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January 15, 2014

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— andy

Hmmm. Gabe must've had an accident down at the law factory.

Today marks the 5th anniversary of the Miracle on the Hudson.

Posted by: andy at 04:36 AM | Comments (169)
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1 Primero! Putos.

Posted by: Pool Boy at January 15, 2014 04:36 AM (qQk+U)

2 News links start at #708 on the ONT.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 15, 2014 04:37 AM (T2V/1)

3 Good morning, Daywalkers. Again.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 15, 2014 04:37 AM (N/cFh)

4 Good morning all

Posted by: crank at January 15, 2014 04:37 AM (se3Uw)

5 English only ?

Posted by: Pool Boy at January 15, 2014 04:37 AM (qQk+U)

6 Heh, my one chance to be first on the Morning thread and I blew it.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 15, 2014 04:38 AM (GaqMa)

7 No longer ohio gozaimashta.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 15, 2014 04:38 AM (OJn3e)

8 Hmmm. Gabe must've had an accident down at the law factory. One of cross beams gone out of skew on treadle.

Posted by: --- at January 15, 2014 04:38 AM (MMC8r)

9 NSA grabbed Gabe...didn't they?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 15, 2014 04:39 AM (GcYmn)

10 Today marks the 5th anniversary of the Miracle on the Hudson. Wow. 5 years. Wish barky's reign felt like it went by that quick.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 15, 2014 04:39 AM (b1/nQ)

11 Well, my whole schedule is thrown off. I can't be expected to accomplish anything today. Plus, I think I'm getting sick. Kid #1 is sick. I'd better take it easy...

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 15, 2014 04:39 AM (SUKHu)

12 **blink** **blink**

Posted by: fluffy at January 15, 2014 04:39 AM (Ua6T/)

thanks for the news Vic.

"Gabe must've had an accident down at the law factory.'

the law never sleeps, he's probably wore out.

Posted by: dDan at January 15, 2014 04:39 AM (hwYmz)

14 It's been five years already? Holy crap. Though it is nice to watch something with a happy ending for once.

Posted by: alexthechick - Come to us, oh mighty SMOD at January 15, 2014 04:39 AM (VtjlW)

15 NSA waterboarding Gabe with Val-U-Rite?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 15, 2014 04:39 AM (FNVzS)

16 Gabe is busy advising the SC how to define taxes more broadly!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 15, 2014 04:39 AM (o3MSL)

17 I mentioned on the ONT my Art Appreciation class had me appreciating New Jersey yesterday. I got to see Claude Monet's "Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge" in the flesh. I'm so glad that I took this class. Also, a Van Gogh, several Degas, a Goya, a GIANT Reubens. And some contemporary crap I snorted at.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 15, 2014 04:40 AM (N/cFh)

18 Another day in mid-January, another attempt to get folks covered with 1/1 effective dates...sigh.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at January 15, 2014 04:40 AM (XaO9F)

19 Good morning, again.. and that's pretty much it for me as I must head off for work! Have a good one, y'all!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 15, 2014 04:40 AM (b/lt+)

20 From ONT Julie Newmar. http://www.flickr.com/photos/julie_newmars/7659635910/

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at January 15, 2014 04:40 AM (wB492)

21 Well, we hope Gabe has not had an accident at the l"aw factory, and thanks Andy for your contribution We birds were waiting with open mouths to be fed. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 15, 2014 04:40 AM (7kkQJ)

22 six inches of snow yesterday, below zero temps this morning, more snow coming in tonight. I love this global warming

Posted by: wing.....and a prayer at January 15, 2014 04:41 AM (dLNm7)

Morning Hollywood story at #740 on the ONT. The last half is NSFW.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 15, 2014 04:41 AM (zF6Iw)

24 So is Boehner, Ryan and the rest of those "cost cutters" going to introduce another trillion dollar spending bill today and not even give 72 hours for House members to read the fucking thing? Incredible that those turds got control of the House on 2010 because of public disgust with spending and taxing.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 15, 2014 04:41 AM (QYbdU)

25 Gingy, to go with Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge some works of Western painters who turned Japanese.

http://tinyurl.com/moorydt

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 15, 2014 04:42 AM (FNVzS)

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 15, 2014 08:40 AM (N/cFh)

Which Goya? I've always found The Naked Maja to be an exquisite work.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 15, 2014 04:42 AM (zF6Iw)

27 Maybe Gabe is learning how to use contractions properly. What do y'all think?

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 15, 2014 04:43 AM (QYbdU)

28 We're number 12! We're number 12! USA! USA!

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at January 15, 2014 04:44 AM (JQuNB)

29 Oh no! The Billable Hours Mineshaft has collapsed!

Posted by: Jaws at January 15, 2014 04:44 AM (4I3Uo)

30 Hmmm. Gabe must've had an accident down at the law factory.

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 15, 2014 04:44 AM (6T8Ay)

31 Screw dis sh** and lets go straight to da morning dump. Time for Ben to squat and deliver.

Posted by: Ed Anger at January 15, 2014 04:44 AM (tOkJB)

Hey, Anna - you might have missed it, but I mentioned yesterday that I woke up at 3.00am yesterday morning with a "Holy crap, that's IT!" idea to finish the book. Of course, it's a twist so cliched even Stan Lee would blush, but it'll work. If I can plant my fat ass in the chair for two solid hours on Saturday. . .

First draft will be done.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 15, 2014 04:45 AM (zF6Iw)

33 #15...If you ever get the chance, visit the National Gallery in DC, they have a fabulous collection of Impressionists. In Chicago, don't miss the Art Institute, especially if they are displaying their Salvador Dali Collection, his work loses so much when photographed.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at January 15, 2014 04:45 AM (wB492)

34 DAY 437 1,024 to go (1,095 to Inauguration Day 2017) Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, McConnell's, McAuliffe's, MIRV's, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 15, 2014 04:45 AM (olDqf)

35 Todays great hymn of the faith-"He leadeth me" with words by Joseph Gilmore, written in 1862 during the dark days of the Civil War/war Between The States. Gilmore said in reflecting on this hymn: As a young man who recently had been graduated from Brown University and Newton Theological Institution, I was supplying for a couple of Sundays the pulpit of the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia. At the mid-week service, on the 26th of March 1862, I set out to give the people an exposition of the Twenty-third Psalm, which I had given before on three or four occasions, but this time I did not get further than the words "He leadeth me." Those words took hold of me as they had never done before, and I saw them in a significance and wondrous beauty of which I had never dreamed. For Christians, we must look to Christ in our battle against the world, the flesh and the devil. Often the odds seem overwhelming. Defeat seems inevitable. he opening lines of the hymn seem to bring instant relief to a difficult situation: He leadeth me, O blessed thought, O words with heavÂ’nly comfort fraught. (fraught: loaded or filled) WhateÂ’er I do, wherÂ’er I be, Still Â‘tis GodÂ’s hand that leadeth me." Refrain He leadeth me, He leadeth me, By His own hand He leadeth me; His faithful follower I would be, For by His hand He leadeth me. Sometimes mid scenes of deepest gloom, Sometimes where EdenÂ’s bowers bloom, By waters still, over troubled sea, Still Â’tis His hand that leadeth me. Refrain Lord, I would place my hand in Thine, Nor ever murmur nor repine; Content, whatever lot I see, Since Â’tis my God that leadeth me. Refrain And when my task on earth is done, When by Thy grace the victÂ’ryÂ’s won, EÂ’en deathÂ’s cold wave I will not flee, Since God through Jordan leadeth m The answers, IMO, do not lie in the political process or this candidate of that candidate. There is no conservative messiah. People are faulty and frail. That does not mean we should entirely eschew the political process, but it means that God is in charge. This is not Pollyanna thinking. It is the bedrock of Scripture. :^) If you feel overwhelmed with life. i encourage you to do two things, brothers and sisters in Christ: Fix your eyes on Jesus (Hebrew 12:2) Put your hand in His (Psalm 73:23) Perhaps you can meditate on Psalm 23 and them listen to this hymn. "He Leadeth Me": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQLV5AnyeSU Grace and peace be with you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 15, 2014 04:45 AM (7kkQJ)

36 >>News links start at #708 on the ONT. Posted by: Vic at January 15, 2014 08:37 AM (T2V/1) Thanks Vic, Thank god for my Multi-Lurking dual browsing laptop and toaster.

Posted by: ontherocks at January 15, 2014 04:46 AM (zVj1J)

37 Nope, nope. Sorry. Too late. See you all tomorrow.

Posted by: webworker at January 15, 2014 04:47 AM (L2I78)

OT, as much as a question on the morning thread can be OT....

I need someone for a perspective check. Anyone seen that Disney (puke) movie Frozen? I was dragged to see it with my kids. When asked whether I liked it or not, I had to say I hated it immensely. It seemed like a gay movie to me, with proseletyzing subtext and that annoying fucking snowman prancing around.

I have lots of other reasons for hating it, from the settings that make no fucking sense to the evil character suddenly turning evil for no other reason than to provide a plot twist to just stupid stupid plots. But I'm being told that I'm paranoid because this movie looked like a Glee production to me.

Anyone else seen it and can let me know if I'm way off base?

Posted by: @JohnTant, now boasting a Clinton Disloyalty Index of 6 at January 15, 2014 04:47 AM (PFy0L)

39 Bob Gates in a neck brace. Hillary's hitlist or ValJar's thugs?

Posted by: votermom at January 15, 2014 04:47 AM (GSIDW)

40 MPPPP I did miss that news. So what if its cliched. If the reader is fully involved in the story as long as it is satisfying, they probably won't care. Though remember to dress up the cliche with a few curlicues. Good luck and break an Underwood!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 15, 2014 04:48 AM (FNVzS)

41 Ya blew it.

Posted by: Tim Heidecker at January 15, 2014 04:48 AM (Lk9TG)

42 Levin's opening bit last night on the utter lawlessness of this president and the latter's open/brazen remarks on being lawless to dictate what will be. Also, good interview with Tom Coburn at the end of the show.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 15, 2014 04:48 AM (olDqf)

43 Is that what the kids are calling it these days? Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 15, 2014 08:44 AM (6T8Ay) I saw Law factory open for The Police. (Actually "Law Factory" sounds like a good name for congress.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 15, 2014 04:48 AM (GaqMa)

44 Mornin' everyone!

So I'm listening to Stern on the way into work and he's got Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in for an interview. He tells Howard he's going to direct a movie about a Jewish ghetto where the Jews had an uprising. Howard says, "oh, a holocaust movie." Weinstein says, "no, I like to think of it more as 'Jews with guns.'" Howard asked him if he's a gun owner and to which he quickly replied absolutely not, he in fact thinks nobody should have guns. Of course, if he were ever marched into the camps, well then he'd find a gun or something. What a twit!

He goes on to say he's working on a film with Meryl Streep about the NRA that will blow the doors off that organization. Or in other words, he's making a horrible propaganda film that will be seen by half a dozen people, but win twice as many Oscars.

He also said he loves everybody except for conservative Republicans. I don't go to many movies, but he absolutely convinced me that the few I do see will not include any with his name in the credits.

Posted by: mugiwara at January 15, 2014 04:49 AM (W7ffl)

45 Bill Owens (Donk) in NY-21 is retiring.

http://tinyurl.com/ooeq398

You'll recall this is the guy who won when Doug Hoffman and Deedee Scuzzywuzzy split the Republican vote in the special election in 2009.

Posted by: chemjeff at January 15, 2014 04:49 AM (9GG/0)

46 22 Captain Hawe, Those are "guidelines"... You can tell how hard they are fucking the base by how short a reading they allow... Good luck with your undercarriage Gabe, keep on trucking!

Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2014 04:51 AM (a+OVd)

So I'm listening to Stern on the way into work and he's got Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in for an interview. He tells Howard he's going to direct a movie about a Jewish ghetto where the Jews had an uprising. Howard says, "oh, a holocaust movie." Weinstein says, "no, I like to think of it more as 'Jews with guns.'"

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That would be the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It's one of the things I like to mention to anti-gun nitwits who wonder what good a gun will do against an army with tanks, rockets, etc.

The Jews held off the fucking Nazi extermination machine.

Posted by: @JohnTant, now boasting a Clinton Disloyalty Index of 6 at January 15, 2014 04:52 AM (PFy0L)

48 Good morning boys and girls! Forgot to turn off the alarm on my phone so here I am on vacation wide awake. The Grumpy Grandma won't wake up till the sun is up, so youre stuck with me....and there's no coffee or bacon.

Posted by: CrothetyOldJarhead at January 15, 2014 04:53 AM (CMftU)

49 Cruz just hired....... Paul Teller!! Bwahahaha! Just when I think I couldn't like that guy anymore, he goes and does something like this! He ROCKS.

http://tinyurl.com/ktxg2y8

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at January 15, 2014 04:53 AM (KL49F)

50 There's a lot more to that baby napping story they are not revealing. Why would 4 men burst into the guy's home and rough him up? Why would they take the baby? Why would they later abandon the baby?

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 15, 2014 04:53 AM (Qev5V)

51 I AM THE LAW!

Posted by: Barrack Obama, Preznit for Life at January 15, 2014 04:53 AM (JQuNB)

52 @JohnTant, #48: "The Jews held off the fucking Nazi extermination machine." Held out longer than France did, anyway. And I don't say that to bash France, it's just an example of the difference determination can make. On paper the battle for France was a much fairer fight.

Posted by: JPS at January 15, 2014 04:55 AM (9ziuC)

53 Those are "guidelines"...

You can tell how hard they are fucking the base by how short a reading they allow...

Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2014 08:51 AM (a+OVd)

My opinion of Boehner has reached the point that I can't talk about that boozy fuck in non-bannable terms in any rant over a sentence.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 15, 2014 04:55 AM (QYbdU)

54 Plus, I think I'm getting sick. Kid #1 is sick.

I'd better take it easy...

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 15, 2014 08:39 AM (SUKHu)

*pours some grape juice through both of her front USB ports*

Stay healthy! I was in your shoes last week. I swear, neither Pooky nor Pookette know how to properly celebrate a birthday.....

Posted by: pookysgirl at January 15, 2014 04:57 AM (kMnHs)

55 I don't feel like working today. Wonder if I can get away with doing nothing while still looking like I've done something?

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 15, 2014 04:57 AM (L2I78)

56 Other good news today is Matt Bevin is creeping up on Mitchie McConnell!

http://tinyurl.com/n6fo8ww

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at January 15, 2014 04:57 AM (KL49F)

57 I mentioned this yesterday afternoon, but I'm going to repeat myself. (Pauses for gasps of shock) The kids and I watched a British show called "Horrible Histories" yesterday. There are tons of episodes on YouTube. It's very funny. And gross. And funny and gross. Here's a little song about the wives of Henry VIII: http://youtu.be/-fadCAHjN-s Clever stuff.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 15, 2014 04:58 AM (SUKHu)

58 Anyone seen that Disney (puke) movie Frozen? My granddaughters - ages 2 and 4 - love the movie.

Posted by: real joe at January 15, 2014 04:58 AM (xXhgd)

59 ...a twist so cliched even Stan Lee would blush.... Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing That's funny. MPPPPPP. In my nearly half a century of appreciation of Lee & his work, it never once occurred to me that Stan was capable of blushing, at least not over his trademark cornballness.

Posted by: webworker at January 15, 2014 04:58 AM (jNNPU)

60 "Other good news today is Matt Bevin is creeping up on Mitchie McConnell!"

Time for the RINOs to summon their flying monkey brigade and make it personal.

Posted by: Jaws at January 15, 2014 05:00 AM (4I3Uo)

61 Sandra Smith on Red Eye last night...yowza! I think I need to start watching Fox Business Network. Hubba-hubba!

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 15, 2014 05:00 AM (7ObY1)

62 I don't feel like working today. Wonder if I can get away with doing nothing while still looking like I've done something?

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 15, 2014 08:57 AM (L2I7

I've been managing to pull it off for 13 years. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 15, 2014 05:00 AM (zF6Iw)

63 MPPP I didn't catch the title. It wasn't a painting, but a drawing, in ink I believe. I'll be honest, I was sort of entranced by the Degas to the left of it. Sherry! We were at the National Gallery last week as part of the class. And then the Hirschorn (gag).

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 15, 2014 05:01 AM (N/cFh)

Gabe must've had an accident down at the law factory.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE GABE'S A LAWYER!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 15, 2014 05:01 AM (BrQrN)

65 63 I've been managing to pull it off for 13 years. . . Voraciously obfuscating...not just a way of life, but an adventure.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at January 15, 2014 05:01 AM (XaO9F)

66 Bad news... these cops were acquitted:

*WARNING* graphic pics of the victim of police beating/brutality

http://tinyurl.com/lmgqnkc

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at January 15, 2014 05:01 AM (KL49F)

67 63. Work for the federal gov't eh?

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at January 15, 2014 05:02 AM (EGPJQ)

68 The Cleveland Art Museum has one of Monet's "Water Lilies." Must be fifteen feet wide. Wow. Detroit has a very fine art museum, with some nice Vermeers.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 15, 2014 05:02 AM (NZRyg)

69 Time for the RINOs to summon their flying monkey brigade and make it personal. We gotta stop all this divisive hate-talk, Brothers and Sisters.

Posted by: Mike Huckleberry, Snake Oil Salesman Extraordinaire at January 15, 2014 05:02 AM (JQuNB)

70 Ed Schultz, idiot extraordinaire! (From Weasel Zippers): ED SCHULTZ: I was visiting with some lawmakers last night in Washington. We talked a lot about health care when I was visiting them. I asked them, did they have a problem running on it? There does seem to be, for some reason, a reluctance by Democrats to run home and talk about how positive this health care law is. And I find that very interesting. The moral aspect of this, the moral component to this Â— and when you talk to them about voting to take something away from another American, it does resonate with people. If youÂ’re doing statistics, you know, youÂ’re not going to win that battle, but if you talk about peopleÂ’s lives and the moral component, who can argue with it? ItÂ’s almost like thereÂ’s a lack of confidence, like theyÂ’re not sure this is the right thing to do in front of constituents.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 15, 2014 05:02 AM (bCEmE)

71 My assistant called in today because she's fighting with one of her three baby daddies, so I'll be working my ass off today. She claims it's for another reason, but that's the real reason. Sure would be nice if the FSA appreciated our hard work.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 15, 2014 05:02 AM (7ObY1)

72 Drudge -"Shivering Cattle Signal Higher Beef Cost..." Rod Stewart - "Oh the snow fell without a break Buffalo died in the frozen fields you know Through the coldest winter in almost fourteen years.."

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 15, 2014 05:02 AM (aDwsi)

73 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 15, 2014 05:03 AM (PYAXX)

74 Apparently the whole Zaitsev v. Major Konig was propaganda. http://tinyurl.com/l9g342l So why the legend of Zaitsev versus Konig? Because propaganda is as formidable and useful a weapon as a rifle or tank. In the hands of a skilled writer such as Vasily Grossman, who wrote that Zaitsev had never hurt a living creature until motivated by hatred of the German invaders, the Soviet people could find a hero to inspire them in the long and bloody struggle against Nazi Germany. A nation that sustained millions of deaths in a terrible conflict can be forgiven for needing heroes. Yet the enduring appeal of the Stalingrad story also shows our fascination with snipers, those skilled hunters of men. If the duel involves two such craftsmen pitted against each other, then so much the better. The Great Stalingrad Duel may be myth. But that makes it no less a dramatic story.

Posted by: RWC at January 15, 2014 05:03 AM (fWAjv)

75 Posted by: Tami at January 15, 2014 09:02 AM (bCEmE) Now they want to talk about morality? Also I love how oblivious he is when he mentions "voting to take something away from another American." Idiot.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 15, 2014 05:03 AM (GaqMa)

Posted by: webworker at January 15, 2014 08:58 AM (jNNPU)

Wish I could take credit for the Stan Lee line, but I'm not nearly that clever. It's a Simpsons line.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 15, 2014 05:04 AM (zF6Iw)

77 So even IT guys don't understand Net Neutrality (or they're lying about it). Local Talker had their "IT go-to guy" on to talk about it, and he spouted the same "Net Neutrality is anti-discrimination for the internet" BS. It'd be nice if the IT community would realize that price-controls never work.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 15, 2014 05:04 AM (PYAXX)

78 Last headline from me:

Wendy Davis' campaign makes fun of Greg Abbott's disability (he's paralyzed)... just when I think Dems can't sink any lower... they make me sick!

http://tinyurl.com/n7pev44

Greg Abbott is the guy who says he wakes up every day wondering how he'll fight Washington next. He has successfully sued the government more than once.

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at January 15, 2014 05:05 AM (KL49F)

79 Posted by: Tami at January 15, 2014 09:02 AM (bCEmE)

Dear God. First of all, how much of a fucking retard does a lawmaker have to be to agree to meet with Special Ed? Second, he sounds like an even bigger idiot than I previously thought he was, which I thought was impossible.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 15, 2014 05:06 AM (QYbdU)

80 Also I love how oblivious he is when he mentions "voting to take something away from another American."

You didn't know?

The economy is like a pizza. If I eat all the slices, you have to eat the box.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 15, 2014 05:06 AM (6T8Ay)

81 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 15, 2014 09:04 AM (PYAXX) Even your average geek has about 0 understanding of how the internet actually works. I'll cop to not understanding the architecture of it, it's confusing as hell. When you add in that dash of "Internet access is a RIGHT" that seems to permeate the geek landscape (it's not) you get epic level stupid.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 15, 2014 05:06 AM (GaqMa)

82 Posted by: Mama AJ at January 15, 2014 08:58 AM (SUKHu) Divorced, beheaded, and died, Divorced, beheaded, survived, I'm Henry VIII, I had six sorry wives, Some might say I ruined their lives... I LOVE Horrible Histories! Clever, yes--Pythonesque, really--but *memorable*, which is what you want in a show aimed at teaching kids history. And it doesn't teach to the lowest common denominator, either. "The Rulers Song," for example, was written specifically in response to kids writing in to thank the team for giving them info they were able to use in school; the writers decided to see whether kids could use a song to learn all of the kings and queens of England from 1066. And it WORKED! Anyway. Morning, all. New chapter of Look Behind You just went up, for those who are interested.

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at January 15, 2014 05:06 AM (Mt8eo)

83 Anyone else seen it and can let me know if I'm way off base? Posted by: @JohnTant Have not & prob won't see it. Reminds me how Disney had that long slump then came out with Alladin, Beauty & Beast, seems like there was one other, just as our kids were Disney movie age. It was a great time. Then we hit the lions, and the era was over. Maybe one day family entertainment like that will return.

Posted by: webworker at January 15, 2014 05:06 AM (P1Tw6)

84 18...Julie Newmar.... She was in an episode of Columbo, so ... justly famous.

Posted by: edj[/i] at January 15, 2014 05:07 AM (klzyR)

My assistant called in today because she's fighting with one of her three baby daddies, so I'll be working my ass off today. She claims it's for another reason, but that's the real reason.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 15, 2014 09:02 AM (7ObY1)

Wonder if I can get away with doing nothing while still looking like I've done something?

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 15, 2014 08:57 AM

perhaps a merging of ideas will happen.

Posted by: dDan at January 15, 2014 05:07 AM (hwYmz)

86 Seventy-seven years ago today, the Beechcraft Model 18 took to the air for the first time.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 15, 2014 05:07 AM (FNVzS)

87 Karl Rove hasn't seen his feet in decades. He's not missing much, believe me.

Posted by: Dick Morris at January 15, 2014 05:08 AM (JQuNB)

88 A nation that sustained millions of deaths in a terrible conflict can be forgiven for needing heroes. Yet the enduring appeal of the Stalingrad story also shows our fascination with snipers, those skilled hunters of men. If the duel involves two such craftsmen pitted against each other, then so much the better. The Great Stalingrad Duel may be myth. But that makes it no less a dramatic story. Posted by: RWC at January 15, 2014 09:03 AM (fWAjv) Never thought it wasn't anything but a myth. But as to the millions of deaths, a good percentage are attributable to Stalin's incompetence and his and his generals total disregard for the lives of its own citizens and soldiers.

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 15, 2014 05:08 AM (Qev5V)

89 My kids saw Frozen (I didn't go) - they liked it but didn't seem that crazy about it. I think the one kid likes the soundtrack. The premise - ending winter - so there was no global warming irony there?

Posted by: votermom at January 15, 2014 05:09 AM (GSIDW)

90 Y'all, I just have to crow a little bit. This is my thing, the Homespun Yarn Party. http://homespunyarnparty.blogspot.com/p/about-homespun-yarn-party.html

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 15, 2014 05:09 AM (N/cFh)

Gooood morning, all! What fresh hell awaits us this day?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at January 15, 2014 05:09 AM (4df7R)

92 Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 15, 2014 09:06 AM (6T8Ay) Pfff, No one gets between mean an pizza, so that scenario makes no sense!

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 15, 2014 05:09 AM (GaqMa)

93 >>ItÂ’s almost like thereÂ’s a lack of confidence, like theyÂ’re not sure this is the right thing to do in front of constituents. Posted by: Tami at January 15, 2014 09:02 AM (bCEmE) Spoken like a wet brained alky in a house full of broken mirrors. Â…...Ed Shatz that is, (not you Tami)

Posted by: ontherocks at January 15, 2014 05:09 AM (zVj1J)

94 Posted by: Tami at January 15, 2014 09:02 AM (bCEmE) If you had -1 minutes on your "How long this morning until AllenG sees something that sets him off" ticket, please come collect your winnings. What the fucking fuck? You have no problem with them voting to take my insurance away you fucking shit-stain. You want to talk about "morality" how about we talk about the millions of people forced off their insurance who now have few if any options for getting affordable coverage? How about we talk about kids denied treatment because the SCOAMT, whose dick you suck with such relish, kept changing the law willy-nilly. How about we talk about kids and adults left without coverage because they *tried* to follow the law, and wound up in insurance limbo? You fucking sub-moronic ass-wipe. (yes- that's all directed at Ed, just for the record)

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 15, 2014 05:09 AM (PYAXX)

95 Weinstein says, "no, I like to think of it more as 'Jews with guns.'"

So, it's Defiance: Urban Edition.

Posted by: [/i]KG at January 15, 2014 05:10 AM (p7BzH)

Y'all, I just have to crow a little bit. This is my thing, the Homespun Yarn Party.

http://homespunyarnparty.blogspot.com/p/about-homespun-yarn-party.html

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 15, 2014 09:09 AM (N/cFh)

Oh MAN. That sounds like so much fun!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at January 15, 2014 05:10 AM (4df7R)

97 40 I think I'll bring over some of Vic's links for the official thread... Posted by: --- at January 15, 2014 08:48 AM Y'know, I thought about doing that, but then I thought, that would be one long annoying post. Better you than me.

Posted by: webworker at January 15, 2014 05:10 AM (P1Tw6)

98 President Barack Obama put lawmakers on notice during his first official cabinet meeting of the year, telling his top deputies that his 2014 agenda will move forward whether Congress votes for it or not.
Â“IÂ’ve got a pen and IÂ’ve got a phone,Â” the president asserted, Â“and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward in helping to make sure our kids are getting the best education possible, making sure that our businesses are getting the kind of support and help they need to grow and advance, to make sure that people are getting the skills that they need to get those jobs that our businesses are creating.Â”

Why have a Congress? Why have laws? When the king can do whatever in the hell he wants to

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 15, 2014 05:10 AM (1Jaio)

99 Since it's payday, think I'll head on over to Gander Mountain after work and see what's left on sale. This boy needs some new toys.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 15, 2014 05:11 AM (7ObY1)

100

Here is a comment from Richard Fisher, of the Dallas Fed:

"The 12 Federal Reserve Banks house the excess reserves of the depository institutions of America: If loan demand fails to grow at the same rate as banks accumulate reserves due to our hyperaccommodative monetary policy, the resultant excess reserves are deposited with us at a rate of return of 25 basis points (1/4 of 1 percent per annum).

Here is some math confronting policymakers: Excess reserves are currently 65 percent of the monetary base and rising. The only other time excess reserves as a percentage of the base have come anywhere close to this level was at the close of the 1930s, when the ratio hit 41 percent. We are in uncharted territory."

What this means is that we are in a deflationary spiral 50% worse than the great depression, and if by some chance we begin to see actual growth, we are in for inflation that would make the seventies look good.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 15, 2014 05:11 AM (2A43Q)

101 >>Pythonesque, really Oh yeh. It's like Monty Python meets Schoolhouse Rock. So nothing that could ever be done here today. >>*pours some grape juice through both of her front USB ports* Thank you. Good thing I had a cup sitting under there.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 15, 2014 05:12 AM (SUKHu)

102 You fucking sub-moronic ass-wipe. So sub-moronic asswipes don't count? Fascist.

Posted by: Eddie Schitz at January 15, 2014 05:12 AM (JQuNB)

103 91 Y'all, I just have to crow a little bit. This is my thing, the Homespun Yarn Party. http://homespunyarnparty.blogspot.com/p/about-homespun-yarn-party.html Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 15, 2014 09:09 AM (N/cFh) Is this like a Lemon Party?

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 15, 2014 05:12 AM (Qev5V)

104 There was also the slight problem of the NKVD shooting anyone they thought was a coward because they had the common sense to retreat.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 15, 2014 05:12 AM (FNVzS)

105 Harvey Weinstein is a Hollywood film director who was raised in a Jewish family. Given all that, Wikipedia probably didn't need to tell us that he "supports the Democratic Party"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 15, 2014 05:13 AM (7kkQJ)

106 Posted by: Aslan's Girl at January 15, 2014 09:05 AM (KL49F) Ohferchristsake... Keep it classy, Dems. I also like that she's claiming that she made $12 Mil to his $11.5 Mil by adding in the fundraising from an unaffiliated group. That she really raised about $8.7 Mil.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 15, 2014 05:13 AM (PYAXX)

107 Meanwhile in Hollande's France, a drunk tries to extinguish the Arc de Triomph's flame.

http://www.thelocal.fr/20140115/drunk-tries-to-douse-arc-dtriomphe-eternal-flame

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 15, 2014 05:14 AM (FNVzS)

108 Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 15, 2014 09:11 AM (2A43Q I've been saying this for months. Why is it the various feds are just now catching up. Although I think he's missing the point: it's arguable that it's not so much that "Loan demand" is down, but that Dodd-Frank is making it harder and less beneficial for banks to make loans. So instead they're holding on to cash. There are days when I get into fatalism mode and wonder if a recover would actually be a good thing.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 15, 2014 05:14 AM (GaqMa)

109 106 Harvey Weinstein is a Hollywood film director who was raised in a Jewish family. Given all that, Wikipedia probably didn't need to tell us that he "supports the Democratic Party" == When did the Dems get a lock on teh Jewish vote anyway? (Asking as a puzzled immigrant who thinks it makes zero sense)

Posted by: votermom at January 15, 2014 05:15 AM (GSIDW)

110 92 Gooood morning, all! What fresh hell awaits us this day?

Who knows? I make it "one day at a time."

Posted by: backhoe at January 15, 2014 05:15 AM (ULH4o)

111 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 15, 2014 09:13 AM (7kkQJ) Don't you know? All those filthy Jews are Republicans. The good Jews, of course, are all Democrats, but the filthy ones get all upset and threaten legal action over calling them "Filthy Jews" so we use code like "supports the Democrat Party." ... Why, yes, I am in a mood today. How could you tell?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 15, 2014 05:16 AM (PYAXX)

112 104 Is this like a Lemon Party? Posted by: Judge Pug at January 15, 2014 09:12 AM (Qev5V) --- Yes! Except the part with the naked old guys.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 15, 2014 05:16 AM (N/cFh)

113 Meanwhile in Hollande's France, a drunk tries to extinguish the Arc de Triomph's flame.

http://www.thelocal.fr/20140115/drunk-tries-to-douse-arc-dtriomphe-eternal-flame

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 15, 2014 09:14 AM (FNVzS)

At least he tried to use a fire extinguisher and didn't take the usual drunk route of pissing on the fire to put it out.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at January 15, 2014 05:16 AM (4df7R)

114 #69, I have not visited the Detroit museum. The art was donated in trust to the city at the height of its fortunes. It is worth billions and there is pressure to sell it off to pay for Detroit's massive debts, but, apparently, whomever it was who designed the trust did an excellent job and the trust has withstood the looters. Think of it, priceless history sold off to pay for graft, corruption, and the financial support of generations of the Detroit FSA.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at January 15, 2014 05:16 AM (wB492)

115 43 Is that what the kids are calling it these days? Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 15, 2014 08:44 AM (6T8Ay) I saw Law factory open for The Police. (Actually "Law Factory" sounds like a good name for congress.) Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 15, 2014 08:48 AM (GaqMa) Nah, sounds too productive.

Posted by: BornLib at January 15, 2014 05:17 AM (zpNwC)

116 Posted by: Aslan's Girl at January 15, 2014 09:01 AM (KL49F)

that was so disturbing.

and acquitted?
unbelievable.

Posted by: willow at January 15, 2014 05:17 AM (nqBYe)

117 112 How could you tell? The name of today ('Wednesday') ends in 'Y'.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at January 15, 2014 05:17 AM (XaO9F)

118 Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at January 15, 2014 09:16 AM (wB492) But also a perfect example of why the city (or government in general) should not own art.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 15, 2014 05:17 AM (GaqMa)

119 and when you talk to them about voting to take something away from another American, it does resonate with people. Like taking their hard-earned money as taxes, Ed? Or taking away their freedom and autonomy?

Posted by: --- at January 15, 2014 05:18 AM (MMC8r)

120 I don't feel like working today. Wonder if I can get away with doing nothing while still looking like I've done something?

Get a government job. I hear they even get to view pr0n most of the day.

Posted by: boned to the bone at January 15, 2014 05:18 AM (Ph479)

121 This boy needs some new toys. Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 15, 2014 09:11 AM (7ObY1) Make a liberal cry http://tinyurl.com/prmtptf The Â“StarÂ” as I call it has five five round magazines arrayed around a central hub. The baseplate of each magazine allows each one to slide into a recess in the center hub. Well you get the idea. For those living in those states that have banned hi cap mags this just might be a very good solution.

Posted by: RWC at January 15, 2014 05:18 AM (fWAjv)

122 Although I think he's missing the point: it's arguable that it's not so much that "Loan demand" is down, but that Dodd-Frank is making it harder and less beneficial for banks to make loans. Most of the Dodd-Frank provisions (well, the ones that will really depress lending) didn't go into effect until last week. 1/9 was the magic date. There were a lot of regulatory changes that went into effect prior to that, but not any that would have made it harder for people to qualify for loans- now the restrictions on lending have been ratcheted up. What that means in re: your comment, is that it's safe to assume that Dodd-Frank hasn't had that much of a negative impact on lending, yet. That's still to come. So this is people saving rather than spending.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 15, 2014 05:18 AM (PYAXX)

123 Okey dokey. I've got to go churn out two papers for class. Ta.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 15, 2014 05:18 AM (N/cFh)

124 Why, yes, I am in a mood today. How could you tell?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 15, 2014 09:16 AM (PYAXX)

I'm just sitting back and waiting for the Epic Post o' F-bombs. ^_^

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at January 15, 2014 05:18 AM (4df7R)

125

tsrblke, if they were trying to destroy the economy, what would they do differently?

On the other hand, it tells me that the powers that be will do whatever it takes to keep interest rates down in perpetuity, and based on history, the democrats will do whatever it takes to keep the economy from recovering, as it improves their electoral chances.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 15, 2014 05:18 AM (2A43Q)

126 One of the Jewish commentators here would be better able to comment on that political fact. I can only speak from the perspective of the half of my family who is Jewish. They came here and tried to assimilate and they did that by taking on the politics of their neighbors. They lost faith in God and the Holocaust exacerbated that, and they substituted religious faith and practice for a belief in Democratic policies. There's more to it, of course.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 15, 2014 05:19 AM (7kkQJ)

127 History stuff, part II: Here's a post someone wrote after reading his kid's Social Studies textbook and disagreeing with their "Christians bad, Muslims good" view of the Crusades. http://tinyurl.com/kys9864

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 15, 2014 05:19 AM (SUKHu)

128 But also a perfect example of why the city (or government in general) should not own art.

How do you even stay married?

Don't you realize that government should own all and control all?

/ sarc

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 15, 2014 05:19 AM (6T8Ay)

129 #110 Podohertz does a good job of explaining the Jews being Democrats. It has to do with the secular side of their culture.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at January 15, 2014 05:19 AM (wB492)

130 101>> When the wheels come off.... Hooo man! It's gonna be ugly. China is gonna own us. Literally.

Posted by: CrothetyOldJarhead at January 15, 2014 05:20 AM (+H/dq)

131 MWR, what is really bad. I can imagine the guy yelling in Pepe le Pew's voice "Avec! Avec! C'est fire!"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 15, 2014 05:20 AM (FNVzS)

132 Gingy, I went to an exhibit at the MOMA in Houston about 8-9 years ago where brought together a collection of all the greats from Monet to Dali to Van Gogh to Pollock to Picasso. It was TOTALLY AMAZING. Worth the 7 hour round trip drive. What amazed me was I never realized that Monet's paintings were so huge and Dali's were so tiny. Water lilies, never realized it was more than one panel either.

Posted by: lindafell at January 15, 2014 05:20 AM (PGO8C)

133 45 The Curse of Lucas lives!......(via JJ Abrams) "Justified" is ending in 2015. Rumor is the guy who plays Raylan apparently will have a major role in the new Star War movies. Posted by: naturalfake at January 15, 2014 08:49 AM (KBvAm) And of course I literally just started watching this show last night.

Posted by: BornLib at January 15, 2014 05:20 AM (zpNwC)

134 Make a liberal cry Posted by: RWC at January 15, 2014 09:18 AM (fWAjv)

Looks like it forms a nice little bipod too.

Winning!

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 15, 2014 05:21 AM (6T8Ay)

135 127 They came here and tried to assimilate and they did that by taking on the politics of their neighbors. They lost faith in God and the Holocaust exacerbated that, and they substituted religious faith and practice for a belief in Democratic policies. == That actually makes a sad sort of sense. The Democrat Party is a jealous god.

Posted by: votermom at January 15, 2014 05:21 AM (GSIDW)

136 MWR, what is really bad. I can imagine the guy yelling in Pepe le Pew's voice "Avec! Avec! C'est fire!"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 15, 2014 09:20 AM (FNVzS)

I can picture a lot of confused French people standing around, staring at him, thinking, "This guy... this guy's not talking about the eternal flame, right? I mean... he's not ACTUALLY going to try to extinguish the Arc's famous eternal fla- OH MY GOD HE IS!"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at January 15, 2014 05:21 AM (4df7R)

137 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 15, 2014 09:18 AM (PYAXX) Yes and no. The regulatory requirements dealt (in part) with assessing bank capital and at risk loans. So why they didn't deal with lending criteria directly they had a surprisingly ripple effect. I actually had a little first hand experience with this. My loan finalized in August of 2012, my dad was refinancing a few months later. Same lender (same guy actually) but the bank was more cautious due to the new environment (which also consists of a FDIC saying "we will destroy you if we feel like it") the paperwork requirements and verifications increased dramatically. We've been seeing the ripple effect of Dodd-Frank for years, even if it's just in the form of a new culture at the FDIC. But you are right it's going to get worse.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 15, 2014 05:22 AM (GaqMa)

138 "Hmmm. Gabe must've had an accident down at the law factory."

Stubbed his manicure again?

Posted by: flounder at January 15, 2014 05:23 AM (Kkt/i)

139 Article by Podheretz on Jews as Liberals...review of the book http://jcpa.org/article/chanah-shapira-on-why-are-jews-liberals-by-norman-podhoretz/

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at January 15, 2014 05:23 AM (wB492)

140

Hello from a very warm early Thursday morning in Sydney - heatwave all over southern OZ

Tennis players in the OZ Open in Melbourne are fainting on court because of the heat

So inspired by Gran and her birthdays, I've been looking at an Aussie history site - isn't the internet amazing? Just a few years ago we would have to dig through an encyclopaedia to find stuff and now facts are just a click away!

Anyway on this day Thursday 16/1/1909 (tomorrow for you), Australian geologists Douglas Mawson and Edgeworth David reached the magnetic South Pole

Posted by: aussie at January 15, 2014 05:24 AM (UVpzA)

141 AllenG, see my post about the lice yesterday?

Posted by: lindafell at January 15, 2014 05:24 AM (PGO8C)

142 Tsr, I have had a bank drop a performing business LOC because "we didn't meet the new standards".

Posted by: Jean at January 15, 2014 05:24 AM (4JkHl)

143 Why Jews and Blacks vote Democratic.It's a two part article-by Dennis Prager: http://www.dennisprager.com/why-jews-and-blacks-vote-democrat-part-i/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 15, 2014 05:25 AM (7kkQJ)

144 History stuff, part II:

Here's a post someone wrote after reading his kid's Social Studies textbook and disagreeing with their "Christians bad, Muslims good" view of the Crusades.

http://tinyurl.com/kys9864

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 15, 2014 09:19 AM (SUKHu)

The funny thing is all these lefties who tear down Christianity and defend Islam would be the first necks to feel the scimitar if the Muslims took over. No more womyn's/queer/commie studies

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 15, 2014 05:25 AM (1Jaio)

145 Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 15, 2014 09:19 AM (6T8Ay) Some days I ask myself the same question. Admittedly though these days the question is more "how do these fuckers keep getting jobs ahead of me?!" Oh, Bannion, the stories I could tell you. THE STORIES. Here's one. I've got a fellow student working for the mission department a fairly large catholic hospital system that can't even articulate the distinction between direct and indirect abortion. I don't even think she's Catholic actually. Mad Mad world

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 15, 2014 05:25 AM (GaqMa)

146

Hello from a very warm early Thursday morning in Sydney - heatwave all over southern OZ

Tennis players in the OZ Open in Melbourne are fainting on court because of the heat

You keep cool, aussie! You're welcome to come on up here and make some snow angels in my backyard if you need a way to cool off. Sure it's a long trip, but what're a few thousand miles between friends? ^_^

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at January 15, 2014 05:26 AM (4df7R)

147 Wish I could take credit for the Stan Lee line, but I'm not nearly that clever. It's a Simpsons line. Posted by: Mary Poppins' etc Well, I always say, steal from the best. Must've been the early Simpsons when they were funny, but I don't recall the line. I watched 'em all, I think, live or by re-run, until that day the army recruiters at the mall tried to get the town punks to join and when they wouldn't, one soldier made some disparaging remark about the stupidest kids in the stupidest town won't join. This, while we were at war, IIRC. Anyway, I turned it off and never ever bothered to care about it again.

Posted by: webworker at January 15, 2014 05:26 AM (Lo5Rt)

148 it is nice to watch something with a happy ending for once.

Posted by: alexthechick - Come to us, oh mighty SMOD at January 15, 2014 08:39 AM (VtjlW)

I like to watch too.....

Posted by: Chauncey Gardner at January 15, 2014 05:26 AM (QFxY5)

149 MWR, and they just stood there waiting for the Gendarmes to show up and arrest the guy.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 15, 2014 05:26 AM (FNVzS)

150 Jr. Black watches Chris Matthews all the time. He finds Chrissy to be a hilarious idiot. In the constant onslaught of Christiegate coverage, he says Matthews has repeatedly made jokes about Christie's weight. Venerated, hardcore "journalist" that he is...

It led me to play yet another game of, "what if..." What if Fox News ridiculed a Democrat for being a tub-o-lard? What about a black Democrat? A woman Democrat? I wonder if the wailing and gnashing of teeth on the left would still be hanging in space over Lake Michigan? I already know the answer.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 15, 2014 05:26 AM (Oa7B2)

151

Hmmm. Gabe must've had an accident down at the law factory.

Paper cuts can be a real bitch.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 15, 2014 05:27 AM (DrWcr)

152 Brookings Moneyball Scores: Ted Cruz Most Efficient Senator, Ron Wyden and Rand Paul Most Effective Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was the most efficient Senator, which means Cruz got the highest percentage of his proposed bills through committee (7 out of

. Compare this to Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) who proposed 61 pieces of legislation and literally none of them made it through committee. Using another metric to define productivity, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) had the highest number of their bills make it through committee, 13 and 11 respectively. Thinking about this another way for instance, Rand Paul was 4x as effective at getting bills through committee than the average Senator would be expected to. @ Reason.com: http://tinyurl.com/nqrvtco

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 15, 2014 05:27 AM (bCEmE)

153 Gates in a neck brace?

prbably twisted his neck from all the tossing and turning while trying to sleep, hard to sleep when you know you might have been able to stop this nightmare , but didn't even try.

Posted by: willow at January 15, 2014 05:27 AM (nqBYe)

154 Ohai smiley face.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 15, 2014 05:28 AM (bCEmE)

155 Dump up. It's small so I guess Ben didn't use a squatty potty.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 15, 2014 05:28 AM (GaqMa)

156 As Milton Himmelfarb of the American Jewish Committee likes to point out, the conservatism of poorer Jews as against the views of the richer ones runs counter to the usual American experience. More prosperous Jews, he has written, have the socio-economiuc status of Episcopalians, but tend to vote like Puerto Ricans.

In the 1970s, the political scientist Milton Himmelfarb quipped that Jews earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans, and the same is true today.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 15, 2014 05:29 AM (1Jaio)

157

[Wife observing Husband getting undressed for bed] Maybe you should diet!?!

[Husband, looking down] Why? What color is it now?

diet / dye it. Get it?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 15, 2014 05:29 AM (BAS5M)

158

147 MWR

Hi there, keeping cool with a nice glass of wine - and the fan on as I detest the air conditioning - plus being clothesless ( almost) helps!

Posted by: aussie at January 15, 2014 05:30 AM (UVpzA)

159 Posted by: Mama AJ at January 15, 2014 09:19 AM (SUKHu) That's applause worthy. Posted by: lindafell at January 15, 2014 09:24 AM (PGO8C) Nope. Missed it.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 15, 2014 05:30 AM (PYAXX)

160 144 Why Jews and Blacks vote Democratic.It's a two part article-by Dennis Prager: http://www.dennisprager.com/why-jews-and-blacks-vote-democrat-part-i/ Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 15, 2014 09:25 AM (7kkQJ) ======= Thanks FenelonSpoke

Posted by: votermom at January 15, 2014 05:31 AM (GSIDW)

161 Admittedly though these days the question is more "how do these fuckers keep getting jobs ahead of me?!"

You really need to email Fr. Pacholczyk at NCBC - or even look at USCCB.

You ain't gonna find jobs out there.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 15, 2014 05:31 AM (6T8Ay)

162 Buncha crowing on the local news this morning about Wendy Davis' latest money raising success. That's fine; send your money to Texas. She has zero chance of being Governor of TX.

Posted by: dogfish at January 15, 2014 05:32 AM (nsOJa)

163 Dang it ...headlines up. Moved my comment there.

Posted by: dogfish at January 15, 2014 05:33 AM (nsOJa)

164 Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 15, 2014 09:31 AM (6T8Ay There's a holy turf war between the NCBC and the Three lettered organization with it's magic Obamacare Pen wielding nun with offices out here. I'm staying the fuck away from that war. I stumbled into it once telling someone "we all need to get along and work together or be slaughtered by secularism separately." I was told to shut up, for I know not "how things work." I also stumbled into the war between the same group and the USCCB when I said "you know, bishop hate, so palpable at our annual colloquium is not, in fact, a good thing, perhaps we should work on that." I even suggested that they try to help students get work with the USCCB. I was told "you don't want those jobs." I quipped "how do you know what jobs I want?" Fuck it, Lab work it is.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 15, 2014 05:36 AM (GaqMa)

165 They had planned on ending Justified after 7 years but decided to call quits a year early. I say fuck! They show is really hitting its stride and it's one less decent show on television. We are heading back into the television wilderness, my friends...

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 15, 2014 05:37 AM (Qev5V)

166 tsrblke, if they were trying to destroy the economy, what would they do differently?

I like that so much I think it will be my new barroom question: "If the Democrats were trying to destroy the country - what would they be doing differently?"

Somebody ought to ask Obama if he has a five year plan for the country in the works yet.

Posted by: [/i] [/s] [/u] [/b] An Observation at January 15, 2014 05:40 AM (ylhEn)

167 I saw Fucking Sub-Moronic Ass-Wipe open for the Big Bopper in '59 at Clear Lake.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 15, 2014 05:41 AM (zF6Iw)

168

Must've been the early Simpsons when they were funny, but I don't recall the line.

It was a "Treehouse of Horror" episode where Lisa and Bart were mutated into superheroes and, while Comic Book Guy was preparing to kill them, he was distracted by Xena, Warrior Princess telling him "Xena needs. . .xex!"

The show jumped the shark years ago. I haven't watched a new episode since at least 2009.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 15, 2014 05:48 AM (zF6Iw)

169 So inspired by Gran and ~~her~~ his birthdays FIFY

Posted by: Gran at January 15, 2014 06:02 AM (mw0FO)

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