April 04, 2014

How Comcast Bought the Democratic Party
— Ace

The appellation "Democrat-Media Complex" is more than just a jibe.

The communications giant Comcast announced in February that it would buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion, creating the largest cable provider in America, with more than 33 million customers. That is about one third of the U.S. cable and satellite television market. FCC approval is required for the merger to go into effect. Critics of the deal say it would lessen competition and lead to even shoddier customer service. They are probably right, as all of us will soon find out, because there is little chance the merger will be stopped. Comcast, Time Warner, and their political fixers have spent years preparing for this moment—by buying off the Democratic Party.

Continetti ticks off Comcast's lavish donations to the Democrats, and Time Warner's as well. He throws up his hands at trying to estimate the value of the in-kind donations NBC and its parent company MSNBC provide the Democrat Party through relentless pro-Obama and anti-Obama-critic messaging, though he does ballpark this value at somewhere between "huge" and "felonious." (My words, not his.)

And yet the Republicans are not making an issue of this merger.

It is something of a political irony that Republicans, who for ideological reasons are pro-business, have not raised questions about, or objections to, the conjoining of two Democratic institutions into a media trust. If Republicans had any sense, they would wage war against Comcast and its Democratic enablers and turn the merger into a live issue. Needless to say they have not done so, perhaps in the wrongheaded and futile hope of scraps from the table of the Comcast cable beast, perhaps in the foolish and selfish notion that David Cohen may one day add another man to his company of lobbyists.

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Imagine the noises from MSNBC if the merger involved Rupert Murdoch or Glenn Beck or Sheldon Adelson or the K-O-C-H brothers. Criticism would lead the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Costas would interrupt a Sunday Night Football game to decry corporate consolidation, Fallon would crack wise in his monologue.

Thanks to @benk84. Follow him on Twitter, or be Othered.

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1 1ish?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 04, 2014 10:25 AM (HVff2)

2 If Republicans had any sense, they would wage war against Comcast and its Democratic enablers and turn the merger into a live issue. Not the hill to die on, my friends. *hic*

Posted by: John Boehner at April 04, 2014 10:25 AM (8ZskC)

3 We go along to get along-The GOP

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 04, 2014 10:25 AM (HVff2)

4 Let them eat entertainment.

Posted by: Nancy "let them eat performance art" Pelosi at April 04, 2014 10:25 AM (1/4XQ)

5 zzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by: The GOPe at April 04, 2014 10:26 AM (8ZskC)

6 And yet the Republicans are not making an issue of this merger. Come, now. That would have a negative impact on our cocktail party invites. And we can't have that.

Posted by: The GOPe Elite at April 04, 2014 10:26 AM (7ObY1)

7 They'll probably get their own channel even.. Oh wait.. they already have MSNBC!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry - Now using Opera Browser at April 04, 2014 10:27 AM (Z7PrM)

8 The  Stupid  party  would  tie  the  noose  for  the  executioner.

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at April 04, 2014 10:27 AM (rXcBX)

9 We'll have bread and circuses but the circuses will have lots of ads for leftist fascism.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 04, 2014 10:27 AM (8ZskC)

10
remember when comcast gave Obummer his own channel during his first prez run.  as if that was at market cost.  not that he couldn't afford it what with all the illegal donations.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 04, 2014 10:27 AM (hUf/y)

11 If the Republicans had any sense they would've tried to halt the merger for as long as they could as a way to raise awareness.

Posted by: Soothsayer, corn bread assassin at April 04, 2014 10:28 AM (VlefE)

12

How does this help me with amnesty?

Posted by: John McCain at April 04, 2014 10:28 AM (DrWcr)

13 A little reach-around-the-aisle, anybody?

Posted by: John McCain (R) Maverickstan at April 04, 2014 10:28 AM (8ZskC)

14 Now you know why with its ratings in the toilet, MSLSD and the rest are still on the air.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2014 10:29 AM (CMkNk)

15 Yep, I've been saying this for a while. Comcast's huge embrace of Leftist politics makes sense when you realize what they were doing -- buying votes. And Comcast pays no penalty for their war on half of America.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2014 10:29 AM (ZPrif)

16 Thanks to @benk84. Follow him on Twitter, or be Othered.



It's a bit odd being threatened with Otherization by an ewok who barely   stands    past my knee.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:29 AM (4df7R)

17 Republicans are stupid. This stuff flies right over their heads. Just like the immigration issue. Another reason to believe they are all one in the same and just don't care.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2014 10:29 AM (IXrOn)

18 I'm sure Rump Roast Clyburn is in accordance.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2014 10:29 AM (CMkNk)

19 People still believe, better yet told or just flat out lied to that Republican/conservative is the party of the rich.

Posted by: YIKES! at April 04, 2014 10:30 AM (mETGQ)

20 It is something of a political irony that Republicans, who for ideological reasons are pro-business, have not raised questions about, or objections to, the conjoining of two Democratic institutions into a media trust.



There is a reason they are called the Party of stupid.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 04, 2014 10:30 AM (T2V/1)

21 (In before the guy who bitches everyone out for watching television)

Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 10:30 AM (ZKzrr)

22 They are losing viewers by the thousands    daily, but will make it up on volume.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 04, 2014 10:30 AM (0Jb7F)

23 So glad I cancelled cable on 01March14.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 10:30 AM (fwARV)

24 i dunno, are they hoping forscraps to fall off the table?

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 10:31 AM (nqBYe)

25 freebeacon really is just that, a beacon

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2014 10:31 AM (IXrOn)

26 controlling media, entertainment, academia and government creates a single minded leviathan that controls the culture

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 10:31 AM (zOTsN)

27 "And yet the Republicans are not making an issue of this merger." The hell you say!

Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2014 10:31 AM (fWAjv)

28

It's a bit odd being threatened with Otherization by an ewok who barely stands past my knee.

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) at April 04, 2014 02:29 PM (4df7R)

 

Yeah.  I'm sure Ace hates being 6'1.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 10:31 AM (fwARV)

29 I guess it's time to buy a boat and do pirate radioÂ… Hey! I can swipe the AOSHQ logo!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2014 10:31 AM (CMkNk)

30 A hundred and twenty years ago, opposing mergers like this was the #1 issue of the entire era. They called it "trust busting," and many elections revolved around it. But considering how the trusts are now in bed with the Democrats, we should now call it "tryst busting."

Posted by: zombie at April 04, 2014 10:31 AM (mizYg)

31 :-)

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 10:31 AM (fwARV)

32 It why many of use just give up on the GOP...it's like trying to fight battles with special needs children. Did it ever occur to any republican that the very existence of MSNBC was clearly for influence peddling?

Posted by: jjshaka at April 04, 2014 10:32 AM (Pt+x3)

33 I got my notice from time warner that they would be merging probably by the end oft he year. No details on what the rates might be.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 04, 2014 10:32 AM (oMKp3)

34 Is this such a bad thing?  Right now Warners and Comcast are each capped for political donations.  By mergin, they now are a single company that is capped.

So instead of two donors giving 1Billion to the dems each, they become 1 donor.

So...that's a win?  Right?

Posted by: Emperor Norton II at April 04, 2014 10:32 AM (MlqTY)

35 Fen's Law, and Sven's addenda.... "The left considers their hypocrisy as a form of communal wafer."

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2014 10:33 AM (TE35l)

36
Yeah. I'm sure Ace hates being 6'1.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 02:31 PM (fwARV)



Hardy har har. 



Did you ever   end up replacing your cable with another service,    Nearsider?   Roku or satellite or something of the sort?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:33 AM (4df7R)

37 The NSA is watching you through that telescreen you are sitting in front of.

Posted by: Winston at April 04, 2014 10:33 AM (nEIMV)

38 It's a bit odd being threatened with Otherization by an ewok who barely stands past my knee.

Posted by: MWR

You can't protect your garbage every hour of the day, can you? I thought not.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:33 AM (TB4sJ)

39 I thought Ace was a chick!

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 10:33 AM (zOTsN)

40 HR, lol, well we could help by signing of comcast stuff, but i'm not certain how much it would damage their pocketbook at this point? it would take a lot of us to commit .

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 10:33 AM (nqBYe)

41 There are wafers?

Posted by: Meghan McCain, Tomorrow's Republican Today at April 04, 2014 10:34 AM (8ZskC)

42 Comcast is the enemy. Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast, is the enemy. Mozilla's CEO was purged over $1,000 dollars. Roberts has given hundreds of millions in cash and TV time to the Ruling Class Progressive Trash agenda. Yet he suffers no consequences, no political fallout. He's practically anonymous compared to Rupert Murdoch.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2014 10:34 AM (ZPrif)

43 I thought Ace was a chick! Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 02:33 PM (zOTsN) a short chick with unwashed hair , we should really do something about that.

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 10:34 AM (nqBYe)

44 37 The NSA is watching you through that telescreen you are sitting in front of. Posted by: Winston at April 04, 2014 02:33 PM (nEIMV) They can eat a bag of dicks if they tell me to start touching my toes.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2014 10:34 AM (YsIAN)

45

The new conservative network needs to stream, so the lefties don't glom any of the revenue.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 04, 2014 10:35 AM (0Jb7F)

46 Ya think the stupid party will start talking about the Robert's (father and son) who basically run Comcast the way the dems talk about the Koch brothers? lol

Posted by: YIKES! at April 04, 2014 10:35 AM (mETGQ)

47 There are dicks?

Posted by: Meghan McCain, Tomorrow's Republican Today at April 04, 2014 10:35 AM (8ZskC)

48 Posted by: Vic at April 04, 2014 02:30 PM (T2V/1) Yeah, I'm pretty sure the R's could pretty easily beat this drum without an ideological contradiction. Just cast it as "anti-monopoly" double so since cable companies are granted monopolies by localities anyway. You don't have to be "anti-business." (indeed this would be pro business, I'd argue!)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 04, 2014 10:35 AM (HDwDg)

49 I thought Ace was a chick!
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 02:33 PM (zOTsN)

a short chick with unwashed hair , we should really do something about that.

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 02:34 PM (nqBYe)



I'll fill the washtub if someone else agrees   to dunk him in the flea dip and then douse him with   industrial strength shampoo.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:35 AM (4df7R)

50 15 Yep, I've been saying this for a while. Comcast's huge embrace of Leftist politics makes sense when you realize what they were doing -- buying votes. Posted by: Flatbush Joe Under this definition, what even is leftism these days anyway? Just an ideology-free power-grabbng mechanism? Perhaps we should re-draw the definitions: Conservatarianism - free market capitalism. Leftism - crony capitalism.

Posted by: zombie at April 04, 2014 10:35 AM (mizYg)

51 I'm sure John Boehner is right on top of it.

Posted by: rdbrewer at April 04, 2014 10:35 AM (Iyg03)

52 43 I thought Ace was a chick! Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 02:33 PM (zOTsN) a short chick with unwashed hair , we should really do something about that. Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 02:34 PM (nqBYe) And a bad case of hypertrichosis.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2014 10:35 AM (YsIAN)

53 21 HR, Nah their coffers thank you...and hell me. I bought Justified, Elementary, Sherlock, Vegas, and a few other seasons this year.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2014 10:36 AM (TE35l)

54

Doesn't the whole local monopoly thing feel very 19th century?  I'm talking about the actual bandwidth running under the streets.  The big media monopoly wouldn't bother me if there were an actual choice of service providers, I'd just buy from someone else. 

 

(And no, satellite is not enough "choice").

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at April 04, 2014 10:36 AM (JtwS4)

55 I assume they promised to have non-partisan moderators at all future televised debates. So, the GOP is good with that.

Posted by: Roy at April 04, 2014 10:36 AM (VndSC)

56 This is just another item on the GOP don't rock the boat agenda. Wish they would come out & tell us what the fuck they are willing to fight for. But, that would probably piss of the Chamber of commerce rinos. Once again don't piss down my back & tell me it's raining

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 04, 2014 10:36 AM (HVff2)

57

http://tinyurl.com/pfzodfe

 

 

One  of  you  is  taking  the  moron  lifestyle  just  a  bit  too  far.

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at April 04, 2014 10:36 AM (rXcBX)

58 Posted by: grammie winger at April 04, 2014 02:32 PM (oMKp3) They're still waiting on the NSA to give them your checking account balance before they figure out how much they can extract from you.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 04, 2014 10:37 AM (HDwDg)

59 It's a bit odd being threatened with Otherization by an ewok who barely stands past my knee. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) at April 04, 2014 02:29 PM (4df7R) http://tinyurl.com/n3c3xa9

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2014 10:37 AM (da5Wo)

60 Just a few short years until we have Cuban or Venezuelan tv.

Posted by: Infidel at April 04, 2014 10:37 AM (Z1SI2)

61 33 grammie winger, My rates will be whatever AT&T charges...

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2014 10:37 AM (TE35l)

62 ace, think you might want to add this as well. http://tinyurl.com/l4ukgkd Remember how we told you the other day that ComcastÂ’s faltering stock price might end its merger with Time Warner Cable? Well: The federal government just saved ComcastÂ’s stock price. The Street reports: Comcast rose 1.92% to $50.89 at 3:17 p.m. on Wednesday after the cable giant announced Comcast Business announced it was awarded a General Services Administration Schedule 70 contract. The contract permits the company to sell directly to federal, state and local government customers. The Schedule 70 contract initially applies to Comcast Business Ethernet services, but Comcast plans to expand it to its complete voice product suite, Business Internet and Business TV services. "Our work with federal, state and local government customers has shown us that bandwidth usage in government agencies is rapidly increasing as technology and constituent programs demand it," said Comcast Business executive director of government Kevin Carney. "Now, federal government agencies can more easily turn to Comcast Business and our Ethernet services for secure, reliable, high-performance connectivity in many regions, including the Washington, D.C. area and other key federal markets."

Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2014 10:37 AM (fWAjv)

63 Comcast got the boot in Casa MWNP when they agreed, to carry Al Jazeera channel.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 04, 2014 10:37 AM (ojnk6)

64 The one and only thing that really upsets the GOPe in this case, is the fact that they can't figure out how to get their hands on any of that lobbyist moolah.

Posted by: Roy at April 04, 2014 10:37 AM (VndSC)

65 Think of how stupid the R party members are. John McCain, after being attacked savagely by the media, still kowtows to the press and acts like they are his buddy. The ones who show up on the weekend shows are absolute weaklings.

Posted by: ejo at April 04, 2014 10:37 AM (GXvSO)

66

Comcast's huge embrace of Leftist politics makes sense when you realize what they were doing -- buying votes.
Posted by: Flatbush Joe

 

--

 people need to understand that modern politics is essentially nothing but    buying votes.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 04, 2014 10:38 AM (0Jb7F)

67 Reason #4352456 of why I registered (I). The GOPe will never dismantle a beast that they seek to control. I guess underdogs that play ball get the best cocktail invitations, idk. None of it makes much sense.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at April 04, 2014 10:38 AM (xHTCV)

68

Did you ever end up replacing your cable with another service, Nearsider? Roku or satellite or something of the sort?

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) at April 04, 2014 02:33 PM (4df7R)

 

I have Hulu, Netflix and Amazon prime, so I still contribute to the beast, and I'm still a sell-out for enjoying my downtime in a way I prefer.  The only thing I truly miss is sports.  It's going to get difficult in September...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 10:38 AM (fwARV)

69 I thought Ace was a chick! Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 02:33 PM (zOTsN) I'll fill the washtub if someone else agrees to dunk him in the flea dip and then douse him with industrial strength shampoo. Posted by: MWR, ' we'll have to find a sexy guy with pancakes to lure Her in.

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 10:38 AM (nqBYe)

70 http://tinyurl.com/n3c3xa9

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2014 02:37 PM (da5Wo)



lol!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:38 AM (4df7R)

71 ***putting on rubber gloves***

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 10:38 AM (zOTsN)

72 Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at April 04, 2014 02:36 PM (JtwS4) We can choose here between AT&T Uverse and Charter. They both offer remarkable incentives to hook you, but know that once they got you the chances of you switching are small . I'd like to see a way for some upstart to get in the mix.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 04, 2014 10:38 AM (HDwDg)

73

And yet the Republicans are not making an issue of this merger.

 

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Because if the GOP does, Comcast will say mean things about them and not cover them.

Posted by: @JohnTant at April 04, 2014 10:39 AM (PFy0L)

74 This is just another item on the GOP don't rock the boat agenda. Wish they would come out & tell us what the fuck they are willing to fight for. Red shirts, my friend. A veritable sea of red shirts, stretching from wall-to-wall in the House and Senate chambers, from north to south and east to west. This is my dream. This is my obsession.

Posted by: Karl Rove at April 04, 2014 10:39 AM (8ZskC)

75

Living at Ground Zero of the Comcast leviathan, I appreciate anyone shining a light on thse bastards. 

 

Seems like an issue tailor-made for Rand Paul. 

Posted by: rockmom at April 04, 2014 10:39 AM (aBlZ1)

76 Comcast is the enemy.
Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast, is the enemy.

Mozilla's CEO was purged over $1,000 dollars.

Roberts has given hundreds of millions in cash and TV time to the Ruling Class Progressive Trash agenda.

Yet he suffers no consequences, no political fallout. He's practically anonymous compared to Rupert Murdoch.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2014 02:34 PM (ZPrif)




Roberts is as liberal a sucker of cock as the come but gets no press attention unlike the EVIL Murdoch or Koch Brothers

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 04, 2014 10:39 AM (1Jaio)

77 Anybody know why the flags are at half mast here? Is it for Ray Liotta?

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2014 10:39 AM (VhqUZ)

78 I like the Beacon. Good example of the New Media on the Right. Makes no attempt to be a business, of course. It's run, like so many left-wing sites, as a charity. A charity whose job it is to pick and win political fights and engage in daily ideological warfare.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2014 10:39 AM (ZPrif)

79 Doesn't the whole local monopoly thing feel very 19th century? I'm talking about the actual bandwidth running under the streets. The big media monopoly wouldn't bother me if there were an actual choice of service providers, I'd just buy from someone else. (And no, satellite is not enough "choice"). Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at April 04, 2014 02:36 PM (JtwS4) The problem is cost of building and franchise conditions for the competition.

Posted by: YIKES! at April 04, 2014 10:39 AM (mETGQ)

80 41 Moogan McCans, By the tonne love...

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2014 10:39 AM (TE35l)

81 lol! Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) at April 04, 2014 02:38 PM (4df7R) I have an Ewok "Shit Just Got Real" image, but it's saved on my macbook at home.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2014 10:40 AM (da5Wo)

82 controlling media, entertainment, academia and government creates a single minded leviathan that controls the culture Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 02:31 PM (zOTsN) That is why this weighing so heavy on many of us. But just remember, salmon swim upstream.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2014 10:40 AM (IXrOn)

83
I have Hulu, Netflix and Amazon prime, so I still contribute to the beast, and I'm still a sell-out for enjoying my downtime in a way I prefer. The only thing I truly miss is sports. It's going to get difficult in September...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 02:38 PM (fwARV)



   


The NFL is a    PITA, but do they have any kind of online streaming service?    I realize that doesn't help much with college sports, of course,   or hockey.  
 :\

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:40 AM (4df7R)

84 The republican party has only been an evangelical party in three epochs. In the time of Lincoln, the time of reagan and the time of gingrich. For vast swaths of american history, democrats and their preferred policy proscriptions have ruled the day. This is not going to change.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 04, 2014 10:40 AM (PVNda)

85 Oh and good luck with that cable service. Actually this is good news for DirecTV and Dish.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2014 10:40 AM (GXZgZ)

86 I have TWC, which is worlds better, but just as expensive, as the Charter we had up in MA. AT&T Uverse is available in my neighborhood now but I've held off on making the switch. Dealing with any of these companies is a pain in the ass. The Uverse savings are only 20 bucks a month, but this proposed ultra-monopoly might be just the sweetener I need.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 04, 2014 10:40 AM (ZshNr)

87 But just remember, salmon swim upstream.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2014 02:40 PM (IXrOn)

 

Then get eaten by Kodiaks.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2014 10:41 AM (DrWcr)

88 Sherman Anti-Trust Act? Never heard of it

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at April 04, 2014 10:41 AM (kFxpe)

89 Anybody know why the flags are at half mast here?


Is it for Ray Liotta?

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2014 02:39 PM (VhqUZ)



Where are you?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:41 AM (4df7R)

90 Posted by: Karl Rove at April 04, 2014 02:39 PM (8ZskC) Better dream of stopping by my house & forcing me to vote. I have voters glaucoma, I don't see my ass voting

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 04, 2014 10:41 AM (HVff2)

91 Anybody know why the flags are at half mast here? Is it for Ray Liotta? Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2014 02:39 PM (VhqUZ) Just checked. Still alive.

Posted by: Abe Vigoda at April 04, 2014 10:42 AM (mETGQ)

92 I really hope wireless data will eventually get fast enough to destroy the cable monopolies. But they said 4G would do that and it didn't. Now they say 5G (or whatever comes next) will do it. But by then people will be demanding 4k streams for all the video they watch. Comcast's monopoly position is sadly very secure. Maybe Google will lay more fiber. Something.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2014 10:42 AM (ZPrif)

93 Where are you? Tejas.......I looked it up but there's no notification online.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2014 10:42 AM (VhqUZ)

94

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 02:38 PM (fwARV)

 

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At least on the AppleTV, there's a way you can stream games to it.  However, you have to subscribe directly to the NFL's (or MLBs, or NBAs, or NHLs) online sites to get an account.

 

What pisses me off though is at least the NFL still blacks out local games.

Posted by: @JohnTant at April 04, 2014 10:42 AM (PFy0L)

95 How freaking difficult is it to make a winning political argument about how this monopoly will raise costs for the little guy, Joe Sixpack, the middle class? Damn. There's no downside to the GOP to attack this. They need to start painting the Dems as beholden to the rich and well-connected. Can't anyone here play this game?

Posted by: Furious George at April 04, 2014 10:42 AM (yFb77)

96 Direct TV for TV, AT and T uverse for phone and internet. Comcast in TX has always been HORRIBLE, regardless of politics. It sucks

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 10:42 AM (zOTsN)

97

The NFL is a PITA, but do they have any kind of online streaming service? I realize that doesn't help much with college sports, of course, or hockey.
:\

 

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) at April 04, 2014 02:40 PM (4df7R)

 

 

And college sports/hockey is really all I'm interested in.  So.  Looks like I need to find a Penn State bar.  If, of course, you'll let me out of the basement.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 10:42 AM (fwARV)

98 Conservatives need to find some way to promote competition among the cable companies, at least for high-speed Internet (which, I suspect, is a big reason many people have cable). I just recently moved to Texas; the process of signing up for and getting electricity was more modern and easier to do online than the process of signing up for cable Internet. I was able to complete the electricity sign up before arriving and it was on and ready for us when we pulled in the driveway. Time-Warner required that we be there to sign up and—despite this—assumed that we had high-speed Internet during the signup process. (Their timeout was low enough that trying to sign up over 3G was doomed to failure.) The difference, I suspect, is that electricity is open to competition in Round Rock, but cable is not.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 04, 2014 10:43 AM (WX3R9)

99 I thought Ace was a chick! Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 02:33 PM (zOTsN) A hairy, french chick, even.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2014 10:43 AM (IXrOn)

100 Then get eaten by Kodiaks.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2014 02:41 PM (DrWcr)



Aaaaand I read that as "Then get eaten by KODAKS."     Which   conjures a whole bunch of bizarre mental images.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:43 AM (4df7R)

101 We need AllenG and his rant right about now.

Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2014 10:43 AM (QFEAP)

102 I resisted the temptation to Bingle Ray Liotta.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Other at April 04, 2014 10:43 AM (RwwCT)

103 Easy answer:  Everybody short Comcast this afternoon, and the deal will fall through.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 04, 2014 10:43 AM (0Jb7F)

104

New thread, filled with the fresh-baked aromas of despair.   I love it.

 

This merger will create the most powerful media complex ever unless it develops certain problems that other mergers have  (such as organizational incompatability)  and eventually craters under its own weight.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Days of Rage Sale at the Outrage Outlet! at April 04, 2014 10:43 AM (hLRSq)

105 alright ace.. so we see this an none of our betters supposedly on Our side fighting this and many many other things. so what now?

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 10:43 AM (nqBYe)

106 Wait, why should the GOP make an issue of this merger? Most mergers should happen without governmental interference. I prefer to get rid of cronyism that make it worse.

Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 10:43 AM (gmeXX)

107 >>But just remember, salmon swim upstream.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette

Then get eaten by Kodiaks.
Posted by: Insomniac

I thought my camera smelled fishy.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:44 AM (TB4sJ)

108 Antitrust??? No, I implicitly trust Comcast to cover my ass 100% of the time.

Posted by: Preznit 404 at April 04, 2014 10:44 AM (kFxpe)

109 91 Just checked. Still alive. Posted by: Abe Vigoda at April 04, 2014 02:42 PM (mETGQ) "Good morning, good mooorning!" --Debbie Reynolds

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2014 10:44 AM (CMkNk)

110
And college sports/hockey is really all I'm interested in. So. Looks like I need to find a Penn State bar. If, of course, you'll let me out of the basement.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 02:42 PM (fwARV)



I dunno...  You might have to go all the way to Pennsylvania for a Penn State bar, and that would be an awful long time to let you roam free.   I'll just have to accompany you.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:44 AM (4df7R)

111 Aaaaand I read that as "Then get eaten by KODAKS." Which conjures a whole bunch of bizarre mental images.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) at April 04, 2014 02:43 PM (4df7R)

 

The cameras hunger for flesh.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2014 10:44 AM (DrWcr)

112 in Texas they are at half mast for Ft Hood

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 10:44 AM (zOTsN)

113

so what now?

 

 

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 02:43 PM (nqBYe)

 

Stand by to stand by.  Keep your powder dry.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 10:44 AM (fwARV)

114 I'm listening to the Boston Red Sox broadcast on my tablet right now. It's the lower tier of MLBtv subscription. About 25 bucks for all the radio broadcasts of virtually every MLB game all season, with graphics, stats, highlight vids, etc. To get the video broadcast is over 100 bucks and useless to me as I like to listen. Maybe the NFL has a similar pkg?

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 04, 2014 10:44 AM (ZshNr)

115 And college sports/hockey is really all I'm interested in. So. Looks like I need to find a Penn State bar. If, of course, you'll let me out of the basement. Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 02:42 PM (fwARV) Big 10 app of some kind out there. My oldest in st Lou watches gopher hockey on her tab. Don't ask me how I'm an old fuddy

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 04, 2014 10:44 AM (HVff2)

116 Germany Opens Hearings On NSA Spying, Want To Offer Safe Passage For Snowden To Come To Berlin

Posted by: Worf Muckerberg at April 04, 2014 10:45 AM (e8kgV)

117 HR, lol, well we could help by signing of comcast stuff, but i'm not certain how much it would damage their pocketbook at this point?

Yeah, I don't know.  In a lot of communities they supply broadband internet, not just cable, and if they're the only option you're going to miss all the conservative streamable alternatives without broadband. The whole family can't sit around and watch a phone.  So now you've cut off your nose to spite your face, how's that gonna work out?

(I've been without cable since 2006, not out of any ideological pique but because I'm naturally reclusive and it's too easy to spend every night home alone with the tube, and no cable = more money to go to places where there are people.  But I find the "you guys are all destroying American by being entertained!" guy funny.)

Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 10:45 AM (ZKzrr)

118 On flags, I think it is for Fort Hood shooting.

Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 10:45 AM (gmeXX)

119 I thought Ace was a chick! Little known fact: a group of ewoks, during the rutting season, is known scientifically as a “chick” of ewoks.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 04, 2014 10:45 AM (WX3R9)

120 The only thing John Boehner is on top of is a tray of Harvey Wallbangers. Fucking drunken Quisling.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2014 10:45 AM (CMkNk)

121 controlling media, entertainment, academia and government creates a single minded leviathan that controls the culture Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 02:31 PM (zOTsN) and most of the courts

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2014 10:45 AM (IXrOn)

122 Where are you? Tejas.......I looked it up but there's no notification online. Posted by: eleven Ft Hood

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 10:45 AM (zOTsN)

123 You might have to go all the way to Pennsylvania for a Penn State bar, and that would be an awful long time to let you roam free. I'll just have to accompany you.

 

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) at April 04, 2014 02:44 PM (4df7R)

 

Penn State has the largest alumni organization on the planet.  I'm sure there's something around here...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 10:45 AM (fwARV)

124 Is it for Ray Liotta? Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2014 02:39 PM (VhqUZ) ---- Wait WUT???? Ray Liotta died???

Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2014 10:46 AM (nELVU)

125 Comcast = NBC = MSNBC = DNC = propoganda

Posted by: Joseph Goebbels at April 04, 2014 10:46 AM (kFxpe)

126 Big 10 app of some kind out there. My oldest in st Lou watches gopher hockey on her tab. Don't ask me how I'm an old fuddy

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 04, 2014 02:44 PM (HVff2)



MWR <-- now imagining gophers playing hockey on a frozen pond while cameras snap pictures and snack on fresh salmon    on    the sidelines.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:46 AM (4df7R)

127 Now you know why with its ratings in the toilet, MSLSD and the rest are still on the air.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2014 02:29 PM (CMkNk)

 

Yes, they provide free media service to the Democrats that only the hyper-partisan members of the choir* watch.

Wait a minute - what actual use is that?

 

*And various bloggers looking to score the easy to write post on the iniquities of Ed Schultz.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Days of Rage Sale at the Outrage Outlet! at April 04, 2014 10:46 AM (hLRSq)

128 Speaking of government gone wacko:

Venezuela Decrees "All Properties Leased for 20 Years Will Be Sold to Tenants in 60 Days at Government Set Prices"

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:46 AM (TB4sJ)

129 Tejas.......I looked it up but there's no notification online. Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2014 02:42 PM (VhqUZ) Ummm, I think there was an incident at Ft. Hood? Seriously though, that is what it's for.

Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2014 10:46 AM (fWAjv)

130 so what now? Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 02:43 PM (nqBYe) Stand by to stand by. Keep your powder dry. Posted by: Washington Nearsider Shelter In Place

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 10:46 AM (zOTsN)

131 i cannot even afford powder at this point to keep dry. i will feel awful if i had to live through all this despair shit and still go down while pondering my navel!

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 10:46 AM (nqBYe)

132 Wait WUT???? Ray Liotta died???

Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2014 02:46 PM (nELVU)

 

My sources have confirmed it.

Posted by: Ronan Farrow at April 04, 2014 10:46 AM (DrWcr)

133 Red shirts, my friend. A veritable sea of red shirts, stretching from wall-to-wall in the House and Senate chambers, from north to south and east to west. This is my dream. This is my obsession. Red shirts are the first to die.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2014 10:47 AM (lwkv9)

134 #73 Because if the GOP does, Comcast will say mean things about them and not cover them. >AKA - Business as usual.... One day, I pray, teh Stupid Party(tm) will wake up, and realize those boney thingies in their backs do have a purpose...

Posted by: fred zeppelin at April 04, 2014 10:47 AM (zL/eJ)

135 The beauty of capitalism is that once Comcast has put this beast together, someone like the Kochs or Murdoch can buy as little as 5% and end up with control.

Posted by: jwest at April 04, 2014 10:47 AM (u2a4R)

136 Not the hill to die on, my friends. *hic* Posted by: John Boehner at April 04, 2014 02:25 PM (8ZskC) ****** Heh. I remember endless hearing that line, then spoken not in jest, that gay marriage, debt ceilings, deficits, etc, etc, etc, wasn't the hill worth fighting and dying on. It seemed like all issues, both big and small seemed to be "not worth it." I remain...skeptical...of this. I guess I would say that if you can't fight for the small issues, what makes you think you will fight for the large issues, when the stakes are much higher?

Posted by: Taco Shack at April 04, 2014 10:47 AM (C+qQ0)

137 at least for high-speed Internet (which, I suspect, is a big reason many people have cable). You folks are being ripped off big time.

Posted by: Estonia faster and cheaper internet than USofA at April 04, 2014 10:47 AM (mETGQ)

138 I do think Comcast is vulnerable to antitrust law -- force them to split into 2 companies -- one owns the pipes, one owns the content. Comcast regularly abuses their monopoly. Comcast puts Comcast-owned CNBC right next to the other cable news networks. Comcast puts Fox Business Network a hundred channels higher. Comcast puts Comcast-owned NBCSports right next to ESPN and ESPN2. Comcast puts Fox Sports all by itself elsewhere on the dial. Comcast also puts there regional sports networks right next to ESPN. It's a small thing, but it's big. There's no need to remember where MSNBC or CNBC are -- they are in the "news block" of channels. There's no need to remember where NBCSports or the regional Comcast sports network is -- they are in the "sports block". A company should be able to own the pipes or the content, but not both. Too much temptation. Too much room for abuse.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2014 10:48 AM (ZPrif)

139 Penn State has the largest alumni organization on the planet. I'm sure there's something around here...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 02:45 PM (fwARV)



There there.  I'm sure we can find you something.   NH's a bit lacking in bars, though, what with all the flannel and moose and moose-in-flannel.  Might have to venture across the border into *shudder* Mass.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:48 AM (4df7R)

140 Maybe the NFL has a similar pkg?

The last time I checked, that package was available outside the US only.  But it's been a few years since I checked.

What pisses me off though isat least the NFLstill blacks out local games.

I would say "digital antenna" but if you don't live directly under the tower, it's all pixelated. The move to digital broadcasting sucked.

Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 10:48 AM (ZKzrr)

141

Shelter In Place

 

 

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 02:46 PM (zOTsN)

 

Fuck that shit in particular.  I'm on the Emergency Response Team here at Commerce.  We literally instruct people to lock the door and cower under the desk in the event of an active shooter.  Nevermind the fact that we have vests and an arms locker right down the damned hall. 

 

I did not come home from over there to get shot under my desk over here. 

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 10:48 AM (fwARV)

142 If it were not for sports, I would drop my cable. But I'm a fan of most everything other than pro basketball and auto racing. I don't watch news or any tv shows, but I have sports on all the time in some form or another.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 04, 2014 10:48 AM (oMKp3)

143 Critics of the deal say it would lessen competition and lead to even shoddier customer service. ---- To this, I say so what. First of all, it is pure speculation. Second of all, there really isn't less competition. I'm not willing to act like Democrats everytime two companies want to merge. As a Continental customer, I hate the United - Continental merger. But there is no reason the government should have the power to stop it.

Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 10:48 AM (gmeXX)

144 I've got Comcast, is there a better, cheaper alternative out there?

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2014 10:48 AM (P1WNR)

145 Yeah. I'm sure Ace hates being 6'1. Hmm, I thought he was nicknamed "ewok" by a roommate who observed he was short and hairy. Ironic nickname?

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at April 04, 2014 10:48 AM (qKrH5)

146 I do think Comcast is vulnerable to antitrust law -- force them to split into 2 companies -- one owns the pipes, one owns the content. DoJ gonna get right on that right after they go after Lois Lerner

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 10:49 AM (zOTsN)

147
Venezuela Decrees "All Properties Leased for 20 Years Will Be Sold to Tenants in 60 Days at Government Set Prices"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 04, 2014 02:46 PM (TB4sJ)



Oh, sure,   why not?


I wonder how many gubmint buildings are leased?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:49 AM (4df7R)

148 And I mean, leased by the gubmint.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:49 AM (4df7R)

149 Wait WUT???? Ray Liotta died??? Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2014 02:46 PM (nELVU) My sources have confirmed it. Posted by: Ronan Farrow at April 04, 2014 02:46 PM (DrWcr) Think I'm gonna outlive your show.

Posted by: Abe Vigoda at April 04, 2014 10:49 AM (mETGQ)

150 Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 02:45 PM (ZKzrr) Listen if I made every decision based on politics, I'd be want for entertainment, beer and good food.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 04, 2014 10:49 AM (HDwDg)

151 Or rather, the gubmint pays a lease.   Oh you know what I mean.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:49 AM (4df7R)

152

Ironic nickname?

 

Posted by: bonhomme at April 04, 2014 02:48 PM (qKrH5

 

No.  An acknowledgement that MWR's like 9 feet tall.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 10:50 AM (fwARV)

153 Yeah. I'm sure Ace hates being 6'1. Hmm, I thought he was nicknamed "ewok" by a roommate who observed he was short and hairy. Ironic nickname? Posted by: bonhomme Hairy and 6'1" means Wookie and there can only be one

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 10:50 AM (zOTsN)

154 #34

You need to read up on the concept of 'bundling.' When it comes to corporate bigwigs, campaign finance limits are a joke.

Posted by: Epobirs at April 04, 2014 10:50 AM (bPxS6)

155 Cubs home run !! This is the year !!

Posted by: grammie winger at April 04, 2014 10:50 AM (oMKp3)

156 Wait WUT???? Ray Liotta died??? According to my sources at AOSHQ.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2014 10:50 AM (GXZgZ)

157

 will feel awful if i had to live through all this despair shit and still go down while pondering my navel!

 

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 02:46 PM (nqBYe)

 

That's why you have us.  Who's got the Willow Watch this month?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 10:50 AM (fwARV)

158 MSNBC is a profit center. As is CNN. News is cheap to produce and gets decent ratings. News and chat shows are everywhere because they are cheap and make money. They do decent ratings and are much cheaper to produce than scripted content.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2014 10:51 AM (ZPrif)

159 I'm opposed to be opposed to corporate mergers on principal. That being said, I can't think of one thing that would make the GOP look any more unhip than it is already perceived. The party of big business now wanting to prevent two big businesses in a dying industry from merging. Let them merger.

Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 10:51 AM (gmeXX)

160 Who's got the Willow Watch this month?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 02:50 PM (fwARV)

 

*cough*

Posted by: NSA at April 04, 2014 10:51 AM (DrWcr)

161 I can confirm Ray Liotta is dead.

Posted by: Jeff Goldblum's Ghost at April 04, 2014 10:51 AM (P1WNR)

162

*cough*

 

 

Posted by: NSA at April 04, 2014 02:51 PM (DrWcr)

 

 

Roger that.  I'll get willow.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 10:52 AM (fwARV)

163 Cubs home run !! This is the year !! Posted by: grammie winger at April 04, 2014 02:50 PM (oMKp3) ---- I am sorry to inform you that the Cubs were mathematically eliminated from playoff contention today.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2014 10:52 AM (nELVU)

164 I'm a terrible typist today. I'm modifying: I'm opposed to beING opposed to corporate mergers on principal. That being said, I can't think of one thing that would make the GOP look any more unhip than it is already perceived. The party of big business now wanting to prevent two big businesses in a dying industry from merging.

Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 10:52 AM (gmeXX)

165 No. An acknowledgement that MWR's like 9 feet tall.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 02:50 PM (fwARV)



Am not!   Six feet, max.   The hair just adds another foot when it's humid.



Listen if I made every decision based on politics, I'd be want for entertainment, beer and good food.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 04, 2014 02:49 PM (HDwDg)



Are we not entertaining enough for you?    *sniffle*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:52 AM (4df7R)

166 Cubs home run !! This is the year !! Posted by: grammie winger at April 04, 2014 02:50 PM (oMKp3) Unlikely.

Posted by: The rest of the NLC at April 04, 2014 10:52 AM (HDwDg)

167 There's no downside to the GOP to attack this.

Yeah, this is the "biggest no-brainer in the history of Earth", to quote an annoying radio ad.  There is literally no downside to being mean to cable companies in public.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2014 10:52 AM (B/VB5)

168 When it comes to corporate bigwigs, campaign finance limits are a joke. Yes. Like all financial laws, if you have money, you have a way around it. They’re not meant for the establishment. “When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 04, 2014 10:52 AM (WX3R9)

169

That's why you have us. Who's got the Willow Watch this month?

 

--

 

Not    me, if all I get to see is the navel....

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 04, 2014 10:52 AM (0Jb7F)

170 Are we not entertaining enough for you? *sniffle*

Yes, but you are not beer.  :-D

Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 10:53 AM (ZKzrr)

171

Listen if I made every decision based on politics, I'd be want for entertainment, beer and good food.

 

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 04, 2014 02:49 PM (HDwDg)

 

 

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED??!!

 

/The Horde


Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 10:53 AM (fwARV)

172 I've got Comcast, is there a better, cheaper alternative out there? Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2014 02:48 PM (P1WNR) If your thinking in terms of another cable provider which would be called an overbuild it's financially not feasible.

Posted by: YIKES! at April 04, 2014 10:53 AM (mETGQ)

173 I'm not dead, but Christine O'Donnell turned me into a newt.

Posted by: Ray Liotta at April 04, 2014 10:53 AM (nEIMV)

174 Are we not entertaining enough for you? *sniffle* Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) at April 04, 2014 02:52 PM (4df7R) Fair enough point. In fact y'all entertain me too much. Damn me getting involved here what, 6 years back now. I'd probably have 2 PhDs if I didn't waste so much time here

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 04, 2014 10:53 AM (HDwDg)

175 I am sorry to inform you that the Cubs were mathematically eliminated from playoff contention today.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2014 02:52 PM (nELVU)



In other breaking sports news, the Cleveland Browns have been eliminated from playoff contention   today, too.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:53 AM (4df7R)

176 A La Carte

Posted by: AmishDude at April 04, 2014 10:53 AM (T0NGe)

177 160 - Who's got the Willow Watch this month? Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 02:50 PM (fwARV) *cough* >> Hey buddy, watch your proxy...

Posted by: NRO Watch Desk at April 04, 2014 10:53 AM (zL/eJ)

178 Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2014 02:39 PM (VhqUZ) ***** Damn you and your trickery. Damn you to heck.

Posted by: Taco Shack at April 04, 2014 10:53 AM (C+qQ0)

179

Not me, if all I get to see is the navel....

 

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 04, 2014 02:52 PM (0Jb7F)

 

Just think, as the conflict (however it ends up defining itself) runs on, we'll need pieces of shirts for field dressings...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 10:54 AM (fwARV)

180 Right, that's what Comcast is paying for. First, they are paying for their acquisitions to be approved. Basic logic is -- satellite TV is a competitor so not a monopoly. And wireless data is a competitor on the internet side so not a monopoly there either. Second, they are paying to keep the Feds off their back and not launch antitrust investigations that could force them to divest. This content or pipes situation is the same deal that the Feds used on the old Hollywood Studio System when the Feds forced Hollywood to sell off the movie theaters. So Disney makes movies, but doesn't get to own Regal Cinemas. They were forced to pick, content or pipes (delivery system). Content is king, so the studios wisely chose to hold onto the IP and sell off the theater chains.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2014 10:54 AM (ZPrif)

181 Yes, but you are not beer. :-D

Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 02:53 PM (ZKzrr)



...Good   point.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:54 AM (4df7R)

182 Who was it here that had that family issue they refused to discuss with strangers? And what happened with that?

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2014 10:55 AM (P1WNR)

183 Cubs home run !! This is the year !! I pity you.

Posted by: Astros fan at April 04, 2014 10:55 AM (VhqUZ)

184 172 I've got Comcast, is there a better, cheaper alternative out there? Same here. I pay Comcast $200/month for 100mbs internet and 6 phone lines. No other company is offering anything better.

Posted by: jwest at April 04, 2014 10:55 AM (u2a4R)

185 Just think, as the conflict (however it ends up defining itself) runs on, we'll need pieces of shirts for field dressings...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 02:54 PM (fwARV)



See, these are the important things to remember, folks.    Forethought.      pays off.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:55 AM (4df7R)

186 Yep -- everybody hates their cable provider. Where is Lee Atwater when you need him? Repubs should daily be tying Comcast to the Dems.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2014 10:56 AM (ZPrif)

187 If the stupid party had a pair among the lot of them they would make Comcast agree to unbundle as the price of approval for this merger.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 04, 2014 10:56 AM (ojnk6)

188 Cubs home run !! This is the year !! I pity you. Posted by: Astros fan amateurs

Posted by: Mets Fan at April 04, 2014 10:56 AM (zOTsN)

189 Brewers 2, Red Sox 1, in the Second.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 04, 2014 10:56 AM (ZshNr)

190 Somewhat apropos of this is RedLetterMedia's summer movie roundup: http://redlettermedia.com/rlms-summer-movie-round-up/#more-4320 Only about 3 minutes but NSFW b/c language.

Posted by: AmishDude at April 04, 2014 10:56 AM (T0NGe)

191 Who was it here that had that family issue they refused to discuss with strangers? And what happened with that?

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2014 02:55 PM (P1WNR)



Like     they're    gonna tell you.




Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:56 AM (4df7R)

192 ATT Uverse or whatever is constantly sending me shit, are they worth a try?

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2014 10:56 AM (P1WNR)

193 You know the game is rigged, when Comcrap goes to our County, asking for a rate increase, due to competition and increased costs, then fights tooth\nail against FIOS trying to gain entry, and how unsafe it is to have SatDishes on the houses. The Irony is so thick, you'd need a lightsabre to cut it...

Posted by: fred zeppelin at April 04, 2014 10:57 AM (zL/eJ)

194 Cubs home run !! This is the year !!


I pity you.

Posted by: Astros fan



amateurs

Posted by: Mets Fan at April 04, 2014 02:56 PM (zOTsN)




"*SOB*"


-Royals

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:57 AM (4df7R)

195 If the stupid party had a pair among the lot of them they would make Comcast agree to unbundle as the price of approval for this merger. --- That is much smarter than Continetti's idea that the GOP ought to oppose this because the Dems would.

Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 10:57 AM (gmeXX)

196 Listen if I made every decision based on politics, I'd be want for entertainment, beer and good food.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 04, 2014 02:49 PM (HDwDg)

 

 

If I made every decision based on politics I'd be a Leftist.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Days of Rage Sale at the Outrage Outlet! at April 04, 2014 10:57 AM (hLRSq)

197 Brewers 2, Red Sox 1, in the Second.

My IT Dept has failed to protect me from ESPN Gamecast, which feels like a trap. 

Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 10:58 AM (ZKzrr)

198 Only hope for overbuild is fiber from companies like Google or Verizon. But that build out is slow as hell. Other than that it's mainly a hope for big jumps in wireless data speeds.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2014 10:58 AM (ZPrif)

199 Who's got the Willow Watch this month? Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 02:50 PM (fwARV) *cough* Posted by: NSA at April 04, 2014 02:51 PM (DrWcr) well alright, but i am thinking of washing the gray stress out of my hair, so , what do you think? and look i know i've put on 8 lbs this winter but can you just be polite about it?

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 10:58 AM (nqBYe)

200 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2014 02:54 PM (ZPrif) I'd argue there is still no wireless competitor though. at least not a serious one. LTE is nice, but it pales in comparison too hard lines. And as politically connected as the owner of LightSquared was, even he couldn't buy off the right people to implement that POS.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 04, 2014 10:58 AM (HDwDg)

201

Maybe if the government would keep their noses out of business world, there'd be more competition.   More people to create more imaginative ways to bring a product to market.

 

As it stands now, with this  government-fellated merger, smaller companies won't be able to even get started.   Crony corporations like Comcast will end up owning the intertubes also.  Just watch.  It's coming.

Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2014 10:58 AM (QFEAP)

202 when Comcrap goes to our County, asking for a rate increase, ---- Ugh. Why does Comcast need to ask any government for a rate increase. If they want to increase the rate, they should do so. We really have things backwards, don't we.

Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 10:58 AM (gmeXX)

203 "*SOB*" -Royals Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) at April 04, 2014 02:57 PM (4df7R) --- Oh No You Didnt.....

Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2014 10:59 AM (nELVU)

204 I would say "digital antenna" but if you don't live directly under the tower, it's all pixelated. The move to digital broadcasting sucked. Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 02:48 PM (ZKzrr) One of the worst things that the gubmint did to rural people

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 04, 2014 10:59 AM (HVff2)

205 You know, I've often lauded Time Warner Cable News (formerly YNN) as one of the last, if not THE last unbiased news source in America. They've always played it straight down the middle, and I truly appreciated that. So now, I am sure, that will be taken away from me in lieu of moar Liberal Bias. Great. Really fucking great.

Posted by: Citizen X at April 04, 2014 10:59 AM (7ObY1)

206 My IT Dept has failed to protect me from ESPN Gamecast, which feels like a trap.

Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 02:58 PM (ZKzrr)



Sometimes my IT department will let me actually    access YouTube or Facebook.   Then when I try again later it'll be gone.  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 10:59 AM (4df7R)

207 Ugh. Why does Comcast need to ask any government for a rate increase. If they want to increase the rate, they should do so. We really have things backwards, don't we. Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 02:58 PM (gmeXX) Presumably, because they are granted a legal monopoly by that county.

Posted by: AmishDude at April 04, 2014 10:59 AM (T0NGe)

208
The Senate voted unanimously to confirm President ObamaÂ’s two nominations to the Federal Communications Commission. Tom Wheeler was confirmed, along with Michael OÂ’Rielly as a commissioner, filling the two F.C.C. seats that have been empty since the previous chairman and a Republican member announced their resignations.




You're welcome.  We probably should have cleared up this whole merger thing first, but on the upside --- we got free HBO! And in time for the new season of Game of Thrones!

Posted by: The Republicans

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 04, 2014 11:00 AM (kdS6q)

209 128 Speaking of government gone wacko: Venezuela Decrees "All Properties Leased for 20 Years Will Be Sold to Tenants in 60 Days at Government Set Prices" Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 04, 2014 02:46 PM (TB4sJ) They're just on an earlier train...

Posted by: Temper Tantrum (now with chrome clone Iron) at April 04, 2014 11:00 AM (AWmfW)

210

well alright, but i am thinking of washing the gray stress out of my hair, so , what do you think?
and look i know i've put on 8 lbs this winter but can you just be polite about it?

 

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 02:58 PM (nqBYe)

 

Tell you what - I'll bake and cook.  You just have your pallet ready to go when the SHTF.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 11:01 AM (fwARV)

211 You folks are being ripped off big time. Posted by: Estonia faster and cheaper internet than USofA Estonia: 17,462 sq miles USA: 3,794,000 sq miles So you could fit about 217 Estonias in the United States. Estonia population: 1.34 million. USA population: ~330 million.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at April 04, 2014 11:01 AM (qKrH5)

212
One of the worst things that the gubmint did to rural people

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 04, 2014 02:59 PM (HVff2)



"Then they should just move to the city.   DUH."



-Gubmint meddlers

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:01 AM (4df7R)

213 Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2014 02:56 PM (P1WNR) I personally like it. There are a few really weird drawbacks. Unlike Charter we have to pay for more speed (charter's base speeds are much higher.) But Charter had other problems (the central pipe in our apartment complex simply couldn't handle the load. We've never had them at the house.) We actually get a better channel line up than we would with charter, but the trade off is we pay for HD. (But get a DVR free, so, it's almost net 0.) With Uverse though you do need a receiver per TV (you might not with cable). On the flip side they make wireless receivers (so we won't have to pull wires into our fireplace room when we get a second TV.) We've had a few connection issues lately, but apparently our plug in the central box broke, which I suppose could happen with cable too.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 04, 2014 11:01 AM (HDwDg)

214 Presumably, because they are granted a legal monopoly by that county. ---- Exactly, why was the government granting legal monopolies. In any event, that monopoly no longer exists in reality.

Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 11:01 AM (gmeXX)

215 Tsunami. November.

Posted by: Soothsayer, corn bread assassin at April 04, 2014 11:01 AM (VlefE)

216 FAUX NEWS!!!!1!!!!1!!!

Posted by: Progressive Pug at April 04, 2014 11:01 AM (vFh9Q)

217 Hey jest maybe you should give em more money and get better service 184 172 I've got Comcast, is there a better, cheaper alternative out there? Same here. I pay Comcast $200/month for 100mbs internet and 6 phone lines. No other company is offering anything better. Posted by: jwest at April 04, 2014 02:55 PM (u2a4R)

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 04, 2014 11:01 AM (HVff2)

218

Somewhat apropos of this is RedLetterMedia's summer movie roundup:

 


http://redlettermedia.com/rlms-summer-movie-round-up/#more-4320

Only about 3 minutes but NSFW b/c language.

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

On TMNT the guy says "I hear the movie is so bad they're not screening it for audiences!"

I'm still laughing.

Posted by: @JohnTant at April 04, 2014 11:02 AM (PFy0L)

219 when the SHTF I will bake and provide cake and pie. And comforting homemade vanilla custard

Posted by: Mets Fan at April 04, 2014 11:03 AM (zOTsN)

220 I've got Comcast, is there a better, cheaper alternative out there? Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2014 02:48 PM (P1WNR) FiOS + Roku?

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at April 04, 2014 11:03 AM (qKrH5)

221 The crazy thing is Abe Vigoda already has a ghost. It just sits around watching Telemundo all day.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2014 11:03 AM (GXZgZ)

222 Guess the stock market doesn't like the jobs report.

Posted by: YIKES! at April 04, 2014 11:03 AM (mETGQ)

223 Exactly, why was the government granting legal monopolies. In any event, that monopoly no longer exists in reality. Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 03:01 PM (gmeXX) Presumably this is because the cable infrastructure requires a monopoly of that particular service. I.e., you can't have 100 cable companies because of all of the wiring. One set of cables, one company. Even though cable has competing industries (satellite), there are advantages to that particular format that make it monopolistic, regardless of that competition.

Posted by: AmishDude at April 04, 2014 11:04 AM (T0NGe)

224 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) at April 04, 2014 03:01 PM (4df7R) Can't go urban Beth, I'm a hater or something

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 04, 2014 11:04 AM (HVff2)

225 we need a thread on what we will bring when the SHTF

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 11:05 AM (zOTsN)

226 we need a thread on what we will bring when the SHTF

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 03:05 PM (zOTsN)



I will bring myself.   BOOM.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:05 AM (4df7R)

227 Mrs. Wisenheimer works for one of the cable companies involved, and the takeover has been considered a done deal for some time. TWC has been modifying its service features, procedures and terminology to conform to Comcast's over the past year. This will fly right through FCC approval.

This deal was worked out on a golf course long ago.

Posted by: wisenheimer at April 04, 2014 11:05 AM (HynLZ)

228 Posted by: YIKES! at April 04, 2014 03:03 PM (mETGQ) It was a shitty jobs report.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 04, 2014 11:05 AM (HDwDg)

229

I dunno... You might have to go all the way to Pennsylvania for a Penn State bar, and that would be an awful long time to let you roam free. I'll just have to accompany you.

 

PSU MoMe at the Skeller!

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at April 04, 2014 11:06 AM (JtwS4)

230 we need a thread on what we will bring when the SHTF

I can make pie, and 83 cubic yards of cotton plainweave fabric.  (I may have a problem.)

Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 11:06 AM (ZKzrr)

231 225 we need a thread on what we will bring when the SHTF Posted by: thunderb



Cleaning products, obviously.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2014 11:06 AM (P1WNR)

232 Also, I will bring  it.


Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:06 AM (4df7R)

233 Even though cable has competing industries (satellite), there are advantages to that particular format that make it monopolistic, regardless of that competition. --- No what makes it monopolistic is the power of the state.

Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 11:06 AM (gmeXX)

234 Presumably this is because the cable infrastructure requires a monopoly of that particular service. I.e., you can't have 100 cable companies because of all of the wiring. One set of cables, one company. Even though cable has competing industries (satellite), there are advantages to that particular format that make it monopolistic, regardless of that competition. Posted by: AmishDude infrastructure is why AT and T had a monopoly for so many years and why they broke them up

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 11:06 AM (zOTsN)

235 One of his major sponsors (Lifelock?) dropped him then changed their mind Rush said no. Posted by: YIKES! at April 04, 2014 02:19 PM (mETGQ) ------- I can bring a nice jello salad.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 04, 2014 11:06 AM (ojnk6)

236 When the SHTF I will bring Lutefisk.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Unrepetant Skandi at April 04, 2014 11:06 AM (32Ze2)

237

we need a thread on what we will bring when the SHTF

 

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 03:05 PM (zOTsN)

 

And rally points. 

 

I'll bring boyish good looks, southern charm, humor and brownies.  Oh.  Weapons and ammo, too.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 11:07 AM (fwARV)

238 Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 03:06 PM (ZKzrr I can make beer. (Which I know seems to contradict my earlier statement but the grain also comes from liberal hipsters who own the homebrew shop.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 04, 2014 11:07 AM (HDwDg)

239 we need a thread on what we will bring when the SHTF

Posted by: thunderb



Cleaning products, obviously.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2014 03:06 PM (P1WNR)



replacement    fan parts, too.   And toilets.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:07 AM (4df7R)

240 TP for barter

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 11:07 AM (zOTsN)

241 Monopolies built by the Companies are bad. Monopolies granted by government are good.

Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 11:07 AM (gmeXX)

242

PSU MoMe at the Skeller!

 

 

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at April 04, 2014 03:06 PM (JtwS4)

 

 

Oh HELL yes.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 11:08 AM (fwARV)

243 Don't bury me, I'M NOT DEAD!

Posted by: Ray Liotta at April 04, 2014 11:08 AM (DErq5)

244 235 Sorry, serious copy and paste fail.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 04, 2014 11:08 AM (ojnk6)

245 I'll bring boyish good looks, southern charm, humor and brownies. Oh. Weapons and ammo, too.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 03:07 PM (fwARV)



Trying to decide which of these is most important...   

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:08 AM (4df7R)

246 When the SHTF I will bring Lutefisk. Posted by: Truck Monkey WTF? to throw at the enemy?

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 11:08 AM (zOTsN)

247 Oh good news horde. If I understood the landscaper correctly, he's going to fix the storm damage for the cost of the dirt

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 04, 2014 11:08 AM (HDwDg)

248 236 When the SHTF I will bring Lutefisk.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Unrepetant Skandi at April 04, 2014 03:06 PM (32Ze2)

 

Is that classified as a chemical or a biological weapon?

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2014 11:09 AM (DrWcr)

249

Man ... I might have to draw the line here.

 

Look, no one is more down with the struggle than I. But digital streaming rocks. I lose that ... and I'm starting The Burning Times. Don't test me.

 

And Heather, no I did not know about the speech in Indy, but I have been to Cabela's in Louisville. Other than the used gun section, it's really not much to see.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 04, 2014 11:09 AM (khRXu)

250 I'll bring a hotdish, and a nice jello salad.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 04, 2014 11:09 AM (oMKp3)

251 I'll bring toilet paper!

Posted by: @JohnTant at April 04, 2014 11:09 AM (PFy0L)

252 I'll bring cigs and e-cigs/nicotine juice....and chocolate.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at April 04, 2014 11:09 AM (bCEmE)

253

Trying to decide which of these is most important...

 

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) at April 04, 2014 03:08 PM (4df7R)

 

 

Yes.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 11:09 AM (fwARV)

254 I will also bring shampoo,  a    vacuum,  and the words   "wicked" and    "ayuh."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:09 AM (4df7R)

255 we need a thread on what we will bring when the SHTF Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 03:05 PM (zOTsN) I will bring myself. BOOM. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit i have 5 kids, and 4 with spouses, 5 very small grandchildren, i'm likely a net negative. but i do have Blankets ! i have blankets of all kinds, i'm a beautiful blankey hoarder as i'm always afraid of being cold and homeless, (was a runaway in my youth) and i can cook , not very creatively as i've had to cook for so many people for so many years, but stews, chilis, whatever potatos soups, onion soups, you know boring but edible! over campfires too!

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 11:09 AM (nqBYe)

256 But but but... the eeeevil KOCH BROS contribute eeeeevil donations, so we have to overcome thems!

Posted by: claire cloggenstein, of the california cggensteins at April 04, 2014 11:10 AM (RPDkq)

257 we need a thread on what we will bring when the SHTF Ammo.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2014 11:10 AM (lwkv9)

258

>> :-)

 

You oughta do

(((:~{>

 

Becoz its a Mo

Posted by: Bigby's Salute at April 04, 2014 11:10 AM (3ZtZW)

259 Dear Consumer,

If you like dealing with Comcast, you are going to love dealing with Obamacare. 

Sincerely,
<i>Republicans who tried to tell you.</i>

Posted by: Anchovy at April 04, 2014 11:11 AM (MNxW+)

260 http://tinyurl.com/q9ce3za MSN The Men in Black LOVE then power they took to force Gay Marriage down our throats and are now making up new law wholesale on taxes too! Uncle Sam's Tax Court just ruled that the one-rollover-per-yea​r rule applies to all of a taxpayer's IRAs rather than to each IRA separately. And that ruling, experts say, is in direct conflict with IRS Publication 590, the bible for IRAs. This is as Slo-Joe says "a big fucking deal"... Judge decides "fuck Pub 590 I say all the accounts are one" and VOILA we have new law kids... yup yup rule by regulatory fiat and Judicial Imperialism ROCKS Pub 590's plain language Generally, if you make a tax-free rollover of any part of a distribution from a traditional IRA, you cannot, within a one-year period, make a tax-free rollover of any later distribution from that same IRA. You also cannot make a tax-free rollover of any amount distributed, within the same one-year period, from the IRA into which you made the tax-free rollover. The one-year period begins on the date you receive the IRA distribution, not on the date you roll it over into an IRA. DUmbass motherfucking goddamned lawyers disguised as judges

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2014 11:11 AM (TE35l)

261 Yes.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 03:09 PM (fwARV)



Good boy.  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:11 AM (4df7R)

262 I will also bring shampoo, a vacuum, and the words "wicked" and "ayuh." That's wicked pissah!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2014 11:11 AM (lwkv9)

263 I'll bring a pony.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 04, 2014 11:11 AM (ZshNr)

264

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 03:09 PM (nqBYe)

 

There are no net negatives here.  Bring 'em.  Every new civilization needs minions!

 

Besides, think about how much more you'd prefer your grandkids to grow up properly instead of inculcated with liberalism.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 11:11 AM (fwARV)

265 Even with the shitty jobs report, I heard Nanny Pelousy out there touting that Barack the Magnificent has finally dug us out of the Bush Recession. Serious.....

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Unrepetant Skandi at April 04, 2014 11:11 AM (32Ze2)

266 When the SHTF I will bring Lutefisk. Posted by: Truck Monkey WTF? to throw at the enemy? Posted by: thunderb LOL

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 11:11 AM (nqBYe)

267 259 TrivialPursuer at April 04, 2014 03:11 PM (YlsjN) I ditched them happily for tv two years ago and internet last June.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2014 11:11 AM (TE35l)

268 Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 03:09 PM (nqBYe) Oh, willow ...... I hope you are never ever cold again. Not for a minute.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 04, 2014 11:11 AM (oMKp3)

269 Someone will have to find and bring ace, and maybe 2 co-bloggers.


NO MEATBALLS!

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2014 11:12 AM (P1WNR)

270 I dumped Comcast (cable t.v. and internet) a few months ago and never looked back. They suck ---- People seem to forget that is one of the available choices to make. Its not what I would choose, but you can make it. The only monopolies that exist today are government made.

Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 11:12 AM (gmeXX)

271 Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 03:09 PM (nqBYe)



When the SHTF I am bringing willow   and her brood, because willow    clearly has    epic skills of   blanket hoarding and soup-making,   and also because willow     is magic.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:13 AM (4df7R)

272 O/T... shark tank has a doc.... seems that HHS was starting applications for people for O'Care with info they got from 'state agencies'... and sending them a letter... ie.... padding the O'care numbers for signups...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2014 11:13 AM (84gbM)

273 You folks are being ripped off big time. Posted by: Estonia faster and cheaper internet than USofA Estonia: 17,462 sq miles USA: 3,794,000 sq miles So you could fit about 217 Estonias in the United States. Estonia population: 1.34 million. USA population: ~330 million. Posted by: bonhomme at April 04, 2014 03:01 PM (qKrH5) Smaller than New Hampshire and Vermont combined. Still ranked no. 31 world wide with US at no.32. Hong Kong is no.1. For some reason which includes cell phone technology were always lagging.

Posted by: YIKES! at April 04, 2014 11:13 AM (mETGQ)

274 the Gop/media dynamic is like the dog that lives with a master that beats him regularly but keeps food in the bowl. scraps for life is worth an occasional ass kicking

Posted by: mc at April 04, 2014 11:13 AM (lrfmC)

275 There are no net negatives here. Bring 'em. Every new civilization needs minions! Irish?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2014 11:13 AM (lwkv9)

276 Lutefisk... Ms 10077 will bring the tums Lad10077 the listerine

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2014 11:13 AM (TE35l)

277 That's wicked pissah!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2014 03:11 PM (lwkv9)



Ayuh!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:13 AM (4df7R)

278 Willow is a Witch?

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Unrepetant Skandi at April 04, 2014 11:13 AM (32Ze2)

279 I'll bring light bulbs. I've got enough to light NYCity for approximately 515 years. And art supplies.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 04, 2014 11:13 AM (dfYL9)

280 What does our bloviating bullshit investment banker say? I suppose this is the so cons fault. If only they believed in monopolistic rule they would win elections.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 04, 2014 11:14 AM (HVff2)

281 hubby has access to several flying machines. I will bring that

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 11:14 AM (zOTsN)

282 Will there be bacon?

Posted by: @JohnTant at April 04, 2014 11:14 AM (PFy0L)

283 239 we need a thread on what we will bring when the SHTF I'll bring the Elk-skinnin' and the shoe cobblin'

Posted by: Citizen X at April 04, 2014 11:14 AM (7ObY1)

284 277 Lutefisk... Ms 10077 will bring the tums Lad10077 the listerine Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2014 03:13 PM (TE35l) Me? I would rather eat paste

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 04, 2014 11:15 AM (HVff2)

285 Willow is a Witch?

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Unrepetant Skandi at April 04, 2014 03:13 PM (32Ze2)



When willow arrives late to a thread, a new thread is   posted almost immediately.    *wiggles fingers mysteriously*   Maaaaaagic.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:15 AM (4df7R)

286 (Which I know seems to contradict my earlier statement but the grain also comes from liberal hipsters who own the homebrew shop.)

I did not ask anyone at the homebrew shop about their politics.  I just told them it was my first time so please go slow.  *lol*


(Art quilters are all Communists (except me).  All about the free shit.  Then they wonder why Americans don't make "buying art" a priority.   Because we have no fucking money left after we pay for your free shit....duh.)

Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 11:15 AM (ZKzrr)

287 283 Will there be bacon? Yeah, but canned. Still...BACON!

Posted by: Citizen X at April 04, 2014 11:15 AM (7ObY1)

288

Satellite Radio executives will not like  the ease of approving this merger with what they had to go through. 

Posted by: polynikes at April 04, 2014 11:15 AM (m2CN7)

289 Will there be bacon?

Posted by: @JohnTant at April 04, 2014 03:14 PM (PFy0L)



Depends.   You gonna bring some?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:15 AM (4df7R)

290 I volunteer to assist the post-burning-times repopulation effort.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2014 11:15 AM (DrWcr)

291 Me? I would rather eat paste You too? Mmmmm...paste.

Posted by: Joey Plugs Biden at April 04, 2014 11:15 AM (7ObY1)

292 I will bring a pen and a phone.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at April 04, 2014 11:16 AM (JtwS4)

293 NCJ will bring Spam, no doubt.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at April 04, 2014 11:16 AM (bCEmE)

294 I confess to a large amount of hoarded rum, whiskey, brandy and vodka. In restaurant supply quantities. I could bring those if anyone's interested in drinking thru the burning times.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 04, 2014 11:16 AM (oMKp3)

295 Will there be bacon? With a "101 Ways to Cook Long Pig" cook book? Yes.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2014 11:16 AM (lwkv9)

296 Swedish Meatballs and Lingonberry Sauce is a must too. Oh, and Ginger Snaps.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Unrepetant Skandi at April 04, 2014 11:16 AM (32Ze2)

297 The Kochbrothers being demonized by the extreme left like Sarah Palin was/is fills me with hope they are abundantly exposeing what this is really all about.  Leftist can't stand any opposition whatsoever by Conservatives and it will be easily apparent to people.

Posted by: ron n. at April 04, 2014 11:16 AM (c7HxG)

298 I volunteer to assist the post-burning-times repopulation effort. Posted by: Insomniac we need one of the docs here to bring antibiotics

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 11:16 AM (zOTsN)

299 (Art quilters are all Communists (except me). All about the free shit. Then they wonder why Americans don't make "buying art" a priority. Because we have no fucking money left after we pay for your free shit....duh.)

Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 03:15 PM (ZKzrr)



You will have  to bring your quilting books when the SHTF, HR.   Then you can teach those of us who can't quilt worth a damn how to do it,   and you can get away from the commies.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:16 AM (4df7R)

300 "President Obama is inside a Chicago steakhouse finishing up a private fundraising meeting, and the reporters traveling with him are where we usually are -- waiting in an underground parking lot with the presidential motorcade. Until a staffer flings open the door of the press van.

“White House press corps, get out. Plans have changed.” We are led back into the building: Obama isn’t going anywhere."

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:16 AM (TB4sJ)

301 I'll bring a toaster. Even if we can't plug it in, we can still fuck it. con brio.

Posted by: Citizen X at April 04, 2014 11:16 AM (7ObY1)

302 Presumably this is because the cable infrastructure requires a monopoly of that particular service. I.e., you can't have 100 cable companies because of all of the wiring. One set of cables, one company.

Even though cable has competing industries (satellite), there are advantages to that particular format that make it monopolistic, regardless of that competition.

Posted by: AmishDude at April 04, 2014 03:04 PM (T0NGe)

 

 

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

 

 

They could  share  or lease into a "main cable".   Railroads do this all the time.   Common trackage might have two or three railroad companies leasing their right to use it. 

 

Main cables  and infrastructure could be built by communities, or better yet, a private entity that is separated from the  actual programing side of the operation.   

Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2014 11:17 AM (QFEAP)

303


Depends. You gonna bring some?

 

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I was going to barter with toilet paper and a box of 30-30.

Posted by: @JohnTant at April 04, 2014 11:17 AM (PFy0L)

304 What does our bloviating bullshit investment banker say? I suppose this is the so cons fault. If only they believed in monopolistic rule they would win elections. ----- I'm sure the fictional would be republican if they weren't pro-life voter hates all forms of governmental monopolies and fully believes that Comcast has the right to charge whatever it wants for cable TV.

Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 11:17 AM (gmeXX)

305

I'll bring my boundless optimism, and unshakeable belief that everything will turn out fine.

 

Oh, and if my dredging from that terrible boating accident ever pays off, a shit pot of guns and ammo. Why did I ever put all my rifles on that damn boat.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 04, 2014 11:17 AM (khRXu)

306 Swedish Meatballs and Lingonberry Sauce is a must too. Oh, and Ginger Snaps. Posted by: Truck Monkey mmmmm and spritz butter cookie with colored sugar

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 11:17 AM (zOTsN)

307 >295 I confess to a large amount of hoarded rum, whiskey, brandy and vodka. In restaurant supply quantities. I could bring those if anyone's interested in drinking thru the burning times.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 04, 2014 03:16 PM (oMKp3)<



I will bring the guns and ammo to defend your stash.  If you share.

Posted by: Muad'dib at April 04, 2014 11:17 AM (sjdRT)

308 we need one of the docs here to bring antibiotics Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 03:16 PM (zOTsN) Especially if ace will be with us....he's one sickly ewok.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at April 04, 2014 11:17 AM (bCEmE)

309

And a necromancer.  Someone should bring a necromancer.

 

And then tell me what that means.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at April 04, 2014 11:17 AM (JtwS4)

310 Please don't bring monkeys. I hate monkeys.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 04, 2014 11:17 AM (dfYL9)

311 http://tinyurl.com/lh9z46h Dad of 2d or 3d guy shot says Spc Snowflake Lopez snapped b/c of a leave form delay... yeah definitely the gun's fault and not this "super hero soldier who was looking for help" My wife is a PAC NCO even she gets fucked on leave forms.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2014 11:17 AM (TE35l)

312 I will bring chocolate, and the womenz will love me.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2014 11:18 AM (P1WNR)

313 I confess to a large amount of hoarded rum, whiskey, brandy and vodka. In restaurant supply quantities. I could bring those if anyone's interested in drinking thru the burning times.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 04, 2014 03:16 PM (oMKp3)



That sound you hear, grammie,   is the majority of the Horde corgi-ing their way to your door.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:18 AM (4df7R)

314 Oh, and if my dredging from that terrible boating accident ever pays off, a shit pot of guns and ammo. Why did I ever put all my rifles on that damn boat.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 04, 2014 03:17 PM (khRXu)

 

I know, right?  Seemed like such a good idea at the time...

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2014 11:18 AM (DrWcr)

315 297 Swedish Meatballs and Lingonberry Sauce is a must too. Oh, and Ginger Snaps. Posted by: Truck Monkey, Unrepetant Skandi at April 04, 2014 03:16 PM (32Ze2) I have restaurant sized cans of lingonberries in my emergency storage. No lie.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 04, 2014 11:18 AM (oMKp3)

316 I have a shine box!

Posted by: The Ghost of Tommy DeVito at April 04, 2014 11:18 AM (PFy0L)

317

Posted by: grammie winger at April 04, 2014 03:16 PM (oMKp3)<

 

 

Bring the booze.  I've got many rounds I'm willing to expend protecting your many rounds.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 11:18 AM (fwARV)

318 Gingy will bring the pina colada flavored monkey sex gel.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2014 11:18 AM (DrWcr)

319 I volunteer to assist the post-burning-times repopulation effort. I can't. I went to the vet & got tutored. (H/T Farside)

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2014 11:18 AM (lwkv9)

320 I  will  bring  chocolate  cheesecake  and  guns,  lots  of  guns.

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at April 04, 2014 11:18 AM (rXcBX)

321 S T U P I D P A R T Y

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 04, 2014 11:19 AM (0LHZx)

322 I will bring my sense of entitlement and lack of work ethic so you can remember the 'good old days.'

Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2014 11:19 AM (fWAjv)

323 @21 At least you'll know what the Dem.-Commies want you to know/think/feel/believe/eat... "Gain's enzymes act like little keys to unlock dirt and stain."

Posted by: Some farm guy in flyover country, but with a Präzisionsgewehr at April 04, 2014 11:19 AM (1/4XQ)

324

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 04, 2014 03:19 PM (0LHZx)

 

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Foiled by formatting again I see.

Posted by: @JohnTant at April 04, 2014 11:19 AM (PFy0L)

325
Especially if ace will be with us....he's one sickly ewok.

Posted by: Tami at April 04, 2014 03:17 PM (bCEmE)



Speaking of,    who was supposed to take him to    be   de-wormed?    Because he needs to be de-wormed. 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:19 AM (4df7R)

326 but stews, chilis, whatever potatos soups, onion soups, you know boring but edible!

I have an 8-gallon stainless-steel kettle. 

Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 11:20 AM (ZKzrr)

327 I confess to a large amount of hoarded rum, whiskey, brandy and vodka. In restaurant supply quantities. I could bring those if anyone's interested in drinking thru the burning times. Posted by: grammie winger at April 04, 2014 03:16 PM (oMKp3 will help defend you and your stash, although i don't have a gun i have a really mean cast iron pan.

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 11:20 AM (nqBYe)

328 Speaking of, who was supposed to take him to be de-wormed? Because he needs to be de-wormed. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) at April 04, 2014 03:19 PM (4df7R) NOT ME!

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at April 04, 2014 11:20 AM (bCEmE)

329 (yes even city folks cook with cast iron)

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 11:20 AM (nqBYe)

330 we need one of the docs here to bring antibiotics More than just penicillin please. Allergic.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2014 11:20 AM (lwkv9)

331 Gingy will bring the pina colada flavored monkey sex gel.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2014 03:18 PM (DrWcr)



I will bring my sense of entitlement and lack of work ethic so you can remember the 'good old days.'

Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2014 03:19 PM (fWAjv)






This, ladies and gentlemen, is why I love the HQ.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:21 AM (4df7R)

332 Ewoks get worms? I thought they only got monkey lice.

Posted by: Citizen X at April 04, 2014 11:21 AM (7ObY1)

333 We shall bring leadership!

Posted by: The RNC at April 04, 2014 11:21 AM (P1WNR)

334

I was going to barter with toilet paper and a box of 30-30.

 

Ooh.  Gun brag here.  I am not a real gun guy and I cannot speak knowledgably about guns around all of the Horde's mil, ex-mil and deranged murderer population.

 

But among the small number of firearms I lost in the canoe accident are a 1911 and a Winchester '94, which I believe to be two of the most iconic things that go bang.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at April 04, 2014 11:21 AM (JtwS4)

335 I say we just shave him down. For the summer

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 11:21 AM (zOTsN)

336 I will bring a coterie of Clowns with several small cars.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Unrepetant Skandi at April 04, 2014 11:21 AM (32Ze2)

337
I have an 8-gallon stainless-steel kettle.

Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 03:20 PM (ZKzrr)



Practical, AND an excellent weapon if wielded correctly.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:22 AM (4df7R)

338 I've noticed something interesting out in California The state is a one party monopoly, but it's not the utopia that many socialists expected. The income gap is massive, particularly in SF and LA. There are huge rifts building up between the moneyed elite Dems owned by Silicon Valley and Hollywood, and the coalitions that thought they'd finally get their "justice". The iconic battle is the Hippies vs Nerds in SF or the Anarchists vs Nerds in Oakland The Peoples Republic of California has pretty much ended the same way that "Animal Farm" did, with the animals watching the pigs dine in the same manner as their former human oppressors The hippies, community activists, minorities, and anarchists will lose the battle in time because the very politicians they hope will bring "equality" are in the back pockets of their enemies and there is no opposition party to threaten the powerful "Really folks, what are you going to do about it anyway? We know you won't vote Republican. Here, have some free bus passes"

Posted by: kbdabear at April 04, 2014 11:22 AM (aTXUx)

339

 i have a really mean cast iron pan.

 

 

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 03:20 PM (nqBYe)

 

 

If you've seen Tangled, you know how effing awesome that is!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 11:22 AM (fwARV)

340 I have an 8-gallon stainless-steel kettle. Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 03:20 PM (ZKzrr) AND you can make blankets and smart talk! so meet me there! where-ever there is!

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 11:22 AM (nqBYe)

341

But among the small number of firearms I lost in the canoe accident are a 1911 and a Winchester '94, which I believe to be two of the most iconic things that go bang.

 

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Man, those are nice.  Heartbreaking loss....

Posted by: @JohnTant at April 04, 2014 11:22 AM (PFy0L)

342 My dad had a Winchester '94. Man do I wish we'd kept it in the family. After he died, my mom sold it while I was living in Texas and couldn't stop her.

Posted by: Citizen X at April 04, 2014 11:22 AM (7ObY1)

343 I say we just shave him down. For the summer

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 03:21 PM (zOTsN)



Maybe leave some fur over his joints, like a poodle.  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:22 AM (4df7R)

344 I just saw the post about IRA roll overs. This is not good. Not good at all.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 04, 2014 11:22 AM (khRXu)

345 (yes even city folks cook with cast iron) LOL. Last count I have 30 pieces. Skillets, pots, pans, pizza pan, wok, etc.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2014 11:23 AM (lwkv9)

346 If you've seen Tangled, you know how effing awesome that is!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 03:22 PM (fwARV)



Totally OT, but I really do need to see that movie.   Everyone I know who's seen it loves it.  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:23 AM (4df7R)

347 Shit, even my smallest cast iron pan could smash the Elephant Man's skull. I could do concentration curls with that thing.

Posted by: Citizen X at April 04, 2014 11:24 AM (7ObY1)

348 Maybe leave some fur over his joints, like a poodle.

Lion cut?
http://is.gd/52kSIn

Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 11:24 AM (ZKzrr)

349  239 we need a thread on what we will bring when the SHTF


I'll bring the Elk-skinnin' and the shoe cobblin'

Posted by: Citizen X at April 04, 2014 03:14 PM (7ObY1)

 

 

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

 

 

I'll bring my ideas on community food rationing and the collectivization of fresh food from gardens.  I have some great ideas on assigning people to work where their abilities would be used best for the community. 

 

We'll need someone too to build all of us free housing.

 

 

Posted by: Baraka at April 04, 2014 11:24 AM (QFEAP)

350 I just saw the post about IRA roll overs. This is not good. Not good at all.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 04, 2014 03:22 PM (khRXu)



WHERE'S YOUR BOUNDLESS OPTIMISM, DAMMIT!?


I am trying not to    get depressed again, since   I already bought shoes and can't really justify buying MORE shoes.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:24 AM (4df7R)

351 Our corgi got stuck in a snow drift today. Global climate change I think

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 04, 2014 11:25 AM (HVff2)

352 seen Tangled I have not, but perhaps I should?

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 11:25 AM (nqBYe)

353 I just saw the post about IRA roll overs. This is not good. Not good at all. ---- What am I missing, an individual technically only has one IRA (though you could have a Roth IRA as well), though it may be in many separate accounts.

Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 11:25 AM (gmeXX)

354

We'll need someone too to build all of us free housing.

 

 

Posted by: Baraka at April 04, 2014 03:24 PM (QFEAP)

 

We also need a useless shitbag to eat when the lean times come.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 11:25 AM (fwARV)

355 Lion cut?
http://is.gd/52kSIn

Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 03:24 PM (ZKzrr)



YES.   And the expression on his face would no doubt    be  almost identical.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:25 AM (4df7R)

356 We also need a useless shitbag to eat when the lean times come.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 03:25 PM (fwARV)



After the useless shitbag has built our free housing.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:26 AM (4df7R)

357 336 I say we just shave him down. For the summer Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 03:21 PM (zOTsN) Ummm. No. http://tinyurl.com/mswtl8g

Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2014 11:27 AM (fWAjv)

358 What about IRA Rollovers? The burning times won't require money.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Unrepetant Skandi at April 04, 2014 11:27 AM (32Ze2)

359 MWR, haha, re shoes. on the other hand i went on a salad diet because well 8 lbs i don't want. Yet now i think you should save those puppies (running shoes) and i should save my 8 lbs for the bad times.

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 11:27 AM (nqBYe)

360 We also need a useless shitbag to eat when the lean times come. Posted by: Washington ------------ there is some shit i will not eat

Posted by: ee cummings at April 04, 2014 11:27 AM (aDwsi)

361 Ummm. No.

http://tinyurl.com/mswtl8g

Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2014 03:27 PM (fWAjv)



It's like an ewok Harvey Dent...

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:28 AM (4df7R)

362 And some rolled up newpapers for when the shaved Ewok starts humping everyone's leg.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at April 04, 2014 11:29 AM (JtwS4)

363 And a necromancer. Someone should bring a necromancer. And then tell me what that means. Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at April 04, 2014 03:17 PM (JtwS4) fnord (JtwS4) Necromancers like to nuzzle, and speak to the dead. But mostly speak to the dead.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at April 04, 2014 11:29 AM (qyfb5)

364 We're allowed a final tot of gin before being executed, right?

Posted by: Boner Johnny at April 04, 2014 11:29 AM (oFCZn)

365 I will bring gibbering, mind-numbing fear, a dog with bad breath, a squalling baby, and sugar cookies what ain't the store-bought kind.

Posted by: Bigby's Salute at April 04, 2014 11:29 AM (3ZtZW)

366 What about IRA Rollovers? The burning times won't require money.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Unrepetant Skandi at April 04, 2014 03:27 PM (32Ze2)

 

 

 

Use  acorns  for  money.  "I  bid  two  bags  of  prime  acorns  for  the  woman" 

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at April 04, 2014 11:29 AM (rXcBX)

367

After the useless shitbag has built our free housing

 

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) at April 04, 2014 03:26 PM (4df7R)

 

 

Please.  That dude has no idea which side of the hammer to hold, and he's going to build housing?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 11:29 AM (fwARV)

368 Obama b e y

Posted by: they live at April 04, 2014 11:29 AM (RNCrv)

369 maybe a box of Nibs too

Posted by: Bigby's Salute at April 04, 2014 11:30 AM (3ZtZW)

370 It's like an ewok Harvey Dent... Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) at April 04, 2014 03:28 PM (4df7R) Heh. Took me a sec. (and I just watched it the other day)

Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2014 11:30 AM (fWAjv)

371 After the useless shitbag has built our free housing. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) at April 04, 2014 03:26 PM (4df7R) fnord (4df7R) Wait, if he can build houses, how is he useless? I see a flaw in your plan.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at April 04, 2014 11:30 AM (qyfb5)

372 Does my navel look like an inny or an outy?

Posted by: Republican party at April 04, 2014 11:30 AM (nsOJa)

373 red or black nibs

Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2014 11:30 AM (zOTsN)

374 look, i might decide if it burns to eat a squirrel, perhaps even Liver and oinions if i'm going to die. but i stop short at peas, just no fkn way.

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 11:30 AM (nqBYe)

375 Vanilla Wafers are a must.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Unrepetant Skandi at April 04, 2014 11:31 AM (32Ze2)

376

Necromancers like to nuzzle, and speak to the dead. But mostly speak to the dead.

 

So...Harry Reid's Senate Page?

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at April 04, 2014 11:31 AM (JtwS4)

377 Stupid rupes.  We don't a damn about you either.

Posted by: Republican party at April 04, 2014 11:31 AM (nsOJa)

378

So...Harry Reid's Senate Page?

 

 

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at April 04, 2014 03:31 PM (JtwS4)

 

 

Winner.  Of the entire internet.  Forever. 

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 11:31 AM (fwARV)

379 354 SH, Right we've been fucking it up for 20 years thank God this judge straightened it out and blasted away pub 590s example of structuring that account. It's a lot like gay marriage being a more plain languae enumerated right than the right to bear arms to the fucking retards in black.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2014 11:32 AM (FUXDu)

380 uh. I like the black Nibs. But they're prolly on sale someplace n I can get a twofer. Maybe

Posted by: Bigby's Salute at April 04, 2014 11:32 AM (3ZtZW)

381 I know how to leech red oak acorns to make them edible. Or we could just say fuck it and just eat the squirrels.

Posted by: Citizen X at April 04, 2014 11:32 AM (7ObY1)

382 I will bring Hydrox along with some Hi-C Ecto Cooler drink boxes and if Dr. Jill will let me some Go-Bots to pass the time.

Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2014 11:32 AM (fWAjv)

383 ooh, i can frame, and do cement . slabs or whatever hell even ponds. build fireplaces. uhm. hmm send kids to dig for a garden. they can also frame, do cement build a house of bricks (if there are materials)

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 11:33 AM (nqBYe)

384 From a gamesmanship standpoint, I can see how letting the merger go through could win the Republicans back their House minority. Which is nice. Less heat, and all those people to beat the bushes, "Support the brand!".

Posted by: Le "politics is a game" Chiffre at April 04, 2014 11:33 AM (1/4XQ)

385 But the biggest question of all... WHO'S BRINGING THE KABOOM?

Posted by: Citizen X at April 04, 2014 11:33 AM (7ObY1)

386

I'll bring the green jello with shredded carrots.

Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2014 11:34 AM (QFEAP)

387 Even one better - got a Comcrap tech who lives in my townhome row, and walks his dog when I walk mine - we often chat, me being a techie, and trade tales. Said, when they took over the lines, they switched to CISCO gear, and had to have their tech show them how to use it. After the class, Cisco guy said that Comcraps settings for the gear was too low, would not utilize its power, the lines could handle full ramp, and it was shorting the signal. Comcast manager overseeing told him to STFU, and 'its the nominal settings for our network'. My neighbor said it was throttling it back by 75%.... And, we wonder why C's service is slow.....?

Posted by: fred zeppelin at April 04, 2014 11:34 AM (zL/eJ)

388 Or we could just say fuck it and just eat the squirrels. Posted by: Citizen --------------- They won't be around long. Probably all harvested within a month of the first lootings of grocery stores.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2014 11:34 AM (aDwsi)

389 i do recognise some herbs and medicinal (well --herm) plants.

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 11:34 AM (nqBYe)

390 Please. That dude has no idea which side of the hammer to hold, and he's going to build housing?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 03:29 PM (fwARV)



I didn't say they'd be GOOD houses.   But it gets him out of everybody's hair while we do useful things, like build   our own homes.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:34 AM (4df7R)

391

SH ... you can have more than one IRA. Sometimes people have more than one to "segregate" money from different sources.

 

This ruling makes it tougher to get out of those accounts - if, say, oh I don't know, King Putt instituted a mandatory conversion into a govt. retirement plan. Maybe they would call it a MyRA. Just spit-balling here.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 04, 2014 11:35 AM (khRXu)

392 sends out burning times resume, to every moron

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 11:35 AM (nqBYe)

393 Hi everybody! Just bought my first gun, a Walther PK380 and I wanted some sites you go to for ammo. Thanks!

Posted by: The Barrel at April 04, 2014 11:35 AM (Opyrm)

394 I will eat cat.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Unrepetant Skandi at April 04, 2014 11:35 AM (32Ze2)

395 WHO'S BRINGING THE KABOOM?

THERE'S SUPPOSED TO BE AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM.

Posted by: Marvin the Martian at April 04, 2014 11:36 AM (ZKzrr)

396 394 Hi everybody! Just bought my first gun, a Walther PK380 and I wanted some sites you go to for ammo. Thanks! Posted by: The Barrel at April 04, 2014 03:35 PM (Opyrm) Uh...oh. The Barrel is now armed.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at April 04, 2014 11:36 AM (bCEmE)

397

Posted by: fred zeppelin at April 04, 2014 03:34 PM (zL/eJ)

 

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I wonder if that's so Comcast can "create" a new, faster service and charge more for it, but just flip a switch to decrease the throttling.

Posted by: @JohnTant at April 04, 2014 11:36 AM (PFy0L)

398 What do liberals call a hippie chick who is turned on by and then jumps into bed with a muscle-bound redneck cowboy? Otherfucker. You ain't seen slut-shaming til you've seen the left do it.

Posted by: zombie at April 04, 2014 11:36 AM (mizYg)

399 I'll bring the green jello with shredded carrots. Posted by: Soona heck i might even let the kids eat it, and pray alot

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 11:36 AM (nqBYe)

400 I will trade Willow a regular ration of my patented fry bread for one of her fireplaces. I'll need the fireplace first though.

Posted by: Citizen X at April 04, 2014 11:36 AM (7ObY1)

401 WHO'S BRINGING THE KABOOM? Posted by: Citizen X at April 04, 2014 03:33 PM (7ObY1) fnord (7ObY1) http://youtu.be/djZFHTa6TfA

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at April 04, 2014 11:36 AM (qyfb5)

402 The Barrel is armed?  RUN!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 04, 2014 11:36 AM (0AKks)

403 I know how to leech red oak acorns to make them edible. Or we could just say fuck it and just eat the squirrels. I know how to cage & raise them for food. Beats hunting them.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2014 11:36 AM (lwkv9)

404 Large can tuna, can cream of celery soup; butter the hotdish; crumble potato chips on top. Bake. For a racy touch, light sprinkle of paprika on top.

Posted by: Mrs. Nilsestuen's kitchen helper at April 04, 2014 11:36 AM (1/4XQ)

405

Or we could just say fuck it and just eat the squirrels.

 

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Fine, then I'll bring the Shake 'n' Bake.

Posted by: @JohnTant at April 04, 2014 11:37 AM (PFy0L)

406 397 394 Hi everybody! Just bought my first gun, a Walther PK380 and I wanted some sites you go to for ammo. Thanks! Posted by: The Barrel at April 04, 2014 03:35 PM (Opyrm) Uh...oh. The Barrel is now armed. Posted by: Tami at April 04, 2014 03:36 PM (bCEmE) Heh, sorry 'bout that.

Posted by: nnptcrgad at April 04, 2014 11:37 AM (Opyrm)

407 I'm also  going to buy a couple of Japanese sex-bots and open a house of  joy.

Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2014 11:37 AM (QFEAP)

408 Fine, then I'll bring the Shake 'n' Bake. Skwirel Helper?

Posted by: Citizen X at April 04, 2014 11:37 AM (7ObY1)

409 For a racy touch, light sprinkle of paprika on top.

Whoa, let's not get all crazy here.

Posted by: HR at April 04, 2014 11:37 AM (ZKzrr)

410 I'll bring the coconut phones.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2014 11:38 AM (GXZgZ)

411 394 Hi everybody! Just bought my first gun, a Walther PK380 and I wanted some sites you go to for ammo. Thanks! Posted by: The Barrel at April 04, 2014 03:35 PM (Opyrm) ammoseek and gunbot .com for both. Congratulations as well.

Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2014 11:38 AM (fWAjv)

412 See, all this stuff we can do and bring if the SHTF and meanwhile Detroit is laying there like something that lies there, awaiting all this fine elbow grease that nobody who lives there is capable of mustering. I tells ya, give us a block and we'll take the entire fkn city, no joke.

Posted by: Bigby's Salute at April 04, 2014 11:38 AM (3ZtZW)

413 That dude has no idea which side of the hammer to hold,.. ------- He's not holding any part of this one.. But that aside, one of the funniest videos I've seen was of Gore and Clinton 'volunteering' at a Habitat house. Neither guy could hold a hammer, or drive a nail. It was pathetic.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2014 11:38 AM (aDwsi)

414 Here's what's happening. Reid is declaring the Kochs witches. And everyone associated with witches are also witches. So Republicans better dare not accept help from the Kochs in any way. Republicans also need to publicly disavow the witch Kochs or else they too will deemed practitioners of witchcraft. Reid isn't crazy or stupid. He's evil and manipulative.

Posted by: Soothsayer, corn bread assassin at April 04, 2014 11:38 AM (VlefE)

415 I friggin love this place.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 04, 2014 11:40 AM (Lm1Gd)

416 Update on the story of that Detroit truck driver who got beaten up by a mob after he stopped to render aid after he accidentally hit a child with his truck.   Surprise surprise, there may have been   "racial overtones" to the attack.


White Man Beaten By Mob In Detroit After Hitting Boy With Truck: Was It A Hate Crime?

CBS Detroit: http://cbsloc.al/1q8MvKw


DETROIT (WWJ) - As a 54-year-old Roseville man clings to life in the hospital following a brutal mob beating on DetroitÂ’s east side, many are starting to wonder if the whole thing was racially motivated.


As first reported by WWJ Newsradio 950, an 11-year-old boy suffered a broken leg on Wednesday when he was hit by a pickup truck after walking into the street near Morang and Balfour. The driver, Steven Utash, immediately got out of his truck after hitting the boy and was viciously attacked by 10 to 12 men. The beating was so brutal, Utash was rendered unconscious.


UtashÂ’s son Joseph told WWJÂ’s Gary Lundy Thursday night that his father remains in a medically induced coma, nearly unrecognizable due to his injuries. He also said his wallet was stolen from his truck.


...


Detroit Police Sgt. Michael Woody said Steven Utash was not at fault for the accident.


“Our preliminary investigation shows the child stepped in front of his vehicle,” Woody said. “He did exactly the right thing. He stopped his vehicle, he got out and he tried to render aid to a small child. He did exactly what he was supposed to do… It was a small child and it was an accident; is what it was.”


...



Joseph Utash said he believes his father was intentionally targeted or even worse, that skin color might have played a role. Based on witness accounts, the attackers were African American.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:40 AM (4df7R)

417 Don't bury me, I'M NOT DEAD! Posted by: Ray Liotta at April 04, 2014 03:08 PM (DErq5) Yeah, that's what you say but the computer says something different.

Posted by: WalrusRex at April 04, 2014 11:40 AM (XUKZU)

418 If you remember, the Democrats did this many times before. Every Republican who went on TV was asked whether or not they agree with Sarah Palin, or if they agree with Tea Party, or if they agree with Rush Limbaugh. Do you renounce ________ and everything they do?

Posted by: Soothsayer, corn bread assassin at April 04, 2014 11:40 AM (VlefE)

419  Is this such a bad thing? Right now Warners and Comcast are each capped for political donations. By mergin, they now are a single company that is capped.

So instead of two donors giving 1Billion to the dems each, they become 1 donor.

So...that's a win? Right?

Posted by: Emperor Norton II at April 04, 2014 02:32 PM (MlqTY)

 

The money is incidental. We're talking about power here. For a political party or politician, unrelentingly favorable press has no price tag, and neither does the saturation villification of their enemies.

 

Funny thing:  I once laughed at conspiracy theorists.

Posted by: troyriser at April 04, 2014 11:41 AM (gNlvW)

420 401 I will trade Willow a regular ration of my patented fry bread for one of her fireplaces. I'll need the fireplace first though. Posted by: Citizen X at April 04, 2014 03:36 PM (7ObY1) What's this 'fry bread' you speak of?

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at April 04, 2014 11:41 AM (bCEmE)

421 I'll bring the coconut phones. Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2014 03:38 PM (GXZgZ) i'll bring the silly string.

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2014 11:41 AM (nqBYe)

422

>>>Hi everybody! Just bought my first gun, a Walther PK380

 

Ah, ya got ripped off

Posted by: Old Guy at the Garage at April 04, 2014 11:41 AM (3ZtZW)

423 It was pathetic. Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2014 03:38 PM (aDwsi) derrrrrrrrrrrr http://tinyurl.com/ontg59z

Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2014 11:42 AM (fWAjv)

424  See, all this stuff we can do and bring if the SHTF and meanwhile Detroit is laying there like something that lies there, awaiting all this fine elbow grease that nobody who lives there is capable of mustering. I tells ya, give us a block and we'll take the entire fkn city, no joke.

Posted by: Bigby's Salute at April 04, 2014 03:38 PM (3ZtZW)

 

 

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Too damn cold.  Hey.  I  know.  Let's kick all the leftists out of Key West.

Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2014 11:42 AM (QFEAP)

425 394 Hi everybody! Just bought my first gun, a Walther PK380 and I wanted some sites you go to for ammo. Thanks!

Posted by: The Barrel at April 04, 2014 03:35 PM (Opyrm)

 

Congrats on your purchase!  .380 can be tough to find.  You can try

aimsurplus

luckygunner

ammunitiontogo

ammoman

freedommunitions

gun-deals

all dot com.  Good luck, and happy shooting!

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2014 11:42 AM (DrWcr)

426 " If Republicans had any sense..."

teh Party of St00pid is stupid, and the RNC doesn't care about anything but it's own perks & access to power.

Let.
It.
Burn.

Posted by: redc1c4 at April 04, 2014 11:43 AM (q+fqH)

427

You know ... I've been kind of thinking about this kind of stuff lately.

 

We really will need some hand tools ... enough to salvage materials off other houses. You know how much shit we could make ?

 

Smaller huts with burn pits in the middle, for cooking and heat. Smokehouses. Watch towers..

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 04, 2014 11:43 AM (khRXu)

428 See, all this stuff we can do and bring if the SHTF and meanwhile Detroit is laying there like something that lies there, awaiting all this fine elbow grease that nobody who lives there is capable of mustering. I tells ya, give us a block and we'll take the entire fkn city, no joke. #toofuckingcold

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2014 11:43 AM (lwkv9)

429 Nood

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at April 04, 2014 11:43 AM (bCEmE)

430 I can gather a collection of the best surviving minds in a secret hideaway in a remote valley and send scouts to recover what is left of the technology and culture of the old world. Shit, wait, that's Fallout NV's add-on Old World Blues. I can create a series of underground bunkers where scientists work night and day to control the plague that led to the Zombie apoc... Dammit, that's Resident Evil. I can build a huge underground city to avoid the machine menace... ugh. How about building a giant gravity-powered transport between the two remaining unpoisoned cities on opposite sides... dammit. I don't even own a Television and I can't think of anything to do after the disaster that isn't on TV. Wait! Repopulate the earth through lots and lots of... (checks TV schedule) DAMMIT!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at April 04, 2014 11:43 AM (qyfb5)

431 Hi everybody! Just bought my first gun, a Walther PK380 and I wanted some sites you go to for ammo. Thanks!

Posted by: The Barrel at April 04, 2014 03:35 PM (Opyrm)



When did the    Barrel   get    hands!!??   SHIT!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit (or Beth for short) [/u][/i][/s][/b] at April 04, 2014 11:43 AM (4df7R)

432 I say we meet in San Antonio and make our way to Peruvia from there. Plan?

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Unrepetant Skandi at April 04, 2014 11:44 AM (32Ze2)

433 I will review the IRA case in more detail. But could this be a case where the IRS and its publication was at odds with the statute, and the tax court reined them in (though maybe to the detriment of IRA account holders)? I find IRS publications are often not in conformity with the actual tax code.

Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 11:44 AM (gmeXX)

434 If you remember, the Democrats did this many times before. Every Republican who went on TV was asked whether or not they agree with Sarah Palin, or if they agree with Tea Party, or if they agree with Rush Limbaugh.

Do you renounce ________ and everything they do?

Posted by: Soothsayer, corn bread assassin at April 04, 2014 03:40 PM (VlefE)

 

 

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

 

 

This is true.  Scary, huh?

Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2014 11:44 AM (QFEAP)

435 Smaller huts with burn pits in the middle, for cooking and heat. Smokehouses. Watch towers..

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 04, 2014 03:43 PM (khRXu)

 

Don't forget the stately pleasure dome.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2014 11:44 AM (DrWcr)

436


>>>Too damn cold. Hey. I know. Let's kick all the leftists out of Key West.

 

Teh Gaystapo will go all SVEINHUNT! on us

Posted by: Bigby's Hitchin' Thumb at April 04, 2014 11:44 AM (3ZtZW)

437 412

raleightacticalsupply.com

online site only.  very good service.  reasonable when I did business with them last year.

Posted by: NCwoof at April 04, 2014 11:44 AM (aUQgu)

438 Graf and Sons Cheaper Than Dirt Midway USA

Posted by: Try it! at April 04, 2014 11:45 AM (1/4XQ)

439 OT: Here is the next "crisis" for the LGBT gaystapo to whine about, trending on Facebook: "Phil Bryant: Mississippi passes Arizona-style religious freedom bill" The usual suspects are already calling it "anti-gay".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 04, 2014 11:46 AM (7A4qQ)

440 That being said, even if the IRS publication was wrong with respect to the tax code, the taxpayer may have had a detrimental reliance case. In theory, the IRS should be barred from asserting that a taxpayer was wrong if it can be shown that the taxpayer relied upon an official IRS publication. Will have to review the case.

Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 11:46 AM (gmeXX)

441 When did the Barrel get hands!!?? SHIT! Posted by: MWR --------------- ....and, it has become self aware, and..., it is armed. This can NOT end well.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2014 11:47 AM (aDwsi)

442 A-la-carte cable. A-la-carte cable. A-la-carte cable. Pass the bill Boner, I mean Boehner.

Posted by: Willy Sabbit at April 04, 2014 11:47 AM (VDovR)

443 434 SH at April 04, 2014 03:44 PM (gmeXX) No this is a case of the Tax Court setting up a problem that Obama will solve by saying "er uh I waive the rollover rules to MYRas" watch..... you don't accidentally have something interpreted contra to the Code for 20 fucking years. This is the Tax Court saying "we're just as political as Lerner"

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2014 11:48 AM (TE35l)

444

>>>The usual suspects are already calling it "anti-gay".

 

Fags. I mean that in the best possible way, of course.

Posted by: Bigby's Hitchin' Thumb at April 04, 2014 11:48 AM (3ZtZW)

445 440 OT: Here is the next "crisis" for the LGBT gaystapo to whine about, trending on Facebook: "Phil Bryant: Mississippi passes Arizona-style religious freedom bill" The usual suspects are already calling it "anti-gay". Posted by: Clyde Shelton ______________ Hey, folks in Mississippi like to get it on Arizona-style.

Posted by: Furious George at April 04, 2014 11:48 AM (yFb77)

446 you don't accidentally have something interpreted contra to the Code for 20 fucking years ----- Code or IRS Publication? They are different.

Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 11:51 AM (gmeXX)

447 to wit you are properly wondering what "the code" said for 20 years... Let's say for the sake of argument your hope is correct and this ruling is saying "fuck IRS 590 this is what the law says" the Internal Revenue Code Section 408(d)(3)(B) limitation says right there one rollover... thing is the industry, the IRS, and by indifference the Feds have said "what the Code means is yes your IRA is one account but these sub accounts are trickles.... and you can sub regulate them"... Until Judge Magna Robe decides... "nah fuck all y'all the IRS was bugfucked" the IRS SHOULD NOT be in the position to make up Pubs as it goes along and this Income Tax game should not be as convoluted as it is.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2014 11:52 AM (TE35l)

448 447 SH at April 04, 2014 03:51 PM (gmeXX) They are different but entwined my friend and Congress has ceded WAY too much power to artificial horseshit constructions in IRS, Treasury, and the "Tax Court"

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2014 11:53 AM (TE35l)

449 They are different but entwined my friend and Congress has ceded WAY too much power to artificial horseshit constructions in IRS, Treasury --- I agree with that. My point was the IRS was wrong in its interpretation of the Code. I don't think a taxpayer can use the IRS publication as a source for why it is right, but I do think there ought to be some sort of reliance claim that bars the IRS from taking a different interpretation.

Posted by: SH at April 04, 2014 11:55 AM (gmeXX)

450 Just wait until they start using their power over Americans' home internet connections to make trouble for Republican/conservative-leaning media. The US right's opposition to network neutrality was absurdly self-destructive.

Posted by: anonymous irishman at April 04, 2014 11:57 AM (DJgfL)

451 It is something of a political irony that Republicans, who for ideological reasons are pro-business, have not raised questions about, or objections to, the conjoining of two Democratic institutions into a media trust. -- Think why that would be the case. 1. GOP has every intention of doing the same. 2. 'Pro-Business' is pro-merger monopoly. What's ironic? That it's being tagged as if ironic. Wth does anyone think the Patriot Act NSA is doing in Utah, etc. set in motion by GWB? As if corporations like Comcast aren't getting bugmint sponsored gigs to facilitate serfdom in America. Our government, due to those IN government, IS fascist. Fascists are 'pro-business' for the "right sort" of PC-Marxist business. "Redistributing wealth" like Clinton/Kerry Obama State Dept: "missing" BILLIONS O' BUCKS stolen from taxpayers' backsides. So where's the electronic trail when "following the money"? Conveniently missing, too. That's "social justice" for you empowered by stripping Americans of the Inalienable Rights that can not be stripped, stolen, thieved, relinquished, sold. Comcast "bought" the Democratic Party -- that a financial transaction transpired, no surprise. Money changes hands all the time. But the Democrat Party and the Republican Party have long been mere appendages of the Beast. Today, call it Comcast if you like, though Comcast itself is only another corporation assimilated into the Beast. Tomorrow, re-organization, another merger, another name. Same negative effect on our lives.

Posted by: panzernashorn at April 04, 2014 01:02 PM (/vO0r)

452 But I thought the REPUBLICANS were the ones in the hip pocket of the corporations!!!!! Seriously, I'd like to see a push on publicizing the real corporatism and graft of the Ds. Break this 'Friend of th'workin' Man' myth once and for all.

Posted by: --- at April 04, 2014 01:14 PM (MMC8r)

453 And yet the Republicans are not making an issue of this merger. I'm gobsmacked.

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at April 04, 2014 02:44 PM (H4aQb)

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