Overnight Open Thread (1-1-2013) - A New Beginning
Well the good news is that most of the stains came out but I'm guessing Ace still won't be getting all of his deposit back.
But hey let's not quibble over who stabbed who or which moron/moronette broke the lamp - we're on to a new year here.
Here's where we are:
* U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
* National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget:
* Annual family income: $21,700
* Money the family spent: $38,200
* New debt on the credit card: $16,500
* Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
* Total budget cuts so far: $38.50
Now most households would go bankrupt fairly quickly at this rate but then this household can print money and make you accept it.
I'm pretty sure the birds and the black cat had some kind of arrangement going on.
How to Make Poor-Man's Liquid Nitrogen
With some dry ice and isopropyl alcohol. AoSHQ LLC not responsible if you freeze off something important.
Your Government at Work: Spearmint
The USDA has some new rules regarding spearmint oil:
This rule revises the quantity of Class 1 (Scotch) and Class 3 (Native) spearmint oil that handlers may purchase from, or handle on behalf of, producers during the 2012-2013 marketing year under the Far West spearmint oil marketing order. This rule increases the Scotch spearmint oil salable quantity from 782,413 pounds to 2,622,115 pounds, and the allotment percentage from 38 percent to 128 percent. In addition, this rule increases the Native spearmint oil salable quantity from 1,162,473 pounds to 1,348,270 pounds, and the allotment percentage from 50 percent to 58 percent. The marketing order regulates the handling of spearmint oil produced in the Far West and is administered locally by the Spearmint Oil Administrative Committee (Committee). The Committee recommended this rule for the purpose of maintaining orderly marketing conditions in the Far West spearmint oil market.
How did we ever get along without the government regulating the spearmint oil market - it was pure chaos I tell you!
Richard Francis Burton was a hard-living combination of Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt. By 1853, he'd already swashbuckled his way through enough adventures for several lifetimes. The British explorer, writer, ethnologist, polyglot, and spy had spent his youth traveling Europe and drinking in its culture, learning as much about history and poetry as he did about sword fighting and bordellos. He'd worked undercover investigating his fellow English officers' behavior in Indian brothels. And he'd penned travelogues and anthropological studies detailing his adventures.
But Burton craved more. During an extended leave from the military, he began devising one of the greatest adventures of the Victorian era. Burton wanted to be the first Englishman to walk into the forbidden city of Mecca.
Read the rest to find out how he pulled it off and the rest of his adventures which include searching for the source of the Nile and translating the Kama Sutra.
These Fists Were Made for Punching
Human hands evolved so that men could make fists and fight, and not just for manual dexterity, new research finds.The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, adds to a growing body of evidence that humans are among the most aggressive and violent animals on the planet.
...Gorilla hands are closer in proportion to human hands than are other apes' hands, but they and no other ape -- aside from us -- hits with a clenched fist.
The researchers additionally point out that humans use fists during threat displays. There is also a difference in body size between males and females, particularly evident with hands and arms. This, Carrier said, is "consistent with the hand being a weapon."
Teh Tweet!
Tonight's post brought to you by weak points:
Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace.
Comments
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 01, 2013 09:56 PM (IvVLN)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 09:57 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 09:57 PM (jPVBi)
Posted by: MrCaniac 2013 Reboot at January 01, 2013 09:57 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 09:57 PM (jPVBi)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 01, 2013 09:59 PM (IvVLN)
Come on, I am using a cheaper cut of panda--I'm getting the males now and not the pregnant females.
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 09:59 PM (jPVBi)
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2013 09:59 PM (JMmQ9)
https://www.rinkya.com/new/en/auction-g122662705
BCochran, as for your lass in the red bikini. Gravity.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2013 10:00 PM (TCGmg)
* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
* National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000
Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget:
* Annual family income: $21,700
* Money the family spent: $38,200
* New debt on the credit card: $16,500
* Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
* Total budget cuts so far: $38.50
_______________________________________
This is the argument that needs to be made. Put it in simple terms people understand. Telling people we have a 1.6 trillion deficit is meaningless since 90% of public school graduates don't even know what a trillion means.
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 01, 2013 10:00 PM (HDgX3)
Posted by: Wen Jiabao at January 01, 2013 10:01 PM (EZl54)
Posted by: Dawth Bawney at January 01, 2013 10:01 PM (ueckd)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2013 10:01 PM (TCGmg)
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 01, 2013 10:01 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2013 10:00 PM (TCGmg)
Pfffft.
If we can suspend the reality of Math, what's a little gravity?
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 01, 2013 10:02 PM (IvVLN)
Happy New Year, roundeyes.
Ah hell. The Japs tried it in the 80's, and look where it got them. They've been backing up for decades.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2013 10:03 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Waterhouse at January 01, 2013 10:03 PM (06cUt)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 01, 2013 10:00 PM (HDgX3)
---
The response will be: Just tax the rich.
Then, eyes will glaze over when you explain there aren't enough rich people.
There is enough information out there already that is simple enough to understand. The people, however, don't want to understand. They want Obama and the View, and they will be angry at anyone who dispels their lovely dreaming.
Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at January 01, 2013 10:03 PM (Y5I9o)
Posted by: Wen Jiabao at January 01, 2013 10:04 PM (EZl54)
Posted by: Hank Scorpio at January 01, 2013 10:04 PM (06cUt)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2013 10:01 PM (TCGmg)
Same thing
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 01, 2013 10:04 PM (IvVLN)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2013 10:04 PM (TCGmg)
Evening roonz and roonettez! Stopping in on break, working yet another holiday (yay me).
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 01, 2013 10:04 PM (xa1/W)
Let's say, You come home from work and find there has been a sewer backup in your neighborhood....
and your home has sewage all the way up to your ceilings. What do you think you should do ......
Raise the ceilings, or remove the shit?
Posted by: ALH at January 01, 2013 10:05 PM (eqV3Q)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2013 10:05 PM (BBWjt)
Mornidine®. (See the sock.)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 10:05 PM (jPVBi)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2013 10:06 PM (TCGmg)
Seriously. Great stuff.
_
Also, "Mountains of the Moon" is a good film about Burton.
Posted by: BumperStickerist at January 01, 2013 10:06 PM (RuUvx)
also?
All of your base are belong to us.
ho ho ho
We have enough women to ensure that we have a new generation, even if it is screwed. How about you?
Posted by: Grey Fox at January 01, 2013 10:06 PM (/D/u1)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2013 10:06 PM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2013 10:06 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at January 01, 2013 10:06 PM (Zjc90)
Heh. Epic Kitteh fight.
The white cat is the republicans right?
The first bird is the media (constantly pecking and nitpicking)and the second bird is obama and the dem party above the fray...
The black cat is the American public exercising its vote.... blindsiding the republicans.... basically kicking the sh*t out of 'em...
The two birds and the black cat then chase the republicans off into the abyss...
Poetry man, poetry.
Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at January 01, 2013 10:07 PM (78z9I)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2013 10:07 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at January 01, 2013 10:07 PM (Gk3SS)
One of the many TZ episodes that have become prophesies
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2013 10:07 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at January 01, 2013 10:08 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2013 10:08 PM (9XBK2)
_
Posted by: Math at January 01, 2013 10:08 PM (RuUvx)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2013 10:09 PM (TCGmg)
Burn it down and start over.
Posted by: @PurpAv at January 01, 2013 10:09 PM (hc3eM)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 01, 2013 10:09 PM (o1kXv)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2013 10:06 PM (TCGmg)
mmmmaybeee...but I didn't break the lamp so you can't pin that one on me.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 01, 2013 10:09 PM (xa1/W)
The human fist is a weapon, you say. Maybe a sport will come from that.
Posted by: eman at January 01, 2013 10:10 PM (EWsrI)
We are not opposed to allowing you to work off your debt with a little trade IYKWIMAITTYD
ni hao , Yankee bitchez
Posted by: Wen Jiabao at January 01, 2013 10:10 PM (EZl54)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 10:10 PM (jPVBi)
Doris Day looks excessively happy at the prospect of doing all those dishes. What kind of drugs is she on?
Posted by: Waterhouse at January 01, 2013 10:03 PM (06cUt)
The drug? The joy she will have after cleaning up that mess, rubbing her husband's aching feet, making him a sandwich, then servicing him. Damn straight she is happy!
Posted by: MrCaniac 2013 Reboot at January 01, 2013 10:10 PM (Zd/NW)
All my small arms give me this illusion of security. Probably not how we'll go out.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2013 10:11 PM (4Mv1T)
...
Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget:
...
* Total budget cuts so far: $38.50"
Er, you have an arithmetic error here.
Not to mention that the spineless squishes in the House were not even able to get $30B in cuts, to say nothing of the touted $38.5B.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2013 10:11 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Resolute Desk at January 01, 2013 10:11 PM (5Jhmf)
Posted by: Al at January 01, 2013 10:11 PM (V70Uh)
not getting ready to do clean up
moron priorities and all
Posted by: Moron #3 at January 01, 2013 10:11 PM (jfSqj)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 10:12 PM (jPVBi)
We're willing to part with Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell for a good half billion writeoff.
Rendering their fat should garner at least that much on the world market.
Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2013 10:12 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: ALH at January 01, 2013 10:12 PM (eqV3Q)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2013 10:12 PM (kaalw)
It's simple. We want big govt. but we refuse to pay for it.
Posted by: Al at January 01, 2013 10:11 PM (V70Uh)
______________
We?
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 01, 2013 10:12 PM (HDgX3)
Posted by: no good deed at January 01, 2013 10:12 PM (mjR67)
Posted by: Ben at January 01, 2013 10:14 PM (xTHBC)
Posted by: eman at January 01, 2013 10:14 PM (EWsrI)
We are not opposed to allowing you to work off your debt with a little trade IYKWIMAITTYD
ni hao , Yankee bitchez
Heh. Or we could just keep them, raise a new generation, and then tell your aging population to get lost...
Posted by: Grey Fox at January 01, 2013 10:14 PM (/D/u1)
That mean guy in the really hot tight pants *hit* me! I'm filing a lawsuit and organizing a protest right after I make out with him!
Posted by: Berkeley Football Team Quarterback at January 01, 2013 10:14 PM (BBWjt)
Maybe we can ship'em California and call it a wash, eh?
Posted by: @PurpAv at January 01, 2013 10:14 PM (hc3eM)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 01, 2013 10:14 PM (IvVLN)
Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2013 10:14 PM (9XBK2)
in simple terms people understand. Telling people we have a 1.6 trillion
deficit is meaningless since 90% of public school graduates don't even
know what a trillion means.
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 01, 2013 10:00 PM
Because charts fascinate the low information voter. Makes them excited like a PowerPoint presentation at a meeting at work.
All trumped by a few celebtards in a black and white PSA saying "The Republicans hate teachers! The Republicans hate firefighters! Think of the CHILLLLDRENNNN !!! "
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2013 10:15 PM (wwsoB)
As the late Ron Smith said "America has a two party system. There is the Evil party and the Stupid party. Whenever politicians reach across the aisle and do something in a bi-partisan manner, the one thing you can be sure of is that it will be both evil and stupid."
Posted by: Hrothgar - LIB (for the Children) at January 01, 2013 10:15 PM (Cnqmv)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 01, 2013 10:16 PM (kdS6q)
Hey Maet, would it be like a super lot of work to do the top 10 commentors for the year, or is there something you just look at and copy?
If its work don't do it, but otherwise it would be interesting to see.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2013 10:16 PM (69Mdf)
The Chinese just wrote off the remaining Russian Federation debt by
saying it was OK because the Russians shipped them a bunch of stuff they
needed.
Maybe we can ship'em California and call it a wash, eh?
Posted by: @PurpAv at January 01, 2013 10:14 PM (hc3eM)
Do Hawaii this December and tell em we will throw in $500 billion if they also take Barky. That alone should save us enough.
Posted by: MrCaniac 2013 Reboot at January 01, 2013 10:17 PM (Zd/NW)
Bush was fighting two hot wars with less military spending than what we got now. I have no idea what the fuck Obama is doing with the money.
Posted by: @PurpAv at January 01, 2013 10:17 PM (hc3eM)
Posted by: 52% FSA Commander in Chief at January 01, 2013 10:17 PM (Cnqmv)
Posted by: Bon Qui Qui at January 01, 2013 10:18 PM (AjZV3)
Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2013 10:18 PM (9XBK2)
Posted by: Jenny tries too hard at January 01, 2013 10:19 PM (b+8h9)
Posted by: Bon Qui Qui at January 01, 2013 10:19 PM (AjZV3)
You mean
Pin Ying Moore codename "Glorious Prancing Diarrhea" and
Rosie Guang Fi codename "Red Thigh Grease " ?
They're ours.
Posted by: Wen Jiabao at January 01, 2013 10:20 PM (EZl54)
Posted by: White Cat at January 01, 2013 10:20 PM (Ea64Y)
West 2016/Not a Dime for the R Party
Posted by: Hrothgar - LIB or SMOD (for the Children) at January 01, 2013 10:20 PM (Cnqmv)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2013 10:20 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2013 10:20 PM (BBWjt)
Air Force One etc. vacation, fund-raising and campaigning flights.
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 10:21 PM (jPVBi)
Here are three new paintings. All based on the same theme, of having an ocean view. Update: Okay, the site here doesn't let you use three tinyurls at once. Grr.
Image one:
http://tinyurl.com/bdoq7d5
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 01, 2013 10:22 PM (xjpRj)
Posted by: Dems/MFM at January 01, 2013 10:22 PM (Y6HTt)
If its work don't do it, but otherwise it would be interesting to see.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2013 10:16 PM (69Mdf)
That's a good idea.
My script is supposed to be smart enough to go back any distance in time but I've never tested it for this long of a period. It might take a few hours to run since it has to go through every single comment thread over the past year.
Posted by: Mætenloch at January 01, 2013 10:22 PM (XkotV)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 01, 2013 10:22 PM (xjpRj)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 01, 2013 10:22 PM (xjpRj)
Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2013 10:22 PM (9XBK2)
Posted by: Bon Qui Qui at January 01, 2013 10:22 PM (AjZV3)
Posted by: Baldy at January 01, 2013 10:22 PM (opS9C)
Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 01, 2013 10:23 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2013 10:23 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Bon Qui Qui at January 01, 2013 10:23 PM (AjZV3)
Or Doris Day there is a Stepford Wife. Just make sure she is plugged in.
Nah, if she was a Stepford Wife, she'd have kept her heels on.
Posted by: katya the designated driver at January 01, 2013 10:23 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2013 10:24 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Mætenloch at January 01, 2013 10:22 PM
so, it's not unpossible?
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2013 10:25 PM (JMmQ9)
Wtched bit of a PC movie (what isn't) with a white bike messenger in love with a brown messenger, vying against black messenger and trying to help Chinese woman with a liberal goal (dont want to give way too much). BORING and so tired of Hollywood.
Is that the one with Joseph Gordon Leavitt whatsisname?
Posted by: katya the designated driver at January 01, 2013 10:25 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2013 10:25 PM (69Mdf)
Posted by: Qwinn at January 01, 2013 10:25 PM (OtZzt)
Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2013 10:25 PM (9XBK2)
Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at January 01, 2013 10:26 PM (79AXR)
Set the house afire.
****
I know I'd never set foot in it again!
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 10:27 PM (piMMO)
That we forgot to report.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2013 10:28 PM (4Mv1T)
The one with that Joseph Gordon-Leavitt dude?(who is,I believe,the child of leftist radicals)
Yeah but he's cute and I wanted to see that. Besides, aren't they all these days?
Posted by: katya the designated driver at January 01, 2013 10:28 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: irongrampa at January 01, 2013 10:28 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 10:28 PM (jPVBi)
As viewed from a German defensive position in France?
http://wp.flytogo.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMG_8330.jpg
Posted by: Dems/MFM at January 01, 2013 10:29 PM (Y6HTt)
Later roonz and roonettez!
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 01, 2013 10:29 PM (xa1/W)
Meetings are where they gland-less drones of the Commie-fag-junkie-complex do their dirty work.
Bring your sausage-making tools to a meeting. Maybe you can get fed.
Point of information: personally, I wouldn't eat that s**t.
Posted by: Thorvald at January 01, 2013 10:29 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 01, 2013 10:29 PM (IvVLN)
Posted by: Fists of Furby at January 01, 2013 10:29 PM (I88Jc)
honeymoon hotel for their 25th anniversary. As the couple reflected
on that magical evening 25 years ago, the wife asked the husband,
"When you first saw my naked body in front of you, what was
going through your mind?"
The husband replied, "All I
wanted to do was to fuck your brains out, and suck your tits
dry."
Then, as the wife undressed, she
asked, "What are you thinking now?"
He replied, "It looks as if
I did a pretty good job."
Posted by: grease monkey at January 01, 2013 10:30 PM (VSWPU)
Posted by: @PurpAv at January 01, 2013 10:17 PM (hc3eM)
That applies to the whole goddamned government.
I honestly think it's sabotage + massive stupidity + blackmail.
People hate conspiracy theories, but it's that or the majority of mankind is irretrievably insane. Take your pick.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at January 01, 2013 10:30 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Dems/MFM at January 01, 2013 10:30 PM (Y6HTt)
Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 01, 2013 10:30 PM (QupBk)
Okay.
What firearm is best suited to panda hunting?
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 10:28 PM (jPVBi)
Good question. Ed Norton's character in Fight Club wanted to put a bullet in the head of every panda who wouldn't screw to save its own species but he never mentioned the caliber of said bullet.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm at January 01, 2013 10:30 PM (T7gPe)
Okay.
What firearm is best suited to panda hunting?
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 10:28 PM (jPVBi)
Crossbow.
Posted by: MrCaniac 2013 Reboot at January 01, 2013 10:30 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 10:28 PM
Some say crossbow, some say longbow.
Posted by: huerfano at January 01, 2013 10:31 PM (bAGA/)
Posted by: Jenny tries too hard at January 01, 2013 10:31 PM (b+8h9)
And he was shtupping the Alice that Lewis Carroll lusted after.
Posted by: epobirs at January 01, 2013 10:31 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at January 01, 2013 10:31 PM (obHYs)
where they did not feed us.
Well you're going to the wrong meetings. Church meetings always have enough food to feed an army.
Posted by: katya the designated driver at January 01, 2013 10:31 PM (DoZD+)
I do not support a Congressional pay raise, and would not accept one.
I pretty much told Issa to shove that shit and I'm about to tell Scott.
BFD! He refused a .5% increase?!
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 10:32 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2013 10:32 PM (4Mv1T)
Just play them William Shatner Poetry Recordings and bore them to death.
Posted by: Beto Ochoa at January 01, 2013 10:33 PM (BAnPT)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 10:28 PM (jPVBi)
Taurus Judge shooting .410 Dragons breath ammo. Cook 'em where they stand.
Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at January 01, 2013 10:34 PM (79AXR)
oh, and Happy New Year everyone.
Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at January 01, 2013 10:34 PM (obHYs)
Jeez guys, it's a ball game, okay?
Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 01, 2013 10:34 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: eman at January 01, 2013 10:34 PM (EWsrI)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2013 10:35 PM (69Mdf)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at January 01, 2013 10:35 PM (8hrco)
I'm sure I've said it before but I keep hoping the insane spending turns out to be for the Stargate program and related starship construction.
Posted by: epobirs at January 01, 2013 10:35 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Kalneva at January 01, 2013 10:35 PM (S+/pH)
That house full of shit thing actually happened here in my town once.
The town slopes down to the bay and somehow the sewer lines running down
the hill blocked and all the sewage from 5 or 6 blocks of houses
bubbled up in the one closest to the the bay. The owners were out of
town at the time. I understand it was three feet deep in the house when
they came back and opened the door.
Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 01, 2013 10:30 PM (QupBk)
Student apartment living, Isla Vista, California -- went away for Easter Break. When the first roommate got back to the apt, the windows were black on the inside -- from flies. Sewer line had plugged beneath our apt, anything that went into the drains upstairs came up in the kitchen sink and overflowed onto the kitchen floor. Never flowed further than the hallway, but created prodigious amounts of food for flies.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2013 10:36 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Gerry at January 01, 2013 10:36 PM (Iz9jN)
It's SOOOO much better than before.
Now it's only 10:1 taxes to spending.
BFD
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 10:37 PM (piMMO)
This beautiful woman one day walks into a
doctors office and the doctor is bowled over by how stunningly
awesome she is. All his professionallism goes right out the
window...
He tells her to take her pants, she does, and
he starts rubbing her thighs.
"Do you know what I am doing?" asks
the doctor?
"Yes, checking for abnormalities."
she replies.
He tells her to take off her shirt and bra,
she takes them off. The doctor begins rubbing her breasts and asks,
"Do you know what I am doing now?", she replies,
"Yes, checking for cancer."
Finally, he tells her to take off her panties,
lays her on the table, gets on top of her and starts having sex with
her. He says to her, "Do you know what I am doing now?"
She replies, "Yes, getting herpies -
thats why I am here!"
Posted by: grease monkey at January 01, 2013 10:37 PM (VSWPU)
Posted by: Fists of Furby at January 01, 2013 10:37 PM (I88Jc)
"My wife, how does she do it? She takes speed."
Posted by: epobirs at January 01, 2013 10:37 PM (kcfmt)
109 Dave Barry once said, "Mankind can never fully realize his potential, so long as there are meetings"
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2013 10:32 PM (4Mv1T)
A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain. LazarusLong
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2013 10:38 PM (kaalw)
Yea if fists were so great there would be no reason to invent these
http://tinyurl.com/bcghtyd
also good for panda hunting.
Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at January 01, 2013 10:39 PM (obHYs)
Posted by: epobirs at January 01, 2013 10:35 PM (kcfmt)
I remember the show said the program was like 7 billion and the first startship like 8 billion. Not exact figures, but seriously, isn't that kind of pocket change?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at January 01, 2013 10:40 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Thorvald at January 01, 2013 10:41 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 10:41 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Deety Bloomberg at January 01, 2013 10:41 PM (aOVhq)
Posted by: epobirs at January 01, 2013 10:35 PM (kcfmt)
-------------------
I remember the show said the program was like 7 billion and the first startship like 8 billion. Not exact figures, but seriously, isn't that kind of pocket change?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at January 01, 2013 10:40 PM (bxiXv)
So you're saying we have a fleet??? COOL!!!!
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 01, 2013 10:42 PM (IvVLN)
Posted by: Deety Bloomberg at January 01, 2013 10:42 PM (aOVhq)
Posted by: Deety Bloomberg at January 01, 2013 10:42 PM (aOVhq)
I was quoting that to someone just two days ago. "The tiny diet pill you don't need to be overweight to use."
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 10:43 PM (jPVBi)
Posted by: Deety at January 01, 2013 10:43 PM (aOVhq)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 10:44 PM (jPVBi)
Posted by: BlackOrchid-StillMissingDagny at January 01, 2013 10:45 PM (J6kXj)
Posted by: Thorvald at January 01, 2013 10:41 PM (1V6Pv)
I believe he translated the Kama Sutra.
(I'm replying for a friend.)
Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2013 10:45 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2013 10:45 PM (RHeYi)
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 10:46 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: georgeofthedesert at January 01, 2013 10:47 PM (Eq2MX)
Early on, they had dialogue to the effect that they couldn't open the gate for trivial purposes because the energy required was a horrific cost per instance.
I suppose that got a lot better once they had the Naquadah generators and a good supply. Sneaking Naquadah setups into some power plants around the country should have serve nicely to offset the entire cost of the program.
Posted by: epobirs at January 01, 2013 10:47 PM (kcfmt)
I'm sure I've said it before but I keep hoping the insane spending turns out to be for the Stargate program and related starship construction.
Posted by: epobirs
1. Space Arks to evacuate our doomed planet.
2. Passengers composed primarily of Senate, House and White House members, staff and families to ensure continuity of our civilization.
3. Remaining passengers selected to confirm to diversity mandates based on gender, race, ethnicity, GLBITS and social-economic status.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 01, 2013 10:47 PM (kdS6q)
I do miss Rum & the 666, though...
Hope she is doing well and all happiness for her.
Posted by: Deety at January 01, 2013 10:47 PM (aOVhq)
Posted by: epobirs at January 01, 2013 10:35 PM (kcfmt)
Unfortunately, William of Ockham is waving and pointing at the neo-marxist saboteurs and FSA and corruptocrats.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at January 01, 2013 10:48 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: epobirs at January 01, 2013 10:49 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at January 01, 2013 10:30 PM
People LOVE conspiracy theories and even cling to them for comfort. The most obvious example is the JFK assassination. It HAD to be a conspiracy, otherwise the worse fears of a nation that couldn't protect its leader from a lone nutjob with a cheap rifle in the midst of the Cold War would unsettle the children. If there was a conspiracy, surely the conspirators would someday be exposed and brought to justice, right? Just like in the movies!
During that same Cold War, the USAF created Project Blue Book to investigate UFO sightings. Not so much to cover up or confirm, but to make the Russians think we were hiding UFO existence from our people, not experimental aircraft.
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2013 10:50 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 01, 2013 10:47 PM (kdS6q)
Oh, fuckberries.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at January 01, 2013 10:50 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at January 01, 2013 10:50 PM (bxiXv)
now that there is funny
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 10:51 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 10:52 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 10:52 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2013 10:52 PM (wwsoB)
Are those good for pies?
Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at January 01, 2013 10:53 PM (obHYs)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 10:53 PM (piMMO)
louisville slugger
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 10:46 PM (Z9EHQ)
3 feet of 2 inch rebar
boom! mutha fukker
Posted by: Jake in ID at January 01, 2013 10:53 PM (jfSqj)
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 10:53 PM (Z9EHQ)
Headed to the floor. Will vote no. It's time for solutions, not another last-minute deal that increases taxes, spending.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 10:54 PM (piMMO)
boom! mutha fukker
Posted by: Jake in ID at January 01, 2013 10:53 PM (jfSqj)
a small glimmer of hope flashes for the republic.
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 10:54 PM (Z9EHQ)
A classic followup to the misdirection used against the Germans in th ebuidup to D-Day. Or the claim that British spotters were detecting German bombers at extraordinary ranges due to high consumption of carrots rather than having much more advanced use of radar than the Germans believed existed.
Posted by: epobirs at January 01, 2013 10:54 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2013 10:50 PM (wwsoB)
You're half right. People love conspiracy theories that don't actually threaten them - something distant, something historical.
Lay out thousands of pages of documentation of marxist subversion of education, unions, what "community organizers" are, journolist or witnesses and documentation of FandF, and you're paranoid and not a serious part of the conversation.
Definitely cuts both ways. Pretty much whichever option is the most destructive is the one people pick - believe nonsense and deny reality.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at January 01, 2013 10:54 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: fluffy, stuck with the check at January 01, 2013 10:54 PM (z9HTb)
2.
Passengers composed primarily of Senate, House and White House members,
staff and families to ensure continuity of our civilization.
3.
Remaining passengers selected to confirm to diversity mandates based on
gender, race, ethnicity, GLBITS and social-economic status.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 01, 2013 10:47 PM (kdS6q)"Don't forget the "Marketing Staff, the "Czars", and the "Telephone Sanitizers":
They can all go out first on the "A" Ark.We'll be right behind them on the "B" Ark.
Sure we will...
Posted by: ChrisP at January 01, 2013 10:54 PM (+6191)
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2013 10:55 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 10:55 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2013 10:55 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: From the twitterverse at January 01, 2013 10:55 PM (P/UF9)
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 10:55 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 10:55 PM (piMMO)
Mother's little helper?
http://tinyurl.com/b6djxxz
Posted by: Dems/MFM at January 01, 2013 10:56 PM (Y6HTt)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 10:56 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 01, 2013 10:56 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 10:57 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 10:57 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2013 10:55 PM (4Mv1T)
Leepers can be ok, depends
what do you want the optic for
close, like room to room or sorta far like target, varmint hunting?
Posted by: Jake in ID at January 01, 2013 10:57 PM (jfSqj)
Oh, fuckberries.
Posted by: Merovign
4. Space Arks built by UAW workers and with 100% mandated American sourced parts.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 01, 2013 10:58 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: 80sBaby at January 01, 2013 10:58 PM (YjDyJ)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 10:58 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 10:58 PM (Z9EHQ)
In my village, the old women tell stories of the gato that makes trophies of men...
Posted by: Fists of Furby at January 01, 2013 10:59 PM (I88Jc)
Posted by: epobirs at January 01, 2013 10:59 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 10:59 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: 80sBaby at January 01, 2013 11:00 PM (YjDyJ)
and it seems there is a louisville slugger jammed in the panda sir.
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 11:00 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: fluffy at January 01, 2013 11:00 PM (z9HTb)
But I wasn't thinking of the plain old ordinary 'let's spice it up/you take yoga anyway/my lingam can reach your yoni like that/let's try it stuff': rather the kind of thing that would terrorize Cub Scout Packs in Arabia, if they had them.
Posted by: Thorvald at January 01, 2013 11:00 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 01, 2013 11:00 PM (o1kXv)
Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2013 11:01 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2013 11:01 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2013 10:55 PM (4Mv1T)
Redfield.
I know some people love NCStar, but it's cheap chinese crap made by prisoners or whatever. They started making toys for airsoft guns that didn't have to live with recoil or anything. IMHO they haven't changed.
If all you ever do is visit the local short--distance range once a year to play, it doesn't matter that much. If you want it to last or hit anything at long range or in marginal light, you don't have to spend like mad, but you can't skimp.
If you seriously want to make long shots, you will find you're in a crowd that spends a lot more money on scopes than they do on guns.
You can buy a crappy new car for $7000. You can buy a good new car for $25000. You can buy a great new car for $75000.
You can't buy a great new scope for $70.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at January 01, 2013 11:01 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 11:01 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Buffalo Bill at January 01, 2013 11:01 PM (XLuH2)
Posted by: DAve at January 01, 2013 11:02 PM (XDC0v)
Posted by: Thorvald at January 01, 2013 11:02 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 01, 2013 11:02 PM (GsoHv)
Posted by: Six at January 01, 2013 11:03 PM (gW5fI)
Posted by: Buffalo Bill at January 01, 2013 11:01 PM (XLuH2)
leave the manatees alone. whacking pandas is only for fun - well cleaning up the gene pool.
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 11:05 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 01, 2013 11:05 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 11:06 PM (Z9EHQ)
heh. Ryan - the guy we were all happy to see Mitt pick as hope for fiscal conservatives votes yes.
We really need to have a 2nd party in this country.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2013 11:06 PM (69Mdf)
Posted by: DAve at January 01, 2013 11:06 PM (XDC0v)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 01, 2013 11:07 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at January 01, 2013 11:07 PM (bxiXv)
Kevin McCarthy, GOP whip, is nay
------------
Interesting. He's my rep and I always assumed (being the whip) he was in Boehner's back pocket.
I bet he got *permission* to vote no.
Posted by: Citizen Anachronda at January 01, 2013 11:07 PM (1c58W)
Posted by: From the twitterverse at January 01, 2013 11:07 PM (P/UF9)
I seriously misunderestimated the Val-U-Rite stores, and I find myself without drink. Just as well, as I have to return to work in nine hours.
tomorrow night, mi amigos
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2013 11:07 PM (JMmQ9)
"The "Fiscal Cliff" bill just passed with GOP support. Say hello to a Dem controlled House in 2014."
Posted by: Six at January 01, 2013 11:03 PM (gW5fI)
I wouldn't be so sure about that. 2014 is a long way away. There's no way they were going to LIB. Let's see what happens on the debt ceiling negotation.
Posted by: Hey-Zeus at January 01, 2013 11:07 PM (5Jhmf)
I expect to part with a thicker wad of cash if I opt for the long shots. For now, just an alternate for iron sights. 1-4x shouldn't be rocket science. Good reviews and all. I'll let you know how it works once I get it zeroed.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2013 11:07 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Buffalo Bill at January 01, 2013 11:08 PM (XLuH2)
"3 feet of 2 inch rebar" weighs about 32 pounds.
"3 feet of 1/2 inch rebar" weighs about 2 pounds.
I recommend the 1/2" rebar, and maybe 18"-24" instead.
Posted by: Arbalest at January 01, 2013 11:08 PM (9oUZv)
Posted by: 80sBaby at January 01, 2013 11:09 PM (YjDyJ)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at January 01, 2013 11:07 PM (bxiXv)
see, now I am conflicted. If space arks are populated as you suggest it may well be a worse fate to let them get into space and see what sort of dystopia unfolds. I will bet it is most likely porn actresses come out on top in the long run.
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 11:09 PM (Z9EHQ)
"Watching Iron Sky on Netflix. It's actually a decently funny movie. Cheesy as hell, but it doesn't take itself seriously."
I don't pay left-wing entertainment mavens a thin dime, thanks. Not a polished penny.
I won't even bother to rip it off via file-sharing. Why should I waste my time watching a crude and inaccurate caricaturing of a thinly disguised Sarah Palin in a movie when I already have watched the actual Palin get the identical treatment in the media all through the 2008 campaign and beyond?
Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2013 11:09 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2013 11:01 PM (4Mv1T)
it all depemds on your budget
check out
Burris Tac 30
Nikon M223
Burris XTR
Vortex PST
Leupold has a 1-4 for $275 of so.
In my world the optic makes the rifle so I spend what I have to for the optic to work
Posted by: Jake in ID at January 01, 2013 11:10 PM (jfSqj)
Of course passing this shit sandwich made it absolutely clear the GOP has no balls, spine, or brain, so we are FUCKED.
Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at January 01, 2013 11:10 PM (KCvsd)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2013 11:10 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Cynthia at January 01, 2013 11:11 PM (lhhNH)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 01, 2013 11:11 PM (Y6HTt)
Posted by: Secret Squirrels Balls Und Sheft at January 01, 2013 11:11 PM (0SmH0)
Posted by: DAve at January 01, 2013 11:12 PM (XDC0v)
Posted by: Hey-Zeus at January 01, 2013 11:13 PM (5Jhmf)
not on my part. pretty sure it was all agreed upon weeks and weeks ago.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2013 11:13 PM (69Mdf)
Don't feel too bad about not shooting it yet. I had the new one since October and shot it first time today. Even let my friends son run the first mag through it.
Posted by: RWC at January 01, 2013 11:13 PM (sqp6o)
Posted by: DaveA at January 01, 2013 11:13 PM (syEB8)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 11:14 PM (piMMO)
The far-reaching agreement will have lasting implications for the tax code, future budget battles and the balance of power in Washington. It raises income-tax rates for the first time in almost two decades and fulfills Mr. Obama's signature campaign promise to prevent rates from rising on the middle class. Not since 1991 has a Republican in Congress supported such a movea challenge to its brand as the antitax party.
WSJ
Hey, it worked like a charm in the 92 elections. What's to worry?
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 01, 2013 11:14 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2013 11:14 PM (69Mdf)
Posted by: epobirs at January 01, 2013 11:14 PM (kcfmt)
I hefted a 3lb hammer while I was out Christmas shopping. Faintly heard "The Immigrant Song"
Posted by: fluffy, Skandi at January 01, 2013 11:15 PM (z9HTb)
Plenty of arms, with nary any glass, to date, so I'm going to school on this. Was surprised to see the wide range of prices for optics.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2013 11:15 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Arbalest at January 01, 2013 11:08 PM (9oUZv)
well yeah, that panda skull is not going to cave its-self in
so once again
Boom! mutha fukka
Posted by: Jake in ID at January 01, 2013 11:16 PM (jfSqj)
Are you sure? Slavery is supposedly out of the question here as well but why do I increasingly feel like I've been bought and sold?
Posted by: epobirs at January 01, 2013 11:16 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: 80sBaby at January 01, 2013 11:16 PM (YjDyJ)
Acetone and Dry Iceslurry works real well. We used that all the time in cold traps and cold baths in the lab. I think this gets down to -64C (dry ice temperature)
Also Methanol and Dry Ice slurry. ( I think this gets down to-30 C). IPA is actually a little expensive for this.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at January 01, 2013 11:16 PM (Md8Uo)
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 11:16 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: DAve at January 01, 2013 11:16 PM (XDC0v)
http://tinyurl.com/bxgopg7
Intend to get decent with Iron sights before I do it, but it gets a little hard for me to see targets past 200 these days, and hit where I want to.
Posted by: BoGart at January 01, 2013 11:16 PM (Ugngr)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 01, 2013 11:16 PM (o1kXv)
Posted by: From the twitterverse at January 01, 2013 11:17 PM (P/UF9)
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 11:17 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2013 11:17 PM (69Mdf)
Have to go to Pasadena tomorrow to start loading up for CES.
Posted by: epobirs at January 01, 2013 11:18 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: DAve at January 01, 2013 11:12 PM (XDC0v)
man, I read it to fast, for under 100 yards check out some of the red-dots under $100 at Cabelas
lots of choices
Posted by: Jake in ID at January 01, 2013 11:19 PM (jfSqj)
Posted by: DAve at January 01, 2013 11:19 PM (XDC0v)
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 11:16 PM (Z9EHQ)
--------------------------------------------------------
And the shrieking noises they make as they immolate. Captivating. You simply have to hear it.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 01, 2013 11:19 PM (jucos)
Posted by: epobirs at January 01, 2013 11:19 PM (kcfmt)
http://sportsoptics.zeiss.com/hunting/en_us/riflescopes.html
Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 01, 2013 11:19 PM (Y6HTt)
"Ryan - the guy we were all happy to see Mitt pick as hope for fiscal conservatives votes yes."
Well, I wasn't happy with the party picking Mitt, and I wasn't happy with Mitt picking Ryan, and I'm entirely unsurprised to find Ryan turning squish at the last minute.
As I've said before, anyone thinking that a Romney-Ryan victory would have meant anything other than minor polite technocratic tinkering around the edges of Fedzilla was succumbing to delusion.
However, there's a whole large bloc of unelected people who get to vote, who can't be vetoed, who haven't voted yet, and whose votes will be very consequential. You may be hearing their hoofbeats in the distance shortly.
Who are they? The bond market vigilantes. Same bunch who blew the British out of the ERM in 1992, same ones who flattened Argentina in 2000, same who put paid to Greece in the last three years. They're on their way here.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2013 11:19 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: TexasJew at January 01, 2013 11:20 PM (lD8ju)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 01, 2013 11:19 PM (jucos)
similar to listening to a whale song cd without the hippie overtones.
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 11:20 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: DAve at January 01, 2013 11:20 PM (XDC0v)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2013 11:20 PM (4Mv1T)
I think that Boehner just shothis own party in the head. Obama the Bastard must be laughing out loud in his office.
This is the most rancid piece of shit foisted on us in the name of comity that I can recall in many years.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at January 01, 2013 11:21 PM (Md8Uo)
Posted by: RWC at January 01, 2013 11:21 PM (sqp6o)
Yup, and it's going to be ugly for the GOP come 2014.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 01, 2013 11:21 PM (o1kXv)
Posted by: Fists of Furby at January 01, 2013 11:21 PM (I88Jc)
Posted by: MrCaniac at January 01, 2013 11:22 PM (Zd/NW)
This will never be forgotten
****
Tweet from Erick Erikson:
Thus ends the Paul Ryan 2016 Presidential Exploratory Committee.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 11:22 PM (piMMO)
Yeah. Riiiight.
BTW, the JEF is making a statement about the vote now (or soon).
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 11:22 PM (jPVBi)
Posted by: Thorvald at January 01, 2013 11:22 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 01, 2013 11:15 PM (4Mv1T)
chasing down optics is almost a full time job.
boiling it down
pick a budget
pick a purpose
Posted by: Jake in ID at January 01, 2013 11:23 PM (jfSqj)
****
A mail-in campaign once monthly until then:
http://t.co/lhndXqJ0
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 11:24 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 11:24 PM (jPVBi)
I'm with ya there torque, just thought Ryan was a bigger believer since he could read a graph. oh well.
The problem though is there is no more hope for let it burn, its just going to be watch it boil. Endless pain, no relief for the producers.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2013 11:24 PM (69Mdf)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2013 11:25 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: DAve at January 01, 2013 11:28 PM (XDC0v)
Posted by: DAve at January 01, 2013 11:20 PM (XDC0v)
Trijicon, is the heat but super spendy
no batteries needed
Posted by: Jake in ID at January 01, 2013 11:28 PM (jfSqj)
Posted by: DAve at January 01, 2013 11:30 PM (XDC0v)
Does the author of that sentence understand that the conjunction "but" is used to introduce contrast, not agreement? If gorilla hands are more like human hands than other primate hands, you would expect - not be surprised - to see them used in similar fashion. All research is bullshit.
Posted by: somebody else, not me at January 01, 2013 11:30 PM (nZvGM)
in Boehner's back pocket.I bet he got *permission* to vote no.
Cantor, McCarthy, and Roskam waited until the bill was passed to vote "nay".
Posted by: 80sBaby at January 01, 2013 11:31 PM (YjDyJ)
http://www.morovision.com/weaponsights.htm
Posted by: ChrisP at January 01, 2013 11:31 PM (+6191)
Posted by: somebody else, not me at January 01, 2013 11:30 PM (nZvGM)
someone needs to ape slap the author - fucktard.
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 11:32 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: DAve at January 01, 2013 11:32 PM (XDC0v)
Wish i would have two or three more just for an investment.
And we have a President that says 'that's how we roll.'
Good times.
Posted by: RWC at January 01, 2013 11:32 PM (sqp6o)
Posted by: somebody else, not me at January 01, 2013 11:33 PM (nZvGM)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2013 11:34 PM (BBWjt)
>>
Just be glad he didn't say "that's how we bowl" cause then we would be doublefucked.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 01, 2013 11:34 PM (Y6HTt)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 01, 2013 11:34 PM (o1kXv)
Posted by: BoGart at January 01, 2013 11:35 PM (Ugngr)
That, and the Badgers lost to Stanford in the Rose Bowl.
Happy New Year everyone *sigh*
Posted by: Sassy at January 01, 2013 11:35 PM (lhBr9)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 01, 2013 11:34 PM (o1kXv)
you may be better off squirreling away as much cash as you can and waiting for obama and his evil minions to write your ccs off for you.
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 11:37 PM (Z9EHQ)
I also look quite a bit like Sean Connery! You'd think that would be great -- except Sean Connery is my dad's age. Women now don't even get the Trebek jokes.
Posted by: comatus at January 01, 2013 11:37 PM (qaVK+)
Oh, well, in that case, this makes total sense now!
Because, you know, I'm not good with math.
Thank our provident God that there is such a thing as a "Spearmint Oil Administrative Committee".
Dear Father, please bless these servants of the state who I know must be serving you as well and all of their families as they go about their unfathomable business.
Please stay their hand when they try to jab a sharpened pencil into their eye when they remember that they are serving on the "Spearmint Oil Administrative Committee".
I know that I ask much of you my Lord, for this intercession (they must want to jab themselves in the eye, at least 3x per day, minimum!) but you are Omnicient, Omnipotent, and yet have care for the least of your servants.
These are the least of your servants, the lowest dregs of humanity and I would dare, even from my humble estate, to plea on their behalf!
They are simply ignorant about their debased state! How could they possibly know?
From childhood, they have been raised to become a member of The Spearmint Oil Administrative Committee!
I am sure that you hear the pleas from their tortured souls, every hour of every day but if it helps, My Lord, I will add my pitiful plea to theirs...
By God's good grace, I trust that I shall never be nominated to such a position as member of The Spearmint Oil Administrative Committee but I hope to ameliorate the living hell that these poor souls must be living.
Posted by: Deety at January 01, 2013 11:37 PM (aOVhq)
No. Whatever else, I have a sense of honor, and I'll pay my own debts.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 01, 2013 11:38 PM (o1kXv)
Cantor, McCarthy, and Roskam waited until the bill was passed to vote "nay".
Posted by: 80sBaby at January 01, 2013 11:31 PM (YjDyJ)
Yep. I remember reading a book I think was xalled Young Guns or something like that highlighting Cantor, mcCarthy and Ryan. Filled me with a bit of hope.
Ans then this.
Posted by: RWC at January 01, 2013 11:39 PM (sqp6o)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 01, 2013 11:38 PM (o1kXv)
I am not saying you should default, however, if obama ans his evil minions force something through are you saying you would pay even if the cc company said no need?
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 01, 2013 11:40 PM (Z9EHQ)
The most likely reason he voted the way he did is because he wanted to "bank" the tax cuts. I also have reasons to doubt he is running in 2016.
Posted by: 80sBaby at January 01, 2013 11:40 PM (YjDyJ)
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll659.xml
Posted by: 80sBaby at January 01, 2013 11:41 PM (YjDyJ)
Yes.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 01, 2013 11:44 PM (o1kXv)
Posted by: Jake in ID at January 01, 2013 11:44 PM (jfSqj)
Posted by: Decaf at January 01, 2013 11:46 PM (TJQ3a)
290 80sBaby, do you have a link to the roll call vote tally?
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll659.xml
Posted by: 80sBaby at January 01, 2013 11:41 PM (YjDyJ)
thanks 80sBabymy chickenshit representative didn't even vote on it
Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2013 11:47 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Bertram Wilberforce Wooster at January 01, 2013 11:48 PM (I88Jc)
Posted by: katya the designated driver at January 01, 2013 11:48 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2013 11:49 PM (BBWjt)
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president"
Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2013 11:51 PM (wwsoB)
If he had aspirations to climb up the political ladder he certainly had the opportunity to run for the Senate either this year or in 2010, but he declined.
Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2013 11:52 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: katya the designated driver at January 01, 2013 11:53 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: BoGart at January 01, 2013 11:54 PM (Ugngr)
We need to stop this terminology crapfest. There aren't any tax cuts. These are the same tax rates 1 day ago. Except for high earners, then its a tax rate increase.
plus all the payroll tax rises.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2013 11:55 PM (69Mdf)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 11:55 PM (jPVBi)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2013 11:49 PM (BBWjt)
Amen. I took a loan out to pay off the credit card (thank you Apple CU.) ever since i have put nothing on credit, don't know my PIN to the debit card. Basically, if the cash wasn't budgetted, then it's not bought.
Posted by: RWC at January 01, 2013 11:58 PM (sqp6o)
That is a great quote. About a year ago I spent a Saturday afternoon trying to track down the origin and came up empty-handed. The earliest citation I found was from January 2010 on a fishing forum, and the commenter was quoting a chain e-mail he got. It's often claimed to come from a Eastern European newspaper, but I couldn't find the original. It should be on the net somewhere if that is the case.
Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2013 11:59 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 02, 2013 12:02 AM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: derit at January 02, 2013 12:02 AM (I88Jc)
Happy New Year.
Went and saw Les Miserables again today. Took my mom to see it. Then I took her out to dinner.
Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2013 12:03 AM (LUnTP)
Posted premature.
Anywho...
Took my mom to Chili's where I proceeded to, strangely and appropriately, freeze my ass off.
Chilly was an understatement.
Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2013 12:04 AM (LUnTP)
Can we tattoo that on the foreheads of the Obamatons? Can we waterboard the Commie-lite party leaders until they, gasping and sputtering for breath itself, spew these words more than the water that deprives them of the breath of life?
Posted by: Thorvald at January 02, 2013 12:04 AM (1V6Pv)
The weakest point in any building is it's roof.
Also, I know from experience, the easiest way to get into sensitive areas in retail supply, is to have a lanyard & a clip board.
Yes, I exploited these security failures, *all the time* (made me more efficient) Because, I'm a good guy and don't mean ill to either client or customer, it's no big deal...
But, I've noticed....
You wouldn't like me if I I we're mad.
Sabotage is pretty simple if you think about it.
Purp's got me thinking lately...
It would be ever so easy, very low risk, no one would ever suspect...
Stay my hand!
Posted by: Deety at January 02, 2013 12:05 AM (aOVhq)
You were considering "telling off" the boss last night ... what happened ?
Posted by: Steck at January 02, 2013 12:07 AM (RL7U1)
The 257-167 roll call passed with 172 Democratic votes and only 85 Republicans.
Well, so much for that whole "majority of the majority" promise.
Nice job passing Democratic legislation, Team Republican.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 02, 2013 12:08 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 02, 2013 12:02 AM (Z9EHQ)
On an individual, "micro" level I agree with you. Individuals can and do use credit responsibly. But on a cultural, "macro" level I can't agree. Our reliance on credit has led us to where we are today. If we are serious about wanting to change the culture, then this is one thing that we have to change about ourselves and stop relying on credit to finance our lifestyle, because that is essentially what is happening in DC right now.
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:09 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:10 AM (BBWjt)
The weakest point in any building is it's roof."
I remember that statement, but not its context. Depending on the structure, glass break sensors and thermal motion detectors pose a problem to intruders.
Posted by: derit at January 02, 2013 12:11 AM (I88Jc)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:14 AM (BBWjt)
Howdy, Jefe!
I'll just say I'll find out whether or not I still have a job when I get back from my weekend.
Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2013 12:15 AM (LUnTP)
Posted by: Steck at January 02, 2013 12:15 AM (RL7U1)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:15 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 12:17 AM (lhBr9)
The way I look at is that debt has its uses, for example taking out a mortgage to buy a house, or taking out a loan to buy a new piece of machinery if you own a business. In the latter case you expect the machine to make money for you, which would help you pay back the loan.
But I don't like the idea of using debt to finance consumption, such as buying TVs or taking vacations via credit card. Paying off that kind of debt seems like a good idea to me.
Posted by: rickl at January 02, 2013 12:17 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:17 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:17 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Richard at January 02, 2013 12:18 AM (qsbdU)
Er, *cough*...stupid buttons.
Posted premature.
Anywho...
Took my mom to Chili's where I proceeded to, strangely and appropriately, freeze my ass off.
Chilly was an understatement.
Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2013 12:04 AM (LUnTP)
I dunno if you've been experiencing the same -- but since my BH lost so much weight, she's been acting like she feels "underinsulated". We used to regularly drop the temp in the house to 62 while we slept.....now she needs a down comforter.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2013 12:18 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:19 AM (BBWjt)
Agreed. My credit card bills are from my time unemployed and the first month of my job when I hadn't yet received a paycheck. Other than that, I keep the credit cards for emergencies like car repairs, or I pay it off at the end of the month.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 02, 2013 12:19 AM (o1kXv)
https://www.rinkya.com/new/en/auction-w81010792
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:15 AM (TCGmg)
Hahaha. Hey again Anna.
Here's Kanu again.
NSFWish
https://www.rinkya.com/new/en/auction-159559526
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 12:19 AM (IvVLN)
Posted by: Steck at January 02, 2013 12:20 AM (RL7U1)
One possible way to stop the debt-based living? Stop taxing the interest made off savings accounts.
That is a good idea but that doesn't really get at the heart of the matter. It takes a change of attitude to forswear debt, at least to the extent of using it to finance a lifestyle.
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:20 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:21 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2013 12:18 AM (kaalw)
LMAO!
Uh, ya know, it hasn't really occured to me. A cold front moved through, actually, and I was just wearing a t-shirt and jeans. It was warm when we left for the movie! Came out and it was freakin' freezing out and drizzling.
Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2013 12:21 AM (LUnTP)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:23 AM (BBWjt)
I sincerely doubt she's looking to get citizenship via marriage.
Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2013 12:23 AM (LUnTP)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:21 AM (TCGmg)
Yeeeeaaaahhhhh
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 12:24 AM (IvVLN)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:25 AM (TCGmg)
People like to use household budget analogies with the federal budget. Okay, that is fine. But it also cuts both ways. If I have a salary of $50k but I have $250k of mortgage debt, student loan debt, and consumer debt, and I am "okay" with this level of debt burden, why should I consider it "outrageous" that the federal government has approximately the same ratio of tax revenue to national debt? (which it does, BTW) The point here is to trigger a shift in the way people think about debt. If people aren't willing to tolerate a 5-1 debt-to-income ratio in their own lives, they are going to be less willing to vote for people who don't mind such a debt burden on everyone.
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:27 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:28 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 12:28 AM (lhBr9)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:28 AM (BBWjt)
http://www.hlj.com/product/KRS11213
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:25 AM (TCGmg)
Well, as of tonight I'm gonna have about $1,000 less a year in my paycheck, so there will be very few purchases in the near future.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 12:28 AM (IvVLN)
Posted by: derit at January 02, 2013 12:29 AM (I88Jc)
Couldn't think of a better way to start the new year.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2013 12:29 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: derit at January 02, 2013 12:29 AM (I88Jc)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:30 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:30 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:28 AM (BBWjt)
Marriage is for sucks. Find out if she's okay with the idea of sharing you with a spicy Argentinian with double-Ds.
Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2013 12:31 AM (LUnTP)
https://www.rinkya.com/new/en/auction-g115208268
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:30 AM (TCGmg)
Lol. It is pretty scary looking.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 12:31 AM (IvVLN)
in Dino oilandgas
http://encarsglobe.com/data_images/models/ferrari-dino/ferrari-dino-04.jpg
Posted by: Waterhouse at January 02, 2013 12:32 AM (SAKXY)
In a dimension not of sight or sound, but of mind.
Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at January 02, 2013 12:32 AM (obHYs)
Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2013 12:33 AM (LUnTP)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:30 AM (TCGmg)
Yeah, I love how we went from "preventing tax hikes on 99% of Americans" to raising taxes on all workers through an increase in the payroll tax".
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 12:33 AM (IvVLN)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 02, 2013 12:33 AM (jPVBi)
" then some."
16 hour days, E.R, everyone is coming in sick with the flu or other viral bug.
staff is calling out, so working short handed and feeling my age in this vocation?...business? When Obamacare fully kicks in,,,I'm sure it will be just like working at the Post Office.....with no doctors.
Just remember, there are many people you know who voted for this.....
Damn Fucking Shame is all I can say! We USED to have the best medical care on the planet.....get used to saying "used."
Tell the people you know who voted for this to "Choke On USED!"
It will free up more hospital beds at the very least......
Yup.
Posted by: Richard at January 02, 2013 12:33 AM (qsbdU)
ummmmm I am not sure how to broach that topic
actually I pissed her off a little bit last night, so I don't know
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:33 AM (BBWjt)
They paid the salary of "safe schools" czar Kevin Jennings, for example.
The really awful thing is that no one is pointing out that reducing tax rates increase tax revenues. We. Are. Doomed. In the short term, barring a miracle.
Posted by: Thorvald at January 02, 2013 12:33 AM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:34 AM (BBWjt)
I'm not saying it *can't* be done.
Just the observation that it, by and large, *isn't* done!
Worth noting...
Also, I would note, the types of entities who could or do fortify their roofs also have a front door /back bay problem...
I mean sure, if holing up in some shitty, L.A. Bodega, training a shotgun on every possible customer to walk onto your premises since 1993 to buy decades stale Corn-Nutz is your business model, then so be it!
Posted by: Deety at January 02, 2013 12:34 AM (aOVhq)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:35 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:33 AM (BBWjt)
Uh oh. She's Eastern European, right? Well...you've lived through the day so I guess she didn't put a hit out on you so it couldn't have been that bad.
Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2013 12:36 AM (LUnTP)
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 12:36 AM (lhBr9)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 12:36 AM (IvVLN)
Though if I suddenly get a windfall or win a lottery....
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:37 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:34 AM (BBWjt)
You're the best!
Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2013 12:37 AM (LUnTP)
The intro to "Magnum, p.i.":
http://youtu.be/JBVHKwf5mSc
Posted by: derit at January 02, 2013 12:37 AM (I88Jc)
Mornidine®. (See the sock.)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 01, 2013 10:05 PM (jPVBi)
~~~~~~~~
I think she is hoping the dude in back of her is going to bang her silly. He looks like he's thinking the same thing.
Posted by: Darth Vader likes to watch Barney at January 02, 2013 12:37 AM (RXQ2T)
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 12:38 AM (lhBr9)
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 12:36 AM (lhBr9)
How big is the needle from the injection of nanobots? Does it leave a scar?
Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2013 12:38 AM (LUnTP)
Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2013 12:37 AM (LUnTP)
Did I mention the cover charge?
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:38 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:38 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:39 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:37 AM (TCGmg)
You'll be building kits someplace warm and sandy?
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 12:39 AM (IvVLN)
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 12:38 AM (lhBr9)
I'm guessing he's looking to get Romainian citizenship.
Posted by: Robert sez what? at January 02, 2013 12:39 AM (LUnTP)
:-) - if you have constant muscle pain, they're the only kind of massage to get. You have to find a really good massage therapist.
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 12:39 AM (lhBr9)
Look at it this way:
People like to use household budget analogies
with the federal budget. Okay, that is fine. But it also cuts both ways.
If I have a salary of $50k but I have $250k of mortgage debt, student
loan debt, and consumer debt, and I am "okay" with this level of debt
burden, why should I consider it "outrageous" that the federal
government has approximately the same ratio of tax revenue to national
debt? (which it does, BTW) The point here is to trigger a shift in the
way people think about debt. If people aren't willing to tolerate a 5-1
debt-to-income ratio in their own lives, they are going to be less
willing to vote for people who don't mind such a debt burden on
everyone.
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:27 AM (BBWjt)
Debt spends just like cash or savings, but it is really a different animal. If debt is "in-lieu-of-rent", like a mortgage, it's no big deal. If debt is explicitly against reasonably assured future earnings -- like STEM student-loan debt, equipment financing, or stock portfolio margin debt -- it's no big deal. If it's debt for some transient pleasure -- like blackjack, gender studies PhDs, scoring drugs, paying off gangs, widescreen LED TVs, or hookers......well, son, you've got a problem.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2013 12:39 AM (kaalw)
When I hear the phrase "deep tissue massage" I imagine little nanobots rubbing down mitochondria.
Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2013 12:33 AM (LUnTP)
If you find a place that does that, please let me know.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2013 12:41 AM (kaalw)
That makes a lot of sense. Far too many people have been using debt to finance their lifestyles. Sometimes people are better off renting than buying a house. They're more mobile and can go where the jobs are if necessary.
Sometimes people bite off more than they can chew when buying a house. If you own a house, you should be able to pay for routine maintenance and repairs (water heater, etc.) out of savings rather than putting it on the credit card.
Posted by: rickl at January 02, 2013 12:41 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:39 AM (TCGmg)
I need an emoticon with a sardonic smile.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 12:41 AM (IvVLN)
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 12:39 AM (lhBr9)
I dunno, getting rubbed down while talking about my parents seems kinda...weird.
Posted by: Robert sez what? at January 02, 2013 12:41 AM (LUnTP)
So yes get the book written and published.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:41 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Robert sez what? at January 02, 2013 12:42 AM (LUnTP)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 12:43 AM (IvVLN)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:43 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2013 12:41 AM (kaalw)
Ray Kurzweil might have a set up in his basement lair.
Posted by: Robert sez what? at January 02, 2013 12:43 AM (LUnTP)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:43 AM (TCGmg)
Oooohhhhhh nnnoooo!!!!!!
Posted by: Black Bart about to get his at January 02, 2013 12:44 AM (LUnTP)
364 - if you've never had a good one, you're missing out. Good deep
tissue massages are the best, if they are almost at the point of
painful.
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 12:36 AM (lhBr9)
The only one I had that was out-and-out painful was the day after I got back from an internal audit gig in London and flew back coach. The bad news, I hurt like hell for 24 hours......the good news -- and then I was fine. The 24 hours of pain was baked into the cake during the plane ride home, but the deep tissue massage turned it around in hour 25.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2013 12:45 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:47 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2013 12:45 AM (kaalw)
It was good for me, too.
Posted by: Nanobot draggin' on a cig at January 02, 2013 12:48 AM (LUnTP)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 12:49 AM (IvVLN)
And Robert - your posts are making me laugh which says a lot.
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 12:49 AM (lhBr9)
Well a custom built house with a nice big airy library. Plus other
mundane things like a living room and kitchen. Know of a parcel of land,
53 acres right on a state highway that would be nice to build one that
is for sale.
So yes get the book written and published.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:41 AM (TCGmg)
Do you live somewhere reasonable for human occupancy, or off in the frozen tundra somewhere? [Speaking as someone born in Santa Monica, CA, never left the state, and has never seen snow fall.]
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2013 12:49 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2013 12:39 AM (kaalw)
But it *is* a big deal, even for "good" debt like a mortgage, because it promulgates a cultural way of thinking about debt. The idea is not to debate the merits of a particular type of debt, but to nudge the culture away from debt in a general sense, with the idea that over time it will result in the election of politicians who actually do want less debt, not more. Now I'll be honest, I have a mortgage myself, I have a very conservative mortgage (15 yr fixed rate), so I am not morally opposed to debt, but I think that if we are to change the culture so that we actually get to a sane position nationally, we have to stop promoting debt as just another financial tool. It's not.
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:51 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:52 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:54 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:51 AM (BBWjt)
The problem is not that debt is just another financial tool -- it's that handguns are just another security tool, table saws are just another woodworking tool, and dynamite is just another earthmoving tool. Tools are not toys -- they have impressive abilities to get things done but must be utilized in an educated and sensible fashion.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2013 12:55 AM (kaalw)
Want to buy a 500k house with 2k down payment? Sure, why not. You want 100k in student loans and your majoring in Central American Cultural Studies? No prob, everyone should go to college.
Things are hard for a reason. Earning something makes you take the time to stop and make sure it's something truly worthy and it weeds out those that shouldn't be there.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 12:55 AM (IvVLN)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 12:58 AM (IvVLN)
Posted by: rickl at January 02, 2013 12:58 AM (sdi6R)
http://tinyurl.com/ax74oou
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:58 AM (TCGmg)
"Right on a state highway" is not on my list of desirable places to be.
Not even way out in the sticks.
In an Argentina scenario, once the federal teat ceases to flow, the ugly urban masses are going to explode outwards in looting, raping, killing rage. On stolen fuel, running on adrenaline and stimulant drugs, some of them will get all the way to the sticks. You will not want to be found by them.
I went to a party at a rural place being rented by a co-worker. If I had not had his written directions, there would be no way in hell I would ever have been able to tell that there was a house or a driveway. THAT is the ideal for which to strive.
Note that overhead imaging is fucking up everyone's privacy in rural areas. You have to plan around that now, too. Ask some careful questions.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 02, 2013 01:01 AM (gqT4g)
http://nyti.ms/WcK1Jv
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 02, 2013 01:02 AM (piMMO)
something truly worthy and it weeds out those that shouldn't be there.
The point here is that we'd like to create a class of citizens such that, if tempted with the idea of taking out $100k of student loan debt in order to pursue a degree in Central American Cultural Studies (or whatever), that they would refuse the offer, finding the very thought appalling. We aren't there, and we aren't going to be there in the short term, but we *can* be there in the long term, by treating things like student loan debt and other types of debt much more skeptically and harshly than we have been treating it in the past. That's the point.
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 01:02 AM (BBWjt)
structuring your society for the lowest common denominator is not the way to win.
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 02, 2013 01:03 AM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:03 AM (TCGmg)
Good night, my sweeties!
Posted by: Nanobot draggin' on a cig at January 02, 2013 01:04 AM (LUnTP)
cthulhu, you've never seen snow? Oh wow you have to come visit, you and
your BH, I'll give you the grand tour of snow, you can even take some
back with you if you want
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 12:52 AM (BBWjt)
I've never seen snow fall -- and I turned 50 a couple of months back. I've seen snow on the ground -- even outside my house -- but I wasn't awake to see it fall.
And you probably missed my snow story, so I'll tell it again. My mom was a professor of mathematics at a JC in the LA area, and was on the textbook review committee -- so we had science texts for bathroom reading during most of my "formative years". In just about every single science textbook, there was a module about "phases of matter" -- and every single one of those suckers had an illustration of snowflakes......magnified to be about 3" across.
Since I was growing up in Southern California, I had little personal experience with which to evaluate this -- so from the age of six to about the age of 20, I figured that 3" snowflakes came hurtling out of the sky like the throwing stars in the "Kung-fu" television series, and it was a damned good thing that I only saw the shattered remains laying on the ground in the morning....'cause those suckers looked dangerous.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2013 01:05 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 01:05 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:05 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 01:06 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:07 AM (TCGmg)
Sorry to whine, but I can't sleep.
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 01:07 AM (lhBr9)
http://tinyurl.com/ax74oou
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 12:58 AM (TCGmg)
Just from a cursory glance I can tell you that's MUCH better property than what I see down in FL. Picture scraggly pines, a few scrub oaks, wicked underbrush and palmetto bushes.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 01:09 AM (IvVLN)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 01:09 AM (BBWjt)
LOL!
Snow's a blast. Even the occasional blizzard is kind of fun. I'd like to get more snow than I do, but not a whole lot more.
Posted by: rickl at January 02, 2013 01:09 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: To Build a Jack London at January 02, 2013 01:10 AM (I88Jc)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 02, 2013 01:10 AM (4u2LN)
We hope you understand. We apologise for the inconvenience. Care for some cucumber sandwiches? Oh I regret to inform you we are short of lemon-scented napkins. So care for some tea?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:10 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 01:10 AM (IvVLN)
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 01:11 AM (lhBr9)
exactly.
Can you imagine paying upwards of $1,000 to take a class on "The History of Pornography and Prostitution", which at minimum wage will require about 100 hours of labor, which for a part-time job amounts to about 5 weeks worth of work, most likely unpleasant work, and then the grade for the class that you worked so hard to pay for, won't even show up on your transcript as a legitimate grade? It boggles the mind
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 01:12 AM (BBWjt)
*sigh*
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 01:13 AM (lhBr9)
I am reminded of something David Gerrold wrote in one of his Chtorr books when I run into these circumstances - "Too bad common sense isn't."
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:14 AM (TCGmg)
this thread would be open to all the people who can't bitch about that monstrosity one minute longer. And again, I can't sleep.
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 01:11 AM (lhBr9)
That's why I'm here and not there. Although I am going to sleep pretty soon.
Posted by: rickl at January 02, 2013 01:15 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 02, 2013 01:03 AM (Z9EHQ)
That's not really what I'm arguing for - I'm arguing for a more skeptical view of debt, that is all. Again I'm not morally opposed to debt. I do want to nudge the culture away from debt-financed lifestyles though because I think it will lead to a more fiscally sane government in the long run.
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 01:15 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 01:16 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:16 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 01:16 AM (lhBr9)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:17 AM (TCGmg)
cthulhu lol, yeah good thing you managed to avoid those snowflake ninja stars
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 01:06 AM (BBWjt)
It's funny enough now, but such was my experience with snow until well past when I'd graduated college.
The BH still likes to push another button -- if I'm watching footage from the arctic, or in a blizzard, or suchlike......and it's less that about 80 degrees where I'm at.....I'll eventually start to shiver and look to bundle up. She thinks that's the funniest thing.......(N.B. -- she went to college in Rochester, NY; I went to college in Santa Barbara, CA).
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2013 01:17 AM (kaalw)
Sorry, but what the hell is "BH?"
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 02, 2013 01:10 AM (4u2LN)
If it's from me, it's my Better Half.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2013 01:19 AM (kaalw)
The Krone Experiment. A microscopic black hole is slowly devouring the Earth.
http://tinyurl.com/a7qg93s
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:19 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:16 AM (TCGmg)
Lol. No.
Work is a family run business. So I'm locked in. I'll tell you, the place I've visited that I liked the most is smack right in the middle of Minnesota. Beautiful little town. The wife, however, is a city girl.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 01:22 AM (IvVLN)
You're classing up the joint too much.
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 01:22 AM (lhBr9)
I agree, chemjeff. People, and society as a whole, have become far too used to "debt-financed lifestyles".
It's like Wimpy's saying, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."
Posted by: rickl at January 02, 2013 01:24 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 01:26 AM (lhBr9)
http://www.landflip.com/land.asp?listing_id=11242
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 01:29 AM (IvVLN)
Posted by: Ponce de Leon at January 02, 2013 01:30 AM (I88Jc)
she went to college in Rochester, NY
I lived in western NY for a few years when I was a kid, and they definitely have epic snowstorms there. Of course, I was shorter then, so it probably seemed deeper than it was. Still, now that I live in southeastern PA, I sometimes get nostalgic for big snow accumulations.
Posted by: rickl at January 02, 2013 01:30 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: BoGart at January 02, 2013 01:33 AM (Ugngr)
"Just yew wait Hehnry Hhiggins!"Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:34 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:35 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 01:35 AM (IvVLN)
Why do you think I pretty much vanished after Nov 7?
The electoral implications for 2014 are ugly, and this repeated GOP stupidity makes that worse.
Good luck, after Boehner's balllessness and the Akins that will assuredly rear up in primaries, we are fucked six ways from sunday.
Posted by: CAC at January 02, 2013 01:36 AM (uJbx5)
Posted by: CAC at January 02, 2013 01:36 AM (uJbx5)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:35 AM (TCGmg)
Yeah, hogs can be a real problem. But I've got some friends that could fix that.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 01:36 AM (IvVLN)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:37 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 01:37 AM (lhBr9)
Posted by: rickl at January 02, 2013 01:38 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Richard at January 02, 2013 01:38 AM (qsbdU)
CAC!
How's life? How's your better half? I just assumed you were still in the bedroom..and dining room...and kitchen...and bathroom......
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 01:38 AM (IvVLN)
https://www.rinkya.com/new/en/auction-l155921490
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:39 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:39 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:37 AM (TCGmg)
*Looks around innocently*
Whhhaaaaaat?
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 01:40 AM (IvVLN)
I'm not disagreeing with you or anyone else who is disgusted but DrewM has just taken it to an entirely unhealthy level.
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 01:40 AM (lhBr9)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:40 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 01:41 AM (IvVLN)
That's a habit that has to be stopped.
Posted by: f2000 at January 02, 2013 01:43 AM (abiX9)
Original art and cels are easy to store, nice Itoya binders are a blessing since they can hold multiple items and be put on a bookshelf. Its the other stuff that takes up space.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:43 AM (TCGmg)
Hello Anna and rickl.
BCochran life is good, married life is the same as before, though I've had a rough few months with my failing GB. Still live around it. Go on our weekly dates (saw Django yesterday and hit up Fapplebees), did the holiday thing, drank. The usual. Good times.
Posted by: CAC at January 02, 2013 01:44 AM (uJbx5)
It was sunny and COLD here. Low 20's in Chicago, but at least the sun was out to temper some of the cold. And no wind, for a change, which helped.
The little one had a big New Years Eve slumber party at a friend's house with 7 boys and girls. She had the time of her life. She came home around noon, a bundle of energy, and then by 3:00, she passed out for three hours, woke up, and told me she felt sick, so I've been tending to her since then. It probably didn't help that she was up playing twister with 6 other boys and girls after midnight.
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 01:45 AM (lhBr9)
Posted by: Everlasting fountain of tears at January 02, 2013 01:47 AM (I88Jc)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 01:50 AM (IvVLN)
I caught the lung crud at the start of December when I went to visit a friend at their shop. They were hosting a kid's birthday party. And soon after that I got sick. So I can sympathize with your kid being under the weather. I hope she has a speedy recovery.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:50 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:51 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 01:52 AM (IvVLN)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:52 AM (TCGmg)
I've successfully completed another orbit around the sun, and I have to be off to work in a few hours.
Posted by: rickl at January 02, 2013 01:53 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 01:54 AM (IvVLN)
Thanks for your well wishes re: the little one. She never ever gets sick so when she does, it always catches me off guard.
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 01:55 AM (lhBr9)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:55 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 01:56 AM (IvVLN)
Let's hope there are some notably positive things for everyone in 2013.
Posted by: Sassy at January 02, 2013 01:57 AM (lhBr9)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 01:59 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 02:00 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 02:02 AM (IvVLN)
La Marseillaise, French National Anthem (Fr/En):
http://youtu.be/4K1q9Ntcr5g
Posted by: derit at January 02, 2013 02:03 AM (I88Jc)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 02:05 AM (BBWjt)
That right there looks like a legit colored sketch of Nausicaa from 1987 by the writer/artist/founder of Studio Ghibli - Hayao Miyazaki. Studio Ghibli produced all those titles I just listed. And Disney brought them to the US market.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 02:06 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 02:07 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 02:12 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 02:12 AM (IvVLN)
Porco Rosso is most often quoted with "I'd rather be a pig than a fascist." Movie is set during the rise of Mussolini in the Adriatic with a pig who flies a seaplane and battles air pirates. Plus he has a few love interests along the way.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 02:15 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 02, 2013 02:16 AM (bxiXv)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 02, 2013 02:19 AM (IvVLN)
Posted by: derit at January 02, 2013 02:20 AM (I88Jc)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2013 02:21 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 02:21 AM (TCGmg)
That just won't do!
According to the Keyneyinists in both parties, going back mere decades there is no such reason for banks to even offer outdated things like "savings accounts"!
Constant churn, baby!
Everyone needs to keep paddling because we will all drown, if we don't!
Faster!
Posted by: Deety at January 02, 2013 02:31 AM (aOVhq)
Posted by: derit at January 02, 2013 02:33 AM (I88Jc)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 02:38 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: derit at January 02, 2013 02:42 AM (I88Jc)
Posted by: Crucibles creation at January 02, 2013 02:49 AM (I88Jc)
Posted by: epobirs at January 02, 2013 02:59 AM (kcfmt)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKCLgEqd9x0
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2013 03:00 AM (yBF/9)
Posted by: Daily Mammal at January 02, 2013 03:02 AM (I88Jc)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 03:03 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 03:04 AM (TCGmg)
Sounds like a good feature for an alien world in an SF story.
First time I saw snow falling was Manhatten in 2000. I was there for 48 hours on my way to Germany to do some work for Byte at CeBIT. Growing up in Thousand Oaks, snow was something that you grabbed some altitude for but never expected at home.
December 2011 was the first time I ever saw snow falling where I lived. First time for snow in Castaic since something like 1948, because warmening.
Posted by: epobirs at January 02, 2013 03:09 AM (kcfmt)
hahaha. Never heard that one. Fantastic.
Weird Al... better than the original
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mio2kz9lv28
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2013 03:12 AM (yBF/9)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PKVlPEz4PQ
Posted by: epobirs at January 02, 2013 03:12 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 03:18 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 03:20 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: One day at January 02, 2013 03:23 AM (I88Jc)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 03:27 AM (TCGmg)
Funny, I was just watching this one, which survey the original Star Wars movies after the prequels and their changes.
Posted by: epobirs at January 02, 2013 03:33 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 03:35 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: epobirs at January 02, 2013 03:43 AM (kcfmt)
One of the worse things about Episode III is Obi-Wan's final battle with Anakin. Anakin is crippled and on fire. If Obi-Wan was really true to character as a Jedi and thought of Anakin as a brother he would have mercifully killed Anakin. Instead because of what has already been filmed, Obi-Wan has to go against character and leave Anakin there. Which makes Obi-Wan a real bastich.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 03:48 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at January 02, 2013 03:51 AM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: The Political Hat \m/ at January 02, 2013 03:56 AM (Vk2pI)
Naw, it was entirely intentional sabotage of the Empire. Obi-Wan knew Palpatine had a serious stiffy for Anakin and would go to great lengths to keep him at his side. But Anakin was a serious bad luck charm. Anybody that embraced him would ultimately regret it, even if it took a couple of decades. Because it turns out that bring balance to the Force is best expedited by completely fucking up the shit of any major Force adept.
Letting Anakin live was playing the long game.
Posted by: epobirs at January 02, 2013 03:57 AM (kcfmt)
Even before the proggies got their meat-hooks into the government system, debt, has always been a way of life for Americans!
There is no other way!
We've always had such a surfeit of resources to develop, we have to make up novel ways to tempt a man to join in.
Property, and Rule of Law, & yes, DEBT is the only way, I've seen, to make this world a better place.
If somebodie's sainted soul of "True American Conservatism!" grand-pappy, ever busted sod, you can bet that he was *financed* some ways or somehows.
Certainly, his children took out a note to rent a threshing machine, from time to time! When they were growing crops too big for immediate, family consumption!
Oh, what! You thought that a sufficiently educated family farmer had the means and the time to develop his OWN threshing machines? For his own families dietary consumption?
Why would he?
Or, is it your idea, (you Huff-Po, strawman of mine!) that man should never escape the state of grubbing for tubers and that the lives of his children are dealt by the pitiless lottery of brutal, deathly nature?
Having lived in it, I have to say...
I quite enjoy civilization! It's warm! It's comfy! You almost NEVER starve! And there are video games!!
So, to all you slow food, locavore, Armageddon waiting, "self-sufficient preppers", I give a hearty *Fuck You!*
Yes, Virginia,
There is a place for DEBT and Polonious was a fool!
Posted by: Deety at January 02, 2013 03:58 AM (aOVhq)
Come to AoS for the circular firing squads. Stay for the semi-intelligent spam!
*crosses fingers* Still winning bid.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 03:59 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 04:01 AM (TCGmg)
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at January 02, 2013 04:01 AM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at January 02, 2013 04:01 AM (r7Ddb)
Fixed.
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 02, 2013 04:03 AM (Vk2pI)
Gushka!!
Come to AoS for the circular firing squads. Stay for the semi-intelligent spam!
*crosses fingers* Still winning bid.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 03:59 AM (TCGmg)
pretty convinced that Machines for sale is my most avidly read poster here. was a sight for sore eyes
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at January 02, 2013 04:05 AM (r7Ddb)
agreed deety. civilization is warm, clean and tastes of bread BEER
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at January 02, 2013 04:01 AM (r7Ddb)
Fixed.
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 02, 2013 04:03 AM (Vk2pI)
and bacons ( i forgot) and grim would mention its safer and smells better.
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at January 02, 2013 04:06 AM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at January 02, 2013 04:06 AM (r7Ddb)
What about bacon beer?
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 02, 2013 04:07 AM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 04:08 AM (TCGmg)
Yes.
This regrettable oversight is being dealt with by top men in the Spearmint Oil Oversight Committee.
Top. Men.
Posted by: Deety at January 02, 2013 04:10 AM (aOVhq)
Top. Men.
Posted by: Deety at January 02, 2013 04:10 AM (aOVhq)
Ahem...
I think someone is stepping on the jurisdiction of the Peppermint Oil Oversight Committee!
Posted by: Peppermint Oil Oversight Committee at January 02, 2013 04:13 AM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 04:15 AM (TCGmg)
What's YER budget!?
Did you get your department involved in fuel regulations?
No.
I thought, not.
You lose. I win.
I will become immortal!
Ahhhh, Hahhh, Hahhh, Hahhh , Hah!
Posted by: Deety Chairwoman of the SOOC at January 02, 2013 04:28 AM (aOVhq)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 04:37 AM (TCGmg)
It's kind of like the commie ideal of absolute fairness. If you cannot make everybody rich, make everybody poor. Ergo, if you cannot give everybody the high midichlorien levels to be a Force jockey, eliminate the Force using population.
Balance.
This is how you know Valdemort wasn't a commie. If he was he would have had wiping out the whole magic using population as his goal, making everybody a muggle and thus all fair. But his ambition was just the opposite. That this would be better achieved by improving fertility among magic users and encouraging incorporation of mudbloods rather than killing many of them outright was a fatal flaw in his plan. His real problem was one of demography and failure to recognize that was his undoing. That and entrusting his soul to an idiot snake and an assortment of random objects.
Posted by: epobirs at January 02, 2013 04:41 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2013 04:48 AM (TCGmg)
Even Peach!
We also, are willing to testify as to our role in the Benghazi fiasco!
We are ever committed to TRANSPERANCY! first and foremost.
Posted by: Deety Chairwoman of the SOOC at January 02, 2013 04:53 AM (aOVhq)
Posted by: joncelli at January 02, 2013 06:00 AM (CWlPF)
It just occurred to me, that we haven't / won't/ can't accept what happened in New Town.
It is, literally, unimaginable.
But it happened.
How about, rather than ginning up proxy wars about policy disagreements and who does or does not need deporting, and just focus on what happened?
.
Can you IMAGINE the trauma of getting out alive from that school, on that day?
What their parents went through?
Once you really understood what happened?
Sometimes, shit like this takes decades to make sense, feel real.
When you are a little kid, and bad things happen, your job, is to kind of to make the other adults feel happy about helping you.
Just make them feel happy about helping you.
That's all you have to do.
You have a right to your own fears, and your own reservations, and your own fucking THOUGHTS about "the tragedy".
Don't let anyone make you more scared than you were, in fact.
Also, if you were scairt, don't tell them that either!
30 people will build a career on making sure you never get un-scairt, all your live long days...
And, I should know...
Posted by: Deety Chairwoman of the SOOC at January 02, 2013 06:12 AM (aOVhq)
Posted by: Butters at January 02, 2013 06:12 AM (NIZHJ)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 02, 2013 06:21 AM (bS6uW)
Processing 0.08, elapsed 0.0824 seconds.
15 queries taking 0.0203 seconds, 554 records returned.
Page size 255 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.7 alpha.
Dale's ECB
Election Projection
Federal Review
Real Clear Politics
Rasmussen Reports
Gallup
Zogby
FoxNews Polls
Sabato/Crystal Ball
Paul Anka Haiku Contest Announcement
Integrity SAT's: Entrance Exam for Paul Anka's Band
AllahPundit's Paul Anka 45's Collection
AnkaPundit: Paul Anka Takes Over the Site for a Weekend (Continues through to Monday's postings)
George Bush Slices Don Rumsfeld Like an F*ckin' Hammer
Democratic Forays into Erotica
New Shows On Gore's DNC/MTV Network
Nicknames for Potatoes, By People Who Really Hate Potatoes
Star Wars Euphemisms for Self-Abuse
Signs You're at an Iraqi "Wedding Party"
Signs Your Clown Has Gone Bad
Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up
Signs of Hip-Hop Influence on John Kerry
NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom
Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?"
Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind
All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd
Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran
Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore
Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery
Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile
Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance
Collective Names for Groups of People
John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets
Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle
Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy
Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)