March 13, 2014
— Maetenloch
Big Ole Link Dump that is.
The Fundamental Value of the Ukraine Crisis
Here CDR Salamander lists some of the hard truths learned/relearned thus far from the Ukraine crisis.
You don't know the future: Do not think that just because you want history to leave you alone, that it will. Just because you want to be most concerned about the Pacific and Indian Ocean AOR - that doesn't mean history will let you. We need to be very careful following people who are so convinced about their ability to see the future. They can't. I can't. You can't. All you can do is maintain intellectual and operational flexibility against other nations' abilities, not their intention. Hedge, hedge, hedge.
Weakness invites aggression: Russia saw an opening to take what they have wanted since the fall of the Soviet Union; the Crimea. Ethnically and from a historical perspective, they have a leg to stand on. All they needed was for the time to be ripe. Kiev in chaos, NATO weak and thin, and the USA led by the C-team. Thinking like a Russian, I can't say I blame them. There were a few territorial loose ends from the breakup of the Soviet Union that they want to clean up. That leads to the next point ....
Hmmm: Mummified Michigan Woman Dead Since 2008 Managed to Vote in 2010 Election
Mummified remains were discovered in the Pontiac home belonging to 49-year-old Pia Farrenkopf last week, when a contractor was dispatched to the property when it went into foreclosure.The remains found in the backseat of a jeep parked in the home's garage have not been positively identified yet, but authorities believe the body belongs to Farrenkopf.
Adding more mystery to the gruesome discovery is the fact that Farrenkopf registered to vote in 2006 and even cast a vote in the 2010 elections, though authorities believe she died at some point in 2008.
The GOP really needs to step up its mostly-dead, dead-dead, and un-dead voter outreach programs.
What's Really Behind the Ban Bossy Movement
Think about what's coming up in the next year or two and you'll see why the movement is starting up now.
Also The Hidden Motive Driving Modern Politics by our own Zombie.
States You Don't Want to Live In For $500 Alex
Because they have looming public pension fiscal disasters. California is actually far worse than it's ranked due to imaginative 'zero coupon' accounting. And Texas isn't as quite as sound as I would have expected.
How to Drink Champagne by Bill Murray
I learned how to drink champagne a while ago. But the way I like to drink champagne is I like to make what we call a Montana Cooler, where you buy a case of champagne and you take all the bottles out, and you take all the cardboard out, and you put a garbage bag inside of it, then you put all the bottles back in and then you cover it with ice, and then you wrap it up and you close it. And that will keep it all cold for a weekend and you can drink every single bottle. And the way I like to drink it in a big pint glass with ice. I fill it with ice and I pour the champagne in it, because champagne can never be too cold. And the problem people have with champagne is they drink it and they crash with it, because the sugar content is so high and you get really dehydrated. But if you can get the ice in it, you can drink it supremely cold and at the same time you're getting the melting ice, so it's like a hydration level, and you can stay at this great level for a whole weekend. You don't want to crash. You want to keep that buzz, that bling, that smile.
All Your Ivory Are Contraband Now
Since the 1989 Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) the import of new ivory into the US has been banned. But any existing pre-1989 ivory was legal to own and sell. Until now.
The Obama Administration has issued new administrative rules that essentially make all ivory now contraband which you cannot sell or give to others. Because unless you can absolutely prove that it's from before 1989, it's now assumed to be illegal.
A new administrative rule promulgated by the Obama Administration (1) bans all sales of ivory items that are not documented as having been imported pre-1989; (2) establishes a presumption that all ivory, anywhere, in the USA, is contraband, a presumption that can only be rebutted with comprehensive documentation; and puts the burden on the possessor of the ivory to prove his innocence, whilst relieving prosecutors of the burden of proving anyone's guilt.
Furthermore all imports are now banned CITES or not, all exports except for antiques (> 100yrs) are banned. All interstate transfers except antiques are banned and all intrastate transfers are banned unless they have a CITES certificate i.e. no more family heirlooms.
And not a single elephant will be saved by this.
Also Don't Poach Elephants. I'm in agreement with Moe that elephants are proto-sentient enough that we should not kill them lightly.
Also Obama Vows To Veto Law Requiring Him To Enforce The Law
Developing Nuclear Fusion in a Basement with a Reclusive Gunsmith
"The trick is-never write exposition. That's absolutely the trick. Never write it. The audience needs to understand what the story is, and if the hero understands what he or she is after then the audience will follow it. The ancient joke about exposition used to be in radio writing when they'd say, 'Come and sit down in that blue chair.' So, that to me is the paradigm of why it's an error to write exposition. Then exposition came out of television, 'I'm good, Jim, I'm good. There's no wonder why they call me the best orthopedic surgeon in town.' Right? And now the exposition has migrated or metastasized into the fucking stage direction. 'He comes into the room and you can just see he's the kind of guy who fought in the Vietnam War.' So the error of writing exposition exists absent even the most miniscule understanding of the dramatic process. You gotta take out the exposition. The audience doesn't care. How do we know they don't care? Anybody ever come into the living room and see a television drama that was halfway through? Did you have any difficulty understanding what was going on? No. The trick is to leave the exposition out and to always leave out the 'obligatory scene.' The obligatory scene is always the audition scene, so when you see the movie, not only is it the worst scene in the movie-it's also the worst acted scene in the movie. Because the star has to do their worst, most expository acting to get the job. Leave out the exposition; we want to know what's happening next. All our little friends. will say to you at one point, 'You know, we want to know more about her.' And that's when you say, 'Well, that's what you paid me for-so that you would want to know more about her.'"
[It was an odd coincidence that ace posted the interview with Mamet the same day I had this lined up. Think of the ONT as the DEW Line of the blog.]
George Zimmerman's Arsenal Revealed
- One Keltec 12-gauge shotgun
- One Walther .380 handgun with seven rounds of live ammunition in the magazine
- One Taurus 9 mm handgun with live rounds in the magazine
- One GLOCK 19 handgun with 16 live rounds
- One AR-15 semi-automatic rifle
- Dozens of rounds of ammunition
- Several gun holsters and bags
Eh - seems like just the beginnings of a diversified gun portfolio to me.
Wait There's a Bring Back Crystal Pepsi Movement??
"My friend and neighbor told me he found something strange in the abandoned house next door. I went and what we found was a mess of abandoned housewares, socks, boxes... and two very strange homemade ewok costumes."
Thanks to Dan Collins.
Louisiana Man Finds 2.89 Carat White Diamond at Arkansas State Park
When I was a kid we went to the Murfreesboro Crater of Diamonds park in AR one time and I had a ball digging for diamonds. Anything you find you can keep and they have a tally showing all the diamonds discovered that week.
My Life as a Retail Worker: Nasty, Brutish, and Poor
Some excellent schadenreading.
Mississippi man who awoke in body bag dies two weeks later
Blood Test of 4 Biomarkers Predicts Death Within 5 Years
College group cancels diversity 'happy hour' after excluding white staffers
Yahoo group. That is all.
The group thingy. And the middle class.
And my Twitter spew.
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Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 13, 2014 06:46 PM (LSDdO)
Early and often, baby! It's the Chicago way!
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at March 13, 2014 06:48 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 13, 2014 06:48 PM (LSDdO)
Posted by: Iasonas at March 13, 2014 06:48 PM (FHNkr)
Posted by: Carol at March 13, 2014 06:48 PM (gjOCp)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 13, 2014 06:49 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Iasonas at March 13, 2014 10:48 PM (FHNkr)
that and that fuckin' mccain, may his dick fall off, if it hasn't already
Posted by: Peaches at March 13, 2014 06:49 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Tuna at March 13, 2014 06:49 PM (M/TDA)
FIFY
Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2014 06:50 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Peaches at March 13, 2014 10:44 PM
Well, hello there, sugartits.
Posted by: mel gibson at March 13, 2014 06:50 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 13, 2014 06:51 PM (ZshNr)
Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 13, 2014 06:51 PM (bCEmE)
Posted by: phreshone at March 13, 2014 06:51 PM (Q6pxP)
Posted by: AltonJackson's uncle had a cow named "Bossy" at March 13, 2014 06:51 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 13, 2014 06:51 PM (k2GaM)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 13, 2014 06:51 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 13, 2014 06:51 PM (k2GaM)
Avengers 2? Kingdom Hearts 3?
Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2014 06:51 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: soothsayer at March 13, 2014 06:52 PM (IW1TI)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 13, 2014 06:52 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 13, 2014 06:52 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 13, 2014 10:51 PM (k2GaM)
Phase II.
Posted by: Mætenloch at March 13, 2014 06:52 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Carol at March 13, 2014 06:53 PM (gjOCp)
Posted by: cm9000 at March 13, 2014 06:53 PM (291hy)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 13, 2014 06:53 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: ( I learned the truth from ) Lenny Bruce at March 13, 2014 06:54 PM (omBWL)
Posted by: soothsayer at March 13, 2014 06:54 PM (IW1TI)
Posted by: Baldy at March 13, 2014 06:54 PM (2bql3)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2014 06:54 PM (84gbM)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 06:54 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 13, 2014 06:54 PM (Nk6GS)
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 13, 2014 06:54 PM (ZshNr)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 13, 2014 06:55 PM (aDwsi)
Zombie hits it out of the park.
Well written, well thought out and WELL DONE ZOMBIE!!
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 13, 2014 06:55 PM (LSDdO)
Posted by: eman at March 13, 2014 06:55 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 13, 2014 06:55 PM (k2GaM)
Posted by: John Boehner at March 13, 2014 06:56 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 13, 2014 06:56 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at March 13, 2014 06:56 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 13, 2014 06:56 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 13, 2014 06:56 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 06:57 PM (DmNpO)
The only smart answer for Chicago is Chapter 9 Bankruptcy Protection
Posted by: phreshone at March 13, 2014 06:57 PM (Q6pxP)
Posted by: Carol at March 13, 2014 06:57 PM (gjOCp)
Posted by: Marco Rubio's Garbage (circa 2010) at March 13, 2014 06:57 PM (Y1Jhk)
http://tinyurl.com/plgpr9y
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 13, 2014 10:56 PM (AymDN)
That is some funny shit right there, Hat!!!
Posted by: Peaches at March 13, 2014 06:58 PM (8lmkt)
BTW, have they tracked down that Ping guy about the missing 777?
Posted by: joey biden at March 13, 2014 06:58 PM (hn5v5)
Posted by: Patton, 5th in the 1912 Olympics for the Modern Pentathalon at March 13, 2014 06:58 PM (84gbM)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 13, 2014 06:59 PM (dfYL9)
I caught an article earlier this week in which GZ's new legal team have him doing video interviews, with the goal of trying to improve the general public's opinion of the guy.
Of course, the article describing this was illustrated with one of those goddamned archival photos of a MUCH younger and MUCH smaller Trayvon Martin smiling pleasantly, instead of the big scowling tattooed grilled street brawler TM had grown into by the time he assaulted Zimmerman.
They will never quit with this crap.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 13, 2014 06:59 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Corona at March 13, 2014 06:59 PM (fh2Y7)
Posted by: The Toaster at March 13, 2014 06:59 PM (84gbM)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 13, 2014 06:59 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 13, 2014 06:59 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: soothsayer at March 13, 2014 07:00 PM (IW1TI)
Posted by: eman at March 13, 2014 07:00 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 13, 2014 07:00 PM (Q8vlx)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 07:00 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 13, 2014 07:01 PM (ZshNr)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 07:01 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 13, 2014 07:01 PM (m0oDG)
I've been looking.
Posted by: Wi Tu Lo at March 13, 2014 07:01 PM (Ua6T/)
Putin: okay, I invade by Monday, no problem.
Posted by: eman at March 13, 2014 11:00 PM (AO9UG)
Yeah, that fuckin' douche throwing down on Vladi . . . great idea. 
Posted by: Peaches at March 13, 2014 07:01 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 13, 2014 07:02 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Carol at March 13, 2014 07:02 PM (gjOCp)
Posted by: eman at March 13, 2014 07:02 PM (AO9UG)
Every American probably breaks 5 rules a day which some government agency has the authority to impose huge punishments to set an example. More and more, those rules aren't about protecting citizens but keeping citizens in line.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at March 13, 2014 07:03 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 13, 2014 07:03 PM (g4TxM)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 13, 2014 07:03 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 07:03 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 07:04 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: EC at March 13, 2014 07:04 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 13, 2014 07:04 PM (Y1Jhk)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at March 13, 2014 07:05 PM (h53OH)
Posted by: eman at March 13, 2014 07:05 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 13, 2014 07:06 PM (LSDdO)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 07:06 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 13, 2014 07:06 PM (g4TxM)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 13, 2014 07:06 PM (Q8vlx)
Was it getting a beer?
They can be really mooches.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 13, 2014 07:07 PM (LSDdO)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 07:07 PM (DmNpO)
Got myself a hot caramel mocha McCafe coffee at McD's tonight. You'll know I've drank it whenIstarttypingeverythinglikethis.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 07:07 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at March 13, 2014 07:08 PM (R+XDI)
Innocent until proven guilty... never heard of it.
Posted by: Charles Gibson at March 13, 2014 07:08 PM (KCNdV)
Posted by: eman at March 13, 2014 07:08 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: soothsayer at March 13, 2014 07:08 PM (IW1TI)
Posted by: Carol at March 13, 2014 07:08 PM (gjOCp)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 13, 2014 07:08 PM (LSDdO)
"Name something a man might have three of."
I bet I know what the #1 answer here at AOSHQ would be...
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 07:08 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 13, 2014 07:08 PM (m0oDG)
The only smart answer for Chicago is Chapter 9 Bankruptcy Protection
Posted by: phreshone at March 13, 2014 10:57 PM (Q6pxP)
The Illinois Teachers unions run commercials vowing to "hold politicians responsible for their promises." The same politicians that made corrupt deals with public-sector unions.
Posted by: cm9000 at March 13, 2014 07:08 PM (291hy)
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 13, 2014 07:08 PM (ZshNr)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 13, 2014 07:09 PM (Q8vlx)
Don't support a coup in a nation that is strategically and economically important to another unless your prepared for a fight.
Posted by: Mr hobbit at March 13, 2014 07:09 PM (sbaXF)
Posted by: Thrawn at March 13, 2014 07:09 PM (WlWt+)
Posted by: Carol at March 13, 2014 11:02 PM (gjOCp)<<<
Just an anecdote. We're gonna be fine.
Posted by: Coupe Deval at March 13, 2014 07:10 PM (KCNdV)
Posted by: IRS at March 13, 2014 07:10 PM (dfYL9)
I figure AOSers would especially love the latter film, given that from what I understand, it *opens* with a scene of the proto-hippy folk singer protagonist getting the crap beaten out of him by a loan shark.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 07:10 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Carol at March 13, 2014 11:02 PM (gjOCp)
The graph is of Pension Liability as a percentage of Annual Revenues
Mass has high taxes, so the ratio won't be as bad as expected on a Liability per capita basis
NY State gets lots of revenue from NYC, but the abnormal pension liabilities are probably at the NYC employee, teacher and Transit/Bridge Authority Level --- put this graph on a combined state/municipal level, it would likely be IL / CA / CT / NY in the top 4 slots
Posted by: phreshone at March 13, 2014 07:10 PM (Q6pxP)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 13, 2014 07:10 PM (k2GaM)
Posted by: soothsayer at March 13, 2014 07:10 PM (IW1TI)
Posted by: EC at March 13, 2014 07:11 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: AltonJackson's uncle had a cow named at March 13, 2014 07:11 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 13, 2014 07:12 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 13, 2014 07:12 PM (Q8vlx)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 13, 2014 07:12 PM (g4TxM)
Well, you can't blame the inmates if the Warden and the CO's are corrupt. Most folks in Chi town can't imagine living elsewhere and who would want 'em? Detroit? Cleveland?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 13, 2014 07:13 PM (LSDdO)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 07:13 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 13, 2014 07:14 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 13, 2014 07:14 PM (dfYL9)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 07:14 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: t-bird at March 13, 2014 07:14 PM (FcR7P)
Alimony payments
Nipples (see Scaramanga)
Part-time jobs thanks to the Obamaconomy
Baby Mommas
Victims
Posted by: Orenthal James at March 13, 2014 07:14 PM (Q6pxP)
Posted by: EC at March 13, 2014 07:14 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: soothsayer at March 13, 2014 07:15 PM (IW1TI)
A collection is specific and select weapons of different caliber and manufacture.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 13, 2014 07:15 PM (LSDdO)
Who do I have to bribe around here to get some?!?!
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 07:15 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: gewa76 at March 13, 2014 07:15 PM (k8m83)
Posted by: CAC at March 13, 2014 07:15 PM (zVUnA)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 13, 2014 07:16 PM (LSDdO)
Zuckerberg went and changed the GUI at Facebook AGAIN!!!!!!1!
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 07:17 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: eman at March 13, 2014 07:17 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 13, 2014 07:17 PM (LSDdO)
Posted by: Achmed Hassan Achmed at March 13, 2014 07:18 PM (dfYL9)
Reinforcement.
You repeat something often enough, it becomes reality.
Posted by: soothsayer at March 13, 2014 11:15 PM (IW1TI)
This explains a lot of your comments on this blog
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 13, 2014 07:18 PM (WdbF7)
Posted by: Moron who likes Christmas carols too much at March 13, 2014 07:18 PM (KCNdV)
Posted by: Rust Cohle at March 13, 2014 07:19 PM (k8m83)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 13, 2014 07:19 PM (Q8vlx)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 13, 2014 11:10 PM (k2GaM)
The people of Chicago are and deserve to be screwed over. A Culture of corruption goes on until it is met and resisted.
Posted by: cm9000 at March 13, 2014 07:19 PM (291hy)
Posted by: Smart Military Blog at March 13, 2014 07:19 PM (5MaPI)
Posted by: AltonJackson's uncle had a cow named at March 13, 2014 07:19 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 13, 2014 07:20 PM (g4TxM)
Posted by: Smart Military Blog at March 13, 2014 07:20 PM (5MaPI)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at March 13, 2014 07:20 PM (N/cFh)
So he wrote "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf"?
I don't remember any exposition in that movie except for the part about Richard Burton killing their imaginary daughter and Elizabeth Taylor said, "you can't do that".
It was very confusing watching two people argue, and not having a clue why they were fighting.
Burton and Taylor in 'Taming of a Shrew' was good though. Lots of exposition in that one I think.
Posted by: Mr Smith goes Blogging at March 13, 2014 07:20 PM (naZsu)
My daughter is a girl scout and my wife is a GS leader. I have gone to a few meetings and outings and it is all "GIRL POWER", "girls can do anything boys can" blah blah blah.
The other day my wife had a flat tire and called me at work crying, and I had to drive 20 miles to go change her tire. I wanted soooo bad to tell her to sprinkle some of that girl power glitter on it and it would fix it.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 13, 2014 07:20 PM (z+4T3)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 13, 2014 07:20 PM (m0oDG)
It's just a matter of which laws you decide to break.
I'm for breaking the ones that involve obeying the government or giving it money.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 13, 2014 07:20 PM (LSDdO)
Posted by: EC at March 13, 2014 07:21 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Moron with poor fashion sense at March 13, 2014 07:21 PM (KCNdV)
Here's my entry:
"A train leaves Chicago at 6:03am traveling 63 miles per hour. At the exact same time, a car leaves San Diego traveling 29 miles per hour. Across the country in Newark exactly an hour later, a Trailways bus leaves the depot going about 36 miles per hour.
Name the colors of the airplanes that just took off at the airports nearest to each traveling entity's destination."
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 07:21 PM (HVI5a)
Possums? Cute?
Yep. When I think of cute, I always immediately think of something that hisses like a broken steam valve, has a face like a cartoon skull with needle teeth, and a long bare rat tail, which eats horrible refuse no other animal will go near, and carries more pathogens than a lab at the Centers for Disease Control.
Cuuuuuute! Kawaii!!!!!!
Posted by: torquewrench at March 13, 2014 07:21 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: CAC at March 13, 2014 11:15 PM (zVUnA)
Dude,
Most of us feel the same way, but it is unseemly to allow your man-crush to be so...public.
Unless he wins in 2016, in which case I am buying.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2014 07:22 PM (QFxY5)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 13, 2014 07:22 PM (dfYL9)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 13, 2014 07:22 PM (g4TxM)
blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/2014/03/its-national-elephant-day-in-thailand.html
Posted by: joey biden at March 13, 2014 07:22 PM (hn5v5)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 13, 2014 07:22 PM (Y1Jhk)
Posted by: gewa76 at March 13, 2014 07:23 PM (k8m83)
Posted by: Moron what loves bacon at March 13, 2014 07:23 PM (KCNdV)
AND they are terminally stupid and slow.
Hence the invasion of an occupied, lit up house. (coulda been rabies. animals with rabies have less fear of people and places they usually avoid)
You lucky.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 13, 2014 07:23 PM (LSDdO)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 13, 2014 11:19 PM (Q8vlx)
come sit by me . . .
Posted by: Peaches at March 13, 2014 07:24 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Smart Military Blog at March 13, 2014 07:24 PM (5MaPI)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 13, 2014 07:25 PM (k2GaM)
Posted by: Carol at March 13, 2014 07:25 PM (gjOCp)
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Bossy Redneck Queen at March 13, 2014 07:25 PM (baL2B)
Posted by: Barack Obama at March 13, 2014 07:26 PM (Y1Jhk)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 13, 2014 07:26 PM (dfYL9)
Posted by: Mitt Romney at March 13, 2014 07:26 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 13, 2014 07:26 PM (g4TxM)
Posted by: Mitt Romney at March 13, 2014 11:26 PM (doBIb)
If you can prove it's an antique.
Posted by: Mætenloch at March 13, 2014 07:27 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 13, 2014 07:27 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: EC at March 13, 2014 07:28 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 07:28 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: gewa76 at March 13, 2014 11:23 PM (k8m83)
"x"
Also, no time given or time zone or Daylight Savings date stamp! Trick question! That is my final answer.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Bossy Redneck Queen at March 13, 2014 07:28 PM (baL2B)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 13, 2014 07:28 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 13, 2014 07:28 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: gewa76 at March 13, 2014 11:23 PM (k8m83)
Are the engineers allowed to marry, even though they are both women?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2014 07:28 PM (QFxY5)
And if you live in NewYorkistan or Connecticutabitch, your kids will get double trouble when you die if you have a gun with a large magazine AND ivory grips.
And that's illegal seizure of property.
When's the revolution kick off? They keep pushing the boundaries and nothing's happening.
Yet.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 13, 2014 07:28 PM (LSDdO)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 13, 2014 07:29 PM (Q8vlx)
Posted by: Hrothgar at March 13, 2014 07:29 PM (o3MSL)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 13, 2014 07:29 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 13, 2014 07:29 PM (g4TxM)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 13, 2014 11:28 PM (AymDN)
Well with a half-life of around 5,000 years it may be hard to differentiate 1990 from 1890.
Posted by: Mætenloch at March 13, 2014 07:30 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at March 13, 2014 07:30 PM (jucos)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2014 11:28 PM (QFxY5)
Posted by: Peaches at March 13, 2014 07:31 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Franklin Delano Roosevelt at March 13, 2014 07:31 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: soothsayer at March 13, 2014 07:31 PM (IW1TI)
Posted by: EC at March 13, 2014 07:31 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Smart Military Blog at March 13, 2014 07:31 PM (5MaPI)
Posted by: This Time for Sure at March 13, 2014 07:31 PM (C94J7)
Posted by: Barack Obama at March 13, 2014 07:32 PM (k8m83)
I think she should be the face of the Democrats like that gal as for Obamacare before it went sewer-fly.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Bossy Redneck Queen at March 13, 2014 07:32 PM (baL2B)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 13, 2014 07:32 PM (g4TxM)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at March 13, 2014 07:32 PM (N/cFh)
Posted by: AltonJackson's uncle had a cow named Bossy at March 13, 2014 07:32 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Weirddave at March 13, 2014 07:33 PM (N/cFh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 13, 2014 07:33 PM (bitz6)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2014 07:35 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: EC at March 13, 2014 07:35 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 07:36 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 13, 2014 07:36 PM (Q8vlx)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 13, 2014 07:36 PM (k2GaM)
Posted by: Hrothgar at March 13, 2014 07:36 PM (o3MSL)
Posted by: George Washington at March 13, 2014 07:36 PM (84gbM)
Posted by: Moron who likes Moe, Larry, and Curly at March 13, 2014 07:37 PM (KCNdV)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 13, 2014 07:38 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Shemp at March 13, 2014 07:38 PM (84gbM)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 13, 2014 07:39 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 13, 2014 07:39 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 13, 2014 07:39 PM (dfYL9)
Sorry.
Posted by: Jake, from State Farm at March 13, 2014 07:39 PM (KCNdV)
Posted by: Joe Besser at March 13, 2014 07:40 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Doomsday Clock at March 13, 2014 11:35 PM (KCNdV)
Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2014 07:40 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: AltonJackson's uncle had a cow named Bossy at March 13, 2014 07:40 PM (JMmQ9)
"President O comes into office with a new economic program. When O was inaugurated, the nation's debt to GDP ratio was 85%, and the 'point of no return' for that ratio was reckoned to be 120%. During President O's administration, the GDP grows at an average rate of 2.5% annually, while the debt to GDP ratio grows at an average rate of 7% annually. How many years is it before the country completely collapses?"
Special bonus question: precisely how boned is President O's successor in office?
Posted by: torquewrench at March 13, 2014 07:40 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Smart Military Blog at March 13, 2014 07:40 PM (5MaPI)
Posted by: Bruce Dickenson at March 13, 2014 07:40 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 07:41 PM (ojnk6)
No, she wasn't. She was born in 1925 and was all of six years old when the first Karloff movie was first released.
Elsa Lanchester was the Bride and looked very different from Lansbury in her youth.
Posted by: Epobirs at March 13, 2014 07:41 PM (bPxS6)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 13, 2014 07:41 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Carol at March 13, 2014 07:41 PM (gjOCp)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 07:41 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: The Vehicular Hat at March 13, 2014 07:42 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at March 13, 2014 07:42 PM (N/cFh)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 13, 2014 07:42 PM (k2GaM)
To not be subjected to endless bullshit leftist agitprop, don't watch television.
Just sayin'.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 13, 2014 07:43 PM (gqT4g)
Someone worthy of liberty pushes back harder?
Or do you mean the other thing (with the boxcars)?
Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2014 07:43 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Barack Obama at March 13, 2014 07:43 PM (k8m83)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 13, 2014 07:44 PM (k2GaM)
Some teachers pay into a different system than SS. In Texas, you pay into the Teacher Retirement System instead of SS.
So they collect like SS but from a TRS.
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 07:44 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: Sauron at March 13, 2014 07:45 PM (84gbM)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 11:41 PM (QeH9j)
Uh, no pants.
Posted by: Jake, from State Farm, who is actually a Moron at March 13, 2014 07:45 PM (KCNdV)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 13, 2014 07:45 PM (Q8vlx)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 13, 2014 07:45 PM (5MaPI)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 07:45 PM (ojnk6)
I hate the "everybody is ghey" or transgendered, let's all sing messaging. Now Baroque wants transgenders in military. Oh, yeah, buddy! That will scare them (as they will be the only people left to man the security). On the other hand, an army of Chaz(s?zzz's?) would scare me.
I am going to bed and the song "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight" is stuck in my head. Is this a sign of where the plane is located? Please ask the medicine man, obagi-zinger-whats-his-name-voodoo. Perhaps I am picking up ping signals?
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Bossy Redneck Queen at March 13, 2014 07:45 PM (baL2B)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 07:46 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: Carol at March 13, 2014 07:46 PM (gjOCp)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 13, 2014 07:46 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: AltonJackson's uncle had a cow named Bossy at March 13, 2014 07:47 PM (JMmQ9)
The item in the sidebar about Bernie Sanders poll on Global enwarmening-- currently just shy of 10,000 votes saying it's the worst thing ever and we need to tax the shit out of the energy companies and the rich to make everything all right, and only a little more than 500 that think it is bullshit by the watermelons.
And... is that hole in the Ewok pelt there so that something can come out or go in?
Posted by: Darth Randall at March 13, 2014 07:47 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 07:48 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: Carol at March 13, 2014 11:08 PM (gjOCp)
That was Elsa Lanchester
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 13, 2014 07:48 PM (ImNRL)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 13, 2014 07:48 PM (k2GaM)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 07:48 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: The Farmer at March 13, 2014 07:48 PM (eBupg)
Posted by: EC at March 13, 2014 07:50 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 07:50 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 07:50 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: soothsayer at March 13, 2014 11:31 PM (IW1TI)
Poorly worded compliment.
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 13, 2014 07:50 PM (WdbF7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 13, 2014 07:51 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 13, 2014 07:51 PM (lq3Ak)
I read on Twitter that there is an independent candidate,jerk will take votes away from Republican Baker.
Posted by: Carol at March 13, 2014 11:46 PM (gjOCp)
Of course. Always need a straw. It's the new normal.
Posted by: Tim Cahill (I-diot) at March 13, 2014 07:51 PM (KCNdV)
Posted by: Carol at March 13, 2014 07:52 PM (gjOCp)
Posted by: AltonJackson's uncle had a cow named Bossy at March 13, 2014 07:52 PM (JMmQ9)
I am slightly surprised by Colorado but then I only just moved here, and I live in the most prosperous part of it (thanks taxpayers!). Actually maybe I shouldn't be so surprised. I have noticed some government waste in the University of Colorado (and in those sainted Charter!Schools!), and I have noticed some hostility to business in the state government generally.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 13, 2014 07:52 PM (30eLQ)
Art Laffer (of "Laffer Curve" fame) weighed in during the huge grinding debate about how to save the California condor from extinction.
He said simply that it should be made legal to farm the things.
After a decade of that, he went on to say, there would be enough condors that you could have restaurants serving condor cacciatore without anyone getting upset.
What drives me straight up the wall is to hear progtard self-styled environmentalists repeatedly equate unlicensed poaching of big game with licensed hunting of the same.
I want to watch for them selling expensive stuff on Craiglist, contact them, say I'll pay their asking price, then show up at their door and hit them in the head and take the goods without paying. When they scream in protest, I'll say, "This is what you said was morally equivalent when it came to hunting and poaching."
Posted by: torquewrench at March 13, 2014 07:53 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: NCwoof at March 13, 2014 07:53 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 07:54 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 13, 2014 11:48 PM (k2GaM)
Facebook is stupid and I never signed but keep getting friends anyway asking to be friends. My son broke up with gf and it was the shot heard around the world. I asked him, "So, maybe you don't want to talk about it. And now you have to at 6am by people wondering why your "status" has changed (I got emails! This is BS!). Don't you think this is a stupid invasion of privacy?" He agrees, but I bet you he wills still post photos and crap. I read of people being depressed by Facebook as, like this military blog, people, uh, do not always represent themselves (not that I am not a former supermodel and/or of royal blood!).
Oh, good, for the few seconds I wrote this the "Mighty jungle and wooooo, imbumbe" song was out of my head. Now it is back.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Bossy Redneck Queen at March 13, 2014 07:54 PM (baL2B)
Posted by: AltonJackson's uncle had a cow named Bossy at March 13, 2014 07:54 PM (JMmQ9)
Fuck these fucking fuckers. Leave my jewelry alone.
Posted by: tcn at March 13, 2014 07:55 PM (fwcEs)
Posted by: EC at March 13, 2014 07:56 PM (doBIb)
ManWithNoParty: interestingly enough, both of the lefties I know, Marc Cooper (via FB) and Gustavo Arellano (via Twitter and OCWeekly), are very much pro-2A.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 07:56 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: lindafell at March 13, 2014 07:56 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 07:56 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: The Farmer at March 13, 2014 07:56 PM (eBupg)
The clock is ticking , and as of now we are keeping score...
Posted by: AltonJackson's uncle had a cow named Bossy at March 13, 2014 11:32 PM (JMmQ9)
*looks in fridge* damn, all I have is chicken corn chowder, and I'm out of time anyway. Better luck next time.
BTW, all you Apple folks, don't download and use Avast Antivirus on your iMachines. Daughter just bought her new Apple computer yesterday and shipped it off today to have it wiped and reloaded.
Mac. It ain't all that.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 07:57 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2014 07:57 PM (IW1TI)
Same with a lot of the new wave that came out at the tail end of the 1970s. A lot of it still gets lumped into those 80s flashback lunches and weekends on the radio.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 07:57 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 13, 2014 07:57 PM (qyfb5)
Don't get me started...
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 07:58 PM (HVI5a)
Uh....are you too senile to remember who you are married to?
http://tinyurl.com/mfg35uy
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2014 07:58 PM (QFxY5)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 13, 2014 11:51 PM (aDwsi)
Oh goodness, honey! I've got pie. And lots of cupcakes, because of the boy's birthday. But I nearly always have pie somewhere around here. It's what's for dessert.
Posted by: tcn at March 13, 2014 07:58 PM (fwcEs)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 13, 2014 07:59 PM (k2GaM)
Posted by: Weirddave at March 13, 2014 07:59 PM (cCcme)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 13, 2014 11:51 PM (aDwsi)
That would be nice. Unfortunately I'm out of apples, so you will have to settle for peach instead.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 07:59 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2014 08:00 PM (IW1TI)
You didn't.
And I had such respect for you!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2014 08:00 PM (QFxY5)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 08:00 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 08:00 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: NCwoof at March 13, 2014 11:53 PM (aUQgu)
*holds lighter in air*
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 08:01 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 08:01 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2014 08:01 PM (IW1TI)
Posted by: Epobirs at March 13, 2014 08:02 PM (bPxS6)
I still have a few honeycrisps I could put with a couple of Fujis and make a pretty good apple, if you let me know when you might be stopping in.
Posted by: tcn at March 13, 2014 08:02 PM (fwcEs)
Posted by: lindafell at March 13, 2014 11:56 PM (PGO8C)
That's right folks, buy your LED light bulbs and help some moron keep his phony baloney job!
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 08:02 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 13, 2014 08:02 PM (lq3Ak)
Also, I'm not real sure if that image is legal
Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2014 08:03 PM (hO9ad)
The man basically admits himself that he's an emotional trainwreck. Doesn't make his obnoxious leftism (BIRM) any more palatable however.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 08:03 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2014 08:03 PM (IW1TI)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 08:03 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 08:03 PM (QeH9j)
FREEBIRD!!
It was funny hubby and I were at a Clint Black concert in a very small venue, so people were calling out songs when he would do his little chatter stuff between songs, and he pretended like someone called that out.
He was a very fun show.
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 08:03 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: EC at March 13, 2014 08:04 PM (doBIb)
I just tried my apple cream pie recipe with peaches and it was absolutely fantastic. Can't wait to try it with strawberries. Apparently the Harris Teeter down the road has rhubarb, too...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 08:04 PM (yh0zB)
I love their 1984 album "Lament," although Midge Ure put an incredible anti-patriotism song on it called "Heart of the Country."
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 08:04 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: model_1066 at March 13, 2014 08:04 PM (afNM6)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 08:05 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 08:05 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 13, 2014 08:05 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2014 08:05 PM (IW1TI)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 08:05 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: EC at March 13, 2014 08:06 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Incandescent Bulbous at March 13, 2014 08:06 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 08:06 PM (QeH9j)
I think they actually had U2 opening for *them* at one point. Of course at the time, U2 was just another pipsqueak anti-war Irish combo.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 08:06 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 08:07 PM (ojnk6)
Lynyrd Skynyrd? Whisky Mama, brand new car, oak tree you're in my way. Oh, good, it's working! ooothatsmell. Ok. Not a great night song for head at bedtime with triple seven nuke plane. Adele? I can crank that one in the car like nobody's bidness along with Fire to the rain. hums. Also, Kansas' What's On My Mind." ok. that one. rock on.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Bossy Redneck Queen at March 13, 2014 08:08 PM (baL2B)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 08:08 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 13, 2014 08:09 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 13, 2014 10:54 PM (Nk6GS)
On the other hand, now that all ivory is "contraband", a black market will spring up, and the sky's the limit on prices.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2014 08:09 PM (sWPKW)
Posted by: Adam at March 13, 2014 08:09 PM (Aif/5)
It's especially weird about Lorre because you'd think he would have learned something about not being a Hollywood dickhead. He's described numerous times in his writings and interviews what screwed up, arrogant, antisocial crazies most of the women he worked for on various sitcoms in the 1990s were. He was unceremoniously fired from no less than *three* hit sitcoms, no less: "Roseanne" (where he was fired by Barr), "Grace Under Fire" (where he was fired by Brett Butler), and Cybill (where he was fired by-- you guessed it-- Cybill Shepherd herself).
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 08:09 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 08:10 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Incandescent Bulbous at March 14, 2014 12:06 AM (aDwsi)
CRI of 80 across the board. Not as good as incandescent, but a little better than florescent.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 08:10 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: EC at March 13, 2014 08:10 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2014 08:11 PM (IW1TI)
This is true. I was told this by a Serbian friend who was there.
Midge Ure and Ultravox had passed the scene already by the time I showed (back) up in the UK (late 1980s), but the music press still remembered them and dropped their names a lot.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 13, 2014 08:11 PM (30eLQ)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 08:11 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: AltonJackson's uncle had a cow named Bossy at March 13, 2014 08:11 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 08:11 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: NCwoof at March 14, 2014 12:09 AM (aUQgu)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 08:11 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 08:12 PM (ojnk6)
Matthews must have been especially drunk that morning.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 08:12 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 13, 2014 08:13 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2014 08:13 PM (IW1TI)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 08:13 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 13, 2014 08:13 PM (m0oDG)
(Craig Ferguson has been especially ragging on them lately.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 08:14 PM (HVI5a)
::: pops popcorn, drenches in bacon grease, opens Val-U-Rite, sits back :::
Posted by: torquewrench at March 13, 2014 08:14 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 08:14 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2014 08:15 PM (IW1TI)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 08:15 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 08:15 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: EC at March 13, 2014 08:16 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 08:17 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 14, 2014 12:15 AM (HVI5a)
I don't know about this Vapors but their dang song got stuck in head. Maybe gone now? Like hiccups. egad.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Bossy Redneck Queen at March 13, 2014 08:17 PM (baL2B)
Posted by: Beagle at March 13, 2014 08:17 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 13, 2014 08:17 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Incandescent Bulbous at March 13, 2014 08:18 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 08:18 PM (HVI5a)
Rogue wave took down the airliner? That's one tall wave.
Posted by: Bomber at March 13, 2014 08:19 PM (G8OL9)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 08:19 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 08:19 PM (ojnk6)
http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_25309099/ ninth-graders-want-denver-voters-take-crack-at
This prep-school in the article, which is recruiting students as left-wing activists, by which I mean actually canvassing for support of anti-liberty regulations (instead of, well, teaching), is in a chain of charter schools called STRIVE. You can get to their buzzword-and-Obama-font blue homepage here:
http://www.striveprep.org/
Before the Right starts tilting its collective head and supporting those wonderful charter schools, because softbigotryoflowexpectations, please understand what those charter schools are teaching. Anyone remember this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_School_House
We've seen this play before. Progressives have a wishlist of stuff they want - in this case, money to train the revolutionary vanguard - and it gets sold to the Right as well you do want to help the kids right?
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 13, 2014 08:19 PM (30eLQ)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 13, 2014 08:20 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 08:20 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: lindafell at March 13, 2014 08:21 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 14, 2014 12:18 AM (HVI5a)
My Daddy did not like Toyotas, which we all have or had. Refused to by any car but American. He is gone now but remains a Marine in heaven. Will have to check song out. The WWII Museum in NOLA has some funny propaganda stuff.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Bossy Redneck Queen at March 13, 2014 08:21 PM (baL2B)
Posted by: Incandescent Bulbous at March 13, 2014 08:21 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Beagle at March 13, 2014 08:21 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 13, 2014 08:21 PM (XyM/Y)
Posted by: AltonJackson's uncle had a cow named Bossy at March 13, 2014 08:22 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Bomber at March 14, 2014 12:19 AM (G8OL9)<<<
Globull warming. There's nothin' it can't do.
Posted by: ManBearPig at March 13, 2014 08:22 PM (KCNdV)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 08:23 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Incandescent Bulbous at March 13, 2014 08:23 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 13, 2014 08:23 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 08:23 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Bossy Redneck Queen at March 13, 2014 08:23 PM (baL2B)
Posted by: puddleglum at March 13, 2014 08:24 PM (8SsiG)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 13, 2014 11:28 PM (AymDN)
Carbon dating is just not that accurate. Not to mention that the tusks from which the ivory is made will contain ivory of ages spanning the elephant's entire life.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2014 08:24 PM (sWPKW)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 08:24 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 08:25 PM (DmNpO)
As human beings created by God in His image, we have the inherent right to defend all our other rights from all who would violate them by whatever means they make necessary.
Whether the lesser laws of men recognize that right doesn't much matter until afterward.
Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2014 08:25 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: model_1066 at March 13, 2014 08:25 PM (afNM6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2014 12:21 AM (XyM/Y)
Yes, may God protect him and other rare patriots of today. I flat out love Rep Gowdy.
I would work hard if we had Cruz/Gowdy 2016.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Bossy Redneck Queen at March 13, 2014 08:26 PM (baL2B)
I'm praying for before.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 08:26 PM (yh0zB)
I was familiar with the site already. The infamous feud with Charlie Sheen had of those cards as the supposed straw that broke the camel's back.
I can accept that a lot of creative people whose work I enjoy are not going to share my political beliefs. That doesn't means they need to go out of their way to make me want to avoid their work in the future. I guess Chuck has gotten so absurdly wealthy he just doesn't care anymore.
About twenty years ago I was at my older sister's house and met a couple who were in her social circle at the time. I cannot remember why but something about Barbra Streisand came up and they said they were unfamiliar with the movie because they wouldn't contribute tot he success of anything with her in it. At the time I couldn't understand this attitude.
Today I understand it perfectly and feel the same about a lot of people in various creative fields. They may not personally want to see me dead but they give a lot of money to those who do.
Posted by: Epobirs at March 13, 2014 08:27 PM (bPxS6)
Posted by: lindafell at March 13, 2014 08:27 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 13, 2014 08:27 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 08:27 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 08:28 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 08:28 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: EC at March 13, 2014 08:28 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 13, 2014 08:28 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 13, 2014 08:28 PM (XyM/Y)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 08:29 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: navycopjoe at March 13, 2014 08:29 PM (At8tV)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 08:29 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 08:30 PM (DmNpO)
The mystery of the airliner isn't that it's known to have sunk and can't be found in a particular area, it's that it increasingly looks more sinister and results in a massive number of possibilities as to where it might be located.
Well, I just finished up watching all 5 seasons of Fringe, so I suggest you look for the alternate universe and ask William Bell (He looks like Mr. Spock, just a coincidence though).
Posted by: puddleglum at March 13, 2014 08:30 PM (8SsiG)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 08:31 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 13, 2014 08:31 PM (m0oDG)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 13, 2014 08:31 PM (XyM/Y)
Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 12:28 AM (doBIb)
This is absolutely correct, but it will take time to herd the cats into some semblance of order. I'm heartened by the number of stunned politicians that just can't fathom the fact that Americans will simply ignore laws they consider to be unjust, and the number of Americans who are doing just that. I'm hoping that these politicians are smart enough to see the handwriting on the wall and realize that "don't want to" =/= "won't" before this matter gets out of hand and we'll be lucky to live through it.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 08:32 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: AltonJackson's uncle had a cow named Bossy at March 13, 2014 08:32 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: puddleglum at March 13, 2014 08:32 PM (8SsiG)
Posted by: We 3 kings of Obama nigh at March 13, 2014 08:33 PM (FbMva)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 14, 2014 12:31 AM (m0oDG)
I don't have the lighter app on my cell phone.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 08:33 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 08:34 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 08:34 PM (HVI5a)
There you go. The plane is in a universe where all the geography is marked with giant lettering, where the map IS the territory.
Posted by: Epobirs at March 13, 2014 08:34 PM (bPxS6)
Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 12:28 AM (doBIb)
It stops the first time someone says No and has neighbors to back him up.
There is a wonderful scene in the fifth Fast and Furious movie where the Rock and his FBI squad tell Diesel and Walker that they're under arrest. The couple hundred other racers and their entourage's all draw. Diesel then responds 'That's funny. I don't feel like I'm under arrest'.
Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2014 08:34 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 08:34 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 08:35 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 13, 2014 08:35 PM (W3UHW)
Posted by: AltonJackson's uncle had a cow named Bossy at March 13, 2014 08:36 PM (JMmQ9)
Anyway, it'll be interesting to see if Flight 370 becomes the next great lost wreck for adventurous people to seek.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 08:36 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Putin at March 13, 2014 08:36 PM (WlWt+)
Posted by: The Farmer at March 13, 2014 08:36 PM (eBupg)
I LOVE "Morning Dance." Fantastically tuneful morningtime pick-me-up instrumental piece.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 08:37 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 13, 2014 08:37 PM (m0oDG)
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2014 08:38 PM (IW1TI)
Posted by: AltonJackson's uncle had a cow named Bossy at March 13, 2014 08:38 PM (JMmQ9)
Sure. You can cut the horns off of endangered rhino, too. If that's allowed by law.
Whereas in a lot of places it's "interfering with an endangered species". And illegal.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 13, 2014 08:38 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 08:38 PM (yh0zB)
http://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/Eugenics.pdf
Posted by: Epobirs at March 13, 2014 08:39 PM (bPxS6)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 08:39 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 08:40 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: Epobirs at March 13, 2014 08:40 PM (bPxS6)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 08:43 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: model_1066 at March 13, 2014 08:43 PM (afNM6)
There are several versions of that, some of them from the carriers themselves, but none hold a candle to the old Nextel iDEN network. The way the cellular systems work doesn't lend it self to working like that.
Posted by: Epobirs at March 13, 2014 08:43 PM (bPxS6)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 13, 2014 08:44 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Soothsayer makes little sense in this comment, but you ge the point at March 13, 2014 08:44 PM (IW1TI)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 14, 2014 12:44 AM (aDwsi)
Nice to know my back is had. Just bring lawyers guns and money.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 08:45 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 13, 2014 08:46 PM (W3UHW)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 14, 2014 12:17 AM (Pfvig)
Like I always said, if you can't see me give you the finger from an airplane, you're not gonna mind my aerosol cans..
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2014 08:46 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: lindafell at March 13, 2014 08:46 PM (PGO8C)
I lived in Duluth MN when the Edmund Fitzgerald left port. I saw Gordon Lightfoot do that song right after it came out on LP.
There wasn't a dry eye in the house at the end of the song. It's very haunting. I have never been out on Gitchigoomee on a boat - that lake is huge and scares the crap out of me.
I have sat up on the cliffs in the spring time and watched the wind push the huge ice floes up onto the cliffs. It's very exhilarating thing to see, but that lake can show you Nature.
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 08:47 PM (HUTO5)
I remember that Nextel had it. Sounds kind of like a voice to text like thing where you have a group pre-arranged that you can contact with the push of a single button.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 08:47 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: lindafell at March 14, 2014 12:27 AM (PGO8C)
Or you could just transport the elephant to Alabama, and gently tug on the tusk, and it will slip free. Because in Alabama, the tuscaloosa.
Posted by: Groucho Marx at March 13, 2014 08:47 PM (sWPKW)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 08:47 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: model_1066 at March 13, 2014 08:47 PM (afNM6)
Posted by: Methos at March 14, 2014 12:34 AM (hO9ad
From the sites I visit everyone is waiting for the first person to strike the match.
Nobody wants to be that guy though.
Posted by: RWC at March 14, 2014 12:47 AM (QeH9j)
There is that, and plus...where are your neighbors at 0-dark:thirty?
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 08:49 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 13, 2014 08:50 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: model_1066 at March 13, 2014 08:51 PM (afNM6)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 08:51 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 08:51 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: Weirddave at March 13, 2014 08:51 PM (FsjuI)
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2014 08:52 PM (IW1TI)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 13, 2014 08:53 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 08:53 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 13, 2014 08:53 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 08:54 PM (DmNpO)
Also, just checked the good ol' search engines. Titanic was found in 1985, supposedly during a secret cold war mission.
So 1914 to 1985... 71 years.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 08:54 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: NCKate at March 13, 2014 08:55 PM (y7PFk)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 08:55 PM (Pfvig)
Nobody wants to be that guy though.
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Just so we're clear, I mean the first time a bunch of armed citizens intimidate state agents into recognizing our rights and laying the state's demands aside. If someone 'strikes the match' (which is more likely if neighbors don't cooperate in mutual defense), I doubt it ends for a very long time. I'm trying to be optimistic.
Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2014 08:56 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 08:56 PM (QeH9j)
Well, that is a problem. In that case it's between you and God.
Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2014 08:57 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: model_1066 at March 13, 2014 08:57 PM (afNM6)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 08:58 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 08:58 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: Beagle at March 13, 2014 09:00 PM (sOtz/)
model_1066
Apostle Islands are beautiful I've heard. Like I said, I've never boated on the Big Lake. Never had a big enough boat handy when I had the urge! Good fishing I've heard on Apostle Islands.
I have done smelt runs on the shore. That's some tasty fish if fresh.
Tammy al-Thor - that lake they showed the ice taking over the shore was also in MN, another town I used to visit. When the ice comes off, it sometimes comes off in very weird ways.
When I still lived in MN, we used to go to the lakes and listen to the freezes. It almost sound like those whale calls you hear. Very high pitched eerie sounds. You catch that when the Northern Lights are going strong, and you would think the aliens are coming.
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 09:00 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 13, 2014 09:01 PM (W3UHW)
Posted by: model_1066 at March 13, 2014 09:01 PM (afNM6)
Heh. It wasn't until the last scene of that movie when I realized Jamie Foxx was supposed to be the protaganist and not just some random observer of events.
Kevin Bacon had a movie I saw the same week where he basically fell into the same role as Gerard Butler, and he was the hero in his version.
Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2014 09:02 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Matt B at March 13, 2014 09:03 PM (3BQ8J)
Most bugs have wings. Even ants (drones and queen).
Posted by: Anachronda at March 13, 2014 09:03 PM (U82Km)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 13, 2014 09:04 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 09:04 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2014 09:04 PM (IW1TI)
Of course, now I live in New Mexico where the Real aliens have landed.
Funny, went from MN to NM.
Hmmm.... (with Jerry Seinfeld voice)
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 09:05 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: Beagle at March 13, 2014 09:06 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:06 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 09:07 PM (QeH9j)
(And me putting that in a public forum is the smartest move EVAH!)
Posted by: RWC at March 14, 2014 12:56 AM (QeH9j)
Lordy I hope not. Fortunately we have not had any idiot Dems force a magazine limit ban or try to restrict the Evil Black scary features from our Evil Black Guns, so I should be good.
Besides...according to the paperwork I only own three guns; my Marlin 795, my Glock 19 and my new 30-06 Mossberg.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:07 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 13, 2014 09:07 PM (k2GaM)
I liked NEW Coke. I think I was the only one.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 13, 2014 09:07 PM (ImNRL)
I told him the story of the one time my dad had tried to get me into a job outside our business. His best friend had gone into the lodge with a lake boat captain, and the old man was sure he could fix me up as a summer cabin boy. I shook my head at the notion; I had never had any interest in the laker life. Years later it dawned on me, that was something my dad would have liked to run away to when he was that age, and just wanted me to live it out for him. Anyway, I didn't. But the captain was Ernest McSorley. If I'd gotten and kept that job, I'd have gone down on the Fitzgerald. And we laughed...
And the waitress from the restaurant, standing on my other side for a quick smoke, said "Yeah. My dad was on that boat. I never got to meet him."
And that's pretty much how things are in our town.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 13, 2014 09:08 PM (xq1UY)
I've got you beat, GGE. My guns are only from family/friends purchases. No paperwork at all.
Of course, they were all lost in a tragic canoe accident when I was fishing one time.
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 09:08 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 09:09 PM (DmNpO)
Infuriating to realize that there were sailors trapped alive in the aft sections of the sunken _Kursk_, who might have been saved. And yet the Russian navy and government insisted that they had it all under control, turning down all offers of foreign help, until after the oxygen ran out.
An obsessively paranoid culture.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 13, 2014 09:09 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 09:10 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: alamogordo at March 14, 2014 01:08 AM (HUTO5)
I'm sorry for your loss.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:10 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:10 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: The Coked Hat at March 13, 2014 09:11 PM (AymDN)
Oh my Stringer Davis. How lucky you didn't take the job.
And awkward pause in the conversation.
It's a lot of tragedy on the boats.
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 09:11 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 09:13 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:13 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: Beagle at March 13, 2014 09:14 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 13, 2014 09:15 PM (xLTmr)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 13, 2014 09:15 PM (W3UHW)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:15 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 14, 2014 01:15 AM (W3UHW)
Those damn boats! Oh, the tragic and senseless loss! When will it ever end?
*sobs quietly*
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:17 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2014 09:17 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:17 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: model_1066 at March 13, 2014 09:17 PM (afNM6)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 09:18 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 09:18 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 14, 2014 01:13 AM (Pfvig)
Not surprising. The russians usually viewed their people on the level of shop rags, or some other shop supply to be used up as needed.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2014 09:18 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 09:19 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Methos at March 14, 2014 01:17 AM (hO9ad)
Cherry Coke Zero and redheads are my kryptonite. A redhead holding a Cherry Coke Zero? yep, I'm toast...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:20 PM (yh0zB)
Thank you for your sympathies on the loss of the guns. It was very sad.
I will just have to make do with the dart guns and blow guns and long bows and cross bows.
In my home we are very tolerant like that.
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 09:20 PM (HUTO5)
For the next year we went and put them on all our boats. I got very familiar with magnetic drills, as I put in a shitload of those docking thingys on all the Fast Attacks out of Groton.
Posted by: Zakn at March 13, 2014 09:20 PM (zyaZ1)
Posted by: RWC at March 14, 2014 01:18 AM (QeH9j)
Sweet! I have a guy I work with that goes to a big gun show up in the mountains in VA every year, I might have to tag along with him this year.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:21 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:21 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 09:21 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Zakn at March 13, 2014 09:22 PM (zyaZ1)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 09:22 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: Bomber at March 13, 2014 09:22 PM (G8OL9)
Not all of them. Several ARs, an AK, and many rounds here. GFY, Bob at NSA.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 14, 2014 01:18 AM (ojnk6)
I have the dies to reload 5.56 now.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:22 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Zakn at March 13, 2014 09:23 PM (zyaZ1)
Posted by: model_1066 at March 13, 2014 09:24 PM (afNM6)
Posted by: Zakn at March 14, 2014 01:23 AM (zyaZ1)
*shudder* that's why I did my 20 on the flight deck. This ol' Iowa boy needs to see the sun.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:25 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Methos at March 14, 2014 01:17 AM (hO9ad)
I always liked the coke you get in the green glass bottles. It tastes way different than the stuff in the plastic bottles or cans.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2014 09:25 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 09:26 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 13, 2014 09:26 PM (xq1UY)
My dad bought us shot gun shell reloaders for Christmas last year. They come in handy when the bird hunting seasons are underway.
We also have .38 9 mil and 7.62 and whatever for reloading. It's a nice chore to work at while watching the TV.
Of course, we sell all the reloads to the neighbors, as all of our weaponry has gone to the bottom of the lake due to the unfortunate boating accident.
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 09:26 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 13, 2014 09:26 PM (DmNpO)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but before the Kursk, USN submarines did have rescue docking capability with the American DSRV.
Depressingly enough, in the two American nuclear submarine losses to date, no rescue would have been possible.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 13, 2014 09:27 PM (gqT4g)
VA native here is why I ask.
Posted by: RWC at March 14, 2014 01:26 AM (QeH9j)
Damned if I know, all I know is it's somewhere along the I-81 corridor in the fall and it's supposed to be a big show. I want to say somewhere around Bristol but I don't remember for sure. I can ask him when I see him tomorrow.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:27 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 09:28 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 09:28 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: alamogordo at March 14, 2014 01:26 AM (HUTO5)
Well certainly, but I let the neighbor just borrow my reloading rig so I can't be accused of manufacturing ammo for sale. You need a license for that, y'know.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:29 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 14, 2014 01:28 AM (ojnk6)
Atlanta isn't too far from Raleigh...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:30 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: rickl at March 13, 2014 09:31 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 09:31 PM (HUTO5)
Ivory: in 1989, when the ivory crisis was peaking, east African herds being ravaged by poachers, was with a group visiting Nairobi (already dubbed Nai-Rob-Me). One of our meetings was with Richard Leakey, son of the famous Olduvai Gorge anthropologist/discoverer of oldest homo sapiens remains (OK I've probably screwed that up - homo erectus? whatever). He was parks minister for Kenya, was about to preside over the famous torching of the pile of seized illegal tusks. His office - naturally - was on the edge of Kenya's oldest preserve, which actually now lies inside the urbanized area of Nairobi. I remember him as stereotypically the British civil servant, witty smart and sarcastic - and also how the meeting kept getting off-course because there were these baboons climbing up to the windows of the conference room, staring, showing their fangs, and generally f**king around. Hilarious.
Anyway, he was pretty open about the unspeakable truth back then - the preserves herds of the evil South African apartheid state were healthy and thriving (likewise those of SA neighbor Botswana) - while the herds in Kenya and Tanzania were prey to the typical corruption, inefficiency, and decay afflicting those countries (homes respectively of African nationalism and African socialism). Somalia had already disintegrated pretty much, and most of the poachers were Somalis (tough resourceful adversaries - I recall Leakey saying the only way they could beat them was to hire their relatives).
Anyway - ivory ban? WTF? Now? When most ivory here comes from Alaskan/Canadian "native" art and hunting? WTFF? Way things are going, I'll have a room full of banned evil articles, from firearms to the nice carvings I picked up in Alaska.
Posted by: non-purist at March 13, 2014 09:31 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: alamogordo at March 14, 2014 01:31 AM (HUTO5)
Now that sounds like a very Merry Christmas!
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:32 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 09:32 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 09:32 PM (ojnk6)
The one thing Glass bottles have over PET is that they are good for a year. That is it.
Posted by: Zakn at March 13, 2014 09:35 PM (zyaZ1)
Posted by: Jean at March 13, 2014 09:35 PM (Aqvh6)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 13, 2014 09:35 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Zakn at March 13, 2014 09:36 PM (zyaZ1)
GGE my dad and bro will certainly think so! And the neighbors that share garden produce for me to bake zucchini bread with.
You see anything I mentioned that you would like for Christmas, I could shove it thru the USB port to you too!
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 09:36 PM (HUTO5)
I do love my co-cola in bottles, though. Mercy sakes. I miss that about CA; we'd get the Mexican cokes at Costco now and then. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:36 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: Beagle at March 14, 2014 01:06 AM
Yes. Extra large insects etc also lasted into the permian for awhile until conditions changed. There weren't any giant butterflies, though. Butterflies are a post mesozoic group, IIRC. You may be thinking of dragonflies from the Carboniferous.
Posted by: otho at March 13, 2014 09:37 PM (9gNQd)
OK, I'll hand in my man card now.
Posted by: rickl at March 14, 2014 01:31 AM (sdi6R)
*hangs head and offers up Man Card*
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:37 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:38 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 13, 2014 09:38 PM (W3UHW)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:39 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: alamogordo at March 14, 2014 01:36 AM (HUTO5)
*strokes chin thoughtfully*
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:40 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Jean at March 13, 2014 09:40 PM (Aqvh6)
I'll just have to hope some of the cartels have sweet teeth, then.
I actually don't now if Pepsi throwback is available around here, if the few ads I ever saw for it had mentioned making it with sugar, I probably would have looked harder.
Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2014 09:40 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: jc at March 13, 2014 09:41 PM (PlzOe)
I would point out the size of the blow lines to the newbies and re-tell the story of the Thresher to newbies when I would walk them around teaching them Lower Level Watch.
Posted by: Zakn at March 13, 2014 09:41 PM (zyaZ1)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:41 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:43 PM (Pfvig)
I know the general unwritten rule is you only shoot your own reloads yourself, you don't have others shoot them. But I've set aside a factory "reserve" in each caliber - just for general purposes, given how idiotic our country has become - and have been shooting only reloads for a while. But last weekend I did a steels match with a friend (25+ years in the SEALs), and had him use my 9mm reloads (he is gunless at the moment). My QC is pretty fanatical, I load middle range loads, so I guess I should relax about it. And the wife likes the M1 carbine, which only sees home-rolled ammo.
To tie into the ONT, the Ukrainian saga may drive up 7.62X54R prices (hmm, just checked on ammoseek.com and sure enough, up to .25/round - "equilibrium" price for the milsurp has been around .19 - .21/round for several years now). Don't reload for that - at these prices, why bother - and have a decent "stockpile" to feed my "arsenal" of Mosins. Thing is, I've always treated it like 22LR - just plinking with a main battle rifle round, burn up 100 rounds without giving it a thought. Would hate to have to start treating it like high-power rifle ammo .....
Posted by: non-purist at March 13, 2014 09:44 PM (afQnV)
The Nextel PTT setup was like using a trunked radio system but one that worked over vast areas. All of the PTT systems that ran on more standard cellular setups were really clunky by comparison, especially in the lengthy setup time for making a connection. On the Nextel, if someone was on the network you could ping them and start talking in a second at worst.
Plus some of those Motorola phone models were tough as hell. I don't think we ever had one fail from abuse in the almost ten years my sometime employer had a fleet of them. Very primitive even compared to a decade old feature phone but durability mattered for our usage.
Posted by: Epobirs at March 13, 2014 09:44 PM (bPxS6)
I now work Second Shift! It's great! After 9 years of working nights, I now get to sleep at night! Yay! It's funny as hell because I'm looked at by people on Second Shift as some kind of mechanical Ninja. I can actually fix things, as opposed to the guys they are used to lol.
Not even through my first week and I have been deemed the technical authority for fixing all the things. Ha!
Posted by: Zakn at March 13, 2014 09:44 PM (zyaZ1)
Posted by: rickl at March 13, 2014 09:45 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Bomber at March 13, 2014 09:45 PM (G8OL9)
And even gladder that you didn't abandon us!Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:46 PM (Pfvig)
So with all my Eve Posts on the gaming thread we actually have a bunch of Moron Eve players. All of them Lurkers. ALL OF THEM. Me, The Dude, and the rest are Lurkers lol!
Posted by: Zakn at March 13, 2014 09:46 PM (zyaZ1)
(Provided you check in now and then!)Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:47 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: Epobirs at March 13, 2014 09:47 PM (bPxS6)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 09:47 PM (QeH9j)
Hubby and I were in South Africa w/ Dad who has connections as in people who live there and will show you things like the way to do the trek through the Kruger National Park. It was beautiful. We were there in January 2009 and there were TONS of elephants.
They have parks in which you stay, locked in so the animals can't get you and you can't harass the animals.
One of the places is called Oliphants,, which is the Boer way I believe of saying Elephants. The elephants there are beautiful and travel in huge herds. They always keep the babies in the middle of the herd so they are well protected.
One of the ways they raised money to help pay the costs of maintaining the infrastructure to protect the herds was to harvest the tusks off the dead (by natural causes mostly - they have a pretty hard-core protection there, at least then) and sell the ivory to artists or just to tourists.
If the US is saying you can't buy it from that type of a place, where the whole intent is to protect the wildlife, what the HEY?
They US Gov is taking away one of the ways they can raise the money to keep the protection of the herds.
But this is TFG so what the heck do I know?
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 09:47 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:48 PM (Pfvig)
It's not that I disagreed with her analysis, especially for the majority, it's just that I object to the dismissal of the "conservatives inaccurate theory" lines. I've met too many "progressives" that seem to be just looking for an excuse to start loading the boxcars and attempting to hide behind the Nuremberg Defense IYKWIM...not a lot of them, maybe only 1 or 2 out of a hundred, but they are there.
There's one guy I've flat out told that when the balloon goes up I'm shooting him in the face first thing. Of course, he was the one that opened the dance by saying he can't wait for the purges to start so he can join the "forces of good" and kick in the doors of the ebil NRA gun loving sister humping chaw spitting neanderthals. Apparently he didn't realize that I was a gun toting libertarian leaning conservative...which is another thing that pisses me off about them, they aren't shy about spouting their bullshit and get offended if you don't agree with them...and by offended, I mean start looking for reasons to go to HR...
Yeah, he's a Yankee transplant.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:49 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:49 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:51 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: Weirddave at March 13, 2014 09:51 PM (N/cFh)
So what I was saying despite what the USN and the government said before during and after the Kursk loss, was all bullshit. If some shit happened to one of our subs it would have gone down pretty much the same way. Everyone would have died. They might have been able to pass down some soup and water down to us but we would have frozen to death or hypoxia before they could have rescued us via escape trunks.
If it's the Thresher thing, Thier Emergency blow lines were too small and froze up. So post that loss, we started making sure all that compressed air was water free and enlarged the lines so they could not freeze up. I actually had my life saved by an emergency blow. It was wild
Posted by: Zakn at March 13, 2014 09:53 PM (zyaZ1)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 13, 2014 09:53 PM (W3UHW)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 09:54 PM (QeH9j)
I think I shall hit they hay.... be well, dear ones!Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:54 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: rickl at March 14, 2014 01:45 AM (sdi6R)
What's to elaborate? Long and hard and full of seamen.
Even worse than regular Palmetto bugs is the sub-species that will set you on fire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JXx8q9tTz0
Posted by: Epobirs at March 14, 2014 01:47 AM (bPxS6)
Hey, thanks, I have to work tomorrow night so I was looking for a way to stay up all night tonight anyway...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:54 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 14, 2014 01:51 AM
A big cockroach started to eat me once when I was asleep. Woke up with a sore foot. If someone tries to tell you they're tame, don't believe them. They'll go ya.
Posted by: otho at March 13, 2014 09:54 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 14, 2014 01:51 AM (Pfvig)
sorry...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:55 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: jc at March 14, 2014 01:41 AM (PlzOe)
That's no excuse. They could come on a quick minute and say hello. Insert grouchy-face emoticon.
And I am fine, thanks! How are you? Warming up?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 14, 2014 01:43 AM (Pfvig)
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March is a nice month around here. Things are up & down for me. Long story. Dumb ending. I'll tell it some time.
Am building the wildest thing ever in the woodshop. It is a hand rail that goes up the wall at some stairs, around a round column, levels off at the top of the stairs, continues around the round column and returns to the opposite of the wall. Looks like a twisting python and it's all oak. Steamer practice.
Posted by: jc at March 13, 2014 09:56 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:56 PM (Pfvig)
Posted by: jc at March 14, 2014 01:56 AM (PlzOe)
wow, I'd like to see pics of that when its all done if at all possible.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:57 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 13, 2014 09:58 PM (Pfvig)
I had a dream this morning that started off with me working in some sort of office. I kept trying to show people what I was doing but nobody cared and every time I left where I'd been working there were new employees there when I returned. Eventually it became plain I had no real reason to be there but for some reason I was allowed to hang out and pretend I had a job.
Great way to wake up on the fourth day of a week with no work.
Posted by: Epobirs at March 13, 2014 09:58 PM (bPxS6)
Posted by: jc at March 14, 2014 01:58 AM (PlzOe)
Yeah, the yankees can't fly.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 09:59 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Jean at March 13, 2014 09:59 PM (Aqvh6)
My MIL is very liberal. Hubby from WA, so that's a given. I'm originally from northern MN, which used to run a commie for president, if anyone is old enough to remember. Thank goodness Daddy is conservative, so he could explain to me why my $2.10 an hour job did not produce a $2.10 an hour paycheck!
Anyways, my MIL really loves me because I got her son off the coke and whiskey (well, pretty much, cuz he does get cranky with me and that's not allowed Daddy told me so), anyways MIL LOVES me, and when her sisters from Portland fucking Oregon were going on and on about how evil conservatives are, MIL told them to SHUT the hell up because there were conservatives present, whom she valued, they actually SHUT the hell up. Mostly because they were so flabbergasted that there were conservatives present. Then they started in about how religious people are evil.
Yes, I think they would send me to the camps. Because I am also somewhat religious, vs Spiritual, which is what they are. Never give any damn money to any cause, cuz the Govt should.
And isn;t that just the way they are?
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 10:00 PM (HUTO5)
It really is like being an astronaut. If someone in a far distant place was not paying attention at design time or fabrication time, then when a component fails, you're very likely going to die and have not much say in the matter.
You just have to cross your fingers and take a deep breath and hope that the people upstream were paying careful attention at work.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 13, 2014 10:00 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 10:00 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: jc at March 14, 2014 01:56 AM (PlzOe)
wow, I'd like to see pics of that when its all done if at all possible.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 14, 2014 01:57 AM (yh0zB)
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at this point the correct answer to that is: "me, too."
Posted by: jc at March 13, 2014 10:01 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: jc at March 14, 2014 01:58 AM (PlzOe)
Yeah, the yankees can't fly.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 14, 2014 01:59 AM (yh0zB) Hide posts from (yh0zB)
Well, there's some of the yankees who plan on flying to there and feeling relieved. Very pleased to see top-ranked relocation states at #43 and #45 [and, er, #26] on the pension chart.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 13, 2014 10:04 PM (T1005)
Posted by: RWC at March 13, 2014 10:04 PM (QeH9j)
WTF? I thought it was wild here - couple inches of snow yesterday, 50s tomorrow.
Posted by: Bomber at March 13, 2014 10:05 PM (G8OL9)
New York City cockroaches on the wing. What could go wrong?
Remembering here a friend who saw a Manhattan roach scuttle out from under a trash can, and instinctively stomp on it. Then stomp again. And again. And realize the little monster was still moving. Then start to look for a shotgun or a heavy rifle to finish the job. Then realize those things are illegal in NYC.
Give the roach a doorman's uniform and a job at a luxury high-rise complex. If you can't beat them, or crush them, co-opt them.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 13, 2014 10:09 PM (gqT4g)
Barqs is now owned by Coke, but it was an independent regional company when I was growing up here. It wasn't available for sale outside of the South while in private hands. I used to haul a few cases up to Chicago every year when we went down to visit the parents. I would hand them out to friends as a special treat.
Due to some special quirk in the labeling laws of the time, Barq's could not have the words 'root beer' on the labeling. I dunno if that is still true or not; still, everyone called it root beer.
And yes, I swear it tastes different (and better) in the bottle. And if you DO happen to get one somewhere, chill that bitch down and drink it from the fucking bottle, m'kay? Don't pour it into a glass, and don't worry your sweet bippy about not having it with ice.
Drink Barq's, it's good.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 13, 2014 10:09 PM (cHZB7)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 13, 2014 10:10 PM (/96QU)
What I find amusing is that alot of that stuff bleeds right over into fucking Eve (A terrible game, but I can't fucking quit it, fuck you The Dude). You might have a theory of how shit should go down, but it's totally wrong. But if you just press the I fucking believe butan and push all in, http://tinyurl.com/krk64mp shit will just work.
I don't get it, but thats why 18-25 year olds are fucking required of all things military.
Posted by: Zakn at March 13, 2014 10:11 PM (zyaZ1)
Posted by: Zakn at March 13, 2014 10:13 PM (zyaZ1)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 02:04 AM (T1005)
I don't know if westerners can properly be thought of as yankees.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 10:13 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Zakn at March 14, 2014 02:13 AM (zyaZ1)
Definitely wasted on the young...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 10:13 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 14, 2014 01:49 AM (yh0zB)
I think the forces of good are gonna make for some serious lamp post wind chimes.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2014 10:14 PM (FMbng)
I love Barq's. I believe I have partaken of it even here in fly-over NM.
My favorite story is before Coors went all over the country, I was driving back from El Paso TX to Minnesota, and we went thru NM and Colorado on the way home, via the Coors plan in Golden.
Stocked up on quite a few cases of Coors, and gave it out to quite a few friends back in Minnesota. They like it. It was different, then, so much Schlitz and Schmidt and Pabst that everyone could get. It was fun. Like Christmas in August.
I know it should be fancier, but August was the month I drove home. In a 1972 Pinto hatchback as a matter of fact.
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 10:14 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: Zakn at March 13, 2014 10:16 PM (zyaZ1)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2014 10:16 PM (FMbng)
Yeah back in the day Zakn, many gas stations had 'em in a bin with crushed ice near the register.mmmhmmm.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 13, 2014 10:18 PM (cHZB7)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2014 02:14 AM (FMbng)
Apparently he thinks we will all be sleeping in our beds with all of our guns locked in the safe when the black Suburbans roll up. I don't think it will end up the way he thinks it will, and I've told him as much, but he is still eager for the burning times to get here.
I told him "don't be a f'n coward, lead from the front."
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 10:18 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2014 02:16 AM (FMbng)
Isn't that kind of your thing?
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 10:19 PM (yh0zB)
Here are some nice pics of her; this particular page is SFW, but based on the site's name other pages there may not be. And it may be bad to go to a site with this name while on the clock, anyway...
http://modelnudes.blogspot.com/2013/02/crystal-bernard.html
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 13, 2014 10:21 PM (/96QU)
Zakn
I grew up in Hibbing, MN, home of the infamous Bob Dylan when he was in high school.
I also lived in Duluth for a while, during my first attempt at college.
Then back to Hibbing, home of the biggest open pit iron ore mine in the world.
Then I finished up college in Bemidji, where I received a BS degree from BSU, then in St. Paul, on White Bear Avenue, and worked in downtown St. Paul.
And now I live where the sun shines most the time in the Enchanted Land of New Mexico.
I really miss Minnesota fishing, but not the winters or misquitoes!
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 10:21 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 10:23 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: The Political Hat is Warp Riding at March 13, 2014 10:25 PM (AymDN)
Yeah, alamo, me and a buddy did a lil Smokey And The Bandit[/] run from MS to TX and back just to bring back a few cases of Coors.
"That's bootlegging, son."
Not if you don't get caught. It was a status symbol to have Coors at your party.
PS I used to live in Alamogordo as an AF brat. Late 60s.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 13, 2014 10:25 PM (cHZB7)
Posted by: zombie at March 13, 2014 10:26 PM (mizYg)
Are you from the southern burbs Zakn?
You guys have gotten hammered this winter I think wherever you live. Still have friends in the home town, and brothers up there in St Cloud and Maple Lake.
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 10:26 PM (HUTO5)
to there and feeling relieved. Very pleased to see top-ranked
relocation states at #43 and #45 [and, er, #26] on the pension chart.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 02:04 AM (T1005)
I don't know if westerners can properly be thought of as yankees.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 14, 2014 02:13 AM (yh0zB) Hide posts from (yh0zB)
The BH was born and raised in NY.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 13, 2014 10:27 PM (T1005)
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 10:27 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: zombie at March 13, 2014 10:28 PM (mizYg)
Posted by: Zakn at March 13, 2014 10:30 PM (zyaZ1)
Someone please rescue me before dawn.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 13, 2014 10:31 PM (cHZB7)
Zombie hits it out of the park.
Well written, well thought out and WELL DONE ZOMBIE!!
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon)
Boy am I late to the party. Just like me to miss my own thread!
But actually, THIS THREAD'S FOR Y'ALL, because the "informal poll of educated conservatives" cited in the "Abortion" section came from me asking a question right here at AoS. Those who answered know who you are, and will see you responses summarized therein. I had to characterize you as "educated" because "sadistically snarky" didn't sound so good.
I couldn't have done it without ya!
Posted by: zombie at March 14, 2014 02:26 AM (mizYg) Hide posts from (mizYg)
By wild coincidence, I was finally getting around to reading it just as you popped in. Very nicely done! And kudos for actually tracking down real Sanger quotes past the "dust and smoke" PP is trying to throw up.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 13, 2014 10:31 PM (T1005)
Gnubreed,
Alamogordo has probably grown a bit since the late 60's.
A lot of retired AF guys. Most of my neighbors in fact. They're pretty cool people. We help out, me with cooking home meals and hubby is a great, naye, awesome mechanic with whatever they need fixed.
We get stressed any more with more than 4 cars at the stoplight, it's so funny after living just outside of El Paso and dealing with fricking I-10!
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 10:32 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: zombie at March 13, 2014 10:32 PM (mizYg)
great ONT thread Maetenloch. just opened zombie's essay and starting to read.
and the oconomy sucks!
Posted by: rich@gmu at March 13, 2014 10:32 PM (3yFC4)
http://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/Eugenics.pdf
Posted by: Epobirs at March 14, 2014 12:39 AM (bPxS6)
482 Missed ONE. I hate when I leave out a word like that. It made it sound like I was suggesting Zombie was wrong when instead I wanted to add another example supporting her thesis.
Posted by: Epobirs
Actually, I did see that link the first time it was posted. However, my essay had already gone on WAY too long and I had to keep it somewhat readable-length, so I decided to keep the dissection to the original 8 topics. I of course could have expanded it greatly to include others like minimum wage laws, tokenism, and various other theses suggested to me since. Thx for posting it nonetheless! Posted by: zombie at March 14, 2014 02:32 AM (mizYg) Hide posts from (mizYg)
An expanded version would make a great e-book.....
Posted by: cthulhu at March 13, 2014 10:34 PM (T1005)
zombie,
your work will never be done. It was a truly epic post, though, and it spelled out a lot of what I believe about the liberal mindset.
Thank you for all that you do.
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 10:34 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: zombie at March 14, 2014 02:26 AM (mizYg)
But it's funnier than "educated" so I'll just substitute that whenever I read it.
Well done and very thoughtful...but as I said earlier in the thread I know a few progressives that fit the " Conservatives' inaccurate theory of progressives' real intent" to a T. Not the majority, but they are there.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 10:34 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 02:27 AM (T1005)
uh-oh...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 10:36 PM (yh0zB)
Also I noticed your essay featured by HA in their Headlines section.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 13, 2014 10:36 PM (cHZB7)
There's another racial angle worth exploring in the Global Warming section... the nations hardest hit by international global warming agreements are in Africa. That's also where the DDT ban hit hardest, by the way.
It seems like they want as many Africans as possible to be living in huts, making $1 a week if they're lucky, dying in their 20s from malaria... and if they had their way, they'd bring this very lifestyle here to the US. Not for themselves, though; as Party members in good standing, they expect to remain above it all.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 13, 2014 10:37 PM (/96QU)
Posted by: zombie at March 14, 2014 02:26 AM (mizYg)
But it's funnier than "educated" so I'll just substitute that whenever I read it.
Well done and very thoughtful...but as I said earlier in the thread I know a few progressives that fit the " Conservatives' inaccurate theory of progressives' real intent" to a T. Not the majority, but they are there.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 14, 2014 02:34 AM (yh0zB) Hide posts from (yh0zB)
It could have used more colors -- like "aqua": what loon progressive militants actually believe, with links to manifestos.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 13, 2014 10:37 PM (T1005)
Hey, Zakn, I have a brother in Maple Lake, who moved to TX from MN and never felt happy in TX.
He's back in MN now, and could maybe be someone who could help you feel at home. He understands, because moving back is almost the same as NOT BORN HERE.
If you're into fishing, he could be someone you might really enjoy meeting, and his wife is originally from Germany, so it would be cool.
Let me know, and I could maybe introduce you guys. And you really don't have to be into fishing to start....
Just trying to help a fellow moron ya know
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 10:39 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 02:27 AM (T1005)
uh-oh...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 14, 2014 02:36 AM (yh0zB) Hide posts from (yh0zB)
....which is why I'm having so much trouble with the "grab our shit and GTFO before it all collapses" plan. Her dad used to work in NYC and commute in from the Hamptons on the LIRR.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 13, 2014 10:41 PM (T1005)
Posted by: zombie at March 13, 2014 10:43 PM (mizYg)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 13, 2014 10:45 PM (/96QU)
Posted by: zombie at March 14, 2014 02:43 AM (mizYg)
Aha! Well in that case...very well done indeed!
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 10:46 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Cryptocon at March 13, 2014 10:48 PM (cgWjy)
You might say it was hot and dry out there.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 13, 2014 10:48 PM (cHZB7)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 13, 2014 10:50 PM (qyfb5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvsMPOfblfg
Good night, everyone!
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 13, 2014 10:54 PM (/96QU)
Posted by: zombie at March 13, 2014 10:55 PM (mizYg)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 13, 2014 10:55 PM (qyfb5)
Gnubreed,
Yes June is pretty much the worst of hot and DRY.
If you come thru again, please let me know. Hubby and I have a nice small cabin up between High Rolls and Cloudcroft, in the high pines, which might be a nice break from the desert in the Tularosa Basin of heat and desert and sand and ya know. (that's an old Minnesota phrase ya know)
I just can't let that MN go!
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 10:55 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 13, 2014 10:56 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 14, 2014 02:45 AM (/96QU) Hide posts from (/96QU)
It's an add-on script I got from Merovign that allows you to disappear commenters by hashtag. I've used it three times -- one guy got banhammered shortly afterward, the next disappeared and may have been banhammered longly afterward, and the last time I went passive-aggressive on a 'ron but ended up reversing that same night....though the 'ette he was messing with didn't come back for days and I was fretting we'd lost her.
On my screen, the "Hide posts" text is a blue link that I can hit to execute it. I'll get around to changing it to something more subtle, like "(X)" sometime, but today was taxes.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 13, 2014 10:56 PM (T1005)
Posted by: zombie at March 13, 2014 10:58 PM (mizYg)
If one can prove that she too was a monster, then all the "original progressives" from the early 20th century will have been exposed, and the whole of progressivism will be seen as having rotten roots.
And I believe that is why you are doing such great service to our side of the debate.
Kudos to you zombie!
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 10:59 PM (HUTO5)
Time to once again break out the Heinlein Quote:
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 13, 2014 11:00 PM (cHZB7)
I got you beat on that.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 13, 2014 11:00 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 13, 2014 11:01 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: rich@gmu at March 13, 2014 11:01 PM (3yFC4)
Oh, I didn't mean to make you feel bad, zombie! Truly!
But you do live in "the heart of the beast" and G_d bless you for all that you do!
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 11:02 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: zombie at March 13, 2014 11:03 PM (mizYg)
http://i58.tinypic.com/s2ecg4.jpg
Posted by: jc at March 13, 2014 11:07 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: cthulhu
My felt pens ran out so I had to stop at three colors. Posted by: zombie at March 14, 2014 03:03 AM (mizYg) Hide posts from (mizYg)
See if wretchard makes enough off his e-books to buy additional felt pens....
Posted by: cthulhu at March 13, 2014 11:07 PM (T1005)
Posted by: zombie at March 14, 2014 02:58 AM (mizYg)
*hands zombie a tube of Icy Hot*
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 11:08 PM (yh0zB)
http://i58.tinypic.com/s2ecg4.jpg
Posted by: jc at March 14, 2014 03:07 AM (PlzOe)
Is that a laminate, or is it just clamped in place to dry after the steamer?
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 11:09 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: zombie at March 13, 2014 11:09 PM (mizYg)
but today was taxes.
Oh you too that's right cthulhu
Are you informing all of your clients about the upcoming greatness that is bamacare if it's ever going to have deadlines?
I am, luckily, the only person in my office who can perform audits. That's what I'm hanging my hat on.
Posted by: alamogordo at March 13, 2014 11:10 PM (HUTO5)
http://i58.tinypic.com/s2ecg4.jpg
Posted by: jc at March 14, 2014 03:07 AM (PlzOe) Hide posts from (PlzOe)
If I didn't know better, I'd guess that was a bar-clamp storage facility.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 13, 2014 11:10 PM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 03:10 AM (T1005)
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you can't have too many clamps *****
***** The gospel according to Norm.
Posted by: jc at March 13, 2014 11:11 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: Arbalest at March 13, 2014 11:11 PM (FlRtG)
but today was taxes.
Oh you too that's right cthulhu
Are you informing all of your clients about the upcoming greatness that is bamacare if it's ever going to have deadlines?
I am, luckily, the only person in my office who can perform audits. That's what I'm hanging my hat on. Posted by: alamogordo at March 14, 2014 03:10 AM (HUTO5) Hide posts from (HUTO5)
This year, it's only taxes for the BH and myself.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 13, 2014 11:12 PM (T1005)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 14, 2014 03:09 AM (yh0zB)
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clamped waiting to dry after the steamer. Had to cut the finish layer into 1/4 x 1/4 strips to get it to bend around.
Posted by: jc at March 13, 2014 11:12 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 13, 2014 11:13 PM (XyM/Y)
http://i60.tinypic.com/2mhbups.jpg Posted by: jc at March 14, 2014 03:10 AM (PlzOe) Hide posts from (PlzOe)
Oh, look at you....you have all your lumber f'in' organized 'n' shit.....
Posted by: cthulhu at March 13, 2014 11:14 PM (T1005)
Oh, look at you....you have all your lumber f'in' organized 'n' shit.....
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 03:14 AM (T1005)
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confessions of a wood scrounge.
Posted by: jc at March 13, 2014 11:16 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: rich@gmu at March 13, 2014 11:18 PM (3yFC4)
Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 13, 2014 11:20 PM (LDwc9)
Posted by: Arbalest at March 13, 2014 11:23 PM (FlRtG)
Posted by: Vladimir Putin at March 13, 2014 11:23 PM (IN7k+)
Posted by: Vladimir Putin at March 14, 2014 03:23 AM (IN7k+)
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show him a gaggle of rich widows?
Posted by: jc at March 13, 2014 11:24 PM (PlzOe)
zombie:
Congratulations on your PJ Media article. Expect to start taking flak soon, and watch for searchers. You might become quite the target for photographers in SF and environs.
Posted by: Arbalest at March 14, 2014 03:11 AM (FlRtG) Hide posts from (FlRtG)
This wasn't the first time zombie's dropped munitions accurately, and he's a very canny dude about maintaining OpSec. Progressives would absolutely love to go all Alinsky on him, but he's become a master of disguise. You would think that the numerous hints that slip into his works -- I mean, how many straight 6'5" Hispanic bodybuilders show up to the Folsom Street Fair with cameras (and a limp), anyway? It's only gotten more difficult since he got that tattoo of James O'Keefe.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 13, 2014 11:25 PM (T1005)
Serious question about impeachment
What did the JEF do to actually warrant it?
It has to be an actual high crime or misdemeanor of course Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 14, 2014 03:20 AM (LDwc9) Hide posts from (LDwc9)
Actually, from real studies of constitutional law and all that.....it's whatever congress says it is when they decide to say it.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 13, 2014 11:28 PM (T1005)
suburbs-for progressives, a source of plunder and convenient place to dump surplus minority populations...
Posted by: rich@gmu at March 13, 2014 11:29 PM (3yFC4)
Posted by: zombie at March 13, 2014 11:30 PM (mizYg)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 03:25 AM (T1005)
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I know for a fact that zombie is a 5'2" Asian girl as well as a 6'5" male Hispanic bodybuilder.
Posted by: jc at March 13, 2014 11:30 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 13, 2014 11:32 PM (XyM/Y)
Article 2, Clause 5 states that
The President must "take care that the laws be faithfully executed."
Rating = Total FAIL
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 13, 2014 11:34 PM (cHZB7)
munitions accurately, and he's a very canny dude about maintaining
OpSec. Progressives would absolutely love to go all Alinsky on him, but
he's become a master of disguise. You would think that the numerous
hints that slip into his works -- I mean, how many straight 6'5"
Hispanic bodybuilders show up to the Folsom Street Fair with cameras
(and a limp), anyway? It's only gotten more difficult since he got that
tattoo of James O'Keefe.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 03:25 AM (T1005)
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I know for a fact that zombie is a 5'2" Asian girl as well as a 6'5" male Hispanic bodybuilder.
Posted by: jc at March 14, 2014 03:30 AM (PlzOe) Hide posts from (PlzOe)
Wait until you see the obese black tranny outfit.....the cameras are actually built into the foam.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 13, 2014 11:35 PM (T1005)
Posted by: zombie at March 13, 2014 11:37 PM (mizYg)
My take on FSF: it's bad enough that there is this damned clown circus of a bridge rebuild slowing traffic to a crawl, but a bullshit counterculture street fair on the approaches to the same bridge, too? Great. Another 90 minute delay on a long ride.
I say we take off and nuke the whole site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 13, 2014 11:38 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: zombie at March 13, 2014 11:39 PM (mizYg)
"They pointed a rifle at me", "My rights ...", "No probably cause or exigent circumstances", "I was scared" - not one of little sheep simply told the cops NO.
I'm sure lawsuits are being drafted to pay for cleaning all the soiled pant suits.
Posted by: Jean at March 13, 2014 11:39 PM (Aqvh6)
Okay kids
Serious question about impeachment
What did the JEF do to actually warrant it?
It has to be an actual high crime or misdemeanor of course
Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 14, 2014 03:20 AM (LDwc9)
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Actually, from real studies of constitutional law and all that.....it's whatever congress says it is when they decide to say it.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 03:28 AM (T1005) Hide posts from (T1005)
To be slightly more precise.....the Founders debated about what might constitute "impeachable offenses", and decided to be ambiguous -- "you'll know it when you see it." So it could well be something like "lying to Congress", when there is a strong will to dispose of an overweening Executive.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 13, 2014 11:39 PM (T1005)
Seems legit.
Posted by: Master Blaster at March 13, 2014 11:41 PM (KCNdV)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 13, 2014 11:45 PM (qyfb5)
Several SC rulings have held that the prezzie cannot ignore a law that has been duly enacted. He must enforce it.
Of course, that line of thought is now Old And Busted.
The New Hotness is the law is whatever he sez it is.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 13, 2014 11:45 PM (cHZB7)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 13, 2014 11:47 PM (XyM/Y)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 13, 2014 11:48 PM (qyfb5)
What did the JEF do to actually warrant it?
It has to be an actual high crime or misdemeanor of course
Posted by: Navycopjoe
Why don't you just photocopy Nixon's articles?
"He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be intitiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner."
"In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, contrary to his oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has failed without lawful cause or excuse to produce papers and things as directed by duly authorized subpoenas "
"
Posted by: Jean at March 13, 2014 11:48 PM (Aqvh6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 13, 2014 11:50 PM (XyM/Y)
How about this (it will need to be edited to replace Nixon's name with Obama's, and some of the particular agencies will need to be changed, but other than item 4, it does seem to line up pretty well otherwise):
ARTICLE 2
Using the powers of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in disregard of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has repeatedly engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens, impairing the due and proper administration of justice and the conduct of lawful inquiries, or contravening the laws governing agencies of the executive branch and the purposed of these agencies.
This conduct has included one or more of the following:
1. He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be intitiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.
2. He misued the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, and other executive personnel, in violation or disregard of the constitutional rights of citizens, by directing or authorizing such agencies or personnel to conduct or continue electronic surveillance or other investigations for purposes unrelated to national security, the enforcement of laws, or any other lawful function of his office; he did direct, authorize, or permit the use of information obtained thereby for purposes unrelated to national security, the enforcement of laws, or any other lawful function of his office; and he did direct the concealment of certain records made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of electronic surveillance.
3. He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, in violation or disregard of the constitutional rights of citizens, authorized and permitted to be maintained a secret investigative unit within the office of the President, financed in part with money derived from campaign contributions, which unlawfully utilized the resources of the Central Intelligence Agency, engaged in covert and unlawful activities, and attempted to prejudice the constitutional right of an accused to a fair trial.
4. He has failed to take care that the laws were faithfully executed by failing to act when he knew or had reason to know that his close subordinates endeavoured to impede and frustrate lawful inquiries by duly constituted executive, judicial and legislative entities concerning the unlawful entry into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, and the cover-up thereof, and concerning other unlawful activities including those relating to the confirmation of Richard Kleindienst as Attorney General of the United States, the electronic surveillance of private citizens, the break-in into the offices of Dr. Lewis Fielding, and the campaign financing practices of the Committee to Re-elect the President.
5. In disregard of the rule of law, he knowingly misused the executive power by interfering with agencies of the executive branch, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Criminal Division, and the Office of Watergate Special Prosecution Force, of the Department of Justice, and the Central Intelligence Agency, in violation of his duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
In all of this, Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Wherefore Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 13, 2014 11:51 PM (IN7k+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 13, 2014 11:51 PM (XyM/Y)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 13, 2014 11:51 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 13, 2014 11:53 PM (qyfb5)
Seems legit.
Posted by: Master Blaster at March 14, 2014 03:41 AM (KCNdV) Hide posts from (KCNdV)
I actually had a sub-5-foot Filipina young lady working for me, doing internal audit, some years back. We went to this branch office near Windsor in the UK and she was the staffer I chose to make the first trip.
So we get there (me carrying all the gear), and do all the pleasantries, and get cubes, and settle in, and start to work. The UK guys are all looking at her like, "oh, cthulhu brought a kid." So, during the day, I'm going around and pulling stuff, and stacking it in her cube, she's executing tests on binders and piles of paper and logging results and I'm just making sure she doesn't overrun the workflow.
About 4:30, we have a meeting to summarize Day 1: "Here are 16 things you f'ed up last quarter."
Now I could go all self-congratulatory and take credit for the clever audit plans and well-thought-out risk assessment and overall management.....but, damn, she was so good at flying through that stuff! The next day, when she walked in and sat down at her cube, there was a hush. Months later, I sent her with a junior staffer and she had zero problems.
I should also point out that, about a year later, she independently discovered that the overall company bad-debt assessment (prepared by an experienced CPA who made 5x what she did) erroneously calculated a total in dollars and subtracted out specific allocations in Euros.....despite her not even having an accounting degree.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 12:05 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 14, 2014 12:05 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2014 12:08 AM (XyM/Y)
Did I look like chopped liver when I was dropping the stuff off?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 12:08 AM (T1005)
Posted by: navycopjoe at March 14, 2014 12:10 AM (At8tV)
let me review
oh
FIRST!!!!! or not Posted by: navycopjoe at March 14, 2014 04:10 AM (At8tV) Hide posts from (At8tV)
Where ya been?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 12:11 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 14, 2014 12:12 AM (qyfb5)
Can't sleep. Clowns will eat me.
Goddamned clowns. Ruining everything.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 14, 2014 12:12 AM (gqT4g)
Posted by: navycopjoe at March 14, 2014 12:14 AM (At8tV)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 14, 2014 12:14 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 14, 2014 12:15 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: navycopjoe at March 14, 2014 12:19 AM (At8tV)
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 14, 2014 12:29 AM (m0h0I)
Posted by: Carol at March 14, 2014 12:41 AM (gjOCp)
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 14, 2014 04:29 AM (m0h0I) Hide posts from (m0h0I)
Are you an oppressed Person of Color? (see Zombie essay).
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 12:45 AM (T1005)
Convenience stores actually open up?
Round here, the same stores have been open continuously since 1865. Twenty-four hours a day since there were 24 hours in a day. (Used to be twenty back when. Kids these days.)
Open since then with the same staff. They occasionally have to be re-animated. Frankenstein style. Bolts in the neck and all. If there isn't an electrical storm, the patrons are shit out of luck.
It was apparently a real pain in the ass to get a microwave burrito back before microwaves had been invented. Or so they tell me.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 14, 2014 12:45 AM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Carol at March 14, 2014 12:46 AM (gjOCp)
And, yes -- that was a damn fine article by zombie. I've been thinking, and have experienced real life situations playing out, along those same lines for quite some time now, but have never managed to collect all those thoughts into a neat, coherent package as zombie does.
It's a definite keeper. Kudos aplenty, zombie!
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 14, 2014 12:54 AM (m0h0I)
I went by the 7-11 and the guy was locking up. I said, "What are you doing? The sign says open 24 hours."
"Yeah but not in a row."
Posted by: Epobirs at March 14, 2014 12:54 AM (bPxS6)
Perhaps "convenience" is too strong a word for it. Maybe "happenstance" or "serendipity" is more accurate.
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 14, 2014 12:58 AM (m0h0I)
And, yes -- that was a damn fine article by zombie. I've been thinking, and have experienced real life situations playing out, along those same lines for quite some time now, but have never managed to collect all those thoughts into a neat, coherent package as zombie does.
It's a definite keeper. Kudos aplenty, zombie!
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 14, 2014 04:54 AM (m0h0I) Hide posts from (m0h0I)
The level of projection in progressives is just fookin' amazing. They ARE the evil, and they tag anything conservatives do that resembles them as being the evil they are -- e.g. "big business has too much money in politics (AHEM: labor); those evil Koch brothers (AHEM: Soros); charter schools don't teach (AHEM: teacher's unions); conservatives in lockstep (AHEM: Dem party discipline).....White is Black; Up is Down; we've always been at war with Eastasia.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 01:03 AM (T1005)
So, I actually had archery in junior high (and in summer camp).....do they even do that any more?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 01:16 AM (T1005)
There's that sideways glance, like they're trying to gauge your reaction, and then it's, "I mean, I mean . . ."
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 14, 2014 01:18 AM (m0h0I)
There's that sideways glance, like they're trying to gauge your reaction, and then it's, "I mean, I mean . . ."
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 14, 2014 05:18 AM (m0h0I) Hide posts from (m0h0I)
I was born in the People's Republic of Santa Monica, and I've lived all my life in California. One of my prime targets for relocation is Knoxville, TN, where my aunt has a kaffeeklatsch for the "Knoxville Rationalists", or somesuch....I know damned well how sneeringly false Progs can be.
For all the false accusations of racism, actual conservatives put concern about race at about #374 on a list of "top 100 issues" list, every time.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 01:37 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 05:16 AM (T1005) <<<
we have a shooting club sport at school and my high school had a rifle team.
Posted by: rich@gmu at March 14, 2014 02:05 AM (3yFC4)
Posted by: Ironwood at March 14, 2014 02:06 AM (WLOZI)
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 14, 2014 04:29 AM (m0h0I)
about to start cooking breakfast this fine am, drop on by.
Posted by: rich@gmu at March 14, 2014 02:08 AM (3yFC4)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 14, 2014 02:09 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 05:16 AM (T1005) <<<we have a shooting club sport at school and my high school had a rifle team. Posted by: rich@gmu at March 14, 2014 06:05 AM (3yFC4) Hide posts from (3yFC4)
How long ago was this?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 02:13 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 14, 2014 05:03 AM (T1005)
exactly. think it was flagged up here the other day but it was a piece looking at the underbelly of modern progressivism through the lens of Ackman's now successful attack on Herbalife (I have no dog in that fight but would be interested in the "expert network" that Ackman has leveraged with the FTC and why it would be legal). A similar article appeared a few years back about Picken's gift to the OSU Cowboys.
It is the iron triangle of tax free foundation money, hedge funds, and government. Saw a peek of it when Madoff's scheme shit-the-bed, PP took a big hit on that. Pretty sure he isn't the only one and probably not even the most egregious. He had the misfortune of getting caught.
Posted by: rich@gmu at March 14, 2014 02:16 AM (3yFC4)
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Yep. That's been my experience, too.
Apparently, it's racist not to be obsessed with race.
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 14, 2014 02:19 AM (m0h0I)
gmu has a trap and skeet team active as far as i know.
>>>pixy rejected the link...
high school was about 20 years ago for me. the rifle team was through rotc and we had marksmanship as part of our instruction. great program a COL and 2 Tops were the cadre. When I enlisted didn't have much trouble in basic.
Posted by: rich@gmu at March 14, 2014 02:21 AM (3yFC4)
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at March 14, 2014 02:21 AM (m0h0I)
It appears I've fallen into the gap between the day walkers and the night walkers here on the HQ. I guess that makes me a cross walker.
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