1 Morning.

2 Morning all.

3 morning folks!

4 Barky sucks!

5 Good Morning Morons.  Today is Wednesday, January 22, 2014.  On this day in 1973 The Supreme Gods in black robes issued their infamous decree in Roe V Wade.  Their shitty rulings was based on Stare Decisis creep from the previous shitty ruling in Griswald vs CT with its penumbras and emanations for privacy.  It is the most stupid ruling I had ever heard.

6 The Russians may have killed 4 of the jihadies but there are still 3 of the women out there.


http://tinyurl.com/k3mvh3c

7 Horseface Kerry the King of stupid says Assad has to be out before the peace talks open.  It is guaranteed that if he goes he will be replaced by a hard line Muzzie from Al Qaeda.  But those are the people O Shitforbrains likes.


http://tinyurl.com/ldq7e9z

8 Remember the Boner "deal" last January for the budget.  Well, get ready for some higher taxes when you file this year.


http://tinyurl.com/kvc393u

9 DAY 444 1,021 to go (1,094 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.

10 Congress outlawed Internet gamboling in 2006 but it is on the way back because it has been decided that the law will not be enforced by the DOJ.  Isn't it amazing that they can pick and choose what laws to enforce while playing racial politics with the DOJ.


http://tinyurl.com/om788v8

11 Well, after reading the Washington examiner piece on Gov. McDonnell I'm embarrassed I sort of defended him yesterday. (sorry, don't know how to do the linky thingy).

12 Another big win for Hillary that will never show up in the news.  It has been found that two armed security guards assigned to the area where the LAX shooter killed people had gone on a break without telling anyone as required.  Yes, the government will provide much better airport security than those private contractors did. 



Thank you Hillary.  Oh, and they are union now too despite the law originally saying they could not be union.


http://tinyurl.com/ljh6qpq

13 The sports nannies are going after children's soccer now.  Pretty soon kids will have to be raised in padded rubber rooms with no toys.  But that's all right because the drug makers have plenty of ridlin to keep them pacified.


http://tinyurl.com/leowpae

14 Actual unemployment is 37.2%?  So says this article.  I had seen previous estimates at 20+%. (this was posted in some comments yesterday but the morning crew may have missed it)


http://tinyurl.com/l26nvts

15 Another major company dropping health insurance for part time workers.  I also suspect that after a the furor dies down the ratio of part time to full time workers will also increase.


http://tinyurl.com/qxee8jr

16 The Fiat is about the size of a cardboard box.

17 The militirization of local police continues unabated.  Utah police are receiving surplus military gear, including grenade launchers.  Now Utah police will be able to knock down grandma's door and kill her and her dog with grenades and machine guns.


http://tinyurl.com/kvnbpux

18 Another work of genius by Ramirez

http://tinyurl.com/kv3cjnw

Oh, and this is the day that the lord hath made we will rejoice and be glad in it.

<grabs shovel>

19 Idiot driver hits a man on bicycle who becomes lodged in the windshield.  He calmly drives home w/o noticing the guy in his windshield despite the guy talking to him.  Some people should be permanently banned from driving.  It appears that yes, there was alcohol involved.  In SC this guy could get 15 years.


http://tinyurl.com/k6lcax7

20 Yet another wedding cake for gays lawfare case in OR.  It appears the gay mafia is really targeting Christian bakeries.


http://tinyurl.com/k6lcax7

21 That BS $1.1T spending bill also has provisions for another PR Statehood vote that wasn't supposed to happen for another 10 years.  If they make PR a State then they must divide TX in two right down the middle.  Stupid Republicans did not read the bill.  This is a guaranteed addition of two new Democrat Senators and new Democrat House members.


http://tinyurl.com/okmmhgj

22 5 It is the most stupid ruling I had ever heard. Posted by: Vic at January 22, 2014 06:56 AM (T2V/1) Stupid is as stupid does. And Stupid has done Dred Scott, Kormatsu, Plessy/Ferguson, Wickard/Filburn, and John "nation-killer" Roberts

23  Morning, peeps!

24 The Iraq collapse after the US pulled out was predicted.  I actually do blame the loss of US life in that shit hole on Bush.  He ran on a no nation building policy and then as soon as Saddam was pulled out of his hole he started nation building.  And that is where almost all the US losses in Iraq occurred. After destroying the Iraq army he should have consolidated forces and went into Iran while Israel went into Syria.   We would not have the mess we have now if he had done that.


http://tinyurl.com/pnk4t25

25 Tim Scott responds to the racist comments made by the NAACP about him.  Meanwhile SC Democrats plan on running a black candidate against him because "white people will not vote for him".    How stupid can you get?  He had already won a congressional district that is largely white.  And haven't they tried running a black before named Green? 



I have some news for you black racists in the SC Democrat Party, I am white and I will vote for him. (that is if after the primaries I don't decide to sit out 2016)


http://tinyurl.com/ooocwk4

26 Gee, the price of bacon is up 55% in 4 years.  I suspect it is actually more than that for all groceries.  Yet we have no inflation.


http://tinyurl.com/ooocwk4

27 Thomas Sowell talks about the actual hostility the left has for "the people" they purport to be for.  Too bad we didn't run him against Obama in 2008 instead of McShitty.


http://tinyurl.com/kpvy7uq

28 25 Posted by: Vic at January 22, 2014 07:00 AM (T2V/1) A black named Green for whites.

29 Eco-Nazis file court case against the EPA for Ozone.  I have no doubt that this case was coordinated and financed by the EPA who will either not contest the case or who will put up a non-defense.


http://tinyurl.com/lxa8w4y

30 And emails show that the EPA/Obama coal regulations were purely political and even OMB requests were ignored.  I had thought that since this was an autocratic executive ruling that after the shitforbrains was out of office (if got a real Republican) it could be undone and the plants started back up.  But I have since found out these plants are being permanently dismantled.   I suspect and underhanded sweat heart deal there or an illegal threat from Obama.


http://tinyurl.com/mxd8xzf

31 Is Scalia a swing vote for the BS IL Blogobitch law which forces home healthcare workers to pay SEIU?  If he is we are in trouble.


http://tinyurl.com/kckyeub

32 Examine the results of Obama's communist regulatory environment on business.


http://tinyurl.com/m72vkdd

33 Kindle Daily Deals


http://tinyurl.com/k9svxf5


That's it for today folks.   Slept late so I skipped a lot of the normal source.

34 So...yous two guys insist that I make you a wedding cake?

Sure, no problem.

35 34 So...yous two guys insist that I make you a wedding cake? Sure, no problem. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Baker of fabulous wedding cakes at January 22, 2014 07:02 AM (kFCo1) Go long on Ex-Lax futuresÂ…

36 22  Stupid is as stupid does. And Stupid has done Dred Scott, Kormatsu, Plessy/Ferguson, Wickard/Filburn, and John "nation-killer" Roberts

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2014 06:59 AM (olDqf)

If you throw out the crap that was not related to the actual case Dred Scott was actually a good ruling compared to those two cases I referenced above.

37 34 So...yous two guys insist that I make you a wedding cake?

Sure, no problem.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Baker of fabulous wedding cakes at January 22, 2014 07:02 AM (kFCo1)

The courts are now saying the cake must also "taste good" to eliminate that strategy.

38 36 If you throw out the crap that was not related to the actual case Dred Scott was actually a good ruling compared to those two cases I referenced above. Posted by: Vic at January 22, 2014 07:04 AM (T2V/1) Will. Not. Go. Down. This. Road. Morning, Vic!

39 38  Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2014 07:06 AM (olDqf)


Morning, yes no need to re-litigate.

40 Got to go take care of morning buisness.  Running behind today. bbl

41 "The courts are now saying the cake must also "taste good" to eliminate that strategy."

Oh.....it will taste good.
Trust me.

42 Morning, If I was the bakery owner, I would make the cake, but also make it clear that all the cakes come with a bible verse piped on in frosting.

43 37 The courts are now saying the cake must also "taste good" to eliminate that strategy. Posted by: Vic at January 22, 2014 07:06 AM (T2V/1) I would like to see how a law will be written to exactly define "good." To my way of thinking, dog shit, Leavenworth semen samples, razor blades and ground glass are "good" if you consider the penumbras and emanations.

44

Subcompact cars perform poorly in crash tests. No shit. So do cardboard boxes.

 

Oh, we used to dream of driving a cardboard box!  Would have been a Maybach to us.

45 Another major company dropping health insurance for part time workers. I also suspect that after a the furor dies down the ratio of part time to full time workers will also increase. http://tinyurl.com/qxee8jr Posted by: Vic at January 22, 2014 06:58 AM (T2V/1) And this is a company that they would have you believe is far superior to Walmart who, BTW, still provides insurance for employees. This move is designed to distract people from the data breach.

46 Vic, is gamboling like prancercizing? I hear they do that at 5 Points. And oh yeah, always drive nothing smaller than an F250 crewcab. It is the way.

47 I just got off the phone with a friend living in North Dakota near the Canadian Border. He said that since early this morning the snow has been coming down, it is nearly waist high and is still falling. The temperature is dropping way below zero and the north wind is increasing to near gale force. His wife has done nothing but look through the kitchen window and just stare. He says that if it gets much worse, he may have to let her in.

48

Morning, ‘rons and ‘ronettes, and thanks for the morning briefing, Vic.

 

IÂ’m not feeling so much like the walking dead this morning, so, a picture: here is a makeup test of the actress Gale Sondergaard for the role of the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz.  I imagine this must be the look on Her Imperial MalevolenceÂ’s Face when she sentences Dems to lifetime slavery on the Alextopia galleys:

 

http://tinyurl.com/ohgs4vk

 

MGM decided that it would rather go with ugly for the Witch rather than slinky and sexy and Sondergaard, fearing the makeup required would damage her career, pulled out of the role of a lifetime, leaving it open for the winsome Margaret Hamilton.*

 

Sondergaard torpedoed her own career in the “Red Scare” of the 1950s, when her husband, Herbert Biberman, was accused of being a Communist.  She stood by him and was, for all intents and purposes, blackballed in Hollywood.  Later on she and Biberman moved to New York, where she was able to find stage work.  Her last movie was 1983s Echoes, but she had worked in television long before that, making guest appearances in such varied shows as Get Smart!, Night Gallery and RyanÂ’s Hope.

 

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

 

*who, at the time of filming, was 37.  Sondergaard was 41.

 

 

BTW, I asked on yesterdayÂ’s thread, but it was at the end, so I carry it over for the gun Morons – if you were living in the Hollywood hills in 1917 and needed a gun to shoot or scare off four- and two-legged rascals, what would it be?  And any ‘rons or ‘ronettes who are fluent in German, would you let me know?  IÂ’ll need some idiomatic stuff to put in the mouth of Erich von Stroheim, who has a large part in my new book.

49 Yet another wedding cake for gays lawfare case in OR. It appears the gay mafia is really targeting Christian bakeries.


http://tinyurl.com/k6lcax7

Posted by: Vic at January 22, 2014 06:59 AM (T2V/1)

Remember when we were assured that would never happen?

50 47 I just got off the phone with a friend living in North Dakota near the Canadian Border. He said that since early this morning the snow has been coming down, it is nearly waist high and is still falling. The temperature is dropping way below zero and the north wind is increasing to near gale force. His wife has done nothing but look through the kitchen window and just stare. He says that if it gets much worse, he may have to let her in. ------- Thank you for a wake up LOL! Much appreciated!

51

Sir Francis Bacon (empirically methodical)

 

He died after catching a cold.  He'd stuffed a chicken with snow in order to see if he could perfect the art of frozen food.

52

24: "We would not have the mess we have now if he had done that."

 

Absolutely true. But can you imagine the schreeching and howling from the lefties?

 

That is one of the most baffling aspects of the left in my eyes. They will actually get up and fight to protect the evil, but they will ignore the deaths of the good.

53 Friendsh, we have nothing to fear from a Mitt Romney presidency.

54 44 -

Cardboard boxes?  Looxury!

Why, when I was younger we had to ride around on  a piece of plywood, with nails in it.  On fire!  And the wheels were square.  Not like today.

But you try telling that to kids nowadays.  They won't believe you. 

55 ... Puerto Rico
Posted by: Vic at January 22, 2014 06:59 AM (T2V/1)

And a 45% poverty rate.

56

Yet another wedding cake for gays lawfare case in OR. It appears the gay mafia is really targeting Christian bakeries.

http://tinyurl.com/k6lcax7

Posted by: Vic at January 22, 2014 06:59 AM (T2V/1)

 

Remember when we were assured that would never happen?

 

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 22, 2014 07:19 AM (tzWhQ)

 

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'm getting really tired of this country's laws being subject to the whims of a bunch of people with daddy issues.

57 MP4 - Margaret Hamilton was perfect  in the role.. I can't imagine anyone else doing it!  Her transition from Miss Gulch to the Wicked Witch  made it perfect.

58 Jerry, Arthur Freed actually wanted Edna May Oliver to play the Witch.  I have no idea what he was smoking.

59 "Why, when I was younger we had to ride around on a piece of plywood, with nails in it. On fire! And the wheels were square. Not like today."

You could afford fire?

I remember dad bringing a bag of smoke from the foundry for us to share.
But fire was for those rich people. across the tracks.

60 56   And a 45% poverty rate.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at January 22, 2014 07:25 AM (gHDMy)

Yes, massive addition to the FSA and guaranteed Democrat stronghold.  And Republicans voted for this shit.

61 52 Sir Francis Bacon (empirically methodical) He died after catching a cold. He'd stuffed a chicken with snow in order to see if he could perfect the art of frozen food. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 22, 2014 07:22 AM (zF6Iw) A Tur-Snow-Ken?

62 59 Jerry, Arthur Freed actually wanted Edna May Oliver to play the Witch. I have no idea what he was smoking. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 22, 2014 07:29 AM (zF6Iw) Love the early Warner Bros. cartoon with Edna May as Priscilla in their version of Miles Standish-John Alden story.

63 Posted by: Vic at January 22, 2014 07:29 AM (T2V/1)

I have been aware of Cloward-Piven for a long time. Thought it was a little too far out. Add 10-20 million illegals and 45% of PR and my mind is starting to change.

64 Edna May Oliver - yikes!

I love these alternate casting choice discussions... especially classic parts like the Wicked Witch.. we  have grown up seeing Margaret Hamilton in the part, and no one else will do.  But, what if they had cast Edna May Oliver.. she would likely be the "perfect" witch as well..

65 Go long on Ex-Lax futuresÂ…

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2014 07:03 AM (olDqf)

Unfortunately that may be a plus with who it is for.

66

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2014 07:31 AM (olDqf)

 

Love that, too, J.J.  I think those early WB cartoons were where I got my love for old Hollywood.

 

O/T, would you e-mail me through my nic?  I have a business question (and no, it's not "will you read my screenplay?")

67 64  I have been aware of Cloward-Piven for a long time. Thought it was a little too far out. Add 10-20 million illegals and 45% of PR and my mind is starting to change.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at January 22, 2014 07:34 AM (gHDMy)

They don't call them the Party of stupid for nothing.

68 66 Unfortunately that may be a plus with who it is for. Posted by: Killerdog at January 22, 2014 07:37 AM (Oi60j) Ipecac for the Southern HemisphereÂ…

69 DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson: 'We Effectively and Sensibly Enforce Our NationÂ’s Immigration Laws' on a border that continues to evolve. In the sense that enforcement of law is to achieve a policy that negates constitutional governance, and border security is negated in preference to perpetual evolution according to authoritarian political policy. Treaties, borders, laws? Words, just words, happened a long time ago. At this point, what difference does it make?

70 Paradise. We used to dream of having smoke to play with. We would hike thirty miles to the nearest hill and sit in the snow and pretend what we were sliding down. Then thirty miles back, barefoot and bleeding before dad'd beat us around the head and shoulders with a tire iron until we went to sleep.

71 Looking at Drudge it seems DeBolshevik is as incapable as Bloomberg at getting the streets plowed...

72 Looks like we will get some more global warming in SC today.  It is currently 25.9 and still dropping here and they are predicting a high today of 41F.

73 Regarding the wedding cake, I would make it.

But instead of butter, I would use lard.
Instead of real vanilla, I would use artificial vanilla.
Instead of cream cheese frosting, I would use crisco and sugar.

It would be edible, but it would not be great.

74 72 Looking at Drudge it seems DeBolshevik is as incapable as Bloomberg at getting the streets plowed... Posted by: --- at January 22, 2014 07:41 AM (MMC8r) Looking down on Houston Street and it's plowed and passable. Doomberg got his ass kicked because he allegedly ignored the outer boroughs. No reports yet on those areas. As for everything else, DeBolshevik is a piece of shit.

75 Mary Poppins. Check your in-box.

76 Back at work today, sigh. Hope the March for Life is successful, even given #climatechange

77 " Paradise. We used to dream of having smoke to play with. We would hike thirty miles to the nearest hill and sit in the snow and pretend what we were sliding down. Then thirty miles back, barefoot and bleeding before dad'd beat us around the head and shoulders with a tire iron until we went to sleep."

Nice ...

I sense the snark is strong in this one.

*Golf clap*

78 By the way, is the Virginia special election today? If it is, get out there and vote!!!!!!!

79

I love these alternate casting choice discussions

 

The most famous, with Oz, were Ray Bolger as Tin Man and Buddy Ebsen as Scarecrow, which only got turned around because Bolger begged the head office to let him be Scarecrow.  So Ebsen got the Tin Man, was deadly allergic to the aluminium dust used on the costume, and had to pull out in favor of Jack Haley.

 

The studio wanted Ed Wynn to play the Wizard and even considered W.C. Fields for the part before settling on Frank Morgan, who was, like Hamilton, an MGM contract player.

80 92 million people out of work in a population of 314 million. This is 29 percent unemployed. Subtract out the non working aged from the 314 million unemployed and you get 35 to 40 percent unemployed.

81 >>>So...yous two guys insist that I make you a wedding cake? Sure, no problem. It will be absolutely fabulous with the rainbow gummy bears.

82 24  Posted by: Vic at January 22, 2014 06:59 AM (T2V/1)


And tho think at one time when all this crap started I actually thought we would do just that. Then I read about troops not being allowed to fire at mosques and realized I had been naive at best about really fighting to win.

83 Mabey you didnt hear me. GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY STATE.

84 Got it, J.J.  I'll be in touch soon.

85 *leaps about happily* Gamboling on the internet!!!

86 79 -

Yes, but there is... another.  I sense a disturbance in the farce. 

87

Looking down on Houston Street and it's plowed and passable. Doomberg got his ass kicked because he allegedly ignored the outer boroughs. No reports yet on those areas.

 

J.J., did I ever tell you that, in The Director's Cut, I gave Theda Bara a flat on Cornelia Street?

88 The car comments have me thinking about the episode of Top Gear I was watching last night about cars in China. The one comment was that under Mao the officials had this transportation *shows picture of car* The next comment was that under Mao, commoners if they were lucky had this transportation *shows picture of oxen*

89 My daughter is at the March for Life. This is the fourth year she has gone with her school and she says it is as crowded as it has ever been.

It has been a wonderful experience for her, one we wish she did not need to experience.

90 Re. Ace's English language post yesterday, I would recommend to him and anyone else interested in our gorgeous whore of a tongue "The History of the English Language Podcast." it's usually a full hour (handy for the times at 3 am when youre wide awake and the demons come and your brain is eating itself) and chock-full of "Oh! So THAT'S where that comes from" moments.

91 Looking down on Houston Street and it's plowed and passable. Doomberg got his ass kicked because he allegedly ignored the outer boroughs. No reports yet on those areas.


You're near Houston?

Is NoHo Star still in business?

92 89 J.J., did I ever tell you that, in The Director's Cut, I gave Theda Bara a flat on Cornelia Street? Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 22, 2014 07:57 AM (zF6Iw) Am not far from there at all. Despite the politics of this city, the West Village is such a beautiful, almost bucolic neighborhood. And then there's "Scarlett StreetÂ…"

93

Actual unemployment is 37.2%? So says this article. I had seen previous estimates at 20+%. (this was posted in some comments yesterday but the morning crew may have missed it)

Posted by: Vic at January 22, 2014 06:57 AM (T2V/1)

---------

 

Wow, not too far off of Romney's 47% that will never vote for an "R".

 

94 93 You're near Houston? Is NoHo Star still in business? Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 22, 2014 08:03 AM (MPIX5) Yup. Just a few blocks away. And the best authentic Ceasar salad I ever had.

95 90 -

I can recall, eons ago, when I was young and full  of gambol, seeing some educational type program on China.  They showed  all the happy happy Chinese folk, in  the big  city, riding around on bicycles.  I had never seen so  many bicycles before.  It was like rush hour traffic... with bikes!

Anyhoo, the narrator, whoever it was, made it sound like the Chinese people, being innocent and free (and  gambolic),  LUVVVED riding around on bikes.

Unlike us miserable Amerkins.  With our stinky cars. 

Propaganda, as  they say, is not just a river in Egypt. 

96 Yup. Just a few blocks away. And the best authentic Ceasar salad I ever had

Love that place.

And, I first laid eyes on my wife not too far away...65 Thompson St.

....at 5:37 a.m. on April 26, 2003.

It's seared, seared into my memory.

97 7 Horseface Kerry the King of stupid says Assad has to be out before the peace talks open. It is guaranteed that if he goes he will be replaced by a hard line Muzzie from Al Qaeda. But those are the people O Shitforbrains likes. http://tinyurl.com/ldq7e9z Posted by: Vic at January 22, 2014 06:56 AM (T2V/1) I read a lot of the Egyptian blogs. Many people felt out policy is to start a civil war and then back the most radical replacements. They hated our ambassador and when the ambassador from Syria was scheduled to replace her, they went nuts.

98 And for you MPPPP...my wife used to work at 20 Cornelia St.  - Home Restaurant.

Best Butterscotch Pudding In.  The.  World.

99

Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 22, 2014 08:00 AM (Q8Wa9)

 

Bill Bryson has written two wonderful books on the English language:  The Mother Tongue and Made In America, both  funny and  informative.

100 I read a lot of the Egyptian blogs. Many people felt out policy is to start a civil war and then back the most radical replacements. White House policy is to replace any ME secular regime with Islamists.

101

I was on a walkabout of the Village when I saw an apartment building on Cornelia (wish I could remember the name) that I turned into a block of flats for the book.

 

And for those of you with a morbid turn of mind - in the late 1960s, the Process Church of the Final Judgement had a place on Cornelia.

102 74 Regarding the wedding cake, I would make it. But instead of butter, I would use lard. Instead of real vanilla, I would use artificial vanilla. Instead of cream cheese frosting, I would use crisco and sugar. It would be edible, but it would not be great. Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 22, 2014 07:42 AM (V70Uh) And charge double.

103 36 days

104 Texas has the right to split into five states

105 "71 Paradise. We used to dream of having smoke to play with. We would hike thirty miles to the nearest hill and sit in the snow and pretend what we were sliding down. Then thirty miles back, barefoot and bleeding before dad'd beat us around the head and shoulders with a tire iron until we went to sleep.

Posted by: .87c at January 22, 2014 07:40 AM (FuBlO)"

Oh, you mewling puppy.  We loved it when the snow covered up the broken glass and rusty razor blades we normally had to walk over with our bare and bleeding feet.  We were saving up to buy Dad a tire iron so that he would not get too tired beating us with a sharp rock but the rats got into the coffee can and ate the money.

106 Well, I'm back.  Kittehs like to walk across my surge suppressor/power supply and step on the on/off switch which the stupid designers put on the top instead of the side.


I put a box down on it's end and put the power supply on top of it.  Kittehs will have to work to shut me down now.


As for Oshit's ME policy and the Muzzies I linked to a good article yesterday from VDH about that.

107 "The History of the English Language Podcast." it's usually a full hour (handy for the times at 3 am when youre wide awake and the demons come and your brain is eating itself) and chock-full of "Oh! So THAT'S where that comes from" moments.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 22, 2014 08:00 AM (Q8Wa9)

That sounds interesting. Let's see if this link works, in case anyone else is interested:

http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/

108

Gay wedding cake for Christian Bakers

Agree to take job, a week or two before the wedding, say that you won't be able to finish the cake in time for the wedding due to backlog of orders.

A week or two out from the wedding, the happy couple is unlikely to reschedule the wedding, but have time enough to find someone else to make the cake. They won't be happy, but you didn't refuse to serve them.

109 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 22, 2014 08:12 AM (zF6Iw Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 22, 2014 08:09 AM (MPIX5) I wish I could remember where it was, but there used to be a speakeasy somewhere near Minetta or Barrow Streets. It was still functioning as a a legit bar back in the 80's/90's but you still had to go through a back alley entrance to get in. Really cool atmosphere.

110

108: "Oh, you mewling puppy. We loved it when the snow covered up the broken glass and rusty razor blades we normally had to walk over with our bare and bleeding feet. We were saving up to buy Dad a tire iron so that he would not get too tired beating us with a sharp rock but the rats got into the coffee can and ate the money."

 

You one percenters with your money hoarding. We had to take turns selling each other into slavery just so we could barter for a piece of cardboard with which we could dig our holes to live and die in.

 

We had to RUN across the splintered bones of our fallen family members because if we walked, the dickwolves would eat/rape us.

 

Broken glass and razors? Feh! #Firstworld Problems. 

111 I put a box down on it's end and put the power supply on top of it. Kittehs will have to work to shut me down now.

I think you've just created a challenge for them. Mine thinks he owns the tops of all things.

112

*falls face first into thread and clings to ground*  OH THANK GOD.

 

Yesterday I couldn't access the comments because my work network was having one of its spells where it considers AoSHQ a "social networking" site.   There are few things so depressing as trying to comment at the HQ only to have your browser tell you the site's blocked.

 

*single tear rolls down cheek*

 

But today I am here!    Hallelujah!

 

All y'all who just got walloped by snow, drive safe!   And if you're like me and dealing with bone-chilling cold, keep warm!

 

Now.  *flops down in bean bag chair   and pops popcorn*  What'd I miss?

113 111 Posted by: Darth Randall at January 22, 2014 08:19 AM (Zswg6) So the sign "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" is now hate speech? Seriously, if people have to do what you suggest in order to be true to their beliefs, then this nation is really lost.

114 BTW folks; Amazon fixed their Term Limits thing for downloading to Kindle.  Before it was listed as a $1.99 on the web but when you went to the Kindle it was $8.50.  It is a $1.99 on both now.  I downloaded it to my Android last night.

115 Posted by: Vic at January 22, 2014 08:15 AM (T2V/1)

Must be Pravda kittehs. You, my friend, are an Infidel and dissent must be silenced.

116 March for Life is always packed with kids that you would want your kids to bring home. OWS, not so much.

117 Interesting post on Internet gambling. By the way, in California and Florida, poker is not considered gambling; it is considered a game of skill. That is true; while in the short run luck can determine individual hands - over many hands a more skillful player will defeat a less skillful player.
 
By the way, I don't claim to be a great player. My brother is much better than I am. He won the Houston city championship, and was at the final table in defense of that championship the next year when his all in straight flush lost to a Royal Flush. Now that is a bad beat story.

118 Now. *flops down in bean bag chair and pops popcorn* What'd I miss?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at January 22, 2014 08:21 AM (4df7R)

Trampoline is out for repair.  That's about it.

Looks like you're going to have to fight gravity today.

119 Poor England! They just had the english fucked out of them. Invade, kill all the men, kill most of the women, leave a few to marry...

120 MP4, if you haven't gotten German help yet (or want a backup), I'd be glad to help--not native-fluent, but I do have a degree and over four years of translation experience. Email's egwolfephd at outlook; CV's on my blog, which is linked in my sock.

121 Trampoline is out for repair. That's about it. NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! *shakes fist at sky* KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

122 114  I think you've just created a challenge for them. Mine thinks he owns the tops of all things.

Posted by: Retread at January 22, 2014 08:20 AM (cHwk5)

I have one like that.  Likes to hop up on top of my stereo receiver sit there for a while to warm her ass, then use it for a launching pad to the mantle to parade around on and see how much shit she can knock off on the hearth and break.

123 Speaking of Amazon. Amazon will start collecting state sales tax for NC beginning 1 FEB. Vic, you get it in 2016 looks like.

124 Do not be concerned about peace negotiations in Syria. Look how long it took to decide on the shape of the table at the Paris peace talks between the US and North Vietnam. It wasn't until John Kerry, who had some expertise in these matters, became involved that negotiations could move forward onto the shape of that table.

Three more years.
We have the time, we have the technology. We can build this.

125 116  So the sign "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" is now hate speech?

Seriously, if people have to do what you suggest in order to be true to their beliefs, then this nation is really lost.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2014 08:21 AM (olDqf)

It is in OR and I think also WA who have passed laws to accommodate the Gay Nazis.

126

I saw Nickelfucking Dickwolves open for GG  Allin at Space in Chase in '94.

127 I'm attempting to teach a Brit how to make proper pancakes...over Facebook.

128 [I\]o the sign "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" is now hate speech?

Seriously, if people have to do what you suggest in order to be true to their beliefs, then this nation is really lost.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2014 08:21 AM (olDqf)

---------

 

Hey, I agree with you. Unfortunately, many, including a number of judges don't. If it were up to me, private business owners would be allowed to serve whatever clientele they wanted and not forced to serve those they didn't. I would also ban all "Hate" crimes, as I think murder, theft, fraud and the like are adequate crimes to charge someone with, without getting into what the perpetrator was thinking at the time.

129 Seriously, if people have to do what you suggest in order to be true to their beliefs, then this nation is really lost. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2014 08:21 AM (olDqf) They do. We are.

130 I watched some program called the medieval dead about a mass grave of about 50 from the battle of Towton. The brits being all pc have to always go on and on how violent were the deaths and the lack of chivalry as commonly thought? Seriously, they are in a brutal civil war and swinging axes at each other. How did you think people were going to die? If you were wounded you were as good as dead. They executed prisoners. But in these archaeology programs they always have to get all solemn and even weepy at times.

131 Morning all. All dug out. All cars cleared and cleaned and daughter #2 off to work and coffee percolating on the counter. And obama only things muslim anti-Semitism is a few decades old and only because of Israel. What a fucking idiot

132 Actual joblessness in coastal GA varies between 20% and 50%. Yes, it is that bad- there are no jobs. And real estate is dead. But the TV shows you happy meals and pretty pictures....

133 126 Speaking of Amazon. Amazon will start collecting state sales tax for NC beginning 1 FEB. Vic, you get it in 2016 looks like.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at January 22, 2014 08:25 AM (gHDMy)

They built a distribution warehouse in Columbia last year.  The State AG told them they would have to start collecting sales tax for SC now since they had a "presence" here now.  They had an agreement with the previous gov for a 5 year moratorium on that.  They threatened to pull the WH construction and sell the property. Halley said they would honor the agreement from the previous gov.  So we should have 4 more years.

134 20 Yet another wedding cake for gays lawfare case in OR. It appears the gay mafia is really targeting Christian bakeries. http://tinyurl.com/k6lcax7 Posted by: Vic at January 22, 2014 06:59 AM (T2V/1) I'd subcontract the order in that legal hellhole.

135 Wisconsin taxpayers are getting our money back.

In his State of the State address tonight, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will propose returning more than $800 million back into the hands of taxpayers through property and income tax cuts and withholding changes.

Walker will propose reducing property taxes by $406 million. His plan reduces income taxes by nearly $100 million by reducing the lowest tax bracket from 4.4% to 4.0%, effective April 1. Most significantly Walker's Department of Revenue will adjust the income tax withholding formula, to create a reduction of $322.6 million

136 By the way it is pretty freaked cold out

137

So I got an email yesterday from someone claiming to be Chris Wallace of Fox News    who said he'd seen my column in the Union Leader last year (in which I snarked at Shaheen) and was wondering if I or anyone I know here in NH has had any experiences with    Obammycare. 

 

 

I do not know that I trust this email.   First because it came to my work email addy,    and second because why the hell would Chris Wallace (or one of his assistants) email ME?  I'm highly suspicious.

138 It really is a tale of two cities — this time with the tony Upper East Side getting the shaft! Huge swaths of the city’s wealthiest neighborhood had been not been plowed by early Tuesday evening, leaving 1-percenters out in the cold, according to the city’s own map of snow-plower activity. “He is trying to get us back. He is very divisive and political,” said writer and Life-long Upper East Sider and mom Molly Jong Fast of Mayor de Blasio. “By not plowing the Upper East Side, he is saying, ‘I’m not one of them.’ But we have everyone in this area on the Upper East Side. We have rich people, middle class people, and housing projects. We have it all.” There appeared to be no snow plowing between East 59th and 79th Streets and between Second and Fifth Avenues. And so it begins

139 BTW, we lost the ""We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone"" sign in 1965 with the unconstitutional civil rights act of 1964/1965.

140

Wisconsin taxpayers are getting our money back.

 

NICE!

141 I'm highly suspicious. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at January 22, 2014 08:32 AM (4df7R) Well everyone here thinks your highly suspicious also

142

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at January 22, 2014 08:23 AM (Mt8eo)

 

Many thanks, dear lady.  Done and done.

 

Still waiting on a gun answer, though.

143

It really is a tale of two cities — this time with the tony Upper East Side getting the shaft!

 

But    didn't   all-seeing, all-knowing Tina Brown say that rich people always have someone to shovel their sidewalk?  

144 140  Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at January 22, 2014 08:32 AM (4df7R)



It has always been good policy to ignore (and usually not even open) E-Mails from people you do not know. Especially if it has an attached file.

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

146 Rare blue diamond found in South African mine Fox News: Was kate winslet attached?

147 Well everyone here thinks your highly suspicious also

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2014 08:34 AM (nzKvP)

 

Hardy har har.    lol!

148 Wisconsin taxpayers are getting our money back. Fuckin' traitorous Teabaggers.

149 That is one of the most baffling aspects of the left in my eyes. They will actually get up and fight to protect the evil, but they will ignore the deaths of the good.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 22, 2014 07:22 AM (LJpVo)

"Better a hundred innocent suffer, lest one criminal be punished!"

150 So, some idiot "researcher" at the University of Texas (henceforth: t.u.) has apparently decided that you're an idiot and a liar for speaking politely. If you start statements with phrases like "With all due respect," "Honestly," or "Don't take this the wrong way," you MUST always be being passive aggressive, and our culture would gain much benefit if we dropped all such preparatory phrases. That, or we should start carrying axes, so that idiot researchers at t.u. would learn why it is said "The barbarian is far more courteous than the city man..."

151 It has always been good policy to ignore (and usually not even open) E-Mails from people you do not know. Especially if it has an attached file.

Posted by: Vic at January 22, 2014 08:36 AM (T2V/1)

Or a "click here" link!

152 It has always been good policy to ignore (and usually not even open) E-Mails from people you do not know. Especially if it has an attached file.

Posted by: Vic at January 22, 2014 08:36 AM (T2V/1)

 

And normally I wouldn't.  But the subject line was "Fox News Request," so I assumed it was something about    some of the work my office is doing, and   figured I'd have to forward it over to our PIO.  It was very bizarre.

153 So would it be a fashion faux pas to wear meggings under your dress? http://tinyurl.com/mfuv3mh Although many of these extreme avant garde trends seemed to be just that ..."avant garde." One of the hot looks by Walter van Beirendonck is actually hitting the streets. Walter van Beirendonck showcased leggings in a variety of prints and styles. Men in tight pants and leggings is not something that we are shocked by - from 80's hair bands to Russell Brand and Justin Bieber and Lenny Kravitz : men have been wearing tight pants for a while. Not only this but Versace , Prada and Givenchy have featured them in menswear over the years. Once a joke on the fashion scene "What's next? Men in leggings?" but the trend has trickled down into the mainstream fashion for men. We are no longer surprised with men wearing leggings to the gym but is swapping meggings with your boyfriend going a little too far?

154 Would you really want to eat something that was made for you by a guy who was  threatened with legal action and was forced to produce it  for you?

155 Wisconsin taxpayers are getting our money back. This Scott Walker fella shows some promise.

156 Would you really want to eat something that was made for you by a guy who was threatened with legal action and was forced to produce it for you? Posted by: Icedog at January 22, 2014 08:42 AM (and2K) Yeah that really amazes me.

157 Morning everybody; it's -9, thankfully, no wind (atm) and sunny (for what it's worth).

Re: PR statehood... unless they heavily queer the vote, the result of that vote will probably be a NO. The average Puerto Rican is quite happy with their 'commonwealth' status.

As to the crash test report, good intentions doesn't overrule the laws of physics.

158

AllenG,  I've had to educate a few young troops who believed you could tell an officer or NCO to "fuck off"...as long as you threw a "With all due respect" in the front of it.

159 Would you really want to eat something that was made for you by a guy who was threatened with legal action and was forced to produce it for you? It'd be nice to make one of those filled cakes that 'bleed' when you cut into it. Kind of a 'Carrie' themed wedding cake.

160 From the side-bar: Target axes employee health plans, cites Obamacare as reason. Wait. I thought Target was supposed to be "The Good Retailer." So why is it that Walmart is the one being praised for their plan being better than ObamaCare, and Target the one dumping all their employees onto ObamaCare? I mean, tens of thousands of hipster douches assured me it would be the other way.

161 I would also ban all "Hate" crimes, as I think murder, theft, fraud and the like are adequate crimes to charge someone with, without getting into what the perpetrator was thinking at the time.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 22, 2014 08:27 AM (Zswg6)

The purpose of "hate crime" legislation is not to punish the guilty, it is to cow the populace by altering their ability to think rationally.  When every utterance offers the possibility of being brought up on charges filed by a liberal prosecutor to be adjudicated before a liberal judge, even the imprudent tend to quiet down.

162 The problem is -  they have to resort to Christian bakers, because they can't find any gays that know how to decorate a cake.


/

163 Nice pro-TFG spin at the Bloomberg article, though. Masterfully done.

164 DC makes a huge impact on the illegal gun culture that threatens the city. http://tinyurl.com/kykomxl Mr. Witaschek told me this week, “Since the night my home was invaded and family terrorized by a militarized D.C. police force, I am more afraid of what government is doing than I am of any of the people I encountered when I spent the night in jail.” He added, “The Second Amendment was meant to guarantee individuals the right to protect themselves against government — as much as against private bad guys and gangs.” There have been two pre-trail hearings in the case so far. At the end of the first hearing in November, Judge Robert Morin gave the government until Jan. 3 to come up with a good defense for the initial police raid without a search warrant. Knowing things weren’t going in their favor, the two assistant attorneys general for the District on the case, Peter Saba and Oritsejemine Trouth, offered Mr. Witaschek probation if he pleaded guilty. He declined the offer. At the second hearing, the judge disallowed the first warrantless search and the fruits of it. This eliminated a box of rifle ammunition from the charges. Undeterred, the prosecutors continued with the two items from the second raid — a misfired 12-gauge shotgun shell and a box of muzzleloader sabots. If only he displayed a standard AR magazine on a national news show.

165

166 Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2014 08:46 AM (P6QsQ)

I would beg to differ, I bet there must be a GLBYQ* baker that could do a simply faaabulous cake!

167

Would you really want to eat something that was made for you by a guy who was threatened with legal action and was forced to produce it for you?

 

Posted by: Icedog at January 22, 2014 08:42 AM (and2K)

 

See, that's the thing.   They know they    can     because the baker's Christian,  and    good Christians don't    put razorblades in wedding cakes.

168 Posted by: Icedog at January 22, 2014 08:45 AM (r5sZy) Yeah, you *can* say things after those phrases that completely negate the phrase, but that doesn't mean it happens all the time. I use "with all due respect" when I'm about to question a manager with whom I'm unfamiliar (or who I know wants more formality). And of course, "Honestly..." is preparatory for "You're not going to like what I'm about to say..."

169 157 Would you really want to eat something that was made for you by a guy who was threatened with legal action and was forced to produce it for you?

Posted by: Icedog at January 22, 2014 08:42 AM (and2K)

The point is not to get a cake to eat.  It would not surprise me at all that they throw the thing away after they get it.  The intent is lawfare harassment against Christian bakeries.

170 Would you really want to eat something that was made for you by a guy who was threatened with legal action and was forced to produce it for you?

Posted by: Icedog at January 22, 2014 08:42 AM (and2K)

I doubt the happy couple really plan to serve that cake to their guests. They just want to force the bakery to 'serve' them and probably have a cake from a sympathetic baker that is what the guests will be served.

171 This may sound weird but I think gun owners as a class need to adopt the gay strategy as far as regaining our constitutionally protected civil rights. If they can be obnoxious and use lawfare to find shit that doesn't exist in law to compel their agenda as 'civil rights', then we can use the same tactics to illustrate what is plainly written in the Constitution as far as our civil rights. If one minority group can manufacture rights in court, why can't we, as another minority group, uphold and regain ours?

172 We need to get one of the 17 remaining KKK members in America  to try and order a Klan-themed cake from a black owned bakery. 

173 158  This Scott Walker fella shows some promise.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 22, 2014 08:43 AM (PYAXX)

You should follow the link I put up yesterday.  He is a lot more "moderate" than people think.

174 Heh. I'm Vic's echo this morning.

175 164?

"The purpose of "hate crime" legislation is not to punish the guilty, it is to cow the populace by altering their ability to think rationally. When every utterance offers the possibility of being brought up on charges filed by a liberal prosecutor to be adjudicated before a liberal judge, even the imprudent tend to quiet down."

Yep- been going on at Free Dominion in Canada- my main hangout- since 2007. "Maximum disruption." Google it and Richard Warman. It is vile....

176 See, that's the thing. They know they can because the baker's Christian, and good Christians don't put razorblades in wedding cakes. You know, that's what rubs me the wrong way. They (militant atheists, militant gays, etc) as though were the evil scum of the earth who kill in unprovoked reigns of terror. But their actions prove they know that not to be the truth. Is it too much to ask for consistency? If you're going to claim evil things about us, at least act as if you believe them.

177 "BTW, I asked on yesterday’s thread, but it was at the end, so I carry it over for the gun Morons – if you were living in the Hollywood hills in 1917 and needed a gun to shoot or scare off four- and two-legged rascals, what would it be? And any ‘rons or ‘ronettes who are fluent in German, would you let me know? I’ll need some idiomatic stuff to put in the mouth of Erich von Stroheim, who has a large part in my new book.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 22, 2014 07:13 AM (zF6Iw)"

Revolvers were a lot more common than semi autos in those days.  Also, .32 caliber revolvers were more common than any other caliber, even for the police.  My grandfather was a police officer at the time in an eastern city and he carried a .32 revolver until some time in the 1930s when his department ordered everybody to get .38 specials.  Dashiell Hammett wrote the Continental Op stories around that time and he mentions the guns that people were carrying.  A fairly common auto pistol at the time and place would have been a Colt Model 1903.  While these were available in .380, .32 would have been the more common caliber.   In the late 19th century, the Army had adopted a double action revolver chambered for the .38 Army cartridge.  This was dimensionally the same as the .38 Special but the case was a quarter inch shorter so it held less powder.  These were accurate but as the often told stories of Philippine Juramentados being repeatedly shot with them and going on to kill the shooter illustrate, they were a bit deficient in stopping power.  If purchased before the United States entered WW I, the .45 caliber Colt Model 1911 was available for civilian purchase.  If you want something a bit more exotic, before the British blockade cut off Germany in the autumn of 1914, a Mauser Broomhandle automatic pistol was available.  This is the pistol that was the basis for the blaster carried by Han Solo in the Star Wars movies.  It looks pretty cool and it shoots the 7.63X25mm cartridge which is basically the same as the cartridge that the Russians used in the Tokarev pistol and the PPSh submachinegun.  That cartridge is in the same ballpark as the M1 carbine cartridge which many argue is not all that powerful as a rifle cartridge bu that I would say is remarkable for a pistol cartridge.  When Teddy Roosevelt was shot with a .38 Smith and Wesson cartridge while campaigning for president in 1912, the bullet was slowed down by his heavy wool topcoat, his hour long speech that was folded over into quarters, his heavy wool suit coat, a steel eyeglasses case, his heavy wool vest, his linen shirt and his wool undershirt so that it broke the skin and was stopped by a rib.  The madman who pulled the trigger says he had been directed to shoot Roosevelt by the ghost of President William McKinley who appeared to him in a dream.  If McKinley had specified that he use a Mauser Broomhandle pistol, that bullet would have gone cleanly through Roosevelt and out the other side, thus sparing America and the world the legacy of bad ideas and disastrous policies introduced by Woodrow Wilson, our first Fascist President.

178 See, that's the thing. They know they can because the baker's Christian, and good Christians don't put razorblades in wedding cakes. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at January 22, 2014 08:48 AM (4df7R) yeah but they might hock one back and Â…Â…well you get the idea. Me personally, I'd pee in it

179

They (militant atheists, militant gays, etc) as though were the evil scum of the earth who kill in unprovoked reigns of terror. But their actions prove they know that not to be the truth.

 

 

"THE CRUSADES!!!!"

 

- LGBTBBQ Mafia, Atheist Cultists,   and others   on the left

180 I think there are lot of gay bakers. I think there are lots of gay people in culinary arts. The caterer and cafe in the next town over clearly has gay people who own it and their cakes really are very good.

181 10:00 am || Receives the Presidential Daily Briefing 10:45 am || Meets with the PresidentÂ’s Commission on Election Administration on voter access 11:30 am || Convenes a meeting with select Cabinet Secretaries of the Council on Women and Girls 12:30 pm || Lunch with Biden 2:05 pm || Hosts an event for the Council on Women and Girls 4:30 pm || Meets with Treasury Secretary Lew ----- Two meetings for them to tell TFG he throws like a pussy.

182 You should follow the link I put up yesterday. He is a lot more "moderate" than people think.

Posted by: Vic at January 22, 2014 08:50 AM (T2V/1)

------------

If by moderate you mean, cutting taxes, freedom from public employee unions, passing concealed carry, adamantly pro-life, pro- school choice, pro freedom of religion, pro voter ID, and pro-troops  - then sign me up as a moderate too.

183 if you were living in the Hollywood hills in 1917 and needed a gun to shoot or scare off four- and two-legged rascals, what would it be? I don't know about the Hollywood hills of the time, but revolvers were popular, as were break-action shotguns, and a variety of rifles. Just 20-ish years later, my Grampa ordered an shotgun from the Sears Roebuck catalog; I would presume people wanting to scare off (especially 4-legged) varmints would have done similar no matter where they lived.

184 185  If by moderate you mean, cutting taxes, freedom from public employee unions, passing concealed carry, adamantly pro-life, pro- school choice, pro freedom of religion, pro voter ID, and pro-troops - then sign me up as a moderate too.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2014 08:55 AM (P6QsQ)

The article I linked to yesterday made no mention of anything but the unions.  Is that article wrong?  Did he do all that stuff himself (as a pusher) or was he simply agreeing with the legislature. 

185 Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2014 08:54 AM (fWAjv) What time does he go out to shovel out Michelle's car? ;^)

186 175 We need to get one of the 17 remaining KKK members in America to try and order a Klan-themed cake from a black owned bakery. Posted by: Icedog at January 22, 2014 08:50 AM (GYTqM) This is genius. I'm in awe.

187 ........yeah but they might hock one back and Â…Â…well you get the idea. Me personally, I'd pee in it

"Got a little wang to it. Good, though!" (Hollywood Knights)

188 On the "Hate Speach vs "Hate Crime" subject, the Supreme Court ruled the hate speech laws Unconstitutional, however they said hate crime laws that punished more than the normal law were OK as long an actual crime had been committed.


I think both are unconstitutional.

189
Let's get out of here before one of those things kills Guy.


0-o

It was 'the boogers freeze instantly in your nose below zero' here this morning.

190

This bakery uproar is proof   that "gay marriage" is a sham.  What normal person would want their wedding day to be all about  political activism?

 

"Oh honey, remember our Wedding Day?  The lawsuits, the injunctions,  the ACLU and GLAAD protestors, the court orders, the  ambulance-chasing  trial lawyers, the cops....it was sooo beautiful!"

191 Morning all - it's chilly here this morning but going up to a sunny 66 today. Our bad weather is predicted for Friday morning which is when the Cowboy Breakfast for the San Antonio Rodeo and Stock Show is. Tradition has it that the worst weather of the year always happens on the day of the Cowboy Breakfast when 20,000 or so hungry people show up to consume free breakfast tacos (this is south Texas), beans and coffee. Right now the forecast is right on track for that to happen again this year. Might get down to 20, with a possibility of sleet or snow flakes. (And I mean flakes, no accumulation) But Saturday we are up to 70 again. I love south Texas weather.

192 Vic, I did not see the article you mention.  All I know is that I live here, and under Scott Walker all these things and more have come to pass, under extreme duress and death threats to the man.  He has a conservative agenda which he has implemented tirelessly. He is unflappable. 

That said, I do not know how he would fare as a presidential candidate.  He is not fiery - he is pleasant.  He is not an orator - he is more of a good business manager.  He is not aggressive - he is just a nice man with core principles who doesn't back down, but also does not get in your face about them either.

193 175 We need to get one of the 17 remaining KKK members in America to try and order a Klan-themed cake from a black owned bakery. Posted by: Icedog at January 22, 2014 08:50 AM (GYTqM) A 'Happy Birthday, James Earl Ray' cake.

194 Or find a gay bakery to make a 'God Hates Fags' cake.

195 Tommy Lasorda once had great admiration for Alex Rodriguez, even, like many, believing that A-Rod someday was going to be the game’s clean home run king. Now, the Hall of Fame manager says, the disgraced Yankee slugger is a cheat who is “trying to ruin the game.” And, Lasorda says, Rodriguez should serve an even longer suspension than the 162-game ban Rodriguez currently faces. Lasorda later added: “I’m telling you I don’t like cheaters. They don’t belong in the game. You’re cheating up there, and this guy that’s pitching against you isn’t cheating. And remember it was Lasorda who went to rescue the American Flag also, but Rick Monday got there first. Good guy

196 193 This bakery uproar is proof that "gay marriage" is a sham. What normal person would want their wedding day to be all about political activism? "Oh honey, remember our Wedding Day? The lawsuits, the injunctions, the ACLU and GLAAD protestors, the court orders, the ambulance-chasing trial lawyers, the cops....it was sooo beautiful!" Posted by: Icedog at January 22, 2014 09:00 AM (GYTqM) Liberals. All politics, all the time.

197 I would put Scott Walker in a key cabinet position and tell him to clean house of what ever department. Then I would have him do it on the next department, etc. Good administrators can go in an fix any type of organization as long as they have the head guys support.

198 What time does he go out to shovel out Michelle's car? ;^) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 22, 2014 08:57 AM (7kkQJ) Secret Service tried to trick him telling him that all the 'white powder' is his as long as he shovels it. Didn't work.

199 199  I agree, it's probably less to do with their sexual preference and has more to do with their politics and personal preferences.

200 Oh hurray... the ChiComs are pushing things along in the Sea China Sea again...

http://is.gd/CcFXWY

More opportunities for Obozo and Secretary Ketchup to excel.

201 A true Christian will not make a toxic cake. A true Christian would not make an inferior cake. A true Christian would render unto Caesar by making a good cake. Then deliver that cake with the message that it is filled with Christian love. blessings, and a superabundance of prayers for their salvation from sin. Then, a cynical-minded Christian would quietly chuckle thinking of all the things the partiers would imagine that meant about the contents of the cake. But not mean-spiritedly. It's not about the cake, of course, but if the devil can use it so can the angels. Theology matters.

202 11:30 am || Convenes a meeting with select Cabinet Secretaries of the Council on Women and Girls
12:30 pm || Lunch with Biden
2:05 pm || Hosts an event for the Council on Women and Girls
4:30 pm || Meets with Treasury Secretary Lew
-----


Two meetings for them to tell TFG he throws like a pussy.

Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2014 08:54 AM (fWAjv)

Barry will be the most feminine thing at both those Council events

203 197 Or find a gay bakery to make a 'God Hates Fags' cake. Ordering cakes from gay bakers could become Westboro's next cash cow.

204 Since when did cake become a tradition at gay weddings?  Gay weddings have only been around since like when, - since Obama came into office? 

I'm thinking a smoked kielbasa ring toss would make a better tradition.

205 A true Christian would render unto Caesar by making a good cake.

Then deliver that cake with the message that it is filled with Christian love. blessings, and a superabundance of prayers for their salvation from sin.

-------------



Amen. 

206 LOL; in the spirit of Jeff Foxworthy:


You know you are getting old when .....


You first have to get a pill caddy for all your permanent pills, and then you have to get a bigger one to accommodate all the ones added to the initial list.

207 Okay, Vic, I read that article, and I think you're making the same mistake (perhaps from the other direction) that Ace and the Cobs make. None of that says that Scott Walker isn't conservative. It says he *is* pragmatic. He's a hard-core fiscal-con who *also* knows that just shutting down public services- including welfare- isn't going to happen, and wouldn't be a good thing if it did. You have to take it in stages. As for the stuff grammie winger mentioned- he's the Governor. If he *didn't* want those things, he'd have said something. My main concern with Walker has been his statements (when he's made them) about illegal immigration- they suggest he's either too squishy for me, or at least open to being too squishy for me.

208

If purchased before the United States entered WW I, the .45 caliber Colt Model 1911 was available for civilian purchase. If you want something a bit more exotic, before the British blockade cut off Germany in the autumn of 1914, a Mauser Broomhandle automatic pistol was available. This is the pistol that was the basis for the blaster carried by Han Solo in the Star Wars movies. It looks pretty cool and it shoots the 7.63X25mm cartridge which is basically the same as the cartridge that the Russians used in the Tokarev pistol and the PPSh submachinegun.

 

Thank you, A-hole (you'll excuse me if I don't write "thanks to Obnoxious A-hole for gun suggestions" in my acknowledgements!)  and Allen.  I had thought about the Colt .45, and will definitely put that in the hands of one of my characters.  I'm intrigued by the idea of von Stroheim having the Mauser, because at the climax of the book he orders it given back because the person holding it is holding it incorrectly and looks likely to blow his foot off.

209 So, some idiot "researcher" at the University of Texas (henceforth: t.u.) has apparently decided that you're an idiot and a liar for speaking politely.

If you start statements with phrases like "With all due respect," "Honestly," or "Don't take this the wrong way," you MUST always be being passive aggressive, and our culture would gain much benefit if we dropped all such preparatory phrases.

That, or we should start carrying axes, so that idiot researchers at t.u. would learn why it is said "The barbarian is far more courteous than the city man..."

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 22, 2014 08:40 AM (PYAXX)

The most polite people I have ever been around were my fellow soldiers in Vietnam; everyone had a loaded fully auto weapon and was on edge. Even the troops from New Jersey and New York were polite. The real reason the left wants gun control is that they're all wantabe assholes, and they aren't comfortable being assholes around armed people.

Formal politeness is the lubricant that prevents friction among moving parts - you get rid of it in society at your own peril.

210 A true Christian will not make a toxic cake. A true Christian would not make an inferior cake. A true Christian would render unto Caesar by making a good cake. Then deliver that cake with the message that it is filled with Christian love. blessings, and a superabundance of prayers for their salvation from sin. Then, a cynical-minded Christian would quietly chuckle thinking of all the things the partiers would imagine that meant about the contents of the cake. But not mean-spiritedly. It's not about the cake, of course, but if the devil can use it so can the angels. Theology matters. Posted by: webworker at January 22, 2014 09:05 AM (WQhht) I think that is great and probably true, but if that good and great Christian would just leave me alone in the room with the cake for 3 minutes I, who has much lower moral standards, would take care of everything. Forgetaboutit

211 MWR, if one googles your name, would it be on some web site for work? Even if it didn't have your email address, you can sometimes find someone's email address and figure out that all of them are last name dash first name at placeofwork dot com or something. And if you look at the headers of the email you probably can tell if it actually comes from Fox... Don't know if it's real, but if it's not it's a pretty weird, specific scamming mail.

212 Re my previous, since I spoke to Christian living, I should add that more than one person has told me I'm no Christian. But many of my friends are.

213 Posted by: webworker at January 22, 2014 09:05 AM (WQhht) I agree with you about the cake and how a Christian should respond. It's something along the lines of Matthew 5:41 "If someone compels you to go a mile, go two miles with them.".

214 The "Four Yorkshiremen" style comments were just what I needed this morning.  Thanks, Morons.

215

The bone-chilling cold

What is Wendy Davis' dead soul, Alex?

216 210  My main concern with Walker has been his statements (when he's made them) about illegal immigration- they suggest he's either too squishy for me, or at least open to being too squishy for me.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 22, 2014 09:07 AM (PYAXX)

I see him more like the Republican leadership on a lot of issues.  I have heard he is all aboard with amnesty and if he is then he is off my list. But I will remain open until the run-up in the primaries start.

217 And if you look at the headers of the email you probably can tell if it actually comes from Fox...

Don't know if it's real, but if it's not it's a pretty weird, specific scamming mail.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 22, 2014 09:08 AM (SUKHu)

You could probably find Wallace's contact info at the Fox website and use it to confirm he, or a staffer, sent the email you received. If he didn't send it, he'd probably appreciate knowing someone is up to no good.

218 Even the troops from New Jersey and New York were polite. ------------------------------ Oscar Wilde, while visiting Leadville , CO: "The book of etiquette here is the Colt revolver. It teaches lessons that are never forgotten" That is from memory, so perhaps not exact. And, of course, the evergreen: "An armed society is a polite society."

219 I am in agreement with FenelonSpoke.    Make the cake.  Make it good.  Believe me, many more indignities await us.  The Republic is dead.   Don't worship it. 

220 "Council on Women and Girls" - LadyW says this is ValJar's deal. Whatever it's about. Burkas will be supplied.

221 A true Christian would render unto Caesar by making a good cake. I'm not sure a 'true' Christian needs to do that. That would make a 'true' Christian a slave of godless men.

222

From Purp's sidebar link

 

Study: Millennial males arrest rates are shocking

 

Without even reading the story, let me tell you     why this story makes me quadrupley furious.

 

 

1) Because vaginalogues    don't care about what happens to people with a Y-chromosome.  If the story's not about how millennial females are being exploited somehow then it's a non-story to them.   This is why I despise vaginalogues.

 

 

2) Racialists will only see the    statistic <I>"about 30% of Black males have experienced at least one arrest by age 18... by age 23 about 49% of Black males have been arrested."</I>   They will claim this is all about racism and nothing to do with actual criminality.  

 

 

3)   The statistics about while males (~22%    of  white    males   arrested by age 18; 38% by age 23)    will be ignored, because those are white guys so who cares?  It doesn't matter that those figures account for close to a quarter of all adolescent white males, and more than a third of young adult white males.   Yes the figures for black males are   awful, but there is    nothing positive in these numbers   for any of the other races, either.

 

4)  In the end the entire    thing will be ignored,   because the trials and tribulations that affect the men in this    country don't matter to the so-called intellectual elite.   To them all men are brutes, especially men with calloused hands who watch football and drink    cheap alcohol.    So far as the "elites" are concerned, their view of men is not much different than Ebenezer Scrooge's view of poor people:  If they're going to die they'd best do it and decrease the surplus population.

223 God bless the Marchers. I went to one of the early ones as a kid and it was an amazing experience. Wish our politicians took the pro-life movement and its goals to heart, but most just pay it lip service.

224 Would you really want to eat something that was made for you by a guy who was threatened with legal action and was forced to produce it for you?

==

A strategically placed long, black hair or two might be in order. 

225 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at January 22, 2014 09:16 AM (4df7R) :swoon:

226 Would you really want to eat something that was made for you by a guy who was threatened with legal action and was forced to produce it for you? Some people like the taste of domination over others.

227 I agree with webworker as well. Chances are good the cake isn't *meant* to be eaten since the purchasers know what horrible things *they* would do if put in such a situation. Prayer that they be blessed (which I've been told means "given what they most *need*" in the original" doesn't depend on consumption. And that way if they go so far as to test the thing they'll look like the pathetic control-freaks that they are.

228 Some people like the taste of domination over others. You say that like its a bad thing.

229 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at January 22, 2014 09:16 AM (4df7R) It's actually a journal article. And given that it's self reported data, I suspect that that numbers are actually a bit low, if anything. (One could argue that the culture of violence renders them higher for blacks, but I'm not sure there's evidence for that. There is however, IIRC, evidence for broad swaths of the population underreporting arrest records.)

230 I'm not sure a 'true' Christian needs to do that. That would make a 'true' Christian a slave of godless men. Theologically speaking it goes either of two ways. If the Christian really has a moral problem with baking a cake for a gay wedding, then that Christian is obligated by his own faith NOT to bake the cake- no matter what the law says and no matter the consequences. In that case, he should also know that he will face the consequences. If the Christian does not, and simply did not want to "encourage" gay marriage- then, now that the "appointed authorities" have spoken, he should follow the instruction, "In everything, both word and deed, do all in the name of the Lord."

231 A strategically placed long, black hair or two might be in order. Posted by: Lady in Black at January 22, 2014 09:17 AM (Oa7B2) Or a couple of short ones.

232 And in pot-related news, Wisconsin's legislature is considering a bill to allow even tougher enforcement of marijuana laws.


Don't tell CAC. 

233 Or a couple of short ones. Posted by: Tami at January 22, 2014 09:21 AM (bCEmE) As in "I got em by the short hairs"?

234 on Fox news
"Feds seeking new child safety seat regs." (apparently the old regs weren't good enough, new regs to cover side impact)

these new regs will save the live of five children each year. (statisticians claim)

http://preview.tinyurl.com/nen7hea

Can't we just wrap them up in bubble wrap? Might need to feed them oxygen.
So make it a bubble wrap suit they could wear all day long and be protected against injury everywhere, not just in cars. and you could filter and purify the air and end exposure to dangerous pollutants at the same time.

235 "The revolver is their book of etiquette. This teaches lessons that are not forgotten." I did a search on that quote and found some BBC fella wrote a series of murder mystery books centered around Oscar Wilde. Intriguing.

236 As in "I got em by the short hairs"? Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2014 09:22 AM (nzKvP) Yeah, like that.

237 It must be said, peaceful Olympics are the point of public good will towards people of good will. "Good Sportsmanship" and mutual respect; may the momentarily best athlete win. May all go well in peace. Sochi genocide 1864. An irony, given today's terrorism, the Circassians were only nominally Muslim, Sufi mystics tinged with animism, and did not embrace "Jihad" 150 years ago though threatened with extinction. Wonder, a modern Sochi memorial park honoring by recognition the Circassian tribulations from Imperial Russia would provide a symbolic peace gesture towards coexistence. Blame the Czar. Blame the USSR. Too little, too late. http://tinyurl.com/n57rxht It was 150 years ago in the winter of 1864 that the remaining Circassians were driven from their burning mountain villages at the point of Russian bayonets to the Ottoman Empire in what is today Turkey and much of the Middle East. Critically, the fleeing Circassians' final port of departure from their ancient homeland was the Black Sea town of Sochi. Brian Glyn Williams, professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth: "The Dark Secret Behind the Sochi Olympics: Russia's Efforts to Hide a Tsarist-Era Genocide" the discussion on Chechen terrorism in Russia, historical context. The Chechen highlanders and neighboring Dagestanis correctly claim that the roots of the violence in southern Russia go back to the 19th century Russians who deprived them of their ancient liberty. In the early 1800s, the expansionist Russians marched into the forested mountains of northern Caucasus and brutally conquered the smaller Muslim nations living in this region .... The divided Chechen and Dagestani tribes (there are more than 30 ethnic groups in Dagestan) did not stand a chance against the massive armies of Imperial Russia until they were unified by a Dagestani holy man named Imam Shamil [who led them in a 30 year war]. As the Russians fought to crush Shamil's mountain rebels in the northeastern Caucasus Mountains, they moved against another nation in the northwestern Caucasus known as the Circassians. The odds are you have never heard of this people due to the fact that the Russians exterminated most of them, but for centuries they were famous in the Middle East and Russia. To teach all the Caucasian tribes a lesson, the Russians decided to wipe out the ancient Circassians. Professor Walter Richmond Commins writes, from The Circassian Genocide: "Circassia was a small independent nation on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea. For no reason other than ethnic hatred, over the course of hundreds of raids the Russians drove the Circassians from their homeland and deported them to the Ottoman Empire. At least 600,000 people lost their lives to massacre, starvation, and the elements while hundreds of thousands more were forced to leave their homeland. By 1864, three-fourths of the population was annihilated, and the Circassians had become one of the first stateless peoples in modern history."

238 A true Christian will not make a toxic cake. A true Christian would not make an inferior cake. A true Christian would render unto Caesar by making a good cake. Then deliver that cake with the message that it is filled with Christian love. blessings, and a superabundance of prayers for their salvation from sin. Then, a cynical-minded Christian would quietly chuckle thinking of all the things the partiers would imagine that meant about the contents of the cake. But not mean-spiritedly. It's not about the cake, of course, but if the devil can use it so can the angels. True. But an agnostic could really fuck it up. Morning all.

239

As in "I got em by the short hairs"?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2014 09:22 AM (nzKvP)

 

Yep.

Anyone got a wire-haired terrier? 

240 Whatever happened to Obama's Council on Jobs? The latest news I find is over a year old.

241 Peeved that schools in Northern Va are closed. It's too cold to bring my 4 year-old to the March for Life. Husband went to work and older kids aren't mature enough to babysit.

242 Sabotaging the cake would likely produce another lawsuit from the happy couple.

243 Dr. Ben Carson  -
A physicianÂ’s view on the sanctity of life


http://tinyurl.com/lofo5sn

244 number of pets being poisoned with pot is up http://www.nbcnews.com/health/your-dog-drugs-marijuana-poisoning-rise-pets-2D11959080

245

Oh Lord.  I have to go read a grant proposal    my office is planning to send in for consideration, and I'm not looking forward to it.  I spent all of yesterday reading the damn thing and it was a mess.  Not even a hot mess.  Just a messy   mess.   These people all make more money than I do    yet      almost none of them can write    worth a damn. 

 

*rubs temples*

 

Pray for me.   This is going to be a GREAT day.

246 Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2014 09:21 AM (P6QsQ) 2 points for the shot at CAC. That said, I'm exactly as uninterested in this as I am in legalizing MJ. We've got bigger issues to solve, at least here in TX.

247 If you start statements with phrases like "With all due respect," "Honestly," or "Don't take this the wrong way," you MUST always be being passive aggressive, and our culture would gain much benefit if we dropped all such preparatory phrases. Sweet! Start all statements honestly from now on. "Hey dick breath!"

248 the bakers should make clear that the cake was prayed over the entire time it was prepared.....

249 I did a search on that quote and found some BBC fella wrote a series of murder mystery books centered around Oscar Wilde. Intriguing.

 

Posted by: Brother Cavil wants out at January 22, 2014 09:23 AM (naUcP)

 

Somebody  also did a series based around Ambrose Bierce.

250 High millenial arrest rate?They still love Obama and want more big government( except with teh pot!).

251 Nothing grosses Mr. Black out more than a hair in food.  He will stop eating dead in his tracks and even if a restaurant brings a new plate out, he still can't eat it.  To this day, he will not eat at IHOP, nor will he eat a McDonald's ice cream cone.  His latest hair debacle just happened at Cracker Barrel.  I wonder how he'll survive without his beloved chicken livers. 

252 Players wanted A-Rod out of union A-Rod should write a book: " How to win friends and influence people"?

253

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 22, 2014 09:23 AM (MhA4j)

 

Are you taking the position that terrorist acts at the winter olympics would be justified?

254 Brother Cavil - It seems rather odd to think of Wilde as having visited Leadville.

255 I'm focused like a laser on Reggie's anus.

256 I'm of two minds on the cake business: 1. ) Make a nice, traditional cake so good they choke on the thing. 2. ) Stick to your guns, close shop, and make it clear to everyone that it was because of these hard-hearted bullies who were just out to hurt people different than they are. And I would be sorely tempted to change policy to "weddings by referral only".

257 Hair doesn't bother me in the least,I puck it out and continue eating.Immune systems need to be able to take a punch.

258 Hey is it "Kosher", so to speak, to sprinkle Holy Water on the cake before you deliver it?

259 Would you really want to eat something that was made for you by a guy who was threatened with legal action and was forced to produce it for you? Some people like the taste of domination over others. Um, that's not domination you're tasting. Just sayin'.

260 Whatever happened to Obama's Council on Jobs?

The latest news I find is over a year old.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 22, 2014 09:26 AM (aDwsi)

They're unemployed now. But not counted in the unemployment number

261 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at January 22, 2014 09:27 AM (4df7R) WTF is up with highly paid people and an inability to write grants? I've had two jobs now in that area and I've had to clean up an comment heavily on grants in both of them. Me with merely my PhD(c) (not even that then) looking and going "you know this is awful right? If I were a reviewer I'd pass on scoring it just because it's unintelligible."

262 Icedog, you don't read, and don't think, either. Go figure: 240 It must be said, peaceful Olympics are the point of public good will towards people of good will. "Good Sportsmanship" and mutual respect; may the momentarily best athlete win. May all go well in peace. Posted by: panzernashorn at January 22, 2014 09:23 AM (MhA4j)

263 I should add that more than one person has told me I'm no Christian. I find that most people who are fond of telling others that they know what a Christian should not do are the very same people who, when asked, can't seem to come up with examples of what Christians should do.

264 It seems rather odd to think of Wilde as having visited Leadville. Back in '97 there was a film starring Stephen Fry as Wilde that actually opened with that visit. If it's at all accurate, he actually went over quite well with the locals.

265 I don't see this as anything more than tyranny. And I refuse to believe 'good' Christians cannot oppose tyranny. Certainly you can, and that was one of the two options. What Christ doesn't leave open to you is pettiness, and sabotaging the cake would be petty. Either be "bold and courageous" in your convictions, or choose to do what the government said to do. But I can find nothing in the Bible that would lend itself toward "a couple of strategically placed hairs." Of course, I'm not saying I wouldn't do it- I can *think* Christian much more than I'm able to *act* Christian.

266 Thanks for the morning update all.  Mostly a lurker, but just have to chime in about the wedding cake.  Try this one, maybe on the top of a beautifully decorated bottom layer:

http://tinyurl.com/kfq3bmj 

and without the "eat sh!t" flag.  Or not.

Stay warm everyone.  I'm out to walk the doggie--she doesn't care about the temps!

267 Oh, great - I was taking a sip of hot chocolate and had a coughing spell.  As Chief Wiggus says, "nothing gets out chocolate!"  Another BB shirt destined for the rag bag.

268 Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 22, 2014 09:30 AM (tyEe3) According to some people, good Christians should vote for "moar free shit." Because charity or something .

269 Is the gang at American Thinker blog just a bunch of dummies compared to AoS?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/barack_hussein_soebarkah.html

270 Pat Sajak winning the twitterverse: @patsajak Nice of White House to dump another change in Obamacare on weekend so as not to interfere with more Christie coverage. I would not let my son be President. Maybe my real son, but certainly not my imaginary one. Hired Wendy Davis PR firm to redo my bio. Turns out I was orphaned. Then reform school, migrant worker. Very inspiring.

271 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 22, 2014 09:32 AM (PYAXX) If one wanted to be petty, would it make more sense to put either bible verses or verse numbers in inconspicuous places on the cake anyway? I mean if you're going to be petty, at least do it by spreading the good word.

272 Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 22, 2014 09:34 AM (GaqMa) Yeah... but how do you write "Revelation 21:8" so that it's noticed, but still looks tasteful?

273 Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 22, 2014 09:34 AM (GaqMa) .....they could actually write verses in the layers.....

274 Back in '97 there was a film starring Stephen Fry as Wilde that actually opened with that visit. If it's at all accurate, he actually went over quite well with the locals.

 

Posted by: Brother Cavil wants out at January 22, 2014 09:31 AM (naUcP)

 

"Wilde."  One of the best main title themes that isn't by John Barry.

275 His latest hair debacle just happened at Cracker Barrel. I wonder how he'll survive without his beloved chicken livers. Chicken Express. Tx, Ok, Ar, La, & Ga.

276

One thing about owning a snowblower - when you have one, you get lots of cups of coffee.

 

Just finished clearing my driveway, both immediate neighbors, sidewalks, a widowed neighbor a few houses up, and a pipestem.    Funny thing, one neighborhood resident asked if I was with the county, because apparently in his world neighbors don't do nice things for each other.

 

I heard on TV yesterday that the Eskimos have nine words for  "snow."   I have a lot more than nine words for snow and I don't even speak Eskimo.

277 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others?"



Matthew 5:43-48

278 I have a lot more than nine words for snow and I don't even speak Eskimo. Yeah, but how many are printable?

279 According to some people, good Christians should vote for "moar free shit." Because charity or somethin

"Solidarity!  Yes!"

"Huh?  WTF is 'subsidiarity'?"

280 "Thank you, A-hole (you'll excuse me if I don't write "thanks to Obnoxious A-hole for gun suggestions" in my acknowledgements!) and Allen. I had thought about the Colt .45, and will definitely put that in the hands of one of my characters. I'm intrigued by the idea of von Stroheim having the Mauser, because at the climax of the book he orders it given back because the person holding it is holding it incorrectly and looks likely to blow his foot off.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 22, 2014 09:07 AM (zF6Iw)"

Just let me know when it comes out.  I can read it and see my contribution to literary immortality. 

There are a number of cool things about the Broomhandle Mauser.  It came with a wooden holster which could then be snapped onto the handle to serve as a shoulder stock.  That is why it had a very optimistic tangent sight that went out to 900 meters.  Lots of luck at that range.  It loaded with ten rounds from the top with a stripper clip.  The more official name for the Broomhandle, which is just a nickname, is the C96 because it was introduced in 1896.  They were often bought by officers and not just in the German army.  Winston Churchill bought one when he was a lieutenant in a British cavalry regiment and he used it during the Battle of Omdurman.  I think that Eric von Stroheim had been an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army so he might well have purchased one in Europe and them brought it with him to the US. 

Speaking of blowing off one's foot with a Broomhandle Mauser, it has a safety that is not particularly obvious as to which position is safe.  It would be quite possible for someone who was not familiar with it to take the pistol off safe believing that they were putting the safety on.  It wasn't until the 1960s that it became a standard part of gun safety to "Keep your booger hook off the bang switch" until ready to fire.  People used to hold guns with their finger on the trigger as a normal thing.

281

I've had two jobs now in that area and I've had to clean up an comment heavily on grants in both of them.

 

I'm not going to say that my wealth of comments doubled the length of the damn thing,  nor that they were almost all of the, "What the hell is this passage trying to communicate?" variety (though phrased more politely, because I'm a good girl I am)...

 

...But I'm not going to deny it either.

282 Chicken Express. Tx, Ok, Ar, La, & Ga.

--

We're in SC.  Maybe next time we hop the border into GA, we'll track one down.  He's a connoisseur of chicken livers.  (blech)

283 Yeah... but how do you write "Revelation 21:8" so that it's noticed, but still looks tasteful? Use Rev 6:8?

284 Hired Wendy Davis PR firm to redo my bio. Turns out I was orphaned. Then reform school, migrant worker. Very inspiring. Posted by: Tami at January 22, 2014 09:33 AM (bCEmE) Ha!

285
"Huh? WTF is 'subsidiarity'?"

Posted by: The Cafeteria Catholic at January 22, 2014 09:40 AM (MPIX5)

LOL

Even some bishops appear to not be familiar with that word.

286 The more I think about it, I wonder if "You know I'll be praying over the cake the entire time I work on it, right?" said during order-taking would cause at least some of the submit-or-be-destroyed types to rethink their plan.

287 Even some bishops appear to not be familiar with that word.

Especially Bishop Blaire.

288 The more I think about it, I wonder if "You know I'll be praying over the cake the entire time I work on it, right?" said during order-taking would cause at least some of the submit-or-be-destroyed types to rethink their plan. There's certainly something to be said for the intersection between genuine prayerfulness and psychological warfare.

289 The 1860s will overflowing in bloody meat grinder wars around the world for empire conquests. Given the subsequent US Army annihilation of our American native peoples after the War Between the States, the history written by victors, that our Civil War was all about ending slavery, fails logic given a thorough accounting for historical context. What the Northern States investors did achieve was the obliteration of States Rights as intrinsically the "American" sensibility. And with that "sensibly" we're fed the Jeh Johnson DHS Secretary execution/enforcement of open border immigration policy as law latest evolving jargon: 70 DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson: 'We Effectively and Sensibly Enforce Our NationÂ’s Immigration Laws' on a border that continues to evolve.

290

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 22, 2014 09:30 AM (MhA4j)

 

You don't have to be a dick, I was just asking you a  straight question.  The point you were making in your post (if there was one) is obscure at best.

 

...and  you obviously felt the need for a "go in peace" disclaimer at the beginning  of your post.   

291 Chicken Express. Tx, Ok, Ar, La, Ga. -- We're in SC. Maybe next time we hop the border into GA, we'll track one down. He's a connoisseur of chicken livers. (blech) LOL. They don't show up on the drive thru menu. You have to ask for them. They are on the inside menu. And they are good.

292 Whoa! @Ken_Rosenthal: BREAKING: Tanaka to #Yankees, seven years, $155M, opt-out after fourth year.

293 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at January 22, 2014 09:40 AM (4df7R) Back in the lab days we had a breeding schema listed in a grant that took half a page. I read it 3 times, and I couldn't make sense of it. I knew it was the breeding schema I was using, but when written out on paper it lost all sense. I looked at my boss and said "just put [simpler schema]." His response "but that's not what we do." My response "it's not what we do because it involves expensive time consuming injections on the breeders. It's not that we can't do it, it's that it's not worth the effort, we've done it before. But it's easier to understand, and that's the important part for a grant. Especially since breeding isn't actually an experiment, we just have to show we can get the mice in question, which we can, because I have them down in the facility." In job two I tried to tell my PI that he wasn't really doing a good job of matching the RFA, but just gave up when he wouldn't listen to me. Later I tried to tell him his experimental designs were just...wrong. He dismissed me outright in a meeting. I later ran into another collaborator on the grant who said "PI sent me your notes, you were right, we're going to do it your way."

294 Chicken livers - Like eating chalk. But thats just my take on it. My dad and sister loved them.

295 Yanks got Tanaka? That blows, means I'll have to root against him.

296 @Ken_Rosenthal: BREAKING: Tanaka to #Yankees, seven years, $155M, opt-out after fourth year.

Posted by: Tami at January 22, 2014 09:46 AM (bCEmE)

----------------------

Well shoot.  I thought maybe the Cubs would get him. 

297 Posted by: The Cafeteria Catholic at January 22, 2014 09:40 AM (MPIX5) I'm a big fan of "we must force the rich to do the right thing!" Virtue, how does it work?

298 290 Even some bishops appear to not be familiar with that word. Especially Bishop Blaire. Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 22, 2014 09:43 AM (MPIX5) :: cough cough cough :: archbishop wenski :: cough hack cough cough ::

299 Virtue, how does it work? Posted by: tsrblke -------------------------- For the Left, by delegation.

300 290 Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 22, 2014 09:43 AM (MPIX5)

Just did thirty seconds on google and can agree.

It never ceases to amaze me how the very policies that have destroyed the faith in Europe are still pushed here in the U.S. by the Church.

301 @Ken_Rosenthal: BREAKING: Tanaka to #Yankees, seven years, $155M, opt-out after fourth year. Interesting. There'd been talk of LA because of his lady's career. Wonder how that's playing out...

302 Virtue, how does it work?

Posted by: tsrblke
--------------------------

For the Left, by delegation mandate and lawfare.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 22, 2014 09:49 AM (aDwsi)

 

 

FIFY

303 Fiat 500 doesn't fair in crash test? Heh. I never would have guessed.

304 It never ceases to amaze me how the very policies that have destroyed the faith in Europe are still pushed here in the U.S. by the Church.

Posted by: Dandolo at January 22, 2014 09:50 AM (0XBx+)

 

Not all churches, but a lot have swallowed the "forced redistribution = charity" bullshit hook, line and sinker.

305 The office used to have a Smart Car to be used for running office errands. I refused to drive it on the highway because I did not want to be squished like bug. I told the boss I didn't want to be paid for my mileage, I just didn't want to die. MWR! I have this for you! http://bit.ly/1eSwwd2

306 306 Those commercials make me want to smash them with my bare hands.

307 So I put Windy Davis in charge of my auto-bio and now I'm a single mother who was abandoned by her husband and still managed to finish night school and become the best janitor in Texas..... Thanks Windy

308 So I put Windy Davis in charge of my auto-bio and now I'm a single mother who was abandoned by her husband and still managed to finish night school and become the best janitor in Texas.....

Thanks Windy

Posted by: sven10077 at January 22, 2014 09:52 AM (TE35l)

 

Surprised it didn't include at least one partial-birth abortion.

309 "As the Russians fought to crush Shamil's mountain rebels in the northeastern Caucasus Mountains, they moved against another nation in the northwestern Caucasus known as the Circassians. The odds are you have never heard of this people due to the fact that the Russians exterminated most of them, but for centuries they were famous in the Middle East and Russia."


Didn't T.E.Lawrence pretend to be a Circassian in order to explain his blue eyes while behind Turkish lines?  Didn't he claim that the Circassian reputation for beauty was the reason that a Turkish officer buggered him?

310 Vic, if you're still around, here's another kitteh that likes the tops of things:

http://tinyurl.com/makwees

311 Woohoo! Up to 6 deg. here.

312 It never ceases to amaze me how the very policies that have destroyed the faith in Europe are still pushed here in the U.S. by the Church.

That was my thesis topic for my MA in Theology.  The question was, "Is there something unique in the American character and culture that might allow the American Catholic church to escape the kind of decline seen in the European Catholic Church?"

I know you'll be shocked to discover that my answer was, "No, nothing at all."

313

I did a search on that quote and found some BBC fella wrote a series of murder mystery books centered around Oscar Wilde. Intriguing.

Posted by: Brother Cavil wants out at January 22, 2014 09:23 AM (naUcP)

 

Was one of the characters,  Sebastian  Melmoth?

314 MWR!

I have this for you!

::: puppy eyes :::

315 Can you imagine what the press (and Ace) would do if Sarah Palin had the same bio as Wendy Davis? I'm pretty sure they would be inventing new words.

316 I'll think about complaining about rich people not giving  enough to charity when the Vatican sells its billion dollar art collection  and distributes it to the poor. 

317 That was my thesis topic for my MA in Theology. The question was, "Is there something unique in the American character and culture that might allow the American Catholic church to escape the kind of decline seen in the European Catholic Church?" I know you'll be shocked to discover that my answer was, "No, nothing at all." Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 22, 2014 09:53 AM (MPIX5) I will admit to being fond of how South American Catholicism decided yeah sure why not and sucked in a whole bunch of nigh to Santeria like practices. I'm not mocking or making light of that, by the by. I find cultural influences on how doctrinal issues are presented in a worship service fascinating. See re: knowing stuff is awesome. Besides, I'm Baptist. Our only sacrament is the potluck dinner.

318 Theologically speaking it goes either of two ways. -AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 22, 2014 09:21 AM (PYAXX) Having made my little joke, I wasn't going to reply to the slave remark, so I'm glad you did, Allen, especially as your two possible ways was so well thought through & well-stated. You should have a blog.

319 Posted by: alexthechick - Skittle fueled Godzillette at January 22, 2014 09:51 AM (VtjlW) My wife while on a business trip once got told she had been "upgraded" to a smart car. She called me from the hotel and said she couldn't figure out how to get the trunk open and had to pull her bags (and her coworker's) out through the front. Also she felt like the rental car guy just wanted to dump the car on them to which I responded "yeah, pretty much."

320 Dump up.

321 ::: puppy eyes ::: Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 22, 2014 09:54 AM (MPIX5) How easy do you think I am? http://bit.ly/1f6oWxA Oh. Right. That easy. Annnnd now I'm off to the dentist. *trudges*

322 Posted by: polynikes at January 22, 2014 09:56 AM (m2CN7) The preservation of culture is also important though. Also time traveling dump up.

323 Dump up!

324 More photos of the 3rd Inf Rgt (The Old Guard) performing a burial detail in the snow.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/klmarkert/sets/72157640019383724/

325 "upgraded" to a smart car. Did she reserve an ox cart?

326 I know you'll be shocked to discover that my answer was, "No, nothing at all."

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 22, 2014 09:53 AM (MPIX5)

Ten years ago I would have been shocked, today not so much.

I had long thought the protestant work ethic would be a leg we could stand on, but it appears the it could not do the work all by itself.

327 Besides, I'm Baptist. Our only sacrament is the potluck dinner.

If you are a Lutheran, your religion was founded by Martin Luther, an ex- monk of the Catholic Church, in the year 1517.
If you belong to the Church of England, your religion was founded by King Henry VIII in the year 1534.
If you are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded by John Knox in Scotland in the year 1560.
If you are a Methodist, your religion was launched by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1744.
If you are a Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth, who launched it in Amsterdam in 1605.
If you are Catholic, you know that your religion was founded in the year 33 by Jesus Christ.

Jus' sayin'    ;-)

328 Posted by: Icedog at January 22, 2014 09:44 AM (wFGr5) Historical Context. Last night I heard a news report. So I decided this morning to look into it. I referenced the sources and information. Something happened that still matters. It isn't as if the terrorism will make things right, will return things to a proper order. Russia's 1864 Caucuses War was too familiar for all observers today, I venture to say, as all have blood on hands. Yes, some much more than others. Regardless, consider the failing Ottoman Empire blood letting frustrations out on the Armenians. I noticed a wiki 1860s wars referencing every Continent in upheaval, China and Japan each in revolution, South Africa, Mexico, South America, everyone land grabbing and annihilating the indigenous people. And I pay respect to our American Native Tribes who've transcended the plight of genocides to such a moral example that other global regions could learn. Nothing's perfect anywhere. Ignoring a plight is no better than becoming so overwhelmed as to decree a perpetual vendetta for a plight from 150 years ago. No? How you jumped from becoming informed to advocating terrorism to being a dick? Again, go figure.

329 WaPo writing that Davis was about to lose her senate seat, and then writes this; Given all of that, Davis had to run for governor this year — even if she didn't think she could win. We've written that Texas' demographics are changing rapidly — the state is becoming much more Hispanic — but that Democrats will likely have to wait until 2016 or, more likely, 2020, before they can be truly competitive. By running now, Davis effectively reserves her place at — or close — to the front of the line in future statewide races. (This happens all the time in both parties; Ed Gillespie is running for Senate in Virginia this fall with at least one eye on running well and losing but being first in line for governor in 2017.) Unless, of course, Davis is seen as running a sub-par candidacy. And that is where the danger in these résumé questions lies for Davis. If the campaign is dogged by stories about her bio and her star — which is ascendant at the moment — is viewed as tarnished in some real way, then her ability to reserve that place at the front of the line is far less certain. And, remember that both Julian and Joaquin Castro as well as a slew of other ambitious, young Texas Democrats are eyeing Senate race in 2018 and 2020 as well as the governor's race in 2018. What Davis then needs most of all is not to win — although that would be nice for her and her supporters — but rather to be seen as having run a creditable campaign that continues to elevate her star status. Allegations like these about her résumé, if they persist and/or lead to other problems with the campaign, are perilous to that perception.

330 I had long thought the protestant work ethic would be a leg we could stand on, but it appears the it could not do the work all by itself.  Posted by: Dandolo at January 22, 2014 10:00 AM (0XBx+)

Because the Protestant work ethic was unionzed and decided that was a better deal.

331 Was one of the characters, Sebastian Melmoth? No, but the Divine Miss Sarah was in it. Honestly, I'm almost tempted to get the books just to see if they're any good, or just a magnificent trainwreck.

332 "Can't we just wrap them up in bubble wrap? Might need to feed them oxygen.
So make it a bubble wrap suit they could wear all day long and be protected against injury everywhere, not just in cars. and you could filter and purify the air and end exposure to dangerous pollutants at the same time.

Posted by: Williams H. (Pappy) Goiles at January 22, 2014 09:22 AM (DFXqe)"

I seem to recall a bus carrying a bunch of people from a retirement home that caught fire and the multiple oxygen bottles being carried caused what might have been a minor incident to result in multiple deaths in a massive and uncontrollable fire.

333 Abbott is not feeding this info to the press The Castro brothers are They have been oddly silent

334 Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 22, 2014 09:53 AM (MPIX5)

This is the sort of thing that leads me to question all organized religions, even though I am seeking for something righteous.


Can't remember the law's origin, but currently US religions seem to have fallen under the "liberals" always take over any organization no matter what it's founding principles were.

335 Honestly, I'm almost tempted to get the books just to see if they're any good, or just a magnificent trainwreck.

Posted by: Brother Cavil wants out at January 22, 2014 10:02 AM (naUcP)

 

If they had any quotes  close  to the quality of Oscar Wilde's quotes  it would  be worth it.    He  and Churchill were quoting machines.    

336 Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 22, 2014 10:02 AM (MPIX5)

Also, the Protestant work ethic sort of breaks down when 40 to 50+% of the fruits of your labor are extracted by threat of force by a beneficent government for redistribution!

337 333

Well, the good news is that while men can mess up anything, even the day to day workings of the church, it is still His church and will be here through it all.

As one Bishop said, "I will die in my bed, my successor in prison and his martyred. The next will rebuild civilization." (paraphrased)

338 The intent is lawfare harassment against Christian bakeries.

Frozen waffle, generic whipped cream and a ban-worthy insult FTW.

339 Posted by: Hrothgar at January 22, 2014 10:06 AM (o3MSL) I was just having a discussion with a professor candidate for our department re: Catholic Healthcare and something kinda related to this. The brief take away was that I suspect he thinks that Catholic healthcare does not contain sufficient resilience against becoming just another secular-like healthcare provider. I tend to agree. (Bonus round: I pissed off a couple of junior ethicists from a local Catholic hospital system because in asking my question I referenced an "Everything is possible!" billboard they ran for a while, noting that it was a highly consumerized view of medicine from a system that was ostensibly against that conception of medicine. They said I can't bring that up anymore because they have an "advertising policy that fixes it" I laughed, as if a policy will fix the underlying problem.)

340 They said I can't bring that up anymore because they have an "advertising policy that fixes it" I laughed, as if a policy will fix the underlying problem.) Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 22, 2014 10:12 AM (GaqMa) ...and as if advertising will fix an underlying problem.

341 Poppins, you sort of anticipated my question when you revealed that the gun is to belong to Von Stroheim. There are a lot of "social factors" that would bear on what gun someone would own. Webley's "Bulldog" was cheap, everywhere, and still in circulation in 1917. Can we safely rule out the Webley-Fosbery? Odd, intricate, and Bogart couldn't pronounce it.

Von Stroheim actually owned a pistol, according to Roger Ebert, and he says there's more information in a book by Thomas Quinn Curtis which you can probably wheel around in your chair and snatch off the shelf. I see him as a Borchardt man, myself. Artillery officer's barrel, of course. For the long shots.

342 Posted by: panzernashorn at January 22, 2014 10:16 AM (MhA4j) Well true. Although I'd note that the advertising isn't to fix the problem. They just conceive the entire problem as being localized to that particular ad campaign (to say nothing of their "Baby is the new Happy" campaign which I found abhorrent, although that may have been a different system.) My point was that the damage is done, a nominally Catholic system has bought into the consumerist view of medicine. They bristled at that. No one likes to be told the truth.

343 @339 The Protestant work ethic is widely misunderstood. It does not mean what you seem to think it means.

344 Yeah... but how do you write "Revelation 21:8" so that it's noticed, but still looks tasteful? Posted by: AllenG Funny world. My trusty old KJV sits easily within arm's reach but I can find Rev 21 much faster searching Bible Gateway... and multiple versions, not just KJV. Keeps me from wearing out those delicate ricepaper pages, but dust on the Bible looks bad.

345 Charles Saatchi challenged Taki to a no holds boxing match. Saatchi is 80 and Taki is 79 and he accepted. So, two old geezers are going to go at it.

346 Herbert Biberman was a dirty commies. Fuck him

347 If Puerto Rico becomes a state I volunteer Texas to leave so there will be no need to make new flags.

348 This comment is far too late, I know, but I want to make it anyhow. Just wondering when a gay bakery will sue a potential customer who choose to buy elsewhere. BTW the way I loved the we were so poor thread--reminds me of the original Monty Python skit.

349 @46 Mary "And any ‘rons or ‘ronettes who are fluent in German, would you let me know?" Here. What can I do for you?

350 Subcompact cars perform poorly in crash tests. You mean like those Smart Cars?