Overnight Open Thread (11-22-2012) - Turkey Overdose Edition
Got interrupted by an early arriving turkey and now falling into a post-dinner coma...must not go into the light....
Happy Thanksgiving All!
At this rate we'll have man-sized turkeys by 2070.
Why Aren't There Any Thanksgiving Songs?
Well this video from the same folks behind Rebecca Black may explain why.
Our Socialist First Thanksgiving
Well in their defense socialism didn't have the world-wide record of failure and death it has today. And they were smart enough to dump it when they saw it wasn't working.
"It's wrong to say that America was founded by capitalists. In fact, America was founded by socialists who had the humility to learn from their initial mistakes and embrace freedom."
If you're feeling sleepy after a big Thanksgiving meal, it's the probably the gluttony that's making you tired.
Let's Have Some Peace for Dinner
Hmm deliciously coincidental:
Peace, one of two turkeys pardoned by President Obama last year, was euthanized Monday, according to an official who insisted the timing of the death - days before the Thanksgiving holiday - was not suspicious.
The Turkeys Have Mounted A Counter-Attack!
An obligatory classic.
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Comments
Posted by: Brother Cavil at November 22, 2012 11:28 PM (vkUBG)
Posted by: cthulhu at November 22, 2012 11:32 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: The Dude at November 22, 2012 11:32 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Dept. of Accuracy Dept. at November 22, 2012 11:35 PM (BAnPT)
Posted by: katya the designated driver at November 22, 2012 11:35 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: Wally in Walla Walla at November 22, 2012 11:35 PM (Dll6b)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch is Eddie Willers at November 22, 2012 11:35 PM (Md8Uo)
It was the best chicken dinner ever.
Posted by: boulder hobo at November 22, 2012 11:35 PM (aI2re)
Posted by: Dept. of Accuracy Dept. at November 22, 2012 11:36 PM (BAnPT)
Posted by: Arbalest at November 22, 2012 11:36 PM (YKF9O)
Nice drumsticks.
Oh, and I'm sure the turkey would be tasty, too.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at November 22, 2012 11:28 PM (vkUBG)
Love the bottoms of those drumsticks!
Posted by: Rex Ryan at November 22, 2012 11:36 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 22, 2012 11:36 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Dept. of Accuracy Dept. at November 22, 2012 11:37 PM (BAnPT)
Posted by: boulder hobo at November 22, 2012 11:37 PM (aI2re)
Posted by: chemjeff at November 22, 2012 11:37 PM (d/5qf)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 22, 2012 11:38 PM (piMMO)
The other, Muslim Brotherhood, is now free-range.
Posted by: t-bird at November 22, 2012 11:38 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: chemjeff at November 22, 2012 11:38 PM (d/5qf)
Was the bread any good? Whenever MrsCaniac makes any beer bread, I make sure that she uses Old Speckled Hen for it.. It has a flavor that makes the bread awesome.
Posted by: MrCaniac at November 22, 2012 11:39 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 22, 2012 11:39 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Dept. of Accuracy Dept. at November 22, 2012 11:39 PM (BAnPT)
That specific mix? No but beer bread is awesome as long as you use a wheat beer you actually drink.
Posted by: The Dude at November 22, 2012 11:40 PM (tw6Ar)
Meanwhile, the Wal-Mart and Target parking lots were full.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at November 22, 2012 11:40 PM (6k/7P)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 22, 2012 11:40 PM (piMMO)
So in other words, just like me with all the deviled eggs I ate
Posted by: The Dude at November 22, 2012 11:41 PM (tw6Ar)
Was the bread any good? Whenever MrsCaniac makes any beer bread, I make sure that she uses Old Speckled Hen for it.. It has a flavor that makes the bread awesome.
Posted by: MrCaniac at November 22, 2012 11:39 PM (Zd/NW)
I'm a huge fan of cornbread but this is one I haven't tried yet. It gets rave reviews on Amazon so I'm gonna order it soon.
Posted by: Mætenloch at November 22, 2012 11:41 PM (XkotV)
Posted by: katya the designated driver at November 22, 2012 11:42 PM (DoZD+)
eh - only mildly.
I did get a couple of really good deals. But the crowd was crushing and it was just chaos in there.
I felt sorry for the staff, I really did
Posted by: chemjeff at November 22, 2012 11:43 PM (d/5qf)
Posted by: Roman Polanski, Music Critic at November 22, 2012 11:43 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 22, 2012 11:43 PM (XT9YG)
Tree is up, fire in the fireplace for the first time in a year and a half at least, and Peggy Lee on the radio. Life is good.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2012 11:43 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: boulder hobo at November 22, 2012 11:44 PM (aI2re)
Posted by: Tuna at November 22, 2012 11:44 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: rightlysouthern
I put both hands out the window holding license and registration/insurance
That's gotten me out of a couple tickets.
Posted by: Dept. of Accuracy Dept. at November 22, 2012 11:45 PM (BAnPT)
I ate a twenty clove lasagna once. My farts could have stopped an ICBM
Posted by: Dept. of Accuracy Dept. at November 22, 2012 11:39 PM (BAnPT)
Mr. Dept., you have the Israelis on line one....
Posted by: cthulhu at November 22, 2012 11:45 PM (kaalw)
I spent the day at a friend and coworker's house. CW Jr. and I met my friend's kids, spouses and grandkids and enjoyed a delicious dinner. Afterwards, we went to the park for my introduction to disc golf, followed by some Beatles Rock Band and some board games. The best part: politics NEVER came up. It was just a good time with old friends and new ones. That's just what I needed. Hope you got some time today to just enjoy life.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 22, 2012 11:45 PM (5J54Q)
FYI that's Marylin Monroe in the glamor pic.
Posted by: Dept. of Accuracy Dept. at November 22, 2012 11:37 PM (BAnPT)
Any bets on if the turkey banged Marylin? I mean everyone else did, why not the turkey.
Posted by: MrCaniac at November 22, 2012 11:45 PM (Zd/NW)
Cable never seems to show Jurassic Park 2. Only 1 and 3.
Posted by: katya the designated driver at November 22, 2012 11:46 PM (DoZD+)
On the way home from Thanksgiving dinner I witnessed someone violate
Rule #1 of a police pull-over: as the cop was getting out of his car
the person opened his door. Although it appeared to be a normal stop, I
said a prayer for the cop.
Meanwhile, the Wal-Mart and Target parking lots were full.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at November 22, 2012 11:40 PM (6k/7P)
I thought Rule #1 was not to go for your glovebox before the cop could see into the car.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 22, 2012 11:47 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: katya the designated driver at November 22, 2012 11:46 PM (DoZD+)
dog being eaten and frankly two was way more forgettable than the third film
Posted by: The Dude at November 22, 2012 11:47 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: CMU VET at November 22, 2012 11:47 PM (dPSpR)
I saw a story about a store where only one person walked out.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 22, 2012 11:48 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: puddleglum at November 22, 2012 11:48 PM (8SsiG)
Posted by: chemjeff at November 22, 2012 11:48 PM (d/5qf)
Posted by: katya the designated driver at November 22, 2012 11:49 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: CMU VET at November 22, 2012 11:49 PM (dPSpR)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2012 11:50 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: RWC at November 22, 2012 11:50 PM (tzJPE)
dog being eaten and frankly two was way more forgettable than the third film
I wasn't complaining. It's the worst of the three. I just find it interesting.
Posted by: katya the designated driver at November 22, 2012 11:51 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: The Dude at November 22, 2012 11:51 PM (tw6Ar)
While you're there, be sure to check out my Rancid Beaver Pie.
Posted by: Rachel Maddow at November 22, 2012 11:51 PM (pwyhn)
Posted by: Rex Ryan at November 22, 2012 11:53 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: Waterhouse at November 22, 2012 11:53 PM (MuMXt)
Not having cold turkey right now...-15
Posted by: RWC at November 22, 2012 11:54 PM (tzJPE)
I'm being forced to watch War Horse. Is this a horse movie or a war movie? I need to know. It matters. A Spielberg flick so either way might work out for me.
Posted by: L is an elle at November 22, 2012 11:55 PM (0PiQ4)
http://tinyurl.com/bgnm4ls
Posted by: kbdabear at November 22, 2012 11:55 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: chemjeff at November 22, 2012 11:56 PM (d/5qf)
Posted by: The Dude at November 22, 2012 11:56 PM (tw6Ar)
/rant off
Posted by: tcn at November 22, 2012 11:58 PM (VLG62)
I'm a huge fan of cornbread but this is one I haven't tried yet. It gets rave reviews on Amazon so I'm gonna order it soon.
Posted by: Mætenloch at November 22, 2012 11:41 PM (XkotV)
Use a flavorful beer. It really ads to the flavor of the bread.
Posted by: MrCaniac at November 22, 2012 11:58 PM (Zd/NW)
God as my witness, I thought Jets could fly
Posted by: Rex Ryan at November 22, 2012 11:53 PM (wwsoB)
Golf clap.
Posted by: MrCaniac at November 22, 2012 11:58 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: L is an elle at November 22, 2012 11:55 PM (0PiQ4)
Today i'm thankful for not being in your shoes.
Never seen it, but damn it looks boring.
Posted by: RWC at November 22, 2012 11:59 PM (tzJPE)
Posted by: Craig Poe at November 22, 2012 11:59 PM (BVkEs)
Gets Twitter beatdown
http://tinyurl.com/b8eq8ec
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 12:00 AM (wwsoB)
horse movie or a war movie? I need to know. It matters. A Spielberg
flick so either way might work out for me.
Posted by: L is an elle at November 22, 2012 11:55 PM (0PiQ4)
I just looked it up. The answer is "yes". (Its the story of a horse in WW1, so it is both)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:00 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: The Dude
A Lager Beer will set the whole thing off like a Nuke
Posted by: Dept. of Accuracy Dept. at November 23, 2012 12:01 AM (BAnPT)
Posted by: tcn at November 22, 2012 11:58 PM (VLG62)
normally I'd agree with you, but hey, shoppers want to be there even on Thanksgiving.
Posted by: chemjeff at November 23, 2012 12:01 AM (d/5qf)
The Lefties, that's who!
Holiday jeers: Thanksgiving, America and Charlie Brown attacked as‘racist’
http://tinyurl.com/a2d6af5
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 12:02 AM (wwsoB)
So it seems. 15 minutes in and lots of horses. I liked Secretariat and Sea Biscuit but I would have preferred war tonight. Thanks also.
Posted by: L is an elle at November 23, 2012 12:03 AM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at November 23, 2012 12:03 AM (7N4Vf)
Posted by: Dept. of Accuracy Dept. at November 23, 2012 12:01 AM (BAnPT)
I'd be Terry Jones eating a mint
Posted by: The Dude at November 23, 2012 12:03 AM (tw6Ar)
http://tinyurl.com/a2d6af5
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 12:02 AMO Lord, make my enemies ridiculous - Voltaire
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 12:05 AM (wwsoB)
http://tinyurl.com/a2d6af5
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 12:02 AM (wwsoB)
That's what happens when your entire identity is formed around finding things to be pissed off at all the time. I would almost feel sorry for them except fuck them with a rusty razor blade.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:05 AM (yh0zB)
8Brother was cooking. On the menu was "41 Garlic Clove Chicken". I think the recipe called for 40 cloves, but he believes in adding a clove over every recipe's recommendation.
I knew the man who invented the 40 Clove Chicken Recipe!...His name was Val Filice and he was one of the Garlic Festival's founders.
Posted by: concrete girl at November 23, 2012 12:06 AM (y2Ojs)
Posted by: charles gibson at November 23, 2012 12:06 AM (2CiZb)
So I'm glad they were open. Got a couple other things, too.
They seemed grateful to have the work these days.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at November 23, 2012 12:06 AM (7N4Vf)
Posted by: The Dude at November 23, 2012 12:03 AM (tw6Ar)
it's just a wafer thin mint, sir...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:06 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 12:07 AM (wwsoB)
Posted by: Herb Tarlic at November 23, 2012 12:07 AM (Kflw4)
Posted by: Baldy at November 23, 2012 12:07 AM (opS9C)
Posted by: Truman North at November 23, 2012 12:07 AM (I2LwF)
I think stores should be closed on Thanksgiving. I don't see why the same damned crap from China can't be on sale tomorrow. Folks should be able to have a glass or two of wine with dinner on Thanksgiving and not worry about screaming hordes of ignorant shoppers.
So, don't go out. As for the workers, there are a lot of jobs that require you to work some holidays. Don't like it, don't get a job at Wal Mart.
Posted by: katya the designated driver at November 23, 2012 12:08 AM (DoZD+)
"You're a Racist, Charlie Brown"
"Charlie Brown's Anti-Gay Anti Muslim Superstitious Holiday"
Posted by: Zombie Charles Schultz at November 23, 2012 12:09 AM (wwsoB)
Those Pilgrim mo-fo's figgered out that socialism did not work, yet our 'better thinkers' like BHO and his dog eating wife are telling us socialism is the way FORWARD!
?
fucking jack wagons
Posted by: jake in ID at November 23, 2012 12:09 AM (2CiZb)
The other, Muslim Brotherhood, is now free-range.
Posted by: t-bird at November 22, 2012 11:38 PM (FcR7P)
Early candidate for a thread winner
Posted by: Truman North at November 23, 2012 12:09 AM (I2LwF)
Husband woke up early sick and any thoughts of sleeping in were over. Off to Wall Mart for cold medicine. I cooked the turkey carved it up and put it in the fridge. Then spent the day doing laundry and watching the telly.
Even though it was a bust today I'm thankful for my family, especially my mom, my closest friends and the Moron nation.
Posted by: mpfs at November 23, 2012 12:10 AM (Mkhiu)
Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at November 23, 2012 12:10 AM (Y5I9o)
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 12:11 AM (wwsoB)
Posted by: puddleglum at November 23, 2012 12:11 AM (8SsiG)
Posted by: jake in ID at November 23, 2012 12:09 AM (2CiZb)
Another way of describing socialists and their ilk is "people who think they know more than history and the universe - and intend to prove it or for you to die trying."
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at November 23, 2012 12:11 AM (7N4Vf)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:12 AM (yh0zB)
Ya know, I think stores should be closed on Thanksgiving. I don't see
why the same damned crap from China can't be on sale tomorrow. Folks
should be able to have a glass or two of wine with dinner on
Thanksgiving and not worry about screaming hordes of ignorant shoppers.
And you notice it is those on the lower end of the employment order who
have to do this crap, not the lawyers or doctors or even the teachers,
for Pete's sake.
/rant off
Posted by: tcn at November 22, 2012 11:58 PM (VLG62)
Here's the thing -- most stores should be closed on Thanksgiving, except for the ones that aren't. 7-11's, for instance, exist on the business model that a $1 pint of milk (if you buy it from a regular store during regular hours) can be worth $2.50 at 4 am. Since that's its business model, it is ridiculous to suppose that they'd be closed on Thanksgiving.
On the flip side, your local supermarket's business model is based on "we can afford to pay people to work in one place as butchers, stockers, cashiers, bakers, produce guys, baggers and floor sweepers if we hire them in regular shifts between 6 am and midnight and give them holidays off. So they shouldn't work Thanksgiving because it's not their deal. Supermarkets, BTW, tend to run on really thin profit margins -- like 3% -- and it's not unusual for the Assistant Manager's Salary to be exceeded by the cardboard recycling income.
The problem arises when someone walks into a 7-11 at 4 am and goes, "hey, man, why is milk so freakin' expensive?"
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2012 12:12 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: 1982 Redskins at November 23, 2012 12:12 AM (Kflw4)
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 12:05 AM (wwsoB)
Damn it`s gone be so easy to beat these idiots. ( when we finally get our shit together)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 12:12 AM (OJVLd)
here is a Thanksgiving kitteh for you
http://tinyurl.com/b3k8mys
Posted by: chemjeff at November 23, 2012 12:13 AM (d/5qf)
Posted by: puddleglum at November 23, 2012 12:13 AM (8SsiG)
Posted by: funny memes at November 23, 2012 12:14 AM (Kflw4)
Posted by: Cato at November 23, 2012 12:14 AM (BERJz)
Posted by: Trotsky's Icepick at November 23, 2012 12:15 AM (Kflw4)
Ya know, I think stores should be closed on Thanksgiving. I don't see
why the same damned crap from China can't be on sale tomorrow. Folks
should be able to have a glass or two of wine with dinner on
Thanksgiving and not worry about screaming hordes of ignorant shoppers.
And you notice it is those on the lower end of the employment order who
have to do this crap, not the lawyers or doctors or even the teachers,
for Pete's sake.
/rant off
Posted by: tcn at November 22, 2012 11:58 PM (VLG62)
Yeah, because today is the day Death takes a holiday. Every hospital closed today. No doctors working today.
Please, when I worked in radio nobody gave a shit that we had to work. I bet you would be pissed off if every television and radio station shut down today. It also sucks that gas stations are open today, because we should have bought our gas yesterday or just wait until tomorrow.
Cops and firemen should also have the day off. Since everyone is at home and no one is dying, they really aren't needed.
Also, we should have just cancelled the football, basketball, and minor league hockey games played today. When I worked in sports and we had games on Thanksgiving, nobody gave a damn that we were working. They wanted to be entertained, period. I thought that was very selfish on their part, but I couldn't argue because I wanted that paycheck.
We should just shut off the entire electric, gas, and communications grid today because those people deserve to have the day off just like everyone else.
rant off
Posted by: MrCaniac at November 23, 2012 12:15 AM (Zd/NW)
Got there at 7:30; sales didn't officially begin until 8. Gaggles of shoppers waiting in lines that stretched around the freakin' store, arrows taped on the floor so people wouldn't go against traffic and cause a pile-up. 7:55, somebody toots an airhorn and people think that's the sign to begin slingin' and clawin', so they do so. But it's too early, and a local policeman who is working security there threatens to run 'em all in if they don't put the picture frames back RIGHT THIS MINUTE and he's not kidding dammit. Finally, at 7:57, the employees and security people give up and let 'em have at it. I, personally, saw two fist fights in the first thirty seconds. Over a set of sheets. Seriously.
Only took about an hour for me to know that I'd had enough so I paid for my few trinkets and left for the car. Unloaded the cart, walked to the door, and...*(*@ flat tire. Though about calling Mr. Me, but figured it would take him longer to get there than for me to just change it. Hah. Wheel wouldn't come off, had to get my son in law to come back and help me, then had to go back inside and buy a g.d. rubber mallet to coax the wheel off. Finally, spare tire is on, son in law on his way home...but wait! The bleepin' spare is - wait for it - flat. At that point, I couldn't have given less of a shit about the rim of the spare, nursed it to the nearest gas station and aired up the spare and limped home.
Now, I plan to drink bourbon until I can't anymore and then go to bed.
Posted by: antisocialist at November 23, 2012 12:15 AM (j/nZn)
Posted by: Polliwogette, disappointed hobbit at November 23, 2012 12:16 AM (NYki8)
Posted by: mpfs at November 23, 2012 12:17 AM (Mkhiu)
Posted by: L is an elle at November 23, 2012 12:17 AM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: antisocialist at November 23, 2012 12:15 AM (j/nZn)
oh sheesh, a fistfight over bedsheets????? I thought it was bad enough to see people running into each other
thank heavens your son in law was available, along with the bourbon
Posted by: chemjeff at November 23, 2012 12:18 AM (d/5qf)
with dinner on Thanksgiving and not worry about screaming hordes of
ignorant shoppers. And you notice it is those on the lower end of the
employment order who have to do this crap, not the lawyers or doctors or
even the teachers, for Pete's sake.
/rant off
Posted by: tcn at November 22, 2012 11:58 PM
Holy shit, who're those guys wearing the stethoscopes in the ER?
Just heard a plane overhead. Must be the flight attendant flying the thing
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 12:19 AM (wwsoB)
Posted by: antisocialist at November 23, 2012 12:15 AM (j/nZn)
Drink enough bourbon and you won't have to worry about going to bed.
Polliwogette, we put our tree up right after T-giving dinner today. First time in 2 years we've done that. Somehow it just felt right.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:20 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2012 12:20 AM (kaalw)
If it was about war-dogs I'd put up with it, but...
Posted by: RWC at November 23, 2012 12:20 AM (tzJPE)
Played nerf football with the kids and neices and nephews.
never hold a football for a neice to kick while she is wearing cowboy boots.....
It seamed like a bad decision at the time but went ahead and ended up gashing a finger and bleeding.
Posted by: jake in ID at November 23, 2012 12:20 AM (2CiZb)
Posted by: chemjeff at November 23, 2012 12:21 AM (d/5qf)
Posted by: katya the designated driver at November 23, 2012 12:21 AM (DoZD+)
Now, I plan to drink bourbon until I can't anymore and then go to bed.
Posted by: antisocialist at November 23, 2012 12:15 AM (j/nZn)
Actually, that's a pretty good plan for any day.
'sup jackwagons
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 23, 2012 12:22 AM (c2oll)
A. Packed 40 deep in each register line.
B. "Special Purchase" items not in the immediate area of said item group (i.e. sheet sets in the sheet section, toaster oven in the kitchen appliance section, etc.) No, they "had" been stacked on pallets in the main and secondary aisles. Like bones in the high desert, they were picked clean.
C. Helpful staff in yellow vests/smoks didn't know where the two "Special Purchase" items I was there to buy had been placed. One did not speak English, one just grunted at the stuff right in front of her, and one was very charming and smiley but of absolutely no assistance at all.
D. If you slowed to get a look at the pallets, you were run over or bumped out of the way. Think of the muzzies circling the Grand Mosque in Mecca, it's very similar to WalMart's Thursday night Black Friday sale.
E. Came home and found what I wanted online from a choice of JCP, Kohls, or Sears with free shipping and at the same Black Friday price as in their stores.
It was an interesting and educational experience, but one that never will be repeated.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 23, 2012 12:22 AM (BAS5M)
I'll take care your word for it, but 30 mn in, nothing but horses. Where's the damn war? If the election hadn't happened, the pretty horses would have been enough. Where's the damn war???
Need war!!!!!
Posted by: L is an elle at November 23, 2012 12:22 AM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: antisocialist at November 23, 2012 12:23 AM (j/nZn)
Posted by: Timwi at November 23, 2012 12:23 AM (pdhxN)
looks like everyone survived, so far.
good night all, and save some booze for tomorrow, you'll need it for then too
Posted by: chemjeff at November 23, 2012 12:24 AM (d/5qf)
Need war!!!!!
Posted by: L is an elle at November 23, 2012 12:22 AM (0PiQ4)
According to the synopsis I read they have to teach the horse to pull a plow first, then it gets sold to a calvary officer. It gets shooty after that.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:25 AM (yh0zB)
My entertainment is listening to the drunk, vulgar neighbors across the way. They are always entertaining around holiday time.
Posted by: mpfs at November 23, 2012 12:25 AM (Mkhiu)
I'll bet that if a news crew interviews all those waiting to grab that special deal on sneakers and tv's, 95 percent of them will tell you how awful it is that Walmart is making them work on a holiday.
They'll watch TV all day on a holiday, never occurs to them that a lot of people have to be on the job so they can be entertained
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 12:25 AM (wwsoB)
Now that Turkey day is past, please bring me excessive amounts of ammo.
in no particular order
.22LR
.223
.308
.300 win mag
12 guage birdshot, buckshot and slugs
9mm
.45ACP
I figgure Rudolf and his crew can bring 2 sleds full, got a nice place saved in the storm celler
give Mrs Claus a hug!
all the best
J
Posted by: jake in ID at November 23, 2012 12:26 AM (2CiZb)
Posted by: Timwi at November 23, 2012 12:23 AM (pdhxN)
The whole premise of the movie falls apart the first time the Norks pass a grocery store and don't stop whatever they are doing to stare in wide-eyed disbelief.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:26 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Ripley .45 at November 23, 2012 12:27 AM (TLIC6)
Good for you guys. It is sort of comforting to finally be sorting out what we want to do as a family. I think we put up the tree at St. Niklaus day last year and it looks like that is going to be the tradition since the kids thought this week was too early. Since starting homeschooling they've gotten a lot more self-directed which I'm *very* thankful for since if it were up to me a lot of stuff would be left undone.
Posted by: Polliwogette, disappointed hobbit at November 23, 2012 12:28 AM (NYki8)
Posted by: mpfs at November 23, 2012 12:25 AM (Mkhiu)
Why is it that train wrecks are so entertaining?
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:28 AM (yh0zB)
I've been in that situation. "Just nip out to the bookstore for a latte and some browsing" and I find out too late Obama is hanging with his fellow white snotnoses at Boulder, snarling up the 36 and probably the I 25 as well.
This happened at least twice this past summer. I wanted to put the car in park, get out and break windows of the Obama bumper sticker cars.
Posted by: boulder hobo at November 23, 2012 12:28 AM (aI2re)
Took the kids to see Red Dawn tonight. It's surprisingly good and nicely patriotic. If you have teens make sure to take them.
Posted by: Timwi at November 23, 2012 12:23 AM
Did you tell the theater owners how horrible they were to make their people work on a holiday?
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 12:29 AM (wwsoB)
The whole premise of the movie falls apart at the words "North Koreans".
Posted by: Brother Cavil at November 23, 2012 12:29 AM (vkUBG)
Posted by: eman at November 23, 2012 12:29 AM (bWwMZ)
1. Define excessive
2. I approve of this message.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:29 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 12:30 AM (OJVLd)
Posted by: eman at November 23, 2012 12:30 AM (bWwMZ)
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2012 12:31 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: Brother Cavil at November 23, 2012 12:29 AM (vkUBG)
Come to think of it...yeah...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:31 AM (yh0zB)
Want to know how our education and media has destroyed critical thinking in our country?
I'll
bet that if a news crew interviews all those waiting to grab that
special deal on sneakers and tv's, 95 percent of them will tell you how
awful it is that Walmart is making them work on a holiday.
They'll
watch TV all day on a holiday, never occurs to them that a lot of
people have to be on the job so they can be entertained
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 12:25 AM (wwsoB)
^^^^this
Like I said earlier, the team I worked for had a tradition of playing on Thanksgiving night, so we worked Thanksgiving. When I worked in radio, we worked on Thanksgiving, hell we worked on Christmas. It sucked, but we decided to get together on Friday night and celebrate it. We felt it was okay to give thanks on Friday instead. Plus when we went out for dinner to celebrate it, the waiters and waitresses all said they were doing the same thing.
Posted by: MrCaniac at November 23, 2012 12:31 AM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: Polliwogette, disappointed hobbit at November 23, 2012 12:32 AM (NYki8)
Posted by: MrCaniac at November 23, 2012 12:34 AM (Zd/NW)
Have to figure out what to do with the ham juices and drippings. Anyone got any ideas?
Posted by: Polliwogette, disappointed hobbit at November 23, 2012 12:32 AM (NYki
Rub them all over your body and have them licked off?
Well, crap, you wanted ideas -- no necessarily reasonable ones.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2012 12:34 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: katya the designated driver at November 23, 2012 12:34 AM (DoZD+)
Actually, they circle the Kaaba, not the mosque.
Posted by: Jordan at November 23, 2012 12:34 AM (jRfn3)
Time to stagger off to bed. Don't misbehave without records I can later peruse and laugh at.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at November 23, 2012 12:35 AM (vkUBG)
Posted by: Polliwogette, disappointed hobbit at November 23, 2012 12:32 AM (NYki
1/4 C ham juice and drippingsAdd enough flour to make a slurryAdd milk and stir to make gravyServe over biscuits with the leftover ham
1/4 C makes a lot of gravy, you can use 2T to the same effect if you don't want so much.
Also, mix it in dry dog food for Fido. He will be your BFF.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:35 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: mpfs at November 23, 2012 12:35 AM (Mkhiu)
Posted by: Polliwogette, disappointed hobbit at November 23, 2012 12:32 AM (NYki
cooks some spuds, then make some yummy gravey
BE SURE TO USE RUSSET BURBANK potatos, they are the best!
serious, except for new potatoes/red potatos but those are not interchangeable
Posted by: jake in ID at November 23, 2012 12:36 AM (2CiZb)
Posted by: 101st Airborne, Bastogne, 1944 at November 23, 2012 12:36 AM (wwsoB)
My friend dragged me to that movie, so to speak, and since I hadn't hung out with him for a while I went......to my most bored sadness.
When I asked him what kind of movie it was, he said 'war movie'. It's not. It's an anti war, horse movie.
I'd of asked for my money back, but he paid. Then he had to listen to me bitch, too. Heh.
Posted by: GnuBreed at November 23, 2012 12:36 AM (ccXZP)
Enjoy your company throughout the year, and over several years.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at November 23, 2012 12:37 AM (l3vZN)
Posted by: katya the designated driver at November 23, 2012 12:37 AM (DoZD+)
GGE
They are real live white trash. The fights are epic.
Hey, it kills time.
Posted by: mpfs at November 23, 2012 12:35 AM
I remember reading that Lucy and Desi used to have screaming fights in the middle of the night that woke up the entire neighborhood in Canoga Park
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 12:38 AM (wwsoB)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:38 AM (yh0zB)
"Think of the muzzies circling the Grand Mosque in Mecca, it's very similar to WalMart's Thursday night Black Friday sale. "
Actually, they circle the Kaaba, not the mosque.
Posted by: Jordan at November 23, 2012 12:34 AM (jRfn3)
IIRC, the biggest tramplings are at the stoning pillars, not in the final mosque.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2012 12:39 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: Polliwogette, disappointed hobbit at November 23, 2012 12:32 AM (NYki
Hamas care package?
Posted by: eman at November 23, 2012 12:39 AM (bWwMZ)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:39 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: CalyxtheCommoner at November 23, 2012 12:40 AM (fw+Wp)
...Make Red-Eye Gravy.Posted by: concrete girl at November 23, 2012 12:40 AM (y2Ojs)
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 12:38 AM (wwsoB)
Mickey and Minnie Mouse were way worse.
Posted by: eman at November 23, 2012 12:40 AM (bWwMZ)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:29 AM (yh0zB)
ummmm tough call
a million each would be sweet, but I'd settle for 10,000 each, that would count out to 90,000 for those listed
Posted by: jake in ID at November 23, 2012 12:40 AM (2CiZb)
See also, that coog and her romeo who were caught packing fudge in the aisle
Posted by: boulder hobo at November 23, 2012 12:42 AM (aI2re)
-the theater was packed, the kids working there seemed happy to get away from whatever family gathering they had escaped from and were goofing around and looked to be having a better time than hanging out with drunk Uncle Al. #129 and 135- Doesn't matter- there are communists attacking and kids fighting back and winning and since all the progressive/communist/Marxist reviewers really hate this movie isn't that reason enough to go? Might be nice to expose your kids to the anti-Communist, pro America, and America worth protecting themes in this movie to combat the America is evil and kills nature loving Indians themes that the public school teachers of your kids have been feeding them all week.Posted by: Timwi at November 23, 2012 12:43 AM (pdhxN)
Posted by: GnuBreed at November 23, 2012 12:44 AM (ccXZP)
Posted by: jake in ID at November 23, 2012 12:40 AM (2CiZb)
I would be happy with reloadable brass in 6.5x50 and 7.62x54R, suitable primers and bullets, and powder. Enough for a couple thousand rounds each should be sufficient. Oh, and I need dies for 7.62x54R. Thanks.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:44 AM (yh0zB)
hmm, you do have a point there...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:46 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Polliwogette, disappointed hobbit at November 23, 2012 12:46 AM (NYki8)
Posted by: Polliwogette, disappointed hobbit at November 23, 2012 12:32 AM (NYki
Save some for grits, or treat the dog.
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 12:46 AM (OJVLd)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:44 AM (yh0zB)
well it is Santa and the internet, so went big
Posted by: jake in ID at November 23, 2012 12:46 AM (2CiZb)
Posted by: Jordan at November 23, 2012 12:34 AM (jRfn3)
>>>>
Thanks for the correction. At first I put Dome of the Rock because that's how little I know.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 23, 2012 12:47 AM (BAS5M)
Anyway, got tired of waiting, hit it with my own meat thermometer and checked the reading against the venerable "Joy of Cooking"....and pulled it out. I let it rest for a couple of minutes while I moved stuff around. Then, I transferred it to my carving setup and realized my carving knife needed washing. While I was washing my carving knife, the stupid button finally decided to pop out and I said "HA!" so loud the BH came in from the other room to see if I'd sliced myself.
That's the button that's supposed to tell you to take something out of the oven, popping 7-8 minutes after it had actually been removed from the oven.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2012 12:47 AM (kaalw)
Heh. Tramplings. There's got to be a Wal Mart joke in here somewhere...
Posted by: Jordan at November 23, 2012 12:49 AM (jRfn3)
Posted by: GnuBreed at November 23, 2012 12:49 AM (ccXZP)
I can't for the life of me remember which russet potatoes, not to get. A family friend said don't get XXXX spuds, but can't remember what they were
But Burbanks are the good stuff
(he's farmed spuds for 40+ years, knows his stuff)
anyway
Posted by: jake in ID at November 23, 2012 12:49 AM (2CiZb)
I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving.
I may have *urp* overindulged myself.
*Groan*
My goodness but I haven't eaten like that in months. And I learned something! Apparently there is an upper limit to how much food and drink (and by drink I mean coffee since it's a woik night after all) my stomach can hold. Hint: a lot freakin' less than it could before. Might have, uh...eaten myself sick. Literally.
But what a wonderful meal it was!
And roughly 2900 calories later I don't think I ever want to look at food ever again.
*Loosens belt*
Man, I could go for a nap.
Posted by: Robert at November 23, 2012 12:50 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Robert at November 23, 2012 12:50 AM (4ixH5)
no dude, ther term is 'after dinner drink'
Posted by: jake in ID at November 23, 2012 12:52 AM (2CiZb)
I'm only surprised you're not telling us they circle the Texas legislature, when in session.
Posted by: Waterhouse at November 23, 2012 12:53 AM (fa2d4)
anybody got the slightest clue how to know what health insurance costs are likely to be? lots of info for up to 400% poverty level. after that not much to go on.
suggestions?
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 12:53 AM (kfC1R)
I wonder, does any other country have a special 'shopping frenzy' day? Cuz ours is pretty damn stupid.
Posted by: GnuBreed at November 23, 2012 12:49 AM
Reminds me of "Festival" on that Star Trek TOS episode "Return of the Archons"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao9Wxov9lQM
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 12:55 AM (wwsoB)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at November 23, 2012 12:55 AM (6JMZR)
I'm going to have to get some batteries...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 12:57 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Jordan at November 23, 2012 12:49 AM
Isn't it horrible that Axelrod forces his trolls to work on a holiday?
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 12:57 AM (wwsoB)
That ornament sounds really cool. Also awesome that the grandbaby's enjoying it so much.
Posted by: Polliwogette, disappointed hobbit at November 23, 2012 01:02 AM (NYki8)
Posted by: Polliwogette, disappointed hobbit at November 23, 2012 01:03 AM (NYki8)
Posted by: jake in ID at November 23, 2012 12:52 AM (2CiZb)
Ugh. No. Just no. I regret that last cup of coffee I had earlier. There's just no room for anything in my stomach. I'm so full. I was miserable earlier. I learned I can never eat like I did when I was a huge fatty. And I didn't even eat as much as that!
I look forward to my future tryptophan coma.
Posted by: Robert at November 23, 2012 01:03 AM (4ixH5)
She must have been entering her shopper's high, because her eyes didn't focus too well and she gesticulated wildly as she replied, pointing first to a pallet box of underwear, then to the children's shoes, then to the electronics section (random points of the compass it seemed) while breathing deeply and telling me the movie bins were all over. I had circled half the store by then without spotting a single one.
I thanked her and went on my way, certain I'd never find the movie bins. But I had enjoyed the show. You see she was very amply endowed and was wearing a tight fitting low cut top so as she waved her arms about and breathed deeply I added two more things to my list of things to be thankful about.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 23, 2012 01:03 AM (BAS5M)
Norman ... coordinate!
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 01:03 AM (wwsoB)
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 12:53 AM (kfC1R)
Declare all your neighbors dependents and cash in on Medicaid.
Posted by: Robert at November 23, 2012 01:04 AM (4ixH5)
The bad news is, the beatings will continue until morale improves.
Posted by: GnuBreed at November 23, 2012 01:06 AM (ccXZP)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 01:07 AM (OJVLd)
I haven't seen War Horse. I saw the preview with the horse running through a field with barbed wire wrapped around it and that was enough for me.
Yes.
I did cry when Scarlett O'Hara's horse died.
Wanna make something of it?!
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 23, 2012 01:08 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: Zakn at November 23, 2012 01:11 AM (YkUit)
Posted by: The Dude at November 23, 2012 01:14 AM (tw6Ar)
As Archie Bunker once observed:
Might as well shut the doors of this country and hang up a sign; "CLOSED, OWNER GONE NUTS"
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 01:14 AM (wwsoB)
have been pondering some voluntary long term funemployment.
anybody
got the slightest clue how to know what health insurance costs are
likely to be? lots of info for up to 400% poverty level. after that not
much to go on.
suggestions?
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 12:53 AM (kfC1R)
I can tell you with some degree of assurance -- whatever happens to health insurance in the US over the next 3-5 years will be a complete and total clusterfuck. There has been huge broad-level directives that contradict each other, and stalling on the detail-level policies that get things done. If you are over 400% of the poverty level, you are better off in another country where the rules are set, if you can somehow maintain the option of repatriating to the best healthcare on the planet if you need it.
Karl has got a good read on this -- start here (http://tinyurl.com/av74sev). There's nothing magic about healthcare -- but there's a lot that's magic in the lies about healthcare. Health "insurance" mostly insurance -- as in a payment against a remote risk....it's "prepaid health" -- normal things you could budget for overlaid with bureaucracy.
.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2012 01:15 AM (kaalw)
Wanna make something of it?!
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 23, 2012 01:08 AM (piMMO)
But did you cry in Animal House when...oh yeah...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 01:16 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 01:19 AM (wwsoB)
******
Oh Dear God!
I had managed to repress the memory after years of therapy and now look what you've done!
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 23, 2012 01:19 AM (piMMO)
****
I don't think I'd want to know anyone who didn't.
Still, as sad as Old Yeller was, I cried much more during The Yearling.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 23, 2012 01:20 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 23, 2012 01:19 AM (piMMO)
*hangs head in shame*
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 01:20 AM (yh0zB)
I know eveyone has there own ways to cook a turkey and have it moist,
but try this, if I`m using the oven I put it in frozen. Example, 24 lb
turkey put in at 5 pm yesterday with oven on warm, `bout ten do dry rub,
`bout 4 am turn up to 250 until 10 am . Also when doing dry rub put in 2
cans of chicken broth and a can of water or so. Keep an eye on it from
time to time after turning up heat, according to pan size you may have
to dip broth out.
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 01:07 AM (OJVLd)
The problem with everything in food prep is avoiding the danger zone -- http://culinaryarts.about.com/od/safetysanitation/a/dangerzone.htm -- it would appear that your turkey spends far too much time from 5am to 10 am in that zone.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2012 01:20 AM (kaalw)
Meaning all the junk those hyserical shoppers bought will show up on the credit card statement before Christmas
Or the EBT cards will run out before the end of the month
Posted by: kbdabear at November 23, 2012 01:21 AM (wwsoB)
Never go to Walmart on a Thanksgiving night.
Holy shit!
It reminds me why I hate dealing with people. First, for whatever reason, the Walmart management decided the best way to serve the customers was to put up barricades and corrale people. Secondly they decided to put product in strange areas. For instance, displays of discounted DVDs in the middle of the men's apparel section. HUH?!?!?!?! Which sucked cause I was there to pick up some clothes for myself. Way to go, Walmart! Now I can't get to the pants because there's a huge line for DVDs wrapped around that section and no one wanting to let me through. Brilliant! (And seriously, "people," Amazon is selling all the same shit for the same price. Save yourselves the gas money.)
It was like a government meddlers wet dream. Think about it. Everyone being herded like cattle into tiny spaces stripped of freedom (of movement in this case) and what results? People treating each other like shit! It was a disgusting sea of fatties and rude little shitheads. I lasted five minutes before getting the hell out. The hell with it. Not worth it just to save five bucks on a pair of cheap-o pants.
Oh well. Live and learn.
Posted by: Robert at November 23, 2012 01:23 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Zakn at November 23, 2012 01:11 AM (YkUit)
I made the mistake of having the tinest slice of pecan pie before letting the meal settle down. It...did me in.
But the pie was deeeeeeeee-licious!
Posted by: Robert at November 23, 2012 01:25 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 01:25 AM (yh0zB)
Worth watching, but only when fully sober.
I'm past half way through. Lots more horses than war, but WWI was not uplifting bc of the cause ( what was the cause again?).
Really pretty horses. Why are they always the reds?
Posted by: L is an elle at November 23, 2012 01:25 AM (0PiQ4)
Oh well. Live and learn.
Posted by: Robert at November 23, 2012 01:23 AM (4ixH5)
There is a particular brand of cargo pants I like for work, it has pen pockets and a pocket just the right size for a 5x7 notepad on the left leg cargo pocket. WalMart seems to be the only place that sells them, and thankfully for me they are only available online.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 01:28 AM (yh0zB)
Then, today, the all clear was issued, and I went searching for 'A Christmas Story' and couldn't find it anywhere.
Disappointing.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 23, 2012 01:29 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: Zakn at November 23, 2012 01:32 AM (YkUit)
So, I noticed BestBuy had a $79 one for $29 bucks in its doorbusters sale. But no way I'm showing up at midnight..
But since it's after midnight here, I thought I would check on their stock and see which stores might still have one for the morning.
Well, lo and behold, they got the doorbuster price online! Shipped to my home free in 2 days. Booyah!
Not sure if this applies to other doorbuster stuff, or if this was a mistake.. but I thought I'd pass it along.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 23, 2012 01:32 AM (UTq/I)
There is a particular brand of cargo pants I like for work, it has pen pockets and a pocket just the right size for a 5x7 notepad on the left leg cargo pocket. WalMart seems to be the only place that sells them, and thankfully for me they are only available online.
****
I've been seeing really clever ads for work jeans, mostly airing on FNC. The ads are for "ballroom" jeans which allow one to crouch down without squishing the jewels. They also sell a tshirt with a longer tail so that it hides plumber crack.
Pretty clever.
http://bit.ly/rQWcsz
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 23, 2012 01:33 AM (piMMO)
There are many here that are, or have been warriors for the United States of America and I am most thankful to them.
We will honor the freedom they have granted us when we stand against the tyranny of our time. We must resist, in all ways, the expanding Government Super-State.
Give me Liberty, or Give me Death must be our oath, now and forever.
Posted by: cm9000 at November 23, 2012 01:35 AM (vfB2N)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 01:40 AM (OJVLd)
Posted by: and irresolute at November 23, 2012 01:41 AM (DBH1h)
Later roonz and roonettez!
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2012 01:43 AM (yh0zB)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at November 23, 2012 01:45 AM (GEICT)
Posted by: Zakn at November 23, 2012 01:32 AM (YkUit)
Howdy, Zakn!
I don't mind working holidays.
Dude! I live like eight hours away from Austin but I've never actually been there. Otherwise I'd be getting you shitfaced right now.
Posted by: Robert at November 23, 2012 01:45 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Robert at November 23, 2012 01:46 AM (4ixH5)
It is better than a few years back when I HAD to pack boots and work clothes b/c inevitably I was going to have to work my ass off for at least a day.
Posted by: Zakn at November 23, 2012 01:46 AM (YkUit)
Posted by: The Dude at November 23, 2012 01:48 AM (tw6Ar)
The Weimers that live at my parents house now are fuckin softies. They don't even perimeter check!
Posted by: Zakn at November 23, 2012 01:50 AM (YkUit)
Bloodrayne. Which appears to be spectacularly bad, but damn is Kristanna
Loken hot.
So is her replacement in the sequels.
Which have no redeeming value as movies otherwise.
Posted by: Methos at November 23, 2012 01:52 AM (hO9ad)
Posted by: The Dude at November 23, 2012 01:56 AM (tw6Ar)
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So is her replacement in the sequels.
Which have no redeeming value as movies otherwise.
Posted by: Methos at November 23, 2012 01:52 AM (hO9ad)
Yeah, but the hotness is enough.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at November 23, 2012 02:00 AM (GEICT)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at November 23, 2012 02:03 AM (GEICT)
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So is her replacement in the sequels.
Which have no redeeming value as movies otherwise.
Posted by: Methos at November 23, 2012 01:52 AM (hO9ad)
Yeah, but the hotness is enough.
-----------------------------------------------------------
For real fun, play BloodRayne 2 on the PC. Campy, bloody, sexy fun.
Learn the cheat codes, because there are some frustratingly difficult spots, and some seriously broken gameplay at times.
Posted by: Looking Glass at November 23, 2012 02:08 AM (g3wOT)
Posted by: Barack Obama at November 23, 2012 02:08 AM (H8YzT)
Yes, horse movie. A really beautiful horse movie.
Though I wanted a war movie this evening, the war part of the movie I ignored mostly bc WWI was never compelling to me.
I liked it . . . because horses are pretty and strong at the same time, leaving me confused all the time.
Posted by: L is an elle at November 23, 2012 02:09 AM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 02:11 AM (OJVLd)
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at November 23, 2012 02:15 AM (lJJMb)
Posted by: Barack Obama at November 23, 2012 02:15 AM (H8YzT)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 02:11 AM (OJVLd)
DCS BlackShark or DCS A-10C Warthog
Posted by: The Dude at November 23, 2012 02:24 AM (tw6Ar)
===
yeah, but ......
I need to get a handle on this crap. Now, I will grant you that the math sez the whole thing will crash really fast. But, the question I am really struggling with is this: "if my money is going to be wasted or destroyed by this behemoth -- and I can't seem to vote to do one damn thing about that -- why shouldn't I be the one doing the wasting?"
As near as I can tell, working will be a sucker's game for a while. But, me being me, I have been making a huge, complex spreadsheet fulla assumptions and factors about assumptions all stacked on top of each other and worked out to two decimals 40 years into the future. I know. Trust me, it is as silly as it sounds. I am just afraid to trust my gut without at least going thru the exercise.
But I am damned if I can really tell what these idiots even expected to happen, much less the question of whether their expectation has a hope. I can't even seem to get a handle on their model so I can begin to fret over whether it will work or not.
Below 400% over the poverty line -- they put out some bullshit data one could argue about. Above 400% over the poverty line -- echoing crickets. Huh? WTF? Didn't anybody frickin' ask?
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 02:29 AM (kfC1R)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 02:33 AM (Xj+wW)
Posted by: lou's a mean girl at November 23, 2012 02:34 AM (adaoe)
now to be getting into the pc sim. Hell it`s almost a burden for me to
map the stick for ps3
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 02:33 AM (Xj+wW)
ah PS3 sims. genre is kinda lacking on the consoles outside of Wings of Prey and Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
Posted by: The Dude at November 23, 2012 02:36 AM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 02:42 AM (kfC1R)
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at November 23, 2012 02:44 AM (lJJMb)
The offer I made in 227 is still open. Need a hand here, morons.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at November 23, 2012 02:44 AM (lJJMb)
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do we get a pocket fisherman with it? you pay the SH, right?
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 02:50 AM (kfC1R)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 02:50 AM (Xj+wW)
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at November 23, 2012 02:44 AM (lJJMb)
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can you give us a small sample so we know what we're up against?
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 02:55 AM (kfC1R)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 02:55 AM (Xj+wW)
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 02:55 AM (kfC1R)
It's no novel. I doubt the spacing will work, what with our broken-assed blog, but here's the start. It's quite short, so there isn't much to follow:
A Sheepdog's Night
11/23/2012
The night is dark, and wolves are
about.
My flock sleeps. I do not.
The wolves may come; they may not.
My flock sleeps. I do not.
Let the wolves come, snapping and
howling.
They lust for blood, but will have none
tonight.
Though my flock sleeps, I will not.
When Night is past and morning has
arrived,
greeted by sweet
clover sparkling in easy sunlight,
my beloved will
bask, and feed,
and love easily.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at November 23, 2012 02:58 AM (lJJMb)
213 So, after 2 hours of playing God of War 3, I'm sitting here watching Bloodrayne. Which appears to be spectacularly bad, but damn is Kristanna Loken hot.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at November 23, 2012 01:45 AM (GEICT)
Its amazingly bad. Uwe Boll apparently believes that the human body is just skin holding in 30 gallons of blood.
Posted by: buzzion at November 23, 2012 02:59 AM (GULKT)
You want moist turkey you just pour gravy on it. That's what it is there fore. Hmm...hmm...gravy.
Posted by: Walkers! at November 23, 2012 03:00 AM (TYO2p)
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 02:42 AM (kfC1R)
Hey, hubby and Iread the turkey attack story out of MA about an hour or so ago. Laughed our asses off. Best comment on the original cbs story.
Let the turkeys loose on the blue states, we don't even have to fight.
yeah, they have lost the man cards big time. Too funny, comments were hilarious.
Posted by: lou's a mean girl at November 23, 2012 03:03 AM (adaoe)
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seems to me that you are in the midst of doing something that comes from your heart. which, makes it right -- no matter what. there is nothing I could do that would not have the effect of diminishing it. Go with it just the way you feel it. It is already good, and it will be the best that way.
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 03:04 AM (kfC1R)
My degree's in Econ....but, somehow, they neglected to teach me about what happens when. I just know that printing money = value debasement.....but I can't tell you how many months will elapse.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2012 03:07 AM (kaalw)
Whole and hale, the night just a memory
quickly forgotten,
the danger but a shadow
burned away
against the gentle warmth
of morning
sunlight,
They Live.
There can be no wolves in a place
so serene,
so beautiful,
so full of life.
I know better, but can never tell them
so.
My flock will not
hear my words about the wolves.
The sunlight
blinds.
Tonight, my flock will sleep. I will
not.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at November 23, 2012 03:07 AM (lJJMb)
either here
either there
who shall know.
and laying softly in the ground some rest
while the sheep carry on
never knowing the test.
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 03:08 AM (Xj+wW)
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at November 23, 2012 03:10 AM (lJJMb)
They were conspicuously quiet about the election. I was surprised, they never fail to give me and hubby shit about being conservative.
Posted by: lou's a mean girl at November 23, 2012 03:13 AM (adaoe)
And then the trumpets softly blow
either here
either there
who shall know.
and laying softly in the ground some rest
while the sheep carry on
never knowing the test.
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 03:08 AM (Xj+wW)
Yep, I just tried to put a new twist on it.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at November 23, 2012 03:13 AM (lJJMb)
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 02:29 AM (kfC1R)
My
degree's in Econ....but, somehow, they neglected to teach me about what
happens when. I just know that printing money = value
debasement.....but I can't tell you how many months will elapse.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2012 03:07 AM (kaalw)
===
yeah. competition will still apply, right? Prices cannot ever reach a point where absolutely no one can buy. the debasement curve has to have an asymptote somewhere doesn't it?
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 03:17 AM (kfC1R)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 03:19 AM (Xj+wW)
They were conspicuously quiet about the election. I was surprised,
they never fail to give me and hubby shit about being conservative.
Posted by: lou's a mean girl at November 23, 2012 03:13 AM (adaoe)
=====
wonder what to make of that.
I have been saving the sentence: "thank you for faithfully restating what GE, Comcast, Time Warner, and Disney want me to believe" for the appropriate time. Haven't had the need to use it yet.
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 03:21 AM (kfC1R)
Thanks. I've never written anything but corporate investigations and accident reports. It's getting on 2:30 here in Nashville, so goodnight, folks.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at November 23, 2012 03:25 AM (lJJMb)
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 03:21 AM (kfC1R)
Yeah, it was weird. But my hubbys NaNa is just a wonderful person, sweet . But a true liberal. Shes older, and I did not want to start anything.
But believe me when I tell you this, every time we go to his family house for any occasion we get jumped by liberals. Its just me, hubby my sister in law on our own.
Today not a damn thing was said, I think they know they were duped, swear to God!
Posted by: lou's a mean girl at November 23, 2012 03:29 AM (adaoe)
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at November 23, 2012 02:44 AM (lJJMb)
Stepped away for a few and now I'm OBE. It's OK.
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 03:04 AM (kfC1R) - Called it right.
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 03:08 AM (Xj+wW) - Called it right also.
Send it from the heart and you can't go wrong.
Posted by: dDan at November 23, 2012 03:31 AM (q1RJB)
Posted by: DAve at November 23, 2012 03:33 AM (XDC0v)
degree's in Econ....but, somehow, they neglected to teach me about what
happens when. I just know that printing money = value
debasement.....but I can't tell you how many months will elapse.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2012 03:07 AM (kaalw)
===
yeah.
competition will still apply, right? Prices cannot ever reach a point
where absolutely no one can buy. the debasement curve has to have an
asymptote somewhere doesn't it?
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 03:17 AM (kfC1R)
Economics is part math, which tells you what will happen, and part psychology, which would tell you when if you had perfect knowledge of the thinking of every person in the marketplace. Eventually enough people will cry 'bullshit' and the lie collapses. Even if they don't say so, the behavioral changes due to seeing through the lie will alter behavior to the point that it eventually becomes unsustainable. Unfortunately due to the way exponents work on debt, the longer folks stubbornly refuse to acknowledge reality the greater the gap between the lie and the truth become (wait and it becomes worse).Since part of this is psychology, prices, in the absolute worst case, can in fact go so high that no one can buy.All that means is that no one values the little green slips of cotton displaying dead presidents enough to trade you real stuff for them. If I run a gas station, am starving, and the supermarket is bare, I'm not trading you fuel for paper in the vain hope the store will be stocked tomorrow. I will trade fuel for food.
Posted by: Methos at November 23, 2012 03:41 AM (hO9ad)
Posted by: DAve at November 23, 2012 03:33 AM (XDC0v)
Well I think my hubby's family, who all have jobs,but are liberal, thought maybe they could escape the long arm of obamas taxes, and it bit them in their asses.
Posted by: lou's a mean girl at November 23, 2012 03:44 AM (adaoe)
Posted by: lou's a mean girl at November 23, 2012 03:29 AM (adaoe)
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take my money and give it to them and they know better than to brag about it.
Posted by: DAve at November 23, 2012 03:33 AM (XDC0v)
=====
For years, I never came across any information regarding why the Great Depression lasted so long. Eventually, I came across a written realization by one of FDR's econ guys that they had it wrong, and even more so, that they were actually the problem.
We are in for a long and interesting ride, and it is somehow comforting to me to hear that conservatives are not the only ones holding their tongues.
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 03:45 AM (kfC1R)
My poem since Adriene is not here.
Here's to You
Heres to Me!
And if we ever disagree,
Fuck them and heres to you and me!
Posted by: lou's a mean girl at November 23, 2012 03:51 AM (adaoe)
Have we met?
Posted by: president o'bumbles at November 23, 2012 03:58 AM (nkiQM)
green slips of cotton displaying dead presidents enough to trade you
real stuff for them. If I run a gas station, am starving, and the
supermarket is bare, I'm not trading you fuel for paper in the vain hope
the store will be stocked tomorrow. I will trade fuel for food.
Posted by: Methos at November 23, 2012 03:41 AM (hO9ad)
====
agreed on all points. But, what are we to do in the meantime?
I am a guy that makes investment decisions by making spreadsheets with my assumptions and tweaking those assumptions from minus stupid thru likely to positive stupid just to see the sensitivity of the moving parts.
In order to do that, I have to be able to identify the base case. I don't have to believe in it, I just have to be able to write it down. This is where I am presently stuck. I can't write down the base case, because I am lacking data.
Right now, it appears to me that obummercare has provisions that will subsidize health insurance premiums for people up to 400% of the poverty line. But it presently appears that if a person were to make just $1 over the 400% magic line, that last buck would cost that person many thousands of dollars.
So, I am saying to myself -- they can't be that stupid, right? So, I am looking for phase in/phase out data and coming up blank. I suspect I am doing something wrong, cuz if I am not we are in a world of hurt. If they really are that stupid, then that will be the least of their mistakes, and life will be really tough on everybody.
The news told us countless times that CBO was running models. Why can't I find the answers to the most basic stuff? I could go directly to the law if I could find the text, but reading that stuff is usually tough sledding and often has all these little bits about changing CFR xxx.xx.xx by deleting a sentence here and there and you have to have all the references to have a hope of understanding it. Hasn't anybody crunched some numbers and put the details out for others to review? Where the hell is it?
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 04:05 AM (kfC1R)
400% magic line, that last buck would cost that person many thousands of
dollars.
So, I am saying to myself -- they can't be that stupid, right?
If you have 50 employees, Obamacare applies. At 49, it doesn't. Or at least that's what I've read. If they didn't think through the incentive they created for small businesses (or dismissed the notion outright as their public statements suggested), I don't think it's a safe assumption at all that they worried about the 400% issue.
As to the rest of your question, there were a lot of blanks in the legislation to be filled in by the HHS secretary at a later date, and from what I hear that hasn't been done yet.
So, yeah, total clusterfuck.
Posted by: Methos at November 23, 2012 04:16 AM (hO9ad)
Posted by: CalyxtheCommoner at November 23, 2012 04:23 AM (fw+Wp)
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beyond insane. unemployment is going to get really bad if no one can figger out the damn rules.
I have learned more about the 49/50 employee thing lately, and it is not good. People are going to be required to disclose their finances to their employer -- no shit -- so the employer can run self testing on the 9.5% cap BS. Can you imagine your negotiations for a pay raise with your employer having your financial disclosure?
Also, the penalties don't start with Employee #50, they start with Employee #30. The trigger point is 50, but the penalties back up 20 people.
Our firm has 54 employees. Being nervous and planning ahead is just good sense, and it sure ain't easy to figger out how.
Also, if no one knows the damn rules, how in hell did CBO run any models?
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 04:28 AM (kfC1R)
===
Thanks. I will give it a try.
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 04:32 AM (kfC1R)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 04:34 AM (Xj+wW)
CBO does what they're told to do. And even then, I seem to remember they're the ones who pointed out that the Medicare 'savings' got double counted (a clear warning that there was fuzziness to see if anyone looked).
Posted by: Methos at November 23, 2012 04:41 AM (hO9ad)
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 04:48 AM (kfC1R)
According to the word I am getting -- almost any health care plan that actually meets the minimum requirements -- will cost enough to go over the "Cadillac plan" threshold -- so, everyone who gets insurance through their job is going to have to pay a tax on the insurance they receive.
Also the estimates I am hearing are up to $36K / year per employee within a couple years.
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 04:53 AM (kfC1R)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 05:04 AM (ZcFJK)
--Barack Obama, from The Audacity of Hope, p. 20
Posted by: logprof at November 23, 2012 05:07 AM (gBuIk)
If I did not spell his name right, forgive me. It`s the first time ever to write his whole name, usually it`s derogatory sumpin or de udder.
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 05:23 AM (ZcFJK)
Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,theys ridin ponies) at November 23, 2012 05:24 AM (ZcFJK)
====
I followed the Market Ticker link to some US Govt sites. There is info there, but there is also a lot of hype. The federal register release of a variety of rules and guidances will take some slugging thru to understand it.
Bet the math won't work, tho. Too many people will just decide to chuck it in and ride with the rest. Tax revenues will fall at the same time costs are flying up.
Posted by: jc at November 23, 2012 05:28 AM (kfC1R)
Are any of them Obama voters? If so, your decision is easy.
Posted by: WarrenMuhfugginHarding at November 23, 2012 05:54 AM (dpaZU)
Posted by: chemjeff at November 23, 2012 05:55 AM (d/5qf)
HA - Obummercare was written by the same crowd who believes profit is equivalent to exploitation of labor, none of this "making people happy" nonsense - so of course they want to cut down on profits
Posted by: chemjeff at November 23, 2012 05:58 AM (d/5qf)
There's no way in hell in going outside further than my front porch today....unless an unplanned beer run is needed. If I need to do any 'shopping', I'll just browse Amazon for their door buster deals.
Posted by: Sticky Wicket at November 23, 2012 06:10 AM (L7hol)
Posted by: chemjeff at November 23, 2012 06:29 AM (d/5qf)
Posted by: sTevo at November 23, 2012 06:56 AM (VMcEw)
I looked at that a while back. Remember, they handed out exemptions like candy to their political allies and for them the Cadillac tax doesn't kick in until 2018. I wonder how it is going to fix people who have their healthcare through their retirement? With everything going up and being taxed, they may not be able to afford it. It may force more people into the "exchanges." I think one thing employers will be doing is offering plans that cover less (meaning more OOP expenses for you) in order to avoid the cadillac tax. And this is another way of rationing healthcare.
Posted by: Walkers! at November 23, 2012 07:10 AM (TYO2p)
Posted by: perturbed at November 23, 2012 07:11 AM (u6Ueb)
****
Everyone thinks it will be the other guy that takes a hit.
Not me! THAT guy over there!
The fact that it isn't, ahem, the other guy will be a cold slap in the face to many but that really doesn't solve the problem because the underlying principles, their small-minded ignorance and selfishness, will remain.
Our society is sick and learning one lesson, I fear, will not change that fact.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 23, 2012 07:20 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: Existential Musings at November 23, 2012 07:21 AM (bS6uW)
Strangled in its bed I regret to report.
Posted by: Existential Musings at November 23, 2012 07:24 AM (bS6uW)
No need to buy a box of stale ingredients, Google/bing a recipe. Very easy and very cheap to do.
Ingredients can be as simple as
sugar
flour
beer.
If you don't want it to taste real beeery use a can/bottle of American pilsner type like Bud, PBR, Miller or a light (spit) beer.
If you want it a little more hearty use Sam Adams type.
Some recipes call for added herbs to make a dill type bread.
Or you can use club soda instead of the beer. (just a suggestion)
Posted by: Bruce at November 23, 2012 07:26 AM (h/h0n)
W-wh-what?
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at November 23, 2012 07:31 AM (zcVa1)
These are the people that need to be locked in a room for months and beaten daily.
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at November 23, 2012 07:33 AM (zcVa1)
So instead they were patronizingly tolerant of us and then plotted against us after we went back home.
Posted by: Miss Marple at November 23, 2012 07:35 AM (GoIUi)
****
I recently became disabled. I'm still an employee of the company, but I am classified as "retired" for now. As an active employee my insurance was $44 per month (the least expensive option). It carries a $1600 deductible before insurance pays a dime and a $4k deductible before it pays 100%. Now, as a retiree, that same plan costs $257 per month.
Sooooo, divide $1600 by 12 and add it to the monthly premium and I'm now spending $387 per month before the insurance company spends a dime. And, actually, it's more than that because the coverage is only 80% until $4k.
So, basically, you can pay for the insurance but can't afford to go to the doctor.
And...... This sharp increase occurs concurrent with my pay dropping by 40%.
I am blessed to be single with no kids and to have made a decent salary because, otherwise, I'd be screwed.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 23, 2012 07:36 AM (piMMO)
Well, there goes his credibility. The dude pretends that he has learned history's lessons and then puts out that Thanksgiving turkey.
Posted by: Gerry at November 23, 2012 11:44 AM (G5lOH)
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