand by the window

somebody see you up there

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 08:33 PM (8sCoq)

773 "If the Republicans were smart"

See.

That's your problem right there.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:34 PM (lAZep)

774 Goddamn Ezra Klein and Paul Krugman don't know anything more about politics and the economy than they know about fornication!

Posted by: General George S. Patton at September 30, 2013 08:34 PM (v6hyJ)

775 Shutdown! Guess I can't pay my traffic ticket.

Posted by: model_1066 at September 30, 2013 08:34 PM (QMWjL)

776 Grapes are running low. Milk is 2 days past its Use By date. The humanity!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 08:34 PM (BAS5M)

777 This ain't my party I need some Crisco These guys are fooling around.

Posted by: Freaked Out! at September 30, 2013 08:34 PM (ryyVW)

778 I don't know what's happening in your neck of the woods, but here in Phoenix, it's a combination of "The Stand," "Children of Men," "One Second After," and "Mad Max."

Posted by: jakeman at September 30, 2013 08:35 PM (vH4YP)

779

why don't the congressmen give up their salaries to cover some costs

ohhh

screen shot of being unable to sign up for Ocare

system unavailable

Crips

aliens have landed, Shiela Jackson Lee!

afro wig, no braid hat

damn shut down!

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:35 PM (zOTsN)

780 Crisco does make for good lube....or at least that is what I've heard

Posted by: The Dude at September 30, 2013 08:35 PM (vJdyz)

781 Hello, Horde!

Does this mean the FCC will be closed on Tuesday?

(Evil grin appears)

Posted by: Captain Whitebread can now say at September 30, 2013 08:35 PM (5J54Q)

782 can't.... stop.... masturbating.... Posted by: Harry Reid at October 01, 2013 12:26 AM (T/XcG) Help Me!

Posted by: "Have You Seen Me" boy on the milk carton… at September 30, 2013 08:35 PM (Vk2pI)

783 S. Jackson Lee vs Miss Lindsay. Battle of the CSPANS

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 08:36 PM (BAS5M)

784 I want

I want my

I want my government

Money for nothing and the chicks for free.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:36 PM (lAZep)

785 ....BOOGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Captain Whitebread goes full Johnny Fever at September 30, 2013 08:36 PM (5J54Q)

786 I don't know what's happening in your neck of the woods, but here in Phoenix, it's a combination of "The Stand," "Children of Men," "One Second After," and "Mad Max." Posted by: jakeman at October 01, 2013 12:35 AM (vH4YP) Wow! What a paradise!

Posted by: Everyone in New Jersey at September 30, 2013 08:36 PM (Vk2pI)

787 @RandForAmerica BOOM! Rep. Pete Sessions is showing the #ObamaCare exchanges are not working via his iPad on the House floor! #governmentshutdown

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 30, 2013 08:37 PM (bCEmE)

788

well I have seen my first zombie

Shiela Jackson Lee

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:37 PM (zOTsN)

789 Anyone want to take bets on how many kids are going to wake up in the morning thinking, "WOO HOO! No school today because shut down!" only to discover the hard truth that school funding isn't a fucking federal matter, no matter what the feds like to pretend.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 08:37 PM (CA2NO)

790

@641 LOL!

Seriously. Thrawn and the rest of you raving lunatics need to start doing twitter with all this day by day diary stuff of the shutdown....

Ridicule is the most effective weapon.... or something like that.... according to Alinsky.

Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at September 30, 2013 08:37 PM (i9IZ7)

791 Hmm. FedGov shuts down and UC Berkeley literally explodes. Things are going to hell in a handbasket even faster than Obama thought they would.

Thanks, Obama!

Posted by: Anachronda at September 30, 2013 08:37 PM (U82Km)

792 Posted by: thunderb at October 01, 2013 12:37 AM (zOTsN)

At least she's not a FAST Zombie.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:37 PM (lAZep)

793 Sheila Jackson Lee showing that poise she's well known for. She sounded like Frank the Tank after he burned himself jumping through the hoop of fire.

Posted by: Dave S. at September 30, 2013 08:38 PM (UvR6d)

794 Here, they are just showing commercials. I 'm waiting for the Conelrad signal. Then Defcon 4. And Wilford Brimley selling diabetes kits. The chair is against the wall John has a long mustache.

Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at September 30, 2013 08:38 PM (v6hyJ)

795

and now a rep from flint mi

what is this, the loser's ball?

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:38 PM (zOTsN)

796 Grabbed the sharpest knife I could.. FUCK YOU MATTRESS TAG!!,

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 08:38 PM (LpbKr)

797 Jones, I like your taste in music. But I'm thinkin along the lines of: I see the states, across this big nation I see the laws made in Washington, D.C. I think of the ones I consider my favorites I think of the people that are working for me Or, not working for me, as it were.

Posted by: jakeman at September 30, 2013 08:38 PM (vH4YP)

798 I got some groceries
some peanut butter
to last a couple of days>>

My neighbor has cattle. And three's a herd of deer in my neighborhood. Oh and I live on a 300 acre lake. I think I'm good for a long while.

Posted by: The Hickster at September 30, 2013 08:38 PM (iTEZE)

799 Shutdown huh? I hope there is some room under the viaduct. And some ratty dog-eared blankets to wrap ourselves in. And dust in the air, lots of dust; with apocalyptic music playing in the background.

Posted by: dissent555 at September 30, 2013 08:39 PM (yR6A1)

800 Oooops! Just kidding!!

Posted by: Johnny from Airplane! at September 30, 2013 08:39 PM (aTXUx)

801 Anyone want to take bets on how many kids are going to wake up in the morning thinking, "WOO HOO! No school today because shut down!" only to discover the hard truth that school funding isn't a fucking federal matter, no matter what the feds like to pretend.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 01, 2013 12:37 AM (CA2NO)

But will we at least be spared the Mooch's slop?

Posted by: kids across the country at September 30, 2013 08:39 PM (hpYnL)

802 This means no federal gas for those SWAT personnel carriers they've been handing out.

Little old ladies and dogs will be safer today.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:40 PM (lAZep)

803 700
I'm told the Chinese are laughing at us.

Well, sure, they do that on days that end in "y."

Posted by: Peaches at October 01, 2013 12:20 AM (8lmkt)

They do that a lot more in years when POTUS' initials are BHO than when they are RR.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2013 12:29 AM (T1005)...............

The Chinese can laugh all they want, I've been there, they shouldn't be laughing at anyone.

Posted by: The Jackhole at September 30, 2013 08:40 PM (/7Xis)

804 Still analyzing that Texas-Tampa Bay baseball game. I think something really bad is happening and they are covering up. Normal human beings can't talk about nothing for this long.

Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at September 30, 2013 08:41 PM (v6hyJ)

805 Just for funsies, since the Dems have corrupted and tainted the majority of government, how 'bout starting a list of what Federal agencies actually should be restarted?

Off the top of my head, I've got DoD, the FBI, Department of the Treasury, Department of Transportation, and the OMB. The rest of the cabinet-level agencies are stuffed to the gills with treasonous apparatchiks that we would thrive without.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 08:41 PM (T1005)

806 I TOLD you this was coming!!! But would anybody listen??!? NOOOOOOO!!

Great having the last laugh, losers!

Posted by: Charlie Manson at September 30, 2013 08:41 PM (T/XcG)

807 Squirrels. There ain't quite as many as there were a while ago.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 08:42 PM (BAS5M)

808 Grabbed the sharpest knife I could.. FUCK YOU MATTRESS TAG!!, Posted by: RWC at October 01, 2013 12:38 AM (LpbKr) lmao!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 08:42 PM (CA2NO)

809

does he think we are deaf?

is he making a commercial

ohhh

he is having a moment

a crazy guy moment

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:42 PM (zOTsN)

810 So will the drones be flying over my house tomorrow? I'm sure they were there yesterday and today.

Posted by: dissent555 at September 30, 2013 08:42 PM (yR6A1)

811 John Larson trying to get a soundbite. It's only patriotic if you let them have their way, apparently.

Posted by: Dave S. at September 30, 2013 08:42 PM (UvR6d)

812 Posted by: The Jackhole at October 01, 2013 12:40 AM (/7Xis)

A few trees, mud, buffalo shit, more mud and billions of ckufing Chinese.

No. No laughs there.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:42 PM (lAZep)

813 Is season 3 of Sherlock on DVD yet?

Posted by: Adriane... at September 30, 2013 08:42 PM (k4Il7)

814 I went out for beer at midnight. I had to fight and claw my way through the empty road to the first store I found. It was a mile away. I thought I'd never reach it going the state mandated 40mph. Sure there were other stores a quarter of a mile down the road, but why take the chance they didn't have my brand. Things are not well here. I may not be able to get more beer until at least 1pm tomorrow when I start drinking again. Damn shutdown.

Posted by: Big Zesty at September 30, 2013 08:43 PM (K1zj1)

815 Ridicule is the most effective weapon.... or something like that.... according to Alinsky. Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at October 01, 2013 12:37 AM (i9IZ7) You have to posses a sense of shame to be ridiculed. How is that possible with idiots whose power and wealth far exceed their competence?

Posted by: model_1066 at September 30, 2013 08:43 PM (QMWjL)

816 But will we at least be spared the Mooch's slop? Posted by: kids across the country at October 01, 2013 12:39 AM (hpYnL) NO. You will eat it, and you will LIKE it.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 08:43 PM (CA2NO)

817 Is season 3 of Sherlock on DVD yet?

Posted by: Adriane... at October 01, 2013 12:42 AM (k4Il7)

season 3 doesn't start airing till next year

Posted by: The Dude at September 30, 2013 08:44 PM (vJdyz)

818 12:45 am Don't know whether I can stay awake much longer. Afraid to sleep, the family is counting on me. With the government shut down, we're on our.......zzzzzzzzz

Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at September 30, 2013 08:45 PM (v6hyJ)

819 So there's no point dressing up as Mad Max for Halloween is there? In a month (or less!!) Thunderdome should be real.

Posted by: dissent555 at September 30, 2013 08:45 PM (yR6A1)

820 CuffÃ© ‏@CuffyMeh 1m

NICKELS DON'T WORK ANYMORE.

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 08:45 PM (8sCoq)

821

they want the conference televised

they will never agree to that

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:45 PM (zOTsN)

822 Two men enter.

One man leave.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:45 PM (lAZep)

823 817
Is season 3 of Sherlock on DVD yet?

Posted by: Adriane... at October 01, 2013 12:42 AM (k4Il7)

season 3 doesn't start airing till next year

Posted by: The Dude at October 01, 2013 12:44 AM (vJdyz)

It got delayed when everyone ran off to Middle Earth.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 08:45 PM (T1005)

824 You have to posses a sense of shame to be ridiculed. How is that possible with idiots whose power and wealth far exceed their competence? Posted by: model_1066 at October 01, 2013 12:43 AM (QM I think it's less about ridicule and shame and more about mockery and ego. The left has no shame and so do not respond to ridicule. But they DO have ego up the ying-yang, and so react bitterly to mockery. You don't have to feel shame to know you're being mocked. It drives them INSANE.* They hate being humiliated. *Okay, MORE insane.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 08:46 PM (CA2NO)

825 It got delayed when everyone ran off to Middle Earth.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2013 12:45 AM (T1005)

yep, Bennidict Cummberbach's slate is really full with movies

Posted by: The Dude at September 30, 2013 08:46 PM (vJdyz)

826 Shit, I just had a question that only the US National Parks Historian could answer, and of course he won't be in tomorrow. I think I'm gonna crack guys. Please, just put me down if I do.

Posted by: mugiwara at September 30, 2013 08:46 PM (hpYnL)

827 @ExJon Maybe I should hit the hay. Got a big day of strip mining and polluting wetlands tomorrow...

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 30, 2013 08:47 PM (bCEmE)

828 WHO'S GONNA REMIND ME TO DRINK WATER?!?

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 08:47 PM (8sCoq)

829 I went out for beer at midnight.>>

Sale stops at 10:00 pm here and non on Sundays. We need a state govt shut down stat.

Posted by: The Hickster at September 30, 2013 08:47 PM (iTEZE)

830

going to bed. white Russian kicking in

hope to see you all tomorrow, assuming there is a tomorrow

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:47 PM (zOTsN)

831 I'm just a Bill.

Posted by: Bill at September 30, 2013 08:48 PM (Rla3K)

832 *yep, Bennidict Cummberbach's slate is really full with movies Don't you mean Benedict Cabbagepatch?

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 08:48 PM (Dsds2)

833 Fuckin drunk niggrs shooting up everythng in my street too scared to check on my car

Posted by: CalebD at September 30, 2013 08:48 PM (R53nf)

834 Barilla Sells Out to Social Lysenkoism Previously, Barilla was praised for standing up and saying that they will portray only traditional families with both a mother and a father in their commercials. Sadly, it looks like Barilla has sold out, and agree to meet with LGBTQ groups and discuss how the family has Â“evolved.Â” More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=3378

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 30, 2013 08:48 PM (Vk2pI)

835 hey! where is my free sh*t ?

Posted by: Spicoli at September 30, 2013 08:48 PM (yh6zE)

836 Ok will the military get paid, my lib sister in law is pissing me off?

Posted by: lou's a girl at September 30, 2013 08:48 PM (vgd4f)

837 This Shutdown is boring.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:48 PM (lAZep)

838 It got delayed when everyone ran off to Middle Earth. Mordor does remind one of London ... and the Middle Class, of course!

Posted by: Adriane... at September 30, 2013 08:49 PM (k4Il7)

839 Sale stops at 10:00 pm here and non on Sundays. We need a state govt shut down stat. Posted by: The Hickster at October 01, 2013 12:47 AM (iTEZE) Do you live in a place governed by Sharia law? Wow. Ten at night? Time to get the pitchforks and tar.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 30, 2013 08:49 PM (oFCZn)

840 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 01, 2013 12:46 AM (CA2NO) I'm trying to figure out what it would take to make Nancy Pelosi cry, even though I'm sure her tear ducts are cauterized shut.

Posted by: model_1066 at September 30, 2013 08:49 PM (QMWjL)

841 cleanup aisle 833

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 08:49 PM (8sCoq)

842 Hey, is it really dark out everywhere or is it just around me? Shit's eerie.

Posted by: mugiwara at September 30, 2013 08:49 PM (hpYnL)

843 Fuckin drunk CENSORED shooting up everythng in my street too scared to check on my car Posted by: CalebD at October 01, 2013 12:48 AM (R53nf) Not cool.

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 30, 2013 08:49 PM (Vk2pI)

844 My husband thinks I'm being brainwashed by AoSHQ, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin. He thinks Glenn Beck is dangerously paranoid and Michelle Malkin is angry and bitter.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at September 30, 2013 08:50 PM (DoZD+)

845 Does this mean the FCC will be closed on Tuesday?

Oh yeah! Gonna dig out a CB and crank it up to 6 watts! Take that Feds!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2013 08:50 PM (JawqV)

846 Sale stops at 10:00 pm here and non on Sundays. We need a state govt shut down stat. Posted by: The Hickster at October 01, 2013 12:47 AM (iTEZE) that is un-american. Where do they stop selling beer at 10pm?

Posted by: Spicoli at September 30, 2013 08:50 PM (yh6zE)

847 I think the military will get paid, and they are essential personnel in any event

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:50 PM (zOTsN)

848 Lived in St. Louis for 10 years. Haven't gone in the Arch yet. Looks like I'll have to wait another day. Ugh.

Posted by: Dave S. at September 30, 2013 08:50 PM (UvR6d)

849 Drudge is asleep, of course.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 30, 2013 08:51 PM (DmNpO)

850 My husband thinks I'm being brainwashed by AoSHQ, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin. He thinks Glenn Beck is dangerously paranoid and Michelle Malkin is angry and bitter.
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at October 01, 2013 12:50 AM (DoZD+)

What's he say about ace?

Posted by: mugiwara at September 30, 2013 08:51 PM (hpYnL)

851 Even With The Government Shutdown, 80% Of Federal Employees Will Keep Working

http://tinyurl.com/lrbfyb2

So what is the point? Maybe they think this will get rid of the tea party? Seems that's what ulsterman's Republican Insider is figuring, or they'll rise up more powerful than ever. But harry's betting they are done and so is Paul Ryan who, according to drudge, is working on an immigration deal. Ah, it's funny, you elect them and then they don't really care what you think.
http://tinyurl.com/kct3tut

Posted by: knowledge is power at September 30, 2013 08:51 PM (Nx76m)

852 832 *yep, Bennidict Cummberbach's slate is really full with movies

Don't you mean Benedict Cabbagepatch?

Posted by: Thrawn at October 01, 2013 12:48 AM (Dsds2)

I thought it was Bentadick Cummerbund.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 08:51 PM (T1005)

853 Posted by: CalebD at October 01, 2013 12:48 AM (R53nf) well, shoot back

Posted by: that Lt. Col. in Blackhawk Down at September 30, 2013 08:51 PM (yh6zE)

854 Wow. Ten at night? Time to get the pitchforks and tar.>>

Why I can still drink in the bar and drive home.

Posted by: The Hickster at September 30, 2013 08:52 PM (iTEZE)

855 833 go away creep

Posted by: lou's a girl at September 30, 2013 08:52 PM (vgd4f)

856 Minute 50 of Shutdown. There is an uneasy silence enveloping the cul-de-sac. Only flickers of movement at the edges of drawn curtains show that residents are awake and watching.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 08:52 PM (BAS5M)

857 Maet

Moby at 833

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:52 PM (lAZep)

858 WHO'S GONNA REMIND ME TO DRINK WATER?!?
Posted by: Jones in CO at October 01, 2013 12:47 AM (8sCoq)

Thanks for reminding me.

Tick tock, tick tock ...

Posted by: dissent555 at September 30, 2013 08:52 PM (yR6A1)

859 This shutdown is going to end quicker than a Peyton Manning scoring drive.

Posted by: Dan Rather at September 30, 2013 08:52 PM (1Y+hH)

860 Someone needs to help me

Posted by: CalebD at September 30, 2013 08:52 PM (R53nf)

861 Stories from the Shut Down: Day One, continued It's quiet outside. Too quiet. The usual buzz and whistle of night time creatures has been muted, as though nature itself recognizes the cosmic horror that has descended upon this once great nation in the form of the Government Shut Down. It is a thing too horrible to comprehend; too monstrous to describe. You must not look at the Shut Down. To cast your eyes upon its visage is to doom yourself to the black, hollow void of crushing insanity. My emergency ration of Hershey bars and Triscuits are already being depleted. What fresh hell is this? This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 08:52 PM (CA2NO)

862 Hey Kids,

Fuck 'em.

You may now return to your regularly scheduled ONT.

Posted by: jc at September 30, 2013 08:52 PM (PlzOe)

863 Is that you Kilgore Trout?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:52 PM (lAZep)

864 847 thunderb, Thanks

Posted by: lou's a girl at September 30, 2013 08:53 PM (vgd4f)

865 837 This Shutdown is boring.

Cannibalism isn't scheduled to start until Wednesday. Should get more interesting then.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 30, 2013 08:53 PM (9MLX+)

866 Hey jc!

Posted by: Adriane... at September 30, 2013 08:53 PM (k4Il7)

867 is angry and bitter. Posted by: katya, the designated driver at October 01, 2013 12:50 AM (DoZD+) sounds rough

Posted by: that Lt. Col. in Blackhawk Down at September 30, 2013 08:53 PM (yh6zE)

868 Cannibal Run

Posted by: adams speaking tour porn at September 30, 2013 08:53 PM (gQKHE)

869 I went out for beer at midnight.>>

Sale stops at 10:00 pm here and non on Sundays. We need a state govt shut down stat.

Posted by: The Hickster at October 01, 2013 12:47 AM (iTEZE)

I feel for you my friend. These trying times test the best of us. May the shutdown be with you.

Posted by: Big Zesty at September 30, 2013 08:53 PM (K1zj1)

870 Anyone want to take bets on how many kids are going to wake up in the morning thinking, "WOO HOO! No school today because shut down!" only to discover the hard truth that school funding isn't a fucking federal matter, no matter what the feds like to pretend.

--

My son is a Junior. He says kids were talking about it closing down the schools for tomorrow. Gov't Shutdown Snow Day! Maybe they'll all be hovering over their TVs in the morning watching the ticker at the bottom of the screen, hands in prayer, hoping their school will be listed. He knew better, of course.

Posted by: Lady in Black, why am I awake at this hour?! at September 30, 2013 08:54 PM (XB5Ak)

871 Where do they stop selling beer at 10pm?>>

Minnesota and no sales on Sunday.

Posted by: The Hickster at September 30, 2013 08:54 PM (iTEZE)

872 lmao! Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 01, 2013 12:42 AM (CA2NO) Lmao from MWR. My night is complete. (Frickin tried to tweet it but I don't really know how that shit works.)

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 08:54 PM (LpbKr)

873 I'm trying to figure out what it would take to make Nancy Pelosi cry, even though I'm sure her tear ducts are cauterized shut. Posted by: model_1066 at October 01, 2013 12:49 AM (QMWjL) We could try rubbing jalapeno juice in her eyes?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 08:54 PM (CA2NO)

874 I fuckin hate black coloreds

Posted by: CalebD at September 30, 2013 08:54 PM (R53nf)

875 Posted by: CalebD at October 01, 2013 12:52 AM (R53nf)

Apparently R53nf has been a repeat offender. So he gets hard-banned.

Posted by: Mætenloch at September 30, 2013 08:54 PM (XkotV)

876 *I thought it was Bentadick Cummerbund. That yields images that I cannot erase...thanks,

. We're almost 1 hour in. What's the Butcher's Bill?

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 08:54 PM (Dsds2)

877 Hey Kids,

Fuck 'em.

Posted by: jc at October 01, 2013 12:52 AM (PlzOe)

I keep trying but Jesus Juice and candy is not working any more

Posted by: The Dude at September 30, 2013 08:55 PM (vJdyz)

878 I like the editing of the comment instead of zapping them.

Adds to the fun. You know it frustrates them. Plus the Mods get to play.

Win win win except for the loser of course.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:55 PM (lAZep)

879

CalebD at October 01, 2013 12:54 AM (R53nf)

Banhammer, to aisle 874 please. Goodbye!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 08:55 PM (BAS5M)

880

MAET

MOBY at 874

IS THERE A BANHAMMER DURING SHUTDOWN

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:55 PM (zOTsN)

881 A lot of the local Walmart's stop selling beer around midnight. They don't sell ammo during the middle of the night either.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 30, 2013 08:55 PM (9MLX+)

882 Cannibalism isn't scheduled to start until Wednesday. Should get more interesting then. Really? There's always people yelling 'EAT ME' around here ... or so I have been told by some!

Posted by: Adriane... at September 30, 2013 08:56 PM (k4Il7)

883 Apparently R53nf has been a repeat offender. So he gets hard-banned.

*golf clap* Bravo, sir! Good show!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2013 08:56 PM (JawqV)

884

thanks maet

damn shut down has me on edge

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:56 PM (zOTsN)

885 875 Posted by: CalebD at October 01, 2013 12:52 AM (R53nf)

Apparently R53nf has been a repeat offender. So he gets hard-banned.

Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at October 01, 2013 12:54 AM (XkotV)

Did you miss 874 or was it left as an example?

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 08:57 PM (T1005)

886 HEY WHO LIKES DIRTY BLACK PEOPLE, no one

Posted by: CalebD at September 30, 2013 08:57 PM (Y75uM)

887 (Frickin tried to tweet it but I don't really know how that shit works.) Posted by: RWC at October 01, 2013 12:54 AM (LpbKr) Awwwww. I tweeted it on your behalf, with full credit. ^_^

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 08:57 PM (CA2NO)

888 So do I eat 32oz of protein with a 6 oz glass of water for dinner? .GOV!!! Where are you!!!

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 08:57 PM (LpbKr)

889 innesota and no sales on Sunday. Posted by: The Hickster at October 01, 2013 12:54 AM (iTEZE) That does not seem very liberal. The DFL is against beer? no wonder

Posted by: Mr. Coors at September 30, 2013 08:57 PM (yh6zE)

890 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 01, 2013 12:54 AM (CA2NO)

Show her a picture from when she was good looking and young.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:57 PM (lAZep)

891 866 Hey jc!

Posted by: Adriane... at October 01, 2013 12:53 AM (k4Il7)

======

Hey Adriane

Howz U?

Posted by: jc at September 30, 2013 08:57 PM (PlzOe)

892 Tammy Bruce ‏@HeyTammyBruce 1m

Um , it just shut itself down MT @BarackObama: "The Affordable Care Act is moving forward. You can't shut it down." pic.twitter.com/HTcfivGvw4

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 08:57 PM (8sCoq)

893 Ohhh, MÃ¦t was quick. I hadn't even unsheathed mine yet.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 30, 2013 08:57 PM (9MLX+)

894 Brace yourselves for concatenation!

Posted by: adams alert porn at September 30, 2013 08:57 PM (gQKHE)

895 And with a slight wiff of ozone, the idjit is vaporized.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 08:57 PM (BAS5M)

896 My husband thinks I'm being brainwashed by AoSHQ, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin. He thinks Glenn Beck is dangerously paranoid and Michelle Malkin is angry and bitter. Posted by: katya, the designated driver Just remember that your husband is white and probably going to Hell. So it really doesn't matter, does it?

Or is this the opening line from an interesting Penthouse letter? Go on.

Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at September 30, 2013 08:58 PM (v6hyJ)

897

new hash 883

hello troll for free

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 08:58 PM (zOTsN)

898 New target: Y75uM

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2013 08:58 PM (JawqV)

899 @BCAppelbaum 56m Midnight. The National Zoo has released its lions. Good luck to everyone in Northwest DC.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 08:58 PM (Dsds2)

900 Humiliating and obliterating liberal trolls FEELS SO GOOD... ♫

Posted by: Chuck Mangione at September 30, 2013 08:58 PM (T/XcG)

901 the spam bot seems to have multiple hashes, but one tiny brain

Posted by: Mr. Coors at September 30, 2013 08:58 PM (yh6zE)

902 882 875
Posted by: CalebD at October 01, 2013 12:52 AM (R53nf)

Apparently R53nf has been a repeat offender. So he gets hard-banned.

Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at October 01, 2013 12:54 AM (XkotV)

Did you miss 874 or was it left as an example?

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2013 12:57 AM (T1005)

The disappearance of 874 and 875 pretty much says it all....

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 08:58 PM (T1005)

903 Good night all. I might be around to greet the survivors tomorrow.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 30, 2013 08:59 PM (l3vZN)

904 Wow. The banhammer moves fast.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at September 30, 2013 08:59 PM (DoZD+)

905 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 01, 2013 12:57 AM (CA2NO) Pin it in on me will ya! Jk. Thanks. Seriously, i am stoked now. Just for the simple fact that it's closed, and the mockery will be endless.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 08:59 PM (LpbKr)

906 ...the Vitter bill wont put Congress into OCare, it will mere take away their private insurance and, darn it, some of them have really sick family members!! and it will cost them 19,000 per year to get insurance!!! Don't have a lot of sympathy for members of Congress. Last I heard they get paid just a little under $200k a year. If I got paid that kind of money, I wouldn't be complaining about anything.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at September 30, 2013 08:59 PM (/IXKu)

907

Posted by: CalebD at October 01, 2013 12:57 AM (Y75uM)

It's back on aisle 883

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 08:59 PM (BAS5M)

908 CalebD

I assume that D means Dickhead?

Or is it your favorite mouthwash?

You do realize you ain't foolin' anyone that matters?

Nor are you making any "points".

Now scurry on back to the Fuzzy Green Foozball or Dkos Nazis and brag about how you "showed us".

punk.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 08:59 PM (lAZep)

909 wish I could swing the banhammer

Posted by: The Dude at September 30, 2013 09:00 PM (vJdyz)

910
sinbad ‏@sinbadbad

Just great .. Now the government is shut down. Good job! Thanks for caring about this country that you pretend to love

That would be Sinbad "the comedian" as opposed to Sinbad "the sailor".

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 30, 2013 09:00 PM (kdS6q)

911 Hey jc ... things are OK-ish. How 'bout w/you?

Posted by: Adriane... at September 30, 2013 09:00 PM (k4Il7)

912 There's only 1 thing to do now: retreat to the jungle and create my own Montagnard army

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 09:00 PM (8sCoq)

913 The Panda Cam has grown dark? The Panda Cam has grown dark?!

Posted by: Lady in Black, why am I awake at this hour?! at September 30, 2013 09:00 PM (XB5Ak)

914 The DFL is against beer?>>

The DFL is against people without Pantrys ans foresight.

Or more to the point their voting block.

Posted by: The Hickster at September 30, 2013 09:00 PM (iTEZE)

915 896 @BCAppelbaum 56m
Midnight. The National Zoo has released its lions. Good luck to everyone in Northwest DC.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 01, 2013 12:58 AM (Dsds2)

Hah!!! If only it were so! Bread and Circuses in the Capitol!

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 09:01 PM (T1005)

916 893, the funny thing about what you said is that my husband is a very, very conservative minister.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at September 30, 2013 09:01 PM (DoZD+)

917 Weren't the Republicans offering the delay option supposed to avoid the government shut down? I could have sworn posts were made claiming this, because delay was the better option to defund.

Posted by: buzzion at September 30, 2013 09:01 PM (LI48c)

918 Thanks MWR. Just,saw it.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 09:01 PM (LpbKr)

919 909 clean up CalebD at October 01, 2013 01:00 AM (R53nf)

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 09:01 PM (BAS5M)

920 Troll alert on Aisle 909.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 30, 2013 09:01 PM (T/XcG)

921 Posted by: CalebD at October 01, 2013 12:57 AM (Y75uM) You will run out of proxies before the Ban Hammer tiresÂ…

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 30, 2013 09:01 PM (Vk2pI)

922 I expected to hear church bells or gunshots. Instead, ominous silence.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at September 30, 2013 09:02 PM (DoZD+)

923

Sinbad the comedian who has had to declare bankruptcy several times cause he doesn't know shit about money

I'm good with that

and the banhammer is for closers

Posted by: thunderb at September 30, 2013 09:02 PM (zOTsN)

924 The Panda Cam has grown dark? The Panda Cam has grown dark?!

Posted by: Lady in Black, why am I awake at this hour?! at October 01, 2013 01:00 AM (XB5Ak)

You know, I've never once cared to look at the Panda Cam. But now that I can't, I kinda want to damnit.

Posted by: mugiwara at September 30, 2013 09:02 PM (hpYnL)

925 Guys - have a little faith in the TB3K.

Posted by: Mætenloch at September 30, 2013 09:02 PM (XkotV)

926

CalebD at October 01, 2013 01:00 AM (R53nf)

You can try to run proxies. You will just die tired.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 09:02 PM (BAS5M)

927 905 wish I could swing the banhammer

Posted by: The Dude at October 01, 2013 01:00 AM (vJdyz)

If you see one of the cobs at a moron-meetup and impress them, they might let you touch it.....

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 09:02 PM (T1005)

928 wish I could swing the banhammer Posted by: The Dude at October 01, 2013 01:00 AM (vJdyz) I have a "hammer" you can swing all you like!

Posted by: Reggie Love at September 30, 2013 09:03 PM (Vk2pI)

929 I think I'm gonna start editing troll posts into some of the old "classic" LaceWigs spam content.

That should irritate the hell out of them.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 30, 2013 09:03 PM (9MLX+)

930 I expected to hear church bells or gunshots. Instead, ominous silence. Maybe they're very quiet, rabbit hunting church bells and gunshots?!?

Posted by: Adriane... at September 30, 2013 09:03 PM (k4Il7)

931 ...only to discover the hard truth that school funding isn't a fucking federal matter, no matter what the feds like to pretend. It would be nice to get the feds out of that matter entirely and dismantle the Dept of Education...

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at September 30, 2013 09:03 PM (/IXKu)

932 859 You must not look at the Shut Down.

I hear it's safe if you use, like, three layers of pop-tart wrappers.

Posted by: Anachronda at September 30, 2013 09:04 PM (U82Km)

933 TB3K! All Hail TB3K!

Posted by: Little aliens in the locker at Grand Central Station at September 30, 2013 09:04 PM (v6hyJ)

934 It takes longer to reconfigure a proxy than to swing the ban hammer. Do the math.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 30, 2013 09:04 PM (9MLX+)

935

738 I saw a skunk go into the old shed up by the barn.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at October 01, 2013 12:23 AM (l3vZN)

and so it begins . .

DO NOT shoot the skunk in an enclosed area. Trust me on this.

Posted by: Cicero Kid , covered with taint. Once. at September 30, 2013 09:05 PM (DHQv9)

936 I still would rather see something REPLACE their crap rather than zapping the entire comment.

then we know they were there and that they got punished.

A burnt hole in the ground where a heretic once stood is good for morale.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 09:06 PM (lAZep)

937 That should irritate the hell out of them.>>

More importantly it entertains the hell out of the rest of us. Not just blank/gone but a satirical send off.

Posted by: The Hickster at September 30, 2013 09:06 PM (iTEZE)

938 The Affordable Care Act goes to the movies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GODDLgM1gKo

Yes, at first they laughed and cheered.

Then,

they RAN!!!!

Posted by: dissent555 at September 30, 2013 09:06 PM (yR6A1)

939 I hear it's safe if you use, like, three layers of pop-tart wrappers. Posted by: Anachronda Or maybe just a reflection, or look at it through smoked glass. It'll put your eyes out, Jim.

Posted by: Low Information Republican Squish at September 30, 2013 09:07 PM (v6hyJ)

940
Jeff Flake @JeffFlake

Not Congress' finest hour.

Yes -- that Jeff Flake.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 30, 2013 09:07 PM (kdS6q)

941 I hear it's safe if you use, like, three layers of pop-tart wrappers.

--

No, no. You need one of those 70s eclipse boxes. See: "Doloris Claiborne" for reference.

Posted by: Lady in Black, why am I awake at this hour?! at September 30, 2013 09:08 PM (XB5Ak)

942 Well, someone wake me up if there's movement on the treeline.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 30, 2013 09:08 PM (lAZep)

943 It takes longer to reconfigure a proxy than to swing the ban hammer. Do the math. Posted by: Purp at October 01, 2013 01:04 AM (9MLX+) Not even I would go up against the ban hammer!

Posted by: John Henry at September 30, 2013 09:08 PM (Vk2pI)

944 Cruz and Cornyn having some fun in the Senate

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 09:08 PM (BAS5M)

945 927 ...only to discover the hard truth that school funding isn't a fucking federal matter, no matter what the feds like to pretend.

It would be nice to get the feds out of that matter entirely and dismantle the Dept of Education...

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at October 01, 2013 01:03 AM (/IXKu)

Can you think of any sane reason that the Feds should be involved with owning land in states (huge swaths of western states like Nevada and Utah) running parks, or having anything to do with education, agriculture, or labor?

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 09:08 PM (T1005)

946 Shutdown +01:07:00

So many little bodies. I really need to clean the bug zapper more often.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2013 09:08 PM (JawqV)

947

Oil futures down slightly. Gold up a teensy. Silver flat. S+P futures up a little as are DOW futures.

The panic hasn't stuck yet.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 30, 2013 09:08 PM (1Y+hH)

948 907 Hey jc ... things are OK-ish.

How 'bout w/you?

Posted by: Adriane... at October 01, 2013 01:00 AM (k4Il7)

====

I could complain but apparently what I type gets lost in the shutdown. I yelled it out loud, but the sound was absorbed by the shutdown. I scribbled it in chalk on the sidewalk, but the rain caused by the shutdown washed it away.

I whispered it in the ear of the squirrel in the tree outside my kitchen window. The squirrel was abducted by the NSA.

I guess I can't complain.

Posted by: jc at September 30, 2013 09:08 PM (PlzOe)

949 921 Guys - have a little faith in the TB3K. Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at October 01, 2013 01:02 AM (XkotV) I wish it would pause for station identification. Too slow to get to the offending posts.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 09:09 PM (LpbKr)

950

923 905
wish I could swing the banhammer

Dream big.

Posted by: John Henry at September 30, 2013 09:09 PM (DHQv9)

951 Heh, the DNC is insolvent. They owe $18M to creditors and fund raising is way, way off. They're only paying down $1M/mo.

They're being cannibalized by OFA.

I've always said OFA was Obama's mechanism to hijack what remained of the old Democrat party.

Come election time, the DNC's probably gonna wind up being on a "cash basis" with all its vendors.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 30, 2013 09:09 PM (9MLX+)

952 nothing to report here on the shutdown!

Posted by: the purple stereo at September 30, 2013 09:10 PM (yh6zE)

953

If you see one of the cobs at a moron-meetup and impress them, they might let you touch it.....

Now that's just not right.

Posted by: PMRich at September 30, 2013 09:11 PM (KDUNf)

954 The problem with banning is JeffB.

Posted by: nip at September 30, 2013 09:11 PM (jI23+)

955 Jeff Flake @JeffFlake Not Congress' finest hour. *** He's right.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 30, 2013 09:11 PM (DmNpO)

956 If you can't view the shutdown tonight go out at noon tomorrow and use a convex lens to look up at the sun.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 09:12 PM (LpbKr)

957 Show her a picture from when she was good looking and young. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at October 01, 2013 12:57 AM (lAZep) Objection! Cites facts not in evidence!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 09:12 PM (CA2NO)

958 nothing to report here on the shutdown!

Step outside and look closely at the horizon. Off in the distance you'll see a mushroom cloud somewhere.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 30, 2013 09:12 PM (9MLX+)

959 ***sigh*** If only we had some media who might ask, "Mr. Politician, how would you compare this shutdown to the 17 others that have occurred over the last 50 years?"

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 09:12 PM (T1005)

960 It's like The Happening out there--only worse!

Posted by: adams M Night Sham-a-thon porn at September 30, 2013 09:13 PM (gQKHE)

961 The great beast of federal government has momentum and stored energy enough to carry on for a few weeks before the real slowdown becomes apparent.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 09:14 PM (BAS5M)

962 I now have my semi drunk blueprints for new equipment layout. So thanks to all for clearing my mind so I could think.

Posted by: The Hickster at September 30, 2013 09:14 PM (iTEZE)

963 That would be Sinbad "the comedian" as opposed to Sinbad "the sailor". Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 01, 2013 01:00 AM (kdS6q) Objection! Cites facts not in evidence~! Referring to Sinbad as "a comedian" would require some documentation that this person has ever actually said or done something funny.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 09:15 PM (CA2NO)

964 Dear Diary: It's been over 1 hour since the gov't shut down; It feels like an eternity. I already ate an entire bag of Doritos. At this consumption rate, I will be completely out of Doritos by sunrise. Then I will have to chance venturing out into the larger world, devastated by the lack of government. Oh Mother Gaia, give me the strength to persevere (and find fresh Doritos).

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 09:15 PM (Dsds2)

965 COMET ISON OVER THE EAST COAST IN 4 HOURS

Posted by: CAC at September 30, 2013 09:15 PM (KZTw3)

966 951 Jeff Flake @JeffFlake

Not Congress' finest hour.

***

He's right.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 01, 2013 01:11 AM (DmNpO)

As someone who avoids "social media" sites because their product is their users, can someone put up a link?

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 09:15 PM (T1005)

967 http://tinyurl.com/l2zo83c

Posted by: The Dude at September 30, 2013 09:16 PM (vJdyz)

968 Hey, where are all the 9yo hotties? I'll take a boy if the girls are all gone

Posted by: Sharia Law at September 30, 2013 09:16 PM (yh6zE)

969 Boehner presser on FOX now.

Posted by: scottst at September 30, 2013 09:16 PM (EMr2t)

970 On the other hand, "Sinbad of the Seven Seas" starring Lou Ferrigno, is a guaranteed good night in front of the home video thingy.

Posted by: Null at September 30, 2013 09:17 PM (xjpRj)

971

949 If you see one of the cobs at a moron-meetup and impress them, they might let you touch it.....

I merely wanted to get close to the temple, not inside. I only wanted to climb the steps and maybe get a peek at the sacred object.

Posted by: Zombie Chris Farley aka Beverly Hills Ninja at September 30, 2013 09:17 PM (DHQv9)

972 It's like The Happening out there--only worse! Posted by: adams M Night Sham-a-thon porn at October 01, 2013 01:13 AM (gQKHE) Dear God. You mean WORSE than Zooey Deschanel's wooden acting, John Leguizamo's bizarre lisping, and Mark Wahlberg's stoic wall of blandness? THE END TIMES ARE HERE!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 09:17 PM (CA2NO)

973 Sample from the moonbats at DailyKos: Granted the pathological Tee Peers facilitated by (0+ / 0-) the bygone Hastert and the inept Great Pumpkin Head are at fault - had Reid and Obama stood up to them starting 4 years ago this day likely would have never come. Though I appreciate the two men's basic kindness, you cannot placate bullies, especially when they are pathological. Let's hope they remember that in the days and weeks to come. Especially with Obama still enthralled with CPI and the willingness to starve the poor who are on Social Security. Access to medical care really doesn't help when a person is elderly and chronically malnourished.

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 09:17 PM (M1gmo)

974 954 nothing to report here on the shutdown! Step outside and look closely at the horizon. Off in the distance you'll see a mushroom cloud somewhere. Posted by: Purp at October 01, 2013 01:12 AM (9MLX+) Sorry, lap-band pushed it out Hiroshima style.

Posted by: Krispy Christie at September 30, 2013 09:18 PM (LpbKr)

975 This card, it speaks the truth:

http://scoamf.us/Fe

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2013 09:18 PM (JawqV)

976

That was quick.

Of course, it's 1:20 AM and the bars are about to close.

Posted by: scottst at September 30, 2013 09:18 PM (EMr2t)

977 they boys are gone now? How about the young goats? or do I gotta settle for an old chicken? Can I get a fatwa on this?

Posted by: Sharia Law at September 30, 2013 09:18 PM (yh6zE)

978 963 http://tinyurl.com/l2zo83c

Posted by: The Dude at October 01, 2013 01:16 AM (vJdyz)

Jeff Flake doesn't think that's Congress' finest hour?!?!? Damn.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 09:19 PM (T1005)

979 Guys, report from the midwest: I just ventured outside with my 2 loyal dogs. The tension was immense. I think they sensed my fear. I don't think they wanted to veer out in this strange, new world either. In fact, they took care of their duty in very quick fashion. They knew.

As I was reaching down to pick it up with my doggie bag, my neighbor, a non-essential government worker, yelled at me from across the street. I about jumped out of my skin!

When he asked to pick it up for me, my heart settled down. Nobody ever did that for me! Then he said his family had to eat something, and my heart just sank.

Stop the madness, GOP. This is just too much to bear.

Posted by: Dave S. at September 30, 2013 09:19 PM (UvR6d)

980 From now on, I shall refer to all voluntary descendents of the slavery party as 'walking colostomy bags.'

It will often be included in parentheses following their name like the networks do with D, R, & I.

Ex. Harry Reid (Walking Colostomy Bag) Bitch NanFran (WCB)

The game 'guess that party' can now be won with the answer 'WCB.'

Posted by: jc at September 30, 2013 09:19 PM (PlzOe)

981 Okay folks, I've got to hit the hay. I'm trying to get a hashtag trending on Twitter - #StoriesFromTheShutdown -- but I'm a nobody over there, so the chances are low it'll happen. If you're over in the Twittersphere, I'd appreciate it if you'd help it along! See you all in the morning, Horde! Provided the world doesn't end from Shutdownado, that is.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 09:19 PM (CA2NO)

982 The squirrel was abducted by the NSA. I guess I can't complain. I worry about the nutz at NSA more than the squirrel ... unless I'm Natasha. Than I worry about Squirrel and Moose ALOT!

Posted by: Adriane... at September 30, 2013 09:20 PM (k4Il7)

983 Ancient Alien Marathon, hour 11:

"Ancient Alien Theorists suggest that aliens, working through the all knowing eye on the U.S. dollar and through the Perfect Triad of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the U.S. government, are the ones behind the current shutdown."

/wait, what? They didn't say that? I'm sure they did. Plus, I'm pretty certain that the washington monument is some sort of alien airport control tower....

Posted by: shibumi at September 30, 2013 09:20 PM (25HWz)

984 The black helicopters have stopped circling. The mosquito fogger guy is absent on his rounds. No trains can be heard wailing in the distance. There is an unnatural stillness surrounding the cul-de-sac. Expectant. Ominous. Deathly.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 09:20 PM (BAS5M)

985 Dear God. You mean WORSE than Zooey Deschanel's wooden acting, John Leguizamo's bizarre lisping, and Mark Wahlberg's stoic wall of blandness? THE END TIMES ARE HERE! Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 01, 2013 01:17 AM (CA2NO) Agree, agree, somewhat agree. Waiting for him in 'Lone Survivor.' I think Wahlberg is great for that role.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 09:21 PM (LpbKr)

986 971 This card, it speaks the truth:

http://scoamf.us/Fe

Posted by: Blanco Basura at October 01, 2013 01:18 AM (JawqV)

The unrighteous find the truth offensive. What else is new?

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 09:21 PM (T1005)

987
Referring to Sinbad as "a comedian" would require some documentation that this person has ever actually said or done something funny.
Posted by: MWR

Necessary Roughness maybe?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 30, 2013 09:21 PM (kdS6q)

988 The Nikkei is up 80pts right now. It would be up 400pts if there was no shutdownOMGYUH8WOMENANDBLACKS?

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 09:22 PM (M1gmo)

989 976 From now on, I shall refer to all voluntary descendents of the slavery party as 'walking colostomy bags.'
xxx

I'm pretty sure you owe 'colostomy bags' an apology.

Posted by: shibumi at September 30, 2013 09:23 PM (25HWz)

990 Oy Vey ... The head, she is pounding. Take care, everybody...

Posted by: Adriane... at September 30, 2013 09:23 PM (k4Il7)

991 Agree, agree, somewhat agree. Waiting for him in 'Lone Survivor.' I think Wahlberg is great for that role. Posted by: RWC at October 01, 2013 01:21 AM (LpbKr) Oh he's good in other movies; so are ZD and JL. But the Happening was AWFUL, and their performances were amazingly bad. Okay, for reelz, to bed! TTYL!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at September 30, 2013 09:23 PM (CA2NO)

992 Due to a possible government shutdown, the people of New Orleans have turned to cannibalism. Why did the Republicans do this?

Posted by: MSNBC at September 30, 2013 09:24 PM (sOtz/)

993
Also re: Sindad

I didn't know Marissa Tomei was in "A Different World" as a youngster.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 30, 2013 09:24 PM (kdS6q)

994 you know since the shut down, I have noticed that Kathleen Seibilus is really a boner maker. Any chance I could get a date? any one got the ##'s you know she is a vegitarian so her hoo-haw doesn't smell like bacon or pork chops can I get a fatwa on this?

Posted by: Sharia Law at September 30, 2013 09:24 PM (yh6zE)

995 It's been 17 years since the last shutdown.

I think we should have them weekly. And I'm not counting weekends.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 30, 2013 09:24 PM (wNF3N)

996 ) 932 I still would rather see something REPLACE their crap rather than zapping the entire comment. then we know they were there and that they got punished. A burnt hole in the ground where a heretic once stood is good for morale.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at October 01, 2013 01:06 AM (lAZep)

Hodor? Hodor! HODOR!

That was so hilarious.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at September 30, 2013 09:24 PM (0wHyk)

997 988 Due to a possible government shutdown, the people of New Orleans have turned to cannibalism. Why did the Republicans do this? Posted by: MSNBC at October 01, 2013 01:24 AM (sOtz/) Where the hell is W? He had to have a hand in this!

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 09:26 PM (LpbKr)

998 I'm pretty certain that the washington monument is some sort of alien airport control tower.... Posted by: shibumi at October 01, 2013 01:20 AM (25HWz) The Washington Monument is actually George Washington's personal condom for his war cock. A little mood music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7iVsdRbhnc

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 30, 2013 09:27 PM (Vk2pI)

999 Any chance I could get a date?

Dood, my standards are very low, but damn.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 30, 2013 09:28 PM (9MLX+)

1000 you know she is a vegitarian so her hoo-haw doesn't smell like bacon or pork chops >>

Wait Am I missing something here? Those are good Compost is bad.

Posted by: The Hickster at September 30, 2013 09:28 PM (iTEZE)

1001 http://i.imgur.com/ikbPktr.gif

Posted by: The Dude at September 30, 2013 09:28 PM (vJdyz)

1002
From Mother Jones' sob story on the shutdown:

Consumers: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission will furlough 652 of its 680 employees and maintain only a "bare minimum level of oversight and surveillance" to stop fraudulent practices.

BRB - cornering the silver market.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 30, 2013 09:29 PM (kdS6q)

1003 I got my Obamacare bill today. My son's premiums are going up 50%. Fucking bastards.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at September 30, 2013 09:29 PM (xa1/W)

1004 bah, forgot it was a shit link

http://tinyurl.com/ms3q6kf

Posted by: The Dude at September 30, 2013 09:29 PM (vJdyz)

1005 Due to a possible government shutdown, the people of New Orleans have turned to cannibalism.

They ate the Saints?

Posted by: Basement Cat at September 30, 2013 09:30 PM (eawoP)

1006 My tomatoes stopped producing fruit. Is this shutdown thing for real?

Posted by: Cicero Kid at September 30, 2013 09:30 PM (DHQv9)

1007 With no government to regulate the internet, John McCain has gone from Online Poker to Online Cockfights

Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 09:30 PM (aTXUx)

1008 bah, forgot it was a shit link http://tinyurl.com/ms3q6kf Posted by: The Dude at October 01, 2013 01:29 AM (vJdyz) Why do I feel like that's the least NSFW image from that gameÂ…

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 30, 2013 09:31 PM (Vk2pI)

1009 Cicero Kid: try growing some tomacco. It tastes horrible, but it's smooth and mild!

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 30, 2013 09:31 PM (T/XcG)

1010 alright friends

I have the claymores set- gonna try and get some shuteye

see you tomorrow

if there is a tomorrow

Good night and good luck.

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 30, 2013 09:31 PM (8sCoq)

1011 We're getting reports of shutdown induced spontaneous human combustion in Flagstaff AZ, and cannibalism in Platte Nebraska. Sinkholes have opened up and completely devoured Joplin Missouri.

Posted by: MSLSD at September 30, 2013 09:31 PM (9MLX+)

1012 They ate the Saints? Posted by: Basement Cat at October 01, 2013 01:30 AM (eawoP) The saints are in hell. A little mood music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWaebyrF1XI

Posted by: \m/ The Political Hat at September 30, 2013 09:31 PM (Vk2pI)

1013 They ate the Saints?>>

Finding a Saint in New Orleans would be like finding a Virgin in DC me thinks.

Posted by: The Hickster at September 30, 2013 09:32 PM (iTEZE)

1014 6. We may still see another Last edited Tue Oct 1, 2013, 01:19 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1) Civil War in our life time, as the right wingers attempt to take over. In the next 20 years, our government might be totally changed, to the point, we resemble the old Soviet Union. I hope to hell not.... ------- Taken from DU. But that is the ignorance that makes up more than half of the country.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 09:33 PM (LpbKr)

1015 Why do I feel like that's the least NSFW image from that gameÂ…

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 01, 2013 01:31 AM (Vk2pI)

eh, you need the audio that goes with it

Posted by: The Dude at September 30, 2013 09:33 PM (vJdyz)

1016 I am feeling so bloated. I tried to pass gas, but couldn't because of the shutdown.

Posted by: jc at September 30, 2013 09:33 PM (PlzOe)

1017 A little mood music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWaebyrF1XI

Posted by: \m/ The Political Hat at October 01, 2013 01:31 AM (Vk2pI)

Now you're talking.

Posted by: Berserker at September 30, 2013 09:33 PM (FMbng)

1018 and it's not NSFW as there is no nudity, just a dude rubbing his Vita furiously

Posted by: The Dude at September 30, 2013 09:34 PM (vJdyz)

1019 In the ~~next~~ past 20 years, our government ~~might be~~ was totally changed, to the point, we resemble the old Soviet Union.

Posted by: MSLSD at September 30, 2013 09:35 PM (9MLX+)

1020 Like the .gov, I'm shutting down.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2013 09:35 PM (JawqV)

1021 I don't know what the fuck y'all are so worked up about.

It's only a bit after ten-thirty in the evening in Commiefornia, and the first of October seems far away. Dude! Rock on!

Posted by: torquewrench at September 30, 2013 09:36 PM (gqT4g)

1022 I still would rather see something REPLACE their crap rather than zapping the entire comment. That would be funny as hell. Maybe replace it with a derogatory comment about the poster, such as, "Damn I'm such a xxxx!" where 'xxxx' would be a random vulgar term.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at September 30, 2013 09:36 PM (/IXKu)

1023 sock off

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 30, 2013 09:37 PM (9MLX+)

1024 and it's not NSFW as there is no nudity, just a dude rubbing his Vita furiously>>

So it's not NSFW just NRTW?

(No Reason To Watch)

Posted by: The Hickster at September 30, 2013 09:37 PM (iTEZE)

1025 Taken from DU. But that is the ignorance that makes up more than half of the country. Posted by: RWC at October 01, 2013 01:33 AM (LpbKr) First, they tried to fob National Socialism off on "the right," but the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? *THAT'S* "right wing" now? Why don't they just shave their heads and run around screaming BANANA at people?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 30, 2013 09:37 PM (wW0fZ)

1026 The cold stars shone in mockery, and the bare trees waved their branches above me; now and then the sweet voice of a bird burst forth amidst the universal stillness. All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment; I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.

Posted by: adams Frankenshutdown porn at September 30, 2013 09:39 PM (gQKHE)

1027 1010 6. We may still see another Last edited Tue Oct 1, 2013, 01:19 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1) Civil War in our life time, as the right wingers attempt to take over. In the next 20 years, our government might be totally changed, to the point, we resemble the old Soviet Union. I hope to hell not.... ------- Taken from DU. But that is the ignorance that makes up more than half of the country. Posted by: RWC at October 01, 2013 01:33 AM (LpbKr) That's so freaking idiotic. They are so goddamned stupid it should hurt. If anything, THEY are the ones trying to turn us into the soviet union. Atheism, lawless dictates by the executive, endless bureaucracy, and thought police. Yeah that describes us "right wingers" alright.

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 09:39 PM (M1gmo)

1028 First, they tried to fob National Socialism off on "the right," but the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? *THAT'S* "right wing" now?

Small government conservatism is COMMUNIST!

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at September 30, 2013 09:40 PM (0wHyk)

1029 Wait Am I missing something here? Those are good Compost is bad. Posted by: The Hickster at October 01, 2013 01:28 AM (iTEZE) no proper mohammedian can touch OR smell pork Pork is a verb in the Sharia. It is what we do to all the little boys and girls. rape is what we do to the infadels can I get a fatwa on this?

Posted by: Sharia Law at September 30, 2013 09:41 PM (yh6zE)

1030
Gabriel Malor ‏@gabrielmalor

The buffoonery on display from TruCons this past week has exceeded all expectations.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 30, 2013 09:41 PM (kdS6q)

1031 That's really rather impressively mal-educated - USSR (Communism!) is bad, but yay socialism and gov't big and powerful enough to be totalitarian.

Not as bad as an anarchist socialist though.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at September 30, 2013 09:41 PM (0wHyk)

1032 Civil War in our life time, as the right wingers attempt to take over. The only assholes that would think that are either wannabe Politburo members or morons addicted to government handouts.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at September 30, 2013 09:42 PM (/IXKu)

1033 Fuckers at DU can't sign in or get to whatever Obamacare site they're looking for.. BECAUSE IT'S SO DAMN POPULAR!!!

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 09:43 PM (LpbKr)

1034 oh and goats. Under Sharia pork is a verb that what we do to goats but chickens we F#ck them

Posted by: Sharia Law at September 30, 2013 09:44 PM (yh6zE)

1035 Why don't they just shave their heads and run around screaming BANANA at people? Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 01, 2013 01:37 AM (wW0fZ) Too sane for them.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 09:45 PM (LpbKr)

1036 Oh shit, I just had a ugly fight with brothers liberal wife on facebook. This will not end well

Posted by: lou's a girl at September 30, 2013 09:45 PM (vgd4f)

1037 I just want to be sure I'm up to date.

We couldn't risk a government shutdown over defunding (the poor man's repeal) of Obamacare-only crazybirds want that.

We now have a shutdown over a one year delay that Boehner is certain to cave on and doesn't matter anyway (because do we really believe the GOP, having made this bait and switch, would hold the line on not borrowing whatever funds are necessary to paper over the resulting shortfall) and a meaningless requirement that DC staffers be sent to the exchanges, which will be made up to them through pay increases (and more borrowing).

Did I miss anything?

Posted by: Methos at September 30, 2013 09:46 PM (hO9ad)

1038 Hey, and McQueeg is out there on the newswires rubbishing the idea of a government shutdown, prophesying disaster for the GOP, and saying, "We can't win."

Newsflash, Johnny boy: neither could you.

Time for a new rule that GOP aspirants to higher office must attain that office, or retire from public life with immediate effect. Either come back with the shield or on it. No other option.

Works hand in glove with the suggestion that GOP political consultants who lose campaigns be instantly cast weeping into outer darkness, never to return. Concentrates the mind.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 30, 2013 09:46 PM (gqT4g)

1039 Aaron ‏@a_ryan88 10m

WARNING: Now that the government has shut down, Sandra Fluke is not only horny, but also without birth control. Do not approach.

Posted by: kbdabear at September 30, 2013 09:47 PM (aTXUx)

1040 Oh shit, I just had a ugly fight with brothers liberal wife on facebook. This will not end well

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2013 01:45 AM (vgd4f)

Eh..who gives a shit really. I hold nothing back these days when it comes to lib slime.

Posted by: Berserker at September 30, 2013 09:47 PM (FMbng)

1041 1026 Gabriel Malor ‏@gabrielmalor The buffoonery on display from TruCons this past week has exceeded all expectations. Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 01, 2013 01:41 AM (kdS6q) Gabe needs to shut the hell up.

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 09:48 PM (M1gmo)

1042 Gabriel Malor ‏@gabrielmalor

The buffoonery on display from TruCons this past week has exceeded all expectations.

Gabe's Obsolete Party still hasn't given me a reason to vote next year. Good luck with that.

Posted by: Methos at September 30, 2013 09:48 PM (hO9ad)

1043 This will not end well Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2013 01:45 AM (vgd4f) that is prolly 'cause she knows some many things that are not true.

Posted by: Sharia Law at September 30, 2013 09:49 PM (yh6zE)

1044 1023 1010 6. We may still see another

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Civil War in our life time, as the right wingers attempt to take over. In the next 20 years, our government might be totally changed, to the point, we resemble the old Soviet Union. I hope to hell not....

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Taken from DU. But that is the ignorance that makes up more than half of the country.
Posted by: RWC at October 01, 2013 01:33 AM (LpbKr)

That's so freaking idiotic. They are so goddamned stupid it should hurt. If anything, THEY are the ones trying to turn us into the soviet union. Atheism, lawless dictates by the executive, endless bureaucracy, and thought police. Yeah that describes us "right wingers" alright.

Posted by: NWConservative at October 01, 2013 01:39 AM (M1gmo)

Ah, yes.....the whole, "we're about to be invaded by people who want the government to leave them the fuck alone" meme....

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 09:49 PM (T1005)

1045 Berserker, me too, I totally called her out, and she ran away. But I am sure my poor brother is hearing a boatload of bullshit from her, and for that I do feel bad. He's a good guy!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at September 30, 2013 09:49 PM (vgd4f)

1046 I think I'm gonna start editing troll posts into some of the old "classic" LaceWigs spam content.

That should irritate the hell out of them.

Posted by: Purp at October 01, 2013 01:03 AM (9MLX+)

Machines for Sale or nothing...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at September 30, 2013 09:49 PM (xa1/W)

1047 Since the government shut down I got dibs on the USS Halsey (DDG-97).

Posted by: Cicero Kid at September 30, 2013 09:50 PM (DHQv9)

1048 but also without birth control. Do not approach. Posted by: kbdabear at October 01, 2013 01:47 AM (aTXUx) and antibiotics. my goat is cleaner than her Well before Achmed takes his turn can I get a fatwa on this?

Posted by: Sharia Law at September 30, 2013 09:50 PM (yh6zE)

1049 Time for a new rule that GOP aspirants to higher office must attain that office, or retire from public life with immediate effect. Either come back with the shield or on it. No other option.

Works hand in glove with the suggestion that GOP political consultants who lose campaigns be instantly cast weeping into outer darkness, never to return. Concentrates the mind.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 01, 2013 01:46 AM (gqT4g)

====

and they must have their winkies stapled to their foreheads.

Posted by: jc at September 30, 2013 09:50 PM (PlzOe)

1050 always preferred the battery spam, myself

Posted by: The Dude at September 30, 2013 09:50 PM (vJdyz)

1051 whoa, 1000+ comments. Haven't seen that in a really long time

Posted by: The Dude at September 30, 2013 09:51 PM (vJdyz)

1052 1032 Oh shit, I just had a ugly fight with brothers liberal wife on facebook. This will not end well

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2013 01:45 AM (vgd4f)

Let me just guess which side went ugly....

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 09:51 PM (T1005)

1053 Berserker, me too, I totally called her out, and she ran away. But I am sure my poor brother is hearing a boatload of bullshit from her, and for that I do feel bad. He's a good guy!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2013 01:49 AM (vgd4f)

Well maybe he needs to change into a wife beater shirt and force her to make him a sammich. lol

Posted by: Berserker at September 30, 2013 09:51 PM (FMbng)

1054 And the USS George Washington (CVN-73).

Posted by: Commodore Cicero Kid at September 30, 2013 09:52 PM (DHQv9)

1055 Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2013 01:45 AM (vgd4f Lucky dog! Nobody is biting the chum in the water on FB for me.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 09:53 PM (LpbKr)

1056 1046 always preferred the battery spam, myself Posted by: The Dude at October 01, 2013 01:50 AM (vJdyz) you have not seen me lately

Posted by: Pipe Fittings at September 30, 2013 09:53 PM (yh6zE)

1057 Cthulhu , gotta say I used the f word on facebook. I got fired up and will probably be de- friended by some people, but I so don't care

Posted by: lou's a girl at September 30, 2013 09:54 PM (vgd4f)

1058 "Oh shit, I just had a ugly fight with brothers liberal wife on facebook. This will not end well"

Here's your regular reminder:

Being on Farcebook accomplishes absolutely nothing positive, while it does many incredibly negative things.

It puts money into the pockets of a Farcebook executive cadre who turn around and donate stacks of that money to the worst liberal political nonsense you can imagine. Plus their enormous in-kind contributions in terms of allowing Obama/DNC operatives to data-mine Farcebook for all it's worth.

Whenever I point out stuff like this, I get snippy comments like, "Oh, that's _just_ what conservatives need, to have no presence on social media."

My reply? Go back through Ace's comment threads and count up the number of posts in which people say, "I had an argument with a liberal friend/acquaintance/family-member on Farcebook, and I was winning hands down, and then they suddenly unfriended me."

That's it in a nutshell. You can influence those who are willing to listen, and liberals on Farcebook aren't willing to do so. Not at all. Meanwhile, your presence there on FB helps Obama, Soros, and a huge gang of other liberal shitheads prosper.

Rethink. Decline. Opt out. Cancel.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 30, 2013 09:56 PM (gqT4g)

1059 but I so don't care Posted by: lou's a girl at October 01, 2013 01:54 AM (vgd4f) what are they going to do? spamm you with pipe fitting adverts?

Posted by: Pipe Fittings at September 30, 2013 09:57 PM (yh6zE)

1060 EXPLOSION AT THE BERKLEY CA CAMPUS: -STUDENTS INJURED -STUDENTS TRAPPED -EVACUATIONS ORDERED. DALYCAL. pic.twitter.com/OmokqQYoYw Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 10:26 PM (Dsds2) That's what happens when you try to imitate Bill Ayers.

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 30, 2013 09:57 PM (Vk2pI)

1061 Y'know, the next time some dumbass bureaucrats want to inflict pain during shutdowns by closing national facilities.....we should sell 'em off.

Headline, Day 1: "National Parks Closes Washington Monument". Headline, Day 2: "Washington Monument Sold to Concessionaire, Reopened".

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 09:57 PM (T1005)

1062 Did I miss anything?

Posted by: Methos at October 01, 2013 01:46 AM (hO9ad)

Yes. In the third CR only the individual mandate is delayed. The GOP has caved on everything that matters and is giving us kabuki again.

Posted by: schizoid at September 30, 2013 09:58 PM (GNIaD)

1063 In Peruvian, "shutdown" means "overcharge".

Posted by: Anachronda at September 30, 2013 10:00 PM (U82Km)

1064 Night all. Here is "Stained Class" from Judas Priest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySGUL2XNuvQ

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 30, 2013 10:01 PM (Vk2pI)

1065 The GOP has caved on everything that matters and is giving us ~~kabuki~~ bukakke again.

Posted by: schizoid at October 01, 2013 01:58 AM (GNIaD)

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at September 30, 2013 10:01 PM (xa1/W)

1066 Alright, you've got the next watch while I get some shuteye. Wake me if you hear anything or see movement.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2013 10:02 PM (BAS5M)

1067 I gota go check on my goats

Posted by: sharia law at September 30, 2013 10:02 PM (yh6zE)

1068 1058 Did I miss anything?

Posted by: Methos at October 01, 2013 01:46 AM (hO9ad)
Yes. In the third CR only the individual mandate is delayed. The GOP has caved on everything that matters and is giving us kabuki again.

Posted by: schizoid at October 01, 2013 01:58 AM (GNIaD)

The idiots in the House leadership need to stop negotiating with themselves and LEAVE TOWN. Go do some town halls or something -- hell, go to the beach. LEAVE. Don't come back until the Senate folds -- they've got three choices, make them eat one of those shit sandwiches or leave it shut until the next elections. And debt ceiling? Yeah, they can have a vote on that after they've chewed and swallowed.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 10:02 PM (T1005)

1069 Yes. In the third CR only the individual mandate is delayed. The GOP has caved on everything that matters and is giving us kabuki again. Posted by: schizoid at October 01, 2013 01:58 AM (GNIa I keep on saying: Include only the requirement that Congress has to live under Obamacare. That is a simple message that they can win on easily. It may only be a small thing, but it will show that Reid and perhaps even Obama can be defeated politically.

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 30, 2013 10:02 PM (Vk2pI)

1070 1047 whoa, 1000+ comments. Haven't seen that in a really long time The Man can't hold us down, because of the shutdown.

Posted by: Anachronda at September 30, 2013 10:02 PM (U82Km)

1071 Like the sequester, you know Obama has a bring the pain strategy. Thanks to Republican intransigence on the CR the Air Force had to remove failsafes from the Minuteman missiles...

Posted by: Beagle at September 30, 2013 10:03 PM (sOtz/)

1072 Alright, you've got the next watch while I get some shuteye. Wake me if you hear anything or see movement.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 01, 2013 02:02 AM (BAS5M)

*unleashes firestorm*

I thought I saw it move a little bit...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at September 30, 2013 10:03 PM (xa1/W)

1073 Yes. In the third CR only the individual mandate is delayed. The GOP has caved on everything that matters and is giving us kabuki again.

So all they're even trying for at this point is the downside to being involved in a shutdown.

$10 gives you $20 the Gabe wing of the party will offer any negative polling fallout here as an excuse to do nothing on the debt limit.

Posted by: Methos at September 30, 2013 10:03 PM (hO9ad)

1074 ...and McQueeg is out there on the newswires rubbishing the idea of a government shutdown, prophesying disaster for the GOP, and saying, "We can't win." Maybe the moron should shut the hell up. Nothing is more demoralizing than some numbskull that's supposed to be on YOUR team insisting that it's not possible to win.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at September 30, 2013 10:04 PM (/IXKu)

1075 Night all.

Here is "Stained Class" from Judas Priest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySGUL2XNuvQ

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 01, 2013 02:01 AM (Vk2pI)

I think in this climate, this is the ultimate priest tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fpscxE9WDk

Posted by: Berserker at September 30, 2013 10:04 PM (FMbng)

1076 Speaking of the sequester, is it still on or is it over now? I know there was a little localized pain, but other than that did anyone even notice it?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at September 30, 2013 10:05 PM (xa1/W)

1077 Antiques roadshow, hippie scores on Dylan poster, but another guy scores on box he bought that had a hidden gun in it, tee hee..

Posted by: lou's a girl at September 30, 2013 10:06 PM (vgd4f)

1078
whoa, 1000+ comments. Haven't seen that in a really long time

The last one I recall was the "Post a good album" overnight.

That thing took off like wild.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 30, 2013 10:06 PM (kdS6q)

1079 Back to work now. Gotta pay the Demoncare bill somehow.

Later roonz and roonettez.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at September 30, 2013 10:08 PM (xa1/W)

1080 I keep on saying: Include only the requirement that Congress has to live under Obamacare.

That is a simple message that they can win on easily.

It may only be a small thing, but it will show that Reid and perhaps even Obama can be defeated politically.

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 01, 2013 02:02 AM (Vk2pI)

More symbolic crap. I don't care if they win the news cycle. I elected them to stop Obamacare, and they're not even trying.

Posted by: schizoid at September 30, 2013 10:08 PM (GNIaD)

1081 I received the ObamaCare notice from Anthem Blue Cross (California) today. 275% increase for the default plan ... pending regulatory review ... I'll be looking at other options starting at 8:00AM tomorrow

Posted by: Arbalest at September 30, 2013 10:09 PM (FlRtG)

1082 The idiots in the House leadership need to stop negotiating with themselves and LEAVE TOWN. Go do some town halls or something -- hell, go to the beach. LEAVE. Don't come back until the Senate folds -- they've got three choices, make them eat one of those shit sandwiches or leave it shut until the next elections. And debt ceiling? Yeah, they can have a vote on that after they've chewed and swallowed. Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2013 02:02 AM (T1005) John Boehner needs to get the boot along with Cantor and McCarthy. The House leadership is completely inept and incapable of forming a winning message. These are the idiots that we had in power in 2008 when the republicans had their drumming the first time AFTER the 2006 collapse of the Hastert idiotship. Yet, true to their idiot form, the republican leadership/establishment thought they were doing just fine with current leadership.

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 10:09 PM (M1gmo)

1083 The GOP has caved on everything that matters and is giving us kabuki again. And this is why Harry Reid goes the no-compromise-by-Democrats route time and time again, because each time the Republicans end up caving.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at September 30, 2013 10:10 PM (/IXKu)

1084 Ayatollah Khomeini, I swear, Bing it, said if you bone a goat you have to sell the meat to another village. So go for it!!

Posted by: Beagle at September 30, 2013 10:10 PM (sOtz/)

1085 $10 gives you $20 the Gabe wing of the party will offer any negative polling fallout here as an excuse to do nothing on the debt limit.

Posted by: Methos at October 01, 2013 02:03 AM (hO9ad)

No doubt that's the plan. "You wingnuts want a shutdown? Ok, we'll give you your damn shutdown."

Posted by: schizoid at September 30, 2013 10:11 PM (GNIaD)

1086 1072 Speaking of the sequester, is it still on or is it over now? I know there was a little localized pain, but other than that did anyone even notice it? Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at October 01, 2013 02:05 AM (xa1/W) Yes, until they include funding for it which the democrats have been demanding. The house dems were saying they would "accept" it as a concession from them! My response would be fuck off and die in a fire it is already the law of the land as you like to point out with Obamacare. And for making such an asinine statement here is the original CR with Obamacare repealed. And then I would adjourn the House.

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 10:12 PM (M1gmo)

1087 Can you think of any sane reason that the Feds should be involved with owning land in states (huge swaths of western states like Nevada and Utah)... I'm kind of wondering what they're going to do with NV and UT. I've driven across NV on US 6, and "desolate" is about as accurate a term as can be to describe much of the state.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at September 30, 2013 10:12 PM (/IXKu)

1088 1081 $10 gives you $20 the Gabe wing of the party will offer any negative polling fallout here as an excuse to do nothing on the debt limit. Posted by: Methos at October 01, 2013 02:03 AM (hO9ad) No doubt that's the plan. "You wingnuts want a shutdown? Ok, we'll give you your damn shutdown." Posted by: schizoid at October 01, 2013 02:11 AM (GNIaD) This really pisses me off when they do this shit. And it is all the fucking time too. They said that defund was a stupid idea, and openly attacking Cruz along with anyone who followed his lead in public and on the MSNBC/ABC/CBS/etc. They told us delay was where it was at. NOW LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE! Same freaking result. They are not going to compromise with us so we need to be just as hard on them. Their base depends on the gov as much or more than ours does and they will break first if Boehner had any balls.

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 10:17 PM (M1gmo)

1089 1056 EXPLOSION AT THE BERKLEY CA CAMPUS: -STUDENTS INJURED -STUDENTS TRAPPED -EVACUATIONS ORDERED. DALYCAL. pic.twitter.com/OmokqQYoYw

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2013 10:26 PM (Dsds2)

Early report claims it's due to a power outage.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/lcemvnt

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at September 30, 2013 10:20 PM (0wHyk)

1090 I think maybe we should get together and spring for fruit baskets for the GOP in the House. With a nice big card. Something like "You Fucking Shitweasels." You know, provisional on that actually folding like a cheap lawnchair, as it appears.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 30, 2013 10:20 PM (wW0fZ)

1091 ...if Boehner had any balls.

He's probably the first boner to not have any balls nearby...

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at September 30, 2013 10:21 PM (/IXKu)

1092 is that a blimp over there?

It's the blimp Frank, it's the blimp!

Posted by: Capt Beefheart at September 30, 2013 10:21 PM (bjND7)

1093 John Boehner needs to get the boot along with Cantor and McCarthy. The House leadership is completely inept and incapable of forming a winning message

But the GOP leadership is unified and that's what matters.

Posted by: FNC panel what knows better than you at September 30, 2013 10:21 PM (hO9ad)

1094 Canadian health service. Funny story. Was watching a documentary called "Paddle to Seattle" about two guys kayaking from Alaska down the inside passage to Seattle. Was pretty funny, anywho, the one guy gets like Giardia which is a bug causing GI distress. They were off coast of Canada, and landed reported to customs and went looking for a doctor. Wound up not seeing anyone. No clinic open and would cost 800 in cash to open up. Right there in the documentary - socialized medicine for ya.

Posted by: simplemind at September 30, 2013 10:56 PM (BmWNr)

To be fair, there are many tiny villages on the BC coast that probably have either no clinic at all, or else a traveling doctor that visits once a week. But if canoe boy had had something seriously life-threatening, chances are that whatever authority was present could have arranged a medevac flight to get him to a major center.

And for a non-citizen, aka non-insured patient, well, yes, they would have to pay cash, same as I do if I travel in the USA. (and they don't withhold treatment, anymore than hospitals do in the USA, but a bill would be presented)

There are many valid criticisms to be made of the Canadian single-payer health system, but canoe-boy's problems aren't one of them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2013 10:27 PM (60Q+L)

1095 1069 Yes. In the third CR only the individual mandate is delayed. The GOP has
caved on everything that matters and is giving us kabuki again.

So all they're even trying for at this point is the downside to being involved in a shutdown.

$10 gives you $20 the Gabe wing of the party will offer any negative polling fallout here as an excuse to do nothing on the debt limit.

Posted by: Methos at October 01, 2013 02:03 AM (hO9ad)

Doing nothing on the debt limit is the second best thing they could do. The best thing they could do would be to take the current debt ceiling, divide it by 20, and lower the debt limit by that much each year until it was paid off. That way, an infant born today would turn 21 without someone else having a claim on his future.

"On Jan. 20, 2009, when Obama was first inaugurated, the total debt of the federal government was $10,626,877,048,913.08, according to the U.S. Treasury." -- and the US population was about 305,687,000. That meant that every citizen owed about $34,764 -- which would be what they could expect to pay over their lifetimes in taxes beyond which they would receive in government services and benefits.

The current US debt clock is currently showing the national debt as $16,958,657,025,307, with a per capita amount of $53,533. So, what has been going on for the last 4-3/4 years is that Obama has been handing out party favors to every Lib wet-dream, and has paid for them with credit cards in the name of the citizens of the United States, and instructed VISA and Mastercard to start sending the maxed-out cards' statements to every citizen showing a balance of $18,769. That much of the taxes you pay will never benefit you because it has already benefited them. They can't give you more government stuff, they can't lower your taxes, they can't hold it in reserve....because each and every dollar has already been pissed away.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 10:28 PM (T1005)

1096

For your listening pleasure.

http://tinyurl.com/mq833m4

Posted by: PMRich at September 30, 2013 10:29 PM (KDUNf)

1097 558 A little mood music:

this one goes out to the District:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvRkJzVQBP0

:-p

Posted by: Capt Beefheart at September 30, 2013 10:30 PM (bjND7)

1098 1085 I GUARANTEE you it's because some illegal m'f'ers stole the wiring for copper. happens all the time now in CA. Ask Victor David hanson. It killed a guy too. Coming soon to a hood near you

Posted by: DAve at September 30, 2013 10:32 PM (b7yum)

1099 Boehner, the only drunk I know that never ever had whiskey dick.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 10:32 PM (LpbKr)

1100 It really cannot be emphasized enough -- every dollar the Feds borrow today means that future taxpayers will never get their money's worth from the taxes they will pay.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 10:34 PM (T1005)

1101

It killed a guy too. Coming soon to a hood near you

That's exactly what happened to power feed to plant here last year. Idiot tried to steal copper from an industrial substation

60 kV infeed

12.47 kV to the plants

We never even saw a blip, he was completely charcoaled

Posted by: PMRich at September 30, 2013 10:36 PM (KDUNf)

1102 Private is supposedly illegal in Canada isn't it?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 30, 2013 11:08 PM (Rla3K)

Heh. Supposedly. But that is breaking down. Saw a billboard today on a major thoroughfare in Calgary: "Time Matters. When you can't afford to wait. We have private CT and MRI scans. Mayfair Medical Imaging."

I think what we will have here in future is a mixed system: single-payer taxpayer funded health care available to everybody, with all its drawbacks, and for those willing to pay, or to buy extra insurance, private clinics and hospitals. Many countries have such a system already.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2013 10:36 PM (60Q+L)

1103 1096 It really cannot be emphasized enough -- every dollar the Feds borrow today means that future taxpayers will never get their money's worth from the taxes they will pay. Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2013 02:34 AM (T1005) Too complicated.

Posted by: RWC at September 30, 2013 10:41 PM (LpbKr)

1104 Hey, Tylenol can be acutely toxic, but that plant that us straight-laced folks hate, that's never caused acute death, well hey, if them Mexicans like it, fuk 'em.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 30, 2013 10:41 PM (56nvk)

1105 1097 It killed a guy too. Coming soon to a hood near you

That's exactly what happened to power feed to plant here last year. Idiot tried to steal copper from an industrial substation
60 kV infeed
12.47 kV to the plants

We never even saw a blip, he was completely charcoaled

Posted by: PMRich at October 01, 2013 02:36 AM (KDUNf)

I'll run 'lectric all day and all night, I'll do two-way and three-way lighting switches, I'll do GFI's and can lights and low voltage and 220....but I won't work on the utility side of the main breaker. Frankly, I don't even like working in the main panel -- and will probably do subpanels for any construction I do in the future (did a subpanel for my 2004 kitchen remodel, and love being able to isolate problems without going outside). I have no desire to look like a ray-gun'd Star Trek redshirt in my casket.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 10:42 PM (T1005)

1106

We run 2300 V and 480 V mostly here at work. It definitely makes you slow down and make sure of what your doing when you are working on 2300V motor leads.

Posted by: PMRich at September 30, 2013 10:48 PM (KDUNf)

1107 1099 1096 It really cannot be emphasized enough -- every dollar the Feds borrow today means that future taxpayers will never get their money's worth from the taxes they will pay.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2013 02:34 AM (T1005)

Too complicated.

Posted by: RWC at October 01, 2013 02:41 AM (LpbKr)

The way it's presented today, yep. How 'bout, "if we run a deficit this year, you will never get your money's worth in government services for the rest of your life"? Of course, you're not going to get your money's worth for $53,533 of your taxes, plus interest, now.....

I would absolutely go for a requirement that members of congress would have to personally fund their family's portion of the national debt every time they raised it. They could do it in the form of a bond, and lower the amount whenever the national debt decreased.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 10:49 PM (T1005)

1108 We won't make it to single payer as the United States. Our debt is over 100% GDP and showing no signs of stopping, especially with Obamacare.

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 10:50 PM (M1gmo)

1109 *as the United States is now constituted.

Posted by: NWConservative at September 30, 2013 10:51 PM (M1gmo)

1110 We won't make it to single payer as the United States. Our debt is over 100% GDP and showing no signs of stopping, especially with Obamacare.

Does anyone want to give an over/under on what next year's deficit looks like with Obamacare as is? I'm guessing we top $2Trillion.

Posted by: Methos at September 30, 2013 10:55 PM (hO9ad)

1111 I was talking to a group of people about the shut down and tried to explain that this was all caused by the Senate's refusal to pass a budget. Of course no one understood because... Republicans!

Posted by: Drew in MO at September 30, 2013 10:56 PM (cGlgB)

1112

personally fund their family's portion of the national debt

That's one of our biggest problems. The PTB spend money as though there is a never ending supply.

(You normally hear 'Like a drunken sailor' but as a resident expert, I can assure you that even drunken sailors realize when the money has run out.)

This same spending pattern has now become the norm throughout the nation. This is what led to the housing bubble, and is going to come to a head concerning college loan debts. Yet - we just find another thing to finance because nobody knows how to save

Posted by: PMRich at September 30, 2013 10:57 PM (KDUNf)

1113 With borrow/buy/borrow as the new way to run a household, too many don't see any problem with the gov't continuing to throw money around like a little kid in a pile of leaves.

Posted by: PMRich at September 30, 2013 11:00 PM (KDUNf)

1114 BTW, can someone explain to me why the hell it's necessary for the gubmint to be open for business in order for me to set foot in a National Park?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 01, 2013 12:12 AM (CA2NO)

Gee, that's easy. There have to be Park Rangers there to enforce all the little pettifogging rules they have in place to ensure, that if you visit a National Park, that there is no possible danger of you enjoying yourself.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2013 11:02 PM (60Q+L)

1115 It won't help, but I just sent a friendly note to Boehner:

"Living in California through the 1973 Prop 13 travails, I am very familiar with the "shut the Washington Monument" techniques of the institutionalized pro-government party, and I'd like to make a small suggestion. When CNN goes to the Washington Monument and starts whinging about how the shutdown will hurt tourism.....privatize it. Tell 'em it'd be open tomorrow if you leased it for 25 years to a concessionaire, have a candidate to run the concession and a contract ready, and introduce a bill in the House to award the contract while CNN's cameras are still running.

And, BTW, do that to every single thing the government tries to shut down, including White House tours."

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 11:04 PM (T1005)

1116 If you don't drink or take more than recommended tylenol is fine. Especially if you have problems with NSAIDs like I do. If you need more than 4 a day )to manage the pain so you can get on with life) for something see a doc and get ultram. If you need more than 8 get real opiates, take the bare minimum regularly til you don't need em, detox and go.

Posted by: DaveA at September 30, 2013 11:07 PM (DL2i+)

1117 Posted by: jakeman at October 01, 2013 12:38 AM (vH4YP)

Well played sir!!

Posted by: Capt Beefheart at September 30, 2013 11:08 PM (bjND7)

1118 Sequester was non event. Shutdown is non event. Let's hope this is the new normal.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at September 30, 2013 11:10 PM (l0lja)

1119 1106 We won't make it to single payer as the United States. Our debt is over
100% GDP and showing no signs of stopping, especially with Obamacare.

Does anyone want to give an over/under on what next year's deficit looks like with Obamacare as is? I'm guessing we top $2Trillion.

Posted by: Methos at October 01, 2013 02:55 AM (hO9ad)

Frankly, we'd be better off with a constitutional amendment that forbade the Feds from touching any part of medicine or health. Everything about it that they've touched has become so distorted that it is a soulless, expensive, horrifying mess.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 11:10 PM (T1005)

1120 Unfortunately, people are bafflingly, mind-bogglingly, catastrophically and abyssally stupid.

You probably meant abysmally but abysally is an appropriate typo. As in falling off a cliff.

Posted by: DaveA at September 30, 2013 11:11 PM (DL2i+)

1121 You probably meant abysmally but abysally is an appropriate typo. As in falling off a cliff. Posted by: DaveA at October 01, 2013 03:11 AM (DL2i+) Not a typo. Implies bottomlessness (or at least great, empty depths).

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 30, 2013 11:17 PM (wW0fZ)

1122 1112 If you don't drink or take more than recommended tylenol is fine. Especially if you have problems with NSAIDs like I do. If you need more than 4 a day )to manage the pain so you can get on with life) for something see a doc and get ultram. If you need more than 8 get real opiates, take the bare minimum regularly til you don't need em, detox and go.

Posted by: DaveA at October 01, 2013 03:07 AM (DL2i+)

Ibuprofen is -- in comparison with acetaminophen -- safe as houses. When it became available OTC in 1984, they should have pulled the plug on Tylenol.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 11:17 PM (T1005)

1123

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at October 01, 2013 03:14 AM (/IXKu)

Don't worry too much about that, they'll get some kind of bailout program setup for the D party. I'm sure that it'll be 'for the children, women and polar bears ' so we the taxpayer will have to fund it.

Posted by: PMRich at September 30, 2013 11:23 PM (KDUNf)

1124 I did some checking. It looks like I can blow off the new Anthem 276% cost for a HealthNet 108% cost ... at least for a few months. 8% more is much easier to handle than 176%. For the first time in my life, I will have my physician administer some booster shots: MMR, DPT, maybe others. I've been considering a trip to the various 'Stans (seriously) for a couple of years, and there's a certain vaccination that is recommended for those areas ... unfortunately, the TB vaccination is unreliable, and likely worthless against the strain from the south ... I have this feeling that things will get real stupid over the next 5 years, and a bunch of childhood diseases will flare up.

Posted by: Arbalest at September 30, 2013 11:27 PM (FlRtG)

1125 1123
I did some checking. It looks like I can blow off the new Anthem 276% cost for a HealthNet 108% cost ... at least for a few months. 8% more is much easier to handle than 176%.

For the first time in my life, I will have my physician administer some booster shots: MMR, DPT, maybe others. I've been considering a trip to the various 'Stans (seriously) for a couple of years, and there's a certain vaccination that is recommended for those areas ... unfortunately, the TB vaccination is unreliable, and likely worthless against the strain from the south ...

I have this feeling that things will get real stupid over the next 5 years, and a bunch of childhood diseases will flare up.

Posted by: Arbalest at October 01, 2013 03:27 AM (FlRtG)

Have a care with the TB thing -- back some years, we had a temp at our company who mysteriously disappeared....and when we contacted the agency, we found out she was undergoing medical treatment for TB. Understandably, this was an "oh, shit" moment, and the company offered free TB testing to all employees, contractors, and suppliers (private company). Almost everyone tested clean....except our VP of Engineering (!), who had been vaccinated for TB in Switzerland, and who couldn't be assured to be ok without a six-month course of antibiotics that, among other things, precluded him from drinking -- because the vaccination would do false positives on ordinary scans and you couldn't do scans for resistant strains without ruling out the ordinary.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 11:35 PM (T1005)

1126 I have this feeling that things will get real stupid over the next 5 years, and a bunch of childhood diseases will flare up. Posted by: Arbalest at October 01, 2013 03:27 AM (FlRtG) That's a practically optimistic outlook.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 30, 2013 11:39 PM (wW0fZ)

1127 Have a care with the TB thing I'm not going to get the TB vaccination, It's unreliable. The rest ... it's a cost-benefit analysis that points to getting the shots. I'm not big on getting shots or blood work, but the alternatives ... ... I'll take the shots.

Posted by: Arbalest at September 30, 2013 11:40 PM (FlRtG)

1128 Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2013 03:35 AM (T1005)

I should note that there are times when you see people step forward and Do The Right Thing, and the owner of this company totally Brought It in this episode. I wouldn't have wished the situation on a dog, but the owner, the company, and its management (of which I was part) made me proud.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 11:42 PM (T1005)

1129 1. of or like an abyss; immeasurably deep or great. 2. extremely or hopelessly bad or severe:

I did not know that.
Thanks.

Posted by: DaveA at September 30, 2013 11:42 PM (DL2i+)

1130 Ibuprofen is a general NSAID. They make me and a lot of other people nauseous.

Posted by: DaveA at September 30, 2013 11:44 PM (DL2i+)

1131 A note about 'before the fact' and 'after the fact' slavery.

Case 1 -- B4 the fact slavery -- thru brutality, one takes a slave and tells that person that they are a slave. One makes that slave work and confiscate all production of the waking hours. The slave will do the minimum amount required to avoid the brutality to the extent that the slave chooses (based on the slave's ability to predict a brutal response.)

Case 2 -- After the fact slavery -- One tells a person that what they produce will belong to them, and then after the fact confiscates the production. The unknowing slave has taken risks, worked extra hours, used ingenuity, and done many other things to maximize his own production -- because he believes his production will result in his own wealth.

Which case gains the slaver the most?

Posted by: jc at September 30, 2013 11:46 PM (PlzOe)

1132 That's a practically optimistic outlook. I've had to convince one or two people on the Yahoo Group to keep fighting. I intend to, no matter what. I think the conduct of the D's, certainly over the last few days, and the impending pain of ObamaCare will open a lot of eyes and minds ... ... I knew I was going to get hit with an increase ... but 176%? Time to take action. We dug ourselves out of ... insolvency ... after WW2. We can do it again. Money really is now more like "credits" than gold- or silver-certificates, and the world gets along reasonably well. Maybe this is a charade, but I don't think so ... as long as the accounts balance ... or as long as mine balance ... I can get along on "credits". The problem is getting others to forcibly ensure that their accounts always balance. This is a plan.

Posted by: Arbalest at September 30, 2013 11:48 PM (FlRtG)

1133 One of the most frustrating parts of watching our present political situation is that the slavery party is doggedly returning to their roots and everyone is too afraid to speak about it in plain words.

Posted by: jc at September 30, 2013 11:49 PM (PlzOe)

1134 Pre CW Democrats pay 100% room and board of black pop. get 3/5 rep count
Post CW Everybody pays 70+? upkeep, D gets 99% vote.

Posted by: DaveA at September 30, 2013 11:50 PM (DL2i+)

1135 "Ibuprofen is -- in comparison with acetaminophen -- safe as houses. When it became available OTC in 1984, they should have pulled the plug on Tylenol."

Yep, pretty much. Just goes to underscore the utter systemic incompetence of most of the American medical system.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 30, 2013 11:50 PM (gqT4g)

1136 Posted by: jc at October 01, 2013 03:46 AM (PlzOe)

I was told there were to be no pop quizzes at the Government Shutdown Apocalypse.

Posted by: filbert at September 30, 2013 11:51 PM (FUbuZ)

1137 printing money until the value of the money is ruined is a form of after-the-fact slavery.

the value of your life's work is confiscated from you by proxy.

Posted by: jc at September 30, 2013 11:53 PM (PlzOe)

1138 1129 Ibuprofen is a general NSAID. They make me and a lot of other people nauseous.

Posted by: DaveA at October 01, 2013 03:44 AM (DL2i+)

Tylenol makes a lot of people dead -- it's either the #1 or #2 cause of acute liver failure in the US and UK. Aspirin, which can contribute to ulcers and trigger Reye's syndrome in youngsters, has its own issues. By comparison, ibuprofen is probably safer than the drive to the instant care facility. I'm not saying it's perfect or that certain people shouldn't avoid it, but it's like the difference between shot at by machine guns, napalmed, or gardening.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 11:53 PM (T1005)

1139 1135 Posted by: jc at October 01, 2013 03:46 AM (PlzOe)

I was told there were to be no pop quizzes at the Government Shutdown Apocalypse.

Posted by: filbert at October 01, 2013 03:51 AM (FUbuZ)

====

they lied.

Posted by: jc at September 30, 2013 11:53 PM (PlzOe)

1140

Post CW Everybody pays 70+? upkeep, D gets 99% vote.

All it took was a little 'money for nothing' in the from of welfare. Now the D's have a guaranteed voting block.

Posted by: PMRich at September 30, 2013 11:54 PM (KDUNf)

1141 "Have a care with the TB thing -- back some years, we had a temp at our company who mysteriously disappeared....and when we contacted the agency, we found out she was undergoing medical treatment for TB."

And the agency hadn't proactively informed your firm of that little fact?

Wow. Amazing professionalism on their part.

Top. Men.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 30, 2013 11:54 PM (gqT4g)

1142 they lied.

Ah. Yeah. They do that.

One more shot of rum, and to bed, I think.

"Death To All Tyrants."

"Carthago Delenda Est."

(substitute "Washington, DC" for "Carthago" as appropriate)

Posted by: filbert at September 30, 2013 11:56 PM (FUbuZ)

1143 1131
That's a practically optimistic outlook.

I've had to convince one or two people on the Yahoo Group to keep fighting. I intend to, no matter what.

I think the conduct of the D's, certainly over the last few days, and the impending pain of ObamaCare will open a lot of eyes and minds ...

... I knew I was going to get hit with an increase ... but 176%? Time to take action.

We dug ourselves out of ... insolvency ... after WW2. We can do it again. Money really is now more like "credits" than gold- or silver-certificates, and the world gets along reasonably well.

Maybe this is a charade, but I don't think so ... as long as the accounts balance ... or as long as mine balance ... I can get along on "credits". The problem is getting others to forcibly ensure that their accounts always balance. This is a plan.

Posted by: Arbalest at October 01, 2013 03:48 AM (FlRtG)

Healthcare is seriously screwed up. It has been so divorced from market forces that the "rack rate" for medical procedures is 5x what a sane market might price 'em, and most of the funds paid into the system are a protection racket that you won't be charged what nobody pays.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 30, 2013 11:57 PM (T1005)

1144 Markets run on information. Politics runs on a lack of information. OH I SEE.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 01, 2013 12:00 AM (wW0fZ)

1145 1140 "Have a care with the TB thing -- back some years, we had a temp at our
company who mysteriously disappeared....and when we contacted the
agency, we found out she was undergoing medical treatment for TB."

And the agency hadn't proactively informed your firm of that little fact?

Wow. Amazing professionalism on their part.

Top. Men.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 01, 2013 03:54 AM (gqT4g)

I take it you've never dealt with temp agencies....

We considered ourselves fortunate that we got straight answers at all....and subsequently rewarded the company with more business.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2013 12:01 AM (T1005)

1146 Irony of the Day. The Panda Cam is back up, with a sponsor. Ford Motor Company, the one American Auto Company that told Odumbo to take his bail-out and stuff it. I love it.

Posted by: Old Dog at October 01, 2013 12:03 AM (tQYJH)

1147 1145 Irony of the Day.

The Panda Cam is back up, with a sponsor.

Ford Motor Company, the one American Auto Company that told Odumbo to take his bail-out and stuff it. I love it.

Posted by: Old Dog at October 01, 2013 04:03 AM (tQYJH)

Awesome! Ford kicks in $26 and it keeps going, while the government cuts off $2,387 and fails to drop it. More of this, please.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2013 12:08 AM (T1005)

1148 Is this where I should sign up for Obama Care? Is this the right web site?

Posted by: and irresolute at October 01, 2013 12:09 AM (RqHWH)

1149 jc basically has the right of it, though I would not say no one will deal with it so much as most don't even have the tools they need to see it. And those who do are pretty depressed.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 01, 2013 12:12 AM (wW0fZ)

1150 Healthcare is seriously screwed up. It has been so divorced from market forces that the "rack rate" for medical procedures is 5x what a sane market might price 'em, and most of the funds paid into the system are a protection racket that you won't be charged what nobody pays.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2013 03:57 AM (T1005)

====

1143 Markets run on information.

Politics runs on a lack of information.

OH I SEE.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 01, 2013 04:00 AM (wW0fZ)

======

to me, the saddest part is the total illiteracy/innumeracy of it all.

for something approaching 500K - 1M years, humans worked on the problem of gravity. Along come Archimedes, Newton, Kepler, Gallileo, et al. and about 500 years later we have suspension bridges, skyscrapers, airplanes, and satellites that can slingshot their way to meet multiple planets in their orbits.

It makes a difference when we no longer have to guess.

The first 5 assumptions of the law of S/D are scarcity, multiple wants, rationality, substitutability, and diminishing marginal valuation (var. law of diminishing returns).

At least 3 (substitutability, multiple wants, dmv) of the basic assumptions are violated when the subject is life sustaining health care. The problem/solutions start with the invalid assumptions.

We could have had a solution that focused on the problem instead of 1600 pages of stupid guesses. Truly pathetic. As a society we should be embarrassed and ashamed.

Posted by: jc at October 01, 2013 12:16 AM (PlzOe)

1151 I say that we should just turn off all of the radar and stuff and let someone put us out of our misery. There is a, for-sure, 50/50 chance that all of the morons that have put us into this mess will get nuked right along with granny, or me. Those seem like pretty good odds to me, compared to the odds that we face if we let this crap continue. I would rather be Chinese than Muslim, or Democrat, any day of the week. I like the food.

Posted by: and irresolute at October 01, 2013 12:17 AM (RqHWH)

1152 Owama care hits and Gov't shuts down who would have thunk it.

Posted by: Mailman at October 01, 2013 12:21 AM (i5ol1)

1153 1150 I say that we should just turn off all of the radar and stuff and let someone put us out of our misery. There is a, for-sure, 50/50 chance that all of the morons that have put us into this mess will get nuked right along with granny, or me. Those seem like pretty good odds to me, compared to the odds that we face if we let this crap continue. I would rather be Chinese than Muslim, or Democrat, any day of the week. I like the food.

Posted by: and irresolute at October 01, 2013 04:17 AM (RqHWH)

Goddammit, we're Americans. If anyone should nuke DC, Chicago, or NY, it should be us. Have some pride, jackwagon.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2013 12:22 AM (T1005)

1154 Goddammit, we're Americans. If anyone should nuke DC, Chicago, or NY, it should be us. Have some pride, jackwagon.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2013 04:22 AM (T1005)

===

simile is a joke with the following punchline:

American doctors. Always in a hurry. Amputate, amputate, amputate. Don't worry. Go home. In 6 months, it fall off anyway.

Posted by: jc at October 01, 2013 12:25 AM (PlzOe)

1155 As a society we've done better than just about all others. Which is even more embarrassing when you think about it. But a lot of people have worked very hard to change that, because batshit insane.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 01, 2013 12:25 AM (wW0fZ)

1156 1153 Goddammit, we're Americans. If anyone should nuke DC, Chicago, or NY, it should be us. Have some pride, jackwagon.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2013 04:22 AM (T1005)

===
simile is a joke with the following punchline:

American doctors. Always in a hurry. Amputate, amputate, amputate. Don't worry. Go home. In 6 months, it fall off anyway.

Posted by: jc at October 01, 2013 04:25 AM (PlzOe)

That would have worked better if I'd cited Detroit.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2013 12:31 AM (T1005)

1157

Federal S/D News

The Wash Post said the Panda Cam will go dark if .gov is s/d.

As of 0320 CDT / 0420 EDT, the panda cam was still running. So was the Tiger Cam, --- but it was awful dark.

So, If the panda cam goes dark in the AM, it will be because someone CHOSE to turn it off.

http://tinyurl.com/mt7f9u8

Posted by: rd at October 01, 2013 12:33 AM (D+lxs)

1158 slavery is absolutely justified for something as important as a panda cam.

Posted by: jc at October 01, 2013 12:36 AM (PlzOe)

1159 But a lot of people have worked very hard to change that, because batshit insane.
---
I had to explain to someone who's reasonably well off and politically rightward that poverty is not a 'problem' but the natural state of humanity and he acted like I'd told him Santa Claus was dead.

Posted by: Methos at October 01, 2013 12:39 AM (hO9ad)

1160 he acted like I'd told him Santa Claus was dead.

Posted by: Methos at October 01, 2013 04:39 AM (hO9ad)

====

you bastard!!!

Posted by: jc at October 01, 2013 12:42 AM (PlzOe)

1161

I had to explain to someone who's reasonably well off and politically rightward that poverty is not a 'problem' but the natural state of humanity

Too much reliance on the boob tube for information about the world. Most of the people I know who travel overseas end up in gated resorts. They never see the reality of the poverty surrounding them.

When I describe living in a tent, on the roof of a mission in Haiti, as being in nicer conditions than the local population, they don't know whether I'm messing with them or not.

Posted by: PMRich at October 01, 2013 12:48 AM (KDUNf)

1162 ====you bastard!!!

Posted by: jc at October 01, 2013 04:42 AM (PlzOe)

Thanks for covering that.

Posted by: PMRich at October 01, 2013 12:49 AM (KDUNf)

1163 Are we supposed to be using up all these words and letters what with the shutdown and all?

Posted by: yujin at October 01, 2013 01:03 AM (uNd+K)

1164 Twitter has been hilarious since last night. The dextrosphere has been mocking the whole thing nonstop, andthe LIVs have been indignantly insisting it's Serious You Guys STOP MOCKING MY PAIN!!!!11! Which, as expected, only spurs everyone else on.

Posted by: Saber Alter at October 01, 2013 01:46 AM (1zS8Y)

1165 So I was trying to rig something to scan or photograph bound material. I managed to break a desk lamp *in half* and cut myself, I think it's time to pack it up for the night. Seriously I was just adjusting the adjustable angle of the lamp, nothing fancy. CRACK. I was surprised an the size of the circuit board inside. It's probably from the NSA. It's not even adjustable, one switch.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at October 01, 2013 01:54 AM (qyfb5)

1166 Today, thousands of government employees are free to pursue their passions.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz, now with popgun genitalia at October 01, 2013 02:21 AM (zX+Xl)

1167 We lost power at Casa del VIA right after midnight.
Is it an omen?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 01, 2013 02:26 AM (xdC/M)

1168 That is a terrifying thought. Roving bands of furloughed HUD employees.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 01, 2013 02:38 AM (sSHNB)

1169

"Today, thousands of government employees are free to pursue their passions."

Or just take an extra vacation on the taxpayers. (they will end up getting paid, as allways) Too bad the Nat. Parks are closed. But hey, if they hurry, maybe they can enjoy the last weekend of Oktoberfest in Bavaria!

Posted by: Case at October 01, 2013 02:43 AM (wf3Kt)

1170 amidst the horror of the panda cam going dark at night, Judge Jackson ruled against Holder on Fast & Furious last night decision here http://preview.tinyurl.com/k6ps5zz some juicy excerpts "This opinion does not grapple with the scope of the PresidentÂ’s privilege: it simply rejects the notion that it is an unreviewable privilege when asserted in response to a legislative demand." "The Constitution does not bar the federal judiciary from resolving this dispute between the political branches." "Notwithstanding its previous concession, the Department of Justice now insists that subject matter jurisdiction is lacking. Defendant argues that the fact that there is a specific statute that vests jurisdiction in the District Court for the District of Columbia for actions brought by the Senate to enforce its subpoenas means that in the absence of a parallel statute, this court does not have jurisdiction over an action brought on behalf of the House." "Since for all of the reasons set forth above, neither legal nor prudential considerations support the dismissal of this action, the defendantÂ’s motion to dismiss the action will be denied." Judge Amy Berman Jackson an Obama Appointee has made the Jarrett Enemies List.

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at October 01, 2013 02:53 AM (6J+oK)

1171 Posted by: cthulhu at October 01, 2013 02:42 AM (T1005)

Having to work with the #3 or #4 wire from the service side, concentrates the mind wonderfully. Like handling copperheads at a Appalachian back woods church meeting.

Working one handed as much as possible when in the main box.

Moving slowly and exactly when in the main box.

Relieved when the task is over.

I have a HUGE respect for 220v AC (Or DC for that matter)

Although the training manuals stress that 110v AC is the real killer (due to it's ubiquity and ease of access by the amateur) 220v AC will knock your dick stiff and you too.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at October 01, 2013 02:57 AM (lAZep)

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