1 Good Morning Morons.  Today is Wednesday, February 20, 2013.  On this day in 1472 Orkney and Shetland were pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark who married the King of Scotland to settle a feud.  Margaret was 13 at the time and she died at 30.

2 Morning all

3 And Andy, that is one of my favorite movies.

4 More than a dozen injured in massive gas blast in Kansas City.  We need a national discussion on gas blasts.

http://is.gd/6kGsTT

5 Obamanites consider trade sanctions on China for criminal hacking.  But I am surd that all that will happen is a strongly worded letter to their Communist buddies.

http://is.gd/x6oEvn

6 11 Year old girl catches fire in a bizarre accident at a hospital in OR.

http://is.gd/XJx72K

7 MI review panel for DetroitÂ’s financial problems finds that there is no way to fix them.  Hahahahaha, decades of socialism and corruption, how does that work?  And guess what Party has controlled the city and loves their socialism and corruption.

http://is.gd/rpPiwE

8 Hackers hit Apple computers now using the Java plug in.   Folks letÂ’s face it.  This continued war between security software and hackers has to come to an end.  What needs to happen is to make this kind of crime a serious felony with hard jail time and the prisons most resembling the Black Hole of Calcutta. Personally I would prefer the death penalty with no appeal after breaking their kneecaps but some may balk at that.

http://is.gd/cc0xrE

9 Fox trying to make the BS argument that amnesty of illegals will help boost the economy of depressed districts.  They are full of shit.

http://is.gd/NSmbLL

10 Another spree shooting in CA in the LA area.  Calls for more gun control are already starting.  It looks like the guy was a Hispanic from other pictures on the Internet.  He was described as a loner who was an unemployed “part time” student.  IOW part of the FSA.   A real natural member of the Republican Party. He used a shotgun for the killings.   We need a national conversation on unemployed part time student “loners”.

http://is.gd/P0uvan

11 Meanwhile crazy Joe says for self-defense by a double barrel shotgun.  But wait, just take it outside on the patio and fire both your rounds in the air to scare them away.  The stupid is epic.

http://is.gd/7kI99h

12 Drunk woman calls 911 for cigarettes.  Instead she gets hauled off.  And believe it or not this was not in FL.

http://is.gd/OHBzcA

13 Hey Phoenixgirl a heart warming story for you.  McShitty had to defend his latest amnesty round from angry Phoenix residents yesterday.  Were you there?

http://is.gd/FvgOx0

14 MO lawmaker fights back over gun grabbing.  Submits bill making it a felony to propose gun laws punishable by 4 years in prison.   Now we are getting where I want to go.

http://is.gd/8Cc4UW

15 Woman quits smoking over health risks  Â…Â…Â…Â…Â…Â…Â…..at 102.

http://is.gd/A6AvAh

16 Post Office will launch a line of clothes for sale.  This on the anniversary date of George Washington signing the bill that established the Post Office.  The Post Office could be made solvent if two things happen (1) Get Congress out of the control of where offices are located and (2) Remove the unions.

http://is.gd/9aOSko

17 The Syrian Rebels that we are supporting behead two people “for Osama”.  Another triumph for Obama.

http://is.gd/X7kd0A

18 This is a good slice of what is wrong with the RNC.  The Presidential debate Co—Chair (a former RNC Party Chairman) says he was happy with the debates as they were, with the exception of Crowly.  You stupid shit, the MFM is ALL Crowly.

http://is.gd/1xfHuN

19 Looks like the Communists have co-opted the WWE.

http://is.gd/jtktek

20 Master criminal Al Gore has finally gone completely bughouse, shithouse rat crazy.  He blames the MFM for the non-existent global warming.

http://is.gd/QbPxZY

21 I hope this school is not getting any of my tax dollars.  But I know they are.

http://is.gd/WrEqqD

22 Good Morning.
It's a beautiful 7 degrees, about 10 degrees less then average, this morning in global warmed No. Ill.

Averages, what does that mean??

23 Chuck Todd (NBC) says there is no liberal media bias.  Chucky baby, youÂ’re right.  ItÂ’s not “bias” when you are an active arm of the DNC.

http://is.gd/U5Pa76

24 Irony of the week.  NJ Senator Menendez talks to Karzie about corruption.  What did he do, give him some hints?

http://is.gd/HRu1sp

25 Obama says his fight against non-existent global warming will make electricity more expensive.  You stupid shit, what it will do is make it unavailable.  When the blackouts come youÂ’ll still have power in the WH with the AC cranked up to full.

http://is.gd/IlHmaA

26 http://yhoo.it/Y6LB4v

When was John F'n Kerry confirmed as SOS. Did I miss it or he just going without a confirmation.

27 That “warrantless house” search bill in WA State was not a mistake.  The same thing was introduced by the same man in 2005.  Maybe they need someone to introduce a bill to make his actions a felony punishable by 4 years in jail.

http://is.gd/lju0lE

28 You want proof on what I said about the major SC newspapers being nothing more than Democrat PR rags.  Look at this headline article in The State.  One of the Democrat Parties favorite lines “gas prices driven up by speculators”.

http://is.gd/WMRyrn

29 SC Senate judiciary panel votes through a bill that will allow CCW permit holders to carry in restaurants and bars.  (Note: in SC a bar that sells liquor must be located in a restaurant).  Holders who do carry will not be allowed to drink and the owners can post signs forbidding carry.  I like that touch.  Owners can not decide whether to forbid smoking or allow it, but they can do the gun forbid.

http://is.gd/O0ARAb

30 WaTi thinks BonerÂ’s Senate first strategy will hurt Democrats in Red States.  I donÂ’t think so.  There are not very many Democrat Senators in Red States.  By definition it canÂ’t be a Red State if Dems control seats.  

http://is.gd/8CS7Bj

31 FINALLY....Raylan killed someone.

32 Crony corruption at its worst.  No wonder GE has supported Obama with massive contributions.  200 years ago this would have been prosecuted.

In 2009, the Obama administration gave $24.8 million in stimulus tax credits to GE’s famous “Appliance Park” factory compound.

In 2010, Appliance Park won a $2.5M stimulus grant.

In 2013 they are laying off 500 people.  Note:  A “tax credit” is the same thing as a “grant”.

http://is.gd/WDLLV2

33 A remark was made yesterday about Andrew Jackson and his response to the nullification “crisis” over the tariffs of abomination.  Walter Williams weighs in on those tariffs.  And please note just read this and think about it.  This is not intended to start another flame war.

http://is.gd/BL2wtH

34 Heather Mac Donald says there are only cosmetic differences between the Obama amnesty plan and the Gang of 8 amnesty and yes, she calls it and amnesty plan.

http://is.gd/TrQ6J8

35 > Chuck Todd (NBC) says there is no liberal media bias.

And fish don't know they're wet

36 Simpson-Bowls want another massive tax increase. Piss on both of them. We donÂ’t need another tax increase.  Shut the MF down.

http://is.gd/1EXhlF

37 IBD asks if “Only Suckers Will Buy Obamacare” insurance.  They are missing the point.  This was designed to cause the major insurance companies to fail.  That would leave only the government as the only insurance provider.  At that point the entire healthcare industry will be working for the government. Single payer in fact means, government nationalization of healthcare.

http://is.gd/wFESfU

38 Kindle Daily Deals

http://is.gd/QjOHdQ

39 Look out! Could this be what caused the Scottish Queen to die at 30?

http://is.gd/ck867i



And thatÂ’s it for Wednesday, February 20, 2013.



And more indications that the world is coming to an end on Fox and Friends the curvy couch people excoriated Obama on his sequestration propaganda. It was the strongest blast against Obama I have seen from anybody in the media to date.

40 If you are on Twitter, please take a moment and send your best snark to that fat fuck of a Colorado state house member Joe Salazar (D) for his stupid remarks on rape

@HouseSalazar




so far I've called him a misogynist and a fool- please, pile on

41 All that doom before I go to sleep and no kitteh... I think I'll have nightmares!

42 When was John F'n Kerry confirmed as SOS. Did I miss it or he just going without a confirmation.

Posted by: sTevo at February 20, 2013 06:41 AM (VMcEw)

He was confirmed with virtually no opposition at all.

43 Give King Frotus the power to determine what gets cut in HIS sequestration deal. Then grease up the StutterMeter 3000, because it's going to be redlining.

44 The TwitLeft is aggressively lying about the right's response to salazar. . The lies make communication impossible, and that's REAL bad because do you know what people do when they can't solve their problems by communicating?

45 All that doom before I go to sleep and no kitteh... I think I'll have nightmares!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's mobile at February 20, 2013 06:46 AM (e/OuK)

Kitteh at #39!

46 Give King Frotus the power to determine what gets cut in HIS sequestration deal.


He already has that power.  There is no "give to it".

47 Averages, what does that mean??

It's not even the real average of available data; it's a 30-year average.  I'm not sure if we're still using 1971-2000, or if we've rolled over to 1981-2010 yet (cynically, I think they'll keep using the latter so they can "prove" gorbal warmening with the smaller number).

48 >He was confirmed with virtually no opposition at all.

Posted by: Vic at February 20, 2013 06:49 AM (53z96)

The old boy's club looks after its own. Former Klansman? Girl died in the backseat of your car, you say? Not to worry.

49 31 FINALLY....Raylan killed someone. Posted by: bocephus at February 20, 2013 06:42 AM (3Crtn) Thanks alot Butthole, I DVR'd it.

50 Something that needs to be pointed out about rising prices is the crazy amount of money printing the government is doing...it's not that gas is going up, it's that the dollar is going down...all thanks to Obama so tell the FSA to suck it up, bitchez...you asked for it, you got it.

51 You hid the kitteh! . POOTUS' sequestration strategy is the same as the left at every level of government - services blackmail. They claim if they don't get more tribute they'll cut vital services (only), then when they get your money they blow it on cronies, hookers and booze and then start the blackmail again. . Too bad GOP politicians are so cowed they can't rub that in the MFM proxies' faces every day. . Every day is the only way.

52 Averages, what does that mean??

Posted by: Bruce at February 20, 2013 06:40 AM (lG24o)

Theoretically it means the average hi (or low) for that day over the past 10 years.  Only the problem is for the feds (NOAA) they have been known to go back and doctor past his and lows to make it look like we are warming more.

53 This continued war between security software and hackers has to come to an end. What needs to happen is to make this kind of crime a serious felony with hard jail time and the prisons most resembling the Black Hole of Calcutta. Break wrists, snap fingers.

54 Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's mobile at February 20, 2013 06:57 AM (e/OuK)


We ceased having a true opposition party long ago.

55 well, another reason gas prices are spiking is that thing where the refineries have to to shut down for a time while they transistion from winter blends to summer blends, in order to satisfy the gobbledegook of fed and state laws on the formulation of gasoline

for the children

if it saves one life

56 Appliance Park has been slowly dying for thirty years from the union stranglehold there. What was once a huge operation slowly dwindled to a ghost town.

57 goddamit!

58

59 that should do it.  Just give me a moment to grab a cup of tea, then I'll hit the barrel.

60 This continued war between security software and hackers has to come to an end. What needs to happen is to make this kind of crime a serious felony with hard jail time and the prisons most resembling the Black Hole of Calcutta. Break wrists, snap fingers. Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2013 07:00 AM (d0Dmj) Maybe we can consult the muzzies. They got the punishemt thing down. Maybe if little morty has to play his little games with one hand.....

61 i'm leaning i'm leaning

62 All your child are belong to us. http://preview.tinyurl.com/a5dp3zh

63 You don't come here for the stories, do you, MPPPP?

64 The Pistorius case is a real lesson for gun owners. When you wield a firearm and point it at something, be DAMN sure of what you're doing. The rest of your life depends on you making the right decision in those few seconds.

65 http://preview.tinyurl.com/aefv2d6 He had to cut something, and maybe he was fresh out of clitorises.

66 Amywayy, good morning and good night...

67 PS phone keyboards are annoying. Amywayy?

68 Good Stuff MPPPP, you are becoming a treasure. I hope you are saving these stories, put them together and it could be a great read.

69 That warrantless house search bill in WA State was not a mistake. The same thing was introduced by the same man in 2005. Maybe they need someone to introduce a bill to make his actions a felony punishable by 4 years in jail. Better. Find someone that can beat him and make him a "former" elected official.

70

MPPPP,do you have any stories about David Lean?

71 Better. Find someone that can beat him and make him a "former" elected official.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2013 07:10 AM (d0Dmj)

Hell if he went to jail they would have to find someone and the next guy (and all the rest of the rotten apples) may think about it before offering up another one of those turds.

72 Chelyabinsk meteor was bigger than originally thought:

Later in the evening, after studying infrasound data from stations around the world, NASA released a new estimate revising that first guess upward by a thousand-fold: The meteorite actually weighed closer to 10,000 tons, scientists said

73 POOTUS' sequestration strategy is the same as the left at every level of government - services blackmail. They claim if they don't get more tribute they'll cut vital services (only) Fuck 'em. Call their bluff. Tell them to cut their own throats.

74 Perfect! Just in time for President Michael Jackson's third term in office! http://preview.tinyurl.com/b4ufdms The "fly on the wall" at your precinct's Republican Club meeting now has new, er, potency.

75 Oh, look.  Al-AP is setting up Rubio to take the fall for SCOAMF's amnesty.
http://t.co/DzgvPO96

76 @33 Thanks for the link! As usual, Dr. Williams delivers.

77 PS phone keyboards are annoying. I had to turn autocorrect off on this HTC EVO. Damn thing kept getting me in trouble.

78 Posted by: HeatherRadish™ drinking heavily at February 20, 2013 07:18 AM (hO8IJ)


Well has the above link details, there is almost no difference between Obama's plan and the Gang og of 8's plan; which is Rubio's plan.

79

Good Stuff MPPPP, you are becoming a treasure. I hope you are saving these stories, put them together and it could be a great read.

 

Thanks, OSP.  The thought had occurred to me, but I'm leery of trying it.  You see, none of the work I've done is original.  I'm merely taking already existing anecdotes, or stories from magazines or excerpts from books and retelling them, with a tweak or two here and there to make them my own.  Now, that may fly here on this Smart Military Blog*, but whether that would fly in the real world, I don't know. 

 

Also, anyone who is interested in Hollywood from after, say 1965, would find nothing in my book, since I don't really have a lot, nor care a lot, about the modern cinema.

 

But I have thought about it.  If any morons with real-world publishing experience can chime in, that'd be great.  BTW, I mentioned on the overnight thread that Friday's story will be about Errol Flynn.  I haven't decided on a star or movie for tomorrow, though, so I'm open to suggestions.

 

*with an emphasis on Christina Hendricks' Mighty Jugs

80 Well has the above link details, there is almost no difference between Obama's plan and the Gang og of 8's plan; which is Rubio's plan.

His is the only picture, though, under a headline that says "White House."  Scapegoat.

81

Whoops, posted before I saw #71.

 

Velvet, I don't have any stories about Lean as such, but I can talk about Lawrence of Arabia for a bit, if you like.  I'll do that tomorrow. 

 

But I'll still take suggestions for other stars / directors / movies.

82 Breaking; Japanese investigation of 787 battery fire hows that it was not wired correctly.


One wonders about the QA/QC they have on aircraft construction.

83 oops,

link


http://is.gd/fQSzIT

84

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 20, 2013 07:23 AM (zF6Iw

 

---- That would be fine,

85 Oh, look. Al-AP is setting up Rubio to take the fall for SCOAMF's amnesty.

I'm sure they're trying, but the fact is that Rubio did this to himself. 

86 Time to take the youngen to school BRB.

87 So yesterday we were told what horrible people we are for not sucking Rove's cock and giving eternal fealty to GOProud.  Plus some Mark Sanford trash thrown in.


What's on for this wonderful day in the neighborhood?

88 @76 Thanks for the pic at your nic! There is something really fetching about the chamfered battens inside the shutters!

89 To be accurate they would need to blames the Gang of 8 and Obama, but that will never happen. Shit look at what they are doing now with sequestration:

1. Blame Republicans when it was Obama's idea to begin with

2. Blame Republicans for cutting needed programs like first responder and military readiness when OBama gets to decide exactly which programs get cut.


As that old Democrat consultant said back before the election, the MFM is the enemy.

90 DAY 106 1,354 o go (1,429 to Inauguration Day 2017) Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, MIRV's, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, miscreants, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

91 Just waking up here in Costa Rica. I'll be lurking mostly for a while. Adios.

92

What's on for this wonderful day in the neighborhood?

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 20, 2013 07:28 AM (XOVEM)

 

---- Amnesty shit sandwich, it's whats for dinner

93

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 20, 2013 07:31 AM (lgjuc)

 

Have a tropical drink for me, boychik.

94 Amnesty shit sandwich, it's whats for dinner


And for dessert....

95 Every day is the only way.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's mobile at February 20, 2013 06:57 AM (e/OuK)

That's how you can tell it's just a job for Rove and his ilk.  When there is no daily catalog of Democrat malfeasance presented in an accessible forum EVERY FREAKING DAY by the Republican Party, you know they are fat, dumb, and happy with their hands far enough in the public till to be set for life without actually doing anything else except skim (and accept campaign contributions)!

96 MPPPP, have you ever told the story about Fatty Arbuckle? I'm now very curious about a single party ruining a star's career. Must of been some death or rape involved?

97 One wonders about the QA/QC they have on aircraft construction.

Posted by: Vic at February 20, 2013 07:24 AM (53z96)

And yet another triumph for union labor!

98 Posted by: Icedog at February 20, 2013 07:39 AM (9ScGj)

Second the Fatty Arbuckle info request!

99 MPPPP, have you ever told the story about Fatty Arbuckle? I'm now very curious about a single party ruining a star's career. Must of been some death or rape involved?

Posted by: Icedog at February 20, 2013 07:39 AM (9ScGj)

It was the predecessor of the Durham rape fiasco.  An accusation caused a local DA with political ambitions to run amuck with false charges and an attempted railroading.

100 And yet another triumph for union labor!

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 20, 2013 07:40 AM (Cnqmv)

They will say it was because there was no union labor.  These planes are largely built at the new plant in SC with no union labor.

101 Speaking of breakfast, I was under the impression someone would be feeding me apple pie ala mode and throwing in a kiss on the cheek for good measure by now. Hey, I read it on the interwebz last night. It's supposed to be true.

102

Adam Lanza had a disorder, CNN reports.

 

Really?  No shit!  Bang-up job there CNN.

103 I'm selling my first 10,000 government-issued carbon credit rations for the low cost of $5 each! Post your email and I'll send you PayPal details. Get 'em cheap at this low introductory rate!

104 Oh noooooo.

Some members of the Chicago Teachers Union are looking to unseat the current president.
One of them is saying that with all work that they put into the strike, they had not got enough money, and had to work more hours.

105 Arizona has the nation's eighth-highest population of illegal immigrants, according to the Pew Research Hispanic Center. In 2010, illegal immigrants represented roughly 6 percent of the state's population.

Activists said Arizona's anti-immigrant laws inspired many illegal immigrants to demand more rights. Last week, some college students rallied outside Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's office for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.

"They no longer are afraid to come and say, 'I am not able to vote, but I can make my voice heard, and they have to listen to me,'" said community organizer Abril Gallardo.

Just.Fucking.Wonderful.  Another community organizer with a big mouth and nothing else.  Deport every fucking one of these assholes; pretending that's not possible is just allowing the destruction of the country.

106 Posted by: Bruce at February 20, 2013 07:46 AM (lG24o)


Chicago teachers are too stupid to understand that striking for 3 months to get a 50 cent an hour wage increase is a losing proposition.


There is math involved.


That may not be what happened here but I assume it was damn close because that is what happens in almost all of these striking cases.

107 These planes are largely built at the new plant in SC with no union labor.

Posted by: Vic at February 20, 2013 07:42 AM (53z96)

I didn't think they had got that plant up and running to support the 787.

108 Vic, thanks! I wouldn't mind an over-zealous DA going after a few of our current Hollyweird "stars".

109 They became vocal after the BS court ruling that allows AZ to arrest them but requires ICE to deport them and ICE has said they will do nothing.

110 Another community organizer with a big mouth and nothing else. Community organizing is racketeering. Remember that when SHTF.

111 It occurs to me that there's a reason they're pushing 50% of those under 30 into unemployment.  Hitler's brown-shirts were built from the ranks of the unemployed, disaffected, ignorant, illiterate and angry.  This whole fucking thing is a slow motion train wreck. You see it coming right at you and you have no way to get out of the way.  May the walls of hell be painted daily with that malignant cocksuckers blood.

112 I didn't think they had got that plant up and running to support the 787.

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 20, 2013 07:49 AM (Cnqmv)

Been up for a while now.  They have been buying more property to expand it but I am sure that is on the back-burner until all this shit gets ironed out.

113 Morning!

114 15 Woman quits smoking over health risks Â…Â…Â…Â…Â…Â…Â…..at 102. I would think that would fall under the category "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

115 Here's the deal with the teachers: A lot of them are really good people who try hard, but they're forced to work longer hours for students who don't want to be there. They're also forced into situations of dealing with students with serious personal problems, for which they are not trained. If you had to play social worker to about 1/3 of the people under you while still doing your normal job, you'd be doing pretty crappily as well. That said, the solution of higher pay is utterly wrong. Teachers are already overwhelmed with work, so paying them more isn't going to make their work any more efficient or effective. The solution is to change the special ed laws so that it's easier to get the problem kids out of the classroom. I guarantee you, it would cut teachers' work in half instantly and free up lots of time and energy to actually do thigns for students who care.

116 Did anyone read the part 1 of 5 interview by Daren Jonescu over at AT I posted about yesterday? Weather Underground stuff so the Horde probably knows a lot of it but it might be something to have on hand to show your peace loving lib friends. Mary Cloggenstein should definitely read it.

117 I have not gotten a Nigerian scam letter in ages but one came this morning. "I am Dr. John O Eze, Director allocation department from the Central Bank of Nigeria.My office monitors and controls the affairs of all banks and Financial institutions in Nigeria concerned with foreign claim payments. I am the final signatory to any transfer or remittance of huge funds moving within banks both on the local and international levels in line with foreign claim settlements."

118 Posted by: JQP at February 20, 2013 07:52 AM (GVL0g) I'm seeing OWS types armed with weapons that were recently banned for private citizens...equipped with recently banned magazines, and supplied with the millions of recently government purchased rounds. Shit...I don't know if I was even wearing my tinfoil hat for that mental image.

119

Posted by: Icedog at February 20, 2013 07:39 AM (9ScGj)

 

I have.  Very short story:  Arbuckle, after finishing a grueling round of shooting, went to SF to blow off some steam.  During the course of the party, a young girl / part-time good-time girl named Virginia Rappe was injured, but nobody knows how.  She died in hospital, probably as a result of abdominal trauma and infection suffered from an abortion (she had had multiple).  A woman named Maude Delmont telegraphed Matthew Brady, the SF DA, that they had a chance to make some money off of ArbuckleÂ’s plight.  Roscoe (no-one who knew him called him “Fatty”) went through three trials, finally being acquitted in the third (it was very obvious that evidence had been faked, perjured or lost), but the new production censor, Will Hays, decreed that none of ArbuckleÂ’s films could ever be shown again.

 

 

I know I wrote about the case somewhat recently; anybody with good search-fu can go through AceÂ’s archives to find the post.  As far as reading about it, the Wiki entry is good as far as it goes, so you can start there.

120 Posted by: Captain Hate at February 20, 2013 07:48 AM (XOVEM)


Thank them for perpetual Senator Juan McAmnesty (Maverick Traitor-AZ)!

121 RE: teachers @116 ...but that's not going to happen because there are too many kneejerk liberals in the profession whose goal isn't to actually help students, but rather to FEEL GOOD about doing the right(TM) thing. So you get all sorts of crap about not imposing your values on the students, etc., which ends up obscuring lots of individual problems and passing them along until it's too late to solve them.

122 Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at February 20, 2013 07:56 AM (Y5I9o)

What they really need is a vocational prison track for about 20% of the students.  That might give the remaining students a chance at learning!

123 Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at February 20, 2013 07:59 AM (Y5I9o)



The whole system is fatally compromised when you have dipshits like Bill Ayers being considered experts in the field.

124 Hitler's brown-shirts were built from the ranks of the unemployed, disaffected, ignorant, illiterateand angry. Smokescreens: * Common misapplication of Godwin's Law * Knee-jerk reactions against trying to identify conspiracies * Fastidious avoidance of being charged with McCarthyism/racism/criminalization of politics If you provide your enemies with free passage through an approach you refuse even to look at and then hand them clubs to beat you with, where does that get you? Right here.

125 "have not gotten a Nigerian scam letter in ages but one came this morning." Did a report on this famous scam a few years ago in 'White Collar Crime' class. Was shocked to learn that the "average" victim who falls for this losses $30,000. The money requested starts small, but there's always one more hurdle, one more fee, one more bribe...with the big pay off just one more wire transfer away! Most victims start to realize they have been scammed, but they don't want to believe it...they're in too deep.

126 The solution is to change the special ed laws so that it's easier to get the problem kids out of the classroom.

That sounds a lot like the obvious solution to cut gun violence.  Nahhhh, to obvious.

 I guarantee you, it would cut teachers' work in half instantly and free up lots of time and energy to actually do thigns for students who care.

I wish I could agree with you, but I saw many of these folks during the recent strike, and if they ever cared, they sure don't now.  Freeing up teacher time is one thing, getting them to use it effectively is another.  Only one thing will work, and that's a credible threat of an end to the gravy train.

127 There is only one thing that will ever fix the school system. End ALL publicly funded schools.

128 Thanks MPPP! I'll hit up the Wiki.

129 Talking with union leader Larry Bulman, political director for United Association of Plumbers, Pipefitters and Steamfitters, Christie reportedly said, “I’m not much different from Andrew Cuomo. I probably agree with him on 98% of the issues.” Why is anyone still referring to this guy as a Republican? http://bit.ly/VJkoXm

130 Whoa! KC gas explosion story on now. cbs says fire consumed an entire city block. Film looked like it. Later, film of a cat fight. Bobcats that is. In someones front yard?

131 MPPPP: I received your book last week. It's next on my list to read.

132

The whole system is fatally compromised when you have dipshits like Bill Ayers being considered experts in the field.

 

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 20, 2013 08:03 AM (XOVEM)

 

All due respect, Captain - the system is fatally compromised when someone like Bill Ayers is dimissed as a "dipshit."  That malignant, treasonous little bastard and his POS wife should have had a bullet through their heads years ago.  That the two are not only still alive, but considered worthy of respect by our "betters" shows that this country has not only welcomed vipers into her bosom, she's done it actively and with knowledge aforethought.  I don't like to wish America evil, but that Ayers lives is so obviously an indication that this country is neither worth fighting for nor surviving that I find it hard to argue otherwise.

133 53 This continued war between security software and hackers has to come to an end. If your touching the Internet, it should be on an embedded system. PCs are for tinkering, you cannot expect a secure environment with that degree of complexity, period.

134

Why is anyone still referring to this guy as a Republican?

 

For typical MFM propaganda purposes.  "Oh, those Tea Party people are extremist right-wing wackos who want to overthrow the government!  They're not serious statesmen like REPUBLICAN governor Chris Christie."

135 MPPPP: I received your book last week. It's next on my list to read.

Posted by: LASue at February 20, 2013 08:13 AM (gjIQF)

 

Many thanks.  I hope you like it.  If so, would you please leave a little review on Amazon?  And if you don't like it, would you e-mail me through my nic?  I'd like to know what didn't work for you.

136 Good Morning all.

>>>>So yesterday we were told what horrible people we are for not sucking Rove's cock and giving eternal fealty to GOProud. Plus some Mark Sanford trash thrown in.<<<<<<

I have to admit uncorking a bottle of fuck you and flinging it toward the GOP was somewhat cathartic yesterday.

I felt even better about it when I saw the headline at Newsmax this morning about the GOP and the Dems "Inching Toward Compromise on Magazine Limits".

137 1. The LA shooter's name was Ali Syed. He is now with the virgins. 2. Yes, let's please kneecap and then kill the hackers. Also those dickheads who take off from the cops on high-speed chases. Life is chaotic enough without these unwarranted (and utterly avoidable) serious offenses going unpunished. 3. The only thing funnier than MP4's inside Hollyweird tales is his inability to close the HTML tags at the end of his posts. The barrel will soon be re-named the MP4 Tea Room at this rate. Kidding aside, thanks for whet you do here. 4. Not surprised the Syrian rebels beheaded people in the name of Osama. Just twelve years after 9/11, we are again paying Al Qaeda to agitate against Middle Eastern regimes we don't like. Unbelievable. 5. So Detroit's problems are nigh unsolvable, eh. Let me show you my shocked face. 0_0 Every city and state in America enjoying that magic combination of lefty politicians and labor unions has had its economy driven into the ground. On the other hand, states with real conservatives at the helm are running surpluses. Obviously there is no connection here.

138 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 20, 2013 08:15 AM (zF6Iw)


To be fair to the people, in this case they are not directly to blame. Ayres and his scrunt got off on a court ruling against the DOJ and the FBI who used illegal wire taps.


The idiots at SCOTUS punish the "people" for the misdeeds of the police.  Not only that, but they still do that in almost all cases with the outrageous joint and several liability.

139 The solution is to change the special ed laws so that it's easier to get the problem kids out of the classroom. I guarantee you, it would cut teachers' work in half instantly and free up lots of time and energy to actually do thigns for students who care. Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at February 20, 2013 07:56 AM (Y5I9o) That's exactly right. You can follow "Mainstreaming" from it's inception and watch student scores tank. Many fine teachers also bailed at that point.

140 They ain't talking about "People" or "Time" either.....

141 I felt even better about it when I saw the headline at Newsmax this morning about the GOP and the Dems "Inching Toward Compromise on Magazine Limits".

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at February 20, 2013 08:20 AM (KAWvv)

WTF I haven't seen that.  Link?

142 I'm not worried about Hitlerite brown shirts, but Wilsonian ones.

143 @133.  Dang, Mary!  For a minute I thought I was reading something Vic wrote.  (not that I don't agree)

144 Maybe Ayers wouldn't have reached the level of treachery he did if his utility executive daddy hadn't kept bailing him out of every fuck up and it didn't cost him a damn thing in the marketplace (LOL @ referring to anything involving a utility as "the marketplace" but you get my drift).  Tom Ayers should've been forced out in disgrace without a platinum parachute.  But that's not how things roll in the utility world where I wasted 19.5 years of my work life.

145

Morning, all!

 

Don't know why, but I'm terribly depressed this morning.   Does anyone have any good news or happy happenstance to share?   I could really use the cheer.   

 

My lone smile this morning came while I was driving to work and had to stop and wait for a whole flock of wild turkeys to cross the road.     That in itself isn't unusual,   but the cute part was     that    one of them clearly didn't like the feel of the wet sand on the road on her feet, so she kept hop-skipping across to try and reach    the other side   without touching the pavement.      I was worried at first she might be hurt, but no; just picky about where she stepped.     The other turkeys just    strutted across the road like usual,   clearly thinking,  "Geez, Bernice, would you get a move on?"   Adorable.

 

Oh!  That was actually my SECOND smile.   The first was also during my morning commute when I saw an itty-bitty European Starling sharing some bird food in a neighbor's driveway    with four huge crows.   The starling looked totally at home, like it didn't have a care in the world    despite the fact that the other birds could easily have curbstomped it and gobbled IT instead of the bird food.       The crows didn't seem to care, either,   though I'm sure the     presence of the starling's entire flock roosting in a nearby tree      would be enough to quell any murderous intent on their part.        

 

I   wish I'd had my camera - would        have made a great picture.

146 Vic,
 Click my name for the link (I hope I did it right).

147

The LA shooter's name was Ali Syed. He is now with the virgins.

 

--- A Baptist tea party type, no doubt

148 No I didn't....try now

149 --- A Baptist tea party type, no doubt Posted by: Velvet Ambition at February 20, 2013 08:25 AM (R8hU So, the muzzys are starting to shoot people in CONUS eh? How long before the bombs start going off?

150 Over at Protein Wisdom Jeff has up contact info for McCain, Coburn, Cantor, and Rigell--they are leading the "movement".

I have to get ready for work, I'll check back later.

151 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 20, 2013 08:25 AM (4df7R)

See #39

152
If your touching the Internet, it should be on an embedded system.

Because buying new hardware after every hack or adding another complication to the updating process would help how?

153

1. The LA shooter's name was Ali Syed. He is now with the virgins.

 

Gee, there's a big fucking surprise.   Do we have any word on the names of his victims?   Particularly the first one?  I'm sure the carjacking victims were just innocent passersby,   but what're the odds the first one he killed      somehow offended his   dearly held    Muzzie sensibilities.    Since he   killed her in his parents home -- where he also lived -- I'm sure she was a relative.

154 Over at Protein Wisdom Jeff has up contact info for McCain, Coburn, Cantor, and Rigell--they are leading the "movement".



What the fuck has happened to Cantor?  I used to think he was one of the good guys but now all he does is drop turds all over the carpet.

155 Great episode of Justified last night!  I really liked that Jody character, too bad Raylan had to kill him.  Seemed like a guy that could have been a long term foil for Raylan.  Last scene with Arlo was just fantastic.  And what will Boyd do now that he has been put in his place? 

156 So, the muzzys are starting to shoot people in CONUS eh? How long before the bombs start going off?

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at February 20, 2013 08:27 AM (l86i3)

I'm constantly stunned that there haven't been fairly widespread attacks on churches. Incredibly soft targets. Large groups in confined spaces.

157 MWR- I used to spend a lot of time out hunting and fishing. Not uncommon at all to see smaller birds attacking/pestering larger birds. Crows on owls, sparrows on crows, etc. They are more maneuverable on the wing and it ends up looking like the 4 or 5 on 1 dogfight scene at the end of Top Gun.

158 DaveA, Cisco patches - etc. without new hardware. It's the complexity and endless configuration options that doom pcs

159 No I didn't....try now

Posted by: at February 20, 2013 08:26 AM (KAWvv)

Thanks that eases my worry somewhat. It is quoting the NYT.  And they say the good old "some Republicans" but only quote one local RINO from Maine.

If ANY Republican votes for Gun Control they are probably dead. If enough of them vote to actually pass a magazine ban the Party is dead.

Hell, they are already anemic and on life support.

160 What the fuck has happened to Cantor? I used to think he was one of the good guys but now all he does is drop turds all over the carpet. Posted by: Captain Hate at February 20, 2013 08:32 AM (XOVEM) Cantor stuck his snout into the NC-7 district congressional election and cost us a seat by supporting a pro Amnesty candidate that in the end had no shot of winning. We had a candidate, a popular candidate. Throw in the Gerry mandered district and it was another GOP fuck story.

161

Oh, MWR, I'm so sorry.  I know how much depression hurts.

 

I don't have any good news, but I can tell you a Sam Goldwyn story:

 

Goldwyn was notorious for mangling the language - "a verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on" is one of his best-known, as well as responding to a merger offer by sneering, "Gentlemen, you can include me out."  One day, it seems, he was in the projection room watching the rushes of a new movie and wasn't sure about it.  "What do you boys think?  Is it any good?  I should drop it, right?" he snapped, and kept right on talking.

 

One executive tried to interrupt the flow of words, but Goldwyn fixed him with a stare.  "Don't say yes until I've finished talking!"

162 A quote from the magazine limit article.

Constitutional lawyers and some conservatives generally believe that limiting magazine size falls within the boundaries of recent Supreme Court decisions on gun rights.
AND
Evidence suggests that a ban on magazine size would indeed reduce the number of those killed in mass shootings, largely because of the difficulty in changing clips, particularly among amateur gun users.

What is an amateur gun user? Someone who doesn't get paid to use a gun?

163

We had a candidate, a popular candidate. Throw in the Gerry mandered district and it was another GOP fuck story.

 

Ahem, I think you mean 'statesmanship'.

164 Not uncommon at all to see smaller birds attacking/pestering larger birds. Crows on owls, sparrows on crows, etc. They are more maneuverable on the wing and it ends up looking like the 4 or 5 on 1 dogfight scene at the end of Top Gun.

Posted by: teej at February 20, 2013 08:34 AM (tWBKX)

Once in a while a redtail hawk will perch at the top of a tall tree behind chez Hate; I know this because the local bluejays will start raising a ruckus and start strafing it until they drive it off.

165 154, Cantor has been compromised by his wife's financial shenanigans.

166 Cantor has been compromised by his wife's financial shenanigans. Posted by: Jean at February 20, 2013 08:39 AM (7tVNd) Do Tell....

167 An Amateur gun user is someone more skilled than a professional NYT reporter/writer/editor.

168 MWR- I used to spend a lot of time out hunting and fishing. Not uncommon at all to see smaller birds attacking/pestering larger birds. Crows on owls, sparrows on crows, etc. They are more maneuverable on the wing and it ends up looking like the 4 or 5 on 1 dogfight scene at the end of Top Gun.

Posted by: teej at February 20, 2013 08:34 AM (tWBKX)

 

I've seen    groups of small birds pestering larger birds, too.   Strength in numbers!   And if it keeps the crows away from the smaller birds' eggs, all the better.

 

I do love my little family of neighborhood crows, though.   I know they can be ugly, mean, smelly birds, but they're also ridiculously smart.   I've named the three I usually see Heckle, Jeckle and Moe.   Lately there have been three or four others, who I assume are juveniles, who I've nicknamed Flo, Larry, Curly and Shemp.   I can't tell     any of     them apart so I don't know who is who, but I like to say good morning to them as I pass by.  

 

Yesterday our front yard was bird central, actually.   It was crazy!    I think because the wind was so strong all weekend all the birds were taking the opportunity to get out and stretch their wings yesterday without being knocked ass over tea kettle.   A whole flock of fat robins was whirling around from    front yard to front yard.   I saw a couple of bluejays,   two Downy woodpeckers, at least one    white-breasted    nuthatch     (I actually think it was two),    and a cardinal.       And when I got to work I could hear our resident mockingbird    kicking up his regular hullabaloo.    

 

I've been yearning for    spring to arrive since OCTOBER.      Looks like it's really, genuinely on its way!

169 See #39

Posted by: Vic at February 20, 2013 08:29 AM (53z96)

 

*cackle*  That IS happy news.  Any time Obammy gets excoriated for anything, it gives me a happy tingle up my leg.

170 Lanza, repeated changed magazines, unnecessarily. The want to talk time, lets talk twenty minutes.

171 One executive tried to interrupt the flow of words, but Goldwyn fixed him with a stare. "Don't say yes until I've finished talking!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 20, 2013 08:36 AM (zF6Iw)

 

lol!

 

I think I'm going to have to blend that into my     everyday    stock of idioms.   That's awesome.

172

This angle that the WWE is taking with Jack Swagger is really pissing me off.  I'm tired of having my beliefs and values mocked by Hollywood on a daily basis.

 

And yes, this is completely different from the Communism angles of the '80s and the Nation of Islam storyline from the '90s. In those storylines, America was the face. With this angle, the WWE is pitting Americans against each other to stoke the flames higher. Piss on them.

173 We need a national conversation on unemployed part time student “loners”.

 Posted by: Vic at February 20, 2013 06:37 AM

Hey now, wait a minute. Is there an age exemption or are you going to include the eccentric non-student elderly recluse? ...and don't start with the mental health issues.

It's my worst nightmare, having the neighborhood think I'm anything other than harmless.  Crazy I can live with as long as it's harmless crazy.

174 Lanza, repeated changed magazines, unnecessarily. The want to talk time, lets talk twenty minutes.

Posted by: Jean at February 20, 2013 08:42 AM (7tVNd)

 

When you need help now, the police are only a third of an hour away.

175  Not uncommon at all to see smaller birds attacking/pestering larger birds. Crows on owls, sparrows on crows, etc. They are more maneuverable on the wing and it ends up looking like the 4 or 5 on 1 dogfight scene at the end of Top Gun.

Posted by: teej at February 20, 2013 08:34 AM (tWBKX)
============

That reminds me of the time when I saw a crow chasing a sparrow: the sparrow dove for the ground with the crow in hot pursuit and then pulled up and flew through the fork of a large tree.  The crow managed to pull up at the bottom, but he couldn't pull up tight enough to make it to the fork in the tree.  He slammed into the tree trunk about a foot below the fork and fell down dead.

176

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 20, 2013 08:25 AM (4df7R)

 

 

We've had a Cooper's or female Red-tailed hawk in the back yard stripping away whats left of the rib-meat on the deer we butchered this winter. Hard, dry, leathery "meat"! I cannot imagine the strength of that bird's neck and talons and the sharpness of its' beak to be eating that stuff. God in nature is amazing to me. My feel-good story for the day. Oh, and Detroit is still boned! Thanks, Vic!

177 136: Of course!

178 BC, you probably remember there were a number of church attacks about 15 years, give or take ago. Our pastor asked me about training some of the men to handle it. Had to inform him there's no such thing, Karate Kid aside, as instant martial arts. Told him the best thing would have some of us bring a second "Bible" in a zippered case and pointed out strategic places for them to sit. He didn't want to go there.

179 *cackle* That IS happy news. Any time Obammy gets excoriated for anything, it gives me a happy tingle up my leg.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 20, 2013 08:42 AM (4df7R)

But did you see the kitteh?

180 Once in a while a redtail hawk will perch at the top of a tall tree behind chez Hate; I know this because the local bluejays will start raising a ruckus and start strafing it until they drive it off.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 20, 2013 08:38 AM (XOVEM)

 

Bluejays can be NASTY.  Gorgeous birds, but I don't want to get on their bad side!   I'd beat feet (or wings as the case may be) if I were that hawk, too!

 

Last year I kept hearing this noise in our backyard that sounded like a creaking door hinge.  I couldn't figure out what the hell I was hearing and   it was driving me nuts.   Come to find out "creaking door hinge" is one of the calls of a bluejay.     You'd think after living around bluejays my whole life I would have realized that sooner.  lol!

181 OSP, bailouted bank employees her at a no show job, lefty site, but you can google the details The Virginia Private Bank & Trust, a satellite opened this spring, is still getting off the ground. On Thursday, when ProPublica visited its small Richmond office in an office park not far from the Cantors' home, a sheet of white paper taped to the door served as its sign. One of the two employees there said the office had yet to serve a client since it opened last spring. She referred further queries to the bank's main office.

182 Regarding the WWE:  McMahon is probably butthurt because of Linda losing again in another ill considered run for the Senate.  As I said the other day, other than supporting the troops, McMahon is human garbage who generally treats the wrestlers like trash.

183
178 BC, you probably remember there were a number of church attacks about 15 years, give or take ago.
Our pastor asked me about training some of the men to handle it. Had to inform him there's no such thing, Karate Kid aside, as instant martial arts.
Told him the best thing would have some of us bring a second "Bible" in a zippered case and pointed out strategic places for them to sit.
He didn't want to go there.

Posted by: teej at February 20, 2013 08:47 AM (yrHcy)

Actually, I don't. I would've been 15 or 16 at the time, so.....

I had a convo a few months back about with our worship pastor about security. And about whether anyone in the church was carrying. The answers were not encouraging.

184 He slammed into the tree trunk about a foot below the fork and fell down dead.

Posted by: Nighthawk at February 20, 2013 08:45 AM (RSqz2)

That tree is in violation of the migratory bird law and must be cut down.

185 Also pointed out black belts can't "bite" bullets. Figured I'd better throw that in there before some of ya jumped on me.

186 Re the LA shootings, as usual if you want to know what just happened here you'll have to read a foreign paper: http://tinyurl.com/b28yu25 May as well read up on it quickly, as a story about a guy with an Arab name killing multiple people with a shotgun (a weapon that would still be legal under the revised code of the Brave New World; looks like the dude took Sheriff Joe up on his suggestion) is not something the U.S. press is going to talk about. Because, the narrative.

187 Posted by: Jean at February 20, 2013 08:48 AM (7tVNd) Well, that doesn't sound any less criminal than Jesse Jr does it?

188 "MI review panel for DetroitÂ’s financial problems finds that there is no way to fix them."

More socialism and corruption will be attempted anyway in an all-out effort to avoid consequences.  News at 11:00.

189 Bluejays can be NASTY. Gorgeous birds, but I don't want to get on their bad side!

****

I save a fledgling Blue Jay one time and for a couple of years after that I was a celebrity with the local flock. When I went outside, if that particular bird was around he would come over and hang out me.

190 He didn't want to go there. Posted by: teej at February 20, 2013 08:47 AM (yrHcy) At any of our services there are at least a half dozen armed men sitting in the pews.

191 That reminds me of the time when I saw a crow chasing a sparrow: the sparrow dove for the ground with the crow in hot pursuit and then pulled up and flew through the fork of a large tree. The crow managed to pull up at the bottom, but he couldn't pull up tight enough to make it to the fork in the tree. He slammed into the tree trunk about a foot below the fork and fell down dead.

Posted by: Nighthawk at February 20, 2013 08:45 AM (RSqz2)

 

Awww, poor crow.        But damn lucky sparrow!

 

 

We've had a Cooper's or female Red-tailed hawk in the back yard stripping away whats left of the rib-meat on the deer we butchered this winter. Hard, dry, leathery "meat"! I cannot imagine the strength of that bird's neck and talons and the sharpness of its' beak to be eating that stuff. God in nature is amazing to me. My feel-good story for the day. Oh, and Detroit is still boned! Thanks, Vic!

Posted by: Cicero Kid at February 20, 2013 08:46 AM (UrENZ)

 

I KNOW, right?      There's a falcon that lives around my workplace that I occasionally see.   It's fairly small even compared to the local crows, but then it takes off from its perch and it's just.... wow.

 

My friend in Seattle    CANNOT understand why I find birds so    interesting,       but they're endlessly     fascinating to me.    I love watching them think.   You can almost hear the little gears in their heads    ticking around until they make a decision.  "Yes, I WILL hop over there and peck at that little    clump of dirt."   Hop hop hop   "Success!"

192 OSP, it not criminal, but stinks. He was chairman of the financial committee at th time, hmmm

193 Also pointed out black belts can't "bite" bullets. Figured I'd better throw that in there before some of ya jumped on me.
Posted by: teej at February 20, 2013 08:49 AM

A Judo Chop will deflect them!

194 Also pointed out black belts can't "bite" bullets. Figured I'd better throw that in there before some of ya jumped on me. Posted by: teej at February 20, 2013 08:49 AM I'd tell him straight. You are the shepard of this flock. Every so often a shepard has to kill a wolf.

195 Beautifully done, MPPPP! I love those stories and I thought I knew most of the good ones. Thanks for adding even more!

196 But did you see the kitteh?

Posted by: Vic at February 20, 2013 08:47 AM (53z96)

 

I didn't!   I skipped right over the link like a blind twit.  lol!

 

*looks*

 

LOL!   Okay,     who took the picture of    HeatherRadish's cat?     It shares her wry wit.  lol!

197 That tree is in violation of the migratory bird law and must be cut down.

Posted by: Vic at February 20, 2013 08:48 AM (53z96)
============

Heh!  Actually the tree came down in a storm a few years later- seems that ants had eaten away the roots.

It's always the little things...

198 Bluejays can be NASTY. Gorgeous birds, but I don't want to get on their bad side! I'd beat feet (or wings as the case may be) if I were that hawk, too!

Last year I kept hearing this noise in our backyard that sounded like a creaking door hinge. I couldn't figure out what the hell I was hearing and it was driving me nuts. Come to find out "creaking door hinge" is one of the calls of a bluejay. You'd think after living around bluejays my whole life I would have realized that sooner. lol!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 20, 2013 08:48 AM (4df7R)

Bluejays have an incredible range of sounds that mean different things; I've heard a melodic sound from one that might have been related to "I'm in the mood".  I once saw a cardinal tee off on a bluejay to drive it away; doubtlessly from a nest it was ready to rob.

Male cardinals are very territorial and will unload on any other male redbird that violates its no fly zone.  We get cardinal nests in our front and back yards; the fledglings grow up quickly and both parents help them learn to fly.

199 dump is ump

200 I thought they could twirl up a silk scarf and catch bullets

201 I save a fledgling Blue Jay one time and for a couple of years after that I was a celebrity with the local flock. When I went outside, if that particular bird was around he would come over and hang out me.

Posted by: Dept. Of Accuracy Dept. at February 20, 2013 08:51 AM (+I8Mq)

 

 

Awwwwwwwwwwwww!

202 MWR, it sounds like you are having a pretty good day already, all things considered. Wild turkeys are full of personality. Just don't get within pecking range.

203 The Players in Detroit couldn't agree on a financial turnaround plan because none of them was willing to give up any part of their graft.

204 Went to that National Eagle Center in Wabasha Mn. a while back. They have many in there that are permanent residents due to injuries or lead poisoning. Got my picture taken with a Bald Eagle. Magnificent birds. Their talons are so large. I forgot what their grip strength is, but they have a machine their to test your grip versus an eagle. Most humans can do about a third of the eagle. Great place to visit if you are in the area.

205 I save a fledgling Blue Jay one time and for a couple of years after that I was a celebrity with the local flock. When I went outside, if that particular bird was around he would come over and hang out me.

Posted by: Dept. Of Accuracy Dept. at February 20, 2013 08:51 AM (+I8Mq)

In case I ever have the opportunity, what did you feed it?

206 Wild turkeys are full of personality. Just don't get within pecking range.

Posted by: Truman North at February 20, 2013 08:57 AM (I2LwF)

I used to work with a guy who would call the males in his extended back yard.  Very curious birds.

207 [/Bluejays have an incredible range of sounds that mean different things; I've heard a melodic sound from one that might have been related to "I'm in the mood". I once saw a cardinal tee off on a bluejay to drive it away; doubtlessly from a nest it was ready to rob.

Male cardinals are very territorial and will unload on any other male redbird that violates its no fly zone. We get cardinal nests in our front and back yards; the fledglings grow up quickly and both parents help them learn to fly.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 20, 2013 08:55 AM (XOVEM) [/i]

 

I was surprised by just how many different sounds bluejays make.   You think you know everything, then you realize you don't know squat.    They're so nice to watch, too -- these bright little flurries of color against the otherwise grim backdrop of bare winter trees.   It's refreshing.

 

We     had a nesting pair of cardinals in my yard a few years ago, but they   haven't been back for a while.   I was quite surprised to see that cardinal the other day.   I know they're very territorial, and by gum, our yard seems to be EVERY bird's territory.     It would be nice to have them around again, just because they're such lovely birds to look at.   But if they were to drive away some of my favorite residents -- like the catbirds who show up in the summer   and the cowbirds who crop up in the fall -- I'd be    quite    disappointed.

208 I save a fledgling Blue Jay one time and for a
couple of years after that I was a celebrity with the local flock. When I
went outside, if that particular bird was around he would come over and
hang out me.


Posted by: Dept. Of Accuracy Dept. at February 20, 2013 08:51 AM (+I8Mq)

In case I ever have the opportunity, what did you feed it?
Posted by: Captain Hate at February 20, 2013 08:59 AM

It was learning to fly, had fallen to the ground and couldn't get back into the tree.
It was a male and REALLY big. I wore rubber gloves and put him back into the tree. He got airborne with the extra height and didn't fail again.

209 MWR - when I first bought a young dove couple took up residence in a large pin oak outside my 2nd story bedroom window. Watched them grow older together. Then one year I drove in and a blueish was attacking their nest. Kicking newborns out of the nest. I was so pissed. And they haven't been back.

210 First bought my house I meant to say. Brain gets way ahead of my fingers on this phone sometimes.

211 Blueish? Blue bird. Sheesh. Moar coffee.

212 Blueish? Blue bird. Sheesh. Moar coffee.

Posted by: teej at February 20, 2013 09:12 AM (tF9LY)

Bluebird or Bluejay?  Usually Bluebirds are victims of nest robbers.

213 MPPP, how about your take on the William Desmond Taylor murder? I think there are at least six theories on who killed him.

214 49 31 FINALLY....Raylan killed someone. Posted by: bocephus at February 20, 2013 06:42 AM (3Crtn) Thanks alot Butthole, I DVR'd it. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at February 20, 2013 06:56 AM Would you like some cheese with that?

215 Bluejays, schmuejays, I've had a conversation with a crow... In English. . They and Ravens are far and away the smartest birds. They always used to drop a bunch of walnuts at the entrance to the parking lot just before closing.