February 25, 2013
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Posted by: Vic at February 25, 2013 02:36 AM (53z96)
http://is.gd/q0L5BS
Posted by: Vic at February 25, 2013 02:39 AM (53z96)
Monday, Monday, ‘rons and ‘ronettes. Hope you all had a happy weekend. I expect the morning briefing will be as depressing as always, so why don’t we talk movies for a little bit? I was asked for a David Lean story, but sadly I don’t have one. So here’s the tale of his best-known movie:
Imagine, if you will, Marlon Brando kitted out in a burnoose and flowing robes, galloping after a column of Turkish soldiers screaming "No prisoners!" Well, that's who producer Sam Spiegel wanted for the title role of the epic Lawrence of Arabia. Director Lean, however, was leery of Brando's ego and his way of terrorizing everyone on a set. How about Albert Finney instead? So Finney was dutifully screen-tested, only to turn down the role because he didn't want to be chained to a multi-film contract with Spiegel. Then Lean suggested Peter O'Toole*, having been impressed with his performance in the 1959 film The Day They Robbed the Bank of England.
Spiegel, however, didn't want O'Toole. He had a grudge against him, and hereÂ’s why: it seems that when Katharine Hepburn was in London, she had been impressed with O'Toole's performance in the play The Long and the Short and the Tall and had recommended him to Spiegel, who was having problems with Montgomery Clift while filming Suddenly Last Summer. O'Toole, considered as a stop-gap replacement for Clift, was hustled out to Shepperton Studios and onto the set of a doctor's office for a screent test. He was given an X-ray as a prop, and, cheeky as ever, decided to lead off his test with a joke; giving the woman opposite him a serious look, he intoned, "Mrs Spiegel, your son will never play the violin again." The producer was not amused and O'Toole was tossed off the Suddenly set. But after seeing the actor's test for Lawrence, even Spiegel had to admit O'Toole was perfect for the part. Swallowing his distaste, Spiegel called O'Toole: "I want you to play Lawrence." "Oh, yes," said O'Toole. "Is it a speaking part?" "Don't make jokes," Spiegel growled back.
O'Toole would spend the next two years filming Lawrence, much of that time spent in the company of his new friend Omar Sharif, who had been promoted to the co-starring role of Sherif Ali when other actors considered for the role didn't pan out. "Omar Sharif?" O'Toole exclaimed when he was first introduced to the Egyptian actor. "No one in the world is called Omar Sharif. Your name must be Fred." And from that time on, O'Toole's nickname for Sharif has always been "Cairo Fred." The two partied extremely hearty during the shoot, filming non-stop for ten days, then chartering a private plane to Beirut for three or four days wallowing in the "Sin City of the East"'s bars and whorehouses before staggering back in front of the cameras.
Still, Lawrence took its toll on O'Toole, and not just because of Sam Spiegel's crustiness or the tyrranical direction of David Lean.** After his first lesson learning to ride a camel, blood oozed from the seat of OÂ’TooleÂ’s jeans. He was nearly killed when an effects gun, going off too soon, startled his camel and threw him off in front of several hundred charging crazed Bedouins. At various times he received third-degree burns, dislocated his spine, broke his thumb, tore ligaments in his hip and thigh and suffered two concussions. Six months into the shoot, O'Toole was allowed to go back to England to rest. Once there, he went on what he called, "the ultimate bender. After six months in the desert, I should think so." But he was arrested for drunken driving and had his license pulled for a year, which only infuriated Spiegel more.
But it was all worth it. When Lawrence opened in 1962, it was a world-wide smash - it's still considered one of the greatest films ever made - and O'Toole became an overnight star. So let's let him have the final word:
"I woke up one morning to find I was famous. Bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the queen mum. Nobody took any fucking notice, but I thoroughly enjoyed it."
Hope you all have a wonderful day. TomorrowÂ’s movie will be On the Waterfront.
*Yes, despite all the jokes, it's his real name: Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole.
*Lean was notorious as a mind-gaming tyrant of a director willing to go to any physical and emotional length to get the reaction he wanted out of his actors. O'Toole himself would play a fictionalized (but, according to those who worked with him, a quite accurate) version of Lean in the 1980 film The Stunt Man.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 25, 2013 02:39 AM (zF6Iw)
MSNBC is shocked — shocked — to discover that there are Marxists on the Harvard
http://is.gd/BUjXPJ
Posted by: Vic at February 25, 2013 02:40 AM (53z96)
http://is.gd/I55u08
Posted by: Vic at February 25, 2013 02:40 AM (53z96)
http://is.gd/eRmyNO
Hey, but the swag bag is now worth $48K!
http://is.gd/uxMdsF
And I have added Argo to the list of films I will never watch.
http://is.gd/NInTFi
Posted by: Vic at February 25, 2013 02:41 AM (53z96)
http://is.gd/4yuNos
Moar coming, I am running late
Posted by: Vic at February 25, 2013 02:42 AM (53z96)
At a Black History Month event held at a Trenton, N.J. church on Sunday, Democratic Senator Bob Menendez blamed conservatives for his ethics scandals, framing them as a racial attack on him because of his Hispanic heritage.
I'm surprised he didn't cry out "I ain't no way taaahhrd!"
Number 1, I'm shocked that evil bastard didn't get struck by lightning the moment he crossed the church's threshhold. Number 2, when the F will the GOP start bringing a damn RICO hammer down on these black churches for in-kind contributions to Democrats?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 25, 2013 02:43 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at February 25, 2013 02:43 AM (feFL6)
American people *actually* believe that you *can* balance the budget by reducing the military.
Of course they do. These are the same mewling lackwits who've grown up peddling those imbecilic Air-Force-having-to-hold-a-bake-sale bumper stickers. I guarantee if you asked any one of them what percentage of the budget is consumed by the military, they'd insist it was at least 50 and probably 75%. This country's too stupid to live.
brb, need some tea.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 25, 2013 02:48 AM (zF6Iw)
Hahhahaha; kiss my ass. I think SC is a better "bellweather"
http://is.gd/3VQDu4
Posted by: Vic at February 25, 2013 02:51 AM (53z96)
SO glad I didn't watch. My blood pressure is high enough already.
Also, Argo winning was predicted by some Hollywood entertainment reporter on my local radio, because he said the Academy LOVES movies in which they are portrayed as heroes.
Posted by: Miss Marple at February 25, 2013 02:53 AM (GoIUi)
what branch of service are the uniformed people in the background?
http://is.gd/zUh6YW
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 25, 2013 02:54 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Opus An Arcus at February 25, 2013 02:55 AM (9BmVT)
Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 25, 2013 02:57 AM (I2LwF)
Wasn't there at least one "star" in the audience who was thinking, "Fuck.You. This is OUR thing" ?
The only solace I can take was that she wasn't announcing "Django Unchained" as Best Pic.
Anyway, good morning, all y'all. I'm off to work my three jobs condensed into one now.
Posted by: Gem at February 25, 2013 02:58 AM (zw+pb)
Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at February 25, 2013 02:59 AM (feFL6)
Instead of how lucky they are to have just a beautiful empress? If any of them are found out, they'll never work in either of those towns again.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at February 25, 2013 03:02 AM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at February 25, 2013 03:04 AM (hO8IJ)
And how many of those skyscrapers have tenants? Or even squatters?
China has some huge problem looming. If they end the absurd pace of construction for useless buildings the mass of newly unemployed construction workers will forced certain realities to be acknowledged.
Posted by: epobirs at February 25, 2013 03:05 AM (kcfmt)
Wasn't there at least one "star" in the audience who was thinking, "Fuck.You. This is OUR thing" ?
I'd bet a week's pay that overspangled, undereducated, ill-mannered sub-Beyonce piece of racist ghetto trash thinks "Akira Kurosawa" is some kind of sushi.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 25, 2013 03:05 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at February 25, 2013 07:04 AM (hO8IJ)
I watched a DVD and then read and listened to music. There's no power in the world that could get me to pay attention to those human trash heaps unless I had a head's up that used cat litter would rain down on all the attenders.
Posted by: Captain Hate at February 25, 2013 03:06 AM (UYfkz)
I fail to understand how watching the Oscars will make us any more likely to win in 2016. Someone is going to have to connect the dots for me on that one.
It seems to me that giving money and attention to a group of people who have consistently mocked and vilified you at every opportunity is not much different than a woman going back to a wife-beater.
Posted by: Miss Marple at February 25, 2013 03:06 AM (GoIUi)
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 25, 2013 03:07 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at February 25, 2013 03:07 AM (feFL6)
Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2013 03:08 AM (BeSEI)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 03:10 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at February 25, 2013 03:12 AM (feFL6)
Can we just give Vermont to the Canucks and be done with this evil pile of shit?
Posted by: Captain Hate at February 25, 2013 03:16 AM (UYfkz)
Posted by: lincolntf at February 25, 2013 03:16 AM (ZshNr)
Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 25, 2013 03:17 AM (0iDjO)
Posted by: teej at February 25, 2013 03:18 AM (kGDRz)
Do a search on Chinese ghost cities. In addition to the ongoing construction in the PRC, they've put up whole cities with no inhabitants in Mongolia and Africa. They either have some sort of wild plan or are using utter insanity to tread water.
Posted by: epobirs at February 25, 2013 03:19 AM (kcfmt)
He sees himself as a celebrity
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 25, 2013 03:20 AM (8sCoq)
if you keep playing in the culture wars you're refusing to begin the steps necessary for the break IMHO.
I am reserved in giving the "watchers' credit for their enabling of the Horrywood Whorehouse emo cannon...
I'd appreciate not being expected to suck Horrywood's dick or "it's you fault."
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 03:20 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at February 25, 2013 03:21 AM (feFL6)
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 25, 2013 07:20 AM (8sCoq)
Exactly; he's Rupert Pupkin.
Posted by: Captain Hate at February 25, 2013 03:23 AM (UYfkz)
...a hybrid of hillbilly, valleygirl, inner-city slang and various grunts. Joe was able to understand them, but when he spoke in an ordinary voice he sounded pompous and faggy to them.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at February 25, 2013 03:23 AM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: lincolntf at February 25, 2013 03:23 AM (ZshNr)
Show me a cult of personality that left a nation richer long term post Washington.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 03:23 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 25, 2013 03:23 AM (0iDjO)
Bah-Rawn-Ko has electrolytes....
yeah I ain't trying to take over their culture or shame them anymore I am trying to ready myself for divorcing their culture....
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 03:24 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: lincolntf at February 25, 2013 03:26 AM (ZshNr)
Here in Commiefornia, you will hear the "50%" figure quite regularly. A local article of faith among good liberals.
I used to try to refute it quoting actual percentages.
Libtards would say, "But you're leaving out Bush's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq."
(Note that those wars are always "Bush's wars" or "Republican wars" here. Despite the fact that my entire federal representation at the time, Representative and Senators, were liberal Democrats, and 2 of the 3 voted for 2 out of 2 of those wars.)
So I would respond by saying that, yes, the figure I quoted was inclusive of both of the wars, and it still wasn't 50% of the budget.
They would say, "Oh, you're leaving out the VA."
I would respond by saying that the VA is not part of the military. It's its own separate gig. Department of Defense, and Department of Veterans Affairs. One not being subordinate to the other. (Which actually leads to some spectacular mis-coordination, as any vet who is mustering out can tell you. Not least the SEAL Six shooter who just left the Navy and then bitched he isn't eligible for post-service health care, when any VA counselor would be able to tell him otherwise.)
They would insist on putting the VA in there. Because "we wouldn't need that spending if it weren't for the military". A point I would always argue hugely: much VA health spending would simply be spent by other agencies even if the veteran clients in question had never served, because the majority of vets' health complaints are ordinary ailments that are not service connected, yet the VA still provides that care. But for purposes of argument even with the VA, the military is still not 50% of the budget. Not close.
Then more and more and more shit. The CIA, even though that is its own entirely separate agency not under DOD authority. Liberals consider it part of "the military". Facepalm.
The Department of Energy, even though the part of DOE that handles military nuclear matters is quite small relatively to DOE spending. They want to include all of DOE! You would not believe the stuff libtards want to lump in. Ag Department spending on making sure MRE meals are shelf stable. Unbelievable trifles.
But still, not 50% of the budget. No way, Ray.
Anyway, their final unrefutable trump card is, "Black programs. All the spending on wonder weapons that's not officially on budget."
I say, "But those black programs, unlike the others you've quoted like VA and CIA, are in fact under DOD. They're not listed as what they are, but there are program line items there which cover black world R&D and black world procurement."
The response would be the superior smile. "Oh. That's what _you_ claim. There's a whole secret budget in parallel that we are never made privy to."
For Pete's sake. I give up. You literally cannot argue rationally with a liberal.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 25, 2013 03:27 AM (gqT4g)
For Pete's sake. I give up. You literally cannot argue rationally with a liberal.
pyrotechnically OTOH.....
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 03:30 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2013 03:31 AM (48jWE)
Posted by: teej at February 25, 2013 03:31 AM (4Zmpq)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 25, 2013 03:33 AM (1ml8s)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at February 25, 2013 07:04 AM (hO8IJ)
I beat all of you, I got drunk.
But since Amy Lynn isn't going to fix me breakfast I have to go look for what I have.
Posted by: Vic at February 25, 2013 03:34 AM (53z96)
I do have to admit I probably would have been tempted to drink had I watched I was thinking..."what would I use to drive me up the wall at gitmo?" and by golly Lt Worf awards presenter and Argo wins the world actually rank high...
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 03:36 AM (LRFds)
https://twitter.com/Forbespaula/status/306012546614312962
And in the checkout at Kroger yesterday, I was informed that Kim Kardashian had her clump of parasitic cells intentionally implanted so she could get an "emergency divorce" which helps her to dodge a $22M lawsuit alleging her 9-week marriage to the other millionaire dude was a scam to get big TV/magazine payouts.
Too sick to be saved.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at February 25, 2013 03:37 AM (hO8IJ)
"But still, not 50% of the budget. No way, Ray."
Although technically not all in the same basket, it's hard to argue that the DoD, VA and the entire intellegence community aren't part of a universe separate from social services and other government spending.
The position that Mitt took during the election that we need to maintain current spending or even raise defense budgets was wrong.
Posted by: jwest at February 25, 2013 03:37 AM (ZDsRL)
yeah it's a wonderful idea that our nation is led by the preferred agents of folk I wouldn't trust to petsit my dead dog....
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 03:38 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 25, 2013 03:39 AM (0iDjO)
This is why I went cold turkey on movies and TV.
I fed that beast lavishly for many years. I was an avid moviegoer and TV watcher. But then I finally woke up one day and said, "Holy cow, these people hate my very existence! What am I doing handing them money?"
For me the breaking point was the LA riots in the Nineties.
Affluent liberals in Hollyweird believe, with the absolute _ex cathedra_ certainty of a cardinal at the Council of Trent, that "we should all rely on the police to protect us," and that no one should have privately owned guns.
Well, when LA exploded in lethal violence on a mass scale, the Hollyweird types _were_ protected by LAPD. The cops fell back to defensive perimeters around places like Beverly Hills. It was the ordinary working class Joes and Janes of LA, who didn't live in tony neighborhoods, that were completely abandoned to their fate by the cops.
And yet every night I would see these polished prats who've never faced any real risk in their lives, preaching fervently about how those Joes and Janes should have their ability for self-defense stripped away.
Steam jets. Ears. Some assembly required.
Anyway, I said, "I'm done with this. Done." And I quit going to the movies, and quit watching entertainment TV (still watch the occasional science or history show when I can find it on line). Cancelled cable. Threw my TV in the trash. I cannot tell you how HUGELY GOOD it feels to no longer feed that beast.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 25, 2013 03:41 AM (gqT4g)
hey guy you're bang on shut it all down....
no seriously nuke all defense spending besides I'm sure we cause all the world angst with our spending....
You know we'll even throw NASA in there since I mean after all aside from its noble Muslim outreach is just there to piss off noble aliens and such....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States
~1.03 Trillion....
so "you've knocked out the deficit" by nuking all that...
*poof* it's gone now.....
and then within 5 years all OTHER discretionary spending needs to go so Dept of AG can keep increasing foodstamps etc etc etc...
yeah I'm sure that EPA having its dick up industry's ass is in no way responsible for any part of the budget crunch....nor is letting ~50% of citizens off the hook for income tax....
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 03:43 AM (LRFds)
Heh.
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/213370
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at February 25, 2013 03:44 AM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: lincolntf at February 25, 2013 03:45 AM (ZshNr)
watching their shit without having any exertive control is akin to me of trying to stop a train by leaping in front of it....
no offense but their playbook is pretty apparent I read Alinsky
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 03:47 AM (LRFds)
Someone who can understand the intricacies of Hollywood contracts and divorce settlements can master asic budgeting, if they wish to.
The problem is they do not, because the stuff of government is drily presented on cable channels without glam clothing or handsome stars.
Celebrity and glam life-styles are what these people care about, but they are not necessarily low IQ. They are CHOOSING to spend their time learning trivial stuff about Hollywood rather than their government.
A good research program would find out WHY.
Posted by: Miss Marple at February 25, 2013 03:47 AM (GoIUi)
My counter would be, "If you believe that, what makes you think the rest of the numbers bear any resemblance to reality? How much are entitlements really eating to buy elections? How much are we really giving other countries in aid? The bigger the government gets the harder it becomes to know where all the bits are going."
Posted by: epobirs at February 25, 2013 03:48 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: lincolntf at February 25, 2013 03:50 AM (ZshNr)
Posted by: Thorvald at February 25, 2013 03:51 AM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: Thorvald at February 25, 2013 03:52 AM (1V6Pv)
Greetings, Barrel-Sleepers.
It's Monday and we're still screwed, I see. You can't even watch the Oscars without Her Royal Thighness intruding (not that I did, I watched a documentary on the Airbus 380 after the Rush "Time Machine 2011" concert on Palladia channel).
SNAFU.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at February 25, 2013 03:52 AM (+z4pE)
No kurt S, Dana Lush et al have convinced me...to win in today's environ Sanfordoza is perfect....
f*cks anything that moves, betrays his vows, abandons his post on a whim, supports increased welfare spending as 'Christian humanitarian outreach' and was hustled by a 5th rate Argentinian celebrity....
"Sanfordoza 2016!"
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 03:54 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: teej at February 25, 2013 03:54 AM (IyoLR)
Posted by: Vic at February 25, 2013 03:54 AM (53z96)
Not at all. You've neatly reversed my view here. That view being:
I don't watch their shows because they disagree with us.
Watching their shows lavishly lines their pockets, and I have no desire to lavishly line the pockets of people who disagree with us on damn near every substantive issue.
"Hollywood gives us their Playbook, wide open for our perusal. Stupid to not use it."
Except that playbook is inherently toxic. It elevates the emotive over the rational. It prizes form over substance. It celebrates falsity as truth. It thinks the imaginary is more important than the real. If you call plays from that book, with good intentions, it'll end up corrupting and ruining your own efforts in the long run.
Entertainment culture IS liberalism. Simply in a more distilled, concentrated form.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 25, 2013 03:55 AM (gqT4g)
I DO NOT LIKE THOSE PEOPLE. THEY DO NOT LIKE ME.
I know their playbook: Make movies in which Western civilization is shown to be decadent, while extolling the Third World. All villains are conservatives, businessmen, and Christians. History will be rewritten when deemed necessary to forward the leftist agenda. Glorify dem presidents, crucify Republican presidents.
I fail to see how watching the Oscars or any other Hollywood production is going to give me any more tips from their playbook.
Posted by: Miss Marple at February 25, 2013 03:56 AM (GoIUi)
Lots of double negatives in there, chum. It's apparent from your second part where you stand, but a lot of people aren't so clear on this.
When I heard the DoD was going to have to lay off 800,000 civilian employees, my first and ONLY thought was "why in the world does the DoD need 800,000 employees?"
Put rifles in their hands, or yes, lay them off. Permanently.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2013 03:56 AM (BeSEI)
Michelle Obama running in 2016? Is it doable? Why the increase in exposure? (yeah I know the media's been shilling for her for 4 years but now she's cooperating and putting herself out there more and more.
This Oscar thingy is just an example of what's in store for the next 4.
First Black President . . . check.
Now for first Female President. You know the Media will go all out for that and Hillary's looking a little . . . worn. If you know what I mean.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at February 25, 2013 03:57 AM (qyv02)
pretty much I guess...of course given the good old boy network of Democrats dressed as GOPers in that state...
I may sit out politics as a donor down in carolina del Sur this trip or focus on the ArkLaTex....
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 03:57 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at February 25, 2013 03:58 AM (m2IdD)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 25, 2013 03:58 AM (yCvxi)
Why would they wish to? The social and economic rewards are greater if they watch TV all day.
But proudly walling oneself off from the most powerful mediums in communication serves no purpose either, except maybe individual sanity.
Are you going to put a roof over my head and feed me? Then you should probably STFU mocking me about preserving what's left of my sanity.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at February 25, 2013 03:59 AM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 25, 2013 03:59 AM (0iDjO)
If he wins it will probably be his last stop. I can't imagine him in a race for the senate.
But...as long as he is reliably conservative.....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2013 04:00 AM (GsoHv)
Posted by: I chase him - I bite him at February 25, 2013 04:01 AM (6J6x7)
At least I'll be with friends and the teacher is funny as shit.
BBL.
Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at February 25, 2013 04:01 AM (wR+pz)
The LIV will think it is swell.
I am hoping I am paranoid, but I don't think I am.
Posted by: Miss Marple at February 25, 2013 04:01 AM (GoIUi)
Posted by: Case at February 25, 2013 04:01 AM (vVmp0)
Posted by: Thorvald at February 25, 2013 04:01 AM (1V6Pv)
I think their plan involves upgrading the digs for a lot of the people living in the hinterlands and a dash of Nork Refugee planning as well.
Its probably easier to build a city than to get some of the rural Chinese to accept it and move there. Rural people live out in the boonies for a reason...
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 25, 2013 04:03 AM (/gHaE)
http://www.defense.gov/about/dod101.aspx
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 25, 2013 04:04 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: cicero skip at February 25, 2013 04:04 AM (3m9Uc)
Posted by: Thorvald at February 25, 2013 04:04 AM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 25, 2013 04:05 AM (0iDjO)
And look, it comes with a poll that one could vote in...
if one were so inclined.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/by7l5fv
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2013 04:05 AM (coJww)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2013 04:05 AM (48jWE)
Its the age of Aquarius man...peace, love, dope. Just say no to war.
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 25, 2013 04:05 AM (/gHaE)
they are counting the contractors, the civillians drawing from other pay pools on DoD facilities as base...etc etc etc
of course you know my feelings on "Free Shit for All!" by Mirror Universe John Boner
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:07 AM (LRFds)
The phrase I find myself using the most with LIV/Libs is, "That's not true."
Any more, I torn as to what to do about my friends who think they know what's going on: let them continue to think wrong things, or try to show them there's a lot more to it and they're not being told what they should know in order to be well-informed.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at February 25, 2013 04:07 AM (+z4pE)
Posted by: lincolntf at February 25, 2013 04:07 AM (ZshNr)
Posted by: Thorvald at February 25, 2013 04:09 AM (1V6Pv)
no I'm pretty sure using as the Swede in "hell on Wheels" said immoral mathematics you are going to have me arrive at the conclusion that some of Horrywood needs some dental work done with hickory ax handles....
and I sorta know this already
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:09 AM (LRFds)
"no seriously nuke all defense spending besides I'm sure we cause all the world angst with our spending...."
Yes, that was exactly what I was saying in my comment.
Posted by: jwest at February 25, 2013 04:10 AM (ZDsRL)
I hate it when you forget your smokes, start fumbling in hope between the seat and console, and pull out a three month old fry.
Posted by: early cuyler at February 25, 2013 04:10 AM (zOrVA)
Pretty much in allying yourself with the one area the donks love the scissors at you're empowering their crash dpeth to avoid the depth charges dive on Mil spending which...no mockery I am preparing for....
in the grand scheme of things DoD spending is not ahsitorically high at all spending 46% on entitlements just counting medicare and soc sec is....add in another 800 billion in foodtsmps...
fuck it I don't want to argue it anymore.
Cut defense to the bone...that way if it comes to it I won't be fighting people I love.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:13 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 25, 2013 04:13 AM (0iDjO)
they uh have a script...and Bush refusing to fight them fucked us since it emboldened the script leftward at a faster clip.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:14 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 25, 2013 04:14 AM (yCvxi)
Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 25, 2013 04:15 AM (0iDjO)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 25, 2013 04:16 AM (2o/UP)
Posted by: lincolntf at February 25, 2013 04:16 AM (ZshNr)
Posted by: Ed Anger at February 25, 2013 04:17 AM (tOkJB)
yup pretty much...I know it is a genuine mystery and all...
see to me they just want us to be masochists....
which is okay but I'd sincerely rather fuck a light socket.
The only way to fix Horryweird is to spend billions I don't have or engage in felonies or an insurgency
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:17 AM (LRFds)
which is saying that thus we MUST watch them...or something.
The divorce when it happens will be over this game.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:17 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: lincolntf at February 25, 2013 04:18 AM (ZshNr)
yeah I was in a good mood yesterday did you notice?
Tammy Al-Thor, Saturday news that Rum Mastress of Dark was doing great...
then Debbie Lush scolded me that my inability to watch the oscars is why western civ is doomed....
gonna glum out now eh?
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:19 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Vic at February 25, 2013 04:20 AM (53z96)
Posted by: lincolntf at February 25, 2013 04:20 AM (ZshNr)
Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 25, 2013 04:20 AM (0iDjO)
we do make better jokes than Horrywood, the left won't let the right on the soapbox and frankly is not running a profit driven business model anymore...
and YOU are intoning that we must not continue to try passive ngative feedback response to their revenue stream....
don't worry I'll never start the big brawl but if it comes I plan to test Paul Krugman's notion that the broken window fallacy is a fallacy.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:21 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2013 04:21 AM (ipBC8)
Posted by: lincolntf at February 25, 2013 04:22 AM (ZshNr)
eh maybe...
there is an Academic/Lawyer/Entertainment triangle that is more dangerous than the "Military-Industrial complex" ever was....
on the way to Ohio wife was doing homework on federalist 6....
out of a class of 40 online with ~20% soldiers one person picked Federalist 6 for research on understanding rhetoric.....
my wife.
We're fucked because people don't give a shit about why we are who we are.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:24 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 25, 2013 04:24 AM (0iDjO)
Posted by: lincolntf at February 25, 2013 08:22 AM (ZshNr)
Is your point to irritate the fuck out of me? If so, mission accomplished.
Posted by: Captain Hate at February 25, 2013 04:25 AM (UYfkz)
Posted by: Vic at February 25, 2013 04:25 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 25, 2013 04:26 AM (0iDjO)
well given that I am obviously the special needs kid on the board this AM why don't you break down monosyllabically what precisely I am to do or what I will learn watching the whores with no exertive influence please....
maybe I missed the genius point.
Ace is funnier than Bill Moron by far, and when on his A game better than the Daily Show....if Horrywood was based on profitability and merit Steyn would have a show...
so explain it to me slowly since I don't get it.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:26 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: lincolntf at February 25, 2013 04:27 AM (ZshNr)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 25, 2013 04:27 AM (yCvxi)
Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at February 25, 2013 04:27 AM (feFL6)
Posted by: teej at February 25, 2013 04:28 AM (kGDRz)
uh yeah....good luck chuck.
You'll note I am no longer strenuously objecting to blowing up the GOP but do the math on what comes next while you beat up the one side acting as a brake at all on anything.
Old friend of mine I hadn't seen in 2 decades drifted from JFK donk to TeaPartier...
he says I am a starry eyes optomist based on my blind patriotism when i say we have about an 8-12 yr window tops to defuse the bomb.
He feels that Mitt whom he was not a huge fan of was our forlorn Hope and the game is in the final 4-8 years now.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:28 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 25, 2013 04:28 AM (0iDjO)
Posted by: lincolntf at February 25, 2013 04:29 AM (ZshNr)
hear, hear as I said last night...if I want shit on I can go to a farm and get it for free....
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:29 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: lincolntf at February 25, 2013 08:27 AM (ZshNr)
I think razing a public school might address the root of the problem.
Posted by: Captain Hate at February 25, 2013 04:29 AM (UYfkz)
Posted by: Ed Anger at February 25, 2013 04:30 AM (tOkJB)
oh okay given that I let you guys suck off the whores uncommented on last night until people started fanboying Debbie Lush acting as though I *am* to blame for our "losing the culture" in not watching yeah I guess you got me tiger....
I thought you had a fucking plan or some understanding of how to make gain watching the toilet bowl it just turns out you're saying "oh uh nothing matters" on it...
yeah man deep...real fucking deep dude.
*flush*
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:31 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 25, 2013 04:32 AM (yCvxi)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 25, 2013 04:32 AM (2o/UP)
Posted by: lincolntf at February 25, 2013 04:32 AM (ZshNr)
probably more than you know...
one of the most powerful scenes in "Conspirata" about the fall of Cicero was when Marc Anthony and the other Caesarian followers who had been Catalinians dismantled a temple in 8 hours overnight.....
dismantling an unoccupied public school overnight using non explosive means would make a point.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:33 AM (LRFds)
no Lincoln I think you're up on the corss tiger...
it is okay you read teenbeat still.
I'm down with that sport.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:33 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Captain Hate at February 25, 2013 04:34 AM (UYfkz)
Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 25, 2013 04:36 AM (0iDjO)
It's not that exactly. Vic can explain it better than I can but basically there is a power base in the SC GOP that are crossover donks. Sanford is favored by them b/c they don't want a harder conservative.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:36 AM (LRFds)
Truman you and I had long discussions last fall over the need for a PAC or two for change but I just don't see it working anymore. The sequester fight is interesting to me because 56% of the GOP wants taxes which they know will not help to "fix the sequester bomb."
I don't think US economic thought is based on any reality anymore, and as such we will need taught by the wreck.
I pray for a wreck versus a 70 year fall.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:38 AM (LRFds)
They also believe in aardvarks, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny.
Not a view shared by high information voters.
Hey now, don't lump me in with those two posers!
Posted by: Large Dark Aardvark in the Park at February 25, 2013 04:42 AM (qqZuQ)
Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 25, 2013 04:43 AM (0iDjO)
hey I believe in you....my last bender in El Paso I think you were 75 feet tall....and pink.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:43 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: I chase him - I bite him at February 25, 2013 04:44 AM (6J6x7)
Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 25, 2013 04:45 AM (0iDjO)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 25, 2013 06:48 AM (zF6Iw)
********
Tweaked that a little for you.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 25, 2013 04:46 AM (qqZuQ)
Truman we lost because we did not fight them over the 40 years, we never tried hard to stop them.
Trust me they are not gonna shrug and say "ok okay you the new hire we're gonna let you get your way there bud...we're uh gonna focus on the actual work of the institution while you start bending said work."
Try, hell I may bang the till for your PAC but I am not seeing a win.
If they had ANY fear EPA would not be playing the games it is playing and so openly colluding with the Watermelons using specious nicknamed e-mail accounts.
They have no fear because they will use the machine to thresh the wheat.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:46 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 25, 2013 04:48 AM (0iDjO)
Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 25, 2013 04:55 AM (WgEZw)
and Truman I am not patting you on the head you do have the right idea but it has to be state by state and it will cost...
basically one of the things my long lost contact said was 'there is no difference just a speed change' and he is correct hell we've all known this of the GOP going back to Bush 2000.
Anyway I am sincere I do wish you the best.
And LincolnTF I just reread the thread...I must have missed my martyr complex before our last two go 'rounds...
basically you're edging up to telling me and by "me" I mean people who shat on the Oscars "you don't matter in not watching" well ok point taken of course Seth waving his wang at you who did watch is him proving neither do you.
No personal offense meant and I am not "on the cross" bud.
It doesn't matter that I don't watch because too many of us do, and it also does not mean WW3 will break out because I don't watch I am not an idiot.
Given my retraint and deference and unwillingness to be a Mcveigh shit be upon him it means the cold civil war continues and Dana Lush is trying to be on both sides.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 04:57 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 08:36 AM (LRFds)
Actually the Repub party bosses here are fighting him tooth and nail.. They are also fighting the people trying to primary Graham tooth and nail.
That should tell you h8ters something.
I really don't give a shit that he porked the SA babe.
Posted by: Vic at February 25, 2013 04:59 AM (53z96)
I think their "fighting him is Kabuki theater" vic but I'm not down with you anymore I'll defer to your on the site wisdom.
My displeasure with Sanford is not because of his Hot Latina whoopie cushion BTW I just think he was not on pace to outperform Nikki is all.
I do hope to buy you and Ms Vic dinner over the two or so years we'll be there...a SC moron meetup would be a ball.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2013 05:02 AM (LRFds)
Spent most of the day fighting the flu. Oh wonderful.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 25, 2013 05:02 AM (xjpRj)
Posted by: I chase him - I bite him at February 25, 2013 05:05 AM (6J6x7)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 25, 2013 05:10 AM (xjpRj)
I thought aardvarks were fer realz?
Posted by: t-dubyah-d at February 25, 2013 05:43 AM (hhsyr)
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