1 Good Morning Morons.  Today is Tuesday, January 15, 2013.  On this day in 1973 President Nixon ordered a halt to all offensive operations in Vietnam.  I was there.

2 Toughest gun control bill in the country passes the NY Senate.

"It is well-balanced, it protects the Second Amendment," said Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos of Long Island. "And there is no confiscation of weapons, which was at one time being considered.

He later added as he drops his pants and bent over, “please sir may I have another”.  He is a typical NY Republican, a D with an R after his name.  Hey you stupid shit, ANY gun law that restricts sales or hampers honest citizens is a violation of the 2nd amendment.

The BS law is expected to pass the House easily.

http://is.gd/HoHjef

3 Some of you may have missed this yesterday from the Obama blatherfest.  He wants debt limit hike and no negotiations, just do it because I said so.  He also says he can implement more gun control because he said so, without congress.  According to Politico (no link) he is readying 19 such orders.

http://is.gd/ZKeKoG

4 Meanwhile a TX House member warns him he is readying a bill of impeachment if he does.

http://is.gd/pXGFJB

5 Under the “no shit Sherlock” department; $5.7B in UN spending to reduce poverty doesnÂ’t actually reduce poverty.  These socialist programs never work anywhere they are tried be it Somalia, the US, or the old Soviet Union.  The only thing that actually reduces poverty is elimination of regulations, removal of graft and corruption, and lowering taxes.  These attract capital for investment which makes jobs.  But the communists never can see this.

http://is.gd/bYpgYN

6 Speak of the devil, and the devil comes.

Morning Gabe I was getting morbid with my seconds from disaster marathon.

7 Obama looking at eliminating the gas tax and taxing per mile which will require tracking all cars.  Some are estimating the amount of taxes will go up 250%.  I have never in my lifetime seen anyone change a tax scheme without increasing it so stand by.  His voters donÂ’t give a shit if the gas tax goes up 250%.  The FSA doesnÂ’t drive cars, they use inner city buses which are being subsidized by the gas tax or they are rich SOBs that donÂ’t give a damn what anything costs.


They claim they need the money because not enough for roads and bridges.  The problem is that they have spent it all on other shit.  What we need to do is eliminate the federal gas tax, eliminate the DOT, and get the feds out of roads, bridges, and other shit and let each State take care of their own shit.

http://is.gd/25XQW4

8 Note to GOP. You can pass amnesty, but the media will still label you racist,s and the hispanics will continue to vote against whitey (GOP). That is all.

9 We are paying for ClintonÂ’s office, including premium cable channels?  PresidentÂ’s should get no more perks after leaving office than the average worker gets after 8 years of work.  IOW, NONE.

http://is.gd/X98sJT

10 Another foreign policy win for Obama.  Egyptian court sentences an entire family to prison for converting to Christianity.

http://is.gd/ZnOAgP

11 Wild hogs are invading Charleston and rooting up peopleÂ’s lawns.  Take a look at this picture.  That would really piss me off.  In addition, these things are damn dangerous and are easily provoked.  Jane DÂ’oh, if they are in Charleston lookout, it wonÂ’t be long before they are in Savannah.

http://is.gd/dDjnWm

12 DAY 70 1,390 to go Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, MIRV's, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, miscreants, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

13 1) Vic,

Thereby according to Jean Francois Keri-Heinz ending a war he Nixon started.

Gotta love the Donk's internal monologue.

14 WaTi looks at the results of the new rule that lawmakers must cite the constitutional authority for each bill they introduce.   They are simply ignoring it because there is no authority for 99.99% of the shit they do now.

http://is.gd/q7rkrX

15 BonerÂ’s response to Obama on his demand for more spending.  My prediction is he will cave just like last time.  We will cut from the “proposed budget” a slight amount of the proposed increase.  When the spending is done we will spend even more.

http://is.gd/5TnD81

16 Obama issuing rules to force the same shit that caused banks to collapse before on housing loans.

http://is.gd/GXu0WI

17 The Daily Deals

http://is.gd/kzJttE

18 12 JJ Sefton,

Today's slow lean into decline brought to you by the letter "M" for malignant....your friends the democrat party lean forward right over the cliff and into the abyss.

19 The Daily Kitteh

Can we haz duck supper?

http://is.gd/I76fyd



And thatÂ’s it for Tuesday, January 15, 2013.

20 RE: This new pop-up message that Ben referred to in the post last night where did this POS come from?  Why did it all of a sudden start today?  Has FF issued an update that is incompatible with some code on the AOS home page?  What is the story.

OK, never mind.  I went into adblock and manually added soundcloud.com to the list of filters for blocking ads.  That got rid of the aggravating POS.

21 Oh happy day. I live about 4 blocks from Washington Square. I suppose he's trying to finish what Ayers and Dohrn started in 1970. For those too young to remember, the Weathermen led by the aforementioned freaks, planted bombs all over the city in the late 60's and were planning a major attack on Maguire AFB in Jersey when their bomb factory blew up, demolishing a townhouse on the north side of Washington Square park. And I noticed someone posting with the nic "Sefton, not JJ" ; couldn't you have chosen something else?

22 Rep. Paul Ryan endorsed Sen. Marco Rubio's immigration proposal.


Piss on them both.

23 2 Vic,

I'll agree to give up "some sensible portion" of my liberty on guns right around the time Barky Choom agrees to "give up some sensible portion" of his usurped spending power.

24 Re Obama blatherfest.
---

I am serious about not hearing this douche-nozzles voice, when I can help it.

25 @7 let em try and track my "Road Warrior car" built from old parts, no chips! Bite me Ocommie!

26 Good morning all. Funny weather here, sleet and snow with some really nasty lightning. Watched a gas well tower get hit by a strike on my way to work. Nice bit of sparks. As for Rob Lowe, I wish more actors/authors/singers would understand this. I don't watch/read/listen because of your political views. Shut up about politics and your views and do your damn job, which is to entertain me.

27 11 Vic,

There's an app for that....

heh

28 Yiddish Word of the Day: "Nar" - : Fool derivatives: "Narish" - Foolish "Narishkeit" - Foolishness

29 Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2013 06:53 AM (LRFds)


I hope you are not expecting logic and consistency from the em-Commies.

30 .....in 1974, I signed up for the draft.

31 Michael J. Totten reports from Morocco.
http://tinyurl.com/auvgb2f

32 Anyone have a 350 class diesel truck they are looking to sell?

33 A joke for rons and ronettes.. HOOKERSÂ’ UNION A dedicated Teamsters union worker was attending a convention in Las Vegas and decided to check out the local brothels. When he got to the first one, he asked the Madam, "Is this a union house?" "No," she replied, "I'm sorry it isn't." "Well, if I pay you $100, what cut do the girls get?" "The house gets $80 and the girls get $20," she answered. Offended at such unfair dealings, the union man stomped off down the street in search of a more equitable, hopefully unionized shop. His search continued until finally he reached a brothel where the Madam responded, "Why yes sir, this is a union house. We observe all union rules." The man asked, "And, if I pay you $100, what cut do the girls get?" "The girls get $80 and the house gets $20." "That's more like it!" the union man said. He handed the Madam $100, looked around the room, and pointed to a stunningly attractive green-eyed blonde. "I'd like her," he said. "I'm sure you would, sir," said the Madam. Then she gestured to a 92-year old woman in the corner, "but Ethel here has 67 years seniority and according to union rules, she's next." NOW you know what's wrong with the AUTO industry and the seniority system in the House and Senate.

34 29 Vic,

Never, I grasp how they operate even if they don't.

35 I'll agree to give up "some sensible portion" of my liberty on guns right around the time Barky Choom agrees to "give up some sensible portion" of his usurped spending power.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2013 06:56 AM (LRFds)

I agree to give up NOTHING and Barky has zero spending power.  That starts with the House and ends with the Senate,

What we need to do is impeach Obama.

36 Ugh, Nancy is me with a stinky botoxed scrunt sock.

37 35 Vic,

While I agree, I am playing "King Putt's rules for negotiating."


Anyway we are witnessing the birth of American Imperial Rule at home.

38 Sven, I propose a gun free zone around Barky and Chompers (Biden). If they want to talk the talk, let them walk the walk for a while to show us all how awesome not having a gun to protect yourself truly is.

39 Time for more coffee. Back in 10. By the way, I missed Mary Poppins yesterday. Hope he's okay.

40 @7 let em try and track my "Road Warrior car" built from old parts, no chips! Bite me Ocommie!

Posted by: Judge_Roy_bean at January 15, 2013 06:56 AM (42wQ/)

I suspect that there will be a requirement that the people with old cars, like my 14 year old F-150, add a tracking device and they will "mandate" that the States enforce this.

41 38 Judge Roy bean,

Yeah....my only "fear' would be that there would be a run on softballs and people would try to use them for a dunking booth target.

42 There's an app for that....

heh

Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2013 06:57 AM (LRFds)

Can't invoke that "app" in a residential neighborhood in SC, especially when you have a Sheriff living a few hundred feet away.

43 40 Vic,

Probably, that is another brick in the wall.

A law I will happily thwart like the Ohio E-check back when they were pretending it was anything other than a tax.

44 California is always after old cars, in the name of protecting the air quality.  So every year the antique auto folk have to battle CARB to keep their cars on the road and not relegated to scrap yards or museums.

45 By the way, I missed Mary Poppins yesterday. Hope he's okay.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 15, 2013 07:04 AM (XkWWK)

He came in late because he had a meeting that stated before the first thread.

46 42 Vic,

Well you could always set traps for them.

We used to do that at the shop whenever we had too many hogs on the spread.....

they'd get excited and start scaring the neighbor's horses when they did not have enough range per snout.

It'd be nice if silencers were not a stamp item, only reason they added them to the first "gun control" in the '30s was ranchers getting pissed about poachers.

47 Intrade opened its 2016 markets yesterday with Ryan leading at 20% odds, Rubio at 17%, and Ted Cruz starting out surprisingly strong at 7%.   

48 Hey Vic,  I can forsee a trade in cloning the tracking device of your Obama voting neighbor!

49 44 Anna Puma,

California will be regulating people's time to go poo in a synchronized fashion at 15 minute intervals to "shave the whales."

I cannot comprehend how they fucked up a state that by any reasonable measure should be a capitalist paradise.

50 "Under Rubio's proposal (there is no legislation yet) aliens would have to pay a fine and back taxes and maybe do community service." It will never happen and they will never deport them when they don't comply. It's just another bullshite cover to let them all in.

51 Please, I'm begging. No polls and no trolls for at least 3 more years.

52 What we need to do is eliminate the federal gas tax, eliminate the DOT, and get the feds out of roads, bridges, and other shit and let each State take care of their own shit. If we do that, we might as well get rid of the feral goobermint. Works for me.

53 50 waldo,

Yup when the lawmakers ignore the law it is noble, when I do it it is criminal and when 10,000 guys named Juan do it it is my fault.

If breaking the law while doing work and defrauding the IRS gaming the tax code is "noble" maybe I need to join in the fun too and become noble.

Anyone have VO5 hair dye and a "how to get a shitty accent" rosetta stone?

54 Like every screw-up in human history.  It started as a good idea - get rid of the brown haze that was ruining the view.  The air has cleared up so one would think the reason for CARB would vanish.  Nope, now CARB has its tentacles everywhere choking things because the bureaucrats like their well paying jobs so they find new things to regulate by scaring people.

55 Posted by: rickb223 at January 15, 2013 07:13 AM (d0Dmj) There is something to be said for the federal interstate highway system. But then again it was conceived as a national defense project by Ike.

56 51 JJ Sefton,

but JJ RCP has Ogabe at 95% popularity and Michele Ogabe is leading all Republicans by 97 points!

Actually according to rasmussen King Putt is at 54% which tells me way too many Republicans have given up and welcome their new socialist overlords.

57 Ms Anna Puma that is so sad to hear. I can imagine the plight of a poor 55/57 chevy relegated to the scrap heap! Its terrible I tells ya! Almost as bad as that chick in Newark that takes guns turned into the cops and melts them down for jewelry and puts the serial number on them and sells them for 300 bucks a pop. I guess them guns done robbed people twice!

58 California is always after old cars, in the name of protecting the air quality. So every year the antique auto folk have to battle CARB to keep their cars on the road and not relegated to scrap yards or museums. What do the wetbacks do?

59 I cannot comprehend how they fucked up a state that by any reasonable measure should be a capitalist paradise.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2013 07:10 AM (LRFds)

If you look at that map about NRA rating on the ONT two days ago you will see.  All of the people flocking to CA along the coast created a giant megalopolis from about 50 miles North of SF all the way down to San Diego along the coast.

And what I have long said, once the population reaches a certain point in a city it moves to Fascism and Communism in its outlook.  Since CA has 90% of its population living in that zone the entire State has become a ate controlled by the Fascist greens and the Communist Donks.

60 54 Anna Puma,

If you have not read or listened to Crichton's "State of Fear" you owe it to yourself to get it.

He saved one of his best for one of his last.

I gave away about 30 copies.

61 There is something to be said for the federal interstate highway system. But then again it was conceived as a national defense project by Ike. Defense. One of the FEW constitutionally authorized activities of the federal government.

62 Judge Roy Bean CARB keeps hoping the antique auto people will give up.  They have state resources to pay for them and their efforts.  But so far it has not happened because the auto folk keep pointing how how can 1% of the total cars in California be such a threat to the environment.  So for another year the CARB attempt to put emissions control on that 55 Chevy dies. 

63 But then again it was conceived as a national defense project by Ike.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 15, 2013 07:14 AM (XkWWK)

He used "national defense" as a dodge because even he knew that it was unconstitutional.  He even admitted that.  He loved the idea of those roads because he was impressed with Hitler's autobahns.

64 56 Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2013 07:15 AM (LRFds) I'd rather live under Brezhnev, and I'm only being mildly sarcastic.

65 @58, they leave the wetbacks alone at least in sanctuary cities like Houston anyway. They don't want to stop a car and have 20 pissed off non english speaking illegals pile out of it. (and that doesn't count the trunk!)

66 63 Posted by: Vic at January 15, 2013 07:18 AM (53z96) Ugh. Well, at least when I learn something new I have the good sense to not reflexively react as libs do. But I would argue that the interstate system is vital to commerce, no?

67 The mileage reg seems a direct hit on red states, where there are often very long distances for basic services like food, etc.  I live in Indiana, not exactly the 'heart of the West' but I still have a 35 minute trip, one way, for darn near anything. Wyoming, Montana, etc.,  would be a nightmare.

68

There is something to be said for the federal interstate highway system. But then again it was conceived as a national defense project by Ike.

 

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Not true.  It was justified, like many government projects, as being for national defense.  That was not its genesis, however.

The Eisenhower Administration was as full of liars as much as most presidential administrations.

69 19 EOs. Although the Media is reporting that the executive orders will have a small impact I think they will be dramatic, arrogant, sweeping rules, baldly unconstitutional and enough to start people shooting.

70 States could jointly maintain their own 'inter-state' roads and highways considering the amount of money the federal government gets in highway taxes.

71

Good morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.  And thanks for the daily briefing, Gave and Vic.  Apologies again for the lack of a story yesterday; I have to do things to protect my phoney-baloney job, gentlemen!

 

 

Anyway, last Friday I said I would tell you a story about a suicide.  The story actually begins in 1924, when a 500-acre development below the summit of Mount Lee was announced.  It was to be called "Hollywoodland," and - as befits the larger-than-life world of the movies, a huge $21,000 sign consisting of thirteen letters, each 30 feet wide and 50 feet tall, was erected on the slope.  The sign was framed with 4000 20-watt bulbs, and a caretaker was hired full-time just to replace them as they burned out.

 

 
Five years later, a New York actress named Lillian Entwistle arrived in Tinseltown.  She might have been one of the thousands who came west with nothing more than stars in their eyes, but Millicent - who preferred to be called "Peg" - had good reason to be confident.  She was a graduate of the famous Theatre Guild and carried with her a thick portfolio of rave reviews.  At this time, when sound was taking over and Hollywood talent scouts were scraping New York clean in a race to find "real" actors, Peg could be forgiven for thinking she could write her own ticket.

 

 
But, just as becoming a star in the silent days could be a crapshoot, just the fact that you could "talk" in these post-Jazz Singer days was as much of a gamble.  Peg began small, with little stage parts, eventually co-starring with Billie "Glinda" Burke in a play called The Mad Hopes.  In 1932, RKO signed her for a single picture, a potboiler called Thirteen Women which starred Myrna Loy.

 

 
That movie, sadly, was to be her high point.  Thirteen Women was a flop, and Entwistle's small part didn't result in any offers from major or even second-tier studios.  She could have gone back east, but something in her snapped.  On Sunday, September 18, an anonymous call went out to the Hollywood police.  A woman, hiking on the slopes below the "Hollywoodland" sign, had found the body of a young woman.  Heading out to investigate, the cops were bemused to find a paper bundle outside their doors; when it was opened, it contained a jacket, shoes and a purse, all items later determined to belong to Peg Entwistle.  When the police arrived at the Sign, they found Peg's body.  She had apparently hiked up to the Sign, used a workman's ladder to climb to the top of the letter H and then threw herself into eternity, dying of blood loss and multiple fractures of the pelvis.

 

 
Back at the police station, the cops looked inside Entwistle's purse.  There was a note, signed "P.E." (which, when published, alerted her uncle, who was able to identify the body):  I am afraid.  I am a coward.  I am sorry for everything.  If I had done this a long time ago, it would have saved a lot of pain.

 

 
Suicide, said the police, and film fans and historians since have agreed.  And yet. . .who was the caller who discovered the body?  Why on earth did she bundle up Entwistle's clothes and purse and leave them on the steps of the police station before placing her call?  Why, if Entwistle had left her uncle's house on Beachwood Drive on the 16th (as he testified) and made her way up the slopes of Mount Lee to kill herself (as the police thought) were her shoes completely unscuffed and her dress nearly immaculate?  Was it really suicide – or a very clever murder?

 

 
No one really knows.  The body was cremated and sent home to Ohio, to be interred next to her father.  All of her personal effects vanished.  And the woman hiker has never been identified.  Although, if you can make your way up to the Sign some dark, calm night, you might ask Peg herself; a spirit in white is reported to be seen there on certain lonely evenings.

 

 

Oh, I nearly forgot. . .thereÂ’s one last irony.  The day after PegÂ’s body was found, a letter was delivered to her small apartment.  It was an offer for a small role in a local stage production.  It wasnÂ’t anything major, of course, but – what if Peg Entwistle had held on for just a few more days?

 

 
Hope you enjoyed that.  And if you did, toddle over to YouTube and check out the documentary Under the Hollywood Sign by Hope Anderson.  A match to the blog of the same name, itÂ’s a history of the Sign, its deterioration and restoration and has a special, sad, emphasis on poor Peg Entwistle.

 

 

And donÂ’t forget my book, The DirectorÂ’s Cut: A Theda Bara Mystery, available on Kindle and at the Amazon and Barnes and Noble websites.

 

 

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

 

72 Is the Interstate vital for commerce?  No.  Far more travels via train.  While AMTRAC is a waste, the rail network is still vital.  Just like the rail heads in the Ardennes was vital for Germany in WWI and WWII for their offensives.

73 64 JJSefton,

Massive civil disobedience is probably the only way we will maintain any economic liberty in the next 20 years, and frankly we'd still be better served by a divorce IMHO.

The coasts simply will NOT let the socialistic orgy go.

74 >>>9 We are paying for ClintonÂ’s office, including premium cable channels? PresidentÂ’s should get no more perks after leaving office than the average worker gets after 8 years of work. IOW, NONE. Worse, obama signed into law that we now pay for 24/7 security for ex-president for the rest of their lives.

75 69 Daybrother,

I dunno i am trying to wean myself off the tealeaves business...

I never in a million years would have thought the American people would have rewarded Ogabe for Benghazi.

76 But I would argue that the interstate system is vital to commerce, no?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 15, 2013 07:21 AM (XkWWK)

Oh its a good thing. I recall a trip from middle GA to Virginia in 1958.  It was long and tortuous.  We actually had to stop halfway there for an overnight in a motel. 

I made the exact same trip in 1971 in about 8 hours.

However, if we agree that the government should live within the Constitution then it should not have been done without changing the Constitution. We can't have it both ways.  That ios what the liberals want to do with the second amendment.

77 they leave the wetbacks alone at least in sanctuary cities like Houston anyway.
They don't want to stop a car and have 20 pissed off non english speaking illegals pile out of it. (and that doesn't count the trunk!)

Seems like the only way to survive is to be more like the muzzies or wetbacks. Threaten or carry out violence to get your way.

78 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 15, 2013 07:24 AM (zF6Iw)


There is a big story about that infamous death over at findadeath dot com.

79 Ms Anna Puma, I am so glad to hear that failed. Kali is such a crazy state. I was out there in the summer last year. I met a guy whose father in law died. He had a big gun collection and being Kali all the kids did not want those evil guns. I stopped in to have a look. I said..sell all the new stuff on ebay or gunbrokers. The old military surplus stuff will be hard to move (special clientele and all). I will take that. I like them poor old orphan war rifles. I walked away with a russian and a chinese sks, a mosin, a k98 mauser, and a south american mauser. I could not afford the Krag (Spanish American war rifle), so I left it on the table. Broke my heart to do that I tells ya.

80 Hope you enjoyed that.


MPPP, I did. Thank you.

81 Most would then be able to apply for permanent residency and, eventually, just like current LPRs, apply for citizenship, but "they'd get behind everybody who came before them" in line.


My Ravage of 'Raptors is more real than that promise.

82 Thanks MPPP for the story.  Yes the question becomes which studio mogul decided to silence a possible embarrassment.  Which would have such a grandiose sense of the dramatic to use the sign to kill her but never utter a word of the deed.  Or was it one of Hollywood's starlets afraid Peg was going to spill the beans about their secret lesbian love affair?  Oh the stories that could be woven upon the bones of facts.

83 76 Vic,

It is the snowball effect.

Ike cut a deal with the devil and it was not just the autobahn that impressed him.  He was a savvy logistics guy and in the '20s he saw what a nightmare national defense would be in the event of a coastal attack.  "Why not have a highway like the Autobahn?," he thinks later and "we'll pay for it with some taxes on gasoline and put good folk to work?'

The problem is that anytime you have DC as the middleman at some point they decide "all your base are belong to us!" and you get a Schmuck Schumer type who ties a bunch of nonsensical hardly related bullshit to the defacto pork cannon at gunpoint like drinking age and tobacco rules.

Yeah I think what the nation really needs and something that the too stoned to care "libertarians" should get behind is an Article V convention.

Let's settle this shit once and for all and stop the rot.

You'd almost think the founders did not put a mechanism in the founding to fix any 'errors"....that is if you have a modern moonbat education.

84 73 Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2013 07:25 AM (LRFds) It pains me to have to agree. Hopefully Republican governors and state legislatures can lay the seeds of prosperity now with state tax reforms as well. We are in uncharted territory and it is getting darker. To paraphrase a quote attributed to the British statesman Sir Edmund Gray on the eve of World War One: "The lamps are going out all over, we shall not see them lit again in our time."

85

One fact that I'd forgotten about - and perhaps I'll do a post on it later this week:

 

On this day in 1947, a body was found in a vacant lot on South Norton Avenue in Los Angeles.  It turned out to be a young 22-year old Massachusetts girl who had come to California like so many others, searching for fame and fortune. 

 

Her name was Elizabeth Short.  You know her as The Black Dahlia.

86 Some Japanese BabyMetal for the Morning - Headbanger
http://youtu.be/L2Tu-g-_rEE

87 Good morning! It's 37 degrees with no discernable wind here in southern Mass this morning, with a projected high temp of 41, continuing a stream of unseasonably mild weather. Truth be told, it feels like its closer to 50 already. Suck it, Cold Places

88 79 Judge roy bean,

When I was at the APG Ordnance Museum as a volunteer tour guide I used to help read the mail.

You would not believe the constant, low in number, but constant people saying they wanted to melt every curio and relic we had.

They are neo-luddite tyrannical assholes.

89 Commie-Donks run about all the big ass cities in this country.  That's the reason big ass cities are not fit to live in.

90 Elizabeth Short has become something of a touchstone on everything wrong and sinister about Hollywood.  I think there are more theories and flights of fancy about her death than about JFK's death.

91 85 MPPP,

Yup....

Black Dahlia is an amazing story, and even more amazing is that today it would not even be a blip on the radar.

What have we become?

92 StreaK. Autocorrect!!

93

There is a big story about that infamous death over at findadeath dot com.

 

Really?  Thanks, Vic.  I'll check it out.

94 Sven, not neo-luddites.  Think Eloi awaiting to be feasted upon by Morolocks.  Safe in the protecting arms of the United States they can not imagine any other state.  Nor that such a fate could kill them without blinking.

95 The Hollywood Sign girl with photos

http://is.gd/krPvfu

Good Site but morbid.

96 84 JJ Sefton,

WW1 was the beginning of the end of decency and civilization.

Prior to it there was a sense of genuine community between western cultures, after it we devolved into a marxist passion play on wealth and disparate tribes.

97 AlextheChick it seems your Ravage of Raptors have a mission in New York.  They maybe a bit bloated after the mission however.

98 Sven, I say leave it to the states. But with that said... MD wants to institute a 7 round mag max capacity. Silly stuff like that is why I left MD decades ago. NY want s a 7 round max mag capacity and no mail ordering of ammo and Background checks on ammo (yeah right, like I am going to beat someone to death with this heavy box) and Mental health profiles (checks) on all CURRENT assault weapon owners and' ban on assault weapons and possible 2 magazine limit. Let em take an inch they will take a country mile. .22 bolt actions are next, mark my words!

99 @4!

100 Meanwhile a 1903 Springfield in 30'06 would still not be banned. Five round internal magazine.  And a round that will sneer at body armor and even some light vehicle armor.

101 Gun rights rally at the statehouse in Topeka Saturday morning at 10:00 am. Be there or be square.

102 Sure the Interstates are "socialist" but Ike wasn't just star-struck by the Autobahn. In 1919, as a brevet lieutenant-colonel, he was part of the experiment of crossing the country with WWI military trucks. They weren't bad trucks at all, but it took  56 travel days.

103 98 Judge Roy bean,

They want us to cave on admitting the gun is to blame, and not because they think the gun is to blame but they want us unarmed so they never have to wonder if they will pay the ultimate price for hubris.

If they were against guns they would be all over their OW$ terrorists on the news, if they were against "ultimate prices for hubris" in a moral sense they would not protect them as they do when OW$ people finally get busted.

They are against "ultimate prices for hubris" only in a tactical sense.

104 I never thought about him much, but I'm kinda starting to like Rob Lowe.

I think he had some sex scandal aways back, or, as the MFM view, Things Bill Clinton Did And Lies Bill Clinton Told That We Totally Ignore, But If You're a Conservative Will Ruin You.

I don't even know Rob Lowe's politics, but he seems weirdly sensible, considering he's living in the stew of filth and deception that is Hollywood.

Which reminds me to thank Mary Poppins for the interesting bit this a.m.  Was Peg's name Lillian, or Millicent? 

105 @11 We just have to understand that it is the lawn-owner's fault, provoking those swine by having "grubs, worms, crickets and other meaty delicacies" temptingly under the sod.

106 Black Dahlia is an amazing story, and even more amazing is that today it would not even be a blip on the radar.

What have we become?

Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2013 07:37 AM (LRFds)

 

Absolutely, Sven.  There are murders in Detroit or NM or southern Cali that are much more gruesome than the Dahlia's, but no-one cares.  As far as the case itself, John Gilmore's Severed is still the best read, even if a bit out of date.  IMO, Gilmore came the closest to solving it.  As far as a recreation of what LA was like back then, Donald Wolfe's The Black Dahila Files is the best.  Just ignore his solution (concerning the publisher of the LA Times and mobster Bugsy Siegel).

 

And the less said about Steve Hodel's execrable The Black Dahila Avenger, the better.

107 102 Comatrus,

Yup....

Ike wrote a devastating critique in the self-delusory timetables in our War Plan Color Coded strategy set on internal US logistics.

The guy was not a prven tactical mind, but he understood grand strategy like nobody since Generals Scott and Grant in our history.

108 The fact that we have been informed of the 19 EOs tells me what we will get will be much worse. These F*ing guys are always trying to get us to lower our guards, a la "you can keep your doctor". The EOs I saw mentioned were pretty innocuous in the short term, like the CDC doing research and stuff. No worries, right?

Got a mail from MidwayUSA yesterday, regarding some backordered AR15 parts. They want to split-ship what they have in stock now, in anticipation of an EO which will shut them down.

109 http://preview.tinyurl.com/d6y7cqz Risks and returns, product quality, and basic economics as explained by Frank Zappa. (h/t to Free Republic)

110 @ 100 ..Ms Anna I don't have a 03 springfield. A fine piece of US history that is too. Used all the way up into Nam (1903 A4 sniper with scope). I was busy buying bolties (Mosins, Mausers etc.) and M1A's , Hakims, AK's , PPS 43C's etc. I am going have to make time for an 03 even it means adding another caliber, which I loathe to do.

111 100 Anna Puma,

Yeah they are being VERY careful not to piss off Elmer Fudd, and I am gonna be very careful to fuck Elmer Fudd if he aids the cave on a national scale and make an alliance with PETA to outlaw hunting.

112

Which reminds me to thank Mary Poppins for the interesting bit this a.m. Was Peg's name Lillian, or Millicent?

 

You're welcome.  Yes, I screwed that up.  Her name was Lillian Millicent Entwistle.

113 Tell the truth about them, and they'll tell lies about you. http://preview.tinyurl.com/dysgt9j Blow-back to Rep. Bachmann.

114 This weekend I almost plunked down cash for a sporterized 30'06 1917 Enfield with scope at gun show.  But I resisted.  Price was $475.

115 WalMart says it's business as usual for ammo: http://preview.tinyurl.com/ay525j9

116 @108, The executive order crap is a myth. It is over reach from a pompous, egocentric, leftist, elitist, Ahole and his toady minions!

117 110 Judge Roy Bean,

if you have a garand you're covered, the '03 will eat garand powered ammo, the garand will not eat '03 Ammo loaded to high pressure.

of course I have been reading and a friend of mine at the CMP says that the '03s will not eat hot '03 ammo well anymore.

I have been leery of getting an '03-A4 with scope for just that reason.

for those more daring than me....

http://www.gibbsrifle.com/1903-a4_sniper_rifle.html

118 Good morning,  all.

Cold weather here.  I picked up info on TFG's press conference from blogs and Twitter,  confirming my decision to avoid seeing or hearing him.  I am sure it saved me from stroking out.

I wonder what's going on in Mali today.   I am sure our news people are too busy covering important stuff like this continuing gun BS to bother to look elsewhere.  Maybe I should ask some of them why they don't care about international affairs if black people are involved.

119 Sven you worry about the 03 being so worn out the chamber won't withstand the abuse anymore?  Do you have a link?

120 sven old buddy, it is time for you to take another break. You're babbling.

WW1 was the beginning of the end of decency and civilization.
What a pat XX cent. answer. What about the American civil war, that horrified the world? Or the civil war in China at about the same time? The revolutions of 1848, Napoleon, the French Revolution, the War of the Austrian Succession, the Hundred Years', and the Thirty Years? Every one of those, and a host of others, stood as the end of decency and civilization to the generations that followed.  And they made a strong case, too. And Rome, Rome was always falling. And it was always the end.

121 Kill all gas taxes and turn all the highways over to private companies. Privately managed roadways are some of the best maintained roads in the country.

122 Sven, I don't have a garand yet (working on it). ButI have lots of 8mm and 7.62 x 54r rifles (mosins, mausers, Hakims, T-53's, Finn M-39's etc.) which ain't no slouch!

123

No Rob - that finger wagging video moment from all the nanny democrat know-it-all Hollywood   hypocrites  was  the  juice.

 

I esp. like all the ads for ultra violent movies that are coming soon.

What's next on SVU?  The writers in Hollywood thought of the most horrific and gruesome rape scene. All the violence and revenge fantasies on TV. No - lets blame the NRA and normal everyday gun owners.

That falls right into the Hollywicked democrat party commie way.

Nuke Hollywood. Make sure Chris Dodd is on the premises.

 

 

It's as if the New Town Murders were staged by Chris Dodd, Hollywood  and the corrupt  democrat party machine.

 

 

124 "ultimate price for hubris." sven, they are very simply, tyrant wannabes. They wish to create a Utopia. But a Utopia built only for themselves. All others to be slaves in service to their Utopian state. Pure evil.

125 119 Ms Puma,

http://gunhub.com/rifles/2746-low-numbered-springfield-03-safe.html

Here's a thread with some of the old issues....

basically it boils down to the steel.

The '03 ramped up during the transition phase in gun material engineering.

Some early 1903 rifles made by Springfield Armory and Rock Island Arsenal were made of carbon manganese steel and some of the receivers were reported to have burst. At about serial no. 800,000 for Springfield Armory and 285,500 for Rock Island, the heat treatment was changed making the receivers much stronger. Later, a different type of steel was used altogether in the receivers and bolts. There may be a slight risk of a burst receiver when shooting modern full power ammo in the older rifles. They are generaly desireable as collector pieces rather than shooters.

The good news is that Gibbs who is hated by the prusits tests their batches.

It is not a design flaw so much as the simple effect of the march of industrial process.

YMMV, I prefer the Enfield or P-17 myself.

126 @108

They may seem innocuous which is the point of the exercise, who could possible be against these "sensible" things.

They are meant to entwine the executive governments tentacles more tightly around our necks.


Unfortunetly we do not have anyone one our side in leadership that can take on Obama rhetorically or demagogically.

THINGS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BECOME UNCIVIL TO CHANGE OUR CONDITION!

127 Time to kill the Comcast monopoly.

128 Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2013 07:52 AM (LRFds)


I had an 03-A3 and did a wide variety of hand load up to max loads.  Never had a single problem with any of them.

129 Somewhere I found this clip on YouTube. Frank Zappa gives a business lesson. Show this to lib and his head will explode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWXUatVuxQg

130 Roy and Sven this is the 1903A3 that is in collection.

Smith Corona.  Oct 43.  Has one tap indicating one armory rebuild.  Bolt is a Remington, supporting rebuild theory.  Proof marks on the wood furniture are still there and seem perfect.  Was bought off a dealer who had bought a deceased collector's collection.

http://tinyurl.com/ahe9kb2

131 Thing about this Rubio plan is that it is bogus. There is no way that illegals can get in line behind everyone else. The limit on Mexicans entering the US is something like 50k a year. There are not enough slots for the existing demand and throw in 20M illegals? The legal immigration system needs to be reformed, not the illegal one.

132 Oh you were talking about the brittle bolts from the early days.  Yeah knew about that.

133 ESPN is reporting that Lance Armstrong taped his much awaited interview with Oprah Winfrey yesterday and admitted he was lying the whole time about doping. Well, no shit. Three words: Fuck you, Lance. Like Bonds, Clemens and the rest of the other dishonest steroid era liars you have disgraced yourself, your friends and families, your fans and the sports you participated in by lying for more than a decade about something we could all plainly see with our own eyes. Also, you are a pussy for coming clean on Oprah. No one cares about "your side of the story," and no one believes a syllable that come out of your mouth. You are, have been, and apparently will continue to be, a total fucking douchebag.

134 Judge, you are armed better than some small European contries. If the shit hits the fan, what would you charge me for moving somewhere inside your perimeter. I'm also adept at anything up to .50 cal so I'd be glad to man a post.

135 @131

The point of the exercise is to swamp the system so as to create a "crisis" that will require the "rules" to be suspended, temporarily of course, in order to process this backlog.


IT'S ALL PART OF THE PLAN

136 If the government had true open bids it wouldn't cost so much to build and maintain roads.  But it's the government spending tax money so they don't give a crap.

137 Good Morning.

I'm pretty sure the constitution (Art.I Sec. allows the Feds to, "To establish Post Offices and post Roads;" If you want to argue that the interstates are way more road than the post office needs you have a point, but the federal government is indeed authorized to build roads.

138 Against those "nice" Republicans who want to make nice to illegal immigrants, I say: deport them and all their children, seizing their assets, if any, to help defray costs to the taxpayer. After 10 years back in the old country, they may feel free to get in entry visa line behind the gifted surgeons and patent-holders. No welfare recipients need apply.

139 I heard O say something this morning that confirmed what I have been thinking re gun control and his 2nd term agenda.  Specifically, he thinks the push for GC is a problem, not an opportunity.  He said that he'll propose things, probably what Biden suggests, but that he doesn't know what the Repub congress will do with them.  He knows, and he knows this is a dead end.  He's placating his base because he has to, but he's anxious to move beyond it because a loss here could derail his momentum and aura of inevitability for the things he really wants, principally amnesty but really the ability to permanently increase government spending as a % of GDP.   

140 120 Comatus,

I don't count the ACW because civil wars are always "anything goes" affairs....

I have no doubt if there is ever a civil war in this nation that those same hippies who cry hard enough for poor poor Jihadi Jim now to fill the sabine will try to fill the Sabine with some other fluid a little more.

I understand where you're coming from but understand that part of what makes Nappy and '48 notable is that it was contra the norm.

The wars of religion are kind of like my civil war "exception" but by the Victorian era the west had pretty much calmed down accepted the protestant reformation and was busy using conflict as a sort of national sport.

Hell I think left to their own devices the upper classes would have had WW1 over in about a year and the end result would have been Germany picking up another couple of French provinces and a german hegemony on the Eastern frontier.  The thing is that events as they often do got away from "th beautiful people."  France looked at the demographics and relaized that if they did not stop germany in a 12 year window they would not be able to do so in a rather worse way by 1927-1934,

I don't know I do know that once upon a time 'socialist shithole" meant Kruppianer germany and no nation had gleefully starved ~26 million for shits and giggles.

Your mileage may vary.

If I had to pick a peak for western civ it would be circa 1895-1915 and if I could change one thing it would have been some race relations protocol pre-emptively.

I'll take you up on the fade though.

Regards,
sven

141 @138


You do not have to deport anyone.

All you have to do is make it impossible to operate in the country.

They will self-deport.

142 130 Ms Puma,

Then it is implicitly safe.

Good to know.

I'm just not a huge fan of the '03 anyway.

I've had better Mausers (which it is) and I have preferences other than 30-06 on ammo.

It was a big country and I thought for a long time there was room enough for everyone.

143 After 10 years back in the old country, they may feel free to get in entry visa line behind the gifted surgeons and patent-holders. No welfare recipients need apply. Amen. WTF ever happened to targeted immigration based on our needs?

144 139 Pep,

There may be something to that, but frankly i hope he does try to act extralegally.

Better to get everyone's cards on the table on "law and deference to laaw and tradition."

If he gets to play "anything goes because of the expediency of crisis" so do I.

145 143 Blacksheep,

the marxist reverse perversion of "white man's burden"

146 I suspect that there will be a requirement that the people with old cars, like my 14 year old F-150, add a tracking device and they will "mandate" that the States enforce this.

Posted by: Vic at January 15, 2013 07:04 AM (53z96)

They'll just mandate that all license plates must have a tracking device in them.  Since the plate number is linked to the make and model, it will give them an easy way to track vehicles.  Naturally, they'll use the threat of withholding highway funds and/or some other federal money to force compliance.

147 @141 We can fervently hope so. However, except for the weather, there are precious few reasons why any illegal would want to leave the Glorious Nine-county People's Soviet of the Twin Cities in MN, a featherbed of rainbow utopia for the maladjusted of any-- yes, any-- variety.

148 "You do not have to deport anyone. All you have to do is make it impossible to operate in the country. They will self-deport." GOP politicians get laughed at everytime they mention this strategy, but I have never heard one explanation of why it wouldn't work.

149 136 case,

Bing "Dick Celeste."

The Ohio GOP regained power because of his flagrant misuse of the highway money.

Ah well whatever if society really is 9 buck an hour condom nation economics and human nature will assert themselves.

150

".22 bolt actions are next, mark my words!"

Absolutely.  There is NO limit to what they will inevitably demand we give up.  Get your crossbows, longbows, recurves and compound bows now while you still can.

151 "inside your perimeter." Moving "perimeters" folks. A base of operations to return to for some "comforts" is nice to have but always vulnerable in this age of drones and accompanying arms. If, God forbid, the feces hits the spinning blades, this is the type of weaponry you will face the most. If they can se it....

152 128 Vic,

I'm not an alarmist it is a concern.

The fact is the vast majority of '03s are safe.  The CMP did have a memo on the safety and did stop selling early model '03s as shooter grade weaponry and made them display pieces or for color guards.

I'm a black powder guy Vic, I'm not terribly afraid of guns just respectful of their flaws if present.

I'm glad you're happy with your weapon.

153 "Get your crossbows, longbows, recurves and compound bows now while you still can." Thinking I might need to get a blowdart, but going to have to quit smoking to get up to a 400 yd effective range.

154 @ 143 Blacksheep.  Ted Kennedy.

155 Okay gang another fun morning.

Y'all have a great day and remember "when Barry does something 'unprecedented' and 'skirting the law' we're all supposed to feel sad he needs to do so with such 'reservation.'

156 Speaking of patent holders immediately above, I was frankly stunned that Obama considered the patent system to be integral to economic development. I would have thought that IP would be front and center for his Marxist friends in their battle against property ownership, if for no other reason than they couldn't possibly understand what it is and why it is so important to investment capital. The fact that it is ephemeral and hard to understand and is by its nature dominated by large corporations would seem to make it low-hanging fruit ripe for the socialist picking.

157 Wow good for Rob Lowe, I'm glad I still think he is hot.

158 @151 Start with MCDP1, "Warfighting". Gaps and surfaces.

159 Anybody watch BBC Stargazing Live? It was 3 episodes & you can find it on the internet. It's pretty good & they always have these hawt nasa scientists on. USA! USA! USA! They made a comet by putting a bunch of dirt in a trash can, added a bunch of crushed dry ice, & mixed it up. You get a big dirty frozen glob. You then use a rock to chip a part off (simulates an astroid strike) and a vapor escapes simulating a tail. Anyway, comet is a comin' on 2/5/2012

160 Mornin' all. Another fun day watching America go further down the tubes. Misty, rainy and cold. Perfect weather for it.

161 Also per ESPN: Fox, Elway stand by decision to take a knee. Yeah, not like you can get the ball in your own territory and move all the way to field goal range with 30 seconds, multiple timeouts and a quality quarterback. /Matt Ryan Enjoy the offseason, guys.

162 I'm glad you're happy with your weapon.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2013 08:19 AM (LRFds)

I don't have it any more.  I wish I did.

163 @ 134, 'You are bettter armed than some European Countries, what would you chartge me to move inside your perimeter" That made me laugh. Its Texas. The lil old grannie lady up the lane with the walker most likely has more guns and ammo than me. But I have been on a gin and ammo crate buying tear recently. My wife (experty shootist) was complaining today while we were talking on Skype. Here is a snippet of an email I sent my mom today which says it all. "I have been ordering guns and ammo out the ass. Big, bad, black shoot thru a brick wall or a tree and kill the Ahole on the other side guns! I have so many crates of ammo come, My wife is tired.She says our home looks like the Army fort! Guns and cratesof ammo everywhere! They are supposed to bring the crates of ammo to the door and drop it off with an adult signature. They just throw it by the gate and she has to haul it in. God bless her, she does. She tried to pick up a crate with one hand the other day..Its 70 pounds, 1120 rounds. She grabbed that crate handle and flew out sideways trying to lift it up. It did not move. I had to laugh! She said I don't know how you can pick those up and trot down the driveway with em! She said I have 6 crates of ammo just arrived. How many more are coming, she said? I said I really don't know, 10 -12, who knows..its gonna get me up above 30,000 rounds though by my figuring! I bought a M1A (like an M-14 but semi auto) ..from a police dept turn in. It has not arrived yet, but Now that there is a rifle from hell! If its good enough for the police its good enough for me! The police are all getting AR-15s now (cat and rat rifles) and turning the big boys in. They can't afford the ammo for the big guns. I love their former rifle..M1A a big banger, a bad mama jama with a 20 round magazine and 5 more! They chose wrong!"

164 I wonder how many modern would-be patriots would be willing to forfeit their castles and go true rogue...ala 'Red Dawn'?

165 From Market Ticker. It includes the JEFs speech from 2006 on the whys and wherefores of NOT increasing the dept limit. I guess he just talks and doesn't listen.

http://tinyurl.com/baxn7gg

166 Thinking I might need to get a blowdart, but going to have to quit smoking to get up to a 400 yd effective range. Posted by: Icedog at January 15, 2013 08:20 AM (9ScGj) Slingshots! (well, vid isn't slingshots but weaponized duct tape.) http://tinyurl.com/cv2atjc I would love to see the lists that he is on.

167 @ 4 Vic

Good luck trying to impeach Obama. It will go nowhere.

168 They made a comet by putting a bunch of dirt in a trash can, added a bunch of crushed dry ice, & mixed it up. You get a big dirty frozen glob. You then use a rock to chip a part off (simulates an astroid strike) and a vapor escapes simulating a tail.

Anyway, comet is a comin' on 2/5/2012

Posted by: waldo at January 15, 2013 08:23 AM (H96hE)

That comet needs a new calendar.

Mornin' all.

169 Actually there is a slingshot in there.

170 @164 What makes you think I haven't?

171 bruce that and he reads but has no comprehension....

172 It's 36 degrees in LA.

173 Judge, if the little old ladies in your neighborhood are packing more heat then you, I'm guessing burglaries in your area are quite rare.

174 tami maybe ......we are dead ....we just don't know it......?

175 Some more metal from Japan.  With more screeching.
http://youtu.be/cVG_bBJU94A

176 One last sports shaming for the day: The Atlanta Hawks managed to score just 58 points in an NBA game last night, shooting 29%, getting out-rebounded by 20, and scoring just 20 points in the first half (5 in the second quarter). Only backup forward Mike Scott managed to reach double figures, finishing with ten points. The Bulls beat them by 40 while themselves only shooting 42%. Desgraciado.

177 maybe ......we are dead ....we just don't know it......?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 15, 2013 08:32 AM (GVxQo)

Oh yeah, that could be it.

178 Gonna look that up Thorvald. Have respected your thoughts for some time now. Im not "studied" in this area but use a bit of "martial logic" and try to take into account the oppositions strengths and witnesses.

179 PG, good morning.

TFG could read a recipe for nerve gas off TOTUS and not bat an idea.

180 hey anna!

181 Also per ESPN: Fox, Elway stand by decision to take a knee. Why, it's almost like John Elway cannot possibly stand for another quarterback to come into Denver and show up his legacy. Honestly, I hope that's not the case but let's just say there is evidence over the last two seasons to make that position seem less tinhatty than it should.

182 @ 138 Thorvald

You will not stop at deporting illegals. Then it will be all Hispanics and then Asians. You are fooling no one. Colin Powell is lying traitor but he does have a valid point. many Republicans hate minorities. The good thing is you have lost the immigration debate and I will enjoy seeing your ilk squirm here. If the GOP stops any reform, you will be voted out in 2014 and we will have 20 years of Marxist rule all because you hate Hispanics.

183 Or Tami we have all been slotted into these comfy little coffins and just going through a simulated experience.

The Internets are deep and wide.

184 Uh oh, get the cat litter out.

185 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

186

The FSA doesnÂ’t drive cars, they use inner city buses which are being subsidized by the gas tax

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actually a lot of them do drive.  Some of their vehicles are hunks of junk of many of them are sweet, sparkly new gas guzzlers, no doubt bought during the Cash or Clunkers debacle.  It will affect many of them and they will blame it on Bush or Palin.

187 On this day in 1973 President Nixon ordered a halt to all offensive operations in Vietnam. I was there.

I'm pretty sure my dad was, too.  Though he may have been rotated back to the States by then.

188 My Walmart is the one closest to NRA HQ. Used to be well stocked with ammo though 9mm was often out. Now the cabinet has just some oddball calibers. I look every time I go there is some turnover but they haven't really raised prices so they are out out out.

189 "You will not stop at deporting illegals. Then it will be all Hispanics and then Asians." Can we leave the Asian women? Asking for a friend.

190 @167 Look at the legal procedure. It doesn't have to "go" anywhere. It looks to me like every waking hour of every day for the next 1000 or so, L'il Barry could be tied down with the minutiae of 100 articles of impeachment. Correct me if I'm wrong. Is it realistic to expect other House members have male secondary sex characteristics? We shall see. The House impeaches, the Senate tries, and the President has to defend. What do I think L'il Barry does in the scenario outlined? He heads for Hawaii, leaving the robo-pen in the Oval Office. God forbid it should come down to ComPacFlt and these http://preview.tinyurl.com/bp3b27o

191 183 Or Tami we have all been slotted into these comfy little coffins and just going through a simulated experience.

The Internets are deep and wide.

================

Wait....your coffin is comfy?! 

192 I have a 19 yr old Camry with a 100k on it and I see no reason to give it up. Even if I cd afford a new car, I don't want to pay the add. ins., taxes, and yearly reg tax. Eff 'em!

193 New Acronym...
Smoking Comet Of Death....SCOD

194 Just for you Icedog - http://youtu.be/12tce-THLUE

195 So is this going to be another day of Sven,s barstool at AoSHQ? A response to every comment ? Ugh. On another note, I believe the obamacare act includes a provision for increased numbers of "enforcement personnel" for the CDC. The structure for greater interference by the central planners has been put into place.

196

Morning.

 

The weather map says it's snowing.

 

The window doesn't, but still, it's the closest we've come in 2 years.

197 @1;95, I like Sven's comments.

198 maybe ......we are dead ....we just don't know it......? Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 15, 2013 08:32 AM (GVxQo) Can't be. The way I've lived my life doesn't warrant this hell that we're in.

199 witnesses? Geez, must have missed weaknesses by a mile for auto-c to do that to me.

200 On second thought, is it comfy?

In a Matrix world, why can't everyone be happy comfortable and with everything golden?  I demand a refund!

201 Can we get a ban hammer please?

202 @182 Bitch. I speak better Spanish than you do. Colin Powell is being blackmailed for a homosexual affair he had in the 1950s. Any further imputations of racism by utter fools will be met by derision, at best. I am going to work now, else I'd stay to batter you senseless with my words.

203 Teej autocorrect has been getting aggressive on me lately must have been latest update to ios

204 The mileage reg seems a direct hit on red states, where there are often very long distances for basic services like food, etc.

Why, it's almost like the statists want to concentrate people and trap them in shitty urban areas!!!

205 rwc job was a good man.......just sayin'

206

Re Obama blatherfest.
---

I am serious about not hearing this douche-nozzles voice, when I can help it

 

 

 

 

 

I do in-home care for senior citizens.  My client was watching it yesterday and the house is so small I could hear him everywhere I went so I was held captive for the entire thing.  Thought my head was going to explode.

207 192 I have a 19 yr old Camry with a 100k on it and I see no reason to give it up. Even if I cd afford a new car, I don't want to pay the add. ins., taxes, and yearly reg tax. Eff 'em! Posted by: waldo at January 15, 2013 08:37 AM (H96hE) Dad! You're a moron too?!? Kidding of course, but that is pretty much what he says about it. 14 year old Avalon with over 200k. Still looks new.

208 @189, I agree. Leave the Asian wimmens alone. My wife and step daughter are Asian and they be here legal..by the book! BTW wifey has 2 younger sisters (twins) looking for US husbands. I am not making this up...Just sayin.

209 Everybody knows the party of racism is the democrats. I don't need to tell you that. Your troll fu is weak, shitface.

210 OWS Organizer, "Why aren't you outside protesting?"

OSW Tool, "Its the damn autocorrect.  It's fighting back and correcting our grammar!"

211 katya it was jaw dropping

212 I have a 19 yr old Camry with a 100k on it and I see no reason to give it up. Even if I cd afford a new car, I don't want to pay the add. ins., taxes, and yearly reg tax. Eff 'em!

Posted by: waldo at January 15, 2013 08:37 AM (H96hE)

As I said earlier, I have an old F-150.  My taxes had gone down to about $45/year.  At the time SC had the highest property tax rate in the nation on vehicles.

They did reform.  They raised the sales tax and decreased property taxes and shifted funding for schools from property tax to the State.

So I got higher sales tax.  The county after losing that property tax that supposed to be for the "schools" immediately added a new "fee" to our property tax bill. My car tax went to $75/year and the house taxes also went up.

Net effect from "reform".  Taxes went up, both sales tax and property tax.

213

Thanks, Vic, for your service in Vietnam.

Thanks, also, for another great big steaming cup of piss me off. The crap this lying crapweasel in the whitehouse is proposing is enough to make one's blood boil.

I share the exasperation with need for more tax to fix roads and bridges. I grew up with the Massachusetts Turnpike. Wel'll just put up these tolls until the road is paid for they said. Take a nice ride to the berkshires they said. Tolls are still up in perpetuity.

When I lived in NYC, I heard the GW Bridge raked in $1 million per day! What the F do they do with that money if not to fix the bridge and roads? The fat Chris Chrristie got in cahoots with Cuomo to played some kabuki dance to raise the toll last year. Total farce.

I had long thought the gas tax was to be used to fix travel infrastructure, no? Silly me. Isn't the gas tax "progressive" enough for them? If I drive more, I pay more in gas tax, no? So maybe it's not really about tax revenue, but more about control and central planning. Will these fuckers never stop?

214

Oooh,    toasted     troll!   YUM!    

215 Seriously though, only first generation of second generation Asian women. Once they're westernized, they get fat and demanding.

216 I like pie. And licking windows.

217 Thanks Anna, but I prefer Asian women of the Korean or Thai variety. Although there are some smoking Vietnamese women out there...

218 @197-JRB- seconded.

219 Mega Independent - Monty Python designed urban apartments.

http://youtu.be/e2PyeXRwhCE

220

I was hoping that with a small pay increase for the military folk and an increase in the housing allowance here, that the actual take home pay wouldn't go down.

 

Oh well.

221 Myself,  a member of the raaacist GOP,  wonders a few things:

1. Why is it that the democrats have no prominent elected minorities except for the crooked LA mayor and some plantationed members of the CBC,  who really have no power?

2. Why is the democrat party so cacalier about the unemployment rate amongst their black constituency, particularly black youth?

3. Why does no one comment on how the women in the White House are paid far less than the men?

4. Why is it that the White House is hiding its pathetic performance in Mali,  in which they tried to do defense on the cheap and didn't understand tribal relationships,  leaving Mal now under the threat of jihadist occupation?

5. Why are the dems so fond of the Arab culture,  when so much of it oppresses gays and women?

I suppose it's too early to solve mysteries like this,  but it does strike me as something the press should be interested in.  It almost seems like the democrats are, well, hypocrites who are really only interested in wealth and power,  but that couldn't be it,  could it?

222 @ 202 Thorvald

Colin Powell is not being blackmailed. He's a racist traitor who backs Obama because he's Black.

223 Judge Roy Bean, wow.  Green card lottery just got won by two Morons?

224 Korean girls are the most beautiful girls in the world. Except for the one that was just on HG getting her room spruced up. She was a hideous beast.

225 Oh, since I'm being accused of racism by our troll (there's my daily dose of "You're a racist!", btw), I just wanted to mention that I     happen to think a black man with snow white hair is one of the most attractive combinations in the world.   I say this because there was a black gentleman     in front of my building this morning chatting on his cellphone -- I imagine he's a member of our legislature or one of the other state agencies -- and he had a   head of snow white hair with a matching beard and moustache.   He   must have been    old enough to be my father,   but darn it, that was one good looking man. 

226 195 MuseisLuse,

You made the point yesterday muse on CDC as I made the points I made this morning well except for my Brian Dennehy as the Hindenburg post I had left that out a few days.

CDC having more "enforcement officers" is bad, of course in a nation where the Department of Education has a swat team....

http://tinyurl.com/3gmzegl

Reason Magazine article on the "no we don't send SWAT teams out for delinquent student loans"

HUD also has a "SWAT team" although they are really wielding the most lethal of all weapons, spreadsheets and a sense of entitlement.

In the end we will either allow the Feds to be militant in their use of law to exert control or we won't.

Muse message received on my presence.

I'll let the quality of the place get back up to snuff.

Right back at ya.

227 205 rwc job was a good man.......just sayin' Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 15, 2013 08:42 AM (GVxQo) Steve Jobs?

228 there are some smoking Vietnamese women out there...

They should stop.  It'll stunt their growth.

229 I think it's time to start the national discussion into what's happening to today's youth from a mental health standpoint.  This was completely unheard of when I was in school over 30 years ago.  Today, it is a regular occurrence all over the country.

Yesterday, this is what happen at my kid's high school in my small little upstate SC town.   Link to GoUpstate.com (  http://tinyurl.com/cmhoje7 )

"According to an incident report from the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office, a 17-year-old Byrnes High School student was having a conversation on Facebook with someone who apparently was an ex-girlfriend. The student stated that on "Zero Day, he will shoot and kill 42 students and 8 teachers," the incident report states.

When his father arrived at the school, he confirmed his son's claim to have a .38 caliber handgun and a 12 gauge shotgun, the incident report states. Several weapons at the home later were “taken into evidence for safekeeping,” according to a statement from Master Deputy Kevin Bobo.

According to a statement from Bobo, the student has been transported to a local hospital where he is being evaluated."

230 re: Colin Powell.  So should I scan in and post a cartoon from the 1990s that shows Powell being half Republican and half Donkey?

231

I agree with a previous moron poster - I am also begging to really like this Rob Lowe fella. He seems pretty reasonable (though I am prepared for the normal Hollywood sucker-punch at any moment).

Guess many years of working with and listening to Martin Sheen's bullcrap will do that to a guy.

232 230 re: Colin Powell. So should I scan in and post a cartoon from the 1990s that shows Powell being half Republican and half Donkey? Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 15, 2013 08:49 AM (QidfK) ----- YES !

233 192 I have a 19 yr old Camry with a 100k on it and I see no reason to give it up. Even if I cd afford a new car, I don't want to pay the add. ins., taxes, and yearly reg tax. Eff 'em!
Posted by: waldo at January 15, 2013 08:37 AM (H96hE)


Dad! You're a moron too?!?


Kidding of course, but that is pretty much what he says about it. 14 year old Avalon with over 200k. Still looks new.
Posted by: RWC at January 15, 2013 08:42 AM


We have a 1996 Volvo 850 With 454,000
Last year I did about $3500 of brakes, shocks and struts and wheel bearings, new front seat leather and rubber under the hood, headliner, windshield,  etc
It's like a new car.

234 Morning all. The best I can say is that I am off tomorrow

235

2. Why is the democrat party so cacalier about the unemployment rate amongst their black constituency, particularly black youth?

 

You forgot #6, Miss Marple.

 

#6)  Why do the democrats only care when white people are murdered,   while the endemic black-on-black violence,   particularly     in urban settings,        is that racial category's     number one     cause of death among young    black   men    and teenagers?

236 Not surprised by the Rob Lowe comment.  There are alot more .... non-Liberals in Hollywood than you think.  They're still the minority, but it's more than just the handful you hear about.  My rule of thumb when it comes to actors is if I don't know your politics, you're probably center-right.

237 He must have been old enough to be my father, but darn it, that was one good looking man. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at January 15, 2013 08:48 AM (4df7R) 'The Rent Is Too Damn High' thanks you. http://tinyurl.com/cmuwlty

238 Piers Morgan is a ghoul, lusting in the suffering and pain of others, drinking in their despair, trying to generate more mass murder for his own political ends (and ratings).

239

@225

There you go being all racist again. Can't you see black men as anything but sex machines? You probably thought he was articulate too, right?Typical republican bigot.

240 228, I worked in Nam back in 08. Those ladies are hot. I'm a faithful guy and took ,lots of cold showers!

241 MWR, there has got to be fetish website out there for you. Try nakedfrederickdouglass.com

242 Guys Muse is doing me a favor.

I had made the effort to reduce my presence and was so impressed with Obama's overreach I broke the 100 barrier over the weekend.

I lurk even when I am below 100 posts, and I am perhaps drowning out "better quality, more cogent, topical, and eloquent posters."

For several weeks my only posts were on the Sunday night ONT and an occasional posting of "best buys I found on ARs."

There are plenty of things to do around the house, I have a contract I am setting up and I was sucked in by how interesting Monday's posts were.

If I have something 'worthy" to add I'll let y'all know and let the east german judges have their say as well.

Keep on plugging, I don't want to top this week's list either I took #1 in 3 days last week.

I keep 5-9 windows open while playing youtube episodes of engineering disasters, megadisasters, and seconds from disaster playing while I do paperwork.

A lot of the time I can maintain focus and come up with something to post that if not witty is at least twitty.

Then again some other times I get so angry and hypervigilant that I am repetitive and meandering.

I don't want to devolve, while gaining back the ability to type with the toes on my feet would be neat I already feel as I age the need to scratch places that human society deems taboo.

All the best,
sven

243 Rob Lowes sex scandal was at the Democrat convention. Good money says he's a conventional libtard (autocorrect wants that to be library). Shame that there is such a low bar, that one little sign of common sense means hey maybe he is one of us! As if.

244 'The Rent Is Too Damn High' thanks you.


http://tinyurl.com/cmuwlty

Posted by: RWC at January 15, 2013 08:53 AM (fWAjv)

 

 

Ah yes!   That guy!   I can't help it,    I genuinely think he's attractive!   The only issue is his moustache, which is a bit too  much for me.   

 

Seriously, though, if Thomas Sowell ever goes from gray hair to white,   he will    go from being merely my dreamy intellectual crush to being my dreamy intellectual and     aesthetic crush, too.  

 

I'm so shallow.  

245 mwr uh.....is it the crazy eyes you like?

246 "two younger sisters..." Judge, I got laid off in Sept and am probably too old for them so...

247 Net effect from "reform". Taxes went up, both sales tax and property tax. A buddy of mine is a lawyer in Germany, err, Rechtsanwalt I guess I meant to say. Anyway, his tax story is that after the East German integration costs had been pretty much absorbed they had a "national discussion" about taxes and revenue sources that basically boiled down to (a) higher income taxes for the rich but a lower VAT because that is fairer and easier on the poor. or (b) hold the already high taxes for the rich steady so as to not impede growth while raising the VAT subject to staples-exclusions because everyone should share the burden more equitably. In short, same basic debate, different country. The result? Why choose?!? Let's do both on a temporary basis until we are well in the black and able to sustain the next downturn without incurring significant debt. The now permanent rates that resulted are all too predictable: A 50% top marginal rate plus a 19% VAT. With the recent economic downturn in the rest of the EU (though not in Germany as their budget, like the equally reviled Texas here in the U.S., is actually balanced) the "debate" has now shifted to whether still higher rates can be borne and just how necessary are some of those pesky VAT exclusions anyway? Politicians are the same all over. The only solution is neutering their power.

248

>>I lurk even when I am below 100 posts, and I am perhaps drowning out "better quality, more cogent, topical, and eloquent posters."

 

On what website??

249

There you go being all racist again. Can't you see black men as anything but sex machines? You probably thought he was articulate too, right?Typical republican bigot.

Posted by: Ezra's Equal at January 15, 2013 08:53 AM (F3Ima)

 

I denounce myself!

 

(Well, not really.   lol!  )

 

 

MWR, there has got to be fetish website out there for you. Try nakedfrederickdouglass.com

Posted by: Icedog at January 15, 2013 08:54 AM (9ScGj)

 

LOL!   Nah, I'm good with daydreaming from afar.     I   really do have odd tastes, I have to admit.    Black men with white hair, and asian guys with that gorgeous jet black hair and dark brown eyes.   Nnnguh.

 

'Scuse me, I'll be in my bunk.

250 221 Miss Marple,

All good questions, if I ever figure out the answer I'll "climb on my barstool."

Barack Obama armed the people we are fighting in mali with the French just as he armed the people who killed Ambassador Stevens, and no one cares.

The answer is in the questions.

good seeing you,
sven

251 My rule of thumb when it comes to actors is if I don't know your politics, you're probably center-right. Posted by: Sam In VA at January 15, 2013 08:52 AM (rFiOs) Yes or smart enough to keep it to themselves.

252 Toughest gun control bill in the country passes the NY Senate.

I hunted down and read the full text of that bill. 

There's only a 5 year mandatory minimum for toting a gun in the commission of a crime.

The FL 10-20-life scheme is tougher.

253 uh.....is it the crazy eyes you like?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 15, 2013 08:56 AM (GVxQo)

 

He actually doesn't have such terribly crazy eyes if you see him in other photos.      But the occasionally crazy eyes plus the wacky moustache    together would be too much for me. 

254 'Scuse me, I'll be in my bunk.


I don't care what anyone says, but that right there is funny as shit.  Hahaha!

255 Politicians of all stripes love them sum taxes.  More money equals more power and more "gifts" to their cronies and voters.  How do you get more money.


More taxes of course.

256 If your Vietnamese women is smoking, slow down, and get a better lubricant...

257 @223, Ms Anna, it took along time to get my beloved over here. Medical exams, interviews, forms, papers from the government saying they had no crimonal record, then translations, then papers saying the translator could translate! I bringing her mama over next. Oh my I get to do that paper chase all over again. Woooo Hoooo! FYI, when you marry a Chinese lady you are indebted to take care of the family (the mama and daddy, or bab as they say). Daddy (ole commie army guy) is dead. So I have to take care of the mama! My wife (tai tai) is jealous. She says mama loves me more than her! I call BS. I have to laugh.

258 The next 4 years are gonna be war between the White House and Congress. Which in the long run is stupid for this asshole obama to do, but he is so arrogant, I am not surprised

259 @252 that crap passed? OMG!

260
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/10-20-life/10-20-LIFE-Report.pdf

261 The next 4 years are gonna be war between the White House and Congress.


Not going to be much of a war.  It takes two to have a "war".  The Senate is on his side and the Republicans will fold like a $2 suit.

262 256 cms i don't know whether to laugh or slap you.....

263 GOP is heading where the Tories are in the UK. I wonder about them and the UKIP types they have no chance whatsoever of recovering Merry Olde England. I think they must be busy watering the lawn while watching it burn.

264 @252 that crap passed? OMG!

Posted by: Judge_Roy_bean at January 15, 2013 09:03 AM (42wQ/)

As the post said way back at the front of the thread, it passed the NY Senate and is expected to pass the NY House easily.

265 Posted by: @PurpAv at January 15, 2013 08:59 AM (BNacf) I think it was meant as 'toughest' on the law abiding.

266 Vic, those feral hogs taste great. We talked about this a few months ago, but once again, this problem has an easy fix. Two or three good shot armed with EVIL ASSAULT RIFLES OF MASS DESTRUCTION could kill most of the herd and have them at the local butcher in a few hours.

267 nooood

268 Rob Lowes sex scandal was at the Democrat convention. Good money says he's a conventional libtard (autocorrect wants that to be library). Shame that there is such a low bar, that one little sign of common sense means hey maybe he is one of us!

As if.

Posted by: Golan Globus at January 15, 2013 08:55 AM (/1U3u)

 

I don't think    Lowe    is "one of us" in that    he's a conservative.   I really don't think so.   I do know that he's a family man, so I wouldn't be surprised if his   more left-leaning sensibilities have been quelled somewhat in favor of common sense ideals that    protect his family.       If he's at all a Republican he's probably a RINO.

 

I think Lowe is a lot like Jon Lovitz and some of the other actors who have been harangued on Twitter for not falling in step with the Democrat party line.   They fall into the classical liberal mindset rather than the progressive goose step.    That means that    they are willing to question what's said on BOTH sides, and don't feel that they have    to    conform to the dominant Hollywood party's paradigm.     I'd rather not know their politics, period, but if they're going to comment on the political scene     I     don't care if they're liberal or not    so long as      they're willing to say, "This is just STUPID."  

269

Why is the democrat party so cacalier about the unemployment rate amongst their black constituency, particularly black youth?

 

 

It's the Republicans' faults.

270 Posted by: Vic at January 15, 2013 09:04 AM (53z96)

The NY Senate is filled with idiots, rivaled only by the NY Assembly.

It's odd, because everything North of NYC and the suburbs is conservative, aside from a few pockets around Albany.

271 Ah yes! That guy! I can't help it, I genuinely think he's attractive! The only issue is his moustache, which is a bit too much for me. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at January 15, 2013 08:55 AM (4df7R) He's on TruTV from time to time. Pretty damn funny guy as well.

272 Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 15, 2013 09:06 AM (GVxQo)

Stop teasing us! Or at least post photos.

273 Two or three good shot armed with EVIL ASSAULT RIFLES OF MASS DESTRUCTION could kill most of the herd and have them at the local butcher in a few hours.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 15, 2013 09:04 AM (GsoHv)



As I told one of the other Morons earlier, that is hard to do since it is illegal to fire a weapon in a residential area in SC and I have a Sheriff living a few hundred yards down the road from me.



But down in Charleston where that was at maybe they don't have any cops living nearby and none of the neighbors would rat them out.

274 248 Mama AJ,

I lurk here and hot air pretty much whenever doing so won't cause a traffic accident.  You guys endured me at my worst when I went into Panic mode when my instincts on western Ohio politics told me Romney was in deep trouble.  I apologize for my posting volume and lack of quality, in my defense I was up for maybe 6 days with at most two hours of sleep at irregular intervals, but I should have had the restraint to just stare in the corner.

There are several regular posters, especially in the dawn patrol that are already or should be quality bloggers on their own.  Mary Poppins, Vic, Anna Puma, Allen G, Truman North, HeatherRadish, PHXGrl at times and the list I quoted is not meant to be inclusive it is what literally popped into my head in 5 seconds when i thought, "why?"  At my best I am a notch below them because I try to be clever and often fail, at my worst I am probably near Average Joe in post quality.

I'm a bit afraid to make a stab at having a blog because I am not the savviest HTML slinger, and my wife lives in the ever loving, anaconda like embrace of the US government.

Thanks as always to Ace and the Cobs for being here in the main and not nuking me from orbit on the whole.

Ace if you perchance read this I apologize for not getting in touch with you this month as I'd hoped to try to set up a regular donation or get your advice on what/whom could use the funding but we found out that wife will be sent back to FT Jackson and I am in the process of calculating the new family budget and how much wiggle room I have in the family budget.  My current toil that I am not enjoying enough is trying to reason out whether my current business venture makes sense with the change of location.

Vic at some point most likely if/when there is a SC meetup and we've met I will be needing your advice/counsel on SC politics and the GOP operatives worth backing since we will be in the area longer than a year.

Not angry at anyone, and was not meaning offense to any.

be safe all,
sven

275 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at January 15, 2013 08:48 AM (4df7R)

Of course, he has to have WHITE hair... you racist.

276 sven,

Do not be absent long.  I enjoy your discussions,  which prod me into thinking of things a different way (as I do several other posters here).

The way I look at it,  some people need to learn to use the scroll button,  as I do when there are discussions on the benefits of different types of ammo.

Besides,  who made that guy the arbiter of proper thread participation?

277 Regarding Lowe, I think he is slowly becoming conservative. He realizes that the left uses empathy for decision making while the right uses logic.

278 "BTW wifey has 2 younger sisters (twins) looking for US husbands. I am not making this up...Just sayin."

Judge, can I have both of them?

279 And MWR, I'd be happy to get some black paint and baby powder so I can help you with this fantasy.

280 276 sven, Do not be absent long. I enjoy your discussions, which prod me into thinking of things a different way (as I do several other posters here). Posted by: Miss Marple at January 15, 2013 09:13 AM (GoIUi) Seconded..tripled..thirded?

281 Regarding the new NY law:

Will Remington ever close the Ilion, NY plant? Looks like most of its capacity is in the south now. I'm wondering if they keep the original location open mostly for historical reasons.

Cuomo's rantings lately were pretty outrageous. I'd love to see the Blue states all stripped of arms production capability.

282 sven, what Miss Marple said. And what you said is why I don't "pop off" more than I do. Usually when I have something to say, there's someone else here who is thinking like me and can say it better. Thorvald, BackwardsBoy, Grey Fox and some others come quickly to mind. BTW- you're one of those "some others".

283 Boring troll is boring.

284 sven, you are as free to post as much as you like just like everyone else here. 



Just because one person can't seem to scroll past that which they don't like isn't your problem.  You're not being offensive or argumentative.....there is nothing wrong with your posts (although I do have to read them twice sometimes to glean their meaning ).



So, post away....don't go away.

285 277 Regarding Lowe, I think he is slowly becoming conservative. He realizes that the left uses empathy for decision making while the right uses logic. --- I seem to remember reading something he said a few years ago that sounded slightly conservative, or at least libertarian. Any holly-wood fucker that is not a screaming libtard lunatic is refreshing, even a "reasonable" democrat would be a breath of fresh air.

286 #277,  #285   I read his autobiography a couple of years ago.  He seems to be a slightly liberal but normal person who got sidetracked for a while by the Hollywood culture,  but has now settled down with a wife and kids.  He grew up in the 70's,  when there were a lot of latch key kids in his subdivision.

Great stories about people who were his friends and how some of them became successful and some got lost in the drug culture.  It's an interesting although not political read...more like an interesting voice from a culture of which I knew nothing.

287 Here is a cartoon of Colin Powell from 1995. Somethings never change.

http://annapuna.blogspot.com/2013/01/powells-stance.html

288 Cuomo's rantings lately were pretty outrageous. I'd love to see the Blue states all stripped of arms production capability. Posted by: Rule #2 at January 15, 2013 09:22 AM (CypDC) They all need to follow Ronnie Barretts lead. Long letter but can be boiled down to: "Barrett cannot legally sell any of its products to lawbreakers. Therefore, since California's passing of AB50, the state is not in compliance with the US Constitution's 2nd and 14th Amendments, and we will not sell nor service any of our products to any government agency of the State of California."

289 Of course, he has to have WHITE hair... you racist.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at January 15, 2013 09:11 AM (gkmF0)

 

Of course!  Gotta be racist SOMEHOW, else how could I be a conservative?   That's what the lefties tell me anyway. 

290 And MWR, I'd be happy to get some black paint and baby powder so I can help you with this fantasy.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at January 15, 2013 09:14 AM (gkmF0)

 

Oh, Mega Independent, you always know just what to say.  *heart flutter*

291
   So I wonder when all the police dept's in the state will turn in their now illegal firearms? 

   Will there be an amnesty program?  Inquiring minds want to know.

292

Just because one person can't seem to scroll past that which they don't like isn't your problem.

 

This is something that I will never understand.  The scroll bar is our FRIEND.  If we    don't want to read something, we can just scroll past it.   Is that so difficult for people to understand?   I do it all the time,   especially any time Drudge has a picture of the Preezy above the headline.   *SHUDDER*

 

I agree with Tami, et al, sven.  Post however and whenever you see fit.  Anyone who doesn't like it can make like a 2x4 and screw.

293 The GOP is making a huge mistake with Amnesty.  Every single illegal will now "be on the road to citizenship" which means you can no longer kick them out.

Impoverished illegal aliens aren't going to vote Republican.  They want free shit, they could care less about balanced budgets and tax cuts.