March 20, 2013
— Pixy Misa What would a Calvin and Hobbes TV cartoon look like?
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Posted by: snowman commenter beheading all the other snowmen commenters at March 20, 2013 07:41 AM (ORGYc)
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So.... this is a thread in which we can advocate tossing Eric Holder out the airlock?
Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at March 20, 2013 07:42 AM (FzhYM)
355 Drooling Biden comments on Pope Francis:
The vice president said the United States almost had its first pope in contender Cardinal Sean OÂ’Malley from Boston.
“We almost made it big.. We almost had a chance at power. We came that close, that close,” Biden said.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2013 07:42 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 07:42 AM (4OvDk)
Posted by: dfbaskwill at March 20, 2013 07:43 AM (71LDo)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 20, 2013 07:43 AM (wTPGq)
Posted by: annoyed at March 20, 2013 07:44 AM (uEm7J)
Posted by: RWC at March 20, 2013 07:44 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: Paladin at March 20, 2013 07:44 AM (hxLER)
10 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.
That comment is totally like rape you guys.
I'm thinking of killing ..... raping myself.
Posted by: Ashley's Judds at March 20, 2013 07:45 AM (z3Lez)
8 -
What's this "we" business? Perhaps Joe hasn't gotten the memo, this new Pope don't play when it comes to nominal Catholics.
Go start your own religion, Joe.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 20, 2013 07:45 AM (TOk1P)
355
Drooling Biden comments on Pope Francis:
The vice president said the United States almost had its first pope in contender Cardinal Sean OÂ’Malley from Boston.
“We almost made it big.. We almost had a chance at power. We came that close, that close,” Biden said.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2013 11:42 AM (UOM4
<<<<<<
And then the Vice President clapped his hands with glee as the man in the white coat handed him his snack - a Fun Size bag of Mrs. Plumbum's Olde Tyme Kettle-Cooked Paint Chips.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 20, 2013 07:45 AM (CJjw5)
Posted by: RWC at March 20, 2013 07:46 AM (fWAjv)
I miss Spaceman Spiff.
And Tracer Bullet. "I've got six slugs in me. One's lead and the rest are bourbon."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 20, 2013 07:46 AM (zF6Iw)
>>Calvin and Hobbes should never be transmogrified to the TV or Screen.
Heh. Yeah, I'm torn. I can't tell if this is the coolest thing ever or the worst thing ever.
I miss C & H. I don't think I've read any of those comics in eight or nine years. Perhaps some memories are best left undisturbed.
Posted by: Ben at March 20, 2013 07:46 AM (C2Y4l)
He said that, yet claims to be Catholic. Do they drug him to keep him standing upright?
Posted by: NewEnglandDevil at March 20, 2013 07:47 AM (73P68)
Posted by: RWC at March 20, 2013 07:47 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 07:48 AM (4OvDk)
Posted by: Stupendous Man at March 20, 2013 07:48 AM (BAS5M)
FIFYPosted by: RWC at March 20, 2013 07:48 AM (fWAjv)
So.... this is a thread in which we can advocate tossing Eric Holder out the airlock?
me likes seeing him sucked out a pinhole ala Aliens.
Posted by: Cicero Kid at March 20, 2013 07:48 AM (UrENZ)
Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 20, 2013 07:48 AM (EWKEr)
And even more Obamanite stupidity:
The Department of EducationÂ’s sequester cuts are taking a brutal toll on
federally-funded schools on Native American reservations, but the
federal agency still found money to create a new six-figure job
promoting “Educational Excellence for African-Americans.”
Nothing gets cut for blacks. The CBC will scream racism!
I can hardly wait to see what black Obama crony gets to head this program.
http://is.gd/Povlxk
Never mind he is a Charlie Rangel tax dodger crony
http://is.gd/v2yKQn
Posted by: Vic at March 20, 2013 07:49 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2013 07:49 AM (jE38p)
Don't mess with greatness.
Posted by: Vizzini [/i] at March 20, 2013 07:49 AM (O7Q1u)
24 -
Probably. I saw one of those oversized and overpriced compilation books in a store a couple years ago. Leafed through it, trying to talk myself up to spending that kind of money... then put it back down.
It's not anything other than, you can't go back.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 20, 2013 07:50 AM (TOk1P)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 20, 2013 07:50 AM (XYSwB)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 07:50 AM (4OvDk)
And the snowman 'house of horrors.'<<<
Heh! I can still see the snowman gaping with horror a the hole through his midsection as he's standing next to a cannon built out of snow.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 20, 2013 07:51 AM (CJjw5)
I think it was to the Orion Syndicate
Posted by: Groundskeeper Willie at March 20, 2013 07:51 AM (e8kgV)
Speaking of comics: two underrated ones I always liked were Citizen Dog and Lucky Cow. Anybody remember them?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 20, 2013 07:51 AM (zF6Iw)
Turn off Javascript. At least for ace.mu.nu and minx.ccPosted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 07:51 AM (4OvDk)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at March 20, 2013 07:51 AM (/kI1Q)
I'm a big big C-n-H fan. Watterson's wallet knows this to be true.
And yes, I'd watch a cartoon series, as long as Mr. Watterson himself did the scripts.
*pthbhth* to all the naysayers.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 20, 2013 07:52 AM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Vizzini [/i] at March 20, 2013 07:52 AM (O7Q1u)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/clu7xzf
Posted by: WalrusRex at March 20, 2013 07:52 AM (XUKZU)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 11:50 AM (4OvDk)
Obama
Posted by: Vic at March 20, 2013 07:52 AM (53z96)
So according to a flash headline at Drudge, Cypriot banks may not reopen. This after the gubmint put the kibosh on the whole "We're going to just up and steal your money" scheme. Now they're just going to steal pensions.
*throws hands in the air*
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 20, 2013 07:53 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Jaws at March 20, 2013 07:54 AM (4I3Uo)
What's this "we" business? Perhaps Joe hasn't gotten the memo, this new Pope don't play when it comes to nominal Catholics.
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I see that Joey Boo Boo got to take communion, though.
Posted by: WalrusRex at March 20, 2013 07:56 AM (XUKZU)
http://is.gd/LK5u3G
Posted by: Vic at March 20, 2013 07:56 AM (53z96)
"alien fuel" ROFLOL
Posted by: Groundskeeper Willie at March 20, 2013 07:56 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Truman North and his shiny new website at March 20, 2013 07:56 AM (I2LwF)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at March 20, 2013 07:57 AM (7ObY1)
Posted by: Truman North and his shiny new website at March 20, 2013 07:57 AM (I2LwF)
Posted by: Californio at March 20, 2013 07:57 AM (2eIwi)
Not enough ethanol in it.
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 07:57 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Award-winning commenter Jones in CO at March 20, 2013 07:58 AM (8sCoq)
The vice president said the United States almost had its first pope in contender Cardinal Sean OÂ’Malley from Boston.
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I mean, you got the first mainstream Catholic-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.
Posted by: Joey boo Boo at March 20, 2013 07:58 AM (XUKZU)
I've got every Calvin and Hobbes book. I reread them when I want to relax and clear my mind. I'm an only child and it brings back memories. My Hobbes believe it or not was a Chimp.
Posted by: polynikes at March 20, 2013 07:58 AM (m2CN7)
SURVEY: Broad support in UK for creating babies from 3 people
AP: http://tiny.cc/gb58tw
Yeah, because nothing could possibly go wrong there.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 20, 2013 07:59 AM (4df7R)
Press Release, Whitehouse, 2020
We are proud to announce that we are increasing the Funding for the new NASA. This reinvigorated Agency will have two Missions...
1. Putting a Man on Mars within the next 10 years
and
2. Rebuilding our ability to Shuttle to Earth orbit, so we have the ability to Space Eric Holder...
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 20, 2013 07:59 AM (lZBBB)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 20, 2013 07:59 AM (J/5jZ)
But it does remind me I've been planning on getting that Calvin and Hobbes Complete Collection, and should do so.
Posted by: Waterhouse at March 20, 2013 07:59 AM (3zG7W)
Posted by: Truman North and his shiny new website at March 20, 2013 08:00 AM (I2LwF)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 20, 2013 11:59 AM (4df7R)
How does that even work? Last time I checked, it was one sperm and one egg meeting up.
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 08:00 AM (GQ8sn)
We are proud to announce that we are increasing the Funding for the new NASA. This reinvigorated Agency will have two Missions...
You forgot the third mission:
3) Get duped into Chinese "honey traps."
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 20, 2013 08:01 AM (4df7R)
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In any event, the agency has since issued a new regulation that removes any doubt that water from logging roads is the same as runoff from a farmer's field, not industrial pollution.
What a waste of court time during a "sequester" .. fire somebody at the EPA
Posted by: Groundskeeper Willie at March 20, 2013 08:02 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2013 11:42 AM (UOM4
Heh that pretty much sums up and reinforces why we won't see an American pope for a while.
Posted by: tsrblke at March 20, 2013 08:02 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: Waterhouse at March 20, 2013 08:02 AM (3zG7W)
But we're making sure Muzzies feel special about themselves.
Alrighty, then.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2013 08:02 AM (UOM48)
How does that even work? Last time I checked, it was one sperm and one egg meeting up.
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I'm pretty sure that is hetero-normative hate speech. I'll bet Michelle Shocked just had an orgasm.
Posted by: WalrusRex at March 20, 2013 08:02 AM (XUKZU)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 20, 2013 08:03 AM (XvrTA)
I actually have the Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat book at my desk right now.
Calvin: I've decided to stop caring about things. If you care, you just get disappointed all the time. If you done't care, nothing matters, so your're never upset. From now on, my rallying cry is "So What?!"
Hobbes: That's a tough cry to rally around.
Calvin: So What ?!
Posted by: polynikes at March 20, 2013 08:04 AM (m2CN7)
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 12:00 PM (GQ8sn)
I'm assuming they're talking about some kind of "test tube" baby, where the genetic material from three donors would be mixed together. I don't foresee this even being possible any time soon, since the whole "23 + 23 = 46 chromosomes" thing is kind of important, and nature already figured out how to do it in a way that can't really be improved upon. But hey -- it's Europe. They do stupid shit every single day.
And yeah, I know the Brits hate being called "European." If they stop acting like idiots, I might stop using that particular epithet.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 20, 2013 08:04 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 20, 2013 12:01 PM (4df7R)
Don't need honey traps when NASA will openly hire ChiCom nationals to work on bleeding edge military research. I'm still boggled by how our federal government will arm out enemies and disarm us.
Posted by: Ook? at March 20, 2013 08:05 AM (OQpzc)
I can't figure out how you would have a third person involved in the process.
Unless....
*cues opening guitar riff from "Whole Lotta Love"*
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 08:05 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 20, 2013 11:48 AM (EWKEr)
Link? I'd love to read about his process. Hands down one of the best comic strips of all time.
Posted by: LizLem at March 20, 2013 08:05 AM (8wqqE)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 20, 2013 08:06 AM (tkWnt)
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If they stop acting like idiots..... I might even be persuaded to call Britain "Great" Britain again.
Until then, just Britain.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 20, 2013 08:06 AM (nELVU)
Posted by: Californio at March 20, 2013 11:57 AM (2eIwi) /i]
He really is the dumbest shit to ever inhabit the VP office. And that's including Gore, who's an arrogant blowhard with delusions of grandeur first, imbecile second.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 20, 2013 08:06 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: WalrusRex at March 20, 2013 08:07 AM (XUKZU)
Posted by: chris at March 20, 2013 08:07 AM (LWiW8)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 20, 2013 12:04 PM (4df7R)
Skimming they're talking about Mitochondrial DNA swaps.
mDNA is such a small part of your DNA I'd hardly call it a "3rd parent"
Don't get me wrong, plenty of other reasons this is bad. But the headline and the science don't match up.
Posted by: tsrblke at March 20, 2013 08:07 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 12:00 PM (GQ8sn)
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I'm guessing that the third person is to provide a "womb with a view"
Yes, I denounce myself...
Posted by: Nighthawk at March 20, 2013 08:07 AM (RSqz2)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 20, 2013 08:07 AM (XYSwB)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 08:07 AM (4OvDk)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 20, 2013 08:08 AM (tkWnt)
Posted by: Ian S. at March 20, 2013 08:08 AM (B/VB5)
Yes, I denounce myself...
There's already IVF and surrogate mothers, so this isn't anything new. It's also really fucking expensive.
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 08:08 AM (GQ8sn)
Where do I sign up? I'll focus my prayer on the epicenter being Bloomberg's head.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 20, 2013 08:08 AM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Truman North and his shiny new website at March 20, 2013 11:57 AM (I2LwF)
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Might take a while for the word to filter down that he means business...if that dossn't work the Pope should break bad and Pope slap some Cardinals.
Posted by: Pope a' dope at March 20, 2013 08:09 AM (NQq8e)
Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at March 20, 2013 08:09 AM (FzhYM)
Posted by: jwest at March 20, 2013 12:07 PM (u2a4R)
We can only hope.
I'm an equal opportunity fat person make fun-ofer. And I claim Absolute Moral Authority (tm) to do so, since I have to shop in the plus size department myself. And only half of that is because of the chest size. Hey-o!
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 20, 2013 08:09 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 08:10 AM (4OvDk)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 12:07 PM (4OvDk)
Meh this is better than most. It's one of those technically true, but really meaningless headlines.
There's not a whole lot of obvious traits controlled by mDNA. I'm not even sure there's enough there to control much beyond some cellular traits.
Sure when something goes wrong that adds up big, but it's not like you could use this to select for "brown eyes."
Posted by: tsrblke at March 20, 2013 08:10 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 20, 2013 08:10 AM (XYSwB)
More F-16 nose art - Code One Candy
http://www.f-16.net/gallery_item31720.html
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 20, 2013 08:10 AM (tkWnt)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 20, 2013 08:11 AM (f9c2L)
Mitochondrial DNA is also very small and hard to design good RT-PCR primers against, especially certain subunits.
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 08:11 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 12:10 PM (4OvDk)
Its always amusing to me to read a 'news article' about somthing I DO know a lot about.... and see how they get it soooooo wrong...
Yet, have a bias to trust them on other articles...about subjects I do not know much about...
/facepalm
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 20, 2013 08:12 AM (lZBBB)
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 12:11 PM (GQ8sn)
I'll take your word for it. I haven't don't much work with it to be honest. At one point years ago I probably could have told you most of the genes encoded in mitochondrial DNA, so much anymore.
IIRC we've sequenced the mitochondrial Genome ages ago.
Posted by: tsrblke at March 20, 2013 08:13 AM (GaqMa)
More F-16 nose art - Code One Candy
http://www.f-16.net/gallery_item31720.html
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 20, 2013 12:10 PM (tkWnt)
I bet the pilot of that aircraft was brought up on sexual harassment charges.
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 08:13 AM (GQ8sn)
I don't know if Watterson is a liberal. I assume he probably is but he is insightful none the less. Here is Calvin and Hobbes having one of their conversations:
Calvin: 'I know more about the private lives of celebrities than I do about any governmental policy that will actually affect me. Im interested in things tthat are none of my business, and I'm bored by things that are important to know. "
Hobbes: "The media aims to please"
Calvin: "Maybe the economy should be discussed in cheap motel rooms."
Posted by: polynikes at March 20, 2013 08:13 AM (m2CN7)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 08:14 AM (4OvDk)
Posted by: Al at March 20, 2013 08:14 AM (V70Uh)
Posted by: Space Holder at March 20, 2013 08:14 AM (XUKZU)
Posted by: David Frum at March 20, 2013 08:14 AM (j3uk1)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 20, 2013 08:14 AM (tkWnt)
Posted by: Californio at March 20, 2013 08:14 AM (2eIwi)
Yes, I denounce myself...
Posted by: Nighthawk at March 20, 2013 12:07 PM (RSqz2)
I actually remember reading about this a while back; being able to take DNA from two same sex people and using a third, separate person to make a baby. The problem was, it only worked for one gender and not the other; I can't remember which one. Either the science for worked for gay men, or for lesbians, but not both. SCIENCE IS DISCRIMINATORY AND FULL OF H8!
Posted by: LizLem at March 20, 2013 08:15 AM (8wqqE)
Its always amusing to me to read a 'news article' about somthing I DO know a lot about.... and see how they get it soooooo wrong...
Yet, have a bias to trust them on other articles...about subjects I do not know much about...
/facepalm
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 20, 2013 12:12 PM (lZBBB)
So true. You never realize how messed up the media is until there is a story about you.
Posted by: The Jackhole at March 20, 2013 08:15 AM (nTgAI)
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 12:08 PM (GQ8sn)
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That, and the whole thing is also way too Huxleyian- creeps me the eff out.
"Brave New World" was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.
Posted by: Nighthawk at March 20, 2013 08:15 AM (RSqz2)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 08:16 AM (4OvDk)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 12:14 PM (4OvDk)
I don't think so. AFAIK it encodes for things entirely in the mitochondria. I mean there's always a chance for autoimmune disease, but when you consider the complexity of the immune system it's really amazing we don't see a ton more of it.
Posted by: tsrblke at March 20, 2013 08:16 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 20, 2013 08:17 AM (tkWnt)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2013 08:17 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 08:17 AM (4OvDk)
Posted by: tsrblke at March 20, 2013 12:10 PM (GaqMa)
I wonder how it would effect the whole "mitochondrial lineage" thing. If I'm not mistaken, mitochondrial DNA is one of the common ways of tracing human migration patterns. I doubt it would ever become so widespread as to fuck up that kind of overarching research, but it would be interesting for someone to get arrested, have their DNA checked against some database, and have the checkers say, "Um, this person is apparently from three different places. Yeah, we're super confused."
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 20, 2013 08:17 AM (4df7R)
Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
Posted by: Groundskeeper Willie at March 20, 2013 08:19 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 20, 2013 08:19 AM (ORGYc)
He said the same thing on Cavuto yesterday. People don't realize what is going on.
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 08:19 AM (GQ8sn)
Heard that's why he quit...I guess he made enough money. I can't imagine the concept myself.
Posted by: Paladin at March 20, 2013 08:19 AM (hxLER)
3) Get duped into Chinese "honey traps."
***
Just my luck. I've got nothing the Chinese want.
Not so fast round eye.
Posted by: Chinese Organ Thieves at March 20, 2013 08:20 AM (NF2Bf)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 20, 2013 08:20 AM (tkWnt)
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 12:17 PM (GQ8sn)
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Bunk.
Be back in a minute.....
Posted by: fixerupper at March 20, 2013 08:20 AM (nELVU)
blaming their employers for their take home pay being reduced on Jan. 1
He said the same thing on Cavuto yesterday. People don't realize what is going on.
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 12:19 PM (GQ8sn)
It was the Cavuto clip he played. How do people that stupid exist? They must go the way of the dodo bird
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2013 08:21 AM (1Jaio)
Rush just played a clip from the owner of Home Depot that employees are blaming their employers for their take home pay being reduced on Jan. 1 NOT the government. They have no clue their taxes went up, their employer reduced their pay. People that stupid should be beaten
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2013 12:17 PM (1Jaio)
This is what always happens. Because people are stupid and don't see past the person standing right in front of them. It's the same reason they blame retailers for raising prices when corporate taxes go up. They don't think of it as "the store has to pay its taxes." They think of it as, "the store wants to gouge me because they want big, fatcat profits."
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 20, 2013 08:21 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Award-winning commenter Jones in CO at March 20, 2013 08:22 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Grumpy Cat at March 20, 2013 08:22 AM (j3uk1)
A couple of months ago I was pumping gas and the lady on the other side of the pump shook her head and said to me, "Why did the rich people raise the gas prices?"
I shook my head.
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 08:23 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: HopelesS at March 20, 2013 08:23 AM (BgZ8b)
They're kept happy with our money. And they vote.
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 08:24 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: WalrusRex at March 20, 2013 08:24 AM (XUKZU)
A couple of months ago I was pumping gas and the lady on the other side of the pump shook her head and said to me, "Why did the rich people raise the gas prices?"
I shook my head.
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 12:23 PM (GQ8sn
I would have been so tempted to toss a lit match her way as I drove off. But I'm mean like that.
Too stupid to live.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2013 08:24 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 08:25 AM (4OvDk)
Posted by: what low information voters hear at March 20, 2013 08:25 AM (j3uk1)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 20, 2013 08:25 AM (tkWnt)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 20, 2013 08:25 AM (XYSwB)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 08:25 AM (4OvDk)
A couple of months ago I was pumping gas and the lady on the other side of the pump shook her head and said to me, "Why did the rich people raise the gas prices?"
MWAHAHA
*Lights cigar with $100 bill*
*Kicks orphan*
Posted by: Rich People at March 20, 2013 08:26 AM (NF2Bf)
Posted by: what low information Cypriots think at March 20, 2013 08:26 AM (j3uk1)
Posted by: Ian S. at March 20, 2013 08:26 AM (B/VB5)
Posted by: Hopeless at March 20, 2013 08:26 AM (BgZ8b)
Posted by: RWC at March 20, 2013 08:26 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: Jones in CO at March 20, 2013 08:26 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2013 08:27 AM (29+x5)
Watterson: "AAArrrrrrgh!"
Both equally useful, depending upon the situation at hand.
Posted by: tcn at March 20, 2013 08:27 AM (VLG62)
but even dum-dums shouldn't be that fucking stupid. Maybe that's our problem. The dumbest of us are getting critical mass dumb.
Posted by: eleven at March 20, 2013 08:27 AM (KXm42)
Are the ATMs still empty?
I predict fire and looting and chaos. This will end very badly.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 20, 2013 08:27 AM (tkWnt)
Posted by: soothsayer, of the Righteous & Harmonious Fists at March 20, 2013 08:28 AM (vanqS)
Just take their pay stub, show them the gross pay, and then the net pay, and then say, "see, your buddy Obama stole the rest."
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Direct.Deposit.
Very few people looked at the FICA dudes cut when we actually had paychecks. Now...... nobody even see's it.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 20, 2013 08:28 AM (nELVU)
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 12:24 PM (GQ8sn)
But I know who work who are just that clueless. They are Democrats for all of the social issues (to be cool) but are utterly ignorant of the economic impact this has on them. They are so dumb they buy into the rich or corporations are out to get them. The government raising their taxes or prices going up because of increased taxes are beyond their feeble comprehension. They aren't low information they are wrong information
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2013 08:29 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Grumpy Cat at March 20, 2013 08:29 AM (j3uk1)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 08:29 AM (4OvDk)
A: Both have banks that folded and took everyone's money.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 20, 2013 08:29 AM (tkWnt)
Posted by: Grumpy Cat at March 20, 2013 08:29 AM (j3uk1)
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 12:19 PM (GQ8sn)<<
In my company, I posted multiple notices about what was happening and why and then had an all-hands meeting to go over it. Every here is/was crystal clear. OTOH, I have only 70 employees in 1 location so it is a lot easier for me to communicate effectively than it is for huge employers.
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2013 08:29 AM (KjlbF)
One of my favority Calvin quotes: "Things are never so bad that they can't get worse."
He knew we're screwed.
SNAFU.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 20, 2013 08:30 AM (+z4pE)
OT: They. Will. Just. Not. Let. It. Go.
A Community Spotlight post over a Kos titled: "Consequences Day: A Modest Proposal For March 19" proposes a new day of rememberance holiday.
To wit:
" . . . Some of these holidays tend to emphasize straightforward patriotism, while holidays like Labor Day and MLK Day tend to provoke internal reflection regarding the injustices in American history.
I think we need a new holiday (or perhaps an anti-holiday) in the spirit of MLK Day and Labor Day: a day to memorialize the tremendous folly, waste, and injustice of the second Iraq War, which began on March 19 2003.
. . .
1. We need a Consequences Day first and foremost because the United States started a war on spurious grounds, and against the advice of friends and allies, and now has to pay for it. We are still dealing with and paying for the Consequences.
. . .
2. We need a Consequences Day because the U.S. invaded a country without any sort of plan for following up after the initial invasion component was completed.
. . .
3. We need a Consequences Day because many political figures (especially in the U.S. Senate) and social institutions (the New York Times, along with a huge swath of the journalistic establishment outside the Times) who might have questioned the build-up to the war, including the very vague and questionable evidence that Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction, failed to ask the right questions or say "no" when they had the chance.
. . .
A number of Democrats in the Senate, for example, clearly made the calculation that voting against the war would be a political loser. The consequence ought to be that they are forced to see the error of their ways.
{There's that word again, force. What does the writer have in mind, humiliation in public stockades?}
. . .
Every American is crystal-clear on what happened on 9/11, but many, if not most, are pretty fuzzy about the fallout from the Iraq War. We need a Consequences Day to rectify that.
One writer who clearly has accepted the Consequences of supporting the Iraq War is Andrew Sullivan, . . .
. . .
4. We need a Consequences Day to reflect on the many abuses of human rights conducted by American soldiers and intelligence agencies during this war, and the War on Terror more broadly. American soldiers treated prisoners unspeakably at Abu Ghraib, and the CIA widely used torture at facilities like Guantanamo and at various "black sites." The rest of the world knows that now, so that too has consequences: any American efforts to compel other countries to check the use of torture against detainees will in effect be stillborn until there is some sort of accountability for this.
. . .
Consequences Day in, short, is intended as a day of reflection and self-criticism -- borrowing something from the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur (the day of "Atonement"). It would be a day for Americans to stop and take stock of and collectively grapple with the results of this large national failure. While some of it can be pinned on a few terrible public officials who engineered the catastrophe (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld), or to a larger number who assented and were complicit (Rice and Powell, but also John Kerry and Hillary Clinton), in truth the failures of the Iraq War also point to broader structural and social failures that apply in some ways to all of us. How can we do better as a society -- to try and ensure that something like this doesn't happen again?
>>>
Hey! Let's all rend our clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and march through our towns flagellating ourselves. Then we'll be superior to anyone who doesn't join in our collective guilt festival!
What a buncha fucknuts.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 20, 2013 08:30 AM (BAS5M)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 20, 2013 08:30 AM (XYSwB)
Posted by: soothsayer, of the Righteous & Harmonious Fists at March 20, 2013 08:30 AM (BUcLz)
Hobbes went to a friend's farm where he could hunt to his heart's content. Happy cat was happy.
Posted by: tcn at March 20, 2013 08:30 AM (VLG62)
Wasn't that EVE Online? Maybe Zakn can put us some f'n knowledge but I remember reading about someone orchestrating the greatest in-game and real-world money heist ever.
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 08:31 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Hopeless at March 20, 2013 08:32 AM (xagT+)
Can't open the banks or there'll be a run.
Somebody said something about putting shit back in a horse.
Posted by: eleven at March 20, 2013 08:32 AM (KXm42)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2013 12:29 PM (KjlbF)
I've mentioned it before but if any company is feeling the economic pinch because of higher taxes fire all of the Obama voters. Tell them because Obama raised their taxes things are so bad you must let people go. If Obama didn't raise our taxes you'd still have a job but Obama's higher taxes mean you're out of work
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2013 08:32 AM (1Jaio)
Nah man, you want it out. Trust me, makes things....easier.
Posted by: Horse Fucker at March 20, 2013 08:33 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Grumpy Cat at March 20, 2013 08:34 AM (j3uk1)
The original joke had it where the monkey was trying to put the cork back into the elephant's ass.
Posted by: Al at March 20, 2013 08:34 AM (V70Uh)
Screw Obama and the wookie he rode in on.
Posted by: tcn at March 20, 2013 08:34 AM (VLG62)
I wonder if there any other "unauthorized" nose art on planes that last only 1 day before an officer noticed it and put the kibosh on it.
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 08:34 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 20, 2013 08:35 AM (tkWnt)
Now, except for Dilbert, there's nothing that compares. I enjoy Get Fuzzy, Sherman's Lagoon, and Pearls Before Swine, but they don't have the depth of funniness those '80s greats did.
Posted by: logprof at March 20, 2013 08:35 AM (+iA5G)
If this e-mail is for real, then it's pretty obvious where the "sacrilegious video" BS came from. It also pretty clear that the White House just doesn't believe the CIA.
Posted by: Groundskeeper Willie at March 20, 2013 08:35 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Grumpy Cat at March 20, 2013 08:36 AM (j3uk1)
Posted by: Vic at March 20, 2013 08:36 AM (53z96)
Ack!
Posted by: tcn at March 20, 2013 08:37 AM (VLG62)
Posted by: Grumpy Cat at March 20, 2013 08:37 AM (j3uk1)
Posted by: tcn at March 20, 2013 12:34 PM (VLG62)
She rides him. Hard. And he likes it
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2013 08:37 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at March 20, 2013 11:42 AM (FzhYM)
Maybe the klingons would fire at him like space garbage.
Posted by: Berserker at March 20, 2013 08:37 AM (FMbng)
Posted by: eleven at March 20, 2013 08:37 AM (KXm42)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 08:38 AM (4OvDk)
Looks like Desert Shield/Storm from 90-91.
I'm betting that girl was never lonely.
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 08:38 AM (GQ8sn)
Don't we need a manned space program in order to have the airlock to toss him out of?
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2013 08:38 AM (KjlbF)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 08:39 AM (4OvDk)
Posted by: Hopeless at March 20, 2013 08:39 AM (Td5Ie)
***
I've been reading a collection of scifi short stories by James Alan Gardner entitled Gravity Wells lately which I quite like because of the creativity of the author both as regards plot and style but, caveat lector, he is a lefty. The title story concerns vignettes about time travel back to the Kent State shootings with the premise that the shootings were necessary to finally cause massive disgust with the Vietnam War and thus usher in the era of peace and prosperity that we currently enjoy.
Posted by: WalrusRex at March 20, 2013 08:39 AM (XUKZU)
Posted by: eleven at March 20, 2013 08:40 AM (KXm42)
What maroons.
You could buy custom avatars for money. My boss was heavily into for a while. It's also the reason why a female intern almost brought him down on sexual harassment allegations and why he got comfortable on the couch for about 3 months.
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 08:40 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Grumpy Cat at March 20, 2013 08:40 AM (j3uk1)
Peace out y'all I'm clocking out for a few days to got to the CHA meeting and "network" kiss ass.
If there's wifi you bet your ass I'll be surfing the HQ during the seminars. If not, See y'all on the weekend.
Posted by: tsrblke at March 20, 2013 08:41 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 12:38 PM (GQ8sn)
I'm betting she left the AF rich as hell and never had to worry about a job.
Posted by: Vic at March 20, 2013 08:41 AM (53z96)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 20, 2013 08:42 AM (XYSwB)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 08:42 AM (4OvDk)
"I think we can subcontract this one mission out to the Ruskies."
Speaking of which, the sidebar says Best Western opened a new hotel in Kazakhstan.
It might be OK to stay at, but for partying you'll want to go down the street to the Guns and Roses Cafe.
Posted by: jwest at March 20, 2013 08:42 AM (u2a4R)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at March 20, 2013 08:42 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 20, 2013 08:42 AM (+z4pE)
Posted by: RWC at March 20, 2013 08:42 AM (fWAjv)
:::::::It's the same reason they blame retailers for raising prices when
corporate taxes go up. They don't think of it as "the store has to pay
its taxes." They think of it as, "the store wants to gouge me because
they want big, fatcat profits."
A couple of months ago I was pumping gas and the lady on the other side of the pump shook her head and said to me, "Why did the rich people raise the gas prices?"::::::::
There is no amount of messaging or branding that the GOP can do that will persuade these fucking primates to vote against the Democrats.
NONE.
And there are more of them who vote than there are of us who vote. That is the problem, and it is insurmountable.
It Will Burn.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 20, 2013 08:43 AM (CJjw5)
Posted by: t-bird at March 20, 2013 08:43 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: maddogg at March 20, 2013 08:43 AM (OlN4e)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 08:44 AM (4OvDk)
Posted by: Grumpy Cat at March 20, 2013 08:44 AM (j3uk1)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2013 08:45 AM (GFM2b)
Hah. I just saw a picture of Axl over at that website... he looks like Meatloaf.
Posted by: eleven at March 20, 2013 08:45 AM (KXm42)
The Thud is a very tall and huge aircraft. 13ft to reach the cockpit. The probe in-flight refueling slipway was in front of the windscreen. So the nose art in question was not visible from the ground.
This Thud was a genuine Vietnam vet and had flown combat with this noseart. It was also nose art that was removed in theater.
So with all that lead up, here is the nose art. A nude woman squatting over the slipway. Named Cherry Girl. So the only people who could see the art would be tower controllers and the guys in the back of a KC-135 refueling the plane.
So Norton AFB restores the Thud with that art. IIRC in a day after it was painted that orders came down to immediately remove the offending nose art.
Probably NSFW, here is an F-105D model with Cherry Girl nose art.
http://tinyurl.com/buqkn5k
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 20, 2013 08:45 AM (tkWnt)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 20, 2013 12:42 PM (4OvDk)
I think we had done this already, just using vacuum chambers on earth actually.
Hence the reason we didn't do it in the space program.
But I could be wrong.
Posted by: tsrblke at March 20, 2013 08:46 AM (GaqMa)
The LOLZ write themselves.
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 08:46 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Hopeless at March 20, 2013 08:46 AM (Td5Ie)
Posted by: soothsayer, of the Righteous & Harmonious Fists at March 20, 2013 08:46 AM (ZgBZU)
She love you long time!
Posted by: EC at March 20, 2013 08:48 AM (GQ8sn)
You know, the important shit and all that.
Posted by: RWC at March 20, 2013 12:42 PM (fWAjv)
Off to the camps crackas!
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2013 08:48 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2013 08:48 AM (GFM2b)
Posted by: RWC at March 20, 2013 12:42 PM (fWAjv)
Well, in their defense, "We're here, we like whitey, get used to it" Just does NOT work well as a chant. I can't even get into the racist hypocrisy of a workshop teaching gay minorities on how to repress their desires. . . for white people. headdesk indeed.
Posted by: LizLem at March 20, 2013 08:49 AM (8wqqE)
Ahem, THUMBS and roses cafe. FIFY.
Posted by: LizLem at March 20, 2013 08:52 AM (8wqqE)
Posted by: DefendUSA at March 20, 2013 09:03 AM (S0aj8)
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