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Open Thread
John Sloan, "Chinese Restaurant" (1909)
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: t-bird at September 10, 2015 11:07 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: anon a mouse at September 11, 2015 08:16 AM (C9pBZ)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 08:18 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: anon a mouse at September 11, 2015 08:18 AM (C9pBZ)
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Posted by: rdbrewer at September 11, 2015 08:20 AM (Iyg03)
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Posted by: rdbrewer at September 11, 2015 08:21 AM (Iyg03)
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 11, 2015 08:21 AM (rHXGG)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 11, 2015 08:21 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at September 11, 2015 08:22 AM (0O7c5)
John Sloan's interest in the working class was not only aesthetic, it was also political. By 1909, Sloan was an active member of the Socialist party and used his art to shine a light on the equally noble and interesting lives of the lower classes.
Sloan's painting may portray a woman of easy virtue, as her flamboyant attire and heavy makeup suggest.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 11, 2015 08:23 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: t-bird at September 11, 2015 08:25 AM (FcR7P)
In popular culture, the Rise and Fall of the catch phrase "Free, White and 21".
A proto feminist slogan, of all things, and far more widely used than one would have thought.
http://tinyurl.com/odt4bhf
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 11, 2015 08:26 AM (kdS6q)
So, a Presidential candidate?
Posted by: t-bird at September 11, 2015 08:26 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: The Cat at September 11, 2015 08:27 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at September 11, 2015 08:27 AM (WDySP)
Posted by: Your waiter the cat at September 11, 2015 08:28 AM (BO/km)
"How can he possibly fvuk this country up any more than Presidents Dole, McCain, and Romney backed by Congressional leaders like Boehner-Pelosi and McConnell-Reid have?"
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 11, 2015 08:28 AM (ftVQq)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 11, 2015 08:29 AM (VPLuQ)
Never heard it before, and FWIW, in the 1930s it would've been "free, white, and sixteen"
Nothing like trying to gin up a tale where none existed.
Posted by: anon a mouse at September 11, 2015 08:29 AM (C9pBZ)
A torch passed on to Jerry Springer in our own age.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 11, 2015 08:30 AM (xpmPK)
You know what the media and madson avenue is trying to make a Thing now?
Slurping ramen noodles. Ramen noodle joints are opening all over the place (in urban left wing college areas) and customers are encouraged to partak in the Chinese custom of inhaling their soup.and noodles.
This is a very very stupid way to eat. Almost as stupid as eating with sticks.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 08:30 AM (YcUKN)
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 11, 2015 08:30 AM (ftVQq)
John Pinette... now that's funny. Good to have some comic relief now and again.
Posted by: anon a mouse at September 11, 2015 08:31 AM (C9pBZ)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 11, 2015 08:32 AM (VPLuQ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 08:30 AM (YcUKN)
Seriously you guys, you need to post a microagression trigger warning when you refer to the Asian custom of eating with natural green renewable implements!
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 11, 2015 08:32 AM (ftVQq)
The "separation of church and state" has been one of the high holy mantras of the Left, especially the ACLU. It would seem, though, that this separation only applies to Christian churches and beliefs, and do a degree Judaism.
But when it comes to the Islamic faith, religious education is just plain spiffy! Nothing wrong with forcing students to write the Shahada.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=9883
Posted by: The Political Hat at September 11, 2015 08:33 AM (P11N5)
Oh, chinese first, then dump...
got it.
Posted by: anon a mouse at September 11, 2015 08:16 AM (C9pBZ)
********************
But with Chinese, 20 minutes later you feel dumpy again.
No, wait. That's Taco Bell.
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel shirts and Wallet Chains at September 11, 2015 08:33 AM (yxw0r)
In popular culture, the Rise and Fall of the catch phrase "Free, White and 21".
Never heard it before...Nothing like trying to gin up a tale where none existed.
Posted by: anon a mouse
Sorry, but that's just you you. Was a common phrase.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 11, 2015 08:33 AM (kdS6q)
Lately, it has been tanking (~$40). I tell you, if Lululemon is in trouble, so is America.
*As an aside, if the company goes under, I blame a very famous, very large ass. Only certain asses should be permitted to be adorned with yoga pants in public. I had predicted that fat chicks wearing yoga pants in public, would kill the company. BTW- this should not be considered 'fat shaming'. Fat chicks wearing yoga pants in public should be considered auto-fat shaming.
Posted by: Semper In Stercus at September 11, 2015 08:34 AM (BZAd3)
Posted by: rdbrewer at September 11, 2015 08:34 AM (Iyg03)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 11, 2015 08:34 AM (VPLuQ)
Posted by: anon a mouse at September 11, 2015 08:34 AM (C9pBZ)
Sloan's painting may portray a woman of easy virtue, as her flamboyant attire and heavy makeup suggest.
Ceci n'est pas une 'ho
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 11, 2015 08:34 AM (kdS6q)
You are the king of Chinatown.
Ching Chong, I love your sing-song,
When you have turned the lights all down."
"Ching Chong Chinaman went to milk a cow.
Ching Chong Chinaman didn't know how.
Ching Chong Chinaman pulled the wrong tit.
Ching Chong Chinaman got covered in shit."
You be here 5 hour you go now.
Posted by: Mr. Ching Chong at September 11, 2015 08:35 AM (D0NZx)
Ain't been around much at all, but had to say hello today.
My husband is coming home today after a year away!
He went back into the A.F. after 9/11, so there is a kind of symmetry that he's coming home to retire on this date.
I will pray for all those who did not come home on September 11, 2001 and since.
Smooches,
aj
Posted by: Mama AJ at September 11, 2015 08:36 AM (nXeSu)
'cause it was in something like 12 movies?
Sure...
Posted by: anon a mouse at September 11, 2015 08:36 AM (C9pBZ)
Posted by: MTF at September 11, 2015 08:36 AM (TxJGV)
Posted by: anon a mouse at September 11, 2015 08:37 AM (C9pBZ)
Was a common phrase.
'cause it was in something like 12 movies?
Sure...
Posted by: anon a mouse
Heard it my own self often back in the day.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 11, 2015 08:38 AM (kdS6q)
Good to have some comic relief now and again.
Posted by: anon a mouse at September 11, 2015 08:31 AM (C9pBZ)
________________________
You looking for some comic relief? Join me at my next campaign rally!!!!
Posted by: Shecky Clinton at September 11, 2015 08:38 AM (HSmrB)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 08:38 AM (YcUKN)
A thank you for both you, and your husbands combined efforts and commitment.
And may you both enjoy retirement.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 11, 2015 08:38 AM (VPLuQ)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2015 08:39 AM (sPO3u)
Posted by: anon a mouse at September 11, 2015 08:39 AM (C9pBZ)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 11, 2015 08:40 AM (VPLuQ)
There's the problem.
Back in Vic's day, average life expectancy was about 20.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 11, 2015 08:41 AM (VPLuQ)
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at September 11, 2015 08:41 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2015 08:41 AM (OSs/l)
Chinese ate with sticks because they didnt know any better. Only on TV do I see Westerners eat with chopsticks. I do not know anyone who does this...because it's stupid. But people do it because they see it on TV...
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 08:41 AM (YcUKN)
Posted by: Baldy at September 11, 2015 08:42 AM (sEXjW)
Posted by: Mama AJ at September 11, 2015 08:43 AM (nXeSu)
Posted by: NativeNH at September 11, 2015 08:44 AM (3Axla)
Posted by: Randull Hultguunson at September 11, 2015 08:46 AM (DCTZ4)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 08:46 AM (xWW96)
Chinese ate with sticks because they didnt know any better. Only on TV do I see Westerners eat with chopsticks. I do not know anyone who does this...because it's stupid. But people do it because they see it on TV...
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 08:41 AM (YcUKN)
I eat sushi with chopsticks. It's part of the fun, like the bib with a lobster on it when you eat lobster.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 11, 2015 08:46 AM (xpmPK)
I cried.
Link to twitter:
http://tinyurl.com/onys4lc
Posted by: Mama AJ at September 11, 2015 08:47 AM (nXeSu)
Not just you, I've heered it many a time!
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 11, 2015 08:48 AM (ftVQq)
A staple it is, if you are financially challenged. I've made it with crackers crushed up in it; and without the favoring but with sour cream, plus sometimes hot sauce or whatever meat I can find. Cheap and reasonably filling.
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 11, 2015 08:48 AM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2015 08:49 AM (OSs/l)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 08:49 AM (xWW96)
The "separation of church and state" has been one of the high holy mantras of the Left, especially the ACLU. It would seem, though, that this separation only applies to Christian churches and beliefs, and do a degree Judaism.
But when it comes to the Islamic faith, religious education is just plain spiffy! Nothing wrong with forcing students to write the Shahada.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=9883
Posted by: The Political Hat at September 11, 2015 08:33 AM (P11N5)
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Somehow I don't think the students are required to memorize the Apostle's Creed.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 11, 2015 08:49 AM (LXJ1e)
The cat is usually dead on a platter. Oh, THAT Chinese restaurant.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 11, 2015 08:50 AM (St6BJ)
Wow, thank you for posting that. Imagine that, an AoS link that should be clicked!
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 11, 2015 08:50 AM (ftVQq)
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 11, 2015 08:49 AM (LXJ1e)
Didn't he fight Rocky?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 11, 2015 08:51 AM (St6BJ)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 11, 2015 08:38 AM (kdS6q)
I heard it from adults back when I was a kid. Didn't know it was scripted into movies, but I heard it often enough to give me the lasting impression it was a common phrase.
Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection at September 11, 2015 08:51 AM (wKcQA)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 08:49 AM (xWW96)
Pfft!
Posted by: "Chest Burster" on the Nostromo at September 11, 2015 08:52 AM (St6BJ)
In other 9-11 news:
Sadiq Khan has decisively won the contest to become Labour's candidate for the 2016 London mayoral election.
Muslim lefty who nominated hyper-rad Mr Corbyn to be Labour leader.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 11, 2015 08:52 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 11, 2015 08:49 AM (LXJ1e)
Funny how when islam is the "other" we are supposed to learn about it.
You can bet that when Christianity has been relegated to the "other" status, it will be a criminal offense to teach about it!
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 11, 2015 08:53 AM (ftVQq)
Now I gotta go back and reconstruct everything, links and all.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 11, 2015 08:53 AM (St6BJ)
Praying when you're depressed.
Article by a Franciscan nun.Sometimes when I put up this sort of thing up someone complains that I'm suggesting that people shouldn't be on anti depressants which I am NOT suggesting. I just know enough about the Christian mystic tradition to know that it can be good to present yourself before God no matter how you're feeling. Certainly the writer of the Psalms did.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2015 08:54 AM (OSs/l)
I've been away so long, I've forgotten how things are supposed to work.
BRB, finding a close up pic of Hillary...
Posted by: Mama AJ at September 11, 2015 08:55 AM (nXeSu)
Now I gotta go back and reconstruct everything, links and all.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 11, 2015 08:53 AM (St6BJ)
Compose in a basic text editor like notepad, then paste into the blog. Saves a lot of hair pulling and cursing.
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at September 11, 2015 08:55 AM (RD7QR)
Just asking, but isn't it possible to work on another auto-saving application like Word or LibreOffice and cut and paste?
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 11, 2015 08:55 AM (ftVQq)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 08:49 AM (xWW96)
There is cooked or vegetable sushi (which I guess isn't technically sushi) which is what I eat.
The best thing is deep fried sweet potato wrapped in rice. Avocado rolls are very good also.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 11, 2015 08:56 AM (xpmPK)
This painting kind of started it all.
Posted by: Drider at September 11, 2015 08:56 AM (DNFK1)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2015 08:56 AM (sPO3u)
I think we may already be here.
Saw a bumper sticker yesterday "Mike Pence Must Go--Your Rights May Be Taken Away Next." I need to start carrying a Sharpie; it needed a "You realize you are the one actively trying to take away my rights you bigot, right?" in big letters.
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 11, 2015 08:56 AM (rHXGG)
This was told to me years ago on a trip in China, by our Chinese translator. They really believe this.
I used chopsticks a lot on that trip, and got good at it in a few days. At first, they laughed at me, but then I got better. I sometimes use them at a Chinese restaurant, just to .....keep my hand in (so to speak).
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at September 11, 2015 08:56 AM (RFeQD)
Millions of illegal immigrants are humanely injected through an Advocacy Tube. Relative to its long, storied history, California's death is relatively quick and, for progressive elites, painless.
Posted by: CJ at September 11, 2015 08:57 AM (9KqcB)
Posted by: Hikaru at September 11, 2015 08:57 AM (FrHC0)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2015 08:57 AM (sPO3u)
Posted by: Mama AJ at September 11, 2015 08:55 AM (nXeSu)
Hereyago Mama
http://goo.gl/lXtPjg
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 08:57 AM (xWW96)
Apples Siri interrupts a question about the intricacies of Barack Obamas Iran policy on Thursday during a White House press briefing.
The iPhones personal assistant beeped its question-acknowledgement tone as a journalist asked White House spokesman Josh Earnest if Obama is disappointed at not getting Republican backing for the Iran nuclear agreement. Siri then buts in, saying "Sorry. I'm not sure what you want me to change".
http://tinyurl.com/nj78grd
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 11, 2015 08:58 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Hikaru at September 11, 2015 08:57 AM (FrHC0)
Plus we would have a decent-looking first lady for a change.
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at September 11, 2015 08:58 AM (RD7QR)
What a bunch of bullshit!
Immediately after 911 all I heard were aholes asking, do you know why they did it? And of course, Booooosh!!! I learned that people from other countries who I thought were my friends were gloating. Other aholes whined how it was disrupting the television season.
Of course we are now divisive b/c we dont kiss obama's ass and dont sing kumbaya to the aholes that still want to murder us. Spit!
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 11, 2015 08:58 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: The Cat at September 11, 2015 08:58 AM (FcR7P)
I wonder if national Irony Promotion Week is next week?
Posted by: andycanuck at September 11, 2015 08:58 AM (LYqIl)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 11, 2015 08:59 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 11, 2015 08:56 AM (xpmPK)
Yes, yes. Will eat anything deep fried, save for Hillary's ancient cooter.
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 08:59 AM (xWW96)
Thanks, Horde.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt TrumpProd (tm) at September 11, 2015 09:00 AM (d6PIl)
Trump 2016:
He might do some good even with Boehner and McConnell in Congress!
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 11, 2015 09:01 AM (ftVQq)
Posted by: Mama AJ at September 11, 2015 09:02 AM (nXeSu)
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 11, 2015 09:01 AM (ftVQq)
He could do the most good by getting those two worthless bastards OUT of Congress.
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 09:02 AM (xWW96)
I have grown sick to death of being pissed off all of the time, and everyday more and more pissed off. It really was affecting me, mentally and physically, and I suppose, spiritually.
I exercise regularly and I decided to develop a mantra, if you will, that I repeat at a certain point in the cycle of exercises, in lieu of counting. It is an extremely positive mantra and it ends on the last count: I will make the world a better place.
It works. It may be corny, but it works. Besides seriously limiting my intake of news, this works.
Just sayin'
Posted by: Semper In Stercus at September 11, 2015 09:02 AM (BZAd3)
Sometimes, the context at AoS is worth analyzing before you click!
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 11, 2015 09:03 AM (ftVQq)
Posted by: Fred Zeppelin at September 11, 2015 09:04 AM (zL/eJ)
The Guardian: The case for ending online comments by Jessica Valenti*
When I started a feminist blog in 2004.....
http://tinyurl.com/omn3ctx
*Jessica Valenti is a columnist and staff writer for Guardian US. She is the author of four books on feminism, politics and culture, and founder of Feministing.com.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 11, 2015 09:04 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 09:02 AM (xWW96)
That would be the best of all possible worlds, but I think he would at the very least effectively neuter them, where ¡Jeb! would be linking arms with them!
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 11, 2015 09:05 AM (ftVQq)
very, very wrong
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at September 11, 2015 09:06 AM (7RXcs)
It really is close as to who makes more stupid remarks online on a daily basis, Jessica Valenti or Gabriel Malor.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 09:06 AM (YcUKN)
Posted by: biancaneve at September 11, 2015 09:06 AM (FWVPu)
Ramen. With bicycle spoke chopsticks. Left handed.
Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at September 11, 2015 09:07 AM (k9qR4)
they did it? And of course, Booooosh!!! I learned that people from other
countries who I thought were my friends were gloating. Other aholes
whined how it was disrupting the television season.
That very afternoon I was hearing the "racist conservatives are going to blame Muslims and that's wrong" bullshit.
Got myself kicked out of a women's forum the next day for going straight into VENGEANCE MODE instead of weeping that the hijackers' children were going to grow up fatherless. WTF, indeed.
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 11, 2015 09:07 AM (rHXGG)
How you can tell when someone has not mastered the skill.
Posted by: mindful webworker - chop chop at September 11, 2015 09:07 AM (wmrFg)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at September 11, 2015 09:08 AM (7RXcs)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at September 11, 2015 09:08 AM (0O7c5)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 09:09 AM (YcUKN)
Posted by: biancaneve at September 11, 2015 09:06 AM (FWVPu)
Because the West is exhausted and demoralized. I thought it was just Europe but it's us too. Self-loathing is the path to self-destruction.
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at September 11, 2015 09:10 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 09:11 AM (YcUKN)
Posted by: The Great _______ Snark at September 11, 2015 09:12 AM (ee9LE)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at September 11, 2015 09:08 AM (7RXcs)
Looks to me like it caters to hos and thugs.
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at September 11, 2015 09:12 AM (RD7QR)
Jessica Valenti
Posted by: Soothsayer
Such a ball-breaker:
I was incorporating feminism into [my] wedding. I wrote about keeping my last name and buying a not-quite white dress from a store that gives all the money to charity. I blogged about the struggle Andrew and I had getting engaged in the same month that California overturned same-sex marriage rights. We had actually discussed not getting married until everyone could; instead, we decided to use our impending marriage as a way to talk about same-sex marriage among our friends and family. In our engagement announcement, for example, we asked anyone considering getting us a gift to instead donate to an organisation fighting for same-sex marriage rights.
http://tinyurl.com/onzoy3k
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 11, 2015 09:12 AM (kdS6q)
statues and the names of roads, icons related to slavery are becoming
fair game for censure and removal. Perhaps the country should consider
also replacing the national anthem because poet Francis Scott Key owned
up to 20 slaves...
Posted by: Colin at September 11, 2015 09:13 AM (eoM8x)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2015 09:13 AM (OSs/l)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt TrumpProd (tm) at September 11, 2015 09:13 AM (d6PIl)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 11, 2015 09:12 AM (kdS6q)
Their wedding ceremony must have been a barrel of laughs. Sure hope there was an open bar.
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at September 11, 2015 09:13 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 11, 2015 09:14 AM (LXJ1e)
He met his wife in a brothel, so yeah, he didnt seem to be turned off by it. Of course, men who went to prostitutes when there was no cure for syphilis or gonorrhea were no prizes themselves.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 11, 2015 09:14 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at September 11, 2015 09:14 AM (1ijHg)
So, mixed emotions.
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 09:15 AM (xWW96)
(So the webworker says, still not having learned the lesson himself.)
If I fatfinger and accidentally leave a webpage in which I'm composing, or the web somehow didn't take a post, Opera browser usually retains the text in the input box when I return to the page. Gotta give 'em props for that. I've recovered lost text many times because of that, for which comment-readers here are surely grateful...
Posted by: mindful webworker - help not help at September 11, 2015 09:15 AM (wmrFg)
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And self-deluded and arrogant. We've had it too good for too long and have become to weak to survive. In addition, we celebrate evil and ridicule virtue. A storm is coming.
Posted by: The Great _______ Snark at September 11, 2015 09:15 AM (ee9LE)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at September 11, 2015 09:15 AM (7RXcs)
I hate program code.
Posted by: Hikaru at September 11, 2015 09:15 AM (FrHC0)
will have the Feminazi donning the burkas with no problems.
It would make my day to see the fems on "The View" forced to wear burkas!
Posted by: Colin at September 11, 2015 09:16 AM (eoM8x)
But that bum with the lady has his hat on! Lowlifes.
Posted by: mindful webworker - critique do arte at September 11, 2015 09:16 AM (wmrFg)
It really is close as to who makes more stupid remarks online on a daily basis, Jessica Valenti or Gabriel Malor.
Pfft.
Posted by: Sally Kohn at September 11, 2015 09:16 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 11, 2015 09:18 AM (St6BJ)
I just have to ask: Why are we letting Muslims run the world?
Posted by: biancaneve at September 11, 2015 09:06 AM (FWVPu)
Because the West is exhausted and demoralized. I thought it was just Europe but it's us too. Self-loathing is the path to self-destruction.
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at September 11, 2015 09:10 AM (RD7QR)
It's not an accident. We didn't "lose" our hope. It was systematically torn down by fucking commie pinko bastards that get aroused by the process of destruction and the deliberate sabotage of Western Civilization. They don't care about what follows, what comes after. Destruction is the point.
As per usual, the commies don't see that they'll be among the first that are lined up against the wall when the muhammedans take over. That gives me some small measure of joy.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2015 09:18 AM (1QsMy)
The worst part about all the Jessica Valentis (and they really are a dime-a-dozen) is they dont believe a word they say.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 09:18 AM (YcUKN)
Because they intentionally kill civilians.
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Something else that chaps my ass (since this is ass chapping Friday), we spend all this time trying to separate the good Nazis from the bad Nazis while they are absolutely indiscriminate regarding victims.
Posted by: The Great _______ Snark at September 11, 2015 09:18 AM (ee9LE)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 09:19 AM (xWW96)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 09:19 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at September 11, 2015 09:15 AM (7RXcs)
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She has Viking hand disease.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 11, 2015 09:19 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 11, 2015 09:19 AM (W5DcG)
I just knew there was something about you I really liked!
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 11, 2015 09:20 AM (ftVQq)
As per usual, the commies don't see that they'll be among the first that are lined up against the wall when the muhammedans take over. That gives me some small measure of joy.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2015 09:18 AM (1QsMy)
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Commies? Hell, they'll be the first ones to convert and start sawing off heads in the name of Allah.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 11, 2015 09:20 AM (LXJ1e)
The reason the Left (and their "please give us some table scraps" henchmen in the GOPe) want Islam is because Islam is an oppressive, totalitarian "Complete Lives System" where the Punishment for every and all violations is Death.
They see Shari'ah Law and a Caliphate as their Fast-Track shortcut to One World Government.
Posted by: Hikaru at September 11, 2015 09:20 AM (FrHC0)
Gotta love Glenn Beck. He just a painfully long and emotional segment on 9/11 and then went into pitch-mode for Sherry's Berries.
No, not really. But close.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 09:20 AM (YcUKN)
at it in a few days. At first, they laughed at me, but then I got
better. I sometimes use them at a Chinese restaurant, just to .....keep
my hand in (so to speak).
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at September 11, 2015 08:56 AM (RFeQD)
When I was a kid we always got Chinese take out on Sunday, no we are not Jewish, and mom decided we would always eat it with chop sticks.
I am damn good at it.
Posted by: Nip Sip at September 11, 2015 09:20 AM (0FSuD)
Some things would be better today if we had.
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 11, 2015 09:20 AM (rHXGG)
Apparently the BLM idiots have bonded so closely w/CAIR and Palestinians that they're calling for attacks on police on 9/11.
Did not see *that* coming 14 years ago.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 09:21 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Nip Sip at September 11, 2015 09:21 AM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Colin at September 11, 2015 09:21 AM (eoM8x)
The worst part about all the Jessica Valentis (and they really are a dime-a-dozen) is they dont believe a word they say.
When you start to make your living off of running your mouth, you can make yourself believe all sorts of things. I think most of these activist-types simply pick an audience that's easy to play to.
Posted by: Sally Kohn at September 11, 2015 09:21 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at September 11, 2015 09:22 AM (9krrF)
Because they intentionally kill civilians.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at September 11, 2015 09:14 AM (1ijHg)
And because it is inherently political and easily used for political purposes. The authoritarian regimes that are the model of ME countries, are easily perpetuated due to Islam. I believe in my heart that this attribute makes it attractive to the oligarchs who are proliferating in the world right now, particularly in Europe and the U.S. right now.
Posted by: Semper In Stercus at September 11, 2015 09:22 AM (BZAd3)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 09:22 AM (YcUKN)
Posted by: Roy Thinnes as David VIncent at September 11, 2015 09:22 AM (oVJmc)
also replacing the national anthem because poet Francis Scott Key owned
up to 20 slaves...
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The Horst Wessel Lied is kind of catchy.
Posted by: The Great _______ Snark at September 11, 2015 09:22 AM (ee9LE)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at September 11, 2015 09:23 AM (DfCQN)
It seems crazy, but self-loathing seems to be more important than self-survival to these people who are not my countrymen, and haven't been for a long time!
Surely, even the most irrational among them cannot believe that they will prosper in the future they wish for themselves!
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 11, 2015 09:23 AM (ftVQq)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 09:23 AM (YcUKN)
I know it is hard to educate muzzie kids in german schools b/c of their holidays but I see few children among these migrants.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 11, 2015 09:24 AM (iQIUe)
Some things would be better today if we had.
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 11, 2015 09:20 AM (rHXGG)
You guys are NOT alone! That was the one workable answer!
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 11, 2015 09:25 AM (ftVQq)
I get the sense from reading Amanda Marcote's twitter is that life is just an endless series of events and issues that must be deconstructed through a funhouse-mirror feminist lens.Every damn thing. And she reeks of the smugness of always being too clever by half. Cray-cray on stilts.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 09:26 AM (NOIQH)
Press 2 for Spanish.
Press 3 if you're a Nativist Racist, and we will dispatch an agent to your location immediately to liquidate you.
Posted by: Hikaru at September 11, 2015 09:26 AM (FrHC0)
Aha! So I wasn't the only one who noticed this breach of decorum! There's still hope for society. Or something.
Posted by: mindful webworker - critique do arte at September 11, 2015 09:26 AM (wmrFg)
Because the West is exhausted and demoralized. I thought it was just Europe but it's us too. Self-loathing is the path to self-destruction.
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at September 11, 2015 09:10 AM (RD7QR)
----
The Left believes America's founding was racist andillegitimate. It must atone. Europe colonized nations of color. It must atone. Muslims are people of color, so they'll do quite nicely for atonement purposes.
Posted by: CJ at September 11, 2015 09:27 AM (9KqcB)
Not for two more weeks...and to be honest, I'd kind of like to avoid having this sort of conversation with people I don't know well while I'm a guest in their country myself.
As soon as I learn enough of the language to eavesdrop on strangers in cafes, though...
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 11, 2015 09:27 AM (rHXGG)
at Arice's Restaurant
Posted by: Bigby's Karate Chop at September 11, 2015 09:27 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 09:28 AM (YcUKN)
Baby goats looking adorable:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/goatslive
If only our entire lives centered around eating...
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 11, 2015 09:28 AM (iQIUe)
John Sloan, "Chinese Restaurant" (1909)*
The fad of eating Chinamen began in 1908 and lasted until the US entry into WWI in 1917.
Starting in San Francisco and spreading across the country to New York City,
the Chinese Restaurant Craze was an unparalleled example Fine Dining and Cookery taking hold of the American imagination until the invention in New Orleans of Blackened Everything.
*sad violin plays*
Posted by: naturalfake at September 11, 2015 09:29 AM (KUa85)
Posted by: Michelle Obama at September 11, 2015 09:29 AM (NOIQH)
In 2 weeks, you're going to have to learn Arabic and Farsi in order to know what people are saying in Germany.
Posted by: Hikaru at September 11, 2015 09:29 AM (FrHC0)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 09:30 AM (xWW96)
http://dw.com/p/1GUo3
Why the fuck haven't we kicked the UN out already?
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 11, 2015 09:30 AM (rHXGG)
Shit, I need to know them to know what people are saying in Plainfield.
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 11, 2015 09:31 AM (rHXGG)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 11, 2015 09:32 AM (u5gzz)
I'm sure they're as surprised as anyone that it never happened. The killers among they certainly took note.
Posted by: CJ at September 11, 2015 09:33 AM (9KqcB)
Posted by: Jim Gilmore at September 11, 2015 09:34 AM (l3vZN)
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 09:34 AM (+rFtO)
Posted by: Garrett at September 11, 2015 09:34 AM (6pVxX)
Flight 93, and more recently, three American dudes on a French train.
*fistpump*
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 09:35 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 11, 2015 09:32 AM (u5gzz)
I got the military-grade Morakniv a while back. Excellent blade considering that it was all of 20 bucks. The Swedes make some fine blades.
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at September 11, 2015 09:35 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 11, 2015 09:35 AM (u5gzz)
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 11, 2015 09:35 AM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at September 11, 2015 09:36 AM (7RXcs)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 11, 2015 09:37 AM (eGmvn)
bring back DOOM
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at September 11, 2015 09:36 AM (7RXcs)
I'll be right over.
Posted by: Mitch McConnel at September 11, 2015 09:37 AM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 11, 2015 09:37 AM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: Bang Ding Ow Fuc at September 11, 2015 09:38 AM (nc+gz)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2015 09:38 AM (sPO3u)
Yeah, I have one I bought 10 years ago under the "Frosts" name. Fantastic value.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 11, 2015 09:38 AM (u5gzz)
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 11, 2015 09:38 AM (rHXGG)
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 09:39 AM (+rFtO)
Posted by: Garrett at September 11, 2015 09:39 AM (6pVxX)
I had a friend who was moving to Hamburg to live with her german bf. She packed up everything she had and shipped it. It was incredibly cheap back then. I told her why not take what you need and if it works out, you can come back for the rest. Nope. Everything had to go. Six months later, she was back. Hamburg was too cloudy.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 11, 2015 09:39 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 11, 2015 09:40 AM (bZ7mE)
Trump is a socialist like Obama. Not much will change.
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 09:40 AM (+rFtO)
--------
The number will be at least 10 Million.
And no, nobody will do a thing about it.
Posted by: Hikaru at September 11, 2015 09:40 AM (FrHC0)
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 11, 2015 09:41 AM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 09:26 AM (NOIQH)
they must be very irritating people to be around.
I enjoy eating with chopsticks. Especially sticky rice and lo mein. Has nothing to do with tv.
Posted by: Lea at September 11, 2015 09:41 AM (lIU4e)
http://www.amazon.com/11-Report-Graphic-Adaptation/dp/0809057395/
ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1441979018&sr=1-1&keywords=9+11+report+graphic
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 09:41 AM (NOIQH)
Glenn Beck: I stand by everything I said yesterday except for calling Sarah Palin a clown
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 09:41 AM (YcUKN)
Posted by: Insomniac at September 11, 2015 09:42 AM (2Ojst)
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 09:43 AM (HcHd+)
Posted by: Nip Sip at September 11, 2015 09:43 AM (0FSuD)
Hey fappers. Even though it was a short week, I feel like it was much longer.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 11, 2015 09:42 AM (2Ojst)
Ever notice that when big things are in the offing, time seems to slow to a crawl?
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 09:43 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: BurtTC at September 11, 2015 09:43 AM (Dj0WE)
Posted by: Henry II, proto-Moron at September 11, 2015 09:44 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 11, 2015 09:44 AM (u5gzz)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 11, 2015 09:44 AM (xpmPK)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 09:43 AM (HalrA)
Sure. It starts when you're a kid waiting for Christmas.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 11, 2015 09:44 AM (2Ojst)
Yup notice the big mouth anti Immigrant types are quiet?
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 09:45 AM (HcHd+)
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 11, 2015 09:45 AM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: BurtTC at September 11, 2015 09:45 AM (Dj0WE)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 11, 2015 09:45 AM (ucDmr)
I never saw the theatrical Flight 93 release. This is a one-hour documentary-re-enactment which I recall as being pretty good.
"Let's Roll!"
https://youtu.be/GUrUQN0m79o
Posted by: mindful webworker - critique do arte at September 11, 2015 09:45 AM (wmrFg)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 09:45 AM (xWW96)
Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection at September 11, 2015 09:45 AM (wKcQA)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 11, 2015 09:46 AM (u5gzz)
I love cloudy. Alas, I'm moving to Bavaria.
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 11, 2015 09:46 AM (rHXGG)
Posted by: mindful webworker - remember to change the tagline at September 11, 2015 09:46 AM (wmrFg)
Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at September 11, 2015 09:46 AM (nc+gz)
Democrats and pro Immigration Republicans will not pass any of Trump's immigration stuff. They will enact his socialist agenda. The nation will go bankrupt under Trump.
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 09:46 AM (HcHd+)
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 11, 2015 09:47 AM (2cS/G)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 09:47 AM (YcUKN)
Now he wants to gloat about the Muzzies wiping us out.
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 11, 2015 09:47 AM (bZ7mE)
What ain't? I mean Serbians gotta be about the lowest form of pseudo-life in the Galaxy. Lower than pond scum. Lower than a virus.
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 09:47 AM (xWW96)
Figures an Al Qaeda lover like you would say that.
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 09:48 AM (HcHd+)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2015 09:38 AM (sPO3u)
How many of these Trojan Horse Syrians are the french taking? I always say, the french are capable of terrible brutality. When Europe decides to strike, and it's only a matter of time, wholesale slaughter will occur.
It is the height of comedy that ever since the Cold War somehow the U.S. has gained the reputation as the bad guys. We're pussycats, naive and foolish. We always have been. Even in wartime, when communists are running around inside our intelligence networks.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 11, 2015 09:49 AM (Dj0WE)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2015 09:49 AM (KrAjA)
Posted by: Fat Bastard Michael Moore at September 11, 2015 09:50 AM (nc+gz)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 09:50 AM (YcUKN)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 11, 2015 09:50 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at September 11, 2015 09:50 AM (yMVjf)
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 09:50 AM (HcHd+)
Ace is hector.
Neither is my late grandmother, but nobody ever mistook her for a dirty troll.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at September 11, 2015 09:51 AM (9krrF)
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 11, 2015 09:47 AM (2cS/G)
Or some ex-Radio Shack employee crossed some wires.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 11, 2015 09:51 AM (Dj0WE)
Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell
Heh.
Of course, the fire doesn't actually have to melt the steel to cause a building to collapse
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 11, 2015 09:51 AM (/Ho8c)
Posted by: Roy Thinnes as David VIncent at September 11, 2015 09:51 AM (hsCpX)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 11, 2015 09:51 AM (u5gzz)
Surely, even the most irrational among them cannot believe that they will prosper in the future they wish for themselves!
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 11, 2015 09:23 AM (ftVQq)
A long time back, I came to the realization that THEY JUST DON'T CARE ABOUT THE END RESULT, as long as they get the opportunity to destroy lives, drag people out of their homes in the dead of night, and load people into cattle cars. The fact that they haven't gotten around the the cattle cars yet doesn't mean that it isn't on their minds.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2015 09:51 AM (1QsMy)
Posted by: Insomniac at September 11, 2015 09:52 AM (2Ojst)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 11, 2015 09:52 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook!
I believe there is a lot of Christian Syrians that are looking for refuge as they are being persecuted.
You mean anti-illegal-immigration right? If not you are an idiot.
Posted by: Cheri at September 11, 2015 09:52 AM (oiNtH)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2015 09:52 AM (sPO3u)
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 11, 2015 09:52 AM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 11, 2015 09:52 AM (/Ho8c)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at September 11, 2015 09:51 AM (9krrF)
Your deceased grandmother is Ace? That would explain a lot.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 11, 2015 09:52 AM (Dj0WE)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 09:52 AM (xWW96)
Posted by: wrg500 at September 11, 2015 09:52 AM (C278+)
Posted by: Henry II, proto-Moron at September 11, 2015 09:53 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 11, 2015 09:53 AM (hsCpX)
Give me an Albanian over a Serbian any day of the week.
Posted by: wrg500 at September 11, 2015 09:52 AM (C278+)
I'll hunt them down and kill them regardless.
Posted by: Brian Mills at September 11, 2015 09:54 AM (2Ojst)
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 09:54 AM (HcHd+)
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 11, 2015 09:51 AM (/Ho8c)
Actually, I read aninteresting paper about that once...It wasn't the steel that was the problem, it was the aluminum.A lot of aluminum got in thanks to the planes being made of it, and aluminum melts at a much lower temperature, something like 700.
Pouring water on molten aluminum causes some really freaky chemical reactions that cause it to heat up rapidly...
So the planes hit the building, the sprinkler systems kicked on, the water hit the melted aluminum. The rest, as they say, was history.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 09:54 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at September 11, 2015 09:54 AM (kff5f)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 11, 2015 09:54 AM (hsCpX)
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 11, 2015 09:54 AM (/Ho8c)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at September 11, 2015 09:55 AM (kff5f)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at September 11, 2015 09:55 AM (kff5f)
Posted by: Brian Williams at September 11, 2015 09:55 AM (nc+gz)
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 11, 2015 09:52 AM (bZ7mE)
Even though he's a troll, I don't see how he's wrong.
The US Government has sold us out to Islam and if the citizenry was to take matters into their own hands, the Government would send armed agents to assist the Muslims against us.
Posted by: Hikaru at September 11, 2015 09:55 AM (FrHC0)
Posted by: BurtTC at September 11, 2015 09:52 AM (Dj0WE)
I am ace and you are ace and we are all ace together.
Posted by: The Walrus at September 11, 2015 09:55 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2015 09:52 AM (sPO3u)
Could be one or the other, I guess. Back when the muslim hordes were roaming through the Balkans, menacing the fringes of Europe, nobody much cared until the french decided enough was enough.
They're not just roaming through the God forsaken Balkans now though.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 11, 2015 09:56 AM (Dj0WE)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 11, 2015 09:56 AM (hsCpX)
Completely off topic and of no particular consequence, the newly-redesigned Mora 511 is an unbelievably good knife for $10.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 11, 2015 09:32 AM (u5gzz)
Moras are insanely good values. I have about 5-6. Hell, I can't even remember how many I have stashed around. That's not including a couple I keep at the shop for shipping (the thin blade models work extremely well for cutting closed cell foam).
The only thing I don't like is that the Moras are not full-tang knives. But frankly, that doesn't matter much unless you're REALLY rough with them.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2015 09:56 AM (1QsMy)
Posted by: BurtTC at September 11, 2015 09:52 AM (Dj0WE)
I am ace and you are ace and we are all ace together.
Posted by: The Walrus at September 11, 2015 09:55 AM (HalrA)
Yellow matter custard, dripping from an Ewok's eye.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 11, 2015 09:56 AM (2Ojst)
Wrong we were beating Al qaeda, Hezbollah and IRGC in the Balkan conflict. That's why NATO bombed us, we were kicking their pets asses.
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 09:56 AM (HcHd+)
profound and inspiring to say. But I don't. I wish our fellow
Americans would wake up to the existential threat of islam, but they
won't. I wish our leaders would fight against this evil instead of
funding, supporting, encouraging, cooperating and capitulating to it,
but they won't. I wish I could say I felt pride, resolve and hope as
our country stood strong against brutality and savagery, but I don't.
All I feel is anger, rage and despair as the cancer spreads and is
nurtured instead of destroyed.
--
To my very core, I agree with every word of the above. Well put, insomniac.
Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at September 11, 2015 09:57 AM (pVkEV)
Posted by: Brian Williams at September 11, 2015 09:55 AM (nc+gz)
FIFY, Brian.
Posted by: Henry II, proto-Moron at September 11, 2015 09:57 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2015 09:57 AM (sPO3u)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at September 11, 2015 09:57 AM (kff5f)
That still doesn't make any sense.
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 11, 2015 09:54 AM (/Ho8c)
Actually, it makes perfect sense. They say that steel won't melt below 3000 degrees. The water + aluminum reaction exceeds that temperature by quite a bit. It pretty much destroys the Loose Change / 9/11 Truther bullshit.
Posted by: The Walrus at September 11, 2015 09:57 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at September 11, 2015 09:57 AM (kff5f)
Posted by: Cheri at September 11, 2015 09:58 AM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Hector at September 11, 2015 09:58 AM (hsCpX)
Well there was one time she was asleep, and her dog was at her feet, and between the color of the dog's fur and her hair I wasn't sure which end was which...
Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at September 11, 2015 09:58 AM (9krrF)
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 11, 2015 09:58 AM (bZ7mE)
Yes. The low melting point of aluminum could explain the molten metal some witnesses described seeing, and a compromised building frame (made of cutting-edge materials and cutting-edge construction at the time) was overloaded. The elevated temps increased the stress in the surviving frame members to the point of failure, resulting in a progressive collapse.
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 11, 2015 09:59 AM (/Ho8c)
What, the ones with the pink eyes and no coloration?
Posted by: Bigby's Karate Chop at September 11, 2015 09:59 AM (3ZtZW)
Remember those twits th Jersey Girls?
Ann Coulter was the only one with the balls to tell them to shut their whore mouths.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 09:59 AM (YcUKN)
While he has been the ultimate outsider because of his independence from special interests, his supercilious nature is becoming tiresome. To attack Ben Carson's credentials as a surgeon is a tipping point. He would have been better to stay the line on Ben's energy level and at least it would have had a more accurate sound to it. (But how anyone can consider an active surgeon of Dr. Carson's caliber to be low energy is beyond me.)
It's obvious that Trump will say good things about anyone who likes him, as his comments about Kanye West will testify. So his openly voiced opinions on any matter seem to be more colored by his emotional favoritism rather than any rational appraisal. He has voiced high opinions of some of the Republican candidates (Carson and Cruz, and even Fiorina) and his later attacks on them sound childish and, worse, of little value in shedding light on how he would shape a rational strategy to solve national problems.
Furthermore, he is attacking in that childish way the very other people that have the qualification that has sent his own polling numbers skyrocketing. They are the political outsiders. He is driving us away from him and toward them. The unfortunate difference is that they lack the financial independence that he has, and they will have to deal with the real world as if their lives matter on how they behave. That's a very real distraction and it is a minefield I wish they didn't have to walk through.
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at September 11, 2015 09:59 AM (9xIiZ)
Your deceased grandmother is Ace? That would explain a lot.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 11, 2015 09:52 AM (Dj0WE)
I am ace and you are ace and we are all ace together.
Posted by: The Walrus at September 11, 2015 09:55 AM (HalrA)
I AM ACETACUS!!!
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2015 09:59 AM (1QsMy)
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at September 11, 2015 09:59 AM (RD7QR)
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Disney-Pin-up-1.jpg
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2015 09:59 AM (8WSy/)
When Muslims kill your grandkids don't cry.
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 09:59 AM (HcHd+)
nurtured instead of destroyed.
--
To my very core, I agree with every word of the above. Well put, insomniac.
Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at September 11, 2015 09:57 AM (pVkEV)
Same here, and thirded.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 09:59 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: Hikaru at September 11, 2015 09:55 AM (FrHC0)
And if you start hunting down Muslims, you SHOULD be stopped by the government, nitwit.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 11, 2015 09:59 AM (Dj0WE)
steel won't melt below 3000 degrees. The water + aluminum reaction
exceeds that temperature by quite a bit. It pretty much destroys the
Loose Change / 9/11 Truther bullshit.
Posted by: The Walrus
Sorry, I was referring to the person ranting that conservatives love Muslims but hate Christians or something.
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 11, 2015 10:00 AM (/Ho8c)
Hector told us he was super-murder-commando and gunned down women and kids hisself. He's a Serbian Superman.
Posted by: Hector at September 11, 2015 10:00 AM (hsCpX)
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 11, 2015 10:00 AM (/Ho8c)
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 11, 2015 10:01 AM (rHXGG)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 10:01 AM (xWW96)
Posted by: Reggie in Love at September 11, 2015 10:01 AM (nc+gz)
Nope they were on student visas.
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 10:01 AM (HcHd+)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 10:02 AM (xWW96)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 10:02 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: June Cleaver, circa 1909 at September 11, 2015 10:02 AM (7d8Ef)
Nope I killed Hezbollah fighters.
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 10:03 AM (HcHd+)
Quite possibly, by accident, Obama may be what every great president should be. When you think of it, the left has wanted to pass some type of socialized healthcare for over 50 years. Obama did it.
How?
If you listen to Charles CW Cooke and Ace, a president should have experience in how government works. Time as a governor or decades in the senate. Know the names of obscure foreign prime ministers and cult leaders. Get along with others and never embarrass the party.
However, Obama was new to government, too lazy to know any names without a teleprompter and he never missed an opportunity to take a cheap shot at the opposition.
And he passed Obamacare. Something none of his more governmentally experienced predecessors could ever do.
Obama apparently possesses the executive ability to ignore how things are, how they suppose to work and simply directs that this is how they will be.
That's what top executives do. Forget everyone who's telling you why something can't be done and go ahead and do it.
Of course, what Obama wants is totally opposite of what we want. But the lesson on how to achieve the goals should remain.
We don't need someone as president who has spent their life inside the four walls of the sandbox. They have a well practiced excuse on why everything our side sees as common sense can't be put into place. To them, the rules are the rules and they will charge right up the line like tigers then stop and sit like kittens.
It's time the right has someone who will actually get shit done.
Posted by: jwest at September 11, 2015 10:03 AM (Zs4uk)
Posted by: Hikaru at September 11, 2015 08:57 AM (FrHC0)
Plus we would have a decent-looking first lady for a change.
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at September 11, 2015 08:58 AM (RD7QR)
Aunt Esther Obama: Can't get any better than me!
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 11, 2015 10:03 AM (493sH)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at September 11, 2015 10:03 AM (kff5f)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 10:04 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 11, 2015 10:00 AM (/Ho8c)
No prob. I'm just ignoring those. It was a long work week, I just got off, and I've hit the valu-rite induced point of not giving a fuck about the worthless little gnat or and his little attempts to try to establish moral superiority to make up for the fact that his father doesn't love him and his dick doesn't show up on anything smaller than an electron microscope.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 10:04 AM (HalrA)
Video shows refugees fed 'like animals in pen' in Hungary camp
Austrian volunteer who filmed footage in Hungary's Roszke camp says treatment of refugees "like Guantanamo in Europe"
http://goo.gl/CyjVuk
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I guess he didnt see the menus for Gitmo or the fact that they had kitchens and were allowed to prepare their own meals. But only 1 ice cream treat a day was rather cruel....
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 11, 2015 10:04 AM (iQIUe)
Nope I enjoyed sneaking up on a Hezzie and slitting the throat.
Muslims attacked you on 9/11 and have killed many Americans since then. Yet you still love those people. You really are a sucker.
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 10:04 AM (HcHd+)
Posted by: Cheri at September 11, 2015 10:05 AM (oiNtH)
The Left has always been a Crime Family.
And Obama and Jarrett are the Ultimate Mob Bosses.
Slick Willie wishes he was that good of one.
Posted by: Hikaru at September 11, 2015 10:05 AM (FrHC0)
292-
Nope they were on student visas.
Which they had overstayed, ergo were in the country illegally.
Posted by: nnptcgrad at September 11, 2015 10:05 AM (XtAzU)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 10:05 AM (xWW96)
It's Hector, our not-so-crypto-Nazi troll.
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at September 11, 2015 10:05 AM (kff5f)
Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at September 11, 2015 09:57 AM (pVkEV)
Thanks. These thoughts have been weighing heavy on me for a while, but especially today, and especially in light of the government's recent actions.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 11, 2015 10:06 AM (2Ojst)
They did not overstay, that is a myth. You are stil a sucker for loving these people.
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 10:06 AM (HcHd+)
Wait! Did I hear this right?1/1!??!?? Hector's dead?!?1!!??!?
Posted by: Shecky Clinton at September 11, 2015 10:06 AM (HSmrB)
Posted by: The Walrus
What doesn't? I really hate those idiots. Punching one in the face and knocking him out cold is near the top of my bucket list.
Posted by: Dang at September 11, 2015 10:06 AM (2oWD2)
Posted by: WOPR at September 11, 2015 10:07 AM (nRvEn)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 11, 2015 10:07 AM (hsCpX)
Glenn Beck is one weird man.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 10:07 AM (YcUKN)
So very tired of these GOP politicos who only know how to attack their own.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 10:07 AM (NOIQH)
And Obama and Jarrett are the Ultimate Mob Bosses.
Slick Willie wishes he was that good of one.
Posted by: Hikaru at September 11, 2015 10:05 AM (FrHC0)
Obama's a puppet. George Soros is the man with his hand up his ass.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 10:07 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: The guy on the far right of the painting at September 11, 2015 10:08 AM (2oWD2)
Posted by: WOPR at September 11, 2015 10:07 AM (nRvEn)
But diversity trumps common sense so the military must suffer. As I've mentioned before the next president (Republican of course) should hire R Lee Ermey to get rid of all of the PC brass
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 11, 2015 10:08 AM (493sH)
I am going to enjoy seeing conservatives making every excuse for the Muslims.
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 10:09 AM (HcHd+)
Science!!
Oh wait, we're no longer allowed to recognize basic biology and physiology, right?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 10:09 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: BignJames at September 11, 2015 10:09 AM (3qdGQ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 10:10 AM (YcUKN)
Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at September 11, 2015 10:10 AM (pVkEV)
Wouldn't it have been a lot simpler for Evil Bush to just put a few million dollars into a faux-jihadi movement and brainwash some suckers to do it for real, rather than the elaborate scenario of remote-controlled planes and planted explosives?
Of course, he wasn't President when that would have had to have started, so the timeline breaks down, but sure, let's go with the extravagant conspiracy theory.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 11, 2015 10:11 AM (hsCpX)
Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at September 11, 2015 10:10 AM (pVkEV)
Not a native English speaker and not medicated.
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at September 11, 2015 10:11 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 10:09 AM (NOIQH)
Reality itself must be made to fit the narrative.It's the way they work.The more humiliating the bullshit, the more they must make you follow it.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 10:11 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 10:11 AM (HcHd+)
Posted by: Nip Sip at September 11, 2015 10:11 AM (0FSuD)
Theres a place near me, Superior Nut, that makes chocolate covered cashews.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 10:11 AM (YcUKN)
have to do is get it above 1000 degrees F. Blacksmiths forge steel well
below the melting point. 1500-2000 degrees and it becomes pliable.
Posted by: maddogg
Agree entirely. I know a little bit about structural steel design and have done some research on fire protection for steel-framed buildings (and the results of fire damage). Heat does bad things to steel when it's hot enough. But, the temperatures don't even have to be sufficient to seriously alter the internal structure of the material--restrained thermal expansion increases stresses. Cutting-edge building, already damaged by collision, with additional stress due to thermal effects could easily be overstressed and result in collapse at the upper floors. And then you have dynamic impact loading on lower floors.
If I recall correctly, the original designers accounted for aircraft collision and fire in their designs. But not both combined. Depending upon what method of allowable stress design they were using (for example, older design codes frequently allowed for limited overstress for "extreme event" loads like earthquakes) for those particular load cases, I can easily see how the frame could be overloaded to failure.
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 11, 2015 10:11 AM (/Ho8c)
Please show me the bus routes from Syria, Hector.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 11, 2015 10:11 AM (hsCpX)
And Obama and Jarrett are the Ultimate Mob Bosses.
Slick Willie wishes he was that good of one.
Posted by: Hikaru
I recently read a book about the Five Points area of NYC and was surprised that the dems over 100 years ago were acting just like the thugs and corrupt political vermin of today. They have a long history of corruption and graft.
Posted by: Dang at September 11, 2015 10:12 AM (2oWD2)
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 11, 2015 10:12 AM (ftVQq)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 11, 2015 10:12 AM (hsCpX)
Posted by: ThunderB at September 11, 2015 10:12 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 11, 2015 10:12 AM (bZ7mE)
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NOT IN THE DANCE-OFF! !!
Posted by: YOU BEEN SERVED at September 11, 2015 10:12 AM (3ZtZW)
Glenn can't get over the reality that he wasnt received well at the Trump/Cruz rally.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 10:12 AM (YcUKN)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 10:13 AM (xWW96)
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 11, 2015 10:13 AM (/Ho8c)
I agree. Obama has been totally successful on all of his initiatives and goals, save gun control. A guy with no experience ran the table against Washington DC (Clintons and GOP) and did everything he wanted pretty much by just decreeing it.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 11, 2015 10:13 AM (xpmPK)
I am sure you a pine ing for a fight
you'; not get one from me
now go sew your wild oaks elsewhere
you'll find no weeping willow here
Posted by: ThunderB at September 11, 2015 10:13 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: ThunderB at September 11, 2015 10:12 AM (zOTsN)
oak really?
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 10:13 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 10:11 AM (HcHd+)
I'm more of a conifer guy myself.
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at September 11, 2015 10:13 AM (RD7QR)
--
Do tell. What happened?
Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at September 11, 2015 10:13 AM (pVkEV)
comes out, much less actually participated in fighting against someone
who can fight back?
He has many achievements in Call of Duty.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 11, 2015 10:13 AM (hsCpX)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 10:07 AM (YcUKN)
I can usually only take short doses of the man. Right now I think he is butt-hurt that his latest rally didn't go the way he wanted it to go.
He's not a stable individual. He is right at times but don't expect much consistency.
Posted by: WOPR at September 11, 2015 10:14 AM (nRvEn)
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 10:14 AM (HcHd+)
They assumed a 707 but with almost no fuel and I think landing speed might crash into building. So when a 747 almost fully fueled crashes in at high speed, there went all the calculations.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2015 10:14 AM (8WSy/)
Evidently Glenn bombed at the rally. He got the hook before he finished his speech. And the crowd made it clear they didnt want t hear anymore.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 10:15 AM (YcUKN)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 10:15 AM (xWW96)
Wow. From Serbian Christian Orthodox SuperSoldier of Righteous Wrath to obsessively trolling the comments of a mid-level Smart Military Blog in your Cheetos-stained pajamas.
No wonder you're angry. The disappointment with your own life failure must be nearly unbearable.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2015 10:15 AM (1QsMy)
Posted by: ThunderB at September 11, 2015 10:15 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Concerned Hector Fanboi at September 11, 2015 10:16 AM (HSmrB)
I never know what to say. I just remember.
Posted by: Lea at September 11, 2015 10:16 AM (lIU4e)
Posted by: ThunderB at September 11, 2015 10:16 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 11, 2015 10:17 AM (LUgeY)
Posted by: Mortimer at September 11, 2015 10:17 AM (gAgEE)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2015 10:17 AM (8WSy/)
Posted by: Lady in the Painting at September 11, 2015 10:18 AM (hsCpX)
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"That doesn't make any sense to me" said the lady who stopped what she was doing so she could turn and make eye contact with the person she was talking to.
Posted by: Dang, running for cover at September 11, 2015 10:18 AM (2oWD2)
After the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the Manchester Guardian wrote, If it was physically possible for Serbia to be towed out to sea and sunk there, the air of Europe would at once seem cleaner.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 11, 2015 10:18 AM (493sH)
Hezbollah can fight, ask the Israelis. We slaughtered them in the Bosnian war because we are more ruthless then the Hezzies.
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 10:18 AM (HcHd+)
It looks very Western.
It's like they assimilated or something.
Posted by: Mortimer at September 11, 2015 10:19 AM (gAgEE)
Posted by: ThunderB at September 11, 2015 10:20 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 10:09 AM (NOIQH)
Those would be micro-aggressions. Those are more important to avoid than unnecessary combat deaths.
Posted by: WOPR at September 11, 2015 10:20 AM (nRvEn)
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 10:20 AM (HcHd+)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2015 09:51 AM"
Exactly right.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 11, 2015 10:20 AM (OCcU9)
Posted by: Bobby Jindal: Lightweight at September 11, 2015 10:21 AM (nc+gz)
Posted by: ThunderB at September 11, 2015 10:21 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Syrians got Conservatives shook! at September 11, 2015 10:20 AM (HcHd+)
There are some very sad and desperate people out there.
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at September 11, 2015 10:21 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 10:21 AM (xWW96)
Glenn Beck is big into telling everyone they must have faith and God will do great things, which is fine.But useless. But fine, I guess.
Maybe I'm wrong but I dont think God likes when people stand around and have faith. God wants action and deeds.
The People today are so past waiting for a better day. They want leadership, now. They want a plan of action, now.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 10:21 AM (YcUKN)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 11, 2015 10:22 AM (hsCpX)
Posted by: Brian Williams at September 11, 2015 10:22 AM (u5gzz)
Posted by: ThunderB at September 11, 2015 10:22 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2015 10:22 AM (sPO3u)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 11, 2015 10:22 AM (hsCpX)
Posted by: Say it ain't so!! at September 11, 2015 10:22 AM (HSmrB)
Posted by: ThunderB at September 11, 2015 10:12 AM (zOTsN)
oak really?
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party
Teak your argument elsewhere. What are you guys getting so mad fir? Ace is trying to spruce up the place and make it a nicer, more poplar place on the internet.
Posted by: Dang at September 11, 2015 10:23 AM (2oWD2)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 11, 2015 10:23 AM (75uvI)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 10:23 AM (NOIQH)
Let it go.
You can't make people care - and they don't. You can't explain anything to people that literally can't comprehend your articulated thoughts. And you can't reason with people when they literally hold onto their position as a lack of faith.
So - regret and remorse over the failure of a group to respond to an act that you didn't cause, couldn't prevent, and can't in the slightest influence going forward is a waste of your time and emotion. Frankly - feeling any kind of kinship with such a group based on simple geography is pretty silly - when you think about it.
So let it go. Find another tribe. I'm looking.
Posted by: Irony at September 11, 2015 10:23 AM (93CuU)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 11, 2015 10:23 AM (hsCpX)
Moses raised his staff while Joshua swung a sword. Both are needed.
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 11, 2015 10:24 AM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: E.T. at September 11, 2015 10:24 AM (yq4gk)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 10:21 AM (YcUKN)
More heat, more pressure, constantly building up. If the reasons for it ain't addressed soon, the results won't be pretty.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 10:24 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 11, 2015 10:24 AM (u5gzz)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 11, 2015 10:13 AM (xpmPK)
He possesses Black Democratium, which renders him invincible against any opposition.
That and the weeping Boners are terrified of what the MFM will write about them.
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 11, 2015 10:24 AM (laMCB)
Unfortunately, it only knows the "Meow Mix" song.
Posted by: meow meow meow meow at September 11, 2015 10:24 AM (ZtFr+)
Posted by: ThunderB at September 11, 2015 10:25 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 11, 2015 10:25 AM (OCcU9)
Posted by: Mortimer at September 11, 2015 10:25 AM (gAgEE)
"we"
sure
right
a real leader of men
Posted by: ThunderB at September 11, 2015 10:20 AM (zOTsN)
Heh. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
Consider the math. The Bosnian War ended 20 years ago. If he was a child soldier at 15, he'd be a minimum of 35 years old today, probably more like 40-45. And to be obsessively trolling a blog at that age?
Pathetic.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2015 10:26 AM (1QsMy)
1) The Left/Democrats got busy after 911 to destroy this new resolve of Americans to punish their enemies and to destroy this new sense of community which most Americans felt for each other and destroy any feelings of patriotism.
2) The fact that we elected an anti-American, hard left/commie to the White House named Barack Hussein Obama, who pledged to stand with muslims against America shows how well they succeeded.
And proved that fifth-column, anti-Americanism pays. And pays very well.
3) Then we as a nation stood idly by while Obama destroyed our security, our borders, our standing in the world.
But, worse-
4) The people elected to stop Obama's destruction, the Republicans, joined together with Obama to destroy America and the Middle Class-
while giving mortal enemy Iran the nuke
and joyfully told us to stick it.
5) The Obama/Democrat/GOPe nexus has destroyed our ability to conduct short military "wars" in the Middle East by opening our borders to hundreds of thousands unreconstructed radical muslims who now live among us-
It's fair! Now ISIS can conduct warfare on our soil.
6) Through the efforts of teachers and propagandists like JonStewart/Stephan Colbert the young have been brainwashed to such an extent that they can't even allow themselves to think of muslim terrorists as the enemy-
among other self-destructive nonsense.
Happy 911!
They won.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 11, 2015 10:26 AM (0cMkb)
Joan has a long mustache.
Posted by: BBC at September 11, 2015 10:26 AM (W5DcG)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 11, 2015 10:26 AM (LUgeY)
who stopped what she was doing so she could turn and make eye contact
with the person she was talking to.
Posted by: Dang, running for cover
I can just imagine all the massive levels of miscommunication in a mixed gender combat unit.
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 11, 2015 10:27 AM (/Ho8c)
Unfortunately, it only knows the "Meow Mix" song.
Posted by: meow meow meow meow
And we have a winner! *starts digging around the prize closet for something cat related*
Posted by: Dang at September 11, 2015 10:27 AM (2oWD2)
The guys who stopped the train attack in France beg to differ. We see only the slacker youth in the media, but there are still a lot of good people in America who are just not buying the Left's crap.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 10:28 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 10:24 AM (HalrA)
As long as they have ESPN and Dancing With the Stars, most people will put up with a lot. You'll have to see a major disruption, like empty supermarket shelves or cutting off the EBT account, before it comes to violence.
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 11, 2015 10:28 AM (laMCB)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 11, 2015 10:28 AM (OCcU9)
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 11, 2015 10:27 AM (/Ho8c)
The best part is where the male soldiers should just understand the female soldiers feelings without any verbal commands. This is why men are unfeeling assholes.
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 10:29 AM (xWW96)
provides a nice real world counter point to the jihadi faculty
Posted by: ThunderB at September 11, 2015 10:29 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2015 10:30 AM (8WSy/)
Posted by: Moderate Salami
"Are you even going to say, 'thank you'?" waits for a while, begins silent treatment
Posted by: Lady Marine at September 11, 2015 10:30 AM (2oWD2)
beg to differ. We see only the slacker youth in the media, but there are
still a lot of good people in America who are just not buying the
Left's crap.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 10:28 AM (NOIQH)
I work with a lot of that "slacker youth" in my office, too. Most of them are good people, and not nearly as far gone as you think. They're starting to see the wall of bullshit, but they don't know where the truth is.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 10:30 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 10:15 AM (xWW96)
Glenn Beck has the crazy eyes.
Posted by: Lea at September 11, 2015 10:31 AM (lIU4e)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 11, 2015 10:31 AM (wtvvX)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 11, 2015 10:32 AM (OCcU9)
Posted by: Lady Marine
heh
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 11, 2015 10:32 AM (/Ho8c)
Posted by: Travis at September 11, 2015 10:32 AM (/gUgY)
Posted by: ThunderB at September 11, 2015 10:12 AM (zOTsN)
oak really?
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party
Teak your argument
elsewhere. What are you guys getting so mad fir? Ace is trying to spruce
up the place and make it a nicer, more poplar place on the internet.
Posted by: Dang
I mahogany you people to stop it with the wooden puns.
Posted by: Mortimer at September 11, 2015 10:32 AM (gAgEE)
Posted by: Moderate Salami
WHO LEFT THE LID UP ON THE TANK!?
Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 11, 2015 10:33 AM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 10:30 AM (HalrA)
It's not just the under 30 crowd. I work with a number of namby pamby beta males in their 30-40s. It's just stomach turning to listen to them. They actually believe and regurgitate the crap they are spoon fed from the MFM
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 11, 2015 10:33 AM (493sH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2015 10:30 AM (8WSy/)
OMG, yes. There will be a youth revolt if all the free wi-fi hotspots go down.
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 11, 2015 10:33 AM (laMCB)
Posted by: Lea
Especially when those eyes are squirting crazy tears. But man can that guy quickly pull it together for a message about a sponsor.
Posted by: Dang at September 11, 2015 10:33 AM (2oWD2)
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 11, 2015 10:33 AM (rHXGG)
Glenn Beck has the crazy eyes.
Posted by: Lea at September 11, 2015 10:31 AM (lIU4e)
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Tell me about it...
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 11, 2015 10:34 AM (HSmrB)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 10:21 AM (YcUKN)
Back in my corporate days, I had a number 2 who was the best in the business. He had all the facts and numbers in his head. He knew the employees who were 10 minutes late getting in and who left early. He knew which suppliers were 3 percent cheaper and which customers needed extra attention.
However, everything that made him a perfect second in command made him a terrible choice for CEO. It's an entirely different skillset and entirely different worldview from one to the other.
A lot of people don't know that. They believe everything is on a linear line and people just move from one seat to the next level. They're the same people who look at government with the wrong idea of structure to begin with.
These are the folks who thought the president was the boss of the states during Hurricane Katrina, who didn't have a clue what FEMA was or how it was suppose to operate, what the governor does and what their powers are and a whole host of other basic facts.
If we're ever going to get things done, we need the type of person who thinks in those terms. Not someone whose first instinct is "Am I going to offend someone".
Posted by: jwest at September 11, 2015 10:34 AM (Zs4uk)
provides a nice real world counter point to the jihadi faculty
Posted by: ThunderB at September 11, 2015 10:29 AM (zOTsN)
___________
Sadly, I don't think so. Remember young people are being trained that veterans are volatile and damaged. Veterans are objects of pity and fear for those smug idiots and anything a veteran would have to say in the classroom would be immediately dismissed.
Posted by: mustbequantum at September 11, 2015 10:35 AM (MIKMs)
his speech. And the crowd made it clear they didnt want t hear anymore.
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|Any reports which detail this? I would like to hear more.
Posted by: RoyalOil at September 11, 2015 10:35 AM (ZvKdv)
Posted by: E.T. at September 11, 2015 10:24 AM (yq4gk)
Kinda disappointed. I thought he was a bit more astute than that.
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at September 11, 2015 10:35 AM (yMVjf)
Posted by: jwest at September 11, 2015 10:34 AM (Zs4uk)
Or whose first action is to apologize for things nobody alive had any agency in.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 10:36 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: Lady in the Painting at September 11, 2015 10:18 AM (hsCpX)
TW!
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 11, 2015 10:36 AM (laMCB)
I hear that from people my age, too. I worked with one guy a few years ago who could repeat each and every leftarded talking point at will.
Verbatim. If that's not the clearest sign of brainwashing, I don't know what is.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 11, 2015 10:36 AM (LUgeY)
Posted by: RoyalOil at September 11, 2015 10:35 AM (ZvKdv)
he posted about it on his glenn beck . com also at the blaze and on his f/b page
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at September 11, 2015 10:37 AM (0O7c5)
I'll have that[]/i] cat.
Posted by: Edwardian Diner at September 11, 2015 10:37 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken
Ha! The neighbor's cat left a dead rabbit in our bushes last weekend. Thanks?
Posted by: Dang at September 11, 2015 10:37 AM (2oWD2)
Italican fail.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 11, 2015 10:37 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Irony at September 11, 2015 10:38 AM (93CuU)
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 11, 2015 10:38 AM (bZ7mE)
HELLO KITTY SOUP
Posted by: Tex Lovera
as soon as the chef is done wokking the dog.
Posted by: Roy at September 11, 2015 10:38 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 11, 2015 10:36 AM (LUgeY)
That ain't brainwashing, Dude. That's climbing in bed slack jawed and legs akimbo with Stupidity.
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 10:38 AM (xWW96)
Posted by: Another Lady Marine at September 11, 2015 10:38 AM (75uvI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2015 10:38 AM (8WSy/)
Posted by: DeadNewspaperThread at September 11, 2015 10:39 AM (DL2i+)
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didn't He say something about faith without works isn't faith at all?
James 2:14
Posted by: RoyalOil at September 11, 2015 10:39 AM (ZvKdv)
And here's a passage from Lee Harris's Civilization And Its Enemies.
Forgetfulness occurs when those who have been long inured to civilized order can no longer remember a time in which they had to wonder whether their crops would grow to maturity without being stolen or their children sold into slavery by a victorious foe.
...
They forget that in time of danger, in the face of the Enemy, they must trust and confide in each other, or perish.
They forget, in short, that there has ever been a category of human experience called the Enemy. And that, before 9/11, was what had happened to us. The very concept of the Enemy had been banished from our moral and political vocabulary. An enemy was just a friend we hadn't done enough for - yet. Or perhaps there had been a misunderstanding, or an oversight on our part - something that we could correct. And this means that that our first task is that we must try to grasp what the concept of the Enemy really means.
The Enemy is someone who is willing to die in order to kill you. And while it is true that the Enemy always hates us for a reason - it is his reason, and not ours.
Posted by: Mortimer at September 11, 2015 10:40 AM (gAgEE)
Posted by: DeadNewspaperThread at September 11, 2015 10:40 AM (DL2i+)
If the faith is true, works will follow.
If the faith is false, it will just be empty words.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 10:40 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 11, 2015 10:41 AM (2cS/G)
Posted by: Baba Wawa at September 11, 2015 10:41 AM (W5DcG)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy
I dated a girl for a while that would repeat stuff I had just said. After a while it got really annoying. Like she had a mild case of echolalia. She later turned into a huge lib after moving to NYC. She would just parrot her surroundings.
Posted by: Dang at September 11, 2015 10:42 AM (2oWD2)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 11, 2015 10:42 AM (BK3ZS)
had just said. After a while it got really annoying. Like she had a
mild case of echolalia. She later turned into a huge lib after moving to
NYC. She would just parrot her surroundings.
Posted by: Dang at September 11, 2015 10:42 AM (2oWD2)
Some people will do anything to try to fit in.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 10:42 AM (HalrA)
rosewood...
Posted by: DeadNewspaperThread
Rosebud...
Posted by: Citizen Cane at September 11, 2015 10:44 AM (2oWD2)
Yeah, it takes a certain suggestible mind to accept what it's told without question.
Brainwashing, hypnotizing, suggestibility, it's all pretty much the same thing. It takes two to tango: one to control, another willing to be controlled.
It's scary easy to do. You don't have to reduce someone to a drooling idiot in order to brainwash them, like the movies show.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 11, 2015 10:44 AM (LUgeY)
I'd stop frequenting the place, but after a second bowl of hot and sour soup the guy's wife delivers "dessert."
Posted by: Guy Sitting at the Table in the Painting at September 11, 2015 10:46 AM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 11, 2015 09:14 AM (iQIUe)
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Oh... there was a cure.
Posted by: A red hot wire slid up a mans urethra at September 11, 2015 10:46 AM (8XRCm)
Peer pressure, social cues, etc. Convince them that everybody who's anybody does certain things and thinks a certain way, and they'll be afraid to go against the "popular" consensus. There's probably only about 10-15% of the population that's really hardcore bullshit Lefties, but everyone else has been convinced that they have to go along with the stupid.
That will last until the Emperor's New Clothes moment hits, but that moment's different for everybody. Many of them will break away eventually, given time.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 10:46 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: Another Lady Marine
Keep moving, soldier! There's a pedicure station up ahead! Or is it back that way? starts turning map every which way
Posted by: Yet Another Lady Marine at September 11, 2015 10:47 AM (2oWD2)
McGyver, out (why am I always late? I know this joke has already been made)
Posted by: McGyver at September 11, 2015 10:48 AM (6hAG+)
Posted by: Irony at September 11, 2015 10:23 AM (93CuU)
I appreciate your thoughts, and take them in the manner intended. It is frustrating but true that many of those who live in the US are not Americans, even though they were born and raised here. They've become TWANLOC. At least we've got the Horde.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 11, 2015 10:48 AM (2Ojst)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 10:48 AM (xWW96)
Exactly right. There's all the difference in the world between Don Corleone and Tom Hagen.
Posted by: OregonMuse at September 11, 2015 10:49 AM (P7+B/)
If I had to bet, though I wouldn't bet a lot, I would say we might all be ridin' with Biden for the next four years.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 11, 2015 10:50 AM (l3vZN)
Thanks, Horde.
Posted by: DangerGirl
My prayer is on the way, with a tear in my eye.
Posted by: Kevin C. at September 11, 2015 10:50 AM (OT5Lm)
9/11
This is the day when my son decided he must join up to fight back. Three tours. For what.
I'm trying not to be bitter.
Posted by: grammie winger, watching the fig tree at September 11, 2015 10:50 AM (dFi94)
I had the opposite problem with the Daughter of Satan (the -ex). Remember that grade school game "Telephone" where you whisper something in someone's ear, they whisper it to another, and so on until it comes back around to the originator where it bears no resemblance whatsoever to whatever was first whispered?
She could do that all by herself. I conducted an experiment with her once where I said a specific phrase to her and axed her to repeat it back to me. What she said wasn't anywhere close to what I'd said 20 just seconds earlier.
To say that that scared the shit out of me would be a gross understatement.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 11, 2015 10:50 AM (LUgeY)
"Be a smarty! Join the Nazi Party!"
That is the whole appeal. False sense of importance, the lost person is now in on a secret. Of really belonging to something that matters, not the McMansion of their helicopter parents.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2015 10:50 AM (8WSy/)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 11, 2015 10:50 AM (l3vZN)
That's not impossible, and with Hillary sinking like a stone, the media might very well go all-in for Biden. Everyone but their in-the-tank ideologues knows that an out-Socialist like Sanders doesn't have a paper dog's chance of chasing an asbestos cat through hell of winning .
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 10:51 AM (HalrA)
http://www.pigfender.com/index.php/niad/
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2015 10:52 AM (8WSy/)
To say that that scared the shit out of me would be a gross understatement.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 11, 2015 10:50 AM (LUgeY)
That is very frightening. My ex would bend reality on a dime to create whatever narrative she wanted, and I swear to God she actually believed it, no matter how far from the truth it actually was. I was similarly scared shitless.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 11, 2015 10:52 AM (2Ojst)
I'm trying not to be bitter.
Posted by: grammie winger, watching the fig tree at September 11, 2015 10:50 AM (dFi94)
for what? for his soul, the victims, their families and for his country's soul....he's a good son raised honorably by a good mother (((((grammie)))))
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at September 11, 2015 10:53 AM (0O7c5)
As Mel Brooks so aptly put it in The Producers,
"Be a smarty! Join the Nazi Party!"
That
is the whole appeal. False sense of importance, the lost person is now
in on a secret. Of really belonging to something that matters, not the
McMansion of their helicopter parents.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2015 10:50 AM (8WSy/)
That's a huge part of the whole phenomenon. Creating a sense of belonging to something greater than yourself, of fighting for a virtuous cause, and actually doing something that matters tends to suck in people who don't have any support structure. IE, losers.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 10:54 AM (HalrA)
And Grammie Winger, god bless your son for his service! I can't imagine what it feels like watching Obama destroy everything he put his life on the line for.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 10:55 AM (NOIQH)
I do not think he will be Obama's puppet ... but I do believe the old bastard is crafty enough to let Barry think so.
Posted by: Irony at September 11, 2015 10:56 AM (93CuU)
In 14 years, have we ever gotten an apology or mea culpa from any in the Islamic Community? Any soul-searching? #NeverForget
4 years after Pearl Harbor we nuked Japan.
14 years after 9/11 we're giving nukes to Iran.
Posted by: @votermom at September 11, 2015 10:56 AM (cbfNE)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy
Um, yeah. That ain't right at all. Brains are weird. shudder
Posted by: Dang at September 11, 2015 10:56 AM (2oWD2)
Thank you phoenixgirl. You're right. God often put him into places with men who were in despair, and he was able to help. Sadly, some succumbed to the despair, over there and even when they came back home. More than one suicide under his watch. That takes a toll. But he definitely provided a safe place to land for many, many others. For that I give thanks to God.
Posted by: grammie winger, watching the fig tree at September 11, 2015 10:58 AM (dFi94)
And Grammie Winger, god bless your son for his service! I can't imagine what it feels like watching Obama destroy everything he put his life on the line for.
Same here.
My friend's Dad's were all very kind to me growing up. I'm Thankful for them.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 11, 2015 10:58 AM (LUgeY)
Posted by: Hillary's alcoholic depression at September 11, 2015 10:59 AM (VRc/p)
Ever sit in a meeting and watch Person A and Person B chat along quite happily WHILE SAYING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SHIT TO EACH OTHER ? Drives me nuts.
Alex has an extremely critical thought process. I bet she notices this daily.
Posted by: Irony at September 11, 2015 11:00 AM (93CuU)
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 11, 2015 11:01 AM (bZ7mE)
Boy, I hate that anniversary.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 11, 2015 11:01 AM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Monsieur Mew Mew at September 11, 2015 11:01 AM (0LHZx)
Because you may be in bed with evil, but evil ain't going to share the sheets.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 11:02 AM (HalrA)
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Best case scenario - Bernie goes independent.
I don't see it happening.
If he doesn't he'll continue to drag everyone else further left, and in the end his comrades will go with whichever Dem gets the nod in the primaries.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 11, 2015 11:02 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at September 11, 2015 11:03 AM (0O7c5)
and in the end, you get screwed.
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 11, 2015 11:03 AM (bZ7mE)
Well yeah, that part was implied, or at least the Valu-Rite Fairy says it was.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 11:04 AM (HalrA)
Cat: "Damn. There's a bird on that lady's hat. I think I can get that sumbitch."
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 11, 2015 11:04 AM (9mTYi)
http://tinyurl.com/Classic-Onion-Highjackers-Hell
Still funny.
Posted by: Sharkman at September 11, 2015 11:04 AM (72D6h)
Posted by: Monsieur Mew Mew at September 11, 2015 11:06 AM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Dang at September 11, 2015 11:06 AM (2oWD2)
I'm surprised that's still up what with all the racism and xenophobia and whatnot.
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 11, 2015 11:06 AM (rHXGG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2015 11:07 AM (8WSy/)
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 11, 2015 11:01 AM (bZ7mE)
I see you and raise you Gaby Deslys:
http://goo.gl/naf6qs
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 11, 2015 11:07 AM (zF6Iw)
That's a huge part of the whole phenomenon. Creating a sense of belonging to something greater than yourself, of fighting for a virtuous cause, and actually doing something that matters tends to suck in people who don't have any support structure. IE, losers.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 10:54 AM (HalrA)
They also think that parroting the talking points makes them smarter than everyone else. I'm sure in college they got a pat on the head from the professor for it but they're just nitwits who can't think for themselves. Which is what the professors were going for all along.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 11, 2015 11:08 AM (493sH)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2015 10:29 AM (xWW96)
Or when the female sergeant gave an order she actually meant for you to do the opposite.
Posted by: WOPR at September 11, 2015 11:08 AM (nRvEn)
2015: Come on, no way a self proclaimed socialist is elected president. No way.
Posted by: Monsieur Mew Mew at September 11, 2015 11:09 AM (0LHZx)
Posted by: WOPR at September 11, 2015 11:08 AM (nRvEn)
Or didn't give an order at all, then busts your ass for not reading her mind and doing what she was thinking you should do, but never told you.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 11, 2015 11:09 AM (2Ojst)
Religion used to fill these voids for most that felt them. Not anymore.
Posted by: Irony at September 11, 2015 11:10 AM (93CuU)
"Exacerbating the terrorists' tortures, which include being hollowed out and used as prophylactics by thorn-cocked Gulbuth The Rampant,.."
That there is AoSHQ-quality stuff.
Dante was a piker.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 11, 2015 11:10 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: grammie winger,
I hope your son made it through those tours safely.
And I hope you and he can find some comfort in knowing that answering the call of duty was the right thing to do, even if those in charge then made terrible decisions and those in charge now have utterly wasted the sacrifices made.
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 11, 2015 11:11 AM (/Ho8c)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 11, 2015 11:11 AM (vgIRn)
My local firehouse is offering a remembrance ceremony. I have never been to one at the FireHouse before; I think I will go tonight.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2015 11:12 AM (OSs/l)
Posted by: Yo! at September 11, 2015 11:12 AM (GwIKd)
Posted by: twoslaps at September 11, 2015 11:12 AM (1dFgZ)
makes them smarter than everyone else. I'm sure in college they got a
pat on the head from the professor for it but they're just nitwits who
can't think for themselves. Which is what the professors were going for
all along.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 11, 2015 11:08 AM (493sH)
Exactly. Losers want, more than anything else, to be told that they're right. They want to be affirmed. To be exonerated from their own choices that have, in fact, made them losers. To be told that they're not failures, that it's the system that's wrong, etc.
And of course, they also get someone to blame if their victory (no matter how impossible) is snatched away.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 11:12 AM (HalrA)
http://tinyurl.com/Classic-Onion-Highjackers-Hell
Heh!
Loved Iowahawk's series of memos from that jihadi we obliterated a few years after 9/11 that read like every corporate memo stuffed with jargon.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 11:13 AM (NOIQH)
IMO, that's a classic example of the old adage, "If you don't believe in God, it's not that you don't believe in something, you'll believe anything."
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 11, 2015 11:13 AM (LUgeY)
Cato ... the only thing I'd take issue with is the notion of "losers".
Look at how many financially successful "winners" join various cults ...
in pursuit of some kind of self identity.
Religion used to fill these voids for most that felt them. Not anymore.
Posted by: Irony at September 11, 2015 11:10 AM (93CuU)
Material computation isn't the only scale on which a person can be a loser.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 11:13 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 11, 2015 11:13 AM (LUgeY)
________
LOL!! Whatever man.
Posted by: Monsieur Mew Mew at September 11, 2015 11:14 AM (0LHZx)
I'm trying not to be bitter.
Posted by: grammie winger, watching the fig tree at September 11, 2015 10:50 AM (dFi94)
If it means anything ...
Moter Theresa was once asked about all the suffering around her & she replied, 'God calls upon us to be faithful, not successful...'
Posted by: Adriane ... at September 11, 2015 11:14 AM (qOsoH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2015 11:15 AM (8WSy/)
And then supplying their own toxic replacements.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 11:15 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: NativeNH at September 11, 2015 08:44 AM (3Axla)
Waaay back in the day, I think it's when Spirited Away first was out on DVD, it had an extra where you got to see behind the scenes of Studio Ghibli. It showed Miyazaki himself helping make Ramen for the whole crew. In a giant pot, they put in dozend of Ramen packs, along with eggs and a whole ton of vegetables and stuff. Was the first time I realized "holy crap, you mean that cheapo noodle stuff at the store can be a filling meal??" When I have it I always crack in an egg and some veg and is delectable.
Posted by: LizLem at September 11, 2015 11:16 AM (hvf9s)
Born out of your frustration
The leaders of men
Just a strange infatuation
The leaders of men
Made a promise for a new life
Posted by: Bigby's Snappy Fingers at September 11, 2015 11:16 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Monsieur Mew Mew at September 11, 2015 11:16 AM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Bigby's Snappy Fingers at September 11, 2015 11:17 AM (3ZtZW)
IMO, that's a classic example of the old adage, "If you don't believe in
God, it's not that you don't believe in something, you'll believe
anything."
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 11, 2015 11:13 AM (LUgeY)
Chesterton, IIRC. Or maybe Lewis.
And it also ties in with one of Ace's brilliant posts about a year ago about Jung and magical thinking. We're all stuck with it, but religion builds a cage for it and confines it to theological spheres. Tear down the cage, and you haven't got rid of the magical thinking, you've just set it free to latch onto anything and everything.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 11:17 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party
Seriously.
Posted by: Miley Cyrus at September 11, 2015 11:17 AM (2oWD2)
. I will pray. What is your friend's fathers first name if you can share it?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2015 11:17 AM (OSs/l)
Posted by: LizLem at September 11, 2015 11:17 AM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Adriane ... at September 11, 2015 11:14 AM (qOsoH)
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I needed that today. Thank you so much. I mean it - thank you.
Posted by: grammie winger, watching the fig tree at September 11, 2015 11:17 AM (dFi94)
Faith withot works is dead.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2015 11:18 AM (YcUKN)
Posted by: jwest at September 11, 2015 10:03 AM (Zs4uk)
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I've come to the conclusion the right's intended purpose is to solidify the left's gains.
The only rollback I can recall is the mid-90's welfare reform. You can see how well that worked out.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 11, 2015 11:19 AM (LXJ1e)
Hah was reading an operative report where they were repairing a broken/ruptured penis yesterday.....
*squirms*
Posted by: Bigby's Snappy Fingers at September 11, 2015 11:19 AM (3ZtZW)
Painting proves that the Chicken Fried Rice is really made of cat.
Wonder what 9/11 will be in another 14 years the way this place is going.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 11, 2015 11:20 AM (n6Nt0)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 11:21 AM (NOIQH)
Wonder what 9/11 will be in another 14 years the way this place is going.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 11, 2015 11:20 AM (n6Nt0)
It will be mandatorily celebrated as V-NY Day.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 11, 2015 11:21 AM (2Ojst)
Well, thank goodness we're not its Sycamores-shediing all over the darn place. Pretty trees, but a mess to clean up, A mess I tell you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2015 11:21 AM (OSs/l)
I was reading up on the concept of a High Functioning Sociopath this week (don't ask). Part of that seems to apply to the people. And there seems to be more and more of them.
Posted by: Irony at September 11, 2015 11:22 AM (93CuU)
Posted by: Just Some Guy
Hahahahahahahaha!
*wipes tear from eye*
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 11, 2015 11:22 AM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2015 11:22 AM (8WSy/)
>>> Wonder what 9/11 will be in another 14 years the way this place is going.
Don't worry about 25 years from now
Posted by: Bigby's Snappy Fingers at September 11, 2015 11:22 AM (3ZtZW)
Actually, i think I might be its Douglas Fir, standing tall and proud against Radical Islam-in my own corner and way.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2015 11:23 AM (OSs/l)
Posted by: LizLem
AHEM!
Posted by: Kentucky Derby at September 11, 2015 11:24 AM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 11, 2015 11:24 AM (AC0lD)
Posted by: McCool at September 11, 2015 11:25 AM (nCSwS)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 11, 2015 11:20 AM (n6Nt0)
I hereby declare September 11 to be a day of SOCIAL JUSTICE!!!!
Posted by: President Chelsea Clinton, 2029 at September 11, 2015 11:25 AM (lVU49)
*squirms*
Posted by: Bigby's Snappy Fingers at September 11, 2015 11:19 AM (3ZtZW)
Drudge links this morning to the Indian guy bit on the dick by a viper while pissing in the field.
Better take some pictures when it swells up.
Posted by: jwest at September 11, 2015 11:25 AM (Zs4uk)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 11, 2015 11:25 AM (9mTYi)
Better take some pictures when it swells up.
Posted by: jwest at September 11, 2015 11:25 AM (Zs4uk)
The doctor says you're going to die.
/just the punchline
Posted by: Insomniac at September 11, 2015 11:26 AM (2Ojst)
The problem with that formulation is that ultimately reason and science itself is built on "magical thinking" - the a priori belief that the world is a consistent place and that our minds are capable of comprehending it in any way. Descartes' project of building a purely "rational" foundation for epistomology failed by the time he wrote his second sentence...Religion isn't something that can be tucked away in the spare closet of our minds - it provides the foundation for everything else.
That is what a lot of conservatives just don't understand - postmodernism/nihilism is not irrational at all, but a very rational response to the removal of traditional religion for the rationale for trusting our own ability to understand the wolrd. Indeed, it is far more rational than a lot of conservative thinking, which retains the fruit of an earlier worldview while rejecting the root that gave it birth.
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 11, 2015 11:26 AM (bZ7mE)
Moter Theresa was once asked about all the suffering around her
she replied, 'God calls upon us to be faithful, not successful...'
Posted by: Adriane
Thanks for that. Very inspiring. So glad Al Gore got the Nobel instead of Mother Theresa.
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 11, 2015 11:26 AM (/Ho8c)
Ok, I've got to ask. Did someone suck the poison out?
Posted by: wrg500 at September 11, 2015 11:26 AM (C278+)
Functioning Sociopath this week (don't ask). Part of that seems to
apply to the people. And there seems to be more and more of them.
Posted by: Irony at September 11, 2015 11:22 AM (93CuU)
If they're pathological about seeking approval from everyone, it tends to indicate a weak sense of identity for one reason or another, and that work ethic you've mentioned may actually be a symptom! They might be trying to please the boss too hard. And it would make sense that someone who's successful in a material sense but empty in a spiritual sense would be an absolute sucker for anti-capitalist rhetoric that promises a simpler, fairer life...
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 11, 2015 11:26 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 11, 2015 11:26 AM (493sH)
I am Chinese. I participated in some humorous shenanigans. I urinated in your cola-flavored soft drink.
Posted by: Just Some Guy
A conservative Canadian candidate had to withdraw from the election because there was video of him peeing in a client's cup.
Throughout the Western world, that seems to sum up the state of our conservative leaders; not conservatives themselves - but definitely our leaders.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 11, 2015 11:27 AM (AC0lD)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2015 11:21 AM (OSs/l)
Weeping willows
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 11, 2015 11:27 AM (n6Nt0)
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"Oh, yeah, that snake's clearly venomous Amir! Let me suck the poison out!"
-Indian Lindsay Graham
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 11, 2015 11:27 AM (VAsIq)
So Hamid "Chim Chim" Karzai is saying Al-Qaeda is a myth and hey fools 9/11 was not in fact hatched in 'ghani....
man I sure am glad we didn't glass Kabul or Kandahar...
Posted by: @sven10077-callsign Charon at September 11, 2015 11:27 AM (g8Hfr)
I remain unconvinced.
Posted by: navybrat at September 11, 2015 11:28 AM (ETxiG)
Posted by: Pajama Boy at September 11, 2015 11:28 AM (VAsIq)
John it's finally swollen...let me help...
//Hindu Lindsay Graham-McCain
Posted by: @sven10077-callsign Charon at September 11, 2015 11:28 AM (g8Hfr)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2015 11:28 AM (OSs/l)
More puns?!! Leaf me alone. ;^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2015 11:28 AM (OSs/l)
We really should branch out into other types of humor.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 11, 2015 11:29 AM (2Ojst)
Barney Sanders can win...America likes the dole evidently...
of course we have Crony Donk "A", Crony Donk "B" and out of the closet socialist/borderline open commie running....
Posted by: @sven10077-callsign Charon at September 11, 2015 11:30 AM (g8Hfr)
FEED ME NOW HUMAN SLAVES. NO, NOT THE BROCCOLI, BITCH.
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Ah, someone owns a cute and adorably demanding kitteh.
Posted by: exdem13 at September 11, 2015 11:30 AM (ry4ab)
Posted by: Stephen Hawking at September 11, 2015 11:30 AM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Insomniac
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Spoofery?
Biting sarcasm?
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 11, 2015 11:30 AM (9mTYi)
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"Would you like the sandwich now or after the BJ?"
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at September 11, 2015 11:31 AM (WDySP)
Ok, I've got to ask. Did someone suck the poison out?
Posted by: wrg500 at September 11, 2015 11:26 AM (C278+
I can think of several.
However, due to banning issues and such I will just keep my thoughts to myself.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 11, 2015 11:31 AM (n6Nt0)
More puns?!! Leaf me alone. ;^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2015 11:28 AM (OSs/l)
We really should branch out into other types of humor.
Posted by: Insomniac
We need to get at the root of the problem.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 11, 2015 11:32 AM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 11, 2015 11:32 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: President Chelsea Clinton, 2029
Uh, Obama already did that early in his first term.
Makes me ill.
http://www.serve.gov/?q=site-page/september-11th-national-day-service-and-remembrance
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2015 11:32 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2015 11:32 AM (OSs/l)
We already forgot. People pretty much forgot by 2002. The only memory anyone seemed to have was about how they felt and how scary it was, not what happened, why, or who did it.
We wouldn't have elected a leftist idiot with a Muslim sounding middle name in 2008 if people remembered. We wouldn't be more worried about offending Muslims than fighting terrorism today if people remembered. NCIS would actually have a Muslim terrorist once in a while now if people actually remembered. We wouldn't even remotely be contemplating taking "refugees" from Syria today if people remembered.
People forgot because they wanted to forget. Remembering carries a burden of responsibility and action. Remembering requires you to do something, not just feel.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 11, 2015 11:32 AM (39g3+)
Some religions are better at deciphering things. Islam is not one of them since Allah is a being beyond the universe and is not bound by the laws he imposes on humans.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2015 11:33 AM (8WSy/)
The nuts will dent cars, stain whatever they touch, and are a tripping hazard in the grass.
The produce a toxin called juglans that will kill most other plants in the drip zone.
They are the last trees to get their leaves and the first to shed them. But, for a brief period from May until early July they are the prettiest trees around.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 11, 2015 11:33 AM (l3vZN)
More puns?!! Leaf me alone. ;^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2015 11:28 AM (OSs/l)
We really should branch out into other types of humor.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 11, 2015 11:29 AM (2Ojst
You're really not funny buds
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 11, 2015 11:33 AM (n6Nt0)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 11, 2015 11:33 AM (9mTYi)
The Chinese still eat with chopsticks because they think it increases
their manual dexterity and improves their thinking processes. They want
their children to eat with chopsticks also, for that reason.
This was told to me years ago on a trip in China, by our Chinese translator. They really believe this.
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That sounds like a better answer than "we use 2 sticks to grab stuff since the Bronze Age and don't like foreign devil tableware".
I too developed forced competency with chopsticks due to a trip to Japan in my university days. For the same reason I still use chopsticks for Chinese and Japanese food; gotta keep my hand in.
Posted by: exdem13 at September 11, 2015 11:34 AM (ry4ab)
I struggle with this topic, being neither religious nor what I call Atheist Fundamentalist. Being an engineer not 100% convinced by Science! does not help.
There's just alot of shit I don't understand and never will.
Posted by: Irony at September 11, 2015 11:36 AM (93CuU)
Yeah, that's the real reason. "Its Chinese, we've always done it this way, we are superior human beings, so this must be the best way, and culturally being what you've always been without change is the way we were raised. Now go die, gwailo!"
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 11, 2015 11:38 AM (39g3+)
I hope this does not revoke my Moron card, but SNL. The line where they ask Guiliani in the opening monologue if they can be funny again, and he retorts "why start now?"
the first NYC set film after 9/11 for me was Spiderman, when the construction guy said to Goblin you mess with one of us you mess with all of us, I started crying in the theater. And when the show Friends had a thing about 9-11 on their whiteboard, also there were tears. (Wow, there WAS a time when I regularly watched Friends, weird.)
I realized the other day that the younger millenials have not a clue the significance of small things like that in remembering 9-11, those things will go right over their heads. Made me sad.
Posted by: LizLem at September 11, 2015 11:40 AM (hvf9s)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2015 11:17 AM
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I'd rather not, but we can call him Mr. S.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt TrumpProd (tm) at September 11, 2015 11:45 AM (d6PIl)
BRB, finding a close up pic of Hillary...
Posted by: Mama AJ at September 11, 2015 08:55 AM (nXeSu)
Hereyago Mama
http://goo.gl/lXtPjg
"MY EYES!! THE BURNING WILL NOT STOP!!"
Posted by: exdem13 at September 11, 2015 11:46 AM (ry4ab)
New thread. Drew M. Here come the Syrians.
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This is the ultimate stance of the Blame-America-first crowd. We made those poor ignorant Mooslems attack us, so in atonement we have to take care of 10,000 of them and their descendants forever. Those idiots ultimately didn't learn-or want to learn-a thing from 9/11.
Posted by: exdem13 at September 11, 2015 11:50 AM (ry4ab)
He doesn't have a chance, because of two things:
1. His skin color.
2. The MFM.
There's nothing he can do about the first. But since the MFM were able to propel a dog-eating, weed-huffing Indonesian of ambiguous sexuality, juvenile presence, deficient intelligence with a 20-year history of anti-American activities and confidantes into the highest office in the land, were they to get behind Sanders, he would be a lock for the presidency.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 11, 2015 11:58 AM (zF6Iw)
He doesn't have a chance, because of two things:
1. His skin color.
2. The MFM.
Correct, if the media was behind him and the DNC thought they could win with a white guy, he could win no problem.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 11, 2015 12:44 PM (39g3+)
It's how you make them. Start off by browning a vidalia or noonday onion in bacon grease. Then add 3 cups of water or 1 1/2 cheap beers. Throw in a double handful of fresh sliced okra. Simmer until soft enough to cut with edge of spoon. Crush noodles in bag and dump into pot. Throw away seasoning. Add pepper to taste. At very end of prep (noodles are done), add 2 eggs and stir with a fork. Pour in bowl and add fish sauce. Mmmmm!
Posted by: Eromero at September 11, 2015 12:49 PM (go5uR)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 11, 2015 12:58 PM (39g3+)
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