Bite me! Barky, you damn swivel eyed lying nitwit...

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at May 28, 2013 06:57 AM (Wc+Sv)

Isn't the erudite use of both the word "fabulous" and "peasant" in a really long sentence one of the new events?

Hello, 'rons and 'ronettes.  I hope you all had a great weekend.

 
About a week or so ago, I told you a story about Chaplin and the silent film director Raoul Walsh.  Well, here's a tale with Walsh again; this time, he's at Chasen's restaurant* (a top Hollywood hangout), crossing the floor to speak with Billy Grady, who was one of the talent representatives at MGM.**
 

"Hi, Irish," Walsh began.  "I met a young man the other day who's trying to make the grade in pictures.  He's a good-looking kid, has no experience beyond extra work.  I don't know if he has any talent, but do me a favor, will you?  Talk with him."
 

Grady agreed.  A few minutes later, Walsh's wife came in with the young man in tow.  Walsh introduced him as "Fitzgerald," leaving him to talk to the agent.
 

“The boy was personable and physically well set up,” Grady remembered.  “He told me he had been trying to get a start in pictures for several years with little success:
 

"Fitzgerald," Grady said, "as of ten o'clock tomorrow morning, you are under contract to MGM."
 

The young actor looked at him in disbelief.  "Please don't kid me, Mr. Grady.  Is this a gag between you and Mr. Walsh?"
 

The agent shook his head.  "Look, son, not tomorrow morning, but tonight - right now - you are under contract to MGM at $300 a week."
 

Fitzgerald grabbed Grady's hand and shook it until it nearly fell off, babbling a stream of "thank yous" before going back to have dinner with the Walshes.  At ten on the dot the next morning, he presented himself at Grady's office, where the agent told his staff that he was under contract and to begin looking for any little parts to get him on his way.  The terms were industry standard, beginning at $300 weekly, with yearly options graduating to $2000 weekly over a period of seven years.
 

"There is just one more thing," Grady added.  "I'd like you to meet Mr. L.B. Mayer."
 

"Mr. Mayer, the head of MGM?" Fitzgerald gasped.  "My God, the things that are happening to me today!"
 

Grady brought the young actor to the studio barber shop, where Mayer was standing at the newsstand.  "Glad to have you aboard, Fitz," Mayer said.  "If you're in the hands of the Irishman, you're in good hands.  Good luck to you."
 

And now, the rest of the story. . .in his 1972 memoir, The Irish Peacock, Grady repeats the tale, with an all-too-familiar Hollywood twist:  "I have never seen Fitzgerald from that day to this, other than fleeting glimpses of him in fast European circles.  I have never spoken to him.
 

"Today Fitzgerald's name is Rock Hudson."
 

Another loaf of ungrateful bread, as the head Ewok would say.
 

That's it for me.  Hope you all have a wonderful day.

*ChasenÂ’s was in West Hollywood at 9039 Beverly Boulevard near Beverly Hills.  For many years, it was the site of the Academy Awards; it was also known for its chili. In 1962 Elizabeth Taylor had several orders of ChasenÂ’s chili flown to the set of Cleopatra.

**Jimmy Stewart and Joan Blondell were among his discoveries.

So how many casualties and arrests from the ONT?  Was there enough bail cash to go around?

As a point of clarification, the infamous Memorial Day ONT began the day before the holiday.  The thread continued till noon and was well over 1,000 posts 'cause no one wanted it to end (as well as stinking drunk).  Took forever to load.

Let's try that with some real f'ng spacing, shall we? PIXY!!

Hello, 'rons and 'ronettes.  I hope you all had a great weekend.
 

About a week or so ago, I told you a story about Chaplin and the silent film director Raoul Walsh.  Well, here's a tale with Walsh again; this time, he's at Chasen's restaurant* (a top Hollywood hangout), crossing the floor to speak with Billy Grady, who was one of the talent representatives at MGM.**
 

"Hi, Irish," Walsh began.  "I met a young man the other day who's trying to make the grade in pictures.  He's a good-looking kid, has no experience beyond extra work.  I don't know if he has any talent, but do me a favor, will you?  Talk with him."
 

Grady agreed.  A few minutes later, Walsh's wife came in with the young man in tow.  Walsh introduced him as "Fitzgerald," leaving him to talk to the agent.
 

“The boy was personable and physically well set up,” Grady remembered.  “He told me he had been trying to get a start in pictures for several years with little success:
 

"Fitzgerald," Grady said, "as of ten o'clock tomorrow morning, you are under contract to MGM."
 

The young actor looked at him in disbelief.  "Please don't kid me, Mr. Grady.  Is this a gag between you and Mr. Walsh?"
 

The agent shook his head.  "Look, son, not tomorrow morning, but tonight - right now - you are under contract to MGM at $300 a week."
 

Fitzgerald grabbed Grady's hand and shook it until it nearly fell off, babbling a stream of "thank yous" before going back to have dinner with the Walshes.  At ten on the dot the next morning, he presented himself at Grady's office, where the agent told his staff that he was under contract and to begin looking for any little parts to get him on his way.  The terms were industry standard, beginning at $300 weekly, with yearly options graduating to $2000 weekly over a period of seven years.
 

"There is just one more thing," Grady added.  "I'd like you to meet Mr. L.B. Mayer."
 

"Mr. Mayer, the head of MGM?" Fitzgerald gasped.  "My God, the things that are happening to me today!"
 

Grady brought the young actor to the studio barber shop, where Mayer was standing at the newsstand.  "Glad to have you aboard, Fitz," Mayer said.  "If you're in the hands of the Irishman, you're in good hands.  Good luck to you."
 

And now, the rest of the story. . .in his 1972 memoir, The Irish Peacock, Grady repeats the tale, with an all-too-familiar Hollywood twist:  "I have never seen Fitzgerald from that day to this, other than fleeting glimpses of him in fast European circles.  I have never spoken to him.
 

"Today Fitzgerald's name is Rock Hudson."
 

Another loaf of ungrateful bread, as the head Ewok would say.
 

That's it for me.  Hope you all have a wonderful day.

*ChasenÂ’s was in West Hollywood at 9039 Beverly Boulevard near Beverly Hills.  For many years, it was the site of the Academy Awards; it was also known for its chili. In 1962 Elizabeth Taylor had several orders of ChasenÂ’s chili flown to the set of Cleopatra.

**Jimmy Stewart and Joan Blondell were among his discoveries.

Congress may be on the verge of striking a
long-awaited deal on immigration reform when it returns to work after
the Memorial Day recess, but lawmakers caution that a final compromise
is far from assured.

Just another day in Buffalo Bill's basement holding pit of the United States of Corruptica.

Posted by: Hrothgar at May 28, 2013 07:02 AM (Cnqmv)

Where I worked classified computers were not only forbidden to be attached to the network, but the hard drives had to be removed and locked in a classified vault when not being actively used. .

Posted by: RushBabe at May 28, 2013 07:08 AM (qkZxk)

Which is why I found it damned near impossible to "celebrate" Memorial Day.  Some gave all. . .for what?  A country that twice gave the highest office to a Marxist rabble-rouser, where the government is corrupt from top to bottom, where years of hard work can be eliminated or even confiscated on an unelected bureaucrat's whim and where nearly 52% are not only happy with that, but insist the government silence me and tell me to my face that I don't deserve any freedoms?  What is there to celebrate?

The Republic is dead.  If we must celebrate Memorial Day, then let us remember the America that was.  This country is a dead man walking; it just hasn't collapsed yet.

Posted by: Vic at May 28, 2013 07:09 AM (lZvxr)

Quill pens are also a secure means of data storage, but you knew that!

Fox News' Andrea Tantaros Tells Listeners to Punch Obama Voters In the Face.

Link?

Is the Pentagon stupid?

Yes Vic, yes they are indeed, and you ain't seen nothing yet.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ drinking beer at May 28, 2013 07:32 AM (hO8IJ)

The "American Trilogy" bit?  No, because that way, IMO, lies recorded tracks.  If we're going to play Elvis, then why not Hendrix's version of The Star-Spangled Banner?  Or Ray Charles singing America?  Not that I have anything against those three pieces, but patriotic music should be that which celebrates the country and makes you think about what you have been given - for a start, let's get rid of that imbecilic rewite of The Battle Hymn of the Republic - "as He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free."  Let's sing Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean.

But YMMV.

@85

You are right, the fix is in.  Nothing can be done about it. 

If BCochran happens to glance in here this morning, I just read about his efforts to get the USS Charles F. Adams moved to Jacksonville and converted to a museum.

I'm wondering if Kickstarter was mentioned as an option - provide free passes for contributors or something.

Ace of spades blog is a lot like the GOP.

The base (commenters are uniformly conservative)

The establishment (bloggers, cob-loggers are uniformly rinos or leftists who mostly despise the base)

kreplach at May 28, 2013 07:33 AM (UjSt7)

I wouldn't say "uniformly."  That's too broad of a brush.  Ace in particular is not someone I'd consider a RINO, on the strength of his essays inre the New Aristocracy alone. 

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 28, 2013 07:57 AM (sbV1u)

Link for those of us too lazy to trawl the ONT?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at May 28, 2013 07:27 AM (yKGCL)

OK, SFB, not everyone is a genius like you are.  Sometimes, they don't always check every single syllable to make sure it is 100% accurate like you do.  Sometimes, they like the convenience of auto-correct because it saves a few keystrokes by allowing you to fill in the word without typing all of it.  Yes, sometimes it is wrong.  On the whole, it is nice convenience.  There is absolutely, positively no reason to treat people who use it as if they are some kind of idiots.  It is far better to mock them unmercifully when auto-correct fails them.

Ace really does resent the commenters though.

Rather foolish for the proprietor of an Award-Winning Blog.

I think Ace is like all of us; the hackles go up when we're challenged.  See Ace on any religion thread, for example.  This place shakes people out of their comfrt zones,which is always a good thing.  If only we could get Award-Winning Trolls, we'd be cooking with gas.

Sean Bannion at May 28, 2013 07:59 AM (sbV1u)

Thanks for the follow up.  Looks like we're going to be chartered by the Methodists.  The Boy Scout troop to which most of our boys bridge from Cub Scouts is chartered by a local Methodist church, and they would like to charter the Pack as well. 

On the pro  side, some of the old guard of the Pack (before the PC police moved in) are church elders, so we would have that going for us.  On the other hand, some of the current PC crop will be sticking around for the next year.  Still, we'll be away from the PTA so I consider this a good development.  My proposal to do what you and I discussed was voted down (barely, by two votes) mainly because that church was "too far away" for a significant chunk of the parents.

Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 08:07 AM (qPCAa)

My point exactly.  It sometimes provides some very interesting corrections.

Ian S. at May 28, 2013 08:01 AM (OevbG)

I don't think Ace "resents" the commenters.  I think he resents when he perceives one of the CoBloggers being personally attacked. 

About as far as I'll go on that score is when I think a CoBlogger brings too much dismissive snark to a commenter, but then it's Ace's blog and not mine so he gets to make the call. 

sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 08:06 AM (5KWaP)

Point taken, although I don't think the CoBloggers are uniformly more socially liberal.  I do agree with the criticism of conflating legal and illegal immigration, just as I criticize calling gay marriage "marriage equality" or "legalizing marriage." 

okay, you are bringing ONT stuff into the morning thread. I'm sure some of the good folks here just don't want to hear that smut.

In the words of the unfortunately moonbatty Tom Lehrer:

Smut!

Give me smut and nothing but!

A dirty novel I can't shut,

If it's uncut

And unsub

Tle.

Heard this idea on the radio:

Congress is only about one thing: being reelected.  If they think being hard on the IRS will get them reeelected, they'll do it.  If they think being anti-amnesty will get them reelected, they'll do it.  They don't care about anything else.

So how to solve this?  Term limits?  Nah.  The idea was to make the pay scale of our elected officials the same as the mean salary of their constituents.  Then maybe they'll feel our pain.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 28, 2013 08:17 AM (da5Wo)

Smile when you say that, pardner.

You know, when you think about it, there is a bit of funny in "At least Sushi is a martial art".

It'd be even funnier if auto-correct turned it into "At least Sushi is a marital art."

Posted by: Blacksheep at May 28, 2013 08:24 AM (bS6uW)

These days, you could make the case that just attending ND is proof of bad academic judgement.

If AOSHQ bloggers/cobloggers really were like the RINO's, we'd all have been banned ages ago by Jarles Chonson...

Getting banned by Chuckles is like being blackballed by Arby's.

Is that so hard a question? Not correcting someone's spelling or being an "old school marm".

It's a question about the tech in the phone.

Google  or Bing  can be your friend.

Getting banned by Chuckles is like being blackballed by Arby's.

And now, here are some photos of weeds.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 08:29 AM (qPCAa)

INTER is used for something between or among other things.

INTRA is used for something within or inside.

Thus endeth the lesson.

Re: Golson
"Everett is not enrolled at the university. Federal law and our own polices preclude us from discussing specifics," spokesman Dennis Brown said in an email.

Classic.

soothsayer at May 28, 2013 08:39 AM (OZ9Xn)

When this came up at my Cub Scout Pack's leadership meeting, I basically said that if a nine-year-old was self-identifying as gay, he has bigger family problems than the Cub Scouts should be reasonably expected to deal with.

as a child, I thought adults knew what they were doing. Parents, businessmen, governors, Generals must have experiential wisdom (which would be imparted to me someday).

Same here.  My excuse is that my parents weren't/aren't fucktard douchebags, so I assumed most other parents and adults were the same.

I also assumed that 'journalists' must be fairly honest, otherwise they wouldn't be allowed to write stories in  'The  Newspaper'.

Then I watched some CBC (Canada's state broadcaster).

Shaka, when the walls fell.

I was never on an eight inch.

It's overrated.

Posted by: teej at May 28, 2013 08:50 AM (/tk/V)

As a former artilleryman, I can state that there is something seriously wrong with you if firing a howitzer doesn't give you a major thrill.  MLRS is cool unless you are asleep about 200 meters from a battery that fires all their launchers in a 12-pack FFE, especially in a combat zone.

In the Gulf War, the Brits had planned to fire the minimum number of MLRS rounds that their computers said would defeat the target.  They realized that it was easier to just fire a six-pack and reload than to keep track of the number of rounds in each side of the launcher.

On a side note, the MLRS battalion in our brigade was conducting the Army's test for what became TACMS when we were alerted to deploy for then Desert Shield.  Since it was a dual-capable launcher, they decided to just leave them the way they were configured and send them.  They shot many, many TACMS missions.  It was really cool to watch the launch.  To avoid counter-fire, the launcher would skew a random amount from the desired azimuth then launch.  You could watch the missile fly off in the wrong direction then change course to a random course.  At the last minute, the missile corrected course again into the target.  This was designed to prevent the enemy from using the trajectory to determine the launchers position.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 28, 2013 08:58 AM (da5Wo)

Look at the overall picture. Why are they here? How could we effectively deal with them? Who is fucking enabling them and their activities? Seriously, you cannot curse the crocodile chewing on your toes while absolving the bastard holding your feet in the water.

Posted by: fluffy at May 28, 2013 09:08 AM (z9HTb)

Pon Farr's a bitch.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 28, 2013 09:08 AM (da5Wo)

My point is that Muslims are Muslims and crocodiles are crocodiles. You cannot civilize  a crocodile. You can wall him off, avoid him, or kill him, but you aren't going to change him. The leftards are in positions of power in every system we have, and effectively work to enable the Muslims as they are working for a common cause in the general sense. Once the destruction of the West is complete, the leftards will confront Islam, and not before. They use the Muslims as a tool against Western Culture, and therefore are the root problem. Muslims are only a tool to their ultimate end.

I can understand the suicide bombers in Gaza who are brainwashed from birth, but what about these people who are converts and only have had a few years of instruction?

I find converts can often be more 'devout' than those  immersed  since birth.

Kind of like holier than thou ex-smokers.

"Wow: 2/3rds of Brits polled think a clash of civilizations with Islam is inevitable."

"But they have the same problem we have in the USA, our leaders are marching us off the cliff.

Those who do not learn from history are destined to annoy the ever-living shit out of me."

Here, there, and everywhere in the West we are going to allow the problem to approach cataclysmic proportions before doing anything meaningful about it.  Even then, it may just be "easier" for most people to just drift off into oblivion rather than get involved.   This covers all of the problems - Islam, leftists, the FSA, entrenched bureaucrats,  statist barnacles in Congress, and freedom-squelching big government types of all parties.  

The only hopeful  thought I have on the situation is knowing it only takes a small percentage of the population to finally get fed up, get off their asses, and commit to the risk.  That attracts additional "soft" support, but I would never put the number of people  in this boat above 30%.  As it was at the time of the American Revolution, it is  now. 

 My point is that Muslims are Muslims and crocodiles are crocodiles. You cannot civilize a crocodile.

Posted by: maddogg at May 28, 2013 09:15 AM (OlN4e)

HEY! Don't you DARE compare us to muzzies! We only kill to protect our babies and for food!

Posted by: Regular Moron at May 28, 2013 09:10 AM (U2UQk)

I like those because they make the best low fat Hot Dog for my wieghtloss.

My sis works for Con Agra (who makes those) I thought about having her ship me a bunch from her company store, it would have been cheaper....

Howdy, all you hot dog fanciers.

What fresh new hell awaits us this week?

SNAFU.

"What is it that makes Muslims go homicidal? Seriously, this is something which needs to be looked at."

To paraphease Cankles:  "What difference does it make?"  So we take the time  to study and understand them,  Great.  What now?

The  most effective solution will end up being the same as it is when you couldn't understand  them at all:  Metal on meat.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at May 28, 2013 09:25 AM (0HooB)

Well I already know this week brings the beginning of jobless tsr.

So that's something .

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 28, 2013 09:28 AM (da5Wo) They aren't the root cause of Islamic violence, true. They are the cause of Muslims being a problem in the West.

"Like I said, the Left is an impediment to the solution, they are not the root cause of Islamic violence."

At some point  the issue and its key players kind of all melt together into a giant glob of evil.   Cue that Cankles quote again.

"I'm looking for smaller government, lower taxes and real national security. I am not, however, interested in trying to tell other people how to lead their lives or judging them for doing whatever makes them happy (within reason), nor do I want to receive that hectoring from others. -"

This workes swimmingly well up to the point where you run into people whose  secular religion is exactly "telling other people how to lead their lives" at the taxpayer funded point of the police's guns.  At that point, you have to be able to tell them their beliefs are wrong, evil, and an eventual path to much unpleasantness.

I watched some footage of OK tornado about an hour after the dust settled. They already had portable lighting equipment set up. Generators. Responders. Dogs. They were prepared.

I didn't see one person carrying a case of Michelob away from the scene.

I could be a prick and suggest melanin content and party registration may have been contributing factors.

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 08:20 AM (ZshNr)

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Which is the exact tact the Andi Sullivan went.