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July 03, 2013

Overnight Open Thready Thingy (7-3-2013)
— Maetenloch

Quote of the Day: You Can't Handle the Truth

In which a female environmental engineering student complains to Vox Day about his views on perfect sexual equality, abortion, marriage, children, and favoritism towards women in academia among others.

Now I'm going to teach you a hard, but very important lesson. You see, I don't care you how feel. I really don't. More importantly, neither does anyone else. Only about 200 people on a planet of 7 billion actually care about your feelings, and that's if you're lucky. The sooner you grasp this lesson, the better off you will be. And since almost no one gives a damn what you do, say, think, or feel, appealing to your feelings when you encounter differences of opinion is not only illogical, but useless.

...Another thing you have no reason to know is that young women are reliably bad at foreseeing what they will want to do in the near future. I graduated with a number of women like you. None of them thought they were interested in marriage and children until they were about 27. Then they suddenly changed their minds and some of them were very upset that they had spent the previous ten years pursuing goals that were now unimportant to them. I even wrote a column about it called Spiting Their Pretty Faces back in 2003, you can google it. Think about 2003. You were ten. Are your goals the same now as they were then? If not, then how can you be certain that your goals, and your opinion about marriage and children, will be the same when you are 30?

I have no idea who Vox Day is or whether I agree entirely with his views (probably not) but this right here is some solid hammer of truth gold. But as is often the case honest truth is wasted upon those who are not prepared to hear it.

Robert J. Samuelson: 'If I could, I would repeal the Internet'

Apparently Samuelson has drunk the Kool-Aid on the possible damage from cyberattacks. So get off his cyber-lawn and take your damn troublesome intertubes with you.

If I could, I would repeal the Internet. It is the technological marvel of the age, but it is not - as most people imagine - a symbol of progress. Just the opposite. We would be better off without it. I grant its astonishing capabilities: the instant access to vast amounts of information, the pleasures of YouTube and iTunes, the convenience of GPS and much more. But the Internet's benefits are relatively modest compared with previous transformative technologies, and it brings with it a terrifying danger: cyberwar. Amid the controversy over leaks from the National Security Agency, this looms as an even bigger downside.
In a report, the Defense Science Board, an advisory group to the Pentagon, acknowledged "staggering losses" of information involving weapons design and combat methods to hackers (not identified, but probably Chinese). In the future, hackers might disarm military units. "U.S. guns, missiles and bombs may not fire, or may be directed against our own troops," the report said. It also painted a specter of social chaos from a full-scale cyberassault. There would be "no electricity, money, communications, TV, radio or fuel (electrically pumped). In a short time, food and medicine distribution systems would be ineffective."
I don't know the odds of this technological Armageddon. I doubt anyone does.

Eh. We heard the same apocalyptic BS before Y2K. Until I see an actual cyberattack that results in even a 10th of what's claimed, I'm going to assume it's more breathless fear mongering.

Besides the internet helped produce this.

Want To Feel Really Old? Well All of These Songs Are Now 20 Years Old

Which puts them in the oldies category. And yes I could be quite content if I never heard 5 of them again in my lifetime.

Is the Paleo Diet Just Another Edenistic Fantasy?

"'Paleofantasies' call to mind a time when everything about us-body, mind, and behavior-was in sync with the environment.but no such time existed," Zuk wrote in her book. "We and every other living thing have always lurched along in evolutionary time, with the inevitable trade-offs that are a hallmark of life."

On his website, Sisson writes that "while the world has changed in innumerable ways in the last 10,000 years (for better and worse), the human genome has changed very little and thus only thrives under similar conditions." This is simply not true. In fact, this reasoning misconstrues how evolution works. If humans and other organisms could only thrive in circumstances similar to the ones their predecessors lived in, life would not have lasted very long.

The very fact that most modern humans can digest milk as an adult shows that our genome (and diet) isn't as static as claimed.

Within a span of 7,000 years, for instance, people adapted to eating dairy by developing lactose tolerance. Usually, the gene encoding an enzyme named lactase-which breaks down lactose sugars in milk-shuts down after infancy; when dairy became prevalent, many people evolved a mutation that kept the gene turned on throughout life.

...Even if eating only foods available to hunter-gatherers in the Paleolithic made sense, it would be impossible. As Christina Warinner of the University of Zurich emphasizes in her 2012 TED talk, just about every single species commonly consumed today-whether a fruit, vegetable or animal-is drastically different from its Paleolithic predecessor. In most cases, we have transformed the species we eat through artificial selection: we have bred cows, chickens and goats to provide as much meat, milk and eggs as possible and have sown seeds only from plants with the most desirable traits-with the biggest fruits, plumpest kernels, sweetest flesh and fewest natural toxins.

Also It's Not Just Humans Getting Fat

Wild animals as well as lab ones are gaining weight too.

But such results don't explain why the weight gain is also occurring in species that human beings don't pamper, such as animals in labs, whose diets are strictly controlled. In fact, lab animals' lives are so precisely watched and measured that the researchers can rule out accidental human influence: records show those creatures gained weight over decades without any significant change in their diet or activities. Obviously, if animals are getting heavier along with us, it can't just be that they're eating more Snickers bars and driving to work most days.

Reader Mark Allen emails: "Like the canary in the coal mine or some animal's ability to sense an oncoming seismic event, perhaps this is nature's way of preparing all species for an oncoming ice age."

5 Explosive Homemade Fireworks for DIY Pyromaniacs

AceCorp LLC most definitely not responsible for anything that happens after you click on this link.

And here is a summary of fireworks laws across the states.

This Shotgun Goes to Three

In January 2013 Turkish gun maker Chiappa introduced two 12-gauge triple barrel shotguns. Both have "Rem-choke" and a 3? x 3? Magnum capacity, but the Triple Crown boasts three 28? barrels, while the Triple Threat's measure 18-1/2?.

So is this going to be a Mach 5 kind of thing where next year we start seeing quad-barrel shotguns?

Men With Sisters Are More Likely To Become Republicans, Do Less Housework

Where Did the Idea of 2 + 2 = 5 Start?

Who Do You Really Fear Vs. Who You Say You Fear?

How Come Evil Regimes Always Get the Best Music?

Chainsaw Al: Worst Executive Ever?

In 2005, the business magazine Fast Company included Dunlap in the article 'Is Your Boss a Psychopath', noting he "might score impressively on the Corporate Psychopathy checklist." The magazine's editor. John A. Byrne, noted: "In all my years of reporting, I had never come across an executive as manipulative, ruthless, and destructive as Al Dunlap. Until the Securities and Exchange Commission barred him from ever serving as an officer of a public corporation, Dunlap sucked the very life and soul out of companies and people. He stole dignity, purpose, and sense out of organizations and replaced those ideals with fear and intimidation."

What If Losing Your Keys Didn't Matter Anymore?

Your Balls Have Taste

And also taste buds.

Teh Tweet!

Yahoo group. That is all.

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Posted by: Maetenloch at 06:09 PM | Comments (906)
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1 First, bitches.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at July 03, 2013 06:11 PM (sQ0LB)

2 Good evening, all!

Posted by: Vendette at July 03, 2013 06:12 PM (d+fT0)

3 Who Are the Real Bullies? In the name of stopping Â“bulliesÂ” and Â“encouragingÂ” Â“tolerance,Â” schools have already aptly demonstrated that they are willing to punish those who express any type of disapproval of transvestitism or aberrant sexuality, or alternately express evil Â“hetero-normativeÂ” or Â“cis-normativeÂ” values. The schools, however, are simply the vanguard of the Progressive drive to silence dissent and normalcy. Once children are conditioned to accept such silencing as normal, they will more readily accept it when their political masters impose such restrictions on our 1st Amendment rights. More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=2569

Posted by: The Political Hat at July 03, 2013 06:12 PM (Vk2pI)

4 [iAnd don't] forget about the gratuitous flaming, useless arguments and unsolicited penis pics

You people missed me, huh?

Posted by: Anthony Weiner at July 03, 2013 06:13 PM (+iA5G)

5 {rebel yell!!!!}

Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 06:13 PM (8lmkt)

6 Crank!! How's Maddie today? I pretty much swarmed her with prayers last night. Along with my buddy's 8-year-old friend who's having a tough time and also in hospital, if y'all could add him to your prayer lists. His name is Logan. TIA!

Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 06:15 PM (8lmkt)

7 Yo Morons

Posted by: fluffy at July 03, 2013 06:15 PM (z9HTb)

8 Vox Day blogged before it was called blogging.

Posted by: baldilocks at July 03, 2013 06:15 PM (0DMvp)

9 John Kerry, who was in Vietnam, promises to show me how to fire off a bottle rocket tomorrow evening.

Posted by: Slow Joe Biden at July 03, 2013 06:15 PM (uLzrM)

Love that snowflake pic.

Nice ONT.

Guy could get comfortable in here.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2013 06:16 PM (rsIub)

11 In the future, we all have to dress in white. And have white furniture and stuff.

Posted by: rickl at July 03, 2013 06:16 PM (sdi6R)

12 Holy cow, I had almost forgotten about Compuserve. And Prodigy.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at July 03, 2013 06:16 PM (BXLPR)

13 Ok, I'm lost.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at July 03, 2013 06:16 PM (nqWxo)

14 Morons, the prayers are working--O2 levels used in the vent are getting close to room air, they think they might get her off the vent in the next day or two apparently. I haven't heard much else from Mrs. Crank about it today, but any major changes she would have texted me about. God bless all your black little hearts.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at July 03, 2013 06:16 PM (sQ0LB)

15 I thought "Loser" was from 1994.

Posted by: logprof at July 03, 2013 06:17 PM (+iA5G)

16 Hey, its that horrible 4 non-blondes song again. I'm blaming this one on the Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon.

Posted by: Flyguy at July 03, 2013 06:17 PM (BeFHp)

17 Ohio (on that list) uses a "loophole" in the law. Fireworks stands abound, so log as you sign a document saying what state you plan to take the fireworks TO before exploding them. I always put California.

Posted by: UWP at July 03, 2013 06:17 PM (r98SZ)

18 SQUIRREL! No, really. http://tinyurl.com/mz6ued9

Posted by: rickl at July 03, 2013 06:17 PM (sdi6R)

Good evening y'all.

test

pixy has been stealing my line breaks.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 03, 2013 06:17 PM (pxDth)

20 They still play all those songs on rock/metal radio.

Don't da kidz have anything new of their own??

Posted by: Lady Billingsgate (of the North) at July 03, 2013 06:17 PM (AbUzr)

21 We heard the same apocalyptic BS before Y2K.

Just a minute, there, Sparky! Me and a few thousand others worked our asses off to make sure that Y2K was a dud. If we hadn't spent over two years preparing, updating, re-writing, mitigating, and a whole lot of other --ings, it would have been a whole lot worse.

I'm not asking for credit (small untraceable bills are preferred), but don't call Y2K a 'scare' like the Mayan apocalypse; it really did have the potential to become a bad event.

(Steps off soapbox.)

Posted by: RoadRunner at July 03, 2013 06:17 PM (hgBrn)

22 ...of course I overlooked the ballsy cookbook.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2013 06:18 PM (rsIub)

23 baldilocks!!! {{{{{}}}}}

Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 06:18 PM (8lmkt)

24 Ugh, shouldn't Rolling Stone links require a warning, a la NYT?

Posted by: Conserative Crank at July 03, 2013 06:18 PM (sQ0LB)

25 Obama lied, Egypt revived

Posted by: Glen the f*g whose sh*t's all retarded at July 03, 2013 06:18 PM (omBWL)

26 Evening window lickers. How goes it?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 06:19 PM (GEICT)

27 And now you guys send me to a donkey show in the south side of Moscow. Seriously, cut it out! Tell me where Snowden is!

Posted by: Geraldo Rivera at July 03, 2013 06:19 PM (+iA5G)

I thought "Loser" was from 1994.

March, 1993.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2013 06:19 PM (rsIub)

29 That article about it's not just humans getting fat? I like that one!

Not that I'm going to stop trying to lose weight.

BTW, I know people don't really pray for dogs, but my corgi is unwell, and we still don't know what's wrong. If you could slip a prayer in for him, I would really appreciate it.

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 06:19 PM (mKMj1)

30 Did Meggie Mac ever find her keys at the bottom of the elevator shaft?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 06:19 PM (8avI0)

31 ...and they didn't press a lot of them, either.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2013 06:20 PM (rsIub)

32 But such results don't explain why the weight gain is also occurring in species that human beings don't pamper, such as animals in labs, whose diets are strictly controlled. Sounds like it could be due to a virus. Or perhaps the aliens are just fatening up all creatures... oh no, It's a cookbook!

Posted by: The Political Hat Serves Man at July 03, 2013 06:20 PM (Vk2pI)

33 #8

You mean back when it was

"Oh, email me with comments and I will put them up in the html of the page."

Posted by: RiverC at July 03, 2013 06:20 PM (KTytI)

34 Does Joey Biden endorse the triple barreled shotgun? I mean, who needs that many barrels?

Posted by: Flyguy at July 03, 2013 06:21 PM (BeFHp)

35 I just look around and when I find something I want to eat, I eat it.
That my friends is a Paleo diet.

Posted by: Big Ben at July 03, 2013 06:21 PM (I5Htn)

36 Hello ONT

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 03, 2013 06:21 PM (jjvz+)

37 That Onion video is freaking hilarious ..

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at July 03, 2013 06:21 PM (0iJzo)

38 evening 'rons and 'ronettes.

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 06:22 PM (KDSST)

39 Slow Joe Biden would pull all the triggers at once. Once the agents extract him from the ground crater, he would then give that goofy vacuous smile of his.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 06:22 PM (8avI0)

40 There is actually a specific term for four-barreled guns (some of them shotguns - or half-shotguns). It's "Vierling" (pronounced fearling - German). They are generally rare and expensive and frequently two different calibers, usually made for big game hunting. I saw a vierling in .416 Rigby and .375 Holland & Holland once. Heck of a gun, interesting lockwork, too. I think it was selling for about $75k.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at July 03, 2013 06:22 PM (yoh1c)

41 Niedermeyer!!!! {{{{{}}}}}

I am indescribably happy to just be here.

Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 06:22 PM (8lmkt)

Posted by: Conserative Crank at July 03, 2013 10:16 PM (sQ0LB)

........................................

I love it. I'm sure I don't count but have been throwing up prayers daily. This made my day. Now if only the big guy would listen to me say that I feel my country slipping away every day and do something about it.

Posted by: Molly k. at July 03, 2013 06:23 PM (I/CPY)

43 Those songs?
Never heard'm. Not one.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at July 03, 2013 06:23 PM (nqWxo)

44 Ohio (on that list) uses a "loophole" in the law. Fireworks stands abound, so log as you sign a document saying what state you plan to take the fireworks TO before exploding them. I always put California.

The flashing highway signs in my part of Massachusetts warn about fireworks being illegal. New Hampshire is very close.

Pro tip: If you see an off-duty cop in the parking lot when you buy fireworks in NH, take an extended route going home to Mass.

Posted by: fluffy at July 03, 2013 06:23 PM (z9HTb)

45 #40

I can only imagine the difficulty in making the metalwork, you know, work, for four barrels and whatever action that requires.

Posted by: RiverC at July 03, 2013 06:23 PM (KTytI)

46 8:23pm still 90 degrees.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2013 06:23 PM (rsIub)

47 doctor tells the husband, "Your wife has either AIDS or Alzheimers, but there was a computer glitch so we don't know which one it is."

Guy asks, "Doc, how do I know which one it is? What do I do?"

Doc says, "Drive her three miles from home and drop her off. If she makes it home, don't f*ck her"

Posted by: Glen the f*g whose sh*t's all retarded at July 03, 2013 06:23 PM (omBWL)

48 Maybe we could trade in our crusty old barrel for one of those triple 12 ga doodads. Might cut down on repeat offenders. [i/]

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 03, 2013 06:23 PM (pxDth)

49 Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 10:22 PM

Remember: shotguns are for ladies.

Posted by: Flyguy at July 03, 2013 06:23 PM (BeFHp)

50 Merovign, Elmer Fudd with a Vierling... comedy gold.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 06:24 PM (8avI0)

51 #35 - Big Ben - It's a diet I could get behind.

I have lost 22 pounds in 11 months (and I'm extremely pleased with that), but it's not through some silly fad, it's through actually tracking how many calories I'm eating, and how many I'm burning.

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 06:24 PM (mKMj1)

Evening 'rons. Ahh, CompuServe. That was my first home internet access. I

felt so superior to all the nerds on AOL.

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at July 03, 2013 06:24 PM (ET+F/)

53 Fuck this day, I'm ready for it to be tomorrow. *chugs rum*

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 06:24 PM (jIaZt)

54 I read, once, at fellow-misanthrope Andrea Harris' blog: "sex is unfair".

Early 20s women, who are immature, because everyone is immature before 25, see that everyone treats them as GODDESSES. And then in the late 20s they aren't treated as goddesses so much. And then in the 30s they aren't treated as goddesses at all.

From "American Pie" to "Sharknado", if you're stupid.

From "Alien" to "Cabin in the Woods", if you can at least find your niche.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 03, 2013 06:24 PM (QTHTd)

55 And Prodigy.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at July 03, 2013 10:16 PM (BXLPR)

****

You forgot Prodigy!

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 06:24 PM (KDSST)

56 I thought "Loser" was from 1994.

March, 1993.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2013 10:19 PM (rsIub)

--I guess the album came out before, but I never heard it on the radio until '94. Weird.

Posted by: Geraldo Rivera at July 03, 2013 06:24 PM (+iA5G)

57 this should be our new anthem. i know, i keep floggin' it, but most of y'all weren't born then, so it's kind of a public service.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8

Let. It. Burn.

Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 06:25 PM (8lmkt)

58 I have always prepared for the time I would become a grandparent.
Being a in your parents home as a child lasts 18 to 20 years.
Being a parent with kids in your home last about 18 to 20 years.
I plan on being a grandparent for the next 40 to 50 years.

Posted by: Big Ben at July 03, 2013 06:25 PM (I5Htn)

59 Skandia Recluse -

Count yourself lucky. There's about 3 on there that don't send me running full tilt toward whatever device happens to be playing them.

Hello, morons!

Posted by: WolfinNC at July 03, 2013 06:25 PM (HVOxM)

60 "3 Who Are the Real Bullies? " Schools that persecute kids for biting pop tarts into guns, wearing NRA t shirts, bringing cap guns to school, playing guns with sticks, and using a bubble gun. All perfectly safe, normal activities. Except to stupid, batshit crazy, liberal educators.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 03, 2013 06:25 PM (RigKv)

61 /Jerry Rivers sock

Posted by: logprof at July 03, 2013 06:25 PM (+iA5G)

62 "All of These Songs Are Now 20 Years Old"

Thank goodness I realized before I clicked on it that this link goes to _Rolling Stone_. Bzzzzzt! Sorry. Not going there. No way, Ray.

I still intend to reach my eventual grave without having given that sleazy little liberal fucktard Jann Wenner even so much as one polished penny of my money. I don't even want to give him one single click that he can monetize.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 03, 2013 06:25 PM (gqT4g)

63 Great news CC!

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 06:25 PM (GEICT)

64 53 Fuck this day, I'm ready for it to be tomorrow.

*chugs rum*

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 10:24 PM (jIaZt)

****

cheers.

have a Newcastle, I have extra.

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 06:25 PM (KDSST)

65 #54

What's even more baffling to them is that up to about 18, they're way ahead of all of the boys.

Posted by: RiverC at July 03, 2013 06:26 PM (KTytI)

66 Quad Bore Shotguns already exist Maet...

http://www.hallowellco.com/vierling.htm

Nice ONT eh

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 06:26 PM (LRFds)

67 Sounds like it could be due to a virus. Posted by: The Political Hat Serves Man at July 03, 2013 10:20 PM (Vk2pI) I don't know if adenovirus 36 is cross-species, but... Well, I'm on the clumsy backup computer. You can look it up if you want to. Unfortunately, nutrition is a science more abused that astronomy purportedly was in Galileo's time (at least some of those tales are exaggerated, and old Gally was apparently an abrasive sort).

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at July 03, 2013 06:26 PM (yoh1c)

Fuck this day, I'm ready for it to be tomorrow.

*chugs rum*

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 10:24 PM (jIaZt)

Tomorrow, tomorrow;

I'll drink to tomorrow.

The hangover's a day away.

Posted by: Grown-Up Orphan Annie at July 03, 2013 06:26 PM (o44nj)

69 fluffy at July 03, 2013 10:23 PM

You can walk from the MA border into RI and there's tents set up with signs that say "WE SELL THE GOOD STUFF".

Posted by: Flyguy at July 03, 2013 06:26 PM (BeFHp)

70 We is at the lake. It's raining, a slow steady rain, and yet the yahoos up the road are shooting off some fireworks. I feel so American tonight.

Posted by: ALH at July 03, 2013 06:26 PM (djhBu)

71 46 8:23pm still 90 degrees. Posted by: garrett

Ugh. 7:23, here, roughly the same idea.

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 06:26 PM (mKMj1)

72 Triple shot gun.?
Double rifles, large caliber were cool for a time, until a big game hunter got eaten by a lion 'cuz two fast shots with his big game double rifle weren't enough.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at July 03, 2013 06:26 PM (nqWxo)

73 Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 10:24 PM (jIaZt) *slides bottle of tequila and shot glass over*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 06:27 PM (GEICT)

--I guess the album came out before, but I never heard it on the radio until '94.

It got major radio play after Geffen picked himup off of Bongload Records.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2013 06:27 PM (rsIub)

75 Well what do you know....Im pretty sure my hash just outed me as a spy............in creole, Spanish and a little black English /

Posted by: Molly k. at July 03, 2013 06:27 PM (I/CPY)

76 Lovely news about baby Maddie, CC!! Will keep the prayers going. No 4-year-old should have to have such a tough time of it. I gots somethin' in my eye just typing this. God bless!

Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 06:27 PM (8lmkt)

77 Peaches -

Fucking brilliant! Love that song. Next time conservatives march on Washington, we gotta lead with the "I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE" thing. That and the burning hats Arthur Brown used to wear.

Posted by: WolfinNC at July 03, 2013 06:28 PM (HVOxM)

78 I must be drunker than I thought to put on that particular sock.

Posted by: steveegg at July 03, 2013 06:28 PM (o44nj)

79 Arthur Brown sounds like a bridge between the Beatles and the Doors.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 03, 2013 06:29 PM (QTHTd)

80 Me and a few thousand others worked our asses off to make sure that Y2K was a dud.

Same here. We ran simulations in three large corporate IT environments and their production cycles died right out of the starting gate. Some programs failed dozens of times after each incremental "fix".

Posted by: The Third Horseman Of The Apocalypse at July 03, 2013 06:29 PM (uLzrM)

81 Remember: shotguns are for ladies. Posted by: Flyguy at July 03, 2013 10:23 PM (BeFHp) Panzers are for ladies (and girls) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl4AXwJYEEk

Posted by: Die Politische Hut at July 03, 2013 06:29 PM (Vk2pI)

82 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 03, 2013 06:30 PM (JMmQ9)

83 78 I must be drunker than I thought to put on that particular sock.

Posted by: steveegg at July 03, 2013 10:28 PM (o44nj)

...................................

If you are only half as drunk as me you are forgiven. Dang......Went out and had a few beers and feeling a bit loopey. Getting old sucks

Posted by: Molly k. at July 03, 2013 06:30 PM (I/CPY)

84 When MTV had its Closet Classics back in the days they showed mostly videos that Arthur Brown song was played a lot. One of the first round picks in the NFL Draft this year was named Arthur Brown and I kept thinking of "Fire" every time his name was mentioned.

Posted by: logprof at July 03, 2013 06:31 PM (+iA5G)

85 Arthur Brown sounds like a bridge between the Beatles and the Doors.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 03, 2013 10:29 PM (QTHTd)

I don't believe he was actually either, bth (and how the fuck are ya, lemme just give you a big ol' sloppy hug!). he was kind of a one-off, but this song, man, lately it just says everything i want to say. xoxo

Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 06:31 PM (8lmkt)

Okay, it's been awhile. I will denounce myself in advance and trudge off to the barrel for the rest of the night for the text wall but...

Too bad about Senator Udall's brother. He was apparently a "green energy advocate", "noted environmentalist", "energy expert" or "brother of US Senator Mark Udall" depending on which report you cite. I have no wish to disparage the man personally. But I will say a couple of things.

First- If a person chooses to go hiking alone in a wilderness area, it should be acknowledged that dying is a real possibility. The world ain't a Disney movie.

Second- If I am told that smoking a cigar is bad for my health and therefore a burden to society and worthy of financial punishment, why should we (the taxpayers) be paying for outdoor 'athletes' who fall off a cliff or bite a tree on the slopes? We are not just subsidizing their healthcare costs under Obamacare, but also utilizing public resources for search and rescue. The two are morally equivalent. Their broken neck or traumatic brain injury is every bit as self-induced as my throat cancer or heart attack. The biggest difference is that no helicopter pilot ever had to risk his life to pull me out of an Adirondack chair on my back deck after a cigar.

Third- I will also say that I wish my father-in-law had a family member who was a member of congress or the Senate when he disappeared back in 2008. The Udall search included helicopters in addition to on-the-ground search teams and covered a couple hundred square miles over several days, and wall to wall news coverage. The search for my father-in-law lasted about 4 hours, covered about 3 square miles, and didn't even reach the nearby property of the neighbor who probably killed him. Couldn't get the sheriff or local DA to do any more than that. Wouldn't hurt to have high profile connections I guess.

</rant off>

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 03, 2013 06:31 PM (pxDth)

87 #75 Or you know Bill Cosby and Robert Culp, Molly.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 03, 2013 06:31 PM (9+vDU)

88 Happy 4th yall. Qnyone know a good cure for bad poison ivy seepage? Im all fucked up yo.

Posted by: dude with poison ivy seepage at July 03, 2013 06:31 PM (WT7Sn)

89 The Compuserve floppies and manuals came in like three big boxes. IIRC it weight like 10 lbs. Heh.

Posted by: The Third Horseman Of The Apocalypse at July 03, 2013 06:32 PM (uLzrM)

90 Oh and since I never say this, hello, top o' the evening, and I hope all'y'all have a better day tomorrow than today, and the day after than tomorrow, and so forth.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at July 03, 2013 06:32 PM (yoh1c)

91 There is another point to be made to the young women; if you're a man, there is maybe 1 person out of 7 billion who cares about his feelings.

So that 200 number for women looks pretty good by comparison.

Posted by: [/i] [/b] [/u] [/s] An Observation at July 03, 2013 06:33 PM (ylhEn)

92 Fireworks banned in jersey...let me put on my fucking surprised face.

Posted by: Berserker at July 03, 2013 06:33 PM (FMbng)

93 oh, lookie here, we got Muldoon and Mero and it's feelin' a lot like old times. personally, i plan to drink myself stupid tonight. it's been that kinda week . . . so glad it's Friday . . . wait, WHAT???

Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 06:33 PM (8lmkt)

94 -51
Losing 22 lbs in 11 months is probably the best way to do so. Like most things, find what works for you and don't believe everything you hear.

Posted by: Big Ben at July 03, 2013 06:34 PM (I5Htn)

95 I have a sister and I'm Republican. I also clean up after myself but I live alone so somebody has to do it. I read that article and the chick that wrote made a little backhanded comment about her not dating Republican guys or something. The whole article was pretty stupid. Talk about a special snow flake.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 03, 2013 06:34 PM (15w2J)

>>Happy 4th yall. Qnyone know a good cure for bad poison ivy seepage? Im all fucked up yo.

Pour bleach on it.

...or Milkweed Sap.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2013 06:34 PM (rsIub)

97 Hey-o!

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 06:35 PM (T1005)

Ohio (on that list) uses a "loophole" in the law. Fireworks stands
abound, so log as you sign a document saying what state you plan to take
the fireworks TO before exploding them. I always put California.

The flashing highway signs in my part of Massachusetts warn about fireworks being illegal. New Hampshire is very close.

Pro tip: If you see an off-duty cop in the parking lot when you buy fireworks in NH, take an extended route going home to Mass.

There is a fireworks warehouse close by in OH with uniformed deputies and cops on station. All they ask is to drop your lighter in a bucket on the way in. Then you just lie on the form you sign saying your taking the merch out of state, roll your eyes and reclaim your lighter.

Posted by: spc at July 03, 2013 06:35 PM (WDovF)

99 For poison ivy, steroids are the key. Failing that, Benadryl or Atarax/Vistaril for controlling the itch. Topically, nothing works great, make sure to use cool water for bathing though, hot water provokes it further.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at July 03, 2013 06:35 PM (sQ0LB)

100 Peaches - Logan is in my prayers!

ConCrank - I was wondering about Maddie too - she has also been in my prayers.

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 06:36 PM (EAgmr)

101 Thanks Garrett. For reals bleach? Im so desperate, i'll give it a shot.

Posted by: fastfreefall at July 03, 2013 06:36 PM (WT7Sn)

102 Wait a sec. It's not Friday? Crap.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 03, 2013 06:36 PM (pxDth)

103 14 Morons, the prayers are working--O2 levels used in the vent are getting close to room air, they think they might get her off the vent in the next day or two apparently. I haven't heard much else from Mrs. Crank about it today, but any major changes she would have texted me about. God bless all your black little hearts. Posted by: Conserative Crank at July 03, 2013 10:16 PM (sQ0LB) Awesome! Praise God.

Posted by: baldilocks at July 03, 2013 06:36 PM (aY3VP)

104 cthulhu! wow, this might turn out to be one of those nights people talk about for years to come.

or not, wtf do i know . . .

Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 06:36 PM (8lmkt)

105

Also, do not use bleach, alcohol, kerosene, or any of that other redneck treatment bullsh*t for poison ivy.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at July 03, 2013 06:37 PM (sQ0LB)

106 Hahaha you can't even have a sparkler in shithole NY. Figures. Fucking losers.

Posted by: Atlas Shit the Bed at July 03, 2013 06:37 PM (BfVfT)

107 Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 10:18 PM (8lmkt) Hey girl!

Posted by: baldilocks at July 03, 2013 06:37 PM (aY3VP)

108 From 1993 a song we seemed to have missed the other day

http://youtu.be/W0pxPhr_hLo

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 06:37 PM (8avI0)

109 I am still wearing not only pants, but a brassiere. I know, right? brb. save my place, eh?

Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 06:37 PM (8lmkt)

110 It's logical Friday!

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 06:37 PM (mKMj1)

111

It hurts.

There is a product out there that neutralizes the oil in the ivy, it works pretty well...but gramps always cut the boils and poured bleach on them.

Stung like the dickens.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2013 06:37 PM (rsIub)

112 ConCrank - God bless her!

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 06:38 PM (EAgmr)

113 Michigan recently loosened up its fireworks laws. Prior to that, as soon as you crossed the Michigan-Indiana border you would see a huge fireworks warehouse store on one side of the highway and a big ol cigarette store on the other.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 03, 2013 06:38 PM (RigKv)

114 Great, now a group of Russian women are pointing, whispering and giggling at me. The only words I understand are "Bette Midler."

Posted by: Geraldo at July 03, 2013 06:38 PM (+iA5G)

115 93 oh, lookie here, we got Muldoon and Mero and it's feelin' a lot like old times. personally, i plan to drink myself stupid tonight. it's been that kinda week . . . so glad it's Friday . . . wait, WHAT??? Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 10:33 PM (8lmkt) I'm well into the tequila. Let's rock this shit.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 06:39 PM (GEICT)

116 They really need to update that map because Vermont loosened its fireworks laws significantly about ten years ago.

Posted by: FART at July 03, 2013 06:39 PM (erQJO)

117 First- If a person chooses to go hiking alone in a wilderness area, it should be acknowledged that dying is a real possibility

Yeah, I know, as one who hikes alone (because, misanthrope).

That's why I hike trails. And watch the weather reports carefully. And tell people where I'm going. And bring a map. And pack for any eventuality.

I've no desire to end my days as a bear turd.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 03, 2013 06:39 PM (QTHTd)

118 Q: Ya know what else is 20 years old?

A: http://youtu.be/FuA8q-P78Tc

Posted by: logprof at July 03, 2013 06:40 PM (+iA5G)

119 90 Oh and since I never say this, hello, top o' the evening, and I hope all'y'all have a better day tomorrow than today, and the day after than tomorrow, and so forth.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 03, 2013 10:32 PM (yoh1c)

****

I planned to, but then I have to go visit my dad. I figured a diet tonight of Newcastle and soul coughing and a hangover tomorrow will make it about perfect.

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 06:40 PM (KDSST)

120 I am going to have more grand marnier than is good for me.

Mostly because I can't have scotch any more, and it irritates me that I have to drink a sissy, flavored liquor.

Will someone please have a nice single-malt and tell me about it, so I can enjoy it vicariously?

Thank you!

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 06:41 PM (mKMj1)

121 And hai again Peaches :^) I'm winding down my last days on this contract, getting ready for the next one. That's basically it, really. Hope you're doing okay.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 03, 2013 06:41 PM (QTHTd)

122 Never tried Compuserve. I was an AOL nerd. I shudder to think of the money I wasted when it was pay by the hour and I was hooked on the original Neverwinter Nights. The only thing I was really able to accomplish was to shut up Keith Meinhold in a debate and get an apology from him after he completely lost his composure when I pointed out the one, simple flaw in his story. That was really my first introduction to How Liberals ArgueÂ™. I think it was around '94.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 03, 2013 06:41 PM (QLNHI)

123 21 I'm not asking for credit (small untraceable bills are preferred), but don't call Y2K a 'scare' like the Mayan apocalypse; it really did have the potential to become a bad event. Posted by: RoadRunner at July 03, 2013 10:17 PM (hgBrn) I took it seriously. I bought some silver and gold back then. Gold was $300/ounce. Heh. Who's laughing now?

Posted by: rickl at July 03, 2013 06:41 PM (sdi6R)

124
I'm well into the tequila.

Let's rock this shit.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 10:39 PM (GEICT)

******

Damn, I shoulda bought some fireworks this afternoon, instead of sleeping in.

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 06:42 PM (KDSST)

125 I've no desire to end my days as a bear turd.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 03, 2013 10:39 PM (QTHTd)

*****

There are those who think I've spent much of my life that way.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 03, 2013 06:42 PM (pxDth)

126 19
Good evening y'all.

test

pixy has been stealing my line breaks.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 03, 2013 10:17 PM (pxDth)

I've got it on good authority that he tosses 'em into a shipping container and exchanges it with the Chinese for hamster food whenever it fills up.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 06:42 PM (T1005)

127 Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 03, 2013 10:24 PM (QTHTd) I agree with you in theory, but practically speaking, one is either a goddess or one isn't. A true goddess will be loved long after the beauty of her 20s fades. Men are hardwired to worship, adore and be fascinated by women. How so many women fail to recognize this is beyond me. CC, awesome news re Maddie! Peaches, any updates?? Did you get my email, BTW?

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 06:42 PM (2/T/u)

128 106 Hahaha you can't even have a sparkler in shithole NY. Figures. Fucking losers.

Posted by: Atlas Shit the Bed at July 03, 2013 10:37 PM (BfVfT)

--Fireworks: a classic example of how in some places, the people must be protected from themselves and only the gummint or "experts" are allowed.

Posted by: logprof at July 03, 2013 06:42 PM (+iA5G)

129 Let's rock this shit.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 10:39 PM (GEICT)

Let's burn it. You lay the kindling, I'll spark it up. Let me know when it's time, eh, buddy?

Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 06:42 PM (8lmkt)

130 The highlight of July 4 is Katy Perry shooting sparks out of her boobs.

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 03, 2013 06:43 PM (+iA5G)

131 The flashing highway signs in my part of Massachusetts warn about fireworks being illegal. New Hampshire is very close. Pro tip: If you see an off-duty cop in the parking lot when you buy fireworks in NH, take an extended route going home to Mass. ---- I;ve had cops pull up to my house (in Ohio) as the roman candles were defoliating the trees and advise me that I should launch them into the maple tree. Tjis was pre-Obama of course. Haven't celebrated the 4th sine then.

Posted by: UWP at July 03, 2013 06:43 PM (r98SZ)

132 I am indescribably happy to just be here. *** Hi Peaches! We are happy you are here!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 03, 2013 06:44 PM (jjvz+)

133 Peaches, did you see the new Patriots logo?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 03, 2013 06:44 PM (jjvz+)

134 Neil Yong fucking sucks. How is he even a musician? Carry on.

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 03, 2013 06:45 PM (ZshNr)

135 >>>*slides bottle of tequila and shot glass over* *slides back empty shot glass, smashes empty bottle against the wall* Much better, thank you. rich@gmu, just FYI, Newcastle makes a shitty chaser for tequila. But thank you as well.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 06:45 PM (jIaZt)

136 Some sad geek news. The man who invented the original mouse has died. He was 88.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/national_world&id=9160920

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 06:46 PM (8avI0)

137 Oh, and that one little flaw in Keith Meinhold's story (for those of you who remember him) was that the question regarding sexual orientation was somehow left off his initial enlistment paperwork for the Navy. I calmly pointed out that while he may have benefited from a technicality on his first enlistment, he was subsequently made aware of the DoD policy on homosexuals and had re-enlisted with that knowledge. He fucking lost it.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 03, 2013 06:46 PM (QLNHI)

138 I'm happy you're here Peaches...

of course I'm a pretty giddy guy,,,,

http://youtu.be/xyYJLkaa8Tg

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 06:46 PM (LRFds)

139 Evening all!! I am in sunny (and hot) Arizona! Beautiful condo, and so wonderful to see my BIL and SIL again after 6 years. So.. SIL wants to go see The Lone Ranger. Has anyone seen it? What did you think?

Posted by: jewells45 trying to keep from going crazy at July 03, 2013 06:46 PM (uyo35)

140 Young, Yong, whatever.

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 03, 2013 06:47 PM (ZshNr)

141 The man who invented the original mouse has died.

Walt Disney is dead?

Posted by: Low Information Voter at July 03, 2013 06:47 PM (uLzrM)

142 Some one in the 'hood is setting off mortar round fireworks. So far, only one in twelve has even come close to the proper altitude. I hearing a lot of "boom - bang - oh shit" through the open window

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 03, 2013 06:47 PM (JMmQ9)

143 Even stipulating that: 1) I love Doctor Who, 2) I own a life-sized TARDIS, 3) If I ever do marry, it would be to another woman, I can still promise that my wedding would be less gay than the Doctor Who-themed engagement party linked in the sidebar. And I'll bet cash money that this was not the bride's idea.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at July 03, 2013 06:47 PM (a5ljo)

144 Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 10:42 PM (2/T/u) MISS TAMMY!!!!! Where the hell ya been??? Just thinking about you the other day.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 06:47 PM (GEICT)

145 Tammy, that's why I played the Sigourney Weaver Card. :^)

I could as easily have played the Judy Dench Card, or the Bea Arthur Card . . .

These are women who weren't / aren't stupid, whatever we can say about their politics. They knew that sex isn't forever; charisma is forever, and not being a drugged out moron is forever

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 03, 2013 06:47 PM (QTHTd)

146
What year was that compuserve ad?

and

Peaches have you heard this song?

http://tinyurl.com/lbr9zpy

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 03, 2013 06:47 PM (7yJVd)

147 129 LogProf,

"Hey Wilbur I had a great idea for a new device...unfortunately that humdiddily, fuckinoodily cop busted me for flying a Kite as a proof of principle."

//Orville Wright

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 06:48 PM (LRFds)

148

Saw a quote from an R.E.I. representative regarding hiking alone in the wilderness.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/mwxlepu

"There's a serenity that takes place in nature when you're by yourself," Citrano said. "Every noise that's made is either you or something else. All your senses are heightened and it just allows you to have true, true quiet time."

Every noise that's made is either you or something else.

Deep Thoughts I suppose.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 03, 2013 06:48 PM (pxDth)

149 i really want to turn that snowflake picture into a t-shirt.

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 06:48 PM (KDSST)

150 135 Neil Yong fucking sucks. How is he even a musician? Carry on. Posted by: Lincolntf

Well, when other people sing his songs, they're pretty good songs. Gillian Welch closed with Fields of Green, at one show, and I was pretty impressed.

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 06:48 PM (mKMj1)

151
Good evening, good people. We are prepped for a slow, lazy day tomorrow. Just a parade (I get to walk in it) and then cold beer plus loads of food. A bit of quiet time for remembrance then it's fireworks.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 03, 2013 06:49 PM (SAMxH)

152 I am going to have more grand marnier than is good for me.

Mostly because I can't have scotch any more, and it irritates me that I have to drink a sissy, flavored liquor.

Will someone please have a nice single-malt and tell me about it, so I can enjoy it vicariously?

Thank you!

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 10:41 PM (mKMj1)

I think you need to try the grand marnier centenaire, the 100 year stuff. Its a lot more pricey, but light years ahead of the regular stuff, smoother with a more woody mature taste. You'll never drink the regular stuff after that.

Posted by: Berserker at July 03, 2013 06:49 PM (FMbng)

153 semi-automatic-shotgun/Three barrels? Why bother? Why not an SRM 1216, 16 shot semi-auto:http://tinyurl.com/nhfuv5n

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 06:49 PM (aDwsi)

154 Every noise that's made is either you or something else that is hunting you.

Fixed it for accuracy.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 06:49 PM (8avI0)

155 151 rich@gmu,

That photoshopped on the Ogabe "icon" picture with "he's not a" (snowflake)

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 06:49 PM (LRFds)

156
I took it seriously. I bought some silver and gold back then.

Gold was $300/ounce.

Heh. Who's laughing now?

Yeah, well.....

I still have twenty pounds of freeze dried guacamole. So there.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at July 03, 2013 06:49 PM (0IhFx)

157 Where the hell ya been??? Just thinking about you the other day. Uh, long story, not worth inflicting on everyone! I'm alright. How are you and your ladies?

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 06:50 PM (2/T/u)

158 hearing a lot of "boom - bang - oh shit" through the open window

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 03, 2013 10:47 PM (JMmQ9)

*****

"Here, hold my beer."

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 03, 2013 06:50 PM (pxDth)

159 Every noise that's made is either you or something else. Deep Thoughts I suppose. Jack Handey himself couldn't have said it better.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 03, 2013 06:50 PM (QLNHI)

160 At least dinner was good. And I picked up my new evil black rifle that I don't need but it pisses Owe'Malley off and fuck that guy. I'm gonna buy another glock next month, and another xdm after that before the ban kicks in on 1 Oct. But everything in between sucked the big hairy meatball. Ooh, ooh, ooh is AtC around tonight? I drove past a place called Ravage Diner today. Couldn't get a pic of the sign, hang on whilst I hit the googles.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 06:50 PM (jIaZt)

161 Newcastle makes a shitty chaser for tequila. But thank you as well.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 10:45 PM (jIaZt)

****

sorry. not drinking tequila...but I should be.

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 06:50 PM (KDSST)

162 LIV@143, The computer mouse. Invented 1964. Douglas Engelbart.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at July 03, 2013 06:50 PM (a5ljo)

163 Hi Tammy!

Posted by: jewells45 trying to keep from going crazy at July 03, 2013 06:50 PM (uyo35)

164 *passes to Tammy a tall cold glass of sweet tea and a sparkler*

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 06:50 PM (8avI0)

165 Peaches, any updates?? Did you get my email, BTW?

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 10:42 PM (2/T/u)

escuse me??? what did that muthafucka do and are you okay with it? cause me and fluffy (no not moron fluffy, i regret the confusion) are there for you. {{{{{{{{{tammy}}}}}}}}

Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 06:51 PM (8lmkt)

166 Posted by: Tammy sans Thor **** Huh???? Where be the Thor?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 03, 2013 06:51 PM (jjvz+)

167 #141, jewell, my SIL saw it this afternoon, and liked it. She thought it was fun, and quite worth her time on her one day off on which she was not buried under children and errands.

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 06:51 PM (mKMj1)

168

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 10:46 PM (GEICT)

--Who's the second chick?

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 03, 2013 06:51 PM (+iA5G)

169

Fireworks: a classic example of how in some places, the people must be protected from themselves and only the gummint or "experts" are allowed.

Posted by: logprof at July 03, 2013 10:42 PM (+iA5G)

Speaking of which, you Texans read the sidebar story about the roadside cavity searches and then lets talk about what a beacon of freedom that state is...

Posted by: Atlas Shit the Bed at July 03, 2013 06:51 PM (BfVfT)

170 Fine, I guess I'll know not to relive my AOL glory days around here again.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 03, 2013 06:52 PM (QLNHI)

171 http://youtu.be/Pu8DJnR9zNw

Arkham Montage

"I'm a lot happier"

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 06:52 PM (LRFds)

172 It shouldn't matter who you love - Barky McFucknut

http://tinyurl.com/lmhdjrp

Posted by: Craig Poe at July 03, 2013 06:52 PM (BVkEs)

173 Douglas Engelbart.

Didn't he sing My, My, My Delilah?

Posted by: Low Information Voter at July 03, 2013 06:53 PM (uLzrM)

174 Uh, long story, not worth inflicting on everyone! I'm alright. How are you and your ladies? Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 10:50 PM (2/T/u) Doing good. Ladies are visiting the wife's family. Be back on Sunday. And I'm sorry for whatever the story is. Do I need to round up a couple Rons and ride out?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 06:53 PM (GEICT)

175 161 Burn the Witch,

If you find yourself shaving wondering who the hell is in the mirror, seek help.

//J Handy

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 06:53 PM (LRFds)

176 "Every noise that's made is either you or something else. All your senses are heightened and it just allows you to have true, true quiet time."
--------------

Yeah...., until it's pitch black fucking dark, and you hear something 'big' moving in the brush close to your tent. At that point I can assure you that 'your senses are heightened'. Your testicles may retract also.....

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 06:54 PM (aDwsi)

177 every noise that's made is either you or something else.

'Sup?

Posted by: the bean and cheese burrito you just ate at July 03, 2013 06:54 PM (QTHTd)

178 they just tossed off a mortar round that actually made the appropriate height...I'm hearin' "boom - bang - aaaawwww, cool"

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 03, 2013 06:54 PM (JMmQ9)

179 131 The highlight of July 4 is Katy Perry shooting sparks out of her boobs. Don't forget the showering of sparks from her orifices, thanks to Russell Brand's proclivities.

Posted by: Thrawn at July 03, 2013 06:54 PM (KiyII)

180 --Who's the second chick? Posted by: Joe Biden at July 03, 2013 10:51 PM (+iA5G) Jennifer Lawrence

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 06:54 PM (GEICT)

181 Well, when other people sing his songs, they're pretty good songs. Gillian Welch closed with Fields of Green, at one show, and I was pretty impressed.

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 10:48 PM (mKMj1)

--The Bridge tribute album had a lot of 'em.

I liked this one:

http://youtu.be/xWoyWh7xLu0

Posted by: logprof at July 03, 2013 06:54 PM (+iA5G)

182 Blow ye Wind, like the trumpet that blows. But without all that noise. J. Handey

Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 03, 2013 06:54 PM (QLNHI)

183 Ravagedeli.com If they have a sandwich called Polly I'm gonna flip.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 06:54 PM (jIaZt)

184 I like Creep and Mr. Jones. Otherwise I agree about not hearing those songs again.

Posted by: Adam at July 03, 2013 06:55 PM (Aif/5)

185 171 Atlas Shat the Bed,

Hey they choose to be hardasses on the law...
it works for them.

They overreach they tend to fix it....

Texas is an interesting laboratory on freedom.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 06:55 PM (LRFds)

186 That Vox Day letter should be required reading for every woman who mindlessly heads off to university as the next step after graduating from high school.

Posted by: mike at July 03, 2013 06:55 PM (H1v/m)

187 "Will someone please have a nice single-malt and tell me about it, so I can enjoy it vicariously? Thank you!" Posted by: Dianna Well Chica; here's to you. *Hoists a very hefty glass of Glen Morangie*

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 03, 2013 06:55 PM (57bzg)

188 #154 - Berserker - You evidently are probing to discover if I am able to support you in the style to which you are accustomed.

The answer is along the lines of, "First, you would need to displace the current man, the sick corgi (who is gearing up to cost me oodles and oodles of lovely lolly), the elderly black mutt, and both cats, to say nothing of my mother and my brother's family. And you'd better be worth it!"

So, basically, I'm not buying 100 year old liquor.

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 06:55 PM (mKMj1)

189 I have artillery simulators and you don't. Or I doubt you do. The island in the middle of the river will suffer but it's uninhabited except for the odd water moccasin. Note to Roger at the NSA: just kidding and I live in Bangladesh.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at July 03, 2013 06:55 PM (YSkup)

190 I see that there is more drama on the yahoo group. I'm glad I have e-mails from there limited so I'm not bombarded with 30 messages a day.

Posted by: buzzion at July 03, 2013 06:55 PM (LI48c)

191 Hi Tammy!!! Is the sans Thor thing geographic only, or did I miss something significant?

Posted by: Conserative Crank at July 03, 2013 06:56 PM (sQ0LB)

192 *Hoists a very hefty glass of Glen Morangie* Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

*Sniffle*

Thank you! I remember how that tastes!

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 06:56 PM (mKMj1)

193 Late to the show. Because I was listening to 20 year old music.

Bonnie Raitt and SRV. Uh Huh.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 03, 2013 06:57 PM (4Mv1T)

194 Yeah...., until it's pitch black fucking dark, and you hear something 'big' moving in the brush close to your tent. At that point I can assure you that 'your senses are heightened'. Your testicles may retract also.....

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 10:54 PM (aDwsi)

I think in humans, the senses and the testicles are connected by a long slender ligament. When the senses go up, so do the nads.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 03, 2013 06:57 PM (pxDth)

195 I was a CompuServe member. I still have a little tool set with their logo on it.

Back then, I was programming in Clipper, which was a compiler for dBase code. It was lightning fast, but of course was all in DOS.

Good times!

(But before CompuServe was PLATO.. now, that was friggin' awesome)

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 03, 2013 06:57 PM (UTq/I)

196 I see that there is more drama on the yahoo group. I'm glad I have e-mails from there limited so I'm not bombarded with 30 messages a day. I haven't been over there in ages and was thinking about having a looksee. What the hell would be causing drama??

Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 03, 2013 06:58 PM (QLNHI)

197 Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 03, 2013 10:47 PM (QTHTd) Amen! Hey jewells, NDH! Anna, many thanks. I love me some sparklers, though I prefer my tea unsweetened (GASP) with lot of lemon and frankly I love Neil Young. I may need to turn in my Southern card!

Thor is still in CA, as planned. What comes after that is where the Ugly starts. First World problems, everyone should be lucky enough to have the issue I am facing but I am still pissed. Little Miss Spellcheck, they may both be hardcore geeks. I have attended similar weddings, albeit it not Dr Who ( Star Wars) that were the brides idea. Hey DC, hey Bers! Dianna, congrats on your weight loss! And hey everyone else! I've missed y'all.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 06:58 PM (2/T/u)

198 178 Mike Hammer,

it certainly is worth remembering that all of us are essentially the offspring from the culled from the initial ordus homo herd tough guys and gals....

http://tinyurl.com/lsa759x

Mount Toba goes BOOM

congrats Horde....your predecessors earned it...

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 06:58 PM (LRFds)

199 The current Yahoo Group drama arises from Troy who is in high dungeon over St. Skittles and Zimmerman.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 06:59 PM (8avI0)

200 One of my favorite Jack Handey:

"The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face."

Posted by: logprof at July 03, 2013 06:59 PM (+iA5G)

201 202 The current Yahoo Group drama arises from Troy who is in high dungeon over St. Skittles and Zimmerman.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 10:59 PM (8avI0)

Yeah so don't comment to him for being an idiot that refuses to actually learn the facts of case especially if you don't use your real name. Or else mr. brave internet tough guy will call you an anonymous coward.

Posted by: buzzion at July 03, 2013 07:00 PM (LI48c)

202 >>>What the hell would be causing drama?? What else? Zimmerman trial. And, y'know Morons. We could, and do routinely, have flame wars over the appropriate grooming standards for the vajayjay.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 07:00 PM (jIaZt)

203 I think in humans, the senses and the testicles are connected by a long slender ligament. When the senses go up, so do the nads. Posted by: Seamus Muldoon It must be connected to the dump chute too; ever hear the phrase "you couldn't drive a toothpick into his asshole with a sledgehammer"?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 03, 2013 07:00 PM (57bzg)

204 16 Hey, its that horrible 4 non-blondes song again. I'm blaming this one on the Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon. Posted by: Flyguy at July 03, 2013 10:17 PM (BeFHp) I had successfully repressed all memory of that song until yesterday's thread. It was indeed annoying. However, I had never seen the video before yesterday. I would hit that sixteen ways to Sunday. Good Lord. Stompy boots, too. Real ones. Not the silly fetish boots with high heels that some people link here. Maybe she's going for a steampunk look with the top hat and goggles. Linda Perry > Kate Upton

Posted by: rickl at July 03, 2013 07:00 PM (sdi6R)

205 Yeah...., until it's pitch black fucking dark, and you hear something 'big' moving in the brush close to your tent. At that point I can assure you that 'your senses are heightened'. Your testicles may retract also.....
Posted by: Mike Hammer
---------
Indeed. Been there, and done THAT.

In your neck of the woods I'll add.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 03, 2013 07:00 PM (4Mv1T)

206 Oh geeze, I pretty much steer clear of the World War Z threads here, so it's good to know how to keep avoiding them.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 03, 2013 07:00 PM (QLNHI)

207 (But before CompuServe was PLATO.. now, that was friggin' awesome)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry
--------

I was a Genie user. I have a friend that still has a Prodigy email address, which I do not understand....

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 07:02 PM (aDwsi)

208 202 Anna Puma,

Is it that bad, I have not been to the Yoohoo group in a bit...

he always has had a soft spot for SPLC "original sin" theory...

sort of bizarre given they're both minorities.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:02 PM (LRFds)

209 - Berserker - You evidently are probing to discover if I am able to support you in the style to which you are accustomed.

The answer is along the lines of, "First, you would need to displace the current man, the sick corgi (who is gearing up to cost me oodles and oodles of lovely lolly), the elderly black mutt, and both cats, to say nothing of my mother and my brother's family. And you'd better be worth it!"

So, basically, I'm not buying 100 year old liquor.

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 10:55 PM (mKMj1)

Um...no really, I was just suggesting you try the other stuff if you like the grand marnier, and miss scotch. I did just look up the price, and its retarded at $130 a bottle. I got a bottle for $60 duty free on a cruise,and didn't think it was that much more to buy it here. Its excellent, but for $130 they can stick it.

Posted by: Berserker at July 03, 2013 07:02 PM (FMbng)

210 troy needs to give it a rest before he gets lost in Tom Sawyer's cave

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 03, 2013 07:02 PM (QTHTd)

211 It must be connected to the dump chute too; ever hear the phrase "you couldn't drive a toothpick into his asshole with a sledgehammer"?

aka Pucker Factor

Posted by: NC Ref at July 03, 2013 07:03 PM (/izg2)

212 Re 207: I forgot to mention that the drummer was only visible for a few tantalizing glimpses, and I would have liked to have seen more of her. Drummer > Linda Perry

Posted by: rickl at July 03, 2013 07:04 PM (sdi6R)

213 You know what I've noticed around here lately? No one posts boobehs anymore. Wth? The world is going to hell in a hand basket, shouldn't we discuss tits as a pick me up?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 07:04 PM (GEICT)

214
That photoshopped on the Ogabe "icon" picture with "he's not a" (snowflake)

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 10:49 PM (LRFds)

***

How about in a socialist realist style with NOPE as the slogan?

i'm drinking not thinking...

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 07:04 PM (KDSST)

215 LMAO at Beavis and Butt-Head watching Edie Brickell. Never gets old.

Posted by: logprof at July 03, 2013 07:04 PM (+iA5G)

216 It must be connected to the dump chute too; ever hear the phrase "you couldn't drive a toothpick into his asshole with a sledgehammer"? You couldn't get a greased BB up there.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 07:04 PM (GEICT)

217 I would hit that sixteen ways to Sunday. Good Lord.

Once you get past the patchouli, it's all downhill from there.

Posted by: The Third Horseman Of The Apocalypse at July 03, 2013 07:05 PM (uLzrM)

218 Posted by: Mike Hammer
---------
Indeed. Been there, and done THAT.

In your neck of the woods I'll add.
Posted by: Tobacco Road
---------------------

I had something brush against the tent one night in the Nantahala National Forest. I DID not get back to sleep that night. Scared the bloody fuck out of me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 07:05 PM (aDwsi)

219 I'm not asking for credit (small untraceable bills are preferred), but don't call Y2K a 'scare' like the Mayan apocalypse; it really did have the potential to become a bad event.
(Steps off soapbox.)
Posted by: RoadRunner at July 03, 2013 10:17 PM (hgBrn)

No there were legitimate worries for some legacy systems but the whole "every microchip has a clock and so they'll all stop working at midnight Dec 31 1999" was just plain uninformed bullshit.

Posted by: Mætenloch at July 03, 2013 07:05 PM (pAlYe)

220

about 70 comments behind...what comes after soul coughing

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 07:05 PM (KDSST)

221 Is it that bad, I have not been to the Yoohoo group in a bit... he always has had a soft spot for SPLC "original sin" theory... After all the Roman Emperor talk earlier, I read "SPLC" as 'SPQR' and was thinking "NOW what the fuck is sven talking about?"

Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 03, 2013 07:05 PM (QLNHI)

222 Oh, dear; I had no idea that we got all drama-queenish about the current trial in Florida.

I was going to make a joke about the torture of juries with inconclusive DNA evidence dragged out to excruciating length, which is now rendered inappropriate. I feel sad about that.

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 07:05 PM (mKMj1)

223

ever hear the phrase "you couldn't drive a toothpick into his asshole with a sledgehammer"?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 03, 2013 11:00 PM (57bzg)

*****

Well, no. No I haven't. Quite a graphic image. Thanks for that.

I think.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 03, 2013 07:05 PM (pxDth)

224 Speaking of which, you Texans read the sidebar story about the roadside cavity searches and then lets talk about what a beacon of freedom that state is... Posted by: Atlas Shit the Bed at July 03, 2013 10:51 PM (BfVfT) Under Obamacare, body cavity searches will be mandatory. And yes, that drag queen in bondage gear is an Obamacare certified medical technician...

Posted by: Barry Obama at July 03, 2013 07:06 PM (Vk2pI)

225 And I'm sorry for whatever the story is. Do I need to round up a couple Rons and ride out? Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 10:53 PM (GEICT) Hah, you're a dear, but no, he'd stomp your asses and make me even madder!

I just need to give in to the inevitable and suck it up. Oddly enough, the little 27 year old brunette is the least of my worries

And my apologies if I am coming across as bitchy on the Group email. I am just tired of being bossed.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 07:06 PM (2/T/u)

226 Boulder Toilet Hobo, I think Troy is trapped in a pitch black antechamber of that cave. And is too proud to admit to being stuck.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 07:07 PM (8avI0)

227 224 Burn the Witch,

If I ever get going on too much minutiae just slap me...

OI typo'd the damn Pedarius declension.

I'm sorry.

Sven<---- slowly losing memory

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:07 PM (LRFds)

228 "aka Pucker Factor" Beggin yer pardon sir. Pucker factor is what we casually refer to as the condition where your pooter sucks up the seat cushion and you have to have pulled out...typically it first occurs when the nugget gets his check ride.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 03, 2013 07:07 PM (57bzg)

229 It shouldn't matter who you love - Barky McFucknut http://tinyurl.com/lmhdjrp Posted by: Craig Poe at July 03, 2013 10:52 PM (BVkEs) http://twitpic.com/czy4s6

Posted by: Support Love... at July 03, 2013 07:07 PM (Vk2pI)

230 Apparently, Armie Hammer never heard about the Domino Mask Curse. It;s the kiss of death to an actor's career. Klinton Spilsbury as the last Lone Ranger Billy Zane as The Phantom Chris O'Donnell as Robin Gabriel Macht as The Spirit Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern. Dwayne McLean as Black Bart Damon Wayans as Blankman

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at July 03, 2013 07:07 PM (a5ljo)

231 Sorry, rickl, Linda Perry is off the market. She's engaged to Sara Gilbert.

Posted by: no good deed at July 03, 2013 07:08 PM (WmLrU)

232 #212 - Berserker - I apologize for my ridiculous sense of humor. I was making a silly dead-pan joke. It would work better, I think, if I were the actor who plays Agent Cho on "The Mentalist." He's got the best delivery ever for that sort of thing.

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 07:08 PM (mKMj1)

233 BCochran - http://tinyurl.com/lnqb9d9

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 07:08 PM (8avI0)

234 Still waiting for Caustic to reply to my emails with the selfies attached. *sigh*

Posted by: Tom Sawyer, alone in his cave at July 03, 2013 07:08 PM (Aif/5)

235 234 no good deed,

who is not Melissa Sue Gilbert

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:09 PM (LRFds)

236 ever hear the phrase "you couldn't drive a toothpick into his asshole with a sledgehammer"?

I've only read it on line. Here.

My F-i-L's standard for difficult is inserting an aspirin in a wildcat's ass with a toothpick.

Night.

Posted by: fluffy at July 03, 2013 07:09 PM (z9HTb)

237 Compuserve went by the wayside because they failed to carpet bomb everyone everywhere with complimentary 3.5" floppies and CDs.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 03, 2013 07:09 PM (QLNHI)

238 Hah, you're a dear, but no, he'd stomp your asses and make me even madder! God made man, Sam Colt made them equal. I just need to give in to the inevitable and suck it up. Oddly enough, the little 27 year old brunette is the least of my worries See, that sounds like I need to grab Bannion, EC, DC and a few other Rons and have a talk with some people. And my apologies if I am coming across as bitchy on the Group email. I am just tired of being bossed. Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 11:06 PM (2/T/u) Oh Dear God. Is that you??!?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 07:09 PM (GEICT)

239 Apparently, Armie Hammer never heard about the Domino Mask Curse. It;s the kiss of death to an actor's career. Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at July 03, 2013 11:07 PM (a5ljo) Forget that; whenever I hear his name I think of baking soda.

Posted by: Vendette at July 03, 2013 07:09 PM (d+fT0)

240 Geez Tammy sorry to hear about that.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 07:09 PM (8avI0)

241 1993 was a great year in music. I went back five years farther, and, sheesh! 25 year old songs suck. And the stuff from 93 gets played every day on modern rock stations, even now. It was a great time to be into music.

Anybody else remember when CD's came in long boxes and you flipped through them at a record store in the mall?

Posted by: CausticConservative at July 03, 2013 07:09 PM (gT3jF)

242 217 Rich@gmu,

heh it's the Thursday for it after all...

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:10 PM (LRFds)

243

i'm just stuck on comment 147. it crawled into my eyes and is jabbing pencils into them...wtf?

another beer is in order

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 07:10 PM (KDSST)

244

Agent Cho rocks!!!

Margaret, not so much.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 03, 2013 07:10 PM (pxDth)

245 "SIL wants to go see The Lone Ranger. Has anyone seen it? What did you think?" Posted by: jewells45 trying to keep from going crazy I haven't seen The Lone Ranger, but I saw The Heat and it was funny as hell.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 03, 2013 07:10 PM (RigKv)

246 I hereby propose Tammy's new handle be Tammy Jormugandr

Posted by: Conserative Crank at July 03, 2013 07:10 PM (sQ0LB)

247 Anybody else remember when CD's came in long boxes and you flipped through them at a record store in the mall? Posted by: CausticConservative at July 03, 2013 11:09 PM (gT3jF) Yep.

Posted by: Vendette at July 03, 2013 07:10 PM (d+fT0)

248 236 BCochran - http://tinyurl.com/lnqb9d9 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 11:08 PM (8avI0) See? Now we're talking.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 07:10 PM (GEICT)

249 Evening all! Peaches, my sweet friend, many prayers for Logan! crank, I don't know what happened to your Maddie, but I will be praying for her now. So glad she is better. Tammy, where the heck is Thor now?? I thought he was done and home in your happy arms!! We have half the boxes unpacked, hubby works fourteen hours a day, so the rest will probably stay unpacked, and my Newfie has an ear infection and runs away when the ear medicine comes out. I very much enjoyed my biennial beer this evening.

Posted by: Moki at July 03, 2013 07:11 PM (EvHC8)

250

However, I had never seen the video before yesterday.

I would hit that sixteen ways to Sunday. Good Lord.

Stompy boots, too. Real ones. Not the silly fetish boots with high heels that some people link here.

Maybe she's going for a steampunk look with the top hat and goggles.

Linda Perry > Kate Upton

I assume you are unaware of a very significant variable in that equation.

Posted by: spc at July 03, 2013 07:11 PM (WDovF)

251

Evening, everyone!

Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 03, 2013 07:11 PM (lr3d7)

252
Good evening, good people. We are prepped for a slow, lazy day tomorrow. Just a parade (I get to walk in it) and then cold beer plus loads of food. A bit of quiet time for remembrance then it's fireworks.

BBQ'ing here. Ribs are already trimmed, rubbed, and in the fridge. (I still can't believe we got them for a 1.79 a pound!). We're sticking around the house, no plans to go anywhere....but no fireworks either. We'll see those Friday night. They were supposed to have fireworks here tonight, but they cancelled the display due to the threat of severe weather. Of course there's not a cloud in the sky.

The cops are busy. While fireworks are legal in PA....anything that goes up in the air is verbotten, so naturally everyone is firing off mortars, and industrial strength 'bottle' rockets. Hell, you can buy the stuff at any fireworks place at the state line...though you have to sign an affidavit swearing not fire off that awesome stuff in the state. Yeah...right. Once you've crossed your heart, and hoped to die, (stick a needle in your eye), it takes all of five minutes to load up enough ordnance to defeat Canada, or any of the fine banana republics down south, (and all the goodies are buy one, get one!).

Mortars are the best....but pick up a spare tube or two. Just in case the cops show up, have a pack or two of bottle rockets you can 'surrender' to the authorities handy. Unless you're a real dick, they'll just give you the lecture, demand you surrender all your illegal goodies, and will go away, (If they see your mortar tube, they'll snag that too....that's why you need a couple of spares).

Remember, folks.....let's keep this fourth extra safe! If you have to ask your buddy to hold your beer while you show him something really amazing....you're going to end up in the emergency room with third degree burns on your junk.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at July 03, 2013 07:11 PM (0IhFx)

253 Everybody in OH buys their fireworks, promising to take them to another state, and then promptly takes them home and sets them off in their backyards. Scofflaws we are.

Posted by: Tuna at July 03, 2013 07:11 PM (M/TDA)

254 222 Maet,

It made a lot of half assed techs a lot of easy money though Maet so there's that....

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:12 PM (LRFds)

255 She's engaged to Sara Gilbert.

Posted by: no good deed at July 03, 2013 11:08 PM (WmLrU)

--The daughter from Roseanne?

Posted by: logprof at July 03, 2013 07:12 PM (+iA5G)

256 Pretty sure Aerosmith had an album in the mid-80s when I was in high school. There wasn't 20 years between albums, as the lying linky said.

Posted by: CausticConservative at July 03, 2013 07:13 PM (gT3jF)

257 I had put the FNC Benghazi special from a week or so ago on my DVR. I'm going to watch it now. I hope it's very damaging to Hillary and TFG! Clinton denied that security was scaled back. This has been on five minutes!

Posted by: CarolT at July 03, 2013 07:13 PM (z4WKX)

258 1993 was a great year in music. That was my junior year in high school when I really started getting into music beyond bubble gum pop music. I have a "senior year" playlist which has all the great stuff from 1993-1994. Nirvana, Green Day, even some Snoop Dogg, but best of all - Slayer. Still love listening to all that.

Posted by: Paul Zummo at July 03, 2013 07:13 PM (caPl0)

259 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 11:08 PM (8avI0) It's not sexy if James T. Kirk has already banged both.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 03, 2013 07:13 PM (QLNHI)

260 I have never had an adverse fireworks event. This is because I am a wary person. I never hold them between my teeth or anything.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at July 03, 2013 07:13 PM (yoh1c)

261 Ah, Tammy? I regard 27 year old brunettes with no respect for other peoples' marriages as everybody's problem.

Grrrrrr.

Men are dogs, and they will (heaven help 'em) follow any waving tail. Then regret it, by which time it is far too late. I really, really, really get mad at the young idiot females.

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 07:14 PM (mKMj1)

262 Sara Gilbert is a lesbian? Shocked.

Posted by: CausticConservative at July 03, 2013 07:14 PM (gT3jF)

263 VoxDay might have just written the greatest essay to originally appear on the internet.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2013 07:14 PM (zPVBH)

264 H&R Block bought in 1980 and it was sold to WorldCom in 1998. So there's your answer.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 03, 2013 10:55 PM (XS/b3)...

Verizon...

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 07:15 PM (KDSST)

265 260 CarolT,

they have their lie ready..."wahhh the GOP sequester eleventy!"

Never mind that Foggy Bottom had more security for Jamaica than Libya

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:15 PM (LRFds)

266

Hey, some of us men know how to keep our pants on and respect matrimony.

ONT excepted, of course.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at July 03, 2013 07:16 PM (sQ0LB)

267 I had something brush against the tent one night in the Nantahala National Forest. I DID not get back to sleep that night. Scared the bloody fuck out of me.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
----------------------

With good reason. We drove a jeep up an old rutted logging road to the top of a ridge to drink beer on November in school. I wandered about ten feet away in the dark to take a leak. Heard limbs snapping under foot steps near me.

"Bill?" "That you?"

"NO". "I'm over here."

Chuck?" " That you?"

"No" "Over here."

"Susan?" "That you?"

"Nope. Over here with Bill and Chuck"

Me. "GET IN THE JEEP AND GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!"

As we climbed down the old rutted trail in the Jeep in the cold we saw steaming piles of fresh dung in the headlights on the dirt road. The furry fucker wallered up the hill behind us, I guess.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 03, 2013 07:16 PM (4Mv1T)

268 The scary thing about these 1993 songs is that they are as old to me now as "Stairway to Heaven" was to me the first time I ever heard it.

Posted by: Paul Zummo at July 03, 2013 07:16 PM (caPl0)

269 Has anyone heard if Dear Leader is going to give a Happy Cinco de Quatro speech for tomorrow? Because it's very similar to some of those thingies they have in Europe celebrating, um, what's it called? Monarchy?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 03, 2013 07:16 PM (pxDth)

270 Tammy sans Thor,

Ma'am....

sorry for your pain, if it is what you want I hope things work out...they can if not "happy hunting."

All the best,
sven

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:16 PM (LRFds)

271 Forget that; whenever I hear his name I think of baking soda.

I heard a story the other day about his grandfather(?) investing in the company because he like that it was his name. (Armand Hammer)

Posted by: no good deed at July 03, 2013 07:16 PM (WmLrU)

272 I saved all those long boxes from albums until about my junior year of college, when I moved into a house with some buds. I threw them in the trash. STUPID!

Posted by: CausticConservative at July 03, 2013 07:17 PM (gT3jF)

273 *perhaps it would have been better if I had not found this*

http://youtu.be/0EXR34CukkQ

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 07:17 PM (8avI0)

274 Yes, it's me!

And y'all need not worry your sweet heads about me or that brunette. I told him if he wants to fuck her he can go right on ahead and do so. It's mighty simple, her or me. I have always told him if he sees someone he likes better to go for it. His decision. I ain't begging nobody for nothing and I never will. I don't need his money, and dick ain't hard to come by, even at my age.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 07:17 PM (2/T/u)

275 212 - Berserker - I apologize for my ridiculous sense of humor. I was making a silly dead-pan joke. It would work better, I think, if I were the actor who plays Agent Cho on "The Mentalist." He's got the best delivery ever for that sort of thing.

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 11:08 PM (mKMj1)

Well in that context it was actually pretty good. lol

Posted by: Berserker at July 03, 2013 07:17 PM (FMbng)

276 The daughter from Roseanne?

That's the one, logprof.

Posted by: no good deed at July 03, 2013 07:17 PM (WmLrU)

277 1993 was a great year in music. I went back five years farther, and, sheesh! 25 year old songs suck. And the stuff from 93 gets played every day on modern rock stations, even now. It was a great time to be into music. The '90's generally sucked for music. Aside from Voivod's "Outer Limits" and Danzig's "Thrall-Demonsweatlive" I can't think of another good album from 1993 off the top of my head. 1988, OTOH, was a great year for music: "...and Justice for all" by Metallica, "So far, so good, so what" by Megadeth, "State of Euphoria" by Anthrax, "South of Heven" by Slayer, "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" by Iron Maiden, "Danzig" by Danzig, "Vivid" by Living Colour, "The New Order" by Testament, "Dimension HatrÃ¶ss" by Voivod, and so many others. Anybody else remember when CD's came in long boxes and you flipped through them at a record store in the mall? Posted by: CausticConservative at July 03, 2013 11:09 PM (gT3jF) Ah yes. I also remember making mix tapes and taping other people's CD's. I think I still have some of those long boxes I kept around for some reason. And the mall... back when that is where you went to see and be seen. where all your friends hung out...

Posted by: The Heavy Metal Hat at July 03, 2013 07:18 PM (Vk2pI)

278 Pretty good fireworks show here in Chesapeake, VA tonight. No pressure cookers went off either. I did note that it would have been easy to get one past local PD if one had wanted to. I guess PRISM gave the all clear.

Posted by: CDR M at July 03, 2013 07:18 PM (dKV5k)

279
heh it's the Thursday for it after all...

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 11:10 PM (LRFds)

indeed. it is a complicated set of circumstances which landed me here, but their you go...

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 07:18 PM (KDSST)

280 Ok, Cougar is in an opiate induced sleep, and I can get working on my alcohol fueled retard strength. Who's up for shots? Got this bottle up stuff called St. Elmo's Fire. Ever had Fireball? Kinda like that, but good tasting. And 100 proof.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 07:18 PM (jIaZt)

281

Tammy, we're the horde, we always worry about our 'ettes even if they can take care of themselves.

*hugs*

Posted by: Conserative Crank at July 03, 2013 07:18 PM (sQ0LB)

282 Men are dogs, and they will (heaven help 'em) follow any waving tail. *** In watching the left define man as nothing more then a smarter then average animal, I've been rather intrigued to think through what that means for ethics. So, for example, the best evolutionary strategy for a man is to have sex with as many women as possible. Christianity (and some other religions) go against this as it isn't good for society as a whole. But if religion if hogwash, why shouldn't men have sex with any willing female? Yes, you made a commitment, but if you break it who cares? Overall though, without religion you can't have a civil society of the sort the Western world has been used to for a long time.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2013 07:18 PM (zPVBH)

283 Of course my balls have taste. That's why I let them decide what underwear to wear and how we coif our pubes.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 03, 2013 07:18 PM (SkyIE)

284 266 VoxDay might have just written the greatest essay to originally appear on the internet.

One thing's for sure. WalMart clerks do not look Vox Day directly in the eyes.

Posted by: CausticConservative at July 03, 2013 07:18 PM (gT3jF)

285 234 Sorry, rickl, Linda Perry is off the market. She's engaged to Sara Gilbert. Posted by: no good deed at July 03, 2013 11:08 PM (WmLrU) Story of my life. Not surprising at all. I cannot tell you how many times I've fallen in love with a woman who I later found out was a lesbian. It's been a recurring theme, and it's gotten to the point where I can only laugh about it. "Here we go again."

Posted by: rickl at July 03, 2013 07:19 PM (sdi6R)

286 272 Seamus Muldoon,

it may well be possible I could theoretically give less of a fuck what Obama has to say on our nation's birthday but I strongly suspect if it ever did occur there would be a rip in the "gives a fuck continuum" and odd structures and construct of "gives a fuck" would randomly start appearing....

kind of like matter anti-matter

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:19 PM (LRFds)

287 277 Yes, it's me! Lmfao And y'all need not worry your sweet heads about me or that brunette. I told him if he wants to fuck her he can go right on ahead and do so. It's mighty simple, her or me. I have always told him if he sees someone he likes better to go for it. His decision. I ain't begging nobody for nothing and I never will. I don't need his money, and dick ain't hard to come by, even at my age. Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 11:17 PM (2/T/u) Anyone walking away from an Ette is an idiot.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 07:19 PM (GEICT)

288 DC, that sounds like Fire Water, also 100 proof. Beautiful red color. I love it, rest of my family and friends avoid it like the plague.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at July 03, 2013 07:20 PM (sQ0LB)

289 >>>I don't need his money, and dick ain't hard to come by, even at my age. See, there's the problem.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 07:20 PM (jIaZt)

290 "Men are dogs, and they will (heaven help 'em) follow any waving tail. Then regret it, by which time it is far too late." Posted by: Dianna Man! Gotta throw the booty poo flag on that! That's like sayin all women are WestPac Widows. Been married 27 years and never gone off scent. Lotsa friends in the same boat too. Now looking at the waving tail? No argument there. Anyone who says they don't (on either side) is lying. Here have another Gran Marnier and I'll have another Glen Morangie.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 03, 2013 07:20 PM (57bzg)

291
Oooo. Some good clear webrips of Fast and Furious 6 have gone up.

There's my holiday viewing.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 03, 2013 07:20 PM (kdS6q)

292 I ain't begging nobody for nothing and I never will. I don't need his money, and dick ain't hard to come by, even at my age. ---------- This is why I come here.

Posted by: Adam at July 03, 2013 07:20 PM (Aif/5)

293 I cannot tell you how many times I've fallen in love with a woman who I later found out was a lesbian. Pink triangles on her sleeve let you know the truth?

Posted by: Paul Zummo at July 03, 2013 07:21 PM (caPl0)

294 Tammy, what the heck is going on? Your husband wants to chase strange?!

Posted by: logprof at July 03, 2013 07:21 PM (+iA5G)

295 Who's up for shots? Got this bottle up stuff called St. Elmo's Fire. Ever had Fireball? Kinda like that, but good tasting. And 100 proof. Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 11:18 PM (jIaZt) *raises hand* *looks around* *raises other hand as well*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 07:21 PM (GEICT)

296 Out of all the nanny statism the ban on fireworks pisses me off the most. It is the symbol of the founding of our country. But...but...the childrens!!!!!! Meanwhile said libtards are celebrating Wendy "I'm with Kermit" Davis.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2013 07:22 PM (zPVBH)

297 Armand Hammer and his wife and child on a houseboat in the port of Odessa during the Russian Revolution, and afterwards.

I tend to have issues with that.

The most useful of useful idiots, and the perfect example of the capitalist eagerly (and for free) supplying the rope with which he will be hanged.

He wasn't responsible for the time Lenin wrote (to the rest of the politburo, who couldn't otherwise agree), "I have no objection to taking arms and potatoes from the hands of the Anglo American imperialists." That was Hoover's fault, really; but at least Hoover loathed the Revolution, and just wanted to make sure people didn't starve. Armand Hammer was a true fellow-traveller.

I don't like him, and any name close to it has deeply negative associations. I won't buy baking soda from the Arm & Hammer company, and I know that's idiotic.

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 07:22 PM (mKMj1)

298 Cruise Widows are a special breed of stupid.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 07:22 PM (8avI0)

299

kind of like matter anti-matter

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 11:19 PM (LRFds)

****

Yeah sven- I regretted posting that comment as soon as I hit 'send'. I have no tolerance for the sound of the guy's voice, much less anything that he says.

**hits 'retract' button repeatedly**

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 03, 2013 07:22 PM (pxDth)

300 Tammy, you have a wonderful attitude. But if you want to bitch slap Thor and the little scrunt, I will happily join up with you as your second.

Posted by: Moki at July 03, 2013 07:22 PM (EvHC8)

301 '88 was a great year for metal, but they didn't really break through much onto the Billboard charts. GnR hit it big that year, though.

What year did Metallica have their Black album and Megadeth's Symphony of Destruction get all the airplay 91-92?

Posted by: CausticConservative at July 03, 2013 07:22 PM (gT3jF)

302 296 Paul Zummo,

I sort of had a knack for not deducing proclivities...

I was unaware they have a warning siren.

Thanks for the tip.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:22 PM (LRFds)

303 So 100 American citizens were trapped in Kuwait since May: http://tinyurl.com/l95y7ar

Posted by: Baldy at July 03, 2013 07:22 PM (tyDFN)

304
Good grief. Possibly I shouldn't mention Dion And the Belmonts, Buddy Holley, Frankie Avalon and all the others I grew up with.

Y'all may get the impression I'm old.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 03, 2013 07:22 PM (SAMxH)

305 HI Sven, I'm still going to watch it. Screw Foggy Bottom, they are full of it and we know it. Did you watch the testimony of the people that were on the ground in Libya? That bitch Hillary should have nightmares for the rest of her life because four people died because of her and the SCOAMT, but she has no conscience and what difference does it now make? Isn't that how she worded it? if she's the 2016 dem nominee the republicans have to get it together and now. My friend and I were talking about Boehner, McConnell and others. we have no use for them but like Trey Gowdy. Today he told me he's now pissed off at Gowdy because someone asked him why they don't give Lerner immunity and ask her all they want to know and Gowdy stated with the spin. He was in a hurry and I didn't get to ask where he saw Gowdy blow the interviewer off.

Posted by: CarolT at July 03, 2013 07:22 PM (z4WKX)

306 100 proof fireball? Sounds good to me.

Posted by: Adam at July 03, 2013 07:22 PM (Aif/5)

307 Colorado Alex and Paul Zummo -- I just cleared you into the Yahoo Group. Enjoy getting caught up on todays big fight. If anyone else wants in, I'll be paying attention for the next hour and will put you through without requiring a bribe beforehand.

Posted by: L, elle at July 03, 2013 07:22 PM (0PiQ4)

308 Tammy.

You. Rock.

Anyone who can make grown men blush on the interwebz with only words has some kinda high powered ammunition.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 03, 2013 07:23 PM (4Mv1T)

309

Tried reading Vox Day, but the man is a repugnant asshole.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 03, 2013 07:23 PM (lr3d7)

310 Here have another Gran Marnier and I'll have another Glen Morangie. Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

And you're right - and I've never been cheated on, nor cheated - but I've seen some dreadful things happen to friends. I should remember that a lot of people have good character more often.

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 07:23 PM (mKMj1)

311 There is some stuff I liked from the 90's, but when I look at it as a whole, the 80's win. Just looking at my 10xtop100's for each year from 80 to 99, there are more songs that, not only do I like, but I also think are actually BETTER.

Now to be fair, the way billboard top charts are driven probably skews towards what the music prospectors think will sell - that's where the marketing dollars go and what is the most catchy or best of that will hit the top of the charts. So if they started to get stupid in the 90's I'd buy that people increasingly missed better music not because the bands sucked but because the talent sniffers started to dig feces.

After Napster, billboard is useless.

Posted by: RiverC at July 03, 2013 07:23 PM (KTytI)

312 Sounds like ConCrank and BC are in. Ok, ramblers, let's get rambling. Slainte!

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 07:23 PM (jIaZt)

313 306 Baldy,

hahaha SIrrry Americans you think Foggy bottom will ever offend the Saudi caliphate now...

hahaha

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:23 PM (LRFds)

314 Damn Tammy, sorry to hear that.

Posted by: CDR M at July 03, 2013 07:24 PM (dKV5k)

315 On the cyber-warfare thing, yeah, it's real and a real danger. The parallel between it and Y2K is an apples-to-orangutans comparison. I deal peripherally with it at work, and it's like the Tommy Lee Jones line in Men in Black: "...the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they do not know about it." It's just a matter of time, when the conditions are right, that we'll take a crippling blow.

Posted by: Country Singer at July 03, 2013 07:24 PM (U22Yw)

316 Anyone who can make grown men blush on the interwebz with only words has some kinda high powered ammunition. Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 03, 2013 11:23 PM (4Mv1T) Morons are capable of blushing?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 07:24 PM (GEICT)

317 279 The daughter from Roseanne?

That's the one, logprof.

Posted by: no good deed at July 03, 2013 11:17 PM (WmLrU)

--She was also a forgettable character in 24, though not as annoying as Gabuffalo.

Posted by: logprof at July 03, 2013 07:24 PM (+iA5G)

318 57 this should be our new anthem. i know, i keep floggin' it, but most of y'all weren't born then, so it's kind of a public service. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8 Let. It. Burn. Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 10:25 PM (8lmkt) Good g-d, I remember that and even I was a young one back then. Haven't thought of that song at all even so it was a hit in Germany at that time

Posted by: Ma Bell at July 03, 2013 07:24 PM (RLdcX)

319 All right. I'm just not 'feeling' the funny tonight. I'm gonna hang 'em up. I'll catch y'all on another night.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 03, 2013 07:25 PM (pxDth)

320 #310

Yo, what info do you need?

Posted by: RiverC at July 03, 2013 07:25 PM (KTytI)

321 Men are dogs, and they will (heaven help 'em) follow any waving tail.

I do possess a Y chromosome, and I'll admit we'll notice the waving tail, but good men won't follow the tail. If either of my brothers does this to his wife I will beat his ass. I'm serious.

It pisses me off to read about someone letting my side down.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 03, 2013 07:25 PM (QTHTd)

322 I cannot tell you how many times I've fallen in love with a woman who I later found out was a lesbian *** I had a pretty good friend who was a lesbian (we ended up drifting apart eventually) - the most interesting information I got out of her is that she couldn't make any sense out of what women wanted in a relationship either. Of course the last I heard from her she had married a man, so perhaps she was a bit more confused then the average woman...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2013 07:25 PM (zPVBH)

323 What year did Metallica have their Black album and Megadeth's Symphony of Destruction get all the airplay 91-92? Posted by: CausticConservative at July 03, 2013 11:22 PM (gT3jF) "Symphony of destruction" was great, but Megadeth was one of the few bands that actually got better in the '90's. Metallica's black album is when they sold out. They were dead to me after that.

Posted by: The Heavy Metal Hat \m/ at July 03, 2013 07:25 PM (Vk2pI)

324 Ignore my previous comments on this thread for the moment. In all seriousness, I've never heard of Margot Cotten before. I accidentally stumbled across this video earlier tonight while looking for something else. It is quite remarkable, and she is rather fetching herself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAhpOS6jrTc

Posted by: rickl at July 03, 2013 07:25 PM (sdi6R)

325 LIV@175, Delilah was sung by Tom Jones, not Douglas Engelbart. You're probably thinking of the younger Engelbert Humperdinck, who never sang anything good. Or perhaps the older Engelbert Humperdinck, who wrote the opera Hansel und Gretel.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at July 03, 2013 07:25 PM (a5ljo)

326 251 236 BCochran - http://tinyurl.com/lnqb9d9
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 11:08 PM (8avI0)

See? Now we're talking.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 11:10 PM (GEICT)

My kinda party!

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 07:26 PM (T1005)

327 Night Seamus.

Posted by: CarolT at July 03, 2013 07:26 PM (z4WKX)

328 Slainte! Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 11:23 PM (jIaZt) When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let's all get drunk, and go to heaven!

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 07:26 PM (GEICT)

329 #318

Yes, if all of your infrastructure is electronic-controlled and hooked up to the internet, you're vulnerable. If in addition, control of it is centralized, you're totally boned. In that case, it's just a matter of time before someone with the motivation and skill decides that big diamond is just too juicy to not steal.

Posted by: RiverC at July 03, 2013 07:26 PM (KTytI)

330 Tried reading Vox Day, but the man is a repugnant asshole. *** True, and even worse he is more often right then wrong...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2013 07:26 PM (zPVBH)

331 What year did Metallica have their Black album and Megadeth's Symphony of Destruction get all the airplay 91-92? Yeah, Black Album came out in 1991 and Symphony the next year. Both got lots of MTV airplay. Speaking of which, remember when MTV actually played videos?

Posted by: Paul Zummo at July 03, 2013 07:27 PM (caPl0)

332 This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
http://youtu.be/p1LeXdP9lcM

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 07:27 PM (8avI0)

333 Yeah, I better turn in soon as well. Want to be rested before going out to the parade tomorrow.

'Night Morons, and Happy Independence Day!

Posted by: logprof at July 03, 2013 07:28 PM (+iA5G)

334 Colorado Alex and Paul Zummo -- I just cleared you into the Yahoo Group. Enjoy getting caught up on todays big fight. Much appreciated. That was certainly a fascinating read. Much more enthralling than my local neighborhood list-serve's catfights about the ethics of spraying for mosquitos.

Posted by: Paul Zummo at July 03, 2013 07:28 PM (caPl0)

335 Speaking of which, remember when MTV actually played videos? Posted by: Paul Zummo at July 03, 2013 11:27 PM (caPl0) MTV has announced that on July 4, they will "go back to their roots". All music, all day.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 07:29 PM (GEICT)

336 Sven, FYI the reference is to this Weezer song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjy3XbxMW1A

Posted by: Paul Zummo at July 03, 2013 07:29 PM (caPl0)

337 My '90s music is the new music in my collection.

Just sayin'

Whippersnappers.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 03, 2013 07:29 PM (4Mv1T)

338 308 Carol T,

tell your friend that unless Gowdy knows precisely what she has there is the chance she plays the part of Piso and takes the fall wiping the slate clean for the real malefactors.....

I am dying to know who clocked Barry in the eye

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:29 PM (LRFds)

339 Speaking of which, remember when MTV actually played videos? Posted by: Paul Zummo at July 03, 2013 11:27 PM (caPl0) I stopped watching MTV when they dropped "Headbangers Ball" in '95. It was also the same year that KNAC went off the air. It was a bad year for music.

Posted by: \m/ The Heavy Metal Hat \m/ at July 03, 2013 07:30 PM (Vk2pI)

340 #334

Like everything in our culture, once it realizes what it does is popular, it becomes a piece of self-referential, narcissistic trash.

Dear MTV,

We loved watching music videos
Not all the other crap you put on
Because you knew (or thought) we were watching.
Making a new station that you need
Special cable to get
Just so you can watch music videos
Like you listen to the radio
Does not make up for it.

Sincerely...

Posted by: RiverC at July 03, 2013 07:30 PM (KTytI)

341
I have never had an adverse fireworks event. This is because I am a wary person.

I'm still kind of surprised I survived to adulthood. The frequency at which my uncle provided me fireworks, has me convinced, (now), that he was trying to off me like I was the long lost crown prince of Bolonia, and the only thing standing in the way between him, and the throne, was me.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at July 03, 2013 07:30 PM (0IhFx)

342 Speaking of which, remember when MTV actually played videos?

I will admit that my guilty TV pleasure is the Teen Wolf series they show on MTV. I blame The Real World for the downfall of the M in MTV.

Posted by: no good deed at July 03, 2013 07:31 PM (WmLrU)

343 339 Paul Zummo,

Wife is familiar...so am I I guess but I think I cauterized that brain cell out with a K-bar and a zippo

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:31 PM (LRFds)

344 "Men are dogs, and they will (heaven help 'em) follow any waving tail. Then regret it, by which time it is far too late."
-------------------------

Except..., I stood before God and man and took an oath. When that is worthless, then everything is worthless.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 07:31 PM (aDwsi)

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

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 03, 2013 07:32 PM (JMmQ9)

346 Yup wife is demanding her BRIAN BLESSED! fix....

night-o all

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:32 PM (LRFds)

347 Sven, He has a bad habit of calling me when he has two minutes to talk. Today he called and told me that about Trey Gowdy. I will ask him tomorrow, after while he's an Independence Day party. What do you mean who clocked Barry in the eye? Did I miss something? Carol

Posted by: CarolT at July 03, 2013 07:33 PM (z4WKX)

348 Overall though, without religion you can't have a civil society of the sort the Western world has been used to for a long time.

Diogenes' Lamp posted something like this on a thread: You can go for God or Satan, but you will have a god. (Paraphrasing.)

Since I'm agnostic, maybe even atheist, normally I'd argue with this. Especially since it came from someone whose posts I'm .... not generally a fan of.

But *here* I think he has a point. The West can tolerate its village-atheists and its people who don't take that God stuff all that seriously. But the West is built on Christianity and, if any Western culture has figured out a serious alternative to it, I haven't seen any good of it. (Robespierre? the Nazis? Communism?)

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 03, 2013 07:33 PM (QTHTd)

349 Except..., I stood before God and man and took an oath. When that is worthless, then everything is worthless. Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 11:31 PM (aDwsi) Yep, and believe me, I've wanted to tug on many a wagging bitch tail.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at July 03, 2013 07:33 PM (XIxXP)

350 #347

They give us crowns. And they parade us around in them. And call us martyrs.

Then we hang the crowns on the wall so we can remember that THOSE ARE YOUR CROWNS OF GLORY YOU DON'T GET ANY OTHERS.

We don't give vows, but you know...

Posted by: RiverC at July 03, 2013 07:33 PM (KTytI)

351 So, anyone checked to see if the State Media is asking Dear Leader if his flunkie getting coup'd indicates his policy was a failure? Also, I love some of the signs: http://tinyurl.com/mzbl9uy

Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2013 07:33 PM (zPVBH)

352 "Speaking of which, remember when MTV actually played videos?" Yeah that astronaut hopping around and Nina Blackwood.....yeah.... I stopped watching MTV back in the 80's when they had that game called "Remote Control".

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 03, 2013 07:34 PM (57bzg)

353 350 Carol T,

go back and look at the footage of Barry on 9/12/12 someone punched him

I am thinking it was either HILLARY! or Lt Worf

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:34 PM (LRFds)

354 RiverC --- not much info is required --- whatever you want to say or don't. A good number of Group members use their own names, but that is optional. You're forced to write an answer to the awkard question Why Do You Want To Join The Yahoo Group. Tami from the blog had the best answer thus far to that question. She replied "Bite Me" which I think was intended for BC1981, not me or Maetenloch. Do a Search for Ace of Spades Yahoo Group and it brings you to the Join page.

Posted by: L, elle at July 03, 2013 07:34 PM (0PiQ4)

355
Time for the old folk. Have a fine 4th--you all yet live in America--regardless of our present troubles,it remains the most exceptional place on the planet.

Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 03, 2013 07:35 PM (SAMxH)

356

True, and even worse he is more often right then wrong...

Very little of what he says is new, or even that insightful. Even the above rant has been done elsewhere and better, IMHO.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 03, 2013 07:35 PM (lr3d7)

357 Goodnite, good people. Stay safe. Posted by: irongrampa at July 03, 2013 11:35 PM (SAMxH) You too IG.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at July 03, 2013 07:35 PM (XIxXP)

358 Except..., I stood before God and man and took an oath. When that is worthless, then everything is worthless.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I salute you, and apologize.

There have been a number of incidents, recently, which have rather done my sense of fairness in. I need to recover my balance.

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 07:36 PM (mKMj1)

359 She replied "Bite Me" which I think was intended for BC1981, not me or Maetenloch. Do a Search for Ace of Spades Yahoo Group and it brings you to the Join page. Posted by: L, elle at July 03, 2013 11:34 PM (0PiQ4) That was totally directed at you.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 07:36 PM (GEICT)

360

Boulder Hobo,

The key is to understand that there's a difference between disbelieving in God and having no religion. Many people can do the former, but very few the latter.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 03, 2013 07:36 PM (lr3d7)

361 Diogenes' Lamp posted something like this on a thread: You can go for God or Satan, but you will have a god. (Paraphrasing.) *** I must admit, hearing the abortion enthusiasts in Texas hailing Satan sent a shiver up my spine. Yes, yes, they are trying to be transgressive little cool kids...but it makes you wonder if things are getting a lot simpler as we turn into Obamamerica...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2013 07:36 PM (zPVBH)

362 I have never had an adverse fireworks event. This is because I am a wary person.
----------------------

I wonder how many pounds of M-80's and Cherry bombs I had blasted by the time I was 12 years old? LOTS. There was always a thrill when launching a Cherry Bomb with a Whamo slingshot. One person had to hold the slingshot extended, while someone else lit the fuse. Air bursts were cool. We also made a pipe cannon that used Cherry Bomb 'propellant' , and 1" marbles. Fired one through the side of a 55 gal. drum. Good days, good days.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 07:37 PM (aDwsi)

363 I stopped watching MTV in '96 when they started promoting their "very first movie." It had Jerry O'Connell and talking cockroaches. I think it was called Joe's Apartment.

Posted by: no good deed at July 03, 2013 07:37 PM (WmLrU)

364 351 Boulder Toilet Hobo,

folk who are not of very sound and dedicated introspective ethics need to believe there's a scorekeeper....

if Evangelical Atheists force Jesus out of those people's lives they fill it with either a cult of personality or Islam.

Frankly when I had renounced faith I preferred the freakiest of Christian to the Islam squad.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:37 PM (LRFds)

365 What do you mean who clocked Barry in the eye? Did I miss something? Carol Posted by: CarolT

Yes, that's an excellent question!

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 07:37 PM (mKMj1)

366 Ah geez, CompuServe. I remember when they used to advertise on the back end of 20/20's credits. And remember their email addresses? As I recall, they were stuck with this weird numerical email system, a la '0492859@compuserve.com'.

And then there was AOL and their free discs (and later CDs) inside of EVERY SINGLE FRIGGIN' technology magazine.

I also was actually a member of Apple's eWorld for a short time in 1993, when I had just gotten a new Mac.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 03, 2013 07:38 PM (7B7jB)

367 unsolicited penis pics Must have missed the solicited ones.

Posted by: George Orwell on an expired visa at July 03, 2013 07:38 PM (mCNwt)

368 I plan to go back to lurking after this comment, 7 years ain't easy to give up on... I have watched Vox for a decade.He personnally is a very bright individual. He lets stormfront shit happen on his blog, and I just walked away for the most part. I'll just put it out that his shit doesn't need to come around here, we're smart. I slap
Maetenloch on the nose, and now I'll go back in hiding. Have fun morons - said with respect.

Posted by: JustBob at July 03, 2013 07:39 PM (GQpo7)

369 I salute you, and apologize.

There have been a number of incidents, recently, which have rather done my sense of fairness in. I need to recover my balance.
Posted by: Dianna
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No apology necessary. I have dropped friends when I found out they were cheating on their wives. I have no tolerance for that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 07:39 PM (aDwsi)

370 Panetta lied, he said he didn't think they'd have a second wave of violence. Isn't one enough to start prepping for a second? I'm a woman and have never been in combat but it is common sense to prepare if you have been hit once, isn't it? I'm sure the SOBs knew of General Petraeus affair and were going to publicize it when he wouldn't go along with their talking points about the video!

Posted by: CarolT at July 03, 2013 07:39 PM (z4WKX)

371 Very little of what he says is new, or even that insightful. Even the above rant has been done elsewhere and better, IMHO. *** It isn't new, but it is toxicially unpolitically correct, and therefore doesn't get much play anymore. He is a smug asshole no doubt, but if his columns got more readers at the expense of say Cosmo or the Puffington Host I think we'd all be better for it.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2013 07:39 PM (zPVBH)

372 Yes, that's an excellent question! Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 11:37 PM (mKMj1) Quite possibly it was a missed pecker stroke.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at July 03, 2013 07:39 PM (XIxXP)

373

298 Who's up for shots? Got this bottle up stuff called St. Elmo's Fire. Ever had Fireball? Kinda like that, but good tasting. And 100 proof.
Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 11:18 PM

****

Sure. Sorry to hear about that Tammy.

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 07:39 PM (KDSST)

374 364 18-1,

I appreciate the moral clarity they're bringing to the table.

It ever comes to it I aim to exert as much influence as needed to keep such types as far away from my people as need be.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:40 PM (LRFds)

375 The key is to understand that there's a difference between disbelieving in God and having no religion. Many people can do the former, but very few the latter. Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 03, 2013 11:36 PM (lr3d7) Most atheists aren't. They simply have substitute gods. For the left, the "collective" is their god. The Jacobins has their "volontÃ© gÃ©nÃ©rale," The Communists have the proletariat, the NAZIs had "Die Volk," &c.

Posted by: The Political Hat at July 03, 2013 07:40 PM (Vk2pI)

376 I'm dickhead's wife who just posted. I screwed up the formatting. Do we need Lysol or anything? Supposedly, I have to go in the barrell.

Posted by: JustBob at July 03, 2013 07:40 PM (GQpo7)

377 316 Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 11:23 PM (LRFds) ---------- Whenever I think I am a failure, I think of rotten scum like Obama, and feel better. Happy (almost) Independence Day. Sleep tight everyone.

Posted by: Baldy at July 03, 2013 07:41 PM (tyDFN)

378 368 Dianna,

Go back to his 9/12/12 cameo and look....

right orbital is discolored.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:41 PM (LRFds)

379
Now looking at the waving tail? No argument there. Anyone who says they don't (on either side) is lying.

Everyone looks. A shapely waving tail is eye catching...but at the end of the day, I know who butters my bread, and it's in her/our bed you will find me.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at July 03, 2013 07:42 PM (0IhFx)

380 Oh dear Lord. We had a previous comment - it was there. It was probably the use of S**rm**ont that disappeared it.

Posted by: JustBob at July 03, 2013 07:42 PM (GQpo7)

381 I stopped watching MTV in '96 when they started promoting their "very first movie." It had Jerry O'Connell and talking cockroaches. I think it was called Joe's Apartment. Yeah, the Joe's Apartment shorts were kinda funny, but the idea of a movie is ridiculous. They had a couple of decent cartoons - one comes to mind about a guy with a giant head (The Head or the Oddities or something), but it was around this time that I stopped watching.

Posted by: Paul Zummo at July 03, 2013 07:42 PM (caPl0)

382 378 The Political Hat,

Correct, and their "God" is angry and wields power on Earth....

I hate Marxists as much as I love life.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:43 PM (LRFds)

383 Everyone looks. A shapely waving tail is eye catching...but at the end of the day, I know who butters my bread, and it's in her/our bed you will find me. Posted by: Sticky Wicket at July 03, 2013 11:42 PM (0IhFx) OMG, I live on SC's version of wisteria lane, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a fake boobeh milf. That being said, 20 years with my best friend and the Mom of my kids. I aint fucking that up for an orgasm.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at July 03, 2013 07:44 PM (XIxXP)

384 In fairness, MTV had some decent non-music series back in the day. Including:

- Beavis and Butt-Head (of course)
- Liquid Television
- The State (which began the careers of Tom Lennon and some others)

...I'm sure others here can think of others...

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 03, 2013 07:44 PM (7B7jB)

385 Ok, so it's shots all around? Very well. ...Fucking beagle took my seat!

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 07:44 PM (jIaZt)

386 But the West is built on Christianity and, if any Western culture has figured out a serious alternative to it, I haven't seen any good of it. (Robespierre? the Nazis? Communism?) *** That is the problem right there. The left has tried several religious replacement moral systems...and they all failed horribly - as in millions of dead horribly. Interestingly, whatever faults one can find with Christianity if you are not a believer it builds a heck of an amazing culture around itself. I remember when I was much younger, and liberals weren't so close minded, having an interesting discussion along these lines with a couple of liberals. Essentially, I tried to get them to define what their decidedly non religious morality was based on. It was clearly Christianity, but they would not admit to such, and could not come up with anything to explain the point away. If taking innocent life is wrong, why is it wrong? And the best answer I could get was...because it is.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2013 07:44 PM (zPVBH)

387 That being said, 20 years with my best friend and the Mom of my kids. I aint fucking that up for an orgasm
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Amen brother. Amennnnnnn.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 03, 2013 07:44 PM (4Mv1T)

388 you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a fake boobeh milf. You know the rule.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 07:45 PM (GEICT)

389 http://youtu.be/LhsY5XEqTWY

Brian Blessed!-Is there anyone in ROME WHO HAS NOT SLEPT WITH MY DAUGHTER!?!

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:45 PM (LRFds)

390 #357 L, elle

Ok, I've done the stuff. My alias is 'river_cocytus'

Yahoo must have used all of the good aliases by 2003 or something.

Pip, pip, cheerio.

Posted by: RiverC at July 03, 2013 07:45 PM (KTytI)

391 You know the rule. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 11:45 PM (GEICT) I know my rule. You don't post pictures of your neighbors wives.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at July 03, 2013 07:46 PM (XIxXP)

392 Morons are capable of blushing?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 11:24 PM (GEICT)

***

You've met me. Yes. ::blushing::

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 07:46 PM (KDSST)

393 That being said, 20 years with my best friend and the Mom of my kids. I aint fucking that up for an orgasm Damn straight. Just celebrated 10 years. I've seen some fine ass. Even gotten some offers. No. I made a vow before God, family and friends. That means something to me. (Which is why it was Cochran's Rules of Life, Rule #2) Plus, ain't nobody better than my baby.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 07:46 PM (GEICT)

394 #387

The cartoons they did were pretty decent. The MAXX is a very intriguing comic, and Daria was pretty much great.

Posted by: RiverC at July 03, 2013 07:47 PM (KTytI)

395 When in Rome - The Promise
http://youtu.be/5HI_xFQWiYU

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 07:47 PM (8avI0)

396 Good Night, Irongrandpa!

Posted by: CarolT at July 03, 2013 07:47 PM (z4WKX)

397 I really apologize; I appear to have insulted people I respect.

If it's any comfort, people, I will convey this to three hurt and disappointed friends.

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 07:48 PM (mKMj1)

398 and Daria was pretty much great. ____ Umm....Diarrhea sucked man. She sucked, sucked, sucked!!!!!!! I AM CORNHOLIO!!!!

Posted by: Beavis at July 03, 2013 07:48 PM (zPVBH)

399 The cartoons they did were pretty decent. The MAXX is a very intriguing comic, and Daria was pretty much great. Posted by: RiverC at July 03, 2013 11:47 PM (KTytI) Daria made me laugh. Dry wit is awesome.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at July 03, 2013 07:48 PM (XIxXP)

400 My wife has been driving a 22 year old truck to work the last four years. It was here dad's, and he's gone. The a/c crapped out about two months ago. I finally DEMANDED we get another vehicle. We did tonight.

Guess who gets to drive it? She refuses. I married the perfect women.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 03, 2013 07:48 PM (4Mv1T)

401 400 DIanna,

What's wrong ma'am?

I am lost...please don't be hurt...

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:48 PM (LRFds)

402 349: CIS numbers were PPNs, which stood for Project, Programmer Number, as I recall. I started there in, oh, 1982 or so. And Bix, The Source, GEnie, etc. Damn near broke me.

Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at July 03, 2013 07:49 PM (vRdWg)

403 >>>OMG, I live on SC's version of wisteria lane, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a fake boobeh milf. So I'm coming to visit when? Tomorrow you say? *schreeching tires*

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 07:49 PM (jIaZt)

404 I really apologize; I appear to have insulted people I respect. If it's any comfort, people, I will convey this to three hurt and disappointed friends. Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 11:48 PM (mKMj1) No apologies, speak your truth. Just know it's YOUR truth.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at July 03, 2013 07:50 PM (XIxXP)

405 400 I really apologize; I appear to have insulted people I respect. If it's any comfort, people, I will convey this to three hurt and disappointed friends. Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 11:48 PM (mKMj1) You don't need to. We all get it. There are some real dishonorable assholes out there. My sis just finalized her divorce 6 months ago. Asshole cheated on and then walked out on his 13 week pregnant wife. The reaction is because of our disgust. You have men like us, decent, honorable men, who respect the vows they took and see others who don't. It pisses us off. It makes us look bad.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 07:50 PM (GEICT)

406 Dianna -- No apologies necessary. Men tend to be like tomcats. Everyone knows that. It's just that not every man is controlled by his instincts.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 07:51 PM (aDwsi)

407 I also agree with the other members of the Club: I can read the menu, but I'm not ordering anything.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 07:51 PM (jIaZt)

408 MTV has announced that on July 4, they will "go back to their roots". All music, all day. *** For one day, or in general?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 03, 2013 07:51 PM (jjvz+)

409

He is a smug asshole no doubt, but if his columns got more readers at the expense of say Cosmo or the Puffington Host I think we'd all be better for it.

Not really. As someone else pointed out above, he's more than willing to entertain the Stormfront types. Additionally, anyone who believes that you can't rape your wife (because apparently she owes you sex) or that abuse shouldn't be grounds for divorce is not someone I want carrying the conservative standard.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 03, 2013 07:51 PM (lr3d7)

410 From I, Claudius, Caligula on abortion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX-fbrazBO4

Posted by: The Political Hat at July 03, 2013 07:52 PM (Vk2pI)

411 I'm not a saint....my wife was forgiving.

I'm not a saint but I've not erred since.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:52 PM (LRFds)

412 Evenin' all. Don't forget to check under your bed and in your closet for 'MAMA.'

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 07:52 PM (8FeS+)

413 I also agree with the other members of the Club: I can read the menu, but I'm not ordering anything. Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 11:51 PM (jIaZt) I always tell my friends I'm like a good dog. I'll stick my head through the rails and bark like hell, but I aint leaving the porch.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at July 03, 2013 07:52 PM (XIxXP)

414 For one day, or in general? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 03, 2013 11:51 PM (jjvz+) Fuzzy on that. Not sure.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 07:53 PM (GEICT)

415 Happy 4th yall. Qnyone know a good cure for bad poison ivy seepage? Im all fucked up yo. Zanfel. And yes, I can be in the next county over & catch it if the wind blows just right.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2013 07:53 PM (wfhxs)

416 413 The Political Hat,

Don't...go....in....there

Heh....night-o all

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 07:53 PM (LRFds)

417 Happy 4th yall. Qnyone know a good cure for bad poison ivy seepage? Im all fucked up yo. Oh, sorry, calamine is all I know.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at July 03, 2013 07:54 PM (XIxXP)

418 Hey guys -

Just kinda leafing through the comments tonight. Sorry to hear about Tammy's problem. Cheating is something I feel awful strongly about. Saw my dad screw around on my mom for 20 years before he died. You don't hurt anyone like that, never mind someone you vowed to love, cherish, honor, and respect.

Posted by: WolfinNC at July 03, 2013 07:54 PM (HVOxM)

419 Happy 4th yall. Qnyone know a good cure for bad poison ivy seepage? Im all fucked up yo.
-----------

Hospital. Induced coma. One month.
Or..., Cortisone cream.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 07:55 PM (aDwsi)

420 I would hazard a guess that the main reason Samuelson would so away with the Internet is that it leveled the field for getting access to information. IOW, Former Gatekeeper Boy Wants the Gates Restored.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars[/i][/b][/s] at July 03, 2013 07:55 PM (8V4jN)

421 Who needs subtitles for this movie clip? I think its self-explanatory in a Moron Horde way. What ye say BCochran?
http://youtu.be/_EWtEwXiYvM

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 07:55 PM (8avI0)

422 Posted by: WolfinNC at July 03, 2013 11:54 PM (HVOxM) Yep, my Dad was a bastard too, which is prolly why i'm not.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at July 03, 2013 07:55 PM (XIxXP)

423 Reader Mark Allen emails: "Like the canary in the coal mine or some animal's ability to sense an oncoming seismic event, perhaps this is nature's way of preparing all species for an oncoming ice age."

Or ... someone or something is plumping us up for dinner.

Posted by: Methos at July 03, 2013 07:55 PM (hO9ad)

424 RiverC, Yip, Crotchety, and Iowabuilder --- all clear. Hi! I'm glad you joined. Beforewarned, the Group requires a learning curve. The format is Yahoo's format, and, well, it kinda sucks. But we have pics!

Posted by: L, elle at July 03, 2013 07:55 PM (0PiQ4)

425 I always tell my friends I'm like a good dog. I'll stick my head through the rails and bark like hell, but I aint leaving the porch.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at July 03, 2013 11:52 PM (XIxXP)

You are just the darlinest ol' thing, OSP. I am honored to have your acquaintance, even virtually. xoxo

Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 07:56 PM (8lmkt)

426 Alright I haven't actually posted before; I get no lax - I'll try again without directly mentioning things that become before clouds..

Vox is smart, I've been reading him for more than 10 years, I've only been reading Ace for 8. I still read Vox sometimes, but the people annoy me. I wouldn't reference it here, this is a smart military blog - sometimes with bear videos.

The other makes people with decent morals feel skeevy. I just don't like Vox being given any props. There's smart people here who don't need to deal with the bald head fuckers. There's enough to worry about.

Now I disappear again.

Posted by: JustBob at July 03, 2013 07:56 PM (GQpo7)

427 Dianna -- No apologies necessary. Men tend to be like tomcats. So do some women.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2013 07:56 PM (wfhxs)

428 I'm out, later.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at July 03, 2013 07:57 PM (XIxXP)

429 Oldsailors Poet -

Amen to that. They might have been bastards, but at least they taught us what NOT to do!

Posted by: WolfinNC at July 03, 2013 07:58 PM (HVOxM)

430 Alright, so I've mentioned "Cochran's Rules of Life". I'm bored and a little tipsy, so I'll explain. Whether yall want to hear it or not. So, I got really tired of seeing the constant posts of new age, touchy feely, this is what you need to be happy, Tony Robbins type bullshit. So on a whim I decided to come up with, and post, Cochran's Rules of Life. I've done one a day. Up to #4. I've got ten laid out ready to go. Here's what I've posted so far. Cochran's Rules of Life Rule #1: From the father of [redacted best friend's name]. For men dealing with women: 1) You cannot win 2) You must play 3) For all else, refer back to 1 Rule #2: No one in this life owes you a damn thing other than air to breathe. You want something? Go earn it. Rule #3: It doesn't matter if you're old or young, black or white, gay or straight....your word is your bond. Respect that and people will respect you. Rule #4: Go hard. Live, laugh, love, pray, worship. In everything you do, strive to give your all. Half measures are for losers. Never ever ever quit. Go hard.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 07:58 PM (GEICT)

431 And then there was AOL and their free discs (and later CDs) inside of EVERY SINGLE FRIGGIN' technology magazine.

And in the mail, i'm not sure how many i got over the years but it seemed like at least one a week, think i still have the last one i ever got that came with a Dell i bought in '05 or '06.

Posted by: booger at July 03, 2013 07:58 PM (E1tcO)

432 Speaking of Rome, I loved this line from Quo Vadis: "Petronius: [in his dying letter to Nero] To Nero, Emperor of Rome, Master of the World, Divine Pontiff. I know that my death will be a disappointment to you, since you wished to render me this service yourself. To be born in your reign is a miscalculation; but to die in it is a joy. I can forgive you for murdering your wife and your mother, for burning our beloved Rome, for befouling our fair country with the stench of your crimes. But one thing I cannot forgive - the boredom of having to listen to your verses, your second-rate songs, your mediocre performances. Adhere to your special gifts, Nero - murder and arson, betrayal and terror. Mutilate your subjects if you must; but with my last breath I beg you - do not mutilate the arts. Fare well but compose no more music. Brutalise the people but do not bore them, as you have bored to death your friend, the late Gaius Petronius."

Posted by: The Political Hat at July 03, 2013 07:59 PM (Vk2pI)

433 So do some women.
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I've seen it both ways.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 07:59 PM (aDwsi)

434 Hey L,Elle, I'm supposedly a member, but it won't let me in. I get the group emails, but can't go to the actual site. My email is my nic at yahoo. Should I just reapply, or what?

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 07:59 PM (jIaZt)

435 How goes it fellow miscreants?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 03, 2013 08:00 PM (m8OLf)

436 We always see movies, shows, &c. about Imperial Rome (at her height or during her fall/decline), but never do we see anything about how a group of semi-pastoral Latin tribesmen came to dominate the then known world and be the very root of Western Civilization, which lasted for mellenia. I really do need to find more Roman writers from as early in roman history as I can find...

Posted by: The Political Hat at July 03, 2013 08:01 PM (Vk2pI)

437 "Additionally, anyone who believes that you can't rape your wife (because apparently she owes you sex) or that abuse shouldn't be grounds for divorce is not someone I want carrying the conservative standard."

Wow, there's someone out there who actually believes that? I thought that was some strawman shit the feminazis made up. Wow.

Posted by: WolfinNC at July 03, 2013 08:01 PM (HVOxM)

438 How goes it fellow miscreants?
--------------------

We've done nothing "wrong".

So far as you know.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 03, 2013 08:02 PM (4Mv1T)

439 I find it interesting that in the Egyptian protests more posted signs are against Obama and Patterson the Ambassador than the usual anti-American signs that we are used to.

One Sign reads:

From: The Egyptian People

To: American Policy Makers
Keep your dirty hands out of Egypt

To: The American People
We have nothing but love for you

Interesting times we live in.

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 08:02 PM (EAgmr)

440 BC -- How about, "You are only issued honesty and integrity ONCE. If it is lost, it is lost forever, there is no getting it back..., ever."

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 08:02 PM (aDwsi)

441 http://tinyurl.com/kklec7z

As Insty would say: HEH

Posted by: le professeur c'est je at July 03, 2013 08:02 PM (AWwDY)

442 388 Ok, so it's shots all around? Very well.

...Fucking beagle took my seat!

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 11:44 PM (jIaZt)

****

slowly sipping my drink. thinkin' of heading to my dive bar in Fairfax...

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 08:03 PM (KDSST)

443 Anybody find out what's up with Vic? Is he alright?

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 08:03 PM (8FeS+)

444 My email is my nic at yahoo. Should I just reapply, or what? Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 11:59 PM (jIaZt) I don't know what's up DC. You're listed as a member, but when I try to click your name, it says the profile doesn't exist. I can boot you and then you can reapply if you wanna try that.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 08:03 PM (GEICT)

445

11 In the future, we all have to dress in white.

It's always between Memorial day and Labor day in the future. Yay, me!

Posted by: Cicero Kid Looks dapper in a white planter's suit at July 03, 2013 08:04 PM (qLYdI)

446

Hey y'all. Happy Independence Day!

Posted by: Bomber at July 03, 2013 08:04 PM (FOwrE)

447 Hi bebe! Night OSP!

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 08:04 PM (jIaZt)

448 443 BC -- How about, "You are only issued honesty and integrity ONCE. If it is lost, it is lost forever, there is no getting it back..., ever." Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 04, 2013 12:02 AM (aDwsi) I file that under personal responsibility. And that rule is coming.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 08:04 PM (GEICT)

449 We've done nothing "wrong". So far as you know Ah come on, the horde is always up to no good. Why else do we have fat Trudy hanging with us?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 03, 2013 08:04 PM (m8OLf)

450 442 cheri,

I suspect they grasp we're split and he is not beloved, nor respected by many.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 08:04 PM (LRFds)

451 Damn, didn't realize it until now but with the exception of "What's Up?", 1993 really had some kickass music. No Rain, Soul to Squeeze, Loser, All Apologies, Jeremy, Creep, Whoomp (There's My Butt). That was a solid fucking year.

Posted by: mugiwara at July 03, 2013 08:04 PM (6BnTn)

452 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 11:58 PM (GEICT) BC1981- Those are a good start, when will we see the rest?

Posted by: CarolT at July 03, 2013 08:04 PM (z4WKX)

453 In the future, we all have to dress in white.
----------

And per the CompuServ ad, wear turtlenecks

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 08:05 PM (aDwsi)

454 Hey DC -- yes, rejoin. I had to do the same thing. I could peruse the 1000+ membership roll to see if you're there, but I'm lazy. So is BC. It's a lot easier if you just reapply. Do it in the next 25 mins and I'll clear it.

Posted by: L, elle at July 03, 2013 08:05 PM (0PiQ4)

455 Political Hat - that was awesome. Now who does that remind me of????

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 08:06 PM (EAgmr)

456 Bomber! DC! What's everyone drinking tonight?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 03, 2013 08:06 PM (m8OLf)

457

(dunno if this was already addressed - just can't scroll thru all the comments as a first step every time .......)

Ah - Raquel Tejada (Welch) of La Jolla from (?) "5,000 BC".

She was at her peak just as I was learning to obsess over a bod like that.

Not sure where I heard/read it, but in real life I believe she is an incredibly normal and nice person, and active in veterans' support charities. Ready to stand corrected. Not sure if she's back in San Diego or not.

Posted by: non-purist at July 03, 2013 08:06 PM (afQnV)

458 Raising a glass of beer to all the Military Morons. Love you guys/gals. Will think of you tommorow when I celebrate the 4th. Hi ont

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 08:06 PM (vgd4f)

459 BC1981- Those are a good start, when will we see the rest? Posted by: CarolT at July 04, 2013 12:04 AM (z4WKX) I post one a day. I'll update here. Well, it's technically July 4, so I'll go ahead and give yall Rule #5: Rule #5: You have the right to speak your mind. You do not have the right to be heard. 5A: No one died ensuring a right to not be offended.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 08:07 PM (GEICT)

460 Hammer- Are you in A'ville proper? I was commiserating with some extended family in Weaverville yesterday.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 03, 2013 08:07 PM (4Mv1T)

461

That's one of those truisms in life. If you go sniffing after whatever strange crosses your path, you are a hound and probably shouldn't get hitched unless you are willing and able to tuck it in until she says bring it.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (All my Hate cannot be found) at July 03, 2013 08:07 PM (ial2b)

462 I wish FNC aired this special on Benghazi BEFORE the election!

Posted by: CarolT at July 03, 2013 08:07 PM (z4WKX)

463 Sven - I see another upside to the internet, Twitter, et.al. They are getting info from sources outside the MFM. Great.

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 08:07 PM (EAgmr)

464 >>>I can boot you and then you can reapply if you wanna try that. Go for it. I've been kicked out of better places. And worserer places, too, now that I think about it.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 08:07 PM (jIaZt)

465 What's everyone drinking tonight? Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 04, 2013 12:06 AM (m8OLf) Cabo Wabo

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 08:07 PM (GEICT)

466 In the future, we all have to dress in white. ---------- And per the CompuServ ad, wear turtlenecks Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 04, 2013 12:05 AM (aDwsi) That only applies if you are level-ultraviolet. You are just level red, troubleshooters. Now, have some hot fun.

Posted by: Your Friend, The Computer at July 03, 2013 08:08 PM (Vk2pI)

467 Cheri -

I think that's a sign of progress. They finally figured out that what our government does and what our people want are not the same thing.

Why do the citizens of Cairo get that, but the citizens of New York don't?

Posted by: WolfinNC at July 03, 2013 08:08 PM (HVOxM)

468 Posted by: rich@gmu at July 04, 2013 12:03 AM (KDSST) City of, or Fairfax fairfax? Oh hell, the only places I remember are Fat Tuesdays and the place on 29 by Centreville.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 08:08 PM (8FeS+)

469 Go for it. I've been kicked out of better places. And worserer places, too, now that I think about it. Posted by: DC in Towson at July 04, 2013 12:07 AM (jIaZt) Done

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 08:09 PM (GEICT)

470 Sadly, Wolfin, this was a very common belief in the not-so-distant past, and every now and then you'll here of some troglogyte judge who believes so. As recently as the 1990s, a woman who wore jeans in Italy could not be legally raped as it was taken that removing a woman's jeans could be done only if she consented!

Posted by: Conserative Crank at July 03, 2013 08:09 PM (sQ0LB)

471 Hammer- Are you in A'ville proper? I was commiserating with some extended family in Weaverville yesterday.
Posted by: Tobacco Road
------
Well, damn TR. You drove by my house..., without so much as a wave. I'll remember that. Seriously bud, we could have had a cup of coffee without even slowing you down.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 08:10 PM (aDwsi)

472 What's everyone drinking tonight?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 04, 2013 12:06 AM (m8OLf)

Whatever's got alcohol in it.

Posted by: mugiwara at July 03, 2013 08:10 PM (6BnTn)

473

>>>> What's everyone drinking tonight?

Army coffee. With bacon.

Posted by: Bomber at July 03, 2013 08:10 PM (FOwrE)

474 Sven, Who clocked Barry. again?

Posted by: CarolT at July 03, 2013 08:10 PM (z4WKX)

475 "... someone or something is plumping us up for dinner."

IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!

Posted by: torquewrench at July 03, 2013 08:11 PM (gqT4g)

476 Cabo Wabo Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 04, 2013 Any good, or celebrity swill?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 03, 2013 08:11 PM (m8OLf)

477 ...it was taken that removing a woman's jeans could be done only if she consented!
-----------------

That's pretty much the way it's always been for me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 08:12 PM (aDwsi)

478 Beer, it makes me a jolly good gal

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 08:12 PM (vgd4f)

479 IT'S A COOKBOOK!!! To Serve Earth?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 03, 2013 08:12 PM (57bzg)

480 What's everyone drinking tonight?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 04, 2013 12:06 AM (m8OLf)

Way too much, which is not really my way, although it seemed like a good idea at the time. How you doin', bbd? I'm about done for the evening due to the whole, way too much thingy. God bless us, every one!

Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 08:12 PM (8lmkt)

481 Any good, or celebrity swill? Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 04, 2013 12:11 AM (m8OLf) I think it's very very good. I like it better than Patron. It doesn't have that "tequila bite" that kills me.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 08:12 PM (GEICT)

482 To Serve Earth?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 04, 2013 12:12 AM (57bzg)

To Serve Man . . . duh.

Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 08:13 PM (8lmkt)

483 477 carol t,

unknown, but someone did....

we commented on it then here

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 08:13 PM (LRFds)

484
What's everyone drinking tonight?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 04, 2013 12:06 AM (m8OLf)

****

Newcastle and shortly, beam and coke w/ a slice of lime.

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 08:13 PM (KDSST)

485 Whew, refactoring 3d rendering code. Brain killer.

Night folk

Posted by: RiverC at July 03, 2013 08:13 PM (KTytI)

486 I'm out kids. Play nice.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 08:14 PM (aDwsi)

487 Well, damn TR. You drove by my house..., without so much as a wave. I'll remember that. Seriously bud, we could have had a cup of coffee without even slowing you down.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
--------------------------------

It was only over the interwebz.

Sadly.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 03, 2013 08:14 PM (4Mv1T)

488 Conservative Crank -

Did not know that. Love those "progressive" Europeans just leading the way for us stupid, ignorant Americans.

Posted by: WolfinNC at July 03, 2013 08:14 PM (HVOxM)

489 To Serve Man . . . duh. Posted by: Peaches Well sheeee-it.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 03, 2013 08:14 PM (57bzg)

490 Sailor Jerry & diet. Thinking about something else though....suggestions? Oh and thanks for the quick approval L, Elle!

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 08:15 PM (jIaZt)

491 How you doin', bbd? I'm about done for the evening due to the whole, way too much thingy. Posted by: Peaches at July 04, 2013 I'm meh, felt like slogging through quicksand today. I just popped in quick. Gotta roll out early & mow the lawn

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 03, 2013 08:15 PM (m8OLf)

492
City of, or Fairfax fairfax? Oh hell, the only places I remember are Fat Tuesdays and the place on 29 by Centreville.

Posted by: RWC at July 04, 2013 12:08 AM (8FeS+)

****

it's a pool hall of 50, think it is actually Chantilly. I've lived here for 3 years and would get lost walking out my front door with a map, compass, and gps.

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 08:17 PM (KDSST)

493 5A: No one died ensuring a right to not be offended. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 04, 2013 12:07 AM (GEICT) Nice addendum. Did you post 1-4 at the HQ?

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 08:17 PM (8FeS+)

494 I'm outta here paste eaters. See ya tomorrow.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 03, 2013 08:17 PM (57bzg)

495 404 400 DIanna,

What's wrong ma'am?

I am lost...please don't be hurt...
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077

Nothing anyone here has done!

In the last month, three good friends (of many years, with a whole lot of ups and downs) have filed for divorce because their husbands (entering their 50s, if that means anything) have taken up with much younger women.

Why does this happen? All three are great ladies (better than me, I freely admit), have raised these mens' children (in one case, two from a previous disaster as well as two mutual), contributed to the household, been supportive and kept their figures as well as their sense of humor (I did mention they each and every one are better than I, correct?). And, despite going out of their way to "keep the romance in the marriage", they got cheated on and left.

I don't understand. I could see it, if they were as difficult and moody as I am. I could see it if they went through the sudden and awful weight gain and the accompanying irritability. But they're not like me, and yet, they got screwed over.

Why?

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 08:17 PM (mKMj1)

496 437 Hey L,Elle, I'm supposedly a member, but it won't let me in. I get the group emails, but can't go to the actual site. My email is my nic at yahoo. Should I just reapply, or what? Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 11:59 PM (jIaZt) The emails usually have a link in them to go to the group. Have you tried clicking them?

Posted by: Buzzion at July 03, 2013 08:18 PM (mLhnp)

497 Mmmm. Paste.

Posted by: Slow Joe Biden at July 03, 2013 08:18 PM (uLzrM)

498 Posted by: rich@gmu at July 04, 2013 12:17 AM (KDSST) Pretty sure I know it. Fried pickles ar egood when your tipsy. Bungalow I bet.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 08:18 PM (8FeS+)

499 Wolfinnc - We haven't suffered enough. When food supplies are low unlike the USA where you can hop into a fully lined grocery store and flash your EBT card, when electricity is faltering in 100 degree plus weather and goes in and out, when there are no government entitlements for those that truly need it versus those that want to live off of it and feel it is their due...When you truly live in a desperate time and your lives and your children's are being threatened on a daily basis versus the so-called war on the poor, when you protest against your government in pink vagina suits and declare a war on women versus being in a protest where you may be gang raped or murdered...

I think that worldwide the media outside of the US is telling our story better than the TFG's brigade here and people are really beginning to understand it. The Europeans don't have TFG's back like they used to. I guess that NSA spying on them hasn't gone over so well.

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 08:19 PM (EAgmr)

500 Sven, I missed it. Mochelle probably hit Choom Boy because she's imprisoned! Thank you. I will read as many comments as I can after I finish watching FNC special. I keep pausing to read here.

Posted by: CarolT at July 03, 2013 08:19 PM (z4WKX)

501 wait, there's paste????? mmmmmm . . .

Posted by: Peaches at July 03, 2013 08:19 PM (8lmkt)

502 As recently as the 1990s, a woman who wore jeans in Italy could not be legally raped as it was taken that removing a woman's jeans could be done only if she consented! ---------- Ah, the good old days!

Posted by: Silvio Burlusconi at July 03, 2013 08:20 PM (GmTxn)

503 Did you post 1-4 at the HQ? Posted by: RWC at July 04, 2013 12:17 AM (8FeS+) I did really late last night. And earlier in this thread. Here they are again. Cochran's Rules of Life Rule #1: From the father of [redacted best friend's name]. For men dealing with women: 1) You cannot win 2) You must play 3) For all else, refer back to 1 Rule #2: No one in this life owes you a damn thing other than air to breathe. You want something? Go earn it. Rule #3: It doesn't matter if you're old or young, black or white, gay or straight....your word is your bond. Respect that and people will respect you. Rule #4: Go hard. Live, laugh, love, pray, worship. In everything you do, strive to give your all. Half measures are for losers. Never ever ever quit. Go hard.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 08:20 PM (GEICT)

504 And there is an ABC in the parking lot over.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 08:20 PM (8FeS+)

505 What's everyone drinking tonight?

The blood of my enemies.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 03, 2013 08:21 PM (jGsIV)

506

Here's one for the four day weekend. DRINK UP MORON/ETTES!!!

http://tinyurl.com/86zkxtf

Posted by: harleycowboy at July 03, 2013 08:21 PM (+9AX9)

507 don't understand. I could see it, if they were as difficult and moody as I am. I could see it if they went through the sudden and awful weight gain and the accompanying irritability. But they're not like me, and yet, they got screwed over.

Why?
Posted by: Dianna
---------------------------

I've been married 23 years. It is beyond my grasp why men do this.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 03, 2013 08:21 PM (4Mv1T)

508 Well, it's now officially 237 years since a bunch of rich, slave owning, white men started with the greatest country on God's green earth. Happy birthday, America. May you live to see a time when most of your people don't take you for granted anymore.

Posted by: WolfinNC at July 03, 2013 08:21 PM (HVOxM)

509 498 Dianna, that sucks.

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 08:22 PM (vgd4f)

510 What's everyone drinking tonight?

The blood of my enemies.
--------------------------------

If you have extra, I'll have one.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 03, 2013 08:22 PM (4Mv1T)

511 Night peaches! Aspirin before bed. Night CoJ!

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 08:23 PM (jIaZt)

512 Neighbor across the street died last nite. He was eighty I think. Mowed his grass two days ago. Lucky stiff died in his sleep, while sitting in his easy chair. RIP, neighbor.

Posted by: Cicero Kid Looks dapper in a white planter's suit at July 03, 2013 08:23 PM (qLYdI)

513 Here's one for the four day weekend. DRINK UP MORON/ETTES!!! http://tinyurl.com/86zkxtf Posted by: harleycowboy at July 04, 2013 12:21 AM (+9AX9)/i] Hrm. I gotta work tomorrow morning and all dy on Friday... with a broken arm. Oh well, at least I still gotta job for now...

Posted by: The Political Hat at July 03, 2013 08:23 PM (Vk2pI)

514 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 04, 2013 12:20 AM (GEICT) And you get into arguments on FB with those? That is what I can't wrap my mind around with the 'others.' How is this not common fucking sense with people?

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 08:23 PM (8FeS+)

515

rwc-

good call.

later 'rons and 'ronnettes

476
>>>> What's everyone drinking tonight?

Army coffee. With bacon.

Posted by: Bomber at July 04, 2013 12:10 AM (FOwrE)

thanks for your service.

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 08:23 PM (KDSST)

516

Cabo Wabo
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 04, 2013

Any good, or celebrity swill?

Very good.

Posted by: harleycowboy at July 03, 2013 08:25 PM (+9AX9)

517 And you get into arguments on FB with those? That is what I can't wrap my mind around with the 'others.' How is this not common fucking sense with people? Posted by: RWC at July 04, 2013 12:23 AM (8FeS+) Not so far. Maybe as we go.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 08:25 PM (GEICT)

518 498 dianna,

ah, depending on circumstances could be several things.

My father married several times I learned a lot from him. Given advice is best followed by analysis and most often inversion. One piece that stuck unaltered was communication.

My own lapse was the lack of aforementioned communication.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 03, 2013 08:25 PM (LRFds)

519

Vodka rocks, olives. Skye Vodka.

Have a wonderful 4th 'rons and celebrate the may blessings we (still) have in this country Out.

Posted by: Guido - 'now with 75+% more hate!' at July 03, 2013 08:25 PM (/7gW+)

520 Baldy @ 306-
Worked at Buehring and Afifjan. Wouldn't want to get caught at either at this point in time. That whole mohamadan area is going MB for sure. It's what the jihadis want and it's what ubama wants.

Posted by: EROWMER at July 03, 2013 08:26 PM (OONaw)

521 don't understand. I could see it, if they were as difficult and moody as I am. I could see it if they went through the sudden and awful weight gain and the accompanying irritability. But they're not like me, and yet, they got screwed over.

Why?
Posted by: Dianna

Some men go thru Men-O-Pause. The fear of getting older and not being a able to cope with it. A younger girl on the arm makes them feel like they are young again and more virile. Growing up in Southern California I wish I had a dime for every old fart I saw with a twenty something on his arm. The sick joke is, how many of these dalliances actually work out and end up long term? None that I have ever known of.

Some of my girl friends have actually had their ex-husbands coming back and begging for forgiveness after these events.

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 08:26 PM (EAgmr)

522 Lucky stiff died in his sleep, while sitting in his easy chair. RIP, neighbor. Posted by: Cicero Kid
--------------------
Indeed. My next door neighbor is 80. Has three jags in the garage. Two are XKE's. One is a 1970 ragtop. The other a 2+2. Also has a '62 MGA he drove in grad school. Hope he leaves one to me. We get along great.

Neighbors across the street are in their early 90s. Still in the house.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 03, 2013 08:27 PM (4Mv1T)

523 I blame The Real World for the downfall of the M in MTV.

Posted by: no good deed

I blame The Real World for the downfall of civilization. Narcissism as virtue in real time. Ack!

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 03, 2013 08:28 PM (8SsiG)

524 Alien invaders, "To make a good omelette, got to crack a planet or two."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 08:28 PM (8avI0)

525 Dianna, they'd have to be 'ettes to be better, just sayin'.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at July 03, 2013 08:28 PM (sQ0LB)

526 Why? Posted by: Dianna at July 04, 2013 12:17 AM (mKMj1) Some guys are dicks, some women are bitches. Really, not much more to it unless you go way way back. I am finding out about a couple in my life where I am left shaking my head - why the fuck is she with him? Beautiful family/kids but dude is an asshole. No cheating or physical, just an over-bearing prick.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 08:28 PM (8FeS+)

527 You have to actually grow up to eventually have a mid life crisis or "men-o-pause". My secret of never having to deal with that is to just not grow up.

Posted by: Berserker at July 03, 2013 08:29 PM (FMbng)

528

Who's got the biggest, balls of them all?

"TOPEKA, Ind. (WANE) A northeast Indiana company has been chosen to create a massive popcorn ball that will serve as the centerpiece at this year's Indiana State Fair.

This is the Year of Popcorn at the fair, so officials decided to create a popcorn ball exceeding 5,000 pounds.

Snax In Pax in the town of Topeka in LaGrange County is working on it now using a mold that's eight feet across."

Posted by: Cicero Kid channels AC/DC at July 03, 2013 08:29 PM (qLYdI)

529 Cheri -

Sad, but I guess true. You'd think that the people who put a man on the moon, who invented the car, internet, and modern medicine would be smart enough to see that without having to experience what those folks in Egypt are going through, but I guess not.

I was talking to a guy I know from Egypt today, and he was telling me how his family back there is ecstatic, because all they want is to live normal lives without nutjobs telling them what to do (sharia). I got real sad thinking that I'm starting to feel that way too about the "experts" who run this place now.

Posted by: WolfinNC at July 03, 2013 08:29 PM (HVOxM)

530 Unfortunately, The Real World is just a symptom, not the disease.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at July 03, 2013 08:30 PM (sQ0LB)

531 For those who missed it earlier: SQUIRREL! http://tinyurl.com/mz6ued9

Posted by: rickl at July 03, 2013 08:30 PM (sdi6R)

532 Good evening, Horde. I'm still in Canada and will miss the Fourth at home. Someone blow something up for me.

Posted by: Gingy at July 03, 2013 08:30 PM (NYEU2)

533 Posted by: rich@gmu at July 04, 2013 12:23 AM (KDSST) Time for STALKING! /jk Sorry for dropping the name.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 08:31 PM (8FeS+)

534 Compuserve? Prodigy? AOL dialup?

Wow, 90s flashbacks

Remember when AOL put their installation CD's everywhere? Breakfast cereals boxes, Post Office, and I swear that Parking violations cops slipped them under the wipers with the tickets

Posted by: kbdabear at July 03, 2013 08:31 PM (/9IC1)

535 Night all. Speaking of the '80's, here is "Mother" by Danzig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgSn0SbQJQI

Posted by: \m/ The Political Hat \m/ at July 03, 2013 08:31 PM (Vk2pI)

536 These young women are all about sex, until they are not, haha suckers!! And these old dudes are stuck with a women who would take someone's husband, and won't think twice about being disloyal!! Oh, and will take your bank account!! Just my opinion

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 08:31 PM (vgd4f)

537 I can never keep up so I'm not going to try. All you morons have a great 4th tomorrow. No fireworks here or the neighbors will hunt you down and tie you to an ant-hill... it did rain last night but everything is a tinderbox. Still... got two packages of ribeye to warm slightly on the grill tomorrow... Gonna be excellent.

Posted by: Synova at July 03, 2013 08:32 PM (7/PU+)

538 If you have extra, I'll have one.
Posted by: Tobacco Road

Come to that, add me to that order!

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 08:32 PM (mKMj1)

539 Wife just discovered I gots mad bartending skillz. I told her I worked that gig in my younger days, but she doesn't drink much beyond the occasional Harp Lager, or Bass Ale. I guess it never registered. I whipped her up a frozen daiquiri with a hot water chaser (to counteract the killer brain freeze). I'm doing minor damage to a bottle of Balvenie DoubleWood. Strictly for its medicinal value of course.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 03, 2013 08:32 PM (PwV7G)

540 why the fuck is she with him? Beautiful family/kids but dude is an asshole. No cheating or physical, just an over-bearing prick. Posted by: RWC

That is why Iam going thru a divorce right now. I have borrowed a friend's truck and moving stuff to my new house across town tomorrow. Independence day - get it?

My husband is not a monster, abuser, etc. He is just an overbearing prick and after 22 years I have decided to get my own life again. We have two beautiful children ages 17 and 20 who have begged me to do this for a long time.

Happy Fourth Ya'll!

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 08:34 PM (EAgmr)

541 Good luck Cheri.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at July 03, 2013 08:35 PM (sQ0LB)

542 Anyone who remembers doing all nighters surfing porn on the web or on Usenet with a 28K modem and 500M hard drive space, and 4M of memory say "Not Me!"

Posted by: kbdabear at July 03, 2013 08:35 PM (/9IC1)

543 'Real World' antidote.. http://tinyurl.com/kcayvsa

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 08:35 PM (8FeS+)

544 OMG, LAX is a nightmare!

Posted by: California Witch at July 03, 2013 08:36 PM (q6xyV)

545

Good evening, Horde. I'm still in Canada and will miss the Fourth at home. Someone blow something up for me.

Done.

Strictly for its medicinal value of course.

You never know when you'll bet snake bit so it's best to keep up a "medicinal" program.

Posted by: harleycowboy at July 03, 2013 08:36 PM (+9AX9)

546 I must own these Rambo capsule figures

http://tinyurl.com/nsuapq2

Posted by: The Dude at July 03, 2013 08:37 PM (vJdyz)

547 543 Cheri, truly Independence Day! Good luck

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 08:37 PM (vgd4f)

548

What's everyone drinking tonight?

Gatoraide. I ran the push mower until dark.

'Night, 'rons. Be safe.

Posted by: Cicero Kid at July 03, 2013 08:38 PM (qLYdI)

549 Shit. bet=get. Damn snake.

Posted by: harleycowboy at July 03, 2013 08:38 PM (+9AX9)

550 Independence day - get it? Posted by: Cheri at July 04, 2013 12:34 AM (EAgmr) Happy Independence Day! All the best.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 08:38 PM (8FeS+)

551 16 Hey, its that horrible 4 non-blondes song again. I'm blaming this one on the Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon.
Posted by: Flyguy at July 03, 2013 10:17 PM

No .. it's Hey-yay-yay-yay-yay, Hey-yay-yay, I said Hey, it's that fucking 4 non-blondes song again

Posted by: kbdabear at July 03, 2013 08:39 PM (/9IC1)

552 ConCrank - Thank you. My prayers our still with sweet little Maddie.

Wolfinnc- Those people still exist. We have let Academia and the media drown out American exceptionalism. We need to take education back but unfortunately I think that will only happen when enough of the LIV's suffer and begin to wonder about what happened to their "paycheck" = Free money.

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 08:39 PM (EAgmr)

553 I'm glad those Egyptians are going for freedom instead of fundamentalist Islam.

Posted by: harleycowboy at July 03, 2013 08:39 PM (+9AX9)

554 Cheri- Our kids are the same age. I wish you the best kind of independence.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 03, 2013 08:40 PM (4Mv1T)

555 Some of my girl friends have actually had their ex-husbands coming back and begging for forgiveness after these events. Posted by: Cheri at July 04, 2013 12:26 AM (EAgmr) Hah, that's what I keep thinking with Thor...dude, please... go on ahead and get tangled up with a 20something Puerto Rican Drama Queen. We have only had two fights in 27 years, and not counting funerals, dead pets and sad movies, he has seen me cry less than 10 times, one of which included a uterine biopsy gone horribly wrong and a case of shingles which covered the back of my left leg from my ass down to my ankle. And I feel I should make it very clear that he has not cheated and swears he has no intention of doing so. As I said upthread, this little heifer is the least of the problem! He wants to take a job that I am dead-set against, as it means total upheaval for us and my mama. The brunette is just the recruiter, which I'm sure made things more interesting, but the salary is what has him drooling. If it were just the chick, it'd be easier to talk him out of it.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 08:40 PM (2/T/u)

556
Anybody find out what's up with Vic? Is he alright?

He was on this morning....didn't post any news links on account of having slept in. Usual Vic. Probably chasing kids, velociraptors, RINOS, and hippies off his immaculately groomed lawn.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at July 03, 2013 08:40 PM (0IhFx)

557 Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2013 12:35 AM (/9IC1) WHUT?!? That's retarded, sirrrr. (Use 3.5" floppy's. they're portable.)

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 08:40 PM (8FeS+)

558 >>>Someone blow something up for me. I'll swing by your place on my way home from the gym tomorrow. You're welcome.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 08:40 PM (jIaZt)

559 I remember where I was when Kurt Cobain committed suicide

I was unmoved by the news back then too

Posted by: kbdabear at July 03, 2013 08:41 PM (/9IC1)

560 These young women are all about sex, until they are not, haha suckers!! And these old dudes are stuck with a women who would take someone's husband, and won't think twice about being disloyal!! Oh, and will take your bank account!!

Just my opinion

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 04, 2013 12:31 AM (vgd4f)

Oh you are soooo right on with that. I'll never forget this one time some years ago. I used to do interior remodeling, and the house next door to where I was working was a supreme example of what you are talking about. There was a very old Scottish dude with a very young uber hot wife. I would see her come and go as she pleased over the course of a week or so. One day the cops are outside in his driveway. They must have had a fight, and the cops were called. I was just walking out to the van to get something and I see the scottish dude look at the cop, then point to his wife, and says " you see that women there, she was out all night sucking the big cock", while making the motion of bringing up both hands like he was drinking from a 24 inch tall glass.

I fucking lost it. I laughed so fucking hard the cop actually heard me and was trying to contain his own laughter.

Posted by: Berserker at July 03, 2013 08:41 PM (FMbng)

561 I'm glad those Egyptians are going for freedom instead of fundamentalist Islam. Posted by: harleycowboy
----------------------

Might I concur?

Damn effing straight.

I hope they don't waste the opportunity.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 03, 2013 08:41 PM (4Mv1T)

562 548 How does one use fireworks in the event of a snake bite?

Posted by: Gingy at July 03, 2013 08:41 PM (NYEU2)

563 Cheri -

Good luck, and happy Independence Day!

Posted by: WolfinNC at July 03, 2013 08:41 PM (HVOxM)

564 Posted by: Sticky Wicket at July 04, 2013 12:40 AM (0IhFx) Good to hear. Thanks.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 08:41 PM (8FeS+)

565 Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 04, 2013 12:40 AM (2/T/u) Has he expressed interest in her? What makes her an issue?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 08:42 PM (GEICT)

566 Lou's a Girl and RWC, Much thanks! This is hard but necessary. First thing I put up on my new home is the flag of course!

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 08:43 PM (EAgmr)

567 561 DC, would you move the shed 'round the back while you're there? Dave promised it would be moved before I get home. PS don't blow up my new house,

Posted by: Gingy at July 03, 2013 08:43 PM (NYEU2)

568 >>>DC, would you move the shed 'round the back while you're there? Dave promised it would be moved before I get home. Tell him to call me, and I can lend a hand. >>>PS don't blow up my new house, That's gonna be a bit of a problem.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 08:45 PM (jIaZt)

569 And honestly, some people cheat, some don't. There is also more going on behind the scene in any marriage than anyone else know's about. But I think some people are just more naturally monogamous than others.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 08:45 PM (2/T/u)

570

DC, would you move the shed 'round the back while you're there? Dave promised it would be moved before I get home.
PS don't blow up my new house,

I think I've got enough black powder to put in a pool for you.

Posted by: harleycowboy at July 03, 2013 08:45 PM (+9AX9)

571

Alright, time to head home from work. Thanks again horde for all the prayers, hopefully will have another positive update tomorrow.

Tammy--I think I speak for the horde when I say we're all here for you. Let us know how you're doing.

Posted by: Conserative Crank at July 03, 2013 08:46 PM (sQ0LB)

572 Tobacco Road - thank you so much. I enjoy reading your posts as well as the rest of the horde. You folks keep me sane, informed, and laughing when I have needed it most.

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 08:46 PM (EAgmr)

573 Jessica Nigri getting ready for Anime Expo
http://tinyurl.com/kpqbr4v

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 08:46 PM (8avI0)

574 569 Cheri, good for you. Flag going up first thing in the morning. We usually fly it all the time, got windy as hell so took it down yesterday.

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 08:46 PM (vgd4f)

575 "Creep" was a pretty cool song, some morons have admitted to it being a sort of youth anthem for them

When Mr Gwyneth Paltow's group came on the scene around 2000, they were compared to Radiohead

Whoever compared Coldplay to Radiohead probably compares Justin Timberlake to Jim Morrison

Posted by: kbdabear at July 03, 2013 08:47 PM (/9IC1)

576 530 You have to actually grow up to eventually have a mid life crisis or "men-o-pause". My secret of never having to deal with that is to just not grow up.

Posted by: Berserker at July 04, 2013 12:29 AM (FMbng)

It's been working for me!

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 08:47 PM (T1005)

577 569 Lou's a Girl and RWC, Much thanks! This is hard but necessary. First thing I put up on my new home is the flag of course! Posted by: Cheri at July 04, 2013 12:43 AM (EAgmr) Don't thank Lou, just me. ME ME ME ME!

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 08:47 PM (8FeS+)

578 Night y'all!

Here's a little Fourth of July music for everyone: http://youtu.be/UR30mJFaceA

Posted by: Country Singer ♫ at July 03, 2013 08:47 PM (U22Yw)

579 573 ok. There's a half-acre that needs a pool boy. I need a pool first.

Posted by: Gingy at July 03, 2013 08:47 PM (NYEU2)

580

But I think some people are just more naturally monogamous than others.

Monogamy is unnatural. But that's what makes it so important: it's an unnatural state that, while difficult at times, is far superior to any other system.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 03, 2013 08:48 PM (lr3d7)

581 But I think some people are just more naturally monogamous than others. Posted by: Tammy sans Thor
--------------------------------------
Yup. I was single till I was 34, and the wife had a starter marriage that she am-scrayed out of after two years.

Neither of us want a repeat performance.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 03, 2013 08:48 PM (4Mv1T)

582 WolfinNC - thank ya darlin' Same to you and your family!

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 08:48 PM (EAgmr)

583 I gonna have a nightcap and play some spades. Catch y'all soon.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 08:48 PM (jIaZt)

584 It's been working for me!
Me too.

Posted by: Peter Pan at July 03, 2013 08:48 PM (+9AX9)

585 "...Another thing you have no reason to know is that young women are reliably bad at foreseeing what they will want to do in the near future." Thanks for reminding me of my sister, who spent tens of thousands of my parents' money to get a degree in Native American Studies (!), followed by a Master's Degree, and decided to be a stay-at-home mom after five years of teaching. I'm still paying off my student loans because my folks always seemed to be short of cash when my tuition came due. Wonder how that happened...

Posted by: RampantConsumerism at July 03, 2013 08:49 PM (eDHo4)

586

Just heard a interesting story from a friend's boyfriend (who had too much to drink tonight at the barbeque I was at.) A local teacher was found dead in his home about 10 years ago. He was a lay teacher who taught at a local Catholic boy's school for awhile before going to a public high school. The boyfriend said that when he was a junior at the Catholic school 25 years ago, the teacher asked him to come over to help him move furniture from one room to another, gave him a couple of drinks, and then made a pass at him. The boyfriend said his response was to deck the guy, which wasn't difficult because the student was a running back on the HS football team and had at least 30 pounds on the teacher. The teacher told people who noticed the black eye and fat lip that he was assaulted by a mugger. The kid didn't open his mouth - he didn't want the police or the school authorities or his parents or anybody else to know about it. The teacher, of course, had obvious reasons for wanting the cops out of the picture.

The boyfriend said he felt guilty for years - not because he hit the fucker but because he didn't tell anybody afterwards. He said he thought at the time that maybe getting a fist in the mouth taught the prev a lesson, but now he wonders about guys who might have been molested after him. Maybe they weren't strong enough or too drunk to resist. He said about the disappearance: well, maybe the asshole really invited the wrong guy home to move his damn furniture one night.

He also said, "My guard was down. At a Catholic boy's school, I didn't think it was the lay teachers I had to worry about."

Posted by: Donna V. at July 03, 2013 08:49 PM (R3gO3)

587 576 Jessica Nigri getting ready for Anime Expo http://tinyurl.com/kpqbr4v Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 04, 2013 12:46 AM (8avI0) Now see, this is quality posting material. This is what we should be discussing. Not who's throwing what weight around. Right Miss Tammy?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 08:50 PM (GEICT)

588 Going out tomorrow to get shitty fire-sparkly things. They don't crack, most don't work. But at least I can use sparklers.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 08:51 PM (8FeS+)

589

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 04, 2013 12:46 AM (8avI0)

she makes a good Teemo, one of the most useless characters in League of Legends

Posted by: The Dude at July 03, 2013 08:51 PM (vJdyz)

590
How does one use fireworks in the event of a snake bite?

Don't bite snakes while playing with fireworks. It's right there on the label.

1. Place on firm stable surface.

2. Light fuse.

3. Do not bite snakes.

4. Get away quick.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at July 03, 2013 08:51 PM (0IhFx)

591 Wow Tammy, so sorry. Sending you a big hug!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 08:52 PM (vgd4f)

592 586 I gonna have a nightcap and play some spades. Catch y'all soon. Posted by: DC in Towson at July 04, 2013 12:48 AM (jIaZt) You're in SE DC now?

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 08:53 PM (8FeS+)

593 593 Thank you. I'm foreign, you know, and grew up without blowing things up.

Posted by: Gingy at July 03, 2013 08:54 PM (NYEU2)

594 I gonna have a nightcap and play some spades. Catch y'all soon.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 04, 2013 12:48 AM (jIaZt)

play Tichu, it's a better game

Posted by: The Dude at July 03, 2013 08:54 PM (vJdyz)

595 Tammy - I'm so sorry that you are going through a hard time. Seems to be happening a lot for many of us. Keep the faith darlin'. Some days I get so depressed and anxious but my faith and the people that love me have seen me through thus far.

I hope only the best for you and that the right decisions will be made.

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 08:54 PM (EAgmr)

596 The lead singer of the group "fun" that made that overplayed noise called "Some Nights" is dating famous hogger Lena Dunham

WTF dude? Even hideously ugly musicians like Steven Tyler spend their nights snorting coke off an underwear model's tit. Lena's the girl that's left over for the 300 lb roadie with the horrible body odor

Posted by: kbdabear at July 03, 2013 08:55 PM (/9IC1)

597 Has he expressed interest in her? What makes her an issue? Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 04, 2013 12:42 AM It really isn't an issue, I was pretty much joking, but I see in going back through the thread that I may have made it seem like more than it is. I flew back with him a few weeks ago when he went for a second interview. She was obviously not expecting me. I think he pretty much had me come along to a) keep him honest and b) because he didn't know how to get her to back off.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 08:56 PM (2/T/u)

598 I flew back with him a few weeks ago when he went for a second interview. She was obviously not expecting me. I think he pretty much had me come along to a) keep him honest and b) because he didn't know how to get her to back off. Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 04, 2013 12:56 AM (2/T/u) Ah. I see. She will be getting an emu sized box soon.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 08:58 PM (GEICT)

599
The lead singer of the group "fun" that made that overplayed noise called "Some Nights" is dating famous hogger Lena Dunham

WTF dude?

In this economy, I'm forced to contract out some torments. It's either this....or obamacare.

Posted by: Satan at July 03, 2013 08:58 PM (0IhFx)

600 Starting tomorrow is Anime Expo.
http://www.anime-expo.org/guests/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 08:59 PM (8avI0)

601

I flew back with him a few weeks ago when he went for a second interview. She was obviously not expecting me. I think he pretty much had me come along to a) keep him honest and b) because he didn't know how to get her to back off.

Tammy, if you need to cut a bitch, we'll provide you an alibi.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 03, 2013 08:59 PM (lr3d7)

602 BCochran, I vote for the Emu Six-Pack.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 08:59 PM (8avI0)

603 Well, I'm out of here. Happy 4th to everyone!

Posted by: WolfinNC at July 03, 2013 09:00 PM (HVOxM)

604 599 The lead singer of the group "fun" that made that overplayed noise called "Some Nights" is dating famous hogger Lena Dunham WTF dude? Even hideously ugly musicians like Steven Tyler spend their nights snorting coke off an underwear model's tit. Lena's the girl that's left over for the 300 lb roadie with the horrible body odor Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2013 12:55 AM (/9IC1) Who can better his career (in some circles?). The hot little no name brunette or Napolitano jr who the media thinks is cute as a button? Ps- liquor and drugs were made for this.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 09:00 PM (8FeS+)

605 Starting tomorrow is Anime Expo.
http://www.anime-expo.org/guests/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 04, 2013 12:59 AM (8avI0)

curious in what CrunchyRoll is going to announce

Posted by: The Dude at July 03, 2013 09:00 PM (vJdyz)

606 Cheri, Crank, lou....all y'all, thank you! We're fine, I just have to calm my stubborn ass down.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 09:00 PM (2/T/u)

607 Well, my opinion is this. If hubby leaves me for a younger girl. It would break my heart, but only for a couple months tops!! I know it has not happened to me, so I really don't know what I would do. But I have been through hell in my life and lost people, and it would be his loss. That's how I really feel!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 09:01 PM (vgd4f)

608 Tammy, I truly hope everything works out for you.

Posted by: Donna V. at July 03, 2013 09:01 PM (R3gO3)

609 Donna V. - I read yesterday in my small hometown paper online that a high school teacher just gave birth to a child she had with one of her students who was 16. She is 27.

How's the liberal indoctrination of our Academia going? They have no shame.

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 09:01 PM (EAgmr)

610

WTF dude? Even hideously ugly musicians like Steven Tyler spend their nights snorting coke off an underwear model's tit. Lena's the girl that's left over for the 300 lb roadie with the horrible body odor

Have you seen the dude? Complete dweeb. Actually, I'm surprised that he's even interested in girls.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 03, 2013 09:01 PM (lr3d7)

611 ooo, hey

Andrea Tantaros subbed for Greta tonight

Posted by: Methos at July 03, 2013 09:02 PM (hO9ad)

612 Andrea Tantaros would be so much hotter if they didn't doll her up like this.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 09:02 PM (8FeS+)

613 Tammy, your beautiful. Tell that bitch to back the fuck off

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 09:03 PM (vgd4f)

614 612 Redlands High School? That's out by me.

Posted by: DAve at July 03, 2013 09:03 PM (albkL)

615 612 Redlands High School? That's out by me.

Posted by: DAve at July 04, 2013 01:03 AM (albkL)

Rias Gremory is the only red head highschooler

Posted by: The Dude at July 03, 2013 09:05 PM (vJdyz)

616 I can pretty much guarantee ya that the weight gain is due to all the birth control chemicals leftover in our reclaimed water supply

Posted by: DAve at July 03, 2013 09:05 PM (albkL)

617 Guests? At this hour? OK!

have a good evening, 'rons and 'ettes!

Posted by: Dianna at July 03, 2013 09:05 PM (mKMj1)

618 DAve - yes. I grew up in Redlands and went to RHS. I think this happened at the other high school in Redlands that didn't exist when I was there.

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 09:05 PM (EAgmr)

619 Recanting AT comment. I thought she was more made-up than she was.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 09:06 PM (8FeS+)

620 http://tinyurl.com/n2ymxwx There ya go

Posted by: DAve at July 03, 2013 09:06 PM (albkL)

621 RWC - If I gave you a pat on the head and a kiss on the cheek would you feel better than LAG?

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 09:07 PM (EAgmr)

622 621 Hey Cheri!!! I grew up in Glendora and live in La Verne now- nice to see some quality people around here

Posted by: DAve at July 03, 2013 09:08 PM (albkL)

623 The lead singer of the group "fun" that made that overplayed noise called "Some Nights" is dating famous hogger Lena Dunham

WTF dude? Even hideously ugly musicians like Steven Tyler spend their nights snorting coke off an underwear model's tit. Lena's the girl that's left over for the 300 lb roadie with the horrible body odor

Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2013 12:55 AM

Or, Lena's the girl that ghey lead singer's "date" to look less flamboyantly ghey.

Posted by: otho at July 03, 2013 09:08 PM (9gNQd)

624

I can pretty much guarantee ya that the weight gain is due to all the birth control chemicals leftover in our reclaimed water supply

This is why I stick to rainwater and grain alcohol.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 03, 2013 09:08 PM (lr3d7)

625 You know how "Die Hard" is a great Christmas movie?

Well, "Return of the Living Dead" (the good, O'Bannon-directed one) is a good Fourth of July movie.

Everything O'Bannon was involved with ended up with some good. With luck he'll be celebrated with the Robert Townes et al.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 03, 2013 09:08 PM (xjpRj)

626 Tammy, if you need to cut a bitch, we'll provide you an alibi. Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 04, 2013 12:59 AM (lr3d7) LOL! And thank you! But no need to cut a bitch. She's a little bitty thing, and I could swat her like a fly if need be. Some long-buried female instinct made me pack my stompy boots, in which I am 6 feet tall. I am not especially pretty, but this ol' redhead was not in the least intimidated by a squatty little heifer who was eye level with my triple Ds. Her ass is way better than mine, though. No doubt about that. The girl got some junk in her trunk, I"ll give her that.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 09:08 PM (2/T/u)

627 627 And what's weird about that too is that if you don't drink the tap water the lack of flouride really jacks up your teeth

Posted by: DAve at July 03, 2013 09:09 PM (albkL)

628 Andrea Tantaros would be so much hotter if they didn't doll her up like this.

Unlike The Five, she's facing the camera, so you can't really appreciate her ... legs.

Posted by: Methos at July 03, 2013 09:09 PM (hO9ad)

629

Ah. I see. She will be getting an emu sized box soon.

I was thinking more of a honey badger sized one.

Posted by: Peter Pan at July 03, 2013 09:10 PM (+9AX9)

630 I record Red Eye so I can watch it when I get home from work. Usually catch the last few seconds of The Five. Last night Andrea Tantaros was wearing a white dress that was snug. That girl has an amazing figure.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 03, 2013 09:10 PM (8SsiG)

631 DAve - I've always like LaVerne. Redlands was a beautiful place to grow up in - orange groves and beautiful architecture of buildings and homes. I haven't been back there in 20 years.

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 09:10 PM (EAgmr)

632 629 Tammy, she's a dog, and not the good kind

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 09:11 PM (vgd4f)

633 Time for STALKING!

/jk

Sorry for dropping the name.

Posted by: RWC at July 04, 2013 12:31 AM (8FeS+)

***

Seems I missed out tonight. Couldn't even get in the front door. damn it.

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 09:12 PM (KDSST)

634 Who can better his career (in some circles?). The hot little no name brunette or Napolitano jr who the media thinks is cute as a button?

Ps- liquor and drugs were made for this. Posted by: RWC at July 04, 2013 01:00 AM

If Mark Sanchez can date Kate Upton, I'm sure she'd go out with Jack Abramoff a few times

Hell, Tayor Swift is cute as a button and she's always trying to get a guy to stay with her for more than a week

If a cutesy pop star isn't your cup of tea, there's always Miley Cyrus if you don't mind "blunt" burn holes in your upholstery and shoving aside the LA Lakers bench for your turn.

Even Meggie Mac would be a big step up. Hell, if you secure the fridge doors with anchor chains there's a dumb hot blonde under there somewhere

Posted by: kbdabear at July 03, 2013 09:12 PM (/9IC1)

635 Perhaps I'm not one to talk since "upheaval" is the normal part of my life so far, but as much as Vox Day is mostly right about women, the fact is that men derive a whole lot of their self-worth and identity from their jobs and being *wanted* by an employer is a huge deal. Someone wanting to pay them a lot is a huge deal. Women may well gain more from community and family and staying put, but men's need for affirmation is important, too. I don't mean that in a condescending way, I mean it in an absolute way. For what it's worth. (Not that anyone asked me for my opinion.)

Posted by: Synova at July 03, 2013 09:12 PM (7/PU+)

636 634 It's SO much worse than I can even describe- from paradise to Mejico Norte in two or three decades. I don't know how much longer I can stand to watch it crumble. Or afford to.

Posted by: DAve at July 03, 2013 09:12 PM (albkL)

637 624 RWC - If I gave you a pat on the head and a kiss on the cheek would you feel better than LAG? Posted by: Cheri at July 04, 2013 01:07 AM (EAgmr) That's hypothetical right?

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 09:13 PM (8FeS+)

638 lou, exactly! I'd be heartbroken, but I'm too proud to let it destroy me! Sorry to be so rambly, I can't sleep. I probably ought to call him, I feel bad talking about this shit online. Y'all are saints to put up with me!

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 09:13 PM (2/T/u)

639 You know how "Die Hard" is a great Christmas movie?

Well, "Return of the Living Dead" (the good, O'Bannon-directed one) is a good Fourth of July movie.

Everything O'Bannon was involved with ended up with some good. With luck he'll be celebrated with the Robert Townes et al.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 04, 2013 01:08 AM

The O'Bannon! ROTLD is an awesome movie. Funny as hell. The dude had a good resume- "Dark Star", "Alien", "Return of the Living Dead", "Total Recall".

Posted by: otho at July 03, 2013 09:13 PM (9gNQd)

640 Tammy: if you don't mind my asking, where might you be moving to if your husband takes the new job? Are you going from red to blue state or vice versa?

Lord knows if moving wishes came true here at AOS, I think we'd all end up on a big ranch up somewhere by Coeur D'Alene.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 03, 2013 09:14 PM (7B7jB)

641 Girl on bottom right square on Fox- DWS's hairstyle is NOT what you want to emulate.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 09:14 PM (8FeS+)

642 RWC you rock!

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 09:14 PM (EAgmr)

643 Sorry to be so rambly, I can't sleep. I probably ought to call him, I feel bad talking about this shit online. Y'all are saints to put up with me! Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 04, 2013 01:13 AM (2/T/u) Cause we love ya Miss Tammy. Plus, you know, 6 ft tall redhead in stompy boots with DDD's

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 09:14 PM (GEICT)

644 I thought Superman sucked. Starts off with a planet crumbling because the occupants had overextracted its natural resources. Yeah, I know.

Posted by: DAve at July 03, 2013 09:14 PM (albkL)

645 The O'Bannon! ROTLD is an awesome movie. Funny as hell. The dude had a good resume- "Dark Star", "Alien", "Return of the Living Dead", "Total Recall".

Posted by: otho at July 04, 2013 01:13 AM (9gNQd)

and yet no mention of Dead And Buried

Posted by: The Dude at July 03, 2013 09:14 PM (vJdyz)

646 DAve - so I've heard. I think that I just want remember the way it was. Probably break my heart to go back there now. I grew up when Reagan was Governor - talk about a sea change. Thank you liberal asshats.

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2013 09:16 PM (EAgmr)

647 Her ass is way better than mine, though. No doubt about that. The girl got some junk in her trunk, I"ll give her that.

Fear not. Triple-Ds trump boo-tay. It's like comparing four of a kind to a straight.

Assuming there's no wild cards. If you're playing something like dimestore baseball, all bets are off.

Posted by: Methos at July 03, 2013 09:16 PM (hO9ad)

648

Plus, you know, 6 ft tall redhead in stompy boots with DDD's

Now I can't think about sleeping. Nightmares or wet dreams.

Posted by: harleycowboy at July 03, 2013 09:16 PM (+9AX9)

649 ""Some long-buried female instinct made me pack my stompy boots, in which I am 6 feet tall. I am not especially pretty, but this ol' redhead was not in the least intimidated by a squatty little heifer who was eye level with my triple Ds.""

I saw 6ft redhead with triple D's. Oh looky,I can read shorthand. lol

Posted by: Berserker at July 03, 2013 09:17 PM (FMbng)

650 I saw 6ft redhead with triple D's. Oh looky,I can read shorthand. lol Posted by: Berserker at July 04, 2013 01:17 AM (FMbng) But can you type one handed?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 09:18 PM (GEICT)

651 steve, NC. A blue part of NC, but redstate overall. (I think?) It's the bullshit that will come with the job that has me worried. He has no clue. I supported VPs for years and know exactly what high level jobs require and also what is expected of the spouses. BC, 6 ft in my stompies, I am only 5'8". And total butterface, trust me.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 09:18 PM (2/T/u)

652 and yet no mention of Dead And Buried

Posted by: The Dude at July 04, 2013 01:14 AM

Haven't seen it. Any good?

Posted by: otho at July 03, 2013 09:19 PM (9gNQd)

653 Haven't seen it. Any good?

Posted by: otho at July 04, 2013 01:19 AM (9gNQd)

for an 80's horror flick, it's really good if you go in with low expectations

Posted by: The Dude at July 03, 2013 09:19 PM (vJdyz)

654 But can you type one handed?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 04, 2013 01:18 AM (GEICT)

Hell, I can barely type with 2 hands.

Posted by: Berserker at July 03, 2013 09:21 PM (FMbng)

655 >>>eye level with my triple Ds That lucky little puerto rican hussy.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 09:22 PM (jIaZt)

656 Its all good Tammy the 6ft romping stomping Red Sonja of the Triple Ds.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 09:22 PM (8avI0)

657 NC Tammy? Hmm. Well at least he's not begging you both to move to Detroit.

"But Honey, I just *know* this solar car company is gonna do great!!...the Feds just gave 'em a $200 million Visa card!!"

;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 03, 2013 09:23 PM (7B7jB)

658 God how I love my Morons. SO good for a girl's ego. I had no idea there was a Triple anything. I thought you went up to the next letter after doubles. But I got fitted for new bras last month and Triple D it was. I'm hard to fit because I am narrow across. 248 bucks for three bras. No wonder he thinks he needs this job!

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 09:23 PM (2/T/u)

659 Some men go thru Men-O-Pause. The fear of getting older and not being a able to cope with it. A younger girl on the arm makes them feel like they are young again and more virile. Growing up in Southern California I wish I had a dime for every old fart I saw with a twenty something on his arm. The sick joke is, how many of these dalliances actually work out and end up long term? None that I have ever known of. Some of my girl friends have actually had their ex-husbands coming back and begging for forgiveness after these events. Posted by: Cheri at July 04, 2013 12:26 AM (EAgmr) I've been married for 20 years, and that shit makes me laugh.Those men would be better off getting a whore for a weekend than marrying those bimbos. My wife is getting older, and guess what, so am I, but when I look into her eyes, I see the same woman I married 20 years ago. I have a family member that decided she needed to be a cougar to some little cub. Whenever we would go over for dinner/parties or they came over, all of us would be having a conversation about something major that happened when we were in HS or college, and then we had to explain what happened to the guy. He thought that Cobain dying was some kind of major event in the history of the world since he was all of about 12 when it happened. When he asked me where I was and how I reacted, I told him that I was taking a dump and just went back to doing it. Not a big deal. Funny thing, that was the same thing I was doing when I heard Lennon died. So the key for pretentious asshole rock stars is not to be around guns when I am on the crapper.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at July 03, 2013 09:24 PM (BXLPR)

660 I thought Superman sucked. Starts off with a planet crumbling because the occupants had overextracted its natural resources. Yeah, I know.

I hope that wasn't all that ruined it for you. Superman's story always starts with Krypton being destroyed. That's why there's irradiating chunks of it everywhere that wipe out his powers.

There was never really a sensible way to make a planet explode, so over the years they just keep making up bullshit to explain it.

Posted by: Methos at July 03, 2013 09:24 PM (hO9ad)

661 Tammy!!!

(Finally getting caught up to "real time")

Maybe if you put together a budget for this new job v. living where you're at, it won't look so attractive....or so bad. I mean, if you'll end up with four week vacations in gorgeous places all over the world each year.....maybe it's something to do for a while. Alternatively, if the cost of living in the place is so high that you'll have to run twice as hard to just have what you've got....

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 09:24 PM (T1005)

662 Haven't seen it. Any good?

Posted by: otho at July 04, 2013 01:19 AM (9gNQd)

always preferred the Braniac destroyed Krypton angle

Posted by: The Dude at July 03, 2013 09:25 PM (vJdyz)

663 Anna is it safe to Google Red Sonja??? steve, lol! Detroit would be a definite no-go, though I do have several friends in Farmington Hills. I know men's egos are very wrapped up in their jobs. But we were set to retire!!!! And I am terrified the stress will kill him.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 09:25 PM (2/T/u)

664 oops, that was supposed to be in response to Methos

Posted by: The Dude at July 03, 2013 09:26 PM (vJdyz)

665 663 Nope. then it was the needlessly filthy langauge for what is obviously going to be a huge kid's movie

Posted by: DAve at July 03, 2013 09:26 PM (albkL)

666 248 bucks for three bras. No wonder he thinks he needs this job!

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 04, 2013 01:23 AM (2/T/u)

Well if you got the cadillac of boobs don't expect the parts to be cheap. lol

Posted by: Berserker at July 03, 2013 09:26 PM (FMbng)

667 >>>248 bucks for three bras The fuck? They charging by the cubic inch now? There's some things that Cougar can spend my who.e paycheck on and I won't mind a bit. I haven't actually made a list, but lingerie is definately on it.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 09:26 PM (jIaZt)

668

248 bucks for three bras. No wonder he thinks he needs this job!

The obvious solution is to go topless. And if there's a problem I'm sure he'd be happy to give you some "support". A "helping hand", if I may say so.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 03, 2013 09:27 PM (lr3d7)

669

but when I look into her eyes, I see the same woman I married 20 years ago.

I love it when I see the twinkle in my wife's eyes.

Posted by: harleycowboy at July 03, 2013 09:28 PM (+9AX9)

670 Tammy, I'm sure it will all work out great in the end. I'm glad I didn't offend by mentioning it. Also, being apart blows. Been there, done that!

Posted by: Synova at July 03, 2013 09:28 PM (7/PU+)

671 BC, 6 ft in my stompies, I am only 5'8". And total butterface, trust me. Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 04, 2013 01:18 AM (2/T/u) Humility doesn't suit the Horde well.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 09:29 PM (GEICT)

672 Those men would be better off getting a whore for a weekend than marrying those bimbos. There is something to be said for the good old days when men had a discrete mistress on the side that had nothing to do with the genuine love and affection he felt for his wife. If I wasn't afraid of catching a disease and him falling in love with some trick, I'd be fine with Thor having a wild weekend once a year.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 09:29 PM (2/T/u)

673 And Miss Tammy, please collect your souls at window number 3.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 09:29 PM (jIaZt)

674 Triple D it was. I'm hard to fit because I am narrow across.

Half a dozen morons just downloaded Scarlet Blade to see if the character customization sliders could make sense of that statement.

Posted by: Methos at July 03, 2013 09:30 PM (hO9ad)

675

I'd be fine with Thor having a wild weekend once a year.

And the edge of the cliff gets closer.

Posted by: harleycowboy at July 03, 2013 09:31 PM (+9AX9)

676 And Tammy, don't feel down. You are a sweet and lovely girl. Always thinking about your husband. If he does not see that, shame on him!! Yeah, I have had a few beers, been a rough couple years, teehee.

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 09:31 PM (vgd4f)

677 Red Sonja. Brigitte Nielsen in one of the Conan movies with Arnold played Red Sonja. Barbarian warrior chick in chain-mail.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 09:31 PM (8avI0)

678 Have you seen the dude? Complete dweeb. Actually, I'm surprised that he's even interested in girls. Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 04, 2013 01:01 AM (lr3d7) Thus the reason he is "dating" Dunham. It's the reason why lesbians try to look like men. I mean, why try to look like a woman for someone who is attracted to women?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at July 03, 2013 09:32 PM (BXLPR)

679 >>>I'd be fine with Thor having a wild weekend once a year. You and Cougar need to have a chat. *good idea fairy says* an intimate chat, maybe some wine, a bubble bath.....brb

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 09:32 PM (jIaZt)

680 Ahahahahaha

Andrea's covering the Skype massacre at the Zimmerman trial

Posted by: Methos at July 03, 2013 09:32 PM (hO9ad)

681 Hell no Tammy, you vow to Love & Honor. No weekends with slutty Puerto Ricans!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 09:33 PM (vgd4f)

682 Methos, the Skype DOS I don't think helped the Persecution's case.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 09:33 PM (8avI0)

683 There was never really a sensible way to make a planet explode, so over the years they just keep making up bullshit to explain it. Posted by: Methos at July 04, 2013 01:24 AM (hO9ad) I would beg to differ.

Posted by: Emperor Palpatine at July 03, 2013 09:34 PM (BXLPR)

684 You and Cougar need to have a chat.
Could be he took you along to show cougar what she's up against and doesn't have a chance in hell.

Posted by: harleycowboy at July 03, 2013 09:35 PM (+9AX9)

685 And this Superman movie is not the first. Remember Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country. The Klingons strip mining a moon until it explodes and imperils the Klingon homeworld.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 09:35 PM (8avI0)

686 Y'know, and please ignore this if the talk of Tammy's boobs continues, this is just about the time of night when I start thinking "tomorrow morning is gonna really suck" and counting how many hours of sleep I can get. Right now, about 5.5. Grrr.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 09:36 PM (jIaZt)

687 Nope. then it was the needlessly filthy langauge for what is obviously going to be a huge kid's movie

That is weird. For Superman in particular since he's such a boy scout.

Posted by: Methos at July 03, 2013 09:36 PM (hO9ad)

688 Just lurking tonight (darn that working for a living) but I must chime in here...

Tammy, you always know where you can find a moron with a ginger fetish...

>>> THIS GUY!!! <<<

Back to work now, dammit. Later roonz and roonettez!

Posted by: GGE, Moron with a Ginger Fetish at July 03, 2013 09:37 PM (xa1/W)

689 690 HE wasn't using it

Posted by: DAve at July 03, 2013 09:37 PM (albkL)

690 684 Hell no Tammy, you vow to Love & Honor. No weekends with slutty Puerto Ricans!! Posted by: lou's a girl at July 04, 2013 01:33 AM (vgd4f) But a weekend with a bunch of beer, pizza, unlimited pron and some elbow grease is allowable. When that happens around here, I'm usually out after the beer and pizza so the elbow grease and pron never get used, but dammit, I tried!

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at July 03, 2013 09:38 PM (BXLPR)

691

"tomorrow morning is gonna really suck" and counting how many hours of sleep I can get. Right now, about 5.5. Grrr.

Sometimes the piper charges a lot.

Posted by: harleycowboy at July 03, 2013 09:38 PM (+9AX9)

692 She-Devil with a sword....I"ll take it! Google images reveals that Red Sonja has a better ass than me, too, but we do have the same hair and are about the same cadaver-like color. So much for all those fantasies, eh Morons?

And no, he cannot have a wild weekend with this Puerto Rican chica. Cuz if nothin' else, you know she'd get pregnant. I warned him they're definitely very fertile! I denounce myself. It was a clever move on my part to put that thought in his head, but I do denouce myself. Oh and cthulu, housing wouldn't be a problem, COLA is not bad at all there. And hello!

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 09:39 PM (2/T/u)

693 >>>Could be he took you along to show cougar what she's up against and doesn't have a chance in hell. Heh. No, Cougar with a capital C is my HQ slang for my wife. I'm just a young'un and she is....less younger.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 09:39 PM (jIaZt)

694

DC in Towson at July 04, 2013 01:39 AM (jIaZt)

My bad.

Posted by: harleycowboy at July 03, 2013 09:41 PM (+9AX9)

695 More Jessica Nigri acting all silly
http://tinyurl.com/kv23qyt

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 09:42 PM (8avI0)

696 It's the reason why lesbians try to look like men. I mean, why try to look like a woman for someone who is attracted to women? Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at July 04, 2013 01:32 AM (BXLPR) Pfft. EVERY news article i have read they were hot as hell. Although there is a pretty disturbing trend of broken down cars and lonely roads/hotels/houses with a light on involved. Where is Ralph Nader when you need him.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 09:42 PM (8FeS+)

697

And no, he cannot have a wild weekend with this Puerto Rican chica. Cuz if nothin' else, you know she'd get pregnant. I warned him they're definitely very fertile!

Yeah, and no doubt she'd be taking a sewing needle to her condom stash and swapping her birth control with Tic-Tacs.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 03, 2013 09:42 PM (lr3d7)

698 GGE, I'd head straight for your door, sweet pea, I swear! MWAH! DC, sure run off to bed just as I was about to have a bubbly bath with Cougar.....

McCraniac, you made me laugh!

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 09:42 PM (2/T/u)

699 602
The lead singer of the group "fun" that made that overplayed noise called "Some Nights" is dating famous hogger Lena Dunham

WTF dude?

In this economy, I'm forced to contract out some torments. It's either this....or obamacare.

Posted by: Satan at July 04, 2013 12:58 AM (0IhFx)

****

lol. and getting closer too. only 64 to go.

Posted by: rich@gmu at July 03, 2013 09:42 PM (KDSST)

700 Hmmm. It's three hours old, but FNC reporting Egypt's military has put out hundreds of arrest warrants for the muslim brotherhood and clashes in the streets have started away from the capital.

Posted by: Methos at July 03, 2013 09:43 PM (hO9ad)

701 ... There was never really a sensible way to make a planet explode, ... SMOD! That's my 2c worth for tonight.

Posted by: mindful webworker, class clown at July 03, 2013 09:43 PM (5SlKF)

702 Uh oh, methinks perhaps I doth created a monster with Tammy...

She-Devil with a sword... just please no sing 'Kill da brunette!' in an Elmer Fudd sort of way..

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 09:44 PM (8avI0)

703 Yea so here I am bitching about my life while those Egyptian women are risking death and worse to protest. God bless them all, and again, please excuse my whining.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 09:44 PM (2/T/u)

704 693 Ashely,my hubby goes out of town at least a couple times a year with his brother and friends. I don't give him any shit about it. But he knows cheating on me is off limits, pizza, beer, getting a little crazy ok, cheating is never ok for me!! I would not cheat on him, and he knows it!! If he chooses to do so. Well bye bye

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 09:45 PM (vgd4f)

705 And this Superman movie is not the first. Remember Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country. The Klingons strip mining a moon until it explodes and imperils the Klingon homeworld.

That made *some* sense. They were mining dilithium which powers starships and is presumably is more energy dense than resources we're familiar with. And it wasn't really clear what their process was (there's a visual in the new Star Trek that suggests it).

They're klingons so, it's entirely possible it was along the lines of fracking with a hydrogen bomb.

Posted by: Methos at July 03, 2013 09:46 PM (hO9ad)

706 Howz about "Kill da Pwewto Weecan" Anna? Or at least make her pee herself?

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 09:46 PM (2/T/u)

707 >>DC, sure run off to bed just as I was about to have a bubbly bath with Cougar I didn't say I was going to bed! I was calculating the hours of sleep I won't get tonight. And besides with you and Cougar in a bubble bath, even if I'm in bed, I ain't sleeping. But since you're not, I'm gonna go to bed. And sleep. And hopefully have some bubbly dreams. Night all.

Posted by: DC in Towson at July 03, 2013 09:46 PM (jIaZt)

708 I had something brush against the tent one night in the Nantahala National Forest. I DID not get back to sleep that night. Scared the bloody fuck out of me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 03, 2013 11:05 PM (aDwsi)

I was working with a buddy on some mining claims in northwestern B.C. We were camped on a disused logging road. I was sleeping in a tent, and my friend was sleeping in the back of his vehicle. Early morning, around sunup, I heard something brush against the closed end of the tent, and grunt. Grabbed my .303, and peered out through the mosquito netting. Saw the black bear up on his back legs peering into the back window of the vehicle. Then it got down, and wandered off down the road, and we never saw it again. Well, buddy never saw it. He was still sawing logs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2013 09:46 PM (savps)

709 Yea, I should join you, DC. Night, y'all. Thanks you so much for being here.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 03, 2013 09:47 PM (2/T/u)

710 576 Jessica Nigri getting ready for Anime Expo
http://tinyurl.com/kpqbr4v
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 04, 2013 12:46 AM (8avI0)

Sexy Teemo. What I don't even

) she makes a good Teemo, one of the most useless characters in League of Legends
Posted by: The Dude at July 04, 2013 12:51 AM (vJdyz)

What game modes are you playing? Annoying, yes - but useless?

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at July 03, 2013 09:48 PM (ioT3q)

711 Hey AoP did yo walk away with any nice cars at that auction?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 09:49 PM (8avI0)

712 Should be heading to bed also. 1am is about here. Whee. *thud*

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 03, 2013 09:50 PM (8avI0)

713 703 Hmmm. It's three hours old, but FNC reporting Egypt's military has put out hundreds of arrest warrants for the muslim brotherhood and clashes in the streets have started away from the capital. Posted by: Methos at July 04, 2013 01:43 AM (hO9ad) Had to watch CNN at the gym today, and my god their coverage is biased as shit. They showed the anti-Morsi crowd from up on top of some building, then would show close ups of the pro-Morsi crowd so they wouldn't have to show how small it was compared to the other. Note to tyrants, when you tell your supporters to have a spontaneous rally, don't provide stages and lighting for it.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at July 03, 2013 09:50 PM (BXLPR)

714 Posted by: lou's a girl at July 04, 2013 01:45 AM (vgd4f) CHIPS-A-HOY! (Sorry, funny in my head) Regarding cheating- why the hell be married then? If you can't commit and be loyal then why go through the ruffles and flourishes? Full disclosure-not married.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 09:51 PM (8FeS+)

715 Night all! Happy Birthday America. I Love you most of all!! I told ya'll I was drunk

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 09:51 PM (vgd4f)

716 Something else to hate that dumb cocksucker McCain about

Posted by: TexasJew at July 03, 2013 09:54 PM (euACX)

717 Just got a ride home from a sober friend from the bar. Dam am I a lucky man.

Posted by: McGregor at July 03, 2013 09:54 PM (qo244)

718 Dan O'Bannon also had a hand in "Bleeders" which is a loose adaptation of an HP Lovecraft story. It's....

...

....

...interesting, is probably the best word for it.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 03, 2013 09:54 PM (xjpRj)

719 Wow, Anna Puma is sleeping? Cool! We can make all those man jokes, right?

Hello?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 03, 2013 09:56 PM (xjpRj)

720 717 RWC, exactly, don't get married, don't take the vow! Stay single and be the creepy old guy at the bar trying to get laid, haha. Night all. Thanks to the military morons again. You guys rock!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 09:56 PM (vgd4f)

721 Oh and cthulu, housing wouldn't be a problem, COLA is not bad at all there. And hello!

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 04, 2013 01:39 AM (2/T/u)

So, start calculating how much it'll cost to make it up to you for grinding the gears. Annual trips to the Caribbean? Europe? Housecleaners? Caterers?

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 09:56 PM (T1005)

722 Do a couple of 8 balls and everyone goes to bed. SMH.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 09:57 PM (8FeS+)

723

God bless them all, and again, please excuse my whining.

Venting is good. Whining is when you WON'T shut up and it's the next day.

Posted by: harleycowboy at July 03, 2013 09:57 PM (+9AX9)

724 Night all! Happy Birthday America. I Love you most of all!!

Heh. I read that as "I love most of you all"

Posted by: Methos at July 03, 2013 09:57 PM (hO9ad)

725 I was married once. I was not a good story. So there's that.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 03, 2013 09:58 PM (xjpRj)

726 Just got a ride home from a sober friend from the bar. Dam am I a lucky man.
Yes you are. Wish I had one back in the early 80's.

Posted by: harleycowboy at July 03, 2013 09:59 PM (+9AX9)

727 707 693 Ashely,my hubby goes out of town at least a couple times a year with his brother and friends. I don't give him any shit about it. But he knows cheating on me is off limits, pizza, beer, getting a little crazy ok, cheating is never ok for me!! I would not cheat on him, and he knows it!! If he chooses to do so. Well bye bye Posted by: lou's a girl at July 04, 2013 01:45 AM (vgd4f) If a man goes out and cheats on his wife, he is disrespecting her, and he is a fucking hypocrite if he turns around and starts defending her because someone else is disrespecting her. Billy Jeff, I am looking at you.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at July 03, 2013 10:00 PM (BXLPR)

728 Dad Who Controls The Remote has just had "Runaway Jury" on for the last three hours. Such blatant lefty bullshit I haven't noticed before in movies. Entertaining, but the overall message was just crap.

Posted by: Gingy at July 03, 2013 10:00 PM (NYEU2)

729 723 717 RWC, exactly, don't get married, don't take the vow! Stay single and be the creepy old guy at the bar trying to get laid, haha. Night all. Thanks to the military morons again. You guys rock!! Posted by: lou's a girl at July 04, 2013 01:56 AM (vgd4f) Hells no. Not against marriage at all, against the old creepy dude though.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 10:01 PM (8FeS+)

730 727 Night all! Happy Birthday America. I Love you most of all!!

Heh. I read that as "I love most of you all"

Posted by: Methos at July 04, 2013 01:57 AM (hO9ad)

As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,
I've got a little list Â— I've got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground,
And who never would be missed Â— who never would be missed!
There's the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs Â—
All people who have flabby hands and irritating laughs Â—
All children who are up in dates, and floor you with 'em flat Â—
All persons who in shaking hands, shake hands with you like that Â—
And all third persons who on spoiling tÃªte-Ã¡-tÃªtes insist Â—
They'd none of 'em be missed Â— they'd none of 'em be missed!

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 10:01 PM (T1005)

731 Hello, Morons. Prayers have been accomplished for those in need of them.

Tammy has fascinated me, reading through the posts. I'm not sure whether to shit or go blind. All I can say is "best wishes". --And you are certainly capable of handling yourself.

I'm only on my third Budweiser, so I'll be a little droll for the time being. Things always change after beer #5. I could "hold court" after that point. (sweet-spot is always 5-

... after that, sleepy.

You 'ettes are a force, with which, to be reckoned.

Comedians and laymen who say, "chicks aren't funny", need to join the Horde.
...forces.
...to be reckoned.
...Pillars.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 10:02 PM (lq3Ak)

732 What game modes are you playing? Annoying, yes - but useless?

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at July 04, 2013 01:48 AM (ioT3q)

ranked 5v5

Posted by: The Dude at July 03, 2013 10:04 PM (vJdyz)

733 My #8 has been converted to a "smily". I never know what to expect from Pixy.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 10:04 PM (lq3Ak)

734 You 'ettes are a force, with which, to be reckoned.
Good thing I'm married now cause some of them scare the hell out of me which would have had me swearing off women forever.

Posted by: harleycowboy at July 03, 2013 10:05 PM (+9AX9)

735 Old. Just went out to the local pub for a drink. Some 22 year old hipster looking dude was playing Dead Kennedys songs on the juke. I told him I saw them in DC in 1985 (before he was even born). Surreal experience talking to a young guy who called me "sir" (a polite young guy, I'll give him that), listening to him wax euphoric over the music I listened to as a teenager, going on and on about how cool it was to meet "someone who was there, man. I'm just trying to catch up". I probably should have told him that I am now a hard core conservative, and explained how the values of punk rock are conservative/libertarian in nature, antithetical to the statism we find ourselves faced with now, but I was tired and he likely wouldn't have believed me anyway. Still. "It's so cool that you were there". Old.

Posted by: Weirddave at July 03, 2013 10:06 PM (aH+zP)

736 Just got a ride home from a sober friend from the bar.
Dam am I a lucky man.
Yes you are. Wish I had one back in the early 80's.>>

luckier still cause my buddies wife is a dam fine looker that gave me that ride. No chance but being in the presence of beauty always is a good thing.

Posted by: McGregor at July 03, 2013 10:07 PM (qo244)

737 Posted by: Slapweasel at July 04, 2013 02:04 AM (lq3Ak) The parenthesis set it off.

. 5).

. 9) (Just experimenting.)

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 10:07 PM (8FeS+)

738 Posted by: harleycowboy at July 04, 2013 02:05 AM (+9AX9)

They don't scare me. We read from the same tomes. Hell, I'd PAY to watch them "deal with people".

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 10:07 PM (lq3Ak)

739 The quad barrel shotgun? It's already been done by the "ice cream man" in the Phantasm movies (4 in the series if memory serves correctly). It's a wickedly 'under rated" horror series IMHO.

Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at July 03, 2013 10:08 PM (Sedwk)

740 ranked 5v5 Posted by: The Dude at July 04, 2013 02:04 AM (vJdyz)

Fair enough. Mostly do randoms, first ever ranked game last night. (in thousands of games of LOL)

Nothing quite like eating 3 shrooms in a row in Dom against an AP teemo. /futile fistshake.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at July 03, 2013 10:08 PM (ioT3q)

741 RWC, that comment was not aimed at you. I was talking about guys who take a marriage vow, then don't take it serious. And that goes for women also!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 10:09 PM (vgd4f)

742 Posted by: RWC at July 04, 2013 02:07 AM (8FeS+)

As the "operator" used to say: "I'll make a note of it".

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 10:09 PM (lq3Ak)

743 Damn it, now I am watching the crazy crowd in Egypt doing what we should be doing, saying hell to the no to a fucking government gone bat shit crazy!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 10:12 PM (vgd4f)

744 12:10 AM here, temp is 102. Not blaming globull warming, just this phenomenon we call summer. Usually happens this time every year.

Posted by: Urban Achiever at July 03, 2013 10:13 PM (IJHzz)

745 I remember the good old days when html was fairly easy to learn and you had to italicize something by hand. Then this modern "convenience" came into play, and "code" was more than just "code".

I loved using bold, italics and cross-throughs. *sigh*

srsly

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 10:14 PM (lq3Ak)

746 Damn it, now I am watching the crazy crowd in Egypt doing what we should be doing

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 04, 2013 02:12 AM (vgd4f)

you mean raping girls in the middle of the crowds?

Posted by: The Dude at July 03, 2013 10:14 PM (vJdyz)

747

Hell, I'd PAY to watch them "deal with people".
Can I get front row tickets?

Weirddave at July 04, 2013 02:06 AM

I get a kick out of it too. Play a cd from the late 60's early 70's and they go nuts.

Posted by: harleycowboy at July 03, 2013 10:15 PM (+9AX9)

748 ...oh! Look at that! I got italics!

Jiminy Christmas, I almost peed.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 10:16 PM (lq3Ak)

749 It's just a matter of time, when the conditions are right, that we'll take a crippling blow.

Posted by: Country Singer at July 03, 2013 11:24 PM (U22Yw)

Exactly right. Think low and slow, infect and wait. Then boom. A few hundred million machines being destroyed at a single pop would be doomsday. Waiting to take action until " a 10th of what's claimed" occurs will be exactly like a 10th of doomsday. A very bad 10th.

Posted by: and irresolute at July 03, 2013 10:18 PM (DBH1h)

750 749 The dude, yeah that's exactly what I meant. Good on you

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 10:20 PM (vgd4f)

751 "you mean raping girls in the middle of the crowds?"

Posted by: The Dude at July 04, 2013 02:14 AM (vJdyz)

That's their "culture". We can't talk about that because that is what they do.

-Ralphie May

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 10:20 PM (lq3Ak)

752 Cigar's gone, glass is empt. Night all. Don't piss off Ace which reminds me Jessica Simpson named her child Ace. HHHMMMMM. I wonder if........

Posted by: harleycowboy at July 03, 2013 10:21 PM (+9AX9)

753 747 12:10 AM here, temp is 102. Not blaming globull warming, just this phenomenon we call summer. Usually happens this time every year. Posted by: Urban Achiever at July 04, 2013 02:13 AM (IJHzz) 2:15am here and raining like a mother, 3rd day straight. Flood warnings for the area, luckily, our house is in the 100000 year flood zone. I know I am screwed if my neighbor Noah starts building a big boat. Strange, it sounds like someone is using a rotary saw across the street.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac wondering What Would Noah Do at July 03, 2013 10:21 PM (BXLPR)

754 #708

What I found baffling about that was that the Klingon Empire supposedly included a big chunk of the Alpha Quadrant (if I recall the terminology correctly) but this one mining site was all that stood between the Klingons and extinction? Though I suppose the actual extinction part would come about at the hands of numerous other species the Klingons had been mean to over the last few centuries, once the Klingons were too energy poor to maintain their defenses.

I suppose they had more details in the development sessions but not enough time to get them into the movie.

The book I'm currently listening to puts it in perspective.

http://tinyurl.com/o9j3w7z

'Daring Young Men' by Richard Reeves. It's about the Berlin Airlift, a stunning accomplishment in which the West came to the rescue of a defeated enemy to keep another enemy at bay. It's shameful how few people under a certain age have never heard mention of these events. I first heard about it because of a Leon Uris novel set in Germany of that era had a cameo by an uncle of mine. He never served in Europe, though. He spent the whole war at some base above the Arctic Circle, doing what I have no idea. Mainly treating personnel for frost bite, I suppose. But he and Uris were poker buddies or something.

Posted by: epobirs at July 03, 2013 10:23 PM (kcfmt)

755 Aww guys, look, my husband is home and feeling old! And I'm 2600 miles away and can't disabuse him of the notion.

Posted by: Gingy at July 03, 2013 10:24 PM (NYEU2)

756 And now a hearty fu to the Dude. Always gotta give me shit. You win, so much smarter and snarky. God Bless, you knew what I meant but couldn't help yourself!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 03, 2013 10:26 PM (vgd4f)

757 Brilliant. I now have two freshly opened beers, and a large housefly trapped in a recently-emptied beer bottle.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 10:26 PM (T1005)

758 Brilliant. I now have two freshly opened beers, and a large housefly trapped in a recently-emptied beer bottle.

Unless you washed the bottle, he should at least die happy.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 03, 2013 10:27 PM (jGsIV)

759 Obama's second-term legacy is shaping up to be more about avoiding crises than accomplishing big things.

Posted by: Waldo at July 03, 2013 10:27 PM (e8kgV)

760 744 RWC, that comment was not aimed at you. I was talking about guys who take a marriage vow, then don't take it serious. And that goes for women also!! Posted by: lou's a girl at July 04, 2013 02:09 AM (vgd4f) Mo problem. (i was thinking uou misread what I wrote) What i was really worried about is you exposing me as the creepy old dude at the bar

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 10:28 PM (iwYc8)

761 NO problem.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 10:28 PM (iwYc8)

762 Â“The Magic of Valerie"

The magic of Valerie is her intellect and her heart. She is an incredibly kind, caring and thoughtful person with a unique ability to pinpoint the voiceless and shine a light on them and the issues they and the President care about with the ultimate goal of making a difference in peopleÂ’s lives.

Valerie is the perfect combination of smart, savvy and innovative.

Valerie has an enormous capacity for both empathy and sympathy. She balances the need to be patient and judicious with the desire to get things done and work as hard as possible for the American people from the White House.

To know what both drives Valerie Jarrett and why the President values her opinion so much, you benefit greatly from really getting to know the woman.

Valerie is tapped in to peopleÂ’s experiences, their good times and bad. She knows from her own life what it is like to believe and strive for your dreams.

Valerie expects people to work their hearts out for the President and never forget where you work and the magnitude.

Single mother, woman working to the top in a competitive male dominated world, African, working for change from the grassroots to big business.

Valerie is someone here who other people inside the building know they can trust. (need examples.)

Posted by: Davy Jones at July 03, 2013 10:30 PM (e8kgV)

763 The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worlwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages...And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet...the planet...the planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!

Posted by: George Carlin at July 03, 2013 10:34 PM (e8kgV)

764 President Barack Obama says heÂ’s ordered his administration to review U.S. foreign aid to Egypt. He says heÂ’s calling on EgyptÂ’s military to return authority to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible.

Â“The U.S. is monitoring the very fluid situation and believes ultimately the future of Egypt can only be determined by the Egyptian people and we are deeply concerned by the decision of the Egyptian armed forces to remove president Morsi and suspend the constitution,Â” Mr. Obama said.

Posted by: John Kerry at July 03, 2013 10:34 PM (e8kgV)

765 Â“The Magic of Valerie"

Valerie doesn't apologize for what she just did in your mouth. You needed it.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 10:36 PM (lq3Ak)

766 Posted by: George Carlin at July 04, 2013 02:34 AM (e8kgV)

...Now we're the Earth plus plastic. It is God's Will.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 10:37 PM (lq3Ak)

767 The George Zimmerman defense has recently gotten a lucky break. Angela Corey, FloridaÂ’s state attorney and the prosecutor against Zimmerman, has been indicted by a citizensÂ’ grand jury for allegedly falsifying an arrest warrant and the complaint that led to Zimmerman being charged with the second-degree murder of Trayvon Martin.

The indictment accuses Corey of allegedly withholding photographs of ZimmermanÂ’s head after the incident. Also, Corey allegedly falsely signed an arrest warrant under oath without including the pictures as evidence. Critics claim that Corey rushed the arrest warrant through because activists were rallying around the Trayvon Martin shooting, demanding that Zimmerman be charged with murder. Critics argue that Corey was attempting to secure a reelection with the support of the activists.

Posted by: Trayvon Martin at July 03, 2013 10:37 PM (e8kgV)

768 I hope that wasn't all that ruined it for you. Superman's story always starts with Krypton being destroyed. That's why there's irradiating chunks of it everywhere that wipe out his powers.

There was never really a sensible way to make a planet explode, so over the years they just keep making up bullshit to explain it.

Posted by: Methos at July 04, 2013 01:24 AM (hO9ad)

Originally, in the Superman mythos, Superman's father,Jor-El, IIRC, was one of the Kryptonian scientists who discovered that their planet was doomed to explode due to some hitherto-unknown natural cause.

Of course, there was no sound physical explanation for it, anymore than there was a sound physical explanation for any of the "Super" phenomena. Yellow Sun vs Red Sun? Yeah, riiiiight. But the explosion of Krypton was morally neutral; it was a "shit happens" situation, and Jor-El did what he could to save his child.

For the remake to blame the explosion of Krypton on "over-extraction" of resources is a travesty, and a sop to the CAGW scammers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2013 10:38 PM (savps)

769 I a) am totally drunk. and b) bet "Lou's a Girl" is pretty cute. How else is life possible?

VIR COTTO for EMPEROR.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 03, 2013 10:38 PM (xjpRj)

770 The only 3 words the egyptian people should be saying to obama is tongue my bung.

Posted by: Berserker at July 03, 2013 10:38 PM (FMbng)

771 759 And now a hearty fu to the Dude. Always gotta give me shit. You win, so much smarter and snarky. God Bless, you knew what I meant but couldn't help yourself!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at July 04, 2013 02:26 AM (vgd4f)

Sometimes, I think of all the toadies, lackwits, officious busybodies, bootlickers, placeholders, utopians, and weasels infesting our Republic, and I imagine if they ever met one of our Founders in person. Someone who had been there, done that, thought mightily on it, and written eloquently about it -- and then, through willpower and cussedness, got it to float and sent it sailing through the ages. Imagine Washington's complete and utter contempt for the current holder of the office he inaugurated. Imagine Jackson meeting Bernanke -- and consider the odds that Ben would survive the encounter. I'm sure that John Quincy Adams would have a few pungent comments about Lady Hillary or John F'in Kerry's performance as SoS.....

And you're absolutely right to think that we should expect better than the mediocrity and bumbling we see today. On this Independence Day, we should celebrate the men who forged this nation from slag....and resolve that we shall not let it rust.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 10:40 PM (T1005)

772 ""VIR COTTO for EMPEROR.""

Ahhh Viiirrr, I need you to dooo something for me yeeeuuus?

Posted by: Londo Molari at July 03, 2013 10:41 PM (FMbng)

773 "Angela Corey, FloridaÂ’s state attorney and the prosecutor against Zimmerman, has been indicted by a citizensÂ’ grand jury..."

A "citizens' grand jury" is a group/blog. There is no such nomenclature within the legal system.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 10:42 PM (lq3Ak)

774 LONDO, you KNOW I can't DOOOOO that! Oh boy, this is GREAT!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 03, 2013 10:43 PM (xjpRj)

775 770 The George Zimmerman defense has recently gotten a lucky break. Angela Corey, FloridaÂ’s state attorney and the prosecutor against Zimmerman, has been indicted by a citizensÂ’ grand jury for allegedly falsifying an arrest warrant and the complaint that led to Zimmerman being charged with the second-degree murder of Trayvon Martin.

The indictment accuses Corey of allegedly withholding photographs of ZimmermanÂ’s head after the incident. Also, Corey allegedly falsely signed an arrest warrant under oath without including the pictures as evidence. Critics claim that Corey rushed the arrest warrant through because activists were rallying around the Trayvon Martin shooting, demanding that Zimmerman be charged with murder. Critics argue that Corey was attempting to secure a reelection with the support of the activists.

Posted by: Trayvon Martin at July 04, 2013 02:37 AM (e8kgV)

Yeah, unfortunately this seems to be a political stunt -- she's not actually being hauled off to a courtroom......yet.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 10:43 PM (T1005)

776 Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 02:40 AM (T1005)

*golf clap*

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 10:44 PM (lq3Ak)

777 What do you want?

Posted by: Mr. Mordren at July 03, 2013 10:46 PM (T1005)

778 Ah, hell. Londo's been drinking. I'm getting out of here before he notices me.

Posted by: Garibaldi at July 03, 2013 10:46 PM (hO9ad)

779 Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 02:40 AM (T1005 Amen. But i would truly fear what they thought of the citizenry of The Republic. If they looked upon what their dream became would they want it saved? I doubt it.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 10:47 PM (8FeS+)

780 779 Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 02:40 AM (T1005)

*golf clap*

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 04, 2013 02:44 AM (lq3Ak)

Yeah, I know -- and here I am drinking beer on a Wednesday night.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 10:47 PM (T1005)

781 "What do you want?"

...just another beer, please. The cooler is right over there --->

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 10:48 PM (lq3Ak)

782 782 Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 02:40 AM (T1005

Amen. But i would truly fear what they thought of the citizenry of The Republic. If they looked upon what their dream became would they want it saved? I doubt it.

Posted by: RWC at July 04, 2013 02:47 AM (8FeS+)

True -- "we went through all this for you and you put this lot in charge?!?!?"

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 10:49 PM (T1005)

783 "What do you want?"

...just another beer, please. The cooler is right over there --->

Some gifts come with too great a price

Posted by: Vir Cotto at July 03, 2013 10:49 PM (hO9ad)

784 Mr. Morden -- I would like to live just long enough so that when they cut off your head and place it on a pike as a warning that there some favors at too high a price, I can see you and wave my hand like this (waves hand). Do you think you could arrange that?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 03, 2013 10:49 PM (xjpRj)

785 Hey AoP did yo walk away with any nice cars at that auction?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 04, 2013 01:49 AM (8avI0)

Zilch. I didn't even stay for the whole thing. Too much of a circus. The lacquer-cracked, bondoed, and crusty Jag XKE went for $15000 and change. There was a Studebaker Champ half-ton there, and half the floor in the cab was made of Bondo, as were most of the front fenders. It was really a $500 parts truck, and it went for $4700. Some poor sap will be having big time buyer's remorse. I don't even know what some of the other cars of interest went for, but it was clear there were going to be no bargains. (I had gotten to see all the auction cars up close several months earlier, and had a good look at those that held any interest for me, so when I say one was a Bondo bucket, it's not just sour grapes.)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2013 10:51 PM (savps)

786 Our citizenry has become complacent. As Benjamin Franklin put it:

..."We've given you a Representative Republic, if you can keep it."

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 10:51 PM (lq3Ak)

787 You know, I love that show. So much that you could kick me in the genitals and I'd still watch it.

"Crusade" on the other hand, not so much.

Also, still betting Lou's A Girl is cute.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 03, 2013 10:52 PM (xjpRj)

788 781 Ah, hell. Londo's been drinking. I'm getting out of here before he notices me.

Posted by: Garibaldi at July 04, 2013 02:46 AM (hO9ad)

No hurry....I've noticed you.

Posted by: Alfred Bester at July 03, 2013 10:53 PM (T1005)

789 For the remake to blame the explosion of Krypton on "over-extraction" of resources is a travesty, and a sop to the CAGW scammers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 04, 2013 02:38 AM (savps)

Clearly an example of fracking gone wrong. The Kryptons pushed too much water into the surface of their planet, causing all their oil to ignite at once and then their planet went kablooey as Nature's punishment.

They dug too deep!

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at July 03, 2013 10:54 PM (ioT3q)

790 Alfred Bester

Get

out

of

my

head!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 03, 2013 10:54 PM (jGsIV)

791 Hey Hollywood, here is a free one- movie about a Founding Father or citizen during the time is transported to present day. Don't make him an idiot that is amazed by this 'smartphone witchcraft' but have him question 'why.' As in why does .gov need to be involved with what I do on my land? Why is .gov interested in who I talk to? Why are the people being ruled over? Why do we pay taxes on what we already own? Etc etc etc

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 10:55 PM (8FeS+)

792 790 You know, I love that show. So much that you could kick me in the genitals and I'd still watch it.

"Crusade" on the other hand, not so much.

Also, still betting Lou's A Girl is cute.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 04, 2013 02:52 AM (xjpRj)

The BH has been going through the series and the movies while she was in NC on business, and I was thinking of getting her "Crusade". Does it contribute, or would it be a waste of money?

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 10:56 PM (T1005)

793 I'm betting that even the "scariest" and most bitter of the 'ettes are HOT. Talk to them for ten minutes and look into their eyes.

...their steadfast belief makes the eyes the focus. That twinkle seems HOTTER than a college-girl's ass, IMHO.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 10:57 PM (lq3Ak)

794 True -- "we went through all this for you and you put this lot in charge?!?!?"

Let me get this straight. You let everyone vote, you let the government tax income and hand it out willy nilly, and you gave a bank authority to print money on the theory that you could then run your government on money borrowed from the future, so you could have free shit, and not pay for it.

*glares*

Posted by: George Washington, looking to choke a bitch at July 03, 2013 10:58 PM (hO9ad)

795

Â“The U.S. is monitoring the very fluid situation and believes ultimately the future of Egypt can only be determined by the Egyptian people and we are deeply concerned by the decision of the Egyptian armed forces to remove president Morsi and suspend the constitution,Â” Mr. Obama said.

And there it is. There was no way in hell that the Obama administration was going to accept the MB losing power in Egypt.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 03, 2013 10:59 PM (lr3d7)

796 794 Hey Hollywood, here is a free one- movie about a Founding Father or citizen during the time is transported to present day.

Don't make him an idiot that is amazed by this 'smartphone witchcraft' but have him question 'why.'

As in why does .gov need to be involved with what I do on my land? Why is .gov interested in who I talk to? Why are the people being ruled over? Why do we pay taxes on what we already own?

Etc etc etc

Posted by: RWC at July 04, 2013 02:55 AM (8FeS+)

"If you're calling from the government, please press 1; if you're calling from a lefty headliner, please press 2; if you're calling from a lefty producer, please press 3; if you are a stockholder or actual movie-watching customer, please hang up and dial 1-877-FUC-KOFF."

Posted by: Hollywood at July 03, 2013 10:59 PM (T1005)

797 Ah, hell. Londo's been drinking. I'm getting out of here before he notices me.

Posted by: Garibaldi at July 04, 2013 02:46 AM (hO9ad)

Posted by: Alfred Bester at July 04, 2013 02:53 AM (T1005)

I'm sorry, what was I talking about?

Posted by: Garibaldi at July 03, 2013 11:00 PM (hO9ad)

798 I cannot tell a lie. You guys @%@#'d up.

Posted by: George Washington at July 03, 2013 11:01 PM (ioT3q)

799 Ah, hell. Londo's been drinking. I'm getting out of here before he notices me.

Posted by: Garibaldi at July 04, 2013 02:46 AM (hO9ad)

Ahh mistahh Garibaldi, off duty I see. Hmm....water... I never touch the stuff myself.

Posted by: Londo Molari at July 03, 2013 11:02 PM (FMbng)

800 Red Eye is on. Brooke Goldstein is Hotter than HOT.

...being 1/16th Jewish helps, but SHE is an 'ette.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 11:02 PM (lq3Ak)

801 Does it contribute, or would it be a waste of money?

B5 worked because of the plot arc. Crusade had like 8 episodes.

Posted by: Garibaldi at July 03, 2013 11:03 PM (hO9ad)

802 Since Superman came up in conversation... http://www.explosm.net/comics/3216/

Posted by: Weirddave at July 03, 2013 11:03 PM (aH+zP)

803 And there it is. There was no way in hell that the Obama administration was going to accept the MB losing power in Egypt.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 04, 2013 02:59 AM (lr3d7)

Hopefully, the Egyptian Army has the wisdom to do what has to be done. They apparently have Morsi in custody, and are issuing arrest warrants for many other MoBros. Once they get the bulk of them rounded up, they should simply kill them; they are varmints.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2013 11:04 PM (savps)

804 Posted by: Hollywood at July 04, 2013 02:59 AM (T1005 I watched 'mama' tonight and would like to thank you for not taking the easy way out. OK movie, but glad about one part in the end.

Posted by: RWC at July 03, 2013 11:04 PM (8FeS+)

805 Cthulhu-- "Crusade" was a disappointment to me. Not sure of the various whys and wherefors, it struggled with a lackluster cast and a random direction. In service of fairness, many JMS fans say it would have flourished in a second season. Alas, all we got was one, which had its moments and its anti-moments.

If you can get it for $10 or less, why not.

Also, apologies to Lous A Girl for being a rotter and being bad and stuff. Can't help myself. By far the worst is the hamburger lady.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 03, 2013 11:07 PM (xjpRj)

806 804 Does it contribute, or would it be a waste of money?

B5 worked because of the plot arc. Crusade had like 8 episodes.

Posted by: Garibaldi at July 04, 2013 03:03 AM (hO9ad)

Hmmmm. Can I rely on that, or is it just the mental manipulation talking?

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 11:08 PM (T1005)

807 Cthulhu-- "Crusade" was a disappointment to me. Not sure of the various whys and wherefors, it struggled with a lackluster cast and a random direction. In service of fairness, many JMS fans say it would have flourished in a second season. Alas, all we got was one, which had its moments and its anti-moments.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 04, 2013 03:07 AM (xjpRj)

Gotta love that short thieves guild chick with the nice rack.

Posted by: Berserker at July 03, 2013 11:15 PM (FMbng)

808 Brooke Goldstein's HAIR should run for office. Those blue eyes and exquisite locks could trip-up RINOs from coast-to-coast.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 11:17 PM (lq3Ak)

809 I could go the rest of my life without hearing any of those 1993 songs (except The Proclaimers' song which is awesome). And, yeesh, there's that 4 Non Blondes song again.

Posted by: sinalco at July 03, 2013 11:18 PM (zDJDu)

810 ...I'm on my seventh Budweiser. For all I be, this Bud's for me.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 11:18 PM (lq3Ak)

811 Alright I horde, I'm so drunk at this point that I can't even really see the screen. Time to call it quits.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 03, 2013 11:20 PM (GEICT)

812 798

Â“The U.S. is monitoring the very fluid situation and believes ultimately the future of Egypt can only be determined by the Egyptian people and we are deeply concerned by the decision of the Egyptian armed forces to remove president Morsi and suspend the constitution,Â” Mr. Obama said.

And there it is. There was no way in hell that the Obama administration was going to accept the MB losing power in Egypt.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 04, 2013 02:59 AM (lr3d7)

...and, yet....didn't we already watch this movie in Honduras? IIRC, it was acted out by "a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 11:20 PM (T1005)

813 Later, BC. Cabo Wabo really does agree with you... lol.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 11:27 PM (lq3Ak)

814 There were some cool characters in Crusade, though the most interesting (and plot-dependent) was the Max Eileison character (or whatever his name was). Like the thief character, they made the plot move forward more interestingly than Lumberg getting hot with Boxleitner's ex.

Still, I would vote for a President Vir Cotto.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 03, 2013 11:27 PM (xjpRj)

815 I loved the fact that they signed up Sheriff Buck to be the captain. And had a resident technomage.

But on the heels of B5's fifth season, and the episodes were aired out of order, and my problem buying into the premise of something older and scarier than the Shadows, when we had met the oldest being in the galaxy in B5, I just couldn't get hooked. I don't think I even watched all the episodes that aired.

This would have been after the abortion that was Voyager, so maybe I just wasn't in a mood for scifi series sequels.

Posted by: Methos at July 03, 2013 11:28 PM (hO9ad)

816 Everyone should vote for VIR COTTO!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 03, 2013 11:30 PM (xjpRj)

817 Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 03:20 AM (T1005)

The Shakespeare went a little deep. The sentiment was stretched.

...are you smoking "silly cigarettes"?

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 11:32 PM (lq3Ak)

818 L.A. coun ty property values have gone up 32% in the last 90 days. And here I am. This is my town: http://tinyurl.com/qyyjobu

Posted by: DAve at July 03, 2013 11:32 PM (albkL)

819 New DLC for Telltale's Walking Dead game.

Posted by: buzzion at July 03, 2013 11:33 PM (LI48c)

820 821 554 sq.ft. for $300K

Posted by: DAve at July 03, 2013 11:33 PM (albkL)

821 823No A.C. at that price

Posted by: DAve at July 03, 2013 11:36 PM (albkL)

822 Never know which "BC" people mean when they say that. I guess I should find some kind of substitute. Oh well. Maybe I could be Loser 1. Might work. Also, still betting the female AoSers like Lous a Girl are gorgeous. Signing off. And...well, charity...

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 03, 2013 11:36 PM (xjpRj)

823 "New DLC for Telltale's Walking Dead game."

When?;
on Xbox?;
How much?

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 11:36 PM (lq3Ak)

824 826 "New DLC for Telltale's Walking Dead game."

When?;
on Xbox?;
How much?

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 04, 2013 03:36 AM (lq3Ak)

Its on Steam for PC for $5.00. I would assume that the Xbox version will get it also.

Posted by: buzzion at July 03, 2013 11:39 PM (LI48c)

825 813 ...I'm on my seventh Budweiser. For all I be, this Bud's for me.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 04, 2013 03:18 AM (lq3Ak)

Lightweight!

But, seriously, Budweiser is <5% ABV....where "Old Foghorn" brandywine-style Ale -- http://www.anchorbrewing.com/beer/old_foghorn -- is 8-10%.

It's actually worse than that, because most mass-market beers (though brewed at regional centers) tend to be 3.2% ABV or lower -- because some jurisdictions have a lower drinking age for "3-2 beer" than for wine or spirits. Keeping all versions lower than the statutory maximum means that a brewery could ship a couple of pallets brewed in Fairfield, CA, to Idaho if their Fort Collins, CO plant can't keep up (A-B has 12 breweries -- http://buschjobs.com/Careers/our-company/us-locations ). So Old Foghorn might actually have 3x the ABV as Budweiser.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 11:39 PM (T1005)

826 Oh and its available Now.

Posted by: buzzion at July 03, 2013 11:39 PM (LI48c)

827 820 Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 03:20 AM (T1005)

The Shakespeare went a little deep. The sentiment was stretched.

...are you smoking "silly cigarettes"?

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 04, 2013 03:32 AM (lq3Ak)

Nah, just drinkin' beer. I didn't think it was so stretched -- I've been to Honduras some years back, and I watched in disgust as this administration tried to stuff the cat back into the bag to reinstate their little socialist buddy there. It really was a great argument for "put a bullet in his head first, talk to the US later" style of coup. But, ultimately, after great exertion, the forces of wind from Washington blew themselves to naught.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 11:44 PM (T1005)

828 Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 03:39 AM (T1005)

-I
-Don't
-Care

...sorry to be so blunt, but I couldn't care less. You're a cool dude, so I'm not trying to piss you off.

I'm "old". I do things in a certain way because... success.

I drink my beer because... Budweiser.

I "slum" with Busch.

...There are twenty other micro-brews that I enjoy on Special Occasions. Hell, my Brother can 'pair' beers with meals. Much like wine. I don't do that, but I 'get it'.

I've honed my % + pace. Budweiser.

...for all I be, this Bud's for me.

-Your Friendly Neighborhood Slapweasel

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 11:48 PM (lq3Ak)

829 821 L.A. coun ty property values have gone up 32% in the last 90 days. And here I am. This is my town: http://tinyurl.com/qyyjobu

Posted by: DAve at July 04, 2013 03:32 AM (albkL)

That is hilarious.

Here, try this one -- http://www.trulia.com/property/3115980872-23-Jeff-Dr-Asheville-NC-28806

Posted by: cthulhu at July 03, 2013 11:51 PM (T1005)

830 cthulu:
"But, ultimately, after great exertion, the forces of wind from Washington blew themselves to naught."

That was poetic.

*golf clap*

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 11:52 PM (lq3Ak)

831 Roses are red, Politics bring grief, Up and at 'em to paint the floor tomorrow, So my ONT-ing shall be brief ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at July 03, 2013 11:55 PM (Jv4FA)

832 That was the worst poem I've read since I wrote a "White Guy" rap.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 03, 2013 11:59 PM (lq3Ak)

833 831 Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 03:39 AM (T1005)

-I
-Don't
-Care

...sorry to be so blunt, but I couldn't care less. You're a cool dude, so I'm not trying to piss you off.

I'm "old". I do things in a certain way because... success.

I drink my beer because... Budweiser.

I "slum" with Busch.

...There are twenty other micro-brews that I enjoy on Special Occasions. Hell, my Brother can 'pair' beers with meals. Much like wine. I don't do that, but I 'get it'.

I've honed my % + pace. Budweiser.

...for all I be, this Bud's for me.

-Your Friendly Neighborhood Slapweasel

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 04, 2013 03:48 AM (lq3Ak)

No problemo, friend -- "De gustibus non est disputandum" ["In matters of taste, there can be no disputes"]. I was merely pointing out that folks who are training their livers for truly heavy lifting need to find heartier brews.

As a side note, beer is the oldest known beverage -- as in, something created specifically for the purpose of drinking. It actually predates wine by a chunk. There's even a surviving beer recipe that is just a wee bit shy of 4000 years old (1800 BC) as a "hymn to Ninkasi" http://beeradvocate.com/articles/304 .

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 12:00 AM (T1005)

834 834 Roses are red,
Politics bring grief,
Up and at 'em to paint the floor tomorrow,
So my ONT-ing shall be brief ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at July 04, 2013 03:55 AM (Jv4FA)

Are we talking about the same floor, again?

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 12:01 AM (T1005)

835 Yes Sir. Beer was the first accidental discovery in ways to halt microbes. Those who think "Samuel Adams" was a "Brewer/Patriot", have only 10% of the story.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 04, 2013 12:04 AM (lq3Ak)

836 Having inherited a level of freedom and economic opulence never experienced on such a wide scale in human history, the monstrously selfish retarded assholes of this generation have bequeathed to their children a country where learning the langage of foreign invaders will be a requirement for stable employment. I have no desire to associate with them at all, my "peer group". I can't imagine today's youth will never wise up to the violation and respond with the righteous viciousness they've earned

Posted by: DAve at July 04, 2013 12:07 AM (albkL)

837 That was the worst poem I've read since I wrote a "White Guy" rap. They get much, much, worse, My attempts at verse ... So if you feel sick, Quickly grab and open your purse ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at July 04, 2013 12:09 AM (Jv4FA)

838 Yep, same Master Bed Room floor that I was working on in February... Did a 220 sanding the other day. Accompanied by the hubby on shopvac. Tomorrow we wash the floor and paint another coat, hopefully two as fast as the paint dries these days ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at July 04, 2013 12:11 AM (Jv4FA)

839 839 And all of a sudden I find THIS: http://tinyurl.com/me549ec

Posted by: DAve at July 04, 2013 12:12 AM (albkL)

840 Friday, baseboard and crown molding. Saturday floor stencil. That is THE PLAN. Sticking to THE PLAN will require working in the heat as the a/c is terrible in the back addition. I do worry about that ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at July 04, 2013 12:13 AM (Jv4FA)

841 Sultan Knish be a good blog to read ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at July 04, 2013 12:14 AM (Jv4FA)

842 841 Yep, same Master Bed Room floor that I was working on in February...

Did a 220 sanding the other day. Accompanied by the hubby on shopvac.

Tomorrow we wash the floor and paint another coat, hopefully two as fast as the paint dries these days ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at July 04, 2013 04:11 AM (Jv4FA)

Well, I should talk -- I finally glued the first round of the kegerator collar project today.....that was all set to be done right before we left for Saint Petersburg....about two years ago. I know the temperature control electronics work, I've got all the pieces....but something always comes up.

Once this part is done, I've got some tricksy stuff for holding the temp controller, but otherwise it's just adding pieces to the frame, sanding, staining, polyurethane, then adding weatherstrip to the bottom, remounting the lid on the collar from on the fridge, mounting the taps, chilling it (occupied), and enjoying the brews.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 12:18 AM (T1005)

843 842 839 And all of a sudden I find THIS: http://tinyurl.com/me549ec

Posted by: DAve at July 04, 2013 04:12 AM (albkL)

Yeah, I'm not feeling guilty. Even way back when, in school, they tried all that retarded "you must repay the guilt against the native americans and blacks" and I was going, "WTF? I'm a mick, and my great aunt came over and fell off a potato truck onto a pitchfork within the last 125 years.....why they hell should I be tagged with anything prior to 1890???"

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 12:24 AM (T1005)

844 Its hard with 2 houses... We got 98% of the d/s bath room tile on the old new house done. Constantly switching projects back and forth ... Wears you out just remembering where all the tools are ... Am glad to hear the kegerator is progressing!

Posted by: Adriane ... at July 04, 2013 12:27 AM (Jv4FA)

845 Constantly switching projects back and forth ...

Wears you out just remembering where all the tools are ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at July 04, 2013 04:27 AM (Jv4FA)

Boy, you can sing that in church. We just had a heat wave up here -- "put everything on hold, and run emergency water out to the plants!!!!!" Then you settle down a bit and "water leak into cabinets -- drop everything and caulk under the rim of the sink!!!!!" Then you're going, "I wonder how square these are and "OMG -- have to move this into another room, need this room for my sister to come over!!!!!" "Plugged up toilet!!!!"

I've been collecting stuff to brew beer for over three years, and I finally did a batch while the BH was in NC for three weeks.....and haven't done one since she got back. It's just been nuts.

And my original scheme for clamping the kegerator collar while the glue dried sukked balz, so I had to invent a new one....but somehow progress was made today. Tomorrow is probably a lost cause, 'cause of the holiday.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 12:38 AM (T1005)

846 839: You're so effin' right.

Moving along, I remember firing my cousin's double-barrel 12 gauge. I only got to fire birdshot. Cuz said slugs would kill the breech.

His gun, none of my business, right?

Posted by: Ray Sist at July 04, 2013 12:39 AM (UNrZ+)

847 Yeah, I'm not feeling guilty. Even way back when, in school, they tried all that retarded "you must repay the guilt against the native americans and blacks" and I was going, "WTF? I'm a mick, and my great aunt came over and fell off a potato truck onto a pitchfork within the last 125 years.....why they hell should I be tagged with anything prior to 1890???" This. My family came here from Italy in 1938 after my grandfather fought against -- and lost to -- Mussolini. He became a U.S. citizen, and then later got drafted during WWII and sent back to North Africa roughly 100 miles from where he started. I am neither white nor a minority. I have never oppressed anyone and I don't know anyone I'd consider to have been truly oppressed. I haven't benefited from white privilege and I'm not asking for any. Likewise, I feel no need to pay other people money or offer them special privileges because they are browner than I am. I have worked my ass off to make my life successful and have never taken a penny in direct benefits from the government, although the amount I now pay just in taxes would put me in the top 10% of incomes. I have done nothing wrong and do not feel guilty. Fuck our media and socialist, vote-buying government. America is bad ass but the left is ruining it.

Posted by: Blacksheep at July 04, 2013 12:41 AM (bS6uW)

848 850 Yeah, I'm not feeling guilty. Even way back when, in school, they tried all that retarded "you must repay the guilt against the native americans and blacks" and I was going, "WTF? I'm a mick, and my great aunt came over and fell off a potato truck onto a pitchfork within the last 125 years.....why they hell should I be tagged with anything prior to 1890???"

This. My family came here from Italy in 1938 after my grandfather fought against -- and lost to -- Mussolini. He became a U.S. citizen, and then later got drafted during WWII and sent back to North Africa roughly 100 miles from where he started.

I am neither white nor a minority. I have never oppressed anyone and I don't know anyone I'd consider to have been truly oppressed.

I haven't benefited from white privilege and I'm not asking for any. Likewise, I feel no need to pay other people money or offer them special privileges because they are browner than I am.

I have worked my ass off to make my life successful and have never taken a penny in direct benefits from the government, although the amount I now pay just in taxes would put me in the top 10% of incomes. I have done nothing wrong and do not feel guilty.

Fuck our media and socialist, vote-buying government. America is bad ass but the left is ruining it.

Posted by: Blacksheep at July 04, 2013 04:41 AM (bS6uW)

And, BTW, it's worse than "why should my family be tagged with anything from before we got here?" There's also "why should I atone for acts from before I was born?" Do I have tainted blood, or something? I thought that shit went out with the Klan.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 12:45 AM (T1005)

849 Not impossible but unlikely, Blacksheep.

Overall, sounds more like an excuse than anything else.

850

Posted by: Ray Sist at July 04, 2013 12:48 AM (UNrZ+)

850 HTH ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rik7xV7Tj4 oh. you said tainted blood... Nevermind.

Posted by: Emily Litella at July 04, 2013 12:51 AM (Jv4FA)

851 I have a plan to rally our Frisco voters and get a NEA grant. Barky will be on his hands and knees at the West Wing. I will insert a large sparkler in his tail pipe and light it. Barky will wage the flaming sparkler like a dog's tale while I digitally photograph him at different angles. He will be wearing nothing but a spiked choker. Well will have a fire extinguisher handy should it burn down too deep. That should be worth at least $370,000 in NEA grant money!

Posted by: Barney F. at July 04, 2013 12:51 AM (m5Tr1)

852 If all animals are getting fatter, then my first thoughts about why would point to something that's common to western Civ and that can be found in everyone's ingestion stream.

Stream literally as in water. Something's in the water folks.

My guess? Estrogen. A known fat enhancing hormone. Coming from where? Birth control pills. Women take the pill, then they pee. What's in that pee but a higher level of estrogen from the pill. Water treatment isn't setup to eliminate (heh) hormones from our water. And only small doses can have a large (heh again) effect.

Course, I'm no chemical Eng. nor endocrinologist but that's my lay theory.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at July 04, 2013 12:51 AM (28TG+)

853 Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at July 04, 2013 04:51 AM (28TG+)

You're a silly bastard.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 04, 2013 12:56 AM (lq3Ak)

854 Course, I'm no chemical Eng. nor endocrinologist but that's my lay theory. Introduction of drugs into the environment - via the natural bodily functions - is of concern to many ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at July 04, 2013 12:57 AM (Jv4FA)

855 Posted by: Adriane ... at July 04, 2013 04:57 AM (Jv4FA)

You're co-silly. I'd still board the plane, but I'd laugh a lot.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 04, 2013 12:58 AM (lq3Ak)

856 Overall, sounds more like an excuse than anything else. I don't understand your comment. What excuse do you think I'm making? To the contrary, I'm not asking for anything and I don't feel like I owe anyone anything except the obligation we all have to each other to follow the law, pay our taxes and not harm each other.

Posted by: Blacksheep at July 04, 2013 01:00 AM (bS6uW)

857 A load of birdshot will fold an Iowa license plate in half in less than half a heartbeat at 25 yards, if anybody was wondering.

There's gonna be half a big hole. must be a little more than a half-inch radius.

Posted by: Ray Sist at July 04, 2013 01:01 AM (UNrZ+)

858 You're a silly bastard.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 04, 2013 04:56 AM (lq3Ak)

You should know, Mom.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at July 04, 2013 01:02 AM (28TG+)

859 Egyptian security forces raid Al Jazeera for being too pro-Morsi: http://tinyurl.com/lefdhgg Special snowflake Soledad O'Brien hardest hit.

Posted by: Blacksheep at July 04, 2013 01:04 AM (bS6uW)

860 Not impossible but unlikely, Blacksheep

I say again.

859

Posted by: Ray Sist at July 04, 2013 01:05 AM (UNrZ+)

861 "You should know, Mom."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at July 04, 2013 05:02 AM (28TG+)

You'd better eat your vegetables. They're good for you. I've made soup.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 04, 2013 01:05 AM (lq3Ak)

862 855 If all animals are getting fatter, then my first thoughts about why would point to something that's common to western Civ and that can be found in everyone's ingestion stream.

Stream literally as in water. Something's in the water folks.

My guess? Estrogen. A known fat enhancing hormone. Coming from where? Birth control pills. Women take the pill, then they pee. What's in that pee but a higher level of estrogen from the pill. Water treatment isn't setup to eliminate (heh) hormones from our water. And only small doses can have a large (heh again) effect.

Course, I'm no chemical Eng. nor endocrinologist but that's my lay theory.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at July 04, 2013 04:51 AM (28TG+)

This would be a good first stab at things -- estrogen is common to all vertebrates and even some insects.....but we should be skeptical at all times lest someone wrench us into pseudoscientific "we must DO SOMETHING" hysteria [like AGW].

The big questions in my mind would be, "how long does estrogen stay estrogen when it's run through a sewage-treatment plant? How 'bout when it's pissed in a field?" Complex organic molecules (interestingly, the three flavors of estrogen contain only carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen) tend to be readily degraded into their constituent parts in nature.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 01:07 AM (T1005)

863 Not impossible but unlikely, Blacksheep. OK, I'll try again, what's not impossible but unlikely? No idea what you're talking about.

Posted by: Blacksheep at July 04, 2013 01:08 AM (bS6uW)

864 864 "You should know, Mom."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at July 04, 2013 05:02 AM (28TG+)

You'd better eat your vegetables. They're good for you. I've made soup.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 04, 2013 05:05 AM (lq3Ak)

Heh.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 01:10 AM (T1005)

865 866: Your story.

Posted by: Ray Sist at July 04, 2013 01:12 AM (UNrZ+)

866 My "moobs" think that there is estrogen in the water supply. I'm too lazy to look it up.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 04, 2013 01:13 AM (lq3Ak)

867 LOL. But what if I don't like vegetables in my soup? Can't I just have an extra helping of estrogen instead?

Posted by: Blacksheep at July 04, 2013 01:13 AM (bS6uW)

868 ...milk? No milk. I was worried there for a second.

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 04, 2013 01:14 AM (lq3Ak)

869 866: Your story. I've been here ten years and it's never changed. I don't know who you are, and don't care if you like my post. Later.

Posted by: Blacksheep at July 04, 2013 01:15 AM (bS6uW)

870 From Belmont Club:

"The Â“Saudi king congratulates EgyptÂ’s new interim presidentÂ” Â— Al Arabiya. In the same time frame Time reported that Â”Obama expresses Â‘concernÂ’ over Morsi ouster. Orders review in military aid to Egypt.Â” In the light of the Saudi kingÂ’s fulsome congratulations ObamaÂ’s sour reservations suggest a rift between the White House and the Kingdom. TheyÂ’re not singing off the same sheet of music. For one the Saudi king sounds delighted while Obama acts like heÂ’s lost his shirt."

Yet more support for the "put the bullet in his head and THEN answer the white house courtesy phone" theory.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 01:15 AM (T1005)

871 We think you're Extra Special, U.S.A.!

Posted by: Saudi King Prince Womansmasher at July 04, 2013 01:19 AM (lq3Ak)

872 Yet more support for the "put the bullet in his head and THEN answer the white house courtesy phone" theory. You got that right. The quick Saudi support was kind of surprising, though the high-ups in the royal family are obviously no fans of the Muslim Bros. Wonder what the Egyptian security forces are going to do with Morsi?

Posted by: Blacksheep at July 04, 2013 01:19 AM (bS6uW)

873 I'm digging the anti-O pics linked through Drudge in any event. Pretty funny. Too bad I have to rely on foreigner protesters and media for a clear-eyed view of the Philosopher-King.

Posted by: Blacksheep at July 04, 2013 01:23 AM (bS6uW)

874 872: I guess this must be my final goodbye then, You Guys! I'm totes grateful for all the typing space You Guys have allowed me here.
I must be banned now.

10 years posting? Who the hell am I anyway?

Posted by: Ray Sist at July 04, 2013 01:23 AM (UNrZ+)

875 "Wonder what the Egyptian security forces are going to do with Morsi?

Posted by: Blacksheep at July 04, 2013 05:19 AM (bS6uW)

That's a damned-good question. I'd suppose they'll return him to his "post" immediately, which would be the "progressive way". He can head the campaign for the MBH; and we can all go pound salt.

...TFG's "preference".

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 04, 2013 01:24 AM (lq3Ak)

876 875 Yet more support for the "put the bullet in his head and THEN answer the white house courtesy phone" theory.

You got that right. The quick Saudi support was kind of surprising, though the high-ups in the royal family are obviously no fans of the Muslim Bros.

Wonder what the Egyptian security forces are going to do with Morsi?

Posted by: Blacksheep at July 04, 2013 05:19 AM (bS6uW)

Nothing says "fait accompli" quite so eloquently as a body attaining room temperature with a head sporting an extra orifice.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 01:26 AM (T1005)

877 Oyah! I'm a muthafuckin' patriot. And it's the 4th o' muthafuckin' July!

Posted by: Ray Sist at July 04, 2013 01:27 AM (UNrZ+)

878 English profanity now included in standard German dictionary as filling a need in their language: http://tinyurl.com/qylnzym "Shitstorm." Hard to imagine a real need for that but their call. At least we're exporting something.

Posted by: Blacksheep at July 04, 2013 01:27 AM (bS6uW)

879 I welcomed Independence Day five-and-one-half hours ago.

I got drunk, shot a British guy and built a large barricade upon a hill.

You should do the same.

...Your Friendly Neighborhood Slapweasel

G'Nite Evrybody!

Posted by: Slapweasel at July 04, 2013 01:34 AM (lq3Ak)

880 I'm out too. BBQ duties beckon all too soon.

Posted by: Blacksheep at July 04, 2013 01:35 AM (bS6uW)

881 Heads. Orifices. Bodies. Hmmm...

That reminds me. There was that thing the other night about Roman lime concrete vs. portland cement concrete? ACI knew all about it for centuries, yo?

I think it was acid rain that killed Roman concrete. I might be wrong as usual.

Posted by: Ray Sist, fait accompli at July 04, 2013 01:40 AM (UNrZ+)

882 Posted by: Blacksheep at July 04, 2013 05:27 AM (bS6uW)

Funny you should mention the word "shitstorm" while we're discussing Morsi and the previous US diplomatic clusterfuck known as Zelaya in Honduras. Zelaya was deposed on June 28, 2009 -- and, yet, he's still causing trouble today. If the Honduran forces had executed him then -- which was well within their range of possible actions -- Honduras and Central America would be better off today. But they didn't.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 01:40 AM (T1005)

883 Nitric and carbonic acid rain, You Guys!

OMG!

Posted by: Ray Sist, sleepyheadyawn at July 04, 2013 01:45 AM (UNrZ+)

884 I commented last night that I was debating on whether to not fly my flag or fly it upside down for the Fourth. I've made my decision. My flag is up. Upside down.

Posted by: rickl at July 04, 2013 01:45 AM (sdi6R)

885 887 I commented last night that I was debating on whether to not fly my flag or fly it upside down for the Fourth.

I've made my decision. My flag is up. Upside down.

Posted by: rickl at July 04, 2013 05:45 AM (sdi6R)

Where are you?

We don't have a flagpole, so we hang ours -- and nobody remembers which side the field is supposed to be on, so it would make little difference if we reversed ours.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 01:48 AM (T1005)

886 Central America... Nitric acid... people... melting flesh...

What were we talking about?

Sulfuric acid. right.

*Megadeth*

Posted by: Ray Sist, sleepyheadyawn at July 04, 2013 01:51 AM (UNrZ+)

887 cthulhu: I'm in Pennsylvania, and I have a real 18 ft. flagpole in my yard. I said in one of last night's threads that I was agonizing over the decision because I live in a county that went for TFG both times and I was leery about calling attention to myself.

Posted by: rickl at July 04, 2013 02:06 AM (sdi6R)

888 Well if you really want to avoid calling attention to yourself, then you should probably find the nearest 18' flag pole and run your country's flag up it. Invert it first. That way, nobody will notice.

Posted by: Ray Sist, Authority on you-know-what at July 04, 2013 02:14 AM (UNrZ+)

889 Posted by: rickl at July 04, 2013 06:06 AM (sdi6R) don't sweat it

Posted by: somensaguy at July 04, 2013 02:18 AM (Sg0G/)

890 Sure, the army is detaining Barky's boy Morsi in an undisclosed location. But, I can assure you Barky has his finger in the right place -up his butt. And, that is where it will stay until a spin piece in the NYT's OP-Ed pages can be made to make Barky look intelligent. Good day.

Posted by: Barney F. at July 04, 2013 02:20 AM (m5Tr1)

891 I just now got around to reading the Vox Day link in the original post. That is excellent.

Posted by: rickl at July 04, 2013 02:21 AM (sdi6R)

892 I think the discreditors are too caught up on the "paleo" and "primal" names to realize that people who do these diets do not really care if there is truth to whether cavemen really eat this way or not. The diets both focus on eating real foods, and our society has gotten away from doing that with all the processed stuff that has entered our diets.

I'm not a primal/paleo dieter, myself -- I just cut my carbs drastically. But I've lost weight (30 pds. so far), and two health issues I've had in the past (monthy heartburn and zit breakouts) have disappeared.

Posted by: Scoop11 at July 04, 2013 02:23 AM (fIBmG)

893 John Kerry was lounging about on his yacht while Obama etc were doing hard work posing for a photo op in the Situation Room: http://tinyurl.com/lllbwsa

Posted by: Baldy at July 04, 2013 02:25 AM (tyDFN)

894 Posted by: Scoop11 at July 04, 2013 06:23 AM (fIBmG) Of course the "paleo diet" is a fraud....it doesn't mention bugs at all.

Posted by: BignJames at July 04, 2013 02:36 AM (Sg0G/)

895 888 We don't have a flagpole, so we hang ours -- and nobody remembers which side the field is supposed to be on, so it would make little difference if we reversed ours. Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2013 05:48 AM (T1005) Here's what I found in a flag etiquette brochure: "When displayed either horizontally or vertically against a wall, the union should be uppermost and to the flag's own right, that is, to the observer's left. When displayed in a window, the flag should be displayed in the same way with the union or blue field to the left of the observer in the street." --- "The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property." --- And that's where we are now.

Posted by: rickl at July 04, 2013 02:37 AM (sdi6R)

896 If I were running things in Egypt now, Morsi would be held somewhere quietly. Zawahari and a few other Islamist leaders would however catch an immediate case of the .45cal flu, just to send a message.

Posted by: Jean at July 04, 2013 02:57 AM (CMlD4)

897 Posted by: Jean at July 04, 2013 06:57 AM (CMlD4) I wonder where the good Dr. is ? Affy? Paky?...Iran?

Posted by: BignJames at July 04, 2013 03:01 AM (Sg0G/)

898 Raining like pouring piss from a boot here....grilling outlook not positive.

Posted by: BignJames at July 04, 2013 03:15 AM (Sg0G/)

899 Fireworks banned in New York? What you mean is New Yorkers need to drive to more enlightened states, like Pennsylvania, to buy them. They did.

Posted by: MarkD at July 04, 2013 03:17 AM (06gsL)

900 ...a few other Islamist leaders would however catch an immediate case of the .45cal flu, just to send a message.
Posted by: Jean at July 04, 2013 06:57 AM

Didn't Choom Boy already say we should make sure teh Muzzie Bros aren't dissed by the new regime in Egypt?

The traitorous fuckweasel proves, once again, that his priorities are to support any America-hating, Christian-hating scumbags he can find.

It's hard to turn your back on all that screwed-up racist dogma from the 1960s, and President Historic FirstÂ© has repeatedly shown that he can't do it. He'll be Takin' it to The Man until the day he dies.

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 04, 2013 03:17 AM (/RIVS)

901

@903. "He'll be Takin' it to The Man until the day he dies."

He IS "The Man". You mean he'll be takin' it to the white devils until the day he dies. Him and Mooch.

Posted by: Case at July 04, 2013 03:22 AM (jhRZ+)

902 Rain, rain, rain. No fireworks today. Just as well.

Posted by: Case at July 04, 2013 03:24 AM (jhRZ+)

903 Just saw a vid of Mooch and Laura Bush at WZ. What an arrogant pig.

Posted by: Infidel at July 04, 2013 03:29 AM (SkhKv)

904 He IS "The Man". You mean he'll be takin' it to the white devils until the day he dies. Him and Mooch. Posted by: Case at July 04, 2013 07:22 AM

You're right, of course. But his predecessors never bothered to think about what would happen when/if they became "The Man" or were put in charge of directing that flow of Power to the People (right on!).

My fervent hope for Choom Boy is that he -- and, for that matter, WE -- live long enough to see him marginalized, reviled and discredited, as powerless, irrelevant and useless as Huey P Newton, Angela Davis and Ron Karenga.

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 04, 2013 03:33 AM (/RIVS)

905

What? No morning thread. What am I suppose to bitch about all day?

Posted by: Case at July 04, 2013 04:03 AM (jhRZ+)

906 Samuelson is saying what Generals through the years have said: there are chokepoints, and if you can control the you can control your foe.

The Air Force claimed that strategic bombing would win WWII, and they then began bombing cities for no reason other than "they were there." Bombing from 1942 - 1943 was largely ineffective.

Once they shifted to bombing oil, however, the Third Reich was done for. Most things can be made in small batches, in garages and basements spread all over the Reich. Not oil. Oil requires large, easily identified facilities.

No matter how hard the Germans tried to defend their oil infrastructure - and they did a ruthless job of that - the targets were there, and they were bombed.

And Germany did, indeed, collapse. By the Bulge - December of 1944 - Germany was desperate for fuel.

And thus it can be with the intertubes. It is readily targeted, even if it is ruthlessly defended. It clearly has become a critical organ in Western society. Our banking depends upon it, for example. Every significant retail outlet requires it to transact business. This includes gasoline and food.

There are contingency plans to keep the lights on, the military operating, and essentials like food available - but they are crude.

The impact on our economy would be stunning, and not in a good way.

Samuelson isn't wrong. Cyberwar is here and already happening. As long as the defenders stay ahead of the attackers, "there's nothing to see here." If the attackers get in a good attack, you'll know...

Posted by: RobM1981 at July 04, 2013 05:07 AM (zurJC)

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