March 26, 2014

Evening Link Dump
— Gabriel Malor

Just clearing out the browser tabs of links that I really should write up more fully, but don't have time for.

First up, Michelle Malkin has a long, personal piece at National Review about medical marijuana.

Molly Ball has a piece at the Atlantic on how Republicans are driving the current momentum for gay marriage.

Sean Davis has a piece at the Federalist on six absurd arguments made at the Hobby Lobby argument.

Nate Silver has a post at FiveThirtyEight taking a shot at former colleague Paul Krugman.

Patterico has a post at his site about Vox stumbling right out of the gate.

Maybe I'll come back to these tomorrow.

Bonus Videos [Ace]: A Chicago subway train's driver fell asleep while conducting the vehicle. The train jumped the tracks and... well, you'll see.

A worker trapped inside a blazing building escapes to the ledge, and then has to jump down to another ledge, to reach the fire ladder.

Watch to the end.

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1 You stomped a flyin' car thread? I'm appalled.

Posted by: rickl at March 26, 2014 03:50 PM (sdi6R)

2 Hello any one here ?

Posted by: Extremely grumpy momma bear at March 26, 2014 03:50 PM (KkIgk)

3 Wow 2nd !!!! Cool !!! Love that new thread smell !!!!

Posted by: Extremely grumpy momma bear at March 26, 2014 03:51 PM (KkIgk)

4 I like how the two people are standing there like, "Gee, that train doesn't look like it's slowing down, does it?"

Posted by: rickl at March 26, 2014 03:54 PM (sdi6R)

5 And in reference to the previous open thread ( unions of college football ) Damn #€^%=^% Libetards again destroying all their €}#^%¥ hands touch !!!!! I hate 'em I do !!!!!

Posted by: Extremely grumpy momma bear at March 26, 2014 03:54 PM (KkIgk)

6 A union employee? Falling asleep on the job? The deuce you say!!!!

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 03:54 PM (yz6yg)

7 Since it's Chicago, I'm sure they'll give that subway driver a raise.  Or a mayorship.

Posted by: DangerGirl at March 26, 2014 03:56 PM (GrtrJ)

8 Maybe that driver should join the football union ...

Posted by: Extremely grumpy momma bear at March 26, 2014 03:56 PM (KkIgk)

9 []Who am I kidding...., just leave the bottle. Posted by: Mike Hammer

Look Riggo it's bad form to sock a regular.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at March 26, 2014 03:57 PM (DL2i+)

10 Holy crap--that last video. Man o peat.

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 03:57 PM (RJMhd)

11 That fire video is something. Wow. Although I've never heard anybody actually say "OMG" before.

Posted by: rickl at March 26, 2014 03:58 PM (sdi6R)

12 And she went UP the DOWN escalator!!!!!


When those guys were standing there watching the train did anyone else yell RUN YOU FOOLS RUN!!!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 03:58 PM (JS0vr)

13 Oh sure I post on the no longer top thread. I think I am becoming willow. Speaking of union people falling asleep, see NY Post about WTC guard Abdul being photographed once again asleep on the job. Plus he is blind in one eye and has nerve damage in the other.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 03:58 PM (RZ8pf)

14 Also, speaking of fire, sad news from Boston, 2 firefighters died in the 9 alarm fire there. Yeah, yeah I posted this in the other thread, but all the corgis already came to this one.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 04:00 PM (RZ8pf)

15 1 You stomped a flyin' car thread? I'm appalled.
Posted by: rickl at March 26, 2014 07:50 PM (sdi6R)
For a flying subway car.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 26, 2014 04:00 PM (/0PJL)

16 14 And his name is Abdul.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2014 04:00 PM (zqvg6)

17 Is this an open thread or do I have to post a "Link Dump Compliance Pic"?

Posted by: kbdabear at March 26, 2014 04:00 PM (aTXUx)

18 16 1 You stomped a flyin' car thread? I'm appalled. Posted by: rickl at March 26, 2014 07:50 PM (sdi6R) For a flying subway car. Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 26, 2014 08:00 PM (/0PJL) Flyin' High Speed Rail!

Posted by: rickl at March 26, 2014 04:01 PM (sdi6R)

19 Gabe in a stomping mood?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 04:02 PM (HVff2)

20 Yeah yeah medicinal fried chicken is on its way to being banned, fre speech under assault but Dr. M Malkin. Esq has one wonder drug that should be ok b/c anecdote. Fuck it I don't care anymore.... And Malkin yeah "spare the rocky mountain high" jokes... Right around the time you put your unassailable moral authority on a host of topics.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2014 04:02 PM (TE35l)

21
I was driving the ladder truck.

Posted by: Jo Jo Biden at March 26, 2014 04:02 PM (nQjHM)

22 Ridley Scott is making a Blade Runner sequel and a Prometheus sequel.Word is they will have some cross connection.Unfortunately the guy writing both is the guy who wrote the awful Green Lantern movie and well,Prometheus sucked anyway.I think " Sir" Ridley has lost it.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2014 04:03 PM (zqvg6)

23 That train vid is awesome. Also, Rangers v Flyers on NBCSN.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 04:03 PM (Wz69H)

24 "That TRAIN is back on the ESCALATOR!"

Posted by: Brodie at March 26, 2014 04:04 PM (Wz69H)

25 Silver Streak 2014 Where are Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor you can keep Jill Clayburgh

Posted by: Tmitsss at March 26, 2014 04:04 PM (Pa9vP)

26
Talk about staying cool under fire, wow.  Good job there, hard hat.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 26, 2014 04:05 PM (0Kobm)

27 Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2014 08:02 PM (TE35l)

Easy there big fella.

Everybody's moral authority slips now and then when it's relatives in pain.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:05 PM (JS0vr)

28 My heart is pounding from watching that fire video, even knowing that he was going to be okay.

Posted by: Mama AJ at March 26, 2014 04:05 PM (SUKHu)

29 a Prometheus sequel. Wow, who did they find on enough drugs to bankroll that?

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 26, 2014 04:06 PM (YpXJl)

30 Wife was actually at O'Hare later that day on a connecting flight. Didn't even know it had happened.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:07 PM (HDwDg)

31 They probably dragged an ounce of Coke down Sunset or Beverly Blvd at about 1 a.m.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:08 PM (JS0vr)

32 24>> Just got home and fired up the game... and a cigar.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 26, 2014 04:08 PM (60Vyp)

33 28 Bitter Clinger, I think her act has finally wore thin for me is all. Mom was Bi-Polar, I'm pretty sure medical Crystal Meth would have brought her out of the lows.... Why not right? Like I said I am getting way past caring the fucking hypocriy of the "sorta" libertarians pisses me off.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2014 04:08 PM (TE35l)

34 Wife was actually at O'Hare later that day on a connecting flight. Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 08:07 PM (HDwDg) Attending another "Obama 2016" rally?

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:09 PM (yz6yg)

35 Firefighters jumping to their deaths. Heroic or cowardly?

Posted by: MSNBC ronan furrow at March 26, 2014 04:09 PM (hn5v5)

36 Re: CA Senator Yee's arrest: http://bit.ly/1dwCODR

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 04:10 PM (qyfb5)

37 I'm sure the train operator got scolded, "No  trains on the escalators"!

Posted by: Soona at March 26, 2014 04:10 PM (VZ4v0)

38 You have to admit that throwing someone in the slammer for even just a few months and ruining their future for a few leaves of a common weed is a little Harsh (sorry it just happened)?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:10 PM (JS0vr)

39
We're very excited about NCAA unionization, and it's only a matter of time before female soccer joins the union for the big bucks.

Posted by: Perdue Lesbian Soccer Team at March 26, 2014 04:11 PM (nQjHM)

40 Song appropriate for the train story:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFpKzNyddA0

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 04:11 PM (wNF3N)

41 Bet that construction guy is thankful he spent all that time playing the original Prince of Persia.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 26, 2014 04:11 PM (YpXJl)

42 Attending another "Obama 2016" rally? Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:09 PM (yz6yg) No. Passing through to Colorado Springs. You know enough of the rest to figure it out

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:11 PM (HDwDg)

43 Are subway conductors even needed anymore? Wait the union contracts okay I get it now.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 26, 2014 04:11 PM (WdbF7)

44 Posted by: MSNBC ronan furrow at March 26, 2014 08:09 PM (hn5v5)

At least he didn't do a "Hot Or Not" piece.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:11 PM (JS0vr)

45 >>Nate Silver has a post at FiveThirtyEight taking a shot at former colleague Paul Krugman. The comments are mostly people saying "well, you changed the site and now it sucks so Krugman is right."

Posted by: Mama AJ at March 26, 2014 04:12 PM (SUKHu)

46

Michelle "Tiger Mom" Malkin  - Pro "medicinal" pot, rabidly anti-vaccine.

Not really someone to pay attention to on medical issues.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 26, 2014 04:12 PM (kdS6q)

47 37 Re: CA Senator Yee's arrest: http://bit.ly/1dwCODR Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 26, 2014 08:10 PM (qyfb5) I suspect no party identification lol

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 04:12 PM (HVff2)

48 Flying cars, flying trains, flying assholes, flying wookies, flying high, flying too low. It's all too much flying. Another beer and I won't give a flying fuck.

Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2014 04:12 PM (JdEZJ)

49 A Chicago subway train's driver fell asleep while conducting the vehicle. The train jumped the tracks and... well, you'll see.
***

In a way, this is the story of Obama.

Posted by: B at March 26, 2014 04:12 PM (6iEQd)

50 Never knew that about Mrs Malkin. Good for her for coming forward on this.

Anyway, I haven't had any weed since I moved here, years ago. Don't need it, don't want it. I don't even particularly like it when others toke up around me, like that moron did at the coffee shop last Sunday. It's still not my problem if other people do it.

Will say this: mentally ill people smoking weed to self-medicate? Yeah, they need help. From others. Not involving more mind-altering substances

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 04:12 PM (30eLQ)

51 I think Casey Jones is more fitting.


Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:13 PM (JS0vr)

52 glad the worker on the new construction building fire made it off the building alive.
and the video girl, omg, omg, omg,  anyway i can relate and she shot a great video.

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 04:13 PM (nqBYe)

53 Driving that train . . . (well maybe she coulda USED some cocaine)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:14 PM (JS0vr)

54 Michelle "Tiger Mom" Malkin - Pro "medicinal" pot, rabidly anti-vaccine. She's anti-vaccine? Really? Got any linkage? 'Cause that sort of caps it right there for me. She's a tool.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:14 PM (yz6yg)

55 I suspect no party identification lol Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 08:12 PM (HVff2) fnord (HVff2) They can't really get away from this one, he's a publicity whore on lefty issues. And the third D felon (indicted) recently in CA - just from the Senate. The MFM is trying to cover for everyone else in the D block, mind you.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 04:14 PM (qyfb5)

56 39 Bitter Clinger, Yeah of course statistics say that little homilee is rather rare. Whatever like I said I am the ultimate "legalize it!" Guy these days... Malkin is big on this is my position and one step to the right is lunacy. We live in a country legalizing drugs that alter your mood and sobriety while outlawing e-cigs over the regulatory authority's broach... I'm to the point that punching out is les bothersome b/c I am living in the world's largest open-aired insane asylum

Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2014 04:14 PM (TE35l)

57 Instead of flying cars, maybe we can get flying commuter trains. Powered by unicorns and clean solar energy. All operated by efficient, friendly, union members who understand that unemployment benefits and government pensions are the way to grow an economy.

That's pretty much Media Matters' argument :
http://tinyurl.com/mvo56e6

Anyone fisked this shit yet?

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 04:14 PM (30eLQ)

58 Waterhouseand thinking he was a james bond  type swinging himself to the next floor .
look like quite a drop if you missed.

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 04:14 PM (nqBYe)

59 Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2014 08:12 PM (JdEZJ)

*golf clap*

*holds up an 8 and a 4*

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:15 PM (JS0vr)

60

I love the high quality security video at O'Hare.  The silver blob can clearly be seen doing something. 

 

You can tell the person's race and sex, but that is about it.  Is it because the cameras are unfocused, or because they bought them from one of Daley's or Blago's relatives? 

Posted by: rd at March 26, 2014 04:15 PM (D+lxs)

61 Pro tip:  If you find yourself video recording a dramatic event, like a fire rescue and building collapse, try to  SOUND  like you have some reporting skills, because news sites will pay you for  it.

But don't let Republican congresscritter interns get ahold of it, they'll post it like it's  their own. 

Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2014 04:15 PM (BeSEI)

62 55 Sean Bannion, I don't know about that, but a lot of Tepid's Obama genuflecting was from her editorial bent.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2014 04:15 PM (TE35l)

63 @46 - fivethirtyeight sucks because it requires a facebook login for comments and I won't do that. As far as the content goes...well, Krugman's basically an inverse indicator, so...

Posted by: JEM at March 26, 2014 04:17 PM (o+SC1)

64 Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2014 08:14 PM (TE35l)

What?

Did you just move here from Peruvia?

What a long strange trip it's been.

Take a walk down MY memory lane. It's a freaking house of horrors.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:17 PM (JS0vr)

65 She's anti-vaccine? Really? Got any linkage? 'Cause that sort of caps it right there for me. She's a tool. Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:14 PM (yz6yg) fnord (yz6yg) Yeah, I'd like to see those links too, because I suspect this is hysterical over-statement. She has called out what she calls bullies and bad science on both sides of that issue (Gardasil controversy, for example), more than once. I haven't seen anything that puts her in the flaming antivac camp.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 04:17 PM (qyfb5)

66 52 >> I think Casey Jones is more fitting.
 
Oh yeah Bitter? The name of the album that one is off of is *Get Your Wings*.
 
Which is soo last thread. But I get your point. The lyrics fit better.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 04:18 PM (wNF3N)

67 As I recall Malkin wasn't anti-vaccine so much as anti-Perry. Perry had supported* mandatory vaccines against HPV, and was snuggly with some of the manufacturers thereof. (Disclosure: I thought Perry was right for the wrong reasons.) Malkin went nuts over this.

[*The governor in Texas is close to being a figurehead, and it's a low-government state anyway, so "supporting" is pretty much all the governor can do.]

I always figured Malkin has some other bug up her butt about Perry, not really inclined to ask what, maybe Andrew Sullivan can ask her.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 04:18 PM (30eLQ)

68 Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:14 PM (yz6yg) I'd be lying if I didn't say there often seems to be an overlap between Pro-Medical weed and anti-vaxxers. Not total, and it seems to only go one way. By the by as for my wife, I've moved the needle to "Classic Liberal." It's going to be up to the 2016 candidates to move it farther. (I've also got it stuck permanently on "Hillary is a shrill bitch." So if the dems nominate her, we're good there.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:18 PM (HDwDg)

69 Speaking of flying anyone going to Sun n Fun next week? I am. Yay me! Wish I could fly but love to watch.

Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2014 04:19 PM (JdEZJ)

70
Ha. Over at ZH, video of Odumbass giving a speech and no one claps.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 26, 2014 04:20 PM (0Kobm)

71 Nate Silver has a post at FiveThirtyEight taking a shot at former colleague Paul Krugman


I didn't realize that Silver worked at Enron.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at March 26, 2014 04:20 PM (XrGnJ)

72 Wait a minute, NASA named a telescope after Eliot Spitzer?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 04:20 PM (rNQTc)

73 Wow, just Wow! It looks like that hard hat really kept his cool under pressure. Just amazing that he's OK!

Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at March 26, 2014 04:20 PM (vVSOO)

74 65 Bitter Clinger, Nope I just see where we're doomed to go if Mullah Zogby I right. My world is dying, sorry to be grim. It's why I've been lurking. They use dead babies to heat hospitals in the Anglic motherland. Hey AlGore is that carbon neutral? I want to go home.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2014 04:21 PM (TE35l)

75 I haven't seen anything that puts her in the flaming antivac camp. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 26, 2014 08:17 PM (qyfb5) Only thing I ever saw that she wrote was about not giving her newborn the Hep B shot. Hep B. A disease caught only through unprotected sex, IV drug use, or a stray needle stick at work - in the heath care industry. I didn't think that made her a nut. I thought it made her a responsible parent. Certainly not in Jenny McCarthy territory. But if there's more than that, then she's a nut.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:21 PM (yz6yg)

76 With those construction boot? Definitely "Not"!

Posted by: MSNBC ronan furrow at March 26, 2014 04:21 PM (hn5v5)

77 52 I think Casey Jones is more fitting. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 08:13 PM (JS0vr) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VIECzlFVUM You're welcome.

Posted by: rickl at March 26, 2014 04:22 PM (sdi6R)

78 "boots", you bitch keyboard, you!

Posted by: MSNBC ronan furrow at March 26, 2014 04:22 PM (hn5v5)

79 Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 07:58 PM (RZ8pf)

At least with a name like that (and a union card) he will never have to worry about getting fired!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 04:22 PM (o3MSL)

80 70>> Nope, but NBAA in October.. YESSSS!!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 26, 2014 04:22 PM (60Vyp)

81 Unions in college football is about to be the next big thing. Pathetic.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 26, 2014 04:22 PM (ZshNr)

82

Michelle Malkin's website March 28, 2008

 

Very Skeptical.  Link in name

Posted by: rd at March 26, 2014 04:22 PM (D+lxs)

83 So glad college football et al will now get to unionize. Ah the end of an era of free farm clubs for the NFL and all the hypocrites who think these no class attending morons are "student athletes". Hope FSU and Alabammy saved some cash for their soon to be "real" payroll. May not be able to read or write but at least now these student-employees can pay union dues.

Posted by: IrishEd at March 26, 2014 04:23 PM (bfm04)

84 68 -

If the argument against HPV vaccination is that it's not the government's business to be telling people what to do, I'm all in with that.

If  the argument is that God doesn't want sluts to be protected from their slutty ways  (nevermind the fact that  many women acquire the virus from a partner who either doesn't know he's infected or has been cheating and didn't tell her), then such people making these arguments deserve a nice swift thwack on the side of the head with a KJV Bible. 

Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2014 04:23 PM (BeSEI)

85 I'm very pro vaccine, but I just read last night a good 3 way debate at Reason on the subject. I didn't chase down all the links, but I did learn a few things I didn't know before. It's not as open and shut as I once thought:
 
http://reason.com/archives/2014/03/25/should-vaccines-be-mandatory

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 04:23 PM (wNF3N)

86 @48 - The other shoe has not dropped yet on the Yee bust. Yee was an SF supervisor for years, and a fellow supe who's about to start serving some jail time fingered him a while back for extortion over building permits and business licenses. Can't assess the truth of the allegations but SF civil service is a spoils system with various races getting different pieces of the pie, building inspection and bus maintenance are heavily Asian... This was also a week after several Chinese state reps shot down an attempted ballot measure that'd have overturned Prop 209 and written racial preferences into the state constitution, something heavily favored (for now) by black and hispanic interests but toxic beyond belief to the Chinese who see this as a way to shut their kids out of college, who knows if there's an element of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance payback from the state party hierarchy to the race-baiters at DOJ to the FBI.

Posted by: JEM at March 26, 2014 04:23 PM (o+SC1)

87 Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 26, 2014 08:17 PM (qyfb5) Googling Michelle Malkin Vaccines actually produces an article in which she quotes "commenter Heather Radish" Go figure. (She's waffle-ish on the issue. She seems to mostly be pro-freedom and parental rights I think. Granted when dealing with herd immunity it's more complicated that than. But still, I've written papers that argue that it's precisely the mandates that provide a space for the anti-vax movement to operate in...)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:23 PM (HDwDg)

88 Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2014 08:21 PM (TE35l)

You can never go home again.

They moved and left no forwarding address.

This is not where I planned to be at this time in my life.

Nor in the state that I'm in or the state that I'm in.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:24 PM (JS0vr)

89 Michelle Malkin's website March 28, 2008 Very Skeptical. Link in name Posted by: rd at March 26, 2014 08:22 PM (D+lxs) Yup, same piece I remember reading back in the day. None of that makes her a nut. ButÂ….I'd be OK with some angry sex. You knowÂ…just to bring her into line. Jus' sayin'

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:25 PM (yz6yg)

90 Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2014 08:23 PM (BeSEI)

Use a Gideon. They've got hard covers.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:25 PM (JS0vr)

91 Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:21 PM (yz6yg) FWIW, they moved HepB to the lower age groups because studies have shown that increases vaccine uptake, effectiveness, and duration. Granted I'm sorta "meh" on the idea of it. My parents had us all vaccinated against Hep B (mostly in our pre-teen years because that's when it was approved) figuring "I have no idea how you're going to turn out."

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:25 PM (HDwDg)

92 "Gay marriage is the last frontier of civil rights..." Fat chance.

Posted by: toby928© embraces tribalism at March 26, 2014 04:26 PM (QupBk)

93 >>Will say this: mentally ill people smoking weed to self-medicate? Yeah, they need help. From others. Not involving more mind-altering substances

OK, wasn't one of the things all/most of the recent mass shooters (and even Joker) is that they all smoked pot? Maybe they were self-medicating, or maybe there was something more? Not that anyone in the media wants to look into anything other than evil gins and Sarah Palin "target" maps.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2014 04:26 PM (udjuE)

94

Malkin Reynolds post from 2008 ----  link in name

 

 

Posted by: rd at March 26, 2014 04:26 PM (D+lxs)

95 Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 08:12 PM (30eLQ)
------
I'm gonna guess from your nic that you reside the Peoples Republic of Boulder. I thought the state law forbade lighting up in public, or is that only Denver?

Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at March 26, 2014 04:26 PM (vVSOO)

96 Unions in college football is about to be the next big thing. Pathetic.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 26, 2014 08:22 PM (ZshNr)


Hold on what now, you better pay up first!

Posted by: Title IX at March 26, 2014 04:26 PM (WdbF7)

97 89 Bitter Clinger, I can never go home b/c the rivr moves. More to the point *my* pols sem unable to argue forcefully for the sanctity of human life, and the defense of the defenseless. The UK story is bad for my heart b/c it mkes me warm.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2014 04:26 PM (TE35l)

98 The brave Gabriel Malor is one of the only voices approaching bipartisan tolerance in this pit of racist right-wing hate.

Even then most days he disappoints me.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at March 26, 2014 04:26 PM (604CD)

99 My parents had us all vaccinated against Hep B (mostly in our pre-teen years because that's when it was approved) figuring "I have no idea how you're going to turn out." If I had a sister working in a whorehouse, and a brother in a bioethics PhD programÂ….wellÂ….I'd get the brother out first.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:27 PM (yz6yg)

100 76 -

It is not impossible for HpB to be transmitted from  parent  (or other adult)  to child through close contact of a non-sexual type.

Difficult, but not impossible.  Especially if the child is in any way already immuno-compromised.  Which some children are. 

Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2014 04:27 PM (BeSEI)

101 Bite me Mary.

Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2014 04:27 PM (JdEZJ)

102 Mary mary quite contrary how's that Health care working the Communist state of Vermont.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:28 PM (JS0vr)

103 Tsrbike, any place to see the papers you have written? Not an anti but it's hard to believe anything put out by the government any more.

Posted by: traye at March 26, 2014 04:28 PM (5m4Yl)

104 @48 - The other shoe has not dropped yet on the Yee bust. Posted by: JEM at March 26, 2014 08:23 PM (o+SC1) fnord (o+SC1) All that and Kieth Jackson, co-conspirator, worked with other Democrat candidates extensively - he may be having certain conversations about certain people as we speak. The quotes from him (and from Yee) in the indictment are pretty damned damning. http://bit.ly/1o2cTbf

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 04:28 PM (qyfb5)

105 "Gay marriage is the last frontier of civil rights..."

Which is why I started rethinking some of those earlier frontiers, going back to, oh, 1521.

To discriminate against everybody is equivalent to discriminating against nobody. At least an absolute monarch backed by the Pope is honest about it.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 04:28 PM (30eLQ)

106 Saw the stupid bint who failed to pay me $250 for computer work today at a fast food place.  She was using their WiFi to probably perform another scheme.  Was not vindictive just made sure she made eye contact with me and then walked out, I trust higher authority to hammer her.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 04:28 PM (rNQTc)

107 I was driving the ladder truck.
Posted by: Jo Jo Biden

Were you taking AA fire?  Cause let me tell you, that's scary. 

Posted by: Hillary at March 26, 2014 04:28 PM (4nR9/)

108 Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at March 26, 2014 08:26 PM (604CD) Mary!!!!! Where ya been sweetie? You haven't seen Kay in Maine around, have you?

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:28 PM (yz6yg)

109 94 LIzzy, Hey silly we'll just outlaw thumbs now give me mah pot yo! Like I said why not Medical Meth? Why is Cocaine illegal? Oh b/c "anecdtes."

Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2014 04:29 PM (TE35l)

110 Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 26, 2014 08:28 PM (qyfb5)

Eric will step in and take care of it.

He's the Occupant's fixer, elixir and double espresso mixer.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:29 PM (JS0vr)

111 Yee was working for those San Francisco cocksuckers who stole the dope I was going to sell to Wu?!!!

Posted by: al swearengen at March 26, 2014 04:30 PM (hn5v5)

112 gay marriage is for queers.

Posted by: Common Man at March 26, 2014 04:30 PM (pM/vk)

113 I'm a racist hating right winger, cool Thanks 99

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 04:30 PM (HVff2)

114 Ah but Abdul the brave security guard defending one of our terror targets with his one nerve damaged eye was fired. Though I suspect it is only a matter of time before the union lawsuit has him rolling in the dough. He was already about to head off on disability when this latest unfortunate snooze fest happened.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 04:30 PM (RZ8pf)

115 Lizzy: yes, that was exactly my thought.

LFW: the law says one thing, Boulderites do another thing . . .

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 04:31 PM (30eLQ)

116 He's the Occupant's fixer, elixir and double espresso mixer. I know that's a sentence full of euphemisms. I just know it. Something about chocolate, hot, and frothy. I'll get to the bottom of it.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:31 PM (yz6yg)

117 If I had a sister working in a whorehouse, and a brother in a bioethics PhD programÂ….wellÂ….I'd get the brother out first. Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:27 PM (yz6yg) We used to be a good program for Catholic Ethicists. Now we're a place where dreams go to die. Incidentally, we swapped a Marianist Catholic for an Orthodox Catholic as a our chair in there, draw your own conclusions. (Actually that's unfair, the dreams have been dying for a while). I'm not saying I've made good decisions in life, but I'd like to believe I deserved slightly better than this. (Oh look, my glass is empty.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:31 PM (HDwDg)

118 Sven there is nothing lots and lots of meth or coke won't cure. Permanently.

Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2014 04:31 PM (JdEZJ)

119 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 08:28 PM (rNQTc)

Take the law into your own hands, the Occupant does.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:31 PM (JS0vr)

120 If I had a sister working in a whorehouse, and a brother in a bioethics PhD programÂ….wellÂ….I'd get the brother out first.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:27 PM (yz6yg)


Priorities, priorities!



Bioethics doesn't sound evil!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 04:31 PM (o3MSL)

121 "I'll get to the bottom of it." Some kind of insquirtion involved.....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 26, 2014 04:33 PM (60Vyp)

122 119 FReaked, Amen but hey that's their "right" right? I favor subsidizing as much as people want as often as they want b/c social justice.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2014 04:33 PM (TE35l)

123 I'm not saying I've made good decisions in life, but I'd like to believe I deserved slightly better than this. (Oh look, my glass is empty.) Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 08:31 PM (HDwDg) "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani ?"

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:33 PM (yz6yg)

124 I am not going to comment on the Malkin marijuana piece other than to say that Gabe has a different definition of what constitutes a "long" piece of writing than I do. You'd think after years of Ace movie reviews "long" would be obvious.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 04:33 PM (RZ8pf)

125 NBC reports tonight that Charlotte mayor Patrick Cannon has been arrested for bribery by the FBI, after being in office only 115 days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8fBV7Ll8M No, they do not mention his party affiliation. cbs.com's report gives the guy's entire backstory, lacking only one specific detail: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/charlotte-mayor-patrick-cannon-arrested-faces-corruption-charges/

Posted by: BuddyPC at March 26, 2014 04:33 PM (jfUIE)

126 Posted by: traye at March 26, 2014 08:28 PM (5m4Yl) Nah, I never published this one. I wasn't happen with the conclusion which was pretty much "repeal all the vaccine mandates and wait for the next epidemic to get people right." True story: The polio vaccine wasn't mandated in most places until well after the polio epidemic had ended. It didn't have to be. Plus there are better people writing on this than me. My colleague's pending dissertation is on vaccine refusal and how physicians fuck up dealing with people to make it worse. His assessment will be better than mine, because mine was for a Foucault class so I analyzed it all through the lens of the panopitcon.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:33 PM (HDwDg)

127 Eric will step in and take care of it. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 08:29 PM (JS0vr) fnord (JS0vr) Oh please oh please oh please oh please. That might be one of the few things that could turn CA purple or even red again, *massive* and unavoidable official corruption. The MFM are already trying to deflect it saying people should vote for other Dems or independents, but if it gets whitewashed a lot of people will be figuratively (and literally) up in arms.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 04:33 PM (qyfb5)

128 Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 08:30 PM (RZ8pf)


Somehow, I don't think he is losing sleep over this!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 04:33 PM (o3MSL)

129
Quoth:

"Mandatory chickenpox vaccinations, for example, are questionable..."

"Worth keeping in mind the next time a vaccine bully insists that vaccines are 100 percent safe."

"Does that make parents like me “sociopaths?” Better than being unquestioning, blind sheeple immediately abdicating parental responsibility whenever anyone in hospital scrubs invokes “the public good.”

from http://michellemalkin.com/?s=Vaccines as a starter.

She is a strident, screaming anti-vaxer, regardless of any pretensions to be otherwise.  Uses all the same buzz words  as Jenny McCarthy.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 26, 2014 04:34 PM (kdS6q)

130

My position on vaccines is that I want them. 

 

If I had kids, I might delay SOME of them for a few years.  But Polio, Measles, Pneumonia, Pretussis?  Yes.  Now.  And make sure the boosters are done. 

 

I have worked with people that survived polio.  Polio can be very debilitating.  We were going to lunch with Joe, and he was walking normally (for him), and suddenly his leg shattered.  Not good. 

 

And Polio is now rampant in the Muslim World. 

Posted by: rd at March 26, 2014 04:34 PM (D+lxs)

131 Bitter Clinger are you lowing like a non-sacred bovine?

Have made scenes before.  Like meeting her husband at the local bank and informing the tellers they owe me money.

Now I am beyond it.  Its their bad karma they got to work off.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 04:34 PM (rNQTc)

132 Why are the Crowes blaming Raylan for Danny's death? He tripped.

Posted by: Pug-De-Da! at March 26, 2014 04:35 PM (vFh9Q)

133 Well, Sven, you could legalize cocaine as a quick energy source like Red Bull an d 5-Hour Energy. Just think of how much more productive Americans could be without being held back by those darn anti-coke killjoys!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2014 04:35 PM (udjuE)

134 "Gay marriage is the last frontier of civil rights..."

Fisting; The Final Frontier

even with the shat narrating, it just doesn't hit the right note

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:35 PM (JS0vr)

135 Slate continues trolling its readers, and I admit to a really weird fascination with their whole strategy. Today's entry is an article saying female lawyers are dressing too sexily for judges. Cool by me, but apparently Slate sees this as a problem. http://slate.me/1iBUNHx

Posted by: MTF at March 26, 2014 04:35 PM (B+HTd)

136 And Polio is now rampant in the Muslim World. Posted by: rd at March 26, 2014 08:34 PM (D+lxs) ThenÂ….there IS a God!

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:35 PM (yz6yg)

137 125 Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 08:33 PM (RZ8pf) My thoughts exactly

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 04:36 PM (HVff2)

138 Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2014 08:35 PM (udjuE)


Put the coke back in Coke!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 04:36 PM (o3MSL)

139 Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:33 PM (yz6yg) it's equally possible God is trying to humble me and I'm just resisting. Who knows. I do know this, I haven't gotten drunk and hung out with the horde since before I got married, so this will be an interesting night

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:36 PM (HDwDg)

140 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 08:34 PM (rNQTc)

Try a banana peal next time.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:37 PM (JS0vr)

141 134 Lizzy, Add in the use of cadavers as a Gaia friendly fuel source ad the tuly "productive" could engage in one last public service. Like I'v said growing up I was often the strangest person in the building..we've "evolved" to the point I feel like the last sane person left.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2014 04:37 PM (TE35l)

142 130 -

Anyone using  the "word"  "sheeple" unironically (is that a word?)  deserves the aforementioned thwack on the head with the hardcover  version of  Bible of their choice. 

Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2014 04:37 PM (BeSEI)

143 ThenÂ….there IS a God!

Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:35 PM (yz6yg)



That's "Inshallah!" to you infidel.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 04:37 PM (o3MSL)

144 http://slate.me/1iBUNHx a) Heh, that's close to "bunk" 2) What a disappointing pic to accompany such an article. kbdabear could've hooked them up.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 26, 2014 04:38 PM (YpXJl)

145 So, Republicans are driving the momentum for gay marriage, eh? Anyone here a Republican?

Posted by: grammie winger at March 26, 2014 04:38 PM (oMKp3)

146 Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 08:36 PM (o3MSL)

Exactly.
JUUUUSSSST enough to get a buzz and make YOU buzz around.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:38 PM (JS0vr)

147 Anna what goes around comes around. I've been stiffed like that too but rationalize it as a cost of doing business. Not worth it though to get all worked up about.

Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2014 04:38 PM (JdEZJ)

148 Why polio is rampant in Muslim areas of Africa?  The radical clerics tell them the vaccine is a Western plot to make people sterile.  So they don't get the vaccine and bam - either dead, crippled, or limping.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 04:38 PM (rNQTc)

149 "A Chicago subway train's driver fell asleep while conducting the vehicle."

As I keep having to point out to liberal lunatics, there is a huge body of factual evidence to the effect that America's unionized public sector workers cannot even safely and competently operate low speed rail, to say nothing of the 240MPH high speed rail that they hanker after.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 04:38 PM (noWW6)

150 133 Pug-De-Pa, Add in that I told wife three eks back I think they're gonna kill Art.... I hope not I might sit nxt season out.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2014 04:39 PM (TE35l)

151 Courts are 'driving' gay marriage. It has been mostly removed from the realm of politics.

Posted by: Beagle at March 26, 2014 04:39 PM (sOtz/)

152 Merovign, i am rather stunned they were actually arrested and didn't get to resign because of 'sick or being with my family'

same for the Pat Cannon thing.

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 04:39 PM (nqBYe)

153 I do know this, I haven't gotten drunk and hung out with the horde since before I got married, so this will be an interesting night Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 08:36 PM (HDwDg) NoVAMoMee 2 is June 21st. STL to DCA is $348. Jus' sayin'

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:39 PM (yz6yg)

154 Laurie David's Cervix : chickenpox is a strain of herpes. A vaccine against that - with current technology - is... problematic. I got a shingles flareup age 28. It was awful, some of the worst pain I ever had. Malkin gets a pass on that.

I'll give you "vaccine bully" and "sheeple" though. That's some emotional rhetoric that we'd laugh at if it came from Luap Nor or Alex Jones.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 04:39 PM (30eLQ)

155 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 26, 2014 08:34 PM (kdS6q) Eh, I waffle back and forth about mandatory chickenpox vaccines. Although I'm sure people did about Measles vaccines back in the day too. It was a "right of passage" and "not that bad overall." So it's probably just a weird bastardization of nostalgia.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:39 PM (HDwDg)

156 Anyone here a Republican?

Posted by: grammie winger

I think we could swing a dead Republican in here and not hit another Republican.

Posted by: Hobbitopoly at March 26, 2014 04:39 PM (080XV)

157 So, now that "student athletes" are considered "employees" doesn't that mean that their $75,000 per year "scholarship" is now wages? And doesn't that mean that they now have to pay taxes (All of them) on that as income? Minus Union dues of course. Let's just start calling this what this is because most of them have dreams of the NFL where the real money is and just start calling this the minor leagues. To heck with having to study to get a degree in sports communications (whatever the hell that is), wasting their and the university's time and just pay the yutes for playing in the farm clubs.

Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at March 26, 2014 04:40 PM (vVSOO)

158 It's hard to be a martyr for Allah in an iron lung

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:40 PM (JS0vr)

159 woof! woof!

Posted by: zombie chelsea crowe at March 26, 2014 04:41 PM (hn5v5)

160 Posted by: Hobbitopoly at March 26, 2014 08:39 PM (080XV)

I saw one once.

On TV.

Well He SAID he was.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:41 PM (JS0vr)

161 I think we could swing a dead Republican in here and not hit another Republican. We should test that.

Posted by: toby928© embraces tribalism at March 26, 2014 04:41 PM (QupBk)

162 Courts are 'driving' gay marriage. It has been mostly removed from the realm of politics.

The King makes law; some people grumble, but most people move on. It's simple human nature.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 04:41 PM (30eLQ)

163 Well He SAID he was.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Suuurrre he was. You know how they lie.

Posted by: Hobbitopoly at March 26, 2014 04:41 PM (080XV)

164 Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:39 PM (yz6yg) Unless you can make people you know order my wife's bosses to make her let me go, I doubt I could pull that off. But I have a brother up there during that time, maybe I'll send him in my stead. He'll be 21 by 15 days, I'm sure the horde would...erg...listen he's super conservative, try not to beat him to much.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:41 PM (HDwDg)

165 Oh shit.

http://tinyurl.com/l4elx6q

Obama gives speech at The Hague.  Takes a couple of questions.  Says, "thank you" and the crowd erupts in applause.  And when I say "crowd erupts in applause"  I mean one guy claps.  Six claps.  From one guy.

Hell yeah it's a scotch night!

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 04:42 PM (MNq6o)

166 Every time I read something about Chokwe Lumumba, the fact he got recalled to answer to a higher authority makes me think Jackson, MS dodged a Marxist bullet.

http://billmoyers.com/2014/03/21/remembering-revolutionary-mayor-chokwe-lumumba/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 04:42 PM (rNQTc)

167
And:

At my son’s two-month checkup, the pediatrician expected him to receive a triple-combination shot called “Pediarix” (consisting of Hep B, inactivated polio, and DTaP, which covers diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis), as well as HiB (for certain bacterial infections) and Prevnar (for meningitis and blood infections). I reiterated my refusal of Hep B, accepted DTaP and HiB, and asked to put off polio and Prevnar. In response, I received a threat: Get all the vaccines or get out of our practice. “Informed consent”? Ha. This was uninformed coercion.

WeÂ’re leaving for another practice, a little bitter but wiser. The strong-arm tactics of the medical establishment mustnÂ’t intimidate parents from challenging the universal vaccine orthodoxy. When it comes to protecting our childrenÂ’s health, skepticism is the best medicine.

http://tinyurl.com/374hsk


Polio.  Takes a "wait and see" approach on polio.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 26, 2014 04:42 PM (kdS6q)

168 136 -

I recall having observed a courtroom where the female lawyer, mid 40s range, very well preserved, wearing a mid-thigh length dress, pantyhose, 4-6" f-me pumps, and the perfect accessory to complete this ensemble... bobby-socks. 

Everyone  in the courtroom was sooooo  nice to her, including the judge.

Incidentally, this  is the same courthouse where one of the judges has  recently  been in the news for his heroin addiction. 

Same guy?  I don't know.  Maybe. 

Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2014 04:42 PM (BeSEI)

169 That's "Inshallah!" to you infidel. Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 08:37 PM (o3MSL) I used to love that during my tour in Satan's Sandbox. And by "love" I mean "loathe with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns." I always got what I wanted on time when I pointed out that, "Inshallah, I will pay you Friday." Only took one set of "inshallahs" to make sure shit started showing up when it was supposed to. Fuckin' children. A society of very dangerous childrenÂ….

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:42 PM (yz6yg)

170 So, now that "student athletes" are considered "employees" doesn't that mean that their $75,000 per year "scholarship" is now wages? And doesn't that mean that they now have to pay taxes (All of them) on that as income? Minus Union dues of course. Let's just start calling this what this is because most of them have dreams of the NFL where the real money is and just start calling this the minor leagues. To heck with having to study to get a degree in sports communications (whatever the hell that is), wasting their and the university's time and just pay the yutes for playing in the farm clubs.
Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan

Team America,  fuck yeah!

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 04:43 PM (MNq6o)

171 "Investigators were also trying to determine if an automatic braking system -- which is designed to stop runaway trains from crashing into the station -- was properly working at the time of the wreck."

So let me see if I have this straight.

There's an automated system that's designed to keep lazy incompetent public union workers from screwing up.

And that system is installed and maintained by lazy incompetent public union workers.

Try as I might, I can't see a single flaw in that plan. It has diamond perfection.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 04:43 PM (noWW6)

172 Courts are 'driving' gay marriage. It has been mostly removed from the realm of politics.
Posted by: Beagle at March 26, 2014 08:39 PM (sOtz/)

Yeah, they didn't make enough trouble with Roe v Wade.Now this.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:43 PM (JS0vr)

173 Unless you can make people you know order my wife's bosses to make her let me go, I doubt I could pull that off. Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 08:41 PM (HDwDg) Look, it's like Wisconsin. We zip in, we zip out. AndÂ…remind me, had you already told me you were pussy-whipped, or is this the first time? If Hrothgar can make it, YOU sure as shit can make it! Hotel's on me. Seriously, guys.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:44 PM (yz6yg)

174 Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:39 PM (yz6yg)

I think tsrblke should view NoVAMoMee as a fully tax deductible scientific excursion.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 04:45 PM (o3MSL)

175 I thought what was driving the current momentum for gay marriage was years and years of threats toward and systematic harassment of individuals, boycotting of businesses, relentless lawfare waged against states and business owners, and the media which portrays homosexuality as something to be embraced and celebrated while portraying those who do not partake in said embrace and celebration as horrible, hate-filled monsters.

But, it was Republicans all along, eh?  Well, there it is.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm at March 26, 2014 04:45 PM (M5T54)

176 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 26, 2014 08:42 PM (kdS6q) Yes, well, as American's we've been pretty far removed from Polio, such that it seems nearly impossible. Like getting a smallpox vaccine. Then they go to Europe and....well they wish they had gotten it.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:45 PM (HDwDg)

177 First, who gives a shit about what's printed in the Atlantic. Second, I think I'm about to try to make cornbread tomorrow. Why? Because cornbread is high in calories and very low in fat. Along with a couple of scoops of tasty protein powder, this is a great meal.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Lesbian Outreach Coordinator at March 26, 2014 04:46 PM (nfBpn)

178 So what's the current 2 Minute Hate?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2014 04:46 PM (GEICT)

179 So how will you spot tsrblke at the NoVaMoMee?

He will be the one in a Level 4 suit taking notes via disposable tablet.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 04:46 PM (rNQTc)

180 anti-vaccine I don't even understand that position. Not at all.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 04:46 PM (95eB1)

181 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 26, 2014 08:42 PM (kdS6q)

In their defense, if they don't diagnose/prescribe/treat according to best practices of the state and their governing body, they could lose their license and/or get sued. In any order.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:46 PM (JS0vr)

182

Anyone here a Republican?

Posted by: grammie winger

I think we could swing a dead Republican in here and not hit another Republican.

Posted by: Hobbitopoly

 

 

My state is non-party (MN).  There is usually more fun voting in the Democrat primary. I actually voted for one guy I knew for the Lt Gov.  position.  He met the perennial gad-fly candidate gambling one night, and agreed to run. 

 

 By the time the Presidiential caucus gets here, we are limited to go with the flow, or the symbolic protest choice (Romney in 2008 for example). 

Posted by: rd at March 26, 2014 04:47 PM (D+lxs)

183 So what's the current 2 Minute Hate? Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2014 08:46 PM (GEICT) The self-checkout line at the Outrage Outlet isn't working.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:47 PM (yz6yg)

184 179 BC1981, I think western civ... I'll go back to lurking.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2014 04:47 PM (TE35l)

185 I think tsrblke should view NoVAMoMee as a fully tax deductible scientific excursion. Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 08:45 PM (o3MSL) Uh huh.... *scribbles in notebook*

Posted by: Old School IRS Agent sitting under a streetlight at March 26, 2014 04:47 PM (95eB1)

186 I think we could swing a dead republican in here and not hit another republican ---- You guys come up with the best party games. If we do hit a republican, does pork fall out instead of candy?

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 26, 2014 04:47 PM (LMT1z)

187 OT: California Democrats already had two state Senators accused or convicted of criminal activity. Those two are taking a "paid leave of absense" at their leisure. Those two votes would deny the Cal. Dems of having a supermajority in the state Senate. http://tinyurl.com/lekobs6 Now another Cal. state Senator (who of course is a Dem) has been arrested on bribery and corruption charges: http://tinyurl.com/llz9u8h Any bets that nothing will happen to him? California's A.G. is too busy overthrowing the state Constitution and fighting against 2nd Amendment rights to bother going after Dem corruption very hard, I bet.

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 26, 2014 04:48 PM (XvHmy)

188 Polio. Takes a "wait and see" approach on polio. I remember waiting for the authorities to deliver the Sabin polio vaccine to the elementary school in '63. It came by helicopter, which was a big thing back then in our little town. And we got a sugar cube.

Posted by: toby928© embraces tribalism at March 26, 2014 04:48 PM (QupBk)

189 A society of very dangerous childrenÂ….

Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:42 PM (yz6yg)



Yes, as a parent, I always wanted my children to be armed with fully automatic weapons, have access to IEDs and RPGs, and have no sense of responsibility or accountability!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 04:48 PM (o3MSL)

190 If Hrothgar can make it, YOU sure as shit can make it! Hotel's on me. Seriously, guys. Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:44 PM (yz6yg) Had lunch with GGE today, among others. He's in for sure. So's MWR and AtC.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2014 04:48 PM (GEICT)

191 Disney princesses meets the Walking Dead.

http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/walking-dead-disney-7.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 04:49 PM (rNQTc)

192 I like how in the subway video one of the two guys runs away in the same direction the train is going.

Posted by: Faster than a speeding locomotive at March 26, 2014 04:49 PM (W5iHt)

193 Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:44 PM (yz6yg) I think I explained that when I had personal income it was a lot easier to convince the wife that these were acceptable ways to spend money that I had helped earn. Now that I don't it's a lot harder to justify such shit, especially as the driveway crumbles. I'm not sure that's "pussy whipped" as much as it's "checkbook whipped" should I find an income between now and then, I'll have more leverage. (Although the hotel offer is nice, any other town and I may have been able to convince my wife to join us on that alone "low cost vacation!" But understandably she hates that whole area. Nothing personal. It just reminds her of work.) (By the by, if this seems curt, it's because the buzz has set in.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:49 PM (HDwDg)

194 woof-woof-grrrrr woof-bow-wow woof-woof
[iDog translation app: I am not sexually confused about my gender. No. Really.]

Posted by: zombie chelsea crowe at March 26, 2014 04:49 PM (hn5v5)

195 By the way, early indications are the Houston fire was caused by a welding torch. As I commented earlier on a dead thread, are welded that much more incompetent these days? I mean I know there is some inherent risk in welding, but geez what is up with the spate of welding accidents?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 04:49 PM (RZ8pf)

196 23 Ridley Scott is making a Blade Runner sequel and a Prometheus sequel.Word is they will have some cross connection.Unfortunately the guy writing both is the guy who wrote the awful Green Lantern movie and well,Prometheus sucked anyway.I think " Sir" Ridley has lost it. Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2014 08:03 PM (zqvg6) Sounds like Ridley Scott has a bad case of Asimovitis, which is marked by an overwhelming desire to "tie it all together with ooey-gooey strings of dreck".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 26, 2014 04:49 PM (HsTG8)

197 Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 08:48 PM (o3MSL)

And KNOW they're going to a better place when they die because nothing could be worse than where they are.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:49 PM (JS0vr)

198 174 Look, it's like Wisconsin. We zip in, we zip out. Hey you paying for this Sconnie guys motel room?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 04:50 PM (HVff2)

199 I used to love Asimov. Thought he was so cool and clever (well he was smart).

Then I got older and realized what he'd been selling all along.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:50 PM (JS0vr)

200 "Silver Streak 2014. Where are Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor you can keep Jill Clayburgh"

No, not that movie. The other Wilder and Pryor one. _Stir Crazy_.

I have never laughed harder than at Pryor's standup bit about going to the actual Arizona State Penitentiary while filming that. Talking about the convicts inside.

"There was this one guy named JoJo. He was doing triple life. How the fuck do you even _do_ triple life? You die in the prison, you come back reincarnated, the cops come and arrest you in kindergarten? Take you back to the prison?"

"All right, you little motherfucker, you coming with us. We know what you did last time."

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 04:50 PM (noWW6)

201 197 Krebs V Carnot, Yeah...a derivative virus is Lucasitis.... Whereby you obliterate all ties to canon

Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2014 04:51 PM (TE35l)

202 (By the by, if this seems curt, it's because the buzz has set in.) Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 08:49 PM (HDwDg) You sound like Newman. "If I'm curt, then I apologize, but as I understand it, we have a situation here, and time is of the essence."

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:51 PM (yz6yg)

203 #94: Tsarnaev, Cho (VA Tech), Loughner (Tucson) and Holmes (Aurora) were all heavy pot users, so much so that it was a primary characteristic people used to define them. Psychosis+Hallucinogen=Problems

Posted by: AmishDude at March 26, 2014 04:51 PM (19Imo)

204 I can't think of something I'd rather watch than Prometheus II!

Except maybe spotting trains.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 04:51 PM (30eLQ)

205 ... on heroin

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 04:52 PM (30eLQ)

206 Posted by: Old School IRS Agent sitting under a streetlight at March 26, 2014 08:47 PM (95eB1)

It will take tsrblke months, if not years, to come up with all the receipts documenting this applied science experiment.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 04:52 PM (o3MSL)

207 205 I can't think of something I'd rather watch than Prometheus II! Except maybe spotting trains. Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 08:51 PM (30eLQ) Two Girls, One Cup Part Two: Helen Thomas and Hillary Clinton

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2014 04:52 PM (GEICT)

208 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 08:46 PM (rNQTc) You got me all wrong. I loved the lab job because I could justify jeans and a t-shirt under the excuse that "I didn't want to get mouse blood on my good clothes." I own more t-shirts than I do button downs, and was once called "a tower of Khaki" by a friend. Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 08:45 PM (o3MSL) I considered kickstarting my trip to the annual bioethics conference this year as "fund my ability to go make liberal academics uncomfortable" A sort of "farewell suckers!" tour if you well. (When I commit career suicide I do it kamikaze style.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:52 PM (HDwDg)

209 Prometheus sucked green donkey balls. What is it with people enthralled with stories about our "creators" being disgusted with us and siccing revolting creatures after us to eradicate us?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 26, 2014 04:53 PM (HsTG8)

210 Steevy, the ending to Prometheus always screamed Sequel.  And Blade Runner like Metropolis should be left alone, it works very nicely as is.

I have no idea why some authors go batty and try to tie their separate worlds together.  Anne McCaffrey was busy doing that in the later books and I went "Meh!" and stopped reading her works.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 04:53 PM (rNQTc)

211 Hey you paying for this Sconnie guys motel room? Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 08:50 PM (HVff2) What's in it for me? I mean with tsrblke I was going to at least get a discussion of the viability of MacIntyre's "Benedict option" as outlined in After Virtue. You got something better than that? I'm listening.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:53 PM (yz6yg)

212 23 Ridley Scott is making a Blade Runner sequel and a Prometheus sequel.Word is they will have some cross connection.Unfortunately the guy writing both is the guy who wrote the awful Green Lantern movie and well,Prometheus sucked anyway.I think " Sir" Ridley has lost it.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2014 08:03 PM (zqvg6)


Yeah, I get the feeling I won't be buying the sequel to Bladerunner in five different formats as I did the original. I doubt I'll be buying ONE, frankly. I certainly have no interest in seeing Prometheus again.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm at March 26, 2014 04:53 PM (M5T54)

213 Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 08:49 PM (RZ8pf)

bump the torch, fumble the catch, torch on the floor, kicks it across into something flammable (that was a NO NO), doesn't have a big, BIG extinguisher handy (NO NO Deux) then panics and runs to call 911.

I know this because I hadn't committed number 2 NO NO.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:53 PM (JS0vr)

214 I don't know about the vaccine thingy. I was an Air Force brat and when we transferred to Japan when I was six (195 they filled me up with every vaccine under the sun and the sugar cube polio thing to boot. In fact I think they gave me shots for stuff that wasn't even invented yet just to make sure. I was a homunculus disguised as a pin cushion. I had so many holes in me, I was sure my brains were going to leak out.

Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at March 26, 2014 04:54 PM (vVSOO)

215 What is up with the spate of welding accidents? ---- I dunno if it's actually gotten worse. If it has, I'd wager that fewer smart, focused young people are being steered toward trades. Everyone who makes decent grades (which measure impulse control and diligence near as much as intelligence) is told they have to go to college. And if that doesn't work, graduate school!

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 26, 2014 04:54 PM (LMT1z)

216 208 -

You know, it can't  really be made worse, if the two "girls"  are hideous to begin with.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2014 04:54 PM (BeSEI)

217 Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:51 PM (yz6yg) Pfffft..... I'm not apologizing, merely explaining the possible change in attitude. I used to be such happy-go-lucky drunk

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:54 PM (HDwDg)

218 206 Boulder Toilet Hobo, From directly in front on the tracks... It's like the Peanuts 3D flick... Wonder how they'll fuck it up

Posted by: sven10077 at March 26, 2014 04:54 PM (TE35l)

219 Anyone here a Republican? Posted by: grammie winger at March 26, 2014 08:38 PM (oMKp3) Not anymore, but since that's all I vote for I guess, by default. yada... yada.....

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 04:54 PM (95eB1)

220 I own more t-shirts than I do button downs, and was once called "a tower of Khaki" by a friend. Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 08:45 PM (o3MSL) Polo shirt and khakis. The official off-duty uniform of Field Grade officers the world over.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:55 PM (yz6yg)

221 "I mean I know there is some inherent risk in welding, but geez what is up with the spate of welding accidents?"

At construction sites round these parts, I routinely observe a shit-ton of guys who are pretty obviously illegals, working off the books for cash, who have had ten minutes of on-the-job training in various dangerous trades.

A bunch of gullible ecoholic yuppies round here paid for trendy flashy rooftop solar and then found out the hard way that the wiring was not to code. Wasn't even to common sense. Dangerous fire-prone messes. That had to be redone at their expense because the fly by night installers and their illegal workmen had long since split town.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 04:55 PM (noWW6)

222 >> "If I'm curt, then I apologize, but as I understand it, we have a situation here, and time is of the essence."
 
"So pretty please, with sugar on top. Clean the fucking car."

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 04:55 PM (wNF3N)

223 >>>Why are the Crowes blaming Raylan for Danny's death? He tripped.

Posted by: Pug-De-Da! at March 26, 2014 08:35 PM (vFh9Q)<<<



I doubt they believe that Raylan wedged the knife under Danny's chin. They know he had a Marshal stiffy for that family, through his many dealings with Dewey, and since the Florida crew came to Harlan. They know Raylan is an instigator, and tie that in with Danny's temper, it leads to the death of their brother. They're pissed and criminals, and want revenge.

And while Dewey and Danny are/were dumber than shit, Daryl, and the sister know how to work the system. Daryl is using his nephew to save his own ass, hoping the system goes easy on a yougin' who was just reacting to an often over-zealous Marshal with a bad history relating to the Crowe family.

Posted by: just my 2 cents at March 26, 2014 04:55 PM (08jH8)

224 I wish I could go to the moron meet up. But I will be flying to Iceland that day. Now I am going to have to put up with another year of inside jokes. I think I will make up my own inside jokes. About Iceland. Speaking of inside, can anyone tell me the name of the moron I was trying to remember earlier, the one that had "in MA" in his name.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 04:55 PM (RZ8pf)

225 What is it with people enthralled with stories about our "creators" being disgusted with us and siccing revolting creatures after us to eradicate us?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ at March 26, 2014 08:53 PM (HsTG


People try to put there own thoughts into that of a creator, which is ridiculous. Or going for old time polytheism where the "gods" acted just like us. 

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 26, 2014 04:55 PM (WdbF7)

226 Except maybe spotting trains.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 08:51 PM (30eLQ)

OR

Train Spotting

that movie skeeved me out man. The baby on the ceiling? ewwww

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 04:56 PM (JS0vr)

227 Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:53 PM (yz6yg) I can give that to you right now. MacIntyre opens the book with an allusion to Canticle for Leibowitz" (which is a wonderful book by the way, read it. Read it often.) Based on the ending to After Virtue it's clear he never finished Canticle.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:56 PM (HDwDg)

228 (By the by, if this seems curt, it's because the buzz has set in.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 08:49 PM (HDwDg)


Believe me, the trip will be worth every penny!  The driveway will still be crumbling a year from now, so fix it then or not 'inshallah'!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 04:56 PM (o3MSL)

229 It will take tsrblke months, if not years, to come up with all the receipts documenting this applied science experiment. Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 08:52 PM (o3MSL) I'm sure pep could whip something up for him in the labs at NRL in short order.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:56 PM (yz6yg)

230 Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:55 PM (yz6yg) T-shirt. Oversized. I'm hiding my girth (brought on by the beer drinking.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:56 PM (HDwDg)

231 Oderus Urungus R.I.P. So the cuttlefish is available then?

Posted by: toby928© embraces tribalism at March 26, 2014 04:57 PM (QupBk)

232 It will take tsrblke months, if not years, to come up with all the receipts documenting this applied science experiment. Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 08:52 PM (o3MSL) I'm sorry. Years to produce simple documents, normally located and submitted in days, is our excuse. *scribbles some more in notebook*

Posted by: Old School IRS Agent now crouching behind the woodpile at March 26, 2014 04:57 PM (95eB1)

233 212 You got something better than that? I'm listening. Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:53 PM (yz6yg) Oh hell no, no I don't have anything better than our PhD friend. Just figured you were throwing Wisconsin about I would see if I could get anything out of it.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 04:57 PM (HVff2)

234 “It’s not hard to understand why the American people question this administration’s commitment to the rule of law.”

That quote right there nicely encapsulates my opposition to the limp Boehner and his like minded minions.  Way too little, and way too late.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at March 26, 2014 04:57 PM (L02KD)

235 ♪ Oh, you've got green eyes. Oh, you've got blue eyes. Oh, you've got greeey eyes. ♬

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 04:58 PM (30eLQ)

236 MacIntyre opens the book with an allusion to Canticle for Leibowitz" (which is a wonderful book by the way, read it. Read it often.) Based on the ending to After Virtue it's clear he never finished Canticle. You really need to start reading Ethika Politika more often. They just had a piece that led off with a Canticle for Leibowitz reference.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:58 PM (yz6yg)

237 What is it with people enthralled with stories about our "creators" being disgusted with us and siccing revolting creatures after us to eradicate us?
Don't get me started, Kid.

Posted by: Noah at March 26, 2014 04:58 PM (Ua6T/)

238
Polo shirt and khakis.

The official off-duty uniform of Field Grade officers the world over.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:55 PM (yz6yg)



Hell, of company-grade officers.

You can always tell the young lieutenants who walk into the bar.

Posted by: Matt Trakker at March 26, 2014 04:58 PM (b6nAI)

239 Any bets that nothing will happen to him? California's A.G. is too busy overthrowing the state Constitution and fighting against 2nd Amendment rights to bother going after Dem corruption very hard, I bet. Posted by: The Political Hat at March 26, 2014 08:48 PM (XvHmy) fnord (XvHmy) Federal prosecution. Arrested by the FBI.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 04:58 PM (qyfb5)

240 224 -

When is the last time someone on that  show who had it comin' didn't get theirs? 

Never is when.

Darryl is not long for this world. 

Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2014 04:58 PM (BeSEI)

241 Posted by: Old School IRS Agent now crouching behind the woodpile at March 26, 2014 08:57 PM (95eB1) Sucks to be you, I take the standard deduction usually. Be gone!

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:59 PM (HDwDg)

242 Eat! Eat!

Posted by: Canticle Reference at March 26, 2014 04:59 PM (W5iHt)

243 You can always tell the young lieutenants who walk into the bar. Posted by: Matt Trakker at March 26, 2014 08:58 PM (b6nAI) Â…but you can't tell them much.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 05:00 PM (yz6yg)

244 This needs to be saved for the next Saturday car thread.

http://www.ufunk.net/illustration/unconventional-heroes/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 05:00 PM (rNQTc)

245 236 -

Hmmm...

Well I've never seen anyone quite  like you before. 

Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2014 05:00 PM (BeSEI)

246 Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 08:58 PM (yz6yg) I actually had to read Canticle for a Lit of Sci-fi class I took to get my last English requirement, years before I read After Virtue. Then reading AV I said "wow, this..sounds...*flips to introduction*..yep." I gave it to a few friends who had read AV to read and they went "holy shit, it changes how I look at that book."

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 05:00 PM (HDwDg)

247 Federal prosecution. Arrested by the FBI. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 26, 2014 08:58 PM (qyfb5) Exactly. The Dem. A. G. is too busy with social engineering to bother going after real corruption. California makes the Federal government look good. Let that sink inÂ…

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 26, 2014 05:02 PM (XvHmy)

248 T-shirt. Oversized. I'm hiding my girth (brought on by the beer drinking.) Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 08:56 PM (HDwDg) Duuuuuude. Come to NoVAMoMee. Let me show you what a massive course of steroids to recover from some obscure fungus only found in sub-Saharan Africa does to a body.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 05:02 PM (yz6yg)

249 I gave it to a few friends who had read AV to read and they went "holy shit, it changes how I look at that book."

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 09:00 PM (HDwDg)


Read Canticle years ago, may have to go back and reread it and then read AV, yes?

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 05:02 PM (o3MSL)

250 Come to NoVAMoMee. Let me show you what a massive course of steroids to recover from some obscure fungus only found in sub-Saharan Africa does to a body. Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 09:02 PM (yz6yg) Is that why you're bald?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2014 05:03 PM (GEICT)

251 232Oderus Urungus R.I.P.

So the cuttlefish is available then?


Posted by: toby928© embraces tribalism at March 26, 2014 08:57 PM (QupBk)


Obligatory, "Why couldn't it have been Lars?!?"

Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm at March 26, 2014 05:03 PM (M5T54)

252 Sucks to be you, I take the standard deduction usually. Be gone! Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 08:59 PM (HDwDg) *grins* That's what they all say.....

Posted by: Old School IRS Agent walking up stairs in apartment complex across the street at March 26, 2014 05:03 PM (95eB1)

253 Read Canticle years ago, may have to go back and reread it and then read AV, yes? Yes. In that order. Then report for your 3 month course on the Summa Theologica.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 05:03 PM (yz6yg)

254 "Tsarnaev, Cho (VA Tech), Loughner (Tucson) and Holmes (Aurora) were all heavy pot users, so much so that it was a primary characteristic people used to define them. Psychosis+Hallucinogen=Problems"

The cute Brit girl and her loser American boyfriend who tried to commit suicide by cop last week in Orlando, and had it go badly wrong (they shot the poor cop to death and then ended up offing each other) were apparently major league potheads.

I smoked weed back in the day. I'm hugely glad that today's ultra monster varietal strains with twenty times the THC content were not around back then. I might have ended up the same bad way as these various unfortunates.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 05:03 PM (noWW6)

255 Come to NoVAMoMee. Let me show you what a massive course of steroids to recover from some obscure fungus only found in sub-Saharan Africa does to a body.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 09:02 PM (yz6yg)


And that will be just the first highlight of your NoVAMoMee adventure!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 05:04 PM (o3MSL)

256 Is that why you're bald? Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2014 09:03 PM (GEICT) Shhhhhh. Ixnay on the aldbay. It was supposed to be a surprise.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 05:04 PM (yz6yg)

257 Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 09:02 PM (o3MSL) Well definitely read After Virtue. Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 09:02 PM (yz6yg) Seriously Bannion, I want to. Very much so. But as I said, checkbook whipped.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 05:04 PM (HDwDg)

258 Shhhhhh. Ixnay on the aldbay. It was supposed to be a surprise. Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 09:04 PM (yz6yg) Eh, it's OK, I'll forget by tomorrow. Look, glass is empty again!

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 05:05 PM (HDwDg)

259

Megyn Kelly is not talking about the missing airliner. Damn, turning the sound up really messes up my daydreams.

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at March 26, 2014 05:05 PM (0E3M9)

260 >>>When is the last time someone on that show who had it comin' didn't get theirs?
Never is when.
Darryl is not long for this world.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2014 08:58 PM (BeSEI)<<<



Oh, definitely. Especially if/when Raylan knows it was him that shot Art (whether he makes it or not)... he will be gunnin' for his ass. And this time he won't leave it to someone else to pull the trigger (like Nicky Augustine).

Posted by: just my 2 cents at March 26, 2014 05:05 PM (08jH8)

261 Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 09:03 PM (yz6yg)

I've been thinking I need to do something like that for a variety of reasons.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 05:05 PM (o3MSL)

262 The video of the guy in the fire is inspiring. Just how far are you willing to go to save your own life? Anyone can just roll over and die.

Posted by: navybrat at March 26, 2014 05:05 PM (JgC5a)

263 227

Train Spotting

that movie skeeved me out man. The baby on the ceiling? ewwww


Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 08:56 PM (JS0vr)


Excellent movie. I'm not quite sure what to think about the upcoming sequel, though.


http://preview.tinyurl.com/kg4gw6u


Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm at March 26, 2014 05:06 PM (M5T54)

264 Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 09:04 PM (HDwDg) Would I be me if I wasn't harassing you? Hang tough, my friend. This too shall pass. Then, I will be able to say, "I knew him whenÂ…."

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 05:07 PM (yz6yg)

265 nood?

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 05:07 PM (o3MSL)

266 I've been thinking I need to do something like that for a variety of reasons. Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2014 09:05 PM (o3MSL) In my caseÂ….it was exactly two reasons. ;-)

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 05:08 PM (yz6yg)

267 Though, to be honest... I could also see the sister killing Daryl if/when she finds out that he's the one who convinced/intimidated her son to take the blame for Art.

Posted by: just my 2 cents at March 26, 2014 05:08 PM (08jH8)

268 261 -

My money is on Wendy, the sister, bringing Darryl's reign as head of the  Crowes  to an end.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2014 05:09 PM (BeSEI)

269 268 -

Heh.

And now that the  ONT is up (is  it even dark yet?)  it's time for me to call it a night. 

Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2014 05:10 PM (BeSEI)

270 As in there is a nood or you want a nood? Or do you want a nude?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 05:10 PM (RZ8pf)

271 As in there is a nood or you want a nood? Or do you want a nude? Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 09:10 PM (RZ8pf) yes.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 05:11 PM (yz6yg)

272 That train operator is in some deep shit, escalators are a different union.

Posted by: Jean at March 26, 2014 05:12 PM (Aqvh6)

273 So who's going to the NoVaMoMee? Raise your paw. And what subtle cue will we use to identify ourselves? I hope there'll be a "Welcome Morons!" placard outside .

Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 26, 2014 05:12 PM (QBm1P)

274 Jean, you get your NoVAMoMee invite?

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 05:13 PM (yz6yg)

275 I had so many holes in me,

Including the one with the propeller tip that leaves the 1/2 inch circle on your arm.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at March 26, 2014 05:13 PM (DL2i+)

276 That fire vid was something, Gabe. Thanks. And thanks for all you do here.

Posted by: eureka! at March 26, 2014 05:15 PM (06U7A)

277 I find Michelle Malkin's claim that "one marijuana cracker" made her mother in law begin eating better than in three months at best dubious. What I don't understand is that if marijuana is approved as a drug for medicinal purposes, why isn't it being regulated as a drug by the FDA? Who is going to get sued the first time someone ends up with some kind of poisoning? How does one know what kind of dose of THC(the supposed magic cure all in MJ) is in any of the plants being offered by these pot shops(that MM describes as having Jerry Garcia posters, etc. She sounds more like she is standing in one of those highway porn shops, giggling away)

Posted by: Jen at March 26, 2014 05:24 PM (IdGqX)

278 Posted by: Jen at March 26, 2014 09:24 PM (IdGqX Apparently some THC derivatives are in fact FDA approved. But they look radically different than a pot brownie.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 05:25 PM (HDwDg)

279 Speaking of inside, can anyone tell me the name of the moron I was trying to remember earlier, the one that had "in MA" in his name.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 08:55 PM (RZ8pf)

sick in MA?

Posted by: Smash'em at March 26, 2014 05:34 PM (kQh9Z)

280

Molly Ball has a piece at the Atlantic on how Republicans are driving the current momentum for gay marriage.


In other news, women at fault for beatings delivered by husbands.

Posted by: Paul at March 26, 2014 05:44 PM (5ikDv)

281

"Momentum" for marriage redefinition? (Gabe's terminology corrected to remove the fundamental logical flaw)  Guess I missed that - I figured almost every state that voted on the issue decided against said redefinition, incl. deeply idiotic CA (comfortably, even as the same cretins at the polls were gleefully electing disastrous corrupt alien state and federal officials). 

 

Then there's the ridiculous lawlessness and legislation from the bench (Prop 8, AG's dereliction of duty/violation of oath, "judge"'s dereliction and absurd ruling, followed by more of same - to include the unjudicial, baseless, unhinged and bizarre rantings about bigotry - from SCOTUS).  Does Gabe mean THAT kind of "momentum"?

 

I am utterly indifferent to the whole question itself.  But it's not hard to understand why we're in the lawless state we are - if even supposed sane people who believe in the rule of law are fine with comically lawless chaos so long as it enforces their bigoted self-dealing preferences on society - then it's easy to see why judicial tyranny is the default setting of so many in American life. 

 

But in keeping with standard practice around here (and because of my utter indifference to the topic in general) I didn't read the link, so maybe I'm barking up the wrong redwood here.

 

Posted by: non-purist at March 26, 2014 05:44 PM (afQnV)

282

torquewrench, I slipped that factoid about most of the recent mass-shooters having only dope use in common into a recent conversation (where I otherwise repeated my utter indifference/ignorance on the whole marheejuwanna "debate").  As usual - blank stares in response. 

 

Can someone put me some knowledge about this side-tidbit of the marijuana thing:  will there be/are there massive publicly funded propaganda campaigns against use of this substance - esp. by smoking - due to what I assume are the major health risks, the sort we have seen for decades against cigarettes?

 

Or will yet another beclowning idiocy be added to the embarrassing mess that was even recently the US, as one unhealthy drug habit is quietly implicitly embraced while another one continues to be demonized and regulated to the point of creating yet another black market?

 

Posted by: non-purist at March 26, 2014 05:54 PM (afQnV)

283 Kendall was a smart kid who should have been in school. Since he saw Danny murder Baptiste for no reason that he was nice to him, you would think he would have been happy to see him gone. And after Darryl beat up Wendy, I'm not sure why Kendall was suckered into this BS. I hope Wendy does bring the US Marshals Darryl's head on a platter. And where is Dewey? He has to come back. And I think Martha will bring down the soviet spy ring, too.

Posted by: Pug-De-Da! at March 26, 2014 06:33 PM (vFh9Q)

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