January 29, 2014

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— Gabriel Malor

HUMP DAAAAAY, YEAAAH.

I didn't actually watch the State of the Union speech or the GOP responses last night. so I'll be spending a bit of today playing catch-up, I guess. Honestly, that guy has exhausted my interest. I have heard from a couple folks already that the GOP responses (all four!) did not satisfy.

The guy who tricked his 7-months pregnant girlfriend into taking an abortion pill was sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison.

Virgin Galactic has banned Chinese tourists from its space flights over espionage concerns.

Disney's decision to pull ABC's shows from Hulu and make them available only on Hulu Plus or for free on the website after a week appears to be backfiring. They're just training people to find and download their shows from copyright infringers.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 02:42 AM | Comments (271)
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1 DAY 451 1,014 to go (1,087 to Inauguration Day 2017) Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, McConnell's, McAuliffe's, MIRV's, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 02:44 AM (olDqf)

2 Ignoring SCOAMF at this stage is dangerous, since he is becoming more and more dictatorial as everything he has done stutters, clusterfucks and fails.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 02:45 AM (olDqf)

3 Dammit. Not foist.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 29, 2014 02:45 AM (opa0b)

4 Greetings from the ice storm err climate change wasteland of Georgia.

Posted by: weirdflunky at January 29, 2014 02:47 AM (dPrPG)

5 3 Dammit. Not foist. Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 29, 2014 06:45 AM (opa0b) At least you're not last in the American LeagueÂ…

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 02:47 AM (olDqf)

6 Ignoring SCOAMF at this stage is dangerous, since he is becoming more and more dictatorial as everything he has done stutters, clusterfucks and fails. What I can't understand is why there hasn't been a blizzard of federal court cases challenging TFG on a one-by-one basis. I understand why the GOP hasn't pursued impeachment. It's because they are sackless. But no court challenges??? Puh-leeze

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 29, 2014 02:48 AM (opa0b)

7 At least you're not last in the American LeagueÂ… Yet.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 29, 2014 02:48 AM (opa0b)

8 6 I understand why the GOP hasn't pursued impeachment. It's because they are sackless. But no court challenges??? Puh-leeze Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 29, 2014 06:48 AM (opa0b) I think you have to have standing the in the courts? Hopefully we have some moron lawyers up early to 'splain us. I also think the GOP/Chamber of Kommerz Koalition will block these as well.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 02:50 AM (olDqf)

9 morning folks!

Posted by: wing.....and a prayer at January 29, 2014 02:50 AM (dLNm7)

10 I feel like the progs are Brian Ross in his Beemer 7 series and I'm trying to cross the street. Boom! They nailed me and are backing up to do it again.

Posted by: Average American at January 29, 2014 02:50 AM (/VASf)

11 7 At least you're not last in the American LeagueÂ… Yet. Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 29, 2014 06:48 AM (opa0b) Well, you gotta have heart.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 02:50 AM (olDqf)

12 Shorter Obama SOU: STFU America. I'm sure we missed nothing at all.

Posted by: MTF at January 29, 2014 02:52 AM (/VASf)

13 Well, you gotta have heart. I got heart. I don't have Steinbrenner's checkbook.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 29, 2014 02:52 AM (opa0b)

14 10 I feel like the progs are Brian Ross in his Beemer 7 series and I'm trying to cross the street. Boom! They nailed me and are backing up to do it again. Posted by: Average American at January 29, 2014 06:50 AM (/VASf) Used to have a gym locker close to Brian Ross'. He don't look good in white boxers...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 02:52 AM (olDqf)

15 Happy, happy, joy, joy, another day colder than a witch's teat which is really a very bizarre saying when you think about it. I think I'll skip Cathy Hyphen Something, but I would like to read what Mike Lee had to say.

Posted by: Gem at January 29, 2014 02:53 AM (zw+pb)

16 I blame the lawlessness and overall crapiness of the Barky regime on the designated hitter. It was only a matter of time until that obscenity brought about the collapse of western civilization. Barky is self-proclaimed fan of the White Sox. WS use the DH ergo doomed.

Posted by: weirdflunky at January 29, 2014 02:54 AM (dPrPG)

17 If only SCOAMF's mentor had been Knute Rockne instead of Frank Marshall Davis...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 02:55 AM (olDqf)

18 Article says she was seven WEEKS pregnant, not months.

Posted by: Viridian at January 29, 2014 02:56 AM (5ypJ8)

19 And why is Meryl Streep in the promos for the Superbowl? WTF is that all about? God, the wussification of pro football prancersizes on.

Posted by: Gem at January 29, 2014 02:56 AM (Ls9Ue)

20 16 Posted by: weirdflunky at January 29, 2014 06:54 AM (dPrPG) All those summer evenings at Kominsky Field...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 02:56 AM (olDqf)

21 17 If only SCOAMF's mentor had been Knute Rockne instead of Frank Marshall Davis... Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 06:55 AM (olDqf) FMD was his mentor, but Liberace was his hero.

Posted by: model_1066 at January 29, 2014 02:56 AM (LIQGY)

22 Good morning 'rons and 'ettes! Another day above the dirt, pulling daisies and not pushing them... Gotta be happy, happy, happy.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 29, 2014 02:57 AM (60Vyp)

23 Regular Moron:  Yeah, I know what you mean.  It's time for the low-information technology users to start realizing they have options instead of just going for the shiny white case.

Posted by: Viridian at January 29, 2014 03:00 AM (5ypJ8)

24 I hate people. I hate what they've become. What's a good recipe for a really good snack for the Super Bowl? That's the main concern right now. Use cilantro, it's the herb of choice. Very chic. Oh and sirrochi. And we've got this empty scrotum who has absolutely no leadership traits, qualities or skills and he knows it. So he's just going to scribble some of his ideas down and then put them into motion. He is such a cock. Such an absolute diseased cock. Yet all these "Best Super Bowl Snack" people voted for him. Because they have the brain power of a butt gnat. But not the butt gnats that are in there getting all the good butt candy. The butt gnats that are buzzing around not close enough to get onto the dog's butt. If Obama were in a lifeboat and survival were 50/50, does anyone really think that the rest of the people in the boat would turn to him? They might when it came time to eating someone. So if I see any people today, I'm going to say some really stern things.

Posted by: Dr. Manbube at January 29, 2014 03:01 AM (/QjPQ)

25 Yahoo cast a wide net to get reaction to Barry's speech


“Listening to the State of the Union, I can't help but feel invigorated,” Jason W. Schaver, a Fulton, Ill., resident said. When President Obama talked about getting America back to work, I felt enormously proud. Raising the minimum wage would be a great start in closing the gap between the rich and the poor.


Jason you're a cretin



I support the president's call for an increase in the minimum wage, and I wonder at those who think $10.10 is a living wage. It is an embarrassment our poverty levels are so high compared to other developed countries. It is time we invested in ourselves, and part of that is supporting out poorest workers.

— Vickie Mansour-Hasan, Chicago



Of course you support it. You're a complete idiot


Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 29, 2014 03:02 AM (FE/sZ)

26 While everyone is reading SOTU tea leaves I'll say just this. This guy revels in being the president of only half the populace and has no use for the rest of us. Say what you like about Clinton or Bush, they at least pretended to seek the approval and cooperation of the 'other' side. This is a pathetic man. Oh, and good morning to all.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2014 03:03 AM (/HVuR)

27 As Amtrak pulls me into Philly, heading south toward Washington and the Hunger Games, I can report the Schuykill is frozen. Global warming notwithstanding. JJ, having your locker position would have tempted me to shove Brian in and lock the door. But I'm all grown up now and those sorts of ugly bullying actions are way beneath me. Heh.

Posted by: MTF at January 29, 2014 03:03 AM (/VASf)

28 Good morning. I'd like to be in my warm bed. Instead, I'm in this freezing cold office.

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 29, 2014 03:04 AM (k/Mc/)

29 MTF, I'm impressed at your ability to spell the Sure-kill River properly.

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 29, 2014 03:05 AM (k/Mc/)

30 Apparently it was only Atlanta that had trouble with the snow, or is it only Atlanta that has news makers.

Or people in the far deep south are still stranded somewhere and haven't made it to the 'phones yet.

Posted by: Fabulous Boy Franks at January 29, 2014 03:06 AM (n5M9b)

31 Yeah, I'm sorry, SCOAMF is not a White Sox fan. He just had to pick something that "regular" people do and pretend, and they were the closest team that wasn't covered in loser stank. Yeah, Clark Boyz, I'm talking to you.

Posted by: Gem at January 29, 2014 03:06 AM (FbldP)

32 Another day above the dirt, pulling daisies and not pushing them *** Get off my lawn (and stay out of my daisies)!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2014 03:06 AM (/HVuR)

33 Dangergirl, my iPad acts independently of me. Having said that though, I lived in Philadelphia for a couple of years once upon a time. Enjoyed the city a lot.

Posted by: MTF at January 29, 2014 03:10 AM (/VASf)

34 Income inequality? Right.
So all those Hollywood starts and starlettes, and the big money producers and all those celebrity sports stars making the big bucks are going to continue to do what the do for 60K annual salary because fairness, right?

All those Washington insiders, the multi multi millionaires are going to donate their wealth because fairness, right?

Or is it the other way round, all those minimum wage dishwashers, tire changers, and part time fast food hamburger flippers are suddenly going to start making 60million dollars a year?


Posted by: Stolen Cookies at January 29, 2014 03:11 AM (n5M9b)

35 "She was nearly seven weeks pregnant."

Posted by: Xavier at January 29, 2014 03:11 AM (OW+Od)

36 The suburbs of Philly are nice. Old City is nice. The Art Museum and surrounding area is nice. The history is cool. The rest of the place is a smelly dump.

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 29, 2014 03:12 AM (k/Mc/)

37 While I haven't done it yet (maybe with the tax refund), my plan is to build a cheap computer in a mini-case and use XBMC.  Add Steam and some emulators and I'd be all set on the gaming front too.

Posted by: Viridian at January 29, 2014 03:12 AM (5ypJ8)

38 Yeah, I'm sorry, SCOAMF is not a White Sox fan. He just had to pick something that "regular" people do and pretend, and they were the closest team that wasn't covered in loser stank. Yeah, Clark Boyz, I'm talking to you.

Posted by: Gem at January 29, 2014 07:06 AM (FbldP)




He is a White Sox fan. Deal with it. It makes all of the Sox fan feel really good when the douche goes around with his Sox hat on

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 29, 2014 03:12 AM (FE/sZ)

39 28 JJ, having your locker position would have tempted me to shove Brian in and lock the door. But I'm all grown up now and those sorts of ugly bullying actions are way beneath me. Heh. Posted by: MTF at January 29, 2014 07:03 AM (/VASf) I'm sure I've told the story about my walking along a deserted street in Brooklyn Heights one Sunday morning and then coming face to face with Chuck Schumer. Talk about temptation.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 03:13 AM (olDqf)

40

Nice to watch King Putt talking up that Global Warmening is an indisputable fact and that new green energy plans are right around the corner all during the freezing of the country by the Polar Vortex.

Dumbass.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 29, 2014 03:13 AM (xWgW3)

41 Morning!

I purposely rented a  movie from Redbox so I wouldn't have to watch that asshole last night ("Last Vegas" - ok for $150!).

When the movie was over I clicked back to cable and there he was.. and he was talking about global warming being "fact!".  I told me wife to turn him off before I start throwing shit at the TV.


Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 29, 2014 03:14 AM (b/lt+)

42 I have a cheap laptop hooked into our tv. A wireless keyboard/mouse and a few websites and we have all the tv we could ever watch, commercial free, except for the live streams of sports...still get commercials with those.

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 29, 2014 03:15 AM (k/Mc/)

43 You see! I told you the designated hitter rule was horrible. Look what it's doing to the horde. Your honor, the prosecution rests.

Posted by: weirdflunky at January 29, 2014 03:15 AM (dPrPG)

44 43 There's the answer. You weren't born in Philadelphia. I doubt there is a public school graduate born in Philly who can spell Schuykill. Most of them could not spell the name of the schools they attended. Posted by: Regular Moron at January 29, 2014 07:13 AM (oGrEy) You missed that "L" in Schuylkill. Meh. I'm from NYC and pronounce it Skile-kill, not the correct Skoo-gull.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 03:16 AM (olDqf)

45 "The rest of the place is a smelly dump" ================================= My kind of place exactly. Some great neighborhood Italian restaurants in the spreading dumps of South Philly, by the way.

Posted by: MTF at January 29, 2014 03:16 AM (/VASf)

46 Was anyone who watched the SOTU address reminded of the Progressive commercial where a campaigning, grade-school Flo promises a bunch of stuff to her classmates?

Hmmm.... "Progressive Insurance" indeed.

Posted by: TheEngineer at January 29, 2014 03:17 AM (9PNNC)

47 Seven WEEKS pregnant, not seven months. Still an evil bastard.

Posted by: BigAlSouth at January 29, 2014 03:17 AM (h7JRe)

48 ...part time fast food hamburger flippers are suddenly going to start making 60million dollars a year? *** I think I'll stop by Burger King and put in an application today. Just in case.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2014 03:19 AM (0V58g)

49 Nice to watch King Putt talking up that Global Warmening is an indisputable fact and that new green energy plans are right around the corner all during the freezing of the country by the Polar Vortex.
Dumbass.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 29, 2014 07:13 AM (xWgW3)



Solyndra will lead the way to a green future

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 29, 2014 03:19 AM (FE/sZ)

50 Sefton, the proper Philly pronounciation is Sure-kill. As in "There's a five mile backup on the Sure-kill Expressway eastbound at Belmont Hills due to a roving PennDOT crew in the left lane."

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 29, 2014 03:20 AM (k/Mc/)

51 The guy gets 14 years for killing the "fetus" without the woman's knowledge but if she did without his knowledge she's some kind of heroine? Got it.

Posted by: weirdflunky at January 29, 2014 03:20 AM (dPrPG)

52 I'm sure I've told the story about my walking along a deserted street in Brooklyn Heights one Sunday morning and then coming face to face with Chuck Schumer. Talk about temptation. ======================== His niece, who recently had a stand up show for a night on some TV station I ran across while channel surfing, is pretty funny though. Where is the Vic! I need to know what to think today.

Posted by: MTF at January 29, 2014 03:22 AM (/VASf)

53 55 A person's humanity depends on how his/her mother feels at the moment, don'tchaknow.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at January 29, 2014 03:22 AM (bwh5U)

54 Morning all from not sunny and very cold (24) San Antonio. I want to send this Yankee weather back where it came from!!

Posted by: SanAntonio Rose at January 29, 2014 03:23 AM (U7P4C)

55 By the way, it isn't the "Sure Kill Expressway". It's the Sure Kill Deathway. Narrow lanes, two in number, mixed together with tired taxpayers, angry at their subservience to the Democrat Machine, means lots of accidents.

Posted by: MTF at January 29, 2014 03:24 AM (/VASf)

56 As far as the term "fetus" goes, it's just a way for abortion ghouls to try to deny the practice of killing BABIES. And no, IDGAF if the oh so enlightened members of the horde think I'm a knuckle dragger.

Posted by: weirdflunky at January 29, 2014 03:25 AM (dPrPG)

57 54 Sefton, the proper Philly pronounciation is Sure-kill. As in "There's a five mile backup on the Sure-kill Expressway eastbound at Belmont Hills due to a roving PennDOT crew in the left lane." Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 29, 2014 07:20 AM (k/Mc/) I'd like that "wit" onions and Wiz...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 03:25 AM (olDqf)

58 Mister, we could use a man like Bill McKinley again.  Prosperity and the Full Dinner Pail!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2014 03:25 AM (zF6Iw)

59 Totally OT:


Please pay for my youngest sister and her husband, last night in Northwest Indiana, his 85 year old Mother died of smoke inhalation in a house fire caused by a wood stove.   She was a widow who lived alone. 

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at January 29, 2014 03:26 AM (kXoT0)

60 This is very similar to the media box I'd like to build:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/caqnouc

Posted by: Viridian at January 29, 2014 03:26 AM (5ypJ8)

61 59 Posted by: Gran at January 29, 2014 07:24 AM (mw0FO) Paddy Chayefsky, nee Sidney Aaron Chayefsky. My biggest influence in going into the screenwriting game. Lefty but was on the verge of doing a David Mamet metamorphosis before dying way too young. A great writer and I will always be eternally grateful to him for telling Vanessa REDgrave to shut the fuck up at the 1977 Oscars.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 03:27 AM (olDqf)

62 The abortion pill case subtly illuminates the fact that abortion greatly serves the purposes of irresponsible men.

Posted by: --- at January 29, 2014 03:28 AM (MMC8r)

63 FL abortion pill trickster guy is truly evil but his gf was 7 weeks pregnant, not 7 months.

Posted by: Mrs X at January 29, 2014 03:28 AM (bQnNB)

64 64 Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at January 29, 2014 07:26 AM (kXoT0) Oh no. May the Lord send comfort and strength.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 03:28 AM (olDqf)

65 64 Well hell Sherry. That's terrible. Please express the condolences of an anonymous friend on the internet.

Posted by: weirdflunky at January 29, 2014 03:28 AM (dPrPG)

66 Viridian - been thinking of doing the same thing!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 29, 2014 03:29 AM (b/lt+)

67 That sort of thing is never O/T, Sherry.  Prayers sent.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2014 03:29 AM (zF6Iw)

68

25: "But not the butt gnats that are in there getting all the good butt candy. The butt gnats that are buzzing around not close enough to get onto the dog's butt."

 

Have you collected your prose into a single volume yet? 

 

If so, where may a mug buy such a masterpiece? 

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 29, 2014 03:30 AM (Kh+vp)

69 There is more frozen stuff on the ground at my house this morning than at any time in the last 25 years. Indeed, it may be the first real accumulation in all that time. We get the 'Bay Effect' hear that normally prevents all ice and snow. In an hour, I have to decide whether to even go to work or not.

Posted by: toby928© at January 29, 2014 03:31 AM (QupBk)

70 Oh, ya, go on over to Volokh Conspriacy (instapundit) and click through to the pictures from the Ukraine.

This is going to get out of control, and somebody is going to lose an eye.

Posted by: Stolen Cookies at January 29, 2014 03:33 AM (n5M9b)

71

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at January 29, 2014 07:26 AM (kXoT0)

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Thoughts and prayers.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 29, 2014 03:33 AM (xWgW3)

72 I know you folks don't care but this guy just got his power bill and is going a happy dance. Only $180. Yeah only. When you live in pretty much a subtropical area, nothing about your house is prepared this level of global warming. Every time the electric auxiliary heat would kick on in the middle of the night, the skinflint in me could feel a disturbance in the force and it would give me palpitations. Was just hoping for sub $200. I am not a fan of this Al Gore guy.

Posted by: traye at January 29, 2014 03:34 AM (tAyaV)

73 Prosecutors in the Aurora theater shooter case are seeking a second State Hospital sanity evaluation, presumably because the first evaluation indicated he was/is insane. I think the only question is whether he is garden variety crazy or (to use the technical term) bat sh!t crazy. Link at completeColorado.com

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2014 03:35 AM (yeK5y)

74 61 Posted by: weirdflunky at January 29, 2014 07:25 AM (dPrPG)

I'll second that.

Posted by: Dandolo at January 29, 2014 03:35 AM (0XBx+)

75 29 days

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 29 days until spring training at January 29, 2014 03:35 AM (u8GsB)

76
TWO senior US bankers working in London commit suicide

...Gabriel Magee, a 39-year-old JP Morgan bank executive, died this morning after he threw himself off the top of the bank's European headquarters.

DailyMail




Welcome to 1929 folks!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 29, 2014 03:35 AM (kdS6q)

77 Sherri how sad....prayers

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 29 days until spring training at January 29, 2014 03:36 AM (u8GsB)

78 Prayers & thoughts, Sherry.

Posted by: Gran at January 29, 2014 03:39 AM (mw0FO)

79 If Narcissus talks to his reflection, does anybody really pay attention?

Posted by: Joanie Cunningham's Tenacious Snapper at January 29, 2014 03:39 AM (gVkoR)

80

51: "Seven WEEKS pregnant, not seven months. Still an evil bastard."

 

Agreed. But are women who kill babies not equally evil bitches?

 

There lies the conundrum of the big tent. There are some things that brook no compromise. No matter what the polls say.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 29, 2014 03:39 AM (OJn3e)

81 turn him off before I start throwing shit at the TV. Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry I preemptively told my wife (don't worry, she hates jef too) that if she accidentally flipped to one of the channels with him on it I would put a .357 hole in her flat screen.

Posted by: traye at January 29, 2014 03:39 AM (tAyaV)

82 GOP ready to surrender on debt ceiling. "Wait, let's not fight on the sequester and make a stand on the debt ceiling!" "Wait, let's not fight on the debt ceiling and make a stand on Obamacare!" "Wait, let's not fight on Obamacare and make a stand on the sequester!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 03:41 AM (olDqf)

83 Very sorry Sherry.

Posted by: traye at January 29, 2014 03:41 AM (tAyaV)

84 Seems to be a slow morning around here.  Everybody hung over?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2014 03:44 AM (zF6Iw)

85 I was serious about that loser comment...if the Cubs were more successful he would have talked about his fond memories of Wigley Field. As for "all" Sox fans, I can see it in my own family: of the real baseball fans, the Sox fans are, with one exception, conservatives. The Cubs fans, the northsiders and those hailing from the People's Republic of OP, love and support their Dear Leader. :: shrug ::

Posted by: Gem at January 29, 2014 03:44 AM (+vea8)

86 Gibson Guitars has introduced a line of guitars built from the materials originally raided from their Nashville factory in 2011. Logo shows a bald eagle making off with a neck blank. Pretty good prices for US-built Gibsons too...

Posted by: DrSteve at January 29, 2014 03:44 AM (wwKgz)

87 Sherry, that's awful! Prayers on the way!

Posted by: Donna V. at January 29, 2014 03:45 AM (R3gO3)

88 Seven weeks according to article Not seven months

Posted by: Thunderb at January 29, 2014 03:45 AM (zOTsN)

89
Meet the women who choose to wipe with a reusable piece of cloth instead of Toilet Paper

Bloggers Makala Earley, Angela Davis and Kathleen Quiring say going paperless is not as messy or unhygienic as it may sound. 'It is definitely possible,' said Mikala, who says she and her husband stopped using toilet paper about a year ago. 'It is almost seen as a necessity [and] it doesn't have to be, and it's been a lot of fun to learn how to do it this way.'

http://tinyurl.com/o5u2u4d



"Fun" -- in the broadest possible sense of the term.....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 29, 2014 03:47 AM (kdS6q)

90 Gem: Billy Ayers said in an interview that he's a Cubs fan.

Posted by: Donna V. at January 29, 2014 03:47 AM (R3gO3)

91 Prayers sent, Sherry.

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 29, 2014 03:48 AM (k/Mc/)

92 WASHINGTON—Following years of continued fighting and disorder in the troubled region, President Barack Obama revealed today that he has not ruled out taking immediate and decisive military action in the United States Congress.

Admitting that diplomatic outreach efforts in the area have so far proven unsuccessful, the president claimed that his administration is weighing the feasibility of committing combat troops to both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives in order to bring lasting peace and stability to the chaos-afflicted legislature.

“We have not yet made a decision as to how we are going to address this rapidly deteriorating situation, but at this point I can tell you that military action is indeed on the table,” Obama told reporters at a morning press conference, emphasizing that he is “deeply troubled” by the escalating hostilities and diminishing prospects for unity on the Congressional floor. “Clearly, sending our young men and women into this tumultuous war zone is not ideal, and I still hope to resolve the situation through peaceful means. But as the conflict continues to worsen, it becomes increasingly evident that the deployment of our armed forces may be our only real option.”

Military officials say an intervention in Congress would likely involve a three-pronged attack.

“We cannot stand idly by and allow this senseless mayhem to continue,” the president continued.

According to international observers, the United States Capitol ranks as among the most turbulent and unstable regions in the world, dominated by warring factions of rogue lawmakers who have shown neither the ability nor the willingness to peacefully resolve their differences.

As conditions worsen by the day, the president confirmed to reporters that he and his military advisors are currently evaluating the merits of a military option, suggesting that his administration has left open the possibility of toppling the hostile, unpredictable leadership currently reigning over the legislative assembly and restoring order to the Capitol building.

Posted by: Unabomber at January 29, 2014 03:48 AM (e8kgV)

93 I saw a 24-week fetus yesterday with only one heart ventricle. We're going to try to save the baby's life after she is born because that is what we do. I despise the likes of Gosnell.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2014 03:50 AM (QwEO9)

94 Just curious-if the president continues to not honor his oath of office and perpetrates unconstitutional acts,and the Congress refuses to stop him via impeachment or the federal courtrs,what,if any, redress do the American people have to save the republic(besides throwing them out electorally)?

Posted by: redware at January 29, 2014 03:50 AM (gc2+4)

95 BTW, Cubs fan Ayers has said he's in favor of killing 25 million Americans. That presumably includes all of the other teams in the MLB, as well as their AAA and AA farm teams. If the only competition the Cubs have are the A teams, they'll win the World Series - maybe.

Posted by: Donna V. at January 29, 2014 03:52 AM (R3gO3)

96 I was serious about that loser comment...if the Cubs were more successful he would have talked about his fond memories of Wigley Field. As for "all" Sox fans, I can see it in my own family: of the real baseball fans, the Sox fans are, with one exception, conservatives. The Cubs fans, the northsiders and those hailing from the People's Republic of OP, love and support their Dear Leader. :: shrug :: Posted by: Gem
............
That is not my experience at all.

While south siders (I grew up there, but was raised a cubs fan because of my mom) are more conservative than most Democrats, they are still largely Democrats!

All the black south siders are lib dems.  The white south siders who work for the city or county are all dems!  And that is a sizable percent of the population since it is city law that all employees must live in the city.

North side whites are lib Dems.  I would caution the use of the term "conservative" for anyone living in the city proper.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 29, 2014 03:52 AM (b/lt+)

97

Gem: Billy Ayers said in an interview that he's a Cubs fan.

 

I'd like to give him an autographed bat.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2014 03:54 AM (zF6Iw)

98 102 Gem: Billy Ayers said in an interview that he's a Cubs fan. I'd like to give him an autographed bat. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2014 07:54 AM (zF6Iw) Fuck yes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 03:55 AM (olDqf)

99

Just curious-if the president continues to not honor his oath of office and perpetrates unconstitutional acts,and the Congress refuses to stop him via impeachment or the federal courtrs,what,if any, redress do the American people have to save the republic(besides throwing them out electorally)?

 

The one that must not be spoken.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2014 03:55 AM (zF6Iw)

100 There was a great show on Animal Planet about Arctic birds. I found it very interesting.

But someone told me their was a socialist, populist rant on many of the other channels. I believe the title of that speech was "March of the Strawmen".

It was followed by some feckless, clueless guys who couldn't find their asses with both hands. I think that show was called "Grasping as Straws"?

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2014 03:55 AM (GGCsk)

101 77 I know you folks don't care but this guy just got his power bill and is going a happy dance. Only $180. Yeah only. When you live in pretty much a subtropical area, nothing about your house is prepared this level of global warming. Every time the electric auxiliary heat would kick on in the middle of the night, the skinflint in me could feel a disturbance in the force and it would give me palpitations. Was just hoping for sub $200. I am not a fan of this Al Gore guy. ...................... Congrats!! With propane around 5 dollars a gallon here and average temp hovering around 0 we are not so blessed.

Posted by: Molly k. at January 29, 2014 04:00 AM (M/X+h)

102 ...and the Congress refuses to stop him via impeachment or the federal courtrs,what,if any, redress do the American people have to save the republic(besides throwing them out electorally)? Posted by: redware at January 29, 2014 07:50 AM

You seem to be making the assumption that a significant number of people actually give a shit about this. It's pretty clear this isn't so.

Between the vast legions of the free-shitters, the white-guilters and aging hippies who just looove them some President Historic First© and the knee-pad media, Choom Boy is more likely to be conked on the noggin by a meteor than suffer any negative consequences for his multiple felonies.

Whatever opposition may have existed has been smothered by the Poppin' Fresh wing of the Republican party, which seems convinced that, in fairness, we must sell what's left of the country down the river so as not to "offend."

Maybe it'll be different in the next life....

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 29, 2014 04:00 AM (ff7/5)

103 so I open AKO this morning and I see "Soldiers of Charlie Co. 1st Battalion, 149th Infantry conducted civil disturbance training with the Frankfort Police Department in Frankfort, Ky., Jan18, 2014" and I ask, why are grunts doing domestic riot training ?

Posted by: cu'chulainn at January 29, 2014 04:01 AM (Vk2CC)

104 Anybody see DrewM's RT with Rubio fapping to shake Zero's hand? pic.twitter.com/yZmYTrnrSl

Posted by: dogfish at January 29, 2014 04:02 AM (nsOJa)

105 so I open AKO this morning and I see "Soldiers of Charlie Co. 1st Battalion, 149th Infantry conducted civil disturbance training with the Frankfort Police Department in Frankfort, Ky., Jan18, 2014"  and I ask, why are grunts doing domestic riot training ?

Because they are National Guard.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 29, 2014 04:02 AM (JpC1K)

106

It was followed by some feckless, clueless guys who couldn't find their asses with both hands. I think that show was called "Grasping as Straws"? Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2014 07:55 AM (GGCsk)

 

That's the maddening, depressing thing. Obama is an incompetent ass, but his "opponents" are complete bozos. America has always produced great leaders in times of crisis - but we can't do it now.

 

 I still cringe when I think that "smart" Paul Ryan got his ass beaten by Chuckles Biden, of all people.

Posted by: Donna V. at January 29, 2014 04:02 AM (R3gO3)

107 I'd like to give him an autographed bat. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2014 07:54 AM (zF6Iw) Fuck yes. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 07:55 AM (olDqf) Hey battah battah battah battah saawwiiinggg battah!

Posted by: Cameron at January 29, 2014 04:02 AM (mw0FO)

108
Morning all from not sunny and very cold (24) San Antonio. I want to send this Yankee weather back where it came from!!

Bring it on! That's almost 30 degrees warmer than it is here right now.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at January 29, 2014 04:03 AM (0IhFx)

109 Howdy! The good news today is, I can still clip my own toenails, unassisted. I knew you'd want to know. Now to go up & see what y'all have to say.

Posted by: webworker at January 29, 2014 04:03 AM (MBZW0)

110 Because they are National Guard. ok, odd it would be on this site with out them saying as much, but if you say so.

Posted by: cu'chulainn at January 29, 2014 04:03 AM (Vk2CC)

111 ok, odd it would be on this site with out them saying as much, but if you say so.
Posted by: cu'chulainn at January 29, 2014 08:03 AM (Vk2CC)


There are no active duty Infantry Regiment with three digits in its unit designation.  None.

Check it.  http://tinyurl.com/m8mf2zl

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 29, 2014 04:05 AM (JpC1K)

112 Here is the real bullshit from last night you should watch out for;

>>LetÂ’s do more to help Americans save for retirement. Today, most workers donÂ’t have a pension. A Social Security check often isnÂ’t enough on its own. And while the stock market has doubled over the last five years, that doesnÂ’t help folks who donÂ’t have 401ks.

ThatÂ’s why, tomorrow, I will direct the Treasury to create a new way for working Americans to start their own retirement savings: MyRA. ItÂ’s a new savings bond that encourages folks to build a nest egg. MyRA guarantees a decent return with no risk of losing what you put in.

And if this Congress wants to help, work with me to fix an upside-down tax code that gives big tax breaks to help the wealthy save, but does little to nothing for middle-class Americans. Offer every American access to an automatic IRA on the job, so they can save at work just like everyone in this chamber can..<<

1- There is no thing as "risk free". That's bullshit.
2- If you don't have a pension and you are not saving. Where do you get the money for this? Who is doing the contributing?
3- If you have the money, mmmm, why not get a better return and why trust the government with your pension? Thanks. I'll leave that to the professionals.
4- Obama still has his eyes on people's 401k's. It is a huge pool of money they are trying to find a way to grab and retroactively tax. This will be the next scheme of the dictatorship...
5- If Congress doesn't flip him the bird on this scheme, it will be the next Obamacare disaster.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2014 04:06 AM (GGCsk)

113 A beautiful prayer from a mid 1930's hymnal. That's why it has all the "thee and thy" language: For the country: Almighty God, wh in the former time didst lead our fathers forth into a gracious place; give Thy grace, we humbly beseech Thee, to us their children, that we may always approve ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor, and glad to do thy will. Bless our land with honorable industry, sound learning and pure religion. Defend our liberties, preserve our unity. Save us from every violence, discord and confusion. from pride and arrogancy, and from every evil way. Fashion into one happy people the multitudes brought hither from many kindreds and tongues. Endue with the spirit of wisdom those whom we entrust in Thy Name with the authority of governance, to the end that there may be peace at home, and that we may keep a place among the nations of the earth. In the time of prosperity fill our hearts with thankfulness; and in the day of trouble suffer not our trust in Thee to fail, all of which we ask for Jesus' sake. Amen.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2014 04:06 AM (7kkQJ)

114 My mom died yesterday after a short illness. I'm convinced she did it to keep me out of federal prison. My congressman had chosen me to be his one guest for SOTU since I lost my insurance due to Obamacare and have had nothing but trouble getting replacement insurance. I've been very vocal and featured in articles in CNN, Yahoo, Inquirer, etc. The GOP had scheduled some press conferences for yesterday. I think my mother knew I'd never be able to curb my ire and was afraid I'd make Joe Wilson look like Casper Milquetoast during the actual speech.

Anyway, she just turned 90, lived in her own house up until the end and came home to die. So although I'll be bereft without her, what else can you ask for in this life? My family will now proceed to fall apart completely since it consists of all Progs (they've already started bashing her faith re: the service) and they could barely conceal their revulsion for my conservative mother even though she was one of the most loving, caring individuals who even lived.

Posted by: jeannebodine at January 29, 2014 04:08 AM (2LJqa)

115 Gem: Billy Ayers said in an interview that he's a Cubs fan.

I'd like to give him an autographed bat.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2014 07:54 AM (zF6Iw)


I'd like to give him a necktie!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 29, 2014 04:09 AM (o3MSL)

116 There are no active duty Infantry Regiment with three digits in its unit designation. None. ok, I get it. my military exp. is not on that side, so designations mean little. I just would have expected some meniton of ANG.

Posted by: cu'chulainn at January 29, 2014 04:09 AM (Vk2CC)

117 mother even though she was one of the most loving, caring
individuals who even lived.

Posted by: jeannebodine at January 29, 2014 08:08 AM (2LJqa)

Condolences and prayers for your loss.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at January 29, 2014 04:10 AM (kXoT0)

118 15 -- Gem -- His response is up on YouTube... and the proggie trolls are all over it like flies.

http://youtu.be/SCbxIRjOGe4

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 29, 2014 04:11 AM (lJaja)

119 jeannebodine, my condolences.

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 29, 2014 04:11 AM (k/Mc/)

120 4- Obama still has his eyes on people's 401k's. It is a huge pool of money they are trying to find a way to grab and retroactively tax. This will be the next scheme of the dictatorship...  Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2014 08:06 AM (GGCsk)

They want this very badly and the scheme has been around since Clinton, especially when people started realizing they would not get a pension or much SSI and began salting away money in 401(k)s and IRAs.  Peasants with their own money are not to be tolerated.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at January 29, 2014 04:12 AM (kXoT0)

121 jeannebodine ***hugs***

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 29 days until spring training at January 29, 2014 04:13 AM (u8GsB)

122 A farmer prepared for the spring after the strongest five-year stretch of farm exports in our history. A rural doctor gave a young child the first prescription to treat asthma that his mother could afford. A man took the bus home from the graveyard shift, bone-tired but dreaming big dreams for his son. And in tight-knit communities across America, fathers and mothers will tuck in their kids, put an arm around their spouse, remember fallen comrades, and give thanks for being home from a war that, after twelve long years, is finally coming to an end.

Tonight, this chamber speaks with one voice to the people we represent: it is you, our citizens, who make the state of our union strong.

... this is as close as Obama got to stating in clear terms the "state of the union" ...   why not just say the "sate of the union sucks" ?

Posted by: Secretary Syphilis at January 29, 2014 04:13 AM (e8kgV)

123

Posted by: jeannebodine at January 29, 2014 08:08 AM (2LJqa)

 

Jeanne, my prayers and sympathies.  Is there any chance you could tell the progs to F off and have a private service, since they loathe her anyway?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2014 04:14 AM (zF6Iw)

124

A farmer prepared for the spring after the strongest five-year stretch of farm exports in our history. A rural doctor gave a young child the first prescription to treat asthma that his mother could afford. A man took the bus home from the graveyard shift, bone-tired but dreaming big dreams for his son. And in tight-knit communities across America, fathers and mothers will tuck in their kids, put an arm around their spouse, remember fallen comrades, and give thanks for being home from a war that, after twelve long years, is finally coming to an end.

 

Worthless, flaccid, empty prose, just like the empty suit vomiting it.  And perhaps the war wouldn't have lasted "twelve long years" if your filthy party hadn't done everything in its power to hamstring the military.

 

I will never forgive W for not hanging every congressional Dem for treason.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2014 04:16 AM (zF6Iw)

125 5- If Congress doesn't flip him the bird on this scheme, it will be the next Obamacare disaster.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2014 08:06 AM (GGCsk)


I think there is a multi-facted plan.

I would almost bet that the Executive Order. and probably final draft legislation, are already printed and ready to go to effect Enhanced National Financial Fairness Via Fiscal Health by implementing accelerated Liverpool Path Care for everyone over 67 with immediate confiscation of all assets of anyone that has ever drawn a dime from Social Security, MediCaid, or MediCare, all for the Middle Class of course.


When the next debt ceiling problem arises, and the Republicans act all obstructionist by trying to save a million dollars in 2026, the confiscation of all retirement accounts will be implemented via Executive Order because America must pay its bills.  MyRA accounts will be exempted until you turn 67 and are subjected to a 50% penalty for early withdrawal.

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 29, 2014 04:16 AM (o3MSL)

126

Ah, jeez, Jeannebodine, I'm sorry to hear all of that.

 

How is it your mother, who did everything right, could be looked upon with disdain by her own family?  Leftism is indeed toxic.

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 29, 2014 04:16 AM (PFy0L)

127 Apparently it was only Atlanta that had trouble with the snow, or is it only Atlanta that has news makers.  Posted by: Fabulous Boy Franks at January 29, 2014 07:06 AM (n5M9b)

Having been in Atlanta after a .25 inch snowfall, I can tell you it is the most surreal experience imaginable.  It took me over 2 hours to drive the 2 miles from where I was working to the apartment.  There is no describing it and how the drivers were reacting.   It was amusing to look around and see the drivers familiar with snow gawking at those who had no clue who were paralyzed with fear.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at January 29, 2014 04:17 AM (kXoT0)

128 "It is an embarrassment our poverty levels are so high compared to other developed countries." —Vickie Mansour-Hasan, Chicago quoted by: TheQuietMan Heh. At first, I thought that was saying it's embarrassing that our poor are so well-off with big screen teevees and cell fones and nice cars and homes.

Posted by: webworker at January 29, 2014 04:17 AM (F3WsD)

129 Posted by: jeannebodine at January 29, 2014 08:08 AM (2LJqa)
Condolences and prayers for your loss.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at January 29, 2014 08:10 AM (kXoT0)


Same here Jeanne.  The loss of an exceptional parent (which it seems your Mother was) is not easy.  Bless you in this time!  H

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 29, 2014 04:19 AM (o3MSL)

130 Sorry about your mom, Jeanne. It is so hard to lose a dearly beloved mother. We thank you for the dear and faithful dead, for those who have made the distant heavens a home for us, and whose truth and beauty are even now in our hearts. You Lord, gather people out of earthly light to heavenly glory, from the distractions and strife and weariness of time to the peace of eternity. We thank you. Lord for the labors and joys of these mortal years and for the deep sense of mysteries that lie beyond our dust, and for the eye of faith that sees beyond this life. May the Lord strengthen and comfort you, jean. People react in all kinds of ways after a death. Pray for your family in the ways they mourn, and if your mother was a person of religious faith do your best to honor her with a religious service that she would have wanted. And may rough places be smoothed for you as far as Obamacare

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2014 04:19 AM (7kkQJ)

131 But even as a hard-core capitalist who can respect their desire to make a buck I don't have much respect for capitalists who have communists build their products. The Middle Class(tm) refuses to pay the extra price for goods manufactured under the same labor and environmental regulations they vote for. Hence the same Chinese factory Apple uses is also used by the likes of Microsoft, Nokia, Motorola, Sony, Dell, HP, HTC, ASUS/ASRock, Gigabyte, and many more.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 29, 2014 04:19 AM (102Hx)

132 My family will now proceed to fall apart completely since it
consists of all Progs (they've already started bashing her faith re: the
service) and they could barely conceal their revulsion for my
conservative mother even though she was one of the most loving, caring
individuals who even lived.

Posted by: jeannebodine at January 29, 2014 08:08 AM (2LJqa)

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Ah liberals, with their tolerance and respect for other belief systems. Why would you possibly want to show any sort of consideration for your mother for and at her funeral?

I say f 'em. If you don't need any money from your siblings for the funeral, hold it without them.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 29, 2014 04:20 AM (xWgW3)

133 Thanks for all the kind thoughts. Have to get through the service together for her great-grandchildren. I really don't know what will happen after that.

It was funny in the hospital, she was disorientated. They would come in and ask her what year it was and she would give her birth year. After about the 3rd doctor, I finally said, "I know, just ask her who the President of the US is".  Worked every single time until she slipped into a coma. She'd say, "Yea, I know", with such derision, "it's Obama". It was priceless.

Posted by: jeannebodine at January 29, 2014 04:20 AM (2LJqa)

134 I will never forgive W for not hanging every congressional Dem for treason.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2014 08:16 AM (zF6Iw)



But you can be proud of the Republican Party for standing strong on its core principle (which in short form is taking care of the GOP establishment's interests)!



I am sick of this lot of worthless "leaders" that cannot call anything wrong.

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 29, 2014 04:21 AM (o3MSL)

135

upthread: "I doubt there is a public school graduate born in Philly who can spell Schuykill."

 

Apparently you can't either; it's Schuylkill.

Posted by: b at January 29, 2014 04:23 AM (aTU5C)

136

Posted by: jeannebodine at January 29, 2014 08:08 AM (2LJqa)

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Also, thoughts and prayers.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 29, 2014 04:25 AM (xWgW3)

137 31 -- FBF -- Nah, the 'smart folks' down south just stayed home. Atlanta? Those poor sods don't have the skill-sets (or the infrastructure to cope with) for driving on ice... I know, I lived down there.

They were beyond boned...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 29, 2014 04:26 AM (lJaja)

138 Mornin' all. The Chromecast works great for streaming movies (or anything else) from a PC.

Posted by: Countrysquire at January 29, 2014 04:26 AM (LSJmV)

139

Gibson Guitars has introduced a line of guitars built from the materials originally raided from their Nashville factory in 2011. Logo shows a bald eagle making off with a neck blank. Pretty good prices for US-built Gibsons too...

 

Got a link Dr steve ?

Posted by: McCool at January 29, 2014 04:27 AM (nCSwS)

140 Market Ticker has an interesting piece that I haven't heard discussed, but I'vebeen drinking a lot so...

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=228075

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 29, 2014 04:27 AM (o3MSL)

141 Althouse had a good line about the SOTU. Da Bamster said that if Congress wouldn't cooperate with him, well he had things to do and by Gad he was going to do it without them. Althouse paraphrased that as "Will you have sex with me, or am I going to have to rape you?" Actually the Chicago "constitutional law professor" will be raping the Constitution--not just Congress. What a friggin' dickwad we have in the White House.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at January 29, 2014 04:28 AM (wdHk6)

142 Got into work today and I didn't get a raise. WTF? Why are you not patriotic dammit!

Posted by: RWC at January 29, 2014 04:28 AM (fWAjv)

143 I'm hearing reports of a congresscritter threatening a reporter. Anyone know what this is about?

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 29, 2014 04:29 AM (k/Mc/)

144 What a friggin' dickwad we have in the White House.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at January 29, 2014 08:28 AM (wdHk6)


But comrade, I am raping you for your own good!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 29, 2014 04:29 AM (o3MSL)

145 jeannebodine Not the same, but I'm convinced my dad waited until all his kids (6 of us) and his siblings (4 of them) could get to the hospital to go. He was still lucid an hour before he passed, saw his two younger sisters and said laughing "what the Hell are you two doing in a VA hospital shouldn't that have taken you two old girls to a civilian one?" I was the farthest away and was the last to get there, he waited to say goodbye. Love is a great thing, parents never stop loving and never stop looking out for their children. She sounds like a great lady and the world will be a lesser place for her passing but was a greater place with her life.

Posted by: traye at January 29, 2014 04:29 AM (tAyaV)

146 'Income inequality' rails the turd, who's old lady burned thru 10 mil for a birthday bash for herself, Satan himself couldn't be more shameless.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 29, 2014 04:30 AM (lJaja)

147 Da Bamster said that if Congress wouldn't cooperate with him, well he had things to do and by Gad he was going to do it without them.

Althouse paraphrased that as "Will you have sex with me, or am I going to have to rape you?"

Posted by: Comanche Voter at January 29, 2014 08:28 AM (wdHk6)


Bet you that she would still vote for him though...Republicans are just too icky for someone as brilliant and nuanced as she is.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at January 29, 2014 04:30 AM (kXoT0)

148 148 DG, the Blaze has it.

Posted by: weirdflunky at January 29, 2014 04:30 AM (dPrPG)

149 The only green in our future is soylent green.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 29, 2014 04:31 AM (V70Uh)

150 Anyone got any good "It's so cold in Chicago" jokes?

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at January 29, 2014 04:32 AM (QXlbZ)

151 Morning y'all.



It's a BLIZZARDLANCHQUAKE!!!!!




Not.

Posted by: NC Ref at January 29, 2014 04:32 AM (U0Mxs)

152 That sort of thing is never O/T, Sherry. Prayers sent Posted by: Mary Poppins' Echoing that, Sherry. Love for your kin.

Posted by: webworker at January 29, 2014 04:33 AM (1s+pS)

153 155 Anyone got any good "It's so cold in Chicago" jokes? Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at January 29, 2014 08:32 AM (QXlbZ) It's so cold in Chicago I actually saw a Democrat with his hands in his own pockets.

Posted by: RWC at January 29, 2014 04:34 AM (fWAjv)

154 I remember once in must have been the early 80's, taking a shipmate from Charleston to his mothers house in Dalton Georgia for the weekend.  And it began to snow while we were there.

Ultimately, we would up driving back from Dalton Georgia, at night, in my 73 Mach I, with the air shocks, jacked up, L-60's on the back.
Cassettes playing southern rock the entire trip back.
Coming down the home stretch on I-26, so slick that just tapping the brakes caused em to lock up, we were passed in the opposite direction by the only other vehicle we had seen in about the last hour.
S.C. Trooper, who briefly tapped his brakes once,and then continued on his way.
When we pulled into his trailer park, and his girlfriend came to the door,she explained that all the highways, including I-26 had been closed for hours, and how the hell did we make it back.


That section of the south doesn't do snow.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2014 04:34 AM (kFCo1)

155 64 -- Sherry -- my sincerest condolences. May she rest in peace.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 29, 2014 04:34 AM (lJaja)

156 It's so cold in Chicago that no one wants to go outside.  No one.  I saw a woman who is 11 months pregnant.

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 29, 2014 04:34 AM (PFy0L)

157 It's so cold in Chicago I actually saw a Democrat with his hands in his own pockets.

Posted by: RWC at January 29, 2014 08:34 AM (fWAjv)

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HA!

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 29, 2014 04:35 AM (xWgW3)

158 Prayers on the way Sherry. Stay strong for your family.

Posted by: Countrysquire at January 29, 2014 04:37 AM (LSJmV)

159 91 -- DrSteve -- good for them! Turn it around on the bastards...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 29, 2014 04:37 AM (lJaja)

160 I slept so well last night, having omitted the executive order in chief from consciousness. What could he say beyond more of the same thrust? The decomposition of the United States of America, the "it happened a long time ago so what difference at this point does it make" post-constitutionalism that denies identity of any sovereign entity whether the individual human Spirit or of Constitutio Libertatis. True power is persuasive of its own accord. Identify via Fruits, production. Whereas authoritarians (elitists, totalitarians) begetting bureaucracies to enforce orders (which never apply to themselves) are as saboteurs and cannibals of civility and citizenry. The TOTUS spews seeds of persistent destruction. Give them no root in your hearts and minds. And denounce deceit. Being of one heart, take care where your heart is. Hannah Arendt on Power v. Terror/Violence seems relevant to the day's discourse. I came across her name (as well as Bach, Goethe, Schiller, and E.T.A. Hoffmann) having referenced Thuringia, Prussia and Königsberg this morning. wikipedia http://tinyurl.com/o8fhv2b Arendt's essay, "On Violence", distinguishes between violence and power. She maintains that, although theorists of both the Left and Right regard violence as an extreme manifestation of power, the two concepts are, in fact, antithetical. Power comes from the collective will and does not need violence to achieve any of its goals, since voluntary compliance takes its place. As governments start losing their legitimacy, violence becomes an artificial means toward the same end and is therefore, found only in the absence of power. Bureaucracies then become the ideal birthplaces of violence since they are defined as the "rule by no one" against whom to argue and therefore, recreate the missing links with the people they rule over.

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 29, 2014 04:38 AM (MhA4j)

161 OK, so the Jackass  ( AKA Duh!1 ) Brayed again....

Who cares anymore?

Posted by: backhoe at January 29, 2014 04:38 AM (ULH4o)

162 "going paperless is not as messy or unhygienic as it may sound...." Welllll.... In that Chrichton book about going back to the 15th Century or somewhen, he mentions that they used plentifully-available linen scraps to wipe with. That sounds even nicer than paper. But they didn't try to recycle it!!!!!!!

Posted by: webworker at January 29, 2014 04:39 AM (izPgb)

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

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 04:39 AM (PYAXX)

164 My pitchfork is sharp and shiny, the torches are soaking in kerosene. Waiting sucks.

Posted by: Beefy at January 29, 2014 04:39 AM (bUmSq)

165 Gooood morning, all!   I have remained blissfully unaware of any and all things related to last night's Shit on the Union address, and   have little desire to change that state of things.   

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at January 29, 2014 04:39 AM (4df7R)

166 Did he *really* say that if you have a well paying job you're "rich" and not "paying your fair share?" Not that it would surprise me, but still...

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 04:40 AM (PYAXX)

167 The SOTU was last night? I was busy watching Bad Grandpa.

Posted by: Countrysquire at January 29, 2014 04:40 AM (LSJmV)

168 170 Gooood morning, all! I have remained blissfully unaware of any and all things related to last night's Shit on the Union address, and have little desire to change that state of things. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at January 29, 2014 08:39 AM (4df7R) Keith Urban was DWS's guest.

Posted by: RWC at January 29, 2014 04:41 AM (fWAjv)

169 Sorry. That was just cruel.

Posted by: RWC at January 29, 2014 04:42 AM (fWAjv)

170 Posted by: RWC at January 29, 2014 08:41 AM (fWAjv) Missed it by >< that much. Karl. Karl Urban is the name you wanted to use. Unless Keith Urban really was DWS's guest- but, um, why?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 04:42 AM (PYAXX)

171

Althouse had a good line about the SOTU.

 

Althouse is a mewling quim who voted for Barky twice.  A pity her tenured ass isn't being peddled on the mean streets of Ann Arbor.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2014 04:42 AM (zF6Iw)

172 Thanks for all the prayers and good thoughts.  My heart just breaks for my brother-in-law--he was so attached to his Mother that he is just crushed.  He was also so good to my Mom and Dad before they passed away.  He is just a wonderful guy.  After each of them had really bad first marriage, my sister and he are so in love and so happy.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at January 29, 2014 04:42 AM (kXoT0)

173 Sherry, Prayers sent.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2014 04:43 AM (7kkQJ)

174 South Philly becoming Hipster-Town. I almost miss the old mafiosos.

Posted by: Biff Boffo at January 29, 2014 04:43 AM (MQJUb)

175 My suggestion for the House for this year: Pass a budget. Hold pro-forma sessions (to avoid recess). Do nothing else.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 04:44 AM (PYAXX)

176 119 -- jeannebodine -- my condolences. OTOH, if you had gone, she would have surely cheered you on from upstairs.

The time for silence is fast coming to an end...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 29, 2014 04:45 AM (lJaja)

177 We've got about two inches of snow, but with no plows/sanders to speak of, everything is closed down, people are staying home. Wicked cold, so no melting until tomorrow.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 29, 2014 04:45 AM (ZshNr)

178 jeannebodine, sad for you, but you had her for a long life, and that's an eternal treasure. Just talked to my mom yesterday, but now I feel like calling her again. She'll turn 94 this year, and may outlive me....

Posted by: webworker at January 29, 2014 04:46 AM (AMsS5)

179 9 degrees in Ft. Worth this morning. Not quite double that (17) at DFW Airport. Who invited Winter back? I thought I had made it clear that Winter was no longer welcome here.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 04:47 AM (PYAXX)

180 Sorry. That was just cruel. Posted by: RWC at January 29, 2014 08:42 AM (fWAjv)


Well, it would have been if you said Karl Urban. 


Here MWR.   Haz. 


http://bit.ly/1fbUq3f


We're not opening the office until 10 and I am seriously considering calling in look you know how bitchy I was yesterday?  Yeah.

Posted by: alexthechick - We besearch thee of great SMOD at January 29, 2014 04:47 AM (Gk3SS)

181 I was serious about that loser comment...if the Cubs were more successful he would have talked about his fond memories of Wigley Field. As for "all" Sox fans, I can see it in my own family: of the real baseball fans, the Sox fans are, with one exception, conservatives. The Cubs fans, the northsiders and those hailing from the People's Republic of OP, love and support their Dear Leader. :: shrug ::

Posted by: Gem at January 29, 2014 07:44 AM (+vea



You're right Mayor Meathead Daley was a true conservative. White Sox fans are Chicago union types and vote Democrat. Barry is a White Sox fan deal with it. And all of those "real" fans only show up to White Sox games when they are winning.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 29, 2014 04:48 AM (1Jaio)

182 Karl. Karl Urban is the name you wanted to use. Unless Keith Urban really was DWS's guest- but, um, why? Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 08:42 AM (PYAXX) Thanks. More coffee needed.

Posted by: RWC at January 29, 2014 04:49 AM (fWAjv)

183 I enjoyed playing some counter-strike and reading a book rather than watch Barack drone on. I win at life.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 56% more DOOM! at January 29, 2014 04:50 AM (09o/X)

184 Heh. Our local conservative morning radio guy is all incensed because someone called in and raked him over for advertising for a trial lawyer firm. Now he's ranting about 'how could conservatives want the government to tell the jury what to do!' The caller served him his lunch. But the Advertiser is All.

Posted by: --- at January 29, 2014 04:50 AM (MMC8r)

185 We're not opening the office until 10 and I am seriously considering calling in look you know how bitchy I was yesterday? Yeah.

Posted by: alexthechick - We besearch thee of great SMOD at January 29, 2014 08:47 AM (Gk3SS)

----------

 

Don't you mean assertive? Or perhaps self confident?

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 29, 2014 04:51 AM (xWgW3)

186 Prayers and condolences jeannebodine

Posted by: RWC at January 29, 2014 04:51 AM (fWAjv)

187 I see Willie Robertson was there as a guest of his Congressman, but I didn't see Keith Urban listed. Was he really there with crazy hair? http://to.pbs.org/1b7r3gi

Posted by: MTF at January 29, 2014 04:52 AM (/VASf)

188 Now he's ranting about 'how could conservatives want the government to tell the jury what to do!' Huh? That doesn't even make sense. Conservatives want the "the government" to tell the jury what to do because the jury is acting on behalf of the government. What did I miss?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 04:53 AM (PYAXX)

189 Anyone got any good "It's so cold in Chicago" jokes?

It's so cold in Chicago that, in the parking lot, I saw a woman try to squeeze sideways between two SUV's and her nipples scratched the paint on one.

Posted by: GMan at January 29, 2014 04:53 AM (sxq57)

190 Conservatives want the "the government" to tell the jury what to do because the jury is acting on behalf of the government. What did I miss? Exactly what the caller kept pointing out. Host lost it and started reductio ad absurdum.

Posted by: --- at January 29, 2014 04:55 AM (MMC8r)

191 Heh, The ad I got when visiting the article about the baby murdering boy friend: http://t.co/5syaE9UyZ2 Targeted money!

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 29, 2014 04:55 AM (GaqMa)

192

Hello from Sydney on a very warm Thursday early morning

 

Condolences JeanneBodine and Sherry - so sad to read your stories and I wish both of you all the best

 

My dear 89yo MIL is in hospital and I really think she's just given up - she's waited for her 1st great grandchild to be born (he's now 3mo) and she talks about her long dead family a lot - and also all her dearest friends have now gone as well

 

I mentioned a few nights ago that one of my kitties was in cat ICU and I was going to make the decision later that day to pull the plug - well the bloody cat must have read my thoughts and she's remarkably improved - so much so that she's probably coming home on Sunday

 

Of course we will be eating stale bread and drinking water for the next year  because of the ginormous vet bills!

 

I also enjoyed reading comments here and on other sites about the talk by your President -anyone see the comments on Weasel Zippers?  Bloody hilarious some of them!

Posted by: aussie at January 29, 2014 04:55 AM (kNqWd)

193 Don't you mean assertive? Or perhaps self confident? Posted by: Darth Randall at January 29, 2014 08:51 AM (xWgW3)


Well, sure, except I was pretty much straight up bitchy yesterday.   With good reason, mind you, but I feel bad in retrospect.  Let us just say that I could have gotten my point across with better decorum and presentation.



Posted by: alexthechick - We besearch thee of great SMOD at January 29, 2014 04:56 AM (Gk3SS)

194 119. Posted by: jeannebodine at January 29, 2014 08:08 AM (2LJqa) God bless you in your mourning of her mortal departure, to feel her happiness in true liberty and love joining God's presence within the hosts of faithful love. Ninety years is quite the lifetime to have enjoyed without loss if independence. That your mother loved you is a pearl of great price, an infinite gift within your heart, the shining light enhancing your own life. May God bless your days on earth; your Mother will continue to lead by inspiration and example in your mind and heart. May wisdom and strength be yours. FenelonSpoke's entries are beautiful for reflection and remembrance. Condolence

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 29, 2014 04:56 AM (MhA4j)

195 9 degrees in Ft. Worth this morning. Not quite double that (17) at DFW Airport. 21 over here. Yeah. It sucks.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2014 04:56 AM (lUXJH)

196 It's so cold in San Antonio.... that I had to put on a light jacket.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 29, 2014 04:56 AM (/qzu7)

197 So our president becomes more aloof as his litany of failures grows. So, so sad.

Posted by: Fritz at January 29, 2014 04:57 AM (TKFmG)

198 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 08:53 AM (PYAXX) I'm assuming this distinction isn't in there, but I want the courts to tell the jury the law and how to decide. But not the government to force a particular decision via force. As I said though, sounds like this guy is stark raving mad right now.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 29, 2014 04:57 AM (GaqMa)

199 15 degrees in central NC. Cold as a mofo.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 29, 2014 04:57 AM (ZshNr)

200 193 -- AllenG -- not much... just lies, shameless lies, condolences to the bereaved, and Global Warming Doom in the Deep South.

Just another Wednesday...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 29, 2014 04:57 AM (lJaja)

201 Instead of the forecasted 3-6 inches of snow, we got maybe an inch and the driveway and street are clear.  Very pretty looking out the back.

I watched "Gambit" on TCM last night.  When it was over, the SCOAMF was still bloviating.  Did the Supremes show up for a tirade?  Cognitive Dissonance means that most people just want to get through the next three years (or just today) without thinking about the idiot.  We certainly don't want to have to do anything about him.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 29, 2014 04:57 AM (V70Uh)

202 Anyone got any good "It's so cold in Chicago" jokes?

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at January 29, 2014 08:32 AM (QXlbZ)




It's so cold the politicians have their hands in their own pockets

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 29, 2014 04:58 AM (1Jaio)

203 http://preview.tinyurl.com/m5tnk9x Rep. Michael Grimm of New York, under investigation for alleged campaign finance improprieties, threatened to throw a reporter off a balcony during an interview following President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night. After being asked by NY1 reporter Michael Scotto about the investigation, Grimm replied, "That’s off-topic. This is only about president’s speech,” and walked off camera. Scotto briefly concluded his report, and Grimm -- assuming the broadcast was over -- returned to admonish the reporter. The camera remained on, however. “Let me be clear to you: You ever do that to me again, I’ll throw you off this f------ balcony,” Grimm threatened.

Posted by: --- at January 29, 2014 04:58 AM (MMC8r)

204 It's so cold the politicians have their hands in their own pockets Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 29, 2014 08:58 AM (1Jaio) thanks for the morning chuckle

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 29, 2014 05:00 AM (MhA4j)

205 From Drudge, here's a national security reporter who confronts a private investigator that is tailing him on behalf of who-knows-who: http://preview.tinyurl.com/mzpznw2

Posted by: --- at January 29, 2014 05:01 AM (MMC8r)

206 A pity her tenured ass isn't being peddled on the mean streets of Ann Arbor. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2014 08:42 AM (zF6Iw) **** Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence, a bag!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2014 05:01 AM (g4TxM)

207 I'm assuming this distinction isn't in there, but I want the courts to tell the jury the law and how to decide. But not the government to force a particular decision via force. Fair enough- though that seems almost tautological (only almost, unfortunately). It *should be* self-evident that the government (via this thing we call "the law") tells the jury "How" to decide (the criteria which must be met). Then the jury looks at a given set of facts, and applies "the law" to those facts, but once the decision is in the jury's hands, the Government does not get to say "In this case, you'd better find X."

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 05:02 AM (PYAXX)

208 thatÂ’s the actress Elise Cavanna in the chair.

Yeah, but who's Fields' assistant? Helloooo, nurse!

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 29, 2014 05:02 AM (RUvjp)

209 so I'm pondering....

obama ignores what the majority of America wants "jobs" and the best thing he could do is take EPA and the unions dick out of the economy's ass...

The GOP is going to push Amigo Grande! the public could give two fucks about in a positive way that 1/3d their base considers a deal breaker

Obama is going to try to EO electricity out of existence to fight his imaginary boogie man Global Warming...

Yeah "representative govt"

it represents fucking K street

Posted by: sven10077 at January 29, 2014 05:03 AM (TE35l)

210 As a palate cleanser (something I suspect we all need a bit of this morning), someone made the mistake of charging Jim Cantore during a TWC broadcast, covering the snow/ice storm in South Carolina last night: http://youtu.be/SvmmIHl8YzY There are better quality copies of the vid out there, but some of the comments on this one are priceless.

Posted by: ScaryBiscuits at January 29, 2014 05:03 AM (fH+8U)

211 -8 and sunny around here... an alleged high of 23. And, we've had more snowfall in January than a typical entire season in this neck of the woods.

Where's my damn Global Warming??? May need to burn some Greens to keep warm...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 29, 2014 05:03 AM (lJaja)

212 16 hour traffic jam in Atlanta. People sleeping in supermarkets and Home Depots. From .25 inches of freezing rain.

Posted by: Xmas at January 29, 2014 05:04 AM (JoscM)

213 NEWS ALERT> PAUL RYAN STILL A FILTHY COCKSUCKER.

Posted by: CPAC Welcome Committee at January 29, 2014 05:04 AM (Cs2tJ)

214 Spent last night streaming "The Last Stand" with Ahnold in HD.

I love Amazon Prime.

But I do feel bad that I missed the STFU with Prezzy O'Freeshit.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2014 05:04 AM (kFCo1)

215

I'm extremely pro-life, but 14 years for  one  parent deciding to abort the baby  requires some illogical justice under today's  leftist  laws.

 

What prison sentence  would the woman receive if the boyfriend had come home and said, "Hi darling, how's our baby doing?" ..and the mother replied, "Oh, that thing?  I know you wanted to keep it, but  I decided to have it aborted."  

Posted by: Icedog at January 29, 2014 05:04 AM (r5sZy)

216 Got out to my truck this morning after work and it was 1 degree out there, which isn't abnormal at all, Â…Â…but there's something about that 1 that felt fucking insulting.

Posted by: ontherocks at January 29, 2014 05:04 AM (lvK+H)

217 Posted by: ScaryBiscuits at January 29, 2014 09:03 AM (fH+8U) That was pretty funny. I loved the way he kneed the dude, then just kept on talking.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 05:05 AM (PYAXX)

218 We're not opening the office until 10 and I am seriously considering calling in look you know how bitchy I was yesterday? Yeah.

Posted by: alexthechick - We besearch thee of great SMOD at January 29, 2014 08:47 AM (Gk3SS)


Yeah, I am thinking that we 'Ettes should demand a couple of days off here and there on accounta


"You make me come in today and put up with all my stupid co-workers and their stupid stupidity, IMA CUT A BITCH!"

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at January 29, 2014 05:06 AM (kXoT0)

219 Spent last night streaming "The Last Stand" with Ahnold in HD. Is that any good? Not as in "good" but at least enjoyable? 16 hour traffic jam in Atlanta. People sleeping in supermarkets and Home Depots. From .25 inches of freezing rain. Okay, I live in DFW where the *threat* of ice is often enough to close schools. Even we'd look at that and say, "WTF?"

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 05:07 AM (PYAXX)

220 Thanks, ScaryBiscuits, been looking for that clip (they showed it on the local Fox News this morning).

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 29, 2014 05:08 AM (lJaja)

221 I'm extremely pro-life, but 14 years for one parent deciding to abort the baby requires some illogical justice under today's leftist laws. No, that exactly what the leftists have been saying since at least the 80s. It's "the woman's body." So if *she* decides to abort, it's all her decision. The man in the picture has exactly zero say. So the rubric is: Woman decided? => "clump of cells" Man decided => "baby murder" See? Perfectly logical. And now I'm going to go throw up.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 05:09 AM (PYAXX)

222 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 09:07 AM (PYAXX)

My father has told me that the most scared he ever felt while driving was during an "ice event" in Dallas.

Apparently you folks have interesting driving technique.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 29, 2014 05:10 AM (QFxY5)

223 Chipper Jones rescued a stranded Atlanta Brave, Freddie Freeman, stuck on an Atlanta highway last night. Busted out the snowsuit and four-wheeler. Story on social media.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 29, 2014 05:10 AM (ZshNr)

224 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 09:02 AM (PYAXX) I said it's a narrow distinction. And I can't tell from the references whether the person is complaining about that or claiming the government told the jury what decision to reach. (Outside of standard case arguing by government attorneys of course.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 29, 2014 05:10 AM (GaqMa)

225 Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at January 29, 2014 09:06 AM (kXoT0) I worked for a boss once who said, "Look, I know sometimes your real reason for not coming in is 'I'm just not feeling it.' Keep it to reasonable levels, and don't lie about it, and I don't care."

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 05:10 AM (PYAXX)

226 Apparently you folks have interesting driving technique. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 29, 2014 09:10 AM (QFxY5) My "driving technique" on ice is to make my wife (who comes from Michigan) drive. But, yes, DFW drivers have no clue how to handle ice. Which is one of the reasons the city will shut down just due to the threat.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 05:12 AM (PYAXX)

227 210 about time the blasted media quit duncing for boney Duce and show balls enough to at least not throw themselves under the big bro bus exposé Consider how many readers would follow the story exposing the American Stasi who yet hide in the Soaring souring Shadow of The Patriot Act DHS ... and selective prosecution of "heretic" politically incorrect LIVES. Today's government officials not only disregard Constitutional Republic Governance, they are the destroyers of Liberty and America itself. We would NEVER have reached this point, or worse, had BOTH major political parties not "shared values" as Pelosi announced and neoconservative Republicans consistently prove to our horror and dismay.

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 29, 2014 05:12 AM (MhA4j)

228 "Is that any good? Not as in "good" but at least enjoyable?"

It was enjoyable.
Not as enjoyable as "True Lies", but.....

certainly more enjoyable than watching Mc'Fukstik blather away.

Would I pay to rent it?
Maybe at RedBox.


Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2014 05:12 AM (kFCo1)

229 219 Posted by: Icedog at January 29, 2014 09:04 AM (r5sZy)

Yeah I'm gonna go rearrange my sock drawer or something...

that little gem is why "war on womyn" kind of pisses me off...

I get to support the child come hell or high water and I have precisely zero input on whether the baby lives or dies....

Fuck the courts go after sperm donors who get anonymously used to knock up the fem in a lesbian relationship so you don't even necessarily get the pleasure of 10-65 minutes of the Womyn's company....

FUCK

Posted by: sven10077 at January 29, 2014 05:13 AM (TE35l)

230 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 09:09 AM (PYAXX) Yeah, while I'm a bit upset they let him plea down to a non-murder charge (Seems to me this is murder 1, so the standard plea would be murder 2) at least he got jail time. Although having said that, the more disturbing thing is: they didn't charge him with assault. Setting aside the baby, didn't he also assault the mother? (Unless "drugging" is some other crime than assault, but I didn't see anything even remotely related to that.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 29, 2014 05:14 AM (GaqMa)

231 It was enjoyable. Not as enjoyable as "True Lies", but..... Few of his movies are. "Did you ever kill anybody?" "Yes, but they were all bad." certainly more enjoyable than watching Mc'Fukstik blather away. Low bar. Would I pay to rent it? I've got Netflix, so I could watch it for "free." My issue is time. I don't have a whole lot for movies, so I like to make sure something is worth it before I waste 2 hours.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 05:14 AM (PYAXX)

232 217 -- Xmas -- for those people, it may as well been 3 feet of snow.

For the folks in the Deep South, Martians are more believable than that kind of weather.

I know, I lived down there. For them, salt is something you put on your food... not roads.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 29, 2014 05:15 AM (lJaja)

233 2 Ignoring SCOAMF at this stage is dangerous, since he is becoming more and more dictatorial as everything he has done stutters, clusterfucks and fails. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 06:45 AM (olDqf) I like the way you put that.

Posted by: D-Lamp at January 29, 2014 05:15 AM (bb5+k)

234 streaming "The Last Stand" with Ahnold in HD. Is that any good? Not as in "good" but at least enjoyable? = Last Stand is an ok wrinkly Arhnold flick "You give us immigrants a bad name."

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 29, 2014 05:15 AM (MhA4j)

235 The way that you handle ice is a sand/salt mix on the roads, which apparently they've never heard of in JoJah. Â…..plus at least one pair of shoes with ice cleats, preferably the ones that you can stretch over any shoe that you own.

Posted by: ontherocks at January 29, 2014 05:15 AM (lvK+H)

236 Although having said that, the more disturbing thing is: they didn't charge him with assault. Setting aside the baby, didn't he also assault the mother? (Unless "drugging" is some other crime than assault, but I didn't see anything even remotely related to that.) I don't know the facts, but the post to which I was responding said "tricked." Probably doesn't reach the level of "assault" (especially given that the Left has been so big on convincing everyone that abortofacients have NO bad side-effects).

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 05:16 AM (PYAXX)

237

Anyone got any good "It's so cold in Chicago" jokes?

 

It's so cold, the warmest place is Mooch's heart.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2014 05:16 AM (zF6Iw)

238 Another sub-zero wind chill day here in WNY. Hit about -20 yesterday. We do snow and ice real well here, but not this kind of arctic cold. Enough is enough, it's been two weeks! Supposed to be more seasonal by the weekend.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 29, 2014 05:17 AM (7ObY1)

239 Don't you mean assertive? Or perhaps self confident?

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 29, 2014 08:51 AM (xWgW3)


Yeppers, on my annual request for training, I always joke about needing assertiveness training.  For some damn reason, my bosses always turn a bit pale and repress a shudder. 



Hmm, where was that incredibly sharp letter opener again?

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at January 29, 2014 05:17 AM (kXoT0)

240 We do snow and ice real well here, but not this kind of arctic cold. Cue the Libtards saying "See? Global Warming increases BOTH extremes!" Yes. Someone really said that to me the other day.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 05:18 AM (PYAXX)

241 My "driving technique" on ice is to make my wife (who comes from Michigan) drive. But, yes, DFW drivers have no clue how to handle ice. Which is one of the reasons the city will shut down just due to the threat. Snow? Easy peasy. Ice, sans studded tires or tire chains? Rubber tires & ice = hockey puck.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2014 05:18 AM (lUXJH)

242 the Government does not get to say "In this case, you'd better find X."

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 09:02 AM (PYAXX)


Comrade, you didn't get the memo?

Posted by: Eric "Red" Holder at January 29, 2014 05:18 AM (o3MSL)

243 Happy Birthday to the great state of Kansas. I mean, sure you're flat and ugly. Butt cold winters. Blast furnace summers. Only 67% of homes have indoor plumbing. Nothing to do but watch the wheat grow. But you're home.

Posted by: teej at January 29, 2014 05:19 AM (xhr2b)

244 Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 29, 2014 09:17 AM (7ObY1)

It was a balmy 7 degrees this morning here in the glorious worker's paradise of New Jersey.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 29, 2014 05:19 AM (QFxY5)

245 Nothing to do but watch the wheat grow. Posted by: teej at January 29, 2014 09:19 AM (xhr2b) Not true. After harvest, you can make beer.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 05:20 AM (PYAXX)

246 What prison sentence would the woman receive if the boyfriend had come home and said, "Hi darling, how's our baby doing?" ..and the mother replied, "Oh, that thing? I know you wanted to keep it, but I decided to have it aborted." Posted by: Icedog at January 29, 2014 09:04 AM (r5sZy) Logical consistency is not a hallmark of our Judicial system. At least not since Roosevelt wrecked the courts with his kook appointments.

Posted by: D-Lamp at January 29, 2014 05:20 AM (bb5+k)

247 Yeah, but who's Fields' assistant? Helloooo, nurse!

 

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 29, 2014 09:02 AM (RUvjp)

 

Her name is Zedna Farley.  I'm afraid I don't know anything about her other than that she's pretty.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2014 05:20 AM (zF6Iw)

248 2. J.J.Sefton 238. D-Lamp Right. Ignoring the dragon never slayed the destroyer. Being consumed is no excuse.

Posted by: St. Margaret of Antioch at January 29, 2014 05:20 AM (MhA4j)

249 Apparently you folks have interesting driving technique.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo


Is bumper car a "technique"?

Posted by: dogfish at January 29, 2014 05:21 AM (nsOJa)

250 http://tinyurl.com/ljts2tc Mexico legalizes country's growing vigilante groups as they announce capture of senior Knights Templar drug cartel leader known as 'The Uncle' Doing the job the corrupt government won't do.

Posted by: RWC at January 29, 2014 05:21 AM (fWAjv)

251 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 09:16 AM (PYAXX) Wait, so tricking you to take a drug against your will would be then..not a crime? That can't be right. Surely we've got some crime that fits this bill above the level of "tampering." We're back to our random examples: if someone thinks you should be on SSRI's and surreptitiously replaces your multivitamin with them, is the only crime "tampering?" Because IMHO, that makes absolutely no sense.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 29, 2014 05:22 AM (GaqMa)

252 Dump is up.

Posted by: dogfish at January 29, 2014 05:23 AM (nsOJa)

253 My father has told me that the most scared he ever felt while driving was during an "ice event" in Dallas. Apparently you folks have interesting driving technique. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 29, 2014 09:10 AM (QFxY5) The normal driving technique absent an "ice event" is scary enough. I was doing 85 in a 65, and people were still getting upset with me for holding up traffic. Yeah, youse guys can keep that Dallas Traffic.

Posted by: D-Lamp at January 29, 2014 05:23 AM (bb5+k)

254 Jeannebodine, I'm so sorry you losy your mom. It's never the same without them. Literally the person who gave you life. My and the wife's deepest sympathy.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 29, 2014 05:23 AM (TE35l)

255 Le Knew thread...
It hath arrived

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2014 05:24 AM (kFCo1)

256  @ 227 [CBD] -- One of the more comical Christmases I can remember is the time my brother's in-laws came down to Kentucky from Michigan only to be greeted with an ice storm about midway through their visit. They marveled at how everyone here raided the stores at the first hint of winter precipitation in the forecast.

I can remember the smugness as we tried to warn him: "Oh, you people just don't know how to drive! Hell, I'll go to the store. Just give me a list."

Five minutes and one busted ass later, the brother-in-law walks back in sheepishly. "Man, that car ain't goin' nowhere."

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at January 29, 2014 05:24 AM (m0h0I)

257 Wait, so tricking you to take a drug against your will would be then..not a crime? Would tricking you into taking a multivitamin be a crime worse than "tampering?" Remember- the Leftists want everyone to believe that abortiofacients have NO NEGATIVE SIDE-EFFECTS. They say it over and over (or at least minimize the side-effects to the point that people think of them as being non-existent). IF that is what you believe about them, how is forcing someone to take them harming them? YOU know, and I know that's a metric butt load of bovine-generated organic fertilizer, but that's what people are being told to believe.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 05:25 AM (PYAXX)

258 Lost not losy Ms. Bodine....

Posted by: sven10077 at January 29, 2014 05:25 AM (TE35l)

259 hehe- just saw the Dilbert strip over at mypetjawa. Point haired boss says to Dilbert: "We won the bid to build a fleet of small drones for retail package delivery. I'm not sure why they call their customers infidels, but I doubt that's important. You'll be working with their design guy, whose name is Mullah John Smith."

Posted by: Mainah at January 29, 2014 05:25 AM (659DL)

260 252 regular moron been there as well Almost fanatical thing about stepmothers, their "need" to erase all life before their grand entrance, all relevant life AS the second marriage. It's important to pay respects to our parents upon their passing.

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 29, 2014 05:30 AM (MhA4j)

261 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 09:25 AM (PYAXX) Perhaps. Although I'd note it's an FDA controlled drug whose primary approval is to treat ulcers. And in that context is has a few other side effects (unrelated to it's abortifacient properties.) They're listed on the label. So it wouldn't seem a stretch to say "you put her at potential for these!" but I'm Pollyannaish I guess.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 29, 2014 05:31 AM (GaqMa)

262 I've never been to Kansas but a state that gave us Frank Baum and has scenes like this is a beautiful state: http://tinyurl.com/llq8htz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2014 05:32 AM (7kkQJ)

263  @ 266 [Regular Moron] -- The first rule of driving in an ice storm is easy to remember; don't.

Yep! Pretty much simple as that. I've done some fancy driving on ice, but it wasn't on purpose, and didn't encourage me to try it again for kicks.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at January 29, 2014 05:35 AM (m0h0I)

264  @ 269 [FenelonSpoke] -- Also, this:

https://www.facebook.com/KUboobs

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at January 29, 2014 05:38 AM (m0h0I)

265

Morning all.  Gotta get ready for work, but the SOTU was a work of art.  Can't wait for all the campaign ads showing Prez Fuck Face talking about OCare and how successful it's been and all the Dems cheering.  And that woman who is happy that she has OCare now?  Yeah, hope she's ready for that rectal exam that's coming.

 

Also, watched the whole damn thing on CSpan.  Loved the tweeting.  The Dems tweeted their darling's dreamy words, the Repubs prettry much tweeted WTF?  They were pretty funny.

Posted by: joanne at January 29, 2014 05:53 AM (s/quq)

266 Anybody get any free shite last night?

Posted by: Erowmero at January 29, 2014 06:24 AM (OONaw)

267 Live in the NW ATL area and we got about 3 inches of powder.  I teach at a university and driving in realized that things were heading South quickly with nary a DOT truck in sight.  Dismissed the class immediately at 11:15 AM when I found that our University was closing at 1PM because I knew that the roads were getting slick and that a lot of people don't really know how to drive on it.  I wanted my students to get home safely. 

Since the day before was a high of 57, the top of the ground was warm and froze the initial snow into ice.  Then, we got powder snow on top of it. 

It took me two and a half hours to go about twelve miles but I got home because I knew all of the backroads to get around the accidents at major intersections.  I also drove delivery trucks to grocery stores in my youth in northern Arkansas for the family business in this snow and ice stuff during the 1980's.  Grocery stores in the South always have a run on them during forecasts for snow and ice.

School district piddled around too long to call school.  Because the busses are shared by elementary, middle, and high school, there was chaos due to the 1 PM closing.  Kids were left in my wife's school overnight and my wife was fortunate to bunk with another teacher's mother who lived about 1 mile away. 

I hope to see my wife today late this afternoon if she can make it home safely.  There is one upside--my dog loves running around in the snow and likes to eat it.

Posted by: wg at January 29, 2014 06:42 AM (A3LK5)

268 Snow? Easy peasy.
Ice, sans studded tires or tire chains? Rubber tires & ice = hockey puck.
---------------------------
Just remember, tire chains and ice skates are made of the same material with roughly the same reaction on ice.

Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at January 29, 2014 07:42 AM (XiVKO)

269       Yeah, I have some aunts and uncles in Atlanta, what a clusterfuck.  People spending 12 hours in their cars trying to get home, etc...   Meanwhile, here in Western NC, we got just as much, if not more, snow as Atlanta, but since everyone has 4WD trucks and the local schools flat-out canceled school instead of waiting for it to start snowing, we did all right.  I drove my wife to work in Waynesville, NC and it only took about 5 to 10 minutes longer than usual. 

     Apparently, everyone in Atlanta is totally pissed off and looking for someone to blame.  For me, its a toss-up between Obama (who actually mentioned climate change in his speech last night, or so I'm told) and Al Gore (Manbearpig!), but I'm not picky, either one will do when it comes tar-and-feather time....

Posted by: Pave Low John at January 29, 2014 07:57 AM (r+jwV)

270 Ah, so only the FEMALE parent can slaughter their offspring with impunity. Gotcha.

Posted by: Auntie M at January 29, 2014 09:52 AM (AIC5Z)

271 <b> SEVEN WEEK NOT SEVEN MONTH</B>

Posted by: pedant at January 29, 2014 11:55 AM (x/LRg)

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