February 25, 2014
— Maetenloch
I'll be on the road for the next week so the ONT will be a bit...unsettled. So expect the not so expected.
Thought For the Day: Anger Is Not an Agenda
Anger is not an agenda. And outrage, as a habit, is not even conservative. Outrage, resentment, and intolerance are gargoyles of the Left. For us, optimism is not just a message - it's a principle. American conservatism, at its core, is about gratitude, and cooperation, and trust, and above all hope.It is also about inclusion. Successful political movements are about identifying converts, not heretics. This, too, is part of the challenge before us.
-- Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)
Do Conservatives Keep "Falling in Love With Bad Boys" in Politics?
Matt Lewis:
Political candidates who pick the right enemies are too often supported, regardless of their failings. Most recently, we have seen this in the effort to oust Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell, of course, is no conservative hero, but conservatives were too quick to latch onto a flawed replacement.
Matt Bevin's campaign has been plagued with mistakes and odd revelations (did he really go to MIT?), the most recent of which is that he signed a letter in support of TARP. Bevin's in a different category from Trump and Nugent, but conservatives are supporting him for many of the same reasons, including the fact that he has the right enemy. For a lot of conservatives, it's better the devil you don't know than the devil you do.
Jazz Shaw:
No matter how much you may love to hear some people set their own hair on fire and spout out some really over the top, world class invective, Matt's point is a fair one. Winning in politics involves, well. winning, and there are still some lines that are only crossed at significant risk. Some actors on the political stage tend to cross - or completely shatter -those lines, and while the entertainment value is high, they risk becoming clowns in the eyes of many voters who may be more cautious. And when you endorse the clown, you become part of the circus by default.
Andrew Klavan on Purity vs Strategy
All my sympathies, in other words, are with the tea party. And I would truly love to see the RINO's skewered on their own horns.And yet. In general, Tea Party candidates tend to do well in congressional races where small, homogenous districts are in play. In Senate races where you need votes across an entire state, a primary victory for someone like Christine O'Donnell or Todd Akin may briefly fill the conservative heart with joy, but the loss of a Senate seat that could have been won is simply too high a price to pay for that momentary triumph.
We need to talk this out with good sense and without pompous ranting. Politics is the art of the possible. Writing belligerently purist articles, blog posts or comments is relatively easy. Winning elections is hard. Barack Obama is one of the most destructive presidents this country has ever seen, but a talented politician. If stopping him in his tracks requires stomaching some RINO's here and there, it seems a no brainer: It must be done.
A troubling, but plausible, argument from @ryanavent on why we need fewer workers: http://t.co/l9XiELKhAH
- Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) February 19, 2014
And Ezra Klein along with his number one most favorite-est president ever are just the guys to do it. Meanwhile there seems to be a bit of musical chairs going on as longtime journalists are being lured to new outlets by a media feeding frenzy. Which leads William Jacobson to declare that "Journalists" are the new no-money-down mortgages.
So we're somewhere on this curve and I'm guessing it's between greed and delusion:
Most front-line TSA agents despise the absurd rules they are ordered to enforce just as much as the public whose items are confiscated due to the rules. Ask almost any TSA employee what his or her least favorite part about the job is, and the answer will usually include a long list of managers, federal security directors, and other higher-ups.My six years at the TSA played out like a circus of absurd security regulations, presided over by a coterie of managers who, for the most part, made the Keystone Cops look competent.
There was the manager who was arrested for fleeing the police after being involved in a marijuana bust (and who was then back at work soon after, with barely a slap on the wrist). There was the manager who ordered all aluminum foil be confiscated from passengers due to the possibility of the boxes' serrated edges being used as weapons. There were the many managers who tried to have TSA employees terminated for gum-chewing - claiming that there were terrorists casing the airport, looking for gum-chewing screeners with their defenses down.
But in all my years at the TSA, the most absurd memo passed down from headquarters to front-line TSA employees - a memo that eventually took on legendary status among many screeners - came in 2012.One morning at briefing, my supervisor at the time - an old, gruff, no-nonsense man with an irreverent sense of humor - told us to gather around, as there was something important to brief.
"This comes down from the folks up in D.C.," he said. "So listen up."
The memo advised the entire TSA workforce that terrorists were plotting to use solar powered improvised explosive devices in order to harm aviation interests. But not to worry: TSA headquarters was on the case. The memo continued to explain that new technology was being explored in order to detect solar powered IEDs.
The supervisor tore his reading glasses off his face - whether he crushed the memo in his fist, I cannot remember.
"What the hell are these idiots up in D.C. talking about?" he asked. "Why would anyone need a solar powered bomb indoors, on a plane?"
Gibson Hollow Body Stratocasters and the Gell-Mann Effect
Can you spot the error in this newspaper article?
Seriously, if your gonna run an article on the Fender Stratocaster Jeff Beck is about as grand a Strat playing guitar god to showcase in a photo as you could find. And of course, that would be pretty easy to do. If you couldn't, it would be nice if they at least had him playing a Fender.
But a Gibson hollow body ?!?!?!?
Well I have one of both so to me a Gibson hollow-body stratocaster would be Teh Awesome. If it existed.
NY Post Reports the Capture of the Largest Handgun Ever Made!!
Or not assuming you have any idea about where the FNH Five-Seven gets its name from. Hint: The FNH Five-Seven fires a 5.7mm round which is about the same size as a .22 bullet.
Struggling New York Knicks point guard Raymond Felton allegedly pointed a huge, armor-piercing pistol at his estranged wife during a domestic dispute, sources said, and was arrested Tuesday morning for gun possession.Ariane Raymondo-Felton - who recently filed for divorce - brought the Belgian-made pistol, an FNH Five-Seven 28mm handgun to the 20th Precinct on the Upper West Side, and the starting point guard later turned himself in for questioning, sources said.
...Sources said the 28 mm handgun is one of the largest made, and that his wife took it from their home on West 63rd Street.
Never forget all the layers of fact-checking and the Murray Gell-Mann Effect:
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
10 Japanese Travel Tips for Visiting America
Beware the family-style 'dinner plate':
In Japan, each person eating gets as many individual dishes as needed for the meal. Sometimes more than 10 dishes per person are used. In America, there is a method where a large bowl or dish is placed in the middle of the table, and you take as much as you like from there, and put it on a big dish said to be a "dinner plate."
Limited vending machines - i.e. no lobsters, beer, or panties:
Vending machines in the United States just give carbonated beverages. Coke particularly. If you try to buy the juice from a vending machine when you're thirsty, it's just all carbonate. I pressed the button and thought it would be a nice orange juice, but carbonate came out. I love carbonated, but there are times when it will make you sick indeed.
But optimism and little fear of failure:
In Japan, there is great fear of failure and mistakes in front of other people. It is better to do nothing and avoid being criticized than to taste the humiliation of failure. As a result, there are things we wanted to do, but did not, and often regret.
In America, you can make mistakes, fail, and it doesn't matter. It is a fundamental feeling that to sometimes be incorrect is natural. In addition, rather than thinking about mistakes and failures, American's have curiosity and say, "Let's try anyway!"
Probably isn't a surprise to longtime fans. A lot of the references came from Lucas' love of WWII movie dogfighting scenes and from the effects house's use of whatever model pieces they could get their hands on.
...Steve Gawley, model maker for A New Hope recalls, "We didn't have any money at all! I don't think we bought anything new - even the furniture in the screening room was recycled from Goodwill. We had a relationship with Monogram, a model kit company in Hawthorne, California, so we were able to order certain plastic trees with kit parts from some of their models and to buy 'returns' that maybe had a part missing - chances are we wouldn't need that part anyway. We'd get tremendous discounts on that kind of thing."
The Millennium Falcon model is covered in just such model kits. Pictured here is the 5 ft. Falcon model, used during the production of Episode IV. The main structure of the ship was made from scratch, but much of the rich detail was added using existing model pieces. On the hull of the Falcon you will find pieces of Panther tanks, Tiger tanks, Messerschmitt 109 fighters, Kubelwagons, and many more.
Bill Murray Remembers His Friend and Longtime Collaborator Harold Ramis
"Harold Ramis and I together did the National Lampoon Show off Broadway, Meatballs, Stripes, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day. He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him."
And Ramis' open-mindedness.
Granted it was a pre-nose-job ScarJo but still. I sure hope he's dating Lena out of love for her scintillating personality and general joie de vivre because if it's for her money, he's earning it the hard way.
The AoSHQ group. Yeah.
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Posted by: The Political Hat at February 25, 2014 06:20 PM (XvHmy)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 06:22 PM (DmNpO)
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Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 25, 2014 06:28 PM (Q8vlx)
Wait, what?
I thought at the primary stage that O'Donnell and Akin were complete disasters waiting to happen, who filled my heart with utter dread. And then they showed themselves absolutely equal to proving my foreboding in full. They weren't just disasters, they were total catastrophes who caused severe damage in races in other states.
The persons whose "hearts were filled with joy" by Akin were McCaskill's campaign team. Akin was THE preferred candidate by them, and the state's Democrats heavily pushed crossover primary voting in order that Air Claire would face him in the general.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 25, 2014 06:28 PM (gqT4g)
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Posted by: [/i][/b]KG at February 25, 2014 06:33 PM (IPz9m)
I'm willing to accept that we'll lose fights. But don't roll over for the Dems and then come out smiling and slapping each other on the back and declaring how wonderful the deal is.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at February 25, 2014 06:33 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: Y-not at February 25, 2014 06:33 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 06:33 PM (DmNpO)
I loved the movie as a kid but those themes would never have occurred to me then. I caught the movie again on tv a couple years ago and the EPA thing popped right out at me. I mean, you have a very liberal looking bearded dude just totally on the warpath to shutting down the Ghostbusters. And at the end of the day, the Ghostbusters are triumphant.
There was also the dialog about when working in academia, you don't have to produce anything but in the private sector, they expect results.
When I saw the movie and was able to understand the implications of these themes, I was blown away that they were in a very successful Hollywood movie. I also thought to myself that most of the millions who have seen the movie probably didn't pick up on these themes at all.
Posted by: Iasonas at February 25, 2014 06:33 PM (FHNkr)
As for VW doubling down on stupid. I guess they want to move the plant to Mexico then. It won't move to Germany.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 25, 2014 06:34 PM (iVmdV)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2014 06:34 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 06:34 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 25, 2014 06:34 PM (Q8vlx)
Posted by: Black Orchid Points and Laughs at Hicks at February 25, 2014 06:34 PM (pS66t)
Why did they forget the space between my middle name and last name?
Posted by: Jack Anton Off at February 25, 2014 06:35 PM (uLtWl)
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Posted by: The Pope at February 25, 2014 06:36 PM (SY5xC)
I had a boss that married a very large rich woman. He would get new boats for Christmas a new Suburban for his birthday (not every year but often enough) and lived in a million dollar house on the lake. I said to my coworkers "all that stuff is just what I want but I couldn't make the payments"
Posted by: The Hickster at February 25, 2014 06:36 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: Y-not at February 25, 2014 06:36 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 06:37 PM (doBIb)
Black Orchid, the Blob or Pizza the Hut.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 25, 2014 06:38 PM (iVmdV)
Successful political movements are about identifying converts, not heretics. This, too, is part of the challenge before us.-- Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)
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Rino!!!!
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 25, 2014 06:38 PM (KlVdw)
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Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 25, 2014 06:39 PM (iVmdV)
That's it from me, be sweet to each other!Posted by: Black Orchid Saying Goodbye at February 25, 2014 06:39 PM (pS66t)
Good.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 25, 2014 06:40 PM (iVmdV)
Just a nitpick, wasn't it "It's true, this man has no dick"? Must maintain Ghostbuster purity, ya know...
Posted by: [/i][/b]KG at February 25, 2014 06:40 PM (IPz9m)
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Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 06:43 PM (ojnk6)
LOL
Sounds like something Iowahawk could troll Piers Morgan with. I certainly hope he chimes in. He's the king of twitter zingers.
Posted by: Iasonas at February 25, 2014 06:43 PM (FHNkr)
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Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 25, 2014 06:44 PM (Q8vlx)
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Posted by: Y-not at February 25, 2014 06:45 PM (zDsvJ)
I also have a feeling that most of Piers Morgan's followers on twitter are people who are laughing at him.
Posted by: Iasonas at February 25, 2014 06:45 PM (FHNkr)
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Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2014 06:46 PM (JMmQ9)
Maetenloch = RINO
Of course the Gibson Hollow Body Stratocaster exists; you saw it on the Internet, didn'tja?
Jeff Beck could play his shoestrings and make them sound good.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 25, 2014 06:47 PM (wNF3N)
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Posted by: freaked at February 25, 2014 06:49 PM (JdEZJ)
Posted by: L, elle at February 25, 2014 06:49 PM (0xqKe)
I'm in with the purist crowd.
Cruz >>Cornyn
I may just have to follow Louis' lead in GB II and file a judicial destrangement order against RINOs.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 25, 2014 06:49 PM (BAS5M)
Volkswagen is threatening to not build or expand their factories in the South if workers do not unionize under the UAW, and let the UAW help run the factory like German unions do.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=5104
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 25, 2014 10:20 PM (XvHmy)
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There's no chance I'm ever going to buy a VW, the wife was interested in one of the new Bugs, but that interest faded once she got into the tiny thing- no room. So if the Germans want to do business with the UAW, then they deserve all the fun that entails.
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 25, 2014 06:49 PM (KlVdw)
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Posted by: Darth Randall at February 25, 2014 06:55 PM (KlVdw)
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Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 25, 2014 06:56 PM (aDwsi)
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Posted by: RWC at February 25, 2014 06:56 PM (MtC8f)
Posted by: John McCain at February 25, 2014 06:56 PM (SY5xC)
Among them, no doubt, a bunch of extremely diligent meth tweakers who will be leaving the job with bursting files full of high grade identity-theft material. Should keep them busy for years.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 25, 2014 06:56 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at February 25, 2014 06:57 PM (U0t2o)
Posted by: MTF at February 25, 2014 06:57 PM (B+HTd)
They might as well move it to Detroit.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 25, 2014 06:58 PM (kVfSG)
Posted by: junior at February 25, 2014 06:58 PM (fsOaN)
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=228802
He says that he will post occasionally as the mood strikes him, but he has taken down his vast forum and archives. I've been reading and sometimes commenting since 2009. It was one of the most remarkable sites on the internet.
It was not unexpected, as he has been saying for some time that he would do it eventually. But the reality is upsetting. It's a great blow to those of us who like intellectual honesty, not to mention sanity. Posted by: rickl at February 25, 2014 10:48 PM (sdi6R) Hide posts from (sdi6R)
Had me panicked for a second there -- he has NOT taken down his archives. Just the forum.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 06:58 PM (T1005)
Posted by: rickl at February 25, 2014 06:58 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 25, 2014 06:58 PM (Eiwo7)
Does that Gibson Hollowbody Strat have a Pistol Grip?
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 10:32 PM (UhGsY)
Just a shoulder strap that goes up.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2014 06:58 PM (aYjRw)
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Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 07:03 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 25, 2014 07:03 PM (Q8vlx)
Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 07:03 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2014 07:05 PM (JMmQ9)
The thing is, the Germans _have_ done business with the UAW. It's just that it was a long time ago, and all the executives and managers who lived through it are in retirement (which begins early in der Vaterland).
Look up the history of VW's former Pennsylvania plant.
Really what this new push is about is VW corporate desperately trying to keep the peace on the German labor front.
German heavy industry is not in a good way. Some analysts are saying the end of manufacturing there is on the horizon. Germany has high quality and high productivity, but also sky-high labor and energy costs. Rising ones. Of course, management will instinctively look towards places where labor and energy are cheaper, such as the USA.
This obviously worries German workers. Who are watching the turmoil at Opel AG in Germany (and Goodyear France and Ford UK) and getting very nervous.
The German unionists at IG Metall, who swing a pretty big stick politically and within VW, figure that if they have a doubleheader disadvantage versus Stateside workers on energy and labor costs, at least they can cut that down to a single disadvantage, energy, if the US plant goes union and the labor costs go up.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 25, 2014 07:05 PM (gqT4g)
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Posted by: Iasonas at February 25, 2014 11:02 PM (FHNkr) Hide posts from (FHNkr)
That sometimes happens if you quote someone who has a link in their nic. Try sanitizing your post through Notepad.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 07:06 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 07:06 PM (DmNpO)
http://tinyurl.com/m9as6r6
I cannot forsee a time when we return to a culture of independence and reject the mob mentality when our fellow countrymen go to these great of lengths to fit in with hipsters of all people.
What. the. hell. is. wrong. with. being. different.
Quick, let's all run off and vote Democrat while we're trying to fit in.
We're doomed.
Posted by: Iasonas at February 25, 2014 07:06 PM (FHNkr)
Posted by: rickl at February 25, 2014 07:06 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Carol at February 25, 2014 07:07 PM (z4WKX)
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/02/24/harold-ramis-rip/
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 25, 2014 07:07 PM (IN7k+)
Posted by: Sheriff Bart at February 25, 2014 07:07 PM (qbfs7)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 25, 2014 07:08 PM (V70Uh)
Posted by: shredded chi at February 25, 2014 07:08 PM (cLLuC)
And if you guessed raising taxes, you are right. 1% sales tax hike. Originally it was only for roads, then it became roads and sewage. And 90% voted for it.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 25, 2014 07:08 PM (iVmdV)
Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 07:08 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 25, 2014 07:08 PM (Q8vlx)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2014 07:09 PM (JMmQ9)
Ahhh, a good commie.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 25, 2014 07:09 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Beagle at February 25, 2014 07:09 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: MTF at February 25, 2014 07:10 PM (B+HTd)
I must have diabetes. I couldn't feel a thing!
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 25, 2014 07:10 PM (Eiwo7)
Posted by: logprof at February 25, 2014 07:12 PM (X3GkB)
Posted by: RWC at February 25, 2014 07:13 PM (MtC8f)
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at February 25, 2014 07:13 PM (AQTz3)
Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 07:13 PM (doBIb)
Had me panicked for a second there -- he has NOT taken down his archives. Just the forum.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 10:58 PM (T1005)
OK, I see he does still have some Tickers up, but they're mostly recent ones. They're just a small fraction of what he has published.
Personally, I wish he would put the whole forum back up as read-only. There was a lot of good information and comments there.
Obviously, he reserves the right to change his mind at any time. Posted by: rickl at February 25, 2014 11:06 PM (sdi6R) Hide posts from (sdi6R)
I went in through the "Archive Access" thingie on the right, and it looked like they're still up. I use the one about the guy writing a check for childbirth and 3 days in the hospital all the time.
If you want to ask for the forum to go "read only", you could email him. Or if you just want to thank him for such great content over the years.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 07:13 PM (T1005)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 07:13 PM (ojnk6)
And libs laugh whenever someone brings up abstinence.
Yeah well, abstinence doesn't just protect against pregnancy and stds anymore, it also protects against leftist stupidity.
Posted by: Iasonas at February 25, 2014 07:14 PM (FHNkr)
Posted by: MTF at February 25, 2014 07:14 PM (B+HTd)
I see, thanks for the tip!
Posted by: Iasonas at February 25, 2014 11:07 PM (FHNkr) Hide posts from (FHNkr)
That's what she said.....
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 07:15 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Carol at February 25, 2014 07:15 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Jen at February 25, 2014 07:15 PM (XkXzn)
Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at February 25, 2014 07:16 PM (+1T7c)
Was from Detroit. Came to Mississippi to fight for civil rights in the 1970s, ie after the FBI had pretty much destroyed segregation and the Klukkers. Went to law school up in MN and then came back to Jackson. And was just recently elected mayor after defeating the incumbent mayor Hank Johnson in the Democrat primary.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 25, 2014 07:16 PM (iVmdV)
Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 07:16 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: rickl at February 25, 2014 07:17 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 07:18 PM (DmNpO)
Am I being cynical in thinking that a man could sign a sex contract, or whatever you call it, but the woman could still declare it void on a whim and have him prosecuted for rape?
Yes.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at February 25, 2014 07:18 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: grammie winger at February 25, 2014 07:18 PM (oMKp3)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 25, 2014 11:02 PM (iVmdV)
No shit? I had heard he was in bad health. So who takes over as mayor, and does this spell the end of the Republic of New Afrika?
Posted by: Country Singer at February 25, 2014 07:18 PM (uCYHf)
The Hanoi Jane thing is just her annual desperate cry for attention. Last year it was "I have freaky sex in my 70s!!!!! I'm so hip and cool!!" The year before that it was "Roger Vadim talked me into having threesomes when we were married!"
Fuck you, you traitorous, round-heeled syphilitic cunt. You're irrelevant. You've always been irrelevant. The only reason you're famous is because you kept Daddy's name, and took it up the squeekhole on the casting couch to get into the movies.
And fuck Daddy too, for raising a bunch of leftist cocksucking hippie scum kids.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2014 07:19 PM (aYjRw)
Posted by: Jen at February 25, 2014 07:19 PM (XkXzn)
Posted by: RWC at February 25, 2014 07:19 PM (MtC8f)
http://tinyurl.com/m9as6r6
Dear. God. No.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at February 25, 2014 07:19 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: grammie winger at February 25, 2014 07:20 PM (oMKp3)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 25, 2014 07:20 PM (WlWt+)
Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at February 25, 2014 07:21 PM (+1T7c)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 07:21 PM (ojnk6)
Only against future GOP candidates, never Dems.
Posted by: Iasonas at February 25, 2014 07:21 PM (FHNkr)
Posted by: RWC at February 25, 2014 07:21 PM (MtC8f)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 25, 2014 07:22 PM (Q8vlx)
Posted by: grammie winger at February 25, 2014 07:22 PM (oMKp3)
Posted by: lowandslow at February 25, 2014 07:22 PM (IV4od)
Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 07:22 PM (doBIb)
Add me to the club.
Need a sabbatical, away from the general attitude that is so prevalent here lately.
I can only take so much gloom and dooming.
So take care, good people, and don't EVER quit on your country.
I'll see y'all in the future.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 25, 2014 07:22 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: LegalZOOM.com at February 25, 2014 07:22 PM (qbfs7)
Posted by: logprof at February 25, 2014 07:23 PM (X3GkB)
Posted by: Beagle at February 25, 2014 07:23 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: CMU VET at February 25, 2014 07:23 PM (ejB0r)
Posted by: Pelosi Schmelosi at February 25, 2014 07:23 PM (jHf6U)
Posted by: LegalZOOM.com at February 25, 2014 07:24 PM (qbfs7)
Posted by: grammie winger at February 25, 2014 07:24 PM (oMKp3)
What makes a Colt lower so special?
Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 11:22 PM (doBIb)
The pony.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2014 07:24 PM (aYjRw)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2014 07:24 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: RoyalOil at February 25, 2014 07:24 PM (VjL9S)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 25, 2014 07:25 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 25, 2014 07:25 PM (dDf+N)
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina comprise a little more than 50,000sqmi. And that's what they wanted.
Posted by: Country Singer at February 25, 2014 07:26 PM (uCYHf)
Posted by: Beagle at February 25, 2014 07:26 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: irright at February 25, 2014 07:26 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: RWC at February 25, 2014 07:26 PM (MtC8f)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 25, 2014 07:27 PM (aDwsi)
Any of you folks been following the Justina Pelletier case in Boston?
If not- The Pelletier family has a 14 year old daughter who had been diagnosed at Tufts Medical Center with Mitochondrial disease and was receiving treatment from Tufts. While at home, she came down with the flu and her doctor at Tufts recommended a doctor who was a gastroenterolgist at Boston Children's Hospital (but used to work at Tufts). The parents took her to B.C.H, but the doctor they were supposed to see wasn't working that night and they got the guy that was. He seemed to think that Mitochodrial is a crock of shit and that the parents were abusing the daughter by making her take the treatments recommended by her doctor at Tufts. He said that the daughter had pyschological issues. The family disagreed with this doctor (who only had finished his residencey 7 months prior to this) and tried to leave Against Medical Advice, but he called security and refused to let them leave. The hospital the called the Dept. of Children and Families who came in and assigned the daughter as a Ward of the State. In court, a judge has up-held DCF's decision to make her a ward of the state. All this time she has been held in a psych wing, and has not been treated for the Mitochondrial disease and has been getting worse as a result.
As a nurse, I can't fathom what Boston Childrens Hospital or the judge overseeing the case is thinking. Haven't they ever heard of the Patient Bill of Rights? Somebody needs an ass-kicking for this travesty.
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 25, 2014 07:27 PM (KlVdw)
Good times.
Posted by: lowandslow at February 25, 2014 07:27 PM (IV4od)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 07:27 PM (T1005)
Posted by: junior at February 25, 2014 07:27 PM (fsOaN)
Posted by: shredded chi at February 25, 2014 07:27 PM (kdsFl)
Geez, Palmetto State Armory has stripped lowers for $99.
Posted by: Country Singer at February 25, 2014 07:28 PM (uCYHf)
Posted by: Daybrother at February 25, 2014 07:28 PM (Od8l0)
Posted by: logprof at February 25, 2014 07:29 PM (X3GkB)
It seems some colleges require essentially written permission from girls before its ok to sleep with them.
Failure to get said written permission may result in expulsion and permanent identification in legal circles as a sex offender.
Posted by: MTF at February 25, 2014 11:10 PM (B+HTd)
And the current state of contract law is somewhat...shaky, since the GM bondholders got screwed over.
Am I being cynical in thinking that a man could sign a sex contract, or whatever you call it, but the woman could still declare it void on a whim and have him prosecuted for rape?
Posted by: rickl at February 25, 2014 11:17 PM (sdi6R)
Chappelle Show - The Love Contract.
Posted by: buzzion at February 25, 2014 07:29 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Beagle at February 25, 2014 07:30 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: logprof at February 25, 2014 11:23 PM (X3GkB)
I was going off your figure of 50K.
Posted by: Country Singer at February 25, 2014 07:30 PM (uCYHf)
Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 11:08 PM (doBIb)
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I saw that. The really stupid part of the story is her major: Women's studies. 60K for women's studies... at least she can afford it... for now.
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 25, 2014 07:31 PM (KlVdw)
Good times.
In America, you can make mistakes, fail, and it doesn't matter.
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 25, 2014 07:31 PM (Eiwo7)
Posted by: MTF at February 25, 2014 07:31 PM (B+HTd)
Posted by: logprof at February 25, 2014 11:23 PM (X3GkB)
Trouble is it wouldn't be one-off. Blackmail never is.
Posted by: Graucho Marx at February 25, 2014 07:32 PM (kVfSG)
Just as Salem is hosting a fundraiser for old Mitch McConnell, you would think Hot Air, Townhall, etc. would inform their readers of that, but they haven't.
Posted by: lowandslow at February 25, 2014 07:32 PM (IV4od)
Posted by: rickl at February 25, 2014 07:33 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: grammie winger at February 25, 2014 07:33 PM (oMKp3)
Posted by: shredded chi at February 25, 2014 07:33 PM (kdsFl)
Couldn't she just learn that on the job and save $60k?
Posted by: The Hickster at February 25, 2014 07:33 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 25, 2014 07:34 PM (xrX4n)
Vote as you will.
Posted by: Great Reagan's Ghost at February 25, 2014 07:34 PM (LsJAk)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 07:34 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2014 07:35 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: RWC at February 25, 2014 07:35 PM (MtC8f)
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina comprise a little more than 50,000sqmi. And that's what they wanted.
Posted by: Country Singer at February 25, 2014 11:26 PM (uCYHf)
Of course, the fact that this would pull 48 historically solid GOP electoral votes out of the running has NOTHING to do with it, I'm sure.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2014 07:35 PM (aYjRw)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 07:35 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 07:35 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: MTF at February 25, 2014 07:36 PM (B+HTd)
Posted by: CMU VET at February 25, 2014 07:36 PM (ejB0r)
No spoilers, please. We're a week behind episodes here.
I've enjoyed the season alot but was hoping the Canadian mob would move into Harlan... maybe open a Tim Horton's there? And I think the Darryl Crowe character was a bit much (although I didn't mind suspending disbelief a bit for him). I think the older brother would be able to keep him more under control esp. regarding the social worker. Still, Darryl likes dogs so he's got that going for him at least.
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 25, 2014 07:37 PM (Eiwo7)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at February 25, 2014 07:38 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 25, 2014 07:38 PM (Q8vlx)
Yup, a Womens' Studies major will prepare you for the LSAT.
Posted by: CMU VET at February 25, 2014 11:36 PM (ejB0r)
Or more likely, a lucrative career in corporate HR.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2014 07:38 PM (aYjRw)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2014 11:35 PM (aYjRw)
Not in its original concept, since the idea first came around in the late 60s, when the South was still run by Democrats.
Posted by: Country Singer at February 25, 2014 07:38 PM (uCYHf)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2014 07:39 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 07:40 PM (doBIb)
Seriously, talk to the harridans on your HR staff. Betcha at least 1/3 or better are Women's Studies majors.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2014 07:41 PM (aYjRw)
If there is one place in the country where you're even less likely to prevail in court against the government than where I live in the People's Soviet Socialist Republic of Commiefornia, that worse place is the PSSR of Assholechusetts.
If these people want to have their parental rights properly respected, they need to move. Pronto. Oops! Too late. The omniscient omnipotent State (which wishes only the best for all and knows better than anyone) has its razor talons into them now.
"Citizen, you claim you have been abused by agents of the State. Another agent of the State will now hear your claim." (two second pause) "Denied."
Posted by: torquewrench at February 25, 2014 07:41 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 07:41 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at February 25, 2014 07:41 PM (HxSXm)
Posted by: irright at February 25, 2014 07:42 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 07:42 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 07:43 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Beagle at February 25, 2014 07:45 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: Country Singer at February 25, 2014 07:45 PM (uCYHf)
Posted by: torquewrench at February 25, 2014 11:41 PM (gqT4g)
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Both funny and sad at the same time.
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 25, 2014 07:45 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: puddleglum at February 25, 2014 07:46 PM (eA/2B)
Posted by: junior at February 25, 2014 07:46 PM (fsOaN)
Magic underwear? >>
Probably meant Wood not Bench and at that age a young guy doesn't even need to hold their hand to make a Bench.
Posted by: Zombie Ted Kenedy at February 25, 2014 07:47 PM (TI3xG)
It was Antioch College in Ohio what came out with the college sex contract in the early 1990's.
To wit: http://preview.tinyurl.com/m4xphfp
And a 2014 summary of the Consent Movement here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/mq47h7p
"What the affirmative consent standard requires is not just communication about sex; it's constant awareness that you may be raping your partner if you don't read the signals properly and if you fail to notice that there's some ambiguity to be cleared up."
Geez, did any of these hipster doofuses even ever have hot sweaty monkey sex before writing out this academic and theoretical treastise on how to seduce a hot and willing co-ed? [rhetorical question]
What a boner-killer if this protocol is/was actually followed.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 25, 2014 07:47 PM (BAS5M)
Posted by: rickl at February 25, 2014 07:48 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Thrawn at February 25, 2014 07:49 PM (WlWt+)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 25, 2014 07:50 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 07:50 PM (ojnk6)
183 What's all this witchcraft about Black Orchid leaving because she thinks Ace doesn't like her?
She thought Ace was making fun of rural people when he posted a story about two guys arrested for making cow porn. One was bonking the cow and the other was filming it.
The same post included a story about NY police who committed fraud by filing false disability claims for 9/11 and another one about a Manhattan guy arrested for drawing dicks on his girlfriend's artwork.
Personally, I thought the story about the police lying about 9/11 was by far the worst of the three. I don't see what's wrong with having Bessie be a fellow's co-star in a porn film. But then I'm from Wisconsin.
Posted by: Elmer's Testimony at February 25, 2014 07:50 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: sticklers for the physics of messes at February 25, 2014 07:50 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: Carol at February 25, 2014 07:52 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 07:52 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2014 07:52 PM (XyM/Y)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 25, 2014 07:53 PM (AymDN)
Look if you can't make fun of cow fuckers, then the terrorists really have won.
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 25, 2014 07:53 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2014 07:54 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: NCKate at February 25, 2014 07:55 PM (4KFgL)
Posted by: RWC at February 25, 2014 07:55 PM (MtC8f)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 07:56 PM (ojnk6)
Save the planet, recycle, and no having sex with anyone's garbage.
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at February 25, 2014 07:56 PM (/I/Y7)
Posted by: irright at February 25, 2014 07:57 PM (DtNNC)
True and the only connection for the 3 stories in that post was that in each one dicks were prominently displayed.
Posted by: The Hickster at February 25, 2014 07:57 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: Thrawn at February 25, 2014 11:49 PM (WlWt+)
Sounds fishy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 25, 2014 07:57 PM (kVfSG)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2014 07:58 PM (XyM/Y)
As long you stay away from the cows, "Mary".
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 25, 2014 07:58 PM (0AKks)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 07:58 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Beagle at February 25, 2014 07:58 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: The Hickster at February 25, 2014 07:59 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: RWC at February 25, 2014 07:59 PM (MtC8f)
Posted by: NCKate at February 25, 2014 07:59 PM (4KFgL)
Area woman will marry her bicycle;
Posted by: Thrawn at February 25, 2014 11:49 PM (WlWt+)
Sounds fishy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 25, 2014 11:57 PM (kVfSG)
*snort*
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2014 07:59 PM (aYjRw)
And New York. Which says more about New York then rural people.
Posted by: Adam at February 25, 2014 08:00 PM (Aif/5)
Area woman will marry her bicycle; Couple to honeymoon along CA coast
http://tinyurl.com/l5mhygq
Posted by: Thrawn at February 25, 2014 11:49 PM (WlWt+)
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Can a bicycle give consent? Sounds like rape to me.
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 25, 2014 08:00 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: Carol at February 25, 2014 08:00 PM (z4WKX)
In reverse order, the last five Republican presidential aspirants:
-- Mitt Romney
-- John McCain
-- George W. Bush
-- Bob Dole
-- George H.W. Bush
Yeah, what a bunch of hot sexy right-wing bad boys those lot are. Just bursting with the earthy scent of forbidden conservative fantasies. You know that right-wingers all over the country are breathing heavily at the thought and whispering "Take me now! Right here! You 'severe conservative' you!"
As I like to ask liberals who rant about Norquist's "drown the government in the bathtub" line, of those five GOP candidates, what is the grand sum total of the federal government departments that each one seriously proposed to eliminate? (Ans: zero.)
Posted by: torquewrench at February 25, 2014 08:00 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: OneQuestionTooMany at February 25, 2014 08:01 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 08:02 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2014 08:02 PM (XyM/Y)
Posted by: The Hickster at February 25, 2014 11:57 PM (TI3xG)
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That and the fact that the all took place in New York.
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 25, 2014 08:02 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 08:02 PM (DmNpO)
You do have to watch out for broken glass and metal items.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 25, 2014 08:03 PM (0AKks)
276 It was Antioch College in Ohio what came out with the college sex contract in the early 1990's.
Antioch ended up folding. I read a story about it quite a while ago. The place was insane. It made Berkeley and UW Madison sound like Baptist schools of theology in comparison. Antioch was for students who thought Oberlin was too repressive and reactionary. (And Oberlin's is crazy left by normal standards.) At one point they stopped issuing grades or any sort of core cirriculum - and the academic reputation of the school fell (and in the world of today's academia, you have to be pretty ridiculous to have that happen.)
Probably more significantly, they horribly mismanaged their finances . It's hard to believe lefty nutbags could be so bad with money, but there you go.
Posted by: Donna and V. (no ampersand) at February 25, 2014 08:03 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at February 25, 2014 08:04 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 25, 2014 08:04 PM (aDwsi)
Is that the bowfucker chick?
Maybe we can get her together with this guy. Sounds like a match made in heaven.
http://tinyurl.com/dfjvj9
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2014 08:04 PM (aYjRw)
Posted by: Zoophile Rights Now!!1! at February 25, 2014 08:04 PM (AymDN)
Do have a cow, man.
Posted by: Bart Simpson at February 25, 2014 08:04 PM (kVfSG)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2014 08:05 PM (XyM/Y)
Posted by: MTF at February 25, 2014 08:05 PM (B+HTd)
......
Are you serious?
I hate to seem I sensitive, but perhaps it's time to get some perspective.
They were fucking livestock.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 12:02 AM (DmNpO)
Honestly? If you're insulted by that because you think its making fun of rural people well suck it the fuck up. You know who's made a career out of insulting rural people in the same way that ace supposedly did? Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy. And I don't know where you grew up but in my little rural town surrounded by corn, cows, hogs and chickens we sure did make a lot of jokes about the other towns banging sheep. Including references to gloves with Velcro on them.
Posted by: buzzion at February 25, 2014 08:05 PM (LI48c)
I'm a rural guy and I have no interest in fucking my friends cows. So linking that story to me being offended never crossed my mind. Though I am thinking a little about the Dairy farmers wife at the moment.
Posted by: The Hickster at February 25, 2014 08:06 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: Shoey at February 25, 2014 08:06 PM (vA94g)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 12:02 AM (DmNpO)
At least it wasn't deadstock.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 25, 2014 08:07 PM (kVfSG)
Posted by: Carol at February 25, 2014 08:07 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2014 08:07 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Special Snowflake at February 25, 2014 08:08 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Radical Feminist Zoophile at February 25, 2014 08:08 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 08:08 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2014 08:09 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Necro-Bestiality Advocate at February 25, 2014 08:09 PM (AymDN)
Well sure he'd probably hate you. If he gave you any thought.
Plus you're not taking into account all the Ewokian self-loathing.
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 25, 2014 08:10 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 08:10 PM (rDidD)
I saw Fucking Livestock open for the Supersuckers at the San Luis Obispo County Fair back in '05.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2014 08:10 PM (aYjRw)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 08:10 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at February 25, 2014 08:11 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 08:11 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: The Hickster at February 25, 2014 08:12 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: Shoey at February 25, 2014 08:12 PM (vA94g)
Sven!!!!
How ya been, buddy?
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 08:12 PM (T1005)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 08:13 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 25, 2014 08:14 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 12:10 AM (DmNpO)
Not meant as a criticism to you. Its an extension of the point you made in my own view of it.
Posted by: buzzion at February 25, 2014 08:14 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 12:07 AM (TE35l)
Pretty much. No accountability for the republicans, no accountability for the democrats, no responsibility taken by anyone.
Just decadence and sloth. Sitting on our couches collecting welfare all day writing cowboy poetry. And thinking of how to screw over everybody else.
And the GOP doesn't want to do anything to stop any of it and actively fights people who do.
Got it. Fuck those purists.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 08:14 PM (buZ/8)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2014 08:14 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at February 25, 2014 08:14 PM (HxSXm)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 08:15 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 25, 2014 08:15 PM (gBnkX)
Posted by: NCKate at February 25, 2014 08:15 PM (4KFgL)
Posted by: MTF at February 25, 2014 08:16 PM (B+HTd)
Posted by: RWC at February 25, 2014 08:17 PM (MtC8f)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 08:17 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 08:17 PM (DmNpO)
The GOP nationals have backed so many losers over the years that the Akin and O'Donnell thing is pathetic. But is a oft used talking point by apologists for the GOP.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 08:18 PM (buZ/8)
*wipes tear from right eye*
She was MY girlfriend, and that was MY bike!
Posted by: Charles Johnson at February 25, 2014 08:18 PM (vgH+s)
Posted by: Mr. Dave at February 25, 2014 08:19 PM (Mxy9R)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2014 08:19 PM (XyM/Y)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 08:19 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 25, 2014 08:19 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 08:20 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2014 08:20 PM (XyM/Y)
I have made my preferences known. The GOP can give me a cnadidate I am not ashamed to vote for or I will not vote. It's not even worth discussin any more than that.
Posted by: Methos just doesn't give a crap anymore at February 25, 2014 08:20 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 08:20 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: NCKate at February 25, 2014 08:21 PM (4KFgL)
Posted by: A Fish at February 25, 2014 08:21 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 08:21 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 08:22 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2014 08:22 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 25, 2014 08:22 PM (aDwsi)
Purity vs Strategy reminds me of Band-Aids, do you remove 'em slowly or just yank it off to get it over with?
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 25, 2014 08:23 PM (KlVdw)
This most likely is because your G is less insecure about his weenie than their G
Posted by: The Hickster at February 25, 2014 08:23 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: MTF at February 25, 2014 08:23 PM (B+HTd)
Posted by: The Cow at February 25, 2014 08:24 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 08:25 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 08:25 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 08:25 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 25, 2014 08:26 PM (KlVdw)
Reminds me of this: http://youtu.be/UOKkl35wIvw
Yes, it's terrible.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 25, 2014 08:26 PM (0AKks)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 08:27 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: MTF at February 25, 2014 08:27 PM (B+HTd)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 08:28 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2014 08:28 PM (XyM/Y)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2014 08:28 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 08:29 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: MTF at February 26, 2014 12:27 AM (B+HTd)
And her face once had actual skin on it!
Posted by: buzzion at February 25, 2014 08:29 PM (LI48c)
He used 13 to 58 gauge strings if i remember right, those things are basically thick cables on that guitar neck, puts tons of stress on 'em not to mention his fingers which were probably like petrified wood with the callous that must have been on them.
Posted by: booger at February 25, 2014 08:29 PM (xRDdL)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 25, 2014 08:29 PM (Eiwo7)
Posted by: iright at February 25, 2014 08:29 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2014 08:29 PM (XyM/Y)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 08:30 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: rickl at February 25, 2014 10:48 PM (sdi6R)
And it's a checkpoint. Karl's stopping most of the operation implies that he knows we're past the point of no return. Frankly I think he's had too much optimism for two years now, but it's still sad to see him (at least mostly) go.
Posted by: Methos just doesn't give a crap anymore at February 25, 2014 08:30 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2014 08:30 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Minotaur at February 25, 2014 08:31 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 26, 2014 12:29 AM (Eiwo7)
And for the record the supreme court has ruled that garbage is considered abandoned property. So you're free to fuck it. :-)
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 25, 2014 08:31 PM (pAlYe)
My god's better than your god.
Posted by: Ken L. Ration at February 26, 2014 12:30 AM (kVfSG)
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Nuh uh.
Posted by: Pure E Nuh at February 25, 2014 08:31 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 08:31 PM (ojnk6)
You're all missing the point with the cow porn.
The farmer called the cops because someone else was messin' round with his ladies.
It was the jealousy that caused that phone call.
Posted by: PMRich at February 25, 2014 08:31 PM (KDUNf)
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at February 25, 2014 08:31 PM (AQTz3)
Posted by: NCKate at February 26, 2014 12:21 AM (4KFgL)
This McClatchy article states:
"The pharmaceutical, and securities and investment industries are among the top contributors to the North Carolina Democrat, widely viewed as one of the more vulnerable incumbents in this yearÂ’s mid-term elections."
AKA Many big banks, investment firms, and pharma. Pigs at the current trough. Another big contributer from the FEC filing was Insurance companies and Lawyers.
Kay has around 7 million cash on hand as of Dec 31 2013.
"She has long been one the industryÂ’s leading recipients of money, ranking second among her Senate colleagues to Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan campaign financial watchdog group."
Huh. I wonder why the Republicans are not backing repeal anymore. Oh yes. They are paid not to.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 08:31 PM (buZ/8)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2014 08:31 PM (XyM/Y)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 08:31 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2014 12:29 AM (XyM/Y)
Where is the zero point?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 25, 2014 08:32 PM (kVfSG)
Posted by: booger at February 25, 2014 08:32 PM (xRDdL)
Posted by: The Heap from Fraggle Rock at February 25, 2014 08:33 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 26, 2014 12:30 AM (rDidD)
Considering how they have to check to see if the cow is pregnant, yeah she didn't feel a thing from that.
Posted by: buzzion at February 25, 2014 08:33 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: eman at February 25, 2014 08:34 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2014 08:34 PM (XyM/Y)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2014 08:34 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 08:34 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: MTF at February 25, 2014 08:34 PM (B+HTd)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 08:34 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: buzzion at February 25, 2014 08:35 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: KinLa at February 25, 2014 08:35 PM (wbdlB)
....
I cried when he got lost in the woods.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 12:34 AM (DmNpO)
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Come on now, we all know he was running from Hanoi Jane.
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 25, 2014 08:35 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2014 08:35 PM (XyM/Y)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2014 08:36 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: NCKate at February 25, 2014 08:36 PM (4KFgL)
Truly an inspiration to us all.
Posted by: Zombie Andrew Mendoza at February 25, 2014 08:36 PM (vgH+s)
I believe the link you tried was the infamous I M G U R that Pixy's blog software automatically censors.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 08:36 PM (T1005)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 08:37 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: See You Next Tuesday at February 25, 2014 08:37 PM (DAevm)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2014 12:29 AM (XyM/Y)
Well I give you 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012. Democrats hating republicans and GWB and his wars won them 2006, 2008. The backlash against the democrats and anger over the medicare cuts/healthcare bill won the house for the republicans in 2010. The democrats won 2012 with Mitt Romney as Satan and forcing women to keep their rape babies, etc, etc.
Rage works pretty well for the mindless automaton American voter.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 08:38 PM (buZ/8)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 08:38 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 25, 2014 08:39 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: NCKate at February 25, 2014 08:40 PM (4KFgL)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 25, 2014 08:41 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 08:41 PM (rDidD)
Was looking for the Dirty jobs episode and found this. If you don't watch, the guys talk is funny (probably a stage talk somebody put video to) but the visual not so much. But the visual does show how little a cow would notice a mans penis.
http://tinyurl.com/lgjrky4
Posted by: The Hickster at February 25, 2014 08:41 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 25, 2014 08:41 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: The Smiths at February 25, 2014 08:42 PM (X3GkB)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 25, 2014 08:42 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 25, 2014 08:42 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: irright at February 25, 2014 08:42 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 08:42 PM (rDidD)
Ask you's wife.
/memory lane mirror site
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 25, 2014 08:43 PM (Eiwo7)
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Nuh uh.
Posted by: Pure E Nuh at February 26, 2014 12:31 AM (KlVdw)
________________
Fuck you guys.....
Posted by: Al Po at February 25, 2014 08:43 PM (jucos)
I just love the passive-aggressive tone of Maet's collection of articles. Yes, of course, we're angry and unhinged.
We have nothing to offer other than expecting the GOP to stick to their offers. Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 25, 2014 08:44 PM (gBnkX)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2014 08:45 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: RWC at February 25, 2014 08:45 PM (MtC8f)
All I'm really asking right now is to put a leash on the runaway government and scale it back. They won't even give me that
A good amount of this is generational. One of the best things that could happen to the GOP would be if every GOP senator over say the age of 67 retired or died peacefully in their sleep overnight.
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 25, 2014 08:46 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: logprof at February 25, 2014 08:46 PM (X3GkB)
The Vikings series is a prime example and then I see the previews to the sequel to 300. Political correctness has destroyed is.
Posted by: See You Next Tuesday at February 26, 2014 12:37 AM (DAevm)
I hate commercials now. They are getting really repetitive. Every woman is a genius and their male friend (not gay because that is a hate crime)/ boyfriend/ husband is a complete and utter incompetent idiot. It is getting really old.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 08:46 PM (buZ/8)
People need to realize ace hates most of us. No one is a special snowflake.Posted by: RWC at February 25, 2014 11:21 PM (MtC8f)
That made me chuckle. Don't know whether it's true or not; it's funny either way. That he hates us, I mean. I already know "No one is a special snowflake."
Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at February 25, 2014 08:46 PM (XbMaT)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 08:46 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 25, 2014 08:46 PM (xrX4n)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 25, 2014 08:47 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: RWC at February 25, 2014 08:47 PM (MtC8f)
Posted by: buzzion at February 25, 2014 08:48 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 26, 2014 12:46 AM (pAlYe)
Oh god. Please let this happen.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 08:48 PM (buZ/8)
Just read on Dan Riehl's Twitter account that Tommy Christopher may be out the door at Mediaite.
So let's see... that makes three heads on pikes: Alec "Toxic Queen" Baldwin, Piers "Leftist Limey" Morgan, and now Christopher.
Call me crazy, but it seems like conservatives are finally getting a little bit of social power to go along with their righteous anger.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 25, 2014 08:48 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at February 25, 2014 08:49 PM (AQTz3)
Posted by: mpfs at February 25, 2014 08:49 PM (6y1fO)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2014 08:49 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: logprof at February 25, 2014 08:49 PM (X3GkB)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 08:49 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: NCKate at February 25, 2014 08:50 PM (4KFgL)
Posted by: buzzion at February 26, 2014 12:48 AM (LI48c)
Yeah. We really stuck it to them with the sequest. . . immigra. . . obamacar. . .
You just don't understand tactics. You are just being hysterical.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 08:50 PM (buZ/8)
Wahlberg's not 60 years old like Mel Gibson (or 80 like Clint Eastwood) either, so maybe there's still a little bit of room for hope...
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 25, 2014 08:50 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 26, 2014 12:49 AM (Eiwo7)
Well hey I'm not a monster.
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 25, 2014 08:51 PM (pAlYe)
http://tinyurl.com/2c4war3
Worse or Better?
link to The Smoking Gun
Posted by: The Hickster at February 25, 2014 08:52 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 08:52 PM (rDidD)
Doesn't anyone here read Patterico?
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 25, 2014 08:52 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 25, 2014 08:53 PM (gBnkX)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 08:54 PM (At8tV)
The moment that Jordan Belfort is introduced to Marcus Luttrell.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 25, 2014 08:54 PM (HVI5a)
Doesn't anyone here read Patterico?
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 26, 2014 12:52 AM (HVI5a)
Tommy Christopher getting the boot was covered at the end of the Piers Morgan thread today.
Posted by: buzzion at February 25, 2014 08:54 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 08:54 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 25, 2014 08:55 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 08:56 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: rickl at February 25, 2014 08:56 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 25, 2014 08:56 PM (gBnkX)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 08:57 PM (X9Mnx)
In the case of the Dems, it isn't necessary to make up lies, it is only necessary to accurately describe what they are/have been doing. The difficulty is, as usual, getting the media to present the story.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 26, 2014 12:41 AM (aDwsi)
Well it doesn't help that most of the GOP elected and consultant class pisses their pants whenever a democrat or media person criticizes them.
It also doesn't help that they don't believe anything they say. I really think most of them sound like they are reading from an internal script that they have memorized from their talking points.
And it also doesn't help that they have shown no compunction to actually live up to their words with their actions.
Why bother.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 08:57 PM (buZ/8)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 25, 2014 08:57 PM (xrX4n)
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 08:58 PM (ABUkj)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 08:59 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 09:00 PM (At8tV)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 12:56 AM (DmNpO)
Isn't that just a recut/edited version of the history channel Bible miniseries?
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 09:00 PM (buZ/8)
Conservatives seem to finally be getting good at reaching people through mass media. We finally have someone besides just Rush to kick ass and take names. Don't understand why I'm crazy for thinking that's VERY good news and something we should be nurturing, rather than just sitting back waiting for the big burning.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 25, 2014 09:00 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: See You Next Tuesday at February 25, 2014 09:00 PM (DAevm)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 26, 2014 12:59 AM (rDidD)
WTF kind of news-speak propoganda bullshit is that?
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 09:00 PM (buZ/8)
Posted by: logprof at February 25, 2014 09:01 PM (X3GkB)
Posted by: mpfs at February 25, 2014 09:01 PM (6y1fO)
Rosie O'Donnell releasing her own line?
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 25, 2014 09:01 PM (Eiwo7)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 09:01 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 25, 2014 09:01 PM (gBnkX)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2014 09:02 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 09:02 PM (At8tV)
As for storing her head outside in the snow, apparently there's a bunch of other heads stored in the snow, too. I didn't catch the explanation for it if it was given earlier when one of the facility guys went looking for one, but the precedent had been there.
Posted by: Methos just doesn't give a crap anymore at February 25, 2014 09:03 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 09:03 PM (At8tV)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 26, 2014 01:01 AM (gBnkX)
Many things woosh over his head.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 09:03 PM (buZ/8)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 25, 2014 09:03 PM (gBnkX)
Posted by: logprof at February 25, 2014 09:04 PM (X3GkB)
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 09:04 PM (ABUkj)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:04 PM (rDidD)
500
y'all see the story on Drudge about the irs calling the obamacare tax a "shared responsibility payment?"
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 26, 2014 12:59 AM (rDidD)
WTF kind of news-speak propoganda bullshit is that?
Posted by: NWConservative at February 26, 2014 01:00 AM (buZ/
Hide posts from (buZ/
I believe that particular bit of Newspeak propaganda is what it's called in the 2500-page abomination sleazily passed by Congress.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 09:05 PM (T1005)
I for one think it's great that conservatives don't have to beg Stalinist moneybags like Harvey Weinstein to make our own movies anymore, only to get sucker punched in the end (see: Russell Crowe's upcoming "Noah"). Instead nowadays, we can just go around 'em.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 25, 2014 09:06 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 09:06 PM (ABUkj)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 09:06 PM (At8tV)
Posted by: logprof at February 25, 2014 09:06 PM (X3GkB)
Posted by: logprof at February 25, 2014 09:08 PM (X3GkB)
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 09:08 PM (ABUkj)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 25, 2014 09:09 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 09:09 PM (X9Mnx)
Have heard good things and... bad things. Supposedly a limited-edition blu-ray is coming out of it this spring.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 25, 2014 09:09 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: logprof at February 26, 2014 01:06 AM (X3GkB)
The problem is, is that Mexico is really looking better than the US. So much so that we actually have more illegal aliens leaving the US than coming in since there has been such a downturn in work here.
Yet idiot Americans voted for more of the same.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 09:09 PM (buZ/8)
Er, is that not the one where the Devil has been conveniently edited out?
The Devil is, it has to be admitted, a pretty central character of the Bible as it has traditionally been known and taught.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 25, 2014 09:10 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 25, 2014 09:10 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: grammie winger at February 25, 2014 09:10 PM (oMKp3)
I'm sure, if it is the same series as on the history channel, it was because the actor playing the devil looks very much like Obama.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 09:12 PM (buZ/8)
Roma Downey can produce your Christian movie, and the devil can get left on the cutting room floor.
Or Harvey Weinstein can produce your movie, and by the time he's done with it people will think that all Christians are Carrie White's mom, only with less good looks and personality, and that Islam is the wave of the future.
Which would you choose?
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 25, 2014 09:12 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: sp101 at February 25, 2014 09:13 PM (vlBpS)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 25, 2014 09:14 PM (Eiwo7)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 09:14 PM (T1005)
Something like: Every night, at 8:30pm, a default ONT goes up (defaults to 2 latest postings with most hits on each of Drudge, HotAir, and FOXNews), which of course nobody reads, and the moronic comments go live.
Howzzat, hunh? Any voters for it out there? Totally doable.
Posted by: sp101 at February 26, 2014 01:13 AM (vlBpS)
Nah. All we need is a fat guy, a picture of a can of soda, and a puppy.
Posted by: buzzion at February 25, 2014 09:15 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 09:15 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 26, 2014 01:10 AM (HVI5a)
Pretty much. The GOP and the Democrats are complete economic illiterates and are ramming our country and its middle class into the ground.
Which ironically, is getting illegal aliens, in the words of Romney, to self deport.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 09:15 PM (buZ/8)
We should start a write in petition to get rid of Holder because he sucks. He's just another Chicago thug, even if I am not sure if he is from Chicago.
Posted by: Carol at February 26, 2014 12:07 AM (z4WKX)<<<
I was watching that too. Seething. Because a thought popped into my head earlier today when I heard what he's been saying.
That piece of shit and his ilk are the kind that bend over backward to defend terrorists (with his old law firm), or murderers, or all kinds of the worst shit-stains that end up in court. Often they gravitate to these reprehensible people and are able to muster up vigorous, sometimes twisted defenses for their client. Amazingly!
So they'll say, and I realize, a lawyer doesn't necessarily condone or support a client's actions, and that even worst of the worst need
representation. I get that. It is our system.
But then it becomes laughable for Steadman to claim that, for AGs, it's just peachy not to fight for a law that you personally think is indefensible. A law
that was passed by a legislative body, or by a vote of the
people, and becomes an AG's sworn duty to stand up for.
That's our system too, you chinless dickhead. If you don't like it, or it's too damn hard, then find another fucking job.
Posted by: Hate Miser at February 25, 2014 09:16 PM (UIxS+)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:16 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: buzzion at February 26, 2014 01:15 AM (LI48c)
HAHAHAAHAA!!
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 09:16 PM (buZ/8)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:20 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: irright at February 25, 2014 09:21 PM (DtNNC)
That'sa spicy meatball...........
Posted by: Richard Gere at February 25, 2014 09:21 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:23 PM (rDidD)
You didn't see nothin'. Now let's have no more curiosity about this bizarre cover-up.
Posted by: Old MacDonald at February 25, 2014 09:23 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2014 01:06 AM (ABUkj)
Yeah, you really can't trust those yoga fuckers.
Posted by: Michael De Santa at February 25, 2014 09:23 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:24 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 25, 2014 09:25 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: logprof at February 25, 2014 09:25 PM (X3GkB)
Posted by: Butters at February 25, 2014 09:25 PM (ABUkj)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2014 09:26 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Andi Sullivan at February 25, 2014 09:26 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 09:26 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 25, 2014 09:26 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: rickl at February 25, 2014 09:27 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: logprof at February 25, 2014 09:28 PM (X3GkB)
Posted by: buzzion at February 26, 2014 01:15 AM (LI48c)
Don't forget the pointy elbows.
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 26, 2014 01:26 AM (AymDN)
I said all we need, not what we want.
Posted by: buzzion at February 25, 2014 09:28 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:28 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 25, 2014 09:28 PM (Eiwo7)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 09:29 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at February 25, 2014 09:29 PM (AQTz3)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:30 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 09:30 PM (T1005)
The act that caused so much agony is known in the gay community as "felching". This involves the insertion of a cardboard tube into the rectum followed by the introduction of a rodent (usually a Gerbil), which is forced up the tube into the lower intestine. Problems started when Bustone could not retrieve the Gerbil from Rodriguez's anus. Rodriguez had orgasmed and demanded the removal of the rodent. Bustone however could not see up the tube. To help him see, he lit a match lighting intestinal gas tapped in the tube. The flame shot up the tube lighting the the fur of the Gerbil, and detonating a larger pocket of Gas behind the hapless animal.
The ensuing explosion shot the flaming Gerbil down the pipeline into Bustone's face causing the burns. Sheriff Hugo Root told the Reporters "It serves ['em] right".
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 26, 2014 01:23 AM (rDidD)
Lemmiwinks! Noooooo!
Posted by: Butters at February 25, 2014 09:30 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 09:31 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 25, 2014 09:31 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 09:31 PM (ABUkj)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 09:31 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: logprof at February 25, 2014 09:31 PM (X3GkB)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:32 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 09:32 PM (ABUkj)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 09:33 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 09:33 PM (ojnk6)
Where wanting a balanced budget or some defence of American culture=fringee crank.
Go ahead, let's see what your cowardice gets us. I can't wait for November to not do anything.
Posted by: Methos just doesn't give a crap anymore at February 25, 2014 09:33 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 09:34 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 25, 2014 09:34 PM (Eiwo7)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:34 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 09:36 PM (T1005)
Being popular on the Internet- not so much.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 01:31 AM (X9Mnx)
OH NO. The pre-goldwater days!!!!! OH NOES!!!1!!1!!!
Like in those days when the Democrats were busy re-segregating the military, showing live viewings of a birth of a nation in the white house, putting people in jail for sedition, packing the supreme court, dangerously expanding the commerce clause, and being general racists.
Yeah Calvin Coolidge and Harding were TEH DEBIL!!1!!1!
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 09:36 PM (buZ/8)
Posted by: more worried about those walking on the carpet than those rubbing their taints on it at February 25, 2014 09:37 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:37 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 09:37 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 09:37 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:38 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 09:38 PM (At8tV)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 09:39 PM (At8tV)
Go ahead, let's see what your cowardice gets us. I can't wait for November to not do anything.
Posted by: Methos just doesn't give a crap anymore at February 26, 2014 01:33 AM (hO9ad)
Calm down. You're being hysterical. You are going to vote for the GOP and you are going to LIKE it when they rubber stamp everything Obama wants because SHUT UP.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 09:39 PM (buZ/8)
cthulu! Ain't up to much, I'm afraid. How are you and your BH?Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 09:39 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: and irresolute at February 25, 2014 09:40 PM (RqHWH)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 09:41 PM (At8tV)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:41 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 09:42 PM (X9Mnx)
Exactly. And racism! All y'all angry, fringy, racist H8TRZ!Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 09:43 PM (Pfvig)
They're cold, detached statements of indisputable scientific fact.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 01:37 AM (X9Mnx)
Right.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 09:43 PM (buZ/8)
There are no words. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2014 09:44 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:44 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 09:44 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 25, 2014 09:44 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: capt. h.p. queeg at February 25, 2014 09:44 PM (Eiwo7)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 09:44 PM (T1005)
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 09:45 PM (0JDCW)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 01:43 AM (Pfvig)
PEOPLE ARE GETTING WOUND UP AGAIN!!
HOLLOWPOINT HELP!
There is ANOTHER racist, theocrat, bircher here!! They are EVERYWHERE!!
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 09:45 PM (buZ/8)
Posted by: eman at February 25, 2014 09:45 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 09:46 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:46 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 09:46 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 26, 2014 01:37 AM (rDidD)
I believe the scotch part, but I have no doubt you still used a fake name!
cthulu! Ain't up to much, I'm afraid. How are you and your BH? Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 01:39 AM (Pfvig) Hide posts from (Pfvig)
We're doin' ok -- we'll be in the area at the end of next month, just booked the tix.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 09:46 PM (T1005)
like michelles inaugural gown
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 26, 2014 01:20 AM (rDidD)
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Oh great, now there's a picture I didn't need stuck in my head.....
Michelle Obama in her innaugural night gown.... (shudders)
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 25, 2014 09:47 PM (KlVdw)
A big hand is too much effort for his kind.
I can only spare a finger.
Posted by: Methos just doesn't give a crap anymore at February 25, 2014 09:47 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:48 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2014 09:48 PM (TE35l)
Don't forget Naked Testicle Spiderman.
http://minx.cc/?post=134980
Posted by: Anachronda at February 25, 2014 09:48 PM (U82Km)
Hey Berz! Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 01:46 AM (Pfvig) Hide posts from (Pfvig)
Why go to NC, or why still in Arkansas? And what of Thor?
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 09:49 PM (T1005)
As you smugly pat yourselfon the back for electing a Dem Congress and Hillary with your tried and true tactics? You are freaking unhinged.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 26, 2014 01:46 AM (ojnk6)
Well if you stupid knuckledragging birchers just got out of the way, John McCain and his team of the GOP Super Best Friends would have won it all!
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 09:49 PM (buZ/8)
You forgot global warming denier, damn it!
These racist, theocrat, bircher, denialist, Gaia raping, PIV loving sumbitches are TAKING OVER!Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 09:49 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 09:49 PM (T1005)
Posted by: booger at February 25, 2014 09:50 PM (xRDdL)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 09:50 PM (At8tV)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:50 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: eman at February 25, 2014 09:51 PM (AO9UG)
We've been worried about you!
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 09:52 PM (T1005)
These racist, theocrat, bircher, denialist, Gaia raping, PIV loving sumbitches are TAKING OVER!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 01:49 AM (Pfvig)
Nice. You are more fluent in leftist-speak than me. You did forget to add in heteronormative though!
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 09:52 PM (buZ/8)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 09:52 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:52 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: eman at February 25, 2014 09:53 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 09:53 PM (At8tV)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 09:54 PM (At8tV)
Why go to NC, where Thor be, since he doesn't seem to notice where I am at any given point anyway, while my mama is getting frailer by the minute.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 01:52 AM (Pfvig) Hide posts from (Pfvig)
I'm so sorry, Tammy.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 09:54 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2014 09:54 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2014 09:54 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:55 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: a bartender at February 25, 2014 09:55 PM (Eiwo7)
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 09:55 PM (0JDCW)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 09:55 PM (X9Mnx)
Sadly, I have yet to figure out exactly what that means. Or cisgendered. Or transgendered, for that matter, because WTF?
In my day you had your trannies and your crossdressers and your drag drag queens. They knew who they were, and they were proud of it. There was none of this "cis" shit.
Seriously, WTF? I don't get it.Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 09:56 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: irright at February 25, 2014 09:56 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 09:56 PM (At8tV)
Calm down. You're being hysterical. You are going to vote for the GOP and you are going to LIKE it
I actually get this feeling every year. Nothing like standing in a voting booth and realizing that whether I vote for him or not, Boehner will be my congress critter again.
Posted by: PMRich at February 25, 2014 09:57 PM (KDUNf)
Posted by: eman at February 25, 2014 09:57 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 09:57 PM (At8tV)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:58 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 09:58 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 09:59 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 09:59 PM (At8tV)
Why you hiding my posts, cthulu?? And no worries, I have a cousin here who keeps an eye on her. Thor will hopefully come to his senses in a few years. He's contracted for 5, with some options of leaving early under certain circumstances.Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 09:59 PM (Pfvig)
Something like: Every night, at 8:30pm, a default ONT goes up (defaults to 2 latest postings with most hits on each of Drudge, HotAir, and FOXNews), which of course nobody reads, and the moronic comments go live.
Howzzat, hunh? Any voters for it out there? Totally doable.
Posted by: sp101 at February 26, 2014 01:13 AM (vlBpS)
Challenge accepted?
You don't know how tempted I am.
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 25, 2014 10:00 PM (XkotV)
Posted by: logprof at February 25, 2014 10:01 PM (X3GkB)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 10:01 PM (At8tV)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 10:01 PM (Pfvig)
You forgot "cis-gendered"Posted by: The Political Hat at February 25, 2014 10:01 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: and irresolute at February 25, 2014 10:02 PM (RqHWH)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 10:03 PM (Pfvig)
My plan would have worked if not for those meddling wacko birds!Posted by: Mr McCain at February 25, 2014 10:04 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 10:04 PM (At8tV)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 10:04 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 10:05 PM (0JDCW)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 10:05 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 10:05 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2014 10:06 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 10:06 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: hollerpoint's bovine-seeking missile at February 25, 2014 10:06 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 10:06 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 10:07 PM (0JDCW)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 10:08 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 26, 2014 01:50 AM (rDidD)
She drives her truck.
Why you hiding my posts, cthulu?? And no worries, I have a cousin here who keeps an eye on her. Thor will hopefully come to his senses in a few years. He's contracted for 5, with some options of leaving early under certain circumstances. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 01:59 AM (Pfvig) Hide posts from (Pfvig)
I've got to fix that damned script.....I'm not hiding your posts, or I couldn't quote them -- I've got an add-in that I got from Merovign that allows me to ignore people by hash. I've used it three times -- one, the guy got banned, the second I have no regrets and have no idea what happened, and the third I rescinded because I was having a passive-aggressive hissy fit.
I'm more concerned, however, about you and Thor. I can understand him signing on to a five-year plan and all that, but doesn't he get weekends or vacay? I thought that part of your difficulties with the arrangement was that you'd be expected to entertain.....but you're describing something more remote.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 10:08 PM (T1005)
Posted by: eman at February 25, 2014 10:09 PM (AO9UG)
It won't.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 02:04 AM (X9Mnx)
Oh man, I wait with baited breath for more of your cold, detached statements of indisputable scientific fact.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 10:09 PM (buZ/8)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 10:09 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: The Sloth's Hat at February 25, 2014 10:09 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 10:10 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Gabby Johnson at February 25, 2014 10:10 PM (aTXUx)
Something like: Every night, at 8:30pm, a default ONT goes up (defaults to 2 latest postings with most hits on each of Drudge, HotAir, and FOXNews), which of course nobody reads, and the moronic comments go live.
Howzzat, hunh? Any voters for it out there? Totally doable.
Posted by: sp101 at February 26, 2014 01:13 AM (vlBpS)
Challenge accepted?
You don't know how tempted I am.
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 26, 2014 02:00 AM (XkotV) Hide posts from (XkotV)
Don't tell the other cobs, but you're the undisputed king of "Bringing It" to the ONT.....and don't think it isn't appreciated.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 10:10 PM (T1005)
Posted by: \m/ The Politial Hat \m/ at February 25, 2014 10:11 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: irright at February 25, 2014 10:11 PM (DtNNC)
Sadly, I have yet to figure out exactly what that means. Or cisgendered. Or transgendered, for that matter, because WTF?
In my day you had your trannies and your crossdressers and your drag drag queens. They knew who they were, and they were proud of it. There was none of this "cis" shit.
Seriously, WTF? I don't get it.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 01:56 AM (Pfvig)
You got to keep the ball rolling. Once they were "accepted," you aim higher.
You forgot "cis-gendered"
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 26, 2014 02:01 AM (AymDN)
I screwed up, I know! Tammy already pointed it out.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 10:11 PM (buZ/8)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 10:12 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: logprof at February 25, 2014 10:12 PM (X3GkB)
Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at February 25, 2014 10:13 PM (XbMaT)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2014 10:13 PM (TE35l)
and I am flattered and honored no sarcasm.
I meant what I typed while calming down Friday though.
I am letting go, this is killing me and I have come to accept I am doomed to lose.
It's okay.
I'm learning Spanish. Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 02:06 AM (TE35l) Hide posts from (TE35l)
Que pasa, amigo?
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 10:13 PM (T1005)
Posted by: eman at February 25, 2014 10:14 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 10:14 PM (rDidD)
Ever see the episode where some douchey club promoter (or dj or something) needed a pretty large cover up on his ass?
The chick tattoo artist walks in and starts laughing as the big guy is finishing the cover up... which was a pirate. Not a well thought out plan.
Now the d-bag has a butt pirate on him for life. Heh.
Posted by: Hate Miser at February 25, 2014 10:15 PM (UIxS+)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 10:15 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 10:16 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 10:16 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: Weirddave at February 25, 2014 10:16 PM (N/cFh)
It's the Great Firewall.
The PRC authorities have it dialed down tighter than a constipated mouse's bunghole at the moment. Inbound and outbound.
Blame Ukraine. The Chicom apparatchiks DO NOT WANT anyone looking at a popular street uprising ousting an authoritarian government, and possibly becoming inspired. That's the biggest nightmare for the PRC government.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 25, 2014 10:18 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2014 10:18 PM (TE35l)
Thank God you've got that covered for us.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 02:09 AM (X9Mnx)
That is, of course the point, though you apparently lack the inellect to recognize it. Your big GOP plan is to do nothing. Stand up for nothing. Promise nothing. Suggest nothing.
I'm just doing my part to contribute to your well-thought out strategy of doing nothing by not voting.
Posted by: Methos just doesn't give a crap anymore at February 25, 2014 10:19 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: irright at February 25, 2014 10:19 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 10:19 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 25, 2014 10:19 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 10:20 PM (rDidD)
Oh, I'm glad I'm not on your shit list!
Yea, the entertaining thing didn't happen because he's a consultant, so I did avoid that nightmare. But he is just absorbed 24/7. I have never seen anything like it.
I'm glad he's happy, if he is in fact happy, but I'm just getting number by the week, ya know? Which is MUCH worse than being mad, because it means I am close to not caring. I can't even enjoy the very real financial benefits. I just don't give a shit.
Okay, done whining!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 02:15 AM (Pfvig) Hide posts from (Pfvig)
Oh, Tammy -- doesn't he ever come up for air? And you should come sit with us more often. We'll tell you funny stories and jokes and care for you and help you pass the time.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 10:20 PM (T1005)
I won't be disappointed, because Fred Thompson is going to win.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 02:16 AM (X9Mnx)
Wait, isn't Fred Thompson too bircher/unhinged for you?
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 10:20 PM (buZ/8)
Posted by: irright at February 25, 2014 10:22 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at February 25, 2014 10:23 PM (dx64j)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2014 10:23 PM (TE35l)
I'm just doing my part to contribute to your well-thought out strategy of doing nothing by not voting.
Posted by: Methos just doesn't give a crap anymore at February 26, 2014 02:19 AM (hO9ad)
Hollowpoint's Three Phase Plan:
Phase 1
arty Discipline
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: ?
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 10:23 PM (buZ/8)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 10:24 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at February 25, 2014 10:24 PM (qyfb5)
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Don't tell the other cobs, but you're the undisputed king of "Bringing It" to the ONT.....and don't think it isn't appreciated.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 26, 2014 02:10 AM (T1005)
And your appreciation is very much appreciated.
I can't remember if I mentioned this but last week I was talking with the other cobs and estimated that I was now up to around my 1350th ONT. And I've never ever missed a regularly scheduled ONT to date. Not once.
And that there is pretty damn consistent OCD right there my friends. I expect the rewards and fame to start pouring in any moment. Any moment now. Real soon now.
Oh and why are you hiding my comments Cthu?!?
(I keed, I keed).
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 25, 2014 10:24 PM (XkotV)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 10:24 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 10:24 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 10:24 PM (0JDCW)
So, this is rambling, isn't it? A wall of text ( god how that term pisses me off, I'm so careful when I write), but here, deserved. I think I'll just sit and spin and enjoy the lights. Hopefully soon I can sleep. Wheeeee! Posted by: Weirddave at February 26, 2014 02:16 AM (N/cFh) Hide posts from (N/cFh)
I distinctly remember fevers of, like, 104 as a kid (pronounced "precocious little brat") that I shrugged off -- but I got a 102 fever when I was 40 and got totally looped. Things hit you differently as you age.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 10:24 PM (T1005)
Phase 1arty DisciplinePhase 2: ?Phase 3: ?
Posted by: NWConservative at February 26, 2014 02:23 AM (buZ/
HAHAHA!
Love the formatting! Its almost as bad as Hollowpoint's reasoning!
Phase 1 - Party Discipline
Phase 2 - ?
Phase 3 - ?
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 10:24 PM (buZ/8)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 25, 2014 10:25 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 25, 2014 10:25 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 10:25 PM (Pfvig)
You seriously aren't leaving us, right? Who will warn me when my filters fail??Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 10:27 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: The Federalist at February 25, 2014 10:27 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at February 25, 2014 10:28 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Weirddave at February 25, 2014 10:28 PM (N/cFh)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at February 25, 2014 10:28 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: eman at February 25, 2014 10:28 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 10:29 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: GMB who remembers back when..... at February 25, 2014 10:29 PM (nkPV9)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 10:30 PM (At8tV)
Posted by: The Federalist at February 26, 2014 02:27 AM (aTXUx)
Well....I am willing to learn. And what are your policies on margins?
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 25, 2014 10:30 PM (XkotV)
Posted by: Capt Spock at February 25, 2014 10:30 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 10:31 PM (Pfvig)
I'm sure it will all come together once he figures out where the underpants gnomes fit in.
Posted by: Methos just doesn't give a crap anymore at February 25, 2014 10:31 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 10:32 PM (0JDCW)
Posted by: navybrat at February 25, 2014 10:32 PM (AW7Gr)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 10:33 PM (At8tV)
Posted by: guy desperately searching for a sperm bank at February 25, 2014 10:33 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 10:34 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: The Federalist at February 25, 2014 10:34 PM (aTXUx)
I'm sure it will all come together once he figures out where the underpants gnomes fit in.
Posted by: Methos just doesn't give a crap anymore at February 26, 2014 02:31 AM (hO9ad)
I am dying to wait what other revelations He will reveal to Us.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 10:36 PM (buZ/8)
cthulu, I mainly can't stay up late anymore. I had some Redbull tonight, so I am managing better!
Back when I was in my ONT prime, I was on massive doses of Prednisone and not sleeping for days. My normal way of being in the world is up at dawn and back to bed when it gets dark. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 02:24 AM (Pfvig) Hide posts from (Pfvig)
I'm going to be doing some aggressive "training" so that I can function on East Coast time by the time I fly out there, so even I'll be sparse on ONT's for the next month-and-a-half, but do stay connected. We've been missing you and frettin' about you being ok and worried about Thor and your mom. Seriously, even if you show up midday and say, "the worst thing in my life right now is the toilet got backed up," it'd be a relief to everyone who knows you.....people start fearing the very worst when things get too quiet.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 10:36 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Thrawn at February 25, 2014 11:49 PM (WlWt+)
Just wait until it starts two-wheeling her!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2014 10:37 PM (pFqpP)
Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 10:39 PM (0JDCW)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 25, 2014 10:39 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: Thrawn at February 25, 2014 11:49 PM (WlWt+)
Just wait until it starts two-wheeling her!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 26, 2014 02:37 AM (pFqpP)
LOL. Reminds me of the man who had sex with 1000 cars. Very weird.
Night all. Got to go make money for my lib boss tomorrow.
Posted by: NWConservative at February 25, 2014 10:39 PM (buZ/8)
Posted by: irright at February 26, 2014 02:19 AM (DtNNC)
The sad thing is that I'm too fed up with the RINOs to be allowed into the Realz RINO R Teh ROCKR cocktail mixers but don't hate them enough to get to sit at the Totes Tea Party Purity Kool Kidz Klub table. :-(
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 25, 2014 10:39 PM (XkotV)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at February 25, 2014 10:39 PM (Sow0v)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at February 25, 2014 10:41 PM (dx64j)
Posted by: irright at February 26, 2014 02:19 AM (DtNNC)
The sad thing is that I'm too fed up with the RINOs to be allowed into the Realz RINO R Teh ROCKR cocktail mixers but don't hate them enough to get to sit at the Totes Tea Party Purity Kool Kidz Klub table. :-(
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 26, 2014 02:39 AM (XkotV) Hide posts from (XkotV)
That's ok, come sit with us.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 10:42 PM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 26, 2014 02:42 AM (T1005)
Hey wait...isn't this the Group W bench?
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 25, 2014 10:43 PM (XkotV)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 26, 2014 02:42 AM (T1005)
Hey wait...isn't this the Group W bench?
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 26, 2014 02:43 AM (XkotV) Hide posts from (XkotV)
It's the ONT -- you know, the Short Blog.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 10:44 PM (T1005)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 10:46 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 25, 2014 10:47 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Purity Kool Kidz Klub at February 25, 2014 10:47 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at February 25, 2014 10:49 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 25, 2014 10:49 PM (At8tV)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 25, 2014 10:51 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: Tim Geithner at February 25, 2014 10:52 PM (0JDCW)
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at February 25, 2014 10:53 PM (AQTz3)
Posted by: Joe Biden at February 25, 2014 10:54 PM (UIxS+)
Posted by: Darth Vader, True Conservative at February 25, 2014 10:56 PM (aTXUx)
I think it's hilarious people forget how hard I carried the GOP's water RINOs and all here and elsewhere for how many years?
I had it in hard for the Luap Nor Konscience Kult IIRC?
The thing is the McCain gang wants power for power not to do anything.
I saw that movie in 2001-2007 and I am not buying tickets for a remake.
I am getting better Maet, and I am okay present malady from this last week excepted.
Monty was right, I was wrong we *are* doomed.
There is no political solution we are all Detroit now.
I miss my old lucid posts to him, and frankly I am thinking I will be a lot happier once I care about America as much as Obama and the democrats do. Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 02:47 AM (TE35l) Hide posts from (TE35l)
Get past the current malady, Sven. That should be priority #1. Then start thinking outside the box -- article V convention, repudiate the national debt, that sort of thing. The flagrant lawlessness of the last five years have left us with trendlines heading toward oblivion, sure.....but there will be a tipping point. It'll involve death, destruction, blood, and sacrifice -- but it will happen. And when it does, Progressive politics will lie on the ash-heap of history.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 10:56 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 10:57 PM (X9Mnx)
This and all them other purdy words don't change the fact that it is too late mate. TFG killed the country it just hasn't fallen over yet.
Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at February 25, 2014 11:01 PM (DL2i+)
::: sniff :::
I have my great-grandfather's ampersands. Treasured family heirlooms.
In a polished brass case. That 19th century fine workmanship.
I thought I'd keep them to pass them down. But if it's in a good cause... I suppose I could be convinced to let them go.
::: tears up :::
Posted by: torquewrench at February 25, 2014 11:03 PM (gqT4g)
Not to my knowledge.
Posted by: andycanuck at February 26, 2014 01:18 AM (Eiwo7)
Perhaps she is thinking of serial killer Willie Pickton using his hogs as the evidence disposal crew?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2014 11:03 PM (pFqpP)
Wait, aren't you one of those splitters in the Nationalist People's Front of Judea? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrDVsprWRCQ
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 11:03 PM (T1005)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 11:05 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Christopher Walken at February 25, 2014 11:08 PM (0JDCW)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 11:08 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at February 25, 2014 11:12 PM (OU1Hh)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 25, 2014 11:20 PM (ojnk6)
No, TFG is just one tooth of a gear that's been slowly turning longer than any of us has been alive.
If anyone built the machine, it was Woodrow Wilson. Hell. Obama isn't even a footnote compared to FDR. Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 03:08 AM (X9Mnx) Hide posts from (X9Mnx)
Obama is the poison fruit from a poison tree.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 11:22 PM (T1005)
I may as well try to have a meaningful conversation with Major Major Major. I should have flown with Orr.
Posted by: jc at February 25, 2014 11:24 PM (PlzOe)
My face is not puffy. Ace said it was. It is NOT!!!
Posted by: Ashley Judd at February 25, 2014 11:31 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Meremortal at February 25, 2014 11:36 PM (1Y+hH)
Grown in salted earth, irrigated with toxic waste, fertilized with syphilitic shit, the leaves sprayed down with the purest essence of corruption and waste.
Bon appetit!
However, other nations have had to choke down even worse, and later successfully vomited the whole mess back up, and eventually returned to a semblance of good health.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 25, 2014 11:38 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 11:40 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: Meremortal at February 25, 2014 11:42 PM (1Y+hH)
Not sure where people are getting this from. Apparently applying any strategery or risk/reward assessment at all = doing nothing.
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 25, 2014 11:42 PM (XkotV)
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at February 25, 2014 11:45 PM (AQTz3)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 11:46 PM (X9Mnx)
Not sure where people are getting this from. Apparently applying any strategery or risk/reward assessment at all = doing nothing.
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 26, 2014 03:42 AM (XkotV)
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repeating the same behavior while expecting new results.
Posted by: jc at February 25, 2014 11:46 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: cthulhu
So, while we wait, it's important that we elect Republicans!
Don't mind me, cthulhu, just gallows humor. Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2014 03:36 AM (1Y+hH) Hide posts from (1Y+hH)
You little know.
In the 2012 election, I went full-on activist. I donated money and time, I walked my precinct, I delivered a bunch of refreshments to the local party headquarters. In return, I've been put on every sucker list imaginable. I have stacks of unopened mail asking for yet more money whose postage alone dwarfs the amount I contributed.
Think of that. I donated money to get specific candidates elected -- some were, some weren't -- but more money than I kicked in has been spent to try to get me to give yet more.
And while doing so, the establishment Republicans have shat on everything I hold dear, time and time again. They've played along with Dems and fought Cruz, Paul, and Lee -- and pandered to the loathsome press.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 11:51 PM (T1005)
Posted by: jc at February 26, 2014 03:46 AM (PlzOe)
Supporting some 'Tea Party' candidates and not necessarily certain other ones = the same behavior? O-kay.
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 25, 2014 11:51 PM (XkotV)
Posted by: shredded chi at February 25, 2014 11:52 PM (RhmeP)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 11:53 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at February 25, 2014 11:54 PM (qyfb5)
I've been trying to post amusing videos, but it's well after my bedtime and I'm still doing cranky.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2014 11:55 PM (T1005)
Posted by: shredded chi at February 26, 2014 12:00 AM (RhmeP)
Posted by: Inspector Cussword at February 26, 2014 12:03 AM (uoGv/)
Aha! Our master plan is succeeding!
According to our finely calibrated calculations, by the 2048 election cycle, we will have recaptured the Senate. And by then, ORCA will finally have been debugged. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, defeatists.
Posted by: The GOP Consultantocracy at February 26, 2014 12:03 AM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 12:04 AM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 26, 2014 12:05 AM (T1005)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 26, 2014 12:13 AM (rDidD)
*shoots Y5 a "significant look"*
I went out for primers today for .223 and a rifle followed me home. I think I'll keep it.
Whazzap roonz and roonettez???
Posted by: GGE of the Formerly Iowan Horde at February 26, 2014 12:13 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: shredded chi at February 26, 2014 03:52 AM (RhmeP)
I'm pretty happy right now, but I just got here. How are you?
Posted by: GGE of the Formerly Iowan Horde at February 26, 2014 12:16 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 12:17 AM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: GGE of the Formerly Iowan Horde at February 26, 2014 12:22 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 04:17 AM (X9Mnx)
I was looking for an inexpensive deer rifle that I could go to the store and get ammo for (as opposed to the Arisaka, which I have to handload for, or the Mosin, which I have to mail order for), but I wasn't really gun shopping today. I saw a Mossberg 100ATR in 30-06 for less than 3 bills and had to pick it up. With a Redfield scope it came out to right at 500 USD.
Posted by: GGE of the Formerly Iowan Horde at February 26, 2014 12:24 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: cormac_mcroadie at February 26, 2014 12:24 AM (iFOMM)
Ordinarily, I'd be sitting in the first row, right over the conductor's right shoulder, during at least one of the performances.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6708hpjItMc
Posted by: cthulhu at February 26, 2014 12:25 AM (T1005)
Posted by: shredded chi at February 26, 2014 12:26 AM (mwg7N)
Posted by: shredded chi at February 26, 2014 04:26 AM (mwg7N)
Not tonight. I work Fri-Mon nights. Yeah, weekends, but it works well while Sis is going through her radiation treatments (breast cancer, I f'n hate all sorts of cancer but this one is at least more survivable than the other sorts). She keeps Youngest Son for me while I am working.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 26, 2014 12:28 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 12:30 AM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 04:30 AM (X9Mnx)
The last two I went out specifically to buy them. This one, like I said I was eyeballing several of the more inexpensive offerings from Savage, Marlin and Ruger when this one kind of jumped out at me. Not intending to buy today (hunting season is a ways off yet) but I did intend to get something other than VMBARs that I have to get specialty ammo for before then.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 26, 2014 12:34 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: cormac_mcroadie at February 26, 2014 12:39 AM (iFOMM)
Posted by: shredded chi at February 26, 2014 12:53 AM (mwg7N)
I'm not really a Pharrell fan, but did you know that he comes from right here in my backyard? Va. Beach native. Years ago, I did some work at the local studio he used to record at. He even did a song with MJ ther at one time.
Posted by: shredded chi at February 26, 2014 04:53 AM (mwg7N)
Did not know that. I'm familiar with VaBch, spent some time there at NAS in an earlier life. I know the song from Despicable Me 2 (I have a 2 yr old grandson who lives with me. Well, his parents live with me, too. I say that I live with my kids, but I usually leave out the fact that it's my house. I find it funnier that way. Yeah, I know, I really need to get out more...)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 26, 2014 01:07 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: shredded chi at February 26, 2014 01:30 AM (mwg7N)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 26, 2014 01:59 AM (gvWL9)
Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 02:14 AM (6Nj7A)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2014 02:19 AM (XyM/Y)
Then it came to me. They've reduced personnel level in the evening and can no longer properly monitor that entrance for shrinkage, much as the supermarkets do typically around 9 PM. But the supermarkets have done that for a very long time, at least back to the early 90s. To see Walmart cutting back that way says something.
Posted by: Epobirs at February 26, 2014 02:25 AM (bPxS6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2014 02:32 AM (XyM/Y)
Posted by: Mi nombre es C. Mc Morris-Rogers y me gusta pene. at February 26, 2014 02:46 AM (Cs2tJ)
Posted by: shredded chi at February 26, 2014 05:30 AM (mwg7N)
Oops, sorry, off surfing the web.
Not a pilot, a maintainer, first on Tomcats (86-90) then Hornets (2000-05).
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 26, 2014 03:05 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Huggy at February 26, 2014 03:13 AM (VctSv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2014 03:55 AM (XyM/Y)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2014 03:59 AM (XyM/Y)
If the GOP had some level of credibility, then yes, the argument that we "can't be purists" makes perfect sense. You can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good and all of that. Politics is about what is possible, etc. You have to learn to compromise. Blah, blah.
Sure, that is all true. To a point. If the GOP really was working as best it could against difficult political winds to a) reduce spending; b) not pass amnesty; c) repeal Obamacare; d) reduce the size of the federal gov't; e) reform entitlements; f) eliminate some entitlements or other programs - well then the above points make perfect sense. All intelligent people realize you can't have everything and you particularly can't have everything in politics. And, most conservatives recognize that the the U.S. electorate isn't ready for full-on 100% red-blooded conservatism immediately. That is all true.
But, you need a base-line of credibility before you tell people "trust us, we're doing the best we can" in the face of actions that are the opposite of what you promised us you would do.
You can't always tell us that we have to suck it up and support the GOP no matter what when the GOP not only fails to deliver, but actively works against everything we stand for.
That is what the GOP apologists miss. they are so blinded by their obsession with "winning" elections by electing GOP candidates that they lose sight of what it is we, as conservatives, are trying to accomplish. They have become so blinded with GOP loyalty that they no longer care about conservative goals whatsoever - despite lip service that they do.
In other words, at some point the end goal has to be more than just electing republicans. Right now, that appears to be the only goal of the GOP and GOP apologists - they have nothing else to point to. The GOP has almost no record of doing anything conservative. The very limited and spotty record it has on pursuing conservative goals - cutting taxes, Reagan (mixed record - raised deficit spending and grew the gov't while cutting taxes and deregulating), and the very limited Contract with America - is more than offset by 30 years of raising spending, increasing gov't, pushing amnesty, creating new entitlement programs, and vocally shitting on conservatives and conservatism.
So, with no credibility on the "trust us" front and a record of working against conservatives and conservatism, all of the advice Matenloch puts forward is nonsense.
You are pretending we are working in a vacuum where we only have GOP campaign rhetoric to look at and nothing else. Sure, if we went by what GOP candidates claim during primaries, the GOP is fairly conservative.
But, when you look at actions, the GOP is not at all conservative. Not even remotely.
That is the problem that GOP apologists never confront with all their nonsense.
Posted by: Monkeytoe at February 26, 2014 04:02 AM (sOx93)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2014 04:10 AM (XyM/Y)
Christine O'Donnell was a GOP candidate before there was a Tea Party.
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