January 01, 2014
— Maetenloch
Well I hope you guys are happy on this new year's day. Especially after those damned teenagers broke in and trashed the place last night. Oh and if anyone knows where the toilet is please email me or one of the cobs.
Yet Another Multiple Body Rape by Police
This time in El Paso although there is a New Mexico connection.
A 54-year old American woman was given increasingly invasive and fruitless cavity searches after a drug dog was instructed to "alert" in front of her by U.S. border guards. The victim, according to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU, was then ordered to consume laxatives, endure x-rays and other scans, and subjected to further medical rectal and vaginal probes-all conducted by doctors at University Medical Center El Paso over over her protests and without any form of warrant.
No drugs were found.
And then the hospital billed her $5,000 for the examinations that she never consented to.
"After the CT scan," the complaint says, "a CBP [Customs and Border Patrol] agent presented Ms. Doe with a choice: she could either sign a medical consent form, despite the fact that she had not consented, in which case CBP would pay for the cost of the searches; or if she refused to sign the consent form, she would be billed for the cost of the searches." She refused, and later the hospital sent her a bill for $5,000, apparently the going rate for sexual assault and gratuitous radiological bombardment.
Barbara Walters: Happiness is Holding Fidel Castro's Gun in My Lap
Apparently Baba Wawa found guns (and associated socialist dictatorship) all sexy back in 1977:
The December 23 edition of People magazine looks through old pictures with Barbara Walters as she "looks back on her most memorable moments" in five decades of television interviews.
During her 1977 interview with Fidel Castro "I spent 10 days with him, traveled through the mountains and held his gun in my lap," she said. "People thought we had a romance, but we never did."
But in 2011 guns were such horrible, icky things that the media including Walters got the vapors just from gun-related terminology like crosshairs and targeted.
A Couple of Mysterious New Years Day Explosions:
Palestinian Ambassador to Czech Republic Blows Up When Opening Safe
Mosque-adjacent Apartment in "Little Mogadishu" Minneapolis Blows Up
In a shocking interview, Lance Armstrong, after years of denial, admits to Oprah Winfrey that he took illegal drugs in all seven of his Tour de France victories, as well as using a motorcycle for certain stages of the race and "occasionally" shooting opponents with poison-tipped darts. Also he played "a small role" in the JFK assassination.
...On the Obamacare front, the administration declares that the federal Web site has been significantly improved, although there are still occasional glitches, such as one that enables a Milwaukee woman seeking to compare dental plans to accidentally launch a tactical nuclear strike against Guatemala. But as Secretary of Blame Sebelius notes, "This kind of thing happens all the time with Orbitz."
Pop Culture For Me But Not For Thee
Former Seinfeld writer Dan O'Keefe took issue with Sen. Rand Paul's reference to the classic sitcom through a series of Festivus-themed tweets.
O'Keefe, interviewed on CNN, said, "When Rand Paul tries to seem relevant with 15-year-old pop cultural references, it reminds me of when Bob Hope used to dress up as the Fonz, but that's just me."
Why Is the Atlanta Braves a Racist Name but Not the AH-64 Apache or UH-60 Blackhawk?
A good question from Steven Den Beste. And one of the commenters explains part of the answer.
Reports are that two Australian snipers from D Coy 2 Cdo killed a Taliban leader with a Barrett .50 cal sniper rifle from 1.75 miles away. Officially it's unconfirmed since Australian Defence Forces won't discuss it on the record.
Two marksmen using Barrett M82A1 50 calibre rifles simultaneously fired. The bullets were six seconds in the air. One killed the Taliban commander. It is not known for certain which sniper fired the fatal shot.While there have been no triumphant press releases, in the tight global Special Forces sniper community the shot is much discussed, because it seems certain to be a world record.
As the bullet yawed through the thin air on a windless morning, GPS aids measured the distance at 2815m. That amounts to 2 1/2 times the length of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The targeted Taliban would not have heard the gunfire.
The previous world record achieved by British Corporal Craig Harrison occurred also in Helmand in November 2009. Firing from a distance of 2475m, Harrison killed two Taliban.
Things You Need To Know To Survive Combat
Lessons (re)learned by US and NATO soldiers since 9/11. This time there's an effort to document them so they don't have to be rediscovered once again if there's a long period of peace.
The list is long and often embarrassing. For example, in peacetime troops are taught to drive carefully, in order to avoid accidents. But in combat the safest form of driving is fast and, to peacetime sensibilities, reckless. Even if commanders seek to practice "combat driving" in peacetime they do so in the knowledge that after a few bad accidents orders will come down to not drive like that because it causes bad publicity....Along with learning how to drive like a madman, you have to practice hard so you can change tires like one as well. In combat you will often have to do this under fire, so you must learn to do it quickly. This does two things. First, you learn how long it takes, even when you are in a hurry. This can be a useful bit of information if you are under fire while changing the flat. Second, practicing it forces you to make sure the spare tire is in good shape, and can quickly be reached (along with any tools needed.)
Then you must learn how Mister Grenade can be your friend, even on the crowded streets of a city like Baghdad or Kandahar. If your vehicle has a glove compartment, re-label it as the "grenade compartment." Carry one smoke, one fragmentation and one tear gas grenade. If you're stuck in traffic and the situation outside it starting to look dicey, then drop a smoke grenade out the window and try to get moving. You MUST be moving if you drop the tear gas grenade, because you cannot drive through the tears. Most other drivers will give you a wide berth when they see the smoke or tear gas grenade go off. For those who keep coming, with evil intent, the fragmentation grenade may come in handy (it is good for getting at bad people hiding behind something.) Remember, when using grenades, do not touch the pin until the grenade is outside the window.
Why Physicists Are Desperate For Roman Lead
In about 50 AD, a ship set sail from Cadiz in Spain carrying cargo to Italy (probably to Rome). Having passed through the Straits of Gibraltar, the ship hugged the coastline, a course wholly different from the usual open-sea direct course that would normally be taken. The ship sank in 25 m (82 ft) of water not far off the coast of Villajoyosa, about 15 km (9 mi) NE of Alicante in Spain, after perhaps 500 km (300 mi) of sailing. Its cargo included hundreds of amphorae of garum (the Roman version of Worcestershire sauce) and about two thousand bars of lead each weighing about 33 kg (52 lb). When discovered in 2000, the remnants of the 36 m (120 ft) long ship were named the Bou Ferrer shipwreck.The expense of examining such a wreck using proper archaeological techniques was considerable. When Ettore Fiorini, a nuclear physicist at the University of Milan-Bicocca, read about the find, he offered the National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari in Sardinia the financial support of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) in excavating the vessel and its cargo. In return, a portion of the antique lead (amounting to less than 15 percent, or about 9 metric tons) would be turned over to INFN for use in physics experiments. Archaeological support always being excruciatingly tight, Cagliari agreed to the bargain.
With regular lead available at about US$2,000 per metric ton, supporting a major archaeological operation might seem like a very expensive way to purchase lead. But therein lies the rest of the story.
5 Romantic Comedy Gestures That Would Get You Slapped...With a Restraining Order
Teh Tweet!
Le AoSHQ groupe de Yahoo. Ooh la la!
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Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 01, 2014 05:32 PM (JpFMR)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 01, 2014 05:34 PM (o9Rp5)
Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2014 05:34 PM (TnSpo)
"A 54-year old American woman was given increasingly invasive and fruitless cavity searches"
Well, at the least the cavity search wasn't conducted with fruit.
Posted by: otho at January 01, 2014 05:34 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 01, 2014 05:40 PM (JpFMR)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 01, 2014 05:40 PM (aDwsi)
"Remember, when using grenades, do not touch the pin until the grenade is outside the window."
Right, right. I always forget that bit. I really should write that down on my hand...
"pin AFTER window"
Posted by: otho at January 01, 2014 05:40 PM (9gNQd)
I will be sparse this evening as I am going to ortho and the mouth butcher's.....
Hope all are well.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 05:40 PM (TE35l)
So they found some fruit at first, then, nothing.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2014 05:41 PM (dZ0Re)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 05:41 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: jc at January 01, 2014 05:41 PM (PlzOe)
For the first time in a LONG time, there's actually several flicks in the theaters I'd like to see rather than wait for blu-rays for.
In particular, has anyone seen The Wolf of Wall Street yet? Surprised it hasn't yet been reviewed or at least written about here yet.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 01, 2014 05:42 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 01, 2014 05:42 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: votermom at January 01, 2014 05:43 PM (GSIDW)
Posted by: DC in Towson at January 01, 2014 05:44 PM (eQJwb)
Posted by: ZZ Topside at January 01, 2014 05:45 PM (R6JT1)
Posted by: Bomber at January 01, 2014 05:46 PM (G8OL9)
DC's got a good job in the city, workin' every night and day...
;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 01, 2014 05:46 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm at January 01, 2014 05:47 PM (wDNzT)
Posted by: Weirddave at January 01, 2014 05:47 PM (N/cFh)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 05:49 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm
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Cobra.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2014 05:50 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 01, 2014 05:50 PM (aDwsi)
Wish I had my Jim "Gacy" Messina "4All" pic handy....
"Ny-Quil 4ALL"
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 05:51 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 05:51 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 01, 2014 05:51 PM (JpFMR)
Posted by: seamrog at January 01, 2014 05:51 PM (NNCDn)
Posted by: buzzion at January 01, 2014 05:52 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 01, 2014 05:52 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 05:52 PM (cubpP)
You are having a very bad day, and the goat ain't exactly thrilled neither.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 01, 2014 05:52 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: votermom at January 01, 2014 09:43 PM (GSIDW)
There are radioactive isotopes of prety much every material. A good example is Potassium.
That little bit of knowledge was worth a couple days extra pay back when I was working as a contractor on nuclear power sites.
They always scheduled you for a whole body scan at the end of the turn around - eat a couple bananas and smoke a quick cigarette right before the scan. All the naturally occurring radioactive isotopes were in the correct locations to look like internal contamination - of course the rad techs knew the game also, they would reschedule you for 2 days later with express instructions to avoid the bananas and cig's.
Posted by: PMRich at January 01, 2014 05:53 PM (KDUNf)
Unless it is into that sort of thing in which case the goat probably had to pay Jihadi Jim extra....
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 05:53 PM (TE35l)
Also, last night and I and family finally watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles for the first time. Can see why it's considered a classic. Unfortunately it also makes me feel old as I remember when it was a new movie...
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 01, 2014 05:54 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: DC in Towson at January 01, 2014 05:54 PM (eQJwb)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 01, 2014 05:54 PM (o9Rp5)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 01, 2014 05:54 PM (07nix)
I've told the story beforeÂ….I was out with my FIL and both my BILs before the younger BIL got married. Sitting at the bar in the restaurant when two AF guys come in. They find out my elder BIL is Navy and off to the races we go.
Insults a flying. The 3 of them had the whole place in stitches.Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 01, 2014 05:55 PM (JpFMR)
Posted by: The Hickster at January 01, 2014 05:55 PM (TI3xG)
Cobra.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2014 09:50 PM (4Mv1T)
At first, I thought it was a SuperCobra but the helo pictured has four blades. Thus, it appears to be a Viper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_AH-1Z_Viper
Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm at January 01, 2014 05:55 PM (wDNzT)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 01, 2014 05:57 PM (JpFMR)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 01, 2014 05:57 PM (07nix)
Posted by: Sam Jackson at January 01, 2014 05:57 PM (R6JT1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_AH-1Z_Viper
Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm
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I only see two blades. Old eyes maybe.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2014 05:57 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 01, 2014 05:58 PM (aDwsi)
In a lesbian relationship, WHO KILLS THE SPIDERS?!
Posted by: pookysgirl at January 01, 2014 06:00 PM (kMnHs)
Posted by: Bomber at January 01, 2014 06:00 PM (G8OL9)
Anyone see the news about NYC's new mayor's first order if business will be banning the Central Park horse carriages? I sense the next few years in NY news will be fun to watch.
Posted by: Iasonas at January 01, 2014 06:01 PM (FHNkr)
Posted by: DC in Towson at January 01, 2014 06:01 PM (eQJwb)
In a lesbian relationship, WHO KILLS THE SPIDERS?!
Posted by: pookysgirl at January 01, 2014 10:00 PM (kMnHs)
Whoevers turn it is to wear the strapon.
Posted by: buzzion at January 01, 2014 06:02 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: JohnJ at January 01, 2014 06:02 PM (TF/YA)
In a lesbian relationship, WHO KILLS THE SPIDERS?!####
The Orkin Man.
Posted by: The Hickster at January 01, 2014 06:02 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 01, 2014 06:03 PM (07nix)
Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 06:04 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: DC in Towson at January 01, 2014 06:04 PM (eQJwb)
I read that list of lessons, and since it includes explicit instructions to fatally shoot wounded enemy combatants, good luck getting that included in any official lessons-learned document. As extremely wise as that advice may be at times.
Re grenades in vehicles: used to work with a guy who had crew-chiefed air assault Hueys during the late unpleasantness in southeast Asia.
He said that he personally checked all infantry boarding the helo to make sure that no one had a grenade in a grenade launcher and that no one had any grenades hanging from pins on their persons. The helo is likely to survive a sidearm or rifle accidental discharge in flight, but not a grenade accident.
I said, "Was there a lot of that?"
He said he caught grenade indiscipline on every single lift. And, that was lifting from the firebase to the field. On the return legs, there often was no time to indulge in such careful preflight scrutiny, in and out of a hot landing zone at top speed, and there were apparently some shit-your-pants moments.
One troop boarded in the field, under fire, with a grenade hanging from a pin, and in flight it got pulled out and the armed grenade fell to the floor. An alert SGT with sharp reflexes kicked it out the open door just before it went off. Airframe and door gunner got some shrapnel.
Holy cow.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2014 06:04 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: buzzion at January 01, 2014 06:04 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2014 06:05 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 01, 2014 10:03 PM (07nix)
Grunts love the A-10.
Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 06:05 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 06:06 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Sailor groupie at January 01, 2014 06:06 PM (07nix)
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 06:06 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: HeideRadieschen at January 01, 2014 06:07 PM (nMYaa)
Because white man speak with forked tongue.
Posted by: sen. betty warren at January 01, 2014 06:07 PM (8AHeV)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 01, 2014 06:07 PM (V4CBV)
The BH and I have a tradition for ringing in the New Year....we go to a day spa, do an hour of hot tubbing/steam room, each gets a deep tissue massage, and we follow it up with a nice dinner out. We call it the "tub, rub, and grub" package.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 06:07 PM (T1005)
Bad Man!!!
Posted by: Anthony Obama at January 01, 2014 06:07 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 06:07 PM (yh0zB)
Love the stories that he probably wouldn't have died that night in 1953, except that EVERYONE in his frickin' entourage was too afraid of him to touch him.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 01, 2014 06:08 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 06:09 PM (DmNpO)
From Global Security a head on shot of an AH-1Z on the ground with lots of nifty munitions.
http://tinyurl.com/jvwhkwt
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 06:09 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 01, 2014 06:09 PM (V4CBV)
Who are you and what have you done with Heather Radish???
that is to say...what happened to the nic?
Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 06:10 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 10:06 PM
The one with The Shat on the plane with the gremlin is on now
Shatner said in his autobiography "Get a Life" that his own behavior on airline flights isn't too far from that episode
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 06:10 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, waiting on an apology on behalf of the KaBoom Kiddes at January 01, 2014 06:10 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: DC in Towson at January 01, 2014 06:10 PM (eQJwb)
Posted by: Lily Liebowitz at January 01, 2014 06:11 PM (iB0Q2)
The USAF is manly and competent enough with rustworthiness to call arclights on your own position.
Our redheaded step child little brother done good.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 06:11 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 01, 2014 06:11 PM (JpFMR)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 01, 2014 10:11 PM (07nix)
I read the book.
Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 06:12 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Weirddave at January 01, 2014 06:12 PM (N/cFh)
Posted by: Chief Justice John Roberts at January 01, 2014 06:12 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 06:12 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 01, 2014 10:11 PM (07nix)
No but from most of the commercials it appears that the SEAL that wrote the book was heavily involved with the movie as well.
Posted by: buzzion at January 01, 2014 06:13 PM (LI48c)
He saw evil up close ma'am...
and I know he rejected the bullshit that Stalin was a "good" evil.
You have a nice evening.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 06:13 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: --- at January 01, 2014 06:13 PM (MMC8r)
Only a matter of time before belief in God is a crime against the state punishable by death
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 06:14 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2014 06:14 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 01, 2014 06:14 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: The Hickster at January 01, 2014 06:14 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: The Gerbil at January 01, 2014 06:14 PM (07nix)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 06:15 PM (DmNpO)
Because white man speak with forked tongue.
Posted by: sen. betty warren at January 01, 2014 10:07 PM (8AHeV)
Because it just looks cool. And as a check to see if people actually read the words and stuff.
Posted by: Mætenloch at January 01, 2014 06:15 PM (XkotV)
Fascism with a big smiley face, and "you don't have to, but you very much should want to"
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 06:16 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 01, 2014 06:16 PM (JpFMR)
It's sorta in the contract we signed on to KB....
God help me to be brave if it is not within my power to stop it.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 06:16 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2014 06:16 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 01, 2014 06:17 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 06:17 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 01, 2014 06:17 PM (lZBBB)
Some people in meatspace have issues. I'm changing it up for awhile.
On Twitter I'm HRatAOSHQ. I figure the people who need to understand that will.
Posted by: HeideRadieschen at January 01, 2014 06:17 PM (nMYaa)
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at January 01, 2014 06:17 PM (G5cc0)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at January 01, 2014 06:17 PM (HsTG8)
Posted by: Mætenloch at January 01, 2014 10:15 PM (XkotV)
Words? *looks around*
Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 06:17 PM (yh0zB)
please note, I have not yet seen The Expendables...
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2014 10:16 PM (JMmQ9)
The Expendables is good. Its The Expendables 2 that blows.
Posted by: buzzion at January 01, 2014 06:18 PM (LI48c)
GRRRREAT ASSSSSS!!!!
Posted by: Vincent Hanna at January 01, 2014 06:18 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 06:18 PM (DmNpO)
another underappreciated Twilight Zone hottie was the girl in Nightmare as Child....Janice Rule IIRC
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 06:19 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2014 10:16 PM
I assume you haven't seen "Stop or My Mom Will Shoot" or "F.I.S.T"
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 06:19 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at January 01, 2014 06:19 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 01, 2014 06:19 PM (07nix)
Posted by: DC in Towson at January 01, 2014 06:19 PM (eQJwb)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 06:19 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at January 01, 2014 06:20 PM (HsTG8)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 01, 2014 06:20 PM (RZ8pf)
On Twitter I'm HRatAOSHQ. I figure the people who need to understand that will.
Posted by: HeideRadieschen at January 01, 2014 10:17 PM (nMYaa)
Some people are just assholes I guess.
Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 06:20 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: --- at January 01, 2014 06:20 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at January 01, 2014 06:20 PM (HsTG8)
She was also the Green Orion Pole Dancer in the original Star Trek
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 06:20 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: --- at January 01, 2014 06:21 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at January 01, 2014 06:21 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 01, 2014 06:21 PM (JpFMR)
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2014 06:21 PM (JMmQ9)
Want to see a bad Stallone movie? Try Tango and Cash.
Posted by: PabloD at January 01, 2014 06:21 PM (hhp7Q)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 01, 2014 06:22 PM (RZ8pf)
Yes, please do. These people have been using me as a substitute all damn day.
Posted by: The Barrel at January 01, 2014 06:22 PM (JawqV)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 01, 2014 06:22 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Weirddave at January 01, 2014 06:23 PM (N/cFh)
Posted by: EC at January 01, 2014 06:23 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at January 01, 2014 06:23 PM (HsTG8)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at January 01, 2014 06:23 PM (n5mZ4)
I want an Aloha out of you. Go back and try it again.
Posted by: DC in Towson at January 01, 2014 10:10 PM (eQJwb)
I try to change it up all the time, and the only one you notice is "Aloha!"?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 06:24 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Leno at January 01, 2014 06:24 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 06:24 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: --- at January 01, 2014 06:24 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 01, 2014 06:24 PM (RxVu7)
Posted by: Thrawn at January 01, 2014 06:25 PM (UR5vq)
A little while ago they had the classic "To Serve Man"
and I thought,
What a great way to get rid of the Free Shit Army.
--
I was watching the marathon, too, before Mr. Black wanted me to help him achieve good luck by finishing his black eyed peas and collards. I watched, "It's a Good Life." Another way to get rid of the FSA. We just need to find our Anthony Freemont...and a cornfield.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 01, 2014 06:25 PM (Oa7B2)
WHO DARE INSULT A FILM I WAS KEY VILLAIN IN!?!?!
//Zombie Jack Palance
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 06:25 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 01, 2014 06:25 PM (JpFMR)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 01, 2014 06:25 PM (0FSuD)
Oscar is a guilty pleasure...probably given Ms10077 and my appreciation of Orelana Muti's charms....
a lot of people ragestroked over it
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 06:26 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 01, 2014 06:27 PM (RZ8pf)
correct....
he and Ahnold both have earned my "fuck you not another dime" rating based on their anti-gun shit while promoing gun films.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 06:27 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at January 01, 2014 06:28 PM (HsTG8)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 01, 2014 06:28 PM (o9Rp5)
//Zombie Jack Palance
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I just watched Jack Palance in Man in the Attic. 1953, I think. I couldn't take my eyes off his cheekbones. They overtook every scene. He must be Cherokee.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 01, 2014 06:28 PM (Oa7B2)
Enjoy...I figure DeNiro views it as throwaway work on par with "The Adentures of Rocky and Bullwinkle"
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 06:29 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2014 06:29 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: EC at January 01, 2014 06:29 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 01, 2014 10:28 PM (o9Rp5)
What are you going to do when the amnesia wears off?
Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 06:30 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2014 06:30 PM (sdi6R)
Free Heather Radish! Or Putin will let Pussy Riot perform at Sochi!
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 06:30 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at January 01, 2014 06:30 PM (HsTG8)
Posted by: helofixer at January 01, 2014 06:30 PM (MWSUv)
Posted by: PabloD at January 01, 2014 06:31 PM (hhp7Q)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 01, 2014 06:31 PM (RZ8pf)
No Kurt Russell movie is ever bad.
Posted by: EC at January 01, 2014 10:23 PM
"The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes".
"The Barefoot Executive".
Posted by: otho at January 01, 2014 06:31 PM (9gNQd)
http://tinyurl.com/8was7me
Posted by: The Hickster at January 01, 2014 06:31 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at January 01, 2014 06:31 PM (HsTG8)
Posted by: EC at January 01, 2014 06:31 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 06:31 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2014 06:31 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: EC at January 01, 2014 06:32 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Beagle at January 01, 2014 06:32 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: Tina Brown at January 01, 2014 06:32 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: Trevor@TJexcite at January 01, 2014 06:32 PM (bkAvJ)
I suspect that in a restaurant that a person ordering food is the one liable for the bill, not another person who's throat they shoved that food down.
Posted by: [/i] [/s] [/u] [/b] An Observation at January 01, 2014 06:32 PM (ylhEn)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 01, 2014 06:33 PM (RxVu7)
For a while there, the female AF recruits at Lackland were more likely to be in garter belts and French maid uniforms, in the instructors' quarters after dark.
It annoys the hell out of me when liberal politicians talk about what they call the "epidemic of sexual assault in the military" while including wholly irrelevant events such as servicemembers being assaulted by nonservicemembers while off base, or even being assaulted before having joined the service.
But, there are very real and very ugly instances of assault under color of authority inside the services that do need to have the million pound shithammer of doom dropped on them, and Lackland was surely one of those.
Per the obsessive push by the flag ranks for "diversity", I did dig up photographs of the offending instructors at Lackland who had been using the female recruits as a private harem. They were a diverse lot, all right. Don't expect the flag ranks to learn anything from that about "diversity" magically making everything better.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2014 06:33 PM (gqT4g)
These Hollywood liberals, just don't get irony, do they? Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2014 10:31 PM
Ask the Hollywood crowd to vow never to appear in a movie with guns and your response is crickets
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 06:33 PM (aTXUx)
We ran into that on the way home.
Leaving Outback Steakhouse we were at odds between going shopping, to the theater, or to watch "Elementary" here at the house.
We chose going home and watching "elementary" that is how compelling Fandango was here in scenic Richland County South Carolina...
we *almost* went to see "Mitty" but....
I make better popcorn, and we have less distraction here and in all honesty I enjoy "elementary" immensely....
BUT my danger sense tells me they are going to go the "Homeland" route and have "the real villains" be Neo-Nazis again
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 06:34 PM (TE35l)
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WTF?!
My PC doesn't even have a webcam.
But I WAS still reading.
The comments.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2014 06:34 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: EC at January 01, 2014 10:32 PM
Oooookkkay... What about "Vanilla Sky"? That's at least a little iffy.
Posted by: otho at January 01, 2014 06:34 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 01, 2014 06:34 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 01, 2014 10:33 PM
What makes you think I ever stopped looking?
Posted by: The Gremlin at January 01, 2014 06:35 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 01, 2014 06:35 PM (JpFMR)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 01, 2014 06:35 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2014 06:36 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 01, 2014 06:39 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 01, 2014 06:40 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 06:40 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Lilly Liebowitz at January 01, 2014 06:41 PM (iB0Q2)
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 06:41 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: EC at January 01, 2014 06:41 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Cheri at January 01, 2014 06:43 PM (VDGzf)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 01, 2014 06:44 PM (8AHeV)
Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2014 06:44 PM (6bvBO)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 01, 2014 06:44 PM (HVI5a)
The only other place the aquaflage uniform blends in is on the admiral's passageway deck. There was a photo floating around on-line a few years ago of a sailor face down on the deck. Blegh! I hated that uniform.
Posted by: butch at January 01, 2014 06:44 PM (EV3Uf)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 01, 2014 06:45 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: EC at January 01, 2014 06:45 PM (doBIb)
SyFy Channel
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 06:45 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: The Hickster at January 01, 2014 06:45 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2014 10:44 PM
But John McCain comes out to admonish us that to ignore a President with his talents is a mistake!
Twilight Zone indeed. We are living in it.
Posted by: Cheri at January 01, 2014 06:47 PM (VDGzf)
Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2014 06:47 PM (fWcM4)
Shat looks out the airplane window, finds Pajama Boy on the wing.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 01, 2014 06:47 PM (HVI5a)
Me too Infidel...my guardian angel just shakes her head.
Posted by: Cheri at January 01, 2014 06:48 PM (VDGzf)
All the rest of you roonz/roonettez...if I don't see you in the future I'll see you in the pasture...
Later roonz and roonettez! Fear no evil!
Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 06:48 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 06:49 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2014 06:50 PM (6bvBO)
be safe...arrive alive.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 06:51 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Cheri at January 01, 2014 10:43 PM (VDGzf)
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wasn't he in Death Race 2000? that was an epic piece of shit.
Posted by: jc at January 01, 2014 06:51 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: and irresolute at January 01, 2014 06:51 PM (RqHWH)
But "we" aren't Peace Prize winners... oops. Never mind.
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 01, 2014 06:51 PM (8AHeV)
Posted by: Kas(ktgreat) at January 01, 2014 06:55 PM (Bl4dy)
Posted by: Fergie at January 01, 2014 06:56 PM (07nix)
golfclap....
//Sven Nobel Almost Nominee Feel My Powah
251 Kas(ktgreat) at January 01, 2014 10:55 PM (Bl4dy)
SyFy
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 06:56 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2014 06:57 PM (6bvBO)
Posted by: The Hickster at January 01, 2014 06:57 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 01, 2014 06:59 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2014 07:00 PM (6bvBO)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 01, 2014 07:00 PM (V4CBV)
Hiding behind the couch for fear it might see me.
I think a couple of the original _Outer Limits_ episodes did the same thing.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2014 07:01 PM (gqT4g)
as it would have had to have had....
the 70s were a more honest time for drama in many ways
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 07:02 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2014 07:03 PM (6bvBO)
Posted by: Kas(ktgreat) at January 01, 2014 07:03 PM (Bl4dy)
Posted by: EC at January 01, 2014 07:04 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, waiting on an apology on behalf of the KaBoom Kiddes at January 01, 2014 07:04 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 07:05 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 01, 2014 07:05 PM (8AHeV)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, waiting on an apology on behalf of the KaBoom Kiddes at January 01, 2014 07:07 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 07:08 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at January 01, 2014 07:09 PM (G5cc0)
Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 07:09 PM (z4WKX)
I jettisoned cable...
SyFy I somethimes miss.
Hope you got nough rest.
Y'all have a good night
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 07:12 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Beagle at January 01, 2014 07:13 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2014 07:14 PM (6bvBO)
Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 07:15 PM (z4WKX)
Nick at Night TV Land did a ways back.
Failing that if you have broadband....
the entire series on youtube ma'am
http://youtu.be/t_gU6XPNsRw
Happy New Year Carol God grant it is a happier one than 2013.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 07:18 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2014 07:20 PM (6bvBO)
Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2014 07:21 PM (sdi6R)
They *do* name thunderstorms...
last year I think they named a storm that was "going to become a Tropical Swell" except it uh "never did"....
anyway I am waiting for the day the weather channel regales me with warnings of Westerly Blow Linda Lovelace....
or some such nonsense.
DramaQueen nation
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 07:23 PM (TE35l)
er uh "sorry"?
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 11:05 PM (TE35l)
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I was just too slow on the draw.
Posted by: jc at January 01, 2014 07:23 PM (PlzOe)
Ah...well I am certain you were doing far more productive time sinks than I was....
Happy new Year
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 07:25 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 01, 2014 07:26 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: fluffy at January 01, 2014 07:27 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 07:28 PM (z4WKX)
let me recall....
"yup"
looking squarely at November....
Bush being bad enough to empower Perot to enable Bill to beget eventually Barry....
a black Crayon on the year 1992
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 07:28 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2014 07:28 PM (6bvBO)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 07:29 PM (DmNpO)
I would love to see the breakdown of the vote among those residents of Commiefornia who were old enough, and in the state at the time, to remember the details of Moonbeam's original _opera bouffe_ governorship.
The problem with a place like Commiefornia is that it's constantly being swamped by newcomers who have no idea about the previous history of the state and no intention of rectifying their ignorance. While previous generations are busily bailing the fuck out of the sinking ship, taking their memories with them.
I honestly have had people say to me, "Wait, Jerry was the governor BEFORE? When was that again?"
Worst offenders by far: New fucking Yorkers. To be specific, residents of NYC. Who are a perfect fit for modern Commiefornia culturally and politically, in their combination of arrogant liberalism and complete lack of understanding of the place they have arrived in.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2014 07:29 PM (gqT4g)
She coined the phrase "lost decade" which was later attached to Helicopter Ben Bukakke's advisory period over in Japan's version of the Fed
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 07:29 PM (TE35l)
Brings new meaning to the term "special snowflake".
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 01, 2014 07:29 PM (aVcgy)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 01, 2014 07:29 PM (aDwsi)
I'd respect them for their balls (metaphorical in the case of a good part of the idiots) if:
1) they were honest they are cultists
2) they recanted
I suspect I am at no risk of buying them a beer
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 07:30 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 07:31 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 07:31 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 01, 2014 11:29 PM (aDwsi)
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yes, but you are not alone. The minimum ice for the year will occur a couple months from now. They will make it out some time anyway.
Posted by: jc at January 01, 2014 07:31 PM (PlzOe)
_opera bouffe_ governorship.
I'm so stealing that. I lived in commifornia during Regan and Brown governorships. Quite different.
Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2014 07:32 PM (6bvBO)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 01, 2014 07:32 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2014 07:33 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 01, 2014 07:34 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, waiting on an apology on behalf of the KaBoom Kiddes at January 01, 2014 07:34 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: Massachusetts voters at January 01, 2014 07:35 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 07:36 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 11:31 PM (z4WKX)<<<
Hmmm...
Posted by: Michael Dukakis at January 01, 2014 07:37 PM (2ljO9)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 07:38 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: fluffy at January 01, 2014 07:39 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 01, 2014 07:39 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Mindy at January 01, 2014 07:39 PM (Bs5ky)
Posted by: Vivi at January 01, 2014 07:40 PM (+/8mE)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 01, 2014 07:41 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 07:42 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: lindafell at January 01, 2014 07:43 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: fluffy at January 01, 2014 07:44 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: RWC at January 01, 2014 07:45 PM (Q6HBD)
Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2014 07:45 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 07:46 PM (DmNpO)
I read on a site that unfortunately I did not bookmark that the ice bound ship has developed a 12 degree list from ice pressure.
You could make a case for the capsizing of said vessel. In fact I'd hazard a guess this is precisely what will happen.
Posted by: irongrampa at January 01, 2014 07:46 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 07:46 PM (TE35l)
Except in the West. Out there, we call the wind Mareia.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 01, 2014 07:47 PM (xq1UY)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 07:48 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 07:49 PM (DmNpO)
Some of both?
Posted by: GMB at January 01, 2014 07:49 PM (nkPV9)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 07:50 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Hank Johnson at January 01, 2014 07:51 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: lindafell at January 01, 2014 07:52 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: RWC at January 01, 2014 07:52 PM (Q6HBD)
Let us not forget the oft overlooked George Deukmejian.
Who, just as RR before him, was a Republican who took over from a liberal Democrat named Brown, only to find that the California state finances were in terrible disarray, and had to move quickly to right the ship.
The one thing that put me off about the Deukmejian years was that it seemed as though every Armenian-American in CA who could fog a mirror was being put on some sort of state board or panel. I tend to view ethnic spoils system politics as a Democratic thing, and I dislike that whomever is doing it.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2014 07:52 PM (gqT4g)
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at January 01, 2014 07:52 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at January 01, 2014 07:53 PM (ioT3q)
Posted by: Vivi at January 01, 2014 11:40 PM (+/8mE)
I spent my new years eve at a wedding at the waterfront of jersey city, the asshole of jersey, while freezing my ass off looking across the water at the asshole of the universe NYC. I looked at the statue of liberty and suggested to some people there that the plaque should be changed to read " fuck it, just give me your worthless imbeciles".
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2014 07:53 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: The Farmer at January 01, 2014 07:54 PM (eBupg)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 07:54 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Big Swingin Al at January 01, 2014 07:55 PM (OZtuG)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at January 01, 2014 07:56 PM (4/o9U)
Posted by: lindafell at January 01, 2014 07:57 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 07:58 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 07:58 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: RWC at January 01, 2014 07:58 PM (Q6HBD)
Posted by: Mindy at January 01, 2014 08:00 PM (Bs5ky)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 08:00 PM (TE35l)
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at January 01, 2014 11:52 PM (SAMxH)
What about the rest of us?
G'nite, IG!
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 08:02 PM (T1005)
Posted by: mindful webworker - it's eight leaping lords day! at January 01, 2014 08:03 PM (U13jb)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 08:03 PM (DmNpO)
Asshole of Jersey?
Camden. Newark. There's PLENTY of competition for the title.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2014 08:03 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, waiting on an apology on behalf of the KaBoom Kiddes at January 01, 2014 08:04 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: Akademik Stuckicesky at January 01, 2014 08:04 PM (U13jb)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 08:05 PM (DmNpO)
The "Talky Tina" episode freaked me out as a kid. And not long after that, I saw the old black-and-white movie "Dead of Night," with yet another creepy dummy/doll. I still side with Dale Gribble on that issue.
Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at January 01, 2014 08:05 PM (vRdWg)
Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2014 08:05 PM (6bvBO)
Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 08:05 PM (z4WKX)
"Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?"
That's what Bawney Fwank said
Posted by: MAxLovin' at January 01, 2014 08:05 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 08:05 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: RWC at January 01, 2014 08:06 PM (Q6HBD)
I'm more confused how they got trapped in the ice in the first place - don't think ice really spawns in the ocean, so that'd rule out ice "suddenly" forming around the ship - so what are the mechanics of getting trapped then?
"Captain, we're entering an area with large ice pieces!"
"Damn the ice, full speed ahead!"
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at January 01, 2014 08:06 PM (ioT3q)
Posted by: Mindy at January 02, 2014 12:00 AM (Bs5ky)
Mindy, try this http://verify-email.org/ to see if the email address is OK.
Posted by: Steck at January 01, 2014 08:06 PM (RL7U1)
All of 3 h.s. graduates in the whole city of Camden tested prepared to go to college this year. No, really. Look it up.
If you can read this thank your parents. Also, we'd like more $$$
Posted by: MAxLovin', AFT at January 01, 2014 08:08 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 08:08 PM (DmNpO)
I know it's already F'ed, but what are the timelines?
Posted by: RWC at January 02, 2014 12:06 AM (Q6HBD)
Now is when the body-count starts.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 08:09 PM (T1005)
2815 meters = 1.75 miles
You don't have to go back too far in history to find artillery that wouldn't reliably reach that far.
Posted by: PMRich at January 01, 2014 08:09 PM (KDUNf)
Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at January 01, 2014 08:10 PM (vRdWg)
Posted by: RWC at January 01, 2014 08:11 PM (Q6HBD)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 08:12 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Mindy at January 01, 2014 08:13 PM (Bs5ky)
Posted by: Mister President at January 01, 2014 08:14 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: mindful webworker at January 01, 2014 08:15 PM (U13jb)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 01, 2014 08:17 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Mindy at January 01, 2014 08:18 PM (Bs5ky)
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 01, 2014 08:18 PM (AymDN)
If it's Yellowstone that lets go, forget about getting any WY or MT coal for a decade or more.
I read a fairly tough technical paper in the professional geologic literature, the upshot of which is that the hotspot which produced previous Yellowstone eruptions has been slowly migrating to the northeast up through NV and UT. (Well, the hotspot itself isn't moving, it's the North American plate that is moving relative to it.)
Up till recently in deep time terms, that hotspot had relatively little by way of a heavy rock cap over it to contain its periodic belches, but now that it's where it is now, there is considerably more mountainous mass overhead, so hopefully major eruptions will happen less frequently.
If we get another truly major Yellowstone eruption, comparable to the worst of the past, everyone in the Americas north of the equator is boned, and most of the rest of the world will be badly off.
Hey, gang, I've got a plan. Let's worry about the aggregate impact of light bulb choices on the planet!
Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2014 08:19 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 12:09 AM (T1005
When is the employer mandate kicking in? I heard he pushed it past 2015.
Posted by: RWC at January 02, 2014 12:11 AM (Q6HBD)
He pushed it past the election. Barely.
As for body count.....how's this? Five insulin pens (multiple doses per) cost about $240. Most insurance plans have 'em at about a $50 copay. Let's just say you're going through 15/month -- that's $720 where you're used to paying $150. If you're working 25 hours/week for $10/hour, where are you going to get an extra $570?
So you stop taking insulin. And in a couple of months, you end up with an ER visit or two and things really start going bad.
And even if you could get Obamacare for $100/month, it's got a $5000 deductible, so you're still hosed.
EMTALA has kept the first death from being 12:01 am today, but they're inevitable.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 08:22 PM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 08:33 PM (T1005)
Posted by: mindful webworker at January 01, 2014 08:33 PM (U13jb)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 08:36 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 01, 2014 08:36 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at January 01, 2014 08:40 PM (BCUEp)
Less frequently... yessss... then, when it blows, it will be all that much more powerful for having been capped, with lots more stuff to blast into the upper atmosphere when it does.
(And won't those solar panels work great covered with ash in a long volcanic winter!)
Srsly u guyz: torque, I hadn't heard of Yellowstone's possible migration. (Thanks.) I had heard that "they" think Madrid's source (whatever) had drifted a bit, West IIRC. A little closer to me, oh joy!
Posted by: mindful webworker at January 02, 2014 12:33 AM (U13jb)
Not that the Pacific Northwest has seen any major volcanic incidents before -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mazama
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 08:40 PM (T1005)
Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2014 08:41 PM (sdi6R)
All true.
Note that this clever campaign work is never recognized. Instead, Bradley's loss is put down to the (officially named) "Bradley Effect", which postulates that white voters will lie to pollsters about their vicious racist intent to vote against black candidates.
"It was also the year that Brown was defeated for the open Senate seat left by GOP Senator H. I. Hiyakawa (who was famous for fighting hippies at Cal State San Fransisco). "
Three notes:
(a) The very worst of the hippies eventually won. The modern moonbat SFSU would be recognizable to its former president, but in a very unwelcome way. I picked up a course catalog about four years ago, and it was a compendium of the craziest of the crazy. That bit posted by ace earlier this week about "Feminist Milk Studies" would fit right in.
(b) It's S.I. Hayakawa, surely. Not to pick nits or anything, but to accurately recognize someone who deserves to be more widely remembered.
(c) Jeez, I can imagine Moonbeam in the U.S. Senate, and it's not a pretty thing to think about.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2014 08:46 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Erowmero at January 01, 2014 08:50 PM (OONaw)
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 01, 2014 08:56 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 01, 2014 08:58 PM (AymDN)
What a racist fucktard. Because handing it over to Panamanian authorities, the likes of Manuel Noriega, was _the correct and responsible thing to do_.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2014 09:00 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Vivi at January 01, 2014 09:02 PM (+/8mE)
http://tinyurl.com/k8p5xo2
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 09:04 PM (cubpP)
Yeah, I'm good with an old fashioned book burning.
Posted by: that Bible at January 01, 2014 09:08 PM (2ljO9)
Camden. Newark. There's PLENTY of competition for the title.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 02, 2014 12:03 AM (gqT4g)
yeah true. In reality it is a collection of assholes. Camden gives Detroit a run for its money.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2014 09:09 PM (FMbng)
I figure that copay cost roughly equals free market cost minus legal, liability and regulatory overhead bullshit costs.
Just tipped a bunch of obsolete computer kit into the e-waste bin. It sold for many thousands just an eyeblink ago. Wonder how much nicer life would be if biomed tech was on a comparable constantly declining Moore's Law curve.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2014 09:09 PM (gqT4g)
I told my husband, Michael, about how it freaked me out and that joker rigged up a prank on my computer. He was a real tech wiz, and he fixed it so when I turned on my desktop, it said, in his voice, "all right, Virginia, let's boogie." He said the look on my face when I went into his room was priceless. I met him on New Year's Eve of 1981 and 2014 will be five years he's been gone and I still miss him.
Posted by: Vivi at January 01, 2014 09:10 PM (+/8mE)
Check out his bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._I._Hayakawa -- he was not only far smarter than both Senators we have today, but was actually a funny guy -- as opposed to a witless hag who insists on servicemen not calling her "Ma'am."
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 09:11 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 09:49 PM (cubpP)
It's already been smelted, Anna. Smelting is term for recovering a metal from its ores. Those Roman ingots were relatively pure lead already. Now they might need further refining to be useful for the purposes of the physics lab, but clearly any such work would be done under clean conditions, so that Pb 210 from "new" lead would not be introduced.
Incidentally, I fail to see the conflict between archaeology and physics here. Archaeology doesn't need ton after ton of Roman lead; they have the ingot faces with the all-important stamps, and that's plenty, and those faces contain more than enough lead that samples can be taken to get isotopic "fingerprints" to identify the actual source mines.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2014 09:13 PM (8Fl6F)
Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2014 11:33 PM (sdi6R)
Careful - some greenie might take it seriously. A while back, had a discussion with someone who seriously suggested that as gas prices increased, airlines would seirously consider solar-powered airplanes.
After I pointed out the capabilities of various solar-powered airplanes compared to a simple Boeing, they became very quiet on that point.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at January 01, 2014 09:15 PM (ioT3q)
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 01, 2014 09:17 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Fox2! at January 01, 2014 09:25 PM (cHwSy)
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 01, 2014 09:27 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: mindful webworker - just another day at January 01, 2014 09:29 PM (5SlKF)
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 01, 2014 09:29 PM (AymDN)
Oh, crap. I remember that one now. Yet another episode that inflicted a case of the quivering heebie-jeebies. Well, at least it put me off compulsive gambling for life.
"I told my husband, Michael, about how it freaked me out and that joker rigged up a prank on my computer. He was a real tech wiz, and he fixed it so when I turned on my desktop, it said, in his voice, 'all right, Virginia, let's boogie.' He said the look on my face when I went into his room was priceless. I met him on New Year's Eve of 1981 and 2014 will be five years he's been gone and I still miss him."
Condolences. Holidays can be a tough time when one gets around to remembering all those who aren't there to enjoy them any longer.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2014 09:30 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: MAxLovin', AFT at January 01, 2014 09:45 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: The Farmer at January 01, 2014 09:45 PM (eBupg)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 09:46 PM (T1005)
Posted by: MAxLovin', AFT at January 01, 2014 09:46 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 01, 2014 09:48 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 01, 2014 09:50 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: MAxLovin at January 01, 2014 09:51 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 01:46 AM (T1005)
Worst case scenario?
In the long run, crafty evil will triumph over stupid evilÂ…
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 02, 2014 01:48 AM (AymDN)
We already have that. The Chicago Machine faced off against the Maverick in 2008.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 09:51 PM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 01:51 AM (T1005)
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If I was the promoter I would have withheld the purse because one of the boxers so obviously threw the fight.
Posted by: jc at January 01, 2014 09:54 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: MAxLovin at January 01, 2014 09:55 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子~ずっと at January 01, 2014 09:56 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at January 01, 2014 09:58 PM (X3xYu)
Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at January 01, 2014 09:59 PM (X3xYu)
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 01, 2014 10:02 PM (lZBBB)
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at January 01, 2014 10:05 PM (G5cc0)
hehehehehehe
*smell my finger?*
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 01, 2014 10:08 PM (LSDdO)
Posted by: Baba Wawa at January 01, 2014 10:11 PM (2ljO9)
Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at January 02, 2014 01:58 AM (X3xYu)
I should point out, BTW, that this has a lot to do with http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=346134#c21594928. I was changing over to AT&T U-verse, and they give you a router as part of the package, but it's a router YOU DON'T GET TO MANAGE, so I was planning on Daisy-chaining my own router downstream. Problem is, the AT&T router insisted on handing out 192.168.1.XXX addresses.
But here's the dealio -- If you're on my home net, like all my computers are, you're working with my semi-managed router, the EA4500. It's on a port of the AT&T router, like the televisions. I have secure wireless access and guest wireless access through my router, so I can provide my guests with somewhat secure guest access. I wouldn't tether a sacrificial goat outside the perimeter of my own router.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 10:13 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 01, 2014 10:19 PM (lZBBB)
429-
That seems like a safe setup, and I do the same here except I also have a VPN appliance back to my company on the outside leg. It would be interesting to put a PC with wireshark on the other side of the "home" router to see whet comes and goes through there that I don't expect.
Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at January 01, 2014 10:22 PM (X3xYu)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 10:22 PM (T1005)
Just tell your internal Router's DHCP to give out 192.168.2.xxx subnet...
Hell.... I'm using a Linus Based Firewall we make for our clients... which.... come to think on it... can keep track of all traffic crossing it.... ie... where its going...
May just have to turn on that feature and see what all my computer is sending out...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2014 02:19 AM (lZBBB)
If only it were that easy and straightforward. Like I said in last night's wall of text, it wants to give out 192.168.1.XXX, won't let you set alternatives, and if it detects 192.168.1.XXX upstream will change to THREE RANDOM NUMBERS. for the first three bytes. Honest-to-god, this concept had to come from someone in "consumer product marketing", 'cause they're the only people that far disconnected from reality.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 10:26 PM (T1005)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at January 01, 2014 10:27 PM (AymDN)
That seems like a safe setup, and I do the same here except I also have a VPN appliance back to my company on the outside leg. It would be interesting to put a PC with wireshark on the other side of the "home" router to see whet comes and goes through there that I don't expect.
Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at January 02, 2014 02:22 AM (X3xYu)
It's safe enough if you trust Cisco to generally build things right. If the NSA did compromise them, there is going to be the biggest equipment dump in history reeeeeeeaal ssoooooooon noooooooow. Or, as I'd expect, everyone will reflash their routers to non-Cisco BIOS. The EFF could make a fortune sourcing one.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 10:32 PM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 02:22 AM (T1005)
'Cause, needless to say, anyone who would unseal divorce records to win an election would plant kiddie porn on someone else's computer to mess with an "enemy" -- and probably owns a substantial collection already.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 10:38 PM (T1005)
We know noooothing.
Posted by: NSA at January 01, 2014 10:38 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 01, 2014 10:39 PM (lZBBB)
ATT? With the ampersand?
Run, don't walk, to obtain a different provider.
I have heard more horror stories than I can possibly relate.
Posted by: NSA at January 01, 2014 10:41 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at January 01, 2014 10:43 PM (X3xYu)
So it gives out 192.168.1.xxx.... and this is your outside perimeter router network side...
On your internal perimeter router... you set its outward (internet) Port to get IP auto (so it gets a 192.168.1.xxx address)...
on the Network side of your internal Router, set its Network IP to 192.168.2.1... and set its DHCP to give out 192.168.2.100 to 200, default gateway of 192.168.2.1
Your computers will get the 2.x subnet.... send it to your internal router... who will have a route to your External perimeter router automatically...
But you can then have some control over that traffic is passing because you will be in control of your internal perimeter router...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2014 02:39 AM (lZBBB)
Not configurable using internal/web configurators. I know it's in there, but it was a new router when I bought it and there are only factory tools to manage. I should probably have waited until someone did 3rd party BIOS and tools, but I got greedy about the hardware capabilities.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 10:48 PM (T1005)
Also, Herschensohn being caught going to strip clubs. After pandering to the socon bloc on culture-war issues. Which, if memory serves, he attempted to defend, saying, hey, I'm a grown man and there's no law against it.
He had been ahead in most of the polls up to that point.
Yet another case of the libertine-libertarian wing of the GOP trying and failing to get along with the socon wing of the GOP, and as a result, handing the seat to the Democrats.
Note: if you are the campaign manager for a libertine type running for office on a Republican ticket, try to not have the revelation of that come in the very middle of a campaign season, mmmmmmmmmkay? Get all that stuff out in the open BEFORE THE PRIMARIES, so the voters aren't surprised and so that your candidate doesn't look like a hypocritical asshole at general-election time.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2014 10:49 PM (gqT4g)
of the package, but it's a router YOU DON'T GET TO MANAGE, so I was
planning on Daisy-chaining my own router downstream."
ATT? With the ampersand?
Run, don't walk, to obtain a different provider.
I have heard more horror stories than I can possibly relate.
Posted by: NSA at January 02, 2014 02:41 AM (gqT4g)
Yeah, but the alternative is Comcast -- who wants me back so bad they keep sending collection agencies after me for the value of equipment I returned the day I told 'em to "get fucked" and still have the receipt for. And I have PERSONALLY more horror stories than I can possibly relate.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 10:50 PM (T1005)
Also, Herschensohn being caught going to strip clubs. After pandering to the socon bloc on culture-war issues. Which, if memory serves, he attempted to defend, saying, hey, I'm a grown man and there's no law against it.
He had been ahead in most of the polls up to that point.
Yet another case of the libertine-libertarian wing of the GOP trying and failing to get along with the socon wing of the GOP, and as a result, handing the seat to the Democrats.
Note: if you are the campaign manager for a libertine type running for office on a Republican ticket, try to not have the revelation of that come in the very middle of a campaign season, mmmmmmmmmkay? Get all that stuff out in the open BEFORE THE PRIMARIES, so the voters aren't surprised and so that your candidate doesn't look like a hypocritical asshole at general-election time.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 02, 2014 02:49 AM (gqT4g)
And, BTW, this entire line of discussion begs the question of why Senators are elected for life.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 10:52 PM (T1005)
http://kck.st/18YYOoh
Posted by: The Dude at January 02, 2014 02:58 AM (vJdyz)
I wouldn't. I already have a gizmo for sleeping -- http://tinyurl.com/nce23xz
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 11:03 PM (T1005)
Posted by: The Dude at January 01, 2014 11:17 PM (vJdyz)
The deal is, when you're awake there are muscles that hold your throat into the shape of a tube. When you fall asleep and have OSA, they relax, and the tube flattens. After a while, you run out of air and wake up enough to haul the tube back into shape, gasp a bit, then fall back to sleep. If someone is around to notice, you snore heavily, then stop breathing, then gasp for a while, then sleep for a bit and repeat.
So you end up chronically sleep-deprived, which can be a way of life
Problem is, you can be in "maintenance-level" OSA for years and years, and have it get scary-bad for no apparent reason at all. And by scary, I mean things like: waking up at work without knowing how you got there; not remembering the drive home; calling meetings for stuff you cared enough about to call a meeting.....then falling asleep in them; and random non-alcoholic blackouts.
That's where I was when I turned 40. I also had a primary care physician that I loathed and despised and considered incompetent, so as a 40th birthday present I changed to my present one. Night and day!!!!
I was referred to a sleep specialist -- a guy who confabs in the labs at Stanford -- had tests run (which showed frightening things about stuff like blood-oxygen levels......evidently, every night I courted dain-bramage), and got a box. For the first month, I awoke every morning feeling like a mule had kicked me in the chest (I found out years later that my prescribed pressure is the highest that my doctor has ever written), but the haze started clearing, I started getting sharper, I don't zonk out, and I've been the crazed, angry, insomniac Elder God of Chaos that you guys have come to know and.....well, know.
So when something claims to readjust my sleep levels, I make the Elder Sign at it and back away, fast. People don't know how blessed they are with regular sleep, and how much they'd miss it if it deserted them.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 11:26 PM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 11:31 PM (T1005)
Posted by: jc at January 01, 2014 11:39 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: jc at January 02, 2014 03:39 AM (PlzOe)
Not that I've found.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 11:42 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 01, 2014 11:49 PM (m3Cp/)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 01, 2014 11:51 PM (m3Cp/)
coat 3 of the breakfast nook floor. Roller. Not sure I like the finish. Need to look again in bright daylight, but coat 2 - paint brush - looked smoother ...
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 03:49 AM (m3Cp/)
Your texture depends on the nap on your roller -- if you used a fluffy one, it'll be rougher.
Are you painting the floors in ALL the rooms?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2014 11:52 PM (T1005)
Should I be proud of my self control or ashamed that I'm having so many bad thoughts in the first place?
- Chagrined in the New Year -
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 01, 2014 11:55 PM (LSDdO)
Yeah. Sure.
Next thing you know it's all Vanilla Sky and you're jumping off the top of a skyscraper cause tech support told you to.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 01, 2014 11:57 PM (LSDdO)
Should I be proud of my self control or ashamed that I'm having so many bad thoughts in the first place?
- Chagrined in the New Year -
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 02, 2014 03:55 AM (LSDdO)
Report to your nearest re-education center at once!
Posted by: NSA tech who reviewed drafts at January 01, 2014 11:57 PM (T1005)
Yeah. Sure.
Next thing you know it's all Vanilla Sky and you're jumping off the top of a skyscraper cause tech support told you to.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 02, 2014 03:57 AM (LSDdO)
Actually, the BH manages a tech support department -- so every time a moron calls tech support, remember to ask if they work for Cthulhu's Better Half.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 12:00 AM (T1005)
I'm talking about responding to something another commenter has said.
I find I'm actually trying to be NICE or something. Instead of my snarky old self.
I'm starting to kcufing CARE how my comment my be taken and don't want to hurt anybody's FEELINGS.
Good god. I'm turning into a WUSS. And I'm not even doing it because I want to get laid or anything.
- Sensitive in the New year -
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 02, 2014 12:01 AM (LSDdO)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 12:01 AM (m3Cp/)
Cause sometimes it feels like it's a dream (nightmare) and it would all be better if I could just wake up.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 02, 2014 12:03 AM (LSDdO)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 12:04 AM (m3Cp/)
Here's an example: You wrote about you painting your floor.
I was about to comment on that but realized you might not appreciate criticism or snark after all the work you've put in so I dropped the comment I'd written.
And I'm not just doing it here. I'm doing it other places too.
Now does that mean I'm nicer now or I was a grade A prick before?
- Are we be graded by the NSA for style? in the New Year -
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 02, 2014 12:07 AM (LSDdO)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 02, 2014 03:57 AM (LSDdO)
should watch Paprika
and I'm now $200 broker, damn end of the year sales on outdoor gear
Posted by: The Dude at January 02, 2014 12:09 AM (vJdyz)
I'm talking about responding to something another commenter has said.
I find I'm actually trying to be NICE or something. Instead of my snarky old self.
I'm starting to kcufing CARE how my comment my be taken and don't want to hurt anybody's FEELINGS.
Good god. I'm turning into a WUSS. And I'm not even doing it because I want to get laid or anything.
- Sensitive in the New year -
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 02, 2014 04:01 AM (LSDdO)
Here's the basic three-part test -- (1) are there people in this box that you have considered friends? (2) have you had a serious, possibly vicious, possibly profanity-laced disagreement with them in the past? (3) is there evidence that the two of you are still friends? If the answer to all three is "yes", then you need not self-censor more than you have been. If the answer to 1 and 3 are "yes" and 2 is "no", you're a wuss. If the answers to 1 and 2 are "yes" and 3 is "no", you're an asshole. If 1 and 3 are "no" and 2 is "yes", you smell like cat piss. If 1 and 2 are "no" and 3 is "yes", you may have Asperger's.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 12:11 AM (T1005)
No money for flooring at the moment and the old paint looks like crap ...
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 04:04 AM (m3Cp/)
So all the floors were painted concrete originally? That's odd, even for Phoenix.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 12:13 AM (T1005)
Big time. He wrote the screenplay for "Seven Days in May", about an attempted military coup led by General Burt Lancaster when President Karl Malden signs a nuclear weapons ban with the Soviets. It a liberal wet dream.
Still, most of his stuff avoids the soapbox. I pine for the days when movies actually had *scripts* and told *stories*.
Posted by: Brown Line at January 02, 2014 12:15 AM (U/x5B)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at January 02, 2014 12:16 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 12:16 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 12:17 AM (m3Cp/)
that said, I consider some friendly and who exhibit (through their choice of words and ideas expressed) thoughts and opinions similar to mine or that I can appreciate or respect.
2) usually those are me misunderstanding what someone's said OR them being a flaming asshole and I was having a bad day anyway.
I don't usually get in those situations. As if someone is an identifiable asshole, I just GAZE and move one. I might be more upset if I got jumped on by someone I respected but that doesn't happen much either cause most that I respect are cool and just GAZE me.
3) See 1
I actually think it's ME I'm trying to mollify or not do something I would think was stupid. Strange as that may sound.
I can operate on a very instinctive level where I don't examine what I'm doing too much but realize later that it was stupid and unworthy of me.
- Confused In the New Year -
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 02, 2014 12:18 AM (LSDdO)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 12:21 AM (m3Cp/)
That's where I've been trying to go.
I don't think that makes me a wuss, just tired.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 02, 2014 04:16 AM (qyfb5)
It's like the difference between sparring and survival. It's a good thing to wade into it to keep your skills up and your wits sharp.....but if you have a grudge the next day, your head's not on straight. Our priorities should run cleanly from the great to the small -- species survival trumps ideological survival; ideology (a la The Reformation) trumps nations; nations trump regions, families trump individuals....and, yes, I'm not unaware of the distortions involved in the middle there with Kennedys, Clintons, or Bushes.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 12:24 AM (T1005)
See, my sense of humor is all internalized. I'm thinking something that's a reference to something that happened 20 years ago and no one around me was there or has a clue. And I have a very deadpan delivery so most people in RL think I'm serious.
It makes for interesting first meetings. (usually never to be repeated)
Oh well. I guess it's okay if I'm questioning my sanity. It's when I stop that'll be the problem.
- muddling through In the New Year -
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 02, 2014 12:24 AM (LSDdO)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 12:28 AM (m3Cp/)
Unless it's a repeat offender.
there've only been a few of those. It's a very short list.
some of them regret having been on it.
(some of them don't even know they were on it and got "equalized")
I'm a big fan of equality in all things. (or at least equivalence)
eye == eye
Tooth == tooth
ETC.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 02, 2014 12:28 AM (LSDdO)
that said, I consider some friendly and who exhibit (through their choice of words and ideas expressed) thoughts and opinions similar to mine or that I can appreciate or respect.
2) usually those are me misunderstanding what someone's said OR them being a flaming asshole and I was having a bad day anyway.
I don't usually get in those situations. As if someone is an identifiable asshole, I just GAZE and move one. I might be more upset if I got jumped on by someone I respected but that doesn't happen much either cause most that I respect are cool and just GAZE me.
3) See 1
I actually think it's ME I'm trying to mollify or not do something I would think was stupid. Strange as that may sound.
I can operate on a very instinctive level where I don't examine what I'm doing too much but realize later that it was stupid and unworthy of me.
- Confused In the New Year -
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 02, 2014 04:18 AM (LSDdO)
(1) I have had the great pleasure of meeting several morons IRL, and have (so far) had my impressions confirmed.
(2) Relating to people through text masks nuances. It is very easy to get into a flame war about nothing more than a missed comma or autocorrect.....but if the people you are responding to acknowledge this, it's just as easy to get OUT of a flame war.
(3) Nobody wants to look back on their actions with regrets. Accordingly, one should make allowances in one's comments so that one can later say "I was mistaken; you were wrong; he's full of shit."
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 12:30 AM (T1005)
It's not that they let her out, it's that there's so many who DESERVE mercy who aren't getting it.
How about the guy who got railroaded and put in over 20 years in jail and the DA who did it to him gets 10 days in jail?
that's a bigger problem than some sick lawyer getting out. It's not like she's got a license to practice law during her final years.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 02, 2014 12:31 AM (LSDdO)
Good God. After 67 years maybe I'm finally growing UP?
Shit.
- Peter Pan in the New Year -
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 02, 2014 12:34 AM (LSDdO)
It's not that they let her out, it's that there's so many who DESERVE mercy who aren't getting it.
How about the guy who got railroaded and put in over 20 years in jail and the DA who did it to him gets 10 days in jail?
that's a bigger problem than some sick lawyer getting out. It's not like she's got a license to practice law during her final years.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 02, 2014 04:31 AM (LSDdO)
How 'bout this guy? (from Insty) -- http://nymag.com/news/features/chaneya-kelly-2014-1/?src=longreads
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 12:35 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 02, 2014 04:24 AM (LSDdO)
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As long as you don't feel my-zled.
Posted by: jc at January 02, 2014 12:41 AM (PlzOe)
Then she whined like a little biatch when they righteously sentenced her ass to the slammer for a good number of years. So my sympathy meter once again appears to be broken, as it refuses to nudge off of zero over her declining health and need for 'mercy'.
This happens to my sympathy meter on a regular basis these days.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 02, 2014 12:47 AM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 12:47 AM (m3Cp/)
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 12:48 AM (z4WKX)
Then she whined like a little biatch when they righteously sentenced her ass to the slammer for a good number of years. So my sympathy meter once again appears to be broken, as it refuses to nudge off of zero over her declining health and need for 'mercy'.
This happens to my sympathy meter on a regular basis these days.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 02, 2014 04:47 AM (wNF3N)
I dunno.....I'm fully prepared to let her loose.....in Guantanamo Bay, with "shoot on landing" orders from our troops there. She can swim to Cuba, swim to Florida, get eaten by sharks, or drown.....machts nichts.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 12:50 AM (T1005)
Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 02, 2014 12:51 AM (yh0zB)
The ex-wife has OSA. Has had it for years, actually. During the early 90s, I went to the library to research it because it had become a nightly thing. Yes, there were ways to get information prior to teh intertubes (as shocking as that might seem).
So, around '93, I finally persuaded her to go to the doctor about it; he of course ordered a sleep study. Worst Study Evah! as they found no evidence of apnea. I offered to record her nightly sessions and send that to the freakin' docs involved, but for whatever reason she didn't want me to do that.
So it continued, and got worse, until by the late 90s I couldn't hardly bear to sleep in the same bed as it meant listening to her halfway die 200 times a night. I don't sleep too soundly myself, and that wasn't helping a bit.
Finally around 2005 she went for another sleep study and was promptly prescribed a CPAP machine. She still uses one today.
In retrospect, I should have recorded it and played it back to her; maybe she wouldn't have let it go on for years and years. #alternate history
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 02, 2014 12:52 AM (wNF3N)
I would be happy if I could sleep all night w/o waking up after 3 am.
I'm going to run to CVS for prescriptions &'work (hopefully) from home.
I did not do all I planned to do from home Monday & Tuesday because I was too sick.
I will become very sick if I don't get one of my prescriptions.
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 04:48 AM (z4WKX)
Shoo! Shoo! You should be off gettin' 'em instead of talking to me! Though I would like to know how the tomatoes came out. But take care of yourself first!!!
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 12:53 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 12:53 AM (m3Cp/)
Yea well she's getting out (or is already out). She'll probably be on MSNBC as a Hero Of The People before the year is over.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 02, 2014 12:55 AM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 12:57 AM (m3Cp/)
The ex-wife has OSA. Has had it for years, actually. During the early 90s, I went to the library to research it because it had become a nightly thing. Yes, there were ways to get information prior to teh intertubes (as shocking as that might seem).
So, around '93, I finally persuaded her to go to the doctor about it; he of course ordered a sleep study. Worst Study Evah! as they found no evidence of apnea. I offered to record her nightly sessions and send that to the freakin' docs involved, but for whatever reason she didn't want me to do that.
So it continued, and got worse, until by the late 90s I couldn't hardly bear to sleep in the same bed as it meant listening to her halfway die 200 times a night. I don't sleep too soundly myself, and that wasn't helping a bit.
Finally around 2005 she went for another sleep study and was promptly prescribed a CPAP machine. She still uses one today.
In retrospect, I should have recorded it and played it back to her; maybe she wouldn't have let it go on for years and years. #alternate history
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 02, 2014 04:52 AM (wNF3N)
If my testimony helps a single moron.....
Seriously, though -- I come from a fairly long-lived bunch, but if there were treatments for OSA back then, each one would've probably notched another 5-10 years on the odometer. It's extremely widespread, very dangerous, and eminently treatable.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 12:58 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 12:59 AM (m3Cp/)
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 12:59 AM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 01:00 AM (m3Cp/)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 01:01 AM (m3Cp/)
So they are coming from here. Thought I was hearing things when that happened here.
Posted by: GMB at January 02, 2014 01:02 AM (nkPV9)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 01:02 AM (T1005)
Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 02, 2014 01:16 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 04:54 AM (m3Cp/)
Thanks, I shall. Driving the Subaru even though I want to take the Mustang really bad. Supposed to have snow west of the mountains though, so AWD Subie it is.
Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 02, 2014 01:17 AM (yh0zB)
If my testimony helps a single moron.....
OK I owe you now.
Hell that's certainly me... everything you described is normal for me. I wake up gasping sometimes, and that is some bad shit. But I hadn't thought about all the other effects you called out (a few of which I have).
Some nights, like tonight... I just swap between the blog and whatever is on the tee vee, because I am up. . And drinking bourbon- cause if I pass the F* out I seem to get more rest.
Maybe I will get that sleep study. and lay off the bourbon.
Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at January 02, 2014 01:32 AM (X3xYu)
Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 02, 2014 01:34 AM (yh0zB)
Wy do I hear gunshots from this blog? It started yesterday?"
When you mentioned shots comming from your computer yesterday, I assumed you were making a snarky comment regarding the normal " pushes shot of whatever type of alcohol through USB" type comments.
Posted by: PMRich at January 02, 2014 01:40 AM (KDUNf)
Posted by: PMRich at January 02, 2014 01:44 AM (KDUNf)
If my testimony helps a single moron.....
OK I owe you now.
Hell that'scertainly me... everything you described is normal for me. I wake up gasping sometimes, and that is some bad shit. But I hadn't thought about all the other effectsyou called out (a few of which I have).
Some nights, like tonight... I just swap between the blog and whatever is on the tee vee, because I am up. . And drinking bourbon- cause if I pass the F* out I seem to get more rest.
Maybe I will get that sleep study. and lay off the bourbon.
Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at January 02, 2014 05:32 AM (X3xYu)
I will positively cry tears of joy if (a) you do the sleep study, (b) you get the widget, and (c) it makes HALF as much a difference for you as it did for me. I will admit it now -- I was seriously scared. I'd been a snorer for years, I'd been a butt-dragger for years, and it just snuck up on me. The BH would ask, "how was traffic?", and I wouldn't have the faintest clue 'cause I'd sleepwalked home.
And, BTW -- it is independent of the bourbon. A lot of people try to self-medicate their way around this, but if you're not getting enough sleep because you're not getting air, it ain't helpin'.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 01:45 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 01:54 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Bean Pies, ey? at January 02, 2014 02:02 AM (Qev5V)
I don't find her symptoms and illness indicative that she will kick the bucket any time soon. Most of what they list is just due to old age. The anemia is due to her cancer meds. She's really gamed the system with all her delays and now this. One set of justice for leftys and another for the rest of us.
They are also trying to spring Judy Clark from prison. She was the get away driver on the Brinks robbery where they murdered two leos. Her and her co def kid was also raised by Ayres/Dohrn.
Posted by: Bean Pies, ey? at January 02, 2014 06:02 AM (Qev5V)
@487
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 02:07 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Bean Pies, ey? at January 02, 2014 02:15 AM (Qev5V)
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 02:24 AM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 02:28 AM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 02:55 AM (z4WKX)
I see that I'm not the only one who read "Apache," but saw "Super Cobra."
C'mon... this isn't hard.
Posted by: RobM1981 at January 02, 2014 05:19 AM (FgxCS)
Hitting a human-sized target at 2.5km? Holy smokes. That's as close to real-live magic as you'll see in your lifetime. That's insane.
Posted by: RobM1981 at January 02, 2014 05:24 AM (FgxCS)
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